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10 die in Baghdad car bomb blasts 2010-2014 Dodge Citizens decry Grand Caravan, Chrysler Town & damage to Country recalled DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce, in collaboration with United Cars – Al Mana, dealer of Dodge Corniche Street and Chrysler in Qatar, has announced the recall of Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Ashghal asked to blacklist erring firms Town & Country 2010-2014 models due to defects in the DOHA: Public Works Mohamed Dhafir Al Hajri, rear quarter window switch. Authority (Ashghal) has come another member of CMC repre- The recall is within the frame- in for severe criticism by people, senting Al Shahaniya, said the work of coordination and follow- including a member of Central upper layer of the Corniche Street up by the ministry to ascertain Municipal Council (CMC), after stretch may have been damaged dealers’ commitment to follow up parts of Corniche Street were as the project might have been defects and repair them to protect found damaged and its contrac- completed in a haste. consumers’ rights. tors have been asked to carry “Such mistakes are bound to The ministry said it will coor- out repairs. happen due to a variety of rea- People look at damage at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad’s Sadr City yesterday. At least 10 people were dinate with United Cars – Al According to Al Sharq, the sons. Sometimes there may be a killed and 22 wounded in two car bomb attacks that targeted predominately Shia neighbourhoods in Baghdad, Mana to follow up maintenance road whose top layer of asphalt hurry to finish a project in time,” police and medical sources said. Report on page 6 and repair processes and com- has been found damaged at places, Al Hajri said. municate with clients to ensure was built less than two years ago. But a Qatari, who didn’t give the success of the recall campaign The project was completed on his name, told Al Sharq that it is and implementation of procedures October 15, 2013. primarily Ashghal’s responsibility to fix defects. People, in remarks to the daily, to ensure the quality of a project. Consumers have been urged to expressed displeasure and faulted “Ashghal is to basically blame Army training now part of report any abuses or irregularities Ashghal for awarding important for choosing substandard con- to the Department of Consumer road contracts to companies that tracting companies,” the citizen Protection and Commercial Fraud are not quality-conscious. said. “Such companies must admit Combat. THE PENINSULA Repairs on the stretch of the their mistake in the first place mandatory national service street between Post Office and and must be forced to carry out WADA nod to Qatar National Theatre intersections the needed repairs.” DOHA: More emphasis will be Service Authority has drawn up and will include training with is slated to begin today and lasts The citizen said special care laid on military training than new curriculum for the national army units after camp training. anti-doping lab until Sunday. should be taken with regard to civilian aspects in the state- service for new batches. Participants attached to army Councillor Abdullah Al Sulaiti the monitoring of public projects mandated compulsory national “The focus will now be more units will be trained in the use of MONTREAL: A new anti- told Al Sharq that Ashghal must because the country is passing service for young male citizens. on military training than civilian light weapons. doping laboratory in Qatar was employ more Qatari engineers to through a hectic phase of infra- Participants in a fresh national aspects,” Brigadier Nasser Abdul At Al Shamal camp, as usual, approved by World Anti-Doping monitor public projects like roads structure development. service programme slated to begin Rahman Al Jaber, Deputy Head of the regimen will be tough and Association (WADA) executive and run quality checks. “Such mistakes, as the one next month, will be attached to Authority, was quoted as saying. training will begin right after committee yesterday. He said Qatari contracting on Corniche Street, cannot be army units for a while at the end “And physical fitness will continue pre-dawn prayers and last until Anti-Doping Lab Qatar com- companies must be given prefer- ignored,” he said. of their camp in Al Shamal. to remain the ultimate objective late at night. pleted requirements of WADA’s ence in awarding road and other Ashghal must frame tough Qatar’s National Service of the programme,” he added. Lectures on Qatar’s history, accreditation process, which project contracts as they would be rules for contracting companies Authority has a well-equipped Of the two batches, one will social science, culture, envi- started in 2014, WADA said. loyal to the country and ensure and make them follow its speci- camp for cadets in Al Shamal. comprise participants with uni- ronment and society as well as The process included site visits, quality. fications and standards strictly, Since the start of the manda- versity degree. The other will awareness against drug abuse, participation in WADA’s exter- One cannot expect such loyalty he added. tory service early last year, par- consist of men who have second- physical exercise and sports, will nal quality assessment scheme from foreign companies, he added. Fortunately, the Corniche ticipants have camped there for ary school certificates and lower dominate camp training. monitored by WADA’s labora- He said Ashghal must fine and Street project was within the training. educational qualifications, includ- “The new programme will be tory group. It is the 35th WADA- blacklist contracting companies guarantee period and the con- However, two new batches ing those who are school dropouts. different from the ones conducted accredited laboratory. that do not carry out quality work tracting company could be asked reporting for the national service The first batch (of those with since the start of the national “Qatar is a key player in the and fail to comply with Qatari to carry out repairs, the citizen next month, will have a different university degree) will spend two service,” Brigadier Al Jaber said. sporting world, and its laboratory standards and specifications. said. It would be a sheer waste experience. After two months of months at Al Shamal camp. After According to a national service will play an increasingly impor- And there is the need for of public money if the guarantee training at the base camp in Al that, they will be attached for a law introduced early last year, all tant role in improving anti-dop- Ashghal to frame tough and period was over and Ashghal had Shamal, the cadets will be sent to month to army units for field Qatari men between 18 and 35 ing analytical capacities in Qatar world-class standards and speci- to spend on repairs from its own army units for military training. training. years must attend compulsory and the Middle East region,” said fications for public projects like pocket, he said. The local Arabic daily Al Raya The training period for the national service for three to four Craig Reedie, President, WADA, roads, he added. THE PENINSULA reported yesterday that National other batch will be four months months. THE PENINSULA in a statement. REUTERS

Over 200 migrants 105 Palestinian teachers hired feared drowned DOHA: Some 105 Palestinian teachers from Gaza are being recruited by Independent schools for the next academic year that off Libya coast begins next month. They will teach subjects, including English and Arabic, at primary, preparatory and secondary levels in the state- ROME: Over 200 migrants controlled schools where pay and perks are lucrative. attempting the perilous journey The teachers, including 65 women, have been recruited as part of across the Mediterranean were Qatar’s new Palestinian employment programme. The local Arabic feared to have drowned yes- daily Al Arab yesterday carried a list of the teachers and said they will terday after their overcrowded also teach maths, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, social fishing boat capsized off Libya. science, Islamic studies and other subjects. The teachers have a mini- The boat, believed to have mum of three years’ experience and are under 50. THE PENINSULA been carrying over 600 migrants, including women and children, Seha includes vitamin D medicines ran into difficulty about 15 nau- tical miles off Libya and sent out DOHA: National Health Insurance Company (Seha) said the man- a distress call, picked up by the datory medical insurance (which currently covers only Qataris) coastguard in Sicily. scheme also includes vitamin D medicines, but warned beneficiar- The Doctors Without Borders ies against its excessive use as it can increase chances of heart and (MSF) ship Dignity One and Irish kidney ailments. People must consult a doctor before taking vitamin patrol vessel LE Niamh were dis- D to avoid possible risks, the local Arabic daily Al Watan reports. Officers carrying a flaperon from an aircraft apparently washed ashore in Saint-Andre de la Reunion, eastern La patched to the scene, but the A source at Hamad Medical Corporation told the daily that about Reunion island, France. boat capsized after the migrants 80 percent of people in Qatar suffer from vitamin D deficiency due moved to one side in the hope of to lack of exposure to sunlight. Experts say the deficiency is a big being rescued, the coastguard problem in all GCC countries and can lead to cancer, communicable said, adding some 400 people were ailments and cardiovascular disorders. THE PENINSULA Wing confirmed as part of MH370 rescued from the water. “The boat overturned and sank Rejecting ‘Iran deal would spell war’ KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia the aircraft debris found on being carried out under the direc- quickly because it was made of confirmed yesterday that a Reunion Island in France is from tion of a judge at an aeronautical metal,” Federico Fossi, spokes- WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama made a case for his piece of a wing washed up on an MH370,” Prime Minister Najib test facility run by the French man in Italy for UNHCR, said. nuclear deal with Iran yesterday, warning lawmakers that rejecting Indian Ocean island beach last Razak said in an early morning military at Balma, a suburb of the The agency’s chief spokeswoman diplomacy would lead to war and destroy US credibility. week was from the Malaysian televised statement. southwestern city of Toulouse, and Melissa Fleming said on Twitter Casting the debate over the deal with Tehran as “the most conse- Airlines jet MH370, the first The announcement, by provid- witnessed by Malaysian officials. “100 (migrants) were in the hull” quential foreign policy debate” in a decade, Obama said Congress must trace of the plane found since it ing clear evidence that the plane Officials from the US and man- of the vessel when it capsized. not waver under pressure from critics whom history had proven wrong. vanished last year with 239 peo- crashed in the ocean, closes a ufacturer Boeing were on hand to Seven ships and two helicopters “Many of the same people who argued for the war in Iraq are mak- ple on board. chapter in one of the biggest advise whether the piece can be were helping search for survivors. ing the case against the deal,” he said, urging lawmakers to choose an “Today, 515 days since the plane mysteries in aviation history, but tied to Flight MH370, which went More than 2,000 people American tradition of strong diplomacy. “Congressional rejection of disappeared, I must tell you that still leaves unanswered questions missing on March 8 last year en have died trying to cross the the deal leaves any US administration that is absolutely committed an international team of experts about why it disappeared. route from Kuala Lumpur to Mediterranean to Europe this to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon with one option: have conclusively confirmed that The examination of the part is Beijing. AGENCIES year. AFP another war in the Middle East. AGENCIES THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME FM meets new envoy Medical team of 30 part of Qatar Hajj Mission this year DOHA: A medical team of 30 and educates them on the healthy doctors, nursing staff, techni- ways to spend the pilgrimage sea- cians and paramedics will accom- son safely.” pany Qatar’s Hajj mission this Dr Abdelhadi said, “A small year and most of them are citi- hospital is established with all zens, it was announced yesterday. specialities in different places of The first batch of pilgrims pilgrimage and a private hospital (nationals and expatriates) is has been contracted to receive likely to leave for Saudi Arabia cases that may require surgery. next month. From the beginning of Ramadan, At a press conference at its the pilgrims were vaccinated and Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah yesterday met El headquarters, Qatar Red Crescent strategies and plans for the mission Salvador Ambassador Guillermo Rubio Funes who presented a copy of (QRC) announced the team. It is developed.” He advised pilgrims to his credentials. Dr Al Attiyah wished him success. an annual ritual conducted by tell doctors if they have a chronic QRC for 10 years now, through disease and have their medications Hajj Medical Committee, which with them. QRC will send volun- comprises medical experts from Dr Khaled Abdelhadi (left), Chairman, Hajj Medical Committee, QRC, and teers to help Saudi Red Crescent QDF donates $10m to back Gaza orphans QRC, Hamad Medical Corporation Head of medical unit that will accompany the Hajj Mission, with Saleh bin Ali Authority organise the millions of (HMC), Supreme Council of Health Al Mohannadi, Secretary-General, QRC, at the press conference yesterday. pilgrims and deal with any emer- DOHA: Qatar Development Fund is donating $10m to Wajd pro- (SCH), and Primary Health Care BAHER AMIN gencies, under the umbrella of gramme in Palestine to support 2,108 children and youth who lost Corporation (PHCC), under the the GCC Secretariat-General, as their parents in the Israeli assault on Gaza in the summer of 2014. supervision of the Ministry of Medical Committee, QRC, and medical equipment and ambulance a way to unify GCC humanitar- The programme will be launched in Ramallah and Gaza today in Endowments and Islamic Affairs. Head of medical unit that will vehicles to take care of Qatar’s ian and volunteering action. Over partnership with Palestinian Welfare Association, Bank of Palestine The press briefing was attended accompany the Hajj Mission. pilgrims. The team vaccinates the past three years, the mission and Haj Hashim A’atah Al Shawa Fund. It will support orphans and by Saleh bin Ali Al Mohannadi, Al Mohannadi said: “Every year, pilgrims against communicable received 8,967 cases in Makkah, their families until the age of 22. The donation comprises instalments Secretary-General, QRC, and Dr Hajj Medical Committee forms a diseases, monitors their health con- Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah. of $2.5m from this year until 2018. THE PENINSULA Khaled Abdelhadi, Chairman, Hajj team stocked up with medicines, ditions to intervene in emergencies THE PENINSULA Mesaimeer project main tunnel excavation works completed DOHA: The Public Works the TBMs were developed for the locations, covering an area of about proper operations of the tunnel’s Authority (Ashghal) said excava- project by the German manufac- 170sqkm. It is linked to a pumping facilities. The manholes will also tion works for the main tunnel of turing company, Herrenknecht AG, station with a capacity of 19 cubic enable inspection and periodic Mesaimeer Surface and Ground and used for the first time in Qatar metres per second to discharge maintenance as part of a plan to be Water Drainage Project were to excavate deep tunnels. storm water through an offshore implemented through the construc- completed at the end of July. The completion of the main tun- outfall several kilometres away tion of 21 access shafts from the The project will discharge nel marks the end of major works from the shoreline to ensure the surface to the underground tunnels groundwater and storm water into of the project. Remaining works protection of the shoreline and its at a depth of 20 to 30 metres. the sea, decreasing the surface include excavation and construc- surrounding environment. It is a key project implemented water level, contributing to the tion of sub-tunnels and inspection The Mesaimeer tunnel was exca- by Ashghal as part of plans to reduction of pumping costs and dis- manholes along the main tunnel. vated using Earth Pressure Balance upgrade drainage network. The posal of groundwater in construc- The main tunnel is about 10km tunnelling technology ideal for main tunnel runs under F-Ring tion projects around the country. It long and 30-metre deep, extending Doha’s cohesive soft ground and Road from the first excavation site will also preserve the foundations of several kilometres from the shore- rock conditions. All excavation in Al Thumama and will stretch buildings, and reduce land subsid- line from Woqood Petrol Station works were carried out at a depth 5.4km to the west and 4.3km to ence due to rain. Roundabout. of 30 metres without disrupting the east into the planned pumping Works were carried out by ‘Al It is also connected to the drain- traffic or damaging facilities or station near Hamad International Thumama’ and ‘Al Rawada’ tunnel age network in the areas where it buildings surrounding the tunnels. Airport. The project is expected to boring machines (TBMs). Named will pass and hold surface water Inspection manholes will be built be completed in Q1 of 2017. The west tunnel after the TBM broke through the wall. after the areas they operated in, from sub-networks in various during remaining works to ensure THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Kathak performance

The first winner, Hamad Al Naimi, receives the grand prize of one million Qmiles presented by Ehab Amin, Senior Vice-President Commercial, Qatar, QA. Well-known dancer Prachee Shah performs Indian classical dance, Kathak, at an event organised by the Indian embassy as part of celebrations marking India’s 69th Independence Day, at Katara Drama Theatre yesterday. Above: Minister of Justice H E Dr Hassan Lahdan Saqr Al Mohannadi, Director of Protocol, Ambassador Ibrahim Yousif Abdullah Fakhro, Katara Genral Manager Dr Khalid Al Sulaiti, Indian QA Privilege Club Ambassador Sanjiv Arora and other officials and guests at the event. SALIM MATRAMKOT names winners of Five Million Miles campaign QC launches ‘Ghaith’ initiative DOHA: Qatar Airways’ (QA) Qmiles each. DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) excellence, leadership, transpar- Privilege Club has announced Membership of QA Frequent has launched ‘Ghaith’ initia- ency, sustainability and credibility more than 51 winners of its Five Flyer Programme includes tive to serve Islamic projects have been employed. Million Miles Campaign drawn Privilege Club Silver, Gold and worldwide. It is supervised by The initiative operates in recently. Platinum levels, which offer ben- Qatari preacher Dr Ahmed Al Britain, France, Germany, The winners — all members efits and services in accordance Hammadi. Denmark, Sweden, Norway, of the club — were rewarded with oneworld tier equivalents. The initiative is part of QC’s Ireland, Italy, Spain, Belgium, for purchasing long haul tickets Silver members can earn and efforts to expand charity work Poland, Switzerland, the US, from QA’s global network, which redeem Q-miles on any oneworld and develop cultural and educa- Canada, the Netherlands, entitled them to free entry into member airlines, and Q-points tional centres. It is also a continu- Australia, Ukraine, Luxembourg, a draw to win one of 51 Qmile towards their tier status on all ation of projects established and Brazil, Kosovo, Bosnia, Albania prizes. eligible oneworld flights. They supported by QC and supervised and Hungary. It has also imple- The first winner, Hamad Al can also have access to Business by Dr Al Hammadi. mented Islamic projects this year, Naimi, received the grand prize Class priority check-in, preferred The initiative aims to introduce including opening Islamic schools of one million Qmiles presented or pre-reserved seating and prior- Islamic culture and strengthen its in France; Milano Sesto Islamic by Ehab Amin, Senior Vice- ity on standby flights. presence among Western com- Centre (Italy); Da’wah, Media President Commercial, Qatar, Gold members receive all munities in particular, and the and Islamic Services Centre QA. benefits of Silver plus access to world in general. It also seeks (Germany); and Ibn Sina Islamic “QA Privilege Club Programme Business Class lounges, priority to sustain economic resources of and Cultural Centre; Al Noor was aimed to provide members boarding, extra baggage allowance Islamic educational and cultural Centre for Introducing Islam; with the opportunity to receive and priority baggage handling. organisations, and market and One of the projects launched by Qatar Charity in Europe. and Al Noor Centre in Alsace fantastic rewards. With these Platinum members have all implement programmes. Mulhouse region (all in France). additional Qmiles, the winners benefits of Gold, access to First The initiative was officially spread Islamic sciences, studies in the West. It seeks to manage The name ‘Ghaith’ is derived from can further enjoy travelling with Class lounges, First Class priority founded last year, however, its and culture in Western countries. and develop resources allocated the Arabic meaning of abundant QA by redeeming flights at their check-in and Fast Track security history goes back to 15 years. It Among its priorities, Ghaith for Islamic educational and cul- rain which brings relief and good leisure, from our growing network lanes. has operated in over 50 countries, aspires to be the first patron tural programmes and projects. to people. of 151 destinations. The oneworld alliance includes establishing Islamic centres that that empowers Islamic culture To that end, methods for realising THE PENINSULA “They can also benefit from airberlin, American Airlines, Qmiles by exchanging them for British Airways, Cathay Pacific, upgrades, lounge access and shop- Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, ping at Oryx Galleria, our store LAN, TAM Airlines, Malaysian for them.” Airlines, Qantas, Royal Jordanian, Duo handed 15-month jail for mobile theft Five winners each received S7 Airlines and SriLankan between 100,000-750,000 Qmiles Airlines. DOHA: A criminal court 15 months in jail for stealing victim in a drunken state. They located the mobile phone, but and 45 were rewarded with 50,000 THE PENINSULA has sentenced two Asians to a mobile phone handset of a The duo will be deported after as luck would have it, when they tried serving the jail term. to take it away, the man got up and The court said the convicts have to tried to prevent them. spend a year in prison for theft and One one of the convicts took out three months for consuming alcohol. a knife and threatened the man and Zekreet Road beautified with flowers, plants The convicts consumed liquor and then they fled. hatched a conspiracy to steal the The victim called police which DOHA: In the past one month, mobile phone handset of a man they zeroed in on the duo and handed the Parks Section of the Services probably knew well. them over to public prosecution after Affairs Department of Umm The victim stayed in a labour preliminary investigation. Salal Municipality has planted camp. The duo got drunk and went Charges were filed in the court, 3,000 seedlings of soil-cover- to the camp, wearing having veiled which ruled at the end of the trial. ing portulaca seasonal flowers their faces, and found him asleep. THE PENINSULA and 200 dodonaea landscaping plants along Zekreet Road. Also, 80,000 square metres of grass was trimmed in Nasser Al Attiyah Park, Al Kharittiyat Park, Kentucky Roundabout, Ahmed Bin Ali Street, Civil Defence and Arwa Mart and services were provided for citizens to trim 17 trees through the ministry’s web- site and four applications through the section. The section also conducted pre- ventive spraying for 2,500 Sidr trees and used 4,900,000 gallons of water, including 4,200,000 gal- lons of treated water, to irrigate other trees. The grass trimmed in one of the areas under the municipality. THE PENINSULA Vodafone enhances Trade Up service

DOHA: Vodafone has purchasing new Samsung only two key factors are evalu- Trading up with Vodafone is launched enhanced hand- Galaxy S6 will receive an addi- ated to determine the price of worry-free, customers do not set Trade Up service with a tional QR400 discount on S6 in the phone — whether the phone need to bring phone box, charg- Samsung Galaxy S6 offer at addition to 15 GB of free data powers on and whether the ers or ear phones — only the its stores. per month for three months on screen is cracked or broken. phone and battery are enough. The company’s first Trade Up postpaid and 6 GB of free data For example, a Samsung There is 100 percent data model, launched in June 2014, for 90 days on prepaid. Galaxy S5 will be valued at security as Vodafone performs was a success with about 3,000 Vodafone Qatar said: “We QR750; a Samsung Galaxy S4 at full professional data wiping customers trading old handsets are delighted to launch the QR540; an iPhone 5s at QR950; before the phone is resold. with newer ones that allow them enhanced Trade Up service with and an iPhone 5 at QR630. PCS Wireless said: “We to enjoy faster data experience a global provider such as PCS Customers can bring used are thrilled to partner with over Vodafone 4G and 4G+. Wireless. It allows customers to phone to any of Vodafone’s retail Vodafone Qatar to launch the All traded handsets have been enjoy a great data experience on stores and with the instant country’s only mobile Trade Up refurbished or recycled in sup- our network. value given they can trade it programme. port of eco-friendly operations. “All traded devices will be in for anything in store. This With over 10m mobile devices Vodafone is the only telecom recycled making the process includes new devices such as processed each year in some 80 operator in Qatar to offer such eco-friendly and clutter-free.” latest 4G and 4G+ smartphones, countries, PCS Wireless is able a service. With the new Trade Up model accessories, prepaid credit or to leverages its expertise to With the service offered by in place, Vodafone is partnering postpaid bill payment. provide customers with access Vodafone’s new vendor PCS with PCS Wireless to provide an The transaction happens to latest devices at the lowest Wireless, and the Samsung enhanced experience and prices simultaneously to ensure the prices, while ensuring their data launch offer, customers trad- for customers. The new proc- customer can use the Trade Up remains secure.” ing old mobile phones and ess has never been simpler as value immediately. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Expert highlights health Advice for working mothers DOHA: To mark the World mothers transition back into the which will empty your breasts Breastfeeding Week, the workforce, it is crucial for employ- quickly and efficiently. The Community Relations and ers to be a part of the discussion. pump can be manual or electric, benefits of breastfeeding Development section at Sidra in Through HR policies and sup- depending on your preference. partnership with lactation spe- portive practices in the workplace, * Consider freezing some of cialists share tips and an info- measures can be put in place to your milk before you return to graphic for mothers heading support employed women to con- work. Women’s Hospital focuses on working mothers back to work after their mater- tinue breastfeeding.” * Do a ‘trial run’ the week nity leave. The infographic can before you return to work. Leave DOHA: Women’s Hospital, a (WHO) recommends that babies antibodies present in mother’s be downloaded here from the KEY TIPS FOR MOTHERS: the baby with the caregiver and member of Hamad Medical be exclusively breastfed (without milk. It is also more difficult to Sidra website (www.sidra.org). * If you don’t have someone to go to wherever you will be pump- Corporation, is highlighting the water, herbs, other milk or food) digest as it changes good microbes The Sidra team is conducting take care of your child at home ing. This will give you a chance to significant health benefits of starting within one hour after in the baby’s digestive system to a local survey amongst moth- while you are at work, select a scope out the situation. It helps to breastfeeding on the occasion birth until they are six months bad ones, and is more likely to ers working in Qatar to gauge childcare provider who is close to actually develop a plan regarding of World Breastfeeding Week, old. cause negative reactions such as current levels of understanding your workplace and is supportive when and where you will pump. If which is celebrated worldwide Dr Abu Bakr said breastfeed- constipation, colic (a frustrating about breastfeeding and bal- of your commitment to breast- you know of any other women in every year from 1-7 August. ing is an ideal and complete form condition marked by predictable ancing breastfeeding and work feeding. Questions you should ask your workplace who have pumped This year’s global theme calls of nutrition for infants up to six periods of significant distress in responsibilities. Sidra will be – do they have facilities to store milk for their babies – talk to for multi-dimensional sup- months of age, and also affirms an otherwise well-fed, healthy sharing important tips related to breast milk? Are they comfortable them about how they solved any port from all sectors to enable the WHO recommendation that baby) and gas pain. breastfeeding and guidelines for handling breast milk? Would they challenges they encountered. working mothers everywhere to breastfeeding should continue for “Scientific evidence shows that the safe use of medications dur- be happy for you to drop by and breastfeed their babies. up to two years of age with the breastfeeding also promotes the ing lactation via its social media feed your baby at any time? DAILY TIPS: “Breastfeeding strengthens addition of timely, healthy sup- mother’s physical and emotional channels and website. A series * Ask your employer for flexible * Find a private place to the bond between mother and plementary food. health. Among the benefits are of workshops for mothers, medi- working hours that are arranged express (speak to HR or your child and provides significant “Breastfeeding helps to protect supporting love and intimacy cal and nursing students are also around your breastfeeding needs. supervisor to establish room health benefits for both,” said children against common child- between the mother and child; being planned for September. Talk to them about your plans availability) Dr Amal Abu Bakr, Lactation hood infections as well as aller- quick postpartum recovery; “Many mothers, who go back before you return to work. * Arrange breaks at regular Consultant and Chairperson of gies and chronic illnesses later in reduced risk for postpartum to work after having a baby, may * Know your rights as a intervals (ideally, about every the Breastfeeding Committee at life. Breast milk is full of living bleeding, anemia, breast and worry about juggling being at breastfeeding mother. All HR three hours) to have time to Women’s Hospital. cells, hormones and antibodies ovarian cancer, hypertension, work and breastfeeding. This is departments should have a pol- express your breast milk. Dr Abu Bakr leads the Baby- that provide protective immunity type 2 diabetes, and osteoporo- why it is helpful to be a part of icy, therefore please ask to see * Express mid-morning, lunch Friendly Hospital Initiative against infections and chronic sis during menopause. There is a network of family, friends and it. Here in Qatar, it is by law and afternoon. Allow at least (BFHI), which focuses on adopt- diseases like obesity, diabetes, also less postpartum anxiety and colleagues who can support you that: ‘The breastfeeding work- 20-30 minutes for each session. ing best practices in breastfeeding cardiovascular disease and child- depression among breastfeeding as you start your breastfeeding ing woman shall have the right to * Eat nutritious meals and with the aim of promoting well- hood leukemia. It contains all the mothers compared with those journey as a working mother,” choose a daily breastfeeding hour healthy snacks. ness of both mothers and their nutrients that are needed for the who do not breastfeed,” said Dr said Eman Nasralla, Manager for one year, this starts from the * Aim to drink at least three babies. This includes the creation child’s optimal growth and devel- Abu Bakr. of Community Relations and end of the delivery leave in addi- liters of water per day. of a supportive hospital environ- opment. The cholesterol and fatty Dr Abu Bakr said that when Development at Sidra Medical tion to her right of a rest period * Breastfeed your child in the ment for pregnant women, moth- acids in breast milk are scientifi- the mother decides to stop and Research Center. “While provided for in article (73) of this morning prior to going to work ers after birth, and their families, cally proven to promote higher breastfeeding, the baby should there is a lot of information law. The breastfeeding period is and as soon as you get home. with well-motivated, knowledge- intelligence in children,” said Dr be weaned gradually, in order to from healthcare providers and a part of the working time and * Breastfeed full-time when able and highly skilled hospital Abu Bakr. ensure a smooth transition for networks about the benefits doesn’t reduce the wage’. not at work. staff. She explained that formula milk both mother and child. of breastfeeding - to truly help * Select an appropriate pump THE PENINSULA The World Health Organization lacks the nutrients, hormones and THE PENINSULA

Green area Crowne Plaza Doha- The Business Park receives top food safety score

DOHA: Crowne Plaza Doha– The Business Park received 99.42 percent for its food safety management systems in the Food Safety Audit conducted by SGS. SGS is the world’s lead- ing inspection, verification, testing and certification com- pany. This is the highest score received by any hotel under the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) umbrella. This outstanding score was given as the Hotel has main- Crowne Plaza Doha-The Business Park General Manager Savino Leone tained a high level of excellence in with the F&B and Kitchen Team. all areas of operations related to food safety. This award also places received an award this year from to receive it. At Crowne Plaza Crowne Plaza Doha-The Business HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Doha – The Business Park, we Park in a leadership position in Critical Point Certification), always put our guests’ safety and this area throughout IHG. strengthening and solidifying the satisfaction and this certification The hotels are annually audited hotel’s commitment in providing is a testament of our commit- by a third party quality assurance the highest standard of service. ment of ensuring that the dining The Parks Section of the Department of Public Services of Doha Municipality has conducted aesthetic touches service to help protect the integ- The certification is also conducted experience we offer is of high- on a barren plot of land in the vicinity of Regency galleries on D-Ring Road, where the site has turned green rity of the company’s full-service by SGS. est quality,” says Savino Leone, with various plants and the addition of sculptures and decorative items. brands from a food safety per- “This is a great accomplish- General Manager. spective. The Hotel had already ment and we are truly delighted THE PENINSULA

Chi’Zen presents duck specialities throughout August

DOHA: Chi‘Zen, an authentic benchmark of refined taste and elegance infused in a Chinese dining con- cept at the contemporary Oryx Rotana Doha has put together a delicious treat for duck lovers throughout the month of August. Acclaimed for its expertise from traditional roasting techniques to Wantons, Chi’Zen will present the master- ful rendition of the whole duck in a variety of styles that highlight the flavor of the duck and the juicy tenderness of its meat. All dishes on the specialty menu have been past favorites of Chi’Zen guest. First in the line-up of the duck delicacies is the mouth- watering Roasted Duck (chopped and served with tra- ditional sauce) which can be complemented with Duck Salad and Duck Fried Rice. Also not to be missed is the aromatic goodness of the Crispy Duck Wonton (fried wontons filled with roasted duck meat, vegetables served with Hoi Sin sauce) and Duck Spring Rolls. For those preferring distinctly bolder flavours, a must try is the Duck Pancake (roasted duck, cucumber, leek wrapped on Chinese rice pancakes served with Hoi Sin sauce) or the Duck Bun (Wok-fried crispy bun filled with diced roast duck in mild black pepper sauce) The specially crafted promotional duck menu at Chi’Zen runs from 1st August 2015 — 31st August 2015 for a limited period only. It is available for lunch from 12 pm to 4 pm, and for dinner from 7 pm to 11 pm. Offering an excellent culinary spread, and featuring a sophisticated décor, Chi’ Zen is an ideal destination for an intimate dinner or a social gathering. Guests may sit with their family and friends in one of the private dining rooms available or in the main dining room, surrounded by a brilliant palette of dramatic blacks and rich red shades, dark wood finishing and classical and modern Chinese artistry. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Saudi Arabia US bombs IS in Syria executions take toll this first time from Turkey year to 114

