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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Spain’s King congratulates Emir Bomb kills Police on foot policeman patrol to in Bahrain DUBAI: Two attacks outside the Bahraini capital Manama killed one policeman and wounded five, the interior min- nab beggars istry and police said yesterday, in the latest unrest to rock the country. A bomb killed one policeman and wounded two in Women officers to be deployed a Shia village near Manama, Bahrain’s head of public secu- DOHA: Qatar is for the first other law-enforcement agencies rity said. time setting up police teams as well,” said Al Hababi. “Terrorist groups targeted a on foot patrol to crack down on The patrol teams will cover all police station in Sitra” late on begging during Ramadan when areas of the country and special Saturday, General Tariq Hasan the menace is at its worst, and vigils will be mounted in public said in the statement carried by including women officers in places such as markets, commer- the official BNA news agency. these teams. cial complexes and mosques. “As police attempted to secure The patrol teams will be in According to him, since peo- the area... the terrorists blew addition to the mobile ones, which ple do a lot of charity in the holy up an improvised bomb against will also be manned by both, men month of Ramadan, some ele- security forces in an attack that and women public security per- ments enter the country on visit killed policeman Yasser Dhaib and sonnel, a top Interior Ministry visas and take undue advantage wounded two others.” official has said. and seek alms. In Janabiya, another Shia vil- The anti-begging patrols will “We have in the past arrested a lage outside the capital, a “group be working in three shifts round- large number of people who were of terrorists attacked a security the-clock during the holy month, here on visit visas only for begging patrol with Molotov cocktails,” said Brigadier Misfir Ali Al during the fasting month.” The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Spain’s Minister of Defence Pedro Morenes Eulate at the Interior Ministry said on Hababi, Director of the Criminal This time, the official said, the Emiri Diwan yesterday. Eulate delivered a written message from King of Spain Juan Carlos to the Emir Twitter. AFP Investigation Department (CID). people who help such characters congratulating him on assuming the reins of power in the country. “We are roping in our women obtain entry visas would also be officials also to be part of the anti- probed and brought to book. “We begging patrols during the fasting are going to deal very strictly with month,” Hababi said, according to these people.” Qatar News Agency (QNA). Begging has been outlawed by There will in all be 48 patrol Qatar so the law-enforcement Work begins on 44 new schools, KGs teams, Hababi added but didn’t officials have the legal authority say if there would be separate to arrest those found begging and BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB the projects in the presence of the existing schools are facing students to make them result-ori- teams of male and female patrol deport them. Minister of Education and Higher increasing pressure due to the ented by imparting quality educa- personnel. Al Hababi urged nationals DOHA: The Public Works Education H E Dr Mohammed growing population. tion… This can be addressed by The CID which has a division and expatriates to route char- Authority (Ashghal) yesterday Abdul Wahed Ali Al Hammadi, Asked if the upcoming projects effective coordination among all exclusively dedicated to fighting ity meant for the poor and the announced the start of work on in a press conference. will ease pressure on schools, the organisations concerned.” begging has also set up hotlines needy through charitable organi- 44 new educational institutions Ashghal last year delivered Minister said: “It will take at least However, he said: “Our educa- and urged people to complain if sations instead of giving it to — 29 schools and 15 kindergar- 26 schools and KGs built at an another couple of years to address tion system, in terms of curricu- they see or confront beggars. individuals. tens — across villages and sub- estimated cost of QR1bn. It also the issue. We are making efforts to lum, teachers, infrastructure and The division gave the hotline “The charitable bodies are urbs in the country. The projects announced to hand over 16 new improve the teacher-student ratio academic environment, has wit- numbers as (2347453, 234744 and responsible mediums to distrib- worth QR2bn are expected to be schools and KGs built at a cost by reducing the number of students nessed remarkable improvement 66414040) and said the lines will ute your charity to the most completed by 2014-end. of QR442m, before the beginning in a class. “Our education system over the last 10 years.” work 24 hours. deserving.” The President of Ashghal, of the academic year 2013-2014. is still facing many challenges. We THE PENINSULA “We will be coordinating with THE PENINSULA Nasser Ali Al Mawlawi, unveiled According to reports, the want to improve the efficiency of Continued on page 5

Mursi supporters, Scared, some expats flee at opponents hold huge protests the sight of police vehicles CAIRO: Hundreds of thousands BY AZMAT HAROON Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Al Khayareen said, pointing out of supporters and opponents the Philippines and Indonesia that Qatar was a conservative of ousted Egyptian President DOHA: Many expats are so attended. Muslim country. Mohammed Mursi gathered in scared of police that they run Services provided by Taking pictures of men and Cairo and Alexandria yester- away when they see a police the Search and Follow Up women without their permis- day, two days after similar gath- vehicle, and this makes efforts Department, Human Rights sion, for instance, is prohibited erings led to nationwide clashes of law-enforcement officials to Department, Community Police, in Qatar. Begging is also banned that claimed more than 30 lives. promote the concept of commu- Traffic Department and Metrash in the country. The huge crowds, likely to stay nity policing among expatriate 2 were discussed. There have also been cases out in the streets until the early communities a bit challenging, Al Khayareen said that the where people were caught uri- hours, raised the risk of further a senior Interior Ministry offi- concept of community police was nating in public. violence while a military-driven cial said yesterday. relatively new in the country and The ministry has also come plan to resolve the political cri- A majority of people are afraid aimed to enhance partnership across cases of fake CID offic- sis remained mired in mistrust of police and do not approach between police and expatriate ers dressed in plain clothes, who and confusion, dashing hopes of them when in need, Captain communities. scare and dupe ordinary people. a quick fix. Rashid Mubarak Al Khayareen “The Qatari society has gone Abdullah Sultan Al Naimi, Protesters opposed to Mursi from the Community Police through significant changes in an official from the complaints crammed into Cairo’s Tahrir Department said. the past few years. We have section of the ministry’s Human Square and at the presidential “They run away when they see many nationalities and people Rights Department, said that palace in a festive atmosphere. them even though they may have with different religious back- in the past seven months his Unlike Friday there were no run- done nothing wrong.” grounds in the country.” department had helped 276 com- ning street battles with Mursi’s Al Khayareen was speaking He said that complaints plainants change their sponsor- supporters and soldiers, despite at an introductory seminar on received by the community police ship due to their disputes with a much bigger turnout. facilities provided by the min- so far this year were very differ- employers. Those who backed Mursi and istry for expatriate commu- ent from those last year. “We also take into account his Muslim Brotherhood move- nities. Representatives from “A majority of problems exist human rights concerns in police ment concentrated in vast num- eight communities, includ- because people are not aware of dealings,” Al Naimi said. bers outside a mosque in the ing those of India, Pakistan, Qatari customs and traditions,” THE PENINSULA northeast of the city, and outside the Republican Guard barracks where Mursi was being held and three people were killed on Syria Brotherhood wants arms Castro backs Snowden asylum Friday. “We will not leave until Mursi BEIRUT: The Syrian branch of the Muslim HAVANA: Cuban President Raul Castro yes- returns. Otherwise we’ll die as Brotherhood called yesterday for the US and terday backed offers of asylum by Venezuela martyrs,” said 55-year-old Hanim Europe to deliver the rebels promised military and other Latin American countries to fugitive Ahmad Ali Al Sawi, wearing a support after the opposition’s National Coalition US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden and veil over her face in the searing voted in a new president and ended a months- criticised the United States for what he described sun, as soldiers and policemen long leadership vacuum. The US has signalled it as bullying other nations. Castro, speaking behind looked on from behind barbed is ready to send arms to the rebels, in addition to closed doors to Cuba’s National Assembly. Castro’s wire. humanitarian and non-lethal military aid already remarks were his first public comment on the REUTERS Anti-Mursi protesters shout slogans at Tahrir square in Cairo yesterday. in the millions of dollars. Full report on page 6 Snowden affair. MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME HMC first in region to Al Attiyah meets Japanese delegation implant power knee Tunisian medical student receives motorised assistive device

BY FAZEENA SALEEM

DOHA: The Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Prosthetic and Orthotic Department become the first healthcare facility in the region yesterday to implant a patient with ‘Power Knee’ — the only motorised assistive device. The centre is the first in the Middle East and North Africa region to implant the world’s first and only motor-powered artifi- cially intelligent prosthesis for above-knee amputees. The Chairman of the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah with Ghazi Sdiri, a 21-year-old General Director for the Middle East and North Africa Affairs at the Japanese Foreign Ministry Makio Miyagawa Tunisian medical student in and Director of the Second Middle East Division Kenichiro Mukai. Japanese Ambassador Kingero Monge also Romania, was the first patient to attended the meeting. receive the power knee. He met with a motor accident in August last year during Ramadan and his Emir receives phone legs had to be amputated. He was brought to Qatar in January on Temperature likely to go call from Erdogan government expenses. Sdiri expressed gratitude to DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin down in Al Ruwais today Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Hamad Al Thani and HMC for yesterday received a telephone their support. He is looking for- DOHA: The day will be rela- degrees. Relatively cooler north- call from the Prime Minister of ward to going back to his medical tively cooler in Al Ruwais in westerly winds with speeds of 15 Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. college and qualify as a doctor to the north of the country today to 25km an hour in the day that Cooperation between the two serve the people in his country. as the maximum temperature turn north-easterly later, are countries as well issues of com- “He will wear the power knee forecast by the weather bureau expected to make the weather mon interest were reviewed. forever, because it will give him so for the place is 35 degrees more pleasant in Al Ruwais, while many benefits. It has sensors and Celsius, as against the average in other parts they might dilute the knee knows whatever activi- for the country at more than 40 the sting of the heat. Minister visits Legal and ties it is doing like walking and sit- degrees. The wind would lose speed ting,” said Perry Boumans, Sales Highest day temperatures by night to between five and 15 Judicial Studies Centre Manager for Ossur Prosthetics, Ghazi Sdiri, 21, with his power knee, is full of gratitude to the Emir H H have been forecast for Doha km per hour, the forecast said. DOHA: The Minister of Justice the manufactures of ‘Power Knee’ Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and HMC for the support. and Al Khor, at 42 degrees, Offshore, the wind speed has been H E Dr Hassan Lahdan Saqr in Iceland. respectively. forecast at between eight and 22 Al Mohannadi yesterday visited Across the world, there are In Al Ruwais night tempera- km an hour, with the direction the Centre for Legal and Judicial only 150 users of power knee. with each lasting 12 hours at a It’s more proactive, the other one tures would be 31 degrees, more being northeasterly, later chang- Studies where he was briefed on Ossur Prosthetics supplies to the stretch. is to stimulate the comfort. But than that in Messaid (29 degrees) ing into easterly. plans of the centre. US Army, Hatley Court Military “The power knee is the only with power knee, it’s basically to and Al Wakrah (also 29 degrees), The bureau said in its warning The Minister stressed the Facility in the UK and the motorised, assistive device for get somebody out of the chair; and Dukhan and Abu Samra (30 for today that strong winds could importance of providing training Walterreed Hospital in the US. the patient, the others will be you want to get him walking,” degrees). blow up dust here and there with for Qatari experts to prepare them Power knee has four sensors comfortable, normal and make said Dr Adams, Head of HMC’s Doha and Al Khor, according some cloud formations. The night to handle their assignments and and two rechargeable batteries the person walk normally. But Prosthetics and Orthotics. to the forecast, will also witness could be humid. tasks. that can be used interchangeably, this one will let the person walk. THE PENINSULA highest night temperatures, at 33 THE PENINSULA QNA HOME MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Defence minister receives Spanish counterpart

The Minister of State for Defence Affairs Major General H E Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah with the Spanish Defence Minister Pedro Morenes. They reviewed cooperation, especially on military affairs. The Chief of Staff of the Qatari Armed Forces Air Vice-Marshal H E Ghanim bin Shaheen Al Ghanim, Spanish Ambassador Mar’a del Carmen de la Pe’a Corcuera and a number of senior army officers were also present. More than 138,000 infants screened for hearing loss

DOHA: Hamad Medical of screening newborns for hearing the Neonatal Intensive Care Units Corporation’s (HMC) National disorders in the Middle East and (NICU) for more than 48 hours, Newborn Screening Program North Africa region.’ or those who are more prone to (NNSP) has celebrated its The set of medical protocols hearing disorder due to congenital 10th anniversary, having car- adopted by the programme are causes, or due to mothers expo- ried out 138,046 hearing tests deemed one of the best imple- sure to communicable diseases, on infants in Qatar over the mented in the world, where or to pharmaceutical toxicity past decade. healthy newborns are screened during pregnancy, they would Between 2005 and 2012, HMC through a three-phase plan: be subjected to a more stringent clinicians have diagnosed 703 In the first phase the newborn protocol where they undergo cases of hearing disorders among is subjected to the first hearing meticulous screening,” Dr Hadi newborns and tested and pre- test when they are just 24–48 explained. scribed hearing aids for 600. hours old,” he said. The success of the programme More than 100 cochlear implant In the second phase, when the in the early detection of vari- procedures have been successfully newborn is two to three months ous hearing disorders prompted performed since the inception of old and in receipt of their first of HMC to initiate diagnostic and the programme in 2005 with 23 several mandatory vaccines, the therapeutic programmes and on the waiting list, said the Head infant’s hearing is tested. clinics including the Audiology of Audiology and Balance Unit The third and final phase takes and Balance Unit, Cochlear and Chairman of the programme, place when the child is five years Implant Laboratories and the Dr Khaled Abdul Hadi. old and they undergo their third Electronic Cochlear Implants He described the programme as hearing test. Program. ‘a leading initiative in the domain “As for newborns admitted to THE PENINSULA MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Minister with award-winning film-maker 7,000 baby car seats to be distributed at hospital Initiative part of ‘One Second’ road safety campaign

BY RAYNALD C RIVERA “Such campaigns play an “Not only children but also important role by raising aware- adults should use seatbelts even DOHA: A total of 7,000 baby ness of child car seats to guaran- at the back seat. Accidents cost car seats will be distributed tee their safety,” he said, adding the government lots of money,” to newborns at the Hamad parents should set an example he said. Medical Corporation Women’s for their children in always using In 2006, Brig Al Kharji said, Hospital from the first day of seatbelts. deaths on roads reached 270 and Ramadan as part of the “Baby These campaigns, he said, are with the increase in population Car Seats” initiative under the not just targeted toward lowering together with the number of vehi- recently launched “One Second” mortality rates but also reducing cles with the number of licenses national road safety brand. injury rates and that the latest issued at108,000 last year, this The new initiative was campaign is just the beginning of would further rise to more than launched by the National Traffic many to come to create awareness 400, posing a big challenge for Safety Committee (NTSC) at not only to Qataris but also on them. the Ministry of Interior (MoI), expatriates. He called for a renewed coop- the Supreme Council of Health “We are now focusing on chil- eration among motorists on the (SCH) and Maersk Oil Qatar dren, but we will also be concen- roads, increase use of signals to promote the use of car seats trating on adolescents and other and decrease on speed when among the young and vulnerable categories of the society in the approaching schools, mosques and to reduce injuries and fatalities in future,” said SCH Director of residential areas to reduce fatali- serious car accidents. Public Health Dr Mohammed Al ties and injuries. Assistant Secretary General for Thani, adding since 2006 mor- Launched in May this year, Medical Affairs at SCH, Dr Saleh tality rates on the road have ‘One Second’ serves as the Ali Al Marri stressed raising decreased significantly because umbrella of all campaigns for road The award-winning Kuwaiti film-maker Walid Al Awadi (third left), and renowned Kuwaiti actor Saad Al Farej awareness of seat belts and child of the campaigns. safety in the country. (third right) with the Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage Dr Hamad bin Abdullaziz Al Kuwari (centre) and car seats and safety and security Director of Traffic Department Hamad Ashkanani, Media officials from the Doha Film Institute, at the recent screening of the film Tora Bora at the Museum of Islamic procedures on roads is the third Brigadier Mohammed Saad Al Relations and Social Media Art as part of DFI’s Hekayat Khaleejiya series. goal of the SCH in implementing Kharji, emphasised use of seat- Advisor at Maersk Qatar, said the health aspect of the National belts should become a habit and since its launch it garnered about Road Safety Strategy led by the should not just be done in the 10,000 followers in Facebook. MoI. presence of police. “One Second, and other related Punjab chief Speaking at a press conference “We hope this campaign would initiatives, are examples of the to mark the launch of the initia- improve safety on roads, avoid quality projects that Maersk minister in tive yesterday at Sheraton Doha, accidents and decrease mortality delivers. We have long term plans Dr Al Marri lauded the quality of rate,” said Brig Al Kharji, adding and collaborate closely with sev- Doha today projects adopted by the NTSC in he hoped there would be laws in eral official bodies to sustain such collaboration with various enti- the future which would make it projects and achieve our objec- DOHA: The Chief ties, including the “One Second” obligatory to wear seatbelts even tives in serving society,” he said. Minister of Pakistan’s brand. at the back seat. THE PENINSULA Punjab province Shahbaz Sharif will arrive in Qatar today, a Pakistan embassy official said yesterday. He will extend greetings to the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani as a special envoy of the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is also his brother, and also meet the Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani. Sharif, who is also a sen- ior member of Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N), will be accom- panied by a Pakistani del- egation which will include the Federal Minister for Water and Power, Khawaja Mohammad Asif, and Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. The delegation is expected to discuss issues to enhance cooperation between Pakistan and Qatar and also meet the Minster of Energy and Industry, H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada. There are also plans to have an interactive ses- The Director of Traffic Department, Brigadier Mohamed Saad Al Kharji (right); the Assistant Secretary General for sion with Pakistanis work- Medical Affairs, Supreme Council of Health (SCH), Dr Saleh Ali Al Marri (third left); the Director of Public Health, ing in the field of energy SCH, Dr Mohammed Al Thani (second left); the Media Relations and Social Media Adviser at Maersk Qatar, Hamad and finance in Qatar. Ashkanani (third right); and other officials from Maersk during the launch of a campaign ‘Every Child needs a Car THE PENINSULA Seat’ at the Doha Sheraton yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT

Parts of lanes on 22 February Street to be closed

DOHA: Some parts of the lanes on the 22 February Street in front of Souq Al Ali near Al Gharrafa Interchange will be temporarily closed from tomorrow and will be reopened on July 23, the Public Works Authority ‘Ashghal ’ announced yesterday. Travellers would still be able to use the street as the closure will only make some parts of the street a bit narrower during the construction period. Ashghal also said that the closure is part of a project to upgrade the existing Doha and Al Rayyan treated sewerage networks. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Six students selected for Economist internship Students chosen from hundreds of applicants

DOHA: Qatar Foundation analytical format. They will begin Qatar Foundation’s Deputy for Education, Science and their three-week internship pro- Director of Communication, Community Development and gramme, entitled ‘Education Rashed Al Qurese, said: “Qatar The Economist Group (TEG) Connections’, on August 10, with Foundation seeks to provide have revealed names of the the primary aim of gaining practi- the best vocational training for six exceptional students who cal work experience with one of students in collaboration with topped a nation-wide com- the world’s leading media groups. reputable institutions across the petition to join a prestigious The panel of judges consisted world. This is in keeping with our internship programme at TEG’s of Professor at Northwestern ongoing efforts to achieve our offices in New York City. University in Qatar, Justin organisation’s mission by foster- The success of the contest is a Martin , Senior Academic Officer ing and enhancing the abilities key milestone in the positive and at Northwestern University in of all students, sharpening their fruitful relationship between TEG Qatar, Jeremy Cohen, Managing skills, and providing them with and Qatar Foundation, who share Director of QatarLiving.com, Bilal the necessary expertise to play a common values and goals. Randeree and Editor in Chief of leading role in fulfilling the goals Members of the judges panel Khaled Al Sayed, Editor-in-Chief of The Peninsula (centre), Bilal Randeree, Managing The winners are Maha Al Meer The Peninsula, Khaled Al Sayed. of Qatar’s National Vision 2030.” Director of QatarLiving.com, (left) and Jeremy Cohen, Senior Academic Officer at Northwestern University in Qatar, from Carnegie Mellon University With the assistance of TEG’s Throughout the duration of the at the event. in Qatar, Hamad Al Naimi from event programming division, the internship, students will shadow Qatar University, as well as Rouda interns will benefit from a com- members of TEG’s programming events division and will assist in the question, ‘How could you con- interesting, and creative approach Alobaid, Asmaa Fikree, Fahad prehensive programme that will division to learn the most effec- the production of multimedia ele- tribute to Qatar’s National Vision to the nation’s development goals. Alkhater, and Natalie Diong from enable them to get involved in all tive ways of producing reliable ments for the group’s social media 2030?’ Contestants were encour- The panel of judges also consid- Georgetown University – School aspects of media and event man- research material that is essential output. Students are expected to aged to focus on any one of the four ered other vital elements such of Foreign Service in Qatar. agement. They will be offered the to event programming and media. gain a wealth of experience by pillars of Qatar’s National Vision as essay organisation, form and The students were chosen valuable opportunity to assist on a This research will include inter- interpreting web analytics data 2030 — Human Development, grammar in their decision-mak- among hundreds of university variety of tasks, including produc- views with TEG’s journalists and and undertaking research ahead Social Development, Economic ing. Winners will attend a student applicants for their outstand- tion of written pieces, research, other leading experts. of upcoming events. Development, and Environmental briefing session in Doha on July ing ability to ‘think outside the as well as the creation of event Interns will also be involved in To enter the competition, Development. Essays were 18 and will travel to New York on box’ and to present a winning agendas, speaker selection, and the production of social media university students from across marked based on each student’s August 10, returning on August argument in an engaging and social media activities. content for The Economist’s Qatar were required to answer ability to sustain a coherent, 31. THE PENINSULA QRC to spend QR6,165,000 on Refrigerated transport must for food items DOHA: The demand for refrig- as chocolates, cream biscuits, year and this year it will be in erated transport services is set bakery items — including cakes force from now until the end of Ramadan charity programmes to go up in the country during and pastries — and infant liquid October. the summer as public health foods. Day temperatures go close to 50 authorities have asked import- The Supreme Council of degrees Celsius during the sum- DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent ers not to get supplies of several Health said in a recent newspa- mer and can spoil the above food (QRC) is getting ready to key food items in non-refriger- per advertisement that trans- items if they are exposed to heat implement several projects in ated vehicles. porting the above items in and humidity for long. Ramadan such as iftar project, The food items that must be non-refrigerated vehicles during The directives have been issued zakatul fitr, food vouchers, transported in refrigerated summer can pose health hazards by the food safety division of the ‘mawada’ project, Eid cloth- vehicles from May to October to consumers. food monitoring unit of the land ing and other social pro- every year include juice, soft The rule will be effective from border. grammes like “this is my wish” and non-alcoholic drinks as well May 1 until October-end every THE PENINSULA project which fulfills sick chil- dren’s wishes; with a budget of QR6,165,000 benefiting around 73,000 people. In addition, food parcels that are distributed will benefit about 850 families where the parcels will include around 96kg of (rice, sugar, oil, milk). Zakatul fitr project will ben- Qatar Red Crescent charity to reach 73,000 people. efit around 1000 families with a budget of QR450,000. ‘Eid Gift’ 3,000 families and individuals. To know more about the col- programme will benefit around QRC will also provide a series lection points for donations in 580 families/3,000 person with of health awareness lectures and different commercial complexes a budget of QR850,000 and the free medical services to the wor- contact QRC headquarters at old iftar project for the elderly shipers after Taraweeh prayers Salata near the old museum on is estimated to benefit nearly in 15 mosques. 44027700. THE PENINSULA Five charity groups to set up iftar tents DOHA: Five charity organisa- Called “Maidat-Hal-Qatar” receive from 1,200 to 1,500 people tions have set up four tents to (community feast), the project daily which might reach 2,000,” serve iftar meals daily for up is an initiative of Sheikh Eid said Adil Al Baker, a representa- to 2,000 people who are fasting Charity to be organised in coop- tive of Qatar Red Crescent, said during Ramadan. eration with the other four char- at a recent press conference. Sheikh Eid Charity, RAF, ity organizations. The tents are all ready and a Qatar Red Crescent, Qatar “After thorough study we have joint committee has been set up Charity and Islamic Calling decided to set up the four tents to supervise the management of Organisation Qatar have donated adjacent to the mosque at Souq the tents. QR150,000 each for the project. Al Attiyah where we expect to THE PENINSULA

Ten kindergartens to open in Doha

Continued from page 1 “But more needs to be done to achieve the ambitious objectives of Qatar National Vision 2030,” he added. Al Mawlawi said that Ashghal continues to work closely with the ministry and other gov- ernment bodies to develop educa- tional facilities. “In line with Qatar National Vision 2030, Ashghal is commit- ted to supporting an advanced educational system by build- ing modern and technologically advanced educational institutions across Qatar. Education is a key pillar of social progress, and new contracts demonstrate Ashghal’s unwavering contribution to this Engineer Nasser Ali Al Mawlawi (right), President of Ashghal, exchanging crucial sector.” an agreement with a company representative at The St Regis Hotel in Doha The new schools will be in yesterday. KAMMUTTY V P Al Waab, Al Aziziya, Umm Ghuwailina, Al Rayyan, Aba Al be opened around Doha and vil- companies, including Tadmur Hayran, Old Airport, Oneiza, lages such as Madinat Khalifa, Trading & Contracting, Al Wukair, Al Khissa, Al Luqta, Lijmiliya, Rawdat Egdaim, Imperial Trading & Contracting Madinat Khalifa South, Madinat Al Mearad, Jeryan Jenaihat, Co, Al Darwish Engineering, Khalifa North, Onaiza, Rawdat Al Mebaireek, Al Hareen, Nuaija Lotus Trading & Contracting Hamama, Al Thameed, Al Hilal, and Old Airport area, and five Co, International Trading & Nuaijaa, Al Thumama, Al Karaana, in Al Hilal, Leghwairya, and Al Contracting, Al Sraiya Trading Mesaieed, Rowdat Rashid and Rayyan areas. & Contracting Co and Bojamhoor Umme Salal Mohammed. Most of the construction Trading & Contracting Co. Ten new kindergartens will contracts have gone to local THE PENINSULA MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Brotherhood Jets over Tahrir Square seeks arms for Syrian rebels Nations urged to fulfil obligations

