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DOHA: A multi-billion dollar investment company launched by Qatar earlier this year will agreement offer shares to citizens, local firms and institutions via a mega initial public offering Deal follows Qatar-mediated talks (IPO) to be floated next month. Qatar launched three mega pri- DOHA: The Sudanese govern- Chambas, AU-UN Joint Special mary issues for its citizens and ment and a leading Darfur rebel Representative for Darfur local businesses and institutions group the Justice and Equality and Joint Chief Mediator and early last decade — Woqod (early Movement (JEM) signed a Aichatou S Mindaoudou, Deputy 2002), Industries Qatar (May peace agreement here yester- Joint Special Representative of 2003) and Nakilat (January 2005) day at the end of intensive nego- Sudan were present at the sign- that led to a mad rush especially tiations brokered by Qatar and ing ceremony, among other senior among ordinary Qatari investors the African Union-UN Joint diplomats. for subscription. Mediation. The agreement was signed on All the three IPOs were floated The Prime Minister and behalf of the Sudanese govern- before the Qatari bourse (then Foreign Minister H E Sheikh ment by Minister of State at the known as the Doha Securities Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Presidency and Head of the Doha Market) was thrown open Al Thani described the deal as Document for Peace in Darfur to foreigners for trading on an important step saying it sig- (DDPD) implementation follow- April 3, 2005. nals the end of war in Darfur. He up office Amin Hassan Omar, The face value of the shares called on other movements to join and by the Justice and Equality of the new firm (Doha Global the peace process. Movement Chairman Mohamed Investment Company) will be The agreement was signed on Bishr Ahmad. The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani applauds as officials QR10 — of which QR5 will be paid the basis of the Doha Document The Prime Minister said that exchange documents after the signing of a final peace agreement between the Sudanese government and the up, Qatar News Agency (QNA) for Peace in Darfur and follows a the mediation had exerted all pos- Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) at the Ritz-Carlton in Doha, yesterday. Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman reported yesterday citing a press ceasefire agreement between the sible efforts to identify the root Taha, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud, Head statement from Dr Hussein Ali Al two parties signed on February causes of the conflict and called of the Darfur Regional Authority Al Tijani El Sisi and a number of high level officials attended the signing ceremony. Abdullah, chairman of the bourse, 10 this year and a protocol on the on all movements without excep- Qatar Exchange (QE). participation of the JEM at the tion to join the peace process and The company will have a total Different Levels of Government create a platform for negotiation. based on the Doha document. that signing the agreement is a and development in Darfur, due capital of QR45bn ($12.36bn), half and on the Integration of its He also urged them to organ- Since then the implementation strong step to establish peace and to be held tomorrow here in of which will be in the form of Forces, signed on March 29. ize conferences that provide the has been going at a satisfactory security in Darfur. Doha, presents an effective start paid-up capital, QNA said. Non- Sudanese Vice President Ali opportunity for the people of pace leading to the stability vis- The Prime Minister under- to the process of reconstruc- Qatari investors will be allowed Osman Taha, Deputy Prime Darfur to propose their percep- ible in Darfur now, he added. The scored the necessity of addressing tion and development in Darfur to trade in the secondary shares Minister and Minister of State tions of the solution and to par- JEM is now working to complete the urgent humanitarian needs in accordance with the plans of the new company, that is, after for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed ticipate in the peace making. the peace process in Darfur, con- of displaced persons and refugees submitted to the Conference,” the shares are listed on Qatar bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud, Head He said that the Justice and sidering that as a big gain for from Darfur. “We look forward to said the Prime Minister. Exchange, for trading. of the Darfur Regional Authority Equality Movement signed the Sudan and the peace document, see that the international donors THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Al Tijani El Sisi, Mohamed Ibn agreement with the government said the Prime Minister adding conference for the reconstruction See also page 4 Continued on page 5

Egypt violence Oman to shift weekend Saudi workers get DUBAI: Oman will shift to a 3-month reprieve Friday-Saturday weekend to align itself more closely with banking and trade elsewhere in RIYADH: Custodian of the Two added impetus after joblessness the world, its ruler H M Sultan Holy Mosques King Abdullah in nearby countries contributed Qaboos bin Said announced yes- bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia to revolutions. terday. At present Oman, like yesterday ordered a three- “The Labour Ministry does neighbouring Saudi Arabia, fol- month delay to a crackdown on inspections inside the enterprises lows a Thursday-Friday week- migrant workers which has led to make sure there are no viola- end. But other countries in the to thousands of deportations, to tions to the labour system ... We Gulf take off on Friday and give foreigners in the kingdom a will continue our work to make Saturday, and many Omani chance to sort out their papers. sure labour system regulations financial institutions including The world’s top oil exporter has are applied,” Labour Ministry the stock market have already more than nine million expatri- spokesman Hattab Al Enazi told moved to that schedule. ates whose remittances home Reuters yesterday before the The change will take effect on provide important revenue for king’s announcement. May 1, state news agency ONA countries including Yemen, India, Under Saudi law, expatriates quoted Sultan Qaboos as saying. Pakistan and the Philippines. have to be sponsored by their He also ordered that the public “King Abdullah directed both employer, but many switch jobs and private sectors should take the Interior Ministry and the without transferring their resi- equal religious and national holi- Labour Ministry to give an oppor- dency papers. days. REUTERS tunity to workers in breach of the That has allowed companies labour and residency regulations to dodge strict Labour Ministry US diplomat killed in the kingdom to clarify their quotas regulating the number of status in a period not exceeding Saudis and expatriates each firm in Afghanistan three months,” said a statement can employ by booking their for- carried on official media. eign workers under a different KANDAHAR: A car bomb Protesters throw fireworks at the High Court building during clashes with police in Cairo, yesterday. Five More than 200,000 foreign- sponsor. blast killed five Americans, people were killed in sectarian clashes near Cairo, yesterday. See also page 12 ers have been deported from the Companies with too few Saudi including three US soldiers country over the past few months, employees face fines. and a young diplomat, yester- a passports department official It has also led to the emergence day, while an American civil- said in comments reported by of a labour black market in which ian died in a separate attack in Al Hayat daily this week. sponsors illegally charge expatri- the east. The crackdown is part of labour ates to renew their residence doc- The diplomat and other Nine children killed in Syria market reforms aimed at putting uments when they in fact work Americans were in a convoy of more Saudi nationals into private for somebody else. vehicles in Zabul province when BEIRUT: Nine children were three women,” said the Syrian on an army checkpoint, the watch- sector jobs, where they now make Some businesses in the past the blast occurred, Secretary of among at least 15 people killed Observatory for Human Rights. dog added. Up until now, Syria’s up only a tenth of the workforce. week have reported difficulties State John Kerry said in a state- in an air strike on a mainly It was not immediately clear if Kurds have been split over their The most recent central bank sta- operating as expatriate workers ment. Kurdish district of the northern any of the casualties were fighters country’s anti-regime uprising, tistics, for 2011, showed nine in 10 stayed at home to avoid inspectors The soldiers and the diplomat Syrian city of Aleppo yesterday, from the Democratic Union Party with most trying to maintain neu- working Saudis were employed by coming to check their residence died in the blast along with a a watchdog said. (PYD), Syria’s branch of Turkey’s trality. Amateur video distributed the public sector. permits. Last month, the Labour civilian employee of the Defense “The number of people killed in outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ by the Syrian Revolution General The Middle East’s largest Ministry said extensive reforms Department and Afghan civilians, an air strike on the western edges Party (PKK), the Britain-based Commission showed burnt bodies economy grew by 6.8 percent last adopted over the past year have Kerry said. His statement gave no of Sheikh Maksoud has risen to Observatory said. lying in rubble, reportedly filmed year, but regards low employment put more than 600,000 Saudi overall death toll. REUTERS 15 ... Among them were nine After the strike, Kurdish fight- after the strike. AFP among nationals as a long-term citizens into private sector jobs. Full report on page 16 children aged under 18 years and ers killed five soldiers in an attack Full report on page 9 strategic challenge, a view given REUTERS

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PM receives Sudanese leader Deputy PM with Darful mediator Emir receives phone call from Hamid Karzai

DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday received a telephone call from Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Both leaders reviewed bilateral relations and issues of mutual interest. Prime Minister sends message to Korean foreign minister SEOUL: South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se has received a message from the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani on bilateral relations. The message The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for the Council of Ministers Affairs was handed over to Moon Duk H E Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud with African Union-UN Joint Chief Mediator Huh, Director of the Middle for Darfur Mohamed Ibn Chambas. They discussed the peace process in Darfur, par- East and Africa Department at The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani ticularly in view of an agreement on the basis of Doha Document for Peace in Darfur the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with Sudan’s First Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha. The Sudanese leader is in Doha to signed yesterday between the government of Sudan and the Justice and Equality by Qatar’s Ambassador Ali bin attend the International Donors’ Conference for the Reconstruction and Development in Darfur. Movement (JEM). Hamad Al Marri. QNA Health Day focuses on high blood pressure Aspire Zone Foundation holds various events to mark the World Health Day DOHA: The danger posed by high blood swipe at picture-taking in a social media pressure among the Qatari population is competition. in focus as the country marks the World Nurses provided live testing of blood Health Day which falls on April 7. High pressure and stamped the flyers of those blood pressure is the theme of this year’s with a high level of pressure. The stamped World Health Day. flyers were presented to a ‘step into According to the National Stepwise health’ team member at the end of the Survey conducted last year, high blood walk and received a free pedometer. Poorly pressure is a major risk factor associated controlled high blood pressure ultimately with non-communicable diseases in Qatar. can cause damage to blood vessels in the Of the 2,496 Qataris (aged 18-64 years) eye, thickening of the heart muscle and surveyed, 33 percent were suffering from heart attacks, hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, 16.7 percent from kidney failure, and strokes all with severe diabetes and for some 21.9 percent from consequences, the participants were told. higher-than-normal cholesterol levels. “Walking is a good prevention of blood High blood pressure increases the risk of pressure,” said Abdullah Al Mohannadi, heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure. Researcher in Health Promotion at the If left uncontrolled, high blood pressure Aspetar. He said ‘step into health’ would can also cause blindness, irregularities of be introduced as a smart phone appli- the heartbeat and heart failure. The risk cation and walking signage will be soon of developing these complications is higher installed at shopping malls to encourage in the presence of other cardiovascular people to walk. risk factors such as diabetes. “More than15,000 people have regis- Prevention and treatment methods tered with ‘step into health’ and received have succeeded in reducing the number pedometers, but only 6,000 to 8,000 people of deaths caused by heart diseases in Qatar are actively involved in walking,” said Al in 2011. Mohannadi. In 2011, 237 deaths were recorded High salt intake, obesity, lack of regular due to circulatory system diseases (12.2 exercise, excessive alcohol or coffee intake, percent of total deaths), which fell to and smoking may all adversely affect the 14.9 percent in 2010. This issue was in outlook for the health of someone with focus at events held by the Aspire Zone high blood pressure. “Its common for peo- Foundation (AZF) yesterday to mark the ple above the age of 40 years to get high World Health Day. blood pressure, so it’s advisable for them to Participants shook of their inaction do regular checkups and follow a healthy by engaging in a programme ‘step into diet by consulting a doctor,” said Todorka health’, swapping tea with teeing at a spe- Veadimirova, Senior Registered Nurse at cially-setup mini golf course, and taking a the Aspetar. THE PENINSULA People checking their blood pressure at Aspire Park yesterday. KAMMUTTY V P

Draft law on cyber crime sent for cabinet approval DOHA: A draft law on combating cyber crime has been referred to the State Cabinet for approval, according to a senior Ministry of Interior (MoI) official. The government is taking the issue of cyber crime very seriously and strict legal action is being mulled against hackers as well as those involved in defaming, insulting or harming the interest of others through the Internet, Al Sharq reported yesterday. The Ministry has prepared the draft law in collabora- tion with Qatar’s telecoms sector regulator, the Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (ictQatar), spending a year, according to the daily. “The draft law to combat cyber crime has been sent to the General Secretariat of the Cabinet for approval,” Brigadier Hamad Ahmed Al Mohanadi, Director of Legal Affairs at MoI, said. He said crimes committed over the Internet have increased off late and they have come to affect Qatar severely. According to some estimates, more than $1 trillion is lost globally every year due to cyber crimes. In Qatar, the MoI booked as many as 158 cases of cyber fraud last year. Social media channels of Qatar’s leading organisations including Al Jazeera and Qatar Foundation (QF) were hacked earlier by the loyalists of the Syrian regime. According to recent reports, some 30 percent of youth in Qatar is exposed to inappropriate content on the Internet. Without giving details, Al Mohanadi said international and regional charters on cyber crime have also been included in the draft law. In the existing setup, the Qatari Criminal penal code number 11 for 2011 contains some seven clauses that deal with curbing cyber crime. This includes penalties for hackers, fraudsters and people spreading hate speech on the Internet among other crimes. “Committing cyber crimes has become very easy and it is increasing day by day,” Al Mohanadi was quoted saying. Impersonating others is one of the most frequently committed crimes on the Internet, according to Major Ali Hassan Al Kubaisi, Head of the Department of Financial Crimes section at the MoI’s Search and Follow-up Department. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 New referral system at Women’s Hospital HMC Referral Management Office will arrange appointments

DOHA: Patients referred from doctor decides they should see a Management Office will call them the primary health centers are specialist, they will refer them to to arrange their appointment. no more required to visit the an HMC hospital. A reminder call and SMS will Women’s Hospital to book an In case of an emergency, the be sent before the appointment appointment there with a new patient should go directly to the and on the day of the appoint- referral system being intro- Emergency Department. ment patients are asked to arrive duced at the hospital’s outpa- Once the referral has been 30 minutes before their allotted tient department from today. received by the HMC Referral time for pre-assessment checks, In the new system, the referral Management Office it will be if any, to be completed. will be sent to the Hamad Medical checked by a doctor who will Nasser Al Naimi, Executive Corporation (HMC) Referral decide the right time frame for Director of the Center of Management Office which will the patient to be seen and the Healthcare Improvement said: call the patient to arrange the HMC Patient Contact Center will “The implementation of this sys- appointment. then call the patient to arrange tem for obstetrics and gynecology The aim of this new system is their appointment with them. will ensure that the most urgent to ensure the most urgent cases There are also protected cases are handled in a timely receive priority and every patient appointment times for Qatari manner and all patients will be gets seen by the right special- patients. Only patients who allotted protected time with the ist at the right time, HMC said have been referred to Women’s specialist.” yesterday. Hospital will be able to make an People who want to make any If someone has a health con- appointment there. changes in their appointment cern and needs to see a doctor, If the referral is from a private or cancel an appointment have unless it is an emergency, they clinic, the patient should hand been asked to contact the Patient should first go to their Primary deliver the referral to Women’s Contact Center on 44395777. Healthcare Center where, if the Hospital and the Referral THE PENINSULA

Qatar Holding to contribute 50pc Qatar welcomes Continued from page 1 new Lebanese PM

Obviously, the listing is to take place after the subscription (to DOHA: Qatar yesterday welcomed the IPO) and share allotment processes are completed. the endorsement of Tammam Salam, Al Abdullah said that 50 percent of the company’s capital will be who was handed the task of forming contributed by Qatar Holding, the investment arm of the country’s a new government in Lebanon. sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA). An official source at the Ministry of Media reports late last February suggested that Qatar Holding Foreign Affairs said that Qatar, while will be contributing $3bn to the new company’s capital, while appreciating the results of parliamen- another $3bn will be raised through a mega primary issue (which tary consultations held by President is now set to be launched in May). Michel Suleiman, hopes that this would The reports, citing Al Abdullah then, said the Doha Global be a step towards formation of a gov- Investment Company will invest overseas (as its nomenclature ernment acceptable to the Lebanese suggests) and the company’s capital will be raised in future. people, representing all political forces The company will guarantee a five percent dividend in the first in order to strengthen the approach of year of its operations. reconciliation and national unity. THE PENINSULA QNA SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Over 66,750 visit Career Fair Sixth fair most successful to date Qatar Foundation DOHA: The sixth edition in making the career fair a big motivates of Qatar Career Fair (QCF) success yet again. ended yesterday with organ- From the outstanding oppor- isers saying that it has been tunities presented to young job job aspirants the most successful edition to seekers to the invaluable career date. Over 66,750 people vis- guidance provided, these com- DOHA: Qatar Foundation ited the fair this year. panies have played a vital role for Education, Science and Overall, the exhibitors were in helping our youth to under- Community Development impressed with the quality of stand their prospects in the has offered dozens of exciting applicants this year. Many com- Qatar job market in terms of career and training opportuni- panies reported that they had career orientation, key areas ties to talented nationals at the successfully recruited candidates of employment, skill require- sixth annual Qatar Career Fair who possessed impressive quali- ments, and training and devel- 2013. ties and qualifications and many opment opportunities. The event, which was held others were signed into the vari- QCF would also like to thank under the patronage of the Heir ous graduate, internship, train- all the volunteers who ensured Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim ing and development programmes that the fair ran smoothly from bin Hamad Al Thani, wrapped offered by these companies. start to end, and conducted them- up yesterday. However, the final outcomes selves very professionally. In addi- This year’s theme was ‘Write will be determined over the tion, we also thank the Media who the Next Chapter in Qatar’s course of the year once all partici- have shown great support with Success’ and proved a resound- pating companies have submitted their timely and wide-spread cov- ing success, attracting a huge their data. erage of the fair each day”, con- amount of interest among young “QCF is pleased with the out- cluded Al Mansoori. nationals eager to gain valuable comes of the fair this year, which QCF 2013 concluded with work experience, while making had a very encouraging number several prize presentation cer- an important contribution to of visitors. The overall interest emonies, including a photogra- building their country’s future. shown towards the wide range of phy competition sponsored by As one of Qatar Foundation’s education, employment, training Al Jazeera to award the best most successful initiatives, the and development programmes career-inspired photograph; career fair this year featured offered by leading companies is a the Search-for-Information over 140 public and private clear indication that Qataris are competition sponsored by Qatar institutions. Job seekers were FC Barcelona delegation during a visit to Qatar Foundation pavilion at Qatar National Convention Center. beginning to fully understand Leadership Centre, Qatar provided with useful vocational and utilize these opportunities to Petroleum Company, Sidra, advice, including how to answer School, was grateful for the girls, explained that this was Foundation booth received plenty take charge of their career path, Community College Qatar and tough interview questions, plan opportunity to meet with rep- the first time she had attended of guidance, as well as the chance which is the key objective of this Supreme Education Council; their career, write an interesting resentatives from the organisa- the career fair, but would highly to engage with some very special fair,” said Abdulla Al Mansoori, and a short story competi- resume and learn about the many tion and to find out more about recommend it to other secondary guests who were able to share Executive Director. tion, which is an annual QCF educational and professional pro- potential training, sponsorship, school students. with them some of the vital ele- “On behalf of the organis- programme. grammes at Qatar Foundation. and job opportunities. In total, over 40,000 visi- ments necessary to achieving ing committee, QCF would like THE PENINSULA Ibrahim Al Najjar, a student Laura Abdul Hamid, a stu- tors attended the six-day fair. success. to thank all the exhibitors for at Tariq Bin Ziyad Secondary dent at Al Bayan School for Applicants who visited the Qatar THE PENINSULA their tremendous contributions Mowasalat to recruit two disabled Interior Ministry gets 1,600 applications

DOHA: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) pavilion at Qatar Career Fair, which concluded yester- day, attracted a good number of Qatari job aspir- ants including men and women. The last day of the fair witnessed big rush for police and civil job seek- ers and scholar- ship applicants for higher studies. The total number of applications received till yes- terday evening Job-seekers filling applications at the Ministry of Interior booth. reached 1,600 — 690 for scholarship for higher studies, 210 for police jobs MoI pavilion at the fair provided it is not limited during Career Fair. from males and 400 from women, the visitors the details about the He added that this year the minis- 300 applications from degree/ vacant jobs in the ministry with try has received several application diploma holders of both genders. salary packages and other benefits. for higher studies pointing that The participation of Ministry The Assistant Director of the ministry is keen to send the in the Sixth Qatar Career Fair Human Resources Department aspirants for higher studies in the Mowasalat signed an agreement with the Volunteer Committee for the Employment of Disabled People 2013 is in the framework of the at the Ministry Maj Mohammad required fields. He applauded the (VCEDP) to recruit two disabled staff to the company. Mowasalat Recruitment Manager Mohammed Qatarisation policy to utilise the Hamad Al Gayatheen said that big turn out of women for applying Al Hajri and VCEDP Chairman Khalid Saeed Al Shuaibi signed the agreement at the Qatar Career Fair capabilities of the nationals in its employment door of the ministry jobs in the MoI. (QCF), yesterday. work with more participation. The open always for the nationals and THE PENINSULA

Kahramaa opens multi-storey parking facility Supreme Judicial Council offers 50 jobs at career fair

DOHA: Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) participated in the sixth edition of Qatar Career Fair and received more than 700 job applications. SJC’s Director of Administrative and Financial Affairs Abdul Aziz Sheikh said that the Council sought through its participation in the event to attract a number of newly Qatari graduates to join the SJC, a matter that will contribute to realising the concept of human develop- ment, which is one of the main pillar of Qatar National Vision 2030. He said the Council offered over 50 job opportunities during the Career Fair 2013, adding that the SJC assigned a team to welcome job seekers and answer their questions. The information technology sec- tion also launched an e-recruitment web page on SJC’s official website www.sjc.gov.qa to receive job applications. Diplomatic Educational Expo tomorrow

DOHA: The Diplomatic Institute at Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar will organise the first Diplomatic Educational Exhibition tomorrow, under the auspices of the Minister of State for Foreign affairs H E Dr Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah. National and international universities and research centers at Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development and the Higher Education Institute at the Supreme Education Council are taking part in the event. The Diplomatic Educational Exhibition aims to connect regional embassies with Education City universities. The Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) has opened its multi-storey parking facility at Al Dafna to the public. The facility, Seminars for the Education City universities and research institutes located next to the Ministry of Justice building, was being used by staff of Kahramaa offices located at Al Rames Tower and Al Sulaiti Tower. The will be held on the sidelines of the event. The Cultural Attache at the decision to open the facility to the public was taken recently in view of the heavy traffic the street has been witnessing during office hours. Visitors Embassy of the United States in Doha was selected as the guest of can reach the parking from three sides as shown in the map. honor for the exhibition this year. QNA

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DOHA: The Aljazeera about the email he received like to attend the compe- International Docu- from the British family. titions or participate as mentary Film Festival “This indicates that our volunteers. has become a dream to festival has expanded and This year, 15 European European youth, espe- that the European audience countries out of 33 coun- cially those interested in holds it in high esteem,” he tries are participating in the the documentary field. commented. competitions. Hence, the festival’s man- In their message, the France, Britain, Portugal, agement has received so British family explained Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, many applications from that their daughter is get- Poland, Holland, Italy, European students to ting enrolled in university in Austria, Germany, Serbia, attend or to work as a September, where she will Latvia, Bosnia and Norway volunteer in the festival be studying documentary are the European countries activities. filmmaking. that will take part in the One of the most touch- Thus, the family want festival. ing message that the man- their daughter to get The upcoming ninth edi- agement received was from involved, as a volunteer and tion has seen an increase a British family, who want an attendee, in the festival in participation as never their daughter to par- activities and competitions before.” said Arnaout. ticipate as a volunteer in so as to gain a hands-on It is worth mentioning order to gain the required experience before head- that the jury panel for fes- experience and get to know ing back to her home in tival competition has been more about documentary Manchester. formulated and the organ- films. Arnaout asserted that ising committees have set Abbas Arnaout, Managing the festival management their plans in order to pave Director of the festival, answered all participation the way for the commence- expressed his happiness at requests promptly, espe- ment of the festival activities receiving dozens of emails cially that of the British by next week with the pres- from European youth. family, and cordially wel- ence of the Jury Panel. He was also enthusiastic comed all those who would THE PENINSULA Ooredoo donates QR200,000 for RAF family project

DOHA: Ooredoo has presented people and their families. community support with more the Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Ooredoo’s donation of QR charitable donations and pro- Foundation for Humanitarian 200,000 supports Ifaf project, grammes in the future.” Services (RAF) with a signifi- which plays a key role in support- Ooredoo’s community part- cant donation to support RAF’s ing deserving candidates to cover nerships are guided by Hand Ifaf project for marriage and the associated costs of weddings in Hand for Qatar, the compa- families, as part of Ooredoo’s and to provide them with family ny’s innovative corporate social corporate social responsibility support, helping them build sta- responsibility strategy. Hand in strategy. The donation was pre- ble families and contribute to the Hand for Qatar focuses on five sented at a ceremony recently. growth of the nation. key pillars: education, health- Since 2009, RAF’s Ifaf project Mohammed Alansari, Director, care, environmental issues, has provided financial and psy- Field Marketing and Events, social welfare and sport. chological support for nation- Ooredoo, said: “As part of our Reflecting its proud Qatari als looking to marry and raise a goals of giving back to the com- values, Ooredoo has provided family. munity and helping our cus- support for Qatar National In recent years, Qatar has tomers reach their dreams and Day and Qatar National Sport taken steps to support the con- aspirations, we have given this Day; has distributed sweets and tinuity of cohesive families and donation to RAF. This donation gifts during the Holy Month of large households, as part of Qatar is in line with our corporate social Ramadan, Eid Al Ftr and Eid Al National Vision 2030. responsibility strategy and Qatar Adha; and has encouraged local Recent news reports have National Vision 2030, which calls athletics by annually sponsoring shown that paying for weddings for supporting social develop- the Qatar Football Association’s and maintaining strong families ment and family values. We will H H The Emir Cup. Mohammed Alansari, Director, Field Marketing and Events at Ooredoo, presenting the cheque to a RAF official. is a cause of concern for young continue our long tradition of THE PENINSULA

Hamas blames Israeli writer accused Western spies of Gaza operations of inciting violence GAZA CITY: Hamas accused Western and Arab spy agencies yesterday of operating in the TEL AVIV: The prominent levels of distress, suffocation, a stone in 2011. Another Israeli Gaza Strip and said it had a list Israeli journalist, Amira bitterness, anxiety and wrath child, three-year-old Adele of alleged collaborators. Hass, has been subjected to a are continually on the rise, as Bitton, was critically injured in “The Gaza Strip is swarm- “wave of hate mail” and calls is the astonishment at Israelis’ a similar incident last month ing with Western intelligence for prosecution for incitement blindness in believing their (MAR). agencies, such as the American, to violence since writing an violence can remain in control Images of stone-throwing British, French and German article defending the throw- forever.” Palestinian youths, often with services,” said Mohammed Lafi, ing of stones by Palestinian Throwing stones was “born their faces concealed by cheq- an internal security chief, quoted youths at Israeli soldiers. of boredom, excessive hor- uered keffiyehs and sometimes on the Hamas interior ministry Hass, who has lived in and mones, mimicry, boastfulness using slingshots, have become website. “They all target Gaza and reported on the occupied and competition. But in the symbolic of the resistance to Hamas,” he said, while also point- Palestinian territories for 20 inner syntax of the relation- Israel’s 46-year occupation. ing a finger at unnamed Arab years, argued that “throwing ship between the occupier and Their actions are routinely met intelligence services. stones is the birthright and the occupied, stone-throwing with teargas, stun grenades The Hamas official, whose duty of anyone subject to for- is the adjective attached to the and rubber bullets fired by the Islamist movement rules Gaza, eign rule”, and suggested that subject of ‘We’ve had enough of Israeli military. said the security services had “a Palestinian schools should offer you, occupiers’.” A comment piece in the list of collaborators who will be “basic classes in resistance”. Schools, she suggested, newspaper Ma’ariv said Hass’s arrested once the time for them The opinion piece, published should teach Palestinian “statements are the outpouring to repent has run out.” in the liberal Israeli daily children various forms of of a suppurating abscess of self- Some have already been Haaretz, for whom Hass works, resistance, plus its rules and hatred, couched in hypocritical arrested and “half of them have drew outraged reaction on the limitations - for example, “the moral acrobatics. Her eyes are confessed to being collaborators,” internet and from media com- distinction between civilian and blind to Jewish suffering and said Lafi, who also cautioned mentators. The Yesha Council, those who carry arms, between are open only to her friends against Palestinian journalists which represents settlers, and children and those in uniform, from Hamas, the champions of feeding information to foreign the Legal Forum for the Land as well as the failures and nar- human rights.” correspondents and institutions. of Israel filed complaints with rowness of using weapons”. Hass said her critics had Hamas, branded a terrorist the police and the Israeli attor- Hass’s article appeared dur- either not read or had not organisation by the Unites States ney-general, and demanded ing several days of clashes in the understood her article. “I’m and European Union, on March that Hass be investigated for West Bank following the death surprised that they don’t read 12 set a one-month ultimatum for incitement to violence and of a Palestinian prisoner whose the whole text - and then I’m alleged Palestinian “collaborators” terrorism. cancer, according to Palestinian surprised at myself for being with Israel to surrender in return Hass argued that stone- leaders, was diagnosed late and surprised,” she said. for leniency. throwing was “an action as well treated only with painkillers; Hass, the daughter of two Meanwhile, Hamas police yes- as a metaphor of resistance”. and the shooting dead of two Holocaust survivors, has terday dispersed a protest in the She wrote: “Steadfastness Palestinian teenagers by Israeli been vilified for living among Gaza town of Rafah by Salafist (sumud) and resistance against soldiers after they allegedly Palestinians and chronicling women to demand the release of the physical, and even more so threw firebombs at a check- their lives under occupation. “I members of the hardline Islamist the systemic, institutionalised point. It was published the day feel privileged to know two soci- movement. Witnesses said the violence is the core sentence in after a military court convicted eties, but sometimes I feel it’s women, who numbered around the inner syntax of Palestinians a Palestinian man of the mur- futile. I’ve been writing about 30, were veiled and accompanied in this land. This is reflected der of Asher Palmer and his the occupation for 20 years, and by children. Police dispersed the every day, every hour, every baby son, Jonathan, whose car it only gets worse.” demonstration without incident. moment, without pause... The crashed after being struck with GUARDIAN NEWS AFP SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Premier-designate vows to shield Labanon from Syria dangers

