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Victim of war Snowden applies for Compulsory asylum in Russia MOSCOW: Fugitive US intel- ligence leaker Edward Snowden applied yesterday for tempo- rary asylum in Russia, end- ing three weeks of uncertainty health plan after arriving from Hong Kong to escape US justice. Snowden, wanted by the US for revealing details of its spying operations, made the application from the starts today transit zone Sheremetyevo air- port after meeting rights activ- ists and lawyers there on Friday. First phase covers Qatari women Full report on page 11 DOHA: The much-awaited scheme. The press statement was Civil societies being mandatory health insurance issued by it. scheme kicks off from today The first stage will provide merged: Official with Qatari women aged 12 and health insurance coverage for above being covered under the Qatari women for maternity, DOHA: Civil Societies are first phase. obstetrics, gynaecology and being merged and restructured The scheme is being imple- related healthcare services. to improve their services and mented in five stages until 2015. Qatari nationals will not have to avoid duplication of work. The This is Stage One of the scheme make payments to the provider merger of civil societies is inevi- that is to be completed by early for services covered within the table, said the Director of the next year (first quarter of 2014) scheme as their premiums will Social Rehabilitation Center (Al when all Qatari nationals will be be paid by the government. Owain), Rashid Al Naimi in the brought within its ambit. “This is a historic day as the Ramadan tent set up by Al Sharq. In the next stage to be imple- first stage of the long-awaited “We are coordinating with the mented from the second quarter mandatory health insurance committee concerned to com- of 2014, skilled expatriate work- scheme starts operations,” said plete the procedures of merger ers, including professionals, will H E Abdulla Al Qahtani, Minister A man carries a boy wounded in what the Free Syrian Army said was an air raid by forces loyal to Syrian and have submitted all neces- be covered. The coverage will for Public Health and Secretary President Bashar Al Assad in Duma district near Damascus. The raid was part of Assad’s campaign to secure sary documents to them, said Al later include visitors to the coun- General of the Supreme Council the Duma area from rebels, according to the Free Syrian Army. See also page 7 Naimi. THE PENINSULA try and low-income unskilled and of Health (SCH). semi-skilled foreign workers. “It took time to ensure that we The Qatari women being cov- have a robust and effective scheme ered from today will need to that answers the specific needs of simply produce their identity Qatar but it will be well worth (ID) card for identification and the wait as the scheme rolls out. EU takes tough stance on Israeli settlements verification to benefit from the It is a great pleasure and honour scheme at the Women’s Hospital for me to see the launch of this BRUSSELS: Future agree- situated across the pre-1967 It does not cover trade, such as comes to EU support.” of Hamad Medical Corporation crucial project for our nation,” he ments between the European Green Line will be automatically produce and goods originating in The move follows a decision (HMC), Al Emadi Hospital, Al added. Union and Israel must include ineligible. settlements. by EU foreign ministers last Ahli Hospital and Doha Clinic. Established in June this year, the explicit exclusion of Jewish The Israeli government will be An EU statement said the December that “all agreements “More providers are expected NHIC manages and operates settlements in the West Bank required to state in any future guidelines “set out the territo- between the state of Israel and to be added to the insurance the country’s mandatory health or East Jerusalem, according agreements with the EU that set- rial limitations under which the the EU must unequivocally and network over the coming weeks insurance programme, mandated to a new EU directive described tlements in the West Bank and commission will award EU sup- explicitly indicate their inapplica- and months. They will include Al by Emiri Decree Number 7 of by an Israeli official as an East Jerusalem are outside the port to Israeli entities … Concern bility to the territories occupied Khor Hospital, Al Wakra Hospital 2013. The ultimate goal of the “earthquake”. state of Israel. has been expressed in Europe by Israel in 1967”. and the Cuban Hospital,” a press programme is to ensure that eve- The EU guidelines, adopted on The directive, part of the that Israeli entities in the occu- All Israeli settlements are ille- statement yesterday said. ryone living in Qatar, both nation- June 30, will prohibit the issu- 2014-20 financial framework, pied territories could benefit from gal under international law. A holding company — the als and expatriates, have access to ing of grants, funding, prizes or covers all areas of co-operation EU support. The purpose of these “The EU is trying to force National Health Insurance basic healthcare services. scholarships unless a settlement between the EU and Israel, guidelines is to make a distinction Israel to adopt its position on set- Company (NHIC) — has been set THE PENINSULA exclusion clause is included. including economics, science, between the state of Israel and tlements,” said an Israeli official. up to implement and monitor the Continued on page 4 Israeli institutions and bodies culture, sports and academia. the occupied territories when it THE GUARDIAN

New Saudi rules Egypt cabinet sworn to protect domestic workers’ rights in amid street battles RIYADH: Saudi Arabia announced yesterday new CAIRO: Egypt’s army-backed the government,” its spokesman rules to protect the rights leaders swore in a new interim Gehad El Haddad told Reuters. of foreign domestic workers, cabinet yesterday after a night Not one of the new ministers is most of whom are from South of street violence, with not a sin- from either Mursi’s Brotherhood Asia, but stressed they must gle minister representing either or Nour, the other main Islamist “respect” Islam and “obey” their of the main Islamist groups that group. Together they have won employers. have won five straight elections two parliamentary elections, a Labour Minister Adel Faqih since 2011. presidential vote and two consti- said the new rules require Seven people were killed over- tutional referendums since the employers to pay workers “the night and more than 260 wounded 2011 uprising that brought down agreed monthly salary without in running battles between sup- long-serving, army-backed auto- delay, and give them a day off each porters of toppled president crat Hosni Mubarak. week,” in remarks carried by the Mohammed Mursi and the secu- The army said it was carry- official SPA news agency. rity forces. ing out the popular will when Employers are also required to In an ornate hall in the presi- it removed Mursi after millions provide domestic workers with dential palace, 33 mainly liberal took to the streets to demand his “suitable accommodations, as and technocratic ministers took resignation at the end of June. well as granting them time to rest turns being sworn in by Adli A spokesman for interim presi- for at least nine hours each day,” Mansour, a burly judge installed dent Mansour said Nour and Faqih said. as interim head of state by the the Brotherhood had both been Under the new guidelines, army when it deposed Mursi offered cabinet posts and he workers are entitled to paid sick on July 3. believed they would participate leave and a one-month paid vaca- The armed forces chief who in the transition. tion after putting in two years of The damaged motorbike involved in the accident at Abu Hamour late on Monday night. (ABDUL BASIT) removed him, Abdel Fattah The Brotherhood said it would work as well as end of service Al Sisi, was given the post of first never yield in its demand for compensation equal to one month deputy to interim Prime Minister Mursi’s return. Nour said it was salary after four years, he said. Hazem El Beblawi, a 76-year-old reserving its judgment on the AFP Qatari rider killed in motorcycle crash liberal economist who has been cabinet for now. given the task of implementing a Crisis in the Arab world’s most “road map” to restore civilian rule populous state, which straddles RAMADAN TIMING DOHA: A teenaged Qatari Details of how the accident which was taking a left turn from and repair a crumbling economy. the Suez Canal and has a strate- Todays Iftar rider is reported to have died in occurred are not known, but the other side of the intersection. Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood gic peace treaty with Israel, raises 6:28pm a motorcycle crash after mid- police patrol vans were stationed Al Sharq said the rider lost con- movement fumed. alarm for its allies in the region night on Monday. at the traffic lights when it trol and hit the pavement. “It’s an illegitimate govern- and the West. Mursi’s removal Tomorrow’s Imsak The 17-year-old was among two took place. The duo was rushed to hospital ment, an illegitimate prime min- has bitterly divided Egypt, with 03:17am youngsters riding a motorcycle There were differing versions where one of them succumbed to ister, an illegitimate cabinet. thousands of his supporters main- when it met with an accident of what happened. Some eyewit- his injuries, while the other is in We don’t recognise anyone in it. taining a vigil in a Cairo square to near the traffic lights close to Abu nesses claimed the motorcycle a serious condition. We don’t even recognise their demand his return. REUTERS Hamour petrol station. jumped the red light and hit a car, THE PENINSULA authority as representatives of See also page 10 WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Corniche roundabouts to become intersections soon DOHA: Public Works Authority (Ashghal) National Library roundabout, Wadi Al Sail road signs are now in place at various project The second construction area includes the yesterday announced the commencement of roundabout, Onaiza roundabout, and Lejbailat sites. We call on road users to respect traffic rules road before the National Theatre roundabout and construction work to convert roundabouts roundabout. and regulations for their safety as well as the stretches up to the National Library roundabout on Al Corniche and Al Markhiya streets into During the construction period, two lanes on safety of others,” Ashghal said in a statement. including the Wadi Al Sail Junction on Al Bidda intersections with traffic lights. all the project sites in the above areas will remain The three specific areas where construction Street measuring 1,300m. Roundabouts that will be converted into inter- open to traffic in each direction in order to mini- is scheduled to take place include Al Corniche The third work will be on Al Markhiya street sections upon completion of the project include mise disruption. street between MIA roundabout and Al Diwan between Lejbailat roundabout and Onaiza rounda- Museum of Islamic Arts (MIA) roundabout, Al “Construction work on the project is estimated roundabout via Grand Hamad street junction, bout measuring 1,600m. Diwan roundabout, National Theatre roundabout, to be completed by November 2013. All necessary measuring 1,400m. THE PENINSULA Bigger QA plane on Kochi route CEO of Qatar Airways Akbar Al Baker and Dean and CEO of CMU- Qatar Airways increases capacity of its flights Q, Dr Ilker Baybars signing the MoU.

DOHA: Qatar Airways has operation of 95 flights per and offer capacity to the routes increased the capacity of its week from 12 cities in the India where there is a need,” said Al QA, CMU-Q in deal flights from Doha to Kochi network.” Baker. by upgrading from a narrow- Along with Kochi, Qatar “There are a significant to share expertise body Airbus 321 to a wide- Airways’ Indian operations number of Indian expatriates body Airbus 330. cover daily services to Doha from Kochi who are working DOHA: Qatar Airways and The A330 will be operational from Mumbai, Ahmedabad, in Qatar and the GCC. The Carnegie Mellon University on all 11 frequencies to and from Amritsar, Goa, Hyderabad, increase in capacity will enable in Qatar (CMU-Q) recently Kochi connecting to more than Kolkata, Kozhikode, us to quickly meet the growing signed a Memorandum of 125 destinations around the Trivandrum, Chennai and demand of these passengers,” Understanding for collabora- world via the airline’s hub in Bengaluru, and double daily he added. tion in the fields of education, Doha. The announcement coin- flights from Delhi. Passengers from Kochi can scientific research and social cides with the 5-Star airline’s Qatar Airways operates the travel to popular destina- development. tenth anniversary of success- A330 flights to Kochi in a two- tions including Dubai, Kuwait, The MoU aims to improve ful operations to the popular class configuration of 248 seats Muscat, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and reinforce knowledge for the tourist city in the South-Indian in Economy and 36 seats in Salalah, Dammam, Jeddah, university’s students as well as State of Kerala. Business Class. London, New York and Chicago airline employees, in the fields “The decision to increase The aircraft features seat- via the airline’s Doha hub. of education, scientific research, capacity to and from Kochi back TV screens providing all At the same time, with the executive training, social develop- comes in time to meet grow- passengers in both cabins with new upgraded service between ment as well as business manage- ing passenger demand and the next generation interactive Doha and Kochi, travellers from ment, IT and public policies. To reflects our aggressive expan- onboard entertainment system around the world may more achieve these goals, both parties sion strategy to offer custom- with a choice of more than 900 easily access tourist spots such will organise joint conferences ers a superior travel experience audio and video on demand as Kochi’s picturesque backwa- and workshops. and seamless connectivity,” said options. ters and beach resorts. The MoU was signed by CEO Qatar Airways Chief Executive “In line with our commit- Qatar Airways has an exten- of the Qatar Airways Akbar Al Officer Akbar Al Baker. ment to this market and the sive Indian network offering 95 Baker and Dean and CEO of “India is a very important consistent increase in demand passenger flights non-stop each Carnegie Mellon University in part of our expansion strat- from Indian passengers, we will week from 12 gateway cities to Qatar, Dr Ilker Baybars. egy and this is evident by the continue to invest in our fleet Doha. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 HMC’s fourth liver transplant a success Egyptian patient gets new lease of life

DOHA: A Sri Lankan expatriate Nasser with her registering as an organ organ donor has helped save the life of donor, led to a significant increase in a patient suffering from liver failure the number of registered donors,” Dr for several years. Al Ansari said. And a team at Hamad General Dr Yousef Al Maslamani, Consultant Hospital’s Organ Donation Center has and Head of the Organ Transplantation successfully performed the fourth liver Department at HMC, said organ trans- transplant in Qatar. plants were being performed under the The liver was donated by a 33-year- Doha Donation Accord. old and the recipient was a 49-year-old “If the donor is deceased we would Egyptian who had been suffering from provide social support for the family liver failure due to Hepatitis C. and cover the cost of repatriation, among He had been on the waiting for a other things. We want to honour our donor for two years. donors, as they have given this precious The surgery lasted six hours and gift to someone who desperately needed was performed without complications, it,” he said. and the liver recipient spent two days Dr Khalaf highlighted the role of Dr in the ICU before being discharged 10 Muna Al Maslamani, Senior Consultant, days after surgery, according to a senior Infectious Diseases, in the observation official. of the transplant recipient before and The team was led by Dr Hatem Khalaf, after the operation and praised the Liver and Pancreas Transplant Senior role of Rossini Jovero, Senior Liver Consultant Surgeon and Chairman of Transplant Coordinator, for her efforts the Arab Liver Transplantation Society. to co-ordinate with the donor’s family Dr Yousef Al Maslamani, Consultant and Head of the Organ Transplantation Department at HMC (fourth left), Dr Abdulla Al Ansari, Consultant Dr Khalaf said that the liver recipi- to seek approvals required to complete Surgeon and Chairman of Surgery at HMC (fifth left) and Dr Hatem Khalaf, Liver and Pancreas Transplant Senior Consultant Surgeon with ent had been suffering from Hepatitis the transplant. team members who performed the fourth liver transplant in Qatar. C since 1995 and that a transplant was Dr Khalaf said there were 12 patients recommended to prevent deterioration on the liver transplant waiting list, most of his health. suffering from liver cancer. HMC has The patient had been on the trans- been performing liver transplants since plant waiting list since May 2011. 2011. Dr Abdulla Al Ansari, Consultant The liver transplant recipient, who Surgeon and Chairman of Surgery at has been living in Qatar for 20 years, HMC, said HMC’s transplantation thanked Qatar, HMC, and the donor’s programme is continuing to grow and family. improve and preparations were being “I thank the donor’s family so much made to launch a liver transplant pro- for granting me with their consent to gramme for living donors. receive the liver and save my life and “Since its establishment, HMC’s liver put an end to my suffering. I also wish to transplant programme has been wit- thank Qatar, HMC, and all my doctors, nessing great improvement. surgeons and nurses for their support “The launch of the Qatar Organ and expert care. I pray to God to cure Donation Center, Hibah, and the sup- all other patients still waiting for dona- port shown by H H Sheikha Moza bint tions.” THE PENINSULA

Vegetables were cheaper in June: CPD

DOHA: Vegetables became marginally cheaper in June from a year earlier, while fish prices dropped as much as eight percent in a month since May 2013, official figures show. Fresh fruits, on the other hand, became four percent cheaper in a year until June 2013, statistics released by the Consumer Protection Department (CPD) reflect. India continued to be the largest exporter of fresh vegetables in the month, whereas local vegetables coming on the market dropped due to the summer season. As for fruits, the Philippines that largely exports bananas and pineapple, emerged as the largest exporter in month, followed by Egypt, South Africa and India. Indian mutton was sold at slighter lower rates in the month, while Jordanian sheep were more in demand and their prices surged a bit, the CPD figures reflect. Jordanian sheep was sold for QR1,200, while the price of Qatari goats averaged QR775. The rates of sheep from other countries were stable in May and June (2013). Vegetable imports grew in June totaling 19,767 tons whereas the monthly average in the year until then was 15, 824 tons. After India, major vegetable exporting countries included Jordan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, China and Egypt. Local produce figures on the bottom of the list. Fish prices were down eight percent in June over May 2013, the CPD which is under the Ministry of Economy and Trade, said in its sales and exports report for June. The prices of some types of fish dropped as much as 11 percent in the month. THE PENINSULA

Rota volunteers busy packing groceries. 200 families benefit from Rota’s Ramadan project

DOHA: Reach Out To Asia (Rota) least fortunate individuals, who suffer has distributed groceries to 200 needy day in and day out from their economic, families in Qatar as part of Ramadan social, and personal conditions,” says 2013 Project. Rota Executive Director Essa Al Mannai. Rota’s Ramadan 2013 Project, spon- “I wanted to help people”, said Kamran sored by Oxy, started on July 13 as Safdar, a volunteer who took part in the around 80 Rota volunteers came together distribution activity. to pack bulk groceries prior to three “Oxy Qatar is delighted once again to nights of distribution to the less fortu- support Rota’s Ramadan 2013 Project, as nate members of society. part of its commitment to engaging with Among the groceries packed and dis- the community to help improve the lives tributed by the volunteers were rice, oil, of the less fortunate. Rota’s volunteering milk and flour. By the time all groceries activities are a great example of the kind were distributed, Rota volunteers had of community engagement that results given out basic food items for 200 families in positive impact on people’s lives and and donated 12 hours to help those less we are honoured to participate in this fortunate members of society. initiative,” said Steve Kelly, President and “Rota’s Ramadan 2013 Project seeks to General Manager of Oxy Qatar. provide essential food items to society’s THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Hotels concerned over driving licence curbs on workers DOHA: A number of hotel decision and to make exemptions function as drivers. This staff spend three months in the driving can limit the number of cars on which could not be afforded with managers are worried of the particularly for those who are shortage, Abdul said, is caused school, only after which he would the roads, he added. their limited income. recent decision to ban labour- working in the hospitality sector. by a difficulty in hiring profes- be able to take the driving test Driving licence in Qatar is not a When the authorities con- ers from having driving licence, Saad Abdul, a human resource sional drivers from other coun- in which he is not sure whether luxury but necessity because there cerned find solutions to the saying this would create a nega- director in one of the hotels, said tries considering the long and he would pass or not, said Abdul. is an absence of effective public country’s public transportation tive impact on hotels and the there is a dearth of professional tedious process. Visa processing Instead of banning these work- transport, workers say, adding problem, that’s the only time tourism sector in general. drivers in the hotel sector, in alone takes about a month, he told ers from having driving licence, while buses are not always avail- they can implement this ban, say They have called on the Traffic fact some hotel employees such Al Raya daily. they can prevent them from buy- able and do not arrive on time, workers. Department to reconsider this as bellboys and laundry staff also Upon arrival, the driver would ing their own cars; that way we hiring Karwa taxis is expensive THE PENINSULA

Egyptian envoy visits Msheireb Enrichment Centre Ooredoo Mobile Money customers get free calls DOHA: Ooredoo Mobile Money customers can enjoy free calling minutes every time they make an international transfer, thanks to a new promo- tion from MoneyGram. For every international transfer that Ooredoo Mobile Money customers make, MoneyGram will instantly provide them with 20 international call- ing minutes. Ooredoo Mobile Money customers can take advan- tage of this value promo- tion available until August 15. Customers will not The Egyptian ambassador to Qatar, Mohammed Morsy, being briefed by Engineer Abdulla Hassan Al Mehshadi, only be able to send money Chief Executive Officer at Msheireb Properties and Mohammed Al Marri, Chief Officer, Design and Delivery home but also talk to their during the envoy’s visit to the Msheireb Enrichment Centre recently. friends and family over- seas. They will especially benefit during Ramadan, one of the most popular times of the year for cus- tomers in Qatar to call their friends and family at Women get insurance home and abroad to wish Ramadan Mubarak. To use Ooredoo Mobile Money, first customers have to sign up for Ooredoo cover at Ahli Hospital Mobile Money, which can be done with a valid Qatar ID at any Ooredoo Shop Initiative part of National Health Insurance scheme or by dialling *140# on the mobile and follow- DOHA: Qatari women over women married to non-Qataris. to increase with the implemen- ing the simple on-screen the age of 12 years will be able When they need to access tation of the first phase of the instructions. to get themselves registered maternity and gynaecology serv- insurance scheme. THE PENINSULA at the Al Ahli Hospital under ices they can take an appointment To meet this demand they have the National Health Insurance directly from the Al Ahli hospi- increased the number of rooms Scheme which will be imple- tal currently in the network and for caesarean sections and labour mented from today. identify themselves using their rooms. They will be covered for Qatar identity card, the only CEO of Ahli Hospital Khaled appointments and procedures form of identification and verifi- Al Emadi says that in early related to maternity, obstetrics cation under the health insurance September a new outpatient and gynaecology. scheme. section at the Department of Al Ahli Hospital signed an Gynaecology services provided Obstetrics and Gynaecology hos- agreement with the National at the emergency department, pital will be opened, which will Health Insurance Company labour room, and operation the- include 10 clinics, including some on Monday, to implement the atre and at the general wards/ specialised ones. National Health Insurance rooms will be covered under the The second phase of the insur- Scheme together with several scheme. Al Ahli hospital will ance scheme will be implemented other private hospitals and the implement the National Health for Qatari men and women after Hamad Medical Corporation. Insurance Scheme for six months. six months, the third phase will be The National Health Insurance Al Ahli Hospital’s Gynaecology for nationals, non-Qataris, resi- Scheme aims to cover nearly Department’s Out Patient section dents and visitors. 90,000 Qatari women in the receives around 400 women and In the next phase workers country through different hospi- seven child births are recorded will be covered and the National tals, will also be available for non- everyday. Health Insurance Scheme will be Qatari women married to Qatari The hospital is expecting the fully implemented by end of 2016. nationals and daughters of Qatari number of people that visit them THE PENINSULA

Cheap healthcare goal of national insurance scheme: Official Continued from page 1 “The National Health Insurance Scheme will ensure that the National Health Strategy’s goal of affordable and acces- sible healthcare is now a reality,” said Dr Faleh Mohammed Hussain Ali, acting CEO of the NHIC and Assistant Secretary General for Policy Affairs at the SCH. “We’ve structured oper- ational issues to make access and use of the scheme as easy as possible.” The NHIC is fully- owned by the government and managed by an execu- tive team that reports to a board of directors chaired by the Minister for Public Health. In addition, it comprises representatives from the Ministries of Finance, Labour, Interior, the Central Municipal Council and the private business sector. Earlier this month, the company held its inaugu- ral General Assembly and Board of Directors meet- ing, ratifying a number of policies and decisions to allow the company to become operational. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 New Judiciary Council website Budding artists bag honours DOHA: The Chief Justice of Cassation Court and Chairman of the Supreme Judiciary Council (SJC), Masaoud Mohamed Al Ameri, has launched the new version of SJC website which provides several services. Qatar duo to join other winners to experience UK’s public art scene It provides information about the court, the Court of Appeals and the Courts of First Instance. It also provides a range of electronic services that will DOHA: Two promising Supporting initiatives such as facilitate following up on cases, in addition to an electronic list which includes artists from Qatar have Create & Inspire lies at the very the lawyers, judges, legally authorised marriage officiants and judicial aides. emerged winners of Crossway heart of what ALJCI believes in: The site also provides forms of courts and a guide to explain proceedings Foundation’s Create & Inspire fostering young artists’ careers; and answers frequently asked questions regarding various stages of litigation 2013 competition. encouraging them to develop in addition to statistical data. A section is dedicated to court news in addition Louna Bou Ghanem and Engy their talents by exposing them to a link to view job vacancies and job application forms. Hashem will join nine other to new experiences; and empow- The site also incorporates encyclopedias related to judicial provisions and winners from Saudi Arabia and ering them to share what they principles in Qatar and the world. QNA the UAE on a trip to London have learnt in order to enrich and Yorkshire next month to their communities back home,” experience the UK’s thriving said Fady Jameel, President of public art scene, working with ALJCI International. professional artists, curators Create & Inspire is a project and filmmakers to develop key by the Crossway Foundation, a skills in leadership, communica- London-based charity delivering tion and creativity. arts and education initiatives Bou Ghanem’s winning mixed for young people between the media artwork featured a burqa Middle East and the UK. Set up along with the statement “Ceci by Edge of Arabia (an initiative n’est pas un masque” (This is supported by ALJCI) and The not a mask) while Hashem’s Prince’s Regeneration Trust, piece was a re-imagining of the Foundation focuses on street signs. delivering creative expeditions Supported by Abdul Latif between the UK and Middle Jameel Community Initiatives East, as well as workshops and (ALJCI), the competition art curriculum development for selected 11 winners for their schools and universities. original and imaginative Stephen Stapleton, Chief responses to this year’s theme: Executive of the Crossway “Public Art: Re-imagining your Foundation said: “Enhancing Community.” communities through art has Thirty-two of the Gulf’s most become an increasingly talked promising emerging artists were about topic in the Gulf. Against interviewed for this year’s com- this backdrop, we challenged petition. Judging interviews took applicants to come up with a place simultaneously in Dubai, creative campaign to inspire Riyadh, Jeddah and Doha. their communities and make “We’re proud and delighted a positive difference in their to see so many talented young environment.” Engy Hashem’s artwork on re-imagining of street signs. Gulf artists in this competition. THE PENINSULA Al Ahli Hospital conducts successful corneal transplant DOHA: Corneal transplan- and prior surgery, the hospital real-time keratometry help to approach with the Departments tation has been successfully said in a statement yesterday. produce less distortion of the of Medicine and Rheumatology. done at the Al Ahli Hospital This service has been set up cornea (“astigmatism”) and to In Qatar, corneal blindness as a curative service for the at Al Ahli Hospital last year uti- improve postoperative vision. due to genetically determined restoration of vision of people. lising a supplies system from the In some patients who had diseases like keratoconus, Over the past one year, Al US, and approved safety policies already received multiple trans- sequelae of inflammations, and Ahli Hospital has performed and procedures according to plants (so-called “high risk”), postoperative corneal opacifi- corneal transplantations in quality management guidelines. graft survival has been secured cation are the most frequent unilaterally and bilaterally blind Automated motor trephi- by appropriate immunosup- causes of reduced vision. patients with multiple diseases nation and intraoperative pression in an interdisciplinary THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 11 JULY 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ISLAM

WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 06 Thoughts www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Ramadan, the Quran and us

BY MANSOOR AHMED story of the Youth of the Cave when they stood up and said to he month of Ramadan is the people in their vicinity that a time when we, despite they only worshipped Allah. They the struggle, keep our- were able to do that only because Tselves away from that Allah strengthened their hearts. which is otherwise permissible However, the interesting thing and a necessity in our life. For to notice here is that they made the past eleven months, at some the first move to get closer to level we have given preference Allah – Allah only strengthened to our physical self, in terms of their hearts when they stood up. nourishment, than our soul. We’ve Meaning, they had to commit to done things we shouldn’t have, following the truth and when this we have probably neglected some commitment was proven by their duties towards Allah subhanahu action, Allah made their efforts wa ta`ala (exalted is He) that we easy for them. shouldn’t have. Maybe we haven’t Likewise, in Ramadan, we need been reciting much of the Quran to make sure to put in the effort or maybe we have been neglecting to establish that bond with the some of the Prayers. Quran. Once we start making the This month is a time when effort, Allah will make it easier Allah (be praised) commands us for us and we will start tasting to limit our physical nourishment the sweetness of servitude. and instead focus on the spiritual We need to go into this month – in order to give life to our hearts not just with the intention of and fix and improve our spiritual improving ourselves, but with state. actual preparation by increasing This is the time to rise up and in good so that our good actions acknowledge our deficiencies dur- are a reason by which Allah ing the past months and resolve gives us the ability to come out to move ahead with the aim to of Ramadan improved and for- improve our relationship with given. As the Messenger told us, Allah, with His Book, and with “Whoever fasts Ramadan out of His Messenger (peace and bless- Iman (faith) and seeking Allah’s ings be upon him). reward then his past and future Ramadan, as an institution, sins are forgiven” (Ahmad) is designed as a whole to bring Let’s try and set some goals our hearts back to life, thus for ourselves with regards to the allowing the light of taqwa (God- Quran. If we don’t know how to Believers read the Holy Quran at Jama Masjid Aiwan in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, yesterday. consciousness) to illuminate itself read it correctly, let’s try to learn. within us. If we don’t recite it often, let us The fasting during the day take the time out everyday to reminds us that our purpose in recite. If we are already reciting, life is not merely to satisfy the When we think about Ramadan, what comes to our mind immediately? then we can try and add some desires of our self (nafs) and this more or increase the frequency. reminder leads us to focus instead Let’s begin to reflect upon the on feeding our soul. We are taught Usually, our first thought is fasting, right? But we find that Allah instead guidance in the Quran and try to during the day to empty our internalize the lessons therein. hearts from the desires of our couples Ramadan firstly with the Quran as if to say that Ramadan’s first and Let’s aim to set a powerful foun- nafs so that at night we can fill dation for the Quran in our lives it up instead with the light of the by which we can establish rou- Quran. foremost role in our lives should be to increase our relationship with the Quran tines that will allows us to begin Therefore, we find the next a functional relationship with the logical step is the tarawih (the and only then does He follow it with the command to fast in the month. Quran in Ramadan and continue night Prayer offered in Ramadan) it thereafter so that once the where we stand after a long day devils are let out, we have a solid listening to the Quran being defense mechanism, taqwa, within recited in Prayer in order to reciting Quran and engaging in at the mention of Ramadan didn’t with the command to fast in the a loftier goal and that goal can our hearts to help us. give our soul its much required `ibaadah (worship) so as to fill talk about fasting first. When month. only be achieved with the soul After all, this is the month of nourishment. our hearts with the sweetness of we think about Ramadan, what The goal of fasting is taqwa, but food that the Quran provides. the Quran and that necessitates As we get in tune with this dur- worship. comes to our mind immediately? what actually allows us to estab- Allah says in the Quran: And that we give special attention ing the early phases of the month Allah says: Usually, our first thought is fast- lish taqwa in our lives if not the We made firm their hearts when to this Book during the month. and our hearts are revived and The month of Ramadan is that ing, right? But we find that Allah Quran? So the logical step for us they stood up and said, “Our Lord Our aim should be to build this rejuvenated, the bar is raised in which was revealed the Quran, instead couples Ramadan firstly is that we need to try and prepare is the Lord of the heavens and the relationship, not just for the 30 and during the final ten nights a guidance for the people and clear with the Quran as if to say that ourselves towards establishing earth. Never will we invoke besides days of Ramadan but rather set- we stand even longer and even proofs of guidance and criterion… Ramadan’s first and foremost role a relationship with the Book of Him any deity. We would have cer- ting a strong, deep, unshakeable later in Prayer in the Tahajjud (Al Baqarah 2:185) in our lives should be to increase Allah. As mentioned earlier, fast- tainly spoken, then, an excessive foundation for a relationship that (late night Prayer) seeking the The interesting thing to note our relationship with the Quran ing trains us to empty our hearts transgression. (Al Kahf 18:14) will flourish for the next eleven rewards of the Laylatul Qadr, about this verse here is that Allah and only then does He follow it from desires and aspires towards This verse is talking about the months. www.onislam.net Mending habits and developing character BY SADULLAH KHAN God-consciousness. once said: “ You are what you repeatedly easy to get into but difficult to get out. do”. Habits are conditioned responses, The chain of bad habits are generally amadan is the month of height- CHARACTER AND REPUTATION formed through repetition, until the too light to be felt until they are too Ramadan is an ideal ened Allah-consciousness, of Character is not only the face in actions or reactions become second strong to be broken. Remember though, attaining taqwa (piety), of the mirror, but the real person behind nature; they end up as unconscious that every habit; whether good or bad, training period for Rtraining ourselves to be the the face. Character evolves from con- behaviour, automatic reactions in a par- is acquired and can be developed or dis- best we can be; a month to initiate science; is sustained by conscience and ticular situation; (e.g. The way you sign owned. Habits decrease or disappear by filtering out bad habits, improvement of reputation, character is developed; piece by piece, with every your name, the reprehensible habit of abstaining from exercising them and and for the cultivation of good habits. thought, with every choice, and main- cigarette smoking after a meal...) then replacing them. Ramadan is an developing virtuous People who try their best to live by tained with consistency and determina- It was the English writer, ideal training period for filtering out the highest values are surely people of tion. The pursuance of piety begins by Shakespeare, who said: “ First we make bad habits, developing virtuous charac- character and is thus integrity and indeed people of moral making our reputation a reflection of our habits, then our habits make us”. ter and is thus referred to by Prophet conscience. What is morality though? our character. In many people, reputa- Thinking in a particular pattern cre- Muhammad (PBUH) as a shield against referred to by Prophet Morality describes the principles that tion precedes character and there is a ates a mental path, the mental path evil and wrongfulness. We are obligated govern our behaviour and relates to our distinction to be made... affects our attitude and our behaviour, to nurture our noble qualities; control Muhammad (PBUH) behaviour at three levels... Reputation is what you lead others to and these reflect our personality and our passions, our anger and emotions. how we as individuals ensure that we believe you are, character is what you character. In other words, our thoughts We are instructed to be considerate, as a shield against are honest, just and compassionate. really are - affect our attitude which affect our generous and compassionate. how we interact with and contribute Reputation may be reflected in the actions which determine our habits evil and wrongfulness. to society, as asset or liability. combination of your name and your which reflects our character which SPIRITUAL REJUVENATION how conscious we are of our account- image, character is the essence of your could determines our destiny. The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) We are obligated to ability to our Creator. being. Roman poet Naso Ovid rightly said, “ referred to Ramadan as a blessed month Reputation is the wrapping, charac- habits eventually become character “. in which Allah has made fasting obliga- nurture our noble TAQWA IN AN AMORAL WORLD ter the content - tory on those who are able; whosoever In a world, increasingly amoral, per- Reputation is the outer reflection, VIRTUES AND VICES denies himself of the benefits of that qualities; control our ception is considered reality. How one character the inner reality - According to Islam, habits are clas- month denies himself many virtues. appears to the world has overtaken Reputation is made in a moment, sified as virtues or vices, as repeated As we undertake the physical duty and passions, our anger the substance of who we really are. character is built in a life time - actions that are in conformity with spiritual responsibility of fasting in the Impressions, whether real or fake, are Reputation may be reflected in what or contrary to the rules of morality. blessed month of Ramadan, we reflect and emotions. We given more credence than it deserves. people write about you on your tomb- Virtuous character emanates from good on the words of our beloved Prophet Though name, image and reputa- stone, character is what angels report habits and good habits emanate from Muhammad (PBUH) who said that are instructed to be tion are what we perceive of peo- about you to Allah - resisting negative temptations. Good the practice of faith will not be correct ple; character is the essence of the habits, unfortunately, seem so much unless actions are correct and actions considerate, generous “real self”. Taqwa is in reality char- CHANGING BAD HABITS easier to give up than bad habits. will not be considered correct unless the and compassionate. acter development coupled with The renowned philosopher, Aristotle, Bad habits are like a comfortable bed; heart is correct. www.islamcity.com WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Syria death toll 5,000 a month Rebels reinforce UN Security Council urged to take strong action to deal with war fallout Damascus suburb UNITED NATIONS: Five thousand people a month are BEIRUT: Syrian rebels poured into Qaboun, which it entered on dying in Syria’s war, which reinforcements into a key Monday. has now generated the worst Damascus suburb yesterday in Elsewhere, nine people includ- refugee crisis since the 1994 an attempt to push back govern- ing a child were killed at an army Rwandan genocide, UN officials ment troops who have renewed checkpoint. Also, mortar bombs said yesterday. their campaign to secure the were being fired by the army into A host of top officials called on capital and build on battlefield the southern district of Yarmouk, the divided UN Security Council gains elsewhere in the country. a Palestinian refugee camp on the to take stronger action to deal Fighting centred on Qaboun, a edge of central Damascus. with the fallout from the two- rebel-held district where Syrian Activists said that at least five year-old civil war, in which up troops backed by tanks and artil- mortar shells hit the Damascus to 100,000 people are believed to lery had made inroads on Monday neighbourhood of Masaken Barze, have died. as part of efforts to consolidate injuring several people. Clashes “The extremely high rate of control over Damascus, President and bombardment were reported killings nowadays — approxi- Bashar Al Assad’s power base. by activists in nearly every prov- mately 5,000 a month — demon- The increasingly fragmented ince yesterday, from central Homs strates the drastic deterioration and brutal nature of the war was city to the northwestern farming of the conflict,” UN assistant sec- illustrated by an incident in Homs province of Idlib to the eastern retary general for human rights province, where gunmen loyal to desert city of Deir Al Zor. In the Ivan Simonovic told a council Assad shot dead at least six medi- south of Syria near the Israeli bor- meeting. ators sent to try to reconcile war- der, clashes were reported between “In Syria today, serious human ring sectarian groups in an area rebels and government forces in rights violations, war crimes and where opposing sides had until the village of Al Qahtaniya. crimes against humanity are the now been able to coexist. The Syrian government rule,” Simonovic declared. Nearly Residents said the killings on approved a law imposing penalties 1.8 million people are now regis- Monday in the village of Hajar Al ranging from fines to imprison- tered with the UN in countries Abyad highlighted the growing ment for people caught hoarding around Syria and an average of challenge of mediating between food in the war-torn country. “A 6,000 people a day are now flee- towns held by rebel groups and draft law penalising those who ing, UN High Commissioner for those controlled by pro-Assad raise food prices or hoard food has Lebanese soldiers stand guard at the site of a car bomb attack that hit a Hezbollah convoy travelling towards the Refugees Antonio Guterres said. militias known as “shabbiha”. been approved” by the cabinet, said “We have not seen a refugee Lebanese border crossing with Syria, on the Majdal Anjar-Masnaa road, yesterday. A barrage of gunfire hit the In a separate incident near the broadcaster. outflow escalate at such a fright- convoy after the blast. The attack killed a Hezbollah security official and wounded two. the Turkish border in the north, The decision was passed amid ening rate since the Rwandan Islamist rebel fighters from the an unprecedented financial genocide almost 20 years ago,” Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and food crisis sparked by the Guterres added. More than two Aleppo varsity strips Erdogan of PhD clashed with Kurdish armed men 28-month conflict. The penalties million Rwandans fled the 1994 and took a gunman hostage. The “range from imprisonment to a genocide. Kurds said they had killed eight fine, depending on the crime com- He said the acceptance of refu- DAMASCUS: Syria’s Aleppo University, as describing the deci- At home, Erdogan has faced Nusra Front militants in what mitted,” said state television. gees by Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and University has stripped Turkish sion as “a message of solidarity to a wave of protests since June they said was a territorial dispute. other countries was “saving hun- Prime Minister Recep Tayyip the friendly Turkish people, who demanding his resignation. Britain, meanwhile, said it MORTAR FIRE HITS GOLAN dreds of thousands of lives.” Erdogan of an honorary doc- reject Erdogan’s hostile policies”. Human rights groups have would give Syrian rebels equip- Meanwhile, mortar fire from UN humanitarian chief Valerie torate citing his support for Relations between Syria and accused Turkish police of using ment to protect themselves inside Syria hit the Israeli- Amos said the international com- Syrian rebels and crackdown on Turkey have deteriorated since excessive force against the dem- against chemical and biological occupied Golan Heights caus- munity may have to consider Turkish protesters, state media the uprising broke out against onstrators, and Syrian state tele- weapons as “a matter of special ing several wildfires to break cross-border operations to get reported yesterday. President Bashar Al Assad’s vision has frequently aired footage urgency”. Britain has said forces out along the ceasefire line. The aid into Syria. State news agency SANA said rule in March 2011 and Erdogan of Turkish security forces putting loyal to Assad have made limited apparently stray rounds struck as He added that $3.1bn was still Erdogan was being stripped of the became one of Assad’s most out- down the protests. Syria’s state use of chemical weapons, which Syrian rebels and regime forces needed for operations in and PhD because of “his plots against spoken critics. Turkey is now media does not acknowledge the the Syrian government denies. battled near Quneitra which lies around Syria for the rest of the the Syrian people” and his use of home to more than 400,000 Syria existence of any popular anti- Abu Nidal, a rebel spokesman in no-man’s land, the correspond- year. He said four million people “arbitrary” violence against pro- refugees and harbours many of Assad movement, instead blam- in Damascus, said yesterday that ent reported. Several Israeli tanks inside Syria need assistance. testers in Turkey. SANA quoted the opposition’s top civilian and ing the violence on foreign-backed his fighters were trying to pre- were stationed in the area. AFP Khudur Orfaly, dean of Aleppo military leaders. “terrorists”. AFP vent the army advancing further AGENCIES

Bahrain arrests three for attack Four clerics appointed on MP’s home to Guardian Council DUBAI: Bahraini authorities TEHRAN: Supreme leader and Ayatollah Mohammad have arrested three “terrorists” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yes- Yazdi, who were already council who allegedly hurled firebombs terday appointed four clerics members at the home of a Shia lawmaker to Iran’s powerful Guardian Three jurists, including without causing casualties even Council, a body dominated by France-educated judge Sam though he was inside when the ultra-conservatives that inter- Savad-Kouhi, were voted in for assault occurred, police said prets the constitution and super- six-year terms by the parliament yesterday. vises elections, media reported. yesterday after being nominated “Investigations have led to the The council is an unelected by judiciary chief Ayatollah identification and arrest of three body of 12 members headed by Sadeq Larijani. terrorists who will be referred hardliner Ayatollah Ahmad The council’s incum- to public prosecution,” the police Janati, and is also tasked with bent spokesman, Abbas Ali said in a statement carried by the ensuring laws approved by par- Kadkhodaei, failed to gain the official BNA news agency. liament are in line with the con- votes to remain a member and It said other suspects involved stitution and Iran’s strict Shariah, will only continue at a capacity of in the attack remain at large. or Islamic law. an executive deputy in the coun- Shia MP Abbas Al Madi was at It is made up of six clerics cil, Iranian media reported. his home in the town of Deir, appointed by Khamenei and six The council is notorious for a near Manama, during the early jurists who are proposed by the number of issues, including its Monday attack that left parts of supreme leader’s judicial chief electoral supervision and barring his house damaged and burnt. and voted in by parliament, which reformist candidates. Bahraini Prime Minister itself is vetted by the council. For the June 14 presidential Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Among the clerics appointed election, won by moderate Hassan Khalifa denounced the assault as to a six-year term by Khamenei Rowhani, the council approved an “attack against democracy”. are ex-judiciary chiefs Ayatollah only eight candidates out of nearly “This terrorist act is unac- Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi 700. AFP ceptable,” he said in a statement, adding that “sabotage was never a means for reform and using ter- rorism to silence others has never been a way towards democracy”. He was apparently referring to Turkish police arrest 30 opposition groups of young activ- ists who frequently clash with police forces and who are branded over anti-govt protests as “terrorists” by authorities. Bahrain’s 40-member parlia- ISTANBUL: Turkish police Istanbul, Ankara and other cities ment is dominated by pro-regime arrested about 30 people here to try to disperse protesters angry lawmakers since the 18 MPs of yesterday after briefly detaining at what they said was Erdogan’s the Shia opposition bloc Al Wefaq more than 1,000 in a widening growing authoritarianism. resigned in February 2011, in crackdown after weeks of vio- The unrest represented the protest against the authorities’ lent anti-government protests, most serious public challenge to crackdown on demonstrations lawyers and media reports said. Erdogan in his decade in power that began the same month. An Istanbul prosecutor also and tarnished Turkey’s image for The Shia-led protest move- rejected the release of detained stability on the edge of the turbu- ment, demanding a constitutional members of Taksim Solidarity, an lent Middle East. monarchy in Bahrain, continues umbrella group of activists includ- Police have accused Taksim but is confined to Shia villages ing trade bodies, political parties Solidarity of disturbing public surrounding the capital. and non-governmental organisa- order by organising the protests. At least 80 people have been tions that helped organise the Local media said several student killed in Bahrain since the pro- demonstrations. dormitories were targeted in tests first erupted, according to the Five people died and thousands Tuesday’s raids. “We understand International Federation for Human were wounded during the pro- that about 30 people have been Rights. A national dialogue confer- tests, which began peacefully in detained today,” lawyer Hasan ence, that brings together govern- late May over plans to redevelop Kilic, a member of the Istanbul Bar ment and opposition representatives an Istanbul park, but spiralled Association board, said. to end the political impasse, has so into a broader show of defiance “In total, the bar associa- far failed to achieve any results. The against Prime Minister Recep tion estimates 1,042 people were talks were suspended on June 27 Tayyip Erdogan’s government. detained and that about 40 have for the summer vacation and will Police used tear gas and water been arrested, while the rest were resume on August 28. AFP cannon night after night in released,” Kilic said. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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SRAEL has received another unexpected, deadly blow from Europe over its reckless settlement expansions. In a decision that was called ‘an earthquake’ by an Israeli Is China becoming a democracy? Iofficial, the European Union issued a directive that future agreements between the EU and Israel must include the explicit exclusion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank or East Jerusalem. The new guidelines will effectively prohibit It could and should in 20 years the issuing of grants, funding, prizes or scholarships unless a settlement exclusion clause is included. Israeli institutions and bodies situated across the pre-1967 Green Line will be automatically ineligible. Such will be the impact of the new BY JONATHAN POWER choosing the country’s chief executive Li argued that the Chinese rule that Israeli leaders reacted furiously. Prime Minister are on track for 2017 and in the court- Communist Party “has arguably been Benjamin Netanyahu called an emergency meeting and said AST week plans for construct- ing of Taiwan, which the Chinese believe one of the most self-reforming political ing a nuclear processing plant in belongs to the mainland, the democratic organisations in recent world history”. Israel would not accept any external dictates on its borders. Lthe Guangdong province in China system is rarely, if at all, criticised. In Taiwan and Hong Kong democracy Other leaders like Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who is also were shelved after demonstrations. But wait. Optimism is perhaps a step and human rights practices have evolved Israel’s chief negotiator with the Palestinians, said the People spoke and authorities caved in. too far. slowly over time. Why should we expect guidelines were “a disturbing and regrettable wake-up call”. The demonstrators engaged in nothing The old top down authoritarianism China to go faster? The EU decision comes after a controversial and historic more than what the organisers called persists and government runs accord- In a 2011 poll of Chinese attitudes “an innocent stroll”. ing to the principles of Lenin, combined published by the respected US-based decision by world-famous scientist Stephen Hawking Yet they defeated a project that would with that of Confucianism. Pew Research Center, 87 percent of to boycott a conference in Israel over the Jewish state’s have provided enough fuel for 50 per- Indeed the Confucianist element is respondents noted satisfaction with the treatment of Palestinians. That decision had caused a global cent of China’s atomic energy needs. arguably the most powerful of the two. general direction of the country and 66 furore and was taken as a sign of the increasing isolation Along with the growing power of Modern China has become a meri- percent reported significant progress in of Israel among the international community. But while village democracy in quite a few parts tocracy. The arbitrary and idiosyncrat- their lives over the past five years. Hawking’s decision had more of of China is some- ically brutal rule of Mao Zedong has Today’s Chinese are freer that at any thing happening? long gone and so has the long, strong other period in recent memory. Most a symbolic effect, the new EU Unless one is a arm of the economic moderniser Deng can live where they want, choose their The European guideline will hurt Israel and send high-profile dissi- Xiaoping who ordered the massacre in line of work, go into business without Union must be a strong signal that its flagrant dent, you can com- Tiananmen Square 25 years ago. hindrance, travel and study where they violation of international laws has plain all you want Today’s top leaders can serve only 10 want. commended a price. Modern China on the Internet years and all the recent ones have had Bookshops carry a fair range of The European Union must be has become a about most of the to do well in tough nation-wide exams, Western authors from novelists to aca- for its tough deficiencies of the then gain experience in a ministry or demics writing on human rights. stance on Israeli commended for its bold step as meritocracy. The time, except the state-owned industry, then administer Lectures in universities can address it comes at a time when Israel party leadership. provinces, working themselves up from the subject of this column in an open settlements. has been recklessly expanding brutal rule of Mao Many newspa- the poorer ones to richer ones. way. settlements. The peace process is Zedong has long pers are staffed By the time they get to the top in Many of the senior leadership’s chil- in intensive care and the Middle East region is going through in part by liberal their late 50s or 60s they have a breadth dren study at top universities in the gone and so has journalists who of experience that Western politicians West, opening them to influences their an upheaval. Israel has exploited both to push its agenda. The are constantly should envy. parents never experienced. EU position is in stark contrast with the American position of the long arm of looking for oppor- Presidential candidate Barack Obama However, the party draws a line as supporting Israel in all its illegal activities. the economic tunities to report would not have been considered experi- with Liu Xiaobo, an activist who calls for The EU move follows a decision by EU foreign ministers honestly. enced enough to run a major province the end of single-party rule and is in jail. last December that “all agreements between the state of Israel moderniser This suggests like Guandong or a city like Shanghai On the negative side, large-scale cor- and the EU must unequivocally and explicitly indicate their that what the although probably with his talents he ruption seriously undermines the notion Deng Xiaoping then Chinese pre- would have been fast-tracked, but not of fairness. inapplicability to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967”. who ordered mier, Wen Jiabao, yet to the top, the politburo. The party has shown that it seeks All Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. said in London In the February issue of Foreign to root it out and welcomes press Sanctions like these are better than peace talks because the the massacre in in 2011 has the Affairs, Eric Li, a Shanghai-based politi- exposures. A good number of perpe- peace process has seldom produced any tangible results. Israel making of truth: cal scientist, argued that the Communist trators have been tried and executed. doesn’t respect agreements and even the latest peace efforts Tiananmen Square “Tomorrow’s Party’s one-party system is the best that Maybe, some of the politburo can quote of US Secretary of State John Kerry are unlikely to persuade 25 years ago. China will be a China can get. Bismarck who said that justice is more country that fully There will be more independent important than democracy. Israel to make any concessions. Though the noble intentions achieves democ- media, NGO activity, local elections, It is too early to lay a bet that full of Kerry can’t be doubted, optimism is in short supply because racy, the rule of law, fairness and jus- some elements of intra-party democracy democracy will arrive in the next 20 the state he has to deal with is Israel. tice. Without freedom there is no real — indeed competitive voting is finding years, although it could and should. The Israeli desperation and fury was evident when an democracy.” its way into ever-higher levels of the Perhaps some more liberalisation will Israeli official said the EU action will scupper the peace No longer does the leadership con- party hierarchy. But not much more. satisfy all but a few. One can vote for tinuously utter the tired words about Already the introduction of village the village mayor or protest against a process. Israel must realise that justice will prevail and the Chinese society with its Confucian her- elections has improved accountability nuclear plant. But there it stops — for support of US alone is not enough to bulldoze its way into itage being unsuited to democracy. and increased expenditures on public now. Palestinians’ land. In Hong Kong, free elections for health services. THE PENINSULA The other side Quote of Mr Mugabe strikes again the day ESTERN governments be giving Mr. Mugabe the benefit of the reported that military and police forces of this was done. The heads of the took a strong stand doubt. Many of the sanctions imposed have carried out an “alarming clamp- army and police are longtime regime against Zimbabwean on the country were lifted after a refer- down” on the opposition, including loyalists who refused even to meet WPresident Robert Mugabe endum on a new constitution in March. “systematic raids and arbitrary arrests” with Mr. Tsvangirai. State television in 2008 when he employed massive E.U. officials have promised the rest of activists. In a similar report, Human has been broadcasting Mr. Mugabe’s violence and fraud to perpetuate will be removed if the election, which Rights Watch said that soldiers had campaign events while demanding that The extremely himself in power through a presidential began with early voting this week and deployed around the country to beat his opponent pay $165,000 for cov- high rate of killings election. Five years later, the 89-year- concludes July 31, is judged free and and harass supporters of opposi- erage of his opening rally. A study of old strongman is at it again. Flouting fair by African observers. During his tion leader Morgan Tsvangirai. “The the voter rolls by Zimbabwean groups nowadays in Syria agreements with the opposition and recent tour of Africa, President Obama chances of having free, fair and cred- showed massive distortions: An unreal- pledges to foreign mediators, he has declared that “there is an opportunity ible elections,” it said, “are slim.” istic 99.97 percent of the rural popula- — approximately scheduled an election for this month to move forward” in Zimbabwe “if there As part of accords brokered by tion was reported to have registered, 5,000 a month — without allowing the reforms necessary is an election that is free and fair and the South African Development compared with only 68 percent in the to make it free and fair. Opposition peaceful.” Community, Zimbabwe was to have cities, where the opposition is stronger. demonstrates the leaders once again are being hunted As was already clear when Mr. implemented reforms of the security A million younger voters who became Ivan Simanovic and persecuted. Obama made that statement on June forces and media and cleaned up its eligible since 2008 have been left off drastic deterioration This time, however, the United 30, Zimbabwe’s vote will meet none electoral register before any election. the rolls. of the conflict. UN Assistant States and European Union seem to of those tests. Amnesty International Mr. Mugabe called the vote before any The Washington Post Secretary-General WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Chance to make a N-deal with Iran President Barack Obama has been conspicuously risk-averse on Iran, especially as there is a bipartisan consensus in favour of a policy of confrontation.