Ankara declares comprehensive fight against IS RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yester- day put to death two Ethiopians, ANKARA: The United States taken off from Incirlik to conduct arriving and soon we will launch a Pakistani and a Saudi, add- yesterday carried out its first missions over northern Syria, a comprehensive fight against ing to what a rights group has air strike on an Islamic State but this was the first time an air Daesh all together,” he said, using called a “campaign of death.” target in Syria after taking strike had been carried out. a pejorative Arabic acronym for The executions — typically off from a Turkish air base, as Turkey, a member of the IS, quoted by the official Anatolia carried out by public beheading Turkey vowed it was ready to international coalition led by its news agency. — bring to 114 the number this step up its own fight against NATO ally Washington, had so Ankara is waging a two- year, compared with 87 for all of jihadists. far declined to take robust action pronged bombing campaign 2014, according to AFP tallies. “A US drone today carried against jihadists but after a deadly against Kurdistan Workers’ Party Ethiopians Argawi Aldo Heilan out one air strike in Syria near bombing in July in a border town (PKK) rebels as well as IS mili- Meriam and Hadish Zel Alam had Raqa,” a Turkish official told AFP, blamed on suspected IS jihadists, tants, following a wave of violence been convicted of beating a fellow referring to the town in northern it launched limited strikes against inside Turkey. countryman to death and robbing Syria that the IS group sees as the group in Syria. But so far the raids have over- him, the Interior Ministry said in its capital. According to media reports, whelmingly targeted the Kurdish a statement carried by the Saudi The drone had taken off from some 30 US fighter jets are due rebels in northern Iraq and Press Agency. Turkey’s southern Incirlik air to arrive at the facility in the southeast Turkey, and opponents They were put to death in the base, which Ankara has now next days in order to take part have criticised Ankara for using southwestern Jazan region, it said. opened to the US military for in the operation. Turkey, long the anti-IS offensive as a cover to In a separate case, Pakistani armed attacks on IS targets criticised for failing to stop the bomb Kurdish militants in north- Esmat Sharif, found guilty of in Syria just 200 kilometres flow of jihadists to-and-fro across ern Iraq. smuggling heroin hidden in his away, the source added. Foreign its border with Syria, has so far “Turkey does not need an body, was executed in Jeddah, the Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu ear- concentrated an almost two-week excuse to protect its national ministry said. lier announced that Turkey was “anti-terror” campaign on the security,” the Turkish official The fourth condemned man, ready to begin a “comprehensive” bombing of Kurdish militants. told AFP, saying that Ankara sees Saudi Mushasha Harisi, was exe- fight against IS jihadists in Syria But Cavusoglu indicated after both IS and the PKK as a threat. cuted in Jazan after his conviction alongside the United States, after meeting US Secretary of State “In Iraq, we can take uni- for shooting dead another Saudi months of staying on the sidelines John Kerry in Malaysia that lateral action but in the fight in a dispute, the ministry said. of the US-led coalition. Turkey would be stepping up its against Daesh we are a member New Zealand’s Governor-General Jerry Mateparae reviews a guard of The number of Saudis and The Pentagon announced this campaign against IS jihadists. of an international coalition,” the honour with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) during an official foreigners put to death so far in week that US armed drones had “The US planes have begun official said. AFP welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Ankara yesterday. 2015 is up 131 percent on the fig- ure for all of 2014, according to AFP tallies. “Saudi authorities have been on a campaign of death this year,” Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle Syrian rebels fight for military hub near regime stronghold East and North Africa director of Human Rights Watch, said in June when the number of execu- BEIRUT: Syrian rebel groups Syrian Observatory for Human The Observatory said fighting If the rebels manage to cap- Rahman said. “There are calls tions had already exceeded last allied with Al Qaeda fought Rights said. in the Sahl Al Ghab area yester- ture Jureen, they will be able to for Alawite youth to take up arms year’s total. yesterday to advance on a key It said rebels had seized Bahsa day cost the lives of 35 rebels, advance into the mountains of and to defend the areas surround- Under the kingdom’s strict military headquarters near village, less than two kilometres mostly from Al Nusra Front, Latakia and bomb several com- ing Jureen.” Islamic Shariah legal code, drug President Bashar Al Assad’s (1.2 miles) from Jureen, in heavy and 29 soldiers and pro-regime munities from Assad’s Alawite The Britain-based Observatory trafficking, rape, murder, armed coastal heartland, a monitor fighting. militiamen. sect, an offshoot of Sha Islam. relies on a wide network of activ- robbery and apostasy are all pun- said. Perched on a plateau in the The Syrian military and its Among them would be Qardaha, ists, medics and fighters through- ishable by death. The Islamist rebels, including central province of Hama, Jureen allies — including Iranian offic- Assad’s ancestral town and home out Syria to gather information The Interior Ministry has cited fighters from Central Asia and stands between Sahl Al Ghab, a ers and fighters with Lebanese to the tomb of his father and on the conflict. deterrence as a reason for the Chechens as well as jihadists from plain where Assad’s army has for Shia movement Hezbollah — have predecessor Hafez Al Assad. A military source on the punishments, but rights activists Syria’s Al Qaeda branch Al Nusra several days been fighting the set up a military headquarters in “It will then be an existen- ground said the aim of the rebels have raised concerns about the Front, were pressing an advance rebels, and the pro-Assad coastal Jureen to oversee the battle for tial battle for the Alawites,” is “to reach the (Mediterranean) fairness of trials in the kingdom. on the village of Jureen, the province of Latakia to the west. the plain. Observatory chief Rami Abdel coast from the east”. AFP AFP THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST IS threatens to Preparing for war kill abducted Croatian Egypt asked to free Muslim women

CAIRO: Egypt’s affiliate of the August of an American working Islamic State group threatened for petroleum company Apache. yesterday to execute a Croatian Mursi, Egypt’s first freely kidnapped in Cairo last month elected president, was over- within 48 hours if Muslim thrown by then army chief and women jailed in Egypt are not now President Abdel Fattah freed. Al Sisi after mass street pro- The man is the first foreigner tests against his divisive single to be abducted and threatened year in office. The authorities with death by militants in Egypt subsequently launched a sweep- since an Islamist insurgency ing crackdown targeting Mursi’s erupted two years ago. supporters in which hundreds of In a video posted online by the people were killed and thousands jihadists, the Croatian identi- jailed, including women and girl fies himself as Tomislav Salopek students. working for a French company, Hundreds more were sen- and appears kneeling at the feet tenced to death after speedy of a hooded man holding a knife. trials, denounced by the United Reading from a sheet of paper, Nations as “unprecedented in Young Palestinians swing across a monkey bar during a military-style graduation ceremony organised by the Hamas movement, in Gaza City yesterday. he says he will be executed within recent history”. Thousands of young Palestinians joined Hamas military-style summer camps during school vacation in the Gaza Strip to prepare them to “confront 48 hours if Egypt’s government In retaliation, militants any possible Israeli attack”. fails to release Muslim women have killed hundreds of police- held in prisons. men and soldiers, mostly in the Salopek, wearing an orange Sinai Peninsula where the Sinai jumpsuit, did not say when the Province group jihadists are wag- countdown began. ing a campaign against the secu- Iran to present He said he works for French rity forces. Syrian militant group halts talks company CGG’s branch office in The group has even staged Syria peace Cairo. He said he was abducted attacks in other cities including on July 22 by the Sinai Province the capital. with Iranians on city under siege plan to UN group, IS’s Egyptian affiliate In July, IS said it was behind based in the Sinai Peninsula. a car bomb attack targeting the Formerly known as Ansar Beit Italian consulate in downtown BEIRUT: Syrian insurgent halting of the negotiations with of several Syrian towns, including DUBAI: Iran will soon present Al Maqdis, the group changed its Cairo — the first such attack group Ahrar Al Sham, an ally the Iranian delegation due to Zabadani. the United Nations with a peace name when it pledged allegiance against a foreign mission in Egypt of the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra their determination to empty An alliance of Islamist insur- plan for Syria, where civil war to IS in November. since jihadists began their cam- Front, said yesterday it had held Zabadani of civilians and fighters gents known as the “Army of has caused a humanitarian Two days after the kidnapping, paign following the crackdown on talks with an Iranian delegation and displace them to other areas,” Fatah”, which includes Ahrar catastrophe and allowed the the Croatian Foreign Ministry Islamists. over the embattled Syrian city the group said. Al Sham, had targeted Al Foua Islamic State group to flour- said in a statement that he was In February, IS released a of Zabadani near the Lebanese Iranian-backed Hezbollah and Kefraya, in Idlib province ish, Deputy Foreign Minister abducted as he travelled to work. video showing the beheadings of border but that these had now fighters have been battling insur- where thousands of civilians are Hossein Amir Abdollahian said “The armed group stopped his 21 Coptic Christians, all but one been halted. gents in Zabadani and the sur- under rebel siege. A spokesman yesterday. car, forced the driver out and of them Egyptians, on a beach in Sources close to both sides said rounding area, about 10km from for Ahrar Al Sham declined to Tehran, which has stood by drove away in an unknown direc- neighbouring Libya. the two sides had been in negotia- the border with Lebanon. comment on the talks, citing the its ally, Syrian President Bashar tion,” the ministry said at that The mass murder of the tions for several weeks in Turkey The statement said that a plan sensitivity of the subject. Al Assad, through more than time, without elaborating and Egyptian Christians prompted and that discussions included the to “empty the towns and areas Ahrar Al Sham group is widely four years of civil war, is hosting identifying him only as TS. air strikes by Cairo targeting IS fate of residents of two Shia vil- near the border with Lebanon described by analysts as an ultra Syrian and Russian officials this Salopek is the first foreigner inside Libya. lages in the northwestern prov- from Sunni presence” was in its orthodox Salafist group and con- week to discuss a solution to the to be abducted and threatened The threat to execute Salopek ince of Idlib. final stages. siders Iran an enemy. conflict that has claimed hun- with death by militants in Egypt comes ahead of today’s inaugu- Such talks between a Sunni The sources familiar with the One of the sources familiar dreds of thousands of lives. since the Islamist insurgency ration of the “new Suez Canal” Islamist group and Shia Iran, talks told Reuters they expected with the talks and who is close to “This plan will be presented to broke out after the army’s ouster waterway in the port city of which backs Syrian President negotiations to resume. Damascus, said the Syrian gov- the UN Secretary General after of president Mohamed Mursi in Ismailiya, with hundreds of for- Bashar Al Assad in Syria’s four- According to the sources, the ernment was aware of the talks, detailed discussions between July 2013. eign dignitaries including French year-old conflict, would be highly Sunni insurgents and Iranian del- which he said were being held Tehran and Damascus are com- In December, the Sinai President Francois Hollande due unusual. egation discussed several scenar- through a mediator. pleted,” Abdollahian was quoted Province claimed the killing last to attend. AFP “We announce to our people ios focused on moving civilians out REUTERS as saying by Iran’s state news agency IRNA. Iran’s Gulf Arab neighbours and many Western powers are wary of what they see as Tehran’s growing Yemen loyalists chase Houthis after retaking airbase influence in the region, particu- larly as it is about to exit tough ADEN: Pro-government forces boost for the defence of second had been in Houthi hands since Al Anad, 60 kilometres north ferocious fighting was merely a economic sanctions that had stifled pursued fleeing Shia Houthi city Aden, and paves the way for March. “(The situation in) Huta of Aden, is strategically located “short-term” setback that would its economic and diplomatic clout. fighters in south Yemen yes- a possible return by the exiled is under control after search on the main road north towards be reversed. The Iranian plan will be based terday, military sources said, government to the southern port, operations last night and this both the battleground third city Yemen has been riven by vio- on a four-point initiative pre- as they looked to press recent which was its last refuge before morning,” a military source said. of Taez and rebel-held capital lence since the Saudi-led coali- sented to the United Nations gains against the rebels, includ- fleeing into exile in neighbouring Rebels beat a retreat in the Sana’a. tion launched air strikes against last year by Foreign Minister ing retaking a key airbase. Saudi Arabia in March. Wadi Al Husseini region around The vast complex housed US the rebels earlier this year after Mohammad Javad Zarif, com- Soldiers loyal to exiled The country’s prime minis- the road linking Al Anad and troops overseeing a drone war they and troops loyal to ousted prising an immediate ceasefire, President Abdrabuh Mansur ter and several senior officials Huta, the source said, adding against Al Qaeda in Yemen until president Ali Abdullah Saleh formation of a national unity gov- Hadi wrested control Tuesday of returned last week to begin that Lahj’s provincial governor shortly before the rebels over- approached Aden after seizing ernment, constitutional protec- Al Anad airbase in Lahj province overseeing reconstruction of the was expected to visit Huta later ran it. Sana’a in September. To secure tion for minorities and supervised — one of Yemen’s largest military devastated city. yesterday. Its loss is a major blow to Yemen’s second city, pro-govern- elections. Western and regional facilities — from the Houthis, and Military and medical sources Later, however, aides said the insurgents, whose leader ment forces are seeking to retake powers, including Turkey and later advanced to take provincial said at least 39 rebels and 17 without elaborating that the Abdulmalik Al Huthi claimed areas in Lahj and neighbouring Saudi Arabia, have also stepped capital Huta. loyalists had been killed since governor’s return had been post- just Sunday that their ouster Abyan province in a bid to pre- up their efforts to solve the crisis. Al Anad’s recapture is a major Tuesday around Huta, which poned indefinitely. from Aden after four months of vent a rebel riposte. AFP REUTERS

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Iraqi students attend a 15-day weapons and first aid training course conducted by Iraqi officers from the Interior Ministry at the University of Technology in Baghdad yesterday. The training is part of a national effort to be ready for any surprise attack by jihadist groups. At least 10 killed in Baghdad car bomb attacks

BAGHDAD: At least 10 peo- Six civilians were killed when Later in the day, a car bomb ple were killed and 22 wounded a car packed with explosives was exploded in the northern Al in two car bomb attacks yes- detonated in the northeastern Husseiniya district, killing four terday that targeted predomi- district of Sadr City. Twelve oth- people and wounding 11. nately Shia neighbourhoods in ers were wounded in the crowded No group immediately claimed Baghdad, police and medical residential neighbourhood, the responsibility for the attacks. sources said. sources said. REUTERS THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 EUROPE www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Juncker urges EU to resist rejection of migrants ‘Europe has a duty to help migrants and not cave in to populist demands to send them back’

BRUSSELS: EU governments “Ministers, unlike citizens, have which have borne the brunt of the populist and xenophobic move- people have died trying to cross have a duty to help the flood of an obligation to act. We made influx. ments. “There are moments in the Mediterranean to Europe migrants arriving in Europe proposals that went far, while still The ministers also agreed how- politics when you must not fol- this year, according to the and not cave in to “populist” being modest given the scale of ever to take in some 22,500 Syrian low the populists, otherwise you International Organization for demands to turn them back, the problem,” Juncker said, refer- refugees currently living in camps become populist yourself,” Juncker Migration. Some 188,000 people European Commission chief ring to the proposals from the outside the EU — exceeding their said. “You must say the opposite have been rescued so far this year Jean-Claude Juncker (pic- Commission, the executive arm of target for 20,000. Juncker said of what (the populists) say. You trying to make the crossing. tured) said yesterday. the 28-nation EU. “We proposed a the EU would resume efforts in must not become blinded by popu- Juncker was concerned with In an interview, Juncker said he mandatory system to redistribute the autumn to reach the 40,000 list thought which is present in the problem of migrants trying was disappointed that EU min- asylum seekers and people who target. “If we don’t get there on every country,” he warned. to reach Britain from France isters had failed late last month need international protection, but a voluntary basis, we will have Nationalist and anti-EU parties through the Channel Tunnel, to agree on how to distribute a the member states did not follow to reconsider the Commission’s have seized on the migrant issue which has caused tension between total of 40,000 mostly Syrian and us and we are forced to seek an proposals,” the former prime min- as a symbol of all that is wrong the two countries and highlighted Eritrean migrants from over- agreement on a voluntary basis,” ister of Luxembourg said. “But with the 28-member bloc, which a difficult problem for both stretched Italy and Greece. he said. I want to believe that they will they see as interfering in member countries. They agreed to start relocating At a July 20 meeting in react ambitiously,” he said. states’ internal affairs on issues “This situation plunges me a little over 32,000 of the arriv- Brussels, EU justice and home Juncker said governments had best left to national governments. into the most complete dis- als among the EU’s 28 members affairs ministers agreed to relo- to be firm and take the lead, when The commission was prompted tress,” Juncker said, adding the in October, falling around 8,000 cate more than 32,250 Syrians, asked how the EU can help share to act when a massive ship- Commission was ready to offer short of the target agreed by EU Eritreans, Iraqis and Somalis who the migrant burden without pro- wreck left nearly 800 migrants financial help to France and leaders at a summit in June. had landed in Greece and Italy voking a backlash that only helps dead in April. More than 2,000 Britain to ease the problems. AFP

Tube strike hits Londoners UK preacher Don’t treat divorcees charged with IS support as outcasts: Pope LONDON: British preacher VATICAN CITY: Divorced peo- The issue of remarried divor- Anjem Choudary was yesterday ple who have remarried “are still cees is likely to be addressed during charged under anti-terror laws part of the Church” and should the upcoming synod — a gathering with inviting support for the not be treated as if they have been of bishops — on the family, which Islamic State group, prosecutors excommunicated or cast out, Pope Francis hopes will help reconcile said. The 48-year-old is regularly Francis said yesterday. Catholic thinking with the realities interviewed by British media for “These people are not excommu- of believers’ lives in the 21st century. his views on Islam and the Middle nicated — they are not excommuni- A first synod last year saw riled East. He and a second man, cated! And they absolutely must not conservative bishops move to block Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, be treated as such. The are still part the approval of language heralding 32, were charged with inviting of the Church,” the pontiff said dur- an unprecedented opening on the support for the IS group, a pro- ing his weekly general audience at treatment of divorced Catholics, scribed organisation, between the Vatican. who are currently not able to take June 29, 2014 and March 6, 2015. Speaking ahead of a highly antici- communion. “Each man is charged with one pated global meeting on family life The Argentine pontiff said it was offence contrary to section 12 of in October, he said “awareness that not just divorced adults who needed the Terrorism Act 2000,” said Sue a brotherly and attentive welcome... compassion, but their children — Hemming, head of special crime is needed towards those who... have potential future believers that the and counter-terrorism at the A commuter uses a scooter to make her way home during the tube strike that came into effect at 18.30 established a new relationship after Church risks alienating by treating Crown Prosecution Service. “It is GMT in London yesterday. Underground workers have called a 36-hour strike for the second time within the failure of a marriage, has greatly their parents as outcasts. alleged that Anjem Choudary and a month. Millions of Londoners will have to seek alternative transport to work today. increased”. “If we look at these new relation- Mohammed Rahman invited sup- The Church does not recognise ships through the eyes of young port for IS in individual lectures divorce but divorcees can still take children... we see even greater the which were subsequently published communion unless they remarry, urgency of developing in our commu- online.” Both men were arrested on Greek early which is considered to be adultery. nities a real welcome towards those September 25 last year on suspicion Russia orders libraries to “No closed doors! Everyone can who are living such situations,” he of being members of a proscribed participate some way or another in said. organisation and released on police elections in the life of the Church,” Francis said, Children, he said, “are the one bail. They were detained again in a clear call for Catholic bishops who suffer the most” from broken pending a formal charging hearing ditch Nazi books by British the autumn and priests to treat those in so-called families. at a London court yesterday. AFP “irregular situations” with greater It would be difficult to call on par- MOSCOW: Russian officials Sverdlovsk officials claimed that ATHENS: Early elec- compassion. ents “to do everything to educate have ordered libraries to remove unspecified books by the authors tions are “likely” in People who are excommunicated their children according to Christian Germany detains books by well-known British his- “propagate stereotypes formed Greece in the autumn, are expelled from the Church, unless values... if we keep them at a distance torians John Keegan and Antony during the Third Reich”, according a government spokes- they repent, and are considered to be from community life, as if they were IS suspect Beevor, saying they promote to the scan of the decree posted by woman said as Athens condemned to Hell in the afterlife. excommunicated,” he explained. AFP BERLIN: German police have Nazi-era stereotypes, a spokes- local news website E1. A spokes- races to hammer out a detained a suspected Islamic woman said yesterday. woman for the region’s governor, new bailout deal with its State jihadist who fled Spain last A decree issued by the Yulia Voronina, confirmed the creditors by August 20. month, German and Spanish Sverdlovsk regional education decree, adding that the library “Elections are likely authorities said yesterday. ministry in the Urals told school inspection is ongoing. In a state- in the autumn,” govern- The 21-year-old Moroccan and university libraries to “check ment, the regional administration ment spokeswoman Olga national, who lives in Spain, the availability of books” by the said that “many historians believe Gerovasili told Vima radio. was detained on Tuesday near historians and “take measures to that books by authors such as John “It mainly depends on Stuttgart in southwestern remove them from access by stu- Keegan and Antony Beevor misin- how steady this govern- Germany, German state police dents and teaching staff.” terpret information about World ment can be in the coming said in a statement. A Spanish Both Keegan, who died in 2012, War II events, contradict historical period,” she added. court had issued a warrant for and Beevor are reputed military documents and are infused with The radical government his arrest, the Spanish interior historians with a focus on World stereotypes of Nazi propaganda.” of Prime Minister Alexis ministry said earlier. War II. Beevor’s award-winning Russia has intensified its cam- Tsipras has seen its sup- The ministry said he was “very bestsellers, particularly “Berlin: paign against Western influences port dwindle in parlia- active on social networking sites, The Downfall 1945”, have been this year. Last month the upper ment after agreeing to a playing the role of recruiter by criticised in Russia for focusing house of parliament drew up a list third rescue package con- touting the benefits of joining on atrocities committed by the of “undesirable” organisations rec- taining more austerity cuts (Islamic State) fighters.” AFP advancing Red Army. ommended for banning. AFP on July 13. AFP Several hurt in German chemical plant blast

BERLIN: An explosion at a German chemical plant yesterday left sev- eral people injured, some of them seriously, author- ities said as they tried to determine the cause. The fire brigade in the western city of Krefeld dispatched around 130 first responders and reported four people with major injuries. A spokesman for the Krefeld-Uerdingen plant spoke of two seri- ously injured people. Both sources said eight other people had been slightly hurt in the blast, which released titanium dioxide, a white pigment used in toothpaste, and nitrogen into the atmos- phere. There was no immediate indication of foul play. AFP THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE crimes committed by Israeli extremists in the occupied territories have forced the Netanyahu government to take action against the perpetrators, thanks to the international Toutcry following the burning to death of an 18-month-old Palestinian boy in the West Bank village of Duma last week that also critically injured his parents and four-year-old brother. Republicans should blame Israel arrested three suspected Jewish extremists in the past two days and one was placed in ‘administrative detention’, a form of incarceration without trial normally reserved for Palestinian prisoners and for the first time the measure taken against a Jewish themselves for Trump extremist. It is to be taken into account that until June-end, 370 Palestinians had been languishing in Israeli detention centres without trial, according to Israeli rights group B’Tselem. BY RAMESH PONNURU to “prove they could govern” — that Conservatives and swing voters who The Palestinians have approached International Criminal Court is, to enact legislation or at least get are paying attention have seen the to probe what they called ‘settler terrorism’ in the occupied West EPUBLICANS are in a it to President Barack Obama to sign Republican Congress act on business Bank which has turned into a threatening form. The tragic incident funk on the eve of the first or veto. priorities: advancing a highway bill and presidential-primary debate. Neither of these decisions was obvi- getting a Trade Promotion Authority in Duma is the last of a series of settler terrorism in the occupied The party’s popularity has ously crazy. If candidates had run on signed by the president. territories, perpetrated by the so-called ‘Hilltop Youth’, an extremist R dipped, largely because Republican specific agendas — “If elected, I will They have also seen them fret for right-wing group of settlers. The incident has thoroughly shaken voters are souring on it. push Bill X to replace the Affordable months about the possibility that the Israel’s society and media and they reluctantly termed it as Jewish Their lack of confidence in their Care Act”—they might have disagreed Supreme Court would force them terrorism. Police have opened an investigation into online threats party surely with one another, Democrats might to do something about Obamacare, against Israeli President Reuven Rivlin following his condemnation has some- have found effective lines of attack something Republican voters actually thing to do against their ideas, and they might not want, and then breathe sighs of relief of ‘Jewish terrorism’ after the West Bank incident. with Donald have gained the substantial majorities that it didn’t. According to data compiled by Yesh Din, which has for years been The Republicans Trump’s rise they did. Some of this activity was worthwhile monitoring law enforcement among settlers, of 1,067 complaints in the polls. The second decision, trying to gov- — the trade bill, especially, was in the lodged by the Palestinians against Jewish chose to run Bitterness ern with Obama, looked like an alter- national interest — but Republicans settlers since 2004, only 7.4 percent an agenda-less between con- native to potential political fiascoes. have done little to advance attractive The world must resulted in indictments. The complaints servative Republicans worried that a single- ideas to appeal to the voters watching groups and minded strategy of fighting Obama them, or to make inattentive voters sit pressure Israel to include assault, shootings, stone campaign to win the Senate risked a government shutdown that up and take notice. dismantle West throwing, thefts, arson, destruction of control of the Republican could hurt the party’s chance of win- They haven’t pushed bills to cut Bank settlements, olive trees and other crops, killing and leadership ning the presidency in 2016. taxes or boost economic growth or injuring livestock, damaging holy sites, Senate in 2014, is at a peak, But these choices also had poten- cut college tuition. And of course also paving the trespassing and preventing access to with the tial disadvantages. Running without Congress has achieved nothing on and having won it former saying an agenda, candidates instead raised immigration. way for the land owned by Palestinians. the latter are vague expectations that, if they won, It isn’t surprising, then, that roughly Palestinians to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, they chose to act too devoted conservatives would see big victories a fifth of Republican voters are flock- live with freedom after visiting the injured Palestinians, as though their to keeping of some sort on illegal immigration ing to Trump, a candidate who prom- declared: ‘Terror is terror and we must corporate and Obamacare. ises big, not-terribly-specific changes and dignity. fight it whatever its origin.’ But his most important welfare pro- Trying to advance legislation with -- but seems like he might mean it. words are nothing but a hollow slogan. grams like some bipartisan buy-in would inevita- Republicans erred in assuming that goal was to “prove the Export- bly mean pushing the priorities of some their alternatives were either trying to First, if settlers are the real problem, Import Bank corporate constituencies rather than prove they could govern with Obama or then he must take responsibility for their actions. When Israel’s they could govern” alive and those of voters — and thus deepening engaging in an endless series of show- top court ordered the demolition of illegal settlements in West — that is, to enact insufficiently the perception that Republicans are downs with him. Bank’s Beit El, Netanyahu was the first to challenge the judiciary by committed the political arm of big business. A third alternative would have been encouraging the settlers to go on. He even approved the construction legislation or at to defund- The strategy was also bound to run to advance a governing agenda of their of 300 apartments in Beit El and advanced plans for more than 400 ing Planned up against two immovable obstacles. own, ideally during the midterm cam- least get it to Parenthood. First, Senate Democrats have an paign, on issues such health care, taxes apartments at four sites in east Jerusalem. The party’s incentive to filibuster Republican bills and higher education. Second, Netanyahu is holding just one-seat majority in the Knesset President Barack low morale so that they never reach the presi- That strategy wouldn’t have resulted and his five-party coalition consists of extremist right-wing Jewish Obama to sign or is partly the dent’s desk. in the enactment of a lot of Republican organisations which will not allow him to do further against the result of two That way Republicans look unpro- bills, since Democrats could still have extremist settlers. Given his track record, such optimism is also out veto. strategic deci- ductive, and fail by the terms they filibustered them. sions its lead- themselves established. But Republicans would have been of question. ers have made Second, conservative Republicans standing for something more attrac- This month marks the 10th anniversary of Israel’s unilateral over the past were likely to grow restive, and the tive than they are today — not a high disengagement from Gaza, which included the dismantling of Jewish year. They stage would be set for a factional bar — and making Senate Democrats settlements and the withdrawal of all of Israel’s military troops and chose to run an agenda-less campaign fight that again made the party look pay some price for obstruction. equipment from the Gaza Strip. The world must pressure Israel to win control of the Senate in 2014, incompetent. And maybe the party’s own voters to dismantle West Bank settlements, also paving the way for the and having won it they chose to act as These potential drawbacks to the wouldn’t be quite so heartily sick of though their most important goal was strategy have largely materialized. them. WP-BLOOMBERG Palestinians to live with freedom and dignity. The other side Quote of Ban on plastic bags the day

F THERE is anything that is a markets and factories, and shop- based on figures available at the time, when choked drainage lines create recurring motif of day-to-day life in keepers told to stop buying them and the number of plastic bags used in havoc in urban areas, the imperative Pakistan, it is the unsightly plastic ensure early disposal of bags already Pakistan every year would be an need for action on this front is reiter- bag — or ‘shopper’ as we refer to purchased. astounding 112 billion by 2015. ated, and then promptly forgotten. Congressional rejection Iit colloquially. An awareness campaign is also to There is no doubt that the sooner However, enabling a gradual transi- of this deal leaves any Now the chief minister of Khyber be launched through the media and this ubiquitous polluter of our water- tion for both suppliers and consum- Pakhtunkhwa has ordered a ban, to other available forums to educate ways, sewage lines and shoreline is ers to switch to biodegradable paper US administration that come into effect in the province after the public about the consequences taken out of circulation, the better it will bags — as long as they are made from is absolutely committed two months, on the production and of using this non-biodegradable item, be. Many an attempt has been made recycled paper — is a sensible and to preventing Iran distribution of polythene bags because and the sanctions that will be incurred in the past to ban them, but to no avail environmentally sound measure that of their adverse impact on drainage should anyone continue to utilise — aside from the federal ban on black can viably be enforced, if the will to from getting a nuclear systems and the environment as a them beyond the grace period. The plastic bags — largely because of the do so is there. weapon with one whole. use of paper bags will be encouraged authorities’ lackadaisical, disorganised The other provinces too should take In the interim, all existing stocks instead. approach. a leaf out of KP’s book. option: another war in of plastic bags will be removed from A 2004 study estimated that, Every monsoon season in particular, DAWN the Middle East. Barack Obama US President THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Weaker N Korea could hit regional security