BEIRUT: Lebanese politician the Syrian conflict. His immediate appointment, Salam said he would coalition but was chosen as a con- on preparing for elections, or a Thursday that he backed March Tammam Salam was named task, if he is able to form a cabinet seek to “unite opinion and reach sensus candidate acceptable to the ‘national unity’ government with 14’s nomination guaranteed Salam prime minister yesterday after accepted by Lebanon’s rival politi- speedy agreement on a parliamen- March 8 bloc, which includes the longer-term ambition, Salam said: a parliamentary majority, said he he won a sweeping parliamen- cal forces, will be to prepare for tary electoral law to achieve fair rep- Iranian-backed Hezbollah and its “I will absolutely strive to form a reached his decision after talks tary endorsement, pledging to a parliamentary election which is resentation for all citizens and sects”. mainly Shia and Christian allies. government of national benefit”. with Saudi Arabia’s intelligence bridge the country’s deep divi- due in June but faces delay. He also pledged to focus on March 14 groups mainly Sunni In a sign of shifting foreign chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan. sions and shield it from the The Syrian bloodshed has exac- “ending Lebanon’s political divi- and Christian parties which influence in Lebanon, whose Despite the overwhelming dangers of neighbouring Syria’s erbated tensions in Lebanon, sions and its impact on the secu- pushed, with US and European politicians lived in the shadow of support for Salam, he may face civil war. which fought a ruinous civil war rity situation, and averting the support, for Syria to end nearly Damascus long after President a lengthy struggle to form a gov- Salam was designated after the from 1975 to 1990. Rival Sunni dangers from the neighbouring three decades of military pres- Bashar Al Assad withdrew his ernment. His predecessor, Mikati, resignation of Prime Minister and Shia Muslim and Christian tragedy (in Syria)”. ence in Lebanon in 2005. army eight years ago, Salam’s took five months assemble a Najib Mikati, whose two years in politicians have failed to agree an Salam, born in 1945 into Referring to speculation over elevation appear to owe much to ministerial team and a March 8 office were dominated by efforts electoral system under which the a prominent Sunni political whether his government should Saudi intervention. source said Salam could also take to contain sectarian tensions, vio- vote will take place. dynasty, is close to the Saudi- be a short-term technocratic Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, months to put together a cabinet. lence and economic fallout from In his first comments after his and Western-backed March 14 administration focused only whose announcement on REUTERS

Suicide bomber Children among kills 22 in Iraq election attack BAQUBA: A suicide bomber 15 killed in killed 22 people and wounded 60 in a crowded election campaign tent in the Iraqi city of Baquba yesterday, police and medics Aleppo air raid said. A decade after the US-led inva- sion, Iraq is still struggling with political instability and violence Assad warns of regional turmoil that in recent weeks has killed at least 10 candidates who had BEIRUT: A Syrian government spill over into neighbouring coun- planned to run in forthcoming air strike killed 15 people yes- tries and create a domino effect local elections. terday, including nine children, throughout the Middle East and The vote is due to be held across in a district of the northern city beyond ... spreading east, west, the country later in April, but has of Aleppo where Kurdish fight- north and south. This will lead to already been delayed in two Sunni ers have been battling forces a state of instability for years and Muslim-majority governorates loyal to President Bashar Al maybe decades to come,” he said. due to security concerns. Assad, a violence monitoring His remarks were an acid reit- The suicide bomber attacked group said. eration of his long-standing argu- a gathering for Sunni candidate The Syrian Observatory for ment that Syria and the region will Muthanna Al Jorani in Baquba, Human Rights said a warplane face a bleak future if he falls. His 65km northeast of the capital had bombarded the western edges foes argue that his determination to Baghdad. Jorani himself escaped of the Sheikh Maqsoud district of keep power at all costs has already unscathed. Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city, where plunged his country into disaster. Smoke billows from a n explosion caused by mortar shells on the residential neighbourhood of Kfar Soseh in Candidates in Iraq often put Assad’s forces have been battling The United Nations says at Damascus yesterday. up tents during campaigning as rebels for nine months. least 70,000 people have been a venue to meet potential voters In Damascus, state media said killed in Syria’s conflict. Daily of Kurdish insurgents later killed head of an opposition interim fighters on the ground, and his and explain their policies. rebels fired a mortar bomb into death tolls of around 200 are not five soldiers in an attack on a government who was elected election angered many activists “First a hand grenade tar- the heart of the capital, killing uncommon, activists say. More security post on the outskirts of last month began consultations who said he had been imposed by geted the tent next to the one I one person, wounding several oth- than a million refugees have fled Sheikh Maqsoud, it said. to start forming his ministerial the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. was in,” a 23-year-old wounded in ers and causing damage to build- the country and the Syrian Red Syria’s Kurds, members of a team. “The Arab League itself lacks legit- the attack said by telephone from ings and cars nearby. Crescent says nearly four million ethnic group who stretch over A statement from the opposi- imacy,” he said. “It is an organisation hospital. “People were running in Assad has lost swathes of ter- have been internally displaced. a large swathe of the region but tion coalition said Ghassan Hitto that represents Arab states and not every direction and bits of chair ritory in the north and east of The Syrian Observatory, have no state of their own, have would appoint 11 ministers, Arab people. It has lacked legitimacy were scattered all over the place. the country. Rebels hold several which monitors the violence so far been split over whether or including a minister of defence, for a long time because these Arab “A few seconds later, an explo- eastern and southern districts from Britain through a network not to support the uprising. interior, foreign affairs, economy, states themselves .... do not reflect the sion took place in the same tent.” of Damascus and pose a growing of activists, medics and military Activists also said three peo- refugees and justice. will of the Arab people.” Most of the 10 candidates killed challenge in the southern prov- sources, said the death toll from ple had been killed in fight- But, in a sign that the process Assad also dismissed Western earlier belonged to the Sunni- ince of Deraa which could become the Sheikh Maqsoud strike was ing to the east of Damascus, could be a protracted one, it said countries. “France and Britain backed Iraqiya bloc led by former a platform for a fiercer assault on likely to rise because many people and the Observatory reported the task was being passed to com- committed massacres in Libya Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a sec- the capital. were seriously wounded. clashes in Jobar, on the edge of mittees who would seek to attract with the support and cover of the ular Shia politician. Sectarian and The president told Turkish tel- A video released by activists central Damascus, and govern- qualified candidates. United States. The Turkish gov- ethnic tensions have risen since evision that a rebel victory might showed the badly burnt body of a ment bombardment of targets in Hitto, who lived for years in the ernment is knee-deep in Syrian the US withdrawal from Iraq in destabilise the Middle East for child, and the Observatory said it the Palestinian refugee camp of United States and has only briefly blood. Are these states really con- December 2011, inflamed by the decades. was not clear whether any of the Yarmouk. visited rebel areas of northern cerned about Syrian blood?” conflict in neighbouring Syria. “The situation will inevitably dead included fighters. A group In neighbouring Turkey, the Syria, has no authority over REUTERS REUTERS Bahrain National Dialogue Abbas may sack Palestinian PM RAMALLAH: Palestinian President statement. “The Revolutionary Council again session today Mahmoud Abbas may fire Prime Minister calls for a review of the government’s function- Salam Fayyad, a Fatah member said, as the ing and policies, and rejects taxes being blindly MANAMA: The 11th ses- party criticised the premier’s government as imposed,” the statement added. sion of the National Consensus being “improvised and confused.” Fatah also denounced a Fayyad government Dialogue will be held at Al Abbas “is leaning towards dismissing Fayyad proposal to shut down a Palestinian fund set Areen resort today to discuss from the head of the government and forming up to fight competition from goods produced in the agenda, spokesperson of the a new one,” a member of Fatah’s Revolutionary Jewish settlements. National Consensus Dialogue, Council said late on Friday, speaking on condi- The premier has had to deal with a wave of Isa AbdulRahman, announced tion of anonymity. social unrest in the West Bank over price rises yesterday. “I am angrier than all of you at the govern- and austerity measures aimed at reducing the In a statement relayed by ment... but I don’t want to say more than that budget deficit. Bahrain News agency (BNA) now. Just wait for three days,” he quoted Abbas Fayyad, 61, a political independent and former today, he said the representatives as saying at a meeting of the council in Ramallah. International Monetary Fund and World Bank of the government, the Legislative He said the key factor was disagreement official, was first appointed Palestinian prime Authority and representatives of over the resignation of the West Bank-based minister amid the deadly takeover by the Islamist the coalition societies will take Palestinian Authority’s finance minister, which Hamas of the Gaza Strip in June 2007. part in the session. Abbas refused to accept but which Fayyad, a Hamas has never recognised his authority, He said that at the 10th session US-educated economist, agreed to. continuing instead to recognise its own prime the participants held an in-depth Nabil Qassis, a former president of the Bir minister, Ismail Haniya. discussion of the topic of repre- Zeit university near Ramallah who joined the Rumours have been rife in Ramallah that sentation that was adjourned in government in May 2012, announced on March Fayyad is on the way out because of differences the ninth session held on March 2 that he was resigning, without giving a reason. with the Fatah leadership. 20. He said the moderates had Abbas was abroad at the time. He is considered to be too close to the United presented the draft prepared by “Abbas informed Fayyad that if Nabil Qassis States and to Israel where the liberal Haaretz the working group. did not return to the finance ministry... Abbas newspaper once called him “everyone’s favourite AbdulRahman said the delibera- would dismiss his government and form a new Palestinian.” tions on the adjourned topic of the one,” the official said. The Palestinian Authority is facing chronic ninth session held on March 20 had The Revolutionary Council — one of the sec- budget difficulties labelled by ministers as “the resulted in no consensus among the ular Fatah’s governing bodies — also officially worst financial crisis” since its creation in 1994. participants. He added that the criticised Fayyad’s government for the first time The Palestinian fiscal crisis is aggravated by representatives demanded that the on Friday. non-payment of aid pledged by global donors, agenda of the dialogue be considered “The policies of the current Palestinian gov- mainly the United States and Arab nations, and as the agenda of the next session. ernment are improvised and confused in many tensions with Israel. QNA issues of finance and the economy,” it said in a AFP

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CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday a model, as part of a crackdown on dis- television channel CBC, legal sources said. threw out a lawsuit calling for a popular sent. This is denied by the government Youssef, who rose to fame with a satirical television satirist to be banned for insulting of President Mohammed Mursi and its online show after the uprising that swept the president and Islam, but he still faces a Islamist allies, the Muslim Brotherhood. the previous president, Hosni Mubarak, criminal investigation on similar charges. A Cairo administrative court rejected from power in 2011, had been released on Critics of the government see the cases a petition brought by Mahmoud Abu El bail on Sunday after the prosecutor-general against Bassem Youssef, who has cited US Aineen, an Islamist lawyer, to ban Youssef’s issued a warrant for his arrest. satirist Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show as programme and shut down independent REUTERS SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 10 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE TOUGHEST challenge of new Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam will be to shield his fragile nation from the disastrous fallout of Tthe Syrian conflict and bridge divisions between the country’s Sunni, Shia and Christian communities. The Africa’s rise pays out conflict in Syria between mainly Sunni rebels and Alwite President Bashar Al Assad has driven deep wedges in the inter-communal relations in Lebanon, which haven’t been rosy even in the best of times. dividends for democracy Salam was named prime minister by politicians after BY PASCAL FLETCHER Najib Mikati resigned as premier. His election was not Senegal’s Abdoulaye Wade in 2012, or continent gained an unenviable reputa- difficult. Salam is a Sunni Muslim, as all prime ministers where losing challengers heeded the tion for bloody coups, kleptocratic “Big must be under the country’s confessional distribution of frica is rising not only on verdict of the ballot box and the courts. Men” dictators, and brutal civil wars power, but he is known for his calm demeanour conciliatory the growth charts of econo- “The momentum, the general thrust fought over resources and often featur- approach. He is close to the Western-backed March 14 mists. The continent that is absolutely positive ... these are all ing child soldiers — an image of chaos was a byword for poverty, examples from very different countries and conflict that has endured over the coalition, but what made him acceptable to the March 8 chaos and bloodshed only ... different geographically, historically, years. bloc led by Hezbollah and its Shia and Christian allies was Aa few decades ago, providing a media culturally, and all showing signs of that “The perception is that Africa is often his non-confrontational style and his family’s previous feast of famines and wars, is slowly maturation,” Freemantle said. He cau- more politically unstable, more corrupt differences (Salam’s father served six times as prime but steadily notching up gains on the tioned that the permeation of electoral and more challenging to do business than minister in the turbulent years leading up to Lebanon’s civil democracy scorecard too. Last month’s democracy across a vast and varied con- anywhere else in the world,” the Ernst generally peaceful Kenyan presidential tinent was not uniform, as Africa has & Young survey said. But it argued the war) with the Hariri clan, which dominates the March 14 election — and the Supreme Court proc- not completely shaken off some of its old facts now “tell a different story,” noting coalition. Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said he is ‘an absolute ess that confirmed Uhuru Kenyatta’s demons. “The African narrative in many that most African countries have transi- moderate’ explaining his support for him. narrow win — confounded pundits’ ways is not a single-track story, it’s very tioned, or are transitioning toward, some After the nomination, Salam has pledged to bridge predictions that East Africa’s biggest patchy,” he said. form of participatory democracy. divisions between the country’s three dominant communities. economy would tumble back into the A rebel takeover in Central African In its 2012 Democracy index, the It will not be easy, but he is the most same inter-tribal violence which blood- Republic last month became the latest Economist Intelligence Unit said elec- New Prime ied a 2007 vote. flashpoint of regional instability. This tions had become a “normal occurrence” qualified in Lebanon to perform this The Kenyan ballot, following a line of sucked in South Africa which suffered in Sub-Saharan Africa, while coups had Minister task. hotly-contested but broadly smooth elec- a blow to its ambitions to be the conti- declined sharply. The EIU listed 22 Sub- Tammam Salam Salam also said he will seek to tions last year in Senegal, Sierra Leone nental superpower by losing 13 soldiers Saharan African states classifying above shield Lebanon from the Syrian and Ghana, has bolstered what many see on a military training mission killed in Russia on its index, while 34 were listed faces many tragedy, which has sent 400,000 as a spreading embrace of multi-party confused fighting there. France’s robust above China. challenges, but refugees spilling over into a country democracy in Africa. Combined with military intervention in its former Sahel But it noted that despite more infre- better economic management by many colony Mali in January repulsed a mix of quent coups, “conflict, failed govern- his conciliatory of just four million, triggered street governments and a fast-growing popu- Al Qaeda allied rebels, but at the same ment and human rights abuses remained approach will battles in the northern city of lation of young workers and consum- time raised fears of an Islamist jihadist widespread”. African Development Bank Tripoli and hit Lebanon’s economy. ers, this improving political maturity backlash in North and West Africa, not president Donald Kaberuka believes help him achieve On Syria, the new prime minister will underpin expected GDP growth for least in Nigeria where the government Africa, written off for decades as a hope- goals. will have to tread cautiously. For Sub-Saharan Africa of five percent or is battling the northern Boko Haram less continent always begging for aid, has more this year. insurgency. now reached a milestone moment. “It is decades, Syria has held sway in “If you peel back ‘Africa Rising’, Democratic Republic of Congo’s east not simply a tipping point in the fortunes its smaller neighbour and any change of government in it is not just growth rates,” said John remains a political and ethnic tinderbox of Africa, it is a tipping point in how the Damascus or a further deterioration or continuation of the Stremlau, Vice President for Peace and a surprise attack by pro-secessionist rest of the world looks at Africa as well,” crisis there will have huge consequences for Lebanon. Programs at the Atlanta-based Carter rebels in March on the second city and he told Reuters at a summit of BRICS Assembling a cabinet is another major challenge. Mikati Centre and a veteran observer of African mining hub of Lubumbashi added to the emerging powers last week held for the took five months assemble a ministerial team and according elections, including the most recent instability woes of the central African first time in Africa. Kenyan one. In a December outlook giant. A raid by opposition Renamo sup- As China, India, Brazil and Russia to some reports, Salam could also take months to put for Sub-Saharan Africa, Fitch Ratings porters in Mozambique on Thursday, increasingly court Africa, he says this is together a cabinet. Former premier Mikati’s two years called the vote in Kenya, seen as a politi- killing four policemen, may also worry changing perceptions of the region from in office were dominated by efforts to contain sectarian cal and economic anchor in East Africa, mining firms exploring huge coal and “a continent of problems” to a source tensions, violence and economic fallout from the Syrian an “important inflection point”. natural gas reserves. of business opportunities in infrastruc- conflict. The new prime minister will be struggling with Despite technical glitches and some Nevertheless, most Africa watchers ture, financial services, and agriculture. the same troubles. He will have to perform the trapeze act localised violence, Kenya passed this say the continent has unquestionably Sudan-born telecoms entrepreneur Mo test without repeating the 2007-2008 moved on from the time when govern- Ibrahim, who has created a $5 million of satisfying all sides. The best course of action would be to bloodletting that killed more than 1,200 ment change was more likely to come annual prize to reward good govern- steer clear of the conflict in Syria though the pressures will people, helping to mend its image as from the point of a gun than a ballot box. ance in Africa, points to the record 86 be huge to side with one group or the other. one of Africa’s most stable democra- In its 2012 “Africa attractiveness” survey, percent Kenya election turnout as a Salam also needs to prepare for a parliamentary election cies. Standard Bank economist Simon Ernst & Young recalled that between sign Africans are embracing electoral which is due in June but faces delay. Rival Sunni, Shia and Freemantle said the Kenya vote added to 1960, the milestone year for African democracy as a viable force. This con- a list of recent African elections where independence, and 1990 there was only trasts with low turnouts in older western Christian politicians have failed to agree an electoral system incumbent leaders accepted defeat, such one instance of an African leader or rul- democracies. under which the election will take place. • as Zambia’s Rupiah Banda in 2011 and ing party being voted out of office. The REUTERS The other side Quote of An urban nightmare the day ITH India as the second sprawling metropolis has 21 million an illegal block, and its construction In fact, in 2012, the Sindh Building most populous country in residents, coming from different parts was still going on even though four Control Authority declared hundreds the world and Pakistan of the ethnically diverse country. Yet, floors of the building were already of buildings as extremely dangerous If the unrest in experiencing one of the the population boom has drastically occupied. Labourers had finished and unsafe in Karachi and ordered the W Syria leads to the highest population growth rates in outstripped the provision of infrastruc- three more floors and were adding an dwellers to vacate their places at the the world, the region of South Asia is ture and resources in the city, resulting eighth floor when the whole structure earliest. But the process of making the partitioning of the overwhelmed with people. in cramped and unhygienic slum areas collapsed. destitute abandon their homes without And what makes this population and shoddily built illegal settlements A massive rise in urban dwellers, giving them a viable alternative is no country … the situation explosion particularly challenging in teetering on the brink of collapse. many of whom are leading a hand- easy feat. will inevitably spill a place where poverty, infrastructural The congested cities in India are to-mouth existence, has made poor While urbanisation is certainly a over into neighbouring issues and resources shortages are no different. So, it doesn’t come as a construction practices a common driver for economic growth, govern- rife is the rapid urbanisation. Cities in surprise that a seven-storey building, problem in Indian cities — the main ments in India and Pakistan need countries and create India and Pakistan have been flooded illegally being constructed in Thane, cause for such tragic incidents. The to plan and control it better. Cities a domino effect by people looking for a better life — near Mumbai, collapsed on Thursday. situation is similar in urban Pakistan. pressed for resources but brimming an opportunity to partake in the bright The tragedy has left at least 35 people Several residential buildings in the with residents are a nightmare for any throughout the Middle Bashar Al Assad lights of the cities. dead, and dozens injured. According poorer areas of Karachi and Lahore modern country. East and beyond. Take the case of Karachi: The to the police, the building was part of have caved during the last few years. KHALEEJ TIMES Syrian President SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Why South Korea has already won

if this week’s chest-thumping has them a among citizens with direct knowledge Politics fostered bit jittery, they typically mock Kim Jong about capitalism and South Korea’s rela- Un and dismiss his war declaration as hot tive wealth.” growth as South air. It’s a distraction from more pressing As the North remains ever-reliant on matters — not a particularly high bar for a distrustful South and an increasingly a youth culture obsessed with the latest wary China, South Korea has expanded Korea embraced Korean pop girl group or Samsung gadget. its exports beyond technology into popu- “Netizens and ordinary citizens alike lar culture, two realms long dominated democracy, are fairly fatigued with the recent stream by the West and Japan. of threats,” James Pearson, the Seoul- Korean music, movies and television based editor of KoreaBang, a blog that have proved so irresistible that they’re nurturing its middle covers Korean social media trends, told pushing across Asia into Japan, which me. “People just laugh.” has been a gold mine. As North Korea and creative classes How South Korea should respond kidnaps Japan’s citizens and fires missiles to North Korea will be debated there over its territory, South Korea is sending long after the North’s latest threats its pop singers and soap stars into the even though many wind down. But one thing is sure: South heart of its former colonial master while Korea’s strategy has helped create one of funneling bushels of Japanese yen back of its fellow “Asian the most astounding national success sto- home. PSY, of “Gangnam Style” fame, has ries in generations. A large part of that even made it big in the West. During a tigers” did not. story was economic: Land reform spurred November visit to Europe, he attracted the transition from a rural to an urban up to 20,000 Parisians at an impromptu society; exports brought money into a concert. The next month, he performed BY MAX FISHER country with few national resources; and for and met President Barack Obama. state-managed capitalism appealed to A South Korean soldier patrols as vehicles returning from North Korea’s inter-Korean Of course, South Korea’s economic and n March 30, three days after foreign investors while distributing gains Kaesong Industrial Complex back to South Korea arrive at a checkpoint on the Grand cultural victory could turn to ashes in the North Korea severed a mili- across classes. More recently, politics fos- Unification Bridge, which leads to the demilitarised zone separating North Korea from extremely unlikely but still terrifying pos- tary hotline with the South tered growth as South Korea embraced South Korea, in Paju, north of Seoul, yesterday. sibility of conflict. A war would hurt North and announced that South democracy, nurturing its middle and Korea most of all, probably causing its mili- Korean President Park creative classes even though many of its its bellicose foreign policy, relies over- working with the South Korean staff of tary — and thus the Kim regime — to col- OGeun-hye “will meet a miserable ruin,” fellow “Asian tigers” did not. Today, the whelmingly on its two largest trading South Korean corporations. It produces lapse, but also would be horrifically costly the country declared a state of war. “The nation is not just stable and well-fed — partners: China and, yes, South Korea, tens of millions of dollars for North Korea for South Korea. Seoul is well within range time has come to stage a do-or-die final two things the North isn’t — but free, both of which accounted for more than every year and, in turn, grants the South of North Korean artillery, not to mention battle,” an official statement said. wildly prosperous and enriched by a cul- 70 percent of North Korea’s trade in 2010. cheap labor. vulnerable to a nuclear attack. Meanwhile, many of South Korea’s ture that is spreading around the world. That year, the North sold about $1bn in Kaesong is one of the few remaining But South Korea has been living with youth were worried about something Maybe that’s another reason South goods to its southern neighbour. If war products of Seoul’s ill-fated “Sunshine this threat for years. That doesn’t mean else. A 25-year-old pop star named Seo Koreans don’t seem too worried about broke out, or if Kim so offended Seoul Policy,” meant to kill Pyongyang’s bluster it should lessen the vigilance that has In-guk had appeared on a popular real- Kim’s probably empty threats: They know that it closed off trade, his country’s sud- with kindness, often in the form of aid. kept it ready through two generations of ity TV show the night before and, in a that the real conflict — the miniature den loss of hard currency would be dis- South Korea shut down most of those armistice. But it does suggest that it has misstep that quickly dominated online cold war of the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s over astrous. A recent UNICEF nutritional programs in 2010, after the South Korean figured out how to live with the North: conversations, had washed his strawber- whether North or South would come out study estimated that the growth of one naval ship Cheonan was mysteriously a draft, an enormous standing army and ries incorrectly. Ilbe, a conservative Web ahead — is over. in 10 North Korean children is severely sunk, Seoul believes, by a North Korean the help of the United States’ troops and forum — a place you might expect to find a Half a century ago, although North stunted by malnutrition. In the center of submarine. But it kept Kaesong open nuclear deterrent. nationalist screed — was preoccupied with Korea was wealthier than South Korea, Pyongyang towers a 105-flight reminder because it’s a good deal. “The only thing to remind anyone of a month-old debate on regional differ- both were military dictatorships and of the country’s enduring failure: the This past week, North Korean border the impending threat is the occasional ences in how to eat sweet and sour pork. among the world’s poorest countries. ghastly, pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel, guards announced they were closing the army helicopter buzzing overhead or Pop stars, bourgeois lifestyle com- Today, the North still is, but the average unopened and unfinished since 1986. facility to South Koreans, sending many reservists in their field dress, hopping on mentary and funny videos often seem to South Korean enjoys a living standard on If this is what the country looks like back across the border. The North has the subway,” Pearson said of life in Seoul. interest young South Koreans more than par with that of Israelis and Europeans. now, what would it look like minus that closed the facility to the South before, Security, even in the face of extraor- Pyongyang’s latest provocation. North Economists describe this development $1bn — 2.5 percent of its economy? You and probably will reopen it soon. But even dinary danger, is just a part of success Korea may be trying to intimidate its without exaggeration as “the miracle on will never hear Kim Jong Un admit it, but if the North cuts off Kaesong, whom will — something that allows South Koreans neighbor but in many ways, particularly the Han River.” In 2011, the Samsung he needs South Korea to survive. it really be hurting? South Korean firms to devote their energy to conquering the on economic and cultural fronts that Group, South Korea’s largest corpora- Evidence of North Korea’s dependence can find other sources for cheap labor. A world with high-tech exports and addic- increasingly matter, South Korea has tion, reported $247bn in revenue, or more on the South can be found at the Kaesong North Korean city reliant on the plant, tive pop culture, peacefully attaining the already won the fight. than six times the gross domestic product Industrial Complex, just six miles north The Washington Post’s Chico Harlan power and wealth that Kim and his bel- Of course, young people are discussing of North Korea. of the demilitarised zone. The jointly wrote, would “all but collapse economi- ligerent forefathers could only dream of. the risk of a second Korean war. But, even North Korea, economically isolated by run plant has North Korean laborers cally, potentially causing social unrest WP-BLOOMBERG