BY JAMES TRAUB expressed regret for the takeover of the US embassy, was elected president, the t’s all bad — the Egyptian coup-by- Clinton administration engaged in an another-name, the Syrian rebels elaborate, if largely secret, courtship rit- turning their guns on each other, ual, including secret messages passed to the Libyan anarchy. Isn’t there intermediaries offering improved rela- any good news in the Middle East tions and a speech by then secretary of Ithese days? state Madeleine Albright apologising for Why, yes: Hassan Rowhani will be past support of the Shah of Iran. The sworn in as the President of Iran on result? Ayatollah Khamenei thundered, August 4. I know he is arm candy for “The confessions of American crimes are the grim theocrats who run the show of no use to the Iranian nation.” The over there. But that’s not all he is. Iran’s relationship just got worse. next president is a pragmatic figure of So why should it be any different moderate temperament who admonished now? First, precisely because Rowhani, Anti-aircraft guns guarding the Natanz Nuclear Facility in Iran. a crowd of clerics in a publicly televised unlike Khatami, is an insider and an meeting last week that “government’s apparatchik. He knows the red lines, the West to lift the sanctions imposed on greetings he sent in the spring of 2009) the face of such a calamitous possibility, involvement in the social and private and has shown a penchant for pushing the country’s nuclear program. Suzanne batted away, Obama determined to err it is not enough to say that one has a lives of people should diminish.” them ever so slightly. Patrick Clawson Maloney, an Iran expert at Brookings, on the side of resoluteness. His policy defensible negotiating position. Iran is And let’s remember that he was the of the Washington Institute for Near compares the sense of domestic crisis has been to try to force Iran to cry uncle different from other Middle East cri- chief nuclear negotiator when Iran East Policy has done the world the ines- to 1988, when the Ayatollah Khomeini through escalating sanctions. Arguably, ses in one fundamental respect. The US agreed in 2004 to temporarily suspend timable service of reading Rowhani’s installed the pragmatic Ali Akbar that policy indirectly lead to Rowhani’s has learned how very little it can do to its nuclear enrichment programme in 860-page Farsi-language book National Hashemi Rafsanjani as president to election. Now the question is whether calm the tumult of the Arab Spring. exchange for modest economic benefits. Security and Iran’s Economic System. finally bring the war with Iraq to an end. the administration is prepared to offer The supreme leader may ensure that Rowhani’s accession to power just might Clawson points out the remark- This is by no means a unanimous Rowhani’s negotiating team — as yet US policymakers draw the same con- be good for Iran, and good for the West. able fact that, while conceding that view. Karim Sadjadpour, another unappointed — the kind of concessions clusion in Iran as well; but the choices Iran has, of course, a special gift for the Supreme Leader opposed the deal, Iranian expert, recently testified before which might carry weight with the Washington makes could have a decisive disappointing expectations. Indeed, the Rowhani nevertheless credits the pact Congress that Iran’s domestic crisis is Supreme Leader. effect on the negotiations, and thus on leitmotif of The Twilight War, David with advancing Iran’s effort to join the less salient than the conviction, shared Is Obama prepared to make such a the question of peace or war with Iran. Crist’s history of US-Iranian relations World Trade Organisation, keeping the by the Supreme Leader and other gamble, even in the face of angry pro- Obama has a new chance to test how since the revolution, is fresh surprise in issue out of the UN Security Council, key regime elements, that “resistance tests from the right and from the Israel far Ayatollah Khamenei will move — or Washington each time Tehran chooses allowing nuclear technicians to continue against America,” along with “rejection lobby? It seems not. rather, to help Rowhani conduct that hostility and disruption over what would upgrading facilities. Clawson argues that of Israel’s existence,” are “inextricable That, however, would be the mother of test. It’s true that conducting that test appear to be rational self-interest. So Iran could reach a deal today if — a big elements of Iran’s revolutionary ideol- all Pyrrhic victories. The collapse of the could cost precious time; but the cost of first, let’s list the caveats. if — it is prepared to adopt a similar ogy,” and thus that the survival of the Mursi regime in Egypt, or the ongoing not conducting it could be much higher. As the Iranian press itself has pointed approach. revolution — and their own survival — humanitarian catastrophe in Syria, do The president has husbanded his cap- out, Rowhani is a deep member of the Is it? The fact that Khamenei allowed depend on perpetual hostility. not threaten American national secu- ital on the Middle East, taking a sec- establishment, not a “reformist,” much Rowhani to run (and win) could mean So any new bid by Washington to rity, however disastrous they are for the ondary role in Libya, steering as clear less a radical. And on matters which the that the supreme leader and other break the logjam would be a gamble — people of the region. But as Iran con- as he could of the violence in Syria and US cares about, above all on the nuclear members of the Iranian elite recognise just as it would be for Rowhani. tinues to enrich and stockpile highly issuing muted statements on the coup- file, it is Supreme Leader Ayatollah that they are threatened by the deep President Barack Obama has been enriched uranium, and moves ever closer or-whatever in Egypt. In Iran, where he Khamenei who makes the supreme alienation of ordinary citizens, and must conspicuously risk-averse on Iran, espe- to Israeli and US red lines, President would have no domestic political cover decisions. improve an economy beset by rampant cially as there is a bipartisan consensus Obama, who has said that “containment” for a bold initiative, he would have to And yes, we’ve seen this movie inflation and unemployment. in favour of a policy of confrontation. is not an acceptable policy, may find that splurge. That’s asking a lot. But that’s before. In 1997, when the reformist And those problems aren’t going to get After seeing his purely emblem- he is left with no option save to launch something we have a right to ask. Mohammad Khatami, who had publicly better unless and until Iran can convince atic gestures (such as the New Year’s an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. In WP-BLOOMBERG Democracy’s failures filling the streets This poll is bad news What the protests are for UK’s Labour party BY JONATHAN defining is the appeal FREEDLAND abour should be doing of political community much better two years away from an election. Ed in old and new LMiliband must grab the public’s attention — and soon. Pity the Labour operative tasked democracies. with drafting the talking points in response to Yesterday’s Guardian/ BY PANKAJ MISHRA ICM poll, which shows Labour and the Tories level for the first time Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband istorians examining our era will in nearly 18 months. You know marvel at the proliferation of street what they’ll say. That this is, if not protests around the world. Blessed exactly a rogue poll, then its more this goes deeper than the daily Hwith hindsight, they will probably polite cousin, an “outlier”. That response to government policy. not struggle as much as we do to grasp their other polls, including YouGov’s Two examples. First, the Tories’ broader meaning — one that goes beyond spe- daily tracker, have Labour as much attack on Labour as “the welfare cific provocations in each case (an increase as nine points ahead. That even this party” is hurting. Polls and focus in bus fares in Brazil, or the destruction of a ICM poll shows no drop in Labour groups suggest there is a public per- landmark in Turkey). Supporters of Egypt’s deposed president Mohamed Mursi chant slogans during a rally outside Cairo’s support, but simply a reordering on ception of Labour as the layabout’s On the face of it, protests against the Rabaa Al Adawiya mosque. the right of British politics — with friend and “the welfare party” tag creeping authoritarianism of Turkey’s Prime Ukip falling back and the Tories hits that nerve. The result is that Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have next politicised peoples who have come to identify of a severe economic crisis. Hence, the class- regaining the ground they had Labour is constantly facing traps to nothing in common with demonstrations their governments in recent years with busi- less quality of the protests where the rich and lost to Nigel Farage’s party. Maybe set by the Conservatives, the latter in India, where a quasi-Gandhian activist ness elites, and with “business-friendly” policies the poor commingle: their rage comes from a they’ll even try this oldie but goldie: daring the former to oppose this or proclaimed a “second freedom struggle,” or rather than public services. shared feeling of being cheated. That the only poll that counts is that crackdown on benefits. They Egypt’s Tahrir Square, site of a “second rev- Their governments, too, are helpless to a That said, the protesters phrase their griev- the one on election day. are struggling to define themselves olution” against the elected government of certain degree. Incessantly mobile labour and ances narrowly. Indian activists denouncing All of those lines of defence are rather than be defined. Mohammed Mursi. capital have eroded the power of national gov- corruption or police brutality cannot risk true enough. But none of them Second, last week’s move by The Turks appear to have even less in com- ernments to devise policies aimed at creating any fellow-feeling for Kashmiris living under stops this being bad news for Miliband on union funding for mon with the tens of thousands of Israelis call- an equitable society. Their frantic courting a military occupation; the ideals of justice Labour. The plain truth is that less Labour won widespread praise for ing for “social justice” in Tel Aviv’s Habima of investors and businessmen helps create invoked in Tel Aviv do not accommodate the than two years away from the next turning a crisis into an opportunity. Square, or the hundreds of thousands of the popular conviction that, according to a Palestinians; the Turks in Taksim Square are election, the party should be doing His attacks on David Cameron’s Japanese who, after the nuclear catastrophe contributor to the well-known socialist tool far from pressing for Kurdish autonomy; and much, much better. hedge-fund sugar daddies was at Fukushima, turned out, in their country’s Forbes, “the power structure, corporate and the protesting rich are not exactly proposing For even if that rosier, YouGov adroit and the usually hostile biggest demonstrations since the late 1960s, government, work together to screw the broad to share the fruits of capitalism with the poor. figure of 9 percent is right, it’s not press was delighted to see a Labour to protest against an incompetent and menda- middle class.” The protesters are not even united domes- good enough. I’ve heard pollsters leader confront the trade unions. cious government. This belief became widespread at the end tically. That they could enter a new era of say that no opposition party has There are plenty who believe the Local grievances and socioeconomic varia- of a long cycle of high growth when a few transnational “solidarity,” as the Marxist phi- won a majority without leading at model to follow is Tony Blair’s tions must not be suppressed in our eagerness people grew very rich and public services — losopher Slavoj Zizek hopes, looks like a pipe some point by 20 percent. That clause IV battles of the early 1990s, to find broad patterns. Protesters in Greece education, health, security — were privatised dream at best. Capital and labor have been might be asking too much in the when Blair proved he was ready to and Spain live in nations that are being stead- to an unusual degree. For a while, the gated successfully globalised; dissenters must set- era of four-party politics, but on run the country by taking on his ily impoverished. Those in India, Israel and community in large parts of India seemed tle for being globally televised. But what the any measure the current size of the own party. But while that worked Turkey belong to countries that have enjoyed like a new political unit after the city-state, protests are defining is the appeal of political Labour lead — often in the single 20 years ago, its effectiveness today high economic growth in recent years. the nation and the empire. The secessionists community in both old and new democracies — digits — is too narrow for comfort. is less than certain. The risk is that The multiparty political systems and regular or sovereign individuals inside them seemed the underrated satisfaction of exercising one’s Given the economic climate, with Miliband turns inward, confronting elections passed off as democracy have failed to to have attained the highest stage of liberal faculties of speech and action, and of com- signs of recovery still tentative and his own side rather than the gov- mollify the restless millions — most vividly in democracy: emancipation from politics. But municating with other people’s experiences. few, and with the standard of living ernment — talking about internal Egypt. Indeed, if there is anything that binds even the denizens of gated republics, it turns What we witness today are citizens revolt- for so many so badly hit, the party party matters rather than his plan protesters in different socioeconomic contexts, out, need the state to build and maintain roads ing against their own previous apathy. It of opposition at midterm should be for the country. it is their shared frustration at being inad- and airports, supply power, and control rising remains to be seen what this fresh infusion in a much stronger position. Both Miliband and Labour need equately represented by elected governments. crime rates. of the masses into political life amounts to. But That’s reflected in the defensive- to break through and get the pub- For too long, merely formal and procedural As for the rest, who have yet to benefit we have already made some progress when ness that seems to characterise lic’s attention. Yesterday’s poll sug- aspects of democracy — elections, legislatures from global capitalism, the chances of stable democracy begins to mean something more much of Labour’s current stance. gests that moment is still some way — have been confused with the thing itself. Not employment, or even affordable education, than routine elections and the retreat from Oppositions are, by definition, usu- off. surprisingly, these fail to satisfy increasingly look even more remote against the background political life. WP-BLOOMBERG ally in the reaction business. But THE GUARDIAN WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Kerry in Jordan as regional crises mount Egypt expected to send official to meet top US diplomat

AMMAN: Top US diplomat to send someone to the Amman “We have lots of bilateral John Kerry met his Jordanian talks, but it was not known issues to discuss and of course counterpart yesterday for talks exactly who would represent the many challenges that we face focused on the turmoil in Egypt interim government. in this region,” replied Judeh, and Syria as well as his bid to As he met with his Jordanian saying they would discuss “the unlock the Middle East peace counterpart, Kerry expressed an humanitarian spillover of the process. interest in visiting one of the ref- crisis and its effects on Jordan’s Arriving on an overnight ugee camps in Jordan sheltering a economy.” flight from Washington, the sec- flood of refugees from the conflict Kerry’s team has yet to finalise retary of state first held talks in Syria, now in its third year. plans for any refugee camp visit. with Jordanian Foreign Minister Jordan has taken in some There were no immediate plans Nasser Judeh before a private 550,000 refugees fleeing the fight- for Kerry to meet Israeli Prime dinner with Palestinian president ing as rebels seek to overthrow Minister Benjamin Netanyahu President Abdelaziz Bouteflika meeting with senior officials following his arrival in Algeria at Boufarik military Mahmoud Abbas. President Bashar Al Assad. unlike previous trips where he airport, 30 kilometres southwest of the capital Algiers, yesterday. Today, he will meet Jordan’s But the influx of so many peo- has shuttled between Amman and King Abdullah II as well as Arab ple is putting a huge strain on the Jerusalem. League officials to “provide an small Arab nation’s already strug- “Because the Syrian Opposition update on Middle East peace,” gling economy. Coalition elections just took place State Department spokeswoman Kerry told Judeh he was “happy and there’s new Syrian opposition Bouteflika back in Algeria Jen Psaki told reporters. to be back” on his sixth visit to leadership, there is likely to be a He was also expected to discuss the region. discussion on Syria as well, to ALGIERS: Algerian President Bouteflika was rushed to the heard saying “inshallah” (God the situation following the July 3 “I think we may wind up visit- take advantage of the fact that a Abdelaziz Bouteflika returned Val-de-Grace military hospital willing). His arms are folded but ouster of Mohammed Mursi by ing one of the refugee camps as variety of Arab foreign ministers home yesterday from Paris after in Paris on April 27 and later he moves his fingers. the Egyptian military. we talk about Syria. We were just will be with him in Amman,” a a stay of almost three months in moved to the Invalides National Bouteflika’s National Liberation Egypt, a powerful member of chatting about the importance of senior US official told reporters. hospital that caused huge con- Institution to recover. Front (FLN) party issued a state- the Arab League, was expected that,” he added. AFP cern in the North African coun- His office said Bouteflika ment expressing its “joy” at his try, officials said. returned to Algiers “after com- return. The plane that flew Bouteflika pleting his treatment and a reha- His health has been a source of from Le Bourget airport near bilitation” stint, according to a constant speculation in Algeria, Israel to approve 1,000 W Bank homes Paris landed at the Boufarik mili- statement carried by the national where little has been revealed tary airport, about 30 kilometres news agency APS. about the condition of the man JERUSALEM: Israeli authori- It also came as the European given a more advanced level of east of Algiers, they said. The president “will continue who has ruled the country since ties are expected today to give Union was due to publish on approval, one stage before the A frail-looking Bouteflika, 76, to rest and undergo therapy,” it 1999. the green light for the construc- Friday guidelines barring mem- start of construction, at the West had boarded the Algerian presi- said, adding in a separate state- Calls have grown for the consti- tion of 1,071 new homes in six ber states from funding projects Bank’s biggest settlement, Modiin dential jet on a wheelchair after ment that throughout his absence tution’s rarely mentioned Article West Bank settlements, watch- in Jewish settlements. Ilit, a community of 58,000 ultra- 80 days in Paris, where he received Bouteflika monitored the affairs of 88 to be invoked, according to dog Peace Now said in a state- Peace Now said that a govern- Orthodox Jews west of Ramallah, treatment for what his doctors the country and “gave directives”. which power temporarily trans- ment yesterday. ment committee was expected to it said. described as a mini-stroke. Official media released a picture fers to the Senate leader if the The news came as US grant initial approval for plans “These approvals are part of an His state of health sparked and footage showing Bouteflika president is incapacitated. Secretary of State John Kerry to build 339 homes at Galgal and unprecedented wave of advanc- major concerns in Algeria given sitting on a wheelchair and sur- In an effort to dispel rumours arrived in Jordan at the start of Almog settlements in the Jordan ing settlement plans,” Peace Now his central constitutional role rounded by top officials, includ- that his condition was dete- a sixth round of intense diplo- valley, Kfar Adumim northeast of said. “This is yet another mes- in running the country, and has ing Prime Minister Abdelmalek riorating, Algerian authorities macy to revive stalled Israeli- Jerusalem and at Kochav Yaacov sage by Israel to the US and the also generated intense discussion Sellal. last month released images of Palestinian peace talks, with and Shilo near the West Bank city Palestinians that this government about next year’s elections now In the brief video broadcast Bouteflika on state media, show- Israel’s settlement building a key of Ramallah. is not ready for peace.” that it appears unlikely he will on state television, Bouteflika ing him convalescing in Paris. sticky point. Another 732 units were to be AFP seek a fourth term. appears pale and tense and is AFP

Gaddafi’s old fortress to be Erdogan remarks irk Egypt Libya a step closer CAIRO: Egypt’s interim gov- turned into park ernment voiced “strong resent- Israel okays two battalions for Sinai ment” yesterday at comments to new constitution TRIPOLI: Muammar Gaddafi’s by Turkish Prime Minister JERUSALEM: Israel’s defence minister yesterday confirmed TRIPOLI: Libya’s national delayed because of political Tripoli compound, the city Recep Tayyip Erdogan back- giving Egypt the go-ahead to deploy two battalions in Sinai to assembly passed a law yester- infighting within the General within a city from which he ing ousted Islamist president tackle militants in a region where deployments are restricted by day providing for the election National Congress, which was orchestrated eccentric defiance Mohammed Mursi. treaty. Speaking to army radio, Moshe Yaalon said he had approved of a committee to draft a new elected for an 18-month term last of Western powers and dis- The foreign ministry expressed a request from the Egyptian army to station one battalion at El constitution following the over- July in Libya’s first free election dain for his own people for four “strong resentment at comments Arish in the north of the peninsula and one at Sharm Al Sheikh throw of dictator Muammar in nearly 50 years. decades, is to be turned into a like these, which... represent a in the south. “When these forces are involved in the fight against Gaddafi in 2011. Most GNC members are civil- public park, Tourism Minister clear intervention in internal terrorism, as long as we’re consulted and it does not violate the The 60 members of the consti- ian professionals or former exiled Ikram Abdusalam Bash Imam Egyptian affairs,” its spokesman treaty between the two countries, we accept their requests so they tutional committee will be elected opposition members with little or said yesterday. Badr Abdelatty said. can remove the terror threat from Sinai,” he said. by popular vote, and will have 120 no political experience or knowl- The sprawling 6 square kilo- The Turkish premier said AFP days to draft the charter, law- edge of how to run a government. metre Bab Al Aziziya complex on Sunday that democratically makers said. Gaddafi ostensibly ruled Libya once housed a swimming pool, elected Mursi, who was ousted in with a Turkish newspaper. calling them “inappropriate” They will be divided equally by a bizarre set of laws drawn sports pitches, senior officials’ a popularly backed military coup Abdelatty called on Turkish and an “intervention” in Egypt’s between Libya’s three regions: up by him in his Green Book, villas and gardens as well as an on July 3, was Egypt’s only legiti- officials to put “the historic rela- domestic affairs. “It is down to Tripolitania in the west, although in practice he and his underground bunker, government mate president. tionship and shared interests” Ankara to respect the will of the Cyrenaica in the east and Fezzan family ran a totalitarian state offices and buildings belonging to “Currently, my president in of their two countries above any Egyptian people who went out on in the south. The model resem- where no coherent political oppo- the feared and pervasive security Egypt is Mursi because he was “narrow party interests”. June 30,” Ahmed Al Muslimani bles the committee that drafted sition was tolerated and rival apparatus. elected by the people,” Erdogan, A spokesman for Egypt’s said in comments reported by Libya’s pre-Gaddafi constitution, tribes were bought off or played Some residents recall how they who like Mursi hails from an interim president also criticised Egyptian daily Al Ahram’s website. implemented when it became an off against each other. were too scared to look at it when Islamist party, said in an interview the Turkish leader’s remarks, AFP independent state in 1951. On the constitutional commit- they drove past to avoid harass- Libya desperately needs a viable tee, six seats will be reserved for ment by security agents. But the government and system of rule so women and another six will be revolution that toppled Gaddafi that it can focus on reconstruc- given to members of the Amazigh reduced it to rubble. tion and on healing the divisions (Berber), Tibu and Tuareg com- “We will soon start moving opened up by the 2011 war that munities. Candidates will stand the debris from Bab al-Aziziya as Dutch couple toppled Gaddafi. as individuals, not representing well as conducting a security scan Those who will draft the con- political parties, officials said. of the area,” Imam told a news held in Yemen stitution will need to take into Omar Hmaidan, spokesman conference. account political and tribal rival- of the GNC, said the committee “Bab Al Aziziya will be an ries and calls for more auton- would be based in the town of area of greenery and we hope to plead for help omy in the east when deciding Baida. The election date has yet start seeing the first signs of this what political system Libya will to be announced but it is expected project in two months.” SANAA: A Dutch couple held adopt. Their draft will be put to to take six months to organise. The complex was first bombed hostage in Yemen have appealed a referendum. One congress member said the by US jets in 1986 in retaliation for help to secure their release, Armed violence and lawlessness main criteria for candidates were for the Libyan bombing of a disco- saying their captors have caused in part by the continuing that they must be at least 25 and theque in Berlin — but finally pul- threatened to kill them in days power of former rebel militias hold no passport other than a verised in August 2011 when Nato unless the Dutch government and the ineffectiveness of state Libyan one. warplanes bombed it to help rebels meets unspecified demands, security forces has hobbled gov- Separately, GNC deputy chair- to seize control of the capital. according to a video recording ernance in wide areas of the oil- man Giuma Attaigha said on Rebel fighters poured in, posted on YouTube. producing state. Tuesday that he was resigning smashing statues, burning Yemen is grappling with myr- Attempts to write a new con- for personal reasons. Gaddafi’s Bedouin-style tents and iad problems, including kidnap- stitution have been repeatedly REUTERS seizing weapons. pings of foreigners and attacks on A still image from a video posted on YouTube and Facebook shows Dutch Within hours, ordinary Libyans public infrastructure, as it tries nationals Judith Spiegel and her partner Boudewijn Berendsen speaking also flooded through the once to restore state authority lost in in an undisclosed location. forbidding high concrete walls to 2011 during mass protests that inspect the villas, loot flat-screen forced out veteran President Ali Air force colonel shot dead televisions or simply gloat over Abdullah Saleh. said in a trembling voice. She did month that Spiegel, who had been TRIPOLI: A Libyan air force colonel was shot dead in the Gaddafi’s fall. Judith Spiegel, a Dutch jour- not say how the couple had con- working in Yemen as a researcher, eastern city of Derna, a military spokesman said yesterday, an Imam said the families living nalist held since early June, said tacted the ambassador. vanished with her partner after Islamist stronghold plagued by attacks on security officials. in Bab Al Aziziya would be moved in the video that she and her Her partner, Boudewijn they left their home in Sanaa’s Violence has worsened in Libya in recent months as the govern- to new housing after the fasting partner had “addressed” their Berendsen, said they were afraid. Hadda district, which houses ment tries to impose its authority on armed militias that helped month of Ramadan. country’s ambassador in Sanaa “Everyone in the Netherlands many diplomatic missions. overthrow Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Islamists, who were sup- However, the park’s long-term recently with the kidnappers’ should get the government and No one has claimed responsibil- pressed under Gaddafi, have also come to the fore. future is far from certain in a demands but nothing had been the ambassador into action,” he ity for the kidnapping. Unidentified assailants shot Colonel Fathi Al Omami on Monday still-chaotic country run by a done to bring about their release. said, seated beside her. Several Westerners have been evening after as he visited a shop he owned in Derna. weak transitional administration. “Now there’s another 10 days The Dutch embassy in Sanaa kidnapped this year in the impov- “He was trying to open the shop. A car was apparently waiting “Bab al-Aziziya will remain a to do something. These people referred questions to the foreign erished state, where a transi- for him and those inside shot him,” said Ali Sheikhi, spokesman for park until there are definite plans are armed. If no solution is found ministry in The Hague, where no tional government is struggling to the army chief of staff’s office. for the city,” Imam said. after 10 days, they’ll shoot us officials could be reached. impose law outside the main cities. REUTERS REUTERS dead,” Spiegel, speaking in Dutch, A Yemeni police source said last REUTERS WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Snowden applies for Russian asylum US intelligence leaker says he fears for his life, safety and that death penalty could be handed to him

