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Business | 19 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Qatar shows the way in cutting CO2 ‘Earth Overshoot Day’ celebrated

DOHA: As the world observed policy making in support of a sus- the “Earth Overshoot Day” yes- tainable future, not only for Qatar terday, Qatar’s aggressive pos- but to the whole world. ture in cutting the country’s emission rate is worth watching AGGRESSIVELY INVOLVED for other polluting countries and the agencies that are involved in Qatar is aggressively involved Qatar Airways Senior Vice President GCC, Levant, Iran and Indian Subcontinent, Fathi Al Shehab, with airline and Sulaymaniyah International Airport lobbying for bringing down the in reducing flaring and venting, officials yesterday. world’s escalating CO2 rate. a key source of its emissions. The country, which techni- Qatar’s energy production is cally figures in the top list of the increasing faster than flaring and world’s biggest emitters, is show- venting, resulting in a decline in ing the world the way to address emissions intensity. Energy pro- QA begins flights to fifth Iraqi destination the issue in more than one way. duction in Qatar increased by 12 Qatar was the first Gulf state to percent between 1995 and 2008, DOHA/SULAYMANIYAH, and 132 seats in Economy. The officials. Fathi Al Shehab, Qatar Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker. join the World Bank’s Global Gas while flaring levels rose by just 2 Iraq: Qatar Airways yesterday launch marks the rapid expansion Airways Senior Vice President The Sulaymaniyah flights con- Flaring Reduction Partnership, percent during the period and has launched flights to its fifth des- by Qatar Airways in Iraq since GCC, Levant, Iran and Indian nect to over 100 destinations which has resulted in significant remained stable since 2005. The tination in Iraq, Sulaymaniyah, the middle of 2012 when it began Subcontinent, led an official dele- worldwide, including London, changes in gas flaring and venting net effect is 10 percent decrease increasing the airline’s fre- flights to Erbil, followed by the gation on the flight from Doha and Paris, Singapore, Bangkok, despite the increase in produc- in flaring per unit of production. quency across Iraq from 16 to capital Baghdad, Najaf and Basra. was welcomed at the airport by Beijing, Johannesburg, Melbourne, tion and expansion of oil and gas The country is investing heav- 20 flights each week. Sulaymaniyah also marks Director General Sulaymaniyah Delhi and Mumbai. facilities. ily in carbon capture and storage The new services, which will the carrier’s fifth new Middle International Airport Eng Tahir Sulaymaniyah is an important Between 2009 and 2010, Qatar too and it has ramped up efforts operate four-times-a-week non- Eastern destination launched this Qadir. economic and cultural centre for reduced flare volume by 14 percent to move forward towards renew- stop from the airline’s Doha hub, year after Basra, Najaf, Gassim “The Republic of Iraq has been Iraq. It is a mountainous province down from 2.2bn cubic metres. able energy. brings the carrier’s global network in Saudi Arabia and Salalah in on our list of expansion priori- and had been named the cultural The government is committed to The Qatar Carbonates and to 129 destinations worldwide. Oman. ties for some time and the last capital of Kurdistan Region of halving by 2016 the volume of gas Carbon storage Research Centre The Doha–Sulaymaniyah route The arrival of Qatar Airways’ 12 months have seen us move Iraq. Due to relative peace in the flaring to 0.0115bn cubic metres (QCCSRC) is a 10-year research is being operated by a state-of- flight QR438 was welcomed with forward very quickly opening up region it has a more developed per million tonnes of energy programme hosted at Imperial the-art Airbus A320 featuring a water salute at Sulaymaniyah four new gateways in Iraq with economy in comparison to other produced. Qatar Petroleum, the College London. Through the 144 seats in a two-class configura- International Airport and a a fifth, Sulaymaniyah, starting parts of Iraq. state-owned company that oper- Qatar Investment Authority tion of 12 seats in Business Class reception presided over by local today,” said Qatar Airways Chief THE PENINSULA ates all oil and gas activities in (QIA), Qatar is investing £250m Qatar, has set a long-term corpo- into UK’s £250m venture capi- rate target of zero flaring. tal fund for renewable energy The fact that Qatar ranks as projects. This partnership dem- one of the top emitters is just onstrates Qatar’s interest in Traffic diversion technical. The country is one of enabling clean, renewable energy Al Gharrafa R/A the world’s largest energy export- globally, as well as at home. at Al Gharrafa ing countries. The tag of ‘world’s Qatar’s 35,000 sq m Solar Test biggest per capita emitter’ came facility is a world-class joint col- DOHA: The two lane road at because of its tiny population. laboration project to test new North Gharrafa street link- Being the world’s major exporter and emerging solar technologies ing Tilted Roundabout with “Al of clean energy, it helps the world from around the world in order Gharrafa roundabout” will remain to reduce the emission rate, to understand their suitability closed from August 26 as part argues Qatar. for the Qatari and Arabian Gulf of infrastructure works on Al “Qatar’s clean energy reaches environment. Gharrafa street. many countries which have been The Qatar Environment and A new diversion with three lanes traditionally depending on coal, Energy Institute (QEERI) is will be open to ensure smooth flow a resource that emit higher rate mobilising world-class scientists of traffic to the northern parts of of CO2. With these countries and engineers for DohaSOL, the country, Public Works Authority replacing coal with clean gas, which will design, build, operate (Ashghal) said yesterday. Al Gharrafa St Qatar contributes in a big way to and optimise a concentrated solar The existing south bound road that help bring down the global emis- power pilot plant for simultane- links Al Gharrafa roundabout with sion rate”, a top official told The ous electricity generation and sea- Tilted roundabout also remains open. Peninsula. water desalination. Al Gharrafa street upgrading But Qatar refuses to be com- Qatar is planning to replace 10 works is part of Dukhan Highway placent. The country is using percent of total energy used for e East project, one of Ashghal’s key a multifaceted strategy of leg- electricity and water desalination expressway projects. islation, research and innova- with solar power by 2018. THE PENINSULA tion and capital investment to Qatar Solar Technologies broadly address its contributions (QSTec) is a $1bn joint ven- to climate change. Notable goals ture between Qatar Foundation, include reducing emissions from SolarWorld AG and the Qatar industry through reductions in Development Bank. Al Jazeera Sport begins European football season gas flaring and through carbon QSTec is building a polysilicon capture and storage. production plant in Ras Laffan Qatar has launched a project Industrial City. Initially the plant DOHA: Al Jazeera Sport of our total football line up that our to calculate the country’s energy will produce 8,000 metric tonnes reported its most success- customers find compelling.” consumption and CO2 emission of polysilicon per year. Qatar is ful start ever to the 2013-2014 Breaking news and stories from in four sectors — industry, trans- currently embarked on a series European football season yes- the Barclays Premier League will port, services and household — of dedicated real estate projects terday as the Barclays Premier feature on Al Jazeera Sport News, an effort to produce a national strictly adhering to international League and La Liga kicked off the home of sports news in the carbon calculator designed to Green Building standards. over the weekend. region. Al Jazeera Sport has lined facilitate long-term planning and THE PENINSULA All 380 matches of the 2013- up some of the most experienced 2014 Barclays Premier League are and well-loved sports presenters in available exclusively on Al Jazeera the industry to front their produc- Sport’s TV and digital channels tions in the region. Charities in Qatar to discuss across the Mena region following Presenters at the studio of Al Jazeera Sport Ayman Jada and Mohammed the acquisition of exclusive media Saadon Al Kuwari present the rights to the Barclays Premier Arabic coverage of the Barclays plans to help Sudan flood victims League football in the Middle East to a total of six HD channels to add registering at more than twice the Premier League while the English and North Africa for three years. to the 14 regular sports channels rate of any previous season during studios feature Richard Keys and DOHA: Charities in Qatar will meet today at the invitation of The market leading football line- in the full sport package. Existing the opening weekend. Andy Gray, who have been at the the Organisation of the Islamic Dawa (OID) in Doha to coordi- up now available on Al Jazeera subscribers are able to upgrade Commenting on the open- heart of the Barclays Premier nate and consult on aspects of extra relief that can be offered to Sport also includes La Liga, Serie their subscription to enjoy the ing weekend, Nasser Al Khelaifi, League since coverage began. those affected by the floods and rains that recently swept large A, Ligue 1 and top international benefits. Chairman said: “We are committed The opening weekend also had areas of Sudanese states. football. There has been an overwhelm- to creating the very best line-up of special expert guests including Focal topic of the meeting will be the relief campaign to be Also new this season on Al ingly positive response from sub- football for the fans in the region. Mido, Kevin Keegan, David Platt organised by the OID office in coordination with other charities, in Jazeera Sport is the addition of scribers across the Mena region The Premier League is new for us and Ruud Gullit. addition to exchange of ideas and proposals to make it successful. four new HD channels bringing it with Al Jazeera Sport subscribers this season, but it is the strength THE PENINSULA QNA QTA announces new timings at Al Jazeera sues US giant AT&T for dropping channel Entertainment City WASHINGTON: Al Jazeera America presented us with cir- said Al Jazeera had breached its statement. The channel, operated be long-form reporting of sto- DOHA: Qatar Tourism has lodged a suit against US cumstances that were untenable obligations and that the compa- by Middle East’s biggest satellite ries overlooked by other news Authority (QTA) has communications giant AT&T — an affiliate that has willfully ny’s U-verse television systems broadcaster, went live on Tuesday. organisations. announced Wanasa for dropping the broadcast of its and knowingly breached its con- would not carry the channel, The launch was accompanied It is likely to face a tough sell to Entertainment City at the new Al Jazeera America news tractual obligations,” a statement despite previously carrying by a big promotional push, and US audiences because of its his- Doha Exhibition Center will channel on the day it launched. from Al-Jazeera America said late Current TV, which was bought it pledged to outdo its rivals with tory in the Middle East, where now be open from 12 noon till AT&T’s move affects some five Tuesday. out by Al Jazeera. serious, in-depth journalism. it was the outlet for videos dis- midnight until September 15. million US households, a signifi- “Accordingly, we had no choice “As a result of our inability to Americans will be able to see tributed by Al Qaeda and Osama The Monte Carlo Circus cant hit for Al Jazeera America, but to take this action and to come to terms on a new agree- 14 hours of news, documentary bin Laden. will also continue presenting which had said some 40 million enforce Al Jazeera America’s ment and due to certain breaches and discussion programming tai- Some in America regard Al two shows every day at 6.30pm homes were expected to have the rights under its agreement with by Al Jazeera of the existing lored to the US market daily, and Jazeera’s output as anti-Western. to 8.45pm and at 9.30pm to channel available. AT&T — and to compel AT&T to agreement we have decided updates at the top of every hour Al Jazeera is also in negotia- 11.45pm at the Qatar Sports “Unfortunately AT&T’s decision do the right thing.” not to carry Current TV on 24 hours each day. tions with Time Warner Cable Club. THE PENINSULA to unilaterally delete Al Jazeera AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel U-verse,” Siegel said in a prepared But the main selling point will over carrying the channel. AFP THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Egypt security forces told to defy OPINION orders to kill innocent protesters Muslim Brotherhood should DOHA: Noted Qatar-based innocent people is forbidden.” Islamic scholar and President of By obeying orders to kill innocent learn from the Thais the International Union of Muslim people, Muslim soldiers and policemen Scholars, Dr Yusuf Al Qaradawi (pic- (in Egypt) are defying the commands of ome people describe Arabs as September tured), has called on Egyptian soldiers Allah as well as the principles of Shariah, emotional to the extreme, very 20, 2006, and and policemen to defy orders by senior said Dr Al Qaradawi. “Such acts could Spassionate about events, and Thaksin fled officers to shoot innocent Muslim and bring on them the wrath of Allah in this given to anger. Therefore, Prophet the country. Christian demonstrators. world and the hereafter,” he added. Mohammed (PBUH) counselled them After the He, however, said it is not neces- The scholar was asked if the Egyptian against anger and emotions. dissolution sary for them to quit their jobs follow- soldiers, officers and policemen should The Hadith, reported by Abu of the ruling Khalid Al Sayed EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ing the bloody military crackdown on quit their jobs after the killing of thou- Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with party, the demonstrators. sands of innocent people following the him), says: A man asked the Prophet Democratic In a fatwa (religious edict) issued military takeover. (PBUH) for advice and he said, “Do Party won yesterday, Dr Al Qaradawi said: “Allah To this, he replied that it is not neces- Ministry of Interior in Egypt are owned not get angry”. The man repeated elections and formed the government. has forbidden killing innocent people. sary for them to leave their jobs since by the Egyptian people. The job of those his question several times and each Opposition groups known as the Red The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) they are responsible for maintaining law working with these ministries is not to time the Prophet replied, “Do not get Shirts Movement, who strongly sup- has explained that not only killing, but and order. obey politicians and kill innocents,” he angry”. (Narrated by Al Bukhari) ported Thaksin, formed a new party also pointing guns or other weapons at “The Ministry of Defence and the added. THE PENINSULA Modern medicine has revealed called Pheu Thai Party. that anger and emotions raise the The opposition continued strug- level of certain hormones in blood gling by peaceful and democratic and increase the heartbeat rate, means until 2011, when Pheu Thai which may lead to blood pressure. Party won parliamentary elections Arab people have high blood pressure and the leader of the party, Yingluck because they have strayed from true Shinawatra, the younger sister of Islam, which is the Islam of courtesy former premier Thaksin, formed Singapore is eyeing and hard work; Islam which recom- the government after approval by mends science, knowledge and respect the parliament. On August 5, 2011, for the mind. There is no religion or she became the first democratically book that grants the mind freedom elected woman prime minister of and gives it value and dignity as Islam Thailand. Our brothers in Egypt need more Qatari tourists and the Holy Quran do. There are to learn from the Pheu Thai Party in many examples and references in the Thailand that the removal of a ruler Quran in this regard (‘That you may is not the end of the road. Countries set to mark 30 years of ties next year understand’; ‘to those who think’; ‘for Moreover, violence leads to more a people who have understanding’). violence, and Egyptians need to learn BY FAZEENA SALEEM holiday destination among process applications. celebrate 30 years of diplo- The demonstration by Egyptians from the little mistakes that have led expats here. “Singapore is a “People who wish to visit matic relations in 2014 and from various fields on June 30 to to so much anger against Mursi and DOHA: Singapore is plan- country, with all its enter- Singapore can go to these look forward to more cultural demand the fall of the regime and to caused the current political crisis. ning to attract more Qatari taining and enchanting travel agencies; it’s more con- collaboration. end the legitimacy of democratically The best anger is that for the sake tourists and enhance cul- experiences in a safe, luxury venient than coming to the “We are trying to increase elected President Mohammed Mursi, of Allah, religion and rights. Allah tural ties as both countries environment designed to embassy,” said Noureddin. the number of tourists from who had spent one year in office; the defends one who subdues his anger will celebrate 30 years of cater for every tourist,” said “By and large it’s a very Qatar and enhance cultural announcement by the Minister of and helps him attain victory over his diplomatic relations next Noureddin. straightforward application corporation,” Noureddin Defence, General Abdel Fattah Al enemies. Not getting angry is the best year. “There are many other form and many people get added. Sisi, ending the rule of Mursi on July deed that man can do to please God. Singapore has witnessed nationals in Qatar who travel visa easily. However, we do The MoU on culture aims 3; the handover of power to the chief Those who are angry should real- a considerable rise in the to Singapore, but unfortu- occasionally get people com- to promote co-operation of the Supreme Constitutional Court, ise that the military cannot rule the number of visitors from Qatar, nately we don’t check them,” ing here (the embassy).” and exchange by encourag- Adly Mansour; and the army’s sup- country forever, or like in the fifties and is planning to attract he added. In 2010, Singapore and ing art exhibitions, literary port for the demonstrators; all these and sixties of the last century. The more, according to a diplomat. Qataris and several other Qatar signed a memorandum and cultural events, as well largely resemble what happened in people, the media, civil society organi- “There is an increase in nationals are given visa to of understanding on tourism as exchange of artistic, folk- 2006 in Thailand with then prime sations and the international com- the number of people travel- enter Singapore upon arrival, cooperation, setting out their loric and musical groups and minister Thaksin Shinawatra. munity are strongly against military ling from Qatar to Singapore. free of charge. desire to strengthen coopera- writers. The opposition denounced and con- rule. In 2011, about 7,000 Qataris “Generally Singapore is tion in the field. The sixth Qatar-Singapore demned his regime, and demonstra- There is still hope for getting out visited Singapore, it’s a signif- very open. Visitors require a The MoU was in addition high-level joint commit- tors kept demanding the overthrow of this crisis by working together to icant number,” the Minister- valid passport and a return to 20 agreements in various tee meeting scheduled for of the government to bring to an end build a strong, democratic Egypt. As Counsellor at the mission, ticket,” he said. fields, including cultural, November is expected to corrupt practices that were negatively the Chinese philosopher Confucius Syed Noureddin (pictured), For visitors who require trade, environment and infor- enhance partnerships, he affecting the country. This resulted said: It is better to light one small told The Peninsula yesterday. a visa, the embassy has out- mation technology. added. in a military coup on the night of candle than to curse the darkness. Singapore is a popular sourced five travel agencies to Qatar and Singapore will THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME British Safety Council launches two awards DOHA: The British Safety adjudication panel a culture of the awards luncheon. Last year, Arabian-British recipes Council has formally launched best practice for health and safety six organisations — Dounreay its prestigious Sword of Honour throughout the business — from Site Restoration Ltd, Dubai and Globe of Honour awards, the boardroom to the shop floor. Electricity and Water Authority, designed to recognise and cel- The Sword of Honour and Foster Wheeler Energy Limited, ebrate health and safety and Globe of Honour are an important Magnox Limited Wylfa site, add spice to MIA Café environmental management part of British Safety Council’s Norec Limited Liverpool Bulk excellence. drive to recognise and celebrate Handling Terminal and Unipart The 2013 awards mark the 34th exemplary health and safety and Group Consumer Logistics Qatar UK 2013 Year of Culture welcomes new addition year of the Sword of Honour, environmental management in Cowley — won both the Sword awarded for health and safety the workplace. and the Globe of Honour. DOHA: Qatar UK 2013 Year of management excellence, and The closing date for applica- Other notable Sword and Globe Culture yesterday welcomed the the fourth year of the Globe of tions is September 13 and results winners in 2012 included Mace latest addition to its year-long Honour awarded for environmen- will be announced in October. MEP for the Shard project, Aston cultural exchange programme; a tal management excellence. Winning organisations will be Martin Lagonda Limited Gaydon culinary experience consisting of The two awards are open to invited to a celebratory lunch site, Tata Motors Pune site, Camel cottage pie and Eton Mess organisations from around the on November 23 at the historic International Produce Limited — two traditional British dishes world who have achieved the Goldsmiths’ Hall in London on Normanton site, Sudarshan with an Arabic twist. maximum five stars in the British November 29 to receive their Chemical Industries Limited, These culinary treats have been Safety Council’s audit programme awards. Roha and Mahad sites, Office created for the MIA Café by Romain during August 2012 and July 2013. Judith Hackitt CBE, Chair, Depot Limited Northampton and Meder, Executive Chef of MIA They must be able to dem- Health and Safety Executive, ITC Limited Bangalore. Restaurants. onstrate to an independent will be the keynote speaker at THE PENINSULA “We wanted to ensure we capture the essence of traditional British food, being able to add an Arabic twist to the dishes. By using the finest locally sourced ingredients we have created the Camel cottage pie and Eton Mess, representing Qatar UK 2013 Year of Culture from a culinary angle,” said Romain Meder. The Camel cottage pie, features braised camel meat, aromatic gar- nish, mashed potatoes and cheddar cheese. Adding Arabic spices and camel meat, a regional delicacy, cre- ates a tasteful blend bridging the two national cuisines. If museum-goers are in for a sweet treat, the traditional English des- sert ‘Eton Mess’, named after Eton College in Windsor, will be the per- fect choice. The dessert consists of a mixture, or mess, of fresh strawber- ries, meringue and cream, flavoured with thinly sliced local fresh mint. “Qatar UK 2013 Year of Culture has so far offered a wide range of events and activities highlighting the relationship between Qatar and the UK — mostly through artistic and educational exchange. What we wanted to do with this menu is let people in Qatar experience the cul- tural relationship through a shared passion. By taking traditional British recipes and enhancing them with local ingredients, we are bringing the spirit of the Year of Culture to the table,” said Aisha Ghanem Al Attiya, Qatar UK 2013. THE PENINSULA Visitors savouring culinary treats at the MIA Café. THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 HOME / MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Survey: Not many Second Lulu draw citizens prefer Pvt sector jobs

DOHA: A second quarter 2013 Qataris with secondary school labour force sample survey qualifications who said they shows that not many unem- wouldn’t work for the private ployed Qataris are willing to sector cites different reasons for take up private jobs. their reluctance. This is despite the government Work timings (apparently, work pushing the private sector to give in two shifts a day) were cited as enough representation to Qataris a major barrier by a majority of in employment and even fix a the 242 Qataris — 132 — for not quota for them. taking up private employment. The survey covering 1,332 job- Only 44 of them cited low wages less Qataris suggests that only as a reason for their dislike of a 562, or 42.25 percent, were keen private job, while another 44 said to take up jobs in the private they didn’t like the idea of work- sector. ing six days a week. Out of the 1,332 surveyed, 966 The average monthly pay of were women and a vast majority those in employment was a little of them (738 or over 76.4 percent) less than QR10,000 (QR9,636) in said they didn’t prefer private the period survey (second quarter, sector employment. 2013). The Qatari men surveyed There were a total of over 1.46 totalled 366 and out of them 260 million people in the country in (71 percent) showed no preference paid employment in that quarter, The second Mega Draw of ‘Dream Drive With Lulu’ promotion organised by Lulu Hypermarket Group was held yesterday at Lulu Hypermarket, Al for private sector employment. with the average monthly wage Gharrafa branch under the supervision of Abdulla Al bin Ali, an official from the Ministry of Business and Trade, where one Lexus LX570 5.7L and The sample survey was car- of men being higher (QR10,302) two Land Cruiser GX 2013 were given away as prizes. Naima Al Kubaisi (Coupon No. 3961216), Ahmed Zumrek (Coupon No. 0712224) and Moaz ried out for the April to June than that of women (QR7,893). Mohamed Al Azwad (Coupon No. 3178264) won the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes. Lulu’s Regional Director Shaijan M O, Regional Manager Shanavas P period (second quarter) of 2013 Of the 1.46 million employed, M, and several officials from Lulu Hypermarket Group were present. SALIM MATRAMKOT by the Ministry of Development only 173,220 were women, accord- Planning and Statistics. ing to the ministry’s survey. A separate survey of 242 jobless THE PENINSULA Ooredoo extends free international calling promotion Emir sends condolences to Saudi DOHA: Following the strong minutes to their Hala or Shahry accessed on any mobile handset. Ooredoo Mobile Money has seen response to the MoneyGram plan. Ooredoo Mobile Money has To benefit from this promotion, a strong response, especially cus- RIYADH: On behalf of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al promotion launched in July, been particularly popular with Ooredoo customers can sign up tomers who do not have bank Thani, H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has MoneyGram and Ooredoo expatriate workers looking to for Ooredoo Mobile Money at any accounts or have limited access offered condolences and sympathy of the Emir to H R H Prince Muqrin Mobile Money have extended send money home quickly, safely Ooredoo Shop, showing a valid to financial services. bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Second Deputy Prime Minister, Chancellor the Free International Calling and conveniently. The added Qatar ID, or by dialling *140# More than 100,000 people have and Special Envoy for the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Minutes offer until October 15. bonus of international calling on their mobile and following the signed up to enjoy Qatar’s most H R H Prince Abdul-Ilah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and sons of the late With this value promotion, cus- minutes from MoneyGram ena- simple on-screen instructions. convenient option for transferring Prince Musaed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and the royal family. tomers enjoy free calling minutes bles them to stay connected to Once registered, customers can money. Ooredoo Mobile Money every time they make an inter- their loved ones. deposit money in their Mobile customers can also top up their national money transfer through MoneyGram has more than Wallet, either at an Ooredoo Shop own Hala account or a friend’s, Emir and Turkish prime minister review ties MoneyGram. For every inter- 321,000 MoneyGram agents in or Ooredoo Self-Service Machine, and pay their own Shahry bills DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yester- national transfer that Ooredoo 198 countries and territories or transferring money from QNB or even transfer money locally to day received a telephone call from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Mobile Money customers make, around the world, with transfers Bank accounts using the QNB another registered Mobile Wallet Tayyip Erdogan. Talks during the conversation dealt with bilateral MoneyGram instantly provides occurring in only 10 minutes. Mobile Payment Service. or QNB Bank Account. ties in addition to the latest developments in the region. QNA them with 20 international calling The safe service can be easily Since its launch its 2011, THE PENINSULA Jordan premier reshuffles cabinet ahead of elections

