www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

BUSINESS | 17 SPORT | 21

Doha Bank Injured Woods achieves strong out for rest performance ratios of the season

THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 • 16 SHAWWAL 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6864 2 Riyals thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar PM opens health and Emir meets Abu Dhabi Crown Prince wellness centre

to nearly 50,000 patients in Al Daayen, Umm Salal Mohamed, Umm Salal Ali, Umm Al Amad, The facility in Umm Salal Umm Abiriya and nearby areas. is expected to provide The Premier toured the centre and was briefed on services, facilities and medical care services to nearly 50,000 specialising clinics. The centre has 20 doctors, patients. 77 nurses and 22 administrative staff. The facility includes public clinics, vac- cination clinics, laboratories, pharmacy, radiology, dental clinic, an office of Medical The Peninsula Commission, health promotion, prevention and recovery services, treatment of eyes, skin and mental health illnesses and other health services and specialties provided by Primary DOHA: Prime Minister and Interior Minister Health Care Corporation. H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa The centre is a part of an ambitious strat- Al Thani yesterday opened Umm Salal Cen- egy to improve medical services and public tre for Health and Wellness. health in Qatar. The centre is expected to provide services → Continued on page 2

Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani welcomes the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and his delegation at Doha International Airport.

QNA Sheikh Mohammed conveyed the greet- regional and international developments ings of UAE President H H Sheikh Khalifa and issues of common concern. Several bin Zayed Al Nahyan to the Emir and his Ministers and the UAE delegation, including wishes of further progress and prosperity National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoon DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad to the Qatari people. The Emir entrusted bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Min- Al Thani yesterday led well-wishers to wel- Sheikh Mohammed to convey his wishes of ister and Minister of Presidential Affairs come the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and continued good health and happiness to the Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed UAE President and more progress and pros- other members. Forces of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin perity to the brotherly people of the UAE. The Emir hosted a luncheon banquet at Zayed Al Nahyan, and his delegation who Talks dealt with the fraternal rela- Al Bahr Palace in honour of Sheikh Moham- arrived on a fraternal short visit, at Doha tions between both countries and ways to med and his delegation. Later, the Emir led International Airport. advance them in various fields, particularly well-wishers to see off Sheikh Mohammed Several Ministers, senior officials strengthening the bonds of cooperation and his delegation upon their departure. and UAE Ambassador to Qatar Saleh bin within the framework of the GCC joint Several Ministers and the UAE Ambassa- Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, Mohammad Al Ameri were present. action to ensure further progress, secu- dor to Qatar were also present. accompanied by Minister of Public Health H E Dr. Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari and other The Emir and Sheikh Mohammed bin rity and stability for the peoples of the bloc. officials, tour the centre. Zayed held a meeting at Al Bahr Palace. Both sides also reviewed the latest → See also page 2

3-month state of emergency in Turkey Emir congratulates Colombia’s President AFP DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Other nations could be involved in coup bid: Erdogan yesterday sent a cable of con- gratulations to President of ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the state of emergency is connections will be deciphered,” he said. Colombia Juan Manuel Santos Erdogan yesterday declared a three-month a measure “against the terror threat facing Turkey is to close over 600 private on his country’s Independence state of emergency in Turkey to hunt our country”. The annoucement followed schools and dormitories. The government Day, reports QNA down all those deemed to be behind an meetings of the national security council said it had fired about 22,000 education attempted coup. and cabinet chaired by Erdogan. ministry workers, taken steps to revoke The state of emergency is “to remove In an interview with Al Jazeera, the licences of 21,000 teachers at pri- swiftly all elements of the terrorist organi- Erdogan said other countries could be vate schools and sacked or detained half Ministry: Number sation involved,” he said at the presidential involved in the coup attempt to overthrow a dozen university presidents. Some 626 palace. Turkey has accused the group of him, adding Gulen’s organisation was led private schools and other establishments US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of being by a “superior mind”. “The Gulen organ- under investigation will also be closed. of scholarships behind the coup and acting as a terror out- isation has another superior mind, if you The Gullen organisation runs a net- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan chairing a fit. Gulen denies the charge. will, and the time will come when those work of schools worldwide. National Security Council meeting in Ankara, yesterday. hits 2,500

DOHA: The Ministry of Educa- tion and Higher Education has said the total number of scholar- CRA urges caution over use of Pokémon GO app ships offered this year in all fields so far has reached over 2,500, of whom 1,252 students will be sent to US universities in dozens of dis- The Peninsula screens at physical locations. “As consumers of location details with strangers through the app. ciplines. Saudi renews fatwa communications services, please be informed Also, user should be aware that although the Saleh Al Muftah, Director of of the following when using such apps and app features ‘PokeStops’ on public or private Guidance in the scholarship pro- DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s top clerics renewed remember to keep safety first and foremost on properties, you should be respectful of oth- gramme of the ministry, said a religious edict that warns against play- DOHA: The Communications Regulatory your mind,” CRA said in a statement yesterday. ers’ privacy as unauthorised entry to private the deadline for applications for ing Pokemon — this time the Pokemon Go. Authority (CRA) has advised people in Qatar It said the safety of the users, especially property or official buildings and areas may scholarships for studies abroad First issued in 2001 when the game was to exercise caution while using apps like Poké- children, is of utmost importance and it must be considered trespassing. It is safer if users would be the end of this month, played with cards, the decree says Pokemon mon Go, Geocaching, Waze and others that use be ensured that virtual reality combined with do not go to unknown areas. and the number and names of violates Islamic prohibitions against gam- location services and personal data. outdoor locations entails exercising precau- CRA also advised users to be aware of their the accepted students will be bling, uses devious Masonic-like symbols The advice comes after media reports, tions as you would in any other outdoor setting. data plan and monitor usage as the app works announced and processed. and promotes “forbidden images.” The fatwa social media comments and stray incidents “The app urges users to be aware of their with GPS which means it may use a lot of data He said the most important has reappeared in a ticker on the homepage where safety and privacy of individuals and surroundings while walking around in public. and urged users, if unsure, to check their serv- condition of this year’s scholar- of the kingdom’s portal for official religious businesses may have been compromised while If you use the app while driving, you are putting ice provider to avoid bill shocks. ships is that the applicant must be decrees. using augmented reality apps that use geolo- your and others’ lives in danger. So ensure that “CRA takes its consumer protection man- a Qatari, the high school certifi- Saudi-based Arab News said Sheikh cation services. you don’t play while driving and obey traffic date very seriously and we will continue to cate should not be older than two Saleh Al Fozan, a member of the council of Pokémon GO, although not available offi- laws,” it said. engage with relevant external authorities and years and the applicant must be of senior clerics, said the current version of the cially in Qatar, uses mapping software to The app accesses other applications in your service providers to increase customer benefits good conduct. game is the same as the old one, reports AP. create a virtual reality game and allows users smartphone – location services, camera, etc. while safeguarding their rights,” the statement to “catch” the game characters on smartphone A user should be careful when sharing his added. → Continued on page 3 02 THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 HOME

Emir holds talks with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Deputy Emir & PM Qatari Embassy’s greet President new HQ opens of Colombia DOHA: Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani QNA and opening prospects for other yesterday sent a cable of congrat- partnerships. ulations to President of Colombia He attributed the steady growth Juan Manuel Santos on his coun- in relations to the strong convictions try’s Independence Day. DOHA: Qatar’s mission in Brussels and importance attached by the two Prime Minister and Interior inaugurated the new headquarters sides to these relationships, and said Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin of its embassy. the opening of the building reflects Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent The ceremony was attended the progress of these relations. a similar congratulatory cable to by Belgian Deputy Prime Minis- Al Mureikhi said that the value of President Santos. ter and Minister of Foreign Affairs this building is not only in its archi- Didier Reynders, Minister of State tecture but also in the consolidation for Foreign Affairs H E Sultan bin of the concepts of development of Minister: More Saad Al Mureikhi, Belgian officials, relations between Belgium and high-level representatives of Euro- Qatar. Praising the importance health centres pean institutions, Arab and foreign of Belgium, he said that bilateral ambassadors accredited to Belgium relations have seen a remarkable and representatives of Nato. development on different levels are set to open Reynders hailed the depth of through political and economic vis- Continued from page 1 relations between his country and its which culminated in the signing Qatar and expressed delight at the of agreements and memorandums of Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani holds talks with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy progress attained and the achieved understanding in many fields. Minister of Public Health H E Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. level of partnership in record time. Pointing to the geopolitical Dr. Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari Praising the visit of Belgian eco- importance of Belgium as it is the said Qatar puts primary health- nomic delegation headed by Princess capital of the European Union and care as a basis for ensuring a Astrid to Qatar in March 2015 and hosts the headquarters of the EU, comprehensive healthcare for the business delegation that vis- Nato and other organisations, he the population. ited Qatar, he said that the mission stressed the importance of part- On the sidelines of the open- UAE ambassador praises contributed to strengthening part- nership with Belgium and hoped for ing ceremony, she said the centre nership between the two countries further progress in relations. is the third facility opened by PHCC this year in areas where the number of users is growing. Dr. Al Kuwari said more historical ties with Qatar health centre are set to open in the coming phase in line with the best global standards and added the new centre offers comprehen- QNA well as inter-Gulf relations. countries, which held its last meeting sive primary healthcare services Al Ameri said that Qatar-UAE in Doha in May, during which sev- and encourages citizens and res- ties are historical and popular and eral agreements and memoranda of idents to adopt healthy lifestyles are getting deeper and stronger day understanding were signed reflected to avoid diseases rather than just DOHA: UAE Ambassador to Qatar after day. the keenness and seriousness of both being treated. Saleh bin Mohammed Al Ameri These relations have the advan- sides to develop and deepen cooper- Last Sunday, Dr. Al Kuwari said that the visit of the Crown tage of direct communication ation and mutual understanding as opened Rawdat Al Khail Health Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy between the two leaderships and well as plan to reach new horizons Centre, equipped with latest Supreme Commander of the UAE officials at the highest levels, he in cooperation. equipment. It is serving people Armed Forces, Sheikh Mohammed said, adding that communication It also affirms keenness to in Fareej Abdul Ajeez, Fareej bin bin Zayed Al Nahyan to Qatar and between Qatar and the UAE are con- advance bilateral relations to the Mahmud, Najma, Mansoura, Al his meeting with Emir H H Sheikh tinuous for exchanging of views on level of shared political will of the Muntaza. Last month, she opened Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani reflects the latest Gulf, Arab, regional and Emir and President of the UAE H H Al Thumama Health Centre, the depth of brotherly ties that bind international developments. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan equipped with advanced facili- the two countries. Al Ameri added that the forma- towards consecration of coopera- ties and devices. It can serve up He said the visit will have a pos- tion of the joint higher committee tion to meet the aspirations of their to 55,000 people in Nuaija, Hilal itive impact on bilateral relations as for cooperation between the two brotherly peoples. Officials at the opening ceremony. and Mamoura. HOME THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 03

Deputy PM meets UK envoy Maserati Quattroporte Tyres from US or Europe must and Ghibli 2014-2016 meet GCC standards: Official models recalled The Peninsula

By Sidi Mohamed such tyres, but they are not allowed storage when some traders keep The Peninsula and can’t be used here because the tyres in open areas exposed to the DOHA: The Ministry of Economy temperature there is different from sun. Stored with other things can and Commerce, in collaboration here. We don’t have any problem also affect them. with Alfardan Sports Motors, for people bringing tyres from any If a tyre is under guarantee, it dealer of Maserati vehicles in DOHA: Many people from Qatar, country in the world as long as they will be replaced even if the owner Qatar, has announced the recall of who visit the US and European meet GCC standards and can be used discovers the manufacturing defect Maserati Quattroporte and Ghibli countries for treatment and tourism, in hot places. while travelling abroad, he said. models of 2014-2016 to replace the bring home tyres which do not meet “The maximum asphalt temper- Al Kuwari reminded people driv- screws of the rear toe-in adjust- GCC standards, said Dr Moham- ature in cold countries is 35 degrees ing long distances to neighbouring ment rods. med bin Saif Al Kuwari, Assistant Celsius, while in hot countries it countries this summer to check the The ministry urges all custom- Undersecretary for Standards and reaches 75 degrees Celsius. We can- tyres they buy and ensure they have ers to report any violations to its Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Specifications at the Ministry of not allow such tyres to be used here no cracks and the tyres are stored Consumer Protection and Anti- H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud yesterday met Municipality and Environment. as they can explode any time.” properly in shops. When purchas- Commercial Fraud Department British Ambassador to Qatar Ajay Sharma. Talks dealt with “Tyres which are imported from He said the most common prob- ing tyres, customers must check the through the call centre 16001; relations between both countries, ways of enhancing them in the US or Europe or any cold coun- lem people encounter on tyres is date of manufacture to ensure it is email: [email protected]; Twit- various fields and issues of common concern. Officials from the try are not allowed to be used here manufacturing defects, which are not more than two years and speed ter: @MEC_Qatar; Instagram: Cabinet’s General Secretariat were present. unless they meet GCC standards. difficult for people to discover. and temperature code, the ministry MEC_Qatar; or the ministry’s “But many people ask to bring Another problem is improper said on its Twitter account. mobile app for Android and IOS: MEC_Qatar

Import and sale of high-glow lamps Pakistan Embassy marks Kashmir Black Day Conditions for to be banned from November 1 scholarships

The Peninsula emphasised that it will carry out Continued from page 1 intensive inspection campaigns to prevent the import and circulation Additional conditions include of high-glow bulbs in collaboration that the applicant must have DOHA: Qatar General Organisa- with authorities concerned. obtained 75 percent minimum tion for Standardisation (QS) at Qatar General Electricity and grade at the secondary school the Ministry of Municipality and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) certificate. Environment yesterday banned enforced ban on sale and import He said the ministry has sale and import of high-glow of incandescent Tungsten light provided two scholarships and lamps. bulbs (75 and 100 watts) in col- conditions of ordinary universi- The decision which comes into laboration with the ministry and ties, where students are required force on November 1, includes other entities concerned last May. to hold 90 percent minimum pub- incandescent Tungsten light bulbs The aim as stated then is to reduce lic secondary school. (40 and 60 watts). electricity consumption and mini- Al Muftah, who was speak- The authority said the step mise harmful carbon emissions as ing at an orientation session comes as part of its commitment part of its ‘Better Living in Qatar’ organised by the ministry in col- to protect the environment, main- initiative. Under the National laboration with US embassy in tain public wealth and individuals’ Programme of Conservation and Doha, said scholarships are avail- properties and sustainability to Energy Efficiency (Tarsheed), Kah- able in all countries, and students create clean environment in line ramaa launched campaigns to mostly prefer to study in the UK with Qatar National Strategy 2030. raise awareness about the nega- Pakistan Ambassador Shahzad Ahmad (inset) addressing a gathering on the occasion of the Observance rather than the US. It urged traders and importers to tive impacts of incandescent lamps of 20th July as Kashmir Black Day at Pakistan Embassy auditorium yesterday. He said available fields of refrain from selling and import- and encourage the use of energy- Pic: Abdul B / The Peninsula education include business, com- ing the incandescent light lamps saving bulbs/lights which reduce merce, engineering, law, medical for the sake of public interest. QS energy consumption. and science. 04 THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 HOME

Nespresso unveils new Envivo Lungo QC’s Gaza school work on track The Peninsula that those who enjoy a long, intense cup of coffee in the morning have the perfect option that offers delicious caramelised notes. When creating Grand Cru, experts The Peninsula DOHA: The first sip of coffee in the morn- were inspired by the traditional morning ing is a blissful moment, a sheer pleasure. coffee many consumers savour with milk in Inviting coffee lovers around the world a longer serving size, so Envivo Lungo also to savour the moment for longer, coffee marries perfectly with milk, maintaining its DOHA: Work is in full swing on a Qatar Char- experts at Nespresso have created a new distinctive intense flavour for a deliciously ity (QC) school with a capacity of 600 students permanent addition to their range — Envivo rich and full-bodied start to the day. in Gaza. Lungo to enliven the senses and help start Envivo Lungo joins the range of five The move aims to meet severe shortage of the day right. Nespresso Lungos, all designed to be schools — Kamal Al O’hood (Fulfilling Pledges) Envivo Lungo (intensity 9 on the scale enjoyed at a 110ml serving size: Fortissio — in the East of Jabalia Camp in the North- from 1-12) is the most intense of the Nes- Lungo, intensity 8, rich and full-bodied; ern Area. presso Lungo range with a sumptuous and Linzio Lungo, intensity 4, round and Around 600 male and female students unique flavour. The dark roasted coffee is smooth; Vivalto Lungo, intensity 4, com- from the area are expected to benefit from the a blend of distinctive Arabica from India plex and balanced; Bukeela ka Ethiopia, project being implemented at a cost of QR2.2m. with a Robusta from Mexico, with roasted intensity 3, floral and wild (pure origin), It is financed by philanthropists of Qatar and is notes and rich scents reminiscent of aro- and Vivalto Lungo Decaffeinato, intensity being executed by QC, in partnership with the matic woods and gingerbread. 4, complex and balanced (decaffeinato) Ministry of Education and Higher Education. Alexis Rodriguez, Head of Coffee Devel- Envivo Lungo is a long cup that stim- Dr. Ziad Thabit, Undersecretary of the Min- opment, Nespresso, said: “We carefully ulates the senses through its intense and istry of Education and Higher Education in the crafted Envivo Lungo with a high propor- generous character, high intensity and high Strip, thanked Qatar government and people tion of Robusta coffee beans to produce a body. Delight your senses with aromatic and praised QC’s efforts towards the Pales- strong, full-bodied coffee. We use washed dry wood, gingerbread and caramelised tinian people in general and the educational Robusta which gives a more refined taste notes followed by an intense and pleasant sector in particular. to deliver a final product that is intense but after taste. Intensity: 9; serving size: Lungo He also praised the establishment of Qatar Charity officials supervising project work in the Northern Area. without any harshness on the palate.” (110ml) schools which meet the needs of the sector. The Nespresso intensity scale has Envivo Lungo will be particularly The sector is suffering a shortage of schools and been created to help consumers differen- appealing to the intense espresso lovers teachers and around 200 schools are needed Rabu territory considered relatively remote He highlighted the need to reinforce the tiate between their favourite Grands Crus. searching for an intense long cup. Those to meet the growing number of students. due to the multiple Israeli assaults which hit role of the educational authorities to help them The intensity is defined by looking at three who prefer coffee with milk can also delight “I hope the support for this vital sector con- the area during in the past three wars on Gaza.” do their job and implement their plans with- aspects — an evaluation of the roasted as Envivo Lungo is delicious with milk, tinues because of the great effects it has on Abu Halloub highlighted how the project out any obstacles. notes, the bitterness and the body. becoming rounder in flavour and main- improving the quality of education in Gaza and would provide a healthy and educational envi- This is not QC’s first educational project Envivo Lungo is ranked towards the top taining its intense character. the establishment of a convenient educational ronment for students, especially at a time when to support the educational sector in Gaza. QC of this scale at intensity level 9 meaning Savoured as a Lungo Macchiato, with a environment,” he said. the region has shortage of schools. has implemented a project to supply public touch of milk froth, Envivo Lungo becomes Engineer Mohammed Abu Halloub, Direc- “The project facilitates easy and safe access schools with laboratories. It has also imple- rounder while keeping its intense charac- tor, QC office in Gaza, said, “The project aims to schools. QC aims at supporting the parents of mented a project providing 60 schools with ter. Enjoyed as a Latte Macchiato, combined at providing primary education to students in the targeted students and helping them over- alternative energy to overcome continuous with the smoothness of milk froth, Envivo the eastern side of Jabalia, mainly Ezbit Abd come the economic burdens.” power cuts in the Strip. Lungo Grand Cru expresses softened woody notes while developing round, indulgent and buttery aromatics. Envivo Lungo is a permanent addition to the Nespresso range which now consists Gilas U-18 rout host Falcon teams in convincing wins of 24 Grands Crus. It will be available from Nespresso boutiques worldwide, through orders from Nespresso Customer care cen- The Peninsula tres and online at www.nespresso.com

DOHA: Gilas under-18, the Philippine national youth basketball squad, was so dominating on their games against their host all-star selection Qatar Falcon teams The Limited and General Tenders Committee requests Tenders for the following works / services: from the veterans to their peers which     " *    &!  '#!   &   they each easily demolished with wide    "%0, &          leads of convincing victories. !   2 3 4 &5637/&   4&* The invitational two-day games )     ,      dubbed Laban Pilipinas organised by SL. TENDER TENDER SALE PERIOD TENDER TENDER BOND TENDER FEE Pinoy Basketball of Qatar (PIBAQ) and NO. NO. CLOSING DATE BOND CURR. FEE CURR. START DATE END DATE Samahan ng Basketbol sa Pilipinas (SBP) 1. LT16103500 21.07.2016 27.07.201615.08.2016 100,000.00 QAR200.00 QAR were part of the tune-up games of the Title of Work: SERVICING, CALIBRATION AND REPAIRING OF LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS ON CALL-OFF BASIS IN DUKHAN FIELDS national squad to hasten their inter- national exposure. PIBAQ Youth Camp Mid-Tender Meeting Location: Al Khoor Conference Room, Room # 2120-C, Block C, Dukhan coordinated by Youth Director Coach Mid-Tender Meeting Date & Time: 08.08.2016 at 09:00:00 Francis Mercado also played a big role                  The entire delegation of teams, Gilas U-18, Qatar Falcons and Falcons U21, of the two-day in the success of the games.  ! "     !  #         Laban Pilipinas friendly tournament after the closing ceremony of the games.  ["     Gilas dominated in their first day  %&    '(" &)!  '(!         game against the Falcons, composed of "   %    [   &    hard court idols playing in PIBAQ tour- reigning prowess as if they are already respectively, but their veterans’ move was hardly felt  *! " +* !,     &  +"   -          nament, 91-73, after they started to pull on a par with top global teams in their and was inferior enough to play side by side with a big-     *          !   away early in the second quarter and age category. The Falcon’s senior squad ger and taller line-up of Filipino youth crew.            "%. * /  &        never looked back. was led by big man centre and former John Bahio who played for 25 minutes top scored ,  &" *       "%0, &  They repeated a similar peat in their Philippine Basketball Association stan- for Gilas with 24 big points complemented with  ! '#!   &        '#!     !  game against the Falcon’s Under 21 selec- dout Rodel Mallari with 23 points backed reliable back-ups Joshua Sinclair and Jonas Tibayan  1       /    /                          tion, with a more dictating passion with up by point guards Eric Tamayo and P J who each chipped in with 13 points. a large edge win, 110-43, showing its Castillo who contributed 12 and 10 points, To balance their play rotation, Rendel Lee sparked with their game against Falcon Under 21 leading with 19 points while Theo Madrigal contributed 15 points. Gilas dominated the boards and shooting percentage in both games, a test of mettle if there is a new record of improved performance that could be useful in their regular campaign in FIBA tournaments. The tournament was sponsored by Sports Vision, Fraser Suites Doha, Lucky Seven and Shutterbug Photography.

‘Care & Aware’ blood donation drive on August 5

The Peninsula emergencies and helps patients suffering from life-threatening condi- tions to live longer and DOHA: Aster Medi- with a better quality of cal Centre, Malabar life. Gold & Diamonds, Well- According to instruc- care Group and KMCC tions from HMC, the Kozhikode District donor should have more Committee is organ- than 50kg weight, he/ ising a ‘Care & Aware’, she should have been blood donation drive to in Qatar for the past six raise awareness about months without any the importance of blood travel in between, should donation, with the sup- be in good health condi- port of Hamad Medical tion and should need to Corporation (HMC). have six hours of sleep The campaign will prior to blood donation. be held on August 5 from ‘Care and Aware’ 8am to 4pm at Aster charitable platform Medical Centre, Indus- started in 2012 to ensure trial Area, near the foot quality healthcare is overbridge opposite BMW accessible to all and suc- service station in Street cessfully conducted many No. 1. free medical camps and It will also felicitate awareness campaigns blood donors. throughout Qatar. Blood transfusion For details and reg- helps save millions of istration, call 33043796, lives every year during 74744516. MIDDLE EAST THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 05 Fire at residential Syrian boy’s beheading tower in Dubai AP by rebels sparks outrage

DUBAI: A residential skyscraper caught fire in Dubai’s densely populated Marina district yester- day, sending thick plumes of smoke into the air Nour El Din Al Zinki group to and burning chunks of the building tumbling to the streets below. open investigation into ghastly It was the latest in a string of dramatic infer- incident. nos that have raced up the sides of skyscrapers in and around the Mideast’s commercial hub, which is home to the world’s tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa. AP The afternoon blaze began several stories off the ground of the 945-foot (288 metre) Sulafa Tower and spread rapidly as hot wind gusts fanned the flames. Hundreds of Marina residents fled to the BEIRUT: A US-supported Syrian rebel group said yes- cavernous streets around the tower as firefighters terday it will open an investigation into the beheading of raced to the scene. a Syrian boy on spy accusations, calling it an “individ- “It was really scary,” said Nora Maki, who lives ual mistake” that does not represent the overall policies across the street. She said the flames “spread like of the group. wildfire” but said emergency crews did a good job The Nour El Din Al Zinki group, a relatively mod- of getting it under control. erate group that fights the Syrian government and the A video grab shows the boy before he was Firefighters could be seen on scorched bal- Islamic State group, condemned the beheading which beheaded. conies trying to reach out to extinguish the fire. was captured on video and triggered an instant back- Others sprayed the building’s lower floors, though lash against the group. Aleppo, on Tuesday. A young boy is seen on the back of they appeared unable to reach the flames. It is not clear who the boy was or why he was a pickup truck surrounded by armed men who accuse There were no casualties and the fire was extin- beheaded on camera. He was identified by activists on him of being a spy and a member of the Quds Brigade, a guished within three hours, according to the Dubai social media as Mahmoud Issa, a 12-year-old Palestinian. pro-government Palestinian militia. He is then beheaded Media Office. The Syrian government also denounced the “repulsive with a knife by one of them. The tower opened in 2010, according to the Chi- crime” against an innocent child in a statement to the The Quds Brigade, in a statement posted on its Face- cago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban United Nations, saying the boy was a Palestinian from book page, strongly denied that Issa was a fighter, adding Habitat. It says the tower has 76 stories and ranks the Palestinian refugee camp of Handarat on the edge that the boy was ill. It said he was killed by a “terrorist” Flames are seen after a fire broke out at the residential as the 21st tallest building in Dubai, which boasts of Aleppo. who lost his brother in battles near Handarat appar- several of the world’s tallest residential towers. Sulafa Tower in the Marina district of Dubai, yesterday. The incident allegedly occurred in Handarat, near ently as revenge. Families of soldiers detained over Turkey coup attempt wait for news

AFP Turkey has detained senior military fig- which would decide if they were to be a coup, the majors are giving orders to our (AKP): “We didn’t deserve that, my dear presi- ures, including 118 generals and admirals, remanded in custody or set free. children, they send them out. dent! I am for the AKP, I’m one of the founders, following the coup attempt, but many of those Ahmet, who declined to give his surname, “Our young people — when they real- I’m the head of my district. It didn’t have to ISTANBUL: Families of some of the thousands held are also likely to have been young con- said his son, a conscript, had been caught up ised they’ve been tricked — surrendered to end up like this.” of soldiers detained in the wake of Turkey’s scripts doing compulsory military service. in a plot despite having no knowledge of it. the police. After the police they are brought “I can’t stand it. I can’t stand it. I can’t failed coup anxiously waited for news yes- Their family members strained for a quick Like Turkey’s government, he blamed the down here.” stand it, especially the handcuffs.” terday of their relatives and tried to catch look at their sons as the men were brought coup on the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. Fearing his son could face life in prison, Cuneyt, from the Aegean city of Izmir and a glimpse of them outside Istanbul’s court by bus, their hands tied behind their backs, “Because of these games in our country, he addressed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan another father of a conscript, said his son had house. to court. They were then led in for hearings of these Gulenist terrorists, of this plague of and the ruling Justice and Development Party only just begun his military service. Saudi edict against Pokemon Go

AP the game is the same as the old one. to pounce on Pikachus or chase The edict notes that a six-pointed Charmanders. star in the game, for example, is The game is popular in the Mid- DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s top clerics associated with the state of Israel dle East and many gamers have renewed a religious edict that warns and that certain triangular sym- downloaded the app though it’s not against playing Pokemon — this time bols hold important meanings for the been officially released regionally. as the wildly popular mobile phone Freemasonry. Crosses in the game A senior official at Egypt’s Al- application “Pokemon Go”. are a symbol of Christianity, while Azhar, the pre-eminent seat of Sunni First issued in 2001 when the other symbols are associated with scholarship in the Muslim world, has game was played with cards, the polytheism, says the edict. also spoken out against the game. decree says Pokemon violates Additionally, the edict states par- Al-Azhar Undersecretary Abbas Islamic prohibitions against gam- ents are using the game to punish Shumman said users can lose their bling, uses devious Masonic-like and reward children, while warn- sense of reality and endanger them- symbols and promotes “forbidden ing that adults could gamble away selves while playing. The state-run images.” The edict, or fatwa, has money playing the game. Al-Ahram reported Shumman saying reappeared in a ticker on the home The augmented reality game a “manic attachment to technol- page of the kingdom’s portal for offi- sees users chasing digital critters ogy” can also make people forgetful cial religious decrees. that pop up as you move about the toward worship and prayer. Saudi-based Arab News reported real world. There have been reports Neighbouring Kuwait’s Interior yesterday that Sheikh Saleh Al of distracted players walking into Ministry warned users last week Fozan, a member of the country’s trees, crashing their cars, and not to play the game at mosques, ultraconservative council of senior even being robbed and stabbed by shopping centres, malls and oil clerics, said the current version of crooks who lured players trying installations.

