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Wednesday 3 September 2014 • 8 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6177 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Plan to enrol women into military service Joining not mandatory: Official

DOHA: Young Qatari women to upgrade our defence systems are also to be roped in for and our armed forces,” he said. national service, but joining it “We want to modernise our wouldn’t be made compulsory armed forces and defence sys- for them like it is for their male tems. The vision of the Emir, counterparts. H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Currently, a special programme Al Thani, is quite clear in this is being prepared to enrol Qatari regard,” said Al Attiyah. women cadets for the military Talking of the national serv- service, said the Minister of State ice, he said it is the duty of the for Defence Affairs. Qatari youth to be part of it “It wouldn’t, however, be com- for the defence of their beloved pulsory for women to join the country. national service like it is for men,” “We are happy the way the said H E Major-General Hamad national service programme This picture taken from the top of Al Mana Tower late last evening shows traffic jam at Al Mana intersection, officially known as Najma intersection. bin Ali Al Attiyah. is progressing.” The first SALIM MATRAMKOT Women cadets joining the batch was very successful and national service will not be response to the second batch required to stay in camps over- has been very good, said the night like the men are, said minister of state. City braces for more traffic woes Al Attiyah, Al Sharq reported This is an experimental yesterday. stage and if the need be, the Their training will be in the law of national service could be DOHA: Traffic snarls are last- all schools, ministries, and gov- not entirely empty.” “I work from people should cooperate with the morning hours after which they amended, said Al Attiyah. ing for hours on Doha roads ernment and private offices open home early in the morning,” said the authorities instead of complaining could go home. And they will be Staff Brigadier Mohamed as people have returned from at almost the same time in the expert. “My employers are flexible.” about busy and chaotic roads. trained by women, he added. Musfir Al Ayadi, head of the vacation overseas, with schools morning so people rush,” said a He said that the free shuttle On its part, the government Al Attiyah was inaugurating National Service Centre, said in reopening on Sunday. traffic expert who didn’t want his bus services introduced by the should provide buses to expatriate the second batch of national his address at the inauguration Peak-hour traffic jams are par- name in print. government in the West Bay area and private schools on nominal service at Al Shamal Camp ceremony that the response to the ticularly causing chaos on roads Flexibility in work and school are a welcome initiative. Such charges to ferry children. yesterday. second batch was so encouraging with experts warning the situa- timings is required considering services should be introduced to The state can very well do it Talking of the arms deals Qatar that some 3,000 Qatari youth had tion could only get worse. that development work is going other areas as well. since it provides buses free of signed recently, the minister said applied. The only solution is that more and on in full swing all over and many “Europeans have begun taking charge to government schools, the deals were just a tip of the “We selected 1,017 of them and more people use public transport roads are still under construction, advantage of these services but said the expert. If all schools are iceberg. will take in the remaining appli- wherever possible and ministries, he said. “I am supposed to report Arabs and Asians still prefer to provided buses and the charges are “We are going to ink more cants in the next batches,” said Al private and state companies and for work early in the morning but drive their own cars despite the nominal, parents would not drive such deals and the bigger ones Ayadi. schools change their work timings. I actually go to office at 10am. By chaotic roads and parking woes.” children to school in their private in the near future. Our aim is THE PENINSULA “The problem is that almost this time the roads are free, if Taking a cue from Europeans, cars. THE PENINSULA

Gaza war damage Saudi arrests IS militants behead 88 for terror second US reporter attack plots RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has WASHINGTON: The Islamic Shirley appealed on August 27 in detained 88 people, more than State (IS) released a video pur- a videotaped message to IS’s self- half of them Saudis, on suspicion porting to show the beheading proclaimed caliph, Abu Bakr Al of plotting “terrorist” attacks at of a second American hostage Baghdadi, for her son’s release. home and abroad, the interior Steven Sotloff, a monitor- In the video it released last ministry said yesterday. ing service said yesterday, as month, IS said Foley’s death was A ministry statement carried the militant group raised the in retaliation for US air strikes by the official Saudi Press Agency stakes in its confrontation with on its fighters in Iraq. said the ministry had been fol- Washington over US air strikes The United States resumed air lowing a number of suspects in on its fighters in Iraq. strikes in Iraq in August for the view of what it called the spread A masked figure in the video first time since the end of the US of “strife and sick ideas” that also issued a threat against a occupation in 2011. lured members of the community British hostage, a man the group The raids followed major gains to “places of strife”. named as David Haines, and by IS, which has declared an Some of the suspects had links warned governments to back Islamic Caliphate in areas it con- to the Islamic State group oper- off “this evil alliance of America trols in Syria and Iraq. ating in Syria and Iraq, to the against the Islamic State”, the In Washington, the White Nusra Front group in Syria or to SITE monitoring service said. House said it could not immedi- the Al Qaeda branch in Yemen, The purported executioner ately confirm that IS had released Ministry spokesman Major appeared to be the same British- a video of Sotloff’s beheading. State General Mansour Turki said after accented man who appeared in Dept spokeswoman Jen Psaki said a news conference. Palestinian farmers clean up their land which was damaged by Israeli army vehicles during the latest war, in an August 19 video showing the the US intelligence services would “They showed their support the village of Khuzaa, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, yesterday. See also page 6 killing of American journalist “work as quickly as possible to to the organisations in Syria and James Foley, and it showed a determine its authenticity.” Iraq and also in Yemen, and they similar desert setting. In both “If the video is genuine we are wanted to get involved in their videos, the captives wore orange sickened by this brutal act tak- activities. jumpsuits. ing the life of another innocent REUTERS “I’m back, Obama, and I’m back American citizen. Our hearts go Centre to monitor sea weather because of your arrogant foreign out to the Sotloff family.” policy towards the Islamic State, A source familiar with the mat- TODAY’S EDITION OF DOHA: Qatar is all set to Organization (WMO). key decision-making, said Al because of your insistence on ter said that while US officials launch today a Gulf Marine As part of the project, five Hammadi. continuing your bombings and ... have yet to formally confirm the THE PENINSULA Centre to provide meteorology floating platform-like devices will He said the floating devices on Mosul Dam, despite our seri- validity of the video, it appeared INCLUDES A 4-Page services for the sea around its be put in the Qatari waters in the will be moved from where they ous warnings,” the man said. “So to authentic. SUPPLEMENT ON territory and the rest of the Gulf at five select locations. are stored to the meteorology just as your missiles continue to The United States is taking Gulf. The devices will help monitor centre in Abu Hamour. From strike our people, our knife will the Islamic State militants far A senior official from Qatar’s heat, air quality, humidity levels, there they will be taken to Doha continue to strike the necks of more seriously now than it did Meteorology Department, wind direction and speed and Port. your people.” six months ago, when Obama Nawaf Al Hammadi, told this waves and their height and speed From Doha Port, four Qatari In the video, Sotloff describes told the New Yorker magazine that newspaper that the weather as well as salinity of the sea water experts will be taking them in the himself a “paying the price” for they were the “JV team,” which monitoring and early warn- and other data related to climate sea for installation. The Qataris the US intervention in Iraq with is short for “junior varsity” and ing system will be launched change. will stay in the sea for five days, his life. Sotloff, a freelance jour- means they are not the best play- this morning in collaboration The data thus collected said Al Hammadi. nalist, was kidnapped in Syria in ers on the field. with the World Meteorological continuously will be used in THE PENINSULA August 2013. Sotloff’s mother REUTERS WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME RAF university project in Nairobi on track $50m facility with 11 colleges to be ready by 2018

DOHA: Work on a $50m uni- versity being built by a Qatari charity in Kenya is progress- ing well, officials have said. A Qatari delegation, led by Sheikh Dr Khalid bin Thani Al Thani, Deputy Board Chairman of Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) www.swiss-belhotel.com and Honorary Chairman of RAF International University, Tel visited the project in the capital Fax Nairobi. The delegation included Ibrahim bin Mohammed Abdullah, Qatar’s Ambassador, and members of Qatari Business Tel Association. Fax Sheikh Dr Al Thani said RAF International University was among their plans to develop education in Kenya and Africa and build a vibrant and skilled Tel community. He said last June Fax the university had graduated 34 Sheikh Dr Khalid bin Thani Al Thani, Deputy Board Chairman, RAF, and Honorary Chairman, RAF International students from different fields University, and other officials are briefed on the project in Nairobi. and they had gone forward for placements in Kenya’s education is completed, the university education to millions of poor build a nursing college in the Tel + 974 44298888 market while others applied to would be able to accommodate and needy students all over the first phase at the university to pursue higher education. 1,200 male and female students world with the support of RAF meet the need for skilled nurses. Fax He said the reason for the del- and the completion of the sec- and Qatari citizens. He said the board had opened egation’s visit was to ascertain ond phase will accommodate He said the university would up doors for Qatari people to how the work on the university’s 4,000 students and the third sign a partnership agreement support different projects at the Tel first phase was progressing. He 10,000 students. The university with the Kenyan telecommuni- university such as a mosque and said the first phase entailed con- is expected to be fully ready in cation, Safaricom, which is also university offices. Fax struction of four colleges which 2018 with 11 colleges. the representative of Vodafone RAF International University were expected to be ready by the Dr Al Qahtani said there in Kenya and the deal would be was established in 2010 to pro- end of next year. were several university and for logistics and technical sup- vide education for African peo- Tel Dr Ayed Al Qahtani, Director- school projects being under- port in building the university. ple and equip them with skills Fax General, RAF, thanked Sheikh taken by RAF in Africa, includ- Ibrahim Ali Abdullah, to enable them to build their Dr Al Thani for his patronage ing Badr University in Somalia, Director, Department of countries and communities. The of the university project. RAF College in Sudan and Sahel Marketing and Media, RAF, university is spread over 140,000 He said once the first phase University in Mali to provide said the board had decided to square feet. THE PENINSULA Tel Fax www.doha.hilton.com 103 violations Tel 44233333 974+ of consumer Fax 44233000 974+ protection law detected in August DOHA: The state-run con- sumer rights watchdog detected seven cases of car Al Meera branch in Al Qutaifiya. dealers not providing spare parts and after-sale service Tel during inspection campaigns last month. Fax A total of 103 violations of Al Meera to open eight the provisions of the consumer protection law (No. 8 of 2008) were caught by the Consumer Tel Protection Department (CPD) Fax new malls, nine branches at the Ministry of Economy and Commerce. DOHA: Al Meera Consumer According to the company, opportunity to visit various A statement by the ministry Goods Company plans to open construction of the Jeryan stores, have a good meal, or yesterday said 25 violations per- Tel eight new malls by the end of Nejaima branch is expected to make other purchases,” said the tained to the failure of outlets Fax 2014. be completed soon. company. It has recently opened to display product and service The retailer also plans to Facing the Lekhwiya a new branch in Legtaifiya. It prices. In 21 cases, the outlets open nine new branches in Stadium, the branch will provides over 11,500 food and failed to describe ingredients in and outside Doha during the meet the needs of consum- non-food items. Products also the Arabic language as required fourth quarter of the current ers in the area by bringing all include goods from across the by the law, the statement said. Tel year. The branches will be in products they may need. The world to fulfil the different Ten cases of cheating were Fax Jeryan Nejaima, Al Wakra, Al branch spreads over an area tastes of customers. also detected. Wrong and mis- Thumama, Al Wajba, Muaither, of 5,526sqm, of which 1,207sqm In Legtaifiya branch, con- leading descriptions were given Al Azizia, Zakhira, Al Muraikh goes to the supermarket. sumers can find fruits and veg- about products and services by and at Gulf Mall. The Jeryan Nejaima branch etables, dairy products, various the erring outlets. Tel “Al Meera is working with will include 19 stores offering a kinds of bread, fresh and fro- In eight cases, retailers took its full potential to finalise the variety of services to visitors, as zen meat and chicken, cere- more than the required price Fax construction phase of new malls well as four restaurants to serve als, juices, canned goods and for products and services. There to achieve a wider spread that the most delicious dishes. other products. It also offers were several cases where fruit satisfies its customers,” said “Al Meera is allocating large consumers all cleaning tools and vegetable vendors did not the company in a statement areas for its new branches, as is and kitchen supplies, plastic comply with price display rules. Tel yesterday. the case in its Jeryan Nejaima containers and other items, as Four cases of sale of expired Fax “As soon as it obtains permits branch, to provide comprehen- well exclusive products availa- items were caught and three and approvals from authorities, sive services to consumers, not ble only in Al Meera branches, cases of outlets not providing Al Meera will open branches,” only limited to food products, under the labels ‘AlMeera’ and bills for purchases detected. it said. but also giving shoppers the ‘Casino’. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

Tel QA’s non-stop flights to Cape Town from November 3 Fax DOHA: Qatar Airways will non-stop route will benefit pas- with passengers throughout our in 17 years of operations, and operate a new non-stop five- sengers throughout QA’s global worldwide network, and with is flying a modern fleet of 135 time-a-week service between network. the new services, we are now aircraft to 144 key business Tel Doha and Cape Town, South The route will be operated able to provide our customers and leisure destinations across Fax Africa, from November 3. by QA’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner with quicker and more con- Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Cape Town, which is aircraft which features 22 seats venient connections to one of Asia Pacific and the Americas. served three-time-a-week via in Business Class and 232 in the most beautiful cities in the Flight schedule (all times www.marriottmarquisdoha.com Johannesburg, is one of the air- Economy Class, with the latest world. We also look forward to local). line’s most popular African des- interactive inflight entertain- our passengers from Cape Town Mondays, Tuesdays, Tel + 974 44195000 tinations. Thanks to continuous ment system featuring over experiencing our five-star serv- Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fax + 974 44195100 growth of the airline’s fleet and 1,000 options in all cabin classes. ice as they fly with us non-stop Saturdays increasing passenger demand QA Group CEO Akbar Al to Doha and onwards to over 140 QR 1369 departs from Doha to the city, the airline is offer- Baker said: “We are very pleased destinations.” at 01:25, arrives in Cape Town ing non-stop services to Cape that we are now able to offer our All QA passengers now fly at 10:15 Town for the first time, QA said passengers a non-stop service through the airline’s new hub QR 1370 departs from Cape in statement. between Doha and Cape Town. in Doha — Hamad International Town at 12:45, arrives in Doha With excellent connections “Cape Town has long been one Airport. at 23:30. to the world via Doha, the new of the most popular destinations QA has seen rapid growth THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

QCB pushes for Qatarisation in Calls to probe ‘fake’ university degrees banking sector DOHA: As part of efforts Parents, students and academics say SEC should not stop with issuing warnings to effectively implement the Qatarisation drive, Qatar DOHA: Parents and academ- provide services to university stu- No. 6 of 2000 on providing educa- College London in Qatar, Qatar Reacting to the SEC statement, Central Bank (QCB) has ordered ics have called on the Supreme dents in Qatar. tional services in Qatar. Faculty of Islamic Studies, several parents and students said all banks to submit a list of their Education Council (SEC) to “Rumours say that an entity has Any certificate obtained Carnegie Mellon University in the council should not stop with employees every year, a local launch a thorough investigation been granted permission to facili- through such entities will not Qatar, Virginia Commonwealth issuing warnings. Arabic daily reported yesterday. into reports that some institu- tate university access and admis- be authenticated by the SEC as University in Qatar, Weill “It should launch an inspec- The banking sector regulator tions are offering fake university sion for a diploma, a Bachelor of they are issued by institutions Cornell Medical College in Qatar, tion campaign to check the truth has asked all banks (conventional degrees to students in Qatar. Arts (BA), a Master’s or a doctor- not accredited by the SEC. Those Texas A&M University at Qatar, of such reports. The SEC should as well as Shariah-compliant The demand follows a recent ate,” said the SEC statement. The who want to apply for university Georgetown University School make public the names of such lenders) to provide details of warning issued by the SEC against entity is also said to be offering or college degrees must contact of Foreign Service in Qatar, entities, if any, found operating Qatari and non-Qatari staff to some commercial entities report- registration for undergraduate the guidance office at SEC for Northwestern University in Qatar, in Qatar and take legal action assess the percentage of Qatari edly offering university services to study abroad and follow up on information, said the statement. HEC Paris in Qatar, Ahmed bin against them,” a local Arabic daily employees in the total workforce students here. students’ achievements. The SEC provided a list of 21 Mohammed Military College, quoted a Qatari student as saying. of the banks. The SEC last week issued a It also claims to provide books, institutions permitted to offer College of Policing, Joaan bin Jasim Qatari academics have advised According to Articles No. 1 to statement, advising parents and notes and other items, whether university degrees in Qatar. They Joint Command and Staff College, students and parents not to be 8 of QCB, all banks are required students not to deal with such the study is by enrollment, or are Qatar University, Community Mohammed bin Abdallah Al misled by reports and advertise- to implement and achieve dubious institutions and avoid through distance or e-learning, College of Qatar, College of the Attiyah Air Force College, Qatar ments appearing on social media Qatarisation targets, especially getting cheated. It clarified that it the SEC added. North Atlantic- Qatar, University Aeronautical College, Ras Laffan and seek guidance from the SEC with regard to top level man- had not granted permission to any The SEC said any such action is of Calgary in Qatar, Hamad Bin Emergency & Safety College, and office on university degrees and agement jobs such as general individual or commercial entity to contrary to the provisions of Law Khalifa University, University Stenden University Qatar. services. THE PENINSULA manager and others. As per the laws of QCB, the human resource manager of any banks has to be a Qatari and the post cannot be Games inside balloon filled with a non-Qatari in any circumstances, said Al Watan. Police College, rights panel High prices hit sign cooperation protocol real estate deals

DOHA: No big real estate deals were concluded in the past week (August 24-28) as prices con- tinue to be high. Transaction details for the week released by the Ministry of Justice show that the biggest deal in terms of value was struck in Ummghuwailina. A house admeasuring 15,356sqm was sold for QR90m, the rate per sqm being QR5,860. The second largest deal was also for a house, in Doha’s Al Officials signing the protocol. Muntaza area (Raudat Al Khail). The 672-sqm dwelling was sold for DOHA: The Police College and National Human Rights Committee QR23.5m, the per sqm rate being (NHRC) yesterday signed a cooperation protocol on coordination in QR34,970. Most of 105 deals in the the fields of human rights. It was signed by the Director-General of week were for plots for housing the college, Brig. Dr Mohamed Abdullah Al Mohanna, and NHRC across the country. Secretary-General, Maryam bint Abdullah Al Attiyah. Real estate prices remain so Since its establishment by an Emiri decision, NHRC, has played high that even in far-off places a key role in introducing and spreading the culture of human rights like Al Ruwais in the north plots thus leading to this cooperation which serves students of the college, in were sold for QR2,000 or more courses related to human rights, freedoms and equality, participation per sqm. The total value of the Children playing inside a giant balloon at Doha Exhibition Centre as part of the Summer Festival yesterday. in preparation of working papers, research and studies or prepara- deals in the week was QR514.13m. KAMMUTTY VP tions for seminars and workshops to serve the community in addition THE PENINSULA to benefiting from the two entities’ libraries. QNA WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Emir, PM greet Student Career Gathering tomorrow Vietnam President DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Semi fair marks conclusion of QCF’s Second Summer Career Camp for young citizens yesterday sent a cable of con- gratulations to the Vietnamese DOHA: Qatar Career Fair President Troung Tan Sang on (QCF), a member of Qatar his country’s National Day. Foundation (QF), will hold a The Prime Minister and semi fair tomorrow, the last Interior Minister H E Sheikh day of Second Summer Career Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Camp. Al Thani sent a similar cable. The ‘Student Career Gathering’ will be attended by high-profile FM gets message representatives from QF as well as senior executives from over 20 from Singapore of Qatar’s leading organisations. Guests will discuss initiatives DOHA: The Foreign Minister and career development oppor- H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed tunities for Qataris. Al Attiyah yesterday received The two-week camp with a written message from his around 50 students included more Singaporean counterpart than 15 workshops, including spe- K Shanmugam on relations cialised sessions on crucial topics between the two countries and such as leadership. means of promoting them. Young nationals are being The message was received by taught to identify styles of leaders Young participants with officials at the camp. the Assistant Foreign Minister and the most valuable attributes for International Cooperation to have in a workplace. Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed They are also benefiting from the trips this week is to give stu- educational lectures by senior He said: “It was an enriching of what I hope to achieve in the bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al practical courses to improve skills dents first-hand insight into the representatives from QF member experience and proved to be very future.” Thani during a meeting with in public speaking, presentations real world of employment. centres, including Qatar Debate useful to myself and fellow stu- In addition to learning about Singaporean Ambassador Wong and resume writing. During the first week of the and QCF, as well as Bedaya dents. The workshops and courses the needs of Qatar and the labour Kok Bonn. They are making visits to programme, students attended Centre for Entrepreneurship and helped us clarify requirements market over the coming years, leading organisations such as informative workshops at Career Development. for vocations and facilitated participants are also training US, Japan ties QF, Sidra Medical and Research Recreation Centre in Education Abdullah Yousef Al Horr, a stu- our search for a career that is in the methods of turning their Centre, Qatar Petrochemical City, creating the ideal environ- dent participating in the camp, best suited to our potential and ideas into effective business mod- discussed Company, RasGas and Aljazeera ment for interaction and team- expressed delight at being part capabilities. els and how to perform well in a Network, among others, to work among attendees. of the engaging workshops and “This experience was insight- job interview. DOHA: The Assistant Foreign explore professions. The aim of The first week also included group discussions. ful as it gave me a clearer picture THE PENINSULA Minister for International Cooperation Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani yesterday 10 illegal vendors held held separate talks with US Ambassador Dana Shell Smith and Japanese Ambassador Councillors lament shortage of Shingo Tsuda. Talks dealt with relations, cooperation and issues of mutual concern. medical services in their areas ICBF to hold free DOHA: Members of the Central heart specialists and natal serv- who have shifted to Doha because Municipal Council (CMC) have ices. The centre also lacks kid- of the absence of medical services medical camp complained about a shortage of ney dialysis facility and X-ray in outside areas. medical services in their areas machines and patients have to Councillor Ahmed Al Shaebi DOHA: Indian Community and said it is mostly caused by a travel about 80km to get services from Umm Salal said that due Benevolent Forum (ICBF), shortage of medical and admin- from the Shahania Health Centre to urbanisation and increasing a charitable organisation istrative staff. or go to Doha. population in Umm Salal, the under the aegis of the Indian Residents of these areas have Residents asked authorities to health centre there is unable to embassy, in association with similar complaints. increase medical staff, adminis- cope with the increasing demand Atlas Polyclinic, is organising a There are some health centres trators and medical equipment for services. He said the centre free medical camp for low-paid which do not have even a doc- and build an emergency centre is also facing a shortage of staff, workers on Friday at West tor, the local daily Arabic daily at the Jumailia Health Centre. mostly specialists in ENT, paedia- End Park, Atlas Polyclinic, Al Raya said, citing the Jumailia They said the centre should be tricians, heart specialists, dentists from 7am to 4pm. Health Centre. developed to meet the require- and gynaecologists. ICBF’s 16th camp will provide Councillors have demanded ments of the increasing number He said the centre also lacks consultations on orthopaedics, that authorities provide all health of residents. vital medical equipment such as ophthalmology, dermatology centres with medical equipment, According to them, the centre X-ray and kidney dialysis. and dental treatments as well as including X-ray and kidney dialy- works two shifts — morning and According to him, the centre is hypertension, diabetic and free sis, optical, dental, heart, mater- afternoon and closes around 6pm. small and they had urged authori- medicines for more than 1,000 nity and neonatal intensive care In case of an emergency, patients ties to expand it with at least two industrial and private workers units. They also demanded rede- are forced to go to Shahania or more villas in the neighbourhood living in the Industrial Area. velopment of all health centres Doha, they said. but had received no response yet. ICBF has started pre-regis- with adequate medical equipment, Councillor Mohammed Faisal Mubarak Farish, Councillor tration of workers from labour The Doha Municipality launched a crackdown on vendors operating in doctors, nurses and medicines Al Shahwani from Al Dukhani representing Al Gharafa, said camps. the Industrial Area. Ten people selling fish, fruits, vegetables and other to reduce pressure on Hamad backed the people of Jumailia primary healthcare in Al Gharafa On-the-spot registration will items were arrested and their goods confiscated. Medical Corporation (HMC) and and said working hours is the Health Centre needed more medi- also be done on the day of the the Rayyan Health Centre. main problem as two shifts are cal and administrative staff as the event for deserving patients. Residents of Jumailia com- not enough. centre serves a large area, includ- A team of doctors (GP and plained that their health centre The problem of working hours ing the neighbouring Al Nasseriya specialists), paramedical staff had a chronic shortage of medi- has been exacerbated by a short- and Umm Salal. and pharmacists from ATLAS Vodafone offers Business cal services, and there is not age of medical staff, he said, add- He said the centre has got an Polyclinic will attend the camp, even a male or female general ing priority should be given to emergency department but it is along with about 20 volunteers practitioner. increasing the number of staff not working to full capacity. The from Tulu Koota. Mobile Broadband Unlimited They said the centre had only and making the centre a 24-hour centre neither has clear entrance The Minister of Labour and DOHA: Vodafone has launched only gives employees freedom to a dentist and no specialists in ear facility. and exit points not a signpost, he Social Affairs H E Abdullah a new offer for its business conduct their jobs wherever they nose and throat (ENT), opticians, He said he knew some people added. THE PENINSULA Saleh Mubarak Al Khulaifi customers — Business Mobile are but also avoids bill shock to and Indian Ambassador Sanjiv Broadband Unlimited. companies.” Arora will inaugurate the For QR360 a month, new and Customers can visit their camp. For details, contact Baby existing customers can enjoy nearest Vodafone store to choose Kurian, Vice-President, ICBF, unlimited data. The offer is valid from a range of mobile broadband on 55515021. until December 31. “We’re very devices to start enjoying the offer. ‘Back to school’ campaign begins today pleased to launch this latest offer They can sign up to Business Indian embassy to for business customers,” said Mobile Broadband Unlimited or DOHA: The Supreme Activities during the week-long The campaign ends on Mahmud Awad, Chief Business get more information by calling Education Council (SEC) will campaign will take place at Doha September 12. close for Onam Officer, Vodafone Qatar. business care on ‘110’ or visit- today launch a ‘Back to school’ International Exhibition Center Competitions and entertain- “With companies’ workforce ing a retail store or contacting campaign to communicate with (DIEC) and Ezdan Mall. ment events for children are part DOHA: The Indian embassy increasingly needing to be out- their Vodafone Account Manager. the public on educational issues Officials from various depart- of the activities at DIEC from will remain closed on Sunday side the office environment, it Details can also be found at www. and raise awareness. ments at the SEC will answer 3pm to 10pm and Ezdan Mall on the occasion of Onam. is essential to have unlimited vodafone.qa/business. The campaign is titled ‘With queries from the public, students from 4pm to 8pm. THE PENINSULA/QNA access to the Internet. This not THE PENINSULA knowledge, we build Qatar’. and parents. THE PENINSULA QSTP joins Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils DOHA: Qatar Science and economic growth through inno- There are over 40 companies like-minded and indispensable Technology Park (QSTP) has vation and global collaboration, that make QSTP their home, partners in this effort. QSTP’s joined the Global Federation brings together organisations many of which were attracted to role in planning and executing of Competitiveness Councils from over 30 countries to work the potential collaboration with strategies to enhance Qatar’s (GFCC) in Washington, DC. on competitiveness issues and QF R&D’s adjacent 200,000sqm position as a leading innovation Dr. Thomas Zacharia, policy by sharing best practices research and development and business hub should serve Executive Vice-President, and strategies. complex. as a model for GFCC members.” Research and Development, With 45,000sqm of office As a member of GFCC and Dr. Zacharia said, “A portion Qatar Foundation and Chairman and laboratory space, QSTP its Board, Dr. Zacharia will of Qatar’s economic strategy is of QSTP Board, has been named is the only technology park play an integral role in GFCC based upon advanced research to the GFCC Board. in the Middle East co-located projects such as the develop- to address national challenges QSTP, part of Qatar with Qatar National Research ment of a new type of ‘competi- such as energy, water, cyber Foundation’s Research and Institutes and six international tiveness scorecard’ and will help security and healthcare. Development (QF R&D), universities. guide other key global GFCC “The solutions we discover was created to help develop Members within QSTP Free initiatives. will become the platform for a Qatar’s ‘post-carbon economy’ Zone include subject matter “At the heart of the GFCC knowledge-based economy of by encouraging companies and experts, international corpora- mission is the belief that a new companies and new jobs. research institutes to create tions, and research institutions, rising economic tide lifts all “We have an opportunity and intellectual property and com- which have collectively com- boats,” said Deborah Wince- a responsibility to transform mercialise their technology in mitted to investing in new pro- Smith, President and CEO of Qatar’s economy. Opportunities Qatar. grammes, creating intellectual US Council on Competitiveness to exchange ideas with GFCC The GFCC, founded in 2010 property, enhancing technology and President of GFCC. will be invaluable to achieving as an international network management skills, and devel- “We welcome Dr. Zacharia that goal.” of business leaders to promote oping innovative new products. and QSTP to GFCC as THE PENINSULA HOME WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Six DFI-backed films on Toronto festival list

