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FM visits Somalia 73-year-old Suicide attack citizen tests positive kills 21 at for MERS DOHA: A 73-year-old Qatari citizen has tested positive Saudi mosque for the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) virus, public health authorities announced yesterday. Islamic State claims targeting Shias Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) reference laboratories DUBAI: A suicide bomber killed important ally for Western coun- have confirmed that the man is 21 worshippers in a packed tries battling Islamic State. suffering from the respiratory Shia mosque in eastern Saudi In November, the Sunni group’s infection. Arabia yesterday, residents leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi This is the fourth case of and the health minister said, called for attacks against the MERS-CoV (coronavirus) to the first attack in the kingdom Sunni rulers of Saudi Arabia, be confirmed in the country to be claimed by Islamic State which has declared Islamic State this year, the Supreme Council militants. a terrorist organisation, joined of Health (SCH) said in a More than 150 people were international air strikes against statement. praying when the huge explosion it, and mobilised top clergy to The third case, which involved ripped through the Imam Ali denounce it. an expatriate camel farm worker, mosque in the village of Al Qadeeh, Last week Baghdadi issued was confirmed recently, taking witnesses said. another speech laden with derog- the total number of MERS cases A video posted online showed atory comments about the Saudi in Qatar to 14 so far. a hall filled with smoke and dust, leadership and the country’s Shia Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah met Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud in The last case in which a with bloodied people moaning in minority. Mogadishu yesterday. The two discussed relations between Qatar and Somalia and issues of common interest. Qatari national was involved pain as they lay on the floor lit- Yesterday’s bombing was the was reported in March. He was tered with concrete and glass. first attack targeting minority 69 years old. Eighty-one people were wounded, Shias since November, when gun- After the latest case was con- the Saudi health ministry said, men opened fire during a religious firmed, a rapid response team including 12 in critical condition. celebration in Al Ahsa, also in the from the Health Protection and “We were doing the first part east where most of the group live Iranian aid ship docks in Djibouti Communicable Diseases Control of the prayers when we heard the in predominantly Sunni Muslim Department at the SCH pre- blast,” worshipper Kamal Jaafar Saudi Arabia. LONDON: An Iranian aid ship allow an international inspection to WFP-chartered vessels for pared a list of all those who could Hassan said by phone from the The Saudi Interior Ministry docked yesterday in Djibouti, of the vessel, the Iran Shahed, shipment to the Yemeni ports of have come in contact with the scene. described the attack as an act of where its cargo will be inspected averting a potential showdown Hodaida and/or (the southern port patient, as per the World Health Islamic State said in a state- terrorism and said it was carried by the United Nations before with Saudi-led forces who are city of) Aden,” WFP spokeswoman Organization’s guidelines, the ment that one of its suicide bomb- out by “agents of sedition trying being moved to conflict-torn enforcing searches of ships enter- Abeer Etefa said. SCH said. ers, identified as Abu ‘Ammar Al to target the kingdom’s national Yemen, Iran’s semi-official Fars ing Yemeni ports to stop arms Etefa said the WFP had been All the traced contacts will Najdi, carried out the attack using fabric”, according to a statement news agency reported. reaching Houthi rebels. told the 2,500 tonne cargo included be monitored over the next two an explosives-laden belt that killed carried by state news agency SPA. In Yemen, meanwhile, war- Tehran has rejected Saudi supplies of rice, flour, canned weeks, and those who develop or wounded 250 people, US-based The agency quoted an Interior planes from the Saudi-led coalition accusations it is arming Houthi fish, medicine, water, tents and respiratory symptoms will be monitoring group SITE said on Ministry spokesman as saying the pounded Shia rebels across three fighters. blankets. screened. its Twitter account. It said it bomber detonated a suicide belt Yemeni cities, as Riyadh reported The ship had originally been Huge explosions rocked the In the meantime, a joint team would not rest until Shias, which hidden under his clothes inside the the death of a Saudi child from bound for the Yemen’s Red Sea outskirts of the Yemeni capi- from the SCH and the Animal the group views as heretics, were mosque. cross-border fire. port of Hodaida, which is con- tal, Sana’a, after yesterday’s air Resources Department at the driven from the Arabian peninsula. “Security authorities will spare “The ship docked a few minutes trolled by the Houthis, but its aid strikes. There were also raids on Ministry of Environment is car- Saudi officials have said the no effort in the pursuit of all those ago in Djibouti,” Fars said. “The cargo will now be delivered by the second city Aden in the south and rying out a field investigation. group is trying hard to attack the involved in this terrorist crime,” ship entered Djibouti waters yes- World Food Programme, the UN Marib province east of the capital. The SCH said that people kingdom, which as the world’s the official said in a statement car- terday and after inspection by the agency said yesterday. In all, 10 rebel and allied targets with any questions or symptoms top oil exporter, birthplace of ried by state news agency SPA. international organisation will “The cargo of the ship will were hit in and around Sana’a. related to MERS can contact Islam and champion of conserva- REUTERS head towards Yemen.” be handed over to WFP in AGENCIES hotlines 66740948 or 66740951. tive Sunni doctrine, represents an See also page 5 Tehran agreed this week to Djibouti and will be transferred See also page 5 THE PENINSULA

High spirits Clinton emails Netherlands to ban released to public WASHINGTON: Hundreds of e m a i l s b y fo r m e r t o p US d i p l o m a t face veil in public Hillary Clinton were released by the State Department yester- AMSTERDAM: The Dutch right to dress how they choose, day, seeking to quell a lingering government yesterday agreed to no matter what others think. political row about a deadly 2012 introduce a partial ban on the That freedom is only limited in attack on a US mission in Libya. wearing of the full-face veil in situations when it is essential for Clinton has come under public places, the Home Affairs people to look at each other,” the fire from Republicans for the Ministry said in a statement. statement said. Department’s handling of a mili- The proposed ban, which must Anti-Islam opposition politician tant attack on the US mission be approved by parliament before Geert Wilders, whose far right in Benghazi in eastern Libya on it can become law, would apply to policies have won him widespread September 11, 2012 amid allega- all face-covering clothing, includ- support among Dutch voters, has tions of a cover-up of the facts. ing ski-masks and helmets, on long sought a ban on face veils “I’m glad the emails are start- public transport and in schools, and burqas. Wilders told Dutch ing to come out. This is something hospitals and government offices. television yesterday the proposed that I’ve asked to be done as you The measure “had nothing to measure was “weak”. know for a long time,” Clinton do with religion,” Prime Minister Only a few hundred women in said in New Hampshire. And she Mark Rutte told journalists in The the Netherlands veil themselves insisted she had released all emails Hague after the proposed meas- completely, but Rutte said such that had any “government rela- ure was passed by the cabinet. laws were needed to “enforce val- tionship.” AFP “In a free country like the ues” of Dutch society. See also page 9 Graduates toss their caps in the air at the conclusion of the commencement ceremony for the US Naval Netherlands, everyone has the REUTERS Academy Class of 2015 in Annapolis, Maryland, yesterday. New law forces big French supermarkets to donate unsold food

PARIS: French supermarkets will be As MPs united in a rare cross-party or face penalties, including fines of up to night to feed themselves, able to sur- halve the amount of food waste in France banned from throwing away or destroy- consensus, the centre-right deputy Yves €75,000 or two years in jail. vive on edible products which had been by 2025. According to official estimates, ing unsold food and must instead donate Jégo told parliament: “There’s an absolute “It’s scandalous to see bleach being thrown out just as their best-before dates the average French person throws out it to charities or for animal feed, under urgency – charities are desperate for food. poured into supermarket dustbins along approached. 20kg-30kg of food a year – 7kg of which a law set to crack down on food waste. The most moving part of this law is that it with edible foods,” said the Socialist dep- But some supermarkets doused binned is still in its wrapping. The combined The French national assembly voted opens us up to others who are suffering.” uty Guillaume Garot, a former food min- food in bleach to prevent potential food- national cost of this is up to €20bn. unanimously to pass the legislation as Supermarkets will be barred from ister who proposed the bill. poisoning by eating food from bins. Other Of the 7.1 million tonnes of food wasted France battles an epidemic of wasted food deliberately spoiling unsold food so it can- In recent years, French media have supermarkets deliberately binned food in in France each year, 67 percent is binned that has highlighted the divide between not be eaten. Those with a footprint of 400 highlighted how poor families, students, locked warehouses for collection by refuse by consumers, 15 percent by restaurants giant food firms and people who are strug- square metres or more will have to sign unemployed or homeless people often trucks to stop scavengers. and 11 percent by shops. gling to eat. contracts with charities by July next year stealthily forage in supermarket bins at The measures are part of wider drive to THE GUARDIAN SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Leaders greet Yemen president Qatari lawyers attend training DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani DOHA: The Qatar International in advocacy, problem-solving and sent a cable of congratulations Court (QIC), the Ministry of negotiation,” he said. to Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Justice and BARBRI launched Twenty lawyers participated in Mansour Hadi on his country’s a collaboration to develop and the course. National Day. deliver professional legal train- Dr Al Sayed said the course will Deputy Emir H H Sheikh ing in the country. introduce litigation procedures Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani The first programme was through classroom exercises, sent a similar cable to Hadi. held in the court from May 17 to mock trials and role plays. Prime Minister and Interior 21. It was opened by Justice Dr He said BARBRI is an estab- Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah Hassan Al Sayed, Faisal Rashid lished institution providing pro- bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani Al Sahouti, CEO, QIC, Maryam fessional legal training for over also sent a congratulatory cable Yousif Arab, Manager, Legal and 40 years and focuses on qualifying to the president. Judicial Studies Centre of the young lawyers to enter the legal ministry, and Sarah Hutchinson, profession. Around 80 percent Qatar slams Saudi Managing Director, BARBRI. of US attorneys are BARBRI The programme ‘Litigating in alumni. terror attack Qatar International Court’ ena- Maryam Yousif said the centre bled lawyers to litigate in the civil is honoured to open the door of DOHA: Qatar yesterday con- and commercial court with world- cooperation with QIC to enable demned a terrorist attack class skills. Qatari lawyers to appear in the on people performing Friday Dr Al Sayed said QIC is doing court. Knowing procedural rules prayers in a mosque in Qatif everything it can to enable of the court will enable Qatari Governorate in Saudi Arabia, young lawyers to get to the level lawyers to carry out professional Officials at the launch of the programme. which led to a number of deaths. required to appear in the court. responsibilities easily, she said, The Foreign Ministry said in “We are happy about conduct- adding the centre is looking for- out of international academics. committed to enhancing Qatari which has enabled us to make the statement that Qatar was fully ing this course in collaboration ward through the experience of Hutchinson said: “As a glo- lawyers’ professional skills. We course happen.” behind Saudi Arabia as it fights with the centre to train lawyers these courses to gaining the most bal legal educator, BARBRI is are grateful for QIC’s support THE PENINSULA off criminal efforts aiming to destabilise the country and spread discord between people. It also stressed Qatar’s stance which rejects violence and terror- ism in all its forms and expressed Qatar’s condolences to victims’ HMC hosts clinical abdominal MRI course families. DOHA: Hamad Medical help clinical imaging profession- Department in providing more Qatar backs fight Corporation (HMC), in col- als provide the best possible education and training opportu- laboration with Harvard patient care, improving the over- nities for HMC radiologists. against crime University’s Massachusetts all health of Qatar’s population Dr Amal Al Rashid, Fellow, General Hospital, US, and through state-of-the-art medical Clinical Imaging Department, VIENNA: Qatar will con- University of Toronto, Canada, imaging services and innovative and Course Coordinator, said tinue to exert effort to help the hosted the first Qatar Clinical solutions. international experts in clini- international community fight Abdominal MRI Course 2015. “The course included three cal imaging delivered insight- organised crime and elevate Over 200 local and regional key components: Short didactic ful lectures, including Dr values of justice, equality and clinical imaging professionals, lectures covering current topics Mukesh Harisinghani, Director, the rule of law. including radiologists, technolo- on MRI applications linked to Abdominal MRI, and Professor This came in a statement gists and allied health profes- diseases; comprehensive imag- of Radiology, Massachusetts by Ahmad Hassan Al Hamadi, sionals, attended the four-day ing pointers; and case-based General Hospital and Harvard Manager, Department of Legal training. discussions. Medical School, Boston, US, and Affairs, the Foreign Ministry, The intensive course focused “These aimed to encour- Dr Jhaveri Kartik, Director, at the 24th session of the on abdominal and pelvic MRI Dr Adham Darweesh and Dr Mukesh Harisinghani address the event. age audience participation and Continuing Medical Education Commission on Crime Prevention (magnetic resonance imaging), discuss possible approaches to and Associate Professor, and Criminal Justice. including image interpretation, gynaecological disorders. to date with latest international clinical cases. Hands-on training Department of Medical Imaging, He said the Doha Declaration modern MRI techniques and Dr Adham Darweesh, Course standards in clinical MRI prac- sessions facilitated discussions University of Toronto. lays out a roadmap for the next updated MRI applications for Director, Senior Consultant and tice for body imaging and provid- on the actual performance of the Representatives from Primary five years, with the framework hepatobiliary diseases (associ- Head of Body Imaging Section, ing educational opportunities for MRI exam,” Dr Darweesh said. Health Care Corporation, the and steps for governments to ated with the liver and gallblad- Hamad General Hospital, local healthcare professionals in He highlighted the importance private healthcare sector and implement on national, regional der, bile ducts or bile), pancreatic stressed the importance of the the field. of HMC’s support for medi- GCC medical centres also and international levels to pre- diseases, gastro-intestinal, kid- course in assisting the Clinical He said learning opportuni- cal education and research and attended the course. vent crime and achieve criminal ney, prostate, adrenal as well as Imaging Department to keep up ties provided by the course would the role of the Clinical Imaging THE PENINSULA justice. QNA SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 GU-Q workshops Minister attends economic forum in Jordan DOHA: Minister of Economy to focus on food and Commerce H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed Al Thani attended World Economic Forum on the waste, environment Middle East and North Africa in Jordan yesterday. DOHA: As part of the research The event was held under project ‘Safeguarding Food and the theme ‘Creating a Regional Environment in Qatar’, the Framework for Prosperity and research team from Georgetown Peace through Public-Private University in Qatar (GU-Q) will Cooperation.” organise two workshops with On the sidelines, the Minister local stakeholders. met Klaus Schwab, Founder At the supplier workshop dis- and Executive Chairman of the tribution companies and super- forum, and discussed cooperation markets will come together with and Qatar’s projects and initia- public officials and NGOs to dis- tives. He also met Rafiah Ibrahim, cuss supply-related aspects of President and Head, Middle food waste. East & East Africa, Ericsson, The second workshop will be and Abdulla Nasser Lootah, for restaurants, hotels and con- Secretary-General, Emirates sumers to discuss the consumer- from a local farm until it reaches Competitiveness Council, who side of the food waste problem. the consumer. briefed him on their expertise in GU-Q, with Cranfield and “We have learnt that many developing business environment. Brunel Universities, UK, and products are destroyed because Sheikh Ahmed also met a University of Western Sydney, is they expire before reaching con- group of Qatari youth taking part the recipient of a research award sumers. In this research we aim in Global Shapers initiative and from Qatar National Research to create a clearer picture of the stressed the ministry’s interest in Fund to explore the issue of waste situation and develop policies to having Qatari youth participate in food distribution in Qatar. The reduce waste in transportation in economic initiatives and deci- Minister of Economy and Commerce H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed Al Thani (second right) with three-year project combines anal- and storage stages.” sions that support development other delegates at World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa in Amman yesterday. ysis of food supply and demand An associate from Al Sulaiteen efforts. QNA with an examination of causes Agricultural and Industrial of food waste in distribution and Complex has reported that changing trends in consumption consumers mainly buy food in resulting in waste. bulk and some food bought in It seeks to support efforts large boxes is wasted due to to implement Qatar National over-purchasing. Vision 2030, focusing on long- “Food waste at the consumer Aspire’s skateboarding and term sustainability of the food level has the highest cost to supply chain, including its green the environment, as food items aspects, and their interconnection at that stage have been grown, with the population’s health and processed, transported, stored Qatar’s environmental and eco- and sold before ending up in the nomic development. trash,” said Prof. Topaloglu. BMXing contest ends today Zeynep Topaloglu (pictured), Stakeholders can register for Assistant Professor of Economics, the workshops on 4457 8579. The GU-Q, and Co-Lead Principal workshop for suppliers will be Investigator for the project, said tomorrow from 9.30am to 1pm preliminary studies on food waste and the other on Monday from during distribution show that 14 9.30am to 1pm at Georgetown percent of food is wasted between University campus in Education its arrival in Qatar or departure City. THE PENINSULA

Silatech, Microcred Tunisia launch new loans Farhan Al Sayed, Founder and Patron, QES. for startup businesses DOHA: Nearly 100 people are taking part in the second edi- DOHA: Microcred Tunisia world. In Tunisia, it is 31 percent. tion of Skateboarding and has launched ‘Irada’, a new According to World Bank, BMXing competition which end loan product for young startup youth in the Middle East and today at Aspire Zone. entrepreneurs, in partnership North Africa region have the The three-day event is organ- with regional social initiative world’s lowest levels of financial ised by Aspire Zone and Qatar Silatech. access, meaning would-be entre- Extreme Sports (QES) in cel- Irada is expected to finance preneurs are frequently pre- ebration of ‘Go-Skateboarding around 450 businesses over three vented from starting businesses. Day’, the world’s largest annual years. It is estimated that there is a gathering for the skateboarding In addition to expertise in financing gap for micro-, small- community. One of the participants in action during the BMX Skateboarding competition at Aspire yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP designing, Irada Silatech is pro- and medium enterprises of about The competition between viding loan capital and training $320bn-380bn. Torch Doha and Khalifa Stadium to help Microcred loan officers Mohammed Al Naimi, CEO, brings together skateboarding we are using temporary skate and moves. fitness-centred lifestyles in the support and coach young entre- Silatech, said: “Tunisia is in professionals and aficionados. parks during competitions like Today’s event will see BMXers local community. preneurs during the pre- and focus of Silatech and the part- “The competition is a great this,” he said. pitted against each other to “We have made great strides post-financing phases. nership with Microcred repre- one with a big number of visitors As QES members and extreme demonstrate BMXing skills and in identifying and bringing to Irada is supported by European sents an innovative response to coming to watch it and there sports enthusiasts are spread talents. Qatar activities, programmes Union, AFD, UN’s International the youth unemployment crisis is a lot of support from spon- across the country, QES holds Open for experts and enthusi- and events that would support Fund for Agricultural in the region. “Irada will play a sors,” Farhan Al Sayed, Founder activities at various locations to asts, the competition is engaging our community in leading a sus- Development, Making Cents key role in turning jobseekers into and Patron, QES, told this daily take the sport to people and make the community to not only watch, tainable and active lifestyle and International and Planet Finance. business owners, creating jobs for yesterday. it more popular among the youth but also take part in an intense, integrating healthy habits into it. It is a new group of loan prod- other youth as they grow their QES’ goal is to raise awareness as well, he added. adrenaline-filled three-day cel- “We are happy to reap benefits ucts for entrepreneurs Silatech is businesses and contribute to the among Qatari youth about skate- “We are also active in social ebration of the art and sport of of these efforts as the commu- helping microfinance institutions country’s economic development.” boarding, rollerblading and BMX media. We have a Facebook page skateboarding and BMX. nity continues to engage and take in the region to bring to the mar- According to Bodo Lieberam, and the event is gaining popular people can visit,” he said. The competition falls under part in these initiatives. We’re on ket this year. CEO, Microcred Tunisia, the first in the country, he added. The first two days of the com- a growing list of world-class the right track for a healthier Youth unemployment in the disbursement of the Irada loan “Hopefully we will have skate petition saw professionals show- activities and events Aspire future,” said Abdulla Al Khater, Arab world stands at 30 percent, has taken place this week. parks in popular venues such as casing and performing their best Zone has been organizing to pro- Events Manager, Aspire Zone. the highest in any region in the THE PENINSULA Aspire Zone and Katara because and latest skateboarding tricks mote sustainable, healthy and THE PENINSULA

Blood donation campaign held QRC celebrates Red Cross and Red Crescent Day

DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent Traffic Police from the Ministry workers, students, women and (QRC) marked World Red of Interior, Management of children benefited. Cross and Red Crescent Day Awareness and Environmental Najat Al Haidous, Head, QRC over 10 days under the theme Education from the Ministry of Volunteers, said, “This work by ‘Our Principles in Action’ in Environment, General Cleanness volunteers aimed to encourage tandem with 188 national soci- Department from the Ministry members of society improve eties around the world. of Municipality (Baladiya), Al their behaviour, cherish our tra- The day is commemorated Quds Model Independent School ditions when dealing with the in May, under the umbrella of for Boys and Al Maiz Restaurant. environment and public places, International Federation of Red Activities including plant- not to spit or throw waste any- Cross and Red Crescent and ing of trees in Al Quds School where, highlight the importance International Committee of the in participation with students, of keeping parks clean and edu- Red Cross. clean-up of Sheraton Park, cate motorists on traffic rules Thirty QRC volunteers held Montaza Park and Souq Waqif and safety. charitable and voluntary events Park as well as parts of Souq Al He said QRC volunteers for individuals, families, visitors Asiri and Baraht Al Jufairi and showed willingness to continue The Spanish Business Council (SBC) organised a blood donation campaign at the Spanish embassy. Ambassador to public places and parks and campaigns on road cleanliness the campaign throughout the Ignacio Escobar, Francisco Garrote, Chairman, SBC, and Nicolas Cedro, Executive Assistant Manager, Melia schoolchildren. Government in cooperation with traffic offic- year and whenever necessary, Hotel, were present. In collaboration with the new Spanish restaurant, Aceite, the hotel provided snacks for and non-governmental insti- ers, and advising motorists at as part of QRC’s sustainable donors. tutions took part, includ- Landmark Mall. approach to its social and aware- ing Community Policing and More than 2,000 motorists, ness programmes. QNA SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Capture of Palmyra threat IS cements grip on Iraq-Syria border to key site: Arab League 55,000 have fled IS-captured Ramadi since mid-May: UN DAMASCUS: The Islamic ruins “the birthplace of human CAIRO: The Arab League State (IS) group consolidated civilisation”, adding: “It belongs to yesterday condemned the its control of the Iraq-Syria bor- the whole of humanity and I think Islamic State group’s capture der yesterday after capturing everyone today should be worried of Palmyra, saying the Syrian an Iraqi provincial capital and about what is happening.” city’s seizure posed an “eminent a famed Syrian heritage site in In Palmyra, at a strategic cross- threat” to the international an offensive that has forced a roads between Damascus and the heritage site. review of US strategy. Iraqi border to the east, IS exe- “Daesh’s capture of this his- The jihadists, who now control cuted at least 17 suspected loyal- toric city is an eminent threat to roughly half of Syria, reinforced ists of the Damascus government one of the most important her- their self-declared transfrontier Thursday, the Syrian Observatory itage sites in the world,” Arab “caliphate” by seizing Syria’s Al for Human Rights said. League chief Nabil Al Arabi said Tanaf crossing on the Damascus- IS proclaimed Palmyra’s cap- in a statement, referring to IS by Baghdad highway late Thursday. ture online and posted video and its Arabic acronym. It was the last regime-held bor- footage of its fighters in the city’s Arabi’s remarks came after der crossing with Iraq. Except for air base, but not of the UNESCO UN cultural agency chief Irina a short section of frontier in the world heritage site’s colonnaded Bokova on Thursday called the north under Kurdish control, all streets, elaborately decorated ancient metropolis “the birth- the rest are now held by IS. tombs and temples. place of human civilisation”. The jihadist surge, which has Syria’s antiquities director “It belongs to the whole of also seen it take Anbar capital Mamoun Abdulkarim urged the humanity and I think everyone Ramadi and the ancient Syrian world to “mobilise” to save the today should be worried about city of Palmyra in the past week, treasures. what is happening,” the Unesco comes despite eight months of Also on Thursday, a Syrian chief said. IS fighters spread out US-led air strikes. priest and his colleague were kid- on Thursday through Palmyra, It has sparked an exodus of tens napped from a monastery between including at the archaeological of thousands of civilians in both Homs and Palmyra, the French site in the city’s southwest. countries and raised fears IS will NGO L’Oeuvre d’Orient said. The jihadists have become noto- repeat at Palmyra the destruction Father Jacques Mourad was Iraqi families, who fled the city of Ramadi after it was seized by Islamic State (IS) group militants, wait to cross rious for demolishing archaeologi- it has already wreaked at ancient preparing aid for an influx of Bzeibez bridge, on the southwestern frontier of Baghdad yesterday. cal treasures since declaring a sites in Iraq’s Nimrud and Mosul. refugees from Palmyra and was “caliphate” last year straddling The United Nations said Friday known to help both Christians the capital and third city Homs. people had fled Ramadi since a some 128,000 people had fled the Iraq and Syria. IS sparked inter- at least 55,000 people had fled and Muslims. Matthew Henman, head of IHS surge by the Islamic State group restive Ramadi district since the national outrage this year when it Ramadi alone since mid-May. IS now controls “more than Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency in mid-May that landed the Iraqi beginning of April. blew up the ancient Assyrian city President Barack Obama has 95,000 square kilometres (38,000 Centre, said the jihadist advance provincial capital in the hands of “Then another 55,000 or so of Nimrud and smashed artefacts played down the IS advance as a square miles) in Syria, which is 50 “reinforces IS’s position as the militants. (have fled) since the second flare- in the Mosul museum, both in Iraq. tactical “setback” and denied the percent of the country’s territory,” single opposition group that con- The IS jihadists seized the Iraqi up of conflict earlier this month,” Known in Syria as “the pearl US-led coalition was “losing” to the Observatory said. trols the most territory in Syria”. city, the capital of Iraq’s largest he told reporters. of the desert”, Palmyra is home IS. But French President Francois Fabrice Balanche, a French According to the Observatory, province, Anbar, earlier this week, He said that around 90 percent to colonnaded alleys, elaborately Hollande said the world must act expert on Syria, said “IS now IS gains mean a mere 22 per- marking their most significant of those who had fled since the decorated tombs and ancient to stop the extremists. dominates central Syria, a cross- cent of Syria’s territory is still in victory since mid-2014. IS offensive began remained in Greco-Roman ruins. UNESCO chief Irina Bokova roads of primary importance” that regime hands. The United Nations Adrian Edwards, spokesman Anbar province. AFP called the 1st and 2nd Century could allow it to advance towards said yesterday that around 55,000 for the UN refugee agency, said AFP Only border Syria regime still controls is with Lebanon BEIRUT: Since extremists from the by Turkey since fierce clashes in 2014 fighting between IS and Kurdish fighters crossing with Iraq still controlled by gov- - Daboussiye, known by the Lebanese Islamic State group (IS) seized Syria’s between the army and Islamist rebels, before the latter forced the jihadists out ernment forces. Iraqis call it Al Walid. as Abbudiye. Al Tanaf crossing with Iraq, the who briefly overran the post. of the post and nearby town. - Jussiye, called Al Qaa by Lebanon. Syrian regime has effectively lost con- - Bab Al Hawa: Held by Islamist - Qamishli-Nassibin: The only regime- BORDER WITH JORDAN (2) - Tal Kalakh, called Bouqueiya in trol of all of its borders except those rebels, including Syria’s Al Qaeda branch controlled crossing in Hasakeh province, - Nasib: In the southern province of Lebanon. with Lebanon. Of Syria’s 19 border Al Nusra Front. In the northwestern but closed by Turkey on its side. Daraa. Was overrun by rebels in April - Tartus, or Al-Arida on the Lebanese posts with Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and province of Idlib. - Ain Diwar: In Hasakeh. Controlled 2015. It had been the last remaining side. Turkey, government forces now control - Bab Al Salama: In the town of Aazaz by Kurdish fighters. regime-held crossing with Jordan, which just seven — five with Lebanon, and in northern Aleppo province. Held by calls it Jaber. WITH ISRAEL two more, both closed, with Turkey. Islamist rebels. BORDER WITH IRAQ (3) - Former Daraa customs post: Al There are no official crossings between Four crossings are controlled by - Jarabulus: In Aleppo province. Held - Yarabiyah: In Hasakeh. Controlled Nusra Front and other Islamist fighters Syria and Israel, which are officially still Kurdish forces, four by IS, and another by IS. by Kurdish fighters. On the Iraqi side, seized the crossing, known as Al Ramtha at war, but the Quneitra border point is four by Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate or - Tal Abyad: Held by IS in northern the crossing is knows as Rabia. by the Jordanians, in October 2013. controlled by rebels. Israel has occupied rebels. Opposition fighters also control Raqa province, which is almost entirely - Albu Kamal: In the eastern province BORDER WITH LEBANON (5)- the Golan Heights since 1967. an unofficial border point with Israel. held by the group. of Deir Ezzor. Held by IS after it chased All five crossings, which lead into - Ain al-Arab: In Aleppo province. out Al-Nusra and other opposition fight- Homs and Damascus provinces in Syria, MARITIME BORDER BORDER WITH TURKEY (9) Controlled by Kurdish fighters. ers. Known as Al-Qaim on the Iraqi side. are controlled by government forces: All seaports are controlled by the - Kasab: in the western province of - Ras al-Ain: In the northeastern prov- - Al-Tanaf: South of Deir Ezzor. Seized - Jdaidet Yabus, known as Masnaa on regime. Latakia. Under regime control but closed ince of Hasakeh. Was the site of ferocious by IS on Thursday. It had been the only the Lebanese side. AFP

