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FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 • 22 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6515 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 First passenger Private sector plane lands in Yemen’s Aden ADEN: A passenger plane workers seek flew into Aden yesterday, the first civilian aircraft to land in Yemen’s second city in more than four months, airport director Tarek Abdo said. holiday parity The Yemenia flight from Djibouti brought home 158 Yemenis who had fled fight- Separate govt sector law unjustified ing between Houthi rebels and forces loyal to exiled President DOHA: As more Qataris are Kubaisi, said there was the need Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi. taking up jobs in the private sec- for the authorities to reduce the In mid-July the government tor, especially banks and finan- number of festival holidays in the backed by the Saudi-led coalition cial institutions, questions are government and ensure parity announced it had liberated Aden being raised over huge dispari- with the private sector. and later reopened the airport. ties regarding weekly offs and “I don’t quite understand why “The airport is now secure and festival holidays for government there should be such a disparity can receive civilian flights, namely and private sector employees. between the government and pri- those bringing home refugees or While there are 10 to 15 days vate sector. The holidays must be flying in humanitarian aid,” said of holidays for Eid Al Fitr and unified in the two sectors.” Abdo. But he stressed that for the Eid Al Adha each for public Al Kubaisi said this kind of time being only some planes will servants, private sector work- disparity actually discourages be able to land in Aden, and that ers are allowed only three to four Qataris from joining the private A Yemeni boy flashes the victory sign after arriving at the airport in Aden yesterday. there were no immediate plans to days’ of break. sector. If the holidays in the two resume regular flights. AFP Moreover, government employ- sectors are unified, that would ees work five days a week and help the job nationalisation effort mostly from 8am until 1pm, in the private sector, he said. whereas private sector workers “It is sheer injustice with pri- “slog” for six days a week and over vate sector workers,” said Ahmed eight hours a day, say citizens. Al Subei, yet another national. “Are we any less human or There is the need to strike the IS bomber kills 15 inside Saudi mosque don’t we work? Why should there right balance between the private be such discrimination between and government sectors. RIYADH: An Islamic State “The terrorist attack struck the special forces headquarters in “The attack is aimed at desta- the two sectors?” asks Sulaiman “If the holidays in the two sec- group suicide bomber yesterday worshippers during prayer,” the Abha and activated his explosives bilising the country and sowing Al Marri, a Qatari bank employee. tors are unified, it would help detonated an explosives-packed spokesman said, giving an initial vest, killing and wounding dozens. fear among citizens,” he said, “I work in a local bank in a very Qatarisation in private compa- vest in a mosque inside a Saudi toll of 10 policemen and three Al Hijaz Province vowed to quoted by the official Saudi Press challenging environment, work- nies,” said Al Subei. “It would also special forces headquarters workers killed and nine people carry out fresh strikes against agency. ing six days a week, while public end injustice.” killing 15 people. wounded. El Ikhbariya state tele- “tyrants in the Arabian penin- IS has said it was behind a July servants put in lesser number of Still another citizen who didn’t In the latest in a string of IS vision later said that two police- sula... in the coming days”. 16 car bomb that exploded at a hours, so why should we be dis- want to be identified told the daily attacks in the kingdom, the inte- men wounded in the “heinous” Another IS-affiliated group, security checkpoint near a prison criminated against? Why should that longer holidays in the state rior ministry said the bomber attack had died, bringing the “Najd Province”, had claimed in Riyadh, killing the driver and we be given only three days of Eid sector mean immense harm to the struck during noon prayers in death toll to 15. attacks on Shia mosques in May wounding two policemen. holiday while state employees are national economy as employees’ the city of Abha, in the southern IS affiliate “Al-Hijaz Province” that killed 25 people. An inte- Officials identified the driver as allowed longer break?”. productivity suffers. province of Asir near the border said in an online statement that rior ministry spokesman said a 19-year-old Saudi man and said Al Marri told local Arabic daily “This must end,” said the citi- with war-strewn Yemen. it was behind the attack, the lat- that “body parts found at the he had killed his uncle, a colonel, Al Arab in remarks published yes- zen, adding that two kinds of law Twelve of those killed were est — and deadliest — against scene” indicated the use of an before blowing himself up on a road terday: “It is literally fun and frol- regulating holidays and weekly members of a Special Weapons security forces in the kingdom in explosive vest. near Al-Hair prison, a high secu- icking for government employees. offs — one for private companies and Tactics (SWAT) unit, while recent weeks. The governor of Asir province, rity facility. IS said the attack was a Are we, engaged in the private and the other for the government the other three were workers The statement identified the Prince Faisal bin Khaled bin message to jihadists held at Al Hair sector, any less human?.” sector, were undesirable. at the compound, officials said. bomber as Abu Sinan Al Najdi Abdul Aziz, visited the mosque that they had not been forgotten. Another citizen, Khamees Al THE PENINSULA Seven other people were wounded. and said the jihadist infiltrated and the wounded in hospital. AFP

Di Maria unveiled as PSG player Qatar Airways Immigration extends embargo 2 Taliban officials quit office to be KABUL: Two more senior Tayeb Agha, the head of the on transport of figures in the Taliban’s Qatar Qatar political office set up in relocated political office have resigned, 2013 to facilitate talks with Kabul, hunting trophies militants said yesterday, as the resigned on Monday in protest DOHA: The immigra- movement began efforts to rec- at Mansour’s appointment and tion office near the Old DOHA: Qatar Airways has oncile feuding factions amid an yesterday two more members Airport will be shifted to its extended its existing embargo increasingly bitter leadership followed suit. Former diplomat new location near Hamad on transporting hunting tro- struggle. Aziz Rehman and Mawlavi Nek International Airport (HIA) phies to encompass all species Splits have emerged at the top of Mohammad, who served as a on Sunday. identified by the Convention the Taliban following the appoint- deputy minister during Taliban The office will work from the on International Trade in ment of Mullah Akhtar Mansour as rule, both stepped down, accord- passport section in the admin- Endangered Species (CITES) replacement for Mullah Omar, the ing to a statement issued through istrative building of HIA which of Wild Fauna and Flora, a movement’s founding leader whose a recognised Twitter account used is near the cargo office of the press release by the carrier death was confirmed last week. by the political office. new airport, the Ministry of said yesterday. Some top leaders of the Islamist The insurgent group yesterday Interior has announced. The airline’s existing ban insurgency, including Omar’s son named Tayeb’s deputy Muhammad The department is called on carrying CITES I hunting and brother, have refused to pledge Abbas Stanakzai, who served in the visa and travel permits section trophies has been extended to allegiance to Mansour, saying the 1996-2001 Taliban government, as and issues and renews visit and include all species included in the process to select him was rushed the acting head of the Qatar office. tourist visas and exit permits. CITES I, II and III. and even biased. AFP THE PENINSULA “As one of the world’s leading Map on page 3 airlines, serving customers across six continents, Qatar Airways recognises its responsibility to society, our communities and the environment. “An absolute ban on all hunting Sisi vows to defeat terrorism trophies further extends our com- mitment to supporting the pro- ISMAILIA: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al history and leap to the future for the prosperity of tection of endangered species and Sisi said yesterday that Egypt would defeat terror- humanity.” the elimination of illegal trading ism, as he inaugurated the New Suez Canal project Among those at the ceremony were French of animal products,” said Qatar and the first ship passed through the waterway. President Francois Hollande, King Abdullah of Airways Group Chief Executive “Egypt during this year stood against the most Jordan and Bahrain’s H M King Hamad bin Isa Al Akbar Al Baker. dangerous terrorist ideology, that would burn the Khalifa. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, More than 35,000 species world if it could,” he said at a lavish ceremony Kuwait’s Emir H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al (over 5,000 animals and 30,000 attended by world leaders. Sabah and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras plants) are protected under the “Work did not take place in normal circumstances, also attended, as well as Yemen’s exiled President CITES, which includes, but is Paris Saint-Germain’s (PSG) new Argentinian midfielder Angel Di Maria and these circumstances still exist and we are fight- Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi and Sudanese President not limited to, great apes, (right) and PSG’s Qatari President Nasser Al Khelaifi shake hands as ing them and we will defeat them,” Sisi said after Omar Hassan Al Bashir. the giant panda, many South signing an order allowing ships to cross the new The government declared a national holiday, and they pose with Di Maria’s PSG jersey during his official presentation in American monkeys, cheetahs, stretch of waterway. banks and most businesses were closed. Sisi said Paris yesterday. PSG completed the signing of Di Maria from Manchester lions, leopards, tigers, elephants “Egyptians have made a huge effort so as to give the project also reassured his countrymen and the and rhinoceroses. United on a four-year deal, the French champions announced. the world this gift for development, construction and world that Egyptians “are still capable” of great THE PENINSULA Report on page 22 civilisation,” Sisi said at the ceremony. Egyptians, accomplishments. AGENCIES Continued on page 3 he added, “showed their ability to efficiently make See also page 14 FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Qatar backs Palestinians in their just cause: Minister

CAIRO: Assistant Foreign Al Rumaihi said Palestine he said the state has fulfilled Ministry, and Acting Qatari Minister H E Mohammed bin has become an affiliate to its financial obligations to the Charge d’Affaires in Cairo Yassir Abdullah Al Rumaihi said International Criminal Court agency, adding the Qatari gov- Awad. that Qatar always stands by and other organisations and ernment is mulling actions to The meeting was held at the and supports the Palestinian got endorsement from several enable it to provide services to request of the State of Palestine people on their fair demands. European countries. He hoped the Palestinian people, including to discuss recent Israeli esca- On the sidelines of an emer- negotiations would start again students. lation in Jerusalem, especially gency meeting of Arab Peace to find a peaceful solution to the The meeting was held at with regard to Al Aqsa Mosque, Initiative Committee in Cairo, Palestinian cause. Arab League headquarters, continuation of settlement Al Rumaihi said Qatar always Al Rumaihi urged the also attended by Palestinian activities, arrests and assassina- supports directives of the com- Palestinians to be strong and President Mahmoud Abbas and tions by Israel, siege, closure and mittee tasked with the peace united in the face of external League Secretary-General Nabil displacement of Palestinians process in the Middle East. pressure and Israeli aggressions. Al Arabi. and ethnic cleansing and war He said Qatar’s stance is firm On the financial crisis fac- Headed by Al Rumaihi, the crimes committed against the towards supporting Palestinian ing United Nations Relief and Qatari delegation included Palestinian people, including the www.swiss-belhotel.com rights in all fields, at interna- Works Agency for Palestine Ambassador Saad bin Ali Hilal recent burning of a Palestinian tional organisations and all Refugees in the Near East Al Mohannadi, Director, Arab toddler in Nablus. Tel levels. (UNRWA) and Qatar’s support, Affairs Department, Foreign QNA Fax

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Qatar slams Saudi mosque bombing ABP Class of 2016 attends orientation DOHA: Qatar has condemned DOHA: The Academic Bridge “We have yet another excel- the criminal bombing that tar- Programme, a centre of Qatar lent group of students and hope geted the special emergency Foundation, organised orien- the Class of 2016 will set the bar forces during noon prayer at tation for about 250 new stu- higher for academic success and their headquarters’ mosque in dents in Learning Resources admission offers to universities in Asir, which left many person- Centre (LRC) of ABP’s Liberal Qatar and abroad. nel and workers dead and many Arts and Sciences Building in “Our faculty and staff are injured. Education City. looking forward to beginning In a statement yesterday, The Class of 2016 was intro- the school year, which will see the Foreign Ministry stressed duced to ABP’s facilities, policies re-accreditation of our academic Qatar’s support for Saudi Arabia and activities as well as admin- programme by Commission on in addressing criminal acts that istrators, faculty and staff who English Language Programmes aim to destabilise the security of will work with them during the in the US and renovation of our the Saudi people. academic year. building.” It reaffirmed Qatar’s backing College information, goal- The two-day event featured for all security measures taken setting and reflection, academic presentations by Ahmad Al by Saudi Arabia to preserve its integrity and community building Jassim, Events Coordinator, ABP security and stability. activity sessions were also held. Student Affairs, and Dr Mark Reiterating Qatar’s firm stance Around 80 percent of students Newmark, Assistant Director, on rejecting terrorist acts and vio- are Qatari and the rest from some Academic Affairs. lence in all its forms, the ministry 27 countries, including Bahrain, Inspired by the success of a conveyed Qatar’s condolences and Bulgaria, Gambia, France, India, new English course last year, sympathy to the families of the Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UK, and ABP is introducing a course victims and wished the injured a the US. Nearly 75 percent of the on fundamentals of computer speedy recovery. class is female. programming. Another new Dr Bryan Lewallen, Director, ABP, addressing new students at one of the sessions. Dr Bryan Lewallen, Director, development is the creation Katara to highlight ABP, said: “This is a special year of a Student Support Team, Accuplacer (placement) test for Over 2,500 students have grad- ABP has extended admissions for ABP, as we celebrate our headed by Mutassim AwadAllah, department supervisors to place uated from ABP since its incep- deadline to August 13. Details Eritrean culture 15th anniversary. Last year was Coordinator, LRC, to ensure stu- each of them in a level most suit- tion in 2001. can be found at www.abp.edu.qa the most successful in terms of dents are offered individual sup- able to their academic level in This year, ABP welcomes three or by emailing ABPAdmission@ DOHA: The Cultural Village university admissions in ABP’s port to succeed. English, maths, science and com- new faculty members from the qf.org.qa Foundation (Katara) will host history. All new students took an puter skills. UK, Uruguay/Italy and the US. THE PENINSULA an Eritrean cultural event in November to build bridges of communication between peo- ples and civilisations. Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, Director-General, Qatar envoy hosts luncheon for junior squad in Mexico City stressed Katara’s keenness to support cultural and social events MEXICO CITY: Qatari and activities for Arab and foreign Ambassador to Mexico Dr communities as part of its mission Ahmed Abdullah Ali Al to build bridges of communication Kuwari yesterday hosted a and interaction between commu- luncheon for Qatar U-15 squad nities in Qatar. which will take part in 2015 During a meeting with Eritrean Mexico International Football Ambassador Ali Ibrahim Ahmed, Championship. Dr Al Sulaiti said Katara is also The team was joined by back- keen to consolidate bonds of love room staff and Qatari embassy and brotherhood among peoples officials. and enhance cultural and human Al Kuwari wished the team communication between them. success and said, “The young- Ahmed praised relations sters have the potential to between Qatar and Eritrea, wish- emerge victorious. ing them further progress. He “Mexicans love sports and also thanked Katara for hosting their passion is football. I am an Eritrean event in May, prais- sure these youngsters will do ing efforts to make it a success. well in the tournament,” he said. Qatar experience in investment The ambassador also urged highlighted the players to their best in the tournament. Qatari Ambassador Dr Ahmed Abdullah Ali Al Kuwari with officials and the squad at the event. Qatari diplomat Qatar Football Association officials presented a memento The tournament will be held the high-performance centre teams. Panama, Canada, the other teams to take part in addresses to Al Kuwari. at Centro de alto Rendimiento, and home to Mexican national Bermuda and hosts Mexico are the championship. QNA Australia seminar CANBERRA: Qatar has con- siderable expertise and expe- New location of airport rience in the fields of foreign Demand for Ooredoo Passport investment, multinational partnerships and global finan- immigration office cial markets, said Acting Card by businesses on the rise Charge d’Affaires Mohammed Abdullah Al Jabir. DOHA: With a high number The Ooredoo Passport Card, To make roaming experience Addressing a seminar organ- of people travelling during introduced last month, provides more convenient, customers ised by Australian Arab Chamber summer, Ooredoo has seen a an immediate way for people to can also top up roaming data of Commerce and Industry in sharp rise in the number of top up roaming data and min- and minute allowance instantly the Australian city of Adelaide companies deploying Ooredoo utes allowance during the sum- via the e-Top-up section in the under the theme ‘Empowering Passport for their employees. mer travel season. The card Ooredoo app. trade and investment’, he praised Ooredoo Passport offers 100 works with Shahry and Hala. The cost will be added to the investment by Hassad Australia roaming minutes for receiv- Ooredoo makes it possible Shahry bill or deducted from company, a Qatari invest- ing and making calls, 1GB of for businesses to order multiple the Hala credit balance. ment that benefits Qataris and roaming mobile data and an quantities of the card via their Customers can download the Australians. extra 1GB of roaming data in account manager so that these updated app for free via iTunes On promoting cooperation on GCC and gives businesses an can be distributed across their or Google store. education and scientific research affordable and measurable way workforce. The Ooredoo Passport allow- between Qatar and Australia, Al of ensuring employees abroad Typically, cards are being ance is valid for seven days. It Jabir said innovation in educa- stay in contact. given to employees who travel is available in over 65 coun- tion and research is a prior- With an estimated 88 percent frequently for work, occa- tries and customers can use it ity of Qatar and the state has expatriate workforce in Qatar, sional roaming users, and as an within Ooredoo’s Passport net- established Qatar Foundation many taking annual leave dur- incentive and holiday bonus for work of more than 165 roaming and Qatar National Research ing summer and many choosing employees taking annual leave. partners. Fund which is funding academic to travel after the Eid holidays, As multiple cards can be acti- For details on the card and research in the country and demand for roaming data and vated at the same time, busi- Ooredoo Passport Pack, custom- around the world. minutes has risen in recent nesses can provide employees ers can visit www.ooredoo.qa/op Al Jabir hoped to see more years. with more roaming allowance. THE PENINSULA Qatari students enrolled in Australian universities and more academic cooperation between both countries. Exam centre inspected Al Marri meets Djibouti envoy

DOHA: National Human Rights Committee Chairman Dr Ali bin Smaikh Al Marri met Djibouti Ambassador Mumin Hassan Barri and reviewed cooperation on humanitarian issues. Qatar-Italy ties reviewed CITES protects animals, plants in trade ROME: The Italian president’s Continued from page 1 Diplomatic Adviser Emanuela The CITES is a deal between governments to ensure global trade in D’Alessandro yesterday met specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. Qatari Ambassador Abdulaziz There are three CITES appendices, under which species are classified bin Ahmed Al Maliki Al based on how threatened they are by international trade. CITES I Jahani and discussed means includes species threatened with extinction. CITES II includes species of strengthening relations and Khalifa Al Derham, Director at the office of Independent schools at Supreme Education Council (SEC), visited for which trade must be controlled to avoid behaviour incompatible issues of common interest. Ahmed Bin Hanbal Independent Secondary School for boys and inspected second stage examinations. The with their survival. CITES III contains species protected in at least Earlier, the ambassador held visit was part of SEC’s keenness to overcome any difficulties during exams. The school is one of 18 chosen one country, which has asked other CITES parties for assistance in a meeting with Rome Mayor by SEC to host the exams which started on July 28 and ended yesterday. controlling the trade. It covers species such as two-toed sloth, African Ignacio Marino. QNA civet and alligator snapping turtle. THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ISLAM Prophet: The master of tolerance

BY RAYA SHOKATFARD all conquerors do. But instead, Goethe, a famous he said: “Go! You are all free!” od has always chosen (Authenticated by Al Albani) prophets with the best German writer, artist, Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) of characters, morals and politician of the mercy and tolerance did not Gand spirits. Since God exclude his worse enemies. Such is All-Knowing, All-Wise, and tolerance awed his enemies who has ordained human’s destiny 1800s, marvelled over were now the newly converted before their birth, it is feasible to Muslims. The end result is a think that He has already chosen the achievements and clear history that is registered to His Prophets before even their status of the Prophet this day. Message of Islam spread entrance to the world. across the world, to include on Prophet Muhammad (peace be Muhammad (PBUH) fifth of the global population. upon him) was not an exception. These are only a few among God bestowed on him the best of saying: “We Europeans many examples of the Prophet’s characters, one of which was his tolerance and noble character. exceptional tolerance which is with all our concepts Aisha, the wife of the Prophet was manifested in his life and teachings: asked regarding the character of And verily, you (O Muhammad) are and ideas have not yet the Prophet (peace be upon him). on an exalted (standard of) charac- She said very simply, that: “The ter. (Al Qalam 68: 4) attained that which character of the Prophet was the We will examine some exam- Quran.” (Muslim) ples of his tolerance at the advent Muhammad attained, Clearly, the Prophet molded of Islam and during its expan- and no one will ever his own life in accordance with sion process. In the next article, the ideal pattern of life that he we will examine his treatment of surpass him. presented to others in the form non-Muslims. of the Quran revealed to him by God. He never beat a servant, or IN MAKKAH a woman, or anyone else. He did, During the first thirteen years and clap in order to disturb him, believer is one with whom others filled with rage. Upon the con- acts. For instance, the agreement of course, fight for what was right. of his life in Makkah, he and his but the Prophet would not even feel secure.” (Al Bukhari) quest of Makkah, the Prophet mentioned the Prophet’s name as When he had to choose between followers faced much persecution. once show his anger at such acts. He manifested these words did not seek revenge on her and “Muhammad the Messenger of two alternatives, he would take Muslims were not ordered by God He always opted for the policy of with action and was not fast to accepted her and her husband as Allah.” They insisted to replace the easier course, provided it to fight back due to the fact that tolerance and avoidance of con- revenge or rebuke a wrong doer. new converts and gave them full by “son of Abdullah.” The Prophet involved no sin. No one was more they had no military strength yet frontation. In one instance when A Bedouin once entered the protection. accepted peacefully and deleted careful to avoid sin than he. He due to the small following which the Prophet was praying at the mosque and started to urinate in Anas ibn Malik, who served the the appellation. never sought revenge on his own gradually increased. It was only in Ka’bah while his enemies were it. Mosques at that time had no Prophet for ten years, said that Similarly, they made the condi- sake for any wrong done to him Madinah when his following and watching his every move and walls and carpeted floors and the the Prophet never rebuked him: tion that if they could lay their personally. He was tolerant. Only military power rapidly grew that action, one of his adversaries ceilings were palm leaves held up “When I did something, he hands on any Muslim they would if God’s commandments had been fighting to protect themselves and put on his back the intestine of by palm stems. The people ran to never questioned my manner of make him a hostage, but if the broken would he meet out retri- the new religion was allowed. a slaughtered camel during his (prevent and restrain) him. The doing it; and when I did not do Muslims succeeded in detaining bution for the sake of God. It was When the Prophet’s opponents prostration. The Prophet did not Prophet said: “Do not interrupt something, he never questioned any non-Muslim, they would have such conduct which gained the greatly increased their persecu- react and stayed in that position. his urination (i.e. let him finish). my failure to do it. He was the to set him free. The Prophet even Prophet universal respect. tion, his companions asked him to His daughter, Fatimah, rushed Then the Prophet asked for a most good-natured of all men.” relented on this point for estab- One may say, since he was the curse them. At this the Prophet to take the filth off his back and pitcher of water to be poured over (Al Bukhari) lishment of peace in the region. last Prophet and messenger to replied:“I have not been sent to cleaned him up. the place of urine. (Al Bukhari) Such manners of tolerance He was clearly setting exam- mankind, no other can ever be lay a curse upon men but to be a One of Jesus’ famous saying gained him the respect even of his ples of fairness and tolerance quite like him. This is true because blessing to them.” (Muslim) IN MADINAH is: “Love your neighbour like enemies, and his followers stood while exposed to injustice and none shall ever have to shoulder a His opponents continued to Later, when Prophet yourself.” Prophet Muhammad by him through all kinds of hard- intolerance. fraction of the responsibilities he treat him and his companions Muhammad (PBUH) and many (PBUH) complimented this ship and misfortune. Despite all the concessions had to bear. However, we, as his fol- unjustly and cruelly, but he always of his companions migrated to by saying: “By God, he is not Although his worse enemies Prophet Muhammad made with lowers, have the easy part which is prayed for them. Madinah, again his great char- a believer, by God, he is not a were the Makkan Arabs at the the Makkans, the later violated to seek and adopt his gentle quali- He once decided to personally acter in dealing with his com- believer, by God, he is not a beginning, but in Madinah, the the same treaty they signed ear- ties and high moral standards into visit the village of Ta’if, to the east panions and enemies was further believer, with whom his neighbors Jews did not spare any effort to lier. It was then that the Prophet daily practice; for the Prophet’s of Makkah, to invite its inhabit- manifested. In Madinah, the are not secure.” (Al Bukhari) conspire against him, even after finally marched with his huge life was divinely chosen to func- ants to Islam. The people rejected Muslims were in the process of This includes tolerance for treaties were signed with them. army to Makkah and without tion as a practical manual of how him, stoned him, ejected him, and establishing the new Islamic state. actions they may do that is not However, he tried to be as fair any resistance conquered the city one should better himself. Prophet made him to bleed. Angel Gabriel Yet, their enemies in Makkah did pleasing to one. It is reported that with them as possible and only which was once the abode of his Muhammad’s (PBUH) character came to him and said: not spare much time to wage war one of the Prophet’s neighbors waged war against them when worse enemies. As mentioned ear- and qualities are not only for “Allah has heard what your against them and pursue them was a Jew who hated the Prophet. they broke treaties which caused lier, the Prophet and his follow- the Muslims to follow, but the people say to you and how they even in Madinah. Each day he would throw trash much loss of life of Muslims. ers suffered a great deal during sincere seekers who learn about reject you. He has ordered the In the battle of Uhud, when his on his way. The prophet never Once, when the Prophet was their thirteen years of living in him, praise his noble character angels of the mountains to obey Makkan enemies attacked the rebuked him. One day, the Jew did sitting at a place in Madinah, Makkah and after their migration and wish to follow it. whatever you tell them to do.” Muslims, Prophet Muhammad not show up. The Prophet asked along with his companions, a to Madinah. His own tribesmen Goethe, a famous German The angel of the mountains called (PBUH) suffered head injury about him, and was told that he funeral procession passed by. On and even family members con- writer, artist, and politician of the him, greeted him and said, “Send and his front teeth got smashed. was sick. So, he went to visit him seeing this, the Prophet stood up. tinue to oppose him in not only 1800s, marvelled over the achieve- me to do what you wish. If you When the blood started to seep and inquire about his health with One of his companions remarked in Makkah but rose to fight him ments and status of the Prophet wish, I will crush them between from his head, he swabbed it say- kindness. Upon seeing this, the that the funeral was that of a Jew. in Madinah for over 20 years. Muhammad (PBUH) saying: “We the two mountains of Makkah.” ing: “If a drop of my blood fell on Jew embraced Islam. The Prophet replied: “Was he not They did not spare any effort to Europeans with all our concepts The Prophet said: “Rather, I the earth, those infidels will be The enmity of his worst enemy a human being?” (Muslim) inflict the worse humanly possi- and ideas have not yet attained hope that Allah will bring forth destroyed by Allah.” Umar told toward his most beloved was also Since Prophet Muhammad ble hardship on them. In Makkah, that which Muhammad attained, from their loins those who will him, O Messenger of Allah, Curse met with awesome goodness. wished to avoid war at all costs, it included, torture, sanctions, and no one will ever surpass worship Allah alone and not asso- them! The prophet replied: “I Hamza was among the he strove to bring about a peace taking their lives’ belonging, him. I searched in history for the ciate anything with Him.” (Al wasn’t sent (by Allah) to curse. Prophet’s most beloved uncles. agreement between him and the separating family members and loftiest example for man to fol- Bukhari) I was sent as a mercy.” Then he During one of the battles, Hend, Makkans. After great efforts on slaughtering them where ever low, and I found it in the Prophet In the early Makkan period said: “O Allah, Guide my people!” the wife of Abu Sufyan, the his part, the non-Muslims agreed they could find them. With God’s Muhammad (PBUH). Thus the when the enemies of the new reli- (Authenticated by Al-Albani) arch enemy of the Prophet, had to a ten-year peace treaty, which help and his and his companions’ truth must prevail and become gion far exceeded the Prophet’s God confirms his blessed char- ordered her slave to find Hamza was drafted and signed at Al steadfastness in Madinah and supreme, because Muhammad companions in number, it often acter by saying: {And We have not and pierce him with his arrow. Hudaybiyyah, a place outside upholding the message of Islam, (PBUH) succeeded in subjugat- happened that when the Prophet sent you forth but as a mercy to Upon seeing him dead, she rushed Makkah. During this important they finally conquered Makkah. ing the whole world by means of would stand to pray, his foes mankind.} (Al-Anbiya’ 21:107) to his body and cut out his liver meeting, the Makkans insisted on Its leaders came to him fear- the message of Divine Oneness.” would come near him and whistle The Prophet once said: “A true and started chewing on it while a number of extremely provocative ing that he would kill them as www.onislam.net Holy Quran sets out basis of love BY HARUN YAHYA and, if there is enmity between you and Other people may speak mocking or ugly this proper attitude on the part of the attribute created by Allah very well, someone else, he will be like a bosom words, become angry or behave badly. believer shows the power and intensity calm down the environment they find he Quran refers to love that friend.” (Quran, 41:34) But the believer never changes his of his devotion to Allah. That person is themselves in and always have a positive stems from faith and has a Allah has promised believers an auspi- good manners, modesty, compassionate patient solely because that value will be impact. This harmonious, calming, posi- profound impact on the soul. It cious outcome when they respond to evil affection and loving behaviour. He never pleasing to Allah. Allah reveals that He tive, warm and relaxing character that Ttakes hard work to possess that with good. He notes that even if there replies to bad words with bad words of will twice reward this superior patience believers exhibit to those around them love. The concept of love in the Quran is a state of enmity between them and his own. He never responds to mockery people exhibit regarding living by the out of their love of Allah is an excellent encapsulates the concepts of self-sacri- the other person, a warm friendship or anger with mockery or anger of his moral values of the Quran: “They will sign of a believer. fice, patience, generosity, care and pro- can still emerge. This is also a require- own. He always responds to offensive be given their reward twice over because Allah reveals in the Quran how He has tection. Our Lord reveals in the Quran ment of believers’ conception of love and behavior with a tolerance, compassion they have been steadfast and because created the blessing of love for believers: that responding to evil and evil words in compassion. and love that serves to embarrass the they ward off the bad with the good “As for those who believe and do right the finest possible manner and treating When they see that the other party other party and make them want to and give from what we have provided actions, the All-Merciful will bestow His people well represents the basis of love. is behaving badly and in a manner dis- behave better. He is always calm and for them.” (Quran 28:54) love on them.” (Quran, 19:96) If you ask people across the world, the pleasing to Allah, they first think that moderate in the face of anger. The true source of the love for other majority will probably say they “know this behavior is a danger to that person Of course, this behavior on the part SIGNS OF A BELIEVER people that believers feel in their hearts all about love and loving” and that they in terms of the hereafter and approach of a believer has an entirely rational Almost everyone will come across is their love of Allah. Knowing that Allah “love a great many people.” But the that person with tolerance and modesty, dimension; it never puts him in a posi- loveless and ruthless people in their lives. created the joy they feel in their hearts fact is that only very, very few people avoiding pride and arrogance, and adopt tion whereby he can come to harm. He These people are unaffected by almost and that Allah is manifested in all things know love and how to love. What people a humble way of speaking. They never never allows himself or other believers everything that goes on or is said around is the true source of profound human love. imagine to be “love” is actually a feeling adopt the logic of “The person in error to come to any harm or to suffer any them and use a harsh form of language. Allah has created human beings with rather more like infatuation. or who does wrong must be the first to wrong. But with his good behavior he There is no doubt that it is none other “souls,” in contrast to all other living The passage of time makes it quite apologize” or “To hell with them,” an also preaches the moral virtues com- than Satan who leads these people to things. Therefore, and again in contrast clear that this feeling is not love at all. attitude common among people who do manded by the faith. And by adopting lovelessness and ruthlessness. Satan to all other living things, the effect that True love is an emotion based on the not live by Quranic moral values. the moral values beloved of Allah, he does not want people to have good con- the riches in one’s soul will have on love and approval of Allah, that never They know that Allah will approve of tries to attract the other party toward science or to be rational, submissive, another person will also be different. diminishes no matter how much time the behavior of whoever behaves well, religious moral values. grateful, tolerant, pleased with Allah’s The love that everyone experiences goes by, that can withstand time, dif- and that to respond to evil with good However, we must also not forget that creation, full of love and showing moral is directly proportional to the beauty in ficulties, flaws and errors and that is is the behavior most compatible with someone else behaving badly is no excuse virtue to those around them. one’s soul. The more traits deserving of always growing. the moral values of the Quran. For that for exhibiting poor moral values oneself. Yet Almighty Allah has created love and respect one has, the more people reason, they regard humility as gaining Everyone is individually and ultimately human nature to make things easy and will love and respect them. In the same RESPOND EVIL WITH GOOD them something rather than a source responsible to Allah for his actions. put others at their ease, so people will way, the more sensitive one is to the traits In the Quran, Allah commands people of loss. Believers may encounter all Being able to respond to bad behavior sacrifice themselves if necessary, do this deserving of love and respect in other peo- to respond to evil with good: “A good kinds of people during their lives. But with affection, compassion, moral vir- without letting the other party know, ple, the more one will see such beauties action and a bad action are not the same. they never alter their moral conception tue and love is, according to the Quran, to adapt to all legitimate things and to in others and love and respect them in Repel the bad with something better on the basis of other people’s behavior. a sign of superior morality because be full of love. Believers, who use this proportion. www.arabnews.com FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Shell kills Saudi soldier on Kuwait court frees Yemen border

