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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir receives Syrian officials Wildfire rages Private sector in Arizona; 19 firemen killed PRESCOTT: Reinforcements under watch on poured yesterday to battle a runaway wildfire which quad- rupled in size overnight after killing 19 firefighters in one of jobs for Qataris the worst such incidents in US history. The Yarnell Hill fire, which killed all but one member of a Labour Ministry plans tougher action 20-strong “hotshot” team, was the biggest loss of firefighters’ lives DOHA: The private sector is schools on how best they could since the September 11 attacks, likely to be closely monitored by be fit for the local job market, and the most from a US wildfire the Labour Ministry to ensure according to the Cabinet. in 80 years. “The fire exploded that they provide jobs to citi- Under the proposed restructur- into a firestorm that overran the zens and comply with the jobs ing, the Labour Minister would local Granite Mountain hotshots,” quota for locals as prescribed by have directly under him several Governor Jan Brewer said. The the Cabinet. departments, including public fire has ripped through more than There is a proposal to relations, communications, plan- 8,000 acres, some 135km north entrust the National Workforce ning and studies as well as legal The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday met the President of the Syrian National Council, of Phoenix and was zero percent Development Department affairs. The undersecretary would George Sabra, at the Emiri Diwan. The president congratulated the Emir on assuming power. The former presi- contained. See also page 11 (NWDD) under the ministry with be in charge of finance, admin- dent of the council, Abdul Basit Sida, and the vice president, Mohamed Farouk, were also present. the task of interacting with pri- istration, human resource and vate companies and making sure information technology. that they employ citizens and fol- The ministry would have three low the Cabinet’s job nationalisa- undersecretaries and under one tion guidelines. would be the recruitment depart- Army gives Mursi 48-hour ultimatum The Cabinet has proposed that ment that clears visas for foreign the NWDD be placed directly workers and their families. The CAIRO: Egypt was thrown into d’etat. “Obviously we feel this is a Mursi had not yet lost his backing. Square was a scene of jubilation under an assistant undersecretary inspection and labour relations fresh turmoil yesterday when military coup,” an aide said. “But “We don’t make those decisions as the possibility of renewed mili- of the ministry. The proposal is departments (the latter receives President Mohamed Mursi’s the conviction within the presi- just by counting the number of tary involvement in politics was part of broader recommendations complaints from workers) are also aides said that he would not dency is that [the coup] won’t heads in a protest march but greeted enthusiastically by many of the Cabinet on the restructur- proposed to be under him. give in to the threat of a mili- be able to move forward without we do make decisions based on protesters, who have lost trust in ing of the Labour Ministry which The Cabinet has also proposed tary coup hours after the army American approval.” whether or not a government is the presidency and its opposition. has recently been merged with that the new Ministry of Youth gave him two days to placate According to a statement on listening to the opposition, main- The National Salvation Front, the Social Affairs Ministry. and Sports should have 13 depart- the millions who have taken the president’s Facebook page, taining a free press, maintaining the largest opposition grouping, The general secretariat of the ments. The ministry would have to the streets calling for his Mursi met Al Sisi along with the freedom of assembly, not using greeted the announcement, hop- Cabinet has said in its recommen- an undersecretary. departure. prime minister late yesterday. violence or intimidation, con- ing that it may pave the way for dations that the job of the NWDD The youth centres department The head of the armed forces, The aide’s comments implied ducting fair and free elections,” their greater involvement in gov- should be to push Qataris in pri- under the new ministry (which General Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, that the presidency was hopeful he said. ernment. The bloc said it would vate sector jobs. “The department was earlier with the Ministry threatened direct military of continued US support. They But in Egypt, events suggested not hold talks with Mursi. must ensure that percentage of of Culture, Arts and Heritage), involvement in the political proc- also suggested the presidency was the tide had turned, with 10 min- Many hope the army will set jobs that the Cabinet had earlier would have the authority to ess “if the demands of the people banking on the likelihood that the isters resigning and the headquar- up an interim technocratic cabi- fixed for nationals in the private license youth centres. There are are not realised”, in a statement military would not risk upsetting ters of the Muslim Brotherhood, net to supervise the rewriting of sector is achieved,” said the gen- 29 centres and requests to set up implying that Mursi should either the US, which provides it with the group from which Mursi hails, divisive Islamist-slanted constitu- eral secretariat. The department more centres and clubs are likely step down or call early elections. significant funding. burnt and ransacked in an all- tion, whose drafting Mursi forced should also guide Qatari students to be received by the new minis- The presidency said that it The US president, Barack night siege. through last November, and new of secondary and preparatory try. THE PENINSULA viewed the statement as a coup Obama, meanwhile, said that As evening approached, Tahrir presidential poll. AGENCIES Al Hamad elected AAA chief Traffic eases on Doha roads as summer holidays begin DOHA: Traffic on Doha roads have been easing is out of the country during August. Population fig- as summer holidays have begun and schools are ures for August 2012 reflect that some 108,655 peo- closed. ple, including citizens and expatriates, were out of More than 46,000 people left the country in June, the country, a vast majority of them on vacation. presumably a vast majority of them expatriates who The figures also suggest that there has been a went home vacationing during the summer break. massive increase in the population in the last one They apparently include single workers and expa- year since May 2012. triate families most of whom travel home during the The population in May 2012 was 1,795,828 (about long summer break. The population of the country as 1.8 million), which rose to 1,963,124 (over 1.96 mil- on June 30 was 1.9 million, down from a little more lion) in May this year, showing an increase of 167,296. than 1.96 million the previous month, data released The QSA said in its report for June that these by the Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA) show. were preliminary figures. In July and August the The QSA calculates the monthly population based population is expected to go down further as more on people, both nationals and expatriates, who are and more people will be leaving on vacation. The President of Qatar Athletics Federation, Dahlan Jumaan Al Hamad, addressing the media in the Indian city in the country and does not take into account those Qataris are likely to go vacationing after Ramadan of Pune yesterday. He beat India’s Suresh Kalmadi to become the new president of Asian Athletics Association. who are overseas at the time of the head count. as most of them prefer to spend the holy month at Figures show that the maximum number of people home, community sources say. THE PENINSULA The election took place ahead of the Asian track and field championships which start in Pune tomorrow. Report on page 28 Snowden seeks asylum in Russia, says will disclose more MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin has for Kim Shevchenko, a staff member at sounds coming from my mouth.” ministry. Putin appeared to leave him- not working with Russia’s secret services. the first time floated the idea of the the airport’s consular department said: Snowden has been trapped in Moscow’s self some latitude, noting that Snowden “Mr Snowden is not our agent, never was US whistleblower Edward Snowden “The UK citizen Harrison passed on a Sheremetyevo airport since June 23 after would be unlikely to meet his conditions and isn’t today. Our special services have remaining in Russia, hours after the request by Snowden to be granted politi- flying in from Hong Kong, from where for staying in Russia. “Considering that never worked with him and are not work- fugitive applied for political asylum in cal asylum.” He said he called the foreign he leaked top secret documents detailing he considers himself a human rights ing with him.” the country. ministry, who sent a courier one hour NSA surveillance programmes. activist and a fighter for human rights, he Russia maintains one of the world’s Snowden applied for asylum at the con- later to pick up the request. Stripped of his US passport, he has probably doesn’t plan to stop this work, most developed intelligence mechanisms sular office at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo He declined to say where Harrison or been stuck in limbo since. His attempts so he should choose a host country and and is widely believed to engage in snoop- airport at 10.30pm on Sunday through Snowden, who have not been seen since to gain political asylum in Ecuador, head there,” Putin said. “When this will ing on its citizens. his WikiLeaks handler, Sarah Harrison, landing in Sheremtyevo last week, were whose London embassy is sheltering happen I, unfortunately, do not know.” In stark contrast to Russia’s approach a consular official said. staying. “She didn’t say and I didn’t ask,” the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Putin, speaking at a press conference to Snowden, whom Putin likened to the Snowden broke his silence for the first he said. appear to have dried up amid intense after a meeting of gas exporting coun- Soviet-era dissident Andrei Sakharov, time since he fled to Moscow to say he In a move likely to enrage the US, US lobbying and reported disagreements tries, reiterated that Russia would not Russian whistleblowers are often remains free to make new disclosures Putin said yesterday: “If he wants to within the Ecuadorian government. extradite Snowden to the US. “Russia attacked — one, the anti-corruption about US spying activity. go somewhere and someone will take Snowden met Russian diplomats yes- never gives anyone up and doesn’t plan activist Alexey Navalny, is on trial and In a letter to Ecuador, he said the him, go ahead. If he wants to stay here, terday morning and handed them a list of to give anyone up. And no one has ever another, the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, US was illegally persecuting him for there is one condition — he must stop 15 countries where he would like to apply given us anyone.” died in prison. Several MPs said they revealing its electronic surveillance pro- his work aimed at bringing harm to our for political asylum, the Los Angeles Times For the second time Putin, would nominate Snowden for the Nobel gramme, PRISM. American partners, as strange as that reported, citing a source in the foreign unprompted, insisted that Snowden was Peace Prize. AGENCIES TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

H E Mohammed Abdul Wahed Ali Al Hammadi, Minister of Education and Higher Education, addressing the 20th Annual iEARN International Conference and 17th Youth Summit at the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC), yesterday. ABDUL BASIT Education key to nation building: Minister Over 500 teachers and students from 50 countries attend 20th iEARN Conference and 17th Youth Summit

DOHA: The Minister of growth and development. This and prepare all needed plans to first-ever iEARN event included historic, Al Manaai said, “It the use of technologies in educa- Education and Higher Education conference meets the aspirations reach new horizons, and enable Japanese Ambassador Kenjiro is through gatherings such as tion to reach out, learn and build H E Mohammed Abdul Wahed of the leadership of our country, our young with the necessary Monji, IEarn’s executive board this, that the youth of the world a better world together. Ali Al Hammadi has under- represented by Emir H H Sheikh educational tools to face future members and Rota Executive will gain the skills necessary to The conference program offers scored the indispensable role Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and challenges,” added Al Hammadi. Director Essa Al Mannai. become the leaders of our com- eight plenary sessions, two panel education plays in nation build- we look forward to seeing our He said the SEC has launched “The iEARN International munities, our cities and our discussions, and more than 90 ing as he opened the 20th youth’s ambition translated in our several programmes including Conference is indeed timely as it countries.” workshops and presentations. In Annual iEARN (International nation building,” the minister told the e-learning, which provides comes at an important moment, a “By hosting the 2013 addition, there is an exhibition for Education and Resource over 500 teachers and students technology services to teachers, time when more and more people iEARN Annual Conference, students and teachers to show- Network) International from 50 countries who are here students and parents as well as around the world are taking inter- iEARN-Qatar hopes to create case their projects, or present Conference and 17th Youth for the five-day conference. communication channels promot- est in Qatar. We are proud to host thought-provoking and infor- about their cultures. Arhama Al Summit yesterday at the Qatar As the official partner of Reach ing continuous communication this landmark forum that aims to mation-sharing occasions for all Kaabi, Director of Development National Convention Centre Out To Asia (Rota) in organis- between students and teachers in increase cooperation and coordina- iEARNers as well as educators and care staff at RasGas, the con- (QNCC). ing the conference, Supreme addition to a free and safe e-mail tion, which are crucial imperatives for a better quality of educa- ference golden sponsor, and Dr “This event reflects the best Education Council’s (SEC) par- access to be used in the educa- if we are to advance the use infor- tion,” he concluded. The theme Dalia Khalil and Tony Casires, platform for the convergence ticipation “reflects the Council’s tional process. mation and technology to empower of this year’s conference is ‘ICT members of “IEarn” Executive of the world around education, keenness to support all initiatives Among other officials who the youth,” said Al Mannai. for Education: Reaching Out, Board also spoke at the opening the main pillar of communities’ that serve the cause of education, attended the launch of the Calling the iEARN conference Building Bridges’, and focuses on session. THE PENINSULA Prominent heart surgeons share expertise at two-day seminar

DOHA: Some of the world’s most prominent heart surgeons recently gathered in Doha to share their expertise as part of the third Qatar Heart Science Seminar. The seminar was part of a series that brings together local and international experts to dis- cuss the latest researches, devel- opment, innovations on issues pertinent to cardiovascular dis- eases and treatment options in Qatar and the wider world. The two-day seminar, which was also attended by specialists from the Heart Hospital, tackled issues including the causes and treatment of heart failure and the use of artificial hearts. Held at the Heart Hospital in partnership with the Qatar Dr Magdi Yacoub, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Imperial College Cardiovascular Research London, speaking at the third Qatar Heart Science Seminar. Center, speakers included Dr Magdi Yacoub, Professor care and treatment to patients as scientific findings in this field in of Cardiothoracic Surgery well as introduce our clinicians US and Europe. at Imperial College London to the latest developments in our Dr Amr Badr , consultant and from the United States field,” said Dr Yacoub. “The semi- cardiologist at Heart Hospital, Professor Robert Bonow from nar series provides an invaluable gave a presentation about the Northwestern University and platform to exchange experiences, services available in Qatar and Professor James Kirklin from ideas and knowledge with experts Professor James Kirklin spoke the University of Alabama at from round the world.” on the importance of performing Birmingham. Professor Robert Bonow spoke blood and genetic tests for each “Through the regular seminar during the seminar about the dif- patient to get a full picture of series, we aim to support doctors ferent types of heart failure and their condition. to deliver the highest levels of the latest and most important THE PENINSULA

Al Bustan Street to be closed for one week

DOHA: The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) yester- day said that the section of Bu Erayyen Street (Al Bustan) stretching from Al Waab Intersection to Rasheeda Street will be closed from July 5 for one week. The street will be re-opened to traffic on July 12, after finish- ing maintenance works on the street. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Emir receives Public urged to phone call from Haniyah, Erdogan take precaution DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received yesterday a telephone call from Hamas Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail against heat Haniyah. Haniyah congratu- lated the Emir on assuming the reins of power. The Emir also received tele- 10 people a week treated for exhaustion phone call from Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. DOHA: Hamad Medical drinks containing caffeine or Ties of cooperation as well as Cooperation’s (HMC) alcohol, as these can cause lose the latest developments in the Emergency Department has more body fluids. region were reviewed during the treated an average of ten people It’s also suggested to eat small call. per week for heat exhaustion in snacks throughout the day; avoid The Emir yesterday has the month of May. The numbers heavy meals and hot food as these received cables of greetings are expected to increase five can increase the body tempera- from various leaders. British to 10 per day between July and ture. Salty snacks and fruit juices Prime Minister David Cameron, September, says a senior official. can help replenish the salts and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo However, the heat strokes minerals lost through excessive Abe, Turkmenistan President are rare and an average two sweating. If you have a chronic Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, patients are expected in a month, illness and are already on a low- Kazakhstan President Nursultan The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday received a message of greetings from President of the said Senior Consultant at the salt diet, however, you will need Nazarbayev, Tajikistan President Republic of Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso. The message was handed over by Jean-Jacques Bouya, Minister to the Emergency Department of HMC, to consult your doctor regarding Emomalii Rahmon respectively. Presidency in charge of development and infrastructures of the Republic of Congo at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. Dr Saad Abdulfattah Al Nuaimi. the amount of salt you can safely Lebanese Prime Minister- The number of patients seeking consume. Stay indoors in a cool designate Tamam Salam and treatment for heat-related illness place as much as possible. Avoid Member of the UAE Supreme was reduced this year due to the going out between 10am and 3pm Council and Ruler of Umm Al Advisory Council expresses Ministry of Labour ban on work- as the temperature is usually at Quwain Sheikh Saud bin Rashid ing in the open from 11am to 3pm its peak during this time. Al Mualla are among them. during the peak summer months. “Heat-related illness can some- The Emir has received greet- “In May, heat exhaustion cases times progress so rapidly that you ings from President of the Syrian confidence in Emir’s leadership numbered about ten per week. may suddenly become drowsy or National Council George Sabra. From June through September unconscious, so it is helpful to have The former President of the DOHA: The Advisory Council of Qatar while he was assuming the expected number is five to ten someone around who is aware of Syrian National Council Abdul expressed great pride and Kuwait cabinet greets office as the Heir Apparent. cases per day,” said Dr Al Nuaimi, the situation. During exercise, Basit Sida and Vice President of appreciation to the Father Emir “The Emir has exerted great explaining that official statistics drink two to four glasses of water the National Council and member H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Father Emir, Emir efforts along with HH the Father for June will be released in late or other cool, non-alcoholic fluids of the Coalition Mohamed Farouk Al Thani, who had adopted dur- KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Emir to take Qatar to the high July. per hour. If you exercise outdoors, were also attended. ing his rule a wise and balanced Council of Ministers status which it had reached posi- “Heat-related illness can range start slowly to allow your body to policy that had the greatest expressed sincere greetings tion. He has a sharp vision and from a mild, simple condition acclimatize to the hot weather. If impact in maintaining the sta- to the Emir H H Sheikh full awareness of the state’s inter- which can be treated at home, to you experience strong heartbeat Emir sends greetings bility of the country. Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani nal and external affairs and he a life-threatening condition that and feel tired stop exercising for “HH the Father Emir was also on the occasion of taking the is the best successor to the best requires emergency medical care. that day, rest in the shade and to Canadian leader keen to provide a decent life for reins of power. The council predecessor. It depends on the length of time take plenty of fluids. Never leave the citizens of this nation and also praised the great efforts “We firmly believe that Qatar you are exposed to heat as well as infants, children or pets unat- DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh to secure their future. Due to his and the important role will achieve in his era, with the the temperatures you are exposed tended in a parked car, as tem- Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sharp vision, the Father Emir played by the Father Emir H help of Allah, further achieve- to,” he said. With the rising tem- peratures can rapidly rise inside has sent a cable of greetings to enabled Qatar to have a deserved H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa ments in various fields and that peratures in the country HMC the vehicle. Check frequently on the Governor General of Canada status and reinforced its position Al Thaniand stressed the would lead to further progress advises residents to prioritise people at greater risk of suffering on the occasion of his country’s at the international level. We pray confidence in the keenness and prosperity of our loyal peo- heat safety and take important from heat-related illness, such as National Day. the Almighty Allah to maintain his of the Emir to follow in his ple and would enhance the privi- precautions to avoid heat-related elderly people, young children and The Prime Minister and health and wellbeing,” the state- father’s footsteps towards leged position that our state had illness. babies, and those who are obese or Interior Minister H E Sheikh ment released by the council said. the progress and prosperity reached,” the statement said. People are advised to increase who have chronic illnesses such as Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa The council also put confidence of Qatar. QNA Advisory Council Speaker H fluid intake to stay hydrated and diabetes, hypertension or other Al Thani also sent a cable of greet- in the wise leadership of the Emir E Mohammed bin Mubarak Al replenish water the body loses co-morbidities,” Al Nuaimi added. ings to the Governor General of H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Khulaifi chaired the meeting. due to excessive sweating. Avoid THE PENINSULA Canada. QNA Al Thani, who had been actively participating in the development QNA TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Mary Kay O’Connor Safety Center extended QP and Texas A&M University-Qatar will educate a new generation of engineers who are committed to safety

DOHA: Qatar Petroleum (QP) and the Texas A&M University- Qatar yesterday celebrated the launching of the extension of the Texas-based Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center here in Qatar. The Centre aims to con- duct research to enhance safety process in the industries, a press statement said yesterday. The event was held under the patronage of H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry, and Chairman and Managing Director of QP. The Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center-Qatar (MKOPSC-Qatar) will replicate all academic programmes and activities of the Center at the uni- versity’s main campus in College, Station, Texas. Formed in 1995, the Centre was established in memory of Mary Kay O’Connor, an Operations The Manager of Corporate Health, Safety and Environment at Qatar Petroleum (QP), Dr Ali Hamed Al Mulla (third left), addressing the launching ceremony of the extension of Texas based Superintendent who was killed Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Centre in Doha yesterday. Other officials from left are: The Managing Director of the MKOPSC-Qatar, Dr Luc Véchot; the Associate Dean for Research and in an explosion on October 23, Graduate Studies at Texas A&M University-Qatar (Tamuq), Dr Kenneth Hall; and the Manager of the Ras Laffan Emergency and Safety College of QP, Khalid Al Ansari. SALIM MATRAMKOT 1989 at a petrochemical complex in Pasadena, Texas. The center’s and disseminate best practices during the launching event, Dr safety in the academic curricula University-Qatar said: “The key industries operate safely.” mission is to promote safety as a through consulting and short Ali Hamed Al Mulla, Manager is a foundational element which University is proud to bring Present were Dr Nazmul second nature in industry around courses, provide benchmarking of Corporate Health, Safety and will sow the seeds of process to the region a center known Karim, Holder of the Michael the world with the objective of for process safety management Environment at QP, said: safety concepts in those aspir- globally for its work in process O’Connor Chair II and Head of preventing future accidents. It is systems and practices, and con- “With the patronage of Dr Al ing to become future engineers, safety practice and research. the Artie McFerrin Department set to be an international leader duct research that would change Sada, we have an opportunity to providing them with essential Process safety is essential to of Chemical Engineering at in minimising losses within the the paradigm of process safety. It influence the center’s activities underlying principles to enable critical industries in Qatar, Texas A&M University; Dr Sam process industry through safer will also provide industry with a in a direct and continuous man- appreciation and application and the launch of the Mary Mannan, Executive Director of processes, management, equip- forum to exchange ideas and to ner to promote safety as second of process safety from the very Kay O’Connor Process Safety the MKOPSC-Qatar; Dr Luc ment and procedures. advance process safety technolo- nature in the industry in Qatar beginning of their professional Center will provide resources Véchot, Managing Director In line with this, the gies in order to keep the indus- and to educate a new generation careers.” of best practices and exper- of the MKOPSC-Qatar and MKOPSC-Qatar will provide try competitive. of engineers who are committed Dr Mark H Weichold, Dean tise, enhancing process safety others. science-based guidance, develop In his keynote address to safety. The inclusion of process and CEO of Texas A&M in Qatar and ensuring that its THE PENINSULA Career-focused summer camp attracts 50 Qatari students

DOHA: The first career seeking opportunities to help learning environments. -focused summer camp by them develop their skills and In addition, the camp will Qatar Career Fair (QCF), held capabilities so that they can be enable students to explore their in partnership with Hamad Bin a part of this dynamic shift”, interest and abilities in graphic Khalifa University (HBKU), says Director, QCF, Abdulla Al design, photography and journal- has attracted around 50 Qatari Mansoori. ism, amongst others, so that they high school students. “The encouraging response we are better equipped to apply to Twenty-five girls and boys in received from these young high the right universities upon finish- the 10th,11th and 12th grades school students and their keen- ing high school. The camp also enrolled from various private and ness to plan their futures from focuses on personal development Independent Schools in Qatar. early stages of their lives is a through workshops that empha- Held at Awsaj Academy in the testament to their desire to be size personal responsibility in Education City premises, the stu- involved in the country’s growth planning for their future. Students at the first career-focused summer camp by Qatar Career Fair, held in partnership with Hamad Bin dents will partake in a week-long and development.” A condensed version of the Khalifa University. series of professional activities Throughout the five day camp, annual ground-breaking Qatar designed to enhance their career HBKU staff will deliver a series Career Fair will also be held to Qatar Airways, QAPCO, Dolphin (QSTP) and Weill Cornell Medical information technology competi- planning skills. of workshops including sessions provide these ambitious young Energy, Commercial Bank. College in Qatar to explore career tion, a sustainability and recycling “As Qatar’s economy contin- on creative writing, preparing students with information on jobs, Students will also participate in options, talk with representatives activity and a football tourna- ues to diversify and progress for university, as well as sustain- training and scholarships options various field trips to government and obtain insights on what is ment. The camp will conclude steadily towards becoming a ability, all of which will enrich that are available to them. The and non-government companies required to plan their career. this Thursday with an awards knowledge-based economy, many students’ academic experience companies that will be participat- such as Qatar Foundation (QF), The camp also features a series ceremony for the students. young citizens are increasingly outside the traditional classroom ing in this segment are Qatargas, Qatar Science and Technology Park of engaging activities including an THE PENINSULA QNB offers QR600,000 Ramadan bonanza DOHA: Qatar National QNB has developed a Bank (QNB), is giving state-of-the-art system away more than half a that enables each par- million riyals to lucky ticipating customer who winners during Ramadan applies for a vehicle loan, Bonanza. vehicle lease, personal loan “The Holy month of or credit card till August Ramadan comes always 29, for an entry and a with many blessings to chance to win a QR100,000 everybody; Ramadan during Ramadan Bonanza. comes also with lots of When a customer applies decisions that have to do for three products he can with renovations, home get a maximum of three up-grades or new vehi- chances per draw. cles for self or loved ones. To maximize the chances QNB’s Eid gift is coming for QNB customers during early this Ramadan and Ramadan Bonanza, all cus- the bank has decided to tomers are always entitled give its customers cash to enter the next draw in prizes in addition to very case his/her name wasn’t low loan rates, no annual picked on the first draw, fee for life credit cards and therefore the sooner they Life Rewards points. This apply the more chances is also our way of saying they are likely to win, and thank you to our custom- if a customer applies for ers for helping us achieve three products from the the recognition of being the start date of the Bonanza, World’s Strongest Bank” he will have 18 chances to Said Heba Al Tamimi; participate and win one of General Manager Group the big prizes. Retail Banking. Names of the winners “During Ramadan, with will be announced after every vehicle loan, per- each draw which starts sonal loan, or new credit from July 3rd and ends on card, QNB customers will September 4. have the chance to win More details about the QR100,000 prize in cash. Ramadan Bonanza and A total of QR600,000 will QNB products are avail- be given away to 6 lucky able at www. qnb.com.qa, winners” added Heba Al or call us on 4440 7777. Tamimi. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Nojoom members Croatian Embassy celebrates EU entry can earn points at Starlink DOHA: Ooredoo has announced a new promotion where Nojoom members can earn Nojoom points when shopping at Starlink.Until now, members have enjoyed redeeming their Nojoom Points for a full range of products at Starlink. Now, for the first time, Ooredoo is enabling members to earn Nojoom points when pur- chasing products and Ooredoo services at Starlink. Through 31 July 2013, mem- bers can earn points when they buy Ooredoo services at Starlink, including Hala, Shahry, install- ing landline phone connections, ADSL high-speed broadband packages and prepaid Dawli cards for international calls. For more information visit the Nojoom page at www.ooredoo.qa. Members can check their Nojoom points bal- ance and status, and redeem points on the website or through the Ooredoo app available on Apple and BlackBerry 7 mobile devices. Members can earn one Nojoom point for every QR2 they spend on all products at Starlink, including popular mobile devices. Croatia’s Ambassador Tomislav Bosnjak, Qatar’s Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs H E Ali bin Fahd Al Hajri and other diplomats during the celebration of Croatia’s European Union THE PENINSULA (EU) entry, at the Croation Embassy in Doha, yesterday. KAMMUTTY V P WISE selects 14 projects for final Six selected projects will be announced and showcased at the 2013 Wise Summit in October

DOHA: The World Innovation They demonstrate practical challenges. Projects use a range Al Thani said: “This year’s WISE Awards identify projects that are replication elsewhere. Summit for Education (WISE) solutions to today’s most urgent of technologies in combination awards finalist projects are truly producing results and showcase In September, the WISE has revealed the names of four- education challenges. Selected by with conventional tools to achieve inspiring in their creativity and them as good practices for others Awards Jury of seven education teen projects selected as the a pre-Jury of international edu- results in many areas including commitment to addressing chal- to replicate – promoting change, authorities will choose six of the 2013 WISE awards finalists. cation experts, the project final- basic literacy and numeracy, stu- lenges in education. The projects community by community.” 14 finalists as WISE Awards win- These projects from around the ists showcase unusual approaches dent-driven curricula, social and are from all over the world and The finalists were selected ning projects. The six projects will globe represent some of the best to issues of access, quality, and financial support, and entrepre- are extremely diverse, yet the based on strict criteria includ- be announced and showcased at and most creative work being employment needs. They dem- neurial skills. They are closing the obstacles they are working to ing a project’s quality of inno- the 2013 WISE Summit in Doha done in education by non-gov- onstrate that today’s education gap in access to quality education. overcome can be found in many vative thinking, its ability to to be held between October 29 ernmental organisations, char- issues, while varied in their spe- Chairman of WISE and places and relate to some of demonstrate a concrete impact and October 31. Each project will ity groups, cultural institutions cific contexts, have no borders Chairman of the WISE Awards the most difficult problems fac- on education in a community, receive $20,000. and the private sector. and represent common global Jury Sheikh Dr Abdulla bin Ali ing education today. The WISE as well as its potential for THE PENINSULA

Nasser Al Muhannadi, COO of Enterprise Qatar, with the winners of the Trade Fair competition. Enterprise Qatar presents awards to Schools Olympic winners

DOHA: Enterprise Qatar (EQ) of Enterprise Qatar presented school students. The enthusiasm recently presented awards to the awards to the teachers of the shown by the students who par- the teaching staff of the win- winning teams of the Trade Fair ticipated in this competition was ning schools who participated in competition. exceptionally good, and we hope the Schools Olympic Program’s He said that the schools par- that the experience gained will (SOP) inaugural Trade Fair ticipating in the Trade Fair had encourage these budding entre- competition, under the theme created an impressive and crea- preneurs to think seriously about ‘Sport and Investment’. tive range of products, and gener- starting their own businesses in Forty schools and 320 students ated a significant amount of sales the future. And when they do, EQ took part in the Trade Fair com- at the Mall and Aspire Zone. is ready to provide the support petition, which asked students to Teams were judged on the orig- that turns business dreams into create and market products with inality of their ideas, their profit reality,” Al Muhanndi said. a sporting theme for sale to the margins, and the effectiveness of A high level judging team of general public. The best 20 teams their ability to work as a team EQ and QOC officials assessed were selected for the semi finals using the traditional roles found the stands and selected the first, after a first round that saw trade in most corporate structures. second and third placed schools. fairs at their respective campuses. The Trade Fair competition Boys’ school winners were the The Trade Fair competition was run by the Learning and Commercial School, Jassim Bin was organised as part of the Development team at EQ, whose Hamad School and Saoud Bin 6th Edition of the SOP and was guidance and instruction ensured Abdul Rahman. run jointly by EQ and the Qatar that school teams were able to A large number of girls’ schools Olympic Committee (QOC). implement important business also took part and created a wide A semi final was held at the principles into the trade stand variety of interesting and innova- Landmark Mall on the 28th and activities. tive products including a number 29th March, from which finalists “EQ believes that an entrepre- of fashion lines. were selected to compete for the neurial spirit can be fostered from Girls’ schools winners were grand prize at the SOP Aspire an early age, and our partnership Fatima Bint Walid, Syrian School Zone finals on 23rd May. in the SOP this year is just one and Tunisian School. Nasser Al Muhannadi, COO of several programs that targets THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Egypt Islamist group fears army’s return US, EU urge Mursi to share power

CAIRO: The second biggest trenches,” a senior European dip- Islamist group in parliament, lomat said just before the military the Nour Party, yesterday said statement. it feared the return of army Eight people died in a night of rule “in a big way”. fighting around the Brotherhood The armed forces have played headquarters, where guards fired an important role in Egyptian on youths hurling rocks and fire politics since army officers staged bombs. A Brotherhood official the overthrow of the monarchy said two of its members were in 1952. hurt. Another eight people were After the destruction of its killed and 731 injured in clashes offices, the Brotherhood which around the country on Sunday. operated underground until the Unknown attackers also fire- overthrow of Mubarak in 2011, bombed the headquarters of the said it was considering how best moderate Islamist Wasat party to defend itself. allied with the Brotherhood. The Sunday’s mass rallies were big- party called in a statement for ger than anything seen since the dialogue among all parties. Arab Spring uprising. Smaller Security sources said security crowds returned to Tahrir Square forces arrested 15 bodyguards and other gathering points yes- of Brotherhood deputy leader Fireworks erupt as protests are held for the second night in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday demanding that president Mohammed Mursi resign. terday afternoon. Khairat El-Shater after an “Both sides are still in their exchange of gunfire with them outside his home. The guards are liberal opposition and state offi- The massive protests showed that cast doubt on whether Mursi suspected of illegal possession of cialdom inherited from the old that the Brotherhood has not only could rely on the security forces firearms used in the shooting at regime. Liberal protest organis- alienated liberals and secularists to clear the streets if he gave the Egypt model a failure: Syria the movement’s headquarters, the ers, who declared Mursi ousted by seeking to entrench Islamic order. sources said. by people power on Sunday, said rule, notably in a new constitu- The US and the European DAMASCUS: The Muslim Brotherhood has proven a failure The Brotherhood’s political they hoped people would stay in tion, but has also angered mil- Union have urged Mursi to share in Egypt, Syria’s Information Minister Omran Al Zohbi said wing denied the arrests, saying the streets until Mursi left. lions of Egyptians with economic power with the opposition, say- yesterday. only Khater’s driver had been Mursi, who has not appeared mismanagement. ing only a national consensus can “It is clear the Muslim Brotherhood is incapable... of running the “kidnapped”. in person, earlier renewed offers Some uniformed policemen help Egypt overcome a severe state in Egypt. Their model has failed for ever,” Zohbi said at a press The Brotherhood’s official via allies of dialogue and pledged marched among protesters in economic crisis and build demo- conference broadcast by Syrian state television. spokesman said that the attack to work with a new parliament Cairo and Alexandria, chanting cratic institutions. “The Muslim Brotherhood’s regime in Egypt is dead, but the death had crossed a red line of violence if disputes over election rules “the police and the people are US President Barack Obama certificate has not yet been published,” the minister said. and among possible responses can be ironed out. The opposi- one”, and several senior offic- renewed a call for Mursi and his There is long-standing animosity between the Syrian regime and might be to revive “self-defence tion does not trust the Islamist ers addressed the Tahrir Square adversaries to cooperate, just as the Muslim Brotherhood, and membership in the group has been committees” former during the movement, which critics accuse crowd. An independent police Sisi’s statement was made. punishable by death in Syria since the 1980s. 2011 uprising. of using a series of electoral vic- association said they stood with The Pentagon, which funds The Brotherhood plays a key role in the exiled opposition National Mursi’s movement complained tories to monopolise power. They demonstrators and would not let the Egyptian army heavily, said Coalition, which is recognised by more than 100 states and organisa- at the lack of police protection, want a total reset of the rules of them down. it could not speculate on what was tions as legitimate representative of the Syrian people. AFP which can only heighten its sense a democracy imperfectly worked Adding to the failure to protect about to happen in Egypt. of being under siege from both the out over the past two years. the Brotherhood headquarters, REUTERS

