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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Iraq suspends Lankan curbs Al Jazeera operations on workers BAGHDAD: The Iraqi authori- ties announced yesterday that they had revoked the operating licences of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera and nine other satel- lite TV channels, alleging that violating law they are promoting a sectarian agenda, as the country grapples with a wave of violence. Runaway workers to be blacklisted The move, effective immedi- ately, comes as Baghdad tries to BY FAZEENA SALEEM such as non-payment of salaries quell rising unrest in the country and difficult working conditions. after clashes at a protest camp DOHA: Sri Lanka has said it Some of them say they have no last week. will ban its nationals who are proper job contracts. More than 180 people have been runaway workers and have taken “Illegal workers are an increas- killed in gun battles with secu- up employment elsewhere in vio- ing problem. We receive consider- rity forces and other attacks since lation of Qatari laws from tak- able numbers of men and women the unrest began on Tuesday. ing up jobs in other Middle East who have run away from their The violence follows more than countries once they return home. employers and worked outside. four months of largely peaceful The country’s embassy in Doha Their actions affect the credibility protests by Iraq’s Sunni minor- said yesterday it has strict regu- of Sri Lankan workers, so we have ity against the Shia-dominated lations in place now to deal with to take strict action,” the embassy government. runaway Sri Lankan workers who official said requesting anonymity. “We took a decision to sus- are in jobs here illegally — a phe- It is mandatory for every Sri pend the licence of some satellite nomenon the embassy describes Lankan, skilled or unskilled, channels that adopted language as unfortunate and increasing, leaving the country for employ- H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser during a visit to the Horseed School at Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, as part of encouraging violence and sectari- damaging ‘its credibility in the ment overseas to seek approval a fact-finding mission prior to the launch of Educate A Child initiative. anism,” Mujahid Abu Al Hail, a employment market’. from the Sri Lankan Foreign top official in the Communications The rule, however, does not Employment Bureau. and Media Commission, said. apply to Sri Lankan workers who The Bureau runs manda- “It means stopping their work run away from their employers tory short training programmes Educate A Child initiative in Iraq and their activities, so on valid grounds and wish to go for women who want to travel they cannot cover events in Iraq back home. “They should imme- abroad to take up domestic jobs. or move around,” Hail said. diately report to the embassy,” an The training also makes work- helps 600,000 in six months “The fact that so many chan- official said. ers aware of the laws and cus- nels have been hit all at once ... But those who come to the toms of the manpower importing DOHA: The Educate A Child million more people given the Unicef in helping refugee children suggests this is an indiscriminate embassy after working for months countries. (EAC) initiative of H H Sheikha opportunity to fulfill their poten- around the world. Right now, decision,” an Al Jazeera spokes- after their escape from their Some people bypass rules and Moza bint Nasser has helped tial, to realise their ambitions and EAC is helping refugee children in man said. “We urge the authori- sponsors or are found involved in land here on visit and business 600,000 children get quality to contribute fully to their com- 12 countries through these part- ties to uphold freedom for the any other illegal activity will be visas and convert their visas into schooling just six moths after munities, their nations and yes, nerships. EAC is currently tar- media to report the important dealt with sternly. work visas. The Bureau, naturally, its launch. to humanity,” said Sheikha Moza. geting 34 countries that account stories taking place in Iraq,” the Their personal details and fin- doesn’t have their record, the offi- Sheikha Moza is to make an “But it also highlights just how for more than 70 percent of the spokesman said. ger prints will be forwarded to the cial said. “If someone comes here official announcement today much remains to be done to world’s out-of-school children and Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki Sri Lankan Foreign Employment through the proper channel it’s about the achievements of her give this opportunity to all the is already working in 17 countries. said on Saturday that sectarian Bureau in Colombo so that they easy for us to find a solution if he education initiative in a meeting 61 million children who through Today, 17 government minis- strife “came back to Iraq, because could be banned from taking up faces a problem.” at the Qatar National Convention no fault of their own are being ters and representatives of tar- it began in another place in this employment in any other Middle Qatar is one of the largest Centre. Speaking ahead of the deprived of one of their most get countries are in Doha for an region,” in an apparent reference Eastern country in future as a employers of Sri Lankans in the meeting at which she will wel- basic human rights. This meeting intensive two-day programme of to Syria. punishment. region. The number of Sri Lankan come ministers and senior gov- will seek to build partnerships to networking, regional seminars and The civil war in neighbouring The embassy is receiving on an workers here is estimated at a ernment officials from 18 states, get millions of more children into troubleshooting clinics, designed to Syria pitting mainly Sunni rebels average five runaway workers a whopping 150,000. Last year alone, Sheikha Moza said that while this school,” she added. help participants find and explore against the regime of President day. Most of them are domestic Qatar received some 56,900 skilled was an outstanding start, much One of EAC’s most striking affordable, local, culturally relevant Bashar Al Assad, a member of and unskilled workers employed and semi-skilled Sri Lankans, work remains to be done. successes in the past six months solutions to this problem. the Alawite offshoot of Shia, has by private companies and they according to the mission official. “Half a million more children has been its partnership with Continued on page 5 killed more than 70,000 people. come complaining of problems THE PENINSULA in the classroom means half a organisations like UNHCR and THE PENINSULA AGENCIES

Egyptian negotiator with IMF resigns Parallel road to ease traffic on February 22 Street CAIRO: A key Egyptian nego- DOHA: Plans are afoot to Reacting to public complaints local Arabic daily. He said Ashgal mistakes. All the new projects addressing public complaints, tiator with the International develop a parallel road to about the heavy traffic jams on is now working to develop entry have been designed with the sticking to project deadlines and Monetary Fund (IMF), said February 22 Street that links the February 22 road, Ashghal and exit points at Duhail bridge requirements for the next 50 selecting the best international yesterdayday he has resigned the Midmac underpass on the chairman Eng Naser Al Mowlawi and this would be completed in years in view,” he added. companies. as first deputy finance minister, D-Ring road with Shamal road said the proposed highway is part two months. Tenders for the first phase of “We are facing problems in in a potential blow to Cairo’s to address the heavy traffic con- of a series of measures being “We have expanded the the Industrial Area development coordinating with other con- prospects of an early IMF deal. gestion on this major highway. taken by Ashghal to address the Midmac and Passport rounda- project, that has been delayed, will cerned bodies. Sometimes it Hany Kadry Dimian has been The road starting from Woqod issue. The design has been final- bouts to the maximum possible be invited by the middle of this becomes difficult to move other the crucial point man in Egypt’s roundabout in Abu Hamour and ised for some important part of levels. There are other solutions year. The project has been divided service providers from the work- protracted and so far fruitless leading to Al Rayyan through Al this project. planned including new exit and into six parts—roads, sewages, site. And there are also mistakes negotiations to obtain a $4.8bn Waab will be developed with flyo- “The February 22 street was entry points at Umm Lakhba services, beautification and an in the designs. It is important is loan needed to help combat a vers and underpasses, according designed in 2000 and opened after Intersection,” said Al Mowlawi. integrated security system. The to discover the mistakes in the severe economic crisis. A senior to a senior official of the Public 10 years due to delays caused by He said Ashghal is currently project includes 220km roads and early stages,” said Al Mowlawi. technocrat appointed in 2007, Works Authority (Ashghal). the contracting company. The working on 10 major projects 160 intersections. He said Ashghal For the next seven years, Kadry survived five finance This highway will link number of cars in Qatar in 2000 which include the second phase will soon introduce an electronic Ashghal has undertaken projects ministers in office since the 2011 the Woqod roundabout with was about 170,000 but now in of Salwa Road, F-Ring Road, system to receive complaints and worth a whopping QR100bn that uprising that overthrew former Mukafahat roundabout in Al 2013 there are more than 900,000 East Industrial Area road, main suggestions from the public about will see construction of more president Hosni Mubarak. Rayyan through Al Waab inter- cars in the country. So it is natu- Dukhan Road, Al Huwaila road its projects. than 900km of new roads and 240 See also page 18 section ultimately connecting it ral to have problems,” said Al and Lusail Highway. The new Ashghal strategy intersections across the country. with Gharafa roundabout. Mowlawi, in an interview with a “We are learning from our has laid a lot of emphasis on THE PENINSULA Bomb explodes in Manama Undersea tunnel to link West Bay with airport DUBAI: A homemade bomb exploded yesterday near DOHA: A project is under- as a two-lane bridge in both tunnel leading to New Doha. All Manama after police rounded way to link the West Bay area directions towards the sea and these lanes will join at one point up 22 people suspected of with the Hamad International then become a tunnel under the under the sea off the Corniche. attacking security forces and Airport (HIA) through an sea leading to the airport. The tunnel will have sub-lanes blocking roads during pro- undersea tunnel. It will meet a second subway linking some key tourist desti- tests, including in the lead-up This will be one of the major starting from the new airport nations such as the Museum to its Formula One race this projects to be implemented in the road with a three-lane undersea of Islamic Art, Doha Sheraton month, police said. No casualties coming years linking Doha south, tunnel leading to New Doha. and Katara, said the daily. The were reported in the attack that central Doha and Doha north, Al The third segment of the project also includes several only damaged the police vehicle, Sharq reported yesterday. project starts from Lusail with entertainment venues for people according to the statement which The project will start from three lanes in each direction, using the tunnel. said a probe was underway. West Bay near to the City Center with a bridge and undersea THE PENINSULA A computer-generated image of the proposed undersea tunnel. See also page 7 MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Ezdan to develop human potential Realty giant inks deal with CMU-Q

DOHA: Ezdan Holding Group, responsibility towards the Qatari one of Qatar’s leading real community, and always seeks to estate companies, yester- have partnerships with institu- day inked a Memorandum of tions of educational excellence, Understanding (MoU) with economic and social activities for Carnegie Mellon University- the benefit of the society,” said a Qatar (CMU-Q) for part- press statement. nership and cooperation The Group plays an active role in the fields of educational in building the community and in research, strategic studies and the development that is taking scholarships. place in the country at all lev- The MoU was signed by els, especially since the group has Sheikh Dr Khalid bin Thani bin presence in many fields including Abdullah Al Thani, Chairman of health, finance, real estate and Ezdan Holding Group, and Dr media, thus helping its efforts for Ilker Babirs, Dean and CEO of the advancement of all sectors. CMU-Q, in the presence of Fadel Sheikh Khalid stressed the Annan, Assistant Dean of CMU- strategic importance of the Q, and Nasr Al Abdulla, Deputy education sector, which is the CEO of Ezdan Holding. basic element for human devel- The agreement aims at opment, and the achievement exchanging scholars and of the Qatar National Vision researchers in the fields of busi- 2030, developed under the wise ness management, information guidance and leadership of H H systems, executive education, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al national capacity-building, Thani, the Emir, and the Heir and in conducting educational Apparent. He said that the MoU conferences, and community marks the beginning of a strate- Chairman of Ezdan Holding Group, Sheikh Dr Khalid bin Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani, and Dean and CEO of CMU-Q, Dr Ilker Babirs, with other officials development. gic relationship, and will contrib- of CMU-Q and Ezdan Holding yesterday. The partnership comes within ute to human development. the framework of Ezdan Group’s The MoU also reflects the interest in sharing the responsi- strategy of the Group to follow bility for human and social devel- the best practices and global sustainable plans that include come out with innovative solu- CMU-Q offers educational pro- computer science and informa- opment in the country. standards, particularly in invest- upgrading the performance of tions to meet the economic and grams in the information tech- tion systems. “Ezdan Group understands its ing in human resources through young people, enabling them to social challenges. nology, business administration, THE PENINSULA Katara plans to open research centre on dhows

DOHA: Katara will soon estab- stories, and serve as an informa- lish the Qatar Center for Dhows, tion centre for Qataris and tour- a research centre dedicated to ists alike.” the preservation of dhow and “We thank Katara for this gen- its promotion in Qatar’s cur- erous and important initiative to rent and future generations. preserve our history and heritage. The General Director of We hope that this centre will be a Culture at Katara, Dr Khaled good addition to our rich culture. bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, announced We will work hard to reflect the this yesterday at a press confer- bright image of our history and ence attended by representatives our grandfathers’ life in all its from the Ministry of Culture, difficulties and toughness,” said Arts, and Heritage. Jassem Mohammed Al Ali of the “Our grandfathers relied on Qatar Center for Dhows. the dhow for their livelihood, The Qatar Center for Dhows much as we rely on our hydrocar- will exhibit different traditional bon resources for today’s income. sailing techniques that were used Therefore, the establishment of by Qataris in the past, including the centre ensures that genera- serdal, nawktha, and maqdami, tions to come will pay tribute and will document the day-to- to this important aspect of our day life of the sailors and their Officials of Katara and Qatar Center for Dhows at the press briefing yesterday. traditions, heritage, and history,” practices. Their stories, and the said Dr Al Sulaiti. story of the dhow, will be shared He stressed the important role through multiple platforms, these historical vessels. international organisations that of setting up the Qatar Center for the Cultural Village, complement- the dhow has played in history “as including media, exhibitions, fes- “These conferences and forums share the centre’s mission and Dhows in Katara, Dr Al Sulaiti ing the Foundation’s cultural role, a means of transporting goods, as tivals, and others. will result in published white goals. It is also our aim to peri- said: “It is only natural to estab- and ensuring that future genera- a platform for pearl-diving, and In addition, the centre will papers, to be shared with the gen- odically issue newsletters and lish the centre in Katara, which tions will continue to remember as a cultural icon; thus, the centre also hold educational seminars, eral public,” added Dr Al Sulaiti. books to reach the widest audi- was set up to promote not only and respect the important herit- will document the history of the forums, and conferences to facili- “The centre will also collabo- ence possible.” global culture, but that of Qatar’s. age and story of the dhow.” dhow, preserving archives and tate debate and understanding of rate with local, regional, and Commenting on the importance The centre will only add value to THE PENINSULA

Doha-based artists First Spanish school to showcase works to open in September DOHA: Qatar’s first Spanish school is set to open doors here in September, as part of Qatar’s Outstanding Schools Initiative. Based in West Bay, the school belongs to SEK International at IAD exhibition Schools and English will be its official language of instruction, with emphasis on developing students’ fluency in both Spanish DOHA: The International Artists Doha (IAD) is set to launch and Arabic. its third annual exhibition entitled “Between Cultures” fea- Established in 1982, SEK International schools offer education turing diverse works of 22 Doha-based artists hailing from to more than 6,000 students of all nationalities, from ages 3 to 13 countries. 18, in their campuses of Madrid, Barcelona, Almeria, Pontevedra, Hosted and sponsored by Qatar Foundation, the expo will Dublin and Les Alpes. showcase the latest works of Doha-based artists from a variety of Doha’s school is due to gradually offer co-educational K-12 mul- countries including Qatar, The Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, tilingual international education. Australia, India, Egypt, Iran, Barbados, Portugal, Sudan, UK “In pre-candidacy status within the International Baccalaureate and the Philippines. The artworks will offer wide-ranging styles Organisation, it will offer an academically rigorous education where from realism to abstract. children are encouraged to become critical thinkers and lifelong Jean-Paul Engelen, Director of Public Art at Qatar Museums learners through an international, inquiry-based programme,” Authority (QMA) and Sheikha Hala Al Khalifa, QMA’s Head of SEK has said on its website, where a brochure on Qatar’s school the Artists in Residence Programmes will jointly open the exhi- is now available. bition on Wednesday at Al AaQool Atrium at Qatar Foundation A delegation from the Supreme Education Council (SEC) vis- Recreation Centre in Education City. ited Spain last week to discuss the final details of establishing the The artists taking part include: Marjolijn Stolk, Annette Spanish school here. The team included officials from different Wendling-Willeke, Urvashi Chauhan, Mohammed Al Atiq, departments of the SEC. Nourelhadi Awad, Salim Abdulla, Mahgoub Al-Magboul, They visited the head offices of SEK Spanish School to review Dominika Bozic, Pip Hoy, Shihar Hamza, Behnaz Larsen, the final details concerning the opening of a branch to operate Willemien Mansell, Doerte Meichsner, Jameela Al Shraim, from academic year 2013/2014. Nigel Muter, Beverley Ross, Arnel Sarmiento, Hannelore Seckel, Study in the SEK School in Qatar will be limited to the primary Verity Watkins, Pedro Boaventura and Sylvia Gomes. stage in its first year and starting from pre-kindergarten stage In addition to original artworks on display, all artists have up to the sixth primary class, the SEC has informed. The school contributed a 30cm x 30cm piece which will be offered to the will start by enrolling 180 students and will gradually expand by public through a silent auction, proceeds of which will go to IAD adding more stages each year, with plans to enrol 460 students in to fund their future public events. academic year 2014-2015. This number of students will increase to Doors open to the public at 6pm on Wednesday. The exhibition be not less than 600 students by academic year 2016-2017. will also be open on Thursday from 10am to 6pm, on Friday from A delegation from SEK will visit Doha, most likely next week. 12noon to 6pm and on Saturday from 10am to 4pm. There are approximately 1,400 Spanish nationals here and thou- Established in 2011 by two Dutch artists, IAD provides a sands of Spanish speakers. The last report of the Cervantes forum for international artists in Doha to come together to Institute, a public institution created by Spain in 1991 to promote share ideas and knowledge and collaborate with each other with Spanish and spread the culture of Spanish speaking countries, art as a common language. The group also continues to support concluded that Spanish is the second language in the world, with each other in organising exhibitions that allow the artists to over 495 million speakers. THE PENINSULA showcase their work to a broader audience. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 HMC: Beware of malaria while abroad Cases on the rise in Qatar

DOHA: With an increase in disease, mostly among African incidence of Malaria in Qatar, children. the Hamad Medical Corporation People at risk of developing (HMC) has advised people trav- severe illness from malaria include elling abroad to take necessary children, pregnant women, people precautions against the disease. with a weak immune system and The cases are on the rise due international travellers from non- to the increased influx of foreign endemic areas. Pregnant women workers to the country and all in general are advised not to the patients get infected abroad, travel unless absolutely necessary. especially in countries where the Al Soub advised travellers to be disease is endemic, said an HMC aware of whether malaria is com- expert. mon in the country or areas they The Minister of Education and Higher Education and the Secretary General of the Supreme Education Council, H E Saad bin Ibrahim Al Mahmoud, Deputy The number of cases increased are travelling to. Some regions Director General of the Maersk Oil Qatar, Sheikh Faisal bin Fahad Al Thani, and Dean of Information Technology at the College of the North Atlantic, Dr from 211 in 2008 to 708 in 2012 affected by malaria include Africa, Theodore Chiasson, signing the memorandum of understanding. and all those affected last year, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Southeast except two, were expatriates, Asia and Latin America. according to data released by the “When visiting endemic areas, Qatar Statistics Authority last people should use mosquito nets week. especially insecticide-treated nets “There is no malaria case which are designed to repel and where the disease was acquired kill mosquitoes. Avoid going out- SEC to boost Robotics Olympiad locally. All the patients get the side during night time, as infected infection from outside the coun- mosquitoes bite mainly during DOHA: The Supreme Education the North Atlantic Dr Theodore try, as many people come to this time. If you have to go out- Council (SEC) together with Chiasson, signed a memorandum Qatar from endemic countries. side, you can wear long sleeves or several other institutions of understanding to enhance Also, when residents have been apply insect-repellent creams to has taken a new initiative cooperation in the development in Qatar for a long time and go your skin,” said Al Soub. to enhance and strengthen of the Robots Programme and back to visit their countries, they Travellers have also been the Robots Programme and Robotics Olympiad in Qatar’s may have lower immunity to the advised to consult a doctor before Robotics Olympiad in Qatar’s schools. disease because they have not the trip or visit a clinic that schools. In a press statement follow- been exposed to it for some time,” offers travel medicine such as the This innovative educational ing the signing of the MoU, Al said Dr Hussam Al Soub, Senior Communicable Disease Control programme, based on the toolkit Mahmoud said that this partner- Consultant – Infectious Diseases (CDC) Clinic at the Mesaimeer of LEGO Mind storm robotics, is ship primarily aims to activating at HMC. Primary Health Center. There open to all schools in Qatar. Robotics Olympiad programme, “Malaria is a serious but pre- are no licensed vaccines against The programme will run for which encourages schools to ventable disease. People just need malaria, but there are medicines two years and will include a vari- engage students in the fields of to be aware and observe pre- that can be taken to prevent ety of activities such as the pro- science, engineering and technol- cautions to protect themselves. the disease. These medications vision of Android tools, training ogy and learning new skills that Precautions are simple and are can be had for a certain period of teachers and students, and will add value to the skills that not costly, but they can prevent before travel, during one’s stay in hosting a series of robotic com- they learned in school. the serious disease,” he added. endemic places, and for a period petitions including the National It is also in the interest of all The World Malaria Day was after one’s return. Robot Olympiad in Qatar with parties to the educational process, observed on April 25 under the Symptoms of malaria usually qualified teams to participate in including students and teachers theme, “Invest in the future. appear within 7 to 30 days of the finals of the World Robotics alike, to provide them with train- Defeat malaria.” infection. Travellers are advised to Olympiad in Jakarta, Indonesia. ing in various activities related to Malaria is a life-threatening immediately visit the Emergency The Minister of Education the Robots programme, and cre- Officials inspecting robots at the Robotics Olympiad. disease caused by parasites that Department or a primary health and Higher Education and the ate a competitive environment in are transmitted to people through centre if they experience chills, Secretary General of the Supreme the educational community. them to distinct experiences and system in Qatar is mainly based the bites of infected mosquitoes. fever, headache and vomit- Education Council, H E Saad bin It also allows students the expertise at the global level. on the principle of effective part- According to the World Health ing, which may be symptoms of Ibrahim Al Mahmoud, Deputy opportunity to participate in the The minister said the success nership with civil society institu- Organisation (WHO), there were malaria. If not treated within 24 Director General of the Maersk robots programme and World factors for the establishment of tions, with the understanding that about 219 million cases of malaria hours, the infection can progress Oil Qatar, Sheikh Faisal Bin Robotics Olympiad and compete partnerships with the education education is everyone’s responsi- worldwide in 2010 and an esti- to severe illness often leading to Fahad Al Thani and Dean of with counterparts at the inter- sector are becoming more avail- bility. mated 660,000 deaths from the death. THE PENINSULA Information Technology College of national level, as well as expose able than ever, and the education THE PENINSULA Advisory Council Speaker with delegation Tour operators brace for busy summer break

DOHA: Travel and tour- have yet to fix travel dates ism trade sources say they and decide on their favourite expect a 10 percent growth destinations. in air bookings for tourist Since the holy month of destinations in the upcom- Ramadan is dividing the ing summer months. annual vacation into two They also believe that the parts, holiday-makers will favourite tourist destinations have only a maximum of 25 of citizens would remain days before or after Ramadan. unchanged from last year Short destinations of trav- since the situation in the ellers will be GCC countries region hasn’t improved. and long destinations would The long summer break be to European countries. this year could be divided into However, they will head to two parts — for the expatriate US and Asian countries after communities and for citizens. Eid Al Fitr. Ramadan begins at the Arab countries witnessing start of the summer vacation violence are out of the list this year, so most expatriates of favourite destination for would want to spend their Qatari citizens and Turkey annual vacation in their home emerged as an alternative des- The Speaker of the Advisory Council H E Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Kholeifi with members of the delegation of Qatari-European Friendship countries. tination for Arab states, said Association in Doha yesterday. Talks during the meeting covered parliamentary relations and ways of enhancing them. Advisory Council’s Deputy Therefore, there is too another manager of a travel Speaker Essa bin Rabea Al Kuwari and the Council’s Secretary-General Fahad bin Mubarak Al Khayareen also took part in the meeting. much rush for bookings espe- agency. cially for destinations in South However, the European Asia, South East Asia and the countries including, London, Arab world. Paris and Germany are in the The second part of the top of the favourite destina- summer vacation is related tion list of citizens, he added. to Qatari citizens who might The roadmap for foreign CMC still headhunting for secretary-general spend only part of their vaca- tourism destinations could tion abroad. not be specified exactly at DOHA: The Central Applicants must have good Abdullah Al Hanzab, has been degree, and good managerial Some of them will go on this moment as airlines did Municipal Council (CMC) English-language skills, the set up to fill the key adminis- and administrative skills and vacation before Ramadan and not disclose its summer flights has denied it has appointed CMC has said, adding that it trative post of the civic repre- experience. others might postpone it after schedules. a secretary-general after has begun receiving applica- sentative body. They must also have good Eid Al Fitr, a tour operator The schedule may be the incumbent was sacked tions from yesterday with the The committee has speci- command over the English lan- said. announced after the event of sometime ago, and said the last date ending in two weeks. fied that candidates, includ- guage and can read, write and So booking for tourist des- Arab Travel Industry that will hunt is still on for a suitable A committee led by the ing women, applying for the speak fluently, Al Arab reports. tinations is very slow because start on May 6 in Dubai. replacement. Chairman of CMC, Saud bin post should have a bachelor’s THE PENINSULA families are now planning and THE PENINSULA MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Msheireb unveils Downtown progress First phase of QR20bn, 31-hectare project will be completed within a year, says design officer

BY RAYNALD C RIVERA infrastructure including district was going to be a metro station cooling plant, substations and in our development. So with the DOHA: The first phase of the service corridors. introduction of the metro station, QR20bn Msheireb Downtown “For Phase 1B we are looking we had to redesign Phase 4 and Doha will be completed within at construction completed by work together with Qatar Rail the year, says Mohammed the end of 2014 but the handover as a team to integrate the Metro Masoud J Al Marri, Chief would be in the first quarter of station in a building in Phase 4,” Officer for Design and Delivery 2015, the same with Phase 1C,” explained Al Marri, adding: “Once at Msheireb Properties. said Al Marri. Qatar Rail workshops and scenar- The 31-hectare project aimed Phase 1B and C feature offices, ios are completed we can identify at creating innovative, sustain- townhouses, apartments, ameni- the completion date.” able, eco-friendly and inspiring ties, a hotel, civil buildings, a He stressed the project is still living space based on the Qatari school, cultural centre and a within the QR20bn allocated for heritage is being implemented in mosque. the entire development. six phases namely Phases 1A, 1B, Phase 2, which is mainly com- Commercial and governmental 1C, 2, 3 and 4. posed of retail, offices, apart- offices occupy the largest space “Phase 1A is nearing comple- ments, cinemas, department store of 280,000sqm (36.9 percent), fol- tion and we are now working and a hotel, is slated to be finished lowed by residences 222,000sqm on the commissioning for all of by the second quarter of 2015. (29.2 percent), hotels 117,000sqm Phase 1A,” Al Marri told the local “We have already awarded the (15.4 percent), retail 94,000sqm media during a site tour yesterday contract for Phase 3 and it would (12.3 percent), community and to reveal latest developments on be completed by last quarter of cultural areas, school, mosque, the multi-million dollar project. 2015,” he said. Phase 3 comprises museum 47,000sqm (6.3 percent). Infrastructure works for Phase retail, offices, apartments, day Parks and open spaces will cover 1A are expected to be completed care centre and hotel. an area of more than 120,000sqm. next month, main building works Due to changes in the sched- Among the other features of the by September this year, and the ule resulting from the integration project are 11,700 basement park- heritage quarter by year end. of metro station in the project, ing spaces, two five-star hotels Phase 1A includes Diwan deadline for Phase 4 is not yet namely Mandarin Oriental and Amiri Quarter comprising finalised. MGallery and two four-star ones, Diwan Annex, Amiri Guard and “Deadline for Phase 4 was and residential areas comprising National Archive; heritage build- supposed to be 2016 but that apartments and 28 townhouses. Chief Officer for Design and Delivery at Msheireb Properties, Mohammed Masoud J Al Marri, during the briefing. ings; mosque; amenities and was before we knew that there THE PENINSULA

Construction work in full swing in the first phase of the Msheireb Downtown Doha project. PHCC underscores importance of vaccines

DOHA: The Primary Health growing of their kids. Center organised an event also get an ear infection, and up Care Corporation (PHCC) has Dr Azzam Ashour, PHCC with 22 students from Qatar to one out of 20 gets pneumo- organised a series of activities Consultant Paediatrician Independent Kindergarten nia. About one out of 1,000 gets as part of the ‘Immunisation explained that vaccination where they attended a lecture encephalitis, and one or two out Week’ campaign being organ- saves lives of more than 3 mil- emphasising on the importance of 1,000 die,” he added. ised by the Supreme Council lion people worldwide each year of being vaccinated. Dr Ahmed Other health centres such as of Health. and prevents millions of others Mohamed El Deraee, PHCC Mesaimeer, Abu Nakhle, Umm The campaign focuses on pre- from suffering diseases and per- Specialist Paediatrician, high- Ghuwalina and Al Shamal ventive measures against dis- manent disabilities. lighted the importance of vac- are, as well, celebrating the eases such as measles, rubella, “Vaccine-preventable dis- cines to protect ourselves by Immunisation Week campaign hepatitis A and B, diphtheria eases, such as measles, infect preparing the immune system with the same goal of stopping and influenza. children, and getting vacci- to recognise and fight serious measles and eradicate it by 2015. Airport Health Center held nated is the best way to pre- diseases. PHCC is diligently working a lecture for parents to inform vent it. The vaccine contains Also, he clarified that mea- to combat the preventable dis- about the importance of being live viruses that can no longer sles can be more serious than eases among the community and vaccinated and the timings cause disease.” he added. what people think. “About one improve the healthcare system that they should follow in the Madinat Khalifa Health out of 10 children with measles in Qatar. THE PENINSULA