DOHA: Si x fi l ms m a de w ith sup- port from Doha Film Institute (DFI) will screen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which begins tomorrow. Three will make their world premiere. The films include Naji Abu Nowar’s Theeb and Ghassan Salhab’s The Valley, both recipi- ents of funding from DFI’s Grants Programme; grant recipi- ent Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako and co-financed project The Narrow Frame of Midnight by Tala Hadid. Eye & Mermaid, a short film directed by Shahad Ameen, was made through DFI’s Hazawi Short Film Production Fund. Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet A scene from the film Theeb. (Canada/France/Lebanon/Qatar/ US), also co-financed by DFI, Atlas Mountains, in a country torn group of people on the road and will have its world premiere as apart by injustice, the film paints is taken to their farm – perhaps a Special Presentation following a story of interconnected destiny, never to leave again. its work-in-progress preview at redemption and hope as three peo- Sissako’s Timbuktu (France/ Cannes Film Festival. ple struggle to define their futures Mauritania/Mali) screens in the The innovative adaptation of the in a cruel and uncertain world. Masters section, marking its classic features the work of eight Abu Nowar’s Theeb (Jordan/ North American premiere after renowned animators, including Qatar/UAE/UK) also screens in it garnered critical acclaim at its Gulf talent Mohammed Saeed this section after its world pre- world premiere at the Cannes Harib (creator of the acclaimed miere in the Orizzonti Competition Film Festival. animated series Freej), who has at Venice Film Festival. Based in Set in the aftermath of the directed the chapter On Good and the Arabian Peninsula in 1916, jihadist takeover of northern Mali, Evil. Theeb blends coming-of-age drama the skilful auteur’s film is a poetic Fatma Al Remaihi, Acting CEO, with frontier Western, telling the excoriation of the horrors of war DFI, said: “We are honoured to story of a boy’s perilous desert that lay bare the blindly destruc- have played a part in bringing adventures when his nomadic tive force of extremism. these wonderful projects to life. tribe is confronted with the mod- The newly minted Short Cuts The festival has a notable his- ern world in a forgotten corner of International programme includes tory of excellent programming of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Eye & Mermaid (Qatar), by Saudi films from the Arab world and this The Valley (Lebanon/France/ director Shahad Ameen. year’s selection is no exception. I Germany/Qatar), which makes It was made in Qatar through am delighted to see these projects its world premiere in the DFI’s Hazawi Short Film among the strong representation Contemporary World Cinema Production Fund, an educational of voices from our region.” selection, is the fifth feature film initiative that supports emerg- Making its world premiere by Lebanese director Salhab, ing filmmakers in the Gulf. The in the Discovery section is whose acclaimed previous film haunting, brutally metaphorical The Narrow Frame of Midnight The Mountain screened at the fes- tale of a young girl’s discovery of (Morocco/Qatar/France/UK), tival in 2011. A sense of impending the dreadful secret behind the the debut feature-length fiction catastrophe pervades The Valley beautiful black pearls her father by Moroccan-Iraqi filmmaker and after a car crashes in Lebanon’s harvests shows that lovely things visual artist Hadid. Bekaa Valley and the driver, in life sometimes come at a hefty Against the backdrop of the stricken with amnesia, meets a price. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Attack on Saudi Erekat to push police sets pipeline ablaze statehood case DUBAI: An attack by gun- men on Saudi police patrol- ling a Shia village in oil-rich Eastern Province yesterday wounded one policeman and with Kerry caused a pipeline to catch fire, an official said. The patrol came under “heavy gunfire” in Awamiya, police Call for timetable to end occupation spokesman Colonel Ziad Al Ruqaiti said. The dawn JERUSALEM: Chief Palesti- territory. If it were drafted, such attack triggered a “limited nian negotiator Saeb Erekat a resolution would probably be fire at a nearby pipeline”, will present plans to US vetoed by the United States, while a policeman was shot Secretary of State John Kerry which has said it wants only a in his leg, he said. The region today calling for a timetable on negotiated solution to the conflict. sits on the bulk of Saudi oil ending Israel’s occupation of the Anticipating that veto, the wealth, which amounts to West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palestinians say they would then about one-fifth of the world’s Palestinian officials said. push ahead with plans to join the proven oil reserves. Erekat and intelligence chief International Criminal Court, Majid Faraj will hold a series of which could open the way for pro- Hamas popularity meetings with senior officials in ceedings against Israel. They would Washington in which they will also sign up to a range of interna- surges: Poll press the case for Palestinian tional treaties and organisations RAMALLAH: Militant statehood, amid frustration after that help denote statehood. group Hamas would sweep a year of talks between Israel and “We ask the Security Council, Palestinian elections if they Palestinian Authority President I want a political solution, mean- Israeli military forces demolishing a Palestinian diary factory in the West Bank city of Hebron yesterday. Israel were held today after its sup- Mahmoud Abbas collapsed in April. ing two things: The 1967 borders demolished the dairy because of a link to the Hamas movement, via the local Islamic Society. port soared during seven The discussions with Kerry will and ending the occupation over a weeks of war with Israel in focus on establishing “a timeframe set period lasting as little time as Gaza, an opinion poll pub- for ending Israel’s occupation to possible, and that’s the end of it,” lished yesterday found. The be agreed as soon as possible and Abbas told Palestinian TV. Israeli ministers slam land grab Palestinian Centre for Policy not after the end of this year”, Hanan Ashrawi, a senior mem- and Survey Research said said a Palestinian official familiar ber of the Palestine Liberation JERUSALEM: Finance to widespread international con- On the other side, Economy the poll showed Islamists with the plan Erekat will lay out. Organisation led by Abbas, said Minister Yair Lapid warned demnation of the high Palestinian Minister Naftali Bennett, whose clearly leading presidential In an interview with Palestinian that she was expecting a definite yesterday that Israel was erod- civilian death toll during Israel’s far-right Jewish Home party and parliamentary polls. Most TV last week, Abbas said it should timeline to emerge for the end ing its international support, as 50-day war in Gaza. draws much of its support from Palestinians surveyed said only take “half an hour or an of Israel’s occupation of lands criticism abroad mounted of its However, Foreign Minister the settler lobby, defended the they preferred Hamas’s strat- hour” to delineate the borders of a Palestinians want for a state. biggest grab of Palestinian land Avigdor Lieberman, himself a move as retaliation for the mur- egy of armed struggle against Palestinian state, since the United “I don’t want to give you very since the 1980s. resident of Tekoa in the Gush der of three Israeli teenagers in Israel rather than peace nego- States agreed they should be based specific (timeframe), but let’s Lapid complained the security Etzion settlement zone, defended the West Bank. tiations, which are favoured on the 1967 borders that existed say within three years we should cabinet had not been consulted the expropriation. “The official “It’s 120 years that the world by Fatah. The views, collected before the war in which Israel know that the occupation will end,” about Sunday’s announcement of policy of the government of Israel has opposed our construction, and among over 1,000 Palestinians captured the West Bank and East Ashrawi said at a news conference the confiscation of 400 hectares is first of all to focus on those set- we’ll continue to do it,” he said, in Gaza and the Israeli- Jerusalem. “There’s either a politi- at the United Nations in New York. (988 acres) of land in the occupied tlement blocs which it is under- equating settlement building in occupied West Bank, show an cal solution or there isn’t. But going Israel accepts the idea of a West Bank to pave the way for stood will under any agreement to the West Bank with construction unprecedented popular shift here and there, up and down, talk- ‘two-state solution’ — meaning further settlement building. come remain under Israeli sover- in the years before Israel’s crea- towards Hamas. Hamas’s ing and not talking - it’s been 20 an independent and democratic “The announcement, which eignty,” he said. tion in 1948. former premier Ismail years and nothing has happened.” Palestinian state living alongside wasn’t brought to the security cabi- “I think that Gush Etzion The European Union on Haniyah would win 61 per- If there is no agreement on bor- Israel — but has not accepted the net, regarding 900 acres of land for expresses the broadest consen- Monday condemned the Israeli cent of votes in a two-way race ders in coming months — at least 1967 borders as the basis for final building in Gush Etzion (between sus in Israeli society and it is move. “We condemn the new against Palestinian Authority by the end of the year — Abbas said negotiations, citing security and Jerusalem and Hebron) harms the understood by everyone that in appropriation of land in the West President Mahmoud Abbas, he would have no choice but to push other concerns. State of Israel,” Lapid told an eco- any agreement Gush Etzion will Bank, relating to plans for further with the Fatah chief taking ahead with unilateral statehood It is not clear when negotiations nomic conference in Tel Aviv. be part of the state of Israel.” settlement expansion, announced just 32 percent of the vote, moves, a threat he has made before between Israel and the Palestinians “Maintaining the support of the But Justice Minister Tzipi by the Israeli government on the survey found. More than and carried out incrementally. might resume. They broke off world was already challenging, Livni, a cabinet moderate who Sunday,” it said. half (53 percent) of respond- The first step would be to in April after Abbas took steps so why was it so urgent to cre- served as chief negotiator in The international community ents said an armed approach seek a resolution in the United towards forming a unity govern- ate another crisis with the United abortive US-brokered talks with regards all Israeli settlements in would help gain a Palestinian Nations Security Council calling ment with the Islamist group States and the world?” he asked. the Palestinians, slammed the the West Bank, including annexed state, as opposed to 20 percent for a deadline for ending Israel’s Hamas, which is dominant in Gaza. Lapid, a centrist within the land grab. “It weakens Israel and east Jerusalem, as illegal. who said they supported non- 47-year occupation of Palestinian REUTERS governing coalition, was alluding threatens its security,” she said. AFP violent means. Conservative wins top Tehran post TEHRAN: Iran’s President France, Saudi ‘finalising’ Hassan Rowhani suffered a fresh political blow yester- day when it was announced $3bn Lebanon arms deal that a conservative politi- cian had reclaimed the top post on Tehran city coun- PARIS: France and Saudi according to figures from the cil. Mehdi Chamran ousted Arabia are close to signing a United Nations. Ahmad Masjed Jamei, from $3bn arms deal for Lebanon, Hollande added that France the same camp as Rowhani, in the Elysee Palace said yester- and Saudi Arabia have a “shared an 18-13 vote. Masjed Jamei, a day following talks between priority of peace and security in moderate, had won the coun- President Francois Hollande the Middle East”. Salman is due cil presidency on the back of and the Saudi crown prince. to hold talks with French Prime Rowhani’s election as presi- “It will not be signed Monday Minister Manuel Valls. dent last summer. The result but it is being finalised,” an aide He is also due to meet Foreign means that both the capital’s to the president said. The deal is Minister Laurent Fabius tiday for mayor and president are again for military equipment and arms talks over the situation in Iraq conservatives. Although the to be supplied to Lebanon’s army. and Syria, where jihadists have council holds elections every Hollande told an official dinner seized swathes of territory and four years, its top officials have at the Elysee Palace attended by are terrorising Christians and to be re-elected annually. Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, other minorities. who is also the Saudi deputy Last week Hollande rejected Attack on convoy prime minister and defence min- any cooperation with Syrian ister, that Lebanon was a “great President Bashar Al Assad whom kills 11 in Sinai Airport personnel unload 60 tonnes of humanitarian supplies from USAID from a plane at the airport in Arbil, the but vulnerable country” which he accused of being a “de-facto CAIRO: An attack on a con- capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, yesterday “needs security”. ally” of Islamic State militants, voy killed 11 members of the “We have come together, after the regime said it was will- Egyptian security forces in Saudi Arabia and France, to help ing to work with the international the Sinai Peninsula yesterday, Lebanon on the condition that it community to tackle the jihadists. security and medical sources Kin of Iraqi soldiers abducted by also helps itself, for its own secu- And in comments carried on said. Two were killed by a rity,” Hollande added, without national TV at the weekend, roadside bomb and the oth- commenting directly on the joint The Custodian of the Two Holy ers were shot as they tried to IS militants break into parliament contract. Mosques King Abdullah bin flee, the security sources said. The deal comes as Beirut faces Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia Security sources said earlier BAGHDAD: More than 100 rel- soldiers in June at the start of its equipment (inside the assem- the threat of jihadists on its bor- warned the West would be the that the attack killed 10 sol- atives of Iraqi soldiers abducted lightening advance through north- bly hall),” said another witness. der with Syria. More than a mil- next target of the jihadists sweep- diers. Militants in Sinai have by Islamic State fighters broke ern and central Iraq, where it Some lawmakers fled, leaving lion refugees have fled the war ing through Syria and Iraq, unless stepped up attacks on police- into parliament armed with declared an Islamic Caliphate and briefcases and jackets behind, in Syria by escaping to Lebanon, there is “rapid” action. AFP men and soldiers. sticks, metal bars and stones threatened to march on Baghdad. said one civil servant. The AGENCIES yesterday, demanding news of The soldiers walked out of jihadists have reportedly carried their loved ones, witnesses said. their base in Tikrit, north of the out widespread atrocities, with The crowd, mostly from Iraq’s capital, believing a truce had been Amnesty International yester- Shia majority, smashed some equip- brokered. Instead, Islamic State day accusing them of war crimes ment, assaulted at least two staff took them and later reported it and ethnic cleansing. Top Tunisian official escapes bid on life members they mistook for lawmak- had killed 1,700 soldiers, posting ers and were refusing to leave the pictures of corpses online. There IRAQI FORCES ADVANCE TUNIS: A deputy in Tunisia’s transitional par- Protests in Tunisia in 2010 sparked subsequent building, said officials inside. have been no independent reports Meanwhile, Iraqi forces made liament survived an assassination attempt in the revolutions that have transformed the Arab world “They were ready to bulldoze on how many died. Locals in more progress yesterday in their city of Kasserine, near the Algerian border, where and in many ways is more stable and secure than anyone standing in front of them Tikrit said in June they believed fightback against jihadists. After security forces have been hunting Islamist mili- other Arab Spring countries such as Libya, Egypt ... They were saying ‘Our sons are the number was in the hundreds. breaking a months-long jihad- tants for months. and Syria. buried in the dust. We don’t even The relatives had been sched- ist siege of the Shia Turkmen- Mohamed Ali Nasri told reporters in hospital But it is facing a militant threat of its own, mostly know their names, and you are uled to address parliament about majority town of Amerli by that about five gunmen attacked his house late on due to attacks mounted by the Al Qaeda offshoot sitting here in comfort under the the fate of their loved ones. But Islamic State (IS) fighters, troops Monday. He threw himself from the roof and hid in Ansar Al Sharia and to a flow of fighters and weap- air conditioning’,” a parliament they started to violently protest also regained control of part of a neighbour’s home, suffering a broken leg but no ons unleashed by other conflicts in the region. employee said. outside the building and then a key highway linking Baghdad bullet wounds. His family and witnesses in Kasserine The assassination of two secular opposition lead- “A special force unit came with forced their way inside past sev- to the north. A day after seizing confirmed the assassination attempt. ers last year by militant Islamist gunmen triggered a batons to remove them from the eral checkpoints, according to Amerli, troops and Shia militia- The attack comes as the small North African state political crisis and forced the Islamist party Ennahda parliament ... I can hear scream- parliament employees. men retook Sulaiman Bek and attempts to establish full democracy, widely seen as to cede power to a non-partisan government. ing, shouting and name calling,” “They broke into parliament. Yankaja, two towns to its north a model for the region. Tunisia holds its first free At least 15 soldiers were killed in attacks on mili- the employee added. They roughed up some guards that had been important militant parliamentary elections on October 26 after parlia- tary checkpoints in the area in July. Islamic State captured the and officials. They broke the strongholds. AGENCIES ment adopted a new constitution this year. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

US air strike Houthis reject targets leader of Shabab Yemen move to in Somalia MOGADISHU: US forces have carried out air strikes against quell protests the leader of Somalia’s Al Qaeda- linked Shabab rebels, with casu- alties reported but uncertainty hanging over the fate of the main Patience running out: President target, officials said yesterday. The Pentagon confirmed an SANA’A: Yemen’s president in a blessed popular revolution to “operation” was carried out on dismissed his government yes- demand their legitimate and just Monday against the hardline terday, proposed a national rights.” A member of the Houthis’ militia, and that it was “assess- unity administration and sug- political bureau, Abdel Malik Al ing the results”. “The Americans gested reinstating fuel subsi- Ijri, said: “What was demanded carried out a major air strike dies, government sources said, was a cancellation of the fuel targeting a gathering by senior in moves to quell weeks of price rise, and the lowering which Al Shabab officials, including unrest by a rebel movement. was announced today represents their leader Abu Zubayr,” said But the Houthis, a Shia Muslim nothing.” Abdukadir Mohamed Nur, gover- group that had massed tens of With the Houthis’ rejection, it In a picture taken from the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, a United Nations Disengagement Observer Force convoy nor for southern Somalia’s Lower thousands of supporters in the is unclear what the government’s manoeuvres in the buffer zone as they are escorted by Syrian rebel fighters on a motorcycle near the Syrian village Shabelle region. capital with camps set up near next move will be. However, Hadi, of Jubata Al Khashab yesterday. Al Qaeda-linked Syria rebels who are holding more than 40 Fijian United Nations Abu Zubayr is the often- the Interior Ministry, rejected the in a speech before the meeting peacekeepers hostage in the Golan Heights are demanding they be expunged from a UN terror blacklist. used name for Shabab supreme compromise proposals by President where the proposal was signed, commander Ahmed Abdi Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. suggested his patience was run- Godane, listed by the US State The impasse raises fears of ning out. “I affirm that I will deal Department as one of the world’s worsening instability in Yemen, an decisively with all attempts to Record 4.1 million in Syria got eight top terror fugitives. If con- impoverished Arabian Peninsula shake security and carry out divi- firmed, Godane’s death would be a state bordering Saudi Arabia, and sion,” he said in remarks on the major blow for the Shabab. which is also struggling with Al state Saba news agency. food rations in August: UN Washington has carried out a Qaeda insurgency and southern Insecurity and political turmoil series of drone missile strikes in secessionists. have mounted in Yemen since the past, including attacks report- The Houthis, who are demand- Arab spring protests ousted vet- GENEVA: A record 4.1 million aid paralysis caused by Damascus in August, about a fifth of the pre- edly targeting Godane. “We are ing that the government resign eran autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh people in Syria received food denying permission for UN staff war population of the country. assessing the results of the opera- and subsidies be fully restored, in 2011 and Hadi took his place in rations in August due to more to cross borders into rebel-held WFP says it needs to raise $35m tion,” Pentagon Press Secretary have been fighting for years for a complex deal mediated by the convoys being able to cross areas. Although Syrian forces did per week to meet the food needs Rear Admiral John Kirby said. more power for their Zaydi sect United Nations, Gulf neighbours front lines and borders from not control those areas, the UN of Syrians affected by the conflict, The Shabab refused to com- in north Yemen. and the United States. Turkey and Jordan, the UN’s said it could not infringe Syrian including the 3 million refugees in ment on reports Godane had Government sources said that The United States and Saudi World Food Programme (WFP) sovereignty. neighbouring countries. been killed. “Let the Americans Hadi had dismissed his govern- Arabia were alarmed by the rapid said yesterday. “Since July 25, a total of five Meanwhile, Syrian warplanes say that they have killed Shabab’s ment, suggested a national unity growth of Al Qaeda in Yemen in “We are reaching more people cross-border convoys, via the Bab pounded the rebel Jubar district leader,” a senior Shabab official administration and planned to the disorder created by the anti- every day with urgently needed Al Salam crossing from Turkey of the capital Damascus with said. “So far the Americans just reduce petrol and diesel prices Saleh uprising and are keen to food assistance - many of them and Al Ramtha from Jordan, car- unprecedented ferocity, launching gave us rumours.” by 30 percent to offset unpopular avoid a spread into the majority have been going hungry for ried food rations including rice, 25 raids. The air strike comes days after cuts to fuel subsidies, which had Sunni Muslim state of sectarian months,” Muhannad Hadi, WFP’s lentils, oil, pasta, bulgur, canned “It’s the largest number of air African Union troops and govern- drained Yemeni coffers but buoyed bloodshed plaguing other regions regional emergency coordinator food, wheat flour, beans, salt and raids to hit Jubar since the begin- ment forces launched “Operation impoverished citizens. A govern- of the Middle East. for the Syria crisis, said. sugar for 69,500 people in the hard- ning of the army offensive on the dis- Indian Ocean”, a major offensive ment source said implementation In a copy of Hadi’s initiative Over the last six weeks, WFP to-reach areas of Aleppo, Idlib, trict” six days ago, said Rami Abdel aimed at seizing key ports from of the initiative depended on the seen by Reuters, the president and partner agencies have crossed Quneitra and Deraa governorates,” Rahman, director of the Syrian the Islamist rebels and cutting Houthis’ acceptance. plans a minimum wage rise and front lines to reach more than the WFP statement said. Observatory for Human Rights. off one of their key sources of Mohammed Abdulsalam, a the allotment of ministerial posts 580,000 people, over four times The improved access for It is considered a strategic revenue — multi-million dollar spokesman for Houthi leader to the Houthis and other con- the 137,000 reached in the pre- humanitarian aid helped boost the position because it leads onto the exports of charcoal. “They were Abdulmalek Al Houthi, said in a stituencies while retaining the ceding six weeks, it said. The UN number getting food rations from adjacent Abbasid Place in central meeting to discuss about the statement on his Facebook page: right to the weightiest portfolios Security Council authorised the 3.7 million in July. However, WFP Damascus and also opens onto the current offensive in the region,” “We do not agree to it. Our posi- of finance, foreign affairs, defence movement of UN aid through four has never yet managed to reach key rebel stronghold of Eastern Nur said. “There were casualties tion is still that we (stand) by the and the interior. border crossings in July. its monthly target for feeding Ghouta in Damascus province. inflicted on the militants, but we Yemeni people who have gone out REUTERS That ended more than a year of Syrians, which was 4.25 million AGENCIES don’t have details so far.” AFP

Sudan closes Iranian British envoy visits Libya to back elected parliament cultural centres BENGHAZI: A British envoy vis- August after a long battle with rival migrants and becomes a safe haven Powell said there would be no ited Libya’s parliament at its new groups. The fighting and lawless- for militant Islamists. military intervention as demanded CAIRO: The Khartoum government has closed all seat in the eastern town of Tobruk ness also prompted most countries, The House of Representatives was by some Libyans tired of fighting Iranian cultural centres in Sudan and expelled the yesterday in a show of support including Britain, to close their dip- elected in June in a vote marked by between armed groups. Libya’s con- cultural attaché and other diplomats, fearing they had against a rival assembly set up by lomatic missions in Libya. a very low turnout. The assembly’s flicts could be solved diplomatically, become a threat to society, the foreign ministry said armed groups who seized the capi- “We recognise the legitimacy of the previous name, the General National he said, without elaborating. yesterday. The expulsions were linked to government tal Tripoli last month. Libyan parliament,” Britain’s Libya Congress, was scrapped as many Addressing the same news con- concerns that Iranian officials were promoting their Senior officials and the elected Special Envoy Jonathan Powell said Libyans associated with political ference, First Deputy Speaker Shia brand of Islam in the largely Sunni country. House of Representatives moved to in a televised news conference from infighting and chaos. Now the alli- Mohammed Ali Shuaib said Libya The Iranian Cultural Centre and its branches had the remote east of Libya when Tripoli Tobruk. Western powers like Britain ance controlling Tripoli says that, expected the international commu- exceeded their mandates and “become a threat to intel- fell to an alliance of armed factions worry Libya will turn into a failed together with a group of former law- nity to help it build up army and lectual and social security,” the foreign ministry said. from the western city of Misrata in state that could flood Europe with makers, reinstated the GNC. state institutions. REUTERS Sudan, isolated by UN and Western sanctions partly linked to its conflict in Darfur, has sought allies and donors across the sectarian divides in the Middle East and further afield. That has often left it balancing competing interests and loyalties in the complex web of regional rivalries. Sudan President Omar Hassan Al Bashir came to power in 1989 in a bloodless coup backed by Sunni Islamists. His country turned down an Iranian offer to set up air defences on its Red Sea coast after a 2012 air strike Khartoum blamed on Israel, fearing it would upset Tehran’s regional rival, the Sunni superpower Saudi Arabia, Sudan’s foreign minister said in May. But Sudan, where many people follow the traditional Sufi tradition of Islam, has also received delegations from senior Iranian politicians. Saudi Arabia, a regional ally of the United States, has been locked in a contest with non- Arab Shia power Iran for influence in the Middle East. The rivalry has effectively divided the region into two camps, with countries either allied to Saudi Arabia or to Iran. A government source said the diplomats had been given 72 hours to leave. REUTERS

Iran unveils new missile

TEHRAN: Iran unveiled a new surface-to-air missile yesterday and two radar systems it said would improve its defences against “enemies”. The Talash-3 (Effort-3) missile is capable of hitting targets at higher altitudes than previously possible, said General Farzad Esmaili, Iran’s aviation defence com- mander, without stating its range. But he said the new missile meant that the military “no longer thought about” the S-300 missile system that Russia stopped delivering to Iran because of sanctions linked to the latter’s nuclear programme. Iran and Russia signed a contract worth $800m in 2007 for the S-300, which is capable of intercepting planes or missiles, but the deal was cancelled by Moscow three years later under a UN resolution. Iran is demanding compensation for the S-300 contract being axed. Esmaili sought to play up Iran’s defence capabilities as he revealed the Talash-3. Esmaili also showed off two radar systems — the Arash-2, which can detect small drones at a distance of 150km, he said, and the Kayhan system which can locate missiles and drones. AFP WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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he political crisis in Pakistan is worsening as both sides harden their positions. The anti-Nawaz Sharif anger is stoked by two leaders: Imran Khan, a Tprominent cricketer turned politician, who wants new elections, and Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, a cleric of the Sufi Both Nato and demonstrators fail BY JONATHAN POWER sect, who is pushing for the creation of a unity government. rate was low. Thousands of their followers are on the streets demanding In Ukraine, granted there was a the resignation of the prime minister. Sharif has vowed not to iolence should have had mess — a precarious economy running succumb to what he calls the ‘terror tactics’ of his enemies, its day. Look at its non- downhill and a corrupt and incompetent while the ‘enemies’ are equally determined to throw out achievements: The US/ leadership — but there was a free press, a ‘corrupt and fraudulently elected premier’. The country British/French invasions elections and the surety of being able to Who to blame? The of Iraq, Afghanistan and walk around in peace. is witnessing high-voltage drama. On Monday, hundreds VLibya. The upheavals of the Arab Now Ukraine is getting into the deep dictators and corrupt of anti-Sharif protesters stormed and briefly interrupted Spring. And now Ukraine. end of a civil war. Russia looks like it rulers who gave cause for transmissions of the state-run Pakistani Television (PTV) Will we ever learn its limitations? might be invading and some in the West news channel. In Iraq, outsiders’ violence overthrew are talking as if they want to initiate the attacks against them. The world is watching the developments in the country dictator Saddam Hussein who for all his steps that could see Nato going eye to faults provided stability, safety on the eye with Russian forces. This could lead with a sense of déjà vu. Pakistan has enough problems to The West which bombed, streets, food, a falling infant mortality to a war that would rip Europe apart. grapple with: a Taliban insurgency which is tough to tackle, a rate and universal health services. Who to blame? The dictators and talked publicly about failing economy, tension with India which has been on the rise What did it substitute beside the corrupt rulers who gave cause for the despite the recent bonhomie and an army which is waiting at worthwhile job of killing off Saddam? attacks against them. Second, the West bombing or supported the door to barge in. The country needs true unity and a stable Mayhem, tens of thousands of deaths of which in some cases bombed, talked anti-regime forces who government to address these issues and the current political innocents, fear of the street, shortages publicly about bombing or verbally of food, upheavals in the health services supported anti-regime forces, violent hadn’t thought through crisis has thwarted any hopes of stability and progress. and schools. And an ongoing instability, and non-violent, who hadn’t thought But is the anti-Sharif protest justified? While the opinion not least the opening given to Islamic through where their protests might where their protests is divided inside Pakistan, the international community has its State. lead. Not only the West. In the Middle doubts. Pakistan is a democracy, In Libya, Muammar Gaddafi provided East, some countries and Iran contrib- might lead. Nawaz though with its flaws, and in a the same sort of things as Saddam. Now, uted to the upheavals. democracy, elected governments following the In Egypt, the cause of youthful pro- bombing by the tests that brought about the overthrow had continued non-violent protests, the Sharif’s aren’t usually thrown out through British, French of Mubarak and fair elections got lost regime would have had to implement violent methods. Sharif’s critics and, in the back- when the same protestors two years reforms, insufficient no doubt, but giving opponents have every right to protest the Non-violence is ground, the US, later went back to the streets and an opening for further action at a later government’s policies, but forcing the only way to we see a coun- Tahrir Square to demand the overthrow date — as with the civil rights move- must work the government out is anti- try disintegrat- of the elected president. ment in the US where blacks faced not ing into armed Admittedly, president Mohammed the dictatorship of one man but repres- democratic. It would only help to get change but through factions. Mursi, a member of the Muslim sion, discrimination and violence of a destabilise the country, deepen its demonstrators In Syria, there Brotherhood, was implementing a one- sizeable part of the white population, democratic the fissures in the society and has been a rela- sided agenda but the next elections not to mention the denial of the vote. strengthen the military by giving must have a tively benign would have been the time to kick him In Ukraine, we saw demonstrators institutions them an opportunity to act as strategy, be dictatorship out. There was a free press, the right to — a mere few thousand — give way to a peacebroker or intervene to under Assad demonstrate and freedom for opposition militants, a good portion of whom were self-disciplined father and Assad political groups. Protesters apparently extremist nationalists from a movement to oust him. restore order, which would only son. According did not want the long-haul of canvas- with a pro-Nazi past, who used vio- help to weaken democracy. and tough with to a United ing, persuading and organising voters. lence against police and “won” the battle It’s true that Sherif’s tenure extremists around Nations Human Very stupidly they now thought of the of the square and the accolades of the has been marked with serious problems, like an increase in Development army as their friend. The army recip- West. Too many “non-violent” demon- sectarian tensions and a rise of cronyism. But he came to its edges. The report, Syria has rocated their admiration by staging a strators seemed to tolerate them and power through an election 15 months ago. That election is been among the coup and imprisoning many protesters. the wider population was lethargic. EU, West, continuously top 10 develop- What kind of strategy did protesters US and Russian negotiators made a deal said to be rigged and flawed. But fifteen months have passed taking the wrong ing countries in have? None. with President Viktor Yanukovich that and it’s surprising that Sherif’s opponents didn’t take to the lowering infant In Syria the anti-regime protests in return for reforms they would sup- streets then to demand a revote or cancellation of the results. steps, should stay mortality and were started by teenagers. The govern- port him to stay in office until the next Sherif’s opponents need to operate within the democratic out of it. maternal child- ment cracked down on them, triggering election. The next day under pressure boundaries. If the current government is an absolute failure, birth deaths. The a large non-violent protest movement from extremist demonstrators the deal murder and rape that brought large crowds of march- collapsed. the people will have an opportunity during the next election to rate was low. Now many of the cities are ers on to the streets every day. When The moral: Non-violence is the only punish them, and give the opposition a chance. reduced to rubble and there are three police cracked heads of militants, a way to get change but its demonstrators Also, there are serious doubts about the intentions of the million refugees. small minority of demonstrators took must have a strategy, be self-disciplined army. The army has proclaimed that it is neutral in this crisis, In Egypt, under Mubarak, there was to the gun. Not for them the tactics of and tough with extremists around its but going by its acrimonious relationship with Sherif, many religious freedom, some opposition in Gandhi or Martin Luther King — per- edges. The West, continuously taking are thinking differently, and rightly so• parliament and some progress in rais- sistently turning the other cheek. Now the wrong steps, should stay out of it. ing the standard of living. The crime we have the destruction of Syria. If they THE PENINSULA The other side Quote of Economic impact of street politics the day

SLAMABAD may be shut, but spread the rallies to Lahore and Karachi announced just this April. Meanwhile, operation of daily life in the cities rather Pakistan is open for business. and other cities have floundered and government work has ground to a halt, than fighting in the streets of the capi- Factories are humming, raw there has been little disruption in day- and although the machinery continues tal. In this case, however, the reverse Imaterials are moving freely on the to-day life anywhere else in Pakistan, to function in the rest of the country, the has happened — we saw fighting in roads, people are commuting to and with no general strikes, no closures of ministries and secretariats and com- the streets of the capital while it was Stopping this disease from work, cellular communications roads and petrol pumps, schools or mittees are all on standby. In short, business as usual everywhere else. It remain uninterrupted. The rupee has offices, no halt in public transport. whereas daily life is largely untouched, is disheartening to note that this con- (Ebola) won’t be easy. seen some declines, more likely due to Beyond this, however, the damage the strategic outlook for the country has frontational strategy was used by the But we know how developments intrinsic to the markets is huge, difficult to quantify, and of a suffered a considerable blow. PTI, a party that drew ample support themselves rather than the crisis. Forex lasting nature. Those looking in from This is the exact opposite of what from professional and corporate cir- to do it. You are not reserves are broadly stable, the stock the outside are asking how sturdy the street politics is meant to do. Crippling cles — precisely those who are heavily alone, together we market has seen good days and bad political system in Pakistan really is. everyday life yields maximum political invested in the strategic outlook — and throughout this affair, and there have Talks with the IMF are at a standstill, dividends and leaves no lasting dam- a party that prided itself for its focus on can treat those who been only marginal declines. Even the and it is likely that the next tranche will age, but harming the strategic outlook the economy. They should have recon- are sick with respect collection of taxes and recovery of bills be delayed. The World Bank is worried brings no political rewards and causes sidered the decision to resort to street in the power sector are normal, despite about the future of its massive Country lasting damage to the economy. This politics if they lacked the capacity to and dignity. Barack Obama calls for ‘civil disobedience’. Attempts to Partnership Strategy, worth $11bn and is why street politics usually targets the credibly wage the fight. DAWN US President WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Australia must be sceptical about Iraq The impulse for another foreign misadventure should be tempered by other considerations as well. Australia has no vital security interests in Iraq. For all its barbarism, even IS poses no extreme danger to Australia.