Copter crumbs Five policemen dead in Yemen suicide bombing

AA

ADEN: Five policemen were killed and another six injured by a suicide bombing in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden yester- day, according to a local security source. The source, who spoke to Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity due to restrictions Libyans gather around the remains of a helicopter that crashed on speaking to media, said the near Benghazi, yesterday. bomber had blown himself up at a security checkpoint in a north- ern district of the city. There has as yet been no claim of responsibility for the attack. Since the Shia Houthi group Fire damages Palestinians’ home seized control of capital Sana’a in late 2014, Aden has served as the AFP of Duma in the occupied West Bank temporary headquarters of Yem- and a Palestinian official said they en’s embattled government. suspected another extremist attack, In a related development, the NABLUS: A fire burned a home yes- but Palestinian firefighters had not Houthis early Tuesday announced terday in a Palestinian village where commented on the cause. they had fired a ballistic missile an arson attack by Jewish extrem- The blaze damaged the home of at a military camp located in ists a year ago killed a toddler and Mohammed Dawabsha, located near the city of Najran in southwest- his parents, residents and authori- the house that was firebombed on ern Saudi Arabia near the border ties said. Inhabitants of the village July 31 last year. with Yemen. 06 THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 ASIA / AFRICA 17 soldiers die in Mali military base attack

ethnic -- both claimed to have car- falsely accused of supporting jihad- ried out the raid on the military ists active in the area. Mali defence minister camp in Nampala. Several security sources in the called the assault Islamist group Ansar Dine said region said they doubted the verac- a ‘coordinated in a message that it carried out a ity of the claim of responsibility “huge attack” that had killed “doz- from ANSIPRJ as the group was only terrorist attack on ens of soldiers and wound(ed) large founded last month following inter- our positions,’ but numbers,” according to the US-based communal clashes in the area and group SITE that monitors jihadist lacked the means to mount an attack. did not say who was communications. Coulibaly said the government responsible’ Ansar Dine, which is one of sev- was aware “a group had issued a eral active jihadist groups roaming claim. We are being careful.” Mali’s north, also claimed to have “One thing is sure, this was a ter- taken control of the army barracks rorist action that targeted a military AFP and carried off a large quantity of objective. So an appropriate military Taxis go through a flooded street during a heavy rainfall in Shilipu, Chaoyang Road, Beijing, China, yesterday. “spoils”. response is forthcoming,” he added. Earlier on Tuesday, a group from The Malian government said the BAMAKO: Seventeen soldiers were the ethnic Peul community, calling attackers would be hunted down and killed and 35 wounded in central themselves the National Alliance for punished, and that the military had China rain leaves one dead, 34 missing Mali on Tuesday in an assault on the Protection of Peul Identity and control of Nampala. their base that authorities called a Restoration of Justice (ANSIPRJ), said Northern Mali has seen repeated “coordinated terrorist attack”. they had killed eight troops in the violence since it fell under the con- AFP Nearly 68,000 residents had reporting leaks, the agency added. “The toll has increased: we have attack. trol of Tuareg-led rebels who allied been relocated as the provincial Torrential rain has already lost 17 men and 35 are wounded,” “It was self-defence,” Sidy Cisse, with jihadist groups linked to Al land resources bureau warned of wreaked havoc in southern China Mali’s defence minister Tieman a senior ANSIPRJ commander said, Qaeda in 2012. BEIJING: At least one person was flooding, landslides and mountain this year, causing floods in several Hubert Coulibaly said. Authorities adding three of his men were hurt. But attacks are now becoming killed and 34 missing as torrential torrents, it said. major cities including Wuhan in the had earlier announced that 12 sol- The group also claimed to have more frequent in the country’s cen- rain pounded northern China, state Weather authorities in the prov- central province of Hubei. diers were killed. wounded 11 soldiers, as well as mak- tre, close to its borders with Burkina media reported yesterday. ince have issued their highest, or Northern China is normally arid Coulibaly called the assault a ing off with two trucks and five Faso and Niger. Heavy downpours struck Hebei red, alert for rainstorms, the agency but flooding is not rare during the “coordinated terrorist attack on our pick-up trucks. Although Islamists were largely province which surrounds Beijing, added. summer monsoon season. positions,” but did not say who was Senior figures within ANSIPRJ ousted by an ongoing French-led causing all major rivers to breach Beijing was also hit by the rain- In the summer of 2012 Beijing responsible. are also members of a Peul asso- military operation launched in Jan- their banks and damaging 11 dams fall, with some roads submerged by was lashed by the worst rains to hit In the hours after the assaults ciation that decried the murder uary 2013, sporadic attacks from and two hydropower stations, the water more than 2 metres deep, traf- the capital for more than 60 years two groups -- one jihadist, the other of what it said were several Peuls desert hideouts are common. official Xinhua news agency reported. fic delayed and some subway stations and around 80 people were killed. Mugabe’s supporters march against govt protests

Reuters youth wing official Tinashe Wen- yika said. Five dead after “We remain committed to our HARARE: Thousands of support- party as young people and this is a seaplane hits ers of Zimbabwe’s President Robert sign that the centre still holds.” Mugabe marched to the ruling ZANU- Mawarire, who rallied followers Shanghai bridge PF party’s headquarters on yesterday under his #ThisFlag Twitter cam- in a show of solidarity following anti- paign, says his protests are peaceful government protests this month. and are against government corrup- SHANGHAI: Five people On July 8, a ‘stay away’ protest tion, alleged police brutality, delays died yesterday when a movement led by church minister in paying state workers’ salaries and seaplane they were trav- Evan Mawarire shut down most busi- cash shortages. elling in crashed into a nesses, government offices, schools “What pastor Mawarire is say- bridge in Shanghai on and hospitals in the biggest act of ing is just a joke and it’s paranoid,” its maiden flight to an public defiance against 92-year old a ZANU-PF supporter at the march offshore island, the gov- Mugabe in a decade. said, declining to give his name. ernment said. Mugabe has said the protests “We don’t take paranoid as some- The Cessna 208, oper- were being sponsored by foreign thing that can rule the country.” ated by AVIC Joy General states and urged citizens to support Mawarire was arrested on Aviation, was carrying his government. charges of treason but the case was 10 people from Shang- Many of those marching in sup- thrown out last week in a Zimba- hai’s Jinshan district to port of Mugabe were members of the bwean court. Zhoushan, an island in ruling ZANU-PF. Robert Gabriel Mugabe was the eastern province Thousands of supporters of the ruling party Zanu PF gather outside the party headquarters to show support “This has given us the chance to elected Prime Minister in 1980, of Zhejiang, the district for President Robert Mugabe following a wave of anti-government protests over the last two weeks in express our solidarity with our pres- serving in that office as head of the government said in a Harare, Zimbabwe, yesterday. ident, Robert Mugabe,” ZANU-PF government, until 1987. statement. One survivor is seriously hurt and is undergoing surgery, while four others sustained lighter injuries, the gov- S Korea’s missile launch ernment said. The cause of the crash is under investigation, it a test for nuclear attack added.

Reuters Eastern Congo rebels suspected SEOUL: North Korea said yesterday it had conducted a bal- of killing civilians listic missile test that simulated preemptive strikes against South Korean ports and airfields used KINSHASA: Rebels from by the US military, likely refer- the Hutu ethnic group in ring to the launches of three eastern Congo are sus- missiles on Tuesday. pected of killing at least The North’s leader Kim Jong seven civilians in revenge Un supervised the exercise that for the killing of one of successfully tested the simulated their number, some of detonation of nuclear warheads the local activists said on mounted on missiles, its official Tuesday. KCNA news agency reported. Two men read a copy of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper showing Hundreds of civilians It did not give the date of coverage of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un overseeing a have died in inter-eth- nic violence and a series the exercise, as it customarily ballistic missile test conducted by the Hwasong artillery units of massacres by armed reports activities of its leader of the KPA Strategic Force, in a public square in Pyongyang. without dates or locations. groups in Democratic North Korea fired three bal- Republic of Congo’s con- listic missiles that flew between “And it once again examined and trying to miniaturise them flict-ravaged east, which 500km and 600km into the sea the operational features of the to mount on ballistic missiles but borders Rwanda and off its east coast, South Korea’s detonating devices of nuclear it is believed by experts to be a Uganda. military said, the latest in a series warheads mounted on the bal- few years away from mastering An ethnic Nande mili- of provocative moves by the iso- listic rockets at the designated the technology. tia group, the Mai-Mai lated country. altitude over the target area,” it Tuesday’s missile launches Mazembe, killed a Hutu “The drill was conducted by said. were seen as a show of force on Sunday in Kibirizi, limiting the firing range under The US military said it rather than a test to improve leading to the reprisal the simulated conditions of mak- believed two of the missiles missile capabilities, a week attack by the Democratic ing preemptive strikes at ports were Scuds and the other a after South Korea and the United Forces for the Liberation and airfields in the operational Rodong, a home-grown mis- States chose a site in the South to of Rwanda (FDLR), said theater in South Korea where sile based on Soviet-era Scud deploy the Terminal High Alti- Innocent Gasigwa, the the US imperialists nuclear war technology. tude Area Defence (THAAD) spokesperson for the Civil hardware is to be hurled,” KCNA North Korea is believed to anti-missile system to counter Society of Rutshuru. said. be developing nuclear warheads threats from the North. ASIA / PHILIPPINES THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 07

Indonesia on Dhaka seeks whereabouts of 260 missing alert after top militant killed Reuters suggested links to a trans-national Information was still being gath- over the March 2015 murder of an network. ered and the number of missing was online critic of religious extremism. Official says some After the attack, the gov- expected to grow, he added. Bystanders in Dhaka, the capital, Reuters DHAKA: Bangladesh police are try- of the missing ernment appealed to families to The RAB list posted on its Face- seized two of the attackers as they ing to determine the whereabouts contact authorities if their sons had book page includes a 16-year-old, tried to flee after hacking to death the of at least 260 young men who have youngsters are sons disappeared. a doctor whose father was in the blogger, Washikur Rahman, 27, and JAKARTA: Indonesian forces are been missing for a year or more, a of retired or serving A senior officer with the police- army and a man arrested in 2013 police later arrested a third suspect. on high alert for reprisal attacks security officer said yesterday, in an army officials, led Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), with explosives who went to Malay- The three men now in jail after the country’s most-wanted effort to track militants after a deadly which is involved in the counter- sia while on bail. pleaded not guilty, public prosecu- militant was killed this week, offi- attack this month. bureaucrats and terrorism effort, said a list of 260 Mostly Muslim Bangladesh has tor Salauddin Hawlader said, while cials said yesterday. Five young men killed 22 people, businessmen. missing young men had been com- faced a series of attacks on liberal the others, who are on the run, are Police confirmed Santoso, most of them foreigners, in an attack piled from reports from families and bloggers, university teachers and to be tried in their absence. among the first Indonesians to on an upmarket Dhaka cafe on July 1 intelligence tip-offs. members of religious minorities over Islamic State has warned that pledge loyalty to Islamic State, claimed by Islamic State. “Some of the missing youngsters the past year. the violence would continue until was killed in a gun battle with Three of the attackers were from Authorities have blamed the are sons of retired or serving army Lawyers said a court on yesterday Islamic law was established world- security forces on the island of affluent Dhaka homes who had bro- attack on a domestic militant group, officials, bureaucrats and business- charged five suspected members of a wide, saying in a video the Dhaka Sulawesi on Monday. ken off contact with their families but security experts say the scale men,” Mufti Mahmud Khan, chief of banned militant group, the Al Qaeda- cafe attack was just a hint of what But officials say the threat months ago. and sophistication of the assault the RAB’s legal and media wing said. inspired Ansarullah Bangla Team, was to come. level in the world’s largest Mus- lim-majority nation remains high. Rudy Sufahriadi, the police chief for central Sulawesi, said the security operation in Poso, Military investigates Kasada ceremony where the US-designated “ter- rorist” Santoso had been hiding, would continue. “There is a possibility of a ‘coup’ plot against backlash,” he said. “They are not terrorists if they do not take revenge.” Cambodia’s Hun Sen Chief Security Minister Luhut Pandjaitan said operations would be intensified in regions consid- Reuters coup or threaten to organise a coup ered hotbeds for radicalism. in the video clip. Around 20 members of San- It was not clear where he was toso’s Mujahidin Indonesia Timur PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s mil- speaking from but he said he remain in hiding in the jungles of itary is investigating a suspected belonged to a “unit” based in south- Sulawesi, where Indonesia has coup plot against Prime Minister Hun western Cambodia. been running a major security Sen, a defence ministry official said The Facebook page bearing operation for years. yesterday, amid rising political ten- the name Vichea Som showed the A team of police and mili- sion in the Southeast Asian country. same man. He did not immediately tary personnel also shot a man The army investigation centres respond to a request for comment believed to be Santoso’s right- on a man who announced plans to sent via Facebook. hand man, a move officials say topple Hun Sen in Facebook and Hun Sen has ruled with an iron will weaken the group. YouTube videos and called on others fist for more than 30 years, defeat- President Joko Widodo last to join his cause, said Defence Min- ing all challenges to his authority, year stepped up efforts to cap- istry spokesman Chhum Sucheat. but he faces a young electorate ture or kill Santoso, ordering the “The authorities are investigat- which appears increasingly hun- military to support thousands of ing and looking for him,” Chhum gry for change. Mount Bromo spews ash as Hindu villagers and visitors gather ahead of Kasada ceremony, when police scouring the jungles where Sucheat said. He identified the man In recent moths, tension has villagers and worshippers throw offerings such as livestock and crops into the volcanic crater in he was hiding. as Vichea Som but declined to give been rising between Hun Sen and Probolinggo, Indonesia, yesterday. The effort included fighter jets further details. an opposition hoping to challenge and warships. News of the plot comes a day his grip in local elections next year after a senior US official responsible and a general election in 2018. for human rights urged Cambo- Several members of the oppo- dia’s political rivals to return to sition and activists have been jailed negotiations amid a “deteriorating as part of what they say is a govern- situation”. ment crackdown to silence critics Robredo wants probe into drug-related killings In the video, the man the min- ahead of the elections. istry identified as Vichea Som is On July 10, Kem Ley, a promi- dressed in a business suit and tie nent activist and frequent critic of Anatolia person’s right to due process,” Leni execution. What I’m worried about with a camouflage background vis- Hun Sen, was murdered in the cap- Robredo said yesterday. is there have been so many deaths,” Beijing supports ible in the footage. ital Phnom Penh. “Each of those Filipinos who she underlined. He did not identify himself but A suspect has been arrested and ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Philippines were killed over alleged crimes were GMA quoted National Police Manila drug war accused Hun Sen’s government police said they believed Kem Ley vice president has called on authori- denied their right to a fair trial, and Chief Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa as and his ruling Cambodian People’s was killed because of a debt. ties to “seriously investigate” reports those lives may never be returned to stressing that he does not condone Party of being behind big land grabs Activists believe his murder was of extra-judicial killings by police their loved ones.” extrajudicial killings, and police MANILA: China has offered in one of Southeast Asia’s poorest political. amid President Rodrigo Duterte’s The vice president expressed spokesman Senior Supt Dionardo its support to the Philip- countries. The United States has called for campaign against illegal drugs. support for Duterte’s campaign Carlos as saying that the killings pine’s controversial drug He also accused the government a credible investigation. The Euro- National police figures show against crime and illegal drugs of drug suspects during operations crackdown pushed by new of high-profile killings and human pean Union and UN have expressed that 194 drug suspects were killed through lawful means, as well as were being investigated. President Rodrigo Duterte, rights abuses. concern about the political tension. between July 1 -- the first day of concern over what she described as According to police data, a total which has been slammed by “In the near future, please all Hun Sen is the 34th and cur- Duterte’s term -- and July 19, while the recent “growing culture of vigi- of 103,375 suspected drug pushers rights groups for encouraging forces be ready against the dicta- rent Prime Minister of Cambodia another 6 died yesterday. lantism and violence”. and users have turned themselves extrajudicial killings and vig- torial regime,” the man said. and President of Cambodian Peo- “The rise in extrajudicial killings “My feeling is he [Duterte] in to authorities since Duterte took ilante justice. He did not specifically call for a ple’s Party. is a call for all of us to uphold every would not condone vigilante style office. Taiwan MPs & fishermen protest at disputed sea Indonesia bans police

AFP secretary of Liuqiu District Fisher- men Association in Pingtung. to play ‘Pokemon Go’ “If it wasn’t to protect our live- TAIPEI: Taiwanese lawmakers and lihood, no fishermen would spend fishermen were heading to an island money and time to sail there to in the disputed South China Sea yes- protest.” AFP forms,” said hardline Defence Min- terday to protest an international The Spratlys are also claimed in ister Ryamizard Ryacudu. tribunal ruling that undermined Tai- part or whole by China, Vietnam, the The military will soon issue an pei’s claims there. Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei. JAKARTA: Indonesia is banning order banning all personnel from Eight lawmakers from the rul- Taiwan’s government rejected police and military personnel from playing Pokemon Go during work ing Democratic Progressive Party The Hague’s ruling, saying it playing Pokemon Go while on duty, hours as it seeks to protect high- and opposition Kuomintang (KMT) “severely jeopardised” Taiwan’s officials said yesterday, after the security sites, military spokesman boarded a military plane early yes- rights and has no legally binding defence minister warned the smart- Tatang Sulaiman said. terday to the Taiwan-controlled force since the tribunal did not for- phone game was a security threat. The order will note concerns Taiping island in the Spratly island mally invite Taipei to participate in It came as the Jakarta pres- that devices being used to play the chain. its proceedings or solicit its views. idential palace also prohibited game can send data over the Inter- Later yesterday, five fishing Taiwanese authorities have said playing the popular game around net to other countries. boats will also set sail to Taiping they would continue to send aircraft the premises, with signs appearing The announcement came after from southern Pingtung county over and ships for patrol missions to the that read “Playing or hunting Poke- a Frenchman was briefly detained the perceived threat to fishermen’s Taiwanese fishermen display flags and placards before departing to region and expel any foreign boats mon is forbidden in the area of the this week when he accidentally wan- livelihoods. Taiping island, part of the disputed Spratly Islands chain in the South that come into its 200-nautical-mile palace”. dered onto a military base on Java Those boats will arrive in five China Sea, at a fishing harbour in southern Pingtung, yesterday. exclusive economic zone despite the Indonesians have joined the island as he played Pokemon Go. days’ time. ruling. frenzy for Pokemon Go, which Police officers across the coun- The protests come after the Per- maritime territory”, with President a solar-powered lighthouse, an The Democratic Progressive has become a worldwide hit since try were already sent an order manent Court of Arbitration in the Tsai Ing-wen rallying troops on the expanded airstrip and a pier, as part Party is a progressive and liberal launching two weeks ago and has banning them from playing the Hague ruled last Tuesday that China deck of the frigate a day after the of efforts to strengthen defence capa- political party in the Republic of already been blamed for a wave of game while on duty, a spokesman has no historic rights to its claimed ruling. bilities on Taiping. China, and the dominant party in the crimes, traffic violations and com- said. “nine-dash line” in the South China “The ruling is absolutely unac- There is also a farm, water well, Pan-Green Coalition. It is currently plaints in cities around the globe. “We are worried that police Sea and that it had violated theP- ceptable. It is necessary for us to hospital and temple on the island. the majority ruling party in Taiwan, Despite Pokemon Go not yet officers may become addicted and hilippines’ sovereign rights in the visit Taiping at this time to show the Taiping island is 0.51sq km and controlling both the presidency and being officially available in Indo- we don’t want that because a police exclusive economic zone. international community that it is an most of its inhabitants work for the the unicameral Legislative Yuan. nesia, many have downloaded it officer’s duty is to serve the public. Crucially for Taipei, it ruled that island, not a rock,” said KMT law- coastguard, which has about 160 While Kuomintang (also known illegally and taken to the streets to The job requires hard work and con- Taiwan-administered Taiping, the maker Johnny Chiang who is heading staff there. as the Guomindang or Chinese hunt for virtual “pocket monsters”. centration,” said national police largest island in the Spratlys chain, the protest visit. Each year about 200 fishing Nationalist Party ) is a major Chi- But its popularity has caused spokesman Boy Rafli Amar. was legally a “rock” that did not The lawmakers will watch a boats operate in the waters near nese political party, currently the concern among the security Pokemon Go uses smartphone give it an exclusive economic zone, display of combat skills by the coast- Taiping island. 2nd-largest in the Republic of China establishment’s top echelons, with satellite location, graphics and cam- undermining Taiwanese claims to guard stationed on Taiping as well “Taiwanese fishing boats could and, as the Revolutionary Committee officials suggesting its high-tech era capabilities to overlay cartoon waters surrounding the island. as facilities that show the island is easily be caught by the other claim- of the Chinese Kuomintang, the 2nd capabilities could be put to use in monsters on real-world settings, Taiwan last week sent a warship self-sufficient. ants in the region once they sail to in precedence in the People’s Repub- spying. challenging players to capture and to the South China Sea “to defend Taiwan last year inaugurated that area,” said Tsai Pao-hsin, chief lic of China. “Spying can come in different train the creatures for battles. 08 THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 VIEWS

ESTABLISHED IN 1996

CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI [email protected]

ACTING MANAGING EDITOR MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected]

DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR HUSSAIN AHMAD [email protected]

