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Energy-saving devices at mosques, schools DOHA: Tenders are to be floated soon to install energy- and water-saving devices in mosques and government schools across the country to help rationalise and reduce the consumption of these resources. Once the new devices are in place, electricity and water consumption in mosques and gov- ernment schools would drop 37 percent and four percent, respectively, Al Sharq reported yesterday. The Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation, popularly known as Kahramaa, the local public utility, is busy coordinating with the Ministry of Environment to develop new technical standards and specifications for air conditioners, light bulbs and tubes and electri- cal appliances like washing machines so as to make sure that only energy-saving appliances and equipment are imported for use in the country, the daily said. Also, there are plans to encourage the use of solar heaters in homes and commercial places in winter since that would help save electricity to a large extent. Light rain likely today in parts of Qatar DOHA: Weathermen said yesterday there are chances of light rain in some parts of the country today amid high levels of humidity. The weather would be humid and misty at first, becoming hot and hazy with scattered clouds in some areas and chances of rain, the Meteorology Department forecast. Southwesterly winds would blow at speeds LIFE WITHOUT of three to 12 knots during the day, reaching 17 knots later. Maximum temperatures forecast for today are 43 degrees Celsius in Dukhan and Abu Samra, 42 degrees in Doha, Al Khor, Mesaieed and Al Wakra, and 40 degrees in Al Ruwais in the north. Minimum temperatures would hover between 30 and 33 degrees Celsius. Doha-based engineer dies in Cairo crackdown DOHA: An Egyptian engineer working with a construction company here reportedly died in Wednesday’s military action in Cairo while on a visit with his family to celebrate THE ISSUE Eid Al Fitr. Company officials said they came to know of his death from his brother in Cairo, who did not give further details. They said reports of The influx of a large number places. More workers are now being moved Area, which was closed down long ago. The their colleague’s tragic death were still uncon- of single foreign workers to to camps in the Industrial Area and on the twin theatres in Gulf cinema, the only afford- firmed as it was not known how he died and outskirts of the city, which has led to a short- able venue for low-income expatriates, have what he was doing at the venue of the sit-in the country has posed a major age in labour accommodations. remained closed for more than seven months by supporters of ousted president Mohammed challenge in terms of providing These crowded camps have witnessed sev- now. Mursi. housing and entertainment eral incidents of crime and scuffles between Souqs and shopping malls remain the only “All I can say is that he left with his family people from different nationalities. Only last places for single workers to hang out, but on Eid vacation for Cairo a few days before the facilities to people from week, an Indian died in a labour camp in Al their entry to such places is restricted dur- festival and now we are hearing that he died. I different cultural and ethnic Sailiya, reportedly stabbed by a Nepalese ing weekends. can’t confirm,” said the official. backgrounds. worker, in a suspected incident of group Eid and summer festivals organised by rivalry. Qatar Tourism Authority also seem to ignore 75 killed in Egypt; more Illegal activities such as gambling and this segment of society, with very few pro- hooch-making have often been reported from grammes and activities for them. Islamist rallies planned ew countries in the world have such labour camps across the country. Most festival venues are reserved for fami- a diverse mix of expatriate workers Lack of entertainment facilities for sin- lies and shows are not accessible to or afford- CAIRO: Backers of Egypt’s ousted president within small geographical bounda- gle workers seems to be worsening the able for low-income workers. Mohammed Mursi pledged to stage daily Fries as seen in Qatar and other Gulf situation. Authorities are aware of the seriousness demonstrations as they ended a day of angry countries. Authorities had unveiled plans to build of the issue, but there is need for a more protests in which at least 75 people were The presence of large groups of single exclusive residential complexes and enter- in-depth study into its social and psycho- killed yesterday. In the capital, streets were PAGEworkers in residential 6 areas has been a mat- tainment facilities for single workers, but logical aspects that should lead to practical virtually deserted except for demonstrators ter of concern in Qatar, which eventually led such projects are yet to see the light of day. solutions. and security forces, with the army deployed to a ban on labour accommodations in such There used to be a cinema in the Industrial See also page 2 at key points in the city. See also page 8 THE PENINSULA & AFP

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undreds of low-income single foreign work- ers throng the Grand HHamad Street in Doha every Friday. The crowds, all of them men, start gathering after Friday prayers and spend most of the afternoon in the area, usually in cafeterias or strolling from one shop to another. By evening, buses begin ferrying them back to labour accommodations in different parts of the country. These low-income expatriate workers comprise a large major- ity of Qatar’s population. In 2012, more than 94,000 labourers were recruited from overseas for ongoing development projects in the coun- try, statistics from the Recruitment Department at the Ministry of Labour reveal. Yet, unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of labourers in the coun- Pics: Shaival Dalal try do not have proper entertain- from other Asian countries. are able to relax only when they ment facilities to avail of during Adding to the woes of these visit their countries. their only day off in a week. labourers is the fact that they are “I usually go home after two The twin theatres of Gulf Cinema being pushed to the outskirts of years. That’s the only time I have used to be a popular place to spend the city following a ban on labour fun or relax because in Qatar some time, and according to some accommodations in residential I don’t have any other activity estimates more than 60,000 peo- areas. In 2012 alone, 752 accom- besides work,” Sanjiv, a labourer ple used to visit the cinemas every modations were evacuated in dif- from Nepal, said. month. ferent parts of the country, official He said his company did not Tickets at the cinemas were figures suggest. provide any transport facility on priced at between QR15 and QR25, Qatar Population Status 2012 their day off, which made going the lowest in the country. says: “According to the Ministry of anywhere difficult. The cinemas also provided an Municipality and Urban Planning, “Taking a taxi is too expensive, opportunity for labourers, the the number of cases in which law and if we have to take a Karwa bus majority of them from South Asia, has been fully implemented to pre- on our free day, we have to wait for to step out of their accommodation vent singles’ housing near families a long time because of the rush,” for some form of amusement and has reached 460.” said the 32-year-old, who lives near except work.” can be a cause of depression. Add not just work. Some labourers say that because Al Sailiya. Statistics reveal that in the semi- to that the fact that they don’t have But the theatres were closed of a heavy workload and living in He said that every once in a skilled and unskilled category, as any healthy activities or spare time, some seven months ago without any accommodations that have increas- while some of his friends together many as 94,043 labourers were then certainly many health prob- prior notice, and there is no sign of ingly become more crowded, they borrowed someone’s car for a day to recruited last year, including 20,808 lems can result from it.” them reopening soon. visit different places in the country. drivers, 18,602 cleaners and 17,578 She said that sometimes, because The other options for the labour- But labourers are now not being technicians. of work pressure and an unhealthy ers are either the malls or beaches. issued driving licences for light and Other workers who came to lifestyle, patients can resort to neg- Although there is no official ban on heavy vehicles. A circular issued by Qatar in 2012 were carpenters ative behaviour. labourers entering local malls and the Department of Traffic to driv- (14,618), brick makers (12,284), “Some people start smoking, souqs, security guards often shoo ing schools recently asked them not foremen (10,273), engineers (9,956), others drink too much, and we them away when they see many to register labourers from July 1 salesmen (9,659) and painters have also seen cases being trans- families inside the places. Adding to the woes to learn to drive light and heavy (9,324). ferred from the emergency section “We don’t stop labourers from vehicles and seek licences. Some 9,296 plumbers, 8,173 steel because of fights between labourers entering the mall but sometimes of these labourers The rule applies to labourers fixers, 8,037 blacksmiths, 7,759 over trivial issues,” she added. when there are too many families is the fact that they across all sectors, including private construction workers, 7,373 wait- The Industrial Area, where inside, we tell them to come on a companies that employ the largest ers, 6,981 general electricians, most of these labourers live, is one different date when there is not a are being pushed number of unskilled foreign work- 9,792 heavy vehicle drivers, 6,673 place where reportedly many ille- lot of rush,” a security guard at a to the outskirts of force, and government and semi- accountants and 6,607 workers for gal activities take place apart from mall said. government entities. plasters were also recruited. gambling, hooch-making and sale However, even without the the city following Asked if the latest ban had According to one psychiatrist of illegal CDs. ban, few of them are interested a ban on labour affected him or his friends, Sanjiv working at a local clinic, who spoke Some reports last year suggested in visiting malls because they can said: “I only feel bad for people who on condition of anonymity, many that a commercial and entertain- hardly afford to buy anything there, accommodations are coming to work here this year. clinics receive cases of labourers ment complex was being built including food items. During the first year, time goes by who resort to negative behaviour for single workers near the East Bhupan, a carpenter from in residential areas very fast. But then after that, you or fall seriously ill due to stress and Zone of the Industrial Area. It was Bangladesh, said that he had start missing home because you depression. reported that the complex was stopped going out in the city in realise there is nothing to do here “Being away from home itself designed according to the needs of recent years. the labourers, and would comprise “There is a lot of work most four cinema halls and space for over weeks and I don’t get many days off. 300 shops and eateries. Attempts I prefer to sleep whenever I have to get updates on the project from some free time. Sometimes I just officials failed. go to the Grand Hamad Street or However, given the growing pop- near the old National Area with my ulation, among them labourers, it friends to spend some time.” is high time authorities completed He said that the labourers were such projects, a worker said. divided into groups that did not Entertainment should be afford- mingle with one another. These able to all classes of people, and at groups are largely based on nation- least part of the facilities should be ality. Bhupan and his friends, for open to single working expatriates instance, avoid areas where they in the country, he added. see groups of single working men THE PENINSULA Home AUGUST 17, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY

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Security was tight around the Egyptian embassy in the Diplomatic Area in Doha yesterday afternoon apparently as a precautionary measure against people coming to the mission after Friday prayers to protest Wednesday’s military action in Cairo. Law-enforcement officials began blocking roads leading to the embassy from 1pm onwards. Some five police vans with law-enforcement personnel inside keeping a vigil could be seen outside the main entrance to the embassy at 1.30pm. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH Indian worker Wheat and Australia killed in basement sheep cheaper now collapse

DOHA: An Indian construction Falling prices help Qatar save QR38.3m in H1 subsidy worker reportedly died in Bin Mahmoud Area of the city early yesterday after suffering severe DOHA: Wheat has become of wheat and other food products. The state subsidy for the head injuries as a pile of cement cheaper this year thanks to In the first half of this year, Australian mutton is aimed to blocks he was working near an favourable weather conditions the government subsidised wheat make it affordable for the com- excavated area of an upcoming in major producing countries, flour by QR55.2m ($15.15m), down mon man as other meat prices A shoe and the helmet at the scene of the tragedy and (BELOW) the site basement for a building sud- and so has been the case with QR3.7m (almost $1m) over the have multiplied many times over of the mishap. SALIM MATRAMKOT denly fell. Australian sheep. first half of 2012. the past decade. This is especially Two other workers, an Indian The falling prices of wheat flour According to local Arabic daily true of Syrian sheep, Indian mut- and a Nepalese, suffered injuries and Australian sheep have helped Al Arab, details of the subsidy for ton (of goat) and local and GCC and were rushed for emergency the Qatari government save about wheat flour in H1 of 2013 were livestock. medical care. QR38.3m ($10.5m) in the first six given by Zad Holding, the com- Figures suggest that the sub- Reports of the Indian having months of this year in subsidies pany that supplies wheat flour to sidy for the Australian sheep’s died in a workplace accident were provided for both products of bakeries. World wheat production meat makes a larger dent in the not confirmed by authorities but mass consumption. has improved in major producing government’s coffers, although sources in the morgue at Hamad The government provides countries, Russia being the larg- the amount fell considerably this Medical Corporation said they wheat flour to bakeries at subsi- est exporter, in H1 of this year, Al year due to declining prices of received the body of an Indian dised rates so they could sell the Arab said. livestock in Australia. with open skull early yesterday. traditional Arabic bread popu- Bad weather led to a fall in the Subsidy provided in H1 of 2013 The sources also said that his larly known as ‘khubs’ at a fixed global production of wheat in 2012 to Widam for the Australian mut- name was Madan Lal. rate for the benefit of consumers. and escalating demand as a result ton (so that the company being the The colleagues of the deceased ‘Khubs’ is known as the sta- of shortages worldwide triggered sole supplier of Australian mut- were not immediately available ple food of the common man and an unprecedented price rise. ton, can maintain the fixed retail for comment. popular with the Qatari and expat Similarly, the Qatari govern- price of QR14.5 a kg) amounted to THE PENINSULA communities. ment subsidises Australian mut- QR171.5m ($47m). Subsidy for the Their prices have remained low ton which is sold at QR14.5 a kg Australian mutton was higher, at and fixed in the local market for by Widam, formerly Mawashi QR206.1m or $56.6m, in the first years on end despite wheat prices or Qatar Meat and Livestock half of 2012, according to figures fluctuating in the global mar- Company. Both Widam and Zad released by Widam, Al Arab said. kets. Qatar is a major importer are locally listed entities. THE PENINSULA Seven killed in Ban urges Mideast rivals Iraq violence to overcome ‘scepticism’ BAGHDAD: Attacks in Baghdad and north of the capi- JERUSALEM: UN chief Ban Ki-moon called on Israelis and tal killed seven people on Friday, Palestinians yesterday to overcome “deep scepticism” he said risked Libya threatens to bomb ships the latest in spiralling violence thwarting efforts to reach a peace agreement. authorities have failed to stem “We must overcome the deep scepticism that comes from 20 years of despite launching wide-ranging stalemate,” Ban said at a meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli President anti-militant operations. Shimon Peres. “I urge all parties to avoid actions that risk undermining loading black market oil In yesterday’s deadliest attack, the negotiations,” a statement quoted him as saying. a roadside bomb exploded in the “Both sides need to sustain an environment conducive for the peace TRIPOLI: Libya has accused striking guards the action by the guards had cost Libya $1.6 bil- west Baghdad neighbourhood of process to move forward,” he said speaking two days after peace talks who have seized oil export terminals of trying to lion dollars in lost export revenues since July 25, in Ghazaliyah, killing at least four resumed in Jerusalem. make shipments for their own profit and threat- a major blow for the North African nation which people and wounding 14, while Wednesday’s talks, the fruit of months of intensive US diplomatic ened military action against any unauthorised is almost entirely dependent on oil and gas for its another blast on a commercial efforts to bring the two sides back to the negotiating table after a vessel that docks. foreign exchange earnings. street in Saidiyah wounded six. nearly three-year break, were overshadowed by a new row over Israeli Prime Minister Ali Zeidan issued the warning And Deputy Oil Minister Omar said losses in the In Muqdadiyah, north of settlement plans for the occupied territories. late on Thursday, three weeks into the action by the first seven months of the year had totalled $2 billion. Baghdad, gunmen entered the In the run-up to the talks, Israel announces plans to build more than security guards that has halted virtually all loadings Zeidan warned that the government could not home of the town’s police chief’s 2,000 new settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem and elsewhere in at key terminals on the central coast. allow the loss of exports to go on indefinitely. and shot him dead in front of his the West Bank, infuriating Palestinian officials. “A group of guards at oil terminals in the central “If the blockade of the oil terminals continues, the family. Ban criticised the Israeli plans at a meeting with Palestinian presi- region has decided to bring vessels they have organ- state will be obliged to use all means at its disposal, Elsewhere, a roadside bomb dent Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday. ised themselves to export oil for their own profit,” including those of the army,” the prime minister at a minibus station in Buhruz, The UN chief told reporters he was “deeply troubled by Israel’s con- Zeidan charged. warned. north of the capital in restive tinued settlement activity in the West Bank, including east Jerusalem. “Any vessel not under contract to the National Zeidan said the continued closure of the Brega, Diyala province, killed two people “Settlement activity is deepening the Palestinian people’s mistrust Oil Co (NOC) that approaches the terminals will Zueitina, Ras Lanouf and Sedra terminals to ves- and wounded seven others, while in the seriousness on the Israeli side towards achieving peace. be bombed from the air and the sea,” he warned, sels under contract to the state-owned NOC came seven members of the federal “It will ultimately render a two-state solution impossible,” he warned. adding he had the backing of the General National despite his government’s efforts to reach a negotiated police were wounded by a blast Later on Friday, Ban was to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Congress, the highest political body in Libya. settlement to the dispute. further north in Samarra. Netanyahu, Justice Minister and chief negotiator Tzipi Livni, and Petroleum Minister Abdelbari Al Aroussi said AFP REUTERS Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon. AFP Polio outbreak in Somalia worsening amid insecurity: UN MOGADISHU: Aid workers in war- has spread despite significant efforts to environments in the world for aid work- also spread to self-declared independent all its operations in Somalia after 22 torn Somalia are struggling to contain curb the disease,” OCHA added. ers.” While over 100 cases of children Somaliland in the northwest. years of working in the Horn of Africa a dangerous outbreak of the crippling While some four million people have have been recorded, “the fact that this Polio is spread by person-to-person troublespot, warning of growing insecu- polio virus, with rampant insecurity been vaccinated, getting drugs to more number of children show symptoms of contact, exacerbated by poor sanitation rity and “extreme attacks”. hampering efforts, the United Nations than 600,000 children in southern and paralysis means that there are probably and a lack of clean water. The pull out by MSF, an aid agency said yesterday. central Somalia — areas partly under thousands more with the virus, who do Multiple armies are fighting for control that has earned a reputation for work- Six years after the Horn of Africa control of the Al-Qaeda linked Shebab, not have symptoms, but are capable of of southern Somalia, including rival war- ing in the toughest of conditions, will cut nation was declared free of the virus, at who block vaccination efforts — is spreading it,” OCHA added. lords, Islamist extremists and a rag-tag health care for hundreds of thousands of least 105 cases have been confirmed in “extremely challenging”, it added. Around 10 cases have also been national army backed by a 17,700-strong Somalis. Somalia, the “worst outbreak in the world “The inability to fully access these reported in northeastern Kenya, which African Union force. MSF blamed “”armed groups and civil- in a non-endemic country,” the UN Office areas constitute a major threat to the hosts almost half a million Somali ref- Aid workers report growing attacks ian leaders” who it said “increasingly for the Coordination of Humanitarian control of the outbreak,” the statement ugees in sprawling camps. In Somalia, on their staff. support, tolerate, or condone the killing, Affairs said in a statement. read, warning that “Somalia remains while the bulk of cases are in the south- On Thursday, medical aid agency assaulting, and abducting of humanitar- “The polio outbreak plaguing Somalia one of the most difficult and dangerous ern and central regions, the outbreak has Doctors Without Borders (MSF) closed ian aid workers.” AFP AUGUST 17, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY

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HE bog that countries of the Middle East find themselves in has been precipitated by decades of misgovernance, disregard for democracy, lust for power, Tand frail social and political institutions. With the Reclusive preacher holds Arab Spring having reached a very advanced stage, one can see the region caught in a cycle of unrest leading to unprecedented violence and bloodshed. Though Egypt burns with the tallest flames, few countries are free from the scourge of political sway over Turkish politics instability and violence related to the dynamics of power. BY NICK TATTERSALL Syria is in a bloody mess with more than 100,000 lives deny any such role. of the country — apart from the Aegean lost over two years of the civil war. Thousands of fighters But in a rare political commentary, coast, the mainly Kurdish southeast cor- — often divided among themselves — belonging to different RARE defence from a secretive it also tacitly chided Erdogan, throw- ner and a small region on the European denominations are battling the might of the state to throw Islamic movement of its role in ing its weight instead behind President continent — is AK Party orange and he out President Bashar Al Assad. The Alawite leader, who calls ATurkish political life has exposed Abdullah Gul, Deputy Prime Minister is expected to run for president in 2015. members of the movement against him terrorists, has not even a rift with Prime Minister Tayyip Bulent Arinc and others who took a But protests, which began as a bid Erdogan that could weaken one of mod- markedly more conciliatory tone with to stop development of Istanbul’s Gezi flinched as scores of his countrymen get killed daily in the ern Turkey’s most powerful leaders. demonstrators. Park, exposed chinks in his armour, bloodbath, and hundreds seek shelter in refugee camps after The spell of Fethullah Gulen, 72-year- It said Gul’s comments that democ- not least his delicate relations with the being rendered homeless by bombings and shellings. old US-based Islamic preacher with a racy was about more than victory at the Gulen movement. The cradle of the Arab Spring, Tunisia, has been jolted global network of schools, whose sup- ballot box, Arinc’s apology for police vio- “We’ve seen that figures ‘close to the by protests for weeks now after two prominent leaders were porters say they number in millions, lence, and a report by AK deputy Idris movement’ adopted a critical stance, has long loomed large over Turkey’s Bal acknowledging “strategic mistakes” predominantly if not entirely, on the assassinated in a space of few weeks. Protesters have poured constitutionally-secular state. in the government response were “not Gezi incidents,” columnist Oral Calislar out in the streets, demanding that the Islamist government led His sympathisers, largely drawn significantly different from the Hizmet wrote in the liberal Radikal daily, not- by Ennahda give up its rule. The opposition is demanding fresh from the same religiously-minded Movement’s views”. ing that Gulen could be influential in a elections, claiming that the government has diluted women’s professional class which helped sweep In a speech during the unrest, Gulen cycle of local, presidential and general rights and given a boost to Islamists. Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party said protesters should not be dismissed elections starting next year. Political The rulers are unrelenting. to power in 2002, revere Gulen as an as “capulcu”, which loosely translates Turkish media reports have cited enlightened, pro- as “riff-raff”, a term repeatedly used surveys commissioned by the AK Party upheavals in Lebanon seems to have erupted again. Western face of by Erdogan. in recent days as putting the level of The Syrian civil war and Hezbollah’s progressive Islam. “When the protest first began, it was voters the Gulen movement could sway the region do enduring support for Assad has taken Secularist completely peaceful and solely about at around 3 percent of the electorate, not have short- its toll on the Lebanese people, with the The spell of Fethullah Turks see a more the environment,” the Journalists and while other sources have suggested they term solutions. violence from the other side seeping into sinister agenda, Writers Foundation, which has Gulen control up to 8 percent. their country. Gulen, 72-year-old suspecting follow- as its honorary leader, said. On the face of it, enough to swing a The twists ers of the reclu- “At this early stage, some people sym- close-run contest but not a huge sup- Iraq is back to its cycle of bombings US-based Islamic sive theologian of pathetic to the Hizmet Movement may port base. But Gulen’s real power lies and turns of and sectarian strife. Not since US preacher with a infiltrating gov- have looked supportively on the protests within the AK Party bureaucracy and revolutions will troops left the war-ravaged country has ernment and cul- out of personal choice,” it said, adding his ability to rally support for or against violence been at its worst in Saddam global network of tural institutions, this in no way suggested it was “involved Erdogan should he decide to run for find their way Hussain’s former fiefdom. exerting influence in a conspiracy” supporting demonstra- the presidency. “The movement holds schools, whose over organisa- tions. Viewed by his followers as a toler- a trump card,” Calislar said. Though largely free of violence out of crises tions from police ant, moderating force in global Islam, It seems an improbable reach of influ- since after the 2009 disputed election supporters say they over time. and judiciary to Gulen is spreading the influence of a ence for a reclusive theologian who left of former president Mahmoud number in millions, the central bank country strategically positioned between for the US in 1999, shortly before the Ahmadinejad, Iran has been grappling and media. Europe and Asia, promoting Turkish start of a case against him on charges with strong sanctions imposed by Western nations over its has long loomed Gulen’s follow- language and culture through his net- of plotting to destroy the secular state nuclear programme. Not to buckle under US-led pressure, ers form a strong work of schools. His influence over and establish Islamic law. large over Turkey’s constituency at politics at home is a constant source of He was acquitted but has lived there the Islamic republic is going ahead with its controversial constitutionally- the heart of the speculation in Turkish society. ever since, saying he would like to go nuclear manoeuvres. In the Gulf, Kuwait — the only one with AK Party, but Erdogan made clear his relationship back to Turkey but that his return a parliament —suffers from a crisis of democracy that has led secular state. their relationship with the Gulen movement was an issue might be used to stir political trouble, to frequent elections in a relatively short period of time. The with Erdogan — he preferred to keep out of the public or that those who had persecuted him in Palestinians keep clinging to talks in the hope that a recalcitrant an autocratic fig- eye. Asked about this week’s statement the past might try to do so again. Israel will let them achieve their goal of a separate nation. ure who has centralised power around at a news conference on Thursday, he He lives on the private Golden himself over the past decade — is show- said: “I believe conducting these matters Generation Worship and Retreat The Middle East’s troubles are partly historical and to a large ing signs of strain. via the media is wrong, and I’m not say- Center, built in the 1990s as a centre extent emanate from a lack of political culture giving way to After accusations on social media ing anything else.” for Turkish-American children in thick misgovernance and disregard for rights and individual liberty. that it was behind anti-government pro- Erdogan has won three elections in forest in Pennsylvania’s Pocono moun- There is no overnight solution. It is a problem the solution to tests in June, a foundation representing a row and presided over an economic tains, some 145km west of New York which can only evolve over time• Gulen’s Hizmet movement spoke out to boom. On the electoral map nearly all city. REUTERS The other side Quote of Egypt’s bloody crackdown demands much more than ‘concern’ the day HIS time, international the military’s policies threaten civil war. expressed only “concern” and urged police were firing live ammunition into expressions of concern and An all-out sectarian war, with the military “restraint” in its response. As the scale the crowd. Although some protesters calls for restraint will not largely on one side and Islamists largely of the violence became clear, the White may have fired shots, and in recent Tsuffice. The Egyptian military’s on the other, is in nobody’s interests. House rightly went further to “strongly weeks were accused of torturing oppo- brutal clearance this morning of Muslim Followers of the Muslim Brotherhood, condemn” the crackdown. Firmer and nents, the tactics of the security forces If the battle Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo demands who account for as much 30 percent of more explicit condemnations of the mili- were clearly disproportionate. One the same outrage that would follow if Egypt’s population, must be convinced tary’s brutality by the outside world can video clip shows the charred remains with these secular protesters were killed by an that they have some recourse other only help. of two people burned inside their tent. Islamist government. than armed insurgency. Obviously, such The death toll remains unclear, but Supporters of deposed President takfiri terrorists Responding clearly — and in the reassurance must come from secular- initial statements from Egyptian offi- Mohamed Morsi have been unreason- case of the U.S., freezing $1.5 billion ists and democrats in Egypt. Mohamed cials — that no civilians were dying, that able in their unwillingness to negotiate requires that I in annual aid to Egypt — isn’t solely a Elbaradei, the former chief of the United soldiers and policemen (some of them any solution to the crisis that doesn’t matter of principle. Reports of secularist Nations’ nuclear watchdog and a lead- masked and carrying Kalashnikov rifles) include his return to power. Morsi was and all Hezbollah civilians in Cairo attacking the Muslim ing figure in the transitional government, used no live rounds — were Orwellian. dismissive of democratic processes should go to Brotherhood protesters, and of possi- sent an important message by resigning The health ministry later said 149 were when in power, and his return is neither Sayyed Hassan ble Islamist retaliation against Christian in protest over the killings. dead. The Washington Post’s Cairo possible nor, at this point, desirable. Syria, we will go. Nasrallah churches in central Egypt, show that The European Union, by contrast, bureau chief posted on Twitter that The Washington Post - Hezbollah Leader AUGUST 17, 2013 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY An unsettled peace process in Israel In the topsy-turvy world of Israeli politics, it’s not the existence of the settlements, or their constant expansion, that undermines word ‘peace’. It’s the attempts to curb their growth.

BY ALAN ELSNER we should be prepared for more settle- ment announcements similar to those of sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin the past few days, as opponents of the Netanyahu is annoyed. Before meet- negotiations within the Israeli govern- ing with visiting German Foreign ment do their best to scuttle them. Minister Guido Westerwelle on On Sunday, the Housing Ministry said Monday in Jerusalem, Netanyahu it began marketing 1,200 housing units Icomplained about a recent European in East Jerusalem and the settlement Union decision to stop EU grants, prizes blocs around the capital, while last week and loans from going to Israeli entities the Civil Administration approved con- located in the occupied territories or that struction of hundreds of housing units conduct activities there. “I have to say,” in secluded settlements. On Monday, Netanyahu declared, “on a sad note, that another 900 units in East Jerusalem were I think Europe, the European guidelines approved by the Housing Ministry. (on the settlements) have actually under- The number of settlers grew by 15,000 mined peace.” last year and has doubled in the past 12 In the topsy-turvy world of Israeli poli- years, according to Israel’s population Apartment blocks under construction in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beitar Ilit near Bethlehem. tics, it’s not the existence of the settle- registry. If all the new units announced ments, or their constant expansion, that recently are built, that pace will be Tuesday in Brazil. Still, he reiterated Palestinians who cannot build on, cul- confronted and politically defeated for undermines peace. It’s the attempts to maintained. that the US regards all settlements as tivate or develop the land. The settle- peace to come. curb their growth. This is like somebody While these announcements in them- “illegitimate.” ment movement has never lost a political The showdown will probably come if blaming life-saving chemo treatments for selves will not determine the future of In their book, Lords of the Land: The battle. It may have suffered temporary and when a deal is struck that involves making him sick. the peace talks, they are provocative and War for Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied legal setbacks from time to time — but it the evacuation of tens of thousands of Israel began building settlements make the negotiations more difficult. They Territories 1967-2007, Idith Zertal and has always found ways of getting around settlers from a future Palestinian state. almost immediately after the 1967 Six embarrass Palestinian President Mahmoud Akiva Eldar show how some Israeli gov- them or having them reversed. It will be a painful, wrenching, divisive, Day War when it captured the West Abbas, making him look weak and con- ernments sought to appease the settlers, Now the settlement movement has emotional battle and it may even turn Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan. stricting his ability to make concessions. turning a blind eye to their activities; effectively taken over Netanyahu’s Likud violent. But it is a necessary battle to By 2012, according to the Israeli They also give ammunition to Palestinians, while other administrations have openly Party — in recent internal elections, the restore Israel to health. It’s unclear what Central Bureau of Statistics, there were like Hamas and other rejectionist groups, adopted the settlers’ agenda, which is to top slots were all won by pro-settlement role Netanyahu will play in this decisive some 325,000 Israelis living in West who simply do not believe that Netanyahu make it impossible for Israel to withdraw politicians openly opposed to a two-state political confrontation — which will be no Bank settlements and another 190,000 in is serious about making peace. from the West Bank. solution. Also represented in the govern- less than a battle for the soul of Israel. neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem, which According to Kerry, Netanyahu told “Deception, shame, concealment, denial ment is the “Jewish Home” Party, which Up to now, he has been the consum- had been ruled by the Jordanians between him and Abbas that these announce- and repression have characterised the has as its founding ideology the annexa- mate pragmatist, always putting off the the wars of 1948 and 1967. Israel annexed ments were coming and maintained state’s behaviour with respect to the flow tion of most of the West Bank. tough decisions, playing for the short- East Jerusalem in 1980 — although this they would not affect Israel’s ability to of funds to the settlements,” they write. Obviously, a lot needs to happen if term, making whatever compromises he has never been recognised by the inter- negotiate. “Prime Minister Netanyahu “It can be said that this has been an act there is to be peace. The parties need needs to make to stay in office. He has national community. was completely upfront with me and of public duplicity in which all the Israeli to negotiate the border and the future both frozen settlements for 10 months, Americans for Peace Now, which with President Abbas that he would be governments since 1967 have been partner.” of Jerusalem and Israeli security con- when that seemed advantageous, and opposes the settlements, says that 42 per- announcing some additional building that The settlements, many founded in cerns must be addressed. Any agreement presided over their expansion, when that cent of the West Bank has been zoned by would take place in places that will not defiance of Israeli law through subter- must win the support of a majority of the seemed necessary. Will Netanyahu be the Israel for the exclusive use of settlements. affect the peace map, that will not have fuge on stolen land, are enclaves of Israel Israeli people as well as the Palestinians. man to face down and defeat the settlers Now that peace talks are finally resum- any impact on the capacity to have a within the West Bank. More than a third But it’s also clear that sooner or later, — or the patient who continues to confuse ing between Israel and the Palestinians, peace agreement,” Kerry told reporters of the West Bank is now off limits to the settlement movement will have to be the disease with the cure? REUTERS Egypt and its human rights failure Obama’s reticence Mursi dismissed worsens crises anti-government BY JACKSON DIEHL protesters as thugs here was hope a few months ago that mounting chaos in the Middle East, and a revamping of President Barack Obama’s and unleashed police national security team, would prompt the president to snap Tout of what looked like a deepening torpor in foreign policy. Instead, this president’s extraordinary passivity in the face of crisis violence on them. may have achieved its apotheosis this week. On Wednesday, as Egyptian security forces gunned down hundreds of civilians in the streets of BY DANIEL WILLIAMS Cairo, an unperturbed Obama shot another round of golf at Martha’s Vineyard. His deputy press secretary was left to explain to reporters fter the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak that the administration remained firmly committed to not deciding in February 2011, I sometimes won- whether what had happened in Egypt was a coup. dered how things would have looked When the president finally deigned to address the crisis himself, Aif his generals had tried to defend his on Thursday morning, the result was measured rhetoric — “deplor- 30-year regime. able” — accompanied by a classic half-measure: A biennial military Now I know. exercise scheduled for next month will be cancelled, sparing the White Cairo is a city under the military gun. House some unseemly photo ops. But the deeper relationship with the Soldiers man checkpoints scattered on main Egyptian military, including $1.3bn in annual aid, remains in place. streets. Police vans and riot squads hide in Supporters of deposed president Mohammed Mursi demonstrating in Rabaa Al Adaeia Square, Cairo. The crisis in Egypt has been distracting attention from the civil war back streets. Supporters of the new order run in Syria, where Obama’s stubborn refusal to act has facilitated the rampant, in organised — if you can call it that protesting military rule. control. Egypt’s unhappy past seems to be an emergence of the largest and potentially most dangerous incarnation of — groups seemingly under the command of Mohammed Mursi, the candidate from the inescapable prologue. In 1952, an Egypt in Al Qaeda since pre-2001 Afghanistan. Between them, Egypt and Syria teenagers who appear to have an excessive Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice chaos prompted the army to overthrow an prevent most people from thinking much about Yemen — except when affection for swords. Party, won Egypt’s presidential elections and unpopular king and set the nation onto a path an Al Qaeda plot to take over much of the country prompts the closure State television runs endless loops of patri- took office in June 2012. It was a new era, toward something better. That “better” has of the US embassy and a frantic-looking burst of drone strikes. And otic videos featuring the national anthem and but the battering of human rights contin- been more than 60 years of military rule, with never mind Bahrain, another close US ally where another autocratic fresh-faced preteen kids frolicking in weirdly ued, among them: prosecutions of journal- attendant and persistent human rights abuses. regime is brutally suppressing protests this week without a peep of litter-free streets, a rarity in Cairo. ists; unleashing of pro-Brotherhood gangs on It’s hard not to see the current upheaval lead- objection from Washington. And then, there is the killing. On Tuesday, demonstrators; perpetuation of military trials; ing the country further down the same road. Obama looks like a president in full flight from a world that looks according to official sources, at least 635 pro- and new laws that permitted detention with- Human rights groups in and outside Egypt nothing like what he imagined when he took office. The president testers led by the Muslim Brotherhood were out judicial review for up to 30 days. Mursi will appeal to the country’s rulers to protect saw himself soothing US relations with Muslim nations while gently killed, mainly at the hands of police, in Rabaa also opted last year to make his own decrees free speech, freedom of assembly and freedom extracting US troops from Iraq and focusing his energy on other Al Adawiya Square in east Cairo and Nahda exempt from legal review. If his edicts violated from arbitrary arrest and wanton killing. But regions and issues: Asia; nuclear arms control; Israeli-Palestinian peace. Square near the Cairo Zoo, as well as in other human rights, victims would have no means to whom can those appeals be addressed with What he got was an epochal upheaval in the very place from which he parts of the city and other towns. Presumably to challenge the law. any effect? Human rights have degenerated had hoped to disengage. in 2011, the army was trying to avert such vio- Brotherhood leaders have lashed out at over the past two and a half years into a kind All presidents face the challenge of adapting to the problems they lence when the generals decided not to storm Christians for both Mursi’s ouster and the of situational convenience — useful when you are presented with rather than those they expect. It could be argued the tens of thousands of protesters in Tahrir current violence, with the result that pro- and your allies are the victims of killings, beat- that George W Bush reacted to the attacks of 9/11 with a too-radical Square but, instead, deposed Mubarak and Brotherhood mobs in several towns and cit- ings and gassing, but shunted aside when your reshaping of his worldview and international ambitions. claimed to set Egypt on a democratic transition. ies have attacked Christians and burned their political enemies bear the brunt of abuses. Obama’s response to the Arab revolutions has veered to the opposite What changed? churches. Only a few months ago, Mursi dismissed extreme: A clinging to his overtaken priorities, coupled with a stub- One element was many Egyptians’ accu- The head of Egypt’s armed forces, General anti-government protesters as thugs and born refusal to recognise that the Arab crises must be a top priority mulated resentments and fears under Muslim Abdel Fattah Al Sissi, deposed Mursi on July unleashed police violence on them. Mursi’s of his foreign policy. Brotherhood rule. Another may be the ambi- 3 after huge demonstrations against the presi- government was also noticeably lax in In the last year, US allies in the Middle East and Europe have mar- tions of the military generals. dent a few days earlier. The coup revived the responding to violent attacks on Christians, velled as Obama doggedly pursued a patently futile attempt to engage One thing is clear: Egypt has consistently army’s long-standing, self-declared role of Shiite Muslims and other religious minori- Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in another round of nuclear arms failed to take human rights seriously. saviour of the nation. Even before Tuesday’s ties. Now the Muslim Brotherhood laments reduction talks even while tolerating toxic Russian intervention in After Mubarak fell, the army ruled from bloody violence, excessive and deadly force in a massacre of its followers at the hands of Syria and rejecting his own national security team’s proposal for US February 2011 to June 2012, supposedly to dealing with protesters marked Sissi’s new police and “real” thugs. For a year and a half, action. They have scratched their heads as Secretary of State John mediate among the newly empowered politi- Egyptian order. demonstrators in Tahrir Square called for an F Kerry, with Obama’s blessing, has made the renewal of moribund cal forces. During a clash between police and rock- end to military rule and suffered beatings, Israeli-Palestinian talks his central focus while keeping a safe distance It didn’t take long for abuses to surface, throwing protesters on July 27, 74 Mursi sup- arbitrary arrests and torture. Now many are from Egypt. most with echoes of the Mubarak past: mili- porters were killed. Many of the dead were lauding the military’s ferocious crackdown on Obama may have meant to retire the doctrine of the US as the tary trials of civilians, crackdowns on free shot in the head and upper body, suggesting Brotherhood supporters. world’s “indispensable nation.” Instead, the disastrous results of his expression, torture, deadly assaults on civilians targeted killings rather than genuine crowd WP-BLOOMBERG persistent passivity may lead to its revival. WP-BLOOMBERG AUGUST 17, 2013 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East Hezbollah chief 75 more killed in Egypt violence says he is ready Islamists announce daily demonstrations; Cairo, Ankara cancel planned naval drills to fight in Syria BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader CAIRO: Backers of Egypt’s Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah yes- ousted president Mohammed Saudi Arabia, terday accused radical Sunni Mursi pledged to stage daily Islamists of being behind a demonstrations as they ended a Jordan back car bomb that killed 24 peo- day of angry protests in which ple in Beirut and vowed that at least 75 people were killed crackdown the attack would redouble his yesterday. group’s commitment to its mili- The announcement came with JEDDAH: The Custodian tary campaign in Syria. Egypt already reeling from the of the Two Holy Mosques In a fiery speech to supporters, deaths of 578 people on Wednesday King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz one day after the deadliest bomb- when police cleared protest camps of Saudi Arabia pledged his ing in the capital since Lebanon’s set up by loyalists of the deposed country’s support to Egypt’s civil war ended two decades ago, Islamist leader. fight on “terrorism,” saying it Nasrallah raised the stakes by Egypt’s cabinet issued a defiant was the military-backed gov- pledging to join the battle in Syria statement, saying it was confront- ernment’s “legitimate right,” himself if needed. ing a “terrorist plot”. in a speech aired on offi- Thursday’s blast in the Shia In Jordan, Morocco, the cial Al Ekhbariya television militant Hezbollah’s south Beirut Palestinian territories and Turkey, yesterday. stronghold followed months of meanwhile, hundreds joined dem- Saudi Arabia “has stood and sectarian tension and violence onstrations in support of Mursi’s stands with its Egyptian broth- in Lebanon fuelled in part by Muslim Brotherhood movement. ers against terrorism, deviance Hezbollah’s intervention against The call to end the day’s dem- and sedition, and against those Sunni Muslim rebels in Syria’s onstrations came shortly after a who try to interfere in Egypt’s civil war. night-time curfew went into effect. internal affairs... and its legiti- “It is most likely that a takfiri “Today’s rallies end with mate rights in deterring those group was responsible for yester- evening and night prayers (at tampering with and mislead- day’s explosion,” Nasrallah said, about 1800 GMT), and will be fol- ing” its people, he said. referring to radical Sunni Muslim lowed by funeral prayers,” Anti- King Abdullah urged the factions linked to Al Qaeda, many Coup Alliance spokesman Gehad Arab and Muslim world to of whom are fighting with Syrian El Haddad said. Supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi shout slogans and wave Egyptian flags during a stand “in the face of whoever rebels against President Bashar But he said the group of Mursi protest outside Al Fath Mosque in Ramses Square in Cairo yesterday. tries to destabilise” Egypt. Al Assad. loyalists would hold “daily anti- “Those who have interfered in “If you think by killing our coup rallies” going forward. its affairs must know that they women and children ... and Hours earlier, the group’s sup- protesters cheered when cars the malicious terrorist plot by the joint drills scheduled for October, are causing sedition and back- destroying our neighbourhoods, porters emerged from mosques carrying gunmen arrived, another Muslim Brotherhood,” it said. with Cairo saying it had pulled ing terrorism, which they claim we would retreat from the posi- in the capital and elsewhere for witness said. Marches were also reported out to protest Turkey’s “clear to fight,” he said. tion we took (in Syria) you are “Friday of anger” protests. Egyptian state media has in the Mediterranean city of interference” in Egypt’s domestic Jordan said it backed Egypt’s wrong,” he said in a combative Violence erupted almost imme- hardened its rhetoric against the Alexandria, in Beni Sueif and affairs — an accusation Ankara efforts to “impose rule of law” speech broadcast by videolink diately, with gunshots ringing out Brotherhood — which ruled Egypt Fayyum, south of Cairo, and in the denied. and “combat terrorism,” in from a secret location to his in Cairo and security forces firing for a year until the army removed Red Sea resort town of Hurghada. Thousands of Turks yester- its first official reaction to supporters. tear gas. Mursi on July 3 — invoking lan- The United Nations said it day protested the bloody crack- the deadly crackdown on the “If we had 100 fighters in Syria, In the capital, a man leapt guage used to describe militant would dispatch Jeffrey Feltman, down, waving portraits of Mursi Muslim Brotherhood. now they will be 200. If we had off a bridge near a police sta- groups such as Al Qaeda and undersecretary general for politi- and chanting “Infidels are killing In a statement carried by 1,000, they will be 2,000. If we had tion to escape shooting as police suggesting there is little hope of cal affairs, to Cairo next week. Muslims!” state-run Petra news agency, 5,000 they will be 10,000. If the armoured vehicles advanced on a political resolution to the crisis. The US urged Egypt to avoid The EU’s foreign policy chief Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh battle with these takfiri terrorists protesters, witnesses said. “Egypt fighting terrorism,” said using “lethal force” against described the violence in Egypt said “All Arabs and Muslims requires that I and all Hezbollah A correspondent counted a logo on state television. demonstrators. as “shocking.” should stand firm against should go to Syria, we will go.” at least 19 bodies in one Cairo In Cairo, streets were virtually “We again urge all sides to cease “I have asked member state rep- attempts to tamper with Thursday’s explosion engulfed mosque, while witnesses said more deserted except for demonstrators violence, and we note that govern- resentatives to debate and coor- Egypt’s security and stability.” a busy street in flames, reviv- than 20 corpses had been laid out and security forces, with the army ment has a particular responsi- dinate appropriate measures to AFP ing memories of the destruction in a second mosque. deploying at key points in the city. bility to ensure an atmosphere be taken by the European Union inflicted by Lebanon’s civil war. Security sources and the health But some residents formed their that allows Egyptians to exercise in response to the situation in visitors to stay in their hotels and Interior Minister Marwan ministry reported at least 31 dead, own roadblocks, checking identity peacefully their universal rights,” Egypt,” said Catherine Ashton. tour operators began cancelling Charbel said investigators were including four in the Suez Canal papers and searching cars. State Department spokeswoman Germany said it would review trips to the crisis-hit country. checking CCTV footage taken in city of Ismailiya and another eight The interior ministry accused Jen Psaki said in an email. ties with Cairo, and joined France Fears of nationwide unrest have the moments before the explosion in northern Damietta. the Brotherhood of attacking “Lethal force should not be in calling for EU talks on the situ- resulted in a string of countries to see whether the van believed to The Muslim Brotherhood’s police stations, saying it foiled used against peaceful demonstra- ation, which are expected to take issuing official advice against all have carried the bomb had been political arm, the Freedom and attempts to storm buildings. tors. Demonstrators must also place on Monday. but essential travel to the country. driven by a suicide bomber or Justice party, spoke of 130 killed And the cabinet issued a defi- demonstrate peacefully.” French President Francois Tourists already in the coun- detonated remotely. in Cairo alone. ant statement accusing the But Egypt defended the crack- Hollande was discussing the cri- try are being told to stay in their Reporters who arrived at the Men armed with automatic Brotherhood of a “terrorist plot”. down and announced it was can- sis with counterparts in London, hotels and resorts, even in areas scene minutes after the explosion weapons appeared to be tak- “The cabinet affirms that the celling naval exercises with Turkey Berlin and Rome. untouched by the troubles, adding saw a burnt-out car near the cen- ing part in the Cairo protests. government, the armed forces, to protest Ankara’s condemnation. Meanwhile, Egypt’s tourism to a sense of insecurity that has hit tre of the road, suggesting it was At Ramses Square, journalists the police and the great people of Both countries claimed to have industry was facing meltdown the beleaguered sector hard. being driven when it blew up. saw three men carrying guns; Egypt are united in confronting made the decision to scrap the as foreign governments advised AGENCIES REUTERS