BY RAOUL HEINRICHS mission creep are already beginning to appear. Last week’s humanitarian mis- aving spent much of the sion, which involved dropping urgent sup- past week extolling the plies on an ethnic minority group besieged need for Australia to on a mountain in North-West Iraq, has involve itself once more in this week taken on more traditional mil- Iraq, the government and itary dimensions. The RAAF has now Hopposition yesterday balked on a parlia- been enlisted to deliver machine guns mentary debate in the senate. When it and ammunition to Kurdish Peshmerga comes to military action alongside the fighters, in the hope of using local proxy United States, an unnerving bipartisan forces to check IS along its eastern flank. consensus seems to have emerged around Left to Canberra, it would not stop a policy of “shoot first, ask questions there. The government has made no later”. bones about its willingness, even enthu- The bashfulness is not hard to under- siasm, to expand its mission, should a stand. Events are moving faster than request be made. Whether the call does beleaguered government (and opposition) get made will of course depend on politi- staffers can rewrite the talking points, cal machinations in Washington. leading to some unsightly freelancing A familiar process is in train. The from the prime minister, including a demonstrable barbarism of IS, symbol- White House Press Secretary Jay Carney talks to President Obama during a meeting with Australian Premier Tony Abbott. clumsy Nazi analogy this morning. ised by the beheading of US journalist The task has been complicated by James Foley, has intensified calls among political vacuum enveloped Iraq, which country, as it dissolves along religious and intelligence agencies, and most impor- Washington. In a moment of candour conservatives and liberal interventionists was quickly filled with brutal sectarian tribal lines in the absence of strong cen- tantly, a law enforcement rather than a over the weekend, Barack Obama owned for a wholesale escalation of the war. The bloodletting. Groups like IS (formerly Al tral authority. militarised approach. up to having no strategy for dealing with pressure on Obama is steadily building. Qaeda in Iraq) turned Iraq into a morass, Tony Abbott has been at pains to stress Finally, Australia should resist the urge IS – in other words, no clear set of objec- At the same time, however, Obama and the US and its allies were trapped. the differences between today and 2003. to use the current crisis as yet another tives, no sense of the scale or intensity appears sceptical about the wisdom of After eight years, $1tr and more than But if there’s any lesson to be drawn from opportunity to bolster our credentials of military effort on which the US plans such a course. He has learned the hard three-thousand American casualties, the last decade, it is that we must be acutely as a loyal and willing ally. This will be to embark, and no coherent sequence to way that the use of force is a blunt instru- Washington eventually called it quits. sceptical about the ability of Western mili- very hard; everything in our history and guide preparations. ment – a bulldozer, more than a scalpel In Baghdad, a sectarian government, tary intervention to re-engineer the kind strategic experience inclines us to do just This is a stunning admission. The US – with unpredictable effects. In Libya and beholden to Iran and a number of pow- of durable political order required to secure that. has now been conducting air-strikes in Afghanistan, he deployed military power erful Shia militias, was left to run the peace in the Middle East. It’s worth taking the longer view: with Iraq for weeks. It has also begun assem- against his better instincts. The violence show. When Iraq’s Sunnis were refused The impulse for another foreign mis- a sprawling portfolio of global commit- bling an ad-hoc coalition to help out, and upheaval that followed in the wake of re-entry into the country’s political fab- adventure should be tempered by other ments, and with major power competi- apparently with no overarching political those interventions lays bare the limits ric, IS seized the opportunity. It renewed considerations as well. Australia has no tors in the wings, the last thing the US benchmarks by which to measure success, of US power. an alliance with the Sunni tribes, and in vital security interests in Iraq. For all needs is another messy war in the Middle or even to know what success looks like. It’s Iraq where the lessons are most June this year overran large swathes of its barbarism, even IS poses no extreme East. It’s Asia where we need the US All of this has left the Abbott govern- salient. The current situation is, after north and central Iraq, with horrifying danger to Australia. To the limited extent focused, and Asia where our real value ment somewhat hamstrung. In its eager- all, the product of a reckless rush to war, Australians should be deeply reticent that it does pose a terrorist threat, as an ally is measured. Canberra would ness to get behind US policy in Iraq, it urged on by the same groups now agitat- about returning to Iraq. The emergence Australia’s successful experience in deal- do well to use its considerable influence has discovered to its chagrin that no ing for expanded military action. of IS as a significant political force is ulti- ing with terrorism in our region points with Washington to urge caution and broader policy exists to support. Let’s face it: once Saddam Hussein mately an Iraqi problem. It reflects the to the appropriate response: vigilance, restraint. In the meantime, the early stages of and his army were swept aside, a deep fissures which have emerged in that patience, good diplomacy, well resourced THE GUARDIAN

Can Republicans ride tailwind to Senate majority? A certainty in Pakistani Democratic strategists believe politics: Sharif doomed that in a number of states, their BY CYRIL ALMEIDA acts are a funny thing in Pakistan: there often aren’t any. candidates will outperform polls What you usually have to settle for, particularly in politics, is some kind of theory, ranging from the conspiratorial to the by a point or two because of a Fwild and woolly to the, occasionally, plausible. Take the current situation. Pakistan is in the grip of a tawdry politi- cal crisis. Imran Khan says the May 2013 general election was rigged. superior voter targeting and turnout The government of Nawaz Sharif says its mandate to rule is legitimate. The ever-lurking army says it is neutral. Here we go again. apparatus, building on Obama’s Sharif’s problem is that he won the May 2013 election outright. And before May 2013, Sharif’s problem was that many a political observer thought the election was his to lose. In addition, Sharif’s problem is who campaign infrastructure. he is. Rewind to October 2011. A political earthquake rocked Lahore: Imran Khan the celebrity transformed into Imran Khan the serious BY ALBERT R HUNT Mitch McConnell, is almost as politician as his party, the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI), capitalised unpopular as Obama. on disillusionment with the then government of the Pakistan People’s he battle for control of If Republicans hold on to Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney (second left) endorses party (PPP) to bring hundreds of thousands of people out on to the the Senate, the grand those two seats — they are slight Idaho Gov Butch Otter (right), Sen Jim Risch (second right), and Rep Mike streets of Punjab. Sharif’s party, the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz prize of the 2014 elec- favourites — and split the other Simpson after a fund-raiser in Boise. (PML-N) thought it knew: Khan had been encouraged by the then Ttions, with Republicans half-dozen, the party will be in the IS spy agency chief general Shuja Pasha to build his party and focus needing to win a net of a half- majority. run. Regarding such a possibility, On issues, all Republicans will on Punjab, because any gains for the PTI and Khan would be losses dozen seats to take charge, is well- Both sides harbour hopes for Romney responded, “Oh, no, no, attack the Affordable Care Act, for the PML-N. In essence, the League believed that the army had framed after Labour Day. upsets. Republicans insist they no. No,” which still gins up their base. calculated that the PPP was on its way out of office and that a third Republicans have the advan- have a chance in New Hampshire In mid-2014 he held his second More emphasis will be on jobs political force would be needed to check the PML-N’s ascent to power. tages of a friendly turf, the his- and Michigan (Democrats “E2 Summit” ideas conference in and the economy, areas where Few really believed the PML-N then because, even if true, the argu- tory of this political cycle — which disagree) and a long shot in Utah, attracting several possible Republicans think they have the ment was self-serving and didn’t address a basic problem: Khan was favours the party that doesn’t Minnesota. 2016 Republican contenders but upper hand. clearly tapping into a mine of public discontent with the PPP and PML- hold the White House — and the Democrats’ upset hopes are also bringing forward more peo- A sleeper may be immigration; N’s status quo politics. But the PML-N was adamant and increasingly waning popularity of President more of a reach, though if their ple encouraging Romney to try a blocking immigration reform in shrill in its complaints in the run-up to the May 2013 election: the party Barack Obama, who sometimes nominee drops out, an independ- run again. Congress might hurt Republicans believed the army was covertly supporting the PTI to either ensure seems indifferent. ent candidate might be competi- Democratic strategists also in the next presidential election the PML-N did not come to power at all, or that if it did, it would be Democrats hope to minimise tive in Republican Kansas against believe that in a number of states with the fast-growing Hispanic forced into a coalition with other parliamentary parties. losses as stronger candidates face an unpopular incumbent. their candidate will outperform vote. But the president probably In the end, the PML-N did win an outright majority. The PTI a few gaffe-prone opponents, and Democrats like to stress the polls by a point or two because will delay any executive action scooped up large numbers of voters in Punjab, but a first-past-the- by benefiting from a superior micro, the unique advantages of a superior voter targeting and to liberalise immigration rules post parliamentary system meant it won few seats. The army would ground game or voter turnout in some of these contested turnout apparatus, building on until after the election because have to find a way to work with Sharif. Or so it seemed. machine and the waning popular- states: popular family legacies in Obama’s campaign infrastructure. nervous Democrats have warned Facts may be a rare thing in Pakistani politics, but old truths are ity of the Republican brand. Arkansas, Georgia and Louisiana; Unlike the last midterm elec- that, with the current border hard to dislodge: the army has used the present crisis to reassert its As the nine-week home stretch a Republican state legislature in tions, in 2010, when Republicans controversies, it could cost sev- pre-eminence in the political arena. The transition to democracy may starts, Republicans have a tail- North Carolina that’s unpopu- dominated, they predict respect- eral Senate seats in conservative continue in form, but the substance has been gutted. wind. They are solid favourites lar, especially on education; and able turnouts from black voters, states. What is the army afraid of? To begin with, democracy. At the top of to capture three seats of retir- a few trouble-prone Republicans Hispanics and unmarried women. With most of the Big 8 races the heap in a declining state, the army knows that gains for democrats ing Democrats: Montana, South such as David Perdue in Georgia, Republicans counter that their showing a spread of only a few are losses for the army. On the core interests of the army – its budget, Dakota and West Virginia. Then, whose business executive back- voters are more enthusiastic and points, the campaign and circum- its fantastic privileges, and national security and foreign policies – the of the eight races both sides agree ground carries the same liabilities thus more likely to turn out. They stances over the next nine weeks political mainstream in the country would make very different choices are very competitive, Democrats as Romney’s did two years ago. acknowledge that the party’s may be decisive. One thing that to the army. In Sharif’s case though there is an element of the personal are defending six. Romney re-emerged onto the brand name is worse than it was won’t change is the country’s too. Suspicion of politicians within the army is not uncommon, but it A half-dozen states — Alaska, political scene in the run up to two or four years ago, though they foul mood — and that encourages is particularly strong when it comes to Sharif. Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, the 2014 US elections, endorsing, argue that this midterm contest is Republicans. Perhaps that is because the feeling is mutual in Sharif’s case, and he Louisiana and North Carolina campaigning, and fundraising for overshadowed by the president’s “I like where we are on is the only politician – Punjabi, popular, powerful – who can act on it. — were carried by Mitt Romney several Republican candidates. negatives. Labour Day,” says Scott Reed, No other politician but Sharif could try and put a former army chief, two years ago; Colorado and Iowa By early 2014, the lack of a Although they may have a cou- the chief political consultant to Pervez Musharraf, on trial for treason. went Democratic then. clear mainstream Republican ple of clunker candidates, there the US Chamber of Commerce And so Sharif is condemned – for what he represents and what he There are only two Republican- candidate for the 2016 presi- are no sure losers like last time, whose mission is to help elect a chooses to do. It is difficult to feel sympathy for him though: a three- held seats subject to serious chal- dential election led some sup- and they say there are some Republican-controlled Senate. term prime minister should have learned the art of survival with a lenge, Georgia and Kentucky, porters, donors, and pollsters to flawed Democratic aspirants such “I’d rather be us than them.” purpose by now. For Sharif’s failures and the army’s obsession though, where the party’s Senate leader, suggest Romney stage a third as the candidate in Iowa. WP-BLOOMBERG it is Pakistan that must pay. THE GUARDIAN WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL

Dutch foreign Nato a major minister named for EU threat: Russia Commission job THE HAGUE: The Netherlands has named Foreign Minister Pro-Moscow rebels kill 15 Ukraine soldiers Frans Timmermans as its can- didate to be a commissioner in MOSCOW: Russia declared latest day of clashes with Russian- the new administration of EU Nato a major “threat” yester- backed insurgents whose ongo- President Jean-Claude Juncker, day after the Western mili- ing offensive threatens to stamp Dutch Prime Minister Mark tary alliance announced plans Moscow’s permanent hold on the Rutte said yesterday. to reinforce defences in east- eastern half of the ex-Soviet state. “The cabinet has nominated ern Europe because of the The United Nations’ refugee Frans Timmermans as the Kremlin’s perceived stoking of agency said that the fighting has Dutch candidate for European war in Ukraine. driven more than half a million Commission membership,” Rutte Moscow’s surprise declaration people from their homes in addi- announced ahead of a debate in of a shift in its military doctrine tion to claiming an estimated the Dutch Parliament. came just ahead of a Nato sum- 2,600 lives. His nomination “fits into mit in Wales tomorrow at which The Ukrainian president’s the cabinet’s strategy to obtain beleaguered Ukrainian President appeal for European military an important portfolio for the Petro Poroshenko will lobby US assistance in the face of Russia’s Netherlands,” Rutte said. President Barack Obama for mili- alleged dispatch of crack troops “His exceptional qualities, both tary support. into the conflict zone was dis- within the Netherlands and in Obama will deliver a message of missed at a meeting of EU leaders Brussels are well-known.” firm Nato support for its newest in Brussels at the weekend. Timmermans held talks with members from the former Soviet But Nato chief Anders Juncker in Brussels on Tuesday empire when he visits the tiny Fogh Rasmussen said that the on the possibility of having a Baltic state of Estonia today. 28-nation alliance would endorse role in the commission policy for Paramedics take care of wounded soldiers from eastern Ukraine after the landing of Airbus Medevac A310 on The Russian national secu- the establishment of a force of the next five years, Dutch media rity council’s deputy secretary “several thousand troops” that the military part of Tegel airport in Berlin, Germany, yesterday. The injured soldiers will be treated in a German reported. Timmermans, from Mikhail Popov said Nato’s plan for could be deployed within “very Armed Forces hospital. the centre-left PvdA party, is in new fast-response units in east- few days” to meet any perceived the running to become one of the ern Europe was “evidence of the Russian military movements in and Austria — do not see a suf- land corridor from Russia to the Kiev and Moscow envoys and a Commission’s vice presidents, desire of US and Nato leaders to eastern Europe. ficient threat in the Kremlin. Crimean peninsula — another few separatist leaders concluded state broadcaster NOS reported, continue their policy of aggravat- The New York Times reported Poroshenko convened his Ukrainian region which Russia in the Belarussian capital Minsk as well as possibly having an eco- ing tensions with Russia”. the rapid-response unit would be national security and defence took over in March. on Monday with only a tenta- nomics portfolio. Popov said he had “no doubt supported by new Nato members council late on Monday to discuss Separatist commanders have tive agreement to meet again on Polyglot Timmermans gained that the question of the approach such as Poland that were once mounting setbacks in the mostly termed Russian soldiers in their Friday. Putin on Sunday hard- international renown following of Nato members’ military infra- Soviet satellites but now view Russian-speaking regions in ranks as having come while off- ened Russia’s previous position of his emotive speech at the UN in structure to our border” will be Russian President Vladimir Putin which the army had until recently duty or on vacation. demanding only talks on auton- the aftermath of the downing of taken into consideration as “one with fear and mistrust. put rebels on the back foot. That admission prompted omy for the region by noting that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 of the foreign military threats Yet the plan would be of no “The situation is difficult but Ukrainian Prime Minister Kiev would have to discuss “state- over eastern Ukraine in July, in to Russia” when the country’s immediate help to Ukraine’s gov- the Ukrainian fighting spirit is Arseniy Yatsenyuk to declared hood” for the two rebel eastern which 298 people died, most of defence doctrine is updated later ernment because since the coun- stronger than that of the occu- that Kiev would abandon its district. them Dutch. this year. try is not a member of Nato — a pants,” Poroshenko said in refer- non-aligned status and seek Nato Kremlin foreign policy adviser Timmermans is a former Popov added that Russia’s 2010 point stressed by Obama in his ence to more than 1,000 Russian membership in the coming years Yury Ushakov also confirmed that Europe minister and assistant to military doctrine — a document rejection of calls to involve the US soldiers that Nato believes the — a development Russia would Putin had recently told European former commissioner Hans van that already permits the use of military. Kremlin has sent across the intensely oppose. Commission chief Jose Manuel den Broek. nuclear weapons in case of grave London’s Royal Institute for Ukrainian border in recent days. UN Secretary General Ban Barroso in private of Russia’s abil- Former development minister national danger — would focus International analyst Affairs Moscow on Monday again Ki-moon responded to the Cold ity to capture Kiev in two weeks Bert Koenders, currently head- more on overcoming Nato and Robin Niblett added that “any denied either sending or plan- War-style rhetoric by cautioning if it wished. ing the UN peacekeeping mis- its new European anti-missile type of overt military interven- ning to deploy troops into east- “there is no military solution” and But Ushakov said the comment sion in Mali, would likely replace defence system. tion (by Nato) is highly unlikely” ern Ukraine. Officials dismiss calling for “political dialogue.” “had been taken out of context Timmermans at the foreign min- Ukraine yesterday reported because many members — includ- allegations that Russian inter- An inconclusive round of and had a completely different istry if he went to Brussels. losing 15 more soldiers in the ing Russian trade partners Italy vention is being used to carve a European-mediated talks between meaning.” REUTERS AFP

Travel curbs could worsen Swiss urged to toughen anti-corruption law

ZURICH: Switzerland is not More than 100 business leaders money laundering, no substantial was speaking at a news confer- of the intergovernmental Financial Ebola crisis, doing enough to rid itself of have spoken out against Scottish checks are required on cash pur- ence to launch a Transparency Action Task Force to fight money ill-gotten funds, despite loos- independence saying the business chases at the many luxury shops, International campaign to per- laundering, but it faced stiff opposi- say experts ening its banking secrecy, and case for independence has not been art dealers and jewellers that dot suade governments to halt the tion in the lower house. The upper should now beef up its law made. Joanna Partridge looks at the high streets of cities such as flow of illicit money gained house backed it on first reading PARIS: Travel restrictions against money laundering, a their reasons for going public just Geneva and Zurich. through abuse of power, bribery and will hold a second debate on could worsen West Africa’s global corruption watchdog said three weeks ahead of the vote. “I think the world’s perception and secret deals. it next week. Ebola epidemic, limiting medi- yesterday. In May, Switzerland said it on issues of fighting corruption Switzerland is the world’s largest In addition to tighter money cal and food supplies and keep- Cobus de Swardt, head of the would do away with banking is one where your efforts in last offshore cash centre with roughly laundering laws, de Swardt said ing out much-needed doctors, Berlin-based group Transparency secrecy by joining the growing years in dealing with issues like two trillion Swiss francs ($2.17-tril- Switzerland should also require virologists said yesterday as International, said Berne needed ranks of countries agreeing to banking secrecy have not found lion) in assets. It was forced to that the names of shares owners the disease continued its deadly to prevent ill-gotten funds from share tax information. But it has the resonance which probably make concessions on secrecy laws are public. These “beneficial own- spread. being hidden or laundered, for been less aggressive about crimi- you would have hoped they would due to a global tax crackdown. The ers” can now hide behind legal The worst-ever outbreak of the example through cash purchases nally gained funds. find,” de Swardt told journalists government has submitted a bill in entitles when listed on shares haemorrhagic fever, which has hit of luxury goods or property. While it has a law against in the Swiss capital. De Swardt parliament to adopt the guidelines registers. REUTERS Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Guinea the hardest, has seen air- lines cancel flights and several countries barring people from affected nations. “If we impose an aerial quar- antine on these countries, we Boko Haram seizes undermine their fight against the epidemic: the rotation of foreign medical staff and distribution of supplies, already inadequate, will town; many killed become even more difficult,” said Sylvain Baize, head of the Pasteur MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA: the Cameroon border, during Institute’s viral haemorrhagic Boko Haram insurgents over- fighting last month. The group’s fever centre in Lyon, France. ran most of a northeastern leader Abubakar Shekau in a This should be weighed against Nigerian town yesterday after video declared it a “Muslim terri- a “very limited” risk of infec- hours of fighting that killed tory” that would be ruled by strict tion for flight crews, given that scores and displaced thousands Islamic law. the virus can only be passed on of residents, security sources Shekau’s forces have killed once symptoms appear and only said. thousands and displaced hun- through physical contact with the The Islamists launched an dreds of thousands since launch- body fluids of someone who is ill, attack on the town of Bama, 70 ing an uprising in 2009 to revive he said. km from the Borno state capital a medieval Islamic caliphate in The World Health Organisation of Maiduguri, on Monday. They religiously mixed Nigeria. They has appealed for the reversal were initially repelled but came are the biggest security threat to of flight cancellations to West back in greater numbers over- Africa’s top oil producer. Africa, where Ebola has killed night, the sources and witnesses “When we started hearing gun- more than half of the 3,000-plus Dutch Parliament members hold a minute of silence in commemoration of the victims of flight MH17 at the beginning said. shots, everybody was confused. people it has infected. of the first meeting after the summer recess in The Hague, Netherlands, yesterday. All 298 passengers and crew, Nigerian defence spokesman There was firing from different There is no vaccine or licenced including 196 Dutch passport holders, were killed as it was shot down over eastern Ukraine. did not respond to a request for directions. We just ran to the out- cure. Air France has suspended its comment. The sources said there skirts of town,” Bukar Auwalu, service to Freetown, and British were heavy casualties on both a trader who fled with his wife, Airways its flights to Freetown MH17 crash report due in two weeks sides and one said at least 5,000 three children and brother, said and Monrovia. Royal Air Morocco people fled the town. by phone. “There were military is now the only airline providing a In a bungled air strike, several helicopters and a fighter jet. We regular service to the capitals of THE HAGUE: Dutch air crash probing the cause of the disaster. separatists for shooting down Nigerian troops were killed at the slept in the bush on the outskirts Sierra Leone and Liberia, while investigators said yesterday an “We don’t know exactly when MH17, while Moscow blames Kiev. Bama armory by a war plane tar- of town. We can’t go back.” Brussels Airlines offer an irregu- initial report into what brought the interim report will be released The aircraft’s black boxes have geting the insurgents, a soldier on Adrian Edwards, spokesman lar schedule. down flight MH17 in Ukraine but it will be this week or the been shipped to Farnborough in the ground said. for the United Nations High South Africa has issued a ban will be released “this week or next,” said Sara Vernooij, spokes- Britain to be examined by the Two months after Islamist mil- Commissioner for Refugees on non-citizens travelling from the next.” woman for the Dutch Safety Air Accidents Investigation itants in Iraq and Syria declared (UNHCR), said 9,000 people flee- Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Of the 298 passengers killed Board (OVV). Vernooij stressed Branch. Air crash investigators the area they seized an Islamic ing violence in Nigeria’s northeast Saudi Arabia has stopped grant- when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing the findings will be a “first report, returned to The Hague from caliphate, Boko Haram has also had arrived in Cameroon’s Far ing visas to workers from these 777 exploded over strife-torn an interim report.” Ukraine in early August without for the first time explicitly laid North region in the past 10 days. countries, and several West eastern Ukraine on July 17, 193 “The final report will be pub- being able to visit the crash site, claim to territory it says it con- “Even upon arrival in African neighbours closed their were Dutch citizens. The Dutch lished later, hopefully by the due to the deteriorating security trols in parts of northeast Nigeria. Cameroon, they are not neces- land borders with worst-affected government has been placed in summer of 2015,” she said. The situation in the country’s volatile They captured the remote hilly sarily out of harm’s way. states. AFP charge of victim identification and West has blamed Russian-backed east. AFP farming town of Gwoza, along REUTERS WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Record support for Scottish independence Referendum on September 18; ‘Yes’ victory now a real possibility, says official; UK’s fate hangs in the balance

EDINBURGH/LONDON: A poll in the lead, the sudden surge indicated by reaction,” said Kit Juckes, currency ana- indicates 320,000 voters are still unde- head of the independence campaign team. showing support for Scottish independ- the poll electrified Britain’s political class lyst at Societe Generale. cided. By excluding those not intending Nationalists accuse London of squan- ence at its highest ever level threw the after its summer break. YouGov’s Kellner, 67, said the poll data to vote or undecided, the poll showed sup- dering Scotland’s wealth and say Scotland fate of the United Kingdom into ques- A vote to breakaway would be followed was so astounding that when he first saw port for keeping the union at 53 percent would be one of the world’s richest coun- tion yesterday, just two weeks before by negotiations with London on what it, he double checked to see if there had against 47 percent seeking independence. tries if it took control of its own destiny. Scots vote on whether to secede. to do about sterling, the national debt, been a sampling error. But he said that “The ‘Yes’ campaign has both gained Unionists, including Britain’s three The poll by YouGov showed the union- North Sea oil and the future of Britain’s after checking the data, he was certain a converts, and secured a two-to-one lead main political parties, say the United ist lead had shrunk to 6 percentage points nuclear submarine base in Scotland real movement had taken place. among people who were undecided and Kingdom is stronger if it stays together from 22 a month ago as support for inde- ahead of independence pencilled in for “When I first saw our data, I wanted have now taken sides,” Kellner said. and that Scottish independence would pendence jumped to 47 percent in August, March 24, 2016. to make sure the movement was real,” Supporters of the Labour party, tra- bring significant financial, economic and suggesting a major shift in opinion ahead If Scots voted to leave the United he said. “I am certain it is.” The poll was ditionally the dominant political force in political uncertainty. of the September 18 referendum. Kingdom, Prime Minister David carried out on Auguast 28-September 1 Scotland, had become more supportive Jenkins said the unionist campaign After months of polls showing nation- Cameron would face calls to resign ahead and 1,063 people were questioned. of independence, while economic worries was in panic but the British government alists heading for defeat in the vote, the of a national election in May 2015 while When respondents were asked how about the prospect of independence had said it had confidence in its argument YouGov poll for the first time raises Labour’s chances of gaining a majority they would vote in the referendum, 42 diminished, YouGov said. in favour of Scotland staying part of the the real prospect that secessionists could be scuppered if it lost its Scottish percent said they would vote for inde- Scottish nationalists said the poll, United Kingdom. could achieve their goal of breaking the lawmakers. pendence while 48 percent said they which comes just over a week after pro- “The only poll that counts is the ref- 307-year-old union with England. Sterling fell to near a five-month low would vote against. Eight percent said independence leader Alex Salmond won erendum itself,” Cameron’s spokesman “A ‘Yes’ victory is now a real possibil- against the dollar and also slipped ver- they did not know and 2 percent did not a television debate, was a breakthrough told reporters. “There isn’t a change ity,” YouGov President Peter Kellner, one sus a generally weak euro. Traders saw intend to vote. moment in the campaign. in the approach that the government of Britain’s most respected pollsters, said. further losses as the vote approaches. “A It was the first time YouGov has “More and more people are beginning has been and will be taking, which is in “A close finish looks likely.” Scottish ‘Yes’ to independence poses far showed support for “Yes” above 40 per- to realise that a ‘Yes’ vote is Scotland’s summary a real confidence in the argu- Polls show different levels of support more questions than it answers but my cent and support for “No” below 50 per- one opportunity to make that enormous ment that the government and others for the unionist campaign and although best guess is that a ‘Yes’ would trigger a cent. About 4 million Scottish residents wealth work better for everybody who are making.” none have shown the independence camp 3-5 percent fall by sterling as an initial have a vote in the referendum, so the poll lives and works here,” said Blair Jenkins, REUTERS

‘HippopoThames’ UK to withdraw arrest warrant Lawyers want Boston bombing against tumour boy’s parents trial delayed to

LONDON: British prosecutors applied for an arrest warrant soon as possible,” the CPS added. September 2015 said yesterday that they were over fears that the condition of The parents were detained withdrawing an arrest warrant Ashya, who has undergone sur- on Saturday but the case has BOSTON: Lawyers defending against the parents of Ashya gery and has to be fed through a prompted an outcry in Britain, the prime suspect in the 2013 King after they fled the country special piece of equipment, could where some 130,000 people have Boston Marathon bombings with the five-year-old boy, who deteriorate. signed a petition calling for the have requested that his trial, has a brain tumour. Brett King, 51, and his 45-year- boy to be reunited with his parents. due to start in November, be The move paves the way for old wife Naghemeh were due to Deputy Prime Minister Nick delayed until at least September the speedy release of Brett and face a court hearing in Spain today, Clegg had said earlier yesterday next year. Naghemeh King from a Spanish from where they faced extradition that it was “not appropriate” to Twin bombs planted at the mar- prison, where they have spent the back home. But it was not immedi- “throw the full force of the law” at athon finish line killed three people last few days as their young son ately clear whether that would still Ashya’s parents for their actions. and injured 264 on April 15, 2013 in receives treatment in a nearby go ahead or whether they would be The chief of police in an attack allegedly carried out by hospital. freed beforehand. Hampshire, the force which origi- Chechen brothers Dzhokhar and British Prime Minister David A Spanish state prosecution nally applied for the arrest war- Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Cameron welcomed the news source said that the prosecutors rant, said that all involved needed The US government accuses on his Twitter feed, saying: “It’s believe there was “no abandon- to ask what was best for Ashya. 21-year-old Dzhokhar, a natu- important this little boy gets treat- ment of the minor nor careless- “It is my view as Chief ralised US citizen, of 30 federal ment & the love of his family.” ness by the parents”. Constable that the situation today charges which could see him Ashya’s parents took him out of The Crown Prosecution Service is not right,” said Andy Marsh. sentenced to death if convicted. a hospital in Southampton, south- (CPS), which oversees criminal “Irrespective of what has hap- Police shot dead his older brother ern England, last week, in search prosecutions in England and pened it is our view that Ashya Tamerlan after the attacks. of a different treatment. Wales, confirmed it was drop- needs both medical treatment and In documents submitted to The Kings are planning to sell ping the arrest warrants against for his parents to be at his side.” the court during the Labour their apartment in Malaga to fund the Kings. Simon Hayes, Hampshire’s Day holiday weekend, Tsarnaev’s proton beam therapy, an alterna- “No further action will be taken police commissioner, raised ques- lawyers said that holding the tive to radiotherapy, for their son, against Mr and Mrs King and we tions about the information from trial just 16 months after the according to their Spanish lawyer are now in the process of com- the hospital which led to the attacks provides insufficient Juan Isidro Fernandez Diaz. municating this decision to the application for an arrest warrant time to prepare an adequate After the family left Britain Spanish authorities so that they in the first place. defence, and requested a delay with their seven children, police can be reunited with their son as AFP until September 2015. “It is critically important that any trial be fair, which means giving both sides, not just the Singer Chris Brown pleads guilty government, enough time to uncover and present all relevant evidence,” they wrote. His law- yers said that the current trial A sculpture of a giant hippopotamus, “HippopoThames”, built by start date of November 3 does not artist Florentjin Hofman is towed up the Thames past the Houses of leave enough time to adequately Parliament in central London yesterday. test the government’s case or to present Tsarnaev’s own evidence. “The sheer scope of the law enforcement investigation... and the massive amount of testimo- nial, physical, digital and expert Child abuse: Minister slams evidence that it has generated, have overwhelmed the ability of defence counsel to evaluate and Rotherham town officials respond to the government’s case in the time allotted,” they said. LONDON: Britain’s interior prospering hub of Britain’s steel The defence team also renewed minister yesterday accused and coal industries. Some resi- its request that the trial not take local authorities in the English dents believe a timidity about place in Boston, arguing that town of Rotherham of a “com- confronting the racial aspects of holding it in the northeastern plete dereliction of duty” for the abuse prompted authorities city so severely impacted by the the way they responded to the to turn a blind eye, while oth- attacks would be prejudicial to sexual exploitation of at least ers believe that is just being used Singer Chris Brown (centre) departs the District of Columbia Superior Court in Washington yesterday. the defendant. Defence lawyers 1,400 children by men of mostly as an excuse to cover up rank Grammy-award winning R&B singer Chris Brown pleaded guilty yesterday to a misdemeanour assault charge requested in June that Tsarnaev’s Pakistani heritage. incompetence. stemming from a scuffle with a fan last year. Brown, 25, was sentenced to time served in jail, or two days, trial be moved to Washington, DC. Speaking in Parliament, Home May described the report into AFP Secretary Theresa May said the the scandal as an account of the and was ordered to pay $150 in court costs. government was considering “terrible failures by Rotherham investigating the local council in Council — and by the police and the northern English town, and other agencies — to protect vul- specifically whether “institution- nerable children”. “It was a com- alised political correctness” — or plete dereliction of duty,” she said, a fear of being branded racist — promising that the government Britain rejects ‘Boris Island’ airport plan was to blame for the cases being would act on the report to bolster mishandled. existing procedures designed to LONDON: A plan to build a major new months before a national election. A decision to Prime Minister David Cameron, said he was May spoke as the police force protect children. airport to the east of London was rejected on where to locate new runways has already dismayed by the move and would continue to in South Yorkshire, the county Britain has already been by a government-appointed commission been delayed for years because of u-turns by fight for the project — potentially prolonging where Rotherham is located, shocked by a string of high pro- yesterday, dealing a blow to its high-profile successive governments. the uncertainty over airport strategy. launched an independent inves- file historical child sex abuse backer, the city’s mayor Boris Johnson. The Airports Commission said the Thames “In one myopic stroke the Airports tigation into its own handling cases involving celebrities such The Airports Commission said having Estuary idea had not made the shortlist as it Commission has set the debate back by half of the cases and the opposition as Jimmy Savile. May said the dropped the idea of building a costly new was too expensive and complicated — at up a century,” he said. Johnson confirmed last Labour party suspended four local findings of the Rotherham report airport in the Thames Estuary, nicknamed to £112bn ($186bn), it would cost around five week he would try to run for parliament next councillors. would feed into an existing inquiry Boris Island, it would now decide by next year times as much as the other three short-listed year in a west London constituency, drawing The scale of the abuse, between into allegations that British public whether to expand Heathrow airport to the options. “We think it’s too risky. The logisti- attention to his long-held opposition to an 1997 and 2013 — in which girls institutions failed to protect chil- west of London or Gatwick to the south. cal challenges of shifting an airport 70 miles expansion of Heathrow. as young as 11 were plied with dren from child sex abuse. With London’s airports near the limit of their across London are immense,” Howard Davies, Manufacturing lobby group the EEF backed drugs and alcohol and subjected She spoke as South Yorkshire capacity, business groups say more runways chair of the commission, told the BBC. “We the decision not to shortlist the island project to gang rapes — was revealed by Police launched its own separate are needed to handle traffic from fast-growing simply think that there’s a strong chance you and said it was important that the decision- an independent report published independent investigation to try emerging economies and fear inaction could would never get it built.” making process was transparent and not last week. to identify wrongdoing or failings deter international investors and curb growth. Heathrow, which is Britain’s busiest airport derailed by any change in government after The case has divided people by its officers. It said the investi- But the capital’s skies are already crowded by passenger traffic and Europe’s busiest, is the election. The airline industry also sup- in Rotherham, a poor town just gation was necessary to restore and the prospect of more noise and pollu- already running at 98 percent full. ported the commission’s move. outside the city of Sheffield which public confidence in the force. tion has made it a toxic political issue eight Johnson, who is seen as a potential successor REUTERS was once known to the world as a REUTERS WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Seoul to press Pro-democracy charges over soldier’s death