Pyon In Son, the head of operations of the Right now there North Korean military, was executed in January 2015, as Kim Jong-Un tightened is no empirical his grip over the Korean People’s Army. Since its harder to buy off people’s principles, the only way to silence differ- evidence that the ences is repression much as, after World War II, Kim Il-Sung (Kim Jong-Un’s North Korean regime grandfather, who ruled from 1948-1994), systematically purged his ranks of both pro-Chinese and pro-Soviet opposition is losing its ability to factions. China has been North Korea’s primary buy off Pyongyang’s international patron, and since the end of the Cold War, its principal supplier of food, arms and energy. elites or keep their But under Kim Jong-Un, the relation- ship has become increasingly strained. standard of living After Kim Jong-Un launched a missile in 2012, China supported extended UN stratospherically sanctions against North Korea — the first sign of cooling ties. China has continued to signal great high, comparatively disapproval of many of North Korea’s actions since then. The DPRK’s most speaking. contentious actions include continued nuclear tests without Chinese consent, and Kim Jong-Un’s December 2013 exe- cution of his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, who BY SAMUEL RAMANI was a crucial Beijing ally. When the DPRK escalated its nuclear n July 11, 2015, North Korea technology development, China sus- announced during a summit pended crude oil exports to North Korea with Laos’ military delegation in 2014 and openly called for the de- Othat it had appointed a new nuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. defence chief, General Pak Yong-Sik. Wavering Chinese support can explain This appointment indirectly confirmed North Korea’s increased strategic coop- the South Korean Intelligence Service’s eration with Russia. allegations that North Korea had exe- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (centre) during an inspection of a newly built combat boat. And yet China appears to be reconcil- cuted General Yong-Sik’s predecessor, by ing with North Korea, even though the close range anti-aircraft gunfire. North Korea’s purges reveal that it high-tech products, and lavish jewellery. Kim Jong-Un can preempt coordinated isolated nation hasn’t modified its poli- If this is true, it’s the latest in a long can’t just buy elite loyalty any more. Those privileges prevented any en masse resistance within the regime’s inner cies. Last week, Kim Jong-Un honoured string of executions. According to the Many people believe that North Korea defections that could seriously threaten circle. Chinese victims of the Korean War for South Korean Foreign Ministry, Kim is an irrational regime held together by the Kim dynasty’s stranglehold on power. Second, North Korea under Kim the first time since 2013. China will be Jong-Un has executed 70 government a brutally repressive personality cult. Right now there is no empirical evi- Jong-Un has suffered ideological faction- investing in a North Korean port-build- officials since he took power in late 2011. That’s not entirely accurate. In recent dence that the North Korean regime is alism. This factionalism has been sparked ing project, and Kim Jong-Un will be vis- His father Kim Jong-Il had executed only years, the North Korean regime has held losing its ability to buy off Pyongyang’s by disagreements on the DPRK’s rela- iting Beijing in September 2015, at the 10 officials when he was four years into onto the loyalty of the elites by buying elites or keep their standard of living tionship with China and on the imple- Chinese government’s invitation. his rule. them off with luxury goods and lavish stratospherically high, comparatively mentation of the military-first policy. Why did China change its behaviour? Even by North Korea’s draconian building projects in Pyongyang. speaking. But the fact that the regime Elites with dissenting views cannot be Beijing fears that the drought severely standards, Kim Jong-Un’s repression of Excluding the elite class, North Korea is resorting to violence is evidence that easily bought off, as these views are based threatens the North Korean economy. elites is extraordinary. It is especially is a totalitarian state. It prevents popu- government patronage is not working as on deeply held principles or vital personal North Korea’s main source of energy is striking that purges are occurring when lar unrest by isolating its citizens from well as it used to. interests. hydropower, which is threatened by the there’s no immediate leadership succes- the rest of the world and by relentlessly Why? There are two reasons. Kim Jong-Un publicly admitted to divi- drought. And because of the drought, sion, the most common time for mass punishing would-be defectors with ban- If just anyone can be rich, the super- sions within the North Korean govern- Pyongyang is sending office workers to executions in totalitarian regimes. ishment in prison camps. elite want to be super-rich ment by describing the 2013 execution of help farmers plant rice, hurting national And it suggests that in the Hermit But totalitarianism doesn’t explain First, the economic benefits of patron- his uncle as the removal of “factionalist productivity. In contrast to North Korea’s Kingdom, turmoil is festering. North how North Korea keeps its elites in line. age have been distributed more broadly filth.” Factional divisions in North Korea denials of the 1990s famine, the current Korea is struggling to contain an eco- In particular, the military possesses over time. At first they were largely con- predate this 2013 execution, as North drought has been widely reported on nomic catastrophe resulting from the a sense of institutional identity and fined to the “selectorate,” the fiercely Korean defector First Lieutenant Kim in the North Korean media, which will worst drought in a century, which will responsibility that could conflict with the loyal inner circle of elites who govern reported deep divisions over the appoint- increase pressure on Kim Jong-Un and cause more acute food shortages. When regime’s goals. North Korea alongside Kim Jong-Un. ment of Kim Jong-Un as Kim Jong-Il’s bolster moderates resistant to the mili- you add financial turmoil in China, the In their 2013 book “North Korea According to Snyder and Abe-Park’s esti- successor as early as late 2010. tary-first policy. the Democratic People’s Republic of in Transition: Politics, Economy and mates, in 2013, the selectorate was an In addition to previously mentioned All this means North Korea’s risk for Korea’s principal international patron, Society,” Scott Snyder and Kyung Abe- exclusive group consisting of 200 to 5,000 disagreements on foreign and military instability is heightened. China’s conduct the situation becomes even bleaker. Park describe Kim Jong-Il’s military-first prominent civilian and military officials. policy, factional divisions have been is probably a tacit acknowledgement that Despite these grave challenges, few policy as a way of suppressing the mili- But 1 million people are now classified triggered by North Korea’s deplorable the North Korean regime is vulnerable. political analysts expect the North tary’s independent identity. The military- as elites by the North Korean regime. economic conditions and the populace’s And if that gets worse, China could have Korean regime to collapse. Based on first policy, codified in 1994, gives the According to economist Park Sung-jo, slight increase in its ability to learn about a harder time countering the US’ current my research on the Democratic People’s Korean People’s Army the lion’s share of 200,000 to 300,000 of these elites have the world through access to independent push to gain more leverage in the Asia- Republic of Korea, I agree that the the North Korean government’s financial living standards so luxurious that they media sources. Pacific region. regime’s complete implosion is unlikely resources. Through this policy, the North can be compared to affluent residents of Despite North Korea’s economic woes In short, North Korea’s regime has in the near future. Korean authorities tacitly acknowledged New York City or Dubai. and increased public awareness, visible gotten weaker and more vulnerable. The But two trends suggest the regime that communism was losing its influence. Could the members of the selectorate dissent is still largely confined to within economic troubles, the surge in execu- is growing weaker. The first is North The policy was also a modification of Kim resent sharing their prosperity? Here’s the military ranks. For example, a mod- tions and the surprise turnaround in Korea’s shift in how it suppresses dis- Il-Sung’s “Juche” ideology, which claimed my theory to explain the increase in exe- erate sect within the military pressured relations with China can’t be dismissed content among elites. Instead of using that independence, a national economy, cutions: The military and political elites Kim Jong-Un for larger food rations for as business as usual. These are unchar- patronage, as it has in the past, it is and an emphasis on self-defence would are demanding more extensive privi- soldiers. acteristic and anomalous trends that increasingly using violent purges. The establish true socialism. leges to distinguish themselves from the But Kim Jong-Un’s official view is that suggest serious underlying problems and second is a sudden thaw in relations But as ideological bonds get weaker, newcomers. If that’s true, North Korea’s North Korea should invest in technologi- could have profound security implications between China and North Korea, which patronage has become the glue that keeps dire economic conditions may mean the cal development over the welfare of the for the Korean peninsula and the Pacific will likely result in more assistance com- the regime in power. North Korea’s politi- regime simply cannot meet these officials’ armed forces and so he purged this sect region as a whole. ing North Korea’s way. cal and military elites flaunt luxury cars, demands. Purges could be the only way from the North Korean military. General WP-BLOOMBERG

Shias between Saudi Arabia and Iran Obama could learn from

are strongly linked to the continuity of significance, having extended Gulf the influence of the GCC countries led coasts. Therefore, its friendship is very Merkel’s energy revolution by Saudi, whatever the details may be. important, especially to Kuwait. Saudi Arabia’s stability and its abil- However, Iran’s Islamic regime is BY STEFAN NICOLA time protecting consumers from increasing ity to prevent the encroachment of very different than the GCC systems. prices because the cost of wind and solar are terrorism and unrest in the region is A difference that has nothing to do ermany’s “Energiewende” is manag- falling so rapidly and shale gas fracking tech- an urgent necessity. If Saudi Arabia with doctrine, poverty and riches, as it ing the biggest transformation away nology is making energy cheaper in general in relapses all of us will pay the price, is based on the revolutionary tenden- Gfrom fossil fuels and nuclear power and the US, Krumbmuller said. and especially the Shias. cies, radicalism and secrecy of the sys- toward renewables of any advanced economy. Wind and solar work only when it’s breezy Iran turned upside down when the tem. The Iranian regime’s movements It hasn’t all gone smoothly. and sunny, so adding more of their output monarchy fell and a new system came through its internal and external poli- “The Energiewende has a lot of challenges to the grid strains a system designed for into place with new forces and laws. cies, its ideological religious experience, attached, political as well as practical,” said steady flows. This didn’t upset living conditions in and history are unusual, such that Famke Krumbmuller, an analyst at Eurasia Germany has had to reroute excess wind BY KHALIL ALI HAYDAR Kuwait and the Gulf region. However, Iran’s neighbours are worried about it Group, a political consultant. “It had to be power through neighbours such as Poland the new regime caused deterioration and its slogans, not because it is Shia. fine-tuned several times to make it viable.” and the Czech Republic because its own grid s Saudi Arabia, through its friend- of the financial and economic situation If Saudi Arabia loses the battle and Since 2011, when the Fukushima nuclear couldn’t handle the surges. While Germany ship with the United States and of Iranian Shias. extremist and terrorist militias domi- disaster in Japan horrified Germany into shut- has managed to avoid widespread outages, Ithe West, more important for the At the time, the Iranian currency nate the region, then say goodbye to ting down its own atomic programme, here’s it’s investing ¤21bn ($23bn) on an electricity safety of Shias in the region or the depreciated and confidence in many peace, stability, sectarian tolerance, what Merkel has learned about managing a superhighway that will link giant wind farms Islamic Republic of Iran, which cries aspects of the Iranian people’s lives constitutional life and everything else. big transition in energy: in the North Sea to factories in the south. day and night — “Death to America”? evaporated, while wealth and prop- Shias have no interest in being The Energiewende built on Germany’s Obama still has nuclear plants to back up Isn’t it better for Shias to gain the erties of the Gulf’s Shias remained anti-Saudi, finding solutions to their experiment granting across-the-board incen- renewables, yet the US grid is less reliable trust of Saudi Arabia rather than intact, in such a way that the impact problems by glorifying Iran, providing tives to renewable energy that took off in 2004. and older than the German one. An upgrade being against it, and avoid falling into of Kuwait’s Almanakh financial mar- free services to the sectarian conflict, Support for wind and solar came in the form is urgently needed. the trap of sectarianism, where the ket crisis in the eighties was worse or adding a sectarian character to it. of a feed-in tariff, which granted above-mar- Thousands of Germans are protesting the millstone between Iran and Saudi than the Iranian revolution. The forces of intolerance and sec- ket rates for clean energy. grid superhighway, delaying work and casting Arabia might possibly crush them? The Gulf’s richness and stability is tarian mobilisation, which plays with Giving the industry a formula showing what doubt on whether Merkel can deliver reliable Few Shias are aware that Saudi due to political rationality than the abil- the fate, interests and stability of the it will get paid created a boom in installations power supplies while shutting down coal and Arabia is actually far more impor- ity to take risks. Such an environment Gulf region’s Shias, will bring us the — and sent electricity bills soaring. Subsidy nuclear plants. tant in this field than Iran, since Saudi protects minorities and provides them same disasters that befell those before costs ballooned, pushing electricity prices to To avoid similar opposition, Obama may Arabia and the Gulf States ensure sec- opportunities and prosperity to take us in many different locations, under the second-highest in the European Union avoid building up renewables in any one area. tarian tolerance and higher standard advantage of. This stability is defended such slogans as “Death to America” after Denmark. He could leverage technology from compa- of living for Shias, unlike the adven- by Western countries in this region, and “Death to Israel.” However, it Merkel has since shielded the German nies such as SolarCity Corp, which instead turous Iranian politics. hence the confluence of interests. seems we are the only ones dying. industry from the increases and slashed of focusing on sprawling utility-scale plants The Shias’ standard of living, their On the other hand, the Iranian The writer is a columnist and aid for renewables. The fee Germans pay to in the desert is putting panels on rooftops — interests, stability, even real estate and Republic is a major neighbour and researcher. finance renewables is forecast to fall for the small units “distributed” close to where the trade and all that is worth defending a regional state with indisputable THE PENINSULA first time this year. Obama may have an easier power is needed. WP-BLOOMBERG THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com AMERICAS Republicans to attack Hillary, not each other 10 candidates unveiled for first US Republican debate today

WASHINGTON: The head of the Republican Party yesterday said its presidential candidates are unlikely to attack each other in the party’s first official debate but instead are focused on oust- ing Democrats from the White House. Seventeen Republicans, led by outspoken billionaire Donald Trump, are seeking the party’s presidential nomination. Only 10 will be on stage tonight in the first prime-time debate, which could offer a chance to break out of the pack. “Ultimately, the real issue here is Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the fact that the country’s really not in a good place right now,” Republican Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses supporters at National Committee Chairman a campaign kickoff event in Denver, Colorado. Reince Priebus said, citing the Democratic presidential front- runner and the president. “That’s really ... what the focus FBI looking into security is. We’re not going to focus on each other,” he told NBC. It was unclear from Priebus’ comments whether the Republican of Hillary’s private emails National Committee had discussed debate plans with any of the can- WASHINGTON: The FBI has to a government watchdog. didates or their campaigns. begun looking into the secu- Clinton has said she did not send Trump, a real estate mogul and rity of Hillary Clinton’s pri- or receive any secret information FROM LEFT (top row): Republican presidential candidates scheduled to take part in today’s televised debate — television personality who has vate email setup, contacting in using that account. Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, (bottow row) Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand mocked one rival’s glasses and the past week a Denver-based A lawyer for the Denver com- publicised another’s personal tel- Paul, Chris Christie and John Kasich. technology firm that helped pany, Platte River Networks, ephone number, said he does not manage the unusual system, declined to comment, as did mul- want to go on the attack. contenders like former Texas by former Florida Governor Jeb public frustration with govern- the Washington Post reported tiple Justice Department officials, “I’d rather just discuss the Governor Rick Perry and former Bush with 12 percent. Ten percent ment and politics. on Tuesday, citing two govern- the Post said. issues,” he told ABC, adding “If US Senator Rick Santorum. of the 490 Republicans polled said The two men have been at odds ment officials. At this point, the FBI probe I’m attacked I have to, you know, Trump has vaulted over the they would not vote. over Trump’s comments that he The FBI last week also con- is preliminary and is focused on do something back, but I’d like it Republican establishment in Asked about Trump’s lead, could run as an independent, but tacted Clinton’s lawyer, David ensuring the proper handling of to be very civil.” recent polls with a double-digit Priebus said the November 2016 Priebus said that’s unlikely. “We Kendall, with questions about the classified material, the Post said. Debate host Fox News limited lead. The latest polling shows presidential election was a ways just don’t see it,” he told NBC. security of a thumb drive in his Nick Merrill, a spokesman for participation to the top 10 can- Trump with support from nearly off but acknowledged the billion- “It’s early. I think Donald Trump possession that contains copies of Clinton’s campaign, declined to didates in the polls, leaving out 30 percent of respondents, followed aire businessman has tapped into knows it’s early.” REUTERS work emails Clinton sent during comment on the FBI’s actions. her time as secretary of state, the The server installed in her Post said. Chappaqua, New York, home as Clinton’s use of her private she was preparing to take office Jeb Bush wades into women’s health funding spat email account linked to a server as secretary of state was origi- in her New York home for her nally used by her first campaign work as America’s top diplomat for the presidency, in 2008, the WASHINGTON: Republican conservatives and prompted half a billion dollars for women’s organisations that need to be fully came to light in March and drew Post reported, citing two people 2016 presidential hopeful Jeb renewed calls to end all federal health issues — but if you took funded.” fire from political opponents who briefed on the setup. Bush stepped into a heated debate funding for the organisation, which dollar for dollar, there are many “I was referring to the hard-to- accused the Democratic presi- A staffer who was on the pay- about funding for women’s health last year received about 40 percent extraordinarily fine community fathom $500m in federal funding dential candidate of sidestepping roll of her political action com- and abortion, offering a critique of its $1.3bn funding — more than health organisations that exist to that goes to Planned Parenthood — transparency and record-keeping mittee set it up in her home. that earned a swift rebuke by $500m — from taxpayer money. provide quality care for women on an organisation that was callously laws. Responsibility for setting up and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Bush told the Southern Baptist a wide variety of health issues,” participating in the unthinkable “The government is seeking maintaining the server that han- Controversy has simmered in Forum during an onstage inter- Bush said. Clinton, the Democratic practice of selling fetal organs.” assurance about the storage of dled personal email communica- recent weeks following the release view that the next president should frontrunner, quickly tweeted a Planned Parenthood is the larg- those materials. We are actively tions passed through a number of undercover videos that showed defund Planned Parenthood, but retort: “@JebBush: You are abso- est US abortion provider, but that cooperating,” Kendall said in a of different hands, starting with officials from women’s health pro- then he implied that the money lutely, unequivocally wrong.” is a small percentage of the group’s statement. Clinton staffers with limited vider Planned Parenthood cava- might be better used for other Bush issued a statement saying work. Millions of women visit the At least four emails from the training in computer security lierly discussing the use of fetal purposes. “I misspoke, as there are countless organisation for family planning, account used by Clinton while she and eventually expanding to tissue for research. “You could take dollar for dollar community health centres, rural HIV testing and prevention, and was secretary of state contained Platte River, the Post reported. The footage appalled — although I’m not sure we need clinics, and other women’s health cancer screenings. AFP classified information, according REUTERS

Florida home US violence down of dentist who over past 30 years killed Zimbabwe lion vandalised but still high: Study TAMPA: Vandals spray- painted “lion killer” on a tony WASHINGTON: Homicides Florida vacation home that is and aggravated assaults have Shots fired at owned by an American dentist declined significantly in recent who killed Zimbabwe’s best- decades in the United States known lion, authorities said though their levels remain high military area yesterday. with 44 killings every day across MIAMI: Shots were fired The damage to the home of the country, researchers said. yesterday for the second day Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer, The homicide rate has more in a row near a US military a game hunter who last month than halved between its peak training centre in Mississippi killed 13-year-old Cecil, a rare in 1980 and 2013, according but no one was hurt, an offi- black-maned lion, is being inves- to research published in the cial said. “The shooter is tigated as misdemeanor criminal Journal of the American Medical described as a white male in mischief, said Marco Island police Association (JAMA). a red pickup truck, make and Captain David Baer. But that still leaves 16,000 kill- model unknown. This is the It was reported on Tuesday ings in the US annually, or 44 same description of the man morning, and authorities in each day, and homicide remains described to authorities dur- southwest Florida have not deter- the leading cause of death for ing yesterday’s incident,” said mined when it occurred, he said. non-Hispanic blacks in the coun- an official for the Mississippi The remains of a home destroyed by the Rocky Fire are seen near Clearake, California, yesterday. In addition to spray-painting try, the study said. The decline Military Department. AFP the garage door, the culprits scat- in homicide rates — down from tered what looked like marinated its 1980 peak of 10.7 per 100,000 pigs feet in the driveway, said people to 5.1 per 100,000 in 2013 — are more than 12 million adults California battling two dozen wildfires Walter Zalisko, owner of Global might not be sticking either: this who suffer intimate partner vio- Investigative Group, a private year has seen a surge in homicides lence and more than 10 million LOS ANGELES: Crews bat- state. The biggest blaze in north- Daniel Berlant said. The week-old firm hired to protect the property. in several major US cities. children who experience abuse tling two dozen wildfires in ern California, dubbed the Rocky Rocky Fire has forced more than He said the home was vacant. Washington has already tallied each year. Only a small frac- drought-stricken California Fire, has drawn in more than 13,000 people to evacuate their Marco Island police could not 87 murders in 2015, compared to tion of such cases are reported yesterday have made progress 3,200 firefighers. homes in Colusa, Lake and Yolo confirm the information about 69 by the same time last year. to police or doctors, according to in some areas thanks to lower Valiant efforts by fellow crews counties north of Sacramento, pigs feet, which were reported In nearby Baltimore there were the study, led by the Centers for temperatures and higher brought two other fires — one in the state’s capital, and charred and photographed by local media. 45 homicides in July, the highest Disease Control and Prevention’s humidity, officials said. Shasta County and another in Los more than 68,300 acres of land Palmer, 55, has received threats total for that month since 1972. Dr Steven Sumner. But the respite will be brief Angeles County — under control, and destroyed around two dozen on social media, and protests Police chiefs from major cities His team also found that vio- as temperatures were expected CAL FIRE said. homes. were held outside his suburban met in Washington on Monday to lence has more than a physical to rise, with the air also turning But new fires continued to pop Only about 20 percent of the Minneapolis office. He has said discuss this recent escalation in impact, as exposure to physical drier again. And thunderstorms up and quickly spread, abetted inferno is under control, CAL that he “deeply regrets” killing violence and to find ways to stem abuse in childhood is associated that bring fire-igniting lightning by one of the worst droughts in FIRE said. Cecil and believed that the hunt it. The JAMA study also found a with a 54 percent increase in the but little or no water are forecast California on record. State-wide, at least 142,000 was legal. Palmer, who has not been near-halving of aggravated assault odds of developing depression, 78 for today, CAL FIRE said. The state is bringing in extra acres of land have burned so far. speaking to the media, could not rates. Those incidents, including percent increase in the odds of More than 10,000 firefighters crews from southern California California is in the throes of immediately be reached for com- child abuse and neglect, decreased sexually transmitted illness or are tackling the fires that have to the hard-hit north, and mak- a severe drought, with much of ment. Security cameras were being from 442 to 242 per 100,000 peo- risky sexual behaviour and 32 forced thousands to flee their ing firefighters already on the the state completely parched and installed to videotape vehicles out- ple between 1992 and 2012. percent increase in developing homes and ravaged large tracts ground work overtime and cancel residents asked to make major side the Florida house on a quiet Included in the current total obesity. AFP of land in the most populous US days off, CAL FIRE spokesman cutbacks in water use. AFP cul-de-sac, Zalisko said. REUTERS THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 China halts work in disputed waters Chinese minister’s remarks may defuse tensions; Beijing calls on concerned countries to speed up talks

KUALA LUMPUR: Chinese Wang told Kerry, according to a “He encouraged China, along Foreign Minister Wang Yi statement from the Chinese for- with the other claimants, to halt said yesterday that Beijing had eign ministry. problematic actions in order to halted land reclamation in the “Countries that are not in the create space for diplomacy,” the South China Sea, and called on region should respect the efforts official said. countries in the region to speed made by China and ASEAN Recent satellite images show up talks on how claimant states countries.” China has almost finished should conduct themselves in Wang made his remarks on building a 3,000-metre- the disputed waters. the sidelines of meetings involv- long (10,000-foot) airstrip on one In June, China had said it would ing the 10-member Association of its seven new islands in the soon complete some of its recla- of Southeast Asian Nations Spratlys. mation on the Spratly islands in (ASEAN), where tensions over The airstrip will be long enough the South China Sea. the South China Sea have domi- to accommodate most Chinese The minister’s remarks at nated proceedings. military aircraft, security experts a regional meeting in Kuala When asked would China tem- have said, giving Beijing greater Lumpur appeared designed to porarily halt reclamation work in reach into the heart of maritime defuse tensions with other coun- the strategic waterway, he replied, Southeast Asia. tries who lay claim to parts of “China has already stopped. You China had said it did not want the sea, through which $5tr in just take an aeroplane to take a the South China Sea dispute ship-borne trade passes every look.” raised at the on-going ASEAN year. Wang said that China and meetings, but some ministers, Beijing claims most of the ASEAN countries shared a desire including hosts from Malaysia, waters, while the Philippines, to advance the Code of Conduct in rebuffed that call, saying the issue Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and the South China Sea and resolve was too important to ignore. Brunei have overlapping claims. issues through dialogue. China and Southeast Asian The United States and Japan They also wanted to strengthen nations had agreed to set up a for- have expressed alarm at China’s cooperation in security and eign ministers’ hotline to tackle expansion in the South China Sea, defence and maintain peace and emergencies in the waterway, a which they suspect is aimed at stability in the area, he added. senior ASEAN official said. extending its military reach, and Kerry had earlier expressed The senior State Department US Secretary of State John Kerry concern about China’s land recla- official said Kerry and Wang raised the issue with Wang in the mation and construction on man- China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi (right) with US Secretary of State John Kerry before a bilateral meeting at the also discussed Chinese President Malaysian capital. made islands during talks with Putra World Trade Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, yesterday. Xi Jinping’s visit to the US in “China is always committed Wang, a senior State Department September, as well as US con- to working with the countries official said. not take a position on sovereignty peacefully and in accordance the “militarisation” of features on cerns over cybersecurity and concerned to resolve disputes The official said Kerry told claims in the South China Sea, with international law. Kerry the Chinese-held islands in the human rights in China. through peaceful negotiation,” Wang that while Washington did it wanted to see them resolved also reiterated US worries over Spratlys, the official added. REUTERS

Five dead, three missing ‘Exiled’ Nigerians return home safely

ABUJA: Around 12,000 Cameroon,” he said, on condi- Adamawa state, for proper care.” Cameroon’s far north, on the bor- in Philippines floods Nigerians said to have been tion of anonymity, adding that Security sources and local der with Boko Haram’s Nigerian expelled from Cameroon after the number of expulsions was media said last week Cameroon strongholds, suffered three sui- MANILA: Five people have of vulnerable areas, including riv- fleeing Boko Haram jihadists expected to rise to 17,000. NEMA had deported more than 2,000 cide attacks — two in the regional died and three more are miss- erbank shanties, to evacuate, but have begun returning home, said 650 of the returnees had been Nigerians living in the country capital, Maroua — leaving at least ing as floods hit two southern some refused, she said. authorities in Abuja said yes- transported to Borno state while illegally as part of new security 44 people dead. Philippine cities, forcing about “They may not have relatives terday. Nigeria’s National the rest remained at a camp for measures intended to prevent The Cameroonian border post 400 residents to flee their sub- to go to and don’t want to go to Emergency Management internally displaced people in Boko Haram suicide attacks. at Kousseri — which has been hit merged homes, officials said the evacuation centres so they... Agency (NEMA) said it had Adamawa’s state capital, Yola. The deportations came just by two suicide attacks since June yesterday. (chose) to sit it out,” Caneda said. received 1,121 of the returnees “In the meantime, NEMA is a day after Nigerian President — occupies a strategic position, Swollen rivers burst their Rescuers recovered the corpses at the Sahuda border post in providing food and non-food items Muhammadu Buhari visited with just a bridge separating it banks and unleashed waist-deep of five shantytown residents yes- northeastern Adamawa state. as well as medical cover to cater Cameroon for talks on how to from Chad’s capital N’Djamena. floods on shanty towns in the terday when monsoon rains let A senior official in Abuja with for the returnees at the border combat the escalating regional Boko Haram’s bloody insur- cities of Malaybalay and Valencia up for the day, but three other knowledge of the repatriations while awaiting the conclusion threat from Boko Haram. gency in Nigeria has left more on Mindanao island this week, residents remain missing. Caneda told AFP the refugees had been of the immigration and secu- Buhari and his Cameroonian than 15,000 people dead since provincial civil defence chief Ana said the floods were brought on by expelled, although there was no rity screening,” the government counterpart Paul Biya pledged to 2009 and has increasingly spread Caneda said. a monsoon and were not related immediate confirmation from agency said in a statement. strengthen cooperation between across the country’s borders, with Heavy rains have swamped the to Super Typhoon Soudelor, which Cameroonian authorities. “Arrangements have also been their two countries in the fight Chad and Cameroon suffering region since late last month and is threatening Taiwan and China. “They are not coming on their concluded to locate the return- against the insurgents. deadly suicide bombings in recent the government warned residents AFP own, they were pushed out of ees to a new camp in Fufore, Between July 12 and July 25, months. AFP Myanmar floods death toll shoots up ‘Initial clues on MH370

YANGON: Tens of thousands of people huddled yesterday in debris drift were wrong’ monasteries and other make- shift evacuation centres in remote areas of Myanmar cut SYDNEY: Initial models of 2014 had mistakenly indicated off by deadly floods, as rescuers where potential debris from that the first possible landfall of struggled to deliver desperately a missing Malaysia Airlines debris would be on the west coast needed aid. passenger jet might first wash of Sumatra, Indonesia, in the first Heavy monsoon down- up had incorrectly identified weeks of July 2014. pours have caused devastation Indonesia as the most likely Models run by Australia’s across large parts of South and location, the Australian body Commonwealth Scientific and Southeast Asia in recent weeks, leading the search said yester- Industrial Research Organisation claiming hundreds of lives and day. Flight MH370 disappeared in November last year and displacing millions. In Myanmar, without a trace in March 2014 updated last month found, how- international aid efforts acceler- with 239 passengers and crew ever, that an Indonesia landfall ated yesterday following a govern- on board and search efforts have was highly unlikely. ment appeal for help. focused on a broad expanse of The mistake did not affect the The impoverished nation has the southern Indian Ocean off extensive international surface seen resources severely stretched Western Australia. search for the missing plane off by the crisis, which has spread A piece of aircraft debris that the west coast of Australia, ATSB across 12 of its 14 states and washed up on the French island of said. That search was called off in regions. Tens of thousands of Reunion roughly 3,700 km (2,300 April, more than a month after people remain stranded in rug- miles) from the expected crash the plane went down. ged and mountainous regions zone was consistent with where “While this error in that model after relentless rains caused flash the plane went down, based on had no impact on the way the sur- floods and triggered landslides analysis of ocean currents, winds face search was conducted, it was sweeping away homes, roads and and waves, Australian officials important in order to understand bridges. An aerial view shows massive flooding over Mrauk-U township in Rakhine state yesterday where tens of thousands and independent oceanographers over the course of time where Floods have now begun to flow of people huddled in monasteries and other makeshift evacuation centres. Rescuers struggled to deliver desperately said last week. debris might wash up and help southwards, inundating some needed aid. But the Australian Transport verify the various items found on areas around the Irrawaddy river Safety Bureau, which is leading beaches, particularly on the west with roof-high waters. at 69 with more than 260,000 to rise. The floods severed com- the country, which is roughly the the search, said initial debris drift coast of Australia,” the ATSB said. The official death toll stands affected, although this is expected munications across large areas of size of France. AFP modelling undertaken in June REUTERS Thailand arrests American for smuggling N Koreans into kingdom BANGKOK: A US citizen travelling on to a Southeast Asian North Koreans — six men and Mai for nearly two decades, he Embassy in Bangkok said it was escapees despite criticisms from working as a Christian mission- nation, from where they try to one woman — into Thailand from said. The missionary now faces up “aware of reports that a US citi- rights groups. ary in Thailand could face up to arrange passage to South Korea. neighbouring Laos. to five years in jail on the smug- zen was arrested on human smug- Many face severe punishment five years in jail on charges of But the number of escapees has “CCTV footage showed seven gling charge. gling charges in Thailand”. including, rights monitors say, smuggling seven North Koreans decreased sharply since North North Koreans entering Thailand Pallop added that Lee confessed “Due to privacy considerations torture and a term in a prison into the kingdom, police said Korean leader Kim Jong-Un took along the Laos border on June to helping the North Koreans we are unable to comment fur- camp once they are sent back yesterday. Hundreds of North power following the death of his 17. They were picked up by a cross the border after receiving a ther,” she said. to the North. Groups of North Koreans risk their lives each father in late 2011 and stepped up car on the Thai side,” provincial call to assist them from a Korean Around 28,000 North Koreans Korean refugees have previously year to escape poverty and border security. immigration police chief Pallop man in Laos. The missionary as have escaped to the South since been arrested after crossing into repression in the hardline com- Thai police said US citizen Lee Suriyakul na Ayutthaya said. well as the seven North Korean the end of the 1950-53 Korean Thailand along its northern bor- munist nation. Isaac Byungdo, 39, was arrested The number plate was traced to nationals, who were arrested on Wa r. der, and in the past most have Most cross the frontier into Monday in the northeastern a Thai rental company which led charges of illegal entry, are being Under leader Kim, the isolated been allowed to move to South China — which repatriates province of Nong Khai for help- police to Lee, who has worked in detained in Nong Khai. state has tightened border secu- Korea. those whom it catches — before ing to smuggle the group of the northern province of Chiang A spokeswoman for the US rity. China typically repatriates AFP THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN

‘Afghan talks Pakistan counts cost of protests only way to bring peace’ Sharif govt releases details of losses caused by PTI and PAT protests last year ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s powerful army chief has said ISLAMABAD: After securing The list of losses included reserves, which the government The documents presented to that ongoing efforts at talks a clean chit from the judicial expenses incurred by the was hoping would reach $15bn by the parliament claimed that the between the Afghan govern- inquiry commission into alleged government. end September 2014, did not meet fourth review under the IMF ment and the Taliban are the rigging in the 2013 elections, For instance, the supple- the target. This delay, he said, programme was also delayed. “only credible way” to bring the Nawaz Sharif government mentary grants amounting to was because of delayed inflows of However, Senator Dar did add peace to the region. has released details of the losses Rs760.5m, which the government $2.4bn. that Pakistan and IMF success- Negotiators for the two sides it claims the country suffered had to release to the ministry of The minister also argued that fully completed the negotiations met in the Pakistani hill town due to the Imran Khan-led interior to make elaborate secu- the external public debt, which on the fourth and fifth review in of Murree last month for their Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) rity arrangements in the capital was Rs5,076bn at the end of September, 2014 and the sixth in first face-to-face meeting aimed and Tahirul Qadri’s Pakistan during the protests were also financial year of 2014, increased January 2015. at ending the Taliban insurgency, Awami Tehrik (PAT) demon- mentioned in the information. to Rs5,304bn due to the currency Predictably, the postpone- now in its 14th year. strations last year. “It was a burden on the national depreciation - he said that this ment of the high profile visit of A second meeting planned for The detailed information gath- exchequer,” noted the finance was a loss of almost Rs228bn. the Chinese president also last Friday was cancelled after ered from various sectors under minister. The capital market also was figured in the list of heavy losses the death of Taliban supremo the guidance of Finance Minister Senator Dar, who is an account- affected by the protests, said Dar. which the government believed Mullah Omar was announced, Senator Ishaq Dar claims that the ant by training, also presented “The market was performing it suffered because of Imran throwing the movement’s lead- country was deprived of billions a detailed comparison of inter- well at 29000 KSE index with Khan and Dr Tahirul Qadri’s ership into upheaval. of rupees thanks to the political national money exchange rates market capitalization of Rs7.2tr. protests. Backing from Pakistan and unrest caused by the two protest- which adversely affected the Due to the sit in, the capital mar- The development agreements in particular its military, the ing parties. national currency, while the two ket loss occurred and it crashed worth $46bn (a figure that Taliban’s historic sponsors, has The information has been parties were on the roads against down to 27,000 level KSE Index the government has quoted been seen as crucial in getting the placed before the National the government. with market capitalisation of extensively) which were to militants to the negotiating table. Assembly during its ongoing “The exchange rate which was Rs6.7tr.” be signed in September 2014 The military’s media office said session, legislative sources said Rs98.82 on Aug 5, 2014 depreci- Imran Khan Foreign Direct Investment during the Chinese president’s army chief General Raheel Sharif yesterday. ated to Rs103.19 on Aug 25, 2014, (FDI), as per the calculations visit were finally signed in April chaired a meeting of top brass In Senator Dar’s words, the a depreciation of 4.4 per cent depreciation.” of Senator Dar’s ministry, also 2015. As a result, the develop- last Tuesday to discuss Pakistan’s extended sit-ins staged by the which adversely affected the Explaining further, Senator received a hit as inflows declined ment activities were delayed by overall security situation, includ- PTI and PAT cost the government import bill as well as capital loss Dar told the lower house of the from $113.6m in July 2014 to $92m six months. ing the Afghan-Taliban talks implicit and explicit losses. on foreign liabilities due to rupee parliament that foreign exchange in August 2014. INTERNEWS process. AFP

Stricter laws soon to Emotional farewell for hanged convict

MUZAFFARABAD: A commuted but to no avail. curb traffic violations Pakistani man controversially United Nations rights experts hanged for a crime which his said his trial “fell short of interna- supporters say was committed tional standards”, while Amnesty KARACHI: In a move to check police have decided to get impris- when he was a juvenile was bur- International accused the govern- some common road traffic vio- onment of six months to two years ied yesterday amid emotional ment of “callous indifference” to lations in Pakistan’s largest for the violators of one way, traffic scenes. human life. city, the Karachi traffic police signals and those buses allowing Shafqat Hussain was hanged Pakistan has hanged around authorities have announced passengers to travel on rooftops last Tuesday for killing a seven- 180 convicts since ending a six- imprisonment up to two years of buses and coaches from courts year-old boy in Karachi in 2004 year moratorium on executions for those breaking the rules of traffic magistrates,” said the despite claims he was under 18 last December, after Taliban mili- regarding traffic signals, one- statement. at the time and was tortured into tants massacred more than 150 way traffic and travel on the As there was no word from the confessing. people — mostly children — at a rooftop of buses and coaches. traffic high-ups to target certain At the burial in his native school. The crackdown on the violators violations, traffic police officials Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Amnesty International esti- would begin next week, according were of the opinion that the deci- attended by around 400 people, mates that Pakistan has more to a traffic police spokesman, who sion was kind of a beginning to his mother Makhni Begum had to than 8,000 prisoners on death row, said the decision was made in line address public transport segment be dragged away from his coffin as most of whom have exhausted the with the traffic reforms recently in the first phase that would be it was taken to be interred. appeals process. introduced by Deputy Inspector expanded to other violations of “Please don’t take him away, Supporters argue that the General (DIG) Traffic Dr Amir the traffic rules. he has been far from me for too Shahazullah (left) and Makhni Bibi (right), the parents of the convicted death penalty is the only effec- Sheikh. “If things move the way as long, please let me be with him,” murderer Shafqat Hussain, stand beside the coffin of their son who was tive way to deal with the scourge However, the official statement they are planned, the situation she cried. hanged at the central jail in Karachi, yesterday. of militancy in the country. that mentioned only three kinds will become quite better,” said His father, who is paralysed, fell But critics say the legal system of traffic violations lacked details an official, citing reasons behind on the coffin weeping and kissing “I curse myself, I curse my pov- Pakistani and international is unjust, with rampant police about the measures taken to curb the announcement for stern it until he too had to be dragged erty which cost me the life of my rights campaigners took up torture, poor representation for other violations. measures. off, while Hussain’s sister col- son. I wish I was wealthy enough Hussain’s case, pushing hard for victims and unfair trials. “From August 10, the traffic INTERNEWS lapsed, overcome with emotion. to buy justice,” Begum said. months for his sentence to be AFP New Taliban chief Mansour moves fast to heal Afghan rifts

PESHAWAR: If the first pub- intelligence, which helped create government in Kabul, which they the Taliban,” said Thomas Ruttig, interrupting his studies to fight That relationship with Pakistan lic comments from the Afghan the Taliban in the 1990s and has see as a vassal of the West that co-director of the Afghanistan after the 1979 Soviet invasion of has seen Mansour branded as Taliban’s newly appointed maintained links ever since. must be overthrown. Analysts Network in Kabul. Afghanistan, Taliban sources said. a tool of the ISI by adversaries leader are anything to go by, That would suggest he was “This is propaganda of the With a touch of diplomacy, He became close to Omar, the chafing at Islamabad’s longstand- Akhtar Mohammad Mansour in favour of nascent peace talks enemy,” he said. “Jihad will con- Mansour added, “We have to be movement’s late founder, being ing influence over the Taliban recognises how fractured the with the Afghan government that tinue till an Islamic Sharia system patient and tolerant and bow our appointed aviation minister after leadership. militant movement has become Pakistan has strongly backed, and is enforced in the country.” heads before other colleagues and the Taliban wrested control of Mansour has never given an and that humility and consen- Mansour has endorsed negotia- “If he’s playing to his own audi- then we will succeed. We should Afghanistan from feuding war- interview to the press, and in sus may be his best way forward. tions previously. ence and trying to consolidate not impose our wishes on others.” lords in 1996. 2010 media reported that nego- Mansour, who was deputy to Yet his first speech since his position, it wouldn’t make Born around 50 years ago Mansour’s ties with Pakistan tiators in Kabul who had thought the late Taliban founder Mullah being named leader last week much sense to make announce- in the southern Afghan region mean its intelligence service, the they were meeting him in secret Mohammad Omar, is widely was an appeal to Taliban com- ments about seeking peace at the of Kandahar, Mansour stud- ISI, almost endorsed his recent peace talks had, in fact, been talk- seen as close to neighbouring manders opposed to negotiating moment, as the peace talks issue ied in religious schools there appointment to succeed Omar, ing to a grocer impersonating the Pakistan’s powerful military with President Ashraf Ghani’s is a make-or-break point within and in northwestern Pakistan, according to analysts. Taliban No 2. REUTERS Top judges back controversial military courts Civilian casualties touch

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court yesterday record high, says UN approved controversial new mil- itary courts set up to hear ter- KABUL: Civilian casualties in The report said 1,592 civilians ror cases, rejecting an attempt Afghanistan hit a record high were killed, a six percent fall to have them ruled illegal. in the first half of 2015, the UN over last year, while the number Lawmakers approved a change said yesterday, as Afghan forces of injured jumped four percent to to the constitution in January to struggle to contain the spread- 3,329. The figures represent an establish the military courts, as ing conflict six months after the average of around nine civilians part of a crackdown on militancy NATO combat mission ended. killed and 18 wounded every day. following a Taliban massacre at a In a worrying trend, ground The casualties have reached school which left more than 150 combat is causing more deaths their highest level since the UN people — mostly children — dead. and injuries than improvised began issuing its authoritative The move prompted concern explosive devices (IEDs), the UN reports in 2009. from rights activists and in April said, adding that the conflict was “The cold statistics of civil- a group of lawyers challenged the taking a particularly heavy toll on ian casualties do not adequately constitutional amendment that women and children. capture the horror of violence in created them. The growing insecurity as Afghanistan, the torn bodies of But a 17-member bench of the Afghan forces face their first children, mothers and daughters, Supreme Court yesterday dis- summer fighting season without sons and fathers,” said UNAMA missed the petition by 11 votes to full NATO support coincides with chief Nicholas Haysom. six, Chief Justice Justice Nasir-ul- a faltering peace process, with the UNAMA attributed 70 per cent Mulk said in a brief ruling before Taliban confronted by an increas- of civilian casualties to “anti-gov- a detailed judgement expected A paramilitary soldier keeps guard outside the Supreme Court building in Islamabad. Pakistan’s Supreme Court ingly bitter power transition. ernment elements” including the later. ruled yesterday that secret military courts were legal and could pass death sentences on civilians, a judgment Total casualties — the com- Taliban, while highlighting a 60 Kamran Murtaza, a former that critics said further strengthened the military’s grip on power at the expense of civilian authorities. bined number of civilians killed per cent increase in casualties President of the Supreme Court and wounded — between January caused by pro-government forces Bar Association and a petitioner the matter of military courts is and independence of judiciary provincial governments. The and June increased one per- compared to 2014. The statistics in the case, said they would con- not in accordance with the con- itself.” Parliament has approved army announced the first ver- cent compared with the same are a grim indicator of rising vio- sider asking the court to review stitution and it is against human the use of the courts for the dicts and sentences from the new period last year, the United lence as the Taliban insurgency its decision. rights,” Murtaza said. coming two years, and cases courts in April. Nations Assistance Mission in spreads its strongholds with “We stated in our petitions that “It affects the basic structure are referred to them by AFP Afghanistan (UNAMA) said. Afghan forces. AFP THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

The damaged coaches of passenger trains after they derailed near Harda in Madhya Pradesh, yesterday. RIGHT: Policemen helping an injured passenger to come out of the derailed coach. Twin train disasters in Madhya Pradesh 27 killed, more than 70 injured as two trains derail in 15 minutes; rescue operations in full swing

HARDA (MADHYA injured. He said the state gov- coaches. A few managed to come “It was really frightening... in the disaster. The coaches “My prayers with the injured. PRADESH): In a first of its ernment was also taking into out, bruised and bleeding, but People tried to go from one coach landed in awkward angles, mak- Authorities are doing everything kind disaster, 27 people were account more than a dozen bod- some couldn’t. to another. I have no idea how I ing the search operation difficult possible on the ground.” killed as two trains derailed ies found a little distance away Ajay Kumar, 45, a Janata escaped. I thank god that I am for divers looking for bodies in the Suresh Prabhu ordered an within 15 minutes near a bridge from the accident site and those Express passenger going from alive,” she told journalists. river. inquiry into the derailment and here in Madhya Pradesh, send- “people may or may not be our Bihar to Mumbai, said his wife The shaken survivors said they The Madhya Pradesh govern- announced compensation to the ing 21 coaches plunging into the passengers”. Kanchan Bai died in the horrific were jolted out of their sleep when ment said the river was in spate families of the victims. rain-swollen Machak river, offi- One of the trains was the accident. their coach fell into the river with and there was soil erosion. He said villagers were assist- cials and witnesses said. Varanasi-bound Kamayani “There was a huge jolt. I man- a roar. Railway Minister Suresh ing in the rescue efforts. He said Around 70 people were injured, Express which derailed at about aged to come out of the coach with A Kamayani Express passenger Prabhu told parliament that “everything that’s necessary and some reportedly seriously, fol- 11.20pm Less than 15 minutes my daughter. But I saw my wife said the first few coaches of the monsoon floods, which caused soil possible (was) being done” and lowing the twin accident close to later, the Mumbai-bound Janata was still inside the coach which train crossed the river but those erosion, may have caused the acci- he was in constant touch with midnight last Tuesday. Express on the parallel track also began to fill with water quickly... after the fourth coach plunged dent — by weakening the bridge Madhya Pradesh authorities. The Madhya Pradesh govern- met the same fate - at that very I saw my wife die.” into the water. over the river. The disaster made the CPI-M ment put the death toll at 27. In spot. Another woman who was “Many of us had to swim out Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeal to the government to give New Delhi, however, the Indian Desperate passengers screamed warded in the hospital said she of the coach,” said the visibly rat- called the deaths “deeply dis- priority to railway safety over Railway spokesperson said only in pain and terror as they tried to was in a coach which suddenly tled man. tressing”, and said he was deeply plans to run bullet trains. 12 passengers died and 25 were claw their way out of the mangled tilted to one side. The tracks were badly twisted pained over the loss of lives. IANS Arrest warrant against Lalit Modi Kerala technopark gets aid THIRUVANANTHAPU The silver jubilee celebrations MUMBAI: In a major set- before the court on last Tuesday, With the issue of the arrest Exchange Management Act, Modi RAM: As the state’s IT hub of of Technopark come at a time back to controversial former Special Judge Bhavake wanted to warrant, Modi faces arrest upon left the country. Technopark celebrates its silver when IT exports in Kerala for the IPL chairman Lalit Modi, a know from the ED how an arrest his return to India and also the The ED probe pertained to alle- jubilee, Kerala Chief Minister last fiscal touched `10,000 crore Mumbai Special Court yester- warrant could be issued without possibility of a Red Corner notice gations of an irregular payment Oommen Chandy yesterday and the total direct employment day issued a non-bailable arrest a charge sheet being filed in the if he fails to turn up. of `4.25bn as facilitation fees by announced a `997.65 crore in the IT industry has touched warrant against him for alleged case and whether the court had The ED approached the Special MSM Singapore, the owners of development project to assist it one lakh employees with 45,000 involvement in a money-laun- powers to do so. Court after Modi — residing in Sony television channel to event in infrastructure development, at Technopark, 25,000 at Kochi dering case registered by the ED counsel H Venegaonkar London since 2010 — failed to management company WSG land acquisition and marketing Infopark and the rest at various Enforcement Directorate. submitted that under the respond to its summons last Mauritius. in the next five years. IT companies spread across the Last month, the ED had moved Prevention of Money Laundering month. The ED action followed a case Chandy made the announce- state. the Special Court seeking issue of Act (PMLA), cases follow a dif- As per procedure, the arrest lodged by the Board of Control for ment after inaugurating a func- Addressing the concerns an arrest warrant for investigat- ferent format compared to regu- warrant will be dispatched to the Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2008 tion held at Technopark campus. raised by several stakeholders of ing the case against the business lar criminal cases. external affairs ministry, from Chennai against Modi and others “The huge development scheme Technopark, IT and Industries tycoon. Besides, the lawyer contended where it will be sent to Britain. pertaining to the 10-year media combined with the large scale Minister P K Kunhalikkutty Despite repeated attempts, that since the case was in the pre- The ED had initiated a probe rights contract awarded to WSG investments will mark a big leap announced the decision to Modi’s lawyers did not respond investigation stage, the Special against Modi in 2009 and later for $918m. in Kerala’s IT industry,” he said. roll-back the rent hike in to calls and SMSes seeking his Court has the jurisdiction to issue filed the case against him in 2012 The WSG entered into another He also said the pro- Technopark. reaction in the matter. the arrest warrant. under the PMLA in connection deal with MSM making Sony posed `1,500 crore investment “Technopark’s development “Your application is allowed,” Moreover, since Modi was not with a mega deal for telecast the official broadcaster. Later, project by IT giant Taurus in model, which is the biggest and Special Judge P R Bhavake told in the country, the arrest warrant rights of the Indian Premier this contract was changed into Technopark’s phase-III campus the brightest success story of the ED counsel at the hearing should be issued as he had failed League (IPL). a nine-year deal in which MSM has been approved and construc- Kerala, could be replicated in sev- yesterday morning. to response to ED summons, Soon after the ED launched paid $1.63bn. tion activities would commence eral other fields,” he said. When the matter came up Venegaonkar said. the probe under the Foreign IANS immediately. IANS

Protests against IS Govt reverses controversial ban on online pornography

NEW DELHI: India has telecoms department, said. According to the adult site reversed a controversial order Although the government has Pornhub, India was its fourth banning hundreds of porn web- cancelled the order, some service largest source of traffic behind sites, a government official said providers said they would not lift the US, Britain and Canada in yesterday, after accusations of the block until they have more 2014. Child pornography is illegal heavy-handed censorship in the clarity as the new order puts the in India, as is publishing, hosting world’s largest democracy. onus on them to prevent access and transmitting it, but watching Last week, telecommunication to child pornography. “This is porn in private is legal. authorities had directed Internet a very vague order. There is no Rakshit Tandon, a consultant service providers (ISPs) to block clarity and until we get clear on Internet technology and cyber 857 websites on “morality and answers, we will keep the websites crime, said holding ISPs respon- decency” grounds and to curb blocked,” Rajesh Chharia, head sible for checking child porn was child pornography, the first major of the Internet Service Providers unrealistic. crackdown on online pornography Association of India, said. “Crawling millions of web pages in the country. Authorities had argued the manually and blocking child porn But the ban drew criticism and ban was necessary after India’s is impractical. There’s no thinking public ridicule, forcing the gov- supreme court voiced concern last behind the decision,” Tandon said, ernment to cancel the order late month about the government’s adding that most of the websites Tuesday and direct the ISPs to failure to block access to child are based outside Indian borders. allow access to the banned web- pornography on the Internet. India has been accused of sites, except those containing Next week the top court is heavy-handed online censorship child porn. again scheduled to hear the peti- in the past, including in 2012 “ISPs are free to allow access tion to ban online porn outright. when it ordered 300 webpages, Police officers detain activists of the Hindu Sena group during a protest against the jihadist Islamic State to the previously banned web- Judges observed during a hearing images and links on social media group in the old quarters of New Delhi yesterday. Protesters urged the government to stop the militant group sites, which do not have child last month on the petition that networks such as Facebook and from entering Indian territory and called on Muslims to condemn them. pornographic content,” N N Kaul, adults had the right to access Twitter blocked. spokesman for the government’s adult sites in private. IANS THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Ex-Goa CM gets Villagers capture Pakistani ‘terrorist’ bail in Louis Militants ambush BSF convoy Berger case PANAJI: Former Goa chief JAMMU: In a dramatic turn of handed over to the security minister Digambar Kamat, who events yesterday, unarmed vil- forces who led him away down the is accused of accepting bribes lagers in Jammu and Kashmir mountain path after securing him from Louis Berger officials to overpowered a young Pakistani with a rope. implement a `1,031 crore-worth terrorist who took them hostage It was the first time that project, was yesterday granted shortly after he and another Indian security forces captured interim bail until August 7. militant ambushed a BSF con- a Pakistani terrorist — after the Kamat yesterday approached voy and killed two troopers on 2008 Mumbai terror attack. a court here seeking anticipa- the Jammu-Srinagar highway. Police officials said he was tory bail. The development came Eleven Border Security Force linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba as media reports suggested that personnel were also injured in the (LeT) group, which also carried Anand Wachsundar, director morning attack on a stretch of out the deadly Mumbai attack of the compromised project for the highway in Udhampur district that left 166 Indians and foreign- which a bribe of $976,630 was that has been free of terrorist ers dead. paid by Louis Berger officials in violence for 15 long years. Once According to informed sources, 2010, could be made a government the BSF shot dead one of the two the Pakistani terrorist confessed approver in the case. attackers, the second one fled, that their ultimate mission was Louis Berger was part of a con- with his weapon. to target the ongoing Amarnath sortium that eventually won a Identified later as Usman Yatra. He added that 16 Pakistani contract to execute a multi-billion alias Qasim Khan, the 20-some- terrorist modules were active in dollar water and sewerage project thing from Faislabad in Pakistan Jammu and Kashmir. funded by the Japan International quickly sprinted to the small In New Delhi, National Co-operation Agency. Chirdi village some 15 km away Security Adviser Ajit Doval Two people, including the direc- and took shelter in a house after briefed Prime Minister Narendra tor of the JICA-funded project flashing his AK-47 rifle. Modi about the incident. Amid Wachasundar and former India The rattled residents first fed indications that the Pakistani head of Louis Berger Satyakam him food when he said he was might be flown to New Delhi Security personnel stand near the body of a suspected Pakistani militant after two rebels attacked a Border Mohanty, have already been hungry. Later, when he sought today, the home ministry said Security Force convoy in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir yesterday. arrested. help to escape from the vil- the ambush and capture would Congress legislator Kamat and lage, the three men in the house be probed by the National then public works department pounced on him, grappled with Investigation Agency. hostage — a decision that was to civilians to wrestle and disarm an highway that links Jammu region minister Churchill Alemao, who him and overpowered him just as It all began when two mili- seal his fate. armed terrorist. They should be with the Kashmir Valley and is a served in Kamat cabinet at the security forces had thrown a ring tants ambushed a BSF vehicle Officials initially gave no credit suitably rewarded for this brav- lifeline for Srinagar. time, have been questioned on around the village. on its way to the Kashmir Valley, to the villagers who caught the ery,” Omar said. Congress vice president Rahul more than one occasion. “After we disarmed him, the killing two troopers and injuring terrorists. But the villagers “Very unfortunate that the Gandhi said the attack was Meanwhile, Goa Chief Minister militant begged us to let him go,” 11, at Narsu Nallah, 65 km from gave their version of the story credit is not going where it is “extremely worrying” because Laxmikant Parsekar yester- said one of the villagers who took Jammu. to reporters who thronged the due.” it followed the July 27 terror- day said former chief minister hold of his AK-47. The BSF vehicle was peppered village. Some Indian experts felt that ist attack in Gurdaspur district Digambar Kamat was afraid over He also pleaded, “Mujhe mat with bullets but the troopers Former Jammu and Kashmir yesterday’s attack was aimed in Punjab that left seven people the Louis Berger case. pakdo, mujhe mat pakdo.” (Don’t fought back, one officer said. chief minister Omar Abdullah at spiking the proposed talks dead. “He may feel afraid because of catch me.) After one of the attackers said the credit for catching the between the National Security Gurdaspur borders Pakistan, his involvement,” Parsekar said In no time, the frightened got killed, Usman ran all the Pakistani should go to Chirdi Advisers of Pakistan and India. and those attackers too were when asked to react on Kamat’s Pakistani, who was wearing a way to Chirdi village in the hills villagers. Yesterday’s attack took place believed to be Pakistanis. decision yesterday. black shirt and trousers, was and took three simple villagers “Very brave of the unarmed on the 300-km Jammu-Srinagar IANS IANS Lawyers call off strike as LS passes bill Nitish asks Modi NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha of its subject matter. welcomed the decision and called following the strike. yesterday passed a bill to The high court will now have off their strike. R K Wadhwa, chairman of the increase the pecuniary jurisdic- jurisdiction over suits which The lawyers were on strike coordination committee, said the to take back tion of the Delhi High Court, are above the value of `2 crore. since July 21 protesting the delay city lawyers were happy after the prompting lawyers in the Earlier, the value was `20 lakh. in passing the amended bill on bill was cleared. national capital to call off their Consequently, the bill empow- enhancing pecuniary jurisdiction Battling over the pecuniary two-week-old strike. ers the high court chief justice of district courts. jurisdiction since long, former his DNA remark The Delhi High Court to transfer any pending suit to a Convener of the committee president of Delhi Bar Association (Amendment) Bill, 2014 will relevant subordinate court. Sanjeev Nasair said the strike has R N Vats said that it was the vic- PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister because the DNA of democracy is increase the pecuniary jurisdic- The Rajya Sabha cleared the been called off. tory of every common lawyer. Nitish Kumar yesterday urged not like that. In democracy, you tion of the court. bill on May 6. Judicial work in six city courts “The bill is for the welfare of Prime Minister Narendra Modi give respect even to your politi- Pecuniary jurisdiction refers to Meanwhile, the coordination — Patiala House, Tis Hazari, litigants as they can get access to “please consider taking back” cal rivals.” the jurisdiction of a court over a committee of the bar associa- Rohini, Karkardooma, Saket to the local courts for their civil his comments on his (Nitish Picking his words very care- suit based on the amount or value tions of district courts in Delhi and Dwarka — was paralysed rights,” Vats said. IANS Kumar’s) so-called DNA. fully, Nitish Kumar said, “The The Janata Dal-United Leader issue has been troubling many of has raked up the DNA comment us since then. ahead of Modi’s three proposed “Now as you are scheduled to All set for holy month of Shravan public meetings in Bihar this visit the state again, I am writing month. to you on behalf of those who have Vyapam claims In an open letter released felt hurt by your statement. on Twitter, Nitish Kumar said “Most of us also feel that com- 34 lives in 8 Modi’s July 25 remark question- ing from you, the comment is ing his DNA was being seen as an rather unbecoming of the office years: Govt “insult” by large sections of the you hold.” people of the state and beyond. The chief minister also cau- NEW DELHI: The govern- “Most of us feel that these tioned Modi that such comments ment yesterday said 34 people statements, beyond question- weakened the collective faith of connected to the Vyapam issue ing my own descent, have disre- people in his leadership. died between 2007 and 2015. spected the lineage of our people “I am a son of Bihar. My DNA Minister of State for Home and have denigrated the great is the similar as that of the people Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai legacy of the state,” he said. of Bihar,” he said, reiterating that Chaudhary told the Rajya Sabha “This also gives credence to the his father was a freedom fighter that based on information pro- feeling that perhaps you and your and his mother a housewife. “I vided by Madhya Pradesh, “a total party hold a prejudice against the grew up in a humble household number of 34 people connected people of Bihar. in rural Bihar.” to the Vyapam issue have died “Therefore, through this letter, Nitish Kumar pointed out that between 2007 and 2015”. I take the liberty to urge you to this was not the first time such “Out of these, 11 died due to please consider taking back these comments were made. accidents, 15 due to health prob- words. He said former BJP president lems, five committed suicide, two “I have no doubt that this ges- and now central minister Nitin drowned and the cause of death ture of yours would go a long way Gadkari had remarked earlier of one could not be ascertained,” in assuaging the sentiments of the that casteism was in the DNA of he said. people and would further enhance Bihar. The Supreme Court in July the respect people have for you,” BJP leaders are busy prepar- handed over the investigation of he said. ing for Modi’s public meetings cases related to Vyapam — short Addressing a public meeting in Gaya (August 9), Saharsa for Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal in Muzaffarpur, Modi had said: (August 18) and Bhagalpur — to the Central Bureau of “There seems to be some prob- (August 30). A disabled Hindu devotee, also known as Kanwaria, passes others as he arrives at the Dashashwamedh Ghat Investigation. IANS lem in his (Nitish Kumar’s) DNA IANS on the banks of the River Ganges during the holy month of Shravana in Allahabad yesterday. No green signal to Maggi noodles, says food safety watchdog

NEW DELHI: India’s food the samples to be safe. sent for testing to the Food and Food Technological Research do not have any bearing on that safety authority had found Maggi safety regulator yesterday said The watchdog also said that Drugs Laboratory of Goa and Institute (CFTRI), Mysore where order.” noodles to be compliant with the Nestle India has not been given Nestle India has not shared with upon examining the reports the lead has been found to be The statement also sought to standards. a clean chit regarding its popu- it the details of the test reports received on June 1, it was found within permissible limits,” it said. clarify that out of five units where “The matter is sub-judice and lar Maggi noodles and that its from the UK and Singapore, that the permissible limit of lead “But a perusal of the test Nestle was manufacturing Maggi we cannot comment further,” th ban order of June 5 was still which purportedly had said that had been wrongly taken 10 parts results from CFTRI, Mysore noodles, only one at the Bicholim spokesperson added. The refer- operative despite a certified lab samples of Maggi noodles tested per million, against 2.5 parts per shows that the said samples in Goa was catering to exports to ence was to the ongoing hearing in Karnataka reportedly find- in those countries were found to million, it said. have not been tested for MSG eight countries. It also said four in the Bombay High Court. ing the snack to be safe. be safe for consumption. The results reported by the (mono-sodium glutamate),” it out of the five samples taken by Maggi noodles had been banned “It is clarified in the first The statement said that the lab also did not specify the actual added. Goa for testing were from this on June 5 after allegedly high instance that FSSAI has not Food Safety Department of Goa lead content in the samples after “In any case, the test results of factory. amount of lead and MSG were given any clean chit regarding had drawn five samples of Maggi which clarifications were sought Goa samples had no bearing on Asked for the response regard- found in the samples. Following the safety of Maggi Noodles,” noodles pursuant to a May 25 from the state’s food safety the order dated 5th June, 2015 as ing the reports from Goa, a Nestle that, Nestle withdrew all the vari- the Food Safety and Standards communication issued by the authority. the samples tested qua Goa were spokesperson said the company ants of the noodle, while continu- Authority of India said in a state- watchdog to all safety commis- “The Food Safety Department not assumed to be unsafe while had only received information ing to maintain that its products ment, reacting to reports that a sioners across the country. of Goa subsequently sent one part passing the recall order by FSSAI. on the matter via media reports were safe. laboratory in Mysore had found These samples, were initially of the said samples to the Central As such, the present test reports that a lab approved by the food IANS THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 FEATURES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Black Bean Salad with Mango Sauce ome meatless main-course salads leave you hungry a few hours later, Sbut this isn’t one of them. There are plenty of colourful components to chew on, all tossed with a fresh mango sauce that would be at home atop buckwheat pan- cakes or in a bowl for dipping summer rolls. Serve alongside toasted baguette slices; or on them, a la tartine; or rolled in a wrap. Adapted from Tres Green Tres Clean Tres Chic: Eat (and Live!) the New French Way With Plant-Based, Gluten-Free Recipes for Every Season, by Rebecca Leffler (The Experiment, 2015). 25

Ingredients 2 servings

For the sauce 1/2 large ripe mango 1/2 scallion 1 lime 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 small handful chives, for garnish 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander 2 tablespoons roasted, salted pumpkin Kosher salt seeds (pepitas), for garnish Freshly ground black pepper Ground cayenne pepper Method For the sauce: Peel the mango; cut For the salad the flesh into chunks and place them 1/4 red bell pepper in a blender or food processor. Coarsely 1/4 orange bell pepper chop the scallion, then add to the mango. 1/4 yellow bell pepper Squeeze in the juice of the lime, then 1 medium carrot add the oil and coriander. Puree until 1/2 small fennel bulb smooth; taste, and season lightly with the 1 mini cucumber salt and the black and cayenne peppers. Leaves from 4 stems cilantro, plus Puree briefly until well combined. (You fennel core, then cut the remaining bulb slice while the flesh is still in its skin). slices (if using) and pepitas. Serve at more leaves for garnish can leave the sauce where it is while you into very thin slices. Cut the cucumber Pour the mango sauce over the vegeta- room temperature. 1 cup cooked, no-salt-added black prep the salad.) into small dice. Finely chop the cilantro. ble mixture and toss to coat. Taste, and Nutrition | Per serving: 270 calories, 10 g beans (from a 15-ounce container) Place these in a mixing bowl as you Rinse and drain the beans, then add them adjust the seasoning as needed. protein, 42 g carbohydrates, 9 g fat, 1 g satu- 1 large handful baby spinach or salad work: Cut the bell peppers lengthwise to the bowl. Add the baby greens. Divide between wide, shallow bowls; rated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 140 mg sodium, greens into very thin slices. Scrub the carrot, Peel and pit the avocado, if using, then snip the chives over each portion, then 11 g dietary fiber, 16 g sugar 1 ripe avocado, for garnish (optional) then cut it into small dice. Discard the cut into thin slices (it might be easier to garnish with the cilantro leaves, avocado WP-BLOOMBERG