A radical Lib-Lab coalition Helping Iran safeguard its could begin next month

BY JOHN KAMPFNER vary only at the margins. Even on the burning issues nuclear weapon stockpile ack in 2010, when the of the moment – welfare, NHS Guardian was com- reform and economic cuts – when paring him to Barack it comes to the general election, BY YOUSAF BUTT and roadblock if Iran intends to “race Obama, Nick Clegg said how different will they sound PETER JENKINS B to the bomb.” this of Gordon Brown and David when they are probed on the spe- But Iran appears to be having Cameron: “The more they attack cifics of their commitments, and iplomats from six world some technical problems in doing each other, the more they sound what these would commitments? powers are due back in the conversion – especially in fab- the same.” A few weeks later, the None of this should come as Kazakhstan for talks ricating the enriched uranium deal hurriedly sealed with the a surprise. Our rarefied political Dwith Iran about its con- fuel plates. So the world pow- Conservatives, Clegg began the class is uniformly obsessed with troversial nuclear programme. ers could encourage the IAEA to work of explaining compromise the legacy of Tony Blair. The From the hawkish “bomb-bomb- assist Iran in this conversion and as a radical departure. His task former prime minister bequeathed bomb-Iran” crowd to the “jaw- subsequent fuel plate fabrication. was hardly made easier at a time the art of triangulation – find out jaw-not-war-war” folks, there is Iran would get fuel for its reactor of economic crisis and an increas- where your opponents are on any no shortage of ideas about how to and, in the process, turn potential ingly strident right wing political issue, and plonk yourself right in resolve the Iranian nuclear issue. bomb fuel into a safer form. partner. the middle. This is usually called Lost in the din is the prospect In 2007 the IAEA Board Now, with the Tories staring “being on the side of the hard- that the United Nations agency banned certain forms of tech- down a barrel at the forthcoming working family”. It should be charged with monitoring Iran’s nical cooperation between the local elections, and with a rap- called the politics of caution. The nuclear activities could settle the agency and Iran. The world pow- The Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in Bushehr, southern Iran. prochement starting, albeit hesi- hard worker/non-shirker/squeezed most pressing issue – by helping ers – the “P5+1,” which is the five tantly and suspiciously, between middle is a construct of wonks Iran convert its enriched ura- permanent UN Security Council the Lib Dems and Labour, how who don’t get out much. Voters nium gas stockpile to safer metal nations (United States, Britain, may derail the negotiations over International Atomic Energy do the party leaders prepare for a have more variety, and are best form. If only the world powers will France, Russia, China) and this core concern. Agency, weighed in recently, possible further round of celebrity served when given a choice. encourage it to do its job Germany – can now inform the During the last talks, for exam- saying, “So far Iran has not vio- bed hopping, aka coalition build- Coalitions, far from limiting The UN International Atomic IAEA that they strongly support ple, the P5+1 asked that Iran export lated NPT [the Nuclear Non- ing in 2015? that choice, could – if done prop- Energy Agency (IAEA) not only those forms of technical coopera- its stockpile of 20 percent ura- Proliferation Treaty] and there This, of course, may not happen. erly next time around – increase monitors member states’ nuclear tion that make Iran’s programme nium and shutter its underground is no evidence right now that Ultimately it is down to arithme- the options available. Parties programmes to make sure they are more proliferation-resistant, such enrichment facility at Fordow, near suggests that Iran is producing tic. Ed Miliband could still win could be required to set out before in compliance with required safe- as the enriched-uranium-gas-to- the city of Qom. These concessions nuclear weapons.” outright. It seems hard to imagine the election, as during any negoti- guards obligations, but it also pro- metal conversion. If the IAEA, or fall under the “nice to have” cat- In fact, one of Iran’s goals in Cameron improving on his party’s ations that take place afterwards, vides technical cooperation in the the world powers, are hesitant to egory but are far from critical. continuing to enrich to 20 percent unimpressive performance last what they would be prepared to peaceful use of nuclear technology. impart the subtleties of enriched And they may needlessly hold up may be its usefulness as leverage time, but all options remain open. trade and what they would stick The most serious Western con- uranium metallurgy skills to progress toward a lasting deal that to coax out some sanctions relief Britain is still learning how to to: their “red lines”. cern about Iran’s nuclear pro- Iranian scientists, Iran should be improves global security. from the world powers. What are do coalition government. There Imagine a future Lib-Lab gov- gram is the enrichment of fissile offered the option of using IAEA- The Fordow site was built perceived in the West as provoca- is no shortage of mistakes over ernment: both parties would have uranium to 20 percent in their recruited foreign experts. specifically to withstand aerial tive steps toward nuclear weapons the past three years to throw into the right, proportionate to the gas centrifuges. Building up this Should Iran be receptive to assault – most probably as a les- capability may just be a negotiat- the manual. Part of the problem outcome of the election – should it stockpile is a big step toward hav- this proposal, it could reassure son learned from Israel’s 1981 ing strategy. was procedural. More time must be decided on the number of votes ing the fuel needed for a nuclear the world powers about Tehran’s attack on Iraq’s civilian reactor Instead of more sanctions, as be taken next time to come to an cast or seats won? To select a few bomb, should Tehran ever decide benign intentions. A sensible at Osirak. It is unlikely Tehran some have proposed, the P5+1 agreement. It is no wonder that key policies that matter most. The to kick off a weaponiation effort. response, then, to begin the proc- will agree to shutter it unless the could show reciprocal good faith the coalition can now find so little other side can object, and either This is not to say that it is ess of winding down the standoff threat to use force against its to the Iranians for any posi- to work on together. stop or alter the plans, but only what Iran intends to do. On the and building trust could be to sus- nuclear installations is “removed tive steps they take – such as But there is a far bigger lesson, on a limited number of occasions. contrary, the Iranians have been pend the harshest sanctions. To from the table.” Both President accepting help for an accelerated and it goes to the heart of the dis- One can already see a number converting some of the enriched make certain Iran is not going to Barack Obama and Israeli Prime enriched uranium gas-to-metal connect between the Westminster of radical positions both parties uranium gas into metallic fuel “break out” and race to the bomb, Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conversion. village and the rest of the country. could take, from tackling climate plates for the Tehran Research the P5+1 could also seek Tehran’s could well view that as politically The world powers must not The demographics of British poli- change and tax avoidance to, dare Reactor, which produces medical agreement to stationing IAEA unpalatable. miss another opportunity to fur- tics are bad enough, but what hap- I say, constitutional reform. This isotopes for use in cancer therapy. personnel around the clock at The world powers must rec- ther safeguard Iran’s 20-percent pens when all the parties cleave would encourage what I would I This gas-to-metal conversion Iran’s two enrichment sites. ognise that while Iran was found enriched uranium gas stockpile. towards similar policies and a call positive compromise, rather essentially freezes the enrich- During the coming talks, the to be in noncompliance with its They could specifically encourage small voting pool? On immigra- than the negative compromise ment level and subtracts from world powers could therefore focus IAEA safeguards agreement for the IAEA to help Iran convert it tion, the three leaders find them- of now, in which a coalition is the “enrichable” gaseous stock- on further safeguarding Iran’s 20 activities carried out about a dec- into the safer metallic form for selves dancing to Ukip’s tune. characterised by what one side pile that can be drawn on for percent enrichment work – such ade ago, those issues have since reactor fuel. On criminal justice, drugs policy, has done to trim the other’s sails, use in centrifuges. Reconversion as the proposed gas-to-metal con- been rectified. Iran is now in Let’s help Iran help itself – and Europe and elsewhere the recipes rather than by pushing ahead back to gaseous form is difficult version assistance – and avoid compliance. the rest of the world. on offer, for all the rhetorical posi- with cherished goals. and time-consuming and a major making extraneous demands that Hans Blix, former head of the REUTERS tioning that goes on, sometimes THE GUARDIAN SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Egypt sectarian clashes leave five dead Grand Sheikh Tayeb urges calm

AL KHUSUS, Egypt: Five it looked like a cross. “I saw the Egyptians were killed and eight kids drawing on the wall after wounded in clashes between afternoon prayers so I grabbed Christians and Muslims in them and told them to remove a town near Cairo, security what they’d just written,” said sources said yesterday, in the Mahmoud Mahmoud Al Alfi, a latest sectarian violence in the Muslim resident. most populous Arab state. Then another man arrived Christian-Muslim con- and started beating the children, frontations have increased in drawing a large crowd, he said. Muslim-majority Egypt since The situation escalated when the overthrow of former presi- someone drew a gun and fired dent Hosni Mubarak in 2011 gave into the air, killing one boy with freer rein to hardline Islamists a stray bullet. repressed under his rule. “Suddenly the area was full of Four Christian Copts and one weapons,” Alfi said, while weep- Muslim were killed when mem- ing Muslim women sat nearby in bers of both communities started front of a house, showing pictures fighting and shooting at each of a man they said had been killed other in Al Khusus north of the during the clashes. Egyptian capital, the sources said. Muslim leaders were quick to State news agency Mena put the condemn the sectarian violence death toll at four. which comes as Egypt is strug- P eople walk by the wreckage of a burnt down car following a night of sectarian clashes in Al Khusus, a poor area in Qalyubia governorate, north of An angry crowd smashed shops gling with a severe economic cri- Cairo, yesterday. belonging to Christians, residents sis and high inflation after two said. A reporter saw a burned- years of political upheaval. on his Facebook website. “There in the main streets. Kameel. “I’ve been here longer attacks on churches by radi- out Coptic day care centre and Grand Sheikh Ahmed Al Tayeb, are some who want to set Egypt Police detained 15 people, a than 30 years and I have never cal Islamists, incidents that several damaged shops belonging of Egypt’s leading Islamic author- ablaze and create crises.” security source said. seen any violence or extremism have sharpened longstanding to Christian traders. An apart- ity Al Azhar, urged measures President Mohammed Mursi, In a Christian neighbourhood in our area.” Christian complaints about being ment inhabited by Muslims was to prevent the situation from a Brotherhood leader elected in dozens of angry young men gath- Sectarian tensions have often sidelined in the workplace and also burned. escalating and to “preserve the June, has promised to protect ered at noon yesterday, chanting flared into violence, particularly in law. Residents said the violence national character which char- the rights of Copts, who make “with our blood and soul we sac- in rural areas where rivalries As an example, they point broke out on Friday when a group acterises the Egyptian people, up about 10 percent of Egypt’s 84 rifice ourselves for the cross”. The between clans or families some- to rules that make it harder to of Christian children were draw- Muslims and Christians,” Mena million people. crowds left after a priest came times add to friction. Love affairs obtain official permission to build ing on a wall of a Muslim religious said. Yesterday the situation was and asked them to leave to calm between Muslims and Christians a church than a mosque. institute. “The sectarian riots which hap- calm but tense in the small town tensions. have also sparked clashed in the Last month, a court sentenced A reporter saw what looked pened in Al Khusus are unac- where Muslims and Christians “There are people who want past. a Muslim to death for killing like a swastika drawn on the ceptable and grave,” Saad Al live close to each other but in to cause sectarian strife between Since Mubarak was ousted by two people in a dispute with wall, which Muslim residents Katatni, the head of the Muslim separate streets. Security was Muslims and Christians,” said a a popular uprising, Christians Christians in a southern town. said had offended them because Brotherhood political party, said tight with police vehicles parked Christian man who gave his name have complained of several REUTERS World powers, Iran fail to break nuclear deadlock

ALMATY: Iran and world Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator two sides did not agree a time and powers yesterday failed to Saeed Jalili praised the talks as a place to hold the next meeting. break the deadlock in the cri- “comprehensive” but indicated Instead, Ashton said the sides sis over Tehran’s nuclear drive, that Tehran wanted to see more had decided to go back to their with the EU foreign policy chief put on the table by the world pow- capitals to discuss what to do next Catherine Ashton saying the ers to “gain the confidence” of the and promised that she would be positions were still “far apart”. Iranian people. in touch with Jalili. After two days of exhausting The world powers had offered The US official said Ashton diplomacy in the Kazakh city of some easing of the sanctions would be calling Jalili within a Almaty, no new date was agreed that have hurt Iran’s economy matter of days, adding that the for the resumption of talks in the past two years in return talks were much more substantive searching for an elusive break- for Tehran accepting limits on its than they had been in the past. through after more than a decade nuclear programme. “It was really a lot of give and of tensions. But speaking after the talks take—quite different from the “It is fair to say that Iran is wrapped up, Ashton admitted last times. But you still have to willing to take very limited steps that the world powers were still get to the substance. The sub- on its nuclear programme while waiting to see “real engagement” stance is not there yet,” the US expecting very significant results from Iran over their proposal. official said. in return,” a senior US official “It became clear that the posi- Ashton represents the world told reporters on condition of tions (of the world powers) and powers—comprised of the five anonymity. Iran remain far apart on the sub- permanent UN Security Council “They put forward some mini- stance,” Ashton told reporters. members and Germany and mal ideas but expected a great Unlike at the previous round known collectively as the P5+1 — EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (right) enters a hall to attend a news conference after the talks on Iran’s return and a quite disproportion- of talks in Almaty in February as chief negotiator. nuclear programme in the Kazakh city of Almaty yesterday. ate return.” which ended more cordially, the AFP Kerry embarks on yet another Mideast tour Soldier killed as Yemen

WASHINGTON: US Secretary the secretary to be putting down commandos on a Gaza-bound aid up the 60-year armistice which of State John Kerry headed to a plan.” ship. ended the Korean war in 1953 and army fights separatists Turkey yesterday on a wide- The White House meanwhile The breakthrough brokered by on Friday warned foreign embas- ranging tour set to be domi- announced Friday that President Obama ended a nearly three-year sies to evacuate their nationals, ADEN: A Yemeni soldier was street protests helped oust long- nated by many of the top world Barack Obama will host lead- rift between Israel and Turkey. saying it could not guarantee killed and two others wounded, time ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh last crises — Syria, the Middle East ers from key US allies Jordan, After his talks in Israel, Kerry their safety if conflict erupts. along with two passers-by, dur- year. peace process and North Korea. Turkey, Qatar and the United heads to a meeting of G8 foreign The spike in tensions came ing a clash between the army The government also faces a After a plane door problem Arab Emirates in the coming ministers in London, before then as Yonhap news agency, cit- and southern separatists near rebellion by the Zaydi Shia Houthi delayed his flight, Kerry flew out weeks amid the Syrian turmoil. flying east for his first trip to Asia ing a top South Korean official, Aden yesterday, a security offi- movement in the north of the of Andrews Air Force Base on Kerry will meet Palestinian since taking up his post. said Pyongyang had loaded two cial said. country, an insurgency by Islamist his way to Istanbul, where he will President Mahmoud Abbas and The ambitious, globe-trotting mid-range Musudan missiles The clash took place in the militants east of Aden, splits in the meet today with Turkish Foreign Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin tour got off to a rough start as on mobile launchers and hidden town of Al Hawat, in Al Lahej military and a humanitarian crisis. Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to dis- Netanyahu today and tomorrow, Kerry’s flight out of Andrews was them in underground facilities province just north of Yemen’s The Houthis and the south- cuss the unrelenting conflict in in what would be a follow-up to delayed more than three hours due near its east coast. The White second city and main seaport, ern secessionists are involved in Syria. visits last month by both Obama to a problem with the plane’s door. House said on Friday it “would after separatists tried to close the a “national dialogue” aimed at He will then make his third trip and the secretary of state. Kerry, his wife Teresa Heinz not be surprised” if North Korea marketplace. reconciling the country’s many back to the Middle East region “But he’ll also be making clear Kerry, security guards, staff and carried out a missile test. Bringing stability to impover- different factions around a tran- since becoming the top US dip- that the parties themselves have traveling reporters—around 30 “We have seen them launch ished, turbulent Yemen is a prior- sition towards democracy. lomat on February, heading for to want to get back to the table, people in all—had to disembark missiles in the past... And it would ity for Washington and Gulf Arab The old Communist state talks in Israel and the Palestinian that this is a choice that they have for three hours while a new plane fit their current pattern of bel- states who fear that a further col- of South Yemen united with territories. to make, and that they’ve also got was brought in, stocked and pre- licose, unhelpful and unconstruc- lapse of central rule will allow al the north in 1990, but the two Expectations are growing that to recognize, both parties, that pared for the journey. tive rhetoric and actions,” White Qaeda to build a launchpad for retained parallel governments the US administration is ready compromise and sacrifices are They eventually took off around House spokesman Jay Carney said. attacks with global reach. and armies until a brief civil war to resume some kind of shuttle going to have to be made if we’re 10.30am (1430 GMT). State Department spokes- The group’s Yemen-based in 1994 won by the north. diplomacy to rekindle the mori- going to be able to help,” Nuland The Asia leg of Kerry’s tour will woman Victoria Nuland added wing has been described by Many southerners later com- bund peace process, which has said. be overshadowed by increasingly that the United States would US-officials as the movement’s plained of discrimination from stalled since late 2010 amid bit- Kerry’s latest trip to Turkey bellicose threats made by North “leave the door open if the most dangerous. Sanaa, pointing to what they ter recriminations on both sides. also comes after Israel apologised Korea in recent weeks, which DPRK’s willing to make a differ- Yemen’s southern separatist see as the unfair distribution of But State Department spokes- to Ankara in late March for the have ramped up tensions on the ent choice,” referring to North movement is one of several big money from oil fields located in woman Victoria Nuland cautioned deaths of nine Turkish activ- heavily militarised peninsula. Korea by its official acronym. challenges for an interim gov- the former South Yemen. on Thursday: “I would not expect ists in a botched raid by Israeli Pyongyang has said it is ripping AFP ernment in Sanaa, formed after REUTERS SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Yanukovich seeks pardon for rival’s ally Request submitted to panel

KIEV: Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich (pictured) has submitted a request to his pardons commission to consider an appeal to free a close ally of jailed former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, his office said. The request comes after Ukraine’s high court this week rejected an appeal by former interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko against his four-year jail term for abuse of office and embezzlement. He was arrested in December 2010 and is set to remain in prison until the end of 2014. The Ukrainian parliament’s all the more so because the presi- human rights ombudswoman dent himself repeatedly hinted at Valeria Lutkovskaya had ear- the possibility of a pardon, taking lier unexpectedly appealed on into account Ukraine’s aspiration Yanukovich to pardon Lutsenko. to become a fully-fledged member “Ukrainian President Viktor of the European community,” he Yanukovich has approached the was quoted as saying. Ukrainian presidential pardons Yanukovich had in early March Matt Silver-Vallance flies above Table Bay from Nelson Mandela’s apartheid island prison using helium-filled balloons, yesterday in Cape Town. The six- commission with a request to con- promised that he would consider kilometre crossing, to raise funds for a children’s hospital named after the country’s former president, was the first stunt of its kind from the historical site. sider without delay the appeal by pardoning Lutsenko once the Valeria Lutkovskaya,” his office appeal process exhausted. said in a statement late on Friday. “I have known Yuriy Lutsenko Yanukovich also ordered the for a long time and I am sorry Nelson Mandela discharged from hospital commission to review a personal for him as a person,” Yanukovich appeal for a pardon by Georgy has said. Filipchuk, a former environment While Yanukovich’s request JOHANNESBURG: Former This was the third health scare when he contracted tuberculosis the moral compass he bequeathed minister in the Tymoshenko gov- raises the prospect that two of South African president Nelson in four months for the Nobel as a political prisoner. He spent it when he stepped down as presi- ernment who was jailed for three Tymoshenko’s jailed allies may be Mandela left hospital yesterday Peace Prize laureate, who became 27 years on Robben Island and in dent in 1999. years over abuse of office in 2012. pardoned, there is little indica- after more than a week of treat- South Africa’s first black presi- other jails for trying to oust the “There are those in South Lutsenko’s wife Irina said she tion that Yanukovich’s top nem- ment of pneumonia that raised dent in 1994 and who is a global white-minority government. Africa who argue that the ANC, was pleasantly surprised by the esis would walk out of prison any global concern about the health symbol of tolerance and the strug- Mandela’s last notable public especially under the leadership of announcement. time soon. of the 94-year-old anti-apart- gle for equality. appearance was at the final of the current President Jacob Zuma, “Frankly speaking, I am Tymoshenko, who lost a heid leader. He was in hospital briefly in soccer World Cup in 2010. Since have deviated from Mandela’s shocked by such a statement from heated presidential election to “(He) has been discharged from early March for a check-up and then, he has stayed at his home principles and values,” said politi- Valeria Lutkovskaya,” the opposi- Yanukovich in 2010, was jailed for hospital today ... following a sus- was hospitalised in December for in Johannesburg or in Qunu, the cal analyst Aubrey Matshiqi. tion party Narodna Samooborona seven years in 2011 for overstep- tained and gradual improvement nearly three weeks with a lung remote village where he was born Under such leaders as (People’s Defence) headed by ping her authority while prime in his general condition,” the infection and after surgery to in the impoverished province of Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Lutsenko quoted her as saying. minister by agreeing a gas deal South African presidency said in remove gallstones. Eastern Cape. Oliver Tambo, the ANC gained His lawyer Alexei Baganets with Russia. a statement. Mandela stepped down as pres- For several years, South international respect as it battled said he was inclined to believe The imprisonment of A military ambulance ident in 1999 and has not been Africans have watched Mandela’s white rule. that Yanukovich would pardon Tymoshenko and Lutsenko has pulled into Mandela’s spacious politically active for a decade. But health gradually deteriorate, Once the yoke of apartheid was Lutsenko, who like Tymoshenko led to a crisis in ties between Kiev Johannesburg home before the he is still revered at home and reminding them of the mortality thrown off in 1994, it began gov- was a prominent figure in the and the European Union, which statement was released. The pres- abroad for leading the long cam- of the man whose face adorns the erning South Africa in a blaze of 2004 Orange Revolution peaceful has complained that Ukrainian idency said Mandela, who spent paign against apartheid and then nation’s new banknotes. goodwill from world leaders who uprising. authorities are selectively prose- about 10 days in hospital, would championing racial reconciliation As he has receded from public viewed it as a beacon for a trou- “I absolutely do not exclude cuting opponents of the president. receive further medical care at while in office. life, critics say his ruling African bled continent and world. that this request could be fulfilled, AFP his residence. His lung problems date from National Congress (ANC) has lost REUTERS

Battle 200 years ago Disarming event in Mali leaves Paper sues over soldier dead, another injured German trial row BERLIN: Turkish newspa- guaranteed seats at the hear- BAMAKO: A surprise opera- per Sabah has taken a dispute ings because of the court’s first tion yesterday in Bamako to dis- over the access of Turkish come first served principle, Berlin arm police thought to be close to media to a German neo-Nazi voiced sympathy with the crit- the authors of Mali’s 2012 coup trial to Germany’s top court, ics but stressed that its hands sparked a clash that left one sol- the Constitutional Court said were tied. dier dead, a military source said. yesterday. “We as a government have A police officer was wounded in A woman believed to have a great deal of understanding the leg during the raid on a police been at the heart of a neo-Nazi that there is such strong inter- camp in the Malian capital, the cell accused of killing 10 people est among media in Turkey,” source told AFP. including eight ethnic Turks Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “It was a policeman who refused between 2000 and 2007 goes on spokesman said. to disarm that fired on the soldier trial on April 17 in a case that Beate Zschaepe, the woman who died,” the source said. “The stunned Germany when it came going on trial on April 17, is same policeman let off another to light in late 2011. suspected of involvement in the shot by mistake that wounded one “The (constitutional) Court will 10 murders whose victims also of his comrades,” he added. try to make a decision before the included a man of Greek origin An AFP reporter saw the trial opens in Munich,” a court and a German policewoman. body of the soldier, as well as the spokesman told AFP yesterday. The Munich court’s decision wounded policeman, in the court- The German government said leaves dozens of international yard of the police camp. last month it hoped the Munich media organisations, including all Soldiers and gendarmes had court would find a way to ensure the Turkish outlets that applied surrounded the camp before seiz- Turkish media access to cover for accreditation, no guarantee ing several automatic weapons. the trial. that they can report from the Around 10 police were arrested People dressed as soldiers reenact the Battle of Moeckern in Vehlitz, Germany, on its 200th anniversary, yes- Amid growing outrage that trial. including three women, but five terday. The battle, which took place on April 5, 1813, was a prelude to the Liberation Wars against Napoleon no Turkish reporters will have AFP escaped over the camp’s perime- by the Prussian-Russian forces. tre wall, the source said. He said any police officer bear- ing heavy weapons was breaking the law. A security ministry official told AFP: “The fun is over. We can WikiLeaks Party to contest elections in three Australia states no longer accept this disarray at a time when the international com- munity is helping Mali recover.” SYDNEY: Whistleblowing London since June. Greg Barns, That would allow the party “certainly think we’re in the mix figure in Australia. Assange said Yesterday’s raid follows a group WikiLeaks unveiled a lawyer who is Assange’s newly- to take the Victoria seat even if to win a Senate seat in each of the last month that he believed the reported shootout between police plans yesterday to field candi- appointed campaign director, said Assange, who sought Ecuadorian three states”. US would drop its grand jury and trade unionists overnight dates in at least three states in the WikiLeaks Party had secured asylum in a bid to dodge extra- “It would be up to the govern- investigation of his diplomatic Thursday in which four people Australia’s elections and said candidates to run in at least three dition to Sweden where he is ment to secure the opportunity memo leaks and Britain would were allegedly wounded. The it would be “embarrassing” if states when Australia goes to the wanted over sex crime allegations, for Mr Assange to come back to follow suit were he to win a seat trade unionists dispute promo- Julian Assange won but could polls on September 14. is unable to return to Australia. Australia,” Barns told reporters. in the Australian election. To per- tions awarded to police officers not take his seat. Aside from Assange, who is Britain refused to grant But he added: “It would be sist would risk an “international reputedly close to the coup mak- Assange, Australian-born expected to be on the upper Assange safe passage out of the internationally embarrassing for diplomatic row” Assange told ers and influential in the capital. founder of the controversial house ticket for the state of country, leaving him stranded in the voters of Victoria not to be the Australian news website The Ethnic Tuareg rebels seized the WikiLeaks site, announced that Victoria, Barns said WikiLeaks Ecuador’s London embassy, and able to have in the senate the Conversation. Barns denied that country’s vast arid north in the he would run for the Senate last would present several other Australia — his place of birth — person for whom they voted on Assange’s Senate bid was merely chaos following the March 2012 year and is pushing ahead with “high quality candidates” includ- has been outspoken about his September 14.” Despite the swirl a strategy to secure his release coup before losing control to well- the plan despite being holed up ing a state running mate for the whistleblowing activities. of allegations against him, the from the embassy and return to armed Islamists. AFP in the Ecuadorian embassy in WikiLeaks chief. Barns said the WikiLeaks Party WikiLeaks founder is a popular Australia. AFP SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Historians grapple with myth as Florida celebrates 500 years ST AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA: This guide said. Turning into the Fountain of mired in uncertainty, thanks to a missing history, history. But they just don’t care.” Melendez, ruled the Timucuan tribes week Florida celebrated the 500th Youth Archaeological Park, he noted: No voyage log that hasn’t been seen in cen- The cautious line between entertaining along the Atlantic Coast in parts of anniversary of the day when Ponce de wonder the explorer thought these tall, turies. But where the historical record and educating visitors is most apparent Georgia and Florida. Leon stepped onto the shores of what robust natives were drinking enchanted is unclear, promoters of the state over in St Augustine, the former capital of St Augustine became a destination for he thought was a large island and water. the last century have stepped in to fill Spanish Florida and the oldest continu- historically minded tourists beginning called the land “La Florida.” Take that trolley tour, for instance. in the gaps. ously occupied European settlement in in the late 19th century, when railroad But the modern-day state of Florida Ponce de Leon wasn’t especially short, The state’s official Viva Florida calen- what would become the United States. magnate Henry Flagler built a magnifi- built on the lure of sunshine and myth the natives weren’t especially tall, and dar recognised a landing re-enactment The small city of 13,000 brings in more cent hotel that attracted wealthy tour- of eternal youth is still grappling with the water at St Augustine’s Fountain of in downtown St Augustine and ceremo- than $650m per year in tourism dollars. ists from the US Northeast. He called it how to tell its first city’s story — a rich Youth didn’t offer eternal youth. In fact, nies for unveiling two statues: one in When British settlers were founding the Ponce de Leon. A mile north of the history of centuries-old multicultural- not only did Ponce de Leon never discover Ponte Vedra, just north of St Augustine, Jamestown, Virginia, at the launch of the hotel, an enterprising businesswoman ism, yet distorted by useful falsehoods a Fountain of Youth, he wasn’t even look- and a second 300km farther south in 17th century, St Augustine was a 50-year- began calling her property the Fountain aimed at entertaining tourists who are ing for one, historians said. Melbourne Beach. Both communities old cultural hub. of Youth and charged visitors to drink important to its economy. “Ponce de Leon has been said to be any- claim to be the explorer’s landing site. Its 500 residents included Portuguese, from the natural spring on the lush site. Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon was where from 2 1/2 feet tall to 6 1/2 feet tall. Certainly, both statues can’t be in the French, Germans, Flemish, Native “I think the real history is far more only 4-foot, 11-inches tall, a trolley tour The Timucuan Indians were 7 or 8 feet correct spot, but to the chagrin of his- Americans and Africans, both free and fascinating, far more engaging, far more operator told his passengers as they tall, like they were out of a space-age film torical purists, they also rely on histori- enslaved. There were even two influential interesting than some of the narra- rolled down a picturesque street in or something,” said J Michael Francis, cally inaccurate representations of the Irishmen, one a parish priest, the other tives you hear,” Francis said. Kathleen St. Augustine lined with moss-draped live a history professor at the University of explorer himself. a high-ranking merchant. Deagan, a University of Florida archae- oak trees. South Florida St Petersburg who special- “Wrong helmet, wrong pants, wrong History teachers looking for more ologist who has led annual excavations in But the Timucuan Indians he encoun- ises in Spanish colonial Florida history. sword,” Chad Light, who portrays the examples of strong women in early St Augustine for 30 years, said the city’s tered when he set foot in Florida towered Even that first moment, when Ponce explorer as a professional re-enactor, America can look to early St Augustine, history has been blurred for decades. over him, standing 7 feet tall, the tour de Leon stepped onto American soil, is said of the new statues. “They cry history, where a chieftainess, Dona Maria REUTERS

International Pillow Fight Day US court frees contraceptive pill access Obama administration rapped