HK activists SEOUL: South Korea’s mili- tary said yesterday it will upgrade charges against four soldiers to homicide for the admit defeat abuse of a fellow conscript that lead to his death in a case that shocked the country over vio- lence in the military. Vow a ‘new era of civil disobedience’ The military has been accused of a cover-up and for trying to HONG KONG: Organisers thousands of people to block close the case after putting the of a pro-democracy group who major thoroughfares in the finan- four on court-martial on charges vowed to take over Hong Kong’s cial district of Central to protect of involuntary manslaughter streets admitted yesterday the city’s “core values” and “exist- before a human rights group they were powerless to change ing rights and liberties.” exposed details of the case in July. China’s plan to vet candidates But he acknowledged that sup- Military commanders have for the city’s next leader, but porters who are more “pragmatic” pledged to reform the armed said their protest would go may back down. forces and the treatment of con- ahead. “Ten thousand protesters was scripts who serve mandatory The admission came after our target set in the past, we are two-year terms to dispel criticism activist leaders promised a new still confident that thousands of after a series of deadly incidents. “era of civil disobedience” in front people will join and it will last at Pro-democracy activists clash with police during a protest outside a hotel in Hong Kong. In the latest case, the victim, of thousands of supporters at a least for days.” identified as Private First Class Sunday rally after Beijing crushed Analysts said the movement Yoon, suffered weeks of physical hopes for full democracy. may be changing tactics to dig abuse and died in April after col- “We have to admit the fact in for a long-haul battle against lapsing and choking after a beat- that up to this point it is quite Beijing. ing by the four accused soldiers unrealistic to think that our “It is definitely a backing down Taiwan backs democracy push in his unit. action will change the decision but it is a strategic backing down,” A military prosecution official made by Beijing,” Occupy Central Surya Deva, a professor at City TAIPEI: Taiwan’s President Taiwan and the long-term goal of “Only this way could Hong handling the case told reporters cofounder Chan Kin-Man said. University of Hong Kong’s School Ma Ying-jeou, who initiated our pursuit,” Ma, also chairman of Kong’s social unrest be eased the four soldiers accused of abus- “The first function about talk- of Law said. detente with China, yesterday the ruling Kuomintang party, said and long term and stable support ing Yoon beat him despite know- ing about Occupy Central is to “They know they can’t really threw his support behind Hong during a party meeting. from the people of Hong Kong be ing that he had become extremely create pressure for compromise get the desired change by a Kong’s push for democracy -- “While keeping our concerns secured,” Ma said. weak. and negotiation.” short, intensive burst of civil calling it a core value shared by about the development in Hong The standing committee Photos of Yoon’s body covered “Now I believe we have already disobedience.” Taiwanese people. Kong, we’d also like to voice our of China’s National People’s with bruises and scars prompted reached the end point in terms “They’re getting ready perhaps His support comes after pro- support for the pursuit of democ- Congress on Sunday said Hong a public outcry and President of the democratic change in the for a long term campaign -- and democracy activists in Hong Kong racy and rule of law by the people Kong citizens will be allowed to Park Geun-hye called for the system,” Chan said. they need to build a base,” he vowed a new “era of civil diso- in Hong Kong.” elect their next leader in 2017. military to correct a culture of He also said the movement added. bedience” in front of thousands Ma called on Chinese and Hong But candidates must be cho- violence that has made parents could end if the city’s legislature Hong Kong police have arrested of supporters at a Sunday rally Kong authorities to hold dialogues sen by a pro-Beijing committee. afraid to have their sons serve. vetoes the proposed electoral 22 people during a series of pro- after Beijing crushed hopes for with pro-democracy advocates Candidates must also win the South Korea’s army chief changes. tests targeting a senior visiting full democracy. and respect the will of the major- backing of more than half of the resigned last month after taking However Chan said direct Chinese official, authorities said “Democracy and rule of law is ity of the people in the former committee members to stand. responsibility for the case. action is still planned, mobilising yesterday. AFP also the core value of people in British colony. AFP REUTERS Buddhist shrine Myanmar’s Malaysian crackdown on beauty queen seeks apology dissent hits law professor YANGON: A Myanmar beauty KUALA LUMPUR: colonial era intended to keep a queen dethroned for alleged Malaysian prosecutors charged tight lid on racial tensions and misconduct said yesterday she a high-profile law professor social unrest in the multiethnic would only return her crown if with sedition yesterday for an country. Four sedition charges South Korean pageant organis- opinion he voiced on a political have been pressed in the past ers apologised. crisis that occurred five years nine days. She also denied accepting free ago, extending a recent crack- “There clearly now appears breast implants. down on dissent from opposi- to be an attempt to create an May Myat Noe, 16, was training tion politicians to academia. environment of fear and self- to become a K-pop star in South Lawyers said the charge against censorship such that people now Korea after winning the Seoul- Azmi Sharom, who writes a reg- no longer take it upon themselves based Miss Asia Pacific World ular newspaper column, could to comment on what is going on,” beauty pageant in May. have a chilling effect on freedom said Andrew Khoo, cochairperson But last week the organis- of speech as the government of the Malaysian Bar Council’s ers stripped her of the title for wavers on its pledges to expand human rights committee. alleged dishonesty, accusing her civil liberties. Khoo and Azmi’s lawyer Gobind of absconding with the crown and Four opposition politicians Singh said they could not recall the $10,000 implants, which they have been charged and another the last time an academic was A woman circles around the dome of Swayambhunath Stupa, a collection of shrines and temples on a hilltop, say they funded to enhance her convicted this year under the charged under the 1948 law. and one of the holiest places for Buddhists, to offer prayers in Kathmandu yesterday. budding singing career. Sedition Act, a relic of the British REUTERS Yesterday the beauty queen hit back and demanded an apology from the organisers. Taoyuan arts fest “It is natural for me to feel that an apology should be demanded to Manila bomb suspects ‘anti-China’ rectify the damage they have done to the integrity of my country,” MANILA: Justice Secretary “oligarch titans” engaged monop- morning after they were caught she told a packed press confer- Leila de Lima revealed that the olies and illegal mining, De Lima parking a white Toyota vehicle ence in Yangon. alleged group behind the bomb- said, citing initial investigation loaded with explosives and gaso- “I will return the crown only ing attempt at Ninoy Aquino findings of the National Bureau line at the terminal’s parking lot. when they apologise to Myanmar, International Airport (NAIA) of Investigation (NBI). Guerrero’s group attempted to for the dignity of our country.” Terminal 3 were protesting sup- The two other suspects were use improvised incendiary device, May Myat Noe also denied posedly abusive Chinese-owned identified as Emmanuel San Pedro with potential impact of up to 10 accepting free breast implants. businesses in the country. and Sonny Yohanon. Guerrero, metres radius and could injure “I was put under duress to In a press conference yester- meanwhile, also admitted to and cause the loss of lives, the undergo head-to-toe cosmetic day, De Lima said that the three being a member of a group called NBI’s probe results show. surgery which I refused. I didn’t of the four captured suspects “Guardians.” Seized from the suspects was have breast implants, but I don’t claim to be part of the United The suspects also said they a copy of a manifesto entitled want to go into details, to pre- States Air Forces in the Far East were against the Philippines’ “Kilusan Laban sa Pananakop.” serve my dignity,” she said. (USAFFE). approach to the territorial dis- De Lima said the document was Her comments during the press One of the suspects, identified putes with China over areas of the supposed to be sent by the alleged conference appear to have deep- as Grandeur Pepito Guerrero, is a South China Sea, De Lima said. bomber to a list of email addresses ened the acrimony between pag- “self-proclaimed” military general The three men were appre- once the ploy succeeded. eant organisers and their former defending Filipinos from Chinese hended by NBI agents on Monday THE PHILIPPINE STAR queen. AFP Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, known for his giant yellow rubber duck, displays a 25-metre rabbit sculpture he created for the Taoyuan Land Arts Festival in northern Taiwan yesterday. British rights activist goes on trial in Thailand for defamation

BANGKOK: The defamation supplier to the European drink television network, got under way. of trying to muzzle his findings. A Natural Fruit factory in his company. “The report caused trial of a British activist began market. The migrant rights cam- Defamation is a criminal “What I’ve revealed is just the southern Thailand was inves- damage to me and my company. yesterday in Bangkok after paigner has accused it of trying to offence in Thailand and Hall, tip of the iceberg... and they’re tigated for a Finnwatch report Any accusations were not true... he co-authored a report alleg- divert attention from the report’s whose passport has been confis- cracking down,” he told report- called “Cheap Has a High Price” If true, why are there so many ing widespread labour abuses findings through its legal action. cated by Thai authorities pending ers before entering court. because it produced pineapple workers who want to work at in Thailand’s food industry, a Leading European food giants the trial, could be jailed for up to “I don’t believe there’s any evi- concentrate for Finnish super- my factory?” he said outside the prime supplier of cheap food- have called for the charges to be a year if found guilty. dence against me to show that markets’ own-brand products, court. stuffs to Western supermarkets. dropped, while rights groups have More serious charges under what I did was malicious or in according to the watchdog. Thailand has long tapped the Andy Hall, 34, faces jail if condemned the defamation pro- the computer crime act -- which some way against the company. I Finnwatch has called on labour markets of poorer neigh- convicted over lawsuits brought ceedings from a Thai food indus- carry up to seven years in jail for did it for the benefit of the work- Thailand, the world’s largest bours Myanmar, Cambodia and by Thai fruit processor Natural try that has faced a battery of bad each count -- are due to be heard ers,” he said. pineapple producer, to change Laos, whose migrants help keep Fruit, after his report levelled headlines over recent months. later in September. Hall, who was supported by a its approach “instead of issuing major Thai industries from sea- accusations of forced and child Prosecutors called their first The fruit processor is also seek- dozen labour rights activists in threats and exploiting workers.” food to construction afloat. labour, unlawfully low wages and witness yesterday as the trial, ing $10m through a civil suit. court, made his allegations in a Yesterday Natural Fruit But they often lack official long hours at one of its factories. which is linked to an interview Hall has throughout stood by report last year for Finnish rights chairman Virat Piyapornpaiboon work permits and are paid below Natural Fruit is a major Hall gave to the Al Jazeera the report, accusing the company watchdog Finnwatch. rejected the accusations against the minimum wage. AFP WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Pakistan minister condemns protests Opposition leaders use special session of parliament to voice support for democracy and equality

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s briefly seized control of the state People’s Party, said Khan’s alle- Both PTI and the military editorials criticising its handling interior minister yesterday broadcaster. gations of rigging should be denied Hashmi’s claims but they of the current crisis. slammed violent anti-gov- The protests have disrupted investigated properly but the chimed with the assessment of Dawn, Pakistan’s oldest ernment protests as a ‘revolt life in the normally sleepy capi- government should not step down. numerous analysts in recent English-language paper, said the against the state’ as lawmak- tal since August 15 and heaped “The constitution will be seri- weeks -- that if the army was army’s failure clearly to sup- ers backed beleaguered Prime pressure on Sharif, raising the ously violated if Qadri’s lashkar not directing the protests, it was port the elected government Minister Nawaz Sharif. spectre of military intervention (army) achieves success. This will certainly using them to erode had destroyed its “carefully con- Parliament met for an emer- in a country ruled for half its his- be a black day for the law and Sharif’s authority. structed veneer of neutrality”. gency session after three days of tory by the army. constitution,” he told lawmakers. Sharif’s relationship with the “Staggeringly, the army has clashes between police and club- Khan, who leads the Pakistan Sharif himself did not speak military has been problematic ‘advised’ the government not to wielding demonstrators demand- Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) opposi- during the session, which will over the years -- his last term use force against violent protest- ing Sharif’s resignation, which tion party, claims the May 2013 resume today. as PM ended in a coup led by ers,” Dawn wrote. have left three dead and nearly election that swept Sharif to Interior Minister Chaudhry then-army chief General Pervez “It’s as if the army is unaware 500 injured. power in a landslide was rigged. Nisar Ali Khan said the country Musharraf in 1999. -- rather, unwilling -- to acknowl- Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Sharif has resisted calls for him Qadri, a populist cleric, says the should not be held to ransom by Since his election last year edge the constitutional scheme of to go but protest leaders Imran current political system is corrupt a few thousand people. Sharif is thought to have angered things: it is the government that Khan and Tahir-ul-Qadri have and must be swept away entirely. “This is not a protest or a Last week Khan said they the military by pursuing treason is supposed to give orders to the refused to back down, raising But the movements have not political gathering. This is a revolt would all resign their seats, charges against Musharraf and army, not the other way around.” political tensions to fever pitch. energised much widespread sup- against Pakistan -- this is a revolt though they have not done so yet. seeking to warm ties with peren- The Nation said military com- Violence erupted on Saturday port beyond Khan and Qadri’s against the state institutions,” he The powerful military has nial rival India. manders were “issuing public when Khan and Qadri ordered core followers. told lawmakers. called for a swift and peaceful The spectre of military domi- advisories to the elected govern- their followers to storm the prime Opposition leaders used the Khan said his party would meet political solution but efforts to nation by Pakistan’s giant neigh- ment, which should be simply minister’s official residence, with special session of parliament to a delegation led by the head of a negotiate a way out have so far bour has long been used as part unacceptable”. protesters throwing rocks at voice their support for democracy religious political party yesterday failed. of the justification for the army’s With thousands of people police who responded with tear and reject calls for Sharif to quit evening for talks. On Monday Javed Hashmi, the influence and large budget. camping out there for the past gas and rubber bullets. -- though some criticised his han- He also told supporters that president of PTI, claimed Khan The military is usually treated fortnight, the area in front of There were further clashes on dling of the crisis. PTI’s 34 lawmakers would attend had told party leaders the pro- respectfully in Pakistani media, parliament is strewn with rub- Sunday and Monday, when activ- Aitzaz Ahsan, a senior leader today’s parliamentary session to tests were being coordinated by but two major dailies yesterday bish and human waste. ists armed with bamboo batons in the main opposition Pakistan ‘go out with a bang’. the military. published surprisingly forthright AFP

Seven die as two buildings collapse Abdullah takes Afghanistan election to brink of collapse

KABUL: Afghan presidential question the legitimacy of the election would underline demo- candidate Abdullah Abdullah next government. cratic progress made since the was locked in last-chance talks “Negotiations between spe- Taliban era. with the United Nations yes- cial UN envoy Jan Kubis and Dr The UN has raised concerns of terday as a deal to resolve the Abdullah are being held and when a return to the ethnic divisions country’s damaging election the talks finish we will know what of the 1990s civil war because dispute edged closer to failure. the final stand is,” Muslim Saadat, Abdullah draws his support from Abdullah alleges that ballot- a spokesman for the Abdullah Tajiks and other northern Afghan rigging denied him victory over campaign said. groups, while Ghani is backed by Ashraf Ghani in the June 14 “A press conference has been Pashtun tribes of the south and election to choose a new leader postponed due to requests from east. in Afghanistan as US-led Nato ambassadors, the UN and the Faizullah Zaki, a spokesman troops end their 13-year war international community. from Ghani’s campaign said that against the Taliban. “There were no meetings Abdullah Abdullah should lower With both candidates claiming between the two sides today, after his demands over the unity victory, the US brokered a deal in they could not reach an agree- government and re-join the which the poll rivals agreed to an ment yesterday. negotiations. audit of all eight million votes and “For Dr Abdullah and the Some of Abdullah’s aggrieved the formation of a post-election whole team, it is very clear to us supporters have urged him to national unity government. we were the winner.” form a ‘parallel government’, But Abdullah pulled out of The political crisis has already while officials denied reports that the audit, saying it was failing to emboldened the Taliban and current ministers planned to set uncover fraud, and he has threat- weakened the fragile economy, up an ‘interim administration’ to ened to also walk out of power- which depends on aid funding take power. sharing talks -- throwing into from countries that hoped the AFP People search for survivors in the debris after two residential buildings collapsed in Choori Muhalla, Hyderabad, Pakistan yesterday. At least seven people, including women and children, were killed and 30 injured. Minister to attend summit as Afghan turmoil threatens Nato plans

KABUL: Afghanistan is The summit will open with a electoral process in Afghanistan Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani have at the end of 2014, his spokesman out Nato troops altogether at expected to send its defence session on Afghanistan at which is very unlikely to reach its con- both claimed victory in a vote said last week. year-end. minister to a Nato summit in US President Barack Obama and clusion in time for a new Afghan intended to mark the country’s The political uncertainty calls “We have done what we set Wales this week, Nato officials other Nato leaders will be joined president or president-elect to first democratic transfer of power. into question whether Nato will out to do. We have denied safe said on Monday, after a politi- by officials from 27 other coun- join us in Wales,” said a senior Abdullah’s team has pulled its be able to go ahead with its plans haven to international terrorists. cal crisis dashed hopes that a tries as well as representatives Nato official briefing reporters observers from the UN-led audit to keep a smaller training and We have built up capable Afghan newly-elected president could from the United Nations and on condition of anonymity. of votes from the June 14 run-off advisory mission in Afghanistan forces of 350,000 troops and make his debut on the interna- European Union. “We understand President ballot, saying it was dissatisfied after the end of this year. police. So our nations are safer, tional stage there. Nato Secretary-General (Hamid) Karzai has nominated with the way that fraudulent US and Nato officials say for- and Afghanistan is stronger,” Who, if anyone, would repre- Anders Fogh Rasmussen said last Defence Minister Bismullah Khan votes were being handled. eign troops cannot stay unless Rasmussen said. sent Afghanistan at a summit month that a new Afghan presi- Muhammadi to represent the The setbacks have deepened the Afghan government signs two But despite suffering heavy that will discuss the country’s dent would attend the summit if Afghan government in Wales,” the uncertainty about when agreements providing a legal basis casualties and spending vast sums future had become a guessing he took office in time. the official said. Karzai can hand over power to for them to do so. in Afghanistan, Nato has failed in game following the country’s dis- But that now appears impos- Rasmussen put a brave face on a successor. Karzai has refused to sign. Both its key goal of bringing security puted presidential election. sible after it emerged on Monday the situation at a Brussels news Karzai will not attend the Nato presidential candidates say they to the country, some analysts say. The summit tomorrow and that talks on a power-sharing deal conference on Monday, declaring summit because of his disagree- would sign but if the election Nato has also faced criticism Friday will mark the end of 13 between Afghanistan’s rival presi- Nato had achieved its goals in ments with Washington over deadlock drags on much longer, over civilians killed in air strikes years of combat in Afghanistan dential candidates had collapsed. Afghanistan. Afghan security needs after most Nato officials say they may be or night raids. by US and other foreign troops. “It has become clear that the Rival candidates Abdullah foreign troops leave his country forced to take a decision to pull REUTERS Afghanistan’s poor $15m sought for displaced Bomb explosion persons in Waziristan kills four soldiers KABUL: At least four Afghan national army soldiers were PESHAWAR: The Fata Authority are getting cash assist- killed following a roadside bomb Disaster Management ance. Until now, the Nadra has explosion in the past 24 hours, Authority has asked the federal verified 55,183 families. The Afghan online news agency government to give it Rs1.5bn FDMA had initially registered a Khaama Press reported. or $15m to cater for internally total of 95,830 displaced families. The Afghan Defense Ministry displaced persons of North The army had launched the spokesman, General Zahir Azimi, Waziristan Agency. Zarb-i-Azb operation against said the four Afghan army sol- According to the relevant offi- militants in North Waziristan diers were killed in an explosion cials, the authority requires funds Agency on June 18 causing dis- caused by an improvised explosive to distribute cash to IDPs and placement of hundreds of thou- device (IED). He did not disclose fulfil their basic needs during the sands of families. the exact location where the inci- current month. The IDPs have either taken dent took place however. The federal government had shelter with local residents or He added that eight militants announced payment of Rs12,000 rented houses, while only 725 were killed and eight others were monthly assistance to every dis- of them had taken shelter in injured during the military opera- placed family of North Waziristan. Bakkakhel camp adjacent to the tions in the past 24 hours. He said Only the families, whose cases conflict-hit area. The army is Children look on in a grocery store as two elderly men sit in the old section of Kabul yesterday. Afghanistan’s Afghan army soldiers discovered are okayed by the National managing the camp. economy has improved since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 due to the infusion of international assistance. and neutralized 33 rounds of IED Database and Registration INTERNEWS during the operations. AGENCY WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Power failure Three militants killed in Kashmir gunfight SRINAGAR: Three separa- tist guerrillas of the Jaish-e- Muhammad (JeM) outfit were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir hits Mumbai yesterday, even as the Indian Army unearthed a tunnel across the LoC that was meant to push Blackout first in more than a decade terrorists into India, officials said. MUMBAI: A sudden power nearly 17 million people — TPC, Police said the three militants crisis gripped India’s com- Reliance Energy and BEST — killed in Hanjanbala (Rajpora) mercial capital yesterday with were doing rotational load-shed- village in Pulwama district were several areas facing power ding in their respective areas, locals and included a district com- blackouts and load-shedding as with around 200-300 MW of mander and a teenager who had a key power generating station power available. recently joined the outfit. developed problems. Normal The power blackout and load- The three guerrillas were iden- power supply was only likely to shedding — unprecedented for tified as JeM district commander be restored by late in the night. Mumbai in more than a decade, Altaf Ahmad Rather, Farooq The erratic supply was on according to state government Ahmad Laway and 19-year-old account of tripping of Tata officials — hit business and com- Showkat Ahmad Dar, who had Power’s 500 MW Trombay Power mercial operations, besides incon- reportedly joined only last month. Station Unit No.5 at around 9.45 veniencing millions of people in The Special Operations Group am on account of a technical hur- residential areas. (SOG) of police, counter-insur- dle, a Tata Power Company (TPC) The areas affected included gency Rashtriya Rifles and the official said. the business districts of Bandra, Central Reserve Police Force Though restoration work was Andheri-Saki Naka, Kurla, Parel, (CRPF) cordoned Hanjanbala Soldiers fire towards a house in which militants were hiding, during a gunfight in Rajpora area of Pulwama district, in full swing, erratic supply con- Mahalaxmi, and the residential village on Monday night on infor- tinued till evening with TPC areas of Juhu, Dharavi, Chembur mation that three militants was south of Srinagar, yesterday. announcing that full restoration and Grant Road in Mumbai, hiding inside a house there. would be possible only by late last Santacruz, Ghatkopar, Tilak When the militants were told to night. Nagar and Vikhroli. surrender, they fired indiscrimi- The bodies of the guerrillas Police said the death of the JeM infiltrate terrorists across Jammu Partial supply was restored Reliance Energy informed nately at the security forces. The were handed over to villagers for district commander was a “huge division, there was an attempt through hydroelectric stations through social media that it ensuing gunfight lasted till noon burial. success” and a massive setback to to construct a tunnel across the and TPC activated the initialisa- was in constant touch with Tata yesterday. Angry villagers clashed with militant activities in the area. LoC. Alert soldiers in Akhnoor tion activities of its cold standby Power to ensure restoration of “The first militant to be killed police after the gunfight ended. At The rifle recovered from the thwarted the nefarious designs of Unit No. 6, which runs on oil and normalcy at the earliest. was Showkat Ahmad,” a police least 12 people, including civilians gun battle site was snatched by the terrorists by discovering the was kept on hold with the consent The BEST, which supplies official said. and policemen, were injured. Rather from police in Pakherpora tunnel before it could be com- of the procurers. power to southern Mumbai, said Villagers said the security forces Ghulam Ahmad Dar, the father shrine in the Kashmir Valley in pleted,” the official said. The TPC said that though that after the tripping, Tata later used explosive material to of the 19-year-old slain in the gun- June. The Border Security Force power was available in neighbour- Power had cut off supply to vari- blast the house that came down, fight, was summoned by the secu- Meanwhile, the Indian Army (BSF) had discovered a similar ing areas of Maharashtra, due to ous feeder units, which resulted burying the two other guerrillas rity forces to persuade his son to yesterday unearthed an unfinished tunnel on the international bor- overloading of the state transmis- in load-shedding. under its rubble. surrender when the exchange of tunnel across the Line of Control der in Jammu district last month. sion network it could not import As soon as Tata Power The bodies of the three guer- fire was on. (LoC) that was meant to push ter- The Indian Army guards the power for Mumbai from other restores supply, the feeders will rillas were later recovered from But the militant commander rorists into India. LoC while the BSF is deployed distribution companies. be switched on to ensure normal the debris. An AK-47 rifle and a holed up with him prevented The discovery was made along the international border in Accordingly, the three main supply, BEST officials added. self-loading rifle (SLR) were also him from listening to his father’s in Akhnoor sector, a military Jammu and Kashmir. power distributors for Mumbai’s IANS found. advice, a police officer said. spokesman said. “Having failed to IANS

Death row convict may be heard in open court: SC Shutdown against NEW DELHI: The Supreme Justice Nariman, further said that With the majority favouring While agreeing with the major- Court yesterday held that in this will also apply where a review an open court hearing of such ity view that the death penalty cases where it has upheld a petition is already dismissed but pleas, the court read down order results in deprivation of the most death sentence, the convict will the death sentence is not executed XL, Rule 3 of the Supreme Court fundamental liberty guaranteed murder hits Kerala have the right to have his review so far. “In such cases, the petition- Rules, 1966, by which oral hear- by the constitution, resulting in petition heard by a three-judge ers can apply for the reopening ing of review petitions was elimi- an irreversible situation, Justice THIRUVANANTHA- had waned in recent times. bench in open court. of their review petition within nated and they were decided in the Chelameswar said that “such PURAM: Thousands were Those who reached Kerala by A constitution bench of Chief one month from the date of this chambers by circulation. deprivation should be only in stranded at bus and railway sta- trains and buses found themselves Justice R M Lodha, Justice judgment.” The majority judgment favoured accordance with the law (both tions across Kerala yesterday as stranded as public vehicles did not Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice A However, it said “in those cases open court hearings on the grounds substantive and procedural) which a shutdown to protest the mur- ply. KSikri and Justice Rohinton Fali where even a curative petition is that the death sentence, once car- is consistent with the constitu- der of a RSS leader derailed life “We have come from Tamil Nariman, in a majority judgment, dismissed, it would not be proper ried out, is irreversible and “dif- tional guarantee under articles 14 in the state. Nadu and we have to go to a hos- said: “We make it clear that the to reopen such matters.” ferent judicially trained minds and 21 etc”. Minor incidents of sporadic pital around 50 km away,” com- law laid down in this judgment, In his dissenting judgment, can arrive at conclusions which, “But, I am not able to agree attacks on motorists who defied plained a male member of a family viz., the right of a limited oral Justice J Chelameswar said: “In on the same facts, can be dia- with the proposition that such the strike call were reported in that reached Eranakulam railway hearing in review petitions where my opinion, in the absence of any metrically opposed to each other”. an obligation extends so far as to parts of Kerala. station from Tamil Nadu. death sentence is given, shall be obligation flowing from article 21 Such an oral hearing was compulsorily giving an oral hear- Across Kerala, shops, businesses “We did not know about this applicable only in pending review to grant an oral hearing, there is also justified even if there was ing in every case where review is and markets were deserted. The shutdown when we boarded the petitions and such petitions filed no need to grant an oral hearing on a “remote chance of deviat- sought by a condemned convict,” government declared a holiday for train. Now we are stranded here in future.” any one of the grounds recorded” ing” from the verdict sen- he noted. all educational institutions. till 6 pm,” said the man. The verdict, pronounced by in the majority judgment. tencing the convict to death. IANS Attendance in government Last morning, techies work- offices was said to be thin. ing at the Technopark campus Barring two-wheelers and some here came in convoys escorted private vehicles, the streets were by police. mostly deserted. Buses of the A middle-aged woman said at state-owned transport depart- the airport: “My daughter and I Four ill after fire at Kolkata’s landmark high-rise ment and private buses did not have to depart for Dubai. My aged venture out fearing attacks by parents accompanied us to the KOLKATA: Four people fell ill were damaged. Police deployed a of smoke-related complications,” later spread to the 16th floor. protesters. airport with large stickers pasted after inhaling toxic fumes fol- drone to gauge the situation. said West Bengal Fire Services Officials were silent about the In some places, a few buses that on our car windshield that said lowing a fire at Kolkata’s land- The four were among eight Minister Javed Khan. cause of the fire. came on to the roads were stoned ‘airport’. mark Chatterjee International people trapped inside the 24-floor Disaster Management Group Apart from Khan, Housing by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) “We were scared. Honestly, no Centre building, which houses a building and were seen franti- personnel and firefighters took Minister Arup Biswas and and Rashtriya Swayamsewak one gains any sympathy by holding large number of offices of mul- cally waving clothes and throwing them to nearby hospitals from Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee Sangh (RSS) activists. The crews people to ransom like this. Political tinationals and public sector paper to attract the attention of where they were discharged after went to the spot. quickly called off the service. parties must think of other ways firms, police said. rescuers after the fire broke out treatment. The busy Park Street flyover, The dawn-to-dusk shutdown of organising protests,” she said. More than 20 fire engines at around 8.30 am. Black fumes were first seen which was closed to traffic after was called to protest the killing of Police said they were looking for rushed to the spot and the blaze “Those trapped inside were res- billowing out of the 15th floor of the blaze started, was thrown RSS leader K T Manoj in Kannur a few CPI-M activists alleged to be was brought under control after cued using hydraulic ladders and the building — one of the oldest open around 11 am. district on Monday. behind the murder of RSS activist three hours. At least 10 offices sent to hospitals for treatment high-rises in Kolkata. The fire IANS Unknown assailants first hurled Manoj. bombs at his vehicle and then Former BJP state president attacked him with swords, police P K Krishna Das said both the said. Congress and the CPI-M “are Waiting for devotees Kannur has for years seen hand in glove against us”. Ex-attorney general clashes between BJP and RSS “We will soon demand a new activists and supporters of the probe by a different agency into Communist Party of India- this gruesome murder,” said Das. Vahanvati dead Marxist (CPI-M), but the violence IANS MUMBAI: Legal luminary and former attorney gen- eral Goolamhoossein Essaji Vahanvati died following cardiac arrest at a private hospital here last evening. He was 65. Grover named CBI counsel in 2G case He is survived by his wife and son. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court yesterday appointed senior Vahanvati had been ailing with counsel Anand Grover as special public prosecutor to represent the a lung infection for some time. Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate Solicitor general of India for five before the special CBI court hearing 2G cases on day-to-day basis. years from 2004, he was appointed Grover stepped into the shoes of earlier special public prosecutor the 13th attorney general of India, U U Lalit, who has since been appointed an apex court judge. Grover, or the government’s top lawyer, in like his predecessor, will be in charge of the prosecution in 2G cases. 2009 for a three-year term, which Grover was appointed a special public prosecutor by the apex court was extended by two years in 2012. bench of Justice H L Dattu, Justice S A Bobde and Justice Abhay After the National Democratic Manohar Sapre, noting that senior counsel K K Venugopal, appear- Alliance government came to ing for CBI, had recommended just one name and the court did not power in the 2014 polls, Vahanvati intend to question it. resigned from his post May 27. Venugopal told the court that he had suggested Grover’s name Vahanvati had served as advo- because he had not appeared for any of the parties in the case. cate general of Maharashtra, Having cleared the name of Grover for special public prosecutor, the when he successfully represented court said it would take up for hearing an application by the NGO, the state in the multi-billion-rupee Centre for Public Interest Litigation, seeking that the CBI director stamp paper scam and practised A boatman sits on his boat as he waits for devotees at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganga, Yamuna should keep off the 2G case as it accused him of scuttling the investi- as a top-notch lawyer in the state. and the mythical Saraswati, in Allahabad yesterday. gating agency’s probe into the scam. IANS IANS WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Modi woos Japanese investors Congress, AAP India offers red carpet, not red tape, PM assures business leaders slam new govt’s TOKYO: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday sought to reassure investors that his reformist agenda would translate into better governance performance for India. During an official visit to Japan, NEW DELHI: The Congress Sharma added that Home he told business leaders in Tokyo and the Aam Aadmi Party Minister Rajnath Singh was not that he wanted to cast off the (AAP) yesterday criticised the allowed to appoint his own private image of a country shackled by performance of the Narendra secretary. red tape and poor infrastructure. Modi-led NDA government in “Around 18 ministers of the “We have carried out various its first 100 days, calling it “dis- present government have serious deregulation measures,” Modi, appointing” and “anything but criminal charges against them,” who swept to power in May, told a landmark and emphatic”. he added. forum hosted by the Nikkei news- “Modi is a dream merchant, He said while the BJP had paper and the Japan External who came to power by selling false promised during its election cam- Trade Organisation. hopes,” Congress leader Anand paign to bring back black money, “I’ve come to assure you there Sharma said at a press confer- nothing had come till now. is no red tape but only red carpet ence here and dismissed 100 days He expressed concern over the that awaits you in India,” he said. of Modi’s rule as high on rhetoric situation along the borders with Modi said India was also the and low on performance. Pakistan and China, and said only place where Japanese indus- “The 100 days story of this there were ceasefire violations try would pleasantly find all the government has proved to be day in and day out by Islamabad. three ‘Ds’ — democracy, demog- disappointing, characterised “The government should show raphy and demand. by non-fulfilment of promises, forthrightness in foreign policy “I have come here to assure you undermining of institutions, the engagements. It cannot be just that if you have to look anywhere compromising of administration rhetoric and theatrics,” he said. outside Japan, you do not need and governance and promotion of The Aam Aadmi Party termed to look here or there,” he said, a work culture nurtured by dis- the governance of the Bharatiya adding: “We particularly want to trust and fear,” he said. Janata Party “as an excellent encourage and invite small and He alleged that the BJP had public relations management medium enterprises, as also small- captured power by making lofty and high-definition photographs Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech, titled ‘My vision of India’ to a Japanese audience in Tokyo. scale industries.” promises and selling unrealis- on Twitter”. The prime minister said India tic dreams. Sharma said this “The fear with Narendra Modi’s now had a government working of the two countries to meet and Terming his Japan visit as “very said while responding to a ques- amounted to a “fraud with peo- government isn’t that they will do on development and wanted to share ideas,” he said. successful”, Modi said it was for tion on how India could enhance ple”, who were “misled”. something radically different and step up manufacturing. He said he The prime minister said there the first time that the word tril- the confidence of the international He accused the government of crazy, but rather that they will wished for India what he himself was an unwritten spiritual con- lion was in news. community as a non-NPT (Non- politicising the educational sys- end up being the UPA govern- experienced when he was young, nection between the two countries, “So far we would hear only Proliferation Treaty) state. tem in the country. ment,” the AAP said. when he did not have to think adding that there was growing about millions and billions. Now Another highlight of Modi’s “In schools, a different kind of The party said the government twice if a product said “Made in interest among the Japanese to we are hearing about trillions,” programme yesterday was his history is being taught,” Sharma failed to bring back black money, Japan”. learn Hindi and yoga. Modi said, hinting at Japan’s offer audience with Japanese Emperor said. “This is already happening in which Home Minister Rajnath Later, speaking at a recep- In the evening, while inaugu- of investment of 3.5 trillion yen Akihito, during which he gave the history books of Gujarat”. Singh had promised to do within tion hosted by the Japan-India rating a Vivekananda Cultural (Rs.2.03tn) to India in the next latter a copy of the Gita. “Why is education being politi- the first 100 days of its tenure. Association and the Japan-India Centre in the Japanese capital, five years. Modi also kicked off a new ini- cised? Institutions and research “Where is the black money? Parliamentary Friendship League, he told the Indians present that Modi started the penultimate tiative on training for Japanese and science must remain out of The government has only set up the prime minister said India and India and Japan’s friendship would day of his five-day trip to Japan youth started by Tata Consultancy politics,” he added. the cursory Special Investigation Japan were now working as “spe- determine the course of the 21st by visiting the University of the Services (TCS) at its various The former commerce minister Team on black money, that too cial strategic and global” partners. century. Sacred Heart where he said that facilities in India, asking them said that Modi did not consult the following the directions of the Modi suggested expanding links “There is no doubt that the 21st India was committed to peace and to return to Japan as India’s states before deciding to do away Supreme Court,” the AAP said. between people’s representatives century belongs to Asia. But India this commitment has “significance ambassadors. with the Planning Commission. On the issue of inflation, which by creating a Young Parliamentary and Japan’s friendship will deter- far above any international trea- “You are going as employees “The arbitrary decision has been high in the past few Association and a Women’s mine how it will actually look like,” ties or processes”. of TCS. But I want you to come of dismantling the Planning months, the AAP said: “In the Parliamentary Association. Modi said. “Commitment to peace and back to Japan as ambassadors of Commission strikes at the base first 100 days of the BJP gov- “If we have a Young “The state and direction of the non-violence is ingrained in the India,” Modi told the first batch of our federal structure,” he said. ernment, the prices of diesel, Parliamentary Association, it can 21st century will depend on the DNA of the Indian society.... This of 48 trainees who will proceed “Has the sanctity of a cabinet kerosene, milk, tomatoes, onions, represent the thought and ideol- direction in which Japan and India commitment to peace that was to India to undergo training for form of government been upheld potatoes and nearly every essen- ogy of the new generation. There try to take the world,” he said. intrinsic to Indian society has sig- six-eight weeks at various TCS or a silent shift is being made to a tial commodity went up by astro- can also be an arrangement for the There are around 23,000 Indians nificance far above any interna- offices. presidential form where only one nomical levels.” women parliamentary members in Japan. tional treaties or processes,” Modi AGENCIES voice counts?” IANS