AMMAN: Jordanian Prime of education. Interior Minister two portfolios or more is practi- Minister Abdullah Nsur reshuf- Hussein Majali, Foreign Minister cally very difficult.” fled his cabinet yesterday ahead Nasser Judeh, Finance Minister Rintawi said the reshuffle “is of municipal elections next week, Ummaya Tukan and Information unlikely to bring any change to appointing two more women but Minister Mohmmad Momani all government policies.” leaving the foreign, interior and keep their jobs. “It simply seeks to prolong the finance portfolios unchanged. King Abdullah II issued a decree government’s term and give it a The newcomers include Lana approving the reshuffle of the cabi- chance to do things in a better Mamkegh, a state television pre- net, which Nsur formed in March. way.” The reshuffle came as Jordan senter and columnist, as culture He formed a first government in prepares to hold municipal elec- minister and Lina Shabeeb, a uni- October last year. tions on August 27. versity professor, at transport. Nsur, 73, who held several key “Successive governments are Their appointments increased ministries in the 1980s and 1990s, always reshuffled before depar- the number of women in the cabi- has been an outspoken advocate ture. They take a chance but never net to three, as Social Development of reform in the desert kingdom. use it. I do not see any benefit Minister Reem Abu Hassan kept In March, Nusr merged several from today’s reshuffle,” said Zaki her post. portfolios to form a 19-member Bani Rsheid, deputy leader of the Also new to the government is cabinet, the smallest in Jordan in Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan’s Khaled Kalaldeh, secretary general more than four decades, as he tried main opposition group. of the pro-reform Social Leftist to cut spending. “They are buying time to divert Movement, who will be in charge of The country is trying to reduce the attention of the public from political and parliamentary affairs. a $2bn deficit this year, as it seeks real problems. I do not expect any- Lawyer Bassam Talhuni is to tackle foreign debt of more thing to improve unless the entire the new justice minister, while than $23bn. But with yesterday’s mechanism of forming government the head of the public Prine reshuffle, the cabinet expanded to changes.” The king appointed Nsur Hamzah Hospital, Ali Hiasat, 27 ministers. to form his second government fol- takes over health and the head “I think it was a technical and lowing unprecedented consulta- of the Electricity Regulatory not political reshuffle,” analyst tions between the palace and the Commission, Mohammed Hamad, Oraib Rintawi, who runs the Al 150-member parliament. takes the energy portfolio. Quds Centre for Political Studies The constitution gives the king Mohammed Thneibat, a said. “In my opinion, the reshuffle the power to sack and appoint former member of the Muslim seeks to help the ministers do their prime ministers and dissolve par- Brotherhood, is now in charge job efficiently, because handling liament. AFP

Arab Israeli charged for trying to join Syria rebels

JERUSALEM: An Arab Israeli citizens to go there. “Over the dangerous phenomenon.” student has been indicted for course of his studies, Altallah “Alongside the military train- contact with an enemy agent met Iraqi and Palestinian stu- ing they undergo there, Arab after he went to Syria to join dents who support the Salafist- Israelis going to Syria are exposed rebels there, the Shin Bet Jihadist stream, which is the to extreme anti-Israeli ideology domestic security agency said ideological platform for Al Qaeda, and there is a fear they will be yesterday. and under their influence took up exploited by terrorists there, both Abdel Qader Altallah, a phar- the Salafist ideology and became as a source of information about macy student from Taibe village more religiously observant,” Shin targets in Israel, as well as for in Galilee who studies in Jordan, Bet said. carrying out military operations was arrested in a joint Shin Bet- “Altallah admitted he went to against Israel.” police operation on July 14. Syria to join the Jihad against the Last month, the same court The 26-year-old was also Syrian army and he contacted a sentenced an Arab Israeli to 30 charged at Lod District Court, in representative of (Al Qaeda affili- months in prison as part of a an indictment earlier this month, ate) Jabhat Al Nusrah and was plea bargain in which Hikmat with travelling overseas illegally recruited to its ranks,” the state- Massarwa, also from Taibe, and infiltration. ment read. admitted to contacts with an Israel is still technically at war Shin Bet said it considers Arab enemy agent, illegally leaving the with Syria and it is illegal for its Israelis going to Syria as a “very country and infiltration. AFP THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Creeping fear Court orders Mubarak freed back among Prime minister says former Egyptian leader to be placed under house arrest Egyptians CAIRO: A climate of fear that CAIRO: An Egyptian court of their headquarters on June 30. kept Egyptians compliant dur- yesterday ordered ex-president Egypt has experienced a week ing the 30-year rule of Hosni Hosni Mubarak freed while of unprecedented political blood- Mubarak is creeping back he stands trial accused of cor- letting, which began on August into daily life, less than three ruption and killing protesters, 14 when security forces stormed years after the revolt that top- as authorities pressed their two Cairo pro-Mursi protest pled him. Ordinary people like roundup of supporters of his camps. Mohamed, who runs a tiny ousted Islamist successor. The crackdown and resulting Cairo shop selling mobile phone Hours later, prime minister violence across the country killed accessories, now lower their Hazem Al Beblawi, acting deputy nearly 600 people in a single day, voices if they oppose the army’s military ruler during the state of the bloodiest in Egypt’s recent overthrow last month of their emergency, ordered Mubarak to history. first freely-elected president, be placed under house arrest if Islamists have torched and Mohammed Mursi. released. attacked dozens of Christian “It is about the principle that The decision to free Mubarak churches, schools, businesses we stood in line and voted freely added a volatile new element to and homes — mostly in the rural for the first time and this hap- the political turmoil that has south — accusing Egypt’s size- pens,” whispered Mohamed, who gripped Egypt since Mohammed able Coptic minority of backing declined to give his second name. Mursi was ousted as president in Mursi’s ouster. “People who speak about justice a July 3 coup, with 1,000 people The deadly dispersals of the now do not dare to say it out killed in violence in the past week. protest camps were followed by loud, in case people accuse them The unrest has prompted inter- days of violence that have seen of being terrorists.” national criticism, and EU foreign the country’s toll rise to nearly While activists critical of the ministers agreed in an emergency 1,000 dead, including 37 Islamist army-backed government are meeting yesterday to suspend the prisoners who died in custody on obvious targets for intimidation, sale of arms and security equip- Sunday night. now ordinary Egyptians also avoid ment to Egypt. That excludes the toll in the the noisy, boisterous discussion of Last year, Mubarak was con- Sinai peninsula, where militants politics that was common between victed of complicity in the deaths have launched near daily attacks the fall of Mubarak and that of of some of the 850 people killed against police and army facilities. his Islamist successor on July 3. in the 2011 uprising that over- On Monday, 25 policemen were From mass arrests of Muslim threw him, as well as on charges killed in a single incident, when Brotherhood leaders to the re- of corruption. gunmen dragged them from two appearance of plain clothes He was sentenced to life in Egyptian army soldiers stand guard in front of the Torah prison, where former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak buses and shot them dead execu- enforcers on the streets of Cairo, prison, but an appeals court is being held, in Cairo, yesterday. tion style near the border with a chill wind is blowing down the ordered a retrial on technicalities. the Gaza Strip. Nile. Should he be released from The incident prompted national Many Egyptians lambasted jail, he will be placed under house cabinet statement said. issued hundreds of detention It was the first time a condemnation and mourning and Mursi’s Brotherhood for economic arrest and still face those charges. Meanwhile, authorities con- orders and arrest warrants for Brotherhood supreme guide has brought the week’s toll in Sinai incompetence and trying to grab His next hearing is scheduled for tinued to round up members of Brotherhood members. been arrested since 1981. alone to 45, according to an AFP excessive power during his year Sunday. Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood A Brotherhood-led coalition The Brotherhood swiftly count. in power. But now the language Under Beblawi’s order, movement. however yesterday defiantly named deputy Mahmoud Ezzat, The international community is much more serious: the govern- Mubarak would be confined to Overnight, they detained called for mass rallies on Friday, described by experts as a “hawk” has been shocked by the violence. ment accuses the Brotherhood of his home, possibly a residence in Islamist firebrand Safwat Hegazy in a test of its remaining strength and conservative, to serve as The European Union decided “terrorism” as it tries to crush the Cairo or in the Rea Sea resort of and Mourad Ali, a spokesman for as more members are arrested. interim guide. yesterday to restrict exports of movement by rounding up hun- Sharm El Sheikh. the group’s Freedom and Justice Dozens of the group’s leaders Badie and two other senior security equipment and arms to dreds of leading members. “In the framework of the Party. have been rounded up, includ- Brotherhood leaders are expected Egypt in response to the mount- At least 900 people have been emergency law, the deputy mili- Since the army ousted Mursi ing its supreme guide Mohamed to appear on Sunday before a ing violence but opted to maintain killed since security forces broke tary ruler ordered Mubarak to after massive demonstrations Badie, who was detained on court on allegations they incited economic assistance. up two pro-Mursi camps on be placed under house arrest,” a against him, authorities have Tuesday. the murder of protesters in front AFP August 14. REUTERS Tunisia union Yemen govt apologises for wars by Saleh SANAA: The Yemeni govern- Delegates aim to chart major Saleh’s administration launched people from state jobs, seizure of ment yesterday issued a public constitutional and administrative against rebels there between 2004 state assets and private prop- apology to southern separatists reforms ahead of national elec- and 2010. erty and the withholding of state head mediates and northern Shia Muslim tions next year. “The government Civil war broke out between pensions from families of soldiers rebels for wars waged against apologises for the war of the sum- North Yemen and the former killed in the conflict. them during former President mer of 1994 and what the previ- Marxist south in 1994, four years Saleh battled northern Shia Ali Abdullah Saleh’s rule. ous government did against the after the two countries merged rebels seeking the restora- The apology, made in a cabi- southerners, considering that a into one state. Its consequences tion of the Zaidi imamate that in stand-off net statement read out on state historic mistake that cannot be have fuelled secessionist demands ruled much of modern Yemen television, comes amid national repeated,” the statement said. for separation. Southern Yemenis before it was overthrown in 1962. TUNIS: Tunisia’s powerful up its pressure on Ennahda in reconciliation talks launched in It also apologised to residents have long complained of discrimi- Thousands died in the fighting, UGTT trade union federation recent weeks, angered by the March to address grievances by of northern Saada province over nation by the North, including the which ended with a truce in 2010. sought to mediate in the coun- murders of two leftist leaders large segments of the population. repeated military campaigns that dismissals of tens of thousands of REUTERS try’s political crisis yesterday, this year and emboldened by the consulting the secular opposi- popular protest that led to the tion on its proposals for new fall of Egypt’s Islamist President elections before meeting with Mohamed Mursi in July. Poor living the ruling Islamists today. With no powerful military Aden intelligence UGTT Secretary General to intervene like in Egypt, the Hussein Abassi, whose million- two sides are locked in a politi- strong federation gives him cal standoff punctuated by mass chief and nephew influence outside the feuding street rallies of their supporters political camps, met leaders of the and a series of real and rumoured killed in attack “Salvation Front” of opposition contacts among envoys seeking a parties to inform them of recent path to consensus. ADEN: Assailants shot dead overtures from the government. Reacting to the mounting pres- the intelligence chief of the He was originally also sched- sure, Ghannouchi unexpectedly southern Yemeni city of Aden uled to meet with Rached flew to Paris last week to meet and his nephew yesterday, state Ghannouchi, chairman of the Beji Caid Essebsi, head of the news agency Saba said, the lat- governing Ennahda party, yes- largest opposition party Nidaa est in a series of attacks against terday, but the meeting was post- Tounes, who was on a visit there. senior officers. poned a day ahead with no official He then held initial talks on Saba said Colonel Ali Hadi, explanation. Monday with Abassi. head of what is known as the “Things are still difficult,” Several opposition parties political security apparatus in the Abassi told journalists after plan to call another round of port city, was shot dead by “ter- meeting the parties demanding street rallies this weekend in rorist elements”. Ennahda resign. “The opposition what they call their “degage” His nephew was also killed in is sticking to its demand to dis- (“get out”) campaign, using the the same attack, Saba said, with- solve the government and form a same term chanted by protesters out giving any details on the cir- caretaker cabinet.” against former strongman Zine cumstances of the incident. Ziad Lakhdher, a leader of El Abidine Ben Ali. Dozens of Yemeni security and the Popular Front party, said The opposition accuses military officers have been assas- Abassi had informed the meet- Ennahda of mismanaging the sinated in the past two years in ing of Ennahda’s latest offer for economy, ignoring violent Salafis Yemen, many either by bombs a government of national unity trying to impose their Islamist planted inside their cars or in led by the present Islamist Prime rules on more secular Tunisians drive-by shootings often blamed Minister Ali Larayedh. “We reject and delaying completion of a new on Al Qaeda in the Arabian this categorically,” he said. constitution that was supposed to A woman cooks food in her hut made of wood and cardboard in the slums of the Akhdam community in the Peninsula or its affiliates. Tunisia’s opposition has stepped be ready last October. REUTERS southern Yemeni city of Adan, yesterday. Yemeni Akhdam, or servants, are similar to hereditary castes, but REUTERS are distinguished by their African features and the menial jobs they perform. Saudi Arabia executes Yemeni for murder Gunmen kill two men, injure Swedish woman in Somalia RIYADH: Saudi authorities executed a Yemeni in Makkah MOGADISHU: Gunmen killed militants have kept up guerrilla- Student Ahmed Dek said the woman from Sweden was also The ministry said prepara- yesterday after he was convicted two men and wounded two style attacks and kidnappings Swedish woman flung open the wounded. Bile Ibrahim, of the tions were under way to move of murdering a fellow country- women, including a Swede, in in the city despite being largely rear door of the car and ran criminal investigation depart- her to Kenya after treatment man, the Interior Ministry said. Somalia’s capital Mogadishu pushed out by Somali and African under a hail of bullets towards ment, said police were investigat- in Mogadishu. A spokesman for Hosni Tawhal had been accused yesterday when they ambushed forces two years ago. the university. She was bleeding ing a possible attempted kidnap. the UN hospital there said her of stabbing Saghr Sulaia to death, a car in what police believe may Witnesses said the Swede was badly from her left side, he said. The Swedish Foreign Ministry wounds were not life threatening. the ministry said, quoted by state have been an attempted kidnap. going back to her hotel after giv- A police officer guarding the confirmed a Swedish woman had Somalia has a new elected gov- news agency SPA. This brought to There was no immediate ing a speech at the University of Swedish woman and a Somali been shot and injured and said ernment that has been in charge 61 the number of people executed claim of responsibility. However, Somalia when the gunmen struck man said to be her translator it was investigating the circum- for about a year and is attempting in Saudi Arabia this year, accord- Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab near the Turkish embassy. were killed, police said. A Somali stances of the attack. to rebuild itself. REUTERS ing to an AFP count. AFP THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Syria gas attack kills 1,300 Regime, opposition blame each other; UN Security Council meets

BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syria’s opposition accused government forces of gassing hundreds of people yesterday by firing rock- ets that released deadly fumes over rebel-held Damascus sub- urbs, killing men, women and children as they slept. With the dead estimated at between 500 and 1,300, what would be the world’s most lethal chemical weapons attack since the 1980s prompted an emer- gency meeting of the UN Security Council in New York. While UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed shock, immediate international action is likely to be limited, with the divi- sions among major powers that have crippled efforts to quell two and a half years of civil war still much in evidence. Russia hastened to back up denials from the administration of President Bashar Al Assad by saying it looked like a rebel “prov- ocation” to discredit him. Britain voiced the opposite view: “I hope this will wake up some who have supported the Assad regime to realise its mur- derous and barbaric nature,” Foreign Secretary William Hague said on a visit to Paris, London’s ally against Assad. A man, affected by what activists say is nerve gas, breathes through an oxygen mask in the Damascus France, Britain, the United suburb of Jesreen yesterday after the attack. States and others called for an immediate on-site investigation by UN chemical weapons inspec- their mouths. Reuters was not around 3am (0000 GMT). In He added that “if the tors who arrived in the Syrian able to verify the cause of their 1988, 3,000 to 5,000 Iraqi Kurds Syrian government has capital only this week. Moscow, deaths. were gassed by Saddam Hussein’s nothing to hide”, it would urging an “objective” inquiry, said The United States and others forces at Halabja. facilitate the work of the the very presence of that team said it had no independent con- One man who said he had UN inspectors. suggested government forces were firmation that chemical weapons retrieved victims in the suburb Syrian Information not to blame. had been used. UN chief Ban said of Erbin told Reuters: “We would Minister Omran Zoabi Neighbouring Israel’s Channel the head of the organisation’s go into a house and everything said the allegations were 10 television quoted Defence inspection team in Damascus was in its place. Every person “illogical and fabricated”. Minister Moshe Yaalon as tell- was already discussing the latest was in their place. They were Assad’s officials have said ing reporters that Syria had used claims with the government. lying where they had been. They they would never use poi- chemical weapons, and not for the looked like they were asleep. son gas against Syrians. first time. “SLEEPING DEAD” “But they were dead.” REUTERS US President Barack Obama Opposition activists variously When shelling hit her town of has made the use of chemical cited death tolls ranging from Mouadamiya, southwest of the weapons by Assad’s forces a “red about 500 to, by one account, some capital, Farah Al Shami ignored line” that already in June trig- 1,300 after shells and rockets fell rumours on Facebook that rockets gered more US aid to the rebels. were loaded with chemical agents. But previous, smaller and dis- She thought her district was too puted cases of their deployment close to a military encampment have not brought the all-out to be affected. military intervention that rebel “And at the same time the UN leaders have sought to break a was here. It seemed impossible. stalemate. But then I started to feel dizzy. If confirmed, a major gas attack I was choking and my eyes were could increase pressure on Obama burning,” the 23-year-old told to do more to support rebels Reuters over Skype. whose links to militant Islam have “I rushed to the field clinic helped dampen Western enthusi- nearby. Luckily no one in my asm for their cause. family was hurt, but I saw entire The Security Council, where families on the floor.” Russia has vetoed previous Doctors interviewed described Western efforts to impose UN symptoms they believe point penalties on Assad, began a to sarin gas, one of the agents closed-door meeting but is not Western powers accuse expected to take decisive action, Damascus of having in an with the big powers still at log- undeclared chemical weapons gerheads and cautiously seeking stockpile. clarity over the incident. “The United States is deeply Images, including some by free- concerned by reports that hun- lance photographers supplied to dreds of Syrian civilians have Reuters, showed scores of bodies been killed in an attack by Syrian A boy who survived the attack cries — some of them small children — government forces, including by while taking shelter inside a mosque laid on the floor of a clinic with the use of chemical weapons,” no visible signs of injuries. Some in the Duma neighbourhood of White House spokesman Josh showed people with foam around Damascus. Earnest said. THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE bodies of hundreds of men, women and children after the ghastly attack on a Damascus suburb yesterday point to the extent to which the Syrian Tcrisis has worsened. As the Syrian regime of President Egypt crackdown may not Bashar Al Assad and the opposition pointed a finger at each other for the gas attack that is said to have killed 1,300 people, bodies of scores of children frothing at the mouth told a sordid tale. While world leaders expressed their shock, the crush Brotherhood international community was divided along pro-and anti-Assad lines. But the children hit by the attack cried inconsolably — BY MICHAEL GEORGY from burning eyes and by the shock of what happened to their with dusk-to-dawn curfews. Mahmoud Ezzat, a former deputy to “To some extent they have succeeded. Badie, had been named temporary parents. Like the men and women who scampered around, they NTIL Monday night, Farid Turnout in the street is low,” said Khalil leader, suggesting that a contingency didn’t know which side was responsible for the deadly assault. Ismail was one of the few Muslim Anani, an expert on Islamic movements. plan had already been prepared in case For the dead and injured, it would hardly matter if it was the UBrotherhood leaders who still “For the short term the Brotherhood the top man was rounded up. regime troops or the rebel forces. answered his phone, even when many has received a major blow.” Ezzat, a Brotherhood member since Many of those dead had constricted pupils and a pale body, of his associates had been arrested or The army-backed administration his childhood, is viewed as one of the symptoms of sarin —a nerve agent — attack. The opposition, gone underground. By Tuesday morn- has indicated it will show no mercy, most influential people in the organisa- ing Ismail was nowhere to be found taking a much tougher line than tion. Sitting in a Cairo coffee shop, Nidal which is fighting to overthrow Assad for more than two years, after the authorities seized the group’s most past Egyptian governments. The Sakr, a Brotherhood political strategist, claims that rockets launched by the regime on a Damascus chief, Mohamed Badie, overnight. Brotherhood saw its leaders and mem- glanced at a news programme about suburb released lethal fumes that killed people in their sleep. The army seems determined to bers locked up over decades, but it never Badie. The attack comes at a time when a UN team is in Syria to decapitate the Middle East’s oldest faced such a wave of bloodshed. “This is nothing new. We have seen investigate claims of the use of chemical weapons earlier in the and arguably most resilient Islamist Security forces killed hundreds of it all before,” he said, estimating that revolt. Russia, a long-time ally of the embattled Assad, said that movement, to prevent it from prepar- people, forcibly evicting Islamist pro- the authorities had arrested more ing a political comeback after President testers from the sit-ins on August 14. than 3,000 middle- and lower-ranking the very presence of a UN team suggests that the regime is not Mohammed Mursi, one of its senior More died two days later during a Brotherhood leaders across Egypt. to blame for the attack. Assad’s leaders, was ousted on July 3. Brotherhood “Day of Rage”. Sakr predicted that the Brotherhood The international government also issued denials. In Badie’s arrest means the A spokesman for a pro-Brotherhood would survive the latest blow, and make the other camp, Britain said that Brotherhood’s alliance said the total death toll among it back to politics within two or three community must the incident is proof that those most experienced Mursi supporters was about 1,400, con- years, because it would adjust, as it and respected siderably higher than an official figure of always has. One key to its survival, he supporting the Syrian president fix responsibility leaders are now about 900 dead in the past week, includ- said, may be its vast and highly organ- for the chemical should wake up. So, who is to blame? behind bars. ing around 100 soldiers and police. ised social welfare networks that made The UN Security Council was The Brotherhood Others such The army has worked overtime to cast it popular in Egypt. attack in Syria meeting in New York yesterday do has long as Ismail, if he the Brotherhood as a terrorist group, a If those institutions remain intact, and bring the decide on a course of action in the experience of remains free, narrative that suggests the crackdown the Brotherhood may be able to weather aftermath of the incident that sent must now be won’t end any time soon. Humiliation state harassment in the long term. perpetrators to pressure. Its focused on stay- seems to be part of the strategy. “The organisation is based on social shockwaves across the world. ing out of jail. Footage shown on local media within relationships with families, neighbours, book. The White House called on leaders have The military’s hours of Badie’s arrest showed the schools, hospitals, institutions and the United Nations to urgently endured hardship strategy appears bearded leader sitting grim-faced on a orphanages,” said Sakr. investigate the attack. In the more-than-two year old conflict, in jail and bouts clear: remove the sofa in a grey robe, hands folded, while “If you want to approach the Washington’s role has been in the spotlight. Obama had come top of a pyramid- a man with a rifle stands by. Brotherhood you have to approach under considerable pressure for intervening in Syria. Rebels, of persecution shaped organi- The general calling the shots, army society,” he said. “In the organisational sation in hopes chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, has taken sense it can be halted. But you cannot often routed by regime forces, have asked for more proactive under former that the rest will a more aggressive line against the take it out of society.” support from Washington. US President Barack Obama has President Gamal crumble. Brotherhood than Egypt’s previous The Brotherhood will surely bank on made the use of chemical weapons by Assad’s forces a “red line” Abdel Nasser and Brotherhood military-backed rulers. He has won its tightly-knit structures to survive that already in June triggered more US aid to the rebels. members take wide public support for what he calls a the onslaught from security forces. The latest massacre is likely to increase pressure on Obama his successors. their orders from campaign against terrorism. Regaining public confidence is another the 120-mem- But it is not clear whether Sisi’s challenge altogether. Mursi’s year in to intervene in Syria, either through increasing weapons ber consultative heavyhanded campaign can succeed in office convinced many Egyptians that support to the rebels or militarily. Direct military intervention Shura Council and 18-member Guidance the long term. the group was mostly interested in by the US, despite the intensity of the crisis, is unlikely given Office, which send directives down via The Brotherhood has long experience monopolising power. His failure to fix Obama’s approach to the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan. If it several layers of deputies. of pressure. Its leaders have endured the fragile economy also eroded the is Assad who ordered the attack, it might prove to be another The army’s disruption tactics have hardship in jail and bouts of persecution movement’s appeal. step to his nemesis. If it is the opposition, it would be difficult already paid dividends. under former President Gamal Abdel “People now don’t accept speeches The Brotherhood, which for six weeks Nasser and his successors. In veteran from Muslim Brotherhood leaders to fix blame as the rebels are a disparate group of fighters managed to keep large protest camps strongman Hosni Mubarak’s era, the who are not in prison. Not one of professing separate ideologies. Whether the regime did it or the going in Cairo to demand Mursi’s rein- then-banned Brotherhood also felt a them can walk the streets safely,” said rebels, the use of chemical weapons on innocents is a heinous statement, is now struggling to get peo- great deal of heat from the state. former Brotherhood official Kamal crime and the perpetrators should be brought to justice by the ple onto the streets. The authorities, The movement’s Freedom and Helbawy. international community • meanwhile, have tightened their grip Justice Party newspaper reported that REUTERS The other side Quote of Rogue candidate the day HE other day, a man living in blogger-turned-opposition leader. have featured apparently baseless accu- savvy with social media, is a breath of a Moscow apartment had the Navalny, detested by high-ranking offi- sations about alleged foreign funding fresh air that has attracted an enthusi- temerity to affix to his balcony cials whose misdeeds he has exposed, of his campaign, misuse of campaign astic corps of mainly young volunteers Ta campaign banner extolling became Vladimir Putin’s Public Enemy funds and his supposed fascist tenden- and backers. I hope all members the candidacy of Alexei Navalny, the No. 1 by leading street protests after cies. For his part, Sobyanin, a color- Navalny has also continued his of the Security anti- corruption rabble-rouser who is the tainted parliamentary elections less but able administrator appointed muckraking — for instance by reporting running for mayor of Moscow. When in 2011. Even though polls show the as mayor in 2010, has not deigned to that a Moscow apartment worth millions Council will join us. the police couldn’t make the man Kremlin-backed incumbent mayor, join Navalny and a handful of lesser is registered to Sobyanin’s 16-year-old remove the banner, they dispatched Sergei Sobyanin, with a massive lead, challengers in debates. He has mainly daughter, and another pricey apart- I hope this will wake a fellow, equipped with a window- the authorities are sparing no effort to stayed aloof from the proceedings, ment in St. Petersburg is owned by his washing harness, to the roof to rappel tilt the playing field so that Navalny is perhaps hoping that the presence of 25-year-old daughter. Still, Sobyanin up some who have the building to deal with it. He, too, was not just beaten in the Sept. 8 election Navalny will lend a veneer of legitimacy has brushed aside those exposes, and supported the Assad foiled, at least for the time being. but trounced. to his presumed victory. Muscovites, inured to corruption, have There are few limits beyond which Navalny is all but banned from state Not everything has gone smoothly for barely blinked. It remains to be seen regime, to realise the Russian authorities will not go television, from which most Russians get Sobyanin. In an ossified system that has whether Navalny’s campaign will survive its murderous and to harass, suppress and muzzle the their news. He has been the subject of marginalized any genuine opposition, until election day. William Hague candidacy of Navalny, the charismatic a smear campaign in the media, which Navalny’s energetic, inventive campaign, The Washington Post barbaric nature. 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ABDULLAH AL SAADY Need to translate scientific works into Arabic Carry on good deeds t is an old issue; I mean the initiative, our government should issue of translating scientific do the following: First, establish books into Arabic. Before AMINA AL EMADY certified centres for translation of after Ramadan Igoing into the importance of scientific books. Second, it should translation, it worth mentioning teach foreign languages so that that Europeans, who were suffer- their local languages. They have administrators and ministers. we have a large number of pro- he holy month of Ramadan and Eid Al Fitr are over. ing from darkness, ignorance and removed the language barrier, The network’s name is ‘Ahsan’. fessional translators capable of Our Islamic nation’s mosques were overcrowded and backwardness, found their way to which hinders many from study- The aim of establishing this producing quality translations. congested during the fasting month. It is noticed, how- enlightenment and scientific dis- ing science. translation network is to trans- Members of this network have Tever, that the number of people inside mosques decreases coveries by translating material I recently read about a network late books on health sciences and managed to translate the unified gradually after the Eid prayer until the next year’s Ramadan. on different areas of knowledge, that comprises full-time profes- other subjects. It is founding doc- medical dictionary. This work is I wish to remind Muslims of what Allah says in the holy Quran: including scientific and philo- sional translators and part-time ument states the following aims: considered one of the greatest in “The mosques of Allah are to be maintained only by those who sophical works produced by the amateurs translating books on 1. Enhancing communica- this century as it has enriched believe in Allah and the Last Day, and establish prayer and give Islamic civilization. health and medical sciences. tion between those interested in the Arabic language, which had zakat and do not fear except Allah, for it is expected that those If we look to another part of This group consists of people translation of books on health and remained static for centuries, will be of the (rightly) guided”. Al Tawbah (9:18). the world, we have the example who handle the subjects in their medical sciences and promoting with modern medical concepts. This verse describes people who of Asian countries that are pro- original languages. Others work their work for others to benefit Finally, we need to make fill Allah’s mosques. It also men- Ramadan and Eid are gressing after having translated on the texts after they have been from them. huge efforts to enrich the body tions: “It is not for the polytheists over and everybody is books on different areas of knowl- translated. 2. Coordinating to ensure avail- of Arabic scientific literature, to maintain the mosques of Allah edge into their local languages. The group includes users of ability of products in the market because we can keep in step with (while) witnessing against them- once more occupied People from China, Japan and the translated texts, including and preventing wastage of effort the rest of the world only with selves with disbelief. (For) those, by life’s issues. This is South Korea resorted to trans- medical students and teachers, and money due to repetitive pro- the help of science, or else we will their deeds have become worth- lation to achieve excellence. those who write in these fields, duction of some translated works remain in the darkness of igno- less, and in the fire they will abide natural, but we must Students of science and engineer- and education officials, includ- and neglect of others. rance and backwardness as con- eternally”. Al Tawbah (9:17). make more effort to ing in these countries study in ing deans of colleges, university If this network is a social sumers of what others produce. We all must continue our prayers just like we did during carry on our good Ramadan, fill mosques, and read habits and manners. We the holy Quran and perform other acts that bring us closer to Allah, should not allow other while hoping that those deeds will things to distract us be accepted. Our youth and the Emir’s perspective We must be eager to maintain from whatever brings us our faith and good deeds through- closer to Allah. ecently a young lead- needs fields where it can be out the year, not just during the ership was handed applied in public interest. True, holy month of Ramadan, because this is what people who have the reins of power by NAIEMA AL MUTAWAA they need more training and faith in Allah and the Day of Judgement do. Rthe Father Emir in interaction among themselves We must remind each other that our prayers and good deeds full belief that power was being and with their peers in neigh- will lead us to enlightenment and his realm, where we will feel given to those capable of taking top certificates and have years with love of work and awareness bouring countries. This will help safe from untimely death. on the responsibility, guiding the of experience in the fields of their of the need to serve this country. these young leaders broaden We must also know that we will not enter Allah’s paradise country’s progress, and defending specialisation. This knowledge This is the time for young peo- their experience and enrich their without His mercy. This is why it is important to mention the the country against any aggres- and experience enables them ple, especially those who have careers. following verse from the Quran: “Every soul will taste death, and sor. The new leadership was edu- to foresee the future and make graduated from local or foreign This, however, does not mean you will only be given your (full) compensation on the Day of cated and trained for years to be sense of data about the country. universities, to get jobs suitable that we have to get rid of old Resurrection. So he who is drawn away from the fire and admit- a worthy successor to the best It is time for the youth in our to their specialisation. These peo- hands who are serving the coun- ted to Paradise has attained (his desire). And what is the life of predecessor. country to lead the way to the ple should receive proper training try with their expertise. Their this world except the enjoyment of delusion.” Ali Imran (3:185). The beloved Father Emir real- aspired for renaissance. Yes, from their predecessors in their expertise has created the base Ramadan and Eid are over and everybody is once more occupied ised the importance of handing Qatar is a young country with jobs so that they are conversant which underpins the work that by life’s issues. This is natural, but we must make more effort to over the affairs of the state to the lots of competent young people with all the relevant details. needs to be carried forward. carry on our good habits and manners. We should not allow other youth and giving them the chance who have enough experience After that they can be tested These citizens need support, things to distract us from whatever brings us closer to Allah. to prove their mettle, especially and awareness to run many before they are put in leadership respect and appreciation for We must also go to mosques and do our jobs in our Islamic and in the delicate tasks related to institutions. positions so that they can take what they have been doing for the Arab societies harder and strive to achieve progress to develop the future of the country. Young Qatari officials have decisions and put the knowledge country all their lives. When the our institutions and our countries. He started with the Cabinet, proved themselves worthy of the they have into practice. time comes for these officials to which includes active and intel- tasks assigned to them, and you There is no doubt that these retire, they should feel properly ligent young figures who hold can see them striving vigorously, graduates have knowledge that rewarded for their efforts.