MOSCOW: Fugitive US intel- afterwards. “There is no (other) position and situation, the Federal leaks, and the activists who met Temporary asylum lasts for 24 but never boarded the plane. ligence leaker Edward Snowden way to resolve this situation,” Migration Service should of Snowden on Friday said he prom- one year and would in theory On Monday, Putin said Snowden applied yesterday for tempo- Kucherena said during an inter- course grant his request.” ised not to harm the US. give Snowden enough time to would leave Russia “as soon as rary asylum in Russia, end- view in Moscow. The Federal Migration Service Even though the Kremlin has find a way to leave Russia, pos- he can” and accused Washington ing three weeks of uncertainty He said that Snowden would (FMS) confirmed it had received said it has nothing to do with sibly for Latin America. It then of “trapping” the American after arriving from Hong Kong remain at the airport while the the application but the Kremlin Snowden, political observers have can be extended every year for in Moscow, saying no country to escape the clutches of US asylum request was being proc- sought in public to distance itself said that his meeting with activ- another 12 months. Kucherena wanted to take in Snowden due justice. essed. Only a translator had been from the process. ists at the state-controlled airport said Snowden had no immediate to US pressure. Snowden, wanted by the US present at their meeting yester- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry would have been impossible with- plans to leave the country. Venezuela, Bolivia and for revealing sensational details day to make the application, he Peskov said President Vladimir out Kremlin involvement. “Right now he wants to stay in Nicaragua have indicated they of its spying operations, made the added. Putin was aware of Snowden’s Russian authorities generally Russia. He has options. He has would be open to offering the application from the transit zone In his application, Snowden had application but added he would consider an application for tem- friends and supporters,” he told 30-year-old a safe haven. of state-controlled Sheremetyevo written that he was concerned not be involved. porary asylum for up to three said. “Today I gave him a begin- The head of Amnesty airport after meeting rights activ- about his safety should he return “If we are talking about tem- months, with preliminary con- ners’ Russian book. He said it was International in Russia, Sergei ists and lawyers there on Friday. to the US, Kucherena said. porary asylum, then this is not a sideration taking up to five days. the first present he had received Nikitin, who took part in the air- “The application has been filed “He wrote that he fears for his presidential issue but the issue of After the application is in Sheremetyevo.” port meeting, said Snowden would with the Russian authorities,” said life, safety, he fears that torture the FMS which will be considered accepted, an applicant receives Snowden flew into Russia from likely receive asylum in Russia. Kremlin-friendly lawyer Anatoly or death penalty could be applied not even at the director’s level,” a temporary document allowing Hong Kong on June 23 and has “The way everything was Kucherena, who participated in against him,” Kucherena said Peskov was quoted as saying. him to live and travel locally, but since been marooned in the tran- organised so quickly, the whole the dramatic airport meeting and separately in televised remarks. Putin said earlier this month Kucherena’s remarks indicate sit zone of Sheremetyevo. logistics make it obvious for us helped the fugitive negotiate the “And under these circum- Snowden could claim asylum Snowden will for now remain at He was checked in for an that there’s an interest of the complexities of Russian legislation stances, understanding his in Russia only if he stopped his the airport. Aeroflot flight to Cuba on June authorities,” he said. AFP

Preparations for Mandela birthday France arrests Locator beacon man linked to Norwegian mass probed in latest killer Breivik

PARIS: A neo-Nazi linked to Norwegian mass killer Anders Dreamliner fire Behring Breivik was arrested in southwestern France yesterday LONDON: British investiga- Saturday it found no evidence the after his wife bought four rifles, tors yesterday said a transmit- fire was caused by the lithium-ion raising suspicions he could turn ter made by US firm Honeywell batteries that were implicated in to violence, the Paris prosecu- was one of several components the 787’s grounding earlier this tor’s office said. that may have caused a fire on year. Kristian Vikernes, who is also a a Boeing Dreamliner in London But the focus on the emergency convicted murderer from Norway, last week. beacon raised alarms for some had in the past received a copy “We can confirm that analysts, who said more technol- of a manifesto from Breivik, the Honeywell have been invited to ogy problems with the new, high- office and media reports said. join the investigation,” a spokes- tech airliner would be troubling. Officers were searching his man for Britain’s Air Accident “It’s good to see the AAIB are home for weapons and explosives, Investigations Branch (AAIB) getting closer to finding out what a police source told Reuters. said yesterday. happened but what we really need Far-right militant Breivik “The emergency locator trans- to know now is if this is a one killed 77 people in a bombing in mitter (ELT) is one (of) several off or a problem for the whole central Oslo and a shooting spree components being looked at in Dreamliner fleet — that is the on a nearby island in July 2011. He detail as part of the investiga- crucial point for Boeing and air- was imprisoned for the maximum tion and it would be premature lines,” said Howard Wheeldon, an 21-year term last year. to speculate on the causes of the aerospace analyst at Wheeldon Breivik sent a copy of a mani- Visitors look at images at an exhibition on former South African president Nelson Mandela presented by the incident at this stage.” Strategic Advisory. festo setting out his ideology to City of Cape Town at the Civic Centre yesterday. Mandela continues to receive treatment at the Pretoria Heart Britain’s AAIB is leading the The Dreamliner in question Vikernes, an official at the pros- probe into a blaze on an Ethiopian has been moved to a hangar at Hospital where he has been since June 8 as the country prepares for his 95th birthday tomorrow. ecutor’s office said. Airlines jet that broke out last Heathrow where it is under tech- “That was at the origin of the Friday and has already allayed nical investigation. A 25 strong investigation ... There were sev- fears about a return of problems team of experts, including inspec- eral suspicions that made the with overheating batteries that tors from the AAIB and the US services fear he could possibly grounded the Dreamliner for National Transportation Safety Faith leaders vow action in carry out a violent act,” the offi- months earlier this year. Board are investigating the dam- cial said. A source familiar with the aged Dreamliner. The “Norwegian neo-Nazi” probe said on Monday that inves- Ethiopian Airlines, one of had been arrested in Correze, the tigators were now looking into Africa’s top five carriers, said wake of US teen’s killing office said. Vikernes’ wife had a whether the fire, which occurred it would continue to fly its legal firearms permit when she at London’s Heathrow airport, Dreamliner fleet. It has ordered WASHINGTON: African- members. Sharpton added that Attorney General Eric Holder, bought the four rifles, the official was caused by the battery of an a total of 10 Dreamliners, of which American faith leaders vowed “tens of thousands” would con- calling Martin’s death “tragic and said. ELT built by Honeywell. four have been delivered. yesterday to harness anger over verge on Washington for a protest unnecessary,” called on Monday On his website, Vikernes dis- Honeywell said at that point Airlines, including Britain’s the Trayvon Martin case to march on August 24, the Saturday for a dialogue on the racially- cusses Breivik’s manifesto, but only that it had joined the inves- Thomson Airways, US carrier overturn “stand-your-ground” before the 50th anniversary of the charged issues it raises, but he also criticises him for killing inno- tigation into the fire, declining United Continental, and Poland’s laws and reassert the case for late Martin Luther King’s historic stopped short of announcing civil cent Norwegians. to discuss details beyond saying LOT, said they would also con- greater civil rights. mass march on the US capital. proceedings. Breivik’s 1,500-page manifesto it had no previous experience of tinue to fly their Dreamliners, Speaking outside Department Saturday’s acquittal of gun- Sharpton, founder of the outlined his planned crusade difficulties with this type of trans- while others, such as Virgin of Justice headquarters, Reverend toting neighborhood watch vol- National Action Network, pledged against Muslims, who he said mitter. The company’s British Atlantic confirmed they would Al Sharpton announced a National unteer George Zimmerman in the a major campaign against so-called were taking over Europe and spokesman was not immediately stick to their plans to buy the Justice for Trayvon Day for shooting death of unarmed Florida stand-your-ground laws in Florida could only be defeated through a available for comment. aircraft. Saturday with rallies outside fed- teenager Martin has stirred anger “and 29 other states” that allow violent civil war. The ELT, which is positioned Boeing reiterated it was acting eral buildings and court houses in and unrest across the African- citizens who feel threatened to use Vikernes, a heavy metal musi- in the upper rear part of the new as an advisor to the investigation more than 100 cities nationwide. American community. lethal force in self-defense. cian and writer known as Varg, airline, sends a signal that leads and has a team on the ground “People all over the country will Sharpton is pressing the “The stand-your-ground law was convicted in 1994 of stabbing rescuers to downed aircraft. It is working in support of authorities. gather to show that we are not Department of Justice to reopen was not used directly at this a man to death in Oslo and burn- powered by a non-rechargeable “We are confident the 787 is having a two- or three-day anger a civil rights investigation into (Zimmerman) trial, but it had ing down several churches. lithium-manganese battery. safe and we stand behind its over- fit,” said the civil rights firebrand, the incident that was suspended everything to do with what hap- He was released in 2009 and The AAIB, which is leading all integrity,” a Boeing spokesman flanked by more than a dozen when Zimmerman was arrested pened at this trial,” he said. moved to France with his wife the probe into the fire, said on said. REUTERS other African-American clergy six weeks after the killing. US AFP and three children. REUTERS

Canadian train engineer not suspect: Lawyer BBC spent over £5m on

QUEBEC, Canada: The engi- someone as a witness differs from “Since he (Harding) was more his own personal mental health” neer of the runaway train that those considered suspects, he closely involved as the conductor, needs to be away from the media Savile investigations exploded in a small Quebec added. the person who’s responsible for and the public. town, killing 50 people, is a wit- “If they are seen as a suspect the train, obviously he’s very very Quebec police have said their LONDON: The BBC spent internal cover-up cost taxpayers ness rather than a suspect in then they have to be advised of affected ... He’s devastated by it,” investigation of the crash is still more than £5m on inquir- £5.3m, according to the BBC’s the investigation of the disaster, that, and they have to be given Walsh said. in its early stages, although they ies into the late TV presenter annual financial report, which and is devastated by what hap- certain constitutional warnings,” The head of Montreal Maine say criminal negligence is a pos- Jimmy Savile, according to a covers the period up to March 31. pened, his lawyer said yesterday. he said. & Atlantic Railway, which oper- sibility they are looking at. The report released by the public Spending on the Pollard Lawyer Thomas Walsh said the Harding, the sole operator of ated the train, said last week he centre Lac-Megantic is consid- broadcaster yesterday. Review, an investigation into alle- engineer, Tom Harding, has spent the crude oil-laden train, was believed the train’s hand brakes ered a crime scene, closed to all Savile was one of Britain’s big- gations that senior managers at 10 hours talking to police, and supposed to have set enough hand had not been set properly. Walsh but investigators. gest TV stars in the 1970s and the BBC applied pressure on the three or four talking to investiga- brakes to prevent its five loco- described the comments as “very Walsh said some members of 1980s, but revelations after his editor of the flagship “Newsnight” tors at the Transportation Safety motives and 72 tanker cars from premature” and said the various the public have taken what he death in November 2011 that programme to drop an expose of Board of Canada, who are probing moving when he parked them investigations into the disaster called “a pretty radical position” he had been one of the coun- Savile, totalled £2.8m alone, the the causes of the July 6 calam- some 8 miles uphill from the tiny should be allowed to do their on the crash without knowing all try’s most prolific sex offenders report showed. ity in the town of Lac-Megantic, lakeside town of Lac-Megantic at work. the facts. stunned Britons. “While the priority is clearly North America’s deadliest rail the end of his shift late on July 5. Asked whether he thought “Somebody told me that they Police say he took advantage of the impact on his victims, the accident in more than 20 years. But in the early hours of the charges would be laid against were throwing rocks at train con- his fame to commit 214 offences, Jimmy Savile affair and all that “When he was interviewed by next day, the train started roll- Harding, Walsh replied: “I don’t ductors ... I don’t think it’s right, including 34 rapes or serious sex- came after it revealed some seri- the police my understanding is ing downhill, and derailed and know what to expect or when to actually. If the time comes to ual assaults, beginning as long ago ous weaknesses in the BBC’s cul- that he was interviewed as a wit- exploded in the middle of Lac- expect them... We’re basically in throw stones, then the stones will as 1955. ture and behaviours,” said Lord ness,” Walsh said in a telephone Megantic, flattening dozens of a wait and see posture.” be thrown. But the time hasn’t Inquiries into the BBC’s work- Patten, Chairman of BBC Trust, interview from Quebec. buildings in the little lakeside Walsh said Harding is staying arrived yet, I don’t think,” he said. ing environment during the the BBC’s governing body. The procedure for interviewing town near the Maine border. outside Lac-Megantic, and “for REUTERS Savile years and allegations of an REUTERS WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Two die as Bangla police fire on protesters Jamaat supporters hack officer with machetes

DHAKA: Police fired on conviction and sentence of and the fourth Jamaat official Islamist demonstrators in south- 90-year-old Ghulam Azam, the convicted by the controversial western Bangladesh yesterday, spiritual leader of Jamaat, for court set up by the secular govern- killing two as machete-wielding masterminding atrocities dur- ment. Azam, the wartime head of protesters went on the rampage ing the 1971 war of independence Jamaat, was spared the death pen- over the conviction of a senior against Pakistan. alty because of his age and health. Islamist leader for war crimes. The war crimes tribunal sen- Prosecutors had sought exe- Several thousand supporters tenced Azam, whom prosecutors cution, describing Azam as a of the country’s largest Islamic compared to Nazi leader Adolf “lighthouse” who guided all war party, Jamaat-e-Islami, took to Hitler, to 90 years in prison on criminals and the “architect” of the streets in Satkhira district, Monday on five charges of plan- the militias who committed most attacking police with sticks and ning, conspiracy, incitement, com- of the wartime atrocities. machetes and throwing home- plicity and murder during the war. When India intervened at the made bombs, officers said. Jamaat, a key member of the end of the nine-month war and it Jamaat supporters set upon one opposition, says the trials are became clear Pakistan was losing, officer as police tried to clear a aimed at eliminating its lead- the militias killed dozens of pro- road blocked by fallen trees in the ers. But secular groups say Azam fessors, playwrights, film-makers, town of Kaliganj. should have been hanged. doctors and journalists. “They hacked him (the officer) Earlier verdicts against Jamaat Businesses and shops were shut with a machete. We opened fire at activists, including three death nationwide for the two-day strike them to rescue the officer. Two sentences, plunged the country which started on Monday, while Jamaat activists were hit by bul- into its worst political violence roads and highways were largely lets and they died,” district deputy since independence. At least 150 empty, bringing inter-district police chief Tajul Islam said, add- have been killed in clashes with transport to a halt. ing that eight other police officers police and paramilitary forces Security was tight in the capi- were injured. since the first sentence was tal Dhaka, with thousands of Islamists and secular groups passed in January. police patrolling the streets. called rival strikes over the Azam was the fifth Islamist AFP People try to extinguish fire set by activists of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party in Naraynganj yesterday.

Taiwan probes 11 clan feud US may fund Philippine military facilities army bullying hostages freed TAIPEI: Taiwan’s defence MANILA: Washington and to Washington, Ambassador Jose have to build some additional involve a US request for the stor- minister has apologised for ZAMBOANGA: Seven chil- Manila have expanded talks on Cuisia said, but it would give US facilities,” Cuisia told reporters age of equipment and supplies in the death of a corporal from dren and four other hostages military cooperation to include warplanes and warships wider in the Philippine capital. the Philippines to prepare for heatstroke as the island’s caught up in a decades-old possible US funding to build access to Philippine bases on a The two countries have been in humanitarian aid and disaster top government watchdog southern Philippines clan war facilities and the storage of US temporary and rotational basis, talks since 2011 for “joint use” of relief efforts. That would reduce launches an investigation have been freed in a straight humanitarian relief supplies, helping the Asian nation improve civilian and military facilities in delays in bringing in equipment into bullying in the military, swap by the feuding families, the Philippine envoy to the its minimum defence capability. the former US colony. from elsewhere, such as bases in officials said yesterday. Hung, the military said yesterday. United States said yesterday. The increasing rotational pres- The informal talks had reached Guam and Honolulu, he said. 24, was found by a post-mor- The hostages, aged as young The wider scope of the talks for ence of US forces in the country ministerial level, Cuisia said, with “Then whenever it’s needed it’s tem examination to have died as two, were snatched last week joint use of civilian and military is covered by the 1998 Visiting both sides hoping for a deal before so much easier to use that equip- of heatstroke, which his fam- in tit-for-tat kidnappings on the facilities signals rapidly warming Forces Agreement, but a new President Benigno Aquino steps ment because it’s already here.” ily believe was brought on by remote southern island of Basilan, security ties between the allies as arrangement would be needed if down from office in June 2016. But funding construction activ- excessive exercise forced upon a hotbed of Muslim guerrillas and the Philippines looks to the US Washington built facilities to sup- “There has to be some agree- ities could be a problem for the him as punishment for taking other militants that the govern- administration to help counter a port its temporary deployment to ment to support it. Especially if United States following huge cuts a smartphone onto the army ment does not fully control. newly assertive China. the Philippines. they spend money, there will have in its defence spending, Cuisia base, local media reported. The crisis ended when a Muslim The Philippines has ruled out “We need to expand (the 1998 to be some agreement.” said. Yesterday an army colonel clan leader known as “Commander granting permanent basing rights pact) further because we may Cuisia said a new pact might REUTERS was detained on charges of Hassan” agreed to release his abuse of power, while punitive eight hostages on Monday, said measures were taken against Lieutenant-Colonel Paolo Perez, 26 staff members. commander of an army battalion stationed on Basilan. S Korea blames North Sein urged to A rival Muslim clan leader known in the area as “Jiabrin” Ex-premier sues Abe for libel free prisoners had freed Commander Hassan’s for cyber attack three daughters late on Sunday, TOKYO: Japan’s premier at seawater to be used. Kan’s take the legal action now, SEOUL: South Korea yesterday YANGON: Activists yes- according to Perez, who said the the time of the Fukushima statement, posted yesterday, he told reporters that it was blamed North Korea for a crippling terday urged Myanmar clan dispute had been going on for crisis said yesterday he was says Abe has repeated this because his repeated demands cyberattack last month against gov- President Thein Sein to “turn the past 30 years. suing the current prime claim. to correct the story have ernment and media websites, includ- his words into action” after “The feud ranges from pre- minister for defamation “Mr. Shinzo Abe in his online continued to be ignored, Jiji ing the president’s office. the former general promised vious disputes over property, over online comments about newsletter ran a story entitled Press reported. “The news- The accusation came a day before the to free all political prison- aggravated by killings on both the way the emergency was ‘Mr. Kan’s instructions on using letter remains posted on the two Koreas are to hold fresh talks on ers by the end of the year. “I sides,” said Perez, who took part handled. seawater (to cool reactors) Internet even after the politi- reopening their joint industrial zone, guarantee to you that by the in the negotiations that led to the With less than a week to go are made-up,’ and despite my cal campaign for the upcoming amid fading hopes of an early agreement end of this year there will be release of the hostages including before upper house elections, request for a correction and elections kicked off,” Kan said. following months of friction. no prisoners of conscience in the seven children aged between the now-opposition figure apology... the story remains,” Management of the crisis at The South’s science ministry said Myanmar,” Thein Sein said two and 14. Naoto Kan said on his official Kan said on his website. Fukushima — the world’s worst hackers in the attack waged from June on Monday during a visit to Hassan is a member of the website he would be taking legal Abe “is responsible for car- atomic disaster in a generation 25 to July 1 used at least one IP address London. Pro-democracy cam- Moro National Liberation Front, action against Shinzo Abe. rying out a fair election cam- — has been picked over in the that had been utilised in earlier attacks paigners have accused the a former Muslim separatist rebel Kan’s office has said in paign... I strongly demand he more than two years since the blamed on the North. former junta premier of using group, while Jiabrin is a member of the days immediately after immediately admit his mis- tsunami rolled ashore. “North Korea is believed to be behind headline-grabbing amnes- the rival Moro Islamic Liberation a massive tsunami swamped conduct, delete the story and Last year, an independent the attack,” senior ministry official Park ties to secure foreign aid and Front, the military said. Fukushima in March 2011, apologise for this”, Kan said. panel on the Fukushima disas- Jae-Moon told reporters. investment. Authorities will not seek to lay his government pressed plant Abe has not yet responded pub- ter said Kan played a key role The South also blamed the North charges against those involved operator Tokyo Electric Power licly to Kan’s renewed demand in preventing the crisis wors- for major cyber-intrusions in 2009 and China to try in the kidnappings, according to (TEPCO) to use seawater to to take down the newsletter, ening further. Abe’s Liberal 2011 that targeted the South’s financial Colonel Carlito Galvez, a local cool overheating reactors and which was published in May Democratic Party is expected institutions and government agencies. graft activists military commander who helped prevent a catastrophe. 2011, two months after the to win comfortably after a cam- And Seoul accused Pyongyang’s military to negotiate the end of the dis- TEPCO subsequently said Fukushima disaster. paign where nuclear power as intelligence agency of launching a major BEIJING: Three Chinese pute. AFP Kan had wavered on allowing Asked why Kan moved to an issue has been absent. AFP cyber attack in March. AFP activists agitating for offi- cials to disclose their assets will be put on trial, their Oil price hike protest lawyers said yesterday, in a coordinated crackdown that underscores the limits of an anti-corruption push by the China protests US new government. China has detained at least 15 activists in recent months who were support for Taiwan involved in a campaign push- ing for officials to publicly BEIJING: China said yes- “The joining of international disclose their wealth in what terday it had lodged a protest organisations like ICAO by rights groups describe as the with the United States over Taiwan compatriots is a mat- first major crackdown by the President Barack Obama’s ter for the Chinese people,” new government on activists. signing of legislation express- China’s Foreign Ministry spokes- The move to put the anti- ing US support for Taiwan’s woman Hua Chunying said in a corruption activists on trial campaign to attend meetings of statement. has raised fears that an offi- a UN civil aviation body. “China opposes any foreign cial campaign of reprisals has The bill supporting Taiwan’s government, group or individual begun. bid for observer status with poking their nose in,” she added. the International Civil Aviation The actions by the United Australian held Organisation (ICAO), a UN States run contrary to the “one- agency that promotes safe air China” principle and China has for abusing kids travel, easily passed both cham- “lodged stern representations bers of the US Congress in June. with the United States side”, Hua CEBU: An Australian resi- China claims Taiwan as a way- said. dent of Hong Kong has been ward province though the two “We urge the United States to arrested for sexually abusing sides have been governed sepa- strictly abide by its promises to children in the Philippines, rately since defeated Nationalist the Chinese side on the Taiwan police said yesterday. The forces fled to Taiwan in 1949 issue and cautiously and appro- man in his 40ss was detained after losing the Chinese civil war. priately handle matters related on the central island of China says it alone has the right to Taiwan and stop interfering in Cebu with five young boys, to represent Taiwan internation- China’s internal affairs.” he added. said Senior Inspector Sheryl ally, like at the United Nations, Most countries, including the Bautista. “We checked the though it has made exceptions for United States, follow the “one- mobile phone we seized. It membership of some bodies, such China” policy of officially rec- turned out he had pictures Protesters hold placards against recent oil price hikes outside the gates of Pandacan Oil Depot in Manila as the World Trade Organisation, ognising Beijing and shunning and videos of the children,” yesterday. They called for the abolition of the Oil Deregulation Act. as long as the island is identified formal ties with Taiwan. he added. AGENCIES as “Chinese Taipei”. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Afghan MPs pass bill on more authority for poll watchdog KABUL: Afghan lawmakers have will have five members — all Afghans. polling stations disqualified in a probe Under the new law, a 15-member into law quickly. passed a bill to give the controver- Last year, the government decided to that forced Karzai to accept a second- “selecting committee” of MPs, civil soci- Afghanistan is due to hold its presiden- sial electoral complaints watchdog scrap the UN-backed ECC, which inves- round run-off until it was abandoned ety representatives and political parties tial election in April next year. more power and independence for the tigates poll complaints, in favour of a tri- when his opponent Abdullah Abdullah will choose the five members of the ECC Karzai, who has led Afghanistan since upcoming elections, officials say. bunal that could give President Hamid pulled out. and the head of the Independent Election 2001, is to step down after his maximum The law, delayed for months in par- Karzai more control over polls. Karzai has long pushed for foreign Commission (IEC) which is responsible two terms, with a new leader taking liament, also defines the role and struc- In the 2009 presidential election, the members to be removed from the ECC, for the administration of the polls. over in the first democratic transfer of ture of the election commission, MP ECC, then made up of three Afghans saying their presence is an interference In May, parliament approved an elec- power. Naqibullah Fayeq said. and two UN representatives, investi- in Afghanistan’s sovereignty. tion law that defines voting mecha- Top UN officials have highlighted the “They have approved the exist- gated thousands of complaints, mostly “The ECC still has the full power to nisms, sets conditions for candidacy, and importance of the 2014 polls, stressing ence of the ECC (Electoral Complaints related to alleged rigging by Karzai’s invalidate fraudulent votes and will be explains how votes are tallied. the need to ensure that they are free and Commission), but with no foreign mem- supporters. the only body responsible to announce the The UN mission welcomed the passing fair and enjoy wide participation. bers,” he said, adding that the commission The watchdog ordered ballots from 210 final elections result,” Fayeq said. of the bill and called for it to be signed AGENCIES