BEIRUT: The Syrian branch They are also concerned about of the Muslim Brotherhood the growing reach of radical called yesterday for the US and rebel Islamist groups in Syria, Europe to deliver the rebels some of them linked to al Qaeda, promised military support who could end up with Western after the opposition’s National weapons. Coalition voted in a new presi- Melhem Al Drobi, a senior offi- dent and ended a months-long cial with the Syrian Brotherhood, leadership vacuum. said there had been no official The US has signalled it is change from foreign powers in ready to send arms to the rebels, terms of promises to step up aid in addition to humanitarian and to the rebels. non-lethal military aid already in He said the Coalition’s election the millions of dollars. on Saturday, which brought the “We feel abandoned and disap- Saudi-backed tribal leader Ahmed pointed that the United States Al Jarba to the helm, should give and Europe have backed down the West the confidence now to from their position regarding send promised aid. arming the Free Syrian Army and “We hope the international we call on the international com- community will act seriously as munity to fulfil its obligations,” it had promised. Up to this point, said a statement posted by the foreign support has been too min- Brotherhood on Twitter. imal to offer any change,” Drobi The opposition has been call- told Reuters by telephone from ing for more advanced weaponry the conference in Istanbul. Egyptian military jets fly over Tahrir Square as protesters, who are against former Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi, gather in Cairo yesterday. since President Bashar Al Assad’s “They have officially welcomed forces launched a new offensive our new leader. Now they need to in central Syria with the help take the practical steps required.” of the Lebanese militant group Washington began to see arm- Hezbollah. ing the rebels as more pressing Two more die His forces are hammering the after Assad and Hezbollah forces central city of Homs and have began operations that seem Ultra-Orthodox fury over encircled rebel strongholds near aimed at securing a belt of terri- in Saudi from the capital Damascus. tory between the capital and his Western powers are still hesi- stronghold and the Syrian coast. tant about sending arms, partially That would divide the north and coronavirus due to the fractious politics of the south of Syria, where rebels hold new conscription law RIYADH: Two more people opposition’s political umbrella swathes of territory. have died of the SARS-like coro- group abroad, the Syrian National The decision to give military JERUSALEM: Israel’s cabinet Under the proposed law, only Two months ago, some 30,000 navirus MERS, Saudi Arabia’s Council. support was described as a bid approved a draft law yesterday 1,800 of those students, designated Haredim in traditional black garb Health Ministry said, bringing It went months without being to maintain a “balance of power” to abolish wholesale exemptions “outstanding biblical scholars”, rallied to rabbis’s calls against to 38 the number of deaths from able to create enough agreement that the United States saw as from military duty granted to would get an exemption, out of the conscription reform and pro- the disease inside the country within its ranks to hold elec- necessary to revive any political Jewish seminary students, stok- estimated 8,000 who become eligi- tested outside a military recruit- shortly before Ramadan fast tions for a new leader, after the negotiations with Assad, who is ing ultra-Orthodox anger over ble for the draft every year. ment centre in Jerusalem. when many pilgrims visit. former president, Moaz Alkhatib, being backed by Iran and Russia. the break with tradition. “The government’s abuse of the But while leaders of the A two-year-old child died in resigned. REUTERS Many Israelis have long bri- haredi minority verges on persecu- Haredim community have Jeddah and a 53-year-old man dled over state privileges handed tion and cruelty,” Meir Porush, an pledged more mass demonstra- died in Eastern Province, where to the conservative believers or ultra-Orthodox legislator from the tions against the legislation, an the outbreak has been concen- “Haredim” — a Hebrew term opposition United Torah Judaism ultra-Orthodox backlash cur- trated, the ministry said late on meaning “those who tremble party, said about the cabinet’s deci- rently poses little danger to the Saturday in a statement on its before God”. sion. Ultra-Orthodox rabbis say government’s survival, given its website. Four people have died The debate heated up when the study of the holy scriptures composition. outside the kingdom. elections in January saw strong is a foundation of Jewish life and Hoping to avoid any immediate The ministry said another three performances for two parties who scholars have a right to devote confrontation, the government people had been confirmed as campaigned against the exemp- themselves full time to the task. agreed to delay any sanctions being infected with Middle East tions and created the first cabinet “This is a stain on the State of against draft-dodgers by impos- respiratory syndrome (MERS), in a decade without ultra-Ortho- Israel, which has become the only ing a four-year interim period in bringing the total number of dox members. country in the world to determine which the military will encourage confirmed cases inside the king- Most Israeli men and women that studying the Scriptures is not young Bible scholars to enlist. dom to 65 since it was identified are called up for military service legitimate,” another United Torah “We will make this change a year ago. On Friday the World for up to three years when they Judaism legislator, Moshe Gafni, gradually through considera- Health Organisation said MERS, turn 18, and often see active serv- told reporters. tion for the special needs of the which can cause fever, cough- ice in the occupied West Bank and Changing the so-called secular- ultra-Orthodox community,” ing and pneumonia, had not yet other flashpoints. religious status quo in Israel has Netanyahu said in public remarks reached pandemic potential and But ultra-Orthodox men study- carried significant political risk at the cabinet meeting, where may simply die out. Ramadan is ing in seminaries, religious women in the past for its coalition gov- ministers voted 14-0, with four expected to start in Saudi tonight Free Syrian Army fighters prepare for an offensive against forces loyal to and Arab citizens of Israel have ernments, which have often relied abstentions, to approve the pro- and is traditionally a time when President Bashar Al Assad, in Aleppo's Salaheddine neighbourhood. been exempted since the Jewish on the support of ultra-Orthodox posed law. hundreds of thousands of Muslims state was formed in 1948. partners. REUTERS come to Makkah for umrah, a pil- grimage that can be carried out at any time of year. Millions are also Kuwait poll preparations expected to travel to Makkah for the main pilgrimage, Haj, that will take place in October, although the authorities have cut the number of Fresh fighting in Sudan after visas this year, citing safety con- cerns over expansion work at the main mosque site. WHO experts said last month aid worker dies in Darfur that countries at risk from MERS should put in place plans for han- KHARTOUM: A Sudanese notorious local bandit who was Za’tari said. “If humanitarian dling mass gatherings but has worker for aid group World also an officer in the paramilitary work in Darfur is forced to scale stopped short of recommending Vision has died of injuries suf- Central Reserve Police. back because of the unsafe and restrictions on travel. REUTERS fered in a suspected grenade A local resident said fighting insecure conditions for our staff blast during urban fighting in resumed on Sunday afternoon and partners, then many more Darfur last week, humanitar- with more explosions and shoot- people in Darfur will suffer,” he Saudi Qaeda suspect ian sources said yesterday as ing heard. Earlier battles had left said. fresh battles erupted. the city’s best hotel damaged, he In February, a UN panel of turns himself in A second World Vision staff added. experts reported “some incidents member was killed during the The World Vision office was in which former members of gov- RIYADH: A Saudi citizen who clashes in Nyala city on Thursday, caught up in crossfire between ernment militias have forcibly was “lured to restive areas” which officials in South Darfur the combatants. expressed their discontent with abroad, has surrendered and state blamed on “differences” A suspected rocket-propelled the current government, espe- been repatriated, the interior between members of the secu- grenade hit the top of the World cially against the backdrop of ris- ministry said yesterday, with- rity forces. Vision building, came down “and ing inflation and unemployment”. out specifying where he had “He suffered head injuries exploded on the ground”, the The United States charge been. in Thursday’s attack and suc- humanitarian source said. d’affaires to Sudan, Joseph The authorities in January 2011 cumbed to his injuries yester- The latest incident adds to Stafford, later said Washington published a list of 47 nationals day (Saturday) noon,” said one what the United Nations says is was worried “about the dete- accused of having links to the Al humanitarian source, asking for a worsening security situation in riorating security situation in Qaeda global extremist network. anonymity. Sudan’s vast western region. Darfur and the conflict between The man, whose identity was Ali Al Za’tari, chief of the Rebels in Darfur have been the government forces and the not disclosed, “expressed the United Nations in Sudan, con- fighting the government for 10 militia”. desire to return home and hand firmed in a statement that “two years, but instability has been The UN says an estimated himself over to security services,” Sudanese staff members from the complicated by inter-tribal fight- 300,000 people have been forced the official SPA news agency cited humanitarian non-governmen- ing, kidnappings, carjackings and to flee their homes because of a ministry spokesman as saying. tal organisation, World Vision other crimes, many suspected to fighting in Darfur this year, Authorities have “facilitated International” were killed. be the work of government-linked more than in the past two years Workers hang a campaign poster of candidate Rabah Al Najadah his return to the kingdom with “A third World Vision staff militia and paramilitary groups. combined. ahead of the parliamentary elections yesterday in Kuwait City. Kuwait’s his wife,” it said. “His surrender member was also critically The “shoot-out in an urban There were already 1.4 million second parliamentary election in eight months will be held on July 27 will be taken into consideration” injured,” Za’tari said. area of Darfur’s most populated people in camps for Darfuris dis- after the top court dissolved parliament. Kuwait has 435,000 eligible in any legal procedures taken The fighting in Nyala was city” highlights the region’s placed by the decade-long con- voters who will elect the 50-member parliament for a four-year term. subsequently, the spokesman said sparked by the killing of a unstable security environment, flict. AFP without elaborating. AFP

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HE Syrian opposition has chosen a new leader in the hope of injecting new life into the uprising against President Bashar Al Assad. The news didn’t Tget much prominence in the regional media as it What makes a ‘real African’? came amid the dramatic developments in Egypt, but its BY MAAZA MENGISTE importance can’t be underestimated. and had my heart broken, where I got the accusations of certain African Ahmad Al Jarba, a little-known tribal leader from the my ego bruised and learned to stand American artists not being “black T A recent conference on again. It is where I met my husband enough”. Maybe we are now too much eastern province of Hasakah, was elected to head the Syrian African literature in Frankfurt, and, one day, where my children will at ease in the lives we’ve made for our- Opposition Coalition by 55 members of the 114-member AI sat on a panel with two other be born. But my strongest and happiest selves, in the places we’ve chosen of our council at a gathering in Istanbul. The election ends months female writers. A question was asked childhood memories are of Ethiopia. It own accord. of feuding that has eroded most of the little support it almost immediately: do you consider is where I learned about storytelling Maybe this kind of cultural and once had among Syrians who back the uprising. Jarba, who yourself an African writer? We each and began to imagine my own stories. geographic mobility isn’t so comfort- defeated Mustafa Sabbagh, belongs to the large Al Shammar needed to pause before answering; we It is where my grandparents are buried able for others. But migration is not had to wait for translators to repeat and where I know my parents will be a recent African phenomenon. It is a tribe, whose members extend into Iraq and Saudi Arabia. the inquiry in our respective languages. laid to rest. human experience so old that it was The election of a new opposition leader is indeed good None of us spoke the same language, It is where my imagination goes recorded in image before word took news, but it’s unlikely to create too much hope among and none of the languages being trans- when I sit down to write. It is home too. precedence. Syrians and the backers of rebels abroad. The opposition lated from German were indigenous to Which of these formative countries do The question about an African in the country is in disarray, and has fractured under the the countries where we were born. Yet you want me to separate myself from, identity implies that the differences the question didn’t take that into con- and for what purpose? between “home” and “destination” are onslaught of Assad’s forces backed by Hezbollah. Also, the sideration. It was so broad as to be dis- The winner of the 2013 Caine prize so stark that living in the west should opposition has been without a head for a few weeks when concertingly limiting, yet it wasn’t the for African writing will be announced be a constant negotiation between liv- every single day matters. Its last president, the popular first time I’d heard it and it wouldn’t be on Monday. On the shortlist of five, ing where one must and where one Damascus preacher Mouaz Al Khatib, quit in May, in part the last. It seems that every new writer three writers live in the US and at really belongs. It is as if speaking to due to differences of opinion with foreign countries. with any remote connection to the con- least one has US citizenship. The Caine an “African” writer who responds Assad’s army is making fast tinent of Africa, prize, some have argued, should be only in fluent French, Italian, German, either willingly for “real” African writers. But who is Dutch, Portuguese, English or any gains in the rebel-held territory. or unwillingly, has to judge what makes a “real African”? other European language, points to a It took over several buildings first to wrestle It is almost impossible to apply a contradiction. The new Khaldiyeh after pounding it with with this question single identity to an entire racial or In a 1967 interview with the Paris Syrian artillery and airstrikes overnight. of identity before ethnic group, much less to an entire Review, Vladimir Nabokov, when Shells were falling every few Too often the talking about continent. As individuals, we are each asked whether he considered him- minutes, according to rebel what should mat- comprised of a series of contradictions. self an American, responded: “I’m as opposition continent’s ter most: their We are not neatly constructed sets of American as April in Arizona.” The leaders. At the same time, rebels book. qualities. At our best, we should defy question of his identity, despite living leader are finding themselves helpless writers are The question simple categorisation. in the US for almost 20 years, was a faces huge without arms and ammunition. quizzed about is problematic. It is living with difficult choices and persistent one. His 1977 obituary in the Their desperate pleas to It assumes a easy accommodations that makes us New York Times would make reference be supplied more advanced their identity static and com- human and, if we’re lucky, keeps us to his claim that he was an American challenges. pressed defini- interesting. It is from within contra- writer. weaponry haven’t produced much rather than tion of Africa. dictory existences that some of our Today, the general public associates results. But Africa is a greatest works of literature have been Nabokov not with the identity that he In the current scenario, Jarba faces huge challenges the world they continent of 55 born. Why can’t it be the same for chose, but the one that more aptly fits ahead, so huge going will be extremely tough. First of all, create. recognised states, those who can trace memories, or a our sense of who he was: a Russian he has to unite all the rebels and give them leadership with a population parent or two, to Africa? writer. We have narrowed him down and direction. Secondly, he has to talk to the international of over 1 billion But maybe the question about to a simplified tag; we’ve become com- and more than “African-ness” is legitimate. Maybe fortable with our own myopia. It’s community, especially the West, and get them to shed their 2,000 languages. it’s as simple as asking someone at a easier than forcing ourselves to tread lethargy and indecision. There are so many possible responses. dinner party where he or she lives. It in the tricky waters of ambiguity and The failure to arrive at a unified position on Assad and Answering this becomes even more could be uncomplicated curiosity that individuality. Maybe what we’re really the uprising by the West has been the biggest obstacle to complicated when the writer has lived raises this question repeatedly, com- wondering is where we will be trans- the uprising. It has been proved that Assad can’t be ousted outside her country of birth for years, pounded by the fact that in the pub- ported when we pick up a book or a only through fighting, and an extra push from the West can or was born of immigrant parents lishing industry, “African” literature story. Maybe we’re not brave enough somewhere else. has become marketable and is selling for the freefall before we land in new make the job of rebels easier. I wanted to ask: why is what I call extremely well. Maybe it’s difficult to territory, guided not by standard defi- Syria has become a nightmare. The death toll is rising by myself important to you? I responded tell us apart if the question isn’t asked. nitions but by the evolving power of hundreds, and an immediate end to the fighting is unlikely. instead with another question: would Or maybe we, the new generation of the imagination. What’s more dangerous is that there is a shortage of ideas a writer of German origin be asked writers hailing from many places but When the winner of the Caine prize on how to find a solution to the crisis. The new opposition this if she’d lived in America for more having various forms of connection is announced, we should focus on the than 30 years? My nationality makes to Africa, seem so “Un-African” on ability of the story to immerse us so leader must try sincerely and strenuously to end the up as much a part of who I am as my the stage at festivals that our very fully in the world that has been con- fighting. And he needs to look at new, difficult ideas. It will experiences. I have made my home in existence forces a reconsideration of structed, that it feels a bit like home. not be easy. America. It is where I first fell in love the world we live in. It calls to mind THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of Cyber insecurity is the new normal the day couple of months ago, I was intentions are translated into preparing they threaten to disable the very archi- collection - makes it all the more crucial in South Block for a meeting the country for a new global normal. tecture that seeks to deliver welfare. that the less-talked-about components at the ministry of defence. In this inextricably connected world, Also, the battle is no longer limited to in the new policy, like the creation of A Security norms dictate leaving technology - like humans - has its limits a bunch of ingenious hackers against security awareness and stronger legal mobile and electronic devices at the and is not failsafe. It is also equally unsuspecting individuals, but is heading frameworks, are put in place at the earli- checkpoint. Imagine my horror when true that the tech-empowered State into a full-blown war with sustained and est. India urgently needs a well-thought- America’s National I came back an hour later to see one is the only way forward, where new targeted attacks against nation states, out cyber security law to protect against of the guards going through my iPad. technologies like cloud computing, big where the right to privacy is collateral the misuse of individual freedoms. We Security Agency This cavalier attitude towards individual data analytics and increased mobility will damage. WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden also need to be prepared for that inevi- privacy is illustrative of an interesting play the defining role in delivering welfare and PRISM may have captured our table breach, where the role of regula- is in bed with the dilemma between the inevitability of a to the marginalised millions. All of them imagination of late, but issues of surveil- tory mechanisms and legal checks and Germans, just like more intrusive State and its obligation to have one thing in common: they rely lance and data privacy have been slow balances will become crucial. One of protect the privacy of its citizens. India on the interaction among large public to take root in India. The country’s efforts India’s biggest problems is the lack of with most other has unveiled a new National Cyber datasets that include everything from to build the world’s largest biometric a stringently-imposed legal deterrence, Security Policy to deal with growing your bank information to biometrics. database under the Unique Identification which invites opportunists to break the Western states. cyber threats. It will be interesting This means that cyber threats don’t (UID) project - and the fear mongering law with impunity. Edward Snowden to see the efficacy with which these just threaten our privacy or a State’s; that has followed such intrusive data The Hindustan Times Former NSA employee MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Halt aid to Egypt until democracy returns Egypt is not starting over. It has taken a large step backward. And the Obama administration bears much blame.

BY ROBERT KAGAN opening. Obama embraced that opening when it came and thus HE United States cautiously embraced the broad has generally post-Cold War consensus. been a great force Yet how quickly that consen- for the promo- sus has crumbled in the face of its tion of democracy first difficult test — the election around the world. of the Muslim Brotherhood and TBut no one should be surprised Mohammed Mursi in Egypt. And that President Barack Obama yes, that was a very difficult test. winked at last week’s military Mursi was not only an incompe- coup in Egypt. American sup- tent ruler but also in many ways port for democracy has never an undemocratic one. He imposed been consistent. The United restrictions on the media and States backed many “friendly” excluded the opposition from dictators throughout the 20th important constitutional deci- century and even toppled demo- sions. He ruled not so much as cratically elected governments or a dictator but as a majoritarian, winked at coups against them — which often amounted to the as Eisenhower did in the case of same thing. With a majority in Mossadegh in Iran and Arbenz in parliament and a large national Guatemala, and as Nixon did in following, and with no experience the case of Allende in Chile. whatsoever in the give-and-take Obama, however, probably did of democratic governance, Mursi not see himself as an upholder of failed in the elementary task of this particular tradition when he creating a system of compromise, entered the White House (though inclusiveness, and checks and his advisers like to compare him balances. He was the opposite to Eisenhower). At the start of of a Mandela. He also failed as a his presidency, Obama apolo- manager of the national economy, Supporters of the ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi gather next to the headquarters of the Republican Guard, in Cairo, yesterday. gized to the Iranian people for the unwilling to make an agreement overthrow of Mossadegh. In The with the International Monetary in building an Egyptian democ- and, second, that what matters the end of 2010. Then it put little do little or nothing when the Audacity of Hope, he criticised pre- Fund and to carry out difficult racy. But the slate is hardly clean, in Egypt is who has the guns. or no tangible pressure on Mursi product of their votes was over- vious administrations for viewing but necessary economic reforms. and the obstacles to Egyptian Some followers of the Muslim to end his undemocratic practices, thrown. Had the United States “nationalist movements, ethnic For his incompetence, he democracy are greater than they Brotherhood may well decide which might have forestalled the showed similar indifference in struggles, reform efforts” as threat- deserved to be voted out of office were before the coup. that violence is their best and most recent crisis. the Philippines and South Korea, ening and for letting such fears at the next election. For his The military, having effectively only recourse. And the military I suppose wise heads would still be outweigh “our professed commit- majoritarian and undemocratic deposed two Egyptian leaders in will in turn impose more-severe ‘POST-AMERICAN WORLD’ telling us that Asians, too, have no ment to freedom and democracy.” practices, he deserved to be two-and-a-half years, has firmly limitations on civil liberties to It has become fashionable in vocation for democracy. He noted, too, how “the removal of placed under sustained domestic established itself as the only real combat the violence, employing today’s “post-American world” So now that the military coup democratically elected leaders in and international pressure, espe- power in the country. Mohamed — along with the police — their milieu to argue that the United has occurred, how do we avoid countries like Iran” had produced cially by the United States, the ElBaradei and other secular lead- traditional brutal methods. They States had no ability to shape the “seismic repercussions”? Any “seismic repercussions that haunt leading provider of aid to Egypt. ers are happy to have been vaulted may even attempt to prevent the events in Egypt. This is absurd. answer must begin with a complete us to this day.” He deserved to have the United into positions of apparent power, Brotherhood from fielding candi- The United States is far from suspension of all aid to Egypt, espe- American embarrassment States not only suspend its bilat- but one wonders how real or long- dates in the next election. being all-powerful, but neither cially military aid, until there is a about past acquiescence to dic- eral aid to Egypt but also block lasting their influence will be. Live After all, having deposed one is it powerless. Americans pro- new democratic government, freely tatorships and military coups is any IMF agreement until he by the sword, die by the sword: If Muslim Brotherhood government, vide $1.5bn a year in assistance to elected with the full participation widespread. It is a major theme entered into a meaningful, sub- the military can depose one dem- the military may not think it wise Egypt, $1.3bn of which goes to the of all parties and groups in Egypt, of high school history textbooks stantive dialogue with his political ocratically elected government, it to let another, possibly angrier Egyptian military. It has leverage including the Muslim Brotherhood. and college courses on foreign opponents, including on amend- can depose another. What hap- Brotherhood government get over the decisions of the IMF and The Obama administration then policy. In recent decades, lead- ing the flawed constitution he pens when Egyptian “people elected six months from now. influence with other international needs to work closely with other ers of both parties have tried rammed through in December as power” returns to confront the What will the secular liberal civil- donors on whom Egypt’s economy nations and the IMF to ensure that to push US policy in a different well as electoral law. He ought to next government, as it surely will? ians now allied with the military depends. The US ambassador to no loans or other forms of economic direction. Under Ronald Reagan, have been ostracised and isolated Once again the military will have do as these threats to personal Egypt wields so much potential aid are provided to Egypt until the United States lent support by the international democratic the choice of intervening or not. liberties and democratic processes influence that Egyptians obsess democratic governance is restored. to democratic movements that community. Mursi is certainly not Its decision is likely to have a lot metastasize? On Thursday, as the daily over whom she is meeting, This approach runs contrary to the toppled “friendly” dictatorships the only democratically elected to do with how the military feels military was arresting dozens of and they concoct wild conspira- Obama administration’s instincts, in the Philippines, Korea, Haiti leader to have acted undemo- about that government. So who Muslim Brotherhood leaders, cies based on trivial events. The which until now have been to work and elsewhere (though not in cratically in recent years, and will wield the real power when the ElBaradei said he would be the assumption in Egypt, as in much cooperatively with whoever holds the Middle East). The Clinton these are the kinds of actions the next crisis comes? first “to shout loud and clearly of the Arab world, is that nothing power in Egypt and to avoid overt administration worked to hold United States and other democ- And the next crises are entirely if I see any sign of regression in happens unless the United States forms of pressure. the new democracies in Eastern racies have generally taken in predictable. The economic prob- terms of democracy.” One won- wills it. The problem is not that It is past time to get out of and Central Europe to high dem- response. And all this would have lems that Mursi inherited and ders when he will choose to see it, the United States has no power this rut of failure. Better to ocratic standards. The George W been a great deal more pressure failed to solve require significant and what will happen to him if he but that the Obama adminis- learn from our history than to Bush administration tried, albeit than Hosni Mubarak ever faced sacrifices by average Egyptians, ever does start shouting. tration has been either insuffi- repeat it. It will be sad if some unevenly, to reshape American except in the final two weeks of who have already sacrificed much. Egypt is not starting over. It ciently interested or too cautious future American president has to relations with the dictatorships his 30-year rule. Such reforms would be difficult to has taken a large step backward. and afraid to use what power the apologise to Egyptians for what of the Arab world, particularly implement even in a calm politi- And the Obama administration United States has. Barack Obama did, and did not Egypt. Across the ideological MILITARY ROLE cal climate, and the post-coup cli- bears much blame. It put little It has also become fashionable do, in 2013. spectrum, one of the big lessons But was a military coup the best mate will be anything but calm. or no meaningful pressure on once again to argue that Muslim (Robert Kagan is a senior fel- of the September 11, 2001, attacks answer? The good news is that At least some portion of the mil- Mubarak to make even minor Arabs are incapable of democracy low at the Brookings Institution. was that dictatorships helped a bad leader is gone. Yet that is lions who voted for Mursi have political reforms that might have — this after so many millions of He writes a monthly column breed terrorism and that the best where the good news ends. People probably come to two conclusions: been enough to prevent the anti- them came out to vote in Egypt, for The Washington Post). cure would be an Arab political talk cheerfully about starting over First, that democracy is a sham; regime outburst that exploded at only to see Western democracies WP-BLOOMBERG Saudi’s slice of Asia at risk as king aims jobs for locals BY GLEN CAREY expatriates while offering an amnesty their own with money sent from abroad. chain in Riyadh, Saudi men bag groceries spokesman Fahad Alotaibi said. “There is that allows the millions working here ille- Neighbouring Yemen, whose economy is and scan items. Women work at check- a need in the market for our graduates.” N THE Battah district in the heart gally to formalize their status or go home. significantly bolstered by remittances, out counters in family only sections at This month, Al Hidada, a construction of Riyadh, immigrants have recre- “The government is serious about has already warned the measures could branches of Carrefour. company, hired 500 graduates from the ated a slice of home, buying and sell- getting Saudis into the workplace,” John destabilise its fragile government. With the cost of living rising, many programme, and the local BMW distribu- ing clothes, food and movies from a Sfakianakis, chief investment strategist Saudi Arabia is the third-biggest global families need to have more than one per- tor, Mohammed Yousuf Naghi Motors, dozen mostly Asian countries. It’s a at MASIC, a Riyadh-based investment provider of worker remittances after the son earning a salary, Sfakianakis said. took 200 for its car workshops, Alotaibi Iway of life that may be under threat. company, said in a phone interview. US and Switzerland, sending $28.5bn in Women “need to contribute to a family’s said. As such jobs go to Saudis, crowds are The Custodian of the Two Holy “There are real structural changes hap- 2011, according to World Bank data. income far more today than a decade gathering outside embassies and consu- Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz’s pening in the labour market.” Egypt, the Arab world’s most popu- ago”, he said. Also, under the govern- lates as foreign nationals line up for the drive to replace foreign workers with Foreigners often entered the kingdom lous country, received $14.3bn in remit- ment’s jobs-for-locals drive, “retail chains paperwork required to leave the country. Saudis has begun to transform the Arab under the sponsorship of one person or tances in 2011, representing 6 percent are being compelled to hire more Saudis The wait erupted into a riot at the world’s biggest economy. Since its oil company then changed jobs without offi- of its gross domestic product, according with higher salaries than before”. Indonesian consulate in Jeddah on industry took off in the 1970s, Saudi cial approval. Many were stranded in the to the World Bank. For the Philippines, The kingdom’s $657bn economy grew June 9, leaving one woman dead. The Arabia has relied on migrants for tasks country, unable to leave without the con- it’s 10 percent. In Yemen, pushed to the 6.8 percent in 2012 and will expand Indian embassy in Riyadh has “urged from building pipelines to fixing cars sent of their original employer, who often brink of a civil war in 2011, remittances 4.4 percent this year, according to the our community to avail the concessions and packing grocery bags. They make up retained their passports. Foreign workers account for 4 percent. International Monetary Fund. Inflation is announced by the Saudi authorities” and more than half the 11.3 million workforce, without legal visas may represent 30 per- In Battah, Filipinos sell fish in narrow forecast to average 4.2 percent this year is working on a “24/7 basis” to process and now many are being urged to leave. cent of the total, Cairo-based investment back-streets next to Yemeni-run fruit in a Bloomberg survey. them, said spokesman Surinder Bhagat. “I can’t give you a percentage but I bank EFG Hermes Holding said in May. stalls, while Indians and Bangladeshis sell It’s important for Saudi Arabia’s pub- There are still jobs for foreigners, and can tell you that business is down,” said The jobless rate for Saudi workers is garments and buy the latest sub-continen- lic finances that as the local workforce not all the Indians will have to leave. For Mohammed Fahem, manager of the New about 12 percent, according to official tal movies. On Olaya Street, in another expands, private companies take a grow- Mohammed Al Dowsari, a Saudi camel Sri Lankan Restaurant in Battah, as figures. The government said in March part of the capital, many of the Asian men ing share of it, said Fahad Al Turki, head farmer, it’s a good time to hire cheap labour he stood behind the cashbox watching it would penalise Saudis who allowed who once hawked pirated computer soft- of research at Jadwa Investment Co. This and the embassy is a good place to find it. “I a depleted clientele enjoy chili crab and employees to work for someone else. ware are gone. Jashim Uddin, a 31 year- year’s budget provides for a record $219bn need two or three workers,” he called out to dhal. “Many people have left the country.’ Weeks later, King Abdullah ordered a old Bangladeshi, is still there, working in in spending, including on new state jobs. the hundreds of Indians waiting outside. “I The king made reducing unemploy- three-month grace period so migrants a shop selling computer parts. He says he “The government can afford the wage can provide them with their work permits.” ment in the world’s top oil exporter a could correct their status or leave the still hasn’t resolved his working status bill in the short- to medium-term,” Al Others have already made the decision priority after the popular unrest that country without any restrictions. About “Twenty or 30 guys have already left,” Turki said in a phone interview. “But not to stay, including Saleem Amid, 38. began in 2011 toppled or threatened lead- 1.6 million people under the plan as the he said. “They didn’t have their work per- in the long term it will be difficult.” Waiting in the sun for hours, he’s trying ers across the Middle East. He unveiled July 3 deadline approached, according to mits. I expect more will go.” Preparing Saudis for private-sector jobs to get a one-way ticket to New Delhi from a $130bn social-spending plan, and this the official Saudi Press Agency. Meanwhile, young Saudis — women is one of the tasks of the Technical and the embassy, after working illegally in year the government is taking steps to The clampdown could hurt countries as well as men — are increasingly vis- Vocational Training Corp, which teaches Saudi Arabia for years. “I’m going home ensure the jobs it creates go to Saudis. from Egypt to the Philippines that rely ible in jobs that used to be the preserve 110,000 Saudis a year. It has “gotten a lot and will start over,” he said. It has tightened labour regulations on on Saudi Arabia’s economy to prop up of migrants. At the LuLu supermarket of requests from different companies,” WP-BLOOMBERG MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Kerry plans new Mideast visit this week to resume talks JERUSALEM: US Secretary on June 30, Kerry held hours and Palestinians to move forward,” but no agreement has emerged,” Palestinian state on the basis of building freeze outside the major of State John Kerry is to return hours of intensive talks with both said Yediot. the paper said. the lines which existed before settlement blocs. to the Middle East later this sides in a mission which he said In his absence, Kerry left Several days after Kerry’s the 1967 Six Day War, but there It also said Israel would agree week to resume efforts to draw had achieved “real progress.” behind two aides to continue his departure, a Palestinian official would be no specific reference to to the staggered release of 103 Israel and the Palestinians But the Palestinians said there work. Frank Lowenstein, his sen- said that the US top diplomat a settlement freeze, the official Palestinian prisoners who have back into direct negotiations, had been “no breakthrough” that ior adviser on the peace process, had presented the two sides said, speaking on condition of been held since before the 1993 reports said yesterday. could lead to a resumption of has been meeting “almost daily” with “an initiative to resume anonymity. Oslo Accords, and would allow According to the top-selling direct negotiations following a with Israeli negotiators Tzipi direct and intensive negotia- Similar details emerged on the Palestinians to develop Yediot Aharonot daily and the hiatus of nearly three years. Livni and Yitzhak Molho as well tions for a duration of six to nine Saturday in a report by the projects in Area C of the West left-leaning Haaretz, Kerry was “John Kerry is on his way as with chief Palestinian negotia- months in order to reach a peace London-based Al-Hayat news- Bank, around 60 percent of the to arrive in Israel towards the back: the US secretary of state tor Saeb Erakat, Haaretz said. agreement.” paper which quoted Western territory which is currently end of the week on what would is expected to arrive in Israel “Lowenstein is trying to get Under the proposal, the diplomatic sources as saying the under full Israeli control. be his sixth visit to the region in for the sixth time towards the the parties to agree to a docu- talks would be based on a 2011 talks would take place within a Israeli officials were not imme- as many months. On his previous end of the week, in order to try ment that would contain the speech by US President Barack framework of six to nine months, diately available to comment on visit, a four-day trip which ended and get the negotiations with the principles for the renewal of talks Obama in which he called for a during which there would be a either report. AFP