WEF regional meet Turkey arrests S Sudan battles creating 43 in new sweep against catastrophe, UN warns JUBA: South Sudanese govern- to capture. Its loss would be a Erdogan foes ment tanks backed by helicop- crippling blow to South Sudan’s ter gunships have pushed back already struggling economy. ISTANBUL: Turkey yester- rebels from a key oil town, state At least three heavily armoured day arrested 43 people in the television showed on Friday, as barges, equipped with anti-air- central city of Konya in new the UN condemned an “entirely craft guns, and used for trans- raids against suspected sup- man-made catastrophe.” porting troops along the Nile porters of President Recep Tanks are shown firing as a river, are seen on fire in the foot- Tayyip Erdogan’s arch foe, the helicopter gunship — believed age, as soldiers on the river bank US-based preacher Fethullah to belong to the Ugandan army rake it with gunfire and rockets. Gulen, reports said. which is fighting alongside gov- The government assault that Those arrested included former ernment troops — swoops over began in late April is one of police and education officials the burning town of Melut in the the heaviest offensives in the as well as the former rector of key northern oil state of Upper 17-month long civil war and has Konya’s Mevlana University, Nile. cut off over 650,000 people from Jordan’s King Abdullah II, his wife Queen Rania and the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Bahattin Adam, the state UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al aid, with gunmen raping, torching Forum (WEF), German Klaus Schwab listen to speeches on the opening day of the WEF on the Middle East Anatolia news agency reported. Hussein yesterday said people are towns and looting relief supplies, and North Africa 2015, in the Dead Sea resort of Shuneh, west of Amman yesterday. Arrest warrants had earlier “senselessly suffering through an according to the United Nations been issued for over 50 people, entirely man-made catastrophe,” and aid agencies. reports said. The detentions, which warning that warring forces have Rebels last week launched a come just two weeks ahead of leg- “managed to make a terrible situ- major counter-attack, includ- islative elections on June 7, are ation much, much worse.” ing an assault on Malakal, the Erdogan opens Turkey’s first just the latest against supporters Doctors Without Borders state capital of Upper Nile and of Gulen who are accused of trying (MSF) on Friday warned there the gateway to the country’s last to form a “parallel state” in a bid to was an “escalating and continued remaining major oil fields. oust Erdogan from power. use of violence against civilians” MSF has been forced to aban- island airport ahead of polls Gulen, a former ally of in the three battleground north- don its hospital in the town of ISTANBUL: Turkish President be neutral in the elections but 1.8-million-square metre area of Erdogan, has built up consider- ern and eastern states of Unity, Leer, in southern Unity State, Recep Tayyip Erdogan yester- appears to be playing an increas- sea to build the airport, it added. able influence over the last years Upper Nile and Jonglei. and pull back into UN bases in day opened a major new air- ingly active role on behalf of the The airport was originally in the judiciary and police, as well Fighting broke out in December Malakal and Melut. port on the Black Sea, touted ruling Justice and Development named Or-Gi after the first two as through interests in the educa- 2013 when South Sudan’s In Jonglei, an MSF team dis- as the first in Europe built on Party (AKP). letters of the Black Sea Ordu and tion and financial sectors. President Salva Kiir accused his covered the town of New Fangak a man-made island, the latest “When we came to office (in Giresun province which it serves. The authorities accuse Gulen of former deputy Riek Machar of “had effectively been destroyed, major infrastructure project 2002), there were 26 airports. However it was renamed as being behind stunning corruption attempting a coup, setting off a with trees and homes burnt to to be unveiled ahead of June 7 Now there are 54. People did not Ordu-Giresun Airport when the allegations against Erdogan and cycle of retaliatory killings across the ground and school buildings elections. even know what a high-speed realisation dawned that the name his circle that broke in December the country. flattened,” the mission’s chief Paul Erdogan attended the ceremo- train was,” Erdogan said in a tel- had an uncomfortable similarity 2013 and which the Turkish Footage from the recent bat- Critchley said. nial opening of Ordu-Giresun evised speech to thousands on the to the English word “orgy”. leader has vehemently denied. tle, filmed earlier this week, “The hospital, one of the main airport alongside Prime Minister tarmac. With the clock ticking down The suspects arrested Friday shows men with rocket-propelled health facilities in the north- Ahmet Davutoglu in a clear bid The official Anatolia news to the elections, Erdogan had will be questioned before it is grenades crowded onto pickup ern part of the state, had been to boost the ruling party in the agency said the new airport was on Thursday also inaugurated a decided whether to release them trucks, cheering as they fire heavy demolished.” looming legislative polls. the first such island facility out- new suspension bridge, Turkey’s or send them to court. Dozens machine guns fixed to the back. Amnesty International said The president, elected head of side Asia. third longest, over a dam on the of such raids have taken place Melut lies some 35km west of yesterday its researchers had state last year after over a dec- Around 35 million tons Euphrates River. against Gulen supporters since the main oil production base at documented extreme violence. ade as premier, should in theory of rocks were used to fill a AFP the summer of 2014. AFP Palouch, which rebels are trying AFP SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Jets pound Yemen rebels in three cities Two Saudis killed in Houthi rocket attacks

SANA’A: Warplanes from the Aden in the south and Marib Hadi also died in clashes. Hayef Al Saudi-led coalition pounded province east of the capital, resi- Bakri, a local militia official in the Shia rebels across three Yemeni dents said. “It was a morning of port city, urged the Saudi-led coa- cities yesterday, as Riyadh terror,” one resident of a south- lition to intervene on the ground reported the death of a Saudi ern suburb of Sana’a said after a in Aden “to save residents”. child from cross-border fire. wave of attacks on military bases He said that civilians in Aden The coalition has stepped up in the Dhabwa and Rimat Hamid were facing “abuses” at the hands its raids on positions held by the areas. of the rebels. Houthi Shia rebels and their allies In north Sana’a, coalition war- Cross border rocket attacks since a humanitarian ceasefire planes targeted a stadium and a launched from inside Yemen ended late Tuesday. camp of the Republican Guards have killed two people in south- The latest violence came as loyal to ousted president Ali ern Saudi Arabia over the last 24 the UN’s human rights agency Abdullah Saleh, who has sided hours, Saudi Arabia’s state news said that at least 1,037 civilians with the Houthis. In all, eight agency SPA reported. have been killed in Yemen since rebel and allied targets were hit SPA quoted a Civil Defence offi- the start of the air campaign on in and around Sanaa, including cial in the southwestern province March 26. Dalaimi air base near the inter- of Jizan as saying that a child was Spokeswoman Cecile Pouilly national airport, witnesses said. killed and three other children Damage is seen following a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen’s northwestern city of Saada yesterday. said 234 children and 134 women Residents said coalition raids were wounded on Friday in the were among the dead and that also struck Houthi positions in Al Tawal region. fighters entering a Saudi border diplomats say the group does not suspected al Qaeda militants were 2,453 others were wounded Marib. There were no immedi- A rocket attack on Thursday post after being fired on by Saudi appear to be under enough pres- killed by a drone strike on a car, over the past eight weeks in a ate tolls available for Sana’a and killed one citizen and wounded tanks and helicopters. sure to force it into making politi- while an air raid by Saudi-led war that has heavily damaged Marib. But in Aden, at least 16 two others in al Hosn village, the But a spokesman for the Saudi- cal concessions. planes trying to target Houthi infrastructure. Houthis and allied fighters were agency reported earlier. led coalition denied the report. Al Qaeda linked militants have fighters accidentally killed Huge explosions rocked the killed in raids and fighting yes- Al Masira TV channel, run by The campaign has yet to exploited disarray caused by the four fighters from the south- outskirts of the capital Sana’a terday, sources said, adding the Houthi’s Ansarullah group reverse the Houthis’ advance confrontation to extend their ern resistance movement in the after Friday’s air strikes. There that three militiamen who back broadcast footage earlier this into Aden and along battle- operations. Aden area, residents and local were also raids on second city President Abdrabuh Mansur week which it said showed Houthi fronts across Yemen’s south, and In southern Yemen three officials said. AGENCIES Saudi ‘responsible’ for mosque bombing: Hezbollah

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s powerful to protect” its Shiite citizens “The fight against terrorist and Shia Hezbollah movement said who have long complained of extremist groups... must be a pri- yesterday Sunni-ruled Saudi marginalisation. ority for all countries,” she said, Arabia was “totally responsible” Hezbollah also charged that the and called on Sunni-ruled Saudi for a suicide bombing at a Shia Saudi authorities “incited against Arabia to find and punish those mosque in the kingdom. them (Shias) from the minbars responsible for the attack. The Islamic State (IS) group (pulpits) of mosques and in the Saudi Arabia said a suicide said it was behind the attack media”. bomber detonated an explosives in the Shia-populated Eastern Saudi Arabia described the belt during the main weekly Province of Saudi Arabia that attack as a “terrorist” act aimed Friday prayers in a mosque in killed and wounded several peo- at undermining national unity. the city of Qatif, in the Shiite- ple during the main Friday weekly Regional power Iran also populated Eastern Province. prayers. denounced a suicide bombing at It did not give a specific casu- “Hezbollah holds Saudi authori- a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia alty toll but said several people ties totally responsible for this that killed and wounded several were killed and wounded. ugly crime,” the group said in people. Tensions between Sunni- a statement condemning the Official Irna news agency dominated Saudi Arabia and bombing. quoted foreign ministry spokes- Shiite Iran have soared following It accused the ultra-conserv- woman Marzieh Afkham as “vig- the launch in March of a Riyadh- People examine the debris after a suicide bomb attack at the Imam Ali mosque in the village of Al Qadeeh in the ative Sunni-majority kingdom of orously condemning” the attack, led air campaign against Shia eastern province of Qatif in Saudi Arabia yesterday. Twenty-one worshippers were killed in the attack claimed by “sponsoring and backing crimi- which has been claimed by the Houthi rebels in Yemen. the Islamic State militant group. nal murderers” and of “failing Islamic State jihadist group. AFP

Tunis asks Rome to extradite Obama upgrades museum attack suspect Tunisia’s status TUNIS: Tunisia has asked Italy to extradite a Moroccan suspected as a US ally of involvement in the deadly attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis in March, the interior ministry said Friday. WASHINGTON: President “Tunisian authorities have asked for his extradition,” ministry Barack Obama pledged to ele- spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui said. vate Tunisia as a major non- He said Abdel Majid Touil, arrested in Italy on Tuesday, was sus- NATO ally of the United States, pected of having provided “logistical support” for the March 18 attack a gesture that recognises the in which 21 tourists and a policeman were gunned down. country’s democratic progress Italian police said Touil, 22, had been in Italy before the attack. They after the 2011 Arab Spring said he entered illegally in February with a boatload of migrants. uprising. Tunisian authorities say international arrest warrants have also been The upgrade in status, shared issued for an Algerian and a second Moroccan over the Bardo killings. by close US allies like Israel and At least 23 people have been arrested in Tunisia in connection with Japan, can help expedite defence the attack which was claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. shipments. But it is chiefly a sign of the importance Obama has placed on supporting the nascent IS kidnaps soldier in Sinai democracy through turbulence in the region. CAIRO: Suspected Islamist militants kidnapped an Egyptian sol- After meeting with Tunisian dier in the restive North Sinai province yesterday, security sources President Beji Caid Essebsi in said. Gunmen stopped an ambulance carrying two soldiers south of the Oval Office, Obama said the Al-Arish, security sources said. The gunmen took the ambulance Sudanese Islamists hold posters bearing portraits of Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Mursi, Muslim Brotherhood United States will provide short- and one of the soldiers, and left the other soldier and a paramedic leader Mohamed Badie and prominent Qatar-based scholar Yusuf Al Qaradawi as they march towards a UN office in term aid so Tunisia can complete behind, the sources said. Khartoum to protest the death verdict handed out to Mursi and dozens of other co-defendants by a court in Cairo. economic reforms. Egypt faces a Sinai-based insurgency that has killed hundreds of “At this critical time in world policemen and soldiers since the army toppled Islamist President history, we think it’s very impor- Mohamed Mursi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule. tant for us to continue to expand Authorities this week executed six members of Sinai Province, the Sudan Islamists protest the economic assistance that country’s most active militant group. we’re providing so that ordinary Sinai Province changed its name from Ansar Bayt Al Maqdis after Tunisians can feel the concrete pledging allegiance to Islamic State, the ultra-hardline Sunni group benefits of a change to a more that has seized large parts of Iraq and Syria. against Mursi death verdict open and competitive economy,” Obama told reporters. KHARTOUM: Hundreds of Nations Development Programme hour and a half. President Omar The White House said the Kuwait controls fire at refinery Sudanese Islamists protested in Khartoum from the nearby Hassan Al Bashir’s Islamist gov- United States would offer up to outside a UN office in central Grand Mosque after prayers. ernment has distanced itself from $500m in loan guarantees to the KUWAIT: State-owned Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation Khartoum yesterday against They were joined by another the ruling, saying it is an inter- north African nation if needed for (KNPC) said it had controlled a limited fire at one of the units in the death sentence handed down group of 500 demonstrators nal matter for Egypt. Bashir’s economic reforms. the Al Ahmadi refinery early yesterday, state news agency reported. to Egypt’s ousted president from the mosque of the nearby 25-year-old regime relies on Since the Arab Spring, Tunisia The fire broke out in one of the refinery’s cracker units and the Mohamed Mursi by a court last University of Khartoum. a support base that is essen- has worked to hold democratic refinery is now operating at full capacity apart from the unit affected, week. Mursi was among more Watched over by a heavy pres- tially the same as the Muslim elections and develop a constitu- according to the Kuna report, adding that repairs were underway. than 100 defendants ordered by ence from the police and security Brotherhood, although it does not tion. But the country is very poor, an Egyptian court on Saturday services, they chanted: “Down use that name. with unemployment around 15 to face the death penalty for with military rule,” “Sisi is the Yesterday’s protest was organ- percent, and tensions are rising. Nuclear talks to resume on Tuesday their role in a mass jailbreak agent of Israel,” and “Down with ised by several Sudanese Islamist The government has pledged to during the 2011 uprising. the tyrant’s rule”. political parties and groups. boost development and jobs but is TEHRAN: Iran and world powers are to resume talks in the His rule lasted just one year Tens of Egyptians living in Sisi’s government has outlawed also under pressure to cut public Austrian capital next week to draft a final accord on the country’s before mass protests spurred Khartoum also joined the demon- the Brotherhood and launched a spending and subsidies. nuclear programme, a senior Iranian negotiator said yesterday. then-army chief and now stration. Some protesters burned crackdown on its supporters that Essebsi told reporters that his “The discussions are to resume on Tuesday in Vienna,” said Abbas President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi a photograph of Sisi while others has left hundreds of Mursi’s sup- country has “a long way ahead of Araghchi, quoted by Mehr news agency from the Austrian capital at to topple him in July 2013. waved Egyptian flags and pictures porters dead, thousands jailed and us” to transform its economy and the end of three days of preparatory talks. Around 700 Islamists marched of Mursi. The demonstrators dis- dozens sentenced to death after needed US support. AGENCIES to the offices of the United persed peacefully after around an mass trials. AFP REUTERS SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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FTER several months of self-imposed silence, Myanmar has at last been forced to take a look at the Rohingya problem on its soil. Take a look. It will Why China tolerates North Abe immature to expect any immediate solution to the crisis, but the international community has been able to at least express its huge displeasure at the current situation. As usual, there were denials from the government, a reluctance to take charge or take responsibility for what is happening. Korea’s nuclear aggression A senior US diplomat was in Myanmar yesterday to urge the government to take some serious steps to solve the problem. BY NOAH FELDMAN Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Myanmar North Korea’s crazy-seeming attitude North Korea clearly interpreted of confrontation with South Korea. China’s aggressive announcement to extend “citizenship” to the oppressed Rohingya minority to SIA has gone nuts for nukes Repeatedly, North Korean provocation of multiple warheards as a sign that address an ongoing migrant crisis that has hit Southeast Asia, this week. On the heels of a has brought the countries dangerously China wants to project itself as a mili- leaving thousands stranded at sea. “They should have a path Pentagon report that China close to conflict. A war between them taristic regional and global power. The to citizenship,” Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Ais loading multiple warheads would be a disaster for trade -- China’s reason, the North Koreans know, is in reporters in Yangon, referring to the Rohingya -- 1.3 million onto its intercontinental missiles, main concern for the last 25 years. part to respond to a slowly emerging North Korea announced Wednesday Throughout China’s peaceful rise, U.S. containment strategy that involves of whom live in Myanmar yet are dismissed as Bangladeshi that it has developed warheads of its North Korea’s confrontationalism was strengthening the military capacities of illegal immigrants by the authorities. In comments a day after own, making the transition from a also bad for the image Beijing was try- America’s Pacific allies such as Japan talks with Myanmar leaders, Blinken added “the uncertainty nuclear-capable power to a nuclear- ing to project. Protecting a belligerent and South Korea. While Washington that comes from not having any status is one of the things loaded one. regime made China seem belligerent by insists its goal is simply to ensure free that may drive people to leave”. The widespread persecution of The North Koreans may be lying or association, risking Western distrust passage throughout the region’s eco- the impoverished Muslim community in Myanmar’s western exaggerating, of course. But even so, that could have spilled over into eco- nomically vital sea lanes, China is feel- the announcement augurs a new stage nomic relations. ing boxed in. Rakhine state is one of the primary causes for the current in the complex relationship between Still, Chinese leaders realized they In this changed -- and charged crisis, alongside growing numbers trying to escape poverty in China and North were stuck with North Korea for -- “cool war” environment, China no neighbouring Bangladesh. Korea. China geostrategic reasons. If the north longer sees North Korea’s belligerence The visit of the US official follows regards the north collapsed, and was swallowed into as an irritant. Instead, it looks like a The visits by ministers from some Southeast as an unruly cli- South Korea, then U.S troops could useful tool. With the U.S. encouraging Asian nations to talk about the same Protecting ent state, annoy- have been stationed on the banks of Japan to give up its constitutionally international ing in practice Yalu River -- unacceptable proxim- mandated pacifism, China can now look crisis. The Rohingya problem has a belligerent but necessary as ity from the Chinese point of view. So on with approval, or at least without community spilled into Malaysia, Indonesia and regime made a buffer between the Chinese approach was to whisper disapproval, while North Korea brags must consider Thailand as people fleeing persecution the U.S. forces or hint to the West that North Korea of weapons that can target not only in Myanmar landed in these countries. China seem stationed in was like an unruly child, and couldn’t South Korea but also Japan. sanctions They have offered temporary shelter belligerent by South Korea. be completely controlled. By implica- If so, the Chinese need not have Now, apparently, tion, China was communicating that approved North Korea’s move in to the migrants on the condition that against association, China may be it wished the North Koreans would advance, or have abandoned their con- the international community find a risking Western prepared to treat behave reasonably -- like the Chinese cerns about a super- charged, hyper- Myanmar if it permanent solution within a year. North Korea as themselves. sensitive, aggressive North Korea. It’s fails to solve More than 3,500 migrants have swum distrust that an actual nuclear For North Korea to boast that it enough that China will realize the ben- the Rohingya to shore or been rescued off the coasts could have proxy, strength- had developed missile- capable war- efits of North Korea’s move -- and will of Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and ening Beijing’s heads would have been unacceptable refrain from chastisement. Strategic crisis. spilled over regional position to China’s leaders during that period of logic will do the rest. Bangladesh since a Thai crackdown in by counterbal- annoyed tolerance. The North Koreans A good theory -- and my interpre- early May on human-trafficking threw into economic ancing America’s don’t run every key announcement tation is certainly a theory -- should the illicit trade into chaos. International relations. allies in Seoul. by Beijing; but they’re sophisticated be falsifiable. This one is. If China now human rights organizations too have piled pressure on The difference enough to know that their actions will takes identifiable steps to rein in North Myanmar to put its house in order. between an irri- have consequences, and they always Korea’s claims or otherwise signal its The international condemnation and pressure have some tating ally and a valued proxy can be anticipate Chinese reaction. displeasure, then I -- and perhaps difficult to discern, so let’s start there. In the past, China would almost cer- the North Koreans, too -- will have positive impact. Myanmar said yesterday its navy had carried Since China began its transformation tainly have felt the need to pressure miscalculated. out its first rescue of a boat stacked with around 200 migrants from communism to a unique brand of North Korea to back down from such But if China makes no move to in the Bay of Bengal, in a sign of compromise after widespread state-directed and state-owned capi- a claim -- much as China participated distance itself or to criticize North criticism for not taking any responsibility for the crisis. talism, North Korea has increasingly in years of multilateral talks aimed to Korea’s announcement, even implic- US, Europe and the Southeast Asian nations must exert become an irritant. Ideologically, North stop North Korea from becoming a full- itly, that’ll be a strong indication that Korea is hidebound, a reminder of the fledged nuclear power. a new Beijing-Pyongyang relationship more pressure on Myanmar to solve the current crisis. The bad old days of personality cults and This week’s events show how starkly is emerging. A global power confront- Chief Minister of Rakhine state Maung Maung Ohn yesterday mind control. Economically, it’s a dis- circumstances have shifted. The North ing another global power needs prox- denied that persecution had prompted the current exodus. aster zone -- and needs a steady flow of Koreans apparently judged that, a few ies, as the US and the Soviet Union But global pressure will make him change his stance and food and other aid to keep its citizens days after China’s MIRVs made head- showed during the Cold War. North accept the reality. The international community must consider from starvation. lines, Beijing’s leaders would be in no Korea was once such a proxy -- and it imposing sanctions against Myanmar if it fails to respond to its But from China’s perspective, what’s position to chide them for publicizing may be again. worse than the archaic politics is their own nuclear strength. WP-BLOOMBERG demands. The other side Quote of Medical reform calls for efforts and wisdom the day