Special veg-rich diet may slow cognitive decline in elderly: Study

diet rich in green leafy vegeta- her team said in a report in the journal eaten at least twice a week and fish bles, beans, berries, whole grains “Alzheimer’s & Dementia.” once a week. Aand wine can help to slow nor- In an earlier study, the research- Followers of the diet limit the amount mal brain aging and cognitive decline, ers showed that the diet developed at of the five unhealthy food groups - red researchers said on Tuesday. the Rush University Medical Center meat, butter, stick margarine, cheese, Cognitive decline is a normal part may reduce the risk of developing pastries and sweets and fried or fast of aging but a study by scientists at Alzheimer’s disease. food - they eat. Rush University Medical Center in MIND, or Mediterranean-DASH Diet The only fruits in the MIND diet are Chicago showed that elderly adults Intervention for Neurodegenerative berries. who strictly followed the MIND diet Delay, is a hybrid of the Mediterranean The researchers tested the cognitive were 7.5 years younger cognitively over diet rich in olive oil and vegetables and ability of 960 adults with an average a period of nearly five years than those the DASH eating plan designed to con- age of 81.4 years at 40 retirement com- who adhered the least. trol high blood pressure. munity and senior public housing units “The study findings suggest that the It consists of 15 dietary compo- in the Chicago area over a period of 4.7 aging; and Alzheimer’s disease is now “There is still a great deal of study MIND diet substantially slows cogni- nents and recommends at least three years. They uncovered a slower decline the sixth leading cause of death in the we need to do in this area, and I expect tive decline with age,” Martha Clare servings of whole grains, a salad and in mental ability among the elderly who U.S. which accounts for 60 to 80 per- that we’ll make further modifications Morris, a nutritional epidemiologist at another vegetable each day and a glass adhered most closely to the diet. cent of dementia’s cases,” Morris said as the science on diet and the brain Rush University Medical Center, and of wine. Beans and poultry should be “Everyone experiences decline with in a statement. advances.” REUTERS

Move over lehengas, anarkalis, try dhoti skirts

By Natalia Ningthoujam classic skirts with its draped silhou- it,” said Khan, who designed costumes well with a kurta for a light mehendi ette. This traditional yet funky option for Yash Raj Films’ Band Baaja Baaraat. or lunch. Its streamline silhouette adds wirling lehengas and floor- is extremely versatile and can be worn Fashion designer Anju Modi believes length to your look. Add quirky jewellery sweeping anarkalis continue with a short tunic, crop top, bandi or that nowadays unisex concepts in fash- to keep the boho mood alive,” suggests to attract would-be brides. even a trendy asymmetrical jacket,” ion are gaining ground and dhoti skirts Adajania. TBut the dhoti skirt, a silhouette Dongre said. “too fall in this bracket”. As the designers have given the green that reflects both the traditional and Dongre, who will be presenting the “It is a silhouette that reflects both signal to the look, even some young contemporary aesthetics, is also becom- collection at The Vogue Wedding Show the traditional and contemporary aes- would-be brides are happy to incorpo- ing a hot favourite this wedding season in partnership with the Taj Group, to thetics. It’s comfortable ... and I feel that rate it in their wedding ceremonies, as in India, especially for pre-wedding cel- be held from Friday to Sunday at the it is the personality that should be better indicated by a random survey done by ebrations, say designers. Taj Palace, New Delhi, also shared that matched to pull off such a strong and IANS. A dhoti is typically worn by Indian though the trend is versatile and can be standout look,” added the designer, who Ranjita Singh, 24, said: “Wearing men, and over the years, designers carried off by women of any age group, has worked on the costumes for Sanjay dupattas can be annoying at times, so have fused it with western silhouettes “women between the 22 and 28 age Leela Bhansali’s Bajirao Mastani. a dhoti skirt with a traditional top is to bring out the now globally popular bracket mainly have been seen sporting “On a lighter note, till now it’s all fun and goes well with the wedding cer- dhoti pants. A dhoti skirt, for women, this trend, more so in Mumbai across about who is wearing the pants in the emonies. Maybe not on the wedding day, is an interpretation which has found all professions”. house, but it will now also be who is but on sangeet or mehendi day or pre- prominence of late. National Award-winning costume wearing the dhoti,” she quipped. wedding parties would be fun.” Designer Anita Dongre has launched designer and stylist Niharika Khan According to Modi, any woman with a Another bride-to-be, Leena her latest bridal collection, ‘The Wedding also agrees that people are “willing to “confident demeanour would easily slip Manchanda, 28, said she found Sonam Diaries’; an album of memories of the experiment”, and that dhoti skirt is a into the dhoti skirts, irrespective of the Kapoor’s dhoti look in “Abhi toh party modern-day bride. While the bespoke good option. region or the profession”. shuru hui hai” song from Khoobsurat bridal couture looks feature lehengas, “You can style it with a cape or jacket. Anaita Shroff Adajania, fashion direc- suitable if someone wanted to make gowns and anarkalis, there is also a pink You can wear it with a chunni on top tor, Vogue India, has also given thumbs a unique style statement at an event, dhoti skirt to be paired with a bandi. and a choli. There’s a lot of fun and play up to the trend. when all eyes would be on you. “A dhoti skirt is a fresh approach to you can have and still look feminine in “It’s a fun take on the skirt, works IANS THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

Prayer Timings Weather Hazy to misty at places at first be- Fajr 03.40 am Zuhr 11.40 am Maghrib 06.18 pm Minimum: 32o C Maximum: 42o C comes hot daytime Shorook 05.03 am Asr 03.08 pm Isha 07.48 pm HIGH TIDE 09:45 - 21:15LOW TIDE 03:30 - 15:00 with some clouds and humid by night. Weight loss surgery benefits Utopia installation diminish after five years

STANFORD: Five years after weight loss as Roux-en-Y that creates an even smaller “There are still critical gaps in knowledge surgery, obese patients may regain many of stomach pouch. about the long-term (5 years and longer) the pounds they initially shed, a new study Keidar and colleagues followed 443 obese results of bariatric surgery,” Dr Anita from Israel suggests. patients who had sleeve gastrectomy proce- Courcoulas, author of an editorial accompany- While surgery remains more effective for dures to see how much weight they lost and ing the study and chief of bariatric surgery at lasting weight loss than alternatives such as whether they experienced improvements in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, dieting and exercising, said lead study author other health problems tied to obesity such as said by email. Dr Andrei Keidar, the study findings suggest diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol. A separate study in the journal examined that doctors still have more to learn about After one year, the participants still in the the effects of alcohol consumption after Roux- which patients will get the most benefit from study had lost 77 percent of their body weight en-Y operations. Researchers found that after operations and what strategies can make the on average, but they slid back toward to their surgery, patients who drank the same amount initial results stick. original weight as time passed. At three years, they did before the operation experienced a “The first year after surgery is usually a they were still down by 70 percent of their much faster increase in blood alcohol levels, honeymoon period that should be used for original weight, and just 56 percent at five which were about twice as high as they would coining new habits, and the ones that don’t years. About half of the patients with dia- have been before surgery. do that regain weight,” Keidar, a researcher betes experienced complete remission after “Because blood alcohol levels are doubled at Tel Aviv University, said by email. “Don’t one year, with their previously elevated blood after surgery, people could engage in risky take surgery as a panacea — beware of bad sugar returning to a healthy range common drinking when drinking only moderate eating habits.” in people without the disease. In this, too, amounts of alcohol,” lead study author Marta Globally, 1.9 billion adults are overweight patients backslid over time, with just 38 per- Yanina Pepino of the University of Washington or obese, according to the World Health cent in complete remission after three years School of Medicine in Seattle, said by email. Organisation. Obesity increases the risk of and only 20 percent at five years. This issue, as well as the potential to regain heart disease, diabetes, joint disorders and cer- Participants experienced significant reduc- some weight initially lost, shouldn’t deter obese tain cancers. Surgical weight loss has gained tions in levels of low-density lipoprotein patients from considering operations, said Dr traction in recent years, but it is not risk free. (LDL), the bad kind of cholesterol, at one year John Morton, ASMBS president and head And with these particular operations patients and three years, but at five years the change of bariatric surgery at Stanford University can become malnourished. was so small it might have been due to chance. School of Medicine in California. In the US alone, roughly 180,000 people Roughly 46 percent of people with hyper- “You get meaningful health changes with get these procedures each year, according tension returned to a normal blood pressure just a 5 percent weight loss, so losing 50 per- to the American Society for Metabolic and at one year and at five years. cent after five years is still a heck of a lot of Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS). The most com- One shortcoming of the study is that many improvement,” he said. “These are the sickest mon operation is what’s known as a sleeve patients dropped out at each stage, leaving of the sick who seek out bariatric surgery, Workers make their way through part of an installation entitled “Utopia” gastrectomy, which reduces the stomach to the results for very few participants at five years, and the vast majority of patients benefit.” at the Roundhouse in London yesterday. The installation, a collabora- size of a banana, followed by a surgery known the researchers note in JAMA Surgery. REUTERS tion between artist Penny Woolcock and British design duo Block9, is a multi-sensory work focusing on inequality, consumerism and crime.

Can genes make us School holidays Add spice for a longer life? bad for maths PARIS: Eating spicy food, death,” said a statement from populations”, that may lead to liberal or conservative? especially fresh chilli, has been The BMJ. And those who ate dietary recommendations and and spelling linked to a lower risk of death spicy foods almost every day, “had “development of functional foods, PARIS: Aristotle may have messenger — is released in the in a Chinese study, research- a relative 14 percent lower risk such as herbal supplements.” been more on the money than brain. What they found was a VIENNA: School holidays ers said. But they cautioned of death compared to those who In a comment, Kevin McConway he realised in saying man is a robust link between the presence are a bad idea, at least when it was too early to draw a consumed spicy foods less than of the Open University urged political animal, according to (or not) of the variant and a split it comes to children’s spell- final conclusion on the poten- once a week.” against jumping to conclusions. research published Wednesday between liberals inclined to decry ing and arithmetic in the tial benefits of fiery fare, and The association was similar in “If people who eat spicy food linking genes with liberal or inequality, on the one hand, and short term, according to sci- urged further research that men and women, and stronger in more often have lower death conservative leanings. die-hard conservative wary of entists in Austria. may lead to “updated dietary those who did not consume alco- rates, that might indeed be caused Or, to be precise, a specific vari- change, on the other. A study by Graz University recommendations”. hol. Fresh and dried chilli pep- by the chilli eating, or it might ant of one gene that would seem “The association between politi- of 182 children aged 10-12 The study, published in The pers were the most commonly be caused by something different to exert greater sway over women cal attitude and DRD4 was highly showed that after Austria’s BMJ journal, collected dietary used spices — and the associa- that is related to eating chillis and than men. significant for females,” and less nine weeks of summer vaca- data from nearly 490,000 people, tion was higher with the fresh also, separately, happens to pro- Working with 1771 university so for men, said the study, led by tion, the children showed “sig- aged 30 to 79, in China. variety, according to the team mote health. “Maybe this is some- students of Han Chinese origin in Richard Ebstein of the National nificant falls” in these areas. They were enrolled between led by researchers at the Chinese thing in the way spices are used Singapore, researchers compared University of Singapore. It then took them up to nine 2004 and 2008, and their health Academy of Medical Sciences. in Chinese cooking, or related to answers to surveys — includ- Women, it was also shown, weeks to recover. monitored for an average of seven The answer may be found in other things people eat or drink ing one tailored to hot-button tended to be more conservative “On the other hand their years. Just over 20,000 partici- an ingredient of spices — cap- with the spicy food. Maybe it has issues in the city-state — with in general. reading abilities improved pants died in the period. saicin, which has previously been something to do with the sort of the presence of a permutation The results are bolstered by during the break,” said psy- “Compared with participants suggested to posses anti-obesity, people, in China, who tend to eat of the DRD4 gene. DRD4 is one earlier research based on people chologist Manuela Paechter, who ate spicy foods less than once anti-oxidant, anti-inflammation more spicy food.” of several genes that determines of European descent that found one of the authors of the study a week, those who consumed spicy and anti-cancer properties. People who ate more chilli the way dopamine — a crucial similar patterns around the same published this week. AFP foods one or two days a week were The team urged “further were, for example, more likely to neurotransmitter, or chemical gene, according to the study. AFP at a 10 percent reduced risk of prospective studies in other live in rural areas. AFP The changing face of Russia’s emblematic matryoshka dolls

MOSCOW: From cheery peas- The dolls are a big part of a ant girls in Tsarist times to Russian childhood — teaching kids Soviet-era cosmonauts to today’s about culture and tradition. Pussy Riots, the changing face of At school, at around age 12, Russia’s matryoshka nesting dolls Russian children learn that matry- reflects the country’s tumultuous oshkas “symbolise the Russian history. character, the Russian soul, and For tourists the dolls inside the basic Russian values: mater- dolls that generally depict a buxom nity, family, collectivism, unity and woman in a coloured headscarf are warmth,” according to a guide for a must-buy souvenir believed to social science teachers. date back to a centuries-old tradi- Titova curated an exhibition tion, but a new exhibition throws on the dolls called “No simple up some surprises. toy” at Moscow’s Decorative Art For one thing, the initial idea Museum that ends mid-September behind the iconic wooden dolls, and which captures their diverse with the small ones hidden inside reincarnations. larger ones, appears to have origi- A doll dating from around nated in Japan. In the 1890s, when 1910 depicts a portly capitalist Traditional Russian wooden nesting matryoshka dolls displayed at an exhibition in Moscow. the Far East was all the rage with Frenchman in a top hat, while one Russia’s elite, well-known indus- from the 1920s shows a bearded trialist Savva Mamontov brought “Kulak”, a prosperous peasant by his wife in yellow headscarf, with come in a rocket-shaped case. “Matryoshkas are nearly all the Last year he created several back a set of seven deities of hap- driven out by the Bolsheviks. figures from Ukraine, Belarus and In the late Soviet era, the dolls same,” said Pyotr Kozlov, a journal- dolls in camouflage, helmets and piness that inspired painter Sergei After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Caucasus and Central Asian became more ornate, with brighter ist who designs matryoshkas, sell- patriotic ribbons, representing the Malyutin to produce a Russian ver- the dolls in the 1920s took a political nations progressively smaller. colours and outfits featuring large, ing them online under brand name Russian forces in unmarked uni- sion — a peasant woman with all turn, depicting workers in different Under the Soviets, the matry- stylised flowers. The emphasis was Duxovnaya Skrepa. forms who took over Crimea. her children inside. trades, historical figures and even oshka developed into a mass-pro- often on larger dolls with many His first design was a mousta- While the dolls should be “pro- The dolls caught on swiftly and enemies of the people. In the 1930s duced souvenir, and by the 1950s more inside — 25 or more. The chioed “rainbow doll” painted in the vocative”, Kozlov said that they were initially given a typical peas- the state took over their production they all looked similar — smiling largest known matryoshka has colours of the gay pride flag. were meant “to present objectively ant name, Matryona, whose nick- with factories set up in different and round-cheeked. “The basic look 100 pieces, Titova said — while a He went on to create dolls wear- what is happening in Russia”. “They name is Matryoshka. At the 1900 cities. The exhibition has some dolls of the mass-market, commercial standard matryoshka only has six ing bright balaclavas, inspired by are neither for nor against.” universal exhibition in Paris the from Russia’s far east along with type of matryoshka became firmly to eight. But the exhibition breaks Pussy Riot punk group. Group Nevertheless, he said, some top- dolls were an immediate sensation, others painted as Arctic Eskimos, fixed,” Titova said. But in the 1960s off as matryoshkas entered the member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova ics are simply too sensitive. “There winning a bronze medal. highlighting the considerable size in the heyday of Russia’s space pro- post-Soviet era. “Updating the posted pictures of Kozlov’s dolls on definitely won’t be any dolls about “In Russia, there’s a matryoshka of the Soviet empire. gramme, several dolls paid tribute collection in the 1990s was diffi- her Instagram. “My idea was to the Donetsk People’s Republic,” he practically in every home,” museum One even has dolls inside dolls to Yuri Gagarin and other heroes cult,” Titova said. Mass-produced try... to capture some trend — cul- said of Ukraine’s war-torn eastern director Yelena Titova said. “You from the Soviet Union’s many dif- of early space exploration. dolls today feature sports teams or tural, political or economic — that’s separatist region. “I think that’s a can say matryoshkas really reflect ferent ethnic groups. The largest is One set of 10 dolls at the exhibi- Russian and Soviet leaders or pop appearing now and quickly create topic we’ll be working through for the Russian national character.” a bearded Russian peasant, followed tion wear yellow space helmets and stars, but most are still traditional. matryoshkas,” he said. a long time.” AFP Thursday 6 August 2015 21 Shawwal 1436 Volume 20 Number 6514 Price: QR2

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LONDON: After slashing in perpetuity,” Jefferies said in a In late 1985, oil prices slumped spending by $180bn to deal with note yesterday. Oil majors such to $10 from around $30 over eight one of the worst industry down- as Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron months as Opec raised output to turns in decades, oil companies and Total are helped by profit- regain market share following an are still bleeding cash and slip- able refining operations. Most increase in non-Opec production. ping further into debt to main- are increasing oil and gas output, The industry responded by cut- tain dividends to shareholders. squeezing as much revenue as ting spending by nearly a quar- Depressed crude prices — at they can from past investments ter and slashing its workforce below $50 a barrel Brent crude but exacerbating the oversupply. by a third, according to Morgan is half what it was a year ago — Spending next year is expected Stanley. Prices gradually recov- mean even more cuts are needed to decline by a further 5 to 15 ered over the next decade as glo- at new projects and existing percent depending on the oil bal demand rose. operations. Companies trying to price, according to Oslo-based But today’s supply overhang dispose of oilfields to raise cash consultancy Rystad Energy. The could last much longer. “If oil prices could be forced to sell quickly and world’s top oil companies used follow the path suggested by the for less than they hoped. second-quarter results to show forward curve ... this downturn There is little sign that the oil they were ready for deeper, more would be more severe than that in price will come to the rescue as painful measures. 1986,” Morgan Stanley said. the Organisation of the Petroleum “The tone has changed. The $180bn of cuts this year Exporting Countries (Opec) Maybe we didn’t quite create represent roughly a 20 percent continues to pump hard into an the right impression of urgency drop from 2014, according to oversupplied crude market in back in January,” said Shell Rystad. Oil firms have deferred response to explosive growth in Chief Executive Officer Ben van up to $200bn worth of projects US shale oil. Beurden. BP Chief Executive Bob including complex, expensive ven- Brent is expected to average Dudley said “oil prices will be tures that hold huge resources, $60.60 in 2015 and $69 in 2017, lower for longer”. such as Canadian oil sands and The current price of petrol is shown on a fuel station sign in Encinitas, California, on Tuesday. according to a Reuters poll of ana- Part of the problem for the oil deepwater projects in Africa, lysts. The International Energy majors is that large national oil Southeast Asia and the Arctic. Agency said in February that it companies and shale producers Some observers say the indus- saw it recovering to $73 in 2020 have increased their share of glo- try needed an efficiency drive Brent, US crude hit new lows as the supply glut slowly eases. bal production gradually for years, with or without the oil price Analysts at investment bank leaving the majors victims of forces slump, after operating costs tri- NEW YORK: Oil prices hit Traders and investors focused of $49.02. Petrol futures settled Jefferies say international oil largely beyond their control. pled over the past five years. multi-month lows yesterday instead on the unexpectedly large down almost 1 percent, hitting a companies lowered their break- Their heavy investment cuts For now, the oil majors can after a surge in petrol stock- build in petrol inventories and its five-and-a-half-month low. even points by $10 a barrel after are expected to lower global pro- cover the shortfall by higher piles in the United States as impact on refining margins. US The EIA said US crude inven- the latest round of spending cuts, duction capacity by 2 million bar- borrowing, which currently the summer season, the coun- crude futures settled down 59 tories fell by 4.4 million barrels but will still need a price of $82 a rels per day by 2020, according to averages around 15 percent of try’s biggest demand period for cents, or 1.3 percent, at $45.15 a last week, three times more than barrel in 2016 to cover spending Rystad Energy. But Opec produc- their market value — still rela- motor fuels, neared its end. barrel, hitting a low last seen in the 1.5 million barrels forecast and dividends, which have been ers will only move in to make up tively low compared with other Futures of Brent, the global oil March of $44.83. The market ini- by analysts in a Reuters poll. the main investment attraction the shortfall. industries. Smaller exploration benchmark, hit a six-month bot- tially rallied nearly $1, reacting to Petrol stocks rose by 811,000 for the sector for decades. “This has been really a tough and production companies that tom while that of US crude touched the drawdown in crude stockpiles barrels, versus expectations for a “In order to cover the shortfall, time for the industry from lack big refining operations a four-and-a-half-month trough, before retreating on the petrol 500,000-barrel drop. Inventories the sector will increase its bor- Aberdeen to Angola to Houston such as Premier Oil and Tullow despite a bigger-than-expected numbers. of distillates, which include diesel, rowing. While leverage remains ... It does feel like 1986,” BP CEO Oil have been forced to abandon drawdown in US crude stock- Futures of Brent closed 40 grew as well, although the rise of manageable within the sector, this Dudley said last week after a near dividends this year. piles announced by the Energy cents lower at $49.59 a barrel, 709,000 barrels was less than half is not a practice that can continue two-thirds drop in quarterly profit. REUTERS Information Administration. after falling to a January low of forecast levels. REUTERS

Super-Post-Panamax cranes Gold eases Greece close to deal LONDON: Gold eased yester- day, hovering above the recent five-and-a-half-year low on ear- with creditors: PM lier pressure from the dollar as US services sector data revived ATHENS: Greek Prime payment has not figured in the expectations of a US interest Minister Alexis Tsipras yester- discussions. Greek government rate rise as early as September. day said that his government is spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili Spot gold was down 0.2 percent nearing a deal with international said the talks would continue to at $1,085.35 an ounce by 1837 creditors on a mammoth bailout. the end of the year, however. GMT, while US gold for delivery “We are in the final stretch “We will have implementation in December settled down 0.5 to conclude an agreement with legislation, and points on which percent, at $1,085.60 an ounce. the institutions,” Tsipras said in the negotiations will not even Platinum and palladium wal- televised remarks. “Despite the have ended until the end of the lowed near multi-year lows on a difficulties, we hope this agree- year, such as on labour and non- global supply glut. Spot platinum ment can end uncertainty over performing loans,” she said. fell 0.6 percent to $946 an ounce, the future of Greece and the euro- The prime minister said close to $940.50 on Tuesday, zone,” he added. Greeks had to “adapt to the new its lowest since February 2009. Greece needs a deal that will circumstances” but insisted that Palladium was up 0.1 percent at unlock bailout funds by August 20, his administration would continue $593, after hitting a near three- A ship carrying five Super-Post-Panamax cranes arrives in Cartagena, Bolivar department, Colombia. These when it must repay some ¤3.4bn to negotiate with the country’s year low of $586.33 in the previ- five new high capacity cranes acquired by the Port of Cartagena are part of an expansion plan that will ($3.7bn) due to the European creditors to secure a “fair” dis- ous session. Silver was steady at Central Bank. The Greek econ- tribution of tax pain. increase the port’s capacity from 3 to 4 million containers per year. Each crane has a weight of 1,460 tonnes $14.58 an ounce. REUTERS omy is also suffering from the In two successive reform votes and a height exceeding a 25-storey building. The cranes cost $45.5m. effects of capital controls imposed last month, more than 30 law- at the end of June to avert a bank makers from Syriza refused to run, a procedure that has badly approve the measures included disrupted trade. in the bailout, which is worth up The Athens stock exchange, to ¤86bn over three years. which opened with a record drop Greece raised ¤812.5m ($890m) MPHC nets QR402.8m profit in first half on Monday after a five-week in six-month treasury bills. The shutdown, closed 2.53 percent European Central Bank decided DOHA: Mesaieed Petrochemical in the current period, which has and warranty shutdowns are an gas under long-term supply agree- down after losing over 4.2 percent to leave its emergency credit Holding Company (MPHC), a been successfully completed, and essential requirement for large, ments with Qatar Petroleum. This earlier in the day. Bank shares lifeline for Greece unchanged for subsidiary of Qatar Petroleum weaker product prices following industrial plants as they can help contracting arrangement is an were once again the hardest the next two weeks, said a source and one of the region’s premier the significant fall in the global oil minimise unplanned disruption, important value driver for the hit, trading near the maximum close to the matter. diversified petrochemical con- prices in Q4, 2014 that started to ensure product quality is main- group profitability in a challeng- allowed drop of 30 percent for The official said the Frankfurt- glomerates with interests in the affect product prices. tained and ultimately, contribute ing market condition. three straight days. based bank’s executive board production of olefins, polyolefins, MPHC closed the half year to an extension of plant’s produc- The closing cash position across European Commission head would maintain its Emergency alpha olefins and chlor-alkali of 2015 with a consolidated net tion life. The quarter-on-quarter all group companies after the Jean-Claude Juncker said yester- Liquidity Assistance (ELA) for products, has recorded a consoli- profit of QR 402.8m, a decrease of substantial increase was mainly first six months of operations and day that an agreement on the bail- Greece’s struggling banks at dated net profit of QR402.8m for QR496.7m, or 55.2 percent over due to increase in sales volumes after distribution of previous year’s out was possible by August 20. “All ¤90.5bn ($98.7bn). the half year ended June 30, 2015. the same period in 2014, while following successful completion of dividend of QR1.3bn, was a robust the reports I am getting suggest Greek banks were closed for Management reporting rev- the second quarter earnings were the planned major maintenance QR1.2bn. Total assets at June 30, an accord this month, preferably three weeks under capital con- enue for the first half, calculated significantly up by 146.7 percent, shutdowns in Q1 2015. 2015 was at QR16.8bn, a decrease of before the 20th,” Juncker said. trols imposed by Tsipras’s gov- by proportionately consolidating over the first quarter of 2015. The groups’ profit was also QR1.7bn, or 9.1 percent, compared Finance Minister Euclid ernment to prevent the collapse group results, was QR1.5bn, a The year-on-year reduction was aided by recognition of a tax to the previous year end. The total Tsakalotos on Tuesday said that of the credit institutions. The decrease of QR634.4m, or 29.9 per- driven by planned major mainte- refund of QR37.4m for the period. debt is QR1.4bn down QR0.1bn the high-stakes talks were going restrictions were eased July cent, on the same period of 2014 nance shutdowns and due to weak The group continued to benefit versus December 31, 2014, arising “at least as well as we expected”, 20, but withdrawals and money (2014, Q2: QR2.1bn) primarily due product prices. from the supply of competitively from one of the group’s joint ven- and that the possibility of an transfers abroad remain limited. to planned facility maintenance The preventive maintenance priced ethane feedstock and fuel ture. THE PENINSULA emergency loan for the ECB AFP THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