As a serious reader, what I look for Israel launches Tunisia begins debate in a newspaper is the quality of contents crackdown on rather than glossy appearance. Jewish vandals on draft constitution TUNIS: Tunisia’s first parlia- interrupted, a handful of secular JERUSALEM: Israel yester- mentary debate on the draft opposition MPs issued a state- day announced a crackdown constitution was suspended ment criticising the “fraudu- against Jewish ultranational- yesterday amid chaotic scenes lent process that has affected ists who vandalise Palestinian in the National Assembly, with the works of the constituent property, saying they were tan- tensions between the ruling committees.” tamount to terrorists and their Islamists and their opponents The assembly’s deputy speaker, attacks could fan sectarian flaring over the long-delayed Islamist MP Meherzia Laabidi, violence. text. strongly criticised those who The move followed the arrest The North African country’s disrupted the debate, which was of a 22-year Israeli from an political stability remains fragile, not expected to resume before Orthodox Jewish town near two and a half years after the rev- 1500 GMT. “The men of Tunisia Tel Aviv for the vandalism of a olution that ousted former strong- remained seated... These were Christian monastery in the occu- man Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in dwarfs who stood up, she told pri- pied West Bank last year. The January 2011, adding urgency to vate radio station Mosaique FM, attack was carried out in solidar- the need for the new text. condemning the “immaturity in ity with hardline Jewish settlers. But the debate, which began at the ranks of the opposition.” Graffiti left on the 19th-cen- around 1000 GMT, was suspended Several hundred people also tury Latrun Monastery referred after less than 30 minutes when protested against the draft con- to Migron, an unauthorised set- the presentation by the head of stitution outside the National tler outpost evacuated by the the drafting committee, Islamist Assembly, which has been Israeli government. MP Habib Kheder, was inter- repeatedly criticised for its inef- Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon rupted by opposition MPs who ficiency and the non-attendance said those suspected in so-called accuse him of introducing contro- of members. Dr. Saeed AI Sulaiman “Price Tag” incidents would now versial articles in a discretionary Beyond the controversial Director of Academic Affairs be subject to measures such as manner. clauses introduced, some civil Qatar Aeronautical College longer detentions and denial of Those articles exempt laws society and opposition activists access to lawyers while under adopted under the ruling Islamist have raised concerns that the text n my view, a good newspaper provides the right balance between interrogation — measures akin party Ennahda from constitu- does not sufficiently guarantee to those used by Israel’s security tional control for three years, certain basic liberties. news and analysis. It is a newspaper that lets you read, think and services in tackling Palestinian and extend indefinitely the leg- Amnesty International said arrive at your own conclusions. militants. “Price Tag perpetrators’ islative powers of the assembly it undermined the principles of I conduct is identical to the con- while failing to draw up an elec- international human rights law duct of modern terrorist groups, toral calendar to replace it with by giving greater legal value to the It’s also important for a newspaper to cover issues and events that including ideological inspiration a permanent parliament. constitution than to international and covert action,” the Defence Before the session was treaties ratified by Tunis. AFP concern you, and cover them in-depth, not just provide loads of Ministry said in a statement. information with limited or no relevance to you. A newspaper that “Its main objective is to prevent achieves all of these and provides the right mix of news and views is the legitimate Israeli government from carrying out moves, whether clearly the best newspaper. of state or regarding law enforce- ment, and to sow fear among the nation’s leaders of making deci- The Peninsula fulfills all these criteria. It is one of the forerunners sions of one kind or another.” in providing honest and unbiased reporting of local and The ultranationalists have des- international events. ecrated mosques, torched cars and chopped down trees belong- ing to Palestinians, saying they I have been and will sought to make the government continue to be a “pay” for curbing unauthorised Peninsula reader. West Bank settlement They have occasionally hit Israeli army facilities, churches or Arab sites inside the Jewish state. But Israeli authorities are most troubled by the possibility that Palestinian victims could lash out in reprisal, upending the West Bank’s relative calm at a Tunisians shout slogans against the ruling Ennahda Party during a protest time of peacemaking stalemate. in front of the Constituent Assembly in Tunis yesterday. REUTERS TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Race against time for Saudi Arabia’s illegal expat workers

RIYADH: Illegal foreign work- during the first two months of the foreigners in Saudi Arabia need keep me in the kingdom,” she “I’ve lost hope unless the for millions of people from poor ers in Saudi Arabia, mostly amnesty, the labour ministry said. to be sponsored by a local business said. “I’ve provided fingerprints amnesty is extended to after Asian and Arab countries where Asians, are in a race against It did not say how many illegal to obtain entry and work permits. and obtained a travel document, July 3,” he said. “There are still unemployment is high. time to take advantage of foreign workers currently live in Foreigners desperate to work in case I don’t get my passport hundreds of us waiting here for According to official statistics, an amnesty ending tomor- the kingdom, but the number is in the country are willing to pay ready in time,” the 38-year-old consular formalities. And once eight million expatriates work in row that would allow them to reported to be around two million. for sponsorship, and sponsoring said. completed, the paperwork has to the kingdom. stay or return home without Of these, some 180,000 have left expatriates has become a lucra- But 25-year-old Anne, also from go to the immigration authorities The new labour ministry regu- prosecution. in addition to more than 200,000 tive business for some Saudis. the Philippines, was concerned. and the labour ministry.” lations aim to reduce the number The Custodian of the Two unregistered workers expelled at But under the new rules work- “I have a travel document in It is a worrying time for the of foreign workers to create jobs Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin the start of the year under new ers can be employed only by their hand, but I cannot find a seat workers, most of whom are from for millions of unemployed Saudis. Abdulaziz announced the amnesty regulations to stamp out illegal own sponsors. on a flight to Manila. I am anx- India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Although the country has on April 3, granting foreign work- immigration. Sharon, a Filipina maid, stood ious to be with my daughter who Indonesia, but with some from the largest Arab economy, its ers three months to regularise Many workers are still queue- queuing in the scorching heat I haven’t seen in four years and Yemen and Egypt too. unemployment rate is above 12.5 their residency or leave the coun- ing outside their embassies to outside her country’s embassy in hold her in my arms,” she said. They are fearful of the cam- percent. try to avoid being blacklisted or obtain documents to either leave Riyadh. In Jeddah Indonesian worker paign of arrests promised by Saudi Arabia has warned jailed and fined. Saudi Arabia or legalise their sta- “I’m trying to renew my pass- Ali Rahman stood outside authorities once the amnesty employers who continue to shel- More than 1.5 million illegal tus before tomorrow. port as I am desperate to find Jakarta’s consulate, desperately expires. Saudi Arabia, the world’s ter illegal workers that they risk foreign workers came forward As in most Gulf states, an employer to sponsor me and waiting to finalise his documents. largest oil exporter, is a goldmine up to two years in prison. AFP

Bahrain acquits police officers on Syria rebels threaten to target Shias torture charges DUBAI: A Bahraini court acquitted yesterday two Nubl and Zahra villages to be ‘liberated’ from regime, Hezbollah and Iranian elements police officers, including a woman, on trial for tortur- BEIRUT: Syrian rebels in the ing six Shia doctors during northern province of Aleppo Saudi urges EU the 2011 uprising against yesterday threatened to seize the Sunni regime, a judicial two Shia villages that back source said. President Bashar Al Assad to arm rebels The two officers had been unless they surrendered to the DUBAI: Saudi Arabia, a foe accused in March 2011 of hav- opposition. of Syrian President Bashar Al ing “used force, torture, and Activists say both Nubl and Assad, has urged the European threats” against the doctors Zahra villages had been reinforced Union to arm Syrian rebels who had been arrested over by Assad’s allies in the increas- without delay, following simi- their roles during the uprising, ingly sectarian war, among them lar action by the US. the source added. fighters from Iran and Lebanon’s “The Syrian opposition is But the pair denied any powerful Shia guerrilla group, not only fighting an illegitimate wrongdoing. A representa- Hezbollah. regime, but also fighting a for- tive of the prosecution, Nawaf “We announce our inten- eign occupier,” Saudi state news Hamza, said he could appeal tion to liberate Nubl and Zahra agency SPA quoted Foreign the court’s decision. from the regime and its shabbiha Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal A number of policemen are (pro-Assad militia), and from the as telling an EU-GCC ministe- being investigated or are on Hezbollah and Iranian elements,” rial meeting in Bahrain. trial for allegedly torturing the rebels said in an Internet He was referring to Iranian- detainees after hundreds of video. backed Lebanese Hezbollah Shias were rounded up when The 27-month-old conflict, forces that have joined in recent security forces crushed the which pits mostly Sunni insur- fighting alongside Assad’s mili- protests in mid-March 2011. gents against Assad, from an off- tary, notably spearheading the Authorities say they are shoot of Shia Islam, has already capture of the border town of implementing the recommen- killed more than 100,000 people Qusair. “The Kingdom of Saudi dations of an independent com- and driven 1.7 million Syrians Arabia ... refers to the EU reso- mission of inquiry called for by to seek refuge in neighbouring lution to lift the ban on arming the king that confirmed allega- countries. the Syrian opposition, and calls tions of excessive use of force Assad’s forces, spearheaded by for the implementation of this by security forces during the Hezbollah, have made a number of A view through a bullet hole of Nubbul and Zahra Shia villages that the Syrian rebels plans to siege in Aleppo. resolution in light of the griev- uprising. gains since they seized the border ous realities on the ground in town of Qusair last month. There Syria,” Prince Saud said. have also been heavy clashes in aims to re-establish control of a helicopter close to Nubl, which the surrender of Assad’s forces REUTERS Aleppo and surrounding districts, Syria’s largest city. activists said had been car- and their weapons, followed by a UAE court upholds fuelling expectations that Assad On Sunday rebels shot down rying supplies to the villages. power sharing deal between the “Despite its membership in the Authorities in Damascus said they locals and the rebels. Lebanese government, Hezbollah jail terms for Britons were taking Education Ministry “If there is no response (to has decided to put its own inter- DUBAI: A Dubai court yes- Gulf Arabs seek Security Council employees to supervise school rebel demands for surrender) ests and those of its foreign back- terday upheld four-year jail exams. Seven employees and the there will be a major military ers above those of the Lebanese terms for three Britons, con- meeting on Homs massacre helicopter crew were killed, they operation on those two villages,” people,” Burns said. victed on drugs charges, who said. the statement said. Hezbollah’s role in Syria, were allegedly tortured dur- RIYADH: Gulf Arab states called on the UN Security Council A video released by activists a The sectarian nature of the along with Sunni Islamist fight- ing their detention, a news- yesterday to meet urgently to prevent a massacre in Homs, as few weeks earlier showed an army conflict has set regional Sunni ers smuggled over the border to paper based in the emirate pro-government forces in Syria try to wrest the city from rebels officer apparently recruiting Shia Muslim powers — notably Gulf fight for the Syrian rebels, has reported. fighting to topple President Bashar Al Assad. villagers in Zahra and Nubl to Arab states and Turkey — exacerbated sectarian tensions in In April, a lower court con- “Considering the Syrian regime’s insistence on ethnic and sectarian form fighting units to support the against Assad’s Shia Iranian and Lebanon which is still scarred by victed the trio of possessing for cleansing, as recently happened near Homs, and its use of chemical army against the rebels. Hezbollah allies in a deepening its own 1975-1990 civil war. consumption more than 1kg of weapons against the Syrian people, the continued siege of Homs is “In order to prevent a single proxy war on Syrian soil. Fighting has broken out in the synthetic cannabis known as inhumane and threatens a massacre,” said a statement from the Gulf drop of blood from being spilled Deputy US Secretary of State Mediterranean cities of Tripoli Spice, jailing each one for four Cooperation Council. “The GCC calls on the Security Council to con- and to find a peaceful solution, we William Burns, speaking at the and Sidon, while rockets have years. vene on an urgent basis to lift the siege of the city of Homs,” added have set the following conditions,” end of a visit to neighbouring been fired at a Hezbollah district “The Dubai Appeal Court the statement by the GCC. REUTERS the video statement by the rebels Lebanon, condemned Hezbollah’s of southern Beirut and in the rejected the Britons’ appeals said. Among the demands were military intervention in Syria. Bekaa Valley. REUTERS and upheld the four-year jail term against each of them after they were convicted of possessing and taking drugs,” Israel risks EU Gulf News reported on its web- site. The three men will be boycott if no Saudi prince grilled in UK court over Gaddafi jet deported after serving their sentences, it added. LONDON: A billionaire Saudi by Gaddafi in 2009 to pick up Monday’s verdict is still peace progress prince told a London court Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset subject to appeal before the yesterday that “each dollar Al Megrahi when he was freed Cassation Court within 28 JERUSALEM: Israel runs the counts” as he was cross-exam- from a Scottish jail. days, Gulf News said. risk of European economic boy- ined over his sale of an opulent In 2011, it became a trophy for cott if it fails to advance peace private jet to Libya’s former rebels who toppled Gaddafi and talks with the Palestinians, leader Muammar Gaddafi. were photographed on its silver- Former anti-Qaeda Justice Minister Tzipi Livni The appearance by Prince coloured leather sofas. warned yesterday. Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of The prince said the jet, which fighters killed in Iraq “You cannot deal only with the Custodian of the Two Holy boasted a king-size bed and a BAGHDAD: Gunmen economic issues and ignore the Mosques King Abdullah bin meeting room with a throne-like dressed in military uniforms political issue and the importance Abdulaziz, was a rare instance leather armchair, was only one kidnapped eight former anti- of a two-state solution,” she told of a senior Saudi royal being sub- item on a huge business agenda Qaeda fighters from their delegates at a conference in Eilat. jected to a hostile public grilling. he had with the Libyan leader. homes north of Baghdad and “Europe is boycotting products. The prince is being sued by “I used to call him personally killed them execution-style And, true, it is starting with the Daad Sharab, a Jordanian busi- by the way,” he told the court, yesterday, officials said. settlements but their problem is nesswoman who says she was not saying that in the era when The murders come amid a with Israel, which is perceived as paid a promised $10m commis- Gaddafi sought international series of attacks against the a colonial state, so it won’t only sion for brokering the sale of the rehabilitation, he had seen Prince Sunni Arab tribal militia in stop with the settlements, but jet to Gaddafi, which was com- Alwaleed as someone who could recent days, and as Iraq grap- will (reach) Israel as a whole,” pleted in 2006 for $120m after help him bridge the gap between ples with a protracted political she warned. years of delays. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and (right) Jordanian businesswoman Daad the Arab world and the West. deadlock and months of pro- Livni was referring to plans At number 26 on the Forbes Sharab arrive at the High Court in London yesterday. The prince said the sale of tests by the Sunni community. by the European Union to start global ranking of billionaires, the Airbus had run into trou- The attack on the eight separately labelling products from Prince Alwaleed is worth $20bn ble because after the Libyans former anti-Qaeda fighters Jewish settlements in the occu- according to the US magazine to Gaddafi over the jet sale but style of Sharab’s lawyer, Clive had paid him an initial $70m in took place in Mishahada, which pied Palestinian territories which and closer to $30bn by his own had never agreed a figure for her Freedman, who accused him of 2003, Ahmad Qadhaf Al Dam, a lies just north of Baghdad, are currently labelled as “made estimate. commission. He said he did not minimising Sharab’s role, con- cousin of Gaddafi, demanded a when armed men kidnapped in Israel”. At one point when asked in pay her anything in the end since tradicting himself and evading bribe before arranging the pay- them during a pre-dawn raids Israeli settlements in the West court about a $500,000 com- in the course of the sale, she had questions. ment of the remaining $50m. on their homes. Bank, including annexed east mission he had paid Sharab for “moved to the Libyan camp”. “Would you please answer my The prince refused to pay and Their corpses were later Jerusalem, are viewed as ille- a previous Libyan deal, it was The prince was addressed as question? I have asked it twice kept the plane in Riyadh, leading found in the town, having suf- gal under international law, and suggested to him that this was a “Your Highness” by his lawyer and I will ask it again,” Freedman to several years of deadlock until fered gunshots to the head and goods produced there are not small amount relative to his for- and by Judge Peter Smith, but told the prince at one point. he personally resolved the issue chest, an interior ministry offi- eligible for the same preferential tune. He told the court he had his royal status did not shield The Airbus A340 at the cen- with Gaddafi in 2006, he said. cial and a medical source said. tariffs enjoyed by Israeli exports asked Sharab to “open the door” him from the robust questioning tre of the dispute was used REUTERS AGENCIES to the EU. AFP TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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he army has stepped in to defuse the crisis in Egypt. In an address to the nation, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the defence minister, issued an ultimatum Tto President Mohammed Mursi to share power and Croatia has become the latest gave all politicians 48 hours to compromise or have the army impose its own road map. The army’s intervention is not an encouraging sign, but given the enormity of the crisis the country has been going through, there is a need for a power member of the EU periphery which everybody will listen to. Millions of Egyptians were on the streets yesterday to demand that Mursi quit and the headquarters of the BY SRECKO HORVAT and which is close to 100% of the country’s attendance, although Angela Merkel ruling Brotherhood were ransacked. The protests are the IGOR STIKS GDP. Once the most prosperous and disappointed the host by cancelling her culmination of a long campaign against Mursi. And the fury developed of the Yugoslav republics, it participation. Just a few days before, a on the streets is comparable to the fury during the Mubarak ROATIA has become the 28th now has almost no industry. Tourism leading shopping-chain from western EU member state. The European – often cited as Croatia’s biggest asset Europe provided free lunch at the same revolution days and the outcome of the latest uprising will be Cleaders want us to believe that, within the EU – cannot replace it. A square. The offer attracted about 15,000 as significant as the previous one. in spite of the Union’s current crisis, tourist slogan once portrayed it as “a Croatians. It is unfortunate that since the fall of Hosni Mubarak this clearly testifies to the EU’s lasting small country for a great holiday”, but During the celebration show the two years ago, the Arab world’s most populous nation is transformative power, its undisputable tourism amounts to less than 20% of Croatian chief negotiator with the EU, still in turmoil, arousing concern among allies everywhere. international role, and the desirability the country’s GDP. Vladimir Drobnjak, was talking to a The responsibility for an escalation lies with all parties, of its political and economic model. The The dubious privatisation agenda of reporter about the benefits of the EU Croatian political elite wants its citizens the 1990s, facilitated by the aftermath membership. He mentioned the well- especially the government of Mursi. Many opportunities for to believe that the old dream of join- of war and followed by the continuous worn phrase about “sitting at the same rapprochement were missed as every party vies for a complete ing Europe, which framed the narra- neoliberal reforms of the 2000s, created table and participating in decision-mak- hold on power, while the Egyptian society remains divided. tive that once legitimised the reasons enormous social gaps which include ing”. He mentioned that all these deci- It is interesting to note that for abandoning socialism and later today an unemployment rate of almost sions are made by consensus – exactly the latest outpouring of anger Yugoslavia, is finally achieved. 20%. It is no surprise that Croatia ranks as was the practice in Yugoslavia – and But almost no third (with 51.8%) in Europe when it that it is priceless. against Mursi has brought the The army’s one in Croatia comes to unemployment among young Then, to the surprise of the reporter, army and the people closer again. believes that the people – just behind Greece and Spain. he added, “and for everything else, ultimatum to The army’s threat to Mursi was morning after Croatian governments, of both nation- there’s MasterCard”. In this he revealed Mohammed received with loud cheers. It was will bring a bet- alist right and social-democratic left, the truth about Croatia’s accession to a stark reminder that for all the Croatia’s ter life. After all, have followed obediently the EU’s aus- the EU: there is no such thing as a free drama, sacrifices and aspirations of Croatia is the new terity advice, even before the accession. lunch. Croatian citizens have already Mursi has European record- Indeed, the Croatian story resembles paid dearly for EU membership. True, the Egyptian revolution, the army accession is thrown Egypt holder in low those we hear about other EU member they are becoming European citizens, remains the ultimate arbiter of marked by Euro-enthusiasm, states from southern Europe – which but the enormous debt will greatly into fresh power. with only 43.5% brings us to a unavoidable conclusion: weaken the country’s negotiating The onus is now on Mursi to public anxiety turnout at the on 1 July Croatia has not actually joined position. turmoil. act. Millions of people don’t want that it will be the EU referendum only the EU; in reality, it has become Croatian membership in the EU will him to continue and ignoring in 2012and 21% a fully-fledged member of the EU have significant consequences for the latest fall guy of turnout for the periphery. rest of the Balkans as well. The new their wishes will only throw the first elections for It is hard to miss the historical irony EU border, now pushed towards Bosnia- country into permanent chaos. The president needs to initiate the EU political the European here. At the end of the 1980s Yugoslavia Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, a dialogue with all sections of opposition and arrive at a parliament earlier was experiencing a sharp conflict will influence regional economic, social consensus. elite’s neoliberal this year. The EU’s between the developed north and and political dynamics. Instead of But unfortunately, positions are hardening on all sides. self-congratula- underdeveloped south, a foreign debt recovering lost ties and creating an ideology. tory statements crisis, IMF-imposed austerity measures atmosphere of stability and mutual Mursi’s aides have indicated that the president would not cannot hide a resulting in high unemployment, strikes, co-operation among post-Yugoslav give in to the threat of what they call a military coup. That profound malaise institutional paralysis, a lack of solidar- states, which the EU and Croatian position guarantees a direct confrontation between the about the EU’s future either. In stark ity and the rise of nationalism. Croatia government state as being among Brotherhood government and the army, with unforeseen and contrast to the 2004 enlargement and, seceded from the crumbling federation their goals, the EU’s longest external grave consequences for the country. At the same time, the to a lesser extent, the 2007 one, Croatian in 1991 only to join, two decades later, land border(1,300km) will, by the mere opposition has said it’s not ready for talks with Mursi, thus accession is marked by a general gloom another multinational union where it functioning of its police apparatus, nec- and anxiety within the new member meets strikingly similar problems. essarily cut Croatia off from its immedi- paving the way for the army to intervene. Such stubbornness state as well as across the EU. Instead of facing – or at least admit- ate and natural surrounding and bring is not helpful. The army’s suggestion of a coalition government Since 1990, Croatia has gone through ting – these problems, the Croatian gov- further isolation from its neighbours. sounds sensible in the current scenario. Once a constitution a series of transformations, including a ernment organised a party on 30 June Croatia has thus a moral and political is written, peace returns and the economy comes out from brutal war, a nationalist autocracy and at Zagreb’s central square. More than imperative to fight against the thicken- the intensive care section, the country can hold an election. the Euro-compatible behaviour of the £800,000 was spent on the celebration ing of a border that cuts deep through By that time Egyptians will have a complete idea of who they post-Tudjman elites. The £2bn external ceremony, which included live cover- what was once a common borderless debt, part of which was inherited from age on national television of a grand space. want to govern the country. Yugoslavia, now stands at about £40bn, reception with European leaders in THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of Rudd’s cabinet built on hopes that history won’t repeat the day RIME Minister Kevin Rudd’s government today is weaker for the minimise mistakes and keep the focus the two main parties, and a portfolio announcement of his new loss of such experienced figures as on what he perceives are Abbott’s where he will face up to Malcolm cabinet is a reflection of the Stephen Conroy, Craig Emerson, Peter weaknesses. Turnbull. Bill Shorten, a Victorian, has Pdisorder that besets the Labor Garrett and Greg Combet. And Simon Where Julia Gillard failed to keep been rewarded for his late switch to If the demands of government. While Rudd has done the Crean, who on Monday announced his the national debate away from her the Rudd camp, being appointed to best he can with drastically reduced retirement and removed himself from government’s disunity and continued education, where his first task will be to the people are not resources, the government has lost contention in Rudd’s cabinet. mistakes, Rudd has already shown in convince the Victorian government to seven senior ministers in a week, all In reality, Rudd has appointed a his first days back in power that he will come on board for Gillard’s popular but met in this period... of whom resigned in the wake of the cabinet to sell policies for a looming continue to feed the news cycle in a bid incomplete Gonski education reforms. leadership spill. There may be more to election. It is an exercise in harm mini- to dominate national political discus- Mark Butler moves from mental (the armed forces) come. The Opposition Leader, Tony misation with the appointment of sen- sion, creating a framework for issues health and ageing to take over climate will announce a Abbott, argues: “The new ministry isn’t ior ministers to key portfolios to keep to be discussed as he sees fit. change and the environment where even the B team, it’s the C team.” troublesome portfolios and issues on No less than Deputy Prime Minister it is likely he will try to neutralise the future roadmap and While it is true that Rudd has a tight leash. Anthony Albanese takes over the com- damaging carbon tax debate and move General Abdel appointed a record number of women The Prime Minister knows his munications portfolio and its associated to a floating price a year earlier than measures to oversee Fattah Al Sisi to the cabinet – and it is refreshing best chance of making inroads into issues of the national broadband net- planned. its implementation. to see new talent appointed – the the opposition’s formidable lead is to work, an area of key difference between The Sydney Morning Herald Egypt’s Chief-of-Staff TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Labour’s problem: How to look credible Voters won’t doubt that the Eds would change things. They need persuading that their sums would add up.