RIYADH: A Saudi Arabian soldier has been killed in shell- 11 in mosque attack ing on the border with Yemen, the military said late on Wednesday, adding to a rising Main suspect renews confession at second hearing toll in the kingdom’s south over the past week. KUWAIT CITY: A Kuwaiti worst in the history of the oil-rich The group has said it was “He was hit by a projectile in court trying 29 suspects in a Gulf state. behind a July 16 car bomb that the sector of Jizan,” a Saudi bor- deadly bomb attack on a Shia Although the public prosecu- exploded at a security checkpoint der district, said a statement from mosque freed 11 defendants yes- tion has not released the offi- near a prison in the Saudi capi- the Saudi-led coalition which has terday, while the main accused cial charge sheets, a number tal Riyadh, killing the driver and been bombing rebels in Yemen for said he had been told worship- of defendants stand accused of wounding two policemen. more than four months in sup- pers would not be harmed. belonging to a banned group and Officials identified the driver as port of exiled President Abdrabuh A travel ban, however, remains taking part in the bombing. a 19-year-old Saudi man and said Mansur Hadi. in place on the freed defendants, Saud also confessed to having he had killed his uncle, a colonel, On Sunday a civilian died when including two women. Of the 29 transported the explosive belt before blowing himself up on a a shell from Yemen hit his house initial suspects, five have gone on from near the border with Saudi road near Al Hair prison, a high in Najran, another area along the trial in absentia. Arabia where two Saudi brothers, security facility. Saudi border. Abdulrahman Sabah Saud, the currently held in the kingdom, IS said the attack was a mes- And last Friday rocket fire main suspect, renewed his confes- had left it. sage to jihadists held at Al Hair from Yemen killed three soldiers sion at the second hearing that Seven Kuwaitis, five Saudis, that they had not been forgotten. and a paramilitary along the he transported the Saudi sui- three Pakistanis, 13 stateless Two days later, Saudi Arabia frontier, in the deadliest such cide bomber to the Kuwait City Arabs known as bidoon and said it had broken up an IS-linked incident for several weeks. mosque attacked in June. another unnamed person at large network and arrested more than The cross-border barrages But Saud insisted he was told were charged with involvement 430 suspects involved in attacks coincide with advances since late by the suicide bomber, Fahad Al in the attack. An IS-affiliated and plots. July by anti-rebel fighters who Qaba’a, he would only blow up the group calling itself Najd The interior minister said the recaptured the southern city of mosque after it was emptied of Province claimed the Kuwait suspects had plotted attacks on Aden from the Iran-backed Huthi worshippers. City bombing as well as suicide an unidentified diplomatic mis- rebels. The prosecutor played footage attacks at two Shia mosques in sion and mosques, including On Tuesday they also took taken by security cameras show- Saudi Arabia in May. one used by security forces in back the Al Anad airbase north ing Saud driving the car with the The Sunni extremist IS con- Riyadh. of Aden, using heavy armour sup- bomber seated next to him, before siders Shias, minorities in both In the southwestern city of Taif plied by the coalition after hun- he dropped him off and left. Gulf states, to be heretics and has on July 3, a policeman was gunned The Governor of Saudi Arabia’s Asir Province, Prince Faisal bin Khalid (left), dreds of Gulf Arab troops landed Saud, a stateless Arab, said the targeted them across the region. down during a raid in which visiting one of the soldiers injured in a suicide bombing attack on a mosque in the port city to bolster the footage was genuine and recog- An IS suicide bomber yesterday three people were arrested and in Abha city, the capital of Asir, yesterday. fightback by local forces opposed nized the bomber in the video. detonated an explosives-packed IS flags found. The IS-affiliate rebel groups. The court set August 10 for the vest in a mosque inside a Saudi Najd Province, apart from the targeted a mosque at the head- bin Abdulmohsen Al Turki con- The Saudi soldier brings the next hearing in the trial over the special forces headquarters kill- attacks in Eastern Province, also quarters of the special emergency demned the terrorist crime car- number of people killed in shell- June 26 bombing that killed 26 ing 15 people. IS has committed claimed a suicide bombing that forces in Asir resulting in the ried out by a deviant group. ing and skirmishes along the people and wounded hundreds of atrocities in Syria and Iraq, where killed 26 people at a Shiite mosque martyrdom of a number of them He expressed deeply sorrow Saudi frontier with Yemen to at others. it controls swathes of territories, in Kuwait in June. and the injury of others. that this rogue and corrupted least 50 since the coalition cam- On Tuesday, Saud told the court and expanded across the region, Meanwhile, the General In a statement issued by group is going on its criminal acts paign began on March 26. Most of he was a member of the Islamic claiming responsibility for a wave Secretariat of the Muslim World the MWL Secretary General and being far away from the true the casualties have been soldiers. State jihadist group that claimed of deadly attacks from Libya to League (MWL) has condemned and the member of Council of teachings of Islam. AFP responsibility for the attack, the Kuwait. the terrorist bombing which Senior Scholars Dr Abdullah AFP

Tunisia frees Warring South Sudan rivals restart talks museum attack

ADDIS ABABA: South Intergovernmental Authority on government in Juba had “lost all travel bans and asset freezes. held in luxury Ethiopia hotels, suspects Sudan’s rival forces began peace Development. South Sudan’s civil legitimacy” while his government After the collapse of the Kiir, Machar and their entourages TUNIS: Eight people arrested talks yesterday, as interna- war began in December 2013 when counterpart, Nhial Deng Nhial, last round of talks, mediators have run up millions of dollars in over a deadly attack on Tunisia’s tional pressure mounts ahead of President Salva Kiir accused his was dismissive of proposals that expanded involvement to create expenses while failing to sign a National Bardo Museum have an August 17 deadline to strike former deputy Riek Machar of he said put Machar on a level an “IGAD-plus” group. single lasting agreement. been freed, including a man a deal to end 19 months of civil planning a coup, setting off a cycle footing with Kiir. It now also includes the United At least seven ceasefires have named at the time as a key sus- war. of retaliatory killings that has Regional mediators, backed Nations, five more African Union been agreed and then broken pect, the justice minister said The conflict has left tens of split the poverty-stricken, land- by US President Barack Obama nations from across the continent within days, if not hours. yesterday. thousands dead and has been locked country along ethnic lines. during his recent visit to Kenya — Algeria, Chad, Nigeria, Rwanda At home, South Sudan’s bishops “Seven people were released marked by widespread atrocities “We have not been able to count and Ethiopia, have given Kiir and and South Africa — as well as have called on leaders to put the on Wednesday and another one on both sides. the number of dead,” Seyoum said. Machar until August 17 to halt China and the “Troika”: Britain, fate of the country before their today,” Justice Minister Mohamed “We have now reached a criti- Diplomats have said repeatedly the civil war. Norway and the US. pursuit of power and settle a deal. Saleh Ben Aissa said. cal juncture whereby participants that patience has run out over the Kiir and Machar, who are Norwegian diplomat Jens- “There is no moral justifica- He said a magistrate had of this phase will make decisions country’s civil war. expected to appear later in the Peter Kjemprud, speaking for the tion for this senseless war,” the ordered the releases but would that may impact the destiny of “You have had enough time to process, effectively face an ultima- Troika, warned the parties of the influential Council of Churches, not say on what grounds or how the people of South Sudan,” chief consult, since the proposals are tum, a “final best offer,” according need to strike a deal. a coalition including all the key many remained in custody over mediator Seyoum Mesfin said at the very same issues that you to one senior US administration “You have the opportunity to Protestant and Roman Catholic the March 18 attack in Tunis, an opening ceremony. have been discussing for the last official. resolve outstanding issues before bishops, said in statement. during which two young Tunisians Delegates met in the Ethiopia 19 months,” Seyoum said. Failure to strike a deal could August 17,” he said. “If not, the “It is unacceptable that people gunned down 21 foreign tourists capital Addis Ababa, under But the mood was far from lead to a range of punitive meas- international community will look continue to kill and be killed while and a policeman before being shot mediation from the regional friendly, with chief rebel nego- ures including an arms embargo at new ways to resolve the con- leaders argue over power, posi- dead. eight-nation bloc IGAD, the tiator Taban Deng saying the and targeted sanctions, including flict.” During previous peace talks tions and percentages.” AFP AFP

Explosion kills 4, wounds 30 at Gaza house GAZA CITY: An explosion that ripped through a house in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday killed four people and wounded dozens, an official said, but the cause of the blast was unclear. “Four Palestinians were killed and 30 others wounded” in a blast inside a house in Al Shabura (refugee) camp near Rafah, Gaza health minis- try spokesman Ashraf Al Israeli forensic policemen and security forces inspect the scene of a car attack at a junction midway between Qudra said, updating an Ramallah and Nablus in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory yesterday. earlier toll of two. Qudra said four of the wounded were in a serious condition. Palestinian motorist shot after Officials in the Palestinian territory said an investigation was ramming into Israeli troops underway to determine the cause. Ezzedine Al Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military JERUSALEM: A Palestinian links. Two of the injured soldiers stalled since April 2014, grass- wing, mourned in a state- motorist injured three Israeli were in critical condition and the roots violence has simmered ment the death of group soldiers in a ramming attack third was lightly hurt, an Israeli in the West Bank and adjacent member Abdel Rahman in the occupied West Bank ambulance service said. East Jerusalem, among territories Abu Naqira, who was yesterday and was then shot A Palestinian medic at the Israel captured in the 1967 Middle “martyred in the acciden- and wounded by troops, secu- scene said the motorist, aged 40, East war and where Palestinians tal explosion.” rity sources said. Israeli Prime was seriously wounded after being seek statehood. The Gaza Strip, ruled Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shot three times and overturn- Last Friday, Jewish attackers by Islamist movement referred to the incident as ter- ing his car. A Palestinian secu- torched a Palestinian home in the Hamas, has seen three rorism. It was not immediately rity source identified him as a West Bank, killing an 18-month- wars with Israel in the clear if the Palestinian, who was resident of a West Bank village old boy and seriously injuring his last six years. in Israeli custody, had militant near Jerusalem. With peace talks parents and brother. REUTERS AFP FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE DISCOVERY of the debris purportedly from the MH370 aircraft is raising more questions than answers about the tragedy that took place 16 months Tago. The disappearance of the MH370 aircraft over the South China Sea in March last year took the aviation world by storm and experts were left scratching their heads about Obama’s plan to create a the whereabouts of the Boeing 777 even months after scouring the seas for clues. A multinational probe kept groping in the dark for months till the discovery of a part of a wing washed up on Reunion Island. Later, parts of a suitcase were also found washed up on the island. virtual Palestinian state The Malaysian transport minister yesterday confirmed that more debris — aluminium foil and the window pane of an BY AARON DAVID MILLER the fall, the administration’s priority Obama and Netanyahu, and between aircraft — has been found but refused to confirm it was from is selling the Iran deal. But that could Netanyahu and Abbas, this seems like MH370. In the immediate aftermath of the crash, Malaysian n case you hadn’t noticed, there is be a temporary stand down. Israeli- a remote possibility. authorities were accused of giving conflicting information no Israeli-Palestinian peace proc- Palestinian peace has always been a That leaves one alternative — Iess and no prospect of starting presidential priority: Two days after embracing the terms of a two-state about the tragedy by relatives of victims whose troubles were one — at least one that would lead to his inauguration, he appointed George solution either as a unilateral US ini- compounded caught as they were between a lackadaisical Kuala an agreement between Israel and the Mitchell as his special envoy on the tiative act, the so-called Obama param- Lumpur and an unyielding Beijing. The tragedy also led to a Palestinians on core issues like borders peace process. You’d have to go back to eters, or as a multilateral act in the low in ties between the two countries. anytime soon. Amid increasing violence Jimmy Carter to find a president willing form of a UN Security Council reso- During the 16-month wait, relatives of victims went from on the West Bank, Prime Minister to invest so quickly in the Arab-Israeli lution. The point would be to put the grief to anxiety to desperation. Amid a deluge of press reports Benjamin Netanyahu and President issue. The president came out pushing United States on record reaffirming the Mahmoud Abbas are not suddenly about for a comprehensive freeze on settle- basic elements of a two-state solution. pointing to numerous causes that could have led to the aircraft to discover mutual trust or a shared ments, called for an agreement within a The longstanding UN Resolution 242, going missing one hour into flight, some looked for closure vision. Asked in a recent interview what year and empowered more than a year adopted in 1967, blesses a trade of ter- while others kept hoping for outlandish theories to come true kind of Middle East he wanted to leave of intensive efforts by his secretary of ritory for peace, but the update would for finding their relatives. to his successors, President Barack state to secure one. Although his tac- enshrine more detail about the basic Now, Malaysia and French Obama didn’t even mention the Israeli- tics have not always paid off, he was terms for a deal. Indeed the French and Palestinian issue. clearly devoted to a two-state strategy. key Arab states already have a draft. authorities in Toulouse verifying Discovery of The president And Obama’s list of recent accomplish- Whether the administration could debris thought the wing part are giving conflicting has certainly ments — Trade Promotion Authority, get the Palestinians on board or trade information. This has made relatives sobered on the Cuban rapprochement, the Iran deal, such a resolution to get them to stand to be from the of the 239 passengers, most of them issue and lowered climate-change regulations — suggest down on their international campaign who were Chinese, angry. They are Israeli-Palestinian his expectations. that he is hardly preparing to coast out at the ICC to bring war-crimes charges missing airliner protesting outside the Beijing office peace has always Gone are the of office. against Israel is unclear. And this hopes of an actual He is not the only one animated by maneuver wouldn’t create an actual of Malaysia Airlines with placards been a presidential stoke tempers agreement on dream of Israeli-Palestinian peace. sovereign Palestinian state. But if the seeking the ‘truth’. Malaysian Prime priority: Two final status. But Kerry, too, cares deeply and has spoken administration officials can’t leave two of victims’ Minister Najib Razak yesterday days after his that doesn’t mean often about it during his time in the states as a real legacy, then they’ll try said it is “conclusively confirmed” inauguration, Obama Obama or his sec- Senate. While he hasn’t talked recently to promote a virtual one. families. the flaperon was from the lost retary of state about the subject, thanks to his focus on Should the administration pursue MH370, but French investigators refused to confirm it, saying appointed George have abandoned the Iran deal, he also rejected the notion the higher profile more risky UN route, Mitchell as his the idea alto- that peace is a pipe dream in December the Israelis and many in Congress will it was highly likely. They also said no new debris was found, gether, according 2014, months after another failed peace cry foul and argue that the Obama contradicting the Malaysian transport minister’s statement. special envoy on to administra- initiative. Obama’s remaining year in administration is prejudging the terms Relatives are livid at conflicting reports emerging about the the peace process. tion sources and office is a long time. And recent violence of a final-status agreement. But time’s airliner even after the discovery of the debris, which should You’d have to go European dip- in the West Bank reveals an uneasy sta- running out and, once the Iran deal have prompted authorities to concentrate in scouring the sea lomats who talk tus quo that could explode at any time is done, alienating an Israeli prime back to Jimmy to them. Even if — not an outcome the president would minister who has opposed key Middle around Reunion more extensively. Instead of making off the Carter to find a progress means want to hover over his departure in East initiatives (Iran, peace) is prob- cuff remarks, Malaysia should have waited for conclusive proof more tension January 2017, which means Kerry could ably not going to keep the president and then try to put it across to the relatives of victims, who president willing to with Israel’s spend the next year devoted to some- up at night. would understandably be very sensitive to any information invest so quickly prime minister, thing significant. It’s a lonely and not particularly pro- related to the disaster that changed their lives. in the Arab-Israeli the White House The options do look pretty bleak. The ductive play, but it’s the only one left. Some relatives believe Malaysia is rushing to conclusions to is determined to notion of an agreement between Abbas Based on my 20 years working on the issue. keep trying. And and Netanyahu on the core issues, like peace process, doing something rather wash its hands off the matter. Others suspect the authenticity if the only way Jerusalem or 1967 borders, seem remote. than nothing seems to be the American of the plane part found, saying that it could be fake and only to improve the status quo is to change Nor will Israel seize the initiative to default position. It won’t be long before the discovery of the bodies will satisfy them. It is hard for the it himself, say those sources who are withdraw from parts of the West Bank. the White House returns to form. relatives to believe anything the authorities, especially the familiar with the administration’s Building on his 2013-2014 initiative, Aaron David Miller, a vice-president at Malaysian government, says. thinking on this problem, then that’s Kerry could explore (again) with Israel the Wilson Center, served as a Middle East Considering the sensitivity of the issue, the Malaysian what Obama will have to do. They have and the Palestinians what it would take adviser in Republican and Democratic even suggested as much publicly. to get a serious negotiation up and run- administrations. government should desist from commenting till information is Right now and perhaps well into ning. But given the mistrust between WP-BLOOMBERG proved to be true beyond doubt• The other side Quote of Supreme Court judgement the day OWING to the supremacy Amendment expires in 2016. Yesterday can be challenged in court. None of that, The law minister, Pervaiz Rashid, is of parliament and express was certainly bittersweet: the SC did though, will address a two-fold challenge really the information minister given the language of the Constitution, the right thing in allowing the will of par- that the country faces as a result of its additional portfolio because the prime the Supreme Court of Pakistan liament to prevail, but it was the will of elected representatives choosing the minister is determined to retain Zahid It would be best to Bhas dismissed the challenges to the 18th parliament itself that was flawed — no profoundly undemocratic path of military Hamid, who the government has been seize this historic and 21st Amendments. Effectively, then, democratic system should ever have courts: reforming the criminal justice sys- ordered to indict on treason by the spe- the new military court system designed military courts in the manner and for the tem on an urgent basis and ensuring that cial court handling the Musharraf case, opportunity to win the to try civilian terrorism suspects in virtual reasons they have been foisted on the the life of the new military courts is not as a key legal adviser. valuable trust of the secrecy and approved by a two-thirds country by the military leadership after extended again for any reason whatso- Hamid, meanwhile, has been tasked majority of both houses of parliament in the Peshawar carnage last December. ever in 2016, when the sunset clause in with shepherding electoral reforms Iranian people, which January will resume functioning. Prison The judgment itself, nearly a thousand the 21st Amendment will go into effect. through parliament, while other special has been damaged sentences and even the death penalty pages long and in two languages, will Unhappily, the law ministry seems assistants of the prime minister deal with handed down by such courts will, if be closely examined in the days ahead uniquely ill-equipped — even in com- legislative matters on an ad hoc basis. through decades of upheld on appeal, be implemented. and will have far-reaching implications parison to the lack of full-time, ministe- It is hardly a recipe for any government hostile and wrong The country is set to have a parallel for a range of issues, from the basic fea- rial leadership and dysfunction in other to tackle the profoundly difficult job of policies by the United judicial system for all intents and pur- ture/basic structure doctrine to whether key ministries such as foreign affairs and criminal justice reform. Mohammad Javad Zarif poses until the sunset clause in the 21st future amendments to the Constitution defence — to lead from the front. DAWN States. Iranian Foreign Minister FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Iran’s Parchin nuclear site in focus again

