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Obama pushes for new gun control regulations

WASHINGTON: The Obama administra- tion yesterday proposed two new gun control regulations aimed at clarifying restrictions on gun ownership for the mentally ill and strengthening a database used for back- ground checks before firearm purchases. The measures are the latest step in a year-long push by President Barack Obama to tighten gun laws in the wake of a school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children were killed. Obama tried last year to bring in sweeping gun control measures but most of his proposals were defeated in Congress. He has pledged to continue working on the issue despite setback. He had also directed officials to take steps that did not require approval from Congress. The first action, proposed by the Department of Justice, would clarify who is prohibited from possessing firearms because of mental illness and outline for states what information can be shared with the federal database. The second, by the Department of Health and Human Services, would remove barri- ers that could prevent states from passing on information to the database. Kerry seeks to allay fears on Mideast deal JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State John Kerry held intense talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders yesterday, seeking to overcome their concerns about a framework to guide negotiations towards a peace deal. Kerry met Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and is due to meet him and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again today for their third round of talks in as many days. US Senator John McCain, who is also visit- ing Israel with a congressional delegation, said Netanyahu had voiced deep concerns in sepa- rate “detailed” discussions about the proposals being put forward by Kerry. “Netanyahu has serious concerns about the plan as has been presented to him, whether it be on the ability of Israel to defend its borders or the reliability of a Palestinian state and their ALIVE? intentions,” McCain said in Jerusalem. Syria opposition bloc THE ISSUE confirms talks rejection BEIRUT: A key group within Syria’s main- Osama bin Laden, as we know, parliamentarian as well: He was a member him down seems unconvincing. stream opposition National Coalition reaf- of the Kuwaiti parliament in the mid-1980s. “I believe that he was captured alive and firmed yesterday that it would not attend was killed in a surprise raid by the Al Nefaisi’s comments in a Kuwait-based they are telling the world that they killed him peace talks slated for later this month in US Navy SEALs on May 2, 2011 in TV interview (Rotana Khaleejia) that he and threw his body in the sea. Switzerland. the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, believed Bin Laden might have been captured “The theory of his killing seems to have “After meetings with many international alive by the Americans led to huge reactions been cooked up as the Americans might have delegations in recent weeks... Syrian National but many in the Arab world believe from people all over the region, particularly thought of putting an end to the story sur- Council confirms it sees no reason to attend he is alive, having been captured on social media such as Twitter. rounding the Al Qaeda leader. I believe he is the Geneva conference,” SNC member Samir A gist of the interview, along with its foot- alive and with the Americans.” Nashar said. He also forecast that National by the Americans alive. age in a video clipping, was carried by ‘sabq’, Al Nefaisi said Al Qaeda did not remain the Coalition, which had still not taken a definitive a prominent Kuwait-based news website in same as it was when Bin Laden was head- decision, would similarly not show up. famous Kuwaiti political commenta- Arabic. ing it. tor stoked a controversy yesterday by Interestingly, nearly all those who com- “It’s an outfit in disarray. It isn’t a united Clashes kill 13 as Mursi Aclaiming in a TV interview that he had mented on Al Nefaisi’s interview on the ‘sabq’ force as it used to be in the days when Bin serious doubts that Bin Laden was killed by website said they never believed that Bin Laden was at its helm. Today, the organisa- backers protest the Americans. Laden was killed by the Americans and that tion remains a loose force, with a number of Dr Abdullah Al Nefaisi holds a PhD in his body was consigned to the sea. groups and leaders claiming to represent the CAIRO: At least 13 people died in clashes political science from the University of Al Nefaisi said in the interview: “Bin Laden ideology of Al Qaeda. yesterday across Egypt as police dispersed Cambridge and was a professor of political might have been taken alive by the Americans, “The phenomenon of Bin Laden has thousands of protesters demanding the science in Kuwait University. Born in 1945, he as it is only logical to think that they must changed the general mood in the Islamic reinstatement of deposed Islamist presi- also taught for a while at Al Ain University be too keen to study the phenomenon of Al world,” Al Nefaisi said in the interview, dent Mohammed Mursi, the health minis- PAGEin the UAE. 6 Qaeda and that of Bin Laden himself. which, incidentally, was to focus on the issue try said. The protests came after an Islamist The political scientist, a respected fig- “The American story that a superpower of Iran and the “troubles” it was causing in alliance that backs Mursi called for demon- ure not only in the GCC region but all like the US had been on Bin Laden’s trail for the region (read the Arab world). strations ahead of his new trial hearing on over the Arab world, has had a stint as a 11 years and spent billions of dollars to hunt See also page 2 Wednesday. See also page 8 AGENCIES

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Bin Laden’s death revisited Kuwaiti scholar’s argument that ‘Bin Laden is not dead’ sparks furious debate on social media

ormer Kuwaiti parliamentarian and political scientist Dr FAbdullah Al Nefaisi, it seems, has stirred a hornets’ nest by saying in a TV interview yesterday that he believed that Osama bin Laden was alive as the Americans might have captured him alive. Social media, including Twitter, which is active in the region, was abuzz with comments on his interview. And comments from across the region were also pouring in until the time of going to press on the Kuwaiti news website, ‘sabq’ Dr Abdullah Al Nefaisi which carried a gist of Al Nefaisi’s interview and a video clipping of he was killed and his body was its excerpts. being taken in a plane when it was Comments on social media shot down by Al Qaeda members and ‘sabq’ provide an interesting and they (the Americans) couldn’t insight into what people across The Americans identify any of the bodies. the Arab world generally think presented the story “They were taking Bin Laden’s about Bin Laden and his killing in body to show the world that an a raid by the US Navy SEALs on (of Bin Laden’s enemy of the US would meet this May 2, 2011 in the Pakistani city of killing) to the world fate.” Another person commenting Abbottabad. on ‘sabq’ echoed the same and said Interestingly, except for one in a Hollywood film the only genuine sources who could tweet, which said Al Nefaisi’s claims tell the truth about Bin Laden are were childish, and a comment or style — which they his widow and the US. two on ‘sabq’ that were critical of always do when “Al Qaeda leaders have admitted him, others seemed to agree with that he had been killed… And his his view. cooking up such widow said his body was being “Yes, I endorse the idea that stories. taken in a plane and that it was he (Bin Laden) is alive,” said a shot down.” commentator on ‘sabq’, reacting Another commentator said to Al Nefaisi’s interview. and destruction… Nations have an American had told him that Another, who gave his initials as been destroyed.” he didn’t believe the story of Bin Hatim, said he was convinced that One Sadiq said there was a Laden’s killing. “That was an the militant leader was not killed. message from the American election stunt,” he quoted the “Had he been killed, they (the administration (in the story American as saying, referring to Americans) would have shown his of Al Qaeda leader’s killing): President Barak Obama’s election body. Instead, they simply said they “Anyone who is wanted by campaign for a second term. had thrown his corpse in the sea.” Washington would be killed like “We are not so stupid as to lend “The Americans presented the Al Zarqawi.” ears to the American story and story (of Bin Laden’s killing) to the Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi was believe it,” said a commentator. world in a Hollywood film style — the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. But a couple of people sounded which they always do when cooking The Jordanian was also a fighter furious and said Al Nefaisi up such stories,” was how another in Afghanistan, and was killed digressed from the original issue he commentator reacted, not giving in Iraq by the US forces on June was supposed to be speaking on — his name. 7, 2006. He was responsible for the issue involving Iran and how it “I agree with Al Nefaisi, for it several deadly attacks on the US was creating trouble in the region. is not logical to think that after forces in Iraq. “The interview was about Iran 11 years of manhunt they found When they (the Americans) and the trouble it was creating him and simply killed him,” said killed the sons of Saddam in the region, but the interviewer another commentator. Hussein (after the US raid on disappointed us by changing the Not showing Bin Laden’s body Iraq a little more than a decade subject. Bin Laden isn’t as hot an was evidence enough that he was ago) they showed their bodies on issue,” said one commentator. alive, said another. the TV, said one commentator. Another said: “I recall that “I think the story of his killing “But in the case of Bin Laden, something was said about Saddam was concocted to convince the they didn’t, and this means that he Hussein as well when he was American people that Bin Laden is alive and with the Americans, as captured. A lot of people believed was dead and that they were claimed by Dr Al Nefaisi.” that he wasn’t captured, tried and safe now,” reacted yet another Another commentator said: “It killed”. commentator. was impossible for a man like Bin One commentator said Bin One commentator, who seemed Laden to have handed himself over Laden had died earlier due to to differ with Al Nefaisi and those to the US forces.” kidney failure and was buried by who said they were convinced by A lot of people have been his relatives. his argument, was critical of Bin privately talking about doubts over “Now, the US has come up with Laden and said he soiled the image the American story and this is the its own story to show that he did of Muslims the world over and first time someone as prominent not die a natural death and that painted them as terrorists. as Al Nefaisi has talked about it they killed him.” Mar 1957: Osama bin Muhammad Mar 11, 2004: Bombs on commuter Agreeing with him, another publicly, said another commentator. Al Nefaisi’s interview on Kuwait- bin Awad bin Laden born in Riyadh, trains in Madrid kill 191 people commentator said Bin Laden One commentator said Osama’s based ‘Rotana Khalijia’ was part of Saudi Arabia. Seventh son among Jul 7, 2005: 52 people killed by was responsible for the killing of wife was present at the time of the a popular Friday programme titled 50 or more siblings suicide bombers in London thousands of innocent Muslims in US raid on the house (in Pakistan) Leqa Al Juma, which in Arabic 1968: Bin Laden’s father dies in Jul-Nov: Bomb attacks in Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. where he had been holed up with means ‘Friday Interview’. plane crash, Osama inherits millions “What he has given us is death his family, and she later said that THE PENINSULA Bali and Jordan leave 170 dead 1979-89: Bin Laden builds Jun 2, 2008: Al Qaeda bombs reputation helping U.S.-sponsored Danish embassy in Pakistan mujahideen fight Soviet troops during invasion of Afghanistan. Founds Dec 25, 2009: Perpetrator of failed Al Qaeda – “the base” – to focus on attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 holy wars abroad admits he was trained by Al Qaeda in Yemen. U.S. President Barack Feb 1993: Bomb attack at World Obama later declares on TV “We are Trade Centre in New York kills six at war against Al Qaeda” people. Bomber linked to Al Qaeda Aug 2010: CIA tracks Al Qaeda 1996: Bin Laden sets up terrorist courier to fortified compound in training camps in Afghanistan under Pakistani town of Abbottabad. Multiple protection of Taliban intelligence reports suggests that 1997: CIA begins to prepare plan bin Laden is planning to “pursue an to capture bin Laden aggressive course of action” Aug 7, 1998: Bombings of U.S. Oct 29: Two bombs found on cargo embassies in Kenya and Tanzania planes bound from Yemen to U.S. kill 231 people Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Oct 12, 2000: Attack on destroyer claims responsibility for plot USS Cole in Yemen kills 17 sailors Feb-Apr 2011: President Obama Sep 11, 2001: Attacks on World leads five meetings of National Trade Centre in New York and Security Council focused solely on Pentagon in Washington, plus aircrash whether bin Laden is in Abbottabad in Pennsylvania, kill almost 3,000 compound 2002: Al Qaeda-linked attacks take May 1 2011: Contingent of U.S. place in Tunisia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Navy’s SEAL Team Six is tasked Morocco, Indonesia and Turkey, killing with attacking compound. Bin Laden more than 360 people is killed during 40-minute firefight Home JANUARY 4, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY Mercury may dip to eight degrees from Tuesday

DOHA: The country is expected to wit- expected to vary between 16 and 19 degrees. winds could gather speeds of between 20 ness unstable weather beginning tomor- Tomorrow and on Monday, the weather and 35 knots, the department said. row with a sudden rise in the mercury would be generally warm with the wind The wind could cause waves in the high levels. direction being southeasterly, the depart- seas of up to between seven and 13 feet high But a sudden cold spell from Tuesday ment said in a forecast. so seafarers would better use caution. could see the mercury taking a sharp dip. On Monday, particularly due to evapora- Maximum temperature would likely The weather is likely to be hot tomorrow tion in the sea, the weather would be partly range between 16 and 19 degrees inland and and on Monday, with temperatures rang- cloudy with chances of rain, occasionally offshore. But the temperature could drop to ing between 22 and 24 degrees Celsius on accompanied by thunder and strong winds. eight to 11 degrees in some places at night, average. Then, on January 7, the weather could the forecast said. According to the Meteorology suddenly change with high pressure build- The Weather Bureau, in a statement Department, from Tuesday the weather ing over the north of the Arabian Peninsula yesterday, urged people to brace for the could change again with a cold spell, rup- and moving towards Qatar. unstable weather over the coming days, turing the hotter weather. Wind direction would change to north- especially for the cold spell that is expected The mercury, after Tuesday, could sud- westerly (that blows from the colder regions from Tuesday. denly drop to as low as between eight and of Europe), and speeds of up to 15 to 30 The bureau, however, didn’t say how long 11 degrees in some places at night. knots could be expected inland. the cold spell is expected to last. Day temperatures from Tuesday are The seas would be rough as northwesterly THE PENINSULA

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It is the largest and one Quran and enlightening them He said the competition ties as messengers of peace, love. of the most beautiful Islamic to perform worship in the way also seeks to strengthen the QNA JANUARY 4, 2014 ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home / Middle East QR1.2m falcon centre More participants likely in opens in Al Shahaniyya DOHA: A falcon centre, the rate?’” said Al Kuwari, explain- Hadad Al Saluki competition biggest facility in the coun- ing the reason behind the estab- try which can accommodate lishment of the centre. 600 falcons, has opened at Al The facility has 32 aircondi- Shahaniyya. tioners to maintain tempera- Contestants with their Arabian dogs rush for registration on first day Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim bin tures at 24 degrees Celsius. Mohammad Al Thani, Chairman There are also 13 cameras to DOHA: More people are of Qatar Chamber, inaugurated monitor falcons and for security, expected to take part in the Al Kashaniyya falcon house, in addition to an isolation room Hadad Al Saluki competition of in the presence of falconers in case a falcon takes ill. the Fifth Qatar International from Qatar and neighbouring “We have veterinary services Falcon and Hunting Festival. countries. if the situation requires. We call Arabian salukis are greyhound- The new facility built at a cost owners to decide if they want like dogs known for their speed, of QR1.2m has four rooms, each to have their falcons treated intelligence, stamina and loyalty with an area of 45m by 30m here and issue them bills later,” to their owners, and saluki hunt- to give more space for falcons he said, adding he planned to ing is a traditional sport practised to move freely. There are also establish an integrated veteri- in the region for thousands of special rooms, offered at higher nary hospital with latest tech- years. “The first day of registra- rates and have an area of 13m nology to provide the best care tion witnessed many participants by 6m each. for falcons. and I expect there would be rush Nasser Khalifa Al Kuwari, The facility has five employ- on the final day of registration,” owner of the facility, said every ees to feed and take care of fal- said Ahmad Sultan Al Mulla, Vice year they will start receiving fal- cons and except them nobody is Chairman of the Hadad Al Saluki cons in January until the hunt- allowed to enter the rooms. The committee. ing season starts in October. owners can watch their falcons During registration, the com- Falcon owner will have to through the monitors because mittee checks the saluki, its type pay QR5,000 for each falcon, falcons need to be familiar with and whether it fulfils require- inclusive of all services and the staff and should not be dis- ments set by the panel. food except the cost of medical tracted by other people. Meanwhile, registration for treatment. Falconry is one of the hob- various categories of the falcon “Many Qatari owners take bies and sports of Qataris. Most competition saw more partici- Participants registering for the Hadad Al Saluki contest last year. their falcons to neighbouring falcons are bought from Egypt, pants yesterday. countries to be taken care of Libya, India, Mongolia, Russia Mohammad Mubarak Al Ali during these nine months. I said and other countries and the Al Maadeed, Head of Al Tala’a should identify the place where have gained more experience and in different ages. Also there are ‘why don’t we provide the same prices of some can reach around committee, said there had been the prey is. It is now 800 metres. training through the previous edi- many tourists who are keen to services here at a reasonable QR3m. THE PENINSULA no major change on conditions for The falcon is given three minutes tions. “They want to win prizes,” know about festival activities and the competition, one of the popu- to identify the hiding place of the he said, adding the new partici- how they can follow them.” lar falcon hunting contests. prey,” he said. Winners will be pants would enrich the festival. Another participant, Al Tala’a falcon is known for its the best 10 falcons which meet Khalifa Nasser Al Ghaisani, Mohammed Al Emadi, said he sharp vision and ability to iden- requirements and in case they are one of the participants, said like was taking part in Al Da’o con- 10,000 cars in custody tify the place of its prey and it equal in the distance, winners will others, he prepared well for the test for the second time. “It is the is popular with hunters because be decided based on the fastest contest. most exciting competition, which it guides hunters. Its vision is time, he added. “The festival is popular at the attracts many participants and I many times sharper than that of This year’s competition, he said, GCC level and has gained many enjoy participating in it. I advise of Traffic Department humans. would attract more participants followers outside Qatar. It has the youth to participate because it “The only change is the dis- because more people are becom- been attracting participants form will help them gain skills.” DOHA: Around 10,000 cars are reckless driving, stunt driving, tance, within which the falcon ing aware of it and participants Qataris and other GCC nationals THE PENINSULA in the custody of the Traffic road racing which put others’ Department, 3,000 of them lives in danger, and tinting the abandoned by owners because glasses in a way that affects road fines had exceeded their market safety and public security. price while some owners have Other reasons include failure been deported. to change old number plates and QU students to launch cyber bullying awareness The cars are kept for a maxi- not renewing the road permit mum six months, after which they (istimara). DOHA: Five Qatar University and Lugean Al Alaf. “Our role is to make society cyber bullying, including psycho- are sold in an open auction and He said the department had (QU) journalism students have Cyber bullies use the Internet pay attention to the problem and logical and psychiatric help. proceeds go to the department, deployed police patrol in Doha, joined hands to launch an ini- deliberately to harm people, espe- protect teenagers by preventing Through the hotline teenag- according to Lt Mohammed Safar Al Shamal, and the southern part tiative against cyber bullying. cially youngsters. Although it cyber bullying,” she said. ers can report bullying incidents Al Kuwari, Assistant Officer at of the country to monitor traf- Called Aman (security), the has become a common problem The project will raise aware- they face and authorities can take the Department of Investigation fic violations and wrong driving graduation project aims at rais- all over the world, cyber bullying ness among families and teachers measures upon taking permis- and Vehicle Detention. behaviour. ing awareness about cyber bully- has not received much attention about the negative effects of cyber sion of the victim. The campaign, “Last July we auctioned 800 The department issues circu- ing and targets children from 12 in the country. bullying on society. which will involve concerned enti- cars, 450 of which were sold. lars to seize cars after motorists to 17 years. It has become a common phe- Within the campaign, the stu- ties like telecommunications and There will be another auction to escape after committing viola- The project’s proponents nomenon in Qatar but society dents also proposed the idea of psychiatrists, will be officially sell the remaining cars,” he said. tions or those have court cases. include Ala Ahmad, Sali Waleed, is not aware of its spread, said having a hotline to support, res- launched at QU this month. Cars are mainly seized due to THE PENINSULA Bushra Khaled, Munira Al Baz Waleed. cue and protect teenagers from THE PENINSULA

Babies day out Syrian opposition, Al Qaeda group clash near Aleppo

DAMASCUS: The most seri- city. Several hundred miles east, there and elsewhere in Iraq has ous clashes yet between the Isis remains in control of parts of gradually ebbed as the war in Syrian opposition and a promi- the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, Syria has intensified. In the past nent Al Qaeda group erupted in having raided mosques, sacked week, revitalised Isis insurgents the north of the country yester- police stations and freed prison- stormed into both cities soon day as a tribal revolt against the ers in moves reminiscent of the after the Iraqi military withdrew same organisation continued to darkest days of Iraq’s insurgency, from a violent stand-off with local rage in Iraq’s Anbar province. in which much of Anbar had been tribes. Opposition groups near Aleppo lost to Al Qaeda. The same group has been at the attacked militants from the Isis is the latest incarnation of vanguard of an increasing radi- Islamic State of Iraq in Syria the same group that held sway calisation of the anti-Assad oppo- (Isis) in Al Atareb and Andana, in Anbar before the Awakening sition in the north. Its members strongholds of the fundamentalist Movement of tribal militias cross freely between Anbar and Sunni organisation. ousted it. The Awakening was the eastern deserts as insurgen- Battles also erupted in the led at the time by powerful local cies in each area steadily seep in Salahedin district of Aleppo, sheikhs and backed by the occu- to each other. where both groups had reluc- pying US military and was cred- Tribal figures in Anbar said tantly co-existed during recent ited with freeing both cities from they were continuing to mount months as Isis had imposed its the grip of the jihadists. attacks on Isis and were deter- hardline influence on parts of the But over the past year, security mined to block the Islamists’ efforts to re-establish a foothold A couple carrying their children in child bicycle trailers in the West Bay area of Doha last evening. there. SALIM MATRAMKOT “Never will we allow them to return to our towns,” said a sen- ior sheikh from the outskirts of Ramadi. “We don’t trust the Shia regime of Al Maliki and we don’t No amnesty for Turkey’s jailed officers trust Al Qaeda. We will fight for our future. No one else has our ANKARA: Turkey’s deputy no such plans”. He said the right came to power in 2002. benefit at heart.” prime minister said yesterday to fair trial should not be violated. The army’s latest move comes The US military had placed there were no plans to grant In 2012 and 2013, hundreds of amid a political crisis sparked by great significance on Ramadi pardons for jailed army officers military officers, including former a high-level corruption investi- and Fallujah, having fought two convicted of plotting to topple army chief General Ilker Basbug, gation that has exposed a power major battles against insurgents Prime Minister Recep Tayyip were convicted and given long jail struggle between Erdogan and in Fallujah in 2004 and having Erdogan’s government. terms for plotting to overthrow loyalists of influential US-based suffered more than one-third of The remarks by Bulent Arinc the government. cleric Fethullah Gulen who its casualties during the eight- came a day after it was revealed The military, which considers wield influence in police and the year war in the restive province. that the military had demanded itself the guardian of the repub- judiciary. With the US having left three a retrial of convicted officers, lic’s secular principles, has waged Erdogan’s top political adviser, years ago, the government of the accusing police and the judiciary three coups since 1960 and forced Yalcin Akdogan, suggested last Prime Minister, Nouri Al Maliki, of fabricating evidence in two out an Islamist government in month that those who took action Syrian residents flee homes following clashes between opposition fighters recently travelled to the US to cases. 1997. against the army were also those and forces loyal to President Assad in Adra area, east of Damascus seek renewed intelligence help to “Nobody should have expec- But Erdogan has clipped the orchestrating the corruption yesterday. get on top of the insurgency. tations for a general amnesty,” wings of the once-powerful mili- investigation against key govern- THE GUARDIAN Arinc told reporters. “We have tary with court cases since it ment allies. AFP JANUARY 4, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY

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S SOUTH Sudan, the world’s newest country, struggles to recover from the fatal blows it suffered after the two leading tribes drew daggers against each Aother, questions are being asked about the failure of Hype about India storming the international agencies and countries to foresee this trouble. Juba’s government has been mainly on international aid since its formation in 2011, and if the world, especially the US, has been putting so much of their money into a country, it’s their first world was largely a myth duty to demand results. That would mean ensuring that the BY JOHN PILGER country is moving in the right direction, that stability and peace “liberating” India’s economy and “way – a figure that may be a fraction of the are being restored, that its leaders have the nation’s interest of life”. truth as local authorities wilfully mis- in mind when they take decisions. The reason is that the early N FIVE-STAR hotels on Mumbai’s Barriers protecting industry, manu- report “accidental” deaths. In one dis- years of a nation are the most difficult, especially of South seafront, children of the rich squeal facturing and agriculture were demol- trict of Maharashtra, farmers die by the Sudan where tribalism is the predominant principle, and all the Ijoyfully as they play hide and seek. ished. Coca-Cola, Pizza Hut, Microsoft, dozen every week. Nearby, at the National Theatre for Monsanto and Rupert Murdoch entered “Across the length and breadth of aid can be wasted through the slightest disturbance. the Performing Arts, people arrive for what had been forbidden territory. India,” says the acclaimed environ- The violence of the scale South Sudan is witnessing has the the Mumbai literary festival: famous Limitless “growth” was now the meas- mentalist Vandana Shiva, “the gov- potential to upend all the progress the country has made. The authors and notables from India’s Raj ure of human progress, consuming ernment has declared war on its own ethnic and political violence has killed at least 1,000 people and class. They step deftly over a woman both the BJP and Congress, the party people”. Using colonial-era laws, fertile displaced nearly 200,000 in the past two weeks. Most of the lying across the pavement, her birch of independence. Shining India would land has been taken from poor farm- institutions so painstakingly set up are in disarray. This means brooms laid out for sale, her two chil- catch up China and become a super- ers for as little as 300 rupees a square dren silhouettes in a banyan tree that power, a “tiger”, and the middle classes metre; developers have sold it for up to nation-building will have to start afresh. In other words, the is their home. would get their proper entitlement in a 600,000 rupees. In Uttar Pradesh, a new money pumped into South Sudan has become like money spent It is Children’s Day in India. On page society where there was no middle. As expressway serves “luxury” townships on a badly planned business project. nine of the Times of India, a study for the majority in the “world’s larg- with sporting facilities and a Formula South Sudan received approximately reports that every second child is mal- est democracy”, they would vote and One racetrack, having eliminated 1,225 one billion dollars of international nourished. Nearly 2 million children remain invisible. villages. The farmers and their com- under the age of five die every year There was no tiger economy for them. munities have fought back, as they do South Sudan assistance on an annual basis between from prevent- The hype about a hi-tech India storm- all over India; in 2011, four were killed is surviving on 2006 and 2010 — the run-up to able illness as ing the barricades of the first world and many injured in clashes with police. independence. The total aid allocations common as diar- was largely a myth. This is not to deny For Britain, India is now a “priority foreign aid. So for the first year after independence rhoea. Of those India’s rise in pre-eminence in computer market” – to quote the government’s donors need totaled $1.4bn. If all this money. More than 250,000 who survive, half technology and engineering, but the new arms sales unit. In 2010, David Cameron Reports now say that all of this money are stunted owing urban technocratic class is relatively took the heads of the major British arms to set terms farmers have killed to a lack of nutri- tiny and the impact of its gains on the companies to Delhi and signed a $700m hasn’t been used on people. There was ents. The national fortunes of the majority is negligible. contract to supply Hawk fighter bomb- to prevent a a ‘fake ministry of finance’ set up to themselves since school dropout When the national grid collapsed in ers. Disguised as “trainers”, these lethal repetition of deal with donors and advisers, and the the mid-1990s – a rate is 40pc. 2012, leaving 700 million people power- aircraft were used against the villages ‘real ministry of finance’ which actually figure that may Statistics such as less, almost half had so little electricity of East Timor. The collapse this week of fighting. made funding allocations. This ministry these flow like a they barely noticed. On my last two vis- Cameron’s attempt to sell attack heli- was operated through backdoor dealings be a fraction river permanently its, last November and 2011, front pages copters to India, a deal now mired in of the truth as in flood. No other boasted that India had “gatecrashed the bribery allegations, exemplifies his gov- between South Sudanese officials, concealed from donor view. country comes super-exclusive ICBM [intercontinental ernment’s biggest single contribution to If donors had set up watchdogs to monitor the progress of the local authorities close. The small ballistic missile] club”, launched its Shining India. nation, the crisis that has paralysed the country could have wilfully misreport thin legs dan- “largest ever” aircraft carrier and sent India has become a model of the been avoided. Donors have the right to ensure that the aid gling in a banyan a rocket to Mars: the latter lauded by imperial cult of neoliberalism – almost they give produce the results they want. That would involve ‘accidental’ deaths. tree are poignant the government as “a historic moment everything must be privatised, sold off. evidence. for all of us to cheer”. The worldwide assault on social democ- guaranteeing peace and stability. The leviathan The cheering was inaudible in the racy and the collusion of major parlia- The current round of South Sudan violence began with a once known as Bombay is the centre rows of tarpaper shacks you see as you mentary parties – begun in the US and political feud between President Salva Kiir and ousted Vice- for most of India’s foreign trade, global land at Mumbai airport and in myriad Britain in the 1980s – has produced in President Riek Machar, which exposed a deep and cancerous financial dealing and personal wealth. villages denied basic technology, such India a dystopia of extremes that is a rift between the Dinka and the Nuer, the country’s two largest Yet at low tide on the Mithi river, peo- as light and safe water. Here, land is spectre for us all. Jawaharlal Nehru’s ethnic groups. The crisis is now reaching some sort of endgame ple are forced to defecate in ditches, by life and the enemy is a rampant “free democracy succeeded in granting the the roadside. Half the city’s population market”. Foreign multinationals’ domi- vote (today, there are 3.2 million elected with representatives of both factions meeting in neighboring is without sanitation and lives in slums nance of food grains, genetically modi- representatives), but it failed to build Ethiopia to find a solution under international pressure. without basic services. This has doubled fied seed, fertilisers and pesticides has a semblance of social and economic The warring tribes are likely to reach a deal, but there is no since the 1990s when “India Shining” sucked small farmers into a ruthless justice. Widespread violence against guarantee that peace will prevail. So there is still time for was invented by an American advertis- global market and led to debt and desti- women is only now precariously on the donors to set terms before they part with cash• ing firm as part of the Hindu national- tution. More than 250,000 farmers have political agenda. ist BJP party’s propaganda that it was killed themselves since the mid-1990s THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of Al Maliki must seek unity the day EW Iraqis will look back upon by the Iraqi army and security forces on Yesterday Iranian sources claimed that In the process he is prepared to let the 2013 with any pleasure. what was basically a year-long peace- Iraqi “counterterrorism” forces killed a terrorists bomb and maim people. The Moreover they will be viewing ful protest in the city of Ramadi, which key Al-Qaeda leader Shaker Wahib. calculation appears to be that anger Fthe new year with rising left some 13 people dead and doz- Nowhere in this escalating crisis is among the Shiite majority will be turned apprehension as under the aberrant ens injured, has further inflamed local there any sign of the Al-Maliki govern- onto the Sunnis, who are seen as host- leadership of Prime Minister Nouri opinion. Some 40 Sunni MPs have ment seeking to reach out, to either ing the terrorists, and the Kurds, who Al-Maliki, their country slips into ever announced their resignation from the the Sunni community, or indeed to are seen as exploiting the weakness of I do not believe I greater violence and confusion. Parliament in Baghdad. the increasingly independent-minded the central state. He seems oblivious The old year saw more than 7,800 Iranian sources are claiming that Kurds in the north of the country. By to the idea that ordinary Shiite could in am a weak prime people die in sectarian violence, a great Ramadi and another Sunni stronghold, one analysis, the Iraqi leader is behav- any way blame him for the tidal wave many of them at the hands of Al-Qaeda Fallujah, are now largely controlled ing with natural incompetence. He long of bloodshed and violence that is rising minister. That is bombers and, in the closing months, of by Al-Qaeda-linked groups, specifi- ago gave up on the idea of a pluralist in the country. Yet there is evidence to returning death squads. Some com- cally The Islamic State of Iraq and the Iraq, if indeed he ever really embraced suggest that a growing number of peo- for historians to mentators believe that western Iraq’s Levant (ISIL). The government has the notion. Instead he is allowing the ple, in what Al-Maliki takes for granted judge.... Anbar province, which is dominated published footage of an aerial mis- security situation to deteriorate without as his own loyal constituency, are now by Sunnis, is on the brink of rebellion sile strike on what they claim was an seeking in any way to restore any dia- feeling anything but loyal about their Dr Manmohan Singh against Baghdad. Certainly the attack ISIL command post in Anbar province. logue with Iraqi’s other communities. leader. ARAB NEWS Indian Prime Minister JANUARY 4, 2014 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY US justice doesn’t sit well in Afghanistan If the US is to earn and maintain Afghans’ trust, it will need to take their conceptions of justice into account on issues that relate directly to them.

BY MORWARI ZAFAR conservatism. Ethnically Pashtun and socially tribal, the population maintains uestions of jurisprudence civil order by complying with cultural are useless abstractions honour codes and Shariah. in Afghanistan, where the Justice is local, personal, and above all perceptions and pursuit of else, swift. Bales’ murderous rampage justice are based on customs and the wealth of evidence against him, Q— not the rule of law. The American con- in their minds, should have warranted cept of “justice” and methods of dispute his immediate execution: no trial, no jury, mediation are dramatically different and certainly no mercy. Had Bales been from the customary laws and tribal jus- an Afghan man and tried in Afghanistan, tice of Afghanistan. Because of this, even a trial council of village or tribal elders if the US brings American perpetrators would have been convened in a matter of crimes in Afghanistan to court, as they of days. did in the case of Staff Sgt Robert Bales, The trial — a discussion about the Afghan victims and their families often crimes from the aggrieved parties — feel as though they’ve missed out on true would have taken place in someone’s justice. The US should take note of this, home or a local public forum. The sen- as an understanding of “justice” through tence would have been whatever the the eyes of Afghans is essential to mov- council determined was fair to settle a Afghan men investigate at the site of a shooting incident in Kandahar province. Robert Bales, former US Army staff sergeant, fatally shot ing forward in a post-Nato environment. blood feud, which, more often than not, 16 civilians in Panjwayi, Kandahar, on March 11, 2012 — an event known as the Kandahar massacre. The trial of Staff Sgt Bales helps illus- is the accused’s life. trate the importance of this discrepancy But Bales is an American and was a among all present. Those involved can of the US, reinforce local governance governments to question Afghanistan’s and the way in which the US failed to member of the US Army at the time of talk freely and openly, and often, over structures in Afghanistan. From an capacity to mete out justice. Thus, the take Afghan traditions of dispute medi- the incident — important distinctions. each other. There is no witness box to Afghan perspective, this system pro- opportunity for a proper, shared dialogue ation into account, ultimately causing Rather than serving justice in the Afghan physically mark the spaces between the motes equality and justice in a way that about the criminal jurisdiction of foreign many Afghans to feel that Americans tradition, a US military court martial witness or victim, the accused, and the the American system does not. In terms troops operating in Afghanistan provides hold the lives of US criminals in higher occurred 7,000 miles from the scene of advocates of justice. The judge does not of jurisprudence, even shadow govern- motivation for the Afghan government regard than those of innocent Afghans. the crime, lasted 17 months, and ulti- preside from a high chair over the court, ments like that of the Taliban, though to strengthen its formal judicial sector In 2012, when Bales murdered 16 mately resulted in a guilty plea from and the forum does not restrict impas- regarded as problematic and oppressive, by implementing the impartial, repre- Afghan civilians in Panjwai, a small dis- Bales, in exchange for removing the death sioned appeals in favour of categorical promote a rule of law that is more con- sentative mechanisms for which the trict in Kandahar province, the Afghan penalty from the table. questioning and cross-examination. sistent with traditional customs than international community has advocated government could not prevent his extra- For the victims and their families, the When Haji Wazir, whose six children, Western ideologies. — processes that would allow Afghans dition back to the US for a military court trial itself added insult to injury, as the wife, and mother were among the dead, Furthermore, because years of inter- like Wazir to have a voice, reflect the cul- martial. US court martial took pains to make the took the witness stand to testify against national developmental support, both tural and religious values of Afghan soci- For Afghans, removing the perpetra- process fair and equal for both parties, Bales for the last time, he hesitated to pecuniary and technical, have failed to ety, and adhere to international human tor of the crimes from the purview and exacerbating the witnesses’ frustration. leave it knowing that he would have no create corruption-free formal governance rights standards. judgment of his victims and their families For example, during the sentencing, voice as soon as he stepped down. “Does and justice systems with the capacity Whether or not such efforts succeed in seemed an audacious act. While Afghan Haji Naim, one of the Afghan witnesses, anyone have any more questions for me,” to address crimes in Afghanistan, it is restoring Afghans’ faith in formal justice witnesses and family members of the vic- exclaimed in surprise that Bales appeared he asked. “I did not get to say what was understandable that Afghans have more mechanisms remains to be seen. If the US tims were flown from Kandahar to Joint in court “dressed like a general.” In his in my heart.” faith in their own informal methods than is to earn and maintain Afghans’ trust, Base Fort Lewis-McChord in Washington world, the man would have been shunned Seventeen months after the murders, formal institutions of dispute media- it will need to take their conceptions of state by the US military to testify at for cowardice and not afforded a place the verdict, sentencing Bales to life in tion — particularly those of a foreign justice into account on issues that relate Bales’ trial, the six witnesses who made front and centre in the trial. prison without parole, seemed neither government. directly to them. this journey — on two separate occasions Even the legal structure itself seemed satisfactory nor expedient. “We wanted But it is also equally evident to Afghans, If the US continues to handle cases — found the American justice system in to privilege the accused. Local justice this murderer to be executed, but we did and perhaps as a result of recent discus- involving Afghan victims within the general, and the military court martial in mechanisms in rural Afghanistan are not get our wish,” Wazir told the Tacoma sions concerning the Bilateral Security US justice system, with little regard particular, unfamiliar, grotesquely pro- modelled after Islamic principles of equal- News Tribune at the conclusion of the Agreement, that such informal meth- for whether the victims themselves feel tracted, and in essence, unjust. ity before God, and as such, village and trial. “We came all the way to the US to ods fail to meet international legal and that they have been given justice, it risks They also felt that it was against their tribal councils are conducted informally, get justice, but we did not get that.” human rights standards. Punitive meas- further alienating Afghanistan and the socio-cultural framework. Panjwai is an with the participants sitting in a circle in Afghanistan’s informal justice mecha- ures that condone honour killings, for objectives for which the security pact archetype of Afghan culture and religious which the perception of power is diffused nisms, while dramatically unlike those example, understandably compel foreign stands. WP-BLOOMBERG Is there a path to Middle East peace? Abbott’s obsession Israelis and Palestinians have with roads misguided signed on to US-sponsored BY ANTHONY ALBANESE t has only taken three months in government, but already Tony frameworks before, most recently Abbott is re-animating the tired old intergovernmental blame game — this time over public transport. the ‘road map’ of George W Bush. I Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains. Former prime minister BY JACKSON DIEHL “peace process” failures, and the John Howard was a grand master of the blame game: he withdrew known characters of Israeli Prime health and education funding, and pointed his finger at state govern- ore “barrel bombs” Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ments when anyone dared to ask about the inadequacy of those services. fell on Syrian cit- and Palestinian Authority Now, so soon after being elected, Abbott and his team are fever- ies this week, and President Mahmoud Abbas, make ishly laying the groundwork for a new round in order to conceal their Mbesieged civilians it considerably more likely that Residents look for survivors after Syrian army helicopters dropped ‘barrel absurd refusal to invest in urban public transport. As one of the most are still starving in the suburbs the cynics will be proved right. urbanised nations on earth, Australia has an economic interest in bombs’ on the northern city of Aleppo. of Damascus. Egypt’s military But some smart people I know ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce regime persists in its attempt to are beginning to hedge their bets traffic congestion. crush the Muslim Brotherhood against Kerry, if only because recognize Israel as a Jewish state Netanyahu would be expected Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows and, with it, any prospect of he is pursuing a tactically wiser and that they accept an extended to swallow the principles that for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages a return to democracy by the course than President Obama did presence of Israeli troops on their the territory of Palestine would greater urban population density. US’ most important Arab ally. in his first term. territory. be based on Israel’s 1967 borders But Abbott, in an extraordinary abdication of responsibility, says Lebanon and Iraq are reeling Obama, too, thought he would It became clear this week that and that its capital would be in public transport is the concern of state governments while the from new assassinations and sec- be the one to author Middle East Kerry has also modified his wildly Jerusalem. Commonwealth should “stick to its knitting’’ and build more roads. tarian conflict. peace and confidently gave him- unrealistic goal of completing the The potential beauty of this Labour believes this position is small-minded. We seek office to So where in the world is John self a two-year deadline. But his deal by the end of April. Although framework is that it would lay the deliver positive change, not just to occupy office. We also believe that Kerry? In peaceful Jerusalem strategy was disastrously mis- his aides say that is still the aim, groundwork for the fundamen- when it comes to big issues central to national productivity, the national and Ramallah, piling more chips guided. He made freezing Israeli he has shifted toward trying to tal concessions each side would government should provide leadership, not go to ground and look for on his long-shot bet that he will settlement construction the focal win Netanyahu and Abbas’ agree- make without plunging into the scapegoats to conceal its inaction. broker a comprehensive Israeli- point of US diplomacy and calcu- ment for a “framework” that details, where many devils lurk. That’s why the previous Labour government allocated funding Palestinian peace settlement. lated that a public confrontation would spell out the general princi- It’s conceivable, for example, that for vital public transport projects, including the Melbourne Metro, How to understand this with Netanyahu would bring it ples, but not the details, of a final Netanyahu could accept the 1967 Brisbane’s Cross River Rail Link, the Perth Airport link and early extraordinary choice of priori- about. settlement. That might allow for lines as a basis for negotiations; work on a light rail system for Perth. ties? Some argue, as I have, that He succeeded only in poisoning an agreement that would break far less imaginable is an Israeli- While such projects could have eliminated traffic congestion and it is a quasi-delusional bid for a his relationship with the Israeli new ground, give both sides a rea- Palestinian accord by April on turbo-charged economic growth in our cities, Abbott has refused to legacy by a former senator and leader, who cruised to reelec- son to extend the negotiations for where, exactly, the border would honour the funding commitments. And in recent weeks, it has become presidential candidate who, at 70, tion last year while continuing six months or a year and allow lie. clear that his political strategy in the face of criticism will be to blame has convinced only himself that to expand settlements. Obama’s Kerry to declare a diplomatic The problem with this is that it states. In Melbourne, the Napthine government will not build the metro he can succeed where so many effort yielded only a handful of victory. still requires bold and courageous rail tunnel. Instead, it will accept Commonwealth funding to build the other would-be peace brokers sterile meetings between Israeli Israelis and Palestinians have decisions from two men who have $8bn east west road — a project that has not even produced a full busi- have failed. and Palestinian negotiators. signed on to US-sponsored frame- built their political lives on caution ness case for approval by the independent Infrastructure Australia. An alternative view is that Kerry has already done better works before, most recently the and procrastination. Presiding Earlier this month, The Age reported that the Victorian government’s Kerry is shrewdly applying his than that, thanks to his return “road map” of George W Bush. over shaky islands of calm in a own secret analysis had found the east west road would not solve traffic political talents where they are to traditional US methods for But Kerry’s aim is to produce one turmoil-wracked Middle East, congestion, but simply move it from one area to another. In Sydney, most likely to have an effect managing Israeli leaders. He has that would cover more substance. threatened equally by domestic Abbott will fund the WestConnex project, which also has not produced under a president who has all talked to Netanyahu in private, Most likely it would include hard-liners and external enemies, a full business case, despite Abbott’s claim that any big project he funds but destroyed US credibility in with relatively few leaks. He Palestinian recognition of Israel Abbas and Netanyahu have every will be the subject of a cost-benefit analysis. the Middle East. At least Israelis has sidestepped the toxic settle- as a Jewish state, the stationing of reason to avoid any genuinely sub- Putting all of this together, it is clear states either cannot or will and Palestinians, the logic goes, ment issue, rightly regarding it Israeli troops near the Jordanian stantive deal, even on a “frame- not invest in public transport without partnership contributions from remain wary of defying a secre- as a sideshow. And he has quietly border and language that excludes work.” Unlike John Kerry, they the Commonwealth. And since we know that Abbott won’t invest in tary of state. embraced Netanyahu’s two open- a mass “return” of Palestinian have a lot to lose. anything except roads, the prospects for advancement of a public The long history of Middle East ing demands — that Palestinians refugees to Israel. In exchange, WP-BLOOMBERG transport agenda are dim at best. THE GUARDIAN JANUARY 4, 2014 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East