ITH a view to providing healthcare field has congealed in the the medicine sales, which will definitely Only in this way will the government residents with easier past decades. The sales of medi- result in decreased incomes for medical be able to find out how the loopholes access to cheaper and cines make up a large proportion of a workers. In county hospitals where the that allow doctors to get the illegal Whigher quality medical hospital’s revenue and guarantee the reform has been implemented on trial profits from pharmaceutical compa- services, the State Council, China’s incomes of medical workers. Doctors basis, the prices for medical checkups nies can be plugged, how hospitals Daesh’s (IS) capture cabinet, released a document on have their own way of making extra have been raised and local govern- can really purchase medicines and Sunday on furthering reform of State- income by prescribing medicines from ments also have to give subsidies to medical equipment through fair bidding of this historic city owned hospitals, which is expected to the pharmaceutical companies recom- make up for the losses. for providers, how much the govern- lift their heavy reliance on profits from mended by medicine representatives. It is unrealistic for officials or plan- ment should subsidize the hospitals (Palmyra) is an the sale of medicines. Tacit rules have been established for ners to draw up reform plans just by under its auspices, as well as how the The prospects are encouraging, and the business between hospitals and imagining how good their reforms will entrenched interests stand in the way of eminent threat to the central authorities definitely mean pharmaceutical companies and even be to crack a hard nut. What is urgently reforms that will benefit patients. one of the most it. But the reform will enter a “heavily- between hospitals and the government needed is a thorough investigation of Such reform calls for both pains- fortified zone”, as called by President department in charge of them. some particular hospital by the planners taking efforts and wisdom from the important heritage Xi Jinping. But it is neither realistic nor feasible to find out where the problems are and government. The same is true with the sites in the world. As is the case in other areas, the for hospitals to reduce their revenue then work out a plan that can be piloted reform of other State-owned enter- Nabil Al Arabi pattern of entrenched interests in the by scrapping the profits they get from with the hospital. prises or sectors. CHINA DAILY Arab League chief SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Islamic State expanding its ‘state’ cooperating with the government In its cohesion and purpose, Islamic against Daesh (an Arabic acronym for IS) but have lost and were not State is now seen by some — capable to confront them. Other Sunni cities resisting Daesh will particularly Iraq’s minority Sunnis now think twice”. Now confronted on the Ramadi — as more of a state than the Iraqi frontline by Hashd Al Shaabi, the powerful, pro-Iranian and Shia People’s Mobilisation militia that government it is fighting. was blamed for violent repris- als against Sunni civilians after BY SAMIA NAKHOUL veterans. It has a hierarchical unit the fall of Tikrit, “the Sunnis are organisation and rank structure, accepting Daesh as their Sunni lmost a year after populated by former regular offic- army”, Hassan says. Islamic State’s shock ers of Saddam Hussein’s military,” “The moment has passed for capture of Mosul, Iraq’s added Kilcullen in the Australian the Americans to recruit Sunnis Asecond city, the black Quarterly Essay. to fight the terrorist organisa- flags of the jihadis have been raised The Islamic State already has tion. This is past, it’s gone, it’s too over Ramadi, the capital of Anbar the foundations of a state. late. Ramadi has been an idea for province to the west of Baghdad, It controls territory that 10 years now and it collapsed”, seat of Iraq’s increasingly theoreti- includes major cities and covers a Hassan says. “That is a watershed cal central government. third each of Iraq and Syria; it has moment for Iraq”. Nobody talks of Mosul or recap- its own military and security force, Tikrit, moreover, was no vic- turing it from Islamic State. It is a self-proclaimed administration tory, Anthony Cordesman, an Iraq a forgotten city. Now it is all about that runs daily life — schools, gov- expert at the Centre for Strategic the fall of Ramadi, the neighbour- ernment offices, utilities, hospitals, and International Studies in ing ancient Syrian city of Palmyra taxation and a judiciary system Washington, wrote this week. in central Syria and beyond — the that follows Shariah law. “Tikrit was a campaign that Libyan city of Sirte, hometown of Its resources are vast, includ- failed to give Iraq’s Sunnis the former leader Muammar Gaddafi. ing oilfields, refineries and agri- reassurance they needed that the To the eyes of many in the cultural land. It operates more like Shia fighters from the popular committees hold a post as they fire towards Islamic State group positions in the central government would support region, the real strategic loss a regular army with a recruiting Garma district of Anbar province, west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. them in resisting ISIS or following behind the IS seizure of two Sunni network, training camps and a up an ISIS defeat with immedi- cities in Iraq and Syria in a week propaganda machine. out of Tikrit further north, excit- border with Jordan and Syria. militia that drove IS’s predeces- ate efforts to secure Tikrit and is the evaporation of any Sunni In videos released by IS, its ing premature speculation that the This was the launchpad of the sors from Al Qaeda out of Anbar allow its Sunni Arab population alternative to the jihadis. fighters and leader Abu Baqr Al jihadis might be on the run. The Sunni jihadi insurgency against in 2006-09. to return.” Although many leaders dis- Baghdadi confidently predict “the group’s capture of Ramadi hap- the American occupation after This fits the IS narrative, that Ramadi and Tikrit taken missed IS as vainglorious when it liberation of Anbar is the start pened in tandem with its seizure the US-led invasion of 2003. the fall of Ramadi shows that a together, in that light do not declared its cross-border caliphate of the liberation of Baghdad and of Palmyra, with its two millennia- Islamic State now controls most Shia majority government will cancel each other out so much in eastern Syria and western Iraq Kerbala from the rawafed” — a old Roman columns and priceless of it and can threaten the western never provide the arms that those as demonstrate that the Sunnis last summer, in its cohesion and derogatory term Sunni jihadis use antiquities. approaches to Baghdad, or even Sunni tribes in Anbar would need cannot depend for their security purpose it is now seen by some — to describe Shias they condemn as IS needed no more than a few strike south into the Shia heart- if they were to oppose the jihadis, either on the United States or on particularly Iraq’s minority Sunnis infidels and idolaters. hundred fighters to take Palmyra, land — as its propaganda videos and therefore there is no alterna- forces loyal to Iran. With insuf- — as more of a state than the Iraqi The jihadis, who intersperse highlighting the acute manpower threaten. tive to IS. ficient means of their own, that is government it is fighting. these propaganda films with shortage faced by Bashar Al The Shia-dominated gov- driving them towards the Islamic “Simply put, the Islamic State shots of their training, along with Assad’s government, now into ernment in Baghdad last year Too late for Sahwat State. is, or is on the verge of becom- religious slogans, look young, fit, its fifth year of a civil war that appointed Haidar Al Abadi as As in Syria, furthermore, the “Local Sunni populations in ing, what it claims to be: a state,” well-armed and clad in crisp new has claimed more than 220,000 prime minister to replace Nouri Al striking battlefield successes of the IS-controlled areas may hate wrote David Kilcullen, who was military uniforms — not the pic- lives and displaced around half of Maliki, whose policies were seen jihadis are a powerful recruiting the group, but they often see a key player in the US 2007-08 ture offered by their opponents. Syria’s population. as authoritarian and sectarian sergeant for disaffected Sunni the alternatives as even worse, Iraq troop ‘surge’ and is a close Palmyra, or Tadmur in Arabic, by Iraq’s alienated Sunni minor- youth. in part because the militias have observer of the rise of Islamic Devastating defeat is a world heritage site the jihadis ity and Kurds, who run their own Hassan Hassan, a Middle East committed sectarian abuses after State. The Iraqi army crumbled in might now destroy, as they did the self-governing region in northern analyst and author of a book on recapturing IS territory, but also He argues that unless Ramadi in much the same way as ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud Iraq. IS, says the real significance of because IS is still peddling sectar- Washington and its allies urgently it evaporated last summer when this year. Backed by the United States Ramadi is that its Sunni tribes had ian fear of Shias, or of the chaos change their counterterrorism IS seized Mosul and overran It has great strategic and sym- and by Iran, Abadi has tried to be been resisting the self-declared that would result from its fall, pre- strategy the threat will only get swathes of north and central Iraq. bolic value for IS, with nearby gas more inclusive, but the collapse of caliphate ever since Mosul fell and senting itself as defender of the worse. A coalition including the Iraq’s security forces were not fields, and roads to the capital the Iraqi army leaves him reliant even long before. Sunnis. United States has been engaged “driven from” Ramadi, General Damascus, Homs, the cradle of for ground troops on Shia militia, US and Iraqi talk of reviving “Western countries have a clear in air strikes against Islamic State Martin Dempsey, chairman of the the revolt against Assad in Syria’s trained and influenced by Iran, the Sahwat (awakening) — the interest in destroying ISIS, but since last summer, yet the group’s US joint chiefs of staff said acidly centre, and to the south. which were a primary cause of US-armed Sunni militia that ear- counter-insurgency should not advance has continued. in Brussels, they “drove out of The fall of Ramadi is poten- the alienation of these minorities lier defeated Al Qaeda — is now even be under discussion. This is “ISIS fights like a state... It Ramadi”. tially devastating to the Iraqi in the first place. probably too late. a straight-up conventional fight fields more than 25,000 fight- Just as important, the fall of government. It is the capital of Meanwhile, the government “The debate within the Sunni against a state-like entity, and the ers, including a hard core of ex- this strategic city comes only the vast Anbar province, which has failed to deliver on promised community in Iraq is now about goal should be to utterly annihilate Baathist professionals and Qaeda weeks after IS itself was pushed stretches to Iraq’s western arms and training for Sunni tribal those Sunnis in Ramadi who were ISIS as a state.” REUTERS Why US officially ‘believes’ Pakistan’s Bin Laden story BY ELIZABETH A COBBS the story. Wladyslaw Sikorski Russia. Washington is roughly angrily demanded a thorough, 7,000 miles from Islamabad; hy do allies sometimes independent investigation. Stalin Pakistan’s regular military can- pretend to believe one retaliated by accusing Sikorski not hurt the United States and Wanother’s lies? There of collaborating with the enemy. would not wish to. But a public are good reasons and bad, as new Russia then broke off diplomatic breach of trust may have erased evidence about the US relation- relations with Poland, nullifying any possibility of future coopera- ship with Pakistan demonstrates. the Sikorski-Mayski treaty that tion between the two “friends.” Throughout its “war on ter- pledged wartime cooperation. The Pakistan was then providing rorism,” the United States has gloves were off. logistical support for the US had to rely on Pakistan. Though The consequences for Poland intervention in neighbouring Washington may occasionally have reverberated for 40 years. The Afghanistan. If Obama knew believed its trust was abused, the Soviet Red Army camped on the Pakistan was disloyal, he made Pentagon’s need for overflight opposite side of the Vistula River, the correct short-term choice not rights or landing bases, crucial waiting while Germany burned to reveal it. for US troops in Afghanistan Warsaw in 1944. Moscow then Yet Americans should question and throughout the Middle East, refused to recognise the Polish their nation’s long-term policy. trumped diplomatic niceties. government in 1945 and forced Had the United States not linked The American people may won- its substitute Communist Polish its fortunes with Pakistan in the der if this trumped self-respect regime on the country until 1989. first place, Obama would not have as well. Seasoned investigative For Poland, it turned out hon- had to accept Islamabad’s pos- reporter Seymour Hersh recently esty was not the best strategy. sible lies — and tell fresh ones wrote about Pakistan’s possibly Russia finally acknowledged (or at least dissimulate) to the problematic role in the US cap- Stalin’s crime only in 1990, as part American people. ture of Osama bin Laden for the of Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of In 2004, Washington dubbed London Review of Books. Hersh, transparency, or glasnost. Islamabad a “major non-Nato ally” who broke both the My Lai massa- The Katyn massacre is an egre- in the war on terror, which enti- cre story during the Vietnam War gious example of a common phe- tled Pakistan to foreign aid and and the Abu Ghraib torture story nomenon that is usually far more new weapons. The United States during the war in Iraq, alleges that benign. Nations often look the also lifted economic sanctions pre- Islamabad kept Bin Laden under other way at bad behaviour for the viously imposed for illegal nuclear A file photo of US President Barack Obama greeting Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the Oval Office at lock and key in Abbottabad for six simple reason that a cost-benefit testing. But Pakistan’s usefulness years — even as US intelligence the White House in Washington DC. analysis would show no point in as an ally has proved questionable. urgently tried to track him down. confrontation. Governments are Since 1947, the United States Combing treacherous moun- what led right to the compound In 1943, Radio Berlin broad- new Western allies, including the aware that friends sometimes spy has added nation after nation to tains and ravines for the world’s in Abbottabad. cast the discovery of a mass Polish government-in-exile. on them, for example. It’s obnox- its roster of allies. From the pro- most wanted man, Washington Would Washington ever toler- grave of Polish officers in the Stalin resolutely denied the ious but not damaging enough to gressive expansion of the North may have risked and lost lives ate such lies from a friend — or Katyn Forest, a region previously shocking charges, despite the find- risk the rewards of continued good Atlantic Treaty Organisation to unnecessarily. condone US leaders covering occupied by the Soviet Union ings of an international Red Cross relations. the widening of the war on terror, New York Times reporter up for them? When President under the infamous Molotov- forensics team that the Nazis The American people, however, the United States has entangled Carlotta Gall agrees with some Barack Obama announced Bin Ribbentrop pact by which the invited to Katyn. The British have placed a high value on trans- itself with a larger, increasingly of Hersh’s allegations. She wrote Laden’s death, he said, “coopera- Nazis and the Soviets had divided and US governments refused to parency since the founders wrote diverse cast of countries. last week that the US government tion with Pakistan helped lead us Poland between them. The grave confront their ally, and tacitly the Constitution in 1787. The Not all these relationships work realised Pakistan was undermin- to Bin Laden and the compound in contained the remains of more accepted the subsequent conclu- Constitution requires Congress equally well. ing its efforts but chose not to which he was hiding.” According to than 20,000 people shot by the sions of a Soviet special report to publish its proceedings. With Choose your friends wisely, the make the problem public. Gall con- Hersh’s reporting, the reverse may Soviet secret police to thwart that blamed the execution and this, the United States became the old saying goes, because you’ll end firmed that she learned right after have been true. resistance. mass burial (including approxi- first nation in history to require up being like them. Now is the Bin Laden’s death that a Pakistani There are often excellent rea- Not long after, Germany turned mately 8,000 Polish officers) on government transparency by law. time to evaluate Washington’s army officer probably sold the sons for not outing a bad ally. In on Joseph Stalin’s empire, took Nazi Germany. Russia pretended Even if one assumed Pakistani long-time friends and reinvigorate secret of the Al Qaeda leader’s dangerous times, for example, the Poland for itself and attacked the innocence — and the allies pre- duplicity and that the US gov- relations with the most reliable, whereabouts to the Americans for consequences of a diplomatic rup- Russian homeland. Nazi officials tended to believe it. ernment was aware of it, telling honest ones. a cool $25m. That piece of intel- ture can be far worse than swal- saw revelations of the massa- Not surprisingly, the prime the truth would not be anywhere Pakistan might not make it into ligence — not six-years worth of lowing a lie. Poland discovered this cre as an opportunity to drive a minister of the Polish govern- near as catastrophic as the war- the mix. CIA blood-hounding — may be during World War Two. wedge between Moscow and its ment based in London challenged time rupture between Poland and REUTERS SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE British bomber Cameron sees given life for murder of US EU reform deal sergeant in Iraq

LONDON: A London taxi driver, convicted of making before UK vote bombs which were used against US forces in Iraq, one of which killed a US sergeant, was jailed for life yesterday and told he Britons to favour staying in EU: Poll would spend at least 38 years behind bars. RIGA: Prime Minister David followed by a spell of intense Anis Sardar, 38, of north- Cameron said yesterday he was diplomacy next week. west London, was convicted at “confident” of striking an EU He will host European London’s Woolwich Crown Court reform deal to put before British Commission head Jean-Claude of murder and conspiracy to mur- voters by 2017 but warned of Juncker at his country residence, der after his fingerprints were “ups and downs” in the process. Chequers, on Monday, before found on adhesive tape used to On his first overseas trip since travelling to Paris and Berlin for make two bombs planted under winning a general election two talks on Thursday and Friday roads leading out of Baghdad in weeks ago, Cameron kicked off respectively. an area close to the US Army’s months of negotiations to per- The British leader’s main goals Camp Liberty. suade other European leaders of include controlling migration by One of the devices exploded as the need for reforms which he making it harder for EU migrants a US armoured vehicle drove over says will require treaty change. to claim state benefits in Britain, it on September 27, 2007, kill- “I’m confident because in the opting out from the EU’s commit- ing Sergeant First Class Randy end I think it’s in everybody’s ment to “ever closer union” and Johnson, who was married with interests,” Cameron told reporters handing powers back to national two young children. after a summit of the 28-nation parliaments. British Prime Minister David Cameron (centre) leaves the Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga, Latvia, yesterday. Sardar had argued that he had bloc and six former Soviet states In Riga, he met leaders includ- become involved in the conflict in Riga. ing Poland’s Ewa Kopacz and is a member of the EU but has Eastern Partnership would be President Petro Poroshenko com- in Iraq to protect Sunni villages But he also warned there would Hungary’s Viktor Orban for brief, kept its own currency rather than automatically the way to mem- pleted the agreement last year from attack by Shia militias dur- be “lots of noise, lots of ups and general discussions on his reform adopting the euro. bership of the EU... it will be a and wants ultimately to join the ing the US “surge” operation in downs along the way” from other agenda, British officials said. Neither is it part of the long process,” he said. EU but this is a long-term objec- 2007, and had merely helped oth- European states questioning his “It was a pitch about why these Schengen Area, the group of 26 The summit declaration also tive at best. ers put the bombs together. proposals. issues matter to the British peo- European countries which have urged the full implementation Greece’s precarious debt bail- But the prosecution argued Facing pressure from euro- ple, why he needs to address abolished passport and border of the Minsk peace accords in out was also on the agenda as that he was either deliberately sceptics two years ago, Cameron them, broader concerns around controls at common borders. Ukraine and reaffirmed its posi- Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s targeting US troops or did not promised to allow Britons to vote immigration, the direction of the The main focus of the Eastern tion on the “illegal annexation” of leftist government races to obtain care who the explosive devices in a referendum by the end of EU,” one official added, speaking Partnership summit was on devel- Crimea by Russia last year. fresh funding from international killed. “I am satisfied that at the 2017 on whether to leave Europe on condition of anonymity. oping the EU’s relationship with The leaders met following a creditors demanding more aus- material time, you had the mind- if he won this year’s election. But French President Francois Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, 2013 summit which ended in chaos terity measures before a June set that made the Americans Having secured victory with a Hollande said he had not spoken Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. when Ukraine’s then president, deadline. every bit as much the enemy as surprise outright majority, he will to Cameron about the reforms. In their final declaration, pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych, Following talks between the Shi’ite militia,” the judge, now campaign to stay in the EU “It was not the place and it was European leaders reaffirmed the balked at signing an EU associa- Tsipras, Hollande and German Justice Henry Globe told Sardar as long as he can secure reforms not the time,” Hollande added of “high importance” of building tion accord alongside Georgia and Chancellor Angela Merkel on who was found guilty of murder such as making it harder for EU the summit focused on develop- stronger relations with the states. Moldova. Thursday, Merkel said there and conspiracy to murder. migrants to claim state benefits ing the EU’s partnerships with But EU president Donald His refusal sparked massive was “still a lot to do” in the “I am entirely satisfied that you in Britain. former Soviet states including Tusk said afterwards that, while pro-EU protests that led to his negotiations. must be detained for an extremely Opinion polls currently indicate Ukraine, highlighting that the the EU would be a “partner for ouster in February 2014, then to But Greek government spokes- long time.” that Britons will vote in favour two would meet next week. the long haul”, the partnership Russia’s annexation of Crimea man Gabriel Sakellaridis told Skai staying part of the EU. Britain, Europe’s second largest would not lead to automatic EU and a bloody conflict in eastern TV yesterday that a deal was pos- ‘Hello dictator,’ Cameron’s preliminary talks economy and a permanent mem- membership. Ukraine. sible by the end of the month. with a string of leaders will be ber of the UN Security Council, “Nobody promised that the Ukraine’s current pro-Western AFP Juncker says to Hungary premier

RIGA: European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker teased Hungarian Premier EU, ex-Soviet neighbours patch over rift with eye on Russia Viktor Orban over his strong- man reputation yesterday, jok- RIGA: Looking over their to eventually bringing the most eastern Ukraine. He called for the Vilnius summit in late 2013, on a twist in the drafting that ingly greeting him as “dictator” shoulders at Russia, the pro-Western states into the bloc, “more pressure” on Moscow to declared himself satisfied by the let them stick to pro-Russian as he arrived at an EU summit European Union and six former the EU’s big powers are wary both bolster a ceasefire but also said “very strong solidarity” EU lead- positions. in Riga. Soviet neighbours patched up of provoking Russian President the EU must engage with Russia ers had shown. Disparities among the six- The right-wing Orban has their differences to renew vows Vladimir Putin and of burdening despite the conflict. By far the biggest of the six year-old group have seen the angered and infuriated his of cooperation in the interests the Union with impoverished and EU leaders have long dismissed partner states, Ukraine signed a EU adopt a “differentiated” European Union peers for years, of peace and security at a sum- unstable new members. Kremlin concerns that their 1.8 billion-euro aid deal with the approach. Belarus remains carrying out sweeping constitu- mit yesterday. “Association agreements do not embrace of its “near abroad” is EU on Friday and, like Georgia, a pariah over human rights. tional and institutional changes Meeting in Riga 18 months in any way make membership a targeted against Russia. But on won assurances its citizens would Authoritarian but oil-rich that critics say have curbed press after the last Eastern Partnership foregone conclusion,” French Friday, Deputy Foreign Minister soon join Moldovans in no longer Azerbaijan less so. freedom and judicial authority. gathering sparked the Cold War- President Francois Hollande Sergei Ryabkov again accused needing visas to the EU if they Azeri President Ilham Aliyev “Hello, dictator,” Juncker was style tug-of-war over Ukraine, said of trade pacts signed last them of presenting ex-Soviet continued reforms. held up the conclusion of the overheard to say to Orban in front Kiev and other aspirants to the year with Ukraine, Georgia and republics with a “false choice” All 34 governments signed meeting, talking to summit of the press at the EU-Eastern European club won offers of aid Moldova. that amounted to “Who are you up to a 13-page joint declara- chairman Donald Tusk on the Partnership summit in Latvia. and hopes of visa-free travel to “We mustn’t turn this Eastern with, the West or Russia?” tion of common positions and telephone from Baku to smooth Orban replied: “Hello Grand the EU that fell short of promises Partnership into yet another President Petro Poroshenko, aspirations that included a con- concerns on the way the com- Duke,” a reference to Juncker’s of EU membership. conflict with Russia,” said whose predecessor was over- demnation of Russia’s “illegal munique referred to Azerbaijan’s native Luxembourg, known as the Despite sympathy from some Hollande, who with German thrown by pro-Western annexation of Crimea” last year. conflict with Armenia over Grand Duchy even though it is one of EU leaders, especially in the east, Chancellor Angela Merkel Ukrainians incensed by his 11th- Poroshenko glossed over the fact Nagorno-Karabakh. the smallest countries in the world. who urged firmer commitments has been leading mediation in hour rejection of an EU pact at Armenia and Belarus insisted REUTERS AGENCIES

Royal tour EU to propose relocating Party vote gives Hollande 40,000 refugees boost, fends off rebels

BRUSSELS: The European could have been set to guarantee PARIS: Socialist party mem- to get re-elected in 2017, but the Commission is set to propose acceptance after some EU states, bers backed French President vote ahead of the Socialists’ June next week that 40,000 asylum notably France, had initially Francois Hollande’s policies in 5-7 congress should help contain seekers who have arrived by baulked at the idea of opening an internal party vote, boosting opposition within his party, ana- boat in Italy and Greece should their doors to migrants. his chances of standing unop- lysts said. be relocated across the conti- The term “quotas” has been posed for a re-election ticket in The results from Thursday’s nent in response to what it con- latched onto by anti-immigration 2017 despite months of tension party vote were a relief for siders an emergency situation in groups as a sign that refugees are over the government’s economic Hollande’s backers, with one both countries. being imposed on France from line. member of his inner circle say- The proposal, revealed to outside. Last year, there were With a large part of the vote ing it “should put an end” to Reuters by an EU source famil- 600,000 asylum claims in the counted, a broad-brush pol- pressures for the party to hold iar with a draft, follows plans European Union. icy statement put forward by primaries to decide who will get announced last week for the According to the United Hollande loyalists for the party’s the ticket for 2017. European Union to take in 20,000 Nations refugee agency at annual congress won more than The results came as the French asylum-seekers currently living the start of May, some 60,000 60 percent of the vote, a party economy is showing signs of turn- outside the bloc. migrants have sought to enter official said yesterday. ing around, a factor — together The Commission has also set a Europe by sea so far this year, Back-benchers who have with the next presidential and quota system, based on a coun- more than half to Italy, fleeing strongly contested Hollande’s parliament elections getting try’s size and economic health, for war and poverty in Asia, Africa pro-business switch over the nearer — that helps explain why those resettled migrants as well as and the Middle East. past months in parliament and the party is trying to close ranks. for those relocated within the EU. The EU measure to be proposed in the media had been hoping for French industrial morale rose The EU measure is due to be next week is based on an article of a narrower win, which would have more than expected in May to its finalised on Wednesday and would the Lisbon Treaty regarding the allowed them to influence the gov- highest level in nearly four years, need majority support from EU functioning of the EU. ernment’s policies. data from state statistics body nations expecting to take in some It says that the EU members “If the majority had been INSEE showed on Friday. The of the migrants. may adopt provisional measures if tighter, around 50 percent, it economy grew at its fastest pace The deaths of hundreds or one or more states are confronted would have been a slap in the face in two years in the first quarter. thousands of migrants, largely by an emergency situation caused for Hollande,” Viavoice pollsters’ It is still not plain sailing for from Africa, attempting to cross by the sudden inflow of nationals head Francois Miquet-Marty Hollande. While they acknowl- the Mediterranean in often flimsy from outside the bloc. said. “The vote shows there is no edged defeat, disgruntled back- boats has raised calls for coor- Britain, Ireland and Denmark, credible alternative within the benchers nevertheless said on dinated policy to cope with the which have exemptions on mat- Socialist party ... this was not a Friday there was “no blank influx and stem the flow. ters concerning asylum, immigra- Britain’s Prince Charles during a guided tour of Mount Stewart House foregone conclusion.” cheque” for the government and The Commission had not pro- tion, visas and border controls, and gardens near Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland, on Still France’s most unpopu- they would keep asking for tweaks vided the number of proposed would not be expected to vote. the concluding day of their visit to Ireland and Northern Ireland. lar president in modern history, to the government’s policies. relocations. The 40,000 figure REUTERS Hollande has his work cut out REUTERS SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