Lebanon army in ‘total Seven die, oil pipeline war’ against terrorism BEIRUT: The Lebanese army is fighting bombed in Iraq a “total war” against terrorism whose aim is “to provoke sectarian strife” in the BAGHDAD: Attacks in Iraq killed seven people, dam- small Mediterranean country, army chief aged an oil pipeline and hit a Shia shrine yesterday, as General Jean Kahwaji said yesterday. the country grapples with a months-long spike in violence. “We are faced today with one of the big- Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki has vowed to press opera- gest dangers, which Arab and Western tions to try to stem the bloodshed, which has claimed more countries are already confronting, and that than 3,500 lives already this year, but analysts say Iraq is is terrorism, which strikes out whenever it not tackling the root causes of the unrest. has the chance,” Kahwaji told a gathering In the deadliest attack, gunmen broke into the house of of retired officers. a local anti-Al Qaeda militia chief west of Baghdad, killing Heavily armed Hezbollah, a key ally of his son and cousin. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, was Sunni militants consider the Sahwa, a collection of Sunni struck last week by a massive car bomb tribal militias that joined forces with the United States and attack that left 27 people dead in its south- turned against Al Qaeda from late 2006, to be traitors and ern Beirut stronghold. frequently attack them. The attack came a month after another Nine bombings in five different Iraqi cities -- in Baghdad car bomb, also in that area, wounded some and north of the capital — also killed five people yesterday, 50 people. including an army captain and two Kurdish peshmerga fight- “I announce today that the army is ers, and damaged a local Shia shrine, officials said. engaged in a total war against terrorism. Meanwhile, Iraq’s crude exports via Turkey were halted (The military) has been chasing for months by three separate but apparently coordinated attacks tar- a terrorist cell that prepares car bombs and geting an oil pipeline in the northern provinces of Nineveh sends them to residential neighbourhoods,” and Kirkuk. said Kahwaji, describing last Thursday’s car Iraq relies on oil exports for the lion’s share of its govern- blast as “one such” attack. ment income, and is seeking to dramatically ramp up its “The gravity, according to our intelli- sales in the coming years to fund the reconstruction of its gence, lies in the fact that this cell is not battered infrastructure. targeting any one region or community in Violence has surged this year to levels not seen since Iraq particular, but that it aims to provoke sec- was emerging from a brutal Sunni-Shiite sectarian conflict tarian strife by targeting different regions,” in 2008. said Kahwaji. Analysts and diplomats link the increased bloodshed to A Lebanese and two Palestinians sus- anger among Iraq’s Sunni Arab minority over their alleged A policeman walks near the site a day after a bomb attack in Amara, 300km southeast of Baghdad, yesterday. pected of preparing a car bomb attack were ill-treatment at the hands of the Shia-led authorities. One person was killed and fourteen were wounded. arrested days after the most recent blast. AFP AFP THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Manning gets 35-year jail sentence WikiLeaks source dishonourably discharged for biggest breach of official secrets in US history Verdict a strategic victory: WikiLeaks FORT MEADE: US Army National Security Agency’s secret was a video and audio file, Private Bradley Manning was electronic monitoring operations. dubbed “Collateral Murder” by LONDON: WikiLeaks sentenced to 35 years in jail and Military prosecutors on WikiLeaks, showing graphic hailed the sentencing of their dishonourably discharged yes- Monday pressed for a 60-year cockpit footage of two US Apache source Bradley Manning yes- terday for the biggest breach prison term for Manning, argu- attack helicopters opening fire terday to 35 years in a US of official secrets in American ing that the penalty would send a and killing 12 people in Baghdad prison as a “significant stra- history. message to people contemplating in 2007. tegic victory”. Military judge Colonel Denise the theft of classified information. Manning, a hero to supporters The anti-secrecy website Lind delivered her verdict after Lead defence attorney David who regard him as a whistleblower founded by Julian Assange saw a months-long trial for Manning, Coombs, however, appealed for who lifted the lid on America’s victory in how soon US soldier who passed a massive cache of leniency for his client. He said foreign policy, was found guilty Manning would be eligible for classified government documents Manning had expressed remorse, of 20 of the 22 charges levelled release. to WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy cooperated with the court and against him. “Significant strategic vic- website headed by Julian Asange. deserved a chance to have a fam- He was, however, cleared of the tory in Bradley Manning case. Manning, 25, appeared ashen- ily and one day walk free. most serious charge — “aiding the Bradley Manning now eligible faced as he awaited the verdict, Coombs is scheduled to speak enemy,” chiefly Al Qaeda. More for release in less than nine which came in a less than two- to reporters and outline the than 100,000 people have signed years, 4.4 in one calculation,” minute statement by Lind. next steps in the soldier’s case, a petition calling for Manning’s WikiLeaks tweeted. A video link to the courtroom which may well include against nomination for a Nobel Peace WikiLeaks shot to inter- at Fort Meade military base near the 35-year sentence, which will Prize. national prominence in 2010 Washington cut out as soon as receive a 1,293 day discount for Underlining the seriousness when it began publishing hun- Lind stopped speaking. time he has already served. of the case, the US government dreds of thousands of docu- The soldier was convicted of Manning was a junior intelli- painted him as a reckless traitor ments obtained by Manning, espionage and other crimes last gence analyst at a US base near whose actions put his country at who was a junior intelligence month, having earlier admitted Baghdad when he handed over danger. analyst at a US base near being the source of hundreds of the data — about 700,000 docu- Expert witnesses testified Baghdad at the time. thousands of battlefield reports ments — to WikiLeaks. during the sentencing phase of Assange has been stuck in from the wars in Afghanistan and The soldier was arrested in Manning’s trial that the soldier Ecuador’s embassy in London Iraq and confidential US diplo- Iraq in 2010 and has been in mil- was confused about his gender for more than a year as he tries matic cables. itary custody since. The docu- and sexuality and under enor- to avoid extradition to Sweden His sentencing is considered ments that he disclosed rankled mous psychological stress at the for questioning over allegations especially important as another American allies when WikiLeaks time he committed the leaks. of rape and sexual assault. leaker — the former intelligence published them, prompting warn- Manning also apologised. “I’m The Australian has said the contractor Edward Snowden, ings from US officials that troops sorry that my actions have hurt allegations are a pretext to get currently in Russia — is wanted and intelligence sources had been people and have hurt the United US Army Private Bradley Manning is escorted out of the courthouse after him sent to the US to face trial in the US on espionage charges, jeopardized. States,” he told Lind during a being sentenced at Fort George G Meade, Maryland, the US, yesterday. there. AFP having disclosed details of the The most notorious breach hearing last week. AFP Queen’s swan found barbecued on Windsor Castle riverbank Cameron wanted to halt Snowden reports LONDON: British police were yesterday investigating the killing and apparent barbecueing of one of Queen Elizabeth II’s swans. LONDON: British Prime to deal with this matter, that’s detention of David Miranda, charge minus his laptop, phone The bird was butchered, burnt and stripped of its flesh before the car- Minister David Cameron true,” one source said. partner of reporter Glenn and memory sticks. He had been cass was dumped on a riverbank near Windsor Castle, west of London, ordered his top civil servant Government supporters say Greenwald who has led the ferrying documents between police and an animal charity said. All wild mute swans in Britain are to try to stop revelations flow- information leaked by Snowden, paper’s coverage of the Snowden Greenwald and a Berlin-based considered the property of the crown and it is an offence to kill one. ing from the Guardian news- who has obtained asylum in leaks. journalist contact of Snowden. Animal charity worker Wendy Hermon said she had felt “sick” when paper about US and British Russia, could threaten national It has argued that these were Brazil has said Miranda’s she found the bird on Sunday. surveillance programmes, two security. However, rights groups operational security matters. detention had “no justification”, “It was just a carcass, it was all burnt. We could see that whoever did sources with direct knowledge have accused the government On Tuesday a White House while Miranda has launched this had taken the breast out,” said Hermon, who works for the charity of the matter said. of an assault on press freedom spokesman said he could not legal action against the police Swan Lifeline, which cares for sick and injured birds. News that Cabinet Secretary over a series of incidents. comment on the destruction of and the government, accusing “It was done neatly, presumably to get at the meat. They had skinned Jeremy Heywood had contacted These include the detention Snowden material. But spokes- them of abusing anti-terrorism it as well and possibly barbecued it there, on a disposable barbecue.” the Guardian drags Cameron of a Guardian reporter’s partner, man John Earnest said he could powers to get hold of sensitive She added: “I felt sick when I saw it. How can someone do that and into a storm over Britain’s and news that the paper had not see US authorities destroy- journalistic material. leave it where they did?” response to media coverage of been forced to destroy compu- ing an American media com- Home Secretary Theresa The Thames Valley Police force said it was it was investigating a theft secrets leaked by fugitive US ter files containing information pany’s hard drives to protect May, the British interior minis- of a swan after the discovery of the bird was reported on Sunday by a intelligence contractor Edward from Snowden under threat of national security. “That’s very ter, said on Tuesday police were council warden. Snowden. government legal action. difficult to imagine a scenario in right to detain Miranda if they “The swan had been killed and burnt,” the force said in a statement. Guardian editor Alan A Downing Street spokes- which that would be appropri- thought he was “in possession of Swans were historically served as a delicacy at banquets in Britain but Rusbridger said on Tuesday woman said: “We won’t go into ate,” he said told reporters. highly sensitive, stolen informa- they have had legal protection under British law since 1981. AFP that he had been approached specific cases but if highly sensi- Britain says its security agen- tion that could help terrorists, by “a very senior official claim- tive information was being held cies act within the law and that that could risk lives”. ing to represent the views of the insecurely we have a responsi- Snowden’s leaks are a grave But the controversy over prime minister” after his paper bility to secure it.” threat to national security. Miranda’s detention has been had published a series of exposes Cameron is on holiday in Miranda was held for nine fuelled by Rusbridger’s revela- based on the Snowden material. southwestern England. hours on Sunday under an anti- tions on Tuesday about events The sources named the The government had tried to terrorism law at Heathrow air- several weeks ago, when the official as Heywood, who is distance itself from Rusbridger’s port, where he was in transit on paper came under pressure to Cameron’s most senior policy allegation that the Guardian his way from Germany to his hand back or destroy intelli- adviser. “The prime minister was made to destroy the com- native Brazil. gence material obtained from asked the Cabinet Secretary puter hard drives, and from the He was released without Snowden. REUTERS

South African mum Two British women arrested over plans charged in Peru to kill two sons with drug trafficking

JOHANNESBURG: South LIMA: Two British women African police said yes- have been charged in Peru terday they had arrested with drug trafficking and a 50-year-old woman for could face up to 18 years in ordering the assassina- prison if convicted, prosecu- tion of her two sons as tors said. part of a suspected life Michaella McCollum, of insurance scam. Dungannon in Northern Police said the woman Ireland, and Melissa Reid, from from Port Shepstone, south near Glasgow in Scotland, were of Durban, recruited a rela- arrested at Lima airport two tive to carry out the dou- weeks ago after 11kg of cocaine ble murder, but the man A firefighter at the site of the forest fire in Majorca, Spain, yesterday. worth £1.5m ($2.3m) was found reported her to the police. in their luggage, according to The job was to be done authorities. for around $2,400, but she The women, both 20, had had requested a family Majorca forest fire forces 200 to flee spent the summer working in discount. bars on Ibiza, a Mediterranean “The alleged motive for MADRID: Around 200 people fires in summer because of soar- island drawing 700,000 British the killing was that she were forced to flee from a fire ing temperatures, strong winds holidaymakers each year. They wanted to claim on insur- on the Spanish holiday island and dry vegetation. Last year said they had been forced to ance policies she had taken of Majorca yesterday, local wildfires destroyed about 150,000 become drug mules by an armed out on her sons,” police said authorities said, at similar hectares of land from January gang and travelled to Peru in a statement. blazes raged across Portugal. to July, after one of the driest under duress. The woman promised the About 450 hectares (1,100 winters on record. This year the Peruvian prosecutors pressed hitman three more jobs if acres) of forest were destroyed winter was wetter and there have charges against the pair late on he successfully pulled off in the Majorca blaze, which been fewer summer fires so far. Tuesday and said the crime car- the two murders, the state- was still out of control on the In Portugal, several hundred ried a maximum penalty of 15-18 ment said. Mediterranean island although firefighters were tackling forest years imprisonment. Police also found her in 130 people had been mobilised to fires raging in the north and cen- “It should be noted that the possession of insurance try to put out the flames. tre of the country, backed by two prosecution has gathered suf- documents and four other A spokesman for the local gov- Spanish Canadair planes. ficient evidence to suspect the identity cards. ernment said about 200 people Portugal, grappling with a alleged responsibility of both The woman has been and 50 homes had been evacu- number of wildfires, has sought people,” the ministry said in charged with a conspiracy ated in the area on the northeast help from Spain and France. a statement. McCollum’s law- to commit murder and will of the island, which is known for Some 31,000 hectares have yer Peter Madden told British appear in court today. its agro-tourism. been lost to fire in Portugal this media that both women would AFP Spain is highly prone to forest year. AFP plead not guilty. REUTERS THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 ASIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 37 die in Malaysia’s deadliest road mishap Bus carrying 53 passengers plunges down ravine

KUALA LUMPUR: At least apparently lost control on a bend a regular line that ferries visitors 37 people are confirmed dead in the road. between the capital and the hill after a bus tumbled into a deep Reports said most of the resort. Malaysian ravine yesterday in passengers were Malaysians, The resort, whose bright lights the country’s worst-ever road but staff at the Hospital Kuala can be seen from the city at accident, an official said. Lumpur said the injured night, is operated by Malaysian The toll could climb however, as brought there after the crash gaming firm Genting, one of the 16 other passengers were injured, also included a Thai man and a country’s largest companies. with hospitals reporting some in Bangladeshi man. Genting Highlands includes critical condition. Local hospitals said several the country’s sole casino and Authorities said the bus was of the injured arrived in critical attracts more than 20 mil- carrying 53 passengers when it condition. Lines of rescuers cling- lion visitors per year. It is cur- went off a swerving road and ing to an orange rope for support rently undergoing a reportedly plunged down a steep 70-metre were seen pulling injured victims three billion ringgit ($9000m) (200-foot) slope in the Genting out of the bus shortly after the refurbishment that includes a Highlands, famed for a flashy accident, which occurred around Twentieth Century Fox theme gambling and entertainment 3pm. park set to open in 2016. resort about an hour’s drive from The bus was lying on its side Two Indian tourists died and the capital Kuala Lumpur. in thick vegetation. The rugged 22 other people were hurt when “Thirty-seven are dead -- 13 terrain forced rescuers to rig up their bus overturned in the area women and 24 men,” Christopher an improvised pulley system to last year. Chong, a fire official at the scene raise bodies and injured victims The toll in yesterday’s accident said. in a time-consuming operation, makes it the country’s deadliest Emergency services personnel rescue a passenger after a bus carrying tourists and local residents fell into a Chong said the bus was head- media reports said. road transport tragedy ever. ravine near the Genting Highlands, about an hour’s drive from Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. ing downhill when the driver Police said the bus was part of AFP Egypt embassy 18 dead as Indonesia in Dhaka partly Drug pushers face death penalty shut after threat HANOI: A Thai drug smuggler court in the southern business executed its first prisoner by the DHAKA: The Egyptian bus plunges into river has been sentenced to death in hub for smuggling 3.4 kilograms method in August. Embassy in Bangladesh closed Vietnam, state media said yes- of methamphetamines from The country has more than 586 its consular section until the JAKARTA: Eighteen people slightly hurt. “We suspect the terday, the second such penalty Qatar to Vietnam. prisoners on death row, at least end of the month yesterday were killed and dozens injured brakes malfunctioned but that’s given to a foreigner within a Vietnam takes a hardline on 117 of whom meet all criteria after receiving a bomb threat yesterday when a bus plunged still being investigated,” he said. week in the communist country. drugs and anyone found guilty of for immediate execution, media in protest against the killing into a river as it returned from Police were questioning the bus A court in Vietnam, whose drug attempting to smuggle more than reports have said. of supporters of the Muslim a church outing on Indonesia’s driver, who sustained light inju- laws are among the toughest in 100 grams of heroin or cocaine Although the country does Brotherhood in Cairo, police main island of Java, police said. ries, he said. the world, sentenced Suracha can face the death penalty. not release statistics on execu- and embassy officials said. The bus was carrying pas- Fatal accidents are common Chaimongkol to death after she Convictions and sentences tions, rights group Amnesty Rafiqul Islam, a senior police sengers from a Jakarta church on Indonesia’s poorly maintained was caught carrying two kilo- are revealed only by local media International recorded five exe- official in Dhaka’s diplomatic back to the capital after a visit roads, especially on densely popu- grams (4.4 pounds) of cocaine, which is strictly under state con- cutions in 2011 and said 23 new zone, said security had also to a hill resort when the acci- lated Java island. the official Thanh Nien newspa- trol in the communist nation. death sentences were handed out been stepped up outside the dent happened at Cisarua in Java lies between Sumatra to per said. Suracha told the court she did that year, mainly to drug traffick- embassy. “Stop genocide on West Java province, local police the west and Bali to the east. The drugs were discovered hid- not know she was carrying the ers. Foreigners frequently fall foul Brotherhood and supporters spokesman Martinus Sitompul Borneo lies to the north and den inside two photograph albums drugs, but said she had been paid of the stiff drug laws. In June last of Mursi otherwise, on behalf said. Christmas Island to the south. It when the 31-year-old graduate to bring the photograph albums to year, a Thai design student was of Bangladesh, I warn you that It collided with a pick-up truck is the world’s 13th largest island. landed at Ho Chi Minh City’s Vietnam, according to the Thanh handed a death penalty for traf- something wrong will happen,” then crashed into a food stall More mountains and high- airport in October last year after Nien report. ficking three kilos of metham- Rafiqul quoted the letter as before falling up to eight metres lands help to split the interior taking a flight from Brazil. After a two-year hiatus in car- phetamine, while in October, a saying. Rafiqul said the threat (26 feet) into the river. Sitompul into a series of relatively isolated On Monday state media said rying out capital punishment due 61-year-old Filipina received the letter was sent by mail from said that 18 people were killed, regions. a 31-year-old Nigerian man was to problems procuring chemicals death penalty for smuggling 5kg Farmgate, a busy area of the 30 were seriously injured and 10 AFP sentenced to death by the same for lethal injections, Vietnam of methamphetamines. AFP city, and provided a cell phone number. Tropical storm Another S Korea hits Taiwan Sri Lanka court summons Fonterra officials TAIPEI: Tropical Storm nuclear reactor Trami battered Taiwan COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court yester- products suspected of being contaminated Jayasuriya, who appeared in court on behalf with strong winds and tor- shuts down day issued a summons to Fonterra Brands with the toxic agricultural chemical dicy- of the health sector trade union, said. “The rential rains yesterday, Lanka, the local company of New Zealand’s andiamide (DCD) were still on the market judge has issued summons on Fonterra and forcing authorities to close SEOUL: A reactor at one of Fonterra and four of its top officials to face despite an order from the health ministry to its four directors for Aug 23.” offices and call off nearly 200 South Korea’s largest nuclear contempt of court charges for not adhering recall them. Officials from Fonterra Brands Lanka Pvt international flights. The plants shut down yesterday, to an earlier ruling that banned sales and Lawyers representing the health sec- Ltd were not available for comment. The island Central Weather Bureau said officials said, at a time of creep- advertising of all Fonterra milk products. tor trade union said despite the court ban, nation’s health ministry has said tests by Sri although the storm, 100 km ing public anxiety over safety in The district court in Gampaha earlier had Fonterra continued to distribute its milk pow- Lanka’s Industrial Technology Institute (ITI) northnortheast of Taipei at the country’s nuclear industry. banned the sale and advertising of all Fonterra der products to retailers on Saturday and dis- found DCD in some Fonterra milk powders 0930 GMT, was likely to miss The reactor, one of six at the milk products for two weeks, following a com- tributed leaflets on Monday saying its products and it had ordered their recall. On Monday, the island, it would generate Yeonggwang complex in the plaint by a health sector trade union that the were still fit for human consumption. the Health Ministry said it had decided to more heavy rainfall in the day southwest of the country, shut company’s marketing was misleading. “They (Fonterra) are in contempt as they release a batch of milk powder made by com- ahead. AGENCIES down at 2.44pm, a spokesman It obtained the court ban because Fonterra have not followed the court order,” Upul panies including Fonterra. REUTERS for the Korea Hydro and Power Co said. “The cause of the stoppage is as yet unknown and investiga- tions are underway. We don’t know when it will resume opera- Activist held at Bo trial venue tions,” the spokesman said. He stressed there was no sign of any radiation leak. BEIJING: Protesters gath- bribery and abuse of power. years over a civil case involv- South Korea has 23 reac- ered outside a courthouse in Attendance at the proceedings, ing an ex-boyfriend, and had tors which are meant to meet eastern China yesterday in which analysts say are meant been detained more than 20 more than 30 percent of elec- hopes of taking advantage of to bring to a close a scandal times for a total of more than tricity needs. But the sector is the media frenzy surround- which exposed deep divisions 900 days. currently undergoing a crisis of ing the country’s highest- and corruption at the highest She and four other pro- confidence following a series of profile case in decades, the levels of the Communist Party, testers had a noisy row with shutdowns and a scandal involv- trial of ousted politician Bo is likely to be strictly control- police, while another group ing parts provided with fake Xilai. led, with independent media who said they travelled to safety certificates Police detained several dem- barred from entry. the courthouse from China’s Yesterday’s incident brings to onstrators trying to attract The protester detentions commercial hub Shanghai seven the total number of reac- attention to their own causes, occured in front of a gaggle of hurriedly handed papers to tors offline. Prosecutors have escorting a elderly woman reporters — kept away from journalists and called out as launched an extensive probe wearing a paper hat labelled the courthouse by a cordon police ushered them away. into the safety certificate fraud, “Injustice” away from the — while more demonstrators The extremely sensitive which forced the shutdown of court in Jinan. “I want to see if arrived later. Several iden- trial has been anticipated two reactors in May and delayed China’s courts are fair or not. tifed themselves as petition- for around a year and a half, the scheduled start of operations Are they only unfair to people ers — citizens with decades of since Bo was dismissed from at two more. Last year, officials like us or to everyone?” said personal grievances who file his position as head of the said eight suppliers were found another woman, Lin Xiuli, 43. complaints with more senior megacity of Chongqing and to have faked warranties cover- Bo, once one of China’s departments, but often face as a member of the ruling ing thousands of items used in a highest-flying politicians, is illegal detention. Lin said she Communist Party’s 25-strong number of reactors. AFP set to go on trial today for had been petitioning for eight Politburo. AFP