NEW YORK: A federal judge FDA. “It was during the run- on Friday ordered the US Food up to the 2012 election, and the and Drug Administration to administration didn’t want the make “morning-after” emer- Republicans to beat them over gency contraception pills avail- the head with this” during a cam- able without a prescription to paign when Obama was trying all girls of reproductive age and to appeal to middle-of-the-road criticised the Obama adminis- voters. tration for interfering with the Because physicians and doctors process for political purposes. advising the FDA had concluded The ruling in a Brooklyn court that the morning-after pills were is the latest step in the years-long safe for younger adolescents and legal saga over the pill known as did not cause promiscuity, crit- “Plan B,” a drug that has also ics saw Sebelius’s decision as an sparked political and religious instance of politics trumping sci- battles. Reproductive-rights ence — something that particu- groups cheered the decision as larly riled activists who had been overdue, while anti-abortion and led to expect otherwise. some religious groups condemned “In the first days of the admin- Revellers take part in a mass pillow fight in Trafalgar Square in central London, yesterday, on International Pillow Fight Day. it. The order reverses a surprise istration in 2009, we were told December 2011 decision by US that this White House would Health and Human Services make science — and fact-based Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. decisions,” said Jon O’Brien, After the FDA decided to approve president of Catholics for Choice, UN rights chief over-the-counter sales with no which supports abortion rights. Burglar nabbed after long hunt age limits, Sebelius ordered it Ordering the FDA to keep age slams US for to reverse course, barring girls restrictions on access to emer- SALT LAKE CITY: Troy educated guess by searchers who according to court records. His under 17 from buying the pills gency contraception “was an James Knapp was dodging had grown to know his tenden- most serious offence, an arrest for without a prescription. exact example of a politically authorities, again. cies, the tracks he left with his felony assault in Michigan, was not closing President Barack Obama sup- motivated decision, which makes The fugitive with a fondness snowshoes and the sounds of him reduced in 1994 to a charge of ported that restriction, invoking it even more shameful.” for drinks and a dislike of living chopping wood outside a cabin malicious destruction of property down Gitmo his daughters. But the timing, 11 The politicisation of emergency near people had been wanted for near a mountain reservoir. after he agreed to plead guilty. months ahead of the presidential contraception has led to specula- a string of break-ins for years A team of 14 officers approached “He says, ‘I don’t hate people. I GENEVA: The United Nations’ election, sparked criticism that tion that Friday’s decision did the at cabins in Utah’s mountains. him on snowshoes — the only way just don’t like living with them,’” top human rights official he was trying to placate social Obama administration a favour. With each near miss, each wanted to quietly sneak up on him — and Sevier County Sheriff Nathan pressed the US on Friday to conservatives. “This may be a free pass for poster and each threatening note called in reinforcements to help Sheriff Curtis said. close the Guantanamo Bay In his ruling, US District Judge them,” said Lars Noah, a profes- left behind for law enforcement, corner the bearded and camou- With no known occupation, prison, strongly criticising the Edward Korman called Sebelius’s sor at the University of Florida the legend of him only grew. flage-clad fugitive, a trim 45-year- Knapp drifted across the coun- indefinite detention of inmates decision “arbitrary, capricious and College of Law. “You can say, ‘our Knapp survived by holing up old standing 5-foot-8. try and ended up in prison in at the facility. unreasonable.” hands were tied, we were forced inside the cabins, sleeping in Now in police custody, Knapp is California for burglary. He fell President Barack Obama “The motivation for the secre- to cave in.’” the owners’ beds, eating their telling authorities how he managed off the radar in 2004 when he pledged to shutter the prison soon tary’s action was obviously politi- “Whatever the political cal- food and listening to their AM to evade them for so long across “went on the run” while on parole, after taking office, but Congress cal,” he wrote. culus is, I’d be shocked if they radio for updates on the man- a mountainous region stretching said Bobby Haase, a spokesman opposed it, passing a law that Scientists and activists who appealed this,” he continued. hunt. And then, authorities say, for 180 miles. “He really has a for the California Department of prohibits the government from have long been involved in emer- “They are probably just going he would take off, stealing items fascinating story to tell, and right Corrections and Rehabilitation. transferring Guantanamo pris- gency contraception reached the to walk away from this one, and such as guns and high-end camp- now he’s willing to tell it,” Sanpete By 2007, Utah authorities began oners to US soil and requiring same conclusion about Sebelius’s maybe thank their lucky stars ing equipment and vanishing into County Sheriff Brian Nielson said. investigating a string of cabin security guarantees before they 2011 decision. this is how they got to the right the woods where he lived off dan- Knapp, born in Saginaw, burglaries they believed were tied can be sent elsewhere. “I thought it was an act of cow- outcome.” delions and wild game. Michigan, got into trouble with to one person. It wasn’t until early Navi Pillay, the UN high commis- ardice,” said Dr Michael Greene, White House press secretary Over Easter weekend, authori- the law early. As a teenager, he 2012 that they identified Knapp sioner for human rights, said she is professor of obstetrics and gyne- Jay Carney said on Friday that ties were on his trail, again. was convicted of breaking and as the suspect from cabin sur- “deeply disappointed” Washington cology at Harvard Medical School Obama maintains his backing for By Tuesday, his life on the lam entering, passing bad cheques and veillance photos and fingerprints hasn’t closed the facility. She urged and a long-time adviser to the the Sebelius decision. REUTERS came to an end, done in by an unlawful flight from authorities, lifted from one cabin. AP all branches of the government to work together to shut it. Pillay said in a statement that “the continuing indefinite incar- Venezuela poll campaign ceration of many of the detainees amounts to arbitrary detention UK filmmaker dies while and is in clear breach of inter- national law.” She welcomed a recent White House statement filming life of homeless that the administration remains committed to closing the facility. “Nevertheless, this systemic LONDON: British police are began sleeping rough on Sunday, abuse of individuals’ human rights investigating the death of a Halpin said he wanted to “inter- continues year after year,” Pillay young filmmaker who was act with as many homeless people said. “We must be clear about sleeping rough while making a as possible and immerse myself in this: the United States is in clear documentary about the home- that lifestyle as deeply as I can.” breach not just of its own com- less, they said yesterday. A friend said Halpin could have mitments, but also of interna- The body of Lee Halpin, 26, frozen to death as Britain has tional laws and standards that it was found in a derelict build- spent the last few weeks in the is obliged to uphold. When other ing in the northeastern English grip of freezing weather. countries breach these standards, city of Newcastle on Wednesday “No one knows how he passed the US — quite rightly — strongly just three days after he began away, but we think it could have criticises them for it.” Pillay said the project. Police said they had been hypothermia,” his friend of a hunger strike currently being arrested two men, aged 26 and 30, Daniel Lake told local newspa- staged by detainees that “given in connection with his death on per The Chronicle. Broadcaster the uncertainty and anxieties suspicion of supplying a control- Channel 4, for whom Halpin said surrounding their prolonged and led drug. Both were later bailed. he was making the video, said apparently indefinite detention in Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles (centre) is mobbed by supporters during a campaign rally A post mortem into the cause it was “saddened to learn of the Guantanamo, it is scarcely sur- in Coro, Falcon State, yesterday. Elections to replace late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez will be held on April of his death is due to be carried tragic death of this aspiring young prising that people’s frustrations 14, with Capriles battling Venezuela’s acting President Nicolas Maduro. out on Tuesday. Speaking on a journalist.” boil over and they resort to such YouTube video the night before he AFP desperate measures.” AP SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 ASIA / PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Foreign diplomats in N Korea staying put Some governments say Pyongyang’s advisory was a ruse to fuel growing global anxiety over current crisis

SEOUL: Foreign diplomats in A further meeting of EU around 3,000 kilometres that North Korea appeared to be ambassadors is due to take place could theoretically be pushed to staying put yesterday, ignoring tomorrow in Brussels. 4,000km with a light payload. a warning by Pyongyang that In South Korea, a government That would cover any target they should consider evacuat- official was quoted by the Yonhap in South Korea and Japan, and ing their missions amid soaring news agency as saying that dip- possibly even reach US military nuclear tensions. lomats would ignore the North’s bases located on the Pacific island Pyongyang had informed appeal to leave. of Guam. embassies it could not guarantee “Most foreign governments North Korea, incensed by UN their safety if a conflict broke out view the North Korean message sanctions and South Korea-US as concerns grew that the isolated as a way of ratcheting up tension military drills, has issued a series state was preparing a missile on the Korean peninsula,” the of apocalyptic threats of nuclear launch. official said. war in recent weeks. But most of their governments Western tourists returning from The North has no proven inter- made it clear they had no immedi- organised tours in Pyongyang — continental ballistic missile capa- ate plans to withdraw personnel, which have continued despite the bility that would enable it to strike and some suggested the advisory tensions — said the situation on more distant US targets, and was a ruse to fuel growing global the ground appeared calm, with many experts say it is unlikely it anxiety over the current crisis on life going on as normal. can even mount a nuclear warhead the Korean peninsula. “We’re glad to be back but we on a mid-range missile. “The security of the German didn’t feel frightened when we Nevertheless, the international embassy and its exposure to dan- were there,” said Tina Krabbe, community is becoming increas- ger are continually being evalu- from Denmark, arriving in Beijing ingly skittish that, with tensions ated,” the German foreign ministry after five days in North Korea. showing no sign of de-escalating, said in a statement. “For now, the The embassy warning on there is a real risk of the situation South Korean soldiers patrol as vehicles returning from North Korea's inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex embassy can continue working.” Friday coincided with reports spiralling out of control. arrive at a checkpoint on the Grand Unification Bridge, which leads to the demilitarised zone separating North A British Foreign Office spokes- that North Korea had loaded The latest expression of con- and South Korea, in Paju, yesterday. woman, commenting on the two intermediate-range missiles cern came from Communist icon North’s advisory, said: “We believe on mobile launchers and hidden Fidel Castro, who warned the they have taken this step as part them in underground facilities danger of a nuclear conflict erupt- The United Nations said it had assistance they would require and help Pyongyang to reverse of their country’s rhetoric that the near its east coast. ing was higher than it had been no plans to pull staff out after should they wish to evacuate. course”, a UN statement said. US poses a threat to them.” “The North is apparently intent at any time since the 1962 Cuban the North Korean warning mes- In a conversation with UN North Korea refused yester- The heads of EU missions in on firing the missiles without missile crisis. sage to embassies and NGOs in Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, day to lift a ban — in place since Pyongyang met yesterday in a prior warning,” Yonhap quoted a If war broke out on the Korean Pyongyang. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Wednesday — on South Koreans gathering which Britain had said senior South Korean government peninsula “there would be a ter- According to the British Yi yesterday insisted that ten- accessing their companies in the was routine. No major decision official as saying. rible slaughter of people”, Castro Foreign Office spokeswoman, sions must be resolved through Seoul-funded Kaesong industrial had been expected and EU offi- They were reported to be wrote in a front-page article in embassies and organisations were dialogue. Ban was “confident the zone on the North side of the cials did not make a statement untested Musudan missiles which Granma, the Cuban Communist told to inform the Pyongyang Chinese leadership would also do border. following the meeting. are believed to have a range of Party’s newspaper. authorities by Wednesday what its best to help calm the situation AFP

Manila to seek $1.4m Two new bird flu cases in China Three cops

SHANGHAI: Two more peo- has spread concern overseas. in stock, we will not buy new killed in clash from US for reef damage ple have contracted bird flu in The World Health Organisation chicken and will stop serving MANILA: Three police Shanghai, China’s health min- (WHO) said that 10 infected peo- chicken dishes for the time being,” officers were killed and MANILA: The Philippines will January 17 but Songco said their istry said yesterday, as authori- ple were severe cases and two said the waitress, who declined to three others wounded in an ask the United States to pay 58 studies found the damage was less ties closed live poultry markets were mild cases. It reiterated be identified. ambush by suspected leftist million pesos ($1.4m) in com- than feared. and culled birds to combat a there was no evidence of ongoing While the strain does not New People’s Army rebels pensation for damage caused It took the salvage teams until new virus strain that has killed human-to-human transmission of appear to be transmitted from in Ifugao, local police said by a US warship to a protected March 29 to remove the last six people. the virus. human to human, authorities in yesterday. coral reef, the manager of the section of the 68-metre USS State-run Xinhua news agency “More than 530 close contacts mainland China and Hong Kong According to the Ifugao reef said yesterday. Guardian, which had to be cut into said authorities planned to of the confirmed cases are being said they were taking extra Provicial Police Office, police The amount is based on studies pieces so it could be lifted clear slaughter birds at two live poultry closely monitored. In Jiangsu, precautions. personnel from Ifugao and by Philippine agencies including without damaging the reef further. markets in Shanghai and another investigation is ongoing into a Hong Kong’s government said Benguet provinces were con- the coast guard that found the The incident stirred national- in Hangzhou after new samples of contact of an earlier confirmed it was intensifying surveillance of ducting combat operations on USS Guardian damaged at least ist anger with demands that the the H7N9 virus were detected in case who developed symptoms of travellers and poultry coming into Friday morning when they 2,345 square metres of the pro- United States pay a large amount birds at the three sites. illness,” the Geneva-based WHO the city. encountered a group of an unde- tected Tubbataha reef, said park of compensation for damaging the More than 20,000 birds have said in a statement yesterday. China’s Food and Drug termined number of rebels in superintendent Angelique Songco. reef, which is world renowned for been culled at another Shanghai There were no signs of panic in Administration said it had fast- Namal village, Asipulo town. She said a letter requesting its rich marine life. market where traces of the virus Shanghai, where four of the six tracked approval for intravenous The victims were airlifted compensation would be sent But Songco said they would were found this week. people died, and people generally anti-influenza drug Peramivir, to Lagawe General Hospital, to the US embassy next week, only ask for the required amount Officials in Shanghai, China’s said they were not worried. But developed by the US-listed police said, adding that pursuit stressing this is the amount based on the affected area. financial hub, closed all the city’s the culling, which has been widely biotechnology firm BioCryst operations had been ongoing required by a law passed to pro- “I am not worried about criti- live poultry markets yesterday, publicised, did underline for some Pharmaceuticals Inc. against the rebels. However, tect the reef, a UNESCO World cism (for the small amount). We emptying food stalls. how close to home the issue had Peramivir is in medical trials the police did not say whether Heritage site in a remote area of are not trying to put one over All poultry trading was banned become. to prove its effectiveness against the rebels had suffered any the Sulu Sea. them and we hope they will do in Nanjing, another eastern “Now it’s just downstairs,” type-A and type-B influenza, the casualties. “We don’t want to be dishonest. the same with us,” she said. Chinese city, although local offi- said Liu Leting, a user of Weibo, administration said in a state- It is just a simple process: meas- She said the last of the salvage cials said they had not found any China’s version of Twitter which ment. The H7N9 strain belongs Major quake ure it correctly and then they pay. ships had left Tubbataha but a trace of the bird flu virus and has more than 500 million users. to the type-A group. That is all. It is very straightfor- team of US Navy divers and a declared that chicken on the “Suddenly I discover that I’m Shanghai authorities have ward,” she said. US vessel remained in the area, retail market was safe to eat, living in an epidemic zone!” stressed the H7N9 virus remained rocks Papua Earlier estimates said as much assessing the damage. official media reported. In one city restaurant, a wait- sensitive to the drug Tamiflu and JAYAPURA: A major as 4,000 square metres of the The United States has apolo- The new strain of bird flu ress said they planned to stop those who were diagnosed early 7.1-magnitude earthquake reef had been destroyed when gised for the mishap and said it has infected 18 people in China, serving chicken because of the could be cured. Tamiflu is made struck Indonesia’s eastern- the USS Guardian minesweeper would cooperate in addressing the all in the east. Six people outbreak. by Roche Holding AG. most province of Papua yes- ran aground on Tubbataha on damage. AFP have died in an outbreak that “After we sell out the chicken REUTERS terday, the US Geological Survey said, sending pan- icked crowds running into the Long march streets. There were no reports of Contaminated damage and no tsunami warn- Malaysian PM pledges ing was issued after the quake struck on land at 1.42pm at a water leaks from depth of 75 kilometres, 272km west-southwest of provincial Fukushima plant bigger cash handouts capital Jayapura, the USGS said. TOKYO: As much as 120 tons KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Najib, who dissolved parliament People in the capital of the of radioactive water may have Prime Minister Najib Razak on Wednesday, has previously said huge province said they felt the leaked from a storage tank at unveiled a manifesto yesterday he is “cautiously optimistic” of a quake strongly and hundreds the crippled Fukushima nuclear pledging bigger cash handouts, “big” win as his United Malays went running into the streets. plant, contaminating the sur- millions of new jobs and lower National Organisation (UMNO) rounding ground, Tokyo Electric taxes and crime, as he seeks faces what is seen as the toughest Sulu security Power Co said yesterday. his first mandate in looming challenge to its 56 years in power. The Japanese power company national polls. The vote is tipped to be the was yet to discover the cause of Speaking to tens of thousands closest ever, driven by concerns forces regroup the leak, detected on one of seven of people in a stadium just outside over corruption, the rising cost MANILA: The fighters of tanks that store water used to the capital, he talked up Malaysia’s of living and high crime under the Sulu sultanate’s royal cool the plant’s reactors, a spokes- economic prosperity over his four an UMNO-dominated coalition security force under the com- man for the company, Masayuki years in power, promising to do which has ruled Malaysia since mand of Agbimuddin Kiram Ono, said at a press briefing. better should he convincingly win independence in 1957. have regrouped in Lahad The company plans to pump an election expected in late April. Najib has worked hard to Datu, Sabah. 13,000 cubic metres of water He pledged to increase an rebrand the 13-member Barisan Sultanate spokesman remaining in the tank to other annual handout he introduced Nasional, or National Front, since Abraham Idjirani said around vessels over the next two weeks. two years ago for millions of poor taking over the coalition in 2009 135 fighters of Agbimuddin Water from the leaking tank, households from 500 ringgit ($164) by launching a series of reforms regrouped and were reinforced which is located 800 metres from to 1,200 ringgit in stages while to strengthen the economy and by around 100 armed support- the coast, is not expected to reach lowering private and corporate grant greater civil liberties. ers from Sulu and Tawi-Tawi. the sea, Kyodo news wire reported income tax. The prime minister He has reversed a recession Idjirani added that earlier, citing unidentified officials also promised to build a million despite global economic instabil- Malaysian security forces were from the utility. low-cost homes and attract 1.3 ity with Malaysia recording a 5.6 also observing the ceasefire The company did not say how trillion ringgit in investment by percent growth last year. that was earlier declared by long the tank had been leaking. 2020, creating 3.3 million jobs. Najib is facing his first test at the sultanate of Sulu. The sul- The storage tanks, excavated at The manifesto outlines plans the ballot box and is under pres- tanate’s forces are still engaged the site in the wake of the disaster, to expand the fight against crime sure to recover from the coali- in a stand-off with Malaysian Hefajat-e-Islam activists attend a rally in Dhaka yesterday. Hundreds of are lined with waterproof sheets and corruption by increasing the tion’s shock 2008 election result, security forces since they meant to keep the contaminated thousands of Bangladeshi Islamists rallied after an overnight "long march" number of special corruption when it lost its traditional two- entered Sabah in February. water from leaking into the soil to the Bangladeshi capital, demanding a blasphemy law and execution courts and the police force by thirds parliamentary majority. AGENCIES REUTERS of "atheist bloggers" for defaming Islam. 4,000 each year. AFP SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Afghan attacks kill US On guard diplomat, six others Taliban claim bombing that killed female envoy

KANDAHAR: Militants today as they worked to improve appeared at the same time.” killed six Americans, including the nation they love.” The deaths bring the number a young female diplomat, and Officials said the explosion of foreign military troops killed an Afghan doctor in a pair of occurred just as a coalition convoy this year to 30, including 22 attacks in Afghanistan yester- drove past a caravan of vehicles Americans. A total of six foreign day. It was the deadliest day for carrying the governor of Zabul civilians have died in Afghanistan the United States in the war in province to the same event. so far this year, according to an eight months. Another American civilian was AP count. The violence — hours after the killed in a separate insurgent Provincial Governor US military’s top officer arrived attack in eastern Afghanistan, the Mohammad Ashraf Nasery, who for consultations with Afghan and US military said in a statement. survived the attack in Qalat, said US-led coalition officials — illus- It was the deadliest day for the explosion occurred in front trates the instability plaguing the Americans since August 16, when of a hospital and a coalition base nation as foreign forces work to seven American service mem- housing a provincial reconstruc- pull nearly all their combat troops bers were killed in two attacks tion team, or PRT. International out of the country by the end of in Kandahar province, the birth- civilian and military workers at 2014. place of the Taliban insurgency. the PRT train Afghan govern- Afghan soldiers stand guard near the site of a bomb blast in Herat, Afghanistan, yesterday. The three US service mem- Six were killed when their heli- ment officials and help with local bers, two US civilians and the copter was shot down by insur- development projects. doctor were killed when the gents and one soldier died in a Nasery said the car bomb group was struck by an explo- roadside bomb explosion. exploded as his convoy was pass- sion while travelling to donate A US official who spoke on con- ing the hospital. He said the doc- Dempsey visits Kabul unannounced books to students in a school in dition of anonymity said several tor was killed, and two of his the south, officials and the State other Americans and Afghans, bodyguards and a student from Department said. possibly as many as nine, were the school were wounded. KABUL: Top US military to train and advise their local the international troops leave. In a statement, Secretary wounded. The State Department “The governor’s convoy was at officer General Martin Dempsey counterparts. The US army still has 68,000 of State John Kerry said the said four of their staff were the gate of the school at the same arrived in Afghanistan on an General Dempsey, chairman troops on the ground in April Americans included a department wounded, one critically. time the (coalition) convoy came unannounced visit yesterday to of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will 2013. Speculations on the size of of defence civilian and the foreign Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef out from the PRT,” said provin- assess the level of training the “assess the level of training that its force post-2014 range from service officer. Ahmadi claimed responsibility for cial police chief General Ghulam US will need to provide Afghan US/ISAF will provide to Afghan 6000 to 20,000 soldiers. “She tragically gave her the attack in Zabul and said the Sakhi Rooghlawanay. “The suicide forces after Nato withdraws in security forces”, a military official Last August, insurgents’ rock- young life working to give young bomber was seeking to target bomber blew himself up between 2014, an official said. said. ets hit General Dempsey’s plane Afghans the opportunity to have either a coalition convoy or the the two convoys.” An estimated 100,000 foreign Afghan security forces, num- as it was parked at the Bagram a better future,” Kerry said. “We governor. Nasery said he thought his con- troops have been fighting the bering around 330,000, are widely air field and wounded two mainte- also honour the US troops and “We were waiting for one voy was the intended target. Taliban for the past 11 years and seen as ill-equipped, under- nance crew, according to officials. Department of Defence civil- of them,” Ahmadi said in “I’m safe and healthy,” he said are due to leave Afghanistan trained, and even corrupt. Lots of Dempsey flew out of the country ian who lost their lives, and the a telephone interview. “It in a telephone interview. by December 31, 2014 to be Afghans fear they will fail to con- unharmed using another plane. Afghan civilians who were killed was our good luck that both AP replaced by a smaller contingent tain the growing insurgency once AFP