Presidential encounter No US, Cuba deal Suspect in US on embassies; talks to continue WASHINGTON: Talks between the United States and mansion Cuba failed to nail down an agreement on restoring diplo- matic ties and will stretch into a new round, officials from both murders held sides said yesterday. “Both delegations agreed to continue our exchanges on issues related to the functioning of dip- Police follow DNA on pizza crust lomatic missions, so we will con- tinue those conversations in the WASHINGTON: After follow- of Savopoulos delivered $40,000 in next few weeks,” the head of the ing a DNA lead gleaned from cash to the home. Cuban delegation, Josefina Vidal, pizza crust, US authorities have Savopoulos’s blue Porsche told reporters after two days of arrested a suspect in the grisly turned up shortly after the mur- talks. murder of three members of a ders, abandoned several miles She refused to go into detail wealthy Washington family and from the crime scene, authorities about where the differences lay their maid. said. It also had been set ablaze. between the Cold War foes, who Daron Dylon Wint, 34, was Wint is now charged with are seeking to overcome half a arrested on Thursday night in first degree felony murder while century of enmity and restore the nation’s capital, Washington armed. He was captured with five normal ties. Metropolitan Police said. other people—three men and two The fourth meeting between Three other men and two women—who were also arrested. the two sides ran into an unsched- women who were with Wint as US Marshals tailed two uled second day on Friday at the police pounced late on Thursday cars as they left a hotel in the US President Barack Obama visits a pre-schoolers classroom after delivering remarks at Adas Israel State Department in Washington. night were also arrested, a US neighboring state of Maryland, Congregation in celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month, in Washington, DC, yesterday. “This has not been an easy Marshals Service official said. Commander Robert Fernandez task given our complicated his- The case has shocked the city of the US Marshals Service said tory,” top US diplomat for Latin because of the violence employed yesterday. America Roberta Jacobson told in last week’s murders — one of “We could tell that they were reporters in a separate press the four bludgeoned victims was a together. They were going north conference. 10-year-old boy — and because the bound. They did sort of a strange State Department releases “This round of talks was highly neighborhood where it happened U-turn and we suspected they productive,” she added, saying is posh and hardly used to such may have thought that they were that “we have made significant bloodshed. being tailed,” Fernandez said. progress in the past five months” The manhunt for Wint began “Once we reached a location first batch of Hillary emails and the two sides were “much after the DNA was collected from in DC where we felt we could closer” to reopening their respec- pizza delivered to the slain fam- take them down, we did a pin WASHINGTON: The State which ambassador Chris Stevens and difficult to download. tive embassies. ily’s home and matched to him. maneuver on both vehicles and Department on Friday released and three other Americans were It comes after a judge ordered In a ground-breaking move, The chase stretched all the way we arrested everyone,” he added. a first batch of emails by former killed. the State Department to stop President Barack Obama and up to New York where he was said The Washington Post reported secretary of state Hillary “These documents span a dragging its feet and draw up a Cuban President Raul Castro to have relatives. Friday that Wint has had several Clinton, relating to Libya and a two-year period from January timetable by Tuesday for handing agreed in December to seek a In fact he was arrested after brushes with the law over the 2012 militant attack on the US 1, 2011 through December 31, over the correspondence. normalization of relations frozen having returned from that city, years, often for allegedly violent mission in Benghazi. 2012 and relate to the security The panel set up by the for five decades. authorities said. behavior. The emails have stoked fresh of, and attacks on, the State Republican-controlled Congress “But we’re still talking about In the crime, businessman But Wint’s former attorney controversy since Clinton — now Department facility in Benghazi is investigating the attack, claim- various aspects of the function- Savvas Savopoulos, president and said on CNN Friday the police running for president in 2016 — and to the United States’ diplo- ing the US administration cov- ing of an embassy,” Jacobson said CEO of American Iron Works, a have the wrong man. admitted to having used a private matic presence in Libya, includ- ered up the true circumstances Friday, refusing to be more spe- building materials company in “It’s not his act. He’s a nice server and email address during ing in Benghazi,” Harf said in a of the assault by dozens of heavily cific about the sticking points. Maryland, his wife Amy, their guy. He’s patriotic,” lawyer Robin her tenure as secretary of state statement. armed Al-Qaeda linked militants. The United States has so far 10-year-old son Philip and the Fickers said. He said he had from 2009 to 2012. “The emails we release today Clinton has said she used her announced it plans to remove family’s housekeeper Veralicia defended Wint in six cases in 2005 State Department deputy do not change the essential facts own server and email address for Cuba from a blacklist of state Figueroa—were found bound and and 2006 and he was never found spokeswoman Marie Harf said or our understanding of the “convenience” and has turned sponsors of terror, which should bludgeoned May 14 after a fire guilty. the release would consist 296 events before, during, or after the over about 30,000 emails, amount- happen around May 29 after a gutted the millionaire’s mansion. Fickers said Wint is being tried emails, out of 30,000 handed over attacks,” Harf insisted. ing to some 55,000 pages to the 45-day review period by Congress. Wint used to work for that in the media, criticizing Mayor by Clinton. The emails were released on State Department. Havana has also found a bank company, officials say. The motive Muriel Bowser for holding a press They have already been pro- the State Department’s website “No one has a bigger interest in willing to handle its financial of the killing is not known. conference to name Wint before vided to a congressional commit- for records released under the getting them released than I do,” affairs on US soil, something But police say that while the he had even been questioned. tee probing the 2012 attack on the Freedom of Information Act, but she said earlier this week. which had been a major hurdle. family was being held, an assistant AFP US mission in Benghazi, Libya in it was immediately overloaded AFP AFP

Canada’s leftist New Democrats US bird flu causing egg squeeze, emergency measures CHICAGO/NEW YORK: low-cost producer,” said Tom and elsewhere in the Americas $1.19 a dozen in late April to $2.03 For some companies, having an take national As a virulent avian influenza Elam of FarmEcon, an agricul- and plans to start making ship- a dozen this week, Brown said. adequate supply of fertilized eggs outbreak continues to spread tural consulting company. “Now, ments in June. Nevertheless, some food makers can be a matter of life or death. across the Midwestern United that’s no longer the case.” Meanwhile, companies sticking are turning to the more expensive Some vaccine makers, including lead: Survey States, some egg-dependent Still, companies wanting to with egg suppliers closer to home shell eggs to supplement supplies, Merck & Co Inc, maintain their companies are contemplating import eggs may have to look far are facing sharply higher prices although that means an additional own hen flocks to produce eggs OTTAWA: Canada’s left-lean- drastic steps: importing eggs afield. as a result of the outbreak, which cost to send the eggs to a breaking used for incubating vaccines that ing New Democratic Party from overseas or looking to egg “Canada is short on eggs and has so far affected some 39 mil- facility that will crack the shells, protect against diseases such as (NDP), fresh from its upset alternatives. has been buying heavily from the lion birds. Nearly one-quarter of Elam said. measles and mumps. win in the Alberta provincial A spokeswoman for grain giant US for the last several years,” the hens that lay “breaker eggs” Analysts at Goldman Sachs Merck said it is taking no election, has taken a narrow Archer Daniels Midland Co said said Rick Brown, a senior vice- — which include liquid, dried or predict consumers will ultimately chances with its chicken flocks lead in public support nation- that, as egg supplies have tight- president of Urner Barry, a com- frozen eggs used by food manu- spend an additional $7.5bn to $8 as avian influenza continues to ally with unusual strength in ened and prices risen, the com- modity market analysis firm. facturers - have either died or are billion because of the egg supply spread: Security is tight around the most populous province of pany has received numerous “Mexico has been dealing with its slated to be euthanised. squeeze. Nestlé SA - which uses the birds, and the health of the Ontario, an opinion poll showed inquiries from manufacturers own outbreaks of avian influenza, The outbreak has led to a sharp eggs for some of its Dreyer’s, Edy’s hens is continuously monitored. yetserday. about the plant-based egg sub- so they’re banned from import- uptick in the wholesale price of and Häagen-Dazs ice cream prod- Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines The Ekos poll, on the iPoli- stitutes it makes. ing into the US. The logical place such eggs, from 63-cents a dozen ucts - said it is braced for short- division of Sanofi, said it, too, is tics website, put the New And with a strong dollar bol- people will be looking now would in late April, when the first egg- ages and working with suppliers keeping close tabs on the out- Democrats at 29.6 percent and stering the buying power of US be Europe.” laying flock was reported infected, to help protect hens. break — particularly with the Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s importers, some companies are Avril, a farmer-controlled agri- to $1.83 a dozen this week, Brown Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc told state agriculture department in Conservatives at 28.1 percent. scouting for egg supplies abroad. food group that owns France’s said. Reuters it will leave it up to fran- Pennsylvania, home to some of The NDP’s main rivals on the “The US has never imported largest egg brand, Matines, said The wholesale price of “shell chisees to decide whether to swal- its suppliers and the US’s fourth left, the Liberal Party, sit at 26.1 any significant amount of eggs, it has seen an increase recently eggs,” typically sold in cartons at low the cost hikes they’re seeing largest egg-laying flock. percent. because we’ve always been a very in demand from the United States grocery stores, has also risen, from or pass them on to consumers. REUTERS A separate CROP poll published earlier on Friday gave the NDP, which has pledged to increase cor- porate taxes and social spending Memorial Day rush and boost the minimum wage, a commanding lead among Quebec FARC rebels suspend voters in a federal election. “It’s time for the skeptics to put away their doubts about the rise of the NDP,” Ekos pollster Frank unilateral ceasefire Graves commented on iPolitics. “We can ask how long it might BOGOTA: Colombia’s Marxist Santos’s government has achieved last, but no one can dismiss these FARC rebels suspended a uni- it,” the FARC said in an state- numbers as the result of a rogue lateral ceasefire after govern- ment on its website. poll or sampling error. It’s real - ment troops killed 26 of its “Dialogue will continue,” rebel get over it.” fighters, the guerrilla group said negotiator and member of the The NDP had vaulted into yesterday, a move that will likely group’s seven-member secre- second place in the House of ratchet up tension at peace talks tariat, Pablo Catatumbo, told Commons in the 2011 federal elec- to end five decades of war. Reuters in Havana. “There is a tion, displacing the once-powerful The Revolutionary Armed tense atmosphere that has tar- Liberals as Official Opposition. Forces of Colombia, or FARC, said nished the talks these days.” It faded into third place in it lifted the ceasefire because of The FARC statement repeated the opinion polls, however, after the attack, one of the deadliest the group’s demand that the gov- former Prime Minister Pierre confrontations since the two sides ernment also declare a ceasefire Trudeau’s son Justin Trudeau began negotiations in Cuba at the “for the health” of the process and took over as Liberal leader in end of 2012. to prevent further casualties, but 2013. The insurgent group slammed Santos has refused to halt offen- Jockeying to be the lead anti- President Juan Manuel Santos for sives until peace is signed. Harper party is critical as Canada “incoherence” in seeking peace Minutes before the rebel state- prepares for its Oct. 19 election. while his military continued ment, Santos urged the group in The opposition parties want to be attacks against FARC encamp- a televised address to accelerate able to corral those voters who ments. The rebel ceasefire had the pace of talks. He encouraged do not care whom they vote for Heavy Memorial Day traffic moves southbound along I-95 in Quantico, Virginia, yesterday. The American been in place since late December. an end to the “spiral of violence, as long as the Conservatives are Automobile Association estimates that 37.2 million Americans will travel 50 miles or further during the Memorial “The suspension of the uni- hate and vengeance” and praised displaced. Day weekend, a nearly five percent increase over last year. lateral ceasefire was not in our the armed forces for their efforts. REUTERS sights ... but the incoherence of REUTERS SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA China raps Japan Give Rohingyas for PM’s wife’s war shrine visit

BEIJING: China yesterday- citizenship, US renewed its call for Japan to “face up to” its 20th century history after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s wife visited a shrine Beijing sees as a symbol tells Myanmar of Tokyo’s warring past. Akie Abe announced on her Facebook page on Thursday Top US official holds talks that she “paid respects” at the Yasukuni Shrine and visited the YANGON: A senior US diplo- “Even if we address the imme- sanctuary’s museum, which its mat called on Myanmar yes- diate crisis, we also must confront critics say glorifies Japan’s actions terday to grant its persecuted its root causes in order to achieve during World War II. Rohingya minority citizenship a sustainable solution,” Blinken “My heart aches when read- rights as a way to help reduce said. ing letters and farewell notes the current exodus of migrants “I noted in the meeting with addressed to family members,” across the Bay of Bengal. government yesterday that the she wrote. “What was in their “They should have a path to root of the problem of those leav- minds when they perished in the citizenship,” Deputy Secretary of ing from Myanmar is the political battle fields?” State Antony Blinken told report- and social situation on the ground The prime minister’s wife ers in Yangon a day after talks in Rakhine state,” he added. added that she wanted to “do my with Myanmar leaders on the Blinken’s comments came part for world peace”. ongoing crisis, adding “the uncer- after the foreign ministers of “Seventy years since the War. tainty that comes from not hav- Malaysia and Indonesia — whose Japan has a large role to play,” she ing any status is one of the things countries are destination points wrote. The Yasukuni Shrine hon- that may drive people to leave”. for Rohingya fleeing persecu- Rohingya men from Myanmar perform congregational Friday prayers at the newly set up confinement area for ours Japan’s fallen soldiers, but The persecution of Rohingya tion — met Myanmar officials on migrants at Bayeun in Indonesia’s Aceh province. also several Class A war criminals in Myanmar’s western Rakhine Thursday as pressures mounted convicted and executed after the state is one of the main causes on the former junta-led nation to In response, a senior US official dwindling supplies, and repeated enough to help those at sea or conflict. of the current migration crisis stem the migrant exodus from its said that the majority of the more its appeal for the region’s govern- stem to flow of migrants. engulfing Southeast Asia, along- shores. than 3,000 migrants that have ments to rescue them. US Deputy Secretary of State Ghana shocked by side growing numbers trying to Myanmar has seen surging come ashore are Rohingya fleeing Myanmar’s navy discovered Antony Blinken, who visited escape grinding poverty in neigh- Buddhist nationalism in recent desperate conditions in Rakhine two Thai boats on Thursday, one Myanmar on Thursday and politician’s death bouring Bangladesh. years and spates of violence tar- State in western Myanmar. carrying migrants and the other Friday, called on the country to Myanmar’s 1.3 million geting Muslim minorities have Southeast Asia’s migrant cri- empty, the Rakhine state govern- address the racial and religious after acid attack Rohingya are not recognised as raised doubts over its much sis blew up after a Thai crack- ment said in a press release. “One discrimination and violence that citizens by the authorities, who vaunted reforms after decades of down on human trafficking led is loaded with around 200 Bengali Washington says is one of the root ACCRA: One person has been dismiss them as Bangladeshi ille- harsh military rule. criminals to abandon overloaded people,” it said, using the govern- causes of the migration. arrested in Ghana after a lead- gal immigrants, despite many liv- Meanwhile, Myanmar’s boats in the Bay of Bengal and the ment term for illegal migrants “The majority are, in fact, from ing member of the country’s ing there for generations. navy has brought ashore 200 Andaman Sea rather than risk from Bangladesh. Rakhine State, are Rohingya and biggest opposition party was Blinken said the fact that Bangladeshis found in a boat trying to smuggle or traffic them “The people on the boat were all have left because of the desperate attacked with acid and later Rohingya were willing “to put off its coast, after its military through preferred transit routes from Bangladesh,” said Rakhine conditions they face in Rakhine died, the police said. Police their lives in jeopardy” for the chief said some of the thousands in Thailand. State government executive sec- State,” Blinken told reporters, spokesman for the Upper East deadly sea crossing was a “reflec- of migrants that have landed The United Nations refugee retary Tin Maung Swe. “We will speaking of the thousands of region, Thomas Agbanyo, said a tion of conditions in Rakhine in Malaysia and Indonesia this agency UNHCR estimated yes- deport them.” migrants that have come ashore man was detained on suspicion state that are leading people to month are pretending to be terday that some 3,500 migrants Myanmar has faced inter- in the region. of carrying out the attack on make this choice”. Rohingya Muslims to get UN aid. are still stranded on boats with national criticism for not doing AGENCIES Adam Mahama and another is at large. Mahama, who is no relation to Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama, was a chairman of Ghana’s New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East region. China declares victory over US surveillance He was attacked on Wednesday night by two men who stopped his car and he died the following BEIJING: China declared vic- of the South China Sea as its own of vessels carrying out reclama- of the sites of Beijing’s land recla- dangerous. We are strongly dis- morning. tory yesterday over an encoun- and the foreign ministry con- tion works in one lagoon, and mation effort, CNN reported. satisfied with this.” Before his death, Mahama ter with a US surveillance demned the overflight as “highly an airstrip under construction American pilots replied in each He urged the US not to take openly criticised the NPP’s aircraft overflying the con- irresponsible and dangerous”, on another island. A CNN crew case that they were flying through “any risky and provocative national chairman Paul Afoko tested South China Sea, saying warning that such actions could on board captured a tense radio “international airspace”. actions”, saying China would “take and general-secretary Kwabena its military “drove away” the cause “unwanted incidents”. exchange between the US aircraft Foreign ministry spokesman proper and necessary measures to Agyepong. intruder with radio warnings. The US Navy has released and Chinese forces. Hong Lei told a regular briefing guard against any harm to China’s He alleged they had organised a Beijing is in the throes of a video footage taken from the “This is the Chinese navy... This in Beijing: “China garrison troops maritime features and incidents meeting in the region without his rapid land-reclamation pro- P-8 Poseidon surveillance plane, is the Chinese navy... Please go drove it away by radio in accord- in waters and airspace,” he added. knowledge. Angry members of the gramme in the area, building which received several warnings away... to avoid misunderstand- ance with relevant regulations. China’s state broadcaster, CCTV, party disrupted the assembly and artificial islands and facilities from the Chinese military to ing,” a voice can be heard telling “US actions have posed threats played part of the CNN footage drove the national officials away. including an airstrip — raising retreat as it flew over the South the Americans. to the security of Chinese mari- showing the Chinese navy order- The death has shocked Ghana tensions with Washington and the China Sea — home to vital ship- The Chinese navy issued eight time features, it is highly likely ing the US plane out of the area and been condemned by politi- risk of a standoff on the high seas. ping lanes. such warnings during the P-8’s to cause unwanted incidents, with Chinese subtitles. cians from all parties. China regards almost the whole The footage showed a flotilla flight near Fiery Cross Reef, one it’s highly irresponsible and AFP AGENCIES

Cholera hits Thai junta detains opposition 3,000 Burundi activists on coup anniversary refugees in BANGKOK: Thai authorities detained police,” said a soldier in the area who declined dozens of student activists protesting to be identified. In Bangkok, police detained Tanzania: UN against military rule yesterday, a year 13 members of the Young People for Social- after the army seized power from an Democracy student group who were protest- GENEVA/BUJUMBURA: elected government. ing against the coup. The activists were later About 3,000 refugees fleeing The military has quashed public dem- released, the group said on its Facebook page. political turmoil in Burundi onstrations and any sign of resistance to Later, police detained around 30 more have been infected in a chol- the May 22, 2014 coup which it says it young people outside the Bangkok Arts and era epidemic in neighbouring was forced to undertake to end violence Cultural Centre, a Reuters witness said. Tanzania, the United Nations between rival factions. The military gov- The group had gathered and locked said yesterday, stoking fears of ernment has promised a general election hands at 6 p.m. (1100 GMT) in front of a growing humanitarian crisis next year but critics worry about a new the centre, which was the location of small in Africa’s Great Lakes. constitution they say is undemocratic. daily protests in the days following the Up to 400 new cases of the Activists staged small shows of defiance coup, the witness said. Thailand has been deadly disease were emerg- to mark the anniversary of the takeover. mired for a decade in rivalry between the ing every day, the UN’s refugee Soldiers detained seven students, some who Bangkok-based establishment and ousted agency UNHCR said, mainly held anti-coup signs, after they gathered premier Thasksin Shinawatra, a former in Tanzania’s Kagunga penin- in the northeastern city of Khon Khaen. telecommunications tycoon whose policies sula where tens of thousands of Thai pro-democracy activists are arrested by female police officers during a rally to mark the “We invited them to talk but they would won him the support of the poor but the Burundians have taken refuge, one-year anniversary of a military coup, in Bangkok yesterday. not back down so we are sending them to the hostility of the elite. REUTERS often in squalid conditions. Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision last month to stand for a third term has triggered protests, a failed coup Al Shabaab fighters and sent refugees, many from Civilians killed in northern Mali clash Burundi’s Tutsi minority, into Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and BAMAKO: Up to nine civil- said, referring to the pro-govern- grave crimes for which the perpetrators attack Kenyan village the Democratic Republic of Congo. ians, including an aid worker for a ment Imghad and Allies Tuareg Self- must be brought to justice”. Opponents have accused European charity, were killed after Defence Group. The CMA and GATIA both said the NAIROBI: Militants from Somalia-based Al Shabaab Nkurunziza of breaking a two- rebels withdrew from a village they Among the victims named by the rebels took control of the village on attacked a village in northeast Kenya but were beaten term limit in the constitution and had seized in northern Mali, armed CMA were Moussa Ag Mohamedoune, Wednesday before withdrawing. back by security forces, the Interior Ministry said. a deal that ended an ethnically- loyalist and anti-government groups a 35-year-old worker for Action Tin Hama is situated near the It said the militants entered the village of Yumbis, fuelled civil war in 2005. Regional said yesterday. Against Hunger Spain, and a 13-year- flashpoint town of Menaka, seized 70km north of the town of Garissa, late on Thursday. leaders, fearing the unrest could The west African nation’s main old boy. The information could not be from rebels by pro-government fight- “Security forces swiftly mobilized and engaged the mili- reopen ethnic divides, have Tuareg-led rebel alliance, the independently verified, and no one ers on April 27 in an operation which tants in a gunbattle. No casualties were reported,” a min- scrambled to end the standoff. Coordination of Movements of Azawad from the Malian army was available has sparked numerous violations of a istry statement said. Al Shabaab, which has carried out “The epidemic is still wors- (CMA), said in a statement overnight for comment. ceasefire agreement in the area. frequent attacks in Kenya in recent years to try to force ening. To date some 3,000 cases that “the Malian army conducted the MINUSMA, the UN’s peacekeep- The UN peacekeepers expressed Nairobi to pull its troops out of Somalia, attacked a uni- have been reported, and num- summary and public executions of ing operation in Mali, said in a state- “deep concern at the alarming esca- versity in the same area last month and killed 148 people. bers are increasing at 300-400 nine people in the town of Tin Hama” ment it had deployed investigators to lation in armed confrontations in sev- A police source in the area who did not wish to be new cases per day, particularly in on Thursday. look into “disturbing reports of serious eral localities of northern Mali and named said the militants roamed Yumbis for an hour Kagunga and nearby areas,” UN “The nine people were first arrested violations of human rights and interna- once again condemns the gross and in two trucks bearing Kenyan registration plates. They refugee agency spokesman Adrian by the GATIA militia and then tional humanitarian law” in Tin Hama. continuing violations of the ceasefire hoisted their black flag on a mosque where they held Edwards told journalists. handed over to Malian soldiers who It did not confirm the reports but said that jeopardise the peace process”. prayers, before heading towards the nearby village of REUTERS then executed them,” the statement executions of civilians “would constitute AFP Damajale. REUTERS SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Explosives haul Meida authority Pakistan acts to warns television channels improve safety against exploiting kids

ISLAMABAD: Expressing of minorities concern over an alarming wit- nessed trend among private TV channels, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) issued All provinces asked to come up advice to all licence hold- ers, reminding them not to with detailed safety plans broadcast programmes that denigrated children in any way. ISLAMABAD: In the wake community members for their In a letter sent to the Pakistan of increasing attacks against better security. Currently there Broadcasters Association (PBA) minorities, Pakistan’s security is a ban on issuance of new arms on Friday, Pemra noted that “it czar has directed all provinces licences as a new policy is being has been observed with grave to come up with rigorous safety formulated at the federal level to concern that morning shows plans incorporating intelli- control proliferation of guns in [are being aired] in collaboration gence surveillance for the secu- the country. with some NGOs, whereby they rity of minority communities. “We want to introduce a new exhibit the exchange of children “Protecting our minorities mechanism for arms licences for A Pakistani paramilitary Frontier Corps officer displays explosive materials during an operation, in Quetta, of poor families among the rich should be your utmost prior- controlling guns in the country,” the capital of restive Balochistan province, yesterday. couples in lieu of money.” ity,” Interior Minister Chaudhry Chaudhry Nisar commented. “The advice has been issued Nisar Ali Khan directed the pro- “We are in a war-like situation. after it was noticed that some vincial police chiefs on Friday We cannot afford free flow of talk shows, especially morning while chairing an important weapons.” shows, were displaying poor chil- meeting in Islamabad to discuss On the issue of placing people Sharif for better energy dren as commodities and asking multiple security issues. on the Exit Control List (ECL), the rich people present on the He ordered all provincial the interior minister directed show to come forward and help home departments to conduct the agencies, departments and them,” a Pemra spokesperson a security audit of the minority organisations concerned to jus- ties with Central Asia said. communities, including Hindus, tify their stance on enlisting He added that most of the Christians, Ismailis, Sikhs and thousands of people. BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN: Sariyev promised his coun- Turkmenistan, but they were children were either street Bohras, by establishing new intel- Names of more than 7,500 peo- Pakistan’s Prime Minister try’s “active participation” in the likely focused mainly on TAPI, the children or orphans, who were ligence surveillance systems and ple are placed on the ECL while Nawaz Sharif concluded a visit project, known as CASA 1000. ambitious pipeline project valued brought to the show with the prepare a special security plan hundreds of them have been on to the Central Asian region Sharif also met Kyrgyz at up to $10 billion that would help of certain NGOs. within a week. this list since 1996-97. The gov- yesterday, pushing to expand President Almazbek Atambayev pump Turkmen gas to the South “No programme or adver- The interior minister asked ernment is reviewing the laws energy ties with the former during the visit. Asian country and India, also via tisement shall be aired which is the provinces to train and equip related to banning people from S o v i e t s t a t e s t o t a c k l e Pa k i s t a n’s Though the World Bank is Afghanistan. against cultural values, morality law enforcement personnel to going abroad. About the peo- chronic power shortages. financing half the project, CASA The planned 1,800-kilometre and good manners,” the advice protect the minorities’ places of ple blacklisted, Immigration In a meeting with his Kyrgyz 1000 faces challenges since link could deliver 33 billion cubic concluded, warning broadcast- worship also and enhance police and Passports Director General counterpart, Temir Sariyev, in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan can metres (bcm) of gas annually to ers that failure to comply with patrolling at their gatherings. Usman Bajwa told the minister the capital Bishkek yesterday, produce an energy surplus only in the growing Indian and Pakistani this directive could result in “Special surveillance of minor- that around 12,000 passports had Sharif discussed an electricity the summer when their mountain markets with Afghanistan likely the suspension or revocation of ities’ worship places should be been blacklisted. project that would see Pakistan rivers fill with water. to absorb no more than 0.5 bcm. their licence. carried out by intelligence agen- On the suspension of prisoner import up to 1,000 megawatts The project would therefore After the talks, Sharif said that “The authority feels that if cies,” he said tasking the civilian exchange agreements with other from mountainous Kyrgyzstan only partially solve Pakistan’s he hoped to “intensify work on the any channel or individual wants intelligence agency Intelligence countries, the interior minis- and Tajikistan. politically contentious deficit. TAPI project that would bring to do philanthropic work, they Bureau with the job. ter admitted that thousands of The 1,200-kilometre (750-mile) Sharif flew to Bishkek advantages to the entire region.” should not try and take advan- The interior ministry will Pakistani nationals were jailed power line, which would also sup- from the Turkmen capi- The pipeline however faces tage of it, or should conduct the be given weekly briefings by in different countries but ques- ply 300 megawatts to conflict-torn tal Ashgabat, where he spoke security concerns in Afghanistan same service off-air, or maybe provincial home departments tioned whether the authorities Afghanistan, “would ease the elec- with Turkmenistan’s leader and ballooning costs while it lacks just feature the philanthropic on the security monitoring of had the space to accommodate tro-energy deficit” of his coun- Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov a commercial investor. individuals to showcase the wel- non-Muslims. these prisoners in the country’s try of 185 million people, Sharif on Wednesday. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fare work they do for poor chil- He even suggested issuing jails. said as the two agreed to develop Little detail was disclosed from said in April the project may take dren,” the spokesperson said. weapons licences to the minority INTERNEWS energy, security and tourism ties. negotiations in secluded gas-rich five years to complete. AFP INTERNEWS