DNA confirms 11 killed in Egypt’s deadly clashes identity of Saudi militant Fearless Muslim Brotherhood activists rally in defiance of ban held in Beirut CAIRO: At least 11 people were killed across Egypt yesterday as BEIRUT: Lebanon confirmed Islamist protesters clashed with yesterday that a man in army police and civilian opponents, detention is the alleged leader the health ministry said, raising of an Al Qaeda-linked militant its earlier toll of six dead. group that operates throughout Thousands of protesters back- the Middle East. ing deposed president Mohamed US national security sources on Mursi had rallied across the Tuesday had confirmed the deten- country before police moved in to tion of Majid bin Muhammad Al disperse them, sparking clashes. Majid, reported leader of the Four were killed in Cairo and Abdullah Azzam Brigades, but the rest in other cities, the min- Lebanon had refrained from com- istry said in a statement, without menting on his identity before identifying whether the dead were DNA results were known. protesters, police or bystanders. “After conducting a DNA test, A driverless bus careered down it is clear that he is the wanted a Cairo street towards riot police, Saudi national Majid Al Majid,” smashing into parked cars as the a report published on the army’s police scrambled to safety during website said. The group has a protest yesterday in defiance of claimed attacks across the region, a ban. most recently a double suicide The protesters, who were attack on the Iranian embassy in responding a call to demonstrate Beirut in November, which killed by an alliance that backs ousted at least 23 people. Islamist president Mohamed In tweets at the time of the Mursi, had disengaged the hand- bombing, it threatened more brake on board the bus and attacks in Lebanon unless Iran turned the vehicle into a weapon. pulls its forces out of Syria. An Police in an armoured van man- increasingly sectarian civil war aged to reverse out of harm’s way. there has attracted Sunni and It was one of many defiant acts Shia fighters from neighbouring across Egypt yesterday as Mursi’s countries as well as military sup- supporters rallied in spite of a port and economic aid from Iran. ban on demonstrations a week Iranian Foreign Minister after the military-installed gov- Mohammad Javad Zarif said ernment declared his Muslim yesterday that Iran would send a Brotherhood movement a “ter- team to take part in the investi- rorist organisation”. gation of Majid, calling him “the “Egyptians don’t know fear,” perpetrator of the terrorist attack said Houeida, a protester who against the Iranian embassy in came with her husband and Supporters of Egypt’s deposed president Mohamed Mursi run for cover from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes in the northeastern part of Beirut”, according to Iran’s Press four children, moments before Cairo’s Nasr City district, yesterday. TV website. the clashes erupted in the Cairo Last year, the Azzam Brigades, neighbourhood of Nasr City. street protests demanding the against the military coup that For 19-year-old Sarah, a young the demonstrators. Some of the named after an associate of the She brushed off the threat of Islamist’s resignation. toppled Mursi and against protester who covered her face protesters ran to the abandoned late Osama bin Laden, were for- a harsh prison term the Islamist Since then, more than 1,000 General Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, with a niqab, “the wall of fear that bus and disengaged its handbrake, mally designated by the U.S. State protesters now face with the people, mostly Islamists, have died the military chief who is widely was inside us is now broken.” sending it down the street at the Department as a foreign terrorist Brotherhood’s designation as a in street clashes, and thousands expected to stand in presidential “Girls are not afraid anymore,” panicked police. organisation. terrorist group. have been imprisoned. elections this year. she said. The protesters in the Elsewhere in Cairo, in the The State Department said The move signalled the interim The crackdown, now bolstered “I am already old, but I am pro- march raised their hands in a southern suburb of Maadi, police the group was divided into two government’s intent to crush by making Brotherhood mem- testing today for the future gen- four-finger salute, the symbol of fired tear gas and shotgun rounds branches: one called the Yusuf al- the 85-year-old movement with bership punishable as a terrorist erations,” said her husband Alaa a Cairo protest camp where hun- at another rally. “Make them run ’Uyayri Battalions, named after a a membership estimated in the offence, has done little to intimi- Aboul Ela. dreds were killed in clashes with like chicken!” one officer yelled. founder of Yemen-based Al Qaeda hundreds of thousands, and an date the movement’s diehard sup- “We lived more than 30 years police in August. An Egyptian journalist urged in the Arabian Peninsula, and the even larger support base. porters, however. “I’d rather die under a dictatorship and I want Yesterday, the police, who have an officer, a member of the special Lebanon based Ziyad al-Jarrah The Brotherhood has organ- here, defending my rights, than to spare them this,” he said, refer- vowed to immediately disperse forces, to fire live ammunition. Battalions, named after one of the ised almost daily protests since die in my bed,” said Houeida, her ring the era of Hosni Mubarak, Brotherhood protests, opened “No, this is exactly what they airliner hijackers who attacked Mursi’s ouster by the military on hair covered by a dark blue hijab. the strongman ousted in a popu- fire all of a sudden, sending vol- want,” he responded. New York and Washington on July 3, following days of massive Around her protesters chant lar uprising in 2011. leys of tear gas streaking down on AFP September 11, 2001. REUTERS

Libya releases US players held Tunisian parliament begins in Benghazi historic vote on new charter BENGHAZI: Libyan authori- ties have released two TUNIS: Three years after its negotiated a series of compro- and it is a republic,” the article Americans detained by the uprising, Tunisia’s parliament mises during intense negotiations says. Another key compromise army in the violence-hit east- began voting yesterday on a in recent weeks, aimed at secur- concerns the powers of the head ern city of Benghazi, the bas- long-delayed new constitution ing the approval of two thirds of of state, in a country that recently ketball club they played for said whose adoption would mark a the assembly’s 217 elected mem- emerged from five decades of yesterday. crucial democratic milestone bers needed for the constitution dictatorship. The two had been detained at in the birthplace of the Arab to be adopted. The Islamists, who were per- the campus of Benghazi university Spring. In the absence of such a major- secuted under Ben Ali and had and brought to the army’s head- A tight deadline of January ity, it must be put to a referendum. argued for maximum limitations, quarters, Libyan security officials 14 has been set for the adoption But if approved by the finally agreed to divide power said on Thursday, without giving of the charter, which could end January 14 deadline, the charter between the president and the any details. They had been in months of political crisis and fur- is expected to end the political government. Libya contracted to Al Hilal bas- ther distance Tunisia from the impasse. The president, who is directly ketball club. “They were released chronic instability plaguing other The new constitution, and elected, will also be able to pro- last night,” Salah Al Fetouri, countries in the region rocked by adopting an electoral law and pose a vote of no confidence in the president of the club, said. regime change. commission, should lead to prime minister and have limited Fetouri said the army, which At Friday’s opening session, the departure of the outgoing rights to dissolve parliament. runs checkpoints and patrols lawmakers approved, by 175 votes Islamist-led government and the On human rights, the draft text in the city, had detained them out of the 184 MPs present, the appointment of technocrat pre- guarantees freedom of expres- because they had questioned title of the charter, which also has mier Mehdi Jomaa, nominated in sion and conscience, freedom of what they were doing at night to be voted on article by article. December under a deal to end the assembly and the right to strike. on a campus normally closed for “We have had difficult moments, crisis. According to the assem- “The constitution will be one of non-students. marked by a lack of trust. It is a bly’s official calendar, published freedom, of independence and of “After their identity had been complicated step which requires last week, a confidence vote for justice,” Ben Jaafar promised on confirmed they were released,” sacrifices and patience,” said par- Jomaa’s new government is sched- Thursday, amid high hopes among he said. One of the pair is of liamentary speaker Mustapha uled for January 15. politicians that the charter repre- Cameroonian origin. Few foreign- Ben Jaafara before voting began. Lawmakers began examining sents a key step towards Tunisia ers live these days in Benghazi, a Elected in October 2011, just the charter’s preamble in Friday’s becoming the Arab world’s first city in the oil-rich east where assas- months after the ouster of long- morning session, after which they true democracy. sinations and car bombs happen time autocrat Zine El Abidine were due to start scrutinising the However, rights organisations regularly. The security situation Ben Ali, the National Constituent 146 articles finalised in June and jointly warned some constitu- has worsened in recent months in Assembly was due to have drafted some 30 key amendments drafted tional provisions were too vague. the North African country where and adopted a new charter within during the latest negotiations. “Among the most urgent modi- the government is struggling to one year. Another 200 amendments fications required is a clear indi- rein in militias and tribesmen who But the process was heavily have been proposed, including an cation that the human rights helped remove Muammar Gaddafi delayed by deep divisions between attempt to make Islamic sharia charters ratified by Tunisia are in 2011 and kept their guns. Most the ruling Islamist party Ennahda law a main source of legislation, obligatory and take precedence countries have closed their consu- and the opposition, aggravated by but they are thought to have little over national laws,” said the lates after the US ambassador and a rise in attacks by Islamist mili- chance of succeeding. group, which included Amnesty three other Americans were killed tants and sometimes violent social During the negotiations, the International and Human Rights during an Islamist assault on the unrest. parties agreed to keep the main Watch. It also called for a provi- US consulate in September 2012. The deadlock, which became a article of independent Tunisia’s sion stating the principle of equal- London yesterday confirmed full-blown crisis with the assas- first constitution, which gives ity between men and women. the death of a British man sination in July of an opposition Islam a vague status, after Since the 1950s, Tunisia has who, along with a New Zealand MP by suspected jihadists, para- Ennahda renounced its demand had the most liberal laws in the woman, was found with gunshot lysed political life and prevented that sharia be enshrined in the Arab world on women’s rights, wounds at Mellitah, 100 km west Tunisian Islamist MP and General Rapporteur of the constitution Khedher the formation of functioning state text. “Tunisia is a free, independ- which some accuse the ruling of Tripoli, outside a large oil and Habib (centre), speaks with his colleagues during a meeting of the institutions. ent and sovereign state. Islam is Islamists of wanting to roll back. gas complex. REUTERS Constituent Assembly in Tunis yesterday. Ennahda and the opposition its religion, Arabic is its language AFP JANUARY 4, 2014 Middle East www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY

Palestinian youth S Sudan talks shot by Israeli troops dies

GAZA CITY: A Palestinian start slowly youth shot by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip has died of his wounds, a Gaza medical official said yesterday. Adnan Abu Khater, aged 16, amid fighting was shot on Thursday near the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip, sources on both sides said. Ashraf Al Qudra, a spokes- Over 1,000 killed, 200,000 displaced man for the emergency services in the Islamist Hamas-run ter- JUBA/ADDIS ABABA: South back foot and that his advancing ritory, said in a statement that Sudan’s government and rebels comrades were already “close” to Khater died of his wounds after finally began talks to end weeks Juba. soldiers shot him in the leg east of bloodletting yesterday after of Jabaliya. days of delay as the United 200,000 DISPLACED Al Qudra later reported that States ordered out more of its More than a thousand peo- two men were shot and wounded, embassy staff. ple have been killed and 200,000 one seriously and one moder- However, there was no face- driven from their homes in three ately, in separate incidents last to-face meeting, and fighting weeks of fighting that has raised afternoon. was reported near the key town the spectre of a civil war pit- The military said soldiers of Bor, suggesting that a halt to ting Kiir’s ethnic Dinkas against were seeking to disperse a vio- fighting between President Salva Machar’s Nuer. lent demonstration by about 100 Kiir’s SPLA government forces The United States has been Palestinians adjacent to the fence, and rebels loyal to former vice withdrawing non-essential who were throwing rocks at sol- The mayor’s destroyed building is seen in Fallujah, 50km west of Baghdad, yesterday. president Riek Machar is still a embassy staff since mid-Decem- diers and rolling burning tyres long way off. ber and said on Friday that it was at the fence. But a spokeswoman Neighbouring countries fear evacuating more. could not confirm if anyone was that the fighting, which quickly It also urged all American cit- injured or if soldiers opened fire. spread out from the capital Juba izens to leave South Sudan — a 100 die as Iraq forces battle Earlier an army spokeswoman last month along ethnic faultlines, country the size of France esti- said of Thursday’s incident that could destabilise East Africa, mated to hold the third largest oil soldiers identified “a number of and the regional IGAD group- reserves in sub-Saharan Africa, suspects” damaging the border ing is mediating the peace talks but desperately poor and short of Al Qaeda-linked militants fence. She said the soldiers asked in Ethiopia. The talks had been infrastructure. them to halt “numerous times but scheduled to begin in Addis Ababa “We are not suspending our the suspects continued vandalis- on January 1, and finally made a operations. We are just minimis- RAMADI, IRAQ: More than government among the Sunni “We announce that Fallujah is an ing the fence”. slow start yesterday. “Both dele- ing our presence,” said Susan 100 people were killed yester- minority is seen as one of the Islamic state and call you to stand “Soldiers then resorted to aim- gations are meeting the mediators Page, the US ambassador. day as Iraqi police and tribes- main drivers of the worst violence by our side.” At least 14 people were ing fire at the individuals’ lower separately,” said Dina Mufti, a An emergency message to US men battled Al Qaeda-linked to hit Iraq in five years. killed on Monday and Tuesday in extremities... and “reported one spokesman for Ethiopia’s Foreign citizens on the embassy’s website militants who took over parts Police and tribesmen fought in and near Ramadi, while the tolls hit”. Later Thursday, Palestinians Ministry. “We hope to bring both said the move was due to a “dete- of two Anbar provincial cities, Ramadi and Fallujah yesterday from the following two days were fired a projectile that hit near the sides into face-to-face talks soon.” riorating security situation”. It announcing one an Islamic state. against militants from Al Qaeda- not immediately clear. border fence in Israel, a police Meanwhile the SPLA said its said there would be an evacuation Parts of Ramadi and Fallujah, linked group the Islamic State of Fallujah was the target of spokeswoman said, causing no troops were fighting rebels 24km flight arranged by the US State west of Baghdad, have been held Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which two major assaults after the harm or damage. south of rebel-controlled Bor, the Department. Kiir has accused his by militants for days, harkening operates in Iraq and Syria, security 2003 US-led invasion, in which In response, Israeli warplanes capital of the vast Jonglei state long-term political rival Machar, back to the years after the 2003 officials said. At least 32 civilians American forces saw some of carried out a series of strikes and site of an ethnic massacre in whom he sacked in July, of start- US-led invasion when both cities and 71 ISIL fighters died in the their heaviest fighting since the against Gaza early yesterday, the 1991. Bor lies 190km to the north ing the fighting in a bid to seize were insurgent strongholds. clashes, the officials said, adding Vietnam War. American troops military said. of Juba and has changed hands power. Machar denies the claim. Fighting began in the Ramadi that they did not know how many fought for years, aided by Sunni An army statement said that three times since the unrest began. Mediators say Kiir’s govern- area on Monday, when security police and tribesmen were killed. tribesmen in the Sahwa militia “in response to rocket fire toward “The rebels will be flushed out of ment and the rebels loyal to forces removed the main anti- Hundreds of gunmen, some forces from late 2006, to wrest Israel”, its “aircraft targeted a Bor any time,” SPLA spokesman Machar have agreed in principle government protest camp set up of them carrying the black flags control of Anbar from militants. terror infrastructure site in the Philip Aguer said. to a ceasefire, but there is no agree- after demonstrations broke out often flown by jihadists, gathered During their time in Iraq, US central Gaza Strip and three con- But rebel spokesman Moses ment on a starting date and some in late 2012 against what Sunni at outdoor weekly Muslim prayers forces suffered almost one-third cealed rocket launchers in the Ruai Lat, based in the northern diplomats say both sides still seem Arabs say is the marginalisation in central Fallujah, a witness said. of their total fatalities in Anbar, northern Gaza Strip”. state of Unity, said it was the gov- more intent on manoeuvring for and targeting of their community. One of them went to where the according to independent website On Sunday, Palestinians said ernment forces who were on the military advantage. REUTERS Anger at the Shia-led prayer leader had stood, and said: icasualties.org. AFP two people were wounded by Israeli tank fire in central Gaza. Exchanges of fire between the sides peaked last Tuesday, when a sniper inside Gaza killed an Slain Swiss couple Israeli repairing the border fence. found buried in Israel tests Arrow missile shield Egypt resort town Four dead as JERUSALEM: Israel success- the Israelis as their most press- manoeuvres ... for a couple of min- jointly working on Arrow since CAIRO: Egyptian police found fully tested its upgraded Arrow ing menace. Yesterday’s launch of utes”. Israel predicts Arrow III 1988. Washington says helping Yemen army a murdered Swiss couple bur- missile interceptor for the sec- an Arrow III interceptor missile could be deployed by next year. The Israel build up the capability to ied in the garden of their house ond time yesterday, pushing over the Mediterranean was the Pentagon and Boeing are partners shoot down missiles staves off confronts tribe in the Red Sea resort town of forward work on a US-backed second flight of the system, but in the project run by state-owned escalatory wars — or preemptive Hurgada, a security official said defence against ballistic threats did not involve the interception Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Israeli strikes — in the Middle SANA’A: Clashes yesterday yesterday. it sees from Lebanon’s Hezbollah of any target, officials said. Arrow is the long-range seg- East. Israel also sees it as a means between Yemeni soldiers who He said preliminary investiga- guerrillas as well as from Iran Israel deployed the previous ment in Israel’s three-tier missile of weathering enemy missile sal- confronted armed tribesmen tions revealed the two Swiss citi- and Syria. version, Arrow II, more than a shield. This also includes the suc- voes while it brings its offensive blocking access to a damaged zens, a man and his wife, were One of several elements of an decade ago, rating its success in cessfully deployed “Iron Dome”, capabilities to bear. oil pipeline killed four people in killed by the house’s guard and integrated Israeli aerial shield, live trials at 90 percent. which targets short-range rock- “Developing such systems will the central province of Maarib, two of his friends who wanted to Arrow III is designed to deploy “The Arrow III interceptor ets and mortar bombs favoured let Israel maintain routine life sources said. rob the couple. kamikaze satellites — known as successfully launched and flew by Palestinian guerrillas in Gaza, despite the threats facing us, The army attacked the tribes- He did not reveal the identity “kill vehicles” — that track and an exo-atmospheric trajectory and the mid-range “David’s Sling”, and will assist the IDF (Israeli men, who were preventing repair of the victims, but said the couple slam into ballistic missiles above the through space,” Israel’s Defence which is still under development. military) in prevailing in com- workers from reaching the pipe- has been living in Hurgada for a earth’s atmosphere, high enough Ministry said in a statement. They can be deployed alongside US bat quickly and efficiently, if line blown up two weeks ago in while and went missing a week to safely disintegrate any chemi- Yair Ramati, head of the min- counterpart systems like the Aegis. required,” Defence Minister the area of Wadi Abaydah, said ago. cal, biological or nuclear warheads. istry’s Israel Missile Defence In a Facebook posting, US Moshe Yaalon said on Twitter. the local and tribal sources. An official at the Hurgada hos- Iran and Syria have long had such Organisation, told reporters that Ambassador Dan Shapiro called Israel is assumed to have the In the ensuing fighting, the pital said “the two corpses arrived missiles, and Israel believes some as part of the test, which was yesterday’s trial “another step region’s sole atomic arsenal, as army using shells and Katyusha- at the morgue in a complete state are now also possessed by their attended by US officials, the inter- forward in US-Israel coopera- well as delivery systems including like rockets, and at least three of putrescence,” without giving ally Hezbollah, whose growing ceptor jettisoned its booster and tion in ballistic missile defence long-range missiles, and has been tribesmen were killed, as well the identity of the two victims. arsenal in Lebanon, stocked in “the kill vehicle continued to fly and ensuring Israel’s security”. bolstering defences as potential as an army colonel, the sources AFP part by Damascus, preoccupies in space (and) conducted various The US and Israel have been threats proliferate. REUTERS said. AFP Bahrain accuses Tehran of training opposition militants

DUBAI: Bahrain accused had planned terrorist bombing with security forces. At least Iran’s Revolutionary Guards operations targeting institutions 89 people have been killed in yesterday of providing opposi- and places vital to the sovereignty Bahrain since the protests began, tion militants with explosives and security of the kingdom.” according to the International training in order to carry out Quoted by state news agency Federation for Human Rights. attacks in the Gulf kingdom, BNA, he added that five people had Several bomb attacks have taken announcing that it had arrested been arrested and “admitted join- place in recent months, including five suspects. ing a group to carry out terrorist one that targeted a Sunni mosque Bahrain is ruled by a Sunni attacks... and travelled to Iran to close to the royal court in July but Muslim dynasty but has a popu- receive training in Revolutionary caused no casualties. lation that is majority Shia. The Guards camps and then received Tensions escalated over the government crushed a mostly sums of money.” weekend as authorities interro- Shia-led uprising in 2011 and On Monday, Bahraini authori- gated top Shia opposition leader has long accused predominantly ties said they had seized a boat Ali Salman. Shiite Iran of meddling in its smuggling explosives made in Iran The head of the main Shia bloc affairs. and Syria into the country. Al Wefaq was released after a day Chief prosecutor Osama Al Since the 2011 uprising, which of questioning, but was charged Oufi said the intelligence serv- called for democratic reforms, with incitement to religious ice reported last month that demonstrations have regularly hatred and spreading false news Protesters carrying Bahraini flags and photos of Shia scholar Isa Qassim march during an anti-government rally “Bahraini Ahmed Mahfuz been held in Shia villages around endangering national security. organised by main opposition group Al Wefaq in Budaiya, west of Manama, yesterday. Mussawi, currently living in Iran, the capital, often sparking clashes AFP JANUARY 4, 2014 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com International

Spain detains Heavy snow bites northeastern US two women in Dangerously low temperature forces flight delay, school closures and paralyses road traffic hair-raising

BOSTON/NEW YORK: A Airport, LaGuardia Airport drug bust heavy snowstorm and danger- in New York and Philadelphia ously low temperatures gripped International Airport reported MADRID: Spanish police said the northeastern United States the most canceled departures. yesterday they caught two yesterday, delaying flights, par- New York’s John F Kennedy women flying in from Brazil alysing road travel and closing International Airport resumed with more than a kilo of cocaine schools and government offices operations on Friday morning each hidden under their wigs. across the region. after poor visibility had earlier The two women, who were Boston was hardest-hit by the forced it to close. Portuguese and aged 18 and 28, first major winter storm of 2014, The United Nations in New arrived at Madrid’s Barajas air- getting nearly 14 inches of snow, York and federal courts in New port on different days from Sao while some towns north of New Jersey shut down, and New Paulo, police said in a statement. England’s largest city saw close to York public schools and the They hid the drugs in six pack- two feet of accumulation. City University of New York ages, which were held in place by Snow and cold stretched from closed. Schools were also closed a black sock and tape under their the lower Mississippi Valley to the in Hoboken and Jersey City, in long curly hair wigs, the police said. Atlantic coast, with Washington New Jersey, and in Boston and Each woman had 1.2 kilos of cocaine and New York’s morning com- Providence, Massachusetts. hidden under their wigs, they said, mutes also hampered by several Connecticut Governor Dannel without giving an estimate for the inches of fresh powder. Malloy told CNN Friday morning street value of the drugs. Meteorologists said the snow that most schools and colleges in “This new method of smuggling would taper off across much of the state were closed. The gover- narcotics is very elaborate and dif- the region by late morning, but nors of New York and New Jersey ficult to detect due to the realism dangerously cold conditions were declared states of emergency. of the fake hair,” said the state- expected to linger into Saturday. The storm posed the first major ment issued jointly by Guardia The National Weather Service challenge to Bill de Blasio, the Civil police and the Interior said the mass of Arctic air would newly elected mayor of New York. Ministry. “The packages were per- drop temperatures to 20 to 30 He said nearly 2,500 snow plows fectly adhered and did not stick degrees Fahrenheit below normal, were on the streets of the biggest out from under the wigs, which with record lows possible in some US city as of early yesterday, with made the narcotics imperceptible.” areas yesterday. the top accumulations 6.5 inches. Spain’s close ties to Latin “Over the next 24 hours we are De Blasio posted a photo of America have made it the key going to see temperatures like himself on his Twitter feed, shov- entry point for cocaine from the we haven’t seen in quite a while,” elling the walk in front of his People walk through a cold and snow covered Times Square following a snow storm that left up to eight inches continent bound for Europe. said Peter Judge, a spokesman for Brooklyn brownstone. He urged of snow in New York yesterday. Spanish authorities seized more the Massachusetts Emergency New Yorkers to stay home, say- than 20 tonnes of cocaine in 2012, Management Agency. “Parts of ing, “This has been and remains He said the response was bet- In Massachusetts, 3,338 crews at least two deaths. which accounted for 41 percent of the state are going to see tem- a dangerous storm.” ter than a Christmas 2010 bliz- were clearing roads, with 999 Police recovered the body of a the total amount of cocaine seized peratures 20 degrees below Some New Yorkers grumbled zard, where then-Mayor Michael working on the heavily hit North 71-year-old woman who had wan- in Europe that year. zero — not with wind-chill, real about the city’s response. Bloomberg came under heavy criti- Shore district alone, the state dered out in the rural western Drug smugglers have used temperatures. It’s going to be “I’m sure mayor de Blasio is cism for the city’s slow response Department of Transportation New York State town of Byron a variety of methods to try to problematic.” doing what he can, but a lot of while he was out of town on vacation. said. In Boston, downtown was on Thursday night, improp- sneak narcotics into the coun- Washington received more than the streets haven’t been cleared “At least they are out plowing sparsely populated, with many erly dressed for the single-digit try. In recent years police have two inches of snow, Baltimore at all and I’m not too happy about and spreading salt. That’s already workers heeding Governor Deval temperatures, according to the found cocaine hidden inside plas- some three to six inches, that,” said Anesha Jones, 26, as a step up,” Kulpa said. “But really, Patrick’s suggestion to stay Genesee County Sheriff’s Office. tic bananas or shipments of roses Philadelphia roughly five inches, she walked through Brooklyn to what can you say in two days and home and avoid travelling on icy A Philadelphia city worker was and in one case concealed in a cast Hartford six to 10 inches and her job as a bank teller. She added just after a big storm?” roadways. killed after a machine he was using worn by a man with a broken leg. Boston some 14 inches. that bus and subway delays added New York Governor Andrew In Washington, the Office of was crushed by a mound of de-icing Last month, Spanish police Some 1,868 US flights were an hour to her regular commute. Cuomo said the storm had little Personnel Management told rock salt, media said. Massachusetts arrested a Colombian veterinar- cancelled and 1,410 were delayed Others took the storm in stride. impact on New York City’s trans- hundreds of thousands of federal officials were also watching for pos- ian who had tried to smuggle liq- early yesterday, according to “It’s winter. It snowed. It hap- portation network, but blizzard- workers they could work from sible coastal flooding in communi- uid heroin to the United States FlightAware.com, which tracks pens,” said Mark Kulpa as he like conditions meant rail service home or take an unscheduled ties including the wealthy town of by surgically implanting plastic air traffic. shoveled a sidewalk outside his on Long Island would run on leave because of the storm. Scituate south of Boston. bags of the drug into live puppies. Newark Liberty International Brooklyn workplace. weekend schedules. The storm was responsible for AFP

