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FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 • 22 Jumada I 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6368 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 GCC states can defend Emir meets Erdogan in Ankara their borders, says FM Yemen national dialogue open to Houthis: Dr Al Attiyah DOHA: Foreign Minister conference is to reiterate H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Yemen’s legitimacy, reject the Al Attiyah said yesterday coup and restore the power of that the GCC states are the state on the Yemeni soil. quite capable of defending These aims were outlined themselves against foreign in a communication Hadi threat. addressed to the Custodian of The GCC states have the Two Holy Mosques King “undisclosed measures” Salam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud through which they can pro- of Saudi Arabia. tect their borders and sover- The aims include ensur- eignty, said Al Attiyah, reports ing security and stability in Aljazeera.net. Yemen and its legitimacy, and He was replying to ques- rejection of the coup, and to tions at a news conference he not deal with the Houthis’ and GCC Secretary-General constitutional declaration and Dr Abdullateef Al Zayani held rejection of its (constitution’s) after a meeting of GCC foreign legitimacy. The Houthis must ministers in Riyadh. return the weapons and mili- Asked about military tary equipment to the state Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Presidential manoeuvres Shia Houthis in and the state must control Palace in Ankara yesterday. Talks dealt with regional and international developments, cooperation between Yemen were doing on Yemen- the Yemeni land, said Hadi, the two countries and means of enhancing it to serve common interests. The Emir arrived in Turkey on a short Saudi border, Dr Al Attiyah describing the aims of the working visit. reiterated: “The GCC states proposed Riyadh conference, are quite capable of defend- according to Aljazeera.net ing their borders.” Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Earlier, the GCC for- The Council of GCC foreign Attiyah addressing the meeting. eign ministers affirmed the ministers stands in support commitment of the bloc to Families ‘can help reduce road mishaps’ of the legitimacy of Yemen Al Attiyah said that the Houthis ensure security and stabil- as represented by President had been invited to take part in ity in Yemen and the legitimacy DOHA: Families can play a “Ignorance is not an excuse.” QU’s traffic safety campaign on Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi, he said. the Yemeni reconciliation “because of Hadi and completion of the key role in bringing down the He said collecting money is not and called on all sections of com- Emerging from the meeting of they are one of the components of political process in accordance number of traffic violations and the real objective behind penalis- munity to spread the message of foreign ministers he chaired, Dr Yemen”. with the GCC initiative and out- road mishaps in Qatar, Brigadier ing traffic violators. The aim is traffic safety, especially among Al Attiyah said he calls upon all Al Zayani said a conference on come of the national dialogue and Mohamed Saad Al Kharji, to make sure everyone is strictly school and university students. political parties in Yemen to hold Yemen would be held in Riyadh, UN Security Council’s resolutions, Director, Traffic Department, adhering to the law and to make Maha Thyseer, a QU faculty, national interest above their own though he didn’t specify any reports Qatar News Agency. The and Vice-Chairman, National the country traffic accident-free. said: “There are 18,000 stu- and stick to the outcome of the timeframe. He clarified that the GCC Foreign Ministers Council Committee for Traffic Safety, “Cancellations of fines are done dents and employees in Qatar national dialogue and the GCC conference will be different from lauded and supported the deci- has said. only on humanitarian ground,” University. Majority of them initiative, which emphasises the the one that would be held for sion of King Salman and other He said senior members of the he told a symposium on ‘Traffic belongs to young age group. It significance of participation of all national dialogue. The conference GCC leaders to hold a conference family should repeatedly alert safety’ at Qatar University (QU). is important to alert them over parties in the national reconcilia- (for national dialogue) will be held on Yemen in Riyadh under the young members over speeding Lt.-Col. Mohammed Radi the dangers of over-speeding and tion process in a balanced and fair under the supervision of the UN umbrella of the GCC Secretariat- and violating traffic rules. Of 2,245 Al Hajri, Director, Media and using mobile phones and sending manner. envoy in Yemen, Jamal bin Umer. General as urged by Hadi. road mishaps in Qatar last year, Awareness, Traffic Department, texts while driving”. According to Aljazeera.net, Dr The aim of the Riyadh THE PENINSULA young Qataris were involved in 45. stressed the need for supporting THE PENINSULA

QR200,000 blood money ordered over African expatriates miss native food in Qatar negligence death BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB Members of some African communities African communities whose population in could have meant some solace. are urging the government to allow the Qatar could roughly be 20,000 or a little About her lifestyle in Qatar, she DOHA: Finding him guilty DOHA: Not able to relish food items import of at least some of their popular more. humoured: “My life in Qatar is confined of negligence that led to a col- from their home countries due to their food items not available in the local market. “Things aren’t the same for us here in to work, children, sleep, rice and potato. league’s death, a criminal court non-availability here, many African Enquiries with some leading hypermar- many respect compared to the lifestyle “Once I tried some Filipino food, for a has asked a construction worker expatriates say life isn’t the same for kets and food outlets confirm that most enjoyed by members of other communities change, but didn’t relish and switched back to pay a fine of QR5,000 and them as for those from Asia and Europe of popular African food items such as red from Asia and Europe. I believe they feel to rice and potato, the only food items many pool in cash for blood money of who have easy access to native food. palm oil, Gari, Cassava, Egushie (melon more homely in Qatar than many of us,” of us from across the continents, probably, QR200,000 payable by his insur- Many Africans this reporter spoke to seed), Yam, Podo (powdered Yam), Banga, laments Filas. have in common.” ance company to the deceased’s said, albeit in a lighter vein, they envy (Palm Kanea) and Ogbolor, to name a few, Based here for over nine years, Filas A senior official at a leading shopping family. Asians and Europeans who can enjoy their are not available in Qatar. said it’s not only about food and beverages. outlet, on the condition of anonymity, said: The tragedy occurred in Old cuisines “while we can’t”. “Like every other Though these items are consumed by “There are many things we miss being here, “There is high demand for African food Airport Area on July 2, 2013. community we also wish we could buy our most in the West African communities, for instance, our culture, arts, education items such as Yam, red palm oil, Cassava The convict was charged with favourite foodstuff in Qatar,” said Mercy they are more popular among Nigerians, and entertainment.” and others. Continued on page 3 causing the death of the driver Filas, a Nigerian woman. Ghanaians, Ugandans and several other But, maybe, a taste of African cuisine THE PENINSULA of a concrete mixing vehicle in an accident. He switched off the machine without alerting the driver and the huge iron Ferguson shootings container, filled with concrete mixture, hit him, leading to his Assad must go, asserts US instant death. The court delivered the verdict WASHINGTON: The US yesterday renewed its call for Syrian in absentia of the convict. President Bashar Al Assad to step down, marking the fourth anni- versary of the civil war by paying tribute to “the brave Syrians” False fire alarm fighting tyranny. “For four years the Assad regime has answered Syrians’ calls for creates panic freedom and reform with unrelenting brutality, authoritarianism and destruction,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters. at Villaggio “As we have long said, Assad must go and be replaced through a nego- tiated, political transition that is representative of the Syrian people.” DOHA: A fire alarm went off Without the departure of Assad, it would not be possible “to fully at Villaggio yesterday, causing stabilise” the country, Psaki said. “On this sombre occasion, we are panic among people as the mall reminded of all those who suffered and of the brave Syrians who stand was crowded. up to tyranny and continue to struggle for a future of respect for basic The Civil Defence said it was rights, tolerance and prosperity.” The US led efforts to convene peace a false alarm which went off by talks in Geneva last year but talks collapsed after two rounds and no mistake at an outlet. fresh negotiations have been scheduled. The Civil Defence said on its The State Department will today host a meeting of the Syrian Twitter account late last evening diaspora and opposition leaders, including former prime minister of that its officials were checking the interim government Ghassan Hitto. fire safety and security measures The US special envoy to Syria, Daniel Rubinstein, said in a post on at the mall. To recall, some 19 the US embassy’s Facebook page: “Assad’s desperation to cling to power people, many of them children, A St. Louis County investigative team canvasses the neighbourhood near the Ferguson Police Department through daily terror reminds us all that he has long lost legitimacy died in an illegal nursery follow- in Ferguson, Missouri, yesterday. They asked residents if they had any information about the shooting of two and he must give way for a real political transition. Let us recognise ing a massive fire in the mall on police officers. The SWAT team broke into four teams of three to do the grid search. Report on page 9 that the courageous Syrian people — and neither a dictator nor foreign May 28, 2012. THE PENINSULA fighters — must determine their future.” AFP FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

PM meets US Congressmen QRC promoting GCC states charity work DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) is promoting volunteer- ism and charitable work at the slam Swedish 31st GCC Traffic Week at Darb Al Saai. A special QRC corner was set up to receive visitors of different FM’s remarks ages in which volunteers encour- age the public, particularly the youth, to volunteer with QRC in its humanitarian and social Bloc hopes for good Iran talks result projects for Qatari society. They are also encouraged to join its vol- DOHA: Foreign Ministers of Mohammad (PBUH), stressing unteer training and qualification the GCC states yesterday con- that they offended the feelings of courses for the Sixth Disaster demned the Swedish foreign all Muslims and were a blatant Management Camp to be held minister’s accusations against expression of hate and a form of Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met members of the from March 31 to April 9 at the Saudi Arabia regarding human racial discrimination. US House of Representatives Dana Rohrabacher and Reid Ribble yesterday. Their talks dealt with cooperation Al Khor Marine Scout Camp. rights, saying they were con- The Council stressed its rejec- between the two countries and ways of promoting them, besides issues of mutual concern. QRC medical teams are present trary to international norms and tion of false accusations against throughout the event, with doc- conventions and an unaccept- some GCC countries of support- tors informing the public about able interference in the internal ing terrorism, reaffirming the QRC and its humanitarian mis- affairs of the Kingdom. GCC stance renouncing terror- sion; giving advice and training Saudi Arabia has recalled ism and extremism in all its forms on how to carry out first aid and its ambassador to Sweden in and manifestations, whatever its HMC organises career fair cardiopulmonary resuscitation response to criticism of its human motives and justifications and (CPR); distributing publications rights record by Swedish Foreign whatever its source, and drying DOHA: Hamad Medical exhibition was to provide students Company, and various voluntary about ebola, coronavirus, heat Minister Margot Wallstroem. up the sources of terrorist funding. Corporation’s (HMC) Health and parents with an opportunity organisations such as Bedaya exhaustion, hypertension, diabe- The Ministerial Council of the The Council stressed the GCC’s Professions Awareness and to engage in discussions with Center, Qatar Cultural and Social tes and road safety; distributing Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) commitment to fighting the ide- Volunteering Programmes HMC staff from various special- Center for the Blind, Social gifts to visitors, particularly chil- member states held the 134th ology feeding terrorist groups, recently organised the Fifth ties to obtain appropriate infor- Development Center, Sheikh dren; and showing them QRC’s session of GCC foreign minis- stressing Islam was innocent of it. Career Fair for high school stu- mation and advice about the best Eid Charity Foundation, Qatar ambulance vehicles, bicycles and ters in Riyadh yesterday under The GCC council also confirmed dents to learn about job opportu- academic and career programs Foundation for Social Protection equipment. the chairmanship of Qatar’s that tolerance and coexistence nities in the healthcare. available in the field of healthcare. and Rehabilitation, and Qatar QRC’s ambulance vehicles and Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid among nations and peoples are The fair was held at Hamad Bin We also provided participants with Diabetes Association. staff medically cover the celebra- bin Mohamed Al Attiyah, with among the foundations of inter- Khalifa Medical City’s Hotel and information about local and over- The exhibition also saw partici- tions area in coordination with the GCC foreign ministers and GCC nal and external policy of the Club for three consecutive days seas educational scholarships and pation by local universities such organisers through radio commu- Secretary General Dr Abdullatif GCC countries, stressing that and was attended by students and sponsorships, which are available as Qatar University, University of nication to report any case that bin Rashid Al Zayani attending. GCC countries stand firm against staff from over 75 schools in Qatar. across many different specialties Calgary in Qatar, Weill Cornell requires urgent medical interven- The Council extended condo- terrorist threats facing the region The exhibition was inaugu- in the healthcare sector.” Medical College in Qatar, College tion, either by providing instant lences to the Custodian of the Two and the world in order to ensure rated by Hamad Al Khalifa, “The exhibition provided a of the North Atlantic Qatar and treatment or referring the case Holy Mosques King Salman bin security, stability and peace. Chief of Health Facilities at wonderful opportunity to encour- Community College Qatar. to Hamad Medical Corporation’s Abdulaziz Al Saud; Crown Prince The Council expressed the hope HMC, and Ali Abdulla Al Khater, age and inspire students to plan At the exhibition, staff from emergency unit. Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, that talks between the P5+1 pow- Executive Director of Corporate for a distinguished future with HMC’s Fahad Bin Jassim Kidney During his visit to QRC’s cor- Deputy Premier; Deputy Crown ers and Iran would lead to a politi- Communications at HMC, in the HMC. We are especially glad to Center offered free blood sugar, ner Saleh bin Ali Al Mohannadi, Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin cal agreement that ensures the presence of Balqees Al Khazraji, attract Qatari youths as they will blood pressure and weight tests QRC Secretary-General, said, Abdulaziz, Second Deputy Premier peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear HMC’s Director of Health be inspired to become part of the to students. “QRC never misses such oppor- and Minister of Interior; the royal programme and takes into account Professions Awareness and highly-skilled human resources for HMC’s Smoking Cessation tunities to share with the Qatari family and the Saudi people as well the GCC’s concerns. Volunteering Programmes. the country,” she added. Clinic participated in the exhibi- nationals their celebrations, as Arab and Islamic nations on the It also expressed the hope that The fair served as a gather- The exhibition was attended tion, sharing tips and suggestions secure them against accidents, death of the late Custodian of the efforts being made at all levels ing for students, volunteers and by representatives from many to combat smoking and highlight- and keep in touch with all groups Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to find a political solution to the social service staff to discover new organisations, including Supreme ing services available at the clinic. -- men, women, and children - to bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Press Agency Syrian crisis and form a tran- opportunities within HMC. The Council of Health, Permanent Students were also introduced communicate QRC’s humanitar- SPA reported. sitional government with full first day of the fair was dedicated Committee for Drugs and Alcohol to services provided at the Heart ian message to as many individu- The Council wished all success executive powers would ensure to female students while the sec- Affairs, Supreme Education Hospital and the Paediatric als as possible and promote the to King Salman and the Crown the security, stability and unity of ond day was exclusive to male stu- Council, Cultural Creativity Neurology and Social Services ideal of benevolence among them.” Prince and Deputy Crown Prince. Syria and meet the aspirations of dents, and the third day was open Center, Qatar Career Fair Center, departments at Hamad General He commended the efforts It condemned the publication the Syrian people. to the general public. Al Saif Construction and Building Hospital. exerted by the QRC volunteers. of offensive cartoons of Prophet QNA Al Khazraji said, “The aim of the Company, Qatar Petrochemical THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 QRC continues to spread Qatari media urged to probe warmth in Syria suspected graft DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent families were supplied with 2,000 DOHA: The Qatari media is (QRC) is continuing its Warm tarpaulins, 6,000 blankets, and being encouraged to do inves- Winter programme inside Syria, 1,000 pieces of winter clothing. tigative reporting and focus on with 136,340 people receiving Finally, 3,000 families in the Bab allegations of corruption in pub- help over the past few weeks. Al Salama refugee camps were lic places or elsewhere. QRC’s staff in Syria expanded provided with 3,000 tarpaulins, This is evident from the fact the scope of winter relief to cover 5,000 blankets, and 2,000 pieces that a key anti-corruption watch- Aleppo and the countryside of of winter clothing. dog working directly under Emir Aleppo, Latakia, Hama and Idlib. In parallel, QRC continued to H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al They distributed 34,000 blankets, distribute urgent assistance in Thani has been asked to pay heed 10,000 tarpaulins and 83,000 pieces beleaguered Eastern Ghouta, the to local media reports of com- of winter clothing to 78,840 people. countryside of Damascus, where plaints and accusations regarding Aleppo was the first destination, scarcity of food and medical and alleged corruption. where 4,100 families received 8,200 relief supplies, and severe snow- The Administrative Control and blankets and 2,500 pieces of win- storms over the past couple of Transparency Authority (ACTA) ter clothing. Then the relief cam- months have added to the locals’ has issued a clear-cut directive paign moved to the countryside of misery. for paying attention to media Aleppo to provide 2,765 families So far, QRC teams have dis- coverage, including investigative with 2,000 tarpaulins, 7,000 blan- tributed 416 tons of relief assist- reports, of allegations of misuse of kets and 1,300 pieces of winter ance to 57,500 people in several public resources as well as official H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and other guests pose as Rota’s youngest and newest clothing. parts of the region, at a cost mismanagement and negligence. In the countryside of Idlib, of QR2,938,420. Each family The Authority is being restruc- Goodwill Ambassador, 12-year-old Ghanem Mohammed Al Muftah, takes a selfie during the opening event of the 2,000 tarpaulins, 6,000 blankets, received four blankets, 60kg of tured on the orders of the Emir. Empower 2015 youth conference yesterday. and 1,000 pieces of winter clothing wood for heating and a package It was first set up in 2011 vide an were distributed to 1,950 families. of basic food items, such as rice, Emiri decree. In the countryside of Hama, 1,000 flour, bulgur, ghee, vegetable oil, On Wednesday, a new Emiri families received 1,000 tarpaulins, and jam. decree (Number 6 of 2015) ordered 1,800 blankets, and 500 pieces of QRC’s assistance was targeted its restructuring. winter clothing. to the most needy regions under Funds to operate the Authority Empower 2015 opens After that, the relief winter siege, which resulted in a hike in are to be allocated by the govern- campaign moved to the coun- the prices of daily supplies, if any. ment annually and if the Authority tryside of Latakia, where 2,965 THE PENINSULA needs extra resources to carry out Youth urged to collaborate, overcome differences its duties, its chairman can make a request to the Emir directly, says BY RAYNALD C RIVERA Societies”, and focuses on three thrilled to see how Empower, Article 12 of the decree. main pillars, namely personal which started with around a hun- Article 14 makes it binding DOHA: H E Sheikha Al leadership, service learning and dred people in 2009, has become on all agencies and departments Mayassa bint Hamad bin global citizenship. an influential force for change, falling under the purview of the Khalifa Al Thani, Chairperson Essa Al Mannai, Rota Executive resulting in powerful declarations Authority to provide it informa- of Reach Out To Asia (Rota), Director, underscored the impor- crafted by the youth, which have tion and data requested by it. urged youth to play their role in tance of the conference being grabbed the attention of leaders If need be, ACTA, which now shaping the future of their com- organised by the youth for the well after the event’s conclusion,” has a new chairman, can seek help munities and building lasting youth, and exhorted the partici- said Dr Sheikha Aisha bint Faleh from experts and technicians to peace as she opened the seventh pants to exchange ideas and make bin Nasser. carry out its work and investigate annual Empower 2015 youth their voices heard. Steve Culbertson, President and any alleged wrongdoing. conference yesterday. He announced that Rota CEO of Youth Service America, However, the Authority will Addressing 450 young leaders would host a youth summit in delivered a keynote speech. be a transparent entity and the from 24 countries, Sheikha Al September in the run-up to the Rota’s youngest and newest Emir will directly appoint an Mayassa stressed the pivotal role World Humanitarian Summit in Goodwill Ambassador, Ghanem auditor to monitor its accounts of youth in nation building and Istanbul next year. Mohammed Al Muftah, was also and expenses. in the promotion of peace in the The Empower 2015 opening cer- named at yesterday’s event. Al The chairman of the Authority region. emony was attended by Sumeyye Muftah is a 12-year-old who has will report directly to the Emir “You have to empower yourself Erdogan, Deputy Chairman of overcome his disability, becoming and present an annual statement to reduce tension and build peace Kadem, Women and Democracy a role model for his strong will and of account and achievements every A QRC voluteer distributing relief in Syria. in the region,” she said, urging Association, Turkey and daughter determination. year. THE PENINSULA them to look beyond nationality of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Kuwaiti artist Humood Al and appearance and treat each Erdogan. She is participating in Khadher, known for his songs that other with mutual respect. Empower 2015 in the framework reflect values, ethics and humani- She encouraged them to “act of celebration of the Qatar Turkey tarian messages, performed at the collaboratively, build dialogue and 2015 Year of Culture. event. overcome your differences and The ceremony was also Amal El Mannai, Executive disagreements” in order to achieve attended by Dr Sheikha Aisha Director of Social Development their goals. bint Faleh bin Nasser, Rota board Center, awarded the winners of the Sheikha Al Mayassa said young member, Sheikh Mohammed bin “Tamm” Network for Voluntary people made up a big portion of Abdullah Al Thani, Rota Goodwill Work contest. The winners will the global population, hence they Ambassador, and a number of travel to Spain to attend a game should be nurtured for the future Qatari and Arab VIP guests. between FC Barcelona and Real of the world. “This is a highly anticipated, Madrid. “You should be part of the critical opportunity for the world’s Empower 2015 runs until future. You are already part of young people to talk about the tomorrow with a full programme Tenders and Auctions Committee the future,” she told the attendees. issues that matter to them and of workshops, panel discussions, This year’s youth conference learn from each other on how off-site visits, debates and group centres on the theme, “Youth best to tackle these issues in their discussions. Development for Peaceful community. We are absolutely THE PENINSULA Tender and Auction Announcement

Packaged food Baketball skills to be on Tenders and Auctions Committee in the Ministry of from some Economy and Commerce announces the following African countries display in Aspire Jam tender and auction: not imported DOHA: Aspire Zone is organis- together and show us their out- Tender Bond ing the fourth edition of Aspire standing skills,” said Abdulla Al Tender Tender Document Closing Subject Amount Continued from page 1 Jam tomorrow from 3pm to 8pm Khater, Events Manager at Aspire no. system Charge(QR) Date And, there is no ban on the at Aspire Park basketball court. Zone. (QR) import of fruits and vegetables Qatar’s best street basketball “Aspire Zone is committed to from these countries, but we have players will showcase their skills organising events that involve the Two envelopes Supply been asked by authorities not to and techniques in front of the community, particularly young 5/2015 (Technical 2,485,000 300 25/03/2015 import any packaged food items audience in the three-on-three people that helps them to be active, (27,500) Tons of Sugar from some African countries, street basketball tournament. to enjoy a sport, while at the same Financial) which include Nigeria, Ghana and All games will be played on a time to have fun,” he added. Uganda.” half court, as in previous years. The event is open to both Qatari Auction of Purchasing One envelope old partition, furniture, 18,000 300 5/4/2015 2015/م.ز.However, the official, who is This edition of Aspire Jam will nationals as well as male residents 3 responsible for importing food feature 16 teams competing for of Qatar aged 16 years and over. machinery of MEC products for his company, a retail the title. Aspire Jam is organised to high- giant, said: “We have not been “Basketball is a really popu- light the talent of amateur players, given any written instructions lar sport in Qatar and we are and is not for professional and col- •Tender documents can be picked from the Ministry of Economy and by authorities. But they insist delighted to be organising the lege players. not to source any food products fourth edition of Aspire Jam. Basketball enthusiasts and Commerce tower, 10th floor during the official working hours, for the from these countries — which are The event is a rare opportunity teams that are looking to join can packed and carry expiry dates.” for our incredibly talented local log on to: www.lifeinaspire.qa non-refundable stated fee. Another Nigerian housewife, street basketball players to come THE PENINSULA who requested anonymity, said: • To get hold of the tender documents, an authorization letter from the “Whenever we return from vaca- company should be presented, a copy of the Commercial Registration. tion, we bring as much stock of food as possible, but, sadly, howso- • In case an extension is needed, the bidder should send a letter of request prior ever big in quantity the stuff you get and howsoever economically Doha to host Arab diabetes meet to the closing date by at least 2 days on the below email. you use, that doesn’t last long. DOHA: Doha will host the Arab Diabetes Medical Congress from “So we are forced to rely on April 23 to April 25. It will bring together experts and researchers Arab and Indian food items. I from across the region. wish the local authorities allowed Under the patronage of Supreme Council of Health (SCH), the the import of at least some of our conference is being jointly hosted by Qatar Diabetes Association, food, if not all”. International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the executive board of For more information, please contact us An export-import manager the Health Ministers’ Council for GCC states. at a popular food centre, said: The conference will discuss advanced ways of treating diabetes as 40122067/40122297 or [email protected] “We don’t import any food items well as innovative approaches to managing its complications. directly from Ghana, Nigeria and Dr Mohammed Al Thani, Director of the Public Health Department MEC_QATARMEC_QATAR MEC_QATAR Uganda, but at the same time I at SCH, said, “According to the latest statistics of International Diabetes cannot say there is any formal Federation (IDF), incidence of diabetes is up to 8.3 percent globally, www.mec.gov.qa | [email protected] ban on food imports from these 9.7 percent in the Middle East and North Africa, and three countries countries.” in the region are among the top ten countries in the world — Saudi THE PENINSULA Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar. THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ISLAM Dealing with good manners

