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Premier meets US Ambassador Qatar condemns Hotels gear up blasts in Turkey

DOHA: Qatar yesterday strongly condemned and denounced the to welcome two bombings that targeted the police headquarters in the east- ern Turkish cites of Elazig and Van, resulting in 14 deaths and injuring 220. more tourists In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said Qatar strongly condemns the heinous criminal acts aimed at destabilising secu- lesser number of guests. However, rity and stability, and affirms its better occupancy rates during the solidarity with the brotherly Tur- A total of 1.28 million Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha holi- key in all actions and measures it visitors came to days help them offset their losses takes to counter criminal acts and to some extent. maintain its security and stability. Qatar during the first “Hotels in the city have a bet- It reiterated Qatar’s firm stance five months of this ter occupancy rate during winter. that rejects violence and year. New attractions and in all their forms and manifesta- events attract tourists to the coun- tions and whatever motives and try during this season. causes. It extended condolences “We receive more guests from Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday met to the Turkish government, peo- other GCC states,” a senior official US Ambassador to Qatar Dana Shell Smith. Talks dealt with cooperation between the two countries, ple and the families of the victims By Fazeena Saleem of the Gulf Paradise Hotel told The means of enhancing it and issues of mutual interest. and wished the injured a speedy The Peninsula Peninsula yesterday. recovery, reports QNA. “Even during summer, Qatar Tourism Authority has taken steps to promote tourism and help hotels Brent crude tops DOHA: Amid stiff competition increase their occupancy rate,” he with the opening of several new said. QE investors’ wealth rises to QR605.34bn $50 a barrel hotels across the city, the hospital- According to the Ministry of ity industry is expecting a surge in Development Planning and Statis- business after the summer holidays tics, four-star hotels had 72 percent The Peninsula increased by 10.37 percent to reach for 22.34 percent, the industries sec- with an expected rise in the number occupancy and three-star hotels 62 QR2.13bn compared to QR1.93bn the tor 18.19 percent and the telecoms of guests and business tourists. percent last December. previous week. sector 13.68 percent, reports QNA. LONDON: Brent crude oil hit a Hotels are expecting more than The occupancy rate of five-star Trading volume increased by 1.83 The banking and financial serv- six-week high above $50 a bar- 75 percent occupancy rate from hotels was 64 percent and one- and DOHA: Qatari stocks last week made percent to reach 50 million shares as ices sector also led traded number of rel yesterday as the world’s biggest October, after it fell to 50-60 per- two-star hotels saw an occupancy gains of nearly QR19bn, one of the against 49.10m shares the previous transactions during the week with producers prepared to discuss a cent since April. Visitors from other rate of 69 percent during the period. best in weeks, taking the market cap week, while the number of transac- 30.14 percent of the total. possible freeze in output levels. GCC states dominate tourist inflow The occupancy rate was to QR605.34bn, up 3.33 percent com- tions rose by 10.99 percent to reach The industries sector accounted Brent rose to $50.22 a barrel, in Qatar. between 55 percent and 65 per- pared to QR586.36bn at the end of 28,360 compared to 25,551 deals. for 22.87 percent, followed by the up 37 cents — its highest since Although business is expected cent in June and July last year. Data the previous week. The banking and financial serv- real estate sector at 13.90 percent July 4. US light crude oil was up to increase from September-end, shows that occupancy rate for April Qatar Exchange’s (QE) bench- ices sector led traded value during and the telecoms sector at 12.49 65 cents at $47.44. December, January, February and this year fell by 8 percent to 64 per- mark index soared by 365.08 points the week with 38.73 percent of the percent. Benchmark North Sea Brent March are usually the busy months cent from the corresponding month (3.33 percent) during the week total. Of the 43 listed companies, 25 rose 20 percent from a low in for hotels in terms of occupancy due last year. when the bourse closed yesterday The industries sector accounted ended higher during the week, 18 early August on news Organisa- to pleasant weather, say industry A total of 1.28 million visitors at 11,320.39 points. for 20.12 percent, the real estate sec- fell and one remained unchanged. tion of the Petroleum Exporting sources. Most cultural and busi- came to Qatar during the first five The remarkable performance tor 10.80 percent and the telecoms Qatar National Bank led trading Countries and other key export- ness events take place during these months of this year — a rise of 21 helped Qatari stocks recover- sector 9.89 percent. value during the week, accounting ers will probably revive talks on months, attracting more visitors to percent compared to the first four ing some of their lost ground and The banking and financial serv- for 12.56 percent of the total. freezing output levels when they the country. months in 2015. cross the psychological barrier of ices sector led traded volume with Industries Qatar accounted for meet in Algeria next month. Saudi The April-September season is QR600bn-mark. 29.97 percent of the total. 10.29 percent and Qatar Islamic Arabia has hinted that it could considered lean as hotels receive → Continued on page 2 Trading value during the week The real estate sector accounted Bank 8.04 percent. boost supplies to a new record. beIN to broadcast next four Olympic Games

The Peninsula broadcasting, we believe that it will provide fantastic coverage across the region of each edition of the Olympic Games, including free-to-air televi- DOHA: The International Olympic sion coverage. Committee (IOC) yesterday signed “beIN Sports has also committed an agreement with beIN Media to providing unprecedented promo- Group, providing the latter with all tion of Olympic sports all year round, media rights to the next four Olym- including significant support for the pic Games — summer and winter Olympic Channel in the future.” — starting with the XXIII Olympic Nasser Al Khelaifi, Chairman Winter Games in Pyeongchang. and CEO, beIN Media Group, said: beIN Sports will become the “We are extremely proud to sign this Airlander 10 hybrid airship on its maiden flight from Cardington exclusive official broadcaster of the long-term partnership with IOC. Airfield near Bedford, north of London, yesterday. Olympic Games across its territories “The Olympic Games are the in the Middle East and North world’s most treasured sporting (Mena) and the broadcast destina- event. The agreement reinforces tion to watch all the best sporting beIN’s position as the undisputed World’s largest aircraft moments of the Olympic Games. market leader in Mena and rein- The long-term agreement pro- forces our commitment to provide vides beIN Sports with the rights to the most compelling sport content makes maiden flight broadcast the Winter Olympic Games across the region. The agreement in Pyeongchang and Beijing in 2018 shows our commitment to offer beIN AFP the development of airships in Brit- and 2022, respectively, along with Sports viewers the world’s best sports ain. Originally developed for the the rights to the Olympic Games Nasser Al Khelaifi (left), Chairman and CEO, beIN Media Group, and IOC events year round.” US army as a surveillance aircraft, in Tokyo in 2020 and the Olympic President Thomas Bach at the agreement signing ceremony. beIN has committed to broad- the 92-metre-long and 43.5-metre- casting a minimum number of hours LONDON: The Airlander 10, the wide Airlander 10 has potential uses of the Olympic Games and the Winter world’s “largest aircraft”, embarked in the commercial sector, such as Games in 2024 for which the host is The deal will provide viewers in Olympic Games on free-to-air televi- on its maiden flight for 30 minutes, carrying cargo, according to mak- yet to be decided. Mena with live access to the Olympic sion during the Games period. four days after a previous attempt ers Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV). MEDAL STANDINGS beIN Sports is the leading sports Games across all broadcast platforms While beIN Sports is broadcast- was abandoned due to technical It can fly at up to 4,880 metres Countries G S B T and entertainment brand in Mena and digital services. The partnership ing the Rio 2016 Olympic Games issues. and reach speeds of 148km an hour. and owns and distributes 18 linear also includes the beIN Media Group through a sub-licensing arrange- The part plane, part airship took The aircraft, with a payload capac- 31 32 31 94 sports channels across 24 territo- and IOC working together on the ment, the agreement marks the first to the skies from an airfield in Card- ity of up to 10,000kg, has a large Great Britain 21 21 13 55 ries in the region, including Free To IOC’s Olympic Channel. direct relationship between the beIN ington, central England. It comes 85 helium-filled fabric hull and is pro- China 20 16 21 57 Air and Pay TV channels along with IOC President Thomas Bach said: Media Group and IOC. It will enable years after another airship — the pelled by four turbocharged diesel Germany 13 8 11 32 a 24-hour rolling Sports News Chan- “I am pleased to welcome our new both parties to work on initiatives R101 — took off from the airfield engines. It can stay airborne for over nel. It also delivers content on beIN broadcast partner in the Middle East to grow broadcast audiences and in October 1930 before crashing in two weeks unmanned and up to five Russia 12 14 16 42 Connect, its award-winning digital and North Africa, beIN SPORTS. Olympic values in the region, said a France, killing 48 people and ending days if manned. Japan 11 5 18 34 service. “With its excellent track record in statement yesterday. 02 FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 HOME

Qatar condemns Al Amari creates laugh riot at Doha Comedy Festival Yemen missile attack on Najran

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DOHA: Qatar expressed con- demnation and denunciation of the vicious attack, which targeted the Najran region in Saudi Arabia with a missile fired from Yemeni territory, killing seven civilians and wounding many. The foreign ministry said in a statement yesterday that Qatar condemns the continued vicious attacks on the kingdom’s borders and its territory to destabilise the security of Saudi Arabia and ter- rorise innocent people. It said Qatar stands in soli- darity with Saudi Arabia and fully supports all measures taken to maintain its security and stability. Fans enjoying the show at Qatar National Convention Center last night. Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula Qatar extended condolences to the Saudi government, the broth- The Peninsula Featuring 18 Arab comedians, Khairallah, Bashar Al Jazzaf, Rajai erly people of Saudi Arabia and the three-day festival is part of Qatar Al Qawas, Zaid Al Soudaa, Moham- the families of the victims. Summer Festival 2016 organised by med Qaraawi and Abdulrahman Al Qatar Tourism Authority. Shaikhi. DOHA: Qatari stand-up comedian Last night’s show also featured Tickets at QR145 for Silver, QR195 UN team briefed Hamad Al Amari tickled the funny Bader Saleh, Wadah Sewar, Ahmed for Gold, QR295 for Platinum, QR395 bones of his fans at the launch of Al Shammari, Fadi Al Shahri and for VIP and QR1,000 for Royal are on ozone layer Doha Comedy Festival at Qatar Abdullah Al Saidan. available at all Virgin Megastores Qatari stand-up comedian Hamad Al Amari talking to an attendee during National Convention Center last Tonight will be a total laugh branches in Qatar and online at the show. night. riot with performances by Ibrahim https://tickets.virginmegastore.me/qa protection efforts

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236 students from Qatar among DOHA: Experts from the United Kuwait Speaker highlights Nations Industrial Develop- ment Organisation and the 2,800 to graduate from United Nations Environment Programme yesterday praised London School of Marketing Qatar’s progress with respect to historic relations with Qatar the protection of the ozone layer and commitment to implemen- The Peninsula After that they will be able to leave to tation of the requirements of the of the march of Arab Inter-parlia- On the Syrian crisis, Al Ghanim celebrate with their families and will Vienna Convention for the Pro- mentary Union (APU). stressed the need to reach a political not be expected to sit through any tection of the Ozone Layer and Collaboration The Council is a for- solution that is regionally and polit- speeches or other formalities. the Montreal Protocol on Sub- between Qatar’s mal framework for public ically supported and stop bloodshed DOHA: A total of 236 students from LSM has led the way in e-learn- stances that Deplete the Ozone participation in the management and destruction of infrastructure in Qatar are among 2,800 from across ing and over the past three years Layer (Montreal Protocol). Advisory Council and of the country’s affairs, he said, Syria. He said Kuwait hosted three the world to graduate from Lon- opened a network of Local Access This came as the experts met Kuwait’s parliament adding the Qatari parliamen- international donor conferences to don School of Marketing (LSM) next Points (LAPs) across the globe. officials from the Department of is a successful and tary experience is advanced and help the Syrian people and contrib- month. LAPs allow students to study in prevention of radiation, chemi- noteworthy, thanks to the faith ute to solving the crisis. The ceremony at the iconic O2 their countries and receive a British cals and the national contact point perfect example. of the leadership led by Emir With regard to Yemen, he said Arena on September 13 and 14 is qualification and include India, the for the ozone at the Ministry of H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Kuwait hosted peace consultations believed to be the UK’s biggest grad- UAE, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ghana Municipality and Environment Thani. between Yemeni parties to contrib- uation of international students. and Hong Kong, among other coun- to discuss the national strategy He said Qatar’s hosting of ute to reaching a solution to stop The largest group of students at tries. LSM believes its popularity is to deal with hydrofluorocarbons. QNA FIFA World Cup 2022 will be an bloodshed and restore stability. 540 is from , followed by due to a range of business-focused The meeting also reviwed important milestone in organising He also confirmed the keenness Bangladesh with 425. The remaining courses and the unique mix of issues of mutual concern. World Cup tournaments, thanks of Kuwait and other GCC states to students are of several nationali- e-learning and offline support it to the country’s good manage- create a calm atmosphere and enjoy ties — 236 from India, 189 from Sri offers to students. DOHA: Kuwait’s National Assem- ment and organisation of previous neighbourly and cooperation rela- Lanka, 74 from China and 175 from Anton Dominique, Chief Finance QA flight lands bly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al Ghanim tournaments. tions with Iran. Nepal. All students have gained a Officer, LSM, said: “It is fantastic to praised close ties between Qatar On trade exchange, Al Ghanim He said Gulf security and stabil- UK qualification back home and for be welcoming so many international safely in Istanbul and his country and said the stra- said it had not reached the required ity is the red line that should not be many, the graduation will be the first students to London for our gradua- tegic relationship is deep-rooted in level yet. crossed and all Gulf states and Iran time they have visited London. tion ceremony. Our experience shows history. Regarding the Palestinian cause, are equal partners in the region. LSM teaches them virtually but that international students want a UK DOHA: Qatar Airways confirmed In an interview with Al Sharq, Al Ghanim said it must be in our Al Ghanim also talked about with offline support in their home education but the cost of moving to that flight QR240 which left yes- Al Ghanim highlighted collabo- Arab conscience as a central issue the GCC march and said despite all country. It offers a physical presence and studying in the UK means that terday from Istanbul Ataturk ration between Qatar’s Advisory and at the forefront of political and circumstances, the continuation of within a country and local support for many it’s unlikely ever to happen. Airport for Hamad International (Shura) Council and Kuwait’s par- humanitarian concerns. Diplomatic GCC for 35 years is a success. for student. That’s where our LAPs make a differ- Airport returned to Istanbul and liament and said it is a successful struggle should continue in every The GCC march might not have The ceremony will offer a mod- ence. It gives students an opportunity landed safely. and perfect example of cooperation continental or international forum lived up to the level of the ambition ern take on traditional graduation. that previously may not have been In a tweet, the airline said all between parliaments. to reveal facts about Israel and its of GCC peoples, but having a mini- Students will walk onto the stage on a open to them and allow them, once passengers disembarked as nor- He said the Council is a main ongoing abuse of the Palestinians’ mum of cooperation is a point that first-come basis, receive awards and qualified, to improve their career mal and the pilot followed all supporter and actor in the success rights. must be built upon, he added. have selfies taken with their families. prospects.” safety procedures. Diversion on Al Aziziya 1.05 million visit Qatar in Qatari students shine in TAMUQ exams Street from tomorrow first 4 months The Peninsula

Continued from page 1 DOHA: Qatari engineering students Around 1.05 million people enrolling at Texas A&M University at visited Qatar between Janu- Qatar (TAMUQ) have posted signifi- ary and April this year. They cant improvements in mathematics included 598,702 visitors from knowledge and skills through Path- other GCC states, over 294,980 ways for Retention in Engineering from other Asian countries, Programmes (PREP), according to including Oceania region, and examination scores. 199,170 from . Overall, the students improved Hotels in Qatar have been exam scores by an average of more witnessing a steady increase than 40 percent from the beginning in the number of business to the end of the programme, reflect- tourists as Doha emerges as ing the success of the initiative. a top business destination The PREP course, which ran from with corporate guests occu- July 31 until August 11, was taught by pying more than 60 percent Dr. Sandra Nite from Aggie STEM and of hotel rooms. the Department of Mathematics at Dr. Sandra Nite from Aggie STEM and the Department of Mathematics “Definitely, hotel occu- Texas A&M’s main campus in Col- at Texas A&M’s main campus in College Station, Texas, US, conducting pancy goes up coinciding with lege Station, Texas, US. the programme. The Peninsula to traffic and one lane will remain conferences in Doha. How PREP is part of the Dhia: Engi- open in each direction on the right much occupancy increases neering Leaders initiative, a and left sides of the street, as shown depends on the nature of the partnership between TAMUQ and university engineering studies. She said the students are very in the map. Ashghal is implementing conferences. Only one or two long-time collaborator Maersk The programme comprises engaged and have been improving. DOHA: The Public Works Authority the traffic diversion to continue per- hotels would benefit from Oil Qatar to help young Qataris intense instruction in maths topics They are getting a better idea of the (Ashghal) will implement traf- manent construction works of the local events or smaller meet- choose and succeed in educational such as functions, trigonometry, lin- underlying concepts of the work they fic diversion on Al Aziziya Street, Roads and Infrastructure Project in ings,” said a spokesperson at pathways in science, technol- ear systems and mechanics. were doing.” between Ibn Aamer Street and Umm Aziziya East Phase 4. the Grand Hyatt Doha. ogy, engineering and mathematics Dr. Nite said: “It’s more than just The students also took part Al Kharj Street from tomorrow for It will install signs to advise The number of hotel rooms (STEM), which are critical to the suc- getting them through that place- in academic success seminars to three months in coordination with motorists of the diversion and has in Qatar is expected to reach cess of Qatar National Vision 2030. ment exam. We want to give them enhance study skills and habits, the Traffic Police Department. urged road users to abide by speed about 23,000 by end of this PREP was designed for incom- the foundation they need to be suc- while learning about on-campus During the diversion, the centre limits and follow signs for their and year, with a 27 percent annual ing freshmen who seek to improve cessful throughout the engineering academic resources they will have of Al Aziziya Street will be closed others’ safety. growth. maths skills before starting mathematics sequence.” at their disposal. ISLAM FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 03 The internal dimensions of Haj

By Mokhtar Magraoui are not. Approaching one’s spouse is unbefit- ting considering that now the pilgrim is going to visit the Host. hat is Haj? Haj in the Arabic lan- guage means aim, destination Tawaf Al Ifadah or purpose (qasd). The reason is Ifadah means to flood, to rush, to move. clear: Haj is the ultimate jour- The movement from ‘Arafat to the haram Wney of loving submission (‘ubudiyah) and is called ifadah. The rite of tawaf that takes conscious surrender (riq) to Allah . Its ulti- place after the casting of the pebbles, the sac- mate destination is your encounter with the rifice and the shaving of the head is likewise House of Allah (Bayt Al Allah) — the Ka`bah termed Tawaaf Al Ifadah. The heart (qalb), — with both your physical body and, more cleansed and purified from its attachments, importantly, your heart (qalb). inundated with love, desire and longing, Ibn Al Jawzi (rahimahullah) relates a story floods to the haram, to the House, and to its of an old, blind woman who was journeying Lord. There, it circumambulates the House to Haj years ago with a caravan. Through- and renews its pledge of complete and loving out the journey, she keeps asking: “Are we at submission. We remember in Sa’i the actions the house of my Lord?” Time and again, she of Hajar (Alayhisalam) as she climbed, walked is told, “No, mother, we are not there yet.” As and ran up both Safa and Marwa looking for the caravan nears Makkah, she is informed sustenance for her starving child. The miracle that they are almost there. Finally, they enter of Zam-zam was gifted to Hajar for her efforts Masjid al-haram. She is led to the Ka’bah. and sincere reliance. The Prophet Muhammad Touching the Ka’bah, she cries, “Baytu rabbi!” (peace be upon him) teaches that if we drink (“The House of my Lord!”). Weeping, she descriptions, we gain insight into the deeper miqat, there is only talbiyah. The essence of in forgiving and effacing our sins. Who is it, Zam-zam with firm faith and certainty, Allah clings to the cloth of the Ka’bah – and dies. meanings of Haj. The rites of Haj are described, Haj is the journey of our hearts away from beside Him, that can forgive and that does will most definitely answer our supplication. The woman realised with her heart (qalb) for example, as manasik, masha’ir and masha- the house of our lower selves (nufus) with its forgive? There is no refuge or flight from Allah the true significance of visiting the House of hid. Mansak (plural manasik), usually translated passions (shahawat), inclinations (ahwa’) and except to Him. Allah celebrates, in the pres- The days and nights of Muna her Lord. Allah has invited you to His House, as ritual, connotes shelter (maskan) and tran- attachment to the created world (khalq) to the ence of the angels, the hujjaj (pilgrims) on During our stay in Muna, we re-affirm which He has called the Al Baytul Atiq — the quility (sukun). The rites of Haj are residences haram and, ultimately, the House of Allah. ‘Arafat asking for forgiveness. And He affirms and re-declare our desire and hope for spir- ancient, liberated and liberating house. Your of shelter and tranquility for the heart. We must leave our attachments to receive the to the angels that, yes, He has forgiven them. itual freedom by casting pebbles for three journey is one of freedom and liberation. For Mash’ar (plural masha’ir) connotes feel- greatest connection. We must leave to arrive. days. Each casting of the pebbles cements as your body leaves its material house to jour- ing and experience. The rites of Haj cause ihram is from haram. Both meanings, to be Muzdalifa our resolution to contain and confine both ney to Allah’s House, your heart is meant to the heart to feel and experience the sweet- sacred and to be forbidden, are carried in it. Muzdalifa, from the Arabic root izdilaf, the lower self (nafs) and shaytan. You remain disengage from the lower self (nafs), the shay- ness of nearness to Allah. Mashad (plural Through the ihram, the heart is meant to leave means to approach, to get closer. Muzdalifa is in Muna as Allah’s guest. Here, we must eat tan, and the world (dunya) and journey to mashahid) is to witness with the heart the the temporary and the finite – to make it, in a second station of cleansing and purification. and drink with the consciousness of a guest Allah. The ultimate reward for a Haj mabrur blessings of Allah at every station – to see, a sense, “forbidden” – and to prepare for the The pilgrim is now closer to the Ka’bah. We in front of a Most-Magnanimous Host. The is to return home with the purity of a newborn with one’s inner sight, Allah’s will as the Dec- sacred audience of Allah’s presence. remain in supplication (du’a’) after Fajr, implor- greatest nourishment during these days, child. What could be a greater incentive? But reer of decrees and the Causer of causes. Each One enters into ihram with talbiyah. talbi- ing Allah again for and guidance. Some as Allah himself indicates, is His dhikr, or beware, for Haj is a selective process. Only a word connotes a different inner dimension of yah is the heart’s most profound surrender to scholars have said that in Muzdalifa, Allah also remembrance. We are destined to leave but few will attain a Haj mabrur, which is a Haj Haj, as the movement, not only of your body the invitation and call of Allah : Here I come to forgives our violations against the rights of oth- Allah intends we leave gradually, in gratitude performed correctly, without any disobedi- or limbs, but of your heart. For as your body You, my Lord, here I come – fully and forever. ers. Such violations are not usually forgiven to Him, remembrance of Him and gathering a ence to Allah and without indulging in any journeys from one place to another, so too With the talbiyah, we proclaim that no unless, in addition to seeking forgiveness, we firm resolution for permanent change when argumentation. Be prepared. Be vigilant. Be must your heart travel through various sta- associate (sharik) or attachment will dis- remedy what has been violated. During the Haj we depart. Then the last pebble is cast. Our focused. This will be one of the greatest – and tions (maqamat), each of which will provide tract us from seeking Allah . Our hearts will of Prophet Ibrahim (Alayhisalam), he was com- final farewell is imminent. sweetest – struggles of your life. And though it with shelter, solace and inner sight. not see, hear, obey, or be lured to another, manded to sacrifice his son. Allah , of course, you will long and dream for the rest of your besides Him. never intended that the slaughter take place. The farewell life to come back, you may never return again. Become angelic Allah wanted, instead, to purify and free Ibra- Most have waited their entire lives for Haj is your chance to become an angel Mina him (alayhisalam) from every love and every the encounter with the House of Allah. Many The most sacred space and to live with the delight of an angel. In Mina, or Muna, means desire, hope, longing. attachment besides Him. It was in Muna that will never return. In truth, there is no cer- You will be journeying from your earthly tawaf, you will be mirroring the worship of Some texts teach that it was in Muna that Adam the shaytan attempted to waylay Ibrahim (alay- tainty that any of us will ever gaze on the house to Makkah, your spiritual home, the the angels, the mala’ikah, those heavenly (Alayhisalam) longed and desired to journey hisalam) from sacrificing his son. Ibrahim Ka’bah again. Whether we return or not, we most beloved place to Allah in all of space creatures created of pure light and enveloped back home to paradise and to be, once again, (alayhisalam) casted pebbles at the shaytan to will never forget. It is said — and it is true — and time. Allah himself has decreed it to be in the worship of Allah. Texts teach that the in Allah’s presence. It is in Muna that the jour- reject his designs and prompting. that the Ka’bah beckons you from afar, then so since the beginning of creation. There Ka’bah is connected in an imperceptible way ney begins. The day spent in Muna, termed the In casting the pebbles, the pilgrim affirms leaves you yearning forever. It is related that is no place more blessed, more beautiful, to the Bayt al-Ma’mur, the heavenly Ka’bah of day of tarwiyah (meaning, in part, to quench, Allah’s greatness over everything and cov- Ibn ‘Abbas prayed this as his final farewell, more virtuous, more exalted than Makkah. the angels, around which they are constantly to drink to one’s fill), is meant for our heart to enants with Allah that he or she will never clinging with his entire being to the multa- Every inch and every corner of Makkah is a in tawaf. Seventy thousand angels perform focus on the aim of their journey, to gather in regress to anything which displeases Him. zam, the wall of the Ka’bah between the hajar haram, a sanctuary made sacred by Allah. tawaf around this house and are replaced resolution and focus, and to begin our inner Casting the pebbles is the casting away of and the door: The more you revere Makkah, the more you with others, never to return. momentum towards the House of Allah . shaytan, the lower self (nafs) with its desires, “O Allah This House is Your House And this will be ennobled by Allah. We must take the Around the Ka’bah, we are in a heavenly inclinations and evil, and, ultimately, casting servant is Your servant, and the son of Your greatest of care to never think casually of our dimension. Near the Ka’bah are the Hajar Arafat away everything besides Allah. The peb- servants You have carried me here on what sojourn in Makkah or live within its precincts Aswad, or black stone (a stone set into one ‘Arafat means to know, to understand. ble is meant, not to hit the pillar, but to fall You have made accessible to me of Your cre- in disobedience or negligence. of its corners), and the Maqam Ibrahim , both Another verb scale conveys the meaning of inside the container, or majmar, where it will ation Until You have made me reach, by Your Some reports teach that it was in Makkah gems from Jannah. We are taught that the perfuming, making fragrant, scenting. ‘Arafat remain. The fire of the nafs, its impetus to evil, grace, Your House And You have helped me ful- that our father Adam (Alayhisalam) longed to hajar was darkened by the sins and trans- is the essential pillar (rukn), of Haj; without must be cast out, contained and confined. fill my rites of Haj (O Allah) If You have been go back to paradise and be in the presence of gressions of man. Its heavenly light is now ‘Arafat there is no Haj. ‘Arafat is the cleansing Our nafs must be jailed for us to become free. pleased with me, then be more pleased with Allah. To console his loneliness, Allah com- folded from us. The hajar will be rendered station outside the haram where we stand and After the nafs is jailed by the casting of the me And if You are not pleased with me, then I manded him to do tawaf around the space of into a person in the afterlife by Allah and will seek forgiveness for all that we’ve commit- pebbles, it is slaughtered. The sacrifice of the implore you to be generous to me now – Before the current Ka’bah. And Adam did, and felt witness on behalf of those who approached ted in our lives. We beg and implore Allah to animal signifies the slaughter of the nafs by my house becomes distant from Your house For whole again. Other texts teach that Nuh (Alay- it with truth and sincerity. The hajar can be make us worthy of entering into His haram, Ibrahim (Alayhisalam). Ibrahim’s (Alayhis- now it is time for my departure, if You permit hisalam), Ibrahim (Alayhisalam), and many said to take a picture recording of your heart visiting His House and being in His presence. alam) sacrifice was momentous: he sacrificed me – Never to exchange You for anything else, Prophets before them (‘alayhim al-salam), as you stand before it. Kissing the hajar is the Here, on ‘Arafat, we learn two things. As his very will. Ibrahim was named the Khalil nor Your House for any other house Not being all did tawaf around Allah’s sacred House. most profound renewal of your covenant with we acknowledge our disobedience, our sins, (cherished friend) of Allah because his love desirous of others instead of You, nor of any Their spiritual energy and legacy fills the air. Allah and a pledge of love, dedicated obedi- our rebelliousness and our forgetfulness, we for Allah pierced and consumed his entire other house besides Your House O Allah, Grant You will be walking in the footsteps and the ence and soulful allegiance to Him. know our unworthiness as true servants. We heart. The hair – signifying status, station, me safety and good health in my body, protec- heart-steps of Rasulullah (sallalahu ‘alayhi As you near the miqat, your heart will reveal everything to Allah, minor or major, and pride – is now shaved. Whatever remain- tion in my religion and allow me a beautiful wasallam) and his noble companions. tremble and tremor. Is this really happen- Who knows already but simply wants us to ing trace and residue of the disobedient nafs is return And provide me with deeds and acts of ing? Is my heart getting closer and closer admit with true transparency and sincerity now completely cleansed. Now, the pilgrim is Your obedience for as long as You grant me life Shelter, solace and sight to His House? Soon you will enter Allah’s what we are inside of our selves. Moreover, welcomed by Allah to visit His haram and His And gather for me the best of this world and the Haj and its rites are described in various haram. It is only fitting that you enter into we begin to know the all-enveloping knowl- House. He or she is now freed from ihram, but next For truly You have power over all things.” and powerful ways by Allah and his Rasul a state, both externally and internally, that edge, the inestimable mercy, the boundless not completely. Washing and the use of per- (sallalahu ‘alayhi wasallam). Through these justly corresponds to this honour. Beyond the generosity and the limitless grace of Allah fume are now permitted; intimate relations Source: Muslim Village