The City of Islamic Culture Presidential poll on August 6 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Afghanistan’s lawmakers will elect a new president on August 6, the election commission said yes- terday, to replace Asif Ali Zardari who will not stand only Olympian for a second term. None of the main parties — the rul- ing Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N), Zardari’s Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) shuns contests or Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) — has announced their candidates Taekwondo star Nikpa seeks reforms yet. The PML-N won a major- ity in May’s parliamentary KABUL: Afghanistan’s only of injury. “All his wins since 2009 election and its nominee is Olympic medallist, taekwondo were under the current ATF lead- expected to win the presiden- star and national hero Rohullah ership. We cannot understand tial poll, voted on by mem- Nikpa, yesterday said he would why he is making these accusa- bers of the National Assembly, boycott international compe- tions,” Secretary General Mirwais Senate and provincial assem- tition unless reforms root out Bahawi said. blies. Zardari, who came to discrimination and misman- Nikpa denies pulling out due Afghan labourers walk with their wheelbarrows past one of the two minarets built in the 12th century, in Ghazni power in 2008 on a wave of agement within the sport in his to injury, saying that a recurring public support after the assas- city yesterday. Ghazni has been chosen by the Unesco as the City of Islamic Culture for the Asian region for 2013. country. knee problem did not stop him sination of his wife Benazir The 26-year-old said he would from winning a bronze medal at Bhutto, has said he will not not compete in this week’s WTF the 2012 London Olympics. to stand again, and given the World Taekwondo Championships Trainer Mohammed Bashir PML-N’s power he stands lit- in Puebla, Mexico, to protest Taraki resigned recently to pro- Sharif ignores appointment norms tle chance of re-election. against poor management and dis- test against mismanagement, crimination within Afghanistan’s favouritism and poor selection First hydro Taekwondo Federation (ATF). decisions within in the ATF. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister published in national and international newspapers “It has been there, discrimi- “He (the head of the ATF) Nawaz Sharif has appointed the chairmen of the to encourage able Pakistanis living abroad to come power project nation and mismanagement. It brings people from his taekwondo Pakistan International Airline (PIA) and Board of back and help improve governance. But the proce- is like a clique, a group of people club to the federation regardless Investment without advertising the posts, despite dure has not been followed. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s have taken over the ATF and are of their capabilities and profes- his earlier stance that all such posts would be In the first week of July, Aslam Khaliq was Prime Minister Nawaz doing whatever they want with no sionalism and sends fighters from filled through open competition. appointed Chairman of the PIA’s board. By virtue Sharif on Monday inau- regard to athletes’ needs,” he said. his club to take part in interna- In his inaugural address to the National of his position. Recommended by the federal gov- gurated the first hydro “The situation has negatively tional competitions, not the peo- Assembly on June 5, he had said that “in future ernment, Khaliq joined the board along with other power project — New Bong affected our abilities physically ple who deserve it,” he said. all top level appointments in government, semi- new members. Sharif has brought in a number of Escape Hydropower Project and psychologically... I announce Nikpa is a fairytale hero in government and important public sector entities, prominent businessmen on the board, including in Mirpur. He expressed that I will no longer represent a war-ravaged country. As a their boards of governors and heads will be made Mian Mohammad Mansha and Arif Habib. confidence that there will Afghanistan on the international 10-year-old obsessed with Bruce on the basis of merit and ability to work and per- PIA’s spokesman Mashhood Tajwar said that being be substantial decrease in stage unless serious reforms are Lee and martial arts movies, he form. From today onwards, we have closed the chap- a major shareholder in the PIA corporation the gov- load-shedding due to short made in the ATF.” followed his brother to the taek- ters of nepotism and undue favours.” ernment could nominate members. measures initiated by the The decision by the twice wondo club while civil war raged Sharif explained that advertisements would be INTERNEWS government, including retire- Olympic bronze medallist will in Afghanistan. ment of about 500bn rupees be viewed as a step backwards He was 14 when the Taliban worth of circular debt. He for the war-torn country. As a regime fell at the end of 2001 and termed completion of the member of the minority Hazara began training in Kabul. Partly project by the private sector community, he is seen by Afghans thanks to Nikpa, taekwondo has as a milestone which will pave as a unifying figure across ethnic become one of the most popu- Translator blames US for Afghan killings the way for similar projects. groups. lar sports in Afghanistan. Up to He hoped that Bong project The ATF rejected his allega- 38,000 competitors, according to KABUL: An Afghan interpreter Kabul. In a record of the inter- three-page document which car- would open up more eco- tions, saying that he had informed Bahawi, practise in hundreds of for US special forces arrested on view being prepared by military ried his photograph on the front nomic opportunities for peo- the organisation a month ago that clubs though facilities are some- accusations of torturing and kill- investigators and obtained by page, dressed in camouflage ple of Azad Kashmir. he would not go to Mexico because times basic. AFP ing civilians has denied involve- Reuters, Kandahari said he had fatigues and a hat. ment in the murders to Afghan worked for US special forces In the document, Kandahari Bomber killed investigators, and said he was across Afghanistan for nine years, identified three US special forces always acting on orders from his most recently in Wardak’s Nerkh soldiers as “Dave, chief of the near airport US military handlers. district, where the allegations operations, Hagen and Chris” Afghan authorities detained surfaced in February. and told Afghan military inter- KABUL: A suicide bomber Pakistan, US to discuss Zakeria Kandahari six weeks “I was a low-rank translator rogators that the trio had been was shot dead by Afghan ago following allegations he was and had no access to roam around fluent in both of Afghanistan’s security forces near the involved in atrocities against inside the base, or in interroga- major languages, Dari and Kabul international air- civil nuclear technology civilians in Wardak, a strategi- tion rooms,” Kandahari told the Pashto. port on Monday night. He cally important province close to investigators, according to the REUTERS The was looking to attack a ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar yester- police check-post near the day said that Pakistan and United States have agreed to hold airport, according to Khaama dialogue on the cooperation in civil nuclear technology. Press. Meanwhile, seven The Pakistan’s Finance Minister met an American trade delegation militants were killed and headed by Elizabeth Littlefield in Islamabad yesterday, according to six arrested in joint opera- Pakistan’s Dunya News. No shift to Syria, say Pakistan Taliban tions by Afghan security Later, the minister told media that the United State delegation has forces and the International expressed willingness to invest in bio-energy sector in Pakistan to over- PESHAWAR: The Pakistani Taliban yesterday militants from across the Muslim world eager to fight Security Assistance Force come power crisis. He said transfer of technology is major impediment rejected suggestions they were sending fighters to US-led Nato forces in Afghanistan. But since the upris- in Afghanistan in the past in the way of bilateral cooperation between both countries. Syria, saying some have gone there independently ing against Assad began in March 2011, foreign jihadists 24 hours in the country. The Ishaq Dar said Pakistan is an attractive country for investment. He but the movement’s focus remained in Pakistan. have flocked to Syria, where disparate rebel groups are Interior Ministry said raids said resolving energy crisis of the country is PML-N government’s Taliban sources said some militants, mainly Arabs seeking his downfall. Some media reports say scores of were conducted in Baghlan, first priority. and Central Asians, had gone to fight the forces of Pakistani Taliban are among them and they have set up Faryab, Jawzjan, Zabul, On the occasion, Elizabeth Little said that United State will enhance President Bashar Al Assad, but a senior leader dis- camps in Syria. A senior commander who sits on the Maidan Wardak, Paktia, cooperation with Pakistan to boost power generation through wind, missed reports of them setting up camps in Syria. Shura or ruling council of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Helmand and Herat prov- bio-gas and through alternative ways. AGENCIES The lawless tribal areas of northwest Pakistan (TTP) said there was no tactical shift and no decision had inces. Weapons were also along the Afghan border have long been a magnet for been made to send forces to Syria. AGENCIES seized. AGENCIES Women eye alliance with clerics to improve rights KABUL: A group of Afghan constitution. The campaign will start in into a province and try to fight for female lawmakers and activists “The role of the mullahs is Kabul and be implemented in the women rights if the local mullah are eyeing an unlikely alliance crucial because we’re an Islamic provinces but only in 3,500 gov- is against me,” said rights activ- with the religious leaders, hop- nation and the mosques are being ernment-funded mosques. There ist Wazhma Frogh, Director and ing to promote women’s rights used against women. Why not are 160,000 mosques in the coun- Founder of Women Peace and through Islam. use them for women?” asked MP try of 30 million people. Security Research Institute. “This Though women have made Fawzia Koofi. In April, conservative lawmak- is the only solution.” hard-fought gains in education Koofi, from the rural ers indefinitely delayed debate in Also under consideration is a and work since the collapse of Badakhshan province, is in talks turning a decree banning violence plan for textbooks for clerics that the Taliban regime in 2001, fears with the religious elite to pro- against women into law, citing it teach them women’s rights within are growing these could suffer a mote pro-female sermons dur- as un-Islamic. the context of Islam. Abdul Haq reversal when most foreign forces ing Friday prayers in mosques Efforts to strengthen the elimi- Abid, Deputy Minister for Haj leave by the end of next year. where the government pays cler- nation of violence against women and Religious Affairs, has been in In the conservative, male- ics’ salaries. law were spearheaded by Koofi. talks with Koofi for nine months dominated country where reli- The hope is that the sermons With the deadline for the with- over the campaign. “Women have gion often holds more sway than will help address the problem of drawal of foreign troops looming, sacred rights granted to them in The President and CEO of the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation, legal authority, religious leaders violence against women in a coun- some women feel they are left Islam, so imams need to preach Elizabeth Littlefield (left), with Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in have often been a major barrier try where many men are suspi- with no choice but to try to gain this to people in underdeveloped Islamabad yesterday. to women obtaining the rights cious of women’s rights and see the support of the men. provinces, so they become aware,” granted to them under the them as imported from the West. “They’ve defamed us. I can’t go Abid said. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Want financial autonomy, CBI tells apex court Premier investigation agency says it supports government’s proposal of making it independent

NEW DELHI: The CBI told the the apex court direction seeking its views director, CBI be vested with ex-officio made a minimum of three years. headed by the CVC should decide such Supreme Court yesterday that it on the government proposal to amend the powers of secretary in the union govern- While agreeing with the proposal that sanctions. broadly endorsed the government’s Delhi Police Special Establishment Act ment so that he could directly report to the CBI director could not be transferred It said that the views of the concerned proposal to make it independent and to make it independent and free from the home minister instead of existing without the prior approval of the selec- department could be sought by the com- free from political intrusions, but political intrusions by the government. practice of going through the department tion committee, the probe agency said mittee to assist it in decision making. pitched for financial independence for Agreeing with the government pro- of personnel and training. that the official’s removal and suspension Resisting the proposal to set up an taking independent and objective deci- posal that its functioning shall be vested The probe agency said it also accepted too should be with the prior approval of Accountability Commission, the CBI said sions in critical situations. in the central government in all the the government’s suggestion that the the selection committee. that its internal mechanism to deal with “A director, CBI, who is dependent on cases except those under the Prevention appointment of the CBI director should The affidavit said that removal or sus- complaints against errant officers was the ministry for routine administrative of Corruption Act, the CBI said that it be done by a committee comprising the pension of CBI director on the grounds “working satisfactorily”. “Any change, in and financial approvals is not best placed “feels that the functional autonomy of prime minister, leader of opposition in of misbehaviour or incapacity follow- this successfully functioning model, has to take independent and objective deci- the CBI is very largely predicated on the Lok Sabha and the Chief Justice of India. ing an inquiry by the Central Vigilance the potential to disturb the chain of com- sion in current situations,” the Central director, CBI’s administrative and finan- On the suggestion that the CBI direc- Committee ran counter to the spirit mand in the organization.” Bureau of Investigation said in its affi- cial powers.” tor should have experience in investigat- of proposed amendment to DSPE Act The probe agency has not favoured davit filed in the apex court. In the present arrangement, the affida- ing corruption cases, the probe agency requiring previous consent of the selec- having experienced lawyers as director “It needs to be reiterated that financial vit said that the “administrative, discipli- said the person to be appointed as direc- tion committee for a transfer. (prosecution) saying that it would open and administrative powers are essential nary and financial powers of the director, tor should have experience of working in Also concurring with the proposal that the possibility of a “contractual appoint- for the efficiency of the functioning of CBI are limited and this impinges on his the CBI at supervisory level. This should timeline of three months for the grant ment to a crucial administrative and the CBI and for insulating it from the ability to ensure expeditious and com- be an “essential criteria”, it added. of sanction to proceed against a person advisory position that may have serious ministry in its day to day functioning,” plete investigations and high ethical The investigating agency also said the under the Prevention of Corruption Act, limitation of accountability.” it added. standards among his subordinates”. proposed two-year tenure for the CBI the CBI said that a committee comprising The affidavit will come for considera- The CBI affidavit came in pursuance to The probe agency has sought that the director was too short and it should be cabinet secretary and CBI director and tion by the apex court today. IANS

Array of priests Party donation case: Home Ministry gets final chance to reply

NEW DELHI: The Delhi response. High Court yesterday gave the The PIL filed by NGO alleged “final opportunity” to the Home that Indian laws had been vio- Ministry to file its response on lated by the Congress and BJP by a plea seeking a directive for allegedly receiving funding from a CBI or SIT probe into the Vedanta Resources. Congress or the BJP allegedly The two parties breached the taking donations from sub- Representation of the People sidiaries of the Britain-based Act, 1951, and the Foreign Vedanta Group. Contribution (Regulation) Act A division bench of Acting Chief (FCRA), the PIL alleged. Justice B D Ahmed and Justice The Representation of the Vibhu Bakhru also asked both People Act prohibits political par- the political parties to file their ties from taking donations from responses within three weeks and government companies and from posted the matter for August 21. foreign sources, while the FCRA The bench expressed displeas- prohibits any financial contribu- ure of not receiving reply from tion from any foreign source or the Home Ministry despite its company to a political party reg- previous order and said it is pro- istered in India, it said. viding final opportunity to it to The PIL said the Britain-based file an affidavit in the case. Vedanta Resources and its subsid- The court took note of the iary companies in India — includ- contentions made by advocate ing Sterlite Industries, Sesa Goa Hindu priests from the Chilkur Balaji Temple offer prayers for monsoon rains (Varuna japam) as they stand in the Osman Sagar Lake in Hyderabad Prashant Bhushan, appearing and Malco — “have donated sev- yesterday. The monsoon rains, which usually hit India from June to September, are crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people. for petitioner NGO Association eral millions of rupees to major for Democratic Reforms and political parties like the Congress EAS Sarma, a former secretary in and the BJP”. the central government, that the It has asked the central gov- ministry has not been filing the ernment to “confiscate the illegal Congress mocks ‘entry fee’ at Modi’s rally reply in the case despite court’s donations under the supervision repeated orders. of the high court”. “The petition was filed in According to Vedanta’s 2012 NEW DELHI: The Congress “true value” of Modi’s speech. in Uttarakhand. BJP spokes- flood-hit state. He told report- February, the matter was again annual report, it made political yesterday took a jibe at Gujarat “To hear a Baba pravachan person Shahnawaz Hussain said ers that it was only a voluntary taken up in March and now its donations to the tune of $2.01m Chief Minister Narendra Modi (sermon), a ticket costs Rs100- that Tewari was acting more like contribution aimed at promoting July... Why the ministry is not in 2011-12, the PIL said. over the proposed Rs5 entry fee 100,000, a cinema ticket costs Congress spokesperson than a sense of participation. Naidu also filing its reply?” asked Bhushan. “Sterlite’s annual report of for his rally in Hyderabad next Rs200-500 even for a box office union minister. clarified that Rs5 would be col- The court had earlier sought 2011-12 also states that during month. But the BJP defended flop, to hear the chief minister “Congress was sprinkling lected only from those who can response from the home minis- the year the group made politi- the move saying the money was Rs5, the market discovers true salt on the wounds of victims of afford to pay. try and the Election Commission cal donations in India of Rs50m for the relief of Uttarakhand value,” Tewari posted on social Uttarakhand floods,” he said. The BJP leader dismissed criti- saying it will go through their either directly or through a trust.” flood victims. networking site Twitter yesterday. Hussain said that the money cism by the Congress saying the responses before asking the The PIL alleged that since The Bharatiya Janata Party The BJP defended its decision would be used to provide suc- ruling party was making allega- Congress and the Bharatiya Finance Minister P Chidambaram also accused the Congress of rub- to collect Rs5 from people attend- cour to people hit by floods in tions as it was unable to digest Janata Party (BJP) to respond. was a director in Vedanta till May bing salt on the wounds of the ing the August 11 public meeting Uttarakhand and politicisation the growing popularity of Modi. The poll panel had already 2004, the government might not flood victims. in Hyderabad to be addressed of the issue was “unfortunate”. “Congress is rattled by filed its response and told the take any action against the group Information and Broadcasting by Modi, saying it was a volun- BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu Narendra Modi. They are not able court that it had written twice on its own. Minister Manish Tewari tweeted tary contribution and the money said the money was being col- to digest the growing popularity to the home ministry but got no IANS that the market has discovered would be used for the relief work lected towards relief work in the of Narendra Modi,” he said. IANS

Street dentist Better ties with India a priority: Talks with Bangladesh to take Pakistan envoy up Anup Chetia’s repatriation NEW DELHI: Pakistan accords high priority to improv- ing relations with India and NEW DELHI/GUWAHATI: Bain is in a Kolkata jail. He Bangladeshi criminals hiding in both countries are working to India and Bangladesh will dis- was arrested in Kolkata last year India from where they often con- resume the dialogue process, cuss the modalities of hand- on charges of carrying fake cur- trol the underworld of the coun- Pakistani High Commissioner ing over to India top United rency and illegal arms. Hossain is try,” Ahmed said. Salman Bashir said yesterday. Liberation Front of Asom in Delhi’s Tihar jail. He is wanted “We will pressure India to take Speaking at the PHD Chamber (ULFA) militant Anup Chetia for several murders, including the steps to destroy Phensidyl pro- of Commerce and Industry, during home secretary-level killing of eight student leaders ducing factories in Indian terri- Bashir said: “The government talks this week. in 2000. tory along bordering areas. India of Pakistan, the government of Chetia, who is in a Dhaka jail Both the criminals had tar- has promised to do so several Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is since 1997, had in a petition in geted Awami League leaders times on different occasions,” clear and categorical in according May said that he wanted to be in Bangladesh including Prime he said. Chetia is wanted in India high priority to improving rela- repatriated to India. Minister Sheikh Hasina. for various crimes including tions with India.” “Bangladesh and India are The anti-dialogue faction of murder, kidnapping and extor- “Our government is settling in working out how to get it (Chetia’s ULFA has appealed to Bangladesh tion. He was arrested in Assam and I must say it considers India repatriation) done,” an official not to use Chetia’s extradition in 1991, but was freed by the state track the most important track source told IANS in Delhi. to India as a bargaining tool to government. and we are for quick movement The issue would figure in the secure the custody of Bangladeshi On December 21, 1997, the across the board in terms of rela- July 18-19 home secretary-level criminals. ULFA general secretary was tions,” he said. talks in Delhi, the source said. India and Bangladesh had arrested from Mohammadpur On holding foreign secretary- But the source clarified that signed an extradition treaty in Dhaka for illegally enter- level talks, Bashir said: “We are Chetia’s repatriation was not earlier this year. Bangladesh’s ing Bangladesh and for illegally working on the dialogue process linked to India handing over Additional Home Secretary carrying foreign currency and and fix date of various meetings.” two top Bangladeshi criminals Kamal Uddin Ahmed, who will a satellite phone. He is under Bashir said top priority for Street dentist Kulwant Singh treats Jagar Singh at his roadside dentistry in Indian jails. “The two are not be part of the talks, is quoted in detention after completion of his Pakistan is economic develop- stall in Amritsar yesterday. Street dentists, many of whom do not have linked,” the source said. Bangladesh dailies as saying that jail term. Chetia sought political ment for which it needs stable formal training, learn their skills by working as dental technicians or Two Bangladeshi criminals, both sides would discuss several asylum in Bangladesh on three and peaceful neighbour. assistants and earn about Rs300 to 400 a day. Subrata Bain and Sajjad Hossain, issues. “But our main focus will occasions —in 2005, 2008 and IANS are in Indian jails. be on the repatriation of the in 2011. IANS WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 SC strikes down dance bar ban 10 kids die MUMBAI: The city’s famous there should be a strong law to court’s decision. symbol of night life, the dance ban dance bars for which the state One of the groups which had bars which were shut down in government would take suitable challenged the state government 2005, may come alive again with steps. move, The Fight For Rights Bar the Supreme Court yesterday Nationalist Congress Party Owners Association president striking down a ban on them. state chief Bhaskar Jadhav said M S Sethi welcomed the apex after eating The Maharashtra government people of the state “support the court judgment. He said Mumbai said a panel would study the ban on dance bars”. police cancelled all licences sub- verdict. Bharatiya Janata Party state ject to the outcome of the apex Stunned by the apex court president Devendra Fadnavis said court ruling. ruling in New Delhi against the his party was “totally against the “Now that the Supreme Court forced closure of the bars, the culture of dance bars and they ruling has gone in our favour, the school meal government decided to set up must not function”. police decision stands automati- a committee of lawyers, legal Declining further comments cally cancelled. I don’t see any experts and legislators to study without studying the details of the reason why we cannot restart the Eighty hospitalised near Patna the verdict before taking appro- apex court judgment, Fadnavis dance bars from today,” Sethi told priate measures. demanded that the government reporters. PATNA: Ten children died and hospital in the town of Chhapra, Home Minister R R Patil, fac- must go in for a review petition He claimed the state govern- 80 were hospitalised yesterday around 65km from Patna. ing the opposition ire over the or make suitable amendments to ment’s regressive decision had after eating lunch served at Bihar’s chief minister state government’s defeat in the law. pushed many women into pros- their school in eastern India, announced compensation to the the apex court, said in the state Samajwadi Party state chief titution instead of making a dig- officials said. parents of the dead children. legislature: “We are waiting for Abu Asim Azmi castigated the nified living by dancing in the “The eight children died after Free meals are offered to the copy of the Supreme Court Actress Kareena Kapoor played a state government for the setback bars and urged the authorities to consuming the midday meal in impoverished students in state- judgment.” dance bar girl in the Bollywood flick in the apex court, saying that it encourage the business which was their school,” local Bihar state run schools as part of the govern- “We shall set up a panel of Chandni Bar. “failed to do its homework”. a major tourist attraction. administrator Abhijit Sinha told ment welfare measures in many lawyers, legal experts and legis- Shiv Sena leader Ramdas Leader of the bar dancers’ asso- AFP by telephone. of India’s 29 states. lators who will study it and sub- verdict of 2006, striking down Kadam demanded R R Patil’s res- ciation Varsha Kale also welcomed The children, who were all Bihar is considered one of mit report,” said Patil, who had police orders banning dance bars. ignation on the issue while party the apex court judgment and said below the age of 10, had been India’s poorest states and is imposed the controversial ban in The apex court upheld the spokesperson Neelam Gorhe said a long struggle had finally ended served a meal of rice and lentils also the most populous in the 2005. Patil said as per the com- right of bar dancers to pursue that there was no need for dance in the dancers’ favour. cooked at the school, Sinha said. country. mittee’s suggestion, the govern- their profession subject to the bars as women were subjected to “The state government did “It is a matter of uncertainty Free lunches are hugely popu- ment would decide whether to dancing bars taking licence from exploitation in these bars. nothing to rehabilitate the danc- why some of the children died lar with poor families and edu- file a review petition, approach the state authorities. The apex court struck down ers. We welcome the decision,” while others survived after con- cators see the meals as a way of a full bench of the apex court or Though hoteliers and bar danc- the state government’s August Kale said. suming the midday meal,” Sinha increasing school attendance. change the existing laws pertain- ers are overjoyed with the apex 2005 decision to shut down dance Several former bar dancers added. The midday meal scheme has ing to dance bars. court verdict, it has evoked sharp bars across the state. who spoke to various reporters Bihar state chief minister been in place for decades. An apex court bench of Chief reactions from different political The ban was earlier struck welcomed the apex court decision Nitish Kumar ordered an immedi- But children often suffer Justice Altamas Kabir and parties. down by the Bombay High Court and said that after suffering for ate investigation into the deaths. from food poisoning due to poor Justice S S Nijjar rejected the Maharashtra Congress chief in 2006, but the state government eight years, they would now be He said that a team of forensic hygiene in school kitchens and the Maharashtra government’s appeal Manikrao Thakre said the ban went in appeal in the Supreme able to dance and earn a decent experts was being rushed to the sometimes sub-standard quality against the Bombay High Court “was a correct decision” and Court which upheld the high living. IANS school to determine the cause of of the food. the deaths. Food prices have soared in Television footage showed sick India over the last six years, caus- children lying on wooden tables ing increased hardship for the 455 in a primitive state-run hospital. million people estimated by the Anxious family members World Bank to live below the pov- fanned the children in the oppres- erty line. Eight held over gang-rape of schoolgirls sive monsoon heat. Data from Unicef shows that Sinha said that the tragedy had one in three malnourished chil- PATNA: Police arrested eight the girls aged between 12 and frightened after the incident,” sparked major protests. occurred in a state-run school in dren worldwide is found in India, suspects yesterday over the 14, before assaulting them in a he said, adding that police would The school principal told police the village of Masrakh, in Bihar’s with 47 percent of those aged gang-rape of four schoolgirls nearby forest in the tribal state press for a speedy trial if the men that the gang locked him and Saran district. below three underweight. abducted from their convent of Jharkhand, a police officer said. were charged over the crime. other teachers inside a room at The 80 children taken ill were Earlier this month, the cabinet boarding house in the country’s “We have made some arrests India faces intense scrutiny the school run by a Christian all transported to hospitals, passed a decree to offer subsidised east, officials said. and we are interrogating eight over its efforts to curb violence missionary in the state’s Pakur Sinha said. grains to nearly 70 percent of the A group of men armed with persons accused in the case,” against women following the fatal district. The men then entered Some were being treated in population, or more than 800 mil- knives barged into the hostel police superintendent Y S Ramesh gang-rape of a student on a bus in the dormitory and took away state capital Patna. lion people. on Sunday night and kidnapped said. “These girls are shocked and New Delhi last December which four girls. AFP Others were admitted to AFP