BY SUMAYYAH MEEHAN This sends the message to the antagonist that you don’t care about what he is say- veryone is faced with hostility ing, which may infuriate him even more. at some point or another. The Rolling your eyes or making faces must reasons vary, whether it has also be avoided as it can further escalate Eto do with your identity as a the anger. Instead, put on a neutral facial Muslim or a secular shortcoming that expression and keep your arms comfort- others perceive. ably at your side. As an American convert to Islam I Whether the source of the hostility is have faced the worst kind of hostility at a misunderstanding in the work place or times, which was in regards to my choice is solely based on the fact that you are of Islam as my religion. a Muslim, make sound arguments filled I grew up in a family that was with facts to defend yourself from the Christian, but I never really saw anyone negative onslaught. When speaking, use practicing the religion. a neutral tone of voice devoid of emo- My mother took me to church maybe tion. Shouting or screaming will not allow once or twice that I can recall. And the your voice to be heard and will ignite the only contact I had with the Bible was hostility further. For example, if you find when I was doing chores. It was basically that the hostility is due to a stereotype a religious “prop” and kept on the coffee about Islam use your Islamic knowledge table to gather dust. to not only dispel the label but to also So when I announced to my mother bring knowledge to your adversary. An that I was embracing the Islamic faith added bonus is that anyone in the vicinity almost 16 years ago, her reaction was will also pick up a bit of Islamic knowl- shocking given that she had never been edge in the process. particularly religious my whole life. Her gaze of disbelief and anger were the SIMPLY WALK AWAY worse. And her bitter declarations of: When all else fails, one of the most “You are going straight to Hell!”, “All noble and smart things you can do is Muslims are evil!” and “You better leave to simply walk away. There is no point that religion before it is too late!” came in arguing with someone who is behav- in a close second. I have also faced similar ing irrationally and has the potential of reactions from other family members and inflicting harm either verbally or physi- even close friends. cally. Walking away removes your physi- Through it all, I have found that meet- cal self from the situation. In an ideal ing hostility with good manners is the situation this would be enough to bring best means of discourse. By definition, an end to the hostility. hostility is “Hostile behaviour; unfriend- However, in reality, the aggressor may liness or opposition.” Hostility is either follow you as you try to make an exit or verbal or physical. Someone who makes even physically assault you. In this event, rude or incendiary remarks is engaging you have an absolute right to protect in verbal hostility. This type of hostil- yourself from harm. The Prophet said: ity can easily spiral out of control if you “Whoever is killed defending his prop- respond with anger or similarly offensive erty is a shaheed (martyr), whoever is remarks. Physical hostility is when some- killed defending himself is a shaheed, one invades your space and touches any Each and every time, regardless of the harm inflicted, the whoever is killed defending his religion is part of your body, such as pushing your a shaheed, and whoever is killed defend- chest or grabbing your arm. Again, this Prophet responded to the hostility with good manners and ing his family is a shaheed.” type of hostility can easily morph into a dangerous altercation especially if your even made prayers for his abusers. SEEK COUNCIL THROUGH PRAYER response is to also get physical. As with all matters in life, we must When looking for ways to combat hos- turn to Allah, exalted is He, in sincere tility, one has to look no further than the his head while he was prostrating during When faced with hostility there are (fight); the strong man is the one who con- prayer and supplication, or du’a, to Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (peace be prayer. And who could forget the attack several ways to not only rise above the trols himself at the time of anger.” relieve the distress and bring comfort upon him). By the grace of Allah, Exalted on our beloved Prophet in Taif when his situation but also to calm it to avoid a (Al Bukhari) by His leave. The Islamic prayer brings a is He, Muslims have been given the per- shins were beaten so severely that his physical altercation that will assuredly Our Prophet even gave us the advice sense of peace during even the most dif- fect example of grace under fire. Allah sandals filled up with blood? cause more harm than good. to either sit or lay down as a means of ficult of times. Seek the council of Allah Almighty says in Quran: Indeed in the Each and every time, regardless of the controlling anger. And while you may not Almighty and open your heart to release Messenger of Allah (Muhammad) you have harm inflicted, the Prophet responded CONTROL YOUR ANGER always be in a position to sit or lay down troubles or worries. Remain steadfast a good example to follow. (Al Ahzab 33:21) to the hostility with good manners and When someone is hostile towards you, when angry, you can create a mental with your prayers and duas in the hopes Our beloved Prophet was tormented even made prayers for his abusers. The anger is a natural response. However, just image of yourself in such a position to of relief and reward in this life as well consistently when he declared his Prophet Muhammad once said: “I have because you have been provoked gives help alleviate anger. as the Hereafter. Allah Almighty says in prophethood to his community and for only been sent to perfect good manners.” you no excuse to react in a hostile man- the Quran: Invoke your Lord with humility several years to come after that. His (Al Bukhari) ner. There is great wisdom in control- BE MINDFUL OF BODY LANGUAGE and in secret. He likes not the aggressors. detractors called him a “mad man” and And in another hadith we find that he ling anger, as succumbing to it can lead You may not be uttering a word, but (Al A’raf 7:55). abused him whenever the opportunity was so keen to have good manners that he to a host of negative scenarios that are your body is doing all the talking. When Never doubt the power of the Islamic presented itself. They put animal feces in prayed for them: “O Allah, You have made difficult to extricate yourself from. The faced with hostility, you might cross your prayer and sincere duas in alleviating his cooking pots, threw garbage on him, my outward form beautiful so make my atti- Prophet, peace be upon him, said: “The arms as a defensive mechanism to some- even the most stressful situations. and even put the entrails of a camel on tude good too.” (Narrated by Ibn Hibban) strong man is not the one who can wrestle what close yourself off from the situation. www.onislam.net Senseless killings in the name of faith BY SADULLAH KHAN be upon him) cautioned: “I warn you Labeling anything “Islamic” does not Some deviant individuals/groups are regarding extremism, because commu- make it justifiable. Realise, that just committing acts in the name of Islam Prophet n Islam peace is the standard; it nities before you were destroyed due to because you are faithful does not mean which are contrary to the fundamen- is the principle; and each person extremism (An-Nisa’i) that everything you do could be neces- tal of our faith, while not enough seem Muhammad of faith has the moral obligation to The Prophet (PBUH) warned thrice: sarily right. courageous enough to openly stand up Imaintain peace, without compro- “The extremists are destroyed/annihi- Desiring to implement Islamic values to these bullies who are denigrating the (peace be upon mising on justice and truth. lated.” (Sahih Muslim) is always noble, but having a meaning- name and image of Islam. Islam invites to the Subulusssalam He warned: “My intercession will not ful and effective strategy is indeed most Remember the words of Prophet him) cautioned: (pathway of peace) — peace of mind, be availed by two categories of my com- significant. Forcing other is never an Muhammad (PBUH):“A Muslim (one who peace of conscience, peace in the family munity — an oppressive/unjust ruler and acceptable resort and certainly not the proclaims faith) is that person from whose “I warn you and society, peace with one’s Creator and a rebellious extremist.” (Tibrani) first resort; especially since our Deen hands and tongue other Muslims are safe. His creation. Remember the words of Prophet commands us not to use compulsion as A momin (true Muslim) is the person in regarding Muslims are increasingly being killed Muhammad (PBUH): “A Muslim (one a tool. whom humanity find safety and security in the name of Islam. It is apparent that who proclaims faith) is that person from Just because something needs to be regarding their lives, property and honour.” extremism, some among those who proclaim to be whose hands and tongue other Muslims are done does not mean that anything that is (Baihaqi) part of the Muslim fraternity have lost safe. A Mu’min (one who manifests faith) is done is okay; and just because something The Prophet (peace be upon him) further because sound understanding of the teachings of that person in whom humanity find safety is done in religious fervor does not in any advised “...Allah is kind and loves kind- the faith and are substituting the sub- and security regarding their lives, property way prove that it is Islamically correct. ness in every matter, and kindness has communities lime message of Islam by a discourse of and honor.” (Baihaqi) The Prophet (PBUH) Muslims have inherited the command been granted capacity which violence could anger and the rhetoric of rage. further advised ... Allah is kind and loves from that prescribed to the Children of never attain.” (Sahih Muslim) before you were Islam is salam (peace) and taslim kindness in every matter, and kindness has Israel “whoever takes a single life with- In some sectors of our communities (submission to the Divine). One of the been granted capacity which violence could out justification is as if he has killed the there is a recurring flare up of sectar- destroyed due attributes of the Divine is Assalam (The never attain. (Sahih Muslim) entire humanity.” (Quran 5:32) ian squabbles and resurrecting tendency source of peace) and Muslim greeting Furthermore we are reminded: .”..And to misconstrue differing perspectives as to extremism. universally, upon meeting and departing, INTOLERANCE WHENCE? were it not that Allah checks the people, opposing forces, thus dividing the com- is Assalamu alaykum or ‘peace be unto How is it then that some Muslims some by means of others, there would have munity into respective enemy camps you.’ The final and ultimate reward for are so intolerant of other faiths and are been demolished monasteries, churches, over minor and secondary issues rather human endeavor is Paradise, referred involved in atrocious and heinous acts of synagogues, and mosques in which the than uniting them on greater but com- to in the Quran as Darussalam (abode violence and senseless killing? name of Allah is much mentioned. And mon issues. This gives a wrong notion perspectives so that we can value Islamic of peace) Are they oblivious to the historic Allah will surely support those who support that the conflicts are inherent in the plurality as a factor that enriches our example of how the Holy Prophet Him. Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted precepts of Islam and are a cause of communities. We should attempt to MODERATION, NOT EXTREMISM (PBUH) engaged those of different in Might..” (Quran 22:40) conflagaration. explain our own perspectives in a man- Believers were intended to be an faiths? If we do not abide by these princi- ner that is intelligible and inoffensive to ummah — a community that serves as So, though the word ‘Islam’ means ples established in the Quran, then we INTRA-FAITH ENGAGEMENT people of other perspectives. We should a standard/model for others. The Quran peace and notwithstanding a well-doc- are undermining the very spirit of our Lasting harmony and understand- commit ourselves to engage in dialogue says: “And we have made you a median umented history of contribution to world Deen. We must heed the Quranic warn- ing for a community starts from within with sincerity and patience, without community, a people of moderation/a bal- civilization, Islam is portrayed as an ing against extremism in religion. ... do and then it can spread the same respect considering what separates us as an anced medium; in order that you may be a aggressive religion and used most synon- not be extreme in your religion. toward others. insurmountable wall. Rather recognize testimony or model for humanity.” ymously with violence and intolerance. (Quran 4:171) We should recognise that in submit- the fact that facing our differences can (Quran 2:143) The fact that Islam considers Christians The Prophet (PBUH) further warned: ting to Allah, building a wholesome and become an occasion for greater recipro- It is the absence of wasatiyyah (mod- and Jews endearingly as “People of the My intercession will not be availed two cat- harmonious community is one of our cal understanding and that such dia- eration) that extremism creeps in. Book” clearly indicates its tolerant ecu- egories of my community; an oppressive/ primary objectives. We should confirm logue can take place only on the basis Wasatiyyah is an antidote to ghuluww menical attitude of Islam unjust ruler and a rebellious extremist the importance of promoting a culture of mutual trust and respect. May Allah (excessiveness), tanattu (harshness), (Tibrani). I warn you regarding extrem- of dialogue within our faith community. protect the innocent from the injustices tashaddud (severity), tatarruf (extrem- LABEL OF ‘ISLAM’ COULD BE ism, because communities before you were We should affirm that it is important of the self-righteous! ism). The Prophet Muhammad (peace DECEPTIVE destroyed due to extremism. (Nisai) for us to listen to and learn from other www.islamicity.com FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Two dead as Houthis open fire on protest Shia militia holds military exercises near Saudi border

SANA’A: Members of the Shia A medical source said one per- the southern port city of Aden. militia that controls much of son had died and eight more had UN-brokered talks to end the Yemen opened fire on hundreds been wounded in the shooting at political standoff have had little of people protesting at their the demonstration. success so far. presence in the southerly city The Houthis have frequently Security in Yemen is an inter- of Al Bayda yesterday, killing used firearms or beatings in national concern due to the pres- two and wounding eight oth- recent months to suppress pro- ence of one of the most active ers, local officials and medical tests in towns and cities including wings of Al Qaeda and because it sources said. the capital. shares a long border with top oil The Houthis, who are led by a The Houthi takeover has not exporter Saudi Arabia and over- northern clan of the same name, only increased sectarian tensions looks a major global sea-lane. have in recent months become in Yemen but also alienated many Meanwhile, thousands of the de facto rulers of north- who believe Hadi is still the legiti- Houthis are holding military ern Yemen, seizing the capital mate president, raising the pros- exercises in the northern part Sana’a in September and forcing pect of a civil war. of the country near the border President Abdrab Mansour Hadi Hadi came to power in a Gulf- with Saudi Arabia, local tribal and his government to announce brokered transfer of power fol- and Houthi sources said. their resignations. lowing a mass uprising in 2011 The drill in Al Buqa area, which The province of Al Bayda, against his predecessor Ali lies in the Houthis’ home province which is mostly Sunni Muslim, is Abdullah Saleh, and has the back- of Saada, involves using differ- Injured protesters are taken to hospital on the back of a truck after Houthi militants opened fire on a demonstration one of several that the Iranian- ing of the West and Gulf Arab ent kinds of weaponry, including in the Yemeni city of Al Bayda yesterday. backed Houthis have effectively neighbours. heavy weapons acquired from the taken over since September by He escaped house arrest in Yemeni army, the sources said. Iranian-backed Shia group which terrorist group. In 2009, Riyadh Houthis after a number of cross- sending in gunmen and forcing Sanaa last month, and has sought Saudi Arabia, the world’s seized control of the Yemeni carried out a military operation border incursions. local officials to cooperate. to re-establish his presidency in top oil exporter, regards the capital Sanaa in September as a including air raids against the AGENCIES

Kerry heads to Egypt’s Salafist Nour Party to run in election Egypt before

ABU HOMOS, EGYPT: a parliament since June 2012, in poor areas where religion is a terrorist organisation, and Sisi Brotherhood’s fate. One hashtag Egypt’s ultra-conservative although the government says it prominent. But observers say says it is a threat to national secu- used by critics calls it the ‘Zour’ new Iran Islamist Nour party says it is committed to democracy. it differs in being ready to seek rity, although the group says it is party, meaning ‘fraudulent’. is committed to participat- “We, as the Nour Party, are accommodation in order to committed to peaceful activism. “We don’t work for anyone nuclear talks ing in elections, in a boost to committed to completing the secure some influence and, per- For its part, Nour, which fol- at all ... we just work for God, President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, road map,” Nour leader Younes haps, safety from repression. The lows the Salafist school of Islam then for the Egyptian people,” WASHINGTON: US Secretary whose crackdown on critics has Makhyoun said in an interview group says it is not seeking politi- and achieved 28 percent support Makhyoun said. of State John Kerry left for a stifled much of Egypt’s political in the Nile Delta town of Abu cal positions. in the post-Mubarak election, “On June 30, you saw how many key economic conference in opposition. Homos. “Whatever the law, The bearded 59-year-old has backed the crackdown on the millions of Egyptian people dem- Egypt, followed by further talks A parliamentary election, even if we object to it, we’ll rejected accusations by the Brotherhood, and Makhyoun said onstrated (against Mursi), so in Switzerland on Iran’s suspect originally set for this month but participate.” Brotherhood that his party was last year that Nour would be pre- the government wasn’t waiting nuclear program. now deferred for legal changes, Nour was founded in the being used by the government to pared to join Sisi’s government. for the Nour Party to give them Kerry is due to arrive today in is meant to be the last stage of aftermath of the uprising that demonstrate its tolerance towards He said on Wednesday that he legitimacy.” the Egyptian Red Sea resort of a political road map that Sisi ousted Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Islamists, despite the arrest of was against arbitrary detentions Asked if he was worried the Sharm Al Sheikh to attend an announced after he, as army and broke ranks with the thousands of Brotherhood lead- but added: “It’s normal that there government could one day turn international economic confer- chief, ousted president Mohamed Brotherhood after it became ers and supporters. are excesses and mistakes ... but on his party, Makhyoun said: ence, set to burnish President Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood clear that Egypt’s oldest and big- Several parties say they will does that mean we should make a “The idea of abolishing us is out Abdel Fattah Al Sisi’s global in 2013 following mass protests gest Islamist group would not be boycott the election because the bigger mistake of destroying the of the question. We don’t think credentials. against his rule. able to stay in power. clampdown on secular activists country?” this will happen ... and even if it Egypt hopes the foreign inves- The delay gives Sisi more room Like the Brotherhood, it has as well as the Brotherhood has Brotherhood supporters have does, this issue does not worry us tor conference will jump-start its to wield sole legislative author- gathered most of its support made it a sham. The government frequently accused Nour of or concern us at all.” battered economy while show- ity in a country that has not had through charitable activities has banned the Brotherhood as backing Sisi purely to avoid the REUTERS casing international support for Sisi as he battles radical Islamist opponents. Kerry is due to meet with Sisi — a former general who led the army’s ouster of elected Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in Netanyahu’s main 2013 and then resigned from the military to stand in the 2014 elec- tions. Kerry could also meet with other Arab and European leaders. challenger widens Angered by the stalling of Egypt’s hoped-for democratic reforms, Washington has frozen a chunk of its $1.5bn in mostly pre-election lead military annual aid to Cairo since October 2013, insisting greater JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime In the right-leaning Jerusalem progress must be made. Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Post and the Israel Hayom free Apache helicopters, how- launched a last-minute media sheet, an ardent supporter, ever, have been delivered to the blitz yesterday to counter what Netanyahu focused his message Egyptian military — a key ally appears to be a rising tide of on Israelis who want him as prime in the fight against Al Qaeda support for his main opponent minister but plan to vote for his and Islamic militants shelter- in next week’s election, the cen- potential partners in a Likud-led ing in the Sinai peninsula. From trist Zionist Union. coalition. the divers’ paradise of Sharm Al The latest opinion polls show Gilad Erdan, a Likud cabinet Sheikh, Kerry will fly to Lausanne momentum shifting to Zionist minister and Netanyahu confi- in landlocked Switzerland on Union after weeks of running dant, said he expected the prime Sunday for fresh negotiations neck-and-neck with Netanyahu’s minister to give interviews to with his Iranian counterpart right-wing Likud, and the pre- other Israeli media outlets in the Mohammad Javad Zarif. mier again warned voters who next few days as part of an effort Talks with global powers for have abandoned his party for like- to bring “supporters of Likud and a deal reining in Iran’s suspect minded challengers that without its ideological path back to their uranium enrichment program their votes, he could lose. (rightful) home”. in return for sanctions relief Forecast to win up to 24 seats In Israel Hayom, Netanyahu are reaching a critical stage as a to Likud’s 21 in the complained that “right-wingers March 31 deadline for an political 120-member parliament, mistakenly thought that I would framework accord looms. Zionist Union hopes the gap be elected in any case, and there- will be wide enough to persuade fore thought about supporting Israel’s president to ask its leader, other parties”. Saudi beheads Labour party chief Isaac Herzog, He told the Jerusalem Post that rather than Netanyahu, to try to a Zionist Union-led administra- Isaac Herzog (centre), co-leader of the centre-left Zionist Union, and party co-leader Tzipi Livni speaking to a ‘gang’ leader form a coalition government after tion “will cause such a monu- vendor during a campaign stop at a fruit and vegetable market in Tel Aviv yesterday. Tuesday’s balloting. mental shift in policy that it is a RIYADH: The beheading of “If we don’t close the gap in danger, and anyone who wants to Netanyahu has kept the focus 13 seats in the Dialog poll, which rightwing coalition with ultra- a gang leader in Saudi Arabia the coming days, there is cer- stop it has to vote Likud to nar- on security. quizzed 714 respondents and had a Orthodox parties, there is also yesterday raised the number of tainly a risk that Tzipi Livni and row the gap”. Herzog and Livni, he said in the margin of error of three percent- the possibility of a national unity executions carried out this year Bougie Herzog will be the next Likud’s weakening in the Jerusalem Post, would “completely age points. government, which would include to 44, already more than half prime ministers,” Netanyahu told polls appeared to indicate that prostrate themselves to any pres- A poll published yesterday a rotation between the heads of the total for 2014. Channel 2 in one of two prime- Netanyahu’s contentious speech sure” to trade land for peace with evening by economic newspaper the Zionist Union and Likud. Amnesty International says time television interviews, using on March 3 to the US Congress the Palestinians and to accept an Globes gave the Zionist Union 24 But Netanyahu shot down that Saudi Arabia is “well on track” to Herzog’s nickname. against big powers reaching a Iranian deal. compared to 20 for Likud. possibility in an interview with far exceed previous annual execu- Under his Zionist Union alli- potential nuclear deal with Iran “Our security is at great risk Under Israel’s electoral system, Channel 2 television. tion records. ance with centrist Livni, Herzog had little impact on Israeli voters because there is a real danger the government is formed not by “I will not be a prime minister Mansour bin Habeeb bin Mahdi would serve as Israel’s leader for long accustomed to such warn- that we could lose this election,” the single largest party, but by in rotation, and that should be Khalfan, a Saudi, was put to death two years and then hand over to ings from a leader now in his Netanyahu said. whomever can build a coalition prevented,” he said of a national yesterday in the kingdom’s east- the country’s most prominent third term. An opinion poll published in commanding a parliamentary unity government. Herzog has not ern region after having been con- woman politician for the remain- Netanyahu’s opponents, while the left-leaning Haaretz newspa- majority. ruled out the option. victed of “leading a gang” dealing der of their government’s slated acknowledging the dangers of a per yesterday predicted that the While the Zionist Union could Herzog on his end accused in hashish, money laundering and four-year term. nuclear-armed Iran, have made Zionist Union would win 24 of the emerge the largest party, Herzog Netanyahu of “severe panic” in the forged documents, the interior Netanyahu also ruled out the Israel’s high cost of living a focal 120 seats in parliament against 21 would have a near-impossible closing days of his campaigning. ministry said. possibility of forming a broad point of their campaigns and cau- for Likud. task of forming a coalition, which “He’s returning to the rhetoric According to an AFP tally, coalition after the election that tioned against diplomatic isolation The Joint List, a newly formed would be comprised of small par- of cowardice and threats,” he told Khalfan was the 44th local or for- would include a leadership rota- over his tough policies towards alliance of Israel’s main Arab par- ties with contrasting agendas army radio. “The public wants eigner executed this year in Saudi tion between him and Herzog. the Palestinians. ties, was seen coming third with Besides Netanyahu forming a change.”. 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USSIAN President Vladimir Putin is ill. Or so the world believes. The Russian strongman hasn’t been War ended 70 years ago seen for a few days and international media has BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY started hyperventilating. Such is the aura of one of the governments since then have opted Essentially, this is an argument about R for silence, legal tricks, deferment and whether World War II belongs to the most powerful personalities in the world that his absence from REECE’S demand for repara- dilatory tactics. And I wonder, ladies recent or distant past -- or whether reams of newsprint and television screens for some time leads tions from Germany for dam- and gentlemen: is this stance actually the war ever really ended. It’s not lim- to speculation bordering on the naive. The Kremlin yesterday ages inflicted during World ethical?” ited to the matter of Greek reparations. denied rumours that Putin is sick. GWar II, aired again this week The law in this matter is extremely Much criticism of Germany’s leadership A source in the Kazakhstan government had said that the by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in an murky. The 1946 Paris agreement on in today’s Europe is still based on the Russian leader’s trip to Astana was cancelled as he had been emotional speech, may or may not have reparations from Germany awarded assumption that it has not paid for its taken ill. This triggered speculation about Putin’s health. legal merit, but it does raise an impor- Greece a share in post-war reparations, Hitler-era crimes. tant question: When will Europe finally paid mainly through the distribution of The Soviet Union’s victory in the Not always known to grab headlines for the right reasons, stop fighting World War II? German property and equipment, and it “Great Patriotic War” is the basis for Putin was in the glare over the killing of prominent dissident The claim to ¤162bn ($172bn) in com- covered all claims “against the former President Vladimir Putin’s neo-imperi- and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov. The murder pensation for wartime damage to Greece’s German Government and its Agencies, of alist ideology, and the Russian propa- of the bitter Putin critic in Moscow —near the Kremlin — has infrastructure and a loan the National a governmental or private nature, arising ganda machine constantly equates the touched a raw nerve in Russia that is grappling with a volatile Bank of Greece was forced to extend to out of the war (which are not otherwise Ukrainian military to Nazis. Russian Hitler’s Germany long predates Tsipras’ provided for), including costs of German nationalist legislators have also raised political situation with the government accused of silencing far left government. Greece revived it occupation, credits acquired during the matter of German reparations, critics. Russians are struggling to meet their requirements in 2012, at a time when the country’s occupation on clearing accounts and though the Soviet Union made off with amid a falling currency and flailing economy. The economic government had ostensibly accepted the claims against the Reichskreditkassen.” much of Germany’s wartime industrial situation in one of the largest economies of the world has economic reform program imposed on it It’s unclear whether the Greek claims capacity. stagnated to the extent that rising unemployment is forcing by the European Commission, European were “otherwise provided for” — for To many contemporary Germans, thousands of Russians to migrate abroad. Central Bank and instance, formally put off until Germany the war is ancient history. “Shouldn’t International signed a final peace treaty — or whether Greece, which is so proud of Alexander Though Putin’s popularity rating among Russians is high, Monetary Fund. Greece’s agreed share was paid out in full the Great, also fear retribution for his- it is not hard to see these going down soon. The Putin of Then, as now, the before 1990. torical injustice?” Reinhard Mueller yesteryears —astride a horse or seen engaging in other acts The 1946 Paris Greek govern- Both versions have their ardent sup- mocked in the daily Frankfurter of machismo — is slowly falling agreement on ment was clutch- porters in Europe — even in Germany Allgemeine Zeitung. ing at straws as it itself — and the two sides could argue These differences won’t be resolved prey to his own acts of so-called reparations from The Russian political valour. First, it was the sought leverage about it until they’re blue in the face. when the last of the World War II gen- with its lenders. If Athens ever brought the matter to eration have died. After all, the people annexation of Crimea. Then came Germany awarded leader Greece a share Germany trial — which it potentially could — the arguing it out now were born during or the hubris,fuelled by a self-righteous has adamantly argument would continue in court. The after the war. And it doesn’t help that continues to attitude of promoting militia in the in post-war rejected the proceedings would be lengthy and the the international community has never east of Ukraine. reparations, paid claim. It argues, outcome uncertain -- not a safe bet for agreed on a statute of limitations for deny and defy The successful annexation of first, that it Greece, a country on the verge of finan- war crimes. Greece, for example, has mainly through already paid rep- cial collapse. not ratified the European or United Crimea took Putin’s popularity in amid mounting the distribution of arations of 115 That’s why Tsipras is talking the lan- Nations conventions on the subject (and, Russia to an all-time high. However, German property million Deutsche guage of ethics, not jurisprudence. But somewhat more understandably, neither international it reduced him to a pariah among Marks to Greece that doesn’t please his German coun- has Germany). attacks on his the international community. and equipment. in 1960 and the terparts, either. “We should concentrate Europeans need to recognise that it’s The toppling of elected Ukrainian bilateral treaty on current issues and, hopefully, what pointless to rehash old wrongs when policies. President Viktor Yanukovich in the signed at the time protected it from any will be a good future,” Chancellor Angela they are not the root of their current further claims; and, second, that the Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said problems. Wars end, and the winners Maidan Revolution proved to be a so- called Two-Plus-Four treaty signed yesterday. and losers ultimately go their separate turning point in the politics of the in 1990 by the two parts of Germany In his speech, Tsipras had made it paths. The German post-war path has region. and the four major anti-Hitler allies — clear that he disagreed: led to economic success while the Greek Ukraine is still burning, an year after Yanukovich was the US, the Soviet Union, the UK and “Some people tell us — why do you one has not. ousted and fled to Russia. The embers of strife have scalded France — spelled out the final resolution tackle the past, look at the future. But “A reluctant political elite with no thousands in the former Soviet Republic. The chaos that of all the issues left over from World War what country, what people can have effective reform vision and a frail legiti- II, and any residual claims should have a future if it does not honour its his- macy finds itself fighting rearguard bat- descended in the country after the revolution led Putin to try been put forward then. tory and its struggles? What people can tles in a desperate attempt to boost a the Crimea misadventure. A balking West doesn’t let go of any Tsipras rejects that interpretation. move forward, erasing the collective dispirited nation, even if it may not mean opportunity to make the Russian leader realise he is wrong. According to him, the 1953 London memory and leaving historically unjus- any money coming into the state coffers,” British Prime Minister David Cameron and German treaty, under which more than half of tified its struggles and sacrifices? Indeed, Vassilios Paipais of the University of Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday joined hands to shun West Germany’s debt was written off by not much time has passed since then, St Andrews in Scotland wrote of the countries including Greece, delayed the ladies and gentlemen. The generation Greek reparation claim in 2013. attending World War II commemorations in Moscow on May 9. matter of reparations until Germany’s of the Occupation and of the National The political elite was different then, The Victory Day parade in the Russian capital is an annual reunification. Tsipras said in his March Resistance is still living. And the pic- but Paipais is still right: Tsipras and event that displays Russian military might — a throwback to 10 speech: “The reunification of the two tures and sounds from the tortures and his team should come to grips with the the days of the Cold War —celebrating defeat of Nazi Germany Germanys has created the necessary executions at Distomo and Kaisariani, at present-day reality and stop wasting at the hands of Soviet troops. The gutsy Putin has weathered legal and political conditions in order Kalavrita and at Vianno, are still fresh time on 70-year-old gripes. many a storm. However, he should make sure that the travails of to resolve this issue, but the German in the collective memory of our people.” WP-BLOOMBERG domestic and international politics do not get the better of him. The other side Quote of The usual suspects the day ET while The aftermath of the Kadyrov with an Order of Honor, along of the killing in questionable trials that Nemtsov, he says, gave offense with murder of Russian opposition with Andrei Lugovoi, the leading suspect never explained who had ordered the statements condemning the killing leader Boris Nemtsov has been in the 2006 London murder of another murder. in Paris of journalists working for the Ychilling even by the sinister Kremlin critic. The suspects in the Nemtsov killing magazine Charlie Hebdo. Dadaev, he standards of Vladimir Putin. Ten days If this all seems rather unsubtle, also look like fall guys. According to a claimed, is “a deeply religious person” after the gangland-style hit on a bridge then that may be the point. Kadyrov, member of the Kremlin’s official human who “was shaken” by this. After five years of near the Kremlin, police arrested and whom the Russian leader installed as rights advisory council, three of the To believe this is to ignore Nemtsov’s charged several ethnic Chechens, Chechnya’s absolute ruler and who in five suspects arrested were probably far larger profile as an adversary of Putin economic decline including one who was said to have turn serves as a Kremlin attack dog, has tortured; a sixth was reported to have and the deep connections between confessed. That man, Zaur Dadaev, been a suspect in the unsolved assassi- blown himself up with a hand grenade. Kadyrov and the Putin regime. Just a few and social hardship, turns out to be the former deputy nations of other Putin opponents, includ- Those abused include Dadaev, who weeks ago, the Chechen leader staged our country remains commander of an elite police squad ing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, reportedly retracted what he said was a rally of his gunmen in Grozny’s soc- controlled by the Chechen leader who was gunned down on Putin’s birth- a forced confession. cer stadium; according to an account in in a desperate Ramzan Kadyrov, a fierce Putin loyalist. day in 2006. In each instance Putin has While his former foot soldier lan- Time magazine, Kadyrov declared: “We Kadyrov quickly praised the suspect shielded and defended Kadyrov. In the guishes in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, will gladly fulfill any order, in any spot of economic state. as “a real patriot of Russia.” Putin, Politkovskaya case, several Chechens Kadyrov has been offering a far-fetched the world where our president tells us to Alexis Tsipras meanwhile, chose Monday to present were arrested and eventually convicted theory for why he might have acted: go.” THE WASHINGTON POST Greek Prime Minister FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Is Hillary ready to run for US president?