British far-right leader declared Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs defiant even in death LONDON: “Great Train of a 30-year jail term when Royal Mail train, equivalent to “Biggs was not a major crimi- famous member of the gang, was bankrupt Robber” Ronnie Biggs arrived he escaped in 1965, fleeing to about 40m today. nal but he had a eye for publicity. a latter-day Robin Hood to some for his funeral yesterday in a Australia, then Brazil, from where At the funeral of the robbery’s This is a circus, and everyone has but an unrepentant villain to those LONDON: British far-right hearse bearing a large flower he flaunted his freedom, party- mastermind Bruce Reynolds in fallen for it,” said local resident who pointed to the violence used leader Nick Griffin said yes- display in the shape of an ing in exotic locations and giving March last year, Biggs found the David Rose, watching as the coffin on the train driver. Jack Mills terday he would continue as obscene two-finger “V-sign”, interviews to the British press. strength to stick two fingers up draped in the British and Brazilian was hit over the head with a iron a member of the European a fitting emblem of his life- But after 36 years on the run, at the cameras. flags passed by in heavy rain. bar during the robbery and died Parliament despite being long defiance of the British Biggs returned to Britain in 2001, yesterday, a cortege of Hell’s The Great Train Robbery seven years later, with some people declared bankrupt. authorities. broke and in poor health, going Angels bikers and a brass band became one of the defining events blaming the injuries for his death. The British National Party Biggs, a small-time criminal back to jail until illness prompted playing “When The Saints Go of 1960s Britain, coinciding with A 67-year-old local resident leader was declared bankrupt who became a celebrity during a his release in 2009. Marching In” led Biggs’ coffin into the Profumo affair - a sex-and- who came to see what the media on Thursday, according to the life on the run after the notorious In his final year, Biggs appeared a north London crematorium, fol- spies scandal that rocked the fuss was about, but declined Insolvency Service listings. 1963 robbery, died last month at in public twice, frail and wheel- lowed by his family and various British establishment - and the to give her name, said: “I am Griffin insisted he would the age of 84 in a London nurs- chair-bound, but unrepentant for underworld figures, and watched rise of the Beatles and other ashamed I have come to watch a remain an MEP and run for ing home. his role in the heist in which the by a scrum of media and some working-class heroes. It spawned common criminal being buried.” re-election in May and said his He had served just 15 months gang stole £2.6m ($4.2m) from a passers-by. several films. Biggs, the most REUTERS bankruptcy was “of no political significance whatsoever”. The BNP took 6.3 percent of Carnival campaign begins in Germany the vote at the last European elections in 2009, winning two seats. Australians endure “Being bankrupt does NOT prevent me being or stand- ing as an MEP. It does free me from financial worries. A hottest year on record good day!” Griffin wrote on Twitter. SYDNEY: Australia expe- The bureau pointed to destruc- “I am now turning the expe- rienced its hottest year on tive fires, in the island state of rience to the benefit of hard- record in 2013, the Bureau of Tasmania in early 2013, which up constituents by producing a Meteorology said yesterday, were followed by a record warm booklet on dealing with debt. No enduring the longest heatwave and dry winter across the country. surrender.” ever recorded Down Under as Spring appeared to arrive early He was declared bankrupt after well as destructive bushfires. and culminated in “the most being ordered last February to “2013 was Australia’s warmest destructive fires in the Sydney pay nearly £120,000 ($200,000) year since records began in 1910,” region since at least 1968”. to lawyers who represented him the bureau said in its annual The weather authority, which in legal cases, including defending climate statement, released as last year introduced new colours the BNP, the party said. inland areas of the country suffer on its temperature scale to cater Griffin will be automatically scorching heatwave conditions. for more extreme highs, said the discharged from bankruptcy in “Mean temperatures across Australian warming was very 12 months’ time. Australia have generally been well similar to that seen on the global AFP Musicians wearing carnival uniforms march in front of the cathedral in Mainz, Germany. The campaign for above average since September scale. “And the past year empha- the official 2014 carnival season started on Wednesday. 2012. Long periods of warmer- sises that the warming trend con- than-average days have been com- tinues,” it said. mon, with a distinct lack of cold This year is also starting weather.” warmly, with records already The bureau said that Australia’s under threat in some Outback Church must not create ‘little monster’ priests: Pope 2012-2013 summer was the warm- towns. In Moomba in northern est on record, and included a pro- South Australia, the tempera- longed national heatwave which ture topped 48 degrees Celsius on VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis out among people on the margins (of future priests) is a work of about their careers in the Church and ended on January 19, 2013 — the Thursday. The highest tempera- has said men studying for the of society, otherwise they may art, not a police action. We must to listen more to the needs of ordi- first day since 31 December, 2012 ture ever recorded in Australia Roman Catholic priesthood turn into “abstract ideologists”. form their hearts. Otherwise we nary Catholics, especially the poor. that it did not reach 45 degrees was 50.7 Celsius in Oodnadatta should be properly trained or the The Italian Jesuit journal are creating little monsters. And Taking over an institution Celsius (113 F) somewhere in the in 1960. Church could risk “creating little Civilta Cattolica published an then these little monsters mould reeling from child sex abuse, nation. Sarah Perkins, a climate sys- monsters” more concerned with exclusive text of the comments, the people of God. This really financial and other scandals and Spring was also the warmest tem science researcher at the their careers than serving people. made in a three-hour, closed-door gives me goose bumps,” he said. losing members to other religions, on record and winter the third University of New South Wales In comments made in November meeting the Argentinian-born Since his election in 2013 as the Francis has tried to refocus on the warmest, meaning that overall, in Sydney, said the report con- but only published yesterday, pontiff had in late November with first non-European pope in 1,300 basic Christian teachings of com- the annual national mean tem- firmed that the impacts of global Francis also said priests should heads of orders of priests from years, Francis has been prodding passion, simplicity and humility. perature was 1.20 degrees Celsius warming were starting to be felt. leave their comfort zone and get around the world. “Formation priests, nuns and bishops to think less REUTERS above average. AFP JANUARY 04, 2014 ON SATURDAY 11 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Asia Cambodian cops open fire at factory workers Attack on protesters horrific: Human rights group

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian Minister Hun Sen to demand a police and military police said military police opened fire with re-run of an election in July that they could not verify the number assault rifles yesterday to quell a the opposition says was rigged. of casualties. protest by stone-throwing gar- Military police confronting the It followed a crackdown ment factory workers demand- protesters fired live ammunition, on Thursday outside a Yakjin ing higher pay in a crackdown a and bullet casings were later seen (Cambodia) Inc factory in another human rights group said killed scattered across the ground. part of the city, when armed four people. The clashes took place at troops struck demonstrators with Chaos during nationwide Canadia Industrial Park in Phnom batons, wounding 20 people. strikes erupted for a second day Penh, home to dozens of factories The CNRP, led by former as security forces were deployed that make clothing for western finance minister Sam Rainsy, has to halt a demonstration by thou- brands that include Adidas, Puma courted some 350,000 garment sands of workers, who refused to and H&M Hennes & Mauritz. workers from nearly 500 facto- move and threw bottles, stones Human rights group LICADHO ries across the country by promis- and petrol bombs at an industrial described the incident as “hor- ing to nearly double the monthly zone in Phnom Penh. rific” and lambasted military minimum wage to $160 if it wins a The clash represents an esca- police, adding that their own re-run of the July election, which lation of a political crisis in investigation and surveys of hos- Hun Sen is refusing to hold. Cambodia, where workers and pitals had found four people were The government is refusing to anti-government protesters killed and 21 wounded. raise the wage beyond $100 dollars have come together in a loose “We condemn this appalling use a month and has ordered factories movement led by the opposition of extreme lethal force by secu- to reopen to prevent damage and Cambodia National Rescue Party rity forces”, the group’s director, job losses in an industry worth A protester is detained during clashes between garment workers and security forces in Phnom Penh yesterday. (CNRP). Naly Pilorge, said in a statement. $5bn a year to what is one of the Unions representing disgrun- “Security forces must now put an world’s poorest countries. Cambodia said it was too soon to “This really impacts the indus- tempers as pressure mounted tled garment workers have joined immediate end to the use of live Cheath Khemera, a senior assess the cost of the strikes, but try seriously,” he said. Until this on a government facing some of opposition supporters protesting ammunition against civilians.” labour officer at the Garment he estimated each factory could week, security forces had exer- the biggest protests ever seen in against the government of Prime Spokesmen for the national Manufacturers Association in be losing $20,000-$30,000 a day. cised restraint to try to cool Cambodia. REUTERS

Slain suspects China plans joint military command to improve coordination ‘had targeted US Embassy’ BEIJING: China’s increas- is a major challenge for Beijing. course” and that it has already but China’s changing security as quoted in the report. ingly sophisticated military In the past, regional level mili- launched pilot programmes to interests, including over claims Beijing unveiled a 10.7 percent JAKARTA: Suspected will establish a joint operational tary commanders have enjoyed that effect. to potentially rich energy reserves rise in defence spending last year terrorists killed in a New command structure for its major latitude over their forces In November, the ruling in the East and South China Seas, to 740.6bn yuan ($120bn), part of Year’s Eve police raid near forces to improve coordination and branches of the military Communist Party announced the has highlighted its need to focus a pattern of double-digit increase Jakarta had planned to between different parts of the have remained highly independ- establishment of a new national more on air and naval forces. which have worried the region. carry out attacks targeting country’s defence system, the ent of each other, making it dif- security commission, to enable The China Daily said that the China has advertised its long- the US embassy, a church official China Daily reported ficult to exercise the centralised the country to speak with a sin- navy could be the top priority for term military ambitions with and Buddhist temples, police yesterday. control necessary to use new gle voice on crises at home and the new command system. shows of new hardware, includ- said. Following a nine-hour China has been moving rapidly weapons systems effectively in abroad, as part of a slew of mostly “China has built an iron bas- ing a first test flight of a stealth gun battle with six men in a to upgrade its military hardware, concert. economic reforms announced at tion in its border regions. The fighter jet in early 2011 and the house on the outskirts of the but military analysts say opera- The English-language newspa- the end of a key party meeting. major concern lies at sea,” said launch of its first aircraft carrier capital, police seized a hand- tional integration of complex per, citing the Defence Ministry, China currently has seven mili- Li Qinggong, deputy secretary- - both trials of technologies need- written document revealing and disparate systems across a said that China will implement tary regions traditionally focused general of the China Council for ing years more of development. the group’s targets, national regionalised command structure a joint command system “in due around ground-based army units, National Security Policy Studies, REUTERS police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said. Suicide attacks were also planned, he said. The document listed “hotels harbouring the CIA” and anti- terror police officers among Tokyo fire halts targets, as they planned to Kim’s ‘empty’ peace gesture dismissed attack a church and Buddhist bullet trains temples to avenge anti-Mus- SEOUL: South Korea yester- and South Korea of manoeuvring since the death of his father, Kim comments last year before a series lim violence in Buddhist- TOKYO: A fire near a cen- day dismissed North Korean for a nuclear war. Jong-Il, in December 2011. of provocative actions from the majority Myanmar. tral Tokyo station threw parts leader Kim Jong-Un’s concili- But he also called for a “favour- “Peace and reconciliation can- North including a third nuclear of Japan’s bullet train system atory words in his New Year able climate” to improve relations not be achieved merely by words,” test, military attacks and the uni- Nepal top court into chaos yesterday, as tens of message as an empty gesture, with the South, saying it was time Seoul said in a statement. lateral closure of an inter-Korean thousands of passengers tried urging Pyongyang to scrap its for the two Koreas to stop doing “In order to improve ties industrial zone. bars amnesty to return home from New Year nuclear programmes to show it “anything detrimental to national between the South and the North, Pyongyang shut down the com- holidays. is committed to better relations. unity and reconciliation.” North Korea must show sincer- plex at Kaesong in April during KATHMANDU: Nepal’s The early morning fire sent On Wednesday, Kim hailed the The South Korean govern- ity in building trust and above all, a spike in military tensions that Supreme Court has told the plumes of black smoke over execution last month of his once- ment said it was sceptical about it must make genuine efforts for followed the nuclear test but the government it must ensure Yurakucho station -- gateway to powerful uncle Jang Song-Thaek the intentions of Kim, who has denuclearisation.” two Koreas agreed in September serious human rights violators the nearby luxury Ginza shopping and accused the United States ruled the nuclear-armed North It said Kim made similar to resume operations. AFP are not given amnesty by a area, where department stores truth and reconciliation com- were preparing for a rush to the mission which will investigate New Year sales. Back in shape crimes committed during a No casualties were reported decade-long civil war. Human but the blaze at commercial build- rights workers and victims’ ings, next to railway tracks near Bangla opposition leader groups fear that the govern- the station, forced the suspen- ment’s plan for the commis- sion of all bullet trains departing sion could mean pardons for from the capital to the west- serious violators of human ern commercial hubs of Nagoya urges election boycott rights. More than 16,000 and Osaka, a key section of the people were killed and thou- nationwide network, according to DHAKA: Bangladesh opposi- outfits are boycotting the polls sands wounded in the civil Central Japan Railway Company. tion leader made yesterday a after Prime Minister Sheikh war in the Himalayan coun- Thousands of passengers last-ditch plea to voters to boy- Hasina rejected their demand try wedged between India and crammed onto platforms at the cott this weekend’s “farcical” that it be overseen by a neutral China. The war pitted Maoist Tokyo station desperate for infor- elections and accused the gov- caretaker government. guerrillas against government mation, while others filled wait- ernment of placing her under Although the government has forces from 1996 to 2006. ing areas and the main concourse. house arrest. officially denied Zia has been Some passengers sat on trains “I am urging my fellow detained, aides say the BNP Thai protesters which were not moving. Bangladeshis to boycott this scan- leader has been barred from leav- The fire hit as families also dalous farce,” said Khaleda Zia, ing her Dhaka home for nearly spare airports began to return from holidays whose Bangladesh Nationalist a week. spent with family outside Tokyo Party (BNP) has refused to take Dozens of riot police could be BANGKOK: Thailand’s and businesses and government part in tomorrow’s election. seen stationed outside her home anti-government protest services prepared to resume nor- “No one at home and abroad yesterday, along with water-can- movement reassured tour- mal services from Monday after will call this farce a credible elec- nons, and prevented anyone from ists yesterday that it would the New Year holiday. tion,” Zia said in a statement. crossing through barriers. not target airports or pub- AFP Children display their paintings as visitors look at an 18-metre-tall bath BNP and 20 other political AFP lic transportation during toy duck replica created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman as it floats back a planned “shutdown” of after repair in Keelung harbour, in Taiwan, yesterday. Bangkok later this month. The demonstrators, who are seek- ing to oust Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and China health officials deny hepatitis B vaccine killed babies curb her billionaire fam- ily’s political dominance, say they will occupy Bangkok BEIJING: China’s health the National Health and Family concerns after a series of food monitored by a national report- other Chinese vaccine manufac- from January 13. “Operation authorities said yesterday that Planning Commission said in a and health and safety scandals ing network, they said in the turers has been suspended since Occupy Bangkok does not they have found no link between joint statement. in recent years, largely due to lax statement. Wednesday because they failed to involve airport closures or a hepatitis B vaccine and the “Nine of the cases have so far and corrupt supervision and law Authorities have halted the use pass certification standards by a the disruption of any mass deaths of 17 children shortly been confirmed to have nothing enforcement. of BioKangtai’s hepatitis B vaccines deadline of December 31. transport services. Public after they were immunised. to do with the vaccine,” said the An epidemiological analysis while they investigate the issue. Vaccination against hepatitis buses, trains, BTS sky-trains, An investigation into the statement. showed the 17 deaths were due Previous reports in the Chinese B is one of around 10 free but MRT underground trains, deaths, reported between But autopsies were still needed to various “unidentical” prob- media said more than 44 million compulsory inoculations for most and public boats will operate December 13 and 31, has found to confirm the cause of the other lems, including severe pneumonia, doses of the drug were in stock or children in China. The vaccine is normally,” the movement said no evidence that they were caused eight deaths, they said. kidney failure and suffocation, had been sold to 27 provinces and injected within 24 hours of birth, on its Facebook page. by the vaccine, the China Food Reports of the deaths had which were similar to the causes regions across the country. with further doses at one and six AGENCIES and Drug Administration and sparked widespread public of deaths of children under five Output at BioKangtai and two months. AFP JANUARY 4, 2014 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Philippines

