ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER

Wednesday 8 May 2013 28 Jumada II 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5693 Price: QR2

Q-Coat studies Federer, Serena coated steel enter third bars’ resilience round in Madrid

Business | 22 Sport | 32

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780

Emir visits museum construction site OPINION Iran willing to Gulf citizens have to answer talk to UAE on Heikal’s question n a lec- Iture by Mohammed Hassanein Heikal islands row on ‘The Gulf: The Day after Tomorrow” Tehran ready to help Bahrain at Qatar Khalid Al Sayed National EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DOHA: Mellowing down its at the Summit of the GCC leaders Convention tough stand on the three islands and the Arab League also backs Centre on with which it has a serious dis- the UAE on the issue. Sunday, which was attended pute with the UAE, Iran said “We are open to talks with the by H H Sheikh Hamad bin yesterday it is willing to talk to UAE,” Salehi reiterated. He also Khalifa Al Thani and H H the Emirates on the issue. said Iran was willing to sit with Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Tehran has also made a star- the Bahraini government and the the famous Egyptian journal- tling claim that Bahrain has opposition in Manama, but not ist talked about the Gulf and urged it to help end its stand-off secretly. the international conflicts. with the opposition and bring the “Bahrain’s foreign minister has Heikal raised in his lec- two sides (the government and urged that we come to his coun- ture a number of issues the opposition) to the negotiat- try for the secret rapprochement and questions, which I will ing table. (between the government and not discuss in detail in this But, according to the Iranian opposition) secretly. This is not article because it has been foreign minister, Bahrain wants acceptable to us. We want to do reported by the Arabic local his country to help it resolve that openly and in a transparent The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani on a tour of the construction site of Qatar National Museum media. Some of the issues he issues with the opposition way,” Salehi said. in Doha yesterday. The Emir was briefed on the work and the restoration process of the old Palace. See discussed are about interna- secretly—a proposal not accept- Iran, he added, had been mak- also page 3 tional powers and their ambi- able to Tehran. ing it repeatedly clear that it is tions; however, there is a need “We are not in favour of arriv- not interfering in Bahrain’s inter- to take a serious look at the ing in Manama on a secret mis- nal affairs. local issues. sion to resolve the stand-off “We respect Bahrain’s sover- In his lecture, Heikal said between the government and eignty and its government,” the 1,600 heart attacks in Qatar last year the “Gulf has three big neigh- the opposition. We are willing to Iranian foreign minister said, bouring countries overlook- help but openly,” said Ali Akbar dp.news,com reported yesterday. ing it from all sides, namely Salehi. The Jordanian foreign minister DOHA: With about 1,600 stenting. Surprisingly, of the 533 major risk factors associated with Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, Salehi said that historically the said that Iran can play a positive heart attacks in Qatar last Qataris who underwent angi- heart attacks in Qatar and glo- and these powers are cur- three islands of Abu Musa, and role in helping resolve the ongo- year, experts at the Hamad ogram last year, 161 (more than bally and the growing fast food rently preoccupied with other the Greater and Smaller Tunb ing crisis in Syria and stop the Medical Corporation (HMC) 30 percent) were women. The culture is said to be a major con- things.” (that are under Iran’s occupation) bloodshed. have advised people to fight the ratio of women among expatriates tributing factor. “Healthy diet and He also said: “The popu- belong to Iran. “We should all be part of the lure of eating out and stick to a (200 out of over 2,600) was rela- regular physical exercise are two lation of the Arab Peninsula “However, we are open to nego- solution,” Jaudat said. He ruled healthy diet. tively low due to the dominance important things to prevent heart is growing at high rates, and tiations with the UAE,” Salehi out any possibility of a US mili- The growing fast food culture of men in the expat population. diseases. We have concerns about Saudi Arabia is expected to said yesterday, addressing a joint tary presence in his country. and changing lifestyles have made “An even more alarming factor the growing fast food culture in become 50 million in 15 to press briefing with his Jordanian About Syria, Salehi said they even women and young people, is the rise in heart diseases among the region and we are advising 20 years, and this will con- counterpart Nasser Jaudat during recognise peaceful opposition who are less likely to develop the youth. Of the total angi- people to reduce the habit of eat- stitute a mass of population his official visit to Amman. in Syria and not those that are heart attacks, vulnerable. ograms performed last year, 2.5 ing out and go for healthy food which will fill the Arabian To recall, the stand of the GCC armed and backed by Al Qaeda. In 2012, more than 10,500 percent were among people aged cooked at home,” said Al Tamimi. Peninsula.” He described that states on the islands is that they About the Iranian nuclear patients were seen at HMC’s below 30 years and some 25 per- Heart attacks are the number as a desirable thing but like belong to the UAE and that Iran issue, the Jordanian foreign min- Heart Hospital and of them, cent were among those aged 30 to one killer in Qatar, while road any ‘filling action’ it will result must abandon its claim and hand ister said his country favoured over 3,000 underwent coronary 40,” Dr Omar Al Tamimi, a senior accidents remain the major cause in ‘replacement’ and cre- the islands back to the UAE, a a peaceful solution to the angiogram to diagnose their ill- consultant at Heart Hospital, told of death among youngsters. ate pressure on the available fellow GCC member state. imbroglio. ness. And more than half of mediapersons yesterday. Diabetes, THE PENINSULA resources. The issue has also been raised THE PENINSULA them required intervention like hypertension and smoking are Continued on page 6 Continued on page 4

Israel not getting Surge in real estate involved in Syria Imran in hospital transactions DOHA: Real estate transac- war, says minister tions in the week that ended on after fall at rally May 2 (from April 28) jumped JERUSALEM: Israel is not more than twice in value as com- getting involved in Syria’s civil LAHORE: Pakistani politician pared to the previous week. The war, Defence Minister Moshe and former cricketer Imran Sympathy wave transactions last week totalled Yaalon said yesterday, while Khan was rushed to hospital an incredible over QR1.44bn insisting the Jewish state would with head injuries yesterday may bring votes and they involved residential as not permit the transfer of arms after falling off a makeshift lift well as commercial properties as to Damascus ally Hezbollah in taking him onto the stage for an DOHA: A sympathy wave well as plots of land, Qatar News neighbouring Lebanon. election rally. is likely to help Imran Khan Agency (QNA) reported yester- Yaalon was speaking just days Television footage showed grab votes after the mishap day. The increased sales volumes after two Israeli air strikes near Khan, leader of the Pakistan yesterday. and value show that the demand Damascus sent regional tensions Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), bleeding A cross-section of overseas for real estate has been growing soaring and as the United Nations from the head as he was carried Pakistanis in Qatar this news- hugely ahead of the launch of a protested about Israel warplanes by aides through the crowd at paper spoke to, while describ- slew of mega projects. Weekly overflying Lebanon. the event in the country’s second ing yesterday’s incident as sad, real estate transactions have The raids struck several mili- largest city, Lahore. said it might trigger a sympa- been averaging a little over tary targets in the early hours of The dramatic development thy wave and lead to a larger QR600m in the past several Friday and Sunday and may have came at the end of a day that voter turnout. months. been carried out by Israeli war- saw 17 people killed and dozens Voter turnout in Pakistan is QNA said the previous week’s planes from Lebanese air space. wounded in bomb attacks in always low, but Imran Khan’s sales data were released by A senior Israeli source said northwest Pakistan, taking the injury in an unfortunate fall is the Real Estate Registration they destroyed Iranian missiles death toll in the bloody campaign sure to prompt people to come Department. QNA en route to Hezbollah. for Saturday’s general election out in hordes and vote for his On Monday, an official in past 100. party, Pakistan Tehreek-e- Damascus warned that “Syria will The poll will mark a demo- Insaf or Movement for Justice, respond to the Israeli aggression cratic milestone in a country as on May 11, said Tahir Aftab, a Today’s edition and will choose the moment to the first time a civilian govern- Khan supporter. includes a four page do so.” ment has served a full term and But Tahir Chowdhary, a “It might not be immediate handed over to another through supporter of rival Pakistan supplement on because Israel now is on high the ballot box. Muslim League (Nawaz), alert,” he added. “We will wait “Imran Khan has one head describing the charismatic but we will answer.” injury and two spinal cord frac- leader as a prime ministerial Israel routinely refuses to tures,” Doctor Faisal Sultan, candidate, said the incident relate to such reports, with chief executive officer of Shaukat reflected poorly on his party’s Yaalon’s remarks the first official Khanum Hospital told reporters ability to ensure safety of its An injured Imran Khan being taken to hospital in Lahore after he fell off a comment, albeit indirect, on the in a late night statement. leader. THE PENINSULA strikes. AFP lift carrying him to the stage for an election rally yesterday. AFP

WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Emir tours Qatar National Museum project site DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday visited the site of Qatar National Museum Project, an affiliate of Qatar Museums Authority (QMA). The Emir was briefed on stages of work process and implementation plans in addition to restoration processes of the old (ancient) Palace. The Emir also got acquainted with several engineering charts and architec- tural designs in addition to the operation plan- related mechanism outlining stages of progress and achievements. Project officials have begun the process of collecting ethnographic and archaeo- logical collectibles and whatever made available in Qatar through programmes and activities to achieve the goals of the museum to root and bring together Qatari material and moral heritage under one roof. The new museum’s innovative design is created by eminent architect Jean Nouvel. It is inspired by the ‘Desert Sand Rose’ and is made up of a series of interlocking The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani is briefed on the Qatar National disks with cavities inside buffered from Museum Project and (right) tours the site, accompanied by engineers and the hot desert sun. QNA officials. Best Cabin Crew award for Qatar Airways Business Traveller readers vote for national carrier

DOHA/DUBAI: Qatar industries attended the Qatar Airways Chief Airways has been hon- annual event. Executive Officer Akbar oured with the world’s It was a fitting start Al Baker said the latest ‘Best Cabin Crew’ as to Qatar Airways’ major award reflected the airline’s voted by readers of the presence at Arabian continued commitment to Middle East edition of Travel Market (ATM), excellence. Business Traveller an the Middle East’s premier “On behalf of Qatar industry magazine. regional travel trade show Airways, I would like The Doha-based air- taking place in Dubai this to thank the readers of line was voted ahead of week. Business Traveller magazine neighbouring airlines for Qatar Airways Country and all who travel with us its five-star service to take Manager UAE, Fadi Hijazin for once again giving their the coveted award, pre- received the award on vote of confidence to us and sented at a ceremony held behalf of the airline, add- strongly believing in our in Dubai. ing to the international onboard service, hospital- Guests from across the recognition the carrier has ity and professionalism,” he regional and global travel, gained with a growing list said. tourism and hospitality of awards. THE PENINSULA Qatar Airways Country Manager UAE, Fadi Hijazin, receiving the award in Dubai. WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Bright Minds Program targets Qatari students SEC-backed project sponsored by Gord and Qapco

DOHA: The Gulf Organization practical projects. This comes as the country.” for Research and Development part of a series of various activi- Al Horr explained that it would (Gord), a leading Qatari organi- ties conducted by Gord Academy cover various scientific and tech- sation in research and con- to spread knowledge and nur- nical subjects in the fields of elec- sultation, in cooperation with ture innovation, to become a tronic, electric and mechanical Qatar Petrochemical Company path towards sustainability in all engineering, as well as engineer- (Qapco), has launched its Bright aspects. ing sciences, where students will Minds Program, supported by Dr Yousef Mohammad Al be asked to present a graduation the Supreme Education Council. Horr, Founding Chairman of project to be offered participation The programme is the first of Gord said: “The launch of Bright certificates as follows: its kind in the country, as it nur- Minds Program came to reinforce - Level (I) Innovation Dr Yousef Mohammad Al Horr (left), and Dr Mohammed Al Mulla signing the agreement. tures budding talents through the Gord’s efforts to support Qatar’s Certificate: Students will be organisation’s excellence center, National Vision 2030, with spe- awarded this certificate to be laboratory at the Qatar Science problems that never existed hands-on and practical experi- Gord Academy. cific attention to the human pillar. qualified for next advanced and Technology Park, with super- before, with a main purpose of ence, with students using their Targeting Qatari second- According to latest international courses. vision and guidance by the organi- achieving change towards a better hands as an effective tool during ary school students aged 15-16 research, creativity depends - CAS Certificate: A sation’s experts, in addition to future. This does not only require the secondary grades. years and interested in scien- largely on the proper environment Community Service certificate attending group workshops and improving the students’ skills and Participants acquire their first tific and engineering disciplines, and systematic training, and help- will be provided for participants other activities including lectures, increasing their productivity, practical experience through the the programme mainly aims at ing the young generation at such upon the end of the programme. field trips and laboratory visits. but also includes widening their programme when presenting enhancing students’ knowledge an early age provides the perfect The one-year programme The programme also seeks to horizons to inquire, analyse and their graduation project, which and improving their skills, while opportunity to create a genera- encompasses weekly three-hour advance creative thinking from investigate discoveries in various paves their way to the next stages encouraging them to convert their tion of innovators who will con- workshops, where students will an early age, such as thinking out- research and scientific fields. of college years. creative thinking into innovative tribute to further development of be working at Gord’s research side the box and troubleshooting The project also promotes THE PENINSULA

Dust storm lashes Doha We need to take steps towards unity Continued from page 1 I would like to ask some questions: Does Heikal mean that Saudi Arabia is not part of the Gulf? Why is he talking about Saudi Arabia as if it is not part of the Gulf? What does he mean when he says a human mass will fill the Arabian Peninsula? I would also like to ask Mr Heikal who is going to be replaced. Heikal might have forgotten both geography and history, when he said, “any thinking about future — any future — cannot be outside the context of time and place or outside the context of geography and history”. The interesting thing is that even my son who is in school knows well that Saudi Arabia is bigger than Egypt, which has over 90 million people, and the population of Cairo alone is about 15 million, and this is what is taught in the lessons of geography. As for history, my son knows that most of the Arabian Gulf tribes and families originated in the Arab Peninsula, and we still repeat the Gulf song of “Our Gulf is A Qatar Airways flight lands through dust storm witnessed in Doha late last night. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH one and we are one people”. Here I have to admit that the problem with small Gulf countries is that they have small populations and the native populations of these countries do not exceed 15 percent of the total population, which Jordan’s Awqaf include expatriates. This is not the first time we hear such talk from some thinkers, intel- Minister meets lectuals and sections of the media. It has been said that small countries in the Gulf fear the domination of Saudi Arabia, not only politically, Qatari envoy but also population-wise. This was said even when the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz called for (at the AMMAN: The Jordanian 32nd meeting of the GCC states in Riyadh recently) moving forward Minister of Awqaf from cooperation to the level of unity to launch a new phase in rela- (Endowments) and Islamic tions between the member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Affairs Muhammad Nooh True, there are internal and external risks and challenges, but the met here yesterday Qatar’s people of the Arabian Gulf have to have a common perception of all Ambassador Zayed bin Saeed these risks and challenges. We need to take steps towards unity. We Al Khayareen. need to have a common will that will enable us to reform and imple- Bilateral ties, particularly in ment ideas to realise more economic prosperity, and political and social the areas of Awqaf and Islamic stability. We need to disseminate the culture of citizenship for sustain- Affairs, were reviewed during the able development of the GCC countries. We should not be dragged into meeting. QNA the turbulence in the Middle East. THE PENINSULA Ashghal opens alternative road opposite Doha Exhibition Centre DOHA: The Public Works direction, with a two-lane section a four-level interchange with a Authority (Ashghal) has alongside Al Gasar roundabout. It dual four-lane tunnel and a dual announced that Al Gasar also complies with international two-lane flyover, dramatically roundabout and parts of the standards for road quality, signage improving traffic flow in the area roads leading to it will be and lighting, making it even bet- around Katara Village and the closed, in addition to a part ter than the main Lusail Street. Doha Exhibition Centre. of Lusail Street opposite to Speed limit on the new road will The Al Gasar roundabout is Doha Exhibition Centre as of be 50km per hour, while all direc- part of the Lusail Expressway tomorrow night as part of the tional and traffic management development under Ashghal’s Lusail Expressway project. The signs have been installed. wider Expressway Programme; Authority will open a 2km tem- Drivers heading north to Al a multi-year nationwide road porary dual alternative road Gasar roundabout will have to infrastructure programme that that is parallel to the part of the go right onto West Bay Street will improve the way people and Lusail Street that will be closed to reach Katara and the nearby places are connected across Qatar. (opposite Doha Exhibition hotels. THE PENINSULA Centre). Upon comple- The new alternative road that tion, Al Gasar leads to The Pearl area, mainly roundabout will consists of three lanes in each be replaced by

WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME 437 students graduate in Education City Sheikha Moza patronises sixth convocation at the Qatar National Convention Centre BY FAZEENA SALEEM

DOHA: Students at univer- sities within the Education City will soon be able to read majors at one university while taking on a minor at another, said H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, at the sixth convoca- tion of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development held at the Qatar National Convention Centre yesterday. The first cross registration will be an undergraduate degree in Journalism and Political Sciences at Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) and Georgetown University— School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Qatar). “It is our aim to deepen and diversify the academic knowledge of our graduates; this is why one of Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s main priorities is to become a hub H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser during Hamad bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) Convocation ceremony at the Qatar National Convention Centre yesterday. RIGHT: H H Sheikha Moza honouring promoting all efforts of coopera- Jared L Cohon, President of Carnegie Mellon University. tion, coordination and interaction between the various universities programs offered by a number of at the Hamad bin Khalifa studies, engineering, international walk through the ‘Door to the through an inspirational speech. of Education City,” said Sheikha universities, she added. University. relations and medicine from eight Future,’ symbolising their passage The Qatar Leadership Moza. Sheikha Moza also announced Qatar Foundation yesterday universities within the Education from QF universities to the next Academy performed the Qatar “I expect of this initiative to that an Executive Masters celebrated the 2013 convocation City. stage of their lives. National Anthem and the academically enhance the stu- in Energy and Resources, with the highest number of grad- The students received rings Jimmy Wales Founder of Education City Anthem alongside dents’ knowledge and enrich their a Masters in Library and uates in Foundation’s history in a from Dr Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani, Wikipedia, delivered the keynote Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra future. This is the model that we Information Studies, and range of diversified subjects. President of Hamad bin Khalifa address to the graduates. and Children’s Choir of the Al thought would characterise our an Academic Research and A total of 437 students gradu- University and Vice President of He stressed the need for tak- Jazeera Children’s Channel on academic project — a project that Methods certificate programme ated this year in subjects including Education at Qatar Foundation ing risks and innovative actions the occasion. would encompass new and diverse will be soon launched at the design, computer science, Islamic before they did the traditional to address the needs of the world THE PENINSULA Qatari parents beam with pride as sons and daughters shine DOHA: Behind the success of this degree in mechanical engineering. aspects of his son’s character and ena- New Venture Challenge category. to ‘think outside the box’ and to explore year’s graduates stand hundreds of “This day is indescribable. It is great bled him to attain outstanding academic “This project was part of my future the world of business and commerce. proud parents who have made infi- to see that Hamad has been rewarded success. “From the moment he entered career plans and it has definitely helped I am very pleased with all of Hamad’s nite sacrifices to see their sons and for all of his hard work over the past the Academic Bridge Program until his to transform me into a better business- achievements,” says Al Bader. daughters accomplish one of life’s key five years and to know that what lies graduation from university, Hamad has man. It has also given me more cred- Reflecting on his son’s overall aca- milestones. As the fresh graduates of ahead for him is undoubtedly a blossom- learned a tremendous amount about his ibility in this region for any future demic and personal experience, Mr Al 2013 bid farewell to their university ing future,” said Al Badr. academic and personal interests. After endeavours that I may choose to pursue,” Bader highlighted the importance of campuses at Qatar Foundation for Although Hamad, 25, initially intended joining Texas A&M, he became more con- reflects Hamad. Al Bader praised Qatar investing early in a child’s education. Education, Science and Community to study abroad, he quickly changed his fident and developed into a young man Foundation for successfully establishing “I would definitely recommend that Development, and prepare to embark mind after learning about the challeng- who loved a challenge,” says Al Badr. a unique educational environment that parents encourage their children to apply on a promising career, their parents ing mechanical engineering programme He adds, “Being at university taught fosters creative thinking, while at the to the universities at Qatar Foundation. reflect on the journey they have taken at TAMU-Q, which he felt would be the him how to manage his time and he same time upholding the customs and They should support them in selecting and the remarkable personal growth perfect match for his future career goals. succeeded at managing all of his school, traditions of Qatar’s rich heritage. He the academic path that they would like they have observed in their children. “Texas A&M is one of the oldest and family and professional responsibilities. noted that the cultural diversity at Qatar to take, and then let them choose the One such parent is Ali Hamad Al most prestigious universities in the world Hamad even began to pursue his entre- Foundation enriched the academic expe- university that they feel is the best fit Badr, who expressed joy at seeing his for engineering sciences. The fact that it preneurial interests.” One example of rience of its students, exposing them to a for them. Qatar requires qualified and son, Hamad being recognised with an is in Qatar has brought me even closer to Hamad’s drive to become an entrepre- variety of nationalities and backgrounds. talented youth to further the nation’s undergraduate degree from Texas A&M my family and friends,” explains Hamad. neur is the award he recently received “My son’s experience at Texas A&M development across all sectors. Investing University at Qatar (TAMU-Q), and says Hamad’s father believes that Qatar from the Social Development Center, has not only helped him to pursue his in a child’s education as early as possible he feels blessed to watch his son’s hard Foundation’s exclusive learning environ- a member of Qatar Foundation. His academic and professional dreams in the is crucial to securing this success.” work come to fruition as he receives a ment has significantly enhanced many ‘BeehivEnurship Café’ project won in the field of engineering, but encouraged him THE PENINSULA

HMC plans training in CPR Youngest graduate doctor in DOHA: The Hamad International Training Center (HTIC) at the region has noble dreams the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is plan- DOHA: Iqbal El Assaad is her development and growth ning to introduce training one of the youngest doctors in by allowing her to skip several in cardiopulmonary resus- the world. The 20-year-old has grades. citation (CPR) to deal with earned her Doctor of Medicine “I could read a journal in the rising number of heart degree from Weill Cornell English and Arabic when I was patients in the country. Medical College in Qatar five-years-old. The school prin- “The idea is to train staff (WCMCQ) and is exceptionally cipal once took me out of class from schools, shopping grateful to H H Sheikha Moza so that I could read a complete malls and companies to bint Nasser and to all the indi- lesson to students in Grade 5,” provide emergency care viduals who helped her along the recalls Iqbal. to people suffering from way. “My father also believed that heart attacks, before they The fresh graduate will be education and knowledge is are shifted to the care of a starting her residency at the number one, especially for a girl, medical team,” Dr Khalid prestigious Cleveland Clinic in so he taught us that education Abdulnoor Saifeldeen, the United States this summer is what leads us to our goals… HITC director and chair- and she hopes to specialise in we had a really good educational man of Kulluna campaign paediatrics, with a long-term environment at home.” said yesterday. The partici- view to becoming a paediatric With insatiable curiosity and pants will be trained on the cardiologist. Iqbal El Assaad an inherent love of learning, use of Automated External “My plan is to do the residency Iqbal, who is of Palestinian ori- Defibrillator, an electronic and then do a fellowship. I am algebra simply by sitting around gin, was determined to fulfil her device that automatically of course planning to come back her older siblings while they noble childhood goal of becoming diagnoses the potentially to the Middle East after I train, solved their homework. a doctor in order to provide med- life threatening heart dis- since this field is not well devel- With an aptitude for process- ical care to Palestinian refugees eases, he added. oped in the region as a whole,” ing words and numbers that who lived in camps and were less says the compassionate doctor. were not taught to her, it did fortunate than herself. Heart attacks “Then I would like to join an not take long for Iqbal’s father “Since I was very young, I Continued from page 1 academic health centre so that I to recognise that the youngest of really wanted to help people. My He said heart attacks can undertake research and teach his four children was intellectu- family did not live in a camp, but at an early age are more other medical students so they too ally gifted. we had family members who did common among Indians, can become doctors one day.” “I used to teach my children and I used to visit them,” she says compared to other nation- Iqbal has not forgotten about words and numbers to prepare with empathy. “I became aware alities. However, the the childhood dream she har- them for school, but I never taught that they had a lot of medical reasons are not known. bours and intends to continue Iqbal to count. She would watch needs and I felt that the best way In view of the alarming working hard and with the her siblings closely and learn from to help them would be by provid- increase in heart diseases, utmost dedication until she real- them,” said her father, Mahmoud ing family healthcare.” HMC has launched an ises it. “My biggest dream is to Omar El Assaad. “I would teach So when the high-achieving awareness drive focusing come back to Lebanon and open her brother who was in sixth student completed high school at on healthy heart, as the a free clinic for the Palestinians grade a mathematics equation, the tender age of 12, the Minister second phase of its ongoing in the camp and to help them and Iqbal who was much younger of Education in Lebanon stepped national health and safety out as much as I possibly can,” would ask me to give her a simi- in to help her secure the most campaign, Kulluna. A tem- she said. lar equation which she would solve competitive scholarships. Soon porary poly clinic being set Unlike most other toddlers without difficulty.” afterwards, several prominent up at the City Center by the Iqbal El Assaad’s favourite past By the time she turned five, individuals and universities came end of this month will con- time was reading a book or solv- Iqbal’s intellectual prowess was forward with promising offers duct free medical tests for ing a mathematics equation. The widely acknowledged by teach- that ensured Iqbal would receive visitors to diagnose heart little girl’s cognitive skills were ers at her school in Lebanon, and an outstanding education. diseases and associated risk so advanced that she learned they did their best to facilitate THE PENINSULA factors. THE PENINSULA

WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Signing ceremony Al Attiyah attends Berlin meeting

Qatar and Algeria yesterday signed minutes of the exchange of ratification instruments related to several agree- The Chairman of Qatar’s Administrative Control and Transparency Authority, H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, ments. Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al Sahlawi, Director of the Arab Affairs at the Foreign Ministry (right) and Abdulfattah also President of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP18), attending the fourth ministerial meeting of the Zayani, Algerian Ambassador, signed the documents at the ministry yesterday. Petersburg Climate Change Dialogue, in Berlin, yesterday. Experts debate Doha’s own ‘hanging gardens’ Renowned architect and urban planner Edouard Francois speaks about green architecture

DOHA: Doha can have its own “hang- “In Qatar, where temperatures are ing gardens,” like the fabled gardens high for such a large portion of the year, of Babylon, using green architecture, any amount of shading of paved surfaces or ‘biotecture,’ a seminar at the Qatar or reduction in paved surfaces through Green Building Council (QGBC) on the use of vegetation will make sur- Monday was told. roundings more comfortable and more Biotecture is an urban concept that aesthetically pleasing.” acknowledges that cities are not only Two members of QGBC’s Water made of buildings and infrastructure, Interest Group, Engineer Emmanuelle but also contain, very often, a rich and Brisemur of Degremont SA and Adam diverse urban ecology. Smith of Polypipe Gulf, discussed the Through techniques such as “green future water supply and technical irri- roofs” and “green walls” or vertical plant- gation systems that would be required ing, whereby built structures are cov- for extensive green planting on buildings. ered with vegetation, biotecture is used They emphasised a need for water-sensi- to encourage and increase the extent of tive urban design, which focuses on stor- biodiversity in a city. age, treatment and reuse of water from a “The challenge for Qatar is rediscover- variety of sources, including stormwater, ing the outdoors. There is great potential groundwater runoff, recycled water and in Doha to develop into a more liveable water recovered from air conditioning city, with greater use of quality outdoor condensate. spaces through extensive planting to help Edouard Francois Dr Anna Gretchting of Qatar ameliorate the extremes of Doha’s cli- University offered a landscape archi- mate. This vision for Doha encourages technical aspects of his vision for biotec- tect’s perspective on the potential of an architecture that is aesthetically lush ture in Doha. biotecture for Doha, while her colleague and tactile, with use of not only plants Mark Ainger, a structural engineer Dr Nobuyuki Yamaguchi discussed the but also natural materials like wood and with WSP Middle East, examined the ele- ecological choices that are implied by the stone, and a rich diversity of plants and ments of structural design and building “hanging gardens” vision from a scientific animals,” said renowned international construction required to bring Francois’s and philosophical standpoint. architect and urban planner Edouard vision to life, including maintenance and “Which is more environmentally Francois in his keynote presentation. pruning, external frames to support ver- friendly? A beautifully maintained neigh- “Green architecture is not only about tical planting, and considerations for air- bourhood in the suburbs or a run-down techniques, it’s about the right attitude, flow around the building. apartment block in the city?” asked and the right values, to address the Engineer Iigo Satrstegui, CEO of Yamaguchi. The city’s older areas, he pressing challenges in sustainability that Aire Limpio Qatar, spoke of the likely noted, are often much more environmen- face society today. Doha is really moving improvement that biotecture could bring tally sound, although the well-manicured and shaking, and I am impressed with to Doha’s outdoor and indoor air quality, neighbourhoods are in higher demand. the types of projects underway here. The while Eng Cynthia Skelhorn examined “Regardless of what science suggests approach that organisations like QGBC the potential thermal benefits, and thus as best practice, the future direction of are taking to addressing sustainability is energy reduction, of vertical planting on Doha’s city plan will be decided based systematic, which is key,” added Francois. buildings. on human values and preferences,” con- A line-up of local experts from various “The main point of methods such as cluded Dr Yamaguchi. backgrounds and professions, including vertical planting is to reduce air and sur- The seminar closed with a debate on architecture, structural engineering, air face temperatures, which also impacts whether the hanging gardens of Doha quality management, environment and building energy requirements,” said could materialise from fantasy into sustainable development and green edu- Skelhorn, who is a doctoral researcher reality. cation joined Francois to examine the at Manchester University. THE PENINSULA

Thunderstorms Presence of Indian firms largest in Project Qatar exhibition likely today DOHA: Nearly 30 companies because we consider the promo- huge and growing. Besides the Indian company while 60 percent in India. We welcome Qatar’s from India are participating in tion of business from both sides import of LNG from Qatar, which lies with QMIC. investment in India. Our invest- DOHA: Strong dust winds Project Qatar 2013, the larg- as among our foremost priorities,” is currently at 7.5 million tons per Another agreement between ment requirements are huge. In lashed the country last est number yet, under India’s Sanjiv Arora, Indian ambassador, anum, trade in non-hydro carbon Qatar Steel and Al Mana Group the infra-structural sector alone, evening. The unstable national level trade and industry said yesterday. sectors is also showing positive and the Goa Infra-logistics will India needs an investment of $1 weather is likely to continue body of Associated Chambers Among the 30 companies, some trends, the ambassador said. see a total investment of $200m in trillion in the next five years or today with chances of thun- of Commerce and Industry of are already operating in Qatar. Earlier, a joint venture worth two-phases. Thirty-five percent of so,” the envoy said. derstorms, according to the India (Assocham). Trade between India and Qatar $100m was agreed upon between this project is held by Qatar Steel, He also said that the strate- Meteorology Department. “Indian companies at earlier was an estimated $13.70bn dur- India’s KLG Organic and Qatar 33 percent by Al Mana Group and gic partnership between Qatar Northwesterly to north- exhibitions came individually, but ing 2011-2012. Arora also said Industrial Manufacturing 32 by Goa Infra-logistics. Foundation Endowment and the easterly winds would blow at the embassy had highly recom- that India greatly appreciates Company (QIMC) in the Mesaid “There is also an enhanced Bharti Airtel Ltd was a signifi- speeds ranging from 15 knots mended an increased participa- Qatar’s contribution to India’s Industrial City. The 40 percent interest on part of the busi- cant development. to 25 knots offshore, becom- tion in Project Qatar from India energy requirements which are share of the project is held by the ness entities in Qatar to invest THE PENINSULA ing southeasterly to south- erly inshore. Temperature in Doha would hover between 28 degrees Celsius and 32 degrees Celsius. THE PENINSULA HEC Paris holds convocation Chief of Staff attends DOHA: HEC Paris in Qatar Bulgarian Army Day celebrated the latest batch of graduates of their EMBA SOFIA: The Chief of Staff of programme at a Convocation the Qatari Armed Forces Maj held at the Qatar National Gen Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah Convention Center. and his delegation attended a The ‘class of 2013’ compris- military parade, held to mark ing 44 participants, included the Day of the Bulgarian Army four CEOs from the Qatar in the main square of the Credit Bureau, Coastal Group Capital Sofia. of Companies, King Abdullah The celebration and the mili- Medical City and KAMCO, and tary parade was attended by a COO from Consolidated Gulf Graduates of the HEC Paris EMBA programme at the convocation at the Qatar National Convention Center. Bulgaria’s President Rosen Company as well as other high- Plevneliev, Prime Minister Marin ranking public and private sector hosted by HEC Paris in Qatar success not only of the 44 HEC Qatar Leadership Center and programs, uniquely designed by Raykov, ministers and heads of managers. also brought together top busi- Paris in Qatar EMBA graduates Ooredoo who have participated HEC Paris in Qatar. diplomatic missions accredited in The Gala Dinner event ness executives to celebrate the but also of 61 participants from in customised talent development THE PENINSULA Bulgaria. QNA WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Putin urged to help end Syria bloodshed Kerry seeks to narrow differences over conflict