Ooredoo staff get free health checks

DOHA: Hundreds of Ooredoo employees have received free health checks and advice at Ooredoo’s Health Day, in an effort to reduce health risks and encourage healthy lifestyles. Following the World Health Organisation’s World Health Day, Ooredoo and Ooredoo Qatar held Health Day for staff under the theme “Enriching People’s Lives,” at Ooredoo Officials at the health camp held at Ooredoo Tower in West Bay. Tower in West Bay on April 25. Ooredoo staff received free health check-ups in separate height and weight. Ooredoo staff organisation The Gift of Al Kuwari, Chief Corporate male and female areas, with also learned about the role that Health, International Academy Services Officer, Ooredoo Qatar. medical professionals checking healthcare, sports and nutrition for Intercultural Development Mohanna Al Nuaimi, Group for high blood pressure, which play in healthy lifestyles thanks (IAID), fresh produce deliv- Chief Human Resources Officer, increases the risk of heart to promotional material from ery service The Green Box, Ooredoo, spoke about how attacks, strokes and kidney dozens of exhibitors hosted at health coaching team Art of Ooredoo promotes healthy living failure. different offices for Ooredoo. Abundant Living, yoga organi- and personal care, and enriches Staff also received readings Exhibitors included Hamad sation Yogasha, and The St people’s lives; and also gave tips on blood sugar to check for dia- Medical Corporation (HMC), Regis Doha. for employees on finding an betes; BMI (Body Mass Index) insurance company SEIB, The opening speech was ideal work-life balance. to determine body fat; and healthy living mentorship delivered by Mohammed Jassim THE PENINSULA MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Italy to help rehabilitate drug addicts SCH to get new treatment centre

BY AZMAT HAROON community, which are recognised at the European level, can be DOHA: The Supreme Council developed in Qatar, where drug of Health (SCH) is collaborat- emergence is now increasing. Only ing with Italy’s San Patrignano through an international coopera- Community and Uninettuno tion at this level, we will be able The Director of Public Health Department at the Supreme Council of Health, Sheikh Dr Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani, with Italian delegates and other University for programmes on to join forces on prevention, fight officials at the press conference at the SCH headquarters yesterday. (Below) FROM LEFT: Sheikh Dr Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani with Italian officials substance abuse in the country. and recovery from drug addiction Letizia Moratti, Monica Borzanti, Antonio Boschim, and Alessandro Caforio. KAMMUTTY VP The establishment of a new worldwide,” Moratti said. addiction treatment centre Although comprehensive sta- and some of its facilities were tistics on drug addiction in Qatar announced yesterday during the are not available, officials estimate official visit of two Italian delega- that the magnitude of the prob- tions to Doha, which was led by lem is ‘similar to other countries Letizia Moratti, former Italian in the region’. Minister of Education. “We are aware of the need for “The visit comes with a project the rehabilitation facility here,” of a mutual cooperation to pro- Dr Mounir Soussi, Medical vide and ensure the best medical Director of the Treatment and services for the victims of drug Rehabilitation Center (TRC), addiction and to benefit from said, adding that adults here the unique experience of the San were primarily affected by alco- Patrignano Community,” Sheikh hol abuse while many youngsters Dr. Mohammed bin Hamad Al were addicted to amphetamines Thani, Director of Public Health and cannabis. Department at SCH, said. Addicts seeking help in Qatar The SCH and San Patrignano included youth as young as 18 to psycho-social therapy, after which however, would have to take in work places. Here, the society collaborating with Qatar to form Community, which boasts a 72 adults over 60 years of age. patients are sent to the after-care addicts from expatriates com- still believes that addiction is not a joint committee to assess cases percent success rate for addicts, Many addicts are treated at programme. munities in the future, according a disease. Addiction for them is of substance abuse in GCC coun- will collaborate on education, Hamad Medical Corporation’s “It is a real problem. We have to Dr Soussi. something that is forbidden by tries and existing rehabilitation prevention and rehabilitation (HMC) Psychiatry Department, a temporary centre now which He said that many addicts in religion and because of that they facilities for them. programmes for addicts. Online Arshidni Centre as well as the has the capacity of some 20 beds. the country go through relapse think addicts cannot be forgiven,” “We are ready to establish a Master’s courses in psycho-social Social Rehabilitation Centre Once construction of the new because of the stigma attached Dr Soussi said. joint-committee to discuss scien- rehabilitation will be set up for (SRC). Drug addiction treatment rehabilitation completes, we will with the problem. A large majority This is one reason why local tific research, legal national and practitioners in the field of addic- is based on a biological, psycho- have 250 beds,” Dr Soussi said. of families in Qatar do not accept patients prefer treatment abroad international policies on rehabili- tion in collaboration with the social and spiritual programme, There are also plans to estab- addicts back in their homes even in countries such as Egypt, tation and prevention,” Moratti, Uninettuno University. with a 40-day residential pro- lish a separate centre for women after they complete rehab. Lebanon or Europe. who is also an ambassador of San “The successful results obtained gramme. This includes 10 days in the new facility, which is meant “They cannot go back to their Moratti also said that Patrignano Community, said. by the therapeutic model of the for detoxification and 30 days in to be for Qataris only. The centre, families, school, university, or the Italian delegation was THE PENINSULA Education helps cut poverty Continued from page 1 First Initiative; and at the meeting will be the publication of This represents a continu- World Innovation Summit for A Moral Obligation, an Economic ation, extension and devel- Education (WISE) held in Doha Priority, an important new opment of some of the work soon afterwards. research paper by Dr Nicholas begun last year at the UN It also follows on from work Burnett of the Washington- General Assembly, where UN undertaken earlier this month based Results for Development Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Washington, where Sheikha Institute commissioned by EAC. launched his Global Education Moza addressed a ministerial A prominent expert in the roundtable at the World Bank. field, Dr Burnett demonstrates The Doha meeting will that over and above the over- Countries represented at examine collaborative efforts riding moral imperative to give Doha EAC 2013 to provide opportunities for all children the education they children, improve and modernise deserve there is a crippling eco- Ministerial Meeting systems of education worldwide nomic cost to developing nations Countries Number of and produce generations well- of up to seven percent of their out of school prepared to contribute positively Gross Domestic Product per children to the new world we are trying annum if they fail to do so. Afghanistan 5,000,000 to build together — all the while Sheikha Moza added: preserving the cultural iden- “Strategically, we must link Bangladesh 2,294,000 tities of the societies that will education to efforts to reduc- Chad 506,100 make it up. ing poverty, providing meaning- As EAC rapidly becomes ful employment opportunities, Cote d’Ivoire 1,001,000 recognised internationally as a investing in skills development, DRC 3,500,000 driver for change in the field, encouraging sustainable growth, ministers and other high-level strengthening social protection Ghana 791,049 representatives will also have the mechanisms, promoting gender opportunity to meet and form equality and focusing on human Haiti 400,000 alliances with the private sector, development and human capital. Niger 1,085,721 programme sponsors, NGOs and We have the momentum with us, development agencies of every and I am sure this meeting will Nigeria 10,542,105 type in a ‘Marketplace’ session give us all renewed determination Pakistan 5,125,373 designed to maximise the poten- and inspiration to meet this enor- tial for real, positive outcomes. mous challenge.” Philippines 1,460,431 Another highlight of the THE PENINSULA

Unsteady weather to prevail till Thursday DOHA: The weather is expected to be partly cloudy to cloudy over the next few days with chances of scattered rain with thunder in some parts of the country from tonight until Thursday night, the meteorology department said yesterday. The wind will blow from the north-western direction, which means that it would be pleasant as it would be blowing from the colder regions, with moderate speed. The forecasters said there is the need for some caution especially during thundershowers in the high seas as the wind speed could suddenly escalate. Day temperatures will continue averaging at between 29 and 34 degrees Celsius, with the minimum dropping to between 20 and 23 degrees Celsius. However, from Thursday onwards one can expect hotter days as the temperature would begin to rise, said the forecasters. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Bouteflika in Lebanon house workers protest Paris hospital after stroke Algeria officials allay fears

PARIS: Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (pictured) was in a Paris hospital yes- terday after suffering a mini- stroke, raising media doubts about his ability to govern less than a year before a presidential election. The 76-year-old, in power since 1999, suffered a “transient ischae- mia” on Saturday and was flown to Paris where he was driven under army escort to the Val de Grace military hospital, which often treats high-profile patients. shock,” wrote the francophone Officials in Algeria were quick daily Liberte. to allay fears, saying he was “This time the presidency has responding well, but the media judged the incident to be serious raised fresh questions about his enough not to hide it from the health, which has been an endless Algerian people.” source of speculation since 2005 Elected in 1999 and re-elected Foreign nationals working as domestic helps take part in a parade to mark Labour Day and to highlight their plight in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday. when he had surgery in Paris. in 2004 and 2009 thanks to a According to a recent UN report, an estimated 600,000 people have been “tricked and trapped” into forced employment in the Middle East, and Rachid Bougherbal, direc- constitutional change ending many of them are also sexually exploited. tor of Algeria’s National Sports term limits, Bouteflika had had Medicine Centre, said the “tran- a health scare in 2005 when he sient ischaemia” — a temporary had surgery in Paris for a bleed- blockage of blood flow to the brain ing stomach ulcer and spent three often called a “mini-stroke” — weeks in Val de Grace. Sudan sheltering warlord Kony: Watchdog “did not last long”. That hospital stay was shrouded Bouteflika “did not suffer irre- in secrecy, the lack of official infor- versible damage”, he told the mation fuelling fears his condition KAMPALA: The fugitive Armed Forces (SAF) in Kafia Uganda’s contention that the LRA charges it supports Kony, a war- state news agency APS, explain- may be more serious than admit- African warlord Joseph Kony Kingi have actively sheltered is a beneficiary of Sudanese sup- lord wanted by the International ing that “no sensory function was ted. In early 2006, Bouteflika spent recently found safe haven in senior LRA commanders there port. Ugandan army officials said Criminal Court for war crimes impaired”. a week undergoing post-operative territory controlled by Sudan, and provided them with limited late last year they believed Kony and crimes against humanity. But according to the website of medical exams at the same hospi- a watchdog group said, accusing material support,” the report said. was hiding in Sudan-controlled Sudan’s army spokesman the American Heart Association, tal, which has also treated former the Sudanese military of offer- “According to LRA defectors and territory, although now they Sawarmy Khaled denied reports a transient ischaemia attack “is French presidents Nicolas Sarkozy ing aid to commanders of the other sources, LRA leader Joseph believe he has moved elsewhere. on Friday that his country has more accurately characterised as and Jacques Chirac. Lord’s Resistance Army. Kony himself first travelled to the “We always knew Kony was provided shelter or refuge to a ‘warning stroke’, a warning you Several months later he disap- The US-based group Resolve Kafia Kingi enclave in 2010. He hiding in Kafia Kingi,” he said. Kony. “The report is baseless and should take very seriously”. peared from public view for 50 said in a new report that Kony returned to Kafia Kingi in 2011 “The way forward is that no coun- rejected. The Sudanese army has Algeria’s Prime Minister days, again feeding the rumour recently directed killings from an and was present there throughout try should be hiding a wanted no renegade leaders. It is a united Abdelmalek Sellal urged calm, in mill. Then a year after his sur- enclave protected by the Sudanese parts of 2012.” criminal.” army and has no place for indi- comments reported by APS. gery, he said he had been “very, military. Until early this year, In a series of makeshift camps Kony watchdog groups are con- vidual acts,” he told the official “His situation is not at all very sick” but had “come out according to the report, Kony near a Sudanese army barracks, cerned that Kony can retreat to state news agency SUNA. “The serious,” said Sellal, who did not absolutely fabulous”, emphasising and some of his commanders Kony “continued to direct LRA Kafia Kingi whenever his pursu- Sudanese army has no interest in interrupt a visit to the northern that “people need to stop talking were operating in Kafia Kingi, a attacks against civilians in neigh- ers get close. Resolve said it has adopting or sheltering rebels from city of Bejaia on hearing the news. about my health.” disputed area along the Sudan- bouring countries and issue new satellite imagery of the now- other countries.” Saturday’s late-breaking news Yesterday, the daily El South Sudan border where orders for LRA fighters.” abandoned camp where Kony was The United States govern- made headlines in Algeria, where Watan reported that although African Union troops tasked with The Ugandan military — with reportedly seen in late 2012. The ment is evaluating the report Bouteflika’s health has sparked Bouteflika’s mini-stroke “dates catching Kony don’t have access. support from US military advis- warlord is no longer believed to that the LRA is operating in the much speculation amid doubts officially from 12:30 pm yesterday, “The enclave is currently con- ers — is the driving force behind be hiding there, the report noted, Kafia Kingi region, said State over the official version of events. some sources have confided that trolled by Sudan, and numer- the hunt for Kony. Ugandan army saying he may have crossed into Department spokesman Patrick “The very idea that this news the president suffered the attack ous eyewitness reports indicate spokesman Col Felix Kulayigye Central African Republic. Ventrell. is made public is in itself a media about a week ago.” AFP that elements of the Sudanese said the report vindicates Sudan has consistently denied AP

All that remains Palestinians Resentment follows protest arrest of Salafist Sudan rebel attack KHARTOUM, SUDAN: Fear occupied it on Saturday. and anger yesterday followed The death toll was unclear but relatives a Sudanese rebel strike on a included some policemen, accord- major town residents said had ing to residents and officials. GAZA CITY: Dozens of been left unguarded and was hit Rebels said eight of their Palestinians held a sit-in yes- during coordinated attacks in number died during the opera- terday in central Gaza to the insurgents’ most audacious tion, four in battle and four in demand the release of their act in years. accidents. Salafist relatives, held in cus- In Umm Rawaba, a previously North Kordofan has been tody by the territory’s Islamist peaceful community of thousands largely free from the insurgencies rulers Hamas. which bore the brunt of Saturday’s in the Darfur region to its west, Participants in the protest, attack, residents said about 300 and South Kordofan to its south. mainly women and children, car- youths stoned a convoy carrying A rebel coalition, the Sudan ried banners calling for their rela- North Kordofan state governor Revolutionary Front (SRF), said tives to be freed. Murghani Hussein Zaki-Adeen, it attacked Umm Rawaba and “We demand the release of our and federal Electricity Minister several other areas as part of its sons from jail,” a female protester Osama Abdullah Mohammed. strategy to reach Khartoum and who refused to give her name told “Where were you yesterday?” overthrow the 24-year regime AFP. “Why are they arresting witnesses said protesters shouted of President Omar Hassan them and searching houses and after the governor visited the Al Bashir. shops?” homes of people who died in the Umm Rawaba is about 100 “They banned us from visiting unrest. kilometres east of the state capi- since they arrested my brother, Youths then set fire to local gov- tal El Obeid, which is home to who has been on hunger strike ernment buildings, said witnesses. an air force base and yesterday since April 3,” she said. “We hold Residents complained that the was tense with armoured vehi- the Hamas government responsi- town, the second largest in North cles deployed and soldiers in the ble for their arrest.” A Palestinian man and his son look at a charred vehicle that was, according to them, fired on by Israelis Kordofan, had been left unde- streets, a resident said. According to Salafist sources, yesterday in Jerusalem at the start of the day-long holiday of Lag Baomer that commemorates the Jewish fended when insurgents briefly AFP Hamas is holding over 20 mem- scholar’s death. bers of the hardline Muslim movement in custody. The Hamas government has found itself at odds with an array of small jihadist, Salafist groups Foreign ministry picketed for law banning Gaddafi officials operating in the Gaza Strip that have challenged the Islamist movement both over confronta- TRIPOLI: Gunmen sur- government and armed militias passed, banning Gaddafi-era offi- employed there had worked for crisis so long as these people tions with Israel and the practice rounded Libya’s foreign ministry have been rising in recent weeks cials from senior government Gaddafi, he said. The prime min- are present,” assembly mem- of Islamic rule. yesterday calling for a law ban- since a campaign was launched positions. ister was expected to brief the ber Tawfiq Al Shehabi told Salafist groups have claimed ning officials who had worked to dislodge the groups from their The law could force out several media on the ministry blockade Reuters. responsibility for a number of for deposed dictator Muammar strongholds in the capital. ministers as well as the congress later. On Tuesday, the French recent rocket attacks at Israel, Gaddafi from senior positions in Since Gaddafi was toppled by leader, depending on the wording Libya’s legislature, the General embassy in Tripoli was bombed, including last week’s directed the new administration. Western-backed rebels in 2011, adopted. National Congress has previously the first major attack on a for- at the southern resort city of At least 20 pick-up trucks Libya has been awash with weap- “The Ministry of Foreign been prevented from voting on eign target since September’s Eilat. loaded with anti-aircraft guns ons and roving armed bands that Affairs will remain closed until the bill, when protesters barri- deadly assault on the US dip- Hamas, which has ruled the blocked the roads while men are increasingly targetting state the political isolation law is imple- caded assembly members inside lomatic mission in Benghazi. Gaza Strip since 2007, has regu- armed with AK-47 and sniper institutions. mented,” the commander of the a building for several hours in The attack showed the govern- larly cracked down on Salafists rifles directed the traffic away Yesterday’s protest was to militia told Reuters. March demanding they adopt ment’s grip on the capital may in the territory, notably in 2009. from the building, witnesses said. demand a law — which has The foreign ministry had been the law. be slipping. AFP Tension between the already been proposed — be targeted because some officials “The country will remain in REUTERS MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

Blast hits Mursi, judges police vehicle in Bahrain agree to seek DUBAI: A homemade bomb exploded yesterday near Manama after police rounded up 22 people sus- pected of attacking security forces and blocking roads compromise during protests, including in the lead-up to its Formula One race this month, police Egypt president relents in standoff said. “An explosion targetting a CAIRO: Egyptian President of fierce resistance to its push for police patrol carrying out its Mohammed Mursi and top a fast-track law to “cleanse the duties ... near (the Shia village judges agreed yesterday to seek judiciary”. of) Dia was carried out using a compromise to defuse a battle A presidential spokesman said a homemade bomb on Sunday over Islamist attempts to force in a statement read on state tele- morning,” said a police state- out thousands of judges that vision that Mursi had praised the ment on the official BNA news have deeply polarised the Arab idea of a justice conference and agency. world’s most populous nation. would start preparatory sessions No casualties were reported Mursi’s Islamist allies had pro- at the presidency tomorrow. in the attack that only dam- posed legislation to purge more Mursi would “personally adopt aged the police vehicle, accord- than 3,000 judges at a stroke by all the conclusions of this confer- ing to the statement which said reducing their mandatory retire- ence in draft laws and present an investigation was underway. ment age to 60 from 70 to sweep them to the legislative council,” The announcement came away senior jurists appointed he said. after another police statement under autocratic former President Mohamed Mumtaz, president on BNA late on Saturday said Hosni Mubarak. of the Supreme Judicial Council, that arrests were made in Shia But after nearly three hours of gave an almost identically worded villages in connection with talks, the president’s office and statement. alleged acts of violence since the Supreme Judicial Council said A judicial source said discus- late February. they had agreed to hold a confer- sion of the Islamist draft law that In one case, police detained ence on the future of the justice sparked an outcry among judges, six people suspected of partici- Men walk along a street piled with damaged buildings by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syrian system that would work out a lawyers, opposition parties and pating in a March 7 “terrorist reform acceptable to both sides. civil rights groups, would be fro- President Bashar Al Assad in the besieged town of Homs, yesterday. attack” on police patrols in the The deal appeared to be a sig- zen until after the conference village of Maqaba, west of the nificant climbdown by the ruling and the president would present capital Manama, it said, add- Muslim Brotherhood in the face a new draft. REUTERS ing security forces were still Egypt, Iran hold talks on Syria searching for other suspects. Others were arrested over CAIRO: Senior aides to chief-of-staff Rifaa El-Tahtawy in a diplomatic “Islamic Quartet” alleged attacks on police with Egyptian President Mohammed met Iranian officials in a follow- of countries established last year petrol bombs and metal rods. Mursi made a rare visit to up to Iranian President Mahmoud to try to broker a solution in Police also arrested two Tehran for talks with Iran on Ahmadinejad’s groundbreaking Syria. people suspected of blocking an Islamic initiative to seek visit to Cairo in February for an The Egyptian leader proposed roads and setting tyres ablaze a peaceful solution to Syria’s Islamic summit. negotiations between Syrian in the area of Dair, close to civil war, the two sides said An Iranian Foreign Ministry government representatives not the airport, on April 14, when yesterday. statement said they agreed on directly involved in repression and Shia demonstrations intensi- Tehran is Syria’s closest ally “the necessity of an action plan... opposition leaders under regional fied against Bahrain hosting and has provided money, weap- to act on the Egyptian president’s or UN auspices on a transition the Formula One Grand Prix ons, intelligence and training plan on the Syria crisis through of power. race on April 21. It was unclear for President Bashar Al Assad’s an acceptable political solution However, the Saudis stayed when all of the arrests were forces, while Egypt has given which can help end the violence away from the group in February made. Al-Wefaq, the main Shia political support to the opposition and help national reconciliation in apparent irritation at the inclu- opposition formation, said on Syrian National Coalition fighting with the participation of the peo- sion of the Iranians, and Syria Saturday that police arrested Students from Cairo University demonstrate outside the Egyptian Prime to oust him. ple of Syria”. has rejected foreign involvement 14 people during raids on Minister’s office demanding the release of students arrested in previous Mursi’s foreign affairs Mursi included Iran, alongside in the national dialogue proposed Thursday and Friday. AFP demonstrations, yesterday. adviser Essam Haddad and his Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, by Assad. 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HE announcement of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the main Kurdish rebel group in Turkey, that it would withdraw all of its forces from the Tcountry by May 8 as part of a peace agreement Syria’s refugee crisis means to end a 30-year conflict with the Turkish state is another significant step towards the resolution of a thirty-year conflict that has cost both sides heavily. Speaking at a rare press conference at the group’s base in the Qandil Jordan is crying out for help mountains of Iraq, Murat Karayilan, the commander of the group, known as the PKK, also called on the Turkish Army not to launch attacks during the rebels’ gradual withdrawal BY MENZIES CAMPBELL into northern Iraq, warning that any such confrontation zones, we also hear of prostitution, on aid but seeing little of it as much will end the cease-fire. sexual abuse and exploitation rising of it is channelled to refugees (includ- ORDAN is desperate. In January, in Jordan’s largest refugee camp, now ing thousands of pre-2011 displaced Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has hailed $1.5bn was pledged to provide aid home to more than 200,000 Syrians. Palestinians and Iraqis). the announcement as the end of a dark era. Everybody Jfor Syrian refugees at the UN And the deficient security system in The isolation felt by the camp means would agree. While it’s difficult to predict the outcome of summit in Kuwait. Three months the camp cannot cope. Many of the that integration into Jordanian society the current efforts, there is no doubt that both sides are later, only a fraction has been delivered atrocities that occur are overlooked is exceptionally difficult. In order to making sincere, solid efforts for a solution to the crisis and there is no definite plan in place because the priority is to contain the leave the camp legitimately, a Jordanian for funding from crime within the camp, rather than let sponsor is required, which the authori- that has sapped their energies. At the same time, it will the end of June. it spill out into the increasingly vulner- ties might choose not to approve. If the be premature to expect that the peace bid will succeed As the situation able host country. refugees are able to leave the camp and completely. Erdogan is fully aware of the humps ahead. inside the Za’ateri Officially, you need permission from integrate into an urban setting, it is He has warned against the potential sabotage of a historic refugee camp dete- the government to pass through the very likely that they will be exploited peace process. Opposing groups with the PKK and Turkish The riorates, pressure main entrance of Za’ateri, but there in work. More than 160,000 Syrians nationalist circles might try to from outside the is no fence surrounding the camp and hold jobs in Jordan, though many do camp, both from nothing to stop men from all over the not have permits. When they take on derail the process, but it’s the organisations within Jordan and region entering by other routes and work, they accept sometimes half the duty of the PKK leadership and abroad, is escalat- taking single women away to be forcibly pay a Jordanian would require and the government of Erdogan to helping to ing dangerously. married. agree to much longer hours. Rent in The international make sure that all sides are Only last month, Za’ateri was described to me as a the northern cities has doubled. In community must taken into confidence during keep peace the UN warned “ghetto” by someone who has been response, there is growing bitterness the negotiation process, and that unless fund- there. The violence and riots in the among Jordanians that Syrians are support the peace ing for Syrian camp are predominantly caused by taking their jobs, pushing up house the dissenting groups must be in the camps refugees “comes understandably angry and frustrated prices and using their already depleted bid by Turkey dealt with sternly. This is an rapidly, urgently young men. resources. opportunity that should not be will be forced needed support This poses a huge risk for the single But Jordan is left with few options and the PKK. missed, and the alternative to a could be denied women and children. Recently opened but to sit and hope for more money. peace process is chaos and more to withdraw to refugees in dire by the UAE, Mrajeeb al-Fhood is a The country is under increasing pres- need”. Many of camp in Zarqa that does not accept sure from Saudi Arabia and countries bloodshed. Secondly, both sides without the organisations single men. from the Gulf to channel arms to sup- need to refrain from actions currently provid- While this helps to reduce violence port rebel groups in Syria. which will undermine confidence. Three female Kurdish ing aid in the camp in the camp, it does not offer a solution It has little say over the US deploy- political activists were killed in Paris a few weeks after financial help. may have to with- to the problem of where to place the ing 200 troops to the north of the coun- talks started in January an attack which many experts draw. It is expected single men flooding over the border. try or over whether the borders remain said was aimed at intimidating the negotiating parties. The that the number of A plan to open another camp, purely open, which is seen, in Damascus, as Syrian refugees in for single men – some of whom are openly provocative. government can undertake confidence building measures Jordan will rise to 1.2 million by the end defectors from the regime, many from Assad’s regime understands this like meeting some of the demands of PKK to speed up the of the year. This amounts to almost a potentially rival groups in the opposi- as indicating Jordan’s support for the talks. The Kurds are demanding more democratic rights fifth of Jordan’s population. tion – will only aggravate the mounting opposition and is keen to make Jordan and release of Kurdish prisoners, including the PKK’s No country would find it easy to cope tension. Such a proposal has recently aware of the politically fragile position highly influential founder, Abdullah Ocalan. with this sudden influx of people, least failed. it is in. This month, Assad announced: Any agreement that brings peace will be a huge of all one that is as economically and Currently, there is no adequately “The fire will not stop at our borders; politically vulnerable as Jordan. The functioning security system in place all the world knows Jordan is just as achievement for Erdogan and Ocalan and both leaders country is in desperate need of more in Za’ateri. Authorities are under exposed as Syria.” enjoy the wholehearted support of their people. After the aid and priority needs to be given to pressure to contain crime within the There may be disagreement about government made Ocalan the sole political authority of the the women and children who make up camp, to keep it isolated from the rest the possible supply of arms to the PKK, a party to the talks, he called off the armed struggle most of the camp’s population. of the country after increasing resent- Syrian opposition but there should be and it was widely welcome by his party members. Prostitution is not uncommon in ref- ment from Jordanians over the strain no disagreement about the urgency of ugee camps across the world. Just as we on their resources. The country is Jordan’s need for assistance on fulfilling The international community and Turkey’s neighbours, hear William Hague’s admirable pledge exhausted, both mentally and economi- its humanitarian burdens. especially Iraq, need to offer their support for the new to combat sexual violence in conflict cally. It is already heavily dependent THE GUARDIAN peace initiative• The other side Quote of Options for solving the Syria crisis are easier said than done the day HE Syrian government of problematic. No one wants to see Syria on ‘’limited but persuasive information used sarin and mustard gas to kill an Bashar al-Assad might collapse and reform under an extrem- from various sources’’. estimated 5000 Kurds during the Iraq- well have crossed what US ist regime that culls minorities, controls The United Nations will be pivotal Iran war. TPresident Barack Obama calls Assad’s chemical weapons cache and in testing the allegations. Secretary- The proof of that attack was quickly a ‘’red line’’ by using chemical weapons fans religious conflict across the Middle General Ban Ki-moon’s envoy on evident but the US, needing Iraq as a It’s a beautiful against its own people. Suspicions East. chemical weapons, Swedish scientist buffer against the Islamic revolutionary suggest it was the deadly sarin gas, That would add to the 70,000 death Ake Sellstrom, will brief officials on state in Iran, did little to respond. The feeling to be loved. which was used by Saddam Hussein toll and sharply increase the 1.3 million- Monday Australian time. His team is Security Council took seven weeks to against Kurds in 1988 and the Aum strong flood of refugees to nations such ready to leave for Syria within 48 hours censure the use of chemical weapons My shoulders hurt Shinrikyo doomsday cult in the Tokyo as Australia. but Assad will not allow access. by both sides. subway in 1995. Before any action is taken based on Syria has called the allegations a Yet 14 years later the US cited those from waving six If proof emerged against Syria - and chemical weapons use by Assad, proof ‘’barefaced lie’’ and derided UN inspec- attacks in trying to bolster intelligence hours a day. I need that would require a significant amount will be required beyond American con- tors. Syria will accept inspectors only which suggested, despite evidence to learn to wave of time - swift action would be justi- clusions reached with ‘’varying degrees from its close ally Russia. from UN inspectors, that Saddam Maryam Sharif fied against the discredited and brutal of confidence’’ about intelligence on The stand-off evokes international retained weapons of mass destruction wisely. Assad regime. ‘’small scale’’ use. Proof will also need reaction in 1988 when Saddam, and posed a global threat. Daughter of Nawaz Sharif, But action would also be more than British suspicions based through his cousin ‘’Chemical Ali’’, The Sydney Morning Herald former Pakistan PM MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Caution on US-led intervention in Syria