illicit nuclear weapons developments According to the there.” Coons said he was most concerned about the integrity of the IAEA inspec- overall nuclear tion process going forward and not as concerned about figuring out what hap- agreement, pened in the site in the past: “We know what the Iranians did at Parchin.” sanctions relief David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security, obtained a commercially avail- for Iran can come able image of the Parchin site taken by satellites on July 26 that shows renewed only after the IAEA activity at the Parchin site. He told us there are two new large vehicles, altera- tions ongoing to roofs of two of the build- and Iran resolve ings, new structures near three of the buildings, and new objects casting long their outstanding shadows near the building alleged to have contained the explosive chamber. “You have to worry that this could be concerns about an attempt by Iran to defeat the sam- pling, that it’s Iran’s last-ditch effort to possible military eradicate evidence there,” he said. “The day is coming when they are going to have to let the IAEA into Parchin, so they may dimensions of past be desperate to finish sanitising the site.” The facility, outside of Tehran, first and current work. came to the attention of the international community in 2004 when news reports BY JOSH ROGIN and ELI LAKE surfaced that it was being used to test explosives for a nuclear warhead. he US intelligence community A 2007 US National Intelligence has informed Congress of evi- Assessment concluded that Iran halted dence that Iran was sanitising this kind of work in 2003. Between 2005 Tits suspected nuclear military and today, Iran has allowed IAEA inspec- site at Parchin, in broad daylight, days tors access to Parchin — a vast complex after agreeing to a nuclear deal with with dozens of buildings — on only five world powers. occasions. In 2012, Albright’s group For senior lawmakers in both par- This August 13, 2004 DigitalGlobe satellite image received from the Institute for Science and International Security shows a view of reported on satellite imagery that it said ties, the evidence calls into question suspect military facilities within Parchin, Iran. showed efforts to clean up evidence of an Iran’s intention to fully account for the explosives testing chamber there. possible military dimensions of its cur- US senators said. “I am familiar with it,” that the IAEA had the technical means agreement, sanctions relief for Iran Representative Ed Royce, the rent and past nuclear development. The Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman to detect past nuclear work anyway. can come only after the IAEA and Iran Republican chairman of the House International Atomic Energy Agency Richard Burr told us Tuesday. “I think Another administration official resolve their outstanding concerns about Foreign Affairs Committee, said that and Iran have a side agreement meant to it’s up to the administration to draw their explained that this was in part because possible military dimensions of past Amano had told him in recent conver- resolve past suspicions about the Parchin conclusions. Hopefully this is something any trace amounts of enriched uranium and current work. But the agreement sations that the IAEA had “thousands site, and lawmakers’ concerns about it they will speak on, since it is in many could not be fully removed between now does not specify how the issue must be of pages of documentations on tests to has already become a flashpoint because ways verified by commercial imagery. and October 15, the deadline for Iran to resolved, only that it be resolved to the weaponise a nuclear device.” Royce added, they do not have access to its text. And their actions seem to be against the grant access and answer remaining ques- IAEA’s satisfaction. “For a long time, they have been alter- Intelligence officials and lawmakers grain of the agreement.” tions from the IAEA about Parchin. Several senior lawmakers, including ing sites.” who have seen the new evidence, which Burr said Iran’s activities at Parchin Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democrats, are concerned that Iran will The IAEA has documented this as well. is still classified, told us that satellite complicate the work of the IAEA inspec- Chairman Bob Corker told us on Tuesday be able to collect its own soil samples at The agency’s report from May 29 this year imagery picked up by US government tors who are set to examine the site in that while Iran’s activity at Parchin last Parchin with only limited supervision, a said there was satellite imagery of vehi- assets in mid- and late July showed that the coming months. IAEA’s director gen- month isn’t technically a violation of the practice several lawmakers have com- cles, equipment and “probable construc- Iran had moved bulldozers and other eral, Yukiya Amano, was in Washington agreement it signed with the US and pared to giving suspected drug users the tion materials” at Parchin. The report heavy machinery to the Parchin site on Wednesday to brief lawmakers behind other powers, it does call into question benefit of the doubt to submit specimens said, “The activities that have taken place and that the US intelligence community closed doors about the side agreements. Iran’s intention to be forthright about unsupervised. Iran’s sanitisation of the at this location since February 2012 are concluded with high confidence that the “They are certainly not going to see the possible military dimensions of its site further complicates that verification. likely to have undermined the Agency’s Iranian government was working to clean the site that existed. Whether that’s a nuclear program. Democratic Senator Chris Coons, ability to conduct effective verification.” up the site ahead of planned inspections site that can be determined what it did, The intel briefing was troubling to me a member of the Foreign Relations Secretary of State John Kerry has said by the IAEA. only the technical experts can do that,” … some of the things that are happening, Committee, told us on Tuesday that this that the US government has “absolute The intelligence community shared Burr said. “I think it’s a huge concern.” especially happening in such a blatant area is part of why he is undecided on knowledge” about what Iran has done in its findings with lawmakers and some A senior intelligence official, when way,” he said. “Iran is going to know that supporting the Iran deal. the past. Ahead of the vote on the agree- congressional staff late last week, four asked about the satellite imagery, told us we know.” He added the new information “I have concerns about the vigorous ment next month, many lawmakers don’t people who have seen the evidence the IAEA was also familiar with what he gave him “a lot of concerns” about Iran efforts by Iran to sanitise Parchin,” he share Kerry’s confidence. Iran would told us. The Office of the Director of called “sanitisation efforts” since the deal coming clean on military dimensions of said. “I’ve gotten some reassurance about seem to have its doubts as well, since it’s National Intelligence briefed lawmak- was reached in Vienna, but that the US its nuclear work. how difficult it is for them to effectively still trying to cover its tracks. ers about the evidence on Monday, three government and its allies had confidence According to the overall nuclear conceal what we know to have been their BLOOMBERG Killing big game for Facebook fame Green city roofs can

BY CAITLIN DEWEY the Internet. Needless to say, this all vexes benefit environment abrina Corgatelli is not conservationists, who’d much a “name” of any kind in rather see a very different agenda BY MARK R TERCEK and runoff, significantly reducing Sthe hunting community. rack up Facebook likes. Writing DOUGLAS B PETNO storm-water pollution. At the She doesn’t have a show on the in Yale’s Environment 360 blog same time, they provide wildlife Outdoor Channel or feature in in 2011, the journalist and con- he extreme rainstorms habitat, flood protection, green Field & Stream. By day, in fact, servationist Caroline Fraser fret- that strike with increasing space, and cleaner air and water. the middle-aged Idaho mother ted that social media users would Tfrequency — such as the The trick, in a time of tight works in the accounting depart- never substantively rally around Memorial Day weekend down- city budgets, is to attract pri- ment of Idaho State. climate change, biodiversity or pours in Texas — are having dev- vate investment to build green But thanks to some photos of conservation the way they’d ral- astating effects beyond the severe infrastructure. a dead giraffe that she posted lied around topics like Farmville. flooding they cause. Sudden and And this is not so hard to do. to her own Facebook fan page, Or, you know, Kendall Jones’s lat- forceful rains overwhelm urban Consider the progress that’s been Corgatelli is now a bona fide, self- est, photogenic kill. storm-drain systems, as water made in Washington, DC, where made hunting celebrity. (Or, as “There are people deeply dis- pours over roads, rooftops and urban storm-water runoff is the one of the many petitions against connected from mainstream other impervious surfaces, wash- fastest-growing contributor to her phrases it, “a wannabe famous thought who continue to believe ing away dust, oil, trash and waste pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. personality.”) that it’s acceptable . . . to go on of all kinds. This dirty wash then The District’s government has We know, of course, that social head-hunting expeditions for runs into rivers, streams and created a new marketplace in media has fundamentally changed some of the rarest and most lakes, and pollutes downstream which green infrastructure is a the nature of celebrity and fame. majestic animals in the world,” drinking water. tradable asset. Property owners We’ve seen that in film, music and Wayne Pacelle, the president and Storm water has become a who build green roofs, rain gar- fashion, certainly. But the recent CEO of the Humane Society of principal contributor to water dens and the like are given credits People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) protesters hold pictures controversies around Corgatelli the United States, said in a state- pollution in the US, according they can sell to others who need to of Cecil the Lion as they stand in front of the Department of Interior and the lion-hunter Walter ment to The Washington Post. to the Environmental Protection offset the runoff from their devel- Palmer have lifted the veil on building to protest against the importing of wild game killed as trophies, “Their social media grandstand- Agency. More than 700 US cities opments. The system is designed a corner of Internet fame that in Washington, DC. ing is self-incriminating.” use combined storm-water and to increase water collection less many of us don’t regularly see: has since posted a steady stream Bachman and Kristy Titus. Sure enough, while the likes on sewer systems, and many are expensively than traditional It’s the cult of big-game hunting, of deerstand selfies and archery Despite the fact that those two Corgatelli’s Facebook page may now overwhelmed by the pollution approaches and to support green- where Facebook glory is as easy memes. (“Hunting is relaxing like have cable TV shows, they boast be skyrocketing, the comment- problem. When their overflows infrastructure entrepreneurs. If as posting a photo of your latest yoga,” one of them reads, “except fewer than 60,000 combined fol- ers have little besides insults, foul nearby waterways, these cit- the effort works as it’s supposed trophy. I get to kill something.”) lowers, to Jones’s 800,000. threats and jeers. Of the 32,000 ies face federal legal action under to, additional community benefits In the week since Corgatelli And in the year since Texas None of this is terribly surpris- comments on her giraffe photo, the Clean Water Act, and pen- will follow, from improved health posted the giraffe she downed in cheerleader Kendall Jones out- ing, of course. Facebook and hunt- all the top ones include some alties that range from millions to increased property values. South Africa, her page likes have raged the Internet with her own ing are an unusually perfect fit. variation of “what’s wrong with of dollars in fines to billions in Other cities should follow skyrocketed nearly 4,000 percent: lion kill, she’s hunted/Facebook- The sport is inherently graphic, you” and “you’re a psychopath.” mandated spending on traditional Washington’s lead. The key is to from a paltry 500 likes to more trolled her way to 800,000 fol- and the Internet lives for images. Several petitions have called for equipment such as pipes, tanks give developers the incentive to than 21,000. lowers and sponsorships with To sweeten the deal, there are Corgatelli to lose her hunting and treatment plants. capture all the rainfall on their But Corgatelli is not the first or four firearms companies. She has few issues so highly politicised, permits or her job; one vigilante As more and more people property, but offer flexibility in only hunter to achieve fame this taken the line out of her Twitter and so keenly felt — which makes posted Corgatelli’s work number, move from rural areas to cities compliance. It helps to designate way. She’s preceded by the likes bio that said she was “looking to the pages and posts of self-made along with that of her boss. — by 2050, cities worldwide are a municipal chief sustainability of Mark Martineau, the big-game host a TV show in 2015;” either hunting celebs uniquely shareable. “We are seeing the tide turn expected to have 2.5 billion more officer who can get various city hunter and Facebook provocateur the chance never materialised, or The barriers to entry aren’t squarely against African safaris people than they have now — the agencies to work together in sup- who recently bagged a sponsor- Jones has realised that Facebook terribly high, either, for those that target lions, elephants and problem will only worsen. port of green infrastructure. New ship gig with Mathews Archery fame is almost as profitable, and already involved in the sport. other creatures,” Pacelle said. The solution, fortunately, is Orleans, Austin, Chicago and Los — in addition to a warthog, impala equally satisfying. If you’ve already shelled out But if that’s true, we have to rather simple: Constructed wet- Angeles are among the cities that and wildebeest. Or Jen Cordaro, She’s certainly better-followed $50,000 in safari fees, and $5,000 wonder: Why are so many people lands, green roofs, rain gardens have made such appointments, the San Diego PhD who launched than more conventional hunting for equipment, you might as well still “liking” them? and other forms of “green infra- and more are likely to follow. her official fan page in 2014 and personalities, such as Melissa put the so-called hero shots on WP-BLOOMBERG structure” can capture and slow BLOOMBERG FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Iran slams ‘threats of Soaring mercury coercion’ policy of US Use this opportunity to win trust of the Iranians: Zarif

ANKARA: Iran said yesterday “alternatives to military actions because of the the nuclear dea, the United States should seize will have been exhausted once echoing comments made by Iran’s the opportunity created by a we reject a hard-won diplomatic top authorities, Supreme Leader nuclear deal reached between solution that the world almost Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the country and six major pow- unanimously supports.” President Hassan Rouhani. ers to change what it called US Congress has until “The Islamic Republic of Iran a foreign policy of “threats of September 17 to vote on the deal. will continue its support to its coercion”. If it passes and survives a presi- friends and regional allies against “The use of threats of coer- dential veto, a resolution rejecting common threats and has repeat- cion as a foreign policy will give it would cripple the agreement edly announced its readiness to no other result than damaging by eliminating Obama’s ability to cooperate ... for establishment America’s reputation and wast- waive many sanctions. of peace in the region and the ing American resources,” state Obama said blocking the deal world,” Zarif said. news agency Irna quoted Foreign would accelerate Tehran’s path to Iran’s regional Sunni rival Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif a nuclear bomb and severely dam- Saudi Arabia and several other as saying in reaction to remarks age America’s credibility. Gulf Arab countries have long by US President Barack Obama. Iran has always denied accu- accused Shia power Iran of Iran and the six major powers sations its nuclear programme interference, alleging financial reached a deal on July 14 after went beyond energy projects and or armed support for political over 18 months of negotiations medical research and could yield movements in countries includ- aimed at curbing the Islamic nuclear weapons. ing Bahrain, Yemen and Lebanon. republic’s nuclear programme in “It would be best to use this Iran denies interference but return for lifting economic sanc- historic opportunity to win the has pledged support for the tions imposed on Tehran. valuable trust of the Iranian Syrian and Iraqi governments, Defending the deal with Iran nation,” Zarif said. which are both fighting insurgen- Iraqis cool off under a public shower at a street in central Baghdad yesterday. Media reported that the tempera- against criticism from political He said Iran would not change cies by Sunni armed groups. ture rose to more than 45 degrees Celsius amid frequent power cuts that partially lasted throughout the day. opponents and Israel, Obama said: its policies in the Middle East AFP Anti-Iran drive strains US ties, isolates Israel: President JERUSALEM: Israel’s president A former right-wing politician with two sides were equal and this is liable to defended the agreement as a “hard-won not, or would not, speak up for them- suggested yesterday that Prime a history of strained ties to the prime hurt Israel. “I must say that he under- diplomatic solution” that has gained selves - those days are over,” Netanyahu Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has minister, Rivlin has voiced his own stands the United States better than I almost unanimous international support. said, cautioning the nuclear deal would been overzealous in opposing the reservations about the deal but put it do, but, nonetheless, we are largely iso- Obama acknowledged his administra- not do enough to curb Iranian atomic Iran nuclear deal, opening a “battle- in a wider diplomatic context in the lated in the world,” Rivlin said in some tion’s split with projects with bomb-making potential. front” with Washington and isolat- interviews. of his most critical comments about Netanyahu, who has called the deal In a third interview, this one with the ing his country. “I am very worried about the battle- Netanyahu’s strategy on the Iranian issue a threat to Israel’s survival and urged Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Rivlin urged Reuven Rivlin, who holds the largely front that has opened up between (U.S. since becoming president a year ago. Congress to oppose the accord. But he the prime minister to patch up his rela- ceremonial head of state post, argued President Barack) Obama and Netanyahu “I have told him (Netanyahu), and I’m said that the Israeli leader, though sin- tionship with Obama. in three separate newspaper inter- and the (state of) relations between the telling him again, that struggles, even cere, was wrong. “I think they have very similar per- views that Netanyahu’s vigorous cam- United States and Israel,” he told the those that are just, can ultimately come Netanyahu, in a webcast to US Jewish sonalities ... and it’s not good for them to paign against last month’s nuclear deal Maariv newspaper. at Israel’s expense,” the president told groups on Tuesday, said it was his duty annoy each other at the expense of the between world powers and Iran could “The prime minister has waged a cam- the Haaretz daily. to make Israel’s position heard. United States and Israel,” he said. ultimately hurt Israel. paign against the United States as if the In a speech on Wednesday, Obama “The days when the Jewish people could REUTERS

More than UN to host new round 240,000 killed in Syria conflict, of Libya peace talks TRIPOLI: Libyan peace talks are to resume next week as UN says monitor envoy Bernardino Leon presses on with efforts to strike a politi- cal settlement between the country’s rival factions, his office said BEIRUT: More than 240,000 yesterday. people, including 12,000 chil- The next round is to be held on Monday in Geneva, a source at the dren, have been killed in United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said. Syria’s conflict which broke The mission said Leon “was urging the main parties to redouble out in March 2011, a monitor- their efforts... towards narrowing existing differences and forging a ing group said yesterday. The common platform” for a solution to the Libya conflict. Syrian Observatory for Human Leon “acknowledges that while some of the parties continue to have Rights said it has documented reservations about what has been achieved to date, it is important for the deaths of 240,381 people, all parties to continue working on jointly addressing and resolving up from its tally of 230,618 these concerns within the framework of the dialogue process”, it said. announced on June 9. Plunged into chaos after the 2011 overthrow and killing of dictator The latest toll compiled by the Moamer Kadhafi, Libya has two parliaments and governments vying Britain-based group shows that for power, as a slew of armed groups battle for control of its oil wealth. 11,964 children were among 71,781 The elected parliament, which is recognised by the international civilians killed in Syria. At least community, initialled a UN draft deal on July 11 aimed at setting up a 88,616 regime forces were killed — national unity government and holding fresh elections. or one thirds all deaths documented Members of political parties, civil society and local officials also by the Observatory — including signed the agreement. 50,570 soldiers and the rest allied But the rival parliament known as the General National Congress fighters. The monitor, which relies Omani Minister for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi Abdullah (right) with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al Moallem (GNC) has refused to endorse the draft deal, saying it was “unsatisfac- on a wide network of sources on the in Muscat yesterday. tory” and calling for “modifications”. ground, put the death toll for rebel It was not immediately clear who will attend the Geneva talks and fighters at 42,384 and said 34,375 whether a GNC delegation would travel to Switzerland. foreign jihadists have also been killed in Syria. Damascus, Muscat to unite The identity of another 3,225 people killed in the conflict Kurd leader urges world remains unknown, according to the Observatory. The fate of efforts to end Syria war 30,000 people who have gone to denounce ‘unjust war’ missing in Syria, including 20,000 MUSCAT: Muscat and with President Bashar al-Assad’s of a new peace plan to bring an said to be held in Syrian jails, was Damascus agreed to work government, unlike other Arab end to Syria’s conflict, which has not documented in the toll. together to end Syria’s brutal countries in the Gulf. killed more than 230,000 people. BRUSSELS: Turkey’s Kurdish political leader Selahattin Demirtas It also did not take into account war, official media reported, It was Muallem’s “first visit to The main Western-backed yesterday urged the world to denounce Ankara’s new “unjust war” the fate of thousands of loyalist as the Syrian foreign minister an Arab state in nearly four years, Syrian opposition, long distrust- on rebel Kurds and asked the EU to push clearly for a truce. forces held by rebel factions or by Thursday made his first Gulf at the official invitation of his ful of Russia over its backing During an unscheduled visit to Brussels, Demirtas told AFP he spoke the Islamic State jihadist group. visit since the conflict erupted in Omani counterpart”, the paper of Syrian President Bashar Al by telephone last week with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini The Syrian conflict began with 2011. reported in announcing the visit. Assad, is due to visit Moscow and that he would meet with her top aide Stefano Manservisi here anti-government protests before Foreign Minister Walid Al Watan also wrote of a pos- next week amid a renewed diplo- today. spiralling into a multi-front war Muallem met Oman’s chief dip- sible meeting in Muscat, a tra- matic push to settle the conflict, “The European Union must very clearly and openly support negotia- after a brutal regime crackdown. lomat Yussef bin Alawi to discuss ditional mediator in the region, a source and Russian wires said. tions between the PKK and Turkey,” said the leader of the HDP party Meanwhile, The United States “several regional and interna- between top diplomats from The National Coalition for which scored a breakthrough in Turkish elections in June. and it allies conducted 27 air tional topics of common interest”, Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Syrian Revolutionary and He asked why the EU no longer appeared to support two and a strikes against Islamic State the official Omani news agency Iran, along with Russia, is a Opposition Forces (SNC) boy- half years of peace talks that collapsed when Ankara launched a new militants in Syria and Iraq on ONA said. key backer of Assad, while Saudi cotted Syria peace talks held in bombing campaign at the end of last month against bases of the PKK, Wednesday, the US military said. They agreed “that now is the Arabia is a prominent supporter Moscow in January and April, the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party, in northern Iraq. Eleven air strikes were car- time to unite the efforts to end of the opposition and rebels fight- distrustful of Russia and criti- “Why don’t they support them anymore?” Demirtas asked. “You ried out in Syria, including seven this (Syrian) crisis”, according to ing to topple his regime. cal of the Damascus rivals who must support the negotiations between (jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah) near the city of Hasaka, the US Syria’s state news agency Sana. On Wednesday, Muallem attended, whom it described as Ocalan and the Turkish government, and push for a ceasefire.” military said in a statement on “The two sides agreed to con- was in Tehran, where he met token opposition. He also appeared to want a clearer stand from NATO which strongly Thursday. In Iraq, militant tar- tinue cooperation and coordina- with Iranian President Hassan The SNC’s Moscow visit next backed Turkey’s fight against Islamic State militants in Syria at emer- gets were hit in 16 strikes near tion to achieve the shared goals of Rowhani. week comes as international and gency talks in Brussels last week even if some countries expressed eight different cities, it said. The their peoples and governments,” The Syrian minister also met regional players seek a response concerns that strikes on Kurdish fighters could torpedo peace talks Pentagon said the US military it said. with Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia’s to the growing threat of Islamic with the rebels. had carried out its first drone Syrian daily Al Watan daily, deputy foreign minister and spe- State in the Syria conflict, which “The whole world must really cry out that this war is not a just strike from a base in Turkey close to the regime in Damascus, cial representative to the Middle has killed some 250,000 people and justified war,” Demirtas said when asked what he thought of the against Islamic State targets in pointed out that Muscat had not East. The visit to Tehran coin- over the last four-and-a-half NATO position. Syria. AGENCIES cut diplomatic and political ties cided with Iran’s announcement years. AGENCIES AFP FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 EUROPE / AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Russia starts Shipwreck survivors brought ashore PALERMO, SICILY: Hopes faded of finding more survivors yesterday from a shipwreck in which 200 migrants are destroying feared drowned, as rescue ships were called to the aid of more migrant boats in the same area of the Mediterranean. “We are witnessing a genocide Western food caused by European selfishness,” said Palermo mayor Leoluca Orlando as the Irish navy ship Smuggled cheese steamrolled LE Niamh docked in the port carrying some 370 survivors of MOSCOW: Russian officials Ukraine in unmarked boxes, but Wednesday’s disaster and 25 yesterday steamrolled tonnes were most likely produced in the corpses, including three children. of cheese, fruit and vegetables, European Union, a reporter at the Orlando, speaking on Italian defying public outrage to begin scene said. television as hearses arrived to a controversial drive to destroy A spokeswoman for the food take the bodies away, called on Western food smuggled into the safety agency Rosselkhoznadzor European leaders to do more to crisis-hit country. said that the flattened cheese — prevent such disasters and to President Vladimir Putin last amounting to almost nine tonnes allow more refugees to re-settle week signed a decree ordering — would be buried underground. in their countries. the trashing of all food — from “From today, agricultural pro- After the survivors disem- gourmet cheeses to fruit and veg- duce, raw products and foods, barked, some were escorted back Migrants disembark from the Irish military vessel Naimh after its arrival at the port of Palermo yesterday, with etables — that breaches a year- which come from a country that on board to see if they could iden- 367 survivors and 25 coffins. They were rescued at sea after a boat carrying over 600 migrants capsized in the old embargo on Western imports has decided to impose economic tify the dead children. Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast. imposed in retaliation for sanc- sanctions on Russian legal enti- Police said they had detained tions over the Ukraine crisis. ties or individuals ... and which five men suspected of having perfect conditions to attempt the because desperate passengers world’s most deadly border area Russian television showed offi- are banned from import into piloted the boat that overturned sea crossing, said a Reuters pho- surged to one side as they spot- for migrants. More than 2,000 cials dumping truckloads of round Russia, are due to be destroyed,” on Wednesday and of having had tographer aboard the privately ted the ship. migrants and refugees have died bright orange cheeses on a patch the Agriculture Ministry said in a role in trafficking the migrants. funded Phoenix, a vessel run by “What happened here was so far this year trying to reach of wasteland and then driving a statement. Vessels from the Italian and MSF and the Migrant Offshore because the boat was so over- Europe by boat, compared with over them with a steamroller in Moscow last year banned a Irish navies and humanitarian Aid Station. loaded, and the conditions were 3,279 during the whole of last year, the Belgorod region bordering slew of food products from the agency Medecins Sans Frontieres The Phoenix was responding to such that the boat started taking the International Organization Ukraine. West, from delicacies to staples (MSF) saved about 400 people a distress call for a boat carry- on water and it listed to one side, for Migration said on Tuesday. The cheeses arrived from such as apples. Food brought in from the fishing boat, thought to ing about 500 people, he said. The capsized and sank, all in the space People-smugglers, mostly based for private consumption is still have been carrying up to 600 peo- coastguard picked up 381 yester- of two minutes,” Irish Defence in Libya and charging thousands permitted. ple, mostly Syrians fleeing their day morning, while an Italy navy Minister Simon Coveney said on of dollars for passage, have sent Russia complains that some country’s civil war. ship took 101 from a large rubber Irish state radio RTE yesterday. more than 90,000 migrants by sea importers are circumventing the They found no more survivors boat, and the MSF vessel Argos The Irish ship is part of the to Italy so far this year, the UN ban by illegally slapping on new after scouring the waters over- rescued 87, according to their European Union Triton mission, refugee agency says. Italy took in labels that claim the food was night. Italian vessels continued Twitter accounts. which was expanded after up to 170,000 in 2014. produced in neighbouring ex- to search the area yesterday, a Wednesday’s tragedy occurred 800 migrants drowned in a ship- This summer’s mass arrivals in Soviet countries. coastguard spokesman said. when the boat flipped over as the wreck in April. both Italy and Greece show the The food safety agency has said Seas were very calm yesterday , LE Niamh approached, probably The Mediterranean Sea is the crisis is worsening. REUTERS it planned to destroy several hun- dred tonnes of contraband pro- duce yesterday that has already been seized. Two truckloads of European tomatoes and three of nectarines First US Democratic presidential debate on Oct 13 and peaches were being smashed with a tractor and bulldozer in WASHINGTON: Hillary debates for the party that is try- presidential nominee. from our candidates about their the Smolensk region after they Clinton and fellow Democratic ing to hold the White House fol- A fourth debate is set for vision for our country’s future,” arrived with fake documents, the candidates will square off lowing two terms of President January 17, 2016 in South Democratic National Committee food safety agency said. October 13 in their first debate Barack Obama. Carolina, while the fifth and chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz One truck driver carrying a of the 2016 presidential cam- The second debate is sched- sixth debates are in Florida and said in a statement. cargo of suspicious tomatoes paign, the party announced yes- uled for November 14 in Iowa, Wisconsin, in either February or The Democrats’ announce- turned his vehicle around and terday as it unveiled its primary followed by December 19 in New March. ment comes on the very day A truck unloading illegally imported made a getaway back into Belarus debate schedule. Hampshire. The two states vote “These six debates will give Republicans gather in Cleveland, food in Belgorod region, Russia, to avoid them being destroyed, The debut event will occur in earliest in the primary proc- caucus goers and primary vot- Ohio, for their debut debate of the yesterday. Rosselkhoznadzor said. AFP Nevada, the first of six televised ess that determines a party’s ers ample opportunity to hear 2016 race. AFP