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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High NEW DELHI/ have been prepared Court yesterday asked social PATNA: The on the basis of details networking site Facebook to National Investigation provided by the eye- upload a disclaimer on its home Agency (NIA) yes- witnesses and CCTV page that children below the terday released two footage. age of 13 years cannot open an sketches of a suspect Ten bombs exploded account. in the serial bomb in Bodh Gaya on July 7, A division bench of Acting Chief blasts in Bodh Gaya, in which two Buddhist Justice B D Ahmed and Justice officials said. monks were injured, Vibhu Bakhru asked Facebook to The agency, which and police recovered not allow children under 13 years is probing the blasts, three live bombs. from opening an account. released two sketches A special court has Senior advocate Parag Tripathi — one in which the sus- also been set up in One of the sketches appearing for Facebook assured pect is wearing a mask Patna to hear the case the court that the site “will upload and another without it. of serial bombings, a the disclaimer on its home page Officials said that the sketches police officer said. The court has that children below 13 years can- of the suspect, who was wearing a been established in the Patna not open the account”. Buddhist monk’s robe, have been civil court, said an official who is “You (Facebook) can write on developed with the leads available assisting the NIA’s probe into the the home page in bold letters that and were being shared with the July 7 terror attack. children below 13 are not allowed. general public for assistance in The NIA detained six people There is no harm in doing this...,” investigation. but released all of them after the court said. The court also The video clips in which the questioning. The Mahabodhi tem- asked the central government to suspect is seen in the CCTV cam- ple — a Unesco World Heritage tell it as to what law it had for the era have also been released on the site — is where the Buddha online protection of children from agency’s website. attained enlightenment around being abused. IANS The officials said that sketches 2,550 years ago. IANS WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER People on top of Pilat, the highest sand dune in Europe, at La Teste-de-Buch in the Arcachon basin, western France, yesterday. MUSCAT 34/29 Partly cloudy 33/31 Partly cloudy KUWAIT 48/33 Clear 46/33 Clear BAHRAIN 45/30 Clear 45/30 Partly cloudy SANAA 28/17 T-storms 30/17 Chance of storm RIYADH 48/33 Mostly cloudy 49/33 Clear DUBAI 45/33 Partly cloudy 44/33 Partly cloudy New moon found orbiting Neptune BAGHDAD 46/30 Clear 43/29 Clear CAPE CANAVERAL: An “We had been processing the Neptune verified the object was moon was found in 1949. astronomer studying archived data for quite some time and a moon. Images taken by NASA’s images of Neptune taken by it was on a whim that I said, Showalter and colleagues are Voyager 2 spacecraft unveiled THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW the Hubble Space Telescope has ‘OK, let’s just look out further,” mulling over a name to propose the second largest moon, Proteus, HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER found a 14th moon orbiting the Showalter said. to the International Astronomical and five smaller moons, Naiad, planet, Nasa has said. “I changed my programme Union, which has final say in the Thalassa, Despina, Galatea and ATHENS 29/23 Clear 30/24 Clear Estimated to be about 20 kilo- so that instead of stopping just matter. Larissa. WASHINGTON 35/26 Partly cloudy 35/26 T-storms metres in diameter, the moon is outside the ring system it proc- “We haven’t really gotten far Ground-based telescopes located about 105,251km from essed the data all the way out, with that. What I can say is that found Halimede, Laomedeia, Sao SYDNEY 22/13 Clear 21/14 Partly cloudy Neptune. walked away from my computer the name will be out of Roman and Nestor in 2002. Sister moon LONDON 32/18 Chance of storm 30/17 Partly cloudy Astronomer Mark Showalter, and waited an hour while it did and Greek mythology and it will Psamathe turned up a year later. PARIS 30/19 Partly cloudy 30/18 Partly cloudy with the SETI Institute in all the processing for me. When I have to do with characters who The newly found moon, des- ISTANBUL 25/21 Partly cloudy 25/22 Partly cloudy Mountain View, California, was came back, I looked at the image are related to Neptune, the god of ignated S/2004 N 1, is located MANILA 31/25 T-storms 33/25 Chance of storm searching Hubble images for and there was this extra dot that the oceans,” Showalter said. between Larissa and Proteus. It DHAKA 34/26 Chance of storm 33/27 Chance of storm moons inside faint ring fragments wasn’t supposed to be there,” Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, orbits Neptune in 23 hours. DELHI 36/26 Mostly cloudy 35/26 T-storms circling Neptune when he decided Showalter said. was discovered in 1846, just days A paper on the discovery is ISLAMABAD 35/26 T-storms 37/26 Partly cloudy to run his analysis programme on Follow-up analysis of other after the planet itself was found. pending. a broader part of the sky. archived Hubble images of Nereid, Neptune’s third largest REUTERS Royals waiting by Globe to stage ‘Hamlet’ in every country telephone for news LONDON: Shakespeare’s Globe world is disputed, with 196 being performances will be held on a This time the play will only be Theatre will perform “Hamlet” most commonly cited, while the stripped-down booth stage. performed in English but with in every country in the world to Globe says its aims to perform in “We know that there’s an appe- captions. introduce the Bard in English to around 200 states and territories. tite for Shakespeare out there “The spirit of touring, and of of Kate’s baby audiences in some of the world’s Artistic Director Dominic and there’s a fascination with communicating stories to fresh most remote locations, the thea- Dromgoole said a cast of 12 would Shakespeare,” Dromgoole said as ears, was always central to LONDON: Members of Britain’s royal family were “waiting by the tre announced yesterday. start “with a mad rampage” he prepared to take “an interna- Shakespeare’s work. We couldn’t telephone” for word of the imminent birth of Prince William and The tour will start in the in Europe then head to North tional icon” to some of the most be happier to be extending that his wife Kate’s first child, expected this week amid a heatwave in Globe Theatre in London on America, Africa, Australia, Asia, inaccessible places in the world. mission even further,” Dromgoole London and rising royal baby fever. April 23 next year to celebrate and the Middle East, performing It is not the first time the Globe said in a statement. Photographers and TV crews from Britain, the United States, Canada, Shakespeare’s 450th birthday and on beaches, in palaces and other has brought Shakespeare to an Shakespeare’s well known trag- Australia, Japan and China, have been outside St Mary’s Hospital in the final performance will also unique locations. international audience. During edy “Hamlet” was first performed London since July 1 waiting for the couple’s first child who, regardless take place, again at the Globe, on The team, which will be rotated a six-week festival last year, it around 1600 and is a vivid por- of sex, will be third-in-line to the throne. April 23, 2016, the 400th anniver- every two months, will travel by showed 37 Shakespearean works trayal of madness and the darkest Royal officials have remained vague on the due date, only saying mid- sary of his death. boat, train, jeep, ship and bus in 37 different languages to elements of the human psyche. July, but there was a noticeable rise in anticipation yesterday following The number of countries in the to minimise plane travel and 110,000 people. REUTERS remarks by Camilla, the wife of William’s father and heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles. “Hopefully by the end of the week, he or she will be there,” Camilla said during an official visit in southwest England. “We are all just wait- Tall baby ing by the telephone.” As the days of waiting for the new royal heir have rolled into weeks, rumours have sped around the Internet and via Twitter where an account Tina Turner ties has been set up for the Royal Foetus and the hashtag GreatKateWait is widely used. The waiting game has proved a boon for bookmakers offering odds on knot in Switzerland the date of the birth and for public relations companies pulling royal- related stunts to capture the interest of bored journalists looking to fill the time and publication pages. GENEVA: Tina Turner, the gown designed by Italian fashion One bookmaker sent four oversized toddlers with crowns to US-born superstar famed for giant Giorgio Armani, according Buckingham Palace while US TV station NBC stuck a sweepstake on hits such as “Private Dancer”, to the newspaper, which did not a wall by the hospital for bets on the arrival date. has married her long-time reveal its sources. Yesterday, a photo of William and Kate lookalikes pushing a pram in German partner and will Swiss media reported that a a park splashed the front page of one British newspaper. reportedly celebrate the union small stage would be set up for The Washington Post has described the child of the popular royal couple in a Buddhist ceremony in Sunday’s party, and that Turner who married in April 2011 in front of a global TV audience of two billion Switzerland on Sunday. and Bach had sent out letters to as the “world’s most famous baby”. The 73-year-old retired singer their neighbours apologising in “For us it’s nice to be at the front seat of any historic moment,” Francis wed 57-year-old record executive advance for the noise they might D’Souza, a TV anchor and reporter from CityNews in Toronto, said. Erwin Bach in a discreet civil cause. “Canadians love the royals and ... especially love this couple. They’re ceremony on the banks of Lake Turner, born Anna Mae not old and stodgy and stuffy. Before this we were in Calgary, where Zurich in Kusnacht, northern Bullock in Tennessee, was the people had lost everything in the floods. Here the tears are happiness.” Switzerland “a few days ago,” voice of such hits as “Simply To celebrate the baby’s arrival, the city of Toronto has announced municipal official Hannes Friess the Best” and “We Don’t Need plans to light up its CN Tower in pink or blue depending on the sex of said. Another Hero”, over a five-dec- the royal baby as has Niagara Falls. According to Swiss media ades long career, and moved to The gender of the baby, who will displace Prince Harry as third to reports, the pair will celebrate Switzerland in 1995 when Bach the throne behind grandfather Charles and father William, is said to the union at their Kusnacht was transferred to the country. be unknown as the couple want a surprise. manor on Sunday with an Before her relationship with But bookmakers expect a girl and have made Alexandra the favourite intimate Buddhist ceremony Bach began in the mid-1980s, for the baby’s name, followed by Charlotte, Diana and Elizabeth. George attended by 120 guests. Turner was famously married to and James are hotly tipped if it is a boy. Music industry A-listers her musical partner Ike Turner Prince William, a helicopter search-and- including David Bowie, Eros for 14 years. rescue pilot, is on standby to join Kate for Ramazzoti and Sade are due She left him in 1976 after suf- the birth at the hospital where he was born to attend along with television fering serious domestic abuse, as to the late Princess Diana 31 years ago. The talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, detailed in her autobiography I, baby will be future heir regardless of sex. according to Swiss weekly Tina, and alluded to in her 1984 The birth will be announced in the tra- Schweiz am Sonntag, which also hit “What’s Love Got To Do With ditional way with an envelope containing reported guests were requested It.” the baby’s details taken from the hospital to to wear white. Tina Turner retired from the Buckingham Palace, where the news will be The bride herself, who traded public eye after a final tour in A six-day-old newly born giraffe calf stands next to its six-year-old posted outside. in her US passport for a Swiss one 2008/2009. father named Buddy at their enclosure in Buenos Aires zoo yesterday. REUTERS earlier this year, will be wearing a AFP Wednesday 17 July 2013 8 Ramadan 1434 Volume 18 Number 5763 Price: QR2

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China creates 7.25m jobs Sun Media shutters 11 newspapers in QIB H1 profit Canada; 360 jobs lost

MONTREAL: Sun Media announced yesterday it is clos- reaches QR630m ing eight small-town newspapers across Canada and three of its free urban dailies, as it shifts to meet Strong growth in customer deposits growing demand for online news. The closures of the 24 Hours DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank’s (QIB) 1 percent increase in the first half newspapers in Ottawa and other profit reached QR630m for the first Operating Costs comprising of staff cities will result in 360 job losses. half 2013 (H1 2013). The Bank’s costs, deprecation and other expenses. But it will save the company financing activities have strongly Total Shareholders’ Equity of the bank Canadian $55m annually. “The rebounded in the second quarter to reached QR 11.2bn by the end of the downsizing is necessary to secure reach QR41.4bn having grown 9 per- second quarter 2013, helping it to our corporation’s future success in cent compared to March 2013 and maintain its healthy capital adequacy an industry that is being revolution- 15.6 percent growth to June 2012. ratios. A cleaner works at a new business building in Beijing, yesterday. China added 7.25 million jobs in ized by the advent of digital,” said Customer Deposits of the bank have During the second quarter of the first half of this year, slightly higher than the number in the same period a year earlier, the official Julie Tremblay, the media company’s moved up to QR46.3bn registering a 2013 Fitch has affirmed the Bank’s Xinhua news agency reported. chief operating officer. AFP strong growth of 14.1 percent com- long term Issuer Default Rating pared to March 2013 and 38.3 per- (IDR) of ‘A’ with a stable outlook. cent compared to June 2012 allowing Similarly Standard & Poor’s Rating the Bank to effectively fund its asset Services have also maintained QIB’s Posco drops $5.3bn steel project in India growth. Counterparty Credit Rating at “A-“ Net Profit attributable to the share- with a stable outlook which reflects holders of the Bank was QR339m for the Strong position in Qatar’s rapidly MUMBAI: South Korean steel giant steelmaker by output, signed an initial Yong Won Yoon said the company was pull- the second quarter of 2013 represent- expanding Islamic banking market, Posco scrapped yesterday a $5.3bn deal to agreement in June 2010 for the project but ing the plug on the project — set to produce ing a growth of 16.4 percent over the favourable operating environment build a steel plant in India due to delays, in a has faced big protests from farmers. six million tonnes of steel per year — “given first quarter of 2013 but 2.9 percent and strong capitalization. QIB’s dom- blow to New Delhi’s efforts to woo investors. Industrialisation has been long champi- market conditions and significant delay in below second quarter 2012. Total inant role in Islamic Banking has The company said it was dropping the oned by economists as a way to pull tens of acquiring the required land”. Income for the first half has reached been recognised through number of project in the southern Karnataka state millions of Indians out of poverty. Posco’s announcement comes as it is con- QR1.49bn derived by strong growth in accolades that it has received as the because of problems in obtaining mining But acquiring land for factories, roads, tending with a sharp downturn in the steel investment income which was offset Best Islamic Bank in Qatar from The rights and vociferous opposition from local housing and other projects has created market due to weak international economic by lower financing income and fees Banker, Islamic Finance News (IFN), residents. “This is an example that doing sometimes deadly battlegrounds with many conditions. Posco said it remains commit- due to margin compression. Euromoney, The Asset Magazine, business in India is tough,” said Sonam farmers complaining they have been forced ted to a separate $12bn steel plant project in Strong cost control established World Finance and “Global Finance”. Udasi, head of research with IDBI Capital. to sell at below market rate and robbed of eastern Orissa state, touted as India’s biggest across the Bank has ensured only THE PENINSULA Posco, the world’s fourth-largest their livelihoods. Posco’s India chairman single foreign direct investment. AFP WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS QNB, PayPal tie-up offers better online shopping Faster way to send up to QR10,000 online DOHA: QNB has partnered conveniently online and through Director for PayPal Middle East with PayPal, the leading global their mobile phone each day;” Ali and North Africa, said: “QNB is online payment service pro- Rashid Al Mohannadi, Executive the leading bank in Qatar and we vider, to give QNB retail cus- General Manager and Chief are truly excited by signing our tomers more options for secured Operating Officer told reporters first bank partnership in Mena online purchases and other pre- yesterday. with QNB. This partnership is a mium services from PayPal. “This agreement allows our major milestone on our exciting PayPal is the faster way to customers to enjoy greater flex- journey in the Middle East and pay and get paid online and via ibility and security when making North Africa, to enable global devices. No matter where you online purchases with PayPal”, he e-commerce across the region shop, PayPal doesn’t charge a said. by offering consumers and mer- transaction fee. As of today, QNB’s retail chants a safe and easy way to buy The service allows people to customers can create a PayPal and sell online and through their send money with the flexibility account through QNB website, smart phones”. to pay using their account bal- link to it their payment card and “With 66 percent of consum- ances, bank accounts or credit/ immediately start using PayPal ers in Mena region using the debit cards. The Send Money to shop safely and conveniently Internet to search for products service, powered by PayPal, is the online through millions of web- and services and only one third fastest way to securely end money sites worldwide. of them making online purchases, to almost anyone by using their QNB’s retail customers can the offline to online opportunity is email address. One can send up also top-up their own PayPal significant,” said Ghanem. Ali Rashid Al Mohannadi (left), Executive General Manager and Chief Operations Manager at QNB, and Elias to QR10,000 daily and the money accounts through their QNB cur- To celebrate the launch of Ghanem, General Manager, PayPal Mena, during the launch of PayPal in Qatar, yesterday. SHAIVAL DALAL will be instantly available to the rent account and can send money PayPal in Qatar, a number of recipient. via PayPal to any email address special offers will be available and Aramex ShopandShip.com. from eBay.com and DealExtreme. of MarkaVIP, Aramex Shop “PayPal is trusted through- through the QNB website. exclusively for QNB customers QNB customers can also take com. Details about terms and and Ship, ASOS.com, eBay and out the world to enable millions Commenting on the partner- using PayPal. Offers will include advantage of free delivery on conditions of such offers could DealExtreme. of consumers to shop safely and ship, Elias Ghanem, Managing discounts from MarkaVIP.com purchases from ASOS.com, deals be found on respective websites THE PENINSULA

EU backs France in Mercedes row MEED Summit to discuss new regulatory framework BRUSSELS: EU Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani gave DOHA: The Governor of Qatar framework for financial institu- of their capital and reserves, the of the world’s biggest sovereign France some succour and Germany’s Daimler cause for concern Central Bank (QCB) H E Sheikh tions and other initiatives to facili- Central Bank hopes to avoid the wealth funds; however, the region yesterday in a row over new cars that Brussels fears were produced Abdulla bin Saoud Al Thani tate growth in the banking sector. mistakes of the global financial has recently emerged as a source in breach of EU rules. will discuss the new regulatory The three-day event will gather crisis which was largely precipi- of deals, and this is where Qatar The German automaker has yet to apply European Union standards framework, for local banks as over 100 senior decision-makers tated by the massive debt expo- hopes to create a powerful pres- imposed in January limiting air conditioning coolant to a type deemed well as international banks look- from leading domestic and inter- sure of banks. ence,” said Edmund O’ Sullivan, by the industry more environment-friendly. ing forward to set up offices in national lenders, insurance and The Governor’s keynote address Chairman, MEED Events, organ- As a result, France has blocked the sale of certain A, B and CLA- Qatar, at the upcoming ‘MEED financial institutions to discuss the will be followed by presentations isers of the summit. class models, in contravention of separate EU rules governing the free Qatar Banking Summit 2013’ roadmap for achieving its goal of from the Qatar Financial Markets Qatar has also announced movement of goods across the single market of 28 states and half a to be held here from September becoming a financial powerhouse Authority and the Qatar Financial plans to invest in listed securi- billion consumers. 9-11 at Renaissance Hotel, said in the region. Centre Regulatory Authority to ties in emerging markets through But ahead of potentially heated Brussels talks on Wednesday a press statement yesterday. More importantly, those deliver a comprehensive overview Aventicum Capital Management, among national experts, Tajani said that a “preliminary” European As part of its efforts to trans- attending the Summit will for the of the latest changes and initia- a joint venture it established last Commission analysis had ruled that France was entitled to block for form Qatar into the region’s first time be able to discuss the tives in key areas of Qatar’s bank- year with Credit Suisse, once sale cars that do not conform. financial hub, Qatar Central Bank ramifications of new rules intro- ing, finance and insurance sectors. its licence is obtained. This is in “Currently, in the European market, there are vehicles produced (QCB), in association with Qatar duced by the QCB recently, aimed “Among these include the addition to the $250m partner- by this manufacturer [Daimler] that, according to the preliminary Financial Market Authority and at regulating the anticipated bor- development of Qatar’s capital ship Qatar signed with Barclays Commission analysis, are not in conformity with their type-approval,” Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory rowing spree required to fund and equity markets to attract glo- Natural Resource Investments, he said. Authority will be the hosts of the Qatar’s massive infrastructure bal and regional fund managers which will look after opportunities “Non-conform vehicles cannot be sold or registered in the European event. Qatar is bidding to become spending requirements. and investors. The Middle East related to private equity invest- Union,” he underlined. Since January 1, EU norms demand that car the Gulf region’s financial hub, By putting a cap on banks has long been considered mostly ments in the natural resources makers use a refrigerant called R1234yf. AFP introducing a new regulatory security portfolios to 25 percent as a source of funds, with some sector. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Qatari investors eye Workers’ strike Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah 293-room five-star Anantara set to open in September

DOHA: Dubai-based devel- simply leased when vacant to earn respectively, and impressive ter- oper Seven Tides is receiving rental income,” said Abdulla Bin race or balcony spaces, most with increasing interest from Qatari Sulayem, CEO, Seven Tides sea views. investors for the phase one “Dubai is a popular destina- There are also a limited release of its exclusive Anantara tion for Qatari visitors. Airline number of three-bedroom pent- Residences Dubai, situated on schedules are good allowing easy houses, each with sunken swim- Palm Jumeirah, according to a accessibility, making Dubai a ming pools, private terraces and press note by the developer. great ‘family and friends’ loca- balconies offering up to an addi- Marketed exclusively by Better tion,” added Bin Sulayem. tional 3,000 square feet of space Homes, the collection of 442 lux- The Emirate and The Anantara for relaxation and entertaining; ury apartments and 14 penthouses Residences, are perfectly posi- and potential penthouse own- are fronted by a private stretch of tioned to accommodate the cul- ers also have the option of fully white sand beach with all resi- tural and social requirements of customising their interiors, Bin dences enjoying spectacular pano- Gulf nationals, from the availabil- Sulayem said. ramic views of the Arabian Gulf, ity of high-end retail destinations A complete lifestyle experience Atlantis Hotel, Burj Al Arab and and the city’s family-friendly is included in the price, with resi- the Dubai Marina skyline. entertainment calendar, to the dents enjoying access to five-star “We are not surprised by the high spec interior design of the facilities at the 293-room five-star level of interest shown by Qatari apartments and penthouses, and Anantara Dubai Palm Jumeirah, investors. The Dubai real estate unrivalled lifestyle access to the Resort & Spa, which is due to market is buoyant, apartment adjacent Anantara Dubai Palm open in September 2013. The sales prices have grown by 27 Jumeirah, Resort & Spa. hotel facilities available include a percent year to date and by 12 The fully furnished residences gym, 107,600-square feet of tem- Anti-austerity protesters and parliamentarians of the anti-bailout radical leftist SYRIZA party participate percent in the first quarter of comprise a total of 442 one and perature controlled lagoon pools, in a rally in Athens, during a 24-hour general strike, yesterday. Trains ground to a halt and hospitals this year alone. Also it’s not only two-bedroom apartments, rang- six dining and entertainment ven- worked with emergency staff as Greek workers went on strike in protest at government plans to fire a convenient location for a second ing from 1,158 to 1,524-square ues and the Anantara Spa. thousands of public sector employees. home, it can be bought-to-let or feet and 1,743 to 2,246 square feet THE PENINSULA

Bank Dhofar aims for merger talks European refiners buy Emirati oil to cover shortage LONDON/SINGAPORE: Two these movements. “Sours are struggling due to a weak econ- medium sour Russian Urals. to August due to refinery main- with smaller peer cargoes of Emirati crude oil are still weak in the east, while in the omy, rising competition from new “Sour crude in the tenance in Asia while lacklustre heading to Europe in a rare Mediterranean there has been Middle East refineries and lower Mediterranean is super strong. margins discouraged refiners from DUBAI: Oman’s Bank Dhofar arbitrage move as European an acute shortage,” one regional US products demand. Since 2009, A lot of arbitrage must work,” a processing more crude. has approached smaller peer refiners try to find cheap alter- trader said. Urals has rallied in some 1.8 million bpd of European Singapore-based trader said, add- There was excess supply from Bank Sohar with a view to native sour oil after tight sup- recent weeks to an all-time high capacity has been mothballed and ing the wide Brent-Dubai EFS UAE’s state oil company ADNOC merging to create Oman’s sec- plies pushed up prices on key on various factors, including Russia more is expected to be shut in. also helped open the arbitrage as refiners had shunned the ond-largest bank, Dhofar said grade Russian Urals, shipping diverting flows from Europe to As a result, they are particu- flow for Gulf grades to move into grades due to high official selling yesterday, sending shares in and trading sources said. China and to Russian domestic larly vulnerable to high prices and the Mediterranean region. prices. An unexpected release of both banks higher. Phibro sold a 1 million-barrel refiners to meet summer demand. periodically must cut runs when August Brent’s premium to Dubai additional June-July Oman car- Bank Sohar could not imme- cargo of medium sour Upper The shift in Russian flows is margins turn negative, mak- rose to just above $5 a barrel, the goes by Oman’s Ministry of Oil diately be reached for comment. Zakum to Litasco for August felt more acutely as the market ing cheap Gulf barrels particu- highest since March. The Middle and Gas also added to the supply Bank Dhofar said in its bourse delivery into Europe, traders must already do without Iranian larly appealing to now expensive East crude market was weak in June overhang. REUTERS filing that the deal would be said, adding moving this par- and Syrian crude, which are cut dependent on Sohar being inter- ticular Emirati grade to Europe off due to western sanctions. ested, as well as on both sets of was rare. Total had also sold a 1 The two Emirati shipments shareholders and sector regula- million-barrel cargo of light sour follow another arbitrage move- tors agreeing. Murban for August loading to the ment of Omani crude to the The new entity would have Mediterranean, they said. Mediterranean. Trafigura sent total assets worth 4.13bn rials High prices on Europe-destined a 1 million-barrel cargo, which ($10.73bn), according to first- sour crude coupled with weak arrived at Huelva in Spain at the quarter financial statements, and demand for sour crude in Asia end of June, trading sources and a market capitalisation of around has opened a price gap over the Reuters AIS Live ship tracking $1.76bn. Both figures would still last month, which has allowed showed. European refiners are put it significantly behind Oman’s largest lender, Bank Muscat, which has total assets and market QATARI MARKET value of 8.23bn rials and $3.34bn. Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Currently, Bank Dhofar and Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 103.31 0.55 % Aa2 AA Bank Sohar are the fourth and Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 104.50 1.80 % Aa2 AA fifth-largest banks by total assets and second and seventh-largest Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 120.25 2.71 % Aa2 AA by market value respectively. Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 113.25 2.99 % Aa2 AA News of the merger sent shares Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 107.25 3.51 % Aa2 AA in Bank Sohar as much as 3.4 per- Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 157.50 4.76 % Aa2 AA cent higher in early trading on Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 117.25 5.19 % Aa2 AA the Oman bourse, before retreat- Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 108.38 5.18 % Aa2 AA ing to a gain of 2 percent at 0725 Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 104.00 1.48 % Aa2 AA GMT. Bank Dhofar shares were 1.6 percent up in limited trading. Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 110.50 3.31 % Aa2 AA Joice Mathew, head of research Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 104.75 1.38 % A1 A- at United Securities, said the Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 102.63 2.63 % A1 A- tie-up would be positive for both QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.38 1.84 % NR NR lenders. QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.00 1.81 % Aa3 A+ QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 103.00 2.50 % Aa3 A+ Morocco firm may buy Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 102.88 2.67 % A2 A- Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 104.25 2.01 % A2 A stake in Maroc deal Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 123.50 3.44 % A2 A Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 104.50 4.05 % A2 A RABAT: Morocco’s state Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 102.25 4.75 % A2 A investment vehicle Caisse de Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 105.75 0.67 % Aa3 A Depot et de Gestion (CDG) Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.75 3.58 % Aa3 A may team up with Dubai-based Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 108.50 3.93 % Aa3 A Etisalat in the latter’s planned purchase of a majority stake SOVEREIGNS in Maroc Telecom, CDG’s chief Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P executive said yesterday. Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 103.75 0.28 % Aa2 AA French group Vivendi wants to Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 121.50 2.68 % Aa2 AA sell its 53 percent stake in Maroc Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 109.00 2.50 % NR NR Telecom, the kingdom’s biggest mobile and fixed communica- Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 104.88 3.51 % NR NR tions provider, but Morocco wants Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 117.25 4.88 % NR NR Etisalat to take on a local partner Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 109.38 5.11 % NR NR as a condition of backing its bid. Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 104.38 1.07 % Aa2 AA CDG, the government’s finan- Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 112.75 3.63 % NR BBB cial arm which manages the state’s Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 104.50 4.71 % NR BBB pension funds, cannot take more Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 87.50 8.18 % Caa1 CCC+ than 10 pct in Maroc Telecom as it already controls 30 pct of the Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 104.50 3.78 % NR BBB- *Periodic Distribution Amount second-largest operator Meditel IMPORTANT NOTE: along with France Telecom and Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which Morocco’s FinanceCom. is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services “The law allows us to take up to Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary 10 pct of Maroc Telecom, which it data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not is already a lot for us,” said CDG take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds chief Anas Alami. can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant A source familiar with the mat- liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not ter said CDG would go for 5 or 6 a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and pct of Maroc Telecom, although consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. Alami said this had not been decided yet and talks were still underway. “It is (too) early to confirm that,” he said. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