EDITORIAL Pervasive influence If Turkish coup had succeeded,

t is being conjectured that the failed coup in Turkey was orchestrated by Fethullah Gulen of the Hizmet movement. would US have played along? The US-based cleric who lives in the Poconus mountains of rural Pennsylvania has occupied center stage in Turkish politics for years. It is believed that his followers, called was not a democracy at the questioned. the very importance of Turkey’s IGulenists, have been infesting Turkey’s institutions like the time, but US statesmen weren’t Against this backdrop, the continued Nato membership that judiciary, armed forces, police, bureaucracy and running a sort of terribly worried, so long as the colonels who led Turkey’s first required Washington to set its parallel government in the country of 80 million. Turkish president remained a coup in 1960 were worried that preference for democracy aside. “strongman of the right sort.” In they would face opposition As long as Ankara remained a Gulen who fled Turkey in 1999 for the US and his Hizmet a telling conversation in 1948, one from the US on political rather committed Nato ally in a stra- movement command a loyalty that is cult-like. That he can US official asked the head of Tur- than principled grounds. To try tegically vital part of the globe, become a bête noire of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from key’s National Security Service to preempt any problems, they it met the one requirement that thousands of miles away and inspire a movement that gives an whether he thought that Turkey’s announced, in their first state- mattered. elected government the jitters, shows how deeply-entrenched the undemocratic behaviour might ment after taking power, just how History is not destiny, though, cleric’s influence is. endanger continued US support. firmly committed they were to and there is every reason to hope By Nick Danforth The Turkish official’s response, NATO. When the US ambassador that the US government will Resentment against Erdogan started with the Gezi Park Foreign Policy as reported back to Washington, met with Turkey’s new military take a firmer stand in defense movement which began in Istanbul. The government wanted to “was to laugh and say that since leader shortly afterwards, he of Turkish democracy in the develop the park into a shopping mall. aid is still coming in, the US evi- began by praising him for pull- future. Kerry’s statement about The patch of greenery in the heart of aced with a fast-moving dently is convinced that Turkey ing off “by far the most precise, democracy and Nato is certainly Fethullah Istanbul had been a favourite hangout crisis as an attempted is democratic.” most efficient, and most rapid encouraging, if historically dubi- Gulen’s of youngsters and families alike. The coup roiled Turkey over Turkey held its first free elec- coup” he had ever seen. ous. The Soviet Union is gone, of youth started protesting vehemently the weekend, US officials tions in 1950 — and in a move that Against this backdrop, the course, but the US has now come Fwere commendably firm in their surprised US officials no less leaders of Turkey’s subsequent to depend on Turkey, and its Incir- organisation against the plan to build the mall. The has acquired rejection of the plotters’ anti-dem- than many coups, the govern- military coups had little reason lik airbase, in the war against the administration responded with brute ocratic methods. Asked late Friday ment peacefully stepped down to worry they would be firmly Islamic State. This reliance made the features force. Regular clashes between police about the coup as it was unfolding, after losing. As a result, Turkey rebuked by the United States. it difficult to oppose Erdogan’s of a strong and protesters triggered comparisons John Kerry first offered vague sup- joined Nato in 1952 at a moment And, indeed, they never were. undemocratic behavior before the port for “stability and peace and when its future as a democracy The next coup, in 1971, was both coup, and will continue to con- non-state with the Arab Spring. It was then that Gulen’s name gained currency with continuity.” But shortly afterward, looked bright, inspiring a flurry of far less dramatic and couched strain the United States’ ability with the situation — and thus the rhetoric about the alliance’s dem- in anti-communist terms, mak- to criticise Ankara as long as the actor in some saying that the Gezi Park protests likely winners — still uncertain, ocratic character in Washington ing Washington even less likely threat remains. Turkey. were being controlled by him from the President Barack Obama issued and Ankara alike. to object. So what should Washington United States. a clear call for all parties to sup- But things quickly took a turn Turkey’s next coup after that, do if, as most observers expect, The nature of Hizmet as a spiritual port the “democratically elected for the worse as Turkey’s new in 1980, also enjoyed widespread Erdogan becomes increas- organisation was never in doubt. It propagates a faith that is government of Turkey.” After the government, not unlike Erdog- support from the Turkish popu- ingly heavy-handed in cracking closer to Sufism. However, with members widely spread out in coup had failed on Monday, John an’s, sought to consolidate its lation, making Washington’s down on his real and imagined the government, and with its activities frequently stepping on the Kerry went further, warning that democratic mandate through tolerant response more under- opponents? The first step is to President Erdogan’s post-coup undemocratic means. By the mid- standable. The country had recognize that any gains in the administration’s toes, it is broadly acquiring dimensions of a non- crackdown could itself pose a fifties, the New York Times found become increasingly polarised, fight against the Islamic State state actor. Its purported role in the coup against the Erdogan threat to Turkish democracy. “Nato itself “disturb[ed] to read about leading to political paralysis and will be short-term and tactical at government adds strength to the argument that Gulenists are now also has a requirement with respect an increasing curtailment of the ongoing street battles between best if they come at the expense members of an organization that is linked to something more to democracy,” he warned his Turk- freedom of the Turkish press” left and right-wing groups. When of Turkey’s long-term stability. than spirituality. Turkey has declared it a terrorist organisation. ish counterpart. and US diplomats concluded that the military stepped in to end the In a series of bombings over the Non-state actors in the Middle East are not a new Obama’s response was the country was “far from being chaos, anxious US observers — past year, the Islamic State has prompt and admirable, and Ker- an operating democracy in our and many Turks — breathed a done its best to destabilise Tur- phenomenon. From Hezbollah in Lebanon to the Mehdi Army in ry’s comments on Nato were far sense of the word.” But, even as sigh of relief. Afterwards, how- key, recognizing that this will Iraq — these organisations have straddled the unstable politics more forceful than most observ- it grew ever more authoritarian ever, the United States continued vastly increase its freedom of of the region in a rather disruptive way. The Gulenists seem to be ers had expected. But America’s throughout the 1950s, Turkey’s to support the Turkish military as maneuver in the region. The more doing the same. past actions will likely speak government remained firmly it tortured dissidents and waged a aggressively Erdogan pursues his Unstable national governments which are not truly louder than its present-day anti-communist and pro-Amer- brutal counter-insurgency cam- political enemies, the more frac- democratic have been a major factor behind the proliferation of words. A look back at the United ican — which was enough for paign against Kurdish rebels. tured Turkish society will become non-state actors in the Middle East. However, it is not the case States’ relationship with Turkey Washington to excuse its other Ironically, considering Kerry’s — and the more opportunities the over the last half-century makes faults. Its eligibility to remain insistence that Nato member- Islamic State will have to step in in Turkey which has a relatively strong democracy and a stable it clear that democracy is most a member of Nato was never ship requires democracy, it was and wreak further havoc. government. Gulenists have been able to spread their influence definitely not a requirement for More practically, US policy- in the Turkish administration despite odds that do not impede the Nato membership. makers can increase their leverage activities of other non-state actors. In this way, Hizmet has been Whatever Obama said Fri- over Ankara by looking more seri- an exception. day night, history suggests that, ously at alternatives to the Incirlik come Saturday morning, Wash- airbase. Tensions between the two ington would have found a way countries are expected to mount in to work with whoever emerged the coming months — most notably the winner in Ankara. With a over Ankara’s demand that the US Quote of the day vengeful Erdogan now once again extradite the Pennsylvania-based at the helm, a stormy period in cleric it accuses of mastermind- US-Turkish relations is almost ing the coup. That being the case, I am determined that certain. But history gives Tur- it would be better for Washington to Britain will make a success key’s president little reason to rethink its relationship with Ankara fear that Washington will take on its own terms — not on Turkey’s. of leaving the European a firm stand on democracy so Turkey will, and should, Union and that‘s why I long as US interests in the region remain a Nato member — the have decided to visit Berlin remain dependent on his coun- alliance has played an impor- and Paris so soon after try’s cooperation. tant role in preserving stability taking office. America’s alliance with Tur- in the world, and it continues to key began in the immediate do so. But this need not require, as aftermath of World War Two, it so often has in the past, turning Theresa May when Washington extended the a blind eye to undemocratic and British Prime Minister country military and economic destabilising governments that go support to guard against the A file photo of US President Barack Obama, with President of against the spirit, if not the letter, threat of Soviet invasion. Turkey Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting. of the alliance.

EDITORIAL TEL: 44557741 / 44557743 FAX: 44557746 / 44557758 P. O. BOX: 3488, DOHA, QATAR E-MAIL: [email protected] ADVERTISING TEL: 44557837 / 780 FAX: 44557870 CLASSIFIED: 44557857 E-MAIL: [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION / HOME DELIVERY TEL: 44557809 /839 FAX: 44557819 E-MAIL: [email protected] OPINION THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 09 Sense behind the nonsense from Iraq’s foreign minister

By Eli Lake Bloomberg

n the eve of a major donor’s conference in Washington, Iraq’s foreign minister, Ibra- him Al Jaafari, would like Americans to know a few Othings about his country. First, Iraqis are not a sectarian peo- ple: “Coexistence is a culture that lives in Iraq.” Second, Iraqis of all backgrounds suffered equally under Saddam Hussein. (Never mind what those Kurds over there might tell you.) And finally, there are no Americans fighting the Islamic State today on Iraqi soil. If you believe this, then Al Jaafari would like to get in touch later to discuss a few bridges he is putting on the market. For the rest of you, though, Al Jaafari’s remarks illustrate how many Iraqi elites sound delusional when speaking to for- Displaced Iraqi children carry supplies delivered to their camp in Khaldiyeh. eign audiences. Let’s look at Al Jaafari’s first and most in the government, the police and the Islamic State’s predecessor, Al Qaida in wounds.” significant claim. He repeated this line parliament. Iraq, was a part of Osama bin Laden’s This gets to the part of Al Jaafari’s talk about his countrymen being nonsecta- While this is true, it’s also mislead- terror group and was directed by its lead- this week that had some merit. When he rian several times at his talk Tuesday at ing. One of the precursors to the Islamic ership in Pakistan. Iran has funded and was detailing how Iraqi army units and the US Institute of Peace. State’s 2014 rampage throughout Iraq was supported the Shia militias that have volunteer militias were fighting and win- When asked about how the Sunni a series of largely nonviolent protests in stoked sectarianism too. ning against the Islamic State, he said, Arab minority complain publicly that the Sunni majority areas of the country. The But many Sunni Iraqis are also “Iraqis are not only defending themselves, government in Baghdad does not rep- Shiite prime minister at the time, Nouri Al attracted to the poison of the Islamic they are defending the world.” resent them, Al Jaafari dismissed the Maliki, responded to these protests with State, even if a large majority of them Again, this is only part of the picture. point entirely, stating that Sunnis serve his military and mass arrests. pledge their allegiance to this self-pro- The participation of some Shia militias in Al Jaafari’s own political biography claimed caliphate only because they are the battle against the Islamic State will also puts the lie to his claim about Iraqi forced to do so. only exacerbate the sectarian tensions The participation of Al Jaafari is making the case that the nonsectarianism. When he served as As Kyle Orton, a British security blog- that Al Jaafari says do not exist. At the some Shia militias Islamic State and Shia extremists in prime minister, he was a member of a ger, has documented, many Baathists same time, as the terror in France and in the battle against confessional Shia party known as Dawa. purged from the post-Saddam state Germany in the last week shows, the Iraqi the country are foreign influences, He has since split from this party and filled the ranks of Al Qaeda and later the fight is the West’s fight too. the Islamic State will but are not really Iraqi. Again, started a reform bloc. Islamic State. During al Maliki’s crack- That’s the message Al Jaafari will only exacerbate the But Maliki and his successor, Haidar downs in late 2013 and early 2014, some convey to foreign and defense ministers there is a grain of truth to this. Al Abadi, are both members of Dawa in prominent Sunni tribal leaders stated gathering in Washington for a confer- sectarian tensions that The Islamic State’s predecessor, Al good standing. When Ayad Al Allawi’s openly that they preferred the Islamic ence to help fund the campaign to retake Al Jaafari says do not multi-confessional party won the most State to Maliki’s army. Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, which Qaeda in Iraq, was a part of Osama parliamentary seats in the 2010 elections, “The Iraqi conversation in social the Islamic State has occupied now for exist. At the same time, bin Laden’s terror group and was Dawa and other Shia parties struck a deal media and other forums is far more more than two years. as the terror in France with the Kurds, to keep Sunni parties out advanced than this happy talk,” Nibras It would be a shame if that message directed by its leadership in Pakistan. of the governing coalition. Kazimi, the proprietor of the Talisman were lost because Iraq’s foreign minister and Germany in the Iran has funded and supported So what is going on here? Al Jaafari Gate blog that focuses on Iraqi politics, insists on dressing it up with pleasant- last week shows, the the Shia militias that have stoked is making the case that the Islamic State told me. “There is deep introspection sounding fictions. Iraqi fight is the West’s and Shia extremists in the country are about where the extremism is com- sectarianism too. foreign influences, but are not really Iraqi. ing from and what is ahead for Iraq in The writer is a Bloomberg View columnist fight too. Again, there is a grain of truth to this. The containing extremism and healing its writing about politics and foreign affairs. Melania Trump and difference between plagiarism and politics

least back to the isolationist move- had been someone else’s first. On the other hand, when two somewhere in your life. ment that preceded World War II. Neil Kinnock, the leader of Brit- politicians are of the same political Somebody helped to create this All of that is well within what are ain’s Labour Party, was known for stripe, an echo can also be viewed unbelievable American system that generally regarded as the norms, an identical riff. as a tribute. we have that allowed you to thrive,” and even a tribute to the predeces- “Why am I the first Kinnock in a President Barack Obama raised he said. “Somebody invested in roads sors upon whom political movements thousand generations to be able to eyebrows in his 2008 presidential and bridges. If you’ve got a business. are built. get to university? Why is [his wife] campaign, for instance, when he used you didn’t build that.” So why the furor over Mela- Glenys the first woman in her fam- almost the exact language and Mas- It turns out that was the same nia Trump’s lifting of big chunks of ily in a thousand generations to be sachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick had in rhetorical frame that Elizabeth War- Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention able to get to university? his 2006 race. ren had used to great effect in her speech? Was it because all our predeces- “Don’t tell me words don’t mat- campaign to become senator from The answer can be found in the sors were thick?” Kinnock had said ter! ‘I have a dream.’ Just words. ‘We Massachusetts. controversy that ended now-Vice during a speech delivered at a party hold these truths to be self-evident, “You built a factory out there? President Joe Biden’s 1988 cam- conference in 1987. that all men are created equal.’ Just Good for you. But I want to be By Karen Tumulty Melania Trump’s paign for the White House. Biden In early days, Biden had credited words. ‘We have nothing to fear but clear: You moved your goods to infraction — which The Washington Post found out that making politics per- Kinnock. But there were also times fear itself.’ Just words, just speeches,” market on the roads the rest of sonal changes the ground rules. when he had not. Obama had said. us paid for; you hired workers may have been Then a Delware senator and Even in those pre-Google days, Patrick’s version two years ear- the rest of us paid to educate; you committed by rising star in his party, Biden had Biden’s copycat delivery was found lier: “We hold these truths to be were safe in your factory because hen one politician included a starkly personal pas- out by the opposition operation of self-evident, that all men are cre- of police forces and fire forces whoever wrote her comes up with a sage in his stump speech, one that his rival, Massachusetts Gov. Michael ated equal.’ Just words. Just words. that the rest of us paid for,” War- speech — goes to snappy line, the made his biography a testament to Dukakis, and handed over to the ‘We have nothing to fear but fear ren had said. some of the same expectation is that the American dream. media. itself.’ Just words. ‘ Warren herself had borrowed others will borrow “Why is it that Joe Biden is the It led to more investigation that Ask not what your country can the larger concept from George issues. When a Wit and make it their own at some first in his family ever to go to a uni- revealed he had plagiarized a paper do for you, ask what you can do for Lakoff, a University of California political figure is point. versity? Why is it that my wife who in law school. All of which spoke to your country.’ Just words. ‘I have a at Berkeley professor and liberal To wit: “Make America Great is sitting out there in the audience is what was deemed to be a disquali- dream.’ Just words.” activist who had said, “Nobody giving a testament Again” — Donald Trump’s campaign the first in her family to ever go to fying character flaw. Obama later said he regretted not makes a dollar in this country in to his or her own slogan, which is just half a tick off college?” he would say. Melania Trump’s infraction — naming his muse, but Deval gave him business without using the com- the “Let’s Make America Great Again” “Is it because our fathers and which may have been committed by a pass. mon wealth.” biography and one that adorned Ronald Reagan and mothers were not bright? Is it whoever wrote her speech — goes to In his 2012 reelection campaign, So originality is not a requisite in character and George HW Bush’s buttons and post- because I’m the first Biden in a thou- some of the same issues. Obama did it again with another elo- politics — as long as the point that is ers in 1980. sand generations to get a college and When a political figure is giving quent Massachusetts politician. being made is a philosophical one, values, there is far Or Trump’s appropriation of a graduate degree that I was smarter a testament to his or her own biogra- “If you were successful, some- and not a personal testament. little leeway. Richard M. Nixon’s “silent majority.” than the rest?” phy and character and values, there body along the line gave you some In that case, as Patrick might say, Or “America First,” which echoes at Except it turned out that his story is far little leeway. help. There was a great teacher they are “just words.”

All thoughts and views expressed in these columns are those of the writers, not of the newspaper. All correspondence regarding Views and Opinion pages should be mailed to the Editor-in-Chief. 10 THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 PAKISTAN New decree against honour killings soon

against murders carried out by peo- committee of joint session of par- ple professing to be acting in defence liament today for consideration and The law would of the honour of their family. approval.” remove a loophole The law would remove a loophole Maryam said once the parliamen- that allows other family members to tary committee approved the bill, it that allows other pardon a killer. would be presented for a vote in a family members to The brother of social media star “couple of weeks” before a joint ses- Qandeel Baloch, often described sion of parliament. pardon a killer as Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian, has A spokesman for Jamaat-e- been arrested in connection with her Islami, one of the two major religious strangling death and told a news con- parties in parliament, said his party Reuters ference he was incensed by her often would not oppose the bill. risqué posts on social media. Pakistan’s other main religious Some 500 women are killed each political party, Jamiat Ulema-e- ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ruling party year in Pakistan at the hands of fam- Islam, could not be reached for plans to pass long-delayed legisla- ily members over perceived damage comment but it has only a small tion against “honour killings” within to “honour” that can involve eloping, number of seats in parliament. Pakistani civil society activists carry placards during a protest in Islamabad against the murder of social weeks in the wake of the high-profile fraternising with men or any other Both religious parties have tra- media celebrity Qandeel Baloch by her own brother. murder of an outspoken social media infraction against conservative val- ditionally opposed legislation star, the daughter of Prime Minister ues that govern women’s modesty. empowering women. Nawaz Sharif said yesterday. Maryam Nawaz Sharif said the The upper house of parliament backing the bill and it was likely to In a rare move, this week the society with her social media pho- The bill will go before a par- government wanted to pass the law passed the bill in 2014 but it lapsed be passed in a few weeks by a joint government became a complainant tos and posts. liamentary committee as early as unanimously and had been nego- after the government failed to put session of parliament. in the police case against Baloch’s She was unapologetic about push- Thursday, said Maryam Nawaz tiating with religious parties in it up for a vote in the lower house “The prime minister is taking brother accused of her murder, des- ing the boundaries of acceptability Sharif, who is an increasingly influ- parliament. because it was preoccupied with personal interest,” added a second ignating it a crime against the state for women and changing “the typi- ential member of her father’s ruling “We have finalised the draft legislation aimed at tackling secu- official and close aide to Sharif. and thereby blocking her family from cal orthodox mindset” of Pakistanis. party. law in the light of negotiations,” she rity problems and economic reforms. “You will see in coming days forgiving their son. Many viewed her as a disgrace to the The government has faced told Reuters in an interview. “The A senior government official told more will be done, big changes will Baloch had long divided opinion cultural values of Islam and Pakistan. mounting pressure to pass the law final draft will be presented to a Reuters all major parties were now be announced.” in the deeply conservative Muslim Others hailed her as a “feminist icon”. Afghan girl’s death sparks Attacks threaten Helmand province call to end child marriage Reuters US warplanes had conducted at The Taliban insurgency began least two air strikes in the 24 hours shortly after the group’s fall from School teachers AFP government bring an end to child up to yesterday afternoon in sup- power following the 2001 War in marriages. LASHKAR GAH: Afghan secu- port of Afghan troops, but officials Afghanistan. to be trained in “This is a truly heartbreaking rity forces backed by US air strikes declined to provide additional details The Taliban forces are fighting KABUL: Right groups yesterday situation in which Zahra faced suf- have beaten back Taliban attacks on on the fighting against the Afghan government, English language called on the Afghan government to fering beyond comprehension,” Save a vulnerable southern district, gov- US Defence Secretary Ash Carter formerly led by President Hamid end the scourge of child marriages, the Children said in a statement. ernment officials said yesterday, said on a visit to Afghanistan last Karzai, now led by President Ashraf after a 14-year-old pregnant girl was “Zahra’s is an extreme case of after a relative lull in fighting over week that US forces would have Ghani, and against the US-led Inter- PESHAWAR: The ele- burned to death in the latest case of what can happen when a child is the month of Ramadan. greater freedom to strike at the national Security Assistance Force mentary and secondary violence against women. forcibly married off, however we In recent days, Taliban forces Taliban under broad new powers (ISAF). education department The family of the girl, Zahra, know her marriage was not unique launched attacks on the Sangin dis- approved last month by President The insurgency has spread to has planned to train says she was tortured and set alight -- the practice is all too common in trict centre, an outpost in Helmand Barack Obama. some degree over the Durand Line 83,000 primary school by her husband’s family, according many parts of the country.” province repeatedly threatened by Sangin is in a strategic area for border to neighbouring Pakistan. teachers to use Eng- to reports citing local officials in Child marriages are on the rise militants over the past year. the lucrative opium trade, which After the May 2011 death of lish as the medium of central Ghor province, where the in Afghanistan, according to the “Taliban insurgents attacked provides funding for the Taliban, as Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, instruction. incident occurred. Afghanistan Independent Human our security outposts on Sunday but well as other strongmen. many prominent Afghan figures The relevant offi- Relatives of the teenager’s Rights Commission (AIHRC). faced fierce resistance from Afghan The district centre is a small, were assassinated by the insur- cials said yesterday that husband insist her death was by “In some regions because of forces and were pushed back,” said government-controlled enclave in gents, including Mohammed Daud scores of primary school self-immolation. insecurity and poverty the fami- Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the an area otherwise largely dominated Daud, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Jan teachers had been Zahra, four months preg- lies marry off their daughters at a provincial governor. by the Taliban, who have increased Mohammad Khan, Ghulam Haider struggling to do duty nant, was also said to be a victim very early age to get rid of them,” Dozens of militants were killed their stranglehold on the district over Hamidi, Burhanuddin Rabbani and since the medium of of “baad”, the forced marriage of AIHRC chief Sima Samar said. in the fighting, including the Tali- the past year. others. instruction was changed a girl to a family to settle a dis- Afghan civil law sets the legal ban’s shadow district governor in Fighting intensified in Afghan- In response to this, major opera- from Urdu to English two pute, a practice prevalent in rural age of marriage at 16 for girls, yet Sangin, Mawlawi Agha, Zwak said. istan after the Taliban announced tions were started inside Afghanistan years ago. Afghanistan. 15 percent of Afghan women under A Taliban spokesman, Qari the start of their annual warm-sea- against the insurgents. They said the train- Her death last week has 50 years old were married before Yousef Ahmad, said his fighters son offensive in April, but it tailed These are intended to disrupt ing would cost Rs568.4 sparked shock waves in Afghan- their 15th birthday and almost half had captured the district centre but off during the Muslim fasting month the network of the insurgents and million. istan, with rights groups were married before the age of 18, Afghan and U.S. military officials of Ramadan, which ended early this to force them to the negotiation The officials said of demanding that the Afghan according to Save the Children. rejected that. month. table. the total cost, Rs398.4 million would be provided by the education depart- ment and the rest by the British Council. Pricing dispute hits They said the training would be imparted in dif- ferent phases spanning three years. supply of TB drugs

Minister asks rich Reuters infectious disease doctor in Karachi. With a population of 190 mil- nations to reduce lion, Pakistan has around 500,000 ISLAMABAD: Swiss pharmaceu- TB patients every year, according prosperity gap ticals firm Novartis AG said it has to the World Health Organisation. stopped making tuberculosis drugs Rana Iftikhar Anjum, a resi- in Pakistan in a dispute over pricing, dent of Multan in Punjab province, ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s prompting fears of a health crisis said it took him weeks to track Federal Commerce Min- due to a shortage of drugs in a coun- down TB drugs for his 15-year- ister Khurram Dastgir try with the world’s fifth-highest TB old niece, and Muhammad Rafiq, Khan has urged devel- rates. a pharmacist at a leading Islam- oped nations to pursue As in many developing coun- abad hospital, said he had to pay more inclusive policies so tries, the Drug Regulatory Authority 2,000 rupees ($19) in bribes to get that the prosperity gap of Pakistan (DRAP) sets prices for the drugs for his brother, who suf- Supporters of Pakistan's Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) march at a rally to show solidarity with Indian between the developing about 320 critical medicines. But fers from multi-drug resistant TB, and developed countries Kashmiri Muslims as they observed a 'Black Day,’ in Karachi, yesterday. pricing caps have not been signif- from a government hospital. may be bridged in the icantly raised since 2001, making Novartis spokesman Dermot foreseeable future. it unviable for firms to make many Doherty said the company, which He said this while of the drugs. controls around 30 percent of Paki- speaking to the Asia- Pakistanis protest Kashmir killings The issue has become partic- stan’s TB drug market, was looking Pacific Group at the ularly acute for TB drugs. Of 18 to exit the business, and Ahsan Group of 77 on the side- companies licensed to manufac- Raees, in charge of the compa- lines of 14th session of AFP gunbattle with government forces. and the actions of its security forces ture TB drugs in Pakistan, only ny’s regulatory affairs in Pakistan, the United Nations Con- The clashes are the deadliest in in the valley. four, including Novartis, were mak- blamed the production halt on the ference on Trade and Muslim-majority Kashmir since 2010 Speakers urged the United ing them this year, said Ayesha price dispute. Development in Kenya. ISLAMABAD: Thousands of people when massive demonstrations were Nations to intervene and resolve the Haq, executive director of Pharma “If they had given us the price While enumerating the marched in streets across Pakistan held against Indian rule. Kashmir issue. Bureau, a trade group representing increase, we would never have done issues that resulted in ris- yesterday to protest violence in In one major protest, a photog- Parts of Indian Kashmir have 20 firms in Pakistan. this,” he said. ing inequality among the India-administered Kashmir, a jour- rapher estimated around 20,000 been under curfew for 11 days and Doctors and public health offi- Pfizer Inc, which controls countries, the minister nalists said, as the death toll from people blocked a highway connect- residents have complained of med- cials said shortages could lead to a another 30 percent of the market, listed unequal participation days of clashes between demonstra- ing Islamabad to Muzaffarabad in icine shortages. rise in drug-resistant strains of TB has also seen supply disruptions of developing countries in tors and security forces rose to 45. Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Kashmir has been divided with tens of thousands of patients in recent months, adding to short- international economic and Violence erupted after Burhan then the capital of Indian Kashmir. between rivals India and Pakistan missing doses mid-treatment. ages, spokeswoman Trupti Wagh financial decision-making, Wani, commander of the region’s Hundreds of others participated since independence in 1947, but both The drugs include combinations said. She did not elaborate on the commodity dependence biggest separatist group Hizbul in rallies in Muzaffarabad, Karachi, claim the Himalayan territory in full. of antibiotics as well as substitutes disruptions, but said they were and unilateral coercive Mujahideen -- one of several fight- Lahore, Peshawar, Multan and other The nuclear-armed neighbours for patients with complications. resolved last month. She declined measures. ing Indian troops in the territory cities, chanting slogans against the have fought two of their three wars “It’s an emergency in the mak- to say whether the pricing dispute for decades -- was killed during a Indian administration of Kashmir over the territory. ing,” said Naseem Salahuddin, an was a factor. INDIA THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 11 Rajya Sabha disrupted over Gujarat Dalit issue

The upper house faced several adjournments throughout the day, Protests erupt An FIR has been even as Social Justice and Empow- registered and action erment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot in Gujarat gave clarifications, and later Minis- has also been taken ter of State for Parliamentary Affairs Reuters under the act for Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi tried to pacify the opposition by stating that a debate atrocities against on the issue would be taken up today. NEW DELHI: Protesters Dalits. Government As soon as the house met, oppo- from India’s low-caste com- is also providing sition members from various parties, munity blocked roads and including the Bahujan Samaj Party attacked government buses financial assistance (BSP), Trinamool Congress, and the in Prime Minister Narendra to the Dalit families: Congress raised the issue and said Modi’s home state yesterday they had submitted notices for a in a third day of demonstra- Gehlot debate. tions over the flogging of Even as Deputy Chairman P J four men accused of skin- Kurien was scrutinising the notices, ning a cow. agitated opposition members trooped The four members of the IANS near the chairman’s podium, rais- Dalit community were last ing slogans against the government. week tied to a car in Gujarat Following this, the house was first state, stripped and flogged adjourned for ten minutes. with sticks by self-styled NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha faced Amid sloganeering and protests hardline Hindu cow protec- numerous disruptions yesterday as from opposition, Gehlot said: “An tors who then published opposition members demanded a FIR has been registered and action a video of the attack as a debate on atrocities against Dalits in has also been taken under the act “warning” to others. Gujarat’s Una town, where protests for atrocities against Dalits. Gov- The beatings sparked have continued with one Dalit com- ernment is also providing financial the most serious protests mitting suicide. assistance to the Dalit families.” The by Dalits in years in Gujarat, The Dalit who killed himself on minister said probe was ordered into with seven youths trying to Tuesday was among the five persons the incident, and the report will come kill themselves in protest by from the community who tried to take in two months. He expressed regret at taking pesticide in different People from the low-caste community shout slogans during a protest against the flogging of four men their own lives in separate incidents the death of the Dalit who consumed parts of the state. in Gujarat. poison. accused of skinning a cow, in Ahmedabad, yesterday. Three held for abusing student AAP worker commits