Indonesia arrests four over Myanmar embassy plot JAKARTA: Indonesian police have Myanmar embassy,” national police spokes- and fundraiser of the plot had already been arrested four men suspected of involve- man Ronny Sompie said, adding they were detained. ment in a failed plot to bomb the detained in raids between Saturday and Police foiled the embassy plot on May 2 Myanmar embassy in Jakarta, an official Tuesday. when they detained two men with a back- said yesterday. He said police were probing what role pack holding five pipe bombs, who had alleg- The plot was a sign of the growing anger exactly they played in the plot. edly been planning to launch an attack the in Muslim-majority Indonesia at the perse- Sompie said that one of two suspects following day. cution of the Rohingya Muslim minority in arrested on Tuesday evening was a terror Militants also launched a bomb attack Myanmar, where most of the population is convict who had been jailed for eight years on one of Jakarta’s biggest Buddhist tem- Buddhist. “We arrested four terror suspects and was released in 2008. ples earlier this month, slightly injuring one for alleged involvement in a plot to bomb the The alleged mastermind, bombmaker person. AFP THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PHILIPPINES President Aquino visits flood-hit areas Downpours on third consecutive day add to misery of 300,000 people displaced in flooded capital Manila

MANILA: President Benigno provincial authorities warned the supplies... we need canned goods, Aquino III yesterday started death toll would rise with reports noodles, biscuits,” he said. visiting areas hit badly by of more drowning. Ibadlit said health was also the non-stop torrential rains About one third of Manila, a starting to become a concern, brought on by the storm- low-lying and sprawling city of 12 with children beginning to suffer enhanced southwest monsoon million people, remained under from colds and skin rashes. since Sunday, which affected water with some areas enduring The floods paralysed the capi- more than a million people in waist-deep floods, according to tal on Monday and Tuesday, Luzon. Philippine Red Cross secretary with schools, government offices Aquino went to Biñan, Laguna, general Gwendolyn Pang. and the stock exchange closed. which was placed under a state of The crisis had eased from The city was even quieter on calamity, due to massive flooding. Tuesday, when more than half of Wednesday, although it was a The President was accom- the city was submerged and the public holiday. panied by Defence Secretary rain was heavier. People living in important Voltaire Gazmin and Social But Pang said many people farming regions to the north Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman were still suffering, with close to of Manila were also enduring in the distribution of relief packs 300,000 people living in evacua- flooding. to the affected residents tem- tion centres or seeking shelter In Pampanga province knee- porarily staying at the Dela Paz with friends and relatives. high water submerged vast areas Elementary School, which has “The problem now is food, and of rice fields and farming towns. been converted into an evacua- a source of water for drinking. Marcela Cantellana, 53, said tion centre. They also have to wash their five families whose homes are Aquino assured the evacuees clothes (while) some had their beside the Porac River had been that the government will continue belongings washed away by the living inside her two-storey home to provide them what they need water,” Pang said. since the floods struck before during their stay at the tempo- One of the worst-affected areas dawn on Monday. rary shelters. was the coastal district of Cavite, “The water went up so quickly. The President also went to San about 18 kilometres (11 miles) They weren’t even able to save Pedro, another town in Laguna from the heart of the capital, their clothes because the water President Benigno Aquino (right) hands out relief rations to people displaced by floods at an evacuation centre that has been placed under a state where residents were endur- rose to the rooftops in minutes. in Binan town, Laguna province, south of Manila, yesterday. of calamity. ing waist-deep water streaming All of their livestock, their goats, Aquino was also scheduled to through countless homes. pigs and chickens, were lost,” she proceed to Mandaluyong City to “We are really pitiful here. said. However the National Disaster Trami, which had been hovering generally in the second half of visit other flood victims. People are still shocked. There However the flooding in Risk Reduction and Management to the north of the Philippines. the year and many of them deadly. Heavy rain pounded the is no electricity,” Lino Ibadlit, a Pampanga was lower than Council had yet to confirm the Trami was about 500 kilome- More than 460 people were Philippine capital and surround- district councillor, said. Tuesday and the Porac River had fatalities as the official death toll tres (300 miles) northeast of the killed in 2009 when Tropical ing areas for a third day yester- He said the local government returned to normal levels yester- remained at eight. Philippines yesterday and mov- Storm Ketsana left 80 percent of day, adding to the misery of nearly had brought some food and other day, allowing the displaced fami- Moderate to heavy rain was ing slowly away, according to the Manila submerged. 300,000 exhausted people dis- relief goods but they were only lies at Cantellana’s house to start expected to continue falling weather bureau, which said the And in August last year, 51 placed from their flooded homes. suitable for one day. cleaning out their homes. across Manila and northern rains were expected to ease late people died when more than Eight people have already been “The people have no choice Local governments reported at Luzon throughout yesterday, the in the week. a month’s worth of rain was confirmed killed by the monsoon but to wade through the water least seven more people had died state weather bureau said. The Southeast Asian archi- dumped in and around Manila in rains that have battered the main to look for food, but stores are due to the floods in some areas The seasonal monsoon was pelago endures about 20 major 48 hours. Philippine island of Luzon, and either closed or have run out of outside of Manila. worsened by Tropical Storm storms or typhoons annually, AGENCIES

Baby drowns in Cebu ferry disaster Congressional fund scammer’s Bulacan floods MANILA: An 11-month- old baby was found dead, death toll rises to 71 floating inside his fam- contact details leaked online ily’s flooded house in Malolos MANILA: The confirmed death toll from a ferry disaster in the City, Bulacan, a local official Philippines rose to 71 yesterday as hopes faded for finding any more MANILA: The alleged con- mystery of how graft and corrup- organisations (NGOs) that have said yesterday. Malolos City survivors of the tragedy, authorities said. tact information and addresses tion works at the very core of our received some P10bn ($240m) in Mayor Christian Natividad Divers pulled out six more bodies from the interior of the sunken of Janet Lim-Napoles, fugitive government that no one dared to funds by some lawmakers. identified the baby as Jian ferry while body parts were found on a small island nearby, said pro- and accused congressional fund explain in a public forum,” said A Makati court has issued an Charles Centeno, resident of vincial disaster management officer Neil Sanchez. scam mastermind, are now the Facebook post created on arrest warrant for Napoles and Barangay Canalate, which is Discovery of the additional bodies brought to 49 the number of people making rounds online after they Tuesday afternoon. her brother Reynald Lim, stem- among the villages hit with still missing after the St Thomas Aquinas ferry collided with a cargo were leaked in a Facebook page The post listed 11 “verified, valid ming from the illegal detention massive flooding. The inces- ship off the central island of Cebu on Friday night and quickly sank. of a group of Filipinos opposing and working e-mail addresses” charges by whistleblower Benhur sant monsoon rains forced “If we have to assess the situation, I would say that chances are congressional assistance. and the Napoles’ office and resi- Luy. Napoles and her brother authorities to release water already slim of finding survivors,” Sanchez said. A post on the Facebook page dential addresses in Muntinlupa, have eluded arrest, prompting from Bulacan’s Ipo and Bustos It is believed that many of the bodies of the missing are still trapped Anonymous Incorporated shows Pasig, Taguig, and in California, authorities to urge to the public dams, water from which cas- in the interior of the sunken ship. the alleged e-mail addresses, cell- USA. The Facebook post has to carry out a “citizen’s arrest” caded to nearby villages. Strong currents and bad weather as well as the difficulty of reach- phone and landline numbers, as already garnered 6,105 “shares” in of the embattled businesswoman. Centeno’s parents, Jaime and ing the ferry, lying at a depth of about 30 metres (98 feet) has slowed well as residential addresses of less than 12 hours. The Facebook Justice Secretary Leila de Carol, recounted that they down recovery efforts. Napoles and of some members of page Anonymous Incorporated says Lima said all regional and field left the boy in the care of But Sanchez said they had made a commitment to find the bodies her family. “We do not have pow- it is for “Filipinos totally against offices of the National Bureau of their 13-year-old daughter of all the missing. ers to know everything. We only the fund under any form or name.” Investigation (NBI) have been Kathrina before they left for “The waters are rough but the divers are doing their best,” he said. know few things, but the things Napoles is at the centre of the alerted to help the agency’s special the public market. A military helicopter continued to scour the area yesterday for any we wrote here were all vital and alleged scam, as she is accused of teams tasked for Napoles’ arrest. survivors. AFP served as a key to unlock the setting up bogus non-government THE PHILIPPINE STAR 25 officials hurt in Cebu mishap Remembering senator MANILA: Around 25 mem- bers of a local youth council Livelihood reintegration were hurt after a mini-bus they were riding fell into a ravine in Cebu City yester- day. The victims, who are all project deal signed members and officials of the Sangguniang Kabataan, were LA TRINIDAD: Three areas of Benguet are set to benefit from on their way to a gathering the livelihood project as part of the closure agreement between when mishap happened in San the government of the Philippines and the former Cordillera Carlos Heights. Authorities Peoples Liberation Army (CPLA) under the economic reintegration were yet to determine the component. cause of the accident. The P2.7m livelihood funds under of the Office of the Presidential Adviser for Peace Process (OPAPP) will be coursed through the pro- Hagel arriving vincial government which is designated as the fund manager. The provincial government represented by Governor Nestor Fongwan for troop talks and members of the former CPLA group now tagged as Cordillera Forum for Peace and Development (CFPD)- Peoples Organisation, MANILA: US Defence through the Benguet Saguday Livelihood Association, Inc (BSLAI) Secretary Chuck Hagel will represented by its president Carlito Payangdo, inked a memorandum visit the Philippines this of agreement on the livelihood project at the Provincial Capitol last month amid ongoing nego- August 13. tiations on the increased Also present during the activity was OPAPP Program Management rotational presence of US Office Chief Director Alexander Umpar. troops in the country. The Fongwan told recipients from Cabiten in Mankayan, Camp 3 in Tuba US Defence Department said and Palina in Kibungan to work out registration requirements from Hagel’s trip would cap his concerned agencies and the other requirements prior to the release nine-day trip to Southeast of initial funds to the association. Asia. He will visit the coun- Former president and Manila Mayor Joseph Ejercito Estrada leads the wreath-laying ceremony during the 30th Funds will be released in tranches. try from August 29 to 30. The death anniversary of former senator Benigno Aquino Jr at P Burgos St in Manila City yesterday. The first tranche worth P270,000.00 will be used to purchase con- statement did not provide struction materials. The next tranche amounting to P1.89m will be information about Hagel’s released upon compliance with the process and project requirements, itinerary in the Philippines, upon approval of project proposal and after disbursement report shall Washington’s oldest ally in have been verified. The last tranche amounting to P540,000.00 will Asia. The Philippine Defence Another ferry runs aground in Bogo City finally be released upon submission of certificate of project completion, department could not pro- terminal report, sustainability plan among others. vide any information about MANILA: Sixty-three pas- Polambato wharf at 3:30pm yes- Melad said the passengers were According to OPAPP Technical Staff Jenny Mordeno, identified Hagel’s agenda as of yes- sengers and 18 crewmembers terday on its way to Palompon, immediately brought back to projects under the program are raising of organic free-range chicken terday. Hagel’s trip comes of M/V Super Shuttle Ferry Leyte when it drifted to shallow the wharf on small boats. Super side by side with organic feeds processing and a rolling store where as Manila and Washington 10 were safe after the ship ran waters and ran aground. Shuttle Ferry 10 is owned by Cebu- organic inputs will be traded. are discussing an agreement aground while manoeuvring out Bogo City is considered the based Asian Marine Transport Parties to the agreement as agreed will adopt the Community-Driven granting American troops of harbour in Bogo City in Cebu. centre of trade and commerce Corp Officials of the shipping firm Enterprise Development concept of the Department of Social Welfare greater access to Philippine Philippine Coast Guard Central in northern Cebu and has easy were unavailable for comment as and Development which focuses on capability building and business military facilities. Visayas Commodore William access to other provinces such as of press time yesterday. values formation that inculcates participation and empowerment. AGENCIES Melad said the vessel was leaving Samar, Leyte and Masbate. THE PHILIPPINE STAR AGENCIES THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Islamabad links Quetta ‘bomb factory’ to attacks

QUETTA: Pakistani authori- Suspects told investigators that explosive were ready at the fac- ties said yesterday that a car potassium chlorate and ammo- tory and just needed to be fitted bomb factory where troops con- nium chlorate had been packed into vehicles,” he added. fiscated more than 100 tonnes with wires and detonators into On January 10 and February 16, of chemicals had been used in vehicles at the compound, a para- bombers killed nearly 200 people recent attacks on troops and military official said. in attacks on Shias from the eth- minority Shias. Experts believe the compound nic Hazara minority in Quetta. Paramilitary troops found was effectively a bomb-making Oil and gas-rich Baluchistan, wires, detonators and mixers to factory, which had prepared which borders Afghanistan and turn the chemicals into bombs explosives used in recent bomb Iran, is a flashpoint for violence during Tuesday’s raid in the city attacks on military targets and against Shias, who make up of Quetta, a flashpoint for sec- Shias. around 20 percent of Pakistan’s tarian, Islamist and separatist “We have recovered a machine overall population of 180 million. attacks. which is basically a mixer, used It has also suffered from Eleven people have now been to mix chemicals to make bombs. attacks blamed on Taliban mili- arrested in connection with the We have recovered sulphur and tants and in 2004 Baluch rebels case and the owner of the com- hundreds metre of wire,” said the rose up, demanding political pound has been detained for FC spokesman. autonomy and a greater share of questioning, said a spokesman for “We have also recovered 79 profits from the region’s mineral the paramilitary Frontier Corps remote controls and short circuit resources. Paramilitary soldiers display the bomb-making materials seized in Quetta yesterday. (FC). wires. Some 20,000 kilograms of AFP Pakistan blames India for Kashmir firing One officer shot dead after ‘unprovoked firing by Indian troops’; New Delhi says it responded to initial firing

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani The violence came two weeks An Indian army official said militants, saying that it only offers jostle for influence in Afghanistan in India, many doubt that the gov- military said yesterday one of after the killing of five Indian Indian troops came under heavy moral support to the Muslim as a Nato force prepares to with- ernment in New Delhi is in a posi- its officers had been killed in soldiers along the so-called Line mortar and light-machine gun people of Kashmir who are living draw by the end of 2014. tion to make any concessions to “unprovoked” firing by Indian of Control that separates the two fire from the Pakistani side on under what Pakistan criticises as Both nations fear the other is Pakistan. troops across the border in the sides in the Himalayan region. Tuesday night in the Kargil harsh Indian rule. trying to install a proxy govern- Hamid Gul, a former chief of disputed Kashmir region but an India said the five were killed region, where the two sides fought ment in Kabul. Pakistan’s military intelligence Indian official said his side had by Pakistani forces but Pakistan an undeclared war in 1999. EYES ON AFGHANISTAN Pakistan’s government, elected agency, said Television that Sharif only responded to initial firing denied involvement. The Kargil region had been Nevertheless, despite Pakistan’s in a May general election, has had been prepared to reach out by Pakistan. The nuclear-armed rivals have peaceful since then until shoot- denials that it helps the mili- tried to be conciliatory over the to India in the hope of mending The incident was the latest in fought three wars since 1947, two ing began again last week. tants, fighters have for years latest outbreak of border violence. ties before the spate of clashes put a series of clashes that began this of them over Kashmir. Both con- “Under intense pressure ... we slipped from the Pakistani side On Monday, Prime Minister paid to that. month which has undermined a trol a part of the Muslim-majority fired back,” the Indian official of Kashmir into the Indian side Nawaz Sharif, who made better “It would’ve meant putting push by Pakistan’s new civilian region but claim it in full. said. to battle Indian forces. ties with India a theme of his Kashmir on the back burner for government to improve ties with A truce along their Kashmir India has faced an insurgency India says that this year it has election campaign, said Pakistan the time being. But now all this old rival India. A Pakistani mili- border has held for nearly a in its part of Kashmir since 1989 seen a spike in attempts by mili- and India should be fighting pov- has happened. And all the lob- tary official said that as well as decade even though it has been and had long accused Pakistan of tants to infiltrate into its part of erty and illiteracy instead of each bies that have been talking about the officer killed, a soldier was broken every now and then by supporting the militants fighting Kashmir. other. He has also asked for talks peace between India and Pakistan seriously wounded in the “unpro- tit-for-tat artillery fire and the Indian rule. Many analysts expect the trend with Indian officials. ... have been scuttled,” Gul said. voked Indian shelling”. occasional cross-border ambush. Pakistan denies arming the to continue as the two countries But with elections approaching REUTERS Two killed in railway station blast Sindh passes Pakistan flood toll: 139 bill on local government ISLAMABAD: The killed, 1 million affected Sindh provincial assembly passed a new bill proposing ISLAMABAD: Heavy mon- Further heavy monsoon rains changes in the local body soon rains triggering floods are expected in Pakistan next government amid chants of have affected nearly one mil- month, but the NDMA is fully “shame, shame” by opposi- lion people and killed 139 across prepared for any eventuality, he tion members. Pakistan in the last three said. Opposition leader Sardar weeks, disaster management Pakistan, which has suffered Ahmed of the Muttahida officials said yesterday. from monsoon floods for the last Qaumi Movement (MQM) “The rains affected 931,074 three years, has been criticised protested against the bill, people, killed at least 139 and for not doing more to mitigate claiming that it was not the wounded 804 others,” a senior against the dangers posed by sea- same which was shown to National Disaster Management sonal rains washing away homes the opposition. In response Authority (NDMA) official said. and farmland. to Ahmed’s claims, Pakistan He said that the rains had Streets in all major cities People Party’s Nisar Khuhro hit 3,826 villages and destroyed including Karachi, Lahore and said the opposition was 13,262 houses all over the Islamabad suffer intermittent opposing for the sake of country. flooding due to downpours, dam- opposing, which prompted Around 243 relief camps have aging roads and private homes. MQM lawmakers to stand been set up to help people, mostly In 2010, the worst floods in the up and protest. As heated in the central province of Punjab, country’s history killed almost debate continued, Speaker the southern province of Sindh 1,800 people and affected 21 Agha Siraj Durrani inter- and the southwestern province of million. venened to restore order in Baluchistan, the official said. AFP the provincial assembly. Security officials inspect the scene of the bomb blast targeting the railway station of Chaman near the Afghan INTERNEWS border in Pakistan, yesterday. At least two people were killed and 18 injured. Election commission notifies Afghan survivors confront parties to submit asset lists US soldier on massacre trial ISLAMABAD: Election Order, 2002 (PPO) which pro- Commissioners, Punjab, Sindh, JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD: A US Army Naeem said he saw Bales’ jump over a wall into his Commission of Pakistan yes- vides that every political party Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and sergeant facing life in prison for slaughtering 16 property and start firing. “This bastard stood right terday issued final notice to shall submit to the Election Balochistan. Afghan villagers came face-to-face with survi- in front of me, I wanted to ask him what I had done, all the major political parties Commission. It may be added here that in vors for the first time at a sentencing hearing on why would you shoot me?” said Naeem, who was shot including PPPP, PML-N, PTI Within 60 days from the close terms of Article 14 of the PPO, Tuesday. in the neck and head. and ANP who failed to sub- of each financial year, a con- a party, which fails to submit Robert Bales, 40, pleaded guilty in June to killing “I have nerve damage and stutter since I was shot. mit details of their assets and solidated statement of accounts its statement of accounts under the villagers, nine of them children, in a deal brokered I wasn’t weak but since this bastard shot at me I’m accounts. of the party, duly audited by a Article 13, will not be eligible by his defence team to avoid the death penalty. almost like nothing now,” said Naeem, who later left The ECP has once again Chartered Accountant. to obtain election symbol for But seven survivors offered gut-wrenching testi- the witness stand in tears. informed that last date for fil- The last date for filing state- contesting elections for Majils- mony at the hearing that must decide if Bales will be Another villager, Samiullua, 30, told of the trau- ing of statement of accounts by ment of accounts by Political e-Shoora (Parliament) and allowed to seek parole after a minimum of 20 years matic impact that the murder of his mother had upon political parties is August 29, Parties is 29th August, 2013. Provincial Assemblies. behind bars or face the rest of his life in prison. his family. “She was a good woman, like a mountain 2013. A certificate signed by the The statements are required In emotional evidence to a panel of three officers to us for support,” he said. Till date only five political par- party leader must accompany to be delivered to the sec- and three senior soldiers, the survivors spoke of the The villager’s son, Rafiulla, had been deeply scarred ties have so far filed the details of the statement of accounts retary ECP in the Election devastating physical and emotional scars inflicted by by the attack. “He wakes up at night with nightmares their assets and accounts to ECP. stating that no funds from any Commission Secretariat, Bales’ actions. thinking Americans are chasing him,” Samiullua said. They include JUI-(Fazal- source prohibited under the Constitution Avenue, G-5/2, “I thought I was dreaming but when I woke up I “He has no life anymore since that incident. He ur-Rehman), Awami Muslim PPO were received by the party; Islamabad through an office- heard screaming,” said 12-year-old Sadiquallah, who wakes up running around yelling.” League (Shaikh Rashid), and (b) the statement contains bearer of the party, duly author- was shot in the ear and neck when Bales broke into Rafiulla, who was shot in both legs by Bales, told the Tameer-i-Pakistan, Awami an accurate financial position ised by the party leader. his family’s home on the night of March 11, 2012, after hearing the family had been woken around midnight. Party Pakistan, Pakistan Bruhi of the party. Under rule 11 of the PPO decamping from his base in the Panjwayi district of “We were sleeping, we heard some noise. He (Bales Party and Pakistan Muhammadi Prescribed printed Forms 2002, the statements received southern Kandahar province following a drinking ran into the room and pointed his handgun at my Party. are available free of cost in through post, fax, courier serv- session. sister’s head,” the 15-year-old said. His sister was shot ECP has drawn attention of the Election Commission ice or any other mode will not be The boy’s father, Mohammed Haji Naeem, 60, broke but survived. “She was a very bright girl, everybody political parties to provisions of Secretariat, Islamabad and in entertained. down in tears as he recounted the attack, which saw loved her. Now we’re all sad for her,” he said. Another Article 13 of the Political Parties the offices of Provincial Election INTERNEWS another of his sons shot dead. child witness, Khan, saw his father killed. AFP THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Afghan vice-president arrives Tunda planted Govt likely to bomb in Amritsar: amend Food Delhi Police NEW DELHI: Alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda had planted a bomb in Amritsar in 2009 on Security Bill the direction of Babbar Khalsa Internation (BKI) operatives, Delhi Police said yesterday. Tunda, who is in four days’ Opposition proposes 265 changes police custody, said he placed a 10kg explosive near Hindu Dhaba NEW DELHI: The government Dal members want inclusion of in Amritsar in December 2009. is ready to move fresh amend- pulses, sugar and oils besides rice, However, Punjab Police recovered ments to the Food Security Bill wheat and coarse grains. the explosive and arrested three to address some concerns of the While the DMK wants allo- people. opposition parties who have pro- cation of grains to states under “The explosive was brought posed 265 changes to the leg- the existing public distribution to from Pakistan through Nepal,” islation, informed sources said continue, AIADMK wants Tamil said a police officer. yesterday. Nadu to be excluded from the bill. Iqbal Kana, a Pakistan-based The government hopes the bill, The Trinamool Congress wants terrorist and Tunda’s associate in which could not be taken up in a coverage of 90 percent of the dealing in fake Indian currency, parliament on Tuesday, would be population in rural areas and 75 had given the consignment of debated and passed in the Lok percent in urban areas. explosives to Tunda, who then Sabha today. Many members from the Left, gave it to LeT operatives in India According to the sources, most and BJP leaders like Sushma to use, police said. of the amendments moved by Swaraj and Murli Manohar Joshi, Police claimed that Pakistani the opposition relate to making want the government to delete Intelligence Service (ISI) and ter- the coverage universal, includ- the reforms based on unique iden- rorists groups like BKI had used ing pulses, oils and sugar besides tity number Aadhar and a provi- Tunda’s network to execute their grains, increasing entitlement to sion of cash transfers. plans in India. His involvement food grains from five to seven kg Some BJP members want dele- surfaced in 21 terror bombing per person per month and remov- tion of the definition of food secu- cases in Delhi between 1993 and ing the provision of cash transfers. rity allowance to be paid in case 1998. Together, the opposition parties the government is not able to pro- Tunda, who was arrested like the Bharataiya Janata Party, vide grains. Some other MPs want on August 16 in Uttarakhand’s Communist Party of India-Marxist the centre to pay the allowance. Banbasa area close to the Nepal (CPM), Communist Party of India, While some Left members border when he was trying to Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan want the central government to enter India, claimed that he sent a Samaj Party (BSP), Janata Dal- fund the scheme to provide one consignment of explosives to Delhi United, Biju Janata Dal (BJD), free meal per day to the destitute, before the Commonwealth Games Akali Dal, DMK, AIADMK and those of the BJP and the BJD want 2010 on BKI member Ratandeep Trinamool Congress have moved two free meals to the destitute and Singh’s direction. around 265 amendments to the affordable meals to the homeless. BKI is a Khalistani militant Food Security Bill. Touching upon the integrated organisation based in India. Both the SP and the BSP have child development scheme run by However, its operatives work said they support the bill but want the centre, many Left and BJP from Pakistan and west-Asian their changes to be approved. members want the government countries. While some CPM members to delete the reference to “ready Tunda also told investigators favour a universal coverage for to eat meal” and have said that that his last meeting with under- the entire population — up from no private contractor should be world don Dawood Ibrahim was 67 percent of the population pro- engaged for it and preference in 2002 in Pakistan, after a list of posed in the bill — others in the should be given to women’s self President Pranab Mukherjee (left) greets Afghan Vice-President Mohammad Karim Khalili at the Presidential wanted terrorists and criminals party want income tax payees to help groups. Palace in New Delhi yesterday. Khalili is on a three-day official visit. was given by India to Pakistan. be excluded. Some Left and Akali IANS IANS Karnataka, Andhra bypolls peaceful