ANDREW RAWNSLEY official confirmation that what he growing but the deficit has not promised in 2010 had not been ful- been cleared. Balls dropped his n politics, there can be filled, how did Osborne conclude calls for a Keynesian stimulus to something worse than being his statement? “Mr Speaker, I kick-start growth, arguing that proved wrong. And that is sincerely believed at the time that “the balance of advantage” now being proved right. Such my adoption of what economists lay with increased investment in is the fate of the Labour call ‘expansionary fiscal contrac- capital spending, especially a big Iparty in general and Ed Balls in tion’ was the correct approach for programme of house-building. particular. Britain, but I must now recognise Both he and Miliband accepted When the coalition embarked that my forecasts have proved to that they would not be able on its austerity programme back be completely mistaken. to reverse coalition cuts and in 2010, the shadow chancel- The economy has not recovered acknowledged that a Labour gov- lor predicted that they would as I predicted; the bill for welfare ernment would very likely have to smother growth by cutting too has not shrunk in the way I hoped; make cuts of its own. They broadly far, too fast. He stood out with his despite severe cuts to spending in signed up to the coalition’s total warnings that Osbornomics would some key departments, the cost of spending number for 2015-16, say- be self-defeating. The coalition debt is not falling as I believed it ing it would be Labour’s “start- jeered that Balls was a deficit- would; the tax revenues I relied ing point” if it forms the next denier and an unreconstructed on have not flowed in. The defi- government. For some on their old Keynesian. Many commenta- cit, my most crucial self-defined own side, this has been a cause of tors also mocked him for striking test of success or failure, will not discomfort or anger. The Tories what was then a minority position be eliminated by the end of this have failed, therefore Labour opposed to the austerity consen- parliament. must change its position. sus. There was a lot of buy-in for Far from being abject, what Some Labour people are par- George Osborne’s central claim we saw was one of the most ticularly cross about the com- that he would have the deficit self-confident performances mitment to stay within the limits dealt with by 2015. from Osborne for some time. set by the coalition. Why should The chancellor assured us His ego has reinflated since last anyone vote for us, they ask, if that his emergency post-election year’s “omnishambles” budget, we seem to be Tory-lite? I under- budget and first comprehensive after which even some friends stand the question, but it is the spending review would sort out despaired that his reputation was wrong one to ask. Labour’s prob- Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband (left) with British Chancellor Ed Balls. the nation’s finances and put irretrievably sunk. lem at the next election will not Britain firmly back on the road His stock is rising again among be lack of differentiation from to sustainable prosperity. With Tory MPs and friendly commen- the Tories. Total state spending is believed Labour pledges to be fis- like about their last experience of respondents, continue to blame his habit of giving hostages to for- tators. In the words of one cabinet north of £700bn year. Within that cally disciplined. David Cameron of Labour rule. Britain’s economic situation on tune, three years ago he bragged colleague: “He’s recovered from vast figure, there is ample scope and his collaborator at No 11 want The Eds are attempting the the last government, as opposed that “we have already asked the that disastrous budget. He’s got for Labour to illustrate its values to fight a you-can’t-trust-the- much more difficult challenge of to only 29 percent who place cul- British people for what is needed” his chutzpah back. He’s interested by saying how it would prioritise other-lot election campaign that taking their party from opposi- pability on the coalition. A major- and claimed he would not have in the politics. If he sees Labour differently from the coalition. stirs fear and doubt about what tion to power in one term. When ity don’t trust either party with to come back for more in terms people squirming in front of him, Even if Labour doesn’t answer the Labour would do in government. examples of bad government are the economy. Of those choosing a of cuts. he thinks he’s doing well.” differentiation question itself, the So the line they are taking on revealed — the NHS scandals are team, more say they would pre- And what happened next? Last The paradox is that Osborne Tories will do it for them. Labour’s repositioning is that it is a good instance of this — coali- fer to have David Cameron and week, the chancellor had to do has strong hopes of being a ben- When Labour signed up to the phoney and that the Eds would be tion ministers can contend, with Osborne in charge of the economy what he said he would never have eficiary of his own failure. So the coalition’s spending number, the reckless spenders and borrowers. some plausibility, that they are than Miliband and Balls. to do. He did come back for more. ironic upshot of his failure is that Conservatives had a choice about The Tories have two main rea- sourced in mismanagement by The challenge for Labour is He announced a further tranche it is not he, but Labour, that has how to respond. They could have sons for thinking this can work the last government. Labour’s not showing how it would govern of cuts in the financial year that felt compelled to adopt a Plan B. gloated that this was an intel- for them. Firstly, memories of other big problem is illustrated differently from the Tories. It is straddles the next election and Three weeks ago, the Eds tried lectual surrender and crowed Labour government are rela- by the Opinium opinion poll we convincing people that it is differ- strongly suggested that more will to get ahead of the Tory game by that the Eds had now accepted tively fresh. When Tony Blair are publishing soon. The party’s ent with credibility. When he won follow into the distant horizon. executing a significant shift in that the fiscal facts of life are and Gordon Brown ran against 10-point headline lead, which is in the American presidency in 2008, Some of soi-disant experts predict their stance. Conservative. a Conservative government in line with most other recent polls, Barack Obama ran on the slogan: that not only will 2015 be an aus- They made partnered speeches The Tories have decided against the 1997 election, the voters had is not the most important figure. “Change You Can Believe In.” The terity election, so, too, will be the repositioning Labour to fight an using this line of attack. Why? had 18 years of Tory rule and 18 The anguish number for Labour “believe in” was as important as election after that. Having given election in which the economy is Because it would imply that they years to forget what they didn’t is that a near-majority, 46 percent the change. THE GUARDIAN Egypt on the brink US power defined by BY MOHAMED ELBARADEI vision and ad hoc economic policies, with no steady hand at the helm of the wo years after the revolu- state. The government adopted some the ‘rise of the rest’ tion that toppled a dictator, austerity measures in December to sat- Egypt is already a failed state. isfy certain IMF requirements, only to BY JOSEPH S NYE JR On the question of absolute — rather than TAccording to the Failed States repeal them by morning. Meanwhile, relative — American decline, the US faces Index, in the year before the upris- prices are soaring and the situation is n the last century, the US rose from serious domestic problems in debt, second- ing we ranked No. 45. After Hosni becoming untenable, particularly for the status of second-tier power to being ary education and political gridlock. But Mubarak fell, we worsened to 31st. I the nearly half of Egyptians who live the world’s sole superpower. Some these issues are only part of the picture. Of haven’t checked recently — I don’t want on less than $2 a day. Iworry that the US will be eclipsed in the many possible futures, stronger cases to get more depressed. But the evidence The executive branch has no clue this century by China, but that is not the can be made for the positive over the nega- is all around us. how to run Egypt. It’s not a question of problem. tive. But barring such mistaken strategies, Today you see an erosion of state whether they are Muslim Brothers or There is never just one possible outcome. there are, over a longer term, solutions to authority in Egypt. The state is sup- liberals — it’s a question of people who Instead, there are always a range of pos- the major problems that preoccupy us. Of posed to provide security and justice; have no vision or experience. They do sibilities, particularly regarding political course, for political or other reasons, such that’s the most basic form of statehood. not know how to diagnose the problem change in China. Aside from the political solutions may remain forever out of reach. But law and order is disintegrating. In and then provide the solution. They are uncertainties, China’s size and high rate But it is important to distinguish between 2012, murders were up 130 percent, simply not qualified to govern. of economic growth will almost certainly situations that have no solutions and those robberies 350 percent, and kidnappings We in the opposition have been urg- increase its strength in relation to the US. that, at least in principle, can be solved. 145 percent, according to the Interior ing President Mohammed Mursi and But even when China becomes the world’s Decline is a misleading metaphor and, for- Ministry. You see people being lynched company for months that Egypt needs largest economy, it will lag decades behind tunately, President Obama has rejected the in public, while others take pictures of a government that is competent and the US in per-capita income, which is a bet- suggested strategy of “managing decline.” the scene. Mind you, this is the 21st impartial, at least through the upcom- ter measure of an economy’s sophistication. As a leader in research and development, century — not the French Revolution! ing parliamentary election. We need Moreover, given our energy resources, the higher education and entrepreneurial activ- The feeling right now is that there is a broad-based committee to amend US economy will be less vulnerable than ity, the US is not in absolute decline, as hap- no state authority to enforce law and the Egyptian Constitution, which A protester, opposing Egyptian President the Chinese economy to external shocks. pened in ancient Rome. In relative terms, order, and therefore everybody thinks pretty much everyone agrees falls Mohammed Mursi, holds up a sign in front Growth will bring China closer to the US in there is a reasonable probability that the US that everything is permissible. And short of ensuring a proper balance of of the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters power resources, but as Singapore’s former is likely to remain more powerful than any that, of course, creates a lot of fear power and guaranteeing basic rights in Cairo yesterday. prime minister Lee Kwan Yew has noted, single state in the coming decades. We do and anxiety. and freedoms. And we need a political that does not necessarily mean that China not live in a “post-American world,” but nei- You can’t expect Egypt to have a partnership between the other estab- will surpass the US as the world’s most ther do we live any longer in the “American normal economic life under such cir- lished parties — including those with an the old crutch of having somebody tell powerful country. era” of the late 20th century. cumstances. People are very worried. Islamic orientation — and the Muslim you what to do. Freedom is still new Even if China suffers no major domes- In terms of primacy, the US will be People who have money are not invest- Brotherhood, which represents prob- to people. tic political setbacks, projections based on “first” but not “sole.” No one has a crystal ing — neither Egyptians nor foreigners. ably less than 20 percent of the country. Most of our challenges are a by-prod- growth in gross domestic product alone ball, but the National Intelligence Council In a situation where law and order is Unfortunately, these recommendations uct of the old dictatorship. We still have ignore US military and “soft power” advan- (which I once chaired) may be correct in spotty and you don’t see institutions have fallen on deaf ears. an open wound and need to get a lot tages as well as China’s geopolitical disad- its 2012 projection that although the uni- performing their duties, when you don’t The Brothers are also losing badly of the pus out. We need to clean that vantages in the Asian balance of power. The polar moment is over, the US probably will know what will happen tomorrow, obvi- because, despite all their great slo- wound — you cannot just place a Band- US culture of openness and innovation will remain first among equals among the other ously you hold back. As a result, Egypt’s gans, they haven’t been able to deliver. Aid on it. But that is what is happening keep this country central in an informa- great powers in 2030 because of the multi- foreign reserves have been depleted, the People want to have food on the table, — relying on the same worn-out ideas. tion age in which networks supplement, if faceted nature of its power and legacies of budget deficit will be 12 percent this health care, education, all of that — and The uprising was not about chang- not fully replace, hierarchical power. The its leadership. year, and the pound is being devalued. the government has not been able to ing people, but changing our mindset. US is well positioned to benefit from such The power resources of many states and Roughly a quarter of our youth wake meet expectations. The Brotherhood What we see right now, however, is just networks and alliances if our leaders follow non-state actors will rise in the coming up in the morning and have no jobs to doesn’t have the qualified people, who a change of faces, with the same mode smart strategies. years. US presidents will face an increas- go to. In every area, the economic fun- hail mostly from liberal and leftist par- of thinking as in Mubarak’s era — only In structural terms, it matters that the ing number of issues in which obtaining our damentals are not there. ties. You need to form a grand coalition, now with a religious icing on the cake. two entities with per capita income and preferred outcomes will require power with Egypt could risk a default on its for- and you need to put your ideological How bad could it get? Different sce- sophisticated economies similar to that of others as much as power over others. eign debt over the next few months, differences aside and work together to narios, of course, present themselves if the US — Europe and Japan — are allied Our leaders’ capacity to maintain alli- and the government is desperately focus on people’s basic needs. You can’t law and order continues to deteriorate. with the US. In terms of balances-of-power ances and create networks will be an impor- trying to get a credit line from here eat Sharia. People are now saying something that resources, that makes a large difference for tant dimension of our hard and soft power. and there — but that’s not how to get We are paying the price of many we never thought was possible before: the net position of American power, but Simply put, the problem of American power the economy back to work. You need years of repression and strongman rule. that they want the Army to come back only if US leaders maintain the alliances in the 21st century is not one of a poorly foreign investment, you need sound This was a comfort zone for people — to stabilize the situation. and institutional cooperation. In addition, specified “decline” or being eclipsed by economic policies, you need function- they didn’t have to make independent Or we might have a revolt of the in a more positive sum view of power with, China but, rather, the “rise of the rest.” The ing institutions, and you need skilled decisions. Right now, after the uprising, poor, which would be angry and ugly. rather than over, other countries, Europe paradox of American power is that even the labour. everybody is free, but it’s very uncom- There are worse things than state fail- and Japan provide the largest pools of largest country will not be able to achieve So far, however, the Egyptian gov- fortable. It’s the existential dilemma ure, and I’m afraid Egypt is teetering resources for dealing with common tran- the outcomes it wants without the help of ernment has only offered a patchwork between the yearning to be free and on the brink. WP-BLOOMBERG snational problems. others. WP-BLOOMBERG TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Monti warns he US seeks to calm outrage over spying may withdraw Obama says all spy agencies seek non-media sources; European allies warn of loss of trust support for Italian govt DAR ES SALAAM: US former NSA contractor Edward President Barack Obama tried Snowden, have raised a furore ROME: Former Italian prime yesterday to reassure European in the United States and abroad minister Mario Monti has allies affronted by reports of over the balance between privacy warned that he may withdraw US spying, but suggested all rights and national security. support for the coalition govern- the world’s intelligence services The Guardian newspaper said ment of Enrico Letta if it cannot were involved in finding out the on Sunday that the United States resolve disagreements between thinking of opponents and allies had also spied on non-European its main partners and push alike. allies, including Japan, South ahead with economic reforms to The EU has demanded that the Korea and India — all represented tackle a deep recession. United States explain a report at the Asian security conference. Monti’s Civic Choice alliance in a German magazine that Kerry confirmed that EU for- has too few seats in parliament Washington is spying on the bloc, eign policy chief Catherine Ashton to bring down the government, saying that, if true, such surveil- had raised the issue when he met but his warning is a sign of grow- lance was shocking. her in Brunei. He said he had yet ing concern at the slow pace of French President Francois to see details of the newspaper reform because of disagreements Hollande called the alleged spying allegations. between the centre-left and cen- intolerable, saying it could hinder “I will say that every country in tre-right parties which are the US relations with Paris and the the world that is engaged in inter- main planks of Letta’s coalition. European Union. “We want this national affairs and national secu- “Without a change in direction, to stop fast,” he said. rity undertakes lots of activities to we do not think that in the long- Obama, on a visit to Tanzania, protect its national security and all term we will be able to support a promised to supply all the infor- kinds of information contributes government impacted by growing mation requested by European to that. All I know is that it is not ambiguities,” Monti wrote on his allies regarding the spying allega- unusual for lots of nations,” Kerry Facebook page. tions, which he said Washington told a news conference. Monti, who introduced pen- was still evaluating. Several EU policymakers said sion and labour reform, spending “Every intelligence service, not talks on a US-EU free trade deal cuts and tax hikes while head of a just ours, but every European should be frozen until Washington year-long technocrat government intelligence service, every Asian clarifies its activities. European US President Barack Obama (second right) and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete (second left) flanked by that came to power at the height intelligence service, wherever Commission President Jose US First Lady Michelle Obama (right) and Tanzanian First Lady Salma Kikwete (left) at the State House in Dar es of a financial crisis in November there’s an intelligence service, Manuel Barroso has asked officials Salaam, Tanzania, yesterday. 2011, said Letta had started well here’s one thing they’re going to carry out a security sweep of since taking over in April. to be doing: they’re going to be EU buildings, said Pia Ahrenkilde in touch and cooperate and (if) to contact Kerry for an explana- Peer Steinbrueck, Social But he said the government trying to understand the world Hansen, spokeswoman for the there is any concern we would tion and that Fabius would also Democrat candidate for German needed to overcome differences better and what’s going on in EU’s executive body. convey it or they would convey meet the US ambassador in Paris chancellor, said the EU and between and within the coalition world capitals around the world Martin Schulz, president of the it to us.” “to make the point that we can- European parliament should halt parties so it could push on with from sources that aren’t avail- EU Parliament, told French radio not tolerate this kind of behaviour trade talks with Washington until radical reforms to boost growth able through the New York Times the United States had crossed a NSA SNOOPING between allies and friends”. “these activities are ruled out” in and make Italy more competi- or NBC News,” Obama said. line. “I was always sure that dic- But some of Washington’s The French president said future, saying: “This creates a tive. Italy is deep in its longest “If that weren’t the case, then tatorships, some authoritarian European allies said counter-ter- France and the EU, if not all US huge loss of trust.” recession since Second World there would be no use for an intelli- systems, tried to listen ... but that rorism could not justify the scale partners, would need guarantees The European Commission was War, with unemployment at gence service. And I guarantee you measures like that are now prac- of the alleged spying. on the spying issue before going cagy on whether the row would record levels. that in European capitals, there tised by an ally, by a friend, that In an article that sparked ahead with negotiations and deal- affect the EU-US free trade He urged Letta to draw up a are people who are interested in is shocking, if it is true,” Schulz EU outrage, Der Spiegel said ings with the United States. talks set to begin in Washington coalition contract to ensure those — if not what I had for breakfast said in an interview with France 2. on Saturday that the National “We know there are systems on July 8. Spokeswoman Hansen reforms were carried out regard- — at least what my talking points Officials in Japan and South Security Agency (NSA) bugged that need to be monitored, nota- said: “All I can say is we are very less of uncertainties within the might be should I end up meet- Korea said they were aware of EU offices and gained access to bly in the battle against terror- much focused on the question of two major parties. ing with their leaders. That’s how the newspaper reports and had EU internal computer networks. ism, but I don’t think this risk these allegations and we are look- Letta’s centre-left Democratic intelligence services operate.” asked Washington to clarify them. On Sunday, the German exists within our embassies or ing for a clear statement from our Party (PD) will elect a new leader His Secretary of State, John Indian External Affairs magazine reported that the US the European Union,” he declared. American partners.” in the autumn and the centre- Kerry, who is in Brunei for an Minister Salman Khurshid, who agency taps half a billion phone In Berlin, German Justice Kerry said his government right People of Freedom (PDL) Asian security conference, said is also in Brunei, told ANI televi- calls, e-mails and text messages Minister Sabine Leutheusser- thought China could have helped party faces uncertainty due to the United States was not alone sion: “These are all areas of great in Germany in a typical month, Schnarrenberger said the spying the United States arrest Snowden the mounting legal woes of its in using “lots of activities” to safe- strategic importance that we have much more than any other reports recalled Cold War hostili- while he was in Hong Kong. leader Silvio Berlusconi. He was guard its security. to cooperate and collaborate in, European peer and similar to the ties. “It goes beyond any imagina- Snowden is now holed up at an convicted last week on charges of Revelations about the US in counter-terrorism measures. data tapped in China or Iraq. tion that our friends in the United international airport in Russia, paying for sex with a minor and surveillance programme, which I think we (the United States Hollande said he had told States view the Europeans as from where he has applied for asy- abuse of power. was made public by fugitive and India) continue to remain Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius enemies,” she said. lum in Ecuador. REUTERS REUTERS Six women in Croatia celebrates Australian PM’s cabinet historic EU entry ZAGREB: Tens of thousands of told the festive crowd in Zagreb. CANBERRA: Australia’s new Croatians cheered the country’s As thousands of Croatians took cabinet was sworn in yester- entry into the European Union at to the city squares to celebrate, day with Prime Minister Kevin midnight on Sunday as fireworks officials removed the “Customs” Rudd naming a record number lit up the skies above Zagreb. sign at a border crossing with fel- of six women and switching It was a historic moment for low EU member Slovenia. focus to the economy ahead of the former Yugoslav republic, At the same time, the “EU” upcoming elections. coming nearly two decades after sign appeared at the land border With Labour trailing badly in it emerged from a bloody inde- with Serbia, another ex-Yugoslav the polls Rudd ruthlessly seized the pendence war in the 1990s. republic which on Friday got a leadership on Wednesday, ousting Some 20,000 people gathered at green light from Brussels to open the country’s first woman prime Zagreb main square, joining more membership talks by January 2014. minister Julia Gillard three years than 100 European dignitaries But the celebrations were after she had overthrown him. to mark event on the stroke of overshadowed by economic wor- The Labour Party, which is midnight when Croatia officially ries that the membership would counting on Rudd’s vaunted cam- became the bloc’s 28th member. only burden already recession-hit paigning skills, has seen an imme- “Welcome to the European Croatia’s economy. diate bounce in popularity. “I am Union!” European Commission Croatian President Ivo Josipovic delighted that in this cabinet President Jose Manuel Barroso vowed not to “let the cloud of the of ours we will have the largest told the crowd. Countdown cel- economic crisis overshadow our number of women in any cabinet ebrations were held in towns vision and optimism”. UN peacekeepers mark the start of their mission in Mali, in Bamako, yesterday. in Australian history,” Rudd said. throughout the country as crowds “The crisis is a challenge, an Victoria senator Jacinta Collins cheered to the EU anthem, invitation to make tomorrow bet- enters the cabinet as minister for Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”, waving ter than today,” Josipovic said in UN peacekeepers take over in Mali mental health, Catherine King EU and Croatia’s flags in joy. his celebratory speech in Zagreb. will be minister for regional Welcoming Croatia into the A lavish EU entry celebration Australia and Julie Collins takes bloc, European President Herman in Zagreb included perform- BAMAKO: United Nations Rwandan General Jean-Bosco a free and fair vote with such the portfolios of housing, home- Van Rompuy said the country had ances by some 700 singers, musi- peacekeepers took over security Kazura, formerly second in com- short notice. After the handover less and the status of women. “crossed an important threshold. cians and dancers at three stages duties from African troops in mand of African Union troops in ceremony, acting Mali president They join finance minister Penny “It will change the life of this decked out in the EU’s trademark Mali yesterday with a mission to Sudan’s western Darfur region, Dioncounda Traore held a meet- Wong, health minister Tanya nation for good,” Van Rompuy blue colour. AFP ensure stability in the conflict- will lead the UN mission — known ing with the leaders of AFISMA Plibersek and families minister scarred nation just four weeks as MINUSMA. and MINUSMA, telling them he Jenny Macklin in the 20-mem- ahead of planned elections. “I want to thank AFISMA for recognised that “these elections ber cabinet. The total number of A 12,600-strong force officially all their work. Our mandate is will not be perfect”. women ministers rises from nine replaced the AFISMA military to secure the major cities of the “This is impossible when you out of 30 under Gillard to 11. mission, which has been sup- north, the protection of civilians... look into the abyss we’re emerg- West Australian MP Melissa Mandela ‘critical but stable’ porting French soldiers who political mediation and the pro- ing from, but they won’t throw Parke was also appointed as entered Mali in January to halt tection of the rights of men and us back into the crisis (in which) the country’s first minister for PRETORIA: Nelson Mandela South Africa without seeing his an Islamist advance and to help women,” said Bert Koenders, the we paid a heavy price,” he added. international development, a remained in a “critical but sta- personal hero, who has been in the government re-establish its UN Secretary General’s repre- The election commission’s pres- non-cabinet job. Rudd said the ble” condition yesterday, the intensive care since June 8. Obama authority over the vast country. sentative in Mali and the head of ident Mamadou Diamountani said appointments were made purely presidency said, more than spent the weekend paying homage Soldiers from troop-contributing MINUSMA. last week it would be “extremely on merit, not gender, and pledged three weeks after the anti- to Mandela, including a trip to the west African countries and UN The force is made up largely difficult” to get up to eight million to boost the economy, but made apartheid hero was hospitalised Robben Island prison where the officials took part in a “re-hatting” of Africans already stationed in voting cards to the electorate in no mention of an election date. with a recurring lung infection. man who would become South ceremony in Bamako, replacing Mali but China has offered to sup- a country where 500,000 people “The core task of this Australian President Jacob Zuma urged Africa’s first black president was their head gear with the distinctive ply more than 500 troops in what have been displaced by conflict. government is to keep the economy South Africans to begin planning locked up for 18 years — a visit he light blue berets of the UN. would be its biggest contribution He also highlighted the insta- strong,” he said. Rudd pledged to for Mandela’s 95th birthday on said left him “deeply humbled”. France is winding down its to UN peacekeeping. bility in the northeastern town work for a “stronger, fairer Australia July 18. “We must all be able to do Obama also spoke to Mandela’s deployment from its peak of The mission is due to play of Kidal, which is occupied by ... and never ever, ever allow the fair- something good for humanity on wife Graca Machel by telephone, nearly 4,500 but is to keep up a key role in presidential polls Tuareg separatists and still has go to be thrown out the backdoor”. this day, in tribute to our former and met several daughters and to 1,000 troops in Mali and will announced for July 28 but the no army presence despite a cease- The top jobs of foreign affairs, president,” he said. grandchildren of the ailing icon maintain responsibility for mili- election commission has raised fire between the transitional gov- defence and the home ministry did The update came hours after to offer support and prayers. tary strikes against the Islamists. doubts over its ability to stage ernment and the rebels. AFP not change hands. AFP US President Barack Obama left AFP TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 19 firefighters killed in Arizona Blasting heat keeps hold Probe launched; wildfire still raging unchecked; 200 homes destroyed on western US states NEW YORK: Residents of “Excessive heat will continue PRESCOTT: Fire investigators western US states awoke on through Independence Day as in central Arizona launched a Monday to more scorching heat a strong ridge of high pressure probe yesterday into how wind- expected to break record highs holds over the western states,” driven flames closed in on and and grip the region through the NWS said in Las Vegas. “An killed 19 specially trained fire- much of the holiday week, mete- excessive heat warning is in place men in a tragedy that marked orologists said. for much of the area through the greatest loss of life among Temperatures were likely to hit Thursday evening for this intense firefighters in a US wildland well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and dangerous heat wave.” blaze in 80 years. (38 degrees Centigrade) in The heat caused an interstate The precise circumstances Fresno, California, Phoenix and highway ramp to buckle in Salt surrounding Sunday’s deaths to the north in Boise, Idaho, and Lake City, state transportation of all but one of a 20-member Spokane, Washington, according officials said. The ramp was closed elite “hotshots” firefighting team to Accuweather.com. for about four hours on Saturday remained unclear a day after “A large area of high pressure night before it was repaired, local they perished while battling a will continue to bring dangerously media reported. blaze that has destroyed scores high temperatures to much of the of homes and forced the evacua- western US and into the middle of FLIGHT DELAYS tion of two towns. the week,” the National Weather In the eastern United States, But fire officials said the young Service said. “Triple-digit tempera- meanwhile, low heavy cloud cover, men fell victim to a volatile mix tures will be common across the thunderstorms and heavy rains of erratic winds gusting to gale- Southwest, but will also occur as were causing flight delays at air- force intensity, low humidity, a far north as the northern Rockies ports in the New York City region sweltering heat wave, and thick, and the Pacific Northwest.” and in Philadelphia. drought-parched brush that had A record high of 104 F was set Due to thunderstorms, delays not burned in some 40 years. in Boise on Sunday. Many loca- in departing flights at John F The doomed firefighters had tions that broke records over Kennedy International Airport managed to deploy their per- the weekend may break them were as long as 90 minutes and sonal fire shelters, tent-like safety again on Monday, the NWS said. increasing, the Federal Aviation devices designed to deflect heat Temperatures in western states Administration said. Downpours and trap breathable air, in a last- The Yarnell Hill fire is seen burning in this view from Highway I-17 near Arizona yesterday. are 10 to 20 degrees above aver- prompted flash flood warnings to ditch effort to survive that ulti- age, it said. be issued for several locations in mately proved futile, officials said. town of Peeples Valley. The two had been driving in a separate required to take an 80-hour criti- California’s power grid opera- the New York City area. Peter Andersen, a former local towns are southwest of Prescott location and survived unhurt. cal training course and refresher tor yesterday issued a rare plea The stream of tropical mois- Fire District chief who assisted in and home to roughly 1,000 peo- Eighteen of the dead were mem- yearly, according to the group’s for customers in the north of the ture stretching north along the early firefighting efforts, said ple. A Yavapai County Sheriff’s bers of the Granite Mountain website. The deaths brought an state to conserve energy over the the East Coast was expected to some of the men on the ground Office spokesman said at least 200 Hotshots team, assigned to the outpouring of tributes from politi- next few days. The California ISO, deliver “daily, if not hourly, tor- made it into their shelters and structures had been destroyed, Prescott Fire Department, and cal leaders, including from US which operates the grid in most rential downpours” in some areas, some did not, according to an most of them in Yarnell, a com- the 19th victim belonged to another President Barack Obama. of California and parts of Nevada, Accuweather said. account relayed by a ranger heli- munity consisting largely of reti- crew who was working with the Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said it was anticipating a spike in The storms were likely to copter crew flying over the area. rees. And fire officials said most fallen team, Reichling said. called the deaths “one of our air-conditioner usage would add keep battering the coast through “There was nothing they (heli- of the building lost were homes. Evacuee Rick McKenzie, 53, a state’s darkest, most devastat- to typical demand. today and then move westward copter crew) could do to get to Authorities said that figure was bow hunter and ranch caretaker, ing days.” She ordered state flags Temperatures in the Los Angeles and inland tomorrow through them,” he said. a rough estimate and that a more said the fire had “exploded” on flown at half staff till tomorrow. metropolitan area were expected Friday to Mississippi, Tennessee, The blaze was ignited on Friday accurate assessment of property Sunday, with flames 30 to 40 Senator John McCain, an to hit 95 F, about 13 degrees above Kentucky and Ohio, it said. by lightning near the town of losses was expected later. feet high racing across an area Arizona Republican, said: “This normal for this time of year, Dry drought conditions and Yarnell, about 128km northwest The so-called Yarnell Hills of oak and brush and that he devastating loss is a reminder according to Accuweather.com. In concern over the risk of fires of Phoenix, and by yesterday blaze was one of dozens of wild- had warned the Hotshots about of the grave risks our firefight- Death Valley, California, on Sunday, were forcing the cancellation of was still raging unchecked after fires in several western US states the dense oak woods where they ers take every day on our behalf the temperature hit a record high Fourth of July fireworks celebra- scorching some 8,400 acres of tin- in recent weeks. would be working. in Arizona and in communities for June at 129 F, the NWS said. tions, particularly in Colorado, der-dry chaparral and grasslands. Arizona Forestry Commission The Hotshots were highly across this nation. Their sacrifice The highest temperature recorded Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, Authorities ordered the evacu- spokesman Mike Reichling said trained firefighters with rigor- will never be forgotten.” on earth was 134 F (57 C) in Death according to Accuweather.com. ation of Yarnell and the adjoining one member of the 20-man crew ous fitness standards. All were REUTERS Valley on July 10, 1913. REUTERS

Media wait for Kate baby Cameron, coalition partners Gitmo prisoners clash over EU referendum launch bid to halt force-feeding LONDON: Prime Minister Conservatives for decades and David Cameron clashed with played a part in the downfall WASHINGTON: Four detain- his coalition partners over the of two of Cameron’s predeces- ees at the US-run Guantanamo European Union yesterday after sors, John Major and Margaret Bay military jail have lodged a they accused him of endanger- Thatcher. In a public falling legal bid to stop prison authorities ing an economic recovery by out over the Europe vote, the from force-feeding inmates, law- promising a vote on Britain’s Liberal Democrats dismissed the yers for the men said yesterday. 40-year membership of the bloc. Conservative bill as a “parliamen- Prisoners at Guantanamo have Business Secretary Vince Cable, tary stunt” and said its members been on hunger-strike since earlier one of the most senior members would abstain on Friday. this year in protest at their treat- of the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, “We’re not going to waste ment at the controversial facility, said Cameron’s pledge of an in/out any of our time helping the where the vast majority of detain- referendum was a “serious distrac- Conservatives indulge in their ees have never been charged. tion” for a country still healing own internal feuds,” leader and Authorities at the jail say they after the global financial crisis. Deputy Prime Minister Nick are force-feeding 44 inmates out “We are recovering from the Clegg said at the first of what he of an estimated 120 prisoners who worst economic crisis for the best said would be monthly news con- are on hunger strike. However part of a century,” Cable told a ferences before the 2015 election. the motion filed by rights watch- A photographer marks out a position in front of the door to the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, in central meeting organised by Business for The Labour Party, which has dog Reprieve on behalf of four London, yesterday. Prince William’s wife Catherine is not officially due to give birth for two weeks but the New Europe, a lobby group that a 10-point poll lead, called the detainees — Ahmed Belbacha, world’s media began gathering outside the hospital where she will have the baby, determined not to miss supports Britain’s continued EU draft bill a gimmick and told its Shaker Aamer, Abu Wa’el Dhiab the photograph of the year. membership. “The last thing we lawmakers to abstain. Cameron and Nabil Hadjarab — demands need now is massive levels of uncer- said he would support the bill the immediate cessation of force- tainty in the business community.” and suggested other party lead- feeding, decrying it as “torture”. In a speech in January that ers should “get off the fence” and Belbacha said in a statement upset European allies, Cameron tell voters where they stand on a transcribed through his lawyer promised to renegotiate Britain’s referendum. that he was fully aware of the Cirque du Soleil performer UK union rejects EU ties and hold a referendum on Conservative James Wharton, consequences of stopping force- its membership of the bloc by the who has championed the draft feeding. “I am participating in three-year Royal end of 2017. bill, said the next government this hunger strike of my own dies in Las Vegas horror fall After his pledge failed to halt could repeal the referendum law. free choice and am fully aware of Mail pay offer the rise of the anti-EU UK “We’ve never made any secret the negative consequences which LOS ANGELES: A performer groaning, and we could hear a Independence Party or silence of the fact that parliament can’t a long-term strike could have on with the world-famous Cirque du female artist crying from the LONDON: A British union vociferous euro-sceptics within bind its successor,” Wharton told my health,” he said. Soleil circus died after plunging stage.” Cirque du Soleil founder rejected a three-year pay offer his Conservatives, Cameron threw a news conference. “A future par- “I realise the consequences of from a high wire before a horri- Guy Laliberte said in a statement from Royal Mail yesterday, his support behind a legal guaran- liament could repeal it.” ending the force-feeding regime. fied crowd at a Las Vegas show, posted on Facebook he was devas- warning industrial action was tee of a referendum. Parliament Polls show Britons are divided Understanding this, I ask the the organisation confirmed. tated by the tragic accident. inevitable if bosses did not meet will debate and vote on the draft on whether to stay in the EU, court to stop the prison authori- Sarah Guyard, who media “I am heartbroken. I wish to its demands ahead of the post referendum bill on Friday. with slightly more favouring an ties from force-feeding and forci- reports identified as a 31-year-old extend my sincerest sympathies group’s planned privatisation Arguments over Britain’s ties exit but many undecided. bly medicating me.” mother-of-two, fell to her death to the family. We are all com- later this year. with Europe have plagued the REUTERS AFP towards the end of the circus’s pletely devastated with this news. The offer, which would apply popular Ka production staged at Sassoon was an artist with the to around 125,000 employees, the MGM Grand on Saturday. original cast of Ka since 2006 included an 8.6 percent pay Witnesses quoted by US media and has been an integral part of increase over three years and a reports said Guyard fell from a our Cirque du Soleil tight fam- lump sum payment of £300. height of around 50 feet as she ily,” Laliberte said, referring to “The pay rise is only there Immigration reform bill will pass: Lew was being hoisted up towards the Guyard by her stage name. as a sweetener to swallow some roof of the stage on a wire for a “We are reminded, with very bitter pills on damaging WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Jacob “We need to do this for the sake of the economy,” battle scene in the show. great humility and respect, how changes to pensions, and a raft Lew said that he was confident immigration he said, emphasizing that taxes paid by these newly It is believed to be the first extraordinary our artists are each of workplace uncertainty,” said reform would be adopted, despite strong opposi- legalized immigrants could help prolong the solvency fatality in the history of Cirque and every night. Our focus now is Dave Ward, the deputy general tion from some Republicans. of social security and medicare. And he added, “we du Soleil, the Canadian-based ani- to support each other as a family.” secretary of the Communication Last week the US Senate passed a controversial have to do it because it’s the right thing to do. We mal-free circus troupe known for A statement from Cirque du Workers Union (CWU). “If we immigration bill that would give a path to citizenship have to it because it’s the smart thing to do.” its offbeat performances which Soleil said the organisation was can’t get the assurance we want for 11 million undocumented immigrants, and the “We are a nation of immigrants. You look at the for- have toured around the world. working with authorities in Las over our members’ future then legislation is now under debate in the Republican- tune 500 companies, 40 percent of them were started “(The artist) was being hoisted Vegas to determine how the acci- industrial conflict is inevitable.” controlled House of Representatives. by immigrants or children of immigrants,” he said. The up the side of the stage and then dent occurred. An initial public share offer Conservatives have criticised the Senate version treasury secretary called himself “very optimistic” for just plummeted down,” witness “We have been working with (IPO) of Royal Mail, which could of the overhaul and have vowed any House ver- US economic growth, saying there are “a lot of signs Dan Mosqueda was quoted as say- the appropriate authorities and value the near 500-year old busi- sion would need to have significant differences. But that there is a real recovery on the way.” ing by the Las Vegas Sun. have offered our full cooperation,” ness at between £2bn and £3bn, is Treasury Secretary Lew he thought the reforms But, he said, “we have to make sure we do not have “Initially, a lot of people in the it added. Performances of Ka expected later this year and banks — strongly backed by President Barack Obama — another round of self-inflicted wounds,” referring to audience thought it was part of have been cancelled until further have been appointed to run the would become law. “I think the immigration reform negotiations over the country’s borrowing limit and the choreographed fight. But notice, the statement said. flotation. will pass,” he said at a conference in Aspen, Colorado. budget cuts, which hinder growth. AFP you could hear screaming, then AFP REUTERS TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Thousands demand democracy in HK Protesters brave rain to seek chief executive’s ouster HONG KONG: Thousands of is increasingly meddling in local the transition to universal suffrage protesters, some waving British affairs. A widening income gap to appoint the city’s leader, which colonial-era flags, marched and soaring property prices have was promised by 2017, though in Hong Kong yesterday to also contributed to the turnout as critics say little or no progress denounce the city’s leaders and protestors focused their anger on has been made on the issue as the demand universal suffrage on unpopular Chief Executive Leung deadline draws nearer. the 16th anniversary of the ter- Chun-ying. Early yesterday, China’s national ritory’s handover to China. The July 1 rally comes after anthem blared as the Chinese and Tropical Storm Rumbia brought a survey published by the Hong Hong Kong flags were raised out- rain and strong winds as demon- Kong University found that only side the harbour-side Convention strators bearing banners saying 33 percent of Hong Kongers took Centre in a ceremony to mark the “Democracy now” and “Down with pride in being a Chinese national, 16th anniversary of its handover the Chinese Communist Party” the lowest level since 1998. to China. started off from the city’s land- Leung was appointed by a pro- A small but rowdy protest took mark Victoria Park to march to Beijing committee last July, prom- place near the ceremony with the financial district of Central. ising to improve governance and demonstrators burning a photo- The annual rally for democ- uphold the rule of law in the ter- graph of Leung and pushing and Pro-democracy protesters hold banners with image of Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying as they racy comes amid concerns in the ritory of seven million people. shoving with police. march on a street, demanding universal suffrage and asking Leung to quit yesterday. southern Chinese city that Beijing He is charged with overseeing AFP