South Yemenis Abu Qatada denies terror charges demand Britain finally expels Palestinian-born cleric after a decade-long legal battle costing $2.7m secession MUKALLA, Yemen: AMMAN: Islamist cleric after his arrival “a team of doc- Thousands of people rallied in Abu Qtada pleaded not guilty tors including the state coro- south Yemen yesterday on the yesterday to terror charges ner examined the suspect and 19th anniversary of the civil pressed by Jordanian military made sure there were no signs war that was won by the north prosecutors just hours after his of torture.” to demand secession for the deportation from Britain, his London had been trying to south. lawyer said. deport Abu Qatada since 2005 “No union and no federation — Britain’s expulsion of the but British and European courts no to the occupation!” the crowds Palestinian-born preacher after had blocked his expulsion on the chanted in the Hadramawt pro- a decade-long legal battle drew grounds that evidence might be vincial capital of Mukalla. expressions of delight from used against him that had been They waved the flag of the Prime Minister David Cameron. obtained by torture. former South Yemen and por- Abu Qatada, who had been in But after years of legal battles traits of Hassan Baoum, head and out of British prisons since his lawyers unexpectedly said in of the Southern Movement’s 2002 even though he was never May that he would return once supreme council. convicted of any offence, had once the fair trial treaty was ratified In a statement, the protest been described as now slain Al by the Jordanian parliament. organisers reaffirmed their rejec- Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s He was taken from prison in tion of a national dialogue under right-hand man in Europe. an armoured police van to a mili- way in the capital Sana’a. “Abu Qatada pleaded not tary airfield on the outskirts of They demanded “negotia- guilty,” defence lawyer Taysir London, from which he was flown tions... under Arab or interna- Diab said after the closed- out at 0146 GMT. tional patronage, to discuss ways door hearing before a military Television pictures showed of ending the occupation of the tribunal. him dressed in a white robe as south”, it said. After the former “I will appeal tomorrow he boarded the aircraft at the North and South Yemen united (Monday) to the (state security) RAF Northolt base. He had ear- in 1990, the south broke away in court to release him on bail,” he lier left high security Belmarsh 1994, triggering a civil war that added. jail in southeast London in a blue ended with the region being over- The cleric was taken to the armoured police van flanked by run by northern troops. courthouse near Marka mili- three police cars. Southerners have complained tary airfield in east Amman just Abu Qatada’s wife and five of discrimination and being mar- hours after he was flown in from children are expected to remain ginalised ever since. Britain. in Britain, where he first sought The national dialogue began on “State security court prosecu- Cleric Abu Qatada (left) prepares to board an aircraft bound for Jordan during his deportation, at Royal Air Force asylum in 1993. March 18 and is due to last six tors charged Abu Qatada with base, Northolt, in London yesterday, in a picture provided by Britain’s Ministry of Defence. Born Omar Mahmud months. It brings together 565 conspiracy to carry our terror- Mohammed Otman in Bethlehem representatives from Yemen’s ist acts,” a judicial official said. terror attacks, including on the British soil after a legal battle on Mutual Legal Assistance in in the now Israeli-occupied West various political groups, ranging “He was remanded in judi- American school in Amman, but that cost the taxpayer £1.7m Criminal Matters, guaranteeing Bank, Abu Qatada has Jordanian from the southern secessionists to cial custody for 15 days in the the sentence was immediately ($2.7m). that evidence obtained by torture nationality because the town was Zaidi Shiite rebels in the north, as Muwaqqar prison,” in eastern commuted to life imprisonment “I was absolutely delighted. would not be used in his retrial. part of Jordan at the time of his well as civil society representa- Jordan, he added. with hard labour. This is something this govern- The Jordanian information birth. tives. In Aden, former capital of Reporters were not allowed In 2000, he was sentenced in ment said it would get done, and minister reiterated the under- Videotapes of his sermons the south, shops were shuttered into the courtroom to hear the his absence to 15 years for plot- we have got it done,” Cameron taking yesterday. were allegedly found in the and offices closed yesterday, wit- charges being read out despite a ting to carry out terror attacks told reporters. “His retrial will be conducted Hamburg flat of 9/11 ringleader nesses said. AFP pledge by Information Minister on tourists in Jordan during mil- “It’s an issue that, like the in line with international stand- Mohammed Atta. Mohammed Momani of “trans- lennium celebrations. rest of the country, has made my ards, protecting his rights and Top Spanish judge Baltasar parency” in Jordan’s handling of Jordanian law gives him blood boil.” ensuring justice, fairness, credi- Garzon once branded Abu Three injured in Abu Qatada’s retrial. the right to a retrial with him Britain was finally able to expel bility and transparency,” Momani Qatada bin Laden’s right-hand Abu Qatada was condemned present in the dock. the 53-year-old father-of-five to told the state-run Petra news man in Europe, although the Lebanon blasts to death in absentia in 1999 Cameron hailed the final Jordan after the two governments agency. cleric denies ever having met the for conspiracy to carry out removal of Abu Qatada from last month ratified a Treaty A security official said that now slain Al Qaeda leader. AFP BAALBEK, Lebanon: Twin roadside bombs, detonated min- utes apart, wounded a woman and two soldiers in eastern Iran’s Unesco World Heritage site Lebanon yesterday, a security source said. Iraqi Kurdistan chief on The first device went off as a civilian vehicle passed along the main highway from the town of Baalbek towards the Syrian rare visit to Baghdad border, just 200m from an army checkpoint at the entrance to BAGHDAD: The president Barzani admitted that there the town of Hermel, the security of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish are “problems and different source said. region, Massud Barzani, visited opinions between the (Kurdish) The second bomb exploded Baghdad yesterday for the first region and the federal govern- when a military vehicle arrived on time in years for landmark talks ment” in Baghdad. Kurdish lead- the scene. An officer was among with Prime Minister Nouri Al ers want to incorporate a swathe the two soldiers wounded. Maliki on an array of disputes. of land stretching from Iraq’s Security sources said that the Barzani met Maliki, after eastern border with Iran to its incident was linked to the conflict which the two held a joint news western frontier with Syria into in neighbouring Syria. conference in the capital’s heav- their autonomous region over the Two roadside bombs targeted ily-fortified Green Zone — a major objections of Maliki’s government. convoys belonging to Shia mili- change from last year, when the The federal and regional gov- tant group Hezbollah in June Kurdish leader was advocating ernments also disagree over the amid mounting Sunni resentment the premier’s removal from office. apportioning of oil revenues. at its intervention in support of The improvement in relations Baghdad has also been displeased Syrian President Bashar al-Assad between the Kurds and the fed- with the Kurdish region for sign- against the mainly Sunni rebels, eral government is a rare bright ing contracts with foreign energy Lebanese media reported. spot for Iraq, which has been hit firms without its approval. There have also been deadly by a wave of violence that has Diplomats and officials say the clashes in the northern city of killed more than 2,400 people this dispute over territory is one of the Tripoli between supporters and year, and long-running protests main long-term threats to Iraq’s opponents of Assad’s regime and by Sunni Arabs who accuse the stability. in the southern city of Sidon Shia-led government of margin- The at-times lighthearted People walk past a pond at Tehran’s Golestan Palace (The Rose Garden Palace) as the nation celebrates its between Sunni opponents of alising their community. atmosphere of the news confer- inclusion in the Unesco World Heritage List yesterday. The palace, built in the 16th century, is a masterpiece Hezbollah and the army. AFP “We discussed disputes and we ence contrasted sharply with of the art of the Qajar period. agreed to work on passing frozen tensions that marked the rela- laws in the parliament, especially tionship so far between Barzani the oil and gas law,” Maliki said, and Maliki. referring to long-stalled legisla- Last year, Barzani was a leading tion governing the exploitation of critic of the premier, advocated Armed group shuts down second Libyan oil port Iraq’s rich energy resources. his removal from office and said Barzani said his message was that Maliki could not be trusted TRIPOLI: An armed group what the group wanted, but three late salaries, an industry source Another oil source who spoke to send a message saying “we are with F-16 warplanes that are on has shut down export opera- Libyan industry sources drew said on Friday. to workers at the facility said brothers and we are keen to com- order from the US. Later in 2012, tions at Libya’s crude oil port comparisons with the shutdown Ras Lanuf is a large complex men linked to the group that shut municate and collaborate.” the establishment of the Tigris of Ras Lanuf in a move believed of Opec member Libya’s Es Sider in eastern Libya which includes down Es Sider had closed Ras “We agreed to cooperate and Operations Command, a federal to be linked to a similar closure crude oil export terminal over- the North African country’s big- Lanuf port: “After they closed work together and to face every- military command covering dis- of the country’s main export night on Thursday. gest refinery and a separate port. the port of Es Sider, some went thing that threatens Iraq and the puted territory in the north, drew terminal last week, industry Es Sider was closed by armed Several fields belonging to the to the Harouge port yesterday to (Kurdish) region, and we consider an angry response from Kurdish sources said yesterday. guards who were demanding the Harouge oil company pump oil close it by force.” this a national duty,” he added. leaders. AFP It was not immediately clear payment of what they said were to the port. REUTERS MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Spanish yacht NSA in bed with Germany: Snowden family rescued Claim of Foreign Affairs Directorate leading cooperation with other govts contradicts German claim in Greece ATHENS: The Greek coast- BERLIN: America’s National Germany had avoided terrorist guard yesterday mounted an Security Agency works closely attacks thanks to information operation including a helicop- with Germany and other from allies. But she says there ter to rescue a Spanish family Western states on a ‘no ques- must be limits to the intrusion on of five stranded on a yacht amid tions asked’-basis, former NSA privacy and wants this discussed gale-force winds in the Aegean employee Edward Snowden said next week in parallel with the Sea, the merchant marine min- in comments that undermine start of EU-US free trade talks. istry said. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Berlin has alluded repeatedly “We received a distress call indignant talk of “Cold War” to “Cold War” tactics — Merkel from a Spanish woman on board tactics. used the term again on Saturday a yacht with three children, who “They are in bed with the at a political rally — and has said said her husband was on a life Germans, just like with most spying on friends is unacceptable. raft,” a ministry spokeswoman other Western states,” German Her spokesman has said a trans- said. magazine Der Spiegel quotes him atlantic trade deal requires a level The woman and children were as saying in an interview pub- of “mutual trust”. picked up by a speedboat. Her lished yesterday that was carried The domestic intelligence husband was later retrieved on out before he fled to Hong Kong chief has said he knew nothing the raft by a Super Puma helicop- in May and divulged details of of such widespread surveillance ter as passengers from a Greek extensive secret US surveillance. by the NSA. But German oppo- ferry looked on. “Other agencies don’t ask us sition parties — with an eye on “We do not know exactly what where we got the information September’s federal election — happened because the lady was from and we don’t ask them. insist that somebody in Merkel’s not very cooperative, possibly That way they can protect their office, where the German intel- because her English was not top politicians from the backlash ligence agencies are coordinated, very good,” the spokeswoman in case it emerges how massively must have known what was going said. people’s privacy is abused world- on. “We hope to know more when wide,” he said. The government did not imme- they give their report to the His comments about coop- diately respond to a request for coastguard,” she said. eration with governments over- comment on the Der Spiegel The family will be reunited seas, which he said were led report, which follows a report last at the nearest Athens port, she by the NSA’s Foreign Affairs week in French daily Le Monde added. Directorate, appear to contradict saying France also had an exten- A demonstrator holds up a picture of Edward Snowden during a rally in support of Snowden at the Place du The incident took place west the German government’s show sive surveillance programme. Trocadero in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris, yesterday. of the Cycladic island of Kythnos, of surprise at the scale of the US Der Spiegel has reported that some 52 nautical miles (96km) electronic snooping. on an average day, the NSA moni- he provided about the NSA were was living in Hawaii, via encrypted matter where it comes from and from the port of Piraeus. Germany has demanded expla- tored about 20 million German published and is believed to have emails with US documentary which laws are broken,” Snowden nations for Snowden’s allegations phone connections and 10 million been holed up in Moscow airport maker Laura Poitras and hacker said. “If you send a data packet and of large-scale spying by the NSA, Internet data sets, rising to 60 since June 23. Jacob Appelbaum. goes through Britain, we’ll get it. Zimbabwe PM and by Britain via a programme million phone connections on busy Bolivia offered asylum on Snowden told them that If you download anything, and the codenamed ‘Tempora’, on their days. Germans are particularly Saturday to Snowden, joining left- America’s closest allies sometimes server is in Britain, we’ll get it.” regrets lack of allies including Germany and sensitive about eavesdropping ist allies Venezuela and Nicaragua went even further than the NSA If the NSA is ordered to tar- other European Union states, because of the intrusive surveil- in defiance of Washington, which in their zeal for gathering data. get an individual, it virtually reforms as well as EU institutions and lance in the communist German is demanding his arrest for The Tempora programme of take over that person’s data “so embassies. Democratic Republic (GDR) and divulging details of the secret US Britain’s GCHQ eavesdropping the target’s computer no longer MARONDERA, Zimbabwe: Chancellor Angela Merkel during the Nazi era. spy programmes. agency is known in the intelli- belongs to him, it more or less There have been “no reforms” pointed out during President Snowden, a US citizen, fled in Der Spiegel said the interview gence world as a “full take”. belongs to the US government”. to guarantee that upcom- Barack Obama’s recent visit that May a few weeks before the details was conducted while Snowden “It sucks up all information, no REUTERS ing July 31 polls in Zimbabwe would be free and fair, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday. “There are no reforms in the Doubts remain media, and other reforms to Mandela still critical; grandson to lodge complaint ensure free and fair elections have not been achieved,” said after Portugal Tsvangirai in launching his cam- JOHANNESBURG: Nelson to help him breathe. 10 days ago stated the 94-year-old his condition, citing the need to paign against archrival President Mandela remained hospital- A close friend of the former was “assisted in breathing by a life respect Mandela’s privacy. Robert Mugabe. coalition ised in a critical state yesterday statesman had said turning off support machine”. President Jacob Zuma, Mandela Zimbabweans go to the polls in after doctors ruled out turning life support was discussed and “The Mandela family have been family members and his close just over three weeks in a vote patchwork off his life support unless he ultimately dismissed. advised by the medical practition- friends have reported since last to end the unity government suffers massive organ failure. “I was told the matter had been ers that his life support machine week his condition has improved. between Mugabe and Tsvangirai, LISBON: Doubts swirled Meanwhile, his grandson’s raised and the doctors said they should be switched off,” the court Maharaj said on Friday that who were forced to share power in Portugal yesterday over lawyers were planning to lodge would only consider such a situ- filing read. Zuma’s office “had not been party” after deadly clashes in the 2008 whether a last-minute deal to an official complaint over a court ation if there was a genuine state “Rather than prolonging his to the court material and would elections. promote a minister whose res- document which they say falsely of organ failure,” Denis Goldberg, suffering, the Mandela family is not speculate on its content. The southern African nation ignation sparked a government claimed he was “in a permanent who has known Mandela for more exploring this option as a very Earlier Goldberg said Mandela approved a new constitution that crisis would be enough to end vegetative state”. than 50 years, said on Friday. real probability.” was “clearly a very ill man, but limits presidential powers in a fears over the country’s politi- The anti-apartheid hero’s “Since that hasn’t occurred The document — which was he was conscious and he tried to referendum in March. cal stability. health condition was unchanged they were quite prepared to go on designed to press a court to move his mouth and eyes when I But Mugabe unilaterally Prime Minister Pedro Passos over the weekend, South Africa’s stabilising him until he recovers.” urgently settle a family row over talked to him”. Mandela spent 27 declared an early election Coelho on Saturday said ex-for- presidential spokesman Mac The 80-year-old Goldberg was the remains of Mandela’s children years in prison for fighting white- date which the Constitutional eign minister Paulo Portas, who Maharaj said on Saturday. convicted along with Mandela in — also stated that Mandela was minority rule and went on to lead Court on Thursday upheld had stepped down on Tuesday He is in a critical but stable 1964 for their fight against white- “in a permanent vegetative state”. the process of racial reconcilia- despite pressure from regional in protest at austerity measures condition after his June 8 admit- minority rule. South Africa’s presidency has tion as South Africa’s first black mediators. in the bailed-out nation, would tance for an obstinate pulmonary A court document filed by a law- said that is not the case, but president. AGENCIES become deputy premier in a bid to infection and relies on machines yer for Mandela’s feuding family refused to give further details of AFP hold the ruling coalition together. Portas is also the leader of the junior partner in the coalition, the conservatives CDS-PP, whose Holi in Germany fragile alliance with Coelho’s Social Democrats is key to the ‘Spanish ruling party coalition’s survival. Portas’ new job will be “coordi- nating economic policies and rela- tions” with Portugal’s “troika” of funded itself illegally’ creditors — the European Union, European Central Bank and MADRID: Spain’s ruling comment on the interview. International Monetary Fund, People’s Party funded itself ille- Barcenas is charged with said Passos Coelho. gally through kickbacks for at money laundering, bribery, tax The re-assignment comes least 20 years, former treasurer fraud and other crimes in an despite Portas having quit over a Luis Barcenas told El Mundo investigation into a group of busi- row over the tough economic poli- newspaper in an interview pub- nessmen suspected of putting on cies imposed by the troika on the lished yesterday. campaign rallies for the PP in recession-hit country in exchange Barcenas, in jail without bail exchange for kickbacks. for a ¤78bn ($100bn) bailout. as the High Court continues a In a separate case, he is under Portuguese media was less pre-trial investigation into prof- investigation for allegedly run- than convinced by the reshuffle iteering charges against him, is ning a PP slush fund that took on Sunday. the central figure in two major donations from companies and “Does the new government graft cases which have damaged distributed them to party lead- deserve the Portuguese people’s the credibility of the PP. ers in cash. trust?” asked the daily Publico. Corruption scandals have In January, El Pais published “We can’t believe in any of the crushed faith in Spain’s two major excerpts of two decades of hand- guarantees given,” sociologist parties and angered Spaniards written accounts allegedly record- Paquete de Oliveira wrote in the suffering a long-running recession ing movements of cash in and out Diario de Noticias. People throw colourful powder during the Holi Festival of Colours near Karlsruhe, southern Germany, yes- marked by high unemployment, of the secret fund. AFP terday. Originally, the festival is celebrated in North India by throwing colourful powders onto each other to spending cuts and tax hikes. In yesterday’s El Mundo inter- celebrate spring. Barcenas said in the interview view, Barcenas said the papers with the El Mundo editor Pedro were genuine and were a fraction Ramirez, conducted days before of the documents he had detail- he consigned to a Madrid prison ing the illegal financing of the because of flight risk, that the party. PP received kickbacks from con- Barcenas, who until now had Campaign begins for Mali elections struction magnates in return for said the documents were not in contracts in regions governed by his handwriting, said he had lied BAMAKO: Campaigning for ousted the democratically elected the process argue that it is being concern... It is vital that these the party. about this as an act of loyalty Mali’s watershed July 28 presi- president, just months before he rushed and, far from restoring elections be credible and peace- El Mundo journalist Eduardo towards Prime Minister Mariano dential election officially began was due to step down at the end democracy, it threatens to plunge ful, with an outcome accepted Inda declined to say why the Rajoy, El Mundo reported. yesterday, with the nation strug- of his final term in office. the deeply divided west African by all Malians,” Ban told report- paper had delayed publishing the Prime Minister Rajoy, former gling to move on from war and The transitional government nation further into chaos. ers in Geneva. The coup top- story in an interview with La Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar return to desperately needed lifted a nearly six-month state of United Nations Secretary pled President Amadou Toumani Sexta television late on Saturday. and other top PP officials whose constitutional order after an emergency on Saturday, marking General Ban Ki-moon described Toure and created an opening that Barcena’s lawyer, Alfonso names appear in the documents 18-month political crisis. what officials hope will be a grad- the preparations last week as an allowed groups allied to Al Qaeda Trallero, was not available for have repeatedly denied receiving The ballot will be the first since ual return to normality ahead of “enormous undertaking”. to seize northern Mali. comment yesterday. A spokes- illegal payments. a coup in March last year that the nationwide polls. But critics of “The situation in Mali is of great AFP woman for the PP declined to REUTERS MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL

US war veterans Probe under way in fatal jet crash need handshakes, not handouts, Two Chinese teens dead; 182 injured on flight to San Francisco; cockpit voice recorder found says Dempsey

SAN FRANCISCO: US offi- some less sophisticated, like the WASHINGTON: Veterans of cials were combing through the lights, precision approach lights,” the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wreckage of an Asiana Airlines she told CNN, as well as “some should not be seen as victims but Boeing 777 passenger jet here things that are more technologi- should be given opportunities yesterday, as they tried to cally advanced, (like) things on to work and contribute to their determine why it crashed onto the airplane that can give you communities, the top US mili- the runway, killing two people GPS information.” tary commander said yesterday. and injuring 182 others. But she said, with or without With both wars winding down, The crash sheared off the plane’s the instruments, the pilot’s exper- it was time to think about “what landing gear and tore the tail off tise is crucial. “So for them to be images that we want to have of the fuselage. Large portions of the able to assess what’s happening this generation, men and women plane’s body were burned out in and make the right inputs to who serve,” General Martin the fire that then erupted. But make sure they’re in a safe situa- Dempsey, chairman of the joint National Transportation Safety tion — that’s what we expect from chiefs of staff, told CNN’s State Board chief Deborah Hersman pilots,” she told CNN. of the Union. He said he was con- said much of the destruction isn’t Yoon Young-Doo, the CEO of cerned that issues such as post- visible in the pictures and footage the Seoul-based Asiana Airlines, traumatic stress syndrome, rising shown in the news. had said earlier his company suicide and divorce rates meant “What you can’t see is the dam- bought the plane in 2006, and that “this generation of veterans may age internally. And that is really “currently we understand that be seen as somehow victims.” striking. I think when we look at there are no engine or mechani- “We just find ourselves in one of this accident, we’re thankful that cal problems”. those cycles of history when we’ve we didn’t have more fatalities and The plane was flown by expe- become a little bit less disciplined, serious injuries and we have so rienced pilots, and there was no I think, than we need to be.” many survivors,” Hersman told emergency warning ahead of the But he argued today’s veterans, CNN’s “State of the Union.” crash. “Our pilots strictly comply who have not been greeted with Flight 214 originated in with aviation rules,” Yoon said. He the same adulation as US troops Shanghai, and had 307 people on was remorseful as he spoke at a after World War II, “don’t need a board — 291 passengers and 16 press conference in Seoul. “Please handout. They need a handshake”. crew — after it stopped to pick accept my deepest apology,” the “This conflict has been a source up passengers in Seoul. The air- CEO said, bowing in front of TV of strength as well for many, many craft apparently struck a rocky cameras. Investigators at the scene of the Asiana Flight 214 crash at San Francisco International Airport yesterday. veterans. And I like the American area at the water’s edge short of A four-member South Korean people to give veterans opportunities the airport runway. government team was also head- transport ministry said separately and everybody’s head goes up to all government agencies concerned not as a handout, but rather to rec- Hersman said on ABC her inves- ing to inspect the site of the acci- they were both teenage girls, born the ceiling.” “will join forces to provide all nec- ognize what they might bring to the tigation team arrived overnight dent, officials in Seoul said. in 1996 and 1997. “I saw some passengers bleed- essary assistance and resources to workplace, what they might to their and “have obtained the cockpit Aboard the flight were 141 San Francisco International ing and being loaded onto an deal with the disaster”. communities,” he said. “So I want it voice recorder and the flight data Chinese nationals, 77 South Airport was closed after the crash ambulance,” another passenger, The twin-engine 777 aircraft is to be a positive image, but there’s recorder, and they have been sent Koreans, 61 Americans, one but operating normally yesterday. Chun Ki-Wan, told YTN TV in one of the world’s most popular moments when it feels as though back to our labs in Washington. Japanese, three Indians, three San Francisco General Hospital Seoul. “Everything seemed to be long-distance planes, often used it’s slipping to a negative image.” We hope that there is good data, Canadians, one French, one said it was treating 34 patients, normal before it crash-landed.” for flights of 12 hours or more, Dempsey said the US military good information on those”. They Vietnamese, three others of uni- five of them in critical condition. The White House said from one continent to another. It was reaching out to private-public also plan to talk to the pilot “in the dentified nationality. There were Other patients were rushed to dif- President Barack Obama had was the first fatal crash involving partnerships and other organi- coming days,” to understand what also 16 crew members, according ferent area hospitals. been briefed on the incident, not- an Asiana passenger plane since sations as well as the Veterans went wrong, she said. to Asiana. In total, 123 people aboard the ing: “His thoughts and prayers June 1993, when a Boeing 737 Administration to try to ensure Part of the landing assistance Anxious relatives swarmed the flight escaped unharmed, US offi- go out to the families who lost a operated by the carrier crashed an easier transition for troops equipment at the airport was out airline’s headquarters in Seoul, cials said. Survivor Elliott Stone loved one and all those affected into a mountain in South Korea, back into civilian life. “They don’t of service for that runway, but seeking details of the crash and told CNN that as the jet came by the crash.” killing 68. need to be given something. All Hersman said that should not information on the victims. The in to land, it appeared to have South Korean President Park The US Federal Bureau of they need to be given is an oppor- have created a dangerous situ- two people killed were Chinese “sped up, like the pilot knew he Geun-Hye offered his “deepest Investigation said there was no tunity. And then, you know, we’ll ation. “There are a number of passengers sitting in back seats, was short.” “And then the back condolences to the victims and indication that terrorism was to all see how powerful they are.” other tools available to the pilots, Asiana’s CEO said. South Korea’s end just hit and flies up in the air their relatives,” and promised that blame for the crash. AFP AFP

Britain’s Labour Solar plane completes final leader seeks to limit damage leg of journey across US NEW YORK: An aeroplane expected to land in the early from union row entirely powered by the sun hours yesterday, but the project touched down in New York City team decided to shorten the flight late on Saturday, completing after an 8-foot tear appeared on LONDON: The leader of Brita- the final leg of an epic journey the underside of the left wing. in’s opposition said yesterday across the United States that The condition of the aircraft that he wanted to ‘mend, not began over two months ago. was declared sufficiently sta- end’ Labour’s links to trade The Solar Impulse, its four ble to continue, and pilot Andre unions in a bid to limit the propellers driven by energy col- Borschberg was not in danger, the damage from a row over outside lected from 12,000 solar cells organisers said. influence. in its wings to charge batteries The Solar Impulse is the first Two years ahead of an election, for night use, landed at John F solar-powered plane capable of the row has put the Labour party Kennedy Airport at 11:09pm EDT operating day and night to fly and Ed Miliband under pres- (0309 GMT), organisers said. across the United States. With the sure and handed some political The experimental aircraft had left wingspan of a jumbo jet and the momentum back to the ruling Dulles International Airport outside weight of a small car, the aircraft Conservative Party, which has Washington for its last leg more completed the first leg of the jour- been struggling with its own divi- than 18 hours earlier, on a route ney from San Francisco to Phoenix sions and flagging in opinion polls. that took it north over Maryland, in early May and flew later that Britain’s biggest union, Unite, Delaware and New Jersey. month from Phoenix to Dallas. has been accused of hijacking the The spindly aircraft had been REUTERS The remains of a home lie in rubble as firefighters continue working on the scene of a train derailment in Lac selection of a candidate to contest a Megantic, Quebec, yesterday. parliamentary seat in the Scottish town of Falkirk to boost its influ- ence in government. Unite said it Mexico volcano operated within Labour’s rules. Five dead, 40 missing in “The events we have seen in Falkirk have betrayed the values of our party,” Miliband wrote in the Observer paper, while stress- ing that “ordinary working peo- Canada train disaster ple” were an asset to Labour and that links to the unions would LAC MEGANTIC, CANADA/ a population of just 6,000 people. around 1:20am (1720 GMT). remain. “We should mend the QUEBEC: Officials in Canada One firefighter said that there had A spokesman for the rail line, relationship, not end it,” he said. said yesterday that they have been at least 50 people in one bar Christophe Journet, said the train On Friday, Labour said it had located five bodies so far in their that was consumed by the flames. had been stopped in the town of handed evidence to police inves- grim search for victims from “There is nothing left,” he said. Nantes, around 13km west of Lac- tigators supporting allegations of the catastrophic derailment of The explosion completely lev- Megantic, for a crew changeover. malpractice at Falkirk. an oil laden cargo train, and elled more than four blocks of For an unknown reason, Journet The incident has put Labour’s expect to find many more. the town’s downtown area, and it said, the train “started to advance, long-standing links with unions, Ongoing fires meant police took firefighters 18 hours to con- to move down the slope leading to who are the party’s biggest source were still unable to conduct a full tain the inferno — and at least Lac-Megantic,” even though the of funding, in the spotlight and search of the charred wreckage at two oil-tanker cars continue to brakes were engaged. As a result, on Thursday prompted Miliband’s the disaster scene in the Quebec burn, firefighters said yesterday. “there was no conductor on board” election coordinator, Tom Watson, village of Lac-Megantic, where a Brunet had said on Saturday when the train crashed, he said. to resign that position. runaway oil tanker train derailed that the fire was so intense inves- Scores of firefighters from “It is at heart an ideological and exploded. tigators couldn’t go anywhere near around the region and from the battle, a political battle between The accident devastated the the devastated neighbourhood. United States state of Maine those who want to take Labour centre of this small town, 250km Witnesses said they heard the were enlisted to battle the blaze, back to the 70s and 80s... and those east of Montreal, and forced about train pass by at what seemed like which was under investigation by like Ed Miliband who want to see 2,000 to flee their homes there. a greater than usual speed, then Canada’s Transportation Safety us move increasingly towards an Police spokesman Michel careen off the rails and erupt into Board. One witness, Nancy open party,” said former Labour Brunet said after finding one flames. Survivors of the explosion Cameron, posted a photo on social Cabinet minister John Reid in an body that they now have found described a wall of flames as the media websites showing one of interview with the BBC. four others and anticipate “many fuel-laden cars left the tracks as the train’s locomotives spouting The row has galvanised the more” fatalities as a result of the dozens of people enjoyed a sum- flames near Nantes. Conservative party which, only disaster. He added that the official mer night in bars and on restau- Other witnesses were in Lac- weeks ago, had looked weakened by figure for missing people is 40. rant in the centre of town. Megantic when the train came disagreements on Britain’s mem- A view of the activity at Popocatepetl volcano from San Pedro Cholula Saturday’s crash of an oil-laden Montreal, Maine & Atlantic barreling in. “When we came out, bership of the European Union. A town, Puebla state, Mexico, yesterday. The volcano has thrown out train and subsequent explosions Railway said that the train had we saw cars arriving in the centre vote on the EU on Friday won over- ash and steam over recent days, causing flight cancellations. decimated the centre of the vil- been transporting 72 carloads of town at full speed,” Yvon Rosa whelming Conservative support. lage of Lac-Megantic, which has of crude oil when it derailed at told Radio-Canada. AFP REUTERS MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 ASIA / PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 China mourns teenagers killed in Asiana jet crash Eight killed BEIJING: China yesterday preliminary report, state news China’s President Xi Jinping Xinhua said. CCTV urged survi- started for them,” said another as Philippine mourned two teenage girls agency Xinhua said. Earlier, state offered his condolences to the vors and their loved ones to post user. “Who knew the journey to killed after a South Korean broadcaster CCTV said they were victims’ families on Sunday and information on the online messag- the dream would become their passenger jet crashed at San born in 1996 and 1997. ordered Chinese diplomatic mis- ing system We Chat so they could last trip?” troops clash Francisco airport as survivors The report quoted Asiana sions to do everything they could find one another. Among the survivors were 60 recounted harrowing details of Airlines as saying the informa- to help the survivors, Xinhua Social media users mourned students and several teachers with rebels their flight. tion was based on their boarding reported. the two girls killed on board. travelling in two groups, with a Chinese nationals made up 141 passes but their identities have Another group of 30 students “In a country of families with few suffering injuries and one COTABATO, Philippines: of the 291 passengers aboard the not yet been confirmed by DNA and six teachers from China’s mostly single children, how can student unaccounted for, CCTV Five Philippine soldiers and Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 which testing. northern Shanxi province were the parents take this?” wrote reported. “When the crash hap- three rogue Muslim rebels have burst into flames after it landed It added the two were among also aboard the same flight, it one on the Chinese microblog pened we felt we were done for. been killed in clashes ahead of short of the runway, injuring 182. a group of 30 students who were quoted officials as saying. Sina Weibo, referring to China’s Equipment and everything was the resumption of peace talks The two girls were middle flying to the US along with their Yesterday evening the Chinese population-control policy limiting falling on our heads,” a teacher aimed at ending a decades- school students from east China’s teachers to take part in a sum- foreign ministry confirmed the most families to one child. from the northern province of old rebellion, the military said Zhejiang province according to a mer camp. safety of 78 Chinese nationals, “Life is supposed to have just Shanxi told CCTV. AFP yesterday. The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, a splinter guerrilla group, ambushed an army truck and attacked an army camp on Saturday, said regional military spokesman Major- General Romeo Gapuz. Aquino says charter change ‘dead’ The fighting occurred two days before the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the country’s largest Amendments not on government’s priority list: Valte Muslim guerrilla force, were to resume talks in neighbouring MANILA: For the ninth question is proffered, Valte said and other elective officials. “You Malaysia today. and probably the last time, Charter change would not be on know when we discuss this with “The BIFF is hell-bent on President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ government’s priority list. the President, we also don’t reach derailing the (Philippines-MILF) Aquino III said yesterday any She said she had no update on that point because no one has peace talks by launching simulta- effort to have the constitution a study on constitutional amend- answered so far the very first neous attacks against civilian and amended during his adminis- ments supposedly commissioned question of the President. Why military installations,” Gapuz said tration is dead. by Aquino but stressed that dis- do we need to do this at this time? in a written statement. In an interview over radio cussions on the issue had not pro- What is the adverse effect if we The BIFF set off a roadside dzRB, deputy presidential spokes- gressed because of unanswered don’t do it? What is the urgency? bomb as a military truck drove person Abigail Valte said there is questions. That’s it,” Valte said. past in the mainly rural Datu no solid justification for consti- She said the President’s posi- “Somebody has to justify the Piang municipality, killing three tutional amendments — even a tion was not even based on urgency to him, why it has to soldiers, officials said. limited one — under the current concerns that the issue might be done at this time. Because A Philippine Army unit based administration. be devisive or might be taken nobody has been able to answer nearby killed three of the rebels While the previous admin- advantage of by some politicians why there is a pressing need, why in a subsequent firefight, they istration had been preoccupied who want to prolong their stay there is an urgency to do it now, added. BIFF forces simultane- with changing the constitution in power. “We’ve managed to get the discussion does not really ously attacked an army detach- purportedly to make it more along this point without amend- progress... There are maybe other ment in another section of the investor-friendly, the Aquino ing the Charter. And if we are things that may happen down town, killing two other soldiers, leadership sees no need for such going to talk about economic the road. So we are not able to a military report said. an initiative. progress, the numbers are there,” get there... we really stop on the BIFF spokesman Abu Misry “This is the question that Valte said, apparently referring to pressing need,” Valte said. confirmed that his group was the President has always asked: the high economic growth posted Thirteen business groups behind Saturday’s attacks. AFP What would be the detriment to in the last three years. – including the Joint Foreign the country if we do not move for Valte said the experiences Chambers of Commerce, the Cha-cha (Charter change) now, of other countries could also Philippine Chamber of Commerce at this time? What is the pressing be used, as some of them had and Industry, the Makati need and until this day, no one achieved economic growth and Business Club and the Employers Koreas agree to has answered that (question) to managed to attract foreign direct Confederation of the Philippines the President,” Valte said. investments without allowing for- – made public their call for reopen joint zone “Is there a clear and present eign ownership of their lands or Aquino to consider amending danger to be faced if we do not lifting other restrictions. restrictive economic provisions of ‘when ready’ amend the Charter now? So that As regards term extension, the the constitution to attract more is the question in the mind of the President said he was not inclined investors. SEOUL: North and South President and until now, no one has to remain in office after 2016. Leaders of Congress and other Korea yesterday made a crucial given clear reasons or clear answers During the past Ramos and lawmakers had also tried but step forward in winding down to that question,” Valte said. Arroyo administrations, Charter failed to convince Aquino to push months of high tension, agree- President Benigno Aquino shedding light on constitution changes. Until such time that a satis- change was seen as a move to for Constitutional changes. ing to reopen a joint industrial factory answer to the President’s prolong the term of the president THE PHILIPPINE STAR zone seen as the last remain- ing symbol of cross-border reconciliation. The deal follows months of Flooded streets in China friction and threats of war by Pyongyang after its February Radiation detected nuclear test attracted tougher UN sanctions, further squeezing in groundwater its struggling economy. At the end of a gruelling at Fukushima 15-hour talk, the two sides said in a joint statement that they had TOKYO: Toxic radioactive sub- agreed to let South Korean firms stances have once again been restart their shuttered plants at detected in groundwater at the the Kaesong complex near the crippled Fukushima nuclear border when conditions are ripe. plant, its Japanese operator said “The South and the North yesterday, the latest in a series will let business companies at of incidents at the tsunami-bat- Kaesong resume operation when tered complex. (they are) ready to do so,” said the Tokyo Electric Power Co joint statement. (TEPCO) said tests showed that The two sides will meet again tritium, a radioactive isotope of tomorrow at the Kaesong indus- hydrogen used in glow-in-the- trial zone to discuss details over dark watches, was present at reopening the zone, including levels 10 times the permitted rate. a demand from Seoul that the “From test samples on July 5... North guarantees it will never we detected a record high 600,000 again unilaterally shut down the becquerels per litre” of tritium, 10 estate. The North, however, will times higher than the government likely find it hard to accept such guideline of 60,000 becquerels per a demand as it would amount to litre, TEPCO said in a statement. Pyongyang accepting full respon- The new readings came after sibility for the suspension. TEPCO said in late June that The complex — built in 2004 it had detected the highly toxic about 10km north of the border strontium-90, a by-product of as a rare symbol of inter-Korea nuclear fission that can cause cooperation — had previously bone cancer if ingested, at levels remained largely resilient to tur- 30 times the permitted rate. A woman walks in floodwater as cars line up on a viaduct before a flooded street amid heavy rainfalls in Wuhan, Hubei province, in China, yesterday. bulence in relations. AFP At the time it had detected tri- The city of Wuhan has been hit with the heaviest downpour in five years since Saturday night, local media reported yesterday. tium at around eight times the allowed level, or 500,000 becquer- els per litre. The substances, which were released by the meltdowns of reactors at the plant in the Maldives president pledges to work with Islamists aftermath of the huge tsunami of March 2011, were not absorbed by COLOMBO: Maldivian from mainstream politics risked Better to work with them,” he protests capped by a police this (radicalisation). There will soil and have made their way into President Mohammed Waheed marginalising the party, which said. Waheed has pledged that the mutiny. always be a few extremists eve- underground water. pledged yesterday to work would have a “negative long-term nation will remain a bastion of Waheed has been under inter- rywhere, even in Europe and the Subsoil water usually flows out with the main Islamic party effect” on the tropical resort tolerance despite pressure from national pressure to allow an America.” to sea, meaning these two sub- ahead of upcoming elections, nation. Adhaalath to adopt a stricter “inclusive election” amid several He said there had been no stances could normally make and rejected opposition fears it “We believe we can work with form of Shariah. court cases that could disqualify attacks blamed on Islamic their way into the ocean, possi- would lead to increased radi- them (Adhaalath), we believe we The party also opposes serv- Nasheed as a candidate. extremists recently, but the oppo- bly affecting marine life and ulti- calisation in the luxury tourist must work them, because not ing alcohol in holiday resorts that The president vowed there sition accused them of destroy- mately impacting humans who eat destination. working with them would be to attract thousands of tourists a would be a “totally free and ing the entire collection of 12th sea creatures. However, a TEPCO Waheed is standing for re- marginalise them...,” the presi- year and is the mainstay of the fair and inclusive election” on century Buddhist artefacts at official said last month that sea- election at the September 7 poll dent said in an interview at the nation’s economy. September 7. He said he was also the Male museum during politi- water data showed no abnormal as part of a coalition of four- end of a two-day visit to the Sri Waheed came to power after inviting international observers cal unrest last year. rise in the levels of either sub- parties, including the Adhaalath Lankan capital. the controversial resignation in to monitor the polls. The Maldives, a string of stance as the company believed Party, which once called for a ban “Rejecting them would have a February 2012 of Mohammed Waheed described most Indian Ocean coral islands popu- the groundwater was largely con- on men and women dancing in more negative long term effect. Nasheed, the country’s first Adhaalath members as moderate, lated by 330,000 Sunni Muslims, tained by concrete foundations public. Inclusion is better than exclusion. democratically elected president while some had “extreme views”. has been troubled by political and steel sheets. AFP He said excluding Adhaalath It is better to take them on board. in 2008, after weeks of street “I don’t worry too much about unrest in recent years. AFP MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Rapes: Sindh Five killed, 50 injured in Lahore blast may make DNA test mandatory Bill to revamp probe into cases

ISLAMABAD: The provincial Once approved, the bill shall assembly of Sindh is expected be called the ‘Mandatory DNA to take up a bill in its next ses- Testing Act, 2013’ and would have sion seeking DNA tests of the its jurisdiction to the whole of the accused as well as victims in Sindh province. The bill seeks rape cases. that the Sindh government must If taken, the landmark step arrange for forensic labs and col- would revamp the process of lection cantres in every district of investigation of rape cases and the province within 90 days from offer great solace to the victims the date of its approval. seeking justice against the brutal “DNA testing shall be manda- crime. torily conducted for the rape vic- “The DNA testing (is) man- tim. In case a complaint is lodged datory in rape cases, in order to within optimal time, intimate infuse certainty in the pursuit of DNA sample shall be collected justice by identifying the guilty and from the rape victim within the exonerating the innocent, and for optimal time or within 12 hours matters connected therewith, or from the lodging of the complaint, incidental thereto,” the bill moved whichever is earlier,” it reads. by MPA Sharmila Faruqui reads. Even after the lapse of the opti- The bill was submitted in the mal time, the police authorities Sindh Secretariat on Friday and and medical personnel shall make it says that it is expedient and all efforts to collect and preserve necessary to make DNA testing intimate DNA samples and non- mandatory for rape victims, as intimate DNA samples to help the Residents gather at the site of an overnight bomb explosion at a food park in Lahore. At least five people were killed, including a six-year-old girl, primary evidence, for effective investigation. and 50 injured. The blast occurred in a high security zone which is home to government offices, including the Central Police Office. dispensation of justice. Under the bill, the rape victims The bill seems to be a rejoinder would be escorted under police to a recent argument by clerics- security to the hospital or forensic dominated Council of Islamic lab for the DNA testing. It calls Ideology (CII) that DNA tests in for maintaining complete privacy rape cases were not in line with to the victim. US military chief prudent on talks with Taliban Islamic injunctions. The bill restricts any male police In last month’s meeting the CII personnel or member of any other WASHINGTON: The top US US-led invasion of Afghanistan undoubtedly some that are not,” now some years later, and they deliberated whether the DNA tests investigating agency to investigate, military commander yesterday in late 2001 ousted the Taliban he said. “And so long as we can are seeking to become much should be considered as admissible question or record statement of urged a cautious approach as leadership. Now the US and have enough precision in the way closer partners with us.” evidence in rape crimes. Though the victim. Likewise, the DNA the United States reaches out Nato-led forces are planning to we reach out to them, then I won’t Nascent talks between the US the CII did not make any decision, tests can only be conducted by the to the Taliban to try to help withdraw all combat troops by have the kind of concerns you’re and Taliban were due to start last but some of the arguments of its female medical experts. launch reconciliation talks in the end of 2014, and are trying to talking about, about whether month after the Taliban opened members were disturbing. The bill seeks complete confi- Afghanistan. bring about a reconciliation effort the sacrifices would somehow be an office in Doha, but collapsed Alama Tahir Ashrafi, a CII dentiality of the information col- “It is always difficult to think between the Afghan government undermined.” before they even began. member, explained that the coun- lected through the tests. It asks about the losses that we’ve suf- led by President Hamid Karzai He reflected on how when he Dempsey said he believed that cil never made a formal decision the government to make neces- fered and the idea that at some and the Taliban. was a undergraduate at the pres- in the coming months “we will get against the DNA tests. He said sary arrangements to have best point we would find reconcilia- Dempsey acknowledged in his tigious West Point military school the Afghan security forces to a the council would meet after Eid facilities to conduct the tests. tion with the Taliban,” General interview with CNN’s “State of he had been preparing to go to point where they will be able to to take up the matter. Meanwhile, Faruqui urged the Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Union” that he had some Vietnam, and yet recently he had provide security generally across Every year, thousands of women Sindh chief minister to set up a the joint chiefs of staff, told CNN. concerns about negotiating with hosted his Vietnamese counter- the country. face rape crimes. Majority cases DNA test laboratory in Karachi “But I’m mindful of the fact the same militants which have part in Washington. “I had him to “The problem is, I can’t speak go unreported. Those reported and bear cost of all tests in rape that all wars end with some level engaged in an increasingly bloody my quarters for dinner. And out- with much optimism at this point rarely reach any logical conclu- cases. Last month, the Sindh of political reconciliation. That’s insurgency in Afghanistan. side, we flew their flag next to our about the other factors of govern- sion because under Hudood laws, Assembly passed the resolution just the way they eventually end.” “I think there’s several fla- flag. And I was almost unnerved ance, be they economic or be they a victim is required to produce four calling for DNA testing in all rape Some 3,200 US military per- vours of Taliban. I think there by it,” Dempsey admitted. political. They have to keep pace.” witnesses to prove she was raped. cases. INTERNEWS sonnel have been killed since the are some who are reconcilable and “And you know, here we are AFP