Guinness bid 47,000 jobs Nine Muslim available for seafarers

MANILA: At least 47,000 jobs are open for Filipino seafarers and other oth- rebels killed ers seeking to work aboard international cruise ships. Labor and Employment Two soldiers wounded in firefight Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said cruise ships hire people COTABATO: Philippine troops Islamic Liberation Front, after without college degrees and repulsed a series of attacks by the Milf entered into peace talks prefer those with working a breakaway Muslim insurgent with the government to end dec- experience in hotels, casinos group in the country’s south ades of conflict that have claimed and spas, as well as in the that left nine rebels dead and 150,000 lives. fields of beauty and health, two soldiers wounded, the army Bulao accused the renegade information and technology said yesterday. rebels of extorting from private and security. The series of skirmishes contractors of a government irri- The basic skills and related occurred around several small gation project, but Misri denied requirements for jobs on cruise military outposts near the rural this. Misri also said the latest ships are a high school diploma, town of Pikit between Tuesday and flare-up of fighting was unrelated experience and proficiency in Thursday, local military spokesman to the government’s peace talks spoken and written English, Captain Antonio Bulao said. with the Milf. she added. Nine members of the “This has no relation to the Baldoz said about 47,000 jobs Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom peace talks. We will not sabotage will be created when 15 new Fighters were killed in the fight- them,” he said. He said the rebels international cruise ships come ing, Bulao said, citing intelli- attacked because soldiers alleg- into service this year. gence reports. The rebel faction’s edly harassed Muslim farmers in “Cruise vacations are spokesman, Abu Misri, confirmed the area, which Bulao denies. becoming more popular, so that its forces were involved in The 12,000-strong Milf has global demand is expected to the fighting, but denied that it been fighting since the 1970s for increase in the next five years sustained casualties. a separate Muslim state in the with new cruise ships to be put Bulao said two soldiers were south, but has agreed to a cease- in operation,” she said. wounded in the fighting. The rebel fire and peace talks with the faction split off from the main government. 804 firecracker Muslim rebel group, the Moro AFP Thousands of Filipinos simultaneously blow their Torotot (party blower) to break the Guinness record for the ‘Most number of people blowing party blowers simultaneously’ in Southern Philippines on New Year’s Eve in Davao City. Japan made the record with 6,900 last year. injuries logged MANILA: Active users of firecrackers comprised the majority of people injured in Govt close to achieving firecracker-related accidents Anti-narcotics drive intensified on New Year’s Day. Quoting data from the MANILA: Anti-narcotics drugs in Asian countries. with more than 7,100 islands, competitiveness goal National Epidemiology Center, agencies have intensified their “You know we’ve always said it is indeed a challenge for law Health Assistant Secretary cooperation not only among that we don’t want the country enforcement agencies to guard MANILA: The Philippines is said in a statement. She said that Eric Tayag said 89 percent of themselves but also with foreign as a haven for anything illegal,” against the possible entry of ille- well on its way to achieving its out of the eight major competi- the 306 people injured in pic- counterparts, a move to ensure she said in a news briefing in gal drugs into the country. goal of moving to the top third tiveness reports released in 2013, colo blasts used the firecracker. the country not to be a regional Malacanang, the presidential “But apart from the geographi- of global competitiveness rank- the Philippines recorded gains in Bystanders or passive users centre of illegal drug trade, a palace. cal location, it is actually more (of ings by 2016, a senior govern- seven of them. accounted for only 11 percent senior government official said She noted that the PDEA, the a challenge) also of the batting ment official said yesterday. Valte cited the World Economic of cases, he added. yesterday. National Bureau of Investigation average at least when it comes Deputy Presidential Forum’s Global Competitiveness Tayag said NEC data showed Deputy Presidential (NBI) and the Philippine National to convictions, and we hope to Spokesman Abigail F Valte said Index where the Philippines’ that the number of firecracker- Spokesperson Abigail Valte made Police (PNP) are now cooperat- improve that,” she said. the Philippines has already made ranking improved to 59th from related injuries at 50 senti- the statement after the Philippine ing with the international law On last Christmas Day, law “significant progress” in terms of 65th. The country also moved nel hospitals nationwide has Drug Enforcement Agency enforcement agencies to confis- enforcers raided a ranch in moving up the global competitive- up 30 places to the 108th in reached 804 since December (PDEA) was recently informed cate any illegal contraband that Batangas where they seized 84 kilos ness rankings last year. the International Finance 21 up to 6am yesterday. by the United States that the reaches the Philippine shore and of methamphetamine hydrochlo- “At this point, the Philippines Corporation’s Ease of Doing “Last Jan 1, we reported Philippines could become a centre to prevent the production of ille- ride or shabu with an estimated has made it to the middle-third of Business Index, making the larg- that the number of cases was for drug trade by Mexicans who gal drugs here. value of P420m (about $0.95m). global tables and, in certain cases, est jump worldwide. higher (than last year’s),” he were planning to smuggle illegal Valte acknowledged that THE PHILIPPINE STAR has risen above the median,” Valte THE PHILIPPINE STAR said. “But based on our latest data, the 804 cases are 90 cases or 10 percent lower compared to the same period last year.” Firecrackers injured at least 47 people in Cagayan Valley and the Cordilleras during the No magic wand to solve high power costs: Palace holidays MANILA: There is no magic Abigail Valte said, referring to the backing for the RH bill and the electricity in the region. Power rates would have Two held for wand that would immediately Electric Power Industry Reform Corona impeachment, Valte said: Palace officials earlier said they increased by P2.41 per kWh in resolve the problem of high Act (EPIRA). “You know perhaps it’s a mat- are open to a review of the law to December, P1.21 per kWh in Taguig killings power costs, Malacañang said “There is no magic wand to ter of finding the right proposal determine what provisions need February and P0.53 in March. yesterday as it admitted that its wave,” she added. that the President will throw his to be amended. Meralco has asked its con- MANILA: Two cohorts actions are limited by what is When asked whether Aquino weight behind.” Last month, the Energy sumers to temporarily set aside of the gunman who shot mandated by the law. could certify as urgent bills seek- Valte reiterated that the presi- Regulatory Commission approved its December bill because of the dead three people on New While Malacañang rallied ing to amend EPIRA, Valte said: dent has asked agencies to look a petition by the Manila Electric court order. Year’s Eve in Palar Village support for the controversial “It depends on the proposal and into the problem and to find pos- Co to hike power rates by P4.15 Various bills have been filed in in Barangay Pinagsama Reproductive Health law and the also remember that the President sible solutions that are within the per kilowatt hour. Congress to amend EPIRA and to in Taguig City have been impeachment of Chief Justice is very careful about using his law. The Supreme Court, however, lessen the burden of consumers. arrested by police. Renato Corona, it seems to be certification powers.” EPIRA was signed into law in temporarily stopped the rate House Speaker Feliciano Southern Police District more deliberate on the issue of “Normally, the process is such 2001 to lower power rates and adjustment for 60 days last Dec Belmonte, Jr called for a review (SPD) spokesperson Supt power costs, preferring to wait for that we look at the bills that are promote competition in the power 23. of the EPIRA to determine if the Jenny Tecson identified those the right proposal from Congress. already pending in Congress, not industry. The upward adjustment would law is really working to promote arrested as Rocilo delos Reyes “While you believe that the the ones that are initiated by the Critics, however, claimed have been implemented in three competition. He also expressed and Amile Maguiling. Executive has so much power, administration.” that the law has failed to lower tranches and would have cov- support for a congressional Tecson said the two sus- perceived power, we are limited When reminded by Palace electricity costs in the country. ered generation charge, trans- inquiry on the power rate hike to pects have been charged with by what the law says,” Deputy reporters that the president had Some groups even claim that the mission charge, taxes and other determine the reasons behind it. three counts of murder before Presidential Spokesperson actively sought congressional Philippines has the most costly components. THE PHILIPPINE STAR the Taguig City Prosecutors Office. Meanwhile, the gunman, Floating home identified as retired Army Sergeant Diosdado Bacatan, remains at-large and is now Mass burial starts for being the subject of a hunt by the Taguig City Police. Killed in the incident were Inner Port Water Distributor 1,400 typhoon victims employees Tyrol Mortos, Enrique Goco and Ronald TACLOBAN CITY: Nearly two and four-foot-deep hole where Mabonga. months after Super Typhoon the bagged corpses were buried. Yolanda struck, authorities “The burial site here is tem- Girlfriend raped finally began burying yesterday porary and thus only shallow some of the 1,400 bodies left rot- excavation to enable easy access in hotel room ting in an open field here, but the later when authorities will have mass grave is only temporary. to take out a cadaver for identi- MANILA: A woman claimed Tacloban City Mayor Alfred fication by relatives,” Ruddel told that her boyfriend, an Arab Romualdez witnessed the mass The Freeman. national, sexually abused her burial in Barangay Suhi of at The WHO provided technical in Manila on Tuesday. least 100 corpses. The burial was assistance to concerned govern- The victim, whose iden- done by personnel of the National ment agencies upon the request of tity has been withheld, said Bureau of Investigation (NBI), Justice Secretary Leila de Lima. in a radio report that she Department of Health (DOH), Ruddel said the burial could be and Mustafa Alsafi had dated Philippine Red Cross and the city completed by weekend. several times after they were government. Military and police NBI medico-legal officer Arnel introduced by a woman in a officers were also present. Bacod said DNA samples have so Manila restaurant. Sioban Ruddel, representative far been taken from 418 cadavers. She said that she met Alsafi of the World Health Organization DNA samples were being taken in a bar last Tuesday when (WHO), oversaw the re-bagging from 400 other corpses as of press took her to a hotel room where of the corpses before the burial. time. The NBI said a total of 146 he forcefully grabbed her arms NBI personnel took DNA samples cadavers that have been identi- and raped her. The victim sus- and put tags on each of the body fied by relatives were also trans- pected that the woman intro- A crying boy is comforted by his elder sister as their mother watches near their “floating home” anchored at a bags for future identification. ported for burial at the Holy Cross duced her to the foreigner for A backhoe was used in digging Cemetery in Barangay Basper. a fee. AGENCIES shallow portion of the Manila Bay yesterday. a three-foot-wide, 40-foot-long THE PHILIPPINE STAR JANUARY 4, 2014 Pakistan / Afghanistan www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY Medics to decide on Musharraf’s treatment Ex-president’s legal team expected to receive a report on his condition before the next treason hearing

RAWALPINDI: Doctors will decide Islamabad, yesterday and his lawyer all-powerful military. Musharraf, who report -- if the doctors advise to take of emergency rule in November 2007, are whether Pakistan’s former mili- Ahmed Raza Kasuri told reporters he faces a number of criminal cases dating him abroad for medical treatment then politically motivated and his lawyers have tary ruler Pervez Musharraf must go was in a stable condition in the intensive back to his 1999-2008 rule, is under a the doctors’ opinion will be carried out,” challenged the authority of the three- abroad for treatment after suffering a care unit. travel ban and ministers have repeatedly he said. judge tribunal. heart problem on the way to his trea- The sudden health scare was met said they will not lift it. The former commando, who ousted They have accused Prime Minister son trial, his lawyer said yesterday. with scepticism from some observers Asked about the possibility of current Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Sharif and his government of trying to The 70-year-old was taken ill and and feverish media speculation that his Musharraf going abroad for medical in a bloodless coup in 1999, is in a stable settle old scores through the courts. rushed to a military hospital on departure from Pakistan on medical treatment, Kasuri said: “Doctors’ opin- condition and is out of danger, Kasuri Aside from the treason allegations, Thursday as he was being transported grounds could be imminent. ion will be final and the court is bound said. former military ruler Pervez Musharraf under heavy guard to hear treason He is the first Pakistani army chief to to follow it.” “He is under stress, he is under pres- also faces trial over the assassination of charges against him at a special tribu- go on trial and there have been rumours Kasuri said Musharraf’s legal team sure, but it is natural,” Kasuri said, add- former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, nal in Islamabad. for months that he would be spirited out expected to receive a report on his con- ing that Musharraf had felt humiliated the death of a rebel leader, a deadly raid He spent a second day in the Armed of the country before facing the courts, dition before the next court hearing on by his treatment. on a radical mosque and the detention Forces Institute of Cardiology in to head off a potentially destabilising Monday. Musharraf’s team says the treason of judges. Rawalpindi, the garrison city bordering clash between the government and the “No one can challenge the doctors’ allegations, which relate to his imposition AFP

Gunmen kill senior Sunni activists

ISLAMABAD: Gunmen killed Muhammed Nawaz, who was at percent of Pakistan’s population, two senior members of a hard- the crime scene, confirmed that which is largely Sunni. line Sunni Muslim group in a the victims were from the ASWJ. Sunni Muslim also known as rare attack in the Pakistani ASWJ is known as the political Sunni Islam is the world’s larg- capital yesterday, officials said, arm of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, one of est religious body and largest after weeks of sectarian ten- the most active terror groups in religious denomination for any sions in the country. Pakistan, responsible for a string religion in the world. The secretary-general of the of bloody attacks on Shia. Shia Muslim also known as Islamabad chapter of the Ahl- A party official confirmed its Shia Islam represent the second e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) activists were targeted. largest denomination of Islam and organisation, Mufti Muneer “Our leaders were killed in a adherents of Shia Islam. Muavia, and his colleague Qari targeted attempt on their life,” The history of Sunni-Shia rela- Asad Mehmood were targeted in Muhammed Tayyeb Haidri, an tions has often involved violence, a residential area bordering the ASWJ spokesman in Islamabad, dating back to the earliest devel- twin city of Rawalpindi. said. opment of the two competing “Two unknown gunmen There has been a rise in sec- sects. sprayed bullets on their car tarian violence in Pakistan after Militarily established and hold- and escaped from the scene on several deadly clashes between ing control over the Umayyad a motorcycle,” Ghazanfar Niaz Sunni and Shia Muslim groups government, many Sunni rulers A mourner (second right) and investigators inspect a car after an attack by unknown gunmen on Sunnis in Ahmed, an official on duty in the near Islamabad in November last perceived the Shia as a threat – local police station, said. year. both to their political and religious Islamabad yesterday. Another police official Shia make up around 20 authority. AFP

High Court seeks update on education panel appointment Five killed in Afghanistan ISLAMABAD : The Islamabad serious issue and matter of great federal government has to appoint secretary to prime minister and on Thursday served notices on High Court (IHC) on Thursday concern which has been reported regular chairman with in 90 days. secretary education and stand- the Interior Ministry, Secretary KABUL: At least five civil- directed the federal government in print and electronic media. However, he added that the ards in higher education as Cabinet Division and Inspector ians were killed and 17 to apprise the court about spe- He directed the standing coun- office of permanent chairman respondents. General (IG) Islamabad Police in injured on Thursday when cific date and updated status on sel to bring the matter in to the HEC is still lying vacant even In his petition, the President a petition moved for the provision an explosive-laden motorbike the process for appointment of a notice of HEC controlling author- after lapse of four months, which PAS stated that since former of security to former chief justice detonated amid a crowd in permanent Chairman of Higher ity, Prime Minister of Pakistan. is negatively affecting the affairs chairperson’s first four-year term of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad eastern Afghanistan, an offi- Education Commission (HEC) Standing counsel Jehangir Jadoon of sole higher education regula- ended on August 26th, 2013, there- Chaudhary. cial said. by the coming Monday. informed the court that as per tory authority of the country. fore, since to the present, the office Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui “The incident occurred in Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddique information provided by federal Former chairman HEC Dr of the Chairperson HEC has been also directed them to submit their Baraki Barak district of Logar conducted the hearing of a petition ministry of education & training, Atta-ur-Rahman had filed the vacant, which is a statutory office reply on the next hearing. province. seeking appointment of a perma- the summary for appointment of writ petition in IHC for the and most significant in role. During the hearing of the peti- Five, including a women nent Chairperson of HEC. During regular chairman HEC had been appointment of permanent and After issuing the afore-men- tion, an additional secretary of and a child, were killed,” said the hearing, Justice Siddiqui moved by the ministry to Prime regular chairperson of HEC as tioned directions, the single bench Interior Ministry appeared before Din Mohammad Darwish, a remarked that the office of chair- Minister Secretariat. Umar Hanif per HEC Act without any further of IHC deferred the hearing till the court and said that the minis- spokesman for the provincial man HEC is a statutory position Khichi advocate appearing on delay through a transparent and January 6. try has provided a bulletproof car governor. All the victims were and non-appointment of perma- behalf of Prof Dr Atta ur Rahman merit based mechanism. Security to former CJP: The and 16 persons for security. civilians, he said. However, it nent chairman HEC is a very stated that as per HEC Act, the Dr Atta cited principal Islamabad High Court (IHC) AGENCIES was not clear who had been the intended target. No one has taken responsibility for Firewood gathering the attack. Anti-poverty Commercial use of army Militants held scheme to in Balochistan ISLAMABAD: Pakistani undergo reform land to be explored security forces yester- ISLAMABAD: A special com- government’s reply on the issue day arrested two militants ISLAMABAD: The govern- mittee of Pakistan’s Senate (the of non-payment of compensation associated with a banned ment has decided to redesign upper house) will be taking up to the landowners in Nowshera group in an operation in the the Benazir Income Support next week the thorny issue of despite orders of the superior southwestern province of Programme (BISP) and will the commercial use of hundreds courts. Balochistan. work out a new policy for the of thousands of acres acquired The committee, also compris- The security forces launched anti-poverty scheme, BISP by the armed forces for defence ing Syed Zafar Ali Shah of the raid on the location of the mili- chairman Enver Baig said purposes, it was learnt. PML-N, Abbas Afridi from Fata tants after receiving intelli- yesterday. The committee headed by and Kalsoom Parveen of the gence on their presence in the In fact, all the ongoing schemes Senator Afrasiab Khattak of the BNP-A, is scheduled to meet on area, and arrested two mili- will undergo ‘redesigning and Awami National Party (ANP) will Monday (Jan 6). tants and seized a large quan- restructuring’, according to Baig. also take up the three-decade-old The committee is set to “exam- tity of arms in their possession, In a preliminary step, the gov- issue of non-payment of compen- ine the use of land for commercial security sources said. ernment will conduct a poverty sation to the villagers and owners projects by the defence ministry The seized weaponry survey to identify ‘the poorer of of thousands of acres acquired by and to make appropriate recom- included 1.5 tonnes of explo- the poor in the country’, Baig said. the military in Nowshera district mendations”, says the agenda for sives, 106 landmines, 90 impro- The government has allocated of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for set- the meeting. vised bombs and maps for Rs75bn to run BISP’s affairs and ting up a firing range. The Senate has been debating several areas in Baluchistan. will make sure that the maximum The four-member committee the matter on a motion moved by amount is spent on skill develop- was constituted by the parlia- Senator Farhatullah Babar of the Drone attacks ment schemes, he added. ment’s upper house on November Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in “Only the poorer of the poor 4 after the members expressed August last year. rejected will get benefits from the BISP,” their dissatisfaction over the INTERNEWS Afghan boys carry firewood in Herat on Thursday. High unemployment and he said. “Under this programme, the high cost of living have increased the vulnerability of large sections ISLAMABAD: Pakistan we don’t want to make people of the Afghan population to the weather. has confirmed that there is beggars anymore. Begging bowls no change in its policy reject- will not work anymore under this ing US drone attacks in the programme.” Pakistani territories. The newly appointed BISP Nawaz approves closure of embassies in Chile, Ireland Spokeswoman of the chairman also claimed that mas- Pakistani Foreign Ministry sive fraud could be unearthed in ISLAMABAD: Pakistani all non-Foreign Service officers of the country assigned would also a committee to monitor and Tasneem Aslam said her coun- ‘Waseela-e-Haq Programme’ if Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif performing in the passport sec- be mandatorily learnt by those implement these decisions has try considers such attacks as the case is sent to the National has approved the winding up of tions of Pakistani missions abroad appointed as Press/Commercial/ been constituted under Special a violation of Pakistan’s sover- Accountability Bureau (NAB) or Pakistani missions in Ireland would be recalled besides call- Community officers, attaches or Assistant to the PM on Foreign eignty and territorial integrity, the Federal Investigation Agency and Chile and eight commercial ing back the political appointees counsellors. Affairs Tariq Fatemi. stressing that the raids are (FIA). Baig said he sensed there wings of such missions besides given foreign postings as “paid The Foreign Office sources said Two Pakistani missions in counterproductive and cause was something ‘fishy’ about this abolishing dozens of posts of holidays”. that the strength and working Ireland and Chile have been losses of innocent people’s lives. programme. press counsellors/attaches, In order to ensure the output of of all major Pakistani missions closed down. Eight Commercial Aslam said Pakistan will This programme too will be commercial/labour officers, Pakistani missions abroad in the abroad is also being reviewed to Wings. continue its positive contribu- redesigned as only four out of community welfare officers to fields of diplomacy, trade, com- review their present strength vis At least, seven posts of com- tion to the peace process in 53 cases in Islamabad have been save billions. merce, labour, etc, it has been a vis their output. munity welfare attaches are being Afghanistan. proved authentic, according to The local staff in Pakistani made mandatory that like Foreign Following the approval of abolished. AGENCIES him. INTERNEWS missions would also be cut while Service officers, the local language Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, INTERNEWS JANUARY 4, 2014 ON SATURDAY 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com India Modi will be disastrous as PM: Manmohan Prime Minister announces retirement after election, backs Rahul Gandhi as successor NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday declared he will not seek a third term after the “If by strong “I have three unfinished national elections in May and launched agendas — generating one of his sharpest attacks on the BJP’s prime minister jobs in the manufacturing prime ministerial candidate Narendra sector, controlling inflation Modi, questioning his credentials for you mean that you the top job. and keeping food prices In a rare press conference after almost preside over the under check and combating four years, the prime minister stunned mass massacre of corruption. everyone when he announced that he was handing over “the baton” to a new prime innocent citizens Corruption is a ‘monster’ minister, hopefully from the UPA, after and dealing with it is not the general elections. on the streets of But in his 75-minute press conference, an easy process. attended by representatives of regional Ahmedabad, that and national media, the prime minister is the measure of Indo-US nuclear deal my reserved the harshest criticism for Modi, best moment. saying he would be a disaster if he became strength, I do not prime minister. “Without discussing the merits of Narendra Modi, I sincerely believe that sort Rising food prices was believe that it will be disastrous for the a key reason why the country to have Modi as the PM,” he of strength this Congress lost elections told the media at the newly inaugurated country needs, in Delhi, Rajasthan, National Media Centre here. Chhattisgarh and Madhya The BJP angrily protested his com- least of all in its Pradesh.” ments, saying use of such language low- ered the dignity of the Prime Minister’s prime minister,” Office. Asked what he felt about being articulating people’s concerns over cor- widely viewed as a “weak prime minis- Dr Manmohan Singh ruption. “Whether they will succeed or ter”, Manmohan Singh retorted: “The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addresses a press conference in New Delhi yesterday. not, only time will tell.” BJP and its associates may say whatever He described the Indo-US nuclear deal they like but if by strong prime minis- as his best moment. ter you mean that you preside over the general elections, I will hand the baton BJP leader Arun Jaitley mocked the best. “I do not believe I am a weak prime When it was pointed out that he has mass massacre of innocent citizens on the over to a new prime minister. I hope it prime minister, saying the press con- minister. That is for historians to judge... been criticized for not speaking on cru- streets of Ahmedabad, that is the meas- will be a UPA chosen prime minister and ference was “intended to announce his Taking into account the circumstances cial issues, he said he “has been speak- ure of strength, I do not believe that sort our party will work to that end in the (PM’s) own farewell.” He also termed the and compulsions of coalition polity, I have ing whenever there was a need and will of strength this country needs, least of all campaign for the general elections,” he press meet a “farce”. done as best as I could. continue to speak.” in its prime minister. announced. Throughout the press conference, the “When history is written of this period, Asked about his retirement plans, he Asked about the Gujarat chief min- He said he would like very much to put prime minister stoutly defended the 10 we will come out unscathed,” he said said: “It is too early to say as I have to ister’s statement that India will be rid the economy back on the growth path years of his government, which faced philosophically. He admitted there were complete my tenure and will think of it of the Congress in the coming general before he lays down office in May. innumerable corruption charges and “irregularities” but said the “dimensions when I cross that bridge.” elections, Manmohan Singh answered: “I Manmohan Singh, whose government allegations of wrongdoing that even led of the problems were overstated..” The prime minister, who was born in sincerely believe what Mr Narendra Modi is facing a crisis of confidence, had to con- to resignation of some of his cabinet min- He also admitted that rising food Gah in that part of Punjab that is now in is saying is not going to materialise.” tend with pointed questions on his per- isters. Though he acknowledged “some prices was a key reason why the Congress Pakistan, also said he “would very much Manmohan Singh, 81, who has been formance and leadership but didn’t say irregularities”, he said some of these lost elections in Delhi, Rajasthan, like to go to Pakistan”. He underlined prime minister since 2004 at the head who the UPA’s prime ministerial choice issues had been “overstated” by the media Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. that he has five months left to finish his of a Congress-led United Progressive will be but rooted for Congress vice presi- and opposition and were “peripheral” to The prime minister described corrup- job and has three unfinished agendas - Alliance (UPA) coalition, categorically dent Rahul Gandhi. “Rahul Gandhi has the core issues of governance. tion as a “monster” but “dealing with (it) generating jobs in the manufacturing ruled out a third term, virtually signal- outstanding credentials to be nominated Rebutting criticism about his per- is not an easy process even though there sector, controlling inflation and keeping ling the end of his 17-year stint in gov- as the prime ministerial candidate, and formance, Manmohan Singh said history may be opportunities as well as chal- food prices under check and combating ernment, 10 of them as prime minister. I hope our party will take that decision would be kinder to him than the media lenges. He agreed that the one-year-old corruption. “In a few months time, after the at the appropriate time.” or the opposition, adding he had done his Aam Aadmi Party took power in Delhi by IANS

Petrol, diesel prices hiked

NEW DELHI: Petrol and die- sel prices will go up by 75 paise and 50 paise a litre, excluding taxes, from midnight yesterday, state-run oil marketing com- pany Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) said. “Indian Oil Corporation has decided to effect increase in the retail selling price of petrol by Re.0.75 per litre excluding state levies (and), increase in retail selling price of diesel by Re.0.50 per litre excluding state levies,” India’s largest oil marketing com- pany (OMC) said in a statement. According to IOC, it had to hike Leftist women activists carry posters as they shout slogans during a protest prices due to volatility in the rupee march against the gang rape and murder of a teenager, in Kolkata yesterday. value and hardening of interna- tional motor spirit (MS) prices in the international market. Crimes against women “Since the last price change, international prices of MS have increased and the rupee-dollar exchange rate has depreciated. in Delhi rise to 412pc There is a continued volatility in the international oil prices because NEW DELHI: There has increased from 680 last year to of geopolitical and economic devel- been a 43.6 percent increase in 1,559 this year and in 96 per- opments around the globe.” Delhi’s crime graph in 2013 over cent of the cases, the victim was The three state-run OMCs, 2012, and crime against women known to the accused. Close to which review prices of diesel rose a whopping 412 percent in 90 percent of these cases were and petrol every fortnight, last the past year, Delhi Police said solved, said police. increased petrol and diesel price yesterday. “In respect of offences against late last month. After adjusting A staggering 73,958 cases were women, 77 percent of the cases the upward revision, diesel will registered under the Indian Penal are solved within the first week cost be Rs.53.34 in Delhi, Rs.58.76 Code (IPC) in 2013, up from 51,479 and nine percent in the second in Kolkata, Rs.61.42 in Mumbai in the previous year. Four cases of week,” Bassi said. and Rs.57.93 in Chennai. rape are reported in the national “With a new order, the capital every day, according to fig- chargesheet in any rape case Ganguly resigns ures. The police were able to solve will be filed within 20 days of the 48.8 percent of the cases. arrest of the accused,” Bassi said. from law university “Strict instructions have been Several measures were taken given to police stations that each to ensure the safety of women, KOLKATA: Retired Supreme and every complaint be regis- including the deployment of Police Court judge and West Bengal tered, and people not be turned Control Room (PCR) vans outside Human Rights commission away. This is why (the number girls’ colleges, the commissioner chairman Ashok Ganguly yes- of) cases have increased,” Police said. The women helpline number terday tendered his resignation Commissioner B S Bassi told the 1091 was widely publicised and as guest lecture of the National media at the force’s annual press number of lines was increased University of Juridical Sciences conference. from four to 10. (NUJS) stating he had decided The police data has indicated Similarly, there are now 100 to ‘opt out’ from the post. that the national capital has not lines dedicated to the police hel- The move came after NUJS learned any lesson from the bru- pline number of 100, as against Vice-Chancellor P Iswara Bhat tal December 16, 2012 gang-rape the earlier 60. Also, 370 additional told mediapersons that the uni- that shook the nation’s conscience PCR (Police Control Room) vans versity has already dissociated — cases of molestation of women were inducted this year, bringing from Justice Ganguly after he have seen a dramatic rise from the total number of such vans was indicted by the SC appointed 653 in 2012 to 3,347 in 2013 - a to 807. This year, Delhi Police panel for alleged sexual harass- whopping increase of over 412 has been specially focusing on ment of a law intern, also a percent. children. former student of the institute. Similarly, rape cases also IANS AGENCIES JANUARY 4, 2014 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY

ATIC to invest Chinese steel production up to $10bn in US chip plant Fund to expand tiny chip production

ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi’s chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Advanced Technology Manufacturing Co, or TMSC, Investment Co (ATIC) plans to which is also investing heavily in invest up to $10bn over the next technology to maker smaller inte- two years in GlobalFoundries’ grated circuits. upstate New York semiconduc- TSMC plans to invest $17bn in tor factory, its chief executive new facilities in southern Taiwan, said yesterday. where it will make 20nm chips. ATIC owns unlisted Growth rates are in the high GlobalFoundries, having com- single-digits for the semiconduc- pleted a buyout of joint venture tor industry, which has been hit partner Advanced Micro Devices by falling demand for personal Inc in March 2012. ATIC is con- computers as people switch to trolled by Abu Dhabi state invest- mobile devices such as tablets, ment fund Mubadala. Ajami said. “We have received commit- But chip manufacturers will ments from Mubadala for an continue to grow at a double- additional $9-10bn for expansion digit pace as more firms out- of our facility in New York,” ATIC source production to companies Chief Executive Ibrahim Ajami like GlobalFoundries, he said. said. Reacting to the slowdown in its ATIC, which expects to be prof- core PC chip business, Intel Corp itable by 2015, also plans to invest recently said it plans to expand E mployees working in a steel factory in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, yesterday. in GlobalFoundries’ chip manu- its small contract manufactur- facturing facilities in Germany ing business and offer customers and Singapore, Ajami said, with- access to its chip factories, which out elaborating. are the world’s most advanced. The Saratoga County, New “It is competitive but lots of Dollar eases against yen, falls from 5-year high York factory, which started opera- segments are demanding more tions in 2012, has the capacity to and more digital circuits such as produce 300 mm wafers at about automobiles, mobiles and elec- SINGAPORE: The dollar fell the strongest US construction malaise,” DBS Bank said in a than bullish about the (dollar) 60,000 a month. The wafers are tronics,” Ajami said. against the yen in Asia yester- spending in four years as well as commentary. this year.” used to make integrated circuits, Plans to build a wafer fab- day, extending losses seen in a fall in jobless claims. It said while the data released The dollar was mostly higher which are at the heart of all elec- rication plant in Abu Dhabi to New York, as the unit retreated And while manufacturing was “uniformly strong” and against Asia-Pacific currencies. tronic devices. make items such as light-emit- from a five-year high despite a activity slowed in December it come on the heels of the decision The dollar rose to S$1.2676 from ATIC wants to expand the fac- ting diodes (LEDs) and com- broadly upbeat set of US eco- still remained solid, raising hopes by the US Federal Reserve in S$1.2656 on Thursday, to T$29.95 tory to produce advanced chips puter processors, were put on nomic data. the economy will continue to pick December to begin scaling back from Tw$29.86, to 1,054.70 South with features measuring 20 and hold in 2011 due to tough market The greenback bought 104.13 up in 2014. its bond-buying programme, Korean won from 1,051.30 won 14 nanometers, or a billionth of a conditions. yen in Singapore afternoon trade, “With the slate of positive data investors are tempering expec- and to 44.64 Philippine pesos from meter, which will be growth areas But the company continues compared with 104.69 yen in New and some risk aversion in mar- tations of a dramatic rise in the 44.32 pesos. in the next three to four years, to invest in the oil-rich emirate, York on Thursday and well down kets, we found the dollar trading dollar this year. It edged up to 62.42 Indian Ajami said. especially in research, develop- from the 105.41 yen mark touched higher against risk currencies “They are also mindful that the rupees from Rs61.83, and to 33.00 Contract chip manufacturers ment and training, Ajami said. earlier this week, which was the and falling against the yen,” said Fed taper expectations alone can- Thai baht from 32.92 baht. It regularly upgrade their factories Abu Dhabi, the capital of the highest since October 2008. Desmond Chua, market analyst at not underpin the (dollar) amidst eased to 12,130 Indonesian rupiah to produce smaller chips, a vital United Arab Emirates, is invest- The euro dipped to $1.3659, CMC Markets in Singapore. a global recovery that is broaden- from 12,163 rupiah. part of making electronic devices ing billions of dollars in industry, from $1.3665, and to 142.21 yen “Industrial production, ing geographically,” the Singapore The Austalian dollar fetched smaller, such as thinner mobile tourism and infrastructure to from 143.06 yen. Japanese mar- retail sales, nonfarm pay- bank said. 89.79 US cents from 89.15 US phones. diversify its economy away from kets are closed for a public holiday. rolls, construction — all have “By and large, this explains cents, while the Chinese yuan was GlobalFoundries com- oil. US economic reports on run sharply northward after why consensus forecasts have lower at 17.20 yen from 17.40 yen. petes against leading contract REUTERS Thursday included data showing an autumn of broad-based been more flattish and mixed, AFP

Winter sales kick off Brent retreats Housing spurs 2013 UK growth, more, driven by chance of investment doubts cloud 2014 more Libyan oil LONDON: Britain’s boom- data today remains consistent years and prices in London and ing construction industry and with a UK recovery that has Manchester are up 15 and 20 per- LONDON: Brent crude oil fast-rising house prices suggest been fairly household-led,” said cent respectively on the year. fell towards $107 a barrel yes- the economy finished 2013 on a David Tinsley, UK economist at At a national level, house terday on continued expecta- high but a sharp fall in business French bank BNP Paribas. “We prices are still 5 percent below tion of a rise in Libyan supply, lending raises doubts about how would look for that to change in their pre-crisis peak. But this though a larger-than-expected sustainable the recovery will 2014, but a risk remains that cor- news is likely to concern crit- draw of US crude stocks prove. porates will remain reluctant to ics who fear programmes such capped losses. Yesterday’s lending, housing borrow and invest.” as the recently-expanded Help Libya hopes to resume produc- market and construction figures Britain’s housing market has to Buy scheme - which led to an tion at one of its largest oilfields, from the Bank of England, major been bolstered by falling unem- extra 6,000 mortgage applications El Sharara in the west of the mortgage lender Nationwide ployment, low interest rates and between October and December - country, within three days after and data company Markit were government programmes to make are more likely to pump up house protesters agreed to suspend all strong, as were Christmas mortgages cheaper and easier to prices than spur the building of their two-month stoppage, offi- sales numbers from big clothing obtain. more homes. cials said on Thursday. retailer Next. This in turn has lifted confi- Bank of England Governor An increase in oil exports from However, the central bank dence in the construction indus- Mark Carney has warned that the Opec member, which have and other economists say Britain try, with Markit’s survey of Britain’s housing market has the dropped to less than 250,000 bar- needs more exports and business purchasing managers showing tendency to rapidly overheat, and rels per day (bpd) from 1.4 million investment to fortify growth in only a slight slowdown in growth in November the central bank bpd in July, would boost supply 2014 and shake off a dependence in December from November’s reined back a scheme that offers and weigh on prices. on consumers saving less and rate, which was the fastest since cheap finance to banks, saying it By 1631, Brent fell 72 cents spending more. August 2007. Housing was the will only help those seeking to to $107.06. This compounded a Britain’s economy grew at an strongest sector, though commer- lend more to businesses. 2.7 percent drop on Thursday annualised rate of more than 3 cial projects picked up too. The BoE is due to review Help and set the European bench- percent in the second and third Manufacturing data released to Buy in September, but Carney mark on track for its biggest quarters of 2013, and strong on Thursday was also robust, and has said it could make recommen- weekly percentage drop in six fourth-quarter data could lead to a closely watched services survey dations sooner if it felt the scheme months. the fastest full-year growth since due on Monday is forecast to threatened financial stability. “The sentiment is still bearish 2007 — something quite unex- show sustained strength. Underlining the risks, Friday’s for sure, and I think Libya is still pected earlier in the year. Outright levels of construc- data showed mortgage approv- going to be the key driving factor,” But while the central bank on tion remain low, however, and als in November rose more than said Amrita Sen, chief analyst at Friday showed mortgage approv- Nationwide said the supply of expected to 70,758 from around consultants Energy Aspects. als in November were their high- new homes was not keeping up 54,000 at the start of 2013, though US crude fell 83 cents to $94.61 est since January 2008 — though with demand — contributing to an below pre-crisis averages of more and was on track for a weekly still well below pre-crisis levels 8.4 percent annual rise in house than 90,000. percentage fall of more than — net lending to businesses took prices, the biggest since June 2010. Business lending fell by £4.7bn five percent, its sharpest since Women walk past a store window advertising sales on the first day of its biggest fall since comparable Prices rose 1.4 percent in ($7.73bn) and is almost four per- September 2012. winter sales in Brussels yesterday. figures began in May 2011. December alone, the biggest cent down on the year. REUTERS “Overall the picture from the one-month jump in over four REUTERS JANUARY 4, 2014 ON SATURDAY 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business

Spanish jobless US automobile queues shrink in December MADRID: Spain announced sales miss yesterday a sharp contraction in jobless queues in December, offering a glimmer of New Year hope for the 4.7 million people expectations still registered as unemployed in the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy. Prime Minister Mariano General Motors down six percent Rajoy’s government touted the figures as a sign that its tough DETROIT: The top four auto- Each month, auto sales are reforms are finally turning the makers in the US market seen as an early indicator of con- tide after a 2008 property crash missed December sales expec- sumer spending. tipped the nation into a double- tations, but 2013 will still easily For all of 2013, US auto sales dip recession that destroyed mil- be the best year for the industry are expected to finish near 15.6 lions of jobs. since before the recession. million vehicles, up about eight The number of people regis- General Motors Co said that percent. tered as unemployed fell by 107,570 the US auto industry will have That would be the best sales from the previous month to 4.7 December US auto sales at a year since pre-recession 2007, million in December, according to 15.6 million-vehicle annualised when 16.1 million vehicles were raw figures in a Labour Ministry selling rate, well below the 16 sold in the US market. At the report. million vehicles expected by 27 height of the recession in 2009 For the whole of 2013, the job- economists surveyed by Thomson sales fell to 10.4 million. less queue shrank by 147,385 peo- Reuters. GM’s sales fell six percent, to ple, the raw figures showed, the The late December holiday 230,157 new vehicles, below ana- Car salesman Leo Emerson sits at his desk surrounded by a Chrysler 200 Limited and 300 at Bill Snethkamp first calendar year showing a season is generally one of the lysts’ expectations of a slight sales dealership in Detroit, Michigan, yesterday. decline in registered unemploy- heaviest sales periods at US auto gain. Sales of GM’s Chevrolet ment since Spain’s financial crisis dealerships. Silverado pickup truck fell 16 industry to show a December the new Cherokee, which sold nine percent to 1.8 million vehicles. began. Engracia Hidalgo, the state Sales that may have occurred percent in the month. annualised selling rate of 15.8 mil- four times as well in December Toyota’s annual US sales rose seven secretary for employment, said in December were pulled ahead Ford’s sales rose two percent, lion vehicles. as the vehicle it replaced, the Jeep percent to 2.2 million vehicles. the conservative government’s to November because of a late- to 218,058, also below analysts’ Chrysler yesterday reported a Liberty, did a year ago. While some economists and labour market reforms, which month, four-day Thanksgiving expectations. Its F-Series pickup six percent gain last month in its The top four automakers by analysts expect 2014 sales to rise made it easier to change condi- weekend, said John Felice, head truck, the best-selling model in US auto sales, to 161,007 vehicles. sales are, in order, GM, Ford, to between 16 million and 16.5 tions or lay off staff, were working. of sales at Ford Motor Co. North America, had an 8 percent That was the automaker’s best Toyota Motor Corp and Chrysler. million vehicles, there is grow- “These are encouraging fig- December auto sales were sales gain in December. December since 2007, but still GM’s sales for the year rose seven ing concern that competition ures which inspire us to carry also hampered by snowy and icy Toyota’s US December sales narrowly missed analyst expec- percent to 2.8 million vehicles, and will intensify, leading to higher on working for the recovery and weather over parts of the country fell 1.7 percent to 190,843 vehi- tations. Ram pickup truck sales Ford’s US annual sales of 2.5 mil- incentives and lower profit for employment in 2014,” she said. late in the month, said Chrysler cles, versus expectations of a rose 17 percent. Jeep sales rose lion vehicles rose 11 percent. For companies. When corrected to smooth spokesman Ralph Kisiel. slight gain. Chrysler expects the 34 percent in the month, led by the year, Chrysler’s US sales rose REUTERS out seasonal blips, the number of people registered as unemployed fell by 57,645 to 4.73 million, the sharpest decline since the figures were first compiled in their cur- rent form in 1996. Madrid says mediating to resolve Panama Canal cost row In the third quarter, Spain emerged from recession with 0.1-per- cent growth but still posted an offi- MADRID: Spain’s govern- Canal Authority fails to pay for Ana Pastor “is in talks with the at ¤3.43. The stock was down 6.18 its $3.2bn contract to expand the cial unemployment rate of 25.98 ment said yesterday it was in the extra costs. government of Panama through its percent at ¤3.218 in early after- capacity of the canal, notably percent, which is calculated in a talks with Panama and Spanish Panama’s President Ricardo ministry for canal affairs as well as noon trading. by installing a third set of canal separate, quarterly household survey. builder Sacyr to try to resolve Martinelli warned Thursday he Sacyr, which is the Spanish firm “Panama is a country that is locks. Sacyr made the contents As economic activity stirred, a row over a $1.6bn cost over- would visit Europe to force the in the consortium,” a spokesman close and friendly towards Spain, of the letter public on Thursday Spanish consumer prices edged run on expansion work on the consortium — which includes for the public works ministry said. and we share the desire and in a statement to Spanish market only slightly higher in December Panama Canal. Italy’s Salini Impregilo, Belgium’s “She is in talks with both sides interest to find a solution as soon regulators. as concerns lingered in the euro- A consortium led by Sacyr has Jan De Nul and Panama’s to find the best solution,” the as possible,” said a spokesman for The project aims to make the zone about the threat of deflation, threatened to suspend work on Constructora Urbana as well as spokesman added. Spain’s foreign ministry. 80km waterway big enough to a general fall in prices that, once expansion of the canal, which Sacyr—to honour its contract to News of the suspension threat In a letter to canal authorities handle new, mega cargo ships that entrenched, can tip an economy handles five percent of world expand the canal. caused shares in Sacyr to plunge dated December 30, Sacyr gave a carry 12,000 containers. into downward spiral. maritime trade, if the Panama Spain’s Public Works Minister 8.95 percent on Thursday to close 21-day deadline before suspending AFP AFP

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INE data also showed Spain’s Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 103.88 0.98 % Aa2 AA cern about a weak currency and according to preliminary data slightly under a forecast for a 0.7 national consumer price index Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 109.38 3.39 % Aa2 AA damage to the economy yester- yesterday which highlighted percent rise in a Reuters survey of rose by 0.2 percent in December day as supporters and opponents concern at continuing weakness analysts. Over the year as a whole, on an annual basis, the same rate Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 103.50 1.18 % A1 A- of the government prepared for in prices in the euro zone. the average inflation rate dropped as in the previous month. Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 103.50 2.26 % A1 A- big rallies this month that risk European Central Bank to 1.3 percent, compared with 3.3 On average of the whole of 2013, QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.13 1.47 % NR NR pushing the divided country to President Mario Draghi said percent in 2012, statistics agency the Italian data showed decelerating QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.63 1.16 % Aa3 A+ the brink of chaos. at the weekend that the ECB ISTAT said. prices in almost all segments, under- QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 103.50 2.21 % Aa3 A+ Planned infrastructure projects wanted to ensure that inflation Month-on-month, prices lining the sluggishness across the worth $65bn intended to boost an in the euro zone did not drift into showed a 0.3 percent rise on an Italian economy. 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Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 108.25 1.92 % NR NR They are planning a “shut- down” of Bangkok from Jan. 13, Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 106.25 2.92 % NR NR deepening uncertainty about a Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 119.38 4.40 % NR NR poll Yingluck’s Puea Thai Party Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 111.25 4.80 % NR NR would otherwise be almost cer- Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 103.38 0.87 % Aa2 AA tain to win. Protesters have yet Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 112.75 3.42 % NR BBB to reveal exactly what they will target, or for how long. Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 103.25 4.89 % NR BBB The crisis is similar to previous Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 95.50 6.63 % Caa1 B- years, with the country polarised Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 101.63 4.22 % NR BBB- over the political dominance of