BANGALORE: Around 50 out on August 24. Ramya and her JD-S opponent percent of over 3.6 million vot- The Janata Dal-Secular is former legislator C.S. Puttaraju. ers cast their ballots yesterday (JD-S), which held both the Though the winners will have in the bypolls for two Lok Sabha seats, and the ruling Congress about nine months term in seats from Karnataka, an offi- are locked in a straight battle the Lok Sabha as general elec- cial said. as the Bharatiya Janata Party tions are due in April-May, the Meanwhile, around 45 percent withdrew from the contest in Congress and the JD-S turned polling was recorded in the by- support of the former. the bypoll battle into a matter of election to Avanigadda assembly There are 18 independents prestige. constituency in Andhra Pradesh also in the fray, 11 in Bangalore According to poll officials, no “Preliminary reports reaching Rural and seven in Mandya. The untoward incident was reported us soon after booths closed at 5pm Bangalore Rural seat was held by during the polling in the Krishna show that about 50 percent voting JD-S state president and former district in Andhra Pradesh. The took place,” an election commis- chief minister H D Kumaraswamy polling, which began on a dull sion spokesperson told reporters while Mandya was represented by note in the morning, improved in in Bangalore. N Cheluvarayaswamy. the afternoon. Voting took place for Bangalore Both quit Lok Sabha on getting Lack of enthusiasm among Rural and Mandya Lok Sabha elected to Karnataka assembly in voters, especially in the first few seats. Mandya is about 80km from the May 5 elections, necessitating hours, marked the polling due to Bangalore. the bypolls. the absence of candidates of major Bangalore Rural has over two Kumaraswamy, son of JD-S parties barring the Telugu Desam million voters, around 900,000 of president and former prime min- Party (TDP) and also the ongoing them women. Mandya has more ister H.D. Deve Gowda, has fielded political turmoil in Seemandhra than 1.6 million voters, nearly half his wife Anita Kumaraswamy in over the central government’s of them women. Bangalore Rural. decision to carve out a separate Voting booths opened at 8am The Congress candidate is D Telangana state. but in many places voting began K Suresh, brother of party leg- The polling which began at 8am late due to technical glitches in islator and former minister D K at 241 polling stations, concluded the electronic voting machines, Sureshkumar. at 5pm. There are 1.88 lakh voters the spokesperson said. In Mandya, the Congress nomi- in the constituency. The election results would be nee is popular Kannada actor IANS

High security in UP over VHP event Chinese troops violated LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government yesterday LAC: Arunachal BJP heightened security and sealed the borders of six districts after NEW DELHI: Chinese troops territory,” Rijiju said. He said that the VHP refused to shelve its have transgressed the Line of the intrusion began on August 13 84km procession in Ayodhya. Actual Control (LAC) and had and the Chinese troops had been The proposed yatra was earlier intruded about 60km inside able to come deep inside. He said banned by the state government. Arunachal Pradesh, a BJP the Army was not permanently Home department officials said leader from the state said. Indian deployed in the area and Indo- that under no circumstance would Army officers, however, did not Tibetan Border Police was look- the Vishwa Hindu Parishad event confirm this and said there were ing after the security of the area. be allowed to take place. “Other differences in perception of the “It is a major intrusion. The than deputing extra security LAC and both sides patrol the government should immediately forces in the region, barricading area accordingly. talk to China and ask it to pull the routes is an option we are Kiren Rijiju, a former Bharatiya back its troops,” Rijiju said. exploring,” a senior official said. Janata Party MP from Arunachal He said that Indian and Chinese The government has decided to Pradesh, said that Indian and troops were near Plamplam post, deploy 10 companies of the Rapid Chinese forces were locked in a about 60km from the LAC. Action Force and 12 companies of face-to-face situation in Anjaw Rijiju, a memer of BJP the Provincial Armed Constabulary district of the state. national executive, said Chinese in the region. Inspector General “The Chinese troops have troops were about 20km from of Police Raj Kumar Vishwakarma erected tents and are carrying Chaglagam, an administrative said that orders have been issued military equipment. According centre where the Arunachal to prevent people from other states to information from our party Pradesh government has posted from reaching Ayodhya. workers, they have managed to its officials. IANS intrude about 60km inside our IANS THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Mumbai clears law against superstitions Hindu group gloats over activist’s killing

MUMBAI: A day after anti- various quarters, especially Hindu superstition activist Narendra groups which claimed it to be Dabholkar was shot dead, the “anti-Hindu”. Maharashtra government A prominent right-wing Hindu Wednesday decided to prom- organisation, Sanatan Sanstha ulgate an ordinance to enact yesterday appeared to gloat over a long-pending bill to eradi- Dabholkar’s killing in its daily cate black magic, blind faith mouthpiece Sanatan Prabhat. and superstitious beliefs. The Its leader Jayant Athavale said law will be the first such in the that birth and death are pre-des- country. tined and everybody gets the fruit The development came a day of their karma. after the killing of Narendra “Instead of dying bedridden Dabholkar, 69, who spearheaded through illness, or after some sur- a campaign against these social gery, such a death for Dabholkar evils for the past three decades. is, in a way, a blessing of the The chief proponent of the almighty,” Athavale said. law, Dabholkar was shot dead by This immediately resulted two motorcycle-borne assailants in a clamour by the Nationalist near the Omkareshwar Temple in Congress Party (NCP) seek- Pune on Tuesday morning, spark- ing an immediate ban on the ing outrage across the state. He organisation, though a Sanatan D emonstrators protest the killing of anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar in Mumbai yesterday. succumbed at the government- Sanstha spokesperson denied that run Sassoon Hospital. there was anything wrong in the The Maharashtra cabinet statement. perpetrated by self-styled god- The shutdown was supported capital to assist their local coun- bold views and sustained cam- decided unanimously to promul- “We are also equally shocked by men, witchcraft and wizardry by all major political parties, terparts in solving the killing, paigns against superstitions for gate the Ordinance for enacting his (Dabholkar) killing. We have practitioners, often cheating the social organisations and civil which has shocked the entire over three decades, Dabholkar the Maharashtra Eradication of nothing to do with it,” Sanatan gullible public. society groups, and culminated state by its sheer brutality and had rubbed many the wrong way. Blind Faith Bill as a law. Sanstha spokesperson Abhay Now, in the wake of the in a massive rally at Mahatma brazenness. In 1989, he founded the The development came as Vartak said. statewide angst against Phule Square near Omkareshwar Chief Minister Prithviraj Maharashtra Andhashraddha a fitting finale to a day of pro- “We had differences of ideology Dabholkar’s murder, the state Temple, the vicinity where Chavan immediately announced Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS), tests across the state, with Pune with him, nothing on a personal government has adopted the ordi- Dabholkar was shot dead. a reward of Rs.10 lakh for infor- with a few like-minded people observing a spontaneous shut- level and he was doing commend- nance route since the next win- A day after the killing, Pune mation about the killers. and raised cudgels against all down to condemn Dabholkar’s able work,” Vartak added. ter session of the legislature is in police is yet to make any head- Chavan, Deputy Chief Minister types of superstitions, irrational killing. The new measure will empower mid-December. way in nabbing the killers despite Ajit Pawar, Home Minister R.R. practices, blind faiths and beliefs, The bill, first introduced in the government to bring under Earlier yesterday, Pune eight special teams being put on Patil and other leaders con- confronting dubious tantriks, 1995 in the state legislature, its ambit social and religious observed a near-total shutdown the job. demned the killing and thousands self-proclaimed holy men and was redrafted at least 29 times. evils, human or animal sacri- with all major roads and commer- A Mumbai police crime attended Dabholkar’s funeral in others who preyed on the gulli- It passage was delayed several fices, rituals to drive out evil cial areas of the city wearing a branch team has reached the Satara on Tuesday. ble masses. times due to stiff opposition from spirits or ensure a male progeny, deserted look. state’s academic and cultural A rationalist known for his IANS

Indian prisoners arriving from Satellite launcher to go back to assembly building Pakistan on Saturday CHENNAI: The Indian space other connections to the second The Indian Space Research The first stage is powered by take two or three days. agency will be able to take its launch pad. Organisation (ISRO) Monday solid fuel, while the four strap- The entire fuel in the rocket’s MUMBAI: Pakistan will heavy rocket geosynchronous “This process would take a called off the launch of its GSLV on motors and the second stage four strap-on motors, second release 338 Indian prisoners, satellite launch vehicle-devel- couple of days. We will be able to rocket carrying the communica- are powered by liquid fuel. The and cryogenic engine had been including eight juveniles, who opment 5(GSLV-D5) back to the move the rocket to the assembly tion satellite GSAT-14, after the third is the cryogenic engine pow- drained out on Tuesday — other are expected to cross into India rocket assembly building either building Saturday or Sunday,” liquid fuel started leaking like ered by liquid hydrogen and liquid activities are in progress. from the Wagah-Attari border Saturday or Sunday, a senior the official, preferring anonym- a tap from the rocket’s second oxygen. According to officials, only Saturday, an activist said here. official said. ity, said yesterday. stage. Another senior official said after studying the problem and India-Pakistan peace activ- “Our current priority is to India’s spaceport is located in The GSLV is a three-stage that the rocket’s engines would the solution could revised launch ist Jatin Desai, citing an official clean the rocket’s fuel systems Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, launch vehicle with four strap- have to be decontaminated with time be estimated. communication received from and disconnect all the hoses and around 80km from here. on motors hugging the first stage. ionised water and that would IANS Rizwanullah Jamil, representa- tive of the Legal Aid Office (LAO), Pakistan, yesterday said the Indian prisoners shall be set Amarnath Yatra ends peacefully free from two different Karachi jails Friday and cross the Wagah Border in Lahore and Attari SRINAGAR: The nearly two-month-long responsible for the lesser number of pilgrims for Border in Amritsar in eight spe- annual Amarnath Yatra ended peacefully yes- the Amarnath Yatra this year. cially requisitioned buses. terday with the final prayer at the cave shrine The passage of Yatris was strictly regulated The development is in compli- in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. by the authorities this year following directions ance with the Pakistan govern- Around 300 pilgrims and seers attended the of the Supreme Court. No unregistered pilgrim ment’s decision to release the season’s final prayers inside the Himalayan cave was allowed to undertake the Yatra this year. 330 Indian fishermen detained shrine of Amarnath yesterday. Registered pilgrims were allowed to perform in District Prison Malir of The cave shrine is situated in Kashmir the Yatra only on the days scheduled in their Karachi, and eight juveniles held Himalayas at a height of around 13,000 feet above registration. at Youthful Offenders Industrial sea level. The number of pilgrims proceeding to the cave School in Karachi. Swami Dipendra Giri, custodian of Lord shrine daily from Baltal and Nunwan base camps “This is a goodwill gesture Shiva’s holy mace known popularly as the ‘Chhari was also regulated. A maximum of 7,500 pilgrims announced by the Pakistani foreign Mubarak’, arrived with the mace at the cave was allowed each day from Baltal and Nunwan minister during the Indian foreign Wednesday morning to herald the end of this base camps towards the cave shrine. minister’s visit on the occasion of year’s Yatra. Fourteen pilgrims died of natural causes dur- the process of normalisation of “The Puja has been completed with traditional ing this year’s Yatra, which started June 28 bilateral relations,” Jamil said. devotion inside the holy cave shrine this morn- and ended August 21 coinciding with Raksha The LAO has organised the ing,” Swami Dipendra Giri said. Bandhan. air-conditioned buses on behalf “Around 300 devotees attended the Puja. Traditionally state Governor N N Vohra, who of the government of Sindh, We are now on our way back with the Chhari is also the chairman of the Shri Amarnathji besides providing all meals to the Mubarak,” he added. Shrine Board (SASB) that manages the affairs Indian prisoners till they reach Over 3.5 lakh pilgrims from different parts of the Yatra, would attend the Puja at the cave the Wagah Border. They will be of the country performed this year’s Amarnath shrine on the last day of the pilgrimage. escorted by LAO and Protocol Yatra. Last year, nearly six lakh devouts had per- Sources in the SASB said Vohra could not pro- Officers of the Special Branch of formed the pilgrimage. ceed to the cave shrine because of bad weather Police during the journey. Fear among the devotees in the after- in the area. IANS math of Uttarakhand tragedy is believed to be IANS

Balance public interest, right to privacy: Tata to court

NEW DELHI: Former Tata Group Radia’s tapped conversations. a business house of Rs.300 crore. The com- chairman Ratan Tata yesterday appeared According to a statement issued by Tata plaint had also alleged foreign connections in the Supreme Court and said that while Sons, the holding firms of Tata Group, Tata of Radia. The Income Tax department had ordering electronic surveillance on citi- appeared in the court and showed keen put Radia’s phone under surveillance thrice zens allegedly under cloud, the govern- interest in the progress of the “right to for 60 days each between 2008-09. ment must strike a balance between privacy petition” filed by him. Appearing for Tata, senior counsel Harish public interest and the right to privacy. “Ratan Tata has filed this writ petition on Salve said that privacy was a constitution- “The government has to balance two piv- a matter of principle. He believes privacy is ally guaranteed right and it was incumbent otal dimensions - public interest and privacy an important right for every individual and upon the government to protect from pub- of the citizens” while ordering wire surveil- is keenly following the progress of this case,” lic gaze the information it had gathered by lance, counsel for Tata, who was personally a Tata Sons spokesperson said. resorting to electronic surveillance. present in the court, told the court. Radia’s phones were put under surveil- The government could not raise its hand An apex court bench of Justice G S lance by the Income Tax department after and say that it did not have the mechanism Singhvi and Justice V Gopala Gowda is the finance ministry on November 16, 2007 to protect the tapped information after it hearing Tata’s plea seeking a probe into received an anonymous letter alleging that was leaked and printed by media, Salve said. the leak of former corporate lobbyist Niira in a short span of few years she had built IANS THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

PRAYER TIME Indian police News in Numbers QATAR REAL ESTATE foil onion heist REPORTCHART: 1 158 Fajr (Dawn) 3:50 Shorook (Sunrise) 5:10 JAIPUR: Indian police have foiled a bid by robbers to make Zuhr (Noon) 11:37 off with a truck laden with Asr (Afternoon) 3:06 onions, in an unusual crime apparently motivated by rock- Maghrib (Sunset) 6:04 eting prices of the staple food. Isha (Night) 7:34 Three men stopped a truck on the main road from the western city of Jaipur to the capital New Delhi on Sunday on the pretence WEATHER that their vehicle had been dam- aged in a collision. After accusing the truck driver Today Friday Weather Saturday Conditions: of causing the accident, one of the Hospitality Market Overview 2 Clear Clear Partly cloudy men jumped behind the wheel and Misty at first at the others fled. places becoming Police were quickly alerted Within Q1 2013, the Average Daily Rate (ADR) across all segments and they erected barricades on High: 41° hot and hazy. High: 42° High: 42° surrounding roads to stop the was around $235 with around 68pc average occupancy. Low: 32° Low: 31° Low: 31° thieves. Seeing their route blocked, However, Revenue Per Available Room (RavPAR) remained stable the men abandoned their loot and escaped on foot, allowing the at $160. Upper upscale hotels had the highest occupancy with DOHA - SUN & SEA grateful truck driver to continue on his journey. ADR of around $200, whereas, Luxury segment had experienced SUN TIDE SEA “Hijackers target loaded trucks lowest occupancy, but having said that ADR maintained at $300 SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND to loot goods but it is not usual to target food or vegetables,” Ram 05:13 17:59 05:15 & 18:00 11:00 & 00:00 03-12 KT Kishore, a policeman from the northern district of Shahpura THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW where the crime took place, said. Occupancy Rate/ADR/RavPAR HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Onion prices are back on the front-pages in India after a spike MUSCAT 37/29 Partly cloudy 36/28 Partly cloudy in prices caused by supply short- 350 72% KUWAIT 46/31 Clear 46/30 Clear ages, with a kilogram costing 60 rupees (less than a dollar) in the BAHRAIN 39/33 Clear 40/33 Clear 300 70% capital from as little as 15 rupees SANAA 30/17 Chance of storm 29/18 Chance of storm last year. 68% RIYADH 43/29 Clear 42/28 Clear The humble root vegetable, 250 DUBAI 44/33 Clear 43/33 Clear an essential ingredient in Indian 66% BAGHDAD 43/28 Clear 44/28 Clear cooking, has a surprisingly 200 weighty track record of political 64% influence. 62% THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW In 1980, Indira Gandhi 150 HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER exploited rising onion prices to 60% storm back to power, appearing 100 ATHENS 30/23 Partly cloudy 31/23 Clear at campaign rallies waving huge 58% strings of them with the message WASHINGTON 32/22 T-storm 28/18 Partly cloudy 50 that a government that can not 56% SYDNEY 21/09 Partly cloudy 22/11 Chance of rain control onion costs has no right LONDON 25/16 T-storm 26/17 Clear to govern. 0 54% PARIS 27/18 Mostly cloudy 30/22 Clear And in 1998, a six-fold surge 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Mar-13 ISTANBUL 27/22 Clear 27/22 Clear in the cost of onions was held MANILA 29/25 T-storm 29/25 T-storm partly responsible for the elec-

DHAKA 32/25 Chance of storm 33/26 Chance of storm toral defeat of the ruling Delhi ADR RavPAR Occupancy Rate DELHI 31/25 T-storms 34/28 Mostly cloudy state government. ISLAMABAD 34/26 Partly cloudy 34/27 Partly cloudy AFP Source : http://www.alasmakhrealestate.com/

Dog donates Astronaut recounts spacewalk drowning terror ROME: Italian astronaut Luca European Space Agency website. where I am, Chris (fellow astro- “Fyodor and Pavel immediately the ordeal gone on much longer. blood to save Parmitano yesterday recounted Parmitano described being naut Chris Cassidy) will pick me pass me a towel and I thank them US spacewalks have been clinging to the International blinded and suffocated as he up but I do not know how much without hearing what they are suspended pending the poisoned cat Space Station as he drowned in struggled to make his way back time I have left,” he said. saying because my ears and nose investigations. his spacesuit in the terrifying to the airlock, the water level He said communications were are still full of water.” Parmitano, who is married WELLINGTON: moments following an as-yet quickly rising in his helmet. also becoming fainter and fainter The US space agency Nasa with two daughters and is due Traditional animal rival- unexplained leak. “I don’t know if I will have air as the water was covering his has launched two investigations to return to Earth in November, ries were set aside in New Writing on his blog from the or liquid in my lungs the next headphones and he struggled to into the incident, with engineers has said he is ready to resume the Zealand when a dog’s blood space station, Parmitano said he time I breathe.... I realise I no hear instructions from Houston. focusing on a possible fault in the aborted spacewalk. was used to save the life felt drops of liquid on the back of longer know where to go to reach Once he was safely back inside spacesuit cooling system rather “Chris and I... are ready to pick of a poisoned cat in a rare his neck shortly after starting a the airlock,” he wrote. the space station and re-pres- than the inner helmet drink bag. up where we left off,” he said in a inter-species transfusion, spacewalk on July 16 — his second Parmitano said he thought suring, Parmitano said he began Parmitano’s spacewalk on link-up with the ISS this month. reports said yesterday. foray outside the ISS. about releasing a safety valve in thinking that he could open up his July 16 was stopped after about Parmitano concluded his blog Cat owner Kim Edwards “I feel that the temperature of his spacesuit to let some of the helmet to let the water out. an hour and a half, marking the post saying: “The skill of our engi- was frantic last Friday when the liquid is too cold to be sweat water out. “I will probably lose conscious- second-shortest in the history of neers and the technology we have her ginger tom Rory went and above all I have the distinct “But creating a hole in the ness but it would be better than the International Space Station. at our disposal make things that limp after eating rat poison, sensation it is increasing in vol- spacesuit is really the last card drowning in my helmet,” he said. The 36-year-old made it safely are not easy seem easy. rushing to her local veteri- ume,” Parmitano said in a grip- to play,” he remembered thinking. Ultimately Parmitano did not back inside and was unhurt, “It would be better not to forget nary clinic at Tauranga in ping present-tense narrative of “I have to get back as quickly do so and ISS teammate Karen though Nasa experts said he that,” he wrote. the North Island for help. the incident in the blog post on the as possible. I know that if I stay Nyberg removed the helmet. faced the risk of drowning had AFP Vet Kate Heller said the feeble feline was fading fast and needed an immediate transfusion to survive, but Shark eats shark there was not enough time to send a sample to the labora- tory for testing to determine Internet access the cat’s blood type. Instead, she decided to take a gamble and use dog blood to try to save the ani- initiative unveiled mal, knowing it would die instantly if she gave it the NEW YORK CITY: Facebook just over a third of the world’s wrong type. and other technology giants population, have access to the Edwards called up her launched an initiative yesterday Internet, and the number of new friend Michelle Whitmore, designed to give the whole world users is growing only slowly each who volunteered her black access to the Internet. year, a statement said. labrador Macy as a doggie The project is entitled Internet. “The goal of Internet.org is to blood donor in a last-ditch org and its goal is to extend make Internet access available attempt to save Rory, a pro- Internet access to five billion peo- to the two-thirds of the world cedure Heller said she had ple by cutting the cost of smart who are not yet connected, and never performed before and phone-based Internet services in to bring the same opportunities was very rare. developing countries. to everyone that the connected “People are going to think “Everything Facebook has done third of the world has today,” the it sounds pretty dodgy — and has been about giving all people statement said. it is — but hey, we’ve been around the world the power to The seven founding partners successful and it’s saved it’s connect,” Facebook founder Mark are going to develop joint projects, life,” Heller told the New Zuckerberg said. share knowledge and mobilize Zealand Herald. “There are huge barriers in governments and industry to Edwards said the cat developing countries to con- bring the world online. appeared to have come necting and joining the knowl- Specifically, they want to sim- through its ordeal unscathed, edge economy,” he said, adding plify mobile apps to make them seemingly without any canine that the project aimed to make it more efficient and improve tel- side effects. easier and cheaper to connecting ephone components and networks “The vets just went above to the web. so they perform better while con- and beyond... it’s incredible The other partners in the suming less energy. that it worked,” she said. project are Nokia, Ericsson, They also want to develop “Rory is back to normal Samsung, Qualcomm, MediaTek lower-cost, higher-quality smart- and we don’t have a cat and Opera, while Twitter phones and partnerships to more A sand tiger shark which had swallowed a smooth dogfish shark was caught by researchers at the University that barks or fetches the and LinkedIn are also due to broadly deploy Internet access in of Delaware’s Ocean Exploration, Remote Sensing, Biogeography Lab. The researchers had baited a hook paper.” sign up. underserved communities. with a menhaden, a common marine fish, to capture sand tiger sharks that had previously been tagged. The AFP Today some 2.7 billion people, AFP bait was taken by the dogfish, which was swallowed by the tiger shark. Thursday 22 August 2013 15 Shawwal 1434 Volume 18 Number 5799 Price: QR2