East, have lost confidence in any report Turkey has reacted which argues that there are weapons of mass destruction or chemical weapons,” cautiously to the said one source close to the Turkish gov- ernment. “Right now, no-one wants to US disclosure that believe them. And if Assad uses chemical weapons some day ... I still think Turkey’s Syria had likely used primary reaction would be asking for more support to the opposition rather than an intervention.” chemical weapons, Turkey’s rhetoric on Syria, at least in public, has toned down markedly over while Jordan has the past six months, even as shelling and gunfire spilled over the border and the voiced its preference influx of refugees to camps on its ter- ritory swelled to a quarter of a million. for a political solution. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s push for a foreign-protected “safe zone” inside Syria gained little traction among BY NICK TATTERSALL allies and appears to have quietly slipped from the agenda. Even Erdogan, whose yria’s neighbours, wary of stir- speeches were regularly laced with bel- ring a conflict that could spill licose anti-Assad rhetoric, mentions the back over their borders, would conflict less frequently. Sbe reluctant partners in a US-led But many analysts believe both the pro- intervention but are ultimately likely to US monarchy in Jordan and Erdogan’s support limited military action if wide- government in Ankara would toe the line spread use of chemical weapons is proven. should Washington seek their coopera- The White House disclosed US intel- tion in military action. ligence on Thursday that Syria had likely Turkey’s relations with Washington used chemical weapons, a move President have at times been prickly — notably in Barack Obama had said could trigger 2003 when it failed to allow the deployment unspecified consequences, widely inter- of US forces to Turkey to open a north- preted to include possible US military ern front in the Iraq war — but strategic action. cooperation has generally remained strong. Syrian neighbours Jordan and Turkey, Turkish support and bases proved vital, their support key in any such inter- for example, to US forces in Afghanistan, vention, have long been vocal critics of while Turkey hosts a US-operated Nato Bashar Al Assad. Prime Minister Recep radar system to protect against any A Free Syrian Army fighter inspects his weapon in the Khan Al Assal area, near Aleppo, yesterday. Tayyip Erdogan, an erstwhile ally of the regional threat from Iran. Syrian President, was among the first to “Given the texture of the current gov- action, military or otherwise. UK.” Jordan’s King Abdullah said last the logistics and even the politics of an call openly for his overthrow while allow- ernment’s relations with the US and Turkey and Jordan would be key to any year Assad should step down, but the intervention more difficult,” said Sinan ing armed opponents to use Turkish soil. given the history of its discourse on Syria, such move, but they may prove reluctant. kingdom is increasingly concerned by the Ulgen of the Istanbul-based Centre for But their rhetoric has been tempered I think it would be not impossible but From the outset, Turkey has felt growing strength in Syrian rebel ranks Economic and Foreign Policy Studies by the changing circumstances of a war rather difficult for Erdogan not to oblige slighted. Before the crisis, Erdogan cul- of Islamist fighters who view the mon- (EDAM). “But at the same time it rein- that has dragged on beyond their expec- US demands,” said Faruk Logoglu, former tivated a friendship with Assad, personal archy with just as much hostility as they forces the urgency of an intervention: the tations and grown increasingly sectar- Turkish ambassador to Washington and ties which he tried to use after the start do Assad. more the international community does ian, as well as by the suspicion they will vice chairman of the main opposition of the uprising in March 2011 to persuade Further fuelling those fears is the not intervene in Syria, the more likely it be left bearing the consequences of any Republican People’s Party. the Syrian leader to embrace reform and presence of fighters from the Nusra is that the radical elements will gain the action orchestrated by Western powers open dialogue. He was rebuffed. Front, which has declared its allegiance upper hand in a post-Assad Syria.” thousands of miles away. RELUCTANT PARTNERS When his strategy changed, he began to Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahri, Turkish officials and diplomats have For Turkey’s leaders, facing elections Although Obama has warned Syria calling for Assad’s removal and allow- among rebels who have taken terri- expressed concern about the role Saudi next year, talk of chemical weapons is that using chemical weapons against its ing the Syrian opposition to organise on tory across Syria’s southern province of Arabia may be playing in providing weap- an uncomfortable reminder of the wave own people would cross a “red line”, he Turkish soil. Ankara felt it gained praise Deraa, only 120km from the Jordanian ons which are going to the hands of radi- of anti-US sentiment which followed the has also made clear he is in no rush to from Washington and its allies but little capital Amman. cal Islamist elements among the Syrian 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, justified by intervene on the basis of evidence he said in the way of concrete support. Officials fear Syria has become a rebel ranks. US intelligence agencies intelligence on nuclear, chemical and was still preliminary. “Turkey feels lonely in many senses,” magnet for Islamist fighters who could believes Assad’s forces may have used biological weapons that turned out to be Syria denies using chemical weapons in the Turkish source said, saying that a one day turn their guns on Jordan — as the nerve agent sarin on a small scale erroneous. the two-year-old conflict in which more military intervention now would leave Jordanian-born Abu Musab Al Zarqawi against rebel fighters. The fear is that Turkey, which shares a 900km border than 70,000 people have been killed. Turkey and Syria’s other neighbours reel- did during the sectarian conflict in neigh- an increasingly desperate Assad may use with Syria, has reacted cautiously to the Mindful of the lessons of the start of ing from the consequences. bouring Iraq. Zarqawi was widely believed such weapons more widely the longer the US disclosure while Jordan, fearful of the the Iraq war, aides have insisted Obama “There is always the risk of creating to have been behind simultaneous attacks conflict drags on. An attack like that on growing influence of radical Islamists in will need all the facts before deciding more destruction and creating a failed on Jordanian tourist hotels which killed the Iraqi Kurdish city of Halabja — where the Syrian rebel ranks, has voiced its what steps to take. But acknowledgment state in Syria ... This thing is happen- dozens of people in November 2005. an estimated 5,000 people died in a poi- preference for a political solution. of the intelligence assessment appears ing next door. The flames are reaching Such fears could push the US and its son gas attack ordered by former Iraqi “The international community, and to have moved the United States closer us, starting to burn us, where they can’t allies to act. “The fact that the opposi- President Saddam Hussein. especially the peoples of the Middle — at least rhetorically — to some sort of reach the United States, Qatar, or the tion is divided cuts both ways. It makes REUTERS

Northern Mali still unstable Exploitation continues to spill blood despite French intervention The fertiliser plant explosion in Texas exporter of clothing in the world in other countries can’t afford after China. The secret of success to say “no” to making it under BY AFUA HIRSCH and factory collapse in Dhaka are not in both countries is that cheap, conditions now – rightly – con- natural disasters, but the avoidable skilled labour turns out clothes sidered unacceptable here. People here is an eerie silence in Timbuktu. Apart from the swelter- that are of excellent quality, yet purchase these products because ing heat at this, the hottest time of year, and the mist obscur- consequence of poor industrial retail at sums that are peanuts they’re at the cheap price that ing vision in the fabled Sahara town — something is missing. management and a global economy in the west. Monthly pay in the became the nemesis of the former T “When the jihadists came here, they killed all the dogs,” Bangladesh garment industry can workshop of the world. explains Tahar Haidara, 32, a hotel owner in Timbuktu. “They called in dangerous flux. be as little as £25 a month, while Much is made of the capacity it Operation Dog. There used to be many pet dogs here — they were £25 can buy two or three nice out- of globalisation to spread wealth. barking at them and it annoyed them, so they just went around shoot- BY DEBORAH ORR paltry, although the reasons for fits on the high street in Britain. In fact, it’s a fiendish process that ing them.” the accident have not yet been Primark has confirmed that one rewards an exploitable population It’s not only the absence of dogs — a staple presence in most Malian hether it’s an explo- ascertained. Nevertheless, the of its suppliers worked from the until it gets too big for its boots, towns — that gives Timbuktu a subdued air. Banks, restaurants and sion in a fertiliser factory’s parent company, Adair building, while Matalan says it had then leaves it high and dry, with many other businesses remain shut after they were looted and van- factory in the US, Grain Inc, has been sued by insur- used companies in the building in only the produce of the next group dalised by the city’s jihadist occupants. Wor the collapse of a ance companies on behalf of a the recent past. Again, no surprise. of victims to keep it afloat. Given Army vehicles patrol the streets and there is a ban on driving after factory building in Bangladesh, number of individuals, in a law- Pressure groups have been trying time, the people of Bangladesh 6pm, when night begins to fall. industrial catastrophe tends to be suit that claims the company “was to name and shame western sup- will gain decent working condi- And the famously diverse city has been almost emptied of its Tuareg reported almost as if it’s a natural negligent in the operation of its pliers into driving up health and tions, just as the workers of indus- inhabitants, with residents saying that only a few Tuareg women disaster. An individual carrying facility, creating an unreasonably safety standards among workers trial Britain did. Then they too remain, while all the men have left. out a mass shooting or planting a dangerous condition, which led to in the developing world for decades will be buying cheap clothes made Many accuse the Tuaregs — whose rebellion in the quest for an bomb – that’s news, that’s blame- the fire and explosion”. now, with some success, but not as in far-off factories in which they independent state in the Malian desert paved the way for Al Qaeda- worthy, that’s deserving of justice The collapse of an eight-storey much as they’d like to see. wouldn’t work themselves. linked rebels to seize control of northern Mali last April — of continuing for the victims. But when busi- clothing factory in Dhaka this There’s a school of thought that What is happening currently to wage armed conflict, as well as growing reports of armed robbery ness is the culprit, fingerpointing week is a much greater disas- believes the ongoing exploita- is a vast recalibration of human and banditry. “There is a lot of banditry outside the city,” said Colonel is deemed less important. Which ter. On Friday, as many as 2,000 tion is all the fault of the fashion beings and their economic cat- Gilles Bationo, from Burkina Faso, who leads the UN-backed African is odd, in a way. Humanity may bodies had been pulled from the industry. But that’s not quite true. egories. General standards of liv- military force in the Timbuktu region. never quite be fully able to say rubble, nearly 300 of them dead. If you asked fashion designers ing are still broadly predicated “It is difficult to know who is a jihadist, who is the MNLA [the which disturbed and angry people Estimates suggest that there may whether they’d prefer consumers on the part of the world in which Tuareg Mouvement National de Liberation de l’Azawad], and who is a are truly dangerous. have been as many as 5,000 work- to purchase one or two carefully you live. But globalisation spreads bandit,” Bationo added. “All these bandits have taken advantage of the But good management of indus- ers in the building. Witnesses say chosen pieces from high-end col- relative poverty as well as relative security situation. The jihadists are also getting supplies from people trial risk is eminently achiev- they had been told to return to lections every season, or an arm- wealth. Eventually, the world’s by attacking them on the road.” able. An explosion at the West work after reporting that a crack ful of high-street rip-offs every poor and the world’s rich will have The ongoing security problems in northern Mali, where militants Fertilizer Company in Texas ear- had appeared in one of the walls. month, they’d counsel strongly everything in common with each have lost their grip on towns but large weapons caches are still believed lier this month killed 14 people One can’t help wondering whether for the former. It’s a bit like say- other and nothing in common with to be hidden in the desert, has dampened the initial spirit of jubilation and injured many others. Just a the building had simply never been ing celebrity chefs are the rea- their neighbours and countrymen. after French forces swept into the region in January. terrible accident that could not built to withstand the weight of son for fried chicken shops. High You see it here already, not only In addition to regular incidents outside Timbuktu, it and other have been foreseen? Perhaps. But 5,000 people and their machinery. street retailers offer a tawdry in the condemnation of “welfare towns in the north have been rocked by a spate of suicide bombings, the factory had been fined by US Clearly, no heed had been paid approximation of crafted, quality dependency” but in the demand of previously unheard of in the country. regulators last year for its sloppy by management to the deaths of fashion-collecting, an experience business for immigration, however Army officials and residents alike say it is impossible to completely safety arrangements, eventually 112 workers in a garment factory of whizz-bang consumer gratifica- big a headache this makes for poli- eliminate the risk of further similar attacks. coughing up just $5,250 (£3,400). fire in a nearby suburb, Ashulia, tion that is a little bit desperate, ticians. You see it in China’s con- “No one knows if there will be more suicide bombings,” said Bationo. In 2006, the factory was inves- last November. A day of mourn- much like a meal from a greasy sumer class, who are flocking to the “It is possible at any time. All we can do is continue to patrol the city tigated after an “odour com- ing for the dead was declared in box that offers some comfort but western “affordable fashion” stores and the area outside it, and to be vigilant.” plaint”. It was found to have Dhaka, but a few months on, a not much sustenance. The every- such as Zara and H&M that are On one empty billboard, “Vive la France” has been scribbled in been using controlled materials bigger disaster with greater casu- day horror of post-industrial soci- blooming in Asia like daisies in a chalk, but is now crossed out. Nearby graffiti in Arabic is daubed on without authorisation. The filing alties has occurred. This time, a ety is that it deskills and makes park. You see it in the way that a wall in red paint. of an application to use the dan- day of mourning was declared for passive the people who would once two factories, in two parts of the Across the road, a gaudy mansion, which residents say belonged to gerous substances legally instead the entire country. have been making the things that world that could not, on the face a notorious Tuareg narcotics chief, is barricaded off with a makeshift of illegally resolved the issue. It doesn’t take a rocket scien- they are now buying in the shops of it, have less in common, dealt fence of dry tree-branches. The empty bag of an intravenous drip is In retrospect, these interven- tist to work out what’s going on in instead. And they can only afford death one day to a bunch of their strewn in the sand outside. tions by regulators seem pretty Bangladesh. It’s the second-largest to buy this stuff because people employees. THE GUARDIAN THE GUARDIAN MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Two policemen BRIEFLY shot as Italy

Icelanders vote govt sworn in government out REYKJAVIK: Fatigued by Letta given tax cut ultimatum years of austerity and swayed by promises of debt relief, ROME: Enrico Letta was unemployment close to 40 Icelandic voters dumped sworn in as Italy’s new Prime percent. the Social Democrats from Minister yesterday and imme- Official data this month showed power yesterday, returning diately faced an emergency that alongside Italy’s 2.7 million a centre-right government after an unemployed man shot officially unemployed in 2012, that ruled over its stunning two police officers outside his there were 3 million more who financial collapse just five office. were so demoralised they had years ago. The 49 year-old gunman, given up the search for work, a Once a European financial from the poor southern region far higher number than in any hub, this windswept north of Calabria, told investigators he other EU country. Atlantic island of glaciers, had planned to attack politicians The gunman’s home town of geysers and volcanoes has but had found none within range. Rosarno has a jobless rate far been limping along for years, One of the officers was shot in above the national average and still crippled from a crash that the neck, hitting his spinal cord, is renowned for the activities of brought it to its knees in just a and he was in a serious condition, the local mafia, the ‘Ndrangheta, matter of days. surgeons said. The other was shot and riots by African immigrants Firemen at work near the collapsed section of an apartment building in Reims, eastern France, yesterday. “We are offering a differ- in the leg. paid a pittance to collect the local ent road, a road to growth, In a surreal scene, outgoing fruit harvest. protecting social security, bet- Prime Minister Mario Monti Having fired several shots at Three dead, 14 injured in France ter welfare and job creation,” received the official trumpet the police on duty outside the Independence Party leader salute in the courtyard of the prime minister’s office, the man, Bjarni Benediktsson, the renaissance Chigi palace before dressed in a suit, shouted “shoot favourite to become the next walking across the cordoned-off me, shoot me” to other officers apartment block collapse prime minister after his party square, past police crouching over nearby, police said. took first place in the vote, told the scene of the shooting, looking Letta, on the right of his centre- REIMS, France: Three people A 60-year-old woman was Yesterday, one council estate Reuters as the results were for evidence. left Democratic Party (PD), ended died and 14 were injured yes- found dead in the rubble several resident whose section of the build- coming in. There were immediate calls for two months of stalemate that fol- terday when part of an apart- hours after the collapse, bringing ing had not been affected said he parties to try to calm a heated lowed an inconclusive general ment block in the French city the death toll up to three. heard a huge explosion that shook Cameron sees Boris public mood that has been exac- election by uniting political rivals of Reims collapsed after a sus- Authorities said they were also the walls and broke windows. erbated by deep political divisions in a broad coalition government. pected gas blast, just three looking for a young man who lives “When I looked through the as PM material as Italy languishes in its longest The mix of centre-right and cen- weeks after a similar tragedy on the fourth floor of the block. window, I saw that the building LONDON: British Prime recession for 20 years and has tre-left politicians and unaffiliated not far away. Some 75 residents gathered had collapsed like a pack of cards, Minister David Cameron been without a proper govern- technocrats has a record number French President Francois in a nearby sports complex and with lots of smoke. I heard people admitted that one of his big- ment for months. of seven female ministers and is Hollande sent his “condolences a school where counsellors were screaming,” said the resident, who gest party rivals, London “Our politicians have to start made up by relative youngsters in to the families of the victims” as available for the traumatised. would only be cited as Rafik. Mayor Boris Johnson, could providing solutions to the social an atttempt to respond to public shocked residents grouped around At the beginning of the month, The building—built in the well be a future premier, crisis and to peoples’ needs disillusion with the political elite. the scene of the accident on a coun- four people from the same family 1960s and one of the oldest in the in an interview published because the crisis transforms But the continued risk of politi- cil estate in the Champagne region. were killed and another person area—had been renovated several yesterday. victims into killers like the man cal instability was spelled out by Local authorities said the seriously injured when a gas explo- years ago. “They only re-painted Johnson’s second term in who shot today,” said lower house an ally of centre-right leader “probable” cause of the accident sion devastated their council flat the facade, the interior has not charge of Britain’s capital city speaker Laura Boldrini. Silvio Berlusconi. — which saw the extremity of a in Witry-les-Reims, not far from changed since the 1960s. This runs into 2016 — and the next “There’s a social emergency Renato Brunetta, lower house four-storey building containing the scene of Sunday’s accident. was bound to happen, it’s too old general election must take that needs answers and our poli- leader of Berlusconi’s People of some 10 flats crash down — was That incident shocked the here,” said one by-stander named place by May 2015 at the latest. ticians have to start giving them.” Freedom party (PDL), said the a gas explosion. neighbourhood, particularly as Abdelkader. Asked whether Johnson Letta, 46, who will set out government would fall unless Police in the Marne depart- the father had still been alive “Judging by the state of the could combine being London his programme in parliament Letta promised in his maiden ment where Reims is located, when firefighters arrived, talk- buildings, this doesn’t surprise me. mayor with a return to parlia- today, has said his first task will speech to swiftly abolish an said three adults were killed and ing to them for over two hours to Here when you put a nail in the ment as a lawmaker, Cameron be to tackle the economy which unpopular housing tax and repay another 14 people injured, one try to help them locate his wife wall, it crumbles,” said another told The Sunday Times news- has contracted for six consecu- the 2012 levy to taxpayers. seriously. Among the hurt were and child, before dying in the nearby resident called Raissa. paper: “Boris can do anything, tive quarters and pushed youth REUTERS children, they added. ambulance. AFP that’s the moral of the story of Boris.” Cameron insisted he did not feel threatened by Johnson’s ambition or popularity, which was fulled during the London Boston suspects’ parents retreat to village, cancel US trip 2012 Olympics. “Boris is one of the greatest assets the Conservative Party UNDISCLOSED LOCATION “Unfortunately I can’t help my in rolling hills and surrounded by Dressed in a black shirt and police car the night of the shoot- has.... I love Boris,” Cameron IN NORTH CAUCASUS: child in any way. I am in touch cow pastures. black trousers, he passionately out was Tamerlan, and that the said. The parents of the Boston with Dzhokhar’s and my own law- His face gaunt and tired, defended his sons’ innocence, say- blurry footage, still widely availa- Marathon bombing suspects yers. They told me they would let Tsarnaev said he suffered from ing they had nothing to do with ble on YouTube, proves Tamerlan Bosnia court orders have retreated to a village in me know (what to do),” Tsarnaev high blood pressure and a heart Islamist extremists. was captured alive. Boston police southern Russia to shelter from said in an interview in the village condition. “I feel hopeless. We are simple say Tamerlan was killed in a detention of Budimir the spotlight and abandoned where he relocated with the sus- Tsarnaev had said in the North people. We are trying to under- shootout, and the man seen being SARAJEVO: A Bosnian plans for now to travel to the pects’ mother. Caucasus province of Dagestan stand. We are attacked from all led into the car was a bystander court yesterday ordered that United States, the father of the He agreed to the face-to-face on Thursday that he planned to sides,” he said, clutching his head who was briefly detained. the president of the country’s suspects said yesterday. meeting on condition that the travel to the United States to see in despair. Anzor Tsarnaev said he raised autonomous Muslim-Croat Speaking in the garden of a village’s location in the North Dzhokhar and bury his elder son, “I don’t know whether I should the issue with US officials who federation and four other large house, Anzor Tsarnaev Caucasus, a string of mainly Tamerlan, who was killed during talk or stay silent. I don’t want visited him earlier in the week officials be detained for a said he believed he would not be Muslim provinces in southern a manhunt four days after the to harm my child. ... We are used in his home in Dagestan. “I asked month after prosecutors said allowed to see his surviving son Russia, not be disclosed. bombings. to all sorts of things here but we them: ‘I saw my child alive, he was they took bribes to arrange DzhokharŸ, who was captured “I am not going back to the In the interview he said he had didn’t expect this from the United being put into a police vehicle alive pardons for convicts. and has been charged in con- United States. For now I am decided to move away from the States.” and healthy. How come media said Federation President Zivko nection with the April 15 bomb here. I am ill,” said Tsarnaev, family home in Dagestan to the He and other members of the he was killed?’ They were shocked Budimir was arrested on blasts that killed three people and pacing nervously in the garden new location because he wanted family believe a man shown on themselves,” the father said. Friday along with 19 others in wounded 264. at sunset in the quiet village set to keep a low profile. television being led naked into a REUTERS the most high-profile anti-cor- ruption drive in Bosnia since independence more than two decades ago. Castle opens for visitors In handing out the month- British parents long detentions, the court said Conservatives turn on it believed that both Budimir queue for vaccines and his co-accused aide Petar Barisic might try to flee the as measles rages country because they held anti-EU rival before vote Croatian passports, a court SWANSEA: Fears about the spokeswoman said. purported side effects once sent LONDON: Britain’s ruling The political class is regarded British parents running from Conservatives derided the rival as having got us into a mess and Maduro vows vaccinations against measles. But UK Independence Party as a the last government left chaos now an outbreak of the poten- “collection of clowns” yesterday behind them,” he told Sky News. alliance with Cuba tially deadly disease in one city as they tried to stop supporters “It’s very tempting to vote for a HAVANA: Cuba and has brought them back in droves. switching to the surging anti- collection of clowns.” Venezuela signed coopera- As others went about their week- European Union movement in Battling to kick-start a tepid tion accords for 51 projects as end activities in Swansea on the local elections this week. economy and to cut a big budget Venezuelan President Nicolas south Wales coast, a steady stream Thursday’s vote in England and deficit, Cameron is banking on a Maduro, on his first trip to of parents brought their children to Wales offers parties a chance to rebound before 2015. But with no the island since his election, Singleton Hospital to receive emer- test the political climate before a strong recovery in sight he faces los- pledged to maintain the close gency vaccines, hoping to protect national election in 2015 at a time ing hundreds of the more than 2,000 alliance forged by his late them from a local epidemic that when Conservative strategists fear council seats his party is contesting. predecessor, Hugo Chavez. shows no signs of easing. UKIP will split the centre-right vote. A bad result in the vote - held Maduro said they would Since November, almost 1,000 Prime Minister David largely in rural English counties jointly spend $2bn this year people around the city have con- Cameron’s Conservatives, the and in one Welsh area - could on “social development,” but it tracted measles, with children senior partner in a two-party prompt some Conservative MPs was not clear if he was discuss- aged 10 to 18 affected the worst. national coalition, trail the oppo- to question Cameron’s leadership, ing the 51 projects, few details One 25-year-old man who had sition Labour party by up to 10 though he has ridden out such of which were disclosed, or the disease has died, although percentage points in opinion polls. dissent before. other works. tests to ascertain the cause of Ken Clarke, a prominent Campaigning on a promise to take His visit appeared aimed in death proved inconclusive. The Conservative and government Britain out of the EU and to end part at allaying Cuban wor- weekend clinics at this “epidemic minister, said he agreed with “open-door” immigration, UKIP has ries about post-Chavez rela- hotspot” have already attracted Visitors at the Catholic court chapel at Hubertusburg Castle in Cameron’s assertion that UKIP seen its poll rating oscillate between tions with the oil-rich South more than 6,000 people amid a Wermsdorf, Germany. Under the motto ‘The Royal Hunting Lodge had “fruitcakes and closet racists” 11 and 17 percent, overtaking American nation that is Cuba’s vigorous public health campaign Hubertusburg and the Peace of 1763’ the castle will open doors to in its ranks and that it tried to Cameron’s junior Liberal Democrat biggest ally and benefactor. to get children vaccinated. the public until October 5. exploit voters’ fears. coalition partner at times. AGENCIES AFP “These are very difficult times. REUTERS MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 ASIA / PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Fire in Bangla rubble kills last survivor Building owner arrested on border

SAVAR, Bangladesh: A fire Plaza, like many structures broke out in the rubble of a around the capital Dhaka, vio- Bangladesh factory complex lated building regulations. yesterday night, killing what “He is the one most responsi- the country’s fire chief described ble for the accident. The build- as the last remaining survivor ing was declared abandoned. from the building’s collapse five But he forced the garment days earlier. factories and workers to work “The fire broke out as we were on the building,” Rapid Action cutting a beam to bring out what Battalion chief Mukhlesur we believe was the last remain- Rahman said. ing survivor from the collapsed After being arrested at a bor- building. We managed to douse it, der crossing with India, Rana was but as we came back we saw her flown back to Dhaka by helicopter dead,” Ahmed Ali said. and paraded before the press. “She was a brave lady and At the site of the collapsed fought until the end. We worked building, hundreds of rescuers for 10-11 hours today just to try to continued the grim and painstak- bring her out alive. We took the ing task of searching for survivors. challenge but we lost. It’s broken As Rana’s arrest was all our hearts. Everyone became announced, garment workers and emotional,” he said. relatives of the missing cheered Fire fighters were seen weeping and began shouting “Hang Rana, live on television after the death. Hang the killer!” The female garment worker’s Another two people were pulled Property tycoon Sohel Rana (centre) is presented at a press conference at the Rapic Action Battalion (RAB) headquarters in Dhaka yesterday. battle for survival had touched out alive after daybreak yesterday the nation as people watched the and later a woman’s feeble cries “We have moved heavy equip- anger amid criticism of the slow Benetton” in the debris. worst industrial disaster spread rescue efforts on television. were detected, with efforts to tun- ment to the site but are still wait- pace of efforts, with some experts The Italian group has denied at home and abroad, police have The rescue teams had to post- nel through the debris to reach ing for the clearance from the decrying a lack of coordination in having a supplier in the building. stepped up efforts to find the pone a decision to clean up the her being beamed live on televi- rescue workers inside the wreck- the operation or foreign help. The accident has prompted accused and border officials debris with cranes and earth- sion as doctors stood by. age that no one is trapped alive,” The tragedy has once again fresh accusations from activ- have been put on the highest moving equipment just to make By yesterday evening, the con- national fire chief Ahmed Ali said focused attention on the poor ists that Western firms place alert. sure it did not harm her chance firmed death toll had reached at the scene. safety conditions in the $20bn profit before safety by sourc- Officials said on Saturday that for survival. 377, according to Deputy Rescuers have been using only Bangladeshi garment industry, ing their products from a coun- another multi-storied build- Meanwhile, the owner of a gar- Administrator of Dhaka district, hand tools such as cutters and which is the world’s second big- try where textile workers often ing belonging to Rana had been ment factory block that collapsed Zillur Rahman Chowdhury. drills, fearing the use of cranes gest after China, supplying many earn less than $40 a month. sealed off after cracks appeared killing at least 377 people was About 2,500 people have been would jeopardise the chances of big Western clothing brands. Protesters holding signs reading in its pillars. Police were also arrested yesterday. rescued from the scene of the dis- survival of anyone still clinging on Britain’s Primark and Spain’s “Love Fashion Hate Sweatshops” hunting for Spanish entrepre- Property tycoon Sohel Rana aster, some only after undergoing after the accident on Wednesday Mango have acknowledged their and “Primark’s Shame” pick- neur David Mayor, whose manu- was detained as he attempted amputations to free them from morning. products were made in the eted Primark’s flagship store in facturing company Phantom-Tac to cross into India and will face the pancaked slabs of reinforced As the cranes prepared to get block, while a reporter found London on Saturday. operated from Rana Plaza. charges. The eight-storey Rana concrete. to work, hope was turning to shirts labelled “United Colors of As outrage over the country’s AGENCIES