QE Indices Summary QE Index 9,437.27 0.40 % WORLD STOCK INDICES GOLD & SILVER EXCHANGE QE Total Return Index 13,483.7 0.40 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 2,818.05 0.03 % RATE QE All Share Index 2,383.82 0.35 % INDEX Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low QE All Share Banks & Financial 2,261.82 0.09 % GOLD Buying Selling Services All Ordinaries 4968.632 3.027 0.06 5229.8 4610.6 QE All Share Consumer Goods & 5,542.21 0.06 % QR151.7074 US$ ...... QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 Services Cac 40 Index/D 3856.95 -21.63 -0.56 4072.24 3575.17 QE All Share Industrials 3,166.39 0.93 % SILVER UK ...... QR 5.4680 QR 5.5443 QE All Share Insurance 2,234.86 0.16 % Dj Indu Average 15484.26 19.96 0.13 15542.4 12471.5 QR 2.3531 Euro ...... QR 4.7505 QR 4.8172 QE All Share Real Estate 1,863.01 0.36 % CA$ ...... QR 3.4672 QR 3.5354 QE All Share Telecoms 1,324.72 0.93 % Egypt Cma Gn Idx 1026.29 32.57 3.28 999.95 312.38 Swiss Fr ...... QR 3.8408 QR 3.8947 QE All Share Transportation 1,669.49 0.21 % Hang Seng Inde/D 21312.38 9.07 0.04 23944.74 19426.36 Yen ...... QR 0.0363 QR 0.0370 QE Market Summary Comparison Aus$ ...... QR 3.3302 QR 3.3955 Iseq Overall/D 4025.16 -32.74 -0.81 4118.68 3396.67 CRUDE OIL Today Previous day Ind Re ...... QR 0.0609 QR 0.0620 16-07-2013 15-07-2013 Karachi 100 In/D 23160.89 -11.46 -0.05 23388.68 16036.31 Pak Re ...... QR 0.0360 QR 0.0367 Index 9,437.27 9,399.30 BRENT Peso ...... QR 0.0834 QR 0.0851 Change 37.97 1.11 Nikkei 225 Index 14599.12 92.87 0.64 15942.6 10398.61 SL Re ...... QR 0.0274 QR 0.0280 % 0.40 0.01 $ 109.41 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 1687.18 1329.24 Taka ...... QR 0.0462 QR 0.0473 YTD% 12.90 12.45 DUBAI Nep Re ...... QR 0.0381 QR 0.0389 Volume 5,788,240 3,584,897 Straits Times/D 3224.96 -11.86 -0.37 3464.79 3065.42 Value (QAR) 196,097,407.58 141,787,991.61 SA Rand ...... QR 0.3679 QR 0.3752 Straits Times/D 2971.47 22.7 0.77 3035.78 2657.77 $ 104.96 Trades 2,849 2,074

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Qatar eye Tiger ‘good to go’ for Open victory The American says his elbow feels better ahead of Muirfield test against Netherlands GULLANE, United Kingdom: it would hamper this week’s Open Stay patient, World number one and three- bid. LJUBUSKI, Bosnia and time British Open champion “The elbow feels good. It’s one Herzegovina: Qatar will Tiger Woods shrugged off lin- of the good things of taking the play all out for a win when the World gering injury concerns yester- time off to let it heal and get the they face the Netherlands in day as he prepared to launch his treatment and therapy on it.” their third game of the IHF quest for a 15th major crown at At the same time, Woods didn’t World Junior Championship No.1 tells Muirfield in Scotland. attempt to mask concerns about in Ljubuski, Bosnia and “Everything is good to go,” playing shots out of the rough Herzegovina today. McIlroy Woods told a pre-tournament similar to the ones that exacer- Winless Qatar, currently press conference when prodded bated the injury last month at fourth in the table behind GULLANE, United about the nagging injury, which Merion. Germany, Switzerland and Kingdom: Tiger Woods had dogged his bid for the US Open at “I’m going to need that elbow Croatia, will not take their some words of comfort for Merion in June. “The elbow feels to be good. And just in case the fifth-placed opponents lightly. Rory McIlroy on yester- good,” he added. rough was -- well, reports were it The country will once again day, telling the struggling The 37-year-old American has was going to be high, and it was look to left back player Selvedin Northern Irishman that he four tournament wins in 2013 but going to be lush. I needed to have Omahic and left-winger Hamdi endured a similar form slump has failed to claim one of golf’s this thing set and healed. And Ayed for inspiration. early in his career. all-important majors since a sex everything is good to go,” he said. The duo, who have scored The 37-year-old American scandal erupted in November The last time the Open was seven goals apiece from the and the 24-year-old McIlroy 2008, ending his marriage and held here, in 2002, Woods went first two games, are in fine have had contrasting seasons derailing his phenomenal career. out in his third round just as a nick. so far, with Woods winning Woods, who has battled back storm system came out of the Goalkeeper Grco Mirnes, four tournaments and regain- this year and deposed Rory North Sea, whipping up havoc on US golfer Tiger Woods smiles during his press conference prior to the who has so far saved 16 shots ing the world number one spot McIlroy as world number one the course and condemning the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield golf course in Gullane, at goal, is also key to Qatar’s from the USPGA champion, with his string of early season American to a 10-over 81, to date Scotland, Britain yesterday. The Open Championship take place from hopes. who is winless all year. victories, appeared confident the worst score of his professional tomorrow until Sunday at Muirfield golf course. On the other side, centre- The trouble for McIlroy and relaxed ahead of this year’s career. back Dario Polman is the man stems from his decision to British Open challenge on a par- “I just happened to catch the to watch. switch equipment providers, ticularly sun-baked Muirfield. weather at the worst time and I With 12 goals in two moving from Titleist to Nike, “I feel very good about my didn’t play well at the same time. matches, he is likely to cause the long-time suppliers of game. I’ve had a pretty good year So it was a double whammy,” Woods recalls the the most problems. Woods. this year so far; won four times. Woods reflected yesterday in a But Qatar’s defensive players He missed the cut, as did Even though I haven’t won a press conference. are quite capable of containing Woods, in his first tournament major championship in five years, He added: “It was a tough one. day he met Mandela any challenges. of the season in Abu Dhabi and I’ve been there in a bunch of them But that’s the way it goes.” Qatar’s right wing player has struggled to get fully to where I’ve had chances. I just Despite his problems here in GULLANE, United the following year with Mandela, Eldar Memisevic, who got grips with his new clubs, miss- need to keep putting myself there the past, question marks over his Kingdom: It takes a lot South Africa’s anti-apartheid injured during the Four- ing the cut once again in the and eventually I’ll get some,” the elbow, and the fact that he has to impress a young golfing hero, as unforgettable. Nation International Friendly Irish Open, his last tournament American said. failed to close out a major since supremo who has just won the “We walked in the room and Tournament in Doha recently, before Muirfield. But golf fans and pundits are the US Open at Torrey Pines in US Masters, but Tiger Woods my dad and I were just kind is likely to play in the champi- Woods though said that such increasingly wondering why June, 2008, Woods has still been yesterday recalled how his first of looking around. And I said, onship for the first time. He is changes took time to absorb, Woods, who is chasing American installed as the bookies favourite. meeting with Nelson Mandela ‘Dad, do you feel that?’ And he a strong player who can single- especially for a player as young legend Jack Nicklaus’s pinnacle of Conditions at bone-dry 15 years ago was an experience says, ‘Yeah, it feels different in handedly turn matches. and developing as McIlory. 18 major wins, is repeatedly com- Muirfield golf course on Scotland’s like no other. this room.’ And it was just like Qatar coach Dragan Zovko “I won a major championship ing up short. Some are asking if east cost, are comparable to those “I went down there to play a different energy in the room,” sounded confident before the (1997 Masters) my first one he still has the mental fortitude to at Hoylake in 2006 when he won Sun City, and he invited us to his Woods said. game. out as a professional, and then win the game’s toughest contests. the third of his British Open home. And my father and I went The American world number He said: “Against European I proceeded to alter my swing Woods, who is still the pre- titles. to have lunch with him. It still one added: “And maybe, I’m runners-up Croatia, my players a bit with Butch (Harmon),” tournament favourite despite the On that occasion, ultra-quick gives me chills to this day, think- guessing probably 30 seconds showed they can hold their own he said after completing a fact that his left elbow injury has fairways meant that he was able ing about it,” Woods told jour- later, I heard some movement against the best in the busi- third nine-holes of practice at kept him off the course competi- to use his driver just the once in nalists at Muirfield in Scotland, behind me and it was President ness. Even against Germany, Muirfield. tively since Merion, insisted he 72 holes and still win comfortably. where the start of the British Mandela folding up the paper. we led 12-10 at half-time before “And it took me the bet- only needed the rub of the green “This golf course is playing sim- Open tomorrow coincides with And it was pretty amazing. losing out.” ter part of a year and a half, to add to his collection. ilar to that. It’s quick. And so far Mandela’s 95th birthday. “The energy that he has, that He added: “We’ll play for maybe almost two years before I think it’s just a shot here I’ve played a couple of days now, Woods became a poster boy he exudes, is unlike any person nothing short of a win against it really clicked in. and there. It’s making a key up- three days, and I’ve only hit a cou- for multiracial America in 1997 I’ve ever met. And it was an the Netherlands. They’re a “I was getting questioned and-down here or getting a good ple of drivers here,” Woods said. when, at just 21, he became the honour to meet him at his home. good team and boast of some of quite a bit through that era, bounce here, capitalising on an The American who finished first black golfer to win a major, And that’s an experience that I the best talents in recent times. that stage of my career, why opportunity here and there.” tied for 28th after his last major a feat all the more startling as he will never, ever forget.” But I’m confident my boys can would you do something to Woods, who is still taking pain- bid at Merion, begins his first did it on a course that up until Former South African presi- emerge as triumphant.” that nature? There’s a lot of killers and receiving treatment on round at 2:45 pm. He opens seven years previously had been dent Mandela, is confined to his Algeria are the last team in questions of, why would you the elbow injury that he picked up with Graeme McDowell and off limits to African-Americans. Pretoria hospital bed on life- group B. change something? And do at the Players Championship in Louis Oosthuizen tomorrow. He described his private lunch support . AFP The top four sides from the this, do that, and how could you early May, didn’t seem to think AFP group will qualify for the tour- change something that won the nament’s second round. Masters by 12? Els becomes THE PENINSULA “And, yeah, I’ve gone through Defending champion that, that process. I think that Ernie Els of South for him, he’s going through Africa catches a ball Asian Tour’s first that right now and he’s mak- Aspire4Sport on the fifth green ing some alterations. during a practice international “Only he knows it’s for the to take place in betterment of his game. People round ahead of the obviously speculate and analyse British Open golf ambassador November and hypothesise about what championship at he should or shouldn’t do, but Muirfield in Scotland, GULLANE, SCOTLAND: deep down he knows what he’s yesterday. The Ernie Els, who begins the DOHA: The Aspire4Sport doing.” British Open is the defence of his British Open title Congress and Exhibition will There were words of advice oldest tournament tomorrow, has agreed to become take place from November 16 also for McIlroy, who will have among the four major the Asian Tour’s first interna- to 19, 2013 at Aspire Dome, the a new driver in his bag this championships in tional ambassador. Aspire Zone Foundation ann- week for what will be his sixth professional golf. It The 43-year-old South African counced yesterday. British Open campaign, from is the only major to also joins South Korean pair Yang In its fourth year of sustained Nick Faldo. be held outside the Yong-eun and KJ Choi, Fijian growth, Aspire4Sport is the The Englishman, who has United States. Vijay Singh and Jeev Milkha leading regional platform for temporarily come out of Singh of India as an honorary businesses, sports entities, ath- retirement to play one more member of the 10-year tour. letes and decision makers to dis- time at a course, believes that “It is a great honour for me ... cover the latest sports products, the Ulsterman needs to once this is absolutely wonderful,” Els services, and technologies while again fully commit himself to Faldo boosts India’s hope Kapur said in a news release yesterday. discussing hot-button industry the game. He added: “I’ve played in Asia trends and topics. “You have a window of oppor- for many, many years and ... this Speaking of the event, Hamad tunity, that’s my only words of GULLANE, United Kingdom: Shiv Kapur “This is the first time I played with him. It is obvi- is something which I will take Saif Buhindi, Executive Director wisdom to Rory. You have, say, believes that he is more prepared for his British ously cool. He is arguably one of the greatest golfers seriously. of Aspire4Sport said: “The sports a 20-year window as an athlete. Open challenge after receiving valuable advice of all time. It was a great experience,” he said. “Who knows where the Asian industry in the Middle East Concentrate on golf. Nothing from Muirfield expert and six-time major cham- “It is nice to have some Indian representation Tour will be in 10 years’ time? I continues to grow and provide else,” he said yesterday. AFP pion Nick Faldo. here. I think we got a really strong bunch of players can only see it growing ... golf is opportunities to a vast number Kapur, the only Indian in the elite field, was in the at the moment and it won’t be long before we have so spectacular over there for the of businesses. Aspire4Sport has company of Faldo, who won two of his three Open three or four of us playing in the majors. people and they are so excited established itself as the gateway titles at Muirfield, when they played a nine-hole “My family is here and I’m looking forward to the about it. to the sports industry in the practice round on Monday. experience. I’m carrying the hopes of the nation so I “Golf courses are going up all region, and in alignment with “He knows the course very well and I tried to pick have to live up to that billing,” said Kapur, who has over the place there. It just keeps the 2030 National Vision, we aim his brain on how to play in the wind and he was won once on the Asian Tour. growing.” at becoming the leader of this quite helpful and gave me some nice pieces of advice. Meanwhile, rising Japanese star Hideki Former world number one Els flourishing industry on an inter- We played nine holes and it was a cool experience. I Matsuyama has sought out the advice of veteran has been a big supporter of the national level.” really had some good words of wisdom,” said Kapur. compatriot Shigeki Maruyama. Asian Tour, featuring in 26 tour- In 2012 over 170 companies “He told me to keep my arms and hands soft when The 21-year-old, who was Asian amateur cham- naments across the region since from 20 countries participated playing in the wind. We also studied the approach pion in 2011 and 2012, made his professional debut 2004 and picking up two victories in the exhibition. shots into the greens and he said when you are on only in April when he started his fourth year at a and 16 other top-10 finishes. Through the use of purpose a links course you have to study what’s around the Japanese university. The golfer known as the ‘Big built business to business meet- greens and not just on the greens. Playing on links courses like Muirfield is some- Easy’, for his smooth-swinging ing rooms, the companies held “That’s something we are not accustomed too. thing that is new to him and Maruyama, who has style, will play alongside U.S. Open over 250 scheduled intimate dis- We usually look at the yardage and hit our shots played in six Opens, had valuable insight to hand winner Justin Rose and American cussions with key stakeholders but these little things make a difference,” added on to him. Brandt Snedeker in the first two from the region’s sports indus- the Indian, who will have Gregory Bourdy of France “I did just meet with Shigeki Maruyama, who rounds of this week’s Open. tries including the Qatar 2022 and Scott Jamieson of Scotland for company in the finished fifth here in 2002. And he gave me a lot The British Open will be Supreme Committee and Qatar opening two rounds. of advice not only on links courses but here on held tomorrow until Sunday at Olympic Committee. The 31-year-old reckons the experience of playing Muirfield,” Matsuyama said. Muirfield in Scotland. The B2B online matchmaking The golf bag of Rory McIlroy with Faldo, who is coming out of retirement to play “Shigeki told me that the wind is usually strong The tournament is the oldest of forum witnessed great success stands on the eighth green dur- this week, will put him in good stead as he shoulders here at Muirfield and I need to hit the ball low. And the four major golf competitions that contributed to the overall ing a practice round. the sole Indian challenge at the year’s third major we talked a lot about how to hit the low shots and , and the only held outside the growth of the sports industry in championship. he helped me a lot there.” AFP United States. REUTERS the region. QNA WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Farah and Italian police probe into Ennis-Hill headline British squad Powell, Simpson and physio for worlds

LONDON, Greater London: The athletes blame physiotherapist, leave Italy after their hotel is raided Double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah and heptathlon star Jessica Ennis-Hill will head- ROME, LATIUM: Italian line the British squad for next police have opened an inves- month’s world championships tigation for doping against in Moscow, British Athletics Jamaican sprinters Asafa announced yesterday. Powell and Sherone Simpson, Farah and Ennis-Hill were two police said yesterday, as the of the biggest successes of the athletes blamed their physio- London Games, and the former therapist after they failed drugs has been named for both the tests. 5,000m and 10,000m events. The pair, who tested positive Ennis-Hill, however, has for a banned stimulant, were endured an injury-plagued sea- training in northeast Italy but son that has seen her absent from have now left the country after a the track as she bids to shake off police raid on their hotel, a local concerns over her ankle. police officer said. James Dasaolu, who became the Canadian physiotherapist Chris second fastest Briton ever when Xuereb, who is similarly under he clocked 9.91sec to win the investigation, has also left Italy, British championships last week- the officer, who declined to be end, will be joined in the 100m identified, added. by former drugs cheat Dwain The prosecutor’s office in Chambers and Harry Aikines- Udine, the city closest to where Aryeetey. AFP the Jamaican team was staying, is leading the investigation for suspected violation of a law that Kenya’s Rudisha punishes the supply and ingestion of stimulants. withdraws from Prosecutors have also con- firmed the seizure of around 50 A file picture of Jamaican Sherone Simpson winning the women’s 100m at the International Stadium Festival ISTAF in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Moscow event boxes including creams, sprays Germany, 22 August 2010. RIGHT: A file picture of Asafa Powell of Jamaica in action during the Men’s 100 meters race at the IAAF World challenge and vials that were seized in a Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic, 27 June 2013. Powell and Jamaican team-mate Simpson have each tested positive for banned search of the rooms of Powell, stimulants as media reports. NAIROBI: Kenya’s Olympic Simpson and Xuereb in the night 800m champion and world between Sunday and Monday. record-holder David Rudisha Police and prosecutors are cur- the build-up to the athletics world Italian police reportedly clear tests in the past. He starts up in March this year, according has withdrawn from next rently looking for a laboratory championships in Moscow next brought Xuereb in for questioning working with a new physio who to Doyle. month’s World Championships that can carry out tests. month and put sprinting in the and raided his base on Monday, gives him new supplements and He added that Xuereb gave in Moscow, his management “All we know is that they spotlight. although ANSA said no arrest all of a sudden he has a positive Powell 17 supplements, three of team said yesterday. (Powell, Simpson and Xuereb) Britain’s Daily Telegraph had been made. test in his first test. which were administered by injec- Rudisha’s participation had have left Lignano,” the officer quoted Paul Doyle as saying in “Asafa and Sherone have been “It’s obvious there’s no other tion, and all were legal, he added. been in doubt because of a slow- said. “The substances we seized an interview that both Powell and working with WADA (the World reason why he would have tested Simpson checked whether any healing knee injury sustained still have to be tested. Simpson had only recently begun Anti-Doping Agency) to arrange positive other than something of the supplements contained while running in New York’s “We began the investigation working with Xuereb. this police raid, so to speak,” being in the new supplements he’s proscribed substances, although Central Park. because of the positive test results US-based Doyle said he had no Doyle was quoted as saying. been taking. did not seek independent medical “It is just not possible for David that were announced. We are reason to suspect “mal-intent” on “Once we knew of the posi- “So we immediately asked verification, Doyle said. to effectively defend his world not planning to conduct our own Xuereb’s part and that, like the tive test, we realised that Asafa WADA to get the police there to He also accepted that Powell title in Moscow, so we announced (doping) tests (on the athletes).” athletes, he was probably unaware and Sherone were the only two go in and search everything in had not informed his coach, this morning his withdrawal,” his The development came after of exactly what the supplements athletes in the group who had the physio’s possession as well as Stephen Francis, about the coach, Colm O’Connell, said. both athletes pointed to contam- contained. been given new supplements by everything in Asafa and Sherone’s supplements. The Irishman said Rudisha’s inated food supplements as the Both athletes tested positive for this phsyio that they are work- possession.” Powell, a 4x100m relay gold manager James Templeton had reason why they failed the dope oxilofrine at the Jamaican cham- ing with. Xuereb began treating Powell medallist, is one of the four fastest informed Athletics Kenya and the tests, which have cast a cloud over pionships last month. “Asafa’s had probably 150 to 200 for a hamstring injury that flared men over 100m in history. AFP IAAF of the decision. REUTERS