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HONG KONG: Currencies in markets, Tokyo edged up 0.21 per- developing Asia struggled yes- cent, or 27.95 points, to 13,424.33, terday as concerns grow that Sydney ended up 0.43 percent, or the US Federal Reserve will 21.8 points, at 5,100 while Seoul soon begin to unwind its mas- closed 1.08 percent lower, or 20.39 sive stimulus programme, points, at 1,867.46. diverting cash back to the West. Shanghai was virtually Asian share markets were unchanged, adding 0.37 points mixed as investors awaited the to 2,072.96. Hong Kong slipped release later in the day of min- 0.69 percent, or 152.56 points, utes from the Fed’s July policy to 21,817.73. Manila was closed meeting. for a public holiday, while Taipei They are anxious to see if was shut due to the approach of higher US interest rates are in Tropical Storm Trami. the offing, which would lessen the Wellington shares rose 0.96 appeal of emerging markets for percent, or 43.15 points, to close investors. at 4,551.51. Fletcher Building The Indian rupee fell to another surged 6.21 percent to NZ$8.72 record low for a third consecutive after posting a 76 percent rise in day, reaching 64.60 against the dol- annual net profit. lar. Indonesia’s rupiah and the Thai Analysts will read the Fed Customers at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Indebted, commodity-dependent Malaysia was in investors’ crosshairs yesterday as heavy baht faced more selling pressure minutes closely for an idea of the selling of Indonesian and Indian currencies threatened to spread to other Asian economies. as foreigners shift back to safer board’s plans for its bond-buying assets in the West after a year- programme, known as quantita- 2012, in turn hitting currencies to a record low of 64.1 to the dol- the dollar—its lowest point since yields fell to 2.81 percent from long investment splurge elsewhere. tive easing (QE). and equities. lar on Tuesday but clawed back mid-2009 -- from 10,495 Tuesday, a two-year high of 2.88 percent Mumbai fell 1.86 percent or With the US economy showing The growing crisis has slightly on Wednesday, strength- while Thailand’s baht sat around reached Monday, as bond prices 340.13 points to 17,905.91 points, increasing signs of strength, many increased pressure on central ening to 63.65 in the afternoon. a one-year low of 31.77, from 31.69. perked up after sinking for more erasing all intraday gains as the analysts say the bank will start banks to raise interest rates The unit is Asia’s worst per- Against other major currencies than three months. Bond prices rupee fell. cutting down on the $85-billion- to support their currencies. forming currency this year, losing the dollar bought 97.52 yen, com- move inversely to yields. Jakarta ended up 1.04 percent, a-month scheme next month. However, such a move could be about a fifth of its value against pared with 97.32 yen in New York On Wall Street, shares ended or 43.47 points, at 4,218.45, cap- Expectations of such a move counterproductive to already the dollar in the past three Tuesday, while the euro fetched mixed despite some upbeat earn- ping a four-day losing streak that have seen foreign investors in struggling nations such as India, months, with fears over the Fed’s $1.3398 and 130.60 yen, against ings from retailers. The Dow saw it shed more than 11 percent. recent months repatriate some where the economy is hobbled by stimulus adding to a severe slow- $1.3420 and 130.60 yen. edged slightly lower, while the S& Bangkok also slipped 1.15 percent of the vast sums that poured weakening growth as well as a down in India. The European unit broke $1.34 P 500 gained 0.38 percent and the or 15.72 points to 1,355.14. into emerging economies when huge current account deficit. However, the Indonesian in New York for the first time Nasdaq rose 0.68 percent. Among Asia’s major stock QE was unveiled in September In forex trade, the rupee sank rupiah weakened to 10,680 against since January after US Treasury AFP

Oil prices fall British North Sea energy output to fall more than expected as supply LONDON: Britain’s North Sea have held back Britain’s economy 1.5 million boepd this year before level in three years’ time. more than three decades, but old energy output will fall this year in recent years, hitting attempts production would start to climb in Offshore UK oil and gas capital infrastructure costs more and takes concerns ease more sharply than forecast in to stimulate growth, which is the 2014-17 period, representing investment would reach a record longer to be kept sound, while more February as ageing fields grow expected to be a major issue in the the first rise since 1999. £13.5bn ($21bn) in 2013, as much unplanned maintenance is needed. NEW YORK: Oil prices on less productive and need more 2015 general election. The body’s Oil and gas production has as 6 billion pounds more than two North Sea platforms are stand- both sides of the Atlantic fell maintenance, and it will not forecasts disappoint expectations fallen by about two thirds since years ago, the report said. ing idle for an average of 146 days yesterday on reports that some start to pick up until 2015, Oil & for the pace of a revival. 2000, posting particularly steep “Despite impressive investment a year, or only pumping oil and gas Libyan oil exports might soon Gas UK said. The group said it now expected falls of 14.5 percent last year and in new developments, the produc- for 60 percent of the year compared resume, and that the Seaway The industry association also production of between 1.2 mil- 18 percent in 2011. tion efficiency of existing assets with 80 percent of the year in 2004. pipeline carrying crude out highlighted in a report yesterday lion and 1.4 million barrels of oil In its annual economic report, remains in worrying decline,” The divergence between lower of the US Cushing hub was that the production efficiency of equivalent per day (boepd) this Oil & Gas UK also softened its Malcolm Webb, the body’s chief output and higher spending reflects operational. existing North Sea oil fields “remains year, with similar output in 2014, medium-term outlook for North executive, said. the cost inflation affecting the whole About half of Libya’s more than in worrying decline” despite an before an improvement begins. Sea production to reach two mil- Not only is production declin- industry plus the extra spending 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) upsurge in investment this year. In February it had forecast lion boepd by 2017, to say it could ing fast from ageing fields, some of required to squeeze out reserves. of crude oil export capacity is out Drops in oil and gas output that Britain would pump 1.45 to “potentially” rise towards that which have been in production for REUTERS of action due to strikes and civil unrest, but officials said Tuesday some ports have reopened and more shipments could restart within days. Libya oil woes The Seaway pipeline that carries crude oil from Cushing, Lloyds Banking sells Oklahoma, the delivery point for the U S West Texas Intermediate (WTI) contract, to the Texas coast, was “operating normally,” German life insurer a spokesman for Enterprise Products Partners L P said. LONDON: British lender Lloyds director of banks’ research at The resumption was also Banking Group has sold German London-based Numis Securities. reported by industry intelligence life insurer Heidelberger Leben Funds advised by Cinven will provider Genscape, which on to private equity group Cinven acquire 80 percent of Heidelberger Tuesday reported a shutdown on and reinsurer Hannover Re for Leben shares, leaving Hannover the line. around ¤300m ($400m), raising Re, the third-largest reinsurer The US Energy Information hopes that the state-rescured worldwide, with the balance. Administration released data bank is moving closer to restor- Demand for new life insurance showing stocks at Cushing, ing its dividend. policies has been hit by low interest Oklahoma, had fallen for the The deal, which will boost rates, while stricter capital require- seventh straight week and was Lloyds’ core capital by £400m, ments for insurers have made the down 25 percent over that seven- and the separate sale yesterday policies more expensive to under- week period. Nationally, crude oil for £254m of a portfolio of lever- write, leaving owners of many stocks declined by 1.4 million bar- aged loans, helps strengthen the smaller operators looking to sell. rels and gasoline stocks showed a bank’s balance sheet and could Cinven plans to buy up and con- large draw, especially in the heav- accelerate government plans to solidate life insurers in Germany, ily populated East Coast region. start selling down its 39 percent allowing it to invest in updating sys- Both Brent and WTI traded stake, analysts said. tems and improving service while within a range of less than $1 “It’s another step along the road achieving cost savings through scale down as investors showed cau- A worker from the Libyan Oil and Gas national company walks at the Hariqa oil port storage in Tobruk, Libya, to just focusing on the domestic in a similar way to what it has done tion ahead of the release of min- yesterday. Libya’s navy has prevented a tanker from “illegally entering” Al Sedra oil terminal in the east of retail business, and another step in the UK following its investment utes from its July policy-setting the country as protests paralysed several ports. along the road to a fourth-quar- in Guardian Financial Services. meeting. ter dividend,” said Mike Trippitt, REUTERS REUTERS THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Russia warns Banking sector of new 2013 growth pushes Qatar downgrade

MOSCOW: Russia’s economy minister warned yesterday Exchange up that officials will probably have to downgrade the 2013 growth forecast for the second time in months because of a poor first- Arabtec merger talks lift Dubai half performance. The Federal State Statistics DOHA: Qatar Exchange index stock market in recent months Service reported on August 9 that continued its gaining streak because of worries about dilution Russia’s economy expanded by yesterday adding 21.07 points from the rights issue, but has just 1.4 percent of gross domestic or 0.21 percent to advance to picked up since the new shares product compared to the first six 10,065.20 points from 10,044.13 were issued. months of 2012. on Tuesday. “You might be sitting at The result fell far short of The volume of the shares an inflection point of opinion President Vladimir Putin’s prom- traded was up to 12,169,730 change on Arabtec — these ise of five-percent growth for the from 8,555,327 on Tuesday and valuations are playing up for year and the government’s own the value of shares increased growth that will come next year downwardly revised forecast of to QR408,666,515.96 from and later,” said Amer Khan, 2.4 percent. QR337,101,424.22 on Tuesday. fund manager at Shuaa Asset Economy Minister Alexei Among the top gainers were Management. Ulyukayev said the “likelihood Qatar Islamic Bank, up 3.74 per- “From a retail (investor) per- was high” that a new negative cent to QR72.10, International spective, they’re looking for lag- revision of the figure would be Islamic Bank gained 1.06 percent gards and Arabtec is something made soon. to QR57.00, Al khalij Commercial that has room to pick up.” “Not by a lot, but the likeli- Bank gained 5.37 percnet to He added, “Construction is European Central Bank Executive Board member Joerg Asmussen (right) follows Greece Finance minister Yannis hood of a review is high,” Interfax QR19.24 and Qatar Navigation up going to continue to be a tough Stournaras after their meeting at the Greek Finance ministry in Athens, yesterday. quoted Ulyukayev as saying. by 2.25 percent to QR81.90. business to be in. Margins are Russia’s Deputy Economic The banking and financial sec- pressured and competition is Development Minister Andrei tor index was added 0.54 points extremely intense. But with eco- Klepach had also admitted on while Consumer Goods and nomic conditions improving in the Greece’s third bailout talk Tuesday that “it does not look like Services sector index up 0.05 UAE, there might be better clar- we are going to make 2.4 percent.” points. The industrial sector was ity on project growth compared Russia experienced average dropped 0.18 points while insur- to a year or two ago.” annual growth of more than seven ance sector lost 0.81 points. The firm won a series of con- shadows ECB visit to Athens percent during Putin’s first two Meanwhile, Shares in Dubai tracts this year, especially in oil- terms as president in 2000-2008 builder Arabtec jumped to a rich Abu Dhabi where its top ATHENS: Greece’s progress Athens came as a surprise. would be much smaller than the thank to soaring global prices for 15-month high yesterday after its shareholder, state investment in meeting international bail- Asmussen was meeting Greece’s previous aid packages, given the the country’s energy and other chief executive said it was consid- firm Aabar, is based. out obligations was scrutinised finance minister after holding country’s limited funding needs commodity exports. ering a merger with the largest Arqaam Capital upgraded by the European Central Bank talks with the central bank gov- for the period. The International The country’s economy contractors in Saudi Arabia and Arabtec on Tuesday to a ‘buy’ rec- yesterday as Germany played ernor, as part of discussions on Monetary Fund has put Greece’s imploded during the 2008-2009 Kuwait to create a pan-Gulf con- ommendation with a price target down its own finance minister’s Greece’s stuttering progress on uncovered funding needs for 2014- global financial crisis and has struction firm. of 3.40 dirhams. Other analysts comments that another aid pro- reforms, deficit cutting and shor- 2015 at ¤10.9bn. been unable to achieve annual “We are now looking for a have mixed outlooks; EFG- gramme is needed. ing up its banks before fresh aid At least part of that stems growth of more than five percent merger with two of the biggest Hermes has a ‘sell’ recommen- A visit to Athens by Joerg is released in October. from national European central since. construction companies in the dation with a 1.90 dirham target, Asmussen, a member of the ECB’s In Berlin, Germany’s finance banks refusing to roll over some The London-based Capital Gulf, one in Saudi Arabia and the while Naeem Holding has a ‘hold’ executive board was primarily ministry sought to play down Greek bonds they hold, as well as Economics consultancy estimates other in Kuwait,” Hasan Abdullah at Dh2.37, Thomson Reuters data focused on whether Greece was Schaeuble’s bailout comments, a potential shortfalls in tax and that Russia is already in a reces- Ismaik told CNBC’s Arabic news shows. meeting conditions for a sched- saying the euro zone would take privatisation revenues and Greece sion — defined as two consecutive channel in an interview, without Arabtec is up 42.5 percent uled tranche of money in October. a fresh look at Greece’s aid pro- being unlikely to fully return to quarters of negative quarter- naming either of the companies. year-to-date, which compares But it followed by a day German gramme in mid-2014 and that bond markets next year. on-quarter growth — based on It was unclear if serious nego- with blue chip Emaar Properties’ Finance Minister Wolfgang Berlin was not aware of any dis- Such estimates are revised fre- the January-June figures. Fitch tiations were actually going on, 65.6 percent gain over the same Schaeuble’s public acknowledge- cussions on how to structure a quently and are highly sensitive to Ratings said last week that the and bankers in the region said any period. ment to an election campaign new rescue package. budget and economic growth pro- slowdown “had highlighted struc- cross-border merger would face Dubai’s market index climbed audience that Greece will need a “We have reached the middle jections, which Greece’s lenders tural economic issues and a lack major technical, regulatory and 0.2 percent to close at 2,670 third bailout. of the current programme. It is are expected to update in the fall. of growth-enhancing reforms.” possibly political obstacles. But points, less than 10 points away Greece has already been bailed August 2013, we will certainly Schaeuble’s comments were Some officials have blamed the shares in Arabtec rose 3.9 percent from August 6’s near five-year out twice since 2010 with ¤240bn have to look in mid-2014 at where immediately seized on by Greece’s slump on external factors such as to Dh2.65 in heavy trade. high. worth of deals coordinated by we are, what the conditions are anti-bailout opposition, who fear the recent recession in Europe— Other factors also buoyed Speculative trading dominated the ECB, European Union and and whether the programme has that any new aid will be accom- Russia’s largest trading partner. Arabtec. The firm, which raised most Gulf markets because of a International Monetary Fund. been fulfilled,” said spokesman panied with yet another round of But former deputy central bank over $650m in a rights issue in lack of fresh corporate news. It had been expected to seek Martin Kotthaus. painful austerity. chief Sergei Aleksashenko wrote July, swung to a second-quarter Abu Dhabi’s measure climbed some form of additional debt A Greek finance ministry “Schaeuble threatens with new in an editorial in the Vedomosti profit and beat analysts’ forecasts, 0.5 percent, extending 2013 gains relief sooner or later to bring its official speaking on condition of help,” leftist newspaper Efimerida business daily that “the talk about helped by growth in its key mar- to 49 percent. Trading volume massive debt down to a manage- anonymity said any further help ton Syntakton deadpanned on its a negative external environment kets and expense reductions. jumped to a two-week high. able level, but the openness of the for Greece would aim to cover its front page. is untrue.” It severely lagged the Dubai AGENCIES suggestion of a third bailout for funding shortfall in 2014-2016 and REUTERS AFP Saudi Mobily signs MoU with Atheeb Pakistan firm plans airtime sukuk shareholders ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Meezan Bank plans of services. Assets are airtime (minutes) repre- to arrange the country’s first airtime-based sented by prepaid calling cards and identified by for stake buy sukuk, a format favoured by telecommunica- the serial number of each card,” Ali said. tions operators wishing to tap liquidity in the In an Islamic ijara deal, one party leases an asset DUBAI: A unit of Saudi Islamic capital markets. to a client for an agreed price; unlike a conven- A r a b i a’s No . 2 m o b i l e fi r m E t i h a d The local-currency issuance would have a tenor tional lease, the structure does not allow a lessor to Etisalat (Mobily) has signed a of between five and 10 years and an approximate charge interest on defaulted or delayed payments. memorandum of understand- size of $68.5m, said Suleman Muhammad Ali, Vice- The airtime sukuk was approved in November ing with four shareholders in President of product development and Shariah com- by the sharia board of Meezan, the country’s first Etihad Atheeb to buy a control- pliance at Meezan. The sukuk would be issued in and largest Islamic bank. The sharia board is led ling interest in the loss-making the fourth quarter of this year. Ali did not name the by well-known scholar Muhammad Taqi Usmani. fixed line operator. issuer. Sukuk that use intangible assets such as min- “In terms of innovative sukuk structures, I Bayanat Al Oula, wholly owned utes of mobile telephone use have been tested else- believe that the local industry is way ahead com- by Mobily, signed the memoran- where, allowing firms with limited physical assets to pared to other global markets, partly due to the dum with Atheeb Trading Co, Al raise cash via Islamic finance, which follows religious strict stance on tawarruq and commodity mura- Nahla Group, Traco Group for principles such as bans on interest and gambling. baha of the local sharia scholars,” Ali said. Trading and Contracting and the “The structure is based on ijara and sub-ijara REUTERS Saudi Internet Co, according to a bourse filing yesterday. The agreement outlines the basis for which a final agreement Video games trade fair will be concluded, the filing said. It requires regulatory approvals to be obtained and for Bayanat to complete due diligence by November 30. Mobily, an affiliate of the United Arab Emirates’ Etisalat does not have a fixed-line licence and acquired data provider Bayanat Al Oula for SR1.5bn ($399.98m) in 2008 to offer fixed-line Internet services. It earlier signed another MoU with Atheeb, which operates under the brand name Go, in December to offer fixed-line calls. Atheeb Trading Co holds a 16.4 percent stake in Etihad Atheeb, Al Nahla has 13.9 percent and Traco Group owns 5.9 percent. Saudi Internet Co holds an undisclosed stake in the company, which is part of the 49 percent of Etihad Atheeb’s shares that are publicly listed, according to Zawya. Bahrain Telecommunications Co also has a 15 percent stake and it is unclear whether the company Visitors play “World of Warcraft” during the Gamescom 2013 fair in Cologne yesterday. The Gamescom plans to sell. convention, Europe’s largest video games trade fair, runs until Sunday. REUTERS THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 With Gulf aid, US shopping crunch Egypt can limp through crisis Tourism may not recover this year

CAIRO: Egypt’s political crisis Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister has dealt a blow to any hopes for Prince Saud Al Faisal signalled a quick economic recovery, but that the world’s top crude oil aid from its Gulf allies is likely exporter was ready to provide to prevent a financial collapse. more billions if necessary. Clashes between followers “To those who have declared of deposed Islamist President they are stopping aid to Egypt Mohammed Mursi and security or are waving such a threat, the forces have caused the deaths of at Arab and Muslim nations are least 830 people since Wednesday, wealthy with their people and the worst political bloodletting to resources and will not shy away rock Egypt in recent history. from offering a helping hand to When the army-backed gov- Egypt,” he told state news agency ernment took over after the SPA in Jeddah. ousting of Mursi last month, it Much depends on whether the hoped to repair the business envi- struggle between the army and ronment and attract money back the Islamists develops into a pro- to Egypt by improving security, tracted armed conflict. Even if it removing logistical bottlenecks does not, the latest violence is and pumping in new funds. That likely to have harmed the econ- in turn could reduce social ten- omy for some months. sions by starting to create jobs Tourism may not recover before and raise living standards. next year at the earliest. In 2010 The latest violence may have Egypt attracted 14.7 million visi- Shopping carts from a Target store are lined up in Encinitas, California. Target Corp warned yesterday its annual profit was likely to be near the doomed such hopes for some tors, according to the Organisation low end of its forecast as it anticipates continued cautious consumer spending, the latest retailer to signal US shoppers were holding back. months at least. If the conflict for Economic Co-operation and continues to worsen, the econ- Development; in the wake of the omy could slow further from the 2011 revolution, the number fell to anaemic 2.2 percent growth in 9.5 million that year before par- the first quarter of this year — tially recovering to 11.2 million in Turkish lira under pressure after rate rise a rate already much too low to 2012. The tourism sector directly cut unemployment, officially esti- accounts for about seven percent mated at around 13 percent. of Egypt’s GDP, according to its ANKARA: The Turkish cur- The central bank’s decision to In a written statement on would not be available on the days “If you see widespread terror- State Information Service. rency came under pressure yes- raise its overnight rate follows Wednesday, central bank gover- when it intervenes in the currency ism and bombs, you won’t get a In response to the latest vio- terday despite the central bank recent intervention to defend the nor Erdem Basci said: “The addi- market. recovery in tourism or domestic lence, European travel agents are hiking a key short-term inter- lira and is the latest sign of tur- tional monetary tightening will Analysts say Basci’s announce- investment, and capital flight may again suspending trips to Egypt, est rate to staunch the outflow moil in emerging markets as the be maintained every day until ment suggests that the lower continue,” said Simon Kitchen, a while the United States has of funds as investors reposi- US Federal Reserve gets set to further notice.” one-week lending rate would not strategist with investment bank warned citizens against travelling tion themselves for reduced US start winding down its stimulus Basci also said the bank would be available indefinitely, push- EFG Hermes. to the nation. stimulus. measures. sell a minimum of $100m in for- ing banks to use the higher 7.75 But after Mursi was deposed, After closing facilities in Egypt The lira fell to 1.9714 to the dol- With the US economy show- eign exchange auctions. percent rate until the additional Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the for several days, major foreign lar to near a 12-month low from ing increasing signs of strength, “As of today, a minimum of tightening policy achieves the United Arab Emirates promised investors such as General Motors, 1.9492 at the close on Tuesday, many analysts say the Fed will $100m will be sold at 1630 local central bank’s goal. Egypt a total of $12bn in loans, German chemicals firm BASF when the central bank raised its start cutting down on its $85bn- time (1330 GMT) on days when “We think this decision is posi- grants and fuel shipments. Of that, and Swedish home appliance overnight rate by half a point to a-month stimulus scheme next additional monetary tightening is tive to support TRY (lira) as it $5bn has already arrived — an unu- maker Electrolux have fully or 7.75 percent. month. applied,” he said. makes the O/N (overnight) lend- sually fast delivery of aid commit- partially reopened for business The lira has fallen by about 10 Expectations of such a move In July, when the lira fell heav- ing rate a credible threat against ments, showing the importance the this week. percent since February, when it have seen foreign investors in ily, the central bank announced short TRY positions,” said Deniz Gulf attaches to stabilising Egypt. Even a low level of politi- was at a 12-month peak of 1.7460 recent months repatriate some urgent action to tighten monetary Cicek, economist at Finansbank. That means a balance of pay- cal unrest or tension in coming lira to the dollar. of the vast sums that poured into policy, curb credit and use foreign The higher overnight rate ments crisis or a collapse of gov- months could hurt the Egyptian But it is still slightly above a emerging economies when the reserves to buy the lira on the for- raises the cost and risk for mar- ernment finances — which had economy at the margins, by mak- 12-month low of 1.9740 lira to the Fed launched its latest stimulus eign exchange market, which it ket operators who borrow lira to seemed possible during Mursi’s ing foreign buyers of its exports dollar set in early July, forcing programme last September, pro- did in substantial amounts. take positions which will yield a administration — do not appear to more cautious. the central bank to take urgent viding a boost to their currencies The central bank also announced profit if the lira falls further. be on the cards. Late on Monday, REUTERS measures. and equities. in July that its one-week facility AFP