Philippine rebels Malaysian populist windfall fuels debt fears rake in millions

KUALA LUMPUR: It has after the opposition stung the rich perks, while the opposition some hard post-election political investment inflows, and rising of dollars from never been more lucrative to Barisan Nasional (National fights to make the most of its best choices are made. living standards. be a voter in Malaysia, where Front) coalition in 2008 elections, shot yet at governing. But some say much-needed But lower-cost rivals China, vote extortion political rivals are showering but has spiralled of late. But warnings are emerging that development spending could shrink Indonesia and others have forced the public with cash in a des- “It’s been a windfall for Malaysia — which already has further if increasingly hard-fought a re-focusing on high-tech man- perate electoral battle, stoking Malaysians these past five years,” Southeast Asia’s highest debt-to- politics continue to trump eco- ufacturing and services even as MANILA: Leftist Philippine concerns over rising national said Francis Loh, president of GDP ratio, after Singapore — is at nomic planning in a country where critics say Malaysia’s education rebels are raking in millions of debt. Malaysian democratic rights best endangering a goal to become populist subsidies have come to be system is failing to prepare gradu- dollars extorting money from With May 5 elections expected group Aliran. a “developed nation” by 2020 and expected by many voters. ates for a move up the value chain. candidates in next month’s to be Malaysia’s closest ever, the The bonanza has seemed farci- at worst courting disaster. Such spending fell from 28 Economic growth was a solid elections and will likely use this long-ruling coalition has given bil- cal at times. “Today’s politicians are bent on percent of the 2010 budget to 20 5.6 percent last year, but much to buy guns, a senior military lions of dollars in new cash, pay Barisan recently denounced planting the seeds of an economic percent this year. of that is credited to election- official said yesterday. rises and other handouts to civil opposition campaign pledges as a crisis for our children to inherit,” “There is a concern if populist minded deficit spending. Debt has Each candidate illegally pays servants, the poor, elderly, farm- blueprint for insolvency. said Wan Saiful Wan Jan, who spending were to get in the way doubled since 2007 to 53.7 percent between 50,000 and five million ers and students. But Prime Minister Najib runs the IDEAS think-tank. of infrastructure spending which of GDP. pesos ($1,210-121,000) to buy pro- The opposition, which holds Razak promptly upped the ante If Malaysia meets financial will have longer-term repercus- In emailed comments to AFP, tection from the New People’s four of 13 states, has likewise with billions in new promises of catastrophe in the future, “eco- sions on the economy,” said Gundy Najib said “our debt will never Army (NPA), said Major-General made a range of state-level pay- his own — sparking opposition nomic historians may well trace Cahyadi, a Singapore-based econ- exceed 55 percent of GDP,” but Jose Mabanta, commander of one outs, and promises still more outrage that he copied their ideas. back the root cause to this general omist with OCBC bank. critics note “hidden” public debt of the country’s army divisions. perks if it wins federal power for The unprecedented giveaways election,” he added. Under Barisan, resource- such as state-guaranteed loans “My estimate is that half of all the first time in Malaysia’s 56 attest to the high stakes of an Few analysts see an immedi- rich Malaysia developed into a may have doubled since he took political contenders are paying, years of independence. election in which a ruling elite is ate threat of disaster, noting regional economic success, enjoy- power in 2009. half in my area. That is also true The bidding war began shortly desperate to retain power and its the situation can be managed if ing decades of growth, foreign AFP in other areas,” he told reporters. Some 18,000 posts are up for grabs in the May 13 elections, from the current crop of town Sri Lanka New Year tussle and city mayors, provincial gover- nors and members of parliament. Abe vows to rekindle “With the amounts involved, they (NPA) will be buying arms and ammunition and these may be fired and used against them ties with Russia (politicians),” Mabanta said, warning that giving money to the TOKYO: Japanese Prime expressed a desire to expand busi- rebels is illegal. Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to ness ties but any progress has The money raised dwarfs the reset ties with Russia as he set been limited by the territorial amounts regularly extorted from off yesterday for the first visit by dispute. mining, logging and other busi- a Japanese premier to Moscow After Abe took office in nesses based in the rural areas in a decade under the shadow of December, he and Putin agreed where the 4,000-member guerrilla a festering territorial row. to restart talks on signing a peace force operates, he added. Abe, who took office in treaty after finding a solution to “This is when really the NPAs December and made improving the territorial dispute. make a killing out of their extor- ties with Russia one of his priori- The four islands claimed by tion,” he added. ties, will meet President Vladimir Tokyo are known as the Northern The NPA ambushed Ruth Putin during his three-day visit. Territories in Japan. The islands Guingona, the 78-year-old mayor “I would like to build a have been controlled by Moscow of Gingoog city on the southern trusted personal relationship since they were seized by Soviet island of Mindanao on Saturday, with President Putin,” Abe told troops in 1945 at the end of the killing two of her aides and leaving reporters in Tokyo ahead of his Second World War. her and two policemen wounded. departure. Russian Prime Minister Violence linked to the polls has The two nations never for- Dmitry Medvedev has twice vis- claimed at least 46 lives in more mally signed a peace treaty after ited the island of Kunashir, called than 40 incidents since campaign- the Second World War and ties Kunashiri in Japan, infuriating ing began in February, according have been particularly strained by Tokyo. to a police tally. Tokyo’s claim over four islands in Medvedev’s first visit to the The NPA has been waging a the Kuril chain, which are con- island, which juts out past the 44-year-old Maoist armed cam- trolled by Moscow. northeastern tip of Japan’s paign that has claimed at least “I will work on boosting Japan- Hokkaido island, in November 30,000 lives, according to a gov- Russia relations so that this visit 2010 — when he still held the post ernment estimate. A bull tries to drag a toppled two-wheel cart during a traditional cart race in Homagama, near Colombo, to will mark a restart in stalled of president — was condemned Several rounds of peace talks mark the Sinhala and Tamil New Year yesterday. The new year, which is common to both majority Sinhalese negotiations over a peace treaty,” by Tokyo as an “unforgivable held since the late 1980s have and minority Tamils, dawned on April 14, but celebrations can go on for weeks. he said. outrage”. gone nowhere. The two neighbours have long AFP AFP MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Bombings at poll offices in Pakistan kill 9 Taliban bid to disrupt May 11 vote

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN: the election office. At least five Three Taliban bomb attacks people have been killed and 22 targetting election offices and a injured,” city police chief Dilawar candidate in Pakistan yesterday Khan Bangash told AFP. killed at least nine people, offi- Fazal Naeem, a police spokes- cials said, the latest bloodshed man in Kohat, confirmed the ahead of polls next month. attack and told AFP the explosion Violence has marred the cam- had damaged shops and vehicles paign for the landmark May 11 nearby and also hit an office of general election, with more than the Awami National Party (ANP), 50 people dead in blasts and which has been targeted repeat- suicide attacks since April 11, edly by the Taliban. according to an AFP tally, includ- “The election office was open at ing more than 20 in the past the time and supporters of Noor three days. Akbar Khan were sitting inside. Five people died and 22 were The death toll may rise, the con- wounded yesterday in a blast dition of some of the injured is at the office of an independent critical,” Tanveer Khan, another candidate in the northwestern police official, told AFP. garrison city of Kohat, adjacent Nasir Khan Afridi, the inde- to Pakistan’s restive tribal areas pendent candidate whose office along the Afghan border. was hit in Peshawar, is running A rescue worker collects evidence outside the election office of an independent candidate Haji Nasir Khan Afridi. The office was damaged in a bomb A blast at the offices of for a seat in Khyber tribal district blast in Peshawar, yesterday. another independent candidate and like Khan, has been cam- in Peshawar, the main city of the paigning among voters displaced responsibility for yesterday’s which along with the ANP were A statement from TTP spokes- in nature.” Amnesty International northwest, killed three people and by a military offensive. blasts, as well as attacks in coalition partners in the outgo- man Ehsanullah Ehsan explained has called on Pakistan to investi- wounded 13, officials said. The third bomb, planted on Karachi in recent days. ing national government, led by the militants’ stance with refer- gate the recent wave of attacks The Kohat blast occurred a roadside killed a seven-year- On Saturday three blasts in the PPP. ence to European philosophers. and ensure adequate protection at the campaign office of Noor old boy and injured 16 others in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city Fear of attacks has meant “Islamic laws and values are for election candidates. Akbar Khan, who is running in northwestern Swabi district when and commercial heart, left at there have been few large-scale from Allah and secular doctrine May 11 national polls should see the Orakzai tribal district. He Ameer Rehman, exploded as an least three people dead and 49 political rallies so far, leading to a is from Rousseau, Kant and power pass from a civilian gov- is canvassing for votes among Awami National Party (ANP) wounded, while on Friday a car lacklustre election campaign. Bentham,” the statement said. ernment that has served a full the numerous Orakzai residents candidate drove past in a con- bomb at an ANP meeting killed The TTP said it was attacking “We cannot prefer human term to another through the bal- forced to flee the district to voy of dozens of vehicles after 10. Two of Saturday’s bombs political parties because of their beings on our Lord the merci- lot box for the first time in the Kohat by army operations against addressing a rally. hit the offices of the Muttahida “secular doctrine” and because ful and mighty. A man cannot nuclear-armed country’s turbu- militants. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Qaumi Movement (MQM) and they were behind military opera- be secular and Muslim at a time. lent history. “The IED was planted outside Pakistan (TTP) group claimed the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), tions in the tribal regions. These are two different doctrines AFP

Imran wants Sharif’s daughter campaigns for father Sharif in live LAHORE: The convoy slows. “I didn’t know what to expect still point to a significant victory. In front of the candidate’s vehi- but the response is massive. Every At the party’s newly refur- TV debate cle, men dance. Rose petals household is showering us with bished campaign headquarters in are hurled from the rooftops. petals, throwing garlands. It’s so Lahore’s plush suburb of Model ISLAMABAD: Challenging Motorbikes swarm. “Look, look invigorating. I didn’t know the Town, rows of young workers sit Pakistan Muslim League who is coming,” supporters love for Nawaz Sharif until I went at screens monitoring live TV (PML-N) chief shout. A white tiger on top of a into the field campaigning,” she broadcasts and social media. They Nawaz Sharif van yawns and stretches a paw. says. In Lahore, capital of Punjab are focused not on the national again to a live A small child and a 90-year- province, the Sharifs are on home news channels followed largely TV debate, old party worker are hauled turf. The family live on a sprawl- by the elite, still less the English- Pakistan through the crowd to offer ing estate south of the city. At language press or Twitter, but on Tehreek-i- garlands. elections in 2008 they swept the the hugely popular local channels Insaf (PTI) “It’s a beautiful feeling to be city itself and won control, too, of and Urdu language publications. Chairman loved,” says Maryam Sharif, lean- Punjab province, the richest and Campaign workers say they Imran Khan ing back in the seat of her luxury most influential part of Pakistan. believe 20pc of the 85 million who (pictured) said SUV three days into her first Maryam’s uncle, Shahbaz, was can vote in two weeks are unde- Sharif should election campaign. “My shoulders chief minister of Lahore until cided. Of the core PML-N vote, not fear the hurt from waving six hours a day. elections were called last month. only a sixth are in the big cities, confrontation I need to learn to wave wisely.” “It’s in the genes but it’s not a they say. Most are in medium-sized if he is a true leader. Sharif’s constituency is in family affair,” Maryam, 39, says towns unknown in the west. And “Geedar (jackal) cannot be a the heart of Lahore, the sec- quickly. Nawaz Sharif’s fortune is seen as leader,” Imran said. ond biggest city of Pakistan. In Nawaz Sharif has long inspired something to aspire to, not criticise. Khan was speaking to a gath- two weeks, the nuclear power, Nawaz Sharif addresses supporters during an election rally in Murree, suspicion overseas and the contin- Maryam Sharif’s entry into ering in Bahawalpur along with so crucial to western strategy in yesterday. ued popularity of the 63-year-old politics — and talk of her as a Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi, former the region and the fight against business magnate has perplexed potential future leader — also Nawab of the Bahawalpur state. Islamist extremism worldwide, after Benazir Bhutto, the two- 120. This is Nawaz Sharif, presi- many. counters another image problem: The PTI chairman further will hold a general election. It will time former prime minister, was dent of the Pakistan Muslim But, analysts say, the very fac- that the party is too male. said that he would like to ask the be the first time in the 66 years assassinated by extremists at a League (Nawaz), or PML-N, tors that jar with western dip- “When you see the leader’s PML-N head, if there is a TV since independence that one dem- rally. Despite continuing violence, and the man who polls predict is lomats are those that guarantee daughter come forward then debate, why his party, despite rul- ocratically elected civilian govern- authorities say these polls will be likely to become prime minister support among a large number of that shows the open mindset of ing Punjab for five years, failed to ment will serve out its full term held on time. for the third time when the votes Pakistanis. Most recent polls say the leadership allowing space for restructure the police force, bring and be replaced by another. Maryam Sharif is not actually are counted. He was first elected that Sharif’s PML-N will win 41pc women in senior positions,” said the local government system and Every day bombs kill three, standing herself. She is canvass- from this constituency in 1985 at of the votes in the forthcoming Anusha Rehman, a former PML produce energy for the province. four, a dozen. The last election, ing on behalf of the candidate in the start of his political career. election. The party’s own predic- parliamentarian and key official. Taliking about the issue of new held in 2008, had been postponed National Assembly Constituency Maryam is his daughter. tions are more conservative but GUARDIAN NEWS provinces in Pakistan, Khan said the country needs more provinces and that his party will create them. But, he added, the decision must be taken with great care. The PTI chairman has been Outgoing French envoy minces no touring parts of Punjab during Taliban kill three cops his election campaign. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) took notice of words on Afghanistan situation in ‘spring offensive’ Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan’s ‘personal KABUL: The French ambas- economic transition, military the embassy party. More than a GHAZNI, AFGHANISTAN: said the roadside bomb was part attack’ against Pakistan Muslim sador in Kabul has delivered transition — and all this whereas decade after the Taliban regime Insurgents killed three police of their spring offensive due to League-Nawaz (PML-N). a starkly pessimistic farewell the negotiations for the peace was ousted in 2001, Afghanistan officers in Afghanistan yester- start yesterday. Earlier in the day, Khan had speech questioning the achieve- process have not really started,” remains in the grip of a virulent day, officials said, in an attack “As part of the... spring opera- addressed a rally in Bahawalpur, ments of more than 11 years of he said. insurgency with militants launch- that the Taliban claimed tion today in the morning the where he used words for Nawaz international intervention in “But we have this situation in ing daily attacks on government marked the start of their annual mujahideen launched a massive Sharif that the ECP found Afghanistan. front of us and we have to cope officials, police and international “spring offensive”. attack that caused the enemy big objectionable. Bernard Bajolet, who has been with it.” and Afghan soldiers. A roadside bomb blast in the casualties,” a Taliban spokesman The entire speech will be put appointed as France’s new spy Bajolet also had harsh words Afghanistan’s inexperienced restive central province of Ghazni said in an emailed statement. before the ECP Chief Fakhruddin chief, rejected the normally cau- of warning about Afghanistan’s security forces are taking over targeted a police convoy that was “(Police) reinforcements... Ebrahim in a meeting tomorrow, tious language of international prospects as a sovereign country responsibility for fighting the travelling to the scene of a Taliban were sent and faced an ambush where it will be evaluated. On diplomacy to express fears that when the Nato-led military com- Taliban, but fears are growing attack in Zana Khan district. along the way and as a result Friday, ECP had issued a notifi- Afghanistan faces an almost bat mission ends next year and that the country could tip into Deputy provincial chief Mohammad Hassan along with cation prohibiting political parties impossible series of challenges with international interest in the civil war after Nato military Mohammad Hassan Adel and two five other police were killed.” and their candidates from launch- next year. country fading rapidly. operations cease. of his police guards were killed, The insurgents said that six ing personal attacks against their “I still cannot understand how “We should be lucid: a country Bajolet, 63, who also served Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, the dep- other police were killed in the opponents. we, the international community, that depends almost entirely on as French ambassador in Iraq, uty provincial governor of Ghazni, attack, without giving further With the election campaign in and the Afghan government have the international community for pointed to endemic corruption told AFP. Mohammad Nabi Jaan, details. On Saturday, the Taliban full swing and parties holding ral- managed to arrive at a situation the salaries of its soldiers and and drugs as two keys prob- a Ghazni police spokesman, con- said that their annual offensive lies, candidates were seen criticis- in which everything is coming policemen, for most of its invest- lems hobbling efforts to estab- firmed the incident, giving a would target international air- ing each other and often resorting together in 2014,” he told guests ments and partly on it for its cur- lish stability and security in similar account. Taliban attacks bases and diplomatic buildings to name-calling and rhetoric that at his farewell party onTuesday. rent civil expenditure cannot be Afghanistan. killing police officers are routine with multiple suicide bombings. could be construed as slander. “Elections, new president, really independent,” he said at AFP in Afghanistan, but the insurgents AFP INTERNEWS MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Young Mumbai Sarabjit critical, engineer missing in family pleads Pakistan

MUMBAI: A 27-year-old engineering and manage- for govt help ment graduate from Mumbai, Hamid Ansari, who went to Afghanistan in November to find a job, has gone missing in Chances of survival slim: Doctors Pakistan. His distraught family in LAHORE/AMRITSAR: With India’s Minister of State for Mumbai’s upmarket Versova doctors in a Lahore hospital External Affairs Preneet Kaur area fear that he may have been describing as “slim” the chances responded later in the evening, involved in a serious accident, may of survival of badly beaten promising all help. have been kidnapped by a terror up Indian death row prisoner “I think at the moment the group or arrested by authorities Sarabjit Singh, his hapless fam- first priority is to stabilise him. for illegally entering Pakistan. ily yesterday pleaded for help I don’t suppose you could really Hamid had left for Kabul, from the Indian government, move him in this stage. But we Afghanistan, on November 4 last which said it would do eve- can certainly do everything we year on a 90-day tourist visa. He rything it could to bring him can. We have done it in the past had promised to return within a home. and the matter has been taken up week. Sarabjit’s family arrived in at every level,” Preneet Kaur told He kept in touch with his Lahore city of Pakistan from NDTV news channel. banker father Nehal, college Amritsar yesterday afternoon to She said the government has teacher-mother Fauzia, and den- be with him. After meeting him always brought up the topic tist brother Khalid for a week and at the Jinnah Hospital, the fam- of Sarabjit at every level with Sarabjit Singh’s wife, Sukhpreet Kaur (left), his daughters Poonam (right) and Swapandip (second right), and his then disappeared. ily pleaded that he be allowed to Pakistan to let him come home sister Dalbir Kaur walk after crossing the Wagah border yesterday. “We have heard that he was be taken back to India or any on humanitarian grounds. trying to rescue a girl in distress other country immediately for Sarabjit, 49, suffered critical told the Dawn that Sarabjit had Sahib, the holiest of Sikh shrines brought back to India for in Pakistan, but we do not have treatment. head injuries in the assault by four suffered a critical bone fracture in Amritsar, popularly known as treatment. any concrete evidence,” Nehal “When we met him in the ICU, to five prisoners with bricks and when he was taken to the Jinnah the Golden Temple, yesterday “There has been inaction on the Ansari said. he was just lying there. Doctors prison plates in Kot Lakhpat Jail Hospital’s surgical emergency on morning. part of the Indian government in “I have not given up hope. I told us that his condition was in Lahore Friday. He has been in Friday evening. “We are going there with lots of Sarabjit Singh’s case. Despite being pray that he returns. We don’t critical. Please help us to save Pakistan prisons for over 22 years. During clinical assessment, it hopes. We want to bring him back given information by his family know what has happened to him,” my brother’s life,” Sarabjit’s elder “I want to know how the was established that Sarabjit had hale and hearty. His condition is that he might be attacked and was his mother Fauzia said. sister Dalbir Kaur said in Lahore. iron rods, bricks, cutters and diffused brain injury over a wide- such that there is some fear in our threatened in jail, the Indian govern- The lure of an airlines job in She is accompanied by his wife other things reached inside the spread area of his head that led to hearts. We have offered prayers to ment remained silent and did not the operations sector in Kabul Sukhpreet Kaur, and two daugh- prison to carry out the attack on unconsciousness. the almighty to help him recover ensure his security,” BJP spokesper- attracted Hamid after he failed ters, Swapandeep and Poonam. Sarabjit. It was a big conspiracy,” Doctors said that surgical fast,” said Dalbir Kaur. son Prakash Javadekar said. to get a job with an airlines in “His daughters called him out Dalbir Kaur said. Sarabjit’s lawyer intervention cannot be car- In New Delhi, the National A leading Pakistani daily, News India. ‘Papa’. His wife called out to him. in Pakistan, Awais Shiekh, also ried out till Sarabjit’s condition Commission for Scheduled Castes International said yesterday that The Ansaris have lodged a But he lay there like a stone. I alleged that Sarabjit was attacked improves. summoned officials of the minis- the Sarabjit incident was a “sad police complaint with the Versova could not understand what to under a conspiracy. Sarabjit is being kept in a tries of external affairs and home one”. In Mumbai, the Pakistan- police station and have contacted say,” said Dalbir Kaur. “Singh was diagnosed on separate intensive care unit in over the issue of helping Sarabjit. India Peoples’ Forum for Peace the Afghanistan consulate in “I plead to our government Saturday with 3/15 Glasgow coma unprecedented police security and It also directed the government to and Democracy (PIPFPD) also Mumbai. with folded hands. Please take scale (GCS); that elaborates upon no one is being allowed to see him send a team of specialist Indian sought a high-level independ- “They were cooperative and him to any country for his treat- his critical state,” one of the doc- except doctors. doctors to Pakistan for Sarabjit’s ent probe into the attack on provided us with Hamid’s visa ment. Don’t waste time, save him. tors treating him told the Dawn. First Secretary in the Indian treatment, commission vice chair- Sarabjit. details to enable us to trace him,” So far, when I tried to fight for his The doctor said the GCS was High Commission in Islamabad man Raj Kumar Verka said. Sarabjit has been on death row Nehal Ansari said. He added freedom, I only got hollow assur- a neurological scale aimed at C S Das visited the hospital too. The Bharatiya Janata Party in Pakistan since 1990 after being that the family have written to ances,” she said. assessing level of consciousness Before crossing over to Pakistan (BJP) yesterday accused the convicted by Pakistani courts Maharashtra Chief Minister Doctors at the hospital said after profound head injury and from the Attari-Wagah checkpost United Progressive Alliance for bomb blasts in Lahore and Prithviraj Chavan, state Home that Sarabjit’s condition was the reading of 3/15 indicated deep on the international border, 30km (UPA) government of failing to Multan, which left 14 people dead. Minister R.R. Patil and to the “critical” and “chances of his sur- unconsciousness. from Amritsar, Sarabjit’s family ensure safety of Sarabjit and His family claims he is innocent. external affairs ministry for help. vival are slim”. The doctor, who was not named, offered prayers at Harmandir demanded that he be immediately IANS IANS Sri Lanka posing challenge to Kerala’s ayurveda: Expert

GURUVAYOOR: Its decades foreign and over one crore domes- to India. Another reason, Kurup long ethnic conflict over, Sri tic tourists every year to Kerala. says, is that in Sri Lanka many Lanka is steadily emerging as Almost 70 percent of the foreign- clinics allow men to provide a major competitor to Kerala’s ers and 30-40 percent of Indian ayurvedic massage to women. ayurvedic system of medicine, a tourists come to Kerala for “Well, ladies from countries leading industry expert says. ayurvedic treatment. like Germany, even if they are 45 But officials are quick to point Thanks to ayurveda, the aver- years of age or more, are pretty out that as long as Kerala sticks age stay of a foreigner in Kerala strong physically, and they some- to its pristine form of ayurveda is 18 days — one of the highest in how don’t seem happy with our school, no challenge from any- the world. women,” he said. where can upset what is clearly According to Kurup and oth- “But in Kerala we follow the the biggest tourist draw to the ers in the industry, even earlier authentic system of ayurveda, southern state. Sri Lanka was doing well in the and that only permits same-sex “Sri Lanka has slowly come business of ayurveda. But the long treatment including in massage.” up as a threat to our market,” running conflict between Colombo Sri Lanka is willing to deviate - said Sanjeev Kurup V, Secretary and the Tamil Tigers did cast a if only to woo the Western tourist, of the influential Kerala Travel shadow on tourism in general. mainly from Europe. Mart Society who also runs the “After the war ended in 2009, “We need to be aware of the Paithrukam Hospitality Group. ayurveda business is picking up emerging trends,” Kurup said. “I was in Sri Lanka only last rapidly in Sri Lanka,” said Kurup, “Our costs are going up, but we week, and I estimate they have who saw for himself that ayurveda cannot and do not compromise taken away 30-40 percent of clinics had sprouted along the on quality. Sri Lanka is able to our business,” Kurup said at the island nation’s southwestern market an entire ayurveda packet Perumbayil Ayurveda Mana, an coast, the tourist hub. for about just ¤90 a day.” idyllic centre located near the For one, as the Sri Lankan In comparison, some clinics in famed Guruvayoor temple. rupee is weaker than its Indian Kerala charge up to ¤300-400 a Ayurveda plays a key role in counterpart, ayurvedic treat- day. attracting close to one million ment is cheaper there compared IANS

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Social Reformer and Sulabh founder Dr Bindeshwar Pathak (left) distributes sarees to widows during a cer- emony on the banks of Ganges river in Varanasi yesterday. Adopting hundreds of widows of Varanasi, Sulabh International launched its campaign against “Widowhood” in India. MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Ganges boat ride Tripura chit Dikshit takes fund director arrested 1,050,000 AGARTALA: The chit fund scam in West Bengal had rip- ple effects in Tripura, where police swung into action on public complaints and protests protest letters to arrest the director of a Non- Banking Financial Company (NBFC). “Police arrested the director of People’s victory, say AAP activists ‘Self Trust’, an NBFC, Dipak Saha, last night (Saturday) after hundreds NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Kejriwal said the movement of agitated people across the state Sheila Dikshit yesterday against inflated water and power gathered in front of the company’s accepted the 1,050,000 letters bills would continue till the bills office in Ranir Bazar,” a police offi- written to her by the Delhi resi- are either waived off or the cial told reporters yesterday. dents over inflated water and charges are reduced. The office of the chit fund power bills following the protest “Our aim is not just to submit is close to the state capital. of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) at these (over) 10 lakh letters, but Yesterday, the accused was pro- Jantar Mantar here. we are seeking action on them. duced in a local court, which sent AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal Our protest is unlike that of the him to police custody for five days. said Dikshit’s agreeing to accept Bharatiya Janata Party’s Vijay The police official said: the letters is “people’s victory”. Goel who simply protests for “According to the preliminary Kejriwal vowed that the move- limelight. We have said we won’t probe, the company had col- ment against the inflated bills pay our bills and this movement Hindu devotees take a boat ride in the Ganges river in Varanasi yesterday. The city, 320km southeast of Lucknow, lected at least Rs30m from would continue until the tariffs will continue till these bills are is the holiest of the seven sacred cities in Hinduism and Jainism. people in Tripura. Of the nine- are brought down, and alleged reduced,” he asserted. member board of directors of that both the Congress and the Kejriwal said the Congress gov- the chit fund, four are from BJP have together cartelised the ernments both at the centre and West Bengal. There are five water and electricity sector in the in the state had failed to address directors resident in Tripura.” state. the issue of water crisis in the Don’t ever vote for Congress: Modi Both tribal and non-tribal people “At 9am one of my associates, national capital. complained to police that although Dilip Pandey, got a call from the “Every year, the prime minister their deposits matured last year, Chief Minister’s Office saying says that we will provide water to BANGALORE: BJP’s star central government was steeped Gandhi) that “power was poison they were still to receive returns, Sheila Dikshit wanted to talk. every household in this country. campaigner and Gujarat Chief in multi-crore scams like the 2G, and power destroys a person”. despite persistent demands. Dikshit said she will receive the They have not been able to provide Minister Narendra Modi yes- Commonwealth Games and coal “At the AICC (All India Meanwhile, ruling Communist protest letters. She was compelled water to Delhi in the past 65 years. terday made a virulent attack block allotments. Congress Committee) session Party of India-Marxist has asked to do so because of the people’s How will they provide water to the on the Congress, especially on “It’s shocking to hear Rahul held recently (January 18-20) in its partymen to take strong steps pressure. She had to bow down to entire country,” he asked. its vice president Rahul Gandhi, saying our party’s government in Jaipur, Rahul recalled his mother against NBFCs, popularly known the people,” said Kejriwal, while “Sheila Dikshit has been in who he termed “a child born with this state had set a world record telling him in tears that power as chit fund companies. addressing a gathering. power for the past 15 years. Why a golden spoon”, asking people in corruption. To know the mag- is poison. The same Rahul comes “As the central government Since the chief minister agreed has not the issue been addressed,” never to vote for the party. nitude of corruption the Congress to Karnataka and tells people to has not been opening sufficient to accept 10,50,000 letters of pro- he asked. Most of the water tanker “Even by mistake don’t vote is steeped in, Rahul should start give him power. If power is poison, number of bank branches in the test to her written by the people companies are owned by leaders of for the Congress as it will ruin with number 1 from 7, Race why is he asking the people to give rural and remote areas and has of Delhi highlighting the inflated these two parties, and the govern- Karnataka and the country. Say Course Road and add zeros till he poison instead of nectar. I wonder been reducing the interest rate bills, the AAP activists called off ment was hand in glove with the goodbye to the Congress by voting reaches 10, Janpath in New Delhi if Rahul knows what he says and on small savings, such type of their scheduled march to her power discoms, he alleged. for our party’s lotus symbol and to know how many zeros makes what he does,” Modi said. chit funds are mushrooming in residence, AAP spokesperson Earlier, Delhi Traffic Police free the country from its clutches,” Rs1.7-lakh crore, the amount the “The boy with the golden spoon most places,” CPM state secretary Aswathi Muralidharan said. eased the traffic restrictions they thundered Modi at a mammoth nation lost in the 2G scam,” Modi can’t even spell the name of your Bijan Dhar said, while addressing In the afternoon, AAP activ- had imposed in Janpath-Sansad Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) elec- said. chief minister (Shettar). If he tries, a party meeting here yesterday. ists Manish Sisodia and Kumar Marg area due to protests and tion rally here ahead of the state Taking potshots on Gandhi by he will make mistakes. The UPA “The wrong policies of the cen- Vishwas along with 10 other party demonstrations. legislative assembly poll on May 5. repeatedly referring him as the government promised to give one tral government have caused the members boarded a bus, carrying Kejriwal fasted for 15 days Cautioning the people against Congress scion born with a golden crore (10 million) jobs when it came rapid increase of chit fund com- the protest letters from Jantar earlier this month to press his falling prey to the Congress spoon, Modi said it was ironic to power again in 2009. Have any- panies in India,” Dhar said, urging Mantar and handed these over demand for reduction in water and its leaders, Modi mocked at that he should be asking the peo- one of you got a job from the central party cadres and supporters to to Dikshit’s staff around 3 p.m. and electricity tariffs in the Gandhi for saying the state’s rul- ple to vote his party to power in government in Delhi” Modi asked take strong views against these at her residence at Motilal Nehru capital. ing BJP had set a world record the state after hearing from his the audience, evoking loud “nos”. illegal organisations. Marg in New Delhi’s VIP area. IANS in corruption when its own mother (Congress chief Sonia IANS IANS