even more. God gives us a glimpse of and never grow feeble again, may this when he says: “... there will be there you enjoy, and never feel sorrow and Paradise is pure delight all that the souls could desire, all that regret again.” (Saheeh Muslim) the eyes could delight in …” (Quran, Social relationships: As for the 43:71) “Eat and drink at ease for that remorse felt due to a rift in personal be offered everything their souls and in the Hereafter. Let’s take a look at which you have sent forth (good deeds) relationships, people will never hear By M Abdulsalam hearts will desire, and that people some of these causes. in days past!” (Quran, 69:24) any evil or hurting comments or will be far removed from want and Wealth: When one thinks of suc- “… They will be adorned therein speech in Paradise. They will only need, anxiety or sadness, sorrow cess in this life, they usually conjure with bracelets of gold, and they will hear good words and words of peace. and regret. Every kind of beauty and the image of big houses, fine jewel- wear green garments of fine silk and God says: “They will not hear therein he reality of Paradise is blessing exists in Paradise and will lery and clothing, and expensive heavy brocade. They will recline ill speech or commission of sin. But something which people will be revealed with a perfection never cars; financial stability is seen to be therein on raised thrones. How good only the saying of: Peace! Peace!” never be able to understand seen or known before. God has pre- the key to a happy life. To most peo- [is] the recompense! How beauti- (Quran, 56:25-26) until they actually enter it, pared such blessings there as a gift, ple, success is inseparably related to ful a couch [is there] to recline on!” There will be no enmity between Tbut God has shown us glimpses of it and these will be offered only to peo- wealth, even though this is the fur- (Quran, 18:31) people nor ill-feelings: “And We in the Quran. He has described it as ple with whom He is pleased. thest from the truth. How many Disease and death: Another shall remove from their breasts any a place essentially different to the But what is the nature of these times have we seen the wealthiest cause of pain and suffering in this (mutual) hatred or sense of injury life of this world, both in the very delights in Paradise, and how will of people living such miserable lives, life is the death of a loved one or dis- (which they had, if at all, in the life nature and purpose of life, as well it be different from the delights of that it sometimes even leads them ease, which are both non-existent of this world)…” (Quran, 7:43) as the types of delights which peo- this world? to commit suicide! Wealth is some- in Paradise. None will feel any sick- The Prophet (PBUH) said: “There ple will enjoy therein. Pure delight without pain and thing which humans in their very ness or pain in Paradise. The Prophet will be no hatred or resentment The Quran tells people about suffering: While people in this world nature desire at any cost, and this Muhammad (peace be upon him) among them, their hearts will be as Paradise, which God offers to experience some delight, they also desire has been created for a great said about the people of Paradise: one, and they will glorify God, morn- them, describes its great blessings, face much toil and suffering. If one and wise purpose. “They will never fall ill, blow their ing and evening.” (Sahih Al Bukhari) The hearts of the people of Par- and proclaims its beauties to every- was to scrutinise the life which they When this desire is not sati- noses or spit.” (Sahih Al-Bukhari) People will have the best of com- adise will be pure, their speech one. It informs people that Paradise live, they will find that the amount ated, it causes some extent of grief None will die in Paradise. All panions in the Hereafter, who were will be good, their deeds righteous. is one of two ways of life prepared of hardship they face is much more in a person. For this reason, God shall live eternally enjoying the also the best people in the world: There will be no hurtful, upsetting, for them in the afterworld, and that than the ease and comfort. As for has promised the inhabitants of pleasures therein. The Prophet “And whoever obeys God and the offensive or provocative talk there, every good thing will be theirs in the life of the Hereafter, there will Paradise that they will have all that Muhammad (PBUH) said that a caller Messenger — those will be with the for Paradise is free of all worthless Paradise to a degree that surpasses be neither hardship nor suffering in they imagined as far as wealth and will call out in Paradise when peo- ones upon whom God has bestowed words and deeds. If we were to dis- our present ability to imagine. It it, and people will live therein in pure belongings are concerned, both for ple enter it: favor — of the prophets, the stead- cuss all the causes for anguish in this also shows that Paradise is a place joy and delight. All the causes of sor- those who were extremely poor, “Indeed may you be healthy and fast affirmers of truth, the martyrs life, we would surely find its absence where all blessings have been cre- row, pain and suffering which people experiencing even hunger and thirst, never be sick again, may you live and and the righteous. And excellent are or opposite to be true in Paradise. ated perfectly and where people will experience in this life will be absent to those well-to-do but who desired never die again, may you be young those as companions!” (Quran, 4:69) www. islamreligion.com 04 FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 MIDDLE EAST Turkish cities hit by bombings; 14 dead

southeast of the country. Authori- were in serious condition. Cars were ties say the assaults were carried out overturned and the windows of the Two of the attacks by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or four-story building and its wings were car bombings PKK, which has launched a cam- were blown out. paign of car bombings targeting In the southeastern province of that hit police police stations or roadside Bitlis meanwhile, five soldiers were stations in eastern attacks against security force vehi- killed after rebels detonated a road- cles. Last week, PKK commander side improvised explosive device Turkey, while a Cemil Bayik threatened increased as an armored military vehicle was third — a roadside attacks against police in Turkish passing by, officials said. Five other cities. soldiers were wounded in the attack. blast — targeted a The wave of attacks come as A government-paid village guard, military vehicle in the Turkey is focused on a clampdown helping the security forces battle the on suspected followers of a move- PKK was also killed in a clash with southeast. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim (centre) inspects the blast scene following a attack on a police ment led by US-based Muslim cleric rebels in the province, the state-run Fethullah Gulen, which the gov- Anadolu Agency reported. station in the eastern Turkish city of Elazig, yesterday. ernment accuses of orchestrating a Prime Minister Binali Yildirim AP failed military coup last month, that traveled to Elazig to visit the site killed at least 270 people. of the bombing as well as those The first car bombing hit a police wounded in the attack. He said both Erdogan links coup suspects to attacks station in the eastern province of the PKK and the Gulen movement ANKARA: A string of bombings, Van late Wednesday, killing a police were directed by the same “intel- blamed on Kurdish rebels and tar- officer and two civilians. At least 73 ligence” intent on causing Turkey Reuters those suspected of being behind the July 15 coup geting Turkey’s security forces, killed other people — 53 civilians and 20 harm, without elaborating. attempt came as authorities arrest or dismiss at least 14 people and wounded more police officers — were wounded, “The (Gulen movement) has lost tens of thousands in a post-coup purge that some than 220 others, officials said yes- officials said. Another car bomb- its assertiveness and has handed ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Western allies worry Erdogan is using to target terday. ing hit police headquarters in the over the duty to the (PKK),” Yildirim Erdogan yesterday accused followers of a US- broader dissent. Two of the attacks were car eastern Turkish city of Elazig early said. “The intelligence that directs based Islamic cleric he blames for last month’s “You don’t have to be fortune teller to see that bombings that hit police stations Thursday, killing at least five peo- them is the same. When one’s duty coup attempt of being complicit in attacks by the FETO is behind the latest PKK attacks in terms in eastern Turkey, while a third — a ple, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ends, the other takes up the duty.” Kurdish militants in Turkey’s southeast which of sharing information and intelligence,” Erdogan roadside blast — targeted a mili- said. Officials said earlier 146 peo- Yildirim vowed to fight the PKK killed 10 people. His linking of PKK militants to said. FETO is the term Ankara uses for Gulen’s. tary vehicle carrying soldiers in the ple were wounded and 14 of them until it is “eliminated.” Russia ready for Aleppo ‘humanitarian pause’

AFP made access impossible in just three 10 dead in hours and endangered aid workers. The special envoy welcomed Rus- Haunting image of Syrian boy goes viral Libya twin car sia’s support for his plan and called MOSCOW: Russia said yesterday it fur urgent action. bomb attacks was ready to halt fire for 48-hour “Our plan is to collectively work AP meeting in light of the obsta- no brain injury, and was later periods in Aleppo from next week, out the operational details, and be cles to delivering aid. The UN discharged. “We were pass- TRIPOLI: Twin car bomb following UN calls to extend human- ready for delivery as soon as possi- is hoping to secure a 48-hour ing them from one balcony to attacks killed at least 10 itarian pauses to deliver aid. ble,” he said in a statement. BEIRUT: Syrian opposition pause in the fighting in Aleppo. the other,” said photojournal- fighters with pro-gov- “Russia’s defence ministry is He added that the UN was count- activists have released haunt- A doctor in Aleppo iden- ist Mahmoud Raslan, who took ernment Libyan forces ready to support the proposal by ing on Russia to help ensure “the ing footage showing a young tified the boy as 5-year-old the memorable photo. He said yesterday near Sirte, UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura adherence of the Syrian armed boy rescued from a partially Omran Daqneesh. Osama Abu he had passed along three life- where they are battling regarding the introduction of weekly forces to the pause, once it comes destroyed building in the after- al-Ezz confirmed the boy was less bodies before someone to oust jihadists from the 48-hour ‘humanitarian pauses’ (in into effect”. He also urged “all those math of a devastating airstrike brought to the hospital known handed him the wounded boy. Islamic State group. Aleppo),” defence ministry spokes- with access to or influence on the in Aleppo. as “M10” on Wednesday night, Raslan rushed him to the The operations cen- man Igor Konashenkov said in a armed opposition, in particular the The image of the stunned following an airstrike on the ambulance, he said. A doctor at tre for the forces loyal to statement. United States... to ensure that the and weary-looking boy, sitting rebel-held neighborhood of M10 later reported eight dead, Libya’s Government of “We are ready to implement the armed opposition also respects the in an orange chair inside an Qaterji with head wounds, but among them five children. National Accord (GNA) first 48-hour ‘humanitarian pause’ 48-hours humanitarian pause.” ambulance, covered in dust and said another 20 of its to deliver humanitarian aid to The EU yesterday called for an with blood on his face, encap- fighters were wounded in Aleppo residents as a ‘pilot project’ “immediate halt” to fighting, as the sulates the horrors inflicted on the attacks. already next week in order to ensure UN said aid was not reaching the the war-ravaged northern city. A spokesman for the safe cargo deliveries to the city’s besieged residents desperate for Photographs of the boy were forces, Reda Issa, said civilians.” food and care. “Not one single con- widely shared on social media. the two attacks took “Specific dates and times will voy in one month has reached any of An hour after his rescue, the place in the Gharbiyat be determined after information the humanitarian besieged areas,” building the boy was in com- area west of Sirte, near regarding the readiness of humani- de Mistura earlier told reporters in pletely collapsed. The fighting a centre used to distrib- tarian convoys is received from the Geneva. Russia has been carrying has frustrated the UN’s efforts ute food, ammunition and UN, as well as confirmation of safety out an air strike campaign in Syria to fulfil its humanitarian man- other supplies to pro-GNA guarantees from American partners,” since September to help troops loyal date, and the world body’s fighters. he said. Russia last week declared it to long-time Moscow ally Bashar special envoy to Syria cut short would hold three-hour pause in artil- al-Assad fight rebels and Islamist a meeting of the ad hoc com- lery fire and airstrikes daily around jihadists in the country. mittee — chaired by Russia UN disappointed the ravaged Syrian city but the UN Overall, more than 290,000 peo- and the United States — tasked decried this as insufficient to help ple have been killed and more than with deescalating the violence over Sudan the approximately 1.5 million peo- half the population has been dis- so that relief can reach belea- ple in Aleppo. placed since Syria’s conflict erupted guered civilians. The UN envoy, Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, with blood on his face, sits inside talks failure De Mistura had insisted on a in March 2011 with anti-government Staffan de Mistura, said there an ambulance after he was rescued following an airstrike in the 48-hour halt, saying the logistics protests that escalated into a brutal was “no sense” in holding the rebel-held Al Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria, yesterday KHARTOUM: UN chief Ban along mined and destroyed roads multi-front war. Ki-moon has expressed disappointment over the failure of talks between the Sudanese government and rebels on a ceasefire Fleeing for peace Yemen army launches bid in Darfur and two other conflict zones. The talks on a cessa- to break rebel siege of Taez tion of hostilities in Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kord- ofan were held in Addis AFP Ababa last week after three prominent rebel groups signed a road- map brokered by African ADEN: Yemen troops yesterday launched a bid to break a rebel siege of Union mediators for end- third city Taez, with fierce fighting leaving five soldiers and 13 insurgents ing the conflicts in the dead, military sources said. three areas. Soldiers attacked positions of the Iran-backed Shia Houthi rebels from Their signing of the the east, west and north of the flashpoint southwestern city that has been roadmap, which had under siege for more than a year, they said. One military source said the already been signed by troops made “a relative breakthrough” by driving the Houthi rebels from the Sudanese govern- several positions around the city. ment, had raised hopes of A pro-government activist, Abdel Majid Al Dhababi, confirmed that a breakthrough after suc- troops had made progress after months of trying to break the siege of Taez. cessive rounds of abortive He said the army “practically succeeded in breaking the blockade from talks. The signing of the the west. “But the road leading to Aden is still unsafe and this is prevent- roadmap by two Darfur ing civilians from fleeing south,” said Dhababi. rebel groups -- the Justice Yemen has been hit by unrest since the Houthi rebels and allied loy- and Equality Movement alists of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh overran the capital Sanaa in and the Sudan Libera- September 2014. tion Army - Minni Minnawi The violence increased after a Saudi-led Arab coalition launched a faction -- and the main military campaign in March last year to help shore up the government of rebel group in the other Kurdish Peshmerga forces stand guard near Sunni Muslims who fled the Islamic State’s strongholds President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi. two areas prompted the of Hawija and Shirqat as they arrive at the town of Dibis, northwest of Kirkuk, , yesterday. The government had fled to Saudi Arabia after the Huthis seized Sanaa renewed ceasefire talks. and pushed south to second city Aden. ASIA / AFRICA FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 05 South African oppn takes charge in Mandela Bay

Reuters Bay municipality to end 22 years of In the August 3 municipal elec- shown the people of South Africa that against the Democratic Alliance’s uninterrupted control by the African tions the ANC lost its majority there, where we govern, we govern well,” 47 percent. Voters have National Congress. as well as in other major metropol- Trollip said. Nationwide the ANC polled more JOHANNESBURG: A mayor from “(Voters) have endorsed our offer itan centres including the financial Several ANC council members votes than any other party, and still endorsed our South Africa’s main opposition party of stopping corruption, growing our hub of Johannesburg, and Tshwane, booed and walked out as Trollip hopes to be able to govern at the offer of stopping took office in a major urban centre economy to create jobs and for bet- which incorporates the capital donned the mayoral chain to wild head of the coalitions in Tshwane yesterday, unseating the African ter service delivery,” the new mayor, Pretoria. cheers from his supporters. and Johannesburg. corruption, growing National Congress (ANC) as the rul- white ex-farmer Athol Trollip, said The DA’s control of Mandela Bay Mongameli Bobani, a black mem- The DA, which has a largely white our economy to ing party paid the price for its worst recently. adds a second major city to its ranks, ber of a smaller opposition party - the voter base, has similar ambitions. countrywide election result since Named after the global icon who having run Cape Town municipality United Democratic Movement - was Some analysts say that the local create jobs and apartheid ended. became the country’s first black - where South Africa’s parliament is elected deputy mayor. administrations with slim major- Underlining its political creden- president after white-minority rule situated - since 2006. There was no immediate com- ities may be hampered by political for better service tials by rallying smaller parties to ended in 1994, the municipality “Beyond our reputation in oppo- ment from ANC spokespeople on wrangling, while others expect closer delivery: Mayor form a coalition, the Democratic Alli- includes the manufacturing hub of sition, we have also developed a events in Mandela Bay, where the scrutiny on budgets by rival parties ance (DA) took over Nelson Mandela Port Elizabeth. reputation in government... we have party won 41 percent of the vote that may help fight corruption.

Curfew slapped on DR Festive occasion Five dead in attack on Congo towns after clashes reopened highway

AFP was beaten to death with stones and sticks and her body set alight on AFP suspicion of being a member of the BENI: Authorities slapped a dawn- rebel group believed to be behind to-dusk curfew on two northeast the civilian massacres. KANO, NIGERIA: Boko Haram Congo towns yesterday, following The violence added to the exist- killed five traders in an ambush deadly clashes over the govern- ing tension in Democratic Republic on a highway in northeast Nigeria ment’s failure to prevent repeated ofCongo, where fears are mounting that was recently reopened after civilian massacres. that President Joseph Kabila plans coming under repeated attack Interior Minister Evariste to hold on to power after his sec- from the Islamist group, a mili- Boshab announced the 7:00pm to ond mandate expires in December. tary source said Wednesday. 6:00am curfew on Butembo as well The US has warned of the threat A convoy of vehicles carrying as Beni were he flew into following of more violence in the mineral-rich Nigerian immigration officials and the massacre of 51 civilians in the nation of 70 million people. a group of traders were travelling town last weekend. In Beni, an effigy of Kabila was from Gamboru, on the border with The slaying in which victims burned in the town’s main market, Cameroon, to the city of Maidug- were the latest in a string of mas- as were flags of Kabila’s ruling Peo- uri when they came under fire on sacres that has left more than 700 ple’s Party for Reconstruction and Monday. dead since 2014. Democracy (PPRD). “Three (immigration) offic- The gruesome Saturday night The deadly protests came a ers were hit and injured in the killings prompted an angry march day after Prime Minister Augustin fire exchange. The immigration by hundreds of people from Matata was booed by hundreds out- men drove off towards Maidug- Butembo to Beni on Wednesday, side Beni’s town hall, after he visited uri, leaving the traders behind,” which ended in tear gas, gunfire the massacre site. an army officer said on condition and clashes, leaving a policeman The killings have been blamed An elephant decorated for the Esala Perahera festival is led past Sri Lankan Buddhist Temple of the of anonymity. and a protester dead. by the government on the rebel Tooth in the ancient hill capital of Kandy. The five traders had joined the In a separate incident, a woman Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). official convoy thinking it would be a safer way to reach the Borno state capital than travelling the notorious road alone. The traders’ two trucks were looted and set alight, Gamboru UN steps up war of words with Philippine leader resident Umar Ari said, also con- firming the toll of five dead. The Gamboru to Maiduguri AFP in Duterte’s fight against narcotics, killings,” the UN Special Rapporteur The UN statement, posted on international law,” Callamard said. highway is a strategic 140km trade police chief Director General Ronald on summary executions, Agnes Cal- the website of the UN High Com- UN Special Rapporteur on the route in the region, and provides de la Rosa said, saying that 665 drug lamardv said in a statement. missioner for Human Rights, said right to health, Dainius Puras, added an important link with neighbour- MANILA: The war of words between suspects were killed in “legitimate The warning came a day after Duterte had repeatedly urged police that the fight against the illegal drugs ing Cameroon. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (police) operations” with another 889 Duterte, who swept to a landslide and the public to kill drug suspects, trade must “respect the human rights The highway was closed for and the United Nations escalated yes- were killed by vigilantes. election victory in May largely on a while promising to protect police of each person.” safety reasons at the height of terday, with a UN envoy warning that “Claims to fight illicit drug trade pledge to kill thousands of criminals, from prosecution. On Wednesday, Duterte warned the Boko Haram unrest some two “state actors” could be held respon- do not absolve the government called the UN “stupid” and vowed to “Directives of this nature are the UN not to meddle in the country’s years ago, but was reopened by sible over hundreds of killings in a from its international legal obliga- continue his anti-narcotics offensive irresponsible in the extreme and politics and told foreign human rights the Nigerian authorities follow- controversial anti-drug crackdown. tions and do not shield state actors or despite mounting criticism, including amount to incitement to vio- watchdogs not to “investigate us as ing a string of successes against More than 1,500 people have died others from responsibility for illegal from UN chief Ban Ki-moon. lence and killing, a crime under though we are criminals”. the militants. Vietnam allows ’s Long Tan war ceremony Uighur fighting with