4 China ships in US encouraging terror North Korea: Kerry shows united front Japan waters BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, with taking a firmer line against bilateral relations because of dis- TOKYO: Four Chinese gov- BRUNEI: US Secretary of the North Korean regime headed putes related to Tokyo’s colonial ernment ships were yester- in Xinjiang: Media State John Kerry yesterday by Kim Jong-Un, as part of inter- rule of the Korean peninsula. day sailing in waters around sought to present a united front national sanctions. This includes Yun called off a visit to Tokyo islands controlled by Tokyo BEIJING: The US is encouraging “terrorism” in Xinjiang, Chinese against North Korea’s nuclear reports that state-owned Bank of in April after two Japanese cabi- and claimed by Beijing, the state media said yesterday, also claiming that separatists in the ambitions as he met his coun- China shut the account of a North net ministers paid respects at Japanese coastguard said. region — which has a large Uighur minority — had fought alongside terparts from China, Japan and Korean-controlled bank. the Yasukuni shrine, which ven- The maritime surveillance Syrian rebels. South Korea. Kerry also met Japanese erates 2.5 million Japanese war vessels entered the 12-nau- Beijing denies that the unrest in the vast region bordering Central Kerry, meeting Chinese Foreign Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida dead including prominent war tical-mile zone regarded as Asia — which last week left at least 35 people dead — is due to ethnic Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines and South Korea’s Yun Byung-Se. criminals. the territorial waters of the tensions between Uighurs and China’s majority Han. of an Asia-Pacific meeting in “The three of us, our countries, North Korea, meanwhile, Senkaku islands, which China But rights groups for the mostly Muslim Uighurs blame unrest on Brunei, said that “both reaffirmed are working very, very hard slammed South Korean President calls the Diaoyus, in the East economic inequality and religious repression, and Washington has strongly the seriousness” of com- together on a number of critical Park Geun-Hye for “hurting its China Sea, at around 5am on raised concerns about discrimination. mitment to the denuclearisation issues,” Kerry said, listing North dignity” with her call for denu- Sunday, the coastguard said. The People’s Daily, a mouthpiece for the ruling Communist Party, of North Korea. Korea as one item of common clearisation and said its atomic In Brunei, US Secretary of slammed the US government and media for what it said was its role “We look forward to working concern. weapons could never be a bargain- State John Kerry nudged in the violence. “The violent terrorist incidents in Xinjiang are not with you to accomplish this goal,” Yun said North Korea’s devel- ing chip. “Park let loose a whole China to agree a code of con- an ethnic issue or a religious issue,” it said, calling the “massacres” of Kerry said in brief remarks. opment of nuclear weapons “will string of provocative remarks duct to prevent clashes in the officials and bystanders “inhumane”. China is the main ally of North never be tolerated” and that seriously hurting the dignity South China Sea after the Last Friday a US State Department spokesman said it was “deeply Korea, which defiantly carried out Pyongyang will “face further iso- and social system in the DPRK Philippines accused Beijing of concerned about ongoing reports of discrimination against and restric- its third nuclear weapons test lation and dire consequences in (North Korea) while visiting a military build-up. tions” on Uighurs in China. in February and threatened to the event of provocations”. China,” the Committee for the He said the US urged a “transparent investigation” but did not want attack the US. South Korea and Japan, which Peaceful Reunification of Korea Four kids die as to “draw broader conclusions” about the incidents. AFP US officials have credited China are close US allies, have prickly said. AFP boat sinks Face-off MANILA: Authorities have launched search and rescue Protester miscarries operations for the three miss- ing passengers of a motor banca after Cambodia Communal riots erupt that sank off Iloilo and claimed the lives of four children, police crackdown the Philippine Coast Guard again in Myanmar said yesterday. Investigation PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian revealed that M/Bca Clien woman miscarried yesterday YANGON: Rioters torched government spokesman Ye Htut with 15 passengers aboard left after police beat her and another two houses in a coastal town said on his Facebook page. While Tambaliza village on Friday pregnant protester during a in Myanmar’s Rakhine State the Thandwe riot was relatively morning. The passengers were crackdown on a land rally in the in the latest violence between minor, similar incidents in the to attend a fiesta in Salvacion capital, a local rights group said. Buddhists and minority past have led to larger and more village on an island about 1.5 The 33-year-old was 10 Muslims, a government spokes- deadly confrontations. nautical miles away from their weeks’ pregnant, the Cambodian man said, but a resident said “The Myanmar police force is port of origin. While on their Human Rights and Development security forces had restored working to reveal the offenders way home at around 2pm the Association said. She was among order yesterday. and take action according to the following day, the motor boat around 100 people who blocked At least 237 people have been law,” Ye Htut said. was battered by tropical storm the road outside a municipal killed in Myanmar in religious Three Muslims were injured Rumbia, causing it to capsize. building in central Phnom Penh. violence over the past year and in the fire, Ye Oo, a police deputy Eight passengers were rescued. Police tried to drag the pro- about 150,000 people have been corporal in Thandwe, told Reuters testers from the road but they displaced. Most of the victims by telephone. Boy gets lung resisted, prompting officers to were Muslim and the most deadly Ye Htut said police had blocked beat them, a witness said. incidents happened in Rakhine roads into and out of the town, part from mom The pregnant women were State, where about 800,000 which has the closest airport to kicked and beaten,” the asscoca- Rohingya Muslims live, accord- Ngapali beach, one of Myanmar’s TOKYO: Part of a Japanese tioni said, adding they were taken ing to the United Nations. most popular beaches for tourists. woman’s lung was trans- to hospital where the miscarriage In the latest flare-up, about 50 The UN said 140,000 people planted to her three-year-old was confirmed. people gathered outside a police remain displaced after clashes son yesterday in what was The protesters, from Phnom station in Thandwe on the west in June and October last year. described as the world’s first Penh’s lakeside area, were coast on Sunday after hear- Muslims make up about 5 per- successful graft of a middle demanding more compensation ing a woman had been raped cent of the 60 million in Buddhist- lobe from a living donor, a hos- or the return of land given by the A policeman aims his rifle towards settlers throwing bottles and rocks by “a man of another religion”, majority Myanmar. AGENCIES pital said. Lung transplants government to a Chinese company as they remove a barricade set up by residents who blocked a road in from living donors usually for a commercial development. anticipation of the demolition of their homes in Manila yesterday. involve transferring the infe- rior lobe which has greater Hanoi prisoners riot breathing capacity. But a mid- dle lobe was transplanted as it over jail condition is smaller than an inferior lobe Aquino vows to rebuild air force by 2016 and is of the right size for the HANOI: Rioting inmates boy, the Okayama University seized control of a Vietnamese MANILA: Philippine President would buy 12 South Korean FA-50 arrive in the Philippines later the country’s territory even as it Hospital said. The boy and his jail for several hours, taking the Benigno Aquino yesterday fighter jets to be used for “train- this year. admitted that such a task poses mother were not identified. prison chief hostage in a protest vowed to acquire fighter jets, ing, interdiction and disaster Aquino said he was committed a huge challenge. demanding better treatment air defence radar and other response”. to reversing the under-spending Its chief Lt Gen Lauro Catalino Rainstorms kill and conditions, yesterday. equipment within three years The Philippines, a former US on military capability that he said dela Cruz said the challenge lies The disturbance started at the to bolster the country’s weak colony, retired the last of its had characterised the Philippines on the vast waters and air space 34 in China Xuan Loc jail in Dong Nai prov- air force, amid a territorial dis- US-designed F-5 fighters in 2005 since the early 1990s. of the Philippines as an archipe- ince, about 40km north of Ho Chi pute with China. and lacks air defence. “Over the past decades the air lagic nation. BEIJING: Rainstorms have Minh City. “I assure you that before I step Aquino, whose-six-year term force had its wings broken and we “Our country is an archipe- ravaged nine Chinese provin- According to reports on dis- down from office, our skies will ends in mid-2016, has set about relied on old and rickety planes lagic nation and this poses a huge cial-level regions since June 29, sident blogs, the jail holds a be guarded by modern air assets,” modernising the military in his and equipment,” he said. challenge in terms of securing leaving 34 dead and 12 missing, number of high-profile political he said in a speech during a visit first three years in office as ten- Parliament has since author- our territory. The waters and air the Ministry of Civil Affairs prisoners. Some 50 prisoners at an air base in Clark, north of sions rise with China over over- ised the defence department to space that we need to secure are said yesterday. The ministry “smashed the prison and took Manila. The speech was broadcast lapping territorial claims to spend 75 billion pesos ($1.7 bil- so vast. We have to travel more reported 18 deaths and four the jailor hostage”, state-run live on radio and television. islands and waters in the South lion) on modernising the military than 200,000 miles to secure our missing in north China’s Inner Tien Phong newspaper reported. Among these are “lead-in fight- China Sea. over the next five years, Aquino waters and islands,” he said. Mongolia Autonomous Region, One policeman was wounded. ers, long-range patrol aircraft, The main focus was initially the added. This is on top the more “Despite this, we will not fal- nine deaths and four missing in Guards regained control of the close-air-support aircraft”, as well navy with the acquisition of two than 19 billion pesos that it had ter in our resolve to secure them east China’s Anhui Province, prison several hours later and as transport planes, attack- and Hamilton-class cutters decom- spent over the past three years and ensure that the natural five deaths and four missing the prison chief was released. multi-use helicopters, air defence missioned by the US Coast Guard. for this purpose. resources and possessions of our in southwest China’s Sichuan Police Lieutenant General Ho radar and flight simulators. The first of the two refurbished Between 1992 and 2010, the country are taken care of and, if Province, one death in central Thanh Dinh said the distur- He gave no details of the air- vessels became the Philippine Philippines had spent just 33 bil- necessary, defended,” he added. China’s Hubei Province and bance was ignited by some lead- craft and equipment, or the terms Navy’s flagship in 2011, replacing lion pesos for military modernisa- Dela Cruz is optimistic that one death in southwest China’s ing prisoners. We identified about for their acquisition. a warship initially built for the US tion, Aquino said. the acquisition of new equipment Chongqing municipality. 40 (who organised the riot and In January an Aquino spokes- Navy in the Second World War. The air force, meanwhile, would enable them to carry out AGENCIES hostage-taking). AFP man announced the government The second cutter is set to expressed readiness to defend the crucial task. AGENCIES TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Power-sharing with Taliban mooted Pakistani official’s suggestion involves a form of federalism and ceding some Afghan provinces to militants

KABUL: Pakistan has floated the election of Pakistan Prime a task that is gaining urgency Afghan people. role,” he said. military and the Inter Services the concept of a power-sharing Minister Nawaz Sharif in May. as Nato troops withdraw by the Pakistan was not immediately Before Afghanistan suspended Intelligence (ISI). arrangement between Kabul It also suggests peace talks end of 2014. Afghanistan has long able to comment on what was said talks in Doha, US officials had “While we believe there are and the Taliban as part of a with the Taliban had failed before accused Pakistan of playing a dou- by Aziz or its view of Ahmadi’s said they would have stuck to an elements of the military and the peace talks “endgame”, Afghan British Prime David Cameron ble game regarding the 12-year- assertions. insistence that the Taliban break ISI who endeavour to weaken Deputy Foreign Minister visited the region to promote old war, saying Islamabad, facing Ahmadi said the opening ties with Al Qaeda, end violence the Afghan state, their narrative Ershad Ahmadi said yesterday, Afghan-Pakistan relations. a Taliban insurgency of its own, of the Taliban office in Doha and accept the Afghan consti- seems to be getting some kind of a suggestion met with outrage. “We believe this federalism makes public pronouncements was part of a Pakistani plan to tution, including protection for buy-in from other state institu- The idea was raised in a Friday is a means for the Pakistanis about peace, but allows elements increase the insurgents’ interna- women and minorities. tions and that’s a major concern,” meeting between Pakistani to achieve what they could not of its military to play a spoiling tional prestige. During their 1996-2001 reign, he said. National Security Adviser Sartaj achieve through their proxy role. “There are elements within the the Taliban banned women from The ISI played a role in the Aziz and Afghan Ambassador (the Taliban) on the battlefield,” Afghan President Hamid Pakistani government who have education, voting and most work, events in Doha, Ahmadi said, add- Umer Daudzai, Ahmadi said. It Ahmadi said. Karzai voiced his concern about a grand design of using the peace and leaving homes without per- ing that some or all of the Taliban involved a form of federalism and Pakistan has a considerable Pakistan’s motive in the peace process as a means to undermine mission and a male escort. delegates held a meeting with ISI ceding power in some Afghan influence over the Afghan Taliban process during a Saturday news the Afghan state and establish Ahmadi said despite hopes the officers in Doha. provinces to the Taliban. leadership, based in the south- conference with Cameron, say- little fiefdoms around the coun- Sharif administration may curb “We do monitor these things The suggestion dashed hopes of western Pakistani city of Quetta. ing that “delivering a province try in which the Taliban — its meddling in Afghan affairs, Kabul and we know there have been reg- a reset in relations between the It is seen as crucial to US and or two to the Taliban” would be most important strategic asset in felt the administration was aid- ular interactions,” Ahmadi said. South Asian neighbours following Afghan efforts to promote peace, perceived as an invasion by the Afghanistan — play an influential ing the double game played by the REUTERS Suicide attack bid thwarted Two police officers KABUL: Afghan security forces shot dead a would-be suicide bomber in central Kabul yesterday outside an killed in Peshawar intelligence agency office and close to the EU mission, offi- PESHAWAR: Gunmen ambushed a police checkpoint yesterday cials said. The attacker in in Pakistan’s troubled northwestern city of Peshawar, killing two military uniform was killed as policemen, an official said. he approached the National Three gunmen riding two motorbikes attacked the checkpoint on Directorate of Security office the outskirts of the city and escaped. in the morning. The incident “We don’t know about the identity of the attackers but they fled took place in one of the most towards the tribal region after killing two policemen at the checkpoint high-security areas, close in Pashta Khara area,” Imran Shahid, a senior police official, said. to the interior ministry and The attack came a day after Islamic militants killed 53 people in Chicken Street, a popular suicide and bomb attacks in the northwest and southwest. shopping area for foreigners A car bomb targeted a security forces’ convoy and killed 17 people in until the insurgency wors- the suburbs of Peshawar on Sunday, not far from the semi-autonomous ened several years ago. tribal belt where Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked groups have bases. Also on Sunday, a suicide bomber blew himself up close to a mosque Three killed in in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing 28 people, to mark the deadliest day in months. Baluchistan Pakistani troops have been fighting for years against homegrown insurgents in the tribal belt, which Washington considers the main ISLAMABAD: Three hub of Taliban and Al Qaeda militants plotting attacks on the West labourers were killed and Shia mourners carry the coffins of the victims of a suicide bombing at a graveyard in Quetta yesterday. and in Afghanistan. four injured after mili- AFP tants opened fire on them as they slept by the road in Baluchistan, Geo News said yesterday. The gun- men on motorbikes attacked the daily-wagers in Khan Kot area of Naseerabad and Child health ‘needs By-poll a test of PTI popularity fled. The sources added that the district administration ISLAMABAD: The August an independent (Jamshed Dasti) There is going to be a new was taking all the necessary 22 by-poll will be more a test while remaining three are the seats political alignment for winning remedial measures and police serious attention’ case for Pakistan Tehrik-e- on which polls could not be held on the by-polls in the first place. were inspecting the spot to ISLAMABAD: The state of child health in Pakistan is among core Insaf (PTI) than other political May 11 due to various reasons. PTI is going to get the vote verify the exact nature of the national issues which call for immediate and serious attention. outfits as being new to power The ruling PML-N’s job is not support from its coalition part- killings. Representatives of various international health organisations, who politics it is undergoing the too difficult as far as retaining ners, Jamaat-e-Islami, jam- have over the years played a key role in assisting Pakistan to control test of forming and running a its two seats both won and left hoori Watan Party and Pakistan Terror suspects outbreaks in the country, believe that the gap between reported and ‘model’ government in Khyber by Prime Minister Muhammad Jamhoori Ittehad (more known assessed cases, disintegrated and unreliable monitoring and observa- Pakhtunkhwa which has come Nawaz Sharif and his younger as Swabi ittehad) while the sec- held in Karachi tion systems have massively contributed to the outbreaks in Pakistan under media and opposition brother and Chief Minister ond big stakeholder JUI-F is over the past five years. Head of the polio eradication at the World criticism. Punjab Shahbaz Sharif are engaged in talks on local levels ISLAMABAD: Five mem- Health Organisation in Pakistan Dr Elias Durry said that there are Another interesting aspect of concerned. with the former ruling Awami bers of banned Tehreek- three major causes explaining why hundreds of thousands of children these by-polls is that due to inter- The task of retaining the seats National Party. e-Taliban Pakistan were are missed during immunisation drives each year. vening Ramazan and Eidul Fitr left by PTI Chairman Imran PTI is expected to have a sway arrested in raids in Orangi He cited poor health service delivery at the grass root level to be the by-polls have to be delayed Khan in Peshawar 1, Mianwali, on seats it had won due to the town area of Karachi, Senior a major cause adding that the inability to keep a proper check and by over one month of the legal Javed Hashmi NA 48, Khyber support from its three partners Superintendent of Police west balance over it only made things worse. Parents who refuse to get sixty days and these will not be Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister while JUI-F is trying to find out zone, Asif Eijaz Shaikh, said their children immunised also contribute to the number of rising held after almost 100 days which Parwaiz Khattak NA 5 and new allies and may enter in seat yesterday. He said that two cases. One of the other causes which work as a major contributor to usually is calculated as first psy- provincial party president and adjustment with ANP. Kalashnikovs, one MP-5 rif- the hike in numbers is the inaccessibility to children of areas mostly chological hurdle for any new Speaker PA Asad Qaiser NA 13 Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s fle, two TT pistols, one 9-MM under militant threats. government. will not an easy one. spokesman Jan Achakzai con- pistol, three block and six He said, “As large number of children remain non-immunised for a The party has to retain five The reason being that while firmed to this correspondent that ball bombs, 3kg of explosive long period of time, you are playing the virus’s game and not the eradi- National Assembly seats more than all the PTI seats have been won both parties can cooperate on NA material, nut bolts, walkie- cation or control game which is the sole reason children face outbreaks other political parties followed by by party heavy weights the ticket 1 (support ANP) and on NA 25 talkie sets, a stolen car and a like measles and polio.” He said while the outbreak of measles was due two each by PML-N and JUI-F, holders in the by-polls will be and NA 27 won and then left by motorbike were impounded. to the aforesaid reasons lack of accountability only added to the soaring one by Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami either the off shoots of these heavy Maulana Fazlur Rehman. He said that the men were numbers. INTERNEWS Party, one by PML-F and one by weights or at least light weights. INTERNEWS examining a sensitive place to attack. AGENCIES Karachi power company battles to energise port megacity

KARACHI: Since Pakistan’s Now many are wondering if a third, cut off non-payers and biggest electricity company was KESC’s successful privatisation destroy illegal connections. privatised, its headquarters will be repeated elsewhere. It started a war. have been looted, its employees The government is due to Redundant employees offered kidnapped and the government release its energy strategy this to work for free because they tried to arrest its boss. week. One official said it was made such fat kickbacks. When It’s been a roaring success. going to look closely at privatising management refused, thousands Power cuts lasting 12 hours more state-run power companies. of protesters ransacked KESC’s a day or more have devastated Pakistan’s power companies headquarters. They camped out- Pakistan’s economy. The loss of share similar woes. Staff is often side for months. millions of jobs has fuelled unrest corrupt and influential families Gunmen attacked Gauhar’s in a nuclear-armed nation already won’t pay bills. The government house. Workers crossed picket beset by a Taliban insurgency. sells power below the cost of pro- lines every day on the floor of The only city bucking the trend duction but pays subsidies late or police cars and more than 200 is the violent megacity of Karachi, not at all. Plants cannot afford fuel. KESC employees were injured. Pakistan’s financial heart — At the state-run Peshawar “We felt very lonely then,” said thanks to Tabish Gauhar and his Electricity Supply Company, the Gauhar, who moved from CEO to team at the Karachi Electricity majority of staff are illiterate, chairman of KESC earlier this Supply Company (KESC). most new hires are relatives of year. “When I used to visit one “It has consumed every ounce existing staff and 37 percent of of our injured employees in the of my energy,” 42-year-old Gauhar power generated was stolen, a hospital it was hard for me to look said in his wood-panelled office. 2011 USAID-funded audit found. them in the eye.” “But we have helped millions of KESC had all the same prob- Many in the populist pro-labour people.” lems when Dubai-based pri- government vilified KESC. Later, The new government of Prime vate equity firm Abraaj Capital legislators tried to arrest Gauhar Minister Nawaz Sharif won an bought a controlling stake in for not attending sub-committee election in May partly because it 2008. Gauhar and his Abraaj team meetings in the capital. A worker walks at the Bin Qasim Power Station, some 35km east of Karachi yesterday. promised to fix the power cuts. decided to slash the workforce by REUTERS TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Nation to have Allahabad inundated own satellite navigation IRNSS to be based on 7 satellites

CHENNAI: India will have its Japanese Quasi Zenith Satellite own navigational systems like System with three satellites. some other countries by 2015 While GPS and Glonass are and its space agency is in a fast fully functional global systems, production mode to roll out six Chinese and the Japanese sys- more satellites for the purpose, tems are offering regional cover- said an official yesterday. age and Europe’s Galileo is yet to “All the seven satellites of be operational. the Indian Regional Navigation By adding more satellites, the Satellite System (IRNSS) are service area can be expanded, identical and the space agency ISRO officials said. will be rolling them out. Already The entire IRNSS system is the second one is getting ready expected to be in place by 2015 for the year-end or early 2014 and the whole project is expected launch,” an Indian Space Research to cost around Rs14.2bn. Organisation (ISRO) official, pre- The ISRO official said the ferring anonymity, told IANS. target date is achievable as the India was to last night launch satellites will be launched using its first navigation satellite PSLV-XL rockets whose turn- IRNSS-1A weighing 1,425 kg around time is months and there from its spaceport at Sriharikota, are two launch pads. around 80 km from here, using “Only when all the seven satel- its rocket Polar Satellite Launch lites are up in space, the whole Vehicle-XL (PSLV-XL). system will come into play. The Vehicles move through a waterlogged road after heavy rains in Allahabad yesterday. The IRNSS-1A satellite is earlier we have the full sys- intended to provide terrestrial, tem the better it is for all. For aerial and marine navigation instance by 2015, the first satel- services and help in disaster and lite — IRNSS-1A — will be nearly fleet management. one-and-half years old and its The satellite with a life span of remaining life span will be 8.5 Ishrat case: CBI unlikely to name IB official around 10 years is one of the seven years,” the official said. satellites constituting the IRNSS He said once the regional navi- NEW DELHI: The CBI is agency will file a preliminary Jahan, Pranesh Gopinath Pillai, shootout took place. Officials, who space segment — a regional navi- gation system is in place, India unlikely to name Intelligence charge sheet by July 4. Amjad Ali and Jishan Johar did not wish to be named, said gational system developed by need not be dependent on others. Bureau (IB) official Rajendra “We have given an assurance were killed by Gujarat Police in a that the larger conspiracy behind India, designed to provide accu- According to the official, the Kumar in its preliminary to the high court that we will file shootout in Ahmedabad in 2004. the killings was still being probed. rate position information service IRNSS-1A will provide data charge sheet in Ishrat Jahan the charge sheet by July 4. We will CBI officials said that the pre- The Union Home Ministry to users within the country and that will be useful in tuning the shootout case to be filed before maintain that,” Sinha told report- liminary charge sheet was likely has maintained that its permis- up to 1,500 km from the nation’s systems. the Gujarat High Court by July ers on the sidelines of a function to name the officers alleged to be sion was required by the CBI to boundaries, ISRO said. “There will not be much rev- 4 and may seek more time to on environmental training at the directly involved in the incident prosecute Rajendra Kumar. The While ISRO is silent on the enue from the single satellite as probe the conspiracy angle, offi- CBI headquarters. and the agency will file a supple- ministry also expressed doubts navigation system’s strategic its coverage area will be small,” cials said yesterday. He said the agency has written mentary charge sheet on the con- over “evidence” that the agency application, it is clear that IRNSS he said. The preliminary set of formal to the Maharashtra government spiracy angle in the killing. claimed to have gathered on his will be also be used for defence The IRNSS will provide two charges may focus on those who and the Union Home Ministry to The CBI has also questioned alleged involvement. purposes. types of services — standard are alleged to be directly involved provide more security to officers Rajendra Kumar, an Indian The Bharatiya Janata Party, The system is similar to the positioning service and restricted in the suspected staged shoot- investigating the shootout case. Police Service officer and IB offi- the ruling party in Gujarat, con- global positioning system (GPS) service. out and not on the conspiracy Asked if the charge sheet will cial, in the case. Officials said he tended that the Ishrat Jahan of the US (24 satellites), Glonass The former is provided to behind it. name former Gujarat minister was unlikely to be named in the shootout was not staged and was of Russia (24 satellites), Galileo all users and the latter is an Central Bureau of Investigation Amit Shah, Sinha said he could preliminary charge sheet as an conducted on the basis of infor- of Europe (27 satellites), China’s encrypted service for authorised (CBI) director Ranjit Sinha told not comment on individuals. accused. Rajendra Kumar was mation received from the IB. Beidou (35 satellites) or the users. IANS reporters here yesterday the Mumbai college girl Ishrat with the IB in Gujarat when the IANS

Macau calling Bollywood actor Decision on Telangana in the gets bail in Jiah Khan final stage, says Digvijay suicide case HYDERABAD: A decision on party have to be prepared for held meetings with the office Telangana issue is in the final this,” he said. bearers and also presided over MUMBAI: Aspiring Bollywood stage and will be announced as “The process has started,” he the meeting of the coordination actor Suraj Pancholi left prison early as possible, said Congress remarked when asked about Dec committee. on bail yesterday three weeks general secretary Digvijaya ember 9, 2009, statement by the He noted that his predecessors after being arrested over a pos- Singh. central government. “We had Veerappa Moily and Ghulam Nabi sible role in the suicide of his He told reporters here last said it will be referred to Andhra Azad had the widest consultations actress girlfriend Jiah Khan. evening that there are only two Pradesh assembly,” he added. on Telangana issue at all levels. Pancholi, 22, the son of options before the government Digvijaya Singh said while The leader said the party faced Bollywood acting couple Aditya — united Andhra Pradesh or for- moving a resolution in the state the political challenge of 2014 elec- Pancholi and Zarina Wahab, was mation of a state of Telangana, assembly is the normal process tions. He said the Congress owed released after a Mumbai court set thus putting to rest speculations for creating a separate state, such it to people of Andhra Pradesh for bail at Rs50,000. that Rayala-Telangana, compris- a resolution will not be binding on giving a massive mandate in both “He has been let out on bail ing Rayalaseema and Telangana the central government. 2004 and 2009 elections. today. He had to pay 50,000 regions of the state, may be cre- “A decision will be taken in the Earlier, Congress leaders of rupees,” Pancholi’s lawyer Zamir ated or a Union Territory status best interest of the nation, in the Telangana and Seemandhra Khan told Reuters by telephone. given to Hyderabad. interest of state and in the inter- (Rayalaseema and Andhra) Investigators had requested Digvijaya Singh stated that a est of the welfare of people of separately called on Digvijaya the court for more time to ques- decision will be taken as soon as Andhra Pradesh,” he said. Singh. While Telangana leaders tion him about Jiah Khan’s death possible, but refused to set any “I have experience of formation sought an early decision on carv- on June 3. Her last call was to deadline, saying several such of Chhattisgarh state which was ing out the separate state, their Pancholi. deadlines were set in the past. created out of Madhya Pradesh. counterparts from Seemandhra Pancholi was arrested on June He asked Chief Minister N Separation is not an easy decision urged the leadership not to 10 after Khan’s mother Rabia Kiran Kumar Reddy, Deputy Chief and the issues of division are also bifurcate the state. State min- went public with a letter appar- Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha quite intricate,” he added. isters, members of parliament ently written by the 25-year-old and state Congress chief Botsa Stating that the Congress had and the state legislature from actress before she hanged herself Satyanarayana to prepare a road promised second state reorganisa- Seemandhra submitted to Singh in her Mumbai apartment. map on what should be the strat- tion commission in 2004 elections, a resolution passed at their meet- In the letter widely published in egy if a decision is taken either Digvijaya Singh said adding that ing last week, opposing the state’s the Indian media, Khan spoke of way. “The road map is basically unfortunately the panel could not division. One of the ministers, being physically and emotionally what should be the political strat- be set up. S Sailajanath, told reporters later abused and of having an abortion Actors Ayushman Khurana (left) and Sushant Singh Rajput attend a egy and the administrative action On his first visit to the state no alternative to a united state against her will although she did press conference ahead of The International Indian Film Academy if a decision is taken either way. after assuming charge of party would be acceptable to them. not mention any names. (IIFA) awards in Mumbai yesterday. The Awards are to take place in Both the government and the affairs in Andhra Pradesh, he IANS Police have yet to file any Macau from July 4 to 6. charges against Pancholi. Suicide is a crime in India and abetting suicide is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Khan, whose real name was Ill-treated and overworked elephant dies in Mumbai Nafisa Khan, made her Bollywood debut in 2007 with Ram Gopal Varma’s Nishabd, playing the MUMBAI: An overworked and arthritis, J C Khanna, secretary animal activists and Bollywood “Her condition deteriorated sight in the streets of many Indian 18-year-old female lead opposite overweight elephant in Mumbai of the Bombay Society for the stars after she was found lying quickly over the past three days, cities, although their move- one of India’s best known actors, whose plight illustrated the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in pain earlier this month in when she could no longer stand, ments are officially restricted in Amitabh Bachchan. Nishabd mistreatment of the animals as told AFP. the city’s northeastern suburbs, even with the support of cranes,” Mumbai, the country’s largest received mixed reviews and did street performers has died after “She died because of ignorance, unable to walk after decades of the Mumbai Mirror newspaper city. Permission to use elephants not do well at the Bollywood box fighting for her life for weeks, lack of awareness and ill-treat- neglect and overwork. said yesterday. in the city is usually granted only office but Khan went on to play vets said yesterday. ment,” said Khanna, a vet and Local newspaper reports said The newspaper said the mahout for religious occasions. supporting roles in two more The 58-year-old named Bijlee consultant who was part of a she was used by her owners to (elephant keeper) Rajaram was Vets say Bijlee’s owners have films, the psychological thriller died on Sunday from complica- team trying to save the elephant. beg on the streets and entertain inconsolable and sat beside her been feeding her junk food for Ghajini in 2008 and the comedy tions relating to old age, degen- Bijlee, whose name means light- at weddings without a break for after her death. years, including popular Indian Housefull in 2010. REUTERS eration of leg muscles and ning, had sparked anguish among more than 50 years. The animals are a common snacks. AFP TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Bangladesh Kashmir shutdown cripples life SRINAGAR: Life across the One person was killed in fir- Kashmir Valley was affected ing by security forces on a stone- yesterday by a separatist shut- pelting mob that was carrying the down called to protest the body of the slain student. to repatriate alleged killing of two people The police has registered a by security forces in north murder FIR in the incident. Kashmir’s Bandipora a day ago. The government has ordered Educational institutions, mar- Director General of Police Ashok kets, other businesses and public Prasad to personally supervise the transport remained suspended in investigations. ULFA leader Srinagar and other parts of the The army said a probe had been Valley because of the shutdown. ordered and anyone found guilty In a late evening development, would be punished. Chetia to arrive by July 15 a Jammu and Kashmir Police con- Major General R R Nimbhorkar, stable and three separatist guer- general officer commanding of the SHILLONG: United Liberation to come back to India after much rillas were killed in a day long army’s Victor Force, told a media Front of Asom (ULFA) general persuasion by his family members gunfight between security forces conference Sunday that the army secretary Anup Chetia, who has and friends. He wanted to be part and the militants in Pulwama dis- condoled the death of the two peo- been in a Bangladeshi jail since of the ongoing peace talks between trict, a defence official said. ple. He said that if any troopers 1997, would be repatriated this the government (of India) and the Private transporters were are found guilty, they would be month to India, a senior Union ULFA,” Singh said. running skeletal services on city punished. Home Ministry official said Chairman of ULFA’s pro-talk roads and in some other places in The condemnation of the kill- yesterday. faction, Arabinda Rajkhowa, the Valley yesterday. Government ings has been widespread — the “He (Chetia) should be repat- on several occasions had asked offices, post offices and banks ruling National Conference, the ratriated to India by July 15 or a the Indian government to seek functioned normally, despite the opposition People’s Democratic few days before that,” Shambhu Chetia’s repatriation from shutdown call. Party and the Congress have Singh, joint secretary (northeast) Bangladesh. Meanwhile, the annual A Kashmiri woman walks past paramilitary troops during a shutdown in all condoled the deaths and in the Union Home Ministry, told On May 13, Chetia in his Amarnath Yatra that started Srinagar, yesterday. blamed the army for the firing IANS. petition submitted to Rajshahi June 28 proceeded normally incident. Chetia is wanted in India for Central Jail, where he has been from both the south and north (Pahalgam) base camp towards counter-insurgency Rashtriya Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, various crimes including murder, in detention, said: “Earlier, I Kashmir routes. the cave shrine yesterday. Rifles troopers were involved in who was to give away prizes to kidnapping and extortion. He was wanted to stay in this country. I Around 7,000 pilgrims were An 18-year-old student, the killing. winners of the Mughal Road arrested in Assam in 1991, but was have changed my mind and I have allowed by the authorities to pro- Irfan Nabi Ganai, was killed in The boy had only emerged from Car Rally Sunday, cancelled the freed by the state government. decided to live the rest of my life ceed from north Kashmir Baltal Markundal village of Bandipora his house at around 3.30am after appointment following the tragic On December 21, 1997, the with my children in my country base camp, and an equal number district Sunday morn- rumours spread of thieves on the incident. ULFA general secretary was (India).” from the south Kashmir Nunwan ing. Locals alleged that the prowl in the village. IANS arrested from Mohammadpur The prison authorites for- in Dhaka for illegally enter- warded the petition to the ing Bangladesh and for illegally Bangladesh Home Ministry. carrying foreign currency and India has long been demand- a satellite phone. He is under ing Chetia’s deportation but detention after completing his Bangladesh has been saying that jail term. the issue needs to be settled by Wife backs Kerala leader in sex scandal Chetia sought political asylum the court as he had sought politi- in Bangladesh on three occasions cal asylum. India and Bangladesh KOCHI: The wife of belea- here. Thettayil’s wife Daisy held promised her that he would get sexual exploitation were telecast — in 2005, 2008 and in 2011. He had signed an extradition treaty guered former Kerala minister a brief press conference and said his son married to her, but did on TV. also applied to the United Nations earlier this year. Although Jose Thettayil yesterday came that her husband was innocent. not keep his word. Soon after the filing of the com- High Commissioner for Refugees Bangladesh never officially out in support of her husband, “We will approach the speaker “He should resign as legisla- plaint by the woman, Thettayil, for political asylum in Bangladesh, acknowledged handing over sev- stating that he was not involved and governor with a complaint tor and face the case,” said the a Janata Dal-Secular legislator, contending he had been fighting eral top Indian rebels leaders to in the alleged sexual exploita- and also approach the police to woman in an interview to a TV denied the allegation and accused for a sovereign Assam. India since Sheikh Hasina took tion of a woman. prove that he and our son was channel telecast ahead of Daisy’s her of morphing his picture along But later the separatist leader office of the prime minister in A 30-year-old woman recently being politically targeted,” said news conference. with her. who is fighting for a “soveriegn January 2009, it is now an open alleged that the former minister Daisy, as she broke down. Thettayil, who represents While Thettayil’s party is Assam” sought that his appli- secret that Dhaka facilitated and his son Adarsh repeatedly To repeated questions on her the Angamaly constituency in backing him, leaders of the Left cation for political asylum in their arrests by capturing them sexually exploited her last year husband’s whereabouts, she said Ernakulam district, has stayed Democratic Front, to which Bangladesh be cancelled and he and later handing them over to and the visuals of the alleged acts she did not know anything. away from public glare since June Thettayil belongs, seem divided be returned to India. “He wanted Indian authorities. IANS were telecast by TV channels The complainant said Thettayil 23 after the visuals of the alleged over the issue. IANS Uttarakhand sets up rehab agency as rescue nears end DEHRADUN: Over a fort- night after floods and landslides ravaged it, Uttarakhand yes- terday set up a reconstruction and rehabilitation authority to oversee relief work in the state, while Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna put the deaths in the calamity at 882 and said 3,068 people were missing. Bahuguna announced setting up of the Uttarakhand Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Authority at a press conference with Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh by his side. Rescue efforts in the state were also nearing completion. The authorities began evacuat- ing around 1,500 people, includ- ing locals, who are still stranded at Badrinath, Maneri and Harsil, Damage from floods has been extensive at Silli in northern Uttarakhand. but heavy rain and fog held up the operations at many places. Around 300 pilgrims stranded affected after noon due to bad announced that water and power in Chamoli district and over 600 weather, said officials. bills for flood-affected people people at Badrinath shrine were In a far-reaching decision, the would be waived. ferried by choppers to Joshimath. chief minister said no permission The authorities are now con- Around 500 people are still would be given henceforth for fronted with the mammoth task stranded at Badrinath. The army construction along river banks. of clearing up the debris, search- and the air force flew over 50 sor- Thousands of dwellings and build- ing for bodies and disposing them ties to evacuate stranded people ings along river banks have been of properly. The chief minister to safer areas. Rescue operations washed away or destroyed in the announced that a team of 200 were hampered in Dharasu due to floods. He also said that children people, including officials from the bad weather, while in Gauchar, the in areas hit by the floods would police, health, animal husbandry air force flew 26 sorties and evac- be given Rs500 and college stu- and sanitation, are being rushed uated 243 people from Badrinath dents Rs1,000 each as interme- to Kedarnath to collect DNA to Joshimath. Operations were diate relief. The chief minister samples of bodies. IANS