Pro-Mursi rally FIA to get more teeth: Minister

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s bringing in those with integrity A committee would soon be Federal Interior Minister and clean track record. He said constituted for this purpose. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan yes- an effective system of reward He said that in the matters of terday said that the rules of the and punishment would be put in transfers and postings within Federal Investigation Agency place to boost the morale of law the Ministry of Interior and (FIA) would be revamped to enforcement personnel. its attached departments, no give the agency more powers The FIA informed the minister political interference would be against corrupt officers. that the agency had 52 police sta- tolerated. Nisar issued directives to the tions across the country but due Regarding the hiring of special FIA for establishing anti-money to shortage of staff only 36 of the public prosecutors, the minister laundering units in all parts of the stations were functional. observed that their services should country to check money launder- The minister said that a proce- be hired in a completely transpar- ing and hundi. dure should be adopted to ensure ent manner and payments made He said the government wanted merit-based selection and induc- to them should commensurate to revamp the FIA by removing tion procedure to ensure better with their qualification. all controversial officials and functioning of the FIA. INTERNEWS

Over 2,380 railway crossings unmanned Lawyers oppose treason Members of Islamic party Jammat-e-Islami march in support of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi ISLAMABAD: Some 2,382 rail- trial of Musharraf alone in Karachi yesterday. way crossings across Pakistan have neither a gate nor a care- LAHORE: Lawyers, media be considered a crime as required taker and remain a potential persons, politicians and human under the law. cause of major accidents. The rights activists have opposed The house demanded that all Council of Common Interests had the trial of only former presi- those who subverted, abrogated or Insurgents on the rise in east Afghanistan ordered that the provincial gov- dent Pervez Musharraf under suspended the Constitution since ernments and Pakistan Railways Article 6 of the Constitution 1956 and their collaborators and FORWARD OPERATING BASE had shut Islamic schools to send Taliban insurgency of its own. to collaborate and install gates and that too only for acts subse- aides should be tried so that jus- LIGHTNING: Insurgents have more fighters across the border. Yaftali said recent security on these crossings but the pro- quent to November 3, 2007. tice is done. stepped up operations in border “They closed them on purpose, operations in the east by four vincial governments have made They were addressing a semi- Abid Saqi in his brief address provinces close to Pakistan, one to push them to Afghanistan to Afghan brigades had greatly no headway in this regard. nar held by Lahore High Court said that the example should of Afghanistan’s top generals said disrupt security,” said Yaftali in improved security with only The unmanned railway cross- Bar Association in collabora- be set so in future no dictator yesterday, with militant num- a frank assessment likely to raise minimal assistance from Nato ings become scenes of accidents tion with the Lahore Press should dare to play havoc with bers up on last summer as gov- hackles in Pakistan. “There are coalition allies. Major roads were recurrently. Sources said railway Club on Article 6 at Karachi the Constitution. ernment forces work to improve 3,500 madrassas in Pakistan and cleared and more than 650 insur- tracks span 11,636km across the Shuhada Hall. Arshad Ansari said Musharraf security in the volatile east. if every one send five people, well, gents killed over three months. country with 4,072 crossings of In a joint communiqué, the should not only be tried for sub- Major-General Mohammad you can imagine,” he said. While local people in Paktia prov- these 2,382 are unmanned. house emphasised that neither verting the constitution but for all Sharif Yaftali, who commands Pakistan, which supported the ince say the Taliban-allied Haqqani the parliament nor the judiciary his heinous crimes like handing Afghan forces in seven crucial 1996-2001 Taliban government in network still influences at least five Notices served to can legitimise unconstitutional over Pakistani citizens including southeast provinces, said insur- Afghanistan, is seen as crucial to of 14 districts, Yaftali said around acts of dictators and their col- women and children to USA after gent numbers were up around 15 US and Afghan efforts to promote 150,000 girls attending school in his Gilani, family laborators. This house deplores attack on world trade center. percent on last year’s summer peace in Afghanistan, a task that command were proof the insurgency that in the past these institu- He said there should be no bias fighting months, with an esti- is gaining urgency as Nato-led was on the back foot and its leaders RAWALPINDI: An anti-nar- tions have assisted military while trying Musharraf for high mated 5,000 insurgents now in combat troops continue to leave were now throwing everything pos- cotics court of Pakistan yesterday dictators. treason. his area. the country. sible into the fight. served notices to former prime This house considers that by IA Rehman said the judicial Many were Pakistanis and Karimi, in comments rejected Paktia is one of three provinces minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, his putting one single person on and parliament record was not Chechens, Yaftali said, reinforc- by Islamabad, said in a recent fiercely contested by the militant wife and sons Ali Musa Gilani and trial and that too only for acts that good in Pakistan. Ayaz Amir ing recent assessments by Afghan interview that the influential Haqqanis, blamed for several Abdul Qadir Gilani in the ephe- subsequent to November 3, 2007, said justice should not be selec- army chief of staff General Sher Pakistan military could end the prominent attacks in Kabul and drine case, and directed them to would be a farce. It would smell tive and Musharraf should be Mohammad Karimi that the 12-year-old Afghan war if it chose elsewhere in Afghanistan. submit their replies by July 13. of vengeance rather than justice. given fair trial. insurgency’s backers in Pakistan to “in weeks”, despite facing a REUTERS INTERNEWS The treason committed since 1956 INTERNEWS

MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Telangana Taking the plunge leaders work on road map Blueprint being readied for Delhi

HYDERABAD: With the districts including Hyderabad was Congress leadership intensify- their only goal. He said formation ing its efforts to find an early of Rayala-Telangana (compris- solution to the Telangana tan- ing Rayalseema and Telangana gle, party leaders from the regions) was not being considered region yesterday met here to by the leadership. chalk out the course of action. State minister G Saraiah said The meeting discussed the another meeting would be held in roadmap which Deputy Chief a couple of days, which will also Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha be attended by experts and intel- would be submitting to the cen- lectuals. Whenever the central tral leadership. leadership calls, the deputy chief The meeting held at the dep- minister will submit his report, uty chief minister’s residence he said. was attended by state ministers, MP from Karimnagar, Ponnam members of parliament and the Prabhakar said there are indica- state legislature from the region. tions that separate Telangana Congress general secretary and state will be formed. Boys plunge into a canal near Araniya village, some 65km from Ahmedabad yesterday. Owing to recent heavy and timely rains, farmers of many in charge of party affairs in the Another Congress leader, Mallu regions in Gujarat are happy. state Digvijaya Singh last Monday Ravi said the party would soon said that a decision on Telangana take a decision on the issue. He was in the final stage. recalled that 42 legislators of the He asked Chief Minister party had submitted a memo- N Kiran Kumar Reddy, Deputy randum to the party leadership Chief Minister and state Congress in 2000, seeking separate state. BJP leader expelled over servant abuse chief Botsa Satyanarayana to sub- He denied that the Congress mit a roadmap on the strategy has taken up the issue for political BHOPAL: The BJP yester- for the last two days in Raghavji’s accused him of sexual abuse. He claimed that a sex CD had to be adopted by the party and mileage during the coming elec- day expelled former Madhya case, the BJP has decided to expel BJP sources said the decision also been made. the government if the decision is tions to local bodies. Pradesh minister Raghavji him from its primary member- to expel Raghavji was taken in Police officials said FIR had taken either way. Union Textiles Minister Kavuri from the party in the wake of ship,” Tomar said. view of the nature of allegations been registered on the basis of Party leaders from Telangana Sambasiva Rao, who hails from sodomy allegations against him. He said the decision had the against the former minister. the complaint and the matter was hope that Congress core commit- coastal Andhra region, said a Bharatiya Janata Party’s concurrence of senior party They said the state was heading being investigated. tee would hold a crucial meeting decision acceptable to people of Madhya Pradesh unit chief leaders including Chief Minister for elections and the party would Leader of Opposition in on July 12. A decision is likely to all regions would be taken soon. Narendra Singh Tomar Shivraj Singh Chouhan. not like to court controversy. Madhya Pradesh Assembly Ajay be announced on July 17. He told reporters in Vijayawada announced the action against the Raghavji was forced to resign Dangi had submitted his com- Singh has demanded security for Warangal MP S Rajaiah said that he had conveyed his views to former state finance minister. from the cabinet on Friday after plaint against Raghavji at the Dangi. formation of Telangana with 10 the party leadership. IANS “After watching developments his domestic help Rajkumar Dangi Habibganj police station Friday. IANS

Best actress First navigation Poll panel observers going places satellite in orbit, NEW DELHI: Riding on its 60 observers in the past have been (CEC) S Y Quraishi, who has tests begin on years of experience in managing sent to countries like Egypt, served as a poll observer in South the largest and the most com- Jordan, Ecuador, South Africa, Africa and Kenya, told IANS. plex electoral exercise in the Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico and Such deployments are mutually cryogenic engine world with efficiency and cred- Bhutan, besides conducting elec- beneficial, he said. ibility, the Election Commission toral consultancy programmes “While the host nation ben- CHENNAI: The Indian space of India (ECI) has also been with around 18 countries. efits from the credibility of agency on Saturday evening deploying observers in as many Tripura’s Chief Electoral having an Indian poll observer, successfully put its first navi- as 10 countries including Egypt, Officer Ashutosh Jindal will over- the visit broadens the Election gation satellite — the Indian Venezuela, Mexico, Sri Lanka, see the July 28 national assembly Commission’s experience and Regional Navigation Satellite Bhutan and now Cambodia. polls in Cambodia as an interna- further adds to its credibility,” System-1A (IRNSS-1A) — in “We have developed some good tional observer. said Quraishi, who visited South the geosynchronous orbit at 27 practices related to poll manage- The EC chooses its hosts Africa in 2011 as an observer degrees to the equator, officials ment, voter education and par- carefully. while being CEC and later Kenya said yesterday. ticipation and monitoring poll “We have been getting invita- earlier this year as a member of a Indian Space Research expenditure, which are globally tions from many countries in the Commonwealth delegation. Organisation (ISRO) officials recognised,” ECI director general past. But we send observers to Building upon its credibility, also said tests are being carried Akshay Rout, in charge of inter- countries only after looking at the ECI has also signed coopera- on its cryogenic engine that was Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan (left) looks on as actress Vidya national cooperation, told IANS their bonafides and their ability tion pacts with 18 countries to mated with its heavier rocket, the Balan speaks after winning the award for Best Actor — Female at the in an interview. to conduct credible polls,” former train their poll officials. Geosynchronous Satellite Launch 14th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Award ceremony at The According to Rout, poll chief election commissioner IANS Vehicle (GSLV) Friday. Venetian hotel in Macau. With respect to IRNSS-1A, five orbit-raising activities were done by firing the satellite’s on- board motors towards its geo- synchronous orbit at 36,000 km since July 2. The IRNSS-1A was launched Kerala sets example in returnees’ rehab July 1 from ISRO’s spaceport in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, he inevitable has just authorities and affected persons about 3,000 persons have returned and semi-skilled returnees would A proposal has also been made around 80km from here. been delayed. Indian to react and adjust. to Kerala following the introduc- get non-collateral bank loans up to fix a quota and relax age lim- The orbit-raising activities workers caught on the It is not very long back that, tion of Nitaqat in Saudi Arabia to Rs1.6m for rehabilitation. its in government jobs for those were done from the mission Twrong side of Saudi in this space, we had discussed and tightening of labour rules in The seven-year term loan returning from the Gulf countries. control facility at Hassan in Arabia’s workforce nationalisa- how India was underprepared to Kuwait. is offered under a new plan An expert panel headed by Karnataka. tion policy have received another effectively deal with rehabilitation Among the applicants who had called Swagatham (‘welcome’ in Infrastructure Kerala Limited ISRO officials told IANS three-month breather thanks to and resettlement of semi-skilled requested Emergency Certificates Malayalam) to help the returning (INKEL) Managing Director that everything connected with the graciousness of the country. workers returning from the Gulf from the Indian embassy in Indians to start new ventures in T Balakrishnan, which looked into IRNSS-1A is normal and the sat- All that this will do is give the and other destinations. Riyadh and the consulate in cooperation with Norka. the challenges of repatriation has ellite is slowing floating towards Indian missions, who have worked While the situation might not Jeddah, the maximum num- Bank officials have been submitted the proposal along the its final intended circular geosyn- with great dedication, some more have changed drastically, one bers were from Uttar Pradesh quoted as saying that some Gulf lines of similar initiatives earlier chronous orbit at 55 degrees East time to handle the rush of return- must acknowledge the efforts (21,331), followed by Andhra returnees had already availed by Sri Lanka and Myanmar. location with an inclination of 29 ees. For the workers themselves, of certain Indian Pradesh of the scheme in which a bank The panel has also recom- degrees to the equator. displacement is inevitable. states, particularly THE NR EYE (8,695), West account or deposit is not a mended that the government Officials said once the satellite Some countries in West Asia Kerala, in their Bengal (7,913), requirement. should form a database of skilled reaches its target orbit, its drift have reacted to the ‘Arab Spring’ attempts to at Moiz Mannan Tamil Nadu The loan with 10 per cent gov- labour, of which there is a short- would be arrested. Speaking about by intensifying efforts to tackle least bring the dif- (5,430), Kerala ernment subsidy and 10 per cent age in the state, and set up an the cryogenic engine tests, offi- unemployment among the nation- ficult issue on the (3,610), Bihar beneficiary participation can employment portal for trade bod- cials said it will go on for around als. The media has quoted a study agenda. The fact of the matter as (3035), Rajasthan (2,504) be used as the working capital ies to pick people from the pool to 20 days following which the satel- by the Saudi Central Department it stands is that Kuwait, not Saudi ,Karnataka (1,082), Jammu and for self-employment projects. suit their needs. lite will be mated with the rocket. of Statistics and Information, as Arabia, is where India’s attention Kashmir (906), Maharashtra According to reports from Kerala, An interest subsidy has been ISRO chairman estimating last year’s unemploy- should now be and states like (766), Assam (710) and Punjab the department is also providing mooted for starting new ventures. K Radhakrishnan had announced ment rate in the country at 12.2 Uttar Pradesh and Bihar should (496). immediate employment in coco- Other measures such as the that GSLV rocket powered by per cent. That meant that well be more concerned about return- Now, while Kerala has started nut plucking work. government supporting travel India’s own cryogenic engine over half a million Saudi nationals ees than Kerala. to put in place certain definitive The state has also started agencies formed by returnee carrying communication satel- were without jobs. At the time Saudi Arabia measures, the governments of sev- distributing financial assist- drivers or hiring premises owned lite GSat-14 will be launched Other estimates have suggested ordered extension of the Nitaqat eral of the worst affected states ance under the Non-resident by returnees are also being August 6. This will be the first that 39 percent of the youth in (nationalisation) deadline by appear to be in deep slumber. It is Kerlalites’ Welfare Fund Board. thought of. mission of GSLV during the last the 15-25 age group are unem- four months, some 75,000 appli- something like the Uttarakhand There were reports that the board Now, while no other state gov- three years after two such rockets ployed. Over the years, the Saudi cations for exit visas had report- government’s lack of prepared- met recently to review propos- ernment, particularly those of failed in 2010. One of the GSLV government has sent thousands of edly been received from expats ness for the huge human tragedy als on rehabilitation submitted northern states like UP and Bihar rockets flew with Indian cryogenic its young people abroad for higher at the Indian missions in the that followed last month’s natural by various agencies and subse- seem to have given much thought engine and the other one with a studies, resulting in a heavy kingdom. Only 7,000 were from disaster in the hills. quently forward them to the state to the issue, even the central Russian engine. The GSLV is a demand for more jobs at home, Kerala. The deadline for expatri- In Kerala, the government government. government’s much-touted pen- three stage/engine rocket. The said a report in The Hindu. Yet, ates without valid work permits department looking after On its part, the state govern- sion scheme for NRIs remains first stage is fired with solid fuel, for the moment, Indian diplomacy to leave the country, which was diaspora affairs (Norka) and ment too was said to be in the a non-starter mainly owing to the second is the liquid fuel and and a goodwill gesture from the to expire on July 3, would now the state-based State Bank of final stages of preparing a com- inaccessibility. the third is the cryogenic engine. Saudi government has afforded be November 4. Travancore (SBT) have put forth posite rehabilitation package for Low income workers have also IANS a bit of time for the Indian As per official figures, only a scheme under which unskilled the returnees. found the premium expensive. MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 Nine blasts hit Bodh Gaya temple Two monks injured in coordinated explosions; NIA begins probe; Indian Mujahideen under suspicion

BODH GAYA (BIHAR): Nine near-coordinated explosions shook the serenity of the world-renowned Mahabodhi temple complex in Bihar’s Bodh Gaya early yesterday, injuring two monks but not causing much dam- age. The government termed it a terror attack as an NIA team began its probe. President Pranab Mukherjee described the serial blasts as a “senseless act of vio- lence” while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said “such attacks on religious places will never be tolerated”. The Union Home Ministry also sent an advisory to states asking them to step up security in the wake of the blasts at the Unesco World Heritage site, while security of Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was also reviewed. Nine blasts took place between 5.30am and 6am at the 1,500-year-old Mahabodhi temple, annually visited by millions of pil- grims from all over the world, especially from Sri Lanka, China, Japan and the Southeast Asia region. The deafening explosions triggered panic, but caused no major damage. The impact of the explosions rattled the nearby hotels, sending tourists and pilgrims running outdoors in panic. “All the people, foreigners and tourists, came out wondering what had happened,” said a local resident. A member of the security forces walks next to bloody footprints inside the Mahabodhi temple complex after the blasts in Bodh Gaya yesterday. RIGHT: Members of the Bauddh The temple complex has direct associa- Commune International participate in a peace vigil in Allahabad after the terror strikes. tion with the Buddha (566-486 BC) as it was the place where he is believed to have attained enlightenment in 531 BC while seated under the Bodhi tree. Bodh Gaya monastery and the statue of Lord Buddha team reached Bodh Gaya in the evening agencies and Bihar Police about a possible preventive action was taken ... Why,” he is about 110km from Patna. are safe.” even as some Buddhist monks offered terror attack in the state. The IM opera- asked. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, Additional Director General of Police prayers at the temple. tives had revealed they had spent 15 days Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was, in New Delhi, said four of nine bombs S K Bhardwaj told IANS that two monks “Only Buddhist monks were allowed doing a recce of the temple. however, quick to refute allegations about went off in the temple complex, three in were injured — Tibetan Tenzing Dorjee, in to offer prayers as usual. The govern- An unseemly political war broke out his government having ignored intelli- a monastery nearby, one near the statue 50, and the other, a Myanmarese national ment has decided not to discontinue the over the terror attack with the Bharatiya gence inputs. of the Buddha, and another near a tour- named Vilas Ga, 30. regular prayers and worship by monks in Janata Party, close allies of the Janata “There are CCTV cameras at the ist bus. Union Minister of State for Home the temple,” said Abhayanand. Dal-United government in Bihar till Mahabodhi temple... We have had a close Bihar Police chief Abhayanand, who RPN Singh termed it a terror attack, He said the temple would open for pil- only two weeks ago, attacking the Nitish look at the security of the temple earlier went to the site during the day, said the while strategic analyst C Uday Bhaskar grims and tourists today morning. Kumar government over law and order. too... But the way these people entered blasts were not of “very high intensity” told IANS that there is “little doubt that A team of Delhi Police is likely to visit “The state government had been told and even were successful in planting and, therefore, no damage was caused to as per the classical evaluation of terror Bodh Gaya to share information provided about recce that had been conducted by bombs, we have to analyse in what dress the sanctum sanctorum. attacks — the multiple blasts at Bodh by arrested Indian Mujahideen (IM) ter- terror elements of the place, especially in they entered the temple and even exam- Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami Gaya will qualify as a definitive terror rorists on the temple attack. context of the violence in Myanmar,” said ine the security at the gates,” the chief also confirmed that the temple com- attack”. A senior Delhi Police officer told BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad. minister told reporters after visiting plex has not suffered any damage. “The A National Investigation Agency (NIA) IANS that they had alerted intelligence “There were warnings, but no Bodh Gaya. IANS BJP wants Headley probe details

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya (LeT) and Inter-Services political party. Janata Party yesterday Intelligence (ISI) involvement “The home minister must make demanded that the govern- in the November 2008 attack in the entire report and (Headley’s) ment divulge what was found Mumbai, in which at least 166 remarks pertaining to the Ishrat when the National Investigation people were killed. Jahan’s case public,” she said. Agency (NIA) examined She said the BJP hoped that A Central Bureau of Pakistani-American terrorist Home Minister Sushilkumar Investigation report submitted David Coleman Headley in the Shinde had gone through the recently concluded that Jahan had United States. NIA’s examination of Headley. no terrorist links, and was killed BJP spokesperson Meenakshi “The Congress-run govern- in a staged shootout. Lekhi also noted that the National ment has started a dangerous The BJP has also asked the Human Rights Commission had trend of making angels out of Home Ministry to explain the not termed the shootout that LeT operatives while converting change in its affidavit between killed Ishrat Jahan and three men security forces into demons. The 2007 and 2009 — the first affidavit in 2004 a staged one. perception being created is that had said that there was credible Lekhi said the government had David Headley is not a credible intelligence information linking prepared a 10,000-page report on source, and FBI (Federal Bureau those killed to terrorists, while the 26/11 Mumbai attack, largely of Investigation) report is also fic- the second had said that the tip- based on Headley’s statements. tion,” she said. off did not warrant the killing of That report was sent to Pakistan She hoped that Shinde would Ishrat Jahan and three others. as proof of Lashker-e-Taiba not act like the member of a IANS

11-year-old boy Hrithik operated upon rescued from for blood clot in brain MUMBAI: Hrithik Roshan, The star hero embarked on kidnappers one of the reigning stars his acting journey with super hit of the Hindi film industry, love story Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai NEW DELHI: An 11-year- underwent a brain surgery in 2000 and in the last 13 years, old son of a businessman kid- for removal of a clot at the he has worked in about 30 films napped from here allegedly by Hinduja Hospital here yester- including hits like Kabhi Khushi two property dealers for Rs15m day. The surgery was success- Kabhie Gham, Koi... Mil Gaya, ransom was rescued from ful and he should be out of the Krrish, Dhoom:2, Jodhaa Akbar, Haryana’s Rewari district yes- hospital in the next 48 hours, Agneepath and Zindagi Na Milegi terday morning, Delhi Police said his father and filmmaker Dobara. said. One of the accused has Rakesh Roshan. Currently, he is gearing up been arrested. The 39-year-old was wheeled for the release of Krrish 3, third Harmeet, a Class 6 student, was out of the operation theatre film in the sci-fi superhero series rescued yesterday morning from around 3pm. His parents and after Koi... Mil Gaya and Krrish, inside a car parked near Rewari wife Sussanne were present which were directed and pro- Railway Station in Haryana, throughout the 50-minute duced by his father under their police said. neuro-surgery to correct the banner FilmKraft. According to Deputy chronic subdural hematoma For the third instalment also Commissioner of Police Alok condition. Rakesh Roshan went behind the Kumar, the boy was kidnapped Rakesh Roshan said: “The camera. from near his house in Rajendra surgery is over and Hrithik is Last month Hrithik unveiled Nagar in central Delhi on fine. He should be out of the hos- the first look of Krrish 3 on Saturday evening, when he had pital in the next 48 hours.” Facebook and it is set for a gone to buy a mobile recharge Hrithik is out of danger and November 4 release, a day after coupon. on way to complete recovery, he Diwali this year. A Rs15m ransom call was made added. Before the surgery, Rakesh Apart from that, Hrithik is around 6.41pm on Saturday to the Roshan told IANS that there was also associated with Dharma boy’s mother Jaswinder Kaur. “a clot in the brain”, and that in Productions Shuddhi, scheduled Two more ransom calls were medical terms it’s called “chronic to go on floors end-2013, and Fox made at 8.30pm and 11pm, said a subdural hematoma”. Star Studios’ “Bang Bang”. police officer. “The parents imme- A father of two sons, Hrithik A couple of years ago, Hrithik diately informed us. Ten teams too had informed about the sur- went in for a knee surgery in were formed for investigation,” gery on his Facebook post. the US. IANS said Alok Kumar. IANS

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PRAYER TIME Surfer in Australia has lucky escape News in Numbers SCH ANNUAL REPORT CHART: 1 2012 12 Fajr (Dawn) 3:21 after whale knocks Shorook (Sunrise) 4:50 him unconscious Zuhr (Noon) 11:39 SYDNEY: A Sydney surfer had Asr (Afternoon) 3:02 a lucky escape yesterday when he was hit by a whale frolicking Maghrib (Sunset) 6:29 off Bondi Beach and knocked Isha (Night) 7:59 unconscious. Bishan Rajapakse, a 38-year- old doctor, said the last thing he remembers before waking up on WEATHER the beach was saying “Hey, how’s it going?” to the whale, believed to be a southern white, as it swam Today Tuesday Weather Wednesday Conditions: near him and other surfers, the Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Sydney Morning Herald said. Hot, slight dust “When I got to him I saw there to blowing was this dark, black shadow and HMC and SCH Hospitals outside Doha it was just massive,” he told the High: 41° dust with some High: 40° High: 40° paper. Low: 32° Low: 33° Low: 33° clouds and relatively humid “The whale was moving in like Impact on Overall Geographical Service Access slow motion. It was beautiful and by night. it breached and we could see the barnacles and it was slowly going • 26.30 percent of Qatar’s population live outside Greater Doha. This DOHA - SUN & SEA up and down and turning and proportion is likely to remain stable or decrease (due to Doha’s concentration it actually made a noise. It was SUN TIDE SEA amazing.” of service and other sectors).. Only 5 percent of Qatar’s hospital beds were SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND New South Wales Ambulance located outside Doha in 2011. said several whales were close to 04:52 18:25 17:45 & 03:45 10:00 & 00:30 05-15 / 25 KT the iconic beach yesterday morn- •This will more than triple by 2015. Although slightly less than the ing. Paramedics were called in to THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW proportionof population living outside Doha, Qatar has a uniquely low health- help when one of the large ani- help seeking population (disproportionately young and male. HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER mals hit, or flicked with its tail, the male surfer, knocking him MUSCAT 36/30 Partly cloudy 35/30 Partly cloudy out. “He was knocked unconscious KUWAIT 48/33 Clear 46/33 Clear very briefly,” a spokesman said, adding that the man was rescued BAHRAIN 38/32 Partly cloudy 39/32 Partly cloudy by fellow surfers and was not seri- SANAA 28/17 Chance of storm 29/17 Chance of storm ously injured. RIYADH 43/32 Partly cloudy 43/30 Partly cloudy “He is lucky people were there DUBAI 44/33 Partly cloudy 44/33 Partly cloudy (to help him), but we were also BAGHDAD 45/29 Clear 44/29 Clear lucky that he’s the only one (need- ing help),” the spokesman said. One witness told the Australian THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW Broadcasting Corporation that HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER the whale was “the size of a bus” and had been frolicking with the ATHENS 31/25 Clear 32/25 Clear group of surfers. WASHINGTON 31/24 T-storms 33/24 T-storms “I mean, it was 40 feet long — it was huge,” Lachlan Harris told SYDNEY 17/08 Clear 16/09 Chance of rain the broadcaster. “They were play- LONDON 26/14 Clear 25/15 Clear ing and the whale was frolicking PARIS 28/20 Clear 28/19 Clear with them and having a lot of fun ISTANBUL 27/20 Partly cloudy 25/19 Clear and sort of popping its head out. MANILA 33/25 Chance of storm 35/24 Chance of storm “It just flicked its tail and some DHAKA 33/26 Chance of storm 32/26 Chance of storm surfers were in the wrong (place) DELHI 32/25 T-storms 33/25 T-storms and the next thing, you know, a ISLAMABAD 34/25 T-storms 33/25 Chance of storm surfboard is flying in the air... It SourceSource : http://www.sch.gov.qa/ : http://www.qsa.gov.qa/ was unbelievable.” AFP Spain bull-run opens with a scare Bringing up baby, the