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PRAYER TIME Singer Emeli News in Numbers QATAR ECONOMIC OUTLOOK Sande sets GDP GROWTHCHART: 1 Fajr (Dawn) 3:38 Shorook (Sunrise) 5:00 new chart Zuhr (Noon) 11:31 Asr (Afternoon) 3:00 record Maghrib (Sunset) 6:04 LONDON: Scottish singer- Isha (Night) 7:34 songwriter Emeli Sande scored a new chart record yesterday with her debut album after a stellar year in Britain that has WEATHER paved the way for her next chal- lenge — the US market. Sande smashed a record held Today Tuesday Wednesday Weather Conditions: for nearly 50 years by The Beatles Real GDP growth is expected to be 4.8%, revised marginally higher Mostly cloudy Mostly cloudy Mostly cloudy when her debut album, “Our from June. Among the underlying components of GDP, the main Partly cloudy. Version of Events”, hit its 63rd week in the top 10 of the UK contributory factor in this upgrade is a smaller predicted decline in album charts, according to the High: 32° High: 30° High: 31° Official Charts Company. oil and gas output—0.2% versus 1.2%—which stems largely from Low: 24° Low: 25° Low: 25° The Beatles previously held the upward revisions to the projections of crude oil volumes for 2013. record for the debut album spend- Little or no growth in LNG production is foreseen during the year, with ing the most consecutive weeks in the top 10 with “Please Please all gas trains operating at full capacity, other than for maintenance. Me” racking up 62 weeks in 1963 DOHA - SUN & SEA The non-hydrocarbonsector is expected to grow by 9.6% in 2013, a and 1964. SUN TIDE SEA “It feels quite surreal to even marginal (0.1 percentage point) upwards revision on the June 2012 have your name mentioned WIND forecast. SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW in the same sentence as The 05:00 18:04 06:30 &20:15 02:15 & 12:30 03-12 / 05-15 KT Beatles,” Sande, 26, told Reuters television. Contributions to real GDP growth, 2013 THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW “For a record to stay there for so long it means that people (percentage points) HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER have connected with it so that’s how I’m enjoying celebrating this GDP MUSCAT 35/25 Light rain 36/26 Mostly cloudy record.” Services MAKKAH 38/29 Chance of storm 36/27 Partly cloudy The release of “Our Version Of KUWAIT 33/23 Clear 33/24 Partly cloudy Events” in February 2012 kicked Industry (manufacturing, construction and utilities) BAHRAIN 30/24 Mostly cloudy 30/24 Mostly cloudy off a year of successes for Sande Hydrocarbons SANAA 26/14 T-storms 28/13 Chance of storm who sang at the opening and RIYADH 24/20 Chance of storm 25/18 Chance of storm closing ceremonies of the 2012 DUBAI 31/25 Chance of storm 30/27 Chance of storm London Olympics and won best BAGHDAD 36/22 Clear 34/22 Mostly cloudy British female artist and best album at the BRIT Awards. THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW Sande also notched up three No. 1 singles in the UK with HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER “Read All About It” with Professor Green, “Next to Me”, ATHENS 29/17 Clear 30/18 Clear and “Beneath Your Beautiful”, a WASHINGTON 21/13 Rain 20/14 Chance of showers collaboration with Labrinth. SYDNEY 26/16 Clear 25/14 Partly cloudy Now the former medical stu- LONDON 15/06 Chance of rain 14/05 Partly cloudy dent has set herself a new chal- PARIS 16/06 Partly cloudy 17/07 Partly cloudy lenge, tackling the US market, where she has yet to make a name ISTANBUL 22/14 Partly cloudy 22/13 Clear for herself. MANILA 35/26 Chance of storm 37/26 Chance of storm Her single “Next To Me” is cur- DHAKA 40/27 Chance of storm 40/27 Chance of storm rently 46th in the Billboard Hot DELHI 39/28 Clear 39/26 Clear 100 chart. REUTERS Real GDP Nominal GDP ISLAMABAD 31/19 Clear 31/18 Partly cloudy Source : http://www.qsa.gov.qa/

Vienna Ballet shows original works Jackson’s bizarre life VIENNA: Having brushed off company has greatly broadened soundtrack full of squeaks and premieres on the programme. its dusty old self over the past its repertoire. But it has mostly the sound of breaking glass for a Crowd favourites and first solo- three years, the Vienna Ballet relied on established names like thoroughly modern and thrilling ists Maria Yakovleva and Kirill to unfold in courtroom showed it was prepared to Jiri Kylian, Jerome Robbins or “Zeitverschwendung” (Waste of Kourlaev delighted the audi- take new risks, by presenting a William Forsythe, never present- Time). ence with Vasili Vainonen’s light LOS ANGELES: Almost four Katherine on behalf of the sing- string of its own original works. ing its own artists’ work. Sequences with men and “Moskovsky Waltz”. years after his shocking death, er’s three children, alleges that In a tribute to “Creation and Orlic’s “Out of Tango” with its women in black suits recalled the But a new take on “Swan the bizarre life and sorry privately-held AEG Live was Tradition”, the audience was intertwined couples was dramatic, film “The Matrix” or a Michael Lake”’s famous “Pas de Deux” by demise of Michael Jackson will negligent in hiring the physician treated to nine pieces, from clas- evoking the tango halls of Buenos Jackson music video, interspersed Andras Lukacs and “Herzblume” play out again in a $40bn civil convicted in 2011 of his involun- sical ballet repertoire to ultra Aires, and its lead dancer Rebecca with audio commentary and an by Eno Peci — both Vienna Ballet trial that pits the singer’s fam- tary manslaughter to care for modern creations with a hint of Horner was a revelation. actor going about daily tasks, dancers — ensured the evening’s ily against the organisers of a the singer while he rehearsed for “The Matrix.” This was the first major role from microwaving food to watch- original creations received most musical comeback that never the series of 50 shows. It was an evening of extremes, for the corps de ballet dancer, ing TV. The company’s stars were of the acclaim. happened. Jackson, 50, drowning in debt giving the impression at times supported by a strong Mihail also on show, performing excerpts An immaculate Olga Esina and Opening statements are set and seeking to rebuild a reputa- that two entirely different com- Sosnovschi, and her performance from great ballets like “Giselle,” Roman Lazik rendered a beautiful for today in what is expected to tion damaged by his 2005 trial panies shared the stage. drew some of the biggest cheers “Laurencia” or “La Bayadere.” contemporary Swan Lake pas de be an emotional, three-month and acquittal on child molesta- But it was original works by of the night. But the corps de ballet was deux, aided by quirky costumes. long jury trial that seeks to hold tion charges, died in Los Angeles its own artists — three current Orlic, a former Vienna Ballet refreshingly given something to Meanwhile, Peci’s fluid chore- AEG Live, the promoters of the of an overdose of the powerful company members and former dancer, already created the widely chew on and an opportunity to ography was a brilliant showcase never-realised series of 2009 surgical anesthetic propofol and dancer Vesna Orlic — that pro- successful “Carmina Burana” for shine in Kaydanovskiy and Orlic’s for Sosnovschi, Masayu Kimoto, London concerts, liable for the a cocktail of other sedatives in vided the biggest thrills of the the company last year. pieces. Alice Firenze and Davide Dato, wrongful death of the “Thriller” June 2009. His personal physi- evening at the Volksoper thea- Another company member The classical pieces — although as well as less-often seen danc- singer. cian, Dr Conrad Murray, is serv- tre, all commissioned by director Andrey Kaydanovskiy, present- usually flawlessly performed — ers like Suzanne Kertesz, Greig The lawsuit, brought by ing a four-year prison sentence. Manuel Legris. Since Legris took ing his first major work, set his also seemed more of an inter- Matthews, Erika Kovacova and Jackson’s elderly mother REUTERS over as ballet director in 2010, the sights on stageplay and a jarring lude between the string of world Dagmar Kronberger. AFP Cyberman at science fest

A science fiction enthusiast dressed as Cyberman from the television series Dr Who gets some help with his costume as he waits for a parade to start outside the 12th annual Sci-Fi London Festival in east London, yesterday. The international festival of science fiction and fantasy films runs from April 30 to May 6. Monday 29 April 2013 19 Jumada II 1434 Volume 18 Number 5684 Price: QR2

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 QIB nets QR291m profit Qatar’s reforms hailed DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank’s (QIB) the first quarter 2013 towards net profit reached QR291m for the improving the provision cover- first quarter of 2013. The bank’s age on financial investments and QSA celebrates Qatar’s First Ranking in Arab World in UNDP 2013 Report total assets increased by 16.6 per- financing activities compared to cent for the period compared to first QR85m in the same period previ- DOHA: Qatar’s decision to crisis, the world noticed that quarter 2012 to QR68.8bn. ous year. meaningfully combine the eco- the developing economies kept Financing activities continues Total shareholders’ equity nomic and social development growing. The rise of the South to be the major growth driver and reached QR10.9bn at the end of aspects is the essence of the has been much commented have now reached QR 37.8bn rep- the first quarter 2013, helping it to country’s fast development since. resenting 18.6 percent growth since maintain its healthy capital ade- progress, a top UNDP official Although most developing the first quarter 2012. quacy ratios. said here yesterday countries have done well dur- Customer deposits of the bank Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad bin Paolo Limbu, Representative of ing the crisis, a large number have registered a strong growth of Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, QIB the UN Development Programme of countries like Brazil, China 33.9 percent compared to first quar- Chairman, said: “The bank is said Qatar’s political leadership’s and India have done particu- ter 2012 to at QR40.5bn, reflecting building on its long term strategy strategy in tapping the dynamics larly well. Some of them made customers’ confidence and well- to create a strong banking group of global economy is another key rapid advances. balanced financial position. with local and international pres- reason for notching up top rank Paolo said the combined Total income for the first quarter ence which meets the expectations in the 2013 UNDP assessment. GDP of Brazil, China and India 2013 was QR724m representing a of its shareholders, customers and Addressing an event hosted was just less than 10 percent growth of 12 percent compared to strategic partners. QIB continues by Qatar Statistics Authority to of the world GDP a little over last quarter of 2012. Income from to add new products and services celebrate Qatar’s First Ranking five decades back. Now the financing and investing activities in together with investing in its infra- in the Arab World in the UNDP combined GDP of these coun- the first quarter 2013 has reached structure to have the right founda- 2013 Report, Paolo noted: “When tries is equal to the total GDP QR662m registering a 2 percent tion for future growth.” Qatar hosted COP18, the country of world’s six most advanced growth compared to same period During the first quarter 2013, was not just organising a global Qatar Statistics Authority President Sheikh Hamad bin Jabor bin Jassim industrialised nations. last year and 15 percent growth Standard & Poor’s have affirmed event. The decision to host the Al Thani (left); Representative of the UN Development Programme, Paolo Sheikh Hamad bin compared to last quarter of 2012. its ‘A-‘ long-term and ‘A-2’ short- event was a reflection of Qatar’s Limbu (right); and Director of Diplomatic Institute at the Ministry of Foreign Jabor bin Jassim Al Thani, However, fee and commission term counterparty credit ratings decision on how to make an intel- Affairs, Dr Hassan Ibrahim Al Mohannadi during the celebration of Qatar’s Presdient, Qatar Statistics income were lower compared to to QIB with a stable outlook rating lectual partnership in the face of a Ranking First in the Arab World in Human Development Report of 2003 held Authority (QSA) addressed first quarter of 2012 which included on the long-term. Similarly Capital challenging global economy”. at the Four Seasons Hotel yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT the event. Dr Hassan Ibrahim certain non-recurring items. Intelligence (CI) has affirmed the The people in Qatar are Al Mohannadi, Director Total expenses of the bank were bank’s Financial Strength Rating inspired by the definitions of the country. “The people are aware generation is slowly shifting from of Diplomatic Institute, contained to QR233m in first quar- (FSR) of ‘A’, which reflects the Bank’s government’s investment policy. of the economic reforms ongoing the West to the South. The rise of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ter of 2013 representing a reduction strong Islamic banking franchise, The most interesting thing about in the country and they are fully the South was unprecedented in it made a presentation on the of 11 percent compared to last quar- evidenced by substantial growth in Qatar is that its people are really aware of the importance of ‘par- speed and scale. When the devel- key findings of the 2013 ter of 2012 and increase of 5 percent financings and customer deposits, aware of the economic reform ticipatory development’,” he said. oped economies stopped growing UNDP document. compared to first quarter 2012. and the bank’s strong capitalisation. paths being pursued by their Paolo noted that the wealth during after the 2008 financial THE PENINSULA The bank allocated QR96m in THE PENINSULA MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Central banks, data to steer investors in US All eyes on Fed and ECB meeting

NEW YORK: With signs of a Nasdaq Composite Index rose 2.3 slower economy mounting, the percent near-term outlook for US stocks The economy expanded at a isn’t rosy, but investors may find 2.5 percent annual rate in the comfort next week from the first quarter, the Commerce world’s major central banks. Department said on Friday, short The Federal Reserve will of expectations of 3.0 percent and meet tomorrow and Wednesday, setting a cautious tone. with the report of weaker-than- A heavy slate of key economic expected, first-quarter growth indicators will be released next could reinforce expectations the week, including personal income Fed will keep purchasing bonds and spending, the Institute for at a pace of $85bn a month. Supply Management’s manu- Low interest rates and ample facturing and services activity liquidity provided by the Fed and indexes, pending home sales, the other central banks have buoyed Chicago purchasing managers’ global equity markets because low index and consumer confidence borrowing costs for businesses from the Conference Board. and consumers lead to richer corporate profits. Major US stock KEY HIGHLIGHT Officials posing with the award in Doha recently. indexes hit record highs earlier The highlight of the week will this month. come on Friday when the Labour “As long as it looks like cen- Department releases its employ- Dubai Chamber wins Best CSR Project award tral banks are on your side and ment report for April. Economists on investors’ side as far as pro- polled by Reuters are looking for viding more liquidity, that’s going job growth of 150,000, up from DOHA: Dubai Chamber of against the Auckland Regional reflects its commitment to its regional hub offering a sustain- to help improve sentiment,” said 88,000 in March. The unemploy- Commerce and Industry has Chamber of Commerce & vision of becoming one of the best able business environment for Brian Jacobsen, chief portfolio ment rate is likely to remain won the Best CSR Project in the Industry, Cambodia Chamber of chambers in the world. It also global investors. strategist at Wells Fargo Funds unchanged at 7.6 percent. World Chambers Competition Commerce, Victorian Employers’ shows the Chamber’s long legacy Buamim noted that Dubai Management in Menomonee “Today’s (GDP) data suggests held at the 8th World Chamber Chamber of Commerce and of various CSR initiatives and its Chamber’s participation in this Falls, Wisconsin. maybe the momentum is much Congress that concluded here Industry, and the Indian Chamber dedication to the culture of cor- global event provided it a fitting “I don’t think (Fed officials) weaker that what was priced in,” recently. of Commerce. porate social responsibility which platform to promote Dubai’s bid have got enough data since the said John Praveen, chief invest- During its participation in The 2013 competition, organ- is not restricted to businesses but to host World Expo 2020, the last meeting to really justify ment strategist at Prudential the Congress, organised by ised by the ICC World Chambers extends to the protection of envi- African Global Business Forum changing policy. I really don’t International Investments International Chambers of Federation, is the only inter- ronment and the society at large. 2013 being organised in the emir- think they’re going to look at Advisers in Newark, New Jersey. Commerce’s World Chambers national event of its scale that We implement green initiatives in ate next month besides promoting slowing the pace of purchases The European Central Bank Federation (WCF) from April recognises innovative projects our work environment and lead the emirate as an international until probably September.” meets on Thursday and investors 22 to 25 at the Qatar National undertaken by chambers of com- by example for other companies business hub to the business lead- A strong commitment from will watch to see if it delivers an Convention Centre, Dubai merce and industry from around and organisations to follow suit, ers from 12,000 chambers of com- the Fed to continue its stimula- interest-rate cut as the euro zone Chamber won the award for the world. It received entries he said. merce coming from 100 countries. tive policy, coupled with corporate economy deteriorates further. demonstrating a positive impact from 65 chambers of commerce The Director General of Dubai He added that Dubai Chamber earnings that have mostly exceeded Further monetary easing would on the environment, through and industry from 42 countries Chamber said this global recog- is playing the role of an active lowered forecasts, could help Wall encourage investors to buy riskier its initiatives of green build- for the five projects as 25 finalists nition will definitely boost the member of the World Chambers Street extend a rally despite signs assets and boost stocks. ing, the University of Dubai, from each project presented their image of Dubai and the UAE as Federation and the leading busi- that the US economic recovery is Next week Dow components the establishment of the Centre innovative projects to an interna- a sustainable business destina- ness facilitator has recently been losing momentum. reporting results will be Pfizer for Responsible Business and tional judging panel during dedi- tion and goes in line with the expanding into emerging mar- Even though the market ended and Merck. Other companies the Mohammed bin Rashid cated Congress sessions. Dubai Government’s call for the kets through new representative flat on Friday, its performance scheduled to report include Loews Al Maktoum Business Award Hamad Buamim, Director application of responsible busi- offices established by the Chamber for the week was positive. The Corp, Aetna Inc, Chesapeake Program thus covering excellence General, Dubai Chamber and ness practices implemented for to promote the competitiveness of Standard & Poor’s 500 rose 1.7 Energy , Visa Inc, Viacom Inc and in various areas of economic and Deputy Chairman of WCF, the betterment of environment Dubai businesses in regional and percent, the Dow Jones Industrial Kraft Foods Group Inc. social importance. informed that Dubai Chamber’s and the society. It will also help global business arenas. Average was up 1.1 percent and REUTERS The Chamber was pitted winning of the Best CSR Project us to promote the emirate as a THE PENINSULA

Ibrahim Al Saqaabi is Acting CEO of Al Mazaya Holding Qatar’s current account surplus DOHA: Al Mazaya Holding He added that Al Saqaabi has vast provide different, variant and a B.S. (Civil Engineering) from Company, the leading real experience in the field of execu- specialized real estate services George Washington University estate company in the Gulf tive management will be particu- development, including imple- in the USA. In addition to that, widens: Report region and listed on Kuwait larly useful in the position he is mentation and management of he was a member of the boards DOHA: Qatar’s current account and Dubai stock exchanges, assigned to in Al Mazaya Holding projects. in several companies in different surplus widened to QR226.9bn announced the appointment of Company. Al Saqaabi has extensive expe- sections, mostly in real estate ($62.3bn) in 2012, or 32.4 percent Ibrahim Al Saqaabi (pictured) Al Saqaabi was the General rience in corporate restructuring inside and outside Kuwait. of gross domestic product, the as acting CEO of the company. Manager of the KMC Group of and the implementation of gov- Al Saqaabi said: “I’m pleased central bank’s preliminary data Rashid Al Nafisi, Chairman Companies, owned by the Kuwait ernance systems, which include to take up the new responsibility, showed, beating analysts’ expec- of the Board, said: “On behalf Finance House which is consid- companies’ operational systems, which I consider a challenge. I am tations. The Opec member had of members of the board of Al ered one of the top Shariah- and the development of work looking forward to do everything booked a surplus of QR189.2bn Mazaya Holding Company and all compliant companies in the plans and strategies to enhance I can to achieve the company’s in 2011, or 30.3 percent of GDP, of its employees, we are pleased to Middle East, at which he man- the company’s market share. goals and the goals of the share- according to a Reuters calcu- welcome Ibrahim Al Saqaabi . We aged the holding company – which He holds an MBA from Kuwait holders as well”. lation based on official data. wish him all the best and success. consists of seven subsidiaries that Maastricht Business School, and THE PENINSULA Analysts polled by Reuters in January had expected Qatar’s current account surplus would fall to 28 percent of GDP in 2012. Qatar German Medical Key negotiator with IMF GIS profit soars Moody’s, Morgan Stanley Devices reports loss to QR135.8m in DOHA: Qatari German for resigns in blow to Egypt and S&P settle risky suits Medical Devices Company dis- closed the interim financial state- first quarter NEW YORK: Credit ratings confidential. Spokespeople for ment for the three month period CAIRO: A key Egyptian nego- for Egypt’s hopes of wrapping up agencies Moody’s, Standard & Morgan Stanley and Moody’s ended March 31, 2013. The interim tiator with the International a deal on the long delayed IMF DOHA: Gulf International Poor’s, and investment bank were not immediately available financial statements revealed a net Monetary Fund said yesterday loan next month, as the govern- Services (GIS), a Qatar-based Morgan Stanley have reached for comment. loss of QR2.9m in comparison to that he has resigned as first ment has said it aims to do. shareholding energy company agreements to settle two law- The trial was especially crucial a net loss of QR1.8m for the same deputy finance minister, in a Kadry was the one expert in listed on the Qatar Exchange, suits on accusations that they for S&P: on February 5 the US period last year, the company said potential blow to Cairo’s pros- the ministry who fully understood yesterday reported net profits hid the risk of “subprime” Justice Department filed a law- in a statement. The company’s pects of an early IMF deal. the IMF programme and was able of QR135.8m for the first three mortgage investments to suit seeking at least $5bn in civil loss per share (LPS) amounted Hany Kadry Dimian has been to deal with the global lender pro- months of 2013, up 47.5 percent customers. penalties for losses due to inflated to QR0.25 as of March 31, 2013, the crucial point man in Egypt’s fessionally, the diplomat said. compared to QR43.8m for the The lawsuits, one from King ratings of mortgage bonds. The as against loss per share (LPS) protracted and so far fruitless The daily El Watan said on its corresponding period last year. County in northwestern US state suit claims that S&P knowingly of QR0.16 for the corresponding negotiations to obtain a $4.8bn website that Kadry had been under The GIS financials represented of Washington, the other from exaggerated the ratings on finan- period in 2012. loan needed to help combat a increasing pressure from the ruling earnings per share (EPS) as Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, cial securities, misrepresenting severe economic crisis. Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and QR0.91.While the total assets of and which date back to before their true credit risk. Dlala nets QR16.5m “The only comment I can make Justice Party, and in conflict with the Company stood at QR5.17bn the 2008 economic meltdown, The suit cited S&P’s top-grade for the time being is that yes, my Abdallah Shehata, the FJP eco- ended March 31, 2013. were dismissed by a Manhattan ratings of dozens of mortgage- profit in first quarter term ends on April 30 according nomic adviser to Finance Minister GIS has significant investments federal court, according to a court based collateralised debt obliga- DOHA: Dlala Brokerage and to my resignation, which I sub- Al Mursi Al Sayed Hegazy. in national and international oil filing late on Friday. tions (CDOs) issued in early 2007 Investment Holding Company mitted in December,” Kadry said. Separately, the head of Egypt’s and gas industry, including well The plaintiffs claimed that that were in default within one disclosed the interim financial “My next move is not decided.” bourse, Mohamed Omran, told support services, offshore and the defendants failed to prop- year, some within six months. statement for the three month A senior technocrat appointed Prime Minister Hisham Kandil onshore drilling services, heli- erly disclose the risk of their The defaults dealt billions period ended March 31, 2013. in 2007, Kadry survived five he would like to leave his posi- copter maintenance and trans- investment in a fund that of dollars in losses to financial The statement revealed a net finance ministers in office since tion at the end of his term on July portation services, insurance and bought bonds backed by sub- institutions insured by the US profit of QR16.5m in comparison the 2011 uprising that overthrew 1, the state news agency Mena reinsurance services. Currently, it prime mortgages. government, some of which col- to QR15.3m for the correspond- former autocratic president Hosni reported, citing an unnamed offi- acts as a holding company which The McGraw-Hill lapsed in the 2008 crisis and oth- ing period in 2012, the company Mubarak. Kadry gave no expla- cial stock exchange source. The has 100 per cent ownership of Al Companies, the parent com- ers, like Citigroup, forced to seek said in a statement. The earn- nation for his decision to quit, report did not give a reason for Koot, Insurance and Reinsurance pany of Standard and Poor’s, a government bailout. S&P was ings per phare (EPS) amounted first reported on the Egyptian Omran’s request, but said he had Company, and owns a control- said that it ended the two dis- specifically charged with wire to QR0.74 as of March 31, 2013, dissident Rebel Economy blog. A told the prime minister in August ling stake (69.99 percent) in Gulf putes without admitting guilt fraud, mail fraud and financial compared to QR0.69 during the senior European diplomat said his he wanted to leave the post. Drilling International Limited. or responsibility, and that the institution fraud. same period in 2012. departure was not a good omen REUTERS THE PENINSULA terms of the agreement were AFP REUTERS/QNA MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Qatar Exchange resumes upward momentum Heavy buying of mid-cap stocks buoys Dubai index; Kuwaiti bourse records sixth successive gain

DOHA/DUBAI: Qatar resu- the market has lagged the UAE In Dubai, heavy buying of mid- a 17-percent year-on-year gain in by then, the deal will be pulled. first-quarter results. med its upward momentum recently so investors are seeing cap stocks pushed the index up 1.6 profit on April 14. The original deal between the Oman fell 0.4 percent, dragged yesterday after the previous some value,” said Julian Bruce, percent — above 2,100 points — to Kuwait’s measure recorded a two parties, which would give down by telecommunications firm session’s reverse, while heavy director of institutional equity its highest close since November sixth successive gain, rising 1.0 QInvest 60 percent of the new Nawras, which reported a fifth buying of mid-cap stocks sent sales at EFG Hermes in Dubai. 2009. It was the bourse’s sixth percent to its highest level since joint venture in exchange for a straight quarterly profit drop Dubai to a new multi-year high. However, once further details successive gain, in which time it late April 2010. $250 million capital injection, after the market closed. Other Gulf markets were mixed about the IPO emerge and the start has risen 8.2 percent. Attention was again focused was announced on May 4, 2012 on the opening day of the week. date is announced, further sell-offs Drake and Scull soared 7.7 per- on small-cap stocks, a trend nor- but regulatory approval has been HIGHLIGHTS Qatar’s index advanced 0.51 could take place, Bruce added. cent in its biggest one-day jump mally seen when fundamental held up by political wrangling in QATAR: The index climbed 0.51 percent, its eighth gain in the last The index added 43.90 points in more than two years. Nearly catalysts are absent. Investors Egypt and the role of EFG’s co- percent to 8,637 points. nine sessions, as it maintained a to advance to 8,637.16 points from 137.5 million of its shares changed Holding and Gulf Investment chief executives, Hassan Heikal DUBAI: The index surged 1.6 recovery from the mid-month 8,593.26 on Thursday. Among hands, also a record for the last House were among the most and Yasser El Mallawany, in the percent to 2,109 points. sell-off which saw a run of seven the top gainers were Qatar 24 months. Dubai Islamic Bank heavily traded stocks, climbing old regime. KUWAIT: The measure gained straight declines. Electricity and Water which was (DIB) climbed 5.3 percent and 4.4 and 1.6 percent respectively. Other regional bourses 1.0 percent to 7,363 points. These falls were attributed to up 1.06 percent to QR142.50, Gulf Dubai Investment Co jumped 4.4 In Egypt, the benchmark edged declined. Abu Dhabi, which hit EGYPT: The measure rose 0.1 local investors selling to free up International rose 1.23 percent percent. up 0.1 percent. EFG Hermes gained its highest level since November percent to 5,232 points. liquidity for the initial public offer to QR41, Vodafone Qatar gained “The main catalyst is still 0.7 percent after Egypt’s invest- 2008 on Thursday, ended a run of ABU DHABI: The index of Doha Global, the $12bn invest- 1.23 percent to QR9.05 and Barwa results - the banks are issu- ment minister said a decision on five successive advances with a 0.3 declined 0.3 percent to 3,278 ment firm backed by assets from Real Estate was up by 0.79 per- ing strong numbers and are whether its long-delayed tie-up percent drop. points. the country’s sovereign wealth cent to Q24.30. The banking and supporting their share prices with Qatar’s QInvest would go Saudi Arabia’s index dipped SAUDI ARABIA: The index fell fund. financial sector index was up 0.42 and the market,” said Marwan ahead will be announced by May 3. for the first session in seven, 0.1 percent to 7,141 points. However, in the wake of strong points, the consumer goods and Shurrab, vice-president and “Some papers are being ending Sunday 0.1 percent down. OMAN: The index eased 0.4 first-quarter corporate earn- services sector index lost 0.77 chief trader at Gulfmena reviewed and a decision has to be The bourse has been trading in percent to 6,180 points. ings, investors have now returned points, the industrial sector added Investments in Dubai. made before May 3,” Osama Saleh a 180-point range for the last BAHRAIN: The measure to the market. “It is the overall 0.41 points while the insurance Drake and Scull is due to report told Reuters on Saturday, adding month, which analysts said was slipped 0.2 percent to 1,096 points. confidence from the results, and sector gained 1.85 points. on Wednesday, while DIB posted that if an approval isn’t granted due to a lack of catalysts after REUTERS