Kabul relies on militias to defend Kunduz US plotted to find Bin

KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN/ Laden via meds: Report KABUL: The Afghan govern- ment has enlisted hundreds WASHINGTON: The United by US Navy SEAL commandos. of militia fighters controlled States plotted to find Osama The ICRC told the news site by local commanders to bat- bin Laden by concealing track- that the organization is “abso- tle Taliban militants near the ing devices in medical sup- lutely against the use of humani- northern city of Kunduz, offi- plies, possibly through Red tarian aid for other purposes.” cials said, underlining how the Cross hospitals, a report said At the time of the NSA pres- armed forces are struggling to on Thursday, citing documents entation, the ICRC hospital in tackle the insurgency alone. The leaked by former security con- nearby Peshawar did not disperse recruitment of unofficial armed tractor Edward Snowden. medical supplies to the popula- groups in Kunduz is on a larger The Intercept news site quoted tion, it said. scale than previous attempts from a National Security Agency The NSA was unavailable for by the government and NATO slide presentation dated June 2010 comment on the report. forces to recruit militias in the which discussed the possibility of Tagging and tracking medica- fight against the Taliban. going from “Pharma to Target” by tions or supplies allows “us to leap It may also signal a com- penetrating “the non-electronic over the non-electronic moat with promise of sorts for President moat” that protected bin Laden which HVIs (high-value indi- Ashraf Ghani’s administration, from surveillance in his Pakistan viduals) surround themselves, which had been trying to curb hideout. enabling their geolocation,” the the influence of so-called “muja- Titled “Medical Pattern of Life: documents say. hideen” strongmen who held key Targeting High Value Individual The presentation discusses positions in former President #1,” the presentation cites CIA embedding electronic chips -- Hamid Karzai’s government. The reports on the Al-Qaeda chief’s which can be tracked at long presidential palace did not reply poor health and invokes a sce- range -- inside medications and on Friday to a Reuters request nario in which spy agencies target devices like dialysis solution bags for comment. Afghan militias and policemen gather as they discuss during a battle at the Chardara district of Kunduz province the “supply chain” of likely medi- or injection bottles. The Taliban’s weeks-long siege yesterday. The Afghan government has enlisted hundreds of militia fighters controlled by local commanders to cine and equipment destined for It also said the project would of Kunduz has involved thou- battle Taliban militants near the northern city of Kunduz. bin Laden. require support from a number sands of militants and brought The “supply chain” could of “stakeholders,” including the the insurgents closer to captur- possibly include International NSA, the Central Intelligence ing a major city than at any time obvious solution for many in the between groups could also reignite, commanders might support the Committee of the Red Cross hos- Agency, British intelligence in years. government. leading to more violence and law- government. But we don’t know pitals, according to the presenta- agency GCHQ and various US The scale of the assault and “ANSF are capable of providing lessness in Afghanistan. what they will do next week.” tion slides. government laboratories. the inability of Afghan forces to security, but these people know “They (militia fighters) really Afghanistan’s private mili- It remains unclear if the idea US spy agencies came in for repel it is particularly worry- the area better and they are more answer to strongmen in the area tias were supposed to have been was ever acted on. The CIA criticism over reports that the ing, because it comes just a few useful,” said Safi. and not to a standard, disciplined disbanded in the years after managed to track down bin CIA set up a hepatitis vaccine months after NATO ended its He told Reuters that about chain of command,” said Patti US-backed military action top- Laden through his courier to drive in Abbottabad as a front combat mission in Afghanistan. 1,000 fighters led by dozens of Gossman, an Afghanistan analyst pled the Taliban in 2001, but the Pakistani garrison town of to secure DNA samples from bin Western governments have ex-mujahideen commanders had for Human Rights Watch. many ex-mujahideen command- Abbottabad, where he was even- Laden. spent more than $60 billion on been recruited and given ammu- Afghanistan is led by a unity ers retained arms and fighters. tually killed in a May 2, 2011 raid AFP getting Afghan National Security nition and money in recent weeks. government headed by Ghani In addition to mujahideen Forces (ANSF) ready to secure Another 1,000 militiamen were on that came together after months groups, both the U.S.-led mili- the country once NATO troops standby, he added. of squabbling over election fraud. tary coalition and Afghanistan’s Pakistan should clear up differences: Ghani withdrew. The militias are backing an Many mujahideen supported intelligence agency have fostered Kunduz Governor Mohammad army and police presence that Ghani’s election rival Abdullah independent, localised “uprising” KABUL: Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani yesterday said Omar Safi said that, as of this was as high as 12,000 in recent Abdullah, who is now his chief village defence units in areas clearing up ‘historical misunderstandings’ between Kabul and week, Taliban militants held weeks, although it may be less executive, and during the political plagued by the Taliban. Islamabad would help peace talks with Taliban. positions on the city’s outskirts now, according to military crisis some prominent command- Human rights groups have “I am happy about the peace negotiations with Pakistan,” news and there were skirmishes daily. officials. ers threatened to revolt against documented abuses both by agency DPA quoted the president as saying about the recent talks. An operation to drive the insur- While calling on the support Kabul if their candidate was not “uprising” units and mujahideen They worked towards putting aside the longstanding “undeclared gents out has been pending for of former mujahideen groups may named president. militias. state of war” between the neighbours. two weeks. make sense in Kunduz, experts Creating new layers of forces Kunduz governor Safi, though, Since coming power last year, Ghani has reached out to Pakistan Turning for help to so-called said it could backfire by entrench- beyond the ANSF, which is made said he was sure the government which has links with Taliban groups active in Afghanistan against “mujahideen”, a loose term for ing militia commanders, some up of the army and national and could keep fighters loyal, and foreign and local security forces. Islamabad is now working with fighters who resisted the Soviet of whom have been accused of local police, could mean more that by recruiting militias, Kabul the Kabul administration to support peace talks with the Taliban, occupation in the 1980s and human rights abuses over recent instability, said Thomas Ruttig might in fact be able to control Ghani told a meeting of the International Contact Group, convened the Taliban’s hard-line regime decades. of Afghanistan Analysts Network. them better. to discuss the security situation in the country. QNA the following decade, is an Critics said historic rivalries “At the moment, these militia REUTERS SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Hot and humid Jaya returns as CM today Governor Rosaiah approves portfolio allocation CHENNAI: AIADMK leader Earlier in the day, Rosaiah road, was thrown out of gear due J Jayalalithaa will be sworn-in accepted the resignation of Chief to the huge crowd. as chief minister of Tamil Nadu Minister O Panneerselvam and Hundreds of party flags, posters for the fifth time today, within his council of ministers and and banners with Jayalalithaa’s less than a fortnight of the invited Jayalalithaa to form a new photo were put up on the route Karnataka High Court uphold- ministry at the earliest. she took. People climbed trees by ing her appeal and acquitting Jayalalithaa had to relinquish the roadside to have a glimpse of her in a disproportionate assets the post of chief minister and her their leader. case. Srirangam assembly seat after It was a day of fast-paced Tamil Nadu Governor K she was convicted and given a political developments -- along Rosaiah’s office, in a statement, four-year jail term along with expected lines -- since morning. said the governor has approved Rs100 crore fine by a trial court in At 7 am, the AIADMK law- the recommendation made Bengaluru in the disproportionate makers in a meeting at the by chief minister-designate assets case. party headquarters elected Jayalalithaa regarding allocation Jayalalithaa yesterday paid Jayalalithaa as leader of the leg- of portfolios among the council of floral tributes at the statues islature party. ministers. here of party founder late M G Panneerselvam proposed The swearing-in ceremony Ramachandran (MGR), DMK Jayalalithaa’s name amid enthu- would be held on May 23 at 11 founder late C N Annadurai and siastic clapping by all the law am at the Madras University Dravidar Kazhagam founder late makers. He said he would resign Centenary Building. E V Ramaswamy. as chief minister and leader of A total of 29 ministers, includ- Thousands of party cadres legislature party. ing 67-year-old Jayalalithaa, from several parts of the state, It is expected that Jayalalithaa would be sworn-in. despite the scorching summer would contest for re-election from Coming out of her home after heat, lined up along the route she Radhakrishnan Nagar constitu- more than seven months yester- took to have a look at their leader. ency since on May 17, P Vetrivel, day, Jayalalithaa called on Rosaiah AIADMK cadres from different a party legislator representing and exchanged pleasantries. parts of the state were arriving Radhakrishnan Nagar assembly Women travel on a local train in Kolkata as the maximum temperature hovers over 40 degrees Celsius yes- She also handed over the list in the city since early morning to constituency, resigned from his terday. The summer or pre-monsoon season lasts from March to July in eastern India, with the highest day of ministers to be sworn in at the greet Jayalalithaa and assemble post and the same was accepted temperature ranging from 38 to 45 degrees. swearing-in ceremony slated for at the party head office. by the speaker. Saturday, party officials said. Traffic in Anna Salai, a major IANS Tax reform deadline may be missed: FM Notice to women panel

NEW DELHI: India’s finance predictable and lower tax regime. NEW DELHI: The Delhi High woman, who filed the complaint in minister acknowledged Friday “Mr Modi’s government is Court yesterday issued notice the DCW, as a party in the case. that the government could miss missing a rare chance to launch to the Delhi Commission for Seeking suspension of the its deadline to implement a key some bold reforms,” the magazine Women (DCW) and its chair- summons, Bharti argued that tax law amid criticism of the said to mark the first anniversary. person Barkha Singh on a plea Vishwas had been “wrongly sum- pace of economic reforms after Jaitley defended the pace and of AAP leader Kumar Vishwas. moned” and the decision to sum- a year in office. level of reform since his party Kumar Vishwas has chal- mon him was outside the DCW’s Arun Jaitley said he was “con- won a landslide at elections last lenged and sought suspension jurisdiction. scious” that delays in parliament May, saying his government had of the summons issued to him However, the court said: “There in passing long-awaited legislation revived Asia’s third largest econ- by the DCW on the complaint will be no stay on the summons.” on a national sales tax meant the omy with growth heading towards of an Aam Aadmi Party volun- The court also deleted the government was “cutting (it) too eight percent. teer who alleged that her life Delhi government as a party to fine to reach the deadline” for its But he also said the govern- was ruined because he refused to the case, saying there is no griev- rollout next year. ment should work to tax com- deny “rumours” over their alleged ance against it. “(But) the government is going panies at more competitive affair. It also slammed Bharti for to make every effort to ensure rates, amid a blazing row with Justice Rajiv Shakdher also objecting to the media persons’ that there is no delay and we meet foreign portfolio investors over summoned the complainant to presence in the court. the deadline,” the minister told demands they pay another tax respond to the plea after she was “The concept of public hearing reporters while marking a year for which they were not previ- added as a party in the case. The is that anyone who is interested in in government. ously liable. court also refused to suspend the hearing of any case is permitted. He meanwhile trumpeted Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addresses a press conference in New Delhi “We must ... remove discretion, summons issued to Vishwas by If you want me to prohibit media, a string of his government’s yesterday. phase out exemptions and bring the DCW. it can’t be done; it’s a public hear- achievements in the last 12 the effective rate down to glo- “The high court registry will ing,” Justice Shakdher said, repri- months, including shrinking overlapping state and federal lev- to buy land, another crucial bal levels,” Jaitley told the press send summon to her (complain- manding Bharti for his objection inflation and the fiscal and pub- ies and create a common market initiative. conference. ant) in a sealed cover. Issue to media presence. lic deficits, combating corruption to boost the economy. In a special India edition pub- One of the main gripes by notice to newly added party (the Kumar Vishwas in his plea said and speeding up decision-making But the opposition, which has lished Friday, The Economist foreign businesses under the woman), the Delhi Commission that DCW chairperson had issued which have long held back eco- a majority in the upper house, criticised a lack of big-bang previous Congress government for Women and its chairperson,” the summons due to “political nomic growth. forced the government this reform by the government in its was that the tax regime was said the court while posting the vendetta”. The government set a deadline month to send the GST bill to a first 12 months, including eas- both aggressive and arbitrary, a matter for July 1. The AAP has termed the alle- of April 1, 2016, for introduc- parliamentary panel for further ing strict labour laws, overhaul- deterrent to foreign investment Earlier, the court asked gations levelled by the woman as ing the key goods and services scrutiny along with legislation on ing inefficient state-owned giant in India. Vishwas’s lawyer and AAP mem- “baseless”. tax (GST), which will replace making it easier for businesses Coal India and introducing a more AFP ber Somnath Bharti to add the IANS

Separatists protest President’s estate made BJP rattled by our good work, 100pc WiFi-enabled says Kejriwal NEW DELHI: President 960 million mobile phones today, NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Pranab Mukherjee yesterday India stands second in the world Minister Arvind Kejriwal yes- inaugurated 24 hot-spots with behind China. terday hit back at the home 30 WiFi access points in the “We have more than 77 mobile affairs ministry’s notification President’s Estate, making it phone connections per 100 citi- asserting the Lt. Governor’s 100 percent WiFi-enabled. zens, which is commendable in power in public order and serv- Speaking on the occasion, terms of the penetration achieved ices issues, saying the BJP-led the President said India was at by us in mobile telephony,” he said. NDA government was rattled the 89th position in Network Mukherjee added the govern- because of AAP’s good work. Readiness Index. Countries ment has launched many pro- “The BJP-led central govern- like Singapore, Finland and grammes for the benefit of the ment has issued the notification Sweden are leaders in this index. common man. Yet, in the absence just because they are rattled by Mukherjee called upon the or poor presence of an effective the good work done by the AAP authorities to ensure availability communication strategy, a large (Aam Aadmi Party) government,” of infrastructure for Internet and segment of the intended ben- Kejriwal said at a press confer- ICT-enabled services across the eficiary population remains una- ence here. country and use it in a systematic ware of the various benefits they “Money used to exchange hands manner. “WiFi services could be are entitled to. “Many a time, it with transfers and postings of rolled out in public places across becomes difficult to ensure that the officers,” he said, adding the the country, both in urban and the government policies and reason for issuing the notice was rural India,” Mukherjee said. programmes reach the general because his government had put The President said India, with population in various parts of an end to it. 244 million Internet users, ranks the country. In this context, the “They (the BJP) want to take third after China and the US in idea of bringing information to Supporters of moderate separatist leader and cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq shout slogans during a protest in the power of transfer and posting terms of number. the doorsteps of citizens through Srinagar yesterday. Police and paramilitary forces fired dozens of tear gas shells to disperse demonstrators, of officers in Delhi in their hands “However, the penetration of network is a revolutionary step who hurled stones on them and chanted anti-India and pro-Pakistan slogans to protest Farooq’s continued so that they can deploy their peo- Internet use as a percentage of to transform India to a Digital house arrest. ple in Delhi,” he said. the population is only 20, indicat- India,” he added. Kejriwal accused Lt. Governor ing not only a huge gap but signif- Communication and Najeeb Jung of not enquiring icant potential for future growth Information Technology Minister about development related issues. as well,” he said. Ravi Shankar Prasad was present “But he is concerned about trans- He also pointed out that with on the occasion. IANS NDA ‘removed public trust deficit’ fer and posting of officers.” “I have no direct fight with the GUWAHATI: The BJP yesterday said the by Prime Minister (Narendra Modi). The ‘Jan Dhan LG as he is just a face... ruled by Tiger kills five-year-old in Bihar National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government Yojana’ is one such bold initiative taken by the gov- the PMO,” he added. at the centre was able to bridge the gap between ernment by opening over 15 crore bank accounts Kejriwal did not divulge his PATNA: A tiger mauled a five-year-old child to death in a the government and people, which was disrupted for people who otherwise did not have access to the plans about replying to the noti- national park in Bihar’s West Champaran district, a forest official during the rule of the previous Congress-led formal banking system,” Patra said. fication. “We are examining it said yesterday. government. The BJP spokesperson was in the city to conduct (notification).” Bablu, the child, was mauled and killed by the tiger near Bherihadi The NDA government, which completes one year a special workshop. Kejriwal had accused Gamlin village in the Valmiki National Park, the state’s only Tiger Project, in office on May 26, was successful in removing “The government has been able to check corrup- of lobbying for power distribu- located over 250km from here. “He was attacked when playing near the “trust deficit” among the people, BJP national tion, it has not been allowing even a single penny tion companies in the national his village,” the official added. IANS spokesperson Sambit Patra said. from the exchequer to be wasted and it is indeed a capital. “It became possible because of the bold steps taken great achievement,” Patra added. IANS IANS SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Centre says Jung is boss Parrikar interacts with Union govt backs LG’s complete authority over postings, transfers soldiers at Siachin SRINAGAR: Defence Minister The Defence Minister later NEW DELHI: The union government has under attack by the AAP. and the Lt Governor. Manohar Parrikar visited the reached Leh town in Ladakh backed Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, a bureau- Jaitley said during a press conference here: Siachin base camp of the Indian region, where he was given issued a notification that makes it clear he crat-turned-politician, said: “The BJP first “The home ministry circular (has been issued) Army in Nubra area of Jammu another briefing by field com- has the power to post and transfer officials, lost Delhi elections. Today’s notification shows so that no dispute remains. The reserved powers and Kashmir’s Ladakh region manders at the headquarters of a move that drew quick and sharp criti- BJP’s nervousness about our anti-corruption of the central government are exercised through yesterday and interacted with 16th Corps. cism from the combative AAP government efforts. The BJP again lost today.” the Lt Governor. The clarificatory notification and addressed the soldiers sta- “In the afternoon, the Defence yesterday. The AAP government, which came to power is about it so that there is no confusion.” tioned there. minister will arrive in Srinagar The notification, issued yesterday and made in February after winning a stunning vic- “We do not want that offices are locked Earlier, Parrikar landed at where he is scheduled to call on public yesterday, states that the Delhi gov- tory in the Delhi assembly election, has been due to confusion,” Jaitley said, referring to the Nubra air base of the Indian state Governor N.N. Vohra. He is ernment “will have no executive power” with asserting its administrative powers on posting the AAP government which had locked the Army yesterday morning, accom- also meeting Chief Minister Mufti regard to “Services” -- a reference to Indian and transfer of senior officers, particularly office of a senior officer apparently for follow- panied by the Indian Army chief, Muhammad Sayeed in Srinagar Administrative Service (IAS) and Indian from the IAS. ing orders of LG for appointing Shakuntala General Dalbir Singh, and other yesterday. Police Service (IPS) officers. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia Gamlin as acting chief secretary. senior officials of the defence min- “The Governor will host a din- The development comes a week after a described the transfer and posting of the offic- The union government notification, which istry and the army. ner for the Defence Minister in very public power tussle erupted between ers an “industry”. “This notification makes it sparked a row, stresses that the IAS and IPS “The Raksha Mantri addressed the evening,” state government Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung and the Arvind clear how much the transfer-posting industry officers were administered by the central gov- jawans and officers at Siachin base officials said. Kejriwal led AAP government in Delhi over of Delhi is scared of us. It is a bid to save the ernment. “National Capital Territory of Delhi camp after his arrival in Nubra in After spending the night in posting and transfer of senior officers. transfer-posting industry,” he added. does not have its own state public services,” Ladakh region at the beginning the Valley, Parrikar will visit the The notification also takes away the power The spat between Jung and the Kejriwal it said. of his two-day visit of the state. Jammu region on Saturday. of the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) to pros- government started over the appointment of It went on to say that ‘Services’ fall “outside “He also interacted informally Defence sources said he would ecute “officiers, employees and functionaries” senior bureaucrat Shakuntala Gamlin as the the purview of Legislative Assembly of the with the soldiers at the base visit the Line of Control (LoC) of the central government. acting chief secretary on May 15. The chief National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT) and camp, showing a keen interest in Bhimber Gali sector of Poonch Recently, the ACB had filed a case against minister had accused Gamlin of lobbying for consequently the Government of NCT of Delhi in the welfare of those guarding district on Saturday. a Delhi policeman for taking a bribe. This had power distribution companies in the national will have no executive power in relation to the the frontiers of the country at “The Raksha Mantri will also led to a retailiation by the police which filed capital. above and further that power in relation to the world’s highest battlefield,” visit the Nagrota headquarters of an FIR against unnamed officials for “kidnap- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, however, the aforesaid subjects vests exclusively in the defence sources told IANS in the 14th Corps where the GOC, Lt. ping” a policemen. ACB comes under the Delhi defended the move and said that the central president or his delegate that is Lt. Governor summer capital Srinagar. General K.H. Singh will brief him government. government had issued a “clarificatory noti- of Delhi”. The sources said that Parrikar on the situation along the LoC as The union government notification came fication” about powers of elected government IANS was briefed about the situa- well as anti-militancy operations tion at the Siachin Glacier by in the Jammu region,” a Defence field commanders in the pres- spokesman said. ence of General Singh and Lt. Before concluding his two-day Greeting the holy relic General D.S. Hooda, commander visit to the state, Parrikar will pay of Udhampur-based Northern obeisance at the Mata Vaishno CBI court Command. Lt. General B.S. Negi, Devi shrine in Reasi district of GOC of Leh-headquartered 16th Jammu region. grants bail to Corps, led the briefing session. IANS Jindal, Rao Shoot-out in Film City in coal scam NEW DELHI: A court here frightens Bollywood yesterday granted bail to indus- trialist Naveen Jindal, former MUMBAI: In a real life shoot-out, a Bollywood security contrac- Jharkhand chief minister tor was shot and critically injured inside the Film City in Goregaon Madhu Koda and eight others East here yesterday, barely a few metres away from a set where in a case relating to the alloca- megastar Amitabh Bachchan was shooting. tion of coal blocks. Additional Police Commissioner Fatehsinh Patil told reporters that Among others who got bail are two people arrived on a motorbike and fired at least three shots at former union minister of state Shrikant alias Raju Shinde from close quarters, stunning the people for coal Dasari Narayan Rao and around. former coal secretary H.C. Gupta. A seriously injured Shinde, 45, was rushed to the Nanavati Hospital As all the 10 individual accused in Vile Parle where he is undergoing treatment. appeared in the court in pursu- “There may be a possibility of personal rivalry as he was shot from ance of summons issued against a close range... We are investigating from all angles and shall probe if them on May 6, Central Bureau he had got any threats in the past,” Patil said. of Investigation (CBI) Special Among other things, Shinde also served as a security contractor, Judge Bharat Parashar granted runs a cable television network, construction, supplying timber to film bail to them and asked them to sets and into assorted social activities. each furnish a personal bond of Bachchan, 72, tweeted: “Okay!! Shooting at Film City...and a gang Rs.1 lakh each and surety of the Kashmiri Muslim women pray as a head priest displays a holy relic believed to be the hair from the beard of war shootout 20 feet from where we are... !! 1 dead... cops all over.” like amount. Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), at the Hazratbal Shrine on the outskirts of Srinagar, yesterday. The Filmcity is an integrated film studio complex with multiple They were also directed not to locations that serve as the venue of many Bollywood films. IANS leave the country without prior permission. The court also directed them Minor killed not to tamper with the docu- Gujjars hold up traffic Delhi businessman burnt to ments and prosecution evidence or approach the prosecution wit- after gang rape nesses in any manner and posted JAIPUR: Rail services were hit the protesters,” Himmat Singh, death as car catches fire the matter for June 1. as thousands of Gujjars contin- spokesperson of the Gujjar in Telangana “Undoubtedly the allegations ued to sit on the railway tracks Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti, said. NEW DELHI: A 23-year-old businessman was burnt to death against the accused persons are in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur dis- Gujjars in Rajasthan are when the car he was driving collided with a tree and caught fire HYDERABAD: A minor serious in nature and more so trict for the second day yes- demanding the reservation under yesterday morning, police said. girl was gang raped and mur- when they occupy high position in terday demanding five percent SBC (special backward class) The man identified as Sarang Narayan was the owner of a hotel at dered by unidentified people in the society. However at the same reservation in government jobs category. “We want five percent Paschim Vihar in west Delhi and resided with his family in central Telangana’s Ranga Reddy dis- time it is also true that during and educational institutions. reservation under the SBC cat- Delhi’s Rajendra Nagar. trict, police said yesterday. the course of investigation, none Road traffic was also affected. egory and that should be within The accident was reported around 5.30 a.m. from Inderpuri area The incident occurred yester- of the accused were arrested by The sit-in at Pilu Ka Pura area the upper limit of 50 percent res- of west Delhi. day night near Vikarabad, about the CBI and there has been no in Bharatpur district affected the ervation,” Singh said. “Narayan left from home for a ‘gurdwara’ around 5 a.m. in his car. 75 km from here. allegation that they did not join movement of at least 50 trains, Gujjars had staged violent pro- When he reached near Inderpuri, he lost control and the car collided According to police, the the investigation as and when including those on the Delhi- tests between 2006 and 2008 to with a tree, resulting in the sudden fire,” said a police officer. 15-year-old girl was kidnapped by called for,” the court said while Mumbai section. The state road- demand reservations, in which at “The blaze spread so quickly that neither was Narayan able to open four people when she was travel- releasing them on bail. ways also cancelled some buses on least 67 people lost their lives and the door from inside nor could the people, trying to help him, open the ling in an auto-rickshaw with her The CBI on April 29 filed a the route where the Gujjars were hundreds of others were injured. door from outside,” he added. father from Vikarabad to their chargesheet against Jindal, Koda, holding their protest. “We are open for talks with any- According to an eyewitness, either the doors of the car got jammed village Ijrachittampally. Rao, Gupta and six others - Gyan “The state government has one.... I strongly feel that talks or Narayan got panicked. They stopped the three- Swaroop Garg, Suresh Singhal, sent us a letter for holding talks can resolve all issues,” Rajasthan By the time fire tenders arrived at the spot and doused the fire, wheeler, thrashed the girl’s father Rajeev Jain, Girish Kumar Juneja, with a cabinet committee. Our Home Minister Gulab Chand Narayan was totally charred. and abducted her. R.K. Saraf and K. Ramakrishna. leaders will decide on the future Kataria told reporters here. He was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him The body of the victim was Five private companies - course of action after talking to IANS brought dead. IANS found near a hamlet yesterday four based in Delhi and one in IANS Hyderabad - have also been named in the charge sheet. The companies are Jindal Steel Tea for the stores and Power Ltd, Gagan Sponge Iron Pvt Ltd, Jindal Reality Pvt Street vendors Man throws acid Ltd, New Delhi Exim Pvt Ltd and on woman, stabs Sowbhagya Media Ltd. thrash cops in The CBI has formally charged himself fatally them with criminal conspiracy, Ghaziabad town cheating and various provisions of BHOPAL: A 45-year-old man the Prevention of Corruption Act. GHAZIABAD: Street vendors yesterday threw acid on a The case relates to the alloca- thrashed a police officer and a woman and later committed tion of Jharkhand’s Amarkonda constable in Loni town here, suicide here, police said. The Murgadangal coal block to Jindal authorities said. woman suffered severe burn Steel and Gagan Sponge. The local police station received injuries in the incident. The agency said the Amarkonda information about a fight between Superintendent of Police Arvind Murgadangal coal block allocation two groups of street vendors late Saxena told IANS: “Around 7 a.m. was recommended by the 35th on Thursday night. the woman, Renu (22), was going screening committee. When Sub Inspector Sukh on her scooter when Sanjay Patil “It was alleged that two steel Pal Singh and Constable Sanjiv manhandled her, following which and iron companies based in Delhi Kumar reached the spot and tried he threw acid on the girl. misrepresented facts to get coal to calm the rival groups, members “She has suffered major burn blocks. Also, there was alleged of one group attacked them. injuries and is being treated in a investment in a Hyderabad-based Singh sustained injuries from government-run hospital.” firm from the group of companies sharp instruments. Locals carried He said the man then stabbed based at Delhi,” said a CBI official. the profusely bleeding officer and himself to death on the spot. Rao was the union minister admitted him to a hospital where Tea workers wait in queue to deposit tea leaves after collecting them at a tea garden in Sonitpur district of “ I was going to gym when he of state for coal between 2006 he was discharged after receiving Assam state, yesterday. According to media reports, due to early monsoon tea production may go up this attacked me and following a ver- and 2009 when the irregularities first aid. year. Assam is the largest tea producing state in India. bal spat threw acid on me,” Renu allegedly took place. IANS IANS told mediapersons here. IANS SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Merkel wants more work on