PAMPLONA, Spain: Thrill-seekers got a scare yesterday British royal way as they fled half-tonne, sharp-horned fighting bulls charg- ing through Pamplona in the opening run of Spain’s San LONDON: The imminent birth of Britain’s royal baby will be Fermin festival. announced on a golden easel and hailed by cannon fire — but Six huge bulls and six steers carved a path through masses royal-watchers say that behind the pomp Prince William and of runners dressed in white with red scarves around their Catherine will be trying to balance tradition with modern necks and packed into the winding, cobbled streets of the parenting. northern Spanish city. The couple, both 31, have been widely portrayed as a 21st century Hundreds of people ran with the bulls, some of which skid- royal couple who will deal with the dirty diapers and sleepless nights ded as they galloped in four minutes and six seconds from a like any ordinary mother and father around the world. holding pen along an 848.6-metre course to the city’s bull ring, But observers warn that even if they avoid dispatching the baby to where they will be slayed in a bullfight. the nursery like earlier generations of “The Firm”, the responsibili- Many people dared to touch the beasts on their sides dur- ties and pressures of monarchy will still get in the way. ing the run, or even to race just a few steps in front of the “We keep being told that their parents want to give them a nor- beasts’ horns. mal upbringing,” Patrick Jephson, the former private secretary to “I got in front of the bull. I was nervous and I was scared William’s late mother Princess Diana said. and it was fun. I was afraid, of course. This is why I came,” said “In some vague sense we are supposed to approve of the notion. first-time participant Rex Parris, the white-bearded 61-year- But I’m afraid the truth is they’re not normal and never can be old mayor of Lancaster, California who came with his two sons. normal.” A first medical report from regional medical authorities Britain’s royal family are famed for their stiff upper lip, but by all showed four people had been taken to hospital with injuries, accounts in the generations before William that was largely forged none apparently serious: a 24-year-old Australian, a 44-year- by childhoods spent with nannies and in boarding schools instead old Briton, a 26-year-old American and a 36-year-old resident of with parents. of Pamplona. But one lone tan-coloured bull gave runners a Reports that Kate and her baby would spend the first six weeks fright when the animal hung back and stopped just before the at her parents’ home fuelled the idea that Britain’s newest royal bull ring as its way forward was blocked by people. might begin life like any other child, although security fears have The bull turned around to face a dense crowd that had raised doubts over whether this will happen. built up behind it, sending panicky runners scrambling over While the Middletons are millionaires, they earned their money wooden fence barriers for safety. in business and appear to be a close-knit family with none of the Desperate to prevent the bull from charging into the crowd, formality of the royals. herders with long sticks finally enticed the bull into the ring. Until now, William and Kate have been living relatively modestly “The race was very, very dangerous,” said Marcos Sales, a in a remote farmhouse in Anglesey, north Wales, where William 35-year-old from the eastern Spanish city of Castellon and works as a Royal Air Force search-and-rescue helicopter pilot. a veteran of six San Fermin bull-runs who was coming back The couple will eventually move into Kensington Palace in London, after a three-year break. but building renovations — which have already cost taxpayers £1m “There were a lot of people, people with no experience who — are not expected to be finished before the birth. don’t know where the danger is,” he added. Wherever the baby first lays its head, commentators agree that “Each year too many people come and the bull-runs become William and Kate will want to be “hands on” parents. very dangerous. They come from abroad and they’re not aware Kate is seen as a natural with children. She once toyed with the of the danger.” The daily early morning bull runs are the high- idea of setting up a junior fashion label, and spent her second wed- light of a nine-day mix of partying and adrenaline seeking, A runner grabs the horn of an Alcurrucen fighting bull at the entrance to the bull ring ding anniversary visiting a children’s hospice. which draws hundreds of thousands of people from around during the first running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona yesterday. But whether she chooses to break with royal tradition and forego the world. AFP a full-time nanny remains to be seen. “Although Kate has professed that she doesn’t want nannies, and wants to do it on her own, that’s before she’s facing six months of sleepless nights,” Claire Irvin, Editor-in-chief of Mother & Baby magazine said. “But she is quite modern and doesn’t seem to want Filmmakers capture Hong Kong’s struggle with identity huge entourages of help.” Phil Dampier, a royal reporter for 28 years and author of What’s HONG KONG: As Hong Kong meddling in Hong Kong’s affairs. some of the people here feel that housewife (Carina Lau) and her in the Queen’s Handbag, believes the couple may have little choice. grapples with its identity 16 Polls have shown residents see this identity has slipped away. mainland Chinese chauffeur He expects William will soon increase his royal duties, as his eld- years after returning to Chinese themselves as “Hongkongers” On the other hand, we have new (Chen Kun) “as they each nego- erly grandparents Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ease theirs, rule, frustration on the streets rather than “Chinese”, while the immigrants who think of Hong tiate the pressures of Hong Kong and says the couple will need support at home. and a nostalgia for the past is use by protesters of old colonial Kong as a place of dreams.” life and the city’s increasingly “William will want to do his share of changing the nappies,” he providing plenty of inspiration flags has raised eyebrows in the Lau’s first feature film Bends complex relationship to mainland said, but added: “I think they will have to have a full-time nanny for the city’s filmmakers. city and tempers north of the was the only production from China”. even if they don’t want one.” Gone are the days, however, when royal Emotions in the former British border in mainland China. Hong Kong to be selected in com- A survey published by the children seldom saw their parents and lived in virtual seclusion. colony run high. Tens of thou- “The relationship we have with petition at the prestigious Cannes Hong Kong University last week The queen and her sister Margaret were educated at home by a sands of people marched on the China always affects the mood of International Film Festival in found only 33 percent of Hong governess while William’s father Prince Charles was not only said to July 1 handover anniversary to Hong Kong,” film director Flora May. Kongers took pride in being a have been starved of affection as a boy but also famously miserable demand universal suffrage amid Lau said. “We are a city which The film follows the rela- Chinese national, the lowest level at the tough Scottish boarding school Gordonstoun. AFP concerns Beijing is increasingly has a very distinct identity, and tionship between a Hong Kong since 1998. 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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Qatar Exchange announces Qatar’s logistics industry set Ramadan business hours DOHA: Qatar Exchange (QE) announced yeterday that its official business hours during the holy month of Ramadan will be from 8.30am to 1.30pm, Sunday through Thursday. to grow manifold: Expert QE released a statement yesterday on its website saying that the trading hours will remain unchanged, from 9.30am to 1.15pm. The pre-opening session will start at 9am and end at 9.30am. The DvP service times will also remain unchanged, Qatar Exchanged added in Huge investment in infrastructure, transportation to push growth the statement.

DOHA: Powered by Qatar’s $150bn for infrastructure projects economy. When the economic huge investments in the infra- over the next 10 years. activity picks up, demand for Minister of Finance becomes structure and transportation In 2012 alone $4.2bn worth transport and logistics services sectors, Qatar’s logistics indus- of contracts has been awarded. also picks up. QNB Chairman try is set to grow in a big way. The government is also work- Logistics Industry’s growth The existing roughly estimated ing on the development of sev- is a key economic indicator of DOHA: Qatar National Bank announced yesterday the appoint- $150m business is expected to eral key projects such as new a matured economy. The sector ment of the Minister of Finance H E Ali Sherif Al Emadi as grow manifold in the next two- international airport, new sea accounts for one of the key con- Chairman of QNB Board of Directors. five years, according to a mar- port. tributors to the growth story of The bank made the announcement yesterday in a statement posted ket leader. It is developing hundreds of local economy, he noted. on Qatar Exchange’s website. The growth prediction is based kilometres of roads at a cost Qatar’s emerging logistics on Qatar’s commitment to carry of $4.4bn. Another $11bn con- industry is expected to see the out huge projects in a time-bound tracts is in the tender phase. entry of great professional play- South Korea’s Daelim wins $293m manner. The preliminary works of $35bn ers in the coming years. “The sheer size of infrastruc- project is fast picking up, said The continued growth of this Saudi butanol plant project ture projects in Qatar demands Ali Al Misnad, who is also the sector is set to increase demand the establishment of a world- CEO of Al Baida Group, a 100 for material handling equipment RIYADH: Saudi Butanol Company (Sabuco), a joint venture of class logistics set up. With over percent Qatari company and and solutions to improve the effi- local petrochemicals firms, has awarded South Korea’s Daelim 32 major projects having been the leading market player in ciency of loading and unloading Construction Co a SR1.1bn ($293m) contract to build a butanol launched in Qatar, and many the sector. and storing goods. according to Ali Al Misnad, is plant, Sabuco shareholders said yesterday. other in pipeline, the logistic sec- Qatar’s decision to develop All this is taking place against the steady hike in the rentals of Construction of the plant in Jubail Industrial City will start in tor is poised for a major growth more free market zones is the backdrop of the continued warehouses. “This is an issue to be January 2014, with completion expected by May 2015. The plant will trajectory,” Ali bin Abdulatif Al expected to further push the growth of the Qatari economy. addressed. The rentals have gone have a capacity of 330,000 tonnes a year of n-butanol, a type of alcohol Misnad (pictured), President, growth prospects for the coun- “You cannot launch huge projects up something between 15 to 20 used to make other chemicals, and 11,000 tonnes a year of iso-butanol. Qatar Association of Freight try’s logistic sector. without the expertise of real percent over the last three years, Sabuco is a joint venture between Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Co, and Logistics (QAFL) told The The growth of logistics indus- professionals”. hitting the operation cost of logis- Sadara Petrochemical Co and Saudi Acrylic Acid Co (SAAC). Saudi Peninsula yesterday. try is closely connected to the One of the key challenges faced tics companies.” Kayan and others announced the project in bourse statements. Qatar has already set aside economic cycle of the local by the Qatar’s logistics industry, THE PENINSULA AGENCIES MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Hong Kong property protest China’s CNPC Qatari bourse joins $12bn Ecuador index dips by refinery project

QUITO: China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has agreed to help finance the con- 9.04 points struction of a $12bn refinery project in Ecuador, the South American country’s govern- Saudi market hits 15-month high ment said yesterday. Ecuador has been in talks with DOHA: Qatar Exchange index second-quarter net profit, helping China’s biggest oil producer for a lost 9.04 points or 0.10 percent lift sentiment across the sector. year about funding the 300,000 to reach 9,363.13 points from Bank shares, however, slipped 0.2 barrel per day Pacifico project, the previous closing of 9,372.17 percent, trimming 2013 gains to which aims to start output in 2017 points. 8 percent. and is a joint venture between The volume of shares traded “The combination of good loan Ecuador and Venezuelan state oil rose to 5,391,593 from 2,886,433 on growth and lower provisions led company PDVSA. Thursday, and the value of shares to the good results,” NCB capital “We’ve worked to have a third decreased to QR174,934,487.22 said in a note. “The read across partner ... and this third partner from QR184,128,374.62 on for the other banks is that fee will be no one more and no one Thursday. income is likely to be high while less than the biggest oil company Among the top losers were provisions for most banks will in the world, China’s CNPC,” Qatar National Bank whose share decline.” Ecuadorean Vice President Jorge dropped 0.55 percent to QR161.60, In the UAE, Dubai’s measure Glas said in a televised weekly Industries Qatar lost 0.25 per- added 0.7 percent, extending 2013 Property agents take part in a demonstration outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong yesterday. government report. cent to QR157.90, Electricity gains to 40.5 percent but trading Thousands of estate agents and property owners marched in protest against government measures to cool He said the refinery project was and Water fell 0.99 percent to volumes dropped to their lowest the real estate market and ease land shortges, saying it unfairly hits small landlords and the middle classes. progressing well. QR160.50 and Doha Bank down in 11 weeks. Abu Dhabi’s index “Above all, we’ve advanced a lot 0.63 percent to QR47.00. climbed 0.5 percent, trading in in the realization of investments, The banking and financial a tight range since it edged off a and they comprise capital contri- sector lost 0.23 points while the 56-month peak in June. butions from the (original) part- insurance sector gained 0.20 Investors are waiting for sec- ners and the new partner,” Glas points. The industrial sector ond-quarter earnings, which ECB cannot solve eurozone said. He did not give more details dropped 0.45 points and the serv- will start later this month. The of the project, nor of its funding. ices sector up 0.71 points. Muslim holy month of Ramadan, State-run Petroecuador has a Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s beginning mid-week, is likely to 51 percent stake in Pacifico, and bourse rose to a fresh 15-month keep a damper on volumes. crisis: Bundesbank chief PDVSA holds the rest. Both com- high yesterday as investors “Banks in general will show panies have agreed to come up bought on second-quarter earn- strong results and higher quarter- with 30 percent of the necessary ings optimism and most other on-quarter will encourage inves- AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France: tackling the bloc’s economic crisis, Europe are at different points of financing, while the remainder is Gulf markets also rose, while tors accumulate shares because The European Central Bank thereby allowing governments to the economic cycle. While the US being sought from external part- Egyptian shares slipped off a one- they will justify higher profit for cannot solve the eurozone crisis, soft-pedal reforms. has a more restrictive approach, ners. The government in Quito month high. the year,” he added. Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann He spoke a day after fellow Europe needs to continue with a has said construction is in its first The Saudi benchmark rose 0.6 The banking sector has seen told economists yesterday, press- ECB policymakers Christian more accommodative policy,” the phase and that the project is 21 percent to its highest level since a recovery in recent quarters as ing the bloc’s governments to get Noyer and Benoit Coeure said EU monetary affairs commis- percent complete. April 2012 but trading volumes loan growth picks up and lenders their economies in shape and the bank’s decision to abandon sioner said. The refinery is intended to cut were thin in typical summer restructure government-related tighten their fiscal rules. its customary insistence that it While he does not see sufficient domestic fuel costs for Ecuador, doldrums. debt that has been weighing on Weidmann addressed an econ- never precommits on policy was support in the euro zone for gov- the smallest member of Opec, Most petrochemical shares investor sentiment since the 2008 omists’ conference in Aix-en- a change in communication but ernments to give up sovereignty which pumps about 500,000 bar- gained, lifting the sector’s bench- credit crunch. Provence, southern France, only meant no change from its strat- on fiscal matters to forge a fiscal rels of crude per day but has to mark up 0.7 percent. In Egypt, Cairo’s benchmark three days after the ECB broke egy, which is based on monitoring union to prevent such crises in the import oil products because of its “We have an optimistic forecast retreated 0.4 percent to 5,312 with precedent by declaring that inflation, real economy and mon- future, Weidmann pressed them low refining capacity. for petrochemicals with expecta- points from a one-month high as it intended to keep interest rates etary developments. to stiffen Europe’s fiscal rules. In May, President Rafael tions of growth between 15 and the index faced chart-resistance at record lows for an extended “The eurozone is on the mend, “To fully unleash the common Correa named Pedro Merizalde 20 percent year-on-year for the and investors booked gains from period and may yet cut further. it must be at peace, protected, currency’s potential, efforts are as his new oil minister. second quarter,” said Abdullah a recent rally. “Monetary policy has already be allowed to heal,” Coeure told needed on two fronts: structural A year ago, a Chinese industry Alawi, assistant general manager The market rose to 5,413 points done a lot to absorb the economic the same conference on Sunday reforms as well as the abolition of source familiar with the matter and head of research at Aljazira intraday, near the June peak. consequences of the crisis, but it to explain the ECB’s decision implicit guarantees for banks and said CNPC had asked Industrial Capital. An uncertain political outlook cannot solve the crisis,” Weidmann to issue such forward guidance, sovereigns (government bonds),” and Commercial Bank of China Alawi said Saudi Basic remains following the ouster of said in his speech. “This is the con- while urging governments to Weidmann said. (ICBC), the country’s largest Industries Corp (SABIC) has President Mohamed Mursi as the sensus of the Governing Council. tackle structural problems. “In addition to stronger rules, we lender, to provide financing for its underperformed and its diverse military struggles to appoint an The crisis has laid bare struc- The EU’s top economic official, need to make sure that in a system potential investment in Pacifico. portfolio would give it a com- interim prime minister and death tural shortcomings. As such, they Olli Rehn, welcomed the ECB’s of national control and national After excluding itself from debt petitive edge and a larger growth toll from mass protests rises. require structural solutions.” move, saying the step — taken in responsibility, sovereign default markets by defaulting on $3.2 potential. Shares in the world’s Local investors, who were buy- Weidmann, widely recognised response to turbulence caused by is possible without bringing down billion in global bonds in 2008, largest chemical producer rose ers in the recent rally, joined for- to be the most hawkish member the US Federal Reserve’s plan to the financial system. Only then will Ecuador has met its funding 0.5 percent. eigners as net sellers on Sunday, of the ECB’s 23-man Governing slow monetary stimulus — was we really do away with the implicit needs with bilateral credit deals, Riyad Bank posted estimate- according to exchange data. Council, does not want the bank needed to preserve recovery in guarantee for sovereigns.” mostly from China. beating 5.9 percent gain in its AGENCIES to intervene too strongly in Europe. “The United States and REUTERS REUTERS Jet engine makers CFM, Pratt battle over performance

PARIS: Engine makers for next-generation Airbus and Boeing narrow-body jets stepped up their war of words yesterday, claiming their new power plants will burn less fuel, last longer without maintenance and create less noise than the rival. CFM International, the engine maker for about three-quarters of the orders for next-generation Airbus and Boeing narrow-body jets, said its LEAP engine will deliver 15 percent lower fuel burn and 2-3 percent lower operating costs compared with the rival geared turbofan engine by Pratt & Whitney. Pratt & Whitney hit back saying its engine has undergone testing on aircraft, giv- ing its claims of 15 percent lower fuel burn much more credibility. CFM has tested parts but not a full engine. “We are within 10ths of a percent of that figure,” Robert Saia, vice president of the next-generation product family at Pratt & Whitney, said in an interview. Bulgaria to raise fiscal deficit to two percent of GDP: Minister

SOFIA: Bulgaria’s Socialist-led government plans to increase the fiscal deficit this year to two percent of gross domestic product from 1.4 percent at present mainly due to an expected drop in revenue and increased spending, the finance minister said yesterday. Petar Chobanov said weaker than initially expected economic growth would lower revenues by about 1bn levs ($656.08m), while signed contracts to businesses showed spending would come some 500m levs above the plans in 2013. “We are considering to increase the deficit up to 2 percent ... There is nothing dramatic about it. There are increased dues to businesses and a drop in revenues,” Chobanov told BNR national radio. Bulgaria, the European Union’s poorest country, is expected to grow by about 1 percent this year, after expanding by 0.8 percent in 2012. It ended 2012 with a budget deficit of 0.5 percent. Jarir Marketing Q2 net profit jumps 17.9pc, misses view

DUBAI: Saudi Arabian retailer Jarir Marketing said yesterday its second- quarter net profit climbed 17.9 percent on the back of increased sales, with smart phones the primary driver. The retailer said its net profit was SR126.2m ($33.7m) for the three months to June 30, up from SR107m in the corresponding period of 2012, a statement to Saudi bourse showed. However, the results slightly missed the average forecast of analysts polled by Reuters, which expected a net profit of SR128.9m. Jarir’s total turnover in the second quarter was SR1.26bn, up 18.1 percent on the same three months last year. AGENCIES MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Reliance Greece sees deal on rescue funds to spin off Eurozone finance ministers’ meeting expected to decide on aid today real estate ATHENS: Greece and its inter- The IMF is also due to decide national creditors expressed by the end of July whether to dis- business hopes of reaching a deal by today burse its scheduled contribution on reforms including thousands of ¤1.8bn to the bailout kitty. of job cuts needed for the debt- The funds are necessary as NEW DELHI: India’s Reliance laden nation to unlock further Greece must redeem three-month Communications will spin off aid worth ¤8.1bn ($10.4bn). and six-month debt worth ¤6.6bn its real estate business into a “We have made substantial by mid-August. separately listed unit, a move progress,” Poul Thomsen, the French Finance Minister the country’s No.3 mobile phone International Monetary Fund’s Pierre Moscovici also sounded carrier by customers said was representative, told reporters in upbeat that a deal would emerge to focus on its core business. Athens. to release the next rescue funds. The unit, Reliance Properties, “I hope we will reach an agree- “I am confident that we can will work with global partners to ment on Monday before the reach a common understanding develop real estate, which includes Eurogroup meeting,” Thomsen with Greece, an agreement on land in Mumbai and New Delhi, said, according to the state-run the financing of the programme,” Reliance Communications said. Athens News Agency. Moscovici told reporters on the The value of the real estate Greek Finance Minister Yannis sidelines of an economic meeting when developed was estimated Stournaras also said: “I am opti- in the southern French city of to be more than Rs120bn ($2bn), mistic that tomorrow (Monday) Aix-en-Provence. the company said. we will have an agreement.” Among reforms being negoti- Shareholders of Reliance Greece needs to come to an ated are 4,000 state job cuts by Communications will receive free accord with the troika of inter- the end of the year, which Athens shares in Reliance Properties on national creditors — the IMF, had pledged. Greece must also a pro-rata basis, the mobile car- the European Union and the redeploy 25,000 civil servants rier said. A panel constituted by European Central Bank — by across its vast bureaucracy. its board will work out further today, when eurozone finance These include some 2,000 teach- details of the demerger. ministers are due to meet to ers Athens has proposed moving Reliance Communications, decide if the bloc should release to other services. controlled by billionaire Anil the next instalment of rescue Another 3,500 local police are The International Monetary Fund’s Deputy Director and Mission Chief to Greece Poul Thomsen (right) arrives for Ambani, is the most leveraged funds worth ¤6.3bn. to be incorporated in the national a meeting at the Finance Ministry in Athens yesterday. among listed Indian telecommu- The marathon talks which forces, a proposed move that has nications carriers and has so far began last month will now move sparked strong opposition from strike until Tuesday over their The latest cuts will be enshrined commitment to raise revenues by been unsuccessful in its efforts from Athens to Brussels up local administration staff. redeployment, which they say is in a new law to be submitted to offloading state assets. to sell stakes or list companies until the start of the Eurogroup “The so-called negotiations unconstitutional. parliament on Tuesday. But the government has been to cut its debt. meeting. once again result in new meas- “Now even permanent staff Since 2010, the EU and the forced to once again scale back In December, Ambani’s “The minister and the troika ures for layoffs, school and hos- are being fired,” said union chief IMF have committed a total of the expected revenues from its Reliance Group and China’s are leaving for Brussels at 1400 pital shutdowns, taxes and wage for Athens city staff Vassilis 240 billion euros to the heavily privatisation drive for this year Dalian Wanda Group announced GMT today and the talks will cuts,” Greece’s main opposition Polymeropoulos, citing specu- indebted country. to ¤1.6bn from ¤2.6bn earlier a tie-up to develop real estate and continue on the plane,” a finance Syriza party said in a statement. lation that up to 30 percent of In exchange, Greece has agreed forecasted. movie theatre projects. ministry source said. Local police have gone on municipal police will be axed. to a series of reforms including a AFP REUTERS