MOSCOW: US Secretary of ground.” Kerry added. In his ini- West of worsening the Syria State John Kerry yesterday tial remarks, Putin did not spe- conflict by seeking to topple the sought to narrow differences cifically address the differences Assad regime, and says Moscow over the conflict in Syria with between Washington and Moscow is solely interested in seeing a President Vladimir Putin, urg- over Syria but said the Kremlin peaceful solution to a conflict that ing the Russian strongman to was preparing a response to a has claimed more than 70,000 find common ground to help end message on bilateral ties that lives in since March 2011. the bloodshed. President Barack Obama sent in The US and other Western Kerry is making his first trip April. states have in turn accused Russia to Russia since taking over as the “I think it’s very important that of failing to use its influence with chief US diplomat in February, our key ministries and institu- the regime to halt the bloodshed one of his most diplomatically tions, including the foreign minis- and keeping up military deliveries delicate missions to date. try, cooperate in finding solutions to Assad. Washington has long urged to the most topical and relevant Kerry’s visit is taking place at Moscow, Syrian President Bashar issues of the day,” Putin told a time of particular tension after Al Assad’s most powerful ally, to Kerry. “I’m really happy to see Israel launched air strikes in use its sway to halt the bloodshed, you because it offers the chance Syria which Israeli sources said accusing Russian leaders of con- to discuss in person issues that we targeted Iranian weapons des- tinuing to arm the Syrian regime. believe are difficult,” Putin added. tined for the Lebanese militant “The United States really The visit coincides with the group Hezbollah. believes that we share some very first anniversary of Putin’s return The Russian foreign ministry significant common interests to the Kremlin for a historic third said it was “especially” concerned with respect to Syria,” Kerry told term on May 7, 2012, which her- by the attacks, warning that the Putin at the start of talks in the alded a new chill in relations violence threatened neighbouring Kremlin. between Moscow and Washington. Lebanon. He cited these interests as “I don’t know if we will get an Turkish Prime Minister “stability in the region, not let- agreement or not, but we cer- Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday ting extremists create problems tainly think it is worth testing branded Israel’s air raids in Syria in the region and elsewhere.” and trying to find some ways for- “unacceptable” but called again on “It is my hope that today we ward,” a senior State Department the international community to Russian President Vladimir Putin (third right) listens to US Secretary of State John Kerry (second left) during their will be able to dig into that a little official said Monday. act over killings by regime forces. meeting in Moscow, yesterday. bit, and see if we can find common Russia has long accused the AFP Iran and Jordan call for dialogue UN says 4.25 million displaced AMMAN: Iran and Jordan with his Jordanian counterpart “The repercussions of the yesterday called for dialogue Nasser Judeh in Amman. Syrian crisis will reflect on neigh- GENEVA: The number of he told reporters. The figures the risks, aid agencies were still between the Syrian regime and “We have advised the Syrian bouring states and other coun- Syrians displaced within their — combined with more than 1.4 managing to cross the often fluid “peaceful” opposition groups to government to sit with the oppo- tries,” Salehi said. homeland by the vicious civil million Syrians who have fled front-lines to reach those in end the civil war, with Tehran sition but not with Al Nusra.” “If a vacuum is created, God war has reached 4.25 million, abroad — mean that more than a need. “Overall, from January to warning that the repercussions Al Nusra Front has gained forbids, the outcome will be the UN humanitarian office quarter of Syria’s pre-war popu- April, some 764,000 people have of the conflict will impact the notoriety for suicide bombings unknown. We believe the Syrian said yesterday. lation of 22.5 million have been been reached through UN-led region. against Syrian regime targets, crisis must be resolved peacefully.” “Movement by internally dis- forced to quit their homes since relief convoys to hard-to-access Iranian Foreign Minister Ali but also won admiration from He said Iran rejects any out- placed persons continues to be the conflict erupted in March areas,” he said. Akbar Salehi, however, said that some rebels as a formidable fight- side interference in the Syrian large-scale and fluid, as many 2011. “Out of 10 convoys which such talks must not involve the ing force leading attacks on bat- conflict. Syrians are displaced multi- The highest concentration of crossed conflict lines, five tar- jihadist Al Nusra Front which tlefronts across the strife-torn “We do not want history to ple times,” said Jens Laerke, internally-displaced Syrians is geted opposition-controlled has carried out some spectacular country. repeat itself. We have seen what spokesman for the Office of the in the flashpoint northern city areas, while another five went attacks against the Syrian regime. Salehi, who is expected to travel such interference did in other Coordination of Humanitarian of Aleppo, where the figure is to contested areas.” The UN has “We have called for talks on to Damascus later yesterday, countries,” said Salehi, but added Affairs. “Over the past months, 1.25 million, followed by the urged Syria to allow the deliv- between the Syrian government according to an Iranian diplomat that Tehran was “helping Syria the number has more than dou- rural area around the capital ery of aid via Turkey to people and the peaceful opposition to source in Syria’s capital, said the economically. They have destroyed bled, from an estimated two Damascus, with 705,200, Laerke in dire need in the north of the form a transitional government,” Syrian conflict is seen impacting Syria’s infrastructure,” he added. million to 4.25 million people,” said. Laerke said that despite country. AFP Salehi told a joint news conference the entire region. AFP WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 10 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

ESTABLISHED IN 1996

CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KHALID AL SAYED [email protected]

ACTING MANAGING EDITOR HUSSAIN AHMAD [email protected]

EDITORIAL TEL: 44557741 / 44557743 FAX: 44557746 / 44557758 P. O. BOX: 3488, DOHA, QATAR E-MAIL: [email protected]

ADVERTISING: TEL: 44557837 / 780 FAX: 44557870 CLASSIFIED: 44557857 E-MAIL: [email protected]

SUBSCRIPTION / HOME DELIVERY TEL: 44557809 /839 FAX: 44557819 E-MAIL: [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ANNUAL QR 675 6 MONTHS QR 340 Editorial

Defusing crisis Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

HE reshuffle of the Egyptian cabinet carried out by President Mohammed Mursi, even if nothing significant in the current turbulent political situation Obama is running out of time Tin the country, will help to defuse the crisis. The Prime Minister Hisham Qandil replaced the finance and planning ministers in a broader Cabinet reshuffle as the country struggles to conclude a long-stalled $4.8bn International to end Middle East dithering Monetary Fund loan deal. Fayad Abdel-Moneim, a professor at Azhar University’s Faculty of Commerce and specialist BY SIMON TISDALL in Islamic Finance, replaced Finance Minister El-Morsi crisis is becoming uncontainable. led American Interest blogger Walter Hegazi. Ahmed Amr Darrag, a senior official in the Muslim Friends and political supporters, not Russell Mead to conclude the president Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, will take over the RESSURE is growing in the US just rightwing critics, are still wait- was out of time on Syria. Until now Planning and International Cooperation Ministry that was for Barack Obama to end his ing to see what Obama’s threat actu- Obama had enjoyed a relatively easy headed by Ashraf El-Arabi. Seven other ministers were also Pdithering on Syria and reassert ally means, if anything at all. While ride on foreign policy, he said, mainly changed. Agencies said that Mursi has inducted more Islamists American leadership in the Middle American public opinion mostly because he wasn’t George W Bush. But East, a region that, to western eyes, remains opposed to intervention, this was changing. into the cabinet. appears to grow more chaotic and unease about a do-nothing US policy “As Syria burns and Egypt seethes, The appointment of a new finance minister should help inject more menacing by the day. vacuum is extending beyond Syria to the biggest foreign policy story is more life into the crisis-ridden Egyptian economy. The people The weekend’s dramatic Israeli air encompass Obama’s insouciance in the unfolding right here at home. The of Egypt will expect the new team to change the direction strikes around Damascus, report- face of Egypt’s stumbling democratic establishment is rapidly losing patience of the economy. But changing ministers alone will not do. “If edly targeting missiles earmarked revolution, the nuclear stand-off with with President Obama’s Middle East for Iranian-backed Hezbollah mili- Iran, and the Israel-Palestine impasse. policy.” you need to change the direction, you need not just change tia in Lebanon, have shone a light on The US leader “now finds himself This evolution, fuelled by the enor- two ministers, you do it by changing ministers and changing Obama’s shilly-shallying. “When Israel in a geopolitical box, his credibility mity of Syria’s suffering and concomi- your plan,” an expert said. The reshuffle comes as President draws a red line, it means it,” said con- at stake with frustratingly few good tant regional destabilisation, could be Mohamed Mursi faces criticism over his governance of the servative columnist Jennifer Rubin. options”, said veteran Washington powerful enough finally to exorcise the Arab world’s most populous nation. “Not only does the Israeli action reporter Peter Baker. ghosts of Iraq and revive, in practice, Egyptian The secular opposition accuses the contrast with the US government’s When he spoke about red lines the old 1990s doctrine of humanitarian fecklessness, but in Syria, “Obama was thinking of a intervention. President Islamist’s government of largely failing it also raises the chemical attack that would cause So what can Obama do? As Vladimir to stabilize the nation or realize the issue of whether mass fatalities, not relatively small- Putin was expected to make plain to must give goals of the 2011 uprising that toppled the US would scale episodes like those now being John Kerry in Moscow on Tuesday, he participation Hosni Mubarak. The opposition prefer Israel [to] investigated, except the ‘nuance got cannot count on Russian (or, therefore, has been seeking an overhaul of the Unease about police the Middle completely dropped’. Chinese or UN security council) sup- to non- Cabinet, including the dismissal of East. It is unbe- As a result, the president seems to port to fix Syria. a perceived coming for a be moving closer to providing lethal The diplomatic process is at a stand- Brotherhood Prime Minister Qandil. The reshuffle superpower to let assistance to the Syrian rebels, even still. That leaves a minimalist decision members in his is unlikely to satisfy them, but it’s the US policy little Israel take though he rejected such a policy just to arm the rebels, an idea floated by the duty of the new government to make on the Iranian months ago.” Pentagon and encouraged by Britain government. sure that the view of the opposition is vacuum over surrogates. It will Obama’s hands-off approach was and France despite fears that anti- taken into account. likely unnerve our forged in the furnaces of Iraq and western Islamist jihadis may benefit. Syria, Egypt, allies elsewhere Afghanistan, calamitous military Beyond that, options include cre- Mursi could have tried for opposition support by inducting and embolden interventions he has vowed not to ating a no-fly zone, similar to that members from outside the Brotherhood. That would have him Iran and foes in other parts repeat. But Syria is not Iraq, argued imposed on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq support even from outside the country because what Egypt of the world.” former New York Times editor Bill after the first Gulf war; so-called needs today is reconciliation and reconciliation is possible only the Israel- Rubin’s crack Keller in a weekend op-ed. “surgical” strikes intended to take by giving reasonable representation to non-Brotherhood parties Palestinian about “red lines” “Of course, there are important les- out Assad’s airfields, anti-aircraft bat- in the government. “The regime once again chose ministers who refers to Obama’s sons to be drawn from our sad expe- teries, artillery and arms dumps and warning last rience in Iraq … But in Syria, I fear thereby protect the civilian population; are either members of the Muslim Brotherhood or affiliated impasse is August about the prudence has become fatalism, and our a wider, open-ended air campaign to with the group, while ignoring the opposition demand of consequences of caution has been the father of missed bring the regime to its knees (as in appointing independent ministers who are capable of dealing growing. chemical weap- opportunities, diminished credibility former Yugoslavia during the Kosovo with the economic, political and security issues in the interest of ons being used by and enlarged tragedy. crisis); or an all-out ground interven- the nation and not the group,” Abdel-Ghaffar Shukr, a member Bashar al-Assad’s “The United States has supplied tion if all the above fail. of the National Salvation Front opposition alliance, said. “The regime. Since then, there has been a humanitarian aid and diplomatic pres- These are all unpalatable and peril- large number of reports, and a small sure. But our reluctance to arm the ous military scenarios for a notoriously reshuffle won’t change anything in terms of the country’s amount of hard evidence, suggesting rebels or defend the civilians being risk-averse commander-in-chief who political, economic or security crisis.” Assad is doing exactly that. UN inves- slaughtered in their homes has con- sought to end America’s Middle East Since the uprising, Egypt has been mired in a polarizing tigator Carla del Ponte’s uncomfortably vinced the Assad regime (and the wars, not plunge into a new one. But battle between secularists and Islamists — a fight that has off-message claim that the rebels may world) that we are not serious.” whatever he may wish, Obama will stunted economic growth efforts, delayed the conclusion of the have reciprocated strengthened the This and similar recent broadsides have to do something, and soon. impression that the anarchic Syrian from normally pro-Obama liberals THE GUARDIAN IMF loan and added to the general economic malaise. Egypt will not be able to progress without getting out of this rut • The other side Quote of Venezuela has banned use of public resources in rallies the day HE Venezuelan government “The articles stressed that the gov- warning by the election commission. Editor replies: has rejected two articles ernment resources, public organisa- “There are authorities concerned to We publish the above clarification published by The Peninsula in tions and state televisions had been oversee and protect public resources because it’s our policy to give all sides Tits views columns last month. used for the campaign of the presiden- and these authorities have been of the story. The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry’s tial election of Nicolas Maduro held on empowered by the government and As a newspaper, we carry stories Iran stands at the Department in charge of Middle East 14 April, 2013. proposed by our supreme commander and viewpoints sent by news agencies Affairs said in a statement that both “Regarding such claims, we would Hugo Chavez Frias. and other writers but don’t necessar- side of Syria in articles were on the internal political like to say that the law has limited the “We oppose extremely the claims ily subscribe to the views expressed the face of Israeli situation of Venezuela, in addition to election campaign in Venezuela and made in both articles published in The in them. an insulting and aggressive caricature, banned the use of public resources, Peninsula and the insulting and aggres- Our editorials too are always bal- aggression, whose which alludes to the election and the including media and television pro- sive caricature of the late supreme anced and express a viewpoint. death of supreme commander Hugo grammes and cars, in rallies. commander Hugo Chavez Frias. This is not the first time we have writ- aim is to damage Chavez Frias. “The Election Commission is respon- “We are sorry to say that a serious ten similar editorials on foreign affairs the security of The first article entitled ‘Chavismo sible for monitoring television pro- newspaper has fallen to the prank of various countries and local issues. loses appeal in Venezuela without grammes, especially those related to of the intentional media propaganda As for cartoons, they are interpreted the region and Hugo’, (by Reuters) and the second the views of the people in a bid to keep against the successor of the leader of differently by our readers. Some see weaken the axis of entitled ‘Chaos in Venezuela’ were balance in the media of the country. Bolivarian Revolution,” the statement them as positive, some negative. Ali Akbar Salehi published on April 17, 2013. “The erring entities have been issued adds. resistance. Iranian Foreign Minister WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Nationalism last refuge Time to help Somalis rebuild their country

BY WILLIAM HAGUE the process. Today, Somalia and of feckless Asian leaders the United Kingdom will co-host EN days ago I stood an international conference in alongside the president London, bringing together other Chinese nationalists, of Somalia and watched 50 countries and organisations in Tthe Union Flag fly once support of Somalia. virtual and real, have again over a British embassy in The purpose of the conference Mogadishu for the first time in is to put the weight of the inter- 22 years. It was a proud moment, national community behind the been a force to reckon showing how far Somalia has government of Somalia’s plans come in recent years and the to develop effective security and with since Nato’s deep relationship between our police forces; a functioning justice two countries. system; and well-managed, trans- For 22 years, the people of parent public finances to provide accidental bombing of Somalia have suffered appall- services to the Somali public and ingly from conflict and insecu- ultimately pave the way for inter- the Chinese embassy rity. Two generations of Somali national financial institutions to children have grown up without be able to work with Somalia. access to healthcare, schools and At the conference we will be in Belgrade in 1999. jobs. Over a million Somalis were urging all countries present to internally displaced, while hun- spell out how they can support BY PANKAJ MISHRA dreds of thousands more became these plans, by technical assist- refugees in neighbouring coun- ance or funding for organisations isiting China in 1928, when a ris- tries. And many thousands of implementing programmes on ing Japan had begun to prey on its Somalis lost their lives. Terrorists the ground. This conference is a neighbour, Japanese poet Akiko and extremists used the absence historic opportunity for leading Yosano took a surprisingly broad- of the rule of law in Somalia to countries of the world to demon- minded view of anti-Japanese gain a foothold. Yet against all the strate their commitment to the Vpassion among the Chinese: “It’s surely fright- odds, the extraordinarily talented Somali people. ful from the imperialists’ point of view,” she Japanese nationalists protest the South Korean president’s visit to a disputed island. and resilient people of Somalia We must help the new gov- wrote in her travelogue, “but for the Chinese kept the hope alive that one day ernment of Somalia to end the people it must be celebrated in the name of When in the 1920s Akiko Yosano wrote identity. But it coexists in uneasy symbiosis they would rebuild their homes threats of war, terrorism, piracy humanity.” benevolently about the nascent Chinese sense with extreme inequality and unemployment and their livelihoods and create a and famine which have dominated Writing last year in the Asahi Shimbun, of nationality, it seemed essential to the sur- — problems created by a lopsided national peaceful future for their children. Somalis’ lives for far too long, and as anti-Japanese rioting erupted in China, vival of a country ravaged by civil war and development that favoured state support for In the last year Somalia has to make the most of this oppor- writer Haruki Murakami had a wholly unsym- threatened by Japanese imperialism. But why big conglomerates. made extraordinary progress. A tunity to build a peace and sta- pathetic take on the same phenomenon. He have anti-Japanese sentiments resurfaced in The country’s new president, Park Geun- new federal government has been bility for all Somalis. Now is the assailed the “cheap alcohol” of nationalism 2013 when Japan is trying to recover from two hye, faces many other challenges besides a formed. Al Shabaab has lost large time to stand by Somalis as they that “makes you speak loudly and act rudely” lost decades and China seems to have surpassed rogue neighbour to the north and an impeni- areas of territory. The Somali rebuild their country. The United and leaves you “with nothing but an awful its old rival’s economic and political power? tent former occupier to the east. But she, too, diaspora are returning, and some Kingdom and Somalia are bound headache the next morning.” A plausible explanation of the fresh out- may discover that in an unequal and fractious people are now able to rebuild by living ties which stretch back I was recently reminded of these contrast- breaks of nationalism in East Asia must nec- country, anti-Japanese nationalism remains their properties and businesses. into history. Somali communi- ing responses, as Chinese and Korean lead- essarily begin with internal politics and the the best way to orchestrate national unity. In Mogadishu, despite some ties across the UK are incred- ers protested high-profile Japanese visits to vulnerability of rulers. Shinzo Abe is also playing a tricky domestic deadly terrorist attacks, there is ibly generous, contributing their Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which commemo- It may seem strange today but Mao game that shapes his international gambits. a palpable sense of optimism. This hard-won earnings in remittances rates, among others, Japanese indicted for war Zedong discouraged public discourse about He has just started an ambitious programme progress has been underpinned back to Somalia and offering their crimes during Japan’s early 20th-century inva- the Japanese invasion and waived reparations. to stem years of falling prices and reinflate by the determined support of the expertise to help reconstruc- sions and occupations of China and Korea. During his reign, “the Rape of Nanking” was Japan’s economy. international community. tion and development. Drawing The South Korean foreign minister can- far from becoming Chinese shorthand for A majority of Japanese public opinion Huge challenges undoubtedly strength from these links, our celled his visit to Japan. Japan’s conservative Japanese brutality. The People’s Republic of remains opposed to his historical revisionism. remain, and we are under no illu- two countries will work together Prime Minister Shinzo Abe then caused fur- China sought diplomatic recognition from But a rising stock market and improving busi- sion about the efforts that will be to ensure that the hope and opti- ther outrage by appearing to question whether Japan. The communists in the 1950s and ness sentiment — among other initial results required from Somalia, its neigh- mism of the last year is translated Japan had actually invaded its neighbouring 1960s already had a bogey: The nationalists in of Abenomics — seem to have emboldened Abe, bours and from the international into lasting progress and a secure countries. Abe’s remarks were never likely to Taiwan and Western imperialists worldwide. and account at least partly for his confident community if this recent progress and peaceful future for Somalia. go down well in Korea, where anti-Japanese China’s troubled history with Japan came diplomatic manoeuvring aimed at the Chinese. is to become irreversible. But we (The author is Britain’s Foreign sentiments are kept on the boil by the issue to be reinterpreted, as historian Rana Mitter But Abe still needs Chinese and Korean tol- now have a unique opportunity to Secretary and First Secretary of of “comfort women” forced into sexual slavery shows in his forthcoming book on the Sino- erance for the steadily devalued yen, and his help Somalia renew itself, and to State.) by the Japanese in their occupation of Asia Japanese War, in the post-Mao era. This was growth strategy will suffer if Japan’s exports increase our common security in THE PENINSULA during the Second World War. when communist leaders, ushering their coun- to China don’t recover. Japan also seeks to But the reaction in China, where Abe’s try into a market economy, first began to face cooperate with China in dealing with the grandfather Nobusuke Kishi was accused the problems of uneven growth, which now looming threat from North Korea. of employing Chinese as slave labour in the included social unrest on a huge scale. If Abenomics turns out to be more sizzle than 1930s, was also predictably fierce. Undaunted, They became desperate to boost their cred- steak, as the economist and Japan watcher Abe threatened a robust military response by ibility after the killings of unarmed protestors Richard Katz argues, economic setbacks at Japan to any Chinese presence on the Senkaku near Tiananmen Square in 1989, and images home will make Abe assume a more aggres- Islands. of the perfidious and vicious Japanese came sive posture with his neighbours. Nationalism This dangerous diplomatic brinkmanship, in handy. The commemoration of the Sino- remains, despite decades of economic and cul- which could spark war, cannot be grasped Japanese War is now central to the post-Cold tural globalisation, the default escape mode for without reference to Asia’s tormented his- War Chinese strategy of finding new foils politicians in trouble; and, as the events of 1914 tory in the first half of the 20th century, when internationally and fresh ideological legiti- proved, populist amplifications of it can quickly Japanese imperialists sought to turn a large macy at home. destroy the geopolitical equilibrium achieved by part of the Asian mainland into a resource for And it can claim some success: Chinese deeply interdependent economies. their hungry economy. nationalists, virtual and real, have been a force Certainly, as the centenary of the First But the exploration of “ancient enmities” to reckon with since Nato’s accidental bomb- World War approaches, some extra caution can only take us part of the way in under- ing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999 will become imperative for “politicians and standing the real sources and potential of con- sparked large demonstrations. polemicists,” who, as Murakami wrote, “lavish flict today. It is always worth asking about As in China, anti-Japanese nationalism us with this cheap alcohol and allow things to Somalis carry Britain’s Union Flag and their national flag as they take part resurgent nationalisms or freshly ignited tem- in South Korea has a potentially large con- get out of control.” in a parade in support of an international conference on Somalia in London, pers over territorial disputes: Why now? stituency and is a touchstone of national WP-BLOOMBERG on the streets of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu yesterday. Remembering Heydar Aliyev, the architect of Azerbaijan

ZERBAIJAN is in a mood his train of thought since we were with commercial operations dat- humane person. He had ordi- of celebration. The gov- recording the interview, my hands ing to 1847. nary and fair attitude towards Aernment and various groped blindly in my seat for the At the end of 2011 Azerbaijan ordinary people though he faced organizations in the country are safety belt buckles. And yes, the had proven oil reserves of 7bn injustice, treachery and betrayal lining up activities to mark the president saw me. He stopped barrels, according to BP’s indus- in different periods of his life. But 90th birthday of their national and smiled, and with his usual try review, or about 0.4 per cent he forgave most of them.” leader Heydar Aliyev, which falls wry twist of humour, remarked, of the world total. Production was Aliyev was born on May 10, 1923 on May 10. The nation is paying “Don’t worry, I won’t let the plane 931,000 barrels per day. In natural in Nakhchivan city. After graduat- tributes to the leader which made go down!” We both laughed. I gas, it had reserves of 1.3trn cubic ing from Nakhchivan Pedagogical Azerbaijan what it is today — a buckled up anyway. metres, or about 0.6 per cent of School in 1939, he studied archi- progressive, modern, economi- It was just like him to say the world total, and output of tecture in Azerbaijan Industry cally prosperous nation which something like that — personal, 14.8bn cubic metres that year. Institute (now Azerbaijan State has won its place on the global humorous, apropos — both con- As part of Aliyev’s birth- Oil Academy). map. The country’s rise in inter- scious of his power and the irony day anniversary celebrations, Due to the outbreak of the national affairs and its role as a of the moment.” Azerbaijan’s parliament unani- Second World War, he left his major actor owes much to Aliyev’s Aliyev’s statement became mously passed an amnesty bill cov- education unfinished. Later, he policies. ingrained in the minds of people ering 9,000 prisoners at a special received special high education in Writing in the magazine of Azerbaijan. Most Azerbaijanis meeting on Tuesday. The amnesty Leningrad (now St Petersburg) Azerbaijan International, jour- felt that way about him — that as act was initiated by Azerbaijani and graduated from the History nalist Betty Blair remembers long as Aliyev was at the helm of first lady and President of the faculty of Azerbaijan State her experience of interviewing power, the ship of nation would Heydar Aliyev Foundation, MP University in 1957. In the elections the great leader and sums up his not go down. Mehriban Aliyeva. on October 3, 1993, Aliyev was vision and courage. They valued him as an astute, Azerbaijan’s national leader Heydar Aliyev attends an event in this file photo. Addressing the Milli Majlis elected president of Azerbaijan She writes: “The time had come experienced, incredibly savvy session, she said the amnesty act Republic. On October 11, 1998, he and I was escorted to the front politician. After all, he had once of his Era — encompassing the 30 Now SOCAR aims to play a being discussed was an act of for- was re-elected with 76.1 percent presidential section of the plane. been among the most influen- odd years from 1970 to 2003. central role in the diversifica- giveness. “Passing such a law on of total votes. Being a fairly experienced trav- tial leaders of the Soviet Union Azerbaijan is one of the world’s tion of gas supplies to Europe. the eve of Heydar Aliyev’s 90th Though Aliyev filed nomination eller, I invariably buckle up for — that vast empire that had fastest-growing economies today, SOCAR dates from 1992 and the anniversary has a great symbolic in the presidential elections slated the duration of flight. This time, stretched across 12 time zones. transforming itself in a few years merger of two Soviet-era compa- value.” for October 15, 2003, he withdrew however, I took my cues from His rank among the top leaders from a war-ravaged country into nies, Azerneft and Azneftkimiya, She added that after Aliyev because of health problems. He the president who was not using in the Soviet politburo had been an increasingly assertive presence and was formed in 1918 after the was elected president in 1993, he died in the Clivland hospital in the safety straps, and I slid into the among those one could count on on the regional stage. country was absorbed into the forgave most of these people and US on December 12, 2003. booth opposite him. one hand. Its emergence can largely be USSR and the oil industry was thus once again confirmed his Aliyev as president always car- “As luck would have it, we Most people acknowledge that attributed to its energy resources, nationalised. But SOCAR’s roots greatness by the ability to for- ried himself with the authority of soon hit some rough turbulence Aliyev was “bigger than life” and marshalled by the government- go deeper, perhaps back to the give. “As a member of his family, someone who knew who he was and the plane started bouncing a man of gigantic political stature. owned State Oil Company of beginnings of what is one of the I would like to say that Heydar and where he had come from. around. Trying not to interrupt He is identified as the Architect Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR). oldest oil industries in the world, Aliyev was a noble, generous and THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Mursi brings more Islamists into cabinet Reshuffle falls short of oppn demands

CAIRO: Egyptian President Fayyad Abdel Moneim, a spe- Mohammed Mursi increased cialist in Islamic economics, was the influence of his Muslim appointed as finance minister, Brotherhood over government in replacing Al Mursi Al Sayed a cabinet reshuffle that replaced Hegazy, another expert on Islamic two ministers involved in cru- finance who was appointed in cial talks with the IMF over a January — the last time Kandil $4.8bn loan. reshuffled the cabinet. The changes fell well short of “The reshuffle is unlikely to the opposition’s demand for a com- signal any real shift in policy, plete overhaul of Prime Minister particularly from an economic Hisham Kandil’s administration perspective,” Said Hirsh, a and the installation of a neutral London-based economist, said. cabinet to oversee parliamentary “If anything it deals a blow to elections later this year. demands for political consensus It looked unlikely to help which the government seems to build the political consensus the have ignored.” International Monetary Fund is The changes underscored the seeking for reforms needed to polarised state of an Egyptian secure a loan seen as vital to eas- political scene split between ing Egypt’s deep economic crisis - Mursi and his Islamist allies and an unaffordable budget deficit and opposition parties that accuse a plunge in the value of its cur- him and the Brotherhood of try- rency. The government is strug- ing to dominate the post-Hosni gling to seal a deal that would Mubarak order. require it to implement austerity Mursi announced on April 20 measures. he would carry out the reshuffle Kandil, a technocrat appointed to replace a government widely Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi (centre) attends a meeting with Prime Minister Hisham Kandil and other newly appointed ministers at the El Thadiya premier last year, named nine criticised for failing to get the presidential palace in Cairo yesterday. new ministers. They included economy moving nine months Amr Darrag, a senior official in into his presidency. The US, which the Brotherhood’s Freedom and gives Egypt $1.3bn in military aid energy crises”, a reference to fuel to any possible real national dia- wave of instability,” he said. The of Mursi’s toughest opponents in Justice Party, as planning minis- each year, has grown more critical shortages. logue,” said Hussein Abdel Ghani, reshuffle left the ministers of inte- the judiciary. Sherif Haddara, ter. The outgoing minister, Ashraf of Mursi of late, listing a lack of The National Salvation Front an NSF member. rior, defence and foreign affairs chairman of the Egyptian General Al Arabi, had played a central role political inclusivity as a concern. (NSF), a loose alliance of oppo- Yasser El Shimy, Egypt ana- unchanged. Petroleum Corporation, was in the IMF talks. Essam El Erian, deputy head sition parties, wants Mursi to lyst with the International Crisis Ahmed Suleiman was named named as minister of petroleum, Another Brotherhood mem- of the Freedom and Justice Party, install a neutral government and Group, said: “They might be get- as justice minister, replacing responsible for meeting the fuel ber, Yehya Hamed, was named told Al Jazeera’s Egyptian news replace the public prosecutor ting people who will do a better job Ahmed Mekky, who resigned last needs of the cash-strapped state investment minister, and Ahmed channel the aim of the reshuffle before elections that are expected but it does not address the politi- month in protest at efforts by as summer approaches. El Gezawi, an FJP member, took was to “confront the economic cri- to get under way in October. cal crisis in any meaningful way, Mursi’s Islamist allies to purge The state, which subsidises die- over agriculture, lifting the move- sis and to conclude the agreement “The changes will only deepen and I’m not sure it’s meant to. the judiciary. sel, cooking gas and other fuels, ment’s share to around a third of with the IMF with new spirit and the political crisis and state of “They have absolutely no doubt A former assistant to Mekky, has been struggling to finance the cabinet’s 35 portfolios. a new vision, and to confront the polarization and block the way that they will be able to ride this Suleiman has been critical of some energy imports. REUTERS

