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THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 • 5 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6528 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir with Eritrean President Qatar passes Fine for overtaking law on organ donation from right doubled DOHA: Qatar passed a law yesterday that allows organ donation for transplant by people Emir approves amended traffic law who are not related to recipients. The only condition the legisla- DOHA: An amended traffic above violations will be liable to concerned were to deal with such tion specifies for such donations law likely be enforced by year- be jailed as well as fined. violations but now the former is that the transplant must be end will allow motorists to pay Points are also to be deducted (traffic department) has been urgent and without which the half the fine for a violation that from the driver’s points scale solely authorized to deal with it. recipient cannot be treated or his figures on the reconciliation list for exceeding speed limits. No A vehicle seized for violation life cannot be saved. provided the fine is paid within fines are, though, prescribed for must be taken back by its owner Moreover, an ethics committee at 30 days. The rule will not apply breaching speed limits. The Emir within three months after paying the hospital where the transplant to violations in which reconcili- H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad the fines, or it would be auctioned. is to take place must approve the ation is not possible. Al Thani yesterday issued Law The fine amount will be deducted donation. Children and people with However, once the 30-day Number 16 of 2015 amending from the sale proceeds after the unsound mind are barred from period is over, the errant motorist some provisions of the Traffic auction and the remaining amount making organ donation even if their will have to pay the fine amount Law that was issued in 2007. will be handed to the owner. parents or guardians or legal repre- in full. The amended traffic law, Qatar News Agency (QNA) However, if the fine is more sentatives have given consent. however, doubles the fine for reports that the amended law than the sale amount, the mat- Any kind of trade in human overtaking from the right side to will be effective 90 days after its ter will be referred to the court organs is not allowed and their QR1,000 from QR500. publication in the official gazette. for recovery of the outstanding sale or purchase is an offence The fine for illegal parking of The legislation bars an owner amount. Earlier, the period for punishable with a jail term of cars in slots reserved for people of from parking a car in a public claiming a seized car was six up to 10 years and fine of up to a special needs has also been raised place, including roadside and open months. Car rental companies, million riyals or both. The Emir to QR1,000 from QR500. Three ground, with an announcement all car showrooms, garages and H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad points will also be deducted from for sale without permission from automobile décor shops will need Al Thani yesterday issued Law the driver’s points scale for the the Department of Traffic. to be licensed by the “authorities Number 15 of 2015 regulating the above violation. Earlier, the Department of concerned”. Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday met President of transplant of human organs. Those found repeating the Traffic as well as the municipality THEPENINSULA Eritrea Isaias Afwerki. Emir also hosted a luncheon banquet in honour Continued on page 3 of the President and his delegation. THE PENINSULA Weather office forecasts hotter days with high humidity DOHA: Qatar could bask in even more August 26 will be between four to seven 26 will be due to deep low Indian monsoon 90 percent and tomorrow, the maximum that the maximum temperature will vary soaring temperatures over the next degrees higher than the average for the pressure over the Gulf region, associated could reach up to 90 percent. from 39 degrees (in Al Ruwais) and 45 several days, predicts the Met office. It current period (40.7 degrees). with southwesterlyy wind which will be He said the temperatures would begin degrees (Abu Samra). In Doha, it will be will be hotter than the present weather In a special bulletin the bureau said light to moderate in speed, said the bureau. easing a bit from August 27 onwards. 43 degrees. from tomorrow until August 26, with that the maximum temperature in the As for humidity, a weather forecaster told Yesterday, the humidity levels were The minimum or nightly tempera- temperatures peaking at 48 degrees above-said period is expected to be this newspaper that the levels will be high 70 to 75 percent. According to the fore- ture, on the other hand, is forecast to be at places on Tuesday and Wednesday. close to mid-forties in Doha, and more today and tomorrow and in the days that caster, as a result of high humidity the between 29 degrees (Abu Samra) and 33 Those will be the hottest days. in southwesterly (Abu Samra, etc) and follow. weather will be much hotter. degrees (Messaieed and Al Wakrah). In The weather bureau said yesterday central areas. He said that today, humidity levels Meanwhile, in the routine weather Doha, it will be 32 degrees. that temperatures from tomorrow until The rise in temperatures until August are expected to range between 85 and forecast for today the Met office said THE PENINSULA

Palestinian detainee ends 65-day hunger strike RAMALLAH:Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan ended his 65-day hunger strike against his detention without trial yesterday after the Israeli Supreme Court suspended his arrest warrant, his lawyer said. Allan has sustained brain dam- age as result of his hunger strike and is hospitalised in Israel in critical condition. The court said that in his current condition he poses no threat and therefore sus- pended his arrest warrant. Turkish police secure the area after a shooting incident near the entrance The 31-year-old Islamic Jihad to Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday. activist’s case was being monitored closely by opposing sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which Istanbul palace attacked had looked likely to boil over into new violence if Allan were to have ISTANBUL/DIYARBAKIR: ceasefire last month. died as result of his strike. Gunmen fired on police out- The unrest in the NATO mem- “The story is over, adminis- side an Istanbul palace and a ber state comes weeks after it trative detention is cancelled and bomb killed eight soldiers in the declared a “war on terror”, open- therefore there is no strike,” Allan’s southeast yesterday, heighten- ing up its air bases to the US-led lawyer, Jameel Khatib, said. ing a sense of crisis as Turkey’s coalition against Islamic State, The Israeli government saw leaders struggled to form a new launching air strikes on Kurdish his hunger strike as a powerful government. militants, and detaining more than challenge against “administrative The Istanbul governor’s office 2,500 suspected members of radi- detention”, a practice that has said two members of a “terror- cal Kurdish, far-leftist and Islamist drawn criticism from human rights ist group” armed with hand groups. There was no immediate groups but which Israel calls nec- grenades and an automatic rifle claim of responsibility for the essary for its national security. It were caught after attacking the attack at Dolmabahce palace, fears his release would only encour- Dolmabahce palace, popular with where the assailants opened fire age some 370 other Palestinian tourists and home to the prime on police guarding the entrance. detainees held without charge to minister’s Istanbul offices. There The building has been targeted refuse food. The court said Allan were no reports of casualties. before by leftist militants. was to stay at the Israeli hospital Militants from the Kurdistan The Prime Minister Ahmet where he was being treated. Workers Party (PKK) meanwhile Davutoglu was in the capital Allan’s lawyers said that in killed eight soldiers with a road- Ankara as reports of the shoot- return for an end to the strike, side bomb in the southeastern ing emerged and did not inter- Israel had pledged not to renew province of Siirt, the military rupt a speech he was giving live his six-month detention period, said, intensifying a conflict there on television. meaning he would go free on after the breakdown of a two-year REUTERS Novemebr 3. REUTERS

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Leaders greet 26 firms in Art Mill design contest Afghan president DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of congratula- Sheikha Mayassa: Number of designers interested in the project surpassed our expectations tions to Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on DOHA: The global search National Museum of Qatar under his country’s Independence Day. for the designer of the Art construction. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Mill in Doha, envisioned as H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani one of the world’s leading cul- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, also sent a congratulatory cable tural centres, is gathering Chairperson, QM, said: “The to Ghani. momentum as Qatar Museums Qatar Flour Mills Company has Prime Minister and Interior (QM) announced a list of 26 a distinguished name in the Gulf Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah architects, chosen from 489 as a pioneer in food production. bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani submissions. “Now that it is relocating to sent a similar cable to Ghani. Qatari firm Arab Engineering the new port, we are grateful to Bureau, whose architectural be given this building. In convert- Emir transfers, projects include HSBC and Barwa ing and reinventing it, we hope to headquarters and the Foreign feed the community with latest appoints envoys Ministry building, is among com- cultural developments and artis- petitors from countries, includ- tic creations from around the DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh ing Spain, Japan, Russia, South world and establishing a platform Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Africa, Turkey and Canada and for the Arab world to present yesterday issued Emiri Decision will move to the second stage of work within Qatar’s international No. 30 to 34 of 2015 transferring the design competition. context. Qatari ambassadors extraordi- The project involves redevelop- “The recent conversion of the nary and plenipotentiary Jamal ment of a spectacular and historic fire station in Doha into artists’ Nasser Sultan Al Bader (Peru), waterfront site in the centre of residences has proved to be popu- Hadi Nasser Mansour Khalil Al Doha, at the heart of an emerging lar, with over 150 applicants for Hajiri (Poland), Abdurrahman cultural quarter of the city. 20 studios. Similarly, the number Mohamed Hamdan Al Dosary The Art Mill is conceived as a of designers interested in the (El Salvador), Jaber Ali Salem vibrant and multi-layered civic Art Mills project surpassed our Al Athba (Costa Rica) and and cultural presence, a focus for expectations. We are excited by The project involves redevelopment of a historic waterfront site in the centre of Doha. Abdullah Mohammed Khalid Al the emerging campus of muse- the variety and range of inter- Khater (Oman) to the Foreign ums and cultural institutions at ested talent and look forward to architecture and urban design.” the opportunity to bring new and its links to the city. From the Ministry. the eastern end of the Corniche. the outcome of the competition. Malcolm Reading, Chairman, perspectives and insights to a best analyses, a shortlist of five He also issued Emiri Decision Occupied by Qatar Flour Mills, “To have Museum of Islamic Malcolm Reading Consultants, project brimming with imagina- architects will be announced in No. 35 of 2015, appointing Ali the site extends into Doha Bay, Art, built by I.M.Pei, National and competition organiser, said: tive possibility.” early 2016. They will be given fur- bin Fahad Al Shahwani as with the Arabian Sea on three Museum of Qatar by Nouvel, “This is a strong list of quality A brief on the project and the ther briefing and progress onto Ambassador Extraordinary and sides. It adjoins the park around and the Art Mill development and promise. The selection is a international jury for the compe- more detailed concept designs for Plenipotentiary to Oman. I.M.Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art, within walking distance will profile of global creative DNA. tition will be released early next conversion and extension of Flour and close to landmarks, including give our community a unique It gives architects practising in month. Competitors will be asked Mills’ structures. Ministry recalls the Corniche and Jean Nouvel’s cultural offering combining art, different cultures and contexts to envision strategies for the site THE PENINSULA Daihatsu vehicles DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce, in cooperation with Taleb Trading Service road closed QRCS first to relieve victims Company, has announced the recall of 2009-2014 models of Daihatsu Gran Max over a defect in the steering column. for 45 days for work of Douma clashes in Syria The ministry said the recall is DOHA: The Public Works right again at Faleh Bin Nasser within the framework of it coordi- Authority (Ashghal) has Intersection onto Salwa Road. nation and follow-up to ascertain closed the service road from Road users heading north dealers’ commitment to follow up Khalifa Al Attiya Intersection towards Khalifa Al Attiya defects and repair them to protect to Al Asiri Interchange for 45 Intersection from Al Wakra consumers’ rights. days. to reach Jabur bin Ahmed The ministry stressed that it The closure took effect yes- (Ramada) Intersection will need will coordinate with dealers to fol- terday and lasts until October 2. to turn right onto Ali Bin Abi low up maintenance and repairs Road users heading north on Taleb Street and turn left at the and communicate with custom- D-Ring Road towards Khalifa Al next roundabout and head north ers to ensure implementation of Attiya Intersection and willing towards Salwa Road. procedures to fix defects. to reach Al Asiri Interchange Ashghal has installed signage It urged consumers to report on Salwa Road will need to turn in the area to notify motorists any abuses or irregularities to left on the intersection onto during the work period and the Department of Consumer Haloul Street to reach Haloul urged all road users to abide by Protection and Commercial Roundabout and go right onto speed limits and traffic signs for Fraud Combat. Mesaimeer Road and then their safety. QNA Climate change Fire at company stores issues reviewed DOHA: Minister of Environment H E Ahmed Amer Mohamed Al Humaidi yesterday met Prof Thomas Stocker, Switzerland’s can- Qatar Red Crescent Society staff distribute aid to the needy in Eastern Ghouta. didate for the presidency of Intergovernmental Panel on DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent world organisations to help the situation, a plan was developed Climate Change. Talks dealt Society (QRCS) initiated an sieged population of Douma. to continue to support the dis- with Qatar’s efforts with regard urgent humanitarian interven- It warned that the severe dete- tressed, by providing $30,000 to climate change issues and tion to relieve the city of Douma, rioration of security, medical and (QR109,143) worth of ICU and cooperation with regional and Syria, bombarded together with humanitarian conditions will recovery medical supplies for hos- international bodies. Abdulhadi other parts of the beleaguered make Douma “unlivable”. The pitals receiving the injured. Nasser Al Marri, Director, Eastern Ghouta. three-year siege has depleted the The process was coordinated Climate Change Department at The clashes have claimed 135 district’s resources and popu- with local partners to purchase the ministry, was present. lives and injured 400, mostly chil- lation. Amid a serious lack of first aid medicines and oral/ dren, women and elderly. medical, ambulance and surgical venous antibiotics, fuel, anaes- Qatar-Djibouti Douma, about 9km north- requirements, the number of inju- thetics, an ambulance, 500 blood east of Damascus, is the centre ries is higher than the capacity of containers and logistics. ties discussed of Rif Dimashq Governorate the town’s hospitals and health Earlier this year, $548,095 and the administrative centre centres. (QR1,994,960) worth of winter DJIBOUTI: Chief of Staff of of Damascus Ghouta, home to As the first to respond to the and food assistance was provided the Qatari Armed Forces Major 2,196,000 people who suffer dif- call, QRCS staff in Syria uti- for 57,250 people in several dis- General (Pilot) Ghanem bin ficulty securing basic needs due lised the society’s legal capacity tricts, including 25,600 blankets, Shaheen Al Ghanem, who is to lack of money and scarcity of as an internationally recognised 384 tonnes of heating wood and on a visit to Djibouti, yesterday food, medical and relief supplies. humanitarian organisation whose 5,000 six-kg food packages. met Chief of Staff of Djibouti As the humanitarian situation vehicles, facilities and staff are Last Ramadan, QRCS dis- Army Maj. Gen. Zakaria Cheikh in Eastern Ghouta worsened, protected under international tributed daily Iftar meals to Ibrahim and discussed military A fire broke out in a company store at a farm in Al Shahaniya yesterday International Humanitarian laws and conventions. 22,145 Syrian families in Eastern topics of mutual interest. afternoon. No one was injured, officials said. Details of damage could Relief (IHR) called on Arab and Based on monitoring of the Ghouta. THE PENINSULA QNA not be immediately known. Camp Qatar wraps up inaugural year Licence must for organ DOHA: Camp Qatar 2015 cool things and although I loved and educational activities,” said The Little Engineer experi- recently wrapped up its inau- sports activities, my favourite Aisha Al Mansoor, one of the ence allowed children to gain transplant facilities gural year of summer activi- part was Mad Science.” coordinators. hands-on robotics experience as ties with more than 150 The camp offered children a Having taken part in sports they explored the development Continued from page 1 about donating the organ. He must Arabic-speaking children aged unique experience comprised of such as football, basketball, karate of soft skills such as team work, The law has come into force not be put to any health risks. 11-14 years from private and social and academic components, and kick-boxing run by the acad- problem-solving, planning and and is to be published in the offi- A donor can change his mind Independent schools across developed in partnership with emy, children also experienced innovation. cial gazette, reports Qatar News at the last moment and withdraw Qatar taking part. INJAZ Qatar, Sheikh Faisal Bin silk painting, collage portraits, Mad Science offered chil- Agency (QNA). Doctors and other and refuse to donate at the last Held under the theme ‘Seifak Qassim Sports Academy, Little charcoal drawing, acrylic paint- dren opportunity to conduct fun medical workers found involved in moment without citing any rea- Ala Keifak’, the camp marked Engineer Qatar, Mad Science, ing, decoupage and puppet mak- experiments and explore different transplants that are illegal will be son. No living person can donate the closing of the first successful Qatar Museums (QM), Doha Film ing during art sessions with QM states of matter, while learning to liable to jail term and fine or either an organ for scientific studies and year with a work exhibition that Institute (DFI), Weill Cornell and arts and crafts. create things like slime and crys- as mentioned. research. Organs for the purpose provided children with an oppor- Medical College Qatar and Arts They were also treated to a tals. The students also attended A donor must be told in writing or for transplant can only be tunity to showcase experience at and Crafts. film screening by DFI from which a workshop conducted by INJAZ by medical experts about the con- removed from dead people with the fun-filled fortnight to family “Through English, maths they learned about the influence and learned about earning, spend- sequences of donating an organ. permission from their legal heirs. and friends. and science classes as well as of the media and how it can be ing, sharing and saving money as And a hospital or medical facil- No transplant of genitals or “The camp was the best part sports, arts, culture and com- a powerful tool to convey values well as how to be smart consum- ity carrying out a transplant must tissues or cells from genitals is of my summer because it was so munity outreach activities, chil- and life lessons. They also made ers and distinguish between real be licensed for the purpose. It must allowed if it could lead to confu- much fun,” said participant Dana dren were empowered to lead stop-motion videos and presented and fake advertisements. also have an ethics committee. The sion over lineage. The law has 28 Al Malki. “I learned to do so many and excel through fun, exciting them at the closing showcase. THE PENINSULA donor must be satisfied in all ways articles. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Organ donors reach 75,000 after campaign DOHA: Over 30,000 people During Ramadan, staff from part of the liver while one is compared to the region and in Qatar have signed up to Qatar Organ Donation Centre alive, to a relative. internationally. We started the become organ donors since (Hiba) set up booths in malls “I would like to thank staff campaign in 2012 and it has the first day of Ramadan, and other locations to educate of Hiba and all those from dif- reached 75,000 which means bringing the total to more the public on organ donation ferent departments that have seven percent of the eligible than 75,000. in general and asking them to participated in the campaign,” adult population in Qatar. We “The number is a significant consider registering as donors. Dr Al Ansari said. “I also would are confident that by the year- improvement on last year’s An organ transplant can like to thank the 14 shopping end, the registry will reach campaign, demonstrating a be life-saving. It can also sig- malls and their administra- 100,000.” greater understanding and nificantly improve quality of tion for support in providing The campaign continues acceptance of organ donation life for someone with chronic our teams with space to spread until the year-end. “We urge in the community and high- organ failure. The life-saving the message.” the public to approach stands level support for the pro- organs come from deceased Dr Riaydh Fadhil, Director, and booths of organ donation gramme,” said Dr Abdulla Al donors, who pledged during Hiba, said his team and HMC to get more information on Ansari, Deputy Chief, Medical, their lives to give their organs had worked to deliver the mes- this noble act and register as Academic and Research to the needy. sage of advantages of organ donors,” Dr Riaydh said. For Affairs for Surgical Services, A deceased organ donor can donation to the community. details about the campaign, Hamad Medical Corporation save up to eight lives. It is also “The growth of our donor visit www.hamad.qa Diversion on Leabaib (HMC). possible to donate a kidney or registry is unprecedented THE PENINSULA Roundabout from today Deal signed on Philippine DOHA: The Public Works Authority at the next roundabout and return to (Ashghal) has announced that a Leabaib Roundabout to be able to get traffic diversion will be in place to Arab League Street. at Leabaib Roundabout as part of Motorists to the roundabout from efforts to develop roads in the area the southern side of Arab League surrounding Al Duhail military Street must turn right at Leabaib School building project camp. The diversion will be imple- Roundabout onto Al Tarfa Street, mented to convert the roundabout then take a U-turn at the traffic signal DOHA: Philippine School completed by 2017. A ground- classrooms and facilities to meet classrooms for two additional into a signal-controlled intersection. in front of Qatar University’s female Doha has signed an agree- breaking ceremony will be held. the learning needs of students. Senior High Schools, more facil- Two lanes will remain open to traffic campus and turn right once more near ment with a bank on financ- Once the building is ready, the The school has recently been ities and teachers for technical- in both directions during the diversion Leabaib Roundabout to return to Arab ing the school’s new building school will be able to expand accredited by Qatar National vocational-livelihood training. period in two phases: League Street. on a 14,375sqm government- capacity and take over 4,000 School Accreditation. “The new Dr Acosta signed the agree- Phase 1 starts today at midnight and Phase 2 starts on Saturday for donated plot in Abu Hamour. students. campus will be K to 12-com- ment with bank officials at the continues until Saturday evening. The four months. Traffic will be able to The bank has approved a It is operating from a rented pliant and have new facilities, school. Ambassador Wilfredo C existing roundabout will become wider go through Leabaib Roundabout from QR108m loan for the project building in Al Messilah and has including four science labs, a Santos, officials from the school and motorists from Al Duhail South Arab League Street in both directions estimated to cost QR120m and over 3,000 students. gym which can accommodate and the Philippine embassy Street and Al Tarfa Street will be able (north and south) following the com- the remainder will be contrib- Because of limited space, the over 3,000 students, big librar- were present. to pass though the roundabout in all pletion of asphalt works in the areas uted by the school. school declines hundreds of stu- ies, a speech lab, an audiovisual Santos said: “The embassy directions. Motorists from the north- surrounding the roundabout at the pre- School Principal Dr dents every year. This year over room and a swimming pool,” will continue to support the ern side of Arab League Street (from vious diversion location. This will allow Alexander S Acosta told this 300 students were turned down, said Dr Acosta. school for the benefit of the the direction of the previously known traffic through Leabaib Roundabout in daily that work begins this according to Dr Acosta. Full implementation of K to Filipino community.” Radar Roundabout) will not be able to all directions. Ashghal apologises for month and is expected to be The building will have 132 12 programme will require more THE PENINSULA go through the roundabout and must any inconvenience and urges all road turn right at Leabaib Roundabout onto users to abide by speed limits and signs Al Duhail South Street, take a U-turn for their safety. THE PENINSULA QA, Royal Air Maroc unveil code-share routes Ooredoo sees strong demand DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA) African region. QA looks for- and Royal Air Maroc will ward to welcoming Royal Air strengthen business partner- Maroc’s passengers and sharing for TETRA tracking solution ship with the launch of new our award-winning service and DOHA: Ooredoo has reported vehicles and TETRA users equipped code-share routes across the hospitality.” strong demand for its updated Tetra with a GPS-enabled TETRA radio. latter’s West African network Passengers to Casablanca on Automatic Vehicle Location service AVLS is able to display subscribers on and on both airlines’ routes QA will be able to connect onto upgraded at the start of summer, a graphical map based on GPS infor- between Qatar and Morocco West African cities of Cotonou, as more companies in Qatar look mation. The dispatcher can perform from today. Ouagadougou, Praia, Brazzaville, to track the rising volume of assets specific actions using the map, such The new agreement comes Pointe Noire, Abidjan, Libreville, required for the building boom. as calling individuals or groups on the shortly after Akbar Al Baker, Banjul, Conakry, Bissau, TETRA is a professional mobile map by touching it. Chief Executive, QA Group and Monrovia, Bamako, Niamey, radio and two-way transceiver service The TETRA network is one of the Driss Benhima, Chairman and Lagos, Nouakchott, Freetown that also enables firms to track and largest commercially-available in the CEO, Royal Air Maroc, signed a and Lomé. Within Morocco, monitor their assets and people using region and being evolved into a fully business agreement at the recent passengers will be able to travel an automatic vehicle location service Machine-2-Machine (M2M) compli- Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, to Marrakech, Agadir, Tangier, (AVLS). For firms working on some ant service. Following the launch of in the presence of international Guelmime, Tan Tan, Tetouan, of the largest projects, the capacity to Ooredoo’s M2M service last year, it has press and travel trade partners. Al Hoceima, Fes, Errachidia, manage assets from their operational become a popular service and compa- The joint business deal ben- Akbar Al Baker (right), Chief Executive, Qatar Airways Group and Driss Oujda, Nador, Ouarzazate, centre using AVLS is important, as the nies have used it to automate day-to- efits passengers by providing Benhima, Chairman and CEO, Royal Air Maroc, sign the agreement. Zagora, Laayounte, Dakhla and scale and complexity of the projects day tasks. enhanced links between Qatar Beni Mellal. Royal Air Maroc increases. TETRA services include communi- and Morocco, greater choice of combining flights on both car- agreement is great news for our starts three weekly flights with AVL provides a map application for cations services, including group, indi- flights and improved frequent riers’ global networks, affording business and leisure passengers a Boeing 787 Dreamliner to Doha logistics and operational centres to vidual and broadcast calls; compatible flyer benefits. them the ease of one-stop ticket- who frequently travel on QA, on September 9, complimenting control and manage radio subscribers, handsets available from vendors; and a The new code-share part- ing and baggage check-in from as they will be able to connect QA’s daily flights to Casablanca groups and alarm, and control func- fully-supported operations and mainte- nership will allow passengers today. seamlessly onwards to almost with Boeing 787 Dreamliner. tions with map functionality. nance service, with a 24-hour helpline. to purchase a single itinerary Al Baker, said: “The code-share 20 destinations across the West THE PENINSULA It is used to track the location of THE PENINSULA Quality Group to open seventh retail outlet today DOHA: Quality 4.30pm, attended by Group International members of the Ruling opens its seventh Family, top officials and retail outlet, Quality representatives of the Mall, in Hilal, Doha, business community. today. The management The inaugural func- has announced special tion will be held at offers and discounts, The Quality Mall ... a convenient shopping experience.