IMF: More work Gulf’s days of easy money nearing end needed before Saudi, UAE, other money market rates start to rise; UAE loan-to-deposit ratio climbs yuan is put DUBAI: The days of very easy revenues, threatening to shrink said NBK Capital analyst Aarthi In the last few weeks, however, bonds for the first time since in SDR basket money are drawing to a close in flows of money into Gulf banks. Chandrasekaran. there have been signs this strat- 2007. Some analysts think its sov- Gulf Arab oil-exporting econo- “The days of easy money are Many Gulf companies have egy has its limits. National Bank ereign bond issues may total up WASHINGTON: The Inter- mies as money market rates over,” said a senior banker at a refinanced debt on cheaper of Abu Dhabi said last week its to SR200bn ($53bn) by year-end. national Monetary Fund said start to rise, partly because of state-run UAE commercial bank. terms over the past year; those deposits had shrunk 3.1 percent Commercial banks hold nearly that it needs to do “significant the damage which cheap oil is “Dragging oil prices and expec- that have not yet done so could year-on-year because of lower SR300bn in central bank bills work” in reviewing the inclu- doing to government finances. tations that increased exports find they risk missing the boat. government deposits. and non-statutory central bank sion of China’s currency in Loose liquidity created by from Iran will add to the global Chief executive Alex Thursby deposits, and may simply switch its basket of “special drawing inflows of oil money pushed short- supply glut are unnerving the LIQUIDITY said he didn’t expect more big some into bonds — but by 2016, rights” reserve currency. term rates in Saudi Arabia, the money market, which previously So far, bankers don’t expect outflows of government funds, bond issuance could start sucking The Chinese government is United Arab Emirates and neigh- held rates at rock-bottom levels a squeeze that might cause but added: “There’s a major dollar funds from money markets. seeking to expand use of the bouring states to record lows last for several months.” money rates to soar. The UAE liquidity squeeze in the UAE and Kuwait is considering whether yuan, also known as the renminbi year, fuelling frenzied competition The UAE’s three-month banker said he believed that if the region due to lower oil sales to issue bonds to finance its (RMB), by having it included in among banks to lend to firms at Emirates Interbank Offered Rate, the US Federal Reserve tight- and dollars moving to different deficit; Oman and Bahrain are the SDR, an international reserve tiny spreads. at a record low 0.68 percent as ened 25 bps, EIBOR might rise markets.” expected to issue more while oil asset that currently is comprised But in the last few days, money recently as February, jumped 3 roughly 50 bps. The ratio of gross credit to remains cheap. by four currencies: The dollar, rates have started to rise rela- basis points in the past day to 0.79 That would bring the three- deposits at UAE banks climbed “More Gulf nations are likely euro, pound and yen. tively sharply. If this continues, percent, a 17-month high. month rate above 1.0 percent, to 100.2 percent in June from to access the bond markets to The IMF executive board, banks could begin to regain some The three-month Saudi equiv- to where it was in early 2013. 97.0 percent last December and plug deficits following in Saudi’s which represents the institution’s pricing power over their loans. alent, essentially flat at a record Finance ministries and cen- 95.0 pct in June 2014 — a shift footsteps, as they cannot sustain 188 member nations, will make One reason for higher rates is low of 0.77 percent since March, tral banks have been working that has alarmed some bankers, the rate at which they are draw- its final decision in November, a expectations for US monetary climbed in the past few days to with considerable success to and may prompt some to raise ing funds from their reserves,” senior IMF official said, speak- tightening this year. With their nearly 0.80 percent. Rates in Qatar, protect banking systems from deposit rates to fight for money. said a foreign bank’s head of ing on condition of anonymity. currencies pegged or closely linked Kuwait and Bahrain also rose. any drastic tightening. Several In Saudi Arabia, depos- markets. “The RMB’s international use has to the US dollar, Gulf central banks “In general, UAE banks’ net governments have huge finan- its have continued growing “The rising loan-to-deposit been increasing, albeit from a low would probably tighten too. interest margins tend to be posi- cial reserves overseas; they have strongly. But Riyadh is run- ratio in the UAE is a sign base, since the last SDR valuation But a bigger factor is the plunge tively geared to higher EIBOR liquidated some of them and ning a much bigger budget defi- that liquidity in the region is review,” the IMF said in a report. of oil prices since mid-2014, which rates, which have been on an brought money home, keeping cit than the UAE, so last month shrinking.” According to the IMF, the yuan has slashed governments’ oil upward trend year-to-date,” local markets flush with funds. it started issuing sovereign REUTERS meets the criteria of being a cur- rency used for widescale exports of goods and services. But other conditions remain to be examined. “A key focus of the review will be the determination on whether the RMB is a freely usable currency.” Qatar bourse index In the IMF view, a freely usable currency is determined by “the actual international use and trad- ing of currencies,” not whether a gains 25.19 points currency is either freely floating or fully convertible. DOHA: Qatar Exchange (QE) value, jumping its daily 15 per- The yuan is tightly controlled by index gained 25.19 points or 0.21 cent limit to a record high of 3.68 the Chinese government, a thorn in percent when the bourse closed dirhams. Damac said its second- the side of China’s relations with trading at 11,836.75 points yester- quarter profit more than tripled the United States, the IMF’s larg- day. The daily turnover decreased to Dh1.42bn ($387m). It also est shareholder. The US govern- to QR129.22m with a volume of announced an interim dividend ment has long accused China of 2,992,248 shares from 2,656 deals of 10 percent cash and 10 percent keeping the yuan undervalued to compared to QR196.57m with a bonus shares. The cash payout boost its exports. “Significant work volume of 3,604,728 shares from will be its first since it listed in remains outstanding to inform the 3,052 deals on Tuesday. Dubai in January. Board’s determination with regard The market capitalisation Abu Dhabi’s bourse edged up to the RMB’s inclusion in the SDR decreased to QR626.82bn from 0.6 percent and energy firm Dana basket,” the IMF report said. QR627bn on Tuesday. Indices of Gas, which had earlier tumbled The last time the SDR basket four sectors ended in green and 18 percent from its July peak in was modified was in 2000, when three in the red. Of the 43 com- response to oil’s weakness, surged the euro replaced France’s franc panies listed on QE, investors 5.6 percent. Developer Aldar and Germany’s deutschemark. exchanged shares of 41. From Properties jumped 2.3 percent. AFP these 22 gained, 18 went down Egypt’s market fell 0.8 percent, and one remained unchanged. giving up early gains as heavy- Meanwhile, most Gulf stock weight Commercial International markets rose. The main Saudi Bank dropped 2.7 percent and a Air Arabia net index edged up 0.2 percent. Saudi number of property stocks pulled Traders at their desks in front of the DAX board at the stock exchange in Frankfurt yesterday. Basic Industries rose just as much back after rallying earlier in the profit down and was the most traded stock week. Most selling pressure came in Riyadh. Saudi International from non-Arab foreigners as the Petrochemical Co, which had dollar’s gains on the Fed com- European markets end higher 12pc in Q2 fallen 8 percent this week, ments put pressure on emerging DUBAI: Low-cost Emirati climbed 1.6 percent. markets across the world. LONDON: Europe’s main Trading resumed in Athens on “The US dollar has continued carrier Air Arabia announced Most banks gained, led by lead- However, Juhayna Food stock markets closed higher Monday, five weeks after the gov- to strengthen... following more yesterday that its net profits ing retail lender Al Rajhi , which Industries surged 6.4 percent after yesterday, with all eyes on US ernment imposed capital controls hawkish rhetoric from a Fed fell 12 percent in the second added 1 percent. A US Federal the firm said a travel ban imposed economic data and prospects to prevent a bank run and stave official which has resulted in quarter of 2015 to Dh152m Reserve official said on Tuesday on its chairman Safwan Thabet in of an interest rate hike in the off financial collapse at the height the market discounting a higher ($41m) from a year earlier. that the central bank was close a crackdown on Mubarak-era busi- world’s biggest economy. of its standoff with EU-IMF probability of a rate hike in Net profits for the first six to raising interest rates, a move ness tycoons had been lifted. Investors also reacted to devel- creditors over a new bailout. September,” said Lee Hardman, months dropped four percent which is likely to be followed by opments over Greece and China, The Athex index had finished on currency analyst at Bank of to Dh237m ($64m). It said the Saudi Arabia because its riyal is HIGHLIGHTS analysts said. London’s bench- Tuesday down 1.22 percent after Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ. decline was mainly the result pegged to the dollar. SAUDI ARABIA: The index mark FTSE 100 index ended suffering its steepest ever fall of US stocks were trading mostly of “pressured yield margins due A significant part of Saudi edged up 0.2 percent to 8,791 the day 0.98 percent higher at 16.32 percent on Monday. higher after three straight down to market conditions as well as banks’ funding comes from points. 6,7432.94 points compared with Asian markets were mixed, days, despite a report showing a number of strategic invest- demand deposits bearing no inter- DUBAI: The index rose 1.7 per- Tuesday’s close. buoyed by a possible US interest disappointing private sector jobs ments made by the airline in est, so higher rates could boost cent to 4,165 points. Eurozone indices performed rate hike even as China’s abil- growth and a sharp fall in shares first half 2015”. their margins - though they could ABU DHABI: The index climbed better, with Frankfurt’s DAX 30 ity to stem a recent market rout of Dow member Disney. First-half turnover reached also slow lending growth. 0.6 percent to 4,843 points. finishing 1.57 percent ahead at weighed on sentiment. In midday trading, the Dow Dh1.75bn ($475m), almost In other sectors, Etihad Etisalat EGYPT: The index fell 0.8 per- 11,636,30 points, while the CAC The dollar advanced against Jones Industrial Average was at unchanged from last year, (Mobily) fell 1.3 percent, extend- cent to 8,114 points. 40 in Paris closed up 1.65 per- other major currencies after Fed 17,636.61 points, up 0.49 percent. while passenger numbers rose ing to 11.5 percent its decline KUWAIT: The index edged up cent at 5,196.73 The euro fell to Reserve Bank of Atlanta President The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite nine percent to 3.6 million. since the firm revised earnings for 0.2 percent to 6,238 points. $1.0867 from $1.0882 late in New Dennis Lockhart told The Wall Index jumped 1.33 percent to Based in Sharjah, Air Arabia more than two years and posted OMAN: The index fell 0.6 per- York on Tuesday. Street Journal in comments pub- 5,173.26 points, while the broad- was launched in October 2003 a second-quarter loss this week. cent to 6,430 points. Greece’s main stock index lished this week that he supports based S&P 500 lost early gains and has hubs in Morocco, Dubai’s index rose 1.7 per- BAHRAIN: The index slipped ended the day 2.53 percent down, lifting rates in September barring to trade 0.22 percent lower at Egypt and Jordan. It has a fleet cent, with Damac accounting 0.1 percent to 1,332 points. with banking shares taking a bat- an unexpected downturn in the 2,093.32. of 41 Airbus A320s serving 115 for almost a third of total traded QNA/REUTERS tering for a third day running. world’s top economy. AFP destinations. AFP 10m passengers fly Ryanair in July UK services growth slows in July

LONDON: Britain’s economic slightly slower than the 0.7 per- “The MPC is more likely to be recovery probably slowed a cent officially reported for the concerned about the balance of touch at the start of the second three months to June. output, with manufacturing and half of this year, according to The survey comes a day before construction weak recently,” he a survey published as Bank of BoE officials publish their latest said. “If underlying growth is to England officials are expected economic outlook and interest stay around or above the pre-crisis to be split on whether to raise rate decision, which economists trend, which BoE Governor Mark interest rates. polled by Reuters predict will be Carney wants to see before raising Yesterday’s Markit/CIPS serv- split for the first time this year. interest rates, growth in these sec- ices purchasing managers’ index While the weaker PMI will tors needs to rise.” showed growth among services probably not deter hawks on the Carney said last month it would firms slowed more than expected Monetary Policy Committee from take sustained growth of more in July and they hired the fewest voting for higher rates this week, than 0.6 percent per quarter to staff since March 2014, adding to survey compiler Markit said the take up any remaining slack in other recent signs of a cooling in signs of cooling in the economy the economy, a key factor behind Britain’s employment boom. would dissuade the majority from any increase in rates. Still, Britain’s service sec- doing so. The survey showed Britain’s eco- tor expansion was the second- The services index fell to 57.4 nomic upturn is relying heavily on fastest among major European in July from 58.5 in June, under- financial services companies, which economies. shooting a Reuters poll forecast in July enjoyed their best month A Ryanair aeroplane taking off from Barcelona’s airport. The Irish no-frills airline Ryanair said yesterday that Taken together with manu- for 58.0 but still indicating expan- since 2013. By contrast, busi- it had transported more than 10 million passengers during July, a record it attributes to the improvement in facturing and construction sur- sion among services businesses. ness services like architects and veys earlier this week, the PMI Simon Wells, an economist at accountants suffered their weak- its service. pointed to economic growth of HSBC, said the decline was unlikely est growth in almost three years. around 0.6 percent per quarter, to worry the Bank’s rate-setters. REUTERS THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Egypt to open new Suez Canal today Government expects $13.2bn annual revenue by 2023; analysts say projections may be too optimistic

CAIRO: Egypt today inaugurates a seen over the past four years. Since “new Suez Canal” waterway touted 2011, Suez Canal revenue growth has as an achievement rivalling the dig- failed to even keep pace with growth in Egypt is preparing for the inauguration, on Aug 6, of an $8.6bn expansion ging of the original, as it seeks to world trade. While global trade volumes of the strategic Suez Canal, a project that President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi boost both its economy and interna- rose by an average of 2.9 percent from tional standing. The project 2011-2014, Suez Canal revenue rose by The ceremony, to be attended by just 2 percent during the same period, SUEZ EXPANSION foreign dignitaries including French involved 37km of Jackson said. Mediterranean CANAL President Francois Hollande, comes just dry digging and There could be further risk from a Sea Length: 72km. over two years after President Abdel 35km of expansion Panama Canal expansion set to be com- Port Total 35km dug afresh, Fattah Al Sisi, the former military chief, pleted in 2016 which could steal traffic Said length: 37km expanding overthrew his Islamist predecessor. Sisi and deepening of from the Asia-North America route and deepening broke ground on the project last August the existing canal. which the two canals compete for, said Canal current canal after winning a presidential election on Michael Frodl, of US-based consultancy Cairo Ballah promises of strengthening security and Today’s opening C-Level Global Risks. Cost: $4.3bn reviving the ailing economy. ceremony is to be But the canal’s largest client, Maersk bypass Seven new tunnels Sisi set an ambitious target of dig- Line, said that while the expansion for cars and trains ging the waterway in just a year despite attended by foreign would bring savings from fuel costs – three in Port Said an initial estimate it would take up to dignitaries, including and by using larger vessels, it would and four in Ismailia three years. Officials say the entire not send more ships through the canal funding for the project was raised in six French President in 2015. “Last year we put 1,400 ships – will connect SUMED Red Sea days by selling investment certificates Francois Hollande. through the canal. We will put roughly Sinai Peninsula pipeline Suez to rest of Egypt to domestic investors. It involved 37km Authorities have the same number through this year,” of dry digging and 35km of expansion said Mohammad Shihab, managing EGYPT Gulf of Cost: $4.2bn and deepening of the existing canal. declared today a director of Maersk Line Egypt. Suez The estimated $8.6bn project includes The new canal “will not change much national holiday. Completion: a parallel waterway flanking the exist- overnight,” said Nicholas Sartini, a senior CANAL EXPANSION – MAIN GOALS Lake ing 145-year-old waterway, the closest vice president for the French CMA CGM Timsah Aug 2015 link by sea between Asia and Europe. Group, the world’s third-largest shipping Allow two-way traffic of ships By 2023 the number of ships using and abroad, must support this giant group, which sends an average of two ves- SINAI the canal will increase to 97 per day project”. sels per day through the canal. Cut waiting time vessels spend PENINSULA from the current 49, the Suez Canal Suez Canal Authority chief Mohab Egypt is investing for the longer term in canal from 11 hours to three Great Authority website said. Mameesh has declared the new water- to have a larger canal that can accom- Bitter Preparations for today’s lavish open- way “safe” after conducting a trial run. modate increasingly larger ships, he said. Double capacity of existing canal Lake ing are in full swing in the port city of The authorities hope the new waterway If there are any immediate benefits for from 49 to 97 ships a day by 2023 Ismailiya. Some 10,000 policemen will will more than double Suez earnings the expansion, they might just be political stand guard across six provinces as Sisi from $5.3bn expected at the end of 2015 more than economic, Kamaly said. Triple revenues from $5.3bn opens the ceremony by joining a naval to $13.2bn in 2023, with the number of Egypt has witnessed turbulent times to $13.2bn by 2023 EGYPT parade, state media said. daily vessels rising from 49 to 97 over since 2011 during which two presidents Revenues from expansion to be 10km Newly bought French Rafale war- the same period. Mameesh said about a were overthrown and the economy used to develop 76,000km2 along planes and US F-16s delivered by million jobs are expected to be created seized up. “(The canal) will unite the 6 miles Washington last week will also be on around the canal over the next 15 years. people around a national project that canal into industrial and logistics hub display. Banners saying “New Suez Some analysts and economists say, people can look upon,” said Kamaly. OIL FLOW THROUGH CHOKEPOINTS (million barrels per day, 2013) Canal: From Egypt to the World” however, that the mega-project may fail But he questioned whether the money have been put up at Cairo airport, and to meet the great expectations. Some would have been better spent on educa- Danish 3.3 2.9 Turkish Straits hundreds of Egyptian flags grace the are sceptical of the official numbers and tion, health and infrastructure. Straits capital’s streets. suggest that sluggish world trade makes Built 146 years ago, the original Strait of Authorities have been in overdrive it unlikely the project can deliver imme- canal is one of the world’s most heavily 17.0 Hormuz to sell the project to Egyptians and the diately on its promise. used shipping lanes and a key focus of world. On the streets of Cairo, colour- Ahmed Kamaly, an economist with international trade. Its expansion is a Strait of ful flags flutter from lampposts around the American University in Cairo, said major achievement for Sisi, but Egypt Panama Malacca Tahrir Square and festive lights drape the projections were “wishful thinking”. needs many projects to turn around its Canal 0.8 the city. More than 9,000km away, in “There was no viability study done, or dilapidated economy, Fawaz Gerges of 15.2 New York’s Times Square, a billboard known of, to assess the viability of the the London School of Economics and 4.6 reads “Egypt boosts the world economy”. project,” he said. Political Science said. “The adminis- Oil flow via Suez Canal Bab Authorities have declared today a For the project to reach its revenue tration will capitalise on this project and SUMED pipeline accounts 3.8 national holiday, suspended fees for targets, world trade would have to grow to showcase economic growth, but it is el-Mandab public transport and posted a sermon by 9 percent annually until 2023, said unlikely to resolve challenges facing the total seaborne-traded oil to be delivered in mosques tomorrow William Jackson of Capital Economics economy,” he said. Sources: Suez Canal Authority, Middle East Institute, EIA © GRAPHIC NEWS which declares that “all Egyptians, here — higher than the 3 percent average REUTERS/AFP

World Bank Gulftainer’s Umm Qasr centre safely stores specialist cargo unveils new DOHA: Gulftainer, the pri- and safety standards was identi- vately-owned independent ter- fied as a key factor in supporting rules for loans minal management and logistics the cargo management.” company, welcomed two of Arrangements for clearance WASHINGTON: The World Iraq’s largest LPG storage ves- were organised and carried out Bank unveiled late on Tuesday sels at its Umm Qasr Logistics at the UQLC, where customs a set of new social and environ- Centre (UQLC) at the Port of officials have an on-site adminis- mental rules for its 188 mem- Umm Qasr in Basra. trative office. UQLC is a 750,000 ber nations to receive financial The two cylindrical LPG square metre secure facility assistance. storage tanks each weigh over located on the main Basra high- According to the World Bank, 250 tonnes and measure 50m way adjacent to the North Port the draft framework, under dis- in length – more than half the in Umm Qasr, consisting of ware- cussion for several years, rep- length of a football pitch. This houses, cold stores, offices, lay- resents “a major step forward” is the largest cargo that has ever down area, providing customers for the development lender that been transported such a long and their clients with the assur- strengthens its protection of the distance within Iraq. ance that their product is secure. environment and the world’s Opened last year as part of a A 100 man camp facility is also poor and vulnerable in its invest- $150m investment programme nearing completion. ment projects. in the country by Gulftainer, the In addition to its activities at In early March, the World logistics centre is strategically Umm Qasr in Iraq, Gulftainer’s Bank acknowledged that inter- connected to Umm Qasr Port by current portfolio covers UAE nal reviews had found significant a bonded access road, allowing operations in Khorfakkan Port flaws in the way it handles the movement from Gulftainer’s Iraq and Port Khalid in Sharjah, resettlement of people to make Container Terminal facility and the Gulftainer’s largest LPG cargo transported in Iraq. Recife in Brazil, Jeddah and way for development projects. North Port, directly to the UQLC. Jubail in Saudi Arabia and in the Under the proposed framework, UQLC was chosen by the heavy lift logistics specialist transport at the time of exit. the country’s largest LPG cargo. USA, where the company recently the World Bank will demand that cargo manufacturers to store was required and Gulftainer’s Bill Chalmers, Iraq General The Umm Qasr Logistics Centre began operations at the Canaveral borrowing countries extend labor the tanks in a secure and safe full range of capabilities were Manager at Gulftainer, said: “We has been specifically designed to Cargo Terminal in Florida. rights, including for the first time environment while preparing demonstrated in the success- are grateful to the companies support this type of project cargo, Gulftainer is also expecting to the rights to collective bargaining the necessary customs clear- ful handling of these tanks in involved in this operation for including this type of LPG tank. commence operations in Tripoli and freedom of association. ance. Close liaison between UQLC, including secure storage their confidence in our compe- Our expertise in managing project Port in Lebanon in September The institution also amended the client, consignee, and the and reloading to the specialist tencies to support the logistics of cargoes to the highest technical 2015. THE PENINSULA a previous proposal on envi- ronmental standards that had raised ire among nongovern- mental organisations and other groups in July 2014. Now, the Bank will deem that “offsets” — actions to compen- UAE telecom sector opens to fixed-line competition sate for “unavoidable biodiver- sity impacts” linked to economic DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has Du had been largely confined to the fixed-line was a low margin business. forecast du’s quarterly profit would be development — should be consid- started to open up the fixed-line consumer newer areas of Dubai until the two com- Du and Etisalat, both part-owned by fed- Dh500.6m. ered “a last resort” and prohibited telecom market to competition, the head panies quietly launched nationwide compe- eral fund Emirates Investment Authority, Du has proposed a half-year dividend in certain instances. of No. 2 operator du said yesterday, after tition in fixed-line consumer services last will limit how many customers can switch of 0.13 dirhams per share, up from 0.12 Indigenous peoples affected years of lobbying for the move. month, du chief executive Osman Sultan provider each month. dirhams for the same period of 2014, plus by projects would need to give The liberalisation, which started in July, told a conference call. Sultan declined to reveal what this limit a special dividend of 0.1 dirhams per share, “free prior and informed con- follows about five years of negotiations in He estimated du’s share of fixed serv- was, but said it would steadily increase it said. Its quarterly revenue was Dh3.09bn, sent” before the projects can pro- which du has been seeking access to larger ices revenue was about 15 percent. “For and had been imposed due to capacity up 2.2 percent year-on-year. ceed, and proposes that in some rival Etisalat’s networks. the long-term it’s a game changer because constraints. Du paid quarterly royalties — or tax — of instances offsets would be prohib- Du, which also met expectations with it will open up the entire country,” said Customers can change fixed phone line Dh476.4m, versus Dh401.2m a year earlier. ited altogether. If prior consent a small fall in second-quarter profit on Sultan. and Internet provider, but television will For 2014, du paid 10 percent of its regu- “can’t be shown, the World Bank Wednesday, ended Etisalat’s mobile telecom He said the deal would help du protect not be added until 2016, said Sultan. lated revenue, which excludes the likes of will not proceed with the aspects monopoly in 2007 and both firms have long its mobile business as customers seek a Du made a net profit of Dh502m ($137m) handset sales, and 25 percent of regulated of the project relevant to indig- offered fixed-line broadband, phone and single provider for telecom services and in the three months to June 30, down from profit in royalties. These rose to 12.5 and enous peoples, it said. television packages in the UAE, but not in also boost revenue, but would not neces- Dh547.7m in the year-earlier period. 30 percent respectively this year. AFP the same districts. sarily have a big impact on profit because Analysts polled by Reuters on average REUTERS THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Netflix offers one US private job year paid parental leave for workers SAN FRANCISCO: US video streaming giant Netflix is growth slows offering up to one year of paid parental leave to both male and female employees after the birth of a child. Netflix said the move was sharply in July aimed at boosting job satisfaction and retaining top talent. “We want employees to have the flexibility and confidence to balance Trade deficit widens in June the needs of their growing fami- lies without worrying about work WASHINGTON: US private job in exports. May’s trade gap was or finances,” Tawni Cranz from growth slowed sharply in July, revised to $40.9bn from the previ- Netflix said late on Tuesday. pointing to a loss of momentum ously reported $41.9bn. “Parents can return part-time, in the economy heading into the Economists had forecast the full-time, or return and then go third quarter that could tem- trade deficit rising to $42.8bn. back out as needed. We’ll just per expectations of a September When adjusted for inflation, the keep paying them normally,” interest rate hike. deficit increased to $59.3bn in June Cranz said. Other economic data yesterday from $57.6bn in the prior month. Several big US companies showed a widening of the trade The trade data likely will have have recently taken steps to deficit in June as solid domestic a marginal impact on the second- improve the quality of life of demand in the second quarter and quarter gross domestic product their staff. Retail giant Wal-Mart a strong dollar sucked in imports estimate released last week, as and fast-food chain McDonalds of food and automobiles. the deficit on the goods balance have recently announced salary “Job growth is strong, but it has came in broadly in line with the increases for their lowest-paid moderated since the beginning advance figure incorporated in workers. of the year. Nonetheless, even at the GDP report. Computer giant Microsoft also this slower pace of growth, the In that report, the government The Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos, California. Netflix will launch its streaming television service in Japan recently said it would require sub- labor market is fast approach- estimated the economy expanded contractors to offer employees on September 2, the latest stop in its mission to be a global entertainment powerhouse. ing full employment,” said Mark at a 2.3 percent annual pace, two weeks paid leave. AFP Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s with trade adding 0.13 percent- Analytics in West Chester, age point to GDP. But following Pennsylvania. stronger-than-forecast construc- Private employers hired 185,000 tion and factory inventory data, workers last month, the ADP economists expected GDP would National Employment Report be revised to as high as a 3 per- showed, well below economists’ cent annual rate when the gov- Ukraine’s crucial debt talks hit new hurdle expectations for an increase ernment publishes its second of 215,000. June’s private pay- GDP estimate later this month. KIEV: Ukraine and its creditors That target is part of a $40bn value under very strict terms. Kiev has used $4.2bn of the roll gains were revised down Domestic demand grew sol- hit a new stumbling block yester- global package the International Sources said the two sides were $5bn it has received from the IMF to 229,000 from the previously idly in the second quarter. The day after a new debt restructur- Monetary Fund patched up to also at odds over the length of a in the first half of the year paying reported 237,000. dollar, which has gained 15 per- ing offer from Kiev and call for help Ukraine weather an eco- possible debt maturity extension. off its past commitments. Ukraine The report, which is jointly cent against the currencies of a “decisive” final meeting drew nomic implosion that is being One person said the lenders received a new $1.7bn payment developed with Moody’s Analytics, the United States’ main trading only a lukewarm response. exasperated by the pro-Russian want to see Kiev start making Tuesday and expects double that came ahead of the US govern- partners since June 2014, is also Sources close to both Kiev and revolt in its industrial east. repayments as soon as it returns amount by the end of the year. ment’s more comprehensive making imports cheaper. the four big commercial debt hold- Jaresko’s office submitted on to growth. Another official said But economists fear that employment report tomorrow. In June, imports increased 1.2 ers said that Ukrainian Finance Tuesday a revised offer to the this issue was not as vital to the Ukraine’s estimated debt to gross According to a Reuters survey percent to $232.4bn. Despite firm- Minister Natalie Jaresko’s idea bondholders that it said was “fully discussions as the write-off. domestic product ratio of 135 per- of economists, nonfarm payrolls ing domestic demand, some of the of holding a potentially definitive in compliance with the targets of A source close to the so-called cent is incompatible with an eco- likely increased 223,000 last imports likely ended up in inven- meeting in London today may the IMF-supported programme.” Ad-hoc Committee of Noteholders nomic recovery in the short term. month, matching June’s job gains. tories, which remained at very have to be pushed back. “This week will be decisive for to Ukraine said it viewed a meet- The Fund therefore wants the Signs of a moderation in hiring high levels in the second quarter. The cash-strapped former the negotiations,” the Ukrainian ing in London today as premature. Western leadership that emerged and some stalling in wage growth Imports of food and automo- Soviet nation must strike a debt finance ministry said. The person close to the bond- in the wake of last year’s ouster of a could cast doubts on expectations biles were the highest on record restructuring agreement before The two sides have spent more holders said the four chief US Russian-backed administration to that the Federal Reserve will in June. Dollar strength and it is due to make principal and than four months arguing over negotiators were dissatisfied focus its resources on overdue eco- raise rates in September. The US sluggish global demand crimped interest payments of more than how much of the bonds’ face value with Jaresko’s latest proposal and nomic restructuring measures that central bank has kept its short- exports, which slipped 0.1 percent $500m on a Eurobond maturing could simply be written down due believed that the 48-hour notice could lead to sustainable growth. term interest rate near zero since to $188.6bn in June. Exports to on September 23. to Kiev’s evident cash constraints. given was insufficient. A source close to the nego- December 2008. the European Union fell 2.3 per- Franklin Templeton and three Ukraine had initially sought a A source in Ukraine said the tiations said the terms of the In a separate report, the cent, while imports surged 4.0 other US financial titans own 40-percent cut. The main lend- talks may have to be pushed back IMF-led rescue meant that Kiev Commerce Department said the percent to a record high. That about two-thirds of the debt upon ers this month came out with until the weekend. The person cannot make the September 23 trade deficit increased 7.1 percent left the trade deficit with the EU which Ukraine is trying to find a counter-offer that would see added that Jaresko was expect- repayment even if it had made the to $43.8bn, which also reflected at an all-time high. savings of $15.3bn over the com- a reduction of between five and ing to hear more details from the political decision to do so. a second straight monthly drop REUTERS ing four years. 10 percent of the assets’ original creditors soon. AFP

Indonesia’s Philippine inflation rate growth slows slows to 0.8pc in July

further in Q2 MANILA: Philippine inflation of policy,” central bank gover- slowed to a record low of 0.8 nor Amando Tetangco said in a JAKARTA: Indonesia’s growth percent year-on-year in July statement following the release slid in the second quarter to on lower electricity, petrol and of the inflation data. Tetangco levels unseen since 2009, gov- transportation costs, the gov- said average inflation for the full ernment data showed yesterday, ernment said yesterday. year would likely fall “close to the highlighting the uphill battle The rate of inflation was within lower end” of the bank’s 2 percent for President Joko Widodo in the central bank’s forecast of 0.5 to 4 percent target. expanding Southeast Asia’s big- percent to 1.3 percent, but marked “We will monitor developments, gest economy. a steep fall from June’s year-on- especially those from external The economy grew at 4.67 per- year rate of 1.2 percent, accord- sources, that may raise volatility cent year-on-year in the three ing to the Philippine Statistics in financial markets or impact on months to the end of June, from Authority (PSA). inflation expectations,” he said. 4.72 percent in the previous quar- Petrol, electricity and water The monetary authority has ter, Indonesia’s statistics agency prices decreased by 1.1 percent kept its benchmark overnight said. First quarter growth was last month while transporta- borrowing and lending rates at revised up from 4.71 percent. tion prices declined 0.5 percent. 4 percent and 6 percent respec- OCBC Bank economist Wellian Inflation for food and non-alco- tively since last year. A woman walks past a logo of the Standard Chartered bank in Hong Kong yesterday. Wiranto said the result was holic beverages slowed to 1.3 per- Year-on-year economic growth “largely disappointing”. “There’s cent, the PSA said. slowed to a three-year low of 5.2 no engine to support growth The figures were released percent in the first quarter of this at this point,” he said. “We see ahead of a central bank meeting year due to lethargic government StanChart halves dividend weakness across the board from on interest rates next week, with spending and weak exports. household spending to govern- authorities under pressure to help It was the worst expansion for HONG KONG: Asia-focused delivered good progress on our dividend cut was sharp, investors ment spending and also invest- spur slowing economic growth. what has recently been one of British bank Standard target of strengthening the would be pleased the bank had not ment activities.” “We will see at our meeting Asia’s fastest-growing economies Chartered slashed dividends by group’s capital ratio and will taken more drastic capital raising The usual contributors to eco- next week if there is (a) need for since the last quarter of 2011, when 50 percent yesterday after prof- continue to do so,” said chairman measures. “The overall result is nomic growth in Indonesia such any adjustments to our stance it grew by 3.8 percent. AFP its plunged in the first half of John Peace in a statement to the short of expectations. As an inter- as manufacturing, trade and min- the year, its first result under Hong Kong stock exchange. national bank, it isn’t running ing slowed compared to the same new leadership as it struggles “However, these actions have as smoothly (as it should),” said period last year, the statistics to return to growth. also impacted our return on Jackson Wong, associate director agency said. Net profit slumped 36.7 percent equity, and combined with a dis- for Simsen Financial Group. Widodo, elected in October, had in the six months to June com- appointing earnings performance Others said the dividend cut promised to boost government Swiss consumer prices slip pared to the same period in 2014, and the current near-term out- would affect sentiment. “They spending in a bid to kickstart with pre-tax profits nosediving 44 look for the group, the board has are keeping the cash close to growth in the lagging economy, GENEVA: Swiss consumer prices slipped 1.3 percent in July com- percent. Shareholder dividends decided to reduce the dividend by their chest. It’s not good news. but the results were not evident pared to the same month last year, hitting their lowest level since were cut by half from 28.8 cents 50 per cent,” he said. People don’t like dividend cuts,” in the second quarter figures. 2007, new data showed yesterday. Compared to June, prices fell 0.6 per share to 14.4 cents per share. Winters said the bank faced said analyst Francis Lun. “The The president won praise for percent, the official statistics agency said in a statement. Group CEO Bill Winters, some “very real challenges”. “But bank is still facing a challenging removing hefty, politically sen- The consumer price index for July stood at 97.8 percent — its low- former co-head at JP Morgan, they are fixable and it is impor- environment in the second half.” sitive fuel subsidies early in his est level since October 2007. Switzerland’s clothing and shoe sector took the reins from Peter Sands tant to remember that there is a Standard Chartered survived term, promising to use the funds experienced the steepest price falls last month, plunging 8.3 percent in June after shareholder calls for strong business at the heart of the the 2008 global financial crisis to overhaul the country’s creaking compared to June amid summer sales, the statistics agency said. a boardroom cull following profit group,” he said. without state assistance, unlike infrastructure. Most other sectors also saw prices dip month on month, including warnings. Last month Winters Net profit dropped from $2.31bn many of its peers. However it has But expenditure on such the transport sector which saw lower price tags for new cars and cut appointed a new management to $1.46bn, with adjusted profit suffered in recent times from a projects has been slow, with rates for diesel and air transport, even as gasoline prices inched up 1.1 team reporting directly to him as before tax down from $3.27bn growth slowdown in emerging bureaucracy in the sprawling percent, it said. The central bank has said it expects prices to continue he tries to cut costs and improve to $1.82bn. Revenues were down market economies in Asia, Africa archipelago of 17,000 islands just falling into 2016, and some observers are warning that deflation is on performance. eight percent while impairment and the Middle East, the regions one of the factors blamed for the horizon. “We will certainly experience a deflation at the end of the But there was little cheer in losses on loans almost doubled. from which it makes about 90 holding back the president’s plan. year in Switzerland,” IG Switzerland analyst Laurent Bakhtiari said the first-half results. “We have Analysts said although the percent of its profits. AFP AFP in a note. AFP THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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WASHINGTON: Details of The issue concerns a report by Brady and the Patriots worker it’s proper for you to turn your how Tom Brady pressed his an NFL investigator saying it was who provided the balls, calls phone over, so you don’t need to “Deflategate” suspension appeal likely Brady had to know about Brady could not explain that came do that.” to NFL commissioner Roger footballs in a play-off game being as the “Deflategate” scandal was But Brady, whose wife is model Goodell were made public on below NFL minimum inflation growing and when he would be Gisele Bundchen, said he has Tuesday when the NFL Players levels, making them easier to grip, called upon to prepare 100 foot- routinely given cell phones to an Association released a hearing grab and throw. balls for use in the Super Bowl. assistant to be destroyed dur- transcript. Brady told Goodell in the hear- “I don’t remember exactly what ing his career, in part because The New England Patriots star ing that he picked the NFL mini- we talked about,” Brady said. “Me of photos and NFL endorsement quarterback denied any wrongdo- mum as his desired inflation level talking with him about these contracts that would be included ing and explained destroying his almost at random after being things that were unprecedented, in them. cell phone was something he did unhappy with a too-inflated ball he was the person I’d be commu- And, Brady noted, he receives routinely to avoid personal details at an October game last season nicating with. free upgraded phones in exchange. becoming public. against the New York Jets. “I was trying to make sure he “I don’t want anybody ever to The NFL last month penalised “In the history of my career I was composed so he could do his see the contents of the phone,” Brady for ordering the destruc- never thought about the inflation job over the course of the next two Brady said. “I’ve always told the tion of the phone at the centre level of a ball,” Brady said, noting weeks.” guy who swaps them out for me of the scandal, citing it as a key that he picked the ones he wanted Brady said he was told by attor- to make sure you get rid of the reason for dismissing his appeal by “feel.” neys on February 28 that investi- phone. What I mean is destroy against a four-match suspension. “The irony of everything is I gators wanted texts and e-mails the phone.” Brady and the union took don’t even squeeze a football. I Brady received and sent but they NFL investigators took issue the matter to US federal court grip the ball as loosely as possi- advised him not to hand over his with the timing of the destruc- in hopes he might be reinstated ble. I’m just gripping it like a golf phone. tion of the phone covering early before next month’s season club.” “I was relying on the advice of 2015, just before Brady spoke to opener for the Super Bowl cham- NFL attorneys were concerned my lawyers,” Brady said. “What investigators, who saw his move Tom Brady pion Patriots. about multiple calls between they basically said: we don’t think as dimming his credibility. Doping claims declaration of war: Coe IAAF’s history doesn’t warrant this kind of attack, says presidential candidate