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SYDNEY: An Australian ceremony to shot dead: Police commemorate the 50th anniversary of a Vietnam War battle has soured into a diplomatic spat after the AFP Indonesian militants fight- Vietnamese government restricted ing with IS in Syria are believed to access to the site at Long Tan. have plotted with extremist net- Australian Prime Minister Mal- works back home to send Uighurs colm Turnbull made an 11th-hour : Indonesian security in Southeast Asia to to appeal to his Vietnamese counterpart forces have shot dead a suspected join up with Santoso, according to Nguyen Xuan Phuc on behalf of about Uighur radical, an official said yes- analysts. 1,000 Australian veterans and their terday, the latest member of the Santoso, whose group was families who had travelled to Viet- mostly Muslim Chinese minority known for launching attacks on nam but found themselves barred by killed fighting with militants in the domestic security forces from authorities, who said the ceremony archipelago. jungle bases around the city of might offend residents. Police said the man, who died Poso, was killed after authorities “I thank the prime minister of in a shootout on a mountainside sent thousands of police and sol- Vietnam for agreeing last night to on Wednesday, was the last of a diers to track him down in a major arrangements which will, after all, handful of Uighurs who had joined operation. enable our veterans and their fami- extremist group the Eastern Indone- Authorities are now hunting the lies who have travelled to Vietnam, sia Mujahideen on central Sulawesi remnants of his group, with just 14 reverently to commemorate the island. members still believed to remain. battle as they honour all those who Several members of the minor- Indonesia suffered a string of fought and died in those fields so ity, who allege decades of religious Islamic extremist attacks in the many years ago,” Turnbull said in and political repression in China, early year , including the an address in Canberra yesterday. had already been shot dead by secu- 2002 bombings which killed The commemoration had long rity forces while four others were more than 200, prompting author- been planned in coordination with An Australian serviceman (left) holds a wreath to be laid at the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans caught on the island as they sought ities to launch a crackdown that Vietnamese authorities, but was can- Memorial Service in Sydney, yesterday. to join the group. weakened the most dangerous celled on Wednesday. The group’s leader Santoso was networks. Australian Veterans’ Affairs and diplomats to lay a wreath at Reuters that Hanoi feared the service North Vietnam and South Vietnam’s killed in a firefight with troops last However IS has proved a potent Minister Dan Tehan said the for- the site. would turn into a victory celebra- US-backed regime. month, ending a years-long hunt for new rallying cry for the country’s mal ceremony at the Long Tan site “Very, very sad that the Viet- tion and put the at risk The war ended with the fall of the Muslim-majority country’s most radicals, and analysts believe cells remained cancelled but Nguyen had namese government has taken the because families of Vietnamese sol- the former Saigon in 1975. wanted militant and best known linked to the jihadists pose a greater agreed to ease the restrictions so that attitude they have toward a fairly diers killed in the battle still lived The 1966 battle of Long Tan was Islamic State (IS) group supporter. threat than Santoso’s dwindling smaller groups of veterans could visit peaceful commemorative service nearby. fought in a rubber plantation in South National police chief Tito Kar- band of militants. the site. to honour the dead,” Australian vet- More than 60,000 Australians Vietnam. navian announced the latest death Acts of terrorism in Indone- Tehan called the cancellation “a eran Peter Wyldey told Reuters in the served in Vietnam between 1962 Eighteen Australian soldiers were yesterday, saying the militant “was sia often target the government or kick in the guts”. nearby seaside resort of Vung Tau, and 1972 and more than 500 Aus- killed and 24 wounded. North Viet- killed in a shootout and we found foreigners in Indonesia, most nota- In Vietnam, police blocked where some veterans had gathered tralians were killed during the deeply namese and Viet Cong casualties an M16 (rifle) on him”. bly Western visitors, especially roads leading to Long Tan and for a private ceremony. unpopular war between the Soviet- numbered about 245 killed and 350 Another suspected militant those from the United States and allowed a small group of veterans A local government official told backed Communist government of wounded. escaped, he said. Australia. 06 FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 ASIA / Manila frees rebel leaders ahead of talks

rebels’ National Democratic Front stalled in 2012 over the refusal of National police chief the government to free commu- explains that the nist leaders who had been in jail for decades. temporary release of National police chief Ron- Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) personnel stand in formation aboard Philippine’s first ever multi-role response vessel (MRRV) called the ‘BRP the 12 communist ald dela Rosa said the temporary Tubbataha’ as it arrives at a port in Manila, yesterday. RIGHT: A Philippine flag flutters in front of the BRB Tubbataha, one of 01 vessels the leaders was a release of the 12 by courts was a consequence of the president’s Philippines is acquiring from Japan under a $190m agreement. consequence of peace offer and was “one of the most Duterte’s peace offer. positive developments” in years. “They were only allowed to post bail,” he said. “But they continue to Philippines gets first Japanese coast guard vessel face criminal cases in courts”. Reuters Renato Reyes, secretary-gen- eral of the left-wing Bayan (Nation) Reuters waterway but worries about China’s but its increasingly assertive claims Japan and the Philippines are in group said the releases boded well growing military reach across sea in disputed South China Sea waters talks about two more large coast- MANILA: The Philippines has freed and raised hopes the talks would lanes through which much of Japan’s pose for the Philippines its most guard ships worth about $215m and 12 communist guerrilla leaders, begin on Monday “on a positive note”. MANILA: Japan yesterday delivered trade passes. pressing security concern. the lease of four TC-90 surveillance police said yesterday, days before Among those freed were Adel- to the Philippines the first of 10 coast Philippine coastguard chief Rear China has dredged up sand and aircraft. a new round of peace talks with the berto Silva, Concha Araneta Bocala, guard vessels to help it improve its Admiral William Melad said the built up reefs to make seven islands Japan has also warming relations Maoist-led rebels resumes in Nor- Alan Jazmines and Tirso Alcantara. maritime security and law enforce- 44-metre vessel from Japan would in the Spratly islands, some with port with Vietnam, promising to help way to end nearly five decades of Alcantara, one of the country’s high- ment in the South China Sea where be sent out to sea on patrols and law facilities and air strips. strengthen its coastguard with train- conflict that has killed more than est ranking guerrilla leaders, was tension has been rising over a terri- enforcement operations. China says is has the right to do ing, vessels and other equipment. 40,000 people. wounded in a firefight with soldiers torial dispute with China. “It can be used for maritime whatever work it wants on its ter- Philippine coastguard spokes- President Rodrigo Duterte has a five years ago. China claims almost the entire security operations but it’s not for ritory, and its aims are entirely man Commander Armand Balilo said reputation as an implacable and ruth- The rebels’ top leaders, Ben- South China Sea where about $5 tril- combat,” Melad said. peaceful, but an arbitration court the force would be expanded over less enemy of drug traffickers but he ito Tiamzon and his wife are still lion worth of seaborne trade passes The boat would also be used for in The Hague last month rejected the next two years with the recruit- came to power after winning a May in prison. Activists are holding a every year. Brunei, Malaysia, the humanitarian work and disaster China’s historic claim to the South ment of 6,000 more personnel and election promising to negotiate the protest outside the national police Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam relief operations. Japan will sup- China Sea. the acquisition of more boats and end of long-running insurgencies. office today to demand the release also have claims in the sea believed ply nine more of the vessels under a China did not participate in and aircraft from the United States to Talks brokered by Norway of them and six others senior guer- to have rich deposits of oil and gas. $158m soft loan agreement. has refused to accept the July 12 ruling protect the country’s exclusive eco- between the government and the rilla commanders. Japan has no claims in the Melad did not mention China by the Permanent Court of Arbitration. nomic zone. Turnbull offers to accept stranded Two communist officials dead in asylum seekers Vietnam shooting HANOI: Two senior com- munist officials were shot Reuters Australian Immigration Min- dead by a colleague at ister Peter Dutton yesterday stood their offices in north- by the government’s policy ruling ern Vietnam, state media SYDNEY: The premier of Western out settling the detainees in a third reported Thursday, a rare Australia state, a member of con- country, casting doubt over the fate high profile gun homicide servative Prime Minister Malcolm of the remaining 850 refugees on in the country. Turnbull’s Liberal Party, has offered Manus and 500 in Nauru. Northern Yen Bai to accept refugees from Australian- “It’s never been about tearing province’s most senior funded asylum seeker detention down the fences, it’s about what to official, party chief Pham centres amid growing concern do with the people trapped behind Duy Cuong and head of about conditions at the camps. them,” Daniel Webb, director of the provincial people’s Under Australian law, any- legal advocacy at the Human Rights council Ngo Ngoc Tuan, one intercepted trying to reach the Law Centre said. were gunned down by country by boat is sent for process- “There’s absolute clarity about a senior forest ranger ing to camps on the tiny Pacific what should happen but no clar- Do Cuong Minh, Tuoi Tre island of Nauru or to Manus Island ity whatsoever about what will newspaper said. off Papua New Guinea. happen.” The two officials were Thai soldiers walk with a sniffer dog after police disposed of a suspicious bag during a false bomb scare They are never eligible to be There are no plans to close shot multiple times and in the tourist-heavy Ratchaprasong district in , yesterday. resettled in Australia. the Nauru camp, which is under were pronounced dead Australia and Papua New renewed scrutiny after a newspa- after they reached hospi- Guinea said on Wednesday that they per published leaked documents tal, the report added. would close the Manus Island facil- detailing reports of more than 2,000 The official Viet- 15 detained over Thailand blasts ity, but gave no timeline. incidents of sexual abuse, assault nam News Agency said New Zealand has offered to take and attempted self-harm, many recently the shooter com- in some of the refugees but Can- involving children. mitted suicide with his AFP tourist towns are rarely caught up in “Authorities were now looking berra has long resisted the offer. News of the closure of the own gun. the country’s frequent bouts of polit- to re-detain those two released sus- “We would certainly accommo- Manus Island facility did not ical violence. pects and that the entire group were date a number of them in Western immediately generate much hope BANGKOK: Thailand’s junta yes- Investigators have been under likely to be charged today.” he added. Australia and we’d certainly sup- amongst the refugees there, many New Zealand terday detained at least 15 suspects huge pressure to make quick arrests. Colonel Burin’s comments high- port them as a state government,” of whom have spent years in deten- at military barracks on suspicion of Tourism accounts for as much as 10 light the primary role the military Western Australian Premier Colin tion and suffer from mental health probes water launching a string of deadly bomb percent of Thailand’s GDP and is have played in the investigation Barnett told Broad- issues. and arson attacks against tourist one of the kingdom’s few economic and is the first official admission casting Corporation on Wednesday “Everybody is tired, peo- contamination resort towns last week. bright spots under junta rule. that scores of suspects have been night. ple think this news will make us No one has claimed responsibil- Yesterday, investigators con- held since the bombings on army Harsh conditions and reports of happy but everyone is same like WELLINGTON: The New ity for the bombing spree, which hit firmed they had detained multiple barracks. rampant abuse at the camps have before,” Kurdish Iranian refugee Zealand government tourist towns in the country’s south suspects. “Authorities have detained Local human rights groups had drawn wide criticism at home and Benham Satah from Manus Island launched an inquiry on last Thursday and Friday, killing 17 suspects at the special 11th Army previously said more than a dozen abroad. said recently. Thursday into the con- four and wounding dozens, includ- Circle barracks in Bangkok but we suspects were being held with- Australia says its hardline pol- “I want to believe there is some- tamination of a regional ing European visitors. released two of them,” Colonel Burin out access to lawyers and called icy is needed to stop deaths at sea thing good happening but I can’t. water supply that has The attacks were highly unusual Tongprapai, the junta’s top legal for greater transparency in the during the dangerous boat journey I just focus on seeing tomorrow left thousands of peo- in a country where foreigners and advisor said yesterday. investigation. from Indonesia to Australia. (Friday).” ple sick with vomiting and diarrhoea. The outbreak of campylobacter bacteria, a form of gastroenteritis, Suu Kyi assures China of solution to stalled dam has affected around 3,000 people, officials said. About half of those Reuters in talks with Myanmar’s ethnic minor- Liu Zhenmin said after a meeting in China has been pushing for work consolidate and develop” relations. are in the town of Have- ity armed groups operating along Beijing between Suu Kyi and Chinese to restart on the dam, which under The two countries also signed a lock North on New northern borders with China. Premier Li Keqiang that Li had said the original plans would have sent 90 deal to build a strategic bridge near Zealand’s North Island, BEIJING: Myanmar leader Aung San Former Myanmar President China hopes Myanmar can come up percent of its power to China. their border. where schools have been Suu Kyi told China’s premier yes- Thein Sein angered China in 2011 with an appropriate resolution. A Myanmar government com- A Myanmar foreign ministry offi- closed and medical facili- terday that her new government is when he suspended work on the “Aung San Suu Kyi said that the mission reviewing the project - as cial said China had also agreed to ties overloaded. willing to look for a resolution that hydropower dam, in the Ayeyarwady Myanmar government has already well as other proposed hydropower build two hospitals in Myanmar’s two “The situation in Have- suits both countries to a suspended river basin, after it drew widespread set up an investigation committee to dams, including several on the Than- largest cities, Yangon and Mandalay. lock North is concerning,” Chinese-funded hydropower project environmental protests. look for an appropriate resolution to lwin river - is expected to report by The bridge will be built in Kun- Minister for Health in northern Myanmar, a senior Chi- About 90 percent of the dam’s the Myitsone dam issue,” Liu said. November 11. long, 32km from the border in Jonathan Coleman said. nese diplomat said. power would have gone to China. At “She also said that she is willing Myanmar’s Suu Kyi did not men- northeastern Myanmar and near the “It is important that the Finding a solution to the $3.6bn the time, Suu Kyi also called for the to look for a resolution that suits both tion the dam in remarks to Li made Kokang region where an ethnic Chi- public has confidence in Myitsone dam project is important for project’s suspension. sides’ interests via both sides’ energy in front of journalists, but said she nese rebel group fought Myanmar’s their water supply.” Suu Kyi who needs China’s cooperation Chinese Vice Foreign Minister administrations’ cooperation.” hoped her visit would “further military last year. PAKISTAN FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 07

Pakistanis panicked by I-Day wave of missing children

kidnap the child and it was only the Supreme Court on August 4, the The police admitted intervention of other onlookers in police admitted that over 767 kid- the busy shopping area of Lahore, napping cases were reported in the that over 767 in northeastern Pakistan, that saved first seven months of 2016, though kidnapping cases Bibi. 715 were rescued or returned to their There have been a string of sim- homes. Around 6,800 children went were reported in the ilar beatings over recent weeks after missing over the last six years. first seven months media reports that hundreds of chil- “There is no evidence suggest- dren have been kidnapped in the ing the involvement of any organised of 2016, though 715 Punjab region, at least half of them gang in the kidnapping (of children). were rescued. in Lahore. We have found no similarity in the The anger behind the beatings modus operandi of the missing or has been fueled by rumors the kid- alleged kidnapping,” Lahore Police Anatolia napped children could face sexual Chief Haider Ashraf said. abuse, have their organs harvested, Contrary to police claims, Kashif or be forced to beg on the streets. Bajeer, the country head for the Soci- KARACH: Mumtaz Bibi was trying to While media reports claim 600 ety for the Protection of the Rights of calm the crying fit her 7-year-old son children have gone missing, the Pun- the Child (SPARC), said, “The situa- was throwing over not being bought jab police say the number is closer to tion is even worse.” An Afghan athlete lies on iron spokes as colleagues hammer a boulder resting on his body during a toy, when she was set upon by a 200 over the past month and claim Punjab law minister, Rana mob. the majority ran away from home. Sanaullah, admitted the kidnapping an event to mark Independence Day in Kandahar province, yesterday. They believed she was trying to In a report submitted in the of children “is a problem.”

11 more dead in Pakistan Panel proposes merger of tribal areas with KP province army operation Internews viable route to mainstream the areas. more space for terrorists and unde- August, an official said. “It was sent end of 2016, the reports states. The A five-year plan has been devised for sirable elements, reads the final to the PM’s office for a final nod.” He reconstruction phase should be com- this purpose. report. adds there were expectations that the pleted before the end of 2018. Foreign AFP PESHAWAR: Security has been The 51-page report of the Fata It was proposed that in order to final announcement would be made donors may be approached to pro- given the highest priority in the committee, submitted to Prime Min- sustain the successes achieved by the on August 14, but it has yet to get the vide part of the financial resources eagerly-anticipated Fata (federally ister Nawaz Sharif, reads that without military, law enforcement agencies official approbation. for the reconstruction plan. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s mili- administered tribal areas) reforms reforms, the Army may have to stay in and political administrations, legal During the proposed five-year plan The document goes onto state tary said yesterday it had killed in Pakistan. Fata indefinitely, thus affecting stra- and security reforms are essential to bring the tribal areas at par with the that the comprehensive rehabilita- at least 11 militants in air strikes The committee deciding the fate tegic military balance on the Eastern for the “build, operationalisation and rest of the country, six areas were iden- tion and reconstruction plan, already in a restive tribal region near the of the tribal areas has concluded that front. transfer phases,” the report says. tified under the reforms package. launched by the Fata Secretariat, Afghan border as part of an ongo- the option to merge the region with “A security vacuum after Paki- The final meeting of the com- The target date for repatriation should be synchronised with the ing offensive. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is the only stan Army’s withdrawal would create mittee was held in the first week of of all displaced people should be above timelines. The latest operation in the Khyber district came just after the military said it had killed at least 14 militants in the same area Tuesday. “Eleven terrorists were killed Parliamentary panel to and four others injured when Punjab approves authority to eight terrorist hideouts close to the Afghan border were destroyed review anti-graft laws in precision air strikes and syn- chronised ground operations,” the enforce women protection act military said. The army offensive Internews Senate for failing to the amend took place in the mountainous ter- accountability laws. rain of Babar Kachkol, Naray Nao Internews functioning in Multan in November. A post of additional inspector The Pakistan People’s Party crit- and Tor Sapar areas of Khyber. Sources said the approved author- general (AIG) women protection ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan gov- icised NAB in particular when the The conflict zone is remote ity would establish and run the would be a part of the enforcement ernment has adopted a motion in bureau began investigating Dr Asim and off-limits to journalists, mak- LAHORE: The cabinet commit- centres. It had already been approved division and would oversee all the the National Assembly to set up a Hussain, a close associate of the par- ing it difficult to verify the army’s tee on law and order in Pakistan’s by the chief minister who had referred female SPs in all violence against parliamentary committee to revisit ty’s co-chairman Asif Zardari. claims, including the number and Punjab province has approved the it to the cabinet committee for its nod, women centres. the National Accountability Ordi- PPP has primarily been lobbying identity of those killed. establishment of an authority for the finalisation of its structure and check- The enforcement division would nance 1999. for deletion of NAB ordinance pro- Khyber is one of the seven enforcement of the Punjab Protec- ing of its proposed law. also be in charge of district women Law and Justice Minister Zahid visions which extend the bureau’s semi-autonomous tribal districts tion of Women against Violence Act The cabinet committee which protection officers and district Hamid moved the motion in the jurisdictions to provincial govern- where the military has been fight- 2016. The authority is first of its kind is headed by Law Minister Rana women protection committees to be house which was unanimously ment departments. In place, it has ing Taliban and Al Qaeda linked in Pakistan. Sanaullah approved the authority formed in every district, and would adopted. advocated provincial anti-corrup- militants for over a decade. The authority would again be at a meeting in Lahore this week. thrash out their working and moni- According to it, the proposed tion watchdogs. Pakistan has been battling established under a law, initially It was attended by Chief Minister’s tor and evaluate their performances committee will have members, from Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf‘s Arif a homegrown Islamist insur- an ordinance, which would define Adviser Rana Maqbool and secre- on a monthly basis. both government and opposition. Alvi has also moved an amend- gency since 2004, following the its functions and powers, official taries of the home and prosecution The human resource division Before moving the motion, Zahid ment bill pertaining to NAB. One of US-led invasion of neighbouring sources here have said. departments and the IGP. would be in charge of all hiring at said different parties had been its provisions has called for taking Afghanistan in 2001 and the sub- The authority was proposed by Officials said the authority the violence against women centres. seeking amendments in the laws parliament’s advice into account sequent spillover of militants into the Chief Minister’s Special Monitory would be headed by a director gen- The director general would be governing the National Accounta- when appointing a NAB chief. its territory. Unit on Law and Order which had eral whose directorate would have appointed by the chief minister. He bility Bureau. It pro-poses the head of the The army launched the “Zarb- also created the Punjab Protection finance, administration, procure- would be the in-charge of all oper- Opposition parties in both bureau be selected by a par- e-Azb” operation in June 2014 in of Women against Violence Act 2016 ment, architecture, engineering, ations of the authority, enjoying full houses of parliament have been liamentary committee and the a bid to wipe out militant bases after much opposition from legisla- enforcement, monitoring and powers to deal with the heads of all clamouring to clip the bureau’s appointment process be conducted in North Waziristan tribal area tors and religious circles. evaluation wings to oversee all relevant departments having a stake powers and accused it of ‘harass- the way chief election com-mis- and so bring an end to the bloody This law provides for establish- the operations of the centers and at violence against women centres ing’ opponents of the government. sioner is picked. Alvi’s bill also insurgency that has cost thou- ment of women protection centres, enforcement of the Women Protec- to counter the issues and formulate In April, the government and criticised NAB’s current plea bar- sands of civilian lives. the first of which is expected to start tion Act 2016. strategies. opposition blamed each other in gain process as unfair.