QATARI MARKET Risky crisis derivatives return in new form Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 102.88 0.49% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 104.38 1.79% Aa2 AA NEW YORK CITY: mortgage-based CDO into a Citigroup alone has sold about 20 institutions pool loans of varying Collateralised debt obligations, “collateralised loan obligation,” a of the instruments this year. risk and market the securities to Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 119.00 2.86% Aa2 AA the complex financial instru- cash-generating asset structured “There really isn’t a CDO mar- investors. Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 111.75 3.20% Aa2 AA ments that cratered disas- similarly to CDOs, but consisting ket anymore,” but “the CLO mar- The securities can be sliced into Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 105.50 3.73% Aa2 AA trously in the financial crisis, of loans to businesses. ket has been quite active” for a tranches of different underlying Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 157.00 4.78% Aa2 AA are back. Financial institutions have couple of quarters, said an execu- loan risk levels. The riskiest “jun- Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 113.75 5.41% Aa2 AA The market for the instru- issued $50bn in CLOs in the tive at a major Wall Street bank, ior” or “equity” tranches — which Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 104.50 5.44% Aa2 AA ments, which were based on US in 2013, estimates the who asked not to be named. were at the heart of the financial Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 104.00 1.36% Aa2 AA subprime mortgages, shrank Loan Syndication and Trading Still, observers note the come- crisis of 2008 — remain popular from $520bn in 2006 to just Association, a trade group. The back is only partial. with speculative funds because Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 108.88 3.54% Aa2 AA $4.3bn in 2009 after the hous- LSTA estimates the industry will “There’s an uptick, but it’s they pay higher yields. Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 104.75 1.09% A1 A- ing bust. Warren Buffett once issue $70bn-worth in the US over- still small compared with the “With interest rates still very Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 103.00 2.50% A1 A- called CDOs “financial weapons all in 2013 and $100bn worldwide. pre-crisis peak,” said Campbell low and borrowing costs so cheap, QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.38 1.74% NR NR of mass destruction” because of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Harvey, a finance professor at some investors are searching for QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.38 1.57% Aa3 A+ their riskiness. Stanley, Barclays and Citigroup Duke University. risk,” said Ruben Marciano, a QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 103.63 2.29% Aa3 A+ This time around, the invest- are among the banks most active CLOs are structured finan- trader at Societe Generale. Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 103.13 2.57% A2 A- ment has shifted from a in structuring CLOs in 2013. cial products in which financial AFP Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 104.50 1.89% A2 A Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 122.25 3.58% A2 A Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 104.88 3.99% A2 A PET scrap business Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 101.00 4.89% A2 A Sembcorp joint Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 104.63 1.23% Aa3 A Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.75 3.51% Aa3 A venture to launch Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 108.50 3.91% Aa3 A SOVEREIGNS Oman IPO Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P DUBAI: Sembcorp Salalah Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 103.00 0.62% Aa2 AA Power and Water Co, in which Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 120.38 2.80% Aa2 AA a unit of Singapore’s Sembcorp Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 108.38 2.59% NR NR Industries has a 60 percent stake, plans to raise $138m by Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 105.50 3.30% NR NR offering 35 percent of its share Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 116.13 5.02% NR NR capital on the Muscat bourse, Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 107.25 5.39% NR NR the company said. Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 104.38 0.85% Aa2 AA The $1bn power plant will offer Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 113.25 3.48% NR BBB 33.4 million existing ordinary Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 100.25 5.45% NR BBB shares at a price of 1.59 rials per Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 83.00 9.21% Caa1 CCC+ share in an initial public offer- ing to be launched on August 28, Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 103.25 3.97% NR BBB- *Periodic Distribution Amount Sembcorp Salalah said in a state- IMPORTANT NOTE: ment yesterday. This would be Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which worth RO53m ($137.66m), it said. is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services Sembcorp Utilities, a unit of Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary Sembcorp Industries, has a 60 data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not percent stake in the Sembcorp take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds Salalah Power and Water can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant Company. Oman Investment Corp liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not owns 35 percent and Instrata a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and Capital five percent in the joint consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. A worker loads polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles into sacks for recycling in poor working condi- venture. The statement did not tions in Dhaka yesterday. PET bottle flakes are an exportable raw material from Bangladesh. The recy- disclose what amount of shares cled material is used to produce PSF (Polyester staple fiber) which are then made into PSY (polyester the existing shareholders were spun yarn) or used as stuffing materials. each selling in the IPO. REUTERS THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

QE Indices Summary QE Index 10,065.20 0.21 % WORLD STOCK INDICES GOLD & SILVER EXCHANGE QE Total Return Index 14,380.87 0.21 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 2,886.99 0.19 % RATE QE All Share Index 2,530.6 0.15 % INDEX Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low QE All Share Banks & Financial 2,455.97 0.54 % GOLD Buying Selling Services All Ordinaries 5090.275 21.496 0.42 5229.8 4610.6 QE All Share Consumer Goods & 6,018.8 0.05 % QR160.4157 US$ ...... QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 Services Cac 40 Index/D 4028.63 -0.3 -0.01 4123.89 3575.17 QE All Share Industrials 3,210.5 0.18 % SILVER UK ...... QR 5.6794 QR 5.7590 QE All Share Insurance 2,282.44 0.81 % Dj Indu Average 15002.99 -7.75 -0.05 15658.4 12471.5 Euro ...... QR 4.8446 QR 4.9119 QE All Share Real Estate 1,829.41 0.52 % QR 2.7064 CA$ ...... QR 3.4585 QR 3.5273 QE All Share Telecoms 1,493.44 0.65 % Egypt Cma Gn Idx 1026.29 32.57 3.28 999.95 312.38 QE All Share Transportation 1,863.28 1.23 % Swiss Fr ...... QR 3.9348 QR 3.9904 Hang Seng Inde/D 21817.73 -152.56 -0.69 23944.74 19426.36 Yen ...... QR 0.0370 QR 0.0377 QE Market Summary Comparison Aus$ ...... QR 3.2580 QR 3.3230 Today Previous day Iseq Overall/D 4187.36 7.79 0.19 4285.01 3396.67 CRUDE OIL 21-08-2013 20-08-2013 Ind Re ...... QR 0.0563 QR 0.0574 Index 10,065.20 10,044.13 Karachi 100 In/D 23015.27 -471.96 -2.01 23944.99 16036.31 Pak Re ...... QR 0.0349 QR 0.0356 Change 21.07 5.73 BRENT Nikkei 225 Index 13424.33 27.95 0.21 15942.6 10398.61 Peso ...... QR 0.0824 QR 0.0841 % 0.21 0.06 $ 109.45 SL Re ...... QR 0.0273 QR 0.0279 YTD% 20.41 20.16 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 1709.67 1343.35 Taka ...... QR 0.0464 QR 0.0476 Volume 12,169,730 8,555,327 DUBAI Nep Re ...... QR 0.0354 QR 0.0360 Value (QAR) 408,666,515.96 337,101,424.22 Straits Times/D 3108.99 -19.76 -0.63 3464.79 3065.42 SA Rand ...... QR 0.3529 QR 0.3610 Trades 5,023 4,154 Straits Times/D 2971.47 22.7 0.77 3035.78 2657.77 $ 106.76 Up 18 | Down 23 | Unchanged 0

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ATP Winston-Salem Results WINSTON-SALEM, United States: Results Nadal, Djokovic gun for from the ATP Winston-Salem Open on Tuesday: Second round Ricardas Berankis (LTU) bt Denis Kudla (USA) 6-4, 6-4 Roberto Bautista (ESP) bt Martin Klizan (SVK x14) 6-4, 6-1 Murray’s US Open crown Jarkko Nieminen (FIN x11) bt Mardy Fish (USA) 7-5, 6-7 (3/7), 3-2, ret Alex Bogomolov jnr (RUS) bt Rejuvenated Spaniard looking for second title in New York Joao Sousa (POR) 6-4, 6-1 Dmitry Tursunov (RUS x13) bt David Goffin (BEL) 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 NEW YORK: Once the hunter, Juan Monaco (ARG x8) bt Nicolas Mahut now the hunted, Andy Murray (FRA) 6-7 (4/7), 6-3, 6-4 is braced for an all-out assault Benoit Paire (FRA x5) bt James Blake (USA) on his US Open title from reju- 7-6 (11/9), 2-6, 6-3 venated Rafael Nadal and world Fernando Verdasco (ESP X7) bt Tim number one Novak Djokovic. Smyczek (USA) 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 Murray ended Britain’s 76-year wait for a Grand Slam men’s Jurgen Melzer (AUT x9) bt Thiemo de champion by triumphing in New Bakker (NED) 7-5, 6-7 (4/7), 4-2, ret York in 2012 and backed it up with Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR x10) bt Daniel his historic Wimbledon victory Gimeno-Traver (ESP) 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 this year, the first by a British Steve Johnson (USA) bt man since Fred Perry in 1936. Andreas Seppi (ITA x2), 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 7-5 The Scot beat Djokovic to win Gael Monfils (FRA x15) bt the US Open 12 months ago and Guido Pella (ARG) 6-2, 6-2 repeated the dose against the Tommy Robredo (ESP x4) bt Guillaume Rufin Serb at the All England Club six (FRA) 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 6-3 weeks ago. But it is Nadal, rather than WTA New Haven Djokovic, who is tipped to win a NEW HAVEN, United States: Results from second title in New York, to add the WTA New Haven Open on Tuesday: to his 2010 victory, and clinch a Second Round 13th career major. Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Angelique Kerber The 27-year-old Spaniard (GER x2) 6-2, 6-4 missed the 2012 tournament as Klara Zakopalova (CZE) bt Monica Puig he rested his troublesome knees, (PUR) 6-4, 6-1 part of a seven-month injury lay- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) bt Sabine off which stretched from the sec- Lisicki (GER x7) 7-5, 6-3 ond round at Wimbledon to Vina Rafael Nadal of Spain (left) holding the trophy after winning the men’s singles final against Novak Djokovic of Serbia at the US Open 2010 at the First Round del Mar in Chile in February. USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York in this September 13, 2010 file picture. RIGHT: Andy Murray of Great Britain kisses the US Petra Kvitova (CZE x3) bt Annika Beck (GER) Since his return Nadal has Open trophy after his win over Djokovic after their men’s singles final match at the 2012 US Open in this file of September 12, 2012. racked up nine titles, including 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 five Masters, and boasts a win-loss record of 53-3. His only blip was a first round trauma at Wimbledon, Murray’s post-Wimbledon Wimbledon final. But the 26-year- 2013, including a second-round his bitter-sweet relationship with party has fallen flat in recent old has made the US Open final in loss at Wimbledon which ended Johnson upsets grass courts rekindled far too weeks with a third round loss to each of the last three years and is his record of 36 successive Grand Last 10 Winners quickly after the draining march Ernests Gulbis in Montreal fol- desperate to put behind him his Slam quarter-final appearances. second seed Men to an eighth French Open just two lowed by a quarter-final exit to quarter-final loss to John Isner In his desperation to stem the weeks earlier. Tomas Berdych in Cincinnati. in Cincinnati, a performance he decline, the 32-year-old made Seppi NEW YORK: Last 10 men’s singles Nadal’s title in Cincinnati But Murray, 26, has been described as “terrible”. the curious decision to play two champions at the US Open ahead of the last weekend followed victory in here before -- 12 months ago, he Djokovic,the 2011 US Open low-profile claycourt events after 2013 tournament which starts on Monday: Montreal -- the last man to clinch arrived in New York having suf- winner, is also keen to play down Wimbledon and even briefly WINSTON-SALEM, 2012 - Andy Murray (GBR) that double was Andy Roddick in fered third round defeats in both talk of how he and Murray -- experimented with a bigger UNITED STATES : US quali- 2003 who also went on to claim Toronto and Cincinnati. who have won seven of the last racquet. fier Steve Johnson upset sec- 2011 - Novak Djokovic (SRB) the US Open. “The things I need to do well -- 11 majors -- now hold the keys to A five-time US Open champion, ond-seeded Italian Andreas 2010 - Rafael Nadal (ESP) “It’s a nice feeling to arrive to serving, returning, moving -- that the Grand Slam door. Federer’s last final appearance in Seppi 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, 7-5 to reach the US Open with two victories in was good,” said Murray after his “Hopefully that rivalry can the city was in 2009 where he the third round of the ATP 2009 - Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) two very difficult tournaments,” loss last week to the ever-danger- develop over the years, but it’s was defeated by Juan Martin Del Winston-Salem Open yesterday. 2008 - Roger Federer (SUI) said Nadal, never one to get too ous Berdych. still not the biggest rivalry we Potro. But despite his slump, the “Definitely played really well far ahead of himself. Djokovic heads for New York have in sports. Out of all the Swiss star believes he can still be a today,” said Johnson, a two-time 2007 - Roger Federer (SUI) “And it is nice to arrive there with the focus squarely on Nadal active players, it’s Federer and factor at the Grand Slams, a belief US collegiate champion who 2006 - Roger Federer (SUI) knowing that, if I am able to keep as well as the worrying decline Nadal,” said Djokovic, a loser in buoyed by having taken a set off needed two hours and 19 minutes continuing, keep playing like this, of Roger Federer. The Serb, five sets to Murray in New York Nadal in his Cincinnati quarter- to get past Seppi. 2005 - Roger Federer (SUI) hopefully, I have the chance to who beat Murray to retain his last year. final defeat and the easing of a “Felt like everything I’ve been 2004 - Roger Federer (SUI) have a good result.” Nadal has Australian Open title this year, Federer heads into his 14th US summer-long back problem. working on for the last four, five, supplanted Murray as world came agonisingly close to ending Open at seven in the world, his “I know my body’s fine and my six months kind of came together, 2003 - Andy Roddick (USA) number two since Cincinnati after Nadal’s French Open domination lowest ranking for 11 years. mind’s OK, so that’s two good so it’s nice to see the hard work finding himself relegated to five in an epic Paris semi-final before The 17-time major winner has things looking ahead,” he said. pay off in big situations.” Women when he reappeared in Chile. being out-played by Murray in the already been defeated 11 times in AFP AFP 2012 - Serena Williams (USA) 2011 - Samantha Stosur (AUS) Azarenka looks to dethrone Serena 2010 - Kim Clijsters (BEL) 2009 - Kim Clijsters (BEL) NEW YORK CITY, New York: World for New York,” Williams said. “I definitely had number one Serena Williams enters the US more matches than I could want, but I’m defi- 2008 - Serena Williams (USA) Open as a heavy favourite to defend her title, nitely prepared for the US Open.” 2007 - Justine Henin (BEL) but second-ranked Victoria Azarenka leads a The 31-year-old American has been on an host of rivals looking to dethrone her. amazing run over the past 14 months, going 77-4 2006 - Maria Sharapova (RUS) Williams is seeking her 17th Grand Slam sin- and capturing last year’s Wimbledon, London 2005 - Kim Clijsters (BEL) gles crown and fifth US Open title, which would Olympic and US Open titles, plus this year’s move her one shy of Chris Evert’s Open-era French Open crown. But two of those defeats 2004 - Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) record for most titles at the year’s final major came at the hands of Azarenka, in last February’s 2003 - Justine Henin-Hardenne (BEL) event on the Flushing Meadows hardcourts. Doha final and last Sunday at the WTA final in “I’m definitely prepared. I’m definitely ready Cincinnati by 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (8/6). AFP PSG handball team train at Aspire

DOHA: Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) Handball Team, France’s reigning handball club, have spent nine days training at Aspire Academy for the first time in preparation for the new season, which will resume in September. During the week-long camp, the players took advantage of AZF’s state-of-the-art facilities to undergo intensive physical and tactical training. Danish handballer, Mikkel Hansen, named World Player of the Year in 2011 by the International Handball Federation (IHF), visited Doha in 2005 for the IHF Men’s Youth World Championship. “In 2005, Aspire Zone Foundation was The players and officials of Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) Handball Team pose for a picture during a training in its beginning stages and it is a session at Aspire Academy. The French club spent nine days training at Aspire Academy in preparation pleasure to see how it has dramati- for the new season, which will resume in September. cally changed along with Qatar as a nation.” Hansen added, “Aspire Zone explained PSG’s decision to culture and the country.” He such facilities and we are look- Foundation is unique in that ath- train in Qatar rather than in added, “Before coming to Qatar, ing forward to coming back.” letes in any sport in the world can France, “Qatar has an impor- I spoke with Jean-Claude Blanc Aspire Zone regularly plays come to train here. They have all tant role in PSG as sole share- (Director General of PSG FC) host to a number of football of the necessary facilities and holders of PSG FC and they who told me that I was going camps. Over the last few years, equipment for any athlete to train are therefore important to the to see something remarkable these have included PSG FC, and I have never seen anything handball team also. We felt it at Aspire and I have not been Manchester United FC, Bayern like this before.” was important to come to Qatar disappointed. This is the first Munich and Schalke. Coach Philippe Gardent to familiarize ourselves with the time that we have trained in THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Afghan heroes feted after win Celtic suffer shock defeat over Pakistan

Scottish giants lose to Karagandy; AC Milan, PSV Eindhoven share spoils KABUL: Afghanistan’s victori- ous football team met President Hamid Karzai at his palace yes- PARIS: Former European given the problems it had caused terday to receive official con- champions Celtic and AC Milan Champions League their opponents. gratulations for their 3-0 defeat were left with work to do to “Prior to their goal we were of neighbouring Pakistan. reach the Champions League Results head and shoulders above Karzai praised the players for group stage after their play-off them,” said the former Dutch their slick dispatch of the visi- first leg games on Tuesday. PARIS: Champions League international. tors, which triggered celebrations While AC Milan will approach play-offs first-leg results on “Having equalised we are still across a war-torn country starved next week’s second leg at home to Tuesday: in with a chance. We had six play- of international sporting action. PSV Eindhoven having secured a At Astana ers who are less than 21 years of Tuesday’s game was 1-1 draw and more importantly Shakhter Karagandy (KAZ) 2 (Finonchenko age in the team this evening and Afghanistan’s first home inter- an away goal Celtic slumped to 12, Khizhnichenko 77) Celtic (SCO) 0 they showed great maturity. national since they played an embarrassing 2-0 defeat away At Lyon, France “We were fluent in our passing Turkmenistan in 2003. at unheralded Kazakh outfit Lyon 0 Real Sociedad 2 (Griezmann 17, and movement and a vivacity and The Pakistan team also Shakhter Karagandy. Seferovic 50) liveliness that put our opponents attended the reception the day Two other sides in action At Oporto, Portugal off their game.” after the match, which was fared far better on their travels, Pacos de Ferreira (POR) 1 (Andre 58) Zenit Celtic manager Neil Lennon watched by a noisy 6,000-strong Spanish outfit Real Sociedad win- St. Petersburg (RUS) 4 (Shirokov 27, 60, 90, still held out hope that his sell-out crowd in the Afghan ning 2-0 at Lyon while a hat-trick Degra 85-og) Scottish champions could recover capital. by Roman Shirokov eased Zenit At Eindhoven, Netherlands from one of their more embar- Pakistan Football Federation St Petersburg to a 4-1 win in PSV Eindhoven: (NED) 1 (Matavz 60) AC Milan rassing defeats of recent times secretary Ahmed Yar Lodhi hailed Portugal over Champions League 1 (El Shaarawy 15) and reach the group stage. the match, the first between the debutants Pacos de Ferreira. At Plzen, Czech Republic The hosts - whose traditional two sides in Kabul since 1977. PSV exposed Milan’s rusti- Viktoria Plzen 3 (Cisovsky 8, Darida 58, Duris sacrificing of a sheep on the “Despite the one-sided loss I ness - they have not yet started 89) Maribor (SLO) 1 (Mejac 66) eve of the match brought its’ think Pakistan have initiated a their league season - several reward - scored through captain football diplomacy,” Lodhi said. times in the early stages but problems were far from over. Andrei Fionchenko and Sergei “Win or loss are part and par- still went behind to a Stephan “It is a good result but given Khizhnichenko to take a healthy- cel of the game, but I think the El Shaarawy header on the quar- the problems we had in the first- looking advantage to Scotland for goodwill this match has generated ter-hour mark. half and the rhythm of the match the second leg. will go a long way.” The Dutch side more than which PSV imposed on us we “I don’t know how many A return fixture had been held their own despite their must be very wary with regard chances we had tonight - clear planned for December, but Lodhi youth - the back four’s average to what lies in store in the second cut ones as well - and if you don’t said it was now likely to be post- age was 19 1/2 - and deservedly leg,” he said. take your chances then you make poned to March or April. got an equaliser on the hour as “It will take a good team to beat life difficult for yourself,” said Meanwhile, Asian Football Tim Matavz pounced on an error this PSV side, who are a young Lennon, who guided the side to Confederation President Shaikh by Milan goalkeeper Christian and very promising side.” the last 16 last season. Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa PSV Eindhoven player Joshua Brenet (left) in action with AC Milan Abbiati. His PSV counterpart Phillip “However, it’s not over yet. We has congratulated Afghanistan player Stephan El Shaaraway during the Champions League match in Milan coach Massimiliano Cocu said that their fluent, have to go back to Celtic Park and Football Federation (AFF) for Eindhoven, The Netherlands on Tuesday. Allegri was relieved to have got attacking football strategy would we’re not down and out just yet.” successfully hosting their first a draw, but added that Milan’s not change for the second leg, AGENCIES international football game in a decade. “The success of this match shows that football is a catalyst FA rulebook to bring peace. This also proves Wenger hits back at critics Afghanistan’s return to normal of 1863 goes life after decades of war,” said LONDON: Arsenal man- have. “What is important as well Shaikh Salman. on display in ager Arsene Wenger defended is to rate what you have and our “This game is symbolic for the his transfer policy yesterday, fans have to understand that as South Asians and confirms foot- reminding disgruntled fans of well. ball’s power to promote positive London the club’s past successes and The Frenchman said he will try relationship between neighbour- LONDON, ENGLAND: A encouraging them to put their to reinforce his squad but empha- ing countries.” AGENCIES rulebook containing the first faith in the current squad. sised that he would not jettison codified rules of football went Wenger has come under fire his cautious approach. on display in London yester- from supporters and the media “As always, we do what we day to mark the 150th anni- for failing to recruit a significant Arsenal’s head think is right,” he was quoted as Man United versary of the foundation of signing in the close season and coach Arsene saying on the club’s official web- the Football Association. pressure has already started to Wenger speaks site (www.arsenal.com). “When strike deal with Known as the 1863 FA mount on the Frenchman follow- during a press con- we think we have the right play- Minute Book, the volume con- ing Arsenal’s losing start to the ference in Istanbul, ers, we do it. Indian tyre firm tains the 13 original laws of the Premier League campaign. Turkey, yesterday. “We were for years restricted game, including guidelines on A 3-1 home defeat by Aston and we competed with exceptional the size of the pitch, what hap- Villa on Saturday sparked calls quality. This year we did not lose LONDON, England: English pens when the ball goes out of from the Arsenal Supporters any players - we just lost two play- Premier League giants play, and the rules on handling Trust to put on hold contract ers with injury - but we will try Manchester United yesterday the ball. Roy Hodgson, manager talks with the 63-year-old whose to strengthen the squad and make announced they have signed a of the England national team, deal runs out after this season. the right decisions until the end. three-year regional sponsorship and FA chairman Greg Dyke Ahead of a tricky Champions “I repeat many, many times agreement with Indian tyre film presented the artefact to the League qualifier against Turkish that the transfer window should Apollo. British Library, where it will side Fenerbahce in Istanbul, be over before the season starts Under the terms of the agree- go on display to the public. Wenger said now was not the time British media previously United manager Alan Pardew on because it is a little bit destabil- ment, the firm becomes United’s “Although it is only a small to press the panic button. reported interest in Argentina Monday for lacking respect after ising once the season has started “official tyre partner” in the book, the contribution this has “I would like to reiterate in the international Gonzalo Higuain, making an offer for French mid- - to be there talking about what is United Kingdom and India. made to the modern sport of last 16 years we have been very who ended up at Napoli, as well fielder Yohan Cabaye. not really important in football.” “Apollo Tyres is a leading player football is huge,” said a British successful with transfers,” he told as Manchester United’s Wayne Arsenal’s bid came before Arsenal were dealt another in the tyre industry and its rate Library spokesman. a news conference. Rooney, before Arsenal failed Newcastle’s game at Manchester blow yesterday with the news that of growth and development into “It has shaped the rules of “If you look at the players who with a bid to sign Luis Suarez City which United lost 4-0 with 20-year-old winger Alex Oxlade- new territories made it an attrac- football worldwide. I think peo- play tomorrow, they are top qual- from Liverpool. Cabaye left out of the team. Chamberlain has been ruled out tive partner for the club,” said ple consider that if this book did ity players, and you should never The Merseyside club rebuffed “We don’t want to hurt any- for at least six weeks with a knee United Group Managing Director not exist, the game as we know forget that.” Wenger’s efforts to prise the body, not Newcastle, not anybody,” injury after he was injured in Richard Arnold. it would not exist in this form, Arsenal chief executive Ivan Uruguay striker away and accused Wenger said. a collision with Villa defender United have struck a number either.” Gazidis told fans at the end of Arsenal of lacking class when they “You can’t reproach us on one Antonio Luna. of similar agreements in the last The book, which is reput- last season that the north London made a bid of 40m and one pound side for not buying and yet on the “It will be at least six weeks out year. Apollo joins firms such as edly worth £2.5 million, was club had the financial muscle to ($62.71m) which was expected to other side, when we try to buy, with a posterior cruciate prob- Mamee, the club’s official noodles handwritten 150 years ago by compete for big-name players but trigger a release clause. reproach us as well. That is a bit lem... a ligament that is stretched. partner, and Yanmar, United’s Ebenezer Cobb Morley, the first they have so far signed only Yaya The north Londoners, who fin- contradictory... We don’t think it will need sur- official diesel enginer partner, in FA secretary. AFP Sanogo on a free transfer from ished fourth last season, received “It is not always to think what gery,” Wenger said. associating itself with the 20-time Auxerre. another rebuke from Newcastle is outside is better than what you AFP English champions. AFP Formula One: Raikkonen offers plenty to talk about