Duda sworn in as Poland’s president Russian scribe Dilma Rousseff’s seeks asylum in Lithuania after popularity plummets SAO PAULO: Dilma Rousseff which belongs to the same group Cyprus arrest is now Brazil’s most unpopular as Datafolha. democratically elected president Datafolha began conducting VILNIUS: Lithuania said yes- since a military dictatorship national polls during the rule terday it would consider an ended in 1985, says a poll out of Collor. In 1990 he became the asylum request by a Russian yesterday that put her approval first democratically elected presi- opposition journalist after he rating at eight percent. dent since the end of the military was detained in fellow EU state Seventy-one percent of those regime. Cyprus upon Moscow’s request. questioned in the Datafolha sur- His predecessor, Jose Sarney, “Lithuania will take responsi- vey said they disapprove of the took power in 1985 as vice presi- bility for processing the asylum way Rousseff is doing her job, dent under Tancredo Neves. request,” the Baltic state’s inte- up six points since June. Her Neves had been elected president rior minister’s spokesman Tomas approval rating is down from 10 by congress after 21 years of mili- Berzinskas told AFP. percent. tary rule, but died before he could The journalist, Andrey And two-thirds would like to assume office. Nekrasov, was detained in Cyprus see her impeached. Rousseff began her second last month under an Interpol Rousseff, the successor of term in January after winning warrant and applied for asylum wildly popular former president re-election by a thin margin, and the next day. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, faces things are already looking grim. Nicosia said yesterday it had widespread anger over corrup- She is under siege from a cor- decided to send him to Lithuania, tion, a stagnant economy and ruption scandal at the state-run which issued a national visa, growing unemployment. oil giant Petrobras that has also rather than extraditing him to Polish President Andrzej Duda kneels before a military flag before taking over authority of the Polish Armed Her numbers are worse than implicated the ruling Workers’ Russia, citing EU regulations. Forces during a ceremony at the Pilsudski Square in Warsaw, yesterday. Duda was sworn into office yesterday those of Fernando Collor de Mello, Party. Nekrasov’s lawyer and media who resigned in 1992 over corrup- She chaired the board at the in a development set to bring about new political challenges for the current government. freedom activists welcomed the tion allegations. Right before he company, from 2003 to 2010, a move, saying Nekrasov could face stepped down he had an approval period during which the corrup- up to 15 years in jail in Russia rating of nine percent and disap- tion allegedly flourished. She has after disclosing details of corrup- proval of 68 percent. not been personally implicated in tion by local authorities. “Dilma has thus become the scandal. Once a much hailed “He clearly stated that he Commuters, tourists suffer as the president with the worst success story, Brazil’s economy is would like to be sent to Lithuania” approval rating among all those now sputtering and inflation is which is a vocal critic of Russia, elected directly since the return high. A rally calling for her resig- lawyer Nicoletta Charalambidou of democracy,” said the web site of nation is scheduled for August 16. told AFP in a telephone interview. London Tube staff strike work the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, AFP “We are thankful to the Lithuanian authorities and we LONDON: Millions of and Saturdays from September While some commuters railed would urge them to grant Andrey Londoners were forced to walk, 12. An extra 250 buses, additional against the unions and their Nekrasov the asylum as he is cycle or take packed buses to rental bikes and increased river members, many of whom are paid Macedonia holds 9 for jihadi links indeed politically persecuted in work yesterday as Underground boat services were laid on to help well above the average wage, most his country,” Johann Bihr of staff staged their second strike ease the disruption, while over- were resigned. SKOPJE: Macedonian police said yesterday they arrested nine Reporters Without Borders told in a month over plans to run ground trains were operating as “I took the bus, it was really people, including an Imam believed to be the group’s leader, who AFP. trains all night at weekends. normal. But the Tube handles crowded and took 45 minutes are suspected of recruiting or fighting for Islamist groups in the The media freedom organisa- London Underground staff four million journeys every day, instead of 20 minutes,” Amal, a Middle East. tion said Nekrasov was accused walked out on Wednesday evening meaning many trains and buses 21-year-old accountant, told AFP Authorities were also searching for 27 more people, the Interior of blackmail and extortion in 2013 and will not return until Friday were overcrowded yesterday, in the City of London financial Minister Mitko Chavkov told reporters. after a campaign to defend the morning, causing a shutdown while roads were clogged with district. “The goal of the police operation was to identify people who recruit rights of workers in the factory of the subway network that has cyclists and pavements filled with Tamara, a 43-year-old German Macedonian jihadists to go and fight on fronts in the Middle East, in the Russian Urals. severely disrupted transport in pedestrians who decided it was tourist visiting London with her as well as people who have come back from war or are still fighting Earlier this year, he was also the capital. quickest to walk. husband and two children, added: there,” the minister said. fined on a criminal defamation Four trade unions are locked It is the second time the Tube “We didn’t know about the strike. Among the suspects arrested in operations on Wednesday and charge for linking a local official in a months-long dispute with has shut down in a month, after So today we only walk!” yesterday is Rexhep Memishi, Imam from a mosque in the capital in the ruling party to a person of management over London Mayor a similar strike on July 8 and 9 Many workers were expected Skopje, believed to be the group’s leader, Chavkov added. the same name with assets in the Boris Johnson’s plans to run a caused the first network-wide clo- to work from home, and others AFP United States, it said. AFP 24-hour Tube service on Fridays sure for 13 years. tried to see the positive side. AFP FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA Won’t tolerate navigation curbs: Kerry No consensus on joint statement on S China Sea; Asean divided, as China allies block strongly-worded draft

KUALA LUMPUR: The to hold rich oil and gas reserves. how Asean works on the South United States warned yesterday Vietnam, the Philippines, China Sea, it knows how to divide it would not tolerate efforts to Malaysia and Brunei -- all Asean us. Look at what happened in control sea and air routes in the members -- also have various Cambodia,” one diplomat at the South China Sea, as Southeast claims, as does Taiwan, many of talks in Kuala Lumpur said. Asian nations debated how which overlap. Singapore Foreign Minister K hard to pressure Beijing on its Each year the regional Asean Shanmugam said yesterday that island-building. bloc, which prides itself on its the joint statement was supposed US Secretary of State John history of consensus diplomacy, to have been completed the previ- Kerry said at the Asean summit releases a joint communique after ous day. that open navigation of the stra- the annual meeting of its foreign “It has not been finalised as of tegically important area was an ministers, which took place last now. There are difficulties,” he “intrinsic right”. Tuesday. said. “The paragraphs relating to “Let me be clear: The United But the nations have been at the South China Sea are causing States will not accept restrictions loggerheads for the last three some problems,” he added. on freedom of navigation and over days over the wording of the Instead it warns that recent flight, or other lawful uses of the paragraphs addressing the South developments in the sea “have sea,” he said in Kuala Lumpur, China Sea. the very potential of undermin- after attending a summit domi- Diplomatic sources said that ing peace, security and stability”. nated by the flashpoint issue. the Philippines and Vietnam Delegates said they still hoped China has sparked alarm by in particular were pushing for to get a final joint statement by expanding tiny reefs and con- stronger language on Chinese the end of the day. The United structing military posts, steps land reclamation, which could States and Southeast Asian viewed by some of its neighbours help shore up Beijing’s disputed nations have called for a halt as violating a regional pledge territorial claims. to further land-reclamation against provocative actions in But there was pushback from and construction. China had so the area. traditional China allies among the far refused, but last Wednesday The long simmering dispute has association, they added. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang flared at the Malaysia meet, which “China’s friends are taking a Yi said land reclamation had is being hosted by the 10-nation hard stance,” said one diplomat “already stopped”. Association of Southeast Asian familiar with the drafting. However some delegates in Nations and includes envoys from The diplomat did not specify Kuala Lumpur have played down more than a dozen other nations which countries were taking a US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a news conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, yesterday. Kerry is in those claims. such as China, Japan, South hard line, but Cambodia, Laos the country for an Asean meeting. One diplomat said, “They’re not Korea and the US. and Myanmar traditionally ally saying they’re stopping construc- Beijing claims control over with China within Asean. The Cambodia, when the bloc was joint statement. Cambodia was of China over its maritime ter- tion, nor are they saying they’ll nearly the entire South China tug-of-war raises the spectre of unable for the first time in its accused of precipitating the deba- ritorial assertions. stop future reclamation.” Sea, a key shipping route thought a 2012 Asean meeting hosted by four-decade history to issue a cle by refusing to allow criticism “China has already figured out AFP

Nigeria alert on Angry relatives doubt MH370 wing discovery dam water flow BEIJING: Chinese relatives with missing loved ones expressed Bao Lanfang, whose grandson of passengers aboard missing “serious doubts” over Najib’s was on board said, “Everyone has ABUJA: Nigeria yesterday flight MH370 expressed anger announcement. been lying to us”, before collapsing warned people living alongside and disbelief yesterday, after They demanded that a high- on the floor and crying. the 1,400-kilometre stretch of Malaysia’s prime minister said level Malaysian government “I will do anything to see him its main tributary of the Niger wreckage found on a French representative meet them and again,” the 63-year-old added river to expect massive flood- Indian Ocean island was from “provide explanations”. through her tears. “Just tell me ing as neighbouring Cameroon the plane. The relatives intend to gather what I need to do, I’ll do it.” plans to release water from a Most of the passengers aboard at a location near Beijing’s airport French officials who analysed dam. the flight were Chinese, and and wait for such a meeting next the wreckage said only that there The National Emergency around a dozen of their relatives Friday, they added. was a “very high probability” it Management Agency (NEMA) gathered outside the Beijing China’s foreign ministry said came from MH370 and Wen said the Lagdo dam in northern offices of Malaysia Airlines, with Najib’s declaration “confirmed the Wancheng, whose 34-year-old Cameroon would be emptying emotions running high. verdict on the Malaysia Airlines son was on board, noted, “The water into the River Benue until “I don’t believe this latest infor- accident”, expressing “deep grief” French examiners were instead November to relieve an excessive mation about the plane, they have for the passengers. very cautious. They haven’t drawn build-up. been lying to us from the begin- “We ask the Malaysian govern- a conclusion.” NEMA warned populations ning,” said Zhang Yongli, whose ment to fulfill their promise to “How can you believe the plane living alongside the river to be daughter was on the plane. continue investigating the reason crashed on the basis of a single alert and “ready for evacuation”. “I know my daughter is out for the accident,” spokeswoman piece of debris? It could belong to The 300-metre (985-feet) Lagdo there, but they won’t tell us the Hua Chunying said. other aircraft,” he said. dam, 50 kilometres south of the truth,” he added, waving Chinese Many Chinese relatives of On social media relatives Cameroonian city of Garoua, was and Communist Party flags. MH370 passengers have consist- expressed similar sentiments: completed in 1982 and supplies The flight, with 239 people Ω A relative of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries outside ently expressed beliefs that their “Don’t believe them! We believe electricity to the country’s north- including 153 Chinese citizens the Malaysia Airlines office in Beijing yesterday. loved ones are alive, perhaps being our relatives will come back!” ern regions. Ω on board, vanished en route held at an unknown location, There was a heavy police pres- The rainy season in Nigeria, from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in found until the debris, part of yesterday it was from the jet. despite the mounting indications ence outside the airline’s office to Africa’s most populous country March last year, and authorities a wing known as a flaperon, In a handwritten statement of a fatal crash. Several of those at greet the relatives, who say they with more than 170 million peo- said it went down in the southern washed up on the French terri- posted on Chinese social media the airline office held signs with a have faced repeated harassment ple, runs roughly from March to Indian Ocean. tory of Reunion, and Malaysian and signed “All MH370 passen- picture of an airplane, reading, “It from state security. September. No physical evidence had been Prime Minister Najib Razak said gers’ relatives”, a number of those will surely return safely”. AFP AFP Japan’s record $2bn Japan PM to express WWII remorse TOKYO: Japan’s prime minis- ter Shinzo Abe said yesterday loan to the Philippines he would express “remorse” over World War II this month, MANILA: Japan has pledged elaborating. as a government panel con- about $2bn in soft loans to Tokyo and Manila, both locked demned the country’s past upgrade the Philippines’ crum- in territorial disputes with China, aggression against its Asian bling railway system in Tokyo’s have strengthened their coopera- neighbours. Abe is preparing biggest ever support for any tion on defense in a bid to coun- his closely watched remarks for Filipino project, Manila said terbalance Beijing’s regional clout. the 70th anniversary of the end yesterday. Japan has a maritime row with of the war, the date Japan sur- The 240bn-yen package is a China over islands in the East rendered to the Allies. signal of increasing cooperation China Sea while the Philippines The wording of Abe’s statement between the former World War has its own increasingly tense will be scrutinised by China and II foes, including “closer security conflict with Beijing in the South Korea, which dispute Tokyo’s ver- cooperation,” the foreign depart- China Sea. sion of its wartime history. ment said in a statement. Beijing’s island building in the “I will express remorse over the The low-interest concessional Sea has dominated the meeting past war, our post-war path as a loan will be used to finance a of the Association of Southeast pacifist nation, and how Japan planned 36.7-kilometre (23-mile) Asian Nations (Asean) in Kuala should further contribute to the elevated commuter railway to link Lumpur this week. Asia-Pacific region and the world Manila with Malolos City to the Philippine President Benigno in the future,” Abe said. Abe has north. Aquino’s spokesman said the loan repeatedly talked of the need for The Philippines’ overburdened underlined the “robust bilateral what he calls a “forward-looking public transport system has long relations between the Philippines attitude” that concentrates on the seen the capital and surrounding and Japan” and the two countries positive role Japan has played in areas snarled by huge traffic jams. could continue to work together Asia since its surrender in 1945. Philippine Foreign Secretary on maritime security. Abe’s comments yesterday, Albert del Rosario received the It “affirms the confidence and on the 70th anniversary of the pledge from his Japanese counter- support of the Japanese govern- Hiroshima atomic bombing, came Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (right) receives a report from Taizo Nishimuro, Chairman of the government’s part Minoru Kiuchi on the side- ment to the reforms undertaken the same day as an advisory panel advisory panel on the history of the 20th century and Japan’s role and the world order in the 21st century at Abe’s lines of a meeting of Asia-Pacific by the Aquino administration,” on wording of the war statement office in Tokyo yesterday. foreign ministers in Malaysia last Herminio Coloma said in a condemned Japan’s colonial past. Wednesday, the statement said. statement. Japan colonised the Korean penin- Asia, through a reckless war,” the “reconciliation” with China and recruitment of so-called “comfort The pair also discussed “closer The cash-strapped Philippines sula from 1910 to 1945, the panel 38-page report said. Korea. Addressing a joint session women” to serve Japanese soldiers security cooperation, including has been seeking military aid pointed out citing aggression in “The responsibilities of the of the US Congress in April, Abe in military brothels. the acceleration of discussions including surplus equipment from China from 1931. China says over Japanese government and mili- expressed his “deep remorse” over A landmark 1995 statement by for an agreement on the trans- its foreign allies to help modern- 20 million of its citizens died as a tary leaders from the 1930s and Japan’s actions during World War then premier Tomiichi Murayama fer of defense equipment and ise its military. Japan is the larg- result of Japan’s invasion. beyond are very serious. It is inac- II. But he stopped short of a full stated his feelings of “deep technology,” the foreign depart- est source of official aid to the Japan “caused much harm curate to say that Japan fought to apology demanded by Beijing and remorse” and “heartfelt apology”. ment statement said without Philippines. AFP to various countries, largely in liberate Asia,” it said, calling for Seoul, especially over the forced AFP FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 17 die as Afghan army chopper crashes Taliban claim it shot down M17 helicopter with rocket launcher but army says technical fault caused mishap

KANDAHAR: At least 17 peo- area to investigate the incident. a Taliban suicide truck bomber ple, including 12 Afghan army Aircraft crashes have been a killed six people early Thursday, soldiers, were killed yesterday regular risk for Afghan and for- in the first major attack since the in a helicopter crash in south- eign coalition forces, with troops announcement of leader Mullah ern Afghanistan, the worst relying heavily on air transport Omar's death. such incident suffered by mili- to traverse Afghanistan's rugged The attack in Pul-i-Alam, the tary forces since the Nato com- terrain to fight the Taliban. capital of insurgency-prone Logar bat mission ended in December. The insurgents have on occa- province just south of Kabul, The Afghan defense ministry sion brought down Nato helicop- highlights growing insecurity that said the military helicopter went ters, notably a US Chinook in 2011 is taking a heavy toll on Afghan down due to a technical fault in which killed 30 Americans, but civilians and security forces. Shinkay, a district relatively free such incidents have been rare. The bombing coincides with a of insurgent activity in the oth- In April last year five British faltering peace process, with the erwise volatile province of Zabul. troops died when their helicop- Taliban confronted by an increas- "The Mi17 transport helicopter ter crashed in Kandahar prov- ingly bitter power transition after crashed, killing 17 people includ- ince in what London's Ministry of Mullah Akhtar Mansour was ing 12 Afghan army soldiers and Defense said at the time appeared announced as the new leader last five crew members. It was not an to be a "tragic accident". Friday. Many of Mansour's rivals insurgent attack, it crashed due The fledgling Afghan air force have challenging his appointment, to technical difficulties," a sen- has 83 Mi17 transport helicopters, exposing the Taliban's biggest ior army commander in southern out of which "a large number are leadership crisis in recent years Afghanistan said on condition of currently under maintenance and one that raises the risk of a anonymity. during the fighting season", said factional split. The Taliban claimed they shot Graeme Smith, a senior analyst The acrimonious power strug- down the chopper with a rocket with the International Crisis The military helicopter went down due to technical reasons in Shinkay, a district relatively free of insurgent activity gle has cast a pall over a fragile launcher, but the insurgents are Group in Afghanistan. in Zabul. peace process aimed at ending known to exaggerate or falsify "Maintenance is a serious issue Afghanistan's long war. battlefield claims. for the Afghan Air force and it is emergency evacuations until the a 13,000-strong residual force directly during their traditional The Taliban distanced them- Shinkay district chief hurting their ability to provide air drawdown of foreign coalition remains for training and counter- summer offensive launched in late selves from the second round of Mohammad Qasim Khan also support to ground forces," Smith forces last year. terrorism operations. April. "The Taliban is increasingly talks with the Afghan govern- attributed the crash to a technical said. US-led Nato forces ended their The Taliban, who were toppled using anti-aircraft weapons, pos- ment that were scheduled for last fault, with another military com- Afghanistan has a tiny air force combat mission in Afghanistan from power in the 2001 US inva- ing a risk to Afghan air forces," Friday but were cancelled after mander saying an official delega- compared to Nato's fleet, which in December, leaving local forces sion of Afghanistan, have grown Smith said. the announcement of Omar's tion has been dispatched to the carried out supply operations and to battle militants alone, but bolder as they face Afghan forces News of the crash comes after death. AFP Bomber blows up truck at police post Army court amendment KABUL: Six people were killed yesterday when a Taliban suicide upheld by apex court truck bomber struck a police compound in Afghanistan, in the first major insurgent attack ISLAMABAD: Pakistan democratic and political annals since the announcement of People’s Party leader Qamar of the country. leader Mullah Omar's death. Kaira has termed the decision He said the verdict was satis- The bombing coincides with a of the Supreme Court on the factory for the patriotic people faltering peace process, with the 18th and 21st constitutional who wanted to see Pakistan a Taliban confronted by an increas- amendments as a moral victory peaceful and prosperous country. ingly bitter power transition after because according to him the Anti-state elements would now be Mullah Akhtar Mansour was apex court had finally admit- punished through speedy judicial made the new leader last Friday. ted that parliament is supreme process, he added. "A water truck filled with and the judiciary cannot strike Former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa explosives was detonated when down any amendment passed by governor Masood Kausar said the it was stopped at the gate of the it. Supreme Court verdict would fur- Quick Reaction Force (police) “We continued to present our ther strengthen democracy and compound," deputy provincial viewpoint before the Supreme help curb the menace of terrorism police chief Mohammad Qari Court when Iftikhar Chaudhry in the country. Wara said. "It was a power- was the chief justice but I think The apex court verdict would ful explosion which killed three he was not ready to fully acknowl- also ensure constitutional rule members of the Quick Reaction edge the powers of parliament,” and independence of the judici- Force and three civilians." said Kaira a day after the land- ary, he said. Baheer, an official from the mark verdict. Federal Minister for Water and provincial governor's office, con- He said that when it came to Power Muhammad Asif applauded firmed the death toll, adding that the powers of parliament, it was a the verdict of the Supreme Court eight civilians, including a child, historic decision that wrapped up on the establishment of military were wounded. the debate on the powers of par- courts and dismissing petitions The force of the explosion dam- liament once and for all because challenging the 18th and 21st aged government buildings near in a democracy, parliament is amendments. the site, which was littered with considered as ‘the mother of all The minister said that the debris and shards of broken glass. institutions’. superior judiciary had endorsed The Afghan interior ministry Jamiat Ulema Islam chief the parliament’s decision, which said yesterday's bombing was Fazlur Rehman announced to was taken keeping in view the the first suicide attack since accept the Supreme Court ver- present situation in the country. the Taliban confirmed last week A member of the Afghan security force keeps watch after a suicide attack in Logar province yesterday. A truck dict terming it as a victory of The Federation of Pakistan the death of their leader Mullah bomb targeting an Afghan Special Forces base in an eastern province killed at least six people and wounded parliament as he said that the col- Chamber of Commerce and Omar, who led the militant move- dozens, officials said. lective will of the people’s repre- Industry hailed the landmark ment for some 20 years. sentatives should be of paramount judgment and said that it would The Taliban claimed responsi- attacks on Afghan government struggling to contain the expand- their highest level since the UN importance. help flush out terrorists from the bility for the attack, with spokes- and military targets. ing conflict six months after the began issuing its authoritative Minister for Information, country besides strengthening the man Zabiullah Mujahid claiming But in a rare admission, Nato combat mission ended. reports in 2009. Broadcasting Pervaiz Rashid said supremacy of the Constitution, that a "Mazda truck packed with Mujahid said "some civilians may The report said 1,592 civilians Since December a 13,000-strong that the Supreme Court’s verdict rule of law and parliament. heavy explosives... killed more have been wounded as a result of were killed, a six percent fall residual Nato force remains for to uphold the parliament’s deci- Jurist Tariq Nasim said the than 100 security personnel". broken glass". from last year, but the number training and counter-terrorism sion on establishment of military Supreme Court judgment would Taliban insurgents routinely A UN report said last of injured jumped four percent to operations. courts would be remembered steer the country out of perpetual exaggerate the death toll in Wednesday Afghan forces were 3,329. The casualties have reached AFP forever in the constitutional, chaos. INTERNEWS Taliban kill judge in Slack flood relief swamps Pakistan despite alerts ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has from the recent devastating warnings," he said. The PMD's flood forecasting reinforced its weather fore- summer monsoon floods ... indi- "We are now able to forecast division provides information on Rawalpindi shooting casting services since massive cate the brazen unpreparedness extreme weather events like tor- the size and flow of floods using floods struck five years ago, but of district, provincial and federal rential rains, floods, glacial lake data from an extensive network DERA ISMAIL KHAN: not say why Niazi was targeted. government agencies are strug- government agencies to respond outburst floods and droughts some of weather radars along the The Pakistani Taliban yester- Abdul Hafiz, a clerk at the ses- gling to act on the information, to forecasts," said Arif Mahmood, three to four weeks in advance, Indus river, as well as a forecast- day claimed credit for killing sions court in the city next to the with extreme weather continu- former PMD director general. with over 60 percent accuracy," ing system that uses computer a lower court judge in the city capital, Islamabad, confirmed last ing to bring new disasters. Despite warning of torrential he added. modelling. of Rawalpindi, the insurgent Wednesday's killing. Recent flash floods in the rains and flash floods this sum- From 2005 to 2011, Pakistan "Much of this information group said in a statement. "Some people came to his home country's northwestern and mer, provincial governments expanded its glacier monitoring has not been put to good use by Pakistan, a nuclear-armed and fired on him," he said. southwestern areas, triggered only woke up to the threat when network into the higher Hindu the relevant government agen- nation of 190 million people, is The government says militants by heavy monsoon rains in July, large swathes of the country were Kush, Karakoram and Himalayan cies, such as provincial irrigation plagued by criminal gangs, sec- usually walk free because civilians were forecast weeks in advance already under water, he noted. mountain ranges to track chang- departments," said Pervaiz Amir, tarian militants and a Taliban are too scared to convict them. by the Pakistan Meteorological On May 19, forecasts of extreme ing precipitation patterns, the from Global Water Partnership. insurgency. Lawyers and judges agree secu- Department (PMD). rainfall exceeding 100mm per day pace of glacial melt and spin-off Aminul Haq, deputy commis- Threats and attacks on civil- rity is a problem, but they also Glacier melt and overflowing in the northeast and northwest, floods, Rasul noted. sioner for the northern mountain ian judges and lawyers prompted complain of outdated laws, poorly glacial lakes, triggered by a sharp and a flash flood warning, were Foreign donors supported the district of Chitral, said weather the government to set up secret trained and poorly paid police, rise in temperatures last month, shared with government offices installation of five glacier moni- forecasts are communicated to his military courts in February to and political interference. worsened the floods, which have and disaster management agen- toring stations in northern moun- office in a timely manner com- try militant suspects, following Saroop Ijaz, the Pakistani left a trail of destruction. cies so they could take measures tain regions, each costing around pared with the past. But the cash- a Taliban massacre of 134 chil- representative of rights group Around 170 people have been to protect people and property, $20,000, to better assess climate strapped authority cannot act on dren at an army-run school last Human Rights Watch, said the killed and 126 injured. Nearly said PMD Director General impacts in the upper Indus basin them, he said. December. government must reform the 5,800 homes have been damaged Ghulam Rasul. and related flood hazards. "How can we respond to the "Our special task force has long-neglected criminal justice in around 2,500 villages, and some "Loss of lives in flood-hit areas Meanwhile, negotiations are flood warnings as long as we do targeted additional session judge system. But so far, there has been 920,000 people are displaced by could have been staved off suc- progressing with the World not get enough money from our Tahir Khan Niazi in Rawalpindi little sign of progress, he said. the floods, according to the cessfully this time had the pro- Bank on installing four cutting- provincial government to relocate successfully," Taliban spokesman "The government needs to have National Disaster Management vincial government and relevant edge radars at Mangla, Sialkot, vulnerable mountain communi- Muhammad Khorasani said in a public conversation on what is Authority (NDMA). (local) disaster management Lahore and Gwadar, Aleem ul ties to safer grounds?" he asked. ." an emailed statement. He did being done," he added. REUTERS "Massive losses and damages authorities heeded the PMD's Hasan added. REUTERS FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Protests rock Rajya Sabha HC denies minister Upper House adjourned again due to pandemonium by Congress MPs bail in Saradha scam NEW DELHI: As the Rajya and subsequent adjournments are to discuss state issues in parlia- adjournment till 12 noon. At noon, KOLKATA: The Calcutta hamper investigation. Sabha continued to be dis- depriving us (of) this opportunity. ment. Government sources say amid similar scenes, Chairman High Court yesterday rejected He contended that it was a rupted through the third week The conduct of some members of while back channel talks with Ansari adjourned the house till the bail plea of West Bengal result of Mitra’s influence that of the monsoon session, around the Congress is not allowing us to other opposition parties appear 2pm. The post-lunch session Transport Minister Madan he continues to be a minister and 30 MPs of the ruling National discharge our duty as MPs,” the to be on track, the Congress has was no different. Minister of Mitra, who was arrested by the has been spending most part of Democratic Alliance yesterday letter read. refused to budge from its stand. State in the Prime Minister’s CBI in the multi-crore Saradha his custody in the comforts of a wrote to Chairman M Hamid “We request you now to take Congress members trooped Office Jitendra Singh moved for scam. VIP cabin at the government-run Ansari to take action against action against such members dis- near the chairman’s podium sev- a discussion on the Prevention of Appearing for the Trinamool SSKM Hospital than being in jail. Congress parliamentarians dis- rupting the house proceedings,” eral times, raising slogans and Corruption (Amendment) Bill, Congress leader, senior advocate After hearing both the par- rupting the proceedings. it added. demanding an explanation from 2013, which would amend the Kapil Sibal pressed for bail, tell- ties, the court rejected Mitra’s “Members of the Congress The letter did not name any Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Prevention of Corruption Act. ing the division bench of Justice bail plea. party are disrupting the house, other opposition party. The Congress and some other However, a debate could not Nishita Mhatre and Justice Asha Charge sheeted for various continuing for over two weeks in The monsoon session, which opposition parties are demanding be taken up due to the uproar. Arora that section 409 of the offences, including criminal con- this monsoon session. You (chair- began on July 21, has been facing the resignation of Sushma Swaraj The opposition members said Indian Penal Code, which deals spiracy, cheating and criminal man) and the deputy chairman continued disruptions over the and Rajasthan Chief Minister the bill would not be discussed with criminal breach of trust by breach of trust in the multi-crore have time and again appealed (to) alleged help extended to former Vasundhara Raje for their links until the house was in order. public servant, was not applica- scam, Mitra has been behind bars such members and have warned IPL chief Lalit Modi by External with former IPL chief Lalit Modi, An angry Minister of State for ble against Mitra as he was not since his arrest on December 12 them that they should go back to Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and of Madhya Pradesh Chief Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar connected with the Saradha last year. their seats and should not disrupt and Rajasthan Chief Minister Minister Shivraj SIngh Chouhan Abbas Naqvi said, “This is the Group. Besides the high court, Mitra’s (the proceedings),” the signed let- Vasundhara Raje, and over on the Vyapam scam. behaviour which led to what hap- Asserting that Mitra will nei- bail pleas have been repeatedly ter said. the Vyapam scam in Madhya When the house met at 11am pened in the other house... What ther abscond nor exert any kind rejected by lower courts. The letter pointed out that the Pradesh. yesterday, there was brief order do they want? of influence on the witnesses, “It is unfortunate that being a Congress MPs were disrupting The Congress has been as Home Minister Rajnath Singh “What does this ‘ho ho’ mean?” Sibal contended that he was ready senior leader, Sibal is represent- the house despite the warnings. demanding the resignations of read out a statement on the terror he asked, referring to the noise to step down as a minister if the ing a leader of a party which is “All members are equal and our Sushma Swaraj, Raje and Madhya attack in Udhampur in Jammu from the Congress benches. court granted him bail. neck deep in the scam. It is evi- rights as members are infringed Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj and Kashmir where a Pakistani “Go out on the streets and Vehemently opposing the plea, dent that profession is more dear upon by such disruptions. We Singh Chouhan. terrorist was nabbed. shout if you want.” Amid the din, Central Bureau of Investigation to Sibal than the party,” said state want to raise many important The government has, however, Soon after, the Congress Deputy Chairman P J Kurien (CBI) counsel K Raghavacharyulu Congress president Adhir Ranjan issues of public interest on the made it clear that there would be members were on their feet adjourned the house for the day. said if Mitra was granted bail, he Chowdhury. floor of the house. But disruptions no resignations and also refused raising slogans, forcing the first IANS would influence witnesses and IANS