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Past performance is not entrench the power of his billionaire a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and family and business friends. consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. Political concerns have had an impact on markets and the currency, mainly due to worries that the Feb. 2 election called by People chant “vote no” during a Boeing union rally against the new contract put forth by Boeing in Seattle, Yingluck to reduce tensions would Washington. Union machinists of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) have the opposite effect. District Lodge 751 will be voting on the latest contract for the 777X jetliner production in Washington state. REUTERS JANUARY 4, 2014 Business Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 ON SATURDAY Economic trends for 2014 Curb immigration, pay BY DANIEL ALTMAN prices are balanced right now, but are they 6) Buy Japan. Remember Japan, the really? world’s third-largest economy? It may be workers a living wage redicting trends is no easy task, the perennial punching bag of the financial especially in the short term. Most 3) Slugging US service sector productivity. press, but it’s still responsible for an impor- people who can do it accurately For decades, manufacturing employment tant share of world output. Growth in Japan BY POLLY TOYNBEE in the world of economics and in the United States has dropped as the would give the global economic recovery a finance are millionaires, or they productivity of manufacturing workers has shot in the arm, and share prices tend to ello, Victor Spiresau, one of the few new arrivals that Pshould be. But if you don’t have a crystal increased. But if their productivity doesn’t be a good indicator of future booms. Japan’s photographers and MPs found off a New Year’s Day ball, at least you can watch some short-term rise, they’ll still have trouble obtaining recent shift to massively expansionary mon- flight from Romania. His moment of fame is over and he trends with long-term implications. Here higher wages. etary policy could spark growth, but it could Hvanishes into the shadowlands of Britain’s serf-labour are eight of my favourites for the coming also lead to inflation. force. He joins that great army of the underpaid to clean, care year — and beyond: 4) The costs of America’s staggering and cater. Briefly, he stood in Luton arrivals as a woolly-hatted wealth inequality. As I’ve written before, 7) The price of rice. After an enormous emblem for a host of issues that reflect none too well on the state 1) East Asia’s declining share of world wealth inequality is much more important spike in early 2008 that led to shortages, of Britain: anti-immigration fever, Europhobia, benefit-scrounging output. Washington’s strategic pivot to Asia than income inequality in determining export bans, and even riots, the price of rice hysteria, a living reminder of our high unemployment, low pay, seems to have fizzled — but has the world’s access to opportunity. Severe wealth ine- has finally dipped below its earlier trend. weak labour laws and slum housing epidemic. economic pivot as well? In 2013, East Asia’s quality raises the chance that an opportu- Indeed, stockpiling by governments and Eastern European politicians, angry at anti-migrant abuse, say share of global output was expected to drop, nity in the economy will go to a rich, stupid other policies intended to encourage produc- their people only take jobs that lazy Brits refuse to do: it’s the relative to those of the United States and person rather than a poor, smart one. This tion and exports have added plenty of slack Brits who lounge around on benefits, not hard-working newcomers. the European Union. But a midyear signal misallocation of opportunities hurts eco- to the market. Still, a return to strong and Iain Duncan Smith agrees: the dependency culture is to blame. from the Federal Reserve that the days of nomic efficiency and growth, making the pie sustained growth in the economies where Why else do foreigners take jobs, not our unemployed? Last week easy money are numbered has sent the East smaller for everyone. The results of the 2013 rice is a staple food could quickly lead these Duncan Smith told the Mail (again) that those who make benefits Asia’s emerging markets tumbling, while Survey of Consumer Finances will reveal problems to recur. their “lifestyle choice” face a crackdown with “no hiding place”, to manufacturing looks to be returning to whether this trend is getting even worse. be sent to “full-time mandatory attendance centres” to spend 35 Western shores. With China possibly cool- 8) China’s shadow-banking housing bub- hours a week applying for jobs. Benefits distort the market — if ing as well during its process of economic 5) Oil, oil everywhere. Peak oil? That ble. Given the lack of transparency in many the market rate is whatever cheating employers can get away with. and financial reform, will other regions take buzzword of the last several years seems Chinese companies, real estate is an espe- New arrivals are vulnerable. Take a look at the Tjobs.ro site, the lead in growth? nothing more than a silly catchphrase now. cially popular investment in the world’s where UK agencies offer British work to Romanians. See these Since prices shot up roughly a decade ago, second-biggest economy. The industry may jobs for 18-years-old to 24-year-olds, as “apprentices”, who only 2) Eurozone inflation worries. The countries and companies have had a huge have been worth about $6trn this spring and need to be paid the apprentice rate of £2.68 an hour, not the European Central Bank’s top officials like incentive to find new sources of the black has been growing fast. £6.31 minimum wage. The ad offers hotel and catering work for to say that they have a symmetric target for sticky stuff. Beijing has started a combination of Hilton Hotels, Chelsea Football Club, Marriott hotels, Abbey inflation. Too high is bad, but so is too low. Rates of oil production have set new financial reforms that will pave the way for Care homes and many others. The pay? £650-£1,000 a month, or Not surprisingly, inflation fell well under the records annually since 2010, thanks to a crackdown on shadow banking, but any so it says. Travel and accommodation are provided — but would target of “below, but close to, 2 percent” dur- fracking and geological exploration around dislocations that result could cause havoc they be deducted? Would uniforms, travel time and equipment ing the economic downturn of recent years. the world. With proved reserves having throughout the Chinese economy. Because be deducted? Is it piece-work, is it zero hours? Those are com- The question is why it has been allowed to risen by half in only a decade, it’s hard to new house prices depend in part on expec- monplace tricks to bring pay far below the minimum wage. do so again, during a more stable period in imagine such a rapid increase continuing for tations about interest rates and the attrac- David Hanson, shadow home office minister, debating the immi- which other central banks have continued long. Yet if it doesn’t, rising demand from tiveness of other assets, they could offer an gration bill going through parliament, pulled out ads from the their aggressive attempts to bolster growth the growing global economy will push prices early tip-off about trouble to come. EasyPoland site for rates of pay for British jobs that are illegal: and employment. The officials say risks to higher again. WP-BLOOMBERG £5.93 an hour for an office worker, £6 for an industrial sewer, £5.80 for a carpenter, all reading ominously “Accommodation: must bring bedding”. That site yesterday had an ad for a care assistant, charging £85 rent, with the familiar note: “Company owns the accommodation and will deduct from wages.” In law, immigration minister Mark Harper told the Commons, only £34.37 a week can be deducted for accommodation — but who’s inspecting? I called Hilton hotels: yes, they’ve been employing from Romania for a while, nothing new this year. This ad for apprentices, they say, is from some agency, not directly from them. Five years ago Citizens UK campaigned hard to persuade Hilton to pay the living wage (in London now £8.80 an hour), with cleaners and chambermaids waving placards outside their hotels. Negotiations went well but, just before the deal was struck, Blackstone private equity seized the company and sacked those managers. Instead of a living wage, it’s recruiting abroad and Citizens UK says it pays by the number of rooms cleaned, nigh impossible to clean enough rooms fast enough to earn the minimum wage. InterContinental did sign up to the living wage, as Olympic sponsor, but no major retailer yet: Citizens UK before Christmas demonstrated at John Lewis which, despite soaring profits, still won’t pay a living wage to outsourced cleaners, mainly migrants. Labour’s pitch on immigration is counter-intuitive: enforce decent pay and conditions and fewer migrants will come. Once British people with families could afford to take those jobs, employ- ers would lose any incentive to recruit cheap workers abroad. Stop bad employers undercutting decent pay with imported near-slave labour. As a message it may not quite work politically as it doesn’t satisfy the gut fears of the Ukip-inclined, but it has the advan- tage of taking real action against a real problem. Labour’s new determination to enforce minimum pay inspections and spread gangmaster legislation to construction and hospitality is more than welcome: Tony Blair and Gordon Brown adamantly refused both, appeasing employers with lax regulation. Employers are to blame for importing so many of the unskilled, instead of hiring at home. The best favour tougher rules on pay and conditions to drive out cowboys who undercut good compa- nies. A living wage imposed, for example, on all big supermarkets would work if they all had to pay the same. Almost all low-paid work is essential: a living wage would stop cheapskate employers scrounging off tax credits and importing what too often looks like serf-labour. THE GUARDIAN Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Economy becomes liability for Turkey’s scandal-hit government BY ANDREW TORCHIA after a corruption scandal erupted last $15.7bn in 2013, down 9 percent from its economist at Capital Economics in was a major driver of growth as other month involving state projects. high level in 2012 but up 66 percent from London, said foreign debt might cause sectors faltered last year — construction hen a senior Turkish busi- The scandal, which has led to the res- 2011, Thomson Reuters data shows. problems for individual Turkish firms but industry turnover jumped 16.4 percent nessman publicly criticised ignations of three ministers whose sons The central bank’s net foreign he did not expect any systemic crisis. He from a year earlier in the third quarter the central bank this week were among dozens of people detained, exchange reserves of roughly $40bn are said corporate Turkey had coped with — and could slow if skittish officials and Wfor failing to stabilise the makes it harder for the government to dwarfed by Turkey’s external financing lira depreciation in 2008 that was steeper executives hold off on projects because of tumbling lira, he was taking aim at a claim global trends, not its officials, are needs this year, which Barclays estimates than in 2013. legal dangers. pillar of support for the government: causing economic problems. at $217bn — $164bn in maturing debt plus “Instead there will be a cycle of grad- Deliveli and other economists said Its reputation for strong economic More than its Islamist ideology, the AK $53bn trade and services gap. ual pressure on the economy this year — recession looked unlikely this year but management. Party has relied on its economic record But the external financing can be higher debt payments abroad will mean a slowdown in growth to 2 or 3 percent Monetary policy “is causing losses to keep the support of many Turks. The managed, at a price, as long as Turkish companies cut investment, this hurts was possible, from an officially estimated to companies which made transactions sudden worsening of the economy is borrowers retain access to international employment which reduces consumption 3.6 percent in 2013. trusting in the central bank,” complained pushing Turkey into its greatest period capital markets. So far they have shown and so on,” he said. The lira’s slide may In a country that became used to Mehmet Buyukeksi, Head of the Turkish of political instability in a decade — just no sign of losing it. be felt soonest in a surge of inflation. The growth rates of 5 percent or more over Exporters Assembly, an umbrella group before local and national elections in 2014 Turkish banks, which account for annual rate was 7.4 percent in December; the past decade, that would feel like of about 52,000 companies. and 2015. “In Turkey’s political environ- almost two-thirds of this year’s matur- a rise this month in taxes on cars, alcohol, a recession to many Turks. Analysts Appointed with the approval of Prime ment, a strong economic performance ing foreign debt, have continued to tobacco and mobile phones is expected to estimate annual growth of 3 percent is Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, central is essential to ensure the acceptance of announce plans for big foreign currency boost it by 1 percentage point or more. needed to prevent the unemployment bank Governor Erdem Basci has pursued the government,” said Emre Erdogan, bond issues since the corruption scandal “Then we are going to see a large rate, now at about 10 percent, from ris- a low-interest policy associated with the founder of Istanbul’s Infakto Research broke; last week Akbank set up a $3bn impact on inflation in the next few ing in a young and growing population. ruling AK Party’s drive to build Turkey Workshop, which studies public opinion. global medium-term note programme. months due to the exchange rate,” as “A rise of 2 to 3 percentage points in up as an industrial power. “As it becomes more difficult for the “I would make a big distinction between the weak lira raises import costs, said the unemployment rate, if it happens, So Buyukeksi’s criticism was ominous government to demonstrate this, things the political and financial situation of the Emre Deliveli, a local economist who has could start to have a political impact,” — a sign that Turks, whose real incomes start to get more unstable and unpredict- country and I am not panicking about worked at international institutions such Deliveli said. have risen almost 50 percent under 11 able,” said Erdogan, who is unrelated to the financial situation,” said Benoit Anne, as the World Bank. The AK Party came to power in 2002 years of AK Party government, may be the premier. A collapse of real invest- Head of emerging markets strategy at Although the weakness of the economy after unstable coalition governments starting to lose faith in the way it runs ment in the economy — of the kind which Societe Generale. will restrain inflation, the rate may rise from the 1990s until 2001 ran into the economy. hit nearby Arab economies after their The lira has been weak partly because to 9 or 10 percent and conceivably higher repeated balance of payments problems The lira’s slide to record lows is sad- political upheavals in 2011 — does not investors have been buying currency if the lira continues dropping, he said. A and economic crises. “Under the AK dling companies with higher payments appear to be on the cards. contracts to hedge their exchange rate rate of 10 percent or more could have a Party, people felt that having a strong, on foreign loans they took out during the Even as the lira slid 17 percent against exposure, Anne said, not because of a political impact by worrying businessmen united government meant crises could good years. A construction boom, which the dollar last year, interest in Turkish mass pull-out of longer-term capital from and consumers. no longer happen,” said Emre Erdogan. the government fostered to stimulate companies stayed strong; mergers and Turkey. If the scandal spreads, this could start “So the economic problems are worrying economic growth, looks less impressive acquisitions with Turkish targets totalled William Jackson, emerging markets to hurt the real economy. Construction people.” REUTERS JANUARY 4, 2014 ON SATURDAY 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Classifieds

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0BTJT$BSTDPN JANUARY 4, 2014 ON SATURDAY 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport Arsenal-Spurs tops bill in FA Cup third round Man United host Swansea City; Chelsea take on Derby County

LONDON: England’s frenetic festive period gives Frozen out under former manager Andre Villas- way to the romance of the FA Cup this weekend, Boas, Emmanuel Adebayor continued his impressive with Tottenham Hotspur’s trip to north London recent form with the opening goal at Old Trafford rivals Arsenal the pick of the third-round ties. and team-mate Danny Rose has backed him to shine Manchester United will once again look to the against his former club Arsenal on Saturday. cups for consolation when they host Swansea City, “He has been like a new signing,” said the Spurs while Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City will left-back. all be seeking to avoid embarrassment at the hands “He has scored four goals in his last five games, of lower-league teams. which is brilliant for us. Considering he didn’t play It is now nine years since Arsenal beat United on a game from pre-season until a few weeks ago, his penalties in the 2005 FA Cup final to claim their last energy levels have actually been brilliant.” piece of silverware, but as Premier League leaders Arsenal’s 2-0 win over Cardiff City on Wednesday their star is in the ascendant once again. was tempered by an ankle injury to goal-scorer However, in old foes Spurs they face a side bol- Nicklas Bendtner, but French striker Olivier Giroud stered by the arrival of new manager Tim Sherwood could be fit to face Spurs after an ankle problem and bubbling with renewed self-belief after a 2-1 of his own.The two sides last met in the FA Cup success at United on New Year’s Day. in April 2001, when a Robert Pires tap-in earned Arsenal a 2-1 semi-final victory at Old Trafford. FA Cup Fixtures United’s loss to Spurs on Wednesday was their Today (1500 GMT unless otherwise stated): sixth of the Premier League campaign and left them Arsenal vs Tottenham Hotspur (1715 GMT), Aston Villa vs Sheffield 11 points off the pace, but they have shown impres- United, Barnsley vs Coventry City, Blackburn Rovers vs Manchester sive form in the cup competitions this season. City (1245 GMT), Bolton Wanderers vs Blackpool, Bournemouth David Moyes’s side have reached the Champions vs Burton Albion, Brighton and Hove Albion vs Reading, Bristol League last 16 and the semi-finals of the League City vs Watford, Charlton Athletic vs Oxford United, Doncaster Cup, and the FA Cup, which United last won in 2004, Rovers vs Stevenage, Everton vs Queens Park Rangers, Grimsby represents another means of salvaging their season. Town vs Huddersfield Town, Ipswich Town vs Preston North End, Centre-back Jonny Evans says that the players Kidderminster Harriers vs Peterborough United, Macclesfield Town are only slowly coming to terms with the impact of vs Sheff Wednesday, Middlesbrough vs Hull City, Newcastle United former manager Alex Ferguson’s retirement in May. vs Cardiff City, Norwich City vs Fulham, Rochdale vs Leeds United, The third-round draw yielded few opportunities Southampton vs Burnley, Southend United vs Millwall, Stoke City for genuine upsets, but Liverpool, Aston Villa and vs Leicester City, West Bromwich Albion vs Crystal Palace, Wigan Sunderland all face third-tier opposition in the shape Athletic vs Milton Keynes Dons, Yeovil Town vs Leyton Orient of, respectively, Oldham Athletic, Sheffield United and Carlisle United. Tomorrow (1500 GMT unless otherwise stated): Chelsea, meanwhile, visit Derby County, who Roland Lamah (front) of Swansea and Pablo Vincent Derby County vs Chelsea (1415 GMT), Liverpool vs Oldham Athletic, recently won seven games in a row in the second- Kompany (rear) of Manchester City vie for the ball dur- Nottingham Forest vs West Ham United (1200 GMT), Port Vale vs tier Championship under former England manager Plymouth Argyle, Manchester United vs Swansea City (1600 GMT), ing their English Premier League match at the Liberty Steve McClaren, while Manchester City travel to Stadium, Swansea, Britain, on January 1. Sunderland vs Carlisle United (1400 GMT) Blackburn Rovers. AFP Barcelona first La Liga: Barca and Atletico club to reach 50 million jostle for the top position Facebook fans

MADRID: After a short winter of goalkeeper Victor Valdes after injury, MADRID: Barcelona have break, Spain’s top-flight clubs are back La Liga Fixtures while Lionel Messi is also edging closer become the first sports club in action this weekend with Barcelona Today to a comeback. Barca midfielder Andres to reach 50 million followers and Atletico Madrid jostling for posi- Malaga vs Atletico Madrid (1500) Iniesta is hoping a win against Elche - who on social networking website tion at the top of the table and a sit just two points above the drop zone - Facebook, the Spanish soccer Basque derby also on the cards. Real Valladolid vs Real Betis (1700) can set his team up for a successful 2014. champions said yesterday. Reigning champions Barcelona and Valencia vs Levante (1900) “A good new year for us means win- Barca’s Facebook page, which Diego Simeone’s Atletico are level on Almeria vs Granada CF (2100) ning everything” said the man who provides fans with photo and points at the top and are due to face scored Spain’s World Cup-winning goal video content, has the most fol- each other in a mouthwatering fixture Tomorrow in 2010. lowers in Indonesia with 4.73 in Madrid next weekend. Sevilla vs Getafe (1100) “When you have the chance to reach million, followed by Mexico (3.5 Prior to that, though, Atletico go to Barcelona vs Elche (1500) the top, you have to fight hard, and that’s million), Brazil (2.5 million), Malaga today and Barcelona enter- the kind of ambition that we hope will United States (2.1 million) and tain Elche tomorrow before both sides Osasuna vs Espanyol (1700) take us into April and May in conten- Turkey (1.75 million), the club have Copa del Rey ties to think about Real Sociedad vs Athletic Club (1900) tion. The team is playing well, and we said on their website (www.fcbar- in midweek. Atletico, who have signed January 6 need to grow from here.” celona.es). Argentine midfielder Jose Ernesto Sosa Real Madrid, who sit third in the table, Cairo is the city with the most on loan from Metalist Kharkiv until the Real Madrid vs Celta Vigo (1800) five points adrift of the top two, are in Barca followers with 746,000, fol- end of the season, will face a Malaga side Rayo Vallecano vs Villarreal (2100) action on the Monday Three Kings Day lowed by Mexico City (666,000), who won their last two league games of holiday with a home fixture against Celta Jakarta (623,000), Lima (481,000) 2013 to climb up into mid-table. three years and it is a difficult venue Vigo at the Santiago Bernabeu. and Bogota (420,000). Brazilian full-back Filipe Luis insists for us.” The extra time to prepare for that “Being the first sports club that the Rojiblancos are fully focused on Both Atletico and Barca have enjoyed game was used up playing in a glamour in the world to reach 50 million their trip to La Rosaleda as they look to stunning starts to the campaign, win- friendly against Paris Saint-Germain Facebook fans is a source of pride keep the pressure on Barcelona. ning 15 and drawing one of 17 games in Qatar on Thursday, which Carlo and at the same time a respon- “Knowing the coach and the squad, in La Liga, but the Catalans have not Ancelotti’s team won 1-0 thanks to a sibility towards our followers,” nobody is thinking about the Barcelona always performed convincingly since first-half goal from young striker Jese. said Didac Lee, a Barca director game. Maybe the supporters are, but we Gerardo Martino took over as coach in “We are coming from behind but we responsible for new technology. all know that the Malaga match is vital,” the summer. have the whole second half of the sea- “Barca is the world’s most pop- he said. Nevertheless, the champions have son to come back and win the league,” ular club and this is just the latest “We have not won there in two or been boosted by the return to the squad Ancelotti said. AFP evidence of that,” he added. Barca said their Facebook page was among the 30 most followed WAFF: Hosts Qatar clash with Kuwait in today’s semis overall, although they have some way to go to catch some of the world’s more popular artists, including singer Rihanna on 82 million and rapper Eminem with just under 80 million. Colombian pop diva Shakira, whose partner Gerard Pique plays for Barca and Spain, has almost 77 million followers. AFP Scottish Premiership Results Collated Scottish Premiership results on Thursday: Hibernian 2 (Collins 61, Craig 83-pen) Hearts 1 (Smith 72) Kilmarnock 2 (McKenzie 29, Boyd 90) St Mirren 1 (Campbell 18) Played Wednesday Celtic 1 (Ledley 39) Partick Thistle 0 Dundee Utd 1 (Souttar 51) Aberdeen 2 (Robson 64-pen, Pawlett 90) Djamel Belmadi (left), coach of Qatar team at the West Asia Football Federation (WAFF) championship during a press conference Inverness CT 1 (Doran 89) Ross County 2 on the eve of the semi-final match against Kuwait. RIGHT: An official of Kuwait. The first semi-final between Qatar and Kuwait will (Boyd 15, Cooper 17) be played today at the Lekhwiya Stadium from 5.30pm. Jordan will face Bahrain in the second semi-final, also today, at the same Motherwell 4 (Sutton 22, Vigurs 49, venue at 8:30pm. PICTURES BY: MOHAMED FARAJ Ainsworth 73, McFadden 87) St Johnstone 0 JANUARY 4, 2014 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY

Sri Lanka offers Haddin and Smith to host Asia Cup and World Twenty20 rescue Australia COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is ready to step in and host the Asia Cup one-day tournament and Hosts let off the hook; Stokes takes 6-99 the World Twenty20 if the two events are pulled out of vio- lence-plagued Bangladesh, a top SYDNEY: Steve Smith scored official said yesterday. a sparkling century and put on Scoreboard The Asia Cup had been sched- 128 for the sixth wicket with uled to be held between February Brad Haddin to rescue Australia Australia (I innings): Total (all out) ...... 326 24 and March 7 in the Bangladeshi and push the hosts to a respect- C Rogers b Stokes ...... 11 Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-51, 3-78, 4-94, 5-97, capital Dhaka, which has been hit able 326 all out on the first day D Warner b Broad ...... 16 6-225, 7-269, 8-325, 9-325, 10-326. by violent protests and strikes in of the fifth Ashes Test against S Watson lbw b Anderson ...... 43 Bowling: Anderson 21-3-67-1; Broad 19.5-5- the build-up to Sunday’s general England yesterday. M Clarke c Bell b Stokes ...... 10 65-2 (2w); Stokes 19.5-1-99-6 (5nb); Rankin election. England’s nemesis Mitchell S Smith c (sub-Root) b Stokes...... 115 8.2-0-34-0 (1nb); Borthwick 7-0-49-1. Bangladesh is also due to host Johnson drove home the advan- G Bailey c Cook b Broad ...... 1 England (I innings): the 16-nation World Twenty20 tage in the final half hour by B Haddin c Cook b Stokes ...... 75 A Cook (batting) ...... 7 tournament, the nation’s biggest removing Michael Carberry for M Johnson c Root (sub) b Borthwick ...... 12 M Carberry c Lyon b Johnson ...... 0 ever sporting event, from March a duck to leave captain Alastair R Harris c Anderson b Stokes ...... 22 J Anderson (batting) ...... 1 16 to April 6. Cook (seven) and nightwatch- P Siddle c Bairstow b Stokes ...... 0 Total (for 1 wkt) ...... 8 The Asian Cricket Council man James Anderson (one) at the N Lyon (not out) ...... 1 Fall of wicket: 1-6. (ACC) is meeting in Colombo crease at eight for one at stumps. Extras (B-10, LB-2, W-2, NB-6) ...... 20 Bowling: Harris 3-1-5-0; Johnson 3-1-3-1. on Saturday to decide if the Smith was the final Australian regional competition that fea- wicket to fall for 115 and while his a back seat and just watched him limp back off the field. England tures India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka second century of the series put a go. The way he played his shots said his injury was just cramp, and Bangladesh can go ahead in thick layer of gloss on the day for today, it was brilliant to form a however. Dhaka. the hosts, there was no doubt the partnership with him and get us Haddin grabbed his fifth half “We are ready to host the Asia momentum shifted with wicket- in the position we are now. century of the series before tea Cup if the ACC wants another keeper Haddin’s 90-ball 75. “When you get sent in and get with a hurried single and Smith venue,” Sri Lanka Cricket’s sec- Looking to seal a 5-0 series 326, you’d take that and to have joined him with a half century of retary Nishantha Ranatunga said sweep, Australia were well and them one-for overnight as well, his own with a cover drive for four in Colombo. truly on the ropes at 97 for five we’re in a good position.” soon after the break. Stokes got a “We have the grounds and the after England struck twice in England contributed to their measure of revenge when he ended necessary infrastructure to host the 15 minutes before lunch and own misery by bowling short to a Haddin’s innings after 124 match- an event like that at short notice. then dismissed George Bailey batsman who was clearly happy to turning minutes, inducing an edge “We are also ready to host the for one within 10 minutes of the pull and hook to the boundary all which Cook held in the slips. World Twenty20 if we are asked.” resumption. day with Ben Stokes (6-99) suf- “When a guy’s playing like that Election-related violence in Haddin, as he has in all four fering particular punishment. against you, I guess you have to Bangladesh has claimed more previous Tests when his team The torment for the tourists hold up your hands to a bloke in than 140 lives since late October, were in similarly precarious posi- only deepened when paceman really good form,” said Stokes, with opposition parties boycotting tions, came out oozing positivity Boyd Rankin, one of three new who added a maiden five-wicket the polls and organising a series and took the game to the bowl- caps in the side, hobbled off the haul to the first Test century he of blockades across the country. ers with a barrage of aggressive field after lunch with what looked scored in Perth. The three venues chosen for strokes. like a hamstring injury. “I think it’s just the way he Australia’s Brad Haddin celebrates scoring his century against England the World Twenty20 -- capital “Brad was great out there,” The tall Irishman returned to comes out and plays his natural on the first day of the fifth Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet -- Smith told reporters. “He was bowl in the final session but lasted game straight away whatever the yesterday. have all experienced violence over great to bat with. I sort of took just one delivery before having to situation is.” AFP the past month. A spokesman for the International Cricket Council, which owns the tournament, told AFP last month that the world Ton-up Mathews frustrates Pakistan body was “actively monitoring” the situation in Bangladesh. ABU DHABI: Sri Lankan Neither Mathews nor The danger posed to teams Scoreboard captain Angelo Mathews hit Sri Lankan Chandimal were bothered at all was underlined in December a pugnacious hundred to pull early on and even the second new when a small bomb exploded out- cricket cap- Sri Lanka out of trouble on ball, taken at 249-4, failed to ben- Sri Lanka (I innings): ...... 204 side the hotel of the West Indies tain Angelo the fourth day of the first Test efit Pakistan with a wicket as Sri Pakistan (I innings): ...... 383 Under-19 team in the port city of Mathews cel- against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi Lanka reached 285-4 at lunch. Sri Lanka (II innings): Chittagong, prompting them to ebrates his yesterday. Pakistan had one chance to D Karunaratne b Junaid...... 24 cut short their tour. Mathews notched up 116 not century during dismiss Chandimal in the sec- The Pakistan Cricket Board K Silva c Akmal b Junaid ...... 81 out under pressure for his sec- the fourth day ond over after lunch when a edge said on Thursday it was seeking ond Test hundred and put on of the first Test off Bilawal Bhatti flew close to K Sangakkara c Younis b Bhatti ...... 55 its government’s advice about invaluable 138-run partnership match against Ahmed Shehzad’s outstretched M Jayawardene c Shafiq b Bhatti ...... 0 sending a team for the World for the fifth wicket with Dinesh Pakistan at the hands in the second slip when the D Chandimal c Ali b Junaid ...... 89 Twenty20 due to the continuing Chandimal (89) and 99 for the Sheikh Zayed batsman was 71. A Mathews (batting) ...... 116 political unrest in Bangladesh. unfinished sixth wicket with Stadium in Finally, Junaid broke the stand P Jayawardene (batting) ...... 48 Sri Lanka successfully hosted Prasanna Jayawardene (48 not at 324 when he had Chandmial the World Twenty20 in 2012, Abu Dhabi, Extras (LB-7) ...... 7 out) to take Sri Lanka to 420-5 yesterday. caught at deep fine-leg off a mis- which was won by the West at close at Sheikh Zayed Stadium. cued hook. Chandimal batted Total (for 5 wkts) ...... 420 Indies. Sri Lanka resumed the day at for 251 minutes and hit a dozen Fall of wickets: 1-47, 2-146, 3-150, The Sri Lankan board is still 186-4, but Mathews’ career-best Chandimal praised Mathews’s and had the better of Pakistan’s boundaries. 4-186, 5-324. undecided whether it will go score and resolute innings by knock. three-pronged pace attack, reach- But even after Chandimal’s Bowling: Junaid 31-2-81-3; Ali 33-8-82- ahead with a month-long tour Chandimal and Prasanna helped “He batted well at a crucial ing his hundred in the final ses- exit, Mathews and Prasanna bat- 0; Bhatti 33-8-131-2; Ajmal 42-10-96-0; of Bangladesh from January 27 Sri Lanka add 234 runs for the stage and batted like a captain,” sion, taking two off Bhatti. His ted without any problems to leave which features two Tests, two loss of only one wicket. said Chandimal. With a bit of spin hundred came off 239 balls. Pakistani bowlers frustrated. Hafeez 9-1-23-0. Twenty20 matches and three one- They now lead by 241 runs and on the pitch we keep our fingers In all the Sri Lankan captain Mathews’s previous best of 105 day internationals. with five wickets intact can har- crossed (for a win) and a 300-plus batted for 370 minutes, hitting 12 not out came against Australia at 383 in their first knock. Prasanna “We have not decided yet,” bour hopes of an unlikely win on target might be a winning one.” boundaries and six off Ajmal, who Colombo in 2011 and followed up has so far hit five fours and six in Ranatunga, whose brother Arjuna the fifth and final day or at least Mathews batted with resolve, conceded 96 runs in 42 wicket- his 91 in Sri Lanka’s first innings his able assistance of Mathews. was a World Cup-winning cap- salvage a draw. blunting off-spinner Saeed Ajmal less overs. total of 204. Pakistan had made AFP tain, said. AFP