on board, some of the senior aides Many Democrats who want Clinton tapped for her campaign are not yet, including Jennifer Palmieri, to succeed lament that she has who will become Clinton’s com- munications director but still holds the same position in the stepped back into the political Obama White House. Strategist Kiki McLean, a arena in a defensive posture, Clinton ally, said the past week has been “more of an issue of staff reminding voters what they disliked capacity than competence.” Another strategist and Clinton ally, Hilary Rosen, said that this about the Clinton scandals of the was “definitely not the month they’d hoped for” but that the 1990s. Some Democrats also Clinton team plans to build a better communications and politi- cal operation to manage future believe that Clinton comes off controversies. “It’s unfortunate that they as coy or cynical by repeatedly didn’t prepare earlier for this, but I don’t think that we should look at this as a symbol of any- insisting she has not made a thing other than just bad timing,” Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton speaks to the media after keynoting a Women’s Empowerment Event Rosen said. “I think they’re mov- decision to run for president. at the United Nations in New York City. ing quickly to try and accommo- date the tremendous interest in enior Democrats are that the controversy was a self- her right now. That’s a challenge.” increasingly worried that inflicted wound. to Clinton aides to get it. about her,” said Hank Sheinkopf, “There’s a disconnect between Former Pennsylvania Gov Hillary Rodham Clinton “Had this story been responded But Correct the Record — an a New York-based strategist who her standing right now and this Ed Rendell, a longtime Clinton Sis not ready to run for to in two or three days instead of outside political group set up spe- once worked for Clinton. “They Democratic chattering class of backer, said that her news con- president, fearing that the clumsy in eight days, it would not be as cifically to defend Clinton in the want to be sure that she can win. nervousness,” Daley said. Asked ference was “a good first step” and insular handling of the nine- big,” said Robert Gibbs, a former media — received only a brief set They’re not used to this anxiety, how she might convince leaders but that “she’s got to be more day fracas over her private emails White House press secretary of talking points from Clinton’s because they’ve had eight years in her party that the controversy forthcoming.” was a warning sign about the under President Barack Obama. office instructing them to dismiss of winners.” is in the rearview mirror, he said: “If there’s no serious cam- campaign expected to launch next “They are the ones who put air the story as silly and to compare Nevertheless, Clinton is the “Assure Democrats there can’t paign, she still has to put herself month. in this balloon in a way that was Clinton’s use of a private email unquestioned presumptive front- be another flare-up? She can’t out there because of who she is, Few Democrats believe that the not necessary at all. . . . It’s clear account to former secretary of runner for the Democratic nomi- do that.” because of the obsession over the revelations about her unorthodox they lack an apparatus. She’s a state Colin Powell’s use of an AOL nation, and polling suggests she Some Clinton defenders said Clintons,” Rendell said. “She’ll email practices as secretary of candidate without a campaign.” account. The group was given is weathering the bad news cycle the media scrutiny on the emails be forced to answer questions — state are a substantive issue that A Clinton spokesman did not no additional information for so far. An NBC News-Wall Street story has been unfair to her. and she’s got to be in a position to would damage Clinton with vot- respond to a request for comment days, leaving Correct the Record Journal poll released Monday “She used the wrong email do it.” Sen Ron Wyden, D-Ore, ers, and many said she performed Wednesday. founder David Brock and other finds her favourable rating at 44 account — duh-dah! It’s ridic- said he wants to see Clinton’s adequately in a Tuesday news Last week, supporters in surrogates to craft their own, percent, compared with 36 per- ulous,” said Sen Sheldon campaign up and running so she conference defending herself. Congress and others were will- sometimes incongruous, defences. cent unfavourable. Among likely Whitehouse, D-RI. “I’m not can talk about issues that energise But in interviews Wednesday ing to go on cable television to Many Democrats who want Democratic primary voters, 86 indulging this bizarre fetish.” voters, such as income inequality. with The Washington Post, cur- defend Clinton on the emails Clinton to succeed lament that percent said they could see them- Asked if he had doubts about “I think the debate really rent and former Democratic but were puzzled when her aides she has stepped back into the selves supporting Clinton. Just 13 Clinton’s political standing, is joined now with so many officeholders and operatives from did not provide talking points or political arena in a defensive percent said they could not. Whitehouse said: “No. This is Republicans in the field,” Wyden across the country raised serious other information that might help posture, reminding voters what “The best answer to this is totally artificial. You guys have said. “When you have a formal questions about her and her polit- them, according to Clinton allies. they disliked about the Clinton going to be when she starts run- lost your minds on this.” campaign launch, that puts in ical team’s strength and readiness “A lot of people were flying scandals of the 1990s. “This begins ning for president and is travel- Sen Patty Murray, D-Wash, place a communications network for a 2016 presidential campaign. blind,” said one Democratic ally her campaign in a bad place — ling around the country talking said she is confident Clinton and an infrastructure. . . . I think “She’s tried to put the day of who requested anonymity to speak it’s the gateway drug to her past,” about things that people care will be prepared for the rigours that will be very helpful.” reckoning off, but it’s come now, candidly. Requests for information said one Democratic strategist about,” said longtime Democratic of the campaign. “All 50,000 of James Blanchard, a former gov- and I don’t think she can stand “were met with dead silence” from and presidential campaign vet- strategist Steve Elmendorf. [the Republicans] that are run- ernor of Michigan who chaired another couple of weeks of this Clinton’s team, this person said. eran who requested anonymity William Daley, an influential ning for president are going to Clinton’s 2008 presidential cam- without her structure in place,” “This shows they have a long way to speak candidly. Chicago Democrat who served as take every opportunity to rip her paign in the state, said the past said Jim Hodges, a former gover- to go until their organisation is Some Democrats also believe White House chief of staff during apart. That’s called a campaign nine days showed him that “she’ll nor of South Carolina. ready for prime time.” that Clinton comes off as coy or Obama’s first term, said he thinks — and I’m fully aware that she need to be more on her toes.” Some Democrats also said Some of Clinton’s longtime cynical by repeatedly insisting she Clinton “stopped the bleeding” expects that.” “The team around her is on Clinton’s initial refusal to pro- allies in the Senate and House has not made a decision to run with her news conference. But he Clinton has been operat- notice now that they’ll need to vide answers to the growing con- leadership did receive guidance for president, even as she signs up acknowledged that neither her ing without a full team. While respond to criticisms and accu- troversy over her private emails from the Clinton camp, although dozens of senior campaign staffers performance nor her continued campaign-manager-in-waiting sations in a more timely fashion,” smacked of arrogance and a wor- their aides were frustrated that in New York, Iowa and elsewhere. strength in polling have calmed Robby Mook and longtime confi- Blanchard said. risome bunker mentality — and they had to proactively reach out “Democrats are really worried agitation among Democratic elites. dante Huma Abedin are already WP-BLOOMBERG

Impact of Fukushima disaster endures Neanderthal man may

BY RICK NOACK do not immediately pollute the environment — although ques- have invented jewellery our years ago, after a dev- tions have arisen over the safety astating tsunami left 18,000 of storage sites for used fuel rods. BY RACHEL FELTMAN the specimens. FJapanese dead, Japan faced Hence, nuclear energy can help A year and a half ago, Frayer another, potentially bigger, catas- developing countries to keep et another discovery sug- said, a colleague of his took over as trophe: 300,000 people had to be up with a rapid rise in energy gests that Neanderthals a curator of the Croatian Natural evacuated as several reactors of demand, whereas the likelihood Ywere much more advanced History Museum and gave the the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear of a nuclear disaster appears to be than we give them credit for. talons a second look. She con- power plant started to melt down low. However, at least in one case According to research published tacted him when she suspected on March 11, 2011. the Fukushima disaster has led to Wednesday in PLOS ONE, these they’d been manipulated by the In 2015, has the world forgot- a major decline in nuclear energy. hominids — precursors of mod- Neanderthals who’d been found ten the threat that was posed ern humans who were mostly lost, with them. by Fukushima? Here are three 3. Germany has decided to save for some interbreeding with “When I saw them, my jaw ways the disaster is still having abandon nuclear energy our own ancestors — might have dropped,” he said. “The talons an impact today. Only days after the nuclear created jewellery without the were so complete and so beauti- meltdown in Fukushima, it help or influence of the modern ful, and the cut marks were so 1. The Fukushima disaster became clear that the most humans who take credit for the obvious.” itself is far from being over long-lasting policy repercus- art. In fact, they may have had the This is important, he said, Although about 6,000 employ- sions may not emerge in Japan, skill and sophistication necessary because of their age: 120,000 or ees have returned to the Daiichi but far away in Europe. German to catch multiple eagles — the 130,000 years ago, there were only power plant to work there daily, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who most aggressive aerial predators Neanderthals in Croatia. No mod- its ruins still pose a significant had previously defended nuclear of the day — and fashion their tal- ern humans were around. threat. Nuclear radiation remains energy, reversed her stance and ons into necklaces. “People often argue that dangerous in and around the announced that Germany would The evidence comes from the Neanderthals were mimicking destroyed reactors. Villages in its General aerial view of Tokyo Electric Power Co’s tsunami-crippled gradually turn off all nuclear bowels of a museum collection. modern humans instead of com- region will remain a no-go zone Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture. power plants forever. Nearly 60 At the turn of the 20th century, ing up with ornamental things on for inhabitants for an unpredict- percent of Germans said in a Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger their own,” Frayer said. “In this ably long time. and the shutdown of several of support for nuclear energy. 2011 survey that they considered excavated a site full of human and case, there’s no doubt: There were The nuclear power plant itself is power plants, power outages had However, in other countries its it plausible that a similar disaster animal remains in what is now only Neanderthals there, and only far from being secured: Its owner forced the nation to slow down its growth has drawn scepticism. could occur in their own region. Croatia. The site held nearly a Neanderthal tools.” TEPCO has so far been unable economic output. Four years later, As The Washington Post’s Eight of the country’s 17 thousand human bones and sev- Based on the wear of the talons, to remove hundreds of fuel rods the Japanese government seems Tim Craig reported last week, nuclear power plants were shut eral thousand animal bones, along Frayer and his colleagues believe stored nearby because the 2011 to have put economic growth Pakistan is constructing a nuclear down within days after the with at least a thousand tools, all that they were strung together earthquake destroyed large parts above nuclear safety: The coun- power plant in an area vulnerable Japanese catastrophe. Since from 120,000 to 130,000 years ago. and worn around the neck, where of the buildings. Furthermore, try’s GDP growth rate remains to tsunamis near Karachi — a city then, the German government Gorjanovic-Kramberger used sweat and other body fluids caused radiation continues to contami- low, with some analysts calling it with about 20 million inhabitants. has worked on a long-term strat- very modern techniques to keep polishing seen on similarly made nate underground water. “underwhelming at best,” accord- If one of the plant’s reactors were egy to make it independent from track of where he found each shell bead necklaces. Despite the contamination of ing to CNBC. to melt down, large parts of the nuclear energy as well as coal in specimen, but the researcher And because eagles would have large swaths of land, agricultural Abe won a majority in last city would be directly affected. the future. missed something that now been rare — and vicious — in that products and water resources, December’s general elections, India also opened a nuclear Somehow surprisingly, most seems obvious. environment, Frayer thinks the Japan’s government remains con- despite his declared goal to con- power plant in Koodankulam in Germans were sceptical the abil- “He found these eagle talons find suggests the Neanderthals vinced that nuclear energy will tinue to rely on nuclear energy 2013, a facility that is also threat- ity to replace nuclear energy and sent them to a bird specialist were skilled hunters. be an inevitable energy source for to fuel the economy. Before 2011, ened by tsunamis. The opposition and coal after the 2011 disaster, in Budapest,” said David Frayer of “There are talons from three the country in the future. nuclear energy had accounted for of citizens against such plans according to a BBC Globescan the University of Kansas, one of or four different eagles here, and According to some surveys, about a third of Japan’s energy seems to have proliferated, amid survey. Some still fear that aban- the authors of the new study. “But that represents a lot of planning 70 percent of Japan’s popula- supply. the catastrophic repercussions of doning nuclear energy could cause ironically, even though he was and skill,” he said. “They’re big tion oppose a reliance on nuclear Fukushima, according to a report a rise in energy prices or power the first person to identify cut birds, and they’re vicious when energy. However, the Japanese 2. Fukushima has provided by German broadcaster ARD. outages, but support for Merkel’s marks on human bones, he missed caught.” He also thinks the tal- government under the leader- opponents of nuclear power So, why do many countries decision has always been high. these really obvious signs of cut ons’ use as ornamentation — if ship of Shinzo Abe has decided with strong arguments keep pushing nuclear energy? Noack writes about foreign marks and manipulation on the that’s indeed what they were for to restart many of the country’s Industrialised countries such The most important reason is affairs. He is an Arthur F Burns eagle talons.” So did the bird — speaks to some impressive lev- troubled nuclear power plants. as the United States or France its cheap and reliable produc- Fellow at The Washington Post. specialist in Budapest. And the els of abstract thought. In the wake of the catastrophe have seen consistently high levels tion. Nuclear power plants also WP-BLOOMBERG museum curators who then stored WP-BLOOMBERG FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST World failing in Syria after 4 years of conflict 14 million children pay price for conflicts in Syria and Iraq, Unicef figures reveal

LONDON/DAMASCUS: The world in a generation,” Egeland, a former UN In the fourth year of the conflict, MSF’s international president, said in a which authorise U.N. aid missions to is “not even close to grasping the mag- humanitarian chief, said in an interview government forces carried out at least statement on Wednesday. “But it’s not. enter the country without the Syrian nitude” of the humanitarian crisis in on Tuesday. 1,450 indiscriminate attacks from the air, And the question is, why not?” government’s consent, have been “ignored Syria, a top aid official said ahead of The conflict began in March 2011 as Human Rights Watch said last month. MSF was forced to scale back its activ- or undermined”, the report said. the fourth anniversary of the peaceful a popular uprising by peaceful protest- According to the New York-based ities inside Syria when five staff mem- “I haven’t seen the Security Council protests that marked the start of the ers against Syrian President Bashar Al group, these attacks often use barrel bers were abducted by Islamic State in so defunct since the build-up to the Iraq devastating conflict. Assad. After a government crackdown, bombs, containers packed with explo- January 2014. “We could no longer trust war in 2003,” said Egeland. “I think they “We may live with the aftermath of the war has expanded into a civil conflict sives and projectiles that are dropped that our teams would not be harmed,” are not willing.” the Syrian conflict for generations,” Jan with regional backers. from helicopters. said Liu. NGOs also say there is a shortage of Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee The militant group Islamic State Humanitarian groups are finding it MSF has also been unsuccessful in donations. “There is less money per vic- Council (NRC), told the Thomson Reuters joined the fighting, and now controls a hard to alleviate the plight of civilians starting projects in government-held tim than a year ago,” Egeland said. Foundation. self-declared caliphate in a swathe of caught up in the conflict. territory. The access granted by gov- In December, a lack of funds forced The conflict has killed some 200,000 territory in Syria and Iraq, attracting Before the conflict, 2,500 doctors ernment forces to humanitarian groups the United Nations to suspend handouts people, created more than 3.9 million foreign recruits and world attention with worked in Aleppo, Syria’s second biggest has “decreased dramatically” in recent of food vouchers for 1.7 million Syrian refugees, mostly in Turkey, Lebanon and military advances and slickly produced city, but the medical charity Medecins months, Nigel Pont of Mercy Corps, a refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq Jordan, and displaced 7.6 million people videos. Sans Frontieres (MSF) estimates fewer global aid agency, told the Thomson and Egypt. Private funding for the Syrian within Syria, UN figures show. “Attention has focused so much on than 100 remain. Reuters Foundation. crisis “has always been low,” Nigel Pont New figures from Unicef show 14 mil- Islamic State that it is important to Life expectancy has plunged from 75.9 The United Nations Security Council of Mercy Corps said. lion children are affected by the conflict remind people what is happening on the years in 2010 to an estimated 55.7 at the is “failing Syria” by not implementing its Unlike natural disasters, the complex in Syria and neighbouring Iraq, with mil- government side,” Egeland said. end of 2014, a UN-backed study has said. own resolutions, the NRC and 20 other geopolitical causes of the Syrian crisis lions trapped in areas cut off from help Both Islamic State and the Syrian “Our organisation should be running aid groups, including Oxfam and Save the do not generate the same emotional due to fighting. government have been accused of crimes some of the largest medical programmes Children, said on Thursday. response from potential donors, he said. “This is the biggest humanitarian crisis against humanity by the United Nations. in its 44-year history,” Dr Joanne Liu, The unanimously passed resolutions, REUTERS Turkey detains 50 dead in battle in spy for helping UK girls join IS Assad home province ANKARA: Turkey yesterday BEIRUT: More than 50 regime soldiers and Islamist fighters were said it had detained an intelli- killed as they battled over a strategic hilltop in Syrian President gence agent working for one of Bashar Al Assad’s home province, a monitoring group said yester- the nations in the US-led coali- day. Government forces clashed with Al Qaeda-affiliated militants tion fighting Islamic State (IS) backed by other armed Islamist groups in a village in Latakia prov- for helping three British teen- ince in the northwest. age girls cross into Syria to join The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting broke the jihadists. out Wednesday and raged through the night in Jabal al-Akrad district, The surprise revelation a rare rebel stronghold in the province, which is the heartland of the by Foreign Minister Mevlut ruling Assad clan. Cavusoglu appeared aimed at Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate Al Nusra Front and its allies were seeking deflecting sustained criticism to recapture the village of Dourine, which overlooks their positions in from Western countries that one of the district’s main towns, Salma. Turkey is failing to halt the flow They lost the village to Assad’s forces last week after holding it for of jihadists across its borders. more than a year. “Do you know who helped those “The clashes on Wednesday led to 50 dead from both sides. There girls? He was captured. He was are many casualties because the fighters are facing off directly,” said someone working for the intelli- Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman. gence (service) of a country in the “Al Nusra managed to retake parts of the village, but the regime coalition,” Cavusoglu told the Al still controls the hilltop that overlooks Salma,” he said. Haber channel in an interview pub- The mountainous district of Jabal al-Akrad, which translates to lished by the official Anatolia news Mountain of the Kurds, is the main rebel stronghold in Latakia province agency. A Turkish government offi- Despite its name, it is populated mostly by Sunni Arabs who were cial said that the agent was arrested early supporters of the protests against the Assad regime in 2011. by Turkey’s security forces 10 days Jabal Al Akrad lies close to villages populated by Alawites, who ago, and added that the person was belong to the same offshoot of Shiite Islam as Assad. not a Turkish citizen. The region is one of multiple fronts in the four-year Syrian civil war, “We informed all the coun- which has killed more than 210,000 people. tries concerned,” the official said, In the central province of Homs, five regime soldiers were killed speaking on condition of anonym- Thursday in a suicide attack on an army checkpoint, the Britain-based ity. “It’s not an EU member, it’s Observatory said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for also not the US. He is working the blast in a statement posted on a jihadist website, saying it was for the intelligence of a country carried out by a Jordanian in an explosives-laden car. Rebel fighters from the Free Syrian Army’s Al Rahman legion fire a locally made weapon towards forces loyal to within the coalition,” Cavusoglu Syria’s state news agency Sana also reported the attack. It said four Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad, in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta yesterday. The presidential palace added. people were killed, without specifying whether they were soldiers or is in the centre backgound. AFP civilians. AFP

Sudan says not Khamenei condemns Republican letter on Iran scared of global DUBAI: Iran’s Supreme Leader The letter signed by 47 side is known for opacity, deceit chief nuclear negotiator, voiced States to reassure powerful hard- hit out yesterday at a letter by Republican senators warned Iran and backstabbing. “utter disbelief” at the senators’ liners in the clergy and security court, dismisses US Republican senators threat- that any nuclear deal made with “Every time we reach a stage action, saying the notion that they services, for whom anti-US sen- ening to undo any nuclear US President Barack Obama, a where the end of the negotiations could alter any executive accord timent has been central to Iran’s UN move deal between Washington and Democrat, could last only as long is in sight, the tone of the other between government leaders was Islamic Revolution. Tehran, saying he was wor- as he remained in office - an unu- side, specifically the Americans, “flat wrong”. The nuclear negotiations, which KHARTOUM: Sudan said yes- ried because the United States sual intervention into US foreign becomes harsher, coarser and Khamenei has long been a con- resume in Lausanne, Switzerland, terday it was not scared of the was known for “backstabbing”, policy-making. tougher. This is the nature of servative hardliner wary of any next week, are at a critical junc- International Criminal Court Mehr news agency reported. The White House has described their tricks and deceptions.” detente with the West but has ture as the sides try to meet an (ICC) and dismissed the tribu- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the the letter as “reckless” and “irre- The clerical Supreme Leader backed the diplomacy pursued end of March target for an outline nal’s move to report it to the ultimate authority on all Iranian sponsible,” saying it interfered said the letter was “a sign of by Rouhani, who was elected by a accord, with June 30 the deadline UN Security Council as a sign matters of state, added at a with efforts by six major pow- the decay of political ethics in landslide in 2013 promising steps for a detailed, final agreement. of failure. meeting with President Hassan ers to negotiate with Iran on a the American system”, and he to end Iran’s economically crip- Iran and the powers have twice The ICC said on Monday that Rowhani and senior clerics that deal to prevent it from building described as risible long-standing pling international isolation. extended their deadline to con- Sudan had failed to cooperate in whenever negotiators made a nuclear bomb. Mehr quoted US accusations of Iranian involve- At the same time, Khamenei clude the negotiations, which aim its war crimes investigation of progress, the Americans became Khamenei as saying: “Of course ment in terrorism. US Secretary has not stopped speeches larded to place curbs on Iran’s nuclear President Omar Hassan Al Bashir “harsher, tougher and coarser”. I am worried, because the other of State John Kerry, Washington’s with denunciations of the United energy capacity. REUTERS and it would ask the Security Council to take unspecified meas- ures in response. In the first official reaction, Christian forces Sudan information minister and UN resolution needed for any government spokesman Ahmed Bilal Osman told the Sudanese Media Centre website, which has Nato role in Libya: Spain close links to state security: MADRID: UN Security on a political solution but have “The decisions of the Council member Spain called not definitively ruled out another International Criminal Court yesterday for a deal to end intervention. are non-binding on the govern- unrest in Libya within weeks Garcia-Margallo said that if ment of Sudan and the referral and said a UN resolution would UN-brokered talks led to the of Sudan’s case to the Security be needed to approve any Nato creation of a “unity govern- Council shows the failure of the intervention there. ment” in Libya, that body could ICC which is seeking punishment Concerned by violence and then “request the support that it for Sudan.” the rise of Islamist groups in considers appropriate in Libya, “The ICC is aware that it Libya, Spanish Foreign Minister which is the top item on our doesn’t scare Sudan,” Osman said. Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo agenda”. The court, which investigates appeared in Madrid alongside “Any Nato intervention war crimes and grave violations Nato Secretary General Jens in Libya, which right now it of human rights, issued arrest Stoltenberg to tout security coop- is too soon to decide upon, warrants for Bashir in 2009 eration in the region. would require a UN Security and 2010 over charges he mas- A Nato air campaign in Libya Resolution,” Garcia-Margallo terminded war crimes, crimes in 2011 backed the uprising told a news conference alongside against humanity and genocide that ousted and killed dictator Stoltenberg. in the western Darfur province. Muammar Gaddafi. Rival groups “Once such a resolution is He has long rejected the court’s are now battling for control of the passed, it will be up to the bod- authority. In December, ICC country’s cities and oilfields. ies within the alliance to take prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said Western powers including the most appropriate decision to she had suspended her inquiries Spain, which this year holds achieve stability in Libya, which Iraqi Christian forces march during their graduation ceremony in the northwestern town of Fishkhabur, near in Sudan because the Security a non-permanent seat on the is an urgent matter,” he added. the borders with Syria and Turkey, yesterday. Council had done too little to sup- Security Council, have insisted AFP port her efforts. REUTERS FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Ferguson tense after two officers shot County police chief calls it ambush; US attorney general denounces shootings as inexcusable and repugnant