761 security Earthquake shakes personnel are Islamabad Call to help UK military’s interpreters guarding Sharifs ISLAMABAD: A powerful LONDON: British military, Afghanistan would have been The signatories include General brave men who put themselves in ISLAMABAD: Besides earthquake measuring 6.4 on political and academic figures impossible without local inter- Mike Jackson, the former profes- grave danger so that British sol- an astounding number of the Richter scale jolted several yesterday called on the gov- preters, who have risked their sional head of the army; Paddy diers could do their jobs.” 317 personnel of the Punjab areas in northern Pakistan in ernment not to “abandon” the lives and made extraordinary sac- Ashdown, a former high repre- The Times said that to date, Elite Force who provide the wee hours yesterday, caus- Afghan interpreters for British rifices just like British soldiers,” sentative for Bosnia-Hercegovina; about 20 interpreters working VVIP security to former ing panic among residents. troops when they pull out of the the letter says. and Michael Clarke, director-gen- with British forces in Afghanistan Pakistan prime minis- No loss of life and property was country. “Many of these courageous eral of the Royal United Services have been killed in action, with ter Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz reported. In a letter to The Times news- men are living in fear of Taliban Institute defence think-tank. dozens more wounded. Sharif and their families, 444 The tremor was felt in paper, they said there were reprisals.” “After the Iraq War the UK In December, Prime Minister jawans of the Lahore Police Islamabad, Swat, Shangla, Bunir, roughly 600 interpreters helping The letter argues that Britain gave Iraqi interpreters asylum in David Cameron said Britain would Security Division, Punjab Malakand, Kohat Chitral, Gizdar British forces, largely in the trou- has a “moral obligation” to help this country, but -- shamefully -- withdraw 3,800 of the country’s Constabulary and the Lahore and adjacent areas. bled southern Helmand province, protect the men from threats of Britain is the only Nato country 9,000 troops from Afghanistan District Police continue to The epicentre of the quake was with many now fearing Taliban retribution from Taliban insur- yet to do this for Afghan inter- this year, as Nato prepares for a guard the former rulers of border areas of Afghanistan and reprisals as British troops start to gents once the last British combat preters,” they claimed. full security handover to Afghan Punjab at their private resi- Tajikistan. withdraw from the country. troops leave Afghanistan by the “Britain has a moral obligation forces at the end of next year. dences in Raiwind, Model QNA “The British military’s job in end of 2014. to support this small number of AFP Town and the Gulberg areas of Lahore. According to the break-up Daughter of UN of 761 policemen who continue to provide VVIP security to the Sharifs in Lahore at the expense of the taxpayers, 317 Pakistanis seeking belong to the Punjab Elite Force, 302 are from the Lahore Police Security Division, 108 personnel belong to the Punjab asylum in Germany Constabulary while 34 others are from the Lahore District KARACHI: Pakistanis apply- lives while applying for asylum Police. ing for German visit or busi- in Germany. ness visas are facing increased The situation has upset the UK MPs want aid difficulties as a large number of German immigration authori- Pakistanis have sought political ties and they have written to the to be conditional asylum after reaching Germany German embassy in Pakistan and LONDON: A British par- during the past few months. expressed their concerns over the liamentary committee has According to sources, 96 situation. recommended to the British Pakistanis have applied for asylum The embassy has been directed government to go ahead with a in Germany referring to threats to conduct strict scrutiny of visa major increase in aid money to to their lives in their country due applicants in Pakistan. Pakistan only if taxes are col- to a gang war and the Shia-Sunni Pakistani businessmen who lected from the Pakistani elite strife. have visited Germany several and anti-corruption efforts Most of the applicants either times complain that their visa are supported and boosted. claimed to be Shia Muslims or the requests are being denied fre- The Department for victims of gang wars, and feared quently now. International Development they would be killed if they went They said they should not be plans to increase its bilateral back to their country. punished for the acts of unscru- programme in Pakistan from Some people have referred to pulous individuals. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon talks on Skype with Malala Yusafzai, in Madrid. The Secretary- £267m in 2012-13 to £446m in alleged Taliban threats to their INTERNEWS General said the 14-year-old, who was attacked by the Taliban for opposing restrictions on girls going to 2014-15, making Pakistan the school, was “a symbol of hope, a daughter of the United Nations.” largest recipient of UK aid, but the British parliamentarians want Pakistan to increase the proportion of GDP it collects in tax from the wealthy and the Candidates face odd questions in vetting Fresh IMF funding in July powerful. ISLAMABAD: Aslam Khan of the national anthem. A third articles in Pakistan’s constitution KARACHI: Pakistan is likely to secure fresh funding from the Rescue training Khattak passed his first — and was asked how she would manage — 62 and 63 — introduced in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to shore up its reserves and perhaps most curious — test this to serve as a lawmaker with two 1980s by former military dictator boost donor and investors confidence in July or August after forma- for students week in his quest to become a young children at home. Gen. Zia ul-Haq that govern who tion of a new coalition government in June, a report published by PESHAWAR: The elemen- member of Pakistan’s parlia- Many candidates were forced is eligible to serve in parliament. the Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services revealed. tary and secondary education ment: He correctly named the to recite Islamic prayers to prove Although the articles have been Timely parliamentary elections and a credible government are crucial department will launch rescue first person to walk on the moon. they were devout Muslims, and in the constitution for years, they for Pakistan to obtain fresh external funding and address its dwindling training programmes in pub- The question was posed to one — a prominent journalist — haven’t played a significant role in foreign exchange reserves, the report titled “Successful elections are lic schools across the province Khattak by Pakistani judges, who was disqualified because one of his past elections. But the Supreme crucial as Pakistan’s balance of payments pressures mount,” revealed. from the new academic year have provoked both laughter and newspaper columns was deemed to Court has pressed judges vetting “Little likely improvement in Pakistan’s trade and capital flows, and starting next week, according criticism in recent days in their have ridiculed Pakistan’s ideology. thousands of candidates to enforce lack of alternative sources of bilateral or multilateral funding makes to officials. vetting of potential candidates in “The manner in which the the law more strictly in the run- it imperative for the country to secure fresh IMF funding to shore up District education officers the country’s upcoming national exercise of screening election up to the May 11 parliamentary its reserves and boost donor and investor confidence,” Standard and have been directed to ensure elections with queries that have candidates is being conducted election in an attempt to weed out Poor’s credit analyst Agost Benard said. introduction of civil defence veered between the controversial cannot even be termed as childis,” corrupt politicians and those who Securing access to renewed external funding is likely only after a training in government high and the bizarre. Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper said in may have broken basic laws, such new government takes office following the parliamentary elections schools and higher secondary One candidate was prodded an editorial. “It is far worse.” as not paying their taxes, a com- scheduled for May 11, 2013. It will also require credible plans to correct schools. to spell the word graduation. The source of the problem, mon abuse in Pakistan. Pakistan’s unsustainable fiscal and economic policies. AGENCIES Another was quizzed on the lyrics according to critics, is a pair of AP INTERNEWS SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 PM, Sonia to BJP board to pick PM candidate NEW DELHI/ AHMEDABAD: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) presi- dent Rajnath Singh yesterday lead Congress avoided a direct reply when asked if Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi would be the party’s prime ministerial can- didate in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, saying the parliamentary in 2014 polls board will decide. “Every party has a style of functioning and it runs accord- Decision on next PM after elections ing to that. When last time I was the party president, when NEW DELHI: The ruling to continue in the job, telling report- we had to propose a prime min- Congress will fight the 2014 gen- ers, “I am not ruling it in, I am not isterial candidate, I had con- eral elections under the leadership ruling it out,” after being initially sulted the parliamentary board of party president Sonia Gandhi expected to bow out of politics. and proposed (senior leader L and octogenarian Prime Minister The Hindu nationalist opposition K) Advani’s name. This time Manmohan Singh, a senior party BJP is expected to field Gujarat chief also we will call a meeting leader said yesterday. Narendra Modi, 62, who is hailed as of the central parliamentary The issue of whom the embattled an economic manager but is a divi- board and it will decide whether Congress will project as premier has sive figure nationally after being at to project him or not,” he told become a topic of heated speculation the state’s helm during deadly 2002 Times Now channel. with Nehru-Gandhi scion Rahul religious riots. Rajnath Singh, however, Gandhi, the next in line in India’s Finance Minister P Chidambaram, noted that Modi himself was a top political dynasty, showing deep a pro-market reformer who is also member of that parliamentary reluctance to take the role. often mentioned as a potential prime board. The party will fight the 2014 polls ministerial candidate, said separately On the Congress projecting “under the leadership of (party the government is determined to fin- its vice president Rahul Gandhi president and Rahul’s mother) Sonia ish its five-year term. as its prime ministerial candi- Gandhi and Manmohan Singh” and “There will be no early elections. date, he said: “How can I talk Supporters of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party perform a folk dance at a rally to celebrate the will not project any prime ministerial Elections will take place on time in about him being the prime min- candidate, Congress general secre- May 2014,” Chidambaram told a news isterial candidate when I have party’s 33rd foundation day in the western city of Ahmedabad, yesterday. tary Digvijay Singh said. conference as he issued an upbeat not even seen him work as a “We will go to the elections under economic outlook, predicting faster minister. How can I comment Congress comes to power.” people of Gujarat “punished party in the next parliamentary (their) leadership,” the veteran party growth and healthier public sector on what kind of prime minister Speaking at BJP’s foundation the Congress and defeated elections. leader said. “If we get a majority finances. he will be. We have not seen his day function in Ahmedabad, their major leaders in the last “Yes, Narendra Bhai is Yamraj and form the government, it will be Talk of snap polls has been fanned performance even once”. Modi took a dig at Rahul election... we thought they will but only for those who had and decided then who will be the prime by the exit of the scandal-tainted On Gandhi’s recent speech at Gandhi for his “beehive” com- improve, and learn to follow the have been adopting terrorism, minister,” he added. coalition’s two biggest allies in recent a CII function, the BJP presi- ment, saying: “Congress thinks limits of democracy, but they corruption and conspiracies His statements came after Gandhi, months, leaving it in a vulnerable dent said: “I will just say that this country is a beehive. For us, don’t want to wait for even 100 against the nation. Congress has 42, who hails from a line of three minority position in parliament. he made as much effort as he this country is our mother... it is days. Just think about their rightly seen Modiji in the form prime ministers and has widely been But Chidambaram said the govern- could. He made an effort to be ‘punyabhumi’. mental state”. of Yamraj as he will prove to be seen as being groomed for the job, ment had a wide-ranging economic prepared before the speech.” “I want to warn the power- The BJP also hit out at the so for them in coming general called the issue of whether he would agenda it wished to complete, includ- Reacting to Prime Minister brokers of Delhi — for all the Congress for comparing Modi elections,” BJP vice-president be the prime ministerial candidate ing further opening up the insur- Manmohan Singh hinting that harassment of BJP governments to ‘Yamraj’, the lord of death Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said “irrelevant” on Thursday. ance and pensions sectors to foreign he was not averse to a third and workers — you will get your in Hindu mythology, saying while addressing party workers Prime Minister Singh, 80, indi- investment. term, Rajnath Singh said: reply,” he said. the Gujarat chief minister in Rampur. cated on Friday he might be willing AFP “He will get third term only if He said that the way the will prove fatal for the ruling IANS British woman murdered in Income tax laws to be amended NEW DELHI: The govern- possible outcome of negotiation $11bn acquisition of mobile ment will introduce changes over a $2bn tax dispute with tel- assets from Huitchison in 2007. Kashmir; Dutchman held to income tax laws once a tax ecoms major Vodafone. The finance minister empha- dispute with telecoms firm Chidambaram said he would sised that India was a “safe SRINAGAR: A young British of attacks on tourists travelling De-Wit had allegedly fled in a Vodafone is resolved, Finance propose the changes in the Income and attractive destination for woman holidaying in Kashmir in India. They said her body had small boat which capsized as he Minister P Chidambaram said Tax Act once the Vodafone dis- investments.” was found dead in a pool of blood been sent for a post-mortem was trying to reach the shore, yesterday. pute was resolved. Chidambaram said he had vis- on a houseboat yesterday, police examination. forcing him to swim. The suspect “Amendments to the Income The world’s largest telecoms ited major financial centres like said after arresting a Dutch “We can confirm the Jammu was carrying only his passport Tax Act is inevitable, that is abso- service provider, Vodafone Tokyo, Dubai and Hong Kong to man on suspicion of her murder. and Kashmir police have the when he was arrested, police said. lutely necessary,” Chidambaram is involved in a Rs.110bn attract overseas investments in The 43-year-old Dutch body of a British woman. We have “We flashed an alert for his told reporters, adding that the ($2.2bn) tax dispute with India. national, who has confessed to contacted the next-of-kin and arrest,” Kashmir Inspector government was waiting for a Indian authorities related to IANS the crime, was taken into cus- we are providing consular assist- General of Police Abdul Ghani tody as he tried to flee the scenic ance to the family,” a British High Mir said. Kashmir valley in the foothills of Commission (embassy) spokes- The Dutch embassy in New the Himalayas, police superin- woman said in New Delhi. Delhi could not be reached imme- tendent Tahir Sajjad said. In a statement, the police diately for comment. A case of murder has been said that the victim was from The victim had been a regu- Kejriwal registered. Manchester. They identified the lar visitor to the houseboat in “We walked into a pool of blood woman as Sarah Groves. Srinagar for three years, the ves- breaks fast in her room,” Sajjad said. “We They arrested the suspect in a sel’s owner said. found a sharp-edged knife close taxi near Qazigund, 75 kilometres “She was like our family mem- NEW DELHI: Activist- to her body. The young lady had south of Srinagar on the highway ber and would often eat with us,” turned-politician Arvind multiple stab wounds.” leading out of the Kashmir val- Abdul Rahim Shoda, the house- Kejriwal yesterday ended The attacker broke the latch ley, and they identified him as boat owner, said. “She was like my his 15-day-old fast with on the cabin door of the 24-year- 43-year-old Richard De-Wit. daughter and my soul is crying.” a spirited attack on the old British tourist who had been De-Wit had been staying in an Shoda said he discovered Sheila Dikshit-led Delhi staying in the houseboat on the adjacent room in the same house- the victim “lying on the floor, government for its “ina- picturesque Dal Lake in Srinagar boat, named “New Beauty”, and drenched in blood” several hours bility” to provide power for two months, police said. he had arrived on Thursday, police after midnight when he got up to and water — which he Police were investigating said. do his regular prayers. identified as key issues whether the victim had been Police said they were inves- “I just went mad seeing what for the forthcoming polls. sexually assaulted in the inci- tigating whether the two knew was in front of me,” he said. Breaking the fast in dent, which comes after a string each other. AGENCIES protest against allegedly inflated power bills, amid loud cheers from his sup- porters, Kejriwal said the Snowy passage Dikshit government had no right to rule as it could not make water and electricity available to the people. Kejriwal informally announced the objectives of his Aam Admi Party (AAP), which includ waiv- ing off the allegedly high electricity bills and bring- ing down power tariffs to half the present rates. Kejriwal claimed the days of the Dikshit-led government were num- bered and warned her to wait until November — the month when assembly elections are scheduled. “I am grateful to all those who participated in the movement. After my fast, one thing is certain that assembly election in Delhi will be fought on the issue of power and water,” said Kejriwal. The AAP convenor also Vehicles move between walls of snow after the Srinagar-Leh highway opened to traffic in Zojila, 108km east accused Dikshit of being of Srinagar, yesterday. The 443-km-long highway was opened for traffic after remaining snowbound at Zojila in cahoots with power Pass, 3,530 metres above sea level, for the past six months. The pass connects Kashmir with the Buddhist- distribution firms and dominated Ladakh region, a tourist destination known for its monasteries, landscapes and mountains. industrialists. IANS SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Toll in Mumbai Tourism boom Graft a threat building collapse 72; builders held

MUMBAI: Authorities yes- to democracy, terday abandoned a search for survivors from the collapse of a seven-storey building on Mumbai’s outskirts that killed 72 people, saying there was no says president hope of finding anybody else alive. “The rescue work is now over since there is no hope of finding ‘Need to reset moral compass’ any more survivors,” Sandeep Malvi, Thane municipal corpora- NEW DELHI: Corruption is a the only focus,” the president said. tion spokesman, said. threat to the democratic fabric “Lack of good governance has “The death toll is now 72. of the country and frustrates been identified as the root cause About 36 are injured and under- efforts to bring equity, President of many of the serious deficiencies going treatment. At least 126 peo- Pranab Mukherjee said yester- in society. It robs the citizenry of ple have been rescued,” he added. day, and, referring to the gang their security, and their social and Most of the victims were rape of a student in Delhi last economic rights,” he said. poor daily wage earners work- December, called for resetting “At the root of poor govern- ing at the site and their families, “our moral compass”. ance is our lethargy for change, who were living with them. The Delivering the 14th D P whether it is in the implementa- dead included 17 children and 22 Kohli Memorial Lecture organ- tion of schemes or adherence to women, a local government state- ised by the Central Bureau of values,” he said. ment said. Investigation (CBI), Mukherjee Referring to gang rape of a The building collapsed late on said: “Our delivery systems need young woman in the capital Thursday. mending and only good govern- and her subsequent death in A 65-year-old woman was ance can provide an answer to the December last year, he said the pulled from the rubble late on problem.” nation was grievously hurt. Friday after being trapped for “If what is meant for the poor He said the young woman was almost 30 hours and was in stable does not reach them in the pro- symbol of an aspiring nation. “As condition in hospital, police said. portion it is meant to, then cor- I had said earlier, I repeat and I Police have arrested the two Kashmiri men pull tourists on sledges in the snow at Sonamarg, 106km north of Srinagar, the summer capital of ruption and inefficiency are its do believe that it is time to reset builders responsible for construc- Jammu and Kashmir, yesterday. Since January this year, 125,000 tourists have visited Kashmir, media reports say. two main causes,” he said. our moral compass,” he said. tion of the structure who had “Corruption is a threat to the The president said law enforce- fled after the disaster and filed democratic fabric. It frustrates ment agencies should speed up the accusations of culpable homicide efforts to bring equity,” the process of investigating allega- against them, the Press Trust of president said in his lecture on tions and the prosecution should India (PTI) news agency said. “Good governance: Empowering also be speedy so that guilty were The building’s floors collapsed Gang rape accused refuses Institutions, Society and Public”. punished without delay. directly on top of each other like The lecture was organised in “This would enhance the deter- a pack of cards -- a phenomenon memory of Kohli, who served as rent value of punishment. It known as a “pancake collapse” -- CBI director from 1963-68 and would improve responsiveness, making rescue work even tougher, to return to ‘unsafe’ jail coincided with the CBI entering one of the most important fea- said Alok Awasthi, commandant its golden jubilee year. tures of good governance,” he said. of the National Disaster Response NEW DELHI: A Tihar Jail was taken to Tihar after the day’s he never told his counsel that he The president said the country The president said though India Force. official yesterday denied in a proceeding. was beaten by the inmates of the was at a crossroads, and could not had made strides in development, “We are reasonably sure there Delhi court the allegation that His counsel claimed jail offi- jail... he stated that media reports lose the momentum of change. it ranked lower than major devel- is nobody there,” Awasthi said Vinay Sharma, an accused in cials beat up his client in prison are false and are being planned by He said the basic principles of oped economies in key governance after calling off the search. the December 16 gang rape, on Friday night. certain people with an intention good governance had already been indicators such as accountability, The Maharashtra state govern- was beaten by inmates while The superintendent of jail of receiving cheap publicity,” the incorporated into the constitution political stability and absence of ment has announced a probe into the accused claimed a threat to number 7 told the fast track court report added. by the nation’s founding fathers. violence, government effective- the incident and suspended a top his life and refused to return to that Sharma had informed him The court reserved the order “Good governance means exist- ness, regulatory quality, rule of civic administrator and a police prison after the hearing. that the injury in his arm was due on an application which said that ence of elaborate architecture law and control of corruption. officer for dereliction of duty. The jail official said Sharma’s to a fall in the van on April 4. the accused were being treated that has the good of the people as IANS AFP right arm was fractured “due to a The jail official submitted a brutally in Tihar and they should fall in a police van while returning report and CD of CCTV footage be transferred to Rohini Jail. to jail from court”. of the barrack where Sharma was The court will pass the order Amid high drama, Sharma, lodged and said Sharma “never on the application tomorrow and whose arm was bandaged, pleaded said he was beaten up”. directed the jail superintendent before Additional Session Judge “Vinay was personally ques- to look into the security of all the Yogesh Khanna not to send him to tioned by the jail superintendent accused. Tihar jail after the court proceed- where he stated on record that the The judge on Friday directed the ing as he feared for his life. injury in his hand was due to fall in jail superintendent to be present “If you want to kill me, kill me police bus on April 4 evening while in court and explain how Sharma here but don’t send me to Tihar returning from court and this has had fractured his hand and if any in any condition,” said Sharma. nothing to do with his stay in jail,” action had been taken on his alle- The court however did not said the report. gation that he was beaten up. concede his request and Sharma “He also stated before me that IANS Mutual funds bounce back, renewing options for NRIs

fter a considerable towards good and steady flows period of lows, the THE NR EYE into long-term fixed income Indian mutual fund funds. High flows in the interme- Aindustry appears to Moiz Mannan diate to long-term bond funds in have bounced back, showing a the debt category are said to have jump of close to 19.5 percent in terms, would be a tidy sum. pushed up assets of the industry. the just concluded financial year. The only hitch is in the con- Interestingly, most of the asset What this means is that fidence part. The latest data inflows came in the second half of the fund managers are better released by the Association of FY13 as expectations were build- equipped to implement their Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) ing up for rate cuts. Gilt funds, strategies for higher returns to tells us that in 2012-13 the assets which invest primarily in govern- their customers. One important under management jumped by ment securities, attracted a sum fact that has come out is that a over Rs1.5 trillion over the pre- of Rs10bn for several months in good proportion of the improved vious year to touch the figure the second half. figures was contributed by long- of Rs8.2 trillion. Of the 44 fund For those who are worried too term fixed income funds. houses, 39 entities saw their much over the health of the Indian We have been observing and AUMs rise during the period. economy, let it be known that commenting on the remittance Market experts largely attrib- Foreign Institutional Investors and investment patterns of non- uted the rise in AUM to a number (FIIs) poured in a record Rs. 1.4 resident Indians and we have of factors, including steps taken trillion ($26bn) into the country’s seen that a risk-averse attitude by the government and market stock markets in 2012-13. has driven most of them towards regulator Sebi (Securities and According to statistics released bank deposits. We have also seen Exchange Borad of India) to by Sebi, This was the highest net that the continued uncertainty revive the equity culture in the inflow by FIIs in a single fiscal year over keeping overseas jobs has country and help channel house- since their entry into Indian capi- created an urgent need for NRIs hold income into stocks and tal markets in 1992-93, in which to think in the long term while mutual funds. year they had invested Rs130m. making investment decisions. The fund houses collect money Agencies, quoting market NRIs are understandably rat- from investors and invest it in experts, have said that the reforms tled by the swings in stock indi- various market segments, includ- initiatives undertaken by the gov- ces and suppress the desire for ing stocks, IPOs (primary market) ernment to boost economic growth higher earnings through equity- and bonds. Most of the top 10 asset and investor sentiment have led based products to go in for secure management companies (AMCs) to a renewed interest among the options. However, the safer have outperformed the industry’s foreign investors. The growing options, mainly debt, can hardly growth with a wide margin. For uncertainty in Euro Zone has also beat the rates of inflation in the instance, Birla Sun Life Mutual found FIIs shifting focus to emerg- medium or long term. It is only Fund, ICICI Prudential MF, ing markets such as India. equity which can do that. Kotak MF, IDFC MF and SBI The huge FII inflows came The more astute among them MF, among others, registered a despite the number of FIIs reg- are, therefore, clearly veering growth of between 25 and 40 per- istered in India dipping to 1,757 back towards the safer options cent during the year. On the other this fiscal from 1,765 at the end of in equity investment such as hand, giants such as HDFC MF fiscal year ended March 31, 2012. mutual funds. According to a and Reliance MF managed to post The Sebi report further informs recent estimate, more than six a growth of 13 percent and 21 per- that FIIs were also pumping percent of the assets under man- cent, respectively. money in the debt market and agement (AUM) are held by over- Analysing the figures, lead- infused close to Rs. 290 bn in this seas Indians. This, in absolute ing fund managers have pointed segment in 2012-13.

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PRAYER TIME Japanese News in Numbers QATAR ECONOMIC OUTLOOK scientists can 2013 Fajr (Dawn) 4:02 Shorook (Sunrise) 5:20 ‘read’ dreams, Zuhr (Noon) 11:36 says study Asr (Afternoon) 3:05 TOKYO: Scientists in Japan Maghrib (Sunset) 5:54 said yesterday they had Isha (Night) 7:24 found a way to “read” people’s dreams, using MRI scanners to unlock some of the secrets of the unconscious mind. WEATHER Researchers have managed what they said was “the world’s Weather Actual outcomes will not be known until the end of the first quarter Today Monday Tuesday first decoding” of night-time Conditions: visions, the subject of centuries of 2013, when Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA) releases national Clear Clear Clear of speculation that have capti- accounts data for the full calendar year. Thus part 2’s estimates Slight dust and vated humanity since ancient for 2012 are still in the nature of forecasts, albeit forecasts that partly cloudy times. incorporate known data for at least half the year.Both real and High: 29° High:30° High:30° with chance of In the study, published in Low: 23° Low: 22° Low: 24° scattered rain. the journal Science, scientists nominal GDP growth rates have been revised upwards, but only at the ATR Computational marginally (box figure). The forecast for consumer price inflation Neuroscience Laboratories, in Kyoto, western Japan, used (2012 year average) and the projected fiscal surplus remain more magnetic resonance imaging or less unchanged. A larger current account surplus is now penned DOHA - SUN & SEA (MRI) scans to locate exactly in partly because of elevated liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices for which part of the brain was SUN TIDE SEA active during the first moments Qatar’s hydrocarbon export basket. SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND of sleep. They then woke up the 05:20 17:54 02:30 & 15:30 09:30 & 21:00 05-15 KT dreamer and asked him or her Revisions to Qatar’s outlook for 2012 (%) THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW what images they had seen, a process that was repeated 200 HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER times. QEO Update QEO 2012 to 2013 These answers were com- MUSCAT 30/21 Thunderstorm 27/21 Partly cloudy pared with the brain maps that MAKKAH 36/23 Clear 36/23 Clear had been produced by the MRI Real GDP KUWAIT 34/24 Clear 32/25 Clear scanner. Growth BAHRAIN 28/22 Partly cloudy 30/23 Clear Researchers were then able SANAA 25/09 Rain 26/11 Clear to predict what images the RIYADH 31/19 Partly cloudy 33/18 Partly cloudy volunteers had seen with a Nominal GDP DUBAI 26/20 Thunderstorm 25/21 Partly cloudy 60 percent accuracy rate, ris- Growth BAGHDAD 34/20 Clear 34/18 Partly cloudy ing to more than 70 percent with around 15 specific items THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW Consumer Price including men, words and Inflation HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER books, they said. “We have concluded that ATHENS 24/15 Partly cloudy 20/12 Partly cloudy we successfully decoded some WASHINGTON 20/13 Mostly cloudy 24/16 Mostly cloudy kinds of dreams with a distinc- Fiscal Surplus SYDNEY 25/16 Chance of storm 24/13 Partly cloudy tively high success rate,” said (Share of GDP) LONDON 09/04 Cloudy 09/05 Mostly cloudy Yukiyasu Kamitani, a senior PARIS 13/08 Mostly cloudy 13/10 Chance of rain researcher at the laboratories Current Account ISTANBUL 18/09 Chance of rain 13/05 Chance of rain and head of the study team. Surplus MANILA 36/25 Partly cloudy 34/25 Partly cloudy “I believe it was a key step (Share of GDP) DHAKA 39/22 Clear 40/23 Clear towards reading dreams more DELHI 36/22 Clear 37/20 Clear precisely,” Kamitani said. ISLAMABAD 28/17 Mostly cloudy 30/19 Mostly cloudy AFP Source : http://www.qsa.gov.qa/ White House to be blown up in new films

WASHINGTON: It has been a box-office hit Olympus Has Fallen, recovered from the shock of 9/11,” long time coming but American where — in a spookily current plot said Professor Jamsheed Akrami, moviegoers are now ready to twist — North Korean terror- a film expert at William Paterson watch the White House being ists attack the White House and University in New Jersey. “Some blown up again. pretty much destroy it. Finally, people may even argue that cin- Twelve years after the 11 the action effects movie G I Joe: ematic re-enactments could have September terrorist attacks, and Retaliation — which despite abys- therapeutic effects at this time. long after audiences shed a simi- mal reviews has earned tens of Nothing like the passage of time lar reticence about viewing New millions in ticket sales — also has can change perspectives.” York being destroyed, at least bad guys seize the White House. Yet even the people behind the three major films will now feature Observers say that the rash films seem to know that they are America’s most famous address of films in which Washington’s overcoming some sort of taboo. being attacked, shot up, set on fire symbols of power and patriot- For Olympus Has Fallen, director or taken over by terrorists. ism take a pounding shows that Antoine Fuqua’s crew built a rep- None of the destruction is the pain of 9/11 is disappearing lica White House on their set in subtle, or limited to the White from the landscape of popular Louisiana solely for the purpose of House. A trailer for the coming culture. At last film-makers feel filming its destruction. Fuqua said blockbuster White House Down confident that the nation can the filming was a spooky expe- features dramatic scenes of the tolerate a repeat of the sort of rience. Since 9/11, Washington entire Capitol building exploding, scene made famous by Roland has been destroyed in two major Air Force One being shot out of Emmerich’s Independence Day blockbusters, but only by natural the sky by a rocket, and then — in 1996 when an alien spaceship disasters: an ice age in The Day almost as an afterthought — a blew the White House to smith- After Tomorrow (also directed by shot of the White House burst- ereens in one of the most famous Emmerich) and an earthquake in ing into rubble and flames. That shots in recent film history. “I 2012. follows on from the current think Americans have mentally GUARDIAN NEWS Tom Cruise in Taiwan

US actor Tom Cruise breaks an ice sculpture on stage during the Taiwan premiere of their latest film Oblivion in Taipei, yesterday. Sunday 7 April 2013 26 Jumada I 1434 Volume 18 Number 5662 Price: QR2

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Emir to open World Chambers Congress on April 23 DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Sergio Arzeni, Director, Centre and World Trade Organisation, Business Trade Agenda Summit trade policy agenda that will con- Doha Congress is the interactive Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and youth entrepreneurship, and a day ahead of the 2013 Congress. tribute to economic growth and Business Programme sponsored will inaugurate the ICC-WCF Local Development, OECD; Ilker innovations and new services for The Prime Minister and job creation, moving World Trade by Qatari Diar and Silatech with 8th World Chambers Congress Baybars, Dean, Carnegie Mellon chambers’ daily operations. Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Organization (WTO) trade talks a focus on the region and Qatar on April 23 at Qatar National University in Qatar, among others. “While Doha is in the interna- Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al “beyond Doha”. through a series of panel sessions Convention Centre. Qatar Chamber, the host tional spotlight as the centre of Thani will be joined by chamber “As one of the oldest chambers where key organisations such as The three-day biennial organisation, together with worldwide dialogue, we will strive leaders from the US, Europe, Asia in the region and after success- Kahra Maa, Rail, Ashghal, Qatar Congress, being held in the Middle International Chamber of to create a long-lasting legacy and Africa, senior officials from fully propelling Qatari economy National Food Security Program, East for the first time, features a Commerce (ICC) and World through ICC WCF 8th World OECD, WTO, ICC, World Bank to be one of the most dynamic and amongst others, will present how list of high-profile speakers. Chambers Federation (WCF) has Chambers Congress by pushing and others, for four plenary ses- fastest-growing in the world, Qatar their organisation are supporting The range of experts and deci- made the 2013 Congress theme into new frontiers and re-exam- sions focused on shifting of glo- Chamber is hosting the four-day the diversification of the economy sion-makers include: Lakshmi “Opportunities for All” a converg- ining business’ traditional role in bal economy powers, 21st century gathering to bring together the glo- and businesses accordingly to the Puri, Assistant Secretary- ing point for major global issues economies,” said Sheikh Khalifa trade, and domestic political sup- bal community of over 12,000 cham- National Vision 2030. General, UN Women; Harold currently affecting business. bin Jassim bin Mohammed Al port for trade. bers, hundreds of multinational There will be a 10,000sqm exhi- McGraw III, President and CEO, The speakers will address top- Thani, Chairman Qatar Chamber The ICC Business World Trade businesses and SMEs, and many bition space allowing companies The McGraw-Hill Companies; ics such as education and unem- and ICC Qatar. Agenda initiative, launched in influential world leaders to the from both Qatar and around the Marc Bolland, CEO, Marks & ployment, SMEs and the world Meanwhile, the politics of busi- 2011 by ICC in partnership with region,” said Remy Rowhani, CEO world to highlight their work and Spencer; Joost Hiltermann, economy, women mean business, ness will be discussed by another the Qatar Chamber, aims to define Qatar Chamber and ICC Qatar. the new business opportunities. COO, International Crisis Group; what business needs from trade set of experts at the full-day ICC a practical and forward-looking One of the main highlights of the THE PENINSULA IILM announces short-term sukuk plan Standard & Poor’s grants A-1 rating