AFP suicide; probe ordered Ahmedabad to

IANS against him and arrested him on Mumbai bullet NEW DELHI: Indian police have June 3,” a police official said. arrested three suspects over the “He was granted police bail on train by 2023-24 alleged gang-abuse of a student by NEW DELHI: A woman Aam Aadmi June 4,” the officer added. NEW DELHI: Railways a group of men, two of whom had Party (AAP) worker committed sui- The case was registered under Minister Suresh Prabhu been charged with a previous attack cide after a party member, who Sections 506 (Punishment for crim- yesterday said the Mum- on her, an officer said yesterday. she accused of harassing her, was inal intimidation) and 509 (Word, bai-Ahmedabad bullet The 21-year-old, who belongs to released on bail. Delhi Deputy Chief gesture or act intended to insult the train corridor would be the lowest Dalit caste, has told police Minister Manish Sisodia has ordered modesty of a woman) of the Indian completed by 2023-24. that she was abducted near her col- a magisterial probe into the matter. Penal Code (IPC), police said. Replying to a ques- lege in the north Indian state of The Bharatiya Janata Party In her police complaint, Soni tion during Question Hour Haryana last week by the five men, (BJP), attacking the ruling AAP, said alleged that Wadhwa harassed in the Lok Sabha, Prabhu who then drugged and abused her. the incident has exposed the anti- her continuously and asked for said that the joint feasi- According to relatives quoted Police escort two men accused of gang-abusing a woman on their women character of the party. favours. She even raised the mat- bility study for the high in Indian media, she identified all visit to a court in Rohtak, yesterday. The woman, Soni, who resided ter in the party but no action was speed bullet train project five as the men who had abused her in outer Delhi’s Narela area with taken against him, she said. has already been con- before, in 2013. yesterday,” Pushpa Khatri, a police said they were still looking for two her two daughters and other fam- “On Tuesday, she mixed some- ducted by the Japanese Two men were charged over that officer involved in the investigation. other suspects in the latest case. The ily members, had filed a police thing into her cold drink and tried International Corporation attack, but were released on bail It was unclear whether the woman was found unconscious in complaint on June 2 about party to commit suicide around 2pm.,” the Agency (JICA). while awaiting trial. two men already facing charges bushes on the side of a highway last colleague Ramesh Wadhwa for har- officer said, adding “She was rushed “We arrested three of them were among those arrested. Police Wednesday night. assing her. “We registered a case to hospital, but died around 7pm.” Video of puppies set afire sparks Khandu wins floor test Flood woes ire in Hyderabad HYDERABAD: In yet IANS another incident of cruelty towards dogs, five minors burnt alive three puppies ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu yesterday won after tying them together the floor test in the assembly as 44 Congress legislators and two Independ- and video recorded it, ents voted for him. The 11 Bharatiya Janata Party legislators voted against police said yesterday. Khandu. The effective strength of the 60-member Arunachal Pradesh The incident occurred assembly is 58. in Patahnwadi area of Khandu moved the motion for vote of confidence in the government Musheerabad in the heart led by him yesterday morning. It was seconded by former Chief Minister of Hyderabad. The video Nabam Tuki. The house proceedings were conducted by Deputy Speaker uploaded by someone on TN Thongdok as Speaker Nabam Rebia had resigned on Tuesday night. social media went viral Arunachal Pradesh Governor Tathagata Roy had hurriedly convened yesterday, sparking out- the session for Wednesday and asked Khandu to prove his government’s rage with animal rights majority in the assembly. activists calling for strong Khandu, son of the late former Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, took action against those over as the state’s ninth Chief Minister in a surprise move on Sunday last. responsible for the hor- The state plunged into a political ferment after Kalikho Pul upstaged rific act. Police said since the then Chief Minister Nabam Tuki in February and formed the govern- all the boys were juve- ment in the hill state with support from the rebel legislators of the Congress niles, they were sent for as well as the Bharatiya Janata Party. counselling. However, the Supreme Court restored the Nabam Tuki government on July 13. Governor Tathagata Roy reinstated Tuki as the Chief Minister fol- lowing the apex court’s verdict and asked him to prove his government’s Huge quantity of majority in the assembly no later than Saturday. Arunachal Pradesh’s Villagers travel by boat over flood waters in Ashigarh village in the Morigoan district of Assam, Congress legislators, however, elected Pema Khandu as their Congress yesterday. explosives seized Legislative Party leader on Saturday ahead of Tuki’s floor test. RANCHI: A huge quantity of explosives was seized in Maoist-infested Dumka district of Jharkhand, yes- Injured civilian dies in Kashmir Valley; death toll reaches 45 terday police said. As many as 40,000 gelatin sticks, 35,000 detonators and other IANS Officials at Srinagar’s SMHS hospi- Life across the Valley has been people to hold protests, authorities their work won’t be hindered by the explosives were seized in tal said that Ghulam Mohammad Mir, paralysed though no fresh protests have decided not to relax the curfew heightened security. Kanthikund area, around 51, of north Kashmir’s Kupwara dis- were reported since Tuesday. Key in the Valley, fearing the separatist- However, Internet services on 400km from state cap- trict, succumbed to his injuries in the separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah sponsored protests may trigger more all mobile phones remained cut off ital Ranchi, after police SRINAGAR: One more person, afternoon. He was injured on Satur- Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq violence. for the ninth day. Calling facility on stopped a truck following injured earlier in shooting by secu- day when security forces fired at a and Yasin Malik, in a joint media The Kashmir Valley went without mobile phones has also remained a tip-off. Police said the rity forces, died in a hospital here protesting mob in the frontier district. statement yesterday, extended the newspapers for the fifth day running suspended during this period except explosives were meant yesterday, taking the toll to 45 in the Kashmir Valley has been on the shutdown call till Monday. However, yesterday even as the authorities for limited facility on post-paid to be supplied to Maoist ongoing unrest that has gripped the boil for nearly two weeks now amid they asked people “to stock whatever lifted the alleged media curb a day mobile phones provided by state- guerrillas for making land- Kashmir Valley since the July 8 kill- widespread protests, separatist shut- they can in a few hours” from today ago. run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited mines used to blast the ing of a top militant commander. down, and a government-imposed 2pm when shops will be allowed to But the newspapers published (BSNL). Train services between Bara- vehicles of security forces. Separatist leaders have extended curfew following the killing of Hiz- open. They also announced a march from here are expected to hit the mulla town in the valley and Banihal Maoists are active in 18 of the shutdown call till Monday and bul Mujahideen commander Burhan to Anantnag on Monday. stands today after the government in Jammu region also remained sus- the state’s 24 districts. called for a march to Anantnag. Wani and his two militant aides. In view of the separatists asking assured editors and publishers that pended for the 13th day. 12 THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 EUROPE No Brexit talks this year: May to Merkel

prepare for these negotiations,” she Valls invokes said. May met German Merkel signaled that Germany special powers to Chancellor Angela was prepared to wait. pass labour law She said “it is up to the British Merkel in Berlin, on government to define its principles her first foreign trip for EU exit and also to trigger nec- PARIS: French Prime Min- as Britain’s leader. essary steps.” She said “it’s only then ister Manuel Valls invoked negotiations for exit can take place.” special constitutional Merkel said “nobody wants a powers yesterday to force long-term stalemate,” but it was a contested labour law AP reasonable to give Britain time to through parliament in the prepare carefully. face of opposition from May’s office said her first for- left-wing lawmakers. eign trip, which also includes a visit The widely expected BERLIN: Britain will not start exit to French President Francois Hol- move leaves lawmakers talks with the European Union until lande, will help forge “the personal in the lower house of par- “our objectives are clear” — and that relations that will pave the way for liament opposed to the won’t be this year, Prime Minister open and frank discussions in the bill with little chance to Theresa May said yesterday, at her months ahead.” derail it before its final first meeting with an EU leader as May said yesterday that while German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) and British Prime Minister Theresa May inspect the guard of honour adoption. the UK begins long, uncertain proc- she doesn’t underestimate the chal- during a welcoming ceremony at the chancellery in Berlin, yesterday. They have 24 hours to ess of leaving the bloc. lenge of negotiating the British exit, mount a censure motion May met German Chancel- she firmly believes “that being able against the government lor Angela Merkel in Berlin, on her to talk frankly and openly about the migration controls. Merkel, May said Britain’s goal was Council President Donald Tusk and or otherwise it is con- first foreign trip as Britain’s leader. issues we face will be an important She said the referendum result to retain “the closest possible eco- told him Britain would give up rotat- sidered as definitively At a joint news conference, the two part of a successful negotiation.” made clear that “people want control nomic relationship” with Germany ing six-month presidency — held by adopted. women conveyed a desire to work Facing her first weekly prime of free movement from the European and other EU countries. EU member states in turn — so it together. minister’s question session in the Union.” But, she said, “we must also May has also announced that could prioritise exit negotiations. May said Britain won’t invoke House of Commons yesterday, May negotiate the right deal and the best Britain is relinquishing its turn at May will travel to Paris today to Brussels police Article 50 of the EU constitution, did not answer directly when asked if deal on trade in goods and services holding the EU presidency in the sec- meet Hollande. As well as talking triggering formal exit talks, this year. Britain would be willing to leave the for the British people.” ond half of 2017. May’s office said the about EU, they will discuss coun- surround ‘bomb “All of us will need time to single market in order to guarantee At her news conference with prime minister spoke to European terterrorism cooperation. suspect’

BRUSSELS: Police backed by bomb disposal teams French MPs vote to extend emergency yesterday cordoned off Journalist dead in car part of central Brussels where they surrounded a AFP tack after the Nice attack by Tuni- security laws be kept in place until “suspect” individual wear- sian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel. the end of January. ing a long coat with wires bombing in Ukraine showing. As part of the government’s The laws give the police extra reaction to the attack—which has powers to carry out searches and “Following police PARIS: French lawmakers voted exposed it to tough questions over place people under house arrest. intervention, a cordon Reuters “I’m threatened often and given massively yesterday to extend a state security failures—a call has gone out Yesterday, MPs also voted to has been established” hints. Every time I go to Moscow, of emergency as President Francois for volunteers in the reserve forces. allow authorities to search luggage around part of the Place it’s like I’m in a minefield,” he said. Hollande said that a call to boost Between current reservists, and and vehicles without prior approval de la Monnaie and adjoin- He also said Ukraine needed strong, reserve forces had paved the way call for more volunteers, “we can from a prosecutor and to allow the ing streets, Brussels KIEV: An award-winning journalist independent media to counter the towards a “National Guard.” say France, with you, is forming a police to seize data from computers police said in a tweeted working for the online investigative influence of outlets controlled by the After seven hours of fraught debate, National Guard,” Hollande said yes- and mobile phones. message. website Ukrayinska Pravda was country’s powerful business tycoons. during which opposition accused the terday on a visit to a military training The bill now passes to the upper Belga news agency, killed by a car bomb in central Kiev “Now the problem of freedom government of being lax on security, the complex in southwest France. house, the Senate, which was debat- quoting a police yesterday morning, in what Presi- of speech and objective journalism lower house of parliament voted by 489 France’s reserve force comprises ing it. spokesman, said the dent Petro Poroshenko said was an is becoming again a serious issue,” to 26 to prolong the state of emergency civilian volunteers in the police, army With elections due next year, the suspect was “under attempt to destabilise Ukraine. he said. “As far as internal politics for a further six months. and paramilitary police, who can be cross-party solidarity seen after last control” as the bomb Pavel Sheremet, a Belarussian is concerned, I can see oligarchic It is the fourth time the measures deployed for specific missions. year’s attack on satirical magazine squad waited to check known for his criticism of his home games again, black PR, the use of have been extended since Islam- Hollande’s Socialist government Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish super- if he had any explo- country’s leadership and his friend- media to settle scores and solve ist State jihadists struck Paris in had proposed a three-month exten- market has evaporated. sives concealed under ship with slain Russian opposition political problems.” November, killing 130 people. sion to the state of emergency but During a visit to Portugal Tues- his coat. leader Boris Nemtsov, was driving Sevgil Musayeva-Borovyk, Hollande had planned to lift the relented to demands from the con- day Hollande appealed for greater to work in the car of the website’s the editor-in-chief of Ukrayinska measures on July 26 but changed servative opposition that the tough unity. owner when it was blown up. Pravda called him “very brave”. British police The killing was a throwback Sheremet’s friend Nemtsov, a to the days of violence against vocal critic of the Kremlin, had been officer stabbed journalists that Ukraine, under a pro- working on a report examining Rus- France: All 84 Western leadership since the 2014 sian military’s role in the Ukraine Protesters fire at police LONDON: A British police Maidan protests, hoped to have shed. crisis when he was shot dead in cen- dead identified officer was stabbed after “It seems to me this was done tral Moscow last year. Sheremet led a water fight in London’s with one aim in mind - to destabilise tributes at his memorial service. Hyde Park turned vio- the situation in the country, possibly “The last time we met was at AP in clashes near Paris lent. Several hundred ahead of further events,” Porosh- the funeral of Boris Nemtsov, and people threw bottles at enko said in televised comments. of course I couldn’t have known Reuters transportation to the police station, the police in Hyde Park, He has asked experts from the a similar thing would happen to PARIS: All 84 people killed in the but that the cause of death was according to the BBC. US Federal Bureau of Investigation Pavel,” Anatoly Lebedko, leader of Nice truck attack have now been being investigated. One police officer was to join the murder investigation in the Belarussian opposition party formally identified, according to a Family members said police hit stabbed and the other interests of “maximum transpar- United Civil Party, said. top French official yesterday, who PARIS: Armed protesters fired at the man as they detained him for was injured by a bottle. ency.” Earlier, senior Interior Ministry He was awarded by Organisa- said the death toll for the Bastille police, lightly wounding five, dur- trying to prevent the arrest of his “Both have been officials said they could not rule out tion for Security and Co-operation Day carnage has not increased ing overnight confrontations in an brother on suspicion of violence and taken to hospital for Russian involvement in the murder. in Europe (OSCE) for his reporting on despite several remaining in crit- area north of Paris over death of a extortion. treatment,” police said in In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman human rights violations in Belarus, ical condition. young man in police custody, local “About a hundred individuals ... a statement. “Their inju- Dmitry Peskov said: “The murder of including disappearances of opposi- Prosecutor’s office spokes- officials said yesterday. came looking for the law enforce- ries are described as not a Russian citizen and journalist in tion politicians and journalists. woman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre Officials made no link to last ment forces after a person died at life threatening.” Ukraine is a very serious cause for The OSCE called yesterday said some of the 84 French and for- week’s militant attack in the coastal the premises of the gendarmerie Police said two other concern in the Kremlin.” for action to address the safety of eign nationals who lost their lives city of Nice. in Beaumont (town),” Jean-Simon people had suffered from Sheremet, who was given Rus- journalists in Ukraine.The founder after last Thursday’s massacre died The protests in Val d’Oise area Merandat, director of the Val d’Oise stab wounds. One had sian citizenship after fleeing political of Ukrayinska Pravda, Georgiy subsequently in the hospital. were sparked when a 24-year-old died prefect’s office, told France Info injuries described as not persecution in Belarus, had said in Gongadze, was an investigative Authorities have not released after being arrested, deputy prosecutor radio. life-threatening, while an October he no longer felt comforta- journalist who was murdered 16 an official list naming the dead François Capin-Dulhoste said. “Things are calm now and we update on the other was ble visiting Moscow, where he worked years ago, his decapitated body from the July 14 Bastille Day ram- Capin-Dulhoste said the man have about 130 gendarmes and awaited. for twelve years as a TV journalist. discovered in a forest outside Kiev. page in the southern French city. had suffered a heart problem during other police on the spot,” he said.

Mother jailed for killing four babies Encouraging budding talent

AFP her home in the small Bavarian town rather trying to comprehend it.” of Wallenfels following a tipoff from Andrea Goeppner confessed dur- a neighbour. ing the trial, in a statement read out However prosecutors were una- by her lawyer, to killing several of COBURG, GERMANY: A woman ble to pursue murder charges for the her babies but added that she could on trial in one of Germany’s worst other four infants, as one was found not remember how many. infanticide cases was convicted yes- to have been stillborn and three were She said she had given birth to terday of killing four of her babies so badly decomposed that it was each of the eight babies at home and handed a 14 year jail sentence. unclear whether they were viable alone and had wrapped every infant Andrea Goeppner, 45, was found at birth. in a hand towel. to have murdered four newborns, Defence lawyers had called for She would promptly suffo- whose remains were discovered the charges to be reduced to invol- cate any baby that moved or cried, wrapped in towels and plastic bags untary manslaughter. then place the body in a plastic last year. Presiding judge Christoph Gillot bag or container and hide it in the Her estranged husband, Johann defended the decision to stop short apartment. Goeppner, 55, was acquitted on of a life sentence. The couple had each brought two charges of complicity for failing to “When a case like this is tried, children into the marriage and con- stop the killings, which took place you suddenly have a lot of people ceived three more surviving children between 2003 and 2013. who know what the right thing to do together. Prosecutors at the regional court is—that a supposed ‘horror mother’ Germany has been shocked by in southern city of Coburg demanded should be locked away forever,” he several infanticide cases in recent life sentence for Andrea Goeppner, said, DPA news agency reported. years. In May 2015, a woman was who was originally arrested on suspi- “But we first must try to sentenced to 44 months in prison for Queen Mathilde of Belgium (left) talks to a girl as she visits the opening day of exhibition on science cion of killing up to eight of her babies. understand this behaviour. That killing two of her children and hid- and culture ‘Science et culture au Palais’, at the Royal Palace in Brussels, yesterday. Their bodies were uncovered at doesn’t mean justifying it but ing their remains in a freezer. AMERICAS THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 13 Republicans nominate Trump for US president

“It’s my honour to be able to Donald Trump.” throw Donald Trump over the top But as the last vestiges of Trump said it was in the delegation count tonight,” Republican resistance were quashed, time to go all the way Donald Trump Jr said to cheers and their fresh signs that the party applause. establishment had thrown its lot in and beat Democrat When Trump came down the with Trump in a bid to beat Clinton. Hillary Clinton in escalators of Trump Towers in New New Jersey governor Chris York 13 months ago to announce his Christie led delegates in declaring November. This is a candidacy, few experts gave him Clinton “guilty” and encouraged movement, he told even the faintest chance. visceral chants of “lock her up.” His campaign has defied The Speaker of the House of the delegates via political norms—embracing racially Representatives Paul Ryan declared video link. inflammatory policies, offending “the Obama years are almost over. key voting blocks, eschewing big- The Clinton years are way over. Two- spending advertising campaigns and thousand sixteen is the year America relying on saturated media coverage moves on.” above campaign structure. The Trump campaign will hope AFP “It’s unbelievable. It’s surreal. I’m that distain for Clinton will unite the so proud of my father,” said Trump’s party and make a series of missteps FROM LEFT: Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Eric Trump’s wife Lara Yunaska and Tiffany Trump eldest daughter and businesswoman irrelevant. celebrate after Donald Trump was nominated as the presidential candidate at the Republican National Ivanka Trump, often described as his “The party is unified, we’re all Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. CLEVELAND: Republicans formally secret weapon. here, I will bet you, if you polled chose Donald Trump as the party’s “He’s the ultimate outsider and this place, there is not one vote for presidential nominee, a landmark he did it. We are so proud of him.” Hillary Clinton in this building,” moment in American politics and a Trump became the presumptive key Trump lieutenant Corey Trump son: Dad most qualified to lead US stunning victory for a man whose nominee nearly two months ago. Lewandowski said. White House ambitions were once But relentless controversy over his “People are ready for a openly mocked. campaign rhetoric and a simmering fundamental and unequivocal AFP Donald Trump Jr touched on He went the furthest the Trump movement by anti-Trump delegates change in Washington and the After a roller-coaster campaign themes of economic inequality, job campaign has done so far in reaching to deny him the nomination made person who is going to bring that is that saw Trump defeat 16 rivals creation, and promised healthcare for out to African American and minor- it less than a foregone conclusion. Donald Trump.” and steamroller stubborn party “our most vulnerable citizens” and to ity voters, and referenced the loss of Around the convention floor, Before Trump emerged opposition, the tycoon said it CLEVELAND: Donald Trump’s eld- improve public education. hundreds of lives in inner city Chi- was time to “go all the way” and Trump’s victory was far from victorious, it had been a brutal week universally welcomed. for the candidate. est son electrified the Republican “My siblings and I growing up cago since 2009. beat Democrat Hillary Clinton in National Convention with a passion- were truly fortunate to have choices He spoke of immigration—one November. “This is a movement,” Many delegates clapped politely Earlier delegates exchanged ate speech painting his “best friend” and options that others don’t. We of the most divisive aspects of his he told the delegates via video link. after his victory, a few angrily jeers and heckles as anti-Trump and father as the candidate most want all Americans to have those father’s campaign—by saying that On the convention floor, states walked out or voiced their unease. forces tried in vain to thwart his from Alabama to West Virginia took Several states refused to honour nomination. qualified to lead America. same opportunities,” the 38-year- the current system “drives down it in turns to pledge their delegates. party convention and pledge their Clinton wasted no time seeking It was a sweeping speech pep- old told the convention in Cleveland, employment and wages for Hispanics, It turned to Trump’s home state delegates to a frontrunner who was to capitalise on Trump’s party pered with personal anecdotes Ohio. He portrayed his father as a African Americans.” “We will unleash of New York, represented by a coterie by then unopposed. victory. “Donald Trump just became seeking to humanise his father and businessman who had elevated blue the creative spirit and energy of all of Trump’s adult children, to hand “I’m disappointed’ said Utah the Republican nominee. Chip in which sought to expand Trump’s collar workers, spent his career with Americans. We will make our schools him the majority-plus-one needed Senator Mike Lee. “But it is what it now to make sure he never steps paltry appeal among minorities, pre- “regular Americans” hanging out the best in the world for every sin- to clinch the nomination. is.” Washington delegate Teri Galvez foot in the Oval Office,” she said in senting him as a man who can do the “with guys on construction sites” and gle American of every ethnicity and said baldly: “We do not support a fundraising tweet. impossible. who valued their opinions. background,” he said to applause. ‘Better angels’ will prevail in US poll: Biden California beaches

AFP The better angels in America will pre- Biden’s trip Down Under also “We are not going anywhere. And vail,” he assured Australians in Sydney came days after an international tri- that’s vital because our presence in closed after massive at the end of his three-day visit. bunal ruled against China’s claims in the region... is essential to main- “So at a time like this, when the the South China Sea, and the vice- taining peace and stability, without SYDNEY: The “better angels in forces of xenophobia and nation- president sought to reassure the which the economic growth and America will prevail” in the upcom- alism and demagoguery are once staunch American ally that the US prosperity I believe would falter.” sewage spill ing presidential elections, US again being trumpeted around the would maintain a “laser focus” on The US administration has called Vice-President Joe Biden said yester- world, including in my own country... the Asia Pacific region. on China to respect international day as he warned about xenophobia we have to remember who we are as “I made the point, I’ve said to rules as Beijing asserts sovereignty during a visit to Australia. Australians and Americans and reflect (Chinese) President Xi (Jinping) over almost all of strategically vital AP Beach, which had to cancel classes Biden said both the US and Aus- our best selves back to the world.” directly what I said to (Australian South China Sea, despite rival claims for 70 students at a loss of $85 each. tralia were dealing with the legacies His comments came as Don- Prime Minister Malcolm) Turnbull from its Southeast Asian neighbours. “Nobody went out,” owner of racism and exclusion but would ald Trump was formally chosen by yesterday, our resolve to play a part Biden next visits New Zealand, Michael Pless said. “The bummer is inexorably move forward. Republicans as the party’s presiden- in shaping the future of this dynamic where he is due to meet with Prime LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA: I have people coming from all over “Don’t worry about our election. tial nominee. region is real,” Biden added. Minister John Key for talks. Authorities closed a stretch of popu- the world. I have people from Eng- lar Southern California ocean amid land, Sweden. I had people flying in fears that raw sewage from a mas- to meet me.” sive spill miles away might have Pless said he took some younger Gunmen kill eight made it to the coast. students, whose parents had On a different page A buried pipe some 20 miles dropped them off, to his home pool away in Los Angeles collapsed, and Jacuzzi. fishermen in causing a blockage that belched “They didn’t get to surf but they 2.4 million gallons of stinky sludge got to play,” Pless said. popular Mexican onto streets and into storm drains, The 1929 concrete, tiled-lined officials said. pipe that broke was 18 feet under- surf resort Crews managed to con- ground, while more recent pipes are tain, divert or vacuum up at least 80 to 100 feet below, Hagekhalil told 750,000 gallons but the rest flowed reporters. Reuters into the Los Angeles River, and The top collapsed and choked some may have reached the Pacific the pipe with debris, creating an Ocean, the officials said. overflow, officials at the scene said. MEXICO CITY: Gunmen killed The flow was stopped early The cause of the collapse wasn’t eight fishermen in the popular yesterday and an above-ground clear. Mexican surf resort of Puerto bypass system was being built The pipe had been scheduled for Escondido, prosecutors said, in so repairs and cleanup could get replacement in two years. “It just a rare shooting for a part of the underway, said Adel Hagekhalil, did not wait for us,” Hagekhalil told country that has largely avoided assistant director of Los Angeles reporters. serious gang violence. Sanitation. Sewage warnings aren’t unu- The shark fishermen were in Beaches in Long Beach and Seal sual for beaches at the end of the a house in the Pacific port when Beach were closed to swimmers Los Angeles River, a mostly concrete the gunmen entered and opened and waders until at least for yes- channel that runs 51 miles through fire. Four were killed at the scene terday while health officials tested the massive industrial and urban while the other four died soon the waters for bacteria to determine regions of Los Angeles County to after being taken to a local hospi- whether it was safe. Long Beach. Most of its water comes tal, prosecutors from the southern Warning signs and flags were from a sewage treatment plant but state of Oaxaca said. Protesters from the National Coordination of Education Workers teachers’ union shout slogans as up as lifeguards shooed way some it also handles storm runoff. One of the main lines of inves- they march against President Enrique Pena Nieto’s education reform, along the streets in Mexico City, visitors at the beach. During storms in 1998, more tigation is whether the men also Mexico. The teachers are protesting since long time. The closure was a financial than 30 million gallons of sewage engaged in other activities at sea hit for M&M Surfing School of Seal spilled. aside from fishing, the prosecu- tors said in a statement. Monitored by federal police and the Mexican Navy, the coast of Oaxaca is a strategic point for N. American forests not the climate change remedy hoped for: Study traffickers moving drugs from Central and South America to the United States. Shark hunters fish Reuters grow larger due to higher tempera- tree growth is inhibited and the as 75 percent slower than normal by part of Quebec in Canada and its offshore using vessels larger than tures brought on by global warming, absorption rate diminishes, said sen- 2075, the researchers said. maritime provinces, they said. ordinary fishing boats. said authors of the study published in ior author Margaret Evans, a professor By 2075, the average tempera- The researchers from US, Swiss and More than 120,000 people the journal Ecology Letters. at the University of Arizona in Tucson. ture in North America could be about Polish institutions combined climate have been killed in Mexico in vio- NEW YORK: North American for- Typically, up to a tharizird of car- “There is a tipping point,” she 6 degrees Celsius higher than it was projections with tree rings collected lence linked to drug gangs since ests will not fight climate change bon-dioxide emissions from human said. “A warmer climate becomes a in 1925, under a worst case scenario, between 1900 and 1950 at nearly 1,500 the start of 2007. by absorbing carbon dioxide at lev- activity, such as automobile driving bad thing instead of a good thing.” the researchers said, using data from sites. Tree rings, the layers grown each Famous for the powerful els once hoped for because the trees or steel production, is absorbed by Looking ahead at warmer tem- the United Nations Intergovernmen- year, provide record of how trees are waves that roll into the Zicatela may not grow big enough, a study forests, the study’s authors said. Car- peratures likely in the coming tal Panel on Climate Change. affected by changes in temperature beach, Puerto Escondido is a small said yesterday. bon dioxide is the main greenhouse decades, trees in the US southwest Some increases in tree growth and rainfall patterns, they said. Similar resort frequented by visitors from The new research challenges pre- gas responsible for global warming. north to the Rocky Mountains, Can- are still likely in Pacific Northwest, research could be done on northern the United States and Europe. vious studies that said trees could But if temperatures get too high, ada and Alaska could grow as much parts of Florida, the northeastern forests in Europe and Asia, Evans said. 14 THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 AMERICAS