including promotions in leading banks, automatic food, vegetables, garments utility payment machines, and other sections except foreign exchanges, and electronics, IT and home beauty parlours for men, appliances on August 21 women and children in to 23. addition to a supermarket For every purchase of for food and non-food items QR500, a QR100 shopping to give more convenient voucher is free. On LCD shopping for customers. and LED, a 25 percent Mobile phone, watch, discount is available. All fashion, garment and special offers are for the readymade, footwear, home first three days. furniture and décor, sta- The mall has two tionery and jewellery shops floors with a total area of are also there. 125,000sqft. The first floor is for A large variety of prod- electric, electronic, IT ucts and brands are avail- and technology and home able to cater to tastes and appliances of top brands preferences of customers from across the world. from all walks of life. The mall has spacious The ground floor has and convenient parking shops and kiosks, includ- with underground park- ing pharmacy, opticals, ing and basement shops as flowers, chocolates, coffee special features. shops, ATM counters of THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

St. Regis Doha Family Fun Friday permanent at museum wins nine wards DOHA: Sheikh Faisal Bin with shapes and forms to create DOHA: The St. Regis Doha has Qassim Al Thani Museum ornaments and decorative art won nine awards from industry (FBQ Museum) has announced objects. All workshops take place leaders for excellence in design, that Family Fun Friday will be on Fridays and Saturdays and for market leadership, dining experi- a permanent fixture in its cal- all opening times and bookings ence, travel and luxury. endar from September. call the museum on +974 4486 For a third year in a row, World Offering a perfect weekend 1444 or email: education@fbq- Travel Awards named the hotel outing for families, fun-filled museum.org. ‘Qatar’s Best Leading Resort 2015’. It activities include museum tours The new café provides snacks presidential suite received this year’s with guides and workshops for and refreshments with children’s award for ‘Leading Hotel Suite’. families and children to explore menus serving healthy options World Travel Awards are among artistic talents and learn new and there is adjoining Museum the industry’s top honours that cel- skills using lego, calligraphy, col- Education area. ebrate organisations that continue lage and sculpture. The Gift Shop offers visitors a to push the boundaries of industry Lego workshops aim to bring selection of locally sourced and excellence. Travel and tourism indus- out children’s creativity using designed products promoting try professionals gathered in Dubai lego learning tools. Painting Qatari culture which make great last month for the ceremony. and drawing workshops encour- souvenirs and gifts. Booking your The hotel’s dining experience and age children to interpret the visit is necessary by visiting the offerings continue to get recognised museum’s collections and cre- website. for fine taste and wide offerings. ate their artwork to take home. The museum opening hours Qatar’s Fact magazine named Opal Calligraphy is taught by expert have changed and it now opens on by Gordon Ramsay ‘The Best con- Arab artists to raise awareness Fridays from 2pm to 7pm and is temporary European Restaurants’, of forms used in art. open every day of the week from Vine received award for ‘Best Friday Collage workshop is all about September 1. Entry fee on week- Brunch’ and Hakkasan Doha won in getting messy, using recycled ends are: Free for children under ‘Best Chinese Restaurant’ category. paper and other materials to eight, QR10 for age group 8-18 Hakkasan Doha also won ‘Best produce imaginative creations. and QR15 for adults. Workshops Chinese Restaurant’ for most Sculpture workshop aims to cost QR50 per participant. Children attend a painting and drawing workshop. authentic Far East offerings and was teach children how to come up THE PENINSULA named ‘Best Restaurant of the Year’ for 2015 by Time Out Doha magazine. Sarab Louge was commended in ‘Best Afternoon Tea’ cat- egory, Vine and Opal by Gordon Ramsay in ‘Best Friday Brunch’ Commercial Bank unveils Vodafone begins two-month and ‘Best Contemporary European Restaurants’ categories, respectively. The accolades reflect the hotel’s high standards of service, manage- summer campaign winners Happy Recharge promotion ment and guest satisfaction in addi- tion to dedication to continue to build DOHA: Commercial Bank customers participating by All loans came with added DOHA: Vodafone is the first tel- “Our customers can now recharge on St. Regis legacy for hotel manage- has announced the 10th taking a personal, vehicle or benefits of a payment holiday ecom operator in Qatar to introduce with the chance to walk away with one ment and hospitality excellence. pair of winners of its sum- mortgage loan. up to six months for Qataris recharge cards that offer prepaid of our prizes. 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Turkey ‘swiftly’ heading to snap UN warns Israel polls: Erdogan ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said that Turkey was heading rap- idly towards snap polls after on detention law efforts to form a coalition gov- ernment failed, creating an unprecedented situation in the Law on stone-throwing to affect children, says official country’s modern history. Erdogan spoke a day after UNITED NATIONS: The environment created as a result from Gaza towards Israel,” he Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu United Nations said yester- of Israel’s decades-long policy of said. Palestinians seek a state in informed the president he had day that Israel’s decisions to illegal settlement activities,” he Gaza, the West Bank and East failed to form a coalition govern- impose up to 20 years prison said. Last month, Israel’s parlia- Jerusalem, lands Israel captured ment following talks with the oppo- for people throwing stones and ment imposed tougher penalties in 1967. Settlements that Israel sition. “We are once again swiftly to force-feed prisoners on hun- of up to 20 years prison for people has built on territory captured in heading towards an election,” ger strike threatened to worsen throwing stones at vehicles and 1967 are considered illegal under Erdogan said in a televised speech, an “already-precarious human roads and authorised force-feed- international law. adding that the only solution in the rights situation”. ing of prisoners on hunger strike. Meanwhile, Palestinian current political impasse was turn- UN political affairs chief Jeffrey “Careful consideration should Christians scuffled with Israeli ing to the “will of the nation”. Feltman also told the UN Security be placed on addressing the border police near Bethlehem Erdogan’s Justice and Council that he was concerned underlying human rights con- after dozens of them, includ- Development Party (AKP) lost its about Israel’s decision to extend cerns which lead prisoners to ing priests, gathered to protest overall majority in the June 7 polls the use of prolonged administra- such extreme protests, including renewed work on Israel’s West for the first time since it came to tive detention and called for all prolonged administrative deten- Bank separation barrier in a sen- power in 2002, forcing it to seek detainees to be promptly charged tion,” Feltman said. sitive Christian area. a coalition partner. Under the or released. He said that the law on stone- Witnesses said the protest- constitution, the president should Israel’s security cabinet on Aug. throwing was “likely to affect ers, who were joined by a few now be obliged to give a mandate 2 extended to its own citizens so- children disproportionately.” foreign activists, gathered in the to form a coalition government called “administrative detention”, With US-sponsored peace talks Christian town of Beit Jala to to the opposition Republican a practice commonly applied to stalled since April 2014, violence protest building a stretch of the People’s Party (CHP), which came Palestinian militant suspects and has simmered in the region. A barrier, which started on Monday second in the election. condemned internationally. war in Gaza a year ago killed after years of legal battles. The But Erdogan yesterday hinted The change laid bare authori- more than 2,100 Palestinians, three Roman Catholic priests that he would not do so, just days ties’ frustration at failing to curb mostly civilians, and 67 Israeli sol- tried to pray among olive trees ahead of an August 23 deadline Jewish ultra-nationalist attacks diers and six civilians were killed. that bulldozers and mechanical to form a new government. “I and followed the lethal torching “The risk of escalation in diggers were seeking to uproot have no time to lose with those of a Palestinian home. Israel and Palestine is palpable,” but were stopped by police. who do not know the address Feltman said that this attack Feltman said. “The past month One demonstrator was arrested An Israeli border guard restrains a Palestinian protester who was trying to of Bestepe,” where his contro- and many others over the years, has witnessed unconscionable as he tried to plant an olive sap- reach tractors working on the construction of Israel’s controversial barrier versial new presidential palace including against Israeli set- crimes of hatred by extremist ling in front of the excavators. in the Cremisan Valley in the West Bank mainly Christian village of Beit Jala is located, he said. CHP leader tlers, happened in the context elements, reprehensible retali- Police wrestled with protestors yesterday. Israel plans to build its separation barrier through the 170-hectare Kemal Kilicdaroglu has refused of “a chronic lack of adequate atory violence, provocations at who chanted,” Israel is a terror- Cremisan Valley, which hosts a Roman Catholic monastery, on a route that to set foot in Erdogan’s palace, law enforcement”. “Such vio- Jerusalem’s holy sites, and a wor- ist state. It doesn’t scare us.” residents say would cut off their community. which the opposition party has lence is possible because of the rying increase in rockets launched REUTERS/AFP called “illegal”. AFP