DOHA: The Governing Board with regard to their need for of the Kuala Lumpur-based highly rated financial instru- International Islamic Liquidity ments to manage their liquidity Management Corporation compared to their conventional (IILM) announced its inau- counterparts.” gural short-term sukuk pro- The short-term financial gramme aimed at addressing instrument to be issued under liquidity challenges faced by the programme will complement Institutions that offer Islamic the currently available long-term Financial Services (IIFS). and medium-term sukuk in the The announcement was made market. at its 10th meeting held here The initiative is being seen as Rajat Nag (left) and Professor Datuk Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim sign the memorandum of understanding. H E Sheikh Abdulla bin Saoud Al Thani (second yesterday. a key move by the IILM aimed at right, standing) and other dignitaries were also present. (ABDUL BASIT) The launch of the programme is creating a robust global cross-bor- pursuant to the granting of an A-1 der market for Islamic financial multilateral development banks public rating by Standard & Poor’s instruments and strengthening to enhance the financial stability MoU signed with ADB to promote Rating Services. The completion the liquidity management of insti- and the efficient functioning of the of this phase of the programme tutions that offer IIFS. Islamic financial markets. paves the way for the issuance of The sukuk programme with an The IILM is an international the IILM inaugural sukuk which A-1 short-term rating will be a sig- institution established on October cross-border liquidity management is expected to take place in the nificant milestone as it will be the 25, 2010 by Central Banks, mon- second quarter 2013. first Shariah-compliant US dollar etary authorities and multilateral DOHA: The International Datuk Rifaat Ahmed Abdel besides fostering the development H E Sheikh Abdulla bin Saoud denominated financial instrument organisations to develop and issue Islamic Liquidity Management Karim, Chief Executive Officer, of global cross-border Shariah- Al Thani, Chairman of the in the market to be issued at matu- short-term Shari’ah-compliant Corporation (IILM) yesterday signed on behalf of the IILM and compliant liquidity manage- Governing Board, and Governor rities of up to one year. financial instruments to facilitate inked a memorandum of under- Rajat Nag, Managing Director, ment for IIFS”, said H E Sheikh of Qatar Central Bank, said: “The This will also be the first effective cross-border liquidity standing (MoU) here with the signed on behalf of the ADB. Abdulla bin Saoud Al Thani. launch of the highly rated IILM money-market instrument backed management for IIFS. Asian Development Bank (ADB) The MoU has been singed to Sheikh Abdulla said that the sukuk programme is a milestone by sovereign assets in the form of The current members of the to strengthen cooperation promote global cross-border MoU is recognition that the par- for the IILM. It will be the first Sukuk with multi-jurisdictional IILM Governing Board are the between the two organisations. Shariah-compliant liquidity ties understand that the develop- step towards creating a cross- primary-dealer network which central banks and monetary agen- The signing ceremony was management at institutions that ment and promotion of the financial border liquidity instrument for will facilitate distribution to cies of Indonesia, Qatar, Kuwait, witnessed by the representatives offer Islamic Financial Services sector may, in appropriate circum- IIFS. investors worldwide. Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mauritius, of several central banks and the (IIFS). stances contribute to the promotion “The IILM sukuk will help This initiative represents a Nigeria, Turkey, the UAE and the Islamic Development Bank that “The MoU will facilitate mutual of the economic advancement of the to address the challenges that unique collaboration between mul- Islamic Development Bank Group. are members of the Governing cooperation and collaboration respective member countries. IIFS have been facing globally tiple regulatory authorities and THE PENINSULA Board of the IILM. Professor between the IILM and the ADB THE PENINSULA South Sudan restarts oil production Croatia privatises THAR JATH, South Sudan: countries to live without peace, dollars. China was the biggest possibility of building new pipe- South Sudan restarted oil pro- and oil will play a great role to buyer of the oil. lines, either to the Indian Ocean ailing shipyard duction yesterday, ending a bit- keep the peace in Sudan and South Sudan won independence through Kenya to the south, or to ter 15-month row with former South Sudan.” South Sudan in July 2011 after a referendum the Gulf of Aden through Ethiopia ZAGREB: The Croatian gov- It must now invest some 270 civil war foe Sudan and mark- halted crude production in early set up under a 2005 peace agree- and Djibouti to the east. ernment yesterday privatised million euros in its restructuring. ing a major breakthrough in 2012, cutting off most of its rev- ment that ended more than two However, Dau said the resump- an ailing wharf as part of moves Restructuring of Croatia’s heav- relations after bloody border enue after accusing Khartoum of decades of bloody civil war. tion of production was “a message to restructure its shipbuilding ily subsidised shipyards is one of clashes last year. theft in a row over export fees. At independence, South Sudan of the commitment of the leader- sector in line with conditions the key issues Zagreb has had “The oil is now flowing,” South At talks in Addis Ababa last won control of roughly 75 percent ship of the government and the peo- for its entry into the European to resolve ahead of becoming the Sudan oil minister Stephen Dhieu month, the two countries finally of the 470,000 barrels per day of ple of South Sudan to comply with Union in July. European Union’s 28th member Dau shouted as he flicked a switch settled on detailed timetables to crude produced by the formerly the agreements signed with Sudan”. “We have managed to preserve on July 1. to restart production at a cer- ease tensions, after months of unified country. It was sign of the “commitment Croatia’s shipbuilding .... upon new More than 10,000 people are emony in the Thar Jath field in intermittent border clashes, by The separation left Khartoum that the two states ... must be (EU) rules,” Prime Minister Zoran employed in the shipyards, which Unity state. resuming oil flows and imple- without most of its export earn- viable, must be prosperous, they Milanovic was quoted by national are estimated to have accumulated Sudan and South Sudan came menting other key pacts. ings and half of its fiscal revenues. must live together,” he added. HRT television as saying at the losses of about ¤3.7bnover the past close to a return to all-out conflict Earlier deals had remained Before the shutdown, oil pro- Oil companies in South Sudan signing of a deal to sell the loss- 20 years. last year in bitter fighting along stalled after Khartoum pushed vided South Sudan with 98 per- include Malaysian state-owned making Brodotrogir shipyard to Last month Croatia privatised their un-demarcated border in April for guarantees that South Sudan cent of its revenue. But while Petronas, China’s National local firm Kermas Energija. its largest shipyard, Brodosplit, and March, a conflict prompted would no longer back rebels fight- South Sudan has the bulk of the Petroleum Company, and the Sudd The company bought a stake of and is expected to complete the partly by their disputes over oil. ing in its border areas of South oil fields, the pipeline infrastruc- Petroleum Operating Company more than 95 percent in the wharf, sale of the sole remaining state- “This is a sign of peace,” Dau Kordofan and Blue Nile. ture all runs north through Sudan. (SPOC), a joint venture between located in the central coastal town owned shipyard in the northern said, as crowds danced in celebra- The shutdown has cost both During the oil shutdown, South Petronas and South Sudan. of Trogir, for the symbolic price of port of Rijeka soon. tion. “No way are these sisterly impoverished nations billions of Sudan said it was exploring the AFP 1 kuna ($0.17). AFP SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Italy to pay €40bn owed to business Govt bid to stimulate growth

ROME: The Italian government risen to more than ¤100bn. yesterday gave its go-ahead for “This means costs for busi- a bill to pay back ¤40bn in debts nesses and for the whole coun- owed to the private sector in try. It is an unacceptable situation a bid to boost businesses and that has taken on ever greater stimulate growth as the coun- dimensions,” Monti said. try endures its longest post-war The interim prime minister, recession. who is in charge awaiting the for- “The cabinet meeting today mation of a new government fol- approved an urgent decree to pay lowing elections in February, said back the debts of the public sec- the payments would not breach tor to the private sector,” Prime the deficit threshold of 3.0 per- Minister Mario Monti told a press cent of GDP mandated by the conference after the talks. European Union. The bill had been eagerly awaited The repayment increases Italy’s by the business community in the forecast deficit to 2.9 percent from eurozone’s third largest economy, 2.4 percent earlier, Grilli said, where many companies are suffer- adding that this had been given ing from the slump in demand and the go-ahead by the EU since it a lack of credit from banks. did not constitute new spending. Khalid Mahmood, Member of Parliament from Birmingham and Jerry Blackett, Chairman of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce cutting a cake to mark The decree recognises “the The finance ministry will the inauguration of Y International UK Ltd at Birmingham. Paul Kehoe, Chairman, Marketing Birmingham & CEO of Birmingham Airport; Yusuff Ali MA, extreme importance, neces- carry out special monitoring in Managing Director of Lulu Group; Ashraf Ali MA, Executive Director; Althaf M M, Director of Y International, and Tony Perks, Operations Director, were sity and urgency in paying pub- September to ensure that the also present. lic sector debts to businesses as 3.0-percent threshold is not a precondition for an economic breached, Grilli said. and labour market recovery,” said “This was very needed,” Paolo Antonio Patuelli, head of the main Buzzetti, head of the National LuLu begins operations in Britain banking lobby ABI. Association of Construction The bill’s timetable is for ¤40bn Companies, told news channel DOHA/BIRMINGHAM: business community, Yusuff Ali to set up Y International in unit which is expected to be final- ($52bn) in payments over one Sky TG 24. “We can definitely go LuLu Group, the hypermarket M A, Managing Director of LuLu Birmingham and hope that with ized shortly. year instead of over two years, to Europe and ask to be able to go and retail major in the Middle Group, Ashraf Ali MA, Executive our long standing international Lulu Group is owned by non- the period proposed previously over that three-percent thresh- East, Africa and India launched Director, Althaf M M, Director expertise in running world class resident Indian businessman — another expected boon for old. Other European countries their operations in the UK with of Y International, Tony Perks, operations in multiple regions, I Yusuff Ali based in the UAE. He is businesses. have done it,” he said. the inauguration of logistics Operations Director. am sure we will be able to add also named as the most powerful On average 215,000 companies But Carlo Sangalli, head of and packaging centre under With an initial investment of more value to the various related Indian businessman in the Gulf are affected and the average debt the business lobby Rete Imprese Y International (UK) Ltd at £20m (QR111m), the new facility businesses operating here”. and also been ranked by Forbes is ¤422,000. Some two-thirds of Italia, said the bill showed the Birmingham on Wednesday, a will procure and export food, non- “As far as quality standards are in the billionaire club of the the debts are owed to medical government had “not understood” press statement said yesterday. food, chilled and frozen products of concerned, needless to mention world. Currently it operates 105 companies supplying the public that the business community The new facility, spread in UK origin to LuLu’s over 100 retail the high quality of British prod- Hypermarkets, Supermarkets and health sector. The payments also “risks collapse”. 200,000sqf, was inaugurated stores spread across the Gulf region. ucts are acclaimed internation- Department Stores in the GCC, include the building of roads, Sangalli said the payments should by Khalid Mahmood, Member Presently, the group has a ally. We are now working closely Yemen, Egypt and India. Audit repairs of schools etc. be made immediately and the proce- of Parliament of Birmingham, import business from UK, and with Job Centre to identify, train research firm Deloite has recently Finance Minister Vittorio Grilli dure for obtaining payments should and Jerry Blackett, Chairman with the launching of its logistics and recruit high calibre, multi- ranked Lulu group as world’s 9th said that the payments could be made much simpler. of Birmingham Chamber of centre in Birmingham, the turno- ethnic human resource to sup- fastest growing retailer amongst begin as early as Monday and that Monti stressed that the bill did Commerce. ver is estimated to be increased port our operations in the UK. 50 around the world. the oldest debts would be repaid not mean that his government Present were Paul Kehoe, considerably. The new facility is At present, there are about 60 The group is also exploring new first. The parliament still must was easing its budget discipline Chairman, Marketing located at Junction 6 industrial Brits employed which will be growth opportunities in Egypt, give final approval. or had plans to stay in charge, Birmingham and CEO of estate at the Electric Avenue, increased to 200 in due course of Iraq and countries in the Far Monti said total debts were adding that Saturday’s cabinet Birmingham Airport, mem- Aston. time”. Yusuff Ali also said that East especially in Malaysia and ¤80bn at the end of 2011 and that meeting “could be the last one”. bers of Birmingham city coun- Commenting on the occasion negotiations are in the final stages Indonesia. banks estimated they had since AFP cil, representatives from the Yusuff Ali said, “We are delighted to acquire British mineral water THE PENINSULA

Bloomberg China’s big banks faking their micro loans: Researcher Doha meet BOAO: China’s big banks are that he led on funding conditions small and micro-sized Chinese are their biggest cost acceptable collateral to include not delivering on their prom- for small and micro-sized firms. firms across a dozen sectors China’s one-year benchmark orders, warehouse warrants, ise to lend more to the smallest China wants to increase financ- showed only 40 percent of com- interest rate, targeted by the equity and intellectual property. tomorrow firms and are instead “faking” ing for its small businesses and panies have loans from banks People’s Bank of China when it Though modest in size, small their micro loans, a researcher has ordered its state-controlled right now. changes monetary policy, stands businesses punch above their DOHA: The second edition of said yesterday, suggesting a banks to step up lending to them And despite China’s central at 6 percent. weight in China, accounting for ‘Bloomberg Doha Conference’, government drive to increase to avoid a repeat of a 2011 cash bank cutting interest rates twice “The lack of appropriate col- three of every four jobs and 60 hosted by Bloomberg Link in micro-lending is struggling. crunch, which some analysts had by a total of 50 basis points last lateral is one of the basic sources percent of the nation’s output. association with the Qatar Ba Shusong, a researcher worried could destabilise the year to spur a domestic economy of financial difficulty for small and But they are often turned away Financial Centre Authority is from the Development Research banking system. trapped in its worst downturn in micro businesses,” the study said. by banks who favour big, state- set to open tomorrow at the St Center, a think-tank that advises “Everyone right now talks 13 years, the study said 66 percent Banks often demand companies owned companies. Regis Hotel, a press statement China’s cabinet, said the biggest about financing for small and of firms have not seen their fund- to stump up property as a collat- Small businesses took a beat- said yesterday. Chinese banks are still setting micro sized firms,” Ba said. ing costs fall. eral or a guarantee before they ing in 2011 when a succession of The two-day conference is tough collateral standards for “There is a portion of big banks Instead, 40 percent of firms get a loan, it said, even though rate hikes by China’s central bank expected to bring together over small firms, who often cannot who are faking their lending to said they pay interest rates of the survey showed 83 percent of slowed the Chinese economy and 300 CEOs, asset managers, inves- meet the demands. small and micro-sized firms,” he over 10 percent, while the rest businesses do not own their own dramatically raised their borrow- tors and prominent regional deci- This leaves 60 percent of small told a forum in Boao in southern have financing costs of between 6 factory space. ing costs in the kerb market to sion makers to discuss the region’s Chinese firms without bank China, without further details. percent and 10 percent. A third The study recommended over 30 percent for some. fast-growing infrastructure and financing, Ba said, citing a study The study that surveyed 1,000 of companies said financing costs that banks expand their pool of AP rising influence in investments around the world. Nearly 16 panel discussions and one-on-one interviews will Toyota to pay $16m cover real estate development and investment activity; a close look at the post revolution economies of Libya, Tunisia and Egypt; Saudi’s recall settlement growing economy; the growing appetite for Islamic Finance in LOS ANGELES: A $16m set- ‘sticky pedal’ issues with effective Asia and Middle East; the emer- tlement over the safety recall of and durable solutions, we are grati- gence of women in prominent Toyota vehicles that were at risk fied that Toyota vehicles are once positions; and the new private for unintended acceleration and again widely recognized as among wealth client. braking issues was announced the safest and most reliable on the More information can be had by Orange County prosecutors road,” Christopher P Reynolds, an from http://www.bloomberglink. and Toyota Motor Corp. attorney and vice president for com/event/doha-2013/ The suit was one of a flood of Toyota, said in a statement. cases brought against the auto- In the past, the carmaker Fitch downgrades maker after more than 14 million blamed driver error, faulty floor vehicles were recalled in 2009 and mats and stuck accelerator pedals DFW Airport 2010 — many of them still waiting for the problems. to be heard or settled. A highway tragedy in suburban NEW YORK: Fitch Ratings In the suit, Orange County San Diego sparked the recalls and downgraded Dallas-Fort Worth District Attorney Tony Rackauckas numerous lawsuits against the International Airport on claimed deceptive business prac- Japanese carmaker. Friday because of new borrow- tices, alleging Toyota had con- An off-duty California Highway ing to finance improvements to cealed safety issues related to its Patrol officer and three fam- terminals. floor mats and “sticky” gas pedal ily members were killed after he Fitch lowered $4.7bn in older issues. The suit sought $2,500 per lost control of the car, a Toyota- DFW bonds to “A’’ from “A+” and violation under California’s con- built Lexus, in a grisly accident. gave “A’’ ratings to $736 million in sumer protection laws The car reached speeds of more new bonds issued by Dallas and Under the settlement, Toyota than 120mph before it hit an SUV, Fort Worth on behalf of their air- continues to deny all the claims launched off an embankment, rolled port. Fitch gave the outlook for all made by the suit. several times and burst into flames. the bonds as “stable.” “Having addressed floor mat and AP THE PENINSULA/AP SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

‘Made in France’ promotion Big depositors BofA gets nod could suffer in future bank for $2.43bn bailouts: EU

HELSINKI: Big bank deposi- tors could take a hit under planned European Union law if settlement a bank fails, the EU’s economic affairs chief Olli Rehn said yes- terday, but noted that Cyprus’ Accord over Merrill Lynch buyout bailout model was exceptional. “Cyprus was a special case ... but NEW YORK: Bank of America result,” Max Berger, a lawyer for the upcoming directive assumes Corp (BofA) won a federal the plaintiffs, said at the hearing. that investor and depositor liability judge’s approval for a $2.43bn Bank of America denied the will be carried out in case of a bank settlement with investors who plaintiffs’ allegations, but Chief restructuring or a wind-down,” said the lender hid crucial infor- Executive Brian Moynihan has Rehn, the European Economic and mation when it bought Merrill said the settlement would remove Monetary Affairs Commissioner, Lynch & Co. uncertainty for the Charlotte, said in a TV interview with The accord, among the largest North Carolina-based bank. Finland’s national broadcaster YLE. investor settlements stemming Daniel Kramer, a lawyer for the “But there is a very clear from the recent global finan- bank, declined to comment at the France’s Industrial Recovery Minister Arnaud Montebourg during an action to promote “Made in France” hierarchy, at first the share- cial crisis, was approved by US hearing. A spokeswoman, Jessica products, with workers of “Blanc des Vosges” textile factory in front of the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris holders, then possibly the unpro- District Judge Kevin Castel in Oppenheim, did not immediately yesterday. tected investments and deposits. Manhattan. respond to requests for comment However, the limit of ¤100,000 is Castel called the settlement after the hearing. sacred, deposits smaller than that “fair, reasonable and adequate,” Since buying mortgage lender are always safe.” and said it culminated an Countrywide Financial Corp in The European Commission is “extraordinarily hard-fought July 2008 and Merrill six months Four former BizJet executives currently drafting a directive on litigation.” later, BofA has incurred more bank safety which would incorpo- BofA had agreed to buy Merrill than $40bn of extra costs for liti- rate the issue of investor liability in an all-stock deal initially val- gation, write downs and mortgage in member states’ legislation. ued at $50bn on September 15, buybacks, analysts have said. charged with foreign bribery To secure a ¤10bn EU/IMF 2008, the same day that Lehman The company still faces a vari- bailout last month, Cyprus forced Brothers Holdings Inc went ety of litigation over its mortgage heavy losses on wealthier deposi- bankrupt. operations, which have shrunk WASHINGTON: Federal “extraordinary cooperation.” Two former BizJet vice presi- tors. Initially it had also pledged to But Merrill ended up losing significantly in size, and over charges unsealed on Friday A BizJet spokesman didn’t dents, Peter DuBois and Neal Uhl, introduce a levy on deposits of less $15.84bn in that year’s fourth its underwriting of mortgage accuse four former Tulsa, immediately return phone mes- pleaded guilty on January 5 to bills than ¤100,000 — even though they quarter, even as it awarded securities. Oklahoma-based BizJet sages or an emailed request of information in lieu of indictment. are supposedly protected by state $3.62bn of bonuses to employ- BofA is among 17 banks and International Sales and Support for comment. The Justice The guilty pleas were unsealed on guarantees — before reneging in ees. BofA ultimately obtained a lenders facing lawsuits by the Inc executives of engaging in a Department announced after Friday, which is when the men were the face of widespread protests. federal bailout, since repaid, to Federal Housing Finance Agency bribery scheme to generate air- business hours on Friday that the sentenced in federal court in Tulsa. Rehn also said that the European absorb Merrill. over losses suffered by Fannie craft maintenance business in case had been unsealed. DuBois pleaded guilty to one Central Bank should launch fresh Shareholders including the Mae and Freddie Mac on mort- Latin America. Former BizJet president and count of conspiracy to violate the action to help boost the recession- State Teachers Retirement gage securities. Two of the men accused CEO Bernd Kowalewski and ex- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act hit euro zone economy. System of Ohio and the Teachers The FHFA has sued BofA over pleaded guilty in January and two sales manager Jald Jensen were and one count of violating the ECB President Mario Draghi, Retirement System of Texas said $57.5bn of securities, more than others, who officials believe to be indicted on January 5 for conspir- act. Uhl pleaded guilty to a single at a press conference on Thursday, Merrill’s mounting losses and any other bank, that Fannie Mae out of the country, have not been acy to violate the Foreign Corrupt count of conspiracy to violate the opened the way for the bank to pos- bonus plans should have been and Freddie Mac bought, and arrested yet. Practices Act and conspiracy to corrupt practices act. sibly cut interest rates and to take disclosed before investors voted which were sponsored or under- BizJet cooperated with authori- launder money. They’re also US District Judge Gregory K fresh ‘non-standard measures’ — on the merger in December 2008. written by Bank of America, ties and entered into a deferred charged with violating the act and Frizzell sentenced DuBois and steps other than classic rate moves, The accord with the second- Countrywide or Merrill. prosecution agreement that had money laundering. The indict- Uhl to eight months of home such as government bond pur- largest US bank was announced BofA shares closed up three the company pay a penalty of ment was unsealed on Friday and detention each and probation, cit- chases or funding operations like in September, and won prelimi- cents at $11.97 on the New York $11.8m. Prosecutors credited the the Justice Department said the ing cooperation with authorities the twin three-year loans it offered nary court approval in December. Stock Exchange on Friday. company with making volun- men are believed to be abroad and by both men. banks just over a year ago. “We are very proud of this REUTERS tary disclosures and providing had not been arrested. AP REUTERS Electric car Judge deals blow to maker Fisker cuts 75pc of workers’ lawsuit SAN FRANCISCO: A federal lawsuit have been vigorously fight- workforce judge struck down an effort to ing the allegations. More is at stake form a class action lawsuit to than potentially paying out signifi- LOS ANGELES: High end go after Apple, Google and five cant damages to more than 100,000 electric car maker Fisker other technology companies workers. If the lawsuit proceeds, Automotive, which has had for allegedly forming an illegal it could also expose secret discus- financial difficulties for months, cartel to tamp down workers’ sions among prominent technol- said it was laying off 75 percent wages and prevent the loss of ogy executives who entered into of its workforce. their best engineers during a a “gentlemen’s agreement” not to The US government had multiyear conspiracy broken up poach employees working at their focused on the California-based by government regulators. respective companies. company to encourage the devel- US District Judge Lucy Koh The case, filed in San Jose fed- opment of green energy, providing in San Jose, California, issued a eral court, already has disclosed it with loans. ruling concluding that the com- emails raising questions about the “Over the last several months, panies’ alleged collusion may have tactics of Apple’s former CEO, Fisker Automotive Inc has been affected workers in too many dif- the late Steve Jobs, and Google’s considering strategic alternatives ferent ways to justify lumping the former CEO, Eric Schmidt. Other that would allow the company individual claims together. She sensitive information has so far work through its current finan- denied the request to certify work- been redacted in various court cial challenges,” said a company ers’ lawsuits as a class action and documents, including parts of statement cited by the auto trade collectively seek damages on behalf Koh’s 53-page ruling, but more press. of tens of thousands of employees. dirty laundry could be aired if the “Our efforts to secure a stra- The allegations will be more lawsuit proceeds. tegic alliance or partnership difficult to pursue if they can’t be The lawsuit is trying to hold are continuing in earnest, but united in a single lawsuit. Koh, the companies accountable for unfortunately we have reached a though, will allow the workers’ law- an alleged scheme that cheated point where a significant reduc- yers to submit additional evidence employees by artificially sup- tion in our workforce has become that they have been collecting to pressing the demand for their necessary.” persuade her that the lawsuit still services. The complaint hinges on The statement goes on to merits class certification. the contention that the workers say that, by the end of the day “Plaintiffs appreciate the would have gotten raises either Friday, Fisker “will have retained court’s thorough consideration of from their current employers or approximately 25 percent of our the evidence and are prepared to at other jobs if an anti-poaching workforce.” address the court’s concerns fully provision hadn’t been imposed. Fisker was started in south- in a renewed motion,” employee In most instances, the recruiting ern California in 2007 by former attorney Kelly Dermody wrote in restrictions were in place from Aston Martin and BMW designer a Friday email. March 2005 through December Henrik Fisker and German busi- Apple Inc, Google Inc and the 2009, according to the lawsuit. ness partner Bernhard Koehler. other companies targeted in the AP Fisker left the company in early March. While Fisker did not have the expected success with its Karma model, which has a price tag of roughly $100,000, it did attract the likes of stars • Bullion - Mumbai such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Gold (10 gm) Standard Rs. 29985 Justin Bieber and Ashton Kutcher. Silver (1 kg) Rs. 51980 The car maker lost some • Indian Rupees QR1 = 14.90 300 vehicles in flooding caused • Sensex by Hurricane Sandy along the BSE 18450.23 US East Coast last fall and NSE 5553.25 had trouble with several of its • Short-term investment plan from LIC International upto 6.4 percent return suppliers. p.a. (in dollar) Several media outlets had recently reported about discus- • Housing loan from HDFC LTD sions to place the company under • Mutual Fund: Buy & Sell: SBI MF, HDFC MF, UTI MF, Birla Sun Life MF, bankruptcy protection. Fisker Tata MF, Reliance MF etc. had refused comment. Contact: Investec, Tel: 44325060/44365060 email: [email protected] AFP SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com GECM & TENDERS

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China’s manufacturing Sunday growth improves in March German manufacturing orders BEIJING: Growth in China’s UK car sales up 5.9pc in March on increase more than forecast: Economy manufacturing picked up in March strong private sector demand - SMMT BERLIN: German factory orders rose more in a potentially positive sign LONDON: New car registrations in the UK than twice as much as economists forecast for the recovery in the world’s Canada loses 54,500 jobs in March; has increased for the 13th consecutive in February, adding to signs that Europe’s second-largest economy. The Japanese firms expected to largest economy returned to growth in the jobless rate climbs month in March on strong private sector China Federation of Logistics and raise bonuses for first time in first quarter. Orders, adjusted for seasonal demand fuelled by attractive buying offers Purchasing said Monday that its MONTREAL: The Canadian economy swings and inflation, increased 2.3 percent three years and launches of energy-efficient models. unexpectedly shed 54,500 jobs in March, all from January, when they dropped a revised Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to TOKYO: Japanese companies in full-time positions, reversing an increase The Society of Motor Manufacturers and 1.6 percent, the Economy Ministry in Berlin 50.9 in March from 50.1 in February, may raise summer bonuses this in the prior month. The country’s jobless rate Traders (SMMT) said in its latest report that said today. which was the lowest reading in five year by 1.6 percent from a year rose to 7.2 per cent last month from 7 per cent the new 13-plate car registrations in March months. Numbers above 50 denote earlier to an average ¥364,000, outperformed its expectations, rising 5.9 in February, Statistics Canada said Friday, expansion on a 100-point scale. marking the first increase in percent year-on-year to 394,806 units. with factories, food and accommodation three years, Mizuho Securities services and public administration all reducing Co. said Wednesday. head count.

India shares end lower on earnings Record returns for SA property worries market MUMBAI: Indian shares ended at their JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s lowest level in more than four months property market showed its highest Thursday as investors sold several return in 2012 since the 2008-09 front-line stocks on expectations of weak global financial crisis, according quarterly results. The Bombay Stock to the SAPOA/IPD South Africa Exchange’s BSE S&P Sensex ended down Annual Property Index released in 291.94 points, or 1.6pc, at 18509.70 Brazil’s high flying real estate Johannesburg last week. The index points. That was the 30-stock benchmark $A pushes above 100 yen prices outpace all countries showed that the country’s property index’s lowest finish since Nov. 22. SYDNEY: The Australian dollar has pushed RIO DE JANEIRO: The latest Knight sector delivered a 15.2pc total return above 100 yen for the first time since the Frank’s Global Real Estate Index last year, an increase on the 10.3pc global financial crisis, and is expected to released this month has Brazil third return in 2011. move higher. Now is the time to think about ranking in the world and first in the booking a holiday to Tokyo or start looking Americas for rising home prices. Only into buying a new Japanese car. The ridiculously expensive Hong Kong and Australian dollar is above 100 yen for the Dubai, which were not countries, had first time since the global financial crisis seen prices rise more. So in fact, no five years ago, and is on its way to levels not single country had seen its housing seen since the start of the 1990s. price increase as much as Brazil, local media reported.