Salehi to head Iran’s nuclear UN chemical weapons team to programme visit Syria tomorrow; 14 killed DUBAI: Iranian President Hassan UNITED NATIONS: A UN in the region confirmed the weapons against rebel fighters. Rowhani appointed out- mission to investigate alleged timetable. In Damascus, mortar fire by going Foreign Minister use of chemical weapons in One site to be visited by the the Syrian army on the Mleha Ali Akbar Salehi to Syria’s civil war tentatively plans UN experts is Khan Al Assal in district southeast of the capital head the Atomic Energy to enter the country tomorrow, Aleppo, where the Syrian govern- killed at least 14 civilians, four of Organisation yester- officials said yesterday. ment says rebels used chemical them children, a watchdog said day, state media said, The team, consisting of weap- weapons in March. yesterday. replacing a hardliner ons experts from the Organisation Two other locations have not Thursday evening’s bombard- with a pragmatist to for the Prohibition of Chemical yet been identified and may be too ment came as troops press a take charge of Tehran’s Weapons, plans to look into claims dangerous for the team to visit, months-old offensive in the sub- nuclear programme. of use of sarin gas and other toxic the official said. urbs of Damascus in a bid to clear The head of the Atomic nerve agents. The Syrian government and the region of rebel rear bases, the Energy Organisation of UN Secretary-General Ban the opposition have accused each Syrian Observatory for Human Iran (AEOI) is not directly Ki-moon said on Wednesday other of using chemical weap- Rights said. involved in nuclear nego- details of the trip had been worked ons during the two-year conflict, At dawn on Friday, the army tiations with world powers, out with the Syrian government and both have denied it. The UN bombarded the rebel-held dis- but is in charge of operat- and that the team’s departure was inquiry will try to establish only tricts of Muadamiya al-Sham, ing Iran’s nuclear facilities. imminent. whether chemical weapons were southwest of the capital, and He also represents An official said yesterday the used, not who used them. Yabrud and Rankus to its north, Tehran at the annual team would cross into Syria The United States said in sparking clashes, the watchdog member state gather- tomorrow, assuming security June it had concluded that added. ings of the International conditions permitted. A diplomat Assad’s forces used chemical AGENCIES Atomic Energy Agency. Salehi, Iran’s foreign minister from 2011 until Thursday when parliament approved his replacement, returns to his previous job as head of the AEOI. Police, protesters clash in Bahrain He takes the place of Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani DUBAI: Protesters calling for response to a call issued by the were hurt yesterday when secu- who survived an assassina- the overthrow of Bahrain’s rul- opposition February 14 Coalition rity forces used batons, tear gas, tion attempt in 2010. ing Sunni monarchy clashed youth group. pepper spray and stun grenades “It was another wise with police across several Shia “Security forces countered a against inmates protesting over appointment. Salehi was villages overnight, witnesses terrorist group in (the Shia vil- their conditions, an activist said. the best of Ahmadinejad’s said yesterday without report- lage of) Bani Jamra and several The Interior Ministry said ministers, a pragmatist ing casualties. members were arrested,” the security forces had restored order who understands how “Down with Hamad,” hundreds interior ministry on its Twitter after a number of detainees rioted. the world works. It made chanted of H M King Hamad bin account late on Thursday. Sayed Al Muhafada of the sense to keep him on in Isa Al Khalifa, whose family has Authorities refer to the dem- Bahrain Centre for Human some capacity,” said Mark ruled the kingdom for decades. onstrators as “terrorists”. Rights said he had received a call Fitzpatrick, director of the The protesters hurled stones Another “terrorist group had from inside the prison telling him non-proliferation and dis- and petrol bombs at policemen placed a homemade bomb in Bilad that around 100 prisoners, most armament programme of who responded by firing buckshot, Qadim (another Shia town) which held for terrorism offences, were the International Institute tear gas, and sound grenades, the exploded as they were attempting protesting over being deprived of for Strategic Studies. sources said. to plant it,” said the ministry. family visits and other grievances. REUTERS The protests were held in At least 40 Bahraini prisoners AGENCIES AUGUST 17, 2013 International www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY

America ready for Powerful quake female president: Michelle Obama WASHINGTON: US First jolts main New Lady Michelle Obama said in remarks published yester- day that America is ready for a woman president, but would not comment on prospects for Zealand cities Hillary Clinton getting the job. Obama’s comments came in an interview with Parade magazine, excerpts of which were published Buildings damaged, but no casualty on its website. Asked if she thinks the coun- WELLINGTON: A powerful tweeted: “That was pretty wild, try will see a female president in earthquake rattled major cities I was sitting in my parked car her lifetime, the wife of President across New Zealand yesterday, watching buildings shake like Barack Obama said: “Yes, I think sending terrified office workers leaves.” the country is ready for it. It’s just fleeing as central Wellington Other witnesses said the pow- a question of who’s the best per- shook “like jelly”, but authori- erful shaking felt like a jackham- son out there.” ties reported no major damage. mer and left them struggling to She declined to comment on The 6.5-magnitude quake stay on their feet. the prospects for Hillary running struck at 2.31pm (0231 GMT) “I feel a bit queasy, it was sway- to succeed Obama in 2016. near an area where a series of ing so much. I waited about ten Hillary Clinton, a former US quakes hit last month, the US seconds and got under my table, senator and secretary of state Geological Survey said. It was felt then we decided to get out,” Sam under Obama during his first from Christchurch in the South Stanley, who works in the New term, has been vague on whether Island to Auckland in the North Zealand stock exchange building, she will seek the nation’s highest Island. told Fairfax Media. office. The USGS, which initially Workers poured into the She left her post as the top US measured the quake at 6.8 magni- streets as aftershocks continued diplomat in February and polls tude, said it was centred five kilo- to rock high-rise blocks through released with the Democratic metres east of the town of Seddon the afternoon, with businesses nominating convention still three at a relatively shallow depth of 9.9 telling staff to leave early and get years off say she is ahead—both in kilometres. out of the downtown area, causing Workers walk home from the central business district of Wellington as the trains stop working after a 6.5 earthquake the Democratic primaries and in A cluster of major aftershocks gridlock in the capital. hit central New Zealand yesterday. the theoretical general election. measuring up to 5.9 followed but Trains were also out of action Of Hillary’s prospects, Michelle no tsunami alert was issued. due to potential danger from involving broken glass, no major Geoscience Australia said. of activity would last. said, “She hasn’t announced any- The tremors caused violent buckled rails, leaving masses injuries or significant damage Wellington lies near five seis- “Certainly we expect after- thing, so I’m certainly not going jolts in Wellington, where office of commuters struggling to get were reported anywhere in the mic faultlines and was the scene shocks following an event like to get ahead of her.” workers dived under their desks home. country. of the country’s most powerful this,” she told TV3. “Unfortunately She added that she herself will for cover as buildings swayed and There were power cuts to areas Another 6.5 tremor hit on earthquake in 1855. when we have something like this not run for president. police had to rescue a number of of the South Island, where a rock- July 21 and there have been hun- That devastating 8.2-magni- there’s also an elevated chance of people trapped in lifts. fall closed the major highway. dreds of aftershocks since then, tude quake caused four deaths getting another earthquake of a Snowden says not “Lots of aftershocks. ‘Beehive’ Police said there was some with residents fearing a repeat and changed the city’s entire similar magnitude.” wobbling around like a jelly, but damage to buildings in the area, of a devastating quake that hit geography, pushing the shoreline New Zealand is on the bound- represented by dad all OK,” Economic Development with pictures on news websites Christchurch in February 2011, out 200 metres as it thrust the ary of the Australian and Pacific Minister Steven Joyce said showing a farmhouse in the area killing 185 people. harbour floor upwards. tectonic plates, forming part of or his lawyer on Twitter, referring to New shifted on its foundations with a “This area in particular is Anna Kaiser, a seismologist the so-called “Ring of Fire”, and Zealand’s distinctive parliament collapsed chimney. very active in the last couple of with the official GNS monitoring experiences up to 15,000 tremors WASHINGTON: US intelli- building in the capital. But authorities said while there months. This is a continuation of service, said it was impossible to a year. gence leaker Edward Snowden Local resident Juli Ryan were a few unspecified incidents that activity,” a seismologist from predict how long the latest burst AFP says neither his father nor his father’s attorney speak for him “in any way,” according to a statement published yesterday by an online news site. “I would like to correct the record: I’ve been fortunate to have Despite Obama’s promises, NSA breached privacy legal advice from an international team of some of the finest lawyers WASHINGTON: The National The Post report was based on answers from the NSA,” said Senate that it is difficult to comprehend Obama and other top officials in the world, and to work with Security Agency has repeatedly documents leaked from Edward Judiciary Committee Chairman how the intelligence community have insisted that Americans’ pri- journalists whose integrity and violated privacy rules and over- Snowden, the former NSA con- Patrick Leahy, who announced could possibly have managed to vacy rights have been safeguarded courage are beyond question,” stepped its authority, an inter- tractor who has exposed the mas- hearings for next week on the issue. violate them so often,” Jaffer said. and that sweeping surveillance Snowden said in a statement to nal audit has revealed, despite sive scale of America’s surveillance In a NSA audit dated May The NSA did not deny the powers have not been abused. the Huffington Post. vows from President Barack of phone records and Internet 2012, there were 2,776 “incidents” privacy violations but offered a As recently as August 9, Obama “Neither my father, his law- Obama to prevent abuses and traffic in disclosures to the media. over the previous year in which more upbeat assessment, saying said of the NSA: “I’ve taken steps yer Bruce Fein, nor his wife protect Americans’ civil rights. Snowden, who has portrayed the agency exceeded its author- the agency had rigorous proce- to make sure that they have strong Mattie Fein represent me in The revelations cast fresh himself as a whistleblower for ity in the collection, storage and dures to check for errors and that oversight by all three branches of any way.” doubts on the Obama administra- civil liberties, has obtained asylum distribution of communications, the mistakes were often due to government and clear safeguards According to the online news tion’s reassurances that the NSA’s in Russia, despite appeals from according to the Post. Most of the technical glitches. “NSA’s foreign to prevent abuse and protect the site, Snowden said he issued the electronic surveillance programs Washington for extradition on cases were unintentional but in intelligence collection activities rights of the American people.” statement because “it has come to are tightly regulated and account- espionage charges. at least one instance, the agency are continually audited and over- The Post also reported that the my attention that news organiza- able to judicial review. Although the NSA tried to play violated a court order. seen internally and externally,” Foreign Intelligence Surveillance tions seeking information regard- The Washington Post, citing NSA down what it called its “mistakes,” “The number of ‘compliance the agency said in a statement. Court (FISC), which is supposed ing my current situation have, due documents and an internal audit, lawmakers vowed more hearings incidents’ is jaw-dropping,” “When we make a mistake in to oversee surveillance activities, to the difficulty in contacting me reported the eavesdropping service to learn the full extent of the pri- said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal carrying out our foreign intelli- lacks the tools to check on the directly, been misled by individu- had breached privacy restrictions vacy violations and rights advo- director at the American Civil gence mission, we report the issue spy agencies and must rely on als associated with my father into thousands of times and in some cates expressed outrage. Liberties Union. internally and to federal overseers the services themselves for any printing false claims about my cases withheld information from “I remain concerned that we are “The rules around government and aggressively get to the bottom information on possible excesses. situation.” other government departments. still not getting straightforward surveillance are so permissive of it,” it said. AFP AGENCIES

Britons should Cameron for EU monitors get say on car park king’s along Gibraltar border LONDON: British Prime and disproportionate, and there- remains: Judge Minister David Cameron has fore contrary to the EU right of called on European Commission free movement. LONDON: The British public president Jose Manuel Barroso “The PM made clear that should be consulted on the final to send monitors to observe we would prefer to resolve this resting place of Richard III, the “politically motivated” checks issue through political dialogue. 15th-century king whose skele- at Spain’s border with Gibraltar Consequently, both the PM and ton was found under a car park, as soon as possible, Downing the Foreign Secretary (William a judge said yesterday. Street said yesterday. Hague) had called their Spanish The bones of Richard, a con- A row has broken out between counterparts to try to find a way troversial monarch demonised London and Madrid over to de-escalate the issue.” by Shakespeare, were dug up last Gibraltar, after Spain intro- Cameron told Barroso that year outside a municipal building duced stringent border checks Britain had also proposed “ad-hoc in Leicester, central England. which have led to waits of up to talks” involving the government The University of Leicester, five hours for motorists trying to of Gibraltar to find a solution. whose archaeologists found the site, enter the British-held territory. Britain had announced on have claimed the remains as their In a telephone call, Cameron Monday that it was considering own and planned to rebury them complained that the border legal action against Spain over the at Leicester Cathedral, a decision checks are “politically motivated border checks. endorsed by the government. and disproportionate” and called The British government is now However, descendants of the king for the European Commission to “collating evidence on the spo- and other campaigners want him send a monitoring team to the radic nature of these measures buried in York, the northern city border “urgently” to collate evi- which would prove that they are which formed his power base and dence, a spokesman said. illegitimate,” Cameron’s spokes- gave its name to Richard’s family. The European Union has said man said. More than 27,400 people it will send observers to Gibraltar “We believe that the European have signed a petition calling in September or October, but Commission, as guardian of for Richard’s remains to be re- Cameron said they should be sent the treaties, should investigate interred at York Minster, while now. the issue and the PM called more than 8,000 signed one urg- A Downing Street spokesman on President Barroso to send ing him to stay in Leicester. said: “The prime minister has an EU monitoring team to the In a ruling yesterday, High called President Barroso to raise Gibraltar-Spain border urgently Court Judge Charles Haddon- serious concerns that additional to gather evidence of the checks Cave gave the relatives permis- border checks introduced by the that are being carried out,” he sion to challenge the burial plans. A Spanish Civil Guard boat (left) sails close to two ships carrying out a ‘bunkering’ operation in Algeciras Bay, Spanish at the Spain-Gibraltar added. AFP close to Gibraltar, southern Spain, yesterday. border are politically motivated AFP AUGUST 17, 2013 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Asia Festival blast probed Japan organiser apologises to 59 injured victims

TOKYO: Japanese police yes- Early accounts said the inci- according to police. One 10-year- terday were investigating the dent was believed to have been old boy remained in intensive care cause of an explosion at a fire- caused by a gas cylinder, but Jiji yesterday. works festival which left at Press news agency said police The fireworks display was can- least 59 people injured including suspect the fire may have started celled after the incident. It was some with serious burns when when a vendor added gasoline to unclear how many spectators it ripped through the crowded a running power generator. were in the immediate vicinity site. Koichi Tanimura, head of the of the festival, which was held in Witnesses recounted seeing vic- local chamber of commerce which Fukuchiyama city, about 70 kilo- tims, including children, scream- organised the festival, apologised metres (45 miles) north of Kyoto. ing as they rolled around on the for the accident at a press confer- A 27-year-old male witness ground to try to extinguish the ence yesterday afternoon. said that he saw the fire start flames, while the thousands who “I believe the vendor should be near a jerry can sitting next to a had gathered for the Thursday held responsible, but we also have generator at the back of a snack night festival fled in panic. a moral responsibility,” Japanese counter. The explosion is believed to media quoted him as saying. When a man, who appeared to have erupted at one of hundreds “I would like to apologise to be the vendor, opened the can’s of snack counters lining a nearby those who were injured.” lid, a hissing noise was heard just riverbank at the festival, which is Pictures from the scene showed before a fire started, the Yomiuri held annually outside the ancient charred snack booths and an said. capital of Kyoto and attracts abandoned baby stroller among The police force’s serious upwards of 100,000 people. the picnic blankets and clothing crimes division was taking part Video footage showed the stalls, left behind after the crowd fled in in the joint investigation with which had been selling drinks the aftermath of the blast. firefighters as they probe the pos- and food, going up in flames and Of the 59 injured, at least 19 sibility of negligence resulting in sending smoke into the night sky, people suffered major burns the accident, he added. Investigators inspecting the explosion site at Fukuchiyama in Kyoto prefecture yesterday. before a larger blast erupted. and other serious injuries, AFP 11-year jail Lanka bans sale of milk upheld for N Korea ship faces $1m fine Liu’s relative PANAMA CITY: The Panama Authorities instead uncovered the canal authority range from BEIJING: A Chinese court products for two weeks Canal authority said Thursday 25 containers of military hard- $10,000 to $100,000 for serious yesterday upheld an 11-year it will impose as much as a ware, including two Soviet era violations and up to $1m for “very prison sentence handed to COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan The Health Ministry had said $1m fine on the North Korean MiG-21s, air defense systems, serious” violations. the brother-in-law of jailed court yesterday issued an a recent local test by Sri Lanka’s freighter caught with an unde- missiles and command and con- Warships and ships carry- Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, order preventing the sale, Industrial Technology Institute clared shipment of Cuban trol vehicles, buried under tons of ing military or nuclear material a lawyer said. Police had distribution and advertising discovered dicyandiamide in weapons. sugar. Havana said they were obso- routinely go through the canal, detained Liu Hui in January of all Fonterra milk products some Fonterra brand milk pow- “It is a flagrant violation of lete Cuban arms being shipped to allowed passage even at times on suspicion of committing for two weeks, officials said, ders and had directed the world’s safe passage through the Panama North Korea for refurbishment of war. The only requirement is fraud in connection with a after a health sector trade largest dairy exporter to recall Canal and we have little tolerance under a legitimate contract. that canal authorities be given real-estate deal. Liu Xiaobo, union sought the order saying the products. for this kind of activity,” canal A team of UN experts had prior notice so that local authori- a Chinese political activist, Fonterra had been misleading Fonterra has disputed the administrator Jorge Quijano said. traveled to Panama to inspect ties can take appropriate security was jailed for 11 years in 2009 the public with its advertising. accuracy of the local testing. “It is going to be sanctioned,” he the weapons and determine precautions. for “subversion” after he cir- The National Health Services On the other hand, Leon said, adding that authorities were whether the shipment violated With five percent of the world’s culated a charter calling for Union said it sought the order Clement, managing director still mulling the size of the fine. a UN ban against arms trans- trade passing through it, the canal democratic reforms. He was because there were Fonterra of Fonterra Brands Sri Lanka “It’s obvious that there were fers to North Korea. According is a strategically important choke- awarded the Nobel Peace milk products still in the market said on Thursday that the com- containers that had not been to the Panamanian government, point requiring tight security Prize in 2010. suspected to be contaminated pany has recalled two batches of declared, not to mention what was the experts wrapped up their visit procedures. with dicyandiamide (DCD) Anchor-branded milk product as inside them.” Thursday. Only four North Korean flagged Nail-clipping despite an order from the health the result of the directive from The ship, the Chong Chon Gang, However, officials did not vessels have transited the 80-kil- ministry that they be recalled. the Ministry of Health and the was boarded and searched July provide any details on possible ometer (48-mile) canal in the past bus driver fired DCD is a nitrate inhibitor used recall has now been completed. 10 on suspicion it was smuggling findings. two years. in fertilisers. REUTERS drugs. Quijano said fines imposed by AFP SINGAPORE: A bus driver in Singapore has been fired after he was filmed cutting Rally against Egypt crackdown his nails behind the wheel. Stunned tourists whipped Gang steals 240 out their mobile phone cam- S Korea sends North formal eras after they spotted the driver giving himself a mani- luxury watches cure during an airport run in family reunion proposal the Asian city-state. While from HK store driving, he suddenly looked HONG KONG: Masked men SEOUL: South Korea yester- Korea in 1945 and the war that at his fingernails, then took stole around 240 luxury watches day proposed formal talks next followed saw millions of Koreans out a nail clipper with his worth a reported $1.29m from a week with the North on arrang- separated from other family right hand and spent some 20 Hong Kong store in a matter of ing the first reunion in three members, with no direct mail or seconds clipping his finger- minutes early yesterday, police years of families separated by telephone service. nails. The video was shared said. the 1950-53 Korean War. Around 72,000 South Koreans over 700 times and netizens The three burglars, who were In a telephone message, the — half of them over 80 — remain blasted the driver for his rash also wearing hats, snatched the South suggested holding discus- on an official waiting list for an act that could have caused a watches after they used a ham- sions on August 23 under Red opportunity to meet relatives liv- road accident. mer to smash the glass door of Cross auspices at the border vil- ing in the North, but thousands the ground floor shop at around lage of Panmunjom, where the die every year before getting their UN needs $98m 6:30am local time. Watch shop ceasefire ending Korean War hos- chance. robberies are rare in the southern tilities was signed, the Unification In the past, only a few hundred aid for N Korea Chinese city of seven million peo- Ministry said. have been selected for each event. ple, where only one such incident South Korean President Park had urged that the pro- UNITED NATIONS: The was recorded last year among a Park Geun-Hye had called for gramme be resumed in time for United Nations is in urgent total of around 76,000 reported a resumption of the suspended the Chuseok (Thanksgiving) need of $98m to finance crimes. reunion programme in a speech holidays in September — when emergency aid for the people Footage from Cable Television on Thursday to mark the end of Korean family members tradi- of North Korea, the UN coor- News showed heavily damaged Japanese colonial rule over the tionally gather together. dinator for the impoverished glass display tables and a metal Korean peninsula. “We are working on a specific country said Thursday. Of the hammer at the shop, which was Her initiative came a day plan for family reunions before $150m required to maintain littered with glass fragments. after the two Koreas reached a or after the Chuseok holidays,” food, health and sanitation The trio made their escape breakthrough agreement in their Unification Ministry spokesman programs by five UN agencies after they boarded a grey van efforts to resume operations at Kim Hyung-Suk told reporters. in the country for 2013, $98m parked around the corner of the a joint industrial zone that was The reunion programme began is still needed, the world body store, Cable TV reported. closed in April at the height of in 2000 following an inter-Korean said. Nearly 2.4 million North soaring military tensions. summit. Sporadic events since Koreans need regular food Ex-vice mayor The reunion issue is a highly then have seen around 17,000 peo- assistance and 28 percent emotional one. The division of ple briefly reunited. AFP of children under five suffer jailed for 3 years Indonesian Muslims rally outside the US embassy in Jakarta yesterday chronic malnutrition. to protest against the crackdown on protest camps of Egypt’s Islamists. BEIJING: A former vice Korean Air mayor of China’s eastern city of Wenzhou was yesterday sen- settles lawsuit tenced to three years in jail for Mass protests against poll a last resort, says Rainsy abuse of power in a land deal, SEOUL: South Korea’s larg- state media reported. PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s return from his daughter’s wed- million votes to the opposition’s ruling party’s worst election est carrier, Korean Air said A court jailed Ye Jiren after he opposition leader Sam Rainsy ding in the United States. 2.9 million — although it is yet to result since 1998. yesterday it had agreed to allotted a plot of land in Wenzhou yesterday said mass protests But he added that threatened reveal the share of parliamentary But the opposition, which has pay $65m to settle a law- to a private company against gov- were “a last resort” against mass demonstrations were a “last seats. also threatened to boycott parlia- suit by US passengers over ernment rules for its use. hotly disputed election results resort” to overturn a Hun Sen The opposition has rejected and ment, says it won and last week alleged price fixing. It said it Wenzhou is known as a centre that handed victory to strong- win. appealed the results, demanding called on the United Nations to would pay $39m in cash and for private companies in China. man Prime Minister Hun Sen. Political deadlock has gripped an independent probe into its help resolve the impasse. $26m in coupons to passen- The move caused a direct eco- Rainsy reiterated his belief that Cambodia since the CPP claimed allegation that the election was While an inquiry into the elec- gers who have accused the nomic loss of 116m yuan ($19m) the Cambodia National Rescue victory at the polls, with the tarnished by massive vote-rigging. tion has been broadly accepted by airline of conspiring with for the government, the report Party (CNRP) won the July 28 military deployed in the capital The NEC said the political all involved, the parties have failed Asiana Airlines to establish said, but gave no further details. poll despite preliminary results Phnom Penh last week after the impasse means they will now to agree on the composition of a high prices for travel between Authorities detained Ye in 2011 handing victory to the incumbent opposition repeatedly threatened announce the number of seats by probe committee. South Korea and the United and gave the case to prosecutors premier’s long-ruling Cambodian to take to the streets. September 8. The CNRP has softened its ini- States. Korean Air said it had last year. People’s Party (CPP). Preliminary official results, The CPP claims it secured an tial call for the UN to sit on the reached an agreement with Chinese president Xi Jinping “(We will) keep demanding released on Monday by the estimated 68 of the 123 lower panel, but has instead pushed for the passengers in July for a has vowed to crack down on cor- justice for the people. We have to National Election Committee house seats available, while the the exclusion of the NEC — which quick and smooth resolution ruption at all levels of the govern- prepare all kinds of measures,” (NEC), found Hun Sen’s CPP had CNRP won 55. it accuses of pro-government bias. of the lawsuit. AGENCIES ment. AFP he told reporters, speaking on his edged the popular poll, taking 3.2 If confirmed, it would be the AFP AUGUST 17, 2013 Philippines www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY 17 dead as ships collide off Cebu 600 rescued, scores missing, says Coast Guard