No hike in rail fares this year: Minister Stay on polythene pack ban SHIMLA: In a tempo- stocking of 25 food items, includ- BANGALORE: There would rary reprieve to MNCs, the ing chips and biscuits, which are be no increase in train fares Himachal Pradesh High Court available in plastic and non-bio- during the 2013-14 fiscal despite yesterday stayed the govern- degradable packs. rising diesel price, Railway ment order imposing a ban on The government’s notifica- Minister Mallikarjun Kharge potato chips and candies packed tion came in the wake of the said yesterday. in polythene. high court order January 10 that “The railways will absorb the Hearing a bunch of petitions, a directed the government to ban additional cost of diesel price, division bench of Justice D D Sud the items packed in plastic pack- which has been going up margin- and Justice Sanjay Karol stayed aging from April 1. ally,” Kharge told reporters here. till September 3 the ban, which But later on the request of the Passenger fares were increased came into force in the state from state government, the court had across the board from January 22 yesterday. extended the time limit to imple- by then minister Pawan Kumar The government issued a noti- ment the orders by three months. Bansal. IANS fication June 26, banning sale and IANS TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

PRAYER TIME French ‘fake police’ SCH ANNUAL REPORT steal €200,000 News in Numbers 2012CHART: 1 from Saudi official 9 Fajr (Dawn) 3:18 Shorook (Sunrise) 4:47 PARIS: Robbers posing as policemen made off with Zuhr (Noon) 11:38 ¤200,000 belonging to a sen- Asr (Afternoon) 3:01 ior official from the Saudi youth and sports ministry Maghrib (Sunset) 6:29 just after he landed in Paris, Isha (Night) 7:59 police said yesterday. The audacious robbery was staged on the busy A1 highway near Le Bourget airport. The WEATHER robbers were armed and used two cars equipped with flash- ing lights and the word “Police” IMPROVING SERVICES 2 Today Wednesday Weather Thursday Conditions: on them. Partly cloudy Clear Partly cloudy They stopped the car the • An independent 2012 poll found that 90 percent of Qatari nationals Hot with Saudi official was travelling in slight dust & and demanded an inspection of were satisfied with the availability of quality healthcare. the boot. High: 41° some clouds High: 42° High: 43° They then made off with a • A 2012 Report reported that Qatar made considerable progress Low: 33° Low: 33° Low: 32° becoming hazy by night. suitcase containing ¤162,000, with the health-related United Nations Millennium Development Goals. $30,000 and £10,000. It was not immediately clear why the The Report found that Qatar has reached, or is close to reaching, official was travelling with so DOHA - SUN & SEA much cash. many of the goals, before the 2015 target date.

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HANOI: An American doctor arrived in Vietnam carrying unusual cave dwellings an unlikely piece of luggage: the bones of an arm he amputated GHARYAN, Libya: Deep room housed a family with cook- tourists several years ago. Before are laid out around the caves. in 1966. inside Libya’s western Nafusa ing areas — smaller caves — used Libya’s 2011 war, foreign visitors Others inspect old shoes that Dr Sam Axelrad brought the Mountains, some 10 metres into communally. would sleep in the rooms and eat hang on the white walls inside skeletal keepsake home to Texas the ground, Al Arabi Belhaj is Decorated with traditional home-cooked meals — usually the courtyard, which is decorated as a reminder that when a badly preparing mint tea in a some- Berber designs — colourful rugs, couscous — for 100 Libyan dinars with potted plants and accessed injured North Vietnamese soldier what unusual dwelling. chests and pottery, each 10 metre- ($77). via a tunnelled passageway. was brought to him, he did the Sitting on colourful rugs on long cave, was split into three sec- They now plan to open a hotel “We have to learn about our right thing and fixed him up. The the floor and surrounded by clay tions — the parents’ sleeping area, next year, excavating more rooms culture,” one visitor, who gave bones sat in a closet for decades, pots, the 43-year-old describes life the children’s bedding and a living within the caves, in the hope his name as Hassan, said as he and when the Houston urologist in what used to be his home — a room. A door made out of olive that foreign holiday makers will toured the caves with his young finally pulled them out two years troglodyte cave house. tree wood at its front, the home eventually come back to Libya children. “I am so proud when I ago, he wondered about their true “This house was dug out in 1666 provided insulation in winter and provided security in the North look at this.” owner, Nguyen Quang Hung. and generations of families have allowed its inhabitants to keep African country — still awash Troglodyte houses can also The men were reunited yes- lived here. I was born here and cool during hot summers. with weapons — improves. be found in other towns in the terday at Hung’s home in central there used to be eight families liv- “The houses are now unoc- In the meantime, Belhaj relies Nafusa mountains and neighbour- Vietnam. They met each other’s ing together,” he said as he poured cupied as the families moved on internal tourism. ing Tunisia. During Libya’s 2011 children, and grandchildren, and Dr Sam Axelrad (left) with former the tea from one pot to another out in 1985,” Belhaj’s nephew “Now things have changed, we fighting, many families fled to the joked about which of them had North Vietnamese soldier Nguyen to cool it. Abdulrahman said. “But we still have more Libyans who are com- caves to escape shelling. been better looking back when Quang Hung. “The women would go to the come here in the summer to cool ing to visit,” Abdulrahman said. With government plans to war had made them enemies. mountains to get wood and water down.” “They want to see these old boost Libya’s oil-dependent rev- Hung was stunned that someone before we, the children, would Gharyan, some 100km south of traditions.” enues via tourism, Belhaj and had kept his bones for so long, but happy that when the time comes, wake up. Then they would make the capital Tripoli, used to have Keen to learn about the ances- his family hope their ancestral they will be buried with him. tea together while the men looked hundreds of such homes scattered tral dwellings, he said families home can play a role in attract- “I’m very glad to see him again and have that part of my body after the animals.” among its rocky mountains. But from Tripoli, Benghazi in the east ing visitors. back after nearly half a century,” Hung said yesterday after meeting Belhaj spent the first 10 years many have been abandoned as as well as other cities usually visit “This is history,” Abdulrahman Axelrad. “I’m proud to have shed my blood for my country’s reuni- of his life in this home, dug verti- their inhabitants have moved to during the weekend. Seeing such said, of the dwellings. fication, and I consider myself very lucky compared with many of cally into the ground by his ances- more modern houses. homes for the first time, many “If you don’t have history, you my comrades who were killed or remain unaccounted for.” tors, who excavated caves around Belhaj and his family main- take pictures among the tradi- don’t have any future.” Hung, 73, said American troops shot him in the arm in October a central squared courtyard. Each tained theirs and opened it up to tional rugs, clothing and pots that REUTERS 1966 during an ambush about 75km from An Khe, the town where he now lives. After floating down a stream to escape a firefight and then sheltering in a rice warehouse for three days, he was evacu- ated by a US helicopter to a no-frills military hospital in Phu Cat, in central Binh Dinh province. When Hung got to Axelrad, then a 27-year-old military doctor, his right forearm was the colour of an eggplant. To keep the infection from killing his patient, Axelrad amputated the arm above the elbow. After the surgery, Hung spent eight months recovering and another six assisting American military doctors, Hung said. He spent the rest of the war offering private medical services in the town, and later served in local government for a decade before retiring on his rice farm. “He probably thought we were going to put him in some prisoner- of-war camp,” Axelrad said. “Surely he was totally surprised when we just took care of him.” As for the arm, Axelrad said his medic colleagues boiled off the flesh, reconstructed the arm bones and gave them to him. It was hardly common practice, but he said it was a reminder of a good deed performed. The bones sat in a military bag in Axelrad’s closet for decades, along with other things from the war that he didn’t want look at because he didn’t want to relive those experiences. John Ernst, a Vietnam War expert at Morehead State University in Kentucky, said he knows of a few American veterans who have travelled to Vietnam to return personal items to former enemy soldiers as a way to bring closure. “It is a fascinating phenomenon,” Ernst said by e-mail on Sunday. “I always wonder what triggers the A troglodyte cave house in the western mountain town of Gharyan, 100km south of Tripoli. RIGHT: Al Arabi Belhaj prepares tea inside a cave house. decision to make the gesture.” AP Tuesday 2 July 2013 23 Shaaban 1434 Volume 18 Number 5748 Price: QR2

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DOHA: QE Al Rayan Islamic Index has generated a cumu- development lative return of 180.2 percent since January 2007. Over the same period the QE Total Return Index, the conventional Minister addresses Moscow GECF equivalent, is up 86.0 percent as the QE index rose 30.2 percent DOHA: The Minister of GECF and to ensure fair gas during the period, the bourse Energy and Industry, H E Dr prices with the objective of an oil noted yesterday. Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, and gas price convergence. He For the quarter ended June has called on the gas produc- also conveyed the greetings of 30, 2013, both the QE Al Rayan ing countries ‘to pave way for the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Islamic Index and the QE index advanced technology solutions Hamad Al Thani, and his sincere gained 8.7 percent. Comparing for a safe, effective, environ- wishes for a successful summit. the performance since the start mental, and sustainable devel- He said: “Our member coun- of 2013, the QE Al Rayan Islamic opment of the gas industry’. tries hold more than two thirds The Minister of Energy and Industry, H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada at the second gas summit in Moscow. Index rose 12.6 percent vs the QE He also urged the exporting of the proven global gas reserves Index +11.5 percent. nations for a better cooperation and produce 85 percent of the economic growth, while continu- the growing international interest absolute and permanent sovereign In the second quarter of 2013, among themselves and leverage world’s liquefied natural gas. This ing to export clean energy to the in natural gas because of its advan- rights of member countries over the three best performers in the trust and cooperation with the places a heavy burden upon us to world.” tages as the most environmentally their natural resources. “Today, in QE Al Rayan Islamic Index were importing countries. implement effective mechanisms Dr Al Sada pointed out that friendly among fossil fuels. He the Moscow summit, I can assure United Development Company Addressing the Second Summit to ensure safe production, to despite profound international said: “It is our conviction that the you that these principles are still (+35.8 percent), Qatari Investors of the Heads of State and open new markets, and to guar- political and economical changes, ideal practical way to reduce CO2 valid,” he affirmed. Group (+23.6 percent) and Government of the Gas Exporting antee the industry’s progress and energy issues continue to be at the emissions lies in adopting natural Dr Al Sada had earlier taken Medicare Group (+15.3 percent). Countries Forum (GECF), held advancement.” centre of attention due to the piv- gas not just as a basic alternative part in the GECF’s extraordi- Over the same period, the three in Moscow yesterday, Dr Al Sada The Minister stressed Qatar’s otal role it plays in global stabil- in energy generation but also as nary Ministerial Meeting, which worst performing stocks were Zad noted: “Our success will facilitate position as home to the world’s ity and economic development. He the source of energy for land and discussed and approved the sum- Holding Co (-4.3 percent), Qatar long-term investment in the nat- third biggest natural gas reserves said the changing global energy marine transport.” mit’s working agenda and final Islamic Bank (-3.9 percent) and Qatar ural gas industry and will create and the biggest LNG exporter. map has seen “the transformation Dr Al Sada said the First Gas statement. During the meeting, Meat & Livestock Co (-3.8 percent). market conditions conducive to “Since the discovery of the North of many countries from energy Summit in Doha was “an impor- it was also agreed that the third Out of the 17 companies in the the ideal use of natural resources, Field’s huge potential, we have exporters to importers and vice tant landmark for the gas indus- gas summit will be held in Iran. Al Rayan Islamic Index, 13 rose thus helping achieve economic placed strong emphasis on the versa, thus creating new formulae try and a turning point in the The minister is accompanied during the second quarter while 4 growth for everybody.” ideal utilisation and development in the regional and international global interest in natural gas as a by an official delegation of senior declined. This brings the advance/ Dr Al Sada stressed Qatar’s of our natural resources, ensur- energy markets.” source of clean energy.” He said its Qatar Petroleum executives. decline ratio to a healthy level. continued efforts to support the ing a sustainable development and The Minister also highlighted main success lay in endorsing the THE PENINSULA In January 2013, the Al Rayan Islamic Index was launched by Qatar Exchange and Al Rayan Investment. It is a total return index, reflecting both price per- formance and dividend income, of Sharih-compliant stocks. Maran signs $662.4m refinancing deal The index has been designed as an attractive and diversified DOHA: Maran Nakilat Co Ltd, refinancing agreement with two increased its ownership of Maran allows us to expand our business “This partnership between reference for all investors to gain a joint venture (JV) between of Qatar’s leading Islamic banks, Nakilat. and to further cement Nakilat’s QIB and Barwa Bank in financ- exposure to the Qatari growth Nakilat and Maran Ventures Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) and The vessels being added to leadership position in the global ing Maran Nakilat is a testament story. In creating the index, QE Inc, has secured Islamic refi- Barwa Bank. Maran Nakilat’s fleet are cur- LNG transportation industry. of the strength of the cooperation and Al Rayan focused on key nancing worth $662.4m that As a result of the refinancing, rently under construction in With the refinancing of Maran between financial institutions in criterion like single stock con- will see the JV expand its fleet Maran Nakilat will be able to Korea.The two new vessels will Nakilat, we are proud to increase Qatar. It also promotes a true centration, sector diversification, and Nakilat increase its owner- expand its fleet of LNG carriers carry LNG cargos for producers Nakilat’s total fleet from 54 LNG partnership of the bank and its liquidity of underlying shares and ship of the joint venture. from four vessels to six, with the from across the world. vessels to 56. leading role in the financing of Shariah-compliance. At a ceremony held at Nakilat’s delivery of two new LNG carriers Nakilat Managing Director “The expansion of our fleet is projects of national development Doha head office, Maran Nakilat scheduled for early 2014. Muhammad Ghannam said: evidence of Nakilat’s strong bond in the local market, which con- signed the $662.4m Murabaha At the same time, Nakilat has “Nakilat’s financial strength with our partner Maran Ventures tributes more than 90 percent of QNB shares rise Inc., a premier player in the LNG its financing portfolio.” shipping industry, and we thank Mohamed Mubarak Al Sabahi, to 52-week high, Maran for their invaluable coop- Head of Government and Public eration. The refinancing transac- Sector, Wholesale Banking, Barwa hit QR161 tion is also indicative of Nakilat’s Bank, commented on the deal: solid relationship with QIB and “The selection of Barwa Bank for DOHA: The shares of Qatar Barwa Bank. We are grateful this deal amidst tough competi- National Bank (QNB) surged both to QIB and toBarwa Bank tion in the market is an impor- to a 52-week high to QR161 in for their excellent support and tant achievement for us financially yesterday’s trading. The shares we continue to look forward to and strategically as we strive to opened at QR157.50 and the rise working with Qatari banks to enhance the positioning of Shariah- in their value at the end of trad- capitalize on opportunities for compliant banking and finance as ing was 2.29 percent, or QR3.60. growth. Selecting the strongest a strategic choice for major local, The trading value of the coun- partners both in shipping and in regional and international compa- try’s largest lender was more than financing has been a cornerstone nies. This deal adds to the growing QR106.88m across 370 deals, while of Nakilat’s success.” track record of our bank in asset the volumes traded totaled almost Bassel Gamal, QIB Group financing and is another example 667,000. Total turnover (trading CEO, said: “The signing of this of Barwa Bank delivering value to value) on the Qatari bourse (Qatar agreement confirms the bank’s customers, shareholders and the Exchange) was over QR229.81m, strategy and commitment to pro- Qatari economy.” while the trading volume was a viding financial Islamic solutions Latham & Watkins advised little more than four million. that meet the requirements of its Maran Nakilat Co. Ltd on com- The bourse’s main index gained institutional and corporate cli- mercial and legal matters related 55 points to 9,330.54, while the ents, and its contribution in sup- to the refinancing, while Allen & market capitalization inched porting the national companies Overy advised QIB and Barwa up marginally to QR513.82bn FROM LEFT: Dimitri Stylianou from Maran Gas Maritime; Khalid Al Ahbabi, Barwa Bank; Muhammad Ghannam, in line with Qatar vision 2030 to Bank. ($141.15bn). Nakilat; Bassel Gamal, QIB, and Abdullah Al Sulaiti, Nakilat, during the signing ceremony. build a stronger economy. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

Gold prices rebound after biggest quarterly drop on record

LONDON: Gold prices rose programme led gold to fall to its Spot gold was up 0.3 percent at VTB Capital, said. “I don’t A strong reading in Friday’s European equities rose 1.2 per- yesterday, rebounding after lowest in nearly three years last to $1,237.24 by 1412 GMT, well think it’s sustainable while vol- US payrolls report would likely cent, adding to their gains after posting its biggest quarterly week. off Friday’s near three-year low umes remain relatively low.” lift both Treasury yields and data showed US manufacturing loss on record, as the dollar Investor confidence in the of $1,180.71. Comex gold futures “I doubt there will be a lot of the dollar, and depress gold. The activity grew a touch above of steadied ahead of a raft of data metal has been eroded — gold for August delivery were up 1.2 bargain hunting given a whole European Central Bank’s policy expectations in June. this week which traders hope plunged 23 percent in the second percent at $1,237.90. array of macro numbers this meeting on Thursday is likely Holdings of gold exchange- will give more clues on the out- quarter — by rising talk of an end “This (bounce) would be an week, including the ECB state- to emphasise that the euro zone traded funds (ETFs) have look for US stimulus measures. to the Fed’s ultra-loose monetary expected reaction to the retreat ment (and with) non-farms in economy is in a different stage of fallen this year, with outflows Speculation that the Federal policy, which would support a rise last week with some buying focus,” he added. “The market is recovery than the United States. exacerbated by the recent price Reserve will rein in its $85bn in interest rates, making gold less emerging near three-year lows,” putting extra weight on US eco- The dollar index retreated from drop. monthly bond purchase attractive. Andrey Kryuchenkov, an analyst nomic releases.” a four-week peak hit on Friday. REUTERS TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Disruptions cut Banks in EU anti-trust rule breach crude output from Libya Workers’ strike shuts Sharara field

TRIPOLI: New protests have pump around 350,000 bpd, was shut down several Libyan oil- shut as an armed group objected fields, cutting output by around to the naming of another group of a third, industry sources said, guards to help supervise security as Libya struggles to maintain at the facility, three sources famil- stability in an industry vital to iar with the matter said. the economy and state revenue. “The field is shut down,” a sen- Workers calling for manage- ior Libyan oil industry source ment change shut down produc- said. tion at several fields belonging to “A decision was taken by Zueitina Oil Company yesterday, the operator, National Oil while a separate security dispute Corporation, and the oil ministry closed the Sharara field. to conduct a safe shutdown given “We are demanding a change a conflicting situation around the in management,” an engineer oilfield,” he added without giving working at the Zueitina terminal further details. said, adding that the demands are Two other sources said the related to a dispute over work armed group that was origi- conditions. nally part of the force guarding “The protest started at the 103 Sharara had forced the shutdown. D field then spread to 103 A and They said this happened on the Zala oilfields, and now the port same day that other members of A view of the headquarters of investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs in lower Manhattan, in New York. The European Commission has been affected too,” he said. this group attacked the headquar- said yesterday it suspected 13 top investment banks including, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, colluded to defend their profits from “Yesterday the oil minister went ters of Libya’s Petroleum Facilities derivatives trading in breach of EU anti-trust rules. to one of the fields to talk with Guard (PFG) in Tripoli today. the protesters.” “There was no other option The protests are the latest in a other than to shut down. The field series over the past year. Libya’s is not working right now,” said a new leadership has struggled to Sharara worker, who was not at impose authority on a number of the field on Monday but familiar EU crisis cools, unemployment hits record armed groups in a country awash with the situation. with weapons left over from the 2011 The PFG operates under the BRUSSELS: The economic new record of 12.2 percent. percent. For under-25s the pic- 2013 from 11.4 percent in May war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi. official remit of the Defence crisis in southern Europe may EU leaders agreed to deploy up ture was even bleaker, with the 2012. Unemployment data is a The engineer said the protest Ministry, but only about 2,000 be easing, a key survey sig- to £8bn ($10.4bn) in programmes rate rising to 23.0 percent for the lagging indicator. In a separate would not affect local gas sup- of its 15,000 members have had nalled yesterday, but new data to fight youth unemployment at EU as a whole from 22.8 percent set of figures, eurozone manufac- plies from Zueitina as Libya pre- training from the military. The showed the eurozone jobless a summit in Brussels last week in May 2012. In the eurozone, it turing showed signs of continued pares for the fasting month of rest are former rebels who fought rate returned to a record high after US President Barack Obama rose to 23.8 percent from 23.0 improvement in June. Ramadan. “But all oil exports are to oust Gaddafi. of 12.1 percent in May. warned of the risk of a “lost gen- percent. The Markit Eurozone Composite affected,” he added. Sharara, in southwest Libya is There are signs too that econ- eration” in Europe. There were wide differ- Purchasing Managers Index, a sur- Closing down oil exports would operated by Akakus, a joint ven- omies in eastern/central Europe The Eurostat report, which ences between EU members. vey of what businesses see happen- affect other fields that pump to ture between Libya’s state energy may be on the mend. revised previous figures, showed Unemployment fell in May in 10 ing in their production processes, Zueitina’s export terminal in firm, the National Oil Corporation The Eurostat figures offered the eurozone rate reached 12.1 countries on a 12-month comparison. rose to 48.8 in June — a 16-month eastern Libya such as Abu Attifel, (NOC) and Spain’s Repsol. little hope of a quick end to the percent in March. The best results were in Latvia, high — from 48.3 in May. The PMI operated by Mellitah - a joint ven- Neither the NOC nor Repsol social crisis, with the unemploy- It then edged down to 12.0 per- where the rate fell to 12.4 percent index is considered to be a reliable ture between Libya’s National Oil could immediately be reached for ment rate for the entire European cent in April — a slight improve- from 15.5 percent, and in Estonia indicator of future activity. Corporation (NOC) and Italy’s Eni. comment. Libya normally pro- Union being unchanged at 10.9 ment that ended two years of where it went down to 8.3 percent Ireland saw an improvement A Zueitina official from the duces around 1.6 million bpd, but percent. increases — but then rose in May. from 10.0 percent. and Spain remained stable, while company’s media office said only, the NOC said last month output Eurostat said 26.4 million The results were far worse than The worst was Cyprus, where the rates of contraction eased in “There are demonstrations in had fallen below 1 million bpd due Europeans are now out of work. in May of last year, when euro- the banking sector is being cut Austria, France, Greece, Italy and Zueitina’s fields.” Separately, to protests. Provisional official data in Italy zone unemployment was at 11.3 radically and where the jobless the Netherlands. Libya’s Sharara oilfield, which can REUTERS showed the jobless rate hitting a percent and the EU rate at 10.4 rate rose to 16.3 percent in May AFP

Q.media Decaux awarded ad Emirates finds broad demand for aircraft lease deal LONDON: Dubai’s flagship to bondholders through cou- through SPV DNA Alpha, and investors that it will be governed while Credit Agricole was co- concession at airline carrier Emirates last pon payments. After opening the aircraft when purchased will by international courts rather manager on the deal. week raised $630m through the books on the dual-tranche deal be held by the SPV and leased to than UAE ones, especially as The first Emirates deal in June issuance of enhanced equip- on Wednesday, leads launched a Emirates until maturity, at which Emirates is state-owned. last year was expected to pave the City Center ment trust certificates (EETC) $168m Class A tranche at 6.125 point Emirates will assume own- The EETC investment com- way for other airlines issuers in to fund the purchase of four percent and a $462m Class B ership of the planes. munity is a niche investor group EMEA to move to the US-style of DOHA: Q.media Decaux has Airbus A380 aircraft. tranche at 5.25 percent the fol- Through the lifetime of the in the US, since most deals hap- funding the purchase of aircraft, been awarded an 11-year con- EETCs are secured financing, lowing day. deal, the investors have recourse pen there. They accounted for the especially as banks are becom- tract with City Center, Doha, and are used by airline carriers The difference in the cou- to the collateral — the aircraft in bulk of the orders in this deal, ing less active in providing loan for the exclusive advertising to buy aircraft, mainly in the pon reflected the difference in this case — and to the equity of though there was some demand financing. concession in the mall. United States. Typically they seniority. DNA Alpha’s parent. from Europe as well. This year, British Airways Following advertising con- are issued through a special Both deals priced on Thursday The key point was the juris- The proceeds will be held in raised $928m through the issu- cession, City Center will be purpose vehicle which assumes night at par, the smaller junior diction of the SPV in case escrow and withdrawn when ance of EETCs, and Turkish focusing on increased innova- ownership of the aircraft and tranche having an expected tenor Emirates does go bankrupt. In each of the four aircraft is Airlines is believed to be in talks tion and further expansions leases them out to the airline of 6.4 years and the larger sen- this case, DNA Alpha is gov- bought. with banks on a similar deal to throughout the mall, provid- carrier. ior one an expected tenor of 9.9 erned by Cape Town law in an Citigroup Inc, Goldman raise $500m to fund its aircraft ing customers with more retail The lease payments received years. insolvency event. 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Anastasia Marapidou, Center US factories rebound Manager, and Joerg Harengerd, Director of City Center Doha, said: “We are delighted to have awarded the advertising con- in June, hiring down cession in our mall to q.media Decaux to create a successful NEW YORK: US manufactur- “It’s nice to see manufactur- media platform, benefiting from ing activity grew last month, ing moving back into growth the local market knowledge of rebounding from an unexpected territory from contraction,” said the company and the worldwide contraction in May, but hiring Joel Naroff, president of Naroff expertise of JCDecaux in out- in the sector was the weakest in Economic Advisors in Holland, door advertising, especially in nearly four years, underscoring Pennsylvania. But a measure of retail environments, offering an the challenges still facing the employment fell to 48.7, the lowest enhanced experience to custom- American economy. reading since September 2009. It ers while bringing a better return Construction spending, mean- stood at 50.1 in May. to tenants.” while, neared a four-year high in That could feed concern about Steve Bovey, Managing May, though difficulties in the the strength of the US recovery, Director of q.media Decaux, commercial real estate and fac- particularly now that the Federal said: “This significant contract tory sector kept recovery in the Reserve has said it is considering is a very strategic move for sector sluggish. scaling back its massive stimulus q.media Decaux: Shopping plays The Institute for Supply programme. a central part in local life and Management (ISM) said yes- “Unfortunately on the employ- Qatar benefits from a thriving terday its index of national fac- ment side, they are not hiring,” retail industry. This milestone tory activity in June rose to 50.9 Naroff said. “That’s not a good represents the first step toward from 49.0 in May, a touch above sign. The employment issue is building a genuine retail commu- of expectations of 50.5. A reading key. If those jobs are not there, nication platform, offering dedi- above 50 indicates expansion in you are not going to get consumer cated media solutions in the two the sector. demand.” busiest shopping malls in Qatar The gauge for new orders rose Growth in the overall manu- and reaching an annual combined to 51.9 from 48.8, while produc- facturing sector helped US stocks audience of over 30 million shop- People make transactions at ATMs in central Athens yesterday. Greece and its international lenders resumed tion jumped to 53.4 from 48.6, start the third quarter on a posi- pers, appealing to local and inter- talks to unlock $10.5bn of rescue loans after a two-week break during which the government almost collapsed helping the overall index bounce tive note, with major indexes ris- national brands.” over redundancies at state broadcaster ERT. back from May’s contraction - the ing one percent. THE PENINSULA first in six months. REUTERS TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 MRPL aims to Cameron signs resume Iran oil imports $1bn deals in NEW DELHI: India’s MRPL is preparing to resume oil imports from Iran, after stopping in April, having secured local reinsurance for claims of up to Kazakhstan Rs5bn ($84.14m), its managing director said in a letter. Mangalore Refinery and Oil processing plant inaugurated Petrochemicals Ltd, which was Iran’s top Indian client, halted ASTANA: British Prime focus on bilateral relations with imports because local insurers Minister David Cameron signed specific Central Asian countries. said they could no longer cover a strategic cooperation agree- Cameron became the first British plants that process Iranian crude. ment as well as $1bn in deals prime minister to visit the nation “... MRPL would take all nec- with Kazakhstan yesterday — a landmark event highlighted essary steps for recommence- during his first visit to the by Nazarbayev. ment of import/processing of energy-rich ex-Soviet state. Officials said the deals besides Iranian crude oil in its refinery,” Cameron and Kazakh President energy also covered infrastruc- MRPL P P Upadhya wrote in a Nursultan Nazarbayev also ture projects as well as those in June 29 letter to Oil Secretary unveiled an oil and gas processing the IT field. Vivek Rae. plant on the shores of the Caspian “Our country is interested Upadhya referred in the letter Sea which is intended to provide a in having close relations with to meetings with officials from the new reliable source of energy for Britain,” Nazarbayev said at oil ministry and local reinsurer European countries. a joint press appearance with General Insurance Corp (GIC) in The British premier played up Cameron. the letter, copy of which was made the importance of Kazakhstan “I am confident that the docu- Various models of Nokia and Siemens mobile phones in a shop in Kaiserslautern, Germany, yesterday. available to Reuters, for the plan to regional security as he wound ments that we have prepared, as to resume imports from Iran. down a swing through the region well as our negotiations, will give US lawmakers are embark- that included visits to Pakistan a new impulse to economic and ing this summer on a campaign and Afghanistan. political cooperation between our Nokia to buy equipment venture to deal a deeper blow to Iran’s “Kazakhstan is on the rise ... countries.” diminishing oil exports, and ana- a country that wants to play a Kazakhstan is seen as one of the lysts say the ultimate goal could bigger role in the region and in more neutral Central Asian coun- be a near total cut-off. the world. Not just an emerging tries that enjoys equally good rela- of Siemens, shares surge But India last month won a market, but an emerging power,” tions with Russia and China as well 180-day waiver from US sanc- Cameron said on Monday. as the West—despite periodic criti- HELSINKI: Nokia shares Nokia’s mobile phone business “Despite the optically low price tions after New Delhi signifi- He also noted that the Kazakh cism by Washington and Brussels surged yesterday after it was still very limited and that it at this time, we believe this is the cantly reduced purchases of oil government had recently rati- of its human rights record. announced plans to buy out was taken into consideration of best possible outcome for Siemens from Iran. In the last fiscal year fied an air route agreement that Nazarbayev has also hired Siemens AG’s share of their net- Nokia’s BB- or junk rating. shareholders.” to March 2013 it imported 26.5 offered Britain “a new northern former British prime minister work equipment joint venture, Nokia’s stock was up around Nokia’s future has been cloudy percent less oil from Iran. route to bring our kit home from Tony Blair as the nation’s image betting on the technology to run five percent, having earlier hit a since it fell behind rivals Apple The sanctions from Washington Afghanistan.” consultant who has been tasked 4G networks as it struggles in five-month high, a rally fuelled in Inc and Samsung Electronics and from the European Union Western nations have attempted with improving Kazakhstan’s the smartphones business. part by short covering. Nokia has Co Ltd in the smartphone race, aim to block Tehran’s oil revenue through the two decades since attraction to investors. Loss-making Nokia gains full 14.6 percent of its shares out on making the decision to switch over its disputed nuclear pro- the Soviet Union’s collapse to Cameron led a large business control of the profitable ven- loan, making it one of Europe’s to Microsoft’s untried Windows gramme, which they suspect is make gains in a Central Asian delegation to the Central Asian ture Nokia Siemens Networks most heavily shorted stocks by software in 2011. aimed at building weapons. Iran region that relies on Russia for nation that included top manag- (NSN) for $2.2bn, a cheaper hedge funds, which were caught Nokia’s smartphones and denies this claim. its European energy export routes. ers from Royal Dutch Shell. than-expected price, analysts off guard by news of the buyout mobile phones have reported GIC said that “as long as the Cameron added that the two The British premier and said, though they also noted the and scrambled to close their neg- declining sales since the first waiver on import of crude oil from countries “have opened a new Nazarbayev jointly unveiled the acquisition would put pressure on ative bets on the stock, traders quarter of 2011. The devices and USA exists, it is very likely that chapter in our relationship” by Bolashak on-shore oil and gas Nokia’s balance sheet. said. services unit posted an underlying the overseas reinsurers would signing a strategic partnership processing facility that operates “With this transaction, Nokia Siemens shares were more loss of 703 million euros in 2012 not refuse the claim whenever it agreement that underscored the with involvement from the Anglo- buys itself a future, whatever hap- than 2 percent higher, as the down from a profit of 1.7 billion arise, even though the implica- importance of their growing ties. Dutch giant. pens in smartphones and feature German firm prepared to get out euros in 2011. tion of waiver is not clear,” the Plans to construct a European- The plant is stationed on the phones,” Bernstein analyst Pierre of a business that analysts said According to research com- letter said, citing a June 27 meet- and US-backed natural gas pipe- Kashagan oil and gas field — one Ferragu wrote in a note to clients. had weighed on the stock due to pany Gartner, Samsung was the ing with GIC. line called Nabucco have already of the largest deposits found in However, the cash cost is still a high restructuring costs. number one smartphone maker GIC would be able to settle fallen through and Western pow- Central Asia. It is due to proc- risk for a company that is burning Morgan Stanley said the price in the first quarter, with 30.8 any claim up to Rs5bn, so far ers are now seeking to hammer ess 450,000 barrels of oil and money to keep its handset busi- Siemens would receive for its percent of the market ahead of the maximum that has arisen in out a new strategy to establish 8.8 million cubic metres of gas ness running. stake was at the low end of esti- Apple’s 18.2 percent. Nokia was Indian refining sector, without closer contacts with nations such daily by the time it becomes fully Rating agency Fitch said the mates, but it was “encouraged a long way adrift, behind LG depending on overseas reinsur- as Kazakhstan. operational. acquisition made strategic sense, by the fact that this is a clean Electronics, Huawei and ZTE. ers, Upadhya wrote. Britain for one has decided to AFP but added that the visibility of solution”. REUTERS REUTERS