Maggi on shelves soon, CM stopped from reading says Minister Paswan out rape details NEW DELHI: Despite the consumers is most important.” PANAJI: Goa chief minis- stand taken by the food safety Speaking in Hindi, he also ter Laxmikant Parsekar was watchdog, Consumer Affairs sought to use an analogy. yesterday stopped by Speaker Minister Ram Vilas Paswan “We cannot take everything for Rajendra Arlekar from reading yesterday said he was hopeful granted. The whole Maggi epi- out graphic details of the alleged that Nestle’s Maggi will be back sode is like what happens after gang rape of a widowed house- on the shelves soon, drawing the rains — pots made of mud maid by eight persons, including comfort from favourable test get destroyed, but utensils made a police constable, in the state reports for the top instant noo- from steel and brass shine. I hope legislative assembly. dles brand from some accred- Maggi will start shining again,” As Parsekar began reading ited laboratories. he said. out in English the details of the “The latest tests conducted The Food Safety and Standards July 29 gang rape of the 30-year- by Central Food Technological Authority of India (FSSAI) last old native of Belgaum district in Research Institute (CFTRI) has Wednesday said Nestle India Karnataka, including explicit por- found Maggi safe. I have a gut had not been given a clean chit tions, independent legislator Vijai feeling it will return to retail regarding its noodles and that Sardesai objected. shelves soon,” Paswan said of the its ban order of June 5 was still “I think this incident is too margins of a conference on fast operative, despite a noted lab in grotesque...Goa Police have not moving consumer goods, hosted Karnataka reportedly finding the arrested the five accused persons by Assocham here. snack to be safe. yet. You have not arrested them Border Security Force pays tribute to the soldiers killed in a militant attack, at BSF headquarters in Jammu before He was alluding to the test But following the favourable and instead you are reading this,” the funeral rites, yesterday. reports from the Mysore facility test reports, Goa Deputy Chief Sardesai said. of the lab, which gave is report Minister Francis D’Souza aaid he Earlier, Parsekar narrated the based on the samples sent to it favoured a re-think on the ban details that led to the alleged by the Goa food safety depart- since it was certified laboratory gang rape at a flat in the Old ment. The minister’s comments that found the popular instant Goa area near Panaji by main Captured terrorist quizzed, also come against he backdrop of noodle to be safe for consumption. accused Manguesh, a policeman the food safety regulator declining “Why should you ban something and others. to take note of the latest report. when it is safe? If it was not safe Intervening in the matter, Paswan made it clear that con- I could have understood.” Speaker Rajendra Arlekar said, Pakistan disowns Usman sumer interest will be paramount India’s official food regulator “If you have taken action, tell us while deciding on the matter on June 5 had banned the sale that; please do not go into the NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD: on the Srinagar-Jammu high- “We have repeatedly asked India pertaining to ban against Maggi, of Maggi after an allegedly high details.” India yesterday said the way in Udhampur district last to refrain from (hurling false) while expressing concern over the amount of lead and monosodium Four persons have been Udhampur terror attack that Wednesday. After one of the accusations.” negative perception such develop- glutamate (MSG) were found in arrested in connection with the led to the dramatic capture of terrorists was killed, the other, Meanwhile, the Pakistani ter- ments have created in the minds samples. Following that, Nestle gang rape, while police constable a Pakistani terrorist was aimed now identified as Naved alias rorist was shifted to the Joint of the potential foreign investors. withdrew all variants of the noo- Nagesh Khandeparkar has been at derailing peace in Jammu Mohammad Usman, fled to a vil- Interrogation Centre at Talab “I am worried. After Maggi ban dle, while continuing to maintain suspended, the chief minister and Kashmir. Islamabad mean- lage and took shelter in a house Tillo area in Jammu where intel- the perception of people changed. that its products were safe. said. while denied that the young but was caught by three villagers. ligence officers from the state and Foreign investors will also now On the latest matter, Nestle Parsekar told the Goa legis- guerrilla in Indian custody was Rajnath Singh said the cap- New Delhi quizzed him. think twice before investing in has refrained from making any lative assembly that while the a Pakistani. tured terrorist — believed to be Jammu and Kashmir govern- India. comment, on the ground that victim claimed she was raped by And in a familiar repeat of 20-something — admitted he was ment sources said that a National Our credibility is at stake,” he the matter was sub judice. The eight persons, police investiga- the arguments advanced after from Faisalabad in Pakistan. Investigation Agency team headed said, adding, “But all this is possi- Bombay High Court is hearing tions revealed that four persons Pakistani terrorists caused Pakistani authorities denied by Inspector General Sunil Kumar ble to rectify only after addressing the matter. raped her twice. mayhem in Mumbai in 2008, that Usman was a Pakistani. visited the site where a BSF con- all concerns. The concerns of our IANS IANS Islamabad sought proof from New Official sources said that the voy was attacked at Narsu Nallah Delhi for the captured terrorist’s suspect was not a Pakistani as in Udhampur. Pakistani link. information about him was not The sources said Mohammed “We strongly condemn the found in the National Database Usman was likely to be shifted Remembering Hiroshima attack and the persistent and Registration Authority out of Jammu and Kashmir for attempts by terrorists from (NADRA). sustained interrogation. across the border to vitiate the NADRA also said images of India is expected to take up peaceful atmosphere in Jammu the terrorist shown on Indian strongly with Islamabad the ter- and Kashmir,” Home Minister television did not match any ror attacks at Udhampur and Rajnath Singh told parliament. Pakistani citizen. Pakistan’s earlier in Gurdaspur in Punjab, Two terrorists ambushed Foreign Office spokesman Qazi which left seven people dead. and killed two BSF troopers Khalilulla was more forthright, IANS

Crime Branch to probe Security beefed up for PM visit failed police IT project CHENNAI: Security has been tightened here in view of Prime THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: including software, hardware and Minister Narendra Modi’s visit The Kerala government has providing training, to do but at here today to launch the first ordered the Crime Branch to the end of two years it failed to National Handloom Day. Later probe the nearly `2 crore loss complete the job. Kerala Police in the day, Modi is also expected incurred by a Kerala Police IT gave `1.87 crore to the IT firm to meet Tamil Nadu Chief project that was handed over for the purpose. Minister J Jayalalithaa. to a now closed Bengaluru- Home Minister Ramesh It is learnt Modi would arrive based IT firm, it was announced Chennithala said that as soon as at around 10.30am from New yesterday. he heard about it, he asked police Delhi and would go to Madras As part of a police modernisa- chief T P Senkumar to look into University Centenary Auditorium tion drive, the state government the matter. to attend the function organised had launched an electronic beat “After the preliminary probe by the union textiles ministry. monitoring system in seven dis- was done, he (Senkumar) has Last week Modi visited tricts and a Bengaluru-based IT asked for a Crime Branch probe Rameswaram to attend the last Students pose in a school in Chandigarh, Punjab, as they participate in a face-painting event to commemorate firm had been roped in to do the and the permission has been given rites of former president APJ the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yesterday. job. for it,” said Chennithala. Abdul Kalam. The company had multiple jobs, IANS IANS FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Container ships make a slow Key European return to Iran stock markets Vessels awaiting removal of sanctions end lower LONDON: The first international The sanctions have an explicit container ships began arriving in exemption for food, medicine and LONDON: Europe’s main stock Iran this week after the nuclear other humanitarian goods, but markets closed lower yesterday, deal between Tehran and world foreign shipping firms previously on the eve of US jobs data that powers, yet many ship owners pulled out to avoid falling foul of could cement expectations of a remain wary of resuming business its provisions. Fed rate rise next month. until sanctions are removed — still The 2011 blacklisting of Iranian London’s benchmark FTSE 100 some months away. port operator Tidewater Middle index ended the day 0.08 percent Iran had depended on foreign East Co, which operates termi- down to 6,747.09 points, after the ships for much of its imports, but nals including Bandar Abbas and Bank of England decided to keep its has relied more on land routes and major grain terminal Bandar Imam main interest rate at 0.50 percent its own commercial fleet, particu- Khomeini, has also discouraged for- earlier in the day. In the Eurozone, larly since 2012, as layers of sanc- eign shipping firms. That designa- Frankfurt’s DAX 30 closed 0.44 tions led to an exodus of Western tion remains in place, making trade percent lower to 11,585.10 points, shipping firms, leading to supply complicated due to difficulties with while the CAC 40 in Paris slipped disruptions. making payments with designated 0.09 percent to finish at 5,192.11. In one of the first signs of change, entities. The euro rallied to $1.0914 the world’s third largest container Ship insurer Standard Club said from $1.0904 late in New York on shipping group, France’s CMA this week: “Members should exer- Wednesday. The pound slipped CGM, said on Monday that it would cise caution if they are considering to $1.5513 compared with $1.5603 restart services to Iran in early trading to Iran and carry out due Wednesday, with investors reacting August. diligence including seeking legal A pedestrian is reflected in a window as he talks on a phone walking past boards displaying stock prices at to news that British industrial pro- The UK-flagged CMA CGM advice to ensure that they will not the Australian Securities Exchange in central Sydney yesterday. The S&P/ASX 200 index dropped 1.1 percent duction fell in June by 0.4 percent. Andromeda container ship arrived be in breach of sanctions.” or 63.8 points to 5,610.1 at the close of trade, its biggest one-day decline since July 22. Wall Street was posting mixed in Iran’s Bandar Abbas port yester- The world’s top container group results, as big declines in 21st day, ship tracking data on Thomson Maersk Line said it was prepared Century Fox, Tesla Motors and Reuters Eikon showed. CMA CGM to resume commercial container some other companies following declined further comment. business in Iran again “as and QE market capitalisation falls earnings reports halted the mar- Taiwanese container line when international sanctions are ket’s advance. During mid-day Evergreen, the world’s fifth biggest repealed”. DOHA: Qatari stocks fell last week (Sunday on the bourse last week with a share of 32.28 per- trade, the Dow Jones Industrial player, said it had also resumed calls Diego Aponte, President and through Thursday) as the main Qatar Exchange cent in the total. The industrial sector accounted Average was 0.68 percent lower to Bandar Abbas and its first vessel Chief Executive of the world’s index lost 14.97 points or 0.13 percent to 11,770.25. for 27.10 percent, while the real estate sector at 17,430.75 points. The tech-rich arrived at the port on Wednesday. number two line MSC, visited Trading value last week decreased by 12.64 accounted for 16.09 percent and consumer goods Nasdaq Composite Index shed Evergreen, one of the last lines to Tehran in July for informal meet- percent to reach QR884.27m compared to and services sector accounted for 10.07 percent. 1.58 percent at 5,058.74, while the suspend direct calls in 2013, said its ings with logistics businesses and over QR1.01bn the previous week. Trading volume Of the 43 companies listed, 11 ended higher last broad-based S&P 500 rose 0.31 Iran service would “accommodate government officials. The company fell too, by 21.38 percent to over 18.24 million shares week, while 30 fell and two remained unchanged. percent at 2,099.84. increased customer demand that said it was “optimistic about future as against 23.20 million the previous week, while the As for individual companies, Masraf Al Rayan In Greece, the Athens stock we are experiencing”. trading” in Iran. number of transactions dipped by 46.96 percent to led in terms of trading value accounting for 18.45 market closed 3.56 percent higher While Iran’s market represents BMI Research forecast container reach 15,785 as compared to 29,763 the previous week. percent of the total, Gulf International Services at 660.68 points yesterday, after a potential boon, EU and US offi- throughput at Bandar Abbas would Market capitalisation also fell, albeit by a mar- accounted for 9.61 percent and Barwa Real Estate dropping nearly 20 percent in cials have stressed it is likely to be expand by 6.7 percent year-on-year ginal 0.33 percent, to QR624.39bn as compared to accounted for 9.44 percent. value since the start of the week. months before trade measures are in 2015 to reach 1.7 million TEU QR626.44bn at the end of previous week. As for yesterday, the Qatar Exchange (QE) index Asian stocks ended mixed, with removed and subject to Iran meet- (20-foot equivalent units). The banking and financial services sector was dropped 66.50 points at the close of trading to most markets taking a hit after ing its obligations under the nuclear “The port has a long way to the top performer in terms of trading value last 11,836.75. The daily turnover increased to QR135.93m the patchy US economic data the deal reached last month. go to reclaim its previous mile- week with a share of 40.21 percent in the total. with a volume of 2.7 million shares from 2,413 deals day before fed economic uncer- “Once Iran fulfils its commit- stone of 2.8 million TEU, which it The industrial sector accounted for 24.48 percent, compared to QR129.22m with a volume of 2.99 million tainty while Tokyo got a boost ments, it will receive sanctions recorded in 2011, but we believe while the real estate sector had a share of 15.76 shares from 2,656 deals on Wednesday. Market capi- from a weaker yen. Tokyo fin- relief,” Samantha Evans, deputy that recovery is underway,” said percent and the consumer goods and services sec- talization decreased to QR624.39bn from QR626.82bn ished 0.24 percent higher, while head of the sanctions section at Michelle Berman, head of opera- tor accounted for 6.60 percent in the total. on Wednesday. The indices of the five sectors ended Seoul lost 0.81 percent, Shanghai Britain’s Foreign Office, told an tional risk at BMI Research. The banking and financial services sector also in red and two in green yesterday. dropped 0.89 percent and Sydney Iran business forum in London. REUTERS led in terms of number of transactions concluded THE PENINSULA shed 1.13 percent. AFP

Gamescom fair China has spent Forbes survey finds Gates $147bn to prop richest in tech, Bezos rises

up stocks, says WASHINGTON: Microsoft’s of $41.2bn, followed by Google Bill Gates was the unsurprising founders Larry Page ($33.4bn) Goldman Sachs leader of the first Forbes list of and Sergey Brin ($32.8bn). the richest global tech billion- Alibaba founder Jack Ma was SHANGHAI: US investment aires, while Amazon founder number seven with a worth of bank Goldman Sachs has esti- Jeff Bezos saw his personal for- $23.2bn, the wealthiest of 10 mated the Chinese government tune surge. Chinese billionaires on the list. has spent up to 900bn yuan The Forbes survey released late Former Microsoft chief execu- ($147bn) in the last two months on Wednesday found US-based tive Steve Ballmer came in eighth to try to prop up stock prices tech magnates made up 51 of the at $22.7bn, while Laurene Powell and halt a market rout. 100 richest people in technology, Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder After the Shanghai market with 33 from Asia and eight from Steve Jobs was number nine at peaked in mid-June and then Europe. The net worth of the 100 $21.4bn, and computer company fell 30 percent in three weeks, people amounted to $842.9bn, founder Michael Dell was tenth the government intervened with according to the magazine. The with a worth of $19.4bn. a rescue package that included minimum net worth to make the Jobs was the richest of the seven funding China Securities Finance top 100 was $2bn. women on the list. The average age Corp (CSF) to buy stock. Gates, who has long been at or is 53, or a decade younger than the Goldman said the government near the top of the world’s rich- average of all billionaires, Forbes spent 860-900bn yuan to support est individuals, led the group with said. The youngest is Snapchat A woman tests a virtual reality headset “VR One” developed by a German manufacturer Zeiss at the the stock market in June and July, an estimated worth of $79.6bn, founder Evan Spiegel, who at age Gamescom 2015 fair in Cologne, Germany. The Gamescom convention, Europe’s largest video games according to a research report trailed by Oracle founder Larry 25 is worth an estimated $2.1bn. issued on Wednesday. The report Ellison at $50bn. The oldest is Intel cofounder trade fair, runs until August 9. put the total war chest of poten- The surprising number three Gordon Moore, 86, whose esti- tial funds available for market was Bezos, who saw a gain of some mated worth is $6bn. support at around 2 trillion yuan $13bn in his fortune this year with Forbes said 94 of the tech — including funds already spent. the rise of Amazon shares, and is moguls created their own com- Bloomberg News yesterday now worth $47.8bn, Forbes said. panies, while three inherited their reported that the CSF — previ- Facebook founder Mark wealth, and three others inherited Jobless claims in US edge up ously a largely unknown institu- Zuckerberg snared the number fortunes but have expanded them. tion that helped provide financing four position with a net worth AFP WASHINGTON: The number on today’s employment report for it irons out week-to-week volatility, to brokerages — was seeking an of Americans filing new applica- July. According to a Reuters sur- fell 6,500 to 268,250 last week. additional 2 trillion yuan, which tions for unemployment benefits vey of economists, nonfarm pay- A separate report from glo- would bring its total market sup- rose less than expected last week, rolls likely increased by 223,000 bal outplacement consultancy port funds to 5 trillion yuan. suggesting labour market condi- last month, matching June’s gain. Challenger, Gray & Christmas Worries the government is pre- tions are continuing to tighten. Though job growth has slowed showed planned job cuts by US paring to exit the market, despite Germany doubts Greek deal Initial claims for state unem- from last year’s brisk pace, the employers surged 136 percent to repeated denials, were the trigger ployment benefits increased 3,000 unemployment rate, at 5.3 per- near a four-year high of 105,696 for the biggest one-day fall in eight to a seasonally adjusted 270,000 cent, is near the 5.0 percent to 5.2 workers in July. The US Army, years of 8.48 percent last month. on third bailout this month for the week ended August 1, the percent range that most Federal which plans to eliminate about But Goldman said fears of an Labour Department said yesterday. Reserve officials consider consist- 57,000 troops and civilian employ- imminent exit by the “national BERLIN: Germany is growing increasingly dubious that a deal on It was the 22nd consecutive week ent with full employment. ees over the next two years, team” — as the media and market a third bailout for Greece can be sealed this month, the daily Bild that claims held below the 300,000 Last week, the Fed upgraded accounted for more than half of regulator have dubbed the players reported yesterday citing a government source. threshold, which is associated with its assessment of the jobs mar- the planned job cuts last month. supporting the market on behalf With just two weeks to go until an August 20 deadline when Greece a strengthening labour market. ket, describing employment gains Economists, however, expect of the government — are overdone. must repay some ¤3.4bn ($3.7bn) due to the European Central Bank, “The unemployment claims as “solid.” The US central bank, minimal impact on the labor mar- “The probability of a rash exit the unnamed official told Bild: “It can’t be done.” are consistent with continued which is expected to raise interest ket from the layoffs, as military is low as the market has not yet European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said on solid job creation and a reduction rates this year for the first time personnel are not included in the stabilised and the government has Wednesday that he believed an agreement was likely this month, in labor market slack over time,” in nearly a decade, also said labor monthly payrolls count. no pressing need for the funds,” the “preferably before the 20th”. said John Ryding, chief economist market slack had diminished Employers in the technol- report said. Goldman said the gov- Officials from the Commission, the ECB, the EU’s bailout fund and at RDQ Economics in New York. “since early this year.” ogy sector, including Microsoft, ernment has picked up heavyweight the International Monetary Fund are currently in Athens working out Economists had expected The four-week moving aver- Qualcomm and Intel Corp, blue-chip stocks in sectors such as the details of the new rescue worth up to ¤86bn. The Greek govern- claims to rise to 273,000 last age of claims, considered a better announced 18,891 job cuts in July. banking, insurance, food and bever- ment said on Tuesday that it expected an agreement by August 18. week. The data has no bearing measure of labor market trends as REUTERS age, and healthcare. AFP AFP FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Russian rouble Egypt unveils Suez Canal extension hits 70 to the Canal now allows simultaneous passage of ships with up to 66 ft. draught euro as slump