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Portland 134 Charlotte 104 A player of Eljaish (in black) tries to spike the ball past the defence of Al Wakra players in their Qatar Volleyball Association League match at Al Arabi Indoor Stadium in Doha yesterday. Philadelphia 113 Sacramento 104 Eljaish won 3-0. RIGHT: Action from Al Arabi and Al Khor match. Al Arabi won 3-1. In another match, police defeated Al Gharafa 3-0. PICTURES BY: ABDUL BASIT JANUARY 4, 2014 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Czech pair Berdych and Experienced Nadal beats Hajek triumph in doubles

DOHA: In an easy doubles final, Czech pair Tomas Berdych Gojowczyk to reach final and Jan Hajek yesterday eased past top seeds Alexander Peya of Austria and Bruno Soares of Brazil to win their maiden title Qatar Open: Frenchman Monfils crushes Mayer in second semi-final as a team. Berdych and Hajek combined BY RIZWAN REHMAT well to win the doubles crown in Nadal equals straight sets, winning 6-2, 6-4 in DOHA: World number one 70 minutes on centre court at Rafael Nadal of Spain yesterday Chang’s tally Khalifa Tennis Complex that was relied on his vast experience to packed to capacity. nail a spot in today’s final after DOHA: World number one The Czech pair produced an beating qualifier and one-time Rafael Nadal of Spain yesterday all-round baseline game to thwart fan Peter Gojowczyk of Germany beat qualifier Peter Gojowczyk Peya and Soares from claiming at the $1.5m Qatar Open. of Germany to equal Michael their ninth doubles crown. Yet to win the first event of a Chang’s haul of 662 wins on the In the first round, Berdych and new season in his entire playing ATP Tour. Hajek beat Santiago Giraldo and career, Nadal survived a nerv- THE PENINSULA Joao Sousa before hammering ous start to win 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in Oliver Marach and Florin Mergea 2 hours on the centre court to List of players with most in the quarter-finals. ensure at least one seeded player In the semi-finals, Berdych and reached the Doha title clash. wins on the ATP Tour: Hajek beat Christopher Kas and In the final today, top seed Jimmy Connors 1253 Philpp Kohlscreiber to reach the Nadal will meet two-time finalist Ivan Lendl 1071 title clash where they stunned the Gael Monfils of France. Monfils Guillermo Vilas 929 top seeds Peya and Soares. yesterday crushed Florian Mayer Roger Federer 923 It was Berdych’s second doubles of Germany 6-3, 6-2 in 55 just title whereas his Hajek’s picked John McEnroe 875 minutes in the second semi-final. up his maiden doubles win. Nadal, who lost the first three Andre Agassi 870 Hajek paired up with Jaroslav games of the first set, recovered in Stefan Edberg 801 Levinsky lost to Kholschreiber admirable fashion by winning the Illie Nastase 779 and Mikhail Youznhy of Russia next two sets to reach his second Pete Sampras 762 in the 2007 Munich final. final in Doha. Boris Becker 713 THE PENINSULA After yesterday’s win, Nadal is Arthur Ashe 683 now equal with Michael Chang’s ATP Chennai Open haul of 662 career wins on the Brian Gottfried 679 Tour. Michael Chang 662 Results Nadal, who turned pro in 2001, Rafael Nadal 662 CHENNAI, India: Results from the $450,000 said experience powered his game ATP Chennai Open tennis tournament in the ‘tough’ semi-final. Qatar Open yesteray (seedings in brackets): “The experience of a lot of years Quarter-finals: Singles - Semi-finals on the Tour tells you that it is dif- Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x1) bt Aljaz Bedene ficult to play - like the way he did (1) Rafael Nadal (ESP) bt Peter Gojowczyk (SLO) 6-2, 6-1 (GER) 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; Gael Monfils (FRA) bt - for one and a half hours on the Vasek Pospisil (CAN x5) bt Yuki Bhambri Rafael Nadal of Spain hits a return to Peter Gojowczyk of Germany during their Qatar Open match at the Khalifa Florian Mayer (GER) 6-3, 6-2 court. But it happens,” Nadal said. (IND) 6-3, 6-3 International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha yesterday. Nadal won 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 to set up a final clash Order Of Play (Final) “I think he started the match with Gael Monfils of France. BOTTOM: Monfils returns the ball to Germany’s Florian Mayer. The Frenchman Marcel Granollers (ESP x6) bt Benoit Paire Centre Court start 6:00 pm (FRA x4) 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7/5) playing really well,” Nadal said won 6-3, 6-2. PICTURES BY: SALIM MATRAMKOT about Gojowczyk who last year [1] Rafael Nadal (ESP) vs Gael Monfils (FRA) Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA x7) bt Dudi approached the world number Sela (ISR) 7-5, 6-7 (6/8), 6-0 one for an autograph at the US in games one and three to draw President) Nasser (Al Khelaifi) Open. level in the match. In the third and (Tournament Director) Auckland Classic “At the start, I played a few bad set, Nadal produced well exam- Karim (Alami) and a few Spanish Results points and he played a few great ined returns to break Gojowczyk spectators here too,” the world Results from day five of the Auckland Classic points and he took the first set,” in games one, three and nine to number one said. tournament on Friday (x denotes seed): Nadal, 27, said. take the set and the match. In the second semi-final, Semi-finals: “It was important to start the Nadal said Gojowczyk’s fine run Monfils fired nine aces to over- Ana Ivanovic (SRB x2) bt Kirsten Flipkens second set very quick and I had in Doha was praise worthy. power Mayer and set a date with (BEL x3) 6-0, 7-6 (7/3) the advantage from the begin- “He had a fantastic tournament Nadal. Venus Williams (USA) bt Jamie Hampton ning (in the second set). I had and I want to wish him the best “I am playing my third final (USA x5) - walkover the chance to play more aggres- of luck the rest of the season,” here and I am very happy,” sive and I did,” the 13-time Grand Nadal said. Monfils, yet to drop a set, said. Shenzhen Open Results Slam champion said. When asked about his sluggish “Hopefully we are going to have Results from the WTA Shenzhen Open on In the first set, Gojowczyk start, Nadal said with a smile: a good one tomorrow. Friday (x denotes seed): stormed to a three-nil lead fol- “I just hoped he is not going to “It is going to be interesting. Women's singles lowing a service break in game play (aggressive) like that in the He’s had an amazing year. He’s Semi-final: two as the German reeled off nine match.” solid, you know,” Monfils said Peng Shuai (CHN x5) bt Vania King (USA), consecutive points from the first Nadal said he was eager to when reminded he had beaten walkover serve. show his fans he can win in Doha. Nadal twice in Doha. Li Na (CHN x1) bt Annika Beck (GER x8) Relying on his piercing “I have never won here so it will Nadal leads their head-to-head 6-1, 6-3 returns, Nadal reduced the mar- be a special win. Tomorrow I have 6-2. Women's doubles gin with a service break in game another opportunity to win. After “I think he has the confidence Semi-final: five (2-3) but Gojowczyk’s early trying a lot of times here, I can but I will make sure I have a great Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR)/Nadiya Kichenok momentum helped him to break win now,” Nadal said. recovery and be strong in the (UKR) bt Johanna Konta (GBR)/Patricia the Spaniard in game 10 to take “It (winning the title) will final,” Monfils, said. Mayr-Achleitner (AUT) 6-2 6-3 the first set. mean a lot to me,” Nadal said. “Just one match to go and I will Brisbane International Nadal switched gears in the “It is a tournament I like to be ready for it,” the 27-year-old second set, breaking Gojowczyk play. I have friends here – (QTF said. THE PENINSULA Results Results of matches played at the Brisbane International tennis tournament on Friday (X denotes seed): Men Williams, Azarenka to meet in Brisbane final Quarter-finals Roger Federer (SUI X1) bt Marinko Matosevic BRISBANE, Australia: World number The serving struggles continued into the in the first set it was a little bit out, a little (AUS) 6-1, 6-1 one Serena Williams will meet the second second set, with three breaks apiece, but bit short.” Jeremy Chardy (FRA X8) bt Samuel Groth ranked Victoria Azarenka in the final of both held when it mattered to send the set Williams and Azarenka have met 16 (AUS) 7-5, 6-4 the Brisbane International after she into a tiebreak. times on the WTA tour with the American Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) bt Marius Copil (ROU) downed Maria Sharapova in an enthral- Williams had match points at 6/5 and holding a 13-3 advantage. 6-4, 6-2 ling semi-final yesterday. 7/6 in the tiebreak, which Sharapova saved, However, they met four times on the Kei Nishikori (JPN X2) bt Marin Cilic (CRO) Williams, the defending champion, beat but at 8/7 and on her own serve she blasted court last year with honours even at two 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 Sharapova 6-2, 7-6 (9/7) in one hour, 43 an ace down the centre line for her 14th wins apiece. Women minutes on Pat Rafter Arena. consecutive win over the Russian. “She’s had some tough matches, I’ve had Semi-finals Earlier, Azarenka recovered from a In the first semi-final Azarenka was all a few tough matches,” Williams said of her Serena Williams (USA X1) bt Maria disastrous first set to beat Serbia’s Jelena at sea in the opening set as she was swept clash with Azarenka. Sharapova (RUS X3) 6-2, 7-6 (9/7) Jankovic 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. aside by the Jankovic in just 29 minutes. “I think it’ll be a really good match to see Victoria Azarenka (BLR X2) bt Jelena Williams and Sharapova have a fierce With her serve misfiring badly, the sec- where we both stand as the two most con- Jankovic (SRB X4) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 rivalry on the court, which is matched by ond seeded Azarenka looked certain of a sistent players of the last year and a half.” Hopman Cup Results an at times bitter relationship off it. quick exit, particularly when she went 0-40 Meanwhile, Roger Federer gave a ten- PERTH, Australia, Jan 03, 2014 (AFP) - They didn’t hold back during their semi- down in the first game of the second set. nis masterclass, taking under an hour to Results from the mixed teams Hopman Cup final, thrilling the packed stadium with the But she fought her way back to win that demolish Australian Marinko Matosevic yesterday: power and depth of their groundstrokes. game, and from that point the momen- for the loss of just two games in the quar- Group B Both women struggled to hold their tum turned as Azarenka began to find her ter-final clash. France bt Spain 3-0 serves throughout, although Williams rhythm and Jankovic started to fade. The top seeded Federer booked a semi- Women’s singles: Alize Cornet (FRA) bt was slightly more consistent, breaking Azarenka took the second set comfort- final against France’s Jeremy Chardy with Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) 6-2, 6-2 Sharapova three times in the first set while ably then held off a late comeback from his imperious 57-minute 6-1, 6-1 win over Men’s singles: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) bt Daniel Munoz-De la Nava (ESP) 6-4, 6-7 losing hers only once, despite making only Jankovic to win in two hours, five minutes. an outclassed Matosevic. (7/9), 6-2 40 percent of her first serves. “I think we can look at it (the first set) Eighth seed Chardy had earlier downed Mixed doubles: Cornet/Tsonga (FRA) bt “I think we are both very strong return- as a struggle, but I don’t think that was another Australian, wildcard Sam Groth, Medina Garrigues/Munoz-De la Nava (ESP) ers, and personally I couldn’t get a first a struggle -- I think Jelena played really, 7-5, 6-4. 8-3 (pro set) serve in today,” Williams said. really well in the first set,” she said. The second semi-final will be between Group B “My first serve percentage was extremely “I felt that I could have done better, but second seed Kei Nishikori of Japan and Czech Republic bt United States 3-0 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus prepares to serve Women’s singles: Petra Kvitova (CZE) bt during her match against Jelena Jankovic low. I didn’t serve nearly as well as I served it’s just the matter of kind of getting that crowd favourite Lleyton Hewitt. Sloane Stephens (USA) 6-3 (retired) of Serbia at the Brisbane International tour- in my first two matches. timing, really fighting through it. Nishikori outlasted big-serving Croat Men’s singles: Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt nament in Brisbane, Australia, yesterday. “(I was) a little disappointed because “But I think I was able to change it Marin Cilic 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, while Hewitt was John Isner (USA) 6-0, 6-0 (walkover) Azarenka won 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. that’s what I’ve been working on, being around in the second set. I really tried to too good for Romanian qualifier Marius Mixed doubles: Kvitova/Stepanek (CZE) bt consistent with my serve.” apply the game I wanted to apply, whereas Copil, beating him 6-4, 6-2. AGENCIES Stephens/Isner (USA) 6-0, 6-0 (walkover) JANUARY 4, 2014 Break Time www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 ON SATURDAY

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THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW Thatcher’s hairdo was high-maintenance HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER LONDON: Margaret she had 118 hair appointments in During her ‘break’ she met logged as “worked in library”. ATHENS 14/07 Clear 14/07 Clear Thatcher’s immaculate hairdo the year. the German chancellor Helmut Only one morning was given WASHINGTON 04/-1 Partly cloudy 08/07 Chance of rain took intensive efforts to per- Around the G7 summit in Kohl, Austrian chancellor Fred over to “swimming and relaxa- SYDNEY 26/18 Chance of rain 28/19 Partly cloudy fect, with the late British prime London in June 1984, she had her Sinowatz, former UN secretary- tion”, while three mid-afternoon minister having her bouffant hair done on five consecutive days. general Kurt Waldheim and the slots were scheduled for “rest”. LONDON 11/05 Rain 12/11 Chance of rain reworked every three days The diary confirms her reputa- Swiss Confederation president. The hair got eight time slots. PARIS 13/05 Chance of rain 10/08 Partly cloudy on average, records showed tion as a workaholic who strug- She also attended a dinner Thatcher, Britain’s only female ISTANBUL 11/05 Partly cloudy 11/08 Partly cloudy yesterday. gled to relax, as evidenced by her for bankers and visited a local prime minister, who governed MANILA 32/23 Partly cloudy 32/24 Partly cloudy Her appointments diary for two-and-a-half week summer chipboard factory. One morn- from 1979 to 1990, died in April DHAKA 24/12 Clear 24/14 Mostly cloudy 1984, released by The National holiday, spent in Austria and ing was spent working and last year aged 87. DELHI 16/07 Clear 17/07 Clear Archive three decades on, showed Switzerland. writing letters, another was AFP ISLAMABAD 19/01 Partly cloudy 18/02 Partly cloudy

Ancient stone bridge revealed Obesity soars in developing countries after Chinese LONDON: The extent of the fellow Steve Wiggins. “On cur- UK. Regionally, north Africa, the stunting — low height to age —has This variety in diets carries world’s obesity epidemic has rent trends, globally, we will see Middle East and Latin America been slow. Up to a third of infants certain implications, the report been thrown into stark relief a huge increase in the number all have overweight and obese in the developing world are stunted. argues. Globalisation will not - in lake dries up as a report from the Overseas of people suffering certain types rates on a par with Europe. Factors behind the increase in the medium term - place mas- Development Institute (ODI) of cancer, diabetes, strokes and “The evidence is well estab- obesity include rising incomes and sive restrictions on the scope for BEIJING: A stone bridge dat- puts the number of overweight heart attacks, putting an enor- lished: obesity, together with the urbanisation, which tend to lead policy action, and policy needs to ing back to the Ming dynasty and obese adults in develop- mous burden on public healthcare excessive consumption of fat and to diets rich in animal produce, start where people are, in terms has been discovered after water ing countries at more than 900 systems.” salt, is linked to the rising global fat, salt and sugar; and the various of their preferences and tradi- levels plunged at China’s largest million. The report warns that govern- incidence of non-communicable influences of globalisation, among tions. “Trajectories are not preor- freshwater lake, a Beijing news- Future Diets, an analysis of ments are not doing enough to diseases, including some can- them advertising and the media, dained; there is scope to influence paper reported yesterday. public data about what the world tackle the growing crisis, partly cers, diabetes, heart disease and on diets. But the report cautions the evolution of diet to get better The remains of the eats, says there are almost twice due to politicians’ reluctance to stroke,” says the report. “What against jumping to conclusions outcomes for health and agricul- 2,930-metre-long bridge, made as many obese people in poor interfere at the dinner table, the has changed is that the majority that national diets are converg- ture,” says the report. entirely of granite and dating countries as in rich ones. In 2008, powerful influence of farming of people who are overweight or ing on a single international norm. Yet, Wiggins acknowledges that back nearly 400 years, appeared the figures were 904 million in and food lobbies and a large gap obese today can be found in the In China, for example, diets, are governments have been timid in at Poyang lake in the central developing countries, where most in public awareness of what con- developing rather than the devel- proportionally richer in animal prod- staking out positions on diet. province of Jiangxi, the Beijing of the world’s people live, com- stitutes a healthy diet. oped world.” ucts and vegetables than in the 1960s, “Who wants to take on the food News reported. pared with 557 million in indus- According to the report, over- The report highlights a paradox but sugar consumption remains low. industry?” he said. “Then there is The lake, which has been as trialised nations. weight and obesity rates since in the developing world. As well In contrast, Thailand has experi- the moral and ethical dimension: large as 4,500 square kilometres “The growing rates of over- 1980 have almost doubled in as obesity, under-consumption enced an increase in the per-head people would not like the govern- in the past, has been drying up in weight and obesity in developing China and Mexico, and risen by remains a problem for hundreds consumption of starchy roots and ment to tell us what to put on the recent years due to a combination countries are alarming,” said the a third in South Africa, which of millions of people in poor coun- pulses as well as fruit, which Thais dinner table.” of low rainfall and the impact of report’s author, ODI research now has a higher rate than the tries, where progress on reducing consume more than animal products. THE GUARDIAN the Three Gorges Dam, experts say. State broadcaster China Central Television reported in November that drought had shrunk the lake to less than Bollywood classic Sholay released 1,500 square kilometres, threat- ening the plankton, fish and other organisms that inhabit it and the livelihoods of the nearly 70 per- in 3D after restoration, legal battle cent of local residents who make a living by fishing. MUMBAI: Almost 40 years 3D boost. Singh said the techni- release, with the original Sholay’s By lowering the level of the after one of Bollywood’s most cal process took three years to director, Ramesh Sippy, fighting Yangtze river, the vast Three famous films broke box office complete, and was estimated to with family members over who Gorges dam project has also caused records, Sholay (Embers) has have cost more than $3m. owned rights to the film. an increased outflow of water from been restored for release yester- “First we scanned and digitised Ramesh Sippy lodged court both Poyang and Dongting, another day in 3D to a new generation of the original negative and then it action against his nephew, producer lake in neighbouring Hunan prov- moviegoers. was restored,” Singh said. Sascha Sippy, and other family ince, experts told the Beijing News The iconic Indian film, which The background score was also members who run several compa- last year, decreasing the water lev- stars Amitabh Bachchan, modernised, while leaving the dia- nies that own the titles to Sholay as els of both bodies. Dharmendra, Amjad Khan and logue untouched. “We pepped up well as other Bollywood films. In 2012, Chinese authorities other Bollywood greats, is an the music a bit to make it sound Those films include some made air-dropped shrimps, millet and action adventure about two petty modern,” said Sippy. by Ramesh Sippy’s father, G P Bollywood scriptwriters Javed Akhtar (left) and Salim Khan speak to media maize over Poyang lake to feed thieves hired by a police officer “We first had to fill in the nega- Sippy, who was also the producer at a promotional event for the film Sholay. hundreds of thousands of birds at to exact revenge on a ruthless tive where there were holes, digi- for the original Sholay and who risk of hunger due to the drought. bandit. tise the film, strip the sound, keep died in 2007. finest because of the perform- and books, while lines from the AFP The movie, which borrowed the dialogue, re-record all the Earlier this year, a Mumbai ances of Amjad Khan, who died in movie continue to be used by heavily from the Westerns of the sound and music and also convert court denied Ramesh Sippy’s 1992, and others under Ramesh Indian theatre-goers in everyday time, proved so popular after its the film into 3D,” Sippy added. request for a stay on the new Sippy’s stellar direction. conversation. release in 1975 that it screened for Sholay opens across Indian and Sholay’s release until his rights Ranked the best Indian film Considered a pioneering five years at a landmark Mumbai United Arab Emirates cinemas to the film were restored. Sippy, of all time by the British Film Bollywood film at the time, the theatre, the longest ever run in yesterday in 2D and 3D. The clas- who has had no involvement in Institute in 2002, Sholay was original Sholay was also the first India at the time. sic, which, like all Bollywood mov- restoring the film, lost an appeal also given the unusual honour of in India to use a 70mm format Producers Shaan Uttam Singh ies, includes a love story, will be against the court decision earlier being “maybe the burliest male which doubled its size on the big and Sascha Sippy said they released in other countries later this month. love story ever made (in India)” screen and was the first Hindi- wanted to restore the original this year. Film critic and author Khalid by Time magazine in 2010. language film to be recorded in film for new generations of movie But torturous legal action had Mohamed said the original movie The popularity of Sholay stereophonic sound. watchers, while also giving it a threatened to overshadow the was considered one of Bollywood’s also spawned remakes, spoofs AFP