Mexican state fires Brazil probes Olympics threats as group backs IS state investigators

up security measures following the in army slayings truck massacre in Nice last week, All threats related planning security cordons, further AP to the Rio 2016 roadblocks and the frisking of visitors Games are being in Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics. Police and soldiers took part over MEXICO CITY: Authorities said meticulously the weekend in drills near sports they will fire nine investigators investigated, facilities and along transport routes. and suspend 21 others for mis- The Games start on August 5 and conduct related to the 2014 army particularly those are expected to attract as many as slayings of 22 suspected gang related to terrorism, 500,000 foreign visitors. members in central Mexico. “All threats related to Rio 2016 More than 50 officials from Brazilian intelligence Games are being meticulously inves- the central State of Mexico were agency said. tigated, particularly those related to under investigation for abuses terrorism,” Brazilian intelligence committed during the cover-up agency ABIN said when asked to of the bloodshed at a grain ware- Reuters comment on the previously unknown house. The country’s human group’s claim of support for IS. rights commission has said sol- “Many are dismissed and those diers killed at least a dozen of the that deserve attention are investi- suspects after they surrendered. BRASILIA: Brazil’s intelligence gated exhaustively,” ABIN said. An Israel Montoya, head of inter- agency said yesterday it was investi- agency spokeswoman declined to nal affairs division at Mexico State gating all threats to next month’s Rio comment on whether the posting by prosecutor’s office, said the 52 Olympics after a presumed Brazil- the group presented a credible threat. employees investigated included ian Islamist group pledged allegiance ABIN last month confirmed it detectives, supervisors and crime to Islamic State (IS) less than three had detected a Portuguese account scene experts. Montoya said 30 got weeks before the Games. on Telegram app that was a chan- Brazilian Air force soldiers patrol the Tom Jobim International Airport ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics in some form of punishment. The SITE Intelligence Group that nel for exchanging information on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two of the three survivors of monitors the internet reported that IS but authorities said no threat had the slayings said that state detec- a group calling itself “Ansar Al-Khi- been detected of an attack in Brazil. Michel Temer issued a video mes- attend the Games,” he said. sympathisers of radical groups. tives and prosecutors’ agents lafah Brazil” said on the Telegram Since Thursday’s attack in Nice, sage inviting foreigners to come to Brazilian security officials say They said their biggest concern tortured and threatened them to messaging app that it followed IS Brazil has sought to reassure the Rio and enjoy the Games. they are in close contact with part- during Olympics is not the threat of go along with the army’s version leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and international community that the “We have reinforced security ner countries about any possible a coordinated attack by known mili- that all the suspects had died dur- had promoted IS propaganda in Ara- Games will be safe and terrorist very much in the city and you can threats to the Games and have been tants but possibility that a lone actor ing a shootout with troops. bic, English and Portuguese. threats are being taken seriously. come without worries. You can enjoy monitoring chatrooms and other or group sympathetic to militant Montoya said all the discipli- Brazilian authorities stepped On Monday, Interim President the marvels of Rio de Janeiro and communications among suspected causes could seek to target the event. nary actions were for failure to correctly perform their duties. A year ago, Mexico State pros- ecutors formally accused seven state police officers of torturing Peace brings cheers Man charged in spate all three women who survived the confrontation. Trials in Mex- ico frequently last for years and of San Diego killings there was no immediate informa- tion on whether any of the officers have been convicted. AP has a history of arrests and mental On July 1, 2014, a day after the competency hearings, including one shooting, Mexico State Governor judge’s order that sent him to a state Eruviel Avila publicly thanked the hospital for treatment. army for its “bravery” and “firm- SAN DIEGO: A man with a crim- Dan Tandon, his court- ness” in confrontation. Manzur inal record and history of mental appointed attorney, read a short said later the governor’s statement illness was charged with a string of statement that yielded little insight was meant to thank the army “for deadly attacks on sleeping home- into his possible defence strategy. He freeing three kidnap victims, not less men in San Diego, two of whom declined to answer questions from for the violent actions.” were set on fire. reporters about Guerrero. Originally considered kidnap Jon David Guerrero, 39 received “San Diego deserves to know the victims, two of the three survivors a two-week extension on how truth and whole story in this case, and were jailed for months on weap- to plea to charges of murder and this story begins before July 3 — years ons charges before being released. attempted murder. before the first loss of life in this case,” They claim they were tortured Prosecutors did not provide infor- Tandon said. “We’ve already seen while in custody. mation about a motive or weapons there are many twists and turns that The federal government’s used in the attacks after Guerrero a case like this can take.” human rights commission found agreed to be held without bail for Guerrero faces a maximum pen- that between 12 and 15 of the sus- two weeks, meaning the prosecutors alty of life in prison without parole pects cornered at a warehouse on People form the word “Peace” as they celebrate after Colombia’s constitutional court gave its approval didn’t have to disclose details about if convicted and may be eligible for June 30, 2014, surrendered but for a popular referendum on a historic peace deal being negotiated with FARC rebels, in front of the crimes to justify his incarceration. the death penalty, said Mackenzie were shot anyway. It also said Constitutional Court in Bogota. Court records show Guerrero is Harvey, a San Diego County deputy there was evidence the scene had diagnosed with schizophrenia and district attorney. been altered. California couple claims Brazil top court Oppn claims success in push for Maduro recall lifts block on Reuters That would be twice the total this country does not obtain a peace- prize in Powerball jackpot WhatsApp needed— 1 percent of registered ful, electoral solution to the crisis?” voters —to trigger next stage in said one opposition leader, Henrique AP $327.8m before federal taxes, lot- painstaking process, which is to Capriles. “A social explosion would tery officials said. Reuters CARACAS: Venezuelan opposi- obtain nearly 4 million signatures be worse. No one wants that, but the Property records show a couple tion leaders said they have cleared asking for a vote to recall the unpop- people’s patience has a limit.” with the same names purchased a another hurdle in their push for ular socialist president. The government says there is not CHINO HILLS, CALIFORNIA: 5-bedroom home for $475,000 last SAO PAULO: Brazil’s top court a referendum to recall President There was, however, no confir- enough time to organise a referen- While Californians have mused for fall in Eastvale, a Southern Califor- overturned the order of a Brazil- Nicolas Maduro this year with the mation from the election board. dum this year because the opposition months about the mystery buyer of nia community about 10 miles from ian judge who blocked Facebook election board’s validation of an ini- Maduro, who won election in waited too long before activating a Powerball ticket worth $528.8m, the 7-Eleven where the winning Inc’s WhatsApp messaging service tial signature drive. 2013 to replace Hugo Chavez but the mechanism, but Capriles said it the couple holding the lucky num- ticket was purchased. A neighbour on Tuesday for failing to cooperate Several prominent members of has seen his ratings plummet amid would be perfectly possible to hold bers was busy lining up lawyers and said the couple who lived there had in a criminal investigation. Democratic Unity coalition posted on an economic crisis, has vowed there it by Oct. 30 or Nov. 6. financial advisers to help them han- two children and moved out, a day Federal Supreme Court Presi- Twitter documents purportedly from will be no referendum this year and The timing is important because dle their enormous winnings. before the prize was claimed. dent Ricardo Lewandowski said in national election council confirming officials have accused the opposi- if Maduro loses a referendum this Flanked by security, Marvin and The Acostas bought their ticket a decision that it seemed “scarcely they had validated nearly 400,000 tion of fraud in obtaining signatures. year, the election council would call Mae Acosta went to a state lottery six months ago at the convenience reasonable or proportional” for a signatures requesting the referendum. “What is going to be the cost if a new presidential vote. office in Van Nuys to claim their store in Chino Hills, California, a judge in Rio de Janeiro state to share of a record $1.6bn Powerball quiet community about 35 miles have ordered the indefinite sus- drawing in January, Alex Traverso, east of Los Angeles. pension of the messaging app until a California lottery spokesman, dis- It was one of three winning tick- it revealed encrypted messages closed early yesterday. ets sold for the January 13 drawing. pertaining to a confidential case. Platter protest In a statement, the Acostas said Winners in Florida and Tennessee Still, the criminal judge left they are dedicating nearly all of the came forward within days to claim some 100 million Brazilian users prize money to a trust and charities. their prize money. without access to the messaging “We are thankful and blessed Word that one of the win- app for hours on Tuesday afternoon, for the rare gift that has been placed ning tickets was sold in California showing vast and discretionary in our care,” they said. brought excited crowds in January power of Brazil’s lower courts. Their names are public record to the 7-Eleven. Gawkers crowded WhatsApp stood by its defence under state law, but Traverso said the store and parking lot, mugging that messages sent over the app are the young couple with two children for TV cameras and chanting the not stored on its servers and can- has requested that other personal city’s name in celebration of its sud- not be turned over to the courts. information remain private. den celebrity. Co-founder and Chief Executive Many Californians might have Store owner Balbir Atwal said he Jan Koum even took to Facebook to difficulty understanding why the doesn’t know the Acostas by name. vent his frustration with the recur- couple would sit on such a mega- However, their good fortune has ring legal issues in Brazil. prize for so long. But that kind of been a boon for him as well. He col- “It’s shocking that less than studied preparation is exactly what lected $1m from the state lottery for two months after Brazilian peo- state lottery officials recommend selling the winning ticket and his ple and lawmakers loudly rejected for winners to avoid falling prey to lottery sales are up 80 percent at blocks of services like What- scams or mismanagement. the 7-Eleven. sapp, history is repeating itself,” “We couldn’t be happier for “Everybody is like, this is a lucky he posted. them and are thrilled they took the place so everybody comes here to The office of Brazil’s attorney time to assemble right team before play,” he said. general reiterated its position coming in to claim,” California Lot- Renie Alano, a 65-year-old that judges who suspend What- Members of social organisations give free food under the motto ‘100 Soup Kitchens’ at key intersections tery Director Hugo Lopez said. retiree, is one of them. He made sApp are incorrectly interpreting The Acostas will take their a special stop to pick up lottery a 2014 law meant to update the throughout Buenos Aires, to protest against Argentine President Mauricio Macri’s policies. winnings in a cash option totaling tickets. legal framework for the internet. BREAK TIME THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 1517

TV LISTINGS

08:00 News 11:00 Yeh Vadaa Raha 10:05 Tanked 13:10 Austin & Ally 08:30 Walls of Shame 11:30 Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi 11:00 Too Cute! 14:00 Liv And Maddie 09:00 The People’s Rani 11:55 Bondi Vet 14:50 Dog With A Blog 12:00 15:15 Health KumKum Bhagya 12:50 Woodfellas Disney Mickey 10:00 News 12:30 Meri Saasu Maa 13:45 Mouse 10:30 13:00 Gator Boys 15:20 Inside Story Jamai Raja 14:40 Treehouse Gravity Falls 11:00 News 13:30 Tashn E Ishq 16:10 Masters Violetta 11:30 Fault Lines 14:00 Vishkanya 17:00 Backstage 15:35 Tanked 12:00 News 14:30 Jamai Raja 17:25 Alex & Co. 16:30 Wildest Africa 12:30 Slavery: A 21st 15:00 Yeh Vadaa Raha 17:50 Girl Meets World 17:25 Big Fish Man Century Evil 15:30 Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi 18:15 Liv And Maddie 13:00 18:20 Bondi Vet 19:05 NEWSHOUR Rani 19:15 Austin & Ally Yesterday’s answer 14:00 News 16:00 KumKum Bhagya Tanked 19:30 Bunk’d 14:30 16:30 20:10 Wildest Africa 19:55 Inside Story Vishkanya 21:05 Jessie Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle 15:00 Al Jazeera World 17:00 Tashn E Ishq Treehouse 20:20 Backstage based on a 9×9 grid. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in 16:00 NEWSHOUR 17:30 Kaala Teeka Masters 20:45 Good Luck the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3×3 box 17:00 18:00 22:00 Bondi Vet contains the same number only once. News Meri Saasu Maa Charlie 17:30 The Stream 18:30 Yeh Vadaa Raha 22:55 Gator Boys 22:00 Binny And The 18:00 NEWSHOUR 19:00 Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi 23:50 Big Fish Man Ghost 19:00 News Rani 00:45 Great Animal 22:50 Sabrina Secrets 19:30 Witness 19:30 Jamai Raja Escapes Of A Teenage 20:00 News 20:00 KumKum Bhagya 01:10 Great Animal Witch 20:30 20:30 23:10 Inside Story Tashn E Ishq Escapes Hank Zipzer 22:00 News 21:00 Vishkanya 01:40 23:35 Binny And The 22:30 22:30 Bondi Vet The Stream Holiday 02:35 Tanked Ghost MEDIUM SUDOKU 23:00 Witness 01:30 KumKum Bhagya BABY BLUES BABY

Yesterday’s answer

CROSSWORD HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

NOVO SHOWING AT Alice Through The Looking Glass (Adventure) 3D 10:15am, 2:45, VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER 7:15 & 11:45pm 2D 12:30, 5:00 & 9:30pm TEL: 444933989 / 444517001 Star Trek Beyond (Action) 2D 11:30am, 4:30 & 9:30pm 3D 2:00, 7:00pm & 12:00midnight Central Intelligence (2D/Comedy) 10:30am, 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 & 11:30pm Hell In India (2D/Comedy) 10:10am, 2:40, 7:10 & 11:35pm Hoy en la Historia Ghostbusters (2D/Action) 12:20, 4:50 & 9:15pm Finding Dory (2D/Animation) 11:00am, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, July 21, 1796 9:00 & 11:00pm Scottish poet Robbie Burns, Kabali (2D/Tamil) 12:00noon, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00pm & 12:00midnight The Conjuring 2 (2D/Horror) 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30pm whose work ranges from the & 12:00midnight well-loved Auld Lang Syne to a Star Trek Beyond (3D IMAX/Action) 10:30am, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, poem immortalising the humble 8:30 & 11:00pm 7 star 11:00am, 4:15, 9:20pm haggis, died at the early age of 37 The Conjuring 2 (7 star/Horror) 1:30, 6:40 & 11:45pm 1816: Baron Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency that bears his name, was born in Germany as MALL Israel Beer Josaphat Alice Through The Looking Glass (2D/Adventure) 11:00am, 5:00 & 7:00pm 2008: Former Bosnian Serb leader Star Trek Beyond (2D/Action) 11:00am, 4:30 & 9:00pm Radovan Karadzic was arrested in Madaari (2D/Hindi) Serbia after 12 years on the run 11:30am, 2:00 & 9:15pm Finding Dory (2D/Animation) 1:00 & 5:15pm 2008: Russia and China signed a pact Monkey King: Hero Is Back (2D/Animation) 1:15 & 3:00pm demarcating their 4,300km border The Conjuring 2 (2D/Horror) 7:00 & 11:45pm 2009: Spain’s foreign minister Silah El Talamiz (2D/Arabic) visited Gibraltar, the first 3:15 & 9:30pm government official to do so in 300 Kabali (2D/Tamil) 6:30 & 11:15pm Picture: Newscom © GRAPHIC NEWS ROYAL PLAZA

ALL IN THE MIND Monkey King: Hero Is Back (2D/Animation) 11:30am, 1:00 & 5:00pm Star Trek Beyond (2D/Action) 11:00am & 7:00pm Ghostbusters(2D/Action) 12:30pm Madaari (2D/Hindi) 1:30 & 11:30pm Silah El Talamiz (2D/Arabic) 2:30 & 11:30pm Finding Dory (2D/Animation) 3:00pm Central Intelligence (2D/Action) 4:30pm Alice Through The Looking Glass (2D/Adventure) 4:00, 6:00 & 9:15pm Abu Shanab(2D/Arabic) 6:30pm Kabali (2D/Tamil) 8:00 & 11:00pm The Conjuring 2 (2D/Horror) 9:00pm

ASIAN TOWN

Kabali (2D/Tamil) 12:30, 1:00, 2:00, 3:15, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00pm, 12:00midnight, 01:00, 02:00 & 03:30am BITS, BYTE, CACHE, COMPUTER, DATA, Madaari (Hindi) 6:45pm DESKTOP, DIGITAL, DISK, DRIVER, FLOPPY, GIGABYTE, HARD DRIVE, HARDWARE, HEXADECIMAL, INPUT, INSTALLATION, INTERNET, KEYBOARD, KILOBYTE, LAPTOP, AL KHOR MAINFRAME, MEGABYTE, MEMORY, MICROCHIP, MODEM, MONITOR, MOUSE, Kabali (2D/Tamil) 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 & 11:00pm NOTEBOOK, OUTPUT, PASSWORD, The Conjuring 2 (2D/Horror) 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, 8:45 & 11:30pm PERIPHERAL, PRINTER, PROCESSOR, Star Trek Beyond (2D/Action) 11:15am, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 PROGRAM, SCANNER,SCREENSAVER, & 11:45pm SOFTWARE, UTILITY, VIRUS, WIZARD.

PRAYER TIMINGS WEATHER Minimum: 35o C Maximum: 43o C

FAJR 03.29 am ZUHR 11.40 am MAGHRIB 06.27 pm HIGH TIDE 05:00 - 18:30 Hazy at places at first becoming hot to very hot SHOROOK 04.55 am ASR 03.06 pm ISHA 07.57 pm LOW TIDE 01:00 - 11:00 during day and relatively humid by evening.

16 THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 MORNING BREAK

ONLINE CHART BUST Ants learnt Ministry premises www.thepeninsulaqatar.com farming 60m MOST READ years ago Qatar Airways cargo begins new routes 1 to New York and Halifax IANS

Qatar Development Fund and Orbis 2 launch flying eye hospital NEW YORK: Ants belonging to a South American group switched from a hunter- QRCS harvests 9,360 tonnes of gatherer lifestyle to subsistence farming 3 wheat in Syria of fungi that grew on decomposing, woody plant matter some 55 to 60 mil- lion years ago, shortly after the dinosaurs died out, new research has found. TWEET OF THE DAY By contrast, humans began subsist- ence farming around 10,000 years ago, progressing to industrialised agriculture only in the past century. The genes of the ant farmers and their fungal crops revealed a surprisingly ancient history of mutual adaptations, said the study published in the journal Nature Communications. A sign board of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education is seen at its premises on the E-Ring This evolutionary give-and-take led to some species -- the leafcutter ants, for Road, yesterday. The sign board replaced that of the Supreme Education Council. Pic by: Salim Matramkot / The Peninsula. example -- developing industrial-scale farming that surpasses human agricul- ture in its efficiency, the researchers said. Much of the research on fungus-farm- ing ants came from scientists working in Panama through the Smithsonian Tropi- cal Research Institute, headquartered in ‘World’s oldest’ theatre actor dies Panama City, during the past 25 years. The key chapters of the history of ant agriculture were written into the genes INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY of both the insects and their crop fungi. AFP at the National Theatre in Bucharest, Central Committee of the Romanian “The ants lost many genes when they where he had played a lead role in Communist Party between 1969 and A visitor looks committed to farming fungi,” said Jacobus Jean Anouilh’s “Number Number” to 1989. at a photo- Boomsma, Research Associate at Smith- sellout audiences since 2004. After the fall of communism, he graph exhibited sonian Tropical Research Institute. BUCHAREST: Romanian legend Born on December 18, 1918, was forced to step down as director in Qhapac This tied the fate of the ants to their Radu Beligan, who held the Guin- Beligan made his debut in 1937 of the National Theatre in 1990 after Nan-Peru Pho- food -- with the insects depending on the ness record as the world’s oldest in Bucharest in a stage version of protests from his peers. tography Exhition fungi for nutrients, and the fungi increas- theatre actor, died yesterday aged “Crime and Punishment” by Fyo- In December 2013, the Guin- at Katara Cul- ing their likelihood of survival if they 97 in a hospital in the capital Bucha- dor Dostoevsky. ness World Records awarded Beligan tural Village. produced more nutritious crop. rest, medical staff said. He went on to star in some 100 the title of “oldest active theatre Picture by: Salim “It led to an evolutionary cascade of After a prolific career spanning plays and movies, and became professional”. Matramkot/The changes, unmatched by any other animal more than 70 years, the star passed a well-known TV and radio The vote raised some eyebrows Peninsula. lineage studied so far,” Boomsma, who is away in his sleep, the director of the personality. in Russia where actor Vladimir Zel- also a biology professor at the University Elias hospital, Dana Safta, said. But he was also criticised in art- din celebrated his 101th birthday of Copenhagen in Denmark. Beligan last performed in April ists’ circles for his membership of the earlier this year on stage in Moscow.

RAF distributes 10,000 Under construction water bottles to workers Tawar Mall catches fire

The Peninsula labourers. The initiative received The Peninsula good response from philanthropists, individuals and companies as well. DOHA: Amid soaring mercury, a They donated money to buy large AL DUHAIL: A blaze broke out on the second floor of the under-construc- local charity organisation extended quantity of water said a release. tion Tawar Mall in Al Duhail area late yesterday morning. helping hands towards workers to The social services unit imple- Going by the words of the management of the mall, the fire was con- beat the heat at worksites. mented several projects to support centrated on a small area of the mall at the second floor and it was put out The social services unit at Sheikh workers on worksites. successfully without any casualties. Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Earlier, they were given ther- “Tawar Mall is grateful that there were no casualties. The timely evac- Humanitarian Service (RAF) has dis- mos to protect foods and water uation of construction workers and staff from the spot evaded serious tributed 10,000 bottles filled with from scorching heat. Some 650,000 damages. I appreciate the authorities for their immediate and professional cold water to workers in five areas labourers benefitted from RAF’s support which ensured safety for everyone,” said Jassim Bin Jabr Sultan through the country. social projects executed in Qatar last Tawar Al Kuwari, the Chairman of Tawar Mall. The beneficiary areas are Doha, year. The projects include financial The upcoming Tawar Mall will introduce more than 312 shops and res- Shamal, Al Kharitiyat, Umm Salal supports for loan repayment, paying taurants. Tawar Mall will also offer the opportunity to shop from a bunch of Mohammad and Umm Salal Ali. for medical bills, initiatives for sum- the best international brands which will improve retail sector in local mar- Four vehicles from Food House mer and cold. RAF implements more ket. The total gross area of the mall is 300,958sqm, it is divided into four RAF’s representatives distribute cold water among workers at a the social arm of RAF were pressed than 30 social projects to cater the floors and two basements for accessible car parking. The mall is specified construction site in Doha, yesterday. in service to distribute the water to local community in various sectors. with its strategic site in Duhail area. The mall is expected to be opened in the fourth quarter of the year. January to June warmest half-year: Nasa

IANS scientists found that two key cli- a boost to global temperatures from warming in the Arctic, said Walt mate change indicators -- global October onwards, it is the underly- Meier, a sea ice scientist at Nasa surface temperatures and Arctic sea ing trend which is producing these Goddard. ice extent -- had broken numerous record numbers,” Gavin Schmidt, “It has been a record year so NEW YORK: The six-month period records through the first half of 2016. Director, Goddard Institute for Space far for global temperatures, but the from January to June this year was While these two key climate indi- Studies, said in a statement. record high temperatures in the Arc- the planet’s warmest half-year on cators have broken records in 2016, Previous El Nino events have tic over the past six months have record, Nasa has found. Each of the Nasa scientists said it is more signif- driven temperatures to what were been even more extreme,” Meier said. first six months of 2016 set a record icant that global temperature and then record levels, such as in 1998. “This warmth as well as unu- as the warmest respective month Arctic sea ice are continuing their But in 2016, even as the effects of sual weather patterns have led to globally in the modern temperature decades-long trends of change. the recent El Nino taper off, global the record low sea ice extents so far record, which dates to 1880, accord- Both trends are driven by rising temperatures have risen well beyond this year,” Meier noted. ing to scientists at Nasa’s Goddard concentrations of heat-trapping car- those of 18 years ago because of the The extent of Arctic sea ice at the Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in bon dioxide and other greenhouse overall warming that has taken place peak of the summer melt season now New York. gases in the atmosphere, the scien- in that time. typically covers 40 percent less area Analysing ground-based obser- tists said. “While the El Nino event in The global trend in rising tem- than it did in the late 1970s and early Tawar Mall on fire in Al Duhail, yesterday. vations and satellite data, the the tropical Pacific this winter gave peratures is outpaced by the regional 1980s, the scientists said. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 18 QE 10,591.60 -56.98 PTS PAGE | 19 DOW 18,611.67 +52.66 PTS Zara founder’s Aramco in deals real estate assets FTSE100 6,728.99 +31.62 PTS to build SR50bn top €6bn in 2015 BRENT $45.16 +$0.51 gas project

THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 • 16 SHAWWAL 1437 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar

Doha Bank achieves strong performance ratios

position. Recently, Doha Bank held an Ordinary Announcing the financial results, General Assembly of Shareholders, Bank’s total assets Sheikh Fahad bin Mohammad bin wherein it was unanimously agreed increased by QR4.6bn, Jabor Al Thani, Chairman of the Board for Doha Bank to issue Certificate of of Directors of Doha Bank, stated the Deposits (CD) program and Commer- up 5.6% to QR87.4bn bank sustained the core income as cial Papers (CP) programme subject compared to the net operating income is up by to necessary regulatory and other 0.7 percent as compared to the same approvals. Subsequently, Doha Bank QR82.7bn recorded period, despite the sharp decline in became the first Qatari Bank to tap a year ago. the oil prices and the challenges faced the Taiwanese market on a loan syn- by the global financial markets. The dication by successfully completing a bank’s core revenue streams have syndicated borrowing with an over- shown strong growth over the prior whelming response securing $180m By Satish Kanady year period reflecting on the Bank’s for 3 years with cost effective pricing.” The Peninsula intrinsic strength towards recur- Doha Bank had also distributed ring earning capacity and also on 30 percent of the paid up capital as the Bank’s productive operational cash dividend to the shareholders performance. during the year. FROM LEFT: Doha Bank Chairman Sheikh Fahad bin Mohammad bin Jabor Al Thani, Managing Director Sheikh DOHA: Doha bank recorded a net Sheikh Fahad added: “Different For the 7th consecutive year, Doha profit of QR708m for the first half economies in the world are currently Abdul Rehman bin Mohammad bin Jabor Al Thani and CEO Dr R Seetharaman. Bank’s credit card holders are cele- of 2016. The bank’s total assets facing challenges. Moreover, the sharp brating summer on the occasions of increased by QR4.6bn, up 5.6 percent decline of the oil prices during the last projects will be reflected positively registering an increase of 0.1 per- on the average assets of 1.66 percent Ramadan and Eid season, through to QR87.4bn compared to QR82.7bn period has made the matter more on the performance of Doha Bank cent during the last twelve months. which is a clear demonstration of the attractive rewards such as 10 percent recorded a year ago. complicated, and in spite of all these and the Qatari banking system as a Through the strategic utilisation of effective utilisation of shareholder’s cash back across all Qatar Duty Free Net loans & advances increased circumstances, the Qatari economy is whole”. the shareholder’s funds by way of funds and optimum asset allocation (QDF), 5 percent cash back on all for- to QR55.4bn from QR53.1bn reported still strong and coherent, and we are Sheikh Abdul Rehman bin increasing our performance levels strategies”. eign currency transactions until July for the same period last year, register- confident that under the wise leader- Mohammad bin Jabor Al Thani, Man- the return on average shareholders’ Dr R Seetharaman, Chief Execu- 31, 2016. This was also coupled with ing a growth of 4.5 percent. Deposits ship of H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad aging Director of Doha Bank, said equity is 15.7 percent as at June 30, tive Officer of Doha Bank, said “Doha 3 percent cashback on all local spend showed a year on year increase of 1.3 Al Thami, Emir of Qatar, the Qatari “The Bank has become extremely 2016, one of the best in the industry. Bank’s strong results highlights the in the month of June, reaffirming the percent from QR51.7bn to QR52.4bn economy will remain strong and,the strong over the years with total equity, The Bank, given the scale of opera- strength of its vision and strategy bank’s commitment to customer sat- reflecting the bank’s strong liquidity increasing number of the upcoming as at June 30, 2016, at QR13.1bn, tions, has achieved a very high return to capitalise on market synergies. isfaction and loyalty. Real estate market witnesses UDC’s foreign Electronics shops await ownership limit triple-digit growth despite holidays goes up to 49% post-summer boom