CEBU, PHILIPPINES: At Within about three hours of sank within 30 minutes of the least 17 people died while nearly the accident, rescuers had saved collision. 600 others were rescued after a 573 people but 17 people were Cebu coastguard commander ferry collided with a cargo ship confirmed killed, Joy Villages, an Weniel Azcuna told reporters in the Philippines yesterday, official at the coastguard’s pub- the accident occurred about two authorities said. lic affairs office headquarters in kilometres from the Cebu port. The Thomas Aquinas ferry, Manila, said. He said the cargo ship, Sulpicio which was believed to be carry- “Those rescued are with the Express 7, had 36 crew members ing about 700 passengers, sank coastguard and with other vessels on board, but it did not sink. quickly after colliding with who helped in the effort.” Ferries are one of the main a freighter near the port of However, she said it was still modes of transport across the Cebu, the country’s second big- unclear how many people were archipelago of more than 7,100 gest city, coastguard spokesman missing. islands, particularly for the mil- Commander Armando Balilo said. There were 692 people on board, lions of people too poor to fly. A rescue mission involving according to the manifest, but fer- But sea accidents are com- coastguard, navy and local boats ries in the Philippines are often mon, with poor safety standards, was launched immediately after overcrowded. “We are still check- lax enforcement and overloading the collision, which occurred ing the manifest as to how many typically to blame. about 9pm (1300 GMT) around exactly are aboard,” Villages said. The world’s deadliest peacetime two kilometres from shore. Rachel Capuno, a security officer maritime disaster occurred near “The Aquinas has sunk and we for the ferry’s owners, told Cebu the capital, Manila, in 1987 when have sent a navy patrol gunboat to radio station DYSS that the ship a ferry laden with Christmas holi- join the coastguard in the search was sailing into port when it col- daymakers collided with a small and rescue effort,” navy spokes- lided head-on with the cargo ship. oil tanker, killing more than 4,300 man Lieutenant Commander “The impact was very strong,” people. Survivors being brought to a hospital in Cebu after a ferry collided with a cargo ship in Cebu, central Philippines, Gregory Fabic said. she said, adding that the ferry AFP yesterday.

Govt urged to reveal details American diver of US troops’ access deal Budget carrier Zest Air shot dead MANILA: An American MANILA: Militant group Bayan yesterday called on the Philippine deep-sea diver who helped in government to divulge the details of its planned access agreement grounded over safety the search and retrieval of with the US military. the body of the late interior “Despite all the pronouncements of transparency, the Aquino govern- and local government secre- ment has kept the details of the ongoing negotiations for increased US MANILA: Budget Philippine standards have been undertaken,” Zest Air had failed to appoint an tary Jesse Robredo was shot rotational deployment under wraps,” Bayan secretary general Renato carrier Zest Air was banned Andrews said. Five Zest Air “accountable manager” after the dead in a subdivision in Las Reyes Jr said. Reyes said officials of the government should disclose from flying over safety infrac- domestic flights were grounded resignation of its previous execu- Piñas City on Thursday. Matt details on the agreement such as how many US troops will be allowed in tions, effective immediately, between July 22 and August 13 tive on July 19. Caldwell, who helped recover the country, how long will be their stay and where will they be deployed. the country’s aviation regulator due to problems ranging from Andrews said the manager is Robredo after a plane crashed Reyes also asked the Department of Foreign Affairs to explain in full said yesterday. hydraulic systems issues, fuel responsible for “ensuring that all off Masbate last August, was the framework agreement with the US, titled “Framework Agreement The small airline is suspended overflow, and a missing fuel cou- flight operations and maintenance killed during an altercation for Increased Rotational Presence and Enhanced Defense Cooperation.” over incidents that compromised pling cap, Andrews said. activities can be financed and car- with a guard at Hamilton “When the US and Philippine governments say they want increased several flights as well as other A Zest Air plane was also found ried out to the highest degree of Heights. Caldwell came from rotational presence, the presumption is that there is already existing violations of air safety rules, refuelling on Wednesday while safety standards”. Zest Air, which a meeting with the agency’s US rotational presence in the country. If what is being referred to is Civil Aviation Authority of the its passengers were on board, he operates out of Manila airport, auxiliary divers when he fig- the rotational deployment of some 600 US Special Forces in Mindanao Philippines deputy director-gen- added. Zest Air pilots, meanwhile, serves the domestic market. ured in an altercation and since 2002, then this is indeed problematic. Those US Special Forces eral John Andrews said in a letter were found to have exceeded the Malaysia-based Air Asia, was shot dead. being rotated have been in our country for the last 11 years, their pres- to operator Zest Airways Inc. flying time limit of 100 hours Southeast Asia’s biggest budget ence already considered permanent,” Reyes said. “(Your) Air Operator per month “due to (a) rise in carrier, bought a 49 percent stake Schoolgirl, drug “We find alarming the statements of the Philippine negotiators that Certificate is suspended and (you flight operations and flight crew in Zest Airways in March. there will be no specific number of troops being rotated. This could are) hereby precluded to engage shortage”. Zest Air officials could not be pusher nabbed mean 100 to 10,000 US troops at any given time. There is also no in air carrier operations ... until Twenty-four of its pilots reached for comment yesterday, specified duration for their stay. They may be rotated but their actual this Authority is assured that the exceeded the monthly limit last while a spokeswoman for Air Asia MANILA: The Philippine presence can last for years as we have seen in Mindanao,” he added. necessary corrective actions and year, Andrews said. said that the company will make Drug Enforcement Agency THE PHILIPPINE STAR compliance with aviation safety Meanwhile, the regulator said a formal statement later. AFP arrested a suspected drug pusher and a female stu- dent in a sting operation in Iloilo. It said Marion Cuerbo, 55, of Barangay Bulaqueña, Estancia, Iloilo and 19-year- old Analiza Abejar, of Purok Overseas Filipina factory worker recalls abuse Sigay, Barangay 2, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental were MANILA: Under oath before OFWs, especially those who were she was still staying at the Bahay Both Senate Minority Leader consider that you were talking to arrested on August 13. Three the Senate Blue Ribbon com- abused by their employers. Kalinga or halfway house oper- Juan Ponce Enrile and Sen a fellow Filipino? You knew that pieces of small heat-sealed mittee, assistant labour attaché But many of the senators ated by the Philippine govern- Jinggoy Estrada were aghast at she was going through so much transparent plastic sachets Antonio Villafuerte denied all present during yesterday’s hear- ment in Riyadh, as proof of her the content of the text message, already and still you did that to containing white crystalline the allegations against him ing on the so-called sex-for-flight claims against him. which Villafuerte did not deny. her,” Enrile told Villafuerte. substance suspected to be made by three former over- scandal found it hard to believe In the text message supposedly Villafuerte said the “salungsu” Villafuerte replied he had no shabu were also seized. seas Filipino workers (OFWs) that Villafuerte was as innocent sent by Villafuerte to Michelle, or brassiere and “salungki” or ill intention when he used those of inappropriate behaviour and as he wanted them to believe. For the labour official informed her panty were words that he learned words with Michelle, but Enrile New early attempted rape. them, the language Villafuerte used that he had bought her “salungsu” in school in his Filipino subjects. said this was unacceptable. Villafuerte, of the Philippine betrayed the type of person he is, and “salungki” as she requested. Enrile admonished Villafuerte Asked by Enrile if he would warning device Overseas Labour Office (POLO) especially how he treated women. The two terms supposedly used for his behaviour, which he said use such language with his wife, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, said During yesterday’s hearing, by Villafuerte were not words belied his being discourteous in Villafuerte said that he would and MANILA: The Army has he was a good man who worked one of the victims known only as commonly used by Filipinos to spite of his position as a diplomat. had in fact done so during light developed a device that could hard to serve the country and Michelle showed a text message refer to underwear and were, in “You are supposed to be cour- moments. serve as an early warning was sympathetic to the plight of that Villafuerte sent her when fact, considered vulgar. teous. As a diplomat, did you not THE PHILIPPINE STAR system for disaster-prone areas. The MLX4 manpack public address system will be Empty-bottle boat distributed to field units to alert communities and mini- mise casualties. “The system Nur Misuari revives is portable and can help save lives because it will enable our soldiers to provide warnings to people,” First Lt Gemira Dy, secessionist movement public affairs chief of the Civil- Military Operations Group, ZAMBOANGA CITY: Moro designated himself as the said. The device will be tested National Liberation Front commander-in-chief of the this month. The army plans (MNLF) Founding Chairman Bangsamoro Armed Forces to initially distribute 416 Nur Misuari has revived the (BAF). units nationwide. secessionist movement and “For all peace and freedom formally established their fed- loving people of the world and Leftist rebels erated state, naming himself oppressed Bangsamoro, Salam. president following the dec- For the sake of peace and egali- kidnap soldier laration of independence last tarian democracy, HE Prof Nur Monday in Sulu, according to Misuari of the Bangsamoro DAVAO CITY: Leftist rebels an MNLF official. Republik and commander-in- kidnapped a soldier in the Habib Muhahab Hashim, chief of the BAF, has declared the southern Philippines, the mil- Chairman of the MNLF Islamic independence of the Bangsamoro itary said. Corporal Salman Command Council (ICC), said Republik in Daira Lampaya, Abbas was caught by New Misuari’s chief of staff Murshi Talipao Autonomous Federated People’s Army at a check- Ibrahim had confirmed in a state- State of Lupah Sug,” Hashim point along a village road in ment that Misuari declared last quoted the statement of Ibrahim. Mahayahay village, San Luis August 12 the independence of the Misuari’s legal counsel town, in Mindanao’s Agusan Bangsamoro Republik in Daira, Emmanuel Fontanilla, however, del Sur province around 11am Barangay Lampaya, in Talipao, claimed that the new state also on Tuesday. Volunteer workers of the Litter for Life project building a a rescue boat to be used in flood-prone areas in San Sulu. includes Sabah and Sarawak. AGENCIES Fernando City, La Union. Made from empty plastic bottles, the boat is the first of its kind in the city. Hashim said Misuari also THE PHILIPPINE STAR AUGUST 17, 2013 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan / Afghanistan Islamabad cops defend response to gunman

ISLAMABAD: Police defended and leg before arresting him, was not part of any extremist hours of surgery during the night, yesterday their response to a dragging him off as blood poured outfit. “Preliminary investigations Dr Wasim Khawaja, spokesman gunman who shut down the from his wounds. Doctors said he suggest that he is not associated for Pakistan Institute of Medical heart of the heavily guarded was improving yesterday. with any group and it was his Sciences hospital, said. “Hopefully capital for five hours in a stand- The drama drew a huge crowd individual act.” he will be normal in 24 hours. off that ended with him being of onlookers and media, and The standoff began around We have put him on a ventilator shot and wounded. Islamabad police chief Muhammad 5.30pm when police flagged down and he is maintaining his blood Waving two semi-automatic Rizwan said they were to blame the gunman’s car for a traffic pressure.” guns and occasionally firing into for the slow response, denying his offence on the central Jinnah Sikandar’s wife was also shot the air, Mohammad Sikandar men had dithered in the face of Avenue neighbourhood, just over in the leg as the scene reached was accompanied by his wife and the challenge. a kilometre from the presidency its conclusion but doctors said she children throughout the tense “The commando operation was and parliament. was out of danger. drama close to Islamabad’s politi- delayed because we needed proper Sikandar started firing into the As the standoff played out dur- cal quarter late on Thursday. space between the public and the air, forcing markets and shops to ing the evening, Sikandar smoked Broadcast live on news chan- gunman,” he told Geo TV. close, before making rambling cigarettes and spoke to TV sta- nels, hours of stalemate came to a “We asked media and the public demands, including the resig- tions on his mobile phone while chaotic end when Zamarud Khan, who had gathered there to stay at nation of the government, the his children played around his car. a senior member of the opposi- least 300 metres away for their imposition of Shariah law and Khan, hailed as a hero by some tion Pakistan Peoples Party sent safety, but they did not move the release of a son from prison media outlets, said he felt he had to negotiate, made a sudden lunge away.” Rizwan said there was a in Dubai. Police said he appeared to intervene. “I was sitting at at the gunman. gap of only 50 metres between to have mental health problems home watching this whole drama Khan slipped and missed him, the crowd and Sikandar, making but Rizwan said this was yet to on TV. I came out with a commit- but police opened fire, seriously it impossible to tackle him safely. be confirmed. ment that I will catch this guy, Security personnel carry the injured gunman after a standoff in Islamabad. wounding Sikandar in the chest He said it appeared Sikandar The man underwent three even if it takes my life.” AFP

Four killed in Floods, rain Quetta train rocket attack

QUETTA: Unidentified mili- tants killed four people and wreak havoc wounded 24 yesterday in a gun and rocket attack on a passenger train in restive southwest Pakistan, officials said. Women and children were among the casualties in Pakistan in the attack in Dozan, some 35km southeast of Quetta, the main town of Baluchistan 26 villages submerged in water province beset by separatist, Islamist and sectarian vio- ISLAMABAD: The heavy Gadiyaala West, Wassankey and lence. “We have taken two floods coupled with relent- Taajo Key Cheema. bodies and 24 injured to hos- less downpour across various Flooding damaged standing pital, the condition of most parts of the country wreaked crops on hundreds of acres in of them is critical because of havoc, particularly in Punjab Daska and Sambrial tehsils here. excessive bleeding,” Zubair and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as District Officer (Coordination) Kurd, an official said, warn- scores of people perished and a Sialkot Malik Abid Hussain Awan ing that the death toll may number of villages submerged. said that there was a high level increase. He said the attack- As many as 26 villages of both flood in Nullah Aik with 22000 ers were hiding in the moun- Daska and Sambrial tehsils were cusecs flow near Oora-Sialkot tains and started firing and inundated in Sialkot due to flood- here yesterday. The water level then fired at least three rock- ing in Nullah Aik near Saahowala- was continuously rising. ets at the train, which was Villagers wade through floodwaters as they evacuate their homes in Sadat Wala near Multan. Floods triggered by Bhopalwala as flood water overflew On the other hand, as many as travelling from Quetta to monsoon rains have killed 96 people across Pakistan in the past two weeks and affected nearly 90,000, officials said. from the banks, largely owing to 62 villages in Pasrur, Zafarwal and Rawalpindi, the twin city of ongoing fresh spell of heavy rains Qila Ahmedabad areas, remain Islamabad. “They escaped. We in Sialkot region. submerged due to another major here as Nullah in high flood. floodwater and their search was Department said Nari stream of have launched a search oper- According to the senior officials spate in flooded Naullah Dek near Khurram, was riding a cycle in progress. River Chenab in high Sibbi was facing flood like situa- ation.” The attack came nine of Sialkot Irrigation Department, Chahoor-Pasrur on Wednesday. on the bank of Nullah when he level flood: River Chenab is in tion as 35,000 cusecs water flow days after separatist gunmen about four to five feet high flood DCO Sialkot Iftikhar Ali Sahu slipped and drowned. The search high level flood at Head Khanki. was passing through Nari head- shot dead 14 people, includ- water was standing there and 26 was supervising rescue activi- for his body was in progress. Water flow has been recorded works and 8000 cusecs at Tali ing three security officials, in villages were inundated. ties of district administration, Ten villages of Gujranwala sub- 40,5000 cusecs at Head Khanki stream. Mach area, close to Dozan. On These included Bhopalwala, Civil Defence and Rescue 1122 merged: The floodwater of Nullah while 25,6000 cusecs water flow is Roof of a house caved in at August 10, troops said they Aadamkey, Lodhikey Cheema, workers in the flood hit areas of Palkhu inundated 10 villages of passing through Head Qadir Abad Sahiwal due to torrential rains had killed eight rebels linked Warsaalkey, Puraaney Key, Pasrur region tehsil. A 12-year- Wazirabad sub-division on Friday. and 2,32,000 cusecs flood water is and one woman was killed and to that attack. Baluch rebels Choohr Chak, Umer Key, Passiya, old Khurram drowned in Nullah Reportedly, two youngsters of flowing at Head Marala. four persons were injured in the have been fighting since 2004 Veeram Key, Gadiyaala East, Bhed near Model Town locality Lurewala were swept away in the Sources in the Irrigation incident. INTERNEWS for political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region’s natural oil, gas and mineral resources. Impoverished Baluchistan is also a flashpoint for surging sectarian violence between Poland to cut troops Panel to probe poll ‘rigging’ Pakistan’s majority Sunnis and Shias, who account for ISLAMABAD: In an unusual Abbasi, who chaired the proceed- cards. “Four seats are too few, let around a fifth of the 180 mil- show of concord to settle dis- ings at the time, asked leaders of all it be for 20 seats or 40 seats,” he lion population. number in Kabul cord, the government and oppo- parliamentary groups in the house said, adding that 20 seats should be sition parties in the National to name their party representa- referred for a probe by the govern- Navy inducts WARSAW: Poland will reduce the number of its soldiers stationed Assembly agreed yesterday to tives for a meeting with the house ment and 20 by the opposition from in Afghanistan in October to 1,000 from 1,600 as it moves to wind set up a multi-party house com- speaker yesterday to formulate all the four provinces. two aircraft down its presence there before the Nato combat mission ends next mittee to probe complaints of the proposed committee’s terms The minister told the house year, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said yesterday. rigging in the May 11 elections of reference a task he said could that the PTI letter had suggested KARACHI: Pakistan Navy The country had previously announced that its 14th troop rotation and suggest electoral reforms to be completed in three days. terms of reference for the com- inducted two ATR-72 aircraft in Afghanistan starting in October would be its last. evolve better checks. Chaudhry Nisar proposed the mittee, some of which, he said, in its fleet to enhance opera- “We are reducing the number of Polish soldiers in Afghanistan Interior Minister Chaudhry formation of the committee after were acceptable to the govern- tional flexibility and reach. because we are preparing to end the withdrawal, as we announced in Nisar Ali Khan assured the informing the house about a let- ment while others could be negoti- A ceremony was held at PNS 2014,” Tusk explained at an airbase in Nowy Glinnik, central Poland. house that all government agen- ter he said he had received from ated. Chaudhry Nisar’s suggestion Mehran with Chief of Naval “The few who will remain will be there for training and advising cies would help the committee the PTI deputy chairman, Shah was endorsed by Qureshi, who Staff Admiral Mohammad purposes,” he said. The US-dominated, Nato-led force in Afghanistan in carrying out its investigation, Mahmood Qureshi, asking the said his party had ‘no objection Asif Sandila as chief guest. currently numbers about 87,000 troops and is due to be disbanded which he suggested cover up to minister to follow through on an to the proposal’, then by former He said: ATRs are modern next year. Most foreign combat troops will leave, handing over 40 National Assembly constitu- offer he made during the budget speaker Fehmida Mirza from and widely operated tur- responsibilities for fighting Taliban insurgents to Afghanistan secu- encies in all the four provinces of session in Junefor a probe in up the Pakistan Peoples Party who boprop platforms equipped rity forces. After 2014, Nato plans to keep a slimmed-down training the country rather than just four to 40 constituencies in response called it a ‘very positive’ move, with state-of-the-art Traffic and advisory mission in Afghanistan. Poland, which joined the mission constituencies as demanded by to Imran Khan’s demand for a and lastly by opposition leader Collision Avoidance System in Afghanistan in 2002, has indicated it would be far more reluctant to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) verification of ballots in at least Khurshid Ahmed Shah, who said (TCAS). Average ground take part in such foreign deployments in the future as it concentrates chairman Imran Khan. four constituencies by compar- it should have been done much speed of the aircraft is 250 on modernising its defences at home. On Thursday, President Bronislaw With agreement from both the ing voters` thumb impressions on earlier, yet he would agree with knots with an endurance of Komorowski called for an end to the “policy based on sending soldiers treasury and opposition benches, counterfoils with those on their what he called a case of `better about six hours, to far-away lands” because of high costs. REUTERS Deputy Speaker Murtaza Javed computerised national identity late than never. INTERNEWS AGENCIES