Bahrain arrests Two more die from SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia four over attack GENEVA: Two more people in outbreak centred on a health Other strains of coronavirus can and Britain. A retrospective two, Jordan two, Britain two and Saudi Arabia have died from a care facility in Al Ahsa governo- cause common colds but also the study in Jordan found that there the UAE one, according to the DUBAI: Bahraini security new strain of coronavirus that rate in Eastern Province, WHO deadly Severe Acute Respiratory had been an outbreak of the new WHO. “WHO does not advise forces have arrested four has emerged in the Middle East, spokesman Glenn Thomas said Syndrome (SARS) that emerged virus there as long ago as April special screening (of travellers) people suspected of attacking bringing the toll in the king- in Geneva. in Asia in 2003. There is no evi- 2012, with two confirmed cases nor does it recommend that any a police checkpoint with pet- dom’s latest outbreak to seven, Worldwide, there have been 30 dence yet of sustained human-to- and 11 probable ones, including trade or travel restrictions,” rol bombs south of Manama the World Health Organisation laboratory-confirmed infections human spread of the new virus, 10 health care workers, Thomas Thomas said, adding that all at the weekend, the interior said yesterday. with the new virus, including 18 but there are concerns about said. states should look out for “any ministry said. Six other people are infected, deaths, since it came to scientists’ clusters of cases reported by the Saudi Arabia has reported 23 unusual patterns” of infection. “Four of the terrorists who one of them critically ill, in an attention last September, he said. WHO in Saudi Arabia, Jordan confirmed cases in total, Qatar REUTERS attacked police checkpoint on Sunday evening with petrol bombs have been arrested,” the ministry said late Monday. It said the attack took place in the district of Jari Al Iran begins registering Sheikh, south of the capital, adding the identity of others suspected of being involved was presidential hopefuls being probed. The alleged attack came amid frequent clashes between TEHRAN: Iran began reg- targeted by international sanc- security forces and protesters istering candidates yesterday tions over the country’s contested in villages inhabited by the Shia for a June 14 presidential vote, nuclear programme. majority of the kingdom ruled the first in the Islamic republic Former nuclear negotiator and by the Al Khalifa dynasty. since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s moderate figure Hassan Rowhani disputed re-election sparked yesterday joined the race with a months of violent street pro- promise to “save the economy and Saudi beheaded tests in 2009. (engage) in constructive interac- The Interior Ministry opened tion with the world,” ISNA news for killing woman the five-day registration process agency said. at 8:00 am, according to media Many conservative hopefuls RIYADH: Saudi authorities reports, with a string of con- have expressed readiness to stand beheaded by the sword yes- servative hopefuls in the running for election. terday a national convicted of but key reformists yet to come Among them are heavyweights murdering a woman after he forward. Ali Akbar Velayati — foreign tried to rape her, the Interior Interior Minister Mostafa minister from 1981 to 1997 and Ministry said. Mohammed Najjar advised hope- current foreign affairs adviser Hussam Al Sharari was Libyans take photographs of fireworks in celebration of the passing of a new political law in Benghazi, yesterday. fuls against waiting until the last to Khamenei — and Mohammed found guilty of slitting the minute to register, while warning Baqer Qalibaf, a former national throat of the woman who against early campaigning, said police chief who is now mayor of resisted his attempts to rape the state broadcaster’s website. Tehran. her after he sneaked into her The polls will be followed closely The process of screening house, it said in a statement by the international community candidates is entrusted to the Libyan defence minister carried by SPA state news four years after the regime sup- Guardians Council, an unelected agency. He was executed in the pressed a wave of demonstrations body controlled by religious con- city of Sakakah, in the north- that erupted when Ahmadinejad servatives appointed by supreme ern Jawf region. His beheading secured a second term. leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, brings to 37 the number of peo- Under the constitution, the who has the final say on all key reverses move to resign ple executed in Saudi Arabia outgoing president cannot stand issues. since the beginning of the year. for a third consecutive term. The council is set to announce TRIPOLI: Libya’s defence that politics can be practiced by tribes now control large swathes His successor is expected to the names of those who have been minister quit yesterday only to the power of weapons ... This is an of the vast, oil-producing North face an array of challenges, includ- cleared to stand no later than reverse himself soon afterward, assault against the democracy I African country. Sudanese rebels ing Iran’s worsening economy May 23. AFP the prime minister’s office said, have sworn to protect,” Barghathi, The already shaky central and gunmen pledged to keep two who was an air force commander government could be rendered thwart army bid ministries under siege in a cri- in the Gaddafi era, told a news largely dysfunctional if the new sis pointing to a security break- conference. law is fully implemented to oust KHARTOUM: Sudanese down in the young democracy. Two hours later the prime min- senior ministers and officials sea- rebels yesterday said they had Armed groups seized the ister’s office said Barghathi had soned in public service, diplomats repulsed an army attempt to Foreign Ministry on April 28 and agreed to stay on the job. “The and analysts fear. However, lead- retake an area they seized 10 ringed the Justice Ministry two prime minister (Ali Zeidan) per- ers of the armed groups besieg- days ago during a surprise days later to push parliament into suaded that this was not the right ing the ministries said that they coordinated strike into a pre- passing a law barring anyone who time,” a source in Zeidan’s office would not fall back unless the viously peaceful region. held a senior position under late said. He said Barghathi had com- entire government resigned. But the army said it had dictator Muammar Gaddafi from plained that some of the gunmen “Our demand was, from the not approached rebel-held public service. were seen using army equipment beginning, for the General Abu Kershola village but The Tripoli parliament did and “he could not accept that ... National Congress to withdraw fought with insurgents else- precisely that on Sunday but I’m sure he did feel powerless ... its confidence from the govern- where. Rebels of the Sudan the gunmen have refused to dis- But the government has been very ment,” said Wissam bin Majid, a Revolutionary Front coalition perse, insisting the entire govern- persistent in resisting (these gun- leader of one of the armed groups took Abu Kershola on April ment step down and prompting men) peacefully.” at the Foreign Ministry. 27 during attacks on several Defence Minister Mohammed Al Many of the armed men were “It does not matter whether nearby areas, including Umm Barghathi to resign in frustra- instrumental in ending Gaddafi’s the political isolation law is imple- Rawaba, the second-largest tion at the feebleness of security 42-year rule in 2011. But they mented after a month or a year, town in North Kordofan state. A candidate registers for the presidential vote in Tehran, yesterday. services. have declined to vacate the capital this government must step down AGENCIES “I will never be able to accept Tripoli and various militias and now,” Majid said. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Rehearsal Russian prisoner Al Qaeda calls in daring escape

MOSCOW: A Russian pris- oner charged with double murder yesterday escaped for attacks on from one of Moscow’s most formidable jails by breaking a hole in his cell ceiling, climb- ing through a ventilation shaft and jumping to free- dom, the prison service said. French assets In a rare break-out, report- edly only the fourth in two decades from Moscow’s Hollande says taking threat seriously Matrosskaya Tishina prison, Oleg Topalov “escaped by DUBAI: A leader of Al Qaeda and limited, to spare his country breaking into the ventilation in North Africa has urged descending into a swamp like that shaft of his cell, which is in the Muslims worldwide to attack faced by Americans in Iraq and ceiling,” prison service spokes- French interests in retaliation Afghanistan, it is your duty to man Sergei Tsygankov told for France’s military interven- foil his plan and drag him into an Channel One television. tion in Mali, a threat President open war,” said Annabi. Francois Hollande said is being He said such a war should taken seriously. “drain France’s economy, exhaust Zimbabwe charges “It is your duty, all Muslims... its capabilities, and push it into a Belarus honour guards take part in a rehearsal for the annual Victory Day parade in central Minsk, yesterday. to attack French interests eve- recession and contraction.” Belarus celebrates the 1945 Soviet victory over Nazi Germany tomorrow. scribes over article rywhere,” Abu Obaida Al Annabi Hollande offered a swift reac- HARARE: The editor said in a video message posted tion to Annabi’s call. and chief reporter of lead- online. “We are taking seriously the ing weekly the Zimbabwe Annabi, presented as the head threat by AQIM,” Hollande Independent were released of the council of dignitaries of Al told reporters in Paris, adding from police custody yester- Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb that despite considerable losses Powerhouses South Africa, day after being charged over (AQIM), called for “full mobilisa- inflicted on Islamists in Mali, a politically sensitive article, tion” to combat the “new crusade “the terrorist threat has not their lawyer said. of France.” disappeared.” Lawyer Belinda Chinowawa “Jihad (holy war) is now the “So we believe we must con- Nigeria pledge closer ties said editor Dumisani Muleya duty of every capable among you,” tinue the operation in Mali for and chief reporter Owen he said in a recording dated April as long as it takes — even if we Gagare were charged with 25. reduce our presence — and stay CAPE TOWN: The leaders “brother”, the two leaders pointed in light of the sites of instability “publishing or communicating France sent troops in January vigilant around Mali to continue of Africa’s two biggest econo- to a new path for the continental in the Central African Republic, false statements prejudicial to to Mali to quash Al Qaeda-linked the fight against terror.” mies, South Africa and Nigeria, powerhouses as Zuma described the eastern DRC (Democratic the State” in an article in the groups that had taken control of Hollande said he had ordered pledged closer ties yesterday the trip as a “historic state visit”. Republic of Congo) and Mali paper nearly two weeks ago. half of the country. measures to protect French in what was hailed as a mile- “We are very pleased with the where decisive intervention is French troops fighting along- installations abroad. stone in a sometime patchy outcomes of our discussions, they needed.” side the Malian army and other The AQIM threat comes after a relationship. do mark a higher level of coopera- The state visit was hailed as Germany sees rise African soldiers have largely suc- car bombing at France’s embassy President Jacob Zuma rolled tion between the two countries.” a positive step in bilateral ties ceeded in driving Islamist insur- in the Libyan capital Tripoli last out the red carpet for his coun- Jonathan’s visit comes on the which have faced many rocky in immigration gents from the north, but pockets month, which wounded three peo- terpart Goodluck Jonathan as heels of a trip last month by patches and frequent rivalries. of resistance remain, particularly ple. No group has claimed respon- ministers signed nine pacts cov- Zuma to Lagos. “Nigeria and South Africa FRANKFURT: An influx of in the Gao region. sibility for the attack. ering oil and gas, power, defence The South African leader yes- must come together, must work people from crisis-hit south- France has begun withdrawing It also comes days after and communication. terday hailed Nigeria’s support together, to help the continent of ern European countries some of its 4,000 troops and said Mohammed Al Zawahiri, the “South Africa and Nigeria are for the southern nation’s anti- Africa,” said Jonathan. like Spain, Italy and Greece it will leave 2,000 soldiers on the brother of Al Qaeda chief Ayman critical countries,” said Jonathan, apartheid struggle. “Because whether we like it or has led to the biggest surge ground throughout the summer. Al Zawahiri, issued a similar who is on the first state visit to “We have a duty to take these not... if we refuse to cooperate... in German immigration in Last month, Paris assured Mali threat. “France is playing with South Africa by any Nigerian historical relations further,” he we will be considered as failures.” nearly 20 years. that it was not planning an over- fire... By attacking Mali, France leader since 2009. said. While South Africa is still The Federal Statistics Office night withdrawal and would pro- lit the fuse and will suffer the con- “If the continent of Africa must Zuma also stressed the need for the continent’s biggest economy, said yesterday that 1.081 million vide a permanent support forces sequences,” Zawahiri told French move forward, then the world an African Union standby force Nigerian business activity is set to immigrants flocked to Germany of 1,000 soldiers after elections weekly Le Point last month. (will) expect maximum coopera- “for rapid deployment in crisis grow more than twice as fast, by last year, up 13 percent from slated for July. “The reaction of jihadi fighters tion between South Africa and areas without delays”. 7.2 percent, this year, according 2011 and the highest number “If the French president wants is likely to be strong, be it in Mali Nigeria and we’re just doing that.” “The need for an intervention to International Monetary Fund since 1995. AGENCIES his crusade to be quick, short or on French territory. AFP Saluting each other as brigade has become more crucial estimates. AFP WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Three missing women found alive Police locate Cleveland home after kidnap victim Amanda Berry’s desperate call; three brothers arrested

CLEVELAND: Three women Michelle Knight, who went miss- each woman was last seen, and who vanished as teenagers about ing in 2002 at age 20 and is now police believe they were in the a decade ago were discovered 32, police said at a news confer- home for the entire time they Women found alive in high-profile abductions alive in a house in Cleveland, ence yesterday. They also discov- were missing. and the home’s owner and his ered a 6-year-old girl believed to “The nightmare is over. These Amanda Berry (near right), Gina two brothers were arrested, be Berry’s daughter, police said. three young ladies have provided DeJesus (right), Michele Knight: police said yesterday. Berry had last been seen leaving us with the ultimate definition of Disappeared in Ohio aged 16, 14, Authorities were alerted to her job at a fast-food restaurant survival and perseverance,” said their whereabouts on Monday the day before her 17th birthday FBI Special Agent Steve Anthony. and 19 respectively, between 2002 evening by a frantic emergency in April 2003, and DeJesus, now “Yes, law enforcement profes- and 2004. Found in Cleveland house call from one of them, Amanda 23, was last seen walking home sionals do cry,” he said. The neigh- following bid for freedom by Amanda Berry, moments after she was from school. bour told police he helped Berry freed from the house by a neigh- The three women were taken kick out the bottom of a screen Berry. School bus driver and his two bour who said he heard screaming to MetroHealth Medical Centre, door that was locked. “The real brothers arrested and came to her aid. where they were reunited with hero is Amanda,” Tomba said. “Help me! I’m Amanda Berry. ... family and friends, and released FBI and other law enforcement Elisabeth Jaycee Dugard: I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been yesterday, a spokeswoman said. were searching the house, police Fritzl: Imprisoned Snatched on way missing for 10 years and I’m here. The owner of the house, Ariel said. Tomba said police were also I’m free now,” Berry, now 27, can Castro, 52, a school bus driver interested in investigating other and raped over to school at age be heard telling a 911 operator in was arrested, as were his broth- properties. 24 years by father 11 by convicted a recording of the call released ers Pedro, 54, and another brother, During her 911 call, Berry gave Josef Fritzl, who sex offender by police. Onil, age 50, police said. “We believe the name of a man she said had Police descended upon the we have the people responsible,” abducted her. She said he had kept her in cellar Phillip Garrido, house within minutes to find Cleveland Deputy Police Chief Ed left the house and urged police to of family home in California. Berry along with Gina DeJesus, Tomba said at the conference. come quickly. She indicated that at Amstetten, Held captive for who vanished in 2004, and The house is close to where she knew her disappearance had been widely reported in the media. Austria. She bore 18 years before All three women were from him seven children. Rescued in 2008 being rescued in 2009. Repeatedly the west-side section of Cleveland raped, gave birth to two daughters where they ultimately resurfaced. after one child was taken to hospital There was no word on the fate Natascha Elizabeth of a fourth missing girl, Ashley Summers, who disappeared from Kampusch: Smart: Abducted the same vicinity in July of 2007 Abducted at age from bedroom of aged 14 and who police investi- 10 in 1998 and her Utah home gated as possibly linked to the Berry and DeJesus cases, accord- held for over eight in June 2002, ing to the Charley Project website, years in secret aged 14, and which documents more than 9,000 cellar in suburb repeatedly missing-persons cases. The disappearance of Knight of Vienna, Austria. raped during did not attract the local media Kidnapper nine months of attention of the suspected abduc- tions of Berry and DeJesus. Her Wolfgang Priklopil killed himself captivity by Brian David Mitchell, grandmother, Deborah Knight, hours after she escaped in 2006 who was jailed for life in 2011 told the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper that some family Maria Monaco: Freed in 2008 Unidentified Japanese schoolgirl: members had concluded, based after being kept prisoner by her family Snatched at age nine in 1990, trapped in part on suggestions by police for 18 years for having baby out of for nine years in house in Kashiwazaki, and social workers at the time, that she had run away. wedlock. Italian police found her living north of Tokyo. Freed aged 19, in But her mother Barbara Knight, in “horrendous hygiene conditions” 2000, after health officials called who now lives in Florida, told the in rural home north of Naples newspaper she never believed her daughter would have vanished Pictures: AP, Criminal Investigation Police Department of Lower-Austria © GRAPHIC NEWS without a trace on her own and that she kept searching long after police gave up looking for her. neighbourhood where she was with crime-scene tape. phenomenal Mother’s Day gift she A woman who lived on the same found. “We didn’t search hard City Councilwoman Dona gets this Mother’s Day,” she said. street but asked not to be identi- enough. She was right under our Brady, a friend of the Berry Meanwhile, the parents of fied said Castro lived alone in the nose the whole time,” Arroyo said. family, said that Berry’s grief- missing British girl Madeleine house. She said he drove her two A mood of jubilation pervaded stricken mother had not sur- McCann said they have been daughters to school and would drop the city as word spread that the vived to see her daughter given hope by the discovery of them off in front of her house. “I’m women had been found alive, rescued. “She literally died of a three women. “The discovery of totally in shock. He seems like a especially in the blue-collar, heav- broken heart,” Brady said, add- these young women reaffirms our normal guy. He was a gentleman. ily Latino neighbourhood where ing that the mother died aged hope of finding Madeleine, which We all call him Mr C,” she said. dozens of residents clustered near 47. A cousin of DeJesus, Sheila has never diminished,” Kate and A man who helped to look for the house from which they were Figaro, told CNN that the girl’s Gerry McCann said, a week after The house where three women, who disappeared as teens about a decade DeJesus, Pastor Angel Arroyo, rescued. A Puerto Rican flag hung mother, Nancy, “never gave up marking the sixth anniversary of ago, were found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday. said he and her family mem- from the porch of the modest, faith knowing that her daughter their daughter’s disappearance. bers had handed out flyers in the two-story dwelling, cordoned off would one day be found.” “What a REUTERS

Ailing UK economy Britain should quit EU: Ex-minister US lawmakers outraged claims new victim LONDON: Britain should decades and helped bring down results, Lawson said, echoing warn- leave the European Union two of his predecessors, Margaret ings from France and Germany. — Prince Charles’ because Prime Minister David Thatcher and John Major. Britain would be better off out- at Air Force sex scandal Cameron’s plan to claw back But his promise in January to side a 27-nation bloc that has vegetable store powers from Brussels is doomed, renegotiate the terms of Britain’s become a “bureaucratic monstros- WASHINGTON: US lawmakers assault of military recruits by drill former finance minister Nigel EU membership and to hold an ity”, he wrote in Monday’s Times voiced outrage yesterday that the instructors. LONDON: Britain’s weak Lawson said. “in-out” referendum if he is re- newspaper. officer in charge of the Air Force President Barack Obama took economy has taken its toll on Lawson’s intervention piles elected in 2015 has failed to stop “I strongly suspect that there anti-sexual assault office was him- a stand on the matter yesterday, the nation’s poshest greengro- pressure on Cameron just days party squabbling over Europe or would be a positive economic self arrested on sexual battery saying his government would step cer with Prince Charles forced after his Conservative Party halt UKIP’s rise. Lawson, who advantage to the UK in leaving the charges and sharply questioned up efforts to prosecute and dis- to close his organic vegetable was shaken in local elections served as Thatcher’s finance single market,” Lawson wrote in an Air Force leaders about whether honourably discharge perpetra- store, citing falling trade and by the surging anti-EU UK minister from 1983 to 1989, is the article that stirred memories of a the military should keep jurisdic- tors of sexual assault in the US rising prices. Independence Party (UKIP). most senior member of Cameron’s Conservative civil war over Europe tion over sex crimes. military. “Bottom line is, I have Prince Charles, the heir to the Cameron came to power in a Conservative Party to call for that raged for large parts of the Air Force Secretary Michael no tolerance for this,” he said. “I throne and a champion of the coalition government in 2010 with Britain to withdraw from the EU. 1980s and 1990s. “In my judgement Donley and Chief of Staff General expect consequences.” environment, opened a store near a plea to his party to “stop banging Cameron’s attempts to repatriate the economic gains would substan- Mark Welsh told the Senate Armed At the hearing, Senator Kirsten to his country home Highgrove on about Europe”, an issue that powers from Brussels would prob- tially outweigh the costs.” Services Committee they were Gillibrand, citing Pentagon sta- in Gloucestershire, south-west has divided the Conservatives for ably only secure “inconsequential” REUTERS appalled by the weekend arrest, tistics showing a rise in sexual England, about eight years ago but they resisted calls from some assaults over the past two years, after converting his estate to lawmakers to remove prosecutions criticised the Air Force leaders for organic farming in 1986. of sexual assault and rape from the insisting that commanders needed The store, The Veg Shed, sold Gas tanker truck explosion kills 20 military chain of command. the power to determine if sexual organic vegetables and fruit “Let me be clear. I am not sat- assault cases go to trial in order freshly grown on the estate’s isfied with the progress to date to “maintain good order and disci- Duchy Home Farm and became (in dealing with sexual assaults),” pline”. “Obviously this is not good known for selling edible but oddly said Senator Jim Inhofe, the order and discipline,” she said. shaped organic produce that top Republican on the Armed The hearing also came as would normally be rejected by Services Committee. “We must Pentagon officials prepared to supermarkets. begin to eliminate this ... scourge.” release the department’s annual But a spokeswoman for the The hearing came a day after report on sexual assault in the prince said the store had closed Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey military. after it failed to make a profit Krusinski, 41, was removed from The report, which is due to be as it was no longer financially his job as head of the Air Force released soon, found that reported viable. The produce was invari- Sexual Assault Prevention and cases of sexual assault rose to ably more expensive than at local Response Office after his arrest 3,374 in 2012 from 3,192 the pre- supermarkets. on charges of grabbing a civilian vious year, according to briefing “The Veg Shed has closed, basi- woman by the chest and buttocks slides released by members of cally in response to consumer in a suburban Virginia parking lot Congress. trends, a preference for shopping near the Pentagon. The Pentagon estimates that remotely,” a spokeswoman from The Air Force has faced a actual cases of unwanted sexual Clarence House, the prince’s offi- series of embarrassing sexual conduct are considerably higher. cial London residence, told yester- assault scandals over the past Estimated cases of unwanted sex- day. She said consumers wanting year. An investigation at Lackland ual contact in 2012 were 26,000, a taste of the royal organic pro- Part of a gas tanker truck lies in between two houses after its explosion in San Pedro Xalostoc, on the outskirts Air Force Base in San Antonio, compared with 19,000 in 2011, duce can still order boxes online. of Mexico City, yesterday. The explosion killed 20 people and injured 36. Texas, that began in 2011 has so according to the briefing slides. REUTERS far turned up 59 cases of sexual REUTERS WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 ASIA / PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Filipino voters 5 die as Philippine volcano erupts ‘harassed’ MANILA: Filipinos in Sabah were harassed into voting 20 climbers and guides, including foreigners, trapped below Mount Mayon’s crater for the Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition of MANILA: Five people were operator, said his company had surprised by the sudden activity, Malaysian Prime Minister feared dead after one of the sought help to rescue five foreign- which came as many were having Najib Razak, the sultanate of Philippines’ most active volca- ers who had gone to climb Mayon breakfast. Sulu said. Abraham Idjirani, noes spewed a giant ash cloud with his outfit’s guides shortly “It was so sudden that many sultanate spokesman, said yesterday, with foreign tourists before the explosion. of us panicked,” Jun Marana, a following the BN victory, they on its slopes during the erup- “It rained with stones. It was 46-year-old bus driver and father will have to strengthen their tion, authorities said. sudden and there was no warn- of two, said. assertion that Sabah belongs National Disaster Risk ing,” Calleja said. “When we stepped out we saw to the sultanate of Sulu. Reduction and Management The group was trapped about this huge column against the blue “There was massive harass- Council chief Eduardo del Rosario half a kilometre (a third of a mile) sky.” ment of voters in Sabah,” he said local officials reported that below the crater, Calleja added. Marana said the ash column said. “They took advantage of up to 20 climbers and guides, Chief state seismologist Renato was dispersed by winds after the current issue in Sabah. including foreigners, were on Solidum said people living around about an hour, but said he was Many Filipino voters who Mount Mayon when it erupted. Mount Mayon did not need to not taking his chances and was were identified as against BN “Five were killed and seven evacuate, describing the event prepared to leave his home were harassed. That contrib- injured, that is the latest report,” as a “minor steam-driven explo- anytime. uted to their victory.” Idjirani Del Rosario said. “We do not sion” of ash deposits at the crater Mayon, about 330 kilometres said Razak’s opponent, Anwar have the identity of those killed mouth making contact with rain. (200 miles) southeast of Manila, Ibrahim, was sympathetic or injured, whether they are for- Mayon spewed a thick column has erupted 48 times in recorded to the sultanate’s cause. “He eigners or locals.” of ash 500 metres (1,600 feet) into history. seemed concerned,” he said. He said rescuers could not con- the air, witnesses said. The volcano also erupted in firm firsthand the reported casu- “There is no magma activity. August 2006. There were no Factory death alties until they reached the site. Essentially what happened today direct deaths caused by the Joey Salceda, governor of east- is a normal process of a steam- explosion, but the following toll hits 693 ern Albay province where the driven explosion,” Solidum told December a passing typhoon 2,460-metre (8,070-foot) Mayon the television station. unleashed an avalanche of vol- DHAKA: The death toll is located, gave the same number Residents in towns around the canic mud from its slopes that Volcano Mount Mayon spews a thick column of ash 500 metres into the air, from the collapse of a gar- of casualties. picturesque volcano famous for its killed 1,000 people. as seen from the city of Legazpi, Albay, yesterday. ment factory complex in Marti Calleja, a local tour near-perfect cone said they were AFP Bangladesh hit 693 yester- day after dozens more bod- ies were found in the rubble, nearly a fortnight after the disaster. Army spokesman Shahid Ahsan Bhuiyan said that the toll now stands at 693 China sends fleet N Korea skips missiles launch but warned that it was likely to rise further as the recov- WASHINGTON: North Korea in Washington on the eve of a Monday the “provocation pause” ery teams had only reached has moved two missiles primed first summit between President was a positive development. The the fourth floor of the nine- to disputed islands for imminent test-firing from a Barack Obama and new South US and its allies Japan and South storey building. launch site, American officials Korean President Park Geun-Hye Korea had braced for a possible BEIJING: China has sent one of its largest recorded fishing fleets said, as North Asia tensions at the White House on Tuesday, test-launch of the Musudan inter- Officer killed in to disputed islands in the South China Sea, state-run media said eased slightly on the eve of a intended as a strong signal of mediate missiles in the run-up to yesterday, amid tensions over Beijing’s assertion of its claims in the US-South Korea summit. unity to Pyongyang. North Korean national celebra- terror attack region. US and South Korean officials Earlier, a senior White House tions on April 15, but it never A flotilla including 30 fishing vessels set sail on Monday for the had been worried Pyongyang official warned that it was too occurred. ZAMBOANGA CITY: An Spratly Islands, an archipelago disputed between China and other coun- would heighten a cycle of prov- early to say whether North Korea’s Japan and South Korea stepped army officer was killed while tries including Vietnam and the Philippines, the China Daily reported. ocation, which has included spate of bellicose behaviour, which up missile defences, while the US a soldier was wounded when The fleet left China’s southern province of Hainan for a 40-day trip threats of nuclear war, by firing prompted Washington to send military deployed two destroyers they were ambushed by the to the region, the report said, and includes two large transport and the Musudan missiles, which have nuclear-capable stealth B-2 bomb- equipped with anti-missile weap- Abu Sayyaf group yesterday supply ships. a range of up to 5,630km. But a ers over South Korea, was ending. ons and a powerful radar to the afternoon in the hinterland of Chinese fishing boats regularly travel to the Spratlys, parts of US defence official said on condi- “It’s premature to make a judg- area to thwart any possible launch. Basilan province, the military which are also claimed by Taiwan and Brunei, but the fleet dis- tion of anonymity: “they moved ment about whether the North Commanders told lawmakers said. The two were attacked patched Monday was as large as one described as the biggest ever them,” and added that there was Korean provocation cycle is going US forces would be ready to shoot at about 2pm when they came launched from the province when it set off last year. no longer an imminent threat of up, down or zigzagging,” said down any missile that threatened back after a mission on civil- China will make “every effort to guarantee the fleet’s safety,” the a launch. Danny Russel, senior director for allies or US facilities in Guam. military operation to patch- report quoted an official from the department of ocean and fisheries Pyongyang, which rattled the East Asia on Obama’s National But North Korea never up warring clans from a strife as saying. world earlier this year by stag- Security Council. launched a missile and eventu- town, known as a bastion of China and neighbouring countries have long used fishing fleets and ing a nuclear test, would have to “Many analysts have antici- ally toned down its inflammatory the Abu Sayyaf group, said maritime patrols to assert their territorial claims, and have upgraded make detectable preparations if it pated that the North Korean rhetoric, with the crisis appearing Rodrigo Gregorio, spokes- their naval forces in recent years as tensions over claims in the South changed its mind about a missile provocation cycle would culmi- to ease in recent days. man of Western Mindanao China Sea have risen. launch, two officials said. nate in some sort of a grand fire- The US is making strenuous Command (Westmincom). The Philippines and Vietnam have complained that China is becom- As always, North Korea’s works display, and no one can rule efforts to cement Obama’s rela- Gregorio said Major Kanong, ing increasingly aggressive in its actions in the area — such as harassing motivations under its young that out,” Russel said. tionship with Park, who arrived in died during the attack while fishermen — and also through bullying diplomatic tactics. and unpredictable leader Kim But Pentagon spokesman Washington from New York, less one of his soldiers identified The waters around the Spratlys are rich in fishing resources and it Jong-Un, were not immediately George Little noted the change in than three months after being as Sabre was wounded. is believed they could hold large oil and gas reserves. AFP clear. But the move was revealed North Korea’s words and said on sworn into office. AFP AGENCIES Protest to save orangutans Four more die of bird flu in China Bangla opposition CHINA: The death toll from the H7N9 bird flu outbreak in strike from today China has risen to 31, accord- ing to official figures, with four more people dying of the virus BANGLADESH: Bangladeshi nationwide strike to protest in China’s eastern provinces. opposition parties have called a the mass killing of Hefajat-e- The number of people infected two-day nationwide shutdown Islam workers and supporters also increased to 129, official statis- to protest what they describe as on Sunday and Monday,” BNP tics showed, up two since Thursday. the “mass killing” of Islamists in spokesman Khandaker Mosharraf The four new deaths included a crackdown by security forces. said yesterday. The strike will two from Jiangsu province and The main opposition begin at 6am today and end at one each from Zhejiang and Bangladesh Nationalist Party 6pm on Thursday, he said. Anhui, according to figures (BNP) and its Islamist allies Police yesterday announced from China’s Health and Family called the strike after saying charges against 194 activ- Planning Commission released that hundreds of people died on ists of the Hefajat-e-Islam late Monday. No details were Sunday and early Monday, when (Protectorate of Islam), a hard- provided. police broke up a mass rally in line Islamic group behind the Experts fear the possibility of central Dhaka. massive protests. the virus mutating into a form According to the tally compiled Its Secretary General Junayed easily transmissible between after talking to police and medi- Babu Nagori, who was detained humans, with the potential to cal sources, 38 people are known on Monday night, faces a mur- trigger a pandemic. to have been killed since Sunday der charge, police sub-inspector But the World Health afternoon when police first con- Tabibur Rahamn said. Organisation has said there is fronted Islamist activists who had Hefajat’s main leader, 90-year- no evidence of human-to-human blockaded the capital. old Allama Ahmad Shafi, was put transmission. AFP The Islamists are trying to on a plane to the country’s sec- Indonesian activists wearing orangutan costumes protest in Medan, North Sumatra, yesterday. They demanded pressure the government into ond city Chittagong on Monday that the government take action to save endangered Sumatran orangutans and forests. introducing a new blasphemy where his supporters clashed law and have been calling for with police, leaving at least five the execution of bloggers whom people dead. they accuse of having insulted the Information Minister Hasanul Prophet Mohammed. Haque Inu accused the heads of Governor surrenders Metallica guitar A border guard succumbed to religious seminaries of encourag- his head injuries Tuesday to raise ing “terrorist activities” by send- JAKARTA: The heavy metal- But the powerful Corruption Widodo, an anti-establish- “The governor loves rock the tally from Monday’s 37, police ing their students out to join the loving governor of Indonesian Eradication Commission said that ment figure who was elected in music. So he was certainly happy inspector Mozammel Haq said, protests. “The madrassa super- capital Jakarta has surrendered Widodo, widely considered clean September, said he was a huge fan to receive it, it’s like getting a ten- adding dozens were still being intendents who are encouraging a guitar that was a gift from US in a notoriously graft-ridden of Metallica, whose hits include nis racket from Boris Becker,” the treated in hospital. their students to take part in ter- band Metallica to anti-corrup- country, had now handed the gift Enter Sandman and Nothing Else spokesman said. The country’s most prominent rorist activities will be tried,” he tion authorities, an official said to them. Matters. “To him, it was a souvenir daily Prothom Alo said at least 49 told a briefing. yesterday. “We will check if there is any He also listed Led Zeppelin, and there was no exchange for people have died in the clashes, Chanting “Atheists must A beaming Joko Widodo conflict of interest or if there was Deep Purple and Napalm Death favours.” some of the fiercest street vio- be hanged”, Hefajat activists appeared on TV last week an exchange of favours,” commis- as among his favourite bands. Corruption remains ram- lence in decades. marched along at least six high- strumming the maroon bass gui- sion spokesman Johan Budi said. His spokesman Eko Hariadi pant in Indonesia, particularly However, the BNP says the ways on Sunday, effectively cut- tar gifted to him by Metallica’s “The screening process takes said the guitar was the first gift among public servants, and the real number of dead runs into the ting Dhaka off from the rest of Robert Trujillo, which was auto- up to 30 days, and after that we Widodo had received since becom- country last year slid to 118th of “hundreds”, accusing the authori- the country. graphed and bore the words will decide whether to return the ing governor, he had handed it 176 countries in Transparency ties of concealing bodies but with- Police said the number of pro- “Giving Back!.. Keep Playin’ That guitar to him or confiscate it.” over voluntarily to be checked and International’s annual graft index. out giving any evidence. testers reached around 200,000 at Cool Funky Bass!”. During the TV appearance there was no conflict of interest. AFP “We have called two days of one point. AFP WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Bomber kills nine, injures candidate 101 people dead in Pakistan poll attacks since April 11