Greek talks Mercedes to invest more in Berlin plant Analysts see deal, Tsipras confident

RIGA: German Chancellor “The EU wants to extract the Angela Merkel yesterday said maximum possible commitments more work is needed on mara- from Greece but in the end, there thon loan talks with Greece but is no alternative to signing a deal, analysts argue that both sides even a partial one,” he said. know there is no alternative to Greek government spokesman a deal. Gabriel Sakellaridis told Skai TV Speaking after a two-hour yesterday that a deal was possible meeting late on Thursday with by the end of the month. Greek Prime Minister Alexis “We have covered a signifi- Tsipras and French President cant distance in finding com- Francois Hollande in Riga, Merkel mon ground with the creditors,” urged Athens to continue talks Sakellaridis said. with its international creditors. “We believe the circumstances “It was a very friendly and are ripe ... so that in the next 10 constructive exchange,” Merkel days, in May, a deal can be sealed,” said on the sidelines of the he said. EU-Eastern Partnership summit Merkel said she and Hollande in the Latvian capital. had offered Tsipras their good “But it is clear, the work with offices if he needed help during the three institutions has to go the talks but it was up to Athens on. There is still a lot to do,” she to reach an accord with the three added, referring to the European creditors. Union, European Central Bank “The conclusion has to be found and the International Monetary with the three institutions and it Fund who have bailed out Greece has to be worked very, very inten- twice to the tune of ¤240bn sively,” she said. ($267bn). An aide to Hollande said earlier Tsipras’ radical leftist govern- that the talks late Thursday had ment is locked in talks to obtain been “friendly and constructive the remaining funds under the (and had) ... focused on the desire bailouts, with the international to reach an agreement on the cur- creditors demanding more tough rent programme.” A Greek govern- An interior view of the Camtronic production at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Berlin, yesterday. Media reports state that Mercedes-Benz will invest austerity measures in return. ment source said separately that around €500m in the Berlin plant over the coming years. After the meeting, the 40-year- Merkel and Hollande “understood old Greek leader said he was the need for a long-term deal.” “confident” an agreement would The immediate focus is what emerge soon. reforms the radical left Tsipras “I am confident that we will can accept in return for the Gaza economy on verge of collapse: World Bank soon be able to reach a steady, release of a final ¤7.2bn in bail- long-term and viable solution out funds Athens needs to avoid without the mistakes of the past, defaulting on its debt and possibly JERUSALEM: Gaza’s econ- “Blockades, war and poor gov- connected to the outside world.” Real per capita income in Gaza and that Greece will return to crashing out of the eurozone. omy is in a worse state than any ernance have strangled Gaza’s Among the startling statistics is now 31 percent lower than it growth with cohesion,” the prime According to reports, the credi- other in the world, with unem- economy and the unemployment cited in the report are: Overall was in 1994. Between 1994 and minister said after the talks. tors are demanding budget cuts ployment at a global high, out- rate is now the highest in the unemployment now stands at 43 2012, Gaza’s manufacturing sector, Greece faces a series of debt worth ¤5bn. Sakellaridis said put contracting sharply and the world,” said the report, drafted by percent, and 68 percent among which should be the driver of the repayments beginning next the talks partly hinged on higher long-term prospects worrying, Steen Lau Jorgensen, the World those aged 20-24. economy, shrank by 60 percent. month that are seen as all but VAT sales tax rates demanded the World Bank said yesterday. Bank’s director for Gaza and the Gaza’s current real GDP is While the World Bank tracks impossible for it to meet without by Greece’s creditors. The gov- Repeated rounds of conflict, West Bank. only a couple of percentage points Gaza’s malaise back more than 20 unlocking bailout funds. ernment — which was elected in internal divisions and the embargo It is to be presented in Brussels higher than it was 20 years ago. years, the economic deterioration Each side is trying to maximise January on a pledge to eliminate Israel and Egypt impose have left on May 27. “Gaza’s exports virtu- Over the same period, the popula- has accelerated since 2006, when its gains but ultimately there is austerity — is also under pressure the territory “on the verge of col- ally disappeared and the manu- tion has increased by 230 percent. the Islamist group Hamas won elec- common acceptance that a deal to cut pensions and drop plans for lapse”, the report sad, with its 1.8 facturing sector has shrunk by as Last year’s war between Israel tions and began running the terri- must be reached, said Natixis a hike in the minimum wage. million population facing poverty much as 60 percent. The economy and Hamas led to a 15 percent tory, taking over full control in 2007. analyst Jesus Castillo. AFP and destitution despite vast aid. cannot survive without being contraction in GDP for the year. REUTERS

Brent crude Saudi Arabia rewrites its oil game with refining might oil slips below LONDON: Saudi Arabia’s target of 8-10 million bpd of refin- 10 million bpd of crude production. can now cash in. “The crude is so different parts of the value chain rapid transition into one of the ing firepower would eclipse even “In contrast with the crude mar- cheap it’s pretty much free for and it becomes a hedge and it gives $66 before long world’s largest oil refiners adds ExxonMobil. ket which is shrinking, the product them,” said Amrita Sen of Energy them a lot more market access.” an extra dimension to the oil “Saudi have moved into the market is becoming more global,” Aspects. “The margins are going to Aramco has added more than 1 exporter’s role as the driver of product business in a big way,” said Antoine Halff, chief oil ana- be massive. It makes trade flows in million bpd in capacity through a weekend Opec policy. said Fereidun Fesharaki, chair- lyst with the International Energy products very different.” controlling stake in Korea’s S-Oil When it attends Opec’s next man of FGE energy. Agency. Other Organisation of the as well as its two heavy hitting LONDON: Oil prices fell yester- meeting in two weeks, it does so Its oil trading arm, Aramco The crude oil price rout this Petroleum Exporting Countries refineries at home, Yanbu and day as worries over the impact of with major new state-of-the-art Trading, could soon find at least year catapulted refining to the members, including fellow Gulf Yasref, both with 400,000 bpd in war in the Middle East on crude oil refineries that can profit from two thirds of its trading focused fore; trading and refining last year states Kuwait and the United throughput. Jizan, due on in the supplies were outweighed by a cheaper crude and reviving world on products such as diesel, gaso- soared to 60 percent of integrated Arab Emirates, have also boosted Kingdom in 2018, would add a fur- stronger dollar and reports of fuel demand — exactly as interna- line and heating oil rather than oil companies’ first quarter earn- refining and added trading arms. ther 400,000 bpd. profit-taking ahead of a long week- tional oil firms have over the past crude, Fesharaki said. ings, compared with 18 percent But their refineries worldwide, The growth puts Aramco’s owned end. Monday, May 25, is Memorial six months. Years of investment was last year, according to Reuters hovering near 1 million bpd each, or equity stakes refining at 5.4 mil- Day in the United States and a The kingdom now has stakes designed to fuel the transport, air calculations. are only a fraction of what Aramco lion bpd, at least 40 percent above a public holiday in much of Europe, in more than five million barrels conditioning and power generation While crude oil producers who has built in just a few years. decade ago. Aramco itself markets leaving many markets closed. per day (bpd) of refining capac- for the kingdom’s economic growth. lack a developed refinery sector - “The Saudis have a much wider more than three million bpd of that, “No one wants to hold open ity, at home and abroad, landing it But as OPEC members fight for such as Nigeria - effectively leave market there because they are com- tying it with Shell as the world’s positions ahead of a long week- a place among the global leaders market share, Aramco’s refineries this money on the table for refin- peting globally,” Halff said. “They fourth largest oil refiner. end so books are being squared, in making oil products. Its own also give it a natural outlet for its ers, Aramco and others in the Gulf diversify vertically by capturing REUTERS bringing some consolidation,” said Carsten Fritsch, senior oil and commodities analyst at Commerzbank in Frankfurt. Unipec sells crude stock The dollar hit a 10-week high against the yen and also strength- China, India likely to be ened against the euro on Friday, making oil and commodities more expensive to holders of other cur- rencies. July Brent crude was biggest AIIB shareholders down 90 cents at $65.64 a barrel by 1355 GMT after closing up 2.3 SINGAPORE: China is likely China’s share in the $100bn percent on Thursday. to hold a 25-30 percent stake in lender would be less than 30 US crude futures are expe- the new Asian Infrastructure percent, an Asian delegate told riencing their longest winning Investment Bank (AIIB) while Reuters. A second delegate said streak since records began in India will be the second-biggest India’s share would be between 1983, helped by a drop in US shareholder, delegates said on 10 and 15 percent. Both spoke on crude and product stockpiles last Friday after a three-day meet- condition of anonymity. week, reflecting better demand in ing of the bank’s founding In all, Asian countries are the world’s largest oil consumer. member-nations. expected to own between 72 and US crude for July was down 75 AIIB said in a statement that 75 percent of the bank, while cents at $59.97 a barrel, but poised it expected to be operational by European and other nations will to post gains for the 10th week in the end of the year. It said the own the rest. a row. Data from the US Energy meeting in Singapore finalised the Another delegate said each Information Administration this articles of agreement, which are country representative would week showed a big decline in US expected to be ready for signing take the proposals back to oil product stockpiles. “With by the end of June, but did not their governments for a final US travel expected to reach a give details. decision. 10-year high over Memorial Day, No details of the ownership Some were sceptical of the according to AAA (American structure were disclosed, but dele- timeline for the bank to start Automobile Association), product The largest Ultra Large Crude Carrier ever to visit Singapore, the Chevron South America, sits in Jurong gates said that China would likely running, as each member will inventory is expected to decline Shipyard in Singapore. Chinese trader Unipec has sold two million barrels of crude held for months on one take a 25-30 percent stake in the need to obtain cabinet and legis- even further over coming weeks,” of the world’s largest tankers, industry sources said. bank, and India was likely to be lative approvals at home. ANZ analysts said in a report. the second-largest shareholder. REUTERS REUTERS SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 India may miss Global regulators’ meet to fix rules tax reform Market watchdogs try to tighten grip after banks fined for manipulating rates, currencies deadline, says

LONDON: Global regulators criminal offence but Wheatley challenges for FEMR is how the Americans on board will be when central banks raise interest finance minister meet in London next month to said standards for “navigating it works with global bodies,” to reassure them that further rates from their prolonged, very try to tighten their grip on mar- the nuances” of such market seg- Wheatley said. reforms would not mean unravel- low levels. NEW DELHI: India’s finance kets after banks were fined bil- ments were also needed. “The IOSCO meeting will be an ling the vast Dodd-Frank reform Investors have been unsettled minister acknowledged yester- lions of dollars for manipulating Plugging this “granular rules” important start for that process.” of Wall Street, Wheatley said. by “taper tantrums”, or sharp day that the government could interest rates and currencies, gap starts next month when the He declined to detail any FEMR Republicans in US Congress moves in bond markets related miss its deadline to implement Britain’s top financial supervi- FCA hosts the annual meeting of recommendations but said some are already trying to row back on to quantitative easing, and big a key tax law amid criticism of sor said. the International Organisation of would need changes in UK law elements of Dodd-Frank, which currency swings when the Swiss the pace of economic reforms The hefty penalties on British, Securities Commissions (IOSCO), to implement, signifying they go was signed into law in 2010. franc was revalued this year. after a year in office. American and Swiss banks have an umbrella body for regulators beyond simply updating voluntary The IOSCO meeting will also But Wheatley said regulators Arun Jaitley said he was “con- forced authorities to rethink reg- such as Bafin in Germany and codes of conduct as some critics fear. discuss “caveat emptor”, or buyer have limited powers in some cases scious” that delays in parliament ulation for a chunk of the market the US Securities and Exchange This raises the question of beware, the traditional blanket to impose pre-emptive measures in passing long-awaited legislation hitherto left to discipline itself, Commission. The two-day meet- whether regulators elsewhere in fallback financial firms have used like forcing funds to hold more on a national sales tax meant the said Martin Wheatley, chief exec- ing starts on June 17. the world still have an appetite to avoid full responsibility for what assets that can be sold easily even government was “cutting (it) too utive of the Financial Conduct Wheatley co-chairs Britain’s for significant reform after seven they sell. in volatile markets. fine to reach the deadline” for its Authority (FCA). Fair and Effective Markets years of intensive rulemaking since Wheatley said there was a need “The idea that you can put rollout next year. “Spot gold, spot forex, Libor, all Review (FEMR) which publishes Lehman Brothers bank crashed in to reappraise where caveat emptor handcuffs on one of those play- “(But) the government is going of them took us outside areas we findings on June 10 to improve 2008, triggering a wave of changes. starts as even sophisticated inves- ers in those markets in order to to make every effort to ensure had been historically regulating,” conduct standards in currency, Wheatley said it would require tors, such as fund managers, were smooth liquidity just does not that there is no delay and we meet he said. commodity and fixed income mar- leadership to keep markets sound, found to need more protection. work as you can’t handcuff all the the deadline,” the minister told “We have moved that regula- kets to make misconduct more a task that was a “new permanent “Where does the balance of other players,” he said. reporters while marking a year tory perimeter through enforce- difficult. state of affairs” and not a tempo- power lie and where does the “As a market regulator I start in government. ment activity, but what the These recommendations must rary, box-ticking exercise. regulator step in. It won’t be from the point of view that says He, meanwhile, trumpeted market is now saying is help us become a template for global “That leadership has to come approval of significant new rules well, actually, markets do correct. a string of his government’s catch up by giving us something action otherwise FEMR may be from a combination of global but it’s an airing of the issue,” he The taper tantrum? So what. We achievements in the last 12 which tells us how you expect us a waste of time, however, he says. standard setters like IOSCO, and said of the IOSCO meeting. have 15 minutes of mayhem. The months, including shrinking to operate.” “You can’t say here’s a new the drive of people who are close Another concern is market Swiss franc revalued and we had inflation and the fiscal and pub- Britain and the European regime for spot FX that is applied to it and that typically is going liquidity or whether asset man- two hours of adjustment, but then lic deficits, combating corruption Union have now made rigging as a London issue only because to be the UK and United States,” agers could deal with the expected life goes on.” and speeding up decision-making benchmarks including Libor a it’s a global market. One of the he said. The key to bringing big sell-off in bonds anticipated REUTERS which have long held back eco- nomic growth. The government set a deadline of April 1, 2016, for introducing the key goods and services tax (GST), which will replace over- Bank of Japan holds lapping state and federal levies and create a common market to boost the economy. But the opposition, which has fire on stimulus a majority in the upper house, forced the government this month to send the GST bill to a TOKYO: The Bank of Japan Kuroda said yesterday that the parliamentary panel for further yesterday held off launching stronger data was behind the scrutiny along with legislation on more stimulus as its chief said bank’s more upbeat view. making it easier for businesses the world’s number-three econ- “It is not that something to buy land, another crucial omy was on the upswing, days about the economy dramatically initiative. after data showed stronger- changed — it has been steadily In a special India edition pub- than-expected growth in the improving,” he told a press brief- lished yesterday, The Economist first quarter. ing on Friday. criticised a lack of big-bang The upbeat figures eased pres- “That improvement is likely to reform by the government in its sure on policymakers who kept continue, and so we have taken a first 12 months, including eas- the central bank’s annual 80 tril- step forward in our assessment to ing strict labour laws, overhaul- lion yen ($662bn) monetary eas- fit the current situation.” ing inefficient state-owned giant ing programme in place after a The central bank’s post-meet- Coal India and introducing a more two-day meeting. But some ana- ing statement slightly tweaked predictable and lower tax regime. lysts say further action will be the wording on its assessment of “Mr Modi’s government is needed later in the year. the economy to suggest the out- missing a rare chance to launch On Wednesday the government look was improving. some bold reforms,” the magazine released figures showing Japan’s Kuroda has been forced to said to mark the first anniversary. economy, which sank into a brief push back a timeline for hitting Jaitley defended the pace and level recession last year, expanded by a a 2.0 percent inflation target — of reform since his party won a land- better-than-expected 0.6 percent a cornerstone of Prime Minister slide at elections last May, saying his from the previous quarter. Shinzo Abe’s plan to kickstart Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda bows as he leaves a news conference at the BoJ headquarters government had revived Asia’s third In annualised terms, the econ- the deflation-plagued economy— in Tokyo yesterday. largest economy with growth head- omy expanded by 2.4 percent although he insists that healthy ing towards eight percent. in the January-March period price rises are around the corner. ambitious goals to grow the econ- today suggests that the intro- convince policymakers to step up But he also said the govern- — well ahead of tepid growth in Stripping out the impact of a omy. “It won’t be easy, but it’s not duction of more stimulus as early the pace of easing by October.” ment should work to tax compa- the United States — as capital sales tax hike last year, Japan’s impossible,” he said. as July is off the table,” Marcel In currency trading, the dol- nies at more competitive rates, spending and the housing mar- inflation rate in March came in Tepid inflation data has spurred Thieliant from Capital Economics lar slipped to 120.80 yen from amid a blazing row with foreign ket showed signs of strength, at a tepid 0.2 percent from a year speculation of further easing said in a commentary. 120.91 yen just before the BoJ’s portfolio investors over demands although exports dipped slightly ago, well short of the BoJ’s target. measures. “However, we remain con- announcement, and well off the they pay another tax for which and consumer spending was weak. Kuroda on Friday acknowledged “The Bank of Japan’s more vinced that the prospect of pro- 121.07 yen in New York. they were not previously liable. BoJ Governor Haruhiko the challenges in the government’s upbeat economic assessment longed below-target inflation will AFP AFP

Oman refinery firm borrows Strike-hit Germany passes disputed bargaining law for unions BERLIN: The German par- day” and accusing the new rules Under the law, if the compet- Nahles rejected the criticism and the end, it’s necessary,” she said. $910m from liament passed a new law yes- of robbing workers of the right ing unions cannot agree, the said the law, due to take effect in “Progress and social achieve- terday aimed at streamlining to strike. union with the most members the coming months, would bol- ments don’t come by themselves.” wage-bargaining and prevent- Drawn up by the left-right will become the sole partner to ster the basic principles of union Lawmakers from the ecologist local, Gulf banks ing small, localised industrial “grand coalition” government negotiate with management in an representation. Greens and the far-left Linke crit- disputes — like the recent under Chancellor Angela Merkel, industrial dispute. “We’re not touching the right icised the law, which was widely MUSCATL: State-owned strikes by train drivers and the law seeks to create the prin- Any agreed deal will then of association and the right to approved by 444 MPs, with 126 Oman Oil Refineries and pilots — from paralysing entire ciple of “one company, one wage have to be adopted by smaller strike,” Nahles, a Social Democrat, against and 16 abstentions, accord- Petroleum Industries Co sectors. agreement”. unions representing employ- said in the Bundestag lower house ing to a corrected count by the (ORPIC) has taken out a But two trade unions immedi- It introduces rules for compet- ees doing the same job. of parliament ahead of the vote. parliament. “Small unions are to RO350m ($910m), 10-year loan ately announced plans to try to ing unions within the same com- Fiercely contested by opposi- “Sometimes one has to battle be robbed of their right to exist,” from local and regional banks, block the controversial legisla- pany and job category in the case tion lawmakers as well as some and sometimes one has to strike. Linke MP Klaus Ernst complained. part of which will be used to tion, calling its approval a “black of a wage dispute. unions, Labour Minister Andrea Even if there is a compromise in AFP fund expansion projects, the company said yesterday. The money will be used to “meet general corporate require- ments and certain projects cur- rently being considered”, chief Brazil unveils $33bn financial officer Nazar Al Lawati told Reuters without revealing financial terms or naming the projects. spending freeze The syndicated loan was arranged by Bank Muscat while RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s product (GDP). Last year’s freeze, the consortium included Bank government disclosed a major which is an annual exercise aimed Dhofar, National Bank of Oman, spending freeze yesterday aimed at showing fiscal discipline, was Bank Sohar, the local operation at convincing investors that 44 billion reais and before that of Qatar National Bank and other President Dilma Rousseff is it varied between 40 billion and banks. committed to saving the nation’s 55 billion reais. A finance minis- The refining and petrochemical investment-grade debt rating. try official could not be reached company has a range of projects The administration will block immediately for comment. underway or planned as Oman about 70bn reais ($23bn) in non- Rousseff, who won a close pours billions of dollars into obligatory spending, a government re-election race in October, has industrialisation. It has continued source familiar with the decision raised taxes on everything from spending on such projects despite said yesterday. The source requested cosmetics to imports to financial the plunge of oil prices since last anonymity because he is not author- revenues to win back investors year, which has pushed the state ized to speak with the press. worried about what was once an budget deep into deficit. A freeze of that size would be emerging-market star. The projects include an upgrade in line with market expectations The government yesterday of ORPIC’s Sohar refinery, a product and the biggest since Rousseff raised income taxes on banks pipeline between Muscat and Sohar, took office in 2011. Most ana- to 20 percent from 15 percent and construction of the $3.6bn Liwa lysts believe it won’t be enough to complement the spending plastics production complex. IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde delivers a speech during the XVII Annual Seminar of aims for inflation to help meet Brazil’s fiscal goal restrictions. REUTERS at the Central Bank in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, yesterday. of 1.2 percent of gross domestic REUTERS SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com CLASSIFIEDS

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[email protected] SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Warriors edge Rockets Emir Cup basketball to double series lead Golden State two wins from first NBA finals since 1975

OAKLAND: NBA Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors edged the Houston Rockets 99-98 on Thursday night to dou- ble their lead in the Western Conference finals. Curry again came out on top in a duel with James Harden, stifling the Rockets star in the moments Stephen before the final buzzer to preserve Curry of the win. the Golden They took a two-games-to- State none lead over the Rockets in Warriors the best-of-seven series, with the reacts after winners to take on the Eastern his side Conference champions in the defeated NBA finals. the Houston Golden State had to battle Rockets to the bitter end. Their eight- in Game point lead was trimmed to one Two of the after Harden’s alley-oop pass to Dwight Howard with 33 seconds Western remaining. Conference After Harrison Barnes missed finals at a reverse layup at the other end, the Oracle the Rockets raced the ball up the Arena in court. Oakland, But Harden was double-teamed California, by Curry and Klay Thompson as on the clock ticked down, passing to Thursday Howard on the perimeter. night. Howard tossed the ball right back, Curry poked the ball away, and the Rockets were unable to get a potential game-winning shot off. Curry led the Warriors with 33 points, including five three-pointers. The hosts, who let slip an early 16-point lead to head into half- withstood a push from Howard the league with 67 regular-season frustrating, that last play.” But time tied 55-55, regrouped to and made a running shot for a victories. he said there was no reason the take a 77-75 lead into the final 96-89 Warriors lead. “We won the two at home. Now Rockets couldn’t climb back into period. But Harden’s two free throws, we head to Houston. Every game the series. They never trailed in the final a dunk and two more free throws is probably going to be like this.” “We’re really confident about period, and appeared to be in con- pulled Houston within 99-96 with The final sequence was the what we have going on,” he said. trol when Curry took charge with less than a minute to go. only blemish in an otherwise stel- “We let two slip away, now we less than three minutes to play. Warriors coach Steve Kerr said lar performance from Harden, go back to Houston, take care of After stealing a Trevor Ariza he expected every game in the who finished with a game-high business at home.” Moments from the Emir Cup basketball match between Al Rayyan and pass, Curry hit a contested step- series to be a similar back-and- 38 points, 10 rebounds and nine Houston center Howard had 19 El Jaish at Al Gharafa Sports Club in Doha yesterday. El Jaish beat Al back jump shot, then drove left forth battle. assists. points and 17 rebounds, playing Rayyan 104-80 while in the second match of the day Al Gharafa beat and threw a baseline bounce pass “We’re right where we need “Just a tough, tough play,” 40 minutes despite playing with Al Sadd 80-63. to a driving Andrew Bogut, who to be,” said Kerr, whose team led Howard said. “It’s a little a strained left knee. AFP