Unrest in Kabul Self-schooled girl admitted in Cambridge University

Internews Award in English Language for get- self-schooling, Barlaas explains that ting the highest marks in Pakistan she reads a lot of books and uses the and secured grades of A* (distinction) internet to research topics she would ISLAMABAD: An investment in in English language, A*(distinction) come across. knowledge always pays the best English literature, A in Mathemat- “I was fascinated by books and interest,” said Benjamin Franklin, ics, and A* (distinction) in Chemistry, learning, fuelled by the desire to and this has come true for a girl A*(distinction) Physics, A* (distinc- comprehend, the desire to untan- based in Pakistan-administered tion) in Mathematics, in her A-Levels gle natural phenomena, the world Kashmir who managed to secure and 0-Levels exams, respectively. around me, the people around me highest marks in the A-Levels and Sister to three brothers, Barlaas in a more informed and analytical 0-Levels English examination in says home-schooling runs in their manner,” she says. Pakistan despite being completely family with none of her siblings “When I wanted to read, I self-schooled. attending formal educational insti- immersed myself in the magical She is now preparing to pur- tutions either. world of books, and when I found sue higher studies-at Cambridge “I have three brothers. All of us myself intrigued by music notes, I University. are self-schooled,” she says, claiming turned to the piano,” She goes on to “I’ve educated myself since I was that one of her brothers is currently say that in a way she is the teacher a child. Self-schooling is rooted in studying in Germany while the and the student at the: same time. the concept of freedom and explora- other two are also moving abroad “In order to assess my progress, I tion,” Sandya Karamat Barlaas says. for higher studies. would design questions on the sub- Hailing from Bagh in Azad Jammu She adds that she is grateful to ject, write their answers and then and Kashmir, Barlaas says she is her parents, her father an execu- score them according to how good “self-schooled” and has not engaged tive engineer for the Public Works they were’ while noting areas for services of professional tutors. Department and her mother a home- improvement,” she said. Policemen load a vehicle onto a trailer at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, yesterday. At Despite her lack of formal edu- maker and a sociologist, for believing At Cambridge University, she least one person was injured in a sticky bomb blast targeting a vehicle of the defence ministry. cation, she received the Cambridge in them. plans to study psychological and University Outstanding Learner Talking about the process of behavioural sciences. 08 FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Street executions Russia-Iran cooperation in hilippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war against illegal drugs has become controversial with the United Nations and international human rights Syria sends message to US groups condemning his actions as an apparent endorsement of extrajudicial killings. Duterte, who Ptook office in May, had promised to ‘shoot to kill’ and eliminate hope to test when the UN sets up a opposition activists reacted drug dealing in the country in six months. As a result, more new round of peace talks in com- The latest Russian- angrily to the news. The Rus- than 1,500 people have lost their lives in Duterte’s fight against ing weeks, even if they accuse sians “are taking advantage of the narcotics. Police chief Director General Ronald de la Rosa told a Russia of failing countless pre- Iranian coordination political vacuum that was left by Senate hearing that 665 drug suspects were killed in legitimate vious challenges by persisting in would suggest America and Western countries police operations while another 889 were killed by vigilantes. bombing Assad’s more moderate that withdrew,” said Paris-based opponents. Tehran isn’t being Syrian opposition figure George UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in June condemned The latest Russian-Iranian sidelined. It is Sabra. Duterte’s open call for extrajudicial killings, saying they were coordination would suggest The deployment in Iran illegal and a breach of fundamental rights and freedoms. Tehran isn’t being sidelined. It is virtually unheard comes a day after Russia’s defence Yesterday, the UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions virtually unheard of in recent Ira- of in recent Iranian minister said Washington and Agnes Callamard warned him that claims of fighting illicit drug nian history for a foreign power history for a foreign Moscow were near agreement trade do not absolve the government from its international By Bradley Klapper to use an Iranian base to stage on the proposed military part- AP legal obligations and do not shield attacks. And Russia had only used power to use an nership. US officials said no its own territory and assets inside Iranian base to agreement was close. Duterte state actors from responsibility for Syria for such operations previ- The State Department’s Toner illegal killings. The warning came a ously. If Russia is moving closer stage attacks. said the Russian cooperation with has been day after President Duterte called the uesday’s missions were to the Assad-Iran-Hezbollah Iran doesn’t preclude the possi- waging an UN ‘stupid’ and vowed to continue his unprecedented. Iran alliance, it could spell doom for bility of a US-Russian partnership extrajudicial anti-narcotics offensive. allowed Russian war- Syria’s besieged opposition. in Syria. But such an arrangement Rodrigo Duterte is overseeing planes to take off from Secretary of State John Kerry would become more difficult if it its territory to strike called Russian Foreign Min- the Russians flew four Tu-22 essentially meant a US-Russia- killing exactly what he pledged in his Topposition targets in Syria. The ister Sergey Lavrov to discuss Backfire bombers to the Iranian Iran partnership. campaign for campaign — a terrifying surge of move came with little notice to the operations. Underscoring air base, along with a Rus- Toner also suggested Russia nearly two extrajudicial killings of suspected drug the United States, which has the US confusion, State Depart- sian cargo plane loaded with violated last year’s UN Security decades. dealers, users and criminals. In his watched helplessly the escalat- ment spokesman Mark Toner the munitions for the bombers, Council resolution enshrining inaugural speech Duterte declared ing bloodshed near Aleppo, the told reporters that Washing- just hours before the missions. the Iran nuclear deal. The resolu- that his adherence to due process and country’s biggest city, and even ton was “still trying to assess Another official said that all tion prohibits the supply, sale and the rule of law is uncompromising. He has ordered police not to offered an alliance with Rus- what exactly they’re doing.” Col the aircraft were back in Russia transfer of combat aircraft to Iran sia against Islamic State (IS) and Christopher Garver, a US military later Tuesday, suggesting that the unless approved in advance by hesitate to kill and even urged ordinary citizens and communist other extremist fighters as a way spokesman in Baghdad, said the action was a test or gesture, not the UN Security Council, some- rebels to join in the war against drugs. His response to rights to get Syria’s government out of Russians activated a communica- the start of any permanent Rus- thing he said hadn’t occurred. groups opposing the killings is: “I don’t care about human rights”. the fight. tions link with coalition officials sian presence in Iran. Russia said its planes targeted Duterte also threatened to declare martial law if the judiciary The negotiations have just ahead of the bomber mission. Flying missions out of Iran IS militants and the Al Qaeda- interferes with his policies. The President recently received the dragged on for weeks. Russia They “informed us they wouldn’t appear to provide an linked group formerly known backing of country’s solicitor general who said that ‘not enough’ has grown impatient, with top were coming through” airspace advantage, though Russian offi- as the Nusra Front in Aleppo, as officials several times suggest- that could potentially put them cials said it enables heavier loads well as in Deir El Zour and Idlib, criminals had been killed in the anti-drug operations. ing an imminent deal, only to in proximity to US and coalition and lower costs. Russia maintains destroying five major ammu- Duterte has been waging this killing campaign for nearly have American officials counter aircraft in Iraq or Syria, he said. significant numbers of combat nition depots, training camps two decades. From 1998 until this year he served as mayor of that the sides weren’t close. The Asked how much advance notice aircraft inside Syria, and it has and three command posts. The Davao City on the southern island of Mindanao, where death bombing runs from a base near the Russians gave, Garver said: flown long-range bomber mis- Russian planes flew over Iraq, squads took the lives of more than 1,000 people. Many voters the Iranian city of Hamedan, “We did know in time” to main- sions from southern Russia. apparently without the per- in the Philippines, where reported crimes have more than 175 miles southwest of Tehran, tain safety of flight. Syria’s civil war has killed mission of Iraq’s government, a doubled since 2010, viewed Duterte’s brand of populism and may have been a reminder to The setup at the Iranian air as many as a half-million peo- US official said. That by itself is the Obama administration that base occurred very quickly, per- ple since 2011. Millions have hardly significant. Iran has flown harsh justice as a quick solution to the country’s social and Moscow could be cozying up to haps overnight, said US officials, fled as refugees, contributing supply and other missions over political problems. Iran if Washington doesn’t come who weren’t authorised to speak to a global migration crisis. And Iraq to Syria without permission. The Philippines has a serious drug problem and no one will around. publicly on military matters and the IS has seized on the insta- There is little Baghdad can do to question the fight against the illegal drugs trade. The drug trade “The Russians are show- requested anonymity. bility to become a worldwide stop those flights, and the US has took root in a nation plagued by rampant corruption and a ing they have options in Syria One US military official said terror threat. Syrian rebels and regularly turned its cheek. discredited political establishment. But respecting human rights while they have Washington over a barrel on Aleppo,” said of each person also is equally important. The street executions Andrew Tabler, a Syria expert at are taking lives without trials or proof of criminality. the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He said the operations also cement Russia’s alliance with Iran in the region. Russia and Iran have strongly backed Syrian President Bashar Al Quote of the day Assad’s government throughout I personally asked Obama to the five-and-a-half year civil war with rebel groups supported by the extradite Gulen a year ago. United States and allies. But the I have asked him again after West has been pinning its hopes on the latest events. Things are Moscow. When Russia intervened moving in a different direction militarily in Syria last August, it claimed privately that its action in our country, and a strategic would ultimately sideline Iran and partner should not make its its proxy Hezbollah force in Syria, partner’s work harder. making Assad more conciliatory in a peace process, according to US and European diplomats. Recep Tayyip Erdogan The argument was one of sev- Turkish President eral by Russia that the US and Smoke billows following air strikes by Syrian regime forces on rebel positions during intense others have clung to as a potential pathway to peace, and which they fighting in Aleppo, yesterday.

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By Eric Schliesser and being easily swayed by moneyed inter- Tom Van Der Meer ests and demagogues. The Washington Post In the wake of Brexit and Trump’s nomination, it is not difficult to see the attractiveness of such proposals. Both approaches address concerns about dem- s it time to rethink representative agoguery and mob rule — both propose democracy? After the Brexit vote, a government run apolitically by people some voters in the United King- who know what they are doing. The first dom had a case of “regrexit” and option limits the enfranchisement by lot, called for a second referendum. In the second one by brains. Ithe United States, the recent arguments Representative democracy is imper- that the November 2016 election may be fect, but necessary “rigged” generated a great deal of pub- Unfortunately, both options also suf- lic discussion, as did concerns that the fer from major flaws despite their lofty Republican Party candidate is not qual- ideals. The democratic process is not ified for office. merely a debate about means, but fun- Those who study this topic have been damentally a matter of discovering and looking at ways to “renew” representa- settling competing values and goals. And tive democracy. both approaches fail to acknowledge that Recently, two rival proposals that representatives need to be accountable trace back to classical Greece have resur- to citizens as a prerequisite for demo- faced for a modern audience. Both limit cratic legitimacy. who can vote and seek to stimulate apo- Both the election-lottery and the litical and rational decision-making: expert-rule plans appear to be democratic 1) Representatives by lottery. Belgian solutions to the ills of democracy. They People voting in an election in the United States. author and cultural historian David Van propose better policies and less political Reybrouck suggests abolishing elections intrigue, higher trust, and — in the case of likely require thousands of participants properly educated voters. Of course, what dominate politics, giving additional and appointing representatives by lot- the lotteries — greater equality. to be more or less representative of the counts as “proper” is precisely a matter power to skilled technocrats is not nec- tery instead. Van Reybrouck’s proposal But neither proposal actually pro- US population. of politics. essarily an effective solution. extends the principle of sortition - how vides political equality. While this is Second, both proposals commend No group has primacy in the moral What’s the best approach to boosting juries are appointed — to the legislature: rather self-evident for expert rule, it is themselves for reducing politicking debates of politics. American political sci- the legitimacy of delegates? Randomly selected citizens would reach also a problem of the political lottery. and stimulating good policies. Lotteries entist E E Schattschneider concluded in A third hitch is that neither the lottery the optimal decision via deliberation, Despite the one-man-one-lot princi- would shift the deliberation to lay peo- his 1960 masterpiece, The Semisover- nor expert rule is likely to reduce political supposedly without a need to be both- ple, evidence with small-scale political ple who supposedly are institutionally eign People: “There is no escape from the mistrust. Democratic legitimacy results ered with politicking. When their term lotteries at the municipal level suggests less susceptible to corruption. Although problem of ignorance because nobody from the procedural quality of govern- is up, they go home. this approach yields greater political ine- Van Reybrouck acknowledges that poli- knows enough to run the government”. ment, not the selection process. 2) Experts as representatives. Phi- quality. A study of Dutch political lotteries ticians selected by lotteries may have less And isn’t government already the Support for expert rule is rather losopher Jason Brennan at Georgetown shows that only 5 to 10 percent of invited expertise than politicians elected by vot- province of the educated? Within the low, despite recent increases. There is University suggests disenfranchising the citizens participate, creating a small ers, he suggests that unelected experts US Congress, 95 percent of the mem- no reason to believe that citizens would ignorant to slant political rule toward group of mostly educated, motivated, and civil servants would provide them bers have an academic degree. College have greater confidence in politicians experts. His proposal recently received middle-aged, white, male participants with assistance. Yet that means that leg- graduates make up important parts of who have been selected according to an favorable discussion in The Washing- not at all representative to the larger pop- islatures chosen by lottery might be even the government and semi-government abstract, statistical principle or who are ton Post. Inspired by Plato, the rule by ulation. Dutch political scientists Harmen more influenced by assistants and lob- bureaucracies. Increasingly, governments appointed as experts. properly trained experts, or epistoc- Binnema and Ank Michels conclude: “Lot- byists with access to the representatives. answer to the demands of the higher edu- Democracy is a grand experiment, racy, would prevent politicians from tery ultimately turns into self-selection, Would lottery-politicians be less sus- cated, in any case. Social, political and and these resurging ideas have their mer- with lack of diversity and legitimacy.” ceptible to corruption, as Van Reybrouck economic inequalities correlate with edu- its. But it would be a mistake to assume What Van Reybrouck describes as claims? That seems unlikely. Precisely cational opportunities and outcomes, that limiting the franchise by lot or by “real citizen participation” is really citi- because lottery-politicians cannot be held putting the lower educated in a more brains would be an easy solution, if Democracy is a grand experiment, zen participation by the happy, interested accountable via the ballot box, the insti- vulnerable position. any, to the challenges of representative and these resurging ideas have their few. This may work well in town halls tutional safeguards against bribery that In a recent editorial, Brennan notes democracy today. across New England, but it is no way to curtail our regular politicians would be that “all across the West, we’re see- merits. But it would be a mistake to govern a nation. A few states, like Bel- of little use. Elections, after all, allow vot- ing the rise of rise of angry, resentful, Schliesser is a professor of political science assume that limiting the franchise gium, address this problem by requiring ers to throw the rascals out. nationalist, xenophobic and racist move- at the University of Amsterdam. He blogs at citizens to vote. This compulsory involve- Expert rule would be more just, ments, movements made up mostly of Digressionsnimpressions and Van Der Meer by lot or by brains would be an easy ment could, at least in theory, be extended according to Brennan, who claims rep- low-information voters.” What he fails is an associate professor of political science solution, if any, to the challenges of to participation in political lotteries. resentatives and governments chosen to recognize is that these developments at the University of Amsterdam, co-director But even then, simple statistics reveal by ignorant voters produce harmful take place in a political culture with of the Dutch Parliamentary Election Survey, representative democracy today. this plan’s impracticality: A randomly and often immoral policies. Brennan institutions that are already expert- and co-editor of the forthcoming “Hand- selected body of representatives would would, therefore, limit the franchise to heavy. As the higher educated already book on Political Trust.” Failure of Turkey coup ‘to revitalise Arab Spring’

shaping events in the region. limit its army to its proper function of through the same phase through transformations taking place better A Moroccan preacher and intel- guarding the borders and protecting which the Latin Americans passed than we do. They are cleverer than lectual, Al Idrisi currently serves as the homeland while refraining from for the last half-century… We must us in the use of new technology and a member of parliament for Moroc- involvement in politics. struggle, again and again, using hit- social media; they better under- co’s ruling Justice and Development But Turkey’s success comes at a and-run tactics. stand the discourse of this age; they Party, which leads the country’s cur- price. Hypocritical western countries I expect we will need three sep- are closer to reality. But they must rent government coalition. have already begun voicing concern arate cycles or waves of political be on guard against selfishness and He is also a member of the World about so-called human rights vio- awareness and mobilisation — infighting, which has already frag- Association of Islamic Literature lations (allegedly committed by the which the imperialist powers will mented many Islamic parties and and the World Federation of Mus- Turkish government in the wake of constantly try to spoil — before we movements. lim Scholars. the coup], when what is actually hap- achieve our demands for justice, Do you attribute the current The coup attempt The following is the text of inter- pening is that the coup plotters are freedom and dignity. paralysis of the Arab world to inter- in Turkey was By Khalid Mejdoub view with Al Idrisi. being rooted out so that they cannot So will Arab youth take to the nal or external factors? Anatolia How will the failed coup in Tur- stage a comeback. streets once again as they did dur- Al Idrisi: External factors have intended to key affect the Arab region in the short Why have Arab states remained ing the 2011 uprisings? become crucial to the formation of decisively lower the term? in a state of paralysis following the Al Idrisi: This is very likely; and our identities as Arabs, our orien- Al Idrisi: The coup attempt in Arab Spring’s failure? not just young people — young and tations, and the events shaping our curtain on the Arab bu Zaid Al Muqri Al Idrisi, a Turkey was intended to decisively Al Idrisi: Latin America should old, educated and uneducated will lives. The renowned Palestinian Spring. Although prominent Moroccan thinker, lower the curtain on the Arab Spring. serve as a model for us in terms of take part in the struggle. Moroccan intellectual Mounir Shafiq refers to Turkey isn’t an Abelieves the failure of the July Although Turkey isn’t an Arab coun- awareness and mobilisation. scholar Mahdi Elmandjra predicted this in his writings. 15 coup attempt in Turkey will lead to try, it supported the Arab Spring due In order to escape from over such an uprising ten years before the But this does not relieve us of Arab country, it a reawakening of the “Arab Spring” to its commitment to democracy, two centuries of US hegemony, dur- eruption of the Arab Spring in 2011. our responsibilities. In this regard, supported the Arab and inspire Arab young people to take which began to emerge in some ing which Washington treated South And the reaction on the part of I would draw one’s attention to the to the streets once again to demand Arab countries [in the wake of the America like its backyard, a “Latin the imperialist forces to what will Quranic verse: “…whatever evil befalls Spring due to its freedom, dignity and social justice. 2011 Arab Spring uprisings]. American Spring” began, which was eventually take place in the Arab you is from yourself” (4:79). commitment to Speaking to Anatolia, Al Idrisi The failure of Turkey’s July 15 suppressed with the same cruelty and world will be even more violent, This verse was revealed dur- stressed the importance of raising coup bid helped to restore the hope — monstrosity as has been seen in the like what we have seen in Egypt, ing the defeat at the Battle of Uhud, democracy, which awareness among the region’s youth which had almost been extinguished Arab world. and what is planned for Libya and yet the Quran deliberately refrains began to emerge regarding what he described as the (due to events that followed the 2011 But each time these “springs” are Yemen. from mentioning the external factor, “schemes of the imperialist powers”. uprisings) — that the Arab peoples thwarted, they eventually rebound What advice do you have which was the invasion by the tribe in some Arab According to Al Idrisi, “external might one day rule themselves. with even greater vitality until you have for Arab youth in the current of Quraysh. Rather, it speaks of the countries. factors” have become key to deter- The failure of the coup… will states today like the Brazilian, Vene- circumstances? internal factor, which was disobe- mining the political orientations of serve to prevent any possibility of the zuelan, Cuban and Bolivian models. Al Idrisi: The next generation dience to the Prophet Muhammad the people of the Middle East and return of military rule in Turkey… and Now we (the Arabs) are passing of Arab youth understands the (peace be upon him).

All thoughts and views expressed in these columns are those of the writers, not of the newspaper. All correspondence regarding Views and Opinion pages should be mailed to the Editor-in-Chief. 10 FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 INDIA Mob attacks A bond of love Venezuela hands over invitation for MLA’s house NAM Summit New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday held a meeting with her visiting Venezuelan counterpart in Kashmir Delcy Rodriguez during which the latter handed over an invitation to safely evacuated,” he said. attend the Non-Aligned Panic gripped the Valley after Movement (NAM) Sum- Panic gripped rumours spread that authorities mit that Venezuela will be the Valley after were planning to embargo sup- hosting next month. rumours spread that plies, including petrol, diesel and According to a state- kerosene. Scores of people thronged ment issued by External authorities were filling stations, but at most places Affairs Ministry, Rodriguez those in charge of filling station said was accompanied by a planning to embargo A woman ties ‘Rakhi’ onto the wrist of a taxi driver during Raksha Bandhan celebrations in Kolkata, they had run out of supplies. 14-member delegation, supplies, including Kashmir Divisional Com- yesterday. including Venezuelan petrol, diesel and missioner Basheer Ahmad Khan, Minister of Petroleum and however, refuted the rumours and President of Petroleos de kerosene. maintained “the oil companies in Venezuela S A (PDVSA), the Valley have been assured of all Eulogio del Pino, and essential supplies”. Rewards galore for Olympic medallist Venezuelan Vice Minister Security forces are enforcing a for Asia, Middle East and IANS day-night curfew in Srinagar for the Oceania, Felix Plasencia. first time in 41 days since the ongoing IANS 58kg category over Aisuluu Tyny- had declared a cash reward of Rs2 m. unrest started. At many places, secu- bekova of Kyrgyzstan. It was India’s Moreover, according to the Min- SRINAGAR: Security forces clashed rity forces intervened in areas which first medal in the Rio Games. istry of Youth Affairs and Sports cash BJP lawmaker with protestors yesterday in the had been placed under curfew where And the bronze medal is sure awards policy, she is set to get Rs 3m Kashmir Valley after the house of shopkeepers tried to open their shops. NEW DELHI: One day after Sakshi to make her richer with her state .International Fitness Festival will from UP alleges an MLA was attacked in south Kash- The unified separatists camp Malik ended India’s wait for a medal government Haryana announc- also present her Rs 5 lakh. mir, police said. issued a fresh protest calendar at the Rio Olympic Games, the wind- ing a reward of Rs 25m, while her The Uttar Pradesh government death threat An irate mob attacked house of extending the 41-day protest shut- fall of cash rewards began to fill up employer Railways promised a Rs also announced that it will honour Muhammad Yusuf Bhat, MLA from down till August 25. All educational the maiden woman wrestling bronze 5m cash award. Sakshi with the coveted Rani Laxmi Lucknow: A Bharatiya Shopian, while Bhat and his family institutions, shops and public trans- medallist’s coffers with a cumula- Railways also declared that Sak- Bai award. Janata Party MP has filed were away, police said. port have remained shut in Kashmir tive sum of over Rs 3.5 crore and a shi will be promoted to the rank of a The Rani Laxmi Bai award car- a complaint with the “The guard room at Bhat’s house since July 9, a day after young rebel job promotion promised. gazetted officer. ries a cash prize of Rs 3.11 lakh, a police alleging a death in Bimender village was torched by commander Burhan Wani was killed The 23-year-old from Rohtak Apart from these awards, the citation and a statue of Rani Laxmi threat to him, an official the mob, but all the guards were in a gunfight with the security forces. won the bronze medal bout in the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Bai. said on Thursday. The Lok Sabha MP from Ghosi, Harinarayan Rajbhar, in his writ- Beloved tigress ten complaint to police Cops ask Amnesty staff to stay away from office has stated while he was attending an event in Machli dies Mau, he got a call on his IANS their offices across the country. to be named, added that it will also their accounts of rights violations cell phone and the caller AFP “We are asking our staff to work depend on police advice. they faced with the audience. threatened to kill him. from other locations as a precau- The move comes in the wake of According to Bengaluru police, He then sent a writ- tionary measure, based on police reports that the Akhil Bharatiya Vid- at the event, a group of persons who ten complaint to police NEW DELHI: India’s most famous NEW DELHI: Fearing protests after advice,” Amnesty International India yarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student’s were among the audience raised through his represent- tiger, photographed by thousands the Bengaluru programme where Executive Director Aakar Patel said. . wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak slogans seeking ‘Azadi’. When the ative. The police lodged of tourists over the years at a pop- “Azadi” slogans were allegedly An employee of Amnesty said Sangh (RSS), was to stage a protest situation was getting volatile, the a FIR. “We have begun a ular northern wildlife park, died raised, the staff of Amnesty Inter- they hoped to be back in office today. at the Amnesty office in Bengaluru. organisers suspended the pro- probe as it pertains to a yesterday, days after the ageing national India were yesterday asked “We are cooperating with the On August 13, Amnesty organ- gramme and the police dispersed lawmaker and the phone animal stopped eating. not to come to their offices and work police and doing our work from ised the programme — ‘Broken the people gathered there. number from which the Machli had been star attrac- from other locations by police. remote locations. The office is pres- Families’ — which had an interac- Later, a sedition case was booked threatening call has been tion of Ranthambore National Park Officials from Amnesty Inter- ently under police protection,” an tive discussion on peace and justice by the police against Amnesty India made has been put on sur- for years because of her seemingly national told reporters that police Amnesty employee told reporters. in Kashmir and where three fami- on Monday night following a com- veillance,” an official said. calm nature and penchant for pos- has advised them to stay away from The person, who did not want lies from the strife-torn valley shared plaint by the ABVP. ing for cameras, and she even had her own Facebook page. But Machli, the longest-sur- viving tigress in the park at of 20, had been slowing down Scenic sunset Russia to help India in recent years and had lost her teeth. She was found starving and laying on her side this week near in four key areas the park’s boundary in Rajasthan state, sparking constant care by vets and park staff. IANS potential supplies of the jointly pro- “We were trying to provide her duced equipment to third-world treatment but she died. It was a countries, the statement pointed out. natural death linked to her age,” Department of Industrial Policy Ranthambore tiger project direc- NEW DELHI: Russia agreed to and Promotion Secretary Ramesh tor Yogesh Kumar Sahu said. help India in four key areas of civil Abhishek led the Indian delegation Her death made national head- aviation, fertilisers, mining and and Deputy Minister of Industry & lines in India, while saddened fans metallurgy, said an official state- Trade Alexander Potapov led the took to social media to pay their ment after the fifth meeting of the Russian delegation at the meeting. respects to the “lady of the lake” India-Russia working group on “In the fertiliser sector, both and the “queen of Ranthambore”. modernisation and industrial coop- sides expressed interest in devel- Featured in wildlife docu- eration here yesterday. oping long-term cooperation in mentaries, she was once filmed “In the civil aviation sector, the mineral fertilisers in framework successfully battling a 14-feet long Russia delegation declared its read- of memorandum of understanding crocodile. Machli, the Hindi word iness to participate in the ‘Make between Ministry of Industry and for fish because of shaped mark- in India’ programme to develop Trade of the Russian Federation and ings on her face, also had 11 cubs Pedestrians walk during sunset after a heavy rainfall in the northern hill town of Shimla, yesterday. technological and production capa- the Ministry of Chemicals and Ferti- over the years. bilities of the Indian industry and lisers of India,” the statement noted. ‘Oldest man ever’ says yoga and simple living key to longevity

AFP Kimura, who died in June 2013 aged life. I eat very simply—only boiled The elderly man lost both parents 116 years and 54 days, as the oldest food without oil or spices, rice and before he was six and was given away man to have ever lived. boiled daal (lentil stew) with a couple by his relatives to a spiritual guru, India’s passport authorities con- of green chillies,” he told report- whom he travelled with around India KOLKATA: Looking remarkably firmed Sivananda’s age from a temple ers after a two-hour yoga session before settling in Varanasi. unlined for his claimed 120 years, register, the only record many Indi- in Kolkata, the eastern Indian city Fit and without any medical com- an Indian monk who says he is the ans even decades younger have of where he had come for a short visit. plications, he lives independently and oldest man to have ever lived puts his their date of birth. However it would Standing 1.58 metres (five feet even travels alone on trains. longevity down to no spices, simple be extremely difficult to independ- two inches) tall, Sivananda sleeps on Sivananda, who was born in living and daily yoga. ently verify his age. a mat on the floor and uses a wooden colonial-era India without electric- Hindu monk Swami Sivananda Sivananda was featured by local slab as a pillow. ity, cars or telephones, says he is not was born on August 8, 1896, accord- media earlier this summer, with the “I avoid taking milk or fruits enthused by new technology and pre- ing to his passport. If true, his life Times of India noting he looked 50 because I think these are fancy foods. fers being on his own. would have spanned three centu- years younger than his apparent age In my childhood I slept many days on “Earlier people were happy ries, but despite his apparent age he but taking his claims at face value. an empty stomach,” he said. with fewer things. Nowadays peo- remains strong enough to perform Sivananda, from the holy city of Sivananda said he had not pre- ple are unhappy, unhealthy and have yoga for hours at a time. Varanasi, grew up in extreme poverty viously come forward to claim the become dishonest, which pains me a He is now applying to Guinness and chose to become a monk, saying he record because he did not seek pub- lot,” he said. World Records to verify his claim. owed his age to “yoga and discipline.” licity, but was eventually persuaded “I just want people to be happy, Swami Sivananda prays ahead of performing yoga in Kolkata. It currently lists Japan’s Jiroemon “I lead a simple and disciplined by his followers to apply. healthy and peaceful.” EUROPE FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 11 Rajoy to seek parliament approval to lead Spain

whose support he needs to pass a fails, a second vote will be held sev- government led by his conserva- eral days later in which he would only Speaker Ana Pastor tive Popular Party (PP) through the need a simple majority. will call the plenary necessary vote of confidence, cate- Rajoy announced earlier yester- gorically refuse to back him. day that he would kick off negotiations session on August 30, This could lead Spain towards a with the PP’s smaller, centrist rival where lawmakers will third round of elections, leaving it ever Ciudadanos today, with the view of more months without a fully-function- securing its support in the vote. hold debates before ing government as squabbling parties Regional party Coalicion Canaria, voting for or against remain unable to reach any kind of which gained one seat in June elec- Rajoy or abstain. pact following inconclusive polls in tions, has also said it may back Rajoy. December, and again in June. But even if both Coalicion “I have decided to call the plenary Canaria and Ciudadanos, which won session... on August 30,” said Pastor, 32 seats, accept to support the PP, a gathering that will see lawmak- Rajoy will still not have a majority to AFP ers hold debates before voting for or push his government plans through. against Rajoy—or abstaining—on the He therefore needs the support same day or the next, depending on of the Socialist party (PSOE), which the length of each intervention. came second in the elections with 85 MADRID: Spain’s acting prime The PP won 137 parliamentary seats, but they refuse to back him. minister will seek parliamentary seats out of 350 in June’s elec- Pablo Simon, politics professor at approval to lead the country for a tions—well short of an absolute Madrid’s Carlos III University, said he second term on August 30, Speaker majority—and Rajoy therefore has to would likely be defeated, at least in Ana Pastor said yesterday, in a bid negotiate with other parties to form his first attempt. to unblock months of deadlock after a coalition or minority government If both votes fail, there will two inconclusive elections. and push it through the vote. be a period in which parties will Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (left) and leader of center-right party Ciudadanos Albert Rivera shake But Mariano Rajoy faces a tough In order to do so, Rajoy will need once again have the opportunity to road ahead as the rival Socialists, an absolute majority in the vote. If he negotiate. hands before their meeting at the Congress in Madrid, yesterday.