Tibetan celebration Nuclear power plants Six injured as police fire on had accident-free year agitating flood MUMBAI: Not one out of 33 2.8 percent for old plant sites and victims in Bihar incidents in various nuclear 0.1 percent for new ones. power plants in India dur- The AERB said that the impact PATNA: At least six peo- ing 2013-2014 was classi- of this dose was indistinguish- ple were injured when police fied as an “accident” as per able from natural background opened fire to disperse a mob the International Nuclear radiation. of agitating flood victims in and Radiological Event Scale, Liquid and gaseous wastes dis- Bihar’s Patna district yesterday. India’s atomic energy regulator charged into the environment “Police resorted to firing to said yesterday. from the operating plants were control an angry mob protest- While 32 incidents were below only a small fraction of the per- ing against the unfair distribu- scale or had no safety significance, mitted technical specifications tion of relief for flood victims at only one was pegged at scale 1, limits for operations. Ghoshwari block near Barh in signifying “anomaly” or implying Over the years, with constant Patna,” a district police official minor problems in components efforts from AERB and dedicated said. while sufficient defence in depth commitment from utilities, the The flood victims’ protest remained, said the Atomic Energy industrial safety performance turned violent when some of Regulatory Board (AERB) in its of the Department of Atomic them pelted stones at police and annual report for 2013-2014. Energy units has improved appre- attacked officials. “The officials The radiation exposure of occu- ciably, said the report. had to flee from the block office pational workers of nuclear facili- The annual report focuses on to save their lives after a group of ties was well within the annual the safety status at nuclear power protesting flood victims attacked dose limits, it said. plants, fuel cycle facilities and Tibetans living in exile in India perform a traditional dance as they celebrate the 54th Tibetan Democracy Day them,” the police official said. Similarly, the estimated radia- radiation facilities which AERB at the Tsuglagkhang Tibetan temple in McLeodganj, near Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh. Flood victims in the state’s tion exposure to the general pub- monitors, as a part of its man- Nalanda district on Monday lic near the operating plants was date to keep the public informed broke into a government ware- much less than the annual limit on safety issues of radiological house and looted foodgrains to of 1 mSv, as prescribed by AERB safety significance. protest inadequate government — the maximum being less than IANS Marine in Italy-India spat hospitalised assistance, officials said. “Hundreds of flood victims ROME: One of two Italian southern Indian state of Kerala the marines have received. forcibly broke open the lock of marines detained in India over in February 2012. Latorre and Girone are barred a warehouse of the state disas- Australia satisfied with safeguards the fatal shooting of two fish- They say they mistook the fish- from leaving India as long as the ter management department at ermen has been hospitalised ing boat for a pirate vessel and charges against them have not Sarmera block office in Nalanda SYDNEY: Australia is satisfied with the safeguards India has in New Delhi, according to the only fired warning shots. come to court. in the presence of police and in place to allow the export of uranium to the nuclear-armed defence ministry in Rome and Latorre was visited on Monday Criminal proceedings against looted rice and wheat,” district nation, Trade Minister Andrew Robb said yesterday. one of his lawyers. by Defence Minister Roberta the two men were suspended in official Sunil Kumar said. Prime Minister Tony Abbott is due to arrive in India tomorrow In a development which will Pinotti, whose decision to make March when India’s top court Last week, hundreds of flood for his first visit to the country since assuming power a year ago and increase domestic pressure on the the 16-hour round trip reflected agreed to consider a challenge victims staged a protest in is expected to sign a deal clinching the export of uranium. Italian government to bring the the depth of feeling in Italy over to prosecutors’ jurisdiction in Nalanda, a part of the state’s 15 Because India is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation two marines home, Massimiliano the fate of the two marines. the case and a request for the flood-affected districts, demand- Treaty, any exports have to be accompanied by guarantees the ura- Latorre collapsed on Sunday but Pinotti paid tribute to the qual- marines to be allowed home pend- ing adequate relief. nium will only be used for non-military purposes. was reported to be recovering in ity of the treatment Latorre had ing its outcome. Flood victims in Saharsa, Asked what steps had been taken to make sure there were appro- a neurology unit in the Indian received from his Indian doctors. India allowed the marines to Supaul and Khagaria also staged priate safeguards, Robb told ABC radio: “We have satisfied ourselves capital. “We noted that without such a return to Italy last year in order protests last month against insuf- that the steps are in place. His daughter said he had suf- speedy and timely intervention to vote but insisted on them being ficient relief given to them. “The negotiations and work that’s gone on between authorities in fered an ischemia, a blockage in the situation could have had very returned. More than 1.8 million people India and Australia have gone on for some years to develop a bilat- the flow of blood to the brain serious consequences,” she told Italy maintains the two men have been affected by the floods eral nuclear cooperation agreement which meets the international which can lead to a stroke. reporters. should be tried on home soil with major rivers, including requirements and we are satisfied, our officials are satisfied, that In a case that has badly soured Pinotti’s flying visit put the since the shootings involved an the Ganga, Kosi, Gandak and all the requirements have been met,” he added. diplomatic relations between the story back on the front pages Italian-flagged vessel in what Bagmati, submerging large tracts Australia does not use nuclear power but it is the world’s third- two countries, Latorre and fel- yesterday, with reports specu- Rome maintains were interna- of land and forcing the evacuation ranking uranium producer behind Kazakhstan and Canada. In 2012- low marine Salvatore Girone are lating that the ischemia could tional waters. India says the kill- of thousands of people. 13 it exported 8,391 tonnes valued at Aus$823m (US$765m). accused of killing the fishermen have been brought on by stress ings took place in its territorial Till date, floods have claimed AFP while serving as security on an linked to what is widely regarded waters. over 20 lives. Italian-flagged cargo ship off the here as the unfair treatment AFP IANS WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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MUSCAT 32/31 Partly cloudy 34/31 Partly cloudy MAKKAH 42/28 Partly cloudy 40/28 Partly cloudy KUWAIT 46/30 Clear 47/31 Clear Men position an inflatable giant figure in the shape of a pink river dolphin in front of the National Congress in Brasilia yesterday as a part of the Red BAHRAIN 38/33 Clear 38/33 Clear Alert conservation campaign, which is trying to halt the killing of dolphins, which is illegal but common. SANAA 28/15 Partly cloudy 28/16 Partly cloudy RIYADH 42/29 Clear 42/27 Partly cloudy DUBAI 40/30 Partly cloudy 40/30 Partly cloudy BAGHDAD 46/28 Clear 44/27 Clear THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW Legroom rows diverting US flights HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER NEW YORK: It’s been dubbed unemployed Amy Fine of Boca seat on American Airlines flight a $22 gadget dubbed the “Knee the legroom wars. Raton, Florida, saying she was 62 from Miami to Paris. Defender” which blocks the seat ATHENS 30/24 Clear 30/24 Clear For the third time in nine days, escorted off the flight after it Edmond Alexandre, 61, simi- in front from reclining. WASHINGTON 32/24 Partly cloudy 32/24 Chance of storm a US commercial jet has been landed at 9.30pm. larly flouted efforts from the He refused to remove the SYDNEY 15/10 Chance of rain 16/11 Chance of rain forced to divert by enraged pas- Fine became “very combative... cabin crew to appease him, chas- device when asked by a steward- LONDON 24/13 Partly cloudy 25/13 Clear sengers flying into a temper over to the point that they were con- ing after a steward and grabbing ess and his neighbour threw a PARIS 24/17 Clear 24/18 Mostly cloudy a reclining seat in the cramped cerned for the safety of them- his arm before being handcuffed glass of water in his face. ISTANBUL 26/21 Partly cloudy 27/21 Partly cloudy confines of economy class. selves and the passengers. For by a security guard. Airline industry analyst Robert MANILA 30/25 Chance of storm 30/25 Mostly cloudy A 32-year-old woman trying to that reason they diverted the He was thrown off the flight Mann said that diversions over DHAKA 32/26 Chance of storm 32/25 Mostly cloudy snooze on a tray table on a flight plane,” said the police report. in Boston and admitted to hos- a reclining seat were an “over- DELHI 32/22 Thunderstorm 30/25 Thunderstorm from New York to West Palm Fine denied that she had been pital at his own request, then reaction” and called for a better ISLAMABAD 32/21 Mostly cloudy 33/22 Partly cloudy Beach, Florida became the latest disruptive, and told officers that charged with interfering with a standard operating procedure in offender on Monday when the she had two dogs die and was crew member while he was at such circumstances. woman in front slammed her seat “just very emotional.” She was Massachusetts General Hospital. “This is a case of passengers back, bashing her alleged victim’s then released without incident, Alexandre is due back in court overreacting and behaving badly. head at the end of the Labour Day police said. on December 29, a spokesman It’s just hideously expensive in Robin Hood monkey holiday weekend. Delta Airlines said that flight for the local prosecutor said, and terms of cost to the airline, and The woman allegedly struck 2370 was re-routed “out of an faces up a maximum penalty of six very inconvenient for everyone on became loud and verbally abusive, abundance of caution” due to a months in a house of correction board,” he said. and when cabin crew tried to calm passenger disruption, and contin- and a $500 fine. Average legroom in economy showers town with cash her down she got worse, forcing ued onto West Palm Beach after On August 24, United Airlines on US network carriers is 30 to SHIMLA: A monkey sparked a dash for cash in a northern Indian the pilot to divert Delta Air Lines the passenger was ejected. said flight 1462 from Newark to 32 inches (76 to 81 centimetres) town when he showered banknotes from a rooftop, witnesses said flight 2370 to Jacksonville, north- On Thursday, a Frenchman was Denver diverted to Chicago and and with August the peak travel yesterday. ern Florida. arraigned in Boston after becom- two passengers ejected owing to period, the timing was “not sur- Passers-by in the hill town of Shimla spotted the monkey with a Jacksonville Aviation Authority ing disruptive when the passen- a disturbance. prising,” he said. bundle of notes on Sunday after it broke into a construction site in police identified the woman as ger in front of him reclined their One of the passengers used AFP search of food. Finding nothing to munch on, it stole 10,000 rupees ($165) that a contractor had planned to pay his labourers, according to the Amar Ujala newspaper. “I was returning from the nearby temple when I suddenly saw some people looking up at currency notes flying. I noticed a monkey was Action-packed TV might make you snack more dropping them from a tree,” resident Ashok Kumar said. “I also joined the crowd and picked up two notes of 100 rupees CHICAGO: Could action- Johansson and Ewan McGregor; nearly double the ounces they risks for packing on pounds. ($1.65) each.” packed TV fare make you fat? that same movie but without the ate watching interviewer Charlie The study was small and didn’t Workers at the construction site tried in vain to catch the thiev- That’s the implication of a new sound; or the Charlie Rose show, Rose. Watching the movie with- last long enough to measure any ing primate, who playfully tossed down money from a rooftop before study that found people snacked a public television interview pro- out sound, they also ate more long-term effects on the students’ continuing the handouts from a tree, with an eager crowd gathering more watching fast-paced tel- gramme. The students were all — almost 100 calories more — weight. to catch the cash for nearly an hour. evision than viewing a more provided generous amounts of compared with Charlie Rose. It’s also possible some viewers Shimla, capital of the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh, has leisurely-paced talk show. cookies, M&M candies, carrots The faster paced TV seemed would find talk shows or other a ballooning monkey population and wildlife officials say the animals Cornell University research- and grapes. to distract viewers more, con- slower-paced TV more distract- often harass residents and tourists. ers randomly assigned almost During The Island, students ate tributing to mindless eating, ing and would be more apt to Monkeys are revered in Hindu-majority India — but the animals 100 undergraduates to watch on average about seven ounces said Cornell researcher Aner snack more during those shows can be a menace, trashing gardens, offices and residences and even one of three 20-minute sessions (207 grams) of various snack Tal, the study’s lead author. The than when watching action- attacking people for food. featuring: The Island, a 2005 foods, and 354 calories. That was results suggest that a steady packed programmes. AFP sci-fi thriller starring Scarlett almost 140 calories more and diet of action TV could raise AP

Climbing the Alps Fuel produced from bacteria, sugar PARIS: Driven by the quest However, no method existed for addition of several enzymes. for an abundant, non-polluting its manufacture from a renewable “We created a system to renew- alternative to fossil fuel, scien- source. Until now. ably produce a product which is tists said yesterday they had “Our proof of concept study chemically identical to a molecule developed a method to produce provides a method for renewable that until now only was available propane using sugar and the gut production of a fuel that previ- from fossil sources,” Jones said. bacteria E. coli. ously was only accessible from Productivity and yield would Though still far from being fossil reserves,” said study co- need to improve by a factor of 100 commercially viable, the inventors author Patrik Jones from Imperial to 1,000 before one would be able of the process said they hoped it College London. to assess if the method is com- would one day yield a renewable “Although we have only pro- mercially viable, he added. source of clean fuel that could be duced tiny amounts so far, the fuel “Although fracking has pro- seamlessly introduced and used we have produced is ready to be vided a boost in the supply of by existing technologies. used in an engine straight away.” liquid and gaseous fossil fuels, Propane makes up the bulk of The team grew engineered E. there is still a continued need LPG (liquid petroleum gas) used coli, usually harmless gut bacte- for genuinely sustainable energy in heaters, gas burners, refrigera- ria that can sometimes cause food technologies over the long-term,” tors and some types of cars. poisoning, in sugar in the lab. the study authors wrote. It is derived as a by-product Inside the bacterial cells, some And they pointed to a “need to from natural gas processing of the sugar would ordinarily be phase out current crop-based bio- and petrol refining — both finite turned into fatty acid and protein fuels and move towards next-gen- resources. molecules, which would then be eration technologies that do not Adding to its attractiveness turned into new cell membranes. compete for food” — a criticism as a alternative energy source, In the modified bacteria, how- of some biofuel crops like maize. propane is released as a gas but ever, the process of making fatty “I hope that over the next five can be stored in an energy-dense acids was interrupted to instead to 10 years we will be able to liquid form, and is less toxic than yield a nasty-smelling compound achieve commercially viable proc- other fuels, wrote the authors of called butyric acid. esses that will sustainably fuel our A mountaineer climbs up Piz Beverin mountain (2,998 metres) near Mathon, above Val Schons in canton the study in the journal Nature This was, in turn, coaxed into energy demands,” said Jones. Grisons, Switzerland, yesterday. Communications. becoming propane through the AFP Wednesday 3 September 2014 8 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 Volume 19 Number 6177 Price: QR2

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DOHA: Qatar Chemical progressing in the downstream mega pipeline Company (Q-Chem) and Gasal development area. have signed a long-term pipe- Operated by Qatar Chemical line network agreement, a stra- Company II Ltd. (Q-Chem II) on tegic deal under which Gasal behalf of its partners, RLOC man- to China will supply the necessary nitro- ufactures ethylene, a feedstock gen for the Ras Laffan Olefins used at Q-Chem II and Qatofin Company (RLOC) ethylene complexes in Mesaieed. cracker in Ras Laffan Industrial “We are pleased with this Power of Siberia gas flow from 2019 City, said a press statement agreement as it extends opera- yesterday. tional synergies and marks a US KHATYN, Russia: via a second, more westerly route, Gasal, a joint venture involv- new phase in energy consump- President Vladimir Putin over- could be signed in November: “If ing Qatar Intermediate Industries tion efficiency in our facility,” saw the start of construction on we work closely with CNPC.” He Company Ltd (Alwaseeta), said Ahmed Ibrahim Al Emadi, a giant pipeline that is due to did not give details, however. Qatar Industrial Manufacturing Q-Chem General Manager. ship $400bn worth of Russian On Putin’s command “Begin!” Company (QIMC), and the He added, “This will also help gas to China in the three dec- two workers lowered their protec- French industrial gas company enhance our reliability and oper- ades after flows begin in 2019. tive visors and welded the first Air Liquide, has been supplying ational safety.” The 4,000km “Power of Siberia” segment of the black pipeline with RLOC with nitrogen since 2009 This is an important step for pipeline, being built by state-con- flaring blowtorches. The Kremlin using a dedicated unit situated at Gasal as its first gas customer in trolled Gazprom, forms a key part leader then signed his name on it. the RLOC premises. According Ras Laffan will now benefit from of the Kremlin’s energy strategy, With a total capacity of 61 bcm to the new agreement, Gasal will the full added value of the com- symbolising Russia’s attempts per year, the new pipeline should connect RLOC through its pipe- pany’s pipeline supply. to wean itself off dependence on deliver gas both to China and to line network. Manuel Binoist, CEO of Gasal, European markets that account remote regions in Russia’s Far East. The Gasal network in Ras said: “We are proud of this agree- for most of its exports. Gazprom said on Saturday it Laffan includes 35 kilometers ment as pipeline supply improves “Just now, we along with our planned to launch its far eastern of oxygen, nitrogen, and hydro- the flexibility, the reliability and Chinese friends are starting the Chayanda gas field at the end of gen pipelines connected with safety of RLOC, our long-time biggest construction project in the 2018, aiming to ship the first gas multiple sources for the benefit partner and one of our key world,” Putin told a Chinese delega- to China in 2019. Chayanda is one of Gasal’s customers, providing customers.” tion, headed by Vice Premier Zhang of the keys to supplying China and them with flexibility and reliabil- He added that, in compliance Gaoli, and a group of Gazprom will produce up to 25 bcm a year ity of supply. with its mission, “Gasal is proud workers in Russia’s far east. at its peak. Gasal currently supplies to help the competiveness and He said the first gas pipeline Gazprom is one of a handful of industrial gases to major com- the growth of Qatari companies between Russia and China: “Will major Russian state companies not panies in the industrial cities of in line with Qatar National Vision not only allow us to export gas, directly affected by Western sanc- Mesaieed and Ras Laffan, where 2030.” but to develop gas infrastructure tions. It accounts for around a third A Q-Chem employee inspecting a pipeline network. its plans for future expansion are THE PENINSULA in our country, to speed up (eco- of Europe’s gas needs, shipping nomic) development, not only in 161.5bcm to the region last year. this region, but in the whole coun- The company is at the centre try.” Putin also told Zhang that of a separate row with Ukraine he welcomed the idea of Chinese — a transit country for Russian investors joining the Vankor oil gas — over gas prices. The disa- Clearance for Etihad, Alitalia deal likely by year-end project in east Siberia, owned by greement is threatening stable Russia’s Rosneft. gas supplies to Europe this win- Flows through the “Power of ter, forcing Europe to step up its BRUSSELS: Italian airline would be the largest single share- immediately available for com- that European companies own Siberia” will start at 5 billion search for alternatives to Russian Alitalia and Etihad Airways are holder in Alitalia after the deal. “The ment. The source said the air- more than 50 percent of EU air- cubic metres (bcm) of gas in 2019, energy supplies. expected to win EU regulatory deal is expected to be notified to the lines may have to give up some lines and have operational control. ramping up to 38bcm under a Apart from Chayanda, clearance for their tie-up by the European Commission this month. airport slots or overlapping routes A second source with direct deal signed by the two countries Gazprom plans to link another end of the year with minor con- It should be conditional, phase-one should the Commission have con- knowledge of the Commission’s in May. huge Siberian deposit, Kovykta, cessions, a person familiar with clearance,” said the person, who cerns that the deal may reduce working say Italian authorities The long-awaited deal with with the planned pipeline. This the matter said yesterday. declined to be named because of the competition. were cooperating with the regu- China National Petroleum Corp would extend the country’s gas Abu Dhabi-based Etihad sensitivity of the matter. Etihad has daily flights from lator and may receive the green (CNPC) was a diplomatic coup for pipeline system from west to east, clinched a deal last month to buy A phase-one review by the EU Abu Dhabi to Rome and Milan, light next year. The Etihad deal the Kremlin after a decade of dif- enabling Russia to switch volumes 49 percent of loss making Alitalia antitrust authority lasts 25 work- while Alitalia operates five flights does not need this approval before ficult negotiations, and a symbol of depending on needs. in a ¤1.76bn (£1.4bn) rescue ing days, which is extended by 10 a week from Rome to Abu Dhabi. it is implemented. its efforts to strengthen economic “After we create a gas pipeline plan, giving it access to Europe’s additional working days if com- In previous airline deals, EU Existing Alitalia sharehold- ties with Asia as Russia’s economy network here, in the Far East (and) fourth-largest travel market and panies offer concessions to allay regulators have forced carriers to ers, including state-owned Poste faces the effects of Western sanc- Siberia, we’ll have the ability to join 25 million passengers. competition concerns. surrender rights over slots, grant Italiane, will group their holdings tions over the crisis in Ukraine. the European part of the gas pipe- Cash-rich Etihad, which has The Commission’s spokesman traffic rights and open up their fre- in a so-called “mid-company” that Gazprom chief Alexei Miller line system with the eastern,” Putin minority stakes in Air Berlin, for competition policy, Antoine quent flyer programmes to rivals. will control 51 percent of the told Putin and Zhang that a fur- was quoted as saying by Interfax. Ireland’s Aer Lingus, Virgin Colombani, and Etihad declined The Etihad deal will also need to shares in the restructured airline. ther contract on shipment of gas REUTERS Australia and other global airlines, to comment. Alitalia was not comply with EU rules ensuring REUTERS

Spain jobless rate creeps back after Demand fears push oil summer boost price to 15-month low MADRID: Spain’s jobless queue lengthened slightly in NEW YORK: Brent crude oil of Managed Futures at iitrader. August as the summer hiring futures fell to the lowest level in com in Chicago. “The dollar is boom tailed off but the indica- 15 months yesterday, pressured strong today and the US has so tor was stronger than a year by the prospect of slowing oil much oil and has the capability ago, government figures showed demand growth in China and to produce more.” yesterday. Europe, while a strong dollar The euro sagged yesterday The number of people in Spain and ample supplies pressured to fresh one-year lows against registered as unemployed crept US prices. the dollar on bets the European up by some 8,000 to 4.43 million in Oil prices on both sides of the Central Bank will do more to August compared to 4.42 in July, Atlantic have been in steady help a wobbly euro zone economy, the figures from the employment decline since the end of June as while the pound fell to a near ministry showed. concerns faded over supply dis- five-month low versus the green- August usually sees a rise in ruptions from Iraq, Libya and back on worries about a Scottish registered unemployed as tem- Russia. Continued supply from secession. porary summer hires end. key producing regions and tepid Further pressure came from But in a sign of economic demand has left global markets the prospect of resuming oil sup- strengthening, the number of well stocked. plies from the Buzzard field in registered unemployed fell by Brent crude for October deliv- the North Sea and discourag- more than 270,000 last month ery fell $1.84 to $100.95 a barrel by ing economic data from Europe compared to August 2013, the 11.59am EDT (1559 GMT), after and China. China’s factory sector ministry said. earlier hitting $100.67, the low- growth slowed to a three-month The registered unemployed est since May 31, 2013. US crude low last month. list is a different measure from dropped $2.37 from Friday’s close The Buzzard field, the biggest the benchmark quarterly unem- to $93.59 a barrel. There was no contributor to the Forties oil ployment rate published by the trading in the United States on stream, one of the four crudes national statistics institute. Monday because of the Labor Day that underpin the price of Brent The institute recorded 5.5 mil- holiday. crude oil futures, may attempt lion unemployed in Spain in June, “There was some buying going another restart later yester- yielding an unemployment rate of into the long weekend and you day, after going offline at the 24.47 percent. are seeing that premium come weekend. AFP People wait to enter a government-run employment office in Madrid yesterday. out,” said Oliver Sloup, Director REUTERS WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Two new officials Qatar Exchange appointed at index gains Barwa Bank 42.71 points DOHA: Barwa Bank yesterday announced the appointment of Saudi market pulls back Abdulla Majed Al Malki (pic- tured left) as Group Chief DOHA: Qatar Exchange index chase property stocks, hoping Administrative Officer and gained 42.71 points, or 0.31 per- Egyptians will use real estate as Abdulaziz Sultan Al Kuwari cent, when the bourse closed a hedge against consumer price (right) as Head of Qatarisation. trading at 13,742.22 points increases. With more than 14 years of yesterday. Shares in developer SODIC experience in the banking sector, The trading value increased rose 2.6 percent yesterday, human resources, and adminis- 83.28 percent to QR787.6m com- while another property firm, tration, Al Malki is now amongst pared QR429.73m registered on Talaat Moustafa Group , the top-level executives who over- Monday. added 2.9 percent. Palms Hills see the day-to-day operations of The market capitalisa- Developments Company rose Barwa Bank. His key responsi- tion increased 0.54 percent to 1.8 percent and Medinet Nasr bilities include the supervision QR729.765bn from Monday’s for Housing and Development of the Human Resources and QR725.835bn. was up 1.1 percent. Administration and Facility The trading volume increased Another positive factor was Management departments. 72.8 percent to 16,839,121 shares a report by Egyptian state-run A security worker checks pipelines at a gas compressor station on the Slovakia-Ukraine border in Velke Kapusany Prior to joining Barwa Bank, from 7,559 transactions compared newspaper Al Ahram which said yesterday. Al Malki served as HR and to Monday’s 97,744,733 shares state-owned Egyptian General Administration Manager at the from 4,707 transactions. Petroleum Corp had secured a Qatar Development Bank for Telecommunications sector 10bn Egyptian pound ($1.4bn) Slovakia opens pipeline to Ukraine four years, after spending nearly was the top gainer with its index loan which it would use to repay a decade at Ras Gas and a year up 1.85 percent to 1,603.48 points part of its debt to foreign oil at Qatari Diar; spearheading both yesterday. Banks and finance companies. VELKE KAPUSANY, told reporters at a gas pumping troops and funds, claims it denies. companies’ HR departments. sectors index rose 0.9 percent to The move means that the for- Slovakia: Slovakia opened a station near the Ukraine border. Should supplies to Europe dry up, Welcoming the new appoint- 3,405.25 points. eign companies are likely to con- pipeline yesterday able to deliver Russia has halted gas flows to it is likely that Germany will be first ment, Khalid Yousef Al-Subeai, From the 43 listed companies, tinue their operations in Egypt, natural gas from the European Ukraine three times in the past in line to ensure smooth supplies Barwa Bank’s Acting Group Chief shares of 42 were traded. From said Harshjit Oza, assistant Union to Ukraine, marking a decade - in 2006, 2009 and since this winter due in part to healthy Executive Officer, said, “With his these, 19 each gained and dropped director of research at Naeem major step in the bloc’s efforts June this year - because of price reserves and steady deliveries from experience working with Qatar’s while four remained unchanged. Brokerage in Cairo. to aid the country in its escalat- disputes with Kiev, although this the Yamal and Nord Stream pipe- leading companies, Al Malki is an Meanwhile, Egypt’s bourse out- Saudi Arabia’s main stock ing dispute with Russia. year gas intended for EU custom- lines, both of which avoid Ukraine. added value to Barwa Bank. One performed an otherwise sluggish index pulled back 0.6 percent Opening up so-called reverse ers have so far continued to flow Germany also has access to of the main reasons for our success region yesterday on the back of after hitting a fresh six-year high gas flows eastward is part of the via Ukraine. North Sea pipelines linking it to over the past years has been the property firms and other blue in the previous session. The bank- EU’s response to Gazprom’s deci- The problem for Ukraine is Norwegian, Dutch and British expertise and insight of our people, chips, while banks dragged down ing sector benchmark fell 1.3 per- sion to cut supplies to Kiev on that continental Europe’s pipe- gas fields, and it can also bring enabling us to take decisions quickly Saudi Arabia after the kingdom’s cent after the central bank said June 16 in a row over pricing and line infrastructure was built from in liquefied natural gas (LNG) and to lead our team effectively”. central bank tightened consumer it might cap lenders’ retail expo- in the wake of Moscow’s annexa- East-to-West in order to import imported by tankers from North Al Kuwari has proven leader- lending regulations. sure and would limit fees related tion of Crimea. Russian gas, a situation that has Africa and the Middle East to ship in learning and development. The Cairo index rose 1.8 per- to consumer finance. Ukraine’s Prime Minister spurred EU officials to open up Belgium and the Netherlands. With over five years of experi- cent, its biggest gain in five weeks, Al Rajhi Bank, the biggest Arseny Yatsenyiuk said the open- reverse supply routes to help German utility RWE earlier ence in the domain, he recently after the country’s central bank player in the consumer lending ing of the pipeline that could Ukraine. this year delivered small supplies served as Qatarisation and Talent on Monday kept interest rates segment, was the largest drag on potentially meet up to 20 per- Russia is Europe’s biggest sup- to Ukraine from its pan-European Development Manager at HSBC. unchanged, as expected by the the main index, sliding 0.9 percent. cent of Ukraine’s demand showed plier of oil, coal and natural gas, portfolio via Poland and Slovakia “I am delighted with Al Kuwari market, and said there was upside Other leading retail banks also his country was united with the and its pipelines through Ukraine to demonstrate that shipping gas joining us as the new Head of risk to the inflation outlook. suffered: Samba Financial Group European Union, which is also are currently subject to political eastward was a viable option. Qatarisation. Al Kuwari comes At its previous meeting on July 17, fell 2.2 percent and Saudi British worried about a Russian supply manoeuvring, not for the first EU Energy Commissioner with extensive experience and the central bank had raised bench- Bank was down 2.3 percent. cut this winter. time, as the West and Moscow Guenther Oettinger, a German fervent ambition to steer our cor- mark interest rates in a surprise Saudi riyal forwards and credit “Ukraine can state today we clash over the latter’s military national, has also suggested the porate development plan in line move seen as an attempt to hold default swaps did not move in made this first step together action in Ukraine. reverse routes could protect more with Qatar’s National Vision 2030 down inflation after the government response to the news, suggesting with our Slovak friends and the Russia has been hit by heavy vulnerable countries in Europe and to ensure the development introduced fuel price increases. the stock market is unlikely to be European Commission to diversify sanctions over its move on Crimea under a worst-case scenario of a of Barwa Bank Group’s national Expectations for higher infla- worried by it. the energy supply and to decrease and accusations it is supporting prolonged Russian gas cut. work force,” said Al Subeai. tion have prompted investors to AGENCIES energy dependence,” Yatseniuk separatists in east Ukraine with REUTERS THE PENINSULA