ISMAILIA: With much pomp worsens and fanfare, Egypt yester- day unveiled a major exten- MOSCOW: The value of Russia’s sion of the Suez Canal billed beleaguered rouble fell yesterday by its patron, President Abdel to more than 70 to the euro for Fattah Al Sisi as a historic the first time since March, deep- achievement needed to boost ening its recent meltdown. the country’s ailing economy The rouble also tumbled against after years of unrest. the dollar to 64.42, its weakest Sisi, wearing his ceremonious since the end of February, as the military uniform and trademark currency continued to drop after dark sunglasses on a sweltering a period of relative stability. August day, flew to the site aboard Russia’s economy has slumped a military helicopter and imme- into recession on the back of lower diately boarded a monarchy-era oil prices and Western sanctions yacht that sailed to the venue of over the Ukraine crisis. the ceremony. The rouble lost around half of The yacht was flanked by its value in 2014 but recovered navy warships as helicopters, slightly as energy prices stabilised jet-fighters and military trans- this year, allowing officials to claim port aircraft flew overhead. A the worst of the crisis had passed. visibly triumphant Sisi stood on But the recent decline, result- the vessel’s upper deck, waving to ing from a renewed fall in oil well-wishers and folklore dance prices that has seen the rouble troupes performing on shore. At lose some 20 percent of its value one point, a young boy in military since mid-May, has highlighted uniform and holding an Egyptian how volatile the situation remains. red, black and white flag joined The weakening rouble prod- him on deck. ded the country’s central bank to Later in the day, the president reduce interest rates last week by changed to a dark grey business the smallest amount this year as suit and took his seat at the main it juggles attempts to resuscitate stand for an elaborate ceremony the economy against rising infla- in the canal city of Ismailia, tion fears. attended by foreign dignitaries Authorities now predict that and organised amid tight security Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi posing for a picture with King Abdullah II of Jordan, French President, Francois Hollande, H M King Hamad bin Russia’s economy will shrink by measures. Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Al Bashir, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, and the Ruler of Dubai and Vice- some 2.8 percent this year, while The unveiling of the $8.5bn President of UAE, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, following the inauguration ceremony for the new additions to the Suez Canal, in Egypt yesterday. the IMF says that prolonged extension has been trumpeted Western sanctions could lead to as a historic achievement by much of the nation, along with simultaneous passage of ships injecting much-needed foreign is hoping for would require major the country losing nine percent of pro-government media and has banners declaring support for Sisi with up to 66 ft. draught. The currency into an economy that growth in global trade, which at GDP in the medium term. AFP revived the nationalistic personal- and hailing his latest achievement. project was initially estimated to has struggled to recover from this point seems unlikely. ity cult built around the 60-year- The new Suez Canal extension take three years, but Sisi ordered the 2011 uprising that toppled But the man-made water- HTC suffers loss old Sisi, who as army chief led the involved digging and dredging it completed in one. president Hosni Mubarak and way linking the Red Sea to the overthrow of an Islamist presi- along 72km of the 193km canal, The government says the the years of turmoil that followed. Mediterranean, which was inau- in second quarter dent in 2013 and was elected to making a parallel waterway at its project, funded entirely by Economists and shippers gurated in 1869, has long been office last year. middle that will facilitate two-way Egyptian investors, will more have questioned the value of the seen as a symbol of Egyptian Egypt’s black, white and red traffic. With a depth of 24 meters than double the canal’s annual project, saying the increased traf- national pride. as sales plunge flags adorn the streets across (79 feet), the canal now allows the revenue to $13.2bn by 2023, fic and revenues the government AP TAIPEI: Taiwan’s struggling smartphone maker HTC suf- fered its biggest ever quarterly Deutsche Telekom profit up loss in the three months to June, as sales of its high-end Bank of England products plunged, it announced Rio Tinto half-year yesterday. freezes interest The firm swung to a loss of Tw$8bn ($253.2m) in the sec- rate, but hikes ond quarter from a net profit of profit falls 82pc $2.26bn in the same period of 2014. It is also a nosedive from growth forecast SYDNEY: Mining giant Rio It cut capital expenditure by the first quarter of this year, Tinto yesterday reported a 82 $1.4bn for the first half to $2.5bn. when HTC reported a net profit LONDON: The Bank of percent drop in its first-half net Rio declared an interim divi- of Tw$360m. Revenues slid to England has voted to leave its profit as a supply glut and slow- dend of 107.5 cents, a 12 percent Tw$33bn. main interest rate at a record- ing demand in key market China increase from 2014. Its shares The deficit was triggered by low 0.50 percent in the face of sent iron ore prices plunging. closed 1.08 percent higher at “weaker than expected demand zero inflation, it said yesterday. The Anglo-Australian firm, Aus$53.55 ahead of the results. at the high end... along with At the same time, the BoE which reports in US dollars, said The company’s underlying weak sales in China”, the com- raised its forecast for British net profit was $806m in the six earnings for iron ore slumped 55 pany said in a statement. It said economic growth this year to 2.8 months to June 30 from $4.4bn in percent to $2.1bn from $4.7bn. the outlook was dim for the third percent from a previous estimate the same period last year. Copper earnings sank 40 percent quarter with revenues forecast of 2.5 percent. Its underlying profit, the meas- to $393m while aluminium soared to fall to between Tw$19bn and Despite the central bank main- ure preferred by the company, was 113 percent to $793m. Tw$22bn. taining the key rate, governor down 43 percent to $2.9bn. “This Diamonds and other minerals “HTC has begun to imple- Mark Carney insisted that the is a robust set of results, given the were broadly unchanged, slipping ment company-wide efficiency time for a hike is moving closer. tough operating environment,” one percent to $75m. measures to reduce operating “The likely timing of the first Rio Tinto chief executive Sam “It’s definitely strong all round costs across the organisation and bank rate increase is drawing Walsh said in a statement. and ahead of expectations on ensure resources are appropri- The logo of the Deutsche Telekom lit up on the Colonius telecommuni- closer,” he told a press conference. Walsh said the miner’s focus on all key metrics,” CLSA’s head ately allocated to future growth,” cations tower in Cologne. Germany’s biggest telecom group Deutsche “However the exact timing of cost-cutting had reaped savings of of resources research Andrew the statement said. the first move cannot be predicted $641m in the six months, and it Driscoll said of the results, despite But analysts said it still faced Telekom yesterday posted a modest gain in second-quarter profit in advance... In short, it will be data was now increasing its target to the profit slump. huge challenges. “In China there thanks to flourishing business in US. Net profit edged up 0.1 percent dependent.” Analysts’ consensus is $1bn. The world’s second-largest “But it hasn’t delivered the are around 10 brands which have to €712m ($777m) in the three months to the end of June. for the rate to begin rising early miner is heavily reliant on iron same surprise perhaps that the come up with similar products next year amid steady British eco- ore, a crucial steel-making com- full-year result did as the mar- for one-third of the price, not to nomic growth, having remained ponent, and added that it was ket has become more expecting mention giants like Apple and unchanged since March 2009. expecting capital expenditure to of increases in cost-out tar- Samsung,” Jeff Pu, analyst at “Speculation had been intensi- decline to about $5.5bn this year gets and reductions in (capital Yuanta Securities Investment fying that the Bank would swiftly and be around $6bn in 2016. expenditure).” AFP Consulting, said. AFP Libya’s oil output at follow the US Federal Reserve, which appears set to raise rates in September,” said Ben Brettell, nearly 400,000 b/d senior economist at Hargreaves Maruti Suzuki launches S-Cross Lansdown stockbrokers. The BoE said its Monetary Policy TRIPOLI: Libya’s oil produc- Sider and Ras Lanuf have been Committee “voted by a majority of tion is currently nearly 400,000 closed since December. 8-1 to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5 barrels a day, the oil minister Zwai also said that tribal elders percent”. The nine-member MPC in one of the country’s rival were still mediating to end the also maintained the central bank’s governments which controls blockage of a pipeline feeding the level of cash stimulus pumping Tripoli, said yesterday. 340,000 b/d-El Sharara oilfield in around the British economy at Mashallah Zwai also said that the southwest of the country. £375bn ($583bn), it added in min- power cuts in the country had not “Hopefully the pipeline will utes published following a regular affected oil output. Authorities be reopened within a month monthly policy meeting shut down Libya’s biggest steel though these efforts,” Zwai said. It was the first time that the firm this week due to power An armed group from Zintan in central bank had published min- shortages after fighting and lack the western mountains which utes immediately after the meet- of spare parts disrupted the power opposes the Tripoli rival govern- ing — a switch made by Canadian grid. Much of eastern Libya has ment has blocked the pipeline national Carney that is aimed at had electricity only sporadically since November. providing more transparency. in the past week. The Zintanis have demanded a “The near-term outlook for Libya’s oil output had been pre- force loyal to Tripoli to leave the inflation is muted,” added the viously put by industry sources field. The pipeline is also linked minutes, which prior to Thursday at between 400,000 b/d and to the El Feel oilfield, which has were traditionally published two 450,000 b/d. This is a quarter of been closed by a separate strike weeks after a meeting. “The falls what Libya used to pump before by security forces. in energy prices of the past few an uprising toppled Muammar More than half of Libya’s output months will continue to bear down Gaddafi in 2011. comes from the eastern state oil on inflation at least until the mid- Since then the oil and gas firm AGOCO, a subsidiary of the dle of next year,” they added. industry has been hit by strikes, national oil firm NOC. It runs the Britain’s annual inflation rate protests, fighting of rival armed Hariga port and the Sarir field, the turned flat in June from the pre- Kenichi Ayukawa (right), Managing Director and CEO of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, and head of domestic sales groups and locals making politi- country’s biggest. AGOCO had last vious month, also on the back of and marketing R S Kalsi stand next to the S-Cross vehicle during its launch in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday. cal and financial demands. The put its production at 220,000 b/d. falling clothing and food prices, country’s two biggest oil ports Es REUTERS recent official data showed. AFP FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

High minimum wage will choke Let’s talk about the real employment, hurt the poor BY NOAH SMITH problem with CEO pay while back I wrote in support of the $15 minimum wage initiatives in San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles and a few other cities. Now it’s time for me to write the oppo- BY PAULA DWYER better-compensated peers. for example, it’s only natural Consider the subprime lending A site article — the idea of a $15 minimum wage is being Boards comply out of fear that that chief executives will start crisis, in which the equity-based taken too far, too fast. Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders just he Securities the CEO will jump ship. to worry about their portfolios. bonus system encouraged finan- introduced a bill to mandate a federal $15 minimum wage, and he and Exchange Instead of obsessing about An acquisition or share buyback cial companies to originate home probably will make it a plank of his presidential campaign. This Commission did as it how much CEOs earn, it would financed with borrowed money loans that had little hope of would be a bad idea. was told more than make sense to focus on how their can nudge the shares upward. being repaid. That didn’t matter At this point, some of my more left-leaning readers will five years ago and pay is determined. CEO pay is But the company’s long-term to the mortgage bankers mak- probably get mad, and say that I am shilling for employers, Tissued a pay-ratio rule today. almost always tied to how well prospects may suffer if there’s ing the loans, whose stock-based or for the rich. They will list a long litany of ways in which It says public companies must a company’s shares are doing. too much debt, or if an acquisi- bonuses depended on the volume the poor and working class have suffered or been left behind disclose how their chief execu- These days, most bonuses come tion loses money. of loans they made and whose in the last few decades, and demand to know why I’m opposing a tive officers’ (CEO) compensa- in the form of shares that vest A falling share price, on the future liability (once those loans measure intended to help the helpless and downtrodden. But it’s tion compares with their median over the years. other hand, isn’t always an indi- imploded) was limited. important to realise that the argument against minimum wages workers’ pay. Even more detailed perform- cator of poor performance. It But if those mortgage bankers isn’t that they hurt the rich; it’s that they can end up hurting Unions and liberal advocacy ance metrics, such as total can reflect a determined CEO’s had been paid in debt — either the poor. Raise minimum wages too high, and you’ll eventually groups like the rule as much as shareholder return (share-price attempt to refocus a company by directly with corporate bonds or choke off employment, harming the very people that the policy is corporations dislike it. For the appreciation plus dividends over selling poorly performing assets debt-like instruments (defined- intended to help. same reason, too: The point is time), that determine how much and investing profits (rather benefit pensions or deferred public shaming. Once the world of a CEO’s potential bonus will than returning them to share- compensation) or indirectly by A BAD IDEA knows that a CEO makes hun- be paid out, are based largely on holders) in new products or new linking bonuses to the price of We’re not going to get an answer to the employment question dreds of times more than an how well the stock is doing. markets that may not pay off for their company’s 10-year bonds until some cities try a $15 minimum wage. It might work, and it employee, the thinking goes, Equity-based compensation, several years. or its credit rating — they would might not. Smaller minimum wage hikes in the past weren’t too CEOs will look grasping and however, doesn’t necessarily have had to stand in line with damaging, but $15 is uncharted territory. Experiments such as greedy. And then, voilá! Red- measure how well or poorly a ALTERNATIVE FORMS other creditors to get their those in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles will help us deter- faced corporate boards will CEO has managed a company. Why not consider alterna- money out. mine whether $15 is too high. have no choice but to cut pay Shares rise and fall with the tive forms of payment and per- American International That’s exactly why a federal minimum wage is a bad idea. If for bosses or raise it for workers. broader economy, bringing most formance measurements? Sallie Group, whose bonus-eager some cities have $15 minimum wages and other nearby cities don’t, Don’t believe it. Sure, the companies’ stock along for the Krawcheck, a former Bank of executives sold billions worth we can compare the former to the latter. We can look at their comparisons — which won’t ride. America and Citigroup execu- of insurance on mortgage bonds respective economic performances. We can see if people and busi- appear until 2017 — will get a Shares can jump because of tive, has joined several academ- that AIG couldn’t make good on nesses move from cities with high minimum wages to those with great deal of notice. Best and a rival company’s merger deal. ics suggesting paying executives once the housing bubble burst, low minimum wages. If the minimum wage is $15 everywhere, we worst lists will appear. And CEO That rewards a CEO for being with corporate bonds, which likes the debt compensation can’t make that comparison. A federal minimum wage ruins the pay will keep going up. lucky. would give executives reasons approach. In 2010, it said that experiment. to borrow less, take fewer risks 80 percent of executive bonuses EXECUTIVE PAY STOCK DIP and manage for the longer term. will depend on company bond RECESSIONS OR BOOMS Research shows that Equity-based pay also can (This would be especially appro- prices, and only 20 percent on Now, with a federal minimum wage, there will be nothing to stop CEOs demand pay raises, give CEOs an incentive to take priate for banks.) the share price. us from doing a before-and-after comparison of economic perform- not cuts, when they discover on risk. If stock returns dip, They’re onto something. BLOOMBERG ance. But that probably won’t tell us much, because a lot of other stuff will be happening at the same time. There will be recessions or booms, asset prices will rise or fall, and a bunch of other policies will be enacted. We won’t get a clean test. Suppose we enact a federal $15 minimum wage, and employment falls a lot during the next decade? Pundits will be arguing for years. Was it the minimum wage that caused the fall, they will ask, or too much regulation of business? Was it shifting patterns of trade? Was it declining business dynamism? The list of possible causes will be long, and the data won’t be able to distinguish among them. The same thing will happen if employment doesn’t fall — minimum wage opponents will argue that without the minimum wage hike, it would have risen even more, while proponents will say that the hike was harmless. In other words, local $15 minimum wages will resolve arguments. A federal $15 minimum wage will not. Actually, there’s a big reason to think that a federal minimum wage isn’t a good policy in general. As Slate’s Jordan Weissmann points out, the huge differences in local costs of living mean that in some areas, $15 is only a small increase, while in others it’s a huge boost. This means that a $15 federal minimum wage would only raise the wages of the urban working class a modest amount, but would raise the wages of the small-town working class a huge amount.

LIVING WAGE Whether you’re a minimum wage supporter or an opponent, you should be afraid of that kind of uniformity. If minimum wages don’t hurt employment, then a federal minimum wage is unfair to workers in big cities because their raises will be less than those of small-town workers. But if minimum wages do hurt employment, then small-town workers are going to be put out of a job — and that’s much worse. A much better idea would be local “living wage” campaigns, each one pushing for a number that is appropriate to specific job markets. So although I’m glad to see cities experimenting with a $15 minimum wage, I think we should avoid implementing the policy at the federal level, at least until we see the results of the local experiments. And even if the local experiments are successful, I think that targeted living wage initiatives are a better idea than a federal minimum wage. If we’re going to help the working class, we need effective policies, not just well-intentioned ones. BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate How the UK bank bailout went wrong

BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY Group, which had been allowed The US government, by con- recipients of such aid — the likes — at the time the biggest bank money. In effect, the UK provided to buy distressed Halifax Bank trast, actually made a small profit of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan takeover on record — was espe- a costless subsidy to its healthy he price at which the UK of Scotland, and two other banks (again, ignoring funding and Chase and Morgan Stanley — felt cially large. And the US approach banks, which benefited from the government has sold a — Northern Rock, and Bradford opportunity cost) on its Troubled humiliated and hastened to exit may not have been available to the stabilisation provided by the bail- stake in the nationalised & Bingley. The UK plowed $32bn Asset Relief Program, or TARP. the so-called Capital Purchase UK. Still, in a paper published outs without having to contrib- TRoyal Bank of Scotland into the bank at today’s exchange It invested $426.4bn and recov- Program, part of TARP, paying late last year, Pepper Culpepper ute to their cost. In contrast, the suggests it will lose money on rate and has so far recouped ered $441.7bn by the time the back the taxpayer funds and divi- of the European University US profited from its bank bail- the bank bailout it constructed $21bn through gradual selloffs bailout program shut down late dends. By the end of 2009, only Institute and Raphael Reinke of out, because it was able to bully at the height of the financial that brought the nationalised last year. Only a handful of small small community banks, held to the University of Zurich argued healthy large banks such as JP crisis, something the US has stake down to 15 percent. That banks haven’t yet paid back about stricter standards, remained in that the US bailout worked better Morgan and Wells Fargo into a managed to avoid. At the time, stake is now worth about $13.8bn, $700m in govt assistance. the CPP (stakes in these banks for the taxpayer because the US collective recapitalisation plan. though, Britain’s toughness on so on paper, the British taxpayer At the time the two bailouts were later auctioned off, mainly had more power over its big, sol- Paulson, according to Culpepper rogue bankers was praised and is better off. were hastily put together, the to private funds). vent banks and it used that power and Reinke, forced the stronger the leniency of the US — which Of course, these figures only British one was praised for its The UK approach was more effectively: banks to accept capital injections, didn’t fully nationalise any big refer to the nominal cost of the decisiveness. Economist Paul stringent. At RBS, the govern- Financially strapped banks as well as the weak ones. Thus, banks — was condemned. stakes that British taxpayers Krugman had written that the ment has changed chief executives could not challenge the govern- he financed the bailout through So what went wrong? Here’s bought in the two banks, and not Labour government of Gordon twice since the bailout as it tried ment in either country. They had cross-subsidies among the banks, the math... the financing costs of the invest- Brown had “shown itself will- to beat the lender into shape. In to accept whatever policy the gov- extracting some of the upside The UK government, which ments. The National Audit Office ing to think clearly about the the three months to the end of ernment offered, because only from the biggest banks when they owned 78.3 percent of RBS fol- explained last year that the cost financial crisis, and act quickly June, the bank showed a profit of with government aid could they rebounded. lowing its 2008 bailout, has just of funding the Lloyds bailout had on its conclusions.” He criti- $457m, yet this turnaround took have survived. But healthy banks In the UK, Brown failed sold 5.4 percent of the bank not been recouped. And overall, cised the US Treasury Secretary more than six years to materi- were not dependent on state aid. to involve solvent HSBC and for $3.3bn. That values RBS at the British taxpayer faces a net Henry Paulson for his slowness alise. The US had no taste for Healthy banks in Britain were Barclays in his recapitalisation $66.1bn and the remaining gov- pure loss on the collective sale to embrace bank nationalisation. such experiments and has better in a better position to resist the plan, because he thought they ernment stake at $44.5bn. Yet of the two banks: It is at this The US did eventually inject results to show for its seemingly state, and they drove a better had the power to defy the regu- British taxpayers poured $71bn point unlikely that all of the gov- capital into 707 banks, but in more hands-off approach. deal for themselves. As a result, lators: The UK giants were less into RBS, making a net loss. The ernment’s initial cash outlay of exchange for noncontrolling Of course, the hole RBS dug for the British government absorbed dependent on domestic business UK did better nationalising a 41 $190bn at today’s exchange rate stakes and without replacing the itself by buying the Dutch lender more risk than the US govern- than their counterparts. percent stake in Lloyds Banking will be recovered. banks’ managers. The biggest ABN Amro just before the crash ment and lost its taxpayer more BLOOMBERG FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

QE Indices Summary QE Index 11,770.25 0.56 % WORLD STOCK INDICES GOLD & SILVER EXCHANGE QE Total Return Index 18,295.16 0.56 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 4,582.52 0.36 % RATE QE All Share Index 3,147.47 0.45 % INDEX Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low QE All Share Banks & Financial 3,115.75 0.02 % GOLD Services Buying Selling QE All Share Industrials 3,757.11 0.21 % All Ordinaries 5659.482 -22.389 -0.39 5963.5 5248.5 QE All Share Transportation 2,467.58 0.53 % QR127.6890 US$ ...... QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 QE All Share Real Estate 2,671.81 1.08 % Cac 40 Index/D 5177.01 64.87 1.27 5283.71 4076.16 SILVER UK ...... QR 5.6537 QR 5.7336 QE All Share Insurance 4,800.67 3.16 % Euro ...... QR 3.9320 QR 3.9875 QE All Share Telecoms 1,087.01 1.35 % Dj Indu Average 17550.69 -47.51 -0.27 18351.4 15855.12 QR 1.7170 QE All Share Consumer Goods & 7,177.06 0.21 % CA$ ...... QR 2.7348 QR 2.7891 Services Hang Seng Inde/D 24514.16 108.04 0.44 28588.52 22836.82 Swiss Fr ...... QR 3.6939 QR 3.7464 QE Market Summary Comparison Iseq Overall/D 6704.46 73.1 1.1 6646.54 5072.7 Yen ...... QR 0.0290 QR 0.0295 Aus$ ...... QR 2.6573 QR 2.7100 Today Previous day Karachi 100 In/D 36156.83 235.12 0.65 36114.96 28648.23 CRUDE OIL 06-08-2015 05-08-2015 Ind Re ...... QR 0.0566 QR 0.0577 Index 11,770.25 11,836.75 Nikkei 225 Index 20614.06 93.7 0.46 20952.71 16592.57 Pak Re ...... QR 0.0354 QR 0.0361 Change 66.50 25.19 BRENT Peso ...... QR 0.0788 QR 0.0804 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 2134.72 1820.66 % 0.56 0.21 $ 49.52 SL Re ...... QR 0.0269 QR 0.0275 YTD% 4.2 3.65 Straits Times/D 3191.39 0.35 0.01 3549.85 3175.07 Taka ...... QR 0.0463 QR 0.0473 Volume 2,696,584 2,992,248 DUBAI Nep Re ...... QR 0.0354 QR 0.0361 Value (QAR) 135,933,867.94 129,226,885.91 Straits Times/D 3290.99 -1.82 -0.06 3387.84 2953.01 SA Rand ...... QR 0.2822 QR 0.2878 Trades 2,413 2,656 $ 49.92 Straits Times/D 3274.06 -8.82 -0.27 3291.83 2953.01 Up 16 | Down 20| Unchanged 05

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Gold prices edge up as Most Gulf stock markets fall