Pakistanis protest against lethal Egypt crackdown

KARACHI: Hundreds rallied more than 500 JI activists marched leader. General Abdel Fattah Al expressed dismay and deep concern across Pakistan yesterday in sup- with banners and placards chanting Sisi, the army chief, orchestrated over the use of force “against unarmed port of the ousted Egyptian presi- anti-US slogans as well as support for the July 3 ousting of Egypt’s first civilians” and urged all sides to show dent Mohammed Mursi and to Mursi. US President Barack Obama elected president after millions pro- restraint. Another protest rally has condemn the use of force against has cancelled a joint US-Egyptian tested to demand an end to his tur- been planned later in the eastern city the Muslim Brotherhood, witnesses military exercise but has stopped bulent year in power. In Pakistan’s of Lahore. said. short of suspending Washington’s conservative northwestern province Friday saw fresh clashes between The demonstrations were mostly annual $1.3 billion in aid to Egypt. of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a total of security forces and Morsi supporters organised by Islamic political par- “International powers are behind more than 1,000 JI activists held ral- in Egypt, two days after nearly 600 ties including Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), the Egyptian chaos and General Sisi lies in four cities, including the main people were killed when police cleared Activists of Islamic political parties shout slogans in which has ideological links to the is a tout of America and the favour- city Peshawar. two Morsi protest camps in the coun- support of Mursi at a rally in Lahore yesterday. Brotherhood. ite of Israel as well,” said Mohammad The lower house of parliament try’s bloodiest day in decades. In Pakistan’s largest city Karachi, Hussain Mahnati, a local JI local and foreign ministry on Thursday AGENCIES AUGUST 17, 2013 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY Nehru allowed Five bodies overflights of US spy planes, found in sunk says report

WASHINGTON: After India’s defeat in the 1962 war with China, then prime minis- submarine ter Jawaharlal Nehru allowed American U-2 spy plane over- flights of Tibet and border areas, Finding survivors unlikely: Navy including a refuelling track over India, according to newly- MUMBAI: The “severely dis- government-run Sir J J Hospital declassified CIA documents. figured” bodies of five sailors for autopsy, DNA and other tests Nehru approved overflights were recovered yesterday from to ascertain their identity. by U-2 missions covering border the submarine which sank here The search operation has areas with China on November on Wednesday with 18 men. The slowed down as only one diver 11, 1962, according to a report navy declared that finding any can work at a time owing to the released yesterday by George survivor was unlikely. cramped space inside the subma- Washington University’s National The five bodies were found by rine. Also, all equipment in the Security Archive, which obtained naval divers from the 2,300 tonne deep sea fighter vessel has shifted a Central Intelligence Agency INS Sindhurakshak, which was from their original location. (CIA) history of the U-2 spy plane recently refurbished in Russia The navy said “the state of (the Indian Navy divers on board an inflatable craft next to the conning tower INS Sindhurakshak (covered with red programme through a public and which suffered explosions bodies) and conditions within the and white sheet) as it lies submerged inside the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai yesterday. records request. and fire as it went down after submarine leads to the firm con- The agreement with India to Tuesday midnight. “Efforts to clusion that finding any surviving The bodies extricated from the made almost impossible due to and laboured progress,” the state- allow U-2 overflights of Tibet trace and retrieve the other 13 personnel is unlikely. submarine “are severely disfig- jammed doors and hatches, dis- ment said. and the Sino-Indian border areas bodies of sailors are underway on “The damage and destruction ured and not identifiable due to torted ladders, oily and muddy After hours of “continuous from Takhli airbase in Thailand, a war footing and we are hopeful within the submarine around the severe burns”, the navy said, add- waters inside the submerged sub- diving effort in these conditions”, including a refuelling track over of further recoveries by late this control room area indicates that ing they have been sent to INHS marine resulting in total darkness navy divers finally reached the India, plus two deployments to evening,” an official said. the feasibility of locating bodies Asvini, the naval hospital, for pos- and nil visibility ... even with high- second compartment behind the Charbartia airbase in 1964, is now These five were among the 15 of personnel in the forward part sible DNA identification. power underwater lamps. conning tower early yesterday. declassified. sailors and three officers who got of the submarine is also very This “is likely to take some “Distorted and twisted metal The navy said it was concen- The use of abandoned First trapped in the submarine berthed remote as the explosion and very more time”. It said the boiling within the very restricted space trating on reaching the interiors World War base Charbatia near at the Mumbai dock once disaster high temperatures, which melted waters inside the submarine pre- due to extensive internal dam- of the submarine to “locate and Cuttack in Odisha was agreed struck. Eight of the sailors were steel within, would have inciner- vented any entry till Wednesday age caused by the explosion fur- extricate any remaining bodies during a meeting between then married. ated the bodies too,” the state- noon. “Access to the inner com- ther worsened conditions for the that may still be trapped within”. US president John F Kennedy and The bodies were sent to the ment added. partments of the submarine was divers. “This resulted in very slow IANS then Indian president Sarvapelli Radhakrishnan on June 3, 1963, but since India took longer to improve it, the missions resumed from Takhli. According to the working Pro-Gorkhaland groups form joint action committee paper, the November 10, 1963, mission was the longest flown by a U-2 at 11 hours 45 minutes, and DARJEELING: Several The GJM and other parties, We have also chalked out plans for India Gorkha League, Hill BJP On August 26, a human chain the pilot was so exhausted that parties led by the Gorkha which are fighting for a sepa- a week-long agitation and have and the Congress were among the would be formed in the afternoon. project managers limited future Janmukti Morcha (GJM) yes- rate Gorkhaland state, called for requested people not to venture parties which attended parleys at “People will come out wearing flights to 10 hours endurance. terday formed a Gorkhaland the five-day “Ghar Bhitra Janta” outdoors (August 19-23),” GJM the Darjeeling Gymkhana Club. black bands with posters demand- The report suggests that the Joint Action Committee (GJAC) (people inside homes) agitation in leader and JCAC Chairman Enos The meeting chalked out agi- ing Gorkhaland and condemning first deployment to Charbatia in and called for a five-day agita- support of their demand. Das Pradhan said. tation programmes from August the attitude of the state govern- May 1964 ended because of the tion starting August 19 during “We have decided to form the Besides the GJM, the 19 to 26. “There will be Raksha ment hanging from their neck,” death of Nehru, whom it mistak- which it asked people to stay GJAC to step up the movement for Communist Party of Bandhan processions on August said Pradhan. enly describes as president. indoors, a GJM leader said here. a separate state of Gorkhaland. Revolutionary (Marxist), the All 24 and 25,” said Pradhan. IANS IANS 1,000 onion outlets in Delhi No rift over Advani from today and Modi, says BJP NEW DELHI: Onions at a nominal price will be available KOLKATA: Denying a rift agenda. The question is not about here from today through 1,000 within the party over Narendra Modi. We have not yet declared outlets, including 600 mobile Modi, the BJP yesterday denied him the prime ministerial candi- vans, an official statement said that having the Gujarat chief date,” Naidu said. yesterday. minister as its national election “The question is whether other “The city government is facili- campaign chief would hurt the parties want to join hands with tating sale of onions at reasonable prospects of forging alliances the BJP. The answer is 23 parties prices across Delhi at no-profit with other parties. are already with us,” Naidu added. no-loss basis. From August 17, the BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu Following Modi’s elevation as the sale would start at about 1,000 rubbished reports that there BJP’s campaign chief, the Janata points across the city,” said the was a “conflict of views” between Dal (United) severed its 17-year-old statement. Modi and BJP leader L K Advani. ties with thea lliance. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Advani had on Thursday said Naidu rubbished reports that Dikshit yestserday held a meet- Independence Day was not a day the BJP was working towards ing with Food and Supplies to “criticise one another”, after realigning with West Bengal Chief Minister Haroon Yusuf, Delhi Modi attacked Prime Minister Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Development Minister Raj Manmohan Singh. Trinamool Congress, but said Kumar Chauhan, Chairman of “There is no conflict of views the party was open to others who National Agricultural Cooperative because Advani-ji has not named want to free the country from the Marketing Federation of India anyone. I have gone through his clutches of the Congress. (NAFED) Bijender Singh, Chief statement very carefully,” Naidu “I am not talking of any partic- Secretary D M Spolia and other told mediapersons on queries ular party, but once the elections senior officials to discuss ways to whether Advani’s comments were happen there will be political curb the rising onion prices. a rebuke for Modi for slamming alignment and realignment. I According to the statement the prime minister. don’t want to speculate, but who- heavy rains, floods and damaged Naidu defended Modi saying ever wants to free the country roads in some parts of the coun- Manmohan Singh had failed the from the clutches of the Congress try have contributed to the lack of country and everybody had the is welcome,” said Naidu. adequate supply of onion to Delhi. right to question him. The former About the BJP’s prime ministerial The restrictions on movement BJP president said Modi’s image candidate, Naidu said: “The ruling of traffic due to security reasons would not be a factor in his party party (Congress) has not declared ahead of Independence Day fur- allying with others. their candidate yet, then why should ther added to the woes. “Alliances are not based on the opposition be in hurry?” IANS personalities, they are based on IANS

Egypt factions urged to hold talks

NEW DELHI: India yester- with concern, particularly the the spokesperson said. day said it has been following tragic loss of large number of The army-backed Egyptian with concern the developments lives in Cairo and other cities. We government led by interim in Egypt where over 600 peo- urge all sides to abjure violence, President Adly Mansour cracked ple, mostly supporters of ousted exercise maximum restraint and down on the sit-ins by tens of president Mohammed Mursi, engage in an earnest dialogue that thousands of Mursi supporters have been killed and urged both will promote national reconcilia- on Wednesday, leading to violence sides to abjure violence and tion and permit an early transi- in which over 600 people, mostly engage in dialogue. tion towards a stable and peaceful protesters, were killed. In a statement, the external democratic set-up,” the statement The violence on Wednesday affairs ministry spokesperson said. is said to be by far the deadliest also said that the Indian mission “Our Mission in Cairo is in day since the 2011 popular upris- in Cairo is in close touch with the close contact with all sections ing began in Egypt and saw the Indian community, who number of the Indian community and toppling of long-time ruler Hosni around 3,000, and with the Indian with the Indian companies that Mubarak. companies to ensure their contin- have a presence in Egypt. We Both pro and anti -Mursi ued safety. are maintaining active liaison camps have been holding huge “We have been following the with the concerned authorities protests across Egypt. recent developments in Egypt to ensure their continued safety,” IANS AUGUST 17, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business ON SATURDAY 14

Libyan refinery loads first tanker after unrest Protests throttle crude oil exports

LONDON: Libya’s largest refin- previously halted oilfields accumu- ery yesterday loaded its first lates, traders said. petroleum products tanker since On Thursday, Libya’s govern- labour unrest hit the oil sector ment said it would use all means, nearly three weeks ago but pro- including military force if necessary, tests still throttled the country’s to prevent the guards at the main vital crude oil exports, shipping ports from carrying out plans to sell sources said. oil independently of the NOC. The tanker Cape Benat began Libya’s oil output has been loading kerosene, used for jet fuel, slashed to just 500,000-600,000 early yesterday at the Ras Lanuf barrels per day compared with refinery, which also produces production capacity of 1.6 million high-sulphur diesel. The ship was bpd, representing over 1.5 percent expected to head for Italy. of global oil demand and its loss has Pay strikes and other protests propped up international oil prices. at Libya’s two largest ports as well There were nearly 20 tankers A view of the Cuadrilla drilling site in Balcombe, southern England, yesterday. Caudrilla Resources has suspended drilling in southern England in as oil fields have pushed crude oil waiting to load crude oil and collect response to the threat of an escalating protest against fracking. output and exports, the lifeblood of or deliver oil products near Libya’s the north African Opec member’s blocked ports. economy, to the lowest levels since The 220,000 barrels per day Ras UK driller suspends work after protest threat the civil war that ousted Muammar Lanuf refinery, which is operated Gaddafi in 2011. by Lerco, a joint venture between Shipping sources said crude NOC and UAE’s Al Ghurair group, LONDON: An oil explorer has suspended Critics say it can trigger small earthquakes to take place in Nottinghamshire, was behind loading remained halted by strik- is running on crude oil from storage drilling in southern England in response to and pollute the water supply, while others the expected increase in demonstrators. ing security guards at Ras Lanuf, because the oil fields that feed it have the threat of an escalating protest against oppose any oil and gas exploration in pictur- Local protesters and a group called “Frack the second biggest sea terminal, but been nearly completely shut down. fracking, the controversial process used to esque parts of the countryside. Off” have formed the opposition so far. products loading from the refinery Arabian Gulf Oil Company extract gas and oil from shale deposits that UK-based Cuadrilla said yesterday it would A Cuadrilla spokesman said the company is separate. (AGOCO) produces the Sarir has transformed the US energy market. scale back its operations in West Sussex after had brought in extra fences ahead of the “The vessel was loading kerosene, and Mesla grades, which feed the Caudrilla Resources’ site in the village of taking advice from police who are concerned weekend. Security firm G4S has provided started at around 1am” a shipping refinery, but output has been hit Balcombe in rural West Sussex has become a about an influx of up to 1,000 extra protest- security since the start of drilling in July. source with direct knowledge of the by oilfield protests as well as power focal point for protesters who oppose frack- ers this weekend. “We plan to resume full “I’m quite worried about safety on the site, situation said. supply problems. Only the Mesla ing, a technique the company has pioneered operations as soon as it is safe to do so,” the we have a group who are relocating a camp According to maritime ana- oilfield is still going at a rate of in the search for shale gas in Britain. privately owned company said. to the site, who have said publicly that they lyst Windward, another products some 10,000bpd, Shakmak said on Public debate on shale gas and fracking Cuadrilla is drilling a conventional test will be taking direct action against the site,” tanker, the Minerva Julie, was Thursday. has intensified in recent months. well to look for oil in Balcombe, but has not Cuadrilla Chief Executive Francis Egan told making its way into port to pick One source close to the matter The government in July proposed tax ruled out seeking permission for fracking at ITV News on Thursday. up products from the Ras Lanuf said that Lerco planned to bring in breaks for shale gas investment as part of a later date depending on the results of its Britain is thought to have major shale refinery. a shipment of chemical components its efforts to follow the United States, where initial exploration. reserves which could help reverse a rising State-owned National Oil Corp to restart its production of liquefied surging production has lowered energy prices Conoco Philips drilled a well on the same dependency on energy imports, but the nas- (NOC) had hoped the largest ter- petroleum gas products. and cut imports. site in 1986 which found evidence of oil, but cent industry has yet to prove that it can minal, Es Sider, would resume Traders said NOC awarded a ten- Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday not in commercial quantities. make oil and gas flow from the rocks. crude oil exports by the end of this der, issued on Aug. 5, to supply the gave his unequivocal support to fracking, Acquiring fracking permits in the UK is a UK utility Centrica recently bought week but deputy oil minister Omar country with 75,000-100,000 tonnes risking angering his party’s supporters from lengthy process which often takes months. a quarter stake in Cuadrilla’s northern Shakmak said on Thursday these per month of 0.1 percent sulphur more rural areas where any exploration is Cuadrilla is the only company to have England shale licences. French oil company prospects had faded. gasoil - high sulphur diesel - from likely to take place. fracked a shale gas well elsewhere in Britain, Total has also said it would like to explore The exports that continue are October through January 2014. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, retrieves making its activities a target for protesters. for shale gas in Britain. Britain also has a mainly from the port of Zawiya in Details of the winners had not yet gas and oil trapped in tight-layered rock for- Sussex Police said the relocation to history of environmental activism causing the west while Mellitah is due to emerged. mations by injecting high-pressure water, Balcombe of a climate camp under the ban- disruption to infrastructure projects. resume soon, once enough oil from REUTERS sand and chemicals. ner “No Dash for Gas”, which had been due REUTERS

Ooredoo vows Russia denies ‘trade Tokyo investors ‘affordable’ eye US economy, mobile access war’ against Ukraine Japan data MOSCOW: Russia denied yes- eventual membership in the for Myanmar terday that it was waging a 28-nation bloc. this week trade war with Ukraine to dis- Ukrainian Prime Minister YANGON: Qatari telecoms courage its ex-Soviet neighbour Mykola Azarov acknowledged TOKYO: Tokyo investors next giant Ooredoo yesterday pledged from establishing closer politi- “difficulties” at the border on week will be looking for more to introduce “affordable” phone cal and economic relations with Thursday but urged the media clues about the state of the US services to Myanmar next year the European Union. not to play up the scale of the economy, while Japanese trade as it pumps $15bn into one of The Ukrainian Employers’ dispute. data due Monday mark the lat- the world’s few remaining fron- Federation reported on “Do not inflate these problems est measure of Tokyo’s growth- tier mobile markets. Wednesday that all goods destined artificially,” Azarov cautioned. boosting plan. The firm, which in June along for Russia were being held up at Ukraine was due to raise the In the week to August 16, the with Norway’s Telenor won bids the border without an explanation issue later on Friday during a benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose to provide mobile coverage to a and subjected to rigorous checks. meeting in the Russian city of 0.26 percent, or 34.92 points, to nation where less than 10 per- The claim — supported by Suzdal of a commission overseeing 13,650.11, while the broader Topix cent of the population has tele- such Ukrainian giants as the trade in the Moscow-led Customs index of all first-section shares phone access, should be formally mining firm Metinvest and the Union that also groups Belarus added 0.15 percent, or 1.74 points, awarded its 15-year 3G licence by beer maker Obolon — follows the and Kazakhstan. to 1,142.65. the end of this year. suspension in July of Russian Russian officials have said that The Tokyo market see-sawed It will then start to roll out imports from the popular choco- Ukrainian goods would pass the for much of the past week with its mobile services — including late brand Roshen over alleged border more smoothly if Kiev many market players out of money transfers and weather quality concerns. agreed to join the union — some- action during a Japanese sum- data for farmers — ithin six The head of Russia’s consumer thing that Ukrainian President mer holiday. months, a company executive told rights protection agency con- Viktor Yanukovych has thus far But with a mixed bag of fresh reporters in Yangon. “People can firmed on Friday that Ukrainian refused to do. data on the US economy this use Ooredoo’s services next year... goods were being put to more Nationalist politicians in week, dealers will be looking for we need to build quickly, not only exacting inspections but denied Ukraine who support closer more evidence that the Federal in cities but also in rural areas,” any link to politics. European integration accuse Reserve is getting ready to pull Ross Cormack said. “We have a long and specific Moscow of trying to force Kiev back on its massive stimulus Few in Myanmar can currently list of complaints ... relating into the Russian bloc by imposing plan, known as quantitative afford mobile phones and SIM to the protection of consumer the trade restrictions. easing. card fees, which in the past cost rights,” Federal Service for the There were initial signs on “If US Fed tapering proceeds, about $200, although the govern- Oversight of Consumer Protection Friday of Ukraine being prepared a great deal more air is likely to ment is now trying to make prices and Welfare chief Gennady to take countermeasures that come out of equities markets gen- more affordable. Onishchenko was quoted as say- included its own bans on imports erally, which will naturally spell Asked how calls will be priced ing by Interfax. from Russia. more selling for Japan shares,” — in a country where about a quar- “If you want to call this a trade Kiev’s Segodnya daily said said a director of equity trading ter of the population live below the war, then call it a trade war,” he Yanukovych had ordered his at a foreign brokerage. national poverty line — Cormack added. “But we are conducting National Security and Defence While a pull back on the Fed said: “I can’t say exactly but you will professional work.” Council to convene an emergency scheme would mean the world’s find it attractive and affordable.” Russia remains Ukraine’s clos- meeting focused on reciprocal largest economy is on firmer In July Myanmar’s government est trade partner and is respon- measures Ukraine could take footing, the move could spook said Ooredoo had “committed” to sible for nearly a quarter of its against Russia. investors since the easy money selling SIM cards for about $1.5 total exports. Segodnya added that Ukraine plan has been credited with and to charging roughly four cents But the authorities in Kiev are was banning the import of grain helping support global equity for off-peak calls. “We will deliver keen to reverse that dependence from some Russian regions in markets. SIM cards and all the services at and have been leading negotia- Siberia and the North Caucasus Despite those fears, the Nikkei every road-side store and to vil- Members of Ukrainian civil organisation “Nastup” burn goods produced in tions with Brussels over a trade owing to fears over the spread of may still be an attractive buy, the lages,” Cormack said. Russia as they hold a rally against what they see as Russian trade war on agreement that could serve as foot and mouth disease. trading director added. AFP Ukraine in front of the Russian embassy in Kiev yesterday. a stepping stone for Ukraine’s AFP AFP AUGUST 17, 2013 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY Indian rupee, stocks plunge Relentless selling pressure pushes Sensex 3.97pc down; rupee hits 62.03 TDF disappointed by