Campaign trail Hungarian MP agrees

to waive immunity Poland opens probe against in corruption probe head of top court

Reuters two-thirds suspected the ruling WARSAW: Polish prose- elite of foul play to a “large” or “very cutors said yesterday they large” degree. have begun investigat- Prosecutors say Mengyi said he ing whether the head of BUDAPEST: Hungary’s chief pros- would use his influence as a law- the constitutional tribunal ecutor has asked parliament to lift maker to ensure that a programme exceeded his authority by the immunity of a ruling-party devoted to social co-operatives not allowing three judges lawmaker who is suspected of cor- received 500m forints ($1.83m) chosen by the ruling par- ruption involving public funds, a worth of funds liamentary majority to move the legislator himself said he when it was launched. rule on cases. would support. The prosecutors said Mengyi The inquiry marks Prosecution spokesman Geza had asked for 5m forints as a “con- another stage in conflict Fazekas told reporters Roland stitutional expense” to ensure the between Poland’s gov- Mengyi was suspected of an co-operatives involved would ernment and its top court. attempted misuse of public funds receive funds and for a further 5m The conflict has already and abuse of the powers of his forints after they got the funding. soured investor sentiment German Chancellor Angela Merkel (centre) shakes hand with a resident as she visits a street market office. The case involves five other “The parties involved had no towards Poland. in Ribnitz-Damgarten, eastern Germany, during her campaign trail through the north-eastern federal suspects, none of whom hold pub- intention of implementing the “This investigation is state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, yesterday. lic office, Fazekas said. objective of the application,” a state- at a very early stage. We Shortly afterwards, Mengyi ment by the prosecutors said. “On are gathering documents issued a statement that said, in full: the contrary, their intention was to and are exchanging let- “I will cooperate with the authori- use part of the awarded funds to ters with constitutional ties fully and ask Parliament to lift boost their private wealth.” tribunal,” said Ireneusz my immunity in order to clarify the The two offences Mengyi is Kunert, a spokesman for Spanish police use drones to patrol beaches reality as soon as possible.” Mengyi suspected of being involved in are regional prosecutor’s has previously denied wrongdoing, punishable by up to eight and 10 office in Katowice. according to a statement by the rul- years in prison. Reuters let them quickly verify situations percent in the first six months of the ing party, Fidesz. Under the scheme developed by flagged up by the public. year over the same period in 2015. Since coming to power in 2010, the suspects, prosecutors said the Serbia detains “We have two purposes for the Drones have already been used Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s gov- social co-operatives involved would drone: preventative surveillance, by authorities elsewhere too as a ernment has redrawn hundreds have received just 10 percent of the over 3,000 illegal MADRID: Spanish police have where we fly it four times a day, and means of ensuring bather safety, of laws and taken control of state funds awarded. The rest would be started using drones to help patrol on-the-spot surveillance where if including in areas known for shark media and several public institu- paid as kickbacks to the suspected migrants some of country’s most popular there’s a problem we will fly it to attacks in the United States. tions, which critics say has eroded ring leaders. beaches at a time when tourist arriv- check it out,” says Carlos Lopez, the Most situations that would democratic checks and balances. The prosecutors said in the end BELGRADE: Serbia als are reaching record highs. police chief in charge of the forces prompt drone use in Spain have so Hungary’s ranking has gradu- no funds were lost under the pro- detained over 3,000 Police in Benidorm, on Spain’s working on Benidorm’s beach. far turned out to be false alarms. ally deteriorated in Transparency gramme, because applications were migrants illegally enter- eastern coast, rolled out the technol- With Europe on security alert After a lifejacket was seen float- International’s Corruption Per- rejected for formal errors and miss- ing into the country in ogy in July this year, using in-built after a spate of Islamist attacks ing in the sea, police sent out the ceptions Index in the past years, ing criteria. Mengyi had also paid one month, a military camera on the light unmanned air- over the past 18 months, Lopez said drone to ascertain whether it was dropping to 50th in a 2015 survey back the 5m forints through an spokesman said, suggest- craft to detect swimmers in trouble drones could also be used in security a sign of trouble. “It had just come from 47th a year earlier. intermediary, the prosecutors said. ing many were still trying or boats that may need help. and surveillance efforts to prevent from some swimmers in a nearby A Median survey published last Fazekas added that two suspects to make their way along The police said that the drone such violence, but were not specif- cove,” said Lopez. month in the weekly HVG showed were detained and three more were a Balkan corridor to the — first used in Benidorm though ically introduced for that purpose. Benidorm’s 5 km of sandy beach 60 percent of people believed under house arrest. Prosecutors can European Union despite other resorts are now launching The number of foreign tour- are particularly popular with foreign corruption in Hungary was “sys- quiz Mengyi as a suspect only if par- border closures. the aerial surveillance tool — had ists arriving in Spain rose nearly 12 tourists, including Britons. temic” and centrally-driven. Some liament lifts his immunity. With a steady trickle of migrants mainly from conflict- and poverty- wracked areas of Asia and the Middle East con- British police on toes Academic achievement tinuing, Serbia on July 16 decided to form joint police and army patrols to in human feet mystery intercept them.

AFP two feet are expected to reach the Irishman shot same conclusion. “We are confident no crime dead in Spain has been committed and strongly LONDON: British police were believe the feet have come from MADRID: An Irishman was putting in the legwork yesterday an old private collection,” said shot dead on the holiday to track down the owners of three Detective Inspector Paul Catton of island of Majorca, police severed human feet found in mys- Avon and Somerset Police, as they said yesterday, in what terious circumstances. searched school grounds. local media reported may The feet were found in and “All three feet show signs they have been a settling of around the tourist spa town of Bath, have come into contact with ani- scores that went badly southwest England—and now detec- mals and it is likely that they have wrong. tives are taking steps to track down been moved to the locations they The shooting took their rightful owners. were found from a specific source,” place in Costa de la The first foot was found in Feb- Catton said. “The source is most Calma, a residential area ruary, with two more discovered in probably someone who used the not far from the popu- July and August. feet as a teaching aid. lar resort of Magaluf. “The A comprehensive investigation “We believe someone knows person who fired the concluded that the first foot was something about where these feet shots escaped,” a police more than likely to be an exhibit have come from and would appeal spokeswoman said, add- from a medical or educational for them to get in touch,” he added. ing the perpetrator did establishment and was not the result “The last thing we want is for a A student (left) reacts with her teacher as she receives her A- level results at the Harris City Academy not shoot anyone else. of a crime. member of the public to come across in London, Britain, yesterday. Ongoing tests on the other one of these unpleasant finds.” 12 FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 AMERICAS

Over 500 evacuated from Military might burning ship in Puerto Rico

The mostly Dominican passen- screened or protected in some way gers included dozens of school-age to avoid any spray or leakage onto The fire erupted in athletes headed to competitions ignition sources. the engine room in Puerto Rico, including a cycling Crespo said 105 people were team, a girls’ volleyball team and a treated at the scene, mostly for heat and apparently had boys’ baseball team. stroke, shock and dehydration, and been burning for The fire erupted in the engine 24 others had been hospitalised. room and apparently had been burn- Among these were three women who some time before the ing for some time before the alarm dislocated their ankles and a man alarm was sounded. was sounded. who broke his leg while going down Gyno Funes told reporters he the emergency slide, he said. None of was one of two mechanics in the the injuries were serious, and every- control room when a hose carry- one was expected to recover, he said. AP ing fuel burst open and caught fire. On the docks, several dozen peo- “We were trying to extinguish it ple were carried in on stretchers, one for two hours, but couldn’t,” the other of which held a man hooked to an mechanic, Marlon Doblado, said. IV line who was cradling a bawling SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO: More Prensa said she was collect- baby clad only in a diaper. than 500 passengers and crew were ing her luggage when she smelled The injured were followed by a A soldier stands on a Russian-made T-72 tank during the Static Military Civic Exhibition in Managua, evacuated from a burning ship about smoke. “I asked and they told me it small group of children who held Nicaragua. a mile off Puerto Rico’s north coast was nothing, that it was under con- hands as they disembarked from early yesterday, and many required trol,” she said. Coast Guard boats. Passengers were medical care, though there were no Officials with American Cruise still arriving more than five hours reported fatalities or life-threaten- Ferries, which operates the Pana- after the fire was reported. ing injuries. manian-flagged ship, did not return Passengers found to be in good The fire burned as hundreds slid messages for comment about fire. health were loaded onto city buses Trump receives first intelligence briefing down emergency slides from the Federal authorities were inter- to be taken to ship’s original des- Caribbean Fantasy, a combination viewing the captain, said Angel tination. They included Fiordalise cruise and ferry ship. US Coast Guard Crespo, director of Puerto Rico’s Pitchard, who travelled to Puerto Rico AFP The sessions—designed to pre- During an interview with Fox boats then carried passengers into Emergency Management Agency. on vacation. “I feel nervous,” she said, pare candidates for nation’s highest News, Trump said he had scant trust San Juan’s harbour as helicopters Ricardo Castrodad, a Coast her hands trembling. “I was in restau- office in the event they win Novem- in the US intelligence community whirred overheard. Other agencies Guard spokesman, said the agency rant when I saw the smoke. I’m giving ber’s general election—provide delivering briefings. and even private vessels joined in the started its investigation into the fire, all the glory to the Lord today.” WASHINGTON: Donald Trump information about global threats “Not so much from the peo- effort as firefighters were ordered although it was too early to say what Anguished relatives of passen- received his first classified intelli- against the United States. ple that have been doing it for our to abandon the ship for their safety. would happen to the ship, which gers, including Hilda Pereira, pushed gence briefing, a privilege reserved However, Trump received no country. Look what’s happened “It was like something out of remained grounded. their way onto the scene. Her daugh- for presidential candidates from the information about intelligence oper- over the last 10 years. Look what’s a movie,” said Maria Prensa, a A ProPublica investigation found ter, whom she has not seen for 14 two main political parties. ations or espionage, NBC reported. happened over the years. It’s been 64-year-old Dominican passenger that the US Coast Guard had dis- years, was aboard the ship. The Republican nominee Two of his leading advisors, New catastrophic,” he told Fox News. as she wiped away tears. “You panic covered 107 deficiencies during 61 Pereira said she was at beauty attended the briefing—organised by Jersey Governor Chris Christie and He added that he was unlikely to when you see that. You’re in the mid- inspections of the ship since 2010. salon when her sister called to notify office of director of national intelli- retired general Michael Flynn—a install some members of the existing dle of the ocean and there’s a fire. A January 2015 inspection her. “She said, ‘You need to be strong. gence—in secure rooms of FBI’s New former director of the Defence Intel- security establishment in his presi- Imagine that.” stated that oil fuel lines should be The ferry has caught on fire.” York office, ABC television reported. ligence Agency—also took part. dential administration. Twitter axes 235,000 more accounts in terror crackdown Louisiana flood toll rises to 13 as AFP to balance protecting free speech at Daily suspensions of accounts are terrorism by allowing Islamic State studying at the centre shot the two service with not providing a stage for up more than 80 percent since last propaganda to be broadcast using the men to death, and IS later claimed waters recede terrorist groups to spread violent mes- year, and spike in immediate aftermath messaging platform. the captain was a “lone wolf” work- sages and enlist people to their causes. of terror attacks, according to Twitter. District Court Judge William Orrick ing for the group’s cause, the judge SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter yester- The latest account suspensions Twitter said it is getting quicker granted a motion by Twitter to dismiss recounted in his ruling. AFP day announced that it has cut off came since February, when Twit- at identifying terrorist content and the case, reasoning that providing a “As horrific as these deaths were, 235,000 more accounts for violat- ter announced it had neutralised shutting down accounts involved, platform for speech is within law and under the CDA Twitter cannot be ing its policies regarding promotion 125,000 accounts for violating rules resulting in dramatic decreases in the company did not create the content. treated as a publisher or speaker of BATON ROUGE: The death toll of terrorism at the global one-to- against violent threats and promo- the number of followers attracted The Communications Decency Act IS’s hateful rhetoric and is not liable from historic flooding in Lou- many messaging service. tion of terrorism. while they are active. protects online platforms from being under the facts alleged,” Orrick said isiana rose to 13 yesterday as The latest account suspensions “Since that announcement, the Moves have been made to make it held responsible for what users post. in the decision. receding waters exposed the raised to 360,000 the total number world has witnessed a further wave tougher for people behind suspended The suit was filed in San Fran- The suit accused Twitter of pro- extent of devastation in the hard- of accounts sidelined since the mid- of deadly, abhorrent terror attacks accounts to immediately return to cisco federal court by families of two viding “material support” by letting hit southern US state. dle of 2015 and was helping “drive across the globe,” Twitter said. Twitter, and teams reviewing reports government contractors killed last accounts spread the message of the The highest number of con- meaningful results” in curbing the “We strongly condemn these acts of suspected terror content have been year while working at a police train- extremist group. firmed fatalities was in East Baton activity, according to the San Fran- and remain committed to eliminating expanded. ing centre run by the US in Amman, The judge left open the option Rouge parish where five people cisco-based company. promotion of violence or terrorism A US judge last week tossed out a according to court documents. of refiling an amended version of were dead, Shauna Sanford, a Twitter has been under pressure on our platform.” lawsuit accusing Twitter of abetting A Jordanian police captain the suit. spokeswoman for Louisiana Gov- ernor John Bel Edwards, said. The parish’s sheriff’s office said it had “shifted phases from search and rescue to public assist- Crew douse California ance and crime prevention.” Officials in other areas also said rescue operations were slowing. wildfire by air & ground “Assessments are beginning in areas where the water has receded,” Livingston Parish Sher- AP 2003 wildfire but didn’t regret leav- iff Jason Ard said yesterday in a ing this time. “It’s just stuff,” he said statement. of his possessions. Secretary of Homeland Security Firefighters worked through the Jeh Johnson was in Baton Rouge on SAN BERNARDINO: Air tankers night to defend Lytle Creek. “They Thursday, reviewing the emergency bombarded rugged slopes with fire made numerous saves,” fire infor- response and recovery efforts. retardant yesterday and a squadron mation officer Bob Poole said. Complicating the recovery of helicopters dropped load after Boyd had a stern warning for were possible showers and thun- load of water to corral a destruc- those who chose not to heed evac- derstorms in parts of Ascension tive wildfire threatening mountain uation orders. “A garden hose is not parish—which is further south homes 60 miles east of Los Angeles. going to help,” he said. from Baton Rouge and also one On the ground, firefighters The fire unleashed its initial of the hardest hit. and bulldozers worked to protect fury on a semi-rural landscape dot- Parish officials said flood ski town of Wrightwood and other ted with small ranches and homes waters there were receding at a areas high in San Gabriel Mountains. in Cajon Pass and on the edge of rate of 2.5 centimeters per hour in Authorities estimated that only Mojave Desert before climbing the some places, while holding steady half the 4,500 residents of Wright- mountains. or still slightly rising in others. wood heeded evacuation orders. Travel was returning to normal Where the land had dried out, The fire has blackened more yesterday in the pass — a major residents picked through what Venezuelan National Guard destroy a weapon during an exercise to disable seized weapons in Caracas. than 49 square miles and was just corridor for trucking, rail and com- was left of their sodden homes and 4 percent contained, with more than muter traffic — after Interstate 15 belongings, trying to salvage what 34,000 homes and some 82,000 was fully reopened. No deaths were they could before mold sets in. residents still under evacuation reported but crew assessing prop- Venezuela crushes 2,000 guns in public The Louisiana National Guard warnings three days after it erupted erty damage were using cadaver said it has so far distributed in hot, gusty conditions and spread dogs during searches. 32,000 ready-to-eat meals and with extraordinary speed. Residents like Vi Delgado and Reuters Venezuela has world’s second Other guns were crushed in 2,200 cots to survivors. The dry vegetation is like fire- her daughter April Christy were highest murder rate and the street truck-mounted presses. Some mem- Electricity was slowly being wood, said fire information officer among those wondering whether gangs that plague its poor neigh- bers of the public watched, although restored. The number of cus- Sean Collins. “It burns that much their home was intact, though they bourhoods have become increasingly more danced to a nearby sound sys- tomers without power was less quicker, that much hotter. The rate had found out their pets and shelter CARACAS: - Venezuelan police heavily armed in recent years, at tem playing salsa music. than 16,000, down from a peak of travel is extremely fast,” he said. animals had been saved. They had crushed and chopped up nearly a time when a deep recession has Venezuela has also bought laser of 40,000. Fire officials indicated there were been through earlier wildfires, but 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a reduced resources available to police. technology to mark ammunition, While many areas were dry- significant property losses but had yet nothing like this one. Caracas city, as the new interior Gangs often get weapons from Reverol said, in an attempt to keep ing out, the National Weather to release a tally, leaving those who “No joke, we were literally being minister relaunched a long-stalled the police, either by stealing them a registry of the bullets given out to Service forecast that all water- fled waiting to find out whether their chased by the fire,” Christy said. gun control campaign. or buying them from corrupt offic- the South American nation’s many ways would not fall below flood homes were still standing. In mountains north of San Fran- Interior Minister Nestor Reverol ers, experts say. state and municipal police forces. stage until as late as today. Steve Boyd, 67, fled on Wednes- cisco, crew gained more ground on said the event marked renewal “We are going to bring disar- Experts say that much of the Twenty-two of the state’s 64 day with his wife from mountain a wildfire as damage inspectors sur- of efforts to disarm Venezuelans, mament and peace,” Reverol told ammunition used in crimes in Ven- parishes, Louisiana’s equivalent community of Lytle Creek. The veyed the area to determine how through a combination of seizures reporters, while police officers drilled ezuela is made at the country’s to counties, have been declared former volunteer firefighter recalled many structures were destroyed and a voluntary programme to swap and sawed at guns, home made pistols government munitions factory and disaster areas, designations that staying behind during a destructive or damaged. guns for electrical goods. and some newer weapons. sold on by corrupt police. free up federal disaster assistance. CLASSIFIEDS FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 13

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Follow us on Snapchat New Ben-Hur recalls Wyler’s 1959 epic Open Snapchat and scan the Snapcode AP romance, director Timur Bekmambe- have the impact it once did. Beyond shared in Wyler’s film. Here, the men’s to add The Peninsula tov is more interested in redemption that basic framework, the writers have brotherly bond trumps romance. The account. and the words of Jesus Christ. taken many creative liberties with the role of Sheik Ilderim, which won Hugh Screenwriters Keith Clarke and source material. Griffith a supporting actor Oscar, was LOS ANGELES: Remaking a film Oscar winner John Ridley (“12 Years There’s no yearning romance expanded here for Morgan Freeman. that won 11 Academy Awards invites a Slave”) start with the premise and between Judah and Esther (Nazanin Unfortunately, the character’s humour inevitable comparison, but the latest characters from the original 1880 Boniadi) as in the original story — or was removed in the process. A wel- adaptation of “Ben-Hur” distinguishes novel. Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Hus- even between Judah and Messala, as come addition to any cast, Freeman itself from William Wyler’s 1959 epic ton) and Messala (Toby Kebbell) are in the 1959 film. Judah and Esther are is out of place in this flatly drawn part, Actor Anupam Kher to by retooling key character and story like brothers until Messala becomes married early in the first act of this and not just because he’s the only one elements. It’s still a big, biblical-era a Roman officer who falsely accuses “Ben-Hur,” and there’s none of the who doesn’t use a British accent. Why tale of power, loyalty and vengeance, Judah of betrayal. Messala condemns homoerotic hinting Charlton Hes- do characters in biblical dramas speak star in his 501st film only refocused through rose-coloured Judah to slavery and jails his innocent ton’s Judah and Steven Boyd’s Messala with British accents, anyway? lenses with an eye toward appealing mother and sister. After years of cap- to the lucrative faith-based audience. tivity and an unlikely escape, Judah IANS Produced by the power couple befriends a horseman who insists he behind “The Bible” miniseries, Mark exact vengeance against Messala dur- Burnett and Roma Downey, this “Ben ing the celebrated Roman chariot race. ADELAIDE: Veteran actor Anupam Kher is set to star in his 501st Hur” is like an abbreviated, more The action of that horse race is film, titled “Hotel Mumbai”, which also stars Jason Isaacs, Armie Christ-centered take on Wyler’s film. just as thrilling and exquisitely chore- Hammer and Dev Patel. It boasts similar sweeping desert land- ographed as any present-day movie car “Hotel Mumbai” is based on a true story of victims and survi- scapes, well-dressed Roman armies chase. It’s as intense as Wyler’s, though vors of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai. Parts of the film will be and heart-pounding equestrian action. more visceral. Advances in filmmaking shot in the south Australian city of Adelaide. The film talks about Some shots pay clear homage to the and animal training mean the falls are people of all races, colours and creeds binding together in a fight Oscar-winning classic. The violence more dramatic and the injuries more for survival. here is far more graphic, thanks to gruesome and vivid. Anupam has international projects like “Bend It Like Beck- modern special effects (and sensi- The sprawling sets of Roman ham”, “Silver Linings Playbook” and “The Other End of the Line” to bilities). This film is also an hour and amphitheaters and hillside villages are his credit. He has also featured in the film “The Headhunter’s Call- 40 minutes shorter than Wyler’s epic as sumptuous here as in Wyler’s film, ing” with globally known names like Gerard Butler, William Defoe (thank goodness). but somehow less magnificent. In the and Alfred Molina, and “The Big Sick” with actors Holly Hunter, But where Wyler’s version is ulti- age of the “Hunger Games” and ever- Cast member Jack Huston and model Shannan at the premiere for the Zoe Kazan and Ray Romano. Both films will be released next year. mately about family and unrequited present CGI, massive scale just doesn’t movie “Ben-Hur” at TCL Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California US. Iraqi girl’s video on RAF’s FB page goes viral How Sun and Moon helped construct historic British standing stones The Peninsula IANS