Guardiola key Spanish Mourinho to Chelsea manager player Jose Mourinho to Thiago’s Thiago target four (right) with Alcantara players Michael Bayern move (right)and trophies with Essien during Bayern their team’s Munich’s training session BERLIN: Bayern Munich’s lat- head Chelsea at Rajamangala est signing Thiago Alcantara coach Pep National Stadium has revealed that the chance Guardiola BANGKOK: Jose Mourinho in Bangkok, to work again with former pose during said yesterday Chelsea would be Thailand, Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola the official gunning for victory in all four yesterday. was one of his main rea- competitions this season as he presentation sons for joining the European prepared to kick off his second of Bayern champions. spell in charge with a friendly in The 22-year-old completed Munich’s Bangkok. new player New Fulham owner his transfer from Barcelona to The 50-year-old Portuguese Munich on Monday, having signed at the said there were “no priorities” a four-year deal with an initial fee training area for Chelsea as they tackle the of €20m ($26m), with an extra in Munich, Premier League, Champions Khan urged to tap five million euros from a future yesterday. League, FA Cup and League Cup. friendly between Bayern and “The next match is the impor- Barcelona. tant one. If our next match is Pakistan talent Thiago, the son of Brazil’s mid- plays very attractive football. choices. Having changed Bayern’s the Champions League, the fielder Mazinho who was part And I believe the arrival of Pep system from the 4-2-3-1 forma- Champions League is our com- KARACHI: Pakistan foot- visible. “We definitely have talent of the Selecao which won the Guardiola will provide an addi- tion when they won the treble of petition,” Mourinho said. “And ball chiefs yesterday urged new at our disposal. Look at our struc- 1994 World Cup, was given his tional boost. European, league and cup titles the same with the Cups because Fulham owner Shahid Khan to ture in which our Under-14 and Barcelona debut by Guardiola, “We’ve known each other for last season, Guardiola has intro- we know what the English Cups go back to his roots and tap up Under-16 teams are doing well,” who won 14 titles in four years at a long time and he’s a coach who duced a 4-1-4-1 pattern. mean, especially the FA. And we young talent in the South Asian he said. the Camp Nou. has placed great faith in me. Thiago will be competing with want to play every competition country. “We won the South Asian “There aren’t many coaches “I’m a huge fan of the way he Goetze, Holland’s Arjen Robben, with this mentality -- so for us, Billionaire Khan, born in the Under-16 title in Nepal in 2011 in the world with his ability. He likes football to be played.” France’s Franck Ribery, Toni no priorities.” eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, and will defend it later this was definitely one of the impor- The Spaniard has the chance to Kroos, Thomas Mueller and Swiss He named Manchester United took over the English Premier month.” tant reasons for me making the face his former club in the next wing Xherdan Shaqiri amongst and Manchester City, both also League club in a deal struck on British-born Pakistan inter- move to Munich,” Thiago said of week: Bayern host Barcelona at the stars vying for places in the under new management, as his Friday. national defender Zesh Rehman Bayern’s new coach Guardiola Munich’s Allianz Arena on July midfield. main competition in England. The 62-year-old vowed to build played for the Cottagers for sev- after his arrival in the Bavarian 24 in a pre-season friendly. Thiago caught the eye as he “In European football we have on the foundations left by previ- eral seasons, and Haider said capital. Thiago is Bayern’s second key captained Spain to their victory at more candidates (to win the ous owner Mohamed Al Fayed, there was more talent waiting to “On the one hand, there’s the addition to their midfield after last month’s Under-21 European Champions League) and because and Pakistan Football Federation be unearthed. history of the club, which has Germany star Mario Goetze’s Championship in Israel when he of that it’s more difficult to win, (PFF) marketing director Sardar “If Khan can send his scouts been one of the best in the world arrival from Bundesliga rivals scored a first-half hat-trick in the but we want to be there and we Naveed Haider urged him to look to Pakistan who can have a look for many years. Borussia Dortmund and means 4-2 win over European rivals Italy will be fighting for it,” Mourinho to Pakistan. at our talent and provide them “On top of that, this team Guardiola faces some tough in the final. AFP added. AFP “We are trying to make a con- with a facility at Fulham it would tact with him to request him to be a great help and the boys are come to Pakistan and see the excited at the prospect,” said burgeoning talent in the country Haider. Rooney fuming over back-up comments: Reports and get them an opportunity to Football is particularly popular groom at the Fulham academy,” in Pakistan’s restive southwestern LONDON, Greater London: England previously said Rooney was not for sale, to give myself as many options as possible.” Haider said. province of Baluchistan, but pov- international Wayne Rooney is apparently he was quoted Monday as suggesting the According to the Sky Sports source, Pakistan were among the top erty and poor security mean few fuming with his Manchester United bosses 27-year-old would be more of a replacement Rooney feels he is at the peak of his career Asian footballing nations until young players get a chance. over comments suggesting he would be for van Persie than a foil. and after nine years with United has no need the 1970s, but lack of government Khan, who has US citizen- back-up to Robin van Persie this season, “Overall my thought on Wayne is, if for any to prove himself any more. support and the overwhelming ship and who already owns according to reports. reason we had an injury to Robin van Persie, While van Persie plundered 30 league popularity of cricket left the game the National Football League’s Television station Sky Sports yesterday we’ll need him,” Moyes said during United’s goals last season to finish Premier League in the doldrums. Jacksonville Jaguars, is ranked quoted a source claiming Rooney was “angry pre-season tour of Asia and Australia. top scorer for the second time in succession, They now sit at a lowly 167th 179th in the Forbes 400 list of and confused” by quotes attributed to his However he also added: “I want to be able Rooney found the net just 12 times. in FIFA rankings languishing richest Americans, with an esti- manager David Moyes. to play the two of them, I want to use Danny He was also left out by then manager Alex below Bermuda, Palestine and mated worth of $2.5bn. Although the former Everton boss Welbeck and Javier Hernandez as well. I want Ferguson in some crucial matches. AFP the Solomon Islands but Haider He made his fortune as a car claims signs of improvement are parts manufacturer. AFP WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

Qatar 2015 picks up key Aussies are united: Haddin marketing The Australian dressing room is fine, says the experienced ’keeper lessons at Partille Cup LONDON: Brad Haddin yes- terday maintained that the Australia’s Brit bats for 26 DOHA: The Qatar 2015 organ- Australia squad in England captain ising team has returned home were united after former coach Michael hours in world feeling enriched after witness- Mickey Arthur reportedly Clarke ing the 44th edition of Partille claimed there was a huge rift (right) looks record bid Cup, the world’s biggest and between Test captain Michael most popular handball tourna- at the pitch Clarke and all-rounder Shane LONDON: A British graduate ment for youth aged between with coach Watson. collapsed in a heap yesterday 10-21 years. Arthur was sensationally Darren after batting for 26 hours solid Led by Issa Mohammed sacked just 16 days before the Lehmann at The Oval cricket ground in Al Mohannadi, Director of first Test against Ashes-holders and London in a bid to break the Marketing for Qatar 2015, the England at Trent Bridge, a match selector world record. Doha delegation visited Swedish the tourists lost by just 14 runs on Rodney Alby Shale, 22, from city of Gothenburg where the Sunday to go 1-0 down in the five- Marsh (left) Oxfordshire in southern England, Partille Cup took place between match series, and was replaced by before began his marathon stand in the July 1 and 7. former Australia batsman Darren tomorrow’s indoor nets at 6:45 am (0545 During their visit, the Qatari Lehmann. second GMT) on Monday and finally delegation negotiated a deal with Reports have since emerged Ashes Test declared his innings at 8:45 am the Partille Cup organisers in that Arthur, the first foreign- against yesterday. order to promote the Men’s World born coach of the Australia side is England The attempt was in aid of Championship 2015 which will panning to sue Cricket Australia at Lord’s the Rwanda Cricket Stadium held at a brand new venue just for up to AUS$4 million ($3.69m, cricket Foundation -- a charity set up to outside Doha. £2.44m) in compensation. ground in create an international-standard The collaboration will focus Now, according to a report by cricket ground in the African mainly on Partille Cup 2014 in London. Australian broadcaster Channel country, where the game is order to reach as many handball Seven, Arthur, in legal documents, emerging. enthusiasts as possible, the Qatar has allegedly described the role of The previous batting record of 2015 officials said. Watson and his faction within the 25 hours was set in October by Discussions on a mutual mar- team as a “cancer”. Australian batsman Jade Child. keting plan for Northern Europe Arthur, sacked two years before Shale, who has just gradu- will also be held during the IHF his contract was due to expire, ICC defend DRS and ated, is now waiting for Guinness Congress to be held in October claimed Clarke embraced the World Records to go through the 2013 in Doha, officials added. need for discipline, while Watson documentation and confirm his Recalling the visit, Al did not, Channel Seven said. new landmark. Mohannadi said: “Our gen- The network reported that He faced around 200 bowlers eral impression of Partille Cup the documents alleged there was umpires in Ashes opener in his spell at the crease. One of is a very favourable one. The “major tension” between Clarke the bowlers was Prime Minister Swedish organising committee and Watson, and that Arthur felt LONDON: The International of 138 with Ian Bell (109). Of the David Richardson said.“However, David Cameron, who turned up to and the International Handball he was “the meat in the sand- Cricket Council (ICC) took the 72 decisions made by Pakistan’s like the players, umpires can also give him a few deliveries. Federation (IHF) have done wich” between the duo. unusual step yesterday of pub- Dar, his on-field colleague Kumar have good and bad days but we all With 10 minutes to go, Shale tremendous work. We want the Arthur also alleged that Watson licly defending the perform- Dharmasena and third umpire know that the umpire’s decision, shrugged off the tiredness and World Championship in Qatar had told him about Australia ances of its officials and the Marais Erasmus, the ICC high- right or wrong, is final and must started slogging at every delivery. 2015 to be the best ever. We are batsman David Warner’s punch Decision Review System (DRS) lighted seven errors. be accepted. “At the final ball he just sort very satisfied to have a new strong at Joe Root in a Birmingham pub in a specific match following the Three were uncorrected deci- “While the ICC has complete of collapsed into a heap and eve- partner that will support us in during the Champions Trophy controversial first Ashes Test at sions - the first of which was faith in the ability of its umpires, ryone piled in on top of him,” a order to reach out to more hand- last month, it added. Trent Bridge. where the technology was at fault our confidence in technology is spokesman for the attempt said. ball fans.“ Watson previously stated he England’s thrilling 14-run win in England’s second innings for also strengthened by the fact “Someone sprayed a bottle of Organiser of Partille Cup is the did not pass the information on was beset by rows over a series of Jonathan Trott being given lbw that there was an increase in the champagne all over the place.” Swedish handball club IK Sävehof to Arthur. on-field umpiring decisions, above when he was originally given not number of correct decisions in The rules set down by Guinness with three full-time people work- The incident led to Warner’s all the not out decision given by out and two against Broad when the Trent Bridge Test through World Records allowed only a ing with another 30 project man- suspension before the Ashes, Aleem Dar when England’s Stuart Australia had no reviews available the use of the DRS. five-minute break for every full agers prior to the start of the with the top-order batsman, not Broad, then on 37, edged debutant -- while four decisions were cor- “Technology was introduced hour completed -- to refuel and tournament. selected at Trent Bridge, also spinner Ashton Agar to Australia rected by DRS. with the objective of eradicating go to the toilet. During the week the organi- missing out on the second Test captain Michael Clarke at slip -- “The umpires did a good job the obvious umpiring errors and The charity is hoping to raise sation consists of a total of 1500 at Lord’s starting tomorrow to a decision the tourists could not under difficult conditions. This to get as many correct decisions £600,000 ($900,000, 700,000 officials. Some of these events join the A side on tour in Africa. challenge as by then they had reflects the calibre of umpires Dar, as possible. If it can help increase euros) to build a cricket ground are organised in collaboration Wicketkeeper-batsman used up all their innings reviews. Dharmasena and Erasmus who the correct decisions by 5.5 per with a pavilion and some seating. with the European Handball Haddin, speaking to reporters at Broad went on to make 65 and have consistently performed at cent, then it is a good outcome.” Around £400,000 has been raised Federation (EHF), the IHF Lord’s yesterday, insisted: “The share a key second-innings stand a high level,” ICC chief executive REUTERS so far. AFP and the International Olympic Australian dressing room is fine. Committee (IOC). I don’t know how many times we Stefan Albrechtson, IK Sävehof need to answer this.” Africa safari the wrong call club director and organiser of He added: “I think everyone Partille Cup, sounded pleased was surprised (by Arthur’s sack- with this year’s tournament: ing) but there’s no point talking for Warner, says Border He said: “Another record year about it anymore.” MELBOURNE: David Warner’s exile to Africa after punching including 1120 teams from 45 Haddin, whose second innings England’s Joe Root “defies belief”, and the fiery batsman should be countries, which means 21,000 71 nearly led Australia to a stun- readying himself for an Ashes recall in the Australian team’s prac- participants. From what we can ning first Test win, said: “We’ve tice nets, according to former Test captain Alan Border. see in the evaluations of the par- gone past all this, we’re moving Warner was stood down in the wake of the boozy bar-room incident ticipating countries is that we forward with the campaign.” last month and subsequently omitted for the first test in Nottingham, received the best ratings ever. The wicket-keeper pointed out: which Australia lost by 14 runs. He was to board a plane later yesterday Enjoyable!” “We’re all pretty excited to be to join the Australia A team for a tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa Albrechtson has great expecta- in an Ashes campaign. Darren’s where he would have “adequate preparation” in match conditions, tions for the World Championship done a wonderful job, like all our selector John Inverarity said last week. 2015 and believes that the Doha staff and players. All the other “It defies belief David Warner is about to leave the Ashes tour for tournament would be ‘something stuff that we can talk about is an Australia A tour of Africa,” former Australia skipper Border said really fantastic’. white noise so it’s not something in his column in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph yesterday. “We have already understood that has affected the side at all. “I get the thinking, send him to South Africa and Zimbabwe to find that hotel, food and transfers I’m not going to get into what ifs form and bring him back later in the series, but I strongly disagree are going to be of five-star qual- and who was better than this and with it. Unless Jimmy Anderson bobs up in the Zimbabwe side, Warner ity. Filling the arenas will be the who was wasn’t as good as this; scoring runs won’t count for anything,” Border added, referring to the challenge. But I believe that it our job is to just get on with this England seamer, who took 10 wickets in a match-winning performance will be incredibly attractive to campaign.” at Trent Bridge. travel to Qatar for the Men’s Channel Seven also reported “He would be far better served facing (Australia paceman) James Handball World Championship,” that Arthur claimed in his sub- Pattinson in the nets. The standard of bowling he will face in Africa Albrechtson said. mission that Cricket Australia did and the conditions will be chalk and cheese to the challenges that “There are many possibilities not support him over the decision await him in England.” to think of for handball support- to drop four players -- including Australia’s top order struggled in both innings in the first Test, ers – beside the games, there is then vice-captain Watson, bowl- sparking demands from local media to bring the hard-hitting 26-year- a great climate with sun, warm ers James Pattinson and Mitchell old back for the second match, which starts at Lord’s on Thursday. temperatures and beach life as Johnson, and batsman Usman Warner told reporters on Monday that he knew he was on thin ice, well as plenty of fabulous restau- Khawaja -- for the third Test in but had not been placed under any off-field restrictions by new coach rants. Furthermore, there is the Mohali in March after the quar- Darren Lehmann. great National Islamic Museum, tet failed to complete a provide “(Lehmann) just said to go out there and score runs and be myself,” desert safaris, golf and the fan- written feedback requested by Alby Shale poses next to an electronic timer after batting for 26 hours Warner was quoted by Fairfax Media as saying. tastic Souq Waqif,” Albrechtson team management on how the at the Oval cricket club in London yesterday. Shale, a British graduate, “Just get that X-factor back that I can have for this team so hope- added. side could improve. collapsed in a heap yesterday at The Oval cricket ground in London after fully I can score some runs. Definitely still enjoy myself off the field. “Handball in Qatar is on a roll The so-called “homework” batting for 26 hours in a bid to break the world record. There’s no bans, there’s no curfews, no nothing. The mistakes, I’ve forward. It appears that Qatar incident was a low point during a learned, I’ve become more mature off the field as well.” REUTERS has decided to be among the top series Australia lost 4-0 and was nations in Asia, and with this, the cited by many observers, including country can also challenge many former England captain Michael European teams. The Qatari Atherton, as the beginning of the Prior says he’s fit for second Test Handball Association has recently end of Arthur’s reign as coach. shown high ambitions to bring in Channel Seven said Arthur LONDON: England wicketkeeper Matt management thing and it feels that good at they did not under-estimate their arch-rivals, good coaches and to create great alleged he was discriminated Prior allayed fears over his fitness yesterday the moment that the reason I didn’t play golf with the tourists’ last wicket pair of Brad training opportunities and camps against because he was South by saying he would be fine to face Australia yesterday (Monday) was because I didn’t want Haddin and James Pattinson so nearly leading for their players,” he said. African. in the second Test at Lord’s. to potentially put it under strain and get it the visitors to victory in Nottingham. According to Albrechtson, the “We’re disappointed it has Prior did not play in a planned round of golf inflamed or anything else. “It was always going to be (a tight series) two main differences between come to this position but Cricket on Monday, leading to concerns he had aggra- “It’s not because I’m a big injury doubt but and that’s what we have prepared ourselves handball in Qatar and in Sweden Australia is confident in its posi- vated an Achilles problem during England’s I’m feeling good. for,” he said. “I think that’s one of the reasons are a handball tradition since the tion on this matter and I’m sure it 14-run win in the first Test at Trent Bridge. “Back-to-back Test matches is one thing we dealt with the situation so well and dealt 1930s and Qatar since the 1970s. will get resolved in an appropriate With just a three-day turnaround between that comes into play. You’ve got one full rest with the game so well. We stayed calm and “I am absolutely planning on fashion,” Cricket Australia lawyer the two matches, Prior said missing his game day, I would rather have my feet up to be that was a lot to do with our preparation and going to Qatar for the World Dean Kino said yesterday. of golf was just a sensible precaution. honest. what we expected. Championship 2015. As a Swede, Australia, who play four more “I think it was a bigger shock to me than “We’ve got a rest after this Test but it’s a “The Australians are fighters, they’re not it would be great if our national Tests in the current series, will anyone else, reading that I was a doubt for quick turnaround. The other thing is we’ve going to lie down and die at any stage and we team was part of the tournament, be trying to avoid their sixth con- the second Test, I’m not,” Prior told a news spent a lot of time in the field, it’s pretty tense. had to fight equally as hard, if not harder, to but I will definitely go to Qatar, secutive Test loss. Australia went conference at Lord’s. “A day off my feet was what was needed.” get ourselves in position to win the game and even if Sweden fails to qualify,” down 4-0 to Indian in February- “I feel completely fit and well. The England are bidding for a third straight then go that one step further and actually win Albrechtson said. March this year. AFP Achilles thing, as I’ve said before, is purely a series win over Australia but Prior insisted it.” REUTERS THE PENINSULA Wednesday 17 July 2013 8 Ramadan 1434 Volume 18 Number 5763 Sport Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Rui Costa PSG sign Cavani for $84m takes solo win in the The Qatar-owned club makes fourth expensive signing in history 16th stage PARIS, FRANCE: Edinson great project,” a delighted Cavani, Cavani was yesterday offi- nicknamed ‘the Matador’, told a Qatar-owned GAP, FRANCE: Yellow jersey cially unveiled as Paris Saint- press conference. Paris Saint- holder Chris Froome hit out at Germain’s latest mega-signing, “I’d also like to thank the peo- Germain’s rival Alberto Contador after the striker joining the French ple in Napoli who went out of (PSG) new both narrowly avoided crashing champions for a Ligue 1 record their way to make it possible,” forward, during a dramatic finale to the €64m ($84m) from Napoli. the player who passed the tradi- Edinson 16th stage of the Tour de France The 26-year- tional pre-sign- Cavani of won by Portuguese Rui Costa old Uruguay Biggest Football ing medical on Uruguay (left), yesterday. international, Monday, added. and PSG’s Movistar rider Costa soloed to Serie A’s top “I come here victory at the end of the undulat- Transfers chairman scorer last season with lots of joy, ing 168 km ride from Vaison-La- Nasser Al with 29 goals, has PARIS, France: Edinson Cavani yesterday lots of confi- Romaine to Gap after a late but joined Laurent signed for Paris Saint-Germain in a new dence, lots of Khelaifi of timely attack on the final climb Blanc’s expen- French record €64m ($84m) deal. Here hunger and lots Qatar pose of the day, the 9.5 km-long Col sively assmebled is a list of the five most expensive players of motivation to with Cavani’s de Manse. Qatari-backed of all time: win major tro- jersey during But as he came over the finish side on a five- 1. Cristiano Ronaldo (POR): phies,” he said. a press with a comfortable lead on four year contract. €94m from Manchester United to Real “My message conference chasers and a fractured peloton, The deal makes Madrid in 2009 to everyone in in Paris, a small skirmish in the yellow Cavani the fourth this city and to jersey battle was going on in his 2. Zinedine Zidane (FRA): yesterday. most expensive the (PSG) fans wake. €75m from Juventus to Real Madrid in 2001 Cavani player in history, is that I’m here became Contador had tested the Briton behind Cristiano 3. Kaka (BRA): with an enor- the fourth with several brief accelerations in Ronaldo, who €67.2m from AC Milan to Real Madrid in mous appetite expensive the final kilometres of the Manse 2009 moved from to reach these player in climb but was brought to heel by Manchester 4. Edinson Cavani (URU): aims.” the world Froome’s Australian teammate United to Real €64m from Napoli to Paris Saint-Germain Elaborating following his Richie Porte. Madrid in on why he chose The road to Gap is famous for in 2013 $84m move 2009 for €94m, PSG Cavani playing host to one of the most 5. Luis Figo (POR): from Italian Zinedine Zidane commented: “It’s spectacular crash incidents of the €61.7m from Barcelona to Real Madrid in and Kaka. a very rich and Serie A club Lance Armstrong era -- Joseba 2000 The previous very ambitious Napoli. Beloki hitting the tarmac at speed highest French project, and I’m and Armstrong, who was in pur- transfer was set when Colombia like that too. It’s going to help me suit, being forced through a field forward Radamel Falcao signed grow as a player. Khelaifi paid tribute to the done a great job here for the past from PSG as a result of the sea- to avoid hitting the Spaniard. for Monaco from Atletico Madrid “This club is one of the top club’s outgoing sporting director two years,” Al Khelaifi told the son-long ban he received ear- Since Contador’s efforts to for a figure estimated at nearly sides in the world, it’s one of a Leonardo for his instrumental press conference to announce the lier this month after the former leave Froome behind on the climb €60m. group of sides that can win the role in securing the services of headline deal. Milan player pushed a referee proved futile, the Spaniard took “I’d like to thank everyone who Champions League.” the Serie A sharp shooter. This was the Brazilian’s final after PSG’s league game against to upping the pace on the descent. made this transfer possible, it’s a PSG president Nasser Al “A big thank you to ‘Leo’, he’s act in his post before resigning Valenciennes on May 5. AFP However that approach almost led to disaster. Contador misjudged a tight right-hand bend and came off his Barca chasing Thiago Silva; Fabregas wants to stay bike, with Froome, who was in hot pursuit, just missing the Spaniard BARCELONA: Barcelona are still try- transfermarkt.com, which tracks soccer AS Roma’s teenage Brazilian defender and he was not considering leaving for any but being forced on to the side of ing to lure Paris St Germain centre back deals. Marquinhos was “an interesting player” other club for economic reasons or to get the road. Thiago Silva to the Nou Camp but will “He is a player we have wanted to sign who had “a promising future”. more minutes on the pitch so I am totally Froome said afterwards: “Saxo look elsewhere if they fail to snare the for several years,” Vilanova said, in his first Vilanova was asked about a number calm,” he added. Bank, Alberto and (Roman) Brazil international, coach Tito Vilanova news conference since the Barca players of other issues including reports English Vilanova was bombarded with questions Kreuziger were taking too many said yesterday. began returning from their holidays this champions Manchester United were after about comments made by Pep Guardiola, risks on the descent. Filling a gap in central defence alongside week. Barca’s Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas. who accused the club for using Vilanova’s “If you ask me, it was danger- Spain’s Gerard Pique is the La Liga cham- “There is still a chance and we would “I am aware that he has had offers from cancer illness to criticise the Spaniard. ous for Alberto to do that. There pions’ main priority and although PSG like him to join us,” added the 44-year-old, other teams but I spoke to Cesc and he “I don’t think people are interested in was no need for it. They don’t are reluctant to let Thiago leave, Barca still looking frail after battling with throat made it clear to me that he wanted to stay these personal issues but I heard what Pep attack on the climbs, but they president Sandro Rosell has made it clear cancer over the past couple of years. here and his desire was to triumph here,” said and I must say that I was surprised attack on the descents.” money is not an issue. “If he doesn’t come then someone else Vilanova said. and I do not think he was right. I don’t Contador said: “It was a tight The 28-year-old Brazil captain has will, we will definitely sign a centre back.” “He also knows the competition there is think anyone from the board has used my bend, I tried my best not to crash. a contract until 2017 and is valued at Vilanova was flanked by sporting direc- for places at this club ... but he assured me illness to attack him,” Vilanova said in yes- It’s not my intention to hurt any- €40m ($52.2m), according to website tor Andoni Zubizarreta, who acknowledged that he has always wanted to triumph here terday’s press conference. REUTERS one but we’re racing.” Bauke Mollema, sitting second overall overnight, showed his class by slowing to allow Froome and Contador to catch up before the group resumed racing to finish Sacked coach Arthur wants the stage at just over 10 minutes behind Costa. AFP Selected Tour de $3.6m compensation France Stage 16 SYDNEY: Mickey Arthur “We’re disappointed that it’s have now made them public. I Results is demanding $3.6m in com- come to this position,” Cricket want to stress how important Results from Tour de France (Vaison-la- pensation or reinstatement as Australia lawyer Dean Kino told to me the members of the team Romaine - Gap, 168 km) yesterday. Australia’s cricket coach fol- Seven News. were, and still remain to me. The lowing his sacking last month, “But Cricket Australia is confi- welfare of the Australian cricket 1 Rui Costa (Portugal / Movistar) according documents seen by dent in its position on this matter. team is upmost to me.” 3:52:45” the country’s Seven News TV And I’m sure it’ll get resolved in The TV station said the docu- station. the appropriate fashion.” ments reveal tension between 2 C h r i s t o p h e R i b l o n ( F r a n c e / A G 2 R ) South African Arthur issued Arthur said he was unhappy Clarke and Watson, particularly +42” a statement in response saying details of the case, which his regarding team discipline. 3 A r n o l d J e a n n e s s o n ( F r a n c e / F D J . f r ) he was disappointed that confi- lawyers confirmed had been filed Arthur was sacked after David dential details had been leaked to with the Fair Work Commission Warner punched England’s Joe 4 J e r o m e C o p p e l ( F r a n c e / C o fi d i s ) the media about the lawsuit that (FWC) in Sydney, had been Root in a bar, the latest in a series 5 Andreas Kloeden (Germany / includes claims he suffered racial leaked. of disciplinary issues to dog the TOP: Australia’s Shane Watson RadioShack) (left) and captain Michael Clarke discrimination. “I am extremely upset and dis- team. It is also reported that Arthur appointed that confidential docu- He added that he felt discrim- talk during a training session 6 T o m D u m o u l i n ( N e t h e r l a n d s / A r g o s ) said Australian captain Michael ments appear to have been given inated against because he was before the second Ashes Test +1:00” Clarke had described fellow bats- by others to the media,” he said. South African and did not under- match against England at Lord’s in man Shane Watson’s influence on “The matters raised in my stand the ‘Australian way’. 7 M i k e l A s t a r l o z a ( S p a i n / E u s k a l t e l ) London, yesterday. INSET: Sacked the team as “a cancer”. application to the FWC concern- Australia, now coached by +1:01” Australia coach Mickey Arthur. It Arthur was earning A$400,000 ing issues within the Australian Darren Lehmann, lost a thrilling is reported that Arthur said Clarke 8 Philippe Gilbert (Belgium / BMC Australian dollars ($363,700) a cricket team are very sensitive, first Ashes Test against England Racing) +1:04” had described Watson’s influence year and up to 200,000 in bonuses. which is why I was at pains to by 14 runs, which gave them their on the team as ‘a cancer’. Arthur is He was contracted until June 2015 keep them confidential, especially fifth straight Test loss. 9 C a m e r o n M e y e r ( A u s t r a l i a / O r i c a ) sueing Australia Cricket for $3.6m. and wanted payment for three at this time.” The second Test of the Ashes 10 Ramunas Navardauskas (Lithuania / years beyond that, estimating his He added: “I have kept them cricket series begins at Lord’s Garmin) losses to be as much as A$4m. confidential, unfortunately others tomorrow. REUTERS