MUMBAI: India’s rupee plunged bids for French units to a new low yesterday and stocks saw their sharpest single-day fall PARIS: Broadcast tower operator Telediffusion de France in nearly two years on fears that (TDF) received bids below the ¤4bn ($5.32bn) asking price foreign capital could flow back to for its domestic unit, raising concern about its ability to seal the United States as the US econ- a deal and repay debt, said three sources with knowledge of omy improves. the process. The rupee, one of Asia’s worst- TDF, which provides services for broadcasting and telecoms performing currencies this year, hit companies, is owned by TPG, AXA Private Equity, Charterhouse a record of Rs62.03 to the green- and French sovereign wealth fund FSI, which had aimed to raise back, slipping past its previous low at least ¤4bn to help repay debts of ¤3.8bn ($5.04bn) and avoid a of Rs61.80 on August 6. costly restructuring, two of the sources said. They hoped that a India’s stock markets saw relent- successful disposal of the French unit, which accounts for more less selling pressure, with the than half of TDF’s revenues, would pave the way for a sale of Bombay Stock Exchange’s bench- TDF’s second-largest unit, its German business, according to the mark 30-share Sensex index plung- sources, who asked not to be named because the talks are private. ing to close down 3.97 percent or TDF owns television and radio masts, as well as satellite 769.41 points — its sharpest single- and Internet operations. Prospective bidders could be hesitat- day point fall since September 2011 ing because a recent network sharing deal between two of its — to 18,598.18 points. clients, Bouygues Telecom and domestic rival SFR, could mean After the stock markets closed, a fall in business, one of the sources said. a finance ministry official said that A combination of the financial crisis and setbacks in techno- excessive forex exchange volatility logical advances has hurt TDF’s prospects since it was bought in was impacting the equity markets. 2006. Commenting this year in its annual report on its debt levels, “The rupee worry spills over to TDF said: “Our initial business plan from 2006 was based on a the equity markets and the equity number of assumptions that did not all materialise — for example worry spills over to the rupee. It mobile handheld TV, which has still not seen the light of day.” is a potentially vicious circle,” an People close to the company have previously said that its own- unnamed ministry official told the ers would not sell the French business for less than ¤4bn, which Press Trust of India news agency. A pedestrian walks past a foreign exchange dealer’s shop window with signs of various currencies in Mumbai yesterday. they see as the low-end value assuming earning before inter- The currency recovered mar- est, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) improved to ginally but still ended the day at prop up the rupee. On Wednesday, Udasi said investors were wor- markets, over concerns about the about ¤380m in 2014 and applying sector multiples of 10.5-11.5 a record closing low of Rs61.65 to the central bank said that Indian ried that despite India’s long-term weakening economy, regulatory times EBITDA. the dollar. firms can invest only 100 percent of growth potential, “things are not in data shows. “There is complete However people on the other side of the negotiation table are Yesterday’s sharp decline reflects their net worth abroad, down from shape in the interim period”. lack of faith in the markets. We are less bullish on forecast EBITDA and tend to apply 8-10 sector fears that recent measures by the an earlier 400 percent. “This is a panic fall,” said Ajay slowly, but surely, likely to enter a multiples, they said. Investment Board (PSP Investments) in Reserve Bank of India may not be Resident Indians will be able to Bodke, an investment strategist phase of a crisis,” Param Sarma, a consortium with infrastructure fund Arcus emerged as the able to help slow down foreign fund send only $75,000 out of the coun- at Mumbai brokerage Prabhudas chief executive at NSP Forex, a most motivated bidders in the first round of the auction that outflows and the ailing currency, try each year — down from $200,000 Lilladher, as demand for the dol- consultancy firm said. closed last week, the sources said. dealers said. previously. “(Wednesday’s) measures lar has risen on expectations of Meanwhile, local gold prices surged They added that others invited to the auction included India’s markets were closed on have caused fresh concern, suggest- a scaling back of US stimulus in by Rs1,310 ($21.20) per 10 grams, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), U.S. mobile tower Thursday, so yesterday was the first ing that one can bring in capital (into September. most in two years, to Rs31,010 on operators Crown Castle and American Tower as well as infra- day the markets reacted to new India) but it is difficult to take it out,” Since June 1, overseas funds have strong demand from stores ahead of structure funds Borealis, Macquarie , AMP Capital and BNP measures announced by the central said Sonam Udasi, head of research pulled out a combined $11.58 billion religious festival season. Paribas-backed Antin. bank to control forex outflows and with investment bank IDBI Capital. in equities and debt from India’s AFP REUTERS

Taiwan lowers 2013 economic S&P downgrades Tunisia two notches citing unrest PARIS: Rating agency calling for the resignation of the political killing since February. debt obligations. And S&P said the to support economic growth. S&P growth forecast Standard&Poor’s downgraded Islamist-led government and The credit rating agency down- outlook was negative, meaning there said it estimated that general gov- debt issued by Tunisia by two the dissolution of the National graded its notation for Tunisian was one chance in three that it ernment debt would rise from 44 TAIPEI: Taiwan revised its notches yesterday because of ris- Constituent Assembly since the long-term debt from “BB-” to “B”, would lower the rating again in the percent of gross domestic product expectations for full year eco- ing opposition to the government. assassination in July of opposition indicating low confidence that the next 12 months if the economic and in 2012 to 50 percent in 2016. nomic growth downwards yes- Tunisia’s opposition have been MP Mohamed Brahmi, the second country will be able to respect its social situation threatened reforms AFP terday, citing a weaker global economic outlook and slowing QATARI MARKET exports and consumer spending in the second half. Sterling at 2-month high against Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P The Directorate General of Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 103.00 0.40% Aa2 AA Budget, Accounting and Statistics Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 104.38 1.80% Aa2 AA forecast annual expansion at 2.31 Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 118.88 2.89% Aa2 AA percent, down from the 2.4 per- basket as rate hike bets grow Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 111.88 3.19% Aa2 AA cent outlined in May and 3.59 percent in February. LONDON: Sterling hit a two- 1-1/2 month low. Bank of England $1.5750 level though there might Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 105.88 3.68% Aa2 AA “The growth of external month high against a basket of governor Mark Carney indicated be some pullbacks along the way. Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 157.75 4.73% Aa2 AA demand is subject to the decelera- currencies yesterday as improv- the bank would keep interest Sterling overnight interbank Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 114.50 5.37% Aa2 AA tion of emerging markets in the ing UK data prompted markets rates at 0.5 percent until the job- average rates (SONIA) — the very Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 105.75 5.35% Aa2 AA second half of 2013. Combining to bring forward expectations less rate falls to 7 percent, which short-term interest rates that Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 104.00 1.38% Aa2 AA with domestic demand, Taiwan’s when British interest rates will it anticipates for the end of 2016. form the basis of lending costs to GDP is forecasted to grow 2.31 rise. But with recent UK data point- the wider economy — have inched Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 109.63 3.42% Aa2 AA percent in 2013,” the agency said But traders said the pound ing to a stronger recovery, there towards, pricing in a first rate rise Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 104.75 1.14% A1 A- in a statement. could struggle to see further gains are doubts on whether the bank in 18 months compared with two Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 103.25 2.44% A1 A- Exports, roughly accounting for as sellers emerge at higher levels. can keep rates at record lows for years on Wednesday. QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.38 1.75% NR NR about two-thirds of the island’s Trade-weighted sterling was that long, reflected in Friday’s rise The two-year SONIA was QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.38 1.58% Aa3 A+ GDP, were expected to grow 2.3 last at 81.5, having hit an intra- in 10-year gilt yields to close to at 0.55625 percent while the percent in 2013, down from a day high of 81.6, which matched a two-year peak. “Markets were 18-month rate was at 0.4875, QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 103.63 2.29% Aa3 A+ previously estimated expansion the peak hit on June 17. Against looking for concrete assurances pointing to bets on a BoE rate Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 103.13 2.58% A2 A- of 2.82 percent while consumer the dollar it slightly lower at from the BoE when it came to hike in 2015. Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 104.50 1.89% A2 A spending growth was forecast to $1.5620, having hit an intra-day forward guidance and we didn’t An unexpected division among Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 122.38 3.57% A2 A grow just 1.59 percent for the full peak of $1.5657, its highest since really get that,” said Craig Erlam, BoE policymakers about the guid- Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 104.75 4.01% A2 A year, it said. June 19. Some traders said they market analyst at Alpari. ance plan this week, coupled with In the second half of 2013, GDP would start shorting sterling “There were too many caveats recent positive economic reports Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 101.50 4.83% A2 A was expected to grow 2.54 per- around the 1.5660/90 level, which and there was nothing conclu- ranging from rising house prices and Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 105.75 0.30% Aa3 A cent, down from a previous fore- would act as near-term resistance. sive that says interest rates will retail sales has supported the notion Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.75 3.52% Aa3 A cast of 2.92 percent, while export The euro was flat at at 85.33 stay low for three years,” he said, of an earlier tightening in policy. Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 108.50 3.92% Aa3 A growth was expected to slow to pence, but still trading close to a adding that sterling could test the REUTERS 2.2 percent, it added. SOVEREIGNS Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Tesco bets on Sao Paulo aviation fair Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 102.88 0.92% Aa2 AA Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 120.50 2.79% Aa2 AA Downton Abbey Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 108.50 2.56% NR NR Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 105.50 3.31% NR NR for sales boost Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 116.75 4.93% NR NR Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 107.63 5.34% NR NR LONDON: Tesco has become Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 104.38 0.88% Aa2 AA the latest British retailer to link-up with television show Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 113.25 3.49% NR BBB Downton Abbey, hoping an Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 100.75 5.36% NR BBB association with the popular Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 84.00 8.98% Caa1 CCC+ post-Edwardian period drama Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 103.25 3.97% NR BBB- will boost sales of its premium *Periodic Distribution Amount own-brand food range. 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Baseball Results LA Angels 8 NY Yankees 4 Stroud, Fisher share lead St Louis 6 Pittsburgh 5 Oakland 5 Houston 0 San Francisco 4 Washington 3 Defending champion Garcia one shot behind in North Carolina Toronto 2 Boston 1 Detroit 4 Kansas City 1 GREENSBORO, United Tampa Bay 7 Seattle 1 States/United States: England’s Ross Fisher shot PGA Championship Cincinnati 2 Milwaukee 1 a six-under-par 64 to share Minnesota 4 Chicago White Sox 3 the lead after the opening round of the PGA Wyndham NY Mets 4 San Diego 1 Championship yesterday, with eyes likely July defending champion Sergio Garcia one shot back. Sharapova Fisher, a member of Europe’s 2010 Ryder Cup winning team, is date in 2016 splits with tied for the lead with American Chris Stroud. LOS ANGELES: With last are going to keep their place in “My manager said, ‘You’ve got week’s PGA Championship at golf in 2016,” the silver-haired Connors after nothing to lose. Just go out there Oak Hill now consigned to the Bishop said. all guns blazing and see what hap- record books, organisers are “The bigger question is going pens,’” Fisher said. preparing for the prospect of to be, when 2016 is over with, one match “I know what I’ve got to do, and a July date when the 2016 edi- is the impact of the Olympics I’ve just got to go enjoy it, and if tion of the year’s final major is really worth the strain that it CINCINNATI: Four-time it’s meant to be, it’ll happen. ... I staged. puts on the scheduling for the Grand Slam title winner and don’t want it to end here.” The PGA Championship usu- four majors in golf?” former world number one Maria Garcia began his title defence ally takes place in early August With the four major titles Sharapova has split with coach with a bogey-free round that but, with golf reappearing as an long established as the ‘Holy Jimmy Connors after just one included five birdies. The Olympic sport at the 2016 Games Grail’ for professional golfers, match, the Russian star’s agent Spaniard is bidding to become after an absence of more than many have questioned whether said yesterday. the first repeat winner since Sam a century, the schedule for the the return of the sport to the Max Eisenbud confirmed that Snead in the 1950s. four majors that year is almost Olympics should perhaps have world number three Sharapova He was joined in third place by certain to be revamped. featured amateur players only. and Connors, an eight-time major former Masters champion Trevor Although the competition “I have been kind of a tra- winner in his playing days, are Immelman of South Africa, schedule has yet to announced ditionalist with the Olympics no longer working together after Robert Garrigus, Australia’s Matt Chris Stroud hits a shot for the August 5-21 Games in from day one,” said Bishop. “I linking-up for just one event in Jones, Andrew Svoboda, Morgan on the 9th hole during Rio de Janeiro, the golfing com- always enjoyed basketball in the Cincinnati. Hoffmann, Jordan Spieth and the first round of the ponent is expected to make up Olympics, from a United States Sharapova hired Connors, who Patrick Reed. Wyndham Championship in two weeks, leaving the PGA standpoint, when it was our best once coached Andy Roddick for 18 Australia’s Stuart Appleby Greensboro, North Carolina, Championship with very little college players who were ama- months, last month in the wake carded a four-under 66 for a yesterday. RIGHT: Ross room to manouevre during a teurs not professionals. of her Wimbledon second round share of 11th place with Charles hectic late summer. “The interesting question exit after previous coach Thomas Fisher of England reacts to Howell, Aussie John Senden, “I don’t see how we can do would be to ask one of the top Hogstedt had said that he wanted a putt on the 9th hole. Bryce Molder and Chris Kirk. anything other than move it (the PGA Tour players or European to cut back on his travel schedule Fisher is a rookie on the PGA Championship) up earlier,” Tour players, ‘Would you rather and spend time with his family. USPGA Tour but he has four vic- PGA of America president Ted win a major championship or The Sharapova-Connors link- tories on the European circuit. He Bishop said. would you rather win a gold up seemed odd to many when was in the day’s final threesome “2016 is also a Ryder Cup year medal in the Olympics?’ it was announced and the pair to start on the back nine, and he and I know the PGA of America “But until the format is a apparently had little time to get made his climb late. wants the PGA Championship lot clearer to people on exactly acquainted with the player try- Garcia’s birdie putts came from to figure in on who makes the what it is going to be in the 2016 ing to heal a hip injury in time to five, 13, two, 14 and three feet. On United States Ryder Cup team. Olympics, it’s very hard to say prepares for the US Open which the par-five 15th he two-putted Wyndham Championship scores “So for us to go after the what the impact of the Games is starts on August 26. from 49 feet. Olympics with the scheduling going to be on professional golf.” As it is, Sharapova, who lost “Obviously I made some good GREENSBORO, United States/North Carolina: Leading first-round scores yesterday in the $5.3m of the (PGA Tour’s) FedExCup A playing format of 72 holes 2-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 in the Cincinnati two putts from long range,” US PGA Wyndham Championship (USA unless noted, par-70): (play-offs), I don’t see how that of individual strokeplay has been WTA tournament second round Garcia said. “I did hit the ball could happen.” proposed by golf to maximise to American Sloane Stephens on pretty nicely which was nice to 64 Chris Stroud, Ross Fisher (ENG) The British Open, the third the number of countries capa- Tuesday, is now in Florida train- see and holed a couple nice putts major championship of the ble of competing and winning a ing, while Connors returned here and there. 65 Matt Jones (AUS), Robert Garrigus, Andrew Svoboda, Jordan Spieth, Sergio Garcia (ESP), season, is generally held in medal at the Games, with one quickly to his Santa Barbara base “Overall, I’m very happy with Trevor Immelman (RSA), Morgan Hoffmann, Patrick Reed mid-July but Bishop was not week designated for the men and in California. the round and hoping to do more at all concerned that the PGA another for the women. He tweeted on Thursday: “Back 66 John Senden (AUS), Bryce Molder, Chris Kirk, Stuart Appleby (AUS), Charles Howell of the same tomorrow.” Championship might lose some However, the International home in SB-- family, pups, and The Wyndham Championship of its lustre if it was held so soon Olympic Committee does not home cooking. Oh -- I forgot, and 67 Bob Estes, Matt Every, Rory Sabbatini (RSA), Brian Harman, Noh Seung-Yul (KOR), Alistair is the final event before the Presnell (AUS), Scott Gardiner (AUS), Jim Herman, Michael Letzig, Shawn Stefani, Scott afterwards in 2016. plan on finalising the competi- a vodka on the rocks.” FedExCup play-offs start next Langley, Scott Verplank, Zach Johnson, Geoff Ogilvy (AUS), Martin Flores, Doug LaBelle, “I have no doubt about the tion schedule for the 2016 Games Sharapova will be bidding for week and players are battling to Henrik Norlander (SWE), Park Jin (KOR) tradition of all four majors, they until next year. REUTERS her second title at the US Open get into the top 125. AFP after winning in 2006. AFP Badminton: Cycling: UCI candidates McQuaid, BWF air-con ruling leaves Cookson in another angry clash ZURICH: The bitter battle for believes otherwise he has duty to an open and properly conducted Malaysia hot the presidency of cycling’s gov- ensure that this allegation is pub- democratic election and vote for erning body took another twist licly withdrawn.” the UCI presidency. To suggest and bothered yesterday as the two candi- McQuaid confirmed that the otherwise is nonsense. dates, incumbent Pat McQuaid Swiss, Thai and Moroccan nomi- “It is also true that I, and many MALAYSIA: The and challenger Brian Cookson, nations were all received before in our sport, have legitimate and Badminton World were involved in another angry the deadline in accordance with growing concerns about the Federation (BWF) have exchange. the UCI rules. retrospective rule bending and failed to cool a heated McQuaid, bidding for a third “As the president of British attempted manipulation that is row between Chinese mandate as president of the Cycling, Brian Cookson must taking place at present. and Malaysian govern- International Cycling Union explain his decision to “In my view it is ing bodies over air con- (UCI), angrily hit out allow his fed- therefore absolutely ditioning during the at suggestions that he eration - that correct that British men’s singles final at the had broken the rules is funding his Cycling and others world championships on governing the nomi- campaign - to have raised concerns Sunday. nation of candidates, behave in this regarding proposed Badminton Association describing the claim way and to rule changes which of Malaysia (BAM) were as “outrageous.” use its consid- have a direct impact unhappy as temperatures Cookson, head of erable finan- on the election process soared at the Tianhe Sports British Cycling and the cial clout to now under way. These Center in Guangzhou dur- only challenger so far, employ law- concerns need to be ing the showpiece match replied that McQuaid’s yers to chal- addressed. between their charge Lee remarks were “another lenge issues in “Far from ducking Chong Wei and China’s Lin attempt to denigrate the election,” these issues, for the Dan. the current presiden- said McQuaid. good of cycling and the Lee had taken the first tial process.” Brian Cookson “I do not Pat McQuaid reputation of the UCI, set but struggled in the Irishman McQuaid, fear an open it is critical that open- second before quitting in who has been president since election and I am not at all con- ness and transparency guide our the third with cramps, with 2005, failed to win the back- cerned by my ability to secure the procedures and not desperate Malaysian media claiming ing of his own country’s Irish support and votes that I require manoeuvres and outbursts by Mr that the air conditioning Cycling federation but received to be re-elected as UCI President,” McQuaid.” had been switched off mid- nominations from the federa- he added. Cookson has based his can- way through the match to tions of Switzerland, Thailand “While it would appear that didacy on restoring trust and aid Lin. and Morocco. Brian has lost confidence in his credibility in the UCI as the The BWF, after que- However, he later received a own ability, I continue to challenge organisation struggles to deal ries from the BAM, said letter from British Cycling’s law- him to allow the UCI Congress with the aftermath of the Lance they had contacted the yers which suggested the UCI and its voting delegates to decide.” Armstrong doping scandal and local organising commit- had accepted his nominations Cookson, who has been presi- allegations it did not do enough tee (LOC) and had been from the Thai and Moroccan dent of British Cycling since 1997, to catch the American, who was assured there was no foul federations after the closing date, quickly hit back with a statement stripped of his seven Tour de play. McQuaid said. of his own. France titles last year. “The LOC confirmed “That is an outrageous sug- “Sadly today we have seen yet McQuaid has already described that the air-conditioners in gestion,” said McQuaid in a another attempt by the existing Cookson’s election manifesto as the venue were not turned statement. UCI President, Pat McQuaid, to “half-baked, fundamentally flawed off at any time during the “Brian must immediately denigrate the current presidential and financially impractical”. The finals,” the BWF said in a make a statement on whether he election process,” he said. election is scheduled to take place statement. REUTERS believes that to be true and if he “I want nothing more than in September. REUTERS AUGUST 17, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 ON SATURDAY Easy for Djokovic in Cincinnati Roger Federer needs three sets to beat Tommy Haas; no worries for Serena Williams