By Mohammad Shoeb and By M.V.A. Kumar had plummeted. Many leading malls Mohammed Osman The Peninsula The Peninsula are also witnessing a drastic drop The Peninsula in demand for all consumer elec- tronics items, particularly TV sets. C V Rappai, CEO of Video Home DOHA: The foreign ownership DOHA: Traders of electronics goods & Jumbo Electronics, a leading DOHA: Despite Eid Al-Fitr and sum- limit of United Development Com- and appliances in Qatar are pinning distributor of LG and other popu- mer vacations, Qatar’s real estate pany (UDC) has gone up. Qatar their hopes on an improvement in lar consumer electronics brands, market witnessed a remarkable Central Securities Depository sales by September, after the dis- explained: “Customer sentiments triple-digit growth in terms of the (QCSD) has increased the for- mal performance being witnessed have influenced spending hab- total value of transactions during the eigners’ ownership limit of UDC in the post-Ramadan and Eid Al Fitr its and its negative impact is seen first week of July , which included to up to 49 percent of the Capital, a phase and the overall gloomy pic- mainly in the sales of luxury and the three days after the Eid Al Fitr regulatory filing to Qatari bourse ture during the past seven months. non-essential goods. Today, with holidays. noted yesterday. With majority of the expatri- the disposable income salary earn- The total value of the trans- In May, the shareholders of ates travelling back to their home ers having gone down, they are actions conducted across all UDC gave their nod to the Board countries for the summer holi- postponing their purchase of non- municipalities reached at QR509m, of Directors’ recommendation days, carrying gifts for their loved essential goods like television sets registering a sharp growth of 142 to increase the non-Qatari ones, and multitudes of new work- etc by six months or more and lim- percent compared to QR210.7m ownership in the company’s ers entering the country to take iting purchases to essential goods.” during the previous week. The total shares up to 49 percent from the up jobs related to the hectic infra- Rappai said in the case of tele- number of deals executed during the accounting for 87.7 percent of bin Omran area was sold for QR40m. earlier ceiling of 25 percent. structure development activity, one vision sets, the period of transition period reached 91 against 54 dur- the total number transactions. The highest valued deal signed On Monday, UDC announced would assume that, at least, smart from Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) to dig- ing the previous week, showing an While share of land plot deals for in Al Rayyan municipality stood at that it recorded a net profit of phones and the inexpensive elec- ital TVs is over and televisions being increase of 68.5 percent, according accounted for 12.3 percent of the QR30.1m for a multi-purpose build- QR353m for the first half of 2016 tronics goods would be witnessing higher value items make people to numbers provided in Ezdan Hold- transactions. ing with an area of 743sqm. While (H1, 16). The net profit attributed to brisk sales. think many times, before replacing ing’s weekly report. Doha Municipality topped among the highest value of deal signed in the equity holders of the company If one were to go by Qatar’s existing sets with something more This remarkable rise, both in all municipalities in terms of the value Umme Salal municipality was QR5m stood at QR332m. Earnings per trade statistics published in the trendy. Such an attitude is adopted terms of the value of transactions of transactions accounting for 48.1 for the sale of a residential building share reached QR0.94 for the World Integrated Trade Solution even in the case of smartphones, and number of deals, have surprised percent , or QR244.6m, of the total at Al Khairitiyat locality which is period. website, the country’s imports have which unlike the inexpensive basic the real estate analysts as it hap- value of transactions struck during spread over an area of 930sqm. And UDC, one of the leading Qatari gone up 7.1 percent with electronic models are higher value items. pened during the summer season, the period. While Al Rayyan Munic- at the same locality another residen- shareholding companies and equipment at a value of $3.4bn, fig- About the energy star certified a time when the real estate market ipality led in terms of the number of tial property was sold at QR3m with master developer of The Pearl- uring among the top imports. air-conditioners ousting the older remains lukewarm as most people transactions signed. Some 28 deals an area of 450sqm. Qatar, announced Monday that It constitutes 10.4 percent of the models without energy star rating, usually travel outside the country to were executed in the municipally Al Daayen Municipality stood at the construction of Al Mutahidah total imports, with China, South he said his company had a huge spend their long annual vacations. accounting for 30.8 percent of the fourth rank in terms of the value of residential towers and Giardino Korea, the UAE, the US, the UK, stock of air-conditioners, that had Although there were not many total number of 91 deals, followed deals implemented which stood at Villas’ compound will commence Germany, France, Italy, India, Saudi been withdrawn in compliance of exceptionally high valued deals by Umme Salal municipality, where QR24.5m from seven deals imple- during the last quarter of this Arabia and Japan as the biggest the new regulations. except one in the Doha Munici- some 19 transactions were executed. mented. The municipality has year. Furhter, the vibrant Abraj exporters of electronic equipment. The manager of another show- pality for the sale of a multi-use The highest valued deal signed witnessed a 41.2 percent decline Quartier commercial tower (tower Speaking on condition of ano- room, said air-conditioner sales for building valued at QR106m, which (QR106m) was for a multi-pur- in the value of transactions during building 1) and indoor shopping nymity, a top official at a leading both the split and window models alone accounted for 20.8 percent of pose building located at Freej bin the period compared to the value arcade Souq Al Medina Centrale distributor of consumer electron- had declined dramatically, because the total value of transactions dur- Abdulaziz locality, which is spread of deals signed during the previous will soon be ready to welcome ics goods, disclosed that sales in customers were reluctant to pay ing the period. over an area of 3,175 square metres week. The highest valued deal signed retailers and customers, which his company were close to 30 per- higher prices for the upgraded The ready-to-move building (sqm), at the rate of QR33,400 per in the municipality was QR4.8m for will add value to The Pearl- cent down. He admitted that there energy star certified models that properties continued dominat- sqm. Another multi-purpose build- the sale of residential building at Al Qatar’s retail and commercial was a surge in sales during the pre- cost at least QR300 more than the ing the number of real estate deals ing (area 1495sqm) located at Freej Ab area with a total area of 1116sqm. business performance. Ramadan period, but after that sales previous models. 18 THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 BUSINESS SME industry key to Mena’s economic growth

The Peninsula Given that SMEs represent over has been increasing, with larger Shailesh Dash Entrepreneur and 90 percent of the total registered firms downsizing and outsourcing Founder of Al Masah Capital said; The weight of SMEs companies in most of the Mena coun- more functions, observed experts at “Technology adoption is ruling it in global economies tries, their contribution to overall Al Masah Capital. all. SMEs have become important in DOHA: The Mena region is currently GDP remains substantially lower, It is estimated that 90 percent of promoting competitiveness and intro- witnessing a grassroots revolution in has been increasing, with exception of a few like the UAE, the world’s businesses are SMEs and ducing new products or techniques building a strong Small and Medium with larger firms Egypt and Lebanon, Al Masah Capital, it contributes to more than 50 percent to the changing market dynamics Enterprises (SMEs) structure. Devel- downsizing and one of the fastest growing alternative of employment worldwide. For devel- around the world. Moreover, they are GE appoints Anis oping the region’s SMEs has so far asset management and advisory firms oping economies, SMEs contribute also responsible for increasing pro- moved in a positive direction with outsourcing more focused on the Mena region, noted in 50 percent of gross value add (GVA) ductivity, mostly through expansion as President & every GCC country, including Qatar, functions, says Al its latest analysis of SMEs sector and and 60 percent of total private sector and inorganic strategies. The per- by establishing specialised bodies and Venture Capitalism. employment. According to the World formance and development level of developing regulations and programs Masah Capital. The Al Mash report, which Bank Group study, there are 420-510 a national economy largely depends CEO for Power to support and nourish them. reviewed a rise in Venture Capital- million micro small and medium- on the willingness and ability of the The SME industry in Mena is ism, noted the dynamic nature of size enterprises (MSMEs) worldwide government to create a fertile envi- Services in MEA becoming an increasingly impor- are important contributors to GDP, SMEs and their significant roleplay of which 365-445 million MSMEs are ronment for SMEs, which can improve tant contributor to GDP, but still lags accounting for 80 percent, 99 percent in fostering innovation and promot- domiciled in the emerging markets. the quality of services and promote The Peninsula behind developed nations in terms of and 60 percent respectively, but the ing global economies, suggested a Highlighting the catalyst role competitiveness that are impor- contribution to the economy. In the contribution is significantly lower in robust growth to these sectors. The SMEs have been playing in changing tant for an accommodative market region, Egypt, Lebanon and UAE SMEs Kuwait, Qatar and Oman. weight of SMEs in global economies the face of developing economies, environment. DOHA: GE has appointed Joseph J Anis (pictured) as President and Chief Executive Officer of its Power Services business for the Alfardan Automobiles Middle East and Africa (MEA). He replaces Azeez Mohammed, who will take on a new role as CEO for GE Energy Connection’s Power unveils BMW M4 GTS Conversion unit based in Paris. Power Services integrates the best service teams in the power and M2 models in Qatar industry – GE’s Power Generation Services and Alstom’s Ther- mal Services – and has played The Peninsula water injection system raises the a central role in the MEA region engine’s output significantly – to 368 in helping customers to expand kW/500 hp — and increases torque to their power plant capability and 600 Nm (442 lb-ft), giving it the abil- maximise resource use efficiency. DOHA: Alfardan Automobiles wel- ity to accelerate from a standstill to Anis, who holds a bachelor’s comed the eagerly anticipated BMW 100 km/h (62 mph) in a mere 3.8 sec- degree in political science from M4 GTS and BMW M2 models to Qatar onds and hits a limited top speed of Syracuse University in New York, this month. Bringing motor racing 305 km/h (189.5 mph). joined GE in 1997 as General genes wrapped in an exciting design The standard-fitted seven-speed Manager for GE’s Power Con- and coupled with unlimited everyday M Double Clutch Transmission (M trols business and has served in usability, these exceptional M models DCT) selects the optimum ratio various leadership roles both in offer a combination that has defined for every driving situation with no the region and globally including the character of the M automobiles interruption in the flow of power as as General Manager for Power from the start and mustering a large it makes its way to the rear wheels. Generation Sales in the Middle following of loyal M fans globally. The driver can also select gears man- East and Africa. He joined GE’s The BMW M4 GTS is a special ually using either shift paddles on the The BMW M4 GTS and BMW M2 Coupé on display in Doha. Power Generation Services busi- edition limited to 700 units to com- steering wheel or the selector lever. ness in 2012 as the VP of Global memorate the 30th anniversary of The Drivelogic shift programs and Sales & Commercial Operations. the BMW M3. Launch Control have been retuned Coupé and continues the tradition of deliver sheer driving pleasure. it comes to driving dynamics. The In 2015, he was named VP Com- The new model combines pow- to the engine’s increased output. the compact high-performance BMW With the lightweight aluminium electronically controlled Active M mercial for Power Services where erful, motor sport-inspired looks The weight-minimised, exclusive M sports cars that started over 40 years front and rear axles from the BMW Differential, which optimises trac- he was responsible for delivering with high-performance technology light-alloy wheels in star-spoke 666 ago with the BMW 2002 turbo. With M3/M4 models, forged 19-inch alu- tion and directional stability, also sales growth across its portfolio to further enhance the capabilities M Styling are forged and polished, the M2 Coupé’s powerful six-cylinder minium wheels with mixed-size plays a significant role here. And of product lines and commercial and appeal of the BMW M4. and come in Acid Orange. in-line engine with either automatic tyres, M Servotronic steering with even greater driving pleasure is on offerings, as well as driving sales The limited edition model comes Joining the limited edition M4 or manual gearbox producing, 272 two settings and suitably effec- the cards when the Dynamic Stabil- penetration with customers. with a six-cylinder in-line turbo GTS is the model that made its Middle kW/370 hp and 465 Nm, rear-wheel- tive M compound brakes, the new ity Control system’s M Dynamic Mode He will be responsible for engine with innovative water injec- East debut at the Qatar Motor Show drive agility, lightweight aluminium BMW M2 Coupé has raised the bar (MDM) is activated. MDM allows growing the business with a tion technology to give the 3.0-litre — the BMW M2 Coupé. It comes as M Sport suspension and extrovert once again in the compact high-per- wheel slip and therefore moderate, focus on leveraging GE’s Indus- unit a substantial power boost. The a successor to the BMW 1 Series M styling, it has all the ingredients to formance sports car segment when controlled drifts on the track. trial Internet solutions. Volkswagen profit tops forecast in first half Zara founder’s real

Reuters months ended June were a sign a regulatory fines to increase that second-quarter operating profit was recovery might be taking hold, and number. Three US states announced about 1 billion euros higher than ana- estate assets Volkswagen (VW) shares jumped on Tuesday civil lawsuits against VW lysts’ consensus forecast. more than 5 percent after the news. claiming senior executives covered Including one-off items, VW said FRANKFURT: Volkswagen said cost “Today’s press release is the start up evidence that the carmaker had its first-half operating profit dropped cutting and rising European car sales of a move in the right direction,” cheated emissions tests for years. 22 percent to €5.3bn. It said the top €6bn in 2015 helped it to beat first-half underlying said Barclays analysts, who have an DZ Bank kept its “sell” rat- improvement in operating perform- profit forecasts, though it set aside “overweight” rating on VW shares. ing on VW shares yesterday, citing ance was driven by its mass-market another €2.2bn ($2.4bn) to cover However, the German company continued uncertainty surround- VW brand, its largest by sales, and costs related to its “dieselgate” emis- also said it was taking another one- ing the company, despite first-half helped by rising European car sales, Reuters sions scandal. off hit of €2.2bn, “mainly related to results which it said signalled the cost cutting and a return of orders Europe’s biggest carmaker is bat- further legal risks predominantly second quarter performance was from large corporate fleets. But it tling to restore its reputation after arising in North America.” the company’s best on record. In an added tough economic conditions, admitting in September to fitting ille- VW has already set aside about unscheduled update ahead of interim particularly in South America and MADRID: Amancio Ortega (pic- gal software that could deactivate $18bn to cover the cost of its emis- results on July 28, VW said its first- Russia, and volatile rates remained tured), Europe’s richest man and emissions controls on around 11 mil- sions cheating scandal, mainly half operating profit before one-off challenges, and kept its forecast for founder of global fashion group and lion diesel vehicles worldwide. vehicle refits and a settlement with items rose 7 percent to €7.5bn. a full-year decline in group revenues Zara owner Inditex, held more than Some analysts said the stronger- US authorities, and analysts had Evercore ISI analyst Arndt of up to 5 percent and an operating €6bn ($6.6bn) in prime real estate than-expected results for the six expected lawsuits and potential Ellinghorst said that suggested return on sales of 5-6 percent. assets at the end of 2015, corporate filings showed. The famously-reclusive mag- nate’s real estate investment arm, Britain’s jobless Pontegadea Inmobiliaria, booked Pepper World 2016 Summer begins today assets of €6.06bn at the end of 2015, figure dips up 8.3 percent from the previous period. “All the buildings he buys year, making it one of the biggest are in prime districts. It’s a steady, to 11-year low property companies in Spain. reliable income stream, almost Ortega, who turned 80 this year, like a sovereign bond,” said Carles consolidated most of his private Vergara, finance professor at IESE AFP interests into holding company Pon- Business School. tegadea Inversiones last December, Ortega’s first big real estate pur- with him at its helm and his wife chase was Torre Picasso, an office Flora Perez and a close business building in Madrid, bought in 2011 LONDON: Britain’s unemploy- partner listed as his vice-chairmen. around the time he handed the daily ment rate dipped to 4.9 percent Pontegadea Inversiones, which running of the world’s biggest cloth- in the three months to May, the holds a 50.01 percent stake in Indi- ing retailer to chief executive officer lowest level since 2005, official tex alongside billions of euros in real Pablo Isla. data showed yesterday. estate investments, had income of Since then he has bought prop- The unemployment rate had €810m in 2015 from Inditex div- erties including an office block in stood at 5.0 percent in the three idends, up 5.2 percent on the London’s Mayfair; a stretch of Lon- months to April, which had been previous year, the corporate filings don’s prime shopping drag Oxford a near 11-year low. The total show. In total, Ortega’s controlling Street; and the historic cast-iron dropped to an eight-year low of stake in Inditex amounts to 59.29 clad E V Haughwout Building in 1.65 million people in the three percent, with a stake of just over 9 SoHo, New York, which housed a months to May. However, none percent held separately to Ponte- world-famous cut glass and porce- of the data covers the period fol- gadea Inversiones. Using massive lain store in the 19th century and lowing Britain’s surprise EU exit dividend payouts from Inditex, featured the world’s first passenger referendum that was held on which have nearly doubled over elevator. Ortega not only rents out June 23. Bank of England Gover- the last five years, Ortega has his commercial property to Inditex nor Mark Carney has warned that made largely debt-free purchases stores like Zara and upmarket label A worker arranges Japan’s telecom giant Softbank’s “Pepper” humanoid robots in a hotel in Tokyo Britain could fall into recession as of prime buildings from London to Massimo Dutti at market rates, but yesterday, ahead of the exhibition Pepper World 2016 Summer starting today. businesses delay new projects and New York, becoming a major com- also to rivals such as H&M of Swe- cut jobs because of the Brexit vote. mercial real estate player over that den and Gap of the United States. BUSINESS THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 19

QE INDICES SUMMARY QATAR STOCK EXCHANGE QE Index 10,591.60 0.54 % QE Total Return Index 17,136.51 0.54 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 4,082.81 0.34 % QE All Share Index 2,931.04 0.46 % QE All Share Banks & Financial Services 2,835.16 0.93 % QE All Share Industrials 3,228.31 0.65 % QE All Share Transportation 2,558.08 0.05 % QE All Share Real Estate 2,700.04 0.21 % QE All Share Insurance 4,391.08 0.48 % QE All Share Telecoms 1,170.6 0.51 % QE All Share Consumer Goods & Services 6,624.23 0.13 %

QE MARKET SUMMARY COMPARISON 20-07-2016 Today 19-07-2016 Previous day Index 10,591.60 10,648.58 Change 56.98 63.50 % 0.54 0.60 YTD% 1.56 2.10 Volume 7,075,216 8,556,517 Value (QAR) 262,198,434.99 300,614,760.98 Trades 4,150 4,988 Up 14 | Down 23 | Unchanged 06

WORLD STOCK INDICES Index Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low All Ordinaries 5565.875 32.009 0.58 5548.2 4762.1 Cac 40 Index/D 4372.53 42.4 0.98 4607.69 3892.46 Dj Indu Average 18559.01 25.96 0.14 18562.5 15370.3 Hang Seng Inde/D 21882.48 209.28 0.97 21822 18278.8 Iseq Overall/D 5855.86 49.99 0.86 6791.68 5286.65 Karachi 100 In/D 39098.79 -110.09 -0.28 39415.25 29785 Nikkei 225 Index 16681.89 -41.42 -0.25 18951.12 14864.01 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 2169.05 1810.1

EXCHANGE RATE Currency Buying Selling US$ QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 UK QR 4.7679 QR 4.8356 INTERNATIONAL MARKETS - A LIST OF SHARES FROM THE WORLD Euro QR 3.9860 QR 4.0425 COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME CA$ QR 2.7644 QR 2.8188 NAME CHG TRADED NAME CHG TRADED NAME CHG TRADED NAME CHG TRADED Swiss Fr QR 3.6643 QR 3.7165 Yen QR 0.0339 QR 0.0346 A C C-A/D 1633.5 29.6 22434 Escorts Fin-B/D 4.6 0.14 3907 Kalpat Power-B/D 262.35 1.2 2874 Thirumalai-B/D 349 10.3 39869 Aus$ QR 2.7024 QR 2.7556 Aarti Drugs-B/D 515.05 27.4 5515 Escorts-A/D 248.45 9.6 470269 Kalyani Stel-T/D 186.25 2.4 14155 Timexgroup-T/D 40 1.35 196128 Ind Re QR 0.0537 QR 0.0548 Aban Offs-A/D 223 0.95 222675 Eveready Indu-/D 266.5 -3.5 27195 Kanoria Chem-B/D 68.8 1.1 10505 Tinplate-B/D 97.9 14.85 3195914 Aegis Logis-B/D 121.05 2.2 101131 F D C-B/D 189.9 1.7 5306 Kg Denim-B/D 86.2 -0.8 124595 Ucal Fuel-B/D 114.95 0.6 5740 Pak Re QR 0.0344 QR 0.0351 Alembic-B/D 38.3 0.75 58389 Federal Bank-A/D 62.75 2.55 858610 Kilburnengg-Xd/D 57.6 0.45 4212 Ucal Fuel-B/D 114.95 0.6 5740 Peso QR 0.0766 QR 0.0781 Alkyl Amines-B/D 372.5 4.4 1149 Ferro Alloys-B/D 5.52 0 27143 Kinetic Eng-B/D 73.4 -0.5 11252 Ultramarine-B/D 147.9 4.75 18974 SL Re QR 0.0246 QR 0.0252 Alok Indus-A/D 4.13 0.01 919279 Finolex-A/D 453 2.65 5622 Kopran-B/D 52.75 1.8 80787 Unitech P -A/D 8.34 0.11 17391148 Taka QR 0.0460 QR 0.0469 Apollo Tyre-A/D 158.5 -0.05 95913 Gail-A/D 394.85 9.55 79986 Laxmi Prcisn-B/D 36.6 0.05 3250 Univcable-B/D 81 0.1 5570 Nep Re QR 0.0336 QR 0.0343 Asahi I Glass-/D 164.2 0.45 5442 Galada Power-B/D 16.25 -0.85 94155 Lloyd Metal-B/D 29.7 0.7 3170 Uppergsugar-T/D 469.65 8.15 205675 Ashok Leyland-/D 93.45 -0.1 673938 Gammon India-T/D 16.8 0.4 141487 Lok.Hous&Con-T/D 5.7 -0.05 8341 SA Rand QR 0.2526 QR 0.2577 Bajaj Hold-A/D 1665 40.15 24407 Gangotri Tex-B/D 1.33 0.06 2100 Lumax Ind-B/D 714.2 -7.85 3285 LONDON Ballarpur In-B/D 14.65 0.05 183026 Garden P -B/D 36.95 0.15 13801 Lupin-A/D 1713.6 23.2 83064 GOLD AND SILVER Bata India-A/D 572 3.8 43646 Godfrey Phil-B/D 1195.8 33.7 68472 Lyka Labs-T/D 76.4 4.55 98226 Beml Ltd-A/D 959 21.55 59082 Goodricke-B/D 166.9 -2.65 41520 Mafatlal Ind-B/D 318 0.95 1359 3I Group/D 593.5 2.5 277660 GOLD QR154.8351 per gramme Bh Electronic-/D 1249.05 10.45 23910 Goodyear I -B/D 526.1 -3.05 3922 Mah.Seamless-B/D 221.7 0.1 1435 Assoc.Br.Foods/D 2812 6 151972 SILVER QR2.2921 per gramme Bhansali Eng-T/D 22.85 1.3 149031 Hcl Infosys-B/D 40.3 -2.4 4348149 Maha Scooter-B/D 1442.3 39.55 1750 Barclays/D 150.75 0.35 14792787 Bharat Bijle-B/D 844.05 -29 14600 Him.Fut.Comm-T/D 18.3 0.2 1106871 Mangalam Cem-B/D300.45 1.9 12188 Bp/D 452 -0.8 5083880 Bharatgears-B/D 98.05 1.3 25304 Himat Seide-B/D 276.75 1.9 78817 Maral Overs-B/D 31.4 0.25 5916 Brit Am Tobacc/D 4816 27 612217 Bhartiya Int-B/D 510 0.05 8186 Hind Motors-T/D 4.77 0.01 103969 Mastek-B/D 134.45 1.4 15297 Bt Group/D 389.85 -2.7 4535968 Bhel-A/D 144.25 4.75 973777 Hind Org Chem-/D 17.5 0 12863 Max Financial-/D 559.9 51.05 611388 Centrica/D 237.3438 0.8 3813865 Bom.Burmah-B/D 402 3.25 3432 Hind Unilever-/D 906.9 11.75 55119 Mrpl-A/D 76.7 1.65 461345 Gkn/D 285.6 5.2 1453035 Qatar and Saudi Bombay Dyeing-/D 46.95 0.15 372800 Hind.Petrol-A/D 1121.15 13.7 167492 Nahar Spg.-B/D 131.1 0.95 27047 Hsbc Holdings/D 495.4 8.3 12099492 Camph.& All-B/D 562 0 3011 Hindalco-A/D 135.8 -2.05 1810583 Nation Alum -A/D 47.75 -1 160599 Kingfisher/D 331.5 -0.1 3056955 Canfin Homes-B/D 1272.75 30.4 11378 Hous Dev Fin-A/D 1334.95 -3.45 61225 Navneet Edu-B/D 94 -0.9 15771 Land Secs Grou/D 1093 19 1735655 markets fall on Q2 Caprihans-Xc/D 95.2 -0.35 10216 I F C I-A/D 28.65 0.05 369992 Nepc India-T/D 1.65 0.07 26850 Legal & Genera/D 196.2 4.8 8581195 Castrol India-/D 413.75 5.6 184528 Idbi-A/D 73.55 0.15 305554 Neuland Lab-B/D 972.55 7.2 3958 Lloyds Bnk Grp/D 55.79 0.36 40867580 Century Enka-B/D 214.2 8.1 16395 Ifb Agro-B/D 434 18.9 2367 Nrb Bearings-B/D 113 0.5 1547 Marks & Sp./D 333.9 -1.1 2108830 earnings misses Century Text-A/D 679.15 19.55 109328 Ifb Ind.Ltd.-B/D 382.1 9.1 9281 O N G C-A/D 223.8 2.65 1360510 Next/D 5020 -70 215122 Chambal Fert-B/D 65.15 -0.8 72798 India Cement-A/D 115.65 4.05 439464 Ocl India-B/D 640.05 16.75 1744 Pearson/D 969 2.5 642599 Reuters Chola Invest-A/D 968.85 -1.05 256416 India Glycol-B/D 99.15 2.05 24843 Oil Country-B/D 34.55 0.2 104667 Prudential/D 1327 17 2593365 Chowgule St-T/D 16.95 0.8 21608 Indian Hotel-A/D 134.55 2.15 161275 Onward Tech-B/D 72.1 -1.5 2121 Rank Group/D 235.7 3.9 28846 Cimmco-B/D 72.3 0 3623 Indo-Tcount-T/D 903.9 30.7 13038 Orchid Pharm-B/D 41.75 2 220982 Rentokil Initi/D 209.7 0.7 725197 Cipla-A/D 517.8 12.1 230252 Indusind-A/D 1122.25 15.2 250415 Orient Hotel-T/D 26.65 -0.05 3356 Rolls Royce Pl/D 738 -1.5 1199304 DUBAI: Stock markets in Qatar and Saudi Arabia were City Union Bk-/D 120.5 1.1 13275 J.B.Chemical-B/D 261.4 -0.85 7314 Orient.Carb.-T/D 624 0.65 2723 Rsa Insrance G/D 491.6 3 380482 pulled lower yesterday by two blue-chip companies Colgate-A/D 949.15 8.05 18441 Jagson Phar-B/D 40.1 1.5 10235 Orient.Carb.-T/D 624 0.65 2723 Sainsbury(J)/D 228 0.5 1927061 whose weak second-quarter earnings missed forecasts, Container Cor-/D 1456 21.2 11421 Jamnaauto-B/D 174.05 3.2 68260 Oudh Sugar-B/D 142.95 6.8 124041 Schroders/D 2593 25 117439 while Egypt was hurt by a fresh slide of its currency Dai-Tichi Kar-/D 397 -1.55 1312 Jbf Indu-B/D 204.5 1.2 9175 Patspin India-/D 11.16 0.85 38185 Severn Trent/D 2461 7 136164 in the black market. Dcm Financia-T/D 0.75 0.03 1300 Jct Ltd-B/D 6.24 -0.07 841598 Punjab Chem.-B/D 193.6 0.6 6028 Smith&Nephew/D 1299 7 677598 Commercial Bank of Qatar slumped 6.6 percent Dcm Shram Ind-/D 162.8 -1.05 20014 Jenson&Nich.-B/D 8.96 -0.02 32254 Radico Khait-B/D 90.45 0.95 20732 Smiths Group/D 1227 7 327219 after it posted a 63 percent drop in second quarter net Dhampur Sugar-/D 118.35 2 170862 Jik Indust-B/D 0.63 -0.01 29257 Rallis India-A/D 209.5 1.55 13701 Standrd Chart /D 611 9.2 3065682 attributable profit to QR212.3m. Dr. Reddy-A/D 3679.3 97.95 23667 Jindal Drill-B/D 184.55 9.85 30446 Rallis India-A/D 209.5 1.55 13701 Tate & Lyle/D 699.5 9.5 501821 Other Qatari banks also fell, even though they had E I H-B/D 113.85 -0.65 6810 Jktyre&Ind-A/D 89.55 0.35 61155 Reliance Indus/D 435.85 4.8 158700 Tesco/D 160.85 -2.9 5211254 reported strong earnings at the start of this week. Qatar E.I.D Parry-A/D 240.65 2.5 23866 Jmc Projects-T/D 250 11 2051 Ruchi Soya-B/D 22.35 0.25 93136 Unilever/D 3574 4.5 547938 Islamic Bank dropped 1.6 percent. The main Qatari Eicher Motor-A/D 19810.1 114.1 1895 Kabra Extr-B/D 122.9 -2.55 250478 S Bk Bikaner-B/D 690.1 2.2 17514 United Util Gr/D 1027 3 259130 index dropped 0.5 percent to 10,592 points, but closed Electrosteel-B/D 20.8 1.15 250013 Kajaria Cer-A/D 1223 8.65 40690 Salora Inter-B/D 42.8 -0.7 4848 Vodafone Group/D 226.25 1.55 11441329 81 points above its session low. Emco-B/D 31.75 -0.55 143155 Kakatiya Cem-B/D 411.7 0.35 14653 Saur.Cem-B/D 69.9 2.9 91816 Whitbread/D 3671.8124 -3 225049 In Saudi Arabia, Saudi Electricity Co (SEC) dropped 0.5 percent after it reported a 28 percent fall in sec- ond-quarter net profit to SR1.4bn. The main Saudi index edged down 0.2 percent. But some Saudi banks fared well after several reported earnings that met expectations. Saudi Hollandi Bank rose 0.8 percent after reporting a flat net profit of Aramco in deals to build SR50bn gas project SR540m. In Egypt, the main index extended the previous day’s decline and dropped 1.2 percent after the Egyp- said yesterday. long-term strategies, despite the conventional sales will tian pound weakened to 11.75 per dollar on the black The Fadhili project The total project is worth weak market conditions,” said extend the availability market, its lowest level since that market emerged. SR50bn ($13.33bn) and, when Aramco’s Chief Executive Amin of gas supplies within The central bank has been keeping the currency aims to boost Saudi completed in 2019, will be the Nasser (pictured). The Fadhili the kingdom during peri- artificially fixed at 8.78 pounds since its devaluation gas production first programme in the kingdom project aims to boost Saudi gas ods of peak gas demand,” in mid-March. Since the central bank’s comments to to treat gas from both onshore production capacity to more than Sadad Al Husseini, a local media on July 3 about the fixed currency rate capacity to more and offshore fields. 17 billion standard cubic feet per former senior executive being a “mistake”, the pound has tumbled in the black than 17 billion The company signed a con- day by 2020, a top energy prior- at Aramco, said of the market, and economists believe a further devaluation tract with Saudi Electricity Co ity in Saudi Arabia outlined in the project. — possibly accompanied by further interest rate hikes standard cubic feet and France’s Engie to construct kingdom’s National Transforma- The plan for Fadhili — may be imminent. per day by 2020. the Fadhili plant, which will tion Plan. includes a 1,500-mega- The March devaluation triggered a strong rally in produce both power and steam. Many industrial firms have watt power plant, which the stock market on hopes that it would prompt for- A contract for work on offshore complained about a gas short- will use 400 MW of elec- eign fund inflows, but that largely did not happen, so facilities went to India’s Larsen age crimping expansion plans. tricity to power the gas investors are more gloomy this time around. Reuters & Toubro. The kingdom is also trying project and send the In Dubai, Emaar Properties climbed 1.7 percent to Two other contracts, awarded to use more gas for power gen- remaining 1,100 MW to Dh7.02, its highest close in 11 months, in active trade. to local companies, are for down- eration and water desalination the domestic grid. Dubai’s main stock index added 0.6 percent. stream facilities and a residential instead of burning crude oil, Engie has signed an Abu Dhabi’s index climbed by the same margin FADHILI: State oil giant Saudi camp. Other contracts for the which it wants to export. agreement which will with support from large-caps; Aldar Properties, the Aramco signed four engineering project were signed late last year. “Using low btu (British ensure the power pro- largest listed property developer in Abu Dhabi, jumped contracts to build its Fadhili gas “I think Fadhili underscores thermal unit) gas, where tech- duced by the plant will 4.3 percent. processing project, the company Saudi Aramco’s resolute focus on nically viable, as a substitute for be bought for 20 years. BUSINESS VIEWS 20 THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016