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Doping Anthony shines for Knicks in rugby as bad as Third game for Anthony with 40 or more points for New York Knicks cycling, says NEW YORK: The New York Knicks rode the hot hand of ex-hooker Carmelo Anthony to their 11th straight NBA victory yester- PARIS: Former France hooker day, downing the Milwaukee Laurent Benezech has claimed Bucks 101-83 at Madison Square that people are turning a blind Garden. eye to doping in rugby in the Anthony recorded his third same way that was once the straight game of 40 or more norm in cycling. points following up a 50-point out- Speaking to Le Monde Benezech ing against Miami and a 40-point said: “The proofs (of doping in game at Atlanta, Anthony scored rugby) are in front of our eyes 41 points against the Bucks, con- but no-one’s interested. Rugby is necting on 17-of-28 shots from in exactly the same situation that the floor. cycling was before the Festina He scored 18 points in the third affair.” quarter, when the Knicks shot a The Festina affair was an infa- blistering 79 percent from the mous doping case from 1998 in field and outscored the Bucks which the Festina team doctor 42-21. was stopped by customs officers Anthony added a game-high 14 at the France-Belgium border rebounds for good measure. and found to be carrying various JR Smith was tremendous for doping products. the Knicks as well, contributing The fall-out saw several dop- 30 points off the bench and grab- Former Los Angeles Lakers’ coach Phil Jackson (left) waits with film director Spike Lee before the New York Knicks honoured their 1972 NBA ing investigations and admissions bing 10 rebounds for a Knicks Championship team during ceremonies celebrating the 40th anniversary of their triumph, at halftime in the Knicks’ win over the Milwaukee Bucks in from cyclists and in many peo- team that hasn’t lost since a 93-80 their NBA game at Madison Square Garden in New York yesterday. RIGHT: Memphis Grizzlies’ Marc Gasol of Spain (left) is boxed out by Los Angeles ple’s eyes that was the catalyst defeat at the Los Angeles Clippers Lakers’ Pau Gasol of Spain during second half action of their NBA game in Los Angeles, California, yesterday. The Lakers beat the Grizzlies. to a new commitment to tackle on March 17. doping in the sport. The Knicks’ performance came Benezech’s comments come on a night when the team honored there to cheer the current Knicks yesterday. “This is the big push But it wasn’t over until Mike game behind Denver for the just a week after former France their 1972-73 championship, and on. Anthony is now neck-and- for us,’’ Bryant said. ‘’We’ve got Conley, who scored 21 points in fourth seed in the West. scrum-half Jean-Pierre Elissalde some members of that squad were neck with Oklahoma City’s Kevin a very tough stretch, and we’re a stellar performance, missed a Los Angeles’ tumultuous sea- claimed amphetamines were Durant for the NBA scoring title excited. You want to be going into potential go-ahead jumper with son will come down to the final widely taken in the sport during and the two will go head-to-head the playoffs feeling like you’re 5 seconds left and another layup two weeks, with the high-pow- the 1970s and 1980s. NBA Results today. playing good ball against tough before the buzzer. The playoff- ered Lakers hoping just to reach He also admitted doping during Charlotte 79 Miami 89 “It’s that time of the season opposition. It’s been a lot of fig- bound Grizzlies couldn’t score in the play-offs as the eighth seed. his career. Indiana 75 Oklahoma 97 where we just have to pick it up,” uring out we had to do, but it’s the final 2 1/2 minutes, and they To make the postseason for the Just a few days before that, Portland 98 Houston 116 Anthony aid. better late than never.’’ gave some of the credit to the 16th time in Bryant’s 17 sea- high-ranking French anti-doping Brandon Jennings led the Dwight Howard had nine points Lakers’ desperate defence. sons, the Lakers must finish one official Francoise Lasne claimed LA Lakers 86 Memphis 84 slumping Bucks with 25 points, and 10 rebounds, while Earl Clark ‘’We just didn’t get a loose ball game ahead of Utah, which kept rugby had returned the highest Boston 91 Cleveland 97 but Milwaukee lost for the sev- and Antawn Jamison contributed or rebound that we needed in the pace with a 95-83 win over New proportion of positive dope tests Atlanta 90 Philadelphie 101 enth time in nine game. 13 points apiece off the bench as whole game, especially late in the Orleans earlier Friday night. in France in 2012. NY Knicks 101 Milwaukee 83 In Los Angeles, Kobe Bryant the Lakers won without injured fourth quarter,’’ Memphis coach ‘’I don’t want to be on the And according to Benezech, Sacramento 108 Dallas 117 had 24 points and nine assists, starters Steve Nash and Metta Lionel Hollins said. Laker team that didn’t make the who was capped 15 times from Phoenix 107 Golden State 111 Pau Gasol added 19 points, and World Peace. Memphis’ Marc Gasol had 11 playoffs,’’ said Clark who had a 1994 to 1995, one need only look at Utah 95 New Orleans 83 the Lakers stayed in the final Los Angeles also avoided get- points, eight rebounds and seven second straight standout game. the statistics to see the evidence play-off position in the Western ting swept in its season series assists in a lively matchup with ‘’I don’t want to be remembered of foul play. Chicago 87 Orlando 86 Conference with an 86-84 vic- with the Grizzlies, whose four- his brother. Zach Randolph added that way, so I’m just coming out “We went from 20 minutes of Minnesota 93 Toronto 95 tory over the Memphis Grizzlies game winning streak ended. 15 points as the Grizzlies fell one and giving it my all.’’ AGENCIES effective action to 30 minutes at the end of the 1990s which was the normal evolution due to the players becoming professionals,” he said. “But now we’re explaining, even though we’re already at 40 min- Home run hero Davis utes, that we can hit 50 and even, why not, 60. “That’s what happened in cycling at the end of the 1990s when logic saw us lengthening the toast of Baltimore the Tour de France’s stages and increasing the difficulties without BALTIMORE: Baltimore a five-run eighth inning for the it posing any problems physically Orioles first baseman Chris Baseball Results Orioles.“It was actually a really to the riders.” Davis is playing down his early Detroit 8 NY Yankees 3 good pitch,” said Davis, who has Benezech blamed clubs for season success despite putting Texas 3 LA Angels 2 at least three RBI’s in each of the being complicit in abetting dop- up some eyebrow-raising Orioles games this year. “The ball ing by authorising the use of Baltimore 9 Minnesota 5 numbers. just kept carrying. And obviously banned substances for therapeu- The 27-year-old, six-year Kansas City 13 Philadelphia 4 it went out of the yard.” tic reasons. major league veteran clubbed an Colorado 5 San Diego 2 Minnesota (2-2) led 4-2 in “In certain clubs there is the opposite-field grand slam in the San Francisco 1 St Louis 0 the fourth and 5-4 in the eighth legalisation of the use of authori- eighth inning to lead the Orioles Boston 6 Toronto 4 before the roof fell in. “There are sations given by the doctors, the to a come-from-behind 9-5 vic- Cincinnati 15 Washington 0 a lot of good hitters up there and famous AUTs (authorisations for The Qatar Al-Anabi Racing silver Top Fuel car lifts its front tyres off the tory over the Minnesota Twins Miami 7 NY Mets 5 we made some mistakes,” said therapeutic usage), otherwise yesterday. Twins manager Ron Gardenhire. players would test positive,” he track as driver Shawn Langdon blasts down the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Tampa Bay 4 Cleveland 0 Speedway during last night’s qualifying session. Davis joins Willie Mays (1971), “Before you know it, Davis comes said. Mark McGwire (1998) and Nelson Atlanta 4 Chicago Cubs 1 up, he gets a fastball and deposits “The use of AUTs has devel- Cruz (2011) as the only players to Seattle 8 Chicago White Sox 7 it. And there you have it.” opped in the sense that the doc- have hit home runs in the first Arizona 3 Milwaukee 1 Meanwhile, Derek Jeter’s tor justifies the use (of banned Qatar Al-Anabi Racing four games of the season. Oakland 8 Houston 3 return to the New York Yankees substances) for medical reasons “It’s nothing magical,” Davis LA Dodgers 3 Pittsburgh 0 might not come until May, it was when it’s clear that they are used softly told a throng of reporters announced yesterday Manager to improve performance.” Top Fuel team brilliant in huddled around his locker. “I feel real good right now,” he said. “I’m Joe Girardi indicated yesterday And Benezech said rugby comfortable and I feel like I’m glad he’s on our side ... Chris is not that Jeter needs more spring authorities had to stop burying being patient.” taking anything for granted. I’m training-like work before his their heads in the sand or the qualifying session Davis drilled the first pitch as proud of the way he’s handling surgically repaired left ankle is systematic use of doping would LAS VEGAS: It was a brilliant day of qualifying for the Qatar from reliever Tyler Robertson his success as I am with the suc- ready for a major-league game. continue. Al-Anabi Racing Top Fuel team, the two-time NHRA Mello Yello about 10 rows into the left-field cess he’s having.” Jeter has remained in Florida for “As long as we remain in the Top Fuel World Champions owned by Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al stands, triggering a wild cel- Davis clubbed a career-high 33 rehabilitation since the season dark and refuse to be transparent, Thani. ebration by the crowd of more homers a year ago when the once- started Monday. we will not be able to avoid endan- The teams are third and fourth at the mid-point of qualifying for than 46,000 at the Orioles’ home proud franchise ended a 14-year “I think our hope is to get him gering the health of sportsmen.” tomorrow’s Summitracing.com NHRA Nationals on The Strip at Las opener. playoff drought. The Orioles are out on the field soon,” Girardi said, REUTERS Vegas Motor Speedway. Qualifying resumes today with eliminations Davis has hit .600 with a stag- 3-1 this year and Davis is the stressing that Jeter needs time. set for tomorrow. gering 16 runs batted in, shatter- toast of Baltimore. He had five “I don’t think you could say Silver Al-Anabi driver Shawn Langdon was third after the first ing the only big-league record of runs batted in yesterday, and has it’s going to be playing three or NHL Results round of qualifying, but he was dazzling in the evening session running 12 after the first four games of 11 homers in his last 11 games, four games and he’ll be back. He’s Buffalo 4 Ottawa 2 a 3.812-second pass at 290.32 mph. the season. dating back to last year. going to have to go through some- Pittsburgh 2 NY Rangers 1 Langdon was on a run that could easily have put him atop the While Davis was not trum- Davis jumped on Robertson’s what of a spring training. How St Louis 3 Columbus 1 qualifying order before a minor part malfunction stopped the car’s peting his numbers, Baltimore offering on the outside part of many weeks he needs, I think it Detroit 3 Colorado 2 acceleration at the end of the run. Despite the part failure, he is third manager Buck Showalter gladly the plate and before the ball depends on how he bounces back Dallas 3 Anaheim 1 after two qualifying rounds. picked up the slack. landed, the Camden Yards party each day when he goes out and “The Al-Anabi car made two excellent runs today,” Langdon said. “His contact to damage ratio is had started. The blast capped plays.” AGENCIES San Jose 2 Calgary 1 “We were third quickest in the first session, and in the evening ses- sion, it was even better. The car lifted the front tires off the track and carried them a long way so I knew it was on a great run. Right before the finish line, the blower belt broke, and the car stopped accel- erating; it was still a really good run. Sheikh Khalid built this team to win races and championships, and our Al-Anabi team is poised for Britain’s Rutherford tops Melbourne field an excellent weekend.” Dubai driver Khalid alBalooshi had a dazzling day as well with a MELBOURNE: British Olympic long jump competition ever,” Rutherford told reporters. Ross upset American Wallace Spearmon to similarly strong showing. After making a solid pass in the afternoon champion Greg Rutherford repeated his “Ultimately he wants to beat me and I want win a thrilling 100m. session, alBalooshi saved his best for the evening’s cool desert air blast- London Games triumph over Australia’s to beat him but we are always still mates. His winning time of 10.25secs was four-hun- ing down The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 3.824 seconds Mitchell Watt with victory at the IAAF “I didn’t think I would jump as well as I dredths of a second outside the B qualifier for at 319.14 mph. The run put the second-year Top Fuel driver in fourth Melbourne World Challenge yesterday. did today. the Moscow world championships in August. place after yesterday’s qualifying rounds.” Rutherford won with a best leap of 8.10 “An 8.10m isn’t anything massively special Spearmon, who ran a wind-assisted 9.92secs “I am very proud of our Al-Anabi team today,” alBalooshi said. metres in the fourth round, while Watt reg- but blimey we are in the early part of the year at last weekend’s Texas Relays, was fourth in “Everyone on our team is working his hardest. It is good when hard istered 8.01m to again finish second. and waking up this morning I didn’t expect to 10.29secs, having won the 200m earlier in the work turns into good results, and that is what happened today. Now Fellow Australian and reigning be able to jump that well so early.” meet in 20.79secs. we can work on getting our car even better for race day. Everyone Commonwealth Games champion Fabrice Rutherford jumped 8.31m at last year’s Newly-crowned world cross-country cham- should watch our team because we are going to keep getting better Lapierre was third with 7.99m. London Games to relegate favourite Watt pion Japhet Korir from Kenya was an impres- and better. I thank Sheikh Khalid for this opportunity, and I hope we “Every competitor always wants to win, (8.16m) to the silver medal position. sive winner of the 5000m in 13:31.94. can win the race for him this weekend.” THE PENINSULA Mitch is a friend of mine so it is not like a bad In other events, Australian Olympian Josh REUTERS SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Brawn says Espargaro grabs team orders went against season’s first pole his nature LONDON: Lewis Hamilton has never asked for favoured treat- Spaniard recovers from early crash ment at Mercedes and the team orders that helped him to third place at the Malaysian Grand DOHA: Spanish rider Pol team-mate Britain’s Scott track surface. This was confirmed Prix were made only out of Espargaro yesterday outpaced Redding, the fourth Kalex rider by an assortment of falls, not least necessity, according to principal inform Japanese rival Takaaki in the top four. for Espargaro himself who went Ross Brawn. Nagakami to grab the season’s Redding impressed with his down within the first five minutes. Brawn told Sky Sports F1 in an first pole position for today’s time of 2’01.089. Adding to the early surprises, interview that both Hamilton, opening round of the 2013 Switzerland’s Dominique Nakagami – another pace-setter the 2008 F1 world champion, and Moto2 World Championship. Aegerter, riding a Suter bike, will so far this weekend – was stuck German team mate Nico Rosberg Espargaro, who survived a slip be on the fifth grid on the second in his garage with problems. were told to hold position purely into the gravel at the start of row. Yesterday, Aegerter finished Amid the early dramas, the because of a fuel issue. Rosberg, qualifying, wasted little time to with a time of 2’01.120. Marc VDS bike of Redding headed who finished fourth, had repeat- pick up momentum on his Kalex On the sixth and last grid in the timesheets and appeared to be edly asked for Hamilton to be told bike in fine style as the Spaniard the second row today, Julian losing less ground on the start/ to let him through because the produced the fastest time of Simon of Spain will be seen on finish straight than in previous German felt he was faster. 2’00.882 to secure the top slot on his Kalex bike. Simon yesterday sessions. “I didn’t like having to give the the grid. was the sixth fastest rider with a He eventually settled for fourth orders I gave in Malaysia, it’s not The Tuenti HP 40 rider will time of 2’01.447. place as Espargaro surprised in my sporting nature and I think share the front row with Italtrans QMMF Racing Team’s Anthony many – very much including him- the team have demonstrated Racing Team’s Takaaki Nakagami West impressed early on with his self – to pick up a remarkable half many times in the past that we and Marc VDS Racing Team’s fast pace but slipped to 15th on a second in the final sector alone, British Moto2 rider Scott Redding of the Marc VDS Racing Team in action are very happy to let our drivers Mika Kallio. the grid at the of the hartd-fough sealing the top spot with 2’00.882. during a free practice session on the second day for the Motorcycling race each other,” Brawn said. Nagakami - the fastest rider session. West clocked a time of One and a half tenths cover Grand Prix of Qatar, at Al Losail International Circuit in Doha, yesterday. “From a technical perspective, on the last two days - was just 2’01.944, just 1.062 off the pace set the top three, with Nakagami The 2013 MotoGP World Championship season’s first race will be held we would have looked extremely .132secs slower than Espargaro by Espargaro. – deprived of a career-first pole at Losail International Circuit today. foolish if we’d run both cars out who produced his best time on the West’s team-mate Rafid Topan by just over a tenth - eventu- of fuel,” he added. Hamilton was 15th and final lap around Losail Sucipto of Indonesia was 30th out ally managing 15 laps as Kallio Team Calvo rider Maverick Oliveira (2’08.409) and Alan uncomfortable with the situation International Circuit. of 32 riders. Sucipto (2’04.731) was improved his personal best in the Vinales was second with a time Techer (2’08.471) completed the after the race at Sepang, say- Finland’s Mika Kallio, also rid- 3.849secs slower than Espargaro. last knockings. of 2.07.337 whereas Alex Rins list on the second grid. ing on the podium that he felt ing a Kalex bike like the top two, As had been the case with the In Moto3, Red Bull rider Luis of Spain secured the third spot The Moto3 race today starts at Rosberg - who won last year’s was third fastest with a time of previous session for Moto3, the Salom of Spain grabbed the top on the front grid with a time of 7pm whereas Moto2 riders kick- Chinese Grand Prix for the team 2’01.041. riders were challenged with much spot onthe grid with a time of 2’07.596. off proceedings at 8:20pm. - should have been standing there Kallio finished ahead of traffic and an extremely dusty 2’07.229 on his KTM bike. Jonas Folger, (2’07.894), Miguel THE PENINSULA instead of him. REUTERS Honda to power Moto2 world championship until 2015

DOHA: Honda Motor development and uncover rider the ExternPro-prepared Honda Ezpeleta added: “The Honda added: “Honda is happy to Dorna Sports SL to supply YZR- Corporation, in collabora- talent. engines go head-to-head for engine has not only proved an continue to supply the CBR600 M1 engines on an annual lease tion with Spanish company It has been a hit with riders the first time at this weekend’s exciting addition to the pad- engines for the Moto2 category, basis to teams participating in ExternPro, will be the official and fans from the start, and is Commercial Bank Grand Prix of dock, but has also been a tech- as this class has been proven the MotoGP Championship. Moto2 engine supplier for the providing ever-greater specta- Qatar. nically very reliable asset, which to be a good way to keep costs Yamaha Motor Co Ltd next three years extending until cles out on track as the series Dorna Sports CEO Carmelo is extremely important in motor down and allow riders to pre- announced ahead of today’s 2015, it was announced here progresses. Ezpeleta said in a statement: sports. I would also like to wel- pare for MotoGP, as Stefan Commercial Bank Grand Prix of yesterday. New from 2013 is that “Moto2 has been a success from come ExternPro on board, who Bradl and Marc Marquez are Qatar qualifying sessions, they The Moto2 class, which was ExternPro, part of the Parque the start, and just continues to have so far done a very good job currently demonstrating. We would offer an engine lease sup- initially brought in to replace the Tecnologico de MotorLand Aragn,H get better! Honda has been our during pre-season testing, and also welcome ExternPro as new ply for teams competing in the 250cc two-stroke class in 2010, will be the company preparing the sole engine supplier since the will no doubt continue to do partner to prepare the engine MotoGP World Championship, in has since its inauguration been engines for competition, ensuring inaugural race in 2010 and I am so throughout the next three ready for racing”. an effort to increase the options running a single-spec Honda CBR their reliability, as well as carry- extremely pleased that we will season”. Meanwhile, Yamaha Motor of competitive engines in the pre- 600cc engine, with the aim of the ing out regular maintenance. continue to use its machinery for Shuhei Nakamoto, HRC Co Ltd has entered an agree- mier class. championship to drive chassis The three-year agreement sees the next three years.” Executive Vice-President ment with MotoGP rights holder THE PENINSULA Australia’s Cudlin, Qatar’s Al Naimi post wins in round four of QIRRCH

DOHA: Australia’s Alex Cudlin and Qatar’s Mashel Al Naimi on Friday night topped Ducati Team rider the two races in round four of Nasser bin Khalifa Al Nicky Hayden takes the 2013 Qatar International Attiyah (second right), rest in the pits on Road Racing Championship President of the Qatar the qualifying day (QIRRCH). Motor and Motorcycle of Commercialbank Experienced rider Culdin won Federation (QMMF) Grand Prix of the first race ahead of Germany’s poses for a picture along Qatar at Losail Nina Prinz and third-placed Ali with Australia’s Alex International Circuit, Naimi. Cudlin (second left) and yesterday. Cudlin clocked a time of Qatar’s Mashel Al Naimi PICTURES BY: SHAIVAL 31’14.198 to win the 15-lap race (right) and Germany’s around Losail International DALAL Nina Prinz at the Losail Circuit. Prinz, the only female rider International Circuit, competing in the championship, on Friday night. Cudlin was .474secs slower than the topped the two races in Australian. round four of the 2013 Al Naimi, who went on to win Qatar International Road race two following a rain inter- Racing Championship ruption, finished raced 1 with a (QIRRCH). time of 31’21.826. Together with the QIRRCH, there was the third round of Losail Asian Road Racing Series in which Indian rider Rajini Krishnan topped the field. Nikolett Kovas was second and Huang Shizhao finished third. In race two, it was a two-way battle between Cudlin and Al Naimi as riders took to the field only after a rain deluge at Losail International Circuit. The Qatari rider won with a time of 29’14.921, ending the race just .014secs ahead of Cudlin. Both riders clocked top speeds of 154km/h. The Australian rider finished ahead of Prinz (29’24.125) Prinz, who bagged her second successive podium of the day. Qatar’s Nasser Al Malki and compatriot Saeed Al Sulaiti fin- ished race two as they did in race one - in fourth and fifth places Australia’s Alex Cudlin in action in round four of the 2013 Qatar International Road Racing Championship respectively. A total of 27 riders (QIRRCH). took part in race one while 24 were on the track for race two. The prizes were handed over to (QMMF), Sultan Al Murraikhi, races were held in between the MotoGP World Championship. Marc Marquez of Repsol Honda Team discusses team tactics in the the riders by Nasser bin Khalifa QMMF Board Member, and free practice sessions of MotoGP, Indian rider Krishnan was the pits on the qualifying day of Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar at Al Attiyah, President of the Qatar Rashid Al Sulaiti, member of Moto2 and Moto3 ahead of winner in the LARRS category. Losail International Circuit, yesterday. Motor and Motorcycle Federation QMMF President’s office. The two today’s opening round of the 2013 THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 29 Lorenzo storms to pole position 2012 world champion on the front grid; Crutchlow, Pedrosa complete first row

BY RIZWAN REHMAT Grand Prix of Qatar DOHA: World champion Jorge Lorenzo yesterday brought Grid delight to Yamaha camp as he Grid for today’s season-opening issued a firm warning to his Qatar motorcycling Grand Prix rivals by securing the top spot after qualifying yesterday: on the front row for the season’s MotoGP opening round today. The 25-year-old Spaniard 1. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha 1min 54.714sec, rode his Yamaha bike with 2. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/Yamaha) at 0.202, 3. guile and experience, nudging a Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 0.437, 4. Andrea fast-improving Cal Crutchlow Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 0.446, 5. Stefan Bradl (GER/Honda) 0.763, 6. Marc Marquez (ESP/ of Britain and Honda Repsol’s Honda) 0.931, 7. Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) pocket dynamo Dani Pedrosa to 0.997, 8. Alvaro Bautista (ESP/Honda) 1.156, the top spot. 9. Bradley Smith (GBR/) 1.601, 10. Andrea Lorenzo clocked an impressive Iannone (ITA/Ducati) 1.809, 11. Nicky Hayden time of 1’54.714 in the second and (USA/Ducati) 1.953, 12. Aleix Espargaro (ESP/ decisive qualifying race that saw Aprilia) 2.350 only 12 riders take to the track at Losail International Circuit Crutchlow, the 27-year-old Commercialbank Briton, kept the pressure on Lorenzo and finished just .202secs Grand Prix of Qatar slower than the pole winner. Schedule Crutchlow was timed 1’54.916. Today Spain’s Pedrosa, also 27, sur- 17:00-17:20: MotoX2 prised the field with an impressive run on his Repsol Honda, motor- 17:00-17:45: MotoGP VIP Village Pit Lane ing to a time of 1’55.151 around Walk the 5.38km circuit. 18:00-18:20: MotoGP Warm-Up Ducati Team rider Andrea 19:00: Moto3 Race (18 laps) Dovizioso (1’55.160) secured the 20:20: Moto2 Race (20 laps fourth spot on the second row 22:00: MotoGP Race (22 laps) Jorge Lorenzo of Yamaha Factory Racing negotiates a turn during the qualifying race of Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar at Losail International while Germany’s Stefan Bradl - Venue: Losail International Circuit: Circuit, yesterday. The world champion brought delight to Yamaha camp by securing the top spot on the front row for the season’s opening round the 2011 Moto2 world champion today. PICTURES BY: SHAIVAL DALAL - grabbed the fifth place. April 5-7 Bradl, riding for LCR Honda MotoGP, was fifth fastest with a maximum. It wasn’t easy because am pleased that we are starting Prix, said he was satisfied to be – riding for GO&FUN Honda ART and Lukas Pesek (1’57.926) time of 1’55.477. Cal was doing extremely fast the season pretty strong,” the on the front row. Gresini – did his fastest time on of Ioda-Suter are in row five. The fastest rider in the first laps,” Lorenzo said. Briton added. “Obviously we would have liked lap six. The season’s opening 22-lap three free practice sessions, “So I had to use all my talent “We had great testing in to be on the front three and we Bradley Smith, also of Yamaha, race starts at 10pm tonight. Spain’s Marc Marquez remained and experience to make this hap- Malaysia and at Jerez. So I think are,” the Spaniard said. “We have completed the list of riders on the Earlier, Spanish rider Pol in the clutch of the top-six bracket pen. This is very good for us,” the we are carrying that momentum made important improvements. third grid by securing the ninth Esparagaro outpaced inform by finishing a notch behind Bradl. 2012 world champion added. into this weekend,” he said. I feel comfortable. I hope we can spot with a time of 1’56.315. Smith, Japanese rival Takaaki Nagakami Marcquez, team-mate of Crutchlow, seeking his debut “It (the second spot on the do better (in the race today),” a former partner of Crutchlow in to grab the season’s first Moto2 Pedrosa, clocked 1’55.645 to secure MotoGP win, said he was able to front row) is not so bad. We can he added. The first place on the Moto2, scored his fastest time on pole. Marc VDS Racing Team’s the sixth grid on the second row. carry the momentum he picked improve in some areas and we can third row was secured by nine- lap four. Mika Kallio was the third fast- Lorenzo, who will be aiming up in pre-season testing in Sepang look into that tonight. It will be time world champion Valentino Ducati’s Andrea Iannone est rider. for his 24th MotoGP win today, (Malaysia) and Jerez (Spain). difficult to challenge the factory Rossi of Yahama. (1’56.523), 2006 world champion In Moto3, Red Bull rider Luis admitted Crutchlow put pressure “I hope so,” Crutchlow said guys but let’s see what happens. I Italian Rossi (1’55.711) finished Nicky Hayden (1’56.667) and Salom of Spain grabbed the top on him in the dying minutes of when asked if he could sustain will do my best,” Crutchlow, who seventh fastest and ahead of Spain’s Aleix Espargaro (1’57.064) spot ahead of Maverick Vinales. Q2. the momentum in the season’s managed a podium finish at Brno Spain’s Alvaro Bautista (1’55.870). are in the fourth row. Alex Rins secured the third spot “I tried my best to do a fast opening race today. last season, added. Rossi clocked his best time on lap Ben Spies (1’57.440) of Ducati, on the front grid. lap. I was just trying to get the “We actually did a good job. I Pedrosa, winner of 22 Grands two (out of seven) while Bautista Randy du Puniet (1’57.551) of THE PENINSULA

From left: Pol Espargaro, Cal Crutchlow, Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa and Luis Salom during the press conference after the qualifying race of Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar at Losail International Circuit, yesterday. RIGHT: Jorge Lorenzo after the qualifying race of Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar at Losail International Circuit, yesterday.

Commercialbank umbrella girls pose for a picture on the qualifying day of Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar at Losail International Circuit, yesterday. RIGHT: Jorge Lorenzo of Yamaha Factory Racing during the qualifying race of CommercialBank Grand Prix of Qatar at Losail International Circuit, yesterday. SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 30 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Sizzling Tiger seeks end to major drought at Masters World No. 1 eyes Jack Nicklaus all-time record of 18 majors India drop WASHINGTON: Tiger Woods I can be where I’m contending in has not won a major title since All-time Major every event, contending in major Sehwag for 2008 but he enters the 77th championships and being consist- Masters as the player to beat Golf Win Leaders ent day-in and day-out.” after three triumphs in as many Woods has changed much about WASHINGTON: All-time Champions months and form to rival his his game and his life since his major golf championship win glory days. 2008 US Open triumph and the leaders list: The 14-time major champion, epic sex scandal that erupted in Trophy chasing the all-time record of 18 Total The Masters US Open late 2009. majors won by Jack Nicklaus, has British Open PGA Championship He divorced Elin Nordegren NEW DELHI: India’s selec- won at Torrey Pines, Doral and Jack Nicklaus 18 6 4 3 5 and now dates US ski star Lindsey tors yesterday left out dashing Bay Hill and reclaimed the World Tiger Woods 14 4 3 3 4 Vonn. He split with caddie Steve batsman Virender Sehwag (pic- No. 1 ranking that he had not held Walter Hagen 11 0 2 4 5 Williams in 2011 and Joe LaCava tured) from a 30-man prelimi- since October 2010. Ben Hogan 9 2 4 1 2 is now his bagman. He split with nary squad for the Champions “It shows that my game is con- coach Hank Haney in 2010 and Trophy in England in June. Gary Player 9 3 1 3 2 sistent. It’s at a high level,” Woods Sean Foley has helped rebuild Seasoned off-spinner Tom Watson 8 2 1 5 0 said. “It is getting the little things Woods’s swing. Harbhajan Singh and veteran out of each round. You have got to Harry Vardon 7 0 1 6 0 There’s a new Team Tiger seamer Zaheer Khan were also grind it out and get those rounds Bobby Jones 7 0 4 3 0 trying for major victories in the missing from the list, which has in and that’s something I’ve done.” Gene Sarazen 7 1 2 1 3 shadow of past glory even as to be shortened to 15 players a More than that, Woods has Sam Snead 7 3 0 1 3 Woods seeks his fifth Masters month before the one-day tourna- been confident and impressive Arnold Palmer 7 4 1 2 0 title, his first since 2005, and his ment opens on June 5. with the putter in his victories, first major triumph since the 2008 Sehwag’s 219 against the West Nick Faldo 6 3 0 3 0 something that will be vital over US Open. Indies in December 2011 is the the undulating greens of Augusta Lee Trevino 6 0 2 2 2 “I don’t want to become as highest individual score in one- National when the year’s first James Braid 5 0 0 5 0 good as I once was,” Woods said. day internationals and he is only major championship tees off on JH Taylor 5 0 0 5 0 “I want to become better.” the second batsman to score a Thursday. Byron Nelson 5 2 1 0 2 Woods shared fourth at the double-century in the shorter “The three events that I’ve Peter Thomson 5 0 0 5 0 2010 and 2011 Masters while format after compatriot Sachin won, I’ve putted well. I’ve made Seve Ballesteros 5 2 0 3 0 fighting injury and emotional tur- Tendulkar. But he was dropped my share of putts, especially some moil but only managed a share of due to recent poor form. really key putts,” Woods said. at the Masters. Woods has won 40th last year while working on The 34-year-old, who has The last time Woods won 77 career PGA titles, five shy of his swing. scored 8,273 runs in 251 ODIs back-to-back events just ahead tying the late Sam Snead’s all- He admitted his game was not with 15 centuries, was also been of Augusta, as he did last month time record, and shown flashes where he wanted in any of those left out of the last two Tests in the at Doral and Bay Hill, was in of the form that allowed him to starts. Tiger Woods reacts on the 18th green after winning the 2005 Masters recent series against Australia, 2001 when he won Bay Hill and dominate the sport for nearly a “I’ve felt like maybe my game tournament on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off over Chris which India won 4-0.Harbhajan, the Players Championship before decade. wasn’t quite consistent enough DiMarco at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia in this April 32, last played an ODI two years completing the “Tiger Slam” of “I know I can play this game at to be there at that point,” Woods 10, 2005 file photo. ago in the West Indies, while four major triumphs in a row a high level,” Woods said. “I know said. AFP Zaheer, 34, missed the entire Australian series due to a calf injury. Steady Park Uncapped off-spinner Parvez Rasool, 24, was included in the Horschel leads at Texas Open squad, making him the first crick- grabs slim eter from Jammu and Kashmir to SAN ANTONIO, Texas: Billy the 16th and a 12-footer at 17. He join the senior ranks. Horschel had six birdies in a Texas Open Scores reached the green of the TPC San India are drawn with South LPGA lead four-under par 68 yesterday to Antonio’s par-five 18th in two Africa, Pakistan and the SAN ANTONIO, Texas: seize a two-stroke halfway lead and just missed a 25-foot eagle West Indies in group B of the Leading second-round scores RANCHO MIRAGE, in the US PGA Tour’s $6.2m attempt. Champions Trophy, from which here yesterday in the $6.2m California: Inbee Park notched Texas Open. Two-time major champion the top two will qualify for the US PGA Tour Texas Open six birdies in a five-under par Horschel’s eight-under par McIlroy is among the few golfers semi-finals. The other group com- (USA unless noted, par-72): 67 yesterday to take a one-shot total of 136 gave him a two-shot to reach 18 in two this week, and prises England, Australia, New lead at the halfway mark of the lead over Daniel Summerhays, 136 Billy Horschel 68-68 he was also on the green in two Zealand and Sri Lanka. Kraft Nabisco Championship, Charley Hoffman and Australia’s 138 Daniel Summerhays 69-69, Charley at the 592-yard, par-five eighth India’s 30-man preliminary the first major of the LPGA Steven Bowditch. Hoffman 71-67, Steven Bowditch (AUS) -- but missed his 12-foot eagle squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, season. It was a further stroke back to 69-69 attempt. Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Park, seeking to add a second a group of seven players sharing 139 Brendon de Jonge (ZIM) 70-69, Jim “I think that shows where my Gautam Gambhir, Unmukt major title to her resume, had a fifth place on 139, which included Furyk 69-70, KJ Choi (KOR) 72-67, game is,” McIlroy said. “Those two Chand, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, seven-under total of 137 for a one- Northern Irish star Rory McIlroy. Retief Goosen (RSA) 70-69, Ben Kohles par fives are probably the tough- Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, shot lead over American Lizette McIlroy, toppled from the 69-70, Rory McIlroy (NIR) 72-67, Lee est to hit in two with how small Manoj Tiwary, Ajinkya Rahane, Salas. world No. 1 spot by Tiger Woods Janzen 70-69 the greens are. It shows that my Ambati Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav, Salas carded a four-under 68 in March, added the Texas Open 140 Matt Bettencourt 67-73, Peter Tomasulo ball-striking is there.” Wriddhiman Saha, Dinesh at Mission Hills and her total of to his schedule to give himself 67-73, Jason Gore 69-71 Horschel birdied his last two Karthik, Ravichandran Ashwin, 138 put her one stroke in front of more rounds before next week’s holes for his second straight 68, Amit Mishra, Ravindra Jadeja, Sweden’s Caroline Hedwall (68) Masters, the first men’s major of even if I hadn’t been in this posi- dropping birdie putts of more Jalaj Saxena, Parvez Rasool, Ishant and Italian Giulia Sergas (59). Billy Horschel reacts to a missed the year. tion and have been a few shots than 10 feet at both the 17th and Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Park started the day two shots birdie putt on the 13th green dur- He was feeling good about that back I’d still feel the same way,” 18th. Ashok Dinda, Umesh Yadav, off the overnight lead shared by ing the second round of the Valero move on Friday, after a five-under McIlroy said. “I haven’t really In search of a first PGA Tour Shami Ahmed, Irfan Pathan, England’s Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Texas Open held at the AT&T Oaks par 67 that included seven birdies been in contention this year. So victory, he’s hoping to keep Vinay Kumar, Praveen Kumar, South Korean Na Yeon Choi and Course at TPC San Antonio in San and two bogeys. it will be nice to get into the mix.” building on the momentum of a Ishwar Pandey, Sidharth Kaul. Norway’s Suzann Pettersen. “I definitely feel like I made the McIlroy birdied his last three runner-up finish in Houston last REUTERS Antonio, Texas, yesterday. AFP right decision to come here, and holes, draining a 26-foot putt at Sunday. AFP Davis Cup: Querrey puts US level with Serbia