Lagarde hints Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank arranges $360m facility for Gulf Marine at cut in ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi region, it said yesterday. The tional vessels, ADIB said in a demand from local and regional while Al Hilal Bank, Ajman Ban, IMF growth Islamic Bank (ADIB) has deal will help meet the financing statement. banks, the statement said. GE Mubadala, Noor Islamic Bank, closed a Dh1.32bn ($360m) syn- needs of Abu Dhabi-based Gulf In May, Reuters reported ADIB Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Qatar Islamic Bank and United forecasts dicated Islamic facility for one Marine Services (GMS) includ- was arranging the facility and was and First Gulf Bank acted Arab Bank acted as arrangers for of the largest operator’s and ing refinancing and finance for close to signing the deal. as mandated lead arrangers, the deal. AIX-EN-PROVENCE, owner of jack-up barges in the the acquisition of two addi- The transaction saw strong Mashreq Bank as lead arranger REUTERS France: IMF chief Christine Lagarde yesterday signalled Sunday that her organisation would be lowering slightly its US budget cuts to push global economic growth fore- casts, which are set to released in the next few days. Lagarde noted that the growth down: IMF International Monetary Fund, along with the World Bank, back AIX-EN-PROVENCE, in 2013 has been excessively rapid in April said that the global eco- France: The US federal budget and ill-designed.” nomic recovery was advancing cuts are an inappropriate meas- In its annual check of the health at mainly three different speeds, ure that will weigh on potential of the US economy, the IMF fore- from an average 5.5 percent in growth, IMF chief Christine cast economic growth would be a emerging economies to 2.0 per- Lagarde said yesterday, urging sluggish 1.9 percent this year. The cent in advanced countries like Washington to present “cred- IMF reckons growth would be as the United States and Australia, ible” fiscal plans. much as 1.75 percentage points to the essentially deadlocked Washington enacted across- higher if not for the rush to cut economies of the eurozone. the-board federal govern- the government’s budget deficit. “We therefore had a (global) ment spending cuts, known as While the budget cuts that took growth forecast which was about sequestration, in March because hold on March 1 do not appear 3.3 percent, but I am afraid when Congress could not agree on an to be hitting government pay- taking into account what we are alternative. rolls directly so far, some econ- currently seeing in the economies It has meant everything from omists said they were weighing of the emerging countries in partic- furloughs for air traffic control- on private employers and helped ular ... I am afraid that we are per- lers to fewer planes for the US explained a sharp slowdown in haps a little bit below” the previous Navy to smaller subsidies for hiring in the health care and forecast, Lagarde said at an eco- farmers. social assistance sector. nomic meeting held in the southern “The budgetary procedure that Lagarde urged Washington — French city of Aix-en-Provence. is in place in the United States, as well as Tokyo — to come up Earlier this month the World which leads to a budgetary adjust- with fresh plans to cut their debt. Bank slashed its growth forecast ment, seems to us absolutely inap- Japan has pledged to halve for emerging economic super- propriate ... because it blindly the primary deficit — the budget power China to 7.7 percent from affects certain expenditures that excluding new bond sales and 8.4 percent, warning of a potential are essential to support medium debt servicing — by March 2016 “sharp” slowdown triggered by a and long term growth,” Lagarde and bring it to surplus by March fall in investment. That contrib- told an economists’ conference 2021 to contain its ballooning uted to its global economic growth in Aix-en-Provence, southern public debt. It will detail how it estimate in 2013 being cut to an France. wants to accomplish that in a annual rate of 2.2 percent from its Her comments echoed those medium-term fiscal plan expected January forecast of 2.4 percent. last month from the IMF itself, in August. AFP which said: “The deficit reduction REUTERS

IDB presents new debt restructuring offer

TEL AVIV: Indebted Israeli IDB Holding Chairman Nochi inherent value of the company’s conglomerate IDB Holding pre- Dankner and give them full con- assets, which are among the lead- sented to a Tel Aviv court a new trol of a combined company. ers in the economy,” IDB said in proposal for a debt restructuring Under the new restructuring a statement. This is preferable to after Argentinian businessman proposal, whose aim is to enable the alternative of selling assets as Eduardo Elsztain backed out of a Dankner to maintain control part of a liquidation of the com- planned investment of $75m. of IDB Holding, 841.5m shekels pany or under pressure, it said. Elsztain’s investment had been would be injected into the com- IDB did not say from where the crucial to a previous debt restruc- pany while IDB Holding debt money for the restructuring would turing that IDB, which controls holders would receive 54 percent come. The Globes financial news some of Israel’s leading compa- of the shares in IDB Development. website said Dankner has held ini- nies, had presented to its bond- IDB Holding debt holders tial talks with US private equity holders. “The company is holding would also receive 175m shekels funds KKR & Co and Prudence talks with other investors,” IDB from the company’s cash reserves Holdings regarding a $400m loan. said in a statement to the Tel Aviv and the bonds would be erased IDB controls Cellcom, Israel’s Stock Exchange yesterday. from trading. leading mobile phone operator, IDB Holding owes 2bn shek- Shares in IDB Development supermarket chain Super-Sol and els ($549m) while its unit IDB would then be listed for trade. Clal Insurance and its subsidiary Development owes 5.8bn shekels. “Debt holders in IDB Holding Koor Industries owns a 2.4 per- Bondholders have proposed a debt are expected to benefit from the cent stake in Credit Suisse. restructuring that would oust potential of an increase in the REUTERS MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

QE Indices Summary QE Index 9,363.13 0.10 % WORLD STOCK INDICES GOLD & SILVER EXCHANGE QE Total Return Index 13,377.77 0.10 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 2,806.88 0.27 % RATE QE All Share Index 2,367.65 0.11 % INDEX Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low QE All Share Banks & Financial 2,271.83 0.23 % GOLD Buying Selling Services All Ordinaries 4781.023 53.214 1.13 5229.8 4610.6 QE All Share Consumer Goods & 5,549.87 0.71 % QR146.6255 US$ ...... QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 Services Cac 40 Index/D 3740.7 38.69 1.05 4072.24 3575.17 QE All Share Industrials 3,099.11 0.45 % SILVER UK ...... QR 5.3916 QR 5.4704 QE All Share Insurance 2,217.38 0.20 % Dj Indu Average 14988.55 56.14 0.38 15542.4 12471.5 QR 2.3015 Euro ...... QR 4.6296 QR 4.7233 QE All Share Real Estate 1,846.32 1.26 % CA$ ...... QR 3.4096 QR 3.4821 QE All Share Telecoms 1,272.86 0.11 % Egypt Cma Gn Idx 1026.29 32.57 3.28 999.95 312.38 Swiss Fr ...... QR 3.7413 QR 3.8266 QE All Share Transportation 1,695.43 0.24 % Hang Seng Inde/D 20468.67 321.36 1.6 23944.74 19426.36 Yen ...... QR 0.0355 QR 0.0363 QE Market Summary Comparison Aus$ ...... QR 3.2631 QR 3.3459 Iseq Overall/D 4010.24 22.32 0.56 4118.68 3396.67 CRUDE OIL Today Previous day Ind Re ...... QR 0.0595 QR 0.0609 07-07-2013 04-07-2013 Karachi 100 In/D 21966.96 164.1 0.75 22833.2 16036.31 Pak Re ...... QR 0.0361 QR 0.0367 Index 9,363.13 9,372.17 BRENT Change 9.04 4.63 Nikkei 225 Index 14018.93 -36.63 -0.26 15942.6 10398.61 Peso ...... QR 0.0830 QR 0.0849 % 0.10 0.05 $ 105.33 SL Re ...... QR 0.0276 QR 0.0286 YTD% 12.01 12.12 S&P 500 Index/D 1615.41 1.33 0.08 1687.18 1325.41 Taka ...... QR 0.0464 QR 0.0471 Volume 5,391,593 2,886,433 DUBAI Nep Re ...... QR 0.0377 QR 0.0383 Value (QAR) 174,934,487.22 184,128,374.62 Straits Times/D 3147.12 17.63 0.56 3464.79 3065.42 Trades 2,698 2,258 SA Rand ...... QR 0.3579 QR 0.3652 Straits Times/D 2971.47 22.7 0.77 3035.78 2657.77 $ 101.64 Up -- | Down -- | Unchanged --

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US jobs data reinforces expectations of early QE tapering

AST week the market unprecedented move, the former allow the Federal Reserve to held steady at 7.6% as more peo- in the currency bloc would stay services, compiled by Markit revolved around the US Job Canadian central bank Chief reduce stimulus later this year. ple entered the workforce. where they are for an extended and the Chartered Institute of Lreport and several major Mark Carney said market pric- The ADP National Employment Trade Balance Widening in period or even fall. Earlier, at Purchasing and Supply, rose to Central Bank meetings. The ECB ing for future interest rate rises Report said US companies added May former Canadian central bank 56.9 in June from 54.9 in May. and BoE decisions to keep rates at was “not warranted by the recent 188,000 jobs in The trade def- chief Mark Carney’s debut policy AUSTRALIA record lows lifted the USD index developments in the domestic June, exceeding icit in the US meeting as governor, the Bank of higher to reach a high of 84.53. economy.” Cable opened the week a forecast of unexpectedly England said market pricing for RBA Keeps Rates Unchanged Furthermore, the US Dollar con- at 1.5200 and fell on Friday to a 160,000. It was jumped in May as future interest rate rises was “not Australia’s central bank left tinued to gain against its major low of 1.4856. The currency closed higher than a imports climbed warranted by the recent develop- its key interest rate at a record counterparts as speculation over the week at 1.4887. slightly down- to the second- ments in the domestic economy.” low on signs of a pickup in hous- Weekly Money Market Review an early tapering of the Fed’s QE The Japanese Yen dropped to graded 134,000 highest level on UK Manufacturing ing and as a slide in the currency program increased by better than reach a 5-week low of 101.22 as increase in record, pointing British manufacturing eases pressure on exporters. expected economic data especially better than expected data pushed May. to an economy that is overcom- recorded its strongest growth Policy makers kept the over- the Labor market. The index investors towards the green- Jobless Claims ing higher taxes and government in more than two years in June night cash-rate target at 2.75%. surged to a 3-year high amid the back. The Yen closed the week The number of Americans cutbacks. The gap widened by and new orders rose even faster, in a conference after the meet- news. The Euro dropped against at 101.21. Meanwhile, the Aussie filing new claims for unemploy- 12.1% to $45 billion, the biggest in a fresh sign of momentum in ing, Governor Glenn Stevens said the greenback amid worries over went under pressure as the ment benefits fell last week, since November, from $40.1 billion the economy just as the Bank of the board “deliberated for a very Portugal’s political situation com- Reserve Bank of Australia kept pointing to moderate job growth in April. The value of imports at England gets a new governor. long time” before keeping its key bined with the ECB’s decision to their interest rates unchanged. despite slowing economic activity. $232.1 billion was second only to The Manufacturing Purchasing interest rate unchanged, sending keep rates at record lows. The In a conference after the meet- Initial claims declined by 5,000 to a record $234.3 billion in March Managers’ Index (PMI) jumped the currency to the lowest level single currency opened the week ing, Governor Glenn Stevens said 342,000 from an upwardly revised 2012. to 52.5 from an upwardly revised since September 2010. at 1.3011 reached a 6-week low the board “deliberated for a very 348,000 in the previous period. EUROPE & UK 51.5 in May, beating analysts’ CHINA of 1.2805 amid the better than long time” before keeping its key Unemployment Report ECB & BoE Interest Rate forecasts for a reading of 51.5. expected jobs data from the US. interest rate unchanged, sending US job growth was stronger Decisions UK Services Factory Activity Expanding Finally, the Euro closed the week the currency to the lowest level than expected in June and the The ECB and the Bank of Similarly, Britain’s service in China at the low of 1.2830. since September 2010. payroll gains for the prior two England left their key inter- sector grew at the fastest rate China manufacturing expanded Similarly, the Pound dropped ADP Employment Exceeds months were revised higher, est rates unchanged at regular in more than two years in June, at the slowest pace in four against the US Dollar despite Estimates reinforcing expectations for the monthly policy meetings amid a survey showed on Wednesday months in June as a cash squeeze better than expected data from US private employers hired Federal Reserve to start wind- evidence of a fragile recovery in fuelling optimism on the econ- in the banking system reduced the Services and Manufacturing more workers than expected ing down its massive stimulus their economies. However, in a omy. In a sign that the upswing the flow of credit to companies. sectors. On Thursday, the Pound in June, a report released on program as early as September. big break with tradition, both may be sustained, new orders The Purchasing Managers’ Index plummeted across the board as Wednesday showed, support- Employers added 195,000 new banks offered guidance on the in the service sector rose at the was at 50.1 versus the previous the BoE kept its key lending rate ing the view of overall moder- jobs to their payrolls last month, rate outlook. ECB President fastest rate since June 2007. The months 50.8. unchanged. Additionally, in an ate job gain but one that might while the unemployment rate Mario Draghi said interest rates Purchasing Managers’ Index for THE PENINSULA MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Wagner seizes lead at Greenbrier The 33-year-old in front by two shots, edges closer to fourth PGA title McDowell

WHITE SULPHUR shots at Hartford,” he said, refer- wins French SPRINGS, West Virginia: US PGA Greenbrier ring to last month’s Travelers American Johnson Wagner Championship in Connecticut. Open in style moved a step closer to win- Classic Scores “We just got my game kind of ning his fourth PGA Tour back to where it was leading into title by seizing a two-shot lead WHITE SULPHUR Hawaii last season and I just feel VERSAILLES, France: after yesterday’s third round SPRINGS, West Virginia: more comfortable over the ball Graeme McDowell produced a of the Greenbrier Classic at Leading scores yesterday after right now.” final round of four-under-par White Sulphur Springs in West the third round of the $6.3m Wagner won the most recent of 67 to lead home the field by Virginia. US PGA Greenbrier Classic his three PGA Tour titles at the four strokes and become the One stroke off the pace over- (USA unless noted, par-70): 2012 Sony Open in Hawaii. This first Northern Irishman to win night on a tightly bunched lead- 196 Johnson Wagner 62-70-64 year, he has missed 11 cuts on the the French Open on a thrilling erboard, Wagner took over at the 198 Jimmy Walker 69-65-64 US circuit without recording a final day at Le Golf National top as he fired a sparkling six- 200 Jonas Blixt (SWE) 66-67-67 single top-10 in 18 starts. yesterday. under-par 64 on a sun-splashed 201 Matt Jones (AUS) 69-66-66, Jordan “It’s been over a year now that The 2010 US Open winner fin- day at The Greenbrier’s Old Spieth 67-67-67, Steven Bowditch (AUS) I have struggled ... luckily I am ished the tournament with a nine- White Course. 65-67-69 having a nice week this week,” under-par total of 275 as a tense The 33-year-old Texan, who 202 Pat Perez 71-65-66, Bill Haas 68-67- said Wagner, who has regained final round eventually became a played the course several times 67, Rory Sabbatini (RSA) 70-65-67, the ability to shape shots from one man show with McDowell a year when he was a student Lee Dong-Hwan (KOR) 66-68-68, left-to-right after working hard cantering home to pick up a win- at nearby Virginia Tech, mixed Tag Ridings 65-69-68, Tommy Gainey with his swing coach. ner’s cheque of 500,000 euros. seven birdies with a lone bogey 62-71-69 The golfer added: “It’s all click- His closest rival, Richard to post a 14-under total of 196. ing right now.” Sterne of South Africa, held the 203 Gary Woodland 69-70-64, Morgan “Today my goal was to go out Wagner made a fast start to the lead after nine holes before col- Hoffmann 69-67-67, Bill Lunde and make as many birdies as I 66-66-71 third round, sinking birdie putts lapsing down the stretch and could, and I did that,” Wagner from 10 feet at the first and the finishing with three bogeys in six told Golf Channel after sinking third to seize a one-shot lead. holes while McDowell’s rock solid a 12-foot birdie putt at the par- (67). American Matt Every, the He offset another birdie at the game of just four bogeys through- three last and pumping his right 36-hole leader after opening with fifth with a bogey at the seventh out the tournament was the cor- fist in delight. scores of 69 and 62, tumbled back- but picked up his fourth shot of nerstone of his second win of the “Now I’ve got to take the same wards with four bogeys in the first the day at the par-four ninth to year. attitude into tomorrow.” seven holes on the way to a 74 and reach the turn in three-under 33, Sterne settled for second on Fellow American Jimmy a five-under total of 205. one ahead of the chasing pack. five-under-par 279. Walker, seeking his first victory Wagner, co-leader after the Playing near-flawless golf, Englishman Graeme Storm and on the PGA Tour, was alone in opening round, was delighted to Wagner rolled in birdie putts Spaniard Eduardo De La Riva second after matching Wagner maintain his long overdue return from eight feet at the 10th and were paired together for the final for the day’s best score, storming to form, having struggled for from 12 feet at the 12th to move round and both men fired two- home with five birdies in the last much of the past year. three strokes clear. under-par 69s to claim a share of nine holes. The American came into this He did remarkably well to save third spot on four under. Swede Jonas Blixt (67) was week on the back of six missed par at the 13th where his tee shot Sterne led by one shot after a further two strokes back at cuts in his previous seven PGA struck trees on the right and his nine see-saw holes before Johnson Wagner reacts after a birdie on the 18th hole during round three 10 under, a shot better than Tour starts. ball bounced down into the rough, McDowell birdied the 10th to of the Greenbrier Classic at the Old White TPC in White Sulphur Springs, Australians Steven Bowditch “I had a boot camp with my taking two more strokes to reach draw level and looked on as the West Virginia, yesterday. (69) and Matt Jones (66), and coach about two weekends ago the green before sinking a 22-foot South African drove his tee shot American teenager Jordan Spieth after I missed the cut by about 30 putt. REUTERS on 11 into the deep rough. AFP

NHL: Lecavalier joins Flyers Gatland open to keeping Lions job

PHILADELPHIA: Four-time LONDON: Warren Gatland back history’s remorseless tide” in All-Star Vincent Lecavalier said he would “jump at the overseeing the Lions’ first series was signed on a multi-year con- opportunity” to coach the win since 1997 and so helped British and Irish tract by the Philadelphia Flyers British and Irish Lions in his ensure their future at a time Lions manager yesterday, the biggest name to native New Zealand as Britain’s when many were questioning how Andy Irvine (right), be scooped up on the second day press hailed him for overseeing long clubs and countries would be coach Warren of the National Hockey League’s a series win in Australia. prepared to release players, their Gatland (centre) free agency. Wales coach Gatland, speaking prize assets in the professional and captain Sam The 33-year-old Canadian will after the Lions’ 41-16 win over the era, for a losing cause not their Warburton share join the Flyers after spending his Wallabies in Sydney on Saturday own. a laugh during a entire 14-year league career with that clinched a 2-1 series success, Jones, covering his eighth Lions press conference, the Tampa Bay Lightning, with said he’d been “shocked” by the tour for the paper, added: “The the day after the whom he won the Stanley Cup in “vitriolic” response to his deci- terrifying fear was that the Lions Lions defeated 2004. sion to leave Ireland great Brian would lose this series, lose again the Australian “It is a great honor for me to be O’Driscoll out of his matchday 23. in New Zealand in 2017 (bar once Wallabies, in a part of the Flyers,” Lecavalier Nevertheless, he remained keen they have always lost there) and said in a statement. to lead the Lions on their next so by the time they arrived in Sydney yesterday. “This is a great hockey team tour, to New Zealand in 2017. South Africa 2021 it would be 24 The Lions defeated with a great history which I’m very “If I was given the opportunity years since they last won. the Wallabies proud to be a part of. I’m going to to do the Lions in New Zealand in “The clear danger was that they 41-16 to win the do my best to help lead this team 2017 I would jump at that oppor- would never arrive, that by then series 2-1. to another championship.” tunity -- 100 percent,” Gatland the whole marvellous concept Drafted number one overall by said in an interview with Britain’s would have expired and failed. the Lightning in 1998, Lecavalier Mail on Sunday newspaper. “Now the Lions are preserved, was released last week by Tampa “It would be a massive honour in large measure through the rare said this was “just more nonsense. “Being in charge of the Lions England to World Cup triumph Bay to clear space under a smaller and extra special to take them to quality of the man in charge of “Gatland was a high-class coach touring party has been a bonus (in 2003)? or on a sorry few weeks salary cap. my home country.” this compelling odyssey.” before this particular choice,” and a happy privilege in his coach- getting it wrong on a Lions tour He had signed a five-year deal Stephen Jones, the Sunday As for Gatland’s decision to Holden wrote. ing career. It is not the highlight. (in New Zealand in 2005)? with the Flyers worth a reported Times’ veteran rugby correspond- drop O’Driscoll being the defin- “He remains so, and would have “Think of Sir Clive Woodward. He added: “The answer is obvi- $22.5m. REUTERS ent, said Gatland had “turned ing moment of his career, Holden done had his side been the losers. Will history judge him on guiding ous.” AFP ACC umpiring course ends successfully Castro guides Houston