Nawras profit Libya to help ease slumps 21pc Egypt crisis with in first quarter DUBAI: Oman’s No. 2 telecom operator Nawras reported a 21 $1.2bn oil deal percent drop in first-quarter profit yesterday, missing ana- TRIPOLI: Libya will soon $2bn at the Egyptian central lysts’ estimates as text and start shipping oil to neighbour- bank and Qatar has announced domestic call income fell. ing Egypt on soft credit terms, $8bn in loans, grants and other The firm posted a fifth straight two senior Libyan officials said, deposits since Islamist President quarterly profit decline as margins as Cairo struggles to pay for Mohammed Mursi was elected shrunk and depreciation rose while energy imports and avoid fuel last June. overall revenue increased 3 per- shortages. Libya’s National Oil Corporation cent. Nawras, majority-owned by The officials told Reuters that declined comments on the details Ooredoo, made a net profit of 7.7m Tripoli would supply Cairo with of the deal, although one of the rials ($20m) in the three months $1.2bn worth of crude at world oil industry officials said it would to March 31, down from 9.8m rials prices but on interest free credit supply Sirteca, the cheapest of all in the year-earlier period. for a year, with the first cargo the country’s grades. “Shipments Two analysts polled by Reuters expected to arrive next month. will be sold at world prices,” said forecast Nawras, which ended Egypt has slid into economic the second Libyan official. Oman Telecommunication Co’s crisis since president Hosni An official at the Egyptian oil monopoly in 2005, would make a Mubarak was overthrown two ministry confirmed some of the quarterly profit of 10m rials. years ago. Most international deal’s terms. “(It will be) one mil- Margins at Gulf telecom opera- companies have reduced oil prod- lion barrels a month and deferred tors are under sustained pressure uct supplies to the country fearing payment for 12 months without as subscribers increasingly switch non-payments, as the government interest starting from the first to Internet-based communica- tries to curb soaring energy sub- half of May, God willing,” the tions such as instant messaging sidy costs which swallow up a fifth official said. and Voice over IP (VoIP) services. of its budget. However, the official main- Earnings before interest, tax, Libya plans to ship one to two tained that the two sides were depreciation and amortisation, a cargoes a month for refining in still discussing the kind of crude key industry metric, fell 4.1 per- Egypt under a deal that involves oil to be supplied and how long the cent to 23.2m rials. 12 million barrels of crude over shipments would last. The Libyan Nawras said increased deprecia- 12 months, the oil industry offi- officials said that if the first cargo Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) Co’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner lands at haneda International Airport in Tokyo tion arising from network modern- cials said. was sent next month as planned, yesterday after concluding a test flight. isation had impacted its net profit. With foreign currency reserves they would last until April 2014. First-quarter revenue was 48.2m running low, Egypt has not The Libyan deal should ease the rials, Nawras said. This compares bought any crude on the open problems of Egypt, which owes at with 46.8m rials a year ago. market since January. In rough least $5bn to oil companies, half ANA tests modified Dreamliner Nawras attributed the revenue terms the Libyan deal would be of it overdue. increase to rising income from worth slightly more than half its Cairo aims to raise prices of TOKYO: A modified Dreamliner perfect day,” Conner said. Administration (FAA) and other fixed and mobile data and inter- 2012 imports, which the central subsidised energy gradually, took to the skies over Tokyo “As is evident by the fact that we regulators grounded the world- national calls, although income bank put at $2bn. bringing them close to world lev- yesterday with top Boeing and are here today, we are very confi- wide Dreamliner fleet in mid- from text and domestic calls fell. “Their situation is very bad, els in four years, to reduce the ANA executives aboard, as the dent in the solution that we devel- January after failures of the The operator had 2.23 million and if necessary they can take burden on its huge budget defi- plane maker and its leading cli- oped... and I can tell you that we lithium-ion batteries on the jet- fixed and mobile customers as of up to a year to pay (for each cit. In the short term, it wants to ent sought to reassure passen- put our family on this airplane on liner caused a fire on board one March 31, up 12.3 percent from a delivery),” said one of the Libyan avoid arousing more social unrest gers the jetliners are safe. any day of a week, and any time.” parked plane in Boston and forced year earlier. In January, Nawras officials. Libyan authorities them- by ensuring energy supplies dur- It was the first flight by one of ANA and Boeing are anxious the emergency landing of an said its 2012 annual profit fell 22.2 selves face a daily struggle to ing the approaching summer All Nippon Airways’ 787s since to put the damaging crisis behind ANA-operated aircraft in Japan. percent from a year earlier. keep services running and take when energy consumption peaks. the worldwide fleet of the next- them but it could still be at least Following months of investiga- REUTERS control of a country awash with Libya has already shown will- generation planes was grounded a month before the carrier can tions, the FAA on Thursday issued weapons looted from the arsenal ingness to step back into its old over safety concerns due to faulty complete all the battery fixes and formal approval of Boeing’s bat- of Muammar Gaddafi, who was role as North Africa’s version of batteries sparking fires on board get its planes in the air. tery fix, with Ethiopian Airlines QIG profit rises toppled in 2011. a Gulf petro-state by using cash two planes. The test flight by Ito said the company may fly on Saturday becoming the first But the official said Libya could to open doors. ANA, which has the largest fleet the aircraft in May on an irregu- carrier to resume using the DOHA: Qatari Investors Group not shy away from helping an Libya’s new rulers authorised of Dreamliners, came a day after lar basis and that it would aim aircraft. (QIG) disclosed the interim important trading partner. “If you a payment of almost $200m to Ethiopian Airlines became the first to resume normal flights from Japanese travellers expressed financial statement for the three are a good neighbour and some- Mauritania after it extradited carrier to resume flying the 787s. June 1. “We had not necessarily mixed feelings towards the modi- month period ended March 31, thing is wrong with your neigh- Gaddafi’s former spy chief Abdullah After a two-hour test flight expected this (problem of batter- fied Dreamliners. Yuji Kawaguchi, 2013. The statements revealed bour, you will not feel comfortable Al Senussi last year, although they from Tokyo’s Haneda airport, ies) as the launch customer, but I 56, said he would like to see the a net profit of QR53.1m in com- with yourself. It’s human nature,” later denied there was a quid pro ANA Chairman Shinichiro Ito can say it was a meaningful chal- 787 operations resume soon. parison to QR34.2m for the cor- he said. Cairo has so far failed to quo. Diplomats and analysts have and Boeing Commercial Airplanes lenge,” Ito said. “I often fly for business trips,” responding period in 2012, the agree a $4.8bn loan deal with the also suggested Libya’s growing sup- CEO Ray Conner descended the Neither Ito nor Conner com- he said as he waited for a flight to company said in a statement. International Monetary Fund port may help persuade Egypt to stairs of the Dreamliner. mented on details of compensa- southern Kagoshima at Haneda The earnings per share (EPS) and has sought help from energy hand over Gaddafi’s cousin Ahmed “After three months it’s a terrific tion, which ANA has said it will airport. “As far as the testing amounted to QR0.43 as of March producing countries in the region Gaddaf Alddam, who was arrested feeling to have an ANA 787 back seek after months of cancellations shows no problem, we might as 31, 2013, compared to QR0.28 of and beyond. in Cairo in March. in the air, and I am very pleased to and disruption to schedules. well start thinking about improv- the same period in 2012. Tripoli has already deposited REUTERS say that it was a perfect flight on a The US Federal Aviation ing convenience.” AFP QNA Abu Dhabi to establish financial free zone • Bullion - Mumbai ABU DHABI: The emirate of Detailed regulations covering allowed to take 100 percent own- Al Maryah island, formerly Gold (10 gm) Standard Rs. 26120 Abu Dhabi is putting finishing the zone will be outlined shortly, ership in companies; outside the Sowwah island, is close to down- Silver (1 kg) Rs. 46035 touches to plans to establish a an Abu Dhabi government source zones, they generally need to have town Abu Dhabi and has an area • Indian Rupees QR1 = 14.73 financial free zone that could said, declining to be named under local partners. of about 114 hectares. It has been resemble, and therefore compete briefing rules. “It will have all the One of the country’s most suc- developed by Abu Dhabi state fund • Sensex with, the Dubai International offerings of a financial free zone cessful free zones is the Dubai Mubadala since 2007, and some 50 BSE 19016.46 Financial Centre, sources famil- — 100 percent foreign owner- International Financial Centre, local and international firms have NSE 5783.10 iar with the matter said. ship, tax and capital repatriation, established in 2004 with its own set up offices on the island. • Short-term investment plan from LIC International upto 6.4 percent return A federal decree was passed by internationally accepted laws and civil and commercial laws, its own “The challenge for Abu Dhabi p.a. (in dollar) the UAE President H H Sheikh regulations and other things,” the courts and a financial exchange, would be to find a niche, a competi- • Housing loan from HDFC LTD Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan source said. Nasdaq Dubai. Others have tried tive edge for how to compete with • Mutual Fund: Buy & Sell: SBI MF, HDFC MF, UTI MF, Birla Sun Life MF, in February to create the area, The UAE’s free zones are areas to emulate its success; the Qatar Dubai, Qatar and Bahrain and cap- Tata MF, Reliance MF etc. known as the Abu Dhabi World in which foreign companies can Financial Centre was set up in ture its market share,” said Tariq • Advise on Indian Income Tax matters for NRIs. Financial Market, on Al Maryah operate under light regulation, 2005 in Doha, and the Bahrain Qaqish, head of asset management Contact: Investec, Tel: 44325060/44365060 email: [email protected] island, the sources told Reuters. and where foreign investors are Financial Harbour opened in 2009. at Al Mal Capital. REUTERS MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS DRAM chip shortage puts Samsung in spot Firm courts rival to fill orders

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics stronger than expected, so it’s spent about $24bn in the past two difficult to rapidly boost supply years beefing up the world’s big- in the short term,” Lee Don-joo, gest maker of memory chips to president of the strategic mar- meet demand. It wasn’t enough. keting office at Samsung’s mobile Surging sales of smartphones, business, said. The rising demand including its own Galaxy range, for mobile chips follows a glut in has Samsung turning to its big- production of the type of DRAM gest rival to buy mobile dynamic used in personal computers that random access memory (DRAM) saw prices slump, driving some chips. For the first time, the com- producers to the wall. pany that makes more than half SK Hynix, Micron, Nanya the world’s mobile DRAM chips Technology Corp, Powerchip may buy them from SK Hynix Technology Corp and other Inc., said Shin Jong-kyun, head Samsung rivals lost a combined of Suwon, South Korea-based $21bn from 2008 to 2012, accord- Samsung’s mobile business. ing to analyst estimates and com- The supply squeeze doesn’t pany data compiled by Bloomberg. just pose a problem for Samsung, Some Taiwanese makers quit which released its new flagship the business, while Tokyo-based Galaxy S4 phone. The chips, along Elpida Memory Inc was forced with NAND memory, are needed to seek protection from creditors in handsets and tablet computers before Boise, Idaho-based Micron made by Apple, Nokia and HTC Technology Inc agreed to buy it for functions from playing video last year. and multitasking to storing books Chip prices have since recov- and photographs. ered as suppliers including “Not only DRAM chips, but Micron kept DRAM output all memory chips for mobile steady. Last year, Toshiba, the devices show signs of shortages,” world’s second-biggest maker of Visitors talk in front of accessories for Samsung smartphones at the company’s headquarters in Seoul recently. said Kim Sung-in, an analyst at NAND flash memory, said it will Kiwoom Securities Co in Seoul. reduce production by 30 percent. 9.3 percent of sales, according market will be flooded out with will climb to 10 percent of rev- is the biggest profit driver at the “Samsung’s biggest chip customer Benchmark 2Gb, 1333Mhz to data compiled by Bloomberg. new devices,” said Lee Sei-cheol, enue by the end of the year from company. Telecommunications is itself and things will only get DRAM chips have more than The Cupertino, California-based a Seoul-based analyst at Meritz 1 percent in the first quarter. contributed 67 percent of oper- out of hand with the approach of doubled to $1.69 since the end of company ranks behind only Hon Securities Co. Samsung’s capital Inotera Memories Inc, a Taiwan- ating income in 2012, compared the third quarter, typically the November, according to TrendForce Hai Precision Industry Co., which spending on chips was 13.85 tril- based venture between Nanya and with 14 percent for chips and 11 strongest time of year.” Corp.’s DRAMeXchange, Asia’s assembles the iPad, the data show. lion won ($12.3bn) last year after Micron, expects mobile DRAM percent for liquid crystal displays, The second half of the year is largest market for the components. SK Hynix, which has been the company spent 13 trillion won will rise to 20 percent of sales by according to data compiled by when Samsung expects to release “Mobile DRAM supply started unprofitable in four of the past on the business the year before. the fourth quarter from 5 per- Bloomberg. a new smartphone using its own to slow from the third quarter of five years, posted first-quarter As of the fourth quarter of last cent at the end of 2012, Chairman While Apple has focused on Tizen operating system and an last year as players had cut invest- earnings that beat analyst esti- year, Samsung had 51 percent of Charles Kau said. high-end devices and limited updated version of the Galaxy ment a lot,” said Byun Han-joon, mates as chip prices rebound. the global mobile DRAM market, Toshiba is closely monitoring its handset releases to one a Note device. It’s also when Apple an analyst at KB Investment & Global smartphone sales rose followed by SK Hynix’s 25 per- the market for signs of shortages year since the first iPhone, usually releases details of a new Securities Co. in Seoul. “There’s a 34 percent last year to $294bn, cent and 20 percent for Elpida, that may be based on “excessive Samsung offers smartphones handset. possibility that demand for mobile according to data compiled by according to market researcher expectations,” spokesman Atsushi across a wider range of prices, all The S4 is in limited supply and chips may increase faster than Bloomberg Industries. Among the IHS iSuppli. Ido said by phone, declining to requiring mobile DRAM chips. Samsung is struggling to keep up had been anticipated so Samsung flagship devices announced in the Any supply squeeze is likely to elaborate. Samsung, Hynix and “Demand for Samsung’s mobile with demand, the company said. is trying to brace for it.” past 12 months are HTC’s One, help second-tier players such as Elpida declined to comment on phones is way too strong” for the Two top US carriers have pushed SK Hynix, the world’s second- Nokia’s Lumia 920, the BlackBerry Taoyuan, Taiwan-based Nanya output plans. company’s semiconductor busi- back their release dates citing largest supplier, counts Apple Z10 and Apple’s iPhone 5. Technology Corp, which is ram- Part of Samsung’s dilemma ness to keep up, said Kiwoom shipment delays. among its biggest customers, with “Chip demand for smart- ping up production of mobile with mobile DRAM is its own Securities’ Kim. “Pre-order demand is much the maker of iPhones providing phones remains strong while the chips and expects the business success in making mobiles, which WP-BLOOMBERG New Tokyo Oil’s Big Five hit by crude index aimed at foreign drop as spending soars

LONDON: The biggest oil com- investors panies are failing to increase earnings as crude trades near TOKYO: Aiming to establish a nine-month low, production itself as a major exchange in wanes and costs rise. Asia, the Tokyo Stock Exchange ExxonMobil on Thursday plans to create a new stock price reported that earnings were lit- index that focuses on return on tle changed from a year earlier. equity (ROE). Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, BP With the new index, the TSE and Total will post lower quar- wants to make Japanese stocks terly profit when they announce more attractive to domestic and earnings in the coming week, ana- foreign investors as interna- lysts’ estimates show. The group, tional competition among stock which is investing a record $155bn exchanges continues to intensify. this year to bolster output, is dis- The aim is in line with Prime appointing investors: The com- Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic panies’ shares have gained an A sign outside an ExxonMobil Corp office building in Dallas, Texas. growth strategy. But it is uncer- average 2.6 percent this year as tain whether Japanese companies the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index Russia and Saudi Arabia this year to $94.36. US gas prices gained will be able to raise ROE figures to jumped 11 percent. to become the largest liquid fuel 39 percent from a decade low to levels that would attract domestic “It’s going to be a very rough producer, BP said. Liquids output, average $3.48 per million British and foreign investors. ride for the majors,” said Fadel which includes oil, natural gas liq- thermal units. TOPIX, TSE’s current stock Gheit, an analyst at Oppenheimer uids and biofuels, will be boosted Smaller US oil companies were price index, indicates moves & Co in New York. “If oil prices in the US by tight oil extracted by also hurt by falling oil prices. in aggregated market prices go down from here, no major inte- the same technology that sparked Occidental Petroleum Corp, the for about 1,700 companies. But grated oil company will beat the a boom in shale gas. largest oil producer in the con- TOPIX is easily affected by stock S&P. We cannot hope they’ll be The quest for new deposits to tinental US, and ConocoPhillips price fluctuations for companies able to squeeze costs faster than replace shrinking established fields reported profit declines of 13 per- with large aggregated market falling oil prices.” is costing a record amount this cent and 27 percent, respectively. prices, such as manufacturers Benchmark Brent crude, used year and all five companies have BP and Total have focused on and banks. to price two-thirds of global sales, pledged to maintain or increase selling off less profitable opera- Some economists have pointed has dropped 8 percent this year to capital expenditure to bolster out- tions and emphasised frontier out flaws with TOPIX, with one $102 a barrel as hydraulic fractur- put. BP Chief Executive Officer Bob exploration, where the payoffs senior TSE official saying, “It ing technology opens wells in the Dudley said in February that the from new discoveries are biggest. doesn’t indicate the real condi- United States, prompting BP to inflation rate for oil-field services “It’s now apparent to the majors tion of Japanese companies.” The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Arrows market centre. In hopes of attracting predict the nation may top Saudi and supplies is running at about 10 that you need a high- quality By including firms with high more foreign investors, the TSE plans to create a new stock price index Arabia as the biggest producer percent a year. portfolio to maintain earnings,” ROE figures in the new index, the focusing on return on equity. of oil and liquid fuels. Goldman ExxonMobil, based in Irving, said Jason Kenney, an analyst at TSE expects that efficiently man- Sachs Group Inc cut its forecast Texas, reported a 1 percent gain Banco Santander in Edinburgh. aged companies with high growth A TSE official said, “At a time Some market players have been for average Brent prices in 2013 in first-quarter earnings from a “We’re in a period of inflation in potential will draw attention from when more attention is being paid critical of the situation. to $100 from $110 as supply grows. year earlier on the strength of its the sector, and there’s value leak- investors, even if the companies’ to foreign investors, the plan to Kengo Nishiyama, a senior At the same time, producing chemical business. Production fell age in every spot along the chain.” size is small in terms of sales and create a new index is in line with strategist at Nomura Securities oil and natural gas is becom- 3.5 percent and profit declined in While profits from selling other factors. the aims of the administration.” Co., said: “Some shareholders will ing harder for the world’s larg- the exploration and production unit. crude oil are falling, the business The TSE is ranked third in the However, there are many feel that Japanese companies have est energy companies. Output at In Europe, analysts estimate of turning crude into gasoline world in terms of trading volume hurdles before companies can not efficiently utilized investments the five so-called super majors that Total’s adjusted profit fell and other products has improved. of physical shares, behind the New increase their own ROE figures, to make enough profit. Domestic reached its zenith in 2004 at 16.9 5.7 percent to $2.99bn. BP will Global refining margins were YorkStock Exchange and Nasdaq. which are popular among foreign firms should raise their ROE to at million barrels a day of oil equiv- say next week that profit in the $17.80 a barrel in the first quar- However, it has been difficult for institutional investors as a major least double-digit figures.” alent. Production has slipped 7 first quarter dropped to $3.47bn ter compared with $14.75 a year the TSE to revitalize the physical investment indicator. For now, there are high expec- percent since then to 15.7 million from $4.8bn a year earlier, and earlier, according to BP’s refining share market as its growth poten- Japanese companies’ ROE fig- tations of improved corporate barrels last year, data compiled by Shell will say on May 2 that marker margin. tial is seen to be lower than that ures have not risen because many earnings thanks to government Bloomberg show. profit slid to $6.6bn from $7.28bn, Marathon Oil Corp and of futures and other derivatives. relied on cost-cutting measures policies. However, corporate sen- “The recent fall in oil prices is Bloomberg data show. ConocoPhillips have spun off In its campaign pledges for last to secure immediate profits due timent on mergers and acquisi- hardly likely to change sentiment Lower prices are also squeez- their refining business to add year’s House of Representatives to a prolonged period of deflation. tions for investment and growth toward this group of companies, ing margins. Brent crude declined to their share prices. The big- election, the Liberal Democratic Major Japanese companies’ROE is still middling. By making the whilst capital intensity has con- 4.9 percent from a year earlier to gest oil producers may now also Party vowed to create a new “TSE is about 6 percent on average, new index popular, the TSE is also tinued to rise as industry inflation average $112.64 a barrel in the have to try something radical global 30 companies” index that much lower than the more than aiming to encourage such corpo- continues,” Iain Reid, an analyst first quarter. New York-traded to reward their shareholders, would become Asia’s No. 1 finan- 15 percent enjoyed by major rate activities. at Jefferies Group in London, said. West Texas Intermediate, the Oppenheimer’s Gheit said. cial and equities market. European and US firms. WP-BLOOMBERG The United States will surpass US benchmark, fell 8.4 percent WP-BLOOMBERG MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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Commodity markets rebound on growing risk appetite

LONDON: Global commodity buyers have as usual been the sentiment, geopolitical tensions the lowest level since July 2011, to $1,901 a tonne from $1,885. getting underway in Brazil,” said markets rebounded this week Indians and the Chinese,” added in Syria, hopes of an interest rate while WTI hit a low point last Three-month lead increased Commerzbank analysts. By Friday from recent losses on the back David Govett, head of precious cut by the European Central seen in mid-December, as trad- to $2,034 a tonne from $2,001. on NYBOT-ICE, Arabica for deliv- of growing investor appetite for metals at commodities broker Bank, and signs of strengthening ers fretted over poor Chinese Three-month tin advanced to ery in July slid to 136.80 US cents risk, dealers said. Marex Spectron. “Obviously the US energy demand. GDP numbers. Prices have since $20,850 a tonne from $20,760. a pound from 141.35 cents a week “Commodity prices are firmer, majority of the small investment “Oil prices are continuing to recovered amid talk of an output Three-month nickel gained to earlier. On LIFFE, Robusta for having posted varying degrees of world believes that the global profit from a general brightening cut from the Organisation of the $15,300 a tonne from $15,221. July dipped to $1,977 a tonne from recovery from the previous week’s economy is far from fixed and gold of sentiment on the financial mar- Petroleum Exporting Countries. Three-month zinc edged up to $2,075. widespread price declines,” said has its place as a store of value.” kets,” said Commerzbank analyst By Friday on London’s $1,900 a tonne from $1,877. SUGAR: Prices tumbled to a Barclays analyst Sudakshina The precious metal had slumped Eugen Weinberg. Intercontinental Exchange, Brent COCOA: Cocoa futures rallied near three-year low of 17.25 US Unnikrishnan. “However for on April 16 to $1,321.95 — a level The market jolted higher on North Sea crude for delivery in to multi-month peaks, before cents in New York on Thursday, many commodity markets we which was last seen on January Thursday after the United States June climbed to $102.35 per ending on a mixed note. “We hit once again by the prospect of a would view this as a temporary 2011 — following weak Chinese said Syrian government forces barrel compared with $99.73 a expect this rally to be short-lived record harvest from Brazil. “Sugar reprieve spurred by a combina- growth data and reports that had likely used chemical weapons, week earlier. On the New York as weaker economic growth in prices should main depressed over tion of short covering, more posi- crisis-hit Cyprus was planning raising worries that Washington Mercantile Exchange, West Texas the US and the continued eco- the next year due to significant tive macro data and the lack of a to sell some of its gold reserves. would punish Damascus militarily. Intermediate (WTI) or light nomic malaise in the eurozone excess supplies and another large risk-off sentiment that character- Silver also won back ground after Traders took in their stride the sweet crude for June rallied to — the world’s largest consumer harvest from Brazil,” added Jessop ised the previous week.” hitting a nadir of $22.07 an ounce Friday’s first-quarter GDP data $92.18 a barrel from $87.97. of cocoa — weighs further on at Capital Economics. Markets shrugged off weaker- last week — which was last wit- from top crude consumer the BASE METALS: Base or demand,” said Capital Economics By Friday on NYBOT-ICE, the than-expected economic growth in nessed in October 2010. United States. “Crude oil prices industrial metal prices also won analyst Julian Jessop. By Friday price of unrefined sugar for deliv- the United States, which is a key By late Friday on the London came off their highest levels of back ground after recent heavy on LIFFE, London’s futures ery in July eased to 17.44 US cents consumer of many raw materials. Bullion Market, the price of gold the day after the disappointing falls. “The metals complex appears exchange, cocoa for delivery in a pound from 17.55 cents a week US first-quarter economic growth rallied to $1,471.50 an ounce from US growth numbers,” said CMC to be seeing some near-term sup- July nudged down to £1,552 a earlier. On LIFFE, the price of a came in at a modest 2.5 percent, a $1,405.50 a week earlier. Silver Markets analyst Michael Hewson. port as selling pressure eases and tonne from £1,554 a week ear- tonne of white sugar for August rebound from the previous quarter increased to $24.02 an ounce from “However, they still finish the investors take profits and unwind lier. On New York’s NYBOT-ICE firmed to $501.40 from $500.50. but slower than expected. $23.66. On the London Platinum week significantly higher from short positions. This may create exchange, cocoa for July firmed to RUBBER: Prices increased PRECIOUS METALS: Gold and Palladium Market, platinum where they started it on longer- some near-term strength,” said $2,370 a tonne from $2,342. this week as China’s bird flu out- rallied sharply after striking a rose to $1,483 an ounce from term expectations that central Deutsche Bank analysts. COFFEE: Robusta prices break caused a jump in demand 2011 low point last week. “An $1,425. Palladium advanced to banks will keep monetary policy By Friday on the London Metal recoiled to their lowest level since for rubber gloves, analysts said. impressive rebound, and one that $681 an ounce from $677. sufficiently loose to see some form Exchange, copper for delivery in January, hurt by the prospect of The Malaysian Rubber Board’s has been driven on the whole by OIL: Prices rebounded from of recovery, after three successive three months jumped to $7,085 a rising supplies in key producer benchmark SMR20 rose to 246.00 massive physical demand from the previous week’s multi- weekly declines.” tonne from $6,921 a week earlier. Brazil. “Attention has shifted US cents a kilo from 234.40 cents all around the world. The main month lows, boosted by positive Brent had plunged last week to Three-month aluminium rose back to the major harvest that is the previous week. AFP MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

Red Sox script NBA: Thunder hold off Rockets easy win over Astros

BOSTON: David Ortiz has even run out of ways to talk about his for commanding series lead red-hot return. Ortiz had two hits and three RBIs to extend his torrid start after a long lay- off, and Felix Doubront over- Bulls beat Nets in triple overtime thriller; Hawks win over Pacers came a wild first inning to pitch into the seventh as the Boston Red Sox beat the struggling HOUSTON, Texas: Kevin Houston Astros 8-4 yesterday. Durant scored 41 points yester- “I ain’t talking about that any- day to help the Oklahoma City more,” said Ortiz, joking with the Thunder thwart a late rally media as he dressed quickly in by Houston and post a 104-101 front of his locker. victory over the Rockets for a “You make up a new question, 3-0 lead in their NBA play-off I’ll answer it. Otherwise, copy series. what I said yesterday and the day Durant drained a go-ahead before.” three-pointer with 41.9 seconds The 37-year old Ortiz made remaining and the Thunder held quite a return in his first seven on to take a stranglehold on the games. He is hitting .519 (14 of 27) Western Conference first-round with two homers and nine RBIs series. since getting back into the lineup No NBA team have come back last Saturday after missing the 71 from an 0-3 deficit to win a best- of the final 72 games last season of-seven post-season set. and all of spring training with a Durant carried Oklahoma heel injury. City in the absence of Russell “He’s doing things that look to Westbrook, who had surgery to him to be very easy, but its hard repair a torn meniscus in his knee to imagine or even script out that yesterday and will miss the rest he’d have this kind of perform- of the play-offs. ance considering the layoff,” Red In Memphis, the Grizzlies Sox manager John Farrell said. mauled the Los Angeles Clippers It was 14th win in 19 games 104-83 to pull level in their for the surging Red Sox (17-7). Western Conference series at 2-2. Boston can tie a club record for Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph the most wins in April by com- scored 24 points apiece to power pleting a four-game sweep over the Grizzlies, who will travel to Houston (7-17) on Sunday. Los Angeles for game five on The Astros, coming off 56 and Tuesday and host game six on 55 wins seasons the last two, Friday. respectively, in the National Spain’s Gasol added 13 rebounds League, are finding their new while Randolph grabbed nine and league just as tough. Mike Conley contributed 15 points “I don’t get caught up in the and 13 assists for Memphis. record,” Astros first-year man- Blake Griffin and Chis Paul ager Bo Porter said. “I deal with each scored 19 to lead the each day, each game, one game Clippers. at a time.” Nate Robinson came off the Boston matched its best start since 2002 with its fourth straight NBA Results win. AGENCIES WASHINGTON: Results yesterday from Chicago Bulls’ forward Carlos Boozer (left) contests the shot of Brooklyn Nets’ forward Gerald Wallace during the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the the first round of the NBA play-offs (all NBA Eastern Conference Quarter-finals during the 2013 NBA Play-offs at the United Center in Chicago, yesterday. The Bulls won 142-134. RIGHT: Baseball Results series best-of-seven): Los Angeles Lakers’ centre Dwight Howard, right, tries to stop San Antonio Spurs’ point guard Tony Parker (9) during the second half of game 3 of Washington 6 Cincinnati 3 Eastern Conference the Western Conference Play-offs at Staples Center in Los Angeles, yesterday. The Spurs won 120 to 89. Philadelphia 9 NY Mets 4 In Chicago Detroit 7 Atlanta 4 Chicago 142 Brooklyn 134 (triple over- Chicago bench to score 34 points best-of-seven matchup and will shots from the field but fouled out contributed 22. In yesterday’s time) Baltimore 7 Oakland 3 and the Bulls rallied to stun the try to finish off the Nets and in the second extra session. other Eastern Conference clash, (Chicago lead series 3-1) NY Yankees 5 Toronto 4 Brooklyn Nets 142-134 in triple advance to the second round “We got a stop, and got the ball the Atlanta Hawks dominated Minnesota 7 Texas 2 In Atlanta overtime yesterday to seize com- with a triumph in game five at to Nate. Then we got a stop, and defensively on their home floor Pittsburgh 5 St. Louis 3 Atlanta 90 Indiana 69 mand of their NBA play-off series. Brooklyn today. got the ball to Nate. Then we got en route to a 90-69 tout of the (Indiana lead series 2-1) The thriller matched the sec- The Nets led 109-95 late in the a stop, and got the ball to Nate,” Indiana Pacers. Boston 8 Houston 4 Western Conference ond-longest game in NBA play- fourth quarter before Robinson Carlos Boozer said of Chicago’s Al Horford scored a playoff Tampa Bay 10 Chicago White Sox 4 In Memphis off history, falling just short of scored 12 points in a 14-0 run that formula for the win. Boozer added career-high 26 points with 16 Kansas City 3 Cleveland 2 Memphis 104 Los Angeles Clippers 83 Boston’s four-overtime triumph equalized. 21 points for Chicago, which had rebounds as Atlanta trimmed the Chicago Cubs 3 Miami 2 (Series level 2-2) against Syracuse in 1953, and Robinson’s 23 points in the 15 points and 13 rebounds from deficit in the series to 2-1. Arizona 3 Colorado 2 resulted in record playoff point fourth quarter was one shy of Joakim Noah despite a foot injury. Josh Smith added 14 points, six In Houston San Diego 8 San Francisco 7 totals for both clubs. Michael Jordan’s team play-off Deron Williams led Brooklyn rebounds and six assists for the Oklahoma City 104 Houston 101 Chicago took a 3-1 lead record for scoring in a quarter. with 32 points while Brook Hawks, who host game four today. Seattle 3 LA Angels 2 (Oklahoma City lead series 3-0) in the Eastern Conference Robinson connected on 14-of-23 Lopez added 26 and Joe Johnson AGENCIES Milwaukee 6 LA Dodgers 4 Red Wings clinch play-off spot