QP District project completes 20m Vale, Glencore break off talks over Canada nickel deal LONDON: Vale and Glencore rationalisation less urgent, they assets in Canada had already been making the need for cost-savings place for the foreseeable future, man hours without have broken off talks over com- added. “Both sides more or less attempted by their previous own- and restructuring less pressing. the talks between Glencore and bining their nickel assets in agreed on what the optimum ers, Inco and Falconbridge, which At the end of April, Vale Chief Vale are unlikely to resume, the lost time incident Canada in a deal that could have structure of a combined Sudbury in the mid-2000s came close to Executive Murilo Ferreira said it sources said. produced over $1bn in annual business would look like, but to an agreement before they were was still discussing a partnership “If the nickel price were still DOHA: QPM, the Project cost savings, sources close to enable that to be created, very acquired by Vale and Xstrata. with Glencore. Since then, com- weak, then a lot of these opera- Management Company for the the matter said. difficult decisions needed to be The talks between Vale and ments on the deal from executives on tions would be under water, and QP District project, said yes- The discussions over linking taken, and the appetite or the Glencore, which bought Xstrata both sides have turned pessimistic. the imperative to cut costs acts terday that the project com- the two companies’ neighbour- ability to take those decisions was last year, started in late 2013, Vale’s head of the base metals as a very great focus for manage- pleted another milestone of ing nickel mining and processing not there,” a source with knowl- when the nickel price was hover- division, Peter Poppinga, said in ment,” Bernstein Research ana- 20m man hours without a lost facilities in the Sudbury basin in edge of the situation said. ing around a four-year low. The July that there had been a “stra- lyst Paul Gait said. time incident (LTI), a major southeast Canada broke down Glencore and Vale declined to companies were at the time hop- tegic break in bigger discussions” “But the nickel price has recov- milestone for both the contrac- partly due to disagreement over comment. ing to seal a deal in early 2014. and the companies were focusing ered and that makes any kind of tors as well as Qatar Petroleum how to share the costs and sav- One of the sources said differ- In January, major exporter on a tie-up on smaller projects to restructuring much harder to (QP), whose Health Safety and ings and to worries about govern- ences in corporate culture — with Indonesia imposed a ban on the begin with. achieve. It becomes very difficult Environment (HSE) standards ment and labour union reaction to Swiss-based trader and mine oper- export of nickel ore to boost down- Glencore Chief Executive Ivan to persuade the government and are among the highest in the potential job cuts and shutdowns, ator Glencore more willing to take stream investment in the country. Glasenberg said in August at a a highly unionised workforce that world. the sources said. risk and Brazilian miner Vale more This was a game-changer for the results presentation that the talks restructuring is needed when you QP extended its appreciation to At the same time, a recovery conservative — also played a role. nickel market, pushing the price “were very slow and very diffi- have cash-positive operations.” main contractor BBI, QPM and in nickel prices has made cost A combination of the nickel up by more than a third so far and cult”. With the Indonesian ban in REUTERS all subcontractors for their roles in delivering these results and commended the HSE practices implemented on site that led to Cavern storage in Singapore this achievement. The QP District project is the Gold falls to weakest in future gateway to Doha’s vibrant West Bay business district, allow- ing both easy accessibility for staff and visitors, as well as some two-and-a-half months extraordinary views. BBI and QPM work with LONDON: Gold fell to its news and it doesn’t affect them a range of specialist subcon- weakest in 2-1/2 months yes- anymore.” tractors in order to ensure terday, breaking through key Spot gold was down 1.4 per- timely delivery to the highest support at August lows as stock cent at $1,268.83 an ounce at 1311 standards. The range of sup- markets steadied and the dol- GMT, having hit its lowest since pliers include some of the big- lar hit a one-year high against mid-June at $1,265.10. US gold gest names in the construction the euro ahead of a European futures for December delivery sector. Central Bank meeting this were down $17.60 at $1,269.70. The contractors have put week. Selling picked up after the in place stringent systems to The metal has been under- metal broke through support at coordinate safety at the site. pinned by worries about the $1,273.06 an ounce, its August 21 QPM’s Health and Safety team stand-off between Russia and the lows. European shares were little have also hosted special safety West over Ukraine and unrest in changed on Tuesday as investors Toolbox Training sessions for the Middle East, but strength in await the ECB’s policy decision contractor staff on site to cover stocks and the dollar, plus weak later this week before chasing the standards expected of the physical demand from China and stocks higher. various teams working on the India, has offset that. Stock markets have rallied project. “It’s when the dollar hits big recently following dovish comments QPM provides the QP District numbers that gold gets punished by ECB President Mario Draghi, project with a range of services and this is clearly one of those which sparked bets that the central including Project Management, moments,” Ross Norman, CEO of bank is preparing to pump more Design Management, bullion broker Sharps Pixley, said. liquidity into the system, possibly Construction Management, “There is a lot to be concerned via purchases of government or Cost Management and Program Visitors tour one of two completed caverns at the Jurong Rock Caverns in Singapore yesterday. The Caverns, about on the political and eco- corporate bonds, a measure known Management. the first commercial underground facility for liquid hydrocarbons storage in Southeast Asia, opened yesterday. nomic front (but) people tend as quantitative easing. 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UK accounting New screening method for sukuk compliance watchdog fines IdealRatings says its product addresses compliance hurdles, helps reduce turnaround time Mazars £2m LONDON: Britain’s account- DUBAI: A new screening fund managers and compil- the past two years in consulta- lender — and Abu Dhabi Islamic launched its own sukuk fund in ing watchdog has fined audit method for sukuk (Islamic ers of indexes, said its product tion with Islamic financial insti- Bank. the same month. and advisory firm Mazars £2m bonds), developed in coopera- addressed compliance hurdles tutions, in particular Saudi firms The service will help to reduce Over the past two years, ($3.3m) for failing in 2007 to tion with Saudi Arabian finan- faced by sukuk investors contend- which are increasingly active in the turnaround time for screen- issuance of sukuk in Saudi meet regulatory standards cial institutions, aims to reduce ing with multiple structures and the sukuk market. ing and approving sukuk, which Arabia has expanded because while advising a pension fund. the cumbersome approval proc- disparate opinions. “Compiling, analysing and in turn will facilitate investment of increased liquidity, compara- It is the latest example of how ess that these instruments “Investors drift away from screening sukuk documentation decisions, said Anas Al Eissa, tively low borrowing costs and a the Financial Reporting Council often require. investing in sukuk primarily due is indeed an enormous effort... head of the sharia department at desire to diversify beyond bank (FPC) is using its enhanced Islamic finance is now a $1.7 to lack of transparency (in) the This new platform helps ease the Al Rajhi Capital. loans. armoury of sanctions in a bid to trillion industry but its growth acceptability or not of the struc- process,” said Yasser Al Marshde, This could encourage the use of Sukuk issuance in the country raise standards in a sector criti- has exposed weaknesses, such as ture deployed by the issuer,” the General Manager of the Shariah sukuk by Saudi firms. At present, rose to the equivalent of $15.2bn cised for its performance in the the lack of a clear consensus on firm said. group at Riyadh-based Alinma the local stock exchange lists through 20 deals last year, com- run up to the global financial what products are permissible; The product reviews and cat- Bank, which helped to develop only five mutual funds dedicated pared to $11.2bn through 18 crisis. the sharia boards of individual egorises sukuk to allow Islamic the service. purely to sukuk out of a total of deals in 2012, according to data The FRC said yesterday that banks and investment firms can banks to adhere to their own Other backers include Riyadh- 169 Islamic funds. from Zawya, a Thomson Reuters Mazars and one of its partners, issue conflicting rulings. guidelines more efficiently, reduc- based Jadwa Investment and Al In June, Al Rajhi Capital company. Year-to-date, there Richard Karmel, had admitted San Francisco-based ing the time and costs of due dili- Rajhi Capital, the investment received regulatory approval for have been 12 sukuk issues worth their conduct fell significantly IdealRatings, which pro- gence in each deal. banking arm of Al Rajhi Bank its first sukuk mutual fund, while $9.9bn. short of the standards that could vides screening services to The service was developed over — Saudi Arabia’s biggest listed Riyadh-based Alkhair Capital REUTERS be reasonably expected. Mazars said in a statement it regretted its conduct fell below its usual high standards. Hijet Truck debuts “We are pleased that the FRC accepted that the misconduct Dollar General raises was neither dishonest nor delib- erate, that we took appropriate remedial steps relating to qual- ity assurance, and that it did not bid for Family Dollar cause any actual loss to the ben- eficiaries of the pension fund,” NEW YORK: Dollar General Directors to reject our prior Mazars said. yesterday sweetened its bid proposal without any discussions The FRC brought a discipli- to acquire Family Dollar and between our companies,” said nary case regarding the advice threatened to launch a hostile Rick Dreiling, chief executive of Mazars gave to the trustee of takeover campaign in the latest Dollar General. the First Quench Pension Fund, twist in a bidding war among “If the Family Dollar Board which was 28 million pounds in discount retailers. fails to seize this opportunity to the red, on a proposal to trans- Dollar General, the largest US maximize value for its sharehold- fer the sponsoring employer deep-discount chain, raised its ers, we will consider taking our from First Quench Retailing to all-cash bid for Family Dollar to superior proposal directly to the another entity. $80 per share from $78.50, while Family Dollar shareholders.” First Quench Retail Limited also agreeing to pay Family Dollar Dollar General’s Tuesday bid was a wholly-owned subsidiary of $500m if a deal is not completed marks its second effort to woo UK wine shop chain Threshers, for antitrust reasons. Family Dollar, the number two and went bust in 2009. Dollar General said its latest company in the discount sector, Mazars was accused of reveal- bid would provide Family Dollar after Family Dollar in August ing confidential client information shareholders with about $640m snubbed an earlier proposal worth to the other and opposing party in greater value compared with a $9.7bn. in the transaction, and of failing proposal by rival Dollar Tree that On August 21, Family Dollar to consider the different and fun- has been favoured by the Family rejected the bid by Dollar General, damentally opposing commercial Dollar board. saying it could run afoul of US interests of the two companies “We are confident that our anti-monopoly rules. Instead, involved in the transaction, the enhanced proposal sufficiently Family Dollar, said it still favored Masanori Mitsui, President of Japan’s auto maker Daihatsu, introduces the company’s new small busi- FRC said in documents published addresses any concerns that a $9.2bn offer from Dollar Tree. ness use vehicle ‘Hijet Truck’ in Tokyo yesterday. yesterday. led Family Dollar’s Board of AFP REUTERS Burger King has manoeuvred to cut US tax bill for years

NEW YORK: Burger King By massaging down US taxable The accounting experts say the may have taken a lot of flack profits while maximising the prof- Canadian move will allow Burger in the past week for a deal that its it reports in low-tax jurisdic- King to double-down on those should curb its US tax bill but tions overseas, Burger King is efforts as it will open up new in many ways it is consistent able to operate one of the most tax-saving opportunities for the with the burger chain’s aggres- tax-efficient businesses in the US company. It could, for example, sive tax-reduction strategies in fast-food industry. apply the tax structures it cur- recent years. The chain’s effective tax rate rently employs in major markets Some US lawmakers and other of 26 percent over the past three like Germany and Britain, and critics attacked the company that years compares with rates above which allow the group to operate is the home of the Whopper for 31 percent at McDonalds Corp, almost tax free in those places, to deciding to move its tax base to Starbucks Corp and Dunkin its business in the United States, Canada from the US through its Brands Group Inc. KFC and Pizza they said. proposed purchase of Oakville, Hut owner Yum Brands did have And that could mean Uncle Ontario-based coffee and dough- a similar tax rate to Burger King Sam will lose corporate tax nut chain Tim Hortons. They say though this reflects the 74 percent income that Burger King would it will allow Burger King to avoid of its revenues that were gener- have to pay under its current paying some US taxes. ated outside the US, in markets structure. That would be nothing new. A where tax rates are typically “I would be surprised if in five Reuters analysis of Burger King’s around 25 percent. years’ time, their tax rate does regulatory filings in the US and The Burger King rate is 30 not come down reasonably dra- overseas, which was also reviewed percent lower than the average matically,” said Professor Stephen by accounting experts, shows that tax rate it paid in the five years Shay, from Harvard Law School, it has been making major efforts before it was bought in 2010 by who has testified to Congress on to reduce its US tax bill for some private equity group 3G, still the corporate taxation. time. company’s majority shareholder. REUTERS

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Rouble down Gasunie to boost Ukraine may gas storage capacity as need bigger demand rises AMSTERDAM: Dutch gas company Gasunie will expand capacity at its northern, under- ground storage facility as strong demand for space drove bailout: IMF up prices at auction last week at a time when Europe is bracing for a possible disruption in sup- Kiev faces $3.5bn funding shortfall plies from Russia. State-owned Gasunie said in a WASHINGTON: Ukraine may accounted for 23 percent of statement it would boost capac- need as much as $19bn in addi- Ukraine’s industrial production ity at the Zuidwending fast- tional funds from donors if its and 14.5 percent of its retail trade cycle storage facility, operated by conflict with pro-Russian sepa- in the first quarter. The IMF said EnergyStock, by nearly 1 percent. ratists continues during 2015, it expects gross domestic product Capacity at the facility, which the International Monetary in eastern Ukraine to decline by has five underground storage Fund warned yesterday. 15 to 20 percent this year, com- tanks, will be increased by 240,000 Even under Kiev’s current pared to a 6.5 percent decline for MWh, from a current 3GWh, $17bn IMF bailout, the Fund said the country as a whole. after all new capacity was sold Ukraine will not be able to meet But outside analysts predict in an auction last Friday. “The all of its targets due to the ongo- Ukraine’s economy may contract high demand was a sign that our ing fighting and an intensified gas by up to 8 percent this year, and customers are anticipating higher dispute with Russia, which sup- are starting to brace for some An employee of a bank counts rouble banknotes in Moscow yesterday. Russian assets fell on Monday, with natural gas prices,” said Gasunie plies the bulk of Ukraine’s natural form of debt restructuring on the rouble hitting a fresh record low against the dollar. spokesman Gerben van Dijk. gas needs. Ukrainian bonds. Europe is preparing emer- Nevertheless, it said the money The Fund, which provided gency measures to secure energy planned under the programme is a bailout to Kiev as part of an supplies in case of any halt to largely sufficient for now as long overall $27 billion international Russian gas due to the Ukraine as the fighting between the gov- rescue, said it would relax some crisis. Russia is Europe’s biggest ernment in Kiev and the rebels conditions for Ukraine going for- Indian shares hit new highs supplier of oil and natural gas in the eastern part of the country ward, including for the govern- and pipelines running through subsides in the “coming months.” ment’s budget deficit and the level MUMBAI: Indian shares swept portal moneycontrol.com. A sharp narrowing of India’s Ukraine are the subject of politi- The momentum in the five- of central bank reserves. past the 27,000-point mark yes- Desai forecast the Sensex could current account deficit—the cal manoeuvring in the worst con- month war shifted last week deci- In return, Kiev would have to terday, a record high buoyed rise as high as 33,900 points by broadest measure of trade—also frontation between Moscow and sively in favour of the rebels, who make up for the shortfall else- by investor hopes that the June next year on certain condi- boosted investor sentiment. the West since the Cold War. are now advancing on a major port where, including by doing a bet- country will see stronger eco- tions, including the Indian gov- Among the shares which gained, The Netherlands is the largest as they seek to throw off rule from ter job of collecting payments for nomic growth under new Prime ernment staying on its path of generics giant Cipla surged 5.23 producer and exporter of natu- Kiev. Western countries accuse Naftogaz, the state-run oil and Minister Narendra Modi. fiscal consolidation. percent or 27.70 points to close ral gas in northwest Europe. The Moscow of sending troops into gas company. The Bombay Stock Exchange’s “We are fairly comfortable (with at 557.40 rupees after launching a EnergyStock facility is used by gas Ukraine, a charge Russia denies. The IMF also predicted the benchmark Sensex index of 30 India) for the next three years at new asthma inhaler in Germany traders and portfolio managers in Kiev will now face a $3.5bn government would have to spend leading shares ended the day up least,” Desai said. “There is a very and Sweden. Northwestern Europe, including funding shortfall for this year more money to restructure the 0.57 percent or 151.84 points at big India (growth) story that a lot India’s biggest cellular opera- the Netherlands, Germany and and next due to the fighting, but banking sector and support 27,019.39 points. of people have a lot of faith in,” tor, Bharti Airtel, climbed 4.24 Belgium, to secure short-term the IMF said the government Naftogaz, adding to government The Sensex has been on the rise he added. percent or 15.95 rupees to 391.90 gas contract needs. should be able to cover most of it debt. for eight straight trading sessions. In a speech to a business audience rupees after the company clinched with planned debt issues and an In addition, it warned that The market, which set a third in Japan, Modi, who is on an official a deal to acquire the nearly three Hollande, Draghi expected $900m in further donor Ukraine’s reforms may become record high in as many trad- visit to the country, promised there million subscribers of Kenya’s support. more difficult if the country calls ing days, was boosted by strong would be no more of India’s infa- yuMobile. The Sensex’s rise has agree on threat In a detailed review of early elections. inflows of foreign funds on inves- mous bureaucratic “red tape”, only been underpinned by strong glo- Ukraine’s progress and the state The Fund on Friday confirmed tor optimism about economic a “red carpet” for investors. bal liquidity that has fuelled mar- from low growth of its economy, the IMF painted a Kiev was on track with most of recovery under right-wing Modi’s Investors were drawn by fore- kets worldwide. dire picture of a country trying to the loan’s conditions so far, allow- leadership, analysts said. cast-beating quarterly economic It has rallied by close to nine PARIS: French President reform everything from banking ing the disbursement of $1.7bn. “People abroad have faith in the growth data late last week, percent since Modi took office Francois Hollande and management to the legal system, It said the next disbursement, potency and execution of the new dealers said. India’s economy on May 26 after leading his European Central Bank chief while also boosting spending on of about $2.7bnn, would come in government. They are sending the expanded by 5.7 percent in the Bharatiya Janata Party govern- Mario Draghi agreed that low fighting in the eastern regions of mid-December if Kiev complies right signals,” investment house first quarter of the financial year, ment to the first one-party parlia- inflation and weak growth Donetsk and Luhansk. with the loan conditions. Morgan Stanley managing direc- the best quarterly performance in mentary victory in three decades. were threatening the European Those regions together REUTERS tor Ridham Desai told financial over two years. AFP Union’s economy, an official in the president’s office said. Draghi called last week for greater emphasis on fiscal stimu- lus over austerity — comments that irritated German leaders but were Russia can run on empty if sanctions block new bonds welcomed in France because they hinted at a shift away from a current emphasis on budgetary austerity. LONDON/MOSCOW: Russia measure would be more symbolic energy export revenues are falling. we’re talking about pretty chunky falling price of oil. Oil and gas “I think the diagnosis is has a little more than a year of than punitive. A run on the currency would also demands. It’s not a couple of bil- account for around two-thirds of a shared one,” an advisor to breathing space if western sanc- However, the country’s depend- shorten the time Russia can con- lion dollars, it’s tens of billions of Russia’s exports and close to half Hollande told reporters after an tions stop it from selling new ence on increasingly unstable oil tinue in isolation, Szabo said. dollars,” Szabo added. its federal budget revenues. Over hour-long meeting between the sovereign debt, and then the and gas revenue and commitments Ratings agency Moody’s said in Russia’s central bank has the course of a year, each $1 fall in Socialist president and Draghi at strain on state finances would by Moscow to provide finance to a recent research note that fur- pledged to support domestic the oil price wipes around $1.4bn the Elysee presidential palace. start to bite, investors say. sanctioned companies prevented ther sanctions “would erode key banks hurt by the last round of off federal tax revenues. The two men shared the view The European Union is consid- from raising money abroad could credit strengths in the external sanctions, such as the country’s The state budget is based on that weak growth and dan- ering barring investors from buy- see it backed into a corner. and fiscal sphere.” One effect second-largest lender, VTB. The an oil price of $104 for 2015, and gerously low inflation in the ing new Russian sovereign debt and “It’s quite difficult to tell how would be broader risk aver- head of oil producer Rosneft has Deputy Finance Minister Alexei European Union were problems speculation is mounting that the long they have, I’d put it at sion towards Russian assets, the also sought 1.5 trillion rubles Moiseev has warned recently that needed to be addressed, the United States may make a similar more than one year. But it’s not agency said. That would lead to from the government to support those projections may be optimis- advisor added. move, in retaliation for Moscow’s static,” said Viktor Szabo, a port- capital flight and in turn put fur- it against sanctions. tic, with prices below $100 now a France has been singled out as role in the Ukraine conflict. folio manager at Aberdeen Asset ther strain on the country’s for- Even Russian companies not possibility. a laggard in an otherwise tepid Russia has considerable Management. eign exchange reserves. directly affected by sanctions have Craig Botham, an economist European recovery due to its weak reserves to draw on — currently The strain on those reserves is “And let’s not forget... the found raising money in western at UK fund manager Schroders, growth rate, record-high unemploy- around $469bn in gold and for- growing, Szabo said. Economic state-owned companies have capital markets harder since the also calculates Russia’s foreign ment rate and repeated delays in eign exchange — and no imme- growth is ebbing fast, with gross now started to ask for recapitali- Ukraine conflict escalated and exchange reserves would take little bringing its public deficit below EU diate need to tap the markets domestic product expected to grow sation. If it’s in hard currency, it spooked many investors. more than one year to be depleted. targets. for new capital. Many argue the by 0.3 percent at most this year and has to come out of reserves. And A particular headache is the REUTERS AGENCIES

NYSE dips Pakistan’s promises to IMF in doubt as protests sap economy

ISLAMABAD: Anti- longer, then, yes, we will be in followers of cleric Tahir ul-Qadri government protests that have trouble.” and cricket star-turned-politician gripped Islamabad since mid- Commerce Minister Khurram Imran Khan camped out for two August could throw off course Dastgir Khan voiced concern that weeks before advancing on gov- economic reforms Pakistan an IMF team had already can- ernment buildings. promised to deliver in return celled a visit to Pakistan because S&P currently has a B- sover- for an IMF bailout, senior offi- of the protests that turned vio- eign rating for Pakistan, which cials said, raising the risk of a lent last week as Prime Minister was thrown the IMF lifeline to sovereign rating downgrade. Nawaz Sharif refused to resign. bring down inflation, reduce its The International Monetary He said more than a year of fiscal deficit and tackle a crippling Fund (IMF) saved Pakistan from efforts to fix the economy had energy crisis. possible default last September by “gone up in smoke”. Robert Zhong, Hong Kong- agreeing to lend $6.6bn over three “The government has very based sovereign analyst at S&P, years, conditional on reforms such painstakingly been building a said structural reform may largely as a longstanding pledge to priva- house of international confidence, continue despite the political tur- tise loss-making state companies. and the foundation of this was the moil, but added: “If there are signs There is no suggestion that the IMF package and abiding by our these programmes will be dislo- assistance, which is disbursed in reforms’ promises,” the minister cated, we could review the rating.” tranches, is about to dry up. told Reuters. “But ... our strug- At Moody’s, Singapore-based “The programme is not in gles of 14 months have gone up sovereign analyst Anushka Shah jeopardy at the moment,” said a in smoke in a matter of 14 days. echoed that view, saying the top economic adviser with direct We are pushed to a point where “political developments would knowledge of talks with the Fund. we have to go back to the draw- have implications for Pakistan’s “The IMF folk think that if we ing board.” creditworthiness if they resulted Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. In morning trading after the holiday can wrap this crisis up in a week For now, credit ratings agency in a derailment of the structural weekend, the Dow was down 20 points or so, things will remain on course Standard & Poor’s is watching reform process”. and normal. But if it goes on any events unfold in Islamabad, where REUTERS WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