Baseball Results Ducks edge Blackhawks 2-1 to seize series lead Arizona 7 Miami 6 Baltimore 5 Seattle 4 CHICAGO: Anaheim handed Yesterday, Patrick Maroon gave shots for the Blackhawks. Detroit 6 Houston 5 Simon Chicago their first home loss the Ducks a 1-0 lead in the first Crawford has stepped up his Despres of the NHL play-offs yesterday before Chicago’s Patrick Kane game after being benched for NY Mets 5 St. Louis 0 (#24) of the after a 2-1 win in Game Three tied it with under a minute left much of Chicago’s first-round Colorado 7 Philadelphia 3 Anaheim put the Ducks ahead by the in the opening period. series against Nashville. San Francisco 4 La Dodgers 0 Ducks and same margin in the Western Ryan Getzlaf added two assists Injuries and fatigue have Toronto 8 La Angels 4 Andrew Shaw Conference final series. for the Ducks, tying his own taken their toll on Chicago and Texas 3 Boston 1 Simon Despres broke a 1-1 tie franchise record with 14 for the on Thursday centers Antoine (#65) of the Atlanta 10 Milwaukee 1 Chicago in the final minute of the second playoffs. Vermette and Teuvo Teravainen period as Anaheim bounced back Anaheim goaltender Frederik were both dropped despite being Tampa Bay 3 Oakland 0 Blackhawks from a triple-overtime defeat in Andersen made 27 saves and stood healthy. Cleveland 5 Chicago White Sox 2 collide Game Two that tied the best-of- tall in the final stages where the “It was a tough game the other Chicago Cubs 3 San Diego 0 during Game seven series. Ducks winger Corey Blackhawks brought on an extra day with travel, I wanted to bring Three of the Perry told reporters that the team attacker to chase an equalizer. new guys in,” said Blackhawks Western had refused to let that defeat get Kane looked to have a chance coach Joel Quenneville. McCann’s Conference them down and they had focused with five seconds remaining when “I thought we had a good start, finals at the on Game Three. he had the puck on his stick right when you get behind it’s a differ- homer wins it United Center “We had our chances in that in front of Anaheim’s goal but ent game. We were playing fine in Chicago game, so be it. You move on,” he could not put it towards the net. until we got behind.” for Tigers yesterday. said. “There’s going to be roller Corey Crawford, who made 60 Game Four is today in Chicago. coasters in the play-offs.” saves in Game Two, stopped 25 REUTERS DETROIT: James McCann homered to lead off the bottom of the 11th inning as the Detroit Tigers, who squandered a five- run lead, pulled out a 6-5 victory over the Houston Astros. Late birdie lifts Spieth to share of Colonial lead Houston trailed 5-0 but scored three runs in the seventh, one in FORT WORTH, USA: 1997 British Open, is playing in ago, eventually finishing equal the eighth and got a game-tying Masters champion Jordan his home state for the first time sixth. home run from Preston Tucker, Spieth drained a 19-foot birdie since then. “If I keep putting myself in that the Astros’ Major-League leading at the final hole yesterday to join And he was feeling right at position, I’m going to get some 62nd of the season. a four-way tie for the lead at the home. wins,” said Na, whose only US The Tigers (25-17) pulled $6.5m Crowne Plaza Invitational “I’m comfortable enough hit- tour win came in 2011. within two games of Kansas City, at Colonial. ting my nine- eight- seven-irons Weekley had six birdies with- while Houston dropped to 27-15. Playing in front of delighted into the green right now,” he said. out a bogey, despite playing with Mets 5, Cardinals 0 fans near his hometown of Dallas, “They’re so receptive that you can a sore back. Jacob deGrom retired the final Spieth was unfazed by the three- still fire them right at the flag.” “Not really swinging at it real 23 batters he faced and combined hour delay that pushed back the Spieth did miss the green four good right now because of my on a two-hitter with right-hander start of play, recording six birdies times, and each time his putter back,” he said. “We just tried Jeurys Familia as the New York without a bogey to tie Japan’s Ryo rescued him. He made three par- to manage it knowing that we Mets beat the St. Louis Cardinals Ishikawa and fellow Americans saving putts from off the green, couldn’t hit the full shots.” 5-0. Kevin Na and Boo Weekley atop and at 18 his birdie effort was Weekley’s putter was working Lucas Duda hit a pair of home the leaderboard on six-under 64. from just off the green. just fine, as he made all 12 of his runs and four RBIs for the Spieth, ranked number two in “That really keeps the momen- putts from inside 10 feet to posi- Mets (24-18), who pulled within the world, drew a massive gallery tum going,” Spieth said. tion himself for a run at a second a half-game of Washington for when he teed off at 3:36 pm, the Na and Weekley teed off early Colonial crown to go with his 2013 first place in the National League times pushed back after overnight and set the target. title. Ishikawa also teed off in the East. rain and thunderstorms. “I started out great, hit a lot afternoon and enjoyed a round The Cardinals fell to 27-14. He opened with back-to-back of good shots. I felt like my iron highlighted by a chip-in for birdie Rockies 7, Phillies 3 birdies and picked up another play was an A-plus performance at 17 — his eighth hole of the day Michael McKenry’s two-run stroke at the seventh, then today and I made some great — and back-to-back birdies to cap homer and strong work by the nabbed three more birdies com- putts when I needed to for par,” his round at eight and nine. Colorado bullpen enabled the ing in. said Na, who had seven birdies Ishikawa, 23, is still seeking Rockies to beat the Philadelphia Spieth, whose sensational vic- and one bogey. his first win on the US tour after Jordan Spieth reacts after putting on the 14th green during the second Phillies 7-3. tory at Augusta National made Na’s quick start isn’t a surprise. winning six of his 11 Japanese round of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at the Colonial Country Club in It was the Rockies (15-23) him the first Texan to win a major He shared the 36-hole lead at the Tour titles before the age of 18. Fort Worth, Texas, yesterday. fourth win in 19 games. title since Justin Leonard won the Players Championship a fortnight AFP REUTERS SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 F1 faces confusing future under Monaco spotlight

MONACO: Formula One’s Court on Thursday heard that travelling circus of sports- 1 2 Her Majesty’s Revenue and men, wheeler-dealers and bril- Customs (HMRC), the British tax liant engineers rose to a sunlit collectors, claim that a 2008 set- Mediterranean morning yester- tlement agreed with Ecclestone, day and an equally typical list of relating to a family trust, is invalid dramatic and wildly contrasting because he withheld information. headlines. This followed events last year On the annual ‘rest’ day at the when Ecclestone halted proceed- Monaco Grand Prix, the drivers ings against him in a bribery trial faced a series of technical brief- by paying $100m to the German ings with their teams and a authorities. The sport’s owner- mass autograph-signing session controllers CVC Capital Partners in the Place d’Armes during the have not been impressed. afternoon. Never one to lie down easily, The teams analysed, calculated, Ecclestone has said he plans to tuned and polished their motor sue the British authorities for a homes, racing machines and failure to respect an agreement cramped pit-garages, some com- 1. Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team’s German made between them in 2008, one plete with trees amid the span- 3 driver Nico Rosberg poses for a picture with a 4 year after he had heart surgery ners and digital instruments. fan in the pit lane area of the Monaco Street and created his family trust, Glamorous? On a warm day, it Circuit in Monte-Carlo yesterday. Bambino Holdings, for the benefit may pass as diverting, but in a of his ex-wife and two daughters. wider view it is hardly the kind “I’ll be fighting this all the way,” 2. Ferrari’s German driver Sebastien Vettel of Hollywood-style pastime that said Ecclestone. “I’ve paid all the poses with fans in Monte Carlo yesterday. they once enjoyed. taxes I’ve ever had to pay.” Long gone are lazy outings to His position appears to remain the beach at Saint-Jean-Cap- 3. Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone critical to the business he built Ferrat or trips to Cannes to party arrives at the paddock of the Monaco Street just as Hamilton’s image and at the film festival. At Monaco, Circuit in Monte Carlo yesterday. personal brand are important where the yachts bob in the har- to Mercedes and Formula One’s bour and paddock regulars scram- 4. Mercedes’ driver Lewis Hamilton signs global marketing prowess and ble for mind space, it is all about autographs in the pit lane area yesterday. success. the deals, money and business. The two-time champion’s dom- Two days after Mercedes con- £1bn (around $1.6 billion dollars). hero in 2014, revealed his family this extraordinary event with an As grandstand seats remain inance in Thursday’s practice firmed the re-signing of world At the same time, team chiefs are prepared for his death at any exotic history. increasingly unoccupied and tel- confirmed his level of supremacy champion Lewis Hamilton on a suggested at a news briefing that time. Ecclestone, 84, remains central evision-viewing figures fall, many as surely as the teams’ unproduc- three-year contract extension, the sport is close to a crisis and Bianchi, 25, suffered terrible to the sport just as it endures a involved believe his leadership is tive infighting has kept alive F1’s reported to be worth more than lacks an identity, one claim- head injuries in a crash at the period of sporting and technical essential. Many others think it need for Ecclestone. $120m dollars, the sport’s long- ing that its influential ‘Strategy Japanese Grand Prix last October. soul-searching in pursuit of the is not and forecast the end of Despite the glamorous back- serving commercial ringmaster Group’ is “not fit for purpose”, His plight throws a shaft structure and identity that will all associations with an era once drop, both know they need this Bernie Ecclestone revealed he is while the father of stricken of realism across the surreal enable it to rekindle the enthusi- known as ‘the Piranha Club’. Sunday’s Monaco race to lift an set to fight a British tax bill for French driver Jules Bianchi, a atmosphere that is prevalent at asm of its supporters. A hearing in London’s High air of gloom. AFP Nadal may face Djokovic Karate championship continues in French Open quarters Tough draw for defending champion at Roland Garros

PARIS: Nine-time champion Rafael Nadal and world number one Novak Djokovic were placed on a mouth-watering French Open quarter-final collision course in yesterday’s draw. FROM LEFT: Nadal is seeded a lowly sixth Russia’s Maria this year after slipping to seven Sharapova, in the rankings and as a result President of was always likely to face one of the Federation his major rivals in the last eight. Francaise de “It’s very strange,” admitted Tennis Jean Nadal, promoted to the sixth Gachassin and seeding after the injury-enforced Spain’s Rafael pull-out of Canada’s Milos Raonic. Nadal pose “It’s never happened before. after the draw “But I have to play four matches to get to the quarter-finals. I have for the first to be ready for the first round.” round of the Nadal defeated Djokovic in Roland Garros the 2012 and 2014 finals, but the 2015 French top-seeded Serb, who turned 28 Open tennis yesterday, is the overwhelming championships favourite for a maiden Roland in Paris Garros title this year. yesterday. Uzbekistan’s Saymatov Sadriddin celebrates his victory during the 4th Djokovic goes into the French Qatar International Karate Championship at Al Rayyan Indoor Hall in Open, which starts tomorrow, rid- Doha yesterday. PICTURES: KAMMUTTY VP ing a 22-match unbeaten streak and has already captured a fifth Australian Open and Masters crowns in Indian Wells, Miami, which put Nadal into his section. The other potential quarter- shy of matching Steffi Graf’s Monte Carlo and Rome this year. “I think that even a few weeks finals could see second seed Roger Open-era record of 22 Grand Djokovic, bidding to become ago when Rafa dropped from the Federer, the 2009 champion, face Slam titles, starts against a quali- only the eighth man to complete top four, I think people already Swiss compatriot Stan Wawrinka. fier but could meet sister Venus the career Grand Slam, starts his started talking the eventual quar- Third seeded Andy Murray in the last 16. campaign in Paris against expe- ter-finals with one of the top guys. was drawn for a potential last- Two-time Australian Open rienced 33-year-old Finn Jarkko So it’s not a surprise,” said the eight clash against David Ferrer winner and former number one Nieminen while Nadal begins Serb. while Tomas Berdych could tackle Azarenka is a potential third against 18-year-old French wild- “It’s been something that was Japan’s Kei Nishikori. round opponent for Williams. card Quentin Halys, the world building up already for a few Federer, the 2009 champion, Adding extra spice to the draw number 304. weeks. But again, it’s a draw. You starts against a qualifier but is the presence of bitter American The world number one said can’t affect it. There is always a has Latvian 24th seed Ernests rival Sloane Stephens in Serena’s he wasn’t surprised by the draw chance that that’s gonna happen.” Gulbis, who knocked him out in half. the fourth round last year, also in Stephens could face the two- his section. time champion in the last 16 but French star Gael Monfils, who she starts against Venus. defeated Federer at the Davis Cup In contrast, second seeded final in 2014, is a potential fourth defending champion Maria round opponent. Sharapova starts against experi- Murray is a possible semi- enced Estonian Kaia Kanepi and final opponent for Djokovic as could tackle Spanish claycourter well as Nadal with the Scot, the Carla Sanchez Navarro in the champion on clay in Munich and quarter-finals. Madrid this year and with a 10-0 Former number one Caroline record on the surface, starting Wozniacki is a possible last-eight against a qualifier. opponent for Williams. Murray, a semi-finalist last Third seed Simona Halep, the year, could face Australian hope runner-up in 2014, could meet Nick Kyrgios, who beat Federer in 2008 champion Ana Ivanovic in Madrid, in the third round. the quarter-finals. In the women’s singles, top seed Petra Kvitova, the fourth- Serena Williams was handed a seeded Wimbledon champion is tough draw which could see the in Serena’s half of the draw and American taking on old rival a potential semi-final rival. Victoria Azarenka and sister Kvitova knocked the American Azerbaijan’s Gasimova Ilaha (left) and Ukraine’s Zuhria Mshenesh in action Serbia’s Novak Djokovic takes part in a practice session two days before Venus before the quarter-finals. out of Madrid this month, end- during the 4th Qatar International Karate Championship at Al Rayyan Indoor the first round of the French Open, in Paris yesterday. Williams, the 2002 and 2013 ing the 19-time major winner’s Hall in Doha yesterday. champion and just three majors 27-match win streak. AFP SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Manish Kahsik of India prepares to land a left hook against Egypt’s Abdelaal Mahmoud during their light (60kg) bout on day three of the Doha International Boxing Tournament at Al Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Arena in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: India’s Manjo Kumar in action against Mohamed Eslam Ahmed of Egypt. Both Indian boxers won their respective bouts. Who said what

“I have come here battle ready. I had been competing in another competition in Algeria before I came here. I am happy with my Experienced Kumar leads win today because he (Hassan Ali) is a tough fighter. I landed some solid punches. I’d be very happy if I can win the gold tomorrow against Gaurav. I’ve never fought him before. India’s charge in Doha Tunisia’s Montassar Bouali “See, we have come here prepared. Our coaches led by Sandhu sir and Five Indian boxers reach finals; Qatar’s Qlement goes out in semis other people keep us informed and ready. We watch and analyse BY RIZWAN REHMAT opponents. We watch videos of prepared. We have worked really other boxers. I am sure we can go hard,” Kumar said. DOHA: on and win a medal each. It is great Commonwealth Games “These African boxers are to see so many Indian boxers reach hero Manoj Kumar and four tough to negotiate. We are usu- Qatar’s the finals. We are here to pick up other Indian boxers yester- ally busy fighting Asian boxers Sonday medals. day stormed into the finals at but when you take on such box- Qlement and the Doha International Boxing ers, you have to adopt a different India’s Shiva Thapa Tournament. strategy,” Kumar said. Morocco’s Kumar, who won a gold medal “My first attempt is not to get Mohamed in the light welterweight class at injured and hurt as I am close to Assaghir “It was a tough bout. I am glad the 2010 Commonwealth Games a final. Anyway, I feel on top of my trade blows I have come through. He was a in Delhi, yesterday overcame game and I guess my experience during tough opponent. It feels great to be Mohamed Eslam Ahmed of Egypt helps,” Kumar admitted. their light in the final. I will try my best to win in their light welter class (64kg) Kumar’s compatriot Kaushik heavy class a gold medal tomorrow. Being here fight. also posted a win, beating bout (81kg) is a good preparation for me since Gaurav Bidhuri, Shiva Thapa, Abdelaal Mahmoud of Egypt in yesterday. we have the World Championships here in October. I hope I can come Manish Kaushik and Laishram their light class (60kg) bout. Assaghir won here again.” Devendro also signed in for the “He was a tough opponent but the bout. finals to be held today at Ali Bin my coaches had prepared me well. Nico Magliquian of the Hamad Al Attiyah Arena. I have beaten him previously in Philippines In other bouts yesterday, Indonesia,” Kaushik said. Qatar’s boxers failed to cross the “I have just started out in my semi-final stages. career. I am 19. There’s a long “Let’s see what happens in the Home medal hope Sonday way to go. My goal is to reach the Bilel Mhamdi in their bantam “I am happy with my win Basnueva said: “We know our final. If I am destined to win, I Qlement went down to Mohamed Olympics one day. I am working class bout (56kg). today because he (Hassan Ali) boxers today. We went in with a will. However, I have come here Assaghir of Morocco in their light towards that. “See, we have come here pre- is a tough fighter. I landed some very strong boxer. He played with prepared. We have worked really heavy class (81kg) while Amir “We are surrounded by some pared. Our coaches led by Sandhu solid punches. I’d be very happy heart. We need more prepara- hard. These African boxers are Alsaae was no match against very good Indian boxers. We have sir and other people keep us if I can win the gold tomorrow tion. And that will be the key in tough to negotiate. We are usually Australia’s Whateley Jason. Olympic champions and Asian informed and ready,” Thapa said. against Gaurav. I’ve never fought the future when we go for other busy fighting Asian boxers but “The bout was a bit difficult. I champions here. There’s a lot of “We watch and analyse oppo- him before,” he added. tournaments.” when you take on such boxers, you felt a bit tired, fought very hard, competition,” he added. nents. We watch videos of other Nico Magliquian of the He added: “We will have a look have to adopt a different strategy.” but I gave it my all for a win. I India’s Bidhuri beat Qatar’s boxers. I am sure we can go on Philippines beat Sahm Karrar of at the mistakes our boxers made India’s Manoj Kumar have been working hard over the Mostafa Hegazy with ease in their and win a medal each,” he added. Iraq in their light welter (64kg) and try to rectify them for future last two months for this tourna- fly class (52kg). “It is great to see so many fight. tournaments. We don’t have too ment,” Assaghir said. “I didn’t expect much of a fight Indian boxers reach the finals. “It was a tough bout. I am glad. many bouts here. But we have “I didn’t expect much of a fight “I will try do my best in the and that’s what happened. I tried We are here to pick up medals,” I have come through. He was a been moving up. Our boxers have and that’s what happened. I tried final. I have not fought him to keep testing myself by playing Thapa said. tough opponent. It feels great to improved a lot.” to keep testing myself by playing (the other finalist) before,” the the three rounds with control,” Tunisia’s Montassar Bouali be in the final,” Magliquian said. The Cuban told local media: the three rounds with control. He Moroccan added. Bidhuri said. “He wasn’t very battled for his win over Iraq’s “I will try my best to win a gold “Earlier when they used to play wasn’t very experienced and I have Kumar, India’s vastly experi- experienced and I have been in Hassan Ali Shaker in their fly medal tomorrow. with Morocco, Egypt, they would been in top-flight boxing for some enced fighter, beat Ahmed in a top-flight boxing for some time. class (52kg) bout. “Being here is a good prepa- barely last the entire bout. Now time. I am well prepared and I want unanimous points decision. I am well prepared and I want to “I have come here battle ready. ration for me since we have the they are looking to finish the to win the gold medal.” “Let’s see what happens tomor- win the gold medal,” he said. I had been competing in another World Championships. I hope I fights. Physical preparation is an row. If I am destined to win, I India’s Thapa won a unanimous competition in Algeria before I can come here again,” he added. area we need to work on.” India’s Gaurav Bidhuri will. However, I have come here points decision against Tunisia’s came here,” Bouali said. Qatar coach Juanito Carlos THE PENINSULA Referee Lee has no plans to stop!

DOHA: Referee Hyeok Lee Ukraine. Then there was an event from Korea has been officiating in China,” Lee said. at boxing tournaments for the When asked about her other Aldren last 18 years. pastimes away from boxing Moreno And she has no plans to stop. events, Lee said she has family to of the “I have been a referee for 18 look after. Philippines years and I enjoy it a lot,” Lee said “I have two children who are yesterday. in their 20s. Me and my husband, celebrates “I like my job and I will con- we follow sport when we get the winning tinue doing this,” she said quickly. time,” Lee said. his bout “I have been an international “My entire family likes sports. against referee for seven years,” she My children like badminton,” Lee Yassine added. said. Zahir of “I’ve always liked sports from Lee, who is currently officiat- Morocco the beginning. I used to work in ing at the Doha International at Ali Bin the military and love for sports Boxing Tournament, said she is Hamad has been with me for as long as I ‘impressed’ with what she has Al Attiyah can remember,” she said. seen on her maiden visit to Doha. Arena. In “I love to watch taekwondo. It “This is a good place. This is my the middle is a very special sport in Korea,” first time in Doha. is referee Lee said. “It is a beautiful city with tall Hyeok “Obviously you can say that I buildings. It has nice beaches Lee from like boxing a lot too (laughs). I get which I like,” Lee said. Korea. to travel a fair bit when I have to “I have enjoyed my stay,” she go officiate during boxing tourna- said. President of Qatar Boxing Federation (QBF) Yusuf Ali Kadhim watches ments,” Lee said. “This is a great venue. It is one boxers in action during day three of the Doha International Boxing “I was in Azerbaijan recently of the best we have seen,” Lee Tournament at Al Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Arena in Doha yesterday. and before that I travelled to added. THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 Pakistan win as cricket comes home Hosts win by five wickets as international cricket returns to the nation after six years

LAHORE: Pakistan celebrated international cricket’s return after six years with a five- wicket win against Zimbabwe in Pakistani the first Twenty20 international batsman at a packed and security-tight Ahmed Gaddafi Stadium yesterday. Shehzad The win doubled the joy for (right) plays the hosts as the match brought a shot during international cricket home for the a T20 match first time since attacks on the Sri against Lankan team bus in Lahore in Zimbabwe at March 2009. the Gaddafi Strict security was in place Stadium with 4,000 policemen on duty, in Lahore but that did not stop cricket- yesterday. deprived fans from packing the RIGHT: 27,000-capacity stadium. Pakistan opener Mukhtar Pakistani fans Ahmed hit a maiden half cen- hold placards tury during his rapid 45-ball 83 to during the help Pakistan achieve their best international Twenty20 chase in 19.3 overs and T20 match take a 1-0 lead in the two-match between series. Pakistan and Zimbabwe captain Elton Zimbabwe at Chigumbura hit eight bounda- the Gaddafi ries and a six in his 35-ball knock Stadium during his career best 54 to lead yesterday. Zimbabwe to an imposing 172-6 in their 20 overs after electing to bat. Fans lined up for entry five “They supported both teams Mukhtar hit 12 fours and Raza who hit one six and a four hours before the start of the and it’s always good to play in three sixes before he edged spin- in his 13-ball 17. match at 7pm local time and had front of big crowds and hope- ner Greame Cremer behind the Sami, playing his first interna- Scoreboard to go through five check points fully more spectators will come wicket. tional match for three years, dis- Zimbabwe: Pakistan: before entering the stadium. to the next games too,” said Pakistan also lost Mohammad missed Raza to finish with 3-36. H Masakadza b Sami ...... 43 Mukhtar Ahmed c c Mutumbami b Cremer 83 Fire works opened the Chigumbura. Hafeez (12), Umar Akmal (four) Chigumbura ensured Zimbabwe V Sibanda c Ahmed b Sami ...... 13 Ahmed Shehzad c Mutumbami b Williams 55 match with Pakistan President “It shows that Pakistan people and Shoaib Malik (seven) in a get to a respectable total by hit- C Coventry? c Ahmed b Riaz ...... 14 Mohammad Hafeez c Coverntry b Cremer 12 Mamnoon Hussain introduced to love cricket. We’ve been safe and mini-slump before Afridi hit the ting three boundaries in paceman E Chigumbura b Riaz ...... 54 Shoaib Malik b Panyangara ...... 7 the teams. well looked after.” winning boundary in a nervy Wahab Riaz’s 18th over and then S Williams c Riaz b Malik ...... 16 Umar Akmal c Sibanda b Vitori ...... 4 Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi On the field, Pakistan bettered finish. hit a six off Sami in the next to Sikandar Raza c Ahmed b Sami ...... 17 Sarfraz Ahmed (not out) ...... 3 said the win sent out a positive their highest Twenty20 chase Earlier Zimbabwe got off to reach his second Twenty20 half R Mutumbami (not out) ...... 4 Shahid Afridi (not out) ...... 4 message that the country was a by one run, beating the 172 they a flier with opener Hamilton century. G Cremer (not out) ...... 2 Extras: (LB 5) ...... 5 safe, secure place to visit. chased against Bangladesh at Masakadza (43) and Vusi Chigumbura’s previous best Extras (LB3, NB 1, W5) ...... 9 Total: (for five wkts; 19.3 overs) ...... 173 “It’s a great occasion and the Pallekele in 2012. Sibanda (13) racing to 58 in 6.5 T20 score was 53 not out he made Total (for six wkts; 20 overs) ...... 172 Fall of wickets: 1-142, 2-144, 3-157, 4-162, win made it greater,” said Afridi. Mukhtar, playing only his sec- overs before recalled paceman against United Arab Emirates at Did not bat: T Panyangara, G Mpofu, B Vitori 5-169 “With this match we have given ond international game, gave Mohammad Sami dismissing both Sylhet in Bangladesh last year. Fall of wickets: 1-58, 2-58, 3-73, 4-100, Did not bat: Anwar Ali, Bilawal Bhatti, Wahab a positive message to the world Pakistan a sound start with off successive deliveries. The second Twenty20 will be 5-142, 6-168 Riaz, Mohammad Sami that Pakistan is a safe country.” an opening stand of 142 with Chigumbura then held the played on Sunday followed by Bowling: Ali 3-0-18-0, Sami 4-0-36-3 (1w), Bowling: Panyangara 2.3-0-28-1, Vitori 4-0- Despite the loss, Chigumbura Ahmed Shehzad who made a innings together with a rapid three one-day internationals on Bhatti 3-0-37-0 (1nb), Riaz 4-0-38-2 (4w), Af- 24-1, Mpofu 3-0-32-0, Williams 4-0-33-0, was happy that his team played 39-ball 55 with six boundaries 42-run stand for the fifth wicket May 26, 29 and 31 — all in Lahore. ridi 3-0-28-0, Malik 3-0-12-1 Cremer 4-0-28-2, Raza 2-0-23-0 a major role in a landmark event. and a six. with Pakistan born Sikander AFP CSK beat RCB by three New Zealand make wickets to reach final toothless England toil