PESHAWAR: A suicide since April 11, according to a tally. People’s Party, the Muttahida bomber killed at least nine Janan is seeking re-elec- Qaumi Movement and the Awami people and wounded a candi- tion to the assembly in Khyber National Party (ANP). date campaigning in northwest Pakhtunkhwa province for the JUI-F and its leader, cleric Pakistan yesterday, taking the right-wing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, have death toll in the nation’s bloody a religious party in the outgoing been mediators between the election build-up to more than government coalition. authorities and the Taliban, 100. He said he had received injuries blamed for killing thousands of The latest attack in the town of to his head and shoulder. Pakistanis in a domestic insur- Hangu, a flashpoint for violence “I was on my election cam- gency over the past six years. between Sunnis and Shias, came a paign and coming to my vehicle Elections have been post- day after the deadliest bombing so when the bomber blew himself poned in three constituencies Cricket legend and chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (Movement for Justice) party Imran Khan (centre) is far in the campaign for Saturday’s up. I received some injuries but where candidates have been surrounded by supporters during an election rally in Karachi, yesterday. national and provincial polls. survived. Two of my guards were killed. Those constituencies are Ishtiaq Ahmed, a senior police seriously wounded,” Janan said. in the southwestern province of official, said that nine people A joint rally for two other Baluchistan, in Pakistan’s biggest had been killed and 40 wounded, candidates from the same fac- city of Karachi and in southern though a senior civilian official in tion of the party was bombed Hyderabad. 2013 elections deadliest in history the district, Tahir Abbasi, said 10 in the tribal district of Kurram The vote marks the first time had died. on Monday, killing 23 people in that a civilian government in PESHAWAR: With attacks Agency yesterday that reportedly in attacks by armed men. Authorities said it was a sui- the deadliest single attack on the Pakistan has served a full-term in continuing on election rallies killed 23 people and wounded over The election offices of the cide attack but presented differ- campaign so far. office and handed over to another and offices and candidates on 70. MQM, ANP and Pakistan Peoples’ ent accounts over whether the The Pakistani Taliban claimed at the ballot box. The nuclear- a daily basis all over Pakistan, The JUI-F candidate for Party (PPP) in Karachi have bomber had been on foot or riding responsibility, saying the target armed country has been ruled the current electioneering NA-38, Munir Orakzai, who come under attack during the last a motorcycle. had been Munir Orakzai, a law- half its life by the military. has already turned out to be was the target of the bombing, few weeks. Several attacks were “He blew himself up near the maker in the national assembly The race has been dominated the deadliest in the country’s remained unharmed but another carried out on the election meet- vehicle of (parliamentary candi- who was in 2008 elected as an by the centre-right — opposition history. party contestant from NA-37, ings, rallies and candidates of the date) Syed Janan. He was injured independent but allied to the out- leader Nawaz Sharif, head of The Awami National Party Ainuddin Shakir was injured. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz but he is safe,” Abdul Hameed going government. the Pakistan Muslim League-N (ANP) is the prime target after The election has been post- (PML-N), Pakistan Tehreek-e- Khan, a senior government offi- The insurgents have con- (PML-N) and cricket star Imran suffering 24 attacks since March poned in two constituencies in Insaf (PTI), JUI-F, Jamaat-e- cial in Hangu said. demned Saturday’s elections as Khan, looking to make a break- 30. The latest major attack was Karachi and Hyderabad after Islami, Pakistan Peoples’ Party The bombing raises to 101 the unIslamic and directly threat- through for his Pakistan Tehreek- carried out on the election gath- candidates of the ANP and (PPP), National People’s Party number of people killed in attacks ened the main parties in the e-Insaf (PTI) party. ering of the Jamiat Ulema-e- Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Baluchistan National Party. on politicians and political parties outgoing coalition, the Pakistan AFP Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) in Kurram (MQM) lost one candidate each INTERNEWS

Deportation of General Wynne lauds Pakistan summons Afghan fugitive in limbo ISLAMABAD: The ghost of P P P g o v e r n m e n t i s s t i l l h a u n t - ing National Accountability Islamabad-UAE ties diplomat over border firing Bureau (NAB) officials who are working to bring back ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee high-profile fugitive Tauqeer of Pakistan Army General Khalid Shameem Wynne expressed ISLAMABAD: Pakistan sum- “unprovoked attack by Pakistani places and a key battleground in Sadiq involved in Rs82bn satisfaction over close ties of Pakistan with the UAE in all moned the most senior Afghan forces”. the fight against Taliban violence ($820m) Ogra scam from the spheres of life including cooperation between the defence forces diplomat in the country yes- The war of words over the plaguing both countries. UAE. In a shocking setback of the two brotherly countries. terday to protest over border porous frontier continued yes- “The Afghan charge d’affaires to NAB efforts, a key legal He was talking to UAE Ambassador Essa Abdulla Al Basha Al skirmishes that it said left five terday, with the foreign minis- was conveyed that in case of any official working on Tauqeer’s Noaimi during a reception hosted by him to commemorate 37th security personnel wounded try in Islamabad summoning the further escalation as a result case in the UAE is being anniversary of the UAE Armed Forces Day yesterday in Islamabad. and strained relations. Afghan charge d’affaires to warn of this situation, the responsi- deported from the Gulf state, Chief of the Naval Staff and several senior officers of three serv- Exchanges of fire and ensu- against any repetition of what it bility would be on the Afghan it has been learnt. According ices, ambassadors/high commissioners, senior diplomats and military ing protests are threatening to too called “unprovoked firing”. Government”, the said statement. to sources, the NAB has writ- attaches of number of the countries posted in Islamabad attended worsen already fractious ties Five members of the paramili- Pakistan, which backed ten to Pakistan’s Ministry of the reception. General Wynne assured the host ambassador that between Kabul and Islamabad, tary Frontier Constabulary were Afghanistan’s 1996-2001 Taliban Foreign Affairs to take up the close relationship of the two brotherly countries would continue despite renewed efforts last wounded in the firing on Monday regime, is seen by the West as the issue of deportation of to grow. The countries can trust each other in any test times as they month by US Secretary of State morning, the ministry statement having a central role in negoti- Ejaz Kanju, legal assistant to had been helping each other in every odd, the general said who was John Kerry to get them to work said. ating a political settlement with NAB lawyer, with the UAE cheerful to see the display of the performance of the Armed Forces of more closely on peace efforts. Both countries have blamed Taliban insurgents who shelter in authorities. NAB officials the UAE through documentary on big screen. Cross-border clashes flared each other for starting the firing Pakistan’s border districts. believe Ejaz’s deportation is The military attaché of the UAE, Colonel (Staff) Ghanem Ali on Monday between Afghan and on the border, which is a crucial But ties have worsened this an attempt to sabotage the Ghanem Al-Ali acted as the co-host in the reception. Pakistani security forces for the battleground in the fight against year with the Afghan government bureau’s legal defence and Al Noaimi said that activity of his country’s Armed Forces second time in five days with Taliban militants who operate in accusing Pakistan of dropping its damage Tauqeer’s case. expanded ever since their formation. INTERNEWS Kabul summoning the Pakistani both countries. support for the peace process. charge d’affaires to protest the The border is unmarked in AFP Pakistan allows Afghan tradition mango exports KARACHI: To avoid losses through unplanned and pre- mature fruit exports in the Sharifs laundered coming season, the Ministry of Commerce of Pakistan has allowed mango exports from May 25 as per a notification. billions: Ex-minister Chairman All-Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Importers- LAHORE: Pakistan’s former According to the statement Exporters and Merchants interior minister Rehman mention in the affidavit, Ishaq Association Waheed Ahmed Malik has alleged that the Dar said “in early 1992, Mian said that mango production Sharif brothers are involved Nawaz Sharif, who was then was expected at 1.55m tonnes in money laundering billions Prime Minister of Pakistan con- while an export target of of rupees and appealed to the tacted me and requested to pro- 0.175m tonnes has been set Supreme Court to take action vide credit line of approximately for this year. against them. Rs100m to the business concerns Pakistan may fetch $60m Malik said he would even move of his family from Mordaba if the target is met. Sindh the International Court of Justice (company set up by Dar).” “I remains the most affected if necessary against the money enquired from him about the col- province of the climatic haz- laundering of the Sharif brothers, lateral against the credit line. He ards and faces 0.15m tonnes terming it an international crime. informed me that he will provide drop in production with an Showing documentary proof of foreign currency funds as collat- estimated decline of 25 percent money laundering to the media eral,” Dar said. in 2013. yesterday, Malik, at a press It further quoted him as saying conference here, stated that he that he was sent copies of passports Journalist Shah would also move the Election of Sikandara Qazi, Talat Masood Commission of Pakistan and Qazi, Kashif Masood Qazi (rela- Ji passes away present this evidence before it. tives of Masood Qazi, the person A man places the head of his quail in his mouth to keep the bird cool in Mazar-e Sharif where enthusiasts gather PPP members, including Munir with whom Dar had stayed during LAHORE: Pakistan’s senior every Friday for quail fighting. Ahmed Khan and Omar Sharif his stay in England and later also and history-making journal- Bokhari, were also present on the introduced him to Nawaz Sharif). ist Syed Abbas Athar, the occasion. The document quoted Ishaq group editor of the Urdu Daily Bunji power plant design completed Malik said the Sharifs had Dar, a relative of Nawaz Sharif, Express, died on Monday deceived their own relatives, as saying: “I had reservations at the Combined Military LAHORE: Pakistan Water and Secretary Sajjad Saleem Hotiana cooperation being extended by including Ishaq Dar, his wife, in opening/operation of these Hospital in Lahore. The Power Development Authority at Wapda House yesterday. the Gilgit Baltistan government his nephew Musa Ghani and a ‘Benamidar Accounts’ but it was 74-year old Athar was laid (Wapda) has completed a The meeting was held to dis- in implementing Wapda projects UK-based Pakistani Qazi Masood assured by Mian Nawaz Sharif to rest after funeral prayers detailed engineering design cuss various Wapda projects in in the region. and his family for money launder- that Qazi has agreed for use of were at a park named after and tender documents of the Gilgit Baltistan. Wapda will fulfil all its com- ing. Showing the affidavit submit- their names. Furthermore after him in Tajpura, Lahore. 7,100MW Bunji hydropower Shah said that mega projects mitments vis-à-vis construction ted by Ishaq Dar regarding the the promulgation of Protection of “Shah Ji” as he was fondly project, and will soon initiate such as Bunji and Diamer Basha of the projects and resettlement “Benamidar Accounts” on April Economic Reforms Act 1992, his known in journalistic circles construction of this project, said Dam will help stabilise the of affectees, he added. 25, 2000, to the media, Malik government’s all foreign current — was diagnosed with lung Wapda Chairman Syed Raghib national economy and usher in Later, implementation status of stated it was evident from it that accounts had complete immunity cancer and sent to England Abbas Shah. an era of social and economic the decisions taken on January 17, he had done all money launder- against any enquiry, investigation for treatment last year. He was speaking during a meet- development in Gilgit Baltistan. 2013 was discussed in detail. ing on the instructions of Nawaz by any department or agency.” AGENCIES ing with Gilgit Baltistan Chief He expressed appreciation for the INTERNEWS Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif. INTERNEWS WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 Ministers must Cool splash quit for House to work: BJP Opposition paralyses parliament

NEW DELHI: Turmoil con- 2pm. When the Rajya Sabha tinued in parliament yes- resumed, BJP members continued terday with the BJP stalling with their demand that the prime both Houses demanding the minister and the other ministers resignation of Prime Minister resign. Manmohan Singh and minis- Meanwhile, External Affairs ters P K Bansal and Ashwani Minister Salman Khurshid tried Kumar. The BJP said it to introduce a constitutional would not allow the passage amendment bill to formalise of any bill unless its demands a land swap agreement with were met. Bangladesh. The Bharatiya Janata Party, However, members of the Asom however, clarified that parliament Gana Parishad snatched the copy would be allowed to run if Bansal of the bill from him and amidst and Ashwani Kumar step down. the ruckus, Kurien adjourned the Both Houses were adjourned Upper House for the day, without till 12 noon yesterday morning, the bill being introduced. minutes after the question hour Both Houses have been wit- began at 11am when the Houses nessing repeated disruptions met. When the Lok Sabha by opposition parties over the resumed its proceedings at noon, allocation of coal blocks and 2G A boy jumps into a swimming pool to cool himself on a hot day in Chennai, yesterday. members of the BJP walked up to spectrum. the speaker’s podium demanding The BJP has insisted on the the prime minister’s resignation. resignation of the prime minis- They also demanded the resigna- ter over the alleged involvement tions of Law Minister Ashwani of his office in the irregularities in Kumar and Railway Minister the allocation of coal blocks, but Sonia puts arm around Sushma Swaraj Bansal. clarified that they would allow Speaker Meira Kumar tried to parliament to function if Bansal NEW DELHI: In a rare ges- A smiling Gandhi exchanged a corruption allegations against crucial bills to be passed before pacify the BJP members but they and Ashwani Kumar quit. ture, Congress chief Sonia few pleasantries with the oppo- Law Minister Ashwani Kumar the parliament session ends on refused to budge and kept shout- “We are still demanding the Gandhi yesterday reached out sition leaders and then started and Railway Minister Pawan May 10. ing slogans. As the ruckus con- resignation of the prime min- to BJP leader Sushma Swaraj speaking to Sushma Swaraj. Kumar Bansal. They are also Sushma Swaraj had last week tinued, Congress MP Francisco ister, but the parliament will by placing her arm around her As they began walking, Gandhi demanding the resignation of accused Gandhi of instigating her Sardinha, who was in the chair, function if the law minister and shoulder and walking a few then placed one arm on Sushma Prime Minister Manmohan party MPs to disrupt parliament adjourned the House till 1pm. railway minister resign,” BJP steps with her in the parliament Swaraj’s shoulder. They walked Singh over his government’s when she was speaking in the Lok Later, the Lower House was leader Prakash Javadekar said corridor. together for some distance in that involvement in a series of cor- Sabha. adjourned for the day when yesterday. In what can be viewed as an manner, continuing their discus- ruption allegations, including 2G This is not the first time Congress member Bhakta Charan While Bansal’s nephew was attempt to win over the Leader of sion, said informed sources. and coal block allocations. Gandhi has reached out to politi- Das resumed his speech on the arrested by the Central Bureau of Opposition Sushma Swaraj, who Sushma Swaraj was pleasantly The Congress needs the oppo- cal adversaries. debate on the food security bill Investigation (CBI) for allegedly has been very aggressive in her surprised by the Congress presi- sition support to push through Just after the parliament ses- initiated on Monday. taking a bribe for the appoint- attack against Gandhi and the dent’s friendly overtures. the crucial Land Acquisition Bill sion began, she reached out to The Upper House of parliament ment of a member of the Railway ruling UPA, the Congress presi- The sources however did not and the Food Security Bill in the an angry Samajwadi Party chief witnessed similar scenes with Board, Ashwani Kumar has come dent greeted the Bharatiya Janata reveal what the two leaders parliament — the two big ticket Mulayam Singh Yadav to mollify BJP members shouting slogans under attack in the Supreme Party (BJP) leader when she was discussed. reforms of the United Progressive him with folded hands to give up against the prime minister. Amid Court for vetting the CBI report going to the Central Hall with The hostile opposition has Alliance (UPA) government as it his demand for Steel Minister the chaos, Deputy Chairman P J on coal allocation. senior colleague L K Advani and been stalling parliament over readies to face the ballot next Beni Prasad Verma’s resignation. Kurien adjourned the house till IANS other MPs. a host of issues, including year. The Congress also wants the IANS NTR family Kin visit Pakistani prisoner in coma Delhi blinks in unites for AMRITSAR: Relatives of a Pakistani prisoner savagely attacked in an Indian jail trav- China border row unveiling elled to India yesterday to visit the inmate who remains criti- SRINAGAR: India has agreed on April 15. Some Indian officials cally ill in a “deep coma” in to a Chinese demand to demol- and experts believed the incursion of statue hospital. ish bunkers near their de facto signalled Chinese concern about NEW DELHI: Setting aside Sanaullah Ranjay suffered mas- border in the Himalayas, Indian increased Indian activity in the their differences, the members sive head injuries in a prison in military officials said, as part area. of the family of Telugu Desam the northern city of Jammu in an of a deal to end a standoff that India said the Chinese soldiers Party (TDP) founder N T Rama apparent tit-for-tat attack after threatened to scupper slowly were 19km beyond the point it Rao united for the unveiling of an Indian prisoner, Sarabjit Singh, improving relations. understands to be the border in his statue in Parliament House was fatally assaulted in Pakistan. Indian and Chinese soldiers the Ladakh region of Kashmir, complex here yesterday. Ranjay’s brother-in-law and faced off 100 metres apart on a vaguely defined line called the NTR’s second wife Lakshmi nephew, in India on a 15-day a plateau near the Karakoram Line of Actual Control, which nei- Parvathi also attended the func- visa, were met by officials of mountain range, where they ther side agrees on. tion, a rare occasion that brought the Pakistani High Commission fought a war 50 years ago, for China denied it had crossed together the family of the late (embassy) at Wagah, the land three weeks until they reached a into Indian territory. leader, who founded the TDP crossing between the two deal on Sunday for both sides to China won the border war in early 1980s on the slogan of countries. withdrew. they fought in 1962, which soured Telugu self-respect. They told reporters at Wagah, The tension had threatened to relations for decades, but ties Parvathi had said in Hyderabad 29km from Amritsar, that they overshadow a visit by the Indian between the Asian giants have on Monday night that she would would urge the Indian govern- foreign minister to Beijing tomor- been improving in recent years. not be going to Delhi though she ment to release Ranjay, a con- row. China’s Premier Li Keqiang China is India’s top trade partner. received a message saying she victed murderer, so that they is expected to visit India later this India has been beefing up its may attend the function if she could take him back to their home month. military presence for several desires. country. Details of the deal have not years on the remote Ladakh pla- She told reporters after The relatives were later taken been made public but a senior teau, building roads and runways the ceremony that Lok Sabha to Chandigarh where Ranjay was official from the Indian army’s to catch up with Chinese develop- Speaker Meira Kumar had clari- airlifted last week to be treated at northern command said India had ment across the border in a dis- fied that she did not send invita- a state-run hospital. In a bulletin, agreed to abandon and destroy puted area known as Aksai Chin tions to anybody. the hospital said he remains “crit- bunkers in the Chumar sector, The decision to agree to the “She told me not to mind it. ically sick” and in “deep coma.” Mohammad Sajjad (right) and Mohammad Asif, relatives of Pakistani further south along the disputed Chinese demand and demolish I also said sorry to her because On Monday, Pakistani High prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, arrive at the Integrated Check Post (ICP) at the border. “The bunkers in Chumar the bunkers followed heavy criti- I had threatened to file a case Commissioner Salman Bashir India-Pakistan border in Wagah, yesterday. were dismantled after we acceded cism of the Indian government against her,” said Parvathi, who visited the hospital. to Chinese demand in the last flag over its handling of the incident was happy over NTR’s family Ranjay, from the Pakistani city for spying and a string of deadly Last weekend demonstrators meeting. These bunkers were live- by the opposition. The Indian coming together for the occasion. of Sialkot, was attacked by a pris- blasts, died last week and was took to the streets in Pakistan- in bunkers,” the army officer told officer said earlier that Chinese Parvathi, whom NTR had mar- oner identified as a former Indian cremated with state honours in administered Kashmir to protest Reuters yesterday. officers demanded that India stop ried in 1994, was never accepted army soldier just 24 hours after his native village in Punjab where against the attack on Ranjay in India said up to 50 Chinese sol- construction of bunkers, tunnels as a part of the family after Singh’s death in a Lahore jail. hundreds of protesters shouted India. diers intruded into its territory on and huts along the Line of Actual NTR’s death in January 1996, a Singh, convicted in Pakistan “Down with Pakistan!” AFP the western rim of the Himalayas Control. REUTERS few months after his son-in-law N Chandrababu unseated him from power following her alleged growing interference in party affairs and administration. Meira Kumar unveiled the Karnataka election results today; Congress sure of win 9.3 feet bronze statue of NTR in the presence of Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister BANGALORE: India will would start at 8am today in 36 the Anglo-Indian community. while its main challenger, the on our own,” asserts state Manmohan Singh, leader of know today if Karnataka scores centres across the state. In Periayapatna constituency in Congress, was fighting similar Congress chief G Parameshwara opposition Sushma Swaraj, sev- a hat-trick of fractured man- Since electronic voting Mysore, polling has been resched- problems at the federal level. and his party colleague eral union ministers and leaders dates or gets a clear verdict as machines (EVMs) were used for uled for the month-end following The Congress is upbeat that it Siddaramaiah, both chief minis- of various political parties. votes polled on Sunday in per- polling, most of the results should the death of the Bharatiya Janata will return to power on its own in terial aspirants. TDP chief Naidu, who received haps the most keenly watched be out by noon, say state election Party candidate. Karnataka after six years in opo- They discount the possibility of the invitation only yesterday, assembly elections in the state authorities. The election of Karnataka’s sition, dislodging the BJP in the the party falling short of majority attended the ceremony with are counted. Polling took place for 223 of the 14th assembly caught national only southern state it for the first mark of 113 by a few seats, as fore- TDP MPs and other leaders. Over 71 percent of the 40.36 224 elected seats in the 225-mem- attention as the ruling Bharatiya time managed to come to power cast by some exit polls telecast D Mayacharya, who sculpted the million eligible voters cast their ber assembly that includes one Janata Party (BJP) was mired in in May 2008. Sunday. statue, was honoured. IANS ballots Sunday and counting member nominated to represent corruption scandals in the state “We will form the government IANS WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Bhullar’s wife Water woes moves SC to stop execution 1993 Delhi bomb blast case

NEW DELHI: Navneet Kaur, presumably made on extraneous the wife of death row terror grounds and/on irrelevant facts”. convict Devenderpal Singh Bhullar filed the mercy peti- Bhullar, yesterday moved the tion on January 14, 2003 which Supreme Court for suspension was rejected by the president on of the execution of her jailed May 25. Kaur said when in 2005 husband in the 1993 Delhi bomb and 2011 Bhullar’s mercy plea was blast that killed nine people. sent to the president it was not The apex court bench of Chief disclosed that the apex court’s Justice Altamas Kabir, Justice Justice M B Shah (since retired) Vikramajit Sen and Justice in his minority judgment in 2002 Kurian Joseph declined to pass had acquitted Bhullar. any order as senior counsel Ram Justice Shah had said that Jethmalani mentioned the matter there was no evidence against before it but agreed to consider Bhullar and it was “unsafe to the plea later. solely rely upon the alleged con- Jethmalani told the court that fession recorded by the investigat- preparations were being made to ing officer”, she said. hang Bhullar like the Mumbai While Justice Shah acquitted attack convict and Pakistani ter- Bhullar, his two colleagues on the rorist Ajmal Kasab and parlia- bench Justice Arijit Pasayat and ment attack convict Afzal Guru. Justice B N Agrawal (both since Bhullar was given capital pun- retired) dismissed his appeal Activists of the main opposition Bhartiya Janata Party protest at the shortage of water in New Delhi and surrounding residential areas, in front of ishment and sent to Tihar Jail for against the award of death sen- the Secretariat in New Delhi, yesterday. the 1993 blast at the Indian Youth tence by the trial court. Congress office, a stone’s throw Justice Shah noted that “...when from the parliament building in the rest of the accused who are Delhi, which left nine dead. The named in the confessional state- attack was allegedly targeted at ment are not convicted or tried, Youth Congress leader M S Bitta, this would not be a fit case for Delhi metro to watch drunkards who escaped with injuries. convicting the appellant solely on Kaur sought a review of the the basis of the so-called confes- apex court’s April 12 order dis- sional statement recorded by the NEW DELHI: Some New spokesman Hemendra Singh. become a problem on the metro, to all parts of the city and sub- missing her husband’s plea for police officer...”, Kaur said. Delhi metro commuters will be If the test “confirms the com- especially in the late evening, the urbs. The hand-held breatha- quashing the rejection of his The petition also referred to the breathalysed to detect whether muter is drunk, he will not be spokesman said. lyser gadgets will generate slips mercy petition by the president. poor health condition of Bhullar. they are drunk under a pilot allowed to board the train” to Singh said the CISF which is of paper with the names of those The convict’s mercy plea sought The death penalty judgment scheme planned by the state- avoid disturbing other passengers in charge of metro security would whose alcohol levels are found commutation of his death sen- against Bhullar “seeks to send run transport network, an offi- in the often congested carriages, only breathalyse people who show to be high and this will help the tence to life imprisonment. to gallows a severely mentally ill cial said yesterday. Singh told AFP. signs of being under the influ- CISF build a database of potential She contended that the rejec- man who is experiencing intense Officers of the Central “Drunkenness is an unneces- ence of alcohol. The scheme will troublemakers, Singh said. New tion of the mercy petition by the mental suffering from inter alia, Industrial Security Force (CISF) sary nuisance to other passengers. be launched on an experimen- Delhi has already started a pro- president after a gap of over eight acute psychosis, hallucination, will use breathalysers to screen It’s uncomfortable if you have to tal basis to start with. Delhi’s gramme to breathalyse drivers to years was based on “lack of appli- delusion, suicidal tendencies and travellers in the Indian capi- share space with someone who is rapid mass transit network was crack down on drunken driving cation of mind, non-consideration who has lost all sense of reality”, tal and identify those under the reeking of alcohol,” Singh said. launched in 2002. It has proved and reduce the number of road of relevant circumstances and the petition said. IANS influence of alcohol, said CISF Also drunken brawls have hugely popular and has expanded accidents. AFP More than 300,000 day-old babies die every year: Report NEW DELHI: More than more than 1,000 babies die every doctors and hospitals are rare and 300,000 babies die within 24 day on their first day of life from villagers often put the health of hours of being born in India preventable causes throughout their children in the hands of each year from infections and India, Pakistan and Bangladesh,” poorly trained substitutes. other preventable causes, a said Mike Novell, the regional But even in cities such as report said yesterday, blaming a director of the charity. New Delhi with relatively better lack of political will and funding The charity identified three healthcare facilities women are for the crisis. major causes of newborn deaths delivering at home, said Sharmila India accounts for 29 percent — complications during birth, Lal, a Delhi-based gynaecologist. of all newborn deaths world- prematurity and infections — and “Even if hospitals are near wide, according to the charity said access to low-cost, life-saving at hand, the women are having Save the Children which pub- interventions could cut down the babies at home in a highly unsafe lished the findings at the launch figures by as much as 75 percent. and unhygienic environment just of its annual State of the World’s “What is lacking is the political because of lack of awareness,” Lal Mothers report. will and funding to deliver these added. Lal said India must invest The report on 186 countries solutions to all the mothers and in creating a pool of paramedical showed South Asia — which babies who need them,” it said. staff trained in childbirth to take accounts for 24 percent of the A decade of rapid economic the load off doctors “who often world’s population — recording growth has allowed India to boost don’t have time or patience to 40 percent of the world’s first- spending on poor and rural com- explain simple life-saving meas- day deaths. munities but Save the Children ures to expectant mothers”. Bangladesh and Pakistan also said most such programmes had The charity said the prob- have large numbers of yearly first- not benefited those most in need. lem of infant mortality could be day deaths at 28,000 and 60,000 More than half of all Indian addressed by closing the equity with chronic malnourishment of women give birth without the gap in a developing country like mothers one of the major factors help of skilled health care profes- India where economic benefits for the fatalities in the region. sionals, leading to infections and have been shared unequally. “Progress has been made, but complications. In far-flung areas, AFP

Leg up Four more quizzed in chit fund scam KOLKATA: West Bengal Police yesterday quizzed four more people, including a director of a Saradha Group company, as 41 vehicles of the group were “secured” in the aftermath of the collapse of the chit fund com- pany. “We have interrogated four more people. One is a director while two are business associates. The fourth person’s name came up during (arrested Saradha promoter) Sudipto Sen’s inter- rogation,” Bidhannagar DCP Arnab Ghosh told mediapersons here yesterday. “We have sent out more notices and two more people will be interrogated on Wednesday,” added Ghosh. According to sources, the four Dancer Om Dubey, 20, practises his moves as elderly yoga practitioners people summoned yesterday are sit in the courtyard in front of the Three Domed Mosque and the Bada Sajjan Agarwal, Devika Dasgupta, Gumbad monument, at Lodi Gardens in New Delhi, yesterday. Amitabh Sarkar and Debabrata Sarkar. IANS

WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

PRAYER TIME Youssou N’Dour wins Sweden’s News in Numbers GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPECTSCHART: 1 2 Fajr (Dawn) 3:30 Polar Music Prize Shorook (Sunrise) 4:53 STOCKHOLM: Senegalese Zuhr (Noon) 11:30 singer Youssou N’Dour and Asr (Afternoon) 2:58 Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho have won Sweden’s Maghrib (Sunset) 6:09 2013 Polar Music Prize, organ- Isha (Night) 7:39 isers said yesterday. “A West African griot is not just a singer, but a storyteller, poet, singer of praise, entertainer WEATHER and verbal historian. Youssou N’Dour is maintaining the griot tradition and has shown that it Today Thursday Friday Weather Conditions: can also be changed into a narra- Recent data releases suggest that progress will remain tentative, although job Partly cloudy Clear Clear tive about the entire world,” the Hazy and partly jury said in its citation. “His voice growth and signs of a recovery in the US housing market—with house prices rising cloudy to cloudy encompasses an entire continent’s in September 2012 and a range of indicators showing renewed residential building with chance of history and future, blood and love, High: 32° High: 34° High: 36° dreams and power,” it added. activity—are positive signs. The October WEO expects US growth to be 2.2% in Low: 28° Low: 26° Low: 28° rain/thundery at times. The 53-year-old singer, com- 2012, slowing to 2.1% in 2013 . Yet a major question mark exists as to whether poser and musician, who is also the US Congress can reach agreement on a deficit and debt reduction programme the current Senegalese minister of tourism, has enjoyed worldwide before the end of 2012. Failure to reach agreement would result in sharp tax rises DOHA - SUN & SEA success with his eclectic music and deep spending cuts (the so-called fiscal cliff) that could derail what is still a inspired by his modest roots and fragile recovery. The WEO projections assume that a compromise is reached that SUN TIDE SEA political beliefs. avoids harmful fiscal tightening. SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND The jury meanwhile described his co-laureate Saariaho as “a 04:53 18:09 03:00 & 16:45 09:30 & 23:00 05-15 /22 KT unique composer, a metal worker’s daughter who reexamines what THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW music can be”. The 60-year- Regional real GDP growth (pc) HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER old musician combines acoustic instruments with electronics MUSCAT 38/28 Clear 38/28 Partly cloudy and computers, and has written MAKKAH 40/29 Partly cloudy 42/29 Clear chamber music, orchestral works KUWAIT 31/25 Partly cloudy 34/27 Clear and operas. BAHRAIN 32/26 Partly cloudy 32/26 Clear The Polar Music Prize was SANAA 27/14 Partly cloudy 27/15 Chance of storm founded in 1989 by the late Stig RIYADH 34/23 Partly cloudy 35/24 Clear Anderson, the publisher, lyricist DUBAI 36/27 Mostly cloudy 36/26 Clear and manager of iconic Swedish pop group ABBA. BAGHDAD 31/19 Partly cloudy 35/21 Partly cloudy The prize, which has been THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW awarded since 1992 when it went to former Beatle Paul McCartney, has HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER also been won by Dizzy Gillespie, Elton John, Peter Gabriel, Pink ATHENS 28/17 Chance of rain 27/17 Chance of rain Floyd, Renee Fleming, Keith WASHINGTON 22/13 Showers 23/17 Showers Jarrett, Quincy Jones, Patti Smith, SYDNEY 24/13 Clear 23/17 Chance of rain Bob Dylan and Isaac Stern. LONDON 19/10 Chance of rain 16/11 Partly cloudy The winners take home 1m PARIS 22/14 Rain 19/13 Partly cloudy kronor ($154,000) in prize money, ISTANBUL 22/14 Partly cloudy 22/15 Cloudy and will receive their award from MANILA 36/26 Partly cloudy 37/27 Partly cloudy Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf at DHAKA 30/27 T-storm 31/27 T-storm a formal ceremony in Stockholm DELHI 42/28 Clear 41/28 Clear on August 27. AFP ISLAMABAD 35/21 Chance of storm 37/22 Chance of storm Source : http://www.qsa.gov.qa/