FERGUSON: The shooting of two with Belmar asserting they came from police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, the middle of the crowd gathered in front during a protest rally sparked an of police headquarters. intense manhunt for suspects yester- “I don’t know who did the shooting, ... day and ratcheted up tensions in a city but somehow they were embedded in that at the centre of a national debate over group of folks,” Belmar said. race and policing. Protesters at the scene insisted on US President Barack Obama and social media that the shots came from Attorney General Eric Holder con- further away. demned the attack on the officers, who “The shooter was not with the protest- were treated at a local hospital and ers. The shooter was atop the hill,” activ- released, as a law enforcement team in ist DeRay McKesson said on Twitter. tactical gear swarmed a home in the “I was here. I saw the officer fall. The St Louis suburb. Television images shot came from at least 500 feet away showed officers on the roof breaking into from the officers,” he said. the attic with heavy tools. A string of Ferguson officials quit after Shawn McGuire, a St Louis County the Justice Department report, which police spokesman, said an undisclosed found the city used police as a collection number of people were taken from the agency, issuing traffic citations to black house but there have been no arrests residents to boost its coffers, resulting so far. He would not confirm media in a “toxic environment”. Activists want reports that two men and a woman were the city mayor, James Knowles, to step led away. down as well. Long-simmering tensions between Rev Osagyefo Sekou, a frequent par- African-Americans and Ferguson’s ticipant in the protests in Ferguson over mostly white police force came to a boil the last several months, said he was in Police officers respond to a fellow officer hit by gunfire outside the Ferguson Police Headquarters in Ferguson, Missouri, yesterday. in August when a white policeman killed the crowd when shots rang out. an unarmed black teenager. The shoot- “Tensions are high,” Sekou said. “We ing of 18-year-old Michael Brown led to lodged near his ear, St Louis County Belmar told a news conference author- York City patrolmen, saying he sought deplore all forms of violence, we are a a coast-to-coast wave of demonstrations Police Chief Jon Belmar said. ities had possible leads, and said the to avenge the killings of Brown and an non-violent movement. But we also last year. “This is really an ambush, is what it shooter used a handgun and shell cas- unarmed black man in New York. In both deplore the findings of the Department The rally at Ferguson police head- is,” Belmar said of the shootings, the ings had been recovered. cases, grand juries decided against bring- of Justice report and the suffering and quarters on Wednesday evening was worst outbreak of violence in the city “This is No 1 priority of St Louis ing criminal charges. the misery that this community has called hours after the resignation of its since riots that broke out in November County police to identify that individual “We reject any kind of violence directed endured.” long-criticised police chief, Tom Jackson, after the announcement that a grand jury or individuals,” said Belmar, who leads the toward members of law enforcement,” After the report, Holder said the fed- but activists demanded more changes. decided against indicting the officer who police force in the county that includes Brown’s family said in a statement. eral government would demand police Jackson quit in the wake of a scathing US killed Brown. Ferguson. Officers did not return fire but “We specifically denounce the actions of reforms in Ferguson, including possibly Justice Department report that found his The shootings were “inexcusable and may in future, he said. stand-alone agitators who unsuccessfully dismantling the department. force was rife with racial bias. repugnant,” Holder said in a statement. “I have said all along that we cannot attempt to derail the otherwise peace- Knowles said on Wednesday he was Around midnight, gunfire rang out, The White House sent a Tweet that read: sustain this forever without problems,” ful and non-violent movement that has committed to keeping the department leaving a 41-year-old St Louis County “Violence against police is unaccept- he said, referring to festering tensions emerged throughout this nation to con- intact, but Belmar, the St Louis County Police officer with a shoulder wound and a able. Our prayers are with the officers in in the city since Brown’s death. front police brutality.” chief, would not rule out the possibility 32-year-old officer from nearby Webster MO. Path to justice is one all of us must The shooting came less than three Police and protesters appeared to disa- that the county would take over policing Groves Police Department with a bullet travel together.” months after a man ambushed two New gree about where the shots came from, in the town. REUTERS

Royal touch Latest US Secret Czechs refuse comment Service scandal on Russia disappoints Obama spying report PRAGUE: The Czech foreign WASHINGTON: Two sen- The officers drove very close minister declined to comment ior US Secret Service agents to the item, which later was yesterday on a magazine report returning from a party drove found to be a book wrapped in a about suspected espionage by a government car through green shirt, and may have even Russian diplomats based in the police tape and barricades into driven over it, according to the country but he acknowledged an area where their colleagues newspaper, citing interviews that relations with Moscow were investigating a suspicious with investigators who reviewed were “not ideal”. package, The Washington Post surveillance video. Citing Czech government reported yesterday. Secret Service officers on duty sources, weekly magazine Respekt The White House and the Secret suspected the agents were drunk, said yesterday Prague had forced Service have not commented but a supervisor let the agents go two Russian diplomats to leave directly on the incident, which is home, the Post reported. the country in the past nine under investigation by an internal Secret Service Director Joe months and had denied a visa to watchdog at the Department of Clancy — chosen by Obama a third who had been due to join Homeland Security. to lead the agency last month the embassy staff. It comes on the heels of a series after a lengthy external review Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (right) is shown costumes during a visit to the set of British televi- The foreign ministry, informed of scandals for the agency that — asked the Inspector General sion series Downton Abbey at Ealing Studios in west London yesterday. of their suspected activities by the protects the president and his of the Department of Homeland Czech counter-intelligence agency family. Security to investigate. (BIS), did not openly expel them President Barack Obama was Obama has full confidence in in order to avoid repercussions “disappointed to hear the allega- Clancy, said Schultz, the White but instead decided not to extend tions” earlier this week, White House spokesman. OSCE to double Ukraine observers or issue visas to them, the maga- House spokesman Eric Schultz “Nobody has higher stand- zine said. told reporters. ards for the Secret Service than VIENNA: The Organization Last week the foreign minis- line” in the eastern Donetsk and In retaliation, Russia forced The Washington Post said the Director Clancy,” Schultz said. for Security and Cooperation in ters of Germany and Russia called Lugansk regions, with crossfire two Czech diplomats to leave agents — one a top member of A Secret Service official said Europe is to double the poten- for the expansion and the exten- continuing in some places but at Moscow, it added. Obama’s protective detail and the the two employees have been tial size of its observer mission sion in order to “efficiently moni- “a lower level,” Hug said. Asked about the report, Foreign other a senior supervisor in the “reassigned to non-supervisory, in war-torn eastern Ukraine to tor” the latest Ukraine ceasefire The most critical locations were Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said: Washington field office — drove non-operational assignments.” A up to 1,000 personnel, a spokes- between pro-Russian separatists the village of Shyrokyne, east of “I will not comment on that to the White House just before spokeswoman declined to provide woman for the security body and Ukrainian government troops southeastern port of Mariupol, in any specific way. I can only 11pm on March 4 after a party the agents’ names. told AFP yesterday. in areas of Ukraine bordering and the areas surrounding the acknowledge that the situation at a bar. The agency was criticised as “The decision was adopted Russia. Donetsk airport, Hug said. is not ideal, that such situations They drove through an area being too insular by an inde- today (by OSCE member states). Earlier yesterday in Kiev, “In general it is positive that repeatedly occur and we are solv- marked off with police tape where pendent panel appointed in the The mission can now have a size Alexander Hug, deputy chief of most of this fighting is being ing them.” their colleagues were investigat- wake of an intrusion last year, of up to 1,000 according to the the OSCE’s Special Monitoring conducted with small arms and “Sometimes some diplomats ing a package thrown out of a car when a man with a knife scaled circumstances. The mandate was Mission (SMM), said that the smaller calibre weapons and it’s leave or have to leave and then by a woman who had shouted, the White House fence and ran also extended to March 31, 2016,” ceasefire was largely holding but is an indication that heavy weapons the other side reacts. It is not an “It’s a bomb,” the newspaper said, inside the mansion. spokeswoman Mersiha Podzic on “thin ice”. “The ceasefire holds have actually been withdrawn and ideal situation, but it is regularly citing a police report. REUTERS said. broadly along the long contact are not being used as often.” AFP repeated and we haven’t managed to change it,” he told reporters. BIS has warned of growing Russian espionage activity in recent years, saying it posed one of the biggest security threats to the Czech Republic, a former Five dead, 25 missing as fire ravages mall in Russia Soviet satellite state that joined NATO in 1999 and the European MOSCOW: Russian rescue in Tatarstan, told AFP. seal off the building on Wednesday Union in 2004. A BIS spokesman workers yesterday combed “It could take several days.” afternoon as panicked shop own- contacted over the Respekt arti- through the incinerated rubble Five people — a woman and ers pushed past a security cordon cle said the agency would neither of a shopping mall for the bodies four men — have been confirmed into the burning centre in a bid to confirm nor deny any report of 25 people still missing a day dead. Two of the victims are from save their merchandise. about its activities. after a fire ripped through the the impoverished Central Asian A total of 650 shoppers were “In general I can say that we centre, leaving five dead, local nation of Tajikistan, the emergen- rescued from the fire. have quite good knowledge of the officials said. cies ministry said. Television footage showed tow- activities of Russian intelligence Rescue workers were clear- He said that the emergencies ering plumes of black smoke ris- services on our territory and we ing the debris after the three- ministry would not declare the ing from the burning building. inform about them in our pub- storey building was destroyed in missing dead before it finds their A total of 55 sought medical lic annual reports,” BIS spokes- the blaze in Kazan, the capital of bodies. Earlier in the day, Igor help and 16 still remained hospi- man Jan Subrt said. The Russian Tatarstan some 800 kilometres Panshin, director of the emer- talised, regional health authori- embassy in Prague also declined (500 miles) east of Moscow. gencies situations ministry in the ties said. Tatarstan prosecutors to comment on the Respekt “They still have to comb Volga region, said that up to 25 called for the arrest of the head report. The Russian foreign min- through 8,000 cubic metres of people could be under the rubble. of a company that rented the istry in Moscow did not immedi- Members of the emergency services carrying a body from a shopping mall debris,” Andrei Rodygin, spokes- Some 500 police officers and premises for failing to properly ately reply to a faxed request from that went up in flames in Kazan, Russia, yesterday. man for the emergencies ministry riot police had been deployed to evacuate people. AFP Reuters for comment. REUTERS FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA Foreign mercenaries Building collapse fighting Boko Haram S African, ex-Soviet soldiers bolster anti-Islamist fight JOHANNESBURG/DAKAR: In confirming the presence of major offensive operations against Nigeria has brought in hun- hundreds of foreign military con- Boko Haram, and were being paid dreds of mercenaries from tractors on the ground, including around $400 a day in cash. South Africa and the former recently in the city of Maiduguri, Their impact on the fighting Soviet Union to give its offen- security and diplomatic sources so far could not be quantified, but sive against Boko Haram a shot put the total much higher than the the general run of the campaign in the arm before a March 28 hundred or so previously reported. has seen the tide turn somewhat election, according to regional Nigerian government spokes- against Boko Haram in recent security, defence and diplomatic man Mike Omeri declined to weeks. sources. comment, referring questions Separately, a South African Rumours about the use of for- to military spokesman Chris defence contractor confirmed that eign “soldiers of fortune” against Olukolade, who also declined to ex-Executive Outcomes leaders the Islamist militant group gained respond to multiple requests for were involved in the deployment, substance this month when pic- comment. which comes after the six-week tures surfaced on Twitter show- In an interview with Voice postponement of elections in mid- ing armoured vehicles rumbling of America late on Wednesday, February due to the threat from along a street in what was said to President Goodluck Jonathan Boko Haram. be Maiduguri, the regional capi- said two companies were provid- One Abuja-based diplomat said tal of Nigeria’s Boko Haram-hit ing “trainers and technicians” to the South Africans were backed northeast. help Nigerian forces. He did not by soldiers and hardware from the Rescue workers at the scene of a collapsed cement factory in the port town of Mongla, southwest of Dhaka, In one photo that appeared name the firms, or the nationali- former Soviet Union in an alliance yesterday. Five people were confirmed dead, six were in a critical condition and dozens were feared trapped on Twitter on March 6, a white ties, or give numbers. against Boko Haram, which has after the roof of the half-built building collapsed. man in a khaki tee shirt and body But a West African secu- killed thousands of people in its armour is shown beside a heavy- rity source and a South African six-year campaign to establish calibre machine gun on top of one defence source said the foreign an Islamic caliphate in northern of the sand-coloured vehicles as troops were linked to the bosses Nigeria. the column drives through the of former South African private “It’s an incoherent mix of peo- Myanmar frees streets at dusk. military firm Executive Outcomes. ple, helicopters and random kit Australian offer to A reporter with knowledge Executive Outcomes was best- from all sorts of different sources, of Maiduguri was able to verify known for its involvement in but there is an element of internal some student the location of the photo as the Angola’s 1975-2002 civil war and cohesion from the Nigerian army,” Bama road, leading southeast out against Revolutionary United the diplomat said. pay for smugglers’ protesters of the city, near the University of Front rebels in an internal con- “It appears to be a desperate Maiduguri. flict in Sierra Leone in 1995. It ploy to get some sort of tactical LETPADAN: Myanmar yes- Election campaign posters of disbanded in 1998, under pressure success up there in six weeks for terday freed from jail more than Borno state governor Kashim from the post-apartheid govern- the electoral boost,” the diplomat jail time rejected a dozen students detained this Shettima hanging from street ment in Pretoria to curtail mer- added. week in a violent crackdown in lights indicate it was taken cenary activities. The numbers of soldiers JAKARTA: Indonesia said yes- Sukumaran should a transfer not which riot police beat protesters recently. The lights, notable for The West African security involved were in the “low hun- terday it had rejected an offer be possible,” Bishop wrote in the with batons and arrested 127 their ornate ironwork, were only source said several hundred for- dreds”, the diplomat added. from Australia to pay the cost of letter, released by her department. people after a lengthy stand-off. installed last year. eigners were involved in running REUTERS life imprisonment for two drug “The vast majority of Tuesday’s crackdown in the smugglers if they are spared Australians very strongly sup- town of Letpadan, about 140 the firing squad, as Jakarta sig- port the government’s efforts to km north of Yangon, followed a nalled the executions might not seek clemency for Mr Chan and stand-off of more than a week take place for weeks. Mr Sukumaran.” with security forces who blocked Foreign Minister Julie Bishop But Indonesian Foreign the students from marching to made the offer in a letter to her Ministry spokesman Arrmanatha the commercial capital to pro- Canberra probes claim Aussie Indonesian counterpart Retno Nasir said later that the offer of test against an education bill Marsudi as Canberra explores all paying for the men’s imprison- they said would stifle academic avenues to convince Jakarta not to ment had also been rejected. freedom. execute the Australians, Andrew “The death penalty has already At least 14 students were freed teen was Iraq suicide bomber Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. been decided by the courts,” he from a prison in Letpadan yester- They are among several for- said. “This is not a negotiation, a day and the government plans to SYDNEY: Australian authori- Iraqi officials said 13 vehi- the “increasingly-intrusive” eigners, including a Frenchman, legal decision has been taken.” release a total of 27, said a district ties are investigating claims by cles attacked army positions in Australian authorities to prevent a Brazilian, three Nigerians and The spokesman added Jakarta official who requested anonymity, Islamic State that an Australian Ramadi, the capital of Anbar his exit he drew up a “Plan B”. convicts from the Philippines and “regretted” that the details of as he was not authorised to speak teenage recruit died after blow- province. No details on casualties “This plan involved launch- Ghana, who are expected to be the ministers’ communications to the media. ing himself up in Iraq, and local were given. ing a string of bombings across executed in the near future for appeared to have been leaked by “As students, we are not media reported that bomb-mak- The Australian Broadcasting Melbourne, targeting foreign drug-related crimes. Canberra, as “diplomatic norms demanding power; we are just ing materials had been found at Corporation reported yesterday consulates and political/military However, the attorney-general’s dictate that we do not communi- demanding to change the educa- his family home in Melbourne. that Bilardi had left materials for targets as well as grenade and office confirmed yesterday they cate or do our diplomacy through tion law,” said one protester, Yin A blog post believed to be writ- improvised explosive devices at his knife attacks on shopping centres would stick to an initial plan of the media”. Mon Mon Aung. ten by 18-year-old Jake Bilardi, family home before going to Syria. and cafes and culminating with putting all the offenders to death Sukumaran and Chan, ringlead- “I also want to say to police not written under his pseudonym Abu Bishop said she did not want to myself detonating a belt of explo- at the same time, meaning the ers of the so-called “Bali Nine” to use violence against students,” Abdullah Al Australi, revealed comment on whether Bilardi was sives amongst the kuffar,” the blog date might be pushed back for drug trafficking gang, were sen- he said after his release. how he had considered carrying involved in planning an attack in read, using a derogatory term for some time as authorities wait for tenced to death in 2006 for trying Police had interrogated those out attacks on home soil. Australia. non-Muslims. several to complete legal appeals. to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia. arrested to determine if they Foreign Minister Julie Bishop “These are matters we are cur- He gave up the plan, fearing it Bishop suggested a prisoner- They recently lost their appeals were “real students” and authori- told reporters yesterday that secu- rently seeking to confirm, and would be thwarted by the police, swap with Indonesia in a tense for presidential clemency, typically ties were contacting their parents rity agencies were trying to verify once I’ve had a briefing from our according to the blog. phone call with Marsudi on March the final chance to avoid the fir- “to hand them over properly”, the reports that Bilardi had carried agencies on these issues, I will Australian Federal Police said 3, which was rejected, and in a fol- ing squad, and have been moved to state-backed Global New Light of out a suicide attack in the Iraqi make a comment on it,” she told they were aware of the blog low-up letter said Canberra was Nusakambangan prison island off Myanmar newspaper said. city of Ramadi. reporters. but declined to comment on its willing to pay for the pair’s life Java, where their executions are “However, action will be taken Islamic State released an image In a blog post purportedly authenticity. imprisonment costs. due to take place. against those who commit crimi- on Wednesday claiming to show written from Anbar in January, Australian security forces “As discussed, the Australian Their lawyers have mounted a nal acts, instigate instability him getting ready to carry out the Bilardi said he tried to make believe 90 citizens are fighting with government would be prepared to final legal challenge to Widodo’s and lead the protests behind the attack, as well as images of what contact with Islamic State but Islamic State, and 20 are under- cover the costs of the ongoing life decision to reject their pleas for scene,” it added. appeared to be an explosion. fearing possible attempts by stood to have died. REUTERS imprisonment of Mr Chan and Mr clemency. AFP REUTERS

Philippine China detains 5 S Korea official backtracks police promise rights activists on forced unification BEIJING: China formally ‘truth’ about detained five women’s rights SEOUL: A senior South Korean and training for invasion, and activists yesterday, apparently official was forced to backpedal Chung’s remarks are the sort that disastrous raid for planning to demonstrate furiously yesterday after he Pyongyang would seize on as fur- against sexual harassment on revealed that Seoul was secretly ther evidence. MANILA: Philippine police say public transport, paving the way planning for the possibility of As some members of the rul- they are confident that they have for police to levy formal charges. “non-consensual” unification ing Saenuri party called for Chung found “the truth” of what hap- The detention of the women is with North Korea. to resign, the presidential Blue pened during a disastrous oper- the latest development in a case Chung Chong-Wook, the vice House and Chung’s committee ation against one of the world’s that has drawn censure from chairman of the Presidential issued statements insisting the most wanted Islamic militants international rights groups and Committee for Unification South had no intention of forcing that left 44 police commandos underscores a widening campaign Preparation, said he had used the the unification of the peninsula. dead, officials said yesterday. by President Xi Jinping to quash “wrong words” during a breakfast And Chung himself came out Forty-four police comman- any dissent among academics, forum on Tuesday. with a 180 degree reversal on his dos were slaughtered by Muslim journalists and social activists. At the event, Chung had said previous remarks. rebels in a cornfield in the south- The women had made signs and there were a “variety of road “There is nothing like a team ern Philippines during a high-risk Police officials sign a copy of their findings about the January 25 incident, stickers bearing slogans like “stop maps” for unification and that within the committee that pre- raid that also reportedly killed in which 44 police commandos were killed, at the Philippine National Police sexual harassment,” and calling for his committee had a special team pares for unification through alleged Malaysian bomb-maker headquarters in Manila yesterday. police to arrest molesters. “preparing for non-consensual absorption,” he said yesterday. Zulkifli bin Hir, who goes by the The women, who are from three unification”. North and South Korea came alias “Marwan”. be able to tell you what really hap- Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas. cities, are being held at a detention In the event of the North being into being as separate states in The botched operation on 25 pened,” said Benjamin Magalong, Megalong stressed his report centre in Beijing, lawyers for three absorbed by the South, he also 1948 and the 1950-53 Korean war January has shaken the govern- head of the national police’s inves- did not recommend specific crimi- of them said by phone. said there were plans for how to sealed the division. ment of President Benigno Aquino, tigation group. nal charges against anyone for the “This is completely unreason- deal with the elite members of the Professor Yang Moo-Jin of who in a recent speech blamed Megalong said it would be up to bungled raid. able,” said Wang Qiushi, a lawyer Pyongyang regime. the University of North Korean the head of the police commando the government whether to make “We only do fact-finding. We are for one of them. “None of them has While Seoul has contingency Studies in Seoul said Chung had unit Getulio Napenas for feeding the findings public and denied sug- not prosecutorial,” he added. violated the law.” plans for multiple scenarios, the spoken out of turn about plans him wrong information ahead of gestions that Aquino’s allegations The pre-dawn raid on a They were planning demonstra- only official policy goal is that of a that existed but were never for- the campaign, which he also said had influenced the inquiry. secluded farming village control- tions in Beijing and the southern gradual, step-by-step unification mally acknowledged. “It’s only should have been aborted. The 120-page report was sub- led by Muslim rebels was meant to city of Guangzhou on the week- based on consensus. normal that preparations should “We are confident that we were mitted to the national police chief be a surprise attack, but hundreds end of International Women’s Day, North Korea repeatedly accuses be made for any conceivable even- able to seek out the truth and we Deputy Director Leonardo Espina, of rebels surrounded and overpow- March 8. the South, and its main ally the tuality,” Yang said. are also confident that we would who is expected to send it to ered the commandos. AFP REUTERS United States, of preparing AFP FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Secret meetings expose obstacles to Afghan talks ISLAMABAD: Days after word with Kabul. Mansour and Zakir, expected to demand the immedi- spokesman Hong Lei said reports not been seen in public since the leadership. leaked that the Afghan Taliban long-time rivals, met recently to ate withdrawal of the remaining its diplomats in Islamabad met US-sponsored toppling of the “It’s early, but the signs are had signalled willingness to enter resolve their personal differences, foreign troops, a request Afghan with Taliban representatives “do Taliban after the September 11, good,” said Saifullah Mahsud, head talks to end Afghanistan’s long slaughtering sheep for a feast to President Ashraf Ghani appears not accord with reality”. 2001 attacks. Afghan security of the FATA Research Centre, an war, senior representatives of the mark the occasion, according to sure to reject. However, according to two sen- reports late last year indicated Islamabad-based think-tank. militant group visited Islamabad two Taliban sources. Still, the process is at least ior insurgent commanders with Zakir openly questioned whether “The Afghan Taliban have their for secret discussions on the next But Mansour was unable to moving, according to accounts direct knowledge of the visit, the Omar was alive. financiers, their businesses, their step forward. persuade Zakir to reverse his from several Taliban sources Taliban delegation to Islamabad Some experts are more hope- families here. The Afghan Taliban They left with a blunt message opposition to direct talks with in Afghanistan and Pakistan travelled on to Quetta, the south- ful of progress this time around are smart enough to know that from Pakistan: the Taliban must Kabul, which he sees as “wasting as well as senior Pakistani and western Pakistani city where because of a Pakistani threat to the Pakistani state is a better end a rift between two top lead- time” because the United States Afghan officials. This week, the many Taliban leaders remain in arrest or expel Taliban leaders if contact than the TTP.” ers, or talks might never get off holds real power in Afghanistan, US Special Representative for hiding, to brief them on the pre- they do not negotiate with Kabul. Another new development is the ground. the sources added. Afghanistan and Pakistan, Daniel liminary discussions. That could force the Afghan willingness by the Taliban to open The warning was a reminder of The latest peace initiative, Feldman, made an unannounced “They said Pakistani officials Taliban to cut ties with al Qaeda talks without preconditions, said how tough it will be to get insur- considered more promising than visit to Islamabad to discuss the had advised them to remove our and the separate Pakistani a senior Pakistani official with gents and the Afghan government recent doomed efforts because of possibility of talks, the Pakistani internal differences before start- Taliban, or TTP. direct knowledge of the process. around the same table, let alone Pakistani and Chinese mediation, army confirmed. ing formal talks with Kabul,” one Renewed Pakistani pressure However, Taliban representa- agree a lasting peace, even with is aimed at ending an escalating And in late February, a delega- of the Taliban commanders said on the Afghan Taliban was gal- tives have indicated that, should help from Pakistan, the Taliban’s conflict in which hundreds of tion led by Qari Din Mohammad by telephone. Because Zakir holds vanized by the TTP’s massacre of talks begin, they would make erstwhile backer that still wields Afghans are killed every month. Hanif of the Taliban’s political sway over several thousand fight- 132 students in December at an demands including the immedi- influence over them. The potential breakthrough office in Qatar met in Islamabad ers in eastern Afghanistan, it is army-run school in the Pakistani ate departure of all foreign troops. The two senior Taliban figures comes after foreign combat troops with Pakistani army leaders and uncertain if any ceasefire could city of Peshawar. A senior aide to Ghani said in question are political leader withdrew at the end of 2014, leav- Chinese diplomats, according to hold were he to continue opposing In return for Pakistani sup- anticipated Taliban demands, Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, ing a smaller training force of accounts by two Taliban com- direct talks with Kabul. port for talks, Afghanistan has which may also include re-impos- who favours negotiation, and bat- about 12,000. manders and two senior Pakistani The verdict of Mullah targeted TTP strongholds in its ing the harsh interpretation of tlefield commander Abdul Qayum Many obstacles to peace officials. The Taliban’s official Mohammad Omar, the Taliban’s eastern Kunar province, near the Islamic law the movement enforced Zakir, a former Guantanamo remain. Both sides are deeply spokesman denied the visit took reclusive supreme leader, could Pakistan border - an indication of during its five-year rule, would be Bay detainee, who opposes talks suspicious and the Taliban are place. China’s foreign ministry prove key, if it comes. He has improving relations under Ghani’s unacceptable. REUTERS Group rejoins Taliban Crowded classroom amid isolation fears Jamaatul Ahrar backtracks after pledging allegiance to IS