DALLAS: Make it 22 and counting for the Detroit Red Wings. They are headed to the playoffs for the 22nd straight season after Henrik Zetterberg had two goals and an assist in a 3-0 victory over the Dallas Stars yesterday. Jimmy Howard made 17 saves to post his fifth shutout of the season as Detroit secured the seventh spot in the Western Conference. It’s the lowest play- off seed for the Red Wings since the NHL moved to the 1 vs. 8 con- ference format in 1993. Jonathan Ericsson also scored and Pavel Datsyuk had three assists for the Red Wings, who own the longest active play- off streak in major professional sports, six years longer than the San Antonio Spurs’ stretch of postseason play in the NBA. “To be able to be back in the playoffs is a great feeling,” Howard said. “The streak means a lot to all of us, it just says how high the bar was set before us. It’s good for NHL Results NY Rangers 4 New Jersey 0 Montreal 4 Toronto 1 FROM LEFT: Niklas Kronwall (55), Henrik Zetterberg (40) and Justin Abdelkader (8) of the Detroit Red Wings Philadelphia 2 Ottawa 1 celebrate a goal against the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, yesterday. Washington 3 Boston 2 Florida 5 Tampa Bay 3 us to go out there and have high early in the season, but managed face second-seeded Anaheim in Columbus 3 Nashville 1 expectations.” to bounce back and finish strong. the first round of the playoffs. Detroit 3 Dallas 0 After losing several veter- “Obviously, I’m proud of the “We’re happy the way we’re British rider Christopher Froome of the Sky ProCycling team crosses Minnesota 3 Colorado 1 ans who contributed to their guys,” coach Mike Babcock said. playing right now but still, we the finish line to take the second place in the 4th stage of the 67th Tour Pittsburgh 8 Carolina 3 four Stanley Cups and six finals “I thought as an organization, we haven’t really done anything,” said de Romandie UCI ProTour cycling race over 188,5km from Marly to St Louis 3 Chicago 1 appearances during the course of did a real good job of rebuilding Zetterberg, who has two goals and Les Diablerets, Switzerland, yesterday. Froome is overall leader at the the streak, including future Hall our D here on the fly.” eight assists over the last four Edmonton 7 Vancouver 2 Tour de Romandie race in Les Diablerets, yesterday. Slovenia’s Simon of Fame defenseman Nicklas Detroit closed out the regular games. Richard Bachman made Phoenix 5 Anaheim 3 Spilak won the stage. Lidstrom, the Red Wings had season with four consecutive wins 34 saves for Dallas, which dropped Los Angeles 3 San Jose 2 some uncharacteristic struggles by a combined score of 15-3. It will its fifth consecutive. AGENCIES MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Khan secures hard-fought win over Mexican Diaz The British boxer recovers after being floored early to win on points Unbeaten SHEFFIELD, United Federation (IBF) belt against Kingdom: Former world light- Argentina’s Lucas Matthysse on welterweight champion Amir May 18. The winners of Garcia- Garcia earns Khan had to climb off the can- Judah and Peterson-Matthysse vas to keep on course for a shot will then meet, and Khan hopes at the division’s champions to now face the victor of that uni- decision over by out-pointing Julio Diaz on fication fight. Saturday night. Khan made a measured start Judah Khan, 26, was floored in the and former world lightweight fourth round and looked on the king Diaz, 33, did not land a single brink of another knockdown in meaningful blow in the opening NEW YORK: Unbeaten Danny the 11th of a thrilling catchweight round as the Briton fired out his Garcia (pictured) retained his (143 pounds) 12-round non-title jab before darting out of range. World Boxing Association and contest with Mexican Diaz at the It was a pattern that Khan World Boxing Council light Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield. repeated in the second, attacking welterweight world titles on In Khan’s first performance with three punch clusters rather Saturday with a 12-round unan- back on British soil for two years, than jumping in with big punches imous decision over Zab Judah. the 2004 Olympic silver medal- that would leave him open. Garcia knocked down Judah in list triumphed by scores of 114- But in the fourth round Khan the eighth round en route to his 113, 115-113 and 115-112 in a close did leave himself open and Diaz 26th victory in as many fights, fight. seized the chance, with two cuff- with 16 wins inside the distance. Khan improved his record to ing left hooks sending the home The three judges at ringside 28 wins and three defeats, while hero down. scored it 114-112, 115-112, and 116- Diaz suffered his eighth career Khan bounced up at the count 111 for Garcia. defeat in a 49-fight career. It of three and did not look seriously “Whoo! It was a hell of a was another thrilling encounter hurt before sensibly getting on his fight, man,” said the champion. the Briton was involved in but as bike to ride out the rest of the The champion came out strong, exciting as he is, he also showed round. moving forward against veteran he is still vulnerable. Khan was better in the fifth Amir Khan of Great Britain (left) fights Julio Diaz of Mexico during their 143lbs Catchweight Contest at the southpaw Judah to control the Khan, from Bolton in northern and sixth rounds, landing some Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield, England on Saturday night. early rounds. England, can now remain hopeful big blows that left Diaz cut by the Garcia stepped it up in the of a rematch with either Danny corner of the right eye. fifth, staggering Judah with a Garcia or Lamont Peterson, the But Diaz was always danger- the taking as his hands dropped Haroon, who won bronze at the claimed his biggest scalp yet when right to the jaw. Americans who have beaten him ous and Khan looked vulnerable and Diaz repeatedly nailed him. 2010 Commonwealth Games box- he staggered Harrison with a huge Garcia continued to apply the in the last two years. again as it turned into a brawl in Khan was hurt by a left and ing for Pakistan, afterwards said: right and the Briton never recov- pressure in the sixth. He hurt Promoters Golden Boy had told the eighth. right hook before another com- “I could have boxed better and ered as the American unloaded Judah with another right, but the Khan victory would propel him to The fight had swung Khan’s bination caught him flush as his there was more pressure on me a series of clubbing hooks to the experienced challenger kept his a shot at the light-welterweight way but in the tenth it swung career hung in the balance. than in the amateurs. Now I’m head. cool, making good use of strategic division’s undisputed world cham- back to the Mexican who had the But Khan’s head cleared looking to kick on in my next few Harrison, 41, slumped to the clinches and continuing to punch, pion later this year. Briton rocking early on with a left between rounds and he finished fights.” canvas in the corner and was on even though he didn’t appear to Garcia was due to defend his hook to the side of the head. the fight boxing off his back foot, Also on the bill, American unsteady legs when the fight was be hurting the champion. World Boxing Council (WBC) and Another left-right further flicking out the jab. heavyweight Deontay Wilder took waved off by the referee. Judah, who fell to 42-8, had just World Boxing Association (WBA) dazed Khan who then backped- His younger brother Haroon, just 70 seconds to claim his 28th It was Harrison’s seventh defeat unleashed one of his best punches titles against Zab Judah hours alled unsteadily to survive a nerv- 21, made a successful profes- stoppage victim in his 28th fight since winning gold at the 2000 of the night, a left in the eighth after Khan had finished with Diaz, ous tenth round. sional debut at super-flyweight after battering Briton Audley Olympics and the second time in round, when Garcia answered while Lamont Peterson is set to Worse was to come from Khan with a 40-37 points win over Harrison. six months he has been stopped with a straight right that sent defend his International Boxing in the 11th and he looked there for fellow Englishman Brett Fidoe. Wilder, 27, from Alabama, inside a round. REUTERS Judah to the canvas. AFP

Ballantine’s Glover stretches his Championship Ciganda moves Scores ICHEON: Leading final two clear in Texas scores at the Ballantine’s lead at Zurich Classic IRVING, TEXAS: Spain’s the concrete and with a fortui- Championship in Icheon, South Korea, after the fourth Carlotta Ciganda fired six tous bounce her ball rolled 10 feet NEW ORLEANS: Overnight round yesterday (par 72). birdies in a five-under par 66 from the pin and she made the leader Lucas Glover, bidding (* denotes playoff winner) yesterday to seize a two-shot putt for birdie. for his fourth PGA Tour title, lead after three rounds of the “I just tried to hit it as well as 277 *Brett Rumford (AUS) 73-67-69-68, survived a back nine wobble to inaugural North Texas LPGA I could, and I think I was pretty Marcus Fraser (AUS) 70-70-69-68, move two strokes clear after Shootout. lucky,” Ciganda said. “It bounced Peter Whiteford (SCO) 70-69-69-69 yesterday’s third round of the Ciganda, really well to the 279 Romain Wattel (FRA) 70-69-71-69 Zurich Classic of New Orleans 2012’s Rookie of right, and then I in Avondale, Louisiana. 280 Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) 69-71-71-69 the Year on the LPGA North Texas was lucky again At one point three ahead of 281 Kim Hyung-Sung (KOR) 71-69-74-67, Ladies European to make that the chasing pack, former U.S. Thongchai Jaidee (THA) 71-72-73-65, Tour, had a Shootout Scores putt.” Open champion Glover bogeyed Stephen Gallacher (SCO), 70-68-75-68, 54-hole total of IRVING, TEXAS: Leading The 22-year- the 14th and 17th in breezy con- Alexander Noren (SWE) 71-67-69-74, 11-under par third-round scores yesterday old has plenty ditions before signing off in style Pablo Larrazabal (ESP) 70-70-68-73 202. from the North Texas LPGA of proven tal- with a two-putt birdie at the par- 282 Hong Soon-Sang (KOR) 71-71-73-67, World No. 1 Shootout (USA unless noted, ent chasing her, five last. Kim Gi-Whan (KOR) 65-72-75-68, Park In-Bee of par-71): including Park, In pursuit of his first PGA Tour S.S.P. Chowrasia (IND) 71-70-73-68, South Korea 202 Carlota Ciganda (ESP) 66-70-66 who claimed the K.T. Kim (KOR) 74-68-71-69, Kiradech victory in nearly two years, the carded a 67 to 204 Park In-Bee (KOR) 67-70-67, Caroline world number Aphibarnrat (THA) 71-66-75-70, Jose 33-year-old carded a two-under- claim a share Masson (GER) 64-71-69 one ranking less par 70 to post a 14-under total of Manuel Lara (ESP) 71-67-72-72 of second place than two weeks 205 Choi Na-Yeon (KOR) 70-69-66 202 at the TPC Louisiana. on 204. She ago. “The wind picked up a lit- Guan Tianlang of China hits his tee shot on the third hole during the was tied with 207 Lee Jee-Young (KOR) 72-68-67, Karine Park opened tle bit more than was forecast,” third round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans at TPC Louisiana in Rumford wins German LPGA Icher (FRA) 71-69-67, Christina Kim with a bogey, Glover told Golf Channel about Avondale, Louisiana, yesterday. rookie Caroline 68-72-67, Ryu So-Yeon (KOR) 71-68-68 but nabbed five the tougher conditions facing the play-off to clinch Masson, who led 208 I.K. Kim (KOR) 70-71-67, Suzann birdies -- includ- late starters on a mainly overcast after both of the Pettersen (NOR) 70-70-68, Feng ing two to end afternoon. “There was a bunch of were okay,” Glover said of his Ballantine’s title first two rounds. Shanshan (CHN) 71-67-70 her round -- to good scores earlier and we knew overall game. “I hit some loose US PGA Zurich Masson shook 209 Brittany Lincicome 70-68-71, Tseng keep herself in that. shots today. Classic Scores off a double- Ya-ni (TPE) 69-69-71, Moriya Jutanugarn contention. “I knew there were some bird- “I had a few mis-reads and ICHEON, South Korea: bogey at the first (THA) 71-66-72 Choi, ranked NEW ORLEANS: Leading ies there, I just didn’t take as my (putting) speed was a little Australia’s Brett Rumford sur- to post a 69. 210 Dewi Claire Schreefel (NED) 75-70-65, third in the scores on yesterday after the much of an advantage as I should off today. I left a bunch of 10, vived a late wobble to win the South Korea’s Cristie Kerr 70-73-67, Lexi Thompson world, carded a third round of the $6.6m US 71-71-68, Mindy Kim 72-69-69, Kang have.” 12-footers short.” PGA Zurich Classic of New Ballantine’s Championship in Choi Na-Yeon five-under 66 to Fellow Americans Kyle Stanley While Glover was delighted to Orleans (USA unless noted, dramatic style yesterday, hit- carded a 66 to Hae-Ji (KOR) 69-72-69, Chella Choi move up from a (65), Jimmy Walker (66), Billy be contending for first PGA Tour par-72): ting an eagle on the first extra stand alone in (KOR) 71-69-70, Jennifer Johnson tie for 11th. Horschel (66) and D.A. Points title since the 2011 Wells Fargo hole to seal the win. fourth on 205. 71-69-70, Moira Dunn 69-71-70, Hur Choi has three 202 Lucas Glover 65-67-70 (70) were tied for second at 12 Championship, he and his wife Rumford blew a two-shot lead Ciganda, a Mi-Jung (KOR) 67-73-70, Jessica Korda top-10 LPGA 204 Kyle Stanley 72-67-65, Jimmy Walker under with burly compatriot Krista are excitedly expecting on the last two holes of regula- two-time win- 69-69-72, Kathleen Ekey 70-67-73 finishes this 67-71-66, Billy Horschel 67-71-66, D.A. Kevin Stadler a further stroke their first child. Points 66-68-70 tion, double-bogeying the 17th and ner on the LET season, includ- back after matching the day’s best “Any day now,” he smiled. “I missing the fairway on the 18th last season, will try to become the ing a runner-up showing at the 205 Kevin Stadler 68-72-65 score with a nine-birdie 65. don’t care when the phone rings, I before settling for par, leaving fourth Spanish player to win an HSBC Women’s Champions in British world number four will be out of here for that. We’re 206 Henrik Norlander (SWE) 71-70-65, Ricky him tied at 11-under with Marcus LPGA tour title. Singapore. Barnes 64-76-66, Ken Looper 73-66- Justin Rose, the highest-ranked at 37 weeks and I can’t wait. We Fraser and Peter Whiteford. “It would be a dream,” Ciganda She was tabbed by compatriot 67, Boo Weekley 65-68-73 player in the field, was five off the are thrilled.” But Rumford recovered his said. “I mean, winning is always Park as the player to watch today. 207 Ken Duke 70-69-68, Harris English pace after returning a 70 with China’s 14-year-old Guan poise on the first extra hole, the great, but I just want to try to “When it comes to the final 68-70-69, Nick Watney 69-69-69, Luke defending champion Jason Dufner Tianlang, who once again stunned par-five 18th, hitting a much focus on each shot. round, I think a more experienced Guthrie 67-71-69, Bobby Gates 67-70- a further shot back at eight under, the golfing world by making his 70, Justin Rose (ENG) 68-69-70 better tee shot and landing his “Just like today, have a great player definitely has an advantage after a 67. second consecutive cut on the second shot just a few feet above round and then at the end going into the pressure condi- 208 Rod Pampling (AUS) 71-70-67, Jason Twenty-eight players are PGA Tour this week, battled to a Dufner 70-71-67, Lee D.H. (KOR) the hole before securing a fourth if someone plays better, just tions,” Park said. within six strokes of the lead five-over 77 to finish at two-over 70-70-68, Peter Tomasulo 73-67-68, European Tour title. congratulate.” “I think Na-Yeon will be one of heading into Sunday’s final round 218, stone. David Hearn (CAN) 71-69-68, Richard Scotland’s Whiteford, who had Ciganda’s six birdies included the ones to beat tomorrow. She but Glover, who clinched his only “I just didn’t do very good in Lee 70-69-69, Stephen Ames (CAN) missed a relatively short birdie an unlikely one at the par-four had a very good day today. She major title at the 2009 U.S. Open, the morning and was definitely 67-72-69, Chris Kirk 67-72-69, John putt on the 18th to win in regula- 12th, where she hit her drive right was struggling a little bit with the remains in command. in trouble with my driver,” Guan Peterson 71-67-70, Nicolas Colsaerts tion at the par-72 Blackstone Golf into a lateral hazard to leave her putter last week, and you know, “Tee to green is pretty good, said after mixing three birdies (BEL) 70-68-70, Jerry Kelly 70-67- Club in Icheon, South Korea, and ball part underwater in a concrete she changed her putting grip, and although today wasn’t as good as with five bogeys and an ugly triple 71, Ernie Els (RSA) 67-69-72, Morgan Australia’s Fraser both birdied drainage ditch. I think it’s working really good,” the first two days, and my irons at the sixth” REUTERS Hoffmann 66-69-73 the first extra hole. AFP She blasted an eight-iron off she said. AFP MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Nadal wins again in Barcelona The Spaniard clinches fourth title of 2013, beats compatriot Almagro 6-4, 6-3 in final

BARCELONA: Rafael Nadal extended his record number of Rosol bags Barcelona titles to eight as he brushed off a slow start to beat Spanish compatriot Nicolas maiden Almagro 6-4, 6-3 yesterday. Last weekend’s Monte Carlo runner-up regained his accus- ATP title in tomed position on an ATP win- ner’s podium with his fourth title Bucharest of 2013 and his third on clay for the year. He rallied from two breaks BUCHAREST: Lukas Rosol down on a day of drizzle and heavy of the Czech Republic beat conditions, beating Almagro for Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of the tenth time without defeat. Spain 6-3, 6-2 yesterday to win “I’m very happy,” said Nadal. the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy “This has been an important for his first ATP title. week for me. To win here again Rosol made quick work of is a great joy after everything I’ve things, winning in 67 minutes been through. and converting four of his nine “It was a fantastic match for break points in a clay-court final me,” he told a crowd which had between two unseeded players. huddled under umbrellas for the Rosol is ranked No. 48 and duration of the contest. “Thanks defeated three seeded players on to the people who watched us.” his way to the final. The world number five has Among them was three-time made a storming comeback to champion Giles Simon of France tennis after missing seven months in the semi-finals. from last summer with knee inju- Rosol saved all eight break ries. Since his February return, he points he faced to end Simon’s has played finals in all six events 16-match winning streak in he has entered. Bucharest. “I’ve played just six tourna- Garcia-Lopez struggled to keep ments this year but have been in Rafael Nadal (left) of Spain poses with his trophy after beating his compatriot Nicolas Almagro in the Conde Godo Tennis Tournament final in Barcelona, up with Rosol a day after defeat- the finals of all of them,” said the northeastern Spain, yesterday. Nadal won 6-4, 6-3. RIGHT: Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic celebrates with the trophy after winning the Bucharest ing 2011 champion Florian Mayer satisfied winner, who moves up to International tournament. Rosol defeated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain in the final at Bucharest, yesterday. in three sets to make the final. second in the season points race Meanwhile, former world behind Novak Djokovic, according He claimed an epic ninth game conditions and finished off the titles, adding Barcelona to those (three times), Roger Federer number four Francesca Schiavone to ATP calculations. “I’m in the for a 5-4 lead before serving out victory with an overhead smash. he lifted in Brazil, Mexico and (twice) and Horacio Zeballos won her sixth career title yeser- top 10 and I’m getting my tennis the opening set a game later as “I’m used to losing to Rafa,” California. (once). He now stands 40-1 in day with a comfortable 6-1, 6-3 back.” Almagro couldn’t reach a fore- said Almagro. “But matches like The 26-year-old who is redis- Barcelona. victory over Lourdes Dominguez Nadal went into recovery mode hand to the corner. this are what makes you a better covering the form that habitually The win was the second of the Lino in the final of the Marrakech after trailing Almagro 0-3 in less “It was cold and rainy today player. makes him the favourite when season for Nadal over Almagro Grand Prix. than a quarter hour on the heavy and I was not aggressive enough “I started well but after it really the French Open comes around after beating his countryman in The Italian, now languishing court. at the start,” said Nadal. “It was started to rain the balls got heavy in May. the Acapulco semi-final. just inside the world top 50 at But as quickly as he had tem- important to get a break-back and Rafa found his game in the This victory took his Barcelona Nadal will now prepare for 48, has struggled in 2013, losing porarily let his guard down, Nadal (when) down 3-0.” conditions.” win streak to 39 matches. another home event, the Madrid in the first round of five of the was able to muster his resources The second seed sped away Nadal becomes the first man In clay finals, the impeccable Masters, beginning next weekend. nine previous events she had to fight back. with the second set in the testing this season to win four ATP Spaniard has lost only to Djokovic AFP played. The 2010 French Open cham- pion, who had failed to progress past the quarter-finals of a WTA tournament since her Sharapova brushes off Li to win in Stuttgart last piece of silverware in Strasbourg last May, was in STUTTGART, Germany: three set points to take the first week and I am really happy to it’s good to bring back the same “I’ll take some rest now before dominant form on Moroccan Defending French Open cham- set. have won here again.” confidence on clay as last year,” Madrid and work on a few things clay and did not drop a set on pion Maria Sharapova claimed The 26-year-old world number Having beaten Lucie Safarova, said Sharapova. Li had won all in Munich.” her way to the title. the Stuttgart WTA title yester- two then turned up the heat in Ana Ivanovic and Angelique her three matches in straight Li’s defeat managed to avoid Schiavone eased through the day, beating China’s Li Na 6-4, the second set, breaking Li twice, Kerber on the way to the final, sets, seeing off qualifier Mirjana an unusual problem both for her first set of the final, breaking 6-3 in just over 90 minutes to while holding her own serve with- Sharapova is now undefeated Lucic-Baroni, fifth-seed Petra and the tournament sponsors, Dominguez Lino twice. get her clay-court season off to out due concern and her aggres- at Stuttgart on her second Kvitova then qualifier Bethanie Porsche. Sharapova drove off in The 59th-ranked Spaniard, a winning start. sive style paid off as she wrapped appearance at the clay-court Mattek-Sands on her way to the the brand-new sports car, which who was pushed to three sets Having been taken to three- up victory in an hour and a half. tournament. final.“Of course, it’s always disap- was courtside the whole week in each of her four previous sets in all of her previous three “I knew this was going to be After seeing off Victoria pointing to lose in the final,” said waiting for the winner, but with matches, gave herself a glim- matches here en route to the final, the toughest match of the week, Azarenka in last year’s final, the 31-year-old Chinese. Li sponsored by Mercedes, her mer of hope in the second set, Sharapova saved her best tennis so I am really pleased with the Sharapova then went on to win “But it’s my first clay-court contract would have forbidden breaking her fellow 32-year-old until last to defeat the Chinese in way things worked out,” said her fourth Grand Slam title at tournament, so that’s a good start her taking part in the presenta- to go 3-1 up. straight sets. Sharapova, who had lost the pre- Roland Garros and she said she is to the season and I am looking tion had she won. Schiavone immediately coun- She broke Li twice in the first, vious meeting to Li in the semi- happy to have got her clay-court forward to the rest of it. “I couldn’t have driven the car,” tered and despite having to save but the Chinese managed to reply final of January’s Australian season off to another good start. “I was feeling a bit of pressure she said before quipping that was three break points in the set, with a break of her own before Open. “It definitely helped last year on her returns, which could use the true reason she had lost the wrapped up victory in just over Sharapova used the first of her “She has played good tennis all on the way to the French Open, as she’s playing very aggressively. final. AFP 90 minutes. AGENCIES Harrison soars high Rudisha leads galaxy of Olympic and at Drake Relays World Champions heading for Doha meet DES MOINES, Iowa: ran the fastest mile in the world DOHA: Athletics fans will experience an major outdoor title she was missing. American Queen Harrison won this year in 3:55.70. unforgettable night on May 10 at Qatar In Doha, she aims to defend her unbeaten the women’s 100m hurdles at American Reese Hoffa, bronze Sports Club Stadium. run on Qatar soil, after two clear victories the Drake Relays yesterday, medalist in the shot put in The Doha 2013 Diamond League will fea- in as many appearances indoor and outdoor. clocking 12.71sec to beat the London, won the shot with a 2013 ture a stellar line up, with a large number of The Olympic Champions’ roster is com- women who finished second, world-leading 21.71m. Olympic and World Champions already hav- plemented by Sandra Perkovic, the 22-year- third and fourth at the 2012 Czech Zusana Hejnova, the ing signed up to the meeting’s long entry list. old Discus thrower from Croatia who looks London Olympics. women’s 400m hurdles Olympic Ten of the 44 reigning Olympic Champions to 2013 to add the world senior title to her Harrison’s time was one of five bronze medalist, triumphed in eligible to compete - Marathon, Walking, tally, after capturing an Olympic gold in 2012, 2013 world leading performances a world-leading 54.41sec, and Hammer Throw and Multi-Events are not two European senior titles and one European on the final day of the 104th edi- Spain’s European champion Ruth included in the Diamond League - will travel junior crown in 2009. tion of the meeting. Beitia won the women’s high jump to Doha for the opening major international The reigning World Champions list con- Harrison demonstrated the in a season’s best by a centimeter, event of the 2013 outdoor season. sists of eight men: Nesta Carter in 4X100m, depth of US talent in the 100m clearing 1.95m In the men’s events, David Rudisha leads a David Rudisha in 800m, Kenya’s Asbel hurdles as she finished in front Olympic gold medalist pack of four male London winners; this group Kiprop in 1,500m, USA’s 400m hurdlers of compatriot Dawn Harper, the Christian Taylor won the men’s includes Triple Jump wonder-kid Christian Bershawn Jackson and Angelo Taylor in 2008 Olympic champion and run- triple jump with a leap of 17.12m, Taylor from the USA, who will pay his first 4X400m, high jumper Jesse Williams, Triple ner-up at London, plus London but London Games pole vault ever visit to Doha; twice-Olympic Champion Jumper Christian Taylor and Germany’s bronze medalist Kellie Wells and champion Renaud Lavillenie got in the Shot Put, Tomasz Majewski from Matthias De Zordo in Javelin. local favorite Lolo Jones, who was his 2013 outdoor season off to a Poland; as well as Nesta Carter, a member Felix, winner in both relays with the USA fourth in London. lackluster start, finishing equal of the great Jamaican 4x100m squad which quartets, is one of the four current female The top quartet notched the third in the event won by London smashed the World Record with a time of Current World Champion in high jump Jesse World Champions who will perform live at fastest four times in the world runner-up Bjorn Otto. 36.84. Williams of USA is seen in this file picture. Qatar Sports Club on May 10. The remaining this year and promised an excit- Otto won with a vault of 5.70m London’s golden quintet is rounded off by Williams is one of the several World and three are Francena McCorory in 4X400m, ing 100m hurdles showdown when with former world champion Brad surprise Javelin winner, Keshorn Walcott Olympic champions who will compete in the Botswana’s Amantle Montsho in 400m and the US World Championship Walker of the United States sec- from Trinidad & Tobago. Doha 2013 Diamond League at Qatar Sports Brittney Reese in Long Jump. trials are held on the same Des ond on 5.60. Britain’s Steve Lewis Walcott was still a junior when he upset Club Stadium on May 10. Moreover, the Doha 2013 line up includes Moines track in June. and Lavillenie both cleared 5.50 the event’s top names to earn an unexpected six athletes who triumphed at the Istanbul “I felt like it was a really great in a competition made difficult by Olympic title for a nation mainly known for 4X100m and the 4x400m. Challenging in the 2011 World Indoor Championships. These time, especially early in the season unpredictable shifting winds. its world class sprinters. 200m, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the diminu- are US sprinter Justin Gatlin in 60m - will and such a loaded field,” Harrison Otto was pleased to get a solid In the women’s events, IAAF female tive Jamaican who defied the odds and suc- run the 100m in Doha, Morocco’s Abdelaati said. “I was a little nervous in the vault in the books in his first out- Athlete of the Year 2012, Allyson Felix ceeded in defending her 100m Olympic title Iguider in 1500m, USA’s Ryan Whiting in beginning, but I showed that my door competition since late last returns in Doha to aim for an eleventh win against an unbelievably strong field, travels Shot Put, Britain’s Christine Ohuruogu in training is going well and I’m con- year, and after incorporating in Qatar’s international meeting. to Doha for the second time in her career, as 4X400m – registered for the 400m in Doha, fident in switching to just hurdles some technical changes. The American sprinter enters the 400m, does Felix’s 4x400m relay partner, Francena Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba in 1500m and this year.” “It has been adjustment,” an event she did not try in London, where McCorory, who will run the 400m. In London, Brittney Reese in Long Jump. New Zealand’s Nick Willis, sil- he said, “But inthe end it has she emerged victorious in the 200m, the long jumper Brittney Reese secured the only THE PENINSULA ver medalist at the 2008 Olympics, worked.” AFP MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Bangladesh close in on victory against Zimbabwe The visitors require six more wickets to level the two-match series