Filament Lamp Star Trek Into Darkness set to hit screens

LONDON: Director J J Abrams Darkness, the 12th in the series, what it is and what it means.” things are not what they seem. is hoping to persuade main- opening in Britain on May 9 and Since working his magic on Star Cumberbatch, 36, said it was stream film audiences to boldly the United States on May 17. Trek, he has already been asked to daunting to be a newcomer on the go where they have never gone “The idea was to make a movie revive another sci-fi behemoth. In Star Trek cast, but he bulked up before and embrace the next that works on its own terms ... January, Walt Disney Co said he and threw himself into the role instalment of Star Trek, a fran- This (film) was not meant to be would direct Star Wars: Episode of the villain. chise usually reserved for sci-fi like an in-joke. This is very much VII, giving hope to that franchise’s “The 10-year-old in me relished geeks. for moviegoers and not just Star long-suffering fans who were throwing people around the set, The man behind the cult TV Trek fans,” said Abrams, wear- disappointed by the last three jumping and flying through space series Alias and Lost said he ini- ing his trademark thick-rimmed instalments. and the air, and running through tially hesitated when Viacom’s black glasses. The plot focuses on Star Trek Into Darkness again glass walls,” he said. Critics have Paramount Pictures asked him the crew’s emotions and moral casts Chris Pine as the wom- not been as glowing in their praise to take on the film series, whose dilemmas to make “an action anising Captain James T Kirk for Abrams’ second Star Trek instalments in 1998 and 2002 adventure thriller .. a little more and Zachary Quinto as Spock, a movie as for his first. failed to draw crowds. But then visceral and thrilling”, he said. mixed-race human-Vulcan who “People are unlikely to charge he worked out how to make Star Most hardcore Star Trek fans lives by the laws of logic. out of the cinema with quite the A couple walks past “Filament Lamp”, an art work installation, at a com- Trek appeal to a broader audience, welcomed Abrams’ involvement The 23rd-century action starts same level of glee as they did mercial centre near a construction site in Beijing’s Sanlitun area yesterday. by forgetting its creaking legacy in the series; he already had a with an attack on Starfleet’s base in 2009; but this is certainly an and focusing on the drama. huge geek fan base thanks to in London by the one-man killing astute, exhilarating concoction,” His first attempt to “reboot” his TV and film back-catalogue. machine John Harrison, played wrote Andrew Culver in Britain’s the epic with 2009’s Star Trek was But Abrams himself was far less by the British actor Benedict Guardian newspaper. a critical success, though analysts enthusiastic about the franchise Cumberbatch, best known as the Abrams said no official discus- Scented underpants for men: were disappointed with foreign when he first encountered it. detective Sherlock Holmes in the sions have yet started on a third box office sales of about $130m. “I never really got it as a kid. BBC drama Sherlock. movie but he would be “love to be Now he is hoping to push even I never really understood Star The crew of the Enterprise in that conversation” if there was A ‘Made in France’ special further towards the final frontier Trek. It felt very talky and still are soon face-to-face with the demand for another. with the 3D sequel Star Trek Into to me. I have come to appreciate their old foes the Klingons, but REUTERS PARIS: A company that special- based on musk and pears,” he said. ises in “Made in France” under- “Le Slip Francais” has become wear has raised nearly ¤19,000 something of a success story in ($25,000) from enthusiastic France, which is suffering badly investors banking on its next tit- from lack of competitiveness and ABBA fever hits illating creation — sweet-smell- a general perception of hostil- ing underpants for men. ity towards business owners and Stockholm The so-called “Indomitable” entrepreneurs. It employs five briefs will be manufactured by “Le people in its Paris headquarters, STOCKHOLM: ABBA fever Slip Francais”, a company set up and outsources the manufacture hit Stockholm yesterday when a in 2011 by 27-year-old Guillaume of the underwear to factories in museum devoted to the Swedish Gibault, who decided to bank on different parts of France, includ- pop legends opened — filling a a trend for all things made in ing Lille and the southwestern void in the hearts of millions of France to sell underwear. Dordogne region. fans since the group disbanded “You want to change the world, The firm has so far sold some three decades ago and likely you want to change things, start 20,000 of its red, white, blue and to fill the pockets of Sweden’s by changing your underpants!” black briefs, and plans to develop tourism industry too. the firm writes on crowd-funding its presence abroad, with Japanese “I’m so moved, I think it’s so website www.mymajorcompany. people proving to be enthusiastic fantastic that we get to see the com, where it has already raised clients. Gibault says the company is history of ABBA,” 46-year-old close to ¤19,000. already profitable, adding that the Swede Henrik Ahlen, who lives The idea behind crowd-funding whole project shows “that we are in London but came to Stockholm is that anyone on the Internet can capable of innovating in France”. to be one of the first to tour the contribute money to a project, in “Le Slip Francais” had origi- new museum. “I was eight years some cases in exchange for shares nally intended to raise ¤10,000 for old when they won the Eurovision in a company or other rewards. the scented briefs, but has sur- Song Contest (in 1974) and they Gibault said the briefs will be passed that amount by far and have always been a part of me.” scented thanks to micro-capsules could still get a lot more before a The quartet last performed on full of homemade perfume that June 3 deadline it set on its crowd- stage together in 1982 and split a will be incorporated into the cot- funding page — http://www. year later, and have vowed they ton used to make the underpants in mymajorcompany.com/projects/ will never reunite to sing together the Lille region of northern France. sentez-bon-du-slip#home again. The state-of-the-art As soon as the lucky owner Supporters will get a range of museum, located on Stockholm’s of the briefs moves around, the rewards for their donations, rang- leafy island of Djurgaarden, allows capsules will release the perfume ing from a key ring to becom- visitors to get up close and per- and the scent will last up to 30 ing the face — or body of — the sonal with the band, offering a washes, he says. “It’s quite a mas- new underpants when the firm’s bevy of interactivity. culine perfume, not very strong, advertising drive begins. AFP AFP Wednesday 8 May 2013 28 Jumada II 1434 Volume 18 Number 5693 Price: QR2

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Stable outlook GPA technical conference for seven Qatari banks: Fitch Strong sovereign support helps rating

DOHA: Global rating agency, willingness of Qatar to support Fitch Ratings, in its latest peer the banking sector. The govern- review report has affirmed ment owns stakes in all the banks seven Qatari banks, both con- following capital injections into ventional and Islamic, with sta- the banking system between 2009 ble credit outlooks as a result of and 2011. Additional support- their strong capital base, asset ive actions taken by the Qatari quality and low NPAs ratios. authorities included direct asset They are Qatar National Bank, purchases (both loans and equi- Commercial Bank of Qatar Doha ties) in 2009. Bank, Al Khaliji, Qatar Islamic The sovereign’s capacity to Bank, International Islamic support the banking system is Bank and Ahli Bank, said a sustained by its sovereign wealth Fahad Al Subaiey (left) Chairman, Gas Process Association (GPA) , addressing the 21st Annual Technical Conference Programme organised by press statement yesterday. funds and on-going revenues the GCC Chapter of GPA at the Al Sharq Village and Spa in Doha yesterday. With him are RasGas CEO Hamad Rashid Al Mohannadi (centre) and The seven banks included mostly from its hydrocarbon Abdulrahman Al Suwaidi, CEO, Oryx GTL. (SALIM MATRAMKOT) in this peer review are production. The Support Ratings Qatar National Bank (QNB; and SRFs assigned to each bank ‘A+’/’F1’/’a’), Commercial Bank reflect differences in the systemic of Qatar (CBQ; ‘A’/’F1’/’bbb’), importance, franchise, market Corporate social Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB; share and government ownership Dubai looking at alternative plan ‘A’/’F1’/’bbb’), Doha Bank (DB; of each bank. ‘A’/’F1’/’bbb’), Ahli Bank Q.S.C. The ratings would be sensitive responsibility (ABQ; ‘A-‘/’F2’/’bbb-‘), Al Khalij to a reduced perceived ability from Commercial Bank (al khaliji) the authorities to provide support. to repay debt if asset sale fails meet on May 28 Q.S.C. (Al Khaliji; ‘A-‘/’F2’/’bb+’), The ratings could also be sensi- and Qatar International Islamic tive to a change in the authorities’ DOHA: The Ministry of Bank (QIIB; ‘A-‘/’F2’/’bb+’). The perceived willingness to support DUBAI: Favourable market sovereign debt issue this year. meet obligations, but there still Business and Trade is organis- Outlooks for all seven banks are the banking sector. Given Qatar’s conditions may prompt Dubai Sheikh Ahmed, a key figure in has been little progress with sales. ing a conference on corporate Stable. A complete list of rat- robust economy and the authori- to issue another sovereign bond the emirate’s recovery from its 2009 Sheikh Ahmed said the emirate social responsibility on May 28 ing actions for the banks and ties’ strong track record of sup- this year, a top official said yes- debt crisis, was speaking on the was looking at an alternative plan and 29 at the Ritz-Carlton. their related entities is included port for local banks, downside terday, adding that the emir- sidelines of a Dubai travel indus- to repay its debt. The two-day event is part of at the end of this rating action pressure is considered low. ate was looking at alternative try conference. He holds a host of “We will look at something like the Ministry’s effort to deepen the commentary. These banks’ Viability Ratings means to repay its debt if asset top positions in Dubai including this. I can’t specify what, since it’s culture of corporate responsibil- Fitch’s view of support is based (VRs) reflect their strong capital sales did not materialise. the chairmanships of its largest confidential information because ity in the local trade and industry on a strong history of sovereign base and healthy performance, the Global investor sentiment bank, Emirates NBD, state-owned of the restructuring,” he said and encourage better practices, support including measures to strong economic environment sup- towards Dubai has improved investment firm Dubai World and when asked if an alternative to the Minister of Business and boost capital, as well as asset pur- ported by public sector initiatives, greatly over the past year, help- the Emirates airline. asset sales was in place. Trade, H E Sheikh Jasem bin chases, as clearly demonstrated and stable core funding and liquid- ing the emirate tap capital mar- Despite its recovery from the cri- Sheikh Ahmed said that in Abdulaziz Al Thani, said in a in recent years. Support is the ity. These strengths are counter- kets. In January, it raised $1.25bn sis, a major concern among Dubai’s some areas, asset sales might statement yesterday. primary factor driving the Issuer balanced by continued risk with from a two-part international creditors has been the slow pace of have to be delayed, “because we Companies should pay more Default Ratings (IDRs). respect to concentrations on both bond sale, drawing heavy inves- asset sales, which are seen as a major might see in six months to one attention to this aspect as it Qatari banks’ IDRs, Support sides of the balance sheet, dete- tor demand. means for the emirate to finance year things will be better.” is part corporate governance. Ratings and Support Rating riorating restructured and past “The market is right, the price repayments of its obligations. Banks in the region are worried Corporate responsibility should Floors reflect the extremely high due loans at some banks, rapid is right, then why not?” Sheikh Four years ago, Dubai was that the emirate might push lend- help sustainable economic devel- probability of support available credit growth and a dependency Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, a forced to request a $25bn debt ers into a second round of debt opment in the country. from the Qatari authorities if on government-related spending close advisor and uncle to Dubai’s restructuring for Dubai World. restructuring in the absence of a The conference will host a needed. Fitch’s opinion of sup- and Qatar’s undiversified economy. ruler, said when asked whether The restructuring plan envis- pick-up in asset sales. number of experts from local and port is based on the ability and THE PENINSULA the emirate might make a second aged the sale of some assets to REUTERS International companies, and dis- cuss a number of issues including the role of governments in apply- ing policies and programs related German industrial orders rise to corporate responsibility in the Airbus sales context of the Qatar National Energy subsidies distort Vision 2030. The event will focus on how to help cut French create a network for companies that are committed to corporate trade deficit Saudi economy: Minister responsibility and how to benefit from the experiences of interna- PARIS: France showed a RIYADH: Saudi Arabia should Saudi Arabia keeps its domestic tional companies, the statement sharply reduced trade deficit of cut energy subsidies that are energy prices low for everyone, said. ¤4.69bn ($6.1bn) in March from burdening public finances, the regardless of income levels, pay- ¤6.01bn in February, owing economy minister and the head ing the subsidies out of the hun- mainly to the sale of Airbus air- of the state-run utility said, a dreds of billions of dollars that the Oil prices craft while imports continued move that would also tackle the kingdom makes from exporting to fall, the customs service said issue of erosion of crude exports. crude oil. retreat on yesterday. Rock-bottom prices for gas, This practice limits the poten- The customs service said that power and gasoline have turned tial long-term returns from oil profit-taking exports were rising after sliding the world’s 20th biggest economy exports. Nearly 40 percent of for two months. into its sixth-biggest consumer of Saudi electricity is still produced LONDON: Global oil prices fell The export figures had been oil, producing less than $3.70 of by burning oil. yesterday as dealers took profits boosted by a record delivery of economic output for every kilo- Energy-hungry industry has after a recent rally on robust US Airbus airliners and of a cruise gram of oil equivalent that it used boomed over the past decade, jobs data and rising tensions in liner. Sales of Airbus airliners in 2010, compared with the glo- thanks to energy costs that are a the Middle East, analysts said. totalled 34 aircraft in March bal average of $6.20, according to fraction of those in most countries. Brent North Sea crude for worth ¤2.88bn. World Bank data. This growth increases the cost delivery in June dropped 46 cents The customs service also “This has become an increas- burden on state-run companies to $105 a barrel in late London revised its figure for the trade ingly important issue as these that supply fuel, power and gas. deals. balance for the whole of 2012 to subsidies have become increas- “Subsidy is becoming a big New York’s main contract, show a deficit of ¤67.67bn. ingly distorting to our economy. part of the government budget light sweet crude for June shed Trade with other countries This is something we are trying to ... Subsidy should be revised and 73 cents to $95.43 a barrel. in the European Union fell, but address,” Economy and Planning done in a different way. It should “People are squaring up on imports fell by more than exports. Minister Mohammed Al Jasser be smarter and support low what has been a fairly good In March the deficit with other said yesterday. income people,” state-run Saudi rally,” said David Lennox, an European countries fell to ¤3.7bn “Rationalisation of subsidies, Electricity Co Chief Executive Ali analyst at research group Fat in March from ¤4bn in February. particularly on fuels for non- Al Barrak said. Prophets. And in the same month, owing targeted participants”, is needed Jasser also said Saudi Arabia “Strong payroll numbers from to the delivery of aircraft equip- to improve Saudi productivity, should also resolve imbalances the United States took the mar- ment to China, the trade deficit he told a financial conference in in its labour market, including ket a little by surprise. The US with China and Hong Kong fell New cars of Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Porsche ready for Riyadh. the low level of private-sector has been weak for so long, so deal- sharply to ¤1.4bn, the lowest level shipping in the harbour of Bremerhaven, Germany. German industrial Jasser did not give details of employment among Saudi citi- ers are waiting for that consistent for nearly five years. orders posted a surprise gain of 2.2 percent from February to March. how Riyadh would tackle fuel zens, particularly women. growth,” he said. AFP subsidies. REUTERS THE PENINSULA/AFP WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Q-Coat studies coated steel bars’ resilience Corrosion management meet begins

BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB It aims to evaluate the per- formance of Q-Coats’s products to DOAH: Qatar Metals Coating make sure that they are effective Company (Q-Coat), the sole and comply with the international supplier of anti-corrosion epoxy standards. coated steel bars, is conduct- Q-Coat is a joint venture ing a comprehensive applied between Qatar Steel and Qatar research to analyse and explore Industrial Manufacturing the benefits of using epoxy Company (QIMC) which pro- coated steel in the construction duces about 100,000 tonnes of sector, a senior official of Qatar epoxy-coated steel bars annu- Steel announced yesterday. ally. The company is looking to Wakeel Khalid, Metallurgist expand its production capacity, and Research and Development expecting a sharp increase in the Manager at Qatar Steel, said: demand of epoxy-coated steel bars “The exposure study includes a for the mega projects to avoid the field exposure as well as labo- menace of corrosion in concrete ratory test on fusion bonded reinforcement. epoxy-coated steel reinforcing Since its inception in 1990, the bars (FBECR). The field expo- company has exported its inter- FROM LEFT: Wakeel Khalid from Qatar Steel Company, Dr John Lawler of WJE Associates-USA, Abdulrahman Abdulla Al Ansari of Qatar Industrial sure study, conducted in col- nationally accepted products to Manufacturing Company, Dr Khalid Ghulam Mustafa Butt from Q-Coat and Tariq Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud of Q-Coat, at the press conference at Grand laboration with the Ministry of big companies including Saudi Hyatt yesterday. Environment, Ashghal, University Aramco, UAE-based Al Futtaim of Texas A&M at Qatar, Qatar Wimpey and many private and the company has been striving to both from Qatar Steel; Dr John He added that the seminar will to make a presentation on corro- Science and Technology Park government funded projects such keep up its leading position in Lawler, Associate Principal at the help enhance the level of aware- sion management. (QSTP), will provide a detailed as Museum of Islamic Arts, Qatar Qatar and GCC markets and it US-based Wiss, Janney, Elstner ness about the quality and speci- “In the US more than 200 stud- result on the performance of Flour Mills Copany, Ras Abu has been consistently growing over (WJE) Associates, Inc; and others. fications of appropriate building ies have been done on epoxy steel epoxy-coated and uncoated bars.” Fontas Power and Desalination the years to remain as the largest “We are actively participating materials such as epoxy-coated bars, and in general both, labora- Under the study, concrete Plant and others. epoxy coating plant in the region. in the ongoing three-day semi- bars to be used in the upcoming tory and field evidences have shown blocks made up with coated and Khalid was speaking at a media The press conference was pre- nar on corrosion management. projects to avoid corrosion. good performances,” added Lawler. uncoated steel bars will be kept briefing organised by Q-Coat on sided over by Abdul Rahman The event is very important “I am here to give some per- WJE Inc provides a wide range in Al Wakra beach for 96 weeks, the sidelines of the ‘2nd Annual Abdullah Al Ansari, Board with regard to mega infrastruc- spective on how epoxy bars can of consultancy services including which will be taken out on a quar- Corrosion Management Summit’. Member at Q-Coat. Present were ture projects to be developed in provide protection against expo- research and testing on concrete terly basis to study the impact of Ali bin Hassan Martian, Tareq Abdul Aziz Al Mahmoud, Qatar over the next 10 years,” sures to marine salts that might materials, construction assistance salinity, carbonation, chloride and Chairman and Managing Director Production Manager; Dr Khalid said Abdul Rahman Abdullah Al be present here,” said Lawler of and troubleshooting. other contamination. of Q-Coat, said in a statement that Butt, Manager, Projects Division Ansari, Board Member of Q-Coat. WJE Associates Inc. He was here THE PENINSULA

Dow Chemical receives $2.2bn in damages from Kuwait Australia cuts interest rate to KUWAIT: Dow Chemical Co deteriorating global economy for the payment to reduce debt and York Stock Exchange. Dow and turbulent period in 2007 and 2008 has received $2.2bn in damages its withdrawal. pay shareholder dividends, Chief PIC currently operate four other as the weakening economy hurt from Kuwait’s state chemicals K-Dow was a politically sen- Executive Andrew Liveris said in joint ventures, including ME demand for many of its products. record low of company, bringing an end to a sitive deal in major oil exporter a statement yesterday. Global, EQUATE, Kuwait Olefins The cancellation of the K-Dow more than four-year dispute Kuwait and came under scrutiny The cash payment includes Co and Kuwait Styrene Co. venture had raised fears among 2.75 percent over a scrapped plastics joint in parliament, where lawmak- damages as well as recovery of its “The question is: why didn’t investors that Dow Chemical venture. ers often clash with the govern- costs, the statement said. Kuwait deal earlier with Dow?” would be unable to finance its SYDNEY: Australia’s central The cash payment comes a year ment, especially over large state A statement from PIC, pub- Kuwait-based independent oil planned $15 billion purchase of bank cut interest rates to a after an international arbitrator investments. lished by Kuwait’s state-run news analyst Kamel al-Harami said, speciality chemicals maker Rohm record low 2.75 percent yester- told Petrochemical Industries Last year the International agency KUNA, confirmed it had referring to the delay in paying and Haas, part of its strategy day as investment in the Asia- Co (PIC), a unit of state-run Chamber of Commerce’s made the payment and that it had the penalty, which resulted in to shift the company towards driven mining sector hits its Kuwait Petroleum Corp, to pay International Court ruled that “exhausted all possible challenges interest costs. Even though the higher-margin business. The deal peak and the persistently high up for pulling out of the $17.4bn PIC had violated its agreement to the award”. dispute is over, “a bitter feeling closed only after the companies dollar squeezes local industry. K-Dow petrochemical venture in with Dow Chemical. Dow Chemical shares rose 1.4 will remain here”, he said. altered the terms of the deal. The Reserve Bank of Australia’s December 2008. PIC had cited the The US company intends to use percent to $34.50 on the New Dow struggled through a REUTERS shock decision to slash 25 basis points takes the official cash rate to never-before-seen lows, and is aimed at priming those areas BRD first quarter profits down struggling as the economy trans- forms away from mining. Solution to Iraq-Kurd “With the peak in the level of resources sector investment likely to occur this year, there is scope for other areas of demand to grow oil dispute unlikely more strongly over the next cou- ple of years,” said RBA governor BAGHDAD/ARBIL: A lasting Baghdad says it alone has the Glenn Stevens. solution to Iraq’s dispute with right to control exploration and The Australian dollar slumped its Kurdish north is unlikely export of the world’s fourth larg- to $1.0184 from $1.0238 immedi- even if recent talks between the est oil reserves, while the Kurds ately prior to the bank’s meeting, two sides lead to a resumption insist their right to do so is where it had been widely expected of oil exports from the autono- enshrined in Iraq’s federal con- to leave rates on hold at 3.0 per- mous region. stitution, drawn up following the cent, reached in December. Kurdish crude used to be US-led invasion in 2003. Rates have not been this low shipped to world markets through Previous efforts to resolve their since the establishment of the a Baghdad-controlled pipeline, disagreements have amounted to reserve bank in 1959. but exports via that channel dried little. “Mining investment has up last December due to a row “We have had agreement after been the main driver of growth over payment for oil companies agreement and no action on in recent years, but it is set to operating in the northern enclave. implementation. So even if we do start declining within the next The spat intensified in March get a signed agreement, we need couple of quarters,” said Capital when the Iraqi parliament passed to be sceptical based on history Economics analyst Daniel the country’s 2013 budget despite that it will be implemented,” said a Martin, adding that he expected a boycott by Kurdish lawmakers, Kurdistan-based industry source. a further cut before the end of who withdrew from the assem- Even if a compromise were to be Employees of Romania’s largest listed bank BRD, controlled by France’s Societe Generale, talk on a terrace the year. bly in protest at the amount they found, Kurdistan is already pursu- of the bank headquarters in Bucharest yesterday. The BRD posted a net profit of 13 million lei ($3.94m) in the AFP were allocated. ing an increasingly independent oil first quarter, down 84 percent from the same period of 2012. Kurdish lawmakers returned policy and is building the last leg of to Baghdad on Monday as part its own export pipeline, in defiance of an agreement that includes of Baghdad and the United States, amending the budget and form- which fears it will precipitate the ing a committee to study the oil break-up of Iraq. Emal plans expansion to meet global demand and gas law, which has been stuck At a news conference in Arbil in parliament for years due to a following the meetings, Kurdish lack of consensus. Prime Minister Nechirvan ABU DHABI: Emirates than the world economy needs. said he hoped so, adding that the Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC), “It was a visit to break the ice Barzani said he did not expect dif- Aluminium (Emal), a joint ven- Emal is still planning to build company’s state-backed own- Mazrooei said. and start a new phase for seri- ferences with Baghdad to be bur- ture between Abu Dhabi invest- more capacity, however, as it ers would unveil details later. Cheap gas supplied to state- ous talks,” Kurdish lawmaker ied “overnight” and the Kurds had ment fund Mubadala and Dubai expects demand for aluminium He declined to elaborate on the linked industry has driven a boom Mahmoud Othman said. alternatives if negotiations were Aluminium, is planning a fur- to rise from 46 million tonnes investment outlay or production of energy-intensive development “No final agreement was unsuccessful. ther smelter expansion around to 60 million tonnes by 2015, capacity. in the United Arab Emirates reached to resume oil exports “I hope we will be able to solve 2017, its CEO said. Emal Chief Executive Saeed Al Emal exports the majority of its over the last decade which, com- from the Kurdistan region yet, them with Baghdad and that is The group is on track to com- Mazrooei told reporters during production to the United States, bined with rapid immigration, but I can confirm that both par- what we prefer, but we will not plete its $4 billion phase two by a visit yesterday to the smelter Europe, southeast Asia and the has turned the UAE from a gas ties are very close to resolving stand by with our arms folded and the end of 2014, when it capac- complex sited between Abu Dhabi Middle East. Only about 200,000 exporter into a net gas importer. this problem very soon.” we have other options”. ity will rise to 1.3 million tonnes and Dubai. tonnes is consumed locally, he Because there is not enough In recent years, the Kurds have Iraqi Oil Ministry sources said from the current 800,000 tonnes a “The international market is said. gas to go around, Dubai, which antagonised Iraq’s Shi’ite-led cen- a technical delegation from the year, making it one of the largest growing for aluminium in many Emal, which burns vast quan- owns half of Emal, has to import tral government by signing deals Kurdistan Regional Government single-site smelters in the world. countries — China, India, Brazil, tities of natural gas to make the increasing volumes of expensive on their own terms with inter- (KRG), including finance and The global aluminium industry the United States. This demands electricity it needs to operate liquefied natural gas (LNG) from national oil companies including energy officials, would meet their is already facing a massive stock us to grow,” he said. the energy-intensive aluminium around the world to meet demand Exxon Mobil , Total and Chevron counterparts in Baghdad this week. overhang, which is growing each Asked if a third phase could be industry, has secured supplies for electricity. Corp. REUTERS month as smelters produce more launched around 2017, Mazrooei for phase one and two from Abu REUTERS WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 IPIC profits HSBC profits nearly double in Q1 surge on Three-year efficiency drive pays off; Asia operations generate quarter of revenue equities

LONDON: HSBC aims to keep a further 6,000 job cuts expected rivals are playing catch-up with generate earnings even in a slug- Costs in the first quarter were recovery the pressure on costs after first- this year from businesses already cost cuts to help offset rising bad gish macro environment,” said down 10 percent from a year ago quarter earnings nearly doubled put up for sale, on top of 40,000 debts and weak loan demand. Chirantan Barua, analyst at and the bank is now saving $4bn ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi’s due to the bank’s three-year already culled. HSBC has closed French banks Societe Generale Bernstein. He said HSBC’s strong a year on an annualised basis, International Petroleum efficiency drive and a halving in or sold more than 50 businesses and Credit Agricole yesterday capital position and capital gen- above the top end of its own tar- Investment Co (IPIC) said 2012 bad debts charges. since 2011. said they would keep making eration meant it could increase get range of $3.5bn. net profit surged on the back of The jump in profits reinforces “We’re moving into calmer cuts to cope with a weak domes- its dividend by at least 30 per- HSBC wants to get costs below better operational performance HSBC’s position as one of the waters but there are still chal- tic economy. cent this year. HSBC shares rose 52 percent of income by the end of and a recovery in the market strongest global banks after the lenges ahead,” Chief Executive In Germany, the cost of thou- more than 3.3 percent to 737.4 the year from just over 53 percent value of listed equities. financial crisis partly as a result of Stuart Gulliver told reporters on sands of job cuts contributed pence, their highest level since on an underlying basis currently. The government-owned invest- a radical overhaul to simplify its a conference call. to a net first-quarter loss at mid-March, helping to drive the Analysts say the bank should be ment vehicle, with a main man- sprawling structure and improve Gulliver declined to say Commerzbank, which warned European benchmark nearly able to raise its cost savings target date to invest in energy-related profitability. whether he would announce any that earnings would be under three percent higher. by $1bn a year. assets, said net profit for 2012 Its strong focus on Asia, which additional cost savings at a strat- pressure this year as loan-loss A $1.1bn gain from disposals The bank’s investment bank- jumped to Dh6.4bn ($1.74bn) from generated around two-thirds of egy update for investors on May provisions rise. aided HSBC earnings as did a ing division posted a 16.5 percent Dh164.1m in 2011. profit in the first quarter, has 15. But he said: “Clearly you can In contrast, HSBC posted a halving of bad debt provisions to increase in first-quarter pretax IPIC has interests in a number also helped offset a harsh busi- expect us to continue to focus on pretax profit of $8.4bn, up from $1.2bn — its lowest quarterly level profit from a year ago, helped by of European-based companies, ness environment, particularly in our cost base.” $4.3 billion a year ago and above since before the financial crisis. a strong performance at its equi- including Spain’s CEPSA and the euro zone. The CEO said HSBC still the average forecast of $8.1bn The bad debt charge fell across ties division. Austrian oil group OMV. Through Europe’s largest bank moved expected the euro zone economy from analysts polled by the all regions and in particular in the This mirrors strong results from its Aabar Investments unit, it faster and more aggressively to contract during 2013 and that company. US, where HSBC is winding down Europe’s other major investment also owns a stake in Italian bank than many of its peers to cut costs UK economic growth remained “We see these results as an its consumer business. The US con- banks such as Deutsche Bank, Unicredit. after the crisis. And it will con- muted. endorsement of the strength of sumer book saw a decline in loan- Barclays , UBS and Credit Suisse. Past financial results have been tinue to wield the knife — with Across Europe, HSBC’s smaller the franchise and its ability to loss provisions of $430m to $544m. REUTERS hurt by losses on stakes tied to companies owned by Aabar. In 2011, IPIC booked a $3.42bn loss Lagarde lecture at Room for Discussion on stakes in automaker Daimler UK car sales record 15 and UniCredit. Aabar has since sold its Daimler stake. “The profit increase was attrib- utable to the robust operational percent rise in April performance of CEPSA, NOVA Chemicals and Borealis along LONDON: New car sales in Rising car sales have provided with the recovery of certain listed Britain were nearly 15 percent a rare source of good news in equities held by Aabar,” IPIC said higher in April than a year Britain over the past year, while in a statement. ago, according to the Society the wider economy dipped in and Consolidated revenue increased of Motor Manufacturers and out of recession. New registra- to Dh190.6bn in 2012 from Traders which said sales in 2013 tions have grown strongly since Dh126bn in the previous year, would be stronger than it pre- the start of the year, in contrast while operating profit rose to viously forecast. New car reg- to falls in Germany — Europe’s Dh11.7bn from Dh9.2bn. istrations increased for the 14th biggest car market — and France. IPIC’s assets fell slightly to month running to 163,357 units, Even though April’s rise was $65.1bn in 2012 from $65.3bn in up 14.8 percent on the year and flattered by more sales days this the previous year as growth in the best April since 2008. year than last, this was still a assets was offset by divestitures, “The UK continues to perform robust performance, said Howard the statement said, without pro- well ahead of the troubled euro Archer, economist at IHS Global viding any additional details. zone as consumer confidence, reg- Insight. The industry body Group debt totalled $35.8bn at ular purchase cycles, attractive revised up its full-year sales fore- the end of 2011, the latest figure finance deals and wider market cast to 2.106 million units, a 3 per- available. factors continue to make new car cent increase on 2012 volumes. In November, IPIC raised buying favourable for motorists,” In January it predicted full-year $2.9bn through a triple-tranche SMMT Interim Chief Executive sales of 2.057 million. dual currency bond. Mike Baunton said yesterday. REUTERS REUTERS

Christine Lagarde (seated at podium, right), Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), gives a lec- ture at the ‘Room for Discussion’ forum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, yesterday. A few people shouted slogans against IMF during the lecture. Investors welcome Portugal’s return to bond market

LISBON: Portugal got a boost Dow Jones Newswires reported age for public servants having from investors yesterday when that the issue, totalling ¤3bn with been pushed back to 66 years it returned to the long-term a 10-year maturity, had been instead of the previous 65. debt market for the first time placed at an interest rate of about Local media said six banks, since obtaining bailout funding 5.6 percent. Portugal’s debt office CaixaBI, Citigroup, Credit two years ago, with the finance is expected to announce the final Agricole, Goldman Sachs, HSBC minister saying that demand results yesterday afternoon. and Societe Generale, were for bonds totalled three time Portugal was shut out of appointed to manage the bond the amount on offer. medium- and long-term debt issue which matures on February Portugal is working on yet new markets at the time it was forced 15 in 2024. measures to crack down on public to negotiate the 78bn bailout loan The sale will allow Portugal to spending and pursue deep struc- in May 2011. test market confidence without tural reforms of the economy. The issue comes just as the running too great of a risk. The latest issue of bonds to “troika” of international lenders If it is successful in the sale, fund debt was seen as a vital test — the European Central Bank, it would represent an important of market judgement of these the European Union, and the step for the country’s return to efforts to win back the confidence International Monetary Fund — the financial markets and could of investors and savers. arrive to analyse the Portugal’s help prevent it from having to “It’s been a great success,” latest programme of measures to seek a second bailout loan once Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar meet the conditions of the funding. the current one has expired. told Portuguese media while vis- The sweeping package, Portugal made an early return to iting Brussels. “Demand has been announced by the centre-right the medium-term debt market in three times greater than the offer, government last week, involves January, with a successful five-year this means that it will reach ¤9bn the slashing of 30,000 public sec- bond issue in which it raised ¤2.5bn. ($11.8bn).” tor jobs and the full retirement AFP