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, ideologies, each fighting to topple Jamaat-ul-Ahrar announced its PAKISTAN: A militant splin- the governments of their home decision to rejoin the Pakistani ter group that broke from the countries and set up an Islamist Taliban in a press release from Pakistani Taliban last year and theocracy. spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan. declared allegiance to Islamic Now Pakistani insurgents are Another militant group, Tehreek- State (IS) announced yester- becoming increasingly worried e-Lashkar-e-Islam, is also joining day it was rejoining the Taliban about being squeezed between the main Taliban insurgency, the insurgency, a move that could a hostile Pakistani military statement said. be prompted by fears of isolation and a potentially inhospita- That group, already sympa- amid possible Afghan peace talks. ble Afghanistan, said Saifullah thetic to the Taliban, is led by Afghan officials announced last Mahsud of the FATA Research Mangal Bagh and has its main month they were exploring pos- Centre. strength in Khyber Agency and sible peace talks with the Afghan “They are all in the same boat. the hotly contested Tirah valley, Taliban although no firm dates for It makes more sense for them to one of the main smuggling routes formal meetings were set. join hands rather than fight the into Afghanistan. Pakistani officials also Pakistani army alone,” Mahsud “This blessed decision was announced their support for the said. Jamaatul Ahrar split from taken by the leaders of all the Children study at a tuition centre at a slum in Islamabad yesterday. talks, underlining warming rela- the Pakistani Taliban last sum- three jihadi groups,” the state- tions with Afghanistan’s new mer amid leadership rivalries. The ment said. “We warn the follow- president after years of distrust splinter group launched a series ers and defenders of the infidel under the previous regime. of devastating suicide attacks and democratic system of Pakistan Woman rights activist honoured in UK Pakistani and Afghan insur- later announced its allegiance to that in any situation we will not gents have long had bases either the IS group, a move that Mahsud let the conspiracies of the (infidel) ISLAMABAD: Gulalai Ismail, Mohammad Ismail, a known She received the award in side of the border, benefiting said signalled frustration over Pak Army ... succeed.” a 28-year-old rights activist social worker of the region. recognition of her efforts for from the hostility between the waning support from an embat- In June, Pakistan’s military belonging to Marghuz village The award recognises out- protecting rights of young governments of the two neigh- tled Al Qaeda and hope that IS launched an operation to drive the of Swabi district in northwest standing young people under 30 women and girls and strength- bouring countries. The Afghan might send men or money. So far, Taliban from their bases in the Pakistan, received the ‘Youth whose development projects and ening the political participation and Pakistani Taliban are two there have been few signs that IS remote mountain region of North Award for Excellency in programmes have significant of young women in Khyber separate groups that are loosely has provided significant support Waziristan, along the Afghan bor- Development’ in London. impacts on their communities, Pakhtunkhwa province. allied and share similar hard-line to Pakistani or Afghan groups. der. REUTERS She is daughter of Prof countries and the world. INTERNEWS

Pakistan hangs triple murderer Pakistan forces kill 13 rebels in southwest: Officials QUETTA: Around 1,000 capital of Baluchistan province Provincial Home Minister Baluchistan, Pakistan’s larg- homegrown Islamist insurgency. LAHORE: Pakistan yester- Pakistani paramilitary troops which is wracked by a tribal Sarfraz Bugti said the militants est but least developed and most Yesterday’s incident in day hanged a man convicted of backed by helicopters are bat- insurgency, Taliban attacks and were members of the Baloch sparsely populated province, has Peshawar erupted after mili- murdering three people, taking tling separatists in the coun- sectarian violence. Republican Army (BRA). been afflicted for decades by a tary personnel at a checkpoint to 25 the number of executions try’s restive southwest, with “Security forces have killed “We have evidence that they separatist insurgency that was intercepted a suspicious man carried out since the country the rebel death toll rising to 13 at least 13 miscreants who were were members of the BRA and revived in 2004. and he took out his gun and resumed the death sentence in yesterday on the second day of hiding in the gasfield when they were miscreants,” he said. One militant and a civil- started shooting, senior police December. fighting. refused to surrender,” Manzoor “We took this action to set up ian were also killed during an official Omar Rana said. “The Muhammad Siddique, a secu- The clash with separatists Ahmed, a spokesman for Frontier peace in the region and we will attack on a checkpoint in the attacker and a passenger in a van rity guard convicted by an anti- began on Wednesday in the area Corps said. act against the miscreants wher- northwestern city of Peshawar were killed and six others were terrorism court of murdering of a gasfield in Pirkoh, some 245 There was no loss on the secu- ever we get an information about Thursday, which has borne the wounded in the exchange of fire,” three people in a theatre following km southeast of Quetta, the rity forces’ side, he added. them,” he added. brunt of a more than decade-long Rana said. AFP a quarrel, was hanged in Toba Tek Singh district in Punjab province. Following a Taliban school mas- sacre in December that left more than 150 people dead, Pakistan lifted a six-year moratorium on executions in terror cases. Court remands 28 The government extended the order on Tuesday, directing pro- vincial governments to proceed with hangings for all death row MQM members prisoners who had exhausted their appeals and clemency peti- KARACHI: A court remanded the paramilitary Rangers opened tions. “Siddique, a 60-year-old 28 members of the main politi- fire on protesting party members. private security guard was hanged cal party in Pakistan’s largest The 28 accused were brought at 05:30 am for killing three peo- city Karachi in custody yes- blindfolded and handcuffed to the ple in a theatre in 2004,” Wasif terday, a day after they were court yesterday amidst a large Bashir, a senior administration arrested during a raid on the contingent of police and para- official in the city, said. party’s headquarters. military Rangers. Reintroducing the death Pakistani security forces on Aamir Khan, a senior leader, penalty was part of Pakistan’s Wednesday raided the office of waved a V-for-victory sign as he stepping up of the fight against the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was jostled on his way out from militants and criminals since the (MQM), the main political party the court. attack on school in the northwest- in Karachi, seizing a “huge quan- Judge Khalida Yasmeen ern city of Peshawar in December. tity” of weapons and arresting granted the Rangers 90 days Heavily armed gunmen went activists, including one accused custody of the men in order to from room to room at the army- of murdering a journalist. investigate the weapons charges run school gunning down 153 peo- The raid on MQM headquar- against them, a court official said. ple, most of them children, in an ters, known as “Nine-Zero”, Under the conventional crimi- attack that horrified the world. sparked an angry response from nal laws courts are allowed to The UN, the European Union, the party, with workers shutting hold suspects for week, but this Amnesty International and down large parts of Pakistan’s period increases to 90 days under Human Rights Watch have called commercial hub. the recently passed Pakistan on Pakistan to re-impose its mor- At least one supporter of the Protection Ordinance (PPO) atorium on the death penalty. Pakistani paramilitary officials escort blindfolded activists of Muttahida Qaumi Movement to a court in Karachi MQM, the fourth-largest party in which deals with terror cases. AFP yesterday. the national parliament, died as AFP FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Sunanda murder case: Pakistani BJP rejigs national executive journalist likely No place for union ministers Smriti Irani and Najma Heptulla; Hema Malini too left out to be questioned

NEW DELHI: BJP president other prominent BJP faces who Singh, Jual Oram, Suresh Prabhu considered a rising star in the union minister Sadhvi Niranjan NEW DELHI: Pakistani jour- Amit Shah yesterday reconsti- do not figure in the national exec- and Harsh Vardhan. BJP but her not being included Jyoti, whose remarks have nalist Mehr Tarar is likely to be tuted the party’s national execu- utive were actor Hema Malini and Several ministers of state were in the national executive is being sparked controversies in the past, questioned over the murder of tive, but union ministers Smriti Shaina N C, a young leader of the also included, while ministers seen in political circles as a sign are also in the national executive. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s Irani and Najma Heptulla did party in Maharashtra. of state, some with independent of her falling stock in the party. While Adityanath is a member wife Sunanda Pushkar, police not find a place in it. Kiran Bedi, the BJP’s chief charge, were also in the national Party veterans in the national of the national executive, Jyoti is said yesterday. Tarar has, how- Prime Minister Narendra ministerial candidate in Delhi, executive. executive include Atal Bihari among the special invitees. ever, refused to come to India to Modi and senior party leader L K who lost the election, was also not They include Bandaru Vajpayee and Murli Manohar BJP chief ministers Shivraj join the probe but was willing to Advani were among the 111 mem- in the national executive. Dattatreya, Dharmendra Pradhan, Joshi apart from Advani. Singh Chouhan, Raman Singh, cooperate. bers of the national executive. While many leaders from the Rajeev Pratap Rudy, Prakash A party leader said national Vasundhara Raje, Anandiben “Tarar is a relevant person There are 27 permanent previous executive were retained, Javadekar, V.K. Singh, Piyush office bearers, including party Patel, Raghubar Das, Devendra in the case... If necessary, she invitees, including chief minis- there were several new faces. Goyal, Kiren Rijiju, Mahesh general secretaries and secretar- Fadnavis, Manohar Lal Khattar will be examined,” Delhi Police ters and deputy chief ministers of Except for Irani and Heptulla, Sharma and Nirmala Sitharaman. ies, were invited to the national and Laxmikant Parsekar apart Commissioner B.S. Bassi said of states where the Bharatiya Janata most cabinet ministers were Others prominent faces in executive meeting though they from deputy chief ministers the journalist who was said to be Party is in power. included in the new national exec- the list were Yashwant Sinha, may not be members. Francis D’Souza and Nirmal a close friend of Tharoor. Tarar, Apart from 40 special invitees, utive. They include Rajnath Singh, Vinay Katiyar, C P Thakur, “Office bearers, including Singh are also among the per- 47, said she was not ready to come all leaders of the party in state Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, M S.S. Ahluwalia, Vijay Kumar spokespersons and chiefs of vari- manent invitees. to India but would be happy to assemblies and councils and state Venkaiah Naidu, Nitin Gadkari, Malhotra, Varun Gandhi, Satpal ous frontal organisations, are The list of permanent invitees answer questions. presidents will also be invitees to Ananth Kumar, Thaawar Chand Maharaj, Captain Abhimanyu, O automatically invited (to the includes former chief minis- “I would like to answer any the national executive. Gehlot, Maneka Gandhi, Jagat Rajagopal, Subramanian Swamy national executive meeting),” said ters and union ministers Uma question Delhi Police have for The new national executive is Prakash Nadda, Ravi Shankar and Navjot Singh Sidhu. the leader who did not want to Bharti, Manohar Parrikar and D me but I will not come to India expected to hold its first meeting Prasad, Kalraj Mishra, Narendra Irani, who is apparently the be named. V Sadananda Gowda. for the probe,” Tarar told CNN- next month in Bengaluru. Among Singh Tomar, Radha Mohan youngest cabinet minister, was Party MP Yogi Adityanath and IANS IBN news channel over telephone. “They (Delhi Police) want to con- tact me directly or through the foreign office. Whatever the pro- tocol is... I am ready to answer their questions,” she said. Asked why she was being linked Congress expresses to the case, Tarar said: “My big- gest mistake was to respond to Sunanda on Twitter... “If I will be solidarity with ex-PM concerned about anything, I will share it with Delhi Police. But no one from Delhi Police has spoken NEW DELHI: The Congress residence, expressed solidarity to me so far.” yesterday came out in solidar- with me and that we will fight She said she has had no com- ity with former prime minister this case to the best of our abil- munication with Tharoor in the Manmohan Singh, who has been ity,” he said. past one year. Tarar’s alleged summoned by a Delhi court in Senior Congress leader and friendship with Tharoor had led a case relating to the alloca- former union minister Anand to a row between Tharoor and tion of coal blocks, describing Sharma said nobody could ques- Pushkar. him as a man of “integrity” who tion Manmohan Singh’s transpar- Asked if she was upset over the enjoys the party’s “unstinting ency and honesty and that truth Twitter spat, she said: “Yes, I have support”. shall prevail. said this many times... Becoming Congress president Sonia “The Congress party is with a tangle thing in another country Gandhi personally led a march Manmohan Singh-ji and the party when I wasn’t even in touch with from the party headquarters here is not going to bow to any situa- the person I am supposed to be in to Manmohan Singh’s residence tion... We have full faith that in touch with. to express solidarity. “We are this case too the truth will pre- “We weren’t in contact. We outraged at the news of summons vail,” Sharma said. weren’t speaking to one another. being served on former prime Congress leader and former And, my biggest mistake was minister Manmohan Singh... He defence minister A.K. Antony, responding to whatever she is known for his integrity and who was part of the march, (Pushkar) said on Twitter... which probity not only in the country said they were sure that Singh I shouldn’t have done.” but across the world. We are here Manmohan will come out clean. Pushkar was found dead in a to offer our unstinting support to Jyotiraditya Scindia, a Congress luxury hotel in Delhi on January Manmohan ji,” she told reporters. MP from Madhya Pradesh, 17, 2014 under mysterious circum- A special court conducting said: “We express our solidarity Former prime minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur (right) along with Congress party president stances. Police registered murder the coal block allocation case with the ex-prime minister. We Sonia Gandhi at his residence in New Delhi yesterday. case on January 1, 2015. here on Wednesday summoned are very confident that he will Meanwhile, the Delhi Police Manmohan Singh, industrial- emerge clean, something that he minister, Kapil Sibal said: “Will Parliamentary Affairs Minister individual alone,” he said. chief said the Special Investigating ist Kumar Mangalam Birla and remained during his public life.” defend former prime minister M Venkaiah Naidu said: “It is not Minister of State for the Team may question Tharoor for former coal secretary P.C. Parakh, Former union finance minister Manmohan Singh with all our the question of questioning the Development of the North the third time, if required. terming the case a “criminal con- P Chidambaram said: “The CBI might. Personally, I am saddened integrity of Manmohan Singh ji. Eastern Region Minister Jitendra To a query about Sunanda’s vis- spiracy” with the objective to “do is an investigative arm of the by the move, but we respect court It is the question of responsibility Singh said: “I would simply say... cera report, the police chief said: an illegal act”. government. The CBI has twice orders.” and failure of not taking action.” all of us should have the courage “We have told the Federal Bureau Manmohan Singh, on his said that there is no charge and Meanwhile, the BJP said “Manmohan Singh... will give to accept the verdict in course of of Investigation (FBI) lab in the part, said he was “more than no ground to take criminal action not just an individual but the his version but at the same time law. The world knows that India United States to examine the vis- pleased and grateful” by the and now the government should entire Congress party should the Congress needs to explain has one of the best constitutions cera report as soon as possible.” show of support. “The Congress come and say that they stand by take responsibility for the coal to the country how these things and anything contradicting to it He also said that the police have party, Sonia-ji and all members the CBI report. Why is the gov- block allocation case in which have happened. It should take the would amount to disrespect to the seized several electronic equip- of the working committee and ernment reluctant to say that?” Manmohan Singh has been sum- responsibility (of the coal block legal system.” ment for investigation. senior leaders have come to my Another former union moned by a special court here. allocation case) and not just an IANS IANS

Metro trial run in Bengaluru Parliamentary Court rules in favour approval for of Greenpeace activist

insurance bill NEW DELHI: Granting relief to Pillai, terming “the court’s NEW DELHI: Marking a to Greenpeace activist Priya decision as a vindication of the major milestone in the gov- Pillai, who was stopped from group’s legitimacy and the validity ernment’s reform programme flying to London in January, of its campaigns for the rights of — and despite opposition pro- the Delhi High Court yesterday people to their land and forests tests, parliamentary approval quashed the “lookout” circular for clean energy, a healthy envi- was yesterday accorded to the issued against her and ques- ronment and to hold corporations insurance law amendment bill, tioned the government’s move and the government accountable”. with the Rajya Sabha adopting to stop her from travelling. Pillai, in a statement, said: “We the measure seeking a hike in Justice Rajiv Shakdher are relieved that the court has the foreign equity cap on domes- also directed the Bureau of cracked down on this undemo- tic companies from 26 percent Immigration to expunge the cratic abuse of power by the gov- to 49 percent. endorsements “off-load” made on ernment. The bar on my travel was Formally called the Insurance Pillai’s passport when she was off- a clear violation of civil rights.” Laws (Amendment) Bill, the meas- loaded from a flight to London by “If this government is genu- ure has been passed by the Lok immigration officials at the Indira ine about its promise of inclu- Sabha on March 4. While the bill Gandhi International Airport on sive development that benefits had secured easy approval in the January 11. all, it needs to work with civil The underground trial run of the Namma Metro (Our Metro), also known as Bangalore Metro phase-I, in Lok Sabha, its passage in the upper “Bureau of Immigration shall society rather than seek to sup- Bengaluru yesterday. The phase-I consists of total length of 42.3km out of which 8.8km is underground. house, where the ruling National expunge the endorsement ‘off- press it. We hope that this signals Democratic Alliance does not enjoy load’ made on Pillai’s passport. the end of the harassment that majority, was the crucial test. Furthermore, the government Greenpeace India and other genu- The legislation seeks to raise for- shall also remove Pillai’s name ine activists are facing,” she said. eign investment cap to 49 percent from the ‘database’ maintained by The high court, upholding Pillai’s in the sector. While up to 26 per- them pertaining to those individu- right to travel and freedom of cent foreign capital will be under als who are not allowed to leave the speech and expression, also ques- Ties cemented with Mauritius the automatic route, the balance country,” said the court in its order. tioned the government’s move 23 percent has to secure approval Pillai was invited to London to interfere with an individual’s PORT LOUIS: India yesterday further cemented the Ganga Talao temple, where he offered oblations from the Foreign Investment to brief British parliamentarians freedom. “Why must the state its ties with Mauritius with the commissioning at the Shiva temple, his visit to the Aapravasi Ghat Promotion Board (FIPB). on her campaign with local com- interfere with the freedom of an of an India-built coast guard patrol vessel, a day where the Indian indentured labourers had arrived The Left parties questioned munities in Mahan in Madhya individual, as long as the individ- after inking five agreements and announcing a 100 years ago, and his talk at a civic reception at the the need for a hike in the FDI Pradesh, where a proposed coal ual concerned operates within the $500m line of credit, as Prime Minister Narendra Mahatma Gandhi Institute. limit. Members opposing the bill mining project is allegedly threat- ambit of laws framed by the leg- Modi — stressing the strategic importance of He praised the contributions of the Indian-origin also pointed to the minuscule ening to uproot the lives and islature?” Justice Shakdher said. the Indian Ocean region — pressed for a strong people who form 70 percent of the country’s popula- claims rejection rate of the Life livelihood of a community but The central government ear- grouping of the region’s nations. Modi travels to tion. In his speech at the National Assembly, Modi Insurance Corporation of India prevented from leaving the coun- lier told the court that Pillai was key neighbour Sri Lanka today. said the destinies of both nations were “linked by (LIC) while the rejection rate was try by the central government. “involved in anti-national activi- Modi also strongly emphasised upon the close peo- the currents of the Indian Ocean”. around eight percent for private In its reaction, Greenpeace ties” and that was why she was ple-links between the two countries, by his visit to IANS life insurers. IANS India welcomed the relief granted offloaded at the airport. IANS FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Swine flu virus deadlier than ever: MIT study Taiwan to donate 10,000 masks to Gujarat and Delhi to combat increasing number of cases

WASHINGTON: Swine flu place, with little information and effectively the virus can infect With very little scientific data season, which will likely include the National Capital Region. — the influenza A (H1N1) pan- a lot of misinformation,” said those cells. available about the new strain, the strains that are now circulating, TELANGANA: Three more demic 2009 virus — that has Ram Sasisekharan, the Alfred One of the new mutations is MIT researchers stress the need the authors concluded. people have died of swine flu in killed over 1,500 people and left H Caspary professor of biological in an amino acid position called for better surveillance to track Meanwhile, Taiwan has decided Telangana, taking the toll to 69, more than 27,000 people infected engineering at the MIT and the D225 which has been linked the outbreak and to help scien- to donate 10,000 N-95 masks to officials said. Officials said 37 peo- in India has acquired muta- paper’s senior author. with increased disease severity. tists to determine how to respond Gujarat and Delhi to help them ple were tested positive for H1N1 tions that make it more danger- “When you do real-time surveil- Another mutation, in the T200A to this influenza variant. combat the increasing number of virus since Wednesday. ous than previously circulating lance, get organised and deposit position, allows hemagglutinin In the past two years, genetic swine flu cases. Officials said enough stocks of strains of H1N1 influenza, a these sequences, then you can to bind more strongly to gly- sequence information of the flu- N-95 is a multi-layered mask medicines and testing kits have team of Indian-origin scien- come up with a better strategy to can receptors, making the virus virus protein hemagglutinin from specially made to combat swine been made available at all teach- tists from the Massachusetts respond to the virus,” he added. more infectious. only two influenza strains from flu. The masks are designed for ing, district and area hospitals. Institute of Technology (MIT) To reach this conclusion, With very little scientific data India has been deposited into pub- doctors and health workers to They advised people to take has discovered. Sasisekharan and MIT research available about the new strain, the licly available influenza databases, handle swine flu patients. all precautions and approach the The findings, reported in the scientist Kannan Tharakaraman MIT researchers stress the need making it difficult to determine “The increase in the toll of nearest hospital on the first symp- scientific journal Cell Host & compared the genetic sequences for better surveillance to track exactly which strain is causing death by the deadly H1N1 virus toms of swine flu like high fever, Microbe, contradict previous of those two strains to the strain the outbreak and to help scien- the new outbreak, and how it dif- has been a concern throughout sneezing, cough and body pain, reports from the Indian health of H1N1 that emerged in 2009 and tists to determine how to respond fers from previous strains. the country. Taiwan as a goodwill clean their hands as frequently officials that the strain has not killed more than 18,000 people to this influenza variant. “However, those two strains gesture to strengthen friendship as possible and cover nose/mouth changed from the version of worldwide between 2009 and 2012. “There is a real need for aggres- yielded enough informa- and provide humanitarian sup- while sneezing and coughing. H1N1 that emerged in 2009 and The researchers found that the sive surveillance to ensure that the tion to warrant concern,” said port is donating 10,000 swine WEST BENGAL: One more has been circulating around the recent Indian strains carry new anxiety and hysteria are brought Sasisekharan, also a member flu (H1N1) preventive N-95 face swine flu death was reported in world ever since. mutations in the hemagglutinin down and people are able to focus of MIT’s Koch Institute for masks to India,” said a statement West Bengal, taking the toll to 18, The flu virus in India seems protein that are known to make on what they really need to worry Integrative Cancer Research. from the Taipei Economic and a health official said. As many as to have acquired mutations that the virus more virulent. about,” Sasisekharan empha- Learning more about the new Cultural Centre (TECC) in India. 10 fresh cases were recorded since could spread more readily and, Hemagglutinin binds to glycan sised. “We need to understand the strains could help public health It said 7,000 masks have arrived Wednesday. He said 179 patients therefore, requires deeper stud- receptors found on the surface of pathology and the severity, rather officials to determine which drugs from Taipei and the remaining have been cured and discharged ies, they warn. “We are really respiratory cells and the strength than simply relying on anecdotal might be effective and to design will arrive soon. They will be dis- from various hospitals in Kolkata. caught between a rock and a hard of that binding determines how information,” he said. new vaccines for the next flu tributed in Gujarat and Delhi and AGENCIES