LONDON: New doping claims against athletics are a “declara- tion of war” on the sport, British Governing body fights back Olympic great and International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) presiden- tial candidate Sebastian Coe against reports of doping said yesterday. “The fightback has to start LONDON: The world govern- The IAAF statement included Kazarin, who has coached the here,” said Coe in a statement ing body for athletics (IAAF) a background summary on the Russian women’s athletics team after the Sunday Times and fought back yesterday against complex process of how blood since 2002, was the subject of German broadcaster ARD pub- media reports of suspected testing is conducted, and criti- an earlier ARD documentary lished evidence of hundreds of widespread doping in the sport, cised the two Australian scien- on doping last year. He also dis- allegedly suspicious blood tests. rejecting accusations it failed to tists who analysed the data and missed the latest programme. “It is a declaration of war on investigate dubious drugs test concluded it revealed an “extraor- “This second film is unimaginable my sport. There is nothing in our results properly. dinary extent of cheating”. nonsense,” he said. “It is simply history of competence and integ- The IAAF said the reports by “The experts have never ridiculous.” rity in drug-testing that warrants Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper worked for the IAAF and are Russia’s anti-doping body this kind of attack.” and Germany’s ARD/WDR broad- therefore in no position to make promised to investigate the allega- Coe, a two-time Olympic gold caster, which implied cheating any comment regarding what the tions, saying it would report back medallist at 1,500 metres, is vying was rampant in athletics, were IAAF has done or not done in the to the World Anti-Doping Agency with former Ukrainian pole- based on “guesswork” and not development and implementation (WADA), but nevertheless said vaulter Sergey Bubka to succeed facts. of its blood and urine target test- the charges were either untrue or Lamine Diack, the head of world A picture taken on December 3, 2014 shows Britain’s Lord Sebastian Coe “The IAAF takes the allega- ing program,” the IAAF said. reflected the programme makers’ governing body the IAAF, in an during a press conference in London to discuss his bid to become the tions published by The Sunday “To do so is simply guesswork “incompetence”. election on August 19. next President of the IAAF. Times and ARD very seriously on their part. The IAAF categori- WADA, a separate body set The doping claims came to light and has investigated them thor- cally refutes all allegations made up in 1999 to coordinate doping following the leak of an IAAF “Yes, we have countries out The paper added: “Its refusal to oughly,” the IAAF said in a nine- by ARD and The Sunday Times investigations across global sport, database. there that are causing a problem accept any criticism raises serious page statement. and, specifically, that it failed in said it was “very disturbed”. It allegedly shows details of and an inordinate amount of dif- questions as to whether the IAAF “The published allegations were its duty to pursue an effective The President of the over 12,000 blood tests between ficulty across our sport, but to say is truly committed to its primary sensationalist and confusing: the blood testing programme at all International Olympic Committee, 2001 and 2012 that revealed we are not investigating or turn- duty of policing its sport and pro- results referred to were not posi- times.” Thomas Bach, said the IOC would “extraordinary” levels of doping, ing a blind eye to this could not tecting clean athletes.” tive tests. In fact ARD and The The Sunday Times and ARD act with “zero tolerance” if there with over 800 athletes producing be further from the truth.” The two experts who inves- Sunday Times both admit that said they were given access to the was any truth to the reports but suspicious blood tests. Six-time world champion tigated the data for the Sunday their evaluation of the data did doping results of over 12,000 tests stressed “at this time we’ve noth- The IAAF dismissed the allega- Bubka, 51, has called for athlet- Times, Michael Ashenden and not prove doping.” from more than 5,000 athletes ing more than allegations and we tions on Tuesday as “sensational- ics to stiffen its resolve against Robin Parisotto, said they stood Neither The Sunday Times nor taken between 2001 and 2012. have to respect the presumption ist and confusing” and said the the scourge of doping. by their claims. ARD/WDR were immediately The two scientists concluded of innocence.” test results did not constitute “Athletics is the most funda- “We note the concerns raised available to comment. that more than 800 athletes had In its detailed response, the concrete proof of doping. mental of all sports and the way by the IAAF with regard to the The sport of track and field has recorded one or more “abnormal” IAAF rejected the claim that the While Coe, currently an IAAF the world sees athletics influences analyses we undertook of the been plagued by spectacular dop- results, defined as a result that results were secret, saying they Vice-president, has attacked the the way it views all sports,” he said data. We have rebutted each and ing cases over the past three dec- had less than one chance in 100 of had been published by WADA claims, he accepts that some in a statement, without directly every one of their so-called ‘seri- ades, involving some of the biggest being natural. They said the ath- four years ago. However, it also countries need to address long- addressing the new allegations. ous reservations’,” they said in a stars in the sport, including Ben letes, mostly endurance runners, said it condemned the publication standing concerns over doping He called for the current anti- joint-statement. Johnson and Marion Jones who accounted for 146 medals at the of what it said was private and practices. doping system to be “simplified”, “We followed the same proce- were both stripped of Olympic Olympics and world champion- confidential data obtained with- “I don’t think anybody should saying it was “too complex and dure as IAAF expert panellists golds. ships, including 55 golds. out its consent. underestimate the anger that is takes too long”. when reviewing ABP (athlete The two news organisations did Russia accounted for the most, The athletics body addressed felt in our sport. We have led the Meanwhile, the Sunday Times biological passport) profiles, clas- not claim to have unearthed proof with 415 abnormal tests, followed some of the specific accusations way on this,” he told BBC Radio 4. has released a statement ques- sifying results as ‘likely doping’ of doping. But they said they had distantly by Ukraine, Morocco, and said some athletes had later “To suggest that in some way tioning the IAAF’s commitment when we were able to confidently obtained the secret test data from Spain, Kenya, Turkey and others, been found guilty and suspended we sit on our hands at best, and to rooting out drug cheats. exclude all other potential causes the vaults of the IAAF, supplied according to the reports. because of investigations it had at worst are complicit in a cover- “It is disingenuous of the IAAF or instead ‘suspicious’ when there by a whistleblower disgusted by Vladimir Kazarin, the coach of followed through on. up, is not borne out by anything to spend just two days conducting was genuine evidence of blood the extent of doping. This had two Russian athletes alleged to However, it said a large propor- we have done in the last 15 years.” what it describes as a ‘thorough’ manipulation however further indicated suspected widespread have submitted suspicious blood tion of these blood samples were The 58-year-old added: “As a investigation into the serious investigation such as target test- blood doping in athletics between samples, said the accusations collected before the implemen- sport we have led the way on out- issues we raised and then to ing would have been required. 2001 and 2012, raising new ques- were unfounded. “If you have offi- tation of the Athlete Biological of-competition testing, on accred- attempt to dismiss the story as “We stand by the evaluations tions about the sport just weeks cial positive doping tests, show us. Passport (ABP) so could not be ited laboratories; we were the first sensationalist,” the newspaper we submitted to Sunday Times before the August 22-30 world If not, goodbye,” he said in a tel- used as proof of cheating. sport to have arbitration panels. said. and ARD/WDR.” AFP championships in Beijing. ephone interview. REUTERS Mayweather returns to ring in September against Berto

LAS VEGAS: Floyd “Money” record of 49-0. “I’m ready to get the greatest defensive fighters of A world champion in five Mayweather (48-0) will put his back in the ring on September all-time. divisions, Mayweather made a unbeaten record on the line 12 and prove again to the whole “I’m coming to kick Floyd’s ass reported $220m from his unani- when he steps into the ring to world why I’m ‘The Best Ever,’” on September 12,” said Berto, 31, mous decision over Pacquiao in face Andre Berto (pictured) in said the 38-year-old who has won his last what the most lucrative fight ever Las Vegas on September 12 in Mayweather. two bouts. staged generating close to $600m what could be the final fight of “I always bring “Best believe that in revenue. his career, it was announced on my A-game and this I plan to bring it to Two other world champion- Tuesday. fight against Andre Floyd and I’m not ship fights are also planned for Mayweather, who beat Manny Berto is no exception. concerned about the pay-per-view telecast. Pacquiao in May in what was “He’s a young, what 48 other fight- Roman “Rocky” Martinez (29- billed as the “Fight of the strong fighter who is ers have been unable 2-2) will risk his WBO junior Century”, will risk his WBC and hungry to take down to do. Somebody is lightweight title in a rematch WBA welterweight world titles the best. Forty-eight getting knocked out against the boxer he dethroned, against the power-punching, two- have tried before and and it won’t be me.” four-time world champion time welterweight world cham- on September 12, I’m The match will Orlando “Siri” Salido (42-13-2). pion Berto (30-3) at the MGM going to make it 49.” be the sixth and Badou Jack “The Ripper” Grand Garden Arena. Haitian-American final fight of a (19-1-1) will make the first A victory for Mayweather Berto, who has record-breaking defence of his WBC super would match the record of the lost three of his last six fights, deal between Mayweather and middleweight title against man- late heavyweight champion sounded a confident note about Showtime Networks, leading to datory challenger “Saint” George Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather Rocky Marciano, who retired in finding the range against the speculation it could be the fare- Groves (21-2, 16 KOs). April 1956 with an unblemished elusive Mayweather, rated one of well match for the American. REUTERS THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Edgy England eye Ashes glory Influential England fast bowler James Anderson to miss fourth Test at Trent Bridge

NOTTINGHAM: England “It’s a massive loss for them,” England captain Alastair head into the fourth Test against he said. “Whoever they bring in Cook takes part in a Australia at Trent Bridge start- will have big pressure on them.” practice session ahead ing today knowing they are just Meanwhile England opener of the fourth Ashes one win away from recaptur- Adam Lyth is set to keep his place cricket Test match ing the Ashes yet being equally despite managing 72 runs in six aware they’ve yet to string innings at an average of 12 so far Australia at Trent Bridge back-to-back victories together this series. in Nottingham, central in Tests in 2015. Stuart Broad, set to lead England, yesterday. Since drawing their series England’s attack in the absence opener against the West Indies at of longtime new-ball partner Antigua in April, England’s next Anderson, is just one wicket seven Tests have seen them alter- away from joining Test cricket’s nate between winning and losing. ‘300 club’ on his Nottinghamshire Indeed their eight-wicket win home ground in the third Test at Edgbaston, But that is not his main which put England 2-1 up in the concern. five-match Ashes series followed a “We are consistently the most defeat by the huge margin of 405 inconsistent side,” said Broad. runs in the second Test at Lord’s. “There is no point ignoring and England will also be without all- pretending it has not happened. time leading wicket-taker James He added: “It is all about break- Anderson, who took an Ashes- ing it down into the simplest form best six for 47 at Edgbaston but as players, so focusing in on our was subsequently ruled out of the individual jobs on Thursday morn- fourth Test with a side strain. ing and not thinking about the It is the first time Anderson exterior things like 300 wickets.” has missed a Test in three years For Australia, captain Michael and means he won’t be able to Clarke is desperate to end a medi- add to his exceptional record at ocre run of form. Nottinghamshire’s headquarters Scores of 10 and three at which has seen him take 53 wick- Edgbaston left Clarke with a mea- ets in eight Tests, including 10 gre series aggregate of 94 runs in Australia’s during England’s thrilling 14-run six innings at an average of under captain Michael win in the corresponding Ashes 19. But a defiant Clarke dismissed Clarke is seen clash in Nottingham in 2013. suggestions he no longer has the England would like to recall desire to do well in Test cricket. during a training Durham quick Mark Wood, whose “People can certainly have a session at Trent absence through injury paved the shot at me about my performance, Bridge. way for Middlesex fast bowler but they can’t have a shot at me Steven Finn to take a Test-best about my hunger and my will to six for 79 on his return to the side play this great game,” he wrote in the wickets of Jonny Bairstow pitch at Trent Bridge was offi- at Edgbaston. his Sydney Daily Telegraph column and Ben Stokes in the space of cially classed as “poor” after a However, they will have to published on Tuesday. three balls during England’s first run-glut draw between England decide if he Wood is over the It is Adam Voges, averaging innings at Edgbaston. and India proved heart-breaking ankle trouble that forced him out 14.60 this series, however, who “I’m scratching my head a little for any bowler above medium- at Edgbaston, with Liam Plunkett is in greatest danger of being bit about not continuing on from pace. But Broad said overhead and uncapped Derbyshire left- replaced by reserve batsman that (first over), and that’s some- conditions often held the key to armer Mark Footitt standing by. Shaun Marsh. thing I’ll look at this game,” said the outcome of matches at Trent Australia left-arm quick Australia would dearly love Johnson. Bridge. Mitchell Johnson insisted more of the aggression from Meanwhile Nottinghamshire “If it is blue sky, it is good to Anderson’s absence would leave Johnson that saw him produce two groundsman Steve Birks is under bat. If it is cloudy it can be good a huge hole in England’s attack. rip snorting deliveries that yielded pressure too after last year’s Test to bowl.” REUTERS England vs Retired Jayawardene ‘is Australia Teams NOTTINGHAM: Probable teams and officials for the fourth Ashes Test between England and Australia at set for England role’ Trent Bridge today (1000 GMT): NOTTINGHAM: Mahela “Nothing has been agreed at as the team’s spin-bowling coach. England (probable): Alastair Jayawardene is set to be this stage.” Pakistan have not played a Test Cook (capt), Adam Lyth, Ian appointed as a batting consult- England’s tour of the UAE on their own soil since Sri Lanka’s Bell, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, ant by England for their series will begin in October and feature team bus was attacked by mili- Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (wkt), away to Pakistan in the United three Tests as well as one-day and tants in Lahore in 2009. Moeen Ali, Stuart Broad, Mark Arab Emirates later this year Twenty20 internationals against Zimbabwe toured Pakistan in Wood, Steven Finn after officials confirmed they Pakistan in a trip lasting two May and June this year for one- Australia (probable): David were in talks with the Sri Lanka months. day matches -- the first visit to Warner, Chris Rogers, Steven great. Their last visit to the UAE saw the country by a Test-playing Smith, Michael Clarke (capt), “We have had some initial England beaten 3-0 in a three- team in six years. Shaun Marsh, Mitchell Marsh, conversations with Mahela Test series by Pakistan in 2012. With over 10,000 runs in both Peter Nevill (wkt), Mitchell Jayawardene around a possible Mark Ramprakash is England’s Tests and ODIs - and a captaincy Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Josh short-term consultancy role at batting coach and Jayawardene’s stint that included a World Cup Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon the start of the UAE tour -- given appointment is understood to be final appearance - Jayawardene is Umpires: Aleem Dar (PAK), S his familiarity with conditions,” on a part-time consultancy role considered one of the finest bats- Ravi (IND) an England and Wales Cricket only, similar to the one in which men to have played the game in TV umpire: Marais Erasmus Board spokesman said late on former Pakistan leg-spinner the last three decades. (RSA) Tuesday. Mushtaq Ahmed was employed REUTERS Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (SRI) Weather: Top temperature of World Cup star Faulkner 24 degrees Celsius, cloudy. Pitch conditions: Much will I won’t quit, says defiant depend on how a brown sur- banned from driving face tinged with green two days out is finally cut and rolled. LONDON: World Cup winner James Faulkner said he was “deeply England embarrassed and sorry” after being fined £10,000 ($15,650, 14,350 would love Australian skipper Clarke euros) yesterday and banned from driving for two years. a repeat of The 25-year-old all-rounder, who was named man of the match the seam- SYDNEY: Defiant and angry finished after this series. That’s a to keep playing for Australia in this year’s World Cup final, was nearly three times over the limit ing sur- Australian captain Michael complete load of rubbish.” beyond this series, however I will when his car was involved in a minor collision with the back of another face they Clarke yesterday vowed to keep The Sydney Morning Herald’s be judged on performance like vehicle in Manchester, northwest England. encoun- playing after the Ashes series chief sports writer Andrew everyone else.” Faulkner, who plays with English county Lancashire in the city, had tered in with England, with those sug- Webster said on Tuesday Clarke’s He added: “To question me on been at a restaurant and did not want to walk a mile home in heavy the third gesting he was finished talking expression “with each cheap dis- my hunger kills me, it absolutely rain, Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard. Test at “a complete load of rubbish”. missal is undeniable: it is a blank kills me, because I pride myself on Sentencing him, District Judge Mark Hadfield said: “I am sure you Edgbaston Pressure has been building on expression of utter bewilderment. trying to get better every single accept it was foolhardy in the extreme to get behind the wheel of your while Clarke, who has a meagre Ashes He isn’t annoyed but lost”. day. After 13 years in this team I vehicle having been out for a meal with your friend.” ground series total of 94 runs in six Peter Lalor, cricket writer for still think I can improve.” Lancashire head coach Ashley Giles was present in court. Faulkner officials innings at an average of under 19, The Australian, added to Clarke’s Australia are 2-1 down in the will have to undergo an alcohol management counselling programme. will be with Australian media Tuesday woes by saying that failure in the five-Test series and while Clarke desperate saying he looked “lost” and knew fourth Test in Nottingham start- has admitted that his poor form to avoid the end was near. ing today “spells an almost cer- meant the team had been “playing Australia’s dropped Watson another But the 34-year-old, who has tain end to his career”. with 10 players”, he is confident slow scored 28 Test centuries, said Clarke said yesterday: “People his touch will soon return. vows to play on wicket of he was going nowhere, with can certainly have a shot at me “Under pressure is how I’ve the kind the desire to play still burning about my performance, but they stood up in the past and that’s SYDNEY: Dropped Australian all-rounder Shane Watson says he that saw strongly. can’t have a shot at me about my the challenge I face now,” he said has no plans to walk away from cricket and hasn’t given up on a Test last year’s “The criticisms of my game at desire and my will to play this yesterday. recall. The 34-year-old was axed after just one Test of the Ashes Trent the moment are deserved and I great game. “I feel like the one time I got in campaign against England in favour of young gun Mitchell Marsh Bridge wouldn’t expect anything differ- “To this day, I’m the first to this series, I declared in the sec- after he was twice out lbw cheaply in the opening defeat at Cardiff. pitch for ent, especially as the captain of training and the last to leave, so ond innings at Lord’s, and I need Despite his Test career seemingly over, Watson said he has no plans the Test the team,” he said in a column for don’t tell me that I don’t have the to have another innings like that to retire from international cricket. against Sydney’s Daily Telegraph. desire and the hunger,” he said. where I get in. “I still feel I have got a lot to give,” he told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph. India “But I’ve heard there have been “I have no intention to walk “I just need to find a way “I still feel I am only getting better and improving in all formats. I officially a few articles questioning me for away from cricket. through hard work, self-belief am not exactly sure at the moment what my immediate future holds. classified not having that hunger inside “Chris Rogers waited until 35 and a bit of luck to get to 30 and “(As long as) I’m still really loving playing and enjoying every single as poor by me. I think somebody said they years of age to play his second I think I’ll be in a much different moment and trying to get better every time I play and train, I want the ICC. could ‘see it in my eyes’ that I was Test. I’m 34 not 37 and I want place.” REUTERS to keep playing as long as that’s still there.” AGENCIES THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Cilic, Nishikori tested but win at Washington Open US Open champ rallies to beat Hyeon, Nishikori stretched by Duckworth Kenjiro Sano, designer of the Tokyo WASHINGTON: Reigning US 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Open champion Marin Cilic Games logos, explains about the and runner-up Kei Nishikori designs during a news conference advanced to the third round of in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. the ATP and WTA Washington Open in hard-fought matches that finished early yesterday. Japan’s fifth-ranked Nishikori Tokyo logo rallied to beat Australian James Duckworth 6-7 (8/10), 6-1, 6-4 while Croatia’s eighth-ranked Kei Nishikori of designer says Cilic defeated 77th-ranked South Japan reacts after Korean teen Chung Hyeon 7-6 missing a shot against plagiarism (7/2), 6-3 in their first hardcourt James Duckworth appearances on the road to this of Australia at the year’s US Open. Washington Open at claims “It wasn’t easy to put him the Rock Creek Tennis away,” Cilic said. “He’s a great Center on Tuesday in counterpuncher.” Washington, DC. ‘baseless’ Cilic, the first reigning US Open champion to play in the TOKYO: The Japanese US capital since Andre Agassi in designer behind the logo for the 2000, and second seed Nishikori 2020 Summer Olympics said each had first round byes and saw yesterday there is “absolutely their matches pushed into the no truth” to claims it was pla- wee hours by a rain delay. giarised from a Belgian design, “It gives me more confidence,” while Tokyo Games officials Cilic said of his Grand Slam title. said legally there is no problem. “I’m sure it’s going to give me Questions about the 2020 logo more faith in my game. In this arose last week when Belgian moment I’m very happy with my Nishikori said. In his first match second set with a break and broke him in his pre-Open hardcourt he then hit a backhand long to fall designer Olivier Debie said it game.” since a Wimbledon quarter-final again for a 4-1 edge before Chung opener, seeks his third title of level at 7-7. was too similar to his design for Next in Nishikori’s path will be loss to eventual champion Novak broke back and held to restore the year after Memphis and Nishikori’s third ace brought the Theatre de Liege and that he the winner of a match between Djokovic, Cilic surrendered a some pressure. Barcelona and his 10th career his first set point but Duckworth was consulting lawyers, who sent Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer and break in the seventh game but Chung had two break-point crown. rescued that with a service winner a letter to Japanese organisers Slovenia’s Blaz Rola. broke back in the eighth. chances on Cilic in the eighth “It was my first match on hard- wide, then hit another and finally last week demanding a response. The 25-year-old Asian number In the tie-breaker, Cilic jumped game but the veteran saved them court,” said Nishikori. took the set on his fourth chance Kenjiro Sano told a packed one, playing his first match since ahead 6-1, double faulted, then on a net cord winner and his “It had been a long time since I when Nishikori sent a backhand news conference in downtown pulling out of Wimbledon in the blasted a service winner to win ninth ace and held, then broke to played on hardcourt. This should volley beyond the baseline. Tokyo that he had never, and second round with a calf injury, the set after 53 minutes, taking claim the victory. be OK for the next match,” said In the second set, it took would never, plagiarise any design. fought back after dropping a all 18 of his first serve points in Cilic booked a third-round the player. Nishikori five break-point chances He considered his Olympics tense tie-breaker to seize com- the set. meeting with American Sam Duckworth grabbed a 6-4 tie- but he finally bested Duckworth logo a career “masterpiece”. mand of the match. “The important part was to Querrey, who fired 26 aces to oust breaker lead after Nishikori sent for a 2-0 lead and he rolled from “It was a great honour to take “From the second set I started get the ball back and put the first Japan’s Go Soeda 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. a backhand wide. Nishikori saved there, then broke Duckworth for part in the design competition, playing better, less unforced serve away,” Cilic said. Nishikori, tested by a 23-year- two set points before the Aussie a 2-1 edge in the third set and and I wanted to pour all my expe- errors, more aggressive,” Third seed Cilic opened the old rival ranked 90 spots below followed with his eighth ace, but held serve to the end. AFP rience up until then into it. It took several days,” Sano said. “Of course I didn’t take that ATP and WTA (logo) as an example, there is absolutely nothing to that talk.” Washington Open Australia’s Stosur captures Sano’s design centres around “T” for Tokyo and echoes the Results Japanese flag with its round red sun. Inspiration came from type WASHINGTON: Results fonts Didot and Bodoni, which he on Tuesday from the second 500th career singles victory said had an appealing strength day of the ATP and WTA and sensitivity. Washington Open (x denotes WASHINGTON: Australia’s The overall layout is meant to seeding): Samantha Stosur, the 2011 US suggest a circle in homage to the Men Second Round: Sam Querrey (USA) Open champion, won her 500th logo for the 1964 Summer Games, Samantha bt Go Soeda (JPN) 6-3, 5-7, 6-4; Jack Sock career singles match victory which Tokyo also hosted. Stosur of (USA) bt Ruben Bemelmans (BEL) 7-6 (9/7), on Tuesday, defeating France’s “I take a lot of time with every 6-3; Vasek Pospisil (CAN) bt Donald Young Kristina Mladenovic 6-2, 6-2 at Australia in design, nurturing them like chil- (USA) 7-5, 6-3; Kei Nishikori (JPN x2) bt the WTA and ATP Washington action during dren. So for this kind of talk to James Duckworth (AUS) 6-7 (8/10), 6-1, Open. her 6-2, 6-2 emerge is really unfortunate and 6-4; Marin Cilic (CRO x3) bt Chung Hyeon The 31-year-old second seed win against kind of sad,” Sano said, adding (KOR) 7-6 (7/2), 6-3. from Brisbane needed only 64 France’s Kristina that the controversy had made First Round: Steve Johnson (USA) bt Lukas minutes to improve to 4-0 against Mladenovic at him a little depressed. Lacko (SVK) 7-5, 6-3; Sam Groth (AUS) bt Mladenovic and book a second- the WTA and Media reports have said Debie Thomaz Bellucci (BRA) 7-6 (10/8), 4-6, 6-3; round date with American Irina ATP Washington might ask for Tokyo to withdraw Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) bt John-Patrick Smith Falconi. Open, in or change the logo, which the (AUS) 6-3, 6-4; Blaz Rola (SLO) bt Denis “My serve set me up. There Washington on Belgian has admitted was not reg- Kudla (USA) 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/5); Guido Pella weren’t a lot of long rallies. Bing. Tuesday. istered as a trademark but had (ARG) bt Ivan Dodig (CRO) 6-3, 6-7 (7/9), Bang. It was over,” said Stosur, gained international recognition 7-5; Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) bt Tim who had no clue about the land- through two years of use. Smyczek (USA) 6-4, 6-2; Gilles Muller (LUX) mark win total until well after the Tokyo 2020 officials acknowl- bt Malek Jaziri (TUN) 6-3, 7-5. victory. edged receiving the letter but Women First Round: Samantha Stosur “Now that I know, (feels) really Williams 6-2, 6-3 in the final four said. “And maybe the first time I and the eighth of her career, on declined to reveal its contents and (AUS x2) bt Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) good,” Stosur said of her mile- years ago at Flushing Meadows. won a final back in Osaka. That the Austrian clay at Bad Gastein. said only that they were work- 6-2, 6-2; Christina McHale (USA) bt CoCo stone triumph. “Five hundred is a But also drawing her atten- Osaka title came in 2009 with a “It’s a nice feeling to play well ing with the Japanese Olympic Vandeweghe (USA x7) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4; lot of matches. Nice to make that tion was a three-set US Open finals win over Italy’s Francesca in those moments, in the finals,” Committee and International Polona Hercog (SLO) bt Julia Glushko (ISR) and know you have had a pretty semi-final win over Germany’s Schiavone and after Stosur had Stosur said. “Winning tourna- Olympic Committee on a 6-2, 7-5; Ekaterina Makarova (RUS x1) bt big career.” Angelique Kerber, a three-set recovered from Lyme disease, ments, wherever they are, gives response. Alison Van Uytvanck (BEL) 7-5, 7-5; Naomi The top Aussie on the all-time thriller over Russian Maria which sidelined her for parts of you a boost.” Hidetoshi Maki, Tokyo 2020 Broady (GBR) bt Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS) women’s match win list is Evonne Kirilenko in the round of 16 and a the 2007 and 2008 campaigns. She also won on clay at Marketing Director, said they 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (8/6); Belinda Bencic (SUI x3) Goolagong Cawley with 695. third-rounder over Nadia Petrova “A few matches I lost have been Strasbourg in May but makes had conducted thorough checks of bt Tereza Smitkova (CZE) 7-5, 6-4; Sloane In pondering her all-time top she took 7-5 in the third after memorable,” she said. “There have her first visit to the US capi- trademarks throughout the world Stephens (USA) bt Magda Linette (POL) triumphs, Stosur went directly to splitting two tie-breakers. been a lot of great moments. I’ve tal event to start her US Open before revealing the logo. 6-2, 6-1; Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x4) bt her Grand Slam title run, which “Obviously the US Open has had those highs along the way and preparations. “Their logo was not a reg- Sanaz Marand (USA) 6-2, 6-4; Anastasia she won by defeating current been the highlight, not just lows as well.” “I’m feeling good,” Stosur said. istered trademark, so there is Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) bt Magdalena world number one and 21-time the final – a couple matches in Stosur, ranked 21st, is coming “It’s nice to get back on the hard- absolutely no problem,” he added. Rybarikova (SVK) 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/3). Grand Slam champion Serena there were really tight,” Stosur off her second title of the year, courts again.” AFP REUTERS Price hopes Bae comes good ahead of Presidents Cup