It’s high time to raise Six steps to Alibaba’s the minimum wage

BY SARAH JAFFE twelve-figure valuation

BY PETER THAL LARSEN hat Mitch McConnell had to say is “That’s all we is half the level for desktop transactions. International sales accounted for less than do in the Senate is vote on things like raising the Over time, the gap should close with the a tenth of revenue in the most recent finan- minimum wage,” to a roomful of millionaires and ow do you value a tech com- figure for desktop transactions – currently cial year. Wbillionaires, according to leaked audio published by pany? What about a domi- about 3 percent. But a recent partnership with Singapore The Nation and The Undercurrent last week, about something as nant, fast-growing, profitable Network effects are great for profitability. Post shows the company is seriously looking crucial as the wages that millions of Americans make every day. tech company with no peers The more shoppers Alibaba attracts, the beyond China’s borders. In addition, Alibaba The secret tape echoes a rising awareness among Americans, that operates in an opaque more merchants want to display their goods, and its affiliates have spent around $7.5bn from Kentucky to California, that their elected officials are too Heconomy? Fund managers need to decide luring more buyers. Meanwhile, the com- on acquisitions and investments so far this busy catering to the whims of the rich rather than taking care as Alibaba kicks off the roadshow for pany’s asset-light model keeps overheads year as the company pushes into industries of the working people who elect them to office. So rather than let its long-awaited initial public offering. low. Alibaba’s operating margin in the year from media to mapping. Alibaba’s exposure that disappointment and anger turn to apathy, the working class Breakingviews offers a six-step guide to to March was an astonishing 47 percent. to its home country is one potential nega- is already too busy reclaiming a living wage for itself. sizing up China’s biggest e-commerce group. But super-profitability invites competi- tive. The ruling Communist party could cut McConnell, facing a fierce mid-term challenge from Democrat Four in every five yuan spent on online tion. Alibaba may be forced to spend more Alibaba down to size if it were deemed too Alison Lundergan Grimes, could be forgiven for stretching the shopping in the People’s Republic last year on marketing and technology, or get directly powerful. truth: he’s actually been busy preventing a vote on the minimum travelled across Alibaba’s websites. So the into the business of storing and delivering Valuing future business lines is always wage. Four months ago, Senate Republicans filibustered a bill company’s growth depends on expanding the goods. Most tech stocks trade on high price- tricky, as is putting a discount for shaky that would’ve increased the federal minimum wage from $7.25 overall market. The omens are good. Less to-earnings ratios because investors believe governance. Now suppose transactions per hour to $10.10. than half of China’s population had access future potential exceeds current profita- grow by 30 percent annually for the next It never would have passed the Republican-dominated House, to the Internet last year; US penetration is bility. Alibaba’s challenge is to grow while two years, and that Alibaba’s overall mon- which is running out of time to ignore its base in favour of intran- more than 80 percent. Alibaba signed up keeping its margins. Though stock market etisation rate reaches 3 percent. Assume its sigence – even 54 percent of Republicans said in a Memorial Day 24 million new active buyers in the three multiples are subjective, a market value of operating margin stabilises at 40 percent, weekend poll that they want to see the minimum wage go up. months to June, and the value of transac- 30 times earnings for the year to March apply a historical 15 percent tax rate, and The Senate minority leader has been campaigning on restoring tions was 45 percent higher than in the 2016 – the same as rival Tencent – seems a net income in the year to March 2016 would order to Congress: “if you didn’t want to vote, you shouldn’t have same period of 2013. Growth of 30 percent reasonable starting point. be about $5.25bn. On a 30 times multiple, come to the Senate,” McConnell said in an interview for Sunday’s for the next two years is not a stretch. Alibaba’s ambitions extend far beyond Alibaba’s equity would be worth $158bn. New York Times magazine. Meanwhile, Grimes has been bash- Alibaba’s business model is to capture e-commerce. Alipay, its online payment It’s not hard to get a higher figure: lift ing McConnell for “voting 17 times against raising the minimum a small slice of the value of the transac- affiliate, is now challenging banks with small the annual growth rate to 40 percent and wage” – and it seems to be working: Real Clear Politics calls the tions it processes, either from advertising business loans and money-market funds. Alibaba’s operating margin to 45 percent, Kentucky Senate race a toss-up. or commissions. In the year to March, this Though Alibaba has no ownership stake, it and its market value rises above $200bn. It’s no wonder that people feel so disconnected from the pri- “monetisation rate” was 2.55 percent. But receives 37.5 percent of the unit’s pretax Analysts will have their own assumptions. orities of their politicians. Kentucky’s median worker makes 88 almost a third of buying and selling in the profit and has a right to the same propor- For investors the trick is to make sure six cents on the dollar compared to the average US worker, facing “a most recent quarter took place via hand- tion of its equity value in an eventual IPO. steps and twelve digits don’t turn into too decade of lost wages” as wealthy Kentuckians watch their incomes held devices, where the monetisation rate Overseas expansion also has value. great a leap. REUTERS skyrocket. According to that same Memorial Day poll, 71 percent of all Americans want to see the minimum wage increased, and 55 percent think it should be increased to $10.10 an hour or higher than that. As long as politicians like McConnell, Cuomo and Faulconer see a closed-door ballroom of billionaires as their base, they aren’t likely to vote to raise the minimum wage, in Congress or in the statehouses, on the left side of the aisle or the right. But nation- wide demand needs nationwide action, and now organisers around the country are taking the pay-rate issue out of the hands of elected officials entirely. Citizens in at least four states and multiple cities will vote on minimum-wage ballot measures this November. Supported by unions, faith groups and a growing, vibrant movement of low-wage workers, these ballot initiatives will offer voters a chance to enact exactly what their elected officials refuse to give them: a raise. And the states considering a voter-mandated wage hike on Election Day are hardly bastions of liberalism: Alaska, South Dakota, maybe Arkansas and definitely Nebraska, where the governor opposes raising the minimum wage but where it doesn’t matter anymore – the people affected by wages will now get to decide for themselves. After all, it has been everyday people who put the issue of low wages back on the agenda this year. The minimum-wage momentum is finally shifting toward the workers. The mayors of Los Angeles and Chicago want to raise the minimum wage to $13 an hour. On a busy Labour Day, incumbents began truly fearing for their political lives, and President Obama said in a speech, “There is no denying a simple truth: America deserves a raise.” Sixty percent of Americans, in a new poll leading up to Labour Day, now say addressing income inequality by increasing the mini- mum wage to $10.10 would have a “positive” effect on the economy, and Senate Democrats are reportedly mustering the courage to force another vote. Mitch McConnell not withstanding, it seems that the American people think voting to increase the minimum wage is an extremely important thing for Congress to do – indeed, the least that it could do. Working people are tired of waiting for Congress to decide which side it’s on. They’re taking action, going out on strike, building power blocs in the workplace, in their cities and states. The minimum wage should be a winning issue this November; now politicians have to buck their billionaire donors and make it a priority, too. THE GUARDIAN Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate And so the Great British Railway Rake-Off rolls on BY ADITYA Due to rail franchises lasting It’s part of the secret subsidy white goods – then reduced your companies invest very little but secretaries have kept mum so as CHAKRABORTTY many years full re-nationalisation that you, me and everyone else rent, so that he was really paying get a lovely flow of cash to send not to demonstrate any public would take a long time unless in Britain has handed over to the you to live there. back to shareholders. control over this pretend-private ongratulations, dear compensation was paid to termi- train operators to keep them in You have just dreamed up We’re meant to get into a cho- entity. reader! As of this morn- nate contracts early. business. Britain’s privatised rail network. reographed huff about train fares. Rather than take democratic ing, you have racked up When the infrastructure own- For years, Network Rail has Except it’s not all that private. I can see why, when they’ve gone control over our money, the Can extra £539 in debt. ing company Railtrack ceased been shelling out for new railway Instead, you could call it the up 25 percent since Cameron public is relegated to the role of No, you haven’t just bought a trading the Labour government lines and stations refurbs using Great British Rake-Off: the state took office. But to me, this is the a bystander. Despite embark- new wardrobe. You haven’t made set up a not for dividend company public money. The fruits of our makes the investment; the train greater scandal: the way we’re ing on a £38bn public-spending a deposit on a winter break. And Network Rail to take over the generosity have been enjoyed by firms and their shareholders rake paying for private companies to programme, despite heading for it’s not because of that heavy eBay duties rather than re-nationalise the private train businesses. off the cash. make millions. £50bn debt, Network Rail has no session where you overbid for a this part of the network. On this very page last August, And if the sums don’t work out, The final kink in the system is shareholders, and little parlia- signed Bulgarian copy of Wet Wet It was always borrowing on Ian Birrell attacked critics of rail an operator can do the business that, from Arriva Trains Wales mentary oversight: it is run by a Wet’s first LP. the state’s behalf, and if anything privatisation for not seeing the equivalent of binning a runny to London Overground, more and small board who are supervised by Nor are you alone. I’m another went wrong with Network Rail, it commuting miracles wrought. baked Alaska by walking away – more of Britain’s train services 51 unelected lay members. 539 quid in the red too – as was always going to be taxpayers “When I travel from London to just as GNER did with the east are now run by German, French This is of a piece with the man- are each of the other 63 mil- who would be on the hook. So as watch my football team, Everton, coast main line. and Dutch state rail companies, ner in which Gordon Brown’s gov- lion Britons. Put all those sums of this week it goes on the public play at home, the average journey For the rest, there are some who presumably direct the rev- ernment practically killed itself to together and the entire country balance sheet, its £34bn of debt time to Liverpool is now 37 min- lovely returns. Last winter, I enue from our fares back home. save RBS and Lloyds – then put has just lost £34bn. now indelibly inked next to our utes quicker than when rail was asked academics at the Centre So taxpayers and commuters in its stakes in the arms-length UK How did we manage that? The names. privatised.” Well, yes, Ian: that’s for Research on Socio-Cultural the United Kingdom are paying Financial Investments, headed short answer is that some statisti- Nor would you be alone if you because taxpayers paid £9bn for Change to tot up how much firms for rail users on the continent by a succession of bankers on cians made it so. haven’t heard about these extra the privilege. such as Virgin and First Group to enjoy lower fares and better sabbatical. The Office for National tens of billions taken out in your What’s more, Network Rail were making. services. So, the Great British Rake- Statistics has decided that, under name. It hasn’t come up much in has also been keeping down track They reported that in the If this is privatisation, I’m Off. It’s got TV potential: a true new accounting rules, Network the papers, or on the BBC. access charges – the rent that financial year ending in March Richard Branson. All that’s hap- saga of how an entire political Rail can no longer be called a You might think that strange, Arriva, TransPennine and the 2012, for each pound train opera- pened this week is that the ONS class pretends it has privatised private company. given the huge amount involved rest pay to use our railways. tors invested, they were making has decided to end the charade. the railways, even while pouring Groups have campaigned at and all those vows made by All of this, by the way, is on top £2.47 back. As I said at the time, But what convolutions Labour public money into the pockets times for the re-nationalisation George Osborne about getting of the cash the government hands find a bank account paying you and Tory politicians have gone of the privateers, then pretends of British Rail. Various inter- public debt down. out directly to each of the firms. that. through to stave off this day. otherwise to the public. Promises, ested parties also have views on Then again, the hush fits per- Imagine having a landlord who That stupendous return on Rather than criticise Network pretence, subterfuge. And a ruddy the future shape of the privatised fectly with what that £34bn rep- did up your flat, chucked in a wet- capital employed, as account- Rail bosses as they got stuck great mess at the end. British railways. resents – because it’s hush money. room and some top-of-the-range ants refer to it, tells us that train into the bonus trough, transport THE GUARDIAN WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Westwood, Ian Poulter and Stephen Gallacher. LAS PALMAS, Spain: Hosts But there was no place for Spain passed their first real test former world number one Luke at the basketball World Cup Donald, despite being ranked with flying colours on Monday higher in the world than the three when they beat Brazil 82-63 to chosen ahead of him to complete book a last 16 berth alongside a the 12-strong team. Greek team who brushed aside Already assured of a place in the Puerto Rico 90-79. European team for the September Both teams improved their 26-28 showdown with the records to 3-0 but Croatia’s pas- Americans in Scotland were Rory sage into the knockout stage of McIlroy, Henrik Stenson, Victor the competition was put on hold Dubuisson Jamie Donaldson, after a shock 77-75 defeat by Sergio Garcia, Thomas Bjorn, Senegal, whose centre Gorgui Justin Rose, Martin Kaymer and Dieng shone with 27 points and Graeme McDowell. eight rebounds. That means that McGinley Having strolled to easy has at his disposal four of the top wins over Egypt and Iran, the five ranking players in the world Spaniards expected a tougher in McIlroy, Stenson, Garcia and clash against an athletic Brazilian Rose — all of whom have past team but they pulled away after a Ryder Cup experience — along blistering first quarter gave them with three rookies in Dubuisson, a 30-14 lead in Granada. Donaldson and Gallacher. Hitting top gear on the road to In all there are seven play- an expected final against holders ers who retain their place from United States, who can seal their the team that two years ago in last-16 berth when they meet New Chicago staged the greatest final Zealand yesterday, Spain excelled day comeback in Ryder Cup his- with a hugely entertaining high- tory to defeat the Americans 14 tempo performance. 1/2 to 13 1/2. The depth of the Spanish and The five changes involve the American rosters, packed Gallacher, Donaldson, Dubuisson, with NBA quality, has made Stenson and Thomas Bjorn other medal contenders look replacing Donald, Peter Hanson, second best but the host nation’s Paul Lawrie, Nicholas Colsaerts, Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau and Francesco Molinari. Gasol was confident there was All the focus on Tuesday, how- still room for improvement. ever, was on what three picks “It’s impossible to play 40 per- skipper McGinley would make, fect minutes but we were good in with two former world number terms of intensity and in the first ones, Westwood and Donald, and third quarters we played at a going up against Ryder Cup hero FROM TOP: Ian Poulter, Lee very high level,” he told Cadena Poulter and 39-year-old would-be Westwood and Stephen Gallacher Ser radio. debutant Gallacher. Gasol enjoyed another stellar In the end it was Donald, a vet- very disappointed to learn he had night with 26 points and nine eran of four previous European not been chosen when McGinley rebounds, overshadowing his fel- Ryder Cup wins, but who has been had him on the phone. low NBA stalwarts Nene Hilario, in relatively poor form of late, “Luke has been an incredible Tiago Splitter and Anderson who missed out. performer over the years and his Varejao who netted a combined McGinley said that he had been Ryder Cup record is outstanding,” total of 23 points for Brazil. convinced to give Gallacher his he said. Greece dominated against the first Ryder Cup cap on the back of “It was a very difficult call to Puerto Ricans from start to fin- his third place finish in the Italian make but I had to do it in the ish in Seville with four of their Open on Sunday. interests of the European team.” players ending up in double dig- The Scot had needed to finish Westwood will be playing in its, while on defense they confined second to dislodge McDowell from his ninth Ryder Cup as an ever- the opposition to just 24 field goals the ninth and final qualyfying present since 1997 and he leads from 62 attempts. spot, but came up just one shot the way for European wins with The Senegalese had won just short after a tremendous closing six to his name, one more than two of 15 games in their previ- round of 65. Colin Montgomerie. ous three World Cup campaigns “Stevie was incredible under “Lee — he had a real sense of and arrived in Spain as one of the ABOVE: Brazil’s centre Nene Hilario (left) vies with Spain’s forward Pau Gasol during a 2014 FIBA Basketball the spotlight in Italy last pride that he’s made the team, also-rans with little or no chance World Cup Group A match at the Palacio Municipal de Deportes in Granada on Monday. BELOW: Senegal’s week,” said the Irishman, who very gracious and humble,” of making an impact. players celebrate after defeating Croatia during their Basketball World Cup Group B match on Monday. sunk the winning putt for Europe McGinley said. Having upset Puerto Rico after at the Belfry in the 2002 Ryder US skipper Tom Watson will an opening defeat by Greece, how- Captain Maleye Ndoye added: 90-85 win against Argentina in get burnt but although we have Cup. announce his three wildcard picks ever, the West Africans produced “We rode the wave from (Sunday’s which forward Dario Saric had made it difficult for ourselves, I “I told him to go and have a in New York later yesterday with the shock of the tournament win over Puerto Rico) and six teeth knocked out after being am confident because our fate is drink to celebrate, and he said, the certainty that they will not against Croatia to the delight of got another great win. It would elbowed by an opponent. still in our own hands.” ‘is that ok, can I go and have a include Tiger Woods who is una- several hundred of their fans who be great to keep riding the wave “We have suffered before in Argentina came from behind drink?’ so you can see he’s taking vailable through injury. danced joyfully in the stands. and we will be just as focused games like this because of our to beat the Philippines 85-81, it seriously.” Europe have won five out of “We joked around coming here for the next game against Balkan mentality and allowing European champions France “I am very proud for him being the last six Ryder Cups and saying we were trying to make Argentina.” Senegal to collect so many offen- hammered Egypt 94-55 and Scottish and I know what it feels will start strong favourites once history, but we really had in mind Croatia coach Jasmin Repesa sive rebounds in the first quarter Serbia laboured to an 83-70 defeat like playing in your home country again in Gleneagles with the bien- that we wanted to make history,” made no excuses for his weary was unacceptable,” Reoesa told of Iran as all three sides stayed (K-Club outside Dublin in 2006) .” nial inter-continental showdown Senegal centre Hamady Ndiaye outfit, who had clearly failed to Croatian media. on course to reach the knockout Donald, he said, had been returning to Scotland for the first told www.fiba.com. recover from Sunday’s bruising “If you play with fire you will rounds. REUTERS unlucky to miss out and had been time in 31 years. AFP US Nationals: AlBalooshi bows out in semi-finals

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana: Lucas. In the second round, vet- round but the car surprised us in allowing Australian driver Richie For years, Dubai native Khalid eran driver Bob Vandergriff was the semi-finals (when it smoked Crampton to cruise to the round AlBalooshi watched the NHRA also dispatched by the Top Fuel the tires). We really aren’t sure win. Crampton later in the day US Nationals from afar, hop- driver when he dazzled the huge yet when happened but we were won the US Nationals race. ing that someday he would get Labor Day holiday crowd at the in good shape all weekend. Our Langdon finished the regular a chance to win the biggest drag US Nationals and advanced to the car was very good every round season in third place in the point race in the world. On Monday, semi-finals against good friend except one qualifying run and standings and will be the number AlBalooshi had that chance here Steve Torrence. the semi-finals today (Monday). three seed when the Countdown but came up short for the Qatar With the gold Al Anabi drag- Other than those two, we had a to the Championship NHRA Al Anabi Racing Top Fuel Team, ster making consistent run after car that could have won the race. Play-offs begins. the three-time and defend- consistent run, the Al Anabi I was happy to be in the semi- “It was great racing this week- ing World Championship team team were confident entering finals of the US Nationals. I am end at the US Nationals; it was a owned by H E Sheikh Khalid the semi-finals. But AlBalooshi’s so happy with our car and I am really tough field and sometimes Bin Hamad Al Thani. gold Al Anabi car smoked the excited to start the Countdown.” when you’re running in a tough With a consistent race car, tyres almost immediately after On the other side of the Al field, it’s just difficult,” Langdon AlBalooshi advanced to the semi- he hit the throttle and he could Anabi pit area, defending US said. “The US Nationals is just a finals at the just-completed 60th only watch as Torrence raced to Nationals champion Shawn big race and we’re disappointed. annual Chevrolet NHRA US the win light. Langdon was the number five It was a tough loss but we have Nationals, the 18th of 24 races With the semi-final appear- qualifier. six very important races left to that make up America’s 2014 ance, AlBalooshi finished the With his silver Al Anabi car go. We’ll do our best to defend NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing regular season in seventh place running with the same level of our Mello Yello championship and season. in the NHRA Mello Yello Top consistency as AlBalooshi’s, there that process starts in two weeks Although he qualified 14th Fuel point standings. He will be was reason for optimism. at Charlotte. I know the Al Anabi in the quickest field in NHRA the number seven seed when the Langdon was outstanding in team will be ready when we get history, AlBalooshi had a very Countdown to the Championship the first round and easily dis- to Charlotte.” consistent race car that made NHRA Play-offs begins in two patched Spencer Massey with a The Al Anabi Racing team will excellent laps almost every time weeks in North Carolina. 3.787second pass. In the second be back in action on September Khalid AlBalooshi executes a burnout in front of a huge Labor Day crowd it went down the track. “This weekend was very good round, Langdon’s car launched 12-14 at the seventh annual Pep prior to his semi-final appearance in Monday’s NHRA US Nationals in He began race day with a bril- for our team,” AlBalooshi said. perfectly and was leading the Boys NHRA Carolina Nationals in Indianapolis, Indiana. liant 3.788second effort that dis- “The Al Anabi car was good race when the car smoked the Concord, North Carolina. patched veteran driver Morgan enough to take us to the final tires mid-way through the run, THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

US Open Results Results from US Open matches on Monday Djokovic, Murray book Men’s Fourth Round: Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER x22) 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 Andy Murray (GBR x8) bt Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x9) 7-5, 7-5, 6-4; Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x3) bt Tommy Robredo (ESP x16) 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (9/7), 6-2; Kei Nishikori (JPN x10) bt Milos Raonic (CAN x5) 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 blockbuster quarter-final (6/8), 7-5, 6-4. Women’s Fourth Round: Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Kaia Kanepi (EST) 6-3, 6-3; Flavia Pennetta (ITA x11) bt Casey Dellacqua (AUS Nishikori beats Raonic in record-tying late finish, to face Wawrinka x29) 7-5, 6-2; Victoria Azarenka (BLR x16) bt Aleksandra Krunic (SRB) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Ekaterina Makarova (RUS x17) bt Eugenie NEW YORK: Former champi- Bouchard (CAN x7) 7-6 (7/2), 6-4. ons Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray booked a tantalizing US Open quarter-final duel on Monday with straight-sets Azarenka fourth-round victories. World number one and top seed Djokovic didn’t let Philipp overcomes Kohlschreiber stand in the way of another Grand Slam last-eight appearance, defeating the 22nd Krunic seed from Germany 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 NEW YORK: Twice Australian on another oppressively muggy Open champion Victoria New York day. Azarenka overcame an inspired Eighth-seeded Scot Murray challenge from qualifier advanced with a hard-fought 7-5, Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia 4-6 7-5, 6-4 victory over ninth-seeded 6-4 6-4 on Monday to advance Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, avenging to the quarter-finals of the U.S. a loss to the Frenchman in the Open. Toronto Masters last month. Azarenka, who began the year Djokovic and Murray boast a as world number two and slipped long rivalry in which the Serbian to a 16th seed after dealing with owns a 12-8 record. foot and knee injuries, took a 3-0 They are 2-2 in Grand Slam lead in the first set before the finals, including Murray’s tri- 21-year-old Serb, ranked 145th, umph over Djokovic in the 2012 roared back and claimed the set. final at Flushing Meadows for his Krunic, on course to graduate first major crown. college with an economics degree “Tough match,” Murray said of this year, continued to press the the looming contest. “We’ve had a Belarussian, coaxing 40 unforced lot of long ones. We played a long errors in the two-hour 19-minute one here a few years ago — I have match but in the end Azarenka’s great memories from that match.” power and experience proved the Djokovic reached his 22nd difference. straight Grand Slam quarter- It ended an enthralling run by final, a run that stretches back the diminutive Serb, who won to Kohlschreiber’s victory over Serbia’s Novak Djokovic reacts after defeating USA’s Sam Querrey during their US Open match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center three qualifying matches, beat him in the third round of the 2009 in New York on Monday. RIGHT: Andy Murray of Great Britain returns a shot to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France during their men’s singles fourth round 27th-seeded American Madison French Open. match on Monday. Keys in the second round “I’m very glad obviously that I and third-seeded Wimbledon had so many consecutive quarter- an off-speed service winner and 7-5, 6-4 to set up a meeting with needed treatment for an appar- still remaining in Arthur Ashe champion Petra Kvitova of the finals of Grand Slams. It says that having wrapped up the second set Australian Open champion Stan ent blister on his right foot early Stadium. He’ll have little time to Czech Republic in the third I do value these tournaments the he broke Kohlschreiber to open Wawrinka. in the fourth set. rest before today’s meeting with round. most and try to always perform the third and marched home from The finish time of the contest He had been unable to con- third-seeded Wawrinka, who beat Azarenka, the US Open my best tennis in them,” Djokovic there. tied the record set in 1993 when vert eight break chances in the 16th-seeded Spaniard Tommy runner-up to Serena Williams said. “It doesn’t feel that it went very Mats Wilander defeated Mikael third set against the big-serving Robredo 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (9/7), 6-2. the last two years who withdrew The Wimbledon champion easily,” Djokovic said. “Philipp is a Pernfors 7-6 (7/3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 Canadian, and let slip a 3-1 lead Wawrinka fired 18 aces and 75 from seven tournaments this year looked headed for a short day’s tough player.” (8/6), 6-4 in a second-round in the third-set tiebreaker to fall winners — to Robredo’s 19 — sav- due to injuries, will play Russian work when he raced through the Murray broke Tsonga in the match and tied in 2012 when two sets to one down. ing two set points in the third- 17th seed Ekaterina Makarova, first set in 25 minutes. final game of each set en route Kohlschreiber beat John Isner But Nishikori gained the only set tiebreaker and dominating the a 7-6 6-4 winner over a heat- But Kohlschreiber dug in, keep- to his victory, first recovering an 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in a third break of the fourth set in the 11th fourth set. stricken Eugenie Bouchard of ing his nose in front on serve and early break in both the second round match in 2012. game and held to force a decisive “It was a really tough battle Canada. forcing Djokovic to fend off a set and third. Nishikori, the first Japanese fifth frame in which he gained the today,” said Wawrinka, who also “Aleksandra played some point in the 10th game of the Japan’s Kei Nishikori worked man to break into the top 10 in upper hand with a break for a 3-2 survived a tumble into the court- amazing tennis. She has a great second. late, very late, to earn a quarter- the world rankings, avenged a loss lead — aided by a Raonic double side seats in Armstrong Stadium future,” Azarenka told the Arthur Djokovic did so with a sting- final berth with a five-set win to Raonic in the fourth round at fault for break point. when he hit the board surround- Ashe Stadium crowd. “I think it’s ing forehand passing shot to over Milos Raonic that equalled Wimbledon and reached the Nishikori, the first Japanese ing the court at full stretch for never easy to play someone you end a rally that sent the Louis the latest finish for a match in last eight of a Grand Slam for the man since Zenzo Shimidzu in a shot. don’t know. I just tried to stay Armstrong Stadium crowd wild, US Open history — 2:26 am on second time after his quarter- 1922 to get to the last-eight in “From that I’m OK, I’m more positive and fight.” REUTERS then broke Kohlschreiber for a Tuesday morning. final run at the 2012 Australian New York, wrapped it up with tired from the running, from the 6-5 lead. Nishikori, the 10th seed, Open. a backhand volley winner on his match,” he said. “When you win, ‘I hurt my foot, I Serving for the set Djokovic defeated the fifth-seeded Hindered by a toe injury in the first match point, cheered on it’s always more easy to feel good saved another break point with Canadian 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 (6/8), build-up to the Open, Nishikori by the small crop of hardy fans after.” AFP didn’t die’ NEW YORK: Victoria Azarenka lost patience with questions over her season-dis- rupting foot injury on Monday, Fame catches up with weary Bouchard telling reporters to stop treating it like a near-death experience. NEW YORK: Fame finally The former world number one caught up with Eugenie hit out after reaching the US Bouchard on Monday in a Open quarter-finals with a 4-6, groggy, dizzy conclusion to her 6-4, 6-4 win against Serb qualifier Grand Slam season which ended Aleksandra Krunic. in a fourth round loss at the US But after one reporter wanted Open. to know the extent to which she The 20-year-old Canadian had “suffered” during her five- golden girl, playing her 58th month lay-off earlier this year, match of a breakout year which he was admonished for a lack of saw her reach the semi-finals of perspective. the Australian and French Opens “You’re making it sound like and take the runner-up spot I almost died and there was 10 at Wimbledon, went down 7-6 sharks and I got attacked and I (7/2), 6-4 to Russia’s Ekaterina survived. And, you know, I saved Makarova. a dolphin, as well,” said the It was a disappointing way to 25-year-old Azarenka, the run- end her US Open, but she admit- Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova signs autographs after defeating Canada’s ner-up in New York for the last ted her status as the new poster Eugenie Bouchard at the 2014 US Open in New York on Monday. two years. girl of the women’s game had “It’s not that complicated. probably played a role. taken midway through the sec- it well generally to just go back What I enjoy is to play tennis. Monday’s match was played ond set. to the basics, focus on my tennis. To be talking about what hap- in the crushing heat and humid- Her on-court struggles were “That is what’s has gotten me pened with my injuries, it’s useless ity of the afternoon whereas her at dramatic odds with the cheer- to this point, so I just need to keep already. What happened in the last two matches had been in the ful, articulate blonde who mes- going on that path.” past, you know, I ain’t got no genie prime night-time slot on Arthur merised Wimbledon with tales of Despite the US Open setback, in the bottle to wish what could I Ashe Stadium. her mother’s obsession with the Bouchard can still look back on do in the past.” REUTERS “I was feeling very light headed British royal family as well as her an impressive year. and dizzy on the court, just seeing own fondness for pop star Justin She was Canada’s first ever things a little blurry. I just gen- Bieber and “Big Bang Theory” Grand Slam singles semi-final- erally didn’t feel good,” said the star, Jim Parsons. ist at Wimbledon after she had seventh seed. But since those days at the All clinched a maiden tour title at “I have had a few late, tough England Club, Bouchard has been Nuremburg in the run-up to the matches here, and I don’t think distinctly under-powered, win- French Open and been named I fully recovered from those. The ning just one match in three tour- 2013’s newcomer of the year. doctors think the heat got to me naments coming into New York, a “I think I have made great a little bit. And they know I prob- run of form which suggested she strides this year,” added the world ably was more tired than usual is far from the finished article. number eight. from the past few matches. “I definitely felt a lot of outside “Just playing at this high level “You know, I think I did well expectations and pressure to win week in and week out is some- to push myself through those matches,” she admitted. thing I need to get a bit more matches, but I also need to have “I felt more like it’s normal if I used to, how physical it is, as Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard holds bags of ice to her face between games the endurance. I haven’t had that win and it’s a bit more of a disas- well. But I’m proud with how I Victoria Azarenka of Belarus wipes against Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova during their US Open women’s in the past few months, basically. ter when I lose. But that’s some- have improved as a player and as her brow during her US Open singles match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in So it’s not a huge surprise to me.” thing that I need to block out. It’s a person. I’m looking forward to match against Aleksandra Krunic New York on Monday. Bouchard had to have both her what I have been working on. I the end of the year. I want to fin- of Serbia in New York on Monday. blood pressure and temperature feel like I have been dealing with ish on a good note.” AFP WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 England seek fresh Argentina to take on start in Norway friendly

LONDON: After a dismal Rose, a seasoned Under-21 World Cup, England will enter international, Aston Villa mid- an uncertain new era today fielder Delph, and midfielder when they tackle Norway in Colback, who left formative club Germany sans Messi a low-key friendly game at Sunderland for Newcastle United Wembley Stadium. in June. Manager Roy Hodgson has Hodgson has jokingly referred called up four uncapped players to Colback as ‘The Ginger Pirlo’, New German captain also to miss anticipated friendly in Calum Chambers, Danny Rose, in reference to the elegant Italy Fabian Delph, and Jack Colback, playmaker Andrea Pirlo, but the but following England’s group- health of England’s midfield is no DUESSELDORF, Germany: stage elimination in Brazil, sup- laughing matter. Fifty days after winning the porter interest is at a low ebb. With Michael Carrick, Ross World Cup for the fourth time, With several players missing Barkley, Theo Walcott and Adam the German national team due to injury and with former Lallana sidelined, and Gerrard assembled in Duesseldorf on stalwarts such as Frank Lampard and Lampard no longer available Monday for today’s repeat of the and captain Steven Gerrard for selection, Hodgson’s options in final against Argentina. having retired, the Football the middle of the pitch are seri- Today’s match was already Association expects a record low ously diminished. set to be a glamour friendly but crowd of around 35,000 for the Full-backs Kyle Walker, Glen there is added hype in the wake of game. Johnson, Luke Shaw, and Kieran Mario Goetze’s extra-time winner The match nonetheless serves Gibbs, and forward Jay Rodriguez when the teams last met in Rio an important purpose, with are also currently out of action, de Janeiro on July 13. Hodgson’s side due to but Hodgson says he has Around 45,000 people watched open their 2016 European no qualms about blooding the World Cup-winners train Championship qualify- new players. on Monday and the game at the ing campaign away to “I think they’re good Espirit Arena will attract a sell- Switzerland, their main enough to play for out crowd. Group E rivals, in Basel England, as the manager On Sunday, Joachim Loew’s Germany’s head coach Joachim Loew answers questions on September 8. and the coaches think side host Scotland in Dortmund during a press conference of the German team in Duesseldorf, The fixture will also see they’re good enough to in their first qualifier for Euro Germany yesterday. Germany will play friendly game against Wayne Rooney (pictured) play for England,” said 2016. For a German team still Argentina today. RIGHT: Picture taken on July 13, 2014 shows lead the team out for the Hodgson, who began his taking in the World Cup triumph, midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger holding the World Cup first time since being tenure with a 1-0 win the two games have come around trophy. Schweinsteiger is the new captain of the Germany as appointed captain. over Norway in a friendly in May quickly. Amid all the novelty, midfielder 2012. “Now they need to put on Loew had announced during the press conference. “I think it’s not easy for us - Jordan Henderson has urged his the shirt and the boots and go out that’s clear,” Bayern Munich team-mates to seize the chance of and show they’re good enough.” goalkeeper Manuel Neuer said to another level and to develop assistant, succeeding Hansi Flick, miss both matches through injury. a fresh start. Like England, Norway are on Monday. them further,” Bierhoff said at a who becomes the federation’s Argentina changed manager after “This is the first time the group rebuilding after missing out on a “For Scotland it’s the game press conference. sports director. the World Cup, with former has been together since the World place at the World Cup. of the year to start against us. Meanwhile, Germany mid- “The challenge with the Barcelona boss Gerardo Martino Cup, so I think we’ve got to deal Manager Per-Mathias Hogmo We have to play well against fielder Bastian Schweinsteiger national team is a great one,” taking over after Alejandro with it and put it to bed now and named a youthful squad for the Argentina with regard to the was named captain of the Schneider said. “I am honoured Sabella stepped down. move on and look towards the friendly against England and weekend and to be fully prepared national team yesterday, succeed- that both the DFB and Joachim Martino must cope without future,” said the Liverpool player. Norway’s opening Euro 2016 qual- for it.” ing Bayern Munich team-mate Loew trusted in me.” captain Lionel Messi for his first “Obviously overall it was very ifier against Group H rivals Italy Germany will be without Philipp Lahm, who retired from Borussia Dortmund mid- match in charge. The Barcelona disappointing because we came in Oslo on September 9. Philipp Lahm, Per Mertesacker international football following fielder Marco Reus, who missed attacker played in a 1-0 win over too early, but we’ve got to look at But there was no place for and Miroslav Klose, all of whom their World Cup victory in Brazil the World Cup through injury, Villarreal on Sunday but a groin some of the positives as well and 15-year-old Stromsgodset sen- retired from international football in July. is back in the squad along with injury has prevented the 27-year- hopefully use them to move for- sation Martin Odegaard, who after this summer’s tournament. Thirty-year-old Schweinsteiger, Fiorentina striker Mario Gomez. old from travelling to Germany. wards and start a new chapter.” became Norway’s youngest ever Most countries would strug- who has won 108 caps and scored Highly-rated VfB Stuttgart cen- “The priority is not the result,” Versatile defender Chambers, player when he started against gle to replace three players, who 23 goals for Germany, will not tre-back Antonio Ruediger is also Martino said before leaving for 19, was rewarded with a call-up the United Arab Emirates in a amassed 354 caps between them, lead the team in friendly rematch included. Duesseldorf, taking with him the after impressing in his first few goalless friendly last week. but Germany team manager of the final against Argentina due Mesut Ozil has an ankle squad that got to the World Cup appearances for new club Arsenal Norway have won only one of Oliver Bierhoff is confident that to injury, coach said. injury but Bierhoff said he hoped final, minus Messi. following a close-season move their 10 games under Hogmo, who the squad can move on. Loew also said former VfB the Arsenal midfielder would “What’s important is that from Southampton. was appointed a year ago, but he “After every tournament, we’ve Stuttgart coach Thomas be fit for the Scotland game. there’s a good atmosphere in the He was joined in the squad by feels that they are moving in the always managed to bring the team Schneider would be his new Schweinsteiger, however, will squad.” AGENCIES Tottenham Hotspur left-back right direction. AFP Five Biggest Summer Beckham Transfers in France Arsenal capture Welbeck from United The five biggest transfers in France during the summer transfer window, which closed on ‘sad’ over Monday night: LONDON: Arsenal have striker Radamel Falcao. United, David Luiz announced the signing of who have also allowed Javier Chelsea to Paris Saint-Germain; 49.5m euros Welbeck’s exit England international striker Hernandez to join Real Madrid (£39.1m, $65m) % Danny Welbeck from Premier on loan, sent the England inter- The Brazilian centre-back joined Paris LONDON: Saint-Germain from Chelsea for a world record Former Manchester League rivals Manchester national a good-luck message on England’s Jack fee for a defender and is reunited with interna- United midfielder David United on a long-term deal. their official Twitter account. Wilshere (right) tional team-mate Thiago Silva at the heart of Beckham told the BBC that he Arsenal did not specify either “Danny Welbeck has signed Laurent Blanc’s back four. is challenged by %The World Cup proved a traumatic experi- was “sad” to see home-grown the length of Welbeck’s contract for Arsenal after 29 goals in 142 Danny Welbeck ence for the 27-year-old and his compatriots as striker Danny Welbeck leave or the fee that they paid to sign appearances for MUFC,” the club during a training they were demolished 7-1 by Germany in the the club for Arsenal. him, but British media reports said. “Good luck for the future, semi-finals but Blanc tipped his new signing session at to banish those painful memories and forge a Welbeck, 23, was allowed to join said that he had cost around £16 Danny.” Arsenal’s training formidable partnership with Silva at the Parc Arsenal on Monday after United m ($26.6m, 20.2m euros). Welbeck leaves United hav- facility in London des Princes. agreed to sign Colombia striker “Danny Welbeck has joined ing played a part in their 2009 on Monday. Serge Aurier Radamel Falcao on a season-long Arsenal for an undisclosed fee League Cup triumph and their Toulouse to Paris Saint-Germain; loan loan from Monaco. on a long-term deal,” Arsenal last Premier League title success %Aurier, 21, was the standout right-back in the French top flight a year ago with Toulouse “He (Welbeck) has been there announced on their website two in 2012-13. and was named in the Ligue 1 team of the sea- since he was eight. His heart was hours after the transfer window Arsenal’s need for attacking son for the 2013/14 campaign. He then per- in Manchester,” said Beckham, closed on Monday. reinforcements was heightened formed admirably for the Ivory Coast in Brazil despite the Elephants’ premature exit from the who graduated from the United “The transfer is subject to the recently when France interna- World Cup before Paris Saint-Germain swooped youth team in the mid-1990s completion of regulatory for- tional striker Olivier Giroud was caps, scoring eight goals, and is Colombian goalkeeper David in and snapped up Aurier on a season-long loan before establishing himself at Old malities. Everyone at Arsenal ruled out for up to four months in national coach Roy Hodgson’s Ospina in joining Arsenal during with an option to make the move permanent. %Aurier, who spent much of his upbringing Trafford. welcomes Danny to the club and with a broken tibia. squad for Wednesday’s friendly the close season. in the Paris outskirts, said the move was “a “I am sure he is obviously sad to looks forward to his contribution Giroud’s injury left 21-year- against Norway and next The lithe, fleet-footed forward, childhood dream” while PSG president Nasser leave Manchester United. Arsenal in an Arsenal shirt this season.” old Frenchman Yaya Sanogo as week’s opening 2016 European who can also play on the flanks, Al Khelaifi lauded the Ivorian as “one of the most promising young players in world football”. have a very good, young, talented Welbeck, a graduate of United’s the only fit striker at the club, Championship qualifier in could make his debut for Arsene % Aurier poses quite the attacking threat, English player, but to see him youth system, was allowed to although new £30 million sign- Switzerland. He follows Chilean Wenger’s side in their home too, as his six goals and six assists made him leave Manchester United, as a leave Old Trafford as the 20-time ing Alexis Sanchez can also play forward Sanchez, France right- game against Premier League Europe’s most prolific defender last season. Must compete with Gregory van der Wiel for a Manchester United fan, is obvi- English champions closed in on a through the centre. back Mathieu Debuchy, English champions Manchester City on starting berth, however. ously sad.” AFP loan move for Monaco’s Colombia Welbeck has won 26 England defender Calum Chambers, and September 13. AFP Jordan Ayew Marseille to Lorient; undisclosed %Ayew, 22, penned a four-year contract at Qatar Team’s Tour of Morocco Lorient after struggling for first-team oppor- tunities at Marseille. The Ghanaian striker impressed during the the second half of last season on loan at strugglers Sochaux where he netted five goals in 17 appearances, argu- ably his best run in the French top flight, but was unable to prevent the club from suffering relegation to the second tier. %Ayew is charged with the task of replac- ing Jeremie Aliadiere, who moved to Qatar, and Cameroon international Vincent Aboubakar, sold to FC Porto after scoring 16 Ligue 1 goals last season. Michy Batshuayi Standard Liege to Marseille; 7m euros %The highly-rated Batshuayi signed a five- year contract with Marseille after setting the Belgian Pro League alight with Standard Liege last season, scoring 21 goals. The 20-year-old of Congolese origin, a reported target of boy- hood club Arsenal before pledging his future to Marseille, linked up with new OM boss Marcelo Bielsa as the Argentine looks to lead the nine- time French champions back into contention for silverware. % Batshuayi, a regular at Under-21 level for Belgium, was called up to Marc Wilmots’ provisional 30-man squad for the World Cup, and although he failed to make the final cut, Batshuayi very much remains one for the future. Romain Alessandrini Rennes to Marseille; 5m euros % Former Marseille academy product Alessandrini finally got his wish as he returned to the Velodrome, a year after almost joining his hometown club. A Qatari footballer gestures during the national team’s visit to a school in Casablanca, Morocco yesterday. RIGHT: Qatar player Hassan Al Haydos captures a selfie along with his team- %A year ago, Rennes were reluctant to let him leave after the Brittany club helped nurse mates and children during the trip. The team is on a training tour to prepare for the Gulf Cup in November and the 2015 Asian Cup to be held next January. Qatar will play a friendly against him back from a cruciate knee ligament injury Morocco today and will play their second match against Peru on September 9. suffered during the 2012/13 campaign. WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Khan resigns as Afghanistan Rahane smashes maiden coach