WTO refuses Indian request Activist investors target to throw out US British oil, gas firms trade dispute LONDON: UK-listed oil and activist investor Weiss Asset GENEVA: India has failed gas companies that have lost Management’s stake in 3Legs to persuade the World Trade favour with mainstream share- topped 15 percent in April, Organisation (WTO) to dismiss holders are attracting inves- according to a disclosure by 3Legs. a trade complaint brought by tors who want to push bosses Another activist, Guernsey-based the United States, according out, access their cash and force Damille Investments, acquired a to a preliminary ruling pub- asset sales. similar-sized stake in February. lished on the WTO’s website The trend took root in the In the past six months the yesterday. United States last year where activ- company has twice faced down The US launched the legal ist shareholders targeted sizeable attempts to install a new board challenge at the world trade body companies including Hess Corp. It and put the business up for sale, in March 2012, contesting Indian now has three new directors and defeating the activists in votes at restrictions on imports of poultry, is selling assets in Asia after the extraordinary shareholder meet- pigs and related products. intervention of Elliot Management. ings and insisting its commitment India says its checks on US The UK-listed companies in the to Polish shale will pay off. imports are justified by concerns sights of activists are smaller but Another example is Northern about bird flu, but the US argues given the worsening outlook for Petroleum, a company now worth the rules are a “disguised” illegal oil and gas prices and disappoint- about £30m but with a disap- restriction on foreign trade and ment with some more marginal pointing stock performance, and not backed by science. energy prospects of the boom in which Damille emerged as a five India tried to have the US years they may look for more and percent shareholder in December. complaint dismissed on techni- Mark Carney (left), the Governor of the Bank of England, takes his seat next to Paul Tucker, outgoing Deputy bigger targets. Since Damille took a stake it has cal objections, including that Governor, during a monetary policy committee briefing at the bank’s headquarters in London. Some UK companies have made a number of board changes. the allegation was not precise ended up with significant assets, Damille’s parent, Nimrod enough and did not spell out the including cash, relative to their Capital, did not respond to phone legal argument. But according to UK economy shows signs of life shrunken stock market value. calls and an email requesting the preliminary ruling published “It’s a very simple model,” said comment. yesetrday, the WTO’s adjudica- a London investment banker who Another company trying to tors dismissed India’s technical LONDON: There was good their highest level since December to “escape velocity” and is widely specialises in oil and gas and did fend off shareholder activism is arguments, saying “there can be news for Mark Carney when 2009. expected to deploy new tactics to not want to be named. JKX Oil and Gas. Earlier this no uncertainty on India’s part”. he took over as Governor of the An improvement in two of the achieve it. “You don’t have to take a view year, CEO Paul Davies narrowly This leaves the original US Bank of England yetserday — sectors hardest hit by the finan- He has yet to show whether he on the value of the actual assets survived a shareholder revolt complaint intact, with a ruling some fresh signs of recovery in cial crisis might give Carney might push for more bond-buying or know anything about oil and led by Eclairs Group — not a likely later this year. Britain’s economy. reason to move cautiously as he by the BoE which would pump gas. You just know the cash is traditional activist fund but an The WTO’s decision strength- A couple of hours after Carney attempts to get the British econ- fresh money into the economy. there for the taking.” investment vehicle of Ukrainian ens the hand of the new US Trade beat the commuter crowds on omy into a higher gear. That was something his prede- One target is 3Legs Resources billionaire Igor Kolomoisky, who Representative Michael Froman, London’s Underground to start his “I am not sure he is the dove cessor Mervyn King favoured but Plc, which is exploring for shale has a 27 percent stake. who said last month that growing first day at the central bank, data that everyone thinks he is, espe- was ruled out by a majority of the gas in Poland. Polish shale was Mainstream activist fund strat- trade problems with New Delhi showed that British manufactur- cially with the economy showing bank’s other policymakers. once seen as a red-hot oppor- egy is to buy enough stock to force would be a major early focus of ing enjoyed its strongest growth signs of life,” said George Buckley, Carney is expected to use the tunity, but enthusiasm waned a shareholder vote, or buy a more his tenure. in more than two years in June. UK economist at Deutsche Bank. kind of policy he pioneered as quickly last year when the gov- modest holding and recruit other India and the US are also at New orders rose even faster, If surveys of other sectors this governor of the Bank of Canada ernment downgraded resource shareholders to a cause - usually loggerheads over several other a hopeful sign that momentum week matched manufacturing, by giving markets, households and estimates and top global player selling assets or ousting directors trade issues, ranging from fees in the long-weak factory sector they could soon be at a level at businesses a clear steer of how long Exxon Mobil pulled out. seen as weak, misguided or overpaid. charged on US business visas to might be sustained. which the BoE has tightened mon- the BoE will keep interest rates The stock, which values the Investment trusts and prop- India’s support for the solar power Separate figures showed etary policy in the past, Buckley at their record low of 0.5 percent. company at about £24m ($36m), erty, where valuation is easy and sector. Friction between the two Britain’s housing market, which said, cautioning that the recovery He chairs his first meeting trades below the cash position it assets are relatively liquid, are countries is a major obstacle to a is picking up after spending could yet prove short-lived. of the bank’s Monetary Policy is expected to have in the mid- common activist targets, but last global trade deal being negotiated much of the past few years in Carney, the former governor Committee on Wednesday and dle of next year, the company’s year and this year, the energy sec- by all of the WTO’s 159 members. the doldrums, got another fillip. of the Bank of Canada, has said Thursday. broker, Jefferies, said in a June tor has drawn them in. REUTERS Mortgage approvals in May hit he wants to get the economy up REUTERS 20 research note. Boston-based REUTERS TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Qatari bourse New top management at Toyota gains 37.56 points in June Regional markets rise on buying spree

DOHA: Qatar Exchange index its losing streak yesterday add- gained 37.56 points or 0.41 per- ing 54.98 points or 0.59 percent cent in the month of June 2013 to advance to 9,330.54 points from when trading closed on the last 9,275.56 on Sunday. day of the month at 9,275.56 The volume of the shares traded points compared to May 2013. up to 4,017,566 from 3,758,417 on The trading value during June Sunday, and the value of shares increased by 12.34 percent when it increased to QR229,818,747.29 reached QR 8,793,875,958.11 com- from QR153,582,968.48 on Sunday. pared to QR7,828,099,891.79 the Among the top gainers were previous month. Qatar National Bank which was The trading volume increased up 2.29 percent to QR161.00, by 2.27 percent to reach Industries Qatar rose 0.25 per- 234,446,011 shares compared to cent to QR158.00, Commercial 229,253,356 shares. The 97,644 Bank of Qatar gained 1.72 percent transactions in June dropped by to QR70.90 and Electricity and 6.03 percent compared to 103,907 Water up by 0.69 percent to Q160. transactions in May 2013. The banking and financial sector Banks and financial services index was up 1.14 points while con- sector led the traded value in sumer goods and services sector June with 37.22 percent of the index added 0.20 points. The indus- total traded value. Real estate trial sector gained 0.10 points while Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda (centre) with Executive Vice-Presidents (from left) Yasumori Ihara, Mitsuhisa Kato, Satoshi Ozawa, Nobuyori accounted for 20.73 percent. insurance sector fell 0.75 points. Kodaira, Masamoto Maekawa and Seiichi Sudo at a news conference to introduce new top management line-up in Nagoya, central Japan, yesterday. Industries accounted for 20.19 Other Gulf bourses rose yester- percent. Consumer Goods and day as investors triggered a fresh Services accounted for 7.68per- buying spree at the start of the cent. Transportation accounted for third quarter, and expectations of 6.84 percent. Telecoms accounted a strong earnings season in com- AirAsia chief for 4.58 percent and insurance ing weeks boosted stocks in the Thai govt stuns market by accounted for 2.77 percent. United Arab Emirates. executive The market capitalisation Dubai’s index climbed 2.5 per- rose by 0.20 percent at the end cent to a one-week high and outlines India of June 2013 when it reached extending 2013 gains to 40.4 per- scrapping cut in rice price QR510,992,574,258.29 as com- cent. Trading volumes improved pared to QR509,975,631,700.61 at compared to recent sessions but growth plans the end of May 2013. remained unimpressive. BANGKOK: Thailand’s gov- officials and industry repre- Vichien Phuanglamjiak, Real estate sector led the traded Abu Dhabi’s index added 1.7 ernment reversed a cut in the sentatives and chaired by Prime vice-president of the Thai MUMBAI: Asia’s largest volume in June with 34.05 percent percent to hit an 11-day high. rice intervention price on the Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Rice Farmers Association, budget carrier AirAsia outlined of the total traded volume. Banks Aldar Properties surged 6.4 per- day it took effect, giving in to had decided to push the price said farmers would march to plans yesterday to aggressively and financial services accounted for cent, extending gains since its farmers who had threatened back up to 15,000 baht ($480) a Government House on Tuesday grow its Indian joint venture, 31.47 percent. Industries accounted merger with Sorouh Real Estate. protests and undermining a tonne from 12,000 baht, Finance to give Prime Minister Yingluck including by adding 10 planes a for 10.67 percent. Transportation In Saudi Arabia, the benchmark cabinet reshuffle meant to move Minister Kittirat Na Ranong told Shinawatra flowers to express year and focusing on flying new accounted for 8.90 percent. Telecoms rose one percent to a near three- past the controversy surround- reporters. their gratitude. routes. accounted for 7.07 percent. Consumer week high and closed less than ing the scheme. He said the government esti- “Farmers feel glad she still AirAsia Chief Executive Tony goods and services accounted for 5.94 100 points away from matching Thai rice export prices, which mated there was not much rice cares about them,” he said. Fernandes said more than 50 staff, percent and insurance accounted for an 11-month peak of early June. had fallen sharply yesterday left with farmers from their sec- The rice-buying programme including pilots and engineers, have 1.90 percent. Banks and petrochemical morning as the intervention ond crop, which is marketed until has already caused political been recruited for the new no-frills The number of trading days in shares led gains with banking price cut kicked in, are likely to late September, so it would not casualties: the commerce min- airline, which plans to start opera- June were 20 and 22 in May 2013. sector index adding 1.5 percent jump again to a level that makes be a huge burden on the budget ister was sacked on Sunday tions in India later this year. From the 42 listed compa- and the latter gaining 1.1 percent. it unlikely the government will to continue to buy at 15,000 baht because of the cost of the Fernandes said the new airline nies, 23 ended June 2013 higher Elsewhere, Oman’s measure be able to sell off its massive a tonne. scheme and his repeated fail- plans to add 10 Airbus A320s a while 16 fell and three remained advanced 1.5 percent to its high- stockpiles. “Everything is still going ure to be open with the public year to its fleet, which will focus unchanged. est level since June 16. This will keep up pressure on according to our plan and the about the losses. on routes in southern India, Meanwhile, the exchange ended AGENCIES state finances from the scheme, framework we set out, and it Yingluck replaced Boonsong rather than Mumbai and New which rating agency Moody’s should not be a problem,” he told Teriyapirom with Niwatthamrong Delhi, before expanding elsewhere warned last month could jeop- reporters. Bunsongphaisan, a government in the country. QATARI MARKET ardise a target of balancing the The 20 percent cut in the price spin doctor who was given the “India’s aviation has not grown. Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P budget. The rice intervention that became effective on Monday additional position as deputy There are lots of routes which Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 103.44 0.61 % Aa2 AA caused losses of $4.4bn in the year had pushed the export price of prime minister. have not been done and lots of to September 2012. 5 percent broken rice down to Economist Chester Liaw at airports have been under-uti- Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 103.88 1.99 % Aa2 AA “It will accumulate untenable $480 a tonne, the lowest level Forecast Pte in Singapore said lised,” Fernandes told reporters in Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 120.00 2.78 % Aa2 AA fiscal risks because the scheme since June 2011 but still well above the government still had some Mumbai. “We will give the lowest Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 112.88 3.07 % Aa2 AA plays with world market prices world prices. explaining to do after justifying possible fares,” he added. Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 107.38 3.49 % Aa2 AA that Thailand cannot control,” “We don’t know where prices the price cut in June by the state Malaysia-based AirAsia won Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 156.00 4.86 % Aa2 AA said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a should be now. We may have of the global market, which had approval from India’s foreign Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 117.50 5.18 % Aa2 AA political scientist and professor to wait until the dust settles not changed. investment panel in March to Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 107.75 5.22 % Aa2 AA at Chulalongkorn University. before offering prices again,” said “It remains to be seen what set up the airline in a joint ven- “If the government keeps on Chookiat Ophaswongse, honor- their long-term plan is but for ture with the giant Tata group Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 104.13 1.45 % Aa2 AA this track, they will look like they ary president of the Thai Rice the moment, the target of moving and entrepreneur Arun Bhatia’s Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 110.25 3.36 % Aa2 AA are desperate,” he added. Exporters Association. “But what into a balanced budget by 2017 is Telstra Tradeplace. Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 104.50 1.66 % A1 A- The national rice commit- we know for sure is that this gov- seriously in doubt,” he said. The new venture will be the Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 102.00 2.81 % A1 A- tee, made up of government ernment has no credibility at all.” REUTERS first by a foreign airline since QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.25 1.93 % NR NR India relaxed foreign investment QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 102.75 1.93 % Aa3 A+ rules in September allowing over- QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 102.25 2.72 % Aa3 A+ seas carriers to take up to a 49 percent stake in domestic firms. Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 101.50 3.07 % A2 A- China’s PMI slips AirAsia will own 49 percent, Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 104.38 1.99 % A2 A the Tata group 30 percent and Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 122.00 3.71 % A2 A Telstra the balance of 21 percent. Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 104.38 4.08 % A2 A Fernandes said making the new Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 100.50 4.94 % A2 A airline a success would be “chal- Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 105.75 0.81 % Aa3 A lenging” but he was determined Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 107.00 3.53 % Aa3 A to persevere. Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 107.50 4.09 % Aa3 A SOVEREIGNS Truckers begin Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 103.75 0.54 % Aa2 AA strike in Brazil Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 122.50 2.53 % Aa2 AA SAO PAULO: Brazil’s truck- Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 108.25 2.88 % NR NR ing union yesterday started Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 103.75 3.84 % NR NR a 72-hour strike that has Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 116.00 5.09 % NR NR slowed traffic in the Sao Paulo Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 105.00 5.72 % NR NR state region and might delay Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 104.25 1.23 % Aa2 AA the movement of record soy, Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 111.25 3.94 % NR BBB corn and sugar crops to ports, Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 101.50 5.23 % NR BBB although it is unlikely to stop exports entirely. Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 80.50 9.72 % Caa1 CCC+ An official with the MUBC Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 101.50 4.26 % NR BBB- trucking union said that the strike *Periodic Distribution Amount IMPORTANT NOTE: had started at 6am local time (0900 Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which GMT), but had no information is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services about its magnitude or whether it Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary had nationwide adherence. data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising Television images early yester- out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds day showed hundreds of trucks can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant lining two highways leading to liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not Sao Paulo, the country’s biggest a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and city. MUBC’s demands include consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. a subsidy for diesel fuel, exemp- tion on highway toll payments for A labourer polishes the bottom of a cargo ship at a shipyard in Qingdao, Shandong province of China, yes- drivers and the creation of a new terday. China’s official purchasing managers’ index (PMI) slipped to 50.1 in June from 50.8 in May, an official federal government department survey showed yesterday. of cargo transportation. AGENCIES TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Student loans Middle class mysteries BY CHRYSTIA FREELAND growing appeal of the nationalist fringe. But the combination of falling real wages and the story becomes more mysterious when relatively strong employment at a time of f you are worried about the Western you start investigating what is happening economic slump. What’s less obvious is how are exploiting middle class you may have started to inside the country’s shrunken economy. weak productivity fits into the story. have some doubts about the virtues Given the prolonged recession, econo- He believes that, too, can be explained of flexible labour markets. In theory, mists would normally predict that unem- by flexible labour markets. Workers have flexible labour markets should make ployment would soar. It has risen, but, Van become cheaper in Britain and, despite low America’s young Iour economies more productive, and all of Reenen said, “not nearly as much as you central bank interest rates, capital is still us richer, by making it easier for people to would expect, and not as much as in, for expensive for many firms, or hard to come BY DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN do the work the economy needs and to stop example, the US,” where the economic by. As a result, Van Reenen argues, “instead doing the work it doesn’t. contraction has not been as prolonged. So, of investing in machines, firms are keep- In practice, though, some economists who when it comes to jobs, Britain has surprised ing on workers.” That means each hour of bamacare was paid for on the backs of students. once championed flexible labour markets on the upside. The second riddle is a less human work is less productive. You may remember that Obamacare staggered over without reservation, like Daron Acemoglu of cheerful one: While employment has held Van Reenen and Pessoa’s paper is the legislative finish line in 2010 with $19bn in profits the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, up relatively well, given the country’s poor thought-provoking because it connects the Ofrom changes to the student loan programme. The have begun to have second thoughts. economic performance, productivity has two British economic phenomena that are changes included nationalising federal student lending and set- Acemoglu doesn’t doubt the positive eco- plunged, an unanticipated departure from inspiring a great deal of hand-wringing with ting loan interest rates high enough to generate profits to cover nomic effects of flexible labour markets, but the pre-crisis trend line. the one bright spot in the British economy: the healthcare costs. he has begun to be concerned about their Van Reenen and Pessoa propose a sin- the relatively low increase in unemployment. Yesterday, President Barack Obama and the Democratic-led political and distributional consequences. gle answer to these two mysteries: flexible As in Germany, where job cuts were Senate again put their political and legislative priorities ahead of They might help the economy grow overall, labour markets. In contrast with previous avoided thanks to more formal deals to students and allowed their loan interest rates to double. but they may also be contributing to the economic downturns, the British economy decrease the hours and pay of a wider This student loan episode cements the Obama administra- hollowing out of the middle class by weaken- today has a much less sheltered workforce. group of workers, Britain’s flexible labour tion’s continuing pattern of economically exploiting younger ing its political bargaining power. The result is what classical economic theory markets allowed a lot of people to weather voters. Because of the Obamacare-created Federal Direct Lending That’s why a recent paper by Joao Paulo would have predicted: The job market has the recession by pricing themselves into a Programme, a 2009 freshman who qualified for federal subsidies Pessoa and John Van Reenen, both of the adjusted more successfully to the shrinking shrunken economy. There remains, however, and borrowed the maximum Stafford Loan every year will gradu- Centre for Economic Performance at the economy than it did during previous down- a significant caveat. The relatively benign ate with a financial penalty of over $400 more in debt than if London School of Economics, makes such turns. But that good news comes at a price: workings of flexible labour markets that markets had set interest rates. fascinating reading. Van Reenen and Pessoa The flexibility in the British labour market Van Reenen describes are in response to the A more affluent freshman, who did not qualify for subsidies, will set out to unravel the two big mysteries has been in wages, which have shrunk even cyclical shock of a recession. British work- carry an additional $1,400 in debt. Meanwhile, a graduate student, about Britain’s economic performance over more than the economy as a whole. ers in the middle and across the Western who entered a three-year programme in 2009, will be facing nearly the past five years. The backdrop to both is “In this recession, unions are much weaker industrialised world more generally are also $3,400 more in debt as he or she seeks to launch a career. the devastation that Britain, with its over- than they were in the 1980s, and we’ve had being pressed by broader structural eco- In passing Obamacare, Washington took its eye off the economic size banking sector, suffered in the wake of welfare to work reform, so there’s a lot more nomic forces. “I think the squeezed middle recovery. As a result, the unemployment rate for workers aged the 2008 financial crisis. pressure on people to find jobs,” Van Reenen class is likely to continue,” Van Reenen said. 20 to 24 remains stubbornly above 13 percent; the rate for those “The big story in the UK is that the said. “The labour market is much more flex- “The combination of technological change ages 25 to 34 is more than 7 percent, and the duration of unem- economy has shrunk by 2.5 percent since ible, which means wages fall. That is bad and outsourcing is going to continue to put ployment remains at levels not seen since the Great Depression. the pre-crisis period,” Van Reenen told me. news for the people whose wages fall, of pressure on median wages.” “What to do The House of Representatives recently passed a bill shifting “That’s the longest depressed economy in course, but the positive side is that employ- about it is the question,” he said. “I don’t student loans back to market-based interest rates. The advantages this country for more than a hundred years.” ment has stayed up. Some pay is better than think the answer is smashing the machines of this approach are so evident that even President Barack Obama Britain’s dismal economic performance no pay, at least in a recession.” or closing the borders. As we come out of advocated it in his budget proposals. Kudos to the White House certainly helps to explain the grimness of It is easy to understand how Van the recession, this is going to be the key for recognising that price-fixing is never a good idea. British politics at the moment, and the Reenen’s labour market theory explains question of the next 20 years.” REUTERS The House bill reduces current rates for all college borrowers and saves students up to $1,413. At the same time, it reduces the drain on taxpayers by roughly $4bn over the next decade. It also insulates the programme from the machinations of bureaucrats setting arbitrary rates. Sounds all good. Unfortunately, the Senate failed to act — pre- ferring the status quo, They are willing to kick the can down the road for another couple of years. As Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labour and Pensions Committee, stated “Let’s put this off for a year.” The White House failed to lead, changed positions from its budget-proposal outline and caved to the Senate — embracing its central planning approach. This after the House passed a solu- tion in line with the president’s own budget, and some Senate Democrats expressed support for this solution. The resulting stalemate means that interest rates will now be fixed at 6.8 percent. This may be good politics for some. But there is one clear loser: students. Let’s hope that the young find jobs soon. After all, they’re now expected to pick up yet another tab. Federal debt has exploded since 2009 and is projected to nearly double to $19trn in another 10 years. It used to be said that federal debt was a problem for future generations. But no longer. The interest alone will become a fed- eral agency as large as the Pentagon in 10 years. Unless young Americans actively control the debt over the next two decades, the economic damage will be incalculable. It is a bleak picture and at odds with the administration’s popu- larity with young voters. Perhaps the bloom is finally off the rose. The same Obamacare that resulted in higher loan rates for students is built on a foundation in which young Americans are forced into insurance pools that subsidise the coverage of the older and sicker. To do so, it will likely raise the health premiums of young Americans dramatically. As health insurance premiums rise, fewer will buy insurance. Indeed, if the premium increase shock is an all-too-plausible 30 percent hike, 45 percent may just pay the tax penalty and stay out of the insurance pool. In light of this pattern of economic abuse, the intransigence of Senate Democrats on a permanent fix to the interest costs on student loans is not surprising. But it is no less costly to young Americans. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Rich get richer, poor poorer and coalition plays burgers

BY STEWART LEE into the Byron burger. He felt coalition has bonded over Byron trousers and yellow jumpers, are the centre of bizarre and sinis- physical presence of the individual the elasticated waistband of his burgers, and all its key players coming, displacing ordinary peo- ter speculations for centuries, citizen? eorge Osborne chewed underpant tighten, cutting the are proud to stand before their ple, even as they themselves are but can their proposed annexa- Byron’s standard 6oz classic his pencil nervously. It blood to his round buttocks, as fellows and declare, “Ich bin ein ousted from the verdant pasture tion of Byron Hamburgers at burger retails at £6.75. The aver- tasted funny. He wor- he drove his pencil down hard Byronburger”. of their own west London home- this stage in Osborne’s savings age British person weighs 12st. Gried where it had been. upon the signature space of the But at what cost? The politi- lands by the property power of programme mean nothing? The There are 224 ounces in a stone. But his fellow Bullingdon boy spending review. There! The deed cal class live in a west London Russian mafia and wealthy Arab Rothschild family’s investments 224 x 12 = 2688. 2688 divided by Nat Rothschild had assured him was done. playground no longer sullied by spring escapees. and intelligence are said to have 6 = 448. 448 x £6.75 = £3,024. In he had burned all those pencils. The scenario above is sheer the unsightly poor, who have been New Byron branches in determined the favourable out- partnership with Byron, as the Maybe this one had escaped the satirical fantasy, of course, and it ousted by housing benefit cuts and Manchester and Liverpool reflect come of the Battle of Waterloo, chain plays its part in the ongoing inferno. is lazy of the left to make politi- rent hikes. similar spurts of gentrification. thus inflating the value of British displacement and disappearance It was Wednesday evening. Our cal capital out of the fact that the But where have they gone? The rich are eating at Byron in currency. Why, in a time of aus- of the poor, Osborne is theoreti- conscience-stricken chancellor chancellor made welfare savings And can the right’s sudden places where the poor once ate terity, has Osborne suddenly cally able to offer a return of up required sustenance. Lashed by while eating a burger, even if it and conspicuous consump- at Chicken Cottage, a name I will pledged millions to preserve the to £3,024 on potential meat provi- the twin madames of ethics and was a more expensive burger than tion of Byron burgers be mere appropriate for my rural retreat site of the battlefield? Is there a sion units which, if left to deterio- economics, a weakened George any the average welfare claimant coincidence? when I too am finally displaced connection? rate at their current level, may be Osborne had his servant call could ever afford. Check Byron’s progress on from the capital. A pragmatic and bold realist, nothing but a lifelong drain on the Byron Hamburgers, a deluxe ten- But it is hardly a state secret Google maps and you’ll see the The food press spin on the old Osborne is, in essence, trying to national balance. derised meat patty outlet with that Byron burgers are extremely shaped-meat retailer’s eastern Etonian Tom Byng’s company is balance the books in regard to the Osborne knows this partner- branches all over west London. popular with the right-wing polit- push follows the line of London’s that it represents a kind of cred- cost of the physical presence, in ship offers a drastic solution, Soon a flattened circle of meat icos who dwell in the leafy para- gentrification, and the enforced ible indie alternative to the cor- Britain, of each individual citi- which may prove unpopular lay near the chancellor’s left dise of west London. economic exodus of its under- porate McDonald’s and Burger zen. Does an individual earn the with the electorate, even one hand, the rich aroma inflam- Byron is run by Tom Byng, a class, in a microcosmic reflec- King chains. But earlier this nation more, in the long term, primed to view benefit claimants ing both of his proud equine member of the same Old Etonian tion of national trends towards month The Times reported that than it costs the nation to keep as the enemy. Revealing the full nostrils, and making one of his cabal as David Cameron himself the disappearance of the dispos- Jacob Rothschild, the father of them alive? extent of the programme’s cur- white legs tremble excitedly. and Boris Johnson. And the mass sessed. The crushed-beef chain’s Osborne’s Bullingdon Club associ- And if not, how can the costs rent operating levels will take George Osborne would need all of juicy meat that top Tories surge into once neglected areas ate Nat Rothschild, is considering they generate be offset? We must caution. In the meantime, Clegg, the strength he could muster ate in Byng’s previous restau- like Hoxton and Tower Hamlets, buying Byng’s big burger business, continue our progress away from Osborne, Cameron and their to sign off the punitive savings rant, Zucca, saw it described as while welcomed by venal estate though his plan to rename it as intensive care and out on to an friends continue to eat Byron his heart told him the country the de facto works canteen of agents looking for evidence that Bilder Burger has been seen as a abandoned trolley in a lonely burgers with gusto. It is almost deserved. And only an expensive the Cameron set. Even Nicholas their patch is up and coming, potential PR disaster. hospital corridor. Is there some as if they are trying to dispose meat parcel could supply that Clegg extols Byron Burger’s suc- is bad news for indigenous peo- Crazed conspiracy theorists way of, to coin a current coalition of the evidence. strength. George Osborne bit culent flattened beef pads. The ple. Chelsea types, in their pink have placed the Rothschilds at buzzword, monetising the actual THE GUARDIAN TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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BSE Sensex up 181.58 points European stock markets rise MUMBAI: A benchmark inched up by 136.16 points; while 16.04 points, to 1,995.24 despite the LONDON: European stock On the London Bullion Market, as evidence that the European index of Indian equities market TECK index dipped by 16.09 disappointing purchasing manag- markets rose yesterday on the price of gold climbed to economy may at last be start- yesterday closed trade 0.94 points and IT index slipped by ers index (PMI) reports on the encouraging manufacturing $1,242.75 an ounce from $1,192 ing to gain traction, albeit from percent or 182 points up, the 100.23 points. country’s factory activity. Sydney, data which suggests the late on Friday. Gold last week hit very low levels,” said Michael highest in almost a month. The prominent Sensex gain- where a number of listed firms eurozone economy may be a near three-year low point at Hewson, senior market analyst Almost all the sectors were in ers were: Maruti Suzuki, up 4.37 rely heavily on Chinese invest- climbing out of recession. $1,180.50 an ounce. at CMC Markets UK. Britain’s green except technology, media percent at Rs1605.25; Sterlite ment, dropped 1.92 percent, or Markets brushed aside news of The precious metal, seen as a PMI also came in much higher and entertainment and IT stocks. Industries, up 3.89 percent at 92.3 points, to 4,710.3. Seoul was record high unemployment in the safe haven amid economic strains, than expected at 52.5, indicating Those sectors, which showed Rs86.75; Gail India, up 3.27 percent 0.41 percent lower, shedding 7.59 eurozone and more weak Chinese has been battered by receding the economy expanded. upward movement were capital at Rs323.25; Larsen & Toubro, up points to close at 1,855.73. Hong economic data, while gold prices worries about higher inflation, In company activity, shares in goods, auto, oil and gas, health- 3.26 percent at Rs1,449.95; State Kong and Bangkok were closed rebounded from the lowest levels upbeat US data, a strong dollar Siemens rose 2.5 percent to ¤79.63 care, banking index (bankex) and Bank of India, up 3.17 percent at for public holidays. since August 2010. and expectations of an end to the after the German giant pulled out fast moving consumer goods. Rs2,015.60; and Tata Motors, up Beijing’s official PMI, a closely In company activity, German Federal Reserve’s quantitative of its joint venture with Finnish The 30-scrip sensitive index 2.91 percent at Rs289.65. watched gauge of manufacturing engineering giant Siemens drew easing (QE) stimulus. Gold lost a telecom equipment maker Nokia, (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay The losers were: Infosys, down activity, came in at 50.1 in June, in a line under its joint venture quarter of its value in the second selling its 50-percent stake in Stock Exchange (BSE), which 1.83 percent at Rs2,447.55; Tata line with expectations but down with Finnish telecom equipment quarter, which ended on Friday. Nokia Siemens Networks for opened at 19,352.48 points, closed Consultancy Services, down 1.76 from 50.8 in May. Anything above maker Nokia. That is the heaviest quarterly loss $2.2bn. Nokia shares jumped over at 19,577.39 points, up 181.58 percent at Rs1,491.70; and ONGC, 50 points to growth and anything London’s FTSE 100 index of since the early 1970s. 7 percent but pulled back to close points or 0.94 percent from last down 0.55 percent at Rs.328.30. below indicates contraction. leading shares climbed 1.49 per- The Markit Eurozone Composite with a gain of 3.6 percent to ¤2.95. Friday’s close at 19,395.81 points. In Tokyo the Tankan survey cent to close at 6,307.78 points, Purchasing Managers Index, a sur- US stocks also advanced with the Sensex touched a high of ASIAN SHARES MIXED of business confidence recorded Frankfurt’s DAX 30 index added vey of what businesses see happen- Institute for Supply Management’s 19,598.43 points and a low of Meanwhile, Asian markets a reading of “plus four”, its high- 0.31 percent to 7,983.92 points, ing in their production processes, manufacturing PMI showing an 19,347.57 points intra-day. The were mixed as another set of est level since March 2011 and while in Paris the CAC 40 rose rose to 48.8 in June — a 16-month expansion for June, rising to 50.9 wider 50-scrip Nifty of the weak manufacturing data out of the first time it has been positive 0.76 percent to 3,767.48 points. high — from 48.3 in May. from 49 in May. Construction National Stock Exchange (NSE) China offset a positive Japanese since September of that year. Milan leaped 1.45 percent and A score on the PMI index, con- spending also rose 0.5 percent on ended 0.97 percent or 56.65 points business confidence survey. In other markets: Wellington Madrid soared 1.86 percent. sidered to be a reliable indicator of the month in May. up at 5,898.85 points. Tokyo rose 1.28 percent, or was 0.50 percent, or 22.12 points, In foreign exchange trading, future activity, below 50 indicates In midday trading the Dow The S&P BSE consumer dura- 175.18 points, to 13,852.50, thanks lower at 4,418.05, while Singapore sterling slid against the euro contraction and a reading above Jones Industrial Average was bles index surged by 252.17 points, to a surge in the Bank of Japan’s fell 0.30 percent, or 9.51 points, but rose versus the dollar. The implies economic expansion. showing a gain of 1.04 percent auto index moved up by 198.90 quarterly Tankan report, which to 3,140.93. Taipei slipped 0.33 European single currency mean- “European investors appear to 15,063.95 points, the broader points, oil and gas increased by in turn boosted the dollar against percent, or 26.21 points, to 8,036 while rose to $1.3053 from $1.3013 to have taken the positives from S&P 500 climbing 1.16 percent 138.86 points, healthcare rose the yen as dealers sought higher- and Manila added 0.95 percent, or late in New York on Friday. today’s better than expected to 1,624.94 points and the tech- by 108.41 points, bankex crawled risk investments. 61.34 points, to 6,526.62. The dollar grew to 99.63 yen European manufacturing PMI heavy Nasdaq rising 1.40 percent up by 124.82 points and FMCG Shanghai added 0.81 percent, or AFP from 99.11 yen on Friday. reports from Spain, as well as Italy to 3,450.98 points. AFP TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