Hammond meets Swaraj Himachal chief Pursue cases against minister dances Masrat, Sayeed told in assembly SHIMLA: Amid pandemo- NEW DELHI: Home Minister raised questions over Rajnath nium in the assembly cre- Rajnath Singh said yesterday Singh’s remarks, asking why fresh ated by the main opposition that the Jammu and Kashmir orders for Masrat’s detention were BJP, Himachal Pradesh Chief government has been told to not issued in February when the Minister Virbhadra Singh yes- vigorously pursue all 27 cases state was under President’s Rule. terday found a unique way of jeer- against separatist leader “There is a fixed match between ing at the rivals. Masrat Alam and maintain the PDP and the BJP,” Congress He literally swayed his hips “close surveillance” on him in spokesperson Ajay Kumar told in the assembly in a movement tandem with the Centre. reporters later. of dance to the rhythms of slo- Alam’s release from jail earlier In his statement, Rajnath gans being raised against him this month on orders of Jammu Singh said the state government over the reported clash between and Kashmir Chief Minister had informed that 27 criminal the BJP and chief minister’s son Mufti Mohammad Sayeed cases were continuing against Vikramaditya Singh-led Youth sparked a political furore and Alam and he has been booked Congress activists in Shimla on has created tension within the eight times since February 2010 January 29 during a demonstra- ruling coalition between his party under the Jammu and Kashmir tion against the central govern- Peoples Democratic Party and the Public Safety Act of 1978. ment’s land acquisition ordinance. Bharatiya Janata Party. The minister said the last In a celebration mode after his Making a statement in par- order of detention was issued by daughter’s wedding just five days liament, Rajnath Singh said the Jammu district magistrate Britain’s Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond shakes hands with Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj before ago, the traditional Himachali the home ministry has issued on September 15, 2014, and such their meeting in New Delhi yesterday. Hammond is on a two-day visit to the country. dance by the chief minister took an advisory to the state asking orders have to be approved by the everyone by surprise. During the it to take steps to challenge the state government within 12 days. session, even Leader of Opposition bail granted to Alam in all cases. He said the detention order Prem Kumar Dhumal missed no “All 27 criminal cases registered of the district magistrate was opportunity to talke a jibe at his against Masrat Alam Bhat will be received by the home department bete noire for his Punjabi con- pursued vigorously,” he said. of the state on October 9, 2014, nections. “I know Punjabi; I am Rajnath Singh said the state “after a lapse of 23 days and hence HC refuses to immediately lift now sure you might be well versed government has been told that the same could not be approved”. with it now.” close surveillance must be ensured The minister said state govern- The chief minister’s youngest on activities of Alam and his asso- ment had further informed that ban on BBC documentary daughter, Aprajita Singh, was ciates which are detrimental to there were no fresh grounds for married to Angad Singh, the public order and to the unity and detention as verified from the dis- grandson of the erstwhile Patiala integrity of the country and the trict magistrate. NEW DELHI: The Delhi High against death sentence) is pending interviewed in Delhi’s Tihar Jail. royalty’s Amarinder Singh, state. He said appropriate action Rajnath Singh said the Court yesterday declined to before the Supreme Court. The documentary also has com- former chief minister of Punjab. should be taken immediately if Supreme Court had observed immediately revoke the ban “Prima facie, we are not ments from the convicts’ coun- Amarinder Singh has a long asso- anything adverse is noticed by in March 2013 that if any fresh on the telecast of controver- opposed to airing the documen- sel A P Singh and M L Sharma, ciation with the hill state. IANS authorities. detention order is issued concern- sial BBC documentary “India’s tary, but the matter is pending who allegedly made derogatory “The state government will ing Alam, it will not come into Daughter” on the December 16, in the Supreme Court. Let the remarks against women. The ensure that surveillance and force for one week from the date 2012 gang rape. Supreme Court decide the mat- documentary caused an uproar Sakthan elected monitoring of activities of Masrat of communication of order to A division bench of Justice ter first,” bench remarked. among a section of people in India Alam Bhat and his followers is enable him to pursue appropri- B.D. Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev In its order, the bench posted after the government banned its Speaker of done in close tandem with the ate legal remedy. Sachdeva posted the two public the pleas for March 18. It said: telecast in all formats. central government, security He said that following some interest litigations (PILs) for “Show us how this documen- During the hearing, the gov- Kerala assembly and intelligence agencies in larger correspondence, the state govern- revocation of the ban on the doc- tary would not be interfering ernment opposed the pleas saying interest of peace, public order and ment wrote to the district mag- umentary’s telecast for March 18 with judicial system. We are not the “documentary not suitable for THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: normalcy in the state,” Rajnath istrate, Jammu in February this before the bench headed by Chief roaster bench. Let the matter unrestricted public view”. The Kerala assembly’s former Singh said. year that the detention order of Justice G. Rohini. come before chief justice, we are The trial court had on March deputy speaker N Sakthan, The minister said he had ear- September last year had ceased to The bench refused to pass any not giving any interim order.” 4 banned until further orders the fielded as the ruling United lier informed the house that the remain in force but a fresh order interim order in the case, saying The documentary is about the broadcast of the documentary. Democratic Front nominee for government was not satisfied with can be issued for his detention let the case come before the roaster gang rape of a 23-year-old trainee As per social media, the public the post of Speaker, was yester- the state government’s report on after following the procedure pre- bench of the Delhi High Court physiotherapist, who was bru- at large wanted to see the doc- day elected through the ballot. Alam’s release. He said the Centre scribed in the PSA. “Thereafter, chief justice. During the hearing, tally assaulted on December 16, umentary, as within a day of it He secured 74 votes while his had received a “further report” the detenu was released on March the bench said it has “no problem” 2012, in a moving bus in Delhi. being put up on YouTube, it was opponent and two-time CPI-M from the Sayeed government. 7, 2015,” he said. about airing the documentary It kicked up a storm after one of viewed by more 2.86 lakh people, legislator Ayisha Potti secured Congress members in Lok Sabha IANS but the case (appeals of convicts the convicts Mukesh Singh was the pleas said. IANS 66 votes. The election was necessitated after Speaker G Karthikeyan, who was battling cancer, died last Saturday. There are 140 elected members and one nominated member from A bakery worker’s daughter gets her wings the Anglo Indian community in the assembly. The result was a HYDERABAD: Unlike girls of her age industry and pictures of different air- gave wings to her dreams. On learning She obtained a Private Pilot Licence and foregone conclusion, but one high- who dream of becoming doctors or engi- craft. Like almost all the girls, my friends about her ambition, he offered to bear the Flight Radio Telephone Operator Licence, light in the election was when K B neers, she wanted to be something dif- wanted to be either doctors or engineers, entire expenditure for her training. besides a Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL). Ganesh Kumar, a former cabinet ferent. Many laughed at her dream, but but I wanted to do something different,” It took a year for Salva to gather all The training was tough, especially the minister in the present Oommen today she is one among the few Muslim 26-year-old Salva said. information and prepare herself to take written exams, and she slowly but stead- Chandy government, representing women in India to hold a commercial “I used to share my thoughts with my the final plunge. In 2007, she enrolled in ily completed it. “I never came across any the Kerala Congress (Pillai) party, pilot’s licence. classmates and they always used to ask the Andhra Pradesh Aviation Academy. discrimination against women or Muslims. voted for the Left opposition can- Coming from a modest background - her me whether this is really possible. But “It was my first air experience and I was Everybody was cooperative.” didate, making way for his party’s father is a bakery worker — Syeda Salva in the end, the dream came true thanks thrilled,” recalled Salva, who had an adven- After obtaining her CPL in 2013, she exit from the UDF. Fatima, with her sheer determination and to Almighty Allah,” said the burqa-clad turous nature from her school days and was found that this was not enough to get a His father R Balakrishna hard work, entered the male-dominated woman, who studied at the Aizza School a keen participant in extra-curricular activi- pilot’s job in an airline. She has to now Pillai, the founder of the Kerala field and became the first female from the in Malakpet here. ties and games. Salva was also aware of the undergo multiengine training and Type Congress (Pillai), on Wednesday poverty stricken old-city of Hyderabad to Eldest among four children of Syed ups and downs in her path. “People used to Rating to be able to fly bigger aircraft like announced that he asked his son get the licence. Ashfaq Ahmed, she had no clue either as to ask me: ‘You are a girl, what will you do by the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A-320. This to vote for Potti as they were una- Having crossed the first step she is now how her dream would come true in view of becoming a pilot? After your marriage, you requires Rs30 lakh to Rs32 lakh. ble to bear the indifferent attitude preparing for the second — certification on a the meagre earnings of her father. As her will have to be a housewife.’ I never cared Refusing to give up, she is making all of the UDF towards their party. mid-sized passenger jet. A resident of Sultan parents insisted that she opt for engineer- about these comments and taunts because efforts to and standing by her is her hus- As per convention, the newly Shahi, a densely populated neighbourhood in ing, she enrolled for coaching conducted by my family supported me,” she said. band Shakeeb, whom she married in 2013. elected Speaker was accompa- the backward old city, Salva dreamt of flying Urdu daily Siasat for EAMCET, a common Five years later, she successfully com- She is now looking for support from the nied by Chandy and Leader of aircraft since her school days. entrance test for engineering and medical pleted her initial training, logging 200 hours government and philanthropists to reach Opposition V S Achuthanandan “When I was in the ninth standard I courses. of flying on aircraft like the Cessna 152 and her final destination. She is keen to take to his chair on the dais after used to collect articles about the aviation It was Siasat editor Zahid Ali Khan who 172, including 123 hours of solo flight. up a job in Spicejet or Indigo. IANS which leaders of different parties greeted him. IANS FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Qatar bourse index dips by Bilfinger, Buzwair Holding sign MoU 58.76 points DOHA: Bilfinger SE, a German to re-enter the Qatari market organisation, and Qatari group with a totally different approach, Buzwair Holding signed a by utilising Bilfinger Maintenance Market cap fell 0.54pc last week memorandum of understand- Concept (BMC). The Qatari cli- ing (MoU) to establish a joint ents will benefit from our high DOHA: Qatar Exchange index construction programme. venture company in order to quality technological compe- dropped 58.76 points or 0.48 per- The government has ear- provide maintenance and facil- tence and extensive experience, cent last week when the bourse marked tens of billions of dol- ity management services to the as more than 70,000 people at the closed yesterday at 12,080.66 lars for the scheme but it has Industrial Market (petrochemi- engineering and services group points. progressed slowly, partly because cal and energy) in Qatar. help make daily life work with The trading value of QR1.768bn of red tape and difficulty obtain- The agreement was signed the highest level of quality and is an increase by 15.75 percent ing land. on the occasion of the visit of efficiency.” compared to QR1.527bn regis- The Custodian of the Two Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancellor Buzwair Holding is a well- tered the previous week. Market Holy Mosques King Salman and Minister of Economic Affairs, established industrial group in capitalisation at QR656.91bn last bin Abdulaziz Al Saud relieved Germany, to Qatar. The MoU Qatar. A conglomerate that is week is a drop by 0.54 percent Shuwaish Al Duwaihi as minis- was signed in the presence of deeply-rooted in the fabric of the compared to QR660.51bn at the ter late on Wednesday. A perma- Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim bin nation. With its aim to build a end of previous week. nent replacement has yet to be Mohammed Al Thani, Chairman solid business foundation, Buzwair The banking and financial serv- announced. of Qatar Chamber. has fuelled its success in Qatar by ices sector led traded value last Dubai’s index edged up 0.3 Bilfinger, as an engineering and tapping into emerging new mar- week with 29.21 percent of the percent and engineering firm services group, develops, builds, ket opportunities. total, followed by the real estate Drake and Scull led gains, surg- maintains and operates plants Buzwair’s contracting and (25.54 percent), the industrial ing 4.9 percent. Emirates NBD and buildings for industry, from gases division has grown to sector (23.12 percent) and the dropped 3 percent because its hospital to refinery, from Alaska become a leader in the market, telecoms sector (7.53 percent). shares no longer carried the to Australia, from start to fin- building a sustainable business The real estate sector topped 0.35 dirham dividend for 2014. ish. Bilfinger is using its financial through innovation by entering the traded volume last week with On Nasdaq Dubai, strength and operating potential new fields. 34.84 percent of the total. The Egypt’s Orascom Construction for the next phase in its devel- Since its inception, Buzwair Officials at the signing ceremony. banking and financial services dropped 4.0 percent to $12.50, opment supported by the stra- Holding has cemented remarka- accounted for 24.53 percent, the well below its initial public offer tegic programs BEST (Bilfinger ble deals that have helped to build operating to international stand- industrial market in Qatar. We’re industrial sector (14.57 percent) price of $14.25, extending a sell- Escalates Strength) and Bilfinger strong bonds with leading public ards in everything they do. totally sure that the cooperation and and the telecom sector (12.36 off which according to some Excellence. and private sector organisations. Saad Mohamed Fahad Buzwair, and the partnership with Bilfinger percent). market players may be driven by Hakan Yapici, Head of Business This was due largely to Buzwair’s Deputy Chairman of Buzwair will be very successful, as a unique The banking and financial Egyptian investors looking for Development Qatar, UAE and products and services exceeding Holding said. “For more than business model can be created by services topped the number of hard currency. Saudi Arabia of Bilfinger, said: expectations. six decades Buzwair Holding has using Buzwair’s local knowledge transactions last week with 24.61 Abu Dhabi edged down 0.4 per- “Qatar will continue to rank as Today, Buzwair Holding is one always been aiming for remark- and experience together with percent of the total, followed by cent and Abu Dhabi Commercial one of the fastest growing econo- of the largest industrial houses able deals that will build strong Bilfinger’s advanced technology the industrial sector (24.10 per- Bank tumbled 6.4 percent as it mies in the world and we’re con- in Qatar and comprises 700 business relationship with foreign and worldwide experience”. cent), the real estate sector (21.85 traded without a 0.40 dirham vinced that this is the right time employees from across the globe, organizations to penetrate the THE PENINSULA percent) and the telecom sector dividend attached. (14.91 percent). Egypt’s market rallied from a Of the 43 companies listed, week-low to climb 0.7 percent to 17 ended last week higher, 24 9,641 points as blue chips provided declined and two remained support. The Cairo government unchanged. Barwa Real Estate will tomorrow open an investment Oil companies Belgian trade team to visit Qatar led the traded value with summit in Sharm El Sheikh which 18.46 percent of the total. Gulf it hopes will burnish its image and International Services accounted attract billions of dollars. offer to cut DOHA: A massive trade delega- clear indication of how impor- Within the European Union, for 9.13 percent and Commercial tion from Belgium is set to visit tant the mission is-for both par- Belgium is the 8th largest exporter Bank 7.01 percent. HIGHLIGHTS Doha this month in order to ties. The Belgian delegation will of goods to Qatar, with a 2.6 per- Meanwhile, most Gulf markets SAUDI ARABIA: The index Iraq spending boost the bilateral trade links. represent 267 organisations, cent share, and also the 3rd larg- were soft yesterday. The main climbed 0.3 percent to 9,691 points. Representing different organisa- 223 companies, 22 federations, est EU importer of Qatari goods. Saudi index edged up 0.3 percent DUBAI: The index rose 0.3 per- BAGHDAD: Oil companies tions, including two universities, two universities and 20 public I feel that this level of trade can to 9,691 points, rising above major cent to 3,708 points. have proposed millions of dollars a 400-strong delegation will visit organisations. still be increased, though. There technical resistance on its 200- ABU DHABI: The index edged of cuts in development spending Qatar on March 22 and 23, 2015. Christophe Payot, Ambassador is a real feeling that Belgium can day average of 9,662 points. Saudi down 0.4 percent to 4,484 points. in Iraq, a senior oil ministry The economic mission is a joint of Belgium in Qatar, said: “The bring something new to the table Basic Industries was the main EGYPT: The index rose 0.7 per- official said, after Baghdad told initiative of the Belgian federal visit of such a huge delegation in terms of European expertise and support, gaining 1.3 percent. Real cent to 9,641 points. them low oil prices and its fight government and Belgium’s regions: reflects how important Qatar is access to European markets. In estate developer Dar Al Arkan KUWAIT: The index slipped 0.1 against Islamic State had made Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia. for Belgium. One of the aims of this way, we can assist Qatar in its was one of the most traded stocks percent to 6,514 points. payments difficult. The Belgian delegation is being the trade mission is to ro0mote 2030 National Vision by shifting and climbed 0.4 percent after the OMAN: The index inched down In a series of letters sent to com- presided over by Princess Astrid, Belgian goods, services and inno- away from a hydrocarbon-based kingdom’s housing minister was 0.1 percent to 6,400 points. panies such as Royal Dutch Shell, who is representing the King. vation on the Qatari market. economy to a knowledge-based relieved of his position, which BAHRAIN: The index rose 0.5 BP and ExxonMobil since January, The impressive number of par- “Trade between Belgium and one,” the ambassador added. investors may interpret as a push percent to 1,483 points. seen by Reuters, the oil minis- ticipating companies gives a very Qatar is already very significant. THE PENINSULA to speed up the state’s housing QNA/REUTERS try set out the need for change in response to “the rapid drastic decrease in crude oil prices”. The slump in crude prices to Qatar Chamber, Australian trade team hold talks below $60 a barrel from $115 in June has slashed government Greece allows lenders revenues in Iraq, Opec’s second biggest exporter, just as it faces economic crisis triggered by Islamic State’s seizure of north back amid crisis and western provinces and surg- ing expenditure to fund a military ATHENS: Greece’s creditors European Stability Mechanism. counter-offensive. returned to Athens yester- The first visit by the creditors’ In view of the fact that a sig- day for the first time since the representatives since elections nificant proportion of develop- left-wing Syriza party came to were called in December came ment costs are passed on to Iraq, power, with the radical new gov- after six weeks of difficult dis- the oil ministry called on firms to ernment denying it had allowed cussions — and sometimes ugly revise their oilfield development back the hated “troika” it had clashes — with the radical new plans by considering postponing vowed to shun. Greek government that came to new projects and delaying already Athens — which has been power promising to tear up the committed projects as long as no scrabbling for cash to meet its country’s austerity-driven bailout. additional costs were incurred. next major debt repayments — Its aggressive stance quickly They should cut development insisted it had not been strong- alienated Greece’s creditors, who budgets “by a certain percent- armed into submission. It said want the new regime to respect age” and request subcontractors the technical experts sent by the the terms of the $255bn bailout to reduce costs in order to match creditors were merely junior offi- signed by its predecessors. “the new oil prices world,” the cials and should not to be com- With many promised reforms ministry said. Those cuts should pared with the “troika” team of still incomplete, and the new gov- be made against a backdrop of auditors that Syriza had accused ernment freezing a number of key Qatar Chamber Vice-Chairman Mohammed bin Ahmed bin Towar Al Kuwari and other officials attending a maintaining or even increasing of storming into ministries like privatisation projects, Athens meeting with visiting Australian business delegation headed by Chairman of Australia Business Connect, current oil production levels, the colonial “invaders”. has received no money from the Ray Najar, at the Qatar Chamber in Doha yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT February letter added, request- The compromise came as remaining bailout funds, and the ing a response by the end of that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras state is now desperate for cash. month. flew to Paris and Brussels to try But Tsipras, speaking after Most companies have replied, to win Greece allies. Finance meeting OECD secretary-general a senior oil ministry official Minister Yanis Varoufakis Angel Gurria in Paris, said even said, with the largest offered described the officials as a if Athens misses out on a bailout Saudi Aramco nears $10bn loan deal cut in spending coming from “fact-finding mission” that instalment, “Greece will be able to Shell, which proposed slashing would gather data to assist the face its financial responsiblities”. LONDON/DUBAI: Saudi Aramco, the king- to sell a stake in its tyre rubber business, sources investment spending this year main thrust of talks between Experts at the Organisation dom’s state oil giant, is close to completing a said last month. “They have always been very clear by more than a third to $1.5bn Greece and its main credi- for Economic Cooperation and $10bn tightly-priced loan, banking sources said that they wouldn’t draw on the facility, which has from $2.4bn. BP proposed a cut tors, the European Union, the Development have been working yesterday, part of which could be used to back the allowed them to drive a hard bargain on pricing, but to $3.25bn from $3.50bn, Lukoil European Central Bank and the with the Greek government over purchase of a stake in German synthetic rubber they have said this time that they may draw when to $2.1bn from $2.3bn, while International Monetary Fund. the past month on a new package firm Lanxess. needed,” said one banker. ExxonMobil said it planned to He said the officials would not of reforms. The cash replaces an existing $4bn five-year loan Despite the increased size and the possible usage, maintain development spend- visit ministries but would remain Tsipras said he hoped the due to mature later this year which Aramco, the pricing on the new loan is expected to come inside ing at $1.8bn and Eni had yet to in their hotels, and documents “OECD will co-sign the reforms world’s biggest oil exporter, uses as a back-up facility. the previous loan which paid between 13 basis points reply, he said. could be delivered to them there. we want to promote and that will The deal should conclude by the end of the month, and 16 basis points, depending on the tranche, “No direct meetings have been Varoufakis also said the experts, be our passport to creating trust” said two of the sources. Aramco didn’t immediately according to the banking sources. The structure of held with any of the foreign com- who will help draw up a new eco- among its partners in Brussels, respond to a request for comment. the deal is the same as the previous one: Two dollar- panies. We are now only testing nomic plan for the troubled euro- while admitting that they may Banks pledging to fund the upsized facility have been denominated portions and two in riyals, with one in waters with them via correspond- zone nation, will report to the “not believe that Greece wants told that, unlike the previous loan which remained each currency of five years duration and one which ence,” said the official. new “Brussels Group”, which is to move ahead with reform”. untapped, this could be used in coming months. lasts for one year but which can be rolled over upon REUTERS made up of the old troika plus the AFP Lanxess is in talks with Russia’s NKNK and Aramco maturity for a further year four times. REUTERS FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Rising US oil Euro hits 12-year low against dollar stockpiles push European indexes end mixed market lower NEW YORK: Crude-oil prices LONDON: Europe’s main stock embarked on a policy of so-called slid yesterday as traders focused markets finished the day mixed quantitative easing. on rising US stockpiles amid a yesterday as the euro sank to The QE stimulus plan will see global supply glut. a 12-year low against the dol- it buy ¤1.14 trillion worth of bonds US benchmark West Texas lar which could see it lurching over the next 18 months. The aim Intermediate (WTI) for April closer to parity. is to pump liquidity into the sys- delivery sank $1.12 to close at The euro dropped to $1.0495 tem so as to ward off deflation $47.05 a barrel on the New York — the lowest level since January and spur growth in the single Mercantile Exchange. 2003. It later recovered slightly currency area. In London, Brent North to $1.0601, up from $1.0548 late on But QE has its critics, par- Sea crude for April, the global Wednesday in New York. ticularly in Germany, who argue benchmark, settled at $57.08 a The CAC 40 in Paris closed that it reduces the pressure on barrel, slipping 46 cents from down 0.21 percent to 4,987.33 eurozone governments to get their Wednesday’s closing level. points, and Frankfurt’s DAX finances and economies in order. Brent’s premium to US crude, 30 index slipped 0.06 percent to “The combination of Greece’s a favourite play in oil, widened 11,799.39 points from Wednesday’s renewed problems and the onset by more than $1 to above $10 a record close. On the upside, of deflation is a very toxic one for barrel, hitting a near one-week London’s benchmark FTSE 100 the eurozone,” Jonathan Loynes, high. Brent slid as uncertainty index gained 0.59 percent to close analyst at Capital Economics crept into the market ahead of at 6,761.07 points led by mining research group, said in a note to the Monday expiry of its front- shares. clients. month contract, some traders “The London market is out- “At best, it is likely to keep eco- said. performing its European coun- nomic growth in the region fairly “It’s disappointing, consider- terparts as easing rumours out of subdued. At worst, it could fully ing the dollar,” said Phil Flynn of China have made mineral stocks re-ignite the crisis and blow the Price Futures Group, noting the move higher, following heavy currency union apart.” greenback had eased from 12-year losses in recent sessions,” said The ECB has, meanwhile, highs hit the prior day. A weaker David Madden, market analyst bought ¤9.8bn in eurozone bonds A sign displaying rates is pictured at a retail currency exchange in New York City yesterday. dollar makes dollar-priced crude at IG trading group. in the first three days of its QE cheaper for buyers using stronger “Beijing is looking to relax its programme, a senior official said. soared 4.8 percent in 2014, after with Sydney shares were given a Wall Street stocks jumped in currencies, tending to support lending policies to stimulate eco- Standing apart from the rest the nation emerged from an inter- 0.98 percent lift by data showing mid-day trade after big US banks demand and, in turn, prices. nomic activity and this has given was Ireland, whose economy pow- national bailout in late 2013, the Australia’s unemployment rate cleared Federal Reserve stress According to Flynn, the New a second wind to the battered ered ahead at the fastest rate in Central Statistics Office (CSO) had eased slightly tests. The Dow Jones Industrial York market was dragged down mining sector.” the European Union last year, said in a statement. That was far Shanghai rallied 1.78 percent on Average gained 1.02 percent, by new data on the level of crude The euro, which has shed as the eurozone nation staged a higher than the EU average of 1.3 hopes of further measures to boost while the broad-based S&P 500 reserves at the key Cushing ter- about 13 percent of its value this strong recovery after exiting its percent and the eurozone average flagging growth in China. Tokyo rose 0.90 percent and the tech- minal hub in Oklahoma. The year, has meanwhile been losing bailout programme, data showed of just 0.9 percent. jumped 1.43 percent while Hong rich Nasdaq Composite Index Genscape report published yes- further ground in recent days as Thursday. Asian equity markets recovered Kong advanced 0.34 percent. Seoul added 0.51 percent. terday showed Cushing supplies the European Central Bank has Irish gross domestic product slightly from a recent sell-off, fell 0.52 percent, however. AFP were building again after last week’s pause, and getting closer to capacity at the key trading hub, the price settlement point for WTI. On Wednesday the Department BMW speeds of Energy said US crude invento- India’s factory output jumps 2.6pc in Jan ries had climbed to a fresh record ahead to yet high of 448.9 million barrels last NEW DELHI: India’s indus- 5.37 percent in February from a track,” Roy said. “But we are not chief economist of engineering week, while stockpiles at Cushing trial production grew by a year earlier and 5.11 percent in out of the woods yet. These are giant Larsen and Toubro sounded also had increased. another record stronger-than-expected 2.6 January, due to higher food prices only early signs that economic optimistic, saying the RBI had Flynn added that the Houston percent in January — signalling triggered by unseasonal rains. activity is looking to pick up.” room to cut rates further next shipping channel, shut down due year in 2014 a boost in Asia’s third largest A dip in global crude oil prices The data comes ahead of month. “Inflation is rising but still to an accident and fog, was “going economy — but February retail and steady food costs have helped Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) well below the 6 percent mark. to be up and running again, so FRANKFURT: BMW, the inflation also inched up, govern- control inflation to around 5 per- monetary policy meeting on I think the RBI will utilise the supplies are going to be moving German top-of-the-range car ment data showed yesterday. cent from double digits in 2013, April 7. The RBI made a surprise space available now to... reduce in again.” maker, said yesterday that it The 2.6-percent increase in allowing the central bank to cut 25-basis-point cut last month, (rates) by another 25 basis points A broadly weak US retail sales achieved its fifth record year in production by Indian factories, interest rates twice so far this under pressure from the govern- in April,” Nitsure said. report for February also hung succession in 2014 on the back of mines and utilities in January year to spur growth. ment and markets to reduce the The IMF has predicted that over the oil market, said Bart buoyant demand for its vehicles. from a year ago was higher Siddharth Roy, economic cost of borrowing to bolster the Indian inflation will be above 6 Melek of TD Securities. “We continued to perform well than the 1.7-percent recorded in advisor to vehicle-to-steel giant economy. percent in the fiscal year starting “Ultimately markets are going during the past year, achieving December and beat economists’ Tata Group, said the economy Governor Raghuram Rajan April, indicating the RBI would to be concerned about the fact new highs for sales volume, reve- expectations. appeared to be on track after the however has made clear he will have to keep its policy tight in you’ll have a bit a of a slowdown nues and group earnings,” boasted Analysts said it provided fur- government said last month that not rush into further cuts, saying order to meet its target. of demand in the US and poten- chief executive Norbert Reithofer. ther evidence of an upturn in growth would hit 7.4 percent in he wants to win the battle against The government of Prime tially globally,” he said. “Tailwinds caused by high cus- India’s economy, but cautioned the current financial year. inflation first. Minister Narendra Modi, who “The risk is to the downside. tomer demand for our vehicles that the rise in inflation would “The economy seems to be The RBI has a target of bring- stormed to power last May on The market continues to worry worldwide are driving up sales make it harder for the central moving in the right direction. ing inflation consistently below 6 pledges of economic reform, that inventories may hit capac- volumes,” he said. bank to cut rates. Consumer confidence seem to be percent by January, and to 4 per- foresees India growing up to 8.5 ity in the US and that production BMW said it sold a total 2.118 Consumer inflation edged up returning and business expansion cent for the 2016/17 financial year. percent in 2015/16, making it the continues to reach record levels.” million vehicles worldwide in for the third straight month to plans seem to be coming back on But Rupa Rege Nitsure, group fastest-growing economy. AFP AFP 2014, 7.9 percent more than in the previous year. Group revenues rose 5.7 percent to $85bn. Underlying or operating profit Tamdeen Group unveils Al Khiran project grew by 14.3 percent to ¤9.118bn , “thanks primarily to sales volume growth and a high-value model Cold weather chills mix,” BMW said. Net profit was up 9.2 percent at ¤5.817bn, “also a new record high for the BMW group.” US retail sales BMW said it wanted share- holders to participate in the rise WASHINGTON: US retail think the US central bank may in profits and would propose an sales unexpectedly fell for want to wait longer to be cer- increased dividend of 2.90 euros a third straight month in tain any weakness early in the per common share and 2.92 euros February as harsh weather year was temporary. The cool- per preferred share for 2014, up kept consumers from auto off in economic activity has been from 2.60 euros and 2.62 euros showrooms and shopping malls, blamed on the bad weather and respectively earlier. tempering the outlook for first- the now-settled labor dispute at Looking ahead, the car maker quarter growth and a June the country’s West Coast ports, said it targets further sales interest rate increase. which disrupted the supply chain. growth this year. Even accounting for the snowy Retail sales excluding automo- “In view of our attractive model and cold weather, which blan- biles, petrol, building materials range and the market launch of keted much of the country in late and food services were flat after a 15 new models or model revisions February, there is little doubt that downwardly revised 0.1 percent over the course of 2015, the BMW consumer spending has slowed dip in January. The so-called core group forecasts an increase in sales Tamdeen Group, Kuwait’s leading mixed-use property developer, unveiled the $700m Al Khiran devel- significantly after robust growth retail sales correspond most closely volume worldwide,” it said. “We are opment project at the heart of the Sabah Al Ahmed Sea City. The resort-style project will be spread in the fourth quarter. Consumer with the consumer spending com- targeting ... a new record level for across 350,000-sqm of water-front. The project will include Kuwait’s first high-end Outlet Mall, two spending accounts for more than ponent of gross domestic product. deliveries,” said Reithofer. two-thirds of US economic activity. Core retail sale have been down- high-rise residential towers, one furnished apartments tower, a marina to house over 900 boats — the AFP “This report points to a sur- beat since December. February’s biggest in Kuwait — and a five-star resort style hotel with an international spa component. prisingly bigger weather impact weak reading and January’s revi- on spending activity than previ- sion prompted economists to cut ously thought. The weakness in their first-quarter GDP growth spending could potentially com- estimates by as much as six- plicate the case for a mid-year tenths of a percentage point to as Irish economy surges at fastest rate in Europe hike by the hawkish members of low as a 1.2 percent annual rate. the Fed,” said Millan Mulraine, The economy grew at a 2.2 per- deputy chief economist at TD cent pace in the fourth quarter. DUBLIN: Ireland’s economy grew at the in 2013, which was unchanged from the prior decade of almost double-digit growth fuelled Securities in the New York. With the labour market rapidly fastest rate in the European Union last estimate. Ireland enjoyed strong growth by a cheap credit and a booming construc- The Commerce Department firming, the moderation in growth year, data showed yesterday as the eurozone after it became the first of the financially- tion and property sector in what became said retail sales dropped 0.6 per- is likely to be temporary. nation added it would repay more IMF bail- rescued eurozone countries to exit its bail- known as the “Celtic Tiger”. cent as receipts fell in almost all A separate report from the out loans early. out programme following deep cuts in state There were other positive indicators at a categories. Sales had declined Labour Department showed ini- Output soared 4.8 percent in 2014, boosted spending, hefty tax rises, structural reforms domestic level, with consumer expenditure 0.8 percent in January. It was tial claims for state unemploy- by both domestic demand and strong exports, and the sale of state assets. growing 1.1 percent last year. “That’s a really the first time since 2012 that ment benefits declined 36,000 to after Ireland emerged from an international “Economic growth is now more broadly bal- big deal,” said Stephen Kinsella, senior lecturer sales had dropped for three con- a seasonally adjusted 289,000 for bailout in late 2013, the Central Statistics anced, exports are contributing due to com- in economics at the University of Limerick. secutive months. the week ended March 7. That Office (CSO) said. That was far higher than petitiveness gains while the domestic economy On a more downbeat note, the CSO also The Fed had been widely was well below economists’ expec- the EU average of 1.3 percent and the euro- is now also contributing positively too,” said revealed yesterday that the Irish economy expected to remove a reference to tations for a drop to only 305,000 zone average of just 0.9 percent. finance minister Michael Noonan. experienced a sharp slowdown in the final being “patient” in deciding when and unwound much of the prior It represents the strongest Irish growth Ireland was rescued by the European three months of 2014. The economy expanded to raise rates at next week’s two- two weeks’ increases, which had rate since 2007, the year before Ireland’s Union and the International Monetary Fund by just 0.2 percent in the fourth quarter of last day meeting, putting a June rate pushed claims well above the then-booming economy collapsed. The with an ¤85bn bailout in November 2010. The year, after 0.4-percent growth in the previous increase in play. 300,000 mark. economy had expanded by just 0.2 percent country’s economy crashed in 2008 after a three months. AFP Some economists and traders REUTERS FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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WELLINGTON: South 57 not out and combined in a Africa’s bowlers backed up a 63-run partnership with Shaiman solid batting performance led Anwar (39) as UAE were dis- by captain AB de Villiers’ 99 missed for 195 in the 48th over to ensure they qualified for the with Fahad Alhashmi unable to knockout phase of the World bat after injuring his ankle while Cup with a 146-run victory bowling. over United Arab Emirates at South Africa finished Pool B Wellington Regional Stadium on eight points and have virtu- yesterday. ally guaranteed second place on De Villiers had been the lynch- net run rate behind unbeaten pin of South Africa’s 341 for six India and are likely to meet Sri that was boosted by Farhaan Lanka in the first quarter-final Behardien’s 64 from 31 balls to in Sydney next Wednesday. close out the innings, while UAE, Pakistan and Ireland are both who had won the toss and opted on six points before their final to field, never looked like threat- match showdown in Adelaide on ening the target. Sunday. They slumped to 45-3 and West Indies are on four points then gave up any pretence of and could sneak into fourth place, chasing the total, just like they and a quarter-final showdown had against Pakistan last week with New Zealand, with a big in Napier, preferring instead to victory over UAE in Napier on avoid being embarrassed. Sunday, knocking out the loser Swapnil Patil top-scored with of the Pakistan-Ireland match. Scoreboard