BOISE, Idaho: Novak Djokovic second-serve ace to take a 4-1 Paes, taking part in his 50th Friday with Somdev Devvarman got Serbia off to a hot start, but lead in the tiebreaker and claimed Cup tie, partnered Sanam Singh beating Wisnu Adi Nugroho and American Sam Querrey’s gritty the first set on his third set point to an easy 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 win over Yuki Bhambri taking care of victory over Viktor Troicki saw when Isner knocked a backhand the Indonesian pair of Elbert Sie Christopher Rungkat. the United States pull level on long. and David Susanto in Bangalore. In Tashkent, former world the opening day of their Davis Serbian captain Bogdan The win extended India’s number one Lleyton Hewitt Cup World Group quarter-final Obradovic had called on Troicki unbeaten run against Indonesia in inspired Australia to a five-set tie. for singles duty after world No. Davis Cup ties to 6-0 and ensured doubles victory to take the edge World No. 1 Djokovic beat big- 10 Janko Tipsarevic opted out they remain in the zonal group over Uzbekistan in the Davis Cup serving John Isner in straight sets of the tie. The winner will take one next year. Indonesia will have Asia-Oceania Group one second in the first singles match, recov- on the victor of the quarter-final to defeat Taiwan in September round tie in Namangan yesterday. ering from an early break in the tie between Canada and Italy in to avoid being relegated to group Hewitt, rested from Friday’s first set en route to a 7-6 (7/5), Vancouver. two. Paes, who turns 40 in June, opening singles, partnered 6-2, 7-5 triumph. Meanwhile, Andrey Golubev played with the same enthusiasm Matthew Ebden to battle out a The Serbian player saved the and Yuriy Schukin defeated that marked his Davis Cup debut 7-5, 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 win only break point he faced in the Czech pair Jan Hajek and Radek in 1990. He has so far played 120 over the Uzbek pairing of Denis third set -- in the second game Stepanek in Saturday’s doubles matches in the tournament with a Istomin and Farrukh Dustov. -- and broke Isner at love for a in Astana to keep Kazakhstan’s 48-22 record in singles and 40-10 The hard-fought win gave 6-5 advantage. hopes of reaching the Davis Cup in doubles. the 28-time Davis Cup winners He served out the match with semi-finals alive. Paes, who won a singles Australia a 2-1 edge heading into a love game, wrapping it up in The hosts won 7-6 (7/2), 6-4, bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta today’s two reverse singles to two hours with a backhand win- 6-3 in two hours 20 minutes to Olympics before becoming a for- decide the tie on clay. ner that sent him dancing over make it 2-1 in their quarter-final midable doubles player, said he The winner of the tie advances to celebrate with his teammates. encounter against the tourna- felt fit enough to look forward to September’s World Group play- Isner had made a quick start, ment holders. to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de offs as Australia bid to return to breaking Djokovic for a 2-1 lead “It was a hard match but it Janeiro. the competition’s top tier for the in the first set and holding for 3-1. makes the victory even more “My passion for the game and first time since 2007. But Djokovic found his rhythm on sweet,” Schukin said. the privilege of representing India Hewitt, the former Wimbledon the indoor hard court in the Taco In Bangalore, India, veteran are the biggest motivating fac- and US Open champion, was play- Bell Arena in Boise, which sits at Leander Paes led from the front tors for me,” he said. “I feel good ing with Ebden for the first time. an altitude of about 800 meters as India seized a decisive 3-0 lead enough to play for another three They were the fresher pair after Novak Djokovic of Serbia reacts after winning a game against John Isner (2,600 feet), and broke back to over Indonesia yesterday to avoid years.” Istomin and Dustov were back- of the US in the first match of the 2013 Davis Cup World Group quarter level the set at 3-3. relegation in the Davis Cup Asia- India had won both the open- ing up from playing in Friday’s final at Taco Bell Arena in Boise, Idaho, USA, yesterday. Djokovic delivered a Oceania tie. ing singles in straight sets on singles. AGENCIES SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 31 Al Sadd inch closer to QSL title Amotta’s side needs just one point to clinch the championship; Kewell makes debut

DOHA:Al Sadd need just one point to clinch the Qatar Stars League championship. A second half goal from Spanish striker and captain Raul restored their five-point lead over current title-holders Lekhwiya in their 1-0 win over Al Gharafa at al Sadd Stadium here yesterday. In the same match former Liverpool star Harry Kewell made his debut for Gharafa, it was former Real Madrid star Raul who took Sadd to the brink of winning the league. Hussein Amotta’s side could now clinch the title in next week- end’s match with Al Kharaitiyat. Incredibly, Sadd could have gone behind in this match with less than one minute on the clock. Djibril Cisse had the chance to score after just 26 seconds when he capitalized on a mistake from Jung Soo Lee. The striker charged into the box but his shot was straight at keeper Saad Abdulla Al Sheeb. Five minutes later Sadd almost charged into the lead. Younis Younes Mahmoud Khalaf (left) of Al Sadd SC tries to head the ball past Al Gharafa goalkeepar Qasem Burhan during Qatar Stars League (QSL) match at Al Sadd Stadium, yesterday. Al Sadd Mahmoud chested outside the won 1-0. RIGHT: Hasan Khalid Al Hydoos (white) of Al Sadd vie for the ball with Al Gharafa’s Hamed Shami Zaher during their QSL Match. PHOTO BY KAMMUTTY VP box but sent a crisp half-volley whistling over the bar. they looked to have a real impact Just like in the first half, Mahmoud – but Burhan snatched none other than inspirational cap- stinging strike was palmed over The action in the first half was on the rest of the season. French striker Cisse threatened the ball of the striker’s toe just as tain Raul. Mahmoud fed Khalfan the bar by keeper Saad Abdulla fairly frantic but with little in the Iraqi striker Mahmoud had the early on with a shot he fizzed high he was ready to shoot. Ibrahim Khalfan as he stormed Al Sheeb. way of clear opportunities created best chance of the half to score over the bar. Al Hydoos looked like he could to the goal-line. He cut back for That was the last major by either side. for Sadd but his close-range With 54 minutes gone only the have scored after 62 minutes but the Spanish legend who took one chance of the game as Sadd held Sadd seemed all too aware header was deflected wide. Both bravest of goalkeeping fr Gharafa his powerful strike was charged touch before poking the ball into on for the win which means all their grip on the championship teams emerged in the second star Qasem Burhan prevented down at the edge of the box. Just the back of the net. they need to do to be crowned depended on the result. Gharafa half knowing it would take more Sadd from taking the lead. three minutes later though Sadd With just 60 seconds left, champions is avoid defeat in next sensed their concern also and endeavor and creativity to break Hasan Khalid Al Hydoos finally made the breakthrough Brazilian star Alex tried to rescue week’s match. were fighting for every ball as the deadlock. delivered a pin-point cross for they craved – and it came from an equalizer for Gharafa, but his THE PENINSULA Celtic beat Menez, Ibra power Five-star Madrid make Hibs but title party on ice PSG past Rennes light work of Levante PARIS: A superb strike from Ezequiel Lavezzi were only listed GLASGOW: Celtic came within Jeremy Menez and a late goal among the substitutes. MADRID: Gonzalo Higuain Madrid and they were level five touching distance of clinching from Zlatan Ibrahimovic guided Rennes, whose last victory scored a goal of the season con- La Liga Results minutes later thanks to a stun- the Scottish Premier League Paris Saint-Germain to a 2-0 came back on February 10 against tender as Real Madrid kept up ning strike from Higuain. with a 3-0 win over Hibernian victory at Rennes yesterday as Toulouse, went close to going in their pursuit of Barcelona with Real Sociedad 4 (Vela 21, Alberta De la Alonso’s measured cross found but James McFadden’s late the Ligue 1 leaders edged closer front as Sadio Diallo forced a Bella 24, Griezmann 30, Martinez Berridi 51) a 5-1 win over Levante at the the former River Plate man free equaliser for Motherwell to their first title in 19 years. sprawling save out of Sirigu inside Malaga 2 (Morales 43, Santa Cruz 70) Santiago Bernabeu. in the area, but he had to show against St Mirren stopped the Menez shredded the home the opening 15 minutes. The visitors had taken a shock Real Madrid 5 (Higuain 36, Kaka 39-pen, great technique to hook the ball title party at Parkhead. defence to break the deadlock on Defender John Boye though lead through Michel just after Ronaldo 84, Ozil 87, 90+1) Levante 1 on the volley into Munua’s top Yesterday’s win, Celtic’s first 56 minutes, while Ibrahimovic was fortunate not to inadvert- the half-hour mark, but their (Herrero 31) right-hand corner. over Hibs this season, increases netted his league-best 26th goal of ently hand PSG the lead just lead only lasted five minutes as Benzema started a league match Moments later the comeback their lead at the top of the table the campaign in second-half stop- past the half-hour mark as his Higuain swivelled brilliantly to together and, despite playing in a was complete as Cristian Lell was to 15 points over Motherwell with page time as PSG restored their attempted headed clearance volley in Xabi Alonso’s cross. deeper role, it was the Argentine somewhat harshly penalised for just five games remaining as they seven-point advantage at the top drifted narrowly wide of Benoit Kaka then put the hosts ahead who was creating much more of handball as the ball ricocheted inch closer to their second succes- of the table after Marseille had Costil’s right-hand post. before the break from the pen- a threat. around the Levante area and sive league championship. trimmed the lead to four follow- Ibrahimovic should have put alty spot and Cristiano Ronaldo A driven cross from Jose Maria Kaka stepped up to score his Kris Commons had fired Celtic ing Friday’s 1-0 triumph over the visitors in front just before made the game safe with his 29th Callejon just evaded Higuain first league goal at the Bernabeu ahead in the 14th minute as he Bordeaux. the break after expertly freeing league goal of the season six min- before he and Benzema saw in over a year. showed good skill to collect a Gary Meanwhile, defeat for Rennes himself from Jean-Armel Kana- utes from time. efforts from outside the area drift Ronaldo was introduced at Hooper pass and roll it past Ben extended the Brittany outfit’s Biyik, but the Swede’s ill-advised Substitute Mesut Ozil twice off target. half-time for Callejon and was Williams. The Scotland interna- winless run to seven matches attempted chip was straight at scored from close range in the Kaka then forced Gustavo quickly in the heart of the action tional made it a double six min- and left them languishing in tenth the Rennes goalkeeper. dying moments as Madrid cut the Munua into his first serious save as Real tried to kill the game off. utes after the break when he place. Jonathan Pitroipa then had gap on Barca to 10 points ahead with a rising drive after a trade- But Ronaldo eventually sealed drilled a low shot past the keeper Carlo Ancelotti made seven Sirigu scampering across his goal of the Catalans meeting with mark burst into the box. the three points when he vol- from seven yards out.Mikel Lustig changes to the side that drew in first-half stoppage time as the Mallorca later on Saturday night. However, Madrid were stunned leyed home from Higuain’s and completed the scoring in the 61st 2-2 on Tuesday against Barcelona Burkina Faso star sent a fizz- Jose Mourinho had kept his on 31 minutes when Levante the Portuguese then teed up Ozil minute as he bulleted a header in with Salvatore Sirigu, Maxwell, ing drive fractionally wide of the pre-match promise by mak- broke with the sort of efficiency to slide into an empty net two from close range. Blaise Matuidi and Ibrahimovic mark. The France international ing seven changes to the side that they normally punish teams. minutes later. The home fans thought they the only holdovers from the collected a pass from Clement that beat Galatasaray 3-0 in the Michel fed Pedro Rios down And some fine wing-play from had a title to toast when Lewis Champions League quarter-final Chantome inside his own half Champions League on Wednesday the right and when he cleverly Angel di Maria then laid another Guy put St Mirren 2-1 ahead in first leg. before embarking on virtuoso solo with Tuesday’s return-leg in cut the ball back, Michel took goal on a plate for Ozil in stop- the 75th minute but McFadden’s The Italian also elected to rest run, dancing past several Rennes mind. a touch before seeing his shot page time as Madrid rounded off 84th equaliser for Motherwell Thiago Silva ahead of Wednesday’s players and firing expertly beyond For only the second time deflect beyond Lopez. a highly satisfactory week in style. meant the champagne was put return leg at the Camp Nou, while Costil for his third goal of the sea- this season, Higuain and Karim The goal seemed to awake AFP back on ice until April 20. AFP Argentine duo Javier Pastore and son. AFP

Hockey: Shabab Qatar, Wanderers win Squash: Kuwait win GCC Men’s and Under-17 title

Action from the Qatar National Hockey League match between Shabab Qatar and Mesaieed Hockey Club at Al Rayyan Stadium on Friday. The sixth edi- tion of the League organised by Qatar Hockey Association kiccked off on Friday. Shabab Qatar won 2-0. In the other match, Wanderers Hockey trounced United Hockey 9-0. Savio Nayak scored five of the nine goals for the winners. The third match between Doha Hockey Club 1 and 2 was postponed. PICTURE BY: SALIM The players and officials of Kuwait squash team, winners of the Men’s and Under-17 titles at the GCC Squash MATRAMKOT Championship hosted by Qatar Squash Federation, pose for a picture along with officials at Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex yesterday. PICTURE BY: IBRAHIM KUTTY Sunday 7 April 2013 26 Jumada I 1434 Volume 18 Number 5662 Sport Price: QR2

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LONDON: Arsenal won 2-1 at Stamford Bridge today. Rosicky champions West Bromwich Albion yester- proved his worth in the early day to climb into the Champions stages of the game when he BERLIN: Bayern Munich League places at Chelsea’s cleared a header from Claudio set the record for the earliest expense, as Aston Villa claimed Yacob off his own goal-line. Bundesliga title win yesterday a precious win in their fight In the 20th minute he distin- when they were confirmed as to avoid relegation from the guished himself at the other end, German champions for the 23rd Premier League. adroitly heading Gervinho’s well- time with a 1-0 win at Eintracht A brace from Tomas Rosicky struck cross from the left past Frankfurt. gave Arsenal victory at the home goalkeeper Ben Foster. Germany star Bastian Hawthorns, but they allowed The Czech Republic midfielder Schweinsteiger scored the deci- West Brom to come back into the claimed his second five minutes sive goal to give Bayern their 24th game after Per Mertesacker was into the second half, ramming win from 28 league games this sent off for bringing down Shane home at the second attempt after season and seal the first major Long in the penalty area. Foster blocked his initial attempt silverware the Bavarian giants James Morrison drilled the from the edge of the box. have won since May 2010. resulting penalty down the middle Mertesacker’s mistimed lunge With Bayern facing Juventus to reduce the arrears, but Arsenal granted West Brom a lifeline that on Wednesday in the Champions held on to move into fourth place Morrison duly grasped with 19 League quarter-final leading 2-0 above Chelsea, who welcome minutes left, but Arsene Wenger’s from the first leg, the win came Paolo Di Canio’s Sunderland to side survived a late onslaught despite coach Jupp Heynckes from the home side and thereby resting several key players. closed to within a point of third- “The fact that we have won the English Premier place Tottenham Hotspur. title after 28 games is extraor- Matthew Lowton and Christian dinary, it’s simpy fantastic,” said League Results Benteke scored potentially cru- Heynckes, having been hoisted cial late goals to give Villa a 3-1 into the air by his team after the Norwich 2 (Snodgrass 40, Turner 60) win at Stoke City that lifted Paul final whistle. Swansea 2 (Michu 35, Moore 75) Lambert’s team out of the relega- “0ne of the things FC Bayern Reading 0 Southampton 2 (Rodriguez 34, tion zone. Arsenal’s Tomas Rosicky (right) scores his second goal past West Bromwich Albion’s Ben Foster during their have demonstrated this season is Lallana 72) Gabriel Agbonlahor converted English Premier League match at the Hawthorns in West Bromwich, central England, yesterday. that we’re a top side, but we have Stoke 1 (Kightly 80) Aston Villa 3 (Agbonlahor at the near post from Matthew done it with harmony in the team 9, Lowton 87, Benteke 90) Lowton’s right-wing cross to give compromised after a 2-0 loss at Reading thought they had as the Royals have now played at “We can be confident we West Brom 1 (Morrison 71-pen) Arsenal 2 Villa a ninth-minute lead, only for home to manager Nigel Adkins’s pulled a goal back moments least a game more than all the will achieve something in the (Rosicky 20, 50) Michael Kightly to equalise for former club Southampton left later, but Saints goalkeeper Artur teams above them. Champions League.” Playing today Stoke in the 80th minute. them eight points from safety Boruc was adjudged not to have Southampton, meanwhile, are Second-placed Borussia Chelsea vs Sunderland, Liverpool vs West However, with time running with only six games remaining. carried Adam Le Fondre’s header seven points above the bottom Dortmund -- champions in each Ham (1230GMT) out, Lowton launched a magnif- Despite sustained early pres- over his own goal-line in what was three after their third consecu- of the last two seasons -- won 4-2 icent 35-yard shot into the top sure from Reading, Southampton a very marginal call. tive victory and appear poised to at home to Augsburg, but could Newcastle vs Fulham corner in the 87th minute before took a 34th-minute lead through Adkins joined Reading last secure their status among the elite not prevent Bayern from setting a QPR vs Wigan (1510GMT) Tottenham vs Benteke added a third to send Jay Rodriguez and completed month after Southampton sacked for a second season. Elsewhere, Bundesliga record for the earliest Everton (1305GMT) Villa three points clear of the bot- victory with 18 minutes remain- him in January, but his bid to Norwich City were denied only confirmed title win. With six games Playing tomorrow tom three. ing when captain Adam Lallana steer his new club off the foot of a second win in 15 games in an left, they have an unsurmountable Manchester Utd vs Manchester City Reading’s hopes of avoiding rel- coolly tucked away his 50th goal the table is beginning to look like entertaining 2-2 draw at home to 20-point lead and have won their (1900GMT) egation, meanwhile, were seriously for the club. an impossible task, particularly Swansea City. AFP 22nd Bundesliga title. AFP Mumbai clinch thriller against Chennai; Royals win NEW DELHI: David Warner’s loss in what was their first match Scoreboard fiery 77 went in vain as Delhi of the tournament. It was a wel- Daredevils faltered in a close come result for Mumbai, who had MUMBAI INDIANS M Vijay b Patel ...... 5 finish and suffered their second lost a close contest against Royal R T Ponting c Ashwin b Rajpoot ...... 6 S K Raina c Ponting b Johnson ...... 10 consecutive loss in the Indian Challengers Bangalore Thursday. S R Tendulkar lbw Nannes ...... 0 D J Bravo c Karthik b Ojha ...... 10 Premier League (IPL), going Chennai stumbled in the K D Karthik lbw Bravo ...... 37 S Badrinath lbw Ojha...... 16 down by five runs to Rajasthan chase, losing half their side for R G Sharma c Dhoni b Bravo...... 8 M S Dhoni c Pollard b Patel ...... 51 Royals at the Ferozeshah Kotla 66. But with dangerous Dhoni A T Rayudu c Nannes b Laughlin ...... 7 R A Jadeja b Patel ...... 16 here yesterday. and Ravindra Jadeja in the mid- K A Pollard (not out) ...... 57 R Ashwin c Pollard b H Singh ...... 2 Warner had almost put the dle, you could still not rule out D R Smith c Bravo b Ashwin 3 B Laughlin b Pollard ...... 0 Daredevils on the threshold of the hosts getting the required 83 Harbhajan Singh (not out) ...... 21 A S Rajpoot (not out)...... 2 a win while chasing 166. But runs off 47 balls. Extras (LB-3, W-6) ...... 9 D P Nannes (not out) ...... 0 the opening batsman fell in the With Jadeja back in the hut on Total (for 6 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 148 Extras (LB-1, W-6) ...... 7 penultimate over, run out while 16, the onus was once again on Did not bat: M G Johnson, M M Patel, P P Ojha. Total (for 9 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 139 attempting a tight single, that left Dhoni to take the team home. The Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-17, 3-41, 4-59, 5-75, Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-30, 3-42, 4-58, 5-66, Delhi needing nine runs off the skipper hit an array of lusty blows 6-83. 6-97, 7-108, 8-126, 9-137. last over. to take the match down to the Bowling: D P Nannes 4-0-18-1; A S Rajpoot Bowling: M G Johnson 4-0-22-1 (2w); M M West Indian pacer Kevon wire. Chennai needed 23 off the 3-0-25-1 (1w); D J Bravo 4-0-44-2 (2w); B Patel 4-0-29-3 (1w); Harbhajan Singh 4-0-31- Cooper, who picked up 3-30, last 12 balls after Pollard bowled Laughlin 3-0-25-1 (3w); R A Jadeja 2-0-12-0; 2; P P Ojha 4-0-16-2; K A Pollard 4-0-40-1 bowled a fine last over, conced- a 17-run over. R Ashwin 4-0-21-1. (3w). ing just three runs and picked up Mitchell Johnson came to bowl CHENNAI SUPER KINGS Player-of-the-Match: Kieron Pollard (Mumbai two wickets to leave Daredevils the 19th over and Dhoni did not M Hussey b H Singh ...... 20 Indians) stranded at 160/6 from 20 overs. spare him too. The real star was veteran He brought his fifty with a Rahul Dravid, who played a fine cracking six over deep mid wicket, captain’s knock of a 51-ball 65, Rahul Dravid of Rajasthan Royals plays a shot during their innings against cutting the target to six off the Scoreboard studded with four fours and two Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) match in New Delhi final over with two wickets in yesterday. sixes that propelled Royals to a hand. RAJASTHAN ROYALS DELHI DAREDEVILS competitive 165/7. Dravid was With Dhoni in full flow, it M D K J Perera c Pathan b Yadav ...... 14 D A Warner (run out-Hodge) ...... 77 adjudged the man of the match. had stressed on the importance of In the second match in Chennai, seemed the massive crowd in A M Rahane c&b Nadeem...... 28 U Chand b Sreesanth ...... 23 It was a fine start to inaugural one of the top-four getting a big Mumbai Indians defeated the for- attendance for the opening IPL R Dravid c Jayawardene b Yadav ...... 65 D P M D Jayawardene c Rahane b Shukla .. 19 IPL champions Rajasthan Royals’ knock. He backed his words with midable Chennai Super Kings in game here would get their mon- S T R Binny b Yadav...... 40 M C Juneja c Hodge b Cooper ...... 20 campaign in the sixth edition. performance. their own backyard for their first ey’s worth. All of that changed B J Hodge c Warner b Yadav ...... 5 A D Russell b Cooper ...... 7 The victory was sweeter for the Warner struck nine fours and win in the Indian Premier League one when Pollard pulled off a K Cooper c Yadav b Nehra ...... 2 J Botha lbw Cooper ...... 2 Royals since they had lost both a six and single-handedly took yesterday. stunning catch at the boundary A L Menaria b Nehra ...... 1 IK Pathan (not out) ...... 1 their matches against Daredevils Daredevils to sniffing distance of The visitors pulled off a stun- to dismiss Dhoni. S Sreesanth (not out)...... 0 NV Ojha (not out) ...... 0 last season. a win. Warner added 67 valuable ning win after Chennai fell Earlier, Mumbai Indians were R Shukla (not out) ...... 1 Extras (LB-5, W-6) ...... 11 While chasing, Daredevils were runs for the third-wicket with short of their 148 for six by nine off to a bad start after winning the Extras (LB-3, W-6) ...... 9 Total (for 6 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 160 always on course. Warner and Manprit Juneja (20) that almost runs. Kieron Pollard starred for toss, losing the ‘dream’ opening Total (for 7 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 165 Did not bat: A Nehra, S Nadeem, U T Yadav. Unmukt Chand (23) gave a stable got the match in Delhi’s grasp. Mumbai by smashing 57 off 38 combination of Sachin Tendulkar Did not bat: S K Trivedi, S Badree. Fall of wickets: 1-39, 2-82, 3-149, 4-153, start with their 39-run stand and The hosts needed just 22 runs off balls and led their recovery from and Ricky Ponting (6) for 17. Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-87, 3-142, 4-161, 5-159, 6-160. then Warner and skipper Mahela 18 balls but failed in the end. 83 for six in 12 overs. The master blaster was 5-161, 6-164, 7-164. Bowling: S Badree 4-0-34-0 (1w); S Sree- Jayawardene (19) added 43 runs It was a disciplined perform- Mahendra Singh Dhoni took his adjudged leg before wicket off Bowling: I K Pathan 4-0-31-0; A Nehra 4-0- santh 4-0-18-1; S K Trivedi 4-0-35-0; K Cooper for the second wicket. ance by the visitors and tempera- team’s fight to the last over with pacer Dirk Nannes on the first 35-2 (1w); U T Yadav 4-0-24-4; A D Russell 4-0-30-3 (2w); R Shukla 3-0-27-1 (3w); S T R It was a measured knock from mental fast bowler S Sreesanth an exhilarating 51 off 26 balls. But ball he faced. Apparently, he was 3-0-31-0 (1w); S Nadeem 4-0-22-1; J Botha Binny 1-0-11-0. Warner but full of aggression. was impressive with his 1/18 from his dismissal in the first ball of the not happy with the umpire’s deci- 1-0-19-0. Player-of-the-Match: R Dravid (RR). On the eve of the match, Warner four overs. 20th over resulted in Chennai’s sion. IANS