Typhoid breaks out in Syria’s IS beheads elderly ex-antiquities chief in Palmyra Yarmouk camp BEIRUT: The Islamic State group has refused. “He told us ‘I am from Palmyra we would turn to him when we received was being taken over by the jihadists,” he beheaded the 82-year-old retired chief and I will stay here even if they kill me.’” stolen statues from the police and he would said. The execution prompted condemna- LONDON: Typhoid has bro- archaeologist of Palmyra, who refused to Abdulkarim said Assaad was executed on determine if they were real or fake.” tion from French Foreign Minister Laurent ken out among residents of leave the ancient city when the jihadists Tuesday afternoon in Palmyra, in central Abdulkarim said Assaad had been Fabius, who said Assaad had worked with the Yarmouk Palestinian refu- captured it, Syria’s antiquities chief said. Homs province. “Daesh has executed one of detained by IS last month along with his numerous French archaeological missions gee camp in Syria, the United A Unesco World Heritage site famed Syria’s most important antiquities experts,” son Walid, the current antiquities director over the years. Nations said yesterday, warn- for well-preserved Greco-Roman ruins, he said, using an Arabic acronym for IS. for Palmyra, who was later released. He IS captured Palmyra on May 21, ing of further disease outbreaks Palmyra was seized from government “He was the head of antiquities in Palmyra said the jihadists were looking for “stores prompting international concern about unless aid reached the camp forces in May amid fears IS might destroy for 50 years and had been retired for 13 of gold” in the city. “I deny wholeheartedly the fate of the city’s antiquities. So far, because of the appalling condi- its priceless heritage as it had done in other years,” Abdulkarim said. He hailed Assaad that these stores exist,” Abdulkarim said. Palmyra’s most famous sites have been tions there. parts of Syria and Iraq. as a leading expert on the ancient history “The whole family is truly remarkable. left intact, though there are reports IS Eleven cases of typhoid were Syrian antiquities chief Maamoun of the city, which grew from a caravan oasis (Assaad’s) other son Mohammed and his has mined them, and the group report- confirmed by the UN agency for Abdulkarim said he had urged Khaled first mentioned in the second millennium son-in-law Khalil actively participated in edly destroyed a famous statue of a lion Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Al Assaad to leave Palmyra, but he had BC. “He spoke and read Palmyrene, and the rescue of 400 antiquities as the town outside the city’s museum in June. AFP which gained access to residents from the Yarmouk camp for the first time since June in nearby Yalda, where it carried out more Hajj preparations in Somalia than 200 medical consultations. Typhoid is contracted by UAE academic re-arrested No more jail for drinking or eating contaminated matter and symptoms include NICOSIA: UAE authorities have re-arrested a prominent Emirati Iranian men who nausea, fever, and abdominal pain. academic and rights activist, freed in a 2011 presidential pardon, a Untreated, the disease can lead regional rights group said yesterday. Nasser Bin Ghaith, an econo- can’t pay dowry to complications in the gut and mist who has lectured at the Abu Dhabi branch of the Sorbonne head which can kill up to one in University, was arrested in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday and taken to an TEHRAN: Hard up Iranian five patients. unknown location, said the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR). husbands will no longer face “Our concern is that these It quoted “local sources” as saying that his tweets about Egypt, jail for failing to pay dowries typhoid cases only represent the including the deadly dispersal of protesters in Cairo’s Rabaa Al Adawiya that can reach hundreds of tip of the iceberg, because the ero- Square, could be the reason behind his arrest. thousands of dollars, follow- sion of health services and appall- “Rabaa will remain a symbol of resistance... on one side, and a sym- ing passage of a new law, it was ing public health standards create bol of shame... on the other,” he tweeted on August 14, the second reported yesterday. a massive, massive risk of diseases anniversary of the killing of hundreds of supporters of ousted Islamist But spouses who claim to be breaking out,” said UNWRA president Mohamed Mursi by Egyptian security forces in the square. impecunious yet are then proven spokesman Chris Gunness. Bin Ghaith was previously arrested in April 2011, with four other to have the means to pay can still REUTERS activists. All were accused of insulting UAE leaders online. AFP look forward to prison. In the Islamic republic, the A Somali religious teacher talks about Hajj rituals in preparation of their families of brides-to-be negotiate annual pilgrimage to Makkah, which is expected to take place late in fiercely to get the top amount of September, in capital Mogadishu yesterday. what is known as Mehrieh, pay- ment in gold coin-like tokens known as bahar azadi (spring of freedom in Farsi). There are even trendy ways Iraq inquiry finds officials of doing it. A family can ask for one coin for the total number of years in the date she was born, mismanaged Mosul crisis according to the Iranian calen- dar. So the dowry of a 24-year-old BAGHDAD: Top officials action. “All the information clearly woman born in 1370 (1991) would ignored ample warnings of an indicated that,” according to the be 1,370 coins worth $367,000 at impending attack on Iraq’s report. “The only surprise was the current gold price. second city Mosul and grossly the speed with which the military But the catch has been that they mismanaged the crisis that saw units collapsed. The poor perform- have been payable on demand any jihadists seize it, a parliamen- ance of the security commanders time after the marriage. Hundreds tary report said. who led the battle... destroyed of men have been imprisoned every The Islamic State (IS) jihadist the last hope for the city’s resist- year for not being able to stump up group’s capture of Mosul in June ance. These commanders made the necessary sums. 2014 might have been avoided if a number of grave mistakes that The new law has removed jail senior officers and officials had accelerated the security collapse.” terms for those men, Abolfazl performed competently and acted Key intelligence information Abutorabi, a member of parlia- on multiple detailed intelligence pointing to the impending attack ment’s legal and judiciary panel, reports warning of the attack. was apparently ignored, includ- told Hamshahry, a newspaper. The report names a number of ing reports in May 2014 indicating “No one will be imprisoned for top officials, including ex-premier that an attack on Mosul would failing to pay the marriage sum,” and now-vice president Nuri Al take place the following month. Abutorabi said. Instead, if a man Maliki, as responsible for the fall Of even greater importance was is sued for Mehrieh, and he can- of the capital of Nineveh province. information obtained from a cap- not afford it, the court will order “Those who were informed tured IS commander who said the him to pay in instalments. about the security situation in the attack would begin on the morn- One could only be jailed over province knew... that this situa- ing of June 6, identified the planned Mehrieh “if the court finds out tion would surely happen,” said the line of advance into Mosul, and he could afford but refused to dis- report, the product of a parliamen- revealed the locations, strengths close his assets,” Abutorabi added. tary inquiry that has been referred and armaments of sleeper cells AFP to the judiciary for possible legal inside the city. AFP THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Iran lawmakers pick N-deal review panel 13 conservatives in 15-member panel