Pirates outlast Lions suffer blow Brewers in 14 innings

NEW YORK: The Pittsburgh Pirates had to work overtime ahead of decider to improve their Major League- leading record yesterday when they outlasted the Milwaukee Warburton ruled out of Saturday’s Test Brewers 2-1 in 14 innings. Pinch-hitter Russell Martin delivered a walk-off RBI single BRISBANE, Australia: to be ruled out of the tour through injury, Warburton starred against in the bottom of the 14th to give Injured Lions skipper Sam injury as we head to Sydney for Scotland and in the record 30-3 the streaking Pirates their ninth Warburton has been ruled out of the deciding match,” Warburton thrashing of England that lifted straight win in dramatic fashion. Saturday’s deciding Test against said in a team statement. Wales to the Six Nations title. Pittsburgh trailed early and the Wallabies in a major blow “I wish the team all the best The injury follows the loss of tied the game in the eighth where for the tourists, team officials and hope I can play some part in experienced forward pack leader Andrew McCutchen had a run- said yesterday. the build-up this week. and Irish lock Paul O’Connell. scoring single. Scans revealed a “significant “I am confident that the boys He suffered a broken arm in the Both teams used seven pitch- tear” in his left hamstring suf- can finish the job off and secure tourists’ 23-21 first Test win over ers each in a duel that saw the fered late in the Lions’ 16-15 sec- the series win.” the Wallabies in Brisbane. Pirates (51-30) extend their ond Test defeat by Australia at The devastating news for the Ireland’s Sean O’Brien, highly lead to two games over St Louis the weekend. The Welsh flanker 24-year-old forward, who missed regarded by the Wallabies after (49-32) in the National League will now miss the series show- the Lions’ opening two wins in his starring display in a 2011 Central. down in Sydney, the officials said. Hong Kong and Perth with knee World Cup pool game upset over The Cardinals could not keep Irish veteran centre Brian ligament damage, comes as he Australia, is in line to replace pace as they lost to Oakland 7-5. O’Driscoll is now expected to cap- found outstanding form in the Warburton at number seven for Jed Lowrie hit a go-ahead home tain the tourists in what will be second Test. Saturday’s third Test. run to lead the Athletics and keep his final Lions Test. Warburton became the young- Wallabies senior back Adam them just a half-game behind Warburton was helped off est Welsh Lions tour captain in Ashley-Cooper labelled O’Brien Texas for first in the AL West. 13 minutes from the end of the Lions history when he was named a “class act”. In Tampa Bay, the Detroit second Test and remained in skipper in May. “(Warburton) would be a Tigers lost to the Rays 3-1 to fall Melbourne after the match under He led Wales to the 2011 World huge loss but they have a lot of into a virtual tie with Cleveland the supervision of Lions team Cup semi-finals, only to be sent depth there in the back-row,” the atop the AL Central. doctor Eanna Falvey to undergo off in a narrow defeat by France 79-Test centre said yesterday. Miguel Cabrera slugged his a full medical assessment. in Auckland. “They’re certainly not lacking 25th home run of the season The loss of Warburton, their Warburton was sent off after in any good number sevens.” Australian Wallabies centre Adam Ashley-Cooper passes a rugby ball in for Detroit, but that was the best player in the second Test, is only 17 minutes for a spear tackle Lions head coach Warren the surf during a recovery session on Sydney’s Coogee Beach yesterday, only blemish against Tampa Bay a significant blow for the Lions as on Vincent Clerc and received a Gatland is due to announce after the 79-capped back scored the only try late in last Saturday’s grip- pitcher Jeremy Hellickson who they strive to end a 16-year series three-week ban. his starting line-up for Sydney ping 16-15 second Test win over the Lions in Melbourne for the Wallabies won for the fifth time in the drought. After he missed the early part of tomorrow. AFP to level the three-match series. month of June. “It is incredibly disappointing the last European season through The Tigers (43-37) now lead the Indians (44-38) by a mere percentage point. In Boston, the Australia not Red Sox beat Toronto 5-4 thanks to an error in the bottom of the great, but will New Zealand celebrate wins ninth. Josh Thole, making a rare fill- get better: WELLINGTON: Rugby-mad the quarter-finals, where Spain in appearance at first base for the New Zealand celebrated their had upset 2009 world champions Blue Jays, was unable to handle a men’s and women’s sevens Australia 14-10. ground ball from Shane Victorino Ashley-Cooper teams winning the world titles Despite New Zealand clinch- that brought home the winning on Sunday in Moscow but no- ing both titles at the World Cup, run in the final inning. SYDNEY: Australia may have one was taking Olympic gold Horan said the tournament was Jose Bautista went 3-for-5 sneaked to a 16-15 second Test medals in Rio for granted. merely a stepping stone towards with a home run, his third in two victory over the British and The All Blacks Sevens beat Rio, particularly for his team, who games, but it was not enough to Irish Lions that kept the series rugby heavyweights England 33-0 were only put together in the last halt the first-place Red Sox. alive but the player who scored in their final to clinch their first 18 months. In Colorado, baseball’s hottest their match-winning try was world title since 2001, while the “We still have a long way to go,” hitter, Michael Cuddyer extended far from impressed with their women’s team beat Canada 29-12 he told Reuters. his hitting streak to 27 games in a performance. to win their first. “It’s like climbing Everest, but 5-2 loss to San Francisco. Centre Adam Ashley-Cooper’s The dual victory means that we’re not even at base camp yet. Cuddyer got his lone hit of try gave the Wallabies their New Zealand now holds the men’s We’re still walking through the the game in the eighth to keep slim lead with minutes remain- and women’s World Cups for both villages saying hello to the kids.” his stretch alive while the Giants ing in the match at Docklands formats, along with the sevens’ New Zealand implemented a snapped a six-game losing streak. Stadium, though the Lions had world series titles earlier this talent identification programme REUTERS the opportunity to snatch it with year. With the abbreviated form in early 2012 that produced the a last-minute Leigh Halfpenny of the game due to make its debut group of players that won the Baseball Results penalty attempt that fell just at the Rio Olympics in 2016, the New Zealand’s Linda Itunu (left) tackles Canada’s Ghislaine Landry during World Cup, which has been emu- short. New Zealand Rugby Union and the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens final match against Canada at the lated by other countries with Washington 13 NY Mets 2 “I think we’ve got a lot more High Performance Sport New Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on Sunday. less pedigree in rugby but bigger Miami 6 San Diego 2 in us, I thought the game (on Zealand have poured resources Olympic budgets. As part of the Boston 5 Toronto 4 Saturday) wasn’t of great stand- into both programmes in an Raikuna try to beat the US in the on their day, they’ll win the gold programme, Horan cast a wide Atlanta 6 Arizona 2 ard,” the 29-year-old told report- attempt to win both gold medals pool phase in Moscow. medal if you’re not careful.” net before he selected his final Pittsburgh 2 Milwaukee 1 ers in Sydney yesterday. on offer. The men’s programme “The days of when it was us and It is the women’s game, how- squad, drawing on players with Tampa Bay 3 Detroit 1 “We made a lot of improve- has long been at the top of the Fiji dominating are over,” former ever, that has made the larg- varied sporting backgrounds with ments from game one (which the game, winning 11 of the 14 world All Blacks winger, and sevens est strides in reducing the gaps top-level netball players Kayla Kansas City 9 Minnesota 8 Lions won 23-21), but we cer- series circuits, though the gap is captain, Eric Rush said before the between teams, with the US McAlister and Portia Woodman LA Angels 3 Houston 1 tainly feel we’ve got a lot more narrowing with teams like Kenya tournament began. beating Spain 10-5 in the play- both scoring tries in the final. Cleveland 4 Chicago White Sox 0 improvements to make.” and the United States all capable “I don’t think it deserved to be off for third shortly before Sean However, he had only dipped his Texas 3 Cincinnati 2 Ashley-Cooper’s summation of causing upsets. in the Olympics because there Horan’s team beat Canada in the toes into the talent pool of players Oakland 7 St Louis 5 of the game was not out of step Kenya, who have made mas- were only two teams that could final. available, he said, and he said the Chicago Cubs 7 Seattle 6 with many observers, who felt the sive strides under former England win it. Canada had only made the side to contest the next women’s San Francisco 5 Colorado 2 match had not been of the stand- coach Mike Friday, finished “Now there at least five or six semi-finals after Ghislaine Landry world series could be different ard expected of the occasion. fourth in the World Cup, while who could win and that is what scored a try with 13 seconds from that which won the title in LA Dodgers 6 Philadelphia 1 AFP New Zealand needed a late David you want and teams like Kenya, remaining to beat Russia 15-12 in Moscow. REUTERS Baltimore 4 NY Yankees 2

Qatar’s Al Obaidli wins bronze at 4th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Snooker

Qatar’s Ali Nasser Al Obaidli with the national flag and his bronze medal at Songdo Convensia Indoor Hall in Incheon, South Korea, yesterday. Al Obaidli won the bronze medal in the Men’s 6-Red Snooker Singles category at the 4th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games 2013. Right: Al Obaidli is seen with other members of the Qatar team and officials of Qatar Snooker and Billiards Federation. PICTURES BY: SHAHJAHAN MOIDIN TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Tour de France CALVI, France: Results from the third stage of Tour de France, a 145.5km ride from Ajaccio to Calvi yesterday: 1. Simon Gerrans (AUS/ORI) 3h41min 24sec 2. Peter Sagan (SVK/CAN) at 0:00. 3. José Joaquin Rojas (ESP/MOV) 0:00. 4. Michal Kwiatkowski (POL/OPQ) 0:00. 5. Philippe Gilbert (BEL/BMC) 0:00. 6. Juan Antonio Flecha (ESP/VAC) 0:00. 7. Francesco Gavazzi (ITA/AST) 0:00. 8. Maxime Bouet (FRA/ALM) 0:00. 9. Julien Simon (FRA/SOJ) 0:00. 10. Gorka Izagirre (ESP/EUS) 0:00. 11. Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR/SKY) 0:00. 12. Romain Bardet (FRA/ALM) 0:00. 13. Cadel Evans (AUS/BMC) 0:00. 14. Serguey Lagutin (UZB/VAC) 0:00. 15. Elia Favilli (ITA/LAM) 0:00. 16. Manuele Mori (ITA/LAM) 0:00. 17. Simon Geschke (GER/ARG) 0:00. 18. Davide Malacarne (ITA/EUC) 0:00. 19. Jan Bakelants (BEL/RSH) 0:00. 20. Peter Velits (SVK/OPQ) 0:00. Overall standings 1. Jan Bakelants (BEL/RSH) 12h21min 27sec 2. Julien Simon (FRA/SOJ) at 0:01. 3. Simon Gerrans (AUS/ORI) 0:01. 4. Michal Kwiatkowski (POL/OPQ) 0:01. 5. Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR/SKY) 0:01. 6. Daryl Impey (RSA/ORI) 0:01. 7. David Millar (GBR/GRM) 0:01. 8. Serguey Lagutin (UZB/VAC) 0:01. The Tour de France caravan makes their way during the 145,5 km third stage of the centenary Tour de France cycling race from Ajaccio to Calvi, on the French Mediterranean island of 9. Cadel Evans (AUS/BMC) 0:01. Corsica, yesterday. INSET: Australian rider Simon Gerrans of the Orica Greenedge procycling team celebrates on the podium after winning the third stage. 10. Romain Bardet (FRA/ALM) 0:01. 11. Nicolas Roche (IRL/SAX) 0:01. 12. Jurgen Van den Broeck (BEL/LTB) 0:01. 13. Sylvain Chavanel (FRA/OPQ) 0:01. 14. Jean Christophe Peraud (FRA/ALM) 0:01. 15. Chris Froome (GBR/SKY) 0:01. Gerrans wins third stage 16. Damiano Cunego (ITA/LAM) 0:01. 17. Eduard Vorganov (RUS/KAT) 0:01. 18. Roman Kreuziger (CZE/SAX) 0:01. Australian edges Sagan in Corsica; Bakelants retains yellow jersey 19. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/MOV) 0:01. 20. Jakob Diemer Fuglsang (DEN/AST) 0:01. L’ILE-ROUSSE, France: jersey for the best sprinter from It was like a drag race between the sobering realisation that he It was a short but tricky stage, Australia’s Simon Gerrans of Marcel Kittel, the German who me and Peter at the end.” is unlikely to keep it for much with the route up Corsica’s west the Orica-GreenEdge team won won the opening stage of the race The defeat on the line would longer. coast featuring practically no flat the third stage of the Tour de in Bastia on Saturday. have been hard to take for Sagan, “Probably tomorrow I will lose sections and a total of four climbs, France yesterday in a sprint Gerrans’ victory is his second who also had to settle for second the yellow jersey. It will be painful most notably the category two finish at the end of the 145-kilo- in the Tour, with his previous place in Sunday’s stage in Ajaccio but I have to think about the nice ascent of the Col de Marsolino metre ride from Ajaccio to Calvi stage win dating back to 2008. His behind Bakelants, but pulling on days I’ve had in it,” he said. just 13.5 kilometres from the fin- on Corsica. is the first win for an Australian the green jersey will serve as a Gerrans’ stage triumph comes ish in Calvi. Gerrans edged out Slovakia’s in the race since Cadel Evans won welcome consolation. as a welcome piece of good public- That climb saw the peloton Peter Sagan, last year’s green jer- the fourth stage en route to tak- “I am a little disappointed not ity for his Orica-GreenEdge team, catch the five-man breakaway, sey winner, in a photo finish with ing the yellow jersey in 2011. to have won the stage but our who were caught at the centre of which had been led by Dutchman Spain’s Jose Joaquin Rojas just “The stage went perfectly objective as a team is to win the controversy on Saturday when Lieuwe Westra. behind in third. for me. It was fantastic,” said green jersey and we have got off their bus became stuck under a Apart from the break, it was Belgium’s Jan Bakelants, win- Gerrans, who has won stages in to a good start,” said the Slovak gantry at the first-stage finish a largely uneventful ride for the ner of the second stage, holds on all three Grand Tours and also from the Cannondale team. line. It was a good day all round most part, albeit amid some spec- to the overall race leader’s yellow won last year’s Milan-San Remo. For Bakelants, who is sup- for the team, with Simon Clarke tacular scenery. The Corsican jersey by a one-second margin “It was like riding one of the posed to be a support rider for featuring in a group of five riders section of the 100th Tour is now Belgian rider Jan Bakelantsof after coming in as part of the Ardennes Classics. We spent the Radioshack-Leopard team leader who broke away from the peloton over, and the riders were due to the Radioshack Leopard team pack in 19th place. entire day going up or down. Andy Schleck, there was quiet early and going on to reach the depart for the French mainland puts on the overall leader’s yel- Meanwhile, Sagan’s second “I wasn’t sure if I had won satisfaction at retaining yel- summit in each of the first three ahead of a short team time-trial low jersey. place allows him to take the green because it was so tight on the line. low, but that was coupled with categorised climbs of the day. in Nice today. AFP Korean Park Haas tops National clinches third consecutive for fifth career title

BETHESDA, Maryland: Bill Roberto Castro by three strokes. major Haas fired a five-under par 66 “Unbelievable special day. It’s a yesterday to win the $6.5m US great feeling,” Haas said. “It was SOUTHAMPTON, New York: PGA National, capturing his just my week, one of those weeks South Korean Park Inbee became fifth career title and leaping where the 12-footers went in only the second LPGA player to into the top 10 on the tour’s sea- instead of missed.” win the first three majors in a son money list. South Korean rookie Lee season when she roared to a four- The 31-year-old American Dong-Hwan made nine birdies stroke victory at the US Women’s took the top prize of $1.1m at in a sizzling round of 64 for his Open yesterday. Congressional Country Club by best finish in 18 US PGA starts, Second-year Top Fuel driver Khalid alBalooshi races to the first-round The world number one held Inbee Park of South Korea finishing 72 holes on 12-under a share of third with American win against rival driver Brandon Bernstein at O’Reilly Auto Parts Route steady with a final-round two- holds the 2013 Harton S Semple par 272, beating countryman Jason Kokrak on 276, one shot 66 NHRA Nationals near Chicago, yesterday. PICTURE BY: RON LEWIS over-par 74 to finish at eight- Trophy after winning the 2013 ahead of 2009 British Open win- under 280 at Sebonack Golf Club US Women’s Open golf cham- PGA National ner Stewart Cink. in New York. pionship at the Sebonack Golf “I knew I was far back from the “I just hope this is not a dream,” BETHESDA, Maryland: Leading scores leader so I just kept in my mind Club in Southampton, New York, yesterday after the final round of the $6.5m Quarter-final finish for Park, who earlier this year won and played hole by hole,” Lee said. yesterday. US PGA National at par-71 Congressional the Kraft Nabisco and LPGA Country Club (USA unless noted): “I just tried to empty my mind championships, told reporters. “I 272 Bill Haas 70-68-68-66 and just play my game.” don’t want to wake up tomorrow US prodigy Jordan Spieth, try- AlBalooshi of Al-Anabi US Women’s Open 275 Roberto Castro 66-69-71-69 and play the final round again.” 276 Lee Dong-Hwan (KOR) 71-66-75- ing at 19 to become the youngest Only Mildred (Babe) Didrikson 64, Jason Kokrak 71-66-70-69 US PGA Tour winner since 1931, JOLIET, ILLINOIS: Khalid However, in the second round, Zaharias has previously won the Scores 277 Stewart Cink 70-69-71-67 fired a 69 to finish sixth on 278. alBalooshi, the second-year Top alBalooshi ran into seven- first three women’s majors in a 280 Park In-Bee (KOR) 67-68-71-74 278 Jordan Spieth 69-66-74-69 World number one Tiger Woods, Fuel driver from Dubai, raced time World Champion Tony season. 284 I.K. Kim (KOR) 68-69-73-74 279 Charlie Wi (KOR) 72-71-65-71 the tournament host who could not to a quarterfinal finish near Schumacher who was racing She did it in 1950, winning the 287 Ryu So-Yeon (KOR) 73-69-73-72 280 Brian Davis (ENG) 70-72-71-67, play this week due to a left elbow Chicago for the Qatar Al-Anabi at his home track. The veteran Titleholders Championship, the injury, plans to begin strength work Racing Top Fuel Team, the two- Schumacher took the second- 289 Paula Creamer 72-73-72-72, Angela Graham DeLaet (CAN) 68-72-71- Women’s Western Open and the in a few days with plans to return time World Championship team round win from the second-year Stanford 73-68-74-74, Jodi Ewart 69, Morgan Hoffman 73-68-69-70, Brandt Snedeker 69-71-69-71, US Women’s Open. Shadoff (ENG) 70-69-74-76 to action in the British Open at owned by His Excellency Sheikh Top Fuel driver and went onto Fellow Korean IK Kim matched James Driscoll 69-69-68-74 Muirfield on July 18-21. AFP Khalid bin Hamad Al Thani, win the race. With the quarter- 290 Brittany Lang 76-69-73-72, Jessica Parks’ 74 and took second at at the just-completed O’Reilly final finish, alBalooshi remains Korda 70-71-76-73 four-under 284 but was never Auto Parts Route 66 NHRA sixth in the NHRA Mello Yello able to really challenge Park. 291 Feng Shanshan (CHN) 71-75-75-70, Nationals, the 12th of 24 races Top Fuel point standings. He Ryu So-Yeon was third at one- Brittany Lincicome 72-72-74-73 that make up America’s 2013 trails fifth-place Doug Kalitta by Bill Haas holds under 287 with Americans Paula NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing 46 points and leads seventh-place Creamer and Angela Stanford his trophy next season. Clay Millican by 37 points. World rankings to Tiger Woods and England’s Jodi Ewart-Shadoff 1. (1) Tiger Woods 12.72 average points AlBalooshi made an excellent “Our team worked very hard after win- tied for fourth at one-over 289. 2. (2) Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland) 9.15 qualifying effort, but when many this weekend, but we did not get Entering the day with a four- ning the AT&T teams improved their qualify- the result we wanted,” alBalo- 3. (3) Justin Rose (England) 8.05 stroke advantage, Park’s lead was National at ing positions the next day, alBa- oshi said. “We made a very good briefly trimmed to three when 4. (4) Adam Scott (Australia) 7.14 Congressional looshi’s gold Al-Anabi team did run in the first round, but in Kim birdied the second hole but 5. (5) Matt Kuchar 6.64 Country Club not follow suit, and he entered the second round against Tony the runner-up gave a shot right 6. (6) Phil Mickelson 6.12 in Bethesda, yesterday’s eliminations as the (Schumacher), we smoked the back with a bogey on No. 4. 7. (8) Brandt Snedeker 6.01 Maryland, No. 10 qualifier. Still determined, tires. That is not what we wanted After bogeying holes No. 6 and 8. (7) Luke Donald (England) 5.93 yesterday. the gold Al-Anabi team made a for our Al-Anabi team so we will No. 7, Park ran off birdies at the masterful run in the first round go to Ohio next week and do our 9. (9) Graeme McDowell (Northern Ireland) 5.43 ninth and 10th holes to swell her of eliminations and defeated No. 7 best to do better.” 10. (10) Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa) 5.09 cushion to six shots. REUTERS qualifier Brandon Bernstein. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Scoreboard

INDIA R Sharma c Charles b Sammy ...... 60 West Indies edge past India S Dhawan c&b Roach ...... 11 V Kohli c Gayle b Sammy ...... 11 D Karthik c&b Samuels ...... 23 S Raina c Ramdin b Roach ...... 44 Birthday boy Kemar Roach, Tino Best guide hosts to one-wicket win M S Dhoni b Best ...... 27 R Jadeja b Best ...... 15 R Ashwin (not out) ...... 5 KINGSTON: West Indies calming influence of Mahendra He claimed the wickets of B Kumar (not out) ...... 11 scrambled to a one-wicket vic- Singh Dhoni in the field after the Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja near Extras (B-5, LB-6, W-9, NB-2) ...... 22 tory with 14 balls to spare over captain was hobbled while batting the end of the Indian innings Total (for 7 wkts in 50 overs) ...... 229 India in the second match of the by a suspected right hamstring before returning to ensure his West Indies Fall of wickets: 1-25, 2-39, 3-98, 4-124, Celkon Mobile Cup Tri-Nation strain. But, under the supervision team scraped over the line to 5-182, 6-197, 7-212. cricketers One-Day International Series at of Virat Kohli, the visitors refused consolidate their position at the Bowling: Roach 10-2-41-2 (3w); Best 10-0- Kemar Sabina Park on Sunday. to give up, even when Charles and top of the three-team standings. 54-2 (4w; 2nb); Sammy 10-3-41-2; Pollard Roach Birthday boy Kemar Roach Darren Bravo (55) appeared to be They now have two wins in two 1-0-8-0 (1w); Narine 10-0-56-0 (1w); Samu- (right) and and last man Tino Best ensured tilting the balance decisively the matches and head to Trinidad for els 9-1-20-1. Tino Best the West Indies did not complete home team’s way. repeat clashes with India and Sri WEST INDIES celebrate their own destruction, turning in Their fourth-wicket partner- Lanka before the final on July 11. C Gayle c Raina b Yadav ...... 11 defeating match saving performances. ship of 116 lifted the Caribbean “At the end, we got over the line J Charles c I Sharma b Yadav ...... 97 India during The home side had to reply to side from the early discomfort of and that’s what matters,” said a D Smith lbw Yadav ...... 0 the second the World Cup and Champions 26 for three. relieved Pollard in the immediate M Samuels b Kumar ...... 1 match of the Trophy holders’ total of 229 for Umesh Yadav, who removed the aftermath of victory. D M Bravo c Dhawan b Ashwin ...... 55 Tri-Nation seven. They tottered from the dangerous Chris Gayle, and Devon “In the recent past, West Indies K Pollard c hahaKarthik b I Sharma ...... 4 series comfort of 142 for three in the Smith in his opening burst, added teams would have capitulated D Ramdin b Ashwin ...... 4 against 28th over via a rash of irrespon- the important wicket of Charles completely, so it shows we have a D Sammy c Ashwin b I Sharma ...... 29 sible shots, even with Johnson to keep his team’s hopes alive in bit of fight and character in this India at the K Roach (not out) ...... 14 Charles battling to hold the the match. He finished with the side.” Sabina Park S Narine c Dhawan b Raina ...... 5 innings together. best figures of three for 43. Opening batsman Rohit T Best (not out) ...... 3 stadium in However the opening batsman West Indies were themselves Sharma had top-scored for India Kingston Extras (LB-2, W-5) ...... 7 joined the apparent suicide pact: without their regular captain with 60 and featured in a 58-run Total (for 9 wkts in 47.4 overs) ...... 230 on Sunday. he was eighth out for 97 and when throughout the match. fifth-wicket partnership with the Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-25, 3-26, 4-142, West Indies Sunil Narine also gifted his wicket With Dwayne Bravo was side- experienced left-hander Suresh 5-155, 6-161, 7-197, 8-211, 9-220. defeated at 220 for nine. lined with a groin strain, it was Raina. Bowling: Kumar 7-1-36-1 (1w); Yadav 9.4- India by one It was left to the Barbadian fast Kieron Pollard took the reins of Raina’s knock of 44 was the 2-42-3 (2w); Jadeja 10-1-50-0; I Sharma wicket. bowling pair of Roach -- on his leadership. next best effort among a batting 9-0-51-2 (2w); Ashwin 10-0-44-2; Raina 25th birthday -- and Best to see Ravi Rampaul also missed out line-up that generally struggled to 2-0-4-1. the West Indies home amid in a with a twisted ankle, but as it come to terms with the two-paced Result: West Indies won by 1 wicket. nail-biting finish. turned out his replacement Best nature of the pitch earlier in the Man-of-the-Match: J Charles. India was deprived of the played a key role in the victory. day. REUTERS Misbah hopes Gooch urges England Pakistan can rebuild after top order to cash in Trophy collapse LAHORE: Skipper Misbah-ul LONDON: Batting coach including captain Alastair Cook, series, if we get starts we’ve got to Haq put a brave face yestern- Graham Gooch urged England’s Gooch’s protege, reached double put big totals on the board. day on Pakistan’s miserable top order to make the most of figures on Sunday but none could “The job of the batters is to cre- collapse at the Champions sound starts after all the side’s follow the master’s example. ate an opportunity for your bowl- Trophy, believing the team specialist batsmen failed to do But they should have at ers to win the match. That’s their can overcome serious weak- just that on the first day of their least one more chance to spend job, and they know it is. It wasn’t nesses to rebuild for the 2015 Ashes warm-up against Essex. some time in the middle before a disaster today. But obviously World Cup. England finished the open- England begin the defence of the some of the guys would have liked Pakistan crashed out of the ing day of four at Chelmsford on Ashes with the first Test against to spend more time out there.” eight-team Champions Trophy Sunday well-placed at 328 for Australia in Nottingham starting Several of England’s batsmen last month, losing all three seven but with the only stand on July 10. have only just returned to first- matches as their batsmen of note thus far coming from an “It’s a fair total. But we’d have class cricket following the team’s flopped once again. unbroken eighth-wicket century liked some of our top order to run to the final of the one-day But 39-year-old Misbah, who partnership between Tim Bresnan spend more time at the crease, Champions Trophy, where they top-scored in the Trophy with (55 not out) and Graeme Swann and capitalise on their starts,” were beaten by India at Edgbaston 173, was confident the team can (62 not out). Gooch said. earlier this month. bounce back. Banned Pakistani paceman Mohammad Aamer signs an autograph for Former Essex and England “You want your main batsmen Gooch said: “I certainly “If we have lost then it’s not a boy as he leaves after the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) anti- captain Gooch, one of England’s to get into a bit of rhythm, get wouldn’t make excuses. We’ve the end, we can rebuild the corruption hearing at the Qatar Financial Centre Civil and Commercial greatest batsmen, has long their games in order so that we’re played a lot of one-day cricket team in the next two years Court in Doha in this January 10, 2011, file photo. emphasised the importance of building up to peak next week,” recently against the white ball ... for the World Cup by working “daddy hundreds” -- players turn- he explained. you have to make that adjustment on good players,” Misbah told ing good starts into truly large “You’ve got to bat long. Once pretty much straight away (but) reporters on his return from scores. you get in, you’ve got to capitalise I don’t think any of our players England. All of England’s top seven, on that. Certainly, come this Test would make that excuse.” AFP Apart from Misbah, all other top order batsmen flopped with ICC to consider India’s Dhoni out of opener Mohammad Hafeez Rogers to open for Australia scoring 38 runs in three tri-nation series matches, Asad Shafiq 41, Shoaib Malik 25 and Kamran Akmal 23 with Watson in Ashes series KINGSTON: Indian captain at the Trophy held in England. Aamer’s ban Mahendra Singh Dhoni has Misbah conceded changes been ruled out of the remainder in the team ahead of their KARACHI: Cricket’s govern- ICC committee chairman LONDON: Chris Rogers (pictured below) will have the chance of the Tri-Nation Series with a five-match, one-day and two ing body has formed a five- Giles Clarke, also chairman of to revive his international career after coach Darren Lehmann right hamstring strain sustained Twenty20 international series member committee to consider the England and Wales Cricket confirmed yesterday the veteran batsman would open alongside while batting against the West in the West Indies later this a request from Pakistan that Board, confirmed the formation Shane Watson in next week’s first Ashes Indies in his team’s first match month. the conditions of Mohammad of the committee. Test. of the tournament on Sunday at “We have to sit down and Aamer’s ban for spot-fixing be He said the PCB had pointed Lehmann, brought in last week after Sabina Park. discuss, make changes where relaxed. out that Aamer had collaborated Cricket Australia sacked former coach His place in the 15-man squad necessary and plan who are the The 21-year-old paceman, with an ICC anti-corruption unit, Mickey Arthur, had already indicated all- is to be taken by the uncapped players to be groomed for the regarded as hot property in inter- admitted his guilt and apologised rounder Watson would be returning to the 27-year-old batsman Ambati future,” said Misbah, who will national cricket, was banned in to fans and to Pakistan and the top of the order. Rayudu. Vice-captain Virat Kohli, retain his position as captain 2011 for five years for spot-fixing world community. But with Australia’s squad featuring who led the team on the field in for the one-day series staring along with team-mates Salman “In the light of Aamer’s coop- several openers, that still left some doubt Dhoni’s absence against the West in Guyana from July 14. Butt and Mohammad Asif. eration and his public submis- about the identity of Watson’s first-wicket Indies, takes over as captain for Misbah denied there was any They were found guilty of bowl- sion of guilt and his undergoing partner. the remainder of the series. rift in the team following the ing deliberate no-balls in return a rehabilitation programme, I However, former Australia batsman India face Sri Lanka today in poor performances. for money in the Lord’s Test stated that I would be prepared Lehmann ended speculation yesterday by Kingston with both teams look- “Whenever the team loses against England in 2010. with a small group, including announcing the 35-year-old Rogers, who has ing for their first points after each such negative things come up Butt was banned for 10 years Cricket Australia chairman and enjoyed several successful stints in English lost to the hosts in their respec- but there are no differences with five suspended, Asif for seven the representative of Singapore county cricket, would open having made his tive opening fixtures. because these are the same years with two suspended and cricket association, to look into lone Test appearance five years ago when he Following that encounter, the players who did well recently,” Aamer for five years. All three the matter,” Clarke told AFP by scored 15 and four against India. tournament shifts to the Queen’s said Misbah. were also jailed by a British court phone. Lehmann’s announcement did little for the already slim chances Park Oval in Port of Spain, Pakistan have now lost four in 2011. Clarke from 2008-2011 headed of opener David Warner, banned until the start of the first Test Trinidad, for the remaining three of their last five one-day series Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) a special group to help Pakistan in Nottingham on July 10 after punching England’s Joe Root in a preliminary matches at the final, under Misbah. Misbah said interim chairman Najam Sethi bring international cricket back Birmingham bar, featuring at Trent Bridge. REUTERS starting with India against the as captain and as a Pakistan raised Aamer’s ban at the annual to a country deeply troubled by West Indies on Friday. AFP cricketer he was “deeply disap- meeting of the International Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked vio- pointed” with his team’s show- Cricket Council (ICC) in London lence. Pakistan has hosted no top- Indian cricket ing in the Champions Trophy. last week. level international cricket since team captain “We are playing all our “On recommendation from the militants attacked the Sri Lankan Mahendra cricket outside Pakistan and PCB, the ICC has constituted a team bus in 2009, forcing teams to that is also one of the reasons five-member committee that will suspend tours to the country over Singh Dhoni is we are suffering,” said Misbah review and recommend amend- security fears. treated by team of the lack of home series. ments to the ICC anti-corruption Clarke stressed the importance physiotherapist Misbah said batsmen needed code and will also provide its sug- of banned players admitting their after injuring his to lift their standards. gestions to the ICC board on the guilt and apologising. right leg during Pakistan is expected to ban related to Aamer,” a PCB “The two important things for the second match appoint former captain spokesman told AFP. these cricketers, who are either of the Tri-Nation Inzamam-ul Haq as batting con- Any relaxation, if approved found guilty or implicated, is to series against sultant after their experiment by the ICC board, would allow come clean by recognising their hosts West Indies with Australian coach Trent Aamer to use PCB facilities such guilt and apologise and assist the at the Sabina Woodhill in the Trophy failed as cricket grounds and gyms. authorities in cleaning up the Park stadium to produce desired results. While announcing the ban on mess,” he said. in Kingston on Misbah said he will sit with the three players, ICC tribunal “They owe the Pakistan fans Sunday. Dhoni did selectors to finalise a team for chief Michael Beloff QC deplored that obligation. I am pleased not keep wickets the West Indies tour. The team the fact that under the ICC code, that Salman Butt has now apolo- during the West is due to be announced tomor- five years is the minimum punish- gised publicly and recognised and Indies innings. row. REUTERS ment and suggested leniency in admitted his guilt. That is the that regard. first step.” AFP TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Scolari says Brazil embarking on new path