Gold is not all that Why automotive throne of the glisters - diamonds act as hedge for rich future may belong to Germany

By David Brough and Citigroup said the outlook for Atul Prakash gold remained uncertain partly Reuters due to concerns about a possible increase in US interest rates. In such a scenario, investors may look at a next-best alternative n a packed Christie’s auction such as diamonds. However, the room in Geneva, one could diamond investors’ club is shut hear a pin drop as two anon- to most ordinary savers due to ymous bidders slugged it out its complicated, insider nature — Iin their quest to own the world’s characterised by poor liquidity, most exquisite blue diamond. a lack of price transparency and The room in the Four Sea- high fees. While some are making sons Hotel des Bergues was filled efforts to create a liquid market, with multi-millionaire collectors the process has been slow. and diamond dealers, listening Entry level for Sciens Col- intently as the bidders, each oured Diamond Fund II, one of speaking by phone to a Christie’s the more established closed-end representative, took turns adding funds now shut to new investors, a few hundred thousand dollars is $1m. It invests in diamonds in in a tense struggle dragging on rare colours such as red. for more than half an hour. The fund, which manages When the auctioneer’s ham- around $50m, uses trading and mer came down, spontaneous buy-and-hold strategies for long- applause broke out as the winner, term appreciation. One of its who retained anonymity, bought strategies is to improve the value the 14.62-carat Oppenheimer of stones by finding a rare match- Blue for a world record $57.5m ing pair in the same colour, size for any jewel sold at auction. The and shape. They are eventually sale some weeks ago was the lat- sold to buyers such as jewellers est in a series of world record and collectors. prices per carat paid at auction Some funds also loan dia- for extraordinarily magnificent monds to jewellers who wish not and rare diamonds. to maintain a large inventory. If The interior view of the Mercedes Benz F 015 self-driving car parked in the Dam Square in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With new fortunes being cre- the jeweller decides to make a ated around the world faster than unique ring for a client, he can at any time in history, more of buy a diamond from the fund. By Brian Fung and Steven Overly and adds automation, clean fuels and tech- Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz, is this expanding elite of wealthy The Sciens fund, launched The Washington Post nology to the list. also producing home and car batteries, and investors are looking at different in 2014, rose in value by about 5 Much of this frenzy of activity is driven this spring announced plans to build a new ways of protecting cash that now percent in the second quarter of by rising competition in the United States $543 million battery factory. earns close to zero percent inter- 2016, said Philip Baldwin, man- and Japan, said Joe Lu, an analyst at Kelley German automakers “really weren’t est in bank accounts, while asset aging director of Sciens Diamond he day when intelligent, automated Blue Book. “The earlier you are to market doing enough in this sector, and now market turbulence can wipe out Management BV. He and Mahyar cars will ferry many of us around — the closer you are to [being] first — the they’re playing catch-up,” said Al Bedwell, millions in hours. Makhzani run the fund, based on is still a long way off. But even more you become highly associated with the director of global powertrain for LCM Some are eyeing rare dia- the Caribbean island of Curacao. partly automated vehicles, such that technology,” Lu said. Automotive, a market research firm. monds as a best friend, or “Colour diamonds are con- as Tesla’s Model S, have recently Companies that successfully claim that But no German manufacturer appears long-term haven at least. And sidered a safe haven,” he said. Traised questions about their safety and mantle may be be in a better position to to be doing more to reposition itself than it’s no longer just a top table of “Colour diamonds are a hedge reliability. And amid mounting scrutiny out-innovate others, particularly as gov- Volkswagen, whose scandal last year “super rich” billionaires who are against inflation, currency risk, over this technology, German officials are ernments clamp down on emissions and showing the company was cheating on gravitating to this arcane world. market fluctuations and politi- proposing that all new vehicles equipped shifts in energy technologies force man- US emissions tests appears to have jump- A second division of wealthy cal uncertainty.” with autopilot features come with a “black ufacturers to adapt to new circumstances. started a new phase in its electric vehicle is emerging. They can’t afford Solitaire Diamond Co, box” akin to the flight recorders found on Germany’s push enjoys support from efforts. VW announced plans last month the Oppenheimer Blue, perhaps, another diamond-backed fund airplanes. the highest ranks of government, including to debut more than 30 new electric vehi- but they can take a stake in rare now closed to new investors, is The box would gather key performance German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who in cles by 2025 and to expand its investment diamonds via specialist invest- backed by an assortment of white data on the moments before a crash so that April vowed to speed up the development in battery technology, digitalization and ment funds. diamonds of high-grade clarity investigators could determine what went of self-driving car technology by loosen- self-driving cars. That target does not offer These gem specialists are and cut weighing under 5 carats, wrong. Although some ing regulations and paving the way for VW “a whole heck of a lot of time,” Lu said. keen to play up rare diamonds as which are certified by interna- car makers and insur- public testing. That same month, Merkel’s Although analysts expect diesel and “safety” investments, or at least a tional laboratories such as the ers rely on driving data government established a new set of finan- gasoline cars to remain the lion’s share way to hedge against currency, Gemological Institute of America. to guide some decisions, cial incentives to give consumers thousands of sales for the foreseeable future, VW’s stock and bond market vola- Fred Sinclair-Brown, Soli- Germany could soon be of dollars in rebates for purchasing a fully strategy reflects the automaker’s bet that tility at a time of political and taire fund manager, said it made among the first to make electric car or plug-in hybrid. And some the industry’s future lies in emerging economic uncertainty. Britain’s a gross margin of 20 percent black boxes an official officials have gone further, calling for an technologies. shock vote last month to leave over the past 12 months, above requirement on auto- end to the sale of all fossil fuel-based cars “There’s been a clear shift of emphasis the European Union underlines expectations of 14 to 16 percent. mated vehicles. by 2030. in the messages they’re putting out after their point. “The big players are He said he was planning another That’s not the only Many German automakers, spurred the VW crisis. I think a lot of the electrifi- looking at diamonds in a different diamond fund for professional German officials are measure the country by pressure from rivals such as Tesla, GM cation was already in the pipeline before way,” said Ehud Laniado, chief investors, this time possibly proposing that all new has proposed in recent and Ford, are setting ambitious goals for what happened last October, but what we’re executive of Cora International, backed by coloured gems. months concerning themselves. hearing now is a lot more on that,” Bed- which sold the 12.03-carat Blue Prices of vivid and intense vehicles equipped the future of the auto BMW has promised to deliver a fully well said. Moon diamond for $48.4m at a colour diamonds have risen 10 with autopilot features business. In fact, ana- self-driving vehicle within the next five Volkswagen’s settlement with the US Sotheby’s Geneva sale in Novem- to 12 percent a year on average lysts say that Germany years, keeping pace with the many other government also calls for investing billions ber, a world record for any jewel since 1959, according to Baldwin. come with a “black is bent on leading the automakers working on similar technol- of dollars in what many analysts regard as sold at auction at the time. However, dealers said white dia- box” akin to the flight industry into its next ogy. The company recently announced that a key technology for the adoption of elec- “They are not looking at them mond prices had not gained as chapter — one that it will sell the same batteries from its elec- tric cars: the charging infrastructure that just as a jewel, but as an asset that quickly in recent years and were recorders found on takes the country’s dec- tric vehicle, the i3, as a standalone home will allow drivers to travel for as long and has a resale value.” largely flat in 2016. airplanes. ades-old reputation for battery pack in a nod to the Powerwall, a as far as their counterparts who drive gas top-notch engineering competing product from Tesla. Germany’s guzzlers. British slide into recession to force BoE’s next move

By Jonathan Cable forecast was hacked to just 0.6 percent from August’s meeting. that was wound down in 2012, most likely Reuters the 2.1 percent predicted in a pre-referen- “Having disappointed the markets once, also in August. The median suggested 80 bil- dum poll. the Committee may now have to work harder lion pounds would be added to the 375 billion The economy is expected to flatline this than otherwise to sustain the sanguine previously spent. quarter and contract 0.1 percent next. response to the Brexit vote. Another disap- Such moves would be negative for ster- ritain’s economy will slide back into The 2016 forecast was chopped to 1.4 pointment could be costly,” said Jonathan ling — the currency has already lost around recession in the coming year, forcing from 1.9 percent. On Tuesday, the Interna- Loynes at Capital Economics. 10 percent against the dollar in the weeks the Bank of England next month to tional Monetary Fund cuts its 2016 and 2017 British finance minister Philip Ham- since the referendum, as predicted by a Reu- cut interest rates and start purchas- forecasts to 1.7 and 1.3 percent respectively, mond, only a week in the job, said on Tuesday ters poll before the vote — and will stoke Bing bonds again to support growth, according citing uncertainty over Britain’s looming the Bank would take the first steps to help inflation. to economists. exit from the EU. Pessimism among British steer the economy through its Brexit shock, For the first time in several years, infla- Britain’s June 23 vote to quit the Euro- households about their financial prospects and possible budget measures would not tion is likely to rise above the 2.0 percent pean Union sent shockwaves through global hit a two-and-a-half-year high after last come until later this year. target within the forecast horizon. financial markets and economists participat- month’s vote, a Markit index showed, while Bank Rate was cut to an historic low of At just 0.5 percent in June inflation will In several polls taken ing in the Reuters poll taken in the past week a Deloitte survey of CFOs at the biggest com- 0.5 percent over seven years ago and all but hit target early next year and then rise to 2.3 before the vote, slashed growth forecasts across the board. panies showed they are beset by doubts a handful of economists polled said the Mon- percent the quarter after, largely a result of economists were united In several polls taken before the vote, about the future and have slashed invest- etary Policy Committee would chop another imported inflation on account of the fall in economists were united in saying Brexit ment plans. 25 basis points when it meets on August 4 in sterling since the Brexit vote. in saying Brexit would would hurt the economy and in yesterday’s So to stimulate the economy and boost an effort to bolster the economy. But that is unlikely to trigger talk of rate hurt the economy and poll they gave a median 60 percent likeli- confidence, the BoE needs to act “promptly Some expected it to be cut to zero while rises. hood of a recession in the coming year. as well as muscularly”, Andy Haldane, its a few said the Bank would hold steady. Bank “The MPC will choose to look through in yesterday’s poll they “There is a good chance that we will chief economist said a day after the central Rate will then sit at 0.25 percent until at least the overshoot in CPI from the UK’s decision gave a median 60 percent see two consecutive quarters of negative bank upset markets by not cutting rates at the end of 2018 whereas the June 8 poll pre- to leave the EU. It will instead lean against growth,” said Peter Dixon at Commerz- its last meeting on July 15. diction was for it to have reached 1.5 percent elevated uncertainty and financial market likelihood of a recession bank. “That said, any recession is likely to Only one policymaker, Gertjan Vlieghe, by then. volatility with further monetary policy eas- in the coming year. be very shallow.” voted to cut rates this month, but most others A firm majority also said the MPC would ing,” Barclays economists wrote in a note In the latest survey, the 2017 growth said looser policy was likely to be needed at revive the quantitative easing programme to clients. THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 21

Hamilton poised to seize championship lead at Hungarian GP

Former world number Reuters one Tiger Woods of the TEAM-MATES VIE FOR USA in action. Woods, FORMULA 1 SUPREMACY who is recovering from multiple back surgeries BUDAPEST: Lewis Hamilton heads that have kept him out into Sunday’s Hungarian Grand the Hamilton versus Rosberg bat- of action for nearly a Prix fired up to complete a hat-trick tle, resurgent Red Bull could steal year, hinted earlier this of victories and seize the lead in the the show. year that he might not Formula One title race for the first Despite winning 41 of the 48 play in 2016 but it was time this season. races since the start of the V6 turbo- finally made official on The triple world champion hybrid era in 2014, Mercedes have Tuesday. trails Mercedes team-mate Nico yet to win in Hungary with the new Rosberg by just one point after a engine. sensational fourth win of the sea- Australian Daniel Ricciardo won son two weeks ago in his home for Red Bull in 2014 while Sebastian British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Vettel was triumphant for Ferrari Hamilton, who also won the last year. race before that in Austria, surfed With Ferrari’s challenge fading the Silverstone crowd in jubila- over the last few rounds, Red Bull tion and will be hoping the wave see a real chance to add a second of momentum building up behind win to Max Verstappen’s Spanish his title defence carries him back Grand Prix triumph. Injured Woods out for to the top. “We’re actually in the race with “Ever since the low of Barce- Mercedes now at certain circuits lona I’ve been able to cultivate this which is great to see,” said team really strong mental attitude and principal Christian Horner. I’m really feeling that fire inside “We’ve got some of the more me right now,” said Hamilton, who powerful circuits out of the way trailed Rosberg by 43 points after ... and the circuits coming up will rest of the season the pair collided and crashed out hopefully play to some of our on the first lap in May’s Spanish strengths.” Grand Prix. Hungary also offers misfiring told Golf Channel. “Will golf simulator, seemingly TIGER WOODS’ PROFESSIONAL GOLFING CAREER “I’m feeling fresh, feeling pow- McLaren the chance of a strong Superstar golfer not play in the ‘15/’16 sea- without discomfort. erful and feeling confident heading result at a circuit that has been good son and will continue to A week later the to Hungary. It’s a track that for to them in the past. is about to miss rehab and work hard to 14-times major champion 1997 - Woods, 21, wins the first of 14 career major titles with a 12-stroke victory over some reason has always suited my Jenson Button and Fernando all four majors then assess when he starts said he was feeling “a lot runner-up Tom Kite at the Masters, making him both the youngest and first black profes- style and I have incredible support Alonso both scored their maiden play for the ‘16/’17 season.” better” and still had inten- sional golfer to triumph at Augusta National. Two months later, he was ranked number there.” wins in Hungary, albeit with differ- in a calendar Steinberg did not tions of playing golf “at the one in the world for the first time in his career. Hamilton has won four times ent teams, while McLaren last year year for first immediately respond to an highest level.” at the 4.3-km long Hungaroring scored their best result of a difficult time in his career email request from Reu- In mid-May, Woods 2000 - Completes a career grand slam by the age of 24 with wins at the U.S. Open, Brit- circuit, outside Budapest, includ- first season with engine partners ters seeking confirmation said he was “progressing ish Open and PGA Championship, making him the youngest player ever to win all four ing his first victory for Mercedes Honda. of the report. nicely” but then hit three major golf titles and just the second to win three majors in a year. in 2013. “I’m keen to see how we perform No one, not even balls into the water on a AnotherAnother win forfor thethe 31-year-31-year- there,”there,” saisaidd Button. Woods, can possibly short par-three hole during 2001 - Won the second of his four Masters titles, to become the first person to hold all ooldld at thethe halfwayhalfway stage ofof thethe Reuters know how the former an exhibition to promote a four of professional golf’s major championships simultaneously - the so-called ‘Tiger Slam.’ championshipchampionship wouldwould bebe more world number one will tournament he hosts. thanthan any ddriverriver hhasas managedmanaged Last month, Woods inin HunHungary.gary. HamiHamiltonlton andand fare when he makes his 2008 - Won his 14th and most recent major at the U.S. Open by beating Rocco Mediate PGA Tour return after an indicated that he might seven-timesseven-times wworldorld ccham-ham- on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff at Torrey Pines following an 18-hole playoff, SPRINGFIELD: Tiger absence that dates back to not return to competition pionpion MicMichaelhael ScSchumacherhumacher despite playing with damaged knee cartilage and two stress fractures of the leg. Woods has shut it down the Wyndham Champion- this year, saying he needed currentlycurrently hold the record. for the rest of the profes- ship in August 2015, where to be patient during his Rosberg,Rosberg, wwhoho ddroppedropped sional golf season, bringing he tied for 10th. recovery. 2009 - Weeks after being involved in a bizarre car accident outside his home that bal- fromfrom second into question his playing Woods, famously, used A winner of 79 PGA looned into a sex scandal, Woods says in December that he is taking an indefinite break to tthirdhird in SiSil-l- future as the best golfer to say he would never tee Tour titles, Woods was from professional golf after admitting he cheated on his wife. verstone aafterfter of his generation will be it up in a golf tournament world number one a record a post-race penaltypenalty away from the sport for unless he thought he was total of 683 weeks but his 2010 - Makes his return to professional golf with a fourth place finish at the Masters in forfor breachingbreaching radio over a year when, and if, capable of winning and he form has slipped dramati- April. In October, after a run of 281 weeks, Woods is unseated from the world number rules,rules, wiwillll bbee ddeter-eter- he returns. is clearly being cautious cally in recent years due to ranking by Lee Westwood, ending his record for most consecutive weeks at that position. minedmined to ddenyeny himhim Woods, who is recov- about rushing his return injuries and the mastering thatthat hhonour.onour. ering from multiple back to a game that has since of a new swing, while his 2013 - Captures his most recent PGA Tour victory with a triumph at the World Golf “The“The battle is on surgeries that have kept seen a handful of young ranking has plummeted Championships-Bridgestone Invitational in August, giving him 79 career wins, three short withwith Lewis anandd I’m feel-feel- him out of action for nearly stars crowd the top of the to a mind-boggling 628th. of the all-time mark held by Sam Snead. inging ggreatreat in mmyselfyself and a year, hinted earlier this world rankings. “It’s been a long road,” great in thethe car,” saidsaid year that he might not play Woods, who made 11 Woods said in April after 2014 - A week before the Masters in April, Woods announced he would require back Rosberg,Rosberg, winner ooff ffiveive in 2016 but it was finally starts on the PGA Tour last playing his first stretch of surgery, forcing him to miss the year’s opening major for the first time since 1994. races tthishis year includingincluding made official on Tuesday. season and just seven the holes since last August, at thethe ffirstirst ffour.our. The PGA Champi- season before, had his first a golf course opening in WhileWhile tthehe spspotlightotlight is 2014 - After 60 consecutive weeks, Woods is knocked from the world number one rank- onship announced that back surgery in early 2014. Montgomery, Texas. Woods had withdrawn A second microdisectomy “To actually be able to ing in May, marking the last time he occupied that top spot. from the July 28-31 event was performed last Sep- play soccer with my kids at Baltusrol, marking the tember with a follow-up again, to do something 2015 - Posts the worst score of his professional career in June after carding a mind- first time he will miss all procedure six weeks later. like this, to be able to live boggling 13-over-par 85 in the third round of the Memorial tournament in Ohio. four majors in a calendar In late February, in life, that’s what’s been year, while his agent told an effort to shoot down nice. Five months ago I 2015 - After appearing to be injury-free for most of the year, Woods had a second Golf Channel that his cli- reports that suggested he couldn’t.” microdisectomy performed in September with a follow-up procedure six weeks later. ent is done for the season. endured setbacks during The 40-year-old “Continuing to make his rehabilitation proc- Woods has not won a tour- 2016 - After not competing at the Masters, US Open and British Open, Woods pulls out progress, but simply not ess, Woods posted a video nament since 2013 and last of the July 28-31 PGA Championsip, marking the first time in his career that he will miss ready for PGA,” Woods’s of himself swinging a golf won a major at the 2008 the season’s four majors. Lewis Hamilton agent, Mark Steinberg, club in front of an indoor US Open. trainedtrained ono

The ‘Manx Missile’, Britain’s Mark Cavendish celebrates as he crosses the finish line at the end Cavendish pulls out of Tour de France of the 14th stage of the Tour de France on Sunday. to focus on Rio Olympics

Reuters Games in Rio,” it said. his success in this year’s race partly effect on my other big goal for the Cavendish claimed his 30th to his track preparation for the year, the Olympic Games,” he added. Tour de France stage victory and Olympics. As well as enjoying four stage fourth in this year’s race in Satur- “After an extremely enjoya- wins, Cavendish also wore the over- PARIS: Britain’s Mark Cavendish has day’s 14th stage but he will not now ble and successful couple of weeks all leader’s yellow jersey for the first pulled out of the Tour de France to be starting stage 17 yesterday. The at The Tour de France with Team time and carried the green jersey for manage his workload ahead of the ‘Manx Missile’, who has been back Dimension Data, it is with great sad- the points classification into the first Rio Olympics, his Dimension Data in the limelight after three below- ness that I took the decision today rest day in Andorra. team said in a statement on Tuesday. par Tours, enjoyed wins on stages to leave the race,” Cavendish said “Mark is really sad to leave the “After analysing his workload 1, 3, 6 and 14 and is now four shy in the South African-based team’s tour, we are committed to support from the previous stages and his of the record held by Belgian great statement. him in his dream goal of receiving a current levels of fatigue, the team Eddy Merckx. “After the heat and intensity of medal for Britain at the Rio Olympic has supported Mark leaving the Tour The 31-year-old Cavendish, who the previous stages, we analysed my Games,” said team principal Doug- to give him the best opportunity to had not won more than three stages fatigue levels and decided I’m at a las Ryder. recover and prepare for the Olympic on the Tour since 2011, attributed point that would have a detrimental The Olympics starts on August 5. 22 THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 SPORT