TEHRAN: Iran’s parliament oversight of the accord rests with announced yesterday the final Iran’s Supreme National Security composition of a 15-member Council (SNSC), a powerful panel largely composed of con- committee headed by President servative lawmakers to review Hassan Rowhani and of which the country’s nuclear deal with Zarif is also a member. world powers. The SNSC reports to Supreme Iranian MPs have demanded a leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stronger say in the deal negotiated who on Monday said the fate of by Foreign Minister Mohammad the nuclear deal “is not clear as no Javad Zarif with US Secretary of one knows if it will be approved State John Kerry and top diplomats here or in America”. from five other leading nations. Although Khamenei — who has Along with criticism of the the final word on all policy matters nuclear talks in hardline con- — praised Iran’s negotiators after servative media outlets, Iran’s the deal was announced, he has not parliament has witnessed deep explicitly said whether he endorses Ertharin Cousin (centre), Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, speaks during a press conference in Cairo yesterday. scepticism over the diplomacy its terms or disagrees with them. that finally led to the accord in Despite the debate about the Vienna on July 14. deal raging in both Washington The agreement — reached in and Tehran, Zarif said on July 29 WFP warns of ‘storm’ of famine in Yemen talks between Iran and Britain, that he had “no concern or worry” China, France, Germany, Russia about the agreement being imple- CAIRO: The United Nations Cousin called for immediate killed or maimed each day in it will have terrifying consequences and the United States — aims to mented in the next few months. warned yesterday of a “devel- and regular access for WFP aid Yemen’s conflict and warned of for their future”. curb Tehran’s nuclear programme Meanwhile, in Washington, a oping famine” in Yemen, where workers to areas of conflict. “terrifying consequences” for the Nearly 10 million children — 80 in exchange for lifting interna- second US Senate Democrat spoke more than half a million chil- Already in June, the UN envoy country’s youth. Nearly 400 chil- per cent of Yemen’s under-18 pop- tional sanctions imposed on its out in opposition to the nuclear dren are severely malnourished, for Yemen, Ould Cheik Ahmed, dren have been killed and over ulation — are in need of urgent economy since 2006. deal, but momentum within the and pressed for access to its appealed for a ceasefire and 600 others injured in the past four humanitarian assistance, it said. Iran denies Western accusa- party nevertheless appeared to be war-torn regions. warned: “We are one step away months, Unicef said in a report. In its report, WFP estimates tions that it seeks an atomic favouring the landmark accord. Impoverished Yemen has been from famine.” WFP said a study “Disrupted health services, the number of food insecure peo- bomb. The fate of the deal, and Despite Senator Robert wracked by conflict since March it carried out showed food secu- increased levels of child malnu- ple in Yemen is now almost 13 mil- the extent to which Iranian MPs Menendez joining a congres- when a Saudi-led Arab coalition rity was at its most precarious trition, closed schools and higher lion, including six million deemed can influence a final accord, sional chorus of disapproval of the launched air strikes against Iran- for Yemen’s 1.3 million internally numbers of children recruited by “severely food insecure and in remains unclear. pact, Senate Republican Majority backed Shia Houthi rebels. displaced people. fighting groups are among the urgent need of external assistance”. The nuclear deal review panel, Leader Mitch McConnell con- The UN’s World Food The agency said it has reached effects of the conflict now rav- The UN food agency made an comprised of 13 conservatives and ceded that Obama likely had the Programme said the conflict has 3.5 million people with food sup- aging the Arab world’s poorest urgent plea for donations ahead of two reformists, will analyse the votes to ensure its survival. left Yemen on the brink of a fam- plies since the conflict erupted. country,” it said. the start of an emergency food sup- text of the agreement. Iran’s par- “I have looked into my own soul ine in the areas of fighting. More than 1.2 million children “Children are being killed by ply operation in Yemen next month liament may then vote on approv- and my devotion to principle may “All the signs that will lead us are suffering from moderate to bombs or bullets and those that expected to cost about $320m. ing or rejecting the accord, likely once again lead me to an unpopular to the qualifiable definition of acute malnutrition and over half survive face the growing threat of On the ground, a Saudi soldier in October after a similar review course, but if Iran is to acquire a famine are in fact developing in a million children are severely disease and malnutrition,” said the was killed in cross-border fire by US lawmakers in Washington. nuclear bomb, it will not have my front of our eyes,” WFP execu- malnourished, it said. Unicef representative in Yemen, from Yemen. Hamad Al Kaabi A strong majority of MPs in name on it,” Menendez said in a tive director Ertharin Cousin Separately, the UN children’s Julien Harneis. The agency said: was killed after heavy gunfire hit Tehran — 201 of 290 — requested speech at Seton Hall University in told reporters in Cairo following fund said yesterday that an aver- “As devastating as the conflict is a border post in the southwestern such a measure. But formal South Orange, New Jersey. AFP a three-day mission to Yemen. age of eight children are being for the lives of children right now, region of Jazan. AFP Palestinian refugee schools to open despite cash crunch: UN

JERUSALEM: The United the world, and it should never objective and can open the schools.” Nations said yesterday that the have come to the point where Leading contributors were academic year for Palestinian the UNRWA school year risked Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE refugee children will start as being delayed because of a funding and United States, he said, while scheduled despite a funding cri- shortfall for our core budget. But other major donations came from sis which had threatened the it almost did,” he said. Switzerland, Britain, Norway, schooling programme. On August 5, UN Secretary Sweden and Slovakia. “I am pleased to declare the General Ban Ki-moon warned “In addition to this, we welcome 2015/16 UNRWA school year open. that a $100m shortfall in funding the efforts by the European Union Students will return to school for the agency had placed the new to mobilise additional means in a according to plan in Palestine on 24 school year in jeopardy. few weeks’ time and look forward August, in Jordan on 1 September, Since then, Krahenbuhl said, to a positive decision,” he added. in Lebanon on 7 September and in donors had stepped forward to help The United Nations has been Syria on 13 September,” said Pierre plug the gap. “The total amount struggling to keep several human- Krahenbuhl, head of the UN Relief of contributions received to date itarian efforts afloat in the Middle and Works Agency for Palestinian against the deficit... is $78.9 million,” East — in Syria, Yemen and also refugees in the Middle East. he said. “While some significant Iraq — where donors are under “Education is a fundamental work therefore remains, I consider pressure to boost contributions. right for children everywhere in that we have achieved our first AFP

Turkey unrest Egypt hits back at criticism of anti-terror law CAIRO: Egypt hit back yester- day against foreign criticism of a new anti-terror law that crit- ics claim could restrict human rights and muzzle the press, saying the judiciary’s independ- ence must be respected. The law passed this week wid- ens the definition of terrorism and stipulates strict punishments, as well as providing for media to be fined for reporting “false” details on militant attacks that contra- dict government statements. The US State Department said on Tuesday that it was “concerned” that the law could have a “signifi- cant detrimental impact on human rights and fundamental freedoms.” The law “increases authorities’ power to impose heavy sentences, including the death penalty, for crimes under a definition of ter- rorism that is so broadly worded An armed Turkish vehicle seen after an attack in Siirt, southeast Turkey, it could encompass civil disobedi- yesterday. Eight Turkish soldiers were killed in a bomb attack on their ence,” Human Rights Watch. But the foreign ministry insisted vehicle in the southeastern province of Siirt blamed on the outlawed that other countries should Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Anatolia news agency reported. “respect the independence of the (Egyptian) judiciary”. AFP THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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ITH REFUGEES lashing the shores of Europe, the deluge of migrants threatens to overwhelm a creaky system already struggling to manage Wits scarce resources. Greece has appealed to its European Union peers to come to its help as migrants escaping the wars in Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan land in Snowden’s odds for a hundreds on its shores every day. The problem in Greece has been compounded by the severely strained financial system of the country — a result of the years-long debt crisis. When Greece can hardly take care of its citizens, it cannot be expected to provide for the thousands who plea deal are shrinking land on its shores from countries as far as Africa. The country is heavily dependent on a network of volunteers who lend their BY ELI LAKE and JOSH ROGIN Snowden’s material are not capable tempting to Snowden’s team. One of services in the service of migrants. After entering the country of protecting it from a competent and his lawyers, Ben Wizner, who is also with women and children, including infants, migrants are in he window for former National committed state level adversary serv- an attorney with the American Civil dire need of medical care, food and shelter. Security Agency contractor ice,” Ben Wittes, a national security law Liberties Union, told us: “Why would Edward Snowden to reach a specialist at the Brookings Institution Edward Snowden plead guilty to felo- Numbers speak for the worsening situation in Greece. 