LONDON: Kimi Raikkonen, for Brazilian Felipe Massa. The visit to the top step to boost his flag there. Alonso, a point behind the least garrulous of Formula Finn’s manager Steve Robertson title challenge. Raikkonen in third place, has One drivers, is the man eve- has ruled out Red Bull and said “There are certain circuits never won in Belgium but needs ryone is talking about ahead Ferrari are an option, even if where everything seems to run to do so more than ever with of Sunday’s Belgian Grand Maranello has remained tight- smoothly and then there are Ferrari’s challenge struggling to Prix at his favourite Spa- lipped, and whatever the reality other circuits where I have no get into gear with nine of the 19 Francorchamps circuit. Spa is sure to give Raikkonen the luck at all,” he told the team web- races remaining. Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel may stage to impress. site (www.lotusf1team.com). “Of The Spaniard’s team mate be well on his way to a fourth Few have any doubt about what course we will do our very best to Massa, victorious in Belgium in successive title, with four wins he can offer, with the 33-year- win this race. 2008, has not reappeared on top Russian Formula 1 already and the second half of old second in the standings, 38 “I have been on the top step of of the podium since the end of driver Sergei Sirotkin the season favouring him in the points behind Vettel and chasing the podium a few times at Spa that year. Lewis Hamilton - who at a media conference past, but Raikkonen’s future has a record 28th successive scoring and I want to be there again.” took his first win for Mercedes at Sauber Headquarter hogged the recent headlines. finish. One of Raikkonen’s memora- in Hungary and is now 10 points in Hinwil, Switzerland, The Finn started the August Spa, a layout steeped in his- ble Spa wins was with McLaren adrift of the Finn - triumphed at yesterday. Sirotkin is break as a favourite to join Vettel tory with the stomach-wrenching in 2004 in what was that team’s Spa in 2010 and the 2008 cham- said to be the new at Red Bull next year but now the slingshot through Eau Rouge and only victory of an otherwise bar- pion will be chasing his fourth Sauber driver next chatter is about a different shade the longest and one of the fast- ren year. His 2009 triumph for successive pole position of the season. of red and a possible surprise est laps on the calendar, has been Ferrari was similarly face-saving season. A second victory in two return to glamour team Ferrari good to Raikkonen over the years as that team’s sole success of the races would put the Briton right if he does not stay with Lotus. come rain or shine. year. back in the title chase. Raikkonen, champion with The ‘Iceman’ has won there Until last year, when Raikkonen “On paper, Spa is a circuit Ferrari in 2007 before mak- four times with McLaren and was third, he had either won or that should suit our car and Nico ing way at the end of 2009 for Ferrari and, after five second failed to finish every time he raced (Rosberg) and Lewis will be at Spain’s Fernando Alonso and places this season following at Spa and he can still boast that their best on a real driver’s cir- taking two years out of the sport, his season-opening victory in he has been on the podium every cuit,” said Mercedes motorsport is being touted as a replacement Australia, is gunning for another time he has seen the chequered head Toto Wolff. AFP THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Australia coach Lehmann brands Broad a ‘cheat’ The ex-batsman urges home fans to make bowler cry

LONDON: Australia coach Darren Lehmann has accused Misbah calls England’s Stuart Broad of “bla- tant cheating” and urged fans in Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose (centre), Japanese Olympic Committee Australia to make sure the all- for Pakistan President Tsunekazu Takeda (right) and Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee CEO rounder “cries and goes home” Masato Mizuno pose during a photo session at the Tokyo metropolitan during the return Ashes series. government headquarters in Tokyo in this June 25, 2013 file photo. Broad has annoyed Australia’s T20 league players and supporters with his behaviour during the ongoing LAHORE, Pakistan: Pakistan Ashes, which England lead by an captain Misbah-ul-Haq urged unbeatable 3-0 heading into the his country’s cricket chiefs yes- final Test at The Oval in south terday to revive plans for an Bank on us: London that started yesterday. IPL-style Twenty20 league to The 27-year-old Broad angered get his players sharp for inter- his Australian opponents in par- national competition. ticular during England’s narrow Misbah, who leads the side in 14-run first Test win at Trent Tests and one-day internationals, Tokyo bid chief Bridge, his Nottinghamshire is worried his men are losing their home ground, when he refused edge because they are not regu- TOKYO: Tokyo has sent a clear much of that sum is not techni- to walk when given not out at a larly playing the world’s best in message to the International cally tied to the Games. crucial stage of the game after a the shortest format. Olympic Committee less than Next year’s Winter Olympics thick edge deflected off the wick- Pakistani players do not take three weeks before the vote to in Sochi are set to become the etkeeper’s gloves to slip. part in the annual Indian Premier decide the host city for the 2020 most expensive ever at a cost He then appeared to deliber- League (IPL) and the country has Summer Games: bank on us. of more than $50bn blasted as ately waste time to ensure lunch hosted no international games With the IOC under pressure to “monstrous” by Russian opposi- was taken on a tense final day as since militants attacked the Sri keep escalating Olympic budgets tion leaders -- while cost over- Australia eyed a dramatic victory. Lankan team bus in Lahore in in check amid protests and politi- runs are predicted for the Rio Former Australia batsman 2009. cal sniping in Brazil and Russia, 2016 Olympic Games. Lehmann was unimpressed by The Pakistan Cricket Board Tokyo has underlined its prom- “We have the $4.5bn,” said Broad’s failure to walk, telling (PCB) planned to host a Pakistan ise to deliver a profitable Games Mizuno. “Plus, we have revenue Australian radio station Triple Super League in March and April without the risk of over-spending. from the IOC, revenue from tick- M in an interview broadcasted to try to lure foreign stars but had “We’re very healthy,” Tokyo eting and also marketing revenue yesterday: “Certainly our players to shelve the idea indefinitely, 2020 chief executive officer (which) will make I would say haven’t forgotten, they’re calling claiming it wanted to give spon- Masato Mizuno said in an $8.5bn, which is the total budget.” him everything under the sun as sors more time to come forward. interview. Should Tokyo win, the money they go past. Misbah said Pakistan must “Tokyo is a safe pair of hands would be accessible from the “I hope the Australian public stage the T20 league, either at and that includes financial moment the Olympic organising are the same because that was Australia’s Shane Watson reacts after being hit by a delivery bowled by home or at a neutral venue. strength. We already have a committee sets up operations. just blatant cheating. I don’t advo- England’s Stuart Broad during the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval cricket “PCB is doing its efforts to $4.5bn Olympic hosting fund so “It’s in the bank,” said Mizuno. cate walking but when you hit it ground, in London, yesterday. INSET: Australia’s coach Darren Lehmann bring international cricket back financially there’s no problem -- “We can draw it out immediately.” to first slip it’s pretty hard,” he looks on from the dressing room balcony during the first Test match at to Pakistan but in my opinion a we’re secure. We also have city Bullish over Tokyo’s financial said. Trent Bridge in this July 2013 file photo. Twenty20 international league is and government guarantees. might and strong public support, “From my point of view I just a must, if not in Pakistan it should There is no worry.” Mizuno played down concern hope the Australian public give be held in Dubai,” Misbah told Tokyo, which tiptoed into the over potential radiation expo- it to him right from the word umpires, much criticised for sev- noise of (Brad) Haddin’s gloves,” reporters on his return from the bidding race after losing out to sure following the meltdown at go for the whole summer and I eral contentious decisions this he said. West Indies. Rio for 2016, remains the favour- the Fukushima nuclear plant 150 hope he cries and he goes home,” Ashes. “It’s a bit silly when people say The 39-year-old featured in ite with the bookmakers to beat miles north of Tokyo in early 2011. Lehmann added. “He hit it to first slip ... and the it was nicked to slip because actu- the inaugural Caribbean Premier rivals Istanbul and Madrid for the Yesterday, a radioactive water “I just hope everyone gets biggest problem there is the poor ally it was edged to the keeper’s League where he represented St right to stage the 2020 Games. leak at Fukushima was upgraded stuck into him because the way umpire cops all the c**p that he gloves and flew off the gloves to Lucia Zouks. Having re-entered the fray to a level three “serious incident”, he’s carried on and the way he’s gets in (the) paper and Stuart slip. He will join the Pakistan team with the country still recover- the highest warning in two years. commented in public about it is Broad makes them look like fools,” “I went down to the other end in Zimbabwe later this week to ing from a deadly tsunami and “Regarding the radiation levels, ridiculous.” he added. and Ian Bell was like ‘what hap- lead them in the three one-day- resulting nuclear crisis in 2011, air and water levels are very low Broad’s superb bowling sparked “From my point of view it’s pened there, I didn’t hear any- ers and two Tests. He is not part Tokyo’s budget and financial sta- and very safe so we’re confident an Australia collapse in the fourth poor, so I hope the public actu- thing?’ Agar came up to me and of the Twenty20 squad, which bility could be a key factor in the (it won’t be a factor in the vote),” Test at Chester-le-Street that ally get stuck into him.” asked if I’d nicked it because he will play two matches in Harare September 7 vote in Buenos Aires. Mizuno said on Tuesday, before saw England to a 74-run win, Earlier this week, Broad said wasn’t sure. tomorrow and Saturday. Mizuno, who has clocked up the leak’s re-evaluation. but that didn’t appear to con- the incident had not been as The bowler added: “So it wasn’t Misbah said a Pakistan T20 so many air miles lobbying for “Plus, there’s the distance. Also, cern Lehmann, who said Broad’s clear-cut as it seemed at the time. as clear cut as everyone had league would help give young play- votes that he has his right hand we actually monitor 80 points in conduct in the series opener had “It was an odd one. There was thought, although I knew I’d hit ers the skills they need in inter- in a protective support from con- Tokyo every day and all the levels heaped further pressure on the no particular noise because of the it.” AFP national cricket. stantly lifting his luggage, insisted are very low. There is no problem, “Our players are not properly Tokyo had even more cash at its no issue.” groomed because of no interna- disposal for 2020. Mizuno also expressed confi- Wasim marries his Zimbabwe squad tional cricket and other countries “The $4.5bn budget included dence that Tokyo, which hosted get their young players groomed the main stadium,” he said of Asia’s first Olympics in 1964, by having leagues where they get the $1.4bn flying-saucer design could depend on backing from for Pakistan series a chance to play with interna- with retractable roof. “The main the IOC’s Asian members, despite Aussie girlfriend tional stars,” said Misbah. stadium has since become the Japan’s political tensions with Squad: Brendan Taylor (cap- tain), Regis Chakabva, Tendai “India is the biggest example national stadium funded (sepa- South Korea and China. KARACHI: Famed Pakistan paceman Wasim Akram yesterday Chatara, Chamu Chibhabha, where they are holding the league rately) by the government so we “Sport is not the same as poli- announced that he had married his Australian girlfriend, Shaniera Elton Chigumbura, Michael and getting their players well have even more reserves. You can tics. For sport there are common Thompson, saying he has started a new life on a happy note. Chinouya, Graeme Cremer, groomed.” rely on us to deliver.” rules for competing with each “I married Shaniera in Lahore last week in a simple ceremony and Timycen Maruma, Hamilton Pakistani players including In comparison, Istanbul’s pro- other,” he said, adding that Tokyo this is the start of a new life for me, my wife and for my kids,” Wasim Masakadza, Shingi Masakadza, Misbah featured in the inaugural jected infrastructure budget of would adopt an “absolute zero tol- said. Tino Mawoyo, Natsai M’shangwe, edition of the IPL but were since $19bn dwarfs those of Tokyo and erance” policy on doping at the The 47-year-old’s first wife Huma died in 2009 after multiple organ Tinotenda Mutombodzi, Tinashe not allowed to play after rela- Madrid, though the IOC has noted 2020 Games. AFP failure. Panyangara, Vusi Sibanda, tions between the two countries Wasim proposed to the 30-year-old former public relations consult- Sikandar Raza, Prosper Utseya, became strained in the wake of ant on bended knee last month and they married on August 12. Brian Vitori, Malcolm Waller, the Mumbai attacks in 2008. Thompson came to Karachi earlier this month before going to Lahore Sean Williams. Misbah is also due to lead the Indian government to see Wasim’s ailing father. There the marriage was solemnised in the Faisalabad Wolves team to India presence of immediate family and a few close friends. Zimbabwe will host Pakistan in next month to feature in the Wasim said Thompson had converted to Islam and is learning Urdu. two Tests, three ODIs and two Champions League, but the tour backs IOC move to keep “She has embraced Islam and is learning our language. She has been Twenty20 internationals. The is in jeopardy due to the latest close to my sons and they form a very good bond,” said Wasim of his series starts tomorrow with the tension between the two coun- two sons from his first marriage. AFP first T20 encounter in Harare. tries. AFP tainted officials out MUMBAI: The Indian government yesterday backed the Youngster Umar Akmal International Olympic Committee’s efforts in barring tainted offi- This handout cials from contesting the national Olympic body’s elections. photograph The IOC banned the country in December after refusing to rec- provided ognise the results of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) elections courtesy of to see neurologist due to government interference, which led to a tainted official being Wasim Akram named its secretary general. yesterday KARACHI: Pakistan’s talented young batsman Umar Akmal will During crucial meetings in Lausanne in May, an Indian delega- shows former see a neurologist for further testing after suffering a suspected sei- tion of government and IOA officials assured the IOC of the Olympic Pakistani zure which forced his withdrawal from the Zimbabwe tour, an offi- movement’s autonomy in the country in a first step towards mend- cricket cial said yesterday. ing relations and also discussed a roadmap towards getting the ban captain The 23-year-old Umar reportedly suffered seizure during his team’s overturned. Wasim flight to Jamaica last week and was promtply rushed back home for The IOC recently sent a 43-page draft constitution that needs Akram (left) medical treatment. to be adopted by the suspended IOA before it holds elections in posing for a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said further professional advice will September and it included a clause to bar any person charged with photograph be taken on Umar, who on his return Tuesday insisted he was fit to criminal offence from holding office. with his play despite the scare. The clause has drawn objections from the IOA officials but received “The PCB is arranging an appointment for Umar with a neurologist the backing of India’s sports minister Jitendra Singh. Australian to seek professional advice on his medical condition,” a PCB spokes- “... the Government of India also supports the efforts of the IOC bride man said. to strengthen ethical standards in the IOA, through a clause which Shaniera Medical reports from the West Indies suspected a seizure but PCB stipulates that persons standing for elections as office bearers of Thompson wants to reassess Umar’s condition. the IOA are free from criminal charges,” Singh said in a statement. during their “It (the appointment) is one of the steps that the PCB will be under- Lalit Bhanot, who spent 11 months in custody following corruption wedding taking in assessing the medical problem that occurred to Umar while charges that plagued the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi ceremony in he was in the West Indies,” the official added. and is out on bail, was named the IOA secretary general during the Lahore on Neurologist Dr Saad Shafqat, who is also a well known cricket writer, controversial December elections. August 12, said Umar would not have to worry as long as the MRI is clear. Former IOA president Suresh Kalmadi was also arrested in April 2013. “If MRI is clear then there will be no problems, it will be controlled,” 2011 on charges of inflating tenders for equipment used at the Games Shafqat said. “At Umar’s age epilepsy is light and we don’t take it as a which he was heading. REUTERS serious disease.” AFP Thursday 22 August 2013 15 Shawwal 1434 Volume 18 Number 5799 Sport Price: QR2 LATEST NEWS UPDATES FROM PHILIPPINPHILIPPINES Celtic suffer Lehmann AVAILABLE shock defeat in brands Broad AT ALL LEADING BOOK STORES / SUPERMARKETS Europe a ‘cheat’ IN QATAR

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LAUSANNE: International Cycling Union (UCI) president Pat McQuaid (pictured) received a blow yesterday to his bid to win a third term in the role as the Swiss Cycling Federation withdrew puts Australia on top their backing for his candidacy. Irishman McQuaid had already seen his homeland remove their support for him but then thought he been granted a reprieve when the Swiss stepped in. The all-rounder hits Test-best 176; visitors are 307 for 4 But now he has lost their backing as well, he is left needing to change the rules in order to stand for election. “The Board of Directors of Swiss Cycling have reversed their deci- LONDON: Shane Watson’s sion from May 13, 2013 concerning the nomination of Pat McQuaid Test-best 176 left Australia and decided yesterday (Tuesday) to withdraw the nomination of firmly in charge of the fifth Pat McQuaid for re-election to the UCI presidency,” said the Swiss Ashes match against England at Federation in a statement. The Oval. “By consequence the arbitration requested by three At stumps on the first day yes- members of Swiss Cycling has been cancelled as it is terday, Australia were 307 for Australia’s Shane no longer of any use.” four as they sought a consolation Watson celebrates Three members of the board had previously con- victory in a five-match series reaching his hundred tested Swiss Cycling’s decision to support the Irishman. already won by England at 3-0 up. on the first day of the He is due to stand against longtime British Cycling Watson put a disappointing fifth Ashes Test match president Brian Cookson in the election in Florence series with the bat behind him against England at The on September 27. with just his third Test hundred Oval cricket ground in But in order to do so he needs to secure a modifica- -- his first in 25 matches and 48 London, yesterday. tion to the UCI statutes as under current legislation he is ineligible. innings since his previous best Cookson released a statement expressing his belief that McQuaid of 126 against India at Mohali in should not be allowed to stand for re-election. October 2010. “This latest development is of real significance to the Presidential The 32-year-old all-rounder, election process. It leaves Mr McQuaid in a very difficult position, playing his 46th Test, was espe- particularly when viewed alongside his failure to receive a nomination cially severe on debutants Chris from his own national federation, as required under the constitution Woakes (none for 52 in 15 overs) of the UCI,” he said. and left-arm spinner Simon England 4-0, unsurprisingly chose Watson, on 91, was struck on Scoreboard “It also places further question marks against his other ‘nomina- Kerrigan (none for 53 in eight), to bat first after winning the toss the side of his head unprotected tions’ whose validity is in serious doubt and remain a matter of genuine chosen after England opted on a good pitch. by his helmet, after he took his Australia (I innings): concern to many in the cycling world. against recalling fast bowler Chris However, England had an eye off a Stuart Broad bouncer. C Rogers c Trott b Swann ...... 23 “No attempts at manipulation and legal bluster can take away the Tremlett on his Surrey home early breakthrough when David Anderson then captured the D Warner c Prior b Anderson ...... 6 doubts and questions. ground. Warner played a loose shot out- prize wicket of Clarke, bowled S Watson c Pietersen b Broad ...... 176 “The important principle in any democracy is that you must respect Watson, filling Australia’s side off-stump to James Anderson off the pad for seven, with the M Clarke b Anderson...... 7 the rules as they are, not how you’d like them to be. My hope remains problem position of number and was caught behind for six. Lancashire paceman’s 326th S Smith (batting) ...... 66 that we have a democratic process based on the rules of the race when three after starting the series as But with England’s bowlers Test wicket moving him past Bob P Siddle (batting) ...... 18 it started rather than those made up half way through.” an opener and then moving to failing to gain much movement, Willis and into sole possession of Extras (LB-6, N-B5) ...... 11 Cookson was referring to a move by the Malaysian Federation, number six, received good support Watson, hitting through the line second place on England’s all-time Total (for 4 wkts) ...... 307 which has proposed an amendment that would allow a presidential from Steven Smith (66 not out) with confidence, was 80 not out list of leading Test wicket-takers Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-118, 3-144, 4-289. candidate to be supported by two member Federations rather than in a a fourth-wicket stand of 145. at lunch. behind Ian Botham (383). To bat: B Haddin, J Faulkner, M Starc, R Har- his own affiliated federation. Nightwatchman Peter Siddle Chris Rogers, who helped Watson, who batted on after his ris, N Lyon. If that is successful, McQuaid would be able to stand for election as was unbeaten on 18. Watson add 107, then fell for painful blow, spent 41 minutes in Bowling: Anderson 18-3-52-2; Broad 19-3- he has the support of the Thai and Moroccan federations. Michael Clarke, trying to avoid 23 when he edged off-spinner the 90s before driving Anderson 73-1 (4nb); Swann 30-4-71-1; Woakes 15- The reason he had managed to stay in the race through Swiss sup- becoming the first Australia Graeme Swann to Jonathan Trott to complete a hundred in a mere 5-52-0; Kerrigan 8-0-53-0 (1nb). port was that although he is Irish, he lives in Switzerland, where the captain to lose a Test series in at slip. 114 balls. AFP UCI is based. AFP Gerets admits the Guangzhou on course for semis best team won after 2-0 victory over Lekhwiya GUANGZHOU: Lekhwiya He added: “Even if we had coach Eric Gerets admit- two or three months to prepare ted Guangzhou Evergrande in our league and we played the BEIJING, CHINA: Midfield deserved to win yesterday’s same team again it would still be maestro Dario Conca put Yesterday’s AFC AFC Champions League quar- tough as they are a good team. China’s Guangzhou Evergrande Champions League ter-final first leg. Now we can only try in a couple on course for the AFC The majority of the 41,000 of weeks as we don’t have any Champions League semi-finals Results crowd appeared to be on course pressure. Marcello’s side showed as he inspired a 2-0 win over to be sent home frustrated as why they are the best in China Qatar’s Lekhwiya yesterday. BEIJING, China: Results from the first leg Marcello Lippi’s Guangzhou so they are big favourites to go The tournament favourites left of the AFC Champions League quarter- struggled to turn dominant through, but I think we will it late before the Argentine con- finals yesterday: possession into a breakthrough see another Lekhwiya in a few verted a penalty on 72 minutes, until Argentinean playmaker weeks. and set up Brazil’s Elkeson four In Kashiwa Dario Conca netted his fourth “We have nothing to lose and minutes later ahead of the return Kashiwa Reysol (JPN) 1 goal of the campaign from the we will look to attack and try to leg in Doha on September 18. Al Shabab (KSA) 1 penalty spot with 18 minutes create pressure from the first The victory at a noisy Tianhe remaining. second and try and score a goal Sports Centre in southern China In Guangzhou And with Brazilian striker in the first half to make sure we means Guangzhou, led by World Elkeson (Elkeson de Oliveira have a chance in second half. It Cup-winning coach Marcello Guangzhou Evergrande CHN) 2 Cardoso) marking his AFC will be tough, but we will try our Lippi, are odds-on to reach the Lekhwiya (QAT) 0 Champions League debut with best.” last four for the first time. In Tehran an accomplished finish three Guangzhou are top of the Guangzhou entered the quar- minutes later, Qatar Stars Chinese Super League, while ter-finals as the tournament’s Esteghlal (IRI) 1 Buriram United (THA) 0 League (QSL) runners-up Lekhwiya have only three games joint top-scorers and runaway Nam Tae-Hee (right) of Lekhwiya vies for the ball with Luiz Guilherme In Sharayea Lekhwiya face an uphill task in in the pre-season Sheikh Jassim domestic leaders, and it was no Da Conceical Silva (centre) of Evergrande Guangzhou during their next month’s second leg in Doha. Cup last month under their belts. surprise when they dominated quarter-final match of AFC Champions League in Guangzhou, yesterday. Al Ahli (KSA) 1 FC Seoul (KOR) 1 “The last match in the AFC “We did our best. They are in possession in the first half. Champions League was a few the middle of their championship But the Chinese double-holders months ago, but right now we and in Qatar the championship were off-key in front of goal with he joined Guangzhou in 2011, when a throw-in slipped out of Muftah, he stepped up and sent are finding ourselves again and has not started so in the game striker Gao Lin bobbling a cross swerved a free-kick just wide. his hands and travelled only a few Amin the wrong way to give his our preparation is not finished. there was a higher rhythm from harmlessly to the ‘keeper when a Lekhwiya’s rare forays forward feet, in what was threatening to team the lead. This is not the reason we lost the Chinese team than my team. goal threatened, and then glanc- had been marked by long-range become a night to forget for the Just four minutes later, the as you have to be a sportsman We had good moments, but when ing a diving header wide. pot-shots but striker Sebastian hosts. Argentine turned creator as and admit that the opponent you lose and you lose 2-0 it will Lekhwiya were crowding Suria nearly gave them a shock Conca had a chance saved at he back-heeled a one-two with was stronger than my team,” be difficult,” said Gerets. out the normally free-flowing lead on half-time with a stinging point-blank range by Lekhwiya Elkeson who ran on to the said Gerets with Lekhwiya yet “We did try and control the Guangzhou with a packed defence. shot from distance. goalkeeper Claude Amin, who return ball and powered home to fully begin their new domestic game, but in the first half we lost Even Muriqui, the competition’s Guangzhou’s frustrations played hero again minutes later Guangzhou’s second goal of the campaign. the ball too many times. We had leading scorer with eight goals, continued after the break and when he denied Muriqui in a match. “We are still alive, but it will periods in the second half were showed fallibility as he put a great Elkeson, with 20 goals in 21 one-on-one. Muriqui nearly made it three be difficult. We still fought until we kept the ball, but in the first chance over. domestic appearances, was guilty Eventually Guangzhou needed goals in seven minutes but he the last second, but I think the half we didn’t really control the Gao fired a shot across the face of a glaring miss when he put a a penalty to break the deadlock turned his tightly angled shot best team won,” he explained. ball,” he added. AGENCIES and Conca, estimated as one of free header wide. and when Conca went down in into the side-netting instead of the world’s best paid players when The Brazilian bungled again a clumsy challenge from Khaled the empty goal. AFP