South Africa A Berenger c Rossouw b Morkel ...... 5 H Amla b Ali c Naveed ...... 12 K Khan c de Kock b Morkel ...... 12 Q de Kock c Haider b Javed ...... 26 S Anwar c Rossouw b Tahir ...... 39 R Rossouw c & b Tauquir ...... 43 S Patil (not out) ...... 57 AB de Villiers c Javed b Shazad ...... 99 S Haider c Rossouw b de Villiers ...... 7 D Miller b Naveed ...... 49 A Javed c sub (Parnell) b de Villiers ...... 5 JP Duminy lbw Naveed ...... 23 M Naveed c de Villiers b Philander ...... 17 F Behardien (not out) ...... 64 M Tauqir b Steyn ...... 3 V Philander (not out) ...... 10 K Shahzad c Steyn b Philander ...... 0 Extras (B4, LB1, W5, NB5) ...... 15 F Al Hashmi (absent injured) - Total (six wkts; 50 overs) ...... 341 Extras (B4, LB16, W6, NB3) ...... 29 Did not bat: D Steyn, M Morkel, I Tahir Total (all out; 47.3 overs) ...... 195 South African players celebrate the dismissal of UAE’s Saqlain Haider during a World Cup match in Wellington yesterday. Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-85, 3-96, 4-204; Fall of wickets: 1-29, 2-45, 3-45, 4-108; 5-257; 6-292 5-118; 6-125; 7-163; 8-189; 9-195. De Villiers had looked like he more than seven overs remain- middle order kicked into gear in a 53-run stand with his captain Bowling: Naveed 10-0-63-3 (nb3,w1); Shaz- Bowling: Steyn 9-1-40-1 (nbxx); Philander might score his second century of ing stalled his side’s momentum against a tidy, but non-threaten- and 35 with Behardien. ad 8-0-59-1 (nb1); Javed 10-0-87-1 (nb1,w2); 8.3-1-34-2(nb1,w1); Morkel 10-2-23-2 the tournament as he dominated when they looked like they might ing UAE attack. Behardien guided South Africa Tauqir 10-0-47-1 (w1); Al Hashmi 7.2-0-45-0 (nb2,w1); Duminy 3-1-12-1; Behardien 4-1- two partnerships but fell one run be able to pass 400 for the third Rilee Rossouw (43) and David past 300 and bludgeoned 23 of the (w1); Khan 4-0-31-0; Anwar 0.4-0-4-0 11-0 (w2); Tahir 10-0-40-1 (w1); de Villiers short of his 21st century when he time this tournament. Miller (49), who shared in a 108- 25 runs from the final over by United Arab Emirates 3-0-15-2 (1w) speared the ball straight to short They had lost both Hashim run partnership with De Villiers, Amjad Javed to record his third A Ali c Behardien b Duminy ...... 21 Result: South Africa win by 146 runs third man. Amla (12) and Quinton de Kock both contributed before JP half century and highest score. The 31-year-old’s dismissal with (26) relatively cheaply, but their Duminy played the junior partner REUTERS England determined to end campaign in victory Aussies test

SYDNEY: Defeat in today’s only focus is trying to get us in He also felt that the whole “If we go to the plan and we new helmet final pool match would be a great position where we can backroom staff needed to take bowl consistent in good areas,” “horrendous” and the whole win tomorrow’s game,” he told the blame for the debacle. he said. “So maybe we can take safety guard England World Cup party is reporters. “We can have no complaints them as soon as possible. We resolutely focused only on beat- “If losing the other day to about some of the stick that we’ve have a very good bowling attack, HOBART, Australia: ing Afghanistan, assistant coach Bangladesh was terrible, we taken, because it just hasn’t been and hopefully we’ll do some good Australian players tested a Paul Farbrace said yesterday. couldn’t possibly measure what good enough,” he added. performance tomorrow against new helmet safety attach- England, who have been pil- it would be like if it (went) “(But) we’re in this together as England.” ment — designed in the after- loried since losing to Bangladesh against us because that would be a team. We’re all responsible. It’s The tall paceman, whose face math of the Phillip Hughes on Monday to end their hopes of horrendous. not just Pete. We’re all responsi- paint, bandana and exuberant cel- tragedy — yesterday although reaching the quarter-finals, have “Our job now is to make sure ble. You win as a team, you lose as ebrations have made him a cult they will not be obliged to one last chance to impress at the we give ourselves the best chance, a team, and every single member figure at the tournament, bri- wear it in matches, Cricket tournament during the match clear heads and go and play the of the coaching team has to share dled when it was suggested the Australia said. against the World Cup debutants cricket that we’ve said we wanted that responsibility with Pete.” Afghans might fear England. Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell at the Sydney Cricket Ground. to play all the way through.” Afghanistan have already “Scared? Afghan never and George Bailey all wore the While there would undoubtedly Farbrace said criticism of got a win in their maiden cam- scared, never scared,” he said. new Masuri StemGuard clip- England’s assistant coach Paul be a post mortem of what went under-fire coach Peter Moores paign against Scotland and pacer “No fears, no nothing. We have on, made of honeycomb plastic Farbrace speaks during a news wrong at the World Cup, Farbrace for being obsessed with data was Hamid Hassan thinks they have to play always brave. So we’ll and foam, while they batted conference at the Sydney Cricket said, that would have to wait for wide of the mark based on his a chance of another if he and his play tomorrow brave. Afghan is in the nets at Bellerive Oval Ground yesterday. later. time as coach of Sri Lanka team, fellow quicks can get amongst the never scared,” Hassan said. ahead of the World Cup match “For now, I promise you, the who relied on statistics. demoralised English batsmen. REUTERS against Scotland on Saturday. Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara has already used the device at the World Cup McCullum wary of revived Kohli still has plenty while Ireland all-rounder John Mooney has designed his own version. “Masuri has worked very Bangladesh pace attack to achieve: Whatmore hard to bring this guard to market in a very short period HAMILTON: New Zealand “I think the development AUCKLAND: Zimbabwe before taking up Zimbabwe job in of time and we appreciate skipper Brendon McCullum of their skills in general has coach Dav Whatmore hailed December last year. and commend that,” Cricket (pictured) said Bangladesh’s improved a lot over the last few the impact of Virat Kohli on The Zimbabwe coach said he Australia Executive General pace bowlers will pose a real years. They’ve always been tough the Indian team yesterday but had also been impressed by India’s Manager of Team Performance challenge for his batsmen in at home as us losing seven games insisted the batting superstar bowling attack which has been Pat Howard said. the World Cup Pool A match in would testify,” said McCullum, still has plenty to achieve. revived at the World Cup after “The players have now Hamilton today. of New Zealand’s defeats in Whatmore coached Kohli and enduring a dismal Test series been given the guards to trial Bangladesh’s seamers took Bangladesh in the last two series. Ravindra Jadeja during India’s against Australia and tri-nations at training before deciding eight of the 10 England wickets “But their ability to now travel junior World Cup triumph in ODI tournament which preceded whether they wear them in — with two run outs — in their — and they don’t always get the 2008 and will come face to face the World Cup. match conditions. narrow 15-run win in Adelaide on performance on the board — I with them again tomorrow in the “It’s a team that is bowling the “It is very much a personal Monday, a win which lifted them think you’re seeing their skills teams’ concluding World Cup Pool opposition out frequently and that decision which we will respect.” into the quarter-finals. set develop as well.” A game at Eden Park. has been a big plus for India,” said Australian batsman Hughes New Zealand are also in the McCullum also backed out-of- “Like any young player, if you Whatmore. died on November 27 last year, next round after winning all their form batsman Ross Taylor — a are involved in their development, “Their batting talent has never two days after being hit on five games. former captain — to come good it is always nice to see progress. really been in question. What was the head by a Sean Abbott “I think what we saw the other at the tournament. To be very honest with you, I was needed was a good strong bowl- bouncer in a first-class match night with a couple of the guys “We have been tested, and I “His form is not a major con- only there for a short period of ing performance and they have in Sydney. AFP there, the threat that they pose think we’ve come through those cern. He’s been short of oppor- time but the time I spent with done that.” with ball in hand for their quick tests. Scorelines may not suggest tunity throughout this World them was enjoyable,” said the Whatmore said Zimbabwe bowlers is a lot more danger- that we have,” said McCullum, Cup, just through the nature of widely-travelled Whatmore, who will miss experienced batsman ous than a few years ago,” said whose team narrowly beat us bowling as well as we have and worked at India’s national cricket Brendan Taylor who will retire McCullum. Australia by one wicket. obviously chasing down the runs,” academy from 2007 to 2012 from international cricket after Rubel Hossain led the “I think we’ve been tested con- said McCullum of Taylor who has “It wasn’t difficult to see that the World Cup and will play county Bangladesh pacemen with four siderably throughout the tourna- made just 53 runs with two not they had potential to go on and it cricket for Nottinghamshire. wickets against England. ment, and I think we’ve found a outs. is nice to see they have realised “It is true we will miss Brendan, “Tomorrow’s going to be tough. way to get ourselves through “He’s a world class player. I’ve it. There is still more for them who is going to Nottingham, and The quick bowlers are going to those situations and it’s really a said it time and time again. The to do.” they are very, very lucky to have ask us some questions, especially pleasing aspect. number three and four punch Whatmore, who also coached him. Despite that, we feel we have if it juices up a little bit. But we’ve “We’re going to be tested over we have on our team I wouldn’t Sri Lanka to the World Cup title got a number of players who make faced some good, quick bowlers the next while as well, and we’ve swap them for anyone around the in 1996, said Kohli has set an this team really strong in terms over the last little while too,” said just got to make sure that we still world.” example for youngsters to follow. of what they offer. McCullum, who has three half- glean the confidence from what Kane Williamson is fit after “He is confident. He was confi- “The problem is that we haven’t centuries, including the fastest we’ve been able to achieve, remain suffering stomach trouble but fast dent also as an under-19 captain. had enough matches. If we had Steve Smith, wearing a helmet World Cup fifty, off just 18 balls, incredibly stoic.” bowler Adam Milne, who has a But there have been many exam- enough matches, then I am sure with special protective padding so far at the tournament. McCullum praised the progress bruised shoulder, is unlikely to ples of confident young players that in certain defining moments, at the back, waits to bat during McCullum disagreed his team made by Bangladesh, a team often play and will be replaced by left- who don’t follow up and follow we would be equal to it. We would a training session at the Bellerive have yet to be really tested in the regarded as whipping boys of armer Mitchell McClenaghan. through. He is one who has,” said not be going home on Sunday,” Oval in Hobart yesterday. competition. international cricket. AFP Whatmore, in charge of Pakistan Whatmore said. AFP FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Sauber lose Nasser the man to driver row British Formula appeal, face One driver Lewis Hamilton contempt action of Mercedes beat in Kuwait AMG GP poses MELBOURNE: Formula One for photogra- team Sauber faced contempt phers during of court action yesterday after Four former winners set for showdown the 2015 official failing to overturn an order photo session that Giedo van der Garde must at the Albert drive for them at the Australian KUWAIT CITY: Nasser Saleh with former co-driver Giovanni the stages. We want to write our Park Circuit for Grand Prix. Al Attiyah, the defending FIA Bernacchini in 2009, 2011 and names in gold within the history the Australian In a fast-moving sequence of Middle East rally champion, 2013. books of the Kuwait International Formula One events, the Swiss outfit were told leads 19 rivals into the start of “Some stages, particularly Rally.” to hand over a list of their assets Grand Prix in the Kuwait International Rally seven, eight and 10, are very tech- The entry list features four on Friday morning to ensure they Melbourne, today. nical. We can make a difference recent former winners of the comply with the court ruling. The event is being organised because there’s a lot of corners event. Al-Attiyah has his three Australia, yes- Sauber earlier lost their appeal by the Basil Salem Al-Sabah and twisty sections. It is not an wins, Yazeed Al-Rajhi claimed terday. The 2015 against a Victoria Supreme Court Motor Racing Club (BMRC) easy landscape and not easy to see victory in the FIA candidate rally Formula One order forcing them to honour a in conjunction with the Kuwait the defined track. After Mexico, in 2008, Khalid Al Qassimi came Grand Prix of deal with former reserve driver International Automobile Club the team is ready for the chal- out on top in 2010 and Qatar’s Australia will van der Garde. (KIAC) and day one action lenge and to achieve the best Khalid Al Suwaidi earned his only take place on Van der Garde claims Sauber revolves around two loops of three result possible.” ever MERC triumph in 2012. March 15. reneged on an agreement that desert special stages and a late Meshari Al Sabti is one of the Today, teams will tackle the he would race for them this sea- afternoon sting in the tail. chief organisers and has worked first of the seven special stages son when they opted for heavily Competitors have now com- tirelessly to finalise a challenging at Nuwaisaab (13.82km) from sponsored drivers Felipe Nasr and pleted their reconnaissance of the route and slick timetable. “The 10.08hrs. Marcus Ericsson instead. route and the deserts tracks have Kuwait International Rally is very Runs through Kheiran and The legal row has badly dis- thrown up several hidden chal- close to my heart and a bit like a Al-Zour follow at 10.46hrs and rupted Sauber’s preparations for lenges, even for the most experi- fifth son,” said Al Sabti. 11.24hrs and the three specials the new season, with their driver enced of the drivers. This year’s “We are working flat out to are repeated at 13.27hrs, 14.05hrs line-up still unknown and a fresh event will be staged under the ensure the best for the rally and and 14.43hrs after a regroup and Hamilton dreams of hearing pending as practice ses- patronage of Sheikh Athbi Nayef today we are going to harvest all midday service. A run through sions start today. Jaber Al Ahmad Al-Sabah. our hard work. I have been very the Al-Basil stage of 23.64km at Jim Peters QC said Sauber had “I’m very happy to be back in pleased about the positive com- 16.31hrs brings first day proceed- made no effort to reinstate van Kuwait,” said Qatar’s Al Attiyah, ments from the drivers and good ings to a close. emulating idol Senna der Garde, and sought to seize the who won the Kuwait Rally feedback about the route and THE PENINSULA team’s cars to ensure they com- MELBOURNE: World cham- cut short when he crashed at the plied with the court’s ruling. pion Lewis Hamilton yesterday San Marino Grand Prix in 1994. Justice Clyde Croft ordered said he was already dreaming Speculation over Hamilton’s Sauber to deliver details of their of emulating the late Formula future could be one distrac- assets in Australia by 9:30 am One great Ayrton Senna by win- tion with his contract due to (2230 GMT) today, ahead of a ning his third drivers’ title this expire this year and reports of contempt of court hearing. season. an approach by Ferrari. He said Van der Garde originally won Hamilton, racing with domi- discussions over a new deal with his complaint at a Swiss arbitra- nant team Mercedes, is the pre- Mercedes were going well, but tion tribunal and on Wednesday season favourite and he said it had that nothing had been signed. Justice Croft backed the ruling, been his ambition since childhood “I don’t really know what to enforcing it in Australia. to match his “favourite driver”. say,” he said, when asked about Sauber’s bid to overturn the “I would say that I always the negotiations. “It’s going good. decision was thrown out, with the wanted to do what Ayrton did,” It’s not signed yet.” three appeal court judges saying the 30-year-old Briton told Hamilton added that he didn’t they saw “no error in the reason- reporters in Melbourne ahead place any extra importance on ing of the trial judge”. of the year’s first race, the a good start to the season this “We did not consider this Australian Grand Prix. year, after he had to retire from course (the appeal) to be in the “Ayrton was my favourite the 2014 Australian race with interest of justice,” the judges said driver and I guess as a kid I mechanical problems. in a statement. always wanted to emulate him.” “I don’t see a particular exag- “The appeal is dismissed Hamilton ended a six-year wait gerated importance (compared) because we see no error in the for his second world title last year to any other time,” he said. reasons of the trial judge.” and his biggest rival in this year’s “Of course you come here and Sauber argued that it would be championship is expected to be you’d like to start on the right unsafe to let van der Garde drive his teammate, Nico Rosberg. foot, as I did want to last year, in Sunday’s race at such short Brazilian legend Senna won but there is a long, long way to notice, in unfamiliar cars which championships in 1988, 1990 and go so it’s not the most important are specially tailored to their Scrutinising for the Kuwait Rally on the eve of the race in Kuwait yesterday. 1991 before his life was tragically start of the year.” AFP drivers. 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2015 Grand Niculescu books Grand Prix of Qatar kicks Prix of Qatar Philippe Chiappe (FRA) China CTIC Team Xiong Ziwei (CHN) China CTIC Team Serena showdown Alex Carella (ITA) Team Abu Dhabi Thani Al-Qamzi (ARE) Team Abu Dhabi INDIAN WELLS, United is hitting the ball well and is feel- off UIM F1 H2O season Ahmed Al-Hameli (ARE) Emirates Team States: Monica Niculescu rolled ing good about his chances this over Aleksandra Krunic 6-2, 6-1 week. DOHA: A new season of UIM minutes in Italy before we came being in the hunt for the world Shaun Torrente (QAT) Qatar Team to book a second round clash “I don’t feel like I have that F1 H2O World Championship out to Qatar and that is never crown until the final few laps on Sami Selio (FIN) Mad-Croc Baba Racing with Serena Williams at Indian many bad days anymore,” Federer gets under way this weekend enough time to get used to it,“ Khaled Lagoon, and the team was Team Wells, where the American said. with the Grand Prix of Qatar said Carella, who also used the impressed with the new boat’s Filip Roms (FIN) Mad-Croc Baba Racing returns this week after a 14-year “Maybe sometimes you come taking centre stage at the start same boat in the Rouen endur- performance at a test session in Team hiatus. out and it’s not working.” AFP of the 11th year of F1 H2O rac- ance race. Doha Bay last week. Francesco Cantando (ITA) Motorglass F1 Reigning Australian Open ing on Doha Bay. “Obviously the plan is to go for the Adding fuel to a potentially Team champ Williams is one of 32 Driver and team management win, but I will have to wait for the explosive clash on Doha Bay Bernd Enzenhofer (AUT) Motorglass F1 seeded players who received a WTA Indian Wells changes have made the news out next race in France in June to get will be the flying Finn and two- Team first-round bye at the joint ATP Indian Wells, United States: Results of the water in recent weeks and my hands on my new boat, which is time champion Sami Selio of the Masters and WTA tournament in yesterday in the WTA BNP Paribas Open at Team Abu Dhabi head into this being built in Italy at the moment.” Mad-Croc Baba Racing Team and Jonas Andersson (SWE) Team Sweden the California desert. Indian Wells: weekend’s racing action with a Frenchman Phillipe Chiappe Al-Qamzi’s former team-mate Jesper Forss (SWE) Team Sweden Top seed Williams is competing Women superb chance to take the early claimed a stunning maiden World Ahmed Al Hameli, who lines up Duarte Benavente (PRT) F1 GC Atlantic Team in the tournament for the first First Round advantage in the world’s premier Championship title on the final for a new Emirates Team. Yousef Al-Rubayan (KUW) F1 GC Atlantic time since her self-imposed exile Monica Niculescu (ROM) bt Aleksandra single-hull race series. race of last year in Sharjah and Italy’s Francesco Cantando, Team began in 2001. She claimed two Three-time World Champion the CTIC China Team driver Sweden’s Jonas Andersson and Krunic (SRB) 6-2, 6-1 Marit Stromoy (NOR) Team Nautica singles titles in 1999 and 2001. Alex Carella has joined the Abu returns to defend his title. With Kuwait’s Yousef Al-Rubayan are Donna Vekic (CRO) bt Erik Stark (SWE) Team Nautica “It’s exciting,” Serbia’s Ana Louisa Chirico (USA) 6-4, 6-3 Dhabi line-up from the Qatar Carella joining the Abu Dhabi more than capable of pushing into Ivanovic said of Williams’ return Team and will work with new team, host nation hopes rest the top six and creating an upset, 2015 Grand Prix of Qatar – F-4S Mona Barthel (GER) bt to the event. team manager Guido Cappellini. with the Italian’s former team- especially in the time trials today. Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 Mohammed Al-Obaidly (QAT) Team Qatar “Obviously you want to com- The added bonus of the expe- mate Shaun Torrente. One of the The Grand Prix of Qatar Rashed Al-Qemzi (ARE) Team Abu Dhabi pete against the best.” Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt rienced Emirati driver Thani quickest drivers on the circuit timetable also features a pair of Joakim Halvorsen (NOR) Team Nautica This will mark the first career Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) 6-3, 6-3 Al-Qamzi give the team from the last season, Torrente lines up in 20-minute UIM F-4S Trophy meeting between Williams and Daria Gavrilova (RUS) bt Abu Dhabi International Marine a new boat powered by an even races today and Saturday. Action Briney Rigby (AUS) Team Sweden Romania’s Niculescu when they Silvia Soler (ESP) 6-3, 6-4 Sports Club (ADIMSC) a perfect more powerful engine tuned by gets underway with free practice Bingchen Wu (CHN) CTIC China Team square off Friday night on sta- Irina Falconi (USA) bt opportunity to get the season off Brendan Power. and time trials for the F-4S com- Mike Szymura (GER) F1 Atlantic Team dium court at the Indian Wells Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO) 7-6 (8/6), 6-4 to a winning start. “I only had The American finished third petitors from 09.00hrs. Ferdinand Zandbergen (NED) Mad-Croc Tennis Garden. Heather Watson (GBR) bt chance to drive this boat for 10 in the title race last season, after THE PENINSULA Baba Racing Team “I don’t really know what to Julia Goerges (GER) 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 Elisa Leidi (ITA) Motorglass F1 Team expect because we haven’t played Alison Van Uytvanck (BEL) bt before,” Niculescu said. “But Kurumi Nara (JPN) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 2015 Grand Prix of obviously I know she has a lot of Katerina Siniakova (CZE) bt power, and I know I’m going to Evgeniya Rodina (RUS) 6-3, 6-3 Qatar Schedule run a lot. I’m just going to play Marina Erakovic (NZL) bt Today my game.” Grace Min (USA) 6-3, 6-1 09.00-09.20 F-4S free practice Four-time men’s champion Sachia Vickery (USA) bt 09.30-09.50 F-4S time trials Roger Federer arrived in Indian Alex Carella poses Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (8/6) Wells Wednesday less than 24 besides the newly- 10.00-11.00 F1 free practice Lara Arruabarrena (ESP) bt hours after competing in an liveried Team Abu 14.00-14.20 F-4S race one – 20min Magdaléna Rybáriková (SVK) 6-0, 6-1 exhibition match against Grigor Dhabi boat in Qatar 15.30-16.30 F1 qualifying Dimitrov at Madison Square Monica Puig (PUR) bt yesterday. Tomorrow Garden in New York. Nicole Gibbs (USA) 6-3, 7-5 Federer, who won his seventh Alison Riske (USA) bt 09.00 – 09.20 F-4S free practice title in Dubai earlier this month, Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO) 6-2, 6-3 09.30 – 09.50 F-4S time trials will begin his Indian Wells cam- Sloane Stephens (USA) bt 10.00 – 11.00 F1 Free practice paign with a second round match Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) 7-5, 7-5 14.00 – 14.20 F-4S race 2 against either Jerzy Janowicz or Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) bt 15.45 – 16.30 Grand Prix of Qatar Diego Schwartzman. Johanna Larsson (SWE) 6-4, 6-3 The world number two said he 16.45 Prize giving ceremony FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