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari (pictured) insisted his side were still a work in progress despite their Confederations Cup masterclass against world champions Spain here Sunday. Scolari, the architect of In this handout image provided by FIFA, Neymar (centre) of Brazil and his team-mates celebrate with the trophy at the end of the FIFA Confederations Cup against Spain at Maracana in Brazil’s last World Cup victory Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday. CENTRE: FIFA President Sepp Blatter (centre) congratulates Neymar during the trophy presentation. RIGHT: Brazil defender Dani Alves celebrates with in 2002, a wig and his gold medal. was the proudest man in the Maracana on Sunday as his remodeled team over- Brilliant Brazil crush Spain whelmed the fabled Spaniards The hosts win 3-0 to clinch their third straight Confederations Cup title 3-0 cour- tesy of two goals from RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil Neymar flick before a Paulinho Fred and destroyed world and European chip almost embarrassed Casillas a sublime champions Spain 3-0 to win a as Brazil poured forward, visibly effort from third straight Confederations boosted by the overwhelming din Neymar. Cup title with a dazzling dis- of support cascading down from With the play of football which left the stands. World Cup on Brazilian soil less Maracana Stadium in raptures Spain briefly responded with than 12 months away, it was a here Sunday. a swirling drive from Andres result which will infuse Scolari’s The turbo-charged samba stars Iniesta which appeared to be team with belief that a record roared to victory with two goals drifting just wide before Brazil sixth World Cup crown is there from Fred and a stunning strike keeper Julio Cesar pushed the for the taking if all goes to plan from Neymar, dominating a weary ball away for a 19th-minute cor- next year. Spanish side whose strength was ner which Fernando Torres. A delighted Scolari however sapped after edging Italy on pen- Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, was more circumspect when alties in Thursday’s semi-final. who led the Brazilians to their last asked to discuss the signifi- A miserable night for Spain World Cup success 11 years earlier cance of his team’s mesmeris- also saw them miss a second to the day, had begun the event ing display. half penalty when Sergio Ramos playing down expectations after “We are still not a team that shot wide from the spot before the legendary Pele slammed the is complete, we know that we Barcelona defender Gerard Pique current side as not good enough have a good group but we still was sent off for a professional foul to win top prizes. have to prove a lot. But today, on Neymar. But in recent days Scolari had we embarked on the path to The touchpaper for an electri- suggested now was the time for 2014,” said Scolari, reappointed fying evening at one of the most next year’s World Cup hosts to seven months ago for a second iconic venues in football was set show they are back in business. stint in charge. during the pre-match ceremonies Rarely on a football field was “It was fantastic to hear the as Brazil’s fans in a 73,531-crowd a message delivered so emphati- crowd singing ‘the champi- belted out a spine-tingling rendi- cally as the hopes of the Spanish, ons are back’ but a long path tion of the national anthem. struggling to impose their high stretches ahead of us. Yet I am The stirring anthems came as tempo possession game, withered Brazil players lift the trophy after winning the FIFA Confederations Cup after beating Spain 3-0 in the final, at sure people will now respect police clashed with protestors and died. the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro late on Sunday. Brazil a little more.” outside the ground before kick- Spain central defender Pique, “In the past 30 days we have off, the latest in a series of violent already booked for a first half beaten four former world cham- confrontations which have dogged challenge, was sent off for taking Cesar stranded. As Brazilian before the Barcelona-bound star- a brilliantly instinctive Neymar pions in France (in a pre-event the tournament since it kicked Neymar’s legs under him after the hearts leapt into mouths, Luiz let, just onside, twisted to smash dummy. tune-up), Italy, Uruguay and off. break - the bearded star left the threw himself across the goalline an unstoppable left-footed drive Spain reacted as coach Vicente now Spain,” he remarked mat- With the euphoric stadium fray to chants of “Shakira,” his to clear - prompting cheering that past Casillas for his fourth goal del Bosque, the only man to coach ter of factly. crowd behind them, Brazil raced Colombian partner. echoed back from the rafters. of the event. teams to the World Cup, the Brazil began the tourna- into a 1-0 lead after only two min- Had Spain found some of the There were niggly moments as The 21-year-old vaulted the Euros and the Champions League, ment with the words of Pele utes through Fred’s first of the singer’s rhythm they might have Oscar, one of four Chelsea men advertising hoardings to disap- sent on Jesus Navas for Mata - ringing in their ears, with the night. stood a chance - but such was on the pitch at the start, earned a pear in a sea of frenzied fans but there would be no resurrec- legendary No.10 questioning Hulk lifted over a cross and the pace of the hosts’ high-speed booking for diving after a Ramos before embracing his teammates tion for Spain. whether Scolari’s team were Neymar slid a hopeful ball to the interplay they were down and out challenge. as the noise level climbed ever After Marcelo fouled Navas good enough to prevail. centre forward, who was prone in after David Luiz made a superla- Fred then saw Casillas make a upwards. there was still time for Ramos Almost as important as the the box as he flung out his right tive block in the 42nd minute. fine stop with his legs from a low Two minutes after the restart to send a spotkick wide for Spain level of performance on the leg to hook home from point Torres and Juan Mata pro- drive before the centre forward the scoreline was 3-0 as the as his effort summed up their pitch was the re-bonding of blank range past helpless Spanish duced an all-Chelsea interplay missed a free header. swashbuckling Fred again showed evening while Brazil showed that Brazil’s team with their fans, custodian Iker Casillas. before sending Pedro away and But as the clock ticked down at why Scolari is such a fan, firing a sixth World Cup could just be Scolari said. Oscar then fired a low shot the Barcelona forward arrowed the end of the first period Neymar an unerring low drive wide of there for the taking at next year’s “My team pay from the bot- just wide after Fred played on a an effort goalwards with Julio made it 2-0, combining with Oscar Casillas’ outstretched arm after edition. AFP tom of their hearts. We will now be working with a little bit more trust knowing we have the Final: Facts and capacity and maybe rise above the level even of today’s match,” Spanish striker Torres determined Figures he told reporters, explaining he just wants “to set up a competi- Brazil won the Confederations Cup for tive team which can go for the the third successive tournament follow- title at the World Cup.” ing their previous wins over Argentina “I think we are improving, to defend World Cup crown in 2005 and the United States in 2009. there is more trust and the They also won it in 1997 and their four supporters give it back and that MADRID: Spain’s 3-0 reverse important titles and one day, wins in the competition are a record. They is very nice. When we come to Brazil in the Confederations the moment has to arrive when are also unbeaten in it for 13 matches together we become strong. Cup final was a mere “blip” you don’t win,” the Real Madrid since losing a group game to Mexico in “Apart from the quality of all and they will be back in Brazil defender added. Germany in 2005. of our players we had the crowd next year confidently chasing “We aren’t machines. Our con- behind us and I believe that is a second straight World Cup science is clear because we gave very important, that unity, that Brazil stretched their unbeaten run in triumph, according to forward the best we had.” spirit. competitive matches at the Maracana Fernando Torres. Spain top European World The extent to which Brazil Stadium to 23 games since losing the The Spanish had a miserable Cup qualification Group I by now can use the intervening 12 1950 World Cup decider 2-1 to Uruguay. night at a festive Maracana sta- a point from France after five months to oil an even leaner In all they have played 28 competitive dium on Sunday, as Sergio Ramos matches and play their remain- matches at the stadium, won 21, drawn machine in time for their first missed a second-half penalty and ing three games away to Finland six and lost one. World Cup hosting since 1950 Gerard Pique was sent off with in September and at home to will be of fascination to students just over 20 minutes left for Belarus and Georgia in October. of the international game. AFP bringing down his new Barcelona Securing a place at next In all, Brazil have played 57 home com- team-mate Neymar. year’s finals should be a formal- petitive matches in various cities since The defeat ended Spain’s Spain’s forward Fernando Torres (right), Brazil’s forward Fred (centre) and ity and Torres said the players last losing. Their last home competitive record run of 29 unbeaten com- Brazil’s forward Neymar greet each other after receiving the Golden, Silver were already looking forward to defeat was to Peru in Belo Horizonte in a Copa America qualifier in February 1975. petitive matches going back to and Bronze Boot trophies as top scorers respectively, at the end of the another crack at Brazil. a 1-0 loss to Switzerland at the FIFA Confederations Cup final. “Football is great for that, 2010 World Cup and Torres said because you always get another Spain’s record unbeaten run of 29 com- it served as a useful reminder chance,” he said. petitive matches ended. Their previous that “you can’t win all the time”. to be taken from the match, it’s Pedro an equaliser. Three min- “One year from now, hopefully loss was to Switzerland, who beat them “Everybody thinks that Spain this: it’s confirmed something utes later, Neymar, voted player we’ll be here and have a chance 1-0 in their opening match at the 2010 should win every match and that we already knew, that it’s of the tournament, smashed a to make up for today, not neces- World Cup. reach every final but it’s not not going to be easy to beat Brazil left-foot drive past Iker Casillas sarily to gain revenge on Brazil, as easy as that,” the Chelsea on their own patch. and when Fred netted his sec- but for our own sake. It was Spain’s heaviest defeat in a com- striker, who won the tourna- “That said, in one year’s time ond of the night and Brazil’s third “We’re world champions and petitive match since Wales beat them 3-0 A woman wearing contact lens with ment’s Golden Shoe award, said we’ll be back here as world cham- early in the second period, there two-time European champions in a World Cup qualifier in April 1985. the Brazilian national flag march on FIFA.com. pions to defend what’s ours.” was no way back for Spain. and have achieved something in a street close to the Maracana Stadium of Rio de Janeiro on “This team doesn’t need a Sunday’s match in Rio de “We must congratulate Brazil that no other team has ever done: Fred’s second minute goal was the fastest wake-up call, nor do we need a Janeiro turned in the 41st minute because they showed that they won three major tournaments in Spain had conceded since Joe Jordan of Sunday, a few hours before the defeat to regain our motivation,” when Brazil centre back David know how to play against Spain,” a row. Scotland scored against them in the first final of the Fifa Confederations he added. Luiz slid in to conjure an incred- Ramos told reporters. “Next year we’re coming over minute of a European qualifier in Valencia Cup between Brazil and Spain. “If there is something positive ible goal-line clearance and deny “We have won a lot of here to make it four.” REUTERS in February 1975. TUESDAY 2 JULY 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

QWSC President Al Mana receives award from IOC

FROM LEFT: IOC Trophy recipient for Oceania, Catherine Alice Wong of Fiji, IOC Trophy recipient for Europe, Ona Baboniene of Lithuania, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge, World Trophy recipient, Ahlam Salem Mubarak Al Mana of Qatar, IOC Trophy recipient for Asia, Boossaba Yodbangtoey of Thailand, IOC Trophy recipient for Africa, Djene Saran Camara of Guinea and IOC Trophy recipient for the Americas, Marlene Bjornsrud from the US pose after the 2013 IOC Women and Sport Awards ceremony in Lausanne, yesterday. CENTRE: Al Mana Pioneer, President of Qatar Women’s Sports Committee (QWSC), which is in charge of women’s sport development in Qatar, holds her World trophy after receiving it from Rogge. RIGHT: Al Mana poses with her trophy. The IOC described Al Mana as a ‘a pioneer for women’s rights’ who ‘has played an active role in popularising sports among schoolgirls’ in Qatar. The IOC also said Al Mana played an ‘integral role’ in the participation of four Qatari female athletes at last year’s London Olympics, the first time Qatar sent women athletes to the Games. Nepal to Moyes begins Man United reign organise The 50-year-old coach names three new backroom staff at Old Trafford South Asian tournament LONDON: David Moyes (pic- decision to stand down last tured) yesterday officially season. started his job as manager of Richard Arnold has taken over KATHMANDU: Nepal is to Manchester United, taking as group managing director, with stage South Asia’s biggest foot- over from Alex Ferguson, who London-based executive vice- ball tournament in September resigned in May after 26 years chairman Ed Woodward assum- that will see eight nations from in the post. ing many of Gill’s football-related the region competing, organis- The 50-year-old former duties. ers said yesterday. Everton boss drove into the “I believe with David and his Olympique de India, Bhutan, Maldives, Sri United’s Carrington training new team in place, along with our Marseille’s players run Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, ground in a sponsored current backroom staff, during their first training Afghanistan and Nepal will Chevrolet at just after we can now start pre- session of the season take part in the 11-day annual 8:00 am (0700GMT, paring for the new sea- at the Commanderie South Asian Football Federation stopping briefly to son ahead,” Woodward Championship. in Marseille, southern wait for security said. “This is the biggest (football) France, yesterday. barriers to be raised “This is an exciting tournament we have organised in before heading into and challenging time Nepal,” said Indra Man Tuladhar work. for the club and I have from the All Nepal Football Club officials con- great belief that David Association. firmed yesterday the and his team will have The competition will kick off on appointments of Steve all the energy and September 1 in the 18,000-capac- Round as assistant attributes needed to ity Dasharath Rangashala sta- manager, Chris Woods help this club continue dium in Kathmandu, which is as goalkeeping coach in its long-standing being specially renovated. and Jimmy Lumsden traditions.” The winning team will take as coach. In a sign of the home $50,000 while the runners “I have worked changes underway at up will receive $25,000. with Steve, Chris and Old Trafford, within Ethiopia lose points; South Africa get lifeline Cricket-mad South Asia coun- Jimmy for a number minutes of Moyes’ JOHANNESBURG: South Africa returned The three-point deduction from the Ethiopian tries are mostly international of years and I am delighted they arrival the club confirmed another yesterday to the race for places at the 2014 total brings South Africa,who have competed at minnows, with Afghanistan the have decided to join me at this regional partnership - with lead- World Cup after Ethiopia forfeited three points three of the last four World Cup tournaments, back highest ranked nation at 140 and great club,” said Moyes. ing Thai telecommunications for fielding an ineligible player. into contention, and Botswana. India even lower at 147, according “They bring great qualities in company True Corporation Plc. A FIFA statement said Botswana, who lost at Ethiopia will top the final standings if they win to the rankings released by the their respective fields and I know True will be an associate match home to Ethiopia during June, had been awarded a a final mini-league match away to the Central world governing body FIFA. that, like me, they feel that this is sponsor for United’s opening tour 3-0 win because their opponents fielded suspended African Republic between September 6-10 at a Last year’s South Asia a challenge to relish. match against Singha All Stars midfielder Minyahile Beyene. venue to be decided by FIFA. Championship was organised in “I have great faith that in Bangkok on July 13 Moyes’s The Ethiopian had been yellow carded in two A violent regime change in the Central African the Indian capital with the hosts together, we can build upon the first in charge of the English other qualifiers, earning an automatic one-match Republic this year created an unstable security emerging with the trophy. success this club has enjoyed over champions. suspension, and officials of the Walyas Antelopes situation, forcing a match with South Afirca last Nepal held the first many years.” Meanwhile Carrington is now admitted they blundered. month to be moved from Bangui to Cameroon. Championship in 1997. As well as having a new man- officially known as the AON Ethiopia still top Group A with 10 points followed However, if Ethiopia draw or lose, South Africa Nepal who have never quali- ager and coaching staff, United’s Training Complex as a result of by South Africa (8), Botswana (7) and the Central would top the table either on points or goal differ- fied for the World Cup final, boardroom has also undergone a sponsorship deal announced in African Republic (3), but are no longer guaranteed ence provided they win at home against neighbours appointed Polish-born American a shake-up, following long-serv- April worth some £150m ($228m) to finish first and reach the play-offs. Botswana. AFP Jack Stefanowski as their coach in ing chief executive David Gill’s with the financial group. AFP January 2013. AFP

Wimbledon Results LONDON, United Kingdom: Wimbledon results yesterday, the seventh day of the Djokovic, Murray reach quarter-finals 2013 tournament (x denotes seeded player): Men’s LONDON: Novak Djokovic and Fourth Round Andy Murray edged closer to an Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Tommy Haas epic Wimbledon final showdown (GER x13) 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) yesterday while Poland played Tomas Berdych (CZE x7) bt Bernard Tomic Grand Slam gatecrashers by (AUS) 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, 6-4 guaranteeing at least a semi- Serbia’s Novak Djokovic David Ferrer (ESP x4) bt Ivan Dodig (CRO) final spot. celebrates beating 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (8/6), 6-1, 6-1 World number one Djokovic, Germany’s Tommy Haas Juan Martín Del Potro (ARG x8) bt Andreas the 2011 champion, dropped his during their fourth round Seppi (ITA x23) 6-4, 7-6 (7/2), 6-3 serve for the first time at this matchat Wimbledon at Lukasz Kubot (POL) bt Adrian Mannarino year’s tournament before beating the All England Club in (FRA) 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 Tommy Haas, the 35-year-old Wimbledon, southwest Jerzy Janowicz (POL x24) bt Jurgen Melzer German 13th seed, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 London, yesterday. RIGHT: (AUT) 3-6, 7-6 (7/1), 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 (7/4) in the fourth round. Britain’s Andy Murray Djokovic will be playing in Fernando Verdasco (ESP) bt Kenny De celebrates beating Russia’s his 17th successive Grand Slam Schepper (FRA) 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 Mikhail Youzhny during quarter-final where he will face Andy Murray (GBR x2) bt Mikhail Youzhny their fourth round at the (RUS x20) 6-4, 7-6 (7/5), 6-1 Tomas Berdych, the seventh seed same venue. Women’s singles and 2010 runner-up, who beat Fourth Round Australia’s Bernard Tomic, 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, 6-4. Sabine Lisicki (GER x23) bt Serena Williams Djokovic boasts a 13-2 career (USA x1) 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 record over Berdych but lost to Kaia Kanepi (EST) bt Laura Robson (GBR) him at Wimbledon in 2010. 7-6 (8/6), 7-5 “Haas is always a tough oppo- Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x4) bt nent. I had lost to him twice on now, maybe even better than Spain’s Fernando Verdasco for a set-up the first ever all-Polish with a 6-2, 6-0 demolition of Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 grass before. He has great variety when I won the title in 2011.” place in the semi-finals. quarter-final. Italian 11th seed Roberta Vinci. Li Na (CHN x6) bt Roberta Vinci (ITA x11) in his game and I always knew it Second seed Murray took Verdasco, a former world Juan Martin Del Potro’s bat- Next up for Li is Polish fourth 6-2, 6-0 would be a tough challenge,” said another step closer to ending number nine who now stands at tered body muscled into the seed Agnieszka Radwanska, last Sloane Stephens (USA x17) bt Djokovic, who fired 13 aces and Britain’s agonising 77-year wait 54 in the world and is playing his Wimbledon quarter-finals, but year’s runner-up, who is now the Monica Puig (PUR) 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 40 winners. for a men’s champion when he 41st successive major, reached the Argentine has only two days highest ranked player left after a Marion Bartoli (FRA x15) bt “It was never going to be easy. survived a second set wobble to his first Wimbledon quarter- to recover from troublesome inju- 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 win against Bulgaria’s Karin Knapp (ITA) 6-2, 6-3 I had to work for my games but carve out a 6-4, 7-6 (7/5), 6-1 win final with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win over ries before facing the endurance Tsvetana Pironkova. Petra Kvitova (CZE x8) bt I served well and returned well. I over Russian 20th seed Mikhail unseeded Frenchman Kenny De man of tennis in David Ferrer. “Every match is a different Carla Suárez (ESP x19) 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 am happy to have closed it out in Youzhny. Schepper. Meanwhile in the women’s story. It doesn’t matter what Kirsten Flipkens (BEL x20) bt Flavia straight sets. Murray, the runner-up to Davis Cup team-mates Jerzy event, Chinese sixth seed Li Na ranking they having,” Radwanska Pennetta (ITA) 7-6 (7/2), 6-3 “I am playing really good tennis Roger Federer in 2012, will face Janowicz and Lukasz Kubot raced into the quarter-finals said. AGENCIES Tuesday 2 July 2013 23 Shaaban 1434 Volume 18 Number 5748 Sport Price: QR2

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PUNE, INDIA: Qatar’s begins immediately and is based Dahlan Jumaan Al Hamad on realistic ideas and proposals. “I have a vision for yesterday was elected the new This will be the vehicle to pave President of Asian Athletics the way for a bright future. Asian athletics and Association (AAA) by ousting “I am sending an open invi- India’s Suresh Kalmadi. tation to all the AAA member therefore I have Al Hamad, a hugely popular fig- countries to stand on my side ure in International Association and fight with me. We are living drawn a detailed of Athletics Federation (IAAF) in a vast continent where there circles, won by two votes to spike are numerous financial sources to plan, whose Kalmadi’s bid for a fourth term. derive support. We just need to The hotly-contested AAA showcase that we owe the right execution begins election took place ahead of this product which is worthy invest- week’s the Asian track and field ing in. immediately championships which open here “I am quite positive that the tomorrow. day the Asian athletics will stand and is based on “It was a tough election,” in a much higher spot, will not Hamad told reporters as he be delayed. realistic ideas and emerged briefly from the meet- “It is an auspicious time to ing. “Members saw the work move forward and we have to proposals.” done by both parties and voted concentrate all our powers to accordingly. People have chosen fulfill our quest,” he added. Dahlan Jumaan those they see will serve them An official said Al Hamad well. What has happened is good had garnered 20 votes against President of Qatar Athletics Federation (QAF), International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Vice- Al Hamad, for the future,” the IAAF Vice- Kalmadi’s 18, while seven votes President and newly-elected Asian Athletics Association (AAA) President Dahlan Jumaan Al Hamad speaks to President added. were invalid. the media after the AAA elections in Pune, India, yesterday. newly-elected “Today a new era for the Asian Kalmadi, a former Indian athletics commences; a new era Olympic Association chief, is Asian Athletics in which we will use all our forces currently on bail after spending being elected as President,” the another victory for ultra-wealthy to boost the image of our beloved 10 months in jail over charges 69-year-old said. Qatar, defended the large number Qatari star Association sport, to reform the structure of of corruption during his tenure He added: “I am in fact relieved of invalidated votes and denied the AAA from its foundations,” as chief organiser of the chaotic that I will now be able to work at any wrongdoing had taken place. President he said. 2010 Commonwealth Games in the grassroots level in athletics.” “Mistakes happen in voting but Barshim pulls “I have a vision for Asian ath- New Delhi. Al Hamad, who is the President democracy has to prevail in the letics and therefore I have drawn “I have no issues today and I of Qatar Athletics Federation end,” the Qatari said. out of Asian a detailed plan, whose execution congratulate Mr Al Hamad for (QAF), praised his predecessor Al Hamad, 56, a Qatari military Al Hamad’s Current as someone who had done a lot official, served under Kalmadi as Athletics event for Asian athletics. the AAA’s senior Vice-President Sporting Positions “We can’t forget Kalmadi’s and is also one of the four vice- DOHA: Qatar’s defend- ❑ Vice-President of IAAF since 2007 contribution,” he said. “He has presidents of the IAAF. ing Asian Athletics ❑ Council Member of IAAF since 2003 done a lot and we have to carry In April, under Al Hamad’s Championships champion ❑ Sr Vice President of Asian Athletics the flag forward,” he added. chairmanship, QAF brought Mutaz Essa Barshim has Association (AAA) since 2006 The dysfunctional organisa- together for 14th GCC Athletics pulled out of the Asian track ❑ President of Qatar Athletics Federation tion of the Delhi Commonwealth Championships before staging the and field event which gets (QAF) from 1996 to 2008 and since Games -- the most expensive in IAAF Samsung Diamond League underway tomorrow in Pune 2012 the event’s history at $6bn -- led opener on May 10 at Suheim Bin after suffering a back injury,. ❑ President of Qatar Military Sports to Kalmadi becoming a public Hamad Stadium. Mohammed Al Kuwari, Association since 1998 hate-figure and he was booed by In late May, QAF staged Secretary General of Qatar ❑ Chairman of IAAF Sustainable the crowd during the two-week the 18th Arab Athletics Athletics Federation (QAF), Development Commission since 2007 event. Championships, assembling the confimed yesterday that ❑ Member of IAAF Development The 2010 Commonwealth best of athletes from the Arab Barshim pulled out due to an Commission since 2003 Games were intended to show- world at Suheim Bin Hamad injury. Earlier the London ❑ Member of IAAF Marketing Commission case India on the global stage, but Stadium. 2012 Olympic bronze medallist since 2003 infrastructure problems, delays Qatar’s reputation as a top wrote on his Twitter account: ❑ Chairman of IAAF Regional Development and widespread corruption alle- sporting destination was boosted “Off for a while :@ .Out from Centre in Cairo since 2003 gations instead highlighted many when the capital Doha success- Birmingham DL and the Asian ❑ President of Asian Athletics Association of the problems that blight the fully hosted the Asian Games in championship, back injury.” (AAA) Development Commission since country. 2006. The 22-year-old set the best 2006 International athletics boss Qatar will also be the first outdoor high jump since 2000 ❑ Vice President of Asian Athletics Lamine Diack of Senegal was Arab state to host the football with a winning leap of 2.40m Association (AAA) on hand to see Kalmadi be World Cup in 2022. Qatar bought at the Prefontaine Classic ❑ Marketing Commission since 2006 Al Hamad with India’s Suresh Kalmadi (left). Kalmadi was aiming to win dethroned from a post he has French club Paris-Saint-Germain Diamond League meeting in ❑ Board member of Qatar Olympic his fourth term as Asian Athletics Association President but lost to Al held since 2001. (PSG) last year for $130m. June. THE PENINSULA Committee (QOC) since 2008 Hamad by two votes. Al Hamad, whose elevation is THE PENINSULA/AGENCIES Lisicki stuns defending champ Serena

LONDON: Sabine Lisicki By the time Lisicki closed out ended Serena Williams’ reign Wimbledon wrap on Page 27 the set, she had won four games as Wimbledon champion as the in a row. German 23rd seed clinched a for me. I did enjoy it. She played The 31-year-old, a 16-time Serena hit back, breaking to stunning 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 victory some unbelievable shots. I was Grand Slam champion, had swept love in the third game of the sec- over the world number one in just fighting for every single point through the first week, dropping ond set during a run of 14 suc- the fourth round yesterday. and hanging in there.” just 11 games in her opening three cessive points for the American. Lisicki, who plays Estonia’s Her remarkable victory was matches to extend her winning She took the set with two more Kaia Kanepi for a place in the no fluke. Despite facing the most run to 34 matches. breaks and by the time Williams last four, has an impressive ferocious hitter in the history of But Lisicki’s game is perfectly moved into a 3-0 lead in the Wimbledon record, reaching the women’s tennis, Lisicki matched suited to grass and right from the deciding set she had won nine quarter-finals three times and the Serena blow for blow, unload- start it was clear she was capa- consecutive games. last four in 2011, but this incred- ing more winners and serving ble of upsetting the odds as she But Williams’ concentration ible upset on Centre Court was more aces than the five-time earned a break point in the fourth wavered with the finish line in by far her greatest achievement Wimbledon champion in two game of the match. sight, allowing Lisicki a lifeline at the All England Club. hours and four minutes of high Serena saved it, unleashing a as the German broke in the fifth The 23-year-old has failed to drama. shrieked ‘come on’ that suggested game. make it past the fourth round in In a tournament most memo- she was well aware of the threat. Even when Williams’ broke 16 Grand Slam appearances out- rable this year for the fall of its Lisicki wasn’t deterred and she straight back, Lisicki wouldn’t TOP: Germany’s Sabine Lisicki side Wimbledon, but she comes biggest stars, this was arguably kept the pressure on Williams, surrender and another break gives a bow after beating alive on the grass-courts of south- the most astonishing result of all. earning another break point in from the German made it 4-4. Serena Williams of the US west London. Since an embarrassing first the sixth game which she con- Incredibly, Lisicki was back on during their fourth round match “I’m still shaking, I’m so happy”, round loss against Virginie verted when the American blazed top and she broke for a 5-4 lead at Wimbledon in Wimbledon, said Lisicki, breaking into tears. Razzano at last year’s French a forehand wide. when Williams sent a smash just southwest London, yesterday. She added” “Serena played Open, Williams had simply been Serena appeared rattled, ges- beyond the baseline. Lisicki won 6-2, 1-6, 6-4. a fantastic match. She’s such a unstoppable, winning 77 of her ticulating to her French coach Another big serve brought LEFT: Lisicki celebrates after tough opponent and it’s just an 80 matches and collecting the Patrick Mouratoglou and swip- Lisicki a second match point and defeating Serena. amazing feeling to win. The crowd Wimbledon, US Open, French ing at the turf in frustration as this time she seized her chance, was so amazing. I love this court Open and Olympic titles in the Lisicki punished another shaky finishing off an epic upset with a so much, it’s such a special place process. service game. flashing winner. AFP