Property prices fall in Vietnam

Motorcyclists ride on a street inside a newly developed residential quarter in Hanoi yesterday. High inflation and interest rates in 2011 along with a government-imposed credit squeeze led to a fall in property prices. But Vietnam cut interest rates in March for the seventh time in little more than a year, in a bid to spur bank lending and boost consumption. WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Saudi finalising Qatari bourse regulations for foreign stock index adds ownership RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is finalising a regulatory frame- work which will allow foreign- ers to directly own stocks in the 11.52 points kingdom, though the market has no need for liquidity from international investors, the Egypt market hits eight-week high head of the country’s market regulator said. DOHA: Qatar Exchange con- OCI shares climbed 1.0 percent “There are a number of govern- tinued its rising streak yester- and heavyweight Commercial ment entities, including CMA, day, adding 11.52 points or 0.13 Bank International advanced 5.0 that are looking at that (direct percent to advance to 8,845.65 percent, as Cairo’s benchmark foreign investment). We’re final- points from 8,834.13 on Monday. index advanced 1.8 percent to its ising a regulatory framework with The volume of the shares traded highest close since March 12. certain parameters,” Mohammed up to 11,443,141 from 10,730,806 on Meanwhile, major property bin Abdulmalik Al Al Sheikh, Monday and the value of shares developer Palm Hills Development appointed head of the Capital increased to QR415,045,981.64 rose 4.2 percent after the firm pro- Market Authority in February, from QR335,801,098.51 on posed increasing its capital by 600m said yesterday. Monday. pounds ($86.4m), which analysts “We are attracting foreign Among the top gainers were said would help plug its funding gap. investment to come to the mar- Qatar National Bank, Industries “The market is reacting posi- ket for the technical expertise and Qatar, Commercial Bank of Qatar, tive to a few things — the Palm Chairman of Nokia Board, Risto Siilasmaa, opens the shareholders meeting in Helsinki, Finland, yesterday. human capacity,” he said without Qatar Insurance and Doha Bank. Hills capital increase, OCI resolv- giving any time frame for the The Banking and financial sector ing the tax issue,” said Mohamed reform, which officials have been index up 0.78 points while consumer Radwan, director of international considering for years. goods and services sector index sales at Pharos Securities. Nokia investors tell CEO Currently, foreign investors gained 0.39 points. The industrial “Sawiris’ return is reflecting can only buy shares in the larg- sector lost 0.70 points while insur- positively on some companies, est Arab market through swap ance sector rose 0.37 points. namely those with court cases, deals involving international The market is up 5.8 percent so on expectations the government their patience running thin investment banks, and via a small far this year. It faces major chart might lean back towards the busi- number of exchange-traded funds. resistance between 8,876 and 8,910 ness sector.” HELSINKI: Nokia investors The transition to Windows pension fund Ilmarinen, its sec- The regulator is also trying points, its peaks in early 2012. Saudi Arabia’s benchmark told Chief Executive Stephen Phone from Nokia’s own Symbian ond-largest shareholder, recently to limit “high levels of specula- “There is nice momentum with eased 0.1 percent, falling for a Elop yesterday that they were system was meant to take two revealed it had cut its stake by 27 tion” in the stock market, Al trading volumes coming up — cer- third session since Saturday’s running out of patience with his years. That period is now over, percent in the first quarter. Sheikh, previously a World Bank tain stocks were trading at low three-week high. flagging attempts to catch up and while recent results have Elop yesterday reiterated official, said on the sidelines of a valuations and the market real- Dubai’s benchmark ended flat with market leaders Apple and shown growth in sales of Lumia the company’s commitment to conference. ised there is a good buying oppor- after a choppy session, but is Samsung in smartphones. smartphones using Windows Windows Phone software. “The CMA should put a limit tunity,” said Yassir Mckee, Wealth still the best performing regional Many shareholders at the Phone 8 software, the volumes “We make adjustments as we on this manipulation to safeguard Manager at Al Rayan Financial market with a 32.5 percent year- annual general meeting in pale in comparison with the top go. But it’s very clear to us that investors. We are currently trying Brokerage Co. to-date gain. Abu Dhabi’s index Helsinki said Elop should recon- Samsung and Apple models, and in today’s war of ecosystems, to address this issue.” Meanwhile, Egypt’s bourse rose advanced 0.6 percent. sider his 2011 decision to switch sales of its regular mobile phones we’ve made a very clear decision Al Sheikh said the CMA and to an eight-week high yesterday as The Dubai and Abu Dhabi to the phone operating software have plunged in the meantime. to focus on Windows Phone with other government bodies intended corporate news lifted sentiment, bourses are at 41- and 42-month made by his former employer Nokia shares have also plunged, our Lumia product line,” he said. to encourage institutional invest- while Saudi Arabia’s bourse slipped highs respectively, showing little Microsoft, which has left the com- now trading at ¤2.72, a fraction of “And it is with that that we will ment in the market by diversify- for a third straight session in an sign of any major pull-back. pany scrambling to get back in the their ¤65 peak in 2000. compete with competitors like ing investment instruments and otherwise positive regional picture. “Normally, May is when UAE race from a standing start with its Asked why they still held Nokia Samsung and (Google’s operat- funds, including sukuk (Islamic Billionaire businessman Naguib markets see some profit-taking, new Lumia range of smartphones. stock despite poor results and a ing system) Android.” bonds) and other debt tools. Sawiris returned to Egypt on but it doesn’t seem the case — “You’re a nice guy ... and the suspension in annual dividends, Juha Varis, senior portfolio “CMA is developing a strategy Friday from self-imposed exile, there is a lot of liquidity com- leadership team is doing its best, some older attendants at the manager at Danske Capital, which to promote institutional trading which some saw as a sign that the ing into the market,” said Ali but clearly, it’s not enough,” one AGM admitted to being sentimen- owns Nokia shares, said Elop may on the tadawul,” he said, adding: post-revolution government was Adou, Portfolio Manager at The shareholder, Hannu Virtanen, told tal about a firm that symbolised be making a mistake. “While out of the total 47 billion moving towards a better relation- National Investor. Elop. “Are you aware that results Finland’s rebirth after the collapse “He has closed doors,” he said stocks listed 45 percent are held ship with the business community. “Valuations-wise, UAE stocks are what matter? The road to of the Soviet Union in the early in a phone interview. “They don’t by individuals, nearly 93 per- He came back days after offi- are a bit stretched but there hell is paved with good intentions. 1990s, its main trading partner. have new ideas now. Their fate is cent of daily trading is done by cials cleared the firm run by his is confidence in the market.” Please switch to another road,” Institutional investors have been all in Windows Phones.” retailers.” brother Nassef of tax evasion. Dubai’s index is still about 65 per- he said. less willing to cling on; Finnish REUTERS REUTERS Authorities also lifted travel bans cent below its 2008 peak and Abu against Nassef, Chief Executive of Dhabi is 35 percent lower, despite blue chip Orascom Construction the main US equity markets hav- Industries, and their father Onsi, ing recovered to pre-crisis levels. founder of Orascom Group. QNA/REUTERS Chinese leaders to quicken yuan reform QATARI MARKET Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P BEIJING: China’s new batch of bolder push for change after a China will make the yuan con- “Yuan convertibility is an impor- Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 104.13 0.62 % Aa2 AA leaders may quicken the proc- new administration took the helm vertible within five years but still tant link in financial reform which ess of making the yuan fully in March. As the world’s second- retain some controls on short- needs to be quickened, or it could Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 106.31 1.37 % Aa2 AA convertible over the next few largest economy grapples with term fund flows. hamper other financial reforms and Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 124.88 2.06 % Aa2 AA years to boost the currency’s slowing growth, the government The central bank could lead the yuan’s internationalisation,” Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 118.25 2.30 % Aa2 AA global clout and support wider is keen to accelerate reforms to efforts to map out plans on yuan said Xiang Songzuo, chief econo- Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 114.00 2.68 % Aa2 AA financial reforms, but the pace sustain momentum and boost convertibility, which may even mist at Agricultural Bank of China. Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 175.50 3.74 % Aa2 AA of market opening could disap- investment opportunities. imply a deadline, although it will “They will probably get it done Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 136.25 4.14 % Aa2 AA point as caution remains. A tightly controlled yuan only not be made public, according to by the end of the tenure of the Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 127.00 4.13 % Aa2 AA A cabinet meeting on Monday impedes overall financial reforms Chinese economists familiar with current government, or in the called for “operational plans” to and progress toward a market- internal policy discussions. next five years.” Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 105.38 1.03 % Aa2 AA achieve yuan convertibility under oriented economy. Chinese officials, including cen- The yuan is convertible under Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 114.88 2.71 % Aa2 AA the capital account, a seemingly Analysts’ best guess is that tral bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan, the current account, the broadest Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 105.50 1.36 % A1 A- have never given a specific time- measure of trade in services and Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.50 2.17 % A1 A- table on yuan convertibility, even goods. But the government main- QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.50 1.94 % NR NR though the government’s 12th five- tains tight restrictions on the QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 104.00 1.50 % Aa3 A+ year plan (2011-15) vaguely called capital account, particularly debt QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.88 2.03 % Aa3 A+ for the yuan’s basic convertibility. and portfolio investments, wor- In the near term, the govern- ried that freeing up the yuan too Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.63 2.24 % A2 A- ment may boost two-way capi- quickly could leave the economy Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 106.38 1.46 % A2 A /*- tal flows especially emphasising vulnerable to rapid movements in Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 130.75 2.42 % A2 A /*- outbound investment by Chinese capital in and out of the country. Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 112.50 2.94 % A2 A /*- individuals, they say. A restricted yuan, however, Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 110.75 3.90 % A2 A /*- The People’s Bank of China may hamper China’s drive to Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 106.00 1.13 % Aa3 A (PBOC) may further relax its internationalise the yuan as for- Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 108.25 3.25 % Aa3 A tight grip on currency trading by eign investors who hold the cur- Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 111.38 3.54 % Aa3 A widening the daily trading range rency have limited access to the for the yuan. In April 2012, Beijing domestic capital market. SOVEREIGNS doubled the yuan/dollar band to 1 At the cabinet meeting, Premier Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P percent either side of a midpoint. Li Keqiang sent a clear signal that Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 104.63 0.41 % Aa2 AA Deputy PBOC governor Yi Gang his administration will push forward Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 126.75 1.94 % Aa2 AA said at a forum in Washington key reforms, including market-ori- in April that conditions were ented liberalisation of interest rates Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 110.50 2.20 % NR NR now appropriate to further open and exchange rate regimes, to help Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 107.50 2.89 % NR NR A $100 banknote is placed on top of 100 yuan banknotes in a picture China’s capital account and widen revitalise the economy. Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 125.63 3.76 % NR NR illustration in Beijing, yesterday. the yuan’s trading band. REUTERS Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 118.25 4.01 % NR NR Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 105.06 1.00 % Aa2 AA Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 116.75 2.97 % NR BBB Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 110.75 3.72 % NR BBB EU hesitant on free trade Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 93.00 7.04 % Caa1 B- Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 107.25 3.39 % NR BBB- agreement with China *Periodic Distribution Amount • Bullion - Mumbai IMPORTANT NOTE: Gold (10 gm) Standard Rs. 27130 BRUSSELS: Even as it seeks free trade deals with the United Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which Silver (1 kg) Rs. 45050 is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services States and Japan, the EU sees little near-term prospect of a similar • Indian Rupees QR1 = 14.75 Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary accord with China, one of the bloc’s most important trading part- data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising • Sensex ners, a senior EU official said yesterday. out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not BSE 19888.95 The official, who asked not to be named, said trade and investment take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds NSE 6043.55 can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant were hugely important to the relationship with Beijing, the EU being liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not • Short-term investment plan from LIC International upto 6.4 percent return China’s largest single market. a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and p.a. (in dollar) The source said Chinese officials had “mentioned again” the issue consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. • Housing loan from HDFC LTD of a Free Trade Agreement during a visit to China last month by EU • Mutual Fund: Buy & Sell: SBI MF, HDFC MF, UTI MF, Birla Sun Life MF, foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton. Tata MF, Reliance MF etc. The EU feels, however, that an investment accord was the most • Advise on Indian Income Tax matters for NRIs. appropriate next step while an FTA would “not be excluded in the Contact: Investec, Tel: 44325060/44365060 email: [email protected] medium- to longer-term,” the official said. AFP WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Yahoo blockage shows Doubling exports still a conflicts in digital ambition of France Inc. dream for Barack Obama BY MARIE MAWAD BY JASON LANGE Also weighing against Obama’s mission, at home,” the official said. other nations are ramping up efforts to Obama set the export goal in 2010 when the ailymotion, a YouTube competitor, has come to sym- S President Barack Obama print money in order re-inflate their econ- US was just emerging from its worst reces- bolise all the contradictions in France Inc. After years reminded the world on omies, which has put upward pressure on sion since the Great Depression. It wasn’t the of watching French startups snapped up by foreigners, Thursday of the lofty goal the US dollar. only ambitious target set early in his presi- Dthe government last week put its foot down when Yahoo set early in his presidency Japan launched a bold monetary stimulus dency. One month after taking office in 2009, sought to take control of the video site. Using the state’s share- to double American exports program in April to double its money supply, Obama promised to halve the federal deficit holding in Dailymotion owner France Telecom, Industry Minister overU five years. It looks like he won’t deliver. while the European Central Bank lowered in four years. That goal was frustrated by a Arnaud Montebourg ruled that the “strategic” company, one of Trade data published earlier in the day interest rates on Thursday. So far this year, persistently weak domestic economy. the few with technology to rival Google’s YouTube, couldn’t be underscored the uphill battle faced by the the dollar has gained about 1.5 percent on a As part of its trade push, the White sold to the US group. administration. Weakness in the global trade-weighted basis, which could cut into House lately has stepped up efforts to open The move has sparked debate over everything from the state’s economy is knocking down demand for US the competitiveness of US exports. up overseas markets. heavy hand and what it will mean for foreign investment to the exports, which rose just 3 percent in the 12 Still, there are a number of factors that The administration notified Congress inability of French startups to catapult their ideas on to the months through March. might boost exports over the long term. in April it will start free trade talks with world stage. Montebourg’s action has divided the finance ministry, At that pace, Obama’s mission won’t be Persistently large US trade deficits could Japan, part of America’s efforts to push a brought him support from the opposition and drawn the ire of accomplished until around 2024, nearly a return the dollar to the long-term weaken- major free-trade deal with Asian and Pacific entrepreneurs, laying bare the conflict within France on the role decade later than promised. ing trend which began around 2002. A boom nations. The US and the EU are also pre- of the state in business. “The president’s export-doubling goal in US energy industry could eventually lead paring to launch talks on a free trade pact. “The moral of the story is that if you’re an entrepreneur and seems less achievable than ever,” said to more exports of natural gas, and poten- Yet even if Obama strikes these deals to want to have control over your destiny, best keep away from state Alan Tonelson, a research fellow at the US tially even crude oil. help US exporters, it could be many more funding, especially in France,” Pierre Chappaz, former head of Business and Industry Council, a group that But analysts point out that the world’s years before Americans notice there has Yahoo Europe and founder of price-comparison website Kelkoo, represents small American manufacturers. biggest economies are pressing forward with been a big jump in exports. which he sold to the US company about a decade ago, wrote on Unveiling his nominations of Mike policies that tend to weaken their curren- Because Obama’s target to double exports his blog on Sunday. Froman to be US trade representative and cies, and it is not clear where that process is measured in nominal terms and doesn’t The hullabaloo coincides with President Francois Hollande’s Penny Pritzker to be commerce secretary will end. It also would take years to build the take into account inflation, stronger growth efforts to attract foreign investors as he struggles to stem on Thursday, Obama said one of their key infrastructure and political will needed to would be needed for companies and workers record-high joblessness amid a deepening economic slump. The tasks would be meeting the goal of raking in significantly ramp up energy exports. to feel twice as better off. European Commission forecasts a 0.1 percent contraction of the $3.14trn from sales abroad in 2015 — twice The Obama administration so far has Thomas Duesterberg, a manufactur- French economy this year. “It’s hard to talk to foreign investors the 2009 level. shied away from allowing unfettered exports ing researcher at the Aspen Institute in when your ministers are telling them ‘Go home, we want to live That seemed more plausible a year ago of natural gas. Washington, calculated in March that even in autarkyp’,” Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, founder and CEO of when exports were growing at about four Add lackluster global economic growth to if the Asia-Pacific and European trade Priceminister, a French rival to eBay sold to Japan’s Rakuten in times the current rate. the mix, and all this suggests Obama will deals go through, as well as a number of 2010, was quoted as saying by website Rue89. “We’re sending a Now the global economy has taken a turn be hard pressed to meet his 2015 deadline. export-boosting scenarios like a reduction catastrophic message.” for the worse, with the euro zone mired in A White House official acknowledged in corporate tax rates and a depreciation of In November, Montebourg sparked a furore by calling for the recession and even China posting slower there was “more work to be done,” but said the dollar, inflation-adjusted exports would nationalisation of a troubled local unit of ArcelorMittal, the rates of economics growth. In the first quar- progress was being made. “We’ll continue probably not double until 2020. world’s largest steelmaker was looking to shut down. In February, ter of 2013, US exports to the European to do everything we can to increase exports, “It will take time,” he said. he got into a war of words with Titan International Inc. Chairman Union fell 8 percent from a year earlier. promote growth and create jobs right here REUTERS Maurice Taylor, who turned down a proposal to buy a tyre plant that Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is closing in France. He defended himself on Dailymotion, saying France is opposed to Yahoo’s plan to buy 75 percent of the site, with an option for 100 percent, preferring a 50-50 partnership. He was watching out for French strategic interests, he said. “The French appreciate it when the state intervenes when it can,” he said on France 2 television last week. He denied his actions might drive investors away. “The concerns of foreign investors are unfounded. We are very happy to work with our American friends.” While Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici distanced himself from the decision, Montebourg’s defenders put it down to a learn- ing process in an increasingly global digital world. “There’s mas- sive growth potential in digital innovation,” said Yves Gassot, who heads Montpellier, France-based technology researcher Idate Digiworld. “France, like other European governments, is slowly learning how to tap into it, through trial and error.” France, which has elite maths and science universities and produces the high- est number of graduates in the fields in the European Union, has struggled to come up with a winning formula to spawn the next technology giant to take on the likes of Google, Apple or Facebook. Most of France’s successful entrepreneurs in the past decade have chosen to sell their businesses to foreign investors. Germany’s SAP in 2007 acquired Business Objects for 4.8bn euros ($6.3bn). Axel Springer bought web portal Aufeminin.com the same year, and real estate ads website SeLoger.com in 2010. Dating site Meetic was acquired by the US’s Match.com in 2011. Priceminister has tripled its sales and doubled the number of employees since it was sold to Rakuten, CEO Kosciusko-Morizet said. “Joining a global group saved us,” he said. He also helped create Isai, a French fund that invests in local startups. “Had we stayed French, we’d be dead.” A similar search for a global footprint led France Telecom, 26.94 percent owned by the French government, to talk to Yahoo. France Telecom bought its initial 49 percent stake in Dailymotion in 2011 for 58.8m euros, and boosted the holding to 100 percent this January for 61m euros more, according to its annual earnings report. With talks with Yahoo failing, France Telecom, which intends to keep a stake in Dailymotion, has resumed its search for a partner for the site. Dailymotion, created in 2005 by Frenchmen Benjamin Bejbaum and Olivier Poitrey, gets 112 million visitors a month according to its website, a 10th of the number for YouTube. WP-BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Hathaway and Buffett: Capitalism at its best and worst BY DAN GILLMOR investments, vastly more suc- weapons of mass destruction”. Sokol as heir apparent. That leaders. Then Buffett was asked were being touted, and, in many cessful than most. Buffett and When the economy imploded in prospect ended after it emerged about Berkshire’s large holdings cases, offered for sale. And the n Saturday, thou- his longtime partner, Charlie 2008, he was almost alone in hav- that Sokol had bought shares in in Moody’s, one of the financial next day, shareholders mobbed sands of Berkshire Munger, are beyond brilliant as ing credibility as he reassured the a company he was recommending ratings companies that proved local Berkshire-owned proper- Hathaway share- investors and overseers of a vast public, and the teetering markets, that Berkshire buy. The purchase so useful to the bubble makers ties, including an Omaha jewel- holders, accom- empire. They find what they con- that we could avoid a replay of the did take place, at a premium, by giving cynical Grade A bless- lery store, spending wildly and panied by scores sider great businesses and, with Great Depression. and Sokol made millions for his ings to financial instruments that boosting the company’s prodigious ofO journalists, will gather in an little interference, let the manag- I’ve been especially charmed by personal account. He resigned, were blatantly inferior and which cash flow. Shop, shop, shop: Was Omaha arena for the company’s ers manage. Buffett’s ability to induce froth- and Buffett said he’d done noth- predictably crashed. Moody’s, he this closer to the real meaning of annual meeting. The event has They’re in it for the long term; ing nonsense from the denizens ing wrong. Then a Berkshire insisted, was a fine, upstanding Berkshire? They got a discount. become known as the “Woodstock this makes them actual investors, of the Wall Street Journal’s opinion audit committee filed what company run by fine, upstanding I won’t be at this year’s annual of capitalism” — a living shrine to in contrast with the speculators pages and their right-wing fellow BusinessWeek called a “scathing” people. meeting, and unless I write a Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett, who populate and pollute much of travellers. report about Sokol’s actions. For I wanted to throw up. book about Berkshire, I doubt I’ll widely regarded as the best inves- Wall Street. Buffet, too, is enor- They can’t fathom a capitalist someone who’s talked incessantly Munger, it turned out, had lit- ever go back. As usual, I will pay tor of all time. mously complicated, sometimes favouring policies that do anything about ethics, Buffett’s blind spot tle good to say about Wall Street attention from afar, not so much I’ve been a Berkshire share- contradictory. He has earned but reward the rich and powerful, was disappointing, even if he later in any capacity. This was a sur- to keep tabs on the investment as holder since the late 1980s, and enormous respect, but not the and they hold him in special con- acknowledged the impropriety of prise, because as he makes clear to hear what a couple of incred- have followed Buffett’s career near-worship that characterises tempt for his well-founded belief the dealings. in public statements his politics ibly smart people say about the with more than a casual interest. so many shareholders’ attitudes. in a fair, progressive tax system In Omaha, some of the share- are far to the right of Buffett’s. economy they understand so well. But I’d never attended an annual I deeply admire Buffett’s com- including, “omigod”, a stiff tax on holders wanted to know how But he was caustic about the Berkshire has not made me meeting until three years ago — in mon-sense approach to business inherited mega wealth. Unlike the investor who’d warned so sleaze. He suggested, for exam- rich. My holding is one share, the depths of the Great Recession and investing. Read his annual them, of course, Buffett under- presciently about Wall Street’s ple, that the accounting profes- which I bought when I was look- and at a time when Buffett’s halo report, especially the entertain- stands the long-range folly of a screw-the-world financial engi- sion “behave like real men instead ing for a good mutual fund and was showing some tarnish. What ing and nuanced letter to share- system that’s rigged to give the neering could invest in and stand of dishonourable twits”. And he discovered something better. I saw and heard that weekend in holders, to get a feel for why. wealthy overwhelming advan- by companies that represented suggested that prosecuting the Even the single share carved a 2010 was mostly enthralling but For years, Buffett fretted loudly tages, fuelling a plutocracy that some of the financial industry’s corrupt engineers of financial non-trivial chunk out of my bank occasionally repellent. about the dangers Wall Street’s leads society down a cruel and worst predatory and unethical catastrophe would do wonders to account at the time that I bought Berkshire and Buffett are the financial engineering, especially ultimately unsustainable path. ways. He retort went something prevent a recurrence. it. In hindsight, of course, I wish face of modern capitalism at its its growing reliance on deriva- Over the years, however, like this: Anyone who got conned After the formal meeting, I’d scraped up every possible dime best and worst, though the former tive “instruments” that spawned Buffett has said and done more by Wall Street’s sharks should shareholders tromped around a and bought more. I wasn’t smart. greatly outweighs the latter. The massive profits for a tiny few at than a few things that made me have done more homework, and huge room in the Qwest Center As even the most minor of share- company is a complex, sprawl- the expense of so many others. queasy. At one point, for exam- besides, the robber barons in arena where various products holders, though, I’ve gotten quite ing collection of businesses and These were, he warned, “financial ple, he was positioning David charge were exemplary business from the Berkshire companies an education. THE GUARDIAN WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

QE Indices Summary QE Index 8,845.65 0.13 % WORLD STOCK INDICES GOLD & SILVER EXCHANGE QE Total Return Index 12,638.4 0.13 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 2,680.93 0.18 % RATE QE All Share Index 2,255.17 0.11 % INDEX Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low QE All Share Banks & Financial 2,099.47 0.78 % GOLD Buying Selling Services All Ordinaries 5122.695 -11.055 -0.22 5175.3 4664.6 QE All Share Consumer Goods & 5,328.48 0.39 % QR171.8023 US$ ...... QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 Services Cac 40 Index/D 3931.02 23.98 0.61 3915.59 3584.38 QE All Share Industrials 3,156.33 0.70 % SILVER UK ...... QR 5.6208 QR 5.6991 QE All Share Insurance 2,128.01 0.37 % Dj Indu Average 14968.89 -5.07 -0.03 15009.6 12035.1 QR 2.7932 Euro ...... QR 4.7484 QR 4.8147 QE All Share Real Estate 1,624.53 0.27 % CA$ ...... QR 3.5892 QR 3.6599 QE All Share Telecoms 1,227.88 0.58 % Egypt Cma Gn Idx 1026.29 32.57 3.28 999.95 312.38 Swiss Fr ...... QR 3.8511 QR 3.9063 QE All Share Transportation 1,525.73 0.24 % Hang Seng Inde/D 23047.09 132 0.58 23944.74 21423.25 Yen ...... QR 0.0364 QR 0.0371 QE Market Summary Comparison Aus$ ...... QR 3.6699 QR 3.7426 Iseq Overall/D 3996.17 55.35 1.4 4009.59 3396.67 CRUDE OIL Today Previous day Ind Re ...... QR 0.0667 QR 0.0680 07-05-2013 06-05-2013 Karachi 100 In/D 19262.74 6.04 0.03 19444.52 16036.31 Index 8,845.65 8 , 8 3 4 .1 3 BRENT Pak Re ...... QR 0.0367 QR 0.0374 Change 11.52 48.60 Nikkei 225 Index 14180.24 486.2 3.55 13983.87 10398.61 Peso ...... QR 0.0883 QR 0.0901 % 0.13 0.55 $ 104.74 SL Re ...... QR 0.0286 QR 0.0291 YTD% 5.82 5.68 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 1619.77 1266.74 DUBAI Taka ...... QR 0.0463 QR 0.0472 Volume 11,443,141 10,730,806 Straits Times/D 3383.16 0.87 0.03 3405.09 3160.83 Nep Re ...... QR 0.0420 QR 0.0428 Value (QAR) 415,045,981.64 335,801,098.51 $ 102.27 Trades 5,180 4,300 SA Rand ...... QR 0.3987 QR 0.4065 Straits Times/D 2971.47 22.7 0.77 3035.78 2657.77 Up 22 | Down 16 | Unchanged 02

QATAR EXCHANGE | DAILY TRADING REPORT | 07-05-2013

INTERNATIONAL MARKETS A List of Shares from the world

COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME NAME CHG TRADED NAME CHG TRADED NAME CHG TRADED NAME CHG TRADED NAME CHG TRADED NAME CHG TRADED

A C C-A/D 1225.25 14.7 32357 Century Text-A/D 316.45 17.2 268845 Hcl Infosys-B/D 37.7 -0.2 8577 Kilburnengg-B/D 13.59 0.09 2315 Thirumalai-B/D 98.55 3.7 2647 Legal & Genera/D 177.7 -1 5124169 Aarti Drugs-B/D 181.5 2.85 3035 Chambal Fert-B/D 47.35 -0.7 314617 Him.Fut.Comm-B/D 8.96 0.25 446931 Klg Systel-B/D 9.03 -0.47 6100 Timexgroup-B/D 13.35 0.36 31762 Lloyds Bnk Grp/D 54.73 0.68 69428087 Aban Offs-B/D 330.55 11.45 546285 Chowgule St-B/D 10.7 0 2560 Himat Seide-B/D 33.5 0.85 17326 Kopran-B/D 13.7 -0.03 19346 Tinplate-B/D 41.95 0.85 15425 Marks & Sp./D 412 -2.8 1019316 Aegis Logis-B/D 145.5 3.3 7766 Cipla-A/D 408.15 4.05 48359 Hind Motors-B/D 9.33 -0.06 152121 Lok.Hous&Con-B/D 14.1 0.05 12582 Ub Engineer-T/D 21 0.2 2800 Next/D 4399 -26 135822 Ahmed.Forg-B/D 104.95 -2.9 49044 City Union Bk-/D 54.5 0.1 65176 Hind Org Chem-/D 14.32 2.38 645435 Lupin-A/D 713.35 14.45 163477 Ub Engineer-T/D 21 0.2 2800 Pearson/D 1178 7 510765 Alembic-B/D 19.7 -0.4 62615 Colgate-A/D 1512.5 1.35 6954 Hind Unilever-/D 579.55 6.25 168204 Mah.Seamless-B/D 220.05 -1.2 2672 Ucal Fuel-B/D 56.2 0.5 1271 Prudential/D 1137.125 -18 3144683 Alkyl Amines-B/D 152.15 -2.4 2541 Dhampur Sugar-/D 45.05 1.7 44199 Hind.Petrol-A/D 303.85 0.9 36315 Mangalam Cem-B/D 125.95 -0.65 7194 Ucal Fuel-B/D 56.2 0.5 1271 Rank Group/D 167.9 -2.1 10886 Alok Indus-B/D 9.48 -0.13 634611 Dr. Reddy-A/D 1993.5 0.75 8565 Hindalco-A/D 101.9 0.4 894977 Maral Overs-B/D 12.49 -0.17 4536 Unitech P -A/D 29.3 0.6 4345883 Rentokil Initi/D 92.75 -0.6 849542 Andhra Paper-B/D 197.25 -2.35 4476 E I H-B/D 60.15 0.15 23951 Hous Dev Fin-A/D 852.75 1.35 86637 Mastek-B/D 128.95 0.1 5217 Univcable-B/D 31.1 0 1054 Rolls Royce Pl/D 1142.075 2 1252536 Apollo Tyre-A/D 100.4 0.75 251925 E.I.D Parry-B/D 144.75 -1.45 716223 I F C I-A/D 31.2 0.25 1785587 Max India L-A/D 227.25 1.05 28424 Rsa Insrance G/D 110.4 -0.4 5305555 Asahi I Glass-/D 52.8 0.65 5999 Eicher Motor-A/D 3128.7 -40.1 1351 Idbi-A/D 88.15 0.45 149918 Mrpl-A/D 47.8 0.2 86788 LONDON Sainsbury(J)/D 392.5 1.4 2595385 Ashok Leyland-/D 23.25 0.65 539199 Eimco Elecon-B/D 140 -3.25 1679 India Cement-B/D 88.3 1.5 119203 Nahar Spg.-B/D 76.9 0.65 2938 Schroders/D 2377 -7 197775 Bajaj Hold-A/D 900.95 -5.95 1156 Electrosteel-B/D 17.05 0.15 44003 India Glycol-B/D 141.65 3.25 14704 Nath Seeds-T/D 4.09 -0.21 2335 3I Group/D 334.8 0.4 312721 Severn Trent/D 1821.5102 7 318474 Ballarpur In-B/D 17.5 0.35 50375 Emco-B/D 20.75 0.6 48578 Indian Hotel-A/D 58.5 1.9 83817 Nation Alum -A/D 34.95 0.1 80222 Assoc.Br.Foods/D 1930 -4 369177 Smith&Nephew/D 754.5 6 748248 Bata India-A/D 785.95 9.65 30846 Escorts-B/D 63.85 1.1 183982 Indusind-A/D 485.1 11.7 185192 Navneet Pub.-B/D 58.2 0.25 6265 B Sky B/D 861.5 1.5 1269797 Smiths Group/D 1253 -2 197918 Beml Ltd-B/D 173.55 6.4 97297 Essar Oil-A/D 80.1 4.3 2073232 J.B.Chemical-B/D 82.8 5.25 52764 Nepc India-B/D 2.07 -0.04 5893 Barclays/D 306.55 10.45 43050643 Standrd Chart /D 1691.5 34.5 2118005 Bharat Bijle-B/D 450.7 4 1963 Eveready Indu-/D 17.8 0.15 66769 Jagatjit Ind-B/D 57 4.3 3416 Nrb Bearings-B/D 38.1 -0.25 32551 Bg Group/D 1151.651 0.5 1918616 Tate & Lyle/D 846.975 2 401227 Bhartiya Int-B/D 232.55 4.6 9608 F D C-B/D 89.9 0.3 4217 Jbf Indu-B/D 112.05 2.05 3687 O N G C-A/D 319.9 1.2 359454 Bp/D 471.38 0.15 9250071 Tesco/D 370.4 2.65 4596288 Bhel-A/D 196.5 3.4 401005 Federal Bank-A/D 451.65 3.55 22148 Jct Elect P -B/D 0.45 -0.02 5500 Orchid Chem-B/D 67.85 3.2 276755 Brit Am Tobacc/D 3615 -13.5 802407 Unilever/D 2786 -6 859155 Bom.Burmah-B/D 126.8 1.95 50705 Ferro Alloys-B/D 5.15 -0.11 21277 Jct Ltd-B/D 0.92 0.03 127985 Orient.Carb.-B/D 100.2 4.55 1769 British Airway/D 276.4574 0 0 United Util Gr/D 742 1.5 1272876 Bombay Dyeing-/D 86.4 1.7 324644 Finolex-B/D 121.4 2.1 921158 Jenson&Nich.-B/D 2.98 0.22 5426 Oudh Sugar-B/D 19.5 1.4 8060 Bt Group/D 280.733 5.8 6453654 Vodafone Group/D 193.6 -0.2 20907245 Cable Corp.-B/D 18.85 -0.1 1760 Gail-A/D 342.5 2.75 33597 Jktyre&Ind-B/D 115.55 2.65 21807 Radico Khait-B/D 127.85 0.55 20559 Centrica/D 373.808 -2.1 3784539 Whitbread/D 2661 5 202196 Camph.& All-B/D 169.1 0.55 1130 Gammon India-B/D 22.15 0.1 26113 Kabra Extr-B/D 24.9 0.2 11576 Rallis India-B/D 139.2 2.25 30418 Gkn/D 285.6 5.8 1492579 Canfin Homes-B/D 156.35 3.25 10017 Garden P -B/D 48 -0.8 6043 Kajaria Cer-B/D 229 4.35 131637 Rallis India-B/D 139.2 2.25 30418 Hsbc Holdings/D 733.5 19.6 19091428 Caprihans-B/D 42.8 6.8 1051 Godfrey Phil-B/D 2422.5 27.15 1751 Kalpat Power-B/D 81.55 0.1 10252 Reliance Indus/D 398.2 2.3 110485 Imperial Tobac/D 2328 -30 989423 Castrol Ind-A/D 330.5 2.25 21683 Goodricke-B/D 134.4 1.65 3248 Kalyani Stel-B/D 44.75 -0.2 33494 Ruchi Soya-B/D 69.25 2.5 20728 Kingfisher/D 327.4 -2.3 3676197 Century Enka-B/D 114.65 0.65 5780 Goodyear I -B/D 293 8.6 16094 Kg Denim-B/D 14.99 0.19 5259 S Bk Bikaner-B/D 427.95 7.8 31537 Land Secs Grou/D 896.5 14.5 506989 WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Kahui to NBA: Ginobili’s late miss France Tests, Japan winner lifts Spurs stint in doubt