21,000 T plea agreement with the US Justice and an editor of the national secu- nies, give up his civil rights and walk refugees came to the country last week. This figure is close to Department is closing quickly. rity law blog Lawfare, told us. “Even if into a prison when he is able from his half the total number of refugees who entered Greece in 2014. That’s what senior US intelligence Snowden did not give the material to place of exile to live a meaningful life The Mediterranean nation known for its pristine islands and and law enforcement officials tell us others, they argue it would have been and to participate in a rich and fulfilling historical sites has already seen 160,000 migrants arrive this about the man whose leaks they call dis- ripe for the picking.” debate he helped shape?” year. ruptive in US history. These officials say Finally, US officials have asserted And there is something to this. The any momentum for these negotiations is — though without providing evidence New York Times in May produced a Asking European Union to take effective steps, Athens has gone; his lawyers have not even had con- to support the claim — that state and short video that showed how Snowden said the problem cannot be addressed by strict legal measures versations about such a deal for nearly a terrorist adversaries have improved was able to address events all over the and definitely not by overturning the boats. Some European year with the US attorney prosecuting their methods of evading US surveil- world from Moscow. Stories based on nations have reacted with alacrity the case. The officials say the chance lance as a result of the Snowden leaks. Snowden documents continue to drive In the absence to the throngs of migrants and that Snowden will be offered a plea In February, Mike Rogers, the NSA the national security news cycle, the started building fences along deal in exchange director, told a Washington think tank latest being a New York Times inves- for cooperation that the US lost spying capabilities as a tigation on the willingness of AT&T of concerted borders. Calais in France has is now close to result of Snowden’s disclosures. to cooperate with the NSA’s dragnet action, the become a hub of migrants trying non-existent. All told, the value of Snowden’s help surveillance. Already his leaks have led to cross over illegally into Britain US officials have There are three — to gauge and counter damage from Congress to end the government’s bulk refugee crisis through the tunnel connecting the main reasons. The the leaks — has diminished considerably. collection of telephone metadata and countries. Borders and fences might asserted that US intelligence That’s not to say there were not some instead require the US government community today holdouts. Just last month, the depart- to access such data from the telecom in Europe stanch the flow of people for a short state and terrorist believes it knows ing attorney general, Eric Holder, told companies, which will be trusted with is close to period, but they are definitely not a more about what Michael Isikoff that a “possibility exists” storing it. solution. Building barriers against adversaries Snowden took for a Snowden plea deal. Holder and And so far Snowden has been able spiralling out persecuted and oppressed people is have improved than it did in President Obama in January 2014 pub- to do this without experiencing isola- of control. like treating the symptom rather 2014. Back then, licly offered to at least discuss such terms tion from his friends and family. The than the disease. their methods the intelligence under which Snowden could return home. final scene of a 2014 documentary about assessments Back then, Snowden’s defence lawyers Snowden, “Citizen Four,” shows the Overwhelming as it is, the of evading US assumed that retained the services of Plato Cacheris, former contractor in the kitchen of his problem is not only giving sleepless nights to authorities in every piece of a lawyer renowned for negotiating plea Moscow apartment with his girlfriend, Athens. Other capitals like Rome, Madrid, Paris, Skopje, surveillance as data Snowden’s agreements with individuals charged Lindsay Mills. This fact prompted Glenn Budapest and Ankara have been grappling with the crisis. a result of the Web crawler pro- under the Espionage Act. Greenwald, a custodian of Snowden’s Though the hordes of migrants arriving in Greece pass through grammes scanned But neither side is posturing for a documents and his fiercest defender in Turkey, the Turkish government deserves accolades for giving Snowden leaks. was also copied deal now. US law enforcement officials the press, to assert his source was able and downloaded tell us that Holder’s successor, Loretta to defy the US government and still shelter to close to two million refugees from Syria on its soil. to files he later Lynch, has shown no interest in striking “build a happy, healthy and fulfilling The refugee crisis would have spiralled out of control for took. US intelligence officials tell us that a plea bargain for Snowden. She said as life for himself.” Europe if Ankara wouldn’t have been so magnanimous. a more accurate picture has emerged of much last month at the Aspen Security That is certainly the hope for It need not be stressed that the refugee problem is fast what Snowden actually took, as opposed Dialogue in Colorado. When we asked Snowden and his many supporters. becoming unmanageable. The crisis is acute in southern to what he just scanned. her whether she would entertain such But with the prospect of a plea bar- Another reason Snowden’s value to a bargain for Snowden, Lynch said: “His gain diminishing, this hope is really a Europe, and is slowly seeping into other parts of the continent. the US government has diminished is status is what it has always been: He’s bet on Vladimir Putin. For two years, Germany yesterday said it expects 800,000 asylum seekers this that most intelligence officials assume a federal fugitive. And if he chooses to the Russian president has renewed year. that whatever Snowden gave to journal- come back, or if he is brought back, he Snowden’s temporary visa to stay in Considering the scale of the problem, it is not only European ists is also by now in the possession of will be accorded all the due process of Russia, where he leads a rich digital life. Union that should deal with it. The United Nations and the the Chinese and Russian governments. every defendant in our criminal justice That could continue so long as Snowden Permanent Five should play a role in suggesting measures and “Many people in government believe system.” remains in Putin’s good favour. that the journalists who received That prospect doesn’t sound too BLOOMBERG come to the help of Europe, if needed• The other side Quote of Healthy mandate in Sri Lanka the day EVEN MONTHS after the defeated Rajapaksa was intact in these is a reiteration of the message from the UNFGG in the Eastern Province, presidential elections that saw elections, as President Maithripala the presidential elections — against Colombo and elsewhere) should only President Mahinda Rajapaksa Sirisena had also endorsed the the authoritarianism associated with push their just and democratic case for being defeated by a coalition UNFGG, scotching any speculation that Rajapaksa’s tenure, and the nar- greater devolution of provincial powers: Sof disparate forces, the Sri Lanka he would back Rajapaksa’s comeback row communal campaigning style he the government should not hold it up Freedom Party strongman has been bid. adopted in these elections. He resorted any longer. Steps taken to empower dealt another blow in the parliamentary The coalition was bolstered by to a virulent campaign against the UNP democratic institutions such as the elections. United National Party leader strong support from the minorities and the presidency, playing on fears of Constitutional Council, and the crea- We are once and presumptive Prime Minister Ranil yet again, and by the UNP’s surge in a return of the LTTE and re-living the tion of independent commissions as Wickremasinghe’s United National votes among the Sinhala population. triumphalism of his tenure. His defeat a check on the executive presidency, again swiftly Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) It also benefited from the President’s reinforces the message for democrati- seem to have gone down well. So has emerged as the largest coalition with rural electoral base. The