DOHA: A video message posted by an Iraqi girl SYDNEY: The earliest standing stone monuments of Britain were constructed specifi- on the Facebook page of Doha-based Sheikh cally in line with the movements of the Sun and Moon, 5,000 years ago, a new research Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humani- has suggested. The research, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, tarian Services (RAF) describing the miserable detailed the use of innovative 2D and 3D technology to construct quantitative tests of the life of Iraqi children in camps has become a patterns of alignment of the standing stones. big hit. Examining the oldest great stone circles built in Scotland (Callanish, on the Isle of The video clip had more than one million Lewis, and Stenness, Isle of Orkney), the researchers found a great concentration of align- viewers in five days and 5300 comments and ments towards the Sun and Moon at different times of their cycles. shares, Al Sharq reports. The researchers discovered a complex relationship between the alignment of the In moving words the girl has described the stones, the surrounding landscape and horizon, and the movements of the Sun and the misery and poverty that she and other Iraqi Moon across that landscape. “This research is finally proof that the ancient Britons con- children and families have been experienc- nected the Earth to the sky with their earliest standing stones, and that this practice ing in the camps. continued in the same way for 2,000 years,” said Gail Higginbottom, Researcher at the “We have no money to buy clothes. We own University of Adelaide. nothing and me and my sisters are not in any- And 2,000 years later in Scotland, much simpler monuments were still being built thing,” said the girl in the message. that had at least one of the same astronomical alignments found at the great circles. RAF has carried out several humanitar- Examining sites in detail, it was found that about half the sites were surrounded by The Iraqi girl talking to members of a Qatari humanitarian mission. ian missions in Iraq. one landscape pattern and the other half by the complete reverse. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 18 QE 11,320.39 -88.36 PTS PAGE | 19 DOW 18,564.73 -9.21 PTS Lenovo Group Mongolia jacks up profit leaps in FTSE100 6,868.96 +9.81 PTS rates in bid to the first quarter BRENT $48.14 +$1.35 stabilise currency

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Reuters to shed light on how consumer for National Statistics said, topping steep fall in sterling, meaning that from respondents suggesting the - suffered its sharpest drop since demand has performed since the all forecasts in a Reuters poll that real household income growth will weaker pound has encouraged 1990 last month. unexpected decision by voters to pointed to a much smaller rise of weaken. This is likely to limit retail overseas visitors to spend.” Sales of Compared with a year earlier, leave the European Union in the June 0.2 percent. sales growth in coming quarters.” watches and jewellery were up 16.6 July sales growth jumped to 5.9 LONDON: Shoppers in Britain 23 referendum. The pound rose half a cent The ONS retail sales figures are percent in July compared with the percent, the biggest rise since Sep- shrugged off June’s shock Brexit vote Data released earlier this against the dollar and British gilt volatile and Bank of England pol- same month last year - the biggest tember of last year and far stronger as retail sales jumped by much more week also showed little immedi- (bond) futures pared gains after the icymakers will want to see more jump in nearly two years. than the 4.2 percent forecast, yes- than expected last month, adding to ate impact of the Brexit vote on data release. “This positive surprise than one month’s data before draw- Major retailers including Tesco, terday’s data showed. signs there has been little immedi- the labour market but there were is encouraging for (third quarter) ing firm conclusions about the health Next and John Lewis say they have The BoE more than halved its ate hit for consumers. signs of inflation pressures building growth, but with consumer confi- of consumer spending - a key pillar not been affected so far by the ref- forecasts for household spend- Warm weather boosted clothes after the plunge in sterling, which dence having plunged in the wake of of British economic recently. erendum result, while the British ing over the next two years in light sales and the pound’s plunge could eat into the spending power Brexit and business surveys suggest- “Better weather this year could Retail Consortium also said spend- of the vote to leave the EU. It now tempted overseas buyers to splash of households going forward. ing growing caution, we doubt that it be a major factor with sales of cloth- ing in shops bounced in July. expects growth in spending of 1.0 out on luxury items such as watches Sentiment surveys have shown is sustainable,” said James Knightley, ing and footwear doing particularly But the long-running GfK sur- percent and 0.75 percent in 2017 and jewelry, official data showed levels of concern, but actual retail economist at ING. well,” said Joe Grice, chief economic vey - the main measure of consumer and 2018 respectively as lower yesterday. sales volumes surged 1.4 percent in “Inflation is starting to rise and adviser at the ONS. morale and an indicator of future growth in wages and higher infla- These are the first official figures July compared with June, the Office will continue to do so due to the “There is also anecdotal evidence household spending over the years tion eat into spending power.

Gamescom fair NBAD to launch DP World hints at Mideast’s first delaying Jebel Ali green bond port expansion Reuters DUBAI: National Bank of Abu Dhabi plans to start an investor roadshow next week to issue a part thanks to government stimulus benchmark-sized green bond, the in the region,” said Dima Jarda- proceeds of which would be used A plan to add 1.5 neh, head of regional economic to invest in renewable energy, million 20-foot research at Standard Chartered. sources familiar with the matter “Now Dubai’s trade is feeling the said yesterday. equivalent units impact of a contractionary eco- So-called “green bonds” have (TEU) of annual nomic environment and the absence become an increasingly popular capacity to Terminal of stimulus.” source of borrowing for emerg- DP World’s decision also ing market banks, especially 3 at Jebel Ali will be reflected a subdued outlook for those from India and China, but delayed into 2017, global trade flows. Expansion the sources said NBAD’s five-year in the volume of world trade is issue would be the Middle East’s while expansion of expected to remain sluggish at 2.8 first green bond. percent in 2016, unchanged from Benchmark-sized generally Terminal 4 will also A visitor wears virtual reality goggles during the Gamescom fair in Cologne, Germany, yesterday. 2015, the World Trade Organisa- means at least $500m. An NBAD be slowed, DP World tion forecast in April. spokesman declined to com- said without giving “(The) global trade envi- ment. NBAD has mandated Bank ronment remains challenging of America Merrill Lynch, Bank details. including for Jebel Ali port,” DP of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Credit Agri- World said yesterday, adding that cole, Citi, HSBC and its own debt the company handled 7.4 million capital markets team to arrange Reuters TEUs of cargo in the UAE during Cisco plans to cut 5,500 jobs the issue, the sources said. the first half of 2016, down 6 per- The Abu Dhabi bank cent from a year ago. announced plans in January to The company had previously AFP “just buying time” with its re-focus- lend, invest and facilitate a total DUBAI: DP World, one of the world’s disclosed that its consolidated ing of resources and that more job of $10bn of financing within the largest port operators, is delaying throughput for the first half - vol- cuts are on the horizon. next 10 years for environmentally the expansion of Dubai’s Jebel Ali umes at ports which the company Cisco built its fortune on hard- sustainable projects. port, its main facility, because of controls around the world - was 14.6 SAN FRANCISCO: Cisco Systems ware for private data centers, but It said at the time that $48 softer market conditions, the com- million TEUs, down 1.4 percent. announced plans to cut seven per- businesses are increasingly turning to trillion would be required in pany said yesterday. DP World’s decision may be a cent of its global workforce as it “super-clouds” such as Amazon Web the next 20 years to meet global A plan to add 1.5 million 20-foot negative omen for several other shifts its focus from networking Services and Microsoft Azure which energy demand, with a significant equivalent units (TEU) of annual ports in the region, which launched hardware to software and services. rent processing muscle as needed, amount of that likely to come from capacity to Terminal 3 at Jebel Ali multi-billion dollar expansion plans The plan to eliminate 5,500 according to the analyst. “When you renewable sources. will be delayed into 2017, while when oil prices were high several positions came as earnings reports think of computing moving to those The bank is in the midst of expansion of Terminal 4 will also years ago in efforts to become trans- showed Cisco’s profit for the fiscal and the internet of things, accord- highly efficient platforms, the market a merger with rival Abu Dhabi- be slowed, DP World said without shipment hubs for the Gulf. year climbed to $10.7bn, 20 percent ing to Robbins. for on-premise data centers is going to based lender First Gulf Bank. The giving details. Abu Dhabi has said it aims to more than the previous year. Cisco planned to re-invest a sub- shrink,” Chowdhry said. merger of the two banks, recom- The company had announced increase the capacity of its new The rise in profit came with stantial amount of the money saved Cisco chief financial officer Kelly mended by the boards of the two in July 2015 that it would invest Khalifa Port, only about 50km down annual revenue rising three percent through job cuts. Elimination of posi- Kramer assured analysts on an earn- lenders last month, is expected $1.6bn in Terminal 4, which was the coast from Jebel Ali, to 15 million year-over-year to $48.7bn. tions was to commence this quarter. ings call that the company was not to be completed in the first quar- to be completed by 2018. Jebel Ali TEUs by 2030 from 2.5 million TEUs “I am particularly pleased with Faced with a slowdown in its tra- giving up on the bones of the inter- ter of 2017. handles shipments not only for the at present, depending on demand. our performance in priority areas ditional products such as routers for net such as routers and switches. Several other banks from United Arab Emirates but for much Qatar and Oman are expanding including security, data center switch- telecom networks, Cisco has been Switches and routers remain a big emerging markets have issued of the region. their ports. ing, collaboration, services as well as trying for several years to reorient to chunk of Cisco’s business. “We are green bonds in recent months. Since last year, however, growth Also yesterday, DP World our overall performance,” said Cisco fast growing sectors. The company investing in every area of business Bank of China last month sold in the oil-rich economies of the Gulf reported a 50 percent jump in net Chief Executive Chuck Robbins (pic- also seeks to increase revenue from we have,” Kramer said. “We are a $3bn multi-currency green has slowed because of low oil prices. profit attributable to sharehold- tured). “We continue to execute well ongoing subscriptions for services being very smart about where we bond, while in May India’s Axis Saudi Arabia’s imports, for exam- ers during the first half to $608m, in a challenging macro environment.” or software, as compared to sales of are putting our money; that is how Bank sold a $500m, five-year ple, shrank 20 percent from a year helped by the acquisitions of Dubai’s The corporate restructur- equipment. Robbins said Cisco also we are looking at this.” green bond. earlier in May, according to official Jebel Ali Free Zone and Canada’s ing aims to cut expenses in “lower sees promise for revenue in provid- The northern California-based data released this week. Fairview Terminal. DP World’s rev- growth areas” and shift the money ing security for networks. Cisco has had waves of job cuts from “After the 2009 financial cri- enue for the first half was $2.09bn, into Cisco priorities such as secu- Global Equities Research analyst 2011 through 2014, eliminating a sis, trade helped support Dubai in up from $1.90bn a year earlier. rity, cloud computing, data centers, Trip Chowdhry believes that Cisco is total of more than 17,000 positions. 18 FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 BUSINESS US jobless claims fall as Walmart earnings rise labour market firms

300,000, a threshold associated nonfarm payrolls report. with a strong labor market, for 76 The four-week moving average Initial claims for straight weeks. That is the longest of claims increased 7,750 between state unemployment such stretch since 1973, when the the July and August survey peri- labor market was much smaller. ods, suggesting another month of benefits dropped The US dollar extended losses strong job gains. The economy cre- 4,000 to a seasonally after the data, while prices for US ated 255,000 jobs in July, adding to Treasuries were largely unchanged. the 292,000 positions gained in June. adjusted 262,000 The labour market is now viewed In a separate report, the Phil- for the week ended as either at or near full employment, adelphia Federal Reserve said its August 13, the Labour suggesting limited scope for more business conditions index increased declines in claims. Labor market 5 points to a reading of 2.0 in August Department said. buoyancy, marked by robust hiring as more companies reported an in the last two months and dimin- increase in shipments. August ishing slack, could prompt the Fed to marked the third positive reading A view of a Walmart store in Washington, DC. Walmart Stores reported higher second-quarter earnings raise interest rates despite low infla- for the index this year. Reuters tion and sluggish economic growth Details of the survey were gen- yesterday. Earnings for the quarter ending July 31 were $3.8bn, up 8.6 percent from the year-ago in the first half of the year. erally weak, with a measure of new period. Sales were up 0.5 percent at $120.9bn. New York Fed President William orders contracting after surging in Dudley, an influential policymaker at July. There were continued declines WASHINGTON: The number of the US central bank, said on Tuesday in factory employment, with the Americans filing for unemployment that it was “possible” to hike rates length of the work week shrinking benefits fell more than expected last at the Fed’s September 20-21 pol- further. week, reinforcing views of labour icy meeting. But the minutes from But shipments rose and manu- market strength that could encour- the July 26-27 meeting, which were facturers were also asking higher Philippines economy expands 7% age the Federal Reserve to raise released on Wednesday, showed Fed prices for their goods while appear- interest rates soon. policymakers were divided on the ing to pay more for raw materials. Another report yesterday showed urgency of a rate hike amid concerns Manufacturing remains con- AFP However, Duterte won a land- growth, especially investment that a modest improvement in manufac- about benign inflation. strained by the delayed pass-through slide election victory partly on his will lead to more inclusive, pov- turing activity in the mid-Atlantic The minutes also noted that of the US dollar’s rally between June railings against the nation’s elite erty-reducing, inequality-reducing region this month amid rising ship- “some other members (of the Fed’s 2014 and December 2015. The sec- who have soaked up much of the growth,” Economic Planning Secre- ments from factories. But weak rate-setting committee) anticipated tor, which accounts for 12 percent MANILA: The Philippine economy benefits of the growth, while leav- tary Ernesto Pernia said. new orders and shrinking order that economic conditions would of the US economy, has also been expanded 7 percent in the second ing a quarter of the nation’s 100 Pernia said the Duterte adminis- books suggested the manufactur- soon warrant taking another step undermined by an inventory bloat as quarter, official data showed yester- million people living below the tration was particularly concerned ing malaise was far from over. in removing policy accommoda- well as lower oil prices, which have day, but President Rodrigo Duterte’s poverty line. about the farming and fisheries Initial claims for state unem- tion.” The Fed raised its benchmark contributed to a sharp downturn in new government said major changes Duterte’s economic chiefs on sector, which accounts for about 10 ployment benefits dropped 4,000 overnight interest rate in December business spending. were needed to fix one of Asia’s big- Thursday credited the 7.0-percent million workers and their families. to a seasonally adjusted 262,000 for the first time in nearly a decade. There are, however, tentative gest rich-poor divides. growth on annualised basis in the “Knowing that the majority of for the week ended August 13, the The four-week moving aver- signs that the energy drag on busi- The April-to-June period covered second quarter, the fastest in three poor Filipinos rely on this sector for Labour Department said. Claims age of claims, considered a better ness investment could be fading. The the final months of Benigno Aquino’s years, to Aquino’s “sound marco- their livelihood, this administration for the prior week were unrevised. measure of labour market trends Fed reported on Tuesday that oil and administration, capping six years of economic, fiscal and monetary will prioritise agricultural develop- Economists polled by Reuters had as it irons out week-to-week vol- gas drilling surged in July, notching stellar growth that helped boost the policies”, but emphasised the poor ment,” he said. forecast initial claims slipping to atility, rose 2,500 to 265,250 last a second straight monthly gain. Oil Philippines’ credit ratings and end were continuing to be left behind. The sector declined 2.1 percent 265,000 in the latest week. week. The claims data covered drilling firms have increased the its reputation as one of the region’s “We need to sustain that rebal- from April-June, the fifth consecu- Claims have now been below the survey week for the August number of rigs in recent months. economic laggards. ancing toward investment-driven tive quarter of declines.

Saudi crude oil exports Lenovo Group profit leaps in first quarter rises in June Reuters property boosted profit well beyond the more lucrative premium smart- global smartphone market in April- the $130.1m average estimate of ana- phone sector, he said, while ramping June, making it a distant seventh after lysts polled by Thomson Reuters up marketing expenses. top player Samsung Electronics Co Reuters SmartEstimates. Lenovo previously said it Ltd’s 24 percent and Apple Inc’s 15 HONG KONG: China’s Lenovo Group But the company, which bought expected a turnaround by this quar- percent. , the world’s biggest PC maker, said the Motorola handset business in ter in Motorola’s mobile operations, Like Chinese peer Xiaomi Inc, first-quarter profit jumped nearly 2014 to reduce exposure to a shrink- bought from Google . Yesterday, Lenovo has been focusing on diversi- DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s oil exports two-thirds, helped by a one-off ing global PC market, said global Yang said Motorola “has made a fying away from intense competition rose in June as the kingdom kept asset sale, but its mobile arm lost smartphone shipments plunged 31 lot of progress”, though the com- in low-margin devices in China - still China such as Huawei Technologies the market well supplied, pump- money again as a $3bn bet on buy- percent in the quarter from a year pany declined to give numbers the world’s largest handset market Co Ltd. ing near record high levels of ing Motorola to diversify has yet to ago. It said the mobile division for the operations, saying they’re but affected by the slowing Chinese The company said its share of the crude to feed rising both local and pay off. - housing Motorola and other opera- now merged into its overall mobile economy. global PC market grew over the quar- international demand. Lenovo said yesterday that net tions - won’t make a profit before the business. Lenovo has an “urgent need to ter as it performed “slightly better Crude exports in June rose profit climbed 64 percent to $173m fiscal half beginning October 2017. The firm’s drive into smartphones formulate a sustainable strategy in than expected” thanks to a stronger to 7.456 million barrels per day for the quarter ended June compared “We can completely turn the comes as growth in the global market smartphones, particularly in China,” performance in mature markets. (b/d) from 7.295m b/d in May, offi- with a year earlier, when profit was business around,” Chairman and slows while competition intensifies. said Jefferies analyst Ken Hui, citing PC shipments fell 2 percent year- cial data showed yesterday. The hit by restructuring costs. A $132m Chief Executive Officer Yang Yuan- According to researcher TrendForce, competition from domestic rivals on-year, compared with a 4 percent world’s largest oil exporter pro- gain from the sale of a Beijing office qing (pictured) said. Lenovo is eyeing Lenovo had a 4.5 percent share of the with extensive sales networks in decline in the broader industry. duced 10.550m b/d in June, up from 10.270m b/d in May. Saudi Arabia’s domestic crude inventories totalled 289.445m barrels in June from 289.175m in Up to QR10,000 cash back with the China’s Ping An group May, data provided by the Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI) showed. JODI compiles data supplied purchase of new 2016 Honda Accord eyes overseas splurge from oil-producing members of global organisations including the International Energy Agency and The Peninsula Reuters current insurance assets, the com- the Organisation of the Petroleum pany’s total overseas investments Exporting Countries. could reach as much as $27.5bn Saudi Arabia’s oil inventories from about $5.5bn currently, peaked last October at a record DOHA: Doha Marketing Services HONG KONG: Ping An Insur- according to Reuters calculations. high 329.430m barrels but have Company WLL (Domasco), the ance Group Co of China Ltd, the Yao said possible investments declined since as the country has authorised distributor for Honda country’s second-largest insurer, included property, logistics- drawn down its oil stockpile to in Qatar, amazes their custom- is aiming for a possible five-fold related real estate and private meet domestic demand without ers with an immersive offer. With increase in overseas investments equity funds. Ping An bought Lon- impacting its exports. the purchase of every new 2016 and has not been put off Britain don office property Tower Place Riyadh has been maintaining Honda Accord, customers will get by its vote to leave the European for £327m ($427 m) in January high output levels since mid-2014 up to QR10,000 cash back along Union, its group chief financial 2015 and Lloyds Building in the in line with a strategy of defend- with a Samsung Gear VR virtual officer (CFO) said yesterday. city’s financial district for £260m ing market share against rival reality headset and Galaxy S7 Edge it easy to select radio stations, music special back to school offer, Ping An plans to gradually in July 2013. producers. smartphone. tracks and more. Countless practi- Faisal Sharif, the Managing Direc- increase its overseas investments Ping An, the country’s second- Domestic refineries proc- The always popular, benchmark- cal features of the Accord make it tor at Domasco said: “The Accord to 5-10 percent of total insurance largest insurer by market value, essed 2.381m b/d of crude in June, setting Honda Accord redefines the the most intelligent sedan. The Elec- embodies the challenging spirit assets if it can find appropriate posted an 18 percent rise in first- up from 2.369m in May. Exports segment standards with its luxuri- tric Parking Break engages with the of Honda and the commitment to targets, CFO Jason Yao said. It cur- half net profit, led by a one-off gain of refined oil products in June ous and intelligent features. With its push of a button and enhances con- delivering innovative products of rently invests about 2 percent of its in its internet finance business. totalled 1.371m b/d versus 1.361m generous interior dimensions, the venience for the driver. the highest quality, reliability and total assets abroad, well below the Yao said it was a “relatively in May. The kingdom has been Accord provides outstanding leg The Accord takes both design value. Coupled with this intelligent 15 percent cap imposed by China’s big challenge” to stem the slide in feeding more crude to domestic and shoulder room for all occupants. and performance to an even higher and luxurious car, we are giving the insurance regulator, giving it ample investment income in the second refineries as it expands oil prod- Stylish and upscale cabin features level. Integrated dual exhaust with key to an immersive mobile virtual room to splurge. half of this year, after investment uct exports. high-quality materials, exemplary fit chrome finishers combined with reality experience. With Samsung “That could even happen in the returns fell 54 percent in the first State oil firm Saudi Aramco and finish along with advanced seat- 18” aluminum wheels project a Gear VR virtual reality headset and next three to five years as the world half, hit by falling interest rates and has stakes in more than 5 million ing comfort and ergonomics. sporty, nimble image. Whereas, Galaxy S7 edge smartphone end- is changing very fast,” Yao said, the stock market downturn. bpd of refining capacity at home The refined cockpit of the Accord LED daytime running lights enhance less hours of entertainment awaits naming the United States, Britain That increases the impetus and abroad, placing it among focuses on an advanced and intuitive visibility while accenting the sharp our customers.” and Europe as the key investment to diversify its asset allocation the global leaders in making oil driving interface with the full 8-inch exterior styling. Greig Roffey, Head of Sales & markets the company is targeting. and expand its footprint abroad. products. colour Intelligent Multi-Information As with all Honda vehicles, safety Marketing at Domasco Honda said: Britain’s vote on the EU was However, steady growth in its life In June, crude oil used to gen- Display (i-MID). The i-MID can dis- is a primary focus. The Accord’s top “The Accord retains Honda’s best- not an issue, he said. “There will insurance and banking businesses erate power rose to 704,000 b/d play audio settings, turn-by-turn safety ratings reflect Honda’s com- selling qualities while displaying a be investment opportunities in the helped the rise in profit, in contrast from 660,000 b/d in May, the JODI directions, time and trip informa- mitment to overall vehicle safety. luxurious style, sporty performance UK ... Britain’s stock market and to the declines forecast by rivals. data showed, as electricity con- tion, LaneWatch and Rearview 2016 Accord comes with a total of 6 and a vast array of smart features. currency have gradually stabilised Ping An’s overseas ambitions sumption typically soars in the hot Camera displays, incoming calls, airbags which are front airbags, front We invite everyone to visit our show- (since the vote). We’ve been watch- mirror those of other Chinese firms, summer months when air condi- SMS text messages, and parking sen- side airbag and side curtain airbags. room and take advantage of the cash ing that very closely,” he said. including Anbang Insurance Group tioning use peaks. sor alerts. Audio dial controls make Talking about Domasco’s back offer up to QR10,000.” Based on Ping An Group’s and Fosun International Ltd. BUSINESS FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 19