DUBAI: Most Gulf stock mar- Du, whose shares rose as Ali port upgrade and reported a 4 kets fell yesterday as Brent much as 0.8 percent early yes- percent increase in container vol- oil dipped below $50 per bar- terday before closing 0.2 per- umes for the first half. greenback retreats rel again, and Saudi Arabia led cent lower in a broad sell-off, Qatar’s bourse fell 0.6 per- the losses. had been largely confined to the cent. Islamic lender Masraf Al NEW YORK/LONDON: Gold co-founder of commodities invest- him not support a rate rise next The main Saudi index was newer areas of Dubai until it Rayan edged up 0.3 percent after edged higher yesterday, sup- ment firm Logic Advisors in New month. But Fed Governor Jerome down about 1 percent and then started offering fixed-line con- Moody’s changed its outlook on ported by the retreating US Jersey. “The dollar has lost a little Powell said policymakers had not slid further, closing 1.6 percent sumer services across the whole the bank’s long-term issuer rat- dollar and a tumble in global ground and we have nervousness yet decided whether to raise rates down at a four-month low of 8,655 country last month, stepping up ings to positive from stable. equities as traders awaited US surrounding equities.” next month, adding that more points. Petrochemical producer competition with Etisalat, du “In addition to the bank’s employment data seen as key to recent employment data had been Saudi Basic Industries, down 2.3 chief executive Osman Sultan growing diversification, our posi- determining when the Federal INVESTORS CAUTIOUS mixed. percent, was the main drag on the told a conference call. tive outlook is also driven by our Reserve may raise interest hikes. Investors have abandoned bul- Holdings of SPDR Gold Trust, benchmark. Dubai’s index fell 1.0 percent expectation that the bank will US non-farm payrolls data are lion during a broad commodities the world’s largest gold-backed Banking and consumer blue as property-related stocks pulled continue to post strong overall due today and economists polled sell-off and on expectations that exchange-traded fund, fell to 21.47 chips were also soft. Top lender back after surging in the previous financial performance, supported by Reuters predict employment in the Fed may raise interest rates million ounces on Wednesday, the National Commercial Bank fell session. Damac Properties, the by Qatari government spending July increased at the same pace as as early as next month. lowest since September 2008. 0.9 percent and food maker Savola most traded stock, fell 1.4 percent, and the overall solid operating June’s 223,000 rise. The looming rise in US rates “In the medium term, with ris- Group dropped 2.3 percent. having risen its daily 15 percent environment,” the credit rating Spot gold was up 0.5 percent dims the appeal of non-interest ing bond yields, EM (emerging Telecommunications opera- limit on Wednesday, when the agency said. at $1,090.11 an ounce by 1759 yielding gold, instead pulling more markets) currencies collapsing, tor Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) fell company said it had more than GMT (1:59pm EST). The metal funds towards the dollar. no safe haven demand and with 3.1 percent. The stock has now tripled its second-quarter profit. HIGHLIGHTS breached important technical Data yesterday showed the the dollar potentially going higher plunged 14.5 percent since the Budget carrier Air Arabia fell SAUDI ARABIA: The index fell support at $1,100 after a deep number of Americans filing new on U.S. rate expectations, there is firm revised earnings for more 1.8 percent after it reported a 13.6 1.6 percent to 8,655 points. rout in late July pushed it as applications for unemployment no gold-friendly news out there,” than two years and posted a sec- percent drop in second-quarter DUBAI: The index fell 1.0 per- low as $1,077, its weakest since benefits rose less than expected Saxo Bank senior manager Ole ond-quarter loss last week. net profit to $39.8m. That was cent to 4,123 points. February 2010. last week. Hansen said. Abu Dhabi’s bourse slipped 0.2 better than analysts had expected ABU DHABI: The index slipped US gold for December deliv- Expectations that the Fed In other metals, spot palladium percent as telecommunications — on average they had predicted 0.2 percent to 4,835 points. ery rose 0.4 percent to settle at could increase rates at its next gained 1.1 percent to $597.25 an operator Etisalat dropped 3.2 Dh133.7m — but revenues at the KUWAIT: The index edged up $1,090.10 an ounce. policy meeting in September ounce, as platinum rose 0.4 per- percent. Its competitor, Dubai- airline fell, apparently because of 0.2 percent to 6,249 points. The dollar was down against a gained ground this week cent to $951 per ounce, not far listed du, said on Wednesday price competition. OMAN: The index was flat at basket of major currencies. Weak after Atlanta Federal Reserve from a 6-1/2 year low hit earlier that the United Arab Emirates Dubai port operator DP World 6,430 points. earnings dragged stocks lower. President Dennis Lockhart said in the week. Silver was up 1 per- had started to open its fixed-line added 1.3 percent; it has gained BAHRAIN: The index inched “We’re seeing a mild consoli- only a “significant deterioration” cent at $14.67 an ounce. consumer telecommunications 5.9 percent since July 28, when it up 0.1 percent to 1,333 points. dation rally,” said Bill O’Neill, in the US economy would make REUTERS market to competition. announced plans for a $1.6bn Jebel REUTERS FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 CLASSIFIEDS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17

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RIO DE JANEIRO: The one- These will be the first Olympics year countdown to the Rio held in South America and a IOC may face legal action Olympics began on Wednesday chance for Brazil, the world’s with officials promising to over- seventh largest economy, to come Brazil’s usual chaos in a look beyond a growing domestic Summer Games that will trans- brew of corruption and economic over Tokyo Olympics logo form the city and thrill the trouble. world. Already the Olympic Park is BRUSSELS: The Belgian Sano argued that his logo fea- “All the construction work is 82 percent ready and Olympic designer of a logo he charges has tured basic geometric features on schedule,” Rio Mayor Eduardo Village 89 percent complete, Paes been plagiarised said yesterday around the letter ‘T’ -- for Tokyo, Paes told journalists in a nearly said. he will take the International Team and Tomorrow, with a red finished arena inside the giant But the generally positive pic- Olympic Committee to court circle representing a beating Olympic Park building site. ture darkens in what environ- over use of the design for the heart. With 12 months left to com- mentalists and Rio residents 2020 Tokyo games. Debie’s design for a theatre in plete the challenge, it’s like “the describe as the horrific pollution The IOC said last week it did the eastern Belgian city of Liege, end of a marathon,” he said. in Guanabara Bay, where sailing not believe there was any problem has a very similar shape in white At a ceremony, visiting and windsurfing contests will take with the design by Japanese artist against a black background but International Olympic Committee place. Kenjiro Sano. does not feature the red circle. chief Thomas Bach praised the Environment experts say most Sano rejected the plagiarism “The letters T and L stand out preparations, while President of the sewage produced by the 12 claims on Wednesday as “com- when you look at the two logos,” Dilma Rousseff vowed Brazil million people in greater Rio goes pletely baseless,” saying he was Debie said, adding that the font would “delight” the world. untreated directly into the bay. “convinced this is a piece that has used was also “strikingly” similar On August 5, 2016, the Olympic In addition, dozens of rivers no parallel in the world.” design. torch will end its own marathon – leading to the bay are filled with Designer Olivier Debie begged “In all, we can only state that being flown around the globe and garbage. to differ. the Tokyo 2020 logo is similar to carried by 12,000 people through In its original bid to host the In a joint statement with his my creation. It has been agreed Brazil – when it lights the flame Games, one of Rio’s promises lawyer Philippe Mottard, Debie that a formal legal complaint will for the opening ceremony in Rio’s was to reduce that pollution by said they had decided on legal be drawn up as soon as possible,” Maracana stadium. 80 percent – a goal that no one action because Sano had not dem- likely by Monday. Carlos Nuzman, president of now even pretends can be met. onstrated that he had arrived at Last week both Mottard and the Rio Olympic organising com- Officials are on the defensive the logo design on his own. the Liege Theatre’s lawyer wrote mittee, reeled off figures illus- and on Wednesday they once “Sano gave no explanation to the IOC and the Tokyo games trating the scope of the world’s more insisted that there was no showing the artistic progression organisers to halt use of the logo. biggest sporting event – and of danger to athletes’ health or to and development of his logo. He The dispute adds to the con- Rio’s commitment. their boats. only explained how, according to troversy surrounding the 2020 There will be 206 countries “The sailing athletes will be him, the philosophy behind his Tokyo Olympic games after Prime represented -- the newest being protected,” Paes said, estimating design was different,” he said. Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the recently recognised South Sudan that pollution had already been “Sano’s explanations do not plans for the main stadium be – and 10,500 athletes competing reduced by 50 percent and “prob- appear to me to be convincing,” torn up amid growing anger over in 42 sports over 17 days. Right ably” will reach 60 percent by the The President of International Olympic Comittee (IOC) Thomas Bach he added. its $2bn price tag. AFP after, the Paralympics will see Games. speaks during an event marking the 1-year countdown for the 2016 4,350 athletes from 176 countries There are debates over whether Summer Olympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday. in 23 sports. Olympics are good for cities or Japanese designer To face the onslaught, Rio is burdensome vanity projects, but Kenjiro Sano assembling the equivalent of eight in Rio the occasion has been an currently only serves a narrow new Brazil. “There will be a legacy speaks during a football fields of sporting gear -- opportunity to escape decades of strip and it can take hours in to create in this country a culture press conference “a million items,” Nuzman said underinvestment, Nuzman said. traffic to go from the center to that things can be done on time,” regarding the Tokyo -- and 45,000 volunteer work- “No city has had the transfor- the Olympic Park. he said, calling Brazil “a country 2020 Olympics ers, with 25,000 on call for the mation of its infrastructure as has But Paes, a flamboyant poli- where everything is delayed’. logo plagiarism Paralympics. Rio,” he said. tician said to have presidential “We want to show the other dispute in Tokyo, on “We are continuing to work, The biggest positive change ambitions, went beyond munici- side,” he said, joking that tropi- Wednesday. because there is still much to do,” will be in transport, linking up a pal matters, stating that a good cal Rio might even feel ready to Rousseff said. sprawling city where the metro Olympics will show the world a “bid for the Winter Games.” AFP

Arizona receiver Spieth targets World No.1 Floyd dislocates ranking at WGC-Bridgestone three fingers in AKRON, US: Masters and US practice Open champion Jordan Spieth will be seeking to unseat Rory NEW YORK: Arizona McIlroy as world number one Cardinals wide receiver Michael when he tees off in the WGC- Floyd suffered three dislocated Bridgestone Invitational. fingers on his left hand during Spieth, still smarting from a practice session and could his agonising failure to win the miss the team’s season opener, British Open at St Andrews the NFL reported on its website last month, headlines the small- (www.nfl.com) on Wednesday. field, no-cut tournament which Floyd, who led the team in New York Mets starting pitcher Matt Harvey throws the ball in the first includes 48 of the top 50 players receiving yards last year, is inning of a game against the Miami Marlins at Marlins Park, Miami on in the world. estimated to miss around four Wednesday. “It would be a dream come weeks with the Cardinals sched- true,” Spieth said on Wednesday uled to kick off their campaign of the number-one ranking. “At on September 13 against New the beginning of the year I wanted Orleans. Mets complete sweep to work my way up the world The 25-year-old will be playing rankings. I didn’t think I could his fourth season in the NFL and be in this position or have this compiled 841 receiving yards and opportunity. six touchdowns in the last cam- with win over Marlins “I feel blessed at the way this paign after recording more than year has gone .... Obviously we all 1,000 yards through the air the NEW YORK: Third baseman to Duda. It was Miami’s highest- want Rory back ASAP. It would previous one. Juan Uribe slugged a three-run scoring ninth inning of the year, be really incredible if at the end of Meanwhile, the Baltimore homer while right-hander Matt and it included a three-run double the week I was holding the trophy Ravens continue to deny tipping Harvey pitched seven scoreless by pinch-hitter Miguel Rojas. and having that position moving off the Indianapolis Colts about innings as the New York Mets Harvey (10-7), who also set a forward.” deflated footballs before the AFC completed their second consecu- career high in wins, allowed two The two most recent WGC- Championship Game against the tive sweep, defeating the Miami hits and no walks, striking out Bridgestone winners, defending New England Patriots. Marlins 8-6 on six. He retired champion McIlroy and Tiger Jordan Spieth of the USA hits a shot during a practice round for the World The NFL Players Association Wednesday at the final 13 bat- Woods, are noticeably absent but Golf Championship - WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country released the transcript of Tom Marlins Park. Baseball Results ters he faced. there will still be plenty of fire- Club on Wednesday in Akron, Ohio. Brady’s testimony in his June Mets first Chi White Sox 6 Tampa Bay 5 His only jam power at the event, the final tune- arbitration hearing regarding baseman Lucas Colorado 7 Seattle 5 came in the first, up before the PGA Championship his alleged role in the Deflategate Duda matched Baltimore 7 Oakland 3 when Derek at Whistling Straits. shot shy of getting in a playoff said. “I struggled with it last controversy. Uribe with three Dietrich dou- McIlroy, who held off Sergio with winner Zach Johnson so he year. It’s going to take some really The players union released LA Angels 4 Cleveland 3 RBIs, hitting a bled and reached Garcia to win last year, suffered comes into the Bridgestone with strong driving of the golf ball.” the 457-page transcript in a fil- two-run double Boston 2 NY Yankees 1 third with two a torn ankle ligament in July and a chip on his shoulder. Day, who is coming off his ing in New York federal court on in the third and Arizona 11 Washington 4 outs. But New eight-time Bridgestone winner “I’m hoping to prove that I’ve second win this season at the Tuesday. AGENCIES adding a sacrifice LA Dodgers 4 Philadelphia 3 York’s Curtis Woods wasn’t invited. Woods won kind of got a little bit of revenge Canadian Open, returns to the fly in the ninth. Pittsburgh 7 Chicago Cubs 5 Granderson in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, that I need to get out from having Bridgestone where he withdrew It was the Toronto 9 Minnesota 7 made a sliding 2007, 2009 and 2013. control of the Open Championship two holes into the third round last Mets sixth suc- Detroit 2 Kansas City 1 catch on first Spieth will have a host of chal- with two holes to go and not clos- year with dizziness. cessive victory. baseman Justin lengers standing in his way at the ing it out,” Spieth said. He since was diagnosed with San Francisco 6 Atlanta 1 However, the Bour’s line Firestone Country Club, includ- “That leaves a bad taste in my vertigo which flared up again at game almost St Louis 4 Cincinnati 3 drive to right ing red-hot Australian Jason mouth, not because of the third this year’s US Open in June. slipped away NY Mets 8 Miami 6 field, ending the Day, fellow American Dustin in a row, but strictly because you Johnson is hoping to add to a from the Mets in Texas 4 Houston 3 threat. Johnson, Adam Scott of Australia, don’t get many opportunities to strong season that includes seven the bottom of the Milwaukee 8 San Diego 5 Harvey’s England’s Justin Rose and Rickie contend in a major, in an Open at top-10 finishes and his last two ninth as Miami velocity in that Fowler, of the US. St. Andrews, in your life. victories came in World Golf scored six runs and had runners first inning was registering 93-94 Spieth, 22, leads the PGA Tour “It was a tough feeling on that Championships -- the 2013 HSBC on the corners with two outs. mph, instead of his usual 97-mph with four victories this season. In flight home, especially with Zach Champions in China and the Mets closer Jeurys Familia, fastball.Harvey admitted it took his last outing he was in conten- and the [Claret] Jug there. Cadillac Championship at Doral who gave up two hits in the ninth, him a while to get going. tion to claim his third straight Spieth finished 49th and failed in March. got his 29th save of the season by “I don’t know if it had anything major before finishing in a tie for to break par in any of his rounds He will try to become the third getting Marlins center fielder to do with the Nationals series,” fourth at the Open Championship in his Bridgestone debut last year. player to claim two WGC titles in Michael Floyd Christian Yelich to bounce out Harvey said. AGENCIES at St. Andrews. He ended up one “It’s a big, meaty course,” he one season. AFP FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Murray stunned by Gabashvili Ryan Lochte of the US starts in the men’s 200m freestyle It’s my best victory, says the Russian semi-final at the Aquatics World WASHINGTON: British top Championships seed Andy Murray suffered in Kazan, a stunning defeat in his first Russia. hardcourt warm-up match for the US Open, losing yesterday to Teymuraz Gabashvili at the ATP and WTA Washington Open. The 53rd-ranked Russian out- lasted third-ranked Murray 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7/4) over two hours and 42 minutes to reach the third round at the ATP and WTA Washington Open. Murray, the first Washington top seed to lose his first match since Ivan Lendl in 1993, served for the match in the third set Phelps set for nationals and was two points from victory before Gabashvili broke to 5-5 and the Russian later took the final four tie-breaker points to secure the triumph. with eye on Rio Games “It was a tough match,” Murray said. “Obviously disappointing not SAN ANTONIO: Michael Hoogenband of the Netherlands in Hungarian Laszlo Cseh in win- to close out the third set when I Phelps will have one eye on the 200m freestyle at the Athens ning the 200m butterfly world had a chance. Struggled with my Russia at the US swimming Olympics. He finished third in an title. rhythm early. There were some championships this week but event he would go on to make his “That’s a really good swim. He good rallies. He served well in the says he’ll look closer to home for own. hasn’t been close to that since big moments, especially in the the real measure of his readi- “It was just me challenging 2008,” Phelps said of Cseh, an old third set.” Teymuraz Gabashvili (left) shakes hands with Andy Murray (right) during ness for Rio. myself,” Phelps said. rival who also turns 30 this year. Gabashvili, who was 3-22 day three of the 2015 Citi Open at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center. It’s been a bumpy road for the Lately his biggest personal “That’s a great swim, and he against prior top-10 foes, hit Gabashvili won 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4). 18-time Olympic gold medallist challenges have come outside of split it out really well too,” added 30 winners and only made 15 since he ended his near two-year the pool. Phelps, whose world record of unforced errors while winning retirement that followed the 2012 In the wake of his second 1:51.51 was set back in 2009. 86 percent of first-serve points Games. drunk-driving episode Phelps “That’s just what I’m looking at ... in making Murray the highest- ATP and WTA Washington Open Results His comeback looked well on attended inpatient addiction what kind of splits I can put up.” ranked victim of his career. track when he booked his berth treatment as well as Alcoholics In June Phelps won the 200m “Anytime you beat Andy WASHINGTON: Results yesterday from the third day of the last year for this season’s world Anonymous. In April Phelps fly at a meeting in Santa Clara Murray 7-6 in the third it’s some- ATP and WTA Washington Open (x denotes seeding): championships in Kazan, Russia. described the process as “brutal,” with a time of 1:58.06 -- a three- thing special -- 100 percent it’s Men Second Round: Sam Groth (AUS) bt Viktor Troicki (SRB) 6-3, But he was denied that trip but says it has brought him to a second improvement over his time my best victory,” Gabashvili said. 6-4; Feliciano Lopez (ESP x7) bt Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 4-6, 7-5, as part of the sanctions handed more peaceful place. the month before in Charlotte. It was a shocking defeat for 6-3; Steve Johnson (USA) bt Bernard Tomic (AUS) 6-7 (7/9), 6-4, down in the wake of his drunk- “I guess I was just able to really Although he once vowed he the 28-year-old Scotsman, who 6-2; John Isner (USA x8) bt Victor Estrella Burgos (DOM) 6-3, 7-6 driving arrest last September. understand who I am and be OK wouldn’t race it again, the 200m sparked Britain’s Davis Cup team (7/5); Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x6) bt Guido Pella (ARG) 7-6 (7/1), 6-4; Instead Phelps headlines the with who I am,” said the 30-year- fly appears to be back on Phelps’s past France in July after a semi- Leonardo Mayer (ARG) bt Blaz Rola (SLO) 7-6 (7/2), 6-7 (3/7), 6-4; action at the US nationals that old. “I’m able to wake up every day Rio radar and will be a key event final run at Wimbledon. T Gabashvili (RUS) bt Andy Murray (GBR x1) 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7/4); start in San Antonio on Thursday. and be happy with who I am and for him this week along with the Murray, the 2012 US Open Alexander Zverev (GER) bt Kevin Anderson (RSA x5) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; “Ever since that decision was be happy with what I’m doing.” 100m fly and 200m individual and 2013 Wimbledon champion, Ricardas Berankis (LTU) bt Pablo Cuevas (URU) 6-3, 6-3; Richard made, the focus was turned to But Phelps is a fierce competi- medley -- both events he could has much to work on before the Gasquet (FRA) bt Gilles Muller (LUX) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; O Dolgopolov this,” Phelps said Wednesday. tor, and if he can’t stand atop a shoot for at the 2016 Games. Flushing Meadows fortnight Jr. (UKR) bt Ivo Karlovic (CRO x10) 6-4, 7-6 (7/2). “I think this is a test for me -- world championships podium Phelps is also entered in the begins August 31. Women Second Round: Samantha Stosur (AUS x2) bt Irina Falconi (to see) if I can kind of get back to this year that doesn’t mean he 200m breaststroke, a depar- “Temu served well but I usually (USA) 6-1, 7-5; Louisa Chirico (USA) bt Alize Cornet (FRA x5) 7-5, where it didn’t matter who was in wouldn’t like to see himself atop ture from his usual competitive back myself to return better than 4-6, 7-6 (7/4); Monica Niculescu (ROM) bt Lauren Davis (USA) 1-6, the pool, it didn’t matter who was a list of world-leading times. programme. I did,” Murray said. “That cost me 6-1, 6-4; Sloane Stephens (USA) bt Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x4), racing as long as I raced myself.” “Times are really what I want “I’m just excited to swim,” a lot tonight. Pretty frustrating. walkover, left leg injury; Irina-Camelia Begu (ROM x6) bt Polona That was his intention in 2004, to see here,” said Phelps, who has Phelps said. “This is what I was “I was happy with how I moved Hercog (SLO) bt 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. when he took on Australian already taken note of the world- preparing for the whole entire and did certain things on the Ian Thorpe and Pieter van den leading 1min 53.48sec put up by year.” REUTERS court. There are some things I set and was two points from vic- Stosur likes odds felt I could improve.” tory before surrendering a service Gabashvili, who will next face break on a wide crosscourt back- as Serena Grand Star Lochte Lithuania’s Ricardas Berankis, hand. Gabashvili won the final honed his skills the past three four points of the tie-breaker, the Slam spoiler wins fourth weeks in World Team Tennis, a last on a backhand winner with a US league with no-ad scoring and fist pump to celebrate. WASHINGTON: Samantha straight 200m shorter sets where he was named Also sent packing was Stosur, the last woman to beat the Men’s Most Valuable Player. South African fifth seed Kevin Serena Williams at the US “My body is really tired but I Anderson, who lost to German Open, likes her chances of dis- IM world gold learned to play important points Alexander Zverev 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. rupting the American star’s cal- and I learned to play aggressive Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer endar Grand Slam bid if she gets KAZAN: Ryan Lochte of the and without fear,” Gabashvili outlasted Slovenian Blaz Rola the chance. United States made history said. “I’m confident now. It really 7-6 (7/2), 6-7 (3/7), 6-4, to “I’ve always actually quite by winning his fourth straight helped me.” reach a third-round matchup enjoyed playing Serena. I’ve got 200m individual medley gold at Gabashvili, who lost to Murray against Japanese second seed Kei a game that disrupts her,” Stosur the world swimming champion- last year at Shanghai in their only Nishikori. said yesterday. ships yesterday. prior meeting, broke the Briton On the women’s side, Australian “You have to have the game. Lochte clocked 1min 55.81sec with a backhand winner to take second seed Samantha Stosur, My game matches up well against with Brazil’s Thiago Pereira tak- the first set after 45 minutes. the 2011 US Open champion, Serena. I’ve got the kind of weap- ing silver at 0.84sec and China’s Gabashvili sent a forehand advanced to a quarter-final with ons that can bother her.” Wang Shun picked up bronze at overhead smash wide to give a 6-1, 7-5 victory over American And the 31-year-old Australian 1.00 dead. Murray a 4-3 edge in the sec- Irina Falconi. French fifth seed advises rivals to play their own The 31-year-old Lochte is the ond set. He had a break chance Alize Cornet was upset 7-5, 4-6, games and keep the pressure on first swimmer to win the world on Murray in the 10th game but 7-6 (7/4) by 19-year-old wildcard the world number one if they hope 200m IM four times in a row and sent a forehand volley long and Louisa Chirico. to derail her bid for a fifth Slam has now won 16 gold medals at two points later hit a backhand Defending champion Svetlana title in a row when the Flushing world championships dating back wide to hand the Scotsman the Kuznetsova withdrew due to a Meadows fortnight begins August to 2005. second set. lower left leg injury, advancing 31. Michael Phelps has won three Murray broke Gabashvili at American Sloane Stephens into “No doubt she is going to be consecutive 200m IM world titles, love in the ninth game of the third the quarter-finals against Chirico. feeling the pressure, as much as but Lochte has now taken the gold you can when you’ve won four in this event at every world cham- Slams in a row and going for a pionships since Rome in 2009. fifth,” Stosur said. “You know she This is Lochte’s 24th medal at wants to get that calendar Slam. his sixth world championships She’s not immune to the nerves and his first in Kazan. and pressure. Grant Hackett is the only other “You have to go after it. swimmer to have won four con- Whatever it is you do, you have secutive world titles in a single got to bring that at the big event, having achieved the feat in moments and make it happen.” the 1,500m freestyle between 1998 Coming off a clay-court title at and 2005. Bad Gastein, second seed Stosur Meanwhile, Katie Ledecky advanced to the quarter-finals of picked up her fourth gold medal the WTA and ATP Washington at Kazan’s world swimming cham- Open with a 6-1, 7-5 victory pions yesterday as the United yesterday over American Irina States won the women’s 4x200m Falconi. Stosur, ranked 21st, won freestyle title. her only Grand Slam title at Ledecky, who anchored the US the 2011 US Open by defeating team, touched the wall in 7min Williams 6-2, 6-3 in the final. 45.37sec as Italy took silver, “Playing her on one of those big 3.04sec back, with China earning stages, you see what the bench- bronze at 3.73. mark is and how you have to get The 18-year-old Ledecky had about playing it,” Stosur said. already won the 200, 400 and “I’ve gone out there and gotten 1,500m freestyle golds in Kazan USA’s John Isner (right) shakes hands with Dominican Republic’s Victor blasted but I also know that on Gold medallist Ryan Lochte of the US cheers on the podium during and still has the 800m heats to Estrella Burgos after their second-round match at the Citi Open in any given day I can go out there the award ceremony of the Men’s 200m Individual medley of the FINA come today with the final sched- and win and that’s quite exciting.” uled for tomorrow night. Washington. Isner defeated Burgos in straight sets. Swimming World Championships 2015 in Kazan, Russia. REUTERS AGENCIES FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 Late Lewandowski winner seals Audi Cup for Bayern

Bayern MUNICH: A late goal from thumping 5-0 aggregate win for Munich’s Polish international Robert Results Real as they went on to win a players Lewandowski sealed a 1-0 vic- Final: Bayern Munich (GER) 1 tenth European title in the final celebrate tory for German champions (Lewandowski 88) Real Madrid against city rivals Atletico. Bayern Munich over Spanish Whilst this victory will be with the (ESP) 0. giants Real Madrid in the final scant consolation for that Munich trophy after Third-place play-off: of the pre-season Audi Cup Tottenham Hotspur (ENG) 2 mauling from last year, it will at the Audi tournament in their home sta- least give Pep Guardiola’s side Cup final (Chadli 8, Carroll 71) AC Milan dium on Wednesday. (ITA) 0. a boost as they prepare for the against Bayern and Real recorded defence of their Bundesliga title, Real impressive wins over AC Milan 88th minute. It handed titlehold- beginning at home to Hamburg Madrid in and Tottenham respectively at the ers Bayern their third Audi Cup on Friday August 14. Munich, Allianz Arena on Tuesday, but it triumph in four attempts since Real Madrid’s first match of southern was the hosts who came out on the tournament was launched in the Spanish season is nine days Germany, top thanks to Lewandowski’s goal 2009. later on Sunday, August 23 when on two minutes from time. The scoreline was very differ- they travel to Sporting Gijon. Wednesday. The former Dortmund striker ent from the last time Real vis- Meanwhile, Nacer Chadli and Bayern – who scored in the 3-0 win over ited the Allianz Arena with the Tom Carroll scored in either Munich Milan the previous day – was set La Liga giants running riot 4-0 in half in a 2-0 victory for Premier won the up by young Danish star Pierre- the Champions League semi-final League’s Tottenham against match 1-0. Emile Hojbjerg before firing past second leg in April 2014. Italian giants AC Milan in the Real ‘keeper Keilor Navas in the That victory secured a third-place play-off. AGENCIES Toothless Chelsea suffer defeat against Fiorentina Premier League champions beaten 1-0 in home friendly