RANCHI: Chennai Super LONDON: Kane Williamson Kings (CSK) reached the final and Ross Taylor mastered a life- of the Indian Premier League less England attack to lift New (IPL) for the sixth time as they Chennai Zealand to 303 for two at the defeated Royal Challengers Super close on the second day of the Bangalore (RCB) by three Kings’ R. first Test at Lord’s yesterday. wickets in Qualifier 2 of the Ashwin Replying to England’s 389, the Twenty20 tournament at the celebrates pair shared an unbroken third- JSCA International Cricket after hitting wicket partnership of 155 to give Stadium here yesterday. the winning the touring side the ascendancy Put in to bat, two-time run- in the match. runs ners-up RCB could only manage Williamson was 92 not out at against a modest total of 139/8 with left- the close with Taylor on 47 and handed opener Chris Gayle top- Royal New Zealand will look to build a scoring with 41. Sarfaraz Khan Challengers big lead on Saturday to put pres- also played a handy innings of 31. Bangalore sure on the hosts in their second Left-arm pacer Ashish Nehra was during IPL’s innings. the pick of the bowlers for CSK as Qualifier 2 Tom Latham and Martin he picked up 3/28 from his four in Ranchi Guptill also made fluent half cen- overs. yesterday. turies in a solid opening partner- In reply of the small target, ship of 148 before the former, on two-time champions CSK were 59, was trapped lbw by spinner driven by a patient knock from Moeen Ali. veteran Michel Hussey, who overs, including the vital wick- boundaries and three sixes. Three balls later Guptill drove scored 56 from 46 balls. The left- ets of RCB skipper Virat Kohli Two important cameos from Stuart Broad loosely to cover hander shared a useful 47-run (12) and explosive batsman AB de wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh where Gary Ballance took a fine stand with skipper Mahendra Villiers (1). Karthik (28) and Sarfaraz Khan sprawling catch to dismiss the Singh Dhoni (26) to help his side Nehra was well assisted by off- (31) helped augment RCB’s total elegant right-hander for 70. reach home with three wickets spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, at the end, but the top order That was England’s last suc- and a ball to spare. who ended with brilliant bowl- failed to make an impact when it cess of the day, however, as the With this win, CSK set up ing figures of 4-0-13-1, scalping mattered the most. compact Williamson went about New Zealand’s Ross Taylor plays a shot during his side’s first Test against Sunday’s title clash with Mumbai Mandeep Singh (4). The duo did Good bowling changes and his work. England at the Lord’s Cricket Ground in London yesterday. Indians, who won the Qualifier 1 not allow the RCB batsmen to field placements by CSK skip- He pushed the ball around clev- against the same opponents on accelerate at all. per Mahendra Singh Dhoni erly and efficiently dispatched England captain Alastair Cook ball so hopefully we can bowl a Tuesday. Though left-handed opener also proved significant as Mohit loose balls to the boundary, reach- rotated his bowlers but none of bit better,” Moeen told Sky Sports. Earlier, veteran pacer Nehra Chris Gayle top-scored with 41, Sharma, Suresh Raina and ing his fifty off 78 deliveries. the seamers extracted any move- “I was happy with the way I once again came good for CSK it wasn’t his usual innings as he Dwayne Bravo also clinched a Taylor started watchfully but ment and the hosts were sloppy in bowled today. I have been work- as he clinched 3/28 in his four played 43 balls and hit only two wicket each to slow down the run he played a couple of signature the field, Ian Bell spilling a catch ing on my action. I was forcing it rate and restrict RCB to 139/8. sweetly-timed drives in the final in the slips and Broad failing to in the West Indies.” Scoreboard During the chase, CSK had session to signal his return to run out Taylor. New Zealand took three wick- luck on their side with RCB drop- form after a poor run. “We are not far from the new ets in the first hour to wrap up ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE CHENNAI SUPER KINGS ping Michael Hussey and Faf du the England innings after the Chris Gayle c & b Raina ...... 41 Dwayne Smith c Starc b Aravind ...... 17 Plessis. Scoreboard hosts resumed on 354 for seven. Virat Kohli c Sharma b Nehra ...... 12 Michael Hussey c Patel b Wiese ...... 56 Hussey kept the scoreboard Moeen reached his fifty before AB de Villiers lbw Nehra ...... 1 Faf du Plessis b Chahal ...... 21 ticking with ones, twos and odd England (Innings): Bowling: Boult 29-6-79-4; Southee 24-1-104- edging left-arm seamer Trent Mandeep Singh c Hussey b Ashwin ...... 4 Suresh Raina c Wiese b Chahal ...... 0 boundaries before he played it to A Lyth c Watling b Southee ...... 7 1 (3nb, 1w); Henry 24.5-3-93-4 (1w); Craig Boult to stand-in wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik c Sharma b Nehra ...... 28 Mahendra Singh Dhoni c Karthik b Patel ....26 the hands of Harshal Patel off A Cook c Watling b b Henry ...... 16 18-2-77-1; Anderson 5-1-14-0 Latham for 58. Sarfarz Khan c Negi b Bravo ...... 31 Pawan Negi run out (Khan) ...... 12 David Wiese. G Ballance c Southee b Boult ...... 1 New Zealand (Innings): Broad’s miserable batting form David Wiese c Bravo b Sharma ...... 12 Dwayne Bravo b Starc ...... 0 With 32 still required in 21 I Bell b Henry ...... 1 M Guptill c Ballance b Broad ...... 70 continued when he nicked Boult Harshal Patel run out (Dhoni) ...... 2 Ravindra Jadeja (not out) ...... 0 deliveries and skipper Dhoni not J Root c Latham b Henry ...... 98 T Latham lbw b Ali ...... 59 through to Latham for three Mitchell Starc (not out) ...... 1 Ravichandran Ashwin (not out) ...... 1 in his best of forms, it seemed B Stokes b Craig ...... 92 K Williamson (batting)...... 92 and James Anderson, on 11, was Sreenath Aravind (not out) ...... 0 Extras (B 3, LB 1, W 3) ...... 7 RCB had a chance. But Dhoni J Buttler lbw b Boult ...... 67 R Taylor (batting) ...... 47 caught and bowled by Matt Henry. Extras (LB 2, W 5) ...... 7 Total (7 wkts; 19.5 overs) ...... 140 and Pawan Negi (12 in six balls) M Ali c Latham b Boult ...... 58 Extras (B14, LB20, NB1) ...... 35 Boult completed figures of four Total (8 wkts; 20 overs) ...... 139 Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-61, 3-61, 4-108, ensured that they enter the final S Broad c Latham b Boult ...... 3 Total (2 wkts, 77 overs) ...... 303 for 79 and Henry took four for 93 Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-25, 3-36, 4-80, 5-135, 6-135, 7-139. for the fourth time in the last five M Wood not out ...... 8 To bat: B McCullum, C Anderson, BJ Watling, M on his debut. 5-107, 6-125, 7-138, 8-139. Bowling: Mitchell Starc 4-0-27-1, Sreenath years. J Anderson c and b Henry ...... 11 Craig, T Southee, M Henry, T Boult “We need to keep going the way Bowling: Ashish Nehra 4-0-28-3; Ravichandran Aravind 4-0-25-1, Harshal Patel 3.5-0-26-1, Following this win, CSK pro- Extras (B16, LB6, W2, NB3) ...... 27 Fall of wickets: 1-148, 2-148 we are and pushing to get ahead Ashwin 4-0-13-1; Mohit Sharma 4-0-22-1; David Wiese 4-0-30-1, Yuzvendra Chahal 4-0- ceed to the final to be played at Total (all out, 100.5 overs) ...... 389 Bowling: Anderson 16-4-46-0; Broad 16-2- and build a good first innings Suresh Raina 3-0-36-1; Dwayne Bravo 3-0-21-1; 28-2 the Eden Gardens in Kolkata Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-25, 3-25, 4-30, 5-191, 42-1; Wood 13-0-60-0 (1nb); Stokes 13-2-63- lead,” Guptill told Sky Sports. Pawan Negi 1-0-4-0; Ravindra Jadeja 1-0-13-0 Player-of-the-match: A Nehra tomorrow against 2013 champi- 6-251, 7-354, 8-363, 9-368, 10-389. 0; Ali 17-3-52-1; Root 2-0-6-0 “Then we can really build from ons Mumbai. 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El Jaish players are seen during a training session at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in Doha. RIGHT: Al Sadd players prepare for their training session at the same venue. Al Sadd today host El Jaish in the Emir Cup final. The Emir Cup is Qatar’s most popular football tournament.

Emir Cup Champions since 2001 2001 Al Sadd 3-2 Qatar SC El Jaish eager to go all 2002 Al Ittihad 4-1 Al Sadd 2003 Al Sadd 2-1 Al Ahli 2004 Al Rayyan 3-2 Qatar SC 2005 Al Sadd 0-0 Al Wakrah (5-4 pens) 2006 Al Rayyan 1-1 Al Gharrafa (5-3 pens) the way against Al Sadd 2007 Al Sadd 0-0 Al Khor (5-4 pens) 2008 Umm-Salal Sports Club 2-2 Al Gharrafa (4-1 pens) Former champions Al Sadd host El Jaish in Emir Cup final today 2009 Al Gharrafa 2-1 Al Rayyan 2010 Al Rayyan 1-0 Umm-Salal 2011 Al Rayyan 2-1 Al Gharrafa DOHA: El Jaish, one of the most 2012 Al Gharrafa 0-0 Al Sadd (5-4 consistent sides in Qatar, are pens) confident of going all the way in 2013 Al Rayyan 2-1 Al Sadd the Emir Cup final against Doha 2014 Al Sadd 3-0 Al Sailiyah giants Al Sadd. Playing the Emir Cup final for the first time in six attempts, El Jaish will be relying on their Emir Cup Trivia ‘fighting’ spirit to stop hosts from nailing their 15th triumph. “The victory against Qatar SC %Hussein Amute will become was well deserved. We stuck with El Jaish players the first coach in the history of it till the very last minute,” El pose for the Emir Cup to reach three finals in Jaish coach Sabri Lamouchi said photographers a row. He lost the 2013 final but yesterday. ahead of won in 2014. “It showed that my players today’s Emir % wanted to win the match,” the Cup final Hussein Amute, if he helps 43-year-old Frenchman added. Al Sadd win the Emir Cup final in Doha “We have a group of 24-25 play- today, he will become the only yesterday. ers who all want to play the final. player-manager to achieve the So I don’t have to prepare my feat in two different roles for a players,” Lamouchi said QSL side. He scored seven goals “What I care about it is to for Al Sadd in 2001 when the win and to make history for our Doha giants won the Emir Cup. club. We are focused on that,” % Lamouchi said. Al Sadd have reached the “We will focus on our team and final of Emir Cup 50 percent of do everything we can to win this,” the times they have competed he said. in the tournament. The reached “We are very happy that we the final 22 times, including this have qualified and I am con- year, and have won the trophy on fidently saying that my play- 14 occasions. They have finished ers deserve to play in the final,” lots of experience,” he added. “It is very easy to prepare my way. We are totally ready for this “We hope to be able to put our runners-up seven times. Lamouchi said. When reminded about El Jaish players for a game,” Lamouchi game,” Amutea said. best performance as it should be %This year’s Emir Cup final Lamouchi said despite his losing twice to Al Sadd in the said. “We are competing very hard to in an Emir Cup final. And it will will be El Jaish’s first title clash squad’s soaring confidence, he Qatar Stars League (QSL) that “I focus on tactics and motiva- win this title. We will be focused be an honour for us to meet the in this tournament. El Jaish have won’t under-estimate Al Sadd’s ended last month, Lamouchi tion. Individually I don’t have to on the details that will allow us Emir,” Amute said. featured in the Emir Cup a total potential to do well on home pitch. said: “For me there’s no payback, tell players how much they need to end the season with the title,” “Our team is full of confidence of six times. “Amute is an excellent coach. no revenge. We lost twice in the to give more to win,” he said. he added. to play good football against El He is putting in an excellent per- league and we won in the semi- Amute, the Al Sadd coach, said “There’s a lot of pressure. We Jaish,” Amute said. %There have been six hat- formance at Sadd,” Lamouchi final of the Qatar Cup. So it is not nothing less than a win would for have played a strong game just “They seem to have more tricks in the Emir Cup history said. payback time for us. It is pure love the Doha giants. three days ago. El Jaish have had determination but I think we have - Mansoor Muftah (Al Sailiyah), “They are one of the oldest of the game for us.” “The last game of the local sea- a whole week to rest,” he added. weapons to finish the game and Montasser Zaki (Umm Salal), clubs and they have won the Emir Lamouchi said his players son is going to be decisive. The “But three days are enough for to take this trophy,” the Al Sadd Osvaldo Felix Souza (Al Gharafa), Cup before and other titles many needed no motivation to round winner will be getting the title us to prepare agianst a very big coach said at a pre-event press Abdullah Al Mazroui (Al Gharafa), times. They have big players with off the season with a win today. to close the season in a positive team. Our whole group is ready. conference. THE PENINSULA Luis Antonio (Al Gharafa), Luis Antonio (Al Ahli). Plucky El Jaish look to winning Doha giants Al Sadd eye another %In the 2004 edition of the Emir Cup, fans saw one player first major trophy in Qatar Emir Cup triumph score five goals in one match DOHA: El Jaish, one of the new entries into top flight of Qatar football, has reached the final of DOHA: Al Sadd is one win away from cornering Emir Cup glory in the final against El Jaish today. when Al Shamal played Muaither. the Emir Cup for the first time in six attempts. If the Doha giants succeed in nailing a win in the final football game of the home season then Al Shamal’s Razzaq Farhan The 43rd edition of the Emir Cup will conclude on May 23 with El Jaish taking on Al Sadd. coach Hussein Amute would be a delighted man. scored those five goals as his team posted an easy Emir Cup One of the few consistent sides in the country, El Jaish finished in third spot in the Qatar Stars After finishing second to Lekhwiya in the Qatar Stars League (QSL) title race, Al Sadd - the 14-time victory. League (QSL) this season. Lekhwiya and Al Sadd finished ahead of El Jaish in the QSL title race. Emir Cup champions - turned their attention to Qatar Cup but ended up losing to El Jaish in the At the end of the QSL season, El Jaish reached the Qatar Cup final - after beating Al Sadd 3-1 semi-finals. Al Sadd finished with a tally of 57 points in the QSL race and then did not qualify for %The 2001 edition saw the in the semi-finals - but unfortunately they lost the title clash to Lekhwiya and ended up in the Qatar Cup final. This must be the worrying point for coach Amute who would be desperately highest number of goals scored runners-up spot. looking to redeem a not-so-impressive season for a champion side. when players managed to find Without noteworthy success at the Asian level, El Jaish continued to be a force in Qatar where they Despite their woes at home, Al Sadd have done remarkably well at the Asian level, reaching the net an astonishing 112 times scripted consistent performances under Sabri Lamouchi, who took over at the end of December. the pre-quarters stage. In the on-going Emir Cup campaign, Al Sadd beat Al Khor 3-1, In the in 29 matches. It was 110 goals in 28 games in 2000. In QSL, El Jaish finished with 47 points from 26 games. El Jaish managed 15 wins, losing nine semi-finals, hosts Al Sadd stunned QSL champions Lekhwiya to book their place in the final. % with only two draws. In head-to-head clashes this season, Al Sadd hold the upper hand having won both games they The 2013 edition saw the highest number of matches In head-to-head clashes, Al Sadd won both games they played against El Jaish in QSL but the played against El Jaish in QSL. In the Qatar Cup semi-final El Jaish beat Al Sadd. latter triumphed in Qatar Cup semi-final. ending with a penalty shootout - How Al Sadd fared this season: eight out of 17 games needed a How El Jaish fared this season: Qatar Stars League: sudden penalty shoot to decide Qatar Stars League: on a winner. Second place Third place %Al Sadd and El Jaish meet Qatar Cup: Qatar Cup: in the Emir Cup for the second time - the last time two met in Lost to Lekhwiya in the final Lost in the semi-final against El Jaish Emir Cup it was an easy win for Emir Cup: Emir Cup: Al Sadd in 2014 semi-final. Beat Al Rayyan in the quarter-finals Beat Al Khor in the quarter-finals Beat Qatar SC in the semi-finals Beat Lekhwiya in the semi-finals SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

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VIENNA: Vienna hopes the Vienna to celebrate Eurovision. Sean Penn, Kelly Osbourne, Mary final of the Eurovision Song “We know that in some peo- J Blige and Wurst. Contest will show a new liberal ple’s minds Austria is still seen For Eurovision, it has even and light-hearted side to the as fusty, boring and everything changed some of its traffic lights opulent Austrian capital when other than cosmopolitan,” Ulrike to show same-sex couples instead the jamboree of glitter, capes Rauch-Keschmann, a spokes- of the usual single, gender-neutral and power ballads hits town woman for Austria’s national figure. this weekend. tourism organisation, said. “Vienna is...known by some Tourists associate Vienna with Some conservative politicians communities as one of the most classic architecture, composers, in Austria cried foul last year open cities,” said Martin Stanits, traditional coffee houses and the when broadcaster ORF picked a hotel association spokesman. Blue Danube Waltz, composed in Wurst to represent the tradition- “But with Conchita Wurst and 1866 — conservative images which ally Roman Catholic country. Eurovision, this image is finally the city is now trying to move But Wurst won by a landslide reaching a wider audience.” beyond. and in a sign of her instant pop- Vienna’s tourist office is invest- It has recently begun promot- ularity has since been gracing ing €1.2m in connection with the ing its culture and imperial his- adverts for Bank Austria splashed contest and hopes it will bring tory to a wider audience. across the city. around €26.5m in revenues and Hosting Eurovision, a kitsch “I personally feel that Austria benefits. contest popular with gay fans — is really coming out of the dark,” Tourism authorities believe and won last year by Austria’s said 29-year-old Ciaran Tuttiett Wurst’s victory and its staging bearded drag queen Conchita from Britain, sipping a beer at one of the show, watched by more Wurst — should give that strategy of Vienna’s public viewing spots. people worldwide than the Super a big boost. “They use Conchita to promote Bowl, will have a lasting effect on “I have not felt any dustiness themselves. It’s fantastic.” Austria and its image. at all. I think the liberal image The city is also known for the “No marketing campaign in the fits, it’s not artificial,” said Ralf, Rainbow Parade and the Life Ball, world would have meant such a 49, a German graphic designer one of the world’s biggest AIDS positive image boost for the coun- Singers Bianca Nicholas (left) and Alex Larke of the duo Electro Velvet, representing Britain, perform during rehearsals with a nose piercing who spent charity events, this year attended try,” Rauch-Keschmann said. for the Grand Final of the 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna yesterday. more than €1,500 on his trip to by stars like Charlize Theron and REUTERS

Eiffel Tower staff walk Little Prince gets French out over pickpockets PARIS: Paris’s iconic Eiffel tourists fall victim every day.” Tower was shut to tourists No details were given about premiere at Cannes for several hours yesterday as the agreement which saw work- staff walked off the job to pro- ers return to their posts in the CANNES: The creators of the test a surge in gangs of pick- late afternoon. animated film The Little Prince, pockets roaming around the The closure of the monument, which had its world premiere at monument. which attracts some seven mil- the Cannes festival yesterday, The closure of one of the busi- lion tourists a year, left hundreds knew they had to take extra est tourist attractions in the of visitors disappointed. care in adapting one of the most French capital ahead of a long “It might be the only chance cherished works of 20th-century holiday weekend recalled a simi- for my brother to visit the Jazz saxophonist French literature for the screen. lar strike at the Louvre museum tower,” said a dejected Tushar To that end, American direc- in 2013 as staff protested against Kardile from London, who was Bob Belden dead tor Mark Osborne (The SpongeBob the often violent pickpockets visiting with his brother from SquarePants Movie) has created a stalking the halls of the palace. India. NEW YORK: Bob Belden, a story within a story in which a Workers at the 126-year-old “We had booked reserved tick- global-minded saxophonist and Little Girl, voiced by Mackenzie iron lattice tower finally went ets. We are quite disappointed,” arranger who brought a jazz lens Foy (the 10-year-old Murph in back to work at around 4 pm, he said. to music ranging from chart- Interstellar) is introduced to poet after hundreds of tourists were “They have every right to go topping pop to classical Indian, and novelist Antoine de Saint- turned away throughout the day. on strike. But they should warn has died. He was 58. Exupery’s classic by an elderly The workers said in a state- the public in advance.” Blue Note Records, where he aviator (Jeff Bridges). ment they had chosen to down Elena Sofronova from Russia recorded his best known works, He lives in a rundown but fan- tools due to an “increase in pick- said: “They just told us that they confirmed his death. He died on tastic mansion with a wrecked pockets around the Eiffel Tower were on strike. We came here for Wednesday in New York, where plane in the backyard, next door and several threats and assaults.” our son’s sixth birthday. He is a he lived, after suffering a heart US actress Mackenzie Foy, US director Mark Osborne and US actor Riley to the soulless modern home The pickpockets “form a gang bit disappointed.” attack. where the girl and her mother, Osborne pose before leaving the Festival palace after the screening of the of four or five people. Sometimes The company charged with Belden in February became the The Little Prince who wants everything to be done film at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. there can be around 30” at the overseeing the management of first American musician to per- on time and to perfection, have monument, one of the striking the monument said in a state- form publicly in Iran since the moved in. upon the watercolours that Saint- the book in New York in the workers said on condition of ano- ment it “regrets that visi- 1979 Islamic revolution, playing He reads her The Little Prince, Exupery painted for his novella, a early 1940s but returned to join nymity, adding that sometimes tors already present are being with the government’s blessing which he says he has written, and fantasy tracking the relationship the French Free Forces in North they “fight among themselves.” punished.” amid an easing of long-standing opens her mind to how she is miss- between an aviator who crashes Africa to help fight Nazi Germany. Another said he had been It said management was work- tensions between Tehran and ing out on the wonders and fanta- in the Sahara and a small boy, He disappeared while flying a threatened while chasing away ing with police to take measures Washington. sies of childhood. the “Little Prince”, who says he reconnaissance mission over the a pickpocket: “He said to me “guaranteeing the security of To a warm welcome from the Other characters from the book, is from an asteroid and tells the Mediterranean in 1944, shortly ‘why don’t you let us work... if staff and public.” Iranian audience, Belden per- which has been translated into 250 story of his life. after the book’s publication. this continues you will have In April 2013 hundreds of formed on his soprano saxophone languages and sells about two mil- Computer-generated images are Osborne said he had done eve- problems’.’” tourists were left disappointed works from masters including lion copies a year, include The Fox used for the story about the Little rything in his power to retain the The statement from the when the Louvre — home to Miles Davis. The concert was voiced by James Franco and The Girl’s friendship with the aviator, book’s Gallic flavour. workers said they want “for- works of art such as the Mona backed by Search for Common Rose voiced by Marion Cotillard. and its consequences. The film will be released in mal guarantees from manage- Lisa and Venus de Milo — shut Ground, a US peace group. The film uses stop-motion ani- Saint-Exupery fled the Nazi France in July, with US plans as ment that lasting and effective its doors after staff complained Belden spoke glowingly about mation to recreate and expand occupation of France and wrote yet unannounced. REUTERS measures will be taken to end of being spat at, insulted and his interaction with Iranians and this scourge to which numerous even hit by pickpockets. AFP said he went in part because he found a lack of challenges on the US and European jazz circuits. Belden was considered an expert on Miles Davis and directed reissues of his works, but also India’s street dentists filling gap for the poor believed that jazz’s spirit required experimentation. BANGALORE: Ignoring noisy poor man won’t come here.” cities as well as towns, although In 2008, Belden brought buses and curious onlook- Baksh never formally trained few perform root canals, fillings together leading jazz and Indian ers, street dentist Allah Baksh as a dentist, instead learning his or other operations. musicians for “Miles from India,” a plunges his hands into a patient’s skills from his father, who came In Delhi’s crowded old quarter, South Asian-inspired exploration mouth to fit a sparkling set of in 1984 to the southern, sleepy third-generation dentist Satvinder of the work of Davis, who himself dentures for $12 in the Indian backwater now transformed into Singh, 48, takes a lunch break from had experimented with Indian city of Bangalore. a regional IT hub and thriving treating patients on the pavement. instrumentation. With his plastic stool, mirror metropolis. Numerous posters advertising his The collaboration featured art- and glass cases of teeth on display, Alongside his younger brother, services are propped up around ists ranging from jazz piano great Baksh is among hundreds of such son and nephew, Baksh set up him, as a multitude of vendors Chick Corea to Indian classical dentists frowned upon by their their clinic 14 years ago outside jostle for space. violinist Kala Ramnath. licenced counterparts in rapidly a bus stand, where together they Singh said his profession is The album was nominated for modernising India. make and fit dentures for some 20 slowly dying because of the growth a Grammy. Belden won three But the 54-year-old insists he is customers a day. of India’s formal dentist industry Grammys throughout his career, providing an essential service to A full set of teeth, moulded and along with more hygiene-conscious once for Best Historical Album for tens of millions of poor who cannot ready to fit in 30 minutes, costs customers. Davis’ “The Complete Columbia afford a visit to a sterilised clinic. as little as 800 rupees ($12), while “A few decades ago I used to get Studio Recordings” and twice for “There are millions of poor peo- a single false tooth sells for 50 30 customers a day. I hardly see liner notes. AFP ple in this country who cannot pay rupees (80 cents). Tools are thor- two now,” said Singh. for expensive dental treatment,” oughly washed in soap and water “Earlier rich and poor would Traditional dental worker Allah Baksh takes measurements for dentures Baksh said in between customers — but not disinfected. equally visit us but now we are from a customer at his roadside stall at a bus stand in Bangalore. at his makeshift clinic where his The teeth in all shapes and sizes looked down on,” he said. tools include a large, metal file. are made in China and in India For his part, Baksh remains “But they also have a right to be from dental cement. Soft pink treat patients, but the legislation’s numbers have dwindled in recent adamant he is improving the lives treated and look good,” he said as adhesive is then moulded for gums vague and outdated wording about years on growing awareness of of the poor, and that his family will he mixed pink gum paste with his and the teeth stuck in, with the exactly what constitutes a dentist contracting HIV/AIDS and other continue the tradition. bare fingers on a teaspoon. dentists saying their handiwork has allowed many unregistered diseases, rising customer income “We have thousands of satisfied “I know this is not hygi- lasts for at least four years. ones to operate. levels, and a surge in dentist customers, who not only pay us enic at all but if I start using India passed a law in 1948 In big cities such as New Delhi graduates. but give us their blessings.” sophisticated tools, the allowing only licensed dentists to and Mumbai, street dentist But they still thrive in smaller AFP