WELLINGTON: An injured Bulls stun top-seed Heat in play-off semis shoulder means All Blacks centre Richard Kahui will miss next month’s Test series SAN ANTONIO, Texas: Manu four seconds left in the second against France and his hopes of Ginobili’s three-pointer with 1.2 NBA Results overtime. playing club rugby in Japan are seconds left lifted San Antonio WASHINGTON: Results But instead of holding up, it in doubt, reports said yesterday. to a 129-127 double overtime yesterday from the second set the stage for Ginobili’s game Kahui, who is due to take up a win over Golden State as the round of the NBA play-offs (all winner. two-year contract with Japanese Spurs rallied from a 16-point series best-of-seven): “We just wanted to make stops side Toshiba Brave Lupus in deficit in the fourth to win the Eastern Conference and make adjustments and stay in August, hurt his shoulder in series opener. In Miami the attack mode on offence and training last week, the latest set- Ginobili’s late heroics capped Chicago 93 Miami 86 it worked out. It was anybody’s back in a career plagued by injury. a furious comeback by the Spurs (Chicago lead series 1-0) game, that is for sure,” Popovich Dave Rennie, the 27-year- and spoiled a 44-point perform- Western Conference said. old’s coach at Super 15 club the ance from Warriors’ Stephen Meanwhile, Nate Robinson Waikato Chiefs, told Fairfax In San Antonio Curry in yesterday’s game, one had 27 points and nine assists Media that Kahui needed sur- of their National Basketball San Antonio 129 Golden State 127 (2nd and hit the go-ahead shot with gery on the shoulder and was Association second-round series. Over-Time) 1:18 remaining as visiting Chicago facing four to six months on the “I was wide open so I didn’t (San Antonio lead series 1-0) stunned top-seeded Miami in the sidelines. have any options,” Ginobili said. breakfast tomorrow,” said Spurs opening contest of the Eastern That rules him out of the rest “Good timing though. coach Gregg Popovich. Conference semi-finals. of the Super 15 season and the “I have really got to watch the “When I talk to him he will tell Jimmy Butler had 21 points and three-Test series against France film and see what happened. I me ‘This is what I do’. I stopped 14 rebounds and Joakim Noah had beginning on June 8, with Rennie know they started to miss shots. coaching a long time ago.” 13 points and 11 boards for fifth- saying it could also end his They ran out of options and we Curry put on a shooting clinic seeded Chicago. The Bulls had Japanese plans. kept going.” during one three-minute stretch a dominating 46-32 rebounding “He’s still got a contract in The Spurs fell behind 104-88 in the third. He scored 12 unan- edge and again played without Japan and hopefully if they’re with 4:31 left in the fourth before swered points for Golden State forward Luol Deng (illness) and happy with the progress that storming back to force overtime. who built an 18-point lead. Curry point guard Kirk Hinrich (calf). still happens for him, but I guess They wiped out the 16-point defi- had 22 of his 44 points in the third LeBron James scored 15 of his if that doesn’t eventuate then he cit with an 18-2 run to close the quarter. 24 points in the final quarter and can look at options back here,” he fourth quarter. “You should win but we are Dwyane Wade added 14 points for said. In the second overtime, Ginobili not the first team to lose a game the Heat, who shot 39.7 percent “The first thing is, he’s just got found himself left wide open on like this,” Warriors coach Mark from the field. to get it right.” the left side. He nailed the three- Jackson said. “It doesn’t mean we The Heat had a 76-69 lead with Kahui has already undergone pointer with 1.2 seconds left after are going to accept it. 6:30 remaining after back-to-back four shoulder operations and only taking a cross-court pass from “We will get better. They made three-point plays by James. returned to Super 15 rugby last teammate Kawhi Leonard. plays and we didn’t make enough. Miami’s advantage was down to month after 10 months out. Argentina’s Ginobili had missed We made mistakes.” three, before Marco Belinelli hit a He appeared pessimistic about seven consecutive shots before Golden State’s Kent Bazemore tying three-pointer with 1:59 left Manu Ginobili (20) of the San Antonio Spurs celebrates after scoring the his chances of going to Japan when draining the game winner. converted on a driving layup to start a game-ending 10-0 run game winning shot against the Golden State Warriors in double over-time speaking to Maori Television last “I went from trading him on under the basket to give the that featured Robinson scoring during Game One of the Western Conference semi-finals of the 2013 NBA week, before it was confirmed he the spot to wanting to cook him Warriors a one-point lead with the final seven points. AGENCIES play-offs at AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas, yesterday. needed yet more surgery. AFP Pacquiao to No rest as Qatar’s Al Kuwari fight Rios in Macau in arrives for the Jordan Rally DEAD SEA (Jordan): Qatar’s Abdulaziz Al Kuwari has said November he is ‘on a high’ after his vic- MANILA: Philippine box- tory at the Argentina Rally in ing hero Manny Pacquiao will the WRC 2 category, as the battle US fighter Brandon rally driver arrived yesterday Rios in Macau in November, to compete in the Jordan Rally. organisers said yesterday, in Al Kuwari and and Irish co- a match that promoters hope driver Killian Duffy jetted into will ignite Chinese interest in Amman just as the first day of big-time boxing. recce was about to start yester- The bout -- at the luxury day morning. Venetian Macao casino resort After clinching a stunning -- will be Pacquiao’s first fight Derek Dorsett (15) of the New York Rangers collides with Martin Erat (10) of victory in the WRC 2 category outside the United States since the Washington Capitals in Game Three of the Eastern Conference quarter- of the Rally of Argentina that 2006. finals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup play-offs at Madison Square Garden finished on Sunday afternoon in “The fight is green and go,” in New York City, yesterday. Cordoba, Al Kuwari and Duffy Pacquiao’s chief management headed to the Middle East via adviser, Michael Koncz, said Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and A 2012 file photo, showing Qatar’s Abdulaziz Al Kuwari. The Qatari rally adding the arrangements had Dubai, and arrived in Jordan at driver will compete in the Jordan Rally this week. been finalised with Top Rank, Rangers restore belief approximately around 9.00am. the Las Vegas-based boxing Al Kuwari said: “We made it promotion agency that handles and had to go straight out and British car preparation company, has previously won Middle East the Philippine boxer. do the recce for day one with no Prodrive. and Saudi titles in Radical and Koncz, who travelled to the with crucial victory rest.” The Saudi teams up with the Saudi Super Leggera racing dis- United States for negotiations, He added: “But I am on a high experienced co-driver Amr Al ciplines and a national rally in said they chose Rios, 26, over NEW YORK: Two hours with- “As I’ve said all along, it’s a after the win in Argentina and Refai, who began his career as Kuwait last December. fellow American fighter Mike out a goal, two games without good group of guys,” Rangers head that has given me a two-point part of Abdullah Bakhashab’s He said: “I was not able to Alvarado because the former’s a win, the New York Rangers’ coach John Tortorella told a news lead in WRC 2 after five rallies.” young Toyota Rav-4 rookie team start the first round in Qatar, style would fit Pacquiao better. faithful must have feared their conference. The Qatari also holds third that tackled rounds of the FIA but the result in Kuwait shows “Rios’s style suits Manny NHL play-off campaign had “It’s just trying to get momen- place in the Middle East Middle East Rally Championship that we are moving in the right because Rios is willing to fight “early exit” written all over it. tum on your side and finding a Championship’s driver standings (MERC) through the Toyota direction and we are both look- and stand right in front of Yesterday, against a Washington way to win the hockey game and after finishing third in both the Team Saudi Arabia banner in ing forward to this week’s rally.” Manny,” he said by phone from Capitals team in full flight, the we got it done tonight.” Qatar and Kuwait Rallies. the late 1990s. Fellow Saudi Yazeed Al Rajhi the United States. Rangers rediscovered the way No player personified the Saeed Al Mouri heads to the Al Mouri is an experienced is still being forced to sit on the “It is going to be big. It’s to win, taking a 4-3 victory at Rangers’ fighting spirit more than start of the Jordan Rally at the motor sport all-rounder with sidelines after injuring his back something that has never been Madison Square Garden to nar- Marc Staal, who played his first Martyr’s Memorial in Al Hussein sponsor Hankook Racing and in a dune accident. done in Asia. Asia is the new row the deficit in the Eastern game in two months since being Sports City tomorrow afternoon is looking forward to his sec- Turkey’s Burcu Cetinkaya has destination for big time boxing.” Conference first round play-off struck near the eye with a puck. as the sole Saudi Arabian driver ond MERC outing of the season endured a disappointing start to He said there was a plan to series to 2-1. The defence- on the bumper international with the Tok Sport run-Mini, her MERC campaign this sea- tie-up with a Chinese com- Game Three man still has field. having finished sixth overall in son. After rolling her Mitsubishi pany so it could show the fight in the best-of- NHL Results some blurred Al Mouri is also the only driver the Kuwait International Rally Lancer in Qatar and recover- through smartphones to the seven series got vision but was in the field to wheel out a Mini in March to hold seventh in the ing to finish 13th overall, heads Chinese market. off to a bad start Los Angeles 4 St Louis 3 back in the fray. Countryman RRC, a car that drivers’ championship. to Jordan with navigator Ozlem Bob Arum, chief executive of for the Rangers, Washington 3 NY Rangers 4 “I thought I was originally developed for the He was also the Red Bull Car Azguc keen to kick-start her Top Rank, had previously said however, Nicklas Boston 5 Toronto 2 would be more German manufacturer by the Park drift champion in 2011 and challenge. THE PENINSULA he wanted to put Chinese boxer Backstrom giving nervous that I Zou Shiming on the undercard the Capitals a 1-0 lead with four was,” he said. “I felt pretty good with Pacquiao to further spark minutes on the clock. going to the game and I think the interest in China. Brian Boyle equalised midway confidence is going to grow the F1 teams to get extra tyres for practice Top Rank spokesman Lee through the first period before more I’m out there.” Samuels echoed expectations Derick Brassard scored early in Meanwhile, the Stanley Cup BARCELONA, SPAIN: Formula One teams Friday have had to endure long periods with no track for a head-on collision between the second to put the Rangers champion Los Angeles Kings will will be given extra tyres for Friday’s free practice action as drivers opt to save their quick-wearing Pacquiao and Rios. 2-1 up. face-off against the Anaheim from this week’s Spanish Grand Prix to encour- tyres. “Rios is going to stand and The boisterous home crowd Ducks at Dodger Stadium next age them to provide more action for the fans, sup- Pirelli said the extra hard tyres would be a spe- fight in front of Pacquiao. roared with excitement but the January. plier Pirelli said. cially-created compound, made to last much longer Rios will not take a backward knockout blow was still a long The game is the latest addi- “We’ll be supplying an extra set of prototype hard and different to the regular orange-marked hards step. Definitely he won’t run,” way off. The Capitals drew level at tion to the NHL’s Stadium Series, compound tyres for free practice, which will hope- available for the rest of the weekend. They will carry Samuels said in a telephone call 2-2 late in the second, then again which will kickoff on New Year’s fully ensure that all the cars run throughout these no colour markings. to reporters in Manila. at 3-3 in the final period, Arron Day with the Winter Classic sessions,” said motorsport director Paul Hembery in The initial suggestion had been for the extra set Rios’s manager, Cameron Asham’s goal canceled out by the between the Detroit Red Wings a preview of Sunday’s race to be held in the Spanish to be made available for young drivers only, or to be Dunkin, also confirmed the Caps’ Jay Beagle. and Toronto Maple Leafs at city of Barcelona. used in the first half hour of practice on Friday, but fight by telephone. It took a fourth goal, late in the Michigan Stadium. “It’s something we wanted to do to encourage all that met opposition from top teams unwilling to He said: “Brandon is excited final period, from Derek Stepan The series will also include the teams to run as much as possible right from the put rookies into their cars at a grand prix weekend. and he is honoured to fight to decide the outcome as the a game between the Chicago start, especially with the rookie drivers, to give fans Each driver currently has 11 sets of dry weather Pacquiao,” he said AFP Rangers proved to their fans they Blackhawks and the Pittsburgh the spectacle they deserve to see,” he added. tyres for a weekend - six of the harder ‘prime’ and had the stomach for the fight. Penguins on March 1. AGENCIES Spectators watching the first practice session on five of a softer ‘option’. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Tomic senior Australian media, players takes place among bad sports urge Tomic to dump dad parents SYDNEY: Bernard Tomic’s The father accused of headbutting his son’s training partner in Madrid father may escape conviction of assault charges in Spain, but whatever the outcome he is SYDNEY: Australian media an opinion piece in its publication assured of cementing his place and former players yesterday yesterday. in the club of infamous tennis urged the country’s top-ranked In a statement, Tennis Australia parents. tennis star Bernard Tomic to said the allegations against Tomic Australian John Tomic denied dump his father as coach after were “very concerning” and it was Thomas Drouet a charge of assault on Monday he was accused of headbutting working with ATP officials who of Monaco, against his son’s practice part- his son’s training partner. were investigating. training partner ner Thomas Drouet in a brawl John Tomic denied a charge Bernard Tomic, ranked 49th, of Australia’s outside a hotel where players in of assault in a Spanish court has had his own share of contro- Bernard Tomic, the Madrid Masters were staying. Monday against Thomas Drouet versy and last year created more leaves a court Tomic, a former taxi driver, had during a brawl outside a hotel on headlines off the court than on it, previously courted controversy house bandaged Saturday where players in the including run-ins with police in when he once ordered his son off and wearing Madrid Masters were staying. his sports car and claims he was court in Perth, haranguing the Drouet, from Monaco, not trying hard enough. a neck brace umpire who he claimed was not appeared outside court in a neck The 20-year-old was recently in Madrid on penalising the opposing player. brace with white plaster over his recalled to Australia’s Davis Cup Monday. Drouet At the 2010 Australian Open, he nose, although Tomic claimed his team after captain Pat Rafter was allegedly confronted officials who scheduled actions were self-defence. disciplined him for a lack of headbutted by his son to play at night. And last The hearing was postponed professionalism. Tomic’s father year, Bernard asked an umpire until May 14. If found guilty he Several former players urged and coach, John in Miami to throw his father could be sentenced to between him to sever the tennis partner- Tomic, during an out of the stadium for disruptive three months and three years in ship with his father, led by former altercation on behaviour. prison. Davis Cup team mentor Wally May 4 in Madrid. Tomic is not the sport’s only Tomic senior has a history of Masur. The court has set unruly parent, with Pierce once run-ins with tennis authorities “The parent-coach dynamic is a a May 14 hear- shouting during a match for his and Australian media urged his dangerous one. There are so many ing for a judge to daughter Mary to “kill the bitch”. son to look for a new coach. precedents that have proven it’s decide whether The French star eventually took a “In the tennis world of crazy just not healthy,” Masur told John Tomic is restraining order out against him and manipulative parents, Tomic reporters. amid claims of assault. guilty or innocent. Sr is now No.1,” said the Sydney “If you look back at players like But Dokic, father of Jelena, Daily Telegraph, which called on Andrea Jaeger, Jennifer Capriati, took it to a new extreme. The authorities to throw him out of Jelena Dokic -- the parent-coach Serbian first sprang to attention the sport. dynamic is really a nexus that when he was ejected from the US “If the allegations against him needs to be broken at a young Open in 2000 for abusing staff are proved, he will be shown little age.” about the price of a salmon lunch. mercy by tennis officials, who are He said Tomic should make And when Jelena switched alle- now well versed in dealing with more use of Rafter as a mentor. giance to Australia, he claimed rogue parents,” it added. “Let’s put Bernie in someone’s I acted in self-defence: Father Australian authorities, “with the Media drew comparisons with hands that he trusts and respects help of Croatia and the Vatican other notorious tennis parents, and we’ll go from there,” he said. MADRID: Bernard Tomic’s father John told a apart outside the courtroom. After consultation have brainwashed my daughter” including Damir Dokic, father of Former Australian Davis Cup Madrid court he had acted in self-defence when with the judge, it was decided that because Tomic and even threatened to “kill an Jelena Dokic who ended up in jail, player Sandon Stolle said it was he butted a member of the Australian world disputed the charge of causing bodily harm the Australian in revenge”. and Jim Pierce, father of Mary time tennis authorities took a number 53’s coaching staff in the face at the hearing could not take place and a further court Like Pierce, he was banned by Pierce who was banned by the stand after several previous con- weekend. appearance for the pair was scheduled for May 14, the Women’s Tennis Association WTA. troversies with Tomic senior. John Tomic, a burly former taxi driver who now court officials said. (WTA). In 2009, he was jailed The Australian newspaper said “If the ATP make it so that his coaches his son, and the man he tangled with, “I don’t feel guilty, I didn’t do anything wrong,” for threatening to bomb the it’s publication: “Bernard must dad can’t really get in the mix any Bernard’s practice partner Thomas Drouet, both a weary-looking Tomic, whose light blue shirt had Australian ambassador to split from atomic father. more then that would be the best turned up for the hearing in the centre of the sweat circles under the armpits, told reporters. Belgrade with a hand grenade. “John Tomic’s conduct has thing,” he said. Spanish capital. He declined to comment further and left the Grand Slam champion Jennifer raised concern for years, despite Gram Slam winners Ken Drouet had a large dressing fixed to his nose court by a side entrance to avoid the reporters Capriati was another star with local officials using a mixture of Rosewall and Neale Fraser were with white surgical tape and a neck support, while and television cameras. The incident took place an overbearing parent. Father both carrot and stick in an unsuc- also quoted by media as calling Tomic appeared unscathed apart from a small cut on Madrid’s central Paseo de la Castellana street Stefano was accused of exploit- cessful bid to temper the behav- on Tomic to seek a new mentor. above his right eye and the pair sat about 15 metres and Tomic was later taken into custody. REUTERS ing his daughter and using her as iour of him and his son,” it said in AFP his personal meal ticket. AFP

Etiquette boost as golf rules Couples, Montgomerie published in Chinese enter Hall of Fame BEIJING: China’s golf boom has been in full swing for ST AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA: Jr. The first American player to become one of the most popular more than a decade but offi- Fred Couples, renowned for reach number one in the official players in the game with a lan- Golfer Fred cials have finally moved to being one of the most laid-back world rankings, Couples broke guid swing and prodigious length Couples speaks close a surprising loophole by figures in the game, was over- down when he described how he off the tee which earned him the during his translating the sport’s rules come by emotion after being had gained motivation to pursue nickname ‘Boom Boom’. induction into into Chinese. inducted into the World Golf a career in golf while attending a He won his only major title the World Golf Now China’s players and Hall of Fame as part of the class golf clinic in his native Seattle at at the 1992 Masters but also Hall of Fame officials and its unruly fans of 2013 yesterday. the age of 14. clinched the prestigious Players at the World can become experts in the The American former world “An unbelievable PGA Tour Championship in 1984 and 1996, Golf Village in sport’s complex etiquette after number one, a 15-times champion player was doing the clinic, and an event widely regarded as the St Augustine, the move by the China Golf on the PGA Tour, twice choked up I got up front and I was staring unofficial fifth major. Florida, Association (CGA) and rules with tears during his acceptance at him,” the 53-year-old Couples A veteran of five Ryder Cups, body the Royal and Ancient speech in St. Augustine, Florida recalled. Couples captained the triumphant yesterday. Golf Club (R&A). on what he described as “the “I wasn’t really the person who US Presidents Cup teams in 2009 Zhang Xiaoning, executive coolest night of my life”. said, ‘That’s what I want to do, I’m and 2011, and also has eight wins vice-president and general sec- Couples was inducted along going to be a PGA Tour player.’ on the Champions Tour for play- retary of the CGA, called the with eight-times European Tour But I knew I wanted to really, ers aged over 50. move “crucial” as China tran- order of merit winner Colin really get involved in golf. “Thanks for taking a kid from sitions from rapidly growing Montgomerie, former US Open “And the gentleman’s name was Seattle and putting him into the upstart to a mainstay of the champion and television broad- Lee Trevino, who has been a men- Hall of Fame,” Couples said as world game. caster Ken Venturi, former tor and someone I love.” he ended his acceptance speech. “Translating the rules into European Tour executive director Couples’ golfing journey took “This is the coolest night of my Chinese will help the Chinese Ken Schofield and twice former him from Seattle to the University life.” fans to learn how to appreci- British Open winner Willie Park of Houston and he went on to Montgomerie, though he never ate the sport and will also assist won a major championship despite local clubs in training their several close calls, was delighted I’ve never, ever stood up and made that’s where it hurts most. So that members about world-accepted to earn his place in the class of a winner’s speech... I never will. has taken the most to recover standards,” he said, according to 2013 after a career highlighted by “There’s always a time where from. the China Daily. 31 victories on the European Tour. a bit of fortune comes your way, “So at the same time, if you’re “It’s crucial for the game’s “This has been a humbling whether it be for you or against talking about regrets of any part healthy development in China.” experience for me,” said the your opponent at the time, and it of my golfing career, I have none. China, which already has 49-year-old Scot, who also com- just so happens with five runner- Absolutely none. I’ve done exactly a crop of talented teens and piled a stellar record in the bien- ups... that I just haven’t been so- what I’ve tried to do. I’ve tried 100 multi-million dollar tourna- nial Ryder Cup team competition called fortunate to walk through percent on every shot, and some- ments, adopted international where he never lost in eight sin- the door.” times it works and sometimes it rules in 2008, but Zhang admit- gles matches. Montgomerie twice lost majors doesn’t.” REUTERS ted many amateurs and organ- “I’m very proud to be standing in playoffs - the US Open in 1994 isers were still hazy. here in front of you this evening.” and the PGA Championship in China is also notorious for Known for his natural swing, 1995 - but his most agonising 2013’s Entrants its fans, who are known for an aversion to practice and a tem- near-miss came in the 2006 US chatting and coughing during perament that could be prickly Open at Winged Foot where he into Hall of Fame shots, snapping pictures on the at times, Montgomerie recorded double-bogeyed the final hole to backswing and even standing in five runner-up spots in the majors finish a stroke behind winner Fred Couples, USA front of players. among a total of 10 top-10 finishes. Geoff Ogilvy of Australia. Ken Venturi, USA An exhibition event last year “I’ve enjoyed thoroughly my “That’s the one that hurts,” Willie Park Jr, Scotland between Tiger Woods and Rory Golfer Colin Montgomerie walks on stage during his induction into the exploits in major championships,” Montgomerie said. “The four oth- McIlroy, spectators stole balls World Golf Hall of Fame at the World Golf Village in St Augustine, Florida, Montgomerie said during a news ers or five others really, somebody Colin Montgomerie, Scotland from the driving range. AFP conference. “I just haven’t been happened to beat me. The 2006 yesterday. Ken Schofield, Scotland fortunate or whatever it takes, Winged Foot I beat myself, and WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 29 Spurs out to crash Chelsea’s top-four party

LONDON: Juan Mata’s decisive strike at Manchester United at the weekend means Chelsea can all but guarantee Champions League qualification by beating fifth-place Tottenham Hotspur at home today. The Stamford Bridge show- Chelsea’s Juan Mata (centre) celebrates with his team-mates after scor- down looked destined to be a ing the winning goal during the English Premier League match against straight shootout for a top-four Manchester United at Old Trafford in Manchester, Britain, in this file place until Mata struck with picture of May 5. Chelsea won 1-0. three minutes remaining at Old Trafford on Sunday to give Chelsea a precious 1-0 victory. win against Tottenham.” Had to Chelsea since he was sacked Sunderland’s English defender Danny Rose (right) vies with Stoke City’s Irish striker, Jonathan Walters dur- The Spaniard’s goal, via a tell- Mata and his team-mates failed by the club in March last year, ing an English FA Premier League match at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, England, yesterday. The match ing deflection off Phil Jones, lifted to overcome United, Spurs would but he says he has not given much ended in a 1-1 draw. Chelsea three points above Spurs have travelled to west London thought to the emotional implica- and means they will be virtually knowing that victory would have tions of his return. guaranteed a place in next sea- taken them into the Champions “I’m not sure (what it will be son’s Champions League if they League places at Chelsea’s like),” said the Portuguese, who defeat their London rivals. expense. also worked at Stamford Bridge The win over United was In any case, Spurs must win to as a member of former manager Chelsea’s 65th game of the season, take up a place in the top four. Jose Mourinho’s backroom staff. Sunderland inch but with Champions League qual- Victory would come with the “I’m not sure if enough time ification at stake and a Europa added satisfaction of knocking has passed for me to feel any- League final against Benfica still eternal rivals Arsenal out of the thing. I was just another manager to come, Mata says there is sim- Champions League qualifying that passed by. ply not enough time for mental berths, but Tottenham have not “Obviously I spent three great fatigue to creep in. won at Stamford Bridge since years there when I was on the closer to safety “Three points here (at Old February 1990 -- a run of 25 staff but when I was given more Trafford) is amazing, because now matches. responsibility, I wasn’t given we are in third position. If we win Their momentum has also enough time. O’Shea rescues a point for Di Canio’s side against Tottenham we will be in slowed of late with just two wins “I have great friends who I the Champions League,” he said in six games prior to Saturday’s don’t want to undermine by what following Sunday’s match. 1-0 defeat of Southampton, which I am saying and the players gave SUNDERLAND, United “The players were amazing to “Mentally you don’t have time was only secured in the 86th everything for me. Kingdom: Ten-man Sunderland react in the way they did. This to disconnect. We play Sunday, minute through another stun- “It’s fine because sometimes took a small step towards point in my opinion will be crucial Wednesday, Saturday, so mentally ning goal from man of the season the only option is for a manager Premier League survival after at the end of the season. I will not you are always focused. Gareth Bale. to go and I have discussed this at coming from behind to draw 1-1 cry or make an excuse. We have “We need to rest, to train and Today’s game will mark man- length. It would be excellent if we at home to Stoke on Monday players missing and I will only get ready. We want and need to ager Andre Villas-Boas’s first trip got the three points.” AFP night. focus on those players I can select. Former Manchester United “We have to handle our aggres- defender John O’Shea rescued sion. It is a Champions League a point for Paolo di Canio (pic- final for us against Southampton tured) side, already a man down at the weekend. I will not watch Klose closes in on record after Craig Gardner was sent off, Wigan tomorrow (Tuesday) as BERLIN: Evergreen Lazio none of this Florida, on May 29 and against when he struck from close range last time I watched them they striker Miroslav Klose (pic- would have been the USA in Washington DC in the 63rd minute following a won.” tured) has proved his injury possible.” on June 2, and Loew is already corner. Wigan will also move to 38 points Stoke manager Tony Pulis, worries are behind him by He is the first without several stars from both Jon Walters gave Stoke a ninth with two league games left, frustrated by the outcome, equalling the record for the Lazio player to Champions League finalists minute lead, reacting first to and intensify a manic battle to praised Sunderland’s resilience most goals in a Serie A match as score five goals Bayern Munich and Borussia fire home after his header from avoid demotion to the second- by saying: “It was a hard-earned he closes in on Gerd Mueller’s in an Italian Dortmund. Charlie Adam’s cross was blocked. tier Championship, if they win point, we knew it would be hard. 38-year-old record for the most league game After the tour, Loew’s team Then, for the second match in at home to manager Roberto “You have to give Sunderland goals for Germany. and equals the host Paraguay in August and a row, Sunderland found them- Martinez’s former club Swansea. a lot of credit, they played with a Klose, 34, netted five goals in Serie A record, Austria in a World Cup qualifier selves down to 10 men after Sunderland next play lot of spirit and we are pleased to Lazio’s 6-0 demolition of Bologna becoming the in September. Gardner was shown a straight red Southampton, with the south get a point to get to 41 points. It’s in Serie A on Sunday to signal first striker to With 126 appearances and 67 card by referee Lee Mason for an coast side themselves not out of one of those funny seasons when that he is back to his best after achieve the feat since Roberto goals for Germany, Klose is just over the ball one-footed challenge drop danger on 39 points, with di everything is not sorted out yet. a knee injury meant his last goal Pruzzo for Roma back in 1986. one short of Mueller’s record of on Adam. Canio glad he was able to inspire “We’re disappointed not to take for the Rome-based side was Klose is involved in the Italian 68 goals, scored in 62 games for The draw left Sunderland as his team at half-time. the three points which would have back on December 15. Cup final on May 26, when Lazio West Germany. one of three teams on 38 points “What can you say at half- made us safe but we are 11th in “You don’t experience days like face capital neighbours Roma, Mueller’s last goal in the (above Norwich and Newcastle on time? I tried to motivate my play- the Premier League with two these too often, so I’ll enjoy the but could still feature in the plans German shirt came on July 7, goal difference) and three points ers and told them that we were games to go. We can still finish feeling,” he said having needed of Germany coach Joachim Loew 1974 when he scored the win- clear with two games to play of playing at home,” the Italian told in the top half.” just over an hour to score his for a tour to the at the end of the ner in the 2-1 victory over the Wigan, who currently occupy the Sky Sports. Bottom of the table Queens record haul at home to Bologna. month. Germany play friendlies Netherlands in the World Cup third and final relegation place. “If you don’t concede a second Park Rangers and Reading have “Without my team-mates, against Ecuador in Boca Raton, final. AFP However, FA Cup finalists goal you can stay in the game. already been relegated. AFP FIFA exco Liverpool member Blazer Mourinho hits back at to play in provisionally South Africa banned Pepe in Casillas row LIVERPOOL: Liverpool will PARIS: FIFA executive com- MADRID: Real Madrid man- Real Madrid is Varane and Sergio play a post-season friendly in mittee member Chuck Blazer ager Jose Mourinho (pictured) Ramos.” South Africa -- their first match (pictured) was provisionally has hit back at his own player The former Chelsea boss also in the country in nearly 20 years suspended yesterday, less than Pepe after the defender said returned to the topic of his deci- -- later this month, the English one month after he was accused Mourinho ought to have more sion to continue with Lopez in Premier League club announced of financial mismanagement in respect for club captain Iker goal ahead of Casillas since the yesterday. his role as general secretary of Casillas. latter returned from a hand The Reds will face Ajax Cape the CONCACAF confederation. Blazer based on documents and Mourinho had said last Friday injury over a month ago. Town at the Cape Town stadium The 68-year-old American, who interviews with 38 people. that his principal regret during And Mourinho bit back at on May 21 and Liverpool’s chief is due to stand down from the Simmons said Blazer received his three-year stay in Madrid Barcelona midfielder Andres commercial officer, Billy Hogan, executive committee on May 30, more than $20m in compensa- was not signing his current first- Iniesta’s claim that it was hard said in a statement: “It will be was suspended by FIFA’s ethics tion from CONCACAF, including choice goalkeeper Diego Lopez at to understand Casillas’ situation fantastic for the club to return to committee with immediate effect. $17m in commission. the end of his first season. at Real Madrid. South Africa after almost twenty Soccer’s world ruling body said He added that Blazer worked Those words were then “Iniesta ought to be worried years.” the decision was made because without a contract from July 18, described as “not the most ade- about his team and why they have He added: “We know we have “....various breaches of the FIFA 1998 and his compensation was quate” by Pepe on Saturday after done what they have done in the a large fan base in South Africa code of ethics appear to have been discussed only three times in Madrid’s 4-3 win over Valladolid (Champions League) semi-finals which is rapidly growing, in the committed by Chuck Blazer.” CONCACAF forums during 21 and he went onto describe Casillas (losing 7-0 to Bayern Munich last eight months the number of The announcement came less years. as an “institution in this club and on aggregate) without (Lionel) South African fans visiting the than one week after fellow FIFA The report also found “no in Spain.” Messi. club’s website has doubled. executive committee member business reason” for the rent- However, Mourinho believes “My message so that you under- Liverpool are the second most Vernon Manilal Fernando of Sri ing of apartments used by Blazer Pepe’s rebellion is purely because stand: I am a football coach, they popular overseas club in South Lanka was banned for eight years in Manhattan and said the he himself has lost his first-team contracted me to be a coach. A Africa behind arch-rivals and for unethical behaviour. American had tried to buy prop- place to 19-year-old French cen- “He was an indisputable starter coach has responsibilities, among English champions Manchester Blazer and former CONCACAF erty in the Bahamas, in 2007, for tre-back Raphael Varane. and he no longer is. It is one of my them to choose who plays. United and Hogan said: “This visit president Jack Warner were about $4m using football funds. “It is very easy to analyse the few decisions that isn’t discussed “I don’t toss a coin to decide is part of our off-season activity described last month as being Blazer was described by Simmons Pepe thing. His problem has a in public because all my decisions who plays. I do it thinking, dis- and shows our commitment to “fraudulent in their management” as “entirely negligent” for failing name, and it is Raphael Varane,” are discussed in public. cussing, analysing, studying for bringing the club closer to our of the continental confederation’s to file income tax returns for Mourinho told a press conference “I perfectly understand the many hours my decisions, watch- fans all over the globe, no matter affairs by the head of its Integrity CONCACAF in the United States on Tuesday. frustration of Pepe that has ing games, trying to come to an how far away from Anfield they Committee. which led to the body losing its “It is not easy for a 31-year-old translated into the words that he agreement in my head. may live.” David Simmons presented tax-exempt status as a non-profit man with experience to be run has said. Things are very clear. I “I like Diego Lopez as a goal- The north-west club recently CONCACAF’s congress in organisation. Blazer stepped down over by a 19-year-old kid. And don’t have problems with him. I keeper more than Iker Casillas. I launched a special Twitter Panama with a detailed report as CONCACAF general secretary he is a fantastic kid. I have had understand that it is not an easy like a goalkeeper that plays well account for their South Africa into allegations of financial mis- in December 2011. He has previ- the courage to play a kid. The situation but I have to try to be with his feet, that dominates the supporters -- @SouthAfricaLFC. management by former president ously denied any wrongdoing. problem is simple, Pepe’s life has honest and I think that very few aerial space and is a phenomenon Liverpool last visited South Warner and ex-general secretary REUTERS changed. don’t believe that the future of in goal.” AFP Africa in May 1994. AFP WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 30 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Battaglin wins thriller; Wiggins loses ground The Italian cyclist claims maiden Giro stage victory