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But German news agency DPA said there were in fact two suppliers that had disrupted their deliveries— one that makes textiles and leather for car interiors and Reuters local-currency assets and pro- last reached out for an Interna- was based on large volumes of another that specialises in cast parts for gearboxes. vide more stability for the tugrik,” tional Monetary Fund bail out. As foreign investment into the coun- “This is more than just annoying,” works council the central bank said. investors sold Mongolian sover- try’s huge and largely untapped member Guido Mehlhop told DPA, “especially when The Mongolian People’s Party eign bonds over the past week, a mining assets, including the Rio you know that the court already issued an injunction ULAANBAATAR: Mongolia government, headed by Prime $1bn issue due 2022 fell 4 points Tinto-run Oyu Tolgoi project. last week requiring the suppliers to deliver the parts raised its benchmark interest Minister Jargaltulga Erdenebat to trade yesterday at 86/87 cents But huge new projects like the as contractually agreed”. rates by 4.5 percentage points (pictured), is also cutting gov- on the dollar. Tavan Tolgoi coal deposit have “Apparently someone is trying to stage a cliff- to 15 percent yesterday, the ernment salaries and suspending Analysts say the current cri- been put on hold, as Mongolia hanger on the backs of the workers,” he went on, calling central bank said, in a bid to selected welfare programmes in sis was a result of the previous became embroiled in disputes for a solution “as quickly as possible.” A court spokes- stabilise a currency that has a bid to reduce its costs. out wages, prompting a collapse government’s attempts to reverse with investors amid concerns man said that the auto giant has a month to appeal to been in free-fall. The landlocked North Asian in Mongolia’s sovereign bonds. the decline in foreign invest- over the growing role played by a higher court. Elected in a landslide in late country, wedged between China The state is even struggling to ment through debt and fiscal foreign firms in the country’s Volkswagen has been battling to get past its big- June, the country’s new gov- and Russia, has been struggling pay out prize money to its Olym- expansion. economy. gest crisis, which erupted last September after it was ernment has been plunged into with weak demand for its chief pic athletes. “Policy settings in recent Mongolia finally agreed a forced to admit that it had installed sophisticated soft- an economic crisis, with its export commodities, coal and Government debt was pro- years have been very loose, and long-delayed $5.3bn extension ware into 11 million diesel engines with the express currency, the tugrik, losing 8 copper, as well as a collapse in jected to reach of 21.3 trillion contributed to pressures on Mon- plan for Oyu Tolgoi with Rio Tinto purpose of duping emissions tests. percent against the dollar so far foreign investment. tugrik ($9.48bn), the equivalent golia’s external accounts,” said in May, but the project, Mongolia’s The shock revelation led to a 40-percent plunge this month, making it the world’s Mongolia’s new finance min- to 78 percent of gross domestic Andrew Fennell, associate direc- biggest earner, is not expected to in the company’s share price last autumn, wiping out poorest performing currency. ister, Battogtokh Choijilsuren, product by the end of the year, tor, Asia Pacific Sovereigns, at rescue the economy, expected to some ¤25bn in market capitalisation in two days. “Financial measures for the warned the 3 million strong according to the finance ministry. Fitch Ratings in Hong Kong. grow at just 0.4 percent this year, VW shares were down 0.45 percent In early trading medium term have been taken nation last week that the gov- The ratio was only 30 per- The country’s rapid eco- according to forecasts from the in Frankfurt yesterday. to increase the rate of return for ernment would struggle to pay cent in 2009, when Mongolia nomic growth four years ago International Monetary Fund. 20 FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 BUSINESS VIEWS Tech industry’s Low-cost airlines bet legal shield is feeling the heat on data to drive profit

By Dan Levine and Some say Section 230 has Kristina Cooke been stretched too far. Missis- Reuters sippi lawyer Leslie Roussell - who lost a case over the sale of a recalled product on eBay - said he strongly believes in the free HEN San Francisco flow of information online. But, passed an ordinance he said, “when free speech gets this year imposing to the point it harms other people, fines on home rental it is no longer free speech.” Wcompanies for listings by hosts Another attorney, Elizabeth not registered with the city, Air- Brancart, defeated a company’s bnb sued, saying the measure attempt to use Section 230 to shield runs afoul of Section 230 of the itself from liability in a suit she US Communications Decency brought. But she believes the law Act. The case is the latest test of often shields companies that don’t Section 230, a federal law that need the protection to succeed. “I has been a trusty workhorse for feel like we’re in 1890 and we’re the technology industry. protecting the railroads,” she said. By protecting website oper- Some advocates of the law ators from liability for content see things differently. Eric Gold- posted by others, the 20-year- man, a professor at Santa Clara old statute helped pave the way Law and supporter of Section for the explosion of social media 230’s protections, including in the platforms, such as Facebook and Airbnb case, follows Communi- By Conor Humphries promised a detailed breakdown of their First introduced in the 1980s, air miles Twitter, as well as online market- cations Decency Act cases closely. Reuters digital data drives and the financial returns programmes allowing customers to earn places, including Amazon and eBay. Since June 2015, judges have in the autumn. John Walton, who writes free flights by sticking to one carrier were But detractors say the law has rejected Section 230 defenses for online aviation publication Runway sometimes set up as independent entities. been applied too broadly, and in at least 17 cases, according Girl Network, said that from the custom- In 2014, analysts put a value of up to $2.5bn judges have pushed back in a string to his research. While it is dif- UROPE’S low-cost airlines er’s point of view, they and other airlines on the loyalty division of Qantas when it of recent cases. Lawyers for web ficult to comprehensively track once mocked the air miles pro- had some way to go. was considering floating it or selling a part. operators are closely watching the cases where the law is asserted, grammes run by flag carriers “I see few visible signs of European air- Alongside increasing sales of tickets and Airbnb case where the utility of the Goldman said it has been a as expensive relics of a bygone lines - or indeed other airlines - using the ancillaries, better digital infrastructure can legal shield is at issue. rough period for the defense. In era. But after watching wide- rich data they hold to drive bookings and also enable innovations like automatically Section 230 was intended one case, Twitter cited Section eyed as customer databases revenues,” he said, citing a lack of useful, rebooking customers after cancelled flights to protect free speech online by 230 in an attempt to persuade a Ewere valued at billions of dollars, they are targeted offers from any of the half a dozen and sending stranded passengers hotel res- removing liability for a newspa- San Francisco judge to dismiss a scrambling to catch up. airline loyalty schemes he held. ervations to their phones. per, say, for libelous comments suit filed by a woman receiving Europe’s two largest low-cost carriers, Ryanair and easyJet are taking different Legacy airlines are also investing heav- posted on their websites by read- unwanted tweets on her phone. Ryanair and easyJet have both swallowed approaches, with Ryanair focusing squarely ily, with Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten ers. The law has shielded social The woman’s mobile provider their pride in the past year and launched on selling optional extras while easyJet sees Spohr describing digitisation as the “trend media and e-commerce sites had given her a recycled phone customer loyalty schemes and both have ticket pricing at the heart of its data drive. of the future” with plans to invest 400 from activities not even imag- number, and it was still receiv- announced significant investments in data easyJet was first to move, investing in arti- million in the ‘digitisation’ of the group’s ined when it was enacted in 1996. ing Twitter feeds its former owner analytics. ficial intelligence over the past few years to airlines by 2020. Amazon.com used it to beat had signed up for. She repeatedly Their aim is to ape retailers like Ama- drive the algorithm that determines seat But the most dramatic improvements in back part of a lawsuit over the asked Twitter to stop the feed, zon.com and Tesco in driving profits by pricing in real time depending on demand. recent years have come from the low cost sale of stolen photos. EBay used texting “STOP,” but it kept coming. leveraging data from vast online customer Its computers track over a billion side, said Rob Kemp, who provides feed- it to defeat a claim over the sale In her suit, she asserted bases to create highly personalised offers searches on the easyJet site annually to see back to major European airlines in his role of an unsafe product. Craigslist Twitter was violating consumer and adapt services to customer preferences what prices, destinations or travel times as Chief Technology Officer at Momondo prevailed in a case alleging it protection laws against unso- more quickly. “This has transformed retail prompted them to book or leave the web Group, which runs ticket price compari- had “knowingly and intention- licited calls and texts. Twitter and it’s going to transform airlines,” said site and adjust all three as soon as possible. son websites. ally” facilitated prostitution. argued that Section 230 should Kenny Jacobs, a former Tesco executive Spokesman Paul Moore said that “The low-cost carriers are really tak- In those cases and others, bar the lawsuit because its users spearheading Ryanair’s digital drive as kind of data more than compensated for ing that as a clear mission. I just don’t see websites successfully argued composed the tweets, not the com- chief marketing officer. the airline’s later collection of personal as much of that from the larger airlines at any offending offerings on their pany. But a judge ruled against He has overseen the hiring of 150 IT information through its Flight Club loy- the moment,” Kemp said. pages were not their responsibil- Twitter’s motion this year, saying specialists since he was alty scheme. Ryanair’s primary target is to use highly ity because they had been posted that what mattered is who sent the appointed two and a half “We don’t have the legacy frequent flyer personalised marketing to boost ancillary by others. In its lawsuit against San tweets, not who composed them. years ago. “Airlines are systems the legacy carriers have, but we revenues - charges for extras like checked- Francisco, Airbnb says it cannot be In ruling the case should pro- not good at this. We’re have been selling online far longer and at in bags, premium seats, fast track security held responsible for ensuring hosts ceed, US District Judge Vince still crap compared to far greater scale than they have,” he said. clearance, which accounted for 24 percent have complied with the city’s laws. Chhabria wrote: “The lawsuit does what retailers do.” “The data we have on purchasing patterns of Ryanair’s revenues last year. The disputed ordinance not depend on the content of any easyJet chief exec- and flight patterns is, we suspect, larger Ryanair in the past employed a low-cost requires Airbnb and similar serv- tweet but rather on the fact that the utive Carolyn McCall, and richer by some way.” scatter-gun approach, offering every serv- ices to verify that people offering tweets themselves are a nuisance. who last year appointed Ryanair, whose business model is to cut ice from car hire to travel insurance to new short-term rentals on their sites Thus Section 230 doesn’t apply.” the company’s first fares as far as possible to fill planes and luggage to every customer, irrespective of have registered with the city. The Section 230 was introduced Europe’s two largest head of data science make money selling optional extras, was a whether they had bought them in the past. services would face fines of $1,000 in 1996, when the internet was to oversee a team of 25 little later to the game. It has spent much of A more streamlined system might offer each time they process a booking still new, by then-Congressmen low-cost carriers, data analytics special- the past two years overhauling its web and someone booking a last-minute mid-week from an unregistered host. Christopher Cox, a Republi- Ryanair and easyJet ists, has described data phone offerings and is preparing a push to flight to London a train ticket, Jacobs said, The ordinance “violates can from California, and Ron as “incredibly impor- get more of its 100 million customers to reg- while someone with three children book- federal law,” Airbnb said in a Wyden, an Oregon Democrat have launched tant” for the airline. A ister for its My Ryanair loyalty programme. ing the same flight six months ahead might statement. But Deputy City Attor- who is now a senator. Their goal customer loyalty spokesman for easyJet It is a far cry from the early 1990s, when be offered a discount on a large hire car. ney Robb Kapla said Section 230 was to encourage robust dialogue described the potential Michael O’Leary scrapped the airline’s “It’s more about profitability than mar- doesn’t apply. “San Francisco is on the internet without burden- schemes. benefits from digitisa- Frequent Flyer scheme on taking over as ket share,” he said. “You’ve got a website regulating commercial transac- ing website hosts with policing tion and data analytics chief executive. Soon after, easyJet began that’s getting so many visits, how do you tions, not speech,” he said. third-party content. as “exponential”. a campaign for frequent flyer schemes to monetize that? How are you getting those Both airlines have be scrapped as “disguised bribery”. customers to buy more?” Taiwan tea entrepreneurs brew up new twist on tradition

AFP Taipei’s Mandarin Oriental hotel is stacked salons after studying marketing in France. international clients and are hoping to with teabags in book-like boxes and clear “It is one of the things that most represents expand the list. However, there are still those cylindrical bottles of ready-to-drink cold Taiwan.” Huang’s “Zenique” brand of pure who argue that no-frills is best. brews. “I think Taiwan has the best oolong and flavoured oolong, green and black teas At tea store Lin Hua Tai, leaves are still HEAP instant “bubble tea” has and it’s a pity that it’s not seen all over the do not come cheap — a small tin starts at processed in a factory at the back of the shop, become one of Taiwan’s best- world,” says Xie. Tw$409 and can cost up to Tw$1,890. using traditional methods unchanged for the known culinary exports — now a She sells pure and flavoured oolong — a Huang says it is a price worth paying for a decades it has been in business. Standing in new wave of entrepreneurs hopes fragrant, semi-fermented tea. Infused with high-quality product and he counts seasoned Taipei’s once-bustling “tea street” it is one of a high-end modern take on tradi- spearmint, chamomile, rose and ginger, she tea drinkers among his regular customers. only a few tea stores to remain. Ctional brews will also be sipped worldwide. hopes the pretty packaging and ready-made First-time salon visitor Anne Yu, 30, says she The shop buys raw tea from plantations Taiwan has been Taiwan has been producing tea for more bottles will attract uninitiated foreign cus- likes the “chic and tasteful” feel to the place. across Taiwan and sells 100 types, from basic than 200 years and a cup of the island’s tomers. At Tw$680 ($21) for 10 teabags, she “I started to drink more tea recently after brews to the pricey “Oriental Beauty” oolong, producing tea for more famous oolong is obligatory for many visi- says it is a reasonable price for top tea. I got palpitations from drinking coffee,” she which can go for more than Tw$4,000 per than 200 years and a cup tors, but exports have been knocked by rising “Every step (in producing oolong) has to said, between mouthfuls of green tea and 600 grams. Tea leaves are stored in stain- labour costs and bubble tea has eclipsed a be exact. I think the craftsmanship involved almond cake topped with a macaron, washed less steel barrels and packaged in plastic of the island’s famous carefully crafted cuppa. matches that of international luxury products,” down with osmanthus oolong tea. “I like tea bags printed simply with the store’s name oolong is obligatory for Often artificially flavoured and loaded she says. Xie has served up her tea at the Ven- better now.” and contact details. with milk, sugar and tapioca pearls, bubble ice film festival, Paris fashion shows and Milan While industry experts say the average The shop says its loyal clientele has been many visitors, but exports tea has in recent years gained a global fol- design week since launching two years ago. age of tea drinkers in Taiwan is rising, entre- won purely by word of mouth. While it is have been knocked by lowing, from Southeast Asia to the United Other entrepreneurs are hoping to create preneurs like Xie and Huang are giving the dedicated to maintaining traditions, Lin Hua States and Europe. Ultra-modern tea shop a cafe culture that will entice younger gen- business a fresh edge. “To some young people Tai is also trying to inspire younger gener- rising labour costs and “Xie Xie” is one business trying to turn the erations. At David Huang’s salons in Taipei, now, running a tea company is attractive and ations by giving store tours and tea tastings bubble tea has eclipsed a tide back to sophistication. customers order pots of organic Taiwan- trendy, it’s like being the owner of a French to students. carefully crafted cuppa. Founder Xie Yu-tung, 30, comes from grown tea served up alongside tea-flavoured vineyard,” said Lin Chih-Cheng, president “Children drink bubble tea, but they don’t a family of tea producers and uses leaves French pastries. of the Association of Taiwan Tea. know what oolong looks like, or that there grown on their plantations in Taiwan’s “I don’t want to see tea-drinking fade “They feel like they are part of a crea- are many more types of tea. When they get mountainous Dayuling and Lishan areas. into history because young people think it’s tive, cultural industry.” interested, they will grow up drinking more Her sleek all-white tea boutique at old-fashioned,” says Huang, who opened the Both Huang and Xie have regular tea,” says shop manager Joanne Kang. FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 21

Pakistan thrash Ireland by 255 Steyn and Philander seek SA runs in opener

AFP resurgence in longer format MALAHIDE: Pakistan thrashed Ireland by a mammoth 255 runs in the first one-day international at Malahide, yesterday. The second TEAMS game will be played tomorrow. Pace duo expected South Africa’s Dale Steyn is back for New Zealand Tests South Africa (likely): Faf du Ples- to be in full rhythm after recovering from a sis (capt), Dean Elgar, Stephen Cook, SCOREBOARD after recovering from groin injury. Hashim Amla, JP Duminy, Temba Bavuma, Quinton de Kock (wkt), PAKISTAN injuries as Proteas Vernon Philander, Dale Steyn, Dane A Ali c N O’Brien b McCarthy 1 Piedt, Kagiso Rabada seek improvement in S Khan c N O’Brien b McCarthy 152 New Zealand (from): Kane Wil- Test rankings in the liamson (capt), Martin Guptill, Mohd Hafeez c Porterfield b Chase 37 New Zealand series Tom Latham, Ross Taylor, Henry B Azam c N O’Brien b McCarthy 29 Nicholls, BJ Watling (wkt), Mitch- S Ahmed c N O’Brien b Murtagh 2 ell Santner, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Shoaib Malik (not out) 57 Neil Wagner, Trent Boult, Doug Bracewell, Mark Craig, Matt Henry, Mohd Nawaz c Stirling b McCarthy 53 AFP Luke Ronchi (wkt), Jeet Raval Imad Wasim (not out) 0 Extras (LB-3, W-3) 6 attitude and improved performances, Total (for 6 wkts in 47 overs) 337 as well as an obvious enjoyment of Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-107, 3-203, DURBAN: Fast bowling pair Dale the game which has made them one 4-226, 5-227, 6-332. Steyn and Vernon Philander will reu- of the most popular sides in cricket. Bowling: Murtagh 10-0-38-1; McCarthy nite as South Africa seek to start the After the mauling by South 10-1-62-4; Chase 7-0-70-1 (1w); McBrine long climb back up the rankings in Africa, they lost a series in England 5-0-49-0, K O’Brien 8-0-57-0; Stirling the first Test against New Zealand in later in 2013 but since then have only 7-0-58-0 (2w). Durban today. lost two series out of 11, both against

When Steyn and Philander last Australia, who also beat them in the IRELAND shared the new ball, in the first 2015 World Cup final. P R Stirling b Mohd Amir 0 Test against India in Mohali last McCullum has retired, with the E C Joyce c Hasan Ali b Umar Gul 9 November, South Africa were the captaincy passing to Kane William- W T S Porterfield b Umar Gul 13 top-ranked side. Now they are a son, 26, one of cricket’s most talented N J O’Brien st S Ahmed b I Wasim 10 lowly seventh, two places behind has missed South Africa’s last seven which one of four fine fast bowlers to have surged ahead. It was four sea- young batsmen.His first venture in K J O’Brien c S Ahmed b Umar Gul 4 New Zealand. Tests. omit. Pitch conditions for the bowl- sons ago when the Black Caps were charge was the recent series in Zim- Steyn strained a groin in the first At Kingsmead, Steyn and Philan- ers, however, are an unknown factor. bowled out for 45 on the first day of babwe, where New Zealand won both G C Wilson st S Ahmed b M Nawaz 21 innings of the Mohali match and did der are set to team up for the first It is the first time a Test series their previous series in South Africa, Tests comfortably. S W Poynter lbw Imad Wasim 4 not bowl in the second innings. time with Kagiso Rabada, South has been played in South Africa in going on to lose both Tests by an It will be a battle of inexperi- A R McBrine (not out) 14 Since then he has played only one Africa’s 21-year-old fast bowling August, at least two months earlier innings. enced captains, with Faf du Plessis B J McCarthy b I Wasim 1 Test, against England in Durban last phenomenon, who was named the than usual, and the pitches in Dur- Then-captain Brendon McCullum standing in for the injured AB de T J Murtagh b I Wasim 0 December, when he suffered a shoul- country’s cricketer of the year last ban, and Centurion next week, could identified that low as a turning point, Villiers, who himself has only cap- der injury which ruled him out of the month. With the tall Morne Morkel be slower than normal. with the players getting together and tained South Africa twice since being P K D Chase b I Wasim 0 second innings. ruled out of the two-match series While South Africa have slipped appraising honestly their attitude to appointed midway through the series Extras (LB-2, W-4) 6 Philander had an ankle injury because of a back injury, the selectors backwards with series losses against cricket and why they played it. Out of against England last season. Total (all out in 23.4 overs) 82 before the second Test in India and have been spared having to decide India and England, New Zealand the depths of despair came a positive Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-22, 3-28, 4-32, 5-51, 6-55, 7-81, 8-82, 9-82, 10-82. Bowling: Mohammad Amir 4-1-7-1 (1w); Shoaib Malik 1-0-1-0; Umar Gul 5-0-23-3 (2w); Hasan Ali 5-0-21-0 (1w); Imad Anderson awaits security advice on Bangladesh Wasim 5.4-0-14-5; Mohammad Nawaz 3-0-14-1.

AFP last month in which 20 hostages and before deciding whether to proceed PCA. We’ll get their feedback when two police officers were killed. with the tour. they arrive back. Britain’s Foreign Office currently Anderson, England’s all-time “If there are any doubts they West Indies 62-2 advises “there is a heightened threat of leading wicket-taker, said he and his will make the call and we trust their LONDON: James Anderson says he further terrorist attacks and foreign- colleagues would await ECB guidance. ability. will accept the advice of England’s ers, in particular Westerners, may be “Obviously as players when you’re “These decisions aren’t -- or really against India security experts when it comes to directly targeted”. going on tour somewhere where there shouldn’t be -- in the hands of play- deciding whether he should tour An England and Wales Cricket have been incidents in the last few ers.” Australia cancelled their tour of PORT OF SPAIN: West Indies Bangladesh. Board delegation led by security months you try to keep tabs on it and Bangladesh in October for security were 62 for two batting first when England are due to fly to Bang- adviser Reg Dickason accompanied there are discussions going on among reasons and then withdrew their side rain forced an early lunch on the ladesh on September 30 for three by director of cricket operations John players,” Anderson said Wednesday from the Under-19 World Cup in the opening day of the fourth and one-day internationals and two Test Carr and David Leatherdale of the at an event staged by England spon- country at the start of this year. Eng- final Test against India at the in matches. Professional Cricketers’ Association sor Brut Sport Style. land dis send a team fielded a team. Trinidad yesterday. But there have been concerns are currently making their own secu- “Reg is brilliant at his job and he’s England are scheduled to play a Kraigg Brathwaite was 32 about the fixtures since an attack by rity assessment in Bangladesh. looked after us for the best part of Test series in India after the Bangla- not out, with Marlon Samuels James Anderson jihadists on a cafe in the capital Dhaka Their ECB will await their report 10 years and David is there with the desh leg of the tour. unbeaten on four. Murray and Nadal roll, Raonic downs Isner

Reuters against South African Kevin Anderson with Jared Donaldson 2-6 6-3 6-4 in a match car- a berth in the quarter-finals at stake. ried over from rainy Tuesday and will next Andy Murray of Top-seeded Murray’s victory was in con- face his doubles partner Grigor Dimitrov of trast to numerous big battles in the U.S. Open Bulgaria. Scotland hits a NEW YORK: Olympic and Wimbledon cham- run-up event and a slew of tiebreakers. Tiebreakers decided two three-set return in his second pion Andy Murray picked up where he left off Third-seeded Spaniard Rafa Nadal, win- encounters. round match against in Rio by drubbing Argentina’s Juan Monaco ner of gold in the Olympic men’s doubles, Borna Coric, 19, of Croatia came back Juan Monaco to take his place in the third round of the avenged a defeat to Pablo Cuevas in Febru- from 2-5 in a climactic decider against Aus- during day 5 of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati on ary with a 6-1 7-6(4) win over the Uruguayan. tralian Nick Kyrgios by winning five of the last Western & Southern Wednesday. Fourth seed Milos Raonic of Canada won six points to claim the tiebreak 8-6. Open at the Lindner Murray, who with his gold medal triumph a heavy artillery battle with John Isner 7-6(5) Kyrgios showed his displeasure after Family Tennis Center at the Rio Games became the first player to 7-6(5) for his first win after three career losses dropping an opening set tiebreaker by smash- on Wednesday in repeat as Olympic singles champion, notched to the American. ing three rackets during the changeover. Mason, Ohio. his 19th successive match victory by a 6-3 6-2 Raonic said he had just spent 10 days in “You have to focus on yourself,” Coric margin in what amounted to a nice workout New York working with John McEnroe. said when asked by Tennis Channel about the for the 29-year-old Scotsman. “John makes fun out of the practice, he excitable Kyrgios. “I believe I did that unbe- The Wimbledon winner scored the first challenges you in many ways,” Raonic said lievably good today.” break of the opening set in the eighth game after the match. Steve Johnson, who with one more vic- and served out the set. “He finds ways to point out things that I tory would leapfrog Isner to become the After seemingly enjoying the long rallies, tried to bring to the match today.” top-ranked American player, prevailed over Murray had his right shoulder massaged on Seventh seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France France’s Julien Benneteau 3-6 6-2 7-6(5). the changeover before the second set and rat- enjoyed his own double tiebreaker win over Olympic bronze medallist and fifth seed tled off four games in a row from 1-1 to turn American Reilly Opelka 7-6(5) 7-6(3). Kei Nishikori of Japan, like Murray, took an it into a rout. Second-seeded Swiss Stan Wawrinka easier route with a 6-3 6-2 win over Russian His victory set up a third-round match overcame 18-year-old American wild card Mikhail Youzhny. 22 FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 SPORT