HARARE: Bangladesh will go and Nasir Hossain, Bangladesh who claimed two wickets apiece. Rooney on into the final day of the second reduced their hosts to 138 for four Masakadza went to stumps Test against Zimbabwe requir- to give themselves every chance unbeaten on 46, with his younger ing just six wickets to earn a of avenging their heavy defeat in brother Shingirai sent up the top of EPL’s share of the two-match series the first Test. order to see out 30 deliveries for after dominating another day at All of Zimbabwe’s top five made his 7 not out. Harare Sports Club. starts, but Hamilton Masakadza Zimbabwe’s task was clear in wealth list Bangladesh Having set Zimbabwe 401 for was the only one able to hold the statistical evidence on offer players Nasir victory on the back of half-cen- off the twin threat of Shakib - they have never successfully LONDON: Manchester United Hossain (left) turies from Mushfiqur Rahim Al Hasan and Ziaur Rahman, chased more than 162 to win a and England striker Wayne and bowler Test, while the highest run chase Rooney (pictured) is the richest Ziaur Rahman Scoreboard by anyone on this ground is 192 player in the Premier League celebrate - achieved by Pakistan in a three- with a fortune estimated at the wicket of Bangladesh (I innings): ...... 391 Bowling: Jarvis 22-3-80-1; S Masakadza 24- wicket win over the African side £51m ($79.01m), according to Sunday Times Zimbabwe’s Zimbabwe (I innings): ...... 282 5-58-4; Cremer 17-1-70-1; Chigumbura 14- 15 years ago. the newspaper’s captain Bangladesh (II innings): 0-54-0; H Masakadza 11-1-24-3. “It’s very daunting, but I think sporting rich list. Brendan T Iqbal c Mutumbami b S Masakadza ...... 7 Zimbabwe (II innings): the guys are still confident,” said Twenty-four Premier League Taylor during J Islam c Mutumbami b S Masakadza ...... 2 V Sibanda c Sohag b Shakib ...... 32 batting coach Grant Flower. players are among the top 100 “We’ve had probably three richest sportsmen in Britain and the fourth Mohd Ashraful lbw Jarvis ...... 4 R Chakabva b Shakib ...... 22 soft dismissals, but it’s a new day Ireland. day of the M Haque c H Masakadza b S Masakadza ...29 H Masakadza (batting)...... 46 S Al Hasan c Mutumbami b H Masakadza ...59 B Taylor lbw Ziaur ...... 10 tomorrow. Rooney’s fortune has risen by second Test “The pressure is on Bangladesh six million pounds from 2012 and at the Harare M Rahim c Sibanda b H Masakadza ...... 93 M Waller b Ziaur ...... 15 N Hossain (not out) ...... 67 S Masakadza (batting) ...... 7 because they’re in the driving seat his combined wealth with wife Sports Club, Z Rahman st Mutumbami b Cremer ...... 0 Extras (LB-5, NB-1) ...... 6 and they will have expectations Coleen is estimated at £64m. yesterday. S Gazi c Sibanda b H Masakadza ...... 11 Total (for 4 wkts) ...... 138 from back home, so hopefully we United team mate Rio S Islam c Mutumbami b S Masakadza ...... 4 Fall of wickets: 1-36, 2-66, 3-96, 4-118. can use that.” Ferdinand is ranked second on R Islam (not out) ...... 4 Bowling: Robiul 8.4-2-24-0; Sajidul 2-1-5-0; Bangladesh began day four on £42m while Stoke City striker Extras (LB-5, WD-2, NB-4) ...... 11 Shakib 9-0-45-2; Sohag 12-5-23-0; Ziaur 12- 163 for five - an overall lead of 272, Michael Owen is third on £38m. Total (for 9 wkts decl) ...... 291 4-36-2. which they extended to exactly Values are based on identifiable Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-12, 3-18, 4-65, 5-149, Match situation: Zimbabwe require another 400 before declaring on 291 for wealth including land, property, 6-233, 7-234, 8-255, 9-279. 263 runs to win with 6 wickets remaining. nine midway through the second assets including art and race session. AFP horses, and shares in publicly quoted companies. Former England captain David Beckham, now playing for Paris Hussey stars in Super Kings’ St Germain, is ranked 11th in the Sunday Times world sporting rich list with a worth of £165m. World number one golfer Tiger win over Knight Riders Woods is top of that chart on £570m. AFP CHENNAI: Two-time cham- plundered the veteran Jacques came up easily. While chasing, pions Chennai Super Kings Kallis for 18 runs in the sixth Kolkata were in deep trouble jumped to the top of the Indian over. It was medium pacer Rajat after they lost Gambhir (14) and EPL’s Top Ten Premier League (IPL) table, Bhatia, who broke the partner- Brendan McCullum (4) cheaply beating holders Kolkata Knight ship by getting rid of Saha, who for just 63 runs on board in the Richest Riders by 14 runs at the M.A. struck four fours and two sixes in sixth over. Runs were simply hard Chidambaram Stadium here his 23-ball knock. to come. 1. Wayne Rooney (Manchester yesterday. Just when it looked that Hussey Bisla played a brilliant innings United) £51m Michael Hussey made a dash- would get his maiden IPL cen- of 61-ball 92 hitting 14 fours and 2. Rio Ferdinand (Manchester ing 59-ball 95 that guided Chennai tury and third of the season, he two sixes that got Knight Riders United) £42m to a formidable 200 for three in holed out to Debabrata Das in close. They got 79 runs in the 3. Michael Owen (Stoke City) 20 overs and helped them to win. deep midwicket off Sunil Narine. last seven overs but still it was £38m Hussey also ran out a rampag- Hussey struck 11 fours and two too much of a task. Eoin Morgan =4. Ryan Giggs (Manchester ing Mavinder Bisla (92) that saw sixes in his 59-ball knock. remained unbeaten on 32. United) £34m Kolkata Knight Riders managing Suresh Raina (44) and In the last over, Kolkata needed 186 for four in 20 overs. Mahendra Singh Dhoni (18 not 18 runs but Chris Morris bowled =4. Frank Lampard (Chelsea) £34m Knight Riders skipper Gautam out) hit a few feisty shots as 200 well giving away four runs. IANS Gambhir’s decision to field back- 6. Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) fired right from the start as Scoreboard £33m Hussey and Wriddhiman Saha 7. Fernando Torres (Chelsea) (39) added 103 runs for the first CHENNAI SUPER KINGS G Gambhir b Morris...... 14 £26m wicket to set the foundation for W P Saha c Morgan b Bhatia ...... 39 B B McCullum b Sharma ...... 6 8. John Terry (Chelsea) £24m the huge total. M E K Hussey c Das b Narine ...... 95 J H Kallis c Nannes b Bravo ...... 19 9. Joe Cole (West Ham United) Runs were flowing from both S K Raina (run out-Das/Balaji) ...... 44 E J G Morgan (not out) ...... 32 Chennai Super Kings’ (CSK) Michael Hussey hits the ball during his side’s £21m the ends and Gambhir in a des- M S Dhoni (not out) ...... 18 Y K Pathan (not out)...... 3 IPL match against Kolkata Knight Riders. Hussey scored 95 to lead CSK 10. Petr Cech (Chelsea) £20m perate measure used seven bowl- R A Jadeja (not out) ...... 1 Extras (B-4, LB-4, W-11, NB-1) ...... 20 ers within 10 overs. Extras (B-1, W-2) ...... 3 Total (for 4 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 186 to a match-winning 200. Hussey and Saha played with Total (for 3 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 200 Did not bat: D B Das, R Bhatia, S P Narine, Maracana ease. Hussey was the first to go Fall of wickets: 1-103, 2-158, 3-190. Shami Ahmed, L Balaji. after the Knight Riders’ bowling Bowling: Y K Pathan 2-0-18-0; Shami Ahmed Fall of wickets: 1-32, 2-63, 3-99, 4-178. and Saha took on his statemate 2-0-20-0 (1w); L Balaji 4-0-45-0 (1w); S P Bowling: D P Nannes 4-0-50-0 (1nb, 3w); M opens but still Shami Ahmed, smashing him for Delhi Daredevils hold Narine 4-0-35-1; J H Kallis 4-0-50-0; R Bhatia M Sharma 4-0-23-1; C H Morris 3-0-29-1; R A two fours and a six as 15 runs 4-0-31-1. Jadeja 2-0-13-0; R Ashwin 3-0-26-0; D J Bra- not finished came from the fourth over. The KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS vo 4-0-37-1(3w). team’s 50 came up in the sixth M S Bisla (run out-Hussey) ...... 92 Player-of-the-match: M E K Hussey (CSK) off Pune Warriors RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio de over as both Hussey and Saha Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium, venue for next year’s World Team Operations win Doha Bank tournament NEW DELHI: Delhi Pathan had struck in his third Cup final and the spiritual Daredevils managed to pull over and took out Uthappa (37) home of Brazilian football, has off their second win by beat- first and Finch (37) three balls re-opened with an exhibition ing Pune Warriors India by 15 later. While Uthappa was out due match despite not being fully runs at the SVNS International to a brilliant catch by Unmukt finished. Stadium in Raipur yesterday. Chand at the long leg region, Only two entrances were com- Pune Warriors India put up Finch would consider himself plete, some seats still missing a strong resistance against the unlucky after he was caught and the area around the stadium Daredevils, with openers Robin behind by the wicket-keeper off a resembled a building site as the Uthappa (37) and Aaron Finch delivery which came off his thigh arena was re-inaugurated late on (37) putting up a 76-run partner- pad. Saturday with a match between ship for the first wicket. Both the Yuvraj Singh and Luke Wright teams led by former Brazil strik- openers found it easy to keep pace managed to keep the Warriors’ ers Ronaldo and Bebeto. with the run chase. run chase on track after the quick The Maracana is the fourth However, Irfan Pathan gave dismissals of the openers. of the 12 World Cup stadiums Delhi Daredevils crucial break- While Wright had scored 19 to be opened, having missed the throughs when he dismissed both runs, Yuvraj had hit 31 runs in December deadline set by FIFA Uthappa and Finch. 24 balls with four 4s. AGENCIES by four months. It will also stage matches at the Confederations Scoreboard Cup to be held in Brazil in June. “Brazil is going to give a big DELHI DAREDEVILS PUNE WARRIORS INDIA lesson to the world and to those M Jayawardene c Wright b Dinda ...... 12 R V Uthappa c Chand b Pathan ...... 37 which didn’t think it would be V Sehwag c Uthappa b Dinda ...... 28 A J Finch c Jadhav b Pathan ...... 37 possible to hold this World Cup U Chand c Uthappa b Sharma ...... 17 Yuvraj Singh c Rohrer b Yadav ...... 31 and Confederations Cup,” Ronaldo D A Warner (not out) ...... 51 L J Wright c Warner b Yadav ...... 19 told reporters on the touchline B J Rohrer c Uthappa b Nayar ...... 13 S P D Smith (not out) ...... 17 during a halftime interval. K M Jadhav c Manhas b Dinda ...... 25 M Manhas (not out) ...... 2 “Another stadium has been I K Pathan (not out) ...... 4 Extras (LB-3, W-3) ...... 6 delivered,” added the 1994 and Extras (LB-2, W-12) ...... 14 Total (for 4 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 149 2002 World Cup winner, who is on Total (for 5 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 164 Did not bat: A M Nayar, B Kumar, A B Dinda, R the local organising committee. Fall of wickets: 1-20, 2-68, 3-68, 4-96, 5-159. Sharma, K W Richardson. “It was a last-minute thing but Bowling: B Kumar 4-0-30-0(4w); K W Rich- Fall of wickets: 1-76, 2-78, 3-128, 4-130. that’s how it goes. We are happy Staff of Doha Bank pose for a picture during a local cricket tournament. The tournament, held at QSports ardson 4-0-38-0 (1w); A B Dinda 4-0-31-3; R Bowling: I K Pathan 4-1-29-2; U T Yadav 4-0- with the result. The pitch is sen- Ground, featured 14 teams in the T20 format. Team Operations won the tournament, in which men and women Sharma 3-0-23-1; L J Wright 1-0-16-0 (2w); 24-2 (1w); M Morkel 4-0-36-0 (1w); A Nehra sational. The stands are beauti- participated. Suresh Bajpai, Head of Retail Banking for Doha Bank presented the winning trophy to Team Yuvraj Singh 2-0-9-0; A M Nayar 2-0-15-1 4-0-27-0 (1w); S Nadeem 4-0-30-0. ful, so are the internal facilities, Operations during the prize ceremony. (1w). Player-of-the-Match: D A Warner (Delhi) everything is really good,” the Brazilian added. REUTERS MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Too many Di Maria leads ‘foreigners’ in Australia league, says Real to victory coach Arnold MELBOURNE: Australia’s top-flight football competition Mourinho’s side rallies to down Atleti has too many foreign players and their prevalence is hurting MADRID: Atletico Madrid’s and his sweet left-footed finish the national team, according 14-year wait for a win over their La Liga results across Courtois gave the keeper to title-winning coach Graham neighbours continued as Real Espanyol 0 Granada 1 no chance. Real’s win reduces Arnold. Madrid came from behind to Malaga 2 Getafe 1 Barcelona’s lead at the top of Arnold, who guided the Central win 2-1 at the Vicente Calderon. Real Valladolid 1 Sevilla 1 the table to 11 points after the Coast Mariners to their maiden Radamel Falcao had got Atleti Played on Saturday Catalans could only manage a 2-2 A-League championship last off to a flying start with a simple draw at Athletic Bilbao. week, said he had prioritised Levante 0 Celta Vigo 1 header from Diego Godin’s cross Barca trailed at half-time as using local players rather than just three minutes in. Athletic Bilbao 2 Barcelona 2 Markel Susaeta bundled home imports in his side and suggested However, Real were level nine Atletico Madrid 1 Real Madrid 2 Aritz Aduriz’s cross, but the rival teams did the same. minutes later when Juanfran Real Zaragoza 3 Real Mallorca 2 introduction of Lionel Messi as “I think all other clubs need to turned Angel Di Maria’s free- a second-half substitute brought follow suit because it’s damaging kick into his own goal and Di Atleti’s lead disappeared, the visitors to life as he scored the national team,” Arnold told Maria struck the winner himself though, as Di Maria’s free-kick a wonderful individual goal and reporters yesterday. with a fine low drive from Karim from the right was inadvertantly then set-up Alexis Sanchez to “The Socceroos, at the moment, Benzema’s pass just after the hour directed into his own goal by make it 2-1. Tito Vilanova’s if you talk to Holger, he has trou- mark. Juanfran. men were denied a minute from ble picking any players because Di Maria quickly turned The game was then disrupted time, though, as Ander Herrera there’s too many foreigners in the his attentions to tomorrow’s by a flow of yellow cards as referee pounced on Adriano’s sloppy A-League, in my view,” he added, Champions League semi-final, Miguel Angel Perez produced five clearance to fire past Victor referring to national head coach second-leg against Borussia in the opening half hour alone. Valdes and give Athletic a share Holger Osieck. Dortmund as Real look to over- Atleti started the second-half of the spoils. “You’ve only got nine turn a 4-1 deficit from the first- just as they had the first and Malaga kept up their push for a (Australian) teams in the leg in Germany last week. were nearly back in front when possible return to the Champions A-League and one... New Zealand With the Dortmund game in Raul Garcia’s header was helped League next season with a 2-1 win team. mind Mourinho had made eight onto the bar by Lopez before the at home Getafe that lifted them “If every team has five foreign- changes to the side that started keeper collected at the second to fifth in La Liga yesterday. ers, that’s 45 field players that in Dortmund with Cristiano attempt. Striker Roque Santa Cruz take the pitch every week that are Ronaldo not even included in the Gabi then missed a glorious headed them in front just before foreign and only 45 Australians. squad due to a thigh injury. chance as he sliced horribly wide halftime and defender Weligton “It’s not that many players for A makeshift Real side had got after a brilliant one-two with doubled the lead with another national teams to choose from.” off to the worst possible start Diego Costa had put him clean header, this time from a corner, Australia remain in the hunt when after three minutes Diego through on Lopez before Garcia two minutes after the re-start. for a third successive World Cup Lopez spilled Gabi’s free-kick and also saw a driven effort fly just Getafe pulled one back with Real Madrid’s Argentinian midfielder Angel di Maria celebrates after appearance at the Brazil finals Godin turned the ball back across past. However, the hosts were a close-range volley from Juan scoring during the Spanish League match Club against Atletico de in 2014, but have struggled to the area for Falcao to head home struck with a sucker punch as Valera in the 70th minute. Madrid at the Vicente Calderon Stadium in Madrid on Saturday night. replace a golden generation of at the back post. Benzema played in Di Maria AGENCIES players that qualified for the 2006 finals in Germany and in South Africa four years later. Swiss referee German Osieck has lamented the lack of a new wave of high- in hot water Bayern look to complete Barca job quality, young players to choose from, while complaining that the BERLIN: Bayern Munich League semi-final by also making A-League season’s early finish over expletive defender Daniel van Buyten 10 changes from the team which leaves potential candidates lack- has said the Bavarian giants won last Wednesday’s first-leg ing sharpness for international BERNE: Swiss referee Pascal head to Spain for Wednesday’s when Robert Lewandowski scored duties later in the year. Erlachner faces a fine and ban Champions League semi-leg, four goals. Arnold, also a former head after using an expletive to ver- return leg against Barcelona Transfer speculation is rife coach of the Socceroos from 2006- bally abuse a player during a determined to finish the job around the 24-year-old Poland 07, said outstanding foreign play- league match, the country’s foot- after their stunning 4-0 first-leg star who has been heavily linked to ers like Alessandro Del Piero and ball federation said yesterday. victory. Bayern Munich and Manchester Emile Heskey would be welcomed “Ten minutes before the end The Belgian played in Saturday’s United this week having said he Down Under, however. of the game, the referee insulted 1-0 Bundesliga win over Freiburg will not renew his contract which Former Italy and Juventus Vero Salatic by saying he was an as coach Jupp Heynckes made 10 expires in June 2014. great Del Piero will play a second arsxxxxx,” refereeing director changes from Tuesday’s victory Dortmund enjoyed a 2-1 win at season with Sydney FC in 2013- Carlo Bertolini told the federa- when Thomas Mueller netted Fortuna Duesseldorf on Saturday 14, while former England striker tion’s website (football.ch). twice as Barca suffered their night with Lewandowski coming Heskey will stay on for another The referee was upset after heaviest European defeat since off the bench for the last 20 min- year with Newcastle Jets. a shot by Grasshoppers captain 1997. Bayern are bidding to reach utes and failing to add to his club The pair, along with the Salatic hit him in the back during their third European final in four record run having scored in his Western Sydney Wanderers’ the match against FC Thun and years at London’s Wembley sta- 12 previous Bundesliga matches. Japanese recruit Shinji Ono, the player joked that he should dium on May 25 and picked up Midfielder Nuri Sahin put generated unprecedented buzz have got out of the way, Bertolini their 14th straight league win of Dortmund ahead with a stun- for the fledgling competition last said. the year so far. ning goal from 35 metres, which year when their signings were “(Erlachner) immediately “We all share one goal, we want coach Jurgen Klopp described as announced in the leadup to the realised that he made a mistake to win trophies. We’re march- A combo picture shows Bayern Munich’s Dutch midfielder Arjen Robben ‘world-class’, before Poland cap- just-concluded season. and deeply regretted his action. ing onwards together. We have (left) and Barcelona’s Argentinian forwad Lionel Messi in action for their tain Jakub Blaszczykowski scored “Del Piero and Heskey, they’ve Therefore, he apologised immedi- a strong bench and there’s no respective clubs. Bayern face Barcelona on May 1 in the semi-final in the 70th minute, 60 seconds taken the league to another level,” ately after the match to the par- resentment,” said the 35-year- second leg football match of the Champions League. after coming on. Arnold said. “Those type of play- ties involved,” he added. old, who is competing with Jerome But Duesseldorf midfielder ers, they’re welcomed in this “Such an incident should not Boateng for a starting place at Adam Bodzek pulled a goal back country.” happen to a referee, of course. We Barcelona. 2012, for the most Bundesliga team before we played Freiburg,” with a header two minutes from Australia, on six points, lie third require all sides to display fair Swiss winger Xherdan Shaqiri points collected in a season, but said Heynckes. time before Dortmund’s reserve in Asia’s Group B of the World play, and the referee has to lead hit the winner when he fired in were made to work by a dogged “What (coach Christian] goalkeeper Mitchell Langerak’s Cup qualifiers, seven behind lead- by example. a direct free-kick on 35 minutes Freiburg side. Streich has achieved in Freiburg stunning save in added time to ers Japan, who they visit in June “Until now, Erlachner has dis- to give Bayern, who were con- It was also Heynckes’s 50th is sensational. push Martin Latka’s shot onto before closing out their cam- played exemplary behaviour and firmed as champions three weeks Bundesliga victory since taking “It was hard work today but the post. paign with home matches against has only been noticed by people ago, their 27th win from their 31 charge at Bayern in July 2011 with credit to the lads. We were very “I am very happy with the Jordan and Iraq. thanks to his good performances. league games this season. his team bidding to become the smart and very professional.” game, even if the initial phase The top two teams qualify It’s unfortunate that this one-off With 84 points this season, first German team to win the tre- Borussia Dortmund warmed didn’t please me so much,” said automatically for Brazil, with the slip-up has happened.” they passed Borussia Dortmund’s ble of European, league and cup up for their trip to Real Madrid Klopp with his side second in the third facing a playoff against a REUTERS previous record of 81, set in May titles. “I issued a warning to my in tomorrow’s other Champions Bundesliga. AFP South American side. REUTERS Emir Cup: Al Ahli stun Al Wakra

DOHA: Second division club Al Ahli defeated Qatar Stars League (QSL) club Al Wakra 4-3 in penalty shoot-out to advance to the next round of the Emir Cup football tournament. At the end of full time play the teams were locked goaless. Al Ahli’s Abdulrahman Mohammed Ali got the Man-of the-Match award. Meanwhile in the other matches yesterday, Al Kharaitiyat defeated Al Shamal 2-0. For Al Kharaitiyat, Yehya Kiti scored a brace. Alan Djoko got the Man-of- the-Match award. In the other match, Al Arabi defeated Muaither 6-5 in penalty shoot-out. At the Arabi Sports Club, Al Sailiya trounced Al Markhiya 4-1. Dagano Beli Moumoune of The winning team of the Qatar Stars League (QSL) Corporate Futsal Challenge poses for a picture during the prize Al Sailiya won the Man-of-the- Action from the Emir Cup match between Al Kharaitiyat and Al Shamal distribution ceremony at City Center. The tournament was organised by QSL in association with Q-Sports League. Match award sponsored by Sony. at Qatar Sports Club Stadium yesterday. Al Kharaitiyat won 2-0. THE PENINSULA Monday 29 April 2013 19 Jumada II 1434 Volume 18 Number 5684 Sport Price: QR2

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LONDON: Jonny Wilkinson spent half his career ruining French dreams at Twickenham United draw with Arsenal but yesterday it was his club Toulon celebrating as he kicked all the points in a 24-12 win QPR, Reading both relegated after stalemate; Chelsea beat Swansea over Saracens to earn them a first Heineken Cup final. Wilkinson, who kicked all LONDON: Robin Van Persie “Walcott apparently was offside Toulon’s points in their 21-15 returned to frustrate Arsenal for his goal. The referee apolo- quarter-final victory over as the Manchester United gised to (United centre-back) Rio Leicester, landed seven penalties striker rescued a 1-1 draw at Ferdinand saying he got it wrong. and a drop goal at Twickenham as the Emirates Stadium, while “It wasn’t his fault, it was the the big-name, multi-national side Reading and QPR were rele- linesman’s. It was an uphill fight set up an all-French final against gated from the Premier League for us after losing the first goal.” Clermont Auvergne in Dublin on yesterday after playing out a With the title already wrapped May 18. 0-0 draw. up, champions United were happy English Premiership leaders Van Persie was making his first to settle for a draw, but the result Saracens, also seeking a debut appearance back at Arsenal since was a setback for Arsenal, who final, trailed 12-9 at the break last year’s £24m ($37m, €28m) dropped down to fourth place as Owen Farrell kept them in transfer to United and he was following Chelsea’s 2-0 win over touch but they were punished for given a hostile reception from Swansea. a series of errors and wasted the home supporters. Gunners boss Arsene Wenger few opportunities they had with But, after Theo Walcott gave said: “We gave everything and at wild passes. Arsenal a second minute lead, the the end of the day the regret you “It’s been a great event, a great Dutch forward silenced the boo- have is the way we conceded the match, to come out top is a real boys when he fired home from the goal. Just before half-time that big thing for us,” flyhalf Wilkinson penalty spot after being fouled by was a serious blow to us.” told Sky Sports TV. Bacary Sagna in the 44th minute. A win for either Reading or “It didn’t go fantastically well United manager Alex Ferguson QPR at the Madejski Stadium today and many of the things we saluted Van Persie for keeping his would have kept alive their slen- planned didn’t come off but it was composure and took a dig at the der chances of staying up at least about fighting hard and trying to Arsenal fans in the process. until Aston Villa’s clash with hang in there and that spirit we’ve “It takes bottle to take a pen- Sunderland tomorrow. got helped us,” added Wilkinson, alty when the crowd are booing,” But both looked wracked with Manchester United’s Robin Van Persie scores a penalty against Arsenal during the English Premier League 34 next month, who captained the Ferguson said. “We have a great nerves during a goalless stalemate match at Emirates Stadium in north London, yesterday. team once written off as a money- spirit of applauding players when which condemned Nigel Adkins’s laden retirement home for past- they come back to our club. I Reading and Harry Redknapp’s their-best superstars. expected the booing to be honest QPR to starting next season in heavily by Malaysian owner “For us to get promoted we At Stamford Bridge, Chelsea The match had been billed with you. the Championship. Tony Fernandes over the last 12 have to come back in pre-season cruised to a comfortable victory as a kicking contest between Bottom club Reading and sec- months, but Redknapp concedes and get super fit.” over Swansea which lifted them Wilkinson and Farrell and in the ond bottom QPR are both nine their expensively assembled Reading return to the into third place and one point first half there was little between Yesterday’s EPL points behind fourth bottom squad won’t find it easy to win an Championship just 12 months ahead of Arsenal. the two. Aston Villa with three games immediate return to the Premier after being promoted as second- Rafael Benitez’s side showed Wilkinson, the master, slotted Results remaining, but a complicated League. tier champions and Adkins wants no signs of tiredness despite their all four of his opportunities while Arsenal 1 (Walcott 2) Manchester Utd 1 (Van equation influenced by Villa’s “Next year it will be very dif- them to learn the lessons of their recent gruelling schedule and the 21-year-old young pretender Persie 44-pen) meeting with Wigan on the final ficult to get promoted, there are top-flight failure. Oscar gave them the lead with a matched him until missing from day of the season means there is some good teams,” Redknapp said. “I have told the players to bottle fine finish from Frank Lampard’s long range just before halftime as Chelsea 2 (Oscar 43, Lampard 45-pen) no chance of either avoiding the “It will be a big challenge, up the feeling as it is never nice to pass in the 43rd minute. Toulon turned round 12-9 ahead. Swansea 0 drop. there are lots of good teams in get relegated and make sure they Lampard netted the second in Wilkinson added another three Reading 0 QPR 0 QPR have been backed the Championship. never feel that way again,” he said. first half stoppage-time. AFP pointer soon after the restart but then Toulon flanker Danie Rossouw was unlucky to be sin- binned for a high tackle on Mako Vunipolo. That was Saracens’ chance but Doha event could boost FIBA’s after Farrell slotted the resulting penalty, they blew a great oppor- tunity when Kelly Brown’s score was ruled out for an awful for- 3x3 Games push: Official Saadoun ward pass by Farrell. Al Kuwari, Another Saracens breakdown DOHA: A team of International programme at the 2020 Olympic will act as a demonstration event. Executive offence allowed Wilkinson to land Olympic Committee (IOC) Games, and Saadoun Al Kuwari, So by August, the IOC wants to Director his sixth penalty, from inside his members will attend the FIBA Executive Director of QBF said see some evidence of the format.” of Qatar own half, as the French side Asia 3x3 basketball tourna- the Doha tournament will be a Just recently this month, FIBA Basketball emerged from their period of ment in Doha next month to testing event. announced that Russian capital Federation, numerical advantage with a “3-3 see if the format is worthy to be Al Kuwari said during a Moscow will host the second edi- looks on draw”. included in the Olympic Games press conference: “There will be tion of World Championships of during Toulon, growing in confidence, programme, a Qatar Basketball IOC members as well as Asian the 3x3 format next year. Russian a press continued to press and Wilkinson Federation (QBF) official said Basketball Federation officials sports minister Vitaly Mutko said refused to leave centre stage as conference yesterday. attending the competition in the after the announcement, “We he landed a snap drop-goal five at Qatar FIBA, the body responsible for hope of adding the 3x3 format to support FIBA’s efforts to make minutes from time to stretch the international basketball com- the Olympic Games in the future.” 3x3 an Olympic discipline.” Olympic lead to nine points. petitions, have submitted a bid He added: “This competition Doha will host the inaugural Committee, Farrell had done his utmost to to the IOC to have the 3x3 for- (men’s and women’s) as well as tournament on May 15 and 16 yesterday. charge it down but instead had mat included in the basketball the boy’s and girl’s tournament at Villaggio Mall for both the to settle for a rueful tap on the men’s and women’s categories in shoulder from the man he had which 68 matches will be played. flattened an instant too late. Matches will last 10 minutes each “I said ‘good hit’ and told and will be played in the after- him it was a bit of a lucky one,” noon on both days. Wilkinson said of the moment Speaking of the importance when the past and present of of hosting the tournament, Al into four groups, with the top Heritage both signed the respec- English rugby became entwined Kuwari said: “For us it’s very two advancing to the knock-out tive deals with the QBF. on the Twickenham turf. important to host this 3x3 com- stages. The Grand Heritage will host Another successful kick soon petition which will be the first to Likewise, Qatar will also have all the participating teams, while after took Wilkinson level with be held in Qatar.” two teams - Qatar 1 and Qatar 2, the Torch Hotel will welcome Stephen Jones, who held the He added: “A lot of work will be who will be among the fourteen- VIP’s including the IOC and Asian semi-final penalties record with put throughout to make sure it’s teams in the women’s category. Basketball Federation officials. seven for the Scarlets and set up successful.” The teams have been divided into Both hotels are situated closeby a mouth-watering final between Al Kuwari confirmed that three three groups, with the top two to Villaggio Mall. the top two teams in France. matches will be played simutane- advancing. It was also announced that Al “Clermont are one hell of a ously on the ice rink and there Also yesterday, Grand Heritage Kass will present coverage of each team,” Wilkinson said. “It means will be special seating arrange- and Torch Hotel have been con- match during the two-day event. there’s work for us to do and ments and free entry for the firmed as the official hotels Al Kass’ Head of Production, we’ll have to pose some difficult Mohammed Ali Al Hobash, Secretary General of QBF and Abdulla spectators. for athletes and VIP’s for the Abdulla Maraafi, signed the deal questions. Maraafi, Head of Production at Al Kass shake hands after signing deals Sixteen teams, which will tournament. in which the Qatari channel will “Like Saracens and Leicester, during the signing ceremony at Qatar Olympic Committee yesterday. include two home teams - Qatar Sherif Sabri, Manager of the broadcast live coverage as well as against Clermont you don’t get PICTURES BY: SHAIVAL DALAL Maroon and Qatar Grey, in the Torch Hotel and Aous Achache, a highlights programme. room to breath but we’re excited men’s category, have been divided Director of Sales at Grand THE PENINSULA about it,” he said. REUTERS