LONDON: Golfer Bae Sang- permit expired. The 29-year-old He missed He also suf- That decision takes on an extra a course where Bae has won the moon’s form plunged over the had hoped the courts would allow eight cuts in fered a back dimension given the Presidents Korean Tour’s Shinhan Donghae last few months after South him to delay his military service 18 PGA Tour injury which Cup will be held in South Korea Open for the last two years. Korea’s military ordered him to and continue his career on the events since forced him this October, the first time in “I still haven’t spoken to him as fulfil his national service obliga- lucrative US tour but last month February, drop- to withdraw Asia. to when he has to go and start his tions, but Internationals skip- the military’s case was upheld and ping outside from an event “He’s obviously had some really service,” said Price. “But I’d like per Nick Price (pictured) hopes Bae accepted the ruling. the top 100 in in Texas in tough issues to deal with this year to see him play a little better the he can turn it around in time With the country still techni- the world and March. with regard to his service, and I next four or five weeks.” for the Presidents Cup. cally at war with the North after to 25th in the With only think that’s been on his mind the Without a Korean player in Bae, who has won twice on the the 1950-53 Korean War, all South standings for the top 10 qual- past few months, and that’s prob- the top 10, Price also has BMW PGA Tour and was granted US Korean men between 18 and 35 the biennial ifying auto- ably affected his form quite dras- PGA Championship winner An residency in 2013, was charged in must complete two years of mili- Presidents Cup matically for tically,” Price said of Bae. Byeong-hun and South Korea- February with violating national tary service. clash between the United States Price’s team, the Zimbabwean will The October 8-11 competi- born Danny Lee sitting just out- service laws after failing to return The uncertainty clearly affected and an International team minus have to weigh up using one of his tion will be played at Incheon’s side the automatic qualification home when his overseas travel Bae’s form. Europe. two captain’s picks on Bae. Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea, places. REUTERS THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Five Youngsters Man United look for winning Eyeing Premier League Stardom From Ryan Giggs to Harry Kane via Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo, the Premier League has proved balance after heavy spending a breeding ground for some of European football’s biggest stars. Ahead of the start of the 2015-16 season this weekend, take a look Van Gaal’s focus to bolster midfield leaves Rooney shouldering burden on five teenage players seeking to grab a share of the limelight. LONDON: After returning to season, deployed a 4-2-3-1 forma- Brendan Galloway (19, Everton) the Premier League’s top four, tion in pre-season, but van Gaal Everton supporters got their first glimpse of Manchester United have once has pledged to revert to the 4-3-3 In this file picture Galloway at the back end of last season when again recruited extensively, but system that belatedly brought the taken on July he started their final two league matches. Born there are concerns about the team success in the latter part of 10, 2015, Dutch in Zimbabwe, he moved to England at the age of six and joined Everton in 2014 following a balance of their squad ahead of the 2014-15 campaign. midfielder Memphis the new season. It means that Schweinsteiger, spell with Milton Keynes Dons, for whom he Depay (left) poses for made his debut aged just 15. It is thought that Manager Louis van Gaal has Schneiderlin, Michael Carrick, a photograph with spent around £77m ($120m, Ander Herrera and Marouane Everton manager Roberto Martinez intends to Manchester United’s €110m), notably bolstering his Fellaini (who is suspended for the ease him into senior football at left-back, but Dutch manager Louis midfield with the additions of first three league games) will be should John Stones depart, Galloway may be Bastian Schweinsteiger and competing for only three starting van Gaal as he is given an opportunity to stake a claim for a first- Morgan Schneiderlin, to take his berths. officially unveiled team place at centre-back. spending since succeeding David With the exciting Memphis as a Manchester Joe Gomez (18, Liverpool) Moyes last year to around £230m. Depay, a £25m acquisition from United player at Old Gomez only joined Liverpool in June, arriving With Robin van Persie and PSV Eindhoven, expected to Trafford Stadium in from Charlton Athletic in a £3.5m ($5.5m, €5m) Radamel Falcao having left and start on one flank, Ashley Young, Manchester, north deal, but British newspaper reports claim he Javier Hernandez out of favour, Juan Mata, Antonio Valencia and west England. After could feature in the starting XI when Brendan it leaves Wayne Rooney shoul- Adnan Januzaj – and potentially returning to the Rodgers takes his team to Stoke City on Sunday dering a heavy burden up front, reported target Pedro Rodriguez Premier League’s top after impressing his coaches in pre-season. The but former captain Bryan Robson – must vie for a place on the other four in 2015-2016, England Under-19 international has predomi- believes the midfield reinforce- side of the pitch. Manchester United nantly played at right-back and centre-back in ments can provide the platform A new £750m kit deal with have once again his career to date, but he has turned out at left- back in Liverpool’s warm-up games. “Ideally, for a first sustained title assault Adidas having taken effect on recruited widely, but since Alex Ferguson’s departure August 1, money is now even centre-back is my main position, but I’m happy there are concerns to play right-back or left-back if the manager in 2013. less of an object for English’s about the balance of “The manager has built the long-time richest club, hence the believes I can help the team there,” Gomez told their squad ahead of midfield area to a point where hit they were willing to take in local newspaper the Liverpool Echo. the new season. we look strong enough to dictate offloading Angel di Maria just Ruben Loftus-Cheek (19, Chelsea) the tempo of games,” said Robson, a year after his record £59.7m A tall, elegant central midfielder, Loftus-Cheek now a club ambassador. arrival from Real Madrid. was a driving force last season as Chelsea “Schweinsteiger and The Argentine’s departure is claimed success in the FA Youth Cup and UEFA Schneiderlin look really good part of a streamlining process adjustments in defence, with his best defence – that’s a prob- 2014-15, De Gea is set to start the Youth League. He was also granted a handful of signings. They are going to be the that has also seen Nani, Tom Daley Blind moved to centre- lem in itself,” said Ferdinand, new campaign between the posts, first-team appearances, coming off the bench in powerhouse of United’s midfield Cleverley and Rafael da Silva pass back, Luke Shaw given a run at who wants his former club to but Argentina’s Sergio Romero a 1-1 draw with Manchester City in January and and that should hold us in good through the exit door. left-back and Matteo Darmian, sign Everton’s England defender has been drafted in to provide starting against Liverpool and West Bromwich stead over the season.” Irked by United’s gruelling recruited from Torino, introduced John Stones. back-up, further marginalising Albion in May. He was publicly rebuked by Jose United fans raised on the all- travelling arrangements on their to the team at right-back. With Ramos’s arrival having Victor Valdes. Mourinho for a careless display in a post-season action displays of players like 2014 tour of the United States, But with United having failed been established as a pre-condi- United begin the season at friendly against Sydney FC, but that only sug- Robson and Roy Keane have long van Gaal took a firm grip on this in their attempts to lure Sergio tion for David de Gea to move in home to Tottenham Hotspur on gested that the Chelsea manager has bigger lamented the lack of oomph in the year’s trip Stateside, keeping jour- Ramos from Real Madrid, former the opposite direction, United’s Saturday and with a Champions plans for him this season. “I listened to what the team’s midfield, but if anything, neys to a strict minimum. centre-back Rio Ferdinand goalkeeper has been left in a posi- League play-off tie following soon manager said,” Loftus-Cheek said. “I wasn’t at the club now have too many mid- A pair of training camps believes the defence remains an tion that Van Gaal acknowledges after, they can ill afford a repeat the level I need to be and I need to do better if fielders on their hands. allowed him to drill his players area of concern. is “not favourable”. of the sluggish start they made a I want to play for Chelsea.” United, who finished fourth last on the team’s shape and make “I don’t think (van Gaal) knows The club’s Player of the Year in year ago. AFP Andreas Pereira (19, Manchester United) A Belgium-born Brazilian youth international, Pereira joined United from PSV Eindhoven in 2011 and could be set for a breakthrough Chelsea captain Terry wants season after impressing during the club’s pre- season tour of the United States. Competition Chelsea’s for midfield places is fiercer than ever at Old Portuguese Trafford, but manager Louis van Gaal’s record a long career like Giggs of promoting young players suggests Pereira manager may get chances to impress. Pereira made two Jose first-team appearances last season and signed Mourinho LONDON: Chelsea captain until a very big age.” Terry quit a new three-year contract in May. “Andreas has gestures John Terry (pictured) has international football in 2012 after all the attributes to become an integral part of during worked hard on his fitness in the Football Association banned the first team: great natural talent, coupled with the FA the last few years and wants to him for four matches when he a good appetite to learn,” said Van Gaal. Community have a long playing career like was accused of making a racist Jeff Reine-Adelaide (17, Arsenal) Shield former Manchester United mid- remark to QPR defender Anton The Emirates Cup pre-season friendly tourna- match fielder Ryan Giggs, the former Ferdinand. He was cleared of the ment tends to offer Arsenal manager Arsene against England captain said. allegation in a London court. Wenger a chance to blood promising players Arsenal at Giggs called time on a remark- The central defender believes from the club’s youth set-up and this year it Wembley able 23-year, trophy-laden United quitting international football was the turn of French attacking midfielder Stadium career at the age of 40 to take on helped keep his fitness at a level Reine-Adelaide to thrill the fans at the Emirates in north the role of assistant manager to just at the training ground,” said where he was able to play every Stadium. After a cameo in a 6-0 win over Lyon, London on Louis van Gaal last year. Terry. “Putting the effort in the minute of the London club’s tri- he started the decisive game against Wolfsburg Sunday. The 34-year-old Terry played a gym, training ground, off the umphant league season. and created the only goal of the match with a big role in Chelsea’s title run last pitch and eat the right food, I’m Only four players, three of them forward dart followed by a measured through season and has no plans to stop hoping to carry on as a long as goalkeepers, had previously fea- ball for Theo Walcott. Wenger has described the anytime soon. possible. tured in every game of a Premier former Lens player as “something special” and “In the last four or five years “There’s an opportunity you see League title-winning campaign ruled out sending him out on loan in order to I’ve done a lot of extra work, not with players like Giggs of playing before Terry. REUTERS keep close tabs on his development. Mourinho sees a tough IOC President tests football skills in Rio Vietnam sponsor suffers task ahead to retain title big losses on LONDON: Chelsea manager some countries. Those players Jose Mourinho feels it will be usually only leave their counties Man City fixture more difficult for his side to for the best clubs but now they go retain the Premier League title to the promoted teams. LONDON: Vietnam suffered with the other contenders hav- “Now it is their competitive an 8-1 hammering at the hands ing made strong additions to nature and their quality that top of English outfit Manchester their squads. teams have to play against. It is City last week but the sponsor Chelsea won the title at a can- more difficult.” of the glamour fixture suffered ter last season, finishing on 87 Mourinho, currently in his far bigger losses. points, eight ahead of second- second stint as manager with Do Quang Hien, chairman of placed Manchester City. Chelsea, has won three Premier SHB Bank, said he spent “about “A year ago we got immediately League titles, two League Cups, 40bn Vietnam dong” ($1.83m) Costa and Fabregas which was a one FA Cup and one Community bringing the four-times English quick reaction to the fact that we Shield with the London-based champions to Southeast Asia with didn’t win the title,” Mourinho club. much more going on security, told Sky Sports. Meanwhile, Goalkeeper medical and organisation of the “This year you can see from Lawrence Vigouroux has left game in Hanoi. the reaction of Liverpool, Arsenal Liverpool to join English third- “Man City mentioned strict Man City, Man United. tier side Swindon Town on a conditions in the contract, espe- “They’ve bought strong they’ve season-long loan, the Premier cially ‘force majeure’, which said bought well. They are trying to League club said on Tuesday. that the match would be cancelled make an impact because they Vigouroux was on trial at if any of their footballers were couldn’t get the title.” Swindon and played for them injured or sick,” Hien was quoted The 52-year-old Mourinho against the Merseyside club as saying by Vietnamnet.vn. expects a close title race and low in their pre-season fixture on “They proposed that we should scoring season with smaller teams Sunday. buy insurance for the match and also attracting strong players. The 21-year-old joins fellow my assistant was struggling to “Maybe I am wrong but I have youngsters Jordan Williams and find an insurance partner in Asia, the idea that less points will Kevin Stewart at the County but failed.” win the title this season,” the Ground, Liverpool said on its web- Despite the losses, Hien Portuguese added. site (www.liverpoolfc.com). declared himself happy with the “Other teams are investing Liverpool signed Vigouroux, near sell-out fixture and believed very well and this is not normal.” who has represented Chile at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach plays with a football at Barra da Tijuca Beach it would help Vietnam in their “Smaller teams are getting under-20 level, from Tottenham in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Tuesday, one year before the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. World Cup qualifying bid. some of the best players from Hotspur last year. AGENCIES REUTERS THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 I’d quit Argentina if I were Messi: Martino LONDON: Argentina coach “Nobody said that Leo would Gerardo Martino (pictured) not play the friendlies. This was has said that if he was Lionel claimed, I don’t know why, and Messi he would have stopped now we have to explain that playing for the national team there is nothing behind it,” said after receiving so much the coach. criticism. “This didn’t come from the Messi again failed to bring mouth of Messi, from my mouth home any silverware after or from the mouth of the presi- Argentina lost the Copa America dent of the Argentine football final to hosts Chile last month Association,” he added. and it led to a torrent of abuse Having inspired Barcelona to from fans and the a treble last season, media. Messi arrived on top That included form for the Copa criticism from America but for the FROM LEFT: A combo of file pictures made yesterday shows, Angel Di Maria playing for Benfica on February 6, 2010. Di Maria in action in Argentinian Argentina great second time in his colours on October 11, 2013, The midfielder featuring for Real Madrid on October 23, 2013. Di Maria boosting Manchester United’s midfield on February Diego Maradona who career Argentina 11, 2015. Argentinian Di Maria said he is “delighted” to be joining French champions Paris-Saint Germain. said the 28-year-old fell at the final Barcelona player, hurdle. who has scored 46 That disappoint- goals in 103 inter- ment came on the nationals, had been back of a runners- mollycoddled. up place at the 2014 However, Martino, World Cup and Di Maria ‘delighted’ with who coached Messi at means Messi’s only Barca, has defended trophy with the the four times world national team is a player of the year and said he gold medal at the 2008 Olympics. would remain in his squad fol- Messi has struggled to live Paris-Saint Germain move lowing speculation the forward up to the expectations of the would be given time out of the Argentina fans and Maradona, limelight due to the pressure on who led the country to World him. Cup glory in 1986, has said the Argentinian aims to guide Parisians past CL quarters “If I was Messi I would have forward should be doing more. left the national team some time “We have the best in the world, PARIS: Argentina winger Champions League in 2014, Di ago and I would keep playing in who scores four against Real Angel Di Maria said he is Maria moved to Old Trafford for Barcelona,” Martino told Fox Sociedad and then comes here “delighted” to be joining French A file picture £59.7m. Sports in Argentina. and does nothing,” Maradona champions Paris-Saint Germain taken on Di Maria – who has 65 caps for “I will call him up (for told reporters after the Copa in an interview screened on BeIn June 30, Argentina – scored four goals in the friendly with Mexico on America final. Sports yesterday. 2015 shows 32 appearances for United. September 8) but I don’t know “I’ve had enough of those who The 27-year-old has yet to offi- Argentina’s Meanwhile, Paris St Germain whether he will come. It would say that we have to look after cially sign for the Qatari-backed forward fans who do not have tickets for be very frustrating if he didn’t. him.” REUTERS Parisians ahead of a move from Angel the Ligue 1 opener against Lille Manchester United. Di Maria tomorrow have been banned But in an interview with BeIn celebrating from travelling to the area amid Bruyne honoured by DFB Sports, who are owned by the after scoring concerns about possible crowd same Qatari Sports Investments against trouble, local authorities said on Kevin de Bruyne, group that includes PSG in its Paraguay Tuesday. player of portfolio, Di Maria spoke of his They issued an order on during German club VfL joy at securing a move to the big- Tuesday barring PSG fans with- their Copa Wolfsburg, holds spending outfit. out tickets from Villeneuve d’Ascq, up the imprints “I’m delighted to sign for PSG America home to the Pierre Mauroy sta- of his feet for the because the club has done every- semi-final dium, where Lille play, and neigh- thing to bring me here,” said Di match in bouring Lezennes and Ronchin. ‘Walk of Fame’ of Maria, who passed a medical in Concepcion, The authorities said they feared German Soccer Doha on Tuesday. Chile. crowd trouble, citing previous Association DFB, “I’ll try to do my best, I’ll work problems caused by PSG fans in in Wolfsburg, hard to give my utmost and if eve- recent years. Germany, rything goes well, we’ll win a lot Swedish star Zlatan yesterday. Bruyne of trophies.” quarter-finals.” PSG have been following those of German Ibrahimovic will miss the cham- is considered The former Real Madrid star knocked out in the Champions goalkeeper Kevin Trapp from pions’ season opener at Lille one of the most said his goal was to bring more League quarter-finals the last Eintracht Frankfurt and French because of a right knee sprain, valuable players than just domestic glory to last three years (twice by Barcelona midfielder Benjamin Stambouli the Ligue 1 club announced on of the season year’s French treble-winners. and once by Chelsea) and their from Tottenham. Tuesday. 2014/15 and will “Paris won all the trophies in best result in Europe’s premier The Argentine spent just one Tests carried out on the player receive a spot on France and that’s important for club competition remains a semi- season at Manchester United, “revealed a sprained medial col- the Walk of Fame such a big club. final appearance in 1995. who have agreed a £44.3m (€63m; lateral ligament in his right knee,” of German Soccer “My aim is to help Paris get Di Maria’s arrival will be PSG’s $68.9m) fee with PSG. the club said in a statement ahead Association DFB. past the Champions League biggest in the current off-season Having helped Real win the of the match. AGENCIES Al Gharafa hold ‘successful’ Rapid Vienna knock out giants talks with Tunisia’s Yassine Ajax with dramatic victory

DOHA: Al Gharafa Sports Club ZURICH: Four-times their lead six minutes before 23-minute spell. Croatian cham- has announced the successful European champions Ajax halftime. pions Dinamo Zagreb progressed conclusion of the meeting with Amsterdam were knocked out Ajax pulled one back when on away goals despite squandering Tunisian international Yassine of the Champions League in Arkadiusz Milik volleyed home a three-goal lead at Molde. Chikhaoui. the third qualifying round on seven minutes into the second Marko Pjaca, Arijen Ademi The top goal scorer of the Tuesday after a dramatic 3-2 half. and Marko Rog scored in a dev- Swiss League and former player defeat at home to unsung Rapid Nemanja Gudelj equalised with astating five-minute spell midway of FC Zurich will join the foot- Vienna. a controversial goal in the 75th through the first half. ball team for the new QSL season Ajax, with a 2-2 draw in the minute, firing home from the edge Etzaz Hussain and Mohamed starting next month. bag from the first leg in Vienna, of the area as Rapid complained Elyounoussi scored either side of The negotiations were success- trailed 2-0 at halftime, then hit that goalkeeper Jan Novota had halftime for the Norwegians, who ful as the club looked to add to its back to equalise only for Rapid to been fouled in the build-up. then had Vegard Forren sent off attacking prowess, the club will score again almost immediately But their protests turned to before Ola Kamara levelled to set now await the results of a medical to complete a 5-4 aggregate win. celebrations two minutes later up a dramatic finale. before finalising the deal. Monaco, who beat Young Boys when 20-year-old Schaub burst Apoel, the only Cypriot team to Al Gharafa has already signed 7-1 on aggregate, Dinamo Zagreb forward, held off three defend- have reached the quarter-finals the Qatar Stars League top goal and Apoel Nicosia also pro- ers and sent his shot into the top of the Champions League, which scorer Alain Dioko from Al Ahli. gressed to the play-off round after corner to stun the Amsterdam they achieved in 2012, also went The 28-year-old Yassine com- Tuesday’s second leg ties. Arena. through on away goals despite los- pleted the deal for a three-con- Robert Beric headed in from Monaco, quarter-finalists last ing 1-0 at home to FC Midtjylland. tract that would run up to 2017 Stefan Stangl’s cross to put Rapid season, produced a second-half Erik Sviatchenko scored in the summer, the QNA reported earlier Tunisian international Yassine Chikhaoui will be confirmed to play for Al ahead in the 12th minute after blitz as Ivan Cavaleiro, Layvin second minute for the Danes who this week. Gharafa at the Qatar Stars League (QSL) after a medical test. The QSL Ajax lost possession outside the Kurzawa, Anthony Martial and were eliminated following a 2-2 “Chikahoui was in Gharafa’s will start next month. area and Louis Schaub increased Stephan El Shaarawy scored in a draw on aggregate. REUTERS focus since last year. The club’s board was keen to sign him and play in Qatar Stars League,” said Al Qasabi in an interview. Wakrah off to Italy to Many clubs showed interest in him since he excelled for the Swiss Rapid Vienna’s club as well as Tunisian national Mario Sonnleitner football team, but Yassine pre- prepare for QSL ferred to join Gharafa and expand celebrates the his professional experience in this DOHA: Al Wakrah, yesterday Jassim Al Tamimi, 30 players and victory against region, the agent said. left for Italy where they will technical staff and officials. Ajax Amsterdam Wishing him and his family hold their external training Meanwhile, Al Ahli Sports after their well, FC Zurich President Ancillo camp in preparation for the new Club will play a friendly against Champions League Canepa said, “No one will deny Qatar Stars League season. Slovenian side NK Maribor third qualifying that Yassine was one the best The Club Sports Director during their training camp in round match in football player ever to play in Jassim Al Tamimi will be in Rome Austria. the Amsterdam Switzerland. In the 2014-15 season ahead of the team so as to wel- It is expteected that Croatian Arena Stadium on he should what an excellent and come them and organise all nec- Head Coach Zalatco will field the Tuesday. important player he is.” essary needs for the team. most number of players possible Gharafa FC has won Qatar The delegation constitutes 46 during the game in order to assess Stars League title seven times, individuals and is headed by the their levels of fitness and match the last being in 2010. club’s Head of football Abdullah sharpness ahead of the new QSL THE PENINSULA Saqr, the club’s Sports Director season. THE PENINSULA Thursday 6 August 2015 21 Shawwal 1436 Volume 20 Number 6514 Sport Price: QR2 Leading newspaper from Nepal Edgy England Cilic, Nishikori eye Ashes tested in

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 World Boxing Championships Al Sadd preparing to kick off in Qatar in 60 days hard for ‘tough season’: Al Haydos 260 boxers from 70 countries will compete in the event DOHA: Al Sadd’s deadly their first pre-season friendly attacking winger Hassan Al on Sunday against Saudi club Al DOHA: The 2015 AIBA World Haydos (pictured) has great Nassr at the Kufstein Arena. And Boxing Championships is just expectations from the upcom- although the Qataris lost, coach two months away and yesterday ing season and is training hard Amotta felt his side had benefited officials of the Local Organising at the team’s pre-season camp from the match . Committee (LOC) joined mem- in Austria. “We benefitted from the bers of the Qatar Boxing Team “There is no doubt that I am friendly match; the team has and members of the media in looking forward to a better season improved,” he said. starting the 60-day countdown and I have limitless ambition,” Al Amotta said his players had to the event. Haydos told the club’s website. showed a lot of maturity, putting Qatar Boxing Federation Elaborating on the training up a good performance and domi- (QBF) President Yousuf Ali Al camp, the Qatar Stars League’s nating play. Kazim joined members of his (QSL) most valuable player last Amotta also lauded the efforts organising committee at the Ali season said: “We are carrying of the young and reserve players Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Arena to out a very demanding training in the team, who were put into mark the second official count- regime because we know that the game during the second half. down ceremony ahead of the it will be a tough and long sea- He said they performed well, October 5-18 event. son. This includes qualifying for especially against a team such “This is an important milestone the AFC Champions League and as Al Nassr who used most of its in our journey towards hosting our domestic priorities as well as first team for the majority of the the 2015 AIBA World Boxing our aims with the national team match. Championships. Last month, we for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in However, the Moroccan admit- marked the 90-day countdown Russia. ted that errors were committed in and now we have reached the “So, we must take this prepara- the match, especially with regard 60-day mark,” Al Kazim said. tion period very seriously and this to defending set-pieces. He said “Basically, we have a total of 60 will affect our entire the team would work on days left to the main event. We season.” this issue. are moving ahead with full force “I hope to reach my As for the much- as we build an awareness momen- top physical and techni- awaited return of tum among boxing fans in the cal level of performance Khalfan Ibrahim to the country and the region,” he said. before the start of the line-up, Amotta said the Last month, the 90-day count- new season in order to striker is still undergo- down was celebrated in the pres- achieve the aims I men- ing his fitness regime to ence of AIBA officials who visited QBF President Yousuf Ali Al Kazim joins members of his organising committee at the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiyah tioned earlier. The cur- get back to full fitness. Doha for their second inspection Arena to mark the second official countdown ceremony of the 2015 AIBA World Boxing Championships. rent overseas training Meanwhile, Xavi trip in July. camp is the best place played his first match Last month, Al Kazim had we met, when we approach the 10-countdown will be the to Qatar. The transport aspect to prepare myself, the for his new team against welcomed AIBA President 30-day phase, we will target all most important phase in our also would have reached full technical staff is pre- Al Nassr and Amotta Wu Ching-Kuo Wu, Executive the residents in Qatar — whether promotional campaign. This is a readiness,” he said when asked paring the team in the was full of praise for the Director Karim Bouzidi, Senior Qataris or residents from differ- huge opportunity for this sport about LOC’s preparation plans best possible manner. The entire Spaniard. Competition Manager Kristin ent communities — and take our to reach out to new audiences in August and September. squad is here with the aim to pre- He praised his great perform- Brynildsen and scores of other message forward to the sports in this country and region,” Al More than 260 boxers repre- pare for the season ahead and the ance in the match, scoring the AIBA Executive Committee fans in the country. In the next Kazim said. senting some 70 countries will atmosphere is great,” Al Haydos equalising goal on his debut. members to Doha. 30 days, we hope to make sure the “During the next few weeks, we feature at the October 5-18 event said. Qatar national team coach “This 60-day countdown will message has been well received in will be approaching embassies in set to take place at the state-of- The attacking winger visits El Jaish training camp now be followed by a 30-day the country,” Al Kazim said. Doha. That will complete our tar- the-art Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiyah said Spanish superstar Xavi The coach of the Qatar national countdown. We will wind up The QBF President said the get audiences for the campaign,” Arena. Hernandez had fit in well with team, Jose Daniel Carreno, vis- with a special 10-day countdown 10-day countdown would be key to Al Kazim said. The event will be beamed to the team. “Xavi is a big player in ited the El Jaish training camp to keep the interest in our event the entire promotional campaign “When the championship time more than 60 countries around the world of football. He treats in Austria. going ahead with full force,” Al which will end just days before the comes around, we will be ready the world through live TV and everyone equally with respect and Carreno met El Jaish coach Kazim said. event starts in October. with our hotels accommodation social media feeds. professionalism,” he said. Sabri Lamouchi to discuss the “Like I said the last time when “We know that the for athletes and officials coming THE PENINSULA Commenting on the tech- team’s preparations. He was keen nical staff, headed by coach to observe the team’s training ses- Hussein Amotta, Al Haydos said: sion in order check on the inter- “Definitely this increases the national players from the club. stability and harmony within the El Jaish players presented team. Also the foreign stars add a team jersey to Carreno, who Ledecky adds third freestyle gold to tally that extra bit of quality. Players praised the team’s spirit and such as Nadir Belhadj, Muriqui strength. KAZAN, Russia: Katie Defending champion Chad Le and Spanish superstar Xavi El Jaish will play their second Ledecky’s bid to become the first Clos of South Africa lost the men’s Hernandez. This kind of stabil- friendly against Hellas Verona on swimmer to win four individual 200m butterfly title to Hungarian ity will grant us superiority in Friday. The squad will then travel freestyle titles at a world cham- Laszlo Cseh in an exciting final. competing for titles next season to Italy for the second phase of pionships remained on track as Le Clos led for the first 100 in the QSL.” their pre-season training camp. the American claimed a stun- metres but the Hungarian Meanwhile, the Wolves played THE PENINSULA ning gold in the women’s 200m regained the advantage by the yesterday. final turn. Although Le Clos After qualifying for the final in made one final surge, Cseh did seventh during a punishing sched- enough to post the year’s world- Enjoy EPL coverage ule which meant Ledecky raced leading time of 1:53.48 and hold her semi-final 30 minutes after off the Olympic champion by 0.20 winning the 1,500m freestyle gold seconds. with a world record, the 18-year- Cseh’s win vindicated his deci- on beIN SPORTS old American touched first in one sion not to compete in the 200m minute 55.16 seconds. individual medley. DOHA: For the third season English will broadcast 18 hours Ledecky’s win, achieved from “It was a hard decision,” he told in a row, beIN SPORTS will be of live EPL. Saturday’s extrava- lane seven, added to her golds in reporters. “I thought that I had the exclusive broadcaster of ganza of EPL not only includes the 400m freestyle on the opening to choose to swim really well in the English Premier League three live games but also gives the night and the 1,500. the butterfly final or swim okay across the Middle East and viewer all the stories and goals With all eight swimmers in US gold medallist Katie Ledecky (centre), Italy’s silver medallist Federica in the medley.” North Africa (MENA) region in from every games across Europe’s with a chance of a medal at the Pellegrini (left) and US bronze medallist Missy Franklin pose on the Cameron McEvoy of Australia 2015-16. major leagues. Also, the round-up final turn, Federica Pellegrini of podium after the women’s 200m freestyle event at the 2015 FINA World clocked the fastest time in the Every game will be avail- program, The Last Word, follows Italy denied a United States one- Championships in Kazan yesterday. world this year, 47.94 seconds, as able live and exclusive on beIN after the games. two by claiming silver in 1:55.32 he topped qualification for tomor- SPORTS from August 8. Sunday’s studios will exclu- seconds. World champion Missy Sun powered into the lead after caught the world champion with row’s men’s 100m freestyle final. The English coverage of the sively show the two live games Franklin took bronze in 1:55.49. 750 metres and touched the wall the final stroke to win in 26.51 His bid to succeed compatriot Premier League will once again and Monday Night Football will “It was a lot easier than the in 7:39.96. The Italian was 0.85 seconds. James Magnussen, the double be presented by Richard Keys and review all the weekend’s talk- 1500m, it just didn’t hurt as seconds down, in a European- Peaty won his third gold when champion who was forced to pull Andy Gray. They will be joined by ing points with the analysis tools much and I knew I could put it record time. Mack Horton of he contributed to Britain’s world- out of the championships with a a host of famous names includ- available at beIN SPORTS — with all together,” said Ledecky who Australia took bronze. record time of 3:41.71 seconds in shoulder injury, was given a major ing Alan Shearer, Kevin Keegan, Andy Gray and Richard Keys pro- hopes to add the 800m title on Briton Adam Peaty continued the mixed 4x100m medley relay, boost when Russia’s Vladimir Ruud Gullit, Gianfranco Zola, viding the best analysis available Saturday. his fine form by adding the men’s a new event. Morozov was disqualified in the Glenn Hoddle, Andy Cole, Graeme anywhere. Sun Yang of China dug deep, 50m breaststroke gold to his 100m “Every inch and every centi- following heat. Souness, Marcel Desailly, Patrick beIN SPORTS provides the best also from lane seven, to win his breaststroke title, becoming the metre has been the hardest this Morozov led throughout to Kluivert and many more. seat in the house for EPL cover- second gold, the men’s 800m free- first swimmer to achieve the feat week,” said Peaty. “The 100m record 48.12 seconds but was On the first Saturday of the age anywhere in the world. style, after a thrilling battle with at a world championships. against Cameron was one of the adjudged to have left the blocks season (August 8), the studio EPL matches will be broadcast Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri. Cameron van der Burgh of hardest races of my life but I too soon, a decision which silenced guests will be Sam Allardyce, Gus on beIN SPORTS HD1 and HD11, European champion Paltrinieri South Africa had to settle for stepped up and didn’t get taken the near-capacity Kazan Arena. Poyet and Luis Garcia. through beIN SPORTS packages looked in control of the race until silver once more as the Briton away by the occasion tonight.” REUTERS Every weekend, beIN SPORTS worth $225. THE PENINSULA