CINCINNATI, OHIO: World number one Novak Djokovic continued his quest for a first title at the Cincinnati Masters while Roger Federer kept alive his bid for a sixth as the seeded pair advanced into the quarter- finals yesterday. The contrast between the wins could not have been more stark, with top seed Djokovic crushing Belgian qualifier David Goffin 6-2, 6-0 in just 50 minutes. Federer is seeded fifth and was the winner here a year ago on the fast hardcourt where he thrives. He had to rally from the depths after a disaster of an opening set, finally overhauling German Tommy Haas 1-6, 7-5, 6-3. The Swiss has gone back to his traditional racquet after experi- menting without much success last month with a larger, more modern model. He said he needed to go back to basics to pull off his 12th win from 15 meetings with Haas, seeded 11th. “I wasn’t playing great in the first set, I needed to clean up my game from the baseline,” said the crowd favourite and fifth seed. “I’m happy to be through to have another match. “Sometimes on fast courts it’s tough to get rhythm, you are thinking of too many things. I had to simplify my game in order Rafael Nadal (left) of Spain returns a shot to Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria, Serena Williams (centre) celebrates her win against Mona Barthel of Germany to win.” and Roger Federer of Switzerland pumps his fist after defeating Tommy Haas of Germany during their matches at the Cincinnati Open in Cincinnati, ATP/WTA Federer will face off for the 31st Ohio, yesterday. time against longtime rival and last week’s Montreal champion Cincinnati Results Rafael Nadal, winner of eight beat Spain’s Feliciano Lopez 6-4, have made, but I was able to my first match,” said Azarenka. Giant killer Simona Halep upset CINCINNATI: Results yes- titles from 11 events this season. 1-6, 6-4 while American John recover. I knew in the second “I was much more controlling Australian 11th seed Samantha terday from the ATP and The Spaniard got a test from Isner defeated 12th seed Milos set I wanted to start strong and the game. It was really up to me Stosur 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, just one day WTA Western and Southern Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov but Raonic 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 with the just keep the momentum going,” today. the Romanian stunned Marion Open (x denotes seed): won 6-2, 5-7, 6-2. Canadian being treated for shoul- Williams explained. “I was doing everything I Bartoli 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, sending the Men - Third Round Russian qualifier Dmitry der problems. Second seed Victoria Azarenka wanted to do. I feel still there reigning Wimbledon champ off Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Tursunov upset third seed David On the women’s side of the dual won a match littered with 13 can be a lot more improvement into an unexpected retirement. David Goffin (BEL) 6-2, 6-0. Ferrer 6-2, 6-4 as the Spaniard event, top seed Serena Williams breaks of serve, defeating Slovak with the execution and a little bit Roberta Vinci claimed an now leaves town with one win mowed down German Mona Magdalena Rybarikova 6-3, 6-4. more consistency, but it’s coming Italian showdown with sixth seed Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) bt from two Masters events over the Barthel 6-4, 6-1 to move closer “I think it was a pretty good along.” Sara Errani 6-4, 6-3 while former David Ferrer (ESP x3) 6-2, 6-4. past fortnight. to a first title at the tournament. match, there was sometimes a Tenth seed Caroline Wozniacki number one Jelena Jankovic beat Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG In other third-round results, “I started out strong and then little bit of trouble serving, but put out Czech seventh seed Petra American Sloane Stephens 3-6, x7) bt Feliciano Lopez (ESP) Argentine Juan Martin del Potro I made a few errors I shouldn’t overall I felt better than I did in Kvitova 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. 7-5, 7-5. REUTERS 6-4, 1-6, 6-4. Roger Federer (SUI x5) bt Tommy Haas (GER x11) 1-6, 7-5, 6-3. Mixed reaction to Bartoli’s retirement John Isner (USA) bt Milos Raonic (CAN x12) 7-6 (7/5), 6-4. Andy Murray (GBR x2) bt CINCINNATI: Marion Bartoli’s (pic- winner and compatriot Amelie Mauresmo, champion who is struggling this season very cautious about someone’s quotes right Julien Benneteau (FRA) 6-2, tured) shock retirement just weeks after captain of the French Fed Cup team, and with a drop in form and nagging injury, after a defeat, and that happened right 6-2. her Wimbledon triumph sparked fond who in recent months had assumed some didn’t hear the news until Thursday after she lost. I hope she is going to change farewells, mixed with fears the French coaching duties with Bartoli. morning. her mind. You don’t want to have regrets Rafael Nadal (ESP x4) bt Grigor star was walking away from tennis too Mauresmo said she had not seen the “I think it’s great for her,” Federer said. looking back,” said Forget. Dimitrov (BUL) 6-2, 5-7, 6-2. soon. decision coming but that the pair had been “Everybody who announces their retire- “Don’t rush it, just don’t rush it. Take Tomas Berdych (CZE x6) bt Andy Murray, who ended Britain’s ago- in contact overnight, first ment should be very happy time, go to the beach for a few days, go Tommy Robredo (ESP) 6-3, 6-0 nizing 77-year wait for a men’s Wimbledon by text message, then by and proud of what they running in the park, just get your head Women-Third Round champion, said he could see how achieving telephone. achieved. It comes clearly together, spend some time with your Victoria Azarenka (BLR x2) bt such a dream could leave a player feeling “I had not seen any par- at a time when maybe you friends... don’t take such a radical decision Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) the game had nothing more to offer. ticular sign it was in the wouldn’t expect her to do only a few weeks after winning the big- 6-3, 6-4. “I think the biggest compliment you offing,” Mauresmo said. so because she could take gest tournament in the world,” Forget said Roberta Vinci (ITA x12) bt Sara can pay an athlete is they’ve reached “I just have to take it on advantage of her rankings from the ATP Champions Tour at Knokke, Errani (ITA x6) 6-4, 6-3. their potential, and I believe she did that,” board and wish her all the and it maybe filled her with Belgium. Murray said. best in her new life. motivation, but it actually Goran Ivanisevic, Wimbledon cham- Jelena Jankovic (SRB x14) bt “She worked exceptionally hard to get “Of course there were maybe just pointed out that pion in 2001 for his only Grand Slam, Sloane Stephens (USA) 3-6, 7-5, 7-5. to where she’s got to. She deserved to win one or two physical things she’s down either physi- said from the same event: “What she did a Grand Slam, and maybe it was the right and it’s true that in gen- cally, mentally, whatever at Wimbledon was fantastic, but she will Li Na (CHN x5) bt Angelique time for her to stop because of how hard eral these things don’t get it is. regret this decision when Wimbledon Kerber (GER x9) 6-4, 6-4. she needed to work. better as you get older. “She had a great work comes (next year).” Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x4) “But it was obviously surprising because Clearly it was too much ethic, and for that reason I Bartoli, however, insisted Thursday she bt Elena Vesnina (RUS) 6-0, 6-2. you don’t see it that often in sport -- where for her,” Mauresmo, the congratulate her for taking had no regrets, and no interest in hanging Serena Williams (USA x1) bt people kind of finish almost on the top in 2006 Wimbledon and the difficult step to retire,” on in a sport in which she no longer felt Mona Barthel (GER) 6-4, 6-1. a way. Australian Open champion, said in allu- Federer said. able to give 100 percent. Simona Halep (ROM) bt “It’s nice to finish your career as sion to Bartoli’s confession that the game French former Davis and Fed Cup skip- “I’m never one to do things halfway,” she Samantha Stosur (AUS x11) 6-4, Wimbledon champion, that’s for sure.” had been taking too much out of her in per Guy Forget fretted that Bartoli would said. Bartoli said there was “not much” she 4-6, 6-2. Bartoli’s bombshell on Wednesday night, recent months as she finally captured her come to regret a decision made in disap- would miss about being a professional ten- Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x10) after a disappointing loss to Romanian first Grand Slam singles crown at the 47th pointment after a defeat. nis player. bt Petra Kvitova (CZE x7) 3-6, Simona Halep in Cincinnati, caught many attempt. “Marion is a very smart girl, she is so “I just really felt I gave it all I had,” she 6-2, 6-3. by surprise, including fellow Wimbledon Roger Federer, a 17-time Grand Slam dedicated about the sport that I’m always said. “And that’s it.” REUTERS Motorcycling: Marquez the man to beat in Indy

INDIANAPOLIS: Marc half of the season with a triumph event at the new circuit in Austin, have seen some signs of the bones mid-season break that he has Marquez (pictured left) will at Laguna Seca in California on Texas, in April. recovering, so that is good. Now signed with Ducati for the next be the man to beat this week July 21. He also won a race in Germany I’m just waiting to go out, check- two seasons. He’ll be jumping as the sensational Spanish “It will be difficult and interest- and with three victories this sea- ing how everything is on the bike.” from Monster Yamaha Tech3, rookie tries to stretch his lead ing because Dani and Jorge have son tops the standings with 163 Lorenzo broke his collarbone where he has ridden since his atop the MotoGP standings at recovered. It’s one of the tracks I points. Pedrosa is second on 147. in practice for the Dutch GP, MotoGP debut in 2011. Indianapolis Motor Speedway. seem to ride quite well, so I hope Lorenzo third on 137 and Italy’s then fell again in Germany. He American Ben Spies, who has A bevy of more established to do the same with the MotoGP Valentino Rossi fourth on 117. managed a sixth-placed finish at missed the last seven races with stars, including his Respol bike. The conditions change a lot Pedrosa had been leading the Laguna Seca, but says he’s fitter a shoulder injury, will make his Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa from first practice to the race, world championship chase when now. return in front of home fans. and Yamaha factor rider Jorge it’s so slippery. We will see how he broke his collarbone in prac- “Obviously I’m not like I was “It’s been a rough year, to say Lorenzo, will be gunning for him we will do with the Bridgestone tice for the German Grand Prix before Assen, but much better the least,” the Pramac Racing with Pedros and Lorenzo in par- tyres, but it will be the same for in July. He’s eager to see how his than Laguna,” the reigning world rider said. “Now we can get on ticular hoping to reassert them- everybody. We will try to find our rehabilitated body will stand up champion said. “I have spent the with the business and start the selves in the second half of the way, starting with FP1.” to riding. holiday trying to recover the col- season properly. season after overcoming injury. The race at the famed “Basically it was all about not larbone, so let’s see how it goes.” “It’s a good track to come back “Now we start the second half “Brickyard” is one of three US moving a lot and staying quiet,” In addition to Marquez, to, we have good memories here,” and we have recharged our bat- stops on the MotoGP calendar. In Pedrosa said of his rehab. “The Britain’s Cal Crutchlow will added Spies, who nabbed podium teries over the summer,” said addition to his triumph at Laguna healing process is getting bet- be in the spotlight this week places at Indy in 2010 and 2011. Marquez, who closed out the first Seca, Marquez won the inaugural ter and over these last days we after announcing during the REUTERS AUGUST 17, 2013 ON SATURDAY 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Will ‘The Red Devils’ be celebrating again in May ’14?

Manchester United players celebrate with the English Premier League (EPL) trophy in this May 2013 file photo. United, managed by David Moyes will play Swansea in the season opener today. The 20-time EPL champions will host Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea in the second round of the campaign. United will be aiming to win their 21st EPL title.

Weekend’s Fixtures Today All times in GMT Wait is over as all-new Liverpool vs Stoke City (1145) Arsenal vs Aston Villa (1400) Norwich City vs Everton (1400) Sunderland vs Fulham (1400) West Bromwich Albion vs Southampton (1400) EPL season begins West Ham United vs Cardiff City (1400) Swansea City vs Manchester Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal in action today United (1630) Tomorrow LONDON, ENGLAND: When Crystal Palace vs Tottenham the sun rises on the 2013-14 A Hotspur (1230) Premier League campaign B Chelsea vs Hull City (1500) today, it will reveal a landscape Monday that has changed immeasurably in the 91 days since last season. Manchester City vs Newcastle Familiar faces like Alex United (1900) Ferguson, Jamie Carragher, Paul Scholes and Michael Owen have moved on, with new managers Interesting Stats and a raft of multi-million-pound signings hoping to plug the holes Chelsea are the best starters in that they have left behind. Premier League history, picking Heightening the sensation of up an average of 2.10 points from new beginnings is the pioneering their first game. introduction of goal-line technol- Manchester United are nearly ogy, with Hawk-Eye systems now as good, averaging 2.05 in place at all 20 Premier League grounds. Arsenal are third best, with 42 The sense of unfamiliarity points from their 21 games will be nowhere more apparent Liverpool fans start the season than at Swansea City’s Liberty with optimism, averaging 1.76 Stadium, where champions points from their first game Manchester United will play a Others: West Ham 1.47, league game with a manager other Blackburn 1.44, Newcastle 1.42, than Ferguson in the dug-out for Man City 1.31, Aston Villa 1.24 the first time since November 1, Spurs and Everton are both 1986. C notoriously slow starters, each Former Everton manager A: Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard reacts after averaging only 1.2 points from David Moyes is the man charged scoring a penalty against Swansea City dur- their opening games with the weighty task of stepping ing their English Premier League match at into Ferguson’s shoes, and with Anfield in Liverpool in this 2013 file photo. games against Chelsea, Liverpool B: Chelsea’s Spanish midfielder Juan Mata and Manchester City to follow in celebrates after scoring against Manchester quick succession, he cannot afford United at Old Trafford in Manchester in this a slow start. file photo. C: Manchester City’s Argentinian “I think it’s the hardest start striker Sergio Aguero is jubiliant after scor- for 20 years that Manchester ing their third goal against Norwich City at United have had,” Moyes com- plained to BBC Sport. Carrow Road Stadium in this 2012 file photo. “I hope it’s not because Manchester United won the host Newcastle United, with season with the aim of pipping The new season kicks off at league quite comfortably last year Chelsea in action a day earlier north London rivals Arsenal to Anfield, where Liverpool come that the fixtures have been made when promoted Hull City are the a Champions League spot, hav- up against a Stoke City side with much more difficult.” visitors to Stamford Bridge. ing narrowly failed to meet that a new manager in Mark Hughes. The first few weeks of Moyes’ Tomorrow will also witness objective last season. With unsettled striker Luis Old Trafford tenure have been another encounter between a Arsenal are yet to add any Suarez absent as he completes his dogged by speculation about the promoted club and a budding new players to their squad, to the 10-game ban for biting Chelsea’s future of striker Wayne Rooney, title contender, with Tottenham consternation of their fans, and Branislav Ivanovic last season, whose fitness will be assessed Hotspur travelling from north to manager Arsene Wenger also has Rodgers has been boosted by the prior to the game after he south London to take on Crystal injury concerns in midfield ahead news that Daniel Sturridge has made his return from injury in Palace. of today’s visit of Aston Villa. overcome an ankle problem. England’s 3-2 friendly win over Like City, Spurs have also spent Santi Cazorla may be short of Former Wigan Athletic man- Scotland on Wednesday. heavily in the close season, with fitness after turning out for Spain ager Roberto Martinez takes his United’s two closest rivals Thursday’s acquisition of France against Ecuador, while Mikel new club Everton to Norwich from last season are also under midfielder Etienne Capoue from Arteta is a doubt with a thigh City on Saturday, while Cardiff new management, with Manuel Toulouse nudging their total out- problem. City, promoted as winners of the Pellegrini replacing the sacked lay towards the £60m mark. “Cazorla played almost a full second-tier Championship, visit Roberto Mancini at Manchester It is Gareth Bale’s mooted move game. He only lands in London West Ham United for their first City and Jose Mourinho return- to Real Madrid that has most tonight (Thursday), so we will top-level match since 1962. ing to Chelsea to succeed Rafael occupied manager Andre Villas- see how he is tomorrow,” Wenger Paolo Di Canio’s Sunderland, Benitez. Boas’ thoughts this summer, how- said. and their 10 new signings, begin An image of the English Premier City, who have spent an esti- ever, although the Welshman will “Mikel has a slight thigh prob- the campaign at home to Fulham, League trophy. Manchester United mated £90m ($139m, €105m) on be absent at Selhurst Park with a lem. We have to check that. I while Southampton will make a are the current holders. new players, do not begin their foot injury. don’t know if he will be out for long visit to West Bromwich season until Monday, when they Once again, Spurs begin the the weekend.” Albion. AFP AUGUST 17, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY Martino bringing back Barcelona’s intensity: Xavi The new La Liga season kicks off today Chelsea’s Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho smiles during a press conference at the club’s training ground in Cobham, south-east England, MADRID, Community of yesterday. Chelsea play against Hull City in their opening game of the Madrid: Barcelona midfielder A file photo taken on July 26, 2013 shows Barcelona’s new 2013-2014 English Premier League football season tomorrow. Xavi Hernandez believes his Argentinian coach Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino giving a press side will rekindle their intensity conference during his official presentation at Camp Nou and pressing under the tutelage stadium in Barcelona. of new manager Gerardo “Tata” Mourinho still wants Martino. The Argentine was appointed less than four weeks before Barca kick off the defence of their league to sign striker Rooney title against Levante tomorrow, after Tito Vilanova had to resign COBHAM, UNITED KINGDOM: Jose Mourinho insisted yes- due to on-going health problems. terday he will not give up on his pursuit of Wayne Rooney until the However, Xavi believes the transfer window finally closes. squad are adjusting well to The Chelsea manager has made it clear he wants to recruit Rooney Martino’s methods and has this pre-season but has so far failed twice to persuade Manchester backed the new coach to be a suc- United to part with the England striker. cess despite his lack of managerial And while Mourinho avoided referring specifically to his ongoing experience in Europe. pursuit of Rooney during a news conference at Chelsea’s Cobham “He is a leader, capable, pre- training ground, south of London, yesterday he confirmed ahead of pared and has experience,” the his side’s opening Premier League game with Hull City he will not 33-year-old told Barcelona sports abandon his efforts to land his number one target. daily Sport. Portuguese icon Mourinho has also been linked with a reunion with “He is transmitting a lot to us. Samuel Eto’o who appears destined to leave Anzhi Makhachkala and We are recovering a little of the has spoken positively about his desire to work with his former Inter intensity and rhythm that per- Milan coach again. haps we lost for various reasons But Mourinho indicated his main priority lay elsewhere. towards the end of last season. We “For me as a manager, I’m happy that a player who worked with me are pressing very well and work- before goes publicly and says he’d like to join me again,” said Mourinho, ing well physically. now in his second spell in charge of Chelsea. “He is adding things that he is “Especially a player like Samuel, a player with a big history in influencing a lot. For example, on European football. set-pieces we are working differ- fixture of the opening weekend “But we are trying to get one player (Rooney) and we’ll see what ently. We are adjusting and he is a though comes at the Ramon Fixtures happens. Before the transfer window closes, we’ll make decisions. The guy that is very clear about what Sanchez Pizjuan where a new- All times in GMT decisions can be different decisions.” he wants.” look Sevilla side host Atletico He added: “I’m just a Chelsea manager, and every one of us is looking Martino’s insistence on pressing Madrid. always to try and strengthen your squad. high up the field was very evident Atletico enjoyed a fantastic Bundesliga “We (managers) all say ‘no’ but we lie to the last day, when the in his only game at the Camp Nou campaign last season as they Today market is open, because we’re all waiting for something to happen. so far as Barca destroyed Santos finished third and won the Copa “Even if we say we’re very happy with our squad, we lie, because we 8-0 in a friendly that formed part del Rey. As a result they will face Eintracht Frankfurt vs Bayern always want to make it better. of the deal to bring Neymar to the Barcelona in the first leg of the Munich (1330) “We’ll see what happens, not just with us but with Manchester Spanish champions. Spanish Super Cup next week and Hamburg SV vs Hoffenheim United. “I like my squad. I’m not lying there. And I enjoy working with The Brazilian international have Champions League football (1330) these young people, some of whom are taking their first steps in the will also make his competi- to look forward to. Premier League, and I’m enjoying the process of working with this tive Barcelona debut against However, coach Diego Simeone Freiburg vs Mainz (1330) young team.” AFP Levante, but World Player of the has insisted it is important that VfB Stuttgart vs Bayer Year Lionel Messi is a doubt as his team maintain the consist- Leverkusen (1330) Suarez returns Wenger targets he continues to recover from the ency they showed in the league VfL Wolfsburg vs Schalke 04 quadriceps injury that forced him last season, starting tomorrow. (1330) to miss Argentina’s friendly with “We need to continue in the to training, two or three Italy on Wednesday. same way, looking for the con- Werder Bremen vs FC Captain Carles Puyol will defi- sistency we had last season. Augsburg (1330) say reports new signings nitely be absent for the Catalans Therefore, we can’t look beyond Borussia Moenchengladbach v after he underwent knee surgery the present and that is Sevilla,” Hanover 96 (1630) to remove a cyst last month, he told the club’s website. Tomorrow LONDON: Controversial LONDON: Arsenal manager but Cesc Fabregas and Pedro “We need to start again at zero Liverpool striker Luis Suarez Arsene Wenger sought to calm Rodriguez should be fit to play and not get away from going game Nuremberg vs Hertha Berlin has returned to first-team frustration among the club’s despite missing Spain’s friendly by game. We have had a good pre- (1330) training, British media reported fans over a lack of new sign- with Ecuador in midweek due to season, especially physically, and Borussia Dortmund vs yesterday. ings by saying yesterday that he minor injuries. we have been competitive.” Eintracht Braunschweig Liverpool manager Brendan hoped to bring in two or three Real Madrid also get their New signings former Barcelona (1530) Rodgers had said the only way players before the transfer win- league campaign underway on and Valencia striker David Villa the Uruguay forward would be dow closes. Sunday with a new man in charge and Leo Baptistao are likely to back training alongside his team- The north London club start as Carlo Ancelotti makes his bow be involved for Atleti as they La Liga mates was if he first apologised their Premier League season at at the Santiago Bernabeu where try to compensate for the loss Today for suggesting the Reds boss had home to Aston Villa today having Real Betis are the visitors. of Radamel Falcao, who joined Real Sociedad vs Getafe (1700) gone back on a deal allowing him failed to land any of the big names Los Blancos have enjoyed a Monaco back in June. to leave for a Champions League they have been linked with. superb pre-season that encom- However, the transfer activ- Real Valladolid vs Athletic club. “I don’t disagree that we are a passed victories over Paris Saint- ity at Atleti hasn’t compared to Bilbao (1900) However there has, as yet, bit light at the moment but there Germain, Chelsea and Inter Milan that at Sevilla and coach Unai Valencia vs Malaga (2100) been no public confirmation from is 18 days to go until the end of and Ancelotti will have a wealth Emery could hand debuts to as Tomorrow Liverpool as to whether Suarez the transfer market and we are of midfield options to choose from many as 10 new recruits as the has apologised. of course looking to strengthen following the capture of Isco and Andalusians have rebuilt fol- Barcelona vs Levante (1700) Last week Suarez was told to our squad,” Wenger said. Asier Illarramendi from Malaga lowing the departures of Jesus Osasuna vs Granada CF (1900) train by himself after Rodgers “I understand every frustra- and Real Sociedad respectively. Navas, Alvaro Negredo and Gary said his attitude had been well tion, you have so many frustrated Arguably the most enticing Medel. AFP Real Madrid vs Real Betis below the standard expected by people, but what is important is (1900) the Merseyside club. the quality of what you do on the Sevilla vs Atletico Madrid Arsenal have had two bids, pitch, so let’s not create a crisis (2100) including a reported offer of £40m from nothing,” he added. Pakistan confident of Monday (€46.9m, $62.5m) for Suarez, “We just played a good game last rejected by Liverpool. week (a 3-1 win over Manchester Rayo Vallecano vs Elche (1800) Suarez will miss the first six City in a friendly) so let’s trans- hosting Asian football Celta Vigo vs Espanyol (2000) games of the new season as he fer that to the next game and not completes a 10-game suspension start to convince everybody that Almeria v Villarreal (2000) for biting Chelsea’s Branislav the quality of the team that starts LAHORE, Pakistan: Pakistan’s football chief yesterday said he Ivanovic in April, and Rodgers on Saturday will be linked with was confident about hosting qualifying matches for the AFC’s Ligue 1 does not want to discuss the the number of players we buy under-16 championship despite a bomb attack that killed eight 26-year-old forward until he between today and tomorrow.” young football fans in Karachi last week. Today returns. AFP REUTERS Pakistan has been a “no go” area for foreign teams since the 9/11 Olympique Marseille vs Evian attacks on the United States in 2001 and the ensuing war on terror Thonon Gaillard FC (1500) which sparked security fears in the South Asian country. Key Fixtures Terrorists attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket team bus in Lahore Nice vs Stade Rennes (1800) four years ago washed away all hopes of Pakistan staging any cricket- St Etienne vs En Avant Manchester United vs Chelsea, Monday, ing or international sporting event. Guingamp (1800) August 26 Eight people were killed in a bomb blast last week after a day-night Bastia vs Valenciennes (1800) Manchester City vs Manchester United, football match in the Karachi’s Lyari slum, an area famous for produc- Sunday, September 22 ing quality players. Stade de Reims vs Lille (1800) Sunderland vs Newcastle, Sunday, October But Pakistan Football Federation President Makhdoom Saleh Hayat Toulouse vs Girondins 27 said the Asian Football Confederation had given a go-ahead to the Bordeaux (1800) Cardiff City vs Swansea City , Sunday, qualifiers in October. Tomorrow November 3 “The AFC President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa has Arsenal vs Chelsea, Saturday, December 21 been kind enough to give us the go-ahead and I am sure the successful Monaco vs Montpellier HSC Liverpool vs Everton, Saturday January 28 staging of the qualifiers will open doors for more sporting event in the (1200) Man City vs Chelsea, Saturday February 1 country,” Hayat said. FC Lorient vs Nantes (1500) Tottenham vs Arsenal, Saturday, March 15 The PFF staged the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President’s Everton vs Manchester United, Saturday, April 19 Cup in 2011 and has also hosted age group events with foreign partici- Paris St Germain vs Ajaccio pations over the past three years. AFP (1900) AUGUST 17, 2013 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Cricket: Bresnan out for Farah and Fraser-Pryce season with back injury