SERRA SAN BRUNO, Italy: Enrico Battaglin claimed his maiden Giro d’Italia stage yes- Ahmed Abdulaziz Al Buainain (left), Treasurer of QFA and Dr Nasser terday with fellow Italian Luca Abdullah Abdulghani, Managing Director of Abdullah Abdulghani & Bros Paolini retaining the leader’s Co. Toyota during a press conference yesterday. pink jersey and race favourite Bradley Wiggins losing time after an epic 246km of racing from Policastro to Serra San Bruno. Battaglin, who rides for the QFA, AAB sign deal Bardiani team, surged out of a small group of survivors from the day’s second and last climb to sprint to a well-earned victory to promote Emir Cup after nearly 6hr 15min of racing to the southernmost point of the DOHA: Abdullah Abdulghani be working together on new Giro’s 96th edition. & Bros (AAB), Co. yesterday projects and new ideas to show Minutes earlier, Danilo Di signed a sponsorship deal with the strength of this relationship. Luca, the Giro winner in 2007, the Qatar Football Association We know that the two parties are belied his 37 years to launch an (QFA) to promote the Emir committed to promoting football audacious attack towards the end Cup, the most popular football in every productive way.” of the final climb and race into tournament in the country. Abdulghani, the Managing the lead with young Colombian “We are proud to be collabo- Director of AAB, added: “We Robinson Chalapud on his wheel. rating with QFA which has suc- are delighted to cooperate with The pair came over the summit cessfully staged and continues to QFA once again this year and are with barely 20secs on the main organise this prestigious tour- pleased to build upon the exist- peloton but, despite Di Luca’s nament” Dr. Nasser Abdullah ing relationship which has been in efforts on the rain-hit finale, they Abdulghani, Managing Director place for years now. We are con- were agonisingly caught inside the of AAB, said. fident that this cooperation will final kilometre. AAB is the official partner of result in a successful tournament Katusha veteran Paolini, who Italian cyclist Enrico Battaglin of Bardiani wins the fourth stage of the 96th Giro d’Italia cycling race from Policastro the Emir Cup. Toyota and Lexus once again this year.” took the race lead with victory on Bussentino to San Serra Bruno, Italy, yesterday. are the official cars for the event, Khalid Al Kuwari, Director of stage three on Monday, was just officials said. Marketing and Communications behind and crossed the finish line “As part of our support for of QFA, said: “We are proud to in the company of overall victory leader Wiggins, however, lost time normally dictate that riders Former Tour of Spain winner the Emir Cup, AAB is supply- be partners with AAB. Both par- hopefuls Vincenzo Nibali, Cadel to his main rivals in the run-in. caught up in such incidents in Nibali (Astana) turned his 14sec ing a fleet of Lexus vehicles for ties are committed to supporting Evans and Ryder Hesjedal. Tour de France and Olympic the final three kilometres are not overnight deficit to Wiggins into the transportation of VIPs while the Emir Cup. This demonstrates “I’m glad to still have the pink champion Wiggins was held penalised. a 3sec lead, while both Hesjedal Toyota coaster buses will be used Toyota’s confidence in the activi- jersey but it was a tough day of up by a crash involving Italian However the race jury said and, notably, Evans, also claimed for the transportation of specta- ties of QFA for the last decade racing,” said Paolini. Cristian Salerno on the approach after the stage that Wiggins had back lost time. tors from the parking lots to the or so.” Main race favourite, Team Sky to the final kilometre. Race rules not been hindered by the crash, “Everything was good today match venues. AAB is confident He added: “We wish Toyota the thus attributing him with his and that’s a good indicator,” said that this will facilitate the spec- best of luck this season and look actual finishing time. Evans, who had a strong finish tators access to the stadiums,” forward to working with them Giro d’Italia Fourth Stage Results “The crash was inside three also on Monday, a day after losing Abdulghani said. again in the near future.” kilometres to go so hopefully they time in the team time-trial. Ahmed Al Buainain, Treasurer The Emir Cup final will be SERRA SAN BRUNO, Italy: Results from the Giro d’Italia fourth stage, a 246 km race from will recognise that,” Sky’s Sports “Most importantly, I got of QFA, said: “QFA is keen on played on May 18 at Khalifa Policastro to Serra San Bruno: director Marcus Ljungvist told through the stage without any developing the existing relation- International Stadium. Stage Teamsky.com. trouble or time loss.” ship with AAB/Toyota and will THE PENINSULA “It’s one of those things that Paolini now leads another Team 1. Enrico Battaglin (ITA/BAR) 6hr 14min 19sec, 2. Fabio Fellin (ITA/AND) same time, 3. happens in bike racing. It’s cer- Sky rider, Colombian Rigoberto Giovanni Visconti (ITA/MOV) s.t., 4. Rigoberto Uran (COL/SKY) s.t., 5. Arnold Jeannesson (FRA/ tainly not the end of the world.” Uran, by 17sec with Nibali at Sout Al Khaleej, QFA join hands FDJ) s.t., 6. Cadel Evans (AUS/BMC) s.t., 4. Rigoberto Uran (COL/SKY) s.t., 7. Benat Intxausti Wiggins began the race’s sec- 31sec, Hesjedal and Wiggins fifth (ESP/EUS) s.t., 8. Ryder Hesjedal (CAN/GRM) s.t., 9. Robert Kiserlovski (CRO/RSH) s.t., 10. ond-longest stage in second place and sixth respectively at 34sec Luca Paolini (ITA/KAT) s.t. overall at 17sec. and Evans sitting 10th at 42sec. But despite a dominant display Today’s fifth stage is held over General classification of riding by his Sky team on the 205 km from Cosenza to Matera . 12.8km climb to the Croce Ferrata Although today’s route is 1. Luca Paolini (ITA/KAT) 15hr 18min 51sec, 2. Rigoberto Uran (COL/SKY) at 17sec, 3. summit and, notably, the treach- mainly flat, it ends on an uphill Benat Intxausti (ESP/EUS) 26, 4. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/AST) 31, 5. Ryder Hesjedal (CAN/GRM) erous 7km descent to the finish, which will suit the ‘punchers’ and 34, 6. Bradley Wiggins (GBR/SKY) s.t., 7. Giampaolo Caruso (ITA/KAT) 36, 8. Sergio Henao (COL/ he lost time to his rivals, which other specialist climbers of the SKY) 37, 9. Mauro Santambrogio (ITA/VIN) 39, 10. Cadel Evans (AUS/BMC) 42 could prove costly. peloton. AFP Inam dazzles in Al Feroz’s final win

DOHA: Inam sealed his indi- vidual class on the Division A final with a stellar all-round performance and helped Al Feroz Youngsters Club win the Qatar Airways Cricket Tournament with a big 84-run defeat over Commercial Bank. Mohammed Al Marzooqi (left), General Manager of Sout Al Khaleej and Qatar Airways, one of the Saoud Al Mohannadi, General Secretary of Qatar Football Association world’s fastest growing airlines, (QFA) are seen during a press conference yesterday. Sout Al Khaleej is the sponsor of the cricket tour- radio station signed an agreement with QFA to become the Official nament, organised by the Qatar Radio Station of the Emir Cup football competition. The final will be Cricket Association. played on May 18 at Khalifa International Stadium. At the Industrial Area Stadium, Commercial Bank’s decision to field first looked justified when they skittled Al Feroz out for a Gerrard out for season, modest 208 in 47 overs. However, Man-of-Match, Inam had other intentions. He ripped through the batting of the bank to miss Brazil friendly team and scalped five players to engineer the big triumph after LIVERPOOL: Liverpool and discomfort during the goalless the rivals folded at 124 in 39 overs. England captain Steven Gerrard draw at Anfield on Sunday. Faisal (27), Rusharat Ali (24) (pictured) is to have an However, he still and Umer Taj (20) could resist Al Feroz Youngsters captain receives the trophy from Venkatapathi Raju (third left), QCA General-Secretary operation on his left stayed on the field for the Al Feroz bowlers and pushed Manzoor Ahmad (second left) and Qatar Airways Sales Manager Ali Akbar Farabi (second right), in Industrial shoulder which will the full 90 minutes. the score past 100-mark. Area, recently. rule him out of the rest But given Liverpool, Apart from Inam’s impres- of the season, it was after another disap- sive five-wicket haul, Nadeem, announced yesterday. pointing campaign, have Haroon, Mohammed Boota and were the Guests of Honour at the teams and gathering, congrat- partnership for many more years The operation means little left to play in their Khurram picked a wicket each. closing ceremony and gave away ulated both the finalists and to come.” midfielder Gerrard will final two league matches Earlier, Inam laid the base the trophies and prizes. thanked the QCA for putting up Manzoor Ahmad, on behalf of also miss England’s against Fulham and for his team’s 208, hammering a Also present on the occasion a fine closing ceremony. the QCA President MA Shahid, friendly internationals QPR, Anfield chiefs match-high 67. were QCA Secretary-General He said: “I extend my heartiest thanked Qatar Airways, its CEO against the Republic of have decided now is the Boota hit 28, Khurram got 26 Mr Manzoor Ahmad, Malik congratulations to the winners for Mr Akbar Al Baker, Farabi Ireland at Wembley on best time for star man and Faisal notched 21. Zaheer was Nazar (Technical Advisor), their brilliant performance. I feel and ACC Development Officer May 29 and 2014 World Gerrard, 33 later this the pick of the bowlers, getting Gul Mohammad Khan Jadoon the finalists also tried their best Venkatapathi Raju. Cup hosts Brazil on June 2. month, to go under the knife. three wickets. (Head of Domestic Cricket), but their efforts fell a bit short.” He said: “Qatar Airways has Gerrard will undergo sur- “Liverpool have confirmed Parvez Khan grabbed two, Mohammad Akram (PRO), He added after the final match: been a big supporter of the sport gery later this week and is due Steven Gerrard will undergo while Sardar and Sajjad shared Amjad Baig (Coach), Amin Ul “I want to express my gratitude in Qatar and helps us host the to return in time for Liverpool’s surgery on a recurrent shoul- other two. Islam (Members of School Boys to the QCA for continuing their biggest cricket event each year. pre-season programme. der problem this week,” said a Mr Ali Akbar Farabi, Sales Cricket), Hassan Raza (Joint efforts to develop the sport. At We’re grateful to them for their Gerrard has played with Liverpool statement. Manager of Qatar Airways, Secretary), Ch.Mukhtar Ahmad the Qatar Airways, we’re very continuous backing and we also the shoulder injury for several “The captain’s injury has pro- and former Indian Test player (Senior Coach). delighted to be associated with hope to have a longer and stronger months but following an early gressively worsened in recent Venkatapathi Raju, who is now Nawas (Umpire Co-ordinator) the growth of cricket in Qatar. association with Qatar Airways.” collision with Everton mid- weeks and requires an operation the ACC Development Officer, Farabi, while addressing the Hopefully, we’ll continue our THE PENINSULA fielder Leon Osman was in clear to cure it.” AFP WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 31 Barshim brothers out to impress Qatari siblings will be competing in high jump at Doha Diamond League on May 10

DOHA: The world of athlet- ics has witnessed many sports families succeeding on the field of play in the past, but it is quite rare to meet two brothers com- peting in the same discipline and in the same competition simultaneously. For Barshim brothers Mutaz and Muamer, their joint entry at the inaugural event of the 2013 Diamond League meeting in Doha on May 10, will be their first at a major international event. The young Qataris have been together at one-day local or regional competitions before, but never in an event with such worldwide coverage. Athletics aficionados surely remember two more pairs of brothers who competed in High Jump internationally. Now retired Czech Jan Janku was a twice-European Indoor Championships finalist, with a fourth-place in the 1998’s edi- tion being his top achievement; his brother Tomáš was even more successful with 2008 Olympic and 2007 World finals, a European outdoors silver medal and a 1998 European Indoors bronze medal to his tally. Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim (left) and his brother Muamer Barshim pose for a picture during the 14th GCC Italy’s twin brothers Giulio a Athletics Championships at Khalifa Stadium in Doha in this file picture of April 11, 2013. The Barshim brothers 2006 World Indoor finalist and will be competing in the inaugural event of the 2013 Diamond League meeting in Doha on May 10. RIGHT: Nicola Ciotti, 5th at the 2005 Mutaz reacts during a competition in this file picture. World Outdoor Championships are still active at age 36. 22-year-old Mutaz has already Muamer emerged on the world trailed with 2.16, falling just four the Bahamas; 2011 World silver established himself as one of scene only recently. He was centimetres short of his 2.20 per- medalist Aleksey Dmitrik, former today’s high jump greats. He crowned Asian Junior Champion sonal best set at the Doha 2012 European Champion Aleksandr seized many regional, area and last year and took part in the Diamond League. Shustov and reigning European global medals and in 2012 he cap- World Junior Championships in The Barshim brothers are confi- Indoor Champion Sergey Mudrov, tured the Olympic bronze medal Barcelona. dent ahead of the 2013 season and all coming from traditionally in London. One month ago the Barshim duo they are looking for a flying start strong high jump powerhouse With a personal best of 2.39, he met at the GCC Championships in Doha, although the competition Russia, will definitely play a lead- topped last year’s world list and in Doha and registered their first will be harsh against rivals like ing role in the competition and continued with an impressive 2.37 one-two finish. Britain’s Olympic bronze medalist will threaten Jesse Williams and world-leading leap at the 2013 Mutaz comfortably jumped Robbie Grabarz and 2007 World Kyriakos Ioannou’s 2.33 meeting indoor season. 2.25 while 19-year-old Muamer Champion Donald Thomas from record. THE PENINSULA

Guilty plea in Wagner Ryder assault T20 is all about shifting gears: Pujara MOHALI: Royal Challengers in the tournament. He trained presses Test case Bangalore’s new opening bats- hard at the National Cricket man Cheteshwar Pujara feels Academy (NCA) in Bangalore. case in New Twenty20 is not all about com- “I was working hard at the WELLINGTON: A New ing out with innovative shots National Cricket Academy (NCA) Zealand man has pleaded guilty but shifting gears at the right for my recovery, and I even Zealand win to assaulting cricketer Jesse moment. worked on my batting and field- Ryder during an altercation “I think ultimately the basic ing. It is paying off now. So, I am LONDON: Neil Wagner staked outside a bar in the South Island technique has to be there even really happy about it.” Pujara said his claim for a place in New city of Christchurch last month, when you want to accelerate. But opening with a hard-hitter like Zealand’s Test side against reports said yesterday. I think it is about shifting gears Chris Gayle, who struck 61, took England next week with a five- The 20-year-old, whose name Cheteshwar at the right moment, and I was the pressure off him. wicket return as the tourists was suppressed, was convicted Pujara of able to do it (against Kings XI),” “As an opener, I feel really com- beat Derbyshire by 107 runs on after pleading guilty to one charge Royal Pujara told IPLT20.com. fortable because of the way he hits the third and final day of their of assault and will reappear in the Challengers Playing his first match of the the ball. I don’t have to be under opening warm-up match at Christchurch District Court on Bangalore season, Pujara, who was com- pressure of scoring quick runs. Derby yesterday. June 5, the Christchurch Press plays a shot ing out of a knee injury, struck And even seeing him from the The 27-year-old left-arm reported. during an an impressive 51 but it went in non-striker’s end, the way he is seamer, who troubled England’s It said a second man, 37, the IPL match vain as Kings XI stole away with hitting the ball... it is incredible. batsmen during the recent drawn convicted man’s uncle, elected to against Kings an unlikely six-wicket win after “I can play my natural game. series in New Zealand, took five contest charges of assaulting and XI Punjab David Miller hit an unbeaten I can take more time than what for 45 in 18 overs. injuring Ryder and planned to 38-ball 101. is expected in Twenty20 to settle However, the South Africa- on Monday take the case to trial. Pujara said he was shaky while down and then start playing my born seamer was spoken to by at Punjab His lawyer, Jonathan Eaton, batting in his first Indian Premier shots. Basically, it gives you extra umpire Nigel Cowley for hitting said the dispute erupted after Cricket League (IPL) match of the season luxury to have batsmen like these opener Billy Godleman in trying Ryder had a drink with the men. Association but once he settled down he felt in the side. The kind of batsmen to throw down the stumps at the “It was all over in seconds, Stadium, confident. they are, they can win a game batsman’s end and only apologis- where it is alleged there was one Mohali. “It is a great feeling to get a from any situation,” he said. ing belatedly. kick at the shoulder... a breaking half-century. I was a bit shaky at Pujara was happy with the way Derbyshire, chasing a total of up of that incident and then my the starting of the innings. But his mentor Rahul Dravid, who 335 were bowled out for 227 after client then alleged to have deliv- once I settled down, I could play leads Rajasthan Royals, has been tea, ered a single punch which caused my natural shots. My basic tech- performing in the league. Wagner, who appears to be Mr. Ryder to fall to the ground. nique is the same and it is just “I have been following Rahul competing with Doug Bracewell He hit his head, causing a severe about making little adjustments Dravid since my childhood and for a place in the New Zealand concussion,” he said. in the game,” he added. he is one of the batsmen I look side that will play England in next He swallowed vomit, which is Pujara was back to the ground up to. So, the way he is batting at week’s first Test at Lord’s, found the reason he had lung issues dur- after a break of a month as he the moment and even in the past, himself being spoken to by umpire ing the course of his treatment,” suffered from knee injury earlier it is always inspiring.” IANS Cowley, a former Hampshire off- he added. AFP spinner, after hurling the ball at Godleman’s end when there Leg spinner Pravin Tambe of seemed little chance of a run-out. Rajasthan Royals who made his Cowley also had a word with Zimbabwe look for rare IPL debut in yesterday’s match acting captain Kane Williamson. against Delhi Darerdevils at the But in his next over Wagner Sawai Mansingh Stadium in produced a full length ball to have Jaipur. The 41-year-old is the old- Godleman plumb lbw for 25. series win in ODI decider est-ever to make his debut in IPL. Wagner finished the match when he had Dan Redfern caught BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe: However Zimbabwe have captain Brendan Taylor said. behind to set the tourists up nicely Zimbabwe and Bangladesh go enjoyed the benefit of bowl- “Some of their big players have for their match this week against into today’s third and final one- ing first in both matches so not fired so that’s a concern for the second-string England Lions day international in Bulawayo far, with early morning starts us. at Leicester. Meanwhile, England locked at one match apiece, yet giving their seam bowlers an “However if we can bowl well will play a two-day match against it is the hosts who know they advantage against Bangladesh’s like we have been bowling up a Chairman’s XI in Alice Springs will need to improve their game strong top order - none of front it’s always going to be tough between the first and second tests if they are to claim a rare series whom have registered telling to score. Hopefully we can execute on their Ashes tour of Australia victory. scores as a result. our skills better and get over the later this year, Cricket Australia After being humiliated by Tamim Iqbal, Mohammad line.” announced yesterday. 121 runs in the first match last Ashraful, Mushfiqur Rahim and Having shared the two- The match, originally sched- week, Zimbabwe drew level Shakib Al Hasan remain some of Test series 1-1, both sides will uled for Canberra, will take place with a six-wicket victory on the most dangerous batsmen on see Wednesday’s match as an on Nov. 29-30 with the England Sunday, preventing Bangladesh either side, yet none have passed opportunity to confirm a modi- team travelling to and from the from extending their unbeaten 34 in the series thus far. cum of superiority ahead of two Northern Territories by spe- run in bilateral one-day series “They are always a side that Twenty20 internationals at the cially arranged direct flights. to three. is very threatening,” Zimbabwe weekend. AFP AGENCIES Wednesday 8 May 2013 28 Jumada II 1434 Volume 18 Number 5693 Sport Price: QR2

SRI LANKA’S WEEKLY RAJDHANI - LARGEST SELLING NEPALI NEWS UPDATES Ginobili’s late Barshim WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN QATAR PUBLISHED EVERY winner lifts brothers out to WEDNESDAY BY LANKADEEPA MIDDLE EAST WEEKLY LANKADEEPA WEEKLY DAR AL SHARQ Spurs impress AVAILABLE AT ALL LEADING BOOK STORES / SUPERMARKETS IN QATAR PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY DAR AL SHARQ FOR ADVERTISEMENTS CONTACT: AVAILABLE AT ALL THE LEADING BOOK STORES / SUPERMARKETS IN QATAR TEL: 4465 0600 EMAIL: [email protected] Sport | 27 Sport | 31 FOR ADVERTISEMENTS CONTACT: TEL: 4465 0600 EMAIL: [email protected]

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Emir Cup Federer, Serena enter quarter-finals action today

DOHA: Qatar Stars League (QSL) winners Al Sadd will take on Umm Salal in the quar- third round in Madrid ter-finals of the Emir Cup at Al Arabi Stadium today. In the other quarter-final Murray battles past Mayer; Tipsarevic loses to Monaco matches today, Al Gharafa take on Lekhwiya, at 7.45pm at Al Arabi Stadium, while Al Khor MADRID: Roger Federer at times by World No.26 Florian face Al Rayyan at 5.15pm at Al made a winning return after a Mayer, before coming through in QSL to have Sadd Stadium. two-month absence from the two tie-breaks. Qatar Sports Club clash with court as he cruised to a 6-3, 6-3 Mayer was made to rue numer- Swiss Eljaish at Al Sadd Stadium with win over Radek Stepanek to ous opportunities to have taken player 14 teams the match kicking off at 7.45pm. move into the third round of the the first set as he passed up five Roger With the season winding to a Madrid Open yesterday. set points in the tie-break before Federer close with the Emir Cup, foot- A solitary break in the fourth world No.3 Murray made sure returns from next ball fans are bracing for the final game was enough for the Swiss with a crosscourt forehand on the ball event of the season. The Emir world No.2 to take the first-set his second set-point. The German to Czech season Cup has the flavour of a foot- 6-3. surged ahead at the start of the player ball festival, with the event tro- And he looked set to storm second set and led 4-1 before Radek phy making rounds of the city’s through the second as he served Murray broke back for the first Stepanek DOHA: The Qatar Stars major landmarks, schools, offices for the match with a double break time in the match at 4-2 to force dur- League (QSL) will expand from and various organisations. The at 5-2 in the second. the game into a second tie-break. ing their 12 teams to 14 teams for next country’s top teams play in the However, Stepanek then And the Briton was far more match at season, it emerged yesterday. event. Meanwhile, QSL have showed some resistance to break dominant at the second time In an announcement from announced all ticket sales from the Madrid the record 17-time Grand Slam of asking as he began to read Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin the Heir Apparent Cup final will Masters at champion for the only time in the Mayer’s serve to good effect and Ahmed Al Thani (pictured), go to helping those affected by the match. wrapped up the tie-break 7-3 to the Caja CEO of the QSL and President humanitarian tragedy in Syria. The Czech’s fightback didn’t move into round three, where he Magica of the Qatar Football Association With the help of the Qatar last long though as Federer broke will meet France’s Gilles Simon. Sports (QFA), the plans for expansion Charitable Society, it has been again in the very next game to Earlier, Serbian World No.9 Complex were revealed late on Monday decided the proceeds will be used seal a third round tie against Janko Tipsarevic became the in Madrid, night. to help the people affected by the either Japan’s Kei Nishikori or first seed in the men’s event to yesterday. The decision to increase the difficulties face by the people of Viktor Troicki of Serbia. fall yesterday as he was beaten by numbers of teams means Al Syria since 2001, a news report on Andy Murray also claimed a clay court specialist Juan Monaco Sailiya - who finished bottom of the QSL website said. The final victory but was made to struggle 7-5, 6-3. And eighth seed Richard the league - will avoid relegation, was won by Lekhwiya after they a news report posted on QSL defeated Al Sadd 3-2 on Saturday. Madrid Open Gasquet also suffered an early brighter as she broke Dominguez website said. Such a gesture is not unique for MADRID: Results from the fourth day of the ATP and WTA Madrid Open (x denotes seeding): exit as the Frenchman was beaten Lino straight away on her way to Meanwhile, Muaither - who a sporting organisation in Qatar, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 by Spaniard Daniel winning the first set 6-2. lost to Al Arabi in the play-offs - with the profits from major events Women’s singles Second Round Gimeno-Traver. The second set started in a will join as the 14th team. in the past donated to causes and Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP) 6-2, 7-5; Marion Bartoli (FRA x14) World No.15 Stanislas similar vein as Williams seized The Second Division and the stricken people close to the hearts bt Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor (ESP) 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) bt Kirsten Flipkens Wawrinka, however, continued a 2-0 lead, but Dominguez Lino reserve league will also merge to of the people of Qatar. (BEL) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4; Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) bt Madison Keys (USA) 7-6(7/3), 6-3; his fine form after winning the fought back bravely to level mat- create a stronger second tier. THE PENINSULA Sabine Lisicki (GER) bt Dominika Cibulkova (SVK x15) 7-6(7/4), 7-6(7/3) Portugal Open last week with ters at 2-2 before the next seven Al Sadd, Lekhwiya, Al Rayyan, Men’s singles First Round a comfortable 6-4, 6-4 win over games went with serve. Al Gharafa are the top four sides Emir Cup Juan Monaco (ARG) bt Janko Tipsarevic (SRB x9) 7-6 (7/5) 6-3; Benoit Paire (FRA) bt Joao Romanian qualifier Marius Copil. However, the World No.47 in QSL. Today’s matches (quarter-finals) In the women’s event World finally crumbled when serving Teams like Al Arabi, Al Ahil, Souza (BRA) 6-1, 7-6 (7/0); Santiago Giraldo (COL) bt Martin Klizan (SVK) 6-2, 6-4; Mikhail Umm Salal vs Al Sadd, Youzhny (RUS) bt Fabio Fognini (ITA) 7-6(7/4), 2-6, 7-6(7/5); Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x15) bt No.1 Serena Williams eased into to stay in the match at 5-6 as Al Kharaitiyat, Umm Salal, Al at 5.15pm at Al Arabi Stadium the third round with a 6-2, 7-5 win Williams broke to love to seal Wakrah, Qatar SC, Al Khor and Marius Copil (ROM) 6-4, 6-4; Tommy Haas (GER x13) bt Andreas Seppi (ITA) 6-1, 6-2; Victor Al Gharafa vs Lekhwiya, over Spain’s Lourdes Dominguez victory. French 14th seed Marion Al Sailiyah complete the 12-team Troicki (SRB) bt Marcel Granollers (ESP) 7-5, 4-6, 6-2; Tommy Robredo (ESP) bt Marcos at 7.45pm at Al Arabi Stadium Baghdatis (CYP) 6-4, 6-2 Lino. Bartoli overcame a twisted ankle tier last season. Al Sadd won the The American had strug- during the second set of her QSL title last month to dethrone Al Khor vs Al Rayyan, 5.15pm Second Round gled early on in her first-round match against Spaniard Maria- two-times champions Lekhwiya, at Al Sadd Stadium Roger Federer (SUI x2) bt Radek Stepanek (CZE) 6-3, 6-3; D Gimeno-Traver (ESP) bt Richard match against Kazak qualifier Teresa Torro-Flor to progress winners in the 2010-11 and 2011- Qatar SC vs Eljaish, 7.45pm Gasquet (FRA x8) 7-5, 3-6, 6-4; Gilles Simon (FRA x16) bt Jeremy Chardy (FRA) 6-4, 7-6(7/5) Yulia Puntitseva, but began much 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. AFP 12 seasons. THE PENINSULA at Al Sadd Stadium IPL: Rajasthan Royals brighten play-off chances

Rajasthan JAIPUR: Rajasthan Royals They were never in a hurry and Jaywardene (34) was the only all two points and moved within Royals team- strengthened their play-off played some good cricketing shots notable scorer amidst the top- just two points of league leaders mates Ajinkya chances with a dominating and the runs flowed freely. order collapsed again. Chennai Super Kings, who are on Rahane (left) nine-wicket win over season’s Dravid got to his fifty in the Meanwhile, Mumbai Indians 18 points. and Rahul favourite whipping boys Delhi 13th over with an edge that also moved to second place, all but Harbhajan Singh produced Dravid cel- Daredevils by nine wickets in brought up the 100-run stand for ending Kolkata Knight Riders’ his best performance this sea- ebrate the the Indian Premier League the first wicket. Dravid hit seven dreams of qualifying for the play- son picking up three wickets century stand (IPL) at the Sawai Mansingh fours in his 48-ball innings and offs, after an emphatic 65-run while Pragyan Ojha and Mitchell against Delhi Stadium here yesterday. with the team needing another 47 win at the Wankhede Stadium in Johnson chipping in with two Daredevils dur- Skipper Rahul Dravid (53) runs to win, the skipper departed. Mumbai yesterday. apiece. and Ajinkya Rahane (63 not out) Rahane, who struck five fours Mumbai bowled out the Knight Johnson again made the early ing their IPL gave the hosts a great start with a and a six in his 45-ball innings, Riders for a meagre total of 105 in inroads for Mumbai, castling match at the 108-run stand to allow Rajasthan and Shane Watson (28 not out) 18.2 overs after electing to bat and Gautam Gambhir (0) in the Sawai Mansingh Royals achieve the target of 155 carried the team home safely with scoring 170 for six. They collected fourth ball of the chase. IANS Stadium with ease -- losing a single wicket their unfinished 47-run stand in in Jaipur and with 13 balls to spare. just 17 balls. Scoreboard yesterday. It was another pathetic per- Daredevils bowlers were erratic formance by the Daredevils, who and bowled too many loose deliv- MUMBAI INDIANS M S Bisla st Karthik b Ojha ...... 17 suffered a batting order collapse eries. Morne Morek went for 40 D R Smith c McLaren b I Abdulla ...... 47 G Gambhir b Johnson ...... 0 Scoreboard at 78/4 and it was a valiant 40-ball runs from his four overs while S R Tendulkar b Bhatia ...... 48 J H Kallis c Ahmed b H Singh ...... 24 64 by Ben Rohrer that helped Ajit Agarkar gave 22 for his two. K D Karthik (not out) ...... 34 Y K Pathan b Ojha ...... 13 DELHI DAREDEVILS 4-0-21-1. them get a respectable 154 for Rohrer failed to translate his suc- R G Sharma c Morgan b McLaren ...... 16 E J G Morgan c Sharma b Ahmed ...... 5 D P M D Jayawardene c Dravid b Trivedi .....34 RAJASTHAN ROYALS four in 20 overs cess with the bat into his bowling K A Pollard c Narine b McLaren ...... 4 D B Das c&b H Singh ...... 23 V Sehwag b Faulkner ...... 11 R Dravid c Agarkar b Kaul ...... 53 With their seventh consecu- as he conceeded 12 runs from the A T Rayudu (run out-Balaji/Bisla) ...... 0 R McLaren (run out-Sharma/Karthik) ...... 1 C M Gautam c Samson b Watson ...... 2 A M Rahane (not out)...... 63 tive home win, Rajasthan main- only over he bowled. Harbhajan Singh (run out-Pathan) ...... 0 R Bhatia c Malinga b H Singh ...... 4 D A Warner c Sachin Baby b Binny ...... 13 S R Watson (not out) ...... 28 tained their unbeaten record at The only one to get some respect M G Johnson (not out) ...... 10 Iqbal Abdulla (not out)...... 6 B J Rohrer (not out) ...... 64 Extras (B-1, LB-1, W-9) ...... 11 the Sawai Mansingh Stadium. was young pacer Siddharth Kaul, Extras (LB-1, W-10) ...... 11 S P Narine c Karthik b Johnson ...... 3 K M Jadhav (not out) ...... 23 Total (for 1 wkt in 17.5 overs) ...... 155 They moved to the second spot who opened with a sensational Total (for 6 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 170 L Balaji b Malinga ...... 0 Extras (LB-2, W-5) ...... 7 Did not bat: S V Samson†, S T R Binny, B J with 16 points from 12 matches first over maiden and also picked Did not bat: S L Malinga, P P Ojha, A N Ahmed. Extras (LB-9) ...... 9 Total (for 4 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 154 Hodge, Sachin Baby, J P Faulkner, S K Trivedi, P while Daredevils remained at the up the only wicket of Dravid, Fall of wickets: 1-93, 2-99, 3-130, 4-134, Total (all out in 18.2 overs) ...... 105 Did not bat: A B Agarkar, M Morkel, U T Yadav, Tambe, S W Tait. eight place with their ninth loss whose pull was well taken by Ajit 5-135, 6-144. Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-38, 3-54, 4-58, 5-77, P Negi, S Kaul. Fall of wicket: 1-108. this season. Agarkar at long-on. Bowling: L Balaji 3-1-7-0 (2w); R McLaren 6-89, 7-89, 8-97, 9-104, 10-105. Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-22, 3-47, 4-78. Bowling: S Kaul 3.5-1-23-1; U T Yadav 3-0- Unlike Daredevils, who suffered Opting to bat first, Daredevils 4-0-60-2 (2w); S P Narine 4-0-29-0 (1w); J H Bowling: M G Johnson 4-0-13-2; A N Ahmed Bowling: S W Tait 3-0-39-0 (4w); J P Faulkner 28-0 (2w); M Morkel 4-0-40-0; A B Agarkar a disastrous start, Rajasthan lost Virender Sehwag (11) early Kallis 3-0-21-0 (1w); Iqbal Abdulla 4-0-30-1; R 3-0-18-1; P P Ojha 4-0-23-2; S L Malinga 3.2- 4-0-38-1 (1w); S R Watson 3-0-21-1; S T R 2-0-22-0; P Negi 4-0-28-0 (2w); B J Rohrer Royals got off to a steady start in the second over only to trigger Bhatia 2-0-22-1. 0-15-1; Harbhajan Singh 4-0-27-3. Binny 2-0-3-1; P Tambe 4-0-30-0; S K Trivedi 1-0-12-0 (1w). as Dravid and Rahane went on a batting collapse and they were KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS Player-of-the-Match: SR Tendulkar (MI) scoring runs in a clinical fashion. soon left at 3/47. Skipper Mahela