LONDON: The paucity of Chelsea’s striking options was once again laid bare on Wednesday as they finished their pre-season preparations with a lacklustre 1-0 loss at home to Fiorentina. Visiting captain Gonzalo Rodriguez bundled in the only goal in the 34th minute at Stamford Bridge and with Diego Costa once again absent due to ham- string trouble, Jose Mourinho’s side toiled in attack as they went a fifth consecutive game without victory. Radamel Falcao and Loic Remy squandered another chance to prove themselves as understud- ies for the absent Costa, leaving Mourinho with food for thought ahead of the start of his side’s Premier League title defence at home to Swansea City on Saturday. “We have the real football on Saturday and today we couldn’t face this game in another way,” Fiorentina players (centre) celebrate the opening goal scored by Fiorentina’s Argentinian defender Gonzalo said Mourinho. during the pre-season friendly International Champions Cup match against Chelsea at the Stamford Bridge in AS Roma’s French defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa (left) is touched by “Competitive minutes against a London on Wednesday. Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi (right) during the 50th good team, who played for a result Joan Gamper Trophy football match FC Barcelona vs AS Roma at the and gave us a very good training Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on Wednesday. session.” Sousa also rang the changes, was blocked at the near post by Rebic threatened for Fiorentina It was a second consecu- making seven in total. The visi- former Stoke City goalkeeper and although Chelsea finished tive prestige friendly win for tors threatened first, Matias Begovic, the ball squirted out to the game in the ascendancy, they Fiorentina, fourth in Serie A Fernandez testing Begovic low to Gonzalo, who bundled home. could not find an equaliser. Messi ‘headbutts’ in last season and semi-finalists in his right. Beginning at half-time, Chelsea Cahill saw a pair of headers both the Coppa Italia and Europa Chelsea began to take control, made nine changes in the sec- saved by Luigi Sepe and Remy, League, following their 2-1 vic- Ruben Loftus-Cheek heading over ond half, with Eden Hazard, who replaced Falcao on the hour, Barca win over Roma tory over European champions and seeing a shot blocked and Cesc Fabregas, Gary Cahill and shot wastefully wide after cutting Barcelona on Sunday. Aina having an effort deflected Nemanja Matic among the first- inside Alonso. BARCELONA: Lionel Messi the incident however, receiv- Chelsea made 10 changes to the over, but after Matias Vecino team stalwarts to enter the fray. Having also lost to New York was at the centre of a headbut- ing only a caution from ref- team beaten 1-0 by Arsenal in the had thundered a shot against the Fiorentina also sent on nine Red Bulls and drawn with Paris ting controversy on Wednesday eree Javier Estrada Fernandez. Community Shield at the week- bar for the visitors and Begovic substitutes, including Italy striker Saint-Germain and Barcelona as Barcelona cruised to a 3-0 Yanga-Mbiwa was also booked. end, with skipper John Terry the had parried a curling attempt Giuseppe Rossi, who missed the – both of whom they beat on victory over Serie A side Roma The flashpoint represented a only player to keep his place, while by Khouma Babacar, Fiorentina entirety of the 2014-15 season penalties – it completed an in a pre-season friendly at the rare loss of cool for Messi. The Falcao, Asmir Begovic, Bertrand struck. A cross from the right was following the third serious knee underwhelming pre-season for Camp Nou. Argentine has never been sent Traore and Ola Aina made their chested down by Marcos Alonso injury of his career. Chelsea, who have only two days The Argentinian superstar, off for Barcelona and has only home debuts. and although his left-foot effort Substitute Josip Ilicic and Ante to find a higher gear. AFP renowned for rarely losing his ever been red-carded once – on cool despite regularly being the his international debut as a teen- target of brutal tackling, reacted ager in 2005. Hairline fracture angrily during a confrontation Messi’s anger soon subsided Pellegrini ‘absolutely sure’ with Roma’s French interna- however as moments after the for Arsenal’s tional Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa. incident, he doubled Barcelona’s Footage of the first half inci- lead, making it 2-0 following a dent showed Messi aiming a superb flowing move involving Wilshere City will win Premier League headbutt at Yanga-Mbiwa’s after Luis Suarez, Dani Alves and the Roma defender appeared to Neymar, who had scored Barca’s LONDON: Arsenal midfielder LONDON: Manchester City the past few years and with the nod his head in the direction of first. Jack Wilshere will be sidelined are brimming with optimism recent additions to the squad the diminutive South American Ivan Rakitic made it 3-0 in for several weeks after manager with coach Manuel Pellegrini the Manchester club can target star. A furious Messi grabbed the second half with a long range Arsene Wenger revealed yes- “absolutely sure” of winning the European glory. Yanga-Mbiwa by the throat strike as Barcelona completed a terday that he has sustained a Premier League title back this “We are just missing that step after clashing with the defender routine win. Barcelona kick off hairline fracture of his left leg. season and midfielder David of winning the Champions League, before other players rushed over the defence of their Spanish The England midfielder, 23, was Silva eyeing Champions League but doing that will help us grow to intervene. league crown against Athletic hurt in a collision with a team- glory. even more,” the 29-year-old mid- Messi escaped a red card for Bilbao on August 23. AFP mate in training and Wenger said City, who conceded four goals fielder, told the Daily Telegraph in he would be out of action for “a in both their defeats against Real an interview. few weeks”. Madrid and Stuttgart in pre- City crashed out in the last 16 “The information you have season friendlies, finished eight stage of the Champions League in heard about Jack Wilshere is points behind champions Chelsea the past two seasons after being right,” Wenger told the club web- in the Premier League last season. paired against Barcelona. site, confirming reports that had “I am absolutely sure that we “It’s difficult playing against appeared in the British media are going to have a very success- Manuel Pellegrini big teams like Barcelona, Bayern. earlier in the day. ful season. We must bring back But why? I cannot tell you,” added “I had a bad surprise because the title here to our fans,” the Silva. it is a hairline crack in his fibula 61-year-old was quoted as saying think must find a place here in “But with good, new players, for that makes him a few weeks out. by Sky Sports. our squad,” the Chilean manager sure we will have an opportunity “There is minimal damage “We are sure, as I have just added. “(Raheem) Sterling can to be there fighting and maybe apart from the bone damage – said, that we are going to bring it also play in front. I think we are able to do it.” there is no damage at all apart back. We had a good pre-season.” going to bring in other players but Silva, who joined City in 2010 from that. It was a collision in With the sale of Stefan Jovetic not in that position.” from Valencia, has set a personal training and it was all completely to Inter Milan and Edin Dzeko City, who won the Premier target of scoring more goals this accidental.” being strongly linked with a move League title in a close finish in season. Wilshere has a long history of to Roma, City is poised to start 2013-14, kick off their campaign “I want to be important in the injury problems, particularly con- the season with only two front- with a trip to West Bromwich team and win titles in all compe- cerning his ankles, and was side- line strikers in Sergio Aguero and Albion on Monday night. titions,” he added. “It is always in Barcelona’s Neymar celebrates a goal against AS Roma during a lined for five months last season Wilfried Bony. Spain international David Silva my mind to become better and I after undergoing surgery on his “We have Kelechi (Iheanacho), feels City have earned respect can improve this year by scoring friendly match at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on Wednesday. left ankle. AFP that is a young player who I with their success in England in more goals.” REUTERS FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 SPORT 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Broad’s dream spell destroys Australia The swing bowler takes career best figures of 8 for 15

NOTTINGHAM: Stuart Broad Scoreboard took eight wickets as England skittled out Australia for 60 in Australia (I innings): a historically quick 111 balls and C Rogers c Cook b Broad ...... 0 moved within sight of an Ashes- D Warner c Buttler b Wood ...... 0 clinching win on the first day of S Smith c Root b Broad ...... 6 the fourth Test at Trent Bridge S Marsh c Bell b Broad ...... 0 yesterday. M Clarke c Cook b Broad ...... 10 Fast-medium bowler Broad A Voges c Stokes b Broad ...... 1 took eight for 15 in 9.3 overs as P Nevill b Finn ...... 2 he smashed through the 300 M Johnson c Root b Broad ...... 13 Test wicket mark in a scintillat- M Starc c Root b Broad ...... 1 ing performance he acclaimed as J Hazlewood (not out) ...... 4 “unbelievable”. N Lyon c Stokes b Broad ...... 9 Australia’s innings was wrapped Extras (LB-11, NB-3) ...... 14 up in just 18.3 overs -- the quick- Total (all out) ...... 60 est any team has ever been bowled Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-10, 3-10, 4-15, out in the first innings in the 138- 5-21, 6-29, 7-33, 8-46, 9-47, 10-60. year history of Test cricket. Bowling: S Broad 9.3-5-15-8; M Wood 3-0- Joe Root’s unbeaten century 13-1 (nb-2); S Finn 6-0-21-1 (nb-1). then compounded Australia’s mis- England (I innings): ery as England reached stumps A Lyth c Nevill b Starc ...... 14 Paris Saint-Germain’s (PSG) new Argentinian midfielder Angel Di Maria on 274 for four, a lead of 214 runs. A Cook lbw Starc ...... 43 poses with his PSG jersey during his official presentation in Paris Root was 124 not out after I Bell lbw Starc ...... 1 yesterday. Paris Saint-Germain completed the signing of Di Maria from putting on 173 for the fourth J Root (batting)...... 124 Manchester United on a four-year deal, the French champions announced. wicket with Yorkshire team- J Bairstow c Rogers b Hazlewood ...... 74 mate Jonny Bairstow (74). M Wood (batting) ...... 2 Nightwatchman Mark Wood was Extras (B-10, LB-1, NB-,4 W-1) ...... 16 unbeaten on two. Total (for 4 wkts) ...... 274 For the second match in a row Fall of wickets: 1-32, 2-34, 3-96, 4-269. England, 2-1 up in the five-match Di Maria is Bowling: M Starc 17-1-73-3 (nb-1); J series and needing one more win Hazlewood 20-4-63-1 (nb-3); M Johnson to regain the Ashes, had all but 16-2-71-0; N Lyon 9-1-38-0; D Warner 3-0- assured themselves of victory 18-0 (w-1). with their first-day performance following last week’s eight-wicket unveiled as success at Edgbaston. Initially cloudy conditions Gone in 60 Runs offered some assistance to the bowlers and doubtless prompted – Twitter on Alastair Cook’s decision to field PSG player first upon winning the toss. Australia’s Ashes PARIS: Argentina winger Angel di Maria was unveiled as a Paris But they were not ‘unplayable’. Saint-Germain player yesterday after completing his move from Broad bowled well, maintaining Collapse Manchester United on a four-year deal. an excellent line and length on his Di Maria, 27, penned a contract until June 2019 having already passed Nottinghamshire home ground. How Australia’s Trent Bridge a medical in Doha before flying to Paris on Wednesday after Qatar- However, several of his wick- collapse played out on Twitter: owned PSG agreed a fee of 63m euros (£44.3m; $68.9m) with United. ets owed much to poor shots by “I know a lot of big clubs were also interested in him. Angel will Australia batsmen who again “Ashes – I’ve haven’t enjoyed really give something extra to the team, especially in the Champions cemented their reputation as myself so much since my sec- League. I hope he can win it with us,” said Paris president Nasser Al ‘flat-track bullies’ unable to cope ond divorce went through.” Khelaifi at a press conference yesterday evening at a plush hotel in with sideways seaming and swing – Former England rugby the French capital, close to the Eiffel Tower. movement. hardman Brian Moore Di Maria becomes the second most expensive player in the history of Eight Australians were caught “We’re receiving reports French football behind Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani, who joined in the slip cordon -- all off Broad. of Aussies in trouble... Paris from Napoli for 64m euros in the summer of 2013. Mitchell Johnson (13) and #Ashes2015” He had been a long-time target for the French champions but he Australia captain Michael Clarke – Nottinghamshire police chose United instead when leaving Real Madrid a year ago after help- (10) were the only batsmen to force ing the Spanish giants win the Champions League. make double figure scores in the “I am very happy to be at innings. “What a crazy start to this PSG. I know it has been a Australia’s total -- with extras Test! A bit of swing and mod- few years now that they have Angel Di Maria the top score on 14 -- was the ern players nick everything!” been trying to sign me but lowest by either side in an Ashes – Former England spinner for different reasons I wasn’t Factbox innings since England were dis- Graeme Swann able to come before,” said the Born: Feburary 14, 1988, Rosario, missed for 52 at The Oval in 1948. Argentine. Argentina “It’s pretty unbelievable. It’s not “42-7, who got the Australia The former Rosario Central, CLUB CAREER sunk in,” Broad told Sky Sports try? #Ashes2015” Benfica and Madrid star will Argentina -- Di Maria made his after drawing level with England –Leicester Tigers rugby team be looking to recover his very debut for Argentine top-flight great Fred Trueman’s career tally Twitter feed best form after a disappointing side Rosario Central at 17 in the of 307 Test wickets. season in the Premier League Apertura 2005 but it was not until “Sorry, we can’t take any calls “We knew Trent Bridge would with United as he failed to jus- the Clausura 2007 that he became about criminal Australian bat- offer us something but we had to tify United’s decision to pay a a regular. ting... #Ashes2015” bowl well and take our catches.” British record fee of £59.7m for Portugal -- Benfica signed him in – Crimestoppers REUTERS him. July 2007. He played three seasons He never fully settled in there, winning the Portuguese England, although he insisted championship and two League Cups. ‘He only wanted one’ – Broad’s that the decision to leave Old Spain - Joined Real Madrid for Trafford was not his alone. an initial 25m euros ($27.23m) fee eight delight his dad “It was not only my deci- in 2010. Under Jose Mourinho, he sion to go. I went because they became a regular and stood out with NOTTINGHAM: There was no prouder spectator at Trent Bridge decided to sell me,” he said. his passing, although he was incon- England cricket heroes Stuart as Stuart Broad took eight wickets to reduce Australia to 60 all out “Things did not go as well as I sistent. He won the 2011 King’s Cup Broad (top) and Joe Root (right) on the first day of the fourth Ashes Test than the England pace- wanted them to in Manchester, and, a year later, the La Liga title. in action during day one of the man’s father, Chris Broad. but my present is here.” The 2013-14 season saw Carlo fourth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge Broad’s stunning haul of eight for 15 in 9.3 overs on his After helping Argentina Ancelotti take over as coach and yesterday. Nottinghamshire home ground saw Australia bowled out in a histori- reach the final of the Copa Di Maria’s position in the side cally low 18.3 overs -- the shortest completed first innings in the 138- America in Chile last month, appeared uncertain with the world year history of Test cricket. Di Maria is behind in his pre- record signing of another left- After England captain Alastair Cook won the toss in overcast con- season preparations and will footed winger, Gareth Bale. Australia’s Lowest ditions, there was drama right from the third ball of the match when not play any part in PSG’s Ligue England -- Joined Manchester United fast-medium bowler Broad had Chris Rogers caught at first slip by 1 season opener at Lille today. for a British record £59.7m ($92.77m) Scores Cook for nought for his 300th Test wicket. Indeed, it may be several transfer fee, making a fine start to NOTTINGHAM, England: “He only wanted one, it’s just being greedy isn’t it?” Chris Broad told weeks before he makes his the season only to lose his touch after A list of Australia’s lowest BBC Radio’s Test Match Special. debut for his new club after he a two-month injury layoff. totals after they were skit- “He chatted to me a couple of days prior and said ‘all I want is one’. came away from Argentina’s INTERNATIONAL CAREER tled for 60 runs by England at I was a bit concerned he was too focused on getting to 300,” added final defeat to the hosts with a Di Maria played for the Argentina Trent Bridge yesterday: Broad senior, himself a former Nottinghamshire and England open- thigh injury. “I have had medi- Under-20 side who were runners- Score Opponent Venue Year ing batsman. cal studies. I know the injury up in the 2007 South American 36 England Edgbaston 1902 “If you’re not focused on your action and rhythm you can search is much better, but since the Championship and the same for wickets...but to get one in the first over was a release,” explained Copa America ended I have not year won the Under-20 World 42 England Sydney 1888 Broad, now an International Cricket Council match referee. trained,” he admitted. Championship. 44 England The Oval 1896 “Maybe it was meant to be that he comes to Trent Bridge and gets He is the third major summer In 2008, he won gold at the Beijing 47 S.Africa Cape Town 2011 it here,” said Broad senior, who scored three hundreds in England’s signing for Laurent Blanc’s side Olympics and scored the only goal in 53 England Lord’s 1896 1986/87 Ashes series win in Australia. after German goalkeeper Kevin the final against Nigeria. Di Maria 58 England Brisbane 1936 Broad’s haul, which saw him draw level with England fast bowling Trapp joined from Eintracht made his debut for Argentina’s sen- 60 England Lord’s 1888 great Fred Trueman’s career Test tally of 307 wickets, was all the Frankfurt for 9.5m euros and ior team in September 2008 against 60 England Trent Bridge 2015 more impressive as England were without the injured James Anderson. midfielder Benjamin Stambouli Paraguay. Di Maria was an influen- England’s all-time leading Test bowler with 413 wickets, Anderson penned a five-year deal after tial figure as Argentina reached last 63 England The Oval 1882 was ruled out with a side injury suffered in the team’s eight-wicket moving from Tottenham year’s World Cup quarter-finals. 65 England The Oval 1912 win in the third Test at Edgbaston last week. REUTERS Hotspur for 9m euros. 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NEW YORK: The New York Times said yesterday its digital paid subscriptions had topped one million for the first time, as it reported a jump in quarterly profits. The prestigious US daily, which is seeking to manage a transition to digital, said it hit the milestone for digital-only subscriptions on July 30, some four-and-a-half years after launching its pay model. The Times also has another 1.1 million subscribers who take the print edition and and receive access to digital news. “This is a major milestone for our digital consumer business, which we launched in 2011 and has continued a strong and steady growth trajectory. It puts us in a unique position among global news provid- ers,” said Mark Thompson, president and chief executive of the New York Times Company. “We believe that no other news organization has achieved digital subscriber numbers like ours or comparable digital subscription revenue. “It’s a tribute to the hard work and innovation of our marketing, product and technology teams and the continued excellence of our journalism.” The Times began its pay wall strategy in 2011 and has been empha- sizing digital as print circulation and advertising decline. In 2012, the company said it took in more revenues from circulation than advertising for the first time. The Times said separately that its profit for the second quarter jumped 78 percent from a year ago to $16.4m. The rise in profit came amid lower costs, while revenues dipped 1.5 percent from a year earlier at $382m. Circulation revenues grew, but failed to make up for the drop in advertising revenues. Second-quarter print advertising revenue fell 12.8 percent while digital ad sales grew 14.2 percent. Digital advertising pulled in $48.3 million or 32.5 percent of total ad revenues for the quarter to June 30. Digital ad growth “was again driven by growth in mobile, paid posts and video,” Thompson said. “Expense management will remain a top Paper lanterns float on the Motoyasu river after being released in remembrance of atomic bomb victims on the 70th anniversary of the bombing of priority as we head into the second half of 2015, although our emphasis Hiroshima, western Japan, yesterday. Bells tolled and thousands bowed heads in prayer in Hiroshima at ceremonies that marked the anniversary on digital investment and execution is also more intense than ever.” of the world’s first atomic bombing. AFP

Pilot uses axe Ten years on, Hurricane Katrina’s to open toilet for drunk passenger

STOCKHOLM: The pilot scars endure for black New Orleans of a Swedish domestic flight used an axe to pry open a toi- NEW ORLEANS: A decade African-American neighborhoods let door after a drunk passen- after Hurricane Katrina, New on many Sundays. ger locked himself just before Orleans seems to have found “I’m just one of the survivors,” landing, Swedish police said its rhythm again: the French she said. “There shouldn’t be so yesterday. Quarter is choked with tour- few.” The passenger, who was on ists, construction cranes tower board Nextjet’s flight from over the skyline, and hipsters SOCIAL DISRUPTION Stockholm to the north- bike to cafes in gentrifying The scale of the exodus reveals ern town of Ornskoldsvik on neighborhoods. itself clearly in the Lower Ninth, Wednesday evening, locked But recovery has been uneven one of the only communities that himself in the bathroom just in the city, which took the brunt has fewer than half as many 10 minutes before landing. of the 2005 storm that killed more residents as it did a decade ago. Airline regulations do not than 1,800 people and was the Boarded-up windows, caved-in allow passengers to be in the costliest in US history. roofs and overgrown lots are com- toilet during landing. Many properties still bear mon sights. When the man, a Swede in physical scars from the hur- Lower-income households in his 50s whose name has not ricane, particularly in poorer this neighborhood and others been disclosed, refused to come African-American neighbour- were particularly disrupted by out the pilot used the axe to hoods. Social, demographic and the loss of a relative or neighbor pry open the lock. political changes still ripple to provide transportation to see a “He definitely did not smash through the city. doctor, or help babysit. down the door, it’s not as dra- In the mostly black Lower “That was a very unique piece matic as one might think. He Ninth Ward, devastated by the of the fabric of New Orleans,” used the sharp end to pry open flooding, Charles Brown is still said Erika McConduit-Diggs, the door,” Örnsköldsvik police attending services in his pastor’s president of the Urban League chief Kerstin Svedberg said. nearly empty living room, wait- of Greater New Orleans, The man was not taken into ing for the day when Mount Nebo which advocates for African- custody but is suspected of vio- Bible Baptist Church is rebuilt. Americans and other unders- lating Swedish aviation laws The black population of the erved groups. and risks a fine or up to six An abandoned car is seen in the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, yesterday. A decade city, long a hub of “What Katrina did was break months in prison if convicted. after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans seems to have found its rhythm again. African-American culture, has down a lot of those social net- plummeted since August 29, 2005, works, and I think that has also the day Katrina swept in from the responder, stayed behind to to Census figures and the Data moved out to the suburbs, the had an impact on our recovery.” Horses make Gulf of Mexico and overwhelmed search for the missing. Center, a local nonprofit track- Data Center notes, and some With the shifting composition the levees meant to prevent flood- “We should have made so much ing demographic and economic gradually are moving back. of its electorate, post-Katrina facial expressions ing in the low-lying city. more progress,” said the 55-year- trends. Before the hurricane, Every year since 2010, the city’s New Orleans has elected, at vari- Income gaps between blacks old Brown in an interview before African-Americans comprised African-American population has ous points, a majority-white city like humans and whites have widened. Many a series of events the city is plan- 67 percent of the population. By increased, adding on average sev- council, a white district attorney African-American neighbour- ning this month to mark the 2014, that dwindled to 60 percent, eral thousand residents. and a white mayor, which had not LONDON: Just like us, hoods and the businesses sup- storm’s 10th anniversary. “I don’t the Census reported. Yet some who came back say been seen in decades. horses too can pucker their porting them have not fully see anything to celebrate.” Orleans Parish, which has the they live in a different New Mayor Mitch Landrieu hasn’t lips or raise their chins to recovered. The population of New Orleans same boundaries as the city of Orleans. Tracie L Washington, given up on bringing more people convey important messages, Brown’s family and neighbours is now about 385,000, according New Orleans, is the only county or director of the nonprofit Louisiana home. He is planning trips this new research shows. were among more than 1 million to US Census figures from 2014, parish in the United States with Justice Institute, returned to New month to Atlanta and Houston, They use muscles underly- evacuated from the region after representing about 80 percent of at least 4,500 African-Americans Orleans after evacuating. Today where many of the displaced relo- ing various facial features — Katrina, which exposed deep its pre-Katrina population. that experienced such a steep she says something feels off in cated, a city official said. He can including their nostrils, lips poverty in the city, and displaced The number of African- decline between 2000 and 2010, the city. tout new medical facilities and and eyes — to alter their facial more people than any other event Americans has plunged by a Reuters analysis found, based She compares it to a missed schools that have been overhauled expressions. The researchers since the Dust Bowl drought and nearly 100,000 since the storm, on the Census counts before and beat in the brass band parades, as signs that New Orleans is ris- identified in horses 17 discrete dust storms of the 1930s. while there are now about 10,000 after Katrina. called second lines, that weave ing again after a long decline. facial expressions many of Brown, an emergency fewer white residents, according Some of the black population through its traditionally REUTERS which are similar to humans. “Horses are predominantly visual animals, with eyesight that is better than domestic cats and dogs, yet their use Want to contest in village elections? Get a toilet of facial expressions has been largely overlooked,” said the PATNA: A uthorities in an that candidates must confirm Panchayati Raj (village govern- WaterAid. A United Nations priority and he has pledged that study’s co-lead author Jennifer east Indian state have made it that they have a toilet inside ance) Minister, told the Thomson report in May 2014 said half of every household will have a toilet Wathan, doctoral researcher mandatory for candidates con- their home in order to be nomi- Reuters Foundation. India’s population still practise by 2019. at the University of Sussex in testing village elections to have nated for the 2016 polls. Less than a third of India’s 1.2 open defecation — putting them Bihar, ruled by the opposi- England. a toilet in their home as part “Our objective is to improve billion people have access to toi- at risk of cholera, diarrhoea, dys- tion Janata Dal United party, is “What surprised us was of a move to improve sanitation sanitary conditions at the lets and more than 186,000 chil- entery, hepatitis A and typhoid. the second state after Gujarat the rich repertoire of complex in the country, a senior official micro level and end the disgust- dren under five die every year India’s central government to have passed such legislation facial movements in horses, said. ing practice of open defecation from diarrhoeal diseases caused led by Prime Minister Narendra ahead of next year’s village and and how many of them are The Bihar state assembly on which is the root cause of many by unsafe water and poor sani- Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, district council elections. similar to humans,” Wathan Wednesday passed an act stating ills,” Binod Prasad Yadav, Bihar’s tation, according to the charity has made building toilets a REUTERS noted. 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