AJS Intifadah Mohammed Khalid steals the show Qashouti guides Ali Baba Z to on five-star day victory in the Juniors for Bentley Cup at the Qatar DOHA: AJS Intifadah, rid- Equestrian den by Marco Monteriso, last Federation’s night won the Losail Cup at the (QEF) Qatar Racing and Equestrian Outdoor Club (QREC), where popular Arena British jockey Harry Bentley in Doha produced five wins with Qatar’s top trainer Jassim Al Ghazali. yesterday. Monteriso ran a tough race as RIGHT: he guided AJS Intifadah to the Hussain top spot in the day’s premier Saeed event, in which Bentley finished Hidan in third spot. receives the Mutazz, ridden by T O’Shea, trophy after finished second — just half a winning the length behind AJS Intifadah. Emir Cup Despite the third-place finish, yesterday. Bentley brought immense delight to the Al Ghazali camp by notch- ing up five wins yesterday. Overall, Bentley has 68 wins in the 2014-15 season whereas Al Ghazali has notched up 119 win- ning runs. Bentley kicked off the day with two back-to-back wins with Gaza Al Emadi successfully and Al Sardal in the day’s opening two competitions. In race one, Gaza outran Ammon and Al Naif Never Mind to give Bentley his first win of the day. In race two, Bentley guided Al defends Emir’s Sword title Sardal to the top spot — edging Naamah, ridden by O’Shea, and Thabit, who had Monteriso in the Hussain Saeed Hidan comes up with neat routine to win the Emir Cup saddle. Bentley also emerged the win- ner in race four, piloting Intizaa BY RIZWAN REHMAT across the winning post ahead of Richard Mullen-ridden Al Koufa DOHA: Qatari showjumper and Pier Convertino-guided Vit’Al Khalid Mohammed Al Emadi Fauquey. yesterday produced a fault- In race five, the 22-year-old less routine with Tamira IV to Bentley got things right with Al successfully defend the Emir’s Gahzali-trained Izzthatright who Sword title, which he won last clocked a time of 1:10:02 in the year. 1,200m race. Al Emadi was the last man Bentley’s last win came in race in and finished the 140/145cm six when he powered Sherston jump-off round in a time of 44.82 past the winning post ahead of seconds. Jumaira Tower, who was ridden by Qatar national squad rider Convertino. THE PENINSULA Bassam Hassan Saif finished in second spot with his ride Imperio Egipcio Milton while Castiglionel Horse Racing — ridden by Mubarak Yousef Al Results Rumaihi — ended the competition in third place. Local Thoroughbred Maiden Plate Earlier in the day, Hussain Distance: 1,850m Saeed Hidan surprised everyone Running Time: 2:03:93 by winning the Emir Cup after (Read as horse, trainer and jockey) a neat routine with Born To Joy Gaza, Jassim Al Ghazali, Harry Bentley in the 130/140cm round with jump-off. Ammon, Z. Mohsen, Adrian Nicholls Hidan topped the field with a Al Naif Never Mind, Y. Bentaher, Gerald time of 41.62 seconds. Golden, rid- Avranche den by Jaber Rashed Al Marri, L/B P/A Maiden Plate finished second with a time of Distance: 2,000m 49.81 seconds. Hamid Nasir Al Running Time: 2:16:60 Qadi and his ride Sieclonnie fin- ished third with a time of 39.87 Al Sardal, Jassim Al Ghazali, Harry Bentley seconds but dropped a bar during Naamah, M. Salama, T. O’Shea the routine. Thabit, VJ. Smart, Marco Monteriso Qatar Armed Forces rider Al Thoroughbred Handicap Rated 0 - 60 Emadi threw his helmet up in the air when he cleared the final Distance: 1,600m obstacle in the Emir’s Sword com- Running Time: 1:37:53 petition at the Outdoor Arena of Napinda, M. Hussain, T. O’Shea the Qatar Racing and Equestrian The Minister of Youth and Sports, H E Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser Al Ali, with showjumpers Khalid Mohammed Al Emadi, Bassam Hassan Saif and Got You Babe, M. Al Mansoori, J.P Club (QREC). Mubarak Yousef Al Rumaihi during the podium ceremony after the Emir’s Sword event at the QEF’s Outdoor Arena in Doha yesterday. Guillambert After receiving the Golden Count Curlin, Mohammed Jassim Ghazali, Sword from Qatar’s Minister knowing the time to beat. But I train together so we know each spot with a time of 36.82 seconds Harry Bentley of Youth and Sports, H E Salah give credit to my horse as he man- other’s styles. But it was still a but the top Qatari rider dropped H H Emir’s Sword bin Ghanem bin Nasser Al Ali, aged a great routine,” Al Emadi great day for me. I am happy with a couple of bars. P/A Handicap Rated 50 - 80 and QEF President Hamad bin said. how I performed today.” Second-placed Al Marri said: “I Championship Distance: 1,600m Abdulrahman Al Attiyah — Al “I was under pressure also but Earlier Hidan topped the Emir did well. It was tough out there. Results Running Time: 1:45:55 Emadi said winning became I and Tamira managed a good Cup field as his ride Born To Joy I have been working very hard. Intizaa, Jassim Al Ghazali, Harry Bentley easier as he was the last rider to performance; something that looked in fine touch during the I guess it was God’s will that I Juniors Cup 2015 — compete. makes me so happy,” the defend- 130/140cm event. would finish so I can’t complain.” Under-18: 238.2.2 105/110cm Al Koufa, J. Smart, R. Mullen “I am happy with my per- ing champion said. “I feel like I am up in the sky ... Lekhwiya’s Assistant Manager, (Read as jockey, horse and time) Vit’Al Fauquey, O. Al Dhafa, P. Convertino formance today,” Al Emadi said. Second-placed Saif said: like I am flying,” Hidan said. “I am Abdullah Al Marri, was also Thoroughbred Conditions Mohammed Khalid Qashouti, Ali Baba Z, “I guess I had the advantage of “Actually most of us compete and so happy to win this competition delighted with his rider’s victory. (3 Year Olds Only) 36.07 Yesterday we got third position in “I’m extremely pleased with Distance: 1,200m the team event and now I man- the victory of my rider. I want to Ghanim Nasser Al Qadi, Al Bareq, 37.01 Running Time: 1:10:02 aged this victory. It feels really thank the Prime Minister, H E Ahmed Mohammed Hamad, Farneli, 38.86 Izzthatright, Jassim Al Ghazali, Harry nice.” Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Jassim Rashid Al Kaabi, WannabeeVD Bentley “It is not something that I Khalifa Al Thani, and Team Head Lindehoeve Z, 41.92 wanted to so bad because I have Abdulla bin Nasser Al Nuaimi for Copleys Walk, M. Hussain, T. O’Shea Mohammed Khalifa Al Baker, Denne Lee won this title before in 2013. their huge support to the team.” Jones, 36.89 Lupie, Jassim Al Ghazali, R. Mullen I just wanted to prove myself “Our team is quite young. Thoroughbred Handicap Rated 60 - 80 against the best riders. This was It consists of four riders from Emir Cup — 238.2.2 130/140cm Distance: 2,200m a tougher competition compared Lekhwiya and one from the QEF. Hussain Saeed Hidan, Born To Joy, 41.62 Running Time: 2:16:12 to the one two years ago. Then That is why I’m particularly Jaber Rashed Al Marri, Golden, 49.81 I had the best horse and I did delighted with the performance. Sherston, Jassim Al Ghazali, Harry Bentley Hamid Nasir Al Qadi, Seiclonnie, 39.87 (4) well. Right now I need to win the Lekhwiya are supporting the rid- Jumaira Tower, I. Al Malki, P. Convertino Emir’s Sword title,” Hidan said of ers in all possible ways — from Mohammed Saeed Hidan, Kingdom Come, Mindblowing, Mohammed Jassim Ghazali, his future plans. buying top horses to coaching and 45.96 (4) Yanis Aouabed “What I want to do all the their participation in the events,” Rashid Al Towaim Al Marri, Thoroughbred Conditions time is I want to improve my he added. Kannada, 36.82 (8) Distance: 1,200m skills. Our team is still young. Earlier, Mohammed Khalid Emir’s Sword 2015 — 238.2.2 The average age is between 16 and Qashouti produced a flawless rou- 140/145cm Hamza, Majid Seifddeni, Alberto Sanna 24. Basically, we are young riders. tine with Ali Baba Z to grab the Bazaruto, A. Abbas, Gerald Avranche We get amazing support from my top spot in the Juniors Cup. Khalid Mohammed Al Emadi, Tamira IV, Sandbetweenourtoes, Jassim Al Ghazali, team Lekhwiya. I would like to Al Qashouti clocked a time of 44.82 seconds. Harry Bentley thank the Prime Minister, H E 36.07 seconds in the 105/110cm Bassam Hassan Saif, Imperio Egipcio Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al class. Al Bareq, ridden by Ghanim Milton, 44.95 Losail Cup P/A Conditions Thani, and our manager Abdullah Nasser Al Qadi, finished in second Mubarak Yousef Al Rumaihi, Castiglionel Distance: 1200m bin Nasser Al Naimi. We get the spot with a time of 36.07 seconds. - 45.34 Running Time: 1:16:96 best of support from our team,” Ahmed Mohammed Hamad Sheikh Ali bin Khalid Al Thani, Concordija, AJS Intifadah, M. Al Yaqout, Marco Hidan said. finished in third spot with a time Qatari showjumper Khalid Mohammed Al Emadi reacts after winning 43.75 (4) Monteriso Hidan’s Lekhwiya team-mate of 37.01 seconds at the sand turf the Emir’s Sword event with Tamira IV at the QEF’s Outdoor Arena in Ali Yusuef Al Rumaihi, Eurocommerce Mutazz, Abdullah Al Jaber, T. O’Shea Doha yesterday. Rashid Al Towaim Al Marri, at QEF’s Outdoor Arena. astride Kannada, finished in fifth THE PENINSULA California, 57.36 (9) Arraab, Jassim Al Ghazali, Harry Bentley FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 SPORT 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

Champions League FIFA 2018 World Cup: Yemen crush Pakistan 3-1 in Doha Paris: Results from the Champions League last-16 second leg matches on Wednesday night: Chelsea (ENG) 2 (Cahill 81, Hazard 96-pen) Paris Saint-Germain (FRA) 2 (Luiz 86, Thiago Silva 114) 3-3 on aggregate. PSG qualify on away goals. At Munich, Germany Bayern Munich (GER) 7 (Mueller 4-pen, 51, Boateng 34, Ribery 49, Badstuber 63, Lewandowski 75, Goetze 87) Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) 0 Bayern Munich qualify 7-0 on aggregate On Tuesday At Madrid Real Madrid (ESP) 3 (Ronaldo 25, 45, Benzema 52) Schalke (GER) 4 (Fuchs 20, Huntelaar 40, 84, Sane 57) Real Madrid qualify 5-4 on aggregate At Porto, Portugal Porto (POR) 4 (Brahimi 14, Herrera 47, Casimiro 56, Aboubakar 76) Basel (SUI) 0 Yemen’s Aiman Al Hagri (centre) attempts a crack at the Pakistan goal during their FIFA 2018 World Cup Qualification match at Al Arabi Stadium in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: Yemen players celebrate after scoring the second goal. PICTURES BY: BAHER AMIN Porto qualify 5-1 on aggregate 10-man PSG claim Chelsea revenge Silva’s extra-time header gives French side away goals win; Bayern Munich qualify

PARIS: Ten-man Paris Saint- “PSG really wants to join the more and playing at home... we also advanced in style in Munich, Boateng also getting on the Germain sensationally came big leagues and I think we did couldn’t cope with that pressure.” to keep their bid for a sixth elite scoresheet before half-time. ‘World’s worst’ from behind twice to dump that tonight,” estimated coach Ibrahimovic was sent off in the European title on track. The floodgates opened in the Chelsea out of the Champions Laurent Blanc. first half and PSG fell behind to a Despite playing out a drab second-half, Franck Ribery, Bhutan win on League on away goals after “I think this match will be a Gary Cahill goal with nine min- goalless draw in the first leg in Mueller, Holger Badstuber, extra time Wednesday night references for the club for some utes remaining, only for Chelsea Ukraine, Bayern made no such Robert Lewandowski and Goetze Cup debut as Bayern Munich also quali- years. old boy David Luiz to take the mistake against a Shakhtar side all scoring. fied for the quarter-finals with “(Jose) Mourinho came up to tie to extra time with an 86th- reduced to 10 men in just the third On Tuesday, Real Madrid a 7-0 rout of ten-man Shakhtar congratulate me afterwards and minute header. minute after Olexander Kucher and Porto both booked their COLOMBO: Bhutan, the Donetsk. told me that we had had two great Thiago Silva appeared to have brought down Mario Goetze. last eight berths as Cristiano world’s worst international Held 1-1 in their last 16, first matches. I felt a lot of respect.” gifted Chelsea a place in the last Kucher’s dismissal beat the pre- Ronaldo became the all-time team according to FIFA rank- leg tie at Parc des Princes, the Chelsea manager Mourinho eight after conceding a penalty vious fastest Champions League leading goalscorer in European ings, picked up a 1-0 win against Parisians needed an exploit to get lamented his side’s inability to for a handball that Eden Hazard red card of 5min 52sec for Werder competition after two goals in Sri Lanka in their World Cup past Chelsea, and they achieved finish off the game at Stamford converted, but the PSG captain Bremen’s Valerien Ismael against Real’s upset 4-3 defeat against qualifying debut yesterday. just that in the English capital Bridge. scored with six minutes of the Inter Milan in September 2004. Schalke. Tshering Dorji scored the only drawing 2-2 on the night for a 3-3 “We didn’t deserve to go game remaining to send Blanc’s “I think the red card was It took his total to 78, surpass- goal of the match in the 84th aggregate scoreline to join holders through,” said Mourinho. side through on away goals. unfair,” lamented Shakhtar coach ing the previous record held by minute for the small Himalayan Real Madrid, Bayern and Porto in “The individual performances PSG president Nasser Al Mircea Lucescu. another former Real stalwart, nation, ranked last of the 209 the last eight. were not good enough and when Khelaifi hailed a “magnificent, “From then on we couldn’t play Raul. teams in FIFA’s rankings, in Despite playing the last hour of you concede two goals from two historic” victory for the club in our game as planned. We lost out Real’s 2-0 win in the first leg in steamy Colombo. normal time and 30 minutes extra corners it’s about lack of concen- their quest for European glory. in all areas. They were stronger Gelsenkichen saw the Spaniards Before yesterday, Bhutan had time without talisman Zlatan tration, lack of responsibility to “It’s proof we’re on the right all round. squeeze into the last eight 5-4 on only three wins to their name and Ibrahimovic, who was sent off cope with the markers and the track. We believe in the project “The match was over for us aggregate. were beaten 5-2 by Sri Lanka in for a foul on Oscar, PSG dug deep space you have to control. and we want to go as far as possi- after 3-0.” FC Porto advanced past Swiss their last international match at to take revenge for last season’s “When a team cannot cope with ble,” the Qatari businessman said. Thomas Mueller scored from club Basel, 5-1 on aggregate and the 2013 South Asian Football quarter-final exit to Chelsea. the pressure of being one player German champions Bayern the resulting penalty, Jerome 4-0 on the night. AFP Championships in Kathmandu. Brunei also won for the first time in the qualifiers, beating higher-ranked Taiwan with a 36th-minute goal from Adi Said PSG’s Thiago Silva while Cambodia defeated Macau (second right) scores 3-0 in Phnom Penh. their second goal Lowly East Timor earlier against Chelsea kicked off the road to Russia during the UEFA 2018 by registering their first ever Champions League World Cup qualifying win, a 4-1 Round of 16 sec- success over Mongolia in Dili. ond leg match at The victory was only the fourth Stamford Bridge, the 185th-ranked East Timor London, Britain, on achieved since becoming FIFA Wednesday night. India moved closer to the next round with a 2-0 win at home RIGHT: Chelsea’s against Nepal. Both goals came Belgian goalkeeper in the second half through India’s Thibaut Courtois top international scorer Sunil (LEFT) watches as Chhetri, who also missed a pen- the ball goes into the alty and the chance to complete net off a header by his hat-trick. Silva (not pictured). The six aggregate winners will move into the second round of the Asian World Cup campaign. REUTERS Shooting: Konstantin tops in 10M Air Pistol at Emir Cup Emir Shooting and DOHA: Oleg Engachev over- while Engachev had to settle for came Wednesday’s disappoint- the silver medal and Zaid Ahmad Archery Cup Results ment of finishing second in the Al Shammari clinched the bronze Maltsev Konstantin 10M Air Pistol to win the 25m medal. Today the finals of the 50m 25m Standard Pistol Men (centre), winner in the Standard Pistol at the Emir Rifle Prone will take place, while Engachov Oleg 10M Air Pistol Men Shooting and Archery Cup. tomorrow the finals of the 50m Morshed AliHassan at the Emir Shooting Maltsev Konstantin Yesterday at the Losail Rifle 3 positions will be held. Shooting Range, the Korean The Trap, Double Trap and and Archery Cup, 10M Air Pistol Men Asian Games gold medal winner, Skeets event began yesterday poses for a picture Konstantin Maltsev piped Ali Morshed Hassan to the with pre-event training. Action with Oleg Engachev Oleg Engachov second place to win his pet event continues with women Trap final (left), silver medal Ahmad Zaid Al Shammari while Maltsev Konstantin finished today while the men’s will square winner and third 10M Air Rifle Men third in a field of 13 shooters. off in the final tomorrow. place finisher Zaid Ali Rashid Al Muhannadi For Engachev, 25m Standard The shooting events of the Ahmad Al Shammari Abdullah Zain Al Sunaidi Pistol win turned out to be his championship organised by Qatar at Losail Shooting Fahad Gamal Al Muraqab third gold medal in the champi- Shooting and Archery Association Range. 10M Air Rifle Men Junior onship and a repeat of last year’s will finish on March 21. The Ahmed Mohsin Al Ali performance, wherein he had won archery events will be held for Mohammed Saad Al Mubarak a similar number of medals. two days and will take place on On Wednesday, Konstantin March 27 and 28. Mohammed Suleman Al Bloushi topped in the 10M Air Pistol THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

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Japan space scientists make Google launches virtual tour wireless energy of Nepal’s Everest region breakthrough KATHMANDU: Google laun- “Everyone in the world knows using the tripod cameras and fish- TOKYO: Japanese scientists ched a virtual tour of Nepal’s Mount Everest but very few peo- eye lenses to shoot inside monas- have succeeded in transmitting Everest region yesterday, allow- ple know how hard life is in these teries, schools, clinics,” said Raleigh energy wirelessly, in a key step ing armchair tourists a rare villages,” said Apa Sherpa, who Seamster, programme manager for that could one day make solar glimpse of life in one of the was forced to drop out of school Google Earth Outreach. power generation in space a pos- toughest and most inaccessible at 12 and work as a porter after Google held a digital mapping sibility, an official said yesterday. places on earth. his father died. session in the Himalayan town of Researchers used microwaves The Street View project takes “Thanks to Google Street View, Namche, where around 50 locals to deliver 1.8 kilowatts of power viewers into the heart of the everyone can see these villages chipped in with suggestions of — enough to run an electric kettle Sagarmatha national park, home and understand that people here places to add to the online map. — through the air with pinpoint to the world’s highest mountain, need help. Hopefully we can then Lodge-owner Tenzing Sherpa was accuracy to a receiver 55 metres where icy blue rivers run below raise funds to build more schools among those who attended the ses- (170 feet) away. snow-capped peaks, monks play and hospitals for them.” sion and said he hoped the initia- While the distance was not traditional music and yak-herd- Nepal’s Sherpa community, who tive would attract more tourists. huge, the technology could pave ers navigate precipitous stone- have long laboured as guides and “These online maps are a good the way for mankind to eventu- strewn trails. porters on mountaineering expe- source of information for visitors ally tap the vast amount of solar Armed with two single-lens ditions, hope the project will pro- and if more tourists come here, energy available in space and use tripod cameras and a 15-lens mote the region and raise funds to it will create more opportunities, it here on Earth, a spokesman for custom-built “Trekker” unit improve access to education, offer- better opportunities than working The Japan Aerospace Exploration designed for backpacks, teams ing future generations a way out on the mountain,” he told AFP. Agency (JAXA) said. travelled on foot to capture more of the high-risk climbing industry. Apa Sherpa, now 55, first “This was the first time any- than 45,000 panoramic images of Visitors to the Google Street climbed the 8,848-metre (29,029- one has managed to send a high the remote villages inhabited by View website can scroll through feet) high peak as a porter, and output of nearly two kilowatts of the ethnic Sherpa community in a slideshow of 360-degree views described the feat as “a dream electric power via microwaves to the eastern Himalayas. created by digitally stitching that had never been mine”. a small target, using a delicate Google worked on the project together thousands of 75-meg- Since its launch in 2007, Google directivity control device,” he said. with Kathmandu-based start-up apixel photographs, or click on Street View has captured some JAXA has been working on Story Cycle and Nepalese moun- the online map to see images of of the world’s most far-flung and devising Space Solar Power taineer Apa Sherpa, who scaled individual sites. scenic destinations, including the Systems for years, the spokesman A memeber of the Google Street View project walks with the camera used Mount Everest a record 21 times “Googlers, Story Cycle employ- Amazon forest, Antarctica and said. Solar power generation in to capture project footage through Nepal’s Khumbu region. before he retired from climbing ees and Apa Sherpa spent about Canada’s Arctic tundra. space has many advantages over and set up an educational charity. 11 days on the move last March, AFP its Earth-based cousin, notably the permanent availability of energy, regardless of weather or time of day. While man-made satellites, such as the International Space Station, have long since been Wake up Philae! The world awaits news able to use the solar energy that washes over them from the sun, PARIS: Excitement mounted yesterday Rosetta and the Sun was expected to offer standby mode on November 15. As comet getting that power down to Earth as scientists started listening for signs the first real possibility for contact in a “67P” draws closer to the Sun, it is hoped where people can use it has been of life from robot lab Philae, hurtling window from March 12 to 20. “And we will better light conditions will recharge the thing of science fiction. through space perched on a comet some try again if it doesn’t work this week. We Philae’s solar-powered batteries enough But the Japanese research 460 million kilometres from Earth. will have more opportunities in the weeks for it to wake up, make contact, and start offers the possibility that humans Messages of encouragement used the and months to come,” said Martin. a new series of experiments. will one day be able to farm an Twitter hashtag #WakeUpPhilae, as a long- Philae touched down on Comet 67P/ But the probe’s exact position is not inexhaustible source of energy in awaited communications window between Churyumov-Gerasimenko on November known, nor whether it can be reached by space. The idea, said the JAXA Earth and the washing machine-sized probe 12 after a seven-hour, 20km descent from the Sun’s rays. On the ESA mission’s twit- spokesman, would be for micro- opened at 0100 GMT — exactly four months Rosetta, which had travelled more than a ter page, Rosetta declared itself “Excited!”. wave-transmitting solar satellites after it arrived at its new home. decade and 6.5 billion kilometres to enter “Opportunities to listen for @philae2014 to — which would have sunlight- But Philae gave no immediate response, the dusty iceball’s orbit in August last year. find out if he’s awake!” the mothership said. gathering panels and antennae the European Space Agency (ESA) said, But the landing did not go smoothly. The Messages from followers included: — to be set up about 36,000km and cautioned there could be a long wait probe, which weighs 100kg on Earth but “Wakeup buddy!” and “it’s time for work (22,300 miles) from the earth. before the lander talks to its comet-orbit- less than a feather in the comet’s weak now!!” ESA said there will be 11 optimum A 360 degree view of the surface of comet “But it could take decades ing mothership Rosetta... if at all. “We gravity, bounced twice off the hard surface slots for signal transmission during this 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko around the before we see practical applica- are just trying,” Rosetta mission manager before settling at an angle in a dark ditch. nine-day window—roughly two periods point of final touchdown, during Philae’s tion of the technology — maybe in Patrick Martin said by telephone. Philae had enough stored battery power per day when the orbiter, lander and Sun descent. Superimposed on top of the image the 2040s or later,” he said. After four months with no news from for 60 hours of experiments. It sent home are best aligned. is a sketch of the Philae lander. AFP Philae, the probe’s position relative to reams of precious data before going into AFP