France-based trio bolster Barcelona set to defend title Wallabies for All Blacks

AFP as La Liga keeps top talent SYDNEY: Coach Michael Cheika yesterday named overseas trio Matt Giteau, Adam Ashley-Cooper and Will Genia for the Wallabies completed a 5-0 aggregate victory Florentino Perez has limited his opening Rugby Championship Test over Sevilla. Besides maintaining the purchases to bringing back striker Barcelona’s Lionel against New Zealand this week- The Spanish football same high standards, Luis Enrique’s Alvaro Morata from Juventus. Messi celebrates end. giants have the biggest task will be to make sure That’s just fine for Zidane, who winning the Cheika also made a key Messi moves past this summer, when said: “I am happy with the players change in the forwards, choos- Supercopa after the players to mount he hit the low point of his otherwise I have. We won the European Cup ing Ben McCalman at blindside second leg match a fresh challenge stellar career. with them.” flanker instead of Scott Fardy for The club’s all-time leading scorer Barcelona has beefed up its against Sevilla at tomorrow’s Test which doubles as against arch-rivals was embarrassed both on and off the defense and midfield. Newcomers Camp Nou Stadium a Bledisloe Cup match. Real Madrid in the pitch in June. First came a judge’s ver- Andre Gomes and Denis Suarez will in Barcelona, Spain, France-based trio Ashley- dict that found Messi and his father join Andres Iniesta, Ivan Rakitic, on Wednesday. Cooper, Giteau and Genia along new season guilty of defrauding the Spanish tax Rafina and Arda Turan as playmak- with lock Kane Douglas return office of 4.1m euros ($4.6m). Both ers, while Barcelona’s defense has after missing the home series men will appeal. undergone a quiet upheaval. Dani clean sweep loss against Eng- That was followed by Messi los- Alves left along with Marc Bartra land in June. AP ing a third consecutive final with and Thomas Vermaelen — in came McCalman joins Michael Argentina. Distraught, Messi said Frenchmen Samuel Umtiti and Lucas Hooper and David Pocock in a immediately after the Copa Amer- Digne. new-look back row with Fardy BARCELONA: The English Premier ica final defeat to Chile that he was “This is the best squad I have had named among the reserves. League may be splashing the cash finished playing for his nation, only since I am at Barca,” Luis Enrique “We’ve been working on a few but as long as Lionel Messi, Cristiano to later retract and say he would give said. “We have a greater number of things there and Ben has shown Ronaldo, Neymar, Luis Suarez and it another go. midfielders who are versatile and his quality there and we know Gareth Bale call La Liga home, then Cristiano Ronaldo’s offseason, some who can play in attack. That that New Zealand are the best Spain is where the best players will by contrast, could not have been helps the team a lot.” lineout defenders in the game,” be performing each week. sweeter. Atletico Madrid has solidified Cheika said. After Suarez’s league-leading The Real Madrid forward is the its role as the third team in Spain, “We’re going to have to be on 40 goals from last season, Barce- favourite to win the Ballon d’Or after despite a huge budget difference our money tactically in what we lona begins its campaign for a third finally conquering an elusive title compared to the two powerhouses. do there and each one in his role, straight domestic title tomorrow, for Portugal, which managed with- Coach Diego Simeone will once really clear on what their job is when Real Betis comes to Camp Nou. out him after he was injured in the again try to get his hardworking team inside of our lineout.” “We head into the league as European Championship final to beat to overachieve and be in the title race Old combinations will be reu- reigning champions and with the France. for a fourth straight year ever since nited in the backline with Genia intention of defending our title,” Bar- Bale was also strengthened by its against-the-odds 2014 title. His and Bernard Foley forming the celona coach Luis Enrique said. Euro 2016 after an excellent perform- biggest hurdle may be keeping his halves alongside Giteau and Tevita Champions League winner Real ance to lead Wales to the semifinals. squad convinced the extra effort Kuridrani in the centres. Madrid gets going with a match at Fewer coaches have entered a is worth it after another agonizing “Will’s worked very hard from Real Sociedad on Sunday, before season at the Santiago Bernabeu loss to Real Madrid in the final of the a fitness point of view I know Atletico Madrid, which has earned in a securer position than Zinedine Champions League last season. since he’s come back,” Cheika its place among preseason contend- Zidane. After a bumpy start to his Antoine Griezmann is set to lead said. ers, hosts the promoted Alaves. coaching debut midway through Atletico Madrid after a breakout The best of the rest of the the new-look Espanyol. Long in the “He’s got plenty of experience Luis Enrique has had a near last campaign, Zidane got his team summer with France at the European 20-team field depends on how well shadow of crosstown rival Barce- to know how to manage him- perfect two seasons in charge, going when it mattered and now has Championship. Kevin Gameiro has Sevilla reboots under new manager lona and no stranger to the relegation self in a game and when to take sweeping the league and Copa del a Champions League title as a man- arrived from Sevilla to form a speedy Jorge Sampaoli, and if Villarreal can fight, Espanyol under new owner advantage of the situations that Rey titles, and winning the Cham- ager to solidify his place in club lore attack with Griezmann, while Nico- maintain its attacking style after the Chen Yansheng has launched an are there and experience in the pions League in year one. He added that he first earned as a player. las Gaitan joins a midfield led by surprising coaching change of Fran ambitious plan to challenge for a halves is very important.” the Spanish Super Cup to his trophy Normally eager to make a splashy Jorge “Koke” Resurreccion and Saul Escriba replacing Marcelino Garcia. European spot with coach Quique Cheika found no room for haul on Wednesday when Barcelona summer signing, Madrid president Niguez. An outsider to keep an eye on is Sanchez Flores. Quade Cooper and said the play- making fly-half had room to improve. “There’s a few things that I want him, and we’ve spoken about it, that I’d like him to improve on Pogba gets ready for his to really claim that starting role and I’m sure he’ll be doing that,” he said. ACT Brumbies prop Allan Ala’alatoa is in line to make his second Man United debut debut after being on the bench alongside veterans Tatafu Pol- ota-Nau and James Slipper. Western Force outside back Dane Haylett-Petty retained his AFP Should he play from the start, Claude Puel has succeeded Ronald place on the wing after playing in United manager Jose Mourinho Koeman as manager. the England series, with vice-cap- must decide where he is going to The south-coast club, who fin- tain Rob Horne relegated to the MANCHESTER: Four years after he play. Mourinho has started the sea- ished one place below United in sixth replacements. left through the back door, Manches- son with a 4-2-3-1 formation and last season, unveiled a new diamond Captain and hooker Stephen ter United will roll out the red carpet Pogba is expected to take up one of midfield in last weekend’s 1-1 draw Moore will line up for his 106th for Paul Pogba’s second debut in the midfield berths in front of the at home to Watford. Test appearance at the Sydney today’s Premier League home game back four. Dusan Tadic took up the number Olympic stadium, while winger with Southampton. Marouane Fellaini and Ander 10 role and winger Nathan Red- Ashley-Cooper is set to play his Pogba first donned a United first- Herrera occupied those roles at mond, signed from Norwich City 115th international. team shirt when he came on as a Bournemouth. for a reported £10m, played up front, The Wallabies are the defend- half-time substitute for Ryan Giggs Much has changed since Pog- crowning his debut with a volleyed ing Rugby Championship title in a 3-0 League Cup win over Leeds ba’s last United appearance, in a 5-0 second-half equaliser. holders but have won just one of United in front of 31,031 people at league win away to Wolverhampton Puel has warned that Southamp- their last 13 encounters against the Elland Road in September 2011. Wanderers in March 2012. ton’s last two results at Old Trafford world champions. Australia have His return to action for the club Alex Ferguson retired as man- will count for nothing today and he not held the Bledisloe Cup since will not be so inauspicious, after ager the following year and has warned his players not to repeat 2002, with the All Blacks keep- United paid Juventus a world-record Mourinho is the third man to have the sluggish start they produced ing the trophy 13 times since then. £89m (105m euros, $116m) to bring succeeded him, while former stal- against Watford. Meanwhile, it was announced the French midfielder back to Old warts such as Giggs, Paul Scholes, “Their (United’s) players have that Hooker Agustin Creevy will Trafford. Rio Ferdinand and Patrice Evra are changed, their manager has changed lead Argentina in his 50th test Qatar’s Abdulkareem Pogba has not played since no longer around. and Southampton’s view of this when the Pumas open The Rugby Hassan tackles a France’s 1-0 loss to Portugal in the But Mourinho’s new-look team team has changed,” said the former Championship away to South Jordanian player Euro 2016 final, but he told the Man- made an assured start to their league Monaco, Lyon and Nice coach. Africa in Nelspruit tomorrow. during a friendly in chester Evening News: yesterday: campaign at Bournemouth, with new “Against Watford I didn’t like the Argentina will be looking for Zurich yesterday. “You have to ask the manager, but I signings Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Eric first half because we didn’t play our a second victory in 23 meetings Qatar won 3-2. Qatar feel very good and have been train- Bailly impressing, the former scoring game, but the second half you can with the Springboks and the first are preparing for ing for 10 days. his first Premier League goal. see another team and we improved since they won in Durban in last their 2018 FIFA World “I am quite used to this. I played Victory over Southampton, in and played our game.” year’s championship. Cup qualifying match the World Cup two years ago when the first of 10 Friday night games Puel will again be without left- Australia (15-1): Israel Folau; against Iran in Tehran at Juve and three years ago I was at in the Premier League this season, back Ryan Bertrand due to a knee Adam Ashley-Cooper, Tevita on September 1. the Under-20s World Cup as well,” will enable United to provisionally problem. Kuridrani, Matt Giteau, Dane RIGHT: Qatar coach he added. go three points clear at the top of Centre-back Jose Fonte, who Haylett-Petty; Bernard Foley, Daniel Carreno directs “So I am OK. It is about your the table. played against Pogba in the Euro Will Genia; David Pocock, Michael proceedings. body and I have been training on Southampton won 1-0 on both 2016 final and has been strongly Hooper, Ben McCalman; Rob Sim- my holidays.” their most recent visits to Old linked with a move to United, mons, Kane Douglas; Sekope Pogba, 23, missed United’s 3-1 Trafford, with Charlie Austin’s 87th- remains short of match fitness, but Kepu, Stephen Moore (capt), win at Bournemouth last Sunday due minute header securing victory last could feature. Scott Sio. Replacements: Tatafu to a suspension carried over from January, but they are also a team in Central defender Chris Small- Polota-Nau, James Slipper, Allan last season’s Coppa Italia, but his transition. ing returns for United after sitting Ala’alatoa, Dean Mumm, Scott lack of match fitness meant he was Sadio Mane, Graziano Pelle out the trip to Bournemouth through Fardy, Nick Phipps, Matt Toomua, unlikely to have featured anyway. and Victor Wanyama have left and suspension. Rob Horne. SPORT FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 23

Jamaican power on show as WEDNESDAY’S MEDAL STANDINGS Countries G S B T

US 30 32 31 93 Britain 19 19 12 50 China 19 15 20 54 Russia 12 14 15 41 Thompson completes double Germany 12 8 9 29 Japan 10 5 18 33 France 8 11 12 31 Italy 8 9 6 23 Netherlands 8 4 3 15 Tianna Bartoletta Australia 7 8 9 24 South Korea 7 3 6 16 impresses with a Hungary 6 3 4 13 personal best in Kenya 4 3 0 7 Spain 4 1 2 7 the women’s long Jamaica’s Jamaica 4 0 2 6 jump final as Usain Elaine New Zealand 3 6 1 10 Thompson Brazil 3 5 4 12 Bolt moves closer to reacts after Kazakhstan 3 3 6 12 another gold medal winning the Canada 3 2 9 14 gold medal. Croatia 3 2 0 5 North Korea 2 3 2 7 Cuba 2 2 4 8 Reuters final through Tianna Bartoletta and Poland 2 2 3 7 Brittney Reese. Thailand 2 2 2 6 While Bolt is now one step away Colombia 2 2 0 4 RIO DE JANEIRO: Elaine Thomp- from securing a third Olympic sprint Uzbekistan 2 1 4 7 son maintained Jamaica’s incredible double, he had to give top billing on Belgium 2 1 2 5 stranglehold on Olympic sprinting on Wednesday to compatriot Thompson, Switzerland 2 1 2 5 Wednesday when she added the 200 who delivered gold in the 200 despite Greece 2 1 1 4 metres gold to the 100m title she col- nursing a tight hamstring. Argentina 2 1 0 3 Iran 2 0 2 4 lected earlier at the Rio Games, while Thompson faced stiff opposition, Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson (left) crosses South Africa 1 5 1 7 Usain Bolt remains on course for a particularly in the shape of Dafne the finish line ahead of silver medallist Ukraine 1 4 2 7 track ‘triple-triple’. Schippers, but after running a terrific Netherlands’ Dafne Schippers (second right), Sweden 1 4 2 7 After winning nine of the 12 bend she maintained her form to hold bronze medallist USA’s Tori Bowie (second left) and Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou to Denmark 1 3 5 9 sprint events in 2008 and 2012 off the Dutchwoman and crossed the Armenia 1 3 0 4 win the women’s 200m Final at the Rio 2016 combined, Jamaica have now won line in a season-leading 21.78. Belarus 1 2 2 5 the first three in Rio and, with Bolt Thompson become the first Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Slovenia 1 2 1 4 impressively advancing to the 200m woman to win both the 100 and 200 Rio de Janeiro. Indonesia 1 2 0 3 final and their relay teams oozing tal- since American Florence Griffith Joy- Czech Republic 1 1 5 7 ent, they could take all six. ner in 1988. Georgia 1 1 3 5 While the days of the United Schippers took silver and Ameri- nervous wait before discovering she Bolt and Canadian Andre de 1976 and 1980. Evan Jager took silver Ethiopia 1 1 3 5 States dominating sprinting are long can Tori Bowie added a bronze to her had sneaked bronze. Grasse set up a 200m showdown for the United while double Olympic Romania 1 1 2 4 gone, they can at least take some silver from the 100. In the long jump Bartoletta after crossing the line laughing champion Ezekiel Kemboi finished Serbia 1 1 1 3 consolation from their own special There was no disputing the soared to a personal best 7.17 metres together in their semi-final but 100m third but was disqualified for step- Bahrain 1 1 0 2 sweep on Wednesday. depth of 100m hurdles talent on the with her fifth jump to take gold, with silver medallist Justin Gatlin missed ping out of his lane. The bronze Slovakia 1 1 0 2 Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi US team, with world record holder defending champion Reese leaving it out. Bolt clocked 19.78 seconds with went instead to France’s Mahiedine Vietnam 1 1 0 2 Castlin completed an unprecedented Kendra Harrison and 2008 Olym- even later with a last-attempt 7.15 to De Grasse claiming a Canadian Mekhissi-Benabbad. Taiwan 1 0 2 3 1-2-3 in the 100m hurdles - the first pic champion Dawn Harper failing snatch silver ahead of Serbia’s Ivana record 19.80. Hot favourite Caster Semenya IOC 1 0 1 2 gold on the track at the Rio Games to make the cut, but to take all three Spanovic. “He was supposed to slow down,” qualified for the 800m semi- Bahamas 1 0 0 1 for the United States. medals was more than they could Darya Klishina, Russia’s one- said Bolt, who chastised himself for finals with ease and was Fiji 1 0 0 1 The United States also took gold have hoped for. Rollins was the clear woman athletics team, finished being lazy. “I said ‘What are you immediately plunged into a new gen- 1 0 0 1 and silver in a fantastic long jump winner in 12.48 though Castlin had a ninth. doing, it’s a semi-final?’ But I think der controversy over her reported Puerto Rico 1 0 0 1 he wanted to push me.” hyperandrogeny. Frenchwoman Jus- Kosovo 1 0 0 1 Gatlin, who said he was ham- tine Fedronic, who failed to advance Azerbaijan 0 3 4 7 pered by an ankle injury, looked from the heats, said that while she Malaysia 0 2 1 3 well placed before easing up and had sympathy for her rival’s situ- Turkey 0 2 1 3 being overhauled by Dutchman ation, her high testosterone levels Ireland 0 2 0 2 Churandy Martina and Panama’s meant it was not a fair fight. Lithuania 0 1 2 3 Alonso Edward. “When you line up against some- Mongolia 0 1 1 2 While Bolt remains on course one like that, you know it’s going to Philippines 0 1 0 1 Algeria 0 1 0 1 for a triple-triple, Briton Mo Farah be a completely different ball game,” Grenada 0 1 0 1 is ready to have a tilt at the distance Fedronic said. Venezuela 0 1 0 1 double-double, though he had a scare “I do feel for her. She is just try- Qatar 0 1 0 1 when stumbling 200 metres from the ing to train and compete just like the Norway 0 0 3 3 end of his 5,000m semi-final. rest of us so that is really not fair to Egypt 0 0 2 2 Farah recovered from a fall to her. But it is not fair for others too. Tunisia 0 0 2 2 win the 10,000 earlier this week. So I don’t know what the solution is.” Israel 0 0 2 2 His main rivals from East African Olympic and world decathlon UAE 0 0 1 1 countires also made it through to champion Ashton Eaton surged into Estonia 0 0 1 1 Saturday’s final. the lead on the first day of the com- Kyrgyzstan 0 0 1 1 Kenya’s iron grip on the men’s petition in Rio. The world record Moldova 0 0 1 1 3,000m steeplechase continued as holder opened up a cushion with a USA’s Brittney Reese competes Austria 0 0 1 1 21-year-old Conseslus Kipruto tri- 7.94m long jump and streched it with in the Women’s Long Jump Final Portugal 0 0 1 1 umphed in an Olympic record eight a 46-second 400m. Morocco 0 0 1 1 during the athletics event at the minutes 3.28 seconds. The East Afri- Germany’s Kai Kazmirek and Bulgaria 0 0 1 1 Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the can nation has won every edition of Damian Warner of Canada, who India 0 0 1 1 Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. the race since 1968 bar the two it posted an Olympic decathlon 100m Finland 0 0 1 1 missed due to political boycotts in best of 10.30, lead the chasing pack. D Republic 0 0 1 1 Five things on Brazil vs Germany football final

AFP First gold the semi-final after suffering two bro- Brazil’s Neymar celebrates Despite winning a record five ken bones in his back during a brutal after scoring a penalty against World Cups Brazil have never won quarter-final clash with Colombia, Honduras during their Rio RIO DE JANEIRO: Five things to watch Olympic gold. whilst Ginter was an unused substitute. 2016 Olympic Games men’s out for in the men’s football gold medal They fell just short in London four football semi-final match at match between Brazil and Germany years ago, losing 2-1 to Mexico in the Best defence v best attack the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro, tomorrow: final to add to two other silver and two A 2-0 semi-final win over Nigeria Brazil, on Wednesday. more bronze medals. took free-scoring Germany’s impres- Revenge and redemption Four-time world champions Ger- sive tally for the tournament to 22 goals Just two years after the heaviest many have also never struck gold as a in just five matches. They also boast the and most humiliating defeat in Bra- united nation. East Germany won gold two top scorers in the competition with zil’s history when Germany won their in 1976, while the old West Germany’s Serge Gnabry and Nils Petersen both World Cup semi-final 7-1 in Belo Hori- best effort came with bronze in 1988. on six. Brazil have struck 12 times in zonte, the sides meet again on Brazilian their last three games having been held soil. Brazil’s most painful loss until 2014 Old rivals, new faces scoreless in their opening two matches. had been a 2-1 defeat to Uruguay at Whilst the spectre of Germany’s 7-1 However, the hosts have yet to concede Rio’s Maracana -- where the final will win two years ago will hang over the a goal at Rio 2016. be held -- in front of a world record final, not one player who took to the 173,850 attendance at the 1950 World field in Belo Horizonte will take part Brazil enjoy head-to-head lead Cup final. in Saturday’s showpiece. Despite the 2014 semi-final, Brazil Germany have happier memories Brazil’s star forward Neymar and still enjoy a favourable head-to-head of the Maracana as they followed up Borussia Dortmund’s Matthias Ginter record with Germany, winning 12 and their semi-final win by beating Lionel are the only two players who were in losing just five of their 22 meetings. The Messi’s Argentina to win the World Cup their respective nations’ World Cup most famous Brazil win coming in the there two years ago. 2014 squads. Neymar missed out on 2002 World Cup final. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 22 PAGE | 23 Barcelona set to Jamaican power on defend title as La show as Thompsonon Liga keeps top talent completes doublee

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Barshim celebrates Qatar’s first ever silver medal Clement powers to 400m hurdles gold medal

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RIO DE JANEIRO: Kerron Clem- ent of the United States stormed to victory in the men’s 400m hurdles yesterday, holding off a furious late challenge from Kenya’s Bon- iface Tumuti to take gold. Clement powered over in a world leading time of 47.73sec, just ahead of Tumuti in 47.78. Turkey’s Cuban-born Yasm- ani Copello claimed bronze in 47.92sec. Ireland’s Thomas Barr narrowly missed out on a podium finish, just behind Copello in 47.97sec. The win comes eight years after the Trinidad-born Clement won a silver medal in the 2008 Beijing Games and a gold medal in the 4x400 relay. Injuries disrupted his career Historic sight for sports in Qatar as superstar Mutaz Essa Barshim celebrates first ever silver medal for Qatar in Olympic history. RIGHT: Canada’s Derek Drouin (centre) and in the intervening period and he Ukraine’s Bohdan Bondarenko (right) pose with Barshim during the podium ceremony for the men’s high jump at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio finished outside the medals at the de Janeiro on Wednesday. Barsham successfully cleared 2.36m to finish behind Drouin. London Olympics four years ago as he struggled to regain his peak. Team Jamaica keeps Rio Showjumping: Qatari trio advances to individual finals

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Jevaughn Minzie, RIO DE JANEIRO/DOHA: After Mutaz Barshim secured first ever sil- Asafa Powell, Nickel ver medal for the country, Qatar’s Ashmeade and Kemar equestrian showjumping team kept hopes alive of another medal by Bailey-Cole enter reaching the finals in Rio de Janeiro 4x100m final as the on Wednesday. superstar seeks ‘triple The trio of Sheikh Ali bin Khalid Al Thani, Ali Al Rumaihi and Hassan triple’ at Games Bassem continued their march in the indivual equestrian showjumping contest and cleared the third round to advance to the finals. The final of the event will be AFP played today. Meanwhile, Qatar’s hopes for a handball medal were dashed when they fell to Germany in the quar- RIO DE JANEIRO: Jamaica kept ter-finals on Wednesday. Germany Usain Bolt’s quest for his “triple cruised past Qatar 34-22. They will triple” gold medal haul on track yes- face world and Olympic champions Qatar’s Hassan Bassem in action during the third round of equestrian terday by qualifying for the final of France in semis today. showjumping at Rio Olympics on Wednesday. the 4x100m relay. The quartet of Jevaughn Min- FROM LEFT: Sven Knipphals of Germany, his team-mate Robert Hering, zie, Asafa Powell, Nickel Ashmeade Asafa Powell of Jamaica and his team-mate Nickel Ashmeade compete and Kemar Bailey-Cole timed 37.94 during the 4x100m relay final. seconds in finishing second behind US to protest after 4x100 relay drama Japan, who won in an Asian record of 37.68sec. first time running with these two win three gold medals in the men’s “I love this sport and I love to young guys,” he said in reference 4x100m relay. Bolt, who won the AFP Replays of the exchange quartet in 42.18sec ahead of Nigeria, run and compete and run fast,” to Minzie and Bailey-Cole. Japan’s 100m on Sunday for an unprece- appeared to show Brazilian third leg Trinidad and Tobago, and Brazil. said 33-year-old veteran Powell, a anchor leg Aska Cambridge said: dented third successive time, will runner Kauiza Venancio bump into In the other semi-final, Jamaica member of the Jamaica team that “The guys brought me the baton in run in the 200m final. Felix as she prepared to hand off to stormed to victory in 41.79sec. won relay golds in the 2008 Beijing a great position and I just took us Should he win that, the relay RIO DE JANEIRO: The United Gardner.The contact threw Felix off The Jamaican women -- includ- Olympics and 2009 and 2015 world home really. would hand the Jamaican the chance States are to seek reinstatement to balance, dropping the baton as she ing heavyweight veterans Veronica championships. “It felt great to be clear at the to join Finland’s Paavo Nurmi and the women’s 4x100m relay after a attempted to pass it off. Campbell-Brown and Shelly-Ann “I was lot more concerned front on a stage like the Olympics. It’s American Carl Lewis on a record dropped baton drama at the Olym- “I think I got propelled at about Fraser-Pryce – were pushed all about the start and getting the always been a dream to race against nine Olympic gold medals. pics yesterday. 20 miles an hour. When a foreign the way by Britain, who finished in baton around. These guys are pretty Bolt so we’ll go in and try to hit as Jamaica will face a stiff challenge The defending champions tum- object comes in front of you, it’s 41.93sec. excited, they wanted it so that’s what hard as we can.” from the Americans. USA failed to bled out in their opening heat after going to mess up the momentum Jamaica’s newly-crowned 100m gave me a bit of comfort. Bolt, rested for the qualifier, can finish in 2008 and was stripped of a bungled second baton changeover and the handover,” Felix said after and 200m champion Elaine Thomp- “But there was some pres- join American Frank Wykoff (1928, its 2012 silver after Gay’s positive between Allyson Felix and English the race. son sat out the heat but will return sure on making it to the finals, the 1932, 1936) as the only athlete to drugs test. Gardner. The heat was won by Germany’s for the final.