Al Rayyan to play in Spain’s Festa Pressure part of job d’Elx Trophy at United: Rooney The Peninsula DOHA: Qatar Stars League (QSL) champions Al Rayyan have con- “You always feel you have to it’s been a pleasure and a privilege firmed that they will take part in Striker admits his prove yourself every season, because to play for them for so long. the Festa d’Elx summer competi- it’s a dream to play for them,” the “The appointment of Jose Mour- tion against Spanish segunda side place in the side England skipper said after his first inho is a big appointment for us and Elche on August 12. is under pressure training session under new manager we’re all excited by it. “We’ve made The match will form a part following arrival of Jose Mourinho. some fantastic signings, too. Hopefully, of Al Rayyan’s preseason train- The former Chelsea manager has we can have a good start to the sea- ing camp, which will be based in new star names already begun rebuilding at United, son and be successful by the end of it.” Murcia, Spain. having signed defender Eric Bailly, Rooney, who has only just begun This will be the first time midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan and pre-season training following his a team from Asia has been striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic. involvement with England at Euro invited to compete in the Reuters And 30-year-old Rooney 2016, is counting on Mourinho main- annual summer match, which acknowledges that puts extra pres- taining his track record of leading has previously seen the likes sure on him. clubs to immediate success. of Real Madrid, Barcelona, “I think you always feel pres- Since the retirement in 2013 of Atletico Madrid and Benfica LONDON: Manchester United cap- sure when you play for Manchester Sir Alex Ferguson, who led the club Manchester United taking part in the match. tain Wayne Rooney admits his place United,” he said after arriving in to more than 30 trophies during his captain Wayne Rooney Al Rayyan are set to train in the side is under pressure follow- Shanghai on Wednesday with United 26-year spell, United have managed in this file picture of in Spain till August 20, before ing the arrival of new star names, for their pre-season China tour. to add just one to their haul -- the FA February 17, 2016. returning to Doha to focus on the but says it goes with the territory at “It’s one of the biggest -- if not Cup last season -- and in the proc- defense of their QSL title, which Old Trafford. the biggest -- clubs in the world and ess sacked two managers. they picked up last season. Pogba set for £100m Lewandowski staying at United return: Reports Bayern Munich: Ancelotti AFP

AFP Cristiano Ronaldo, Real don’t even dello Sport” mark the players.” LONDON: Juventus’ French midfield need Lewandowski,” Ancelotti told Bayern brought in Ancelotti, star Paul Pogba (pictured) looks set German sports daily Sportbild. whose continental pedigree is sec- Sheikh Salman bin Faisal Al to be the subject of a £100m bid by “And even if they did, Bayern ond to none, in the hope of sealing his former club, English Premier MUNICH, GERMANY: New Bay- would not sell Lewandowski. Why a sixth European Cup triumph, after Thani League giants Manchester United, ern Munich coach Carlo Ancelotti should we let go one of the best strik- three successive semi-final defeats British media reported yesterday. insisted yesterday that he would ers in the world voluntarily?” under Guardiola. The 23-year-old will cost United not allow key striker Robert Bayern face Real Madrid in Ancelotti is not known as a Sheikh Salman dear as he left them for Juventus Lewandowski to leave the German a friendly in the United States particularly hard taskmaster, and for nothing in July 2012 after mak- champions for Real Madrid. on August 4. The 57-year-old although he does not want players appointed head of ing just a handful of appearances Italian Ancelotti, who led Real to Ancelotti, who has won three Cham- turning up late for training, he’ll prompting then manager Alex Fer- their 10th European crown in 2014, pions League titles as a coach, also leave it down to captain Philipp guson to slam him for showing no took over at the Allianz Arena from revealed some of his training- Lahm to dish out the punishment. football at Al Ahli respect to the club. Pep Guardiola, who left for Manches- ground methods. He gives his players “If a player is late, the captain Pogba was an integral part of ter City, at the end of the past season. marks out of 10 after each training must tell him that he must pay a fine the France side that reached the Media reports in the last month session, but keeps them secret. in cash to the team,” he said. The Peninsula Euro 2016 final although his per- have speculated that Lewandowski, “I set certain expectations of my “It’s me who sets the rules, formance in the 1-0 loss to Portugal who has been the Bundesliga’s top players,” he added. but the players who control them received a panning. scorer in two of the last three sea- “After every game I note things between them. That’s what I usu- DOHA: Qatar Stars League (QSL) However, the present United sons, was close to moving to the down. This is my personal rating, ally do and that’s what I also want side Al Ahli has announced a host regime are prepared to let bygones Spanish capital, but Ancelotti is con- in which no feedback is given out, to bring to Bayern.” of management positions for the be bygones and throw money at fident of keeping the Pole in Bavaria. including for the players. Ancelotti’s first competitive side ahead of the new QSL season. Pogba, who has played a crucial role “Real Madrid have many fan- “They get scores on a scale of 10, match in charge will be against rivals In a statement on the club’s for Juventus in their dominance of executive vice-chairman Ed Wood- tastic players, including (Karim) very good, to 1, very bad. Like how Borussia Dortmund in the German official website, they have con- the domestic scene in the past few ward has remained in England to try Benzema, (Gareth) Bale and the journalists in Italy, in “La Gazetta Super Cup on August 14. firmed that Sheikh Salman bin seasons. and seal the deal rather than trav- Faisal Al Thani will be the head His arrival would complete new elling to China for the club’s China of football for the forthcoming manager Jose Mourinho’s spending pre-season friendly tournament QSL season. for the upcoming season. with city rivals Manchester City It was also announced that The usually well-informed and German heavyweights Borus- Jassim Fakro will be the dep- Daily Mail suggests that United will sia Dortmund. uty head of football for the club, lodge a bid yesterday and that sen- For some the omens are good whilst Fahad Ali will be the first ior players are confident Pogba will as it was on this date in 2012 Fer- team manager and Hamza Yusef be returning to the club, whilst The guson persuaded the United board will be the team manager for the Daily Mirror says United are closing to part with £24m to lure Dutch second team. in on the playmaker terming him star and Arsenal captain Robin van Al Ahli are continuing their the ‘£100million pound man’. Persie away from their rivals -- he preparations for the new QSL The Daily Star have a slightly went on to more than reward the season under new head coach different take in claiming United United faithful with 30 goals that Luca Bonačić, and has lined up have already had an £85m open- season as the Red Devils stormed a friendly against Saudi side ing gambit rejected and that United’s to the title. Al Taawoun as they ramp up preparations for the new QSL season. Weiss, Nemeth head to Al Spanish boss Gharafa training camp Villar to run for UEFA top job The Peninsula Euro 2016 in France, had been given an extended rest by club. In the first session of the train- AFP Uruguayan midfielder Matías Mier, who has joined newly promoted Qatar Stars League side Muaither, ing camp, the squad focused on DOHA: Qatar Stars League (QSL) physical fitness under the watch- poses with officials of the club. side Al Gharafa’s Euro 2016 stars ful eye of head coach Pedro Caixina MADRID: Spain’s football associ- Vladimir Weiss and Kristian and his staff. ation said on Tuesday that its boss Nemeth have joined up with their Gharafa will head back to Newly promoted Muaither get ready for Angel Maria Villar would seek to team mates on the first day of Al Doha on August 7, where the replace the banned Michel Platini Gharafa’s preseason training camp Cheetahs will ramp up their prep- as the president of UEFA, the third in Portugal. arations further ahead of the new QSL season with summer signings official candidate for the top job. The pair, who represented Slo- QSL season, which is set to start on “Angel Maria Villar has made vakia and Hungary respectively at September 15. official his candidacy for the next The Peninsula deal from Joinville. Whilst in other welcomed new signing Luis elections for the UEFA presi- news, Muaither confirmed that they Jiménez who officially trained dency,” the Royal Spanish Football have renewed the contract of Jorda- with the squad for the first time. Association said in a brief state- nian striker Mahmoud Za’tara, who One noticeable absence for the side ment of the vote that takes place DOHA: Newly promoted Qatar Stars was influential in helping the falcons was Iranian international Ashkan in September. League (QSL) side Muaither wel- get promoted to the QSL for the sec- Dejagah, who is set to return to Villar is the third person to comed two new professional players ond time in their history. Doha in the upcoming days. announce their candidacy after to their squad, ahead of the start of The club is set to head to Bosnia Meanwhile, reported new Slovenian football association their preseason training. for their preseason training camp loan signing Wagner Ribero boss Aleksander Ceferin and The club had already announced from August 1 to 20. from El Jaish is also set to join Dutch football chief Michael Van the signing of Uruguayan midfielder Meanwhile, QSL side Al Arabi’s up with his new team-mates in Praag. Matías Mier, and the former Atletico new head coach Gerardo Pelusso led the next week. Platini announced his resig- Renistas midfielder was welcomed to his side in training for the first time Al Arabi is now set to train in nation on May 9. the club by Muaither officials. Whilst on Monday evening, as the Dream Doha till July 30, before heading The election for the coveted the club also announced the signing Team continue their preparations to their preseason training camp post takes place in Athens on Sep- for Brazilian defender Bruno Aguiar ahead of the new QSL season. in Nuremberg, Germany till August tember 14. who joined the side on a one year Pelusso and his staff also 26 . SPORT THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 23

Shah is best leg spinner Dhoni tips spinners to since Warne, says Stokes shine in the Caribbean

AFP since injuring his knee in the first Test AFP against Sri Lanka in May. He returned to action as a batsman only with Durham before, after being MANCHESTER: England all-rounder deemed not fully fit for the Pakistan NEW DELHI: Mahendra Singh Ben Stokes hailed Pakistan’s Yasir opener, bowling for his county against Dhoni (pictured) yesterday said Shah yesterday as the best leg spin- Lancashire last week. spinners would play a key role in ner since Australia great Shane Warne. Having not shown any adverse India’s upcoming four-match Test Shah bowled Pakistan to a 75-run effects following his bowling stint, the series in the West Indies, despite the win over England in the first Test 25-year-old Stokes is eager to resume Caribbean’s reputation as a pace- at Lord’s last week with a brilliant his England career. man’s paradise. match-haul of 10 for 141. “It’s the first game where I have Although Dhoni remains India’s His return left Shah atop the Inter- played doing both parts of my game,” limited overs skipper, the Test side national Cricket Council (ICC) Test he explained. will be led in the West Indies by Kumar are also likely to play a key bowler rankings and was all the more “I have been playing as a batsman star batsman Virat Kohli, who will role. impressive as the pitch at Lord’s did for two weeks, it is something I defi- be able to call on the services of “Good thing about Indian bowl- not offer excessive turn. nitely did need, to get myself back into two of the world’s leading spinners ing right now is that they have That left Shah with 86 wickets in match situations. – Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravin- a good pool of eight to 10 quick a mere 13 Tests at an average of 23, “I have been bowling in the nets dra Jadeja. bowlers who were all pushing for compared to Warne’s mammoth 708 but you can’t replicate doing that, Speaking to reporters in New selection for the West Indies tour in 145 Tests at just over 25 apiece in a the only thing you can do is bowl in Delhi on the eve of the first Test in squad. career that ended in 2007. a game. So it was good on that point Antigua, Dhoni said that the same “So that gives management the Conditions could favour Shah far and it was a massive confidence boost. pitches where fast bowlers such as liberty of picking the best bowlers more at Old Trafford, where the sec- “It seems a lot longer than it has Curtly Ambrose and Michael Hold- and whatever is needed in that sce- ond Test starts on Friday. been. I thought I was going to be back ing once wreaked havoc were now nario,” said the 35-year-old Dhoni. Stokes, who will hope to make his earlier than I was, purely because of much conducive to slow bowling. Indian batting stars like Kohli, return to Test cricket at the Manches- how good the rehab was in the first “What we have seen over the Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma ter ground after a knee injury, was in few weeks. I am here now and I’m years is that the West Indian wickets and Murali Vijay have also shown no doubt of Shah’s quality. back fully fit.” have slowed down... which means glimpses of what they are capable “Yasir Shah, I reckon, is the best England are 1-0 down in the four- the spinners will have a major role of in the two practice games – with leg-spinner since Shane Warne,” match series and Stokes is in line for a in the series,” Dhoni told reporters. Dhoni certainly impressed. Stokes told an Old Trafford press con- recall to bolster the home side’s bat- Although the likes of Ashwin “And not to forget the Indian ference broadcast on Sky Sports. ting as much as for his lively pace have thrived in recent Test cricket, line-up. They have a set of six bat- “They are a very good team but we bowling. India has struggled to produce a top ters who have played Test cricket go into the Test match knowing how “Losing is something that we can’t fast bowler for some years. Their for quite some time now,” said the he goes about bowling and we should afford to do but we have been playing current attack spearhead Moham- wicketkeeper-batsman. be able to counteract that,” the Dur- some good Test cricket over the last med Shami is only just returning “If you see the middle part of ham all-rounder added. two years,” he said. after a lengthy injury lay-off. the batting it looks very good and “(The conditions are) another thing “It’s one defeat, we are not tak- But Dhoni insisted that India had they have good experience of play- Pakistan spinner Yasir Shah has been dubbed as the best leg-spinner we will have to try and adapt to and ing it to heart, we’re just treating it as a fine pool of talent to call on in the ing outside India, so I think it will be we’ll just see how it goes.” a three-match series and hoping we since great Australian leg spinner Shane Warne by England all- Caribbean, where Ishant Sharma, a very good series for the Indian set Stokes has not played for England can win it.” rounder Ben Stokes. Umesh Yadav and Bhuvneshwar up,” he added. India start as favourites in Windies

TEAMS Kohli’s side eyes West Indies - Jason Holder whitewash as two India’s captain Virat Kohli (centre) celebrates (captain), Kraigg Brathwaite, with Lokesh Rahul (bottom) after taking teams square off Leon Johnson, Darren Bravo, the catch to dismiss Sri Lanka’s Dinesh Marlon Samuels, Shane Dowrich today for first Test in Chandimal (not pictured) during the fourth (wicketkeeper), Jermaine four-match series day of their third and final Test in Colombo, Blackwood, Carlos Brathwaite, in this September 2015 file photo. Devendra Bishoo, Miguel Cummins, Shannon Gabriel. AFP India - Virat Kohli (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane,

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA: West Wriddhiman Saha (wicketkeeper), Indies and India commence a four- Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Test series at the Sir Vivian Richards Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Bhuvneshwar Stadium in Antigua today with the Kumar, Ishant Sharma. visitors heavily favoured to extend a 14-year unbeaten run against the Fast-medium bowler Miguel hosts. Cummins is tipped for a Test debut Such is the gap in performance having replaced the retired Jer- between the two teams that any- ome Taylor while skipper Jason thing less than a 3-0 triumph by the Holder and fellow all-rounder Car- Indians will see them lose rating los Brathwaite are likely to be called points in their quest to close the gap upon to produce long, tight spells of on Australia at the top of the official medium pace. international Test rankings. India appear to be contemplating Despite an outstanding 2016 for omitting the seasoned Rohit Sharma the West Indies in shorter forms of from their middle-order and still the game, which has seen success at seem undecided over the pace-spin the Under-19 World Cup in Bangla- balance of their bowling attack on a desh, triumph for both the men’s and pitch that traditionally gets slower women’s teams at the World T20 in and lower over five days. India and an encouraging effort in Spinners Ravichandran Ashwin reaching the final of the Tri-Nation and Ravindra Jadeja are likely to One-Day International Series on be relied upon in Antigua, but India home soil last month, they continue possess a third spin option in Amit to struggle in the traditional Test Mishra. arena. highlighting the chronic inconsist- the bold step of dropping experienced veteran batsman Marlon Samuels, West Indies’ biggest concern, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav They lost 2-0 in both their last ency of the Caribbean side which has wicketkeeper-batsman Denesh Ram- but he is badly in need of a run of though, is in the bowling department and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are vying two series in Sri Lanka and Australia left them languishing eighth in the din for Shane Dowrich, who made scores. Functional but unattractive where the two main wicket-takers, to take the new ball, while the visi- at the end of 2015. world Test rankings with only Bang- his Test debut as a specialist bats- opener Kraigg Brathwaite will be pacer Shannon Gabriel and leg-spin- tors’ attacking strokemakers, led by Periods of competitiveness ladesh and Zimbabwe below them. man against Australia in Dominica entrusted with the tough task of pro- ner Devendra Bishoo, have been captain Virat Kohli, will be expected were too fleeting in those matches, West Indies selectors have taken a year ago. They have stuck with viding solidity at the top of the order. injury-prone over the past 12 months. to turn the screws with the bat. Collins named for sixth Olympics at 40

AFP joint statement yesterday confirming and I will now continue to put our “I personally welcome this new the agreement “following closure on full focus on ensuring that I am in the development and am pleased that the long-standing issues between the best shape for the Rio 2016 Olympic Mr. Collins is now willing to compete two parties.” Games.” for his country,” said St. Kitts and WASHINGTON: Former 100m world In 2012 at London, Collins was The issues regarding the contin- Nevis Olympic Committe president champion Kim Collins has been pulled from the Olympic team for gent were discussed last Saturday in Alphonso Bridgewater. named to his sixth Olympics at the age missing training sessions while the a telephone call between Collins, his Collins ran in his first Olympics in of 40 after settling issues with the St sprinter said he was being punished wife and coach Paula and St. Kitts and 1996 at Atlanta, reaching the second Kitts and Nevis Olympic Committee. for spending time with his wife. Nevis Olympic officials. round in the 100. He made the final in “So my friends, it’s now officially “I am extremely happy that our Collins said he wanted to run 2000 at Sydney, the first athlete from been confirmed! I’m going to Rio2016,” longstanding issues have finally been in Rio again for his homeland and his nation to reach an Olympic final, Collins tweeted. put to rest and I will once again have “removed from the table any other and placed seventh. Collins, who won the 2003 world the honor of representing my coun- claims and/or applications of repre- He was sixth at the 2004 Athens Kim Collins (left) of Saint Kitts is seen during one of the heats at the 100m crown at Paris, and his home- try,” Collins said. sentation at the Rio Olympic Games,” and 2008 Beijing Games before not Daegu 2011 Athletics World Championships in this file photo. land’s Olympic officials released a “With this behind us, my coach the statement said. being able to run in London. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 22 PAGE | 23 PPressurere part of Shah is best leg jjob at United, spinner since says Rooney Warne, says Stokes

THURSDAY 21 JULY 2016 • 16 SHAWWAL 1437 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar

Bouchard Australia face undecided ‘Bengal Tiger’ Siddikur England first on Rio over in 2017 Zika fears eyes Olympic glory World Cup

Reuters By finishing in the top 60 AFP Bangladeshi First Bangladeshi to Olympic ranking list at last week’s cut-off point, the 31-year-old golfer Siddikur WASHINGTON: Canadian tennis qualify automatically Siddikur became the first Bangla- Rahman SYDNEY: Australia will open the defence player Eugenie Bouchard is unde- for Games, the deshi to qualify automatically for of their rugby league crown in a testing cided about her participation in the world’s biggest sporting event. clash against England while New Zea- next month’s Rio Olympics over 31-year-old has Bangladesh is the most pop- land face Samoa after the draw was concerns about the Zika virus, the fuelled his hopes ulous country never to have won made on Tuesday for the 2017 World Cup. 22-year-old said. an Olympic medal and all previ- The powerhouses of the game will The world number 40 shared of winning an ous entrants have had to rely on meet in Melbourne on October 27 in her fears after her shock defeat unlikely medal wildcards provided by the Inter- Pool A, which also features France and by Camila Giorgi of Italy in the national Olympic Committee and Lebanon. opening round of the women’s other international sports bodies. The Kiwis, who Australia smashed singles in the Washington Open In a country where cricket is 34-2 in the 2013 final at Manchester’s on Tuesday. AFP king, the dearth of local partici- Old Trafford, begin their campaign The Zika virus has been linked pants means the Olympics have in Auckland a day later in Pool B that to severe birth defects in infants traditionally struggled to attract includes Scotland and Tonga. born to infected women, and pos- much interest. Coverage on the Australia, New Zealand and Papua sible neurological problems in DHAKA: During a childhood television and in newspapers is New Guinea, where rugby league is the adults. spent retrieving stray balls on extremely limited. national sport, co-host the tournament “I’m kind of a last-minute a golf course near his slum in Siddikur’s history-making is that culminates with the final in Bris- person, so I’m going to make a Dhaka, Siddikur Rahman never even more noteworthy given his bane on December 2. decision next week, I guess, the even got to hear about the Olym- humble origins as the son of an “Rugby league is truly a game for week before (the Olympics),” Bou- pics, let alone dream of competing autorickshaw driver who was everyone. We hope the Rugby League chard told reporters. in them. brought up in one of the Bang- The club allowed its ball-boys compete in Rio where golf is mak- World Cup 2017 leaves a legacy for the “It’s just unfortunate because “When I was starting out, ladeshi capital’s teeming slum to play the game on every Monday ing a comeback as an Olympics game that sees it continue to grow and it would be my first Games, and the Olympics was just not some- neighbourhoods. and Siddikur used the opportunity sport after 112 years. But for a player dominate the sporting landscape,” to have a problem like this (Zika) thing that I knew anything about,” When he was 10, he landed to showcase his talent. such as Siddikur, whose chances said the tournament’s chief executive kind of dampening the excitement recalls the man who will be a job ferreting out balls that had His early years as a profes- of winning a major are remote, the Michael Brown. of, potentially, your first Olym- Bangladesh’s flag-bearer at next landed in the rough at Dhaka’s sional were indeed spent in India tournament represents a chance Games will be hosted in more than pic Games, it really sucks, to be month’s opening ceremony in Rio prestigious Kurmitola Golf Club and he joined the Asian Tour in of glory on a global stage that he a dozen locations to give as many honest.” de Janiero. (KGC). As well as helping put food 2009. He has since finished in the wouldn’t miss for the world. fans as possible a chance to see some Compatriot Milos Raonic, who “It’s only really because of my on the family table, the job kin- top 10 of the tour’s Order Of Merit He effectively secured his berth live action, including Canberra, Dar- lost to Andy Murray in Wimble- caddie, who is from Malaysia, that I dled a love of the sport that has on three occasions. for Olympics by finishing runner-up win, Christchurch, Auckland and Port don final earlier this month, came to appreciate quite how pres- since brought him two titles on Many golfers - including the at a tournament in Mauritius ear- Moresby. had pulled out from the Games tigious an event it. He told me how the Asian Tour and earned him world’s top four Jason Day, Dus- lier this year, a result that he says “Over the course of the pool stages because of health fears over the I would make history if I qualified, the nickname as the ‘Tiger Woods tin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and has fuelled his hopes of winning an we have looked to position matches in Zika virus. so then I got serious about it.” of Bengal’. Rory McIlroy - have decided not to admittedly unlikely medal in Rio. strong rugby league communities and where large populations of expats, Pacific and indigenous fans live,” said Brown. “The decision to take matches to places like Darwin, Perth, Christchurch IOC to decide on Nadal confident despite and Port Moresby were made with the future of the game in mind. They are matches we believe will give profile to Russia Rio ban the sport in markets that have already lack of match practice shown an appetite for rugby league.” Pool C features Papua New Guinea and two others coming from a Euro- ‘within a week’ pean qualifying tournament later this Reuters The 30-year-old has been named as his year, with Wales, Ireland, Russia, Ser- country’s flagbearer in the opening ceremony bia, Italy and Spain in contention. and will be one of four Spaniards competing Fiji, the United States and a third AFP in the men’s singles. He will also play in the European nation fill out Pool D. MANACOR: Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal men’s doubles with Marc Lopez. (pictured) is optimisticc he will be ready forfor the Rio Olympics despitepite headingheading into nenextxt 2017 RUGBY LEAGUE GENEVA: The International Olympic month’s Games havingg not playedplayed a com-com- WORLD CUP FIXTURES: Committee said Wednesday it would petitive match since Mayay 27 duedue to a llefteft decide “within seven days” on whether wrist injury. October 27: Australia vs England (Melbourne) to ban Russia from the Rio Games over The 14-time grandd sslamlam cchampionhampion October 28: PNG vs Euro Q1 (Port Moresby); New rampant state-run doping. has been sidelined sincee injuring a ten- Zealand vs Samoa (Auckland); Fiji vs USA (Towns- “We expect (to have) a decision don that forced him to pullpull out ofof thethe within seven days on the participa- French Open after the secondsecond roundround ville) tion of Russian competitors in Rio,” and miss Wimbledon. October 29: Scotland v sTonga (Cairns); Euro Q2 vs IOC media relations chief Emmanuelle World number fourur NadalNadal was Euro Q3 (Cairns); France vs Lebanon (Canberra) Moreau said. expected to return to aactionction at tthehe November 3: Australia vs France (Canberra) The Games in Rio de Janeiro open Toronto Masters next weeweekk beforebefore November 4: New Zealand vs Scotland (Christch- on August 5. travelling to Brazil but hhee wiwillll aalsolso sit urch); Samoa vs Tonga (Hamilton); England v The IOC has faced growing calls to out that tournament too continue hishis hit Russia with an outright ban after preparations. sLebanon (Sydney) a report commissioned by the World “I hope each dayy to go November 5: PNG vs Euro Q2 (Port Moresby); Euro Anti Doping Agency found the country track field and team. That ban followed (progress) a little bit mmoreore Q3 vs USA (Townsville); Fiji vs Euro Q1 (Townsville) ran an elaborate cheating programme similar revelations of rampant doping and arrive in Rio wellll November 10: Fiji vs Euro Q3 (Canberra) at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and other with support from Moscow. prepared, although November 11: Samoa vs Scotland (Cairns); New major events. Sixty-eight Russian athletes have as I always say there Zealand vs Tonga (Hamilton); Australia vs Lebanon Following an emergency confer- appealed to CAS challenging the IAAF’s is nothing certain in (Sydney) ence on Tuesday, the IOC’s executive right to punish an entire national fed- this life,” Nadal told board said it would study the “legal eration, since some team members reporters in Manacor November 12: PNG vs USA (Port Moresby); Euro Q1 options” regarding a prospective Rus- have no positive drug tests on their yesterday. vs Euro Q2 (Perth); England vs France (Perth) sia suspension. record. “I feel fine, working andand November 17: Quarter-final (Darwin) It would be an unprecedented The CAS ruling on the validity of undergoing the recoveryy procproc-- ess.ess. November 18: Quarter-final (Christchurch); Quar- move, as no country has been excluded collective punishment is expected to The time schedule is correct,rrect, therethere ter-final (Wellington) from an Olympics over doping. help guide the IOC’s decision on Rus- are two and a half weeks to go bbeforeefore November 19: Quarter-final (Melbourne) IOC leaders said they would con- sia’s eligibility for Rio. we start to compete.” sider a decision due Thursday from the Moreau said IOC leaders would Nadal, who won goldd at thethe Olym-Olym- November 24: Semi-final (Brisbane) Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on have further talks on the Russia dis- pics in Beijing eight yearsars ago,ago, is eagereager November 25: Semi-final (Auckland) a previously imposed ban by athletics pute in the coming days, following the to compete in Rio after missing tthehe 2012 December 2: Final (Brisbane) governing body IAAF against Russia’s CAS ruling. Games in London with a kkneenee ininjury.jury.