DOHA: The Qatar Cricket Association (QCA) successfully Astros to victory organised the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) 0 Level umpir- HOUSTON: Houston catcher ing course to promote cricket in Jason Castro celebrated his first Baseball Results Qatar. All Star selection by hitting a Seventeen candidates attended three-run homer to give the vis- NY Yankees 5 Baltimore 4 the course, which was held iting Astros a 9-5 win over the Minnesota 6 Toronto 0 recently. ACC instructor Malik Texas Rangers yesterday. Kansas City 4 Oakland 3 Nazar Mohammed conducted the Castro’s seventh inning blast St Louis 5 Miami 4 course and gave important tips to snapped a tie to give the Astros a the participants. 7-4 lead and Jake Elmore ended Detroit 9 Cleveland 4 The candidates who took the the scoring in the eighth with his Chicago Cubs 4 Pittsburgh 1 course were: Rana Mohammad first career homer for the team, Washington 5 San Diego 4 Saqlain (scored the high- a two-run shot. est points in the test), Raza Travis Blackley (1-0) pitched Cincinnati 13 Seattle 4 Hussain, Furqan Dawood Sange, 1-1/3 hitless innings to secure Milwaukee 7 NY Mets 6 Muhammad Mushtaq, G Gokul the win for Houston, who ended Houston 9 Texas 5 Rak Chakaravarthy, Mohan Lal a run of six straight losses to the Atlanta 13 Philadelphia 4 Arya, Lynel Jason Lobo, Nadia Rangers. Naeem, Surendra Kumar Thapa, Texas starter Yu Darvish (8-4), San Francisco 4 LA Dodgers 2 Muhammad Asim, Mohammad The candidates of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) 0 Level umpiring course and Qatar Cricket Association (QCA) who had got the win against the Tampa Bay 3 Chicago White Sox 0 Kamrul Hussain, Trishane Nonis, President MA Shahid (front row, centre) and other officials are seen. Seventeen people undertook the course, Astros in each of his three previ- LA Angels 9 Boston 7 Mohsin Ali, Mohammad Mujtaba which was organised by QCA with the aim of promoting cricket in Qatar. ous starts against them, allowed Saeed Malik, Sohail Saeed Khan, five runs and six hits in six innings Arizona 11 Colorado 1 Tariq Hameed and Mohammad as his team slipped to 50-37 for Majid Khan. Shahid said that the role of the candidate and their records this umpiring course. The course the season. In New York, the Yankees beat The course was inaugurated by candidates in the course would will be forwarded to the ACC, also acts as a further boost to the The 26-year-old Japanese the Baltimore Orioles 5-4 after QCA President MA Shahid, who assume a great deal of impor- which will arrange the Level -1 cricketing activities and said that pitcher, who earlier had been Eduardo Nunez, back in action for encouraged the candidates by tance and responsibility when Umpiring Course. all the schools are willing to work named to his second All Star the first time in two months after asking them to put in their heart they work to bring in more play- The QCA President also harder to increase the profile of team in only his second season, being sidelined by a strained rib and soul so that they could qualify ers to the sport in future. thanked all the schools who cricket in Qatar. failed to win for the eighth time cage muscle, drove in the game- for an advanced course later. The names of the successful nominated their teachers for THE PENINSULA in nine starts. winning run. REUTERS MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT I was tired after semi strain, says Overall leader’s yellow jer- Djokovic sey Britain’s Christopher LONDON: Exhausted Novak Froome (centre), Djokovic blamed his lacklustre Spain’s Alberto Wimbledon final defeat against Contador (third Andy Murray on being unable right) and Spain’s to recover quickly enough from Alejandro Valverde his gruelling semi-final victory. (fourth left) ride Djokovic had taken over four during the 168.5 hours and 43 minutes to defeat km ninth stage Juan Martin del Potro in a bruis- of the 100th edi- ing five-set classic just 48 hours tion of the Tour earlier. de France cycling And with the All England Club race between basking in sweltering tempera- Saint-Girons and tures of 40 degrees yesterday, the Bagnères-de- usually hyper-energetic Djokovic Bigorre, south- found it impossible to rouse him- western France, self enough to subdue Murray. yesterday. “It took a lot out of me. I can- not look for excuses but yes the previous match went almost five hours, five sets,” Djokovic said. “I’ve been in these situations before. I felt okay but maybe physically I didn’t have enough gas in the important moments. “I went for my shots more than usual. Okay, that’s life. You have to move on. “It was a very long match for three sets today. But the bottom line is that he was a better player in the decisive moments.” Djokovic had been in sub- Froome retains the yellow lime form en route to the final, but the top seed couldn’t recap- ture that form as tiredness set in during his first straight sets defeat at a Grand Slam since a 2010 Wimbledon loss to Tomas Berdych. jersey; Martin wins stage And he admitted his aching limbs and mental fatigue scram- bled his thought process and It was one of the hardest days I’ve had on my bike, says the Briton made him take too many risks. “In both second and third sets, I was 4-2 up and dropped the serve BAGNERES-DE-BIGORRE, eventually content with having in those games and just allowed France: Chris Froome sur- eliminated Porte from the overall him to come back for no reason,” vived a brutal early onslaught reckoning. France’s President Djokovic said. from his Tour de France rivals “It was a very tough day. In Francois Hollande “I should have played better in to retain the yellow jersey after the end we eliminated Froome’s (right) congratulates the decisive moments. I wasn’t an epic ninth stage won by team- mates but he was really patient enough. overall leader’s Ireland’s Dan Martin yesterday. strong,” Valverde told reporters. “I believed I could come back, yellow jersey Having destroyed the field Colombian Nairo Quintana, but I didn’t play on the top of my to snatch the overall lead in holder of the white jersey for the Britain’s abilities and with this kind of Saturday’s opening mountain best young rider, threw a few jabs Christopher Froome game I didn’t have a chance to stage ahead of fellow Team Sky in the last climb of the day to La on the podium win. rider Richie Porte, the Briton had Hourquette d’Ancizan (9.9 km at the end of the “But he was getting some exposed himself to retaliation. at 7.5 percent) before the final 168.5 km ninth incredible shots on the stretch The Garmin-Sharp, Movistar descent to Bagneres-de-Bigorre. stage of the 100th and running down the dropshots. and Saxo-Tinkoff teams blew the “It is not easy to follow edition of the Tour He was all over the court. He peloton apart in the first of five Quintana, he’s a light Colombian de France cycling played fantastic tennis, no ques- climbs on a searing hot day in the who can fly uphill,” Froome said race between tion about it. He deserved to win.” Pyrenees ahead of the rest day, of the Movistar rider. Saint-Girons “I guess the understanding of with Froome soon finding himself “I was ready for more attacks and Bagnères- what he needs to do to win big isolated. so I am glad there weren’t.” de-Bigorre, matches has improved.” AFP The moves eliminated Froome’s Spaniard Contador, a Tour southwestern lieutenant Porte, who lost his sec- champion in 2007 and 2009, lies France, yesterday. ond place overall, and restored sixth overall 1:51 off the pace, Webber’s wheel hope among the other teams that while the Dutch pair of Bauke the Tour was not over yet. Mollema and Laurens Ten Dam flies off, hits Overall, Froome leads Spaniard of the Belkin team are third and Alejandro Valverde by 1:25 while fourth. cameraman Porte, who finished 17:59 behind, “I think it was not the best dropped well outside the top 20 day to attack because the last British rider Millar defends NURBURGRING, as hopes of a second consecutive climb was 30 km from the finish,” Germany: A Formula One Team Sky one-two evaporated. Contador, who was not at his best cameraman was hit by an Froome, however, had an but looked in better shape than on errant flying wheel during a answer for every attack from Saturday, said. Froome in doping debate pit stop after eight laps of yes- Valverde’s Movistar team-mates, “I will give it 100 percent in terday’s German Grand Prix. with Alberto Contador’s Saxo- the time trial (on Wednesday), BAGNERES-DE-BIGORRE, France: the sceptics, but it’s also about being professional The wheel flew off the right Tinkoff aides also joining the fight we will assess the situation and Experienced British rider David Millar yester- and wanting to win races. rear axle of Australian Mark initiated by Garmin-Sharp’s Tom then we’ll play.” day hit out at those who have cast doubt on the “For them (Sky) it’s very difficult, it’s a tightrope Webber’s Red Bull car, bounced Danielson, David Millar, Ryder Quintana’s attacks in the final achievements of Chris Froome and Team Sky, they’re walking, trying to be transparent, but also through two garages and hit the Hesjedal and Martin. climb were not enough to drop insisting that the sport has changed greatly since keeping their trade secrets, which are the training. cameraman, Paul Allen, in the “It was one of the hardest days Froome, who had let Martin and the dark days of the last decade in which the US “They race in a very similar way to the US Postal back. I’ve had on my bike,” Froome told Denmark’s Jakob Fuglsang go Postal team dominated the sport. team, but you have to take into perspective the fact The cameraman was treated a news conference. near the top. Millar took to Twitter in the immediate aftermath that the sport is different now. immediately by medical staff in “It was a very difficult position Martin was the fresher man of Saturday’s eighth stage of the Tour de France, “There is more control and greater transparency the pit lane before being trans- to be in, but I’m really happy with and he outsprinted Fuglsang won in spectacaular fashion by Froome, to say that than then, so even if we are saying that Sky aren’t ferred to the circuit medical how I’ve come through today hav- to become the first Irishman to he believes Sky are clean and “don’t deserve to have transparent it’s night and day compared to Postal. centre. ing lost not too much time. win a Tour stage since his uncle mud thrown at them”. “The general public don’t know how the sport has The sport’s governing body, “It was quite straightforward Stephen Roche in 1992. However, Millar also admits that the British outfit changed and what Sky are actually doing. There is a the FIA, added in a statement: however because my biggest rivals “The last 30 kilometres were so could help themselves by being more transparent in massive difference between them and Postal.” “He was treated at the circuit were in that group and obviously hard, my legs have never hurt that their practices, at a time when cycling is seeking to When it comes to doping, Millar knows what he medical centre and then trans- the objective for me was to make much. I knew that if I could be in shake off the ghosts of the past and move on in the is talking about, having served a doping ban himself ported by helicopter to Koblenz sure I’d stay with those guys.” the last kilometre with him I was wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal. before returning to the sport with Garmin in an Hospital. The Movistar team were in confident for the sprint,” Martin, Froome was already forced to bat away ques- attempt to turn around his image at a team who, “The Briton has been kept control of a leading group in the who also won the Liege-Bastogne- tions from gathered media at Ax-Trois-Domaines he says, make it their mission statement to prove there, under observation. last three climbs of the day but Liege one-day classic this season, on Saturday after his stunning performance was that they are clean. Further information from the they ran out of energy and were said. REUTERS registered as the third-fastest ever on the climb to It is quite a turnaround from the dark days of hospital will be provided as soon the Pyrenean summit. 2004, when he was arrested by police in Biarritz and as it becomes available.” AFP The Kenyan-born Tour favourite insisted that, was found to be in possession of doping products. Results unlike Armstrong and other big names from cycling’s Sky boss Dave Brailsford, in his capacity as British Top 15 Results from Tour de France (Saint-Girons - Bagneres-de- recent past, his results will never be wiped from the team official, just happened to be with Millar in the Bigorre, 168.5 km) yesterday. history books, and insisted that the sport is in “a French Basque country on that day nine years ago. Windies-Sri 1. Daniel Martin (Ireland / Garmin)...... much better place now than it has been for the last Like anyone in cycling circles, he is accustomed to 2. Jakob Fuglsang (Denmark / Astana) ...... 20 or 30 years”. being asked about the subject of doping, but laments Lanka match to 3. Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland / Omega Pharma - Quick-Step) ...... Speaking prior to the start of yesterday’s ninth the attitude of some who refuse to give present-day 4. Daniel Moreno (Spain / Katusha) ...... stage of this year’s Tour in the Pyrenean town of riders the benefit of the doubt. resume today 5. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spain / Katusha) ...... Saint-Girons, Millar, now with the American outfit “When you sit and get accused of lying and cheat- 6. Cadel Evans (Australia / BMC Racing) ...... Garmin, said that Froome’s natural talent is “off ing and doping constantly, the first time it happens 7. Wout Poels (Netherlands / Vacansoleil) ...... the scale” and urged journalists to let him focus on it knocks you for six, but before long it just becomes PORT OF SPAIN: Torrential 8. Bauke Mollema (Netherlands / Belkin) ...... winning the race rather than calling his credibility part of the job,” he said. showers have forced the aban- 9. Daniel Navarro (Spain / Cofidis) ...... into question. “We keep it in perspective. It is natural for people donment of play in the fifth But he urged Sky to take a lead from his own to ask questions, but there is a certain sector whose match of the Tri-Nation Series 10. Maxime Monfort (Belgium / RadioShack) ...... team in the way they confront the issue of doping cynicism is something else. between the West Indies and 11. Alejandro Valverde (Spain / Movistar) ...... in the sport. “If you have a lot of energy and a negative attitude, Sri Lanka yesterday. 12. Andy Schleck (Luxembourg / RadioShack) ...... “They could be more open and not be so defensive you’re just cynical. What you really want to listen The match will resume, 13. Alberto Contador (Spain / Saxo - Tinkoff) ...... at times, but you have to understand we are a pro- to is those people who really are the middle ground, weather permitting, today with 14. Chris Froome (Britain / Team Sky) ...... fessional sport and we are competing against each who have a rational thought process, and ask ques- the Sri Lankans at 60 for three 15. Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic / Saxo - Tinkoff) ...... other,” said the 36-year-old. “It’s one thing satisfying tions.” he said. AFP off 19 overs. AFP MONDAY 8 JULY 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 China’s young stars Bolt sets this year’s fastest 200m time PARIS: Olympic champion Usain Bolt sent out a warning to his rivals ahead of the world top Asian medals tally championships by running the fastest time of the year to win the 200 metres at the Qatar’s Musaab clinches gold in the men’s 800m Paris Diamond League late on Saturday. The world record holder eased PUNE, INDIA: China’s young to the line in 19.73 bettering athletics brigade showed they American Tyson Gay’s world were ready for higher honours lead by 0.01 seconds and then after dominating the medals Men’s 200 metres gold said there was more to come. tally in the Asian track and field medal winner from “I came out to try and exe- championships which ended in China Xie Zhenye (left), cute the best I could. I did a few Pune yesterday. silver medal winner from things wrong but all I have to do China’s team of the future fin- Saudi Arabia Fahad is go back to the drawing board ished the continental meet with Mohammed Alsubaie and get it right,” Bolt, who was Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt 16 gold medals from the 42 events (right) and bronze medal dogged by a hamstring injury reacts after winning the men’s contested, way ahead of the five winner from Japan earlier in the season, told a news 200m at the IAAF Diamond golds won by second-placed Kei Takase cross the conference. League meet at the Stade de Bahrain and four each by Japan finish line on the fifth “I lost one 100 metres and a lot France on Saturday. and Saudi Arabia. of people are making a big deal and final day of Asian Su Bingtian, who retained his out of it, and it doesn’t really Athletics Championship 100m title beating Asian record- bother me,” the Jamaican said in “Today it was not the best holder and favourite Samuel 2013 at the Chatrapati reference to his defeat by Justin race technically but I still man- Francis of Qatar, turns 24 next Shivaji Stadium in Pune, Gatlin in Rome last month. aged to win,” Fraser-Pryce told month. The fastest woman yesterday. “I am a championship person, reporters. sprinter, Wei Yongli, is 21. I’m not worried, as long as I’m in “I did not feel Blessing com- Wang Jianan, who won the great shape.” ing, I just ran my own race,” said men’s long jump, is not even 17 Home favourite Christophe the Jamaican who is planning a years of age. Compatriots Li Ling Lemaitre, who won the world sprint double in Moscow. and Li Lingwei, winners of the already qualified for the world unstoppable in the 400m hurdles Musaab Abdelrahman Balla bronze two years ago, finish third There was a world leading women’s pole vault and javelin championships and are busy pre- as Yashuhiro Fueki won the men’s of Qatar emerged an easy win- in 20.07 with Jamaica’s Olympic time of 14:23.68 for Ethiopia’s events with new meet records, paring for them,” Feng said. “This event and Satomi Kubokura ner in the men’s 800m and Wang bronze medallist Warren Weir Tirunesh Dibaba in the 5,000 are both aged 24. was a good chance to have our coasted home in the women’s Chunyu of China won the gold in second in 19.92. metres as she bids for a third Gold medallists at the Asian youngsters compete against the final. the women’s event. Twice Olympic 100 metres world title over the distance in meet earn a direct entry to next best in Asia.” Xie Zhenye of China took Saudi Arabia ended on a high champion Shelly-Ann Fraser- Moscow next month before turn- month’s world championships in Belayneh Betlhem Desalegn the men’s 200m in 20.87 sec- note when Mohammed Alsubiani, Pryce held off Nigeria’s fast- ing to the marathon. Moscow, but Chinese head coach of the United Arab Emirates onds, while Viktoriya Zyabkina Mohammed Ali Albishi, finishing Blessing Okagbare for Fellow Ethiopian Almaz Ayana Feng Shuyong insisted the idea to clinched a double when she added became the first sprinter from Mohammad Obaid Alsalhi and a thrilling win in 10.92 seconds, stunned the crowd by taking sec- bring juniors to Pune was to help the 5,000 metres gold medal to the Kazakhstan to win the women’s Yousef Ahmed Masrahi won the 0.01 ahead of her rival who beat ond place in 14:25.84, smashing them gain experience. 1,500m title she won on Friday. race when she dashed home in men’s 4x400 relay in a new meet her over 200 last weekend. her personal best. REUTERS “Most of our top athletes have Japanese athletes were 23.62secs. record time. AFP

Hundreds of Bartoli targets more titles

footballers LONDON: Wimbledon cham- pion Marion Bartoli insists her suffer from perfect day on Centre Court could be just the start of another depression: remarkable chapter in one of the more unlikely tennis success stories. PFA boss Bartoli romped to her first Grand Slam title on Saturday as LONDON: Hundreds of foot- the French 15th seed thrashed ballers could be suffering from Germany’s Sabine Lisicki 6-1, 6-4 depression, according to play- in the Wimbledon final. ers’ union boss Clarke Carlisle. The 28-year-old, beaten by Professional Footballers’ Venus Williams in her only Association chairman Carlisle, previous Grand Slam final at who retired from playing at the Wimbledon in 2007, is the fifth end of last season, has spoken of oldest woman to become a first- his own problems and revealed time major winner in the Open Manchester United and England football Wayne Rooney and actor Gerard he tried to commit suicide when Era. Butler walk on Centre Court for the men’s final match between Andy he was starting out in the game It was an incredible moment France’s Marion Bartoli talks to members of themedia during a press Murray of Britain and Novak Djokovic of Serbia at Wimbledon, yesterday. He is convinced the problem for Bartoli, whose career had been conference in southwest London the day after winning the women’s is widespread and has produced on a downward spiral in recent singles Wimbledon Championships title, yesterday. a television documentary on years and hit rock bottom in suicide and depression among February when she struggled with Nigeria crush Ivory Coast; footballers, he explained to the emotional decision to move Bartoli has never been one to asked if people thought her father the Mail on Sunday newspaper on from her dad Walter, who had do things the easy way. told her when little that she was yesterday. coached her since childhood. She grew up outside the tennis never going to be “a looker” like Morocco stun Tunisia “I will categorically state She eventually turned to mainstream, coached by her doc- Maria Sharapova so would have there are hundreds of players former Wimbledon champion tor father who had no background to fight harder for success. suffering with this,” he said. Amelie Mauresmo for help after in the sport and yet gave up his The BBC apologised for the JOHANNESBURG: Nigeria local stars to the Confederations “The numbers in society are failing to strike up a rapport with job to teach his daughter how to comments after a storm of pro- overpowered Ivory Coast and Cup in Brazil last month and all one in four and footballers are a series of coaches and the trans- become a professional. tests on Twitter, admitting the Morocco shocked title-holders were in the squad to face the members of that society. formation has been swift and Throughout her career Bartoli’s remark was “insensitive”. Tunisia this weekend in 2014 Ivorians. “The thing about football is stunningly success. game has been marked by bizarre Inverdale said yesterday he had African Nations Championship A home victory was expected that the reluctance to come With a first Grand Slam crown routines as she jumps, skips, shuf- written to apologise to Bartoli qualifiers. in the northern city of Kaduna, forward and speak means there secured, Bartoli, who celebrated fles and twirls her racket before and told listeners that he used “a A brace from star midfielder but the margin must have thrilled are so many guys sitting under her victory by clambering into the serving or returning. clumsy phrase” about Bartoli in Sunday Mba helped Nigeria even hard-to-please former the radar. players’ box to embrace her father She has never been afraid to trying to make a point that not trounce nine-man Ivory Coast national team captain Keshi. “As PFA chairman, I’ve had and Mauresmo, hopes the second speak her mind, falling out with all players need to be “6 ft fall 4-1 in Kaduna and virtually seal Ivory Coast did not help them- 15-20 guys come to me and phase of her career provides more French tennis chiefs, who banned Amazonian athletes”. a place in the finals for the first selves by having Roger Assale and say: ‘Clarke, there’s something of the success that once seemed her from last year’s Olympics over The Frenchwoman, celebrating time. Baresi Gloudeaou sent off in the wrong with me and I don’t know so elusive. their refusal to let Walter coach her success in becoming the first Morocco are equally well- second half. what it is or where I should go’. “Of course I’m going to try my her while she was representing Frenchwoman in seven years to placed to compete in South However, Nigeria were already “All they know is they want hardest to get some more. Now her country on Fed Cup duty. win the coveted Wimbledon wom- Africa next January after a 1-0 3-1 ahead and scored only through to be out of football, out of the that I get one, I definitely believe Meanwhile, the BBC faced en’s title, shrugged off Inverdale’s away win over Tunisia via a late Ifeanyi Benjamin when they had system. And those are just the I can get more of them,” she said. mounting pressure yesterday to comments. Abdessamad Mbarki goal. a two-man numerical advantage. ones who had my number and “But I just want to enjoy this take action against one its most “It doesn’t matter, honestly. I Mali, Senegal and Burkina Star midfielder Sunday Mba felt they could call. You cannot one because I haven’t still real- high-profile sports presenters am not blonde, yes. That is a fact,” Faso built leads at home in other once again punished Ivory Coast undersell this.” ised I’m really the Wimbledon for criticising the appearance of Bartoli said in a press briefing late matches while a FIFA ban forced by scoring in each half and Carlisle plans to launch a champion. France’s Marion Bartoli who won on Saturday. Cameroon to cancel a fixture Gambo Mohammed was the other hotline for footballers to call if “It will take me some few days. this year’s Wimbledon women’s She added: “Have I dreamt against Gabon. Nigerian marksman. they feel they need help. And actually when I do realise singles title. about having a model contract? The Nigerian ‘Super Eagles’ are Mba scored the winner when And he recalled an occa- what I’ve done then I will maybe John Inverdale incensed radio No. I’m sorry. But have I dreamed strongly positioned to progress in Nigeria eliminated pre-tourna- sion when, as a young player at think about the US Open and get- listeners before Bartoli beat about winning Wimbledon? a competition restricted to foot- ment favourites Ivory Coast this Queen’s Park Rangers, he went ting a shot over there.” German Sabine Lisicki when he Absolutely, yes.” AGENCIES ballers playing in their country year en route to winning the to a local park with a bottle of of birth. Africa Cup of Nations in South pills and attempted to end his Coach Stephen Keshi took eight Africa. AFP life. Queen leads the tributes to hero Murray “I’d decided that ending my David Beckham life was the best and most pain- LONDON: Queen Elizabeth joined politicians, Murray but also an amazing day for British tennis free solution for everyone,” he sports stars and celebrities in congratulating and for Britain. He never gave up and it was mag- poses during a said. “It wasn’t a cry for help. Andy Murray yesterday after he made tennis his- nificent,” Cameron told BBC Radio 5. meet and greet I downed the pills and was tory by becoming the first Briton in 77 years to Cameron earlier said he hoped Murray would session with expecting some really dramatic win the Wimbledon men’s title. add the Wimbledon title to the British and Irish students from ending, like a movie scene. Millions of tennis fans across the country were Lions’ win over Australia on Saturday which ended the Guardian “When that didn’t happen, glued to their televisions as Murray took to Centre a 16-year wait for a series triumph. Academy and I thought I’d go back to my Court for his second Wimbledon final, facing the One notable absentee from the royal box was the Singapore flat, have another can and go world No. 1 Novak Djokovic after he lost last year the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, who Association of the to sleep, job done. It’s frighten- to Roger Federer. watched Murray last year but is due to give birth Deaf’s affiliated ing, really frightening, to think In Centre Court’s royal box, Prime Minister David to the future heir to the British throne, expected to schools at Marina about my state of mind back Cameron cheered on the Scottish player alongside be later this month. Bay Sands in then.” England striker Wayne Rooney, “Hangover” actor Queen Elizabeth is not a tennis fan and last came Singapore, Clarke has played for 11 clubs Bradley Cooper and Victoria Beckham, the ex-Spice to the tournament in 2010, her first visit in 33 years, yesterday. in his career. 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NURBURGRING, Germany: had a good chance, but Sebastian Sebastian Vettel extended drove very well. his lead in this year’s drivers’ He added: “The team took the championship when he finally decision to put us on different won on home soil yesterday. tyres and it worked out in the But the defending triple world end.” champion had to survive several Alonso came home fourth spells of intense pressure to steer ahead of Britons Lewis Hamilton his Red Bull to victory in the of Mercedes and Jenson Button of German Grand Prix. McLaren with Australian Mark The 26-year-old German, who Webber seventh in the second Andy Murray of Britain reacts after defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia in their final match at Wimbledon in London, yesterday. CENTRE: Murray also had never won a race in the Red Bull. celebrates after climbing into the player’s box to hug a friend. RIGHT: Murray holds the trophy on the clubhouse balcony at the All England Club. month of July, came home nar- Hamilton started from pole, rowly ahead but fell back and of fast-clos- struggled with ing Finn Kimi German Grand Prix his tyres before Raikkonen and fighting back in his Lotus team- Results the closing stages mate Romain NURBURGRING, Germany: Results from the with some fine Awesome Murray clinches German Formula One Grand Prix here at the Grosjean of passing moves. France. Nurburgring yesterday: “I have noth- Vettel’s win 1. Sebastian Vettel (GER/Red Bull) 1hr ing positive to was his fourth 41min 14.711sec, 2. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/ say about these this year and the Lotus) at 1.008, 3. Romain Grosjean (FRA/ tyres,” said historic Wimbledon title 30th of his career Lotus) 5.830, 4. Fernando Alonso (ESP/ Hamilton. and it lifted Ferrari) 7.721, 5. Lewis Hamilton (GBR/ “I don’t under- him 34 points Mercedes) 26.927, 6. Jenson Button (GBR/ stand why we clear of nearest McLaren Mercedes) 27.996, 7. Mark struggle so much The world number two ends Britain’s 77-year wait rival, Spaniard Webber (AUS/Red Bull) 37.562, 8. Sergio on them, but the Fernando Alonso Perez (MEX/McLaren Mercedes) 38.306, team is working of Ferrari, in 9. Nico Rosberg (GER/Mercedes) 46.821, hard and we need LONDON: Andy Murray ended the drivers’ 10. Nico Hülkenberg (GER/Sauber) 49.892, to keep pushing. Britain’s agonising 77-year wait championship. 11. Paul di Resta (GBR/Force India) 53.771, “I felt I was for a Wimbledon men’s singles “It’s unbeliev- 12. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/Scuderia Toro having such a champion yesterday when he able,” said Vettel. Rosso) 56.975, 13. Adrian Sutil (GER/Force difficult time and destroyed world number one Murray kisses the “Kimi was push- India) 57.738, 14. Esteban Gutierrez (MEX/ I wanted to know Novak Djokovic, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 Wimbledon champi- ing very close in Sauber) 1:00.160, 15. Pastor Maldonado if Nico wasn’t in the blistering heat of the All onship trophy after the end, but I (VEN/Williams) 1:01.929, 16. Valtteri having a problem England Club. defeating Djokovic was pushing in Bottas (FIN/Williams) at 1 lap, 17. Charles then it must be The 26-year-old became the in the final at the All every lap except Pic (FRA/Caterham) 1 lap, 18. Giedo van something with country’s first male winner since England Lawn Tennis from the ones der Garde (NED/Caterham) 1 lap, 19. Max my driving or my Fred Perry in 1936, the year the Club, in London, with the safety Chilton (GBR/Marussia) 1 lap. set-up. Spanish Civil War started, Jesse Britain, yesterday. car. “But it turned Owens defied Hitler at the Berlin A talented all-round “I enjoyed today and I could out it wasn’t. We didn’t have any Olympics and Gone With The sportsman, Murray feel Kimi coming and it was quite blowouts this weekend -- but I Wind was published. turned down a close with Romain too, but we don’t particularly like the tyres.” It was Murray’s second Grand recovered and I am very happy Mexican Sergio Perez fin- promising Slam title to follow his break- the race ended after 60 laps -- ished eighth for McLaren ahead career as a footballer through triumph at the US and not 61 or 62 laps.” of Germans Nico Rosberg in Open in 2012 which followed his player to focus on Vettel’s win means that in the the second Mercedes and Nico Olympic gold medal as well as tennis, leaving his constructors’ series, Red Bull lead Hulkenberg of Sauber. a heartbreaking, tearful loss to homeland at the with 250 ahead of Mercedes on Vettel became the first German Roger Federer in the Wimbledon age of 15 to train in 183. to win a German Grand Prix final. Barcelona. Raikkonen, who closed within at the Nurburgring in the his- Both struggled in the stifling a second of Vettel at the end as tory of the Formula One world 40-degree heat and the top- he stretched his record run of championship. seeded Serb, who had beaten points-scoring races to 26, said: After the drama of four explod- Murray in the Australian Open “My radio only worked in one part ing tyre blowouts in last Sunday’s final in January, looked jaded after of the circuit and unfortunately British Grand Prix at Silverstone, his record four hour 43-minute that is what made it tough. I first time since the semi-finals meetings and still lost the match. today there was quite a lot to the race was run without simi- semi-final victory over Juan understand how much everyone at Wimbledon three years ago, Djokovic was obviously aware discuss.” lar incidents other than when an Martin del Potro. wanted to see British winner at praised Murray. of the history, speeding into a 4-1 Grosjean, who finished third to errant wheel flew off Webber’s And despite leads of 4-1 in the Wimbledon and I hope everyone “It wasn’t easy. Andy deserves lead with two more marathon ral- grab his first podium finish in five car during a pit-stop and struck second set and 4-2 in the third, he enjoyed it. the win, he played incredible ten- lies of 30 and 32 shots. races, said: “It’s good, it is a good a tv camerman, Paul Allen, in the was out-hit by Murray who fin- “My team have stuck by me nis. Congratulations to him and But Murray roared back to 4-4 result for the team. I thought I back. AFP ished with 36 winners to 31, with through some tough moments. his whole team and the country, in a final which, despite its pun- 21 unforced errors to the Serb’s This one is for Ivan (Lendl, his I know what it means to you all,” ishing hitting, still felt flat. 40 and having carved out 17 break coach) as well, I know he did said the Serb. Djokovic, however, was becom- points. everything to try to win this one Inside a baking Centre Court, ing increasingly frustrated and in “I have played Novak many when he was playing. He’s fantas- and watched by David Cameron, his fog of anxiety, Murray mugged times and when everyone finishes tic, he’s been patient and I thank Victoria Beckham, Wayne Rooney him for a break to lead 6-5 and playing, he will go down as one of him.” as well as Hollywood stars Gerard went two sets to the good at 7-5. the fighters,” said Murray. Djokovic, who lost in straight Butler and Bradley Cooper, the Murray had only lost once “He did the same today and sets at a Grand Slam for the first point of the match was a when two sets up and that was in punishing 20 strokes. the Wimbledon third round eight Murray, who has played in years back in 2005 against David the final of his last four majors, Nalbandian, his debut year when had break points in the first and he was a rookie 18-year-old ten- third games, with the Scot finally nis player. pouncing on his seventh for a 2-1 A break in the second game of lead. the third set gave Murray a 2-0 Djokovic levelled at 2-2 but lead before Djokovic suddenly Murray was the more aggressive, raced away with the next four positive man and broke to love for games for a 4-2 lead. a 4-3 edge firing almost four times But terrier Murray reclaimed as many winners than the top- the break in the seventh game seeded Serb. and levelled in the eighth with The world number two took the a running, curled forehand off a opener 6-4 after 59 minutes with Djokovic drop. a love service game, having hit Djokovic, was broken for 4-5 17 winners to six and with only before the British star, with the Red Bull Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany kisses the six unforced errors to the world crowd on their feet, wasted three winner’s trophy during the presentation ceremony of the German F1 number one’s 17. match points. Grand Prix at the Nuerburgring Circuit, yesterday. World champion Vettel Murray (left) holds the winner’s trophy next to runner -up Djokovic after Murray wasn’t getting com- He finally achieved his place in finally tasted Formula One success on home soil after a composed yesterday’s final placent -- he had won the the history when Djokovic netted a victory in yesterday’s German Grand Prix. first set of the pair’s last three backhand. AFP