LONDON: England pace bowling all-rounder Tim Bresnan has been ruled out of the remainder of the Ashes and the rest of the home international season with a stress fracture in his lower back, the England and Wales Cricket Board has announced. seal world track doubles Bresnan starred with both bat and ball as England beat Australia by 74 runs in the fourth Test against Australia at Chester-le-Street on Monday as they went 3-0 up with one to play and so won a third Isinbayeva says ‘misunderstood’ over anti-gay remarks straight Ashes series. He took the key wicket of David Warner to pave the way for Stuart Broad’s match-winning spell. “England and Yorkshire pace bowler Tim Bresnan has been ruled MOSCOW: Mo Farah and out of the remainder of the international season with a stress fracture Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in his lower back,” an ECB statement said. secured dramatic doubles at the “Bresnan will begin a recovery and rehabilitation programme and a World Athletics Championships date for his return to cricket will be determined in due course.” yesterday as Usain Bolt safely The first England match Bresnan will miss is next week’s fifth and advanced to the final of the final Test against Australia at The Oval in south London starting on 200m in his bid for a third suc- Wednesday, August 21. cessive title. Britain’s Whether the 28-year-old Bresnan will be fit for the return Ashes Action on the track and in the Mo Farah in Australia starting in November remains to be seen. field had earlier been overshad- celebrates He has played in three of the four Ashes Tests to date after replacing owed by Russian athletics icon after crossing Middlesex quick Steven Finn at Lord’s, taking 10 wickets. Yelena Isinbayeva’s controversial the finish line At Chester-le-Street, Bresnan, batting as nightwatchman, made an comments over her apparent sup- to win the important 45 in England’s second innings 330. port of Russia’s anti-gay law. men’s 5,000m He then took two wickets for 36 as Australia, chasing 299 for vic- But Farah was on hand to dis- final at the 14th tory, were bowled out for 224, removing opener Warner for 71 before pel any lingering fall-out at the IAAF World snaring all-rounder Shane Watson for two as Broad took six wickets Luzhniki Stadium, outfoxing the Championships in the innings with England winning inside four days. fast-paced Kenyan team tactics to As well as the fifth Test, Bresnan will now miss the two-match at Luzhniki become the second man to achieve Twenty20 series at the end of the month, the lone one-day international Stadium in the double of world and Olympics against Ireland and the five-match one-day series against Australia 5,000 and 10,000 metres titles. Moscow, which starts at his Headingley home ground on September 6. Farah, who won an emotional Russia, Now fast bowler Chris Tremlett has a chance to revive his Test double gold at the Olympics last yesterday. career on his Surrey home ground next week having last featured for year in the Somalia-born athlete’s England against Pakistan in Dubai in January, although Finn will also adopted home city of London, be hoping for an Ashes recall after playing in the first Test at Trent clocked 13min 26.98sec to emulate Bridge. REUTERS Kenenisa Bekele’s double-double at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2009 Berlin worlds. “It’s something I have worked very hard for. I was thinking about the kids and being away his place towards the front of sprint double. The 26-year-old, taking bronze, having already won from them for so long,” said the pack all the way through who had reclaimed her 100m title long jump silver. Farah, who trains under Alberto to the final 650 metres when he on Monday, again dominated the Two-time defending cham- Salazar in Portland, Oregon. accelerated away, fending off the race, with three-time champion pion Usain Bolt’s bid to seal a “There was a lot of pressure but attentions of Ethiopian Hagos Allyson Felix of the United States third successive world 200m title I enjoyed it and I am proud to hold Gebrhiwet, who won silver in a pulling up injured not even half- advanced smoothly as he coasted the Union Jack.” photo-finish from Kenyan Isiah way through. to victory in his semi-final in a As expected, the Kenyans Koech. In another first, African ath- comfortable 20.13sec. adopted a different race strategy Jamaica’s Fraser-Pryce threw letes claimed medals in the Bolt, who admitted earlier yes- in a bid to disrupt the Briton’s down the gauntlet for teammate event, Ivorian Murielle Ahoure terday that he had been nursing a rhythm. Bolt by becoming the third ath- adding silver to her 100m silver sore foot after regaining his 100m But Farah kept his nerve and lete to achieve the women’s world and Nigerian Blessing Okagbare title on Sunday, will be joined in the final by team-mates Warren Weir, the Olympic bronze medal- list, and Nickel Ashmeade. “I will have a good day’s rest In a file picture taken on August 12, 2013, England’s Tim Bresnan and go into the final and get it celebrates after team-mate Matthew Prior caught Australia’s batsman done,” said Bolt, another gold for David Warner for 71 runs during the fourth day of the fourth Ashes whom would push him one step cricket Test at the Durham cricket ground in Durham, north-east England. further to equalling the present England pace bowling all-rounder Bresnan has been ruled out of the Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann mark of eight world gold medals remainder of the Ashes and the rest of the home international season Fraser-Pryce, the won by retired American duo Carl with a stress fracture in his lower back, the England and Wales Cricket gold medal winner, Lewis and Michael Johnson. Board has announced. in action during the Off the track, Russian pole women’s 200m final at vault star Isinbayeva was the the 14th IAAF World centre of a backlash from activ- Championships at ists and fellow track and field Sri Lanka rejects night Luzhniki Stadium in legends after appearing to back Russia’s controversial new anti- Moscow yesterday. gay law and saying competitors at Tests with pink ball RIGHT: Fraser-Pryce the Sochi Winter Olympics should during the medal respect it. COLOMBO: Sri Lanka yesterday turned down a request from ceremony. Isinbayeva on Thursday came Pakistan to play day-night Tests in the upcoming series in the out in support of the law signed by United Arab Emirates (UAE) where both countries have loyal fans. President Vladimir Putin in June Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said it decided against playing day-night which punishes the dissemination Tests “since the national team players have not practised under lights of information about homosexual- and with the new pink ball”. ity to minors. Activists argue it The challenge facing such Tests has been to find a ball that is clearly could be used for a broad crack- visible in both sunshine and floodlights, and the Pakistan Cricket Board down against gays, although (PCB) said it had sent the Sri Lankan board a dozen balls of pink and Russia have said all athletes will orange colour for them to examine. be free and safe to compete at The International Cricket Council (ICC) had approved the day-night US still men’s the Winter Olympics regardless matches under floodlights as a way to stem dwindling interest in Tests Star Bolt says lightning of their sexual orientation, as long in many countries. 4x400 relay as they obey Russian law. The UAE has a large expatriate Pakistani community but few show photo ‘amazing’ But Isinbayeva issued a state- up to watch Test matches, in part because they are played during the kings ment yesterday clarifying her day when most are at work. MOSCOW: Jamaican track star Usain Bolt (pictured below) comments, although falling short No country has yet tried the new format and the ICC has left it to MOSCOW: World 400 said an AFP photograph of the sprinter clinching world 100m of a full apology, saying: “English individual boards to decide when and how to experiment. metres champion LaShawn gold as a lightning bolt illuminated the stormy skies above was is not my first language and I Pakistan has been forced to play its “home” internationals at neutral Merritt anchored an emphatic “amazing”. think I may have been misun- venues, mainly in the UAE, since militants attacked the Sri Lankan American men’s 4x400 metres AFP photographer Olivier Morin snapped the photo on Sunday derstood when I spoke yesterday. team during a Test in Lahore in 2009. relay triumph yesterday, a year night as Bolt stormed to victory to reclaim his 100m title at the What I wanted to say was that Pakistan host Sri Lanka for three Tests, five one-day internationals after they were stunned in the World Athletics Championships in Moscow. people should respect the laws of and two Twenty20s in December and January in the UAE and Sarwar Olympic final by the Bahamas. Photographers, sports fans and commentators were left slack- other countries, particularly when had thought that the conditions were right to experiment. The US, who have won the jawed after seeing the image, which was massively shared on social they are guests.” world title at every world cham- media sites, and on Twitter was tweeted and retweeted thousands She added: “But let me make pionships since 2005, had the race of times. it clear I respect the views of my Whatmore warns Pakistan sewn up from David Verburg’s Morin, 47, who’s based in AFP’s Milan bureau, shrugged off his role fellow athletes and let me state opening leg, with Tony McQuay in capturing the image, saying he can only claim “one percent” credit. in the strongest terms that I against complacency and Arman Hall extending the But Bolt, after winning his 200m semi-final yesterday to advance am opposed to any discrimina- advantage to allow Merritt a com- to today’s final, told the BBC: “It tion against gay people on the LAHORE: Pakistan’s cricket coach Dav Whatmore yesterday fortable last lap. was an amazing moment. It’s grounds of their sexuality (which warned his team against being complacent when they face up to With Merritt uncatchable, a one of those pictures that you is against the Olympic charter).” lowly Zimbabwe next week in a tour considered important for blood- thrilling duel for second materi- just want to remember.” In other finals yesterday, ing new players. The 59-year-old former Australian batsman said alised with Jamaica just pipping The BBC was one of several Germany’s Christian Storl the team was training hard for the two Twenty20, three one-day Russia much to the disappoint- media outlets in Moscow to have retained his shot put title, and and two Test matches and would not take their opposition lightly. ment of a vociferous crowd roar- interviewed Morin, and panned Russia sealed two more golds, “We may be playing Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe but they are still very ing home Vladimir Krasnov. The to highlight the photographer as Tatyana Lysenko winning her important for Pakistan,” he said. “The danger that I see anyway is Americans timed 2min 58.71sec Bolt spoke. hammer throw title with a best complacency. We don’t want to be complacent in any of our make-up while Jamaica took silver and Morin, an AFP veteran of of 78.80m and Aleksandr Menkov with this cricket.” Russia the bronze. The Bahamas 23 years, said he’d set up five claiming the men’s long jump Pakistan is due to depart on Monday to play the first of two Twenty20 failed to qualify for the final. remote-controlled cameras crown with a best of 8.56m. on August 23, with the last Test scheduled to start September 10. 1. US: D.Verburg/T.McQuay/A. along the edge of the track, all The US men’s quartet, for Whatmore, who coached Sri Lanka to World Cup victory in 1996, Hall/L.Merritt 2:58.71 of them focused on Bolt’s lane. whom 400m individual world backed Twenty20 captain Mohammad Hafeez who has struggled for 2. Jamaica: R.McDonald/E. He had envisioned getting a champion Lashawn Merritt ran form lately. Steele/O.Johnson/J.Francis photo of the winner with his the final leg, won the 4x400m “He’s (Hafeez) done pretty well in the format that he captains. We 2:59.88 hands in the air. relay in 2:58.71, stretching their have climbed up the rankings under his leadership. He would obviously 3. Russia: M.Dyldin/L.Mosin/S. Morin’s blog posting is at: winning streak that dates back to like to score more runs, that’s accepted.” Petukhov/V.Krasnov 2:59.90 u.afp.com/bolt AFP the 2005 worlds in Helsinki. Pakistan clean swept Zimbabwe in all three formats on their last REUTERS REUTERS tour in 2011. REUTERS AUGUST 17, 2013 Break Time www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 ON SATURDAY

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THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW People take part in traditional rafting on the river Dunajec in Sromoce Nizne, Poland, yesterday. Dunajec Gorge is one of the best-known tourist HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER attractions in the Pieniny Mountains. Wooden raft trips have been organised by highlanders since the early 19th century.

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BAGHDAD 46/29 Clear 45/29 Clear long-lived Voyager probe crossed sudden drop in the number of to the bubble of space that falls If Swisdak and colleagues are into interstellar space last year, particles coming from the sun under the sun’s influence. correct, Voyager 1’s magnetic field becoming the first man-made and a corresponding rise in the Stone and other scientists readings will stay pretty much the THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW object to leave the solar system, number of galactic cosmic rays believe Voyager is in a previ- same throughout the remainder HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER new research shows. coming from interstellar space. ously unknown region, dubbed a of its mission. Scientists have been waiting for Not everyone is convinced, “magnetic highway,” that exists “If they see a strong shift in the ATHENS 32/25 Clear 31/24 Partly cloudy Voyager to detect a magnetic field however. between the heliosphere and magnetic field, a big jump, then WASHINGTON 26/19 Chance of showers 24/20 Showers that flows in a different direction Voyager lead scientist Edward interstellar space. that means that what we’ve out- than the solar system’s magnetic Stone, now retired from Nasa’s Voyager 1 and a sister probe, lined can’t be correct,” Swisdak SYDNEY 25/08 Clear 24/09 Partly cloudy field. But the new research shows Jet Propulsion Laboratory Voyager 2, were launched in said. LONDON 22/19 Mostly cloudy 21/14 Chance of rain that scenario is not accurate. in Pasadena, California, said 1977 to study the outer planets. “I’m perfectly willing to be PARIS 27/20 Partly cloudy 23/17 Chance of rain “We think that the magnetic Swisdak’s research is interesting Voyager 1 is now about 120 times proven wrong here and if I were, ISTANBUL 28/22 Chance of storm 27/22 Clear field within the solar system and but different computer models farther away from the sun than that would be kind of cool. But it MANILA 31/25 Chance of storm 31/24 Chance of storm in the interstellar are aligned are portraying different scenarios Earth. Voyager 2 is heading out agrees with all the data that we DHAKA 32/25 T-storms 30/25 Chance of storm enough that you can actually pass to explain the Voyager data. of the solar system in a different have so far,” he added. DELHI 30/25 T-storms 32/25 Chance of storm through without seeing a huge “We know where Voyager is in direction. More evidence may come when ISLAMABAD 31/23 Chance of storm 30/23 Clear change in direction,” University of terms of distance and we know The probes are powered by the Voyager 2 crosses the solar sys- Maryland physicist Marc Swisdak what it is observing. The challenge slow decay of radioactive pluto- tem’s boundary as well. said in an interview on Thursday. is relating that to these complex nium. Voyager 1 will begin run- The research appears in The That would mean that Voyager models of the interaction between ning out of energy for its science Astrophysical Journal Letters. actually reached interstellar space the interstellar medium and the instruments in 2020. By 2025, it REUTERS Thousands honour Elvis at Graceland vigil MEMPHIS: Elvis Presley fans from around the world made their Online videos blamed for death of stuntman annual pilgrimage to Graceland on Thursday to pay their respects to the rock n’ roll icon with a solemn candlelight vigil on the 36th GENEVA: Swiss “jetman” he told the Swiss daily Le Matin. base-jumping, a sport that Rossy accompanying another stuntman anniversary of his death. Yves Rossy yesterday blamed “All that in order to get more also practises, which involves dressed as Queen Elizabeth II. Thousands of Presley fans carried lit candles as they walked silently an Internet-driven extreme clicks when the video’s posted parachuting from fixed launch- While Rossy expressed sym- through the Mediation Garden at Graceland, Presley’s longtime sports culture for the death of online, before it’s all but forgot- pads such as bridges, skyscrap- pathy for Sutton’s family, he was Memphis home. The garden is the location of Presley’s grave and also Britain’s Mark Sutton, whose ten when a more spectacular one ers, or mountains. also bluntly critical. is the spot where his mother, father and grandmother are buried. James Bond-garbed para- appears. I’m sick of it!” Sutton, however, jumped from “His death is the result of this Wreaths of flowers and pictures of Presley encircled the grave, while chute stunt at the London 2012 Rossy said the problem was a helicopter at an altitude of culture of always going further. shadows cast by the glowing candles danced along the stone wall sur- Olympics wowed the world. fuelled by Web-surfers who want some 3,300 metres, just inside He didn’t scout the site with the rounding the garden. Soft music played in the mild night, as some in Sutton died on Wednesday in to get their kicks at a distance by Switzerland, and died after required rigour. The result: he the procession bowed their heads or cried quietly. the Swiss Alps during a gather- watching others in action, as well crashing into a ridge. crashed. He played. He lost!” Each year, fans of Presley’s music and movies come to Memphis for ing of wing-divers organised by as sponsors who want to catch Sutton and two dozen other Rossy noted that Epic TV had Elvis Week, the weeklong celebration of his life and career. Presley an extreme sports channel spe- the eye of fans. top-level wing-divers had gath- recently posted a video of a wing- died on August 16, 1977, of a heart attack after battling prescription cialising in online videos. Wing-diving, developed in the ered in the Alpine sports hub diver on a risky flight through a drug abuse. Rossy, who in 2006 made 1990s, has gained cult follow- of Chamonix in neighbouring hole in a cliff at 250 kilometres The vigil is the highlight of Elvis Week, which this year featured a sporting and aviation history by ing over recent years thanks to France at the invitation of a local per hour. listening party at Stax Records for the recent release of the three-CD being the first man to fly with a breathtaking Internet videos of extreme sports channel Epic TV, “It was viewed (by) almost 10 box set “Elvis at Stax.” Performances by Presley tribute artists and a jet-wing, blasted what he called the dives. whose footage was reportedly millions, and the guy that did screening of the “Aloha from Hawaii” television program from January the “YouTube-isation” of extreme Practitioners wear special being examined by police. it must feel he’s really someone 1973 are other featured events of the weeklong reunion, which wraps sports. jumpsuits to add surface area The 42-year-old former army thanks to it. But if it goes on up Saturday. “There’s an insane, headlong to their bodies, gliding like birds officer played the role of Daniel like this, the quest for maximum Police estimated 35,000 people would attend the vigil. Last year, an race to be the ‘most extreme’ before opening parachutes to Craig’s Bond in the most memo- impact will be more about hitting estimated 75,000 people descended on Graceland for the event. Elvis’ and to ‘beat the rest’, but all land like a regular sky-diver. rable sequence of the opening rocks than the headlines!” ex-wife Priscilla Presley and his daughter Lisa Marie Presley spoke with less and less preparation,” Wing-diving is a form of ceremony at last year’s Olympics, AFP at last year’s event, the first time they appeared together at the vigil since it began. Christine Jeffords made her fifth trip to Graceland with her husband Jon and three other members of a fan club called the Elvis Midwest Practising parkour Mafia, whose members are from Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. Zoo that disguised They wore red T-shirts with Presley’s image emblazoned on a king of hearts playing card on the front. dog as lion closes The back of their shirts had a quote that gives one reason why fans have made repeated trips to Memphis for Elvis Week and the vigil: “If BEIJING: A Chinese zoo ridi- you have a friend who is an Elvis fan, you have a friend for life.” culed for disguising a dog as a “Where else can you go where you meet people from year to year who lion has shut down temporar- have the same passion?” said Christine Jeffords, a pre-school teacher ily for “rectification”, media from Hartford, Wisconsin. reported yesterday. Jeffords, 52, smiles when she talks about buying her first Presley 45, The zoo’s supposed “African “Let Yourself Go,” which she bought as a young teen with money she lion” was exposed as a fraud when had saved from babysitting jobs. She said the vigil is a way to remember the dog used as a substitute — a not only his career, but also his giving personality and ability to make Tibetan Mastiff — started bark- people happy with his music. ing, the state-run Beijing Youth “If you were sad or happy or whatever, he was such a big part of Daily had reported earlier. your life,” Jeffords said. “I always felt in my heart that he was a good The zoo, in central China’s person, a beautiful person.” Henan province, has “altered The vigil started as an informal gathering the year after his death. several misnamed animal signs,” It has blossomed into a major tourist event. the Beijing Times reported, add- Fans begin lining up along the outer wall of ing that zoo officials had issued Graceland about 12 hours before the vigil, a public apology and “closed for and many will stay until the early morning rectification”. hours of the next day. Three other species housed The event also has become an interna- incorrectly in the zoo reportedly tional affair and a tribute to the singer’s included: two coypu rodents in worldwide popularity, hosting fans from a snake’s cage, a white fox in a Australia, Brazil, England and Japan and leopard’s den, and another dog in Two youth practise parkour on the beach in Benghazi. Parkour is the activity or sport of moving rapidly through other foreign countries. a wolf pen. an area, typically in an urban environment, negotiating obstacles by running, jumping, and climbing. AP AFP