KARACHI: Afghanistan’s coach resigned yesterday, saying the job was putting too much strain on his family, dealing the ton as India crush England side a major blow in its prepara- tions for next year’s World Cup. Kabir Khan, who played four India take unassailable 3-0 lead with nine-wicket win in fourth ODI Tests and 10 one-day interna- tionals for Pakistan, led minnows Afghanistan to qualification for BIRMINGHAM: Ajinkya balls off James Anderson -- the the World Cup in Australia and Rahane’s maiden one-day inter- best an off-drive. Left-hander New Zealand. national hundred set the seal on Dhawan, who struggled for runs In his first stint as coach, a crushing nine-wicket series- in India’s preceding 3-1 Test series starting in 2007, Khan took clinching win over England in defeat by England, then struck Afghanistan from international the fourth ODI at Edgbaston a superb straight drive off fast division five to one and helped yesterday. bowler Steven Finn. them gain full one-day status Victory saw world champions Even off-spinner Ali wasn’t from the International Cricket India take an unbeatable 3-0 lead spared, Rahane slog-sweeping Council. in the five-match series. him for his second six to complete India’s Ajinkya “I have resigned from coach’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar took two a 60-ball fifty also including six Rahane leaves the post,” said the 40-year-old. early wickets, a double blow from fours. field after being “The simple reason is that my which England never recovered, Dhawan too went to fifty, off dismissed for 106 family was suffering from my as they were dismissed for a mea- 57 balls, with a six when he drove during the fourth being away on tours and I was gre 206 featuring 67 -- their first Anderson straight back over the ODI against England not enjoying coaching.” fifty of the series -- from recalled bowler’s head. at Edgbaston Most of the Afghan players all-rounder Moeen Ali. Rahane’s two off Chris Woakes learnt the game in refugee camps in Birmingham, Rahane (106) and Shikhar saw him complete a first century in neighbouring Pakistan dur- yesterday. Dhawan (97 not out) then pul- in 33 matches at this level in 96 ing the occupation by the Soviet verised England’s attack in an balls, with nine fours and four Union in the 1980s. opening stand of 183. sixes. But just when it seemed Under Khan, Afghanistan qual- India gave their raucous fans, India would inflict England’s ified for three World Twenty20 who accounted for some two- first home ODI defeat by 10 wick- events in 2010, 2012 and 2014. thirds of a 21,000 crowd, plenty ets, Rahane drove a Gurney full Khan denied his resignation to cheer with a blizzard of toss straight to England captain would hurt Afghanistan. boundaries at the start of their Alastair Cook at cover. “I think qualifying for the run-chase. However, Rahane sealed an World Cup was more important Rahane hit four fours in five emphatic win with more than 19 than playing it so I don’t think my not being there will affect the overs to spare when he smashed Whereas spin had proved the And 103 for four became 114 performance, “ said Khan, whose Scoreboard Gurney for six. main cause of England’s undo- for five when Root carelessly top- first stint came to an end after ENGLAND 10-0-48-1 (3w); Jadeja 10-0-40-2 (1w); Raina This defeat meant England had ing in 133-run and six-wicket edged a reverse-sweep off spin- interference in his work by the A Cook c Raina b Kumar ...... 9 7-0-36-1 (2w). now lost five of their last six ODI defeats in Cardiff and Nottingham ner Raina to debutant Dhawal Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) A Hales b Kumar ...... 6 INDIA series. It was the first innings respectively they were 23 for Kulkarni. in 2010. G Ballance c Rahane b Shami ...... 7 A Rahane c Cook b Gurney ...... 106 that proved decisive, with Kumar three before a slow bowler came. Left-hander Ali then used his He denied this was a factor this J Root c Kulkarni b Raina ...... 44 S Dhawan (not out) ...... 97 reducing England to 16 for two Kumar struck twice in four feet well against spin to advance time. E Morgan c Raina b Jadeja ...... 32 V Kohli (not out) ...... 1 with two wickets in the fifth over balls to remove both Alex Hales down the pitch and drive off-spin- “No, there was no interference,” J Buttler lbw Shami ...... 11 Extras (LB-5, W-2, NB-1) ...... 8 on his way to a return of two for and Cook after India skipper ner Ravichandran Ashwin for an Khan said. “When you don’t enjoy M Ali b Ashwin ...... 67 Total (for 1 wkt in 30.3 overs) ...... 212 14 in eight overs. Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the elegant straight six. your work it’s not advisable to C Woakes (run out-Raina) ...... 10 Did not bat: A Rayudu, S Raina, MS Dhoni, R Fellow paceman Mohammed toss. Hales (six) was bowled by Ali completed a 37-ball fifty continue and let another man S Finn b Jadeja ...... 2 Jadeja, R Ashwin, D Kulkarni, B Kumar, Moham- Shami followed up with three for the first ball he received from in style when he thrashed Raina do the job because Afghanistan J Anderson (not out) ...... 1 med Shami 28 in 7.3 after India captain MS Kumar. over midwicket for six. are going to play in an important H Gurney b Shami ...... 3 Fall of wicket: 1-183. Dhoni won the toss. Three balls later Cook (nine) But his 50-ball knock ended event.” Extras (LB-5, W-9) ...... 14 Bowling: Anderson 6-1-38-0; Gurney 6.3-0- By the time No 7 Ali came in cut Kumar low to Suresh Raina when he was bowled, making Former Pakistan captain Total (all out in 49.3 overs) ...... 206 51-1 (1nb, 1w); Finn 7-0-38-0 (1w); Woakes the damage had been done. in the gully, making it 38 innings room, by Ashwin. Rashid Latif replaced him in Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-16, 3-23, 4-103, 4-0-40-0; Ali 7-0-40-0. Only Joe Root (44) and Eoin since his last ODI hundred. This series, which marks the 2010. Former New Zealand coach 5-114, 6-164, 7-194, 8-201, 9-202, 10-206. Result: India won by nine wickets. Morgan (32), who put on 80 for Left-arm spinner Ravindra start of both teams’ lead-in to Andy Moles is likely to replace Bowling: Kumar 8-3-14-2 (1w); Kulkarni 7-0- Man-of-the-match: Ajinkya Rahane (IND). the fourth wicket, also made Jadeja who ended a promising next year’s World Cup in Australia Khan. Moles was earlier this 35-0 (1w); Shami 7.3-1-28-3 (1w); Ashwin Series: India lead five-match series 3-0. significant contributions to partnership when Morgan turned and New Zealand, concludes at year appointed batting coach of England’s paltry total. him to Raina at leg-slip. Headingley on Friday. AFP the Afghanistan team. AFP Bolt’s father stopped him Swashbuckling Marsh takes Scoreboard AUSTRALIA A Finch c Duminy b McLaren ...... 16 from becoming a cricketer P Hughes c Miller b Phangiso ...... 85 Aussies into final with SA rout S Smith c de Kock b Imran Tahir ...... 36 BANGALORE: Sprint super- team’.” G Maxwell c de Kock b Steyn ...... 2 star Usain Bolt said yesterday Bolt, an ardent cricket fan, G Bailey st de Kock b Phangiso ...... 32 HARARE: he wanted to play cricket for was in Bangalore to captain a A swashbuckling M Marsh (not out) ...... 86 Jamaica as a youngster but his seven-a-side team against one innings from Mitchell Marsh B Haddin c Phangiso b Morkel ...... 11 father convinced him to take led by India’s cricket World Cup helped Australia bounce back Australia’s M Johnson (run out) ...... 2 up track and field instead. hero Yuvraj Singh. The exhibi- from two successive defeats to batsman M Starc (not out) ...... 1 Bolt, the world’s fastest man, tion match, organised by both b e at S outh A f r ic a by 6 2 r u n s a nd Mitchell Extras (LB-6, W-3, NB-2) ...... 11 could have followed in the foot- men’s sponsors, was staged in a reach the final of the Triangular Marsh plays Total (for 7 wkts in 50 overs) ...... 282 steps of Jamaican speedsters stadium in the southern city of ODI Series yesterday. a shot during Fall of wickets: 1-46, 2-131, 3-136, 4-152, Michael Holding and Courtney Bangalore. Marsh plundered an unbeaten Triangular 5-187, 6-258, 7-281. Walsh, who struck fear into the Bolt, the world record holder 86 off 51 balls, including seven Series match Bowling: Steyn 9-0-64-1; Duminy 4-0-24- hearts of batsmen while playing in both the 100m and 200m, said sixes and three in a row off fast against 0; Morkel 9-1-51-1; McLaren 8-0-56-1; Im- for the West Indies in the 1980s his records at this stage were bowler Dale Steyn, to take his side South Africa ran Tahir 10-0-42-1; Phangiso 10-0-39-2. and 90s. “pretty much out of reach”. to 282 for seven in 50 overs at the at the Harare SOUTH AFRICA Asked on a promotional visit “There are quite a few runners Harare Sports Club. H Amla c Haddin b Marsh ...... 17 to India why he did not pursue who could challenge me but not South Africa were then bowled Sports Club, yesterday. Q de Kock c Smith b Maxwell ...... 1 his love of cricket, the six-time beat me,” said Bolt, who has out for 220 in 44 overs despite 126 F du Plessis hit wicket b Richardson ...... 126 Olympic gold medallist replied: raced just four times this season. from Faf du Plessis who scored A B de Villiers c Bailey b Lyon ...... 6 “Blame it on my dad.” “As an athlete, I have seen his second consecutive century J P Duminy c (sub-cutting) b Marsh ...... 16 “My father is a huge cricket records come and go. They have against Australia. D Miller b Johnson ...... 3 fan, but when I got to higher always been broken, but if you Australia’s win came after an the absence of injured captain for Australia as South Africa R McLaren c Smith b Richardson ...... 24 secondary, I had two options -- want to be as great as me, you embarrassing defeat on Sunday Michael Clarke - added 85 for the slumped to 64 for three in D Steyn (run out) ...... 5 cricket or athletics,” he said. have to work very hard. That’s to hosts Zimbabwe and a seven- second wicket before South Africa response, with captain AB de A Phangiso (not out) ...... 3 “My dad said because of the why my records will stand.” wicket loss to South Africa. put the brakes on their scoring. Villiers among those failing with M Morkel b Johnson ...... 0 system in Jamaica, it would be Bolt is set on competing in They also picked up a bonus Hughes holed out to long-on the bat on his return following a Imran Tahir c Marsh b Maxwell ...... 2 better to take up athletics. He his final Olympics in Rio in 2016 point for their victory, ensuring for 85 off 92 balls as he tried to viral infection. Extras (LB-7, W-10) ...... 17 said, ‘You just have to run fast before calling time on his career them a place in Saturday’s final, take advantage of the last over of But 73 runs for the sixth wicket Total (all out in 44 overs) ...... 220 in athletics while it’s tougher to in 2017 after the world champi- when they will play the winner the power play but Marsh came between Du Plessis and Ryan Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-36, 3-64, 4-93, get into the national (cricket) onships. AFP of South Africa’s match against to the crease and soon set about McLaren briefly threatened a 5-101, 6-174, 7-206, 8-214, 9-217. Zimbabwe on Thursday. the bowling as Australia stepped comeback before McLaren (24) Bowling: Johnson 9-1-30-2; Maxwell 4-0- Australia made a bright start up the run rate again in the last was caught by Smith at mid- 22-2; Richardson 8-0-38-2; Starc 8-1-47-0; as opener Phil Hughes and Steve 10 overs. wicket off Kane Richardson. Marsh 5-0-23-2; Lyon 10-0-53-1. Smith - restored to the side in Early wickets proved important REUTERS Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt (front) and Misbah offers mea culpa after SL disaster Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh LAHORE: Pakistan’s cricket Twenty20 in February-March (back) pose for captain Misbah-ul Haq yester- this year -- had also played a role photographers day admitted his failure with the in the defeats. during an bat was a “big factor” in team’s “We lacked match practice exhibition disastrous tour of Sri Lanka. and we couldn’t handle it,” said cricket match Pakistan were beaten 2-0 in the Misbah. between the Tests and lost the three match Newly appointed coach Waqar Usain Bolt one-day series 2-1 in August. Younis and batting coach Grant team and “If I take pressure it won’t solve Flower have come under fire since the Yuvraj the problem, my contribution as a the losses but Misbah said it was Singh team at batsman was not there and it was too early to pronounce judgement. Chinnaswamy a big factor,” he said. “Whatever staff is with you, Stadium in “I should do more work on my they try to help you and do the Bangalore, basics and try to come back in hard work with the players and PCB Chairman Shaharyar Khan (right) speaks with captain Misbah-ul Haq India, form as soon as possible because work with the team, but some- during a meeting in Lahore yesterday to review defeat in Sri Lanka series. yesterday. when you play as a senior bats- times when you come into such man in the team your contribu- a situation where results don’t tion is very important,” he added. come, it needs some time... before Misbah and Younis met their next two series against He added that lack of match the next series we have time to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Australia and New Zealand -- practice -- the tour was Pakistan’s eradicate whatever weaknesses chairman Shaharyar Khan to both in United Arab Emirates first since the Asia Cup and World we have.” review the defeats and plan for starting from October. AFP WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador of Tinkoff-Saxo team in action during the ninth stage of the 69th Vuelta Ciclista cycling race, of 185 kms between Carboneras de Guadazaon (Cuenca province) and Aramon Valdelinares (Teruel province), Spain, on Sunday. RIGHT: Namibian cyclist Dan Craven of Europcar team drinks water during the ninth stage of the 69th Vuelta Ciclista cycling race.

Contador eyes victory at Vuelta Two-time Tour of Spain champion looks in perfect shape during first week of race

MADRID: Two-time Tour react and, I repeat, keep going day is strong despite it all. He is going of Spain champion Alberto by day. much better than expected and I Tour of Spain Standings Contador has publicly admit- “The time trial in Borja will also though Purito (Rodriguez) Classification from Tour of ted for the first time that he be good for my physical condi- looked very good. We need to be Spain after Stage 9 on Sunday can compete to win the race for tion. Today I went to see it and I aware of him.” 1. Nairo Quintana (Colombia/Movistar) a third time just a month after have to say that it perhaps suits The Colombian is looking to 35:58:05” suffering a broken shinbone. (Chris) Froome more than me add the Vuelta to his Giro d’Italia 2. Alberto Contador (Spain/Tinkoff-Saxo) +3” The Tinkoff-Saxo rider had because it is quite hard.” victory earlier in the year but Colombian 3. Alejandro Valverde (Spain/Movistar) +8” originally ruled himself out of Britain’s Froome currently faces stiff competition from even cyclist Nairo even taking part in his homeland lies in fifth, 28 seconds off the within his own team as Alejandro Quintana 4. Winner Anacona (Colombia/Lampre) +9” after complications in the healing lead, after he was left trailing by Valverde remains well in the hunt of Movistar 5. Chris Froome (Britain/Team Sky) +28” of the wound he suffered in crash- Contador and Quintana on the just eight seconds back in third. team cel- 6. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spain/Katusha) +30” ing out of the Tour de France. climb to Aramon Valdelinares on And the 34-year-old said he ebrates on 7. Fabio Aru (Italy/Astana) +1:06” However, he has looked in fine Sunday. is on the verge of signing a new the podium 8. Robert Gesink (Netherlands/Belkin) +1:19” shape during the first week of the However, he is expected to claw deal with the Spanish team wearing race and sits in second place over- back some time on his rivals for despite appearing to be usurped 9. Rigoberto Uran (Colombia/Omega Pharma - the overall Quick-Step) +1:26” all, just three seconds off leader the leader’s red jersey today. by Quintana as the team leader. leader’s red 10. Warren Barguil (France/Giant) Nairo Quintana, ahead of today’s “Today we have been looking “My contract renewal is very jersey after 10th stage, a 36.7km individual at the time trial and although I close. It will be for three years and 11. Mikel Nieve (Spain/Team Sky) +1:33” the ninth time trial from Real Monasterio have improved a little in that spe- I would like to finish my career stage of the 12. Esteban Chaves (Colombia/Orica) +1:34” de Santa Maria de Veruela to ciality, I just hope to not lose too with Movistar,” he said. 69th Vuelta 13. Samuel Sanchez (Spain/BMC Racing) Borja. much time to those riders who are “We already know each other +1:35” “I can now confirm that I am more specialists than I am,” said perfectly and they know how to Ciclista going to try and win the Vuelta. Movistar’s Quintana. handle my career. cycling race 14. Damiano Caruso (Italy/Cannondale) +1:36” It is another thing whether I have “I didn’t expect to be in red “As regards losing the red jersey on Sunday. 15. Daniel Martin (Ireland /Garmin) +1:42” the legs to do it or not,” he said at so early, we had thought about to Nairo there was no problem. 16. Wilco Kelderman (Netherlands/Belkin) a press conference on Thursday. maybe in the last week when I “We came into the race with +1:49” “So far I have been going day will be most in shape. that in mind and first of all I was 17. Daniel Navarro (Spain/Cofidis) +2:37” by day, but I have not lost time “Yesterday in Valdelinares leading and now it is him because 18. Daniel Moreno (Spain/Katusha) +3:17” in the general classification and the real favourites showed their he is in better condition right 19. Maxime Monfort (Belgium/Lotto) +4:16” that gives me a chance. We need intentions to win the race. now. Despite everything we have to see how my leg continues to “Contador is one of them and two chances to win.” AFP 20. Sergio Pardilla (Spain/Team MTN) +4:33”

Beale did well at flyhalf, Springboks intrigued by All Blacks maul having gone in MELBOURNE: South Africa and are likely to employ it liber- few test matches that I’ve seen their fifth-choice hooker in James respect for the Wallabies,” he have long set the benchmark ally if given the chance against that. And they did quite well to Hanson after injuries to Stephen said. “Throughout Super Rugby cold, says Foley for using driving mauls to an Australian team still licking put their backs in the blind and Moore, Tatafu Polota-Nau, the players showed the kind of grind down opponents but were their wounds from the Eden Park I think it made one or two guys Nathan Charles and Tolu Latu. rugby they can play. MELBOURNE: Benched back impressed by the All Blacks’ fiasco. unsure.” Belted at set-pieces and “I think against the French Kurtley Beale did a good job at execution of the tactic in their “I think the maul is a big part of The Springboks lead the four- smashed at the breakdown at pack, they played some brilliant flyhalf in Australia’s first two humbling of Australia at Eden the South African game,” assist- nation tournament by a point Eden Park, Australia’s pack has rugby earlier this year, and I tests of the Rugby Championship Park last month. ant coach Johann van Graan told from New Zealand after two been under fire from local media, think in Sydney, that 12-all draw, given he had not played the All Blacks captain Richie reporters in Perth on Tuesday. tight wins over the Pumas and and coach Ewen McKenzie named it was a big clash between two position all year, according to McCaw scored two second half “Definitely if there’s an oppor- may fancy themselves to continue a forwards-heavy bench for the very good packs. his replacement Bernard Foley. tries off rolling mauls from tunity we’ll maul but it’s not the Wallabies’ winless start at Perth test in full expectation of a “Even in Auckland I thought Australia coach Ewen attacking lineouts in quick suc- because of what happened in Subiaco Oval on Saturday. stiff test against the South Africa they actually played some very McKenzie demoted Beale and his cession as the world champions Auckland. Though victorious, not all has forwards. very good rugby so (there’s) no halfback partner Nic White from handed the Wallabies a stinging “If you look at those mauls been rosy in the South Africa The Springboks coaching staff soft Wallaby pack.” the starting side named yesterday 51-20 loss to send them crash- closely in Auckland, the New camp, with alarm bells ring- have put an emphasis on train- South Africa has been buoyed in favour of the New South Wales ing to the bottom of the Rugby Zealanders put quite a few backs ing at home over the pack’s ing in Perth in putting the scrim- by the return of inspirational lock Waratahs’ duo of Foley and Nick Championship after two games. into the maul. They did something scrum troubles in the opening maging in order before Saturday, Victor Matfield and loose forward Phipps for the Saturday’s clash The Springboks relied on the different. matches. Van Graan said, and he dismissed Willem Alberts, who both missed against South Africa in Perth. tactic to help get them out of “I think it might have been a The Wallabies also have their criticism of the Wallabies’ pack. the opening two tests and should That Beale was promoted to jail against Argentina in Salta surprise. It’s the first time in a problems, and are now down to “I think we’ve got a lot of be fit for selection. AFP the position at all before the four- nation tournament was a mystery to many in Australia, with Foley having acquitted himself well in Beale and White axed the number 10 shirt during the Wallabies’ 3-0 sweep of France in June. after humiliating loss From the reserves bench, Foley and Phipps watched Beale and scrumhalf White struggle to exert PERTH, Australia: Australia with vice-captain Adam Ashley- their influence in both the drawn coach Ewen McKenzie yes- Cooper moving back to the wing 12-12 test in Sydney and the 51-20 terday dropped Kurtley Beale and Tevita Kuridrani getting a thrashing by the All Blacks in the and Nic White yesterday for call-up at outside centre. return match at Eden Park last the Rugby Championship clash “While the size of the challenge month. Though the horse had well against South Africa following isn’t any easier this week, the and truly bolted by the time they the Wallabies’ 51-20 humiliation South Africans do play a unique came on at Eden Park, Foley and by New Zealand. brand of rugby which we will need Phipps brought an energy and pur- Beale and White were pre- to adjust to,” McKenzie said. pose to the Wallabies’ second half ferred for the opening two Australia (15-1) - Israel that had been sorely lacking earlier. rounds but McKenzie reverted to Folau; Adam Ashley-Cooper, Too much of a team man to Bernard Foley and Nick Phipps Tevita Kuridrani, Matt Toomua, say a word against Beale’s turn as his halves pairing after last Rob Horne; Bernard Foley, Nick at flyhalf, a performance largely month’s beating in Auckland. Phipps; Wycliff Palu, Michael condemned by Australian media, They are among a number Hooper (capt), Scott Fardy; Rob Foley conceded the experiment of changes for Saturday’s Test Simmons, Sam Carter; Sekope had not worked. in Perth, with James Hanson Kepu, James Hanson, James “I thought KB (Beale) did quite replacing injured hooker Nathan Slipper. a good job those couple of games. A combination of pictures shows Australian Wallabies’ scrumhalf Nic White (left) in action against France in Charles after he was ruled out for Replacements: Saia Fainga’a, For a person who hadn’t played Melbourne on June 14, 2014, and Wallabies’ flyhalf Kurtley Beale in action against the New Zealand All Blacks the season with a pectoral tear. Pek Cowan, Ben Alexander, James 10 all year to step up and call the in Sydney on August 16, 2014. Australia coach Ewen McKenzie yesterday dropped Beale and White for the The retirement of Pat McCabe Horwill, Scott Higginbotham, plays I think he did very well,” Rugby Championship clash against South Africa following the Wallabies’ 51-20 humiliation by New Zealand. with a fractured neck sees a fur- Matt Hodgson, Nic White, Foley told reporters. REUTERS ther reshuffle of the backline, Kurtley Beale. REUTERS Wednesday 3 September 2014 8 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 Volume 19 Number 6177 Sport Price: QR2 Argentina Contador to take on eyes victory at

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NEW YORK: Unseeded Peng Although Peng, ranked 39th in Shuai of China swept past Swiss the world, was in her first Grand teen Belinda Bencic 6-2, 6-1 yes- Slam quarter-final at last, the terday to reach the US Open 28-year-old had plenty of big- semi-finals. match experience to draw on. Peng joins two-time Grand In February she became the Slam winner Li Na and Zheng Jie first Chinese player to reach as the only Chinese to reach the number one in the world when final four of a Grand Slam -- and she went top of the doubles charts she did it in her 37th appearance thanks to her success with Taiwan in a major tournament. partner Hsieh Su-Wei. “Thirty-seven times Grand The duo won their second Slam,” Peng said, then had to stop Grand Slam doubles title at the the thought as she struggled to French Open this year. contain her emotions. Peng, who ousted fourth-seeded “It’s a little bit too exciting. I Pole Agnieszka Radwanska, love tennis, I love to play, but it’s 28th-seeded Roberta Vinci and a long time, the career. It’s tough. 14th-seeded Lucie Safarova to Sometimes I’ve thought to give up reach the quarters, will face and stop playing because I don’t either former world number know if I can make it or not. one Caroline Wozniacki or 13th- “My coach and my parents seeded Italian Sara Errani for a always told me to fight and not place in the championship match. give up -- that today was coming.” Meanwhile, Serena Williams Peng, who has reached the suffered a foot injury scare on semi-finals without dropping a the eve of her quarter-final as she set, was in charge from the begin- played doubles with sister Venus ning against Bencic, the unseeded yesterday. 17-year-old who was already the World number one and five- youngest US Open quarter-final- time singles champion Williams ist since Martina Hingis won the took an injury timeout to have Coach of Qatar’s Olympic football team, Fahad Thani (fourth left) during a training session in Doha on Monday. The Qatar national Under-23 team take title at 16 in 1997. her right foot and ankle heav- on Brazil in a friendly at the Al Arabi Stadium today. INSET: Brazilian midfielder Rafinha Alcantara during a press conference yesterday. Peng fended off two break ily strapped early in the second points in her opening service set of the sisters’ quarter-final game and didn’t face another in against Russian pair, Ekaterina the 64-minute match. Makarova and Elena Vesnina. She broke Bencic twice in the Although the 32-year-old did first set, and seized a 4-0 lead with not appear to be in significant dis- two breaks of serve in the second. comfort, the American stars still Qatar ready for feisty Bencic, at a loss, was warned for lost 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 to the Russian receiving coaching. She argued, fourth seeds. but as she returned to the base- Williams is due to face Italy’s line to resume play couldn’t resist Flavia Pennetta today for a place encounter against Brazil sliding her eyes toward her box. in the semi-finals. AGENCIES Al Annabi take on Selecao today at Al Arabi Stadium

BY D. CHAKRABORTY playing against big names like Brazilian midfielder Rafinha started four-five years ago at Brazil,” Fahad said yesterday. Alcantara, who plays for Spanish Aspire Academy and I think there DOHA: The Qatar national He also felt that playing club club Barcelona, said the Middle is harmony in the team,” Yasser Under-23 football team, hoping football in different leagues would East was emerging as an attrac- said during a pre-match press to make the Rio Olympic Games give young players good exposure. tive destination for some big conference yesterday. in 2016, is expecting nothing “We want our players to take names in football. Qatar have already played less than a feisty encounter part in different leagues. To judge “A lot of Brazilian players come 10 friendlies against teams like against football giants Brazil a footballer, he needs to play fifty to play in the Middle East,” the Senegal and Macedonia to build a in a friendly at the Al Arabi games in a season,” Fahad added. 21-year-old said. competitive side for the upcoming Stadium here tonight. Brazil coach Alexandre Gallo, He also spoke about the growth Olympic qualifiers, which start in The last time these two teams however, said they were not tak- of football in the Gulf state and March next year. faced each other was in Toulouse, ing Qatar lightly, also known as the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. In October they will face Algeria France, when Qatar were handed a Al Annabi. “For us young players, Qatar and Ghana and then take on heavy 7-1 defeat by the Brazilians. “We have respect for all teams. is very exciting,” Alcantara said. Sweden and Slovakia in November. However, the coach of Qatar’s Every game has its lessons,” Gallo “This is a fast-growing country; Fahad, who managed the sen- Olympic football team, Fahad said. they are building a lot of stadi- ior team from January 2013 until Thani, said today’s encounter When asked about the Selecao’s ums, lot of infrastructure. I think March this year, informed that would be ideal preparation ahead recent World Cup disaster and the World Cup in Qatar will be the Qatar Under-23 team had of qualifications for the 2016 how the Brazilians intended to very exciting,” he added. withdrawn from the Asian Games Olympic Games and improve his rebuild their national squad, Gallo Qatari player Ahmed Yasser in Incheon, South Korea, because team’s big-match temperament. said: “It is a collective responsi- said there was good team spirit in the Games were clashing with “As we prepare for Rio 2016, bility. We have some key players the dressing room and they were their international schedule. Peng Shuai of China celebrates her 6-2, 6-1 win over Belinda Bencic of our players must have the expe- in this squad and national team looking forward to the game. The Asian Games take place Switzerland during their 2014 US Open women’s singles match at the rience of playing against strong coach Dunga keeps abreast about “We have been playing together between September 19 to October USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, yesterday. teams. They must get used to their progress.” for a few years now. Some of us 4. THE PENINSULA Third edition of Doha Goals Forum in November

DOHA: The premier platform Past years have included prom- Goals Forum, H E Sheikh Faisal Executive producer, Richard for today’s youth. We also need for world leaders to advance inent speakers such as former bin Mubarak Al Thani said: “To Attias said: “Sport is a powerful to thank the organizers of Doha social and economic change President of France, Nicolas watch initiatives go from ideas in game changer! Doha Goals Forum Goals and the country of Qatar through sport, is back for a third Sarkozy, President of Gabon, discussion to concrete programs is a real community of leaders for supporting athletes who have successive year on November 3 Ali Bongo, FIFA President, Sepp implemented across the globe is a who share this vision and at the a strong commitment to making to 5 at the Aspire Academy in Blatter, and Olympic medallists remarkable experience, one which 2014 edition we will go beyond this a difference in society. We need to Doha. like Lord Sebastian Coe, Carl fills us with pride. Doha Goals vision and implement impactful keep this movement going and we The Doha Goals Forum is held Lewis, Michael Johnson, Mark Forum helps build the very foun- initiatives and actions with the need to continue coming here to under the high patronage of the Spitz, Hicham El Guerrouj, dations for youth development support of the private and public Doha Goals. Two days can change Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Marie Jose Perez and Nadia and provides means for support sectors.” the world and secure the future Hamad Al Thani, Doha Goals Comaneci. in the community. Sport is one of Dikembe Mutumbo said: “Sport of our children.” Forum said in a press release. This year will feature tennis the most powerful tools to instil promotes healthy society and During the second year, the Last year, the Doha Goals legend Boris Becker (pictured) proper values and build character, individuals. We need a coalition first Ministers of Sport summit Forum was attended by 1,500 along with star athletes Wilson through our initiatives we create between government, athletes, yielded the Doha Goals Accord participants from 70 countries, Kipketer, Tegla Loroupe and opportunities unique which would international institutions, and while the Forum itself produced including 150 speakers and 30 Jonathan Edwards, to name a few. otherwise not exist for many corporations to create positive three concrete social initiatives. sporting champions. Executive Director of Doha young athletes.” opportunities and provide support THE PENINSULA