fact that sation and the politics of reconciliation the fixing of a two-term limit for the heading towards about 46 per cent of the votes. It is Rajapaksa’s party still managed to that the electorate had supported in the President. These were seen as a nega- an election. set to form the government with likely retain a nearly 43 per cent vote share presidential elections. tion of the authoritarian and nepotistic support from the Tamil National Alliance (from preliminary estimates) suggests The minorities’ support to the coali- trend of the Rajapaksa regime, which and parties such as the leftist Janatha that the winners have no reason to be tion that was most capable of defeating thrived on militarisation. Recep Tayyip Erdogan Vimukthi Peramuna. The coalition that complacent. That said, the UNP victory the SLFP (the TNA in Jaffna and Vanni, THE HINDU Turkish President THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 In space war US has the edge down the dead spacecraft. Officially, It’s hard to say exactly how many weapons Washington insisted that the anti-sat- ellite operation was a safety measure, to prevent the defunct craft’s toxic fuel are in orbit. That’s because many spacecraft from harming someone when the sat- ellite’s orbit decayed and it tumbled to Earth. But it appeared to more than one are “dual use.” They have peaceful functions observer that China’s 2007 anti-satellite test motivated Washington’s own satel- and potential military applications. lite shoot-down. A new Cold War was underway, this time in space. Today, the United States has dozens BY DAVID AXE clear: The United States is, by far, the of Aegis-equipped warships carrying world’s most heavily armed space power. hundreds of SM-3 missiles, more than uietly and without most peo- But not for a lack of trying on the part enough to quickly wipe out the approxi- ple noticing, the world’s lead- of other countries. mately 50 satellites apiece that Russia ing space powers — the United and China keep in low orbit. QStates, China and Russia NEW COLD WAR IN SPACE “Aegis ships could be positioned opti- — have been deploying new and more Earth’s orbit wasn’t always such a mally,” Grego of the Union of Concerned sophisticated weaponry in space. dangerous place. The Soviet Union Scientists wrote in a 2011 paper, “ to Earth’s orbit is looking more and more destroyed a satellite for the last time in stage a ‘sweep’ attack on a set of satel- like the planet’s surface — heavily armed an experiment in 1982. The United States lites nearly at once,” As an anti-satellite and primed for war. A growing number tested its last Cold War anti-satellite backup, the US Army and the Missile of “inspection” satellites lurk in orbit, missile, launched by a vertically flying Defense Agency also operate two types possibly awaiting commands to sneak F-15 fighter, in 1985. For the next three of ground-launched missile interceptors up on and disable or destroy other sat- decades, both countries refrained from that have the power to reach low orbit ellites. Down on the surface, more and deploying weapons in space. The “unoffi- — and the accuracy to strike spacecraft. more warships and ground installations cial moratorium,” as Laura Grego, a space Against this huge arsenal, Russia pack powerful rockets that, with accu- expert with the Union of Concerned and China possess few counterweights. rate guidance, could reach into orbit to Scientists, described it, put the brakes China’s 2007 anti-satellite test, and a destroy enemy spacecraft. on the militarization of space. similar trial in early 2013, proved that A war in orbit could wreck the delicate Then in 2002, President George W Beijing can hit a low satellite with a satellite constellations that the world relies Bush withdrew the United States from a rocket. In 2010, the Chinese space agency on for navigation, communication, scien- treaty with Russia prohibiting the devel- US spy satellite Octopus, which was launched in 2013. launched a cluster of small space vehicles, tific research and military surveillance. opment of antiballistic-missile weapons. including two named SJ-6F and SJ-12, Widespread orbital destruction could send The move cleared the way for Bush to The risk-reduction satellite works in Foundation, a space advocacy group, that slammed into each other in orbit, humanity through a technological time deploy interceptor missiles that admin- conjunction with other spacecraft and pointed out. The group stressed that the seemingly on purpose. In July 2013, China warp. “You go back to World War Two,” istration officials claimed would protect Earth-based sensors to keep track of feasibility of the X-37Bs as weapons is low deployed a small inspection spacecraft, Air Force General John Hyten, in charge of the United States from nuclear attack Earth’s approximately 1,000 active sat- because the mini-shuttles are limited to designated SY-7, in low orbit. US Space Command, told 60 Minutes. “You by “rogue” states such as North Korea. ellites. The telescope-like Space-Based low orbits and because the United States But China lacks the space- and ground- go back to the Industrial Age.” But withdrawing from the treaty also Space Surveillance satellite, launched in operates at least four other maneuverable based sensors to accurately steer these It’s hard to say exactly how many undermined the consensus on the strictly 2010, “has a clear and unobstructed view,” satellites that are probably far better at weapons toward their targets. Compared weapons are in orbit. That’s because peaceful use of space. according to an Air Force fact sheet, “of stalking and tearing up enemy spacecraft. to the US space-awareness system, with many spacecraft are “dual use.” They Five years later, in January 2007, China resident space objects orbiting Earth These include two Microsatellite its scores of radars and telescopes, China have peaceful functions and potential struck one of its own old satellites with a from its 390-mile-altitude orbit.” Technology Experiment satellites that the possesses a relatively paltry system - one military applications. With the proverbial ground-launched rocket as part of a test of “Resident space object” is military military boosted into low orbit in 2006. consequence of Beijing’s diplomatic isola- flip of a switch, an inspection satellite, a rudimentary anti-satellite system. This speak for satellites. A network of around The MiTEx satellites are small, weighing tion. Where the United States can count ostensibly configured for orbital repair scattered thousands of potentially dan- 30 ground radars and telescopes com- just 500 pounds each. This makes them on allies to host parts of a global sensor work, could become a robotic assassin gerous pieces of debris across low orbit. plements the orbital sensors. Together, harder for enemy sensors to detect - giv- network, China has few formal allies and capable of taking out other satellites with Beijing’s anti-satellite test accelerated these systems make “380,000 to 420,000 ing them the advantage of surprise in can only deploy space-awareness systems lasers, explosives or mechanical claws. the militarization of space. The United observations each day,” Space Command wartime. The two Geosynchronous Space inside its own borders, on ships at sea or Until the moment it attacks, however, States, in particular, seized the opportu- explains on its Website. Situational Awareness Programme sat- in space. The Chinese military can watch the assassin spacecraft might appear nity to greatly expand its orbital arsenal. In 2010, the Air Force launched its first ellites are much bigger and higher up. the skies over East Asia, but is mostly to be harmless. And its dual use gives US companies and government agencies X-37B space plane. A quarter-size, robotic From their stationary positions 22,000 blind elsewhere. By contrast, Russia its operators political cover. The United have at least 500 satellites — roughly as version of the old Space Shuttle, the X-37B miles above Earth, these spacecraft — in inherited an impressive space-awareness States possesses more space weaponry many as the rest of the world combined. boosts into low orbit — around 250 miles orbit since July 2014 — monitor other network from the Soviet Union. Russia’s than any other country, yet denies that At least 100 of them are primarily military high — atop a rocket but lands back on satellites and can, according to the Air allies in Europe — in particular, the any of its satellites warrant the term. in nature. Most are for communication or Earth like an airplane. The two X-37Bs Force, “maneuver near a resident space former Soviet and Eastern Bloc states When 60 Minutes asked the Air Force surveillance. In other words, they’re ori- take turns spending a year or more in object of interest, enabling characteriza- — extend the network’s field of view. As secretary whether the United States has ented downward, toward Earth. orbit. Officially, the Air Force describes tion for anomaly resolution and enhanced a result, Moscow possesses “a relatively weapons in space, Secretary Deborah Lee But a few patrol space itself. The US the maneuverable mini-shuttles as being surveillance.” Maneuverable space planes complete catalog of space objects,” the James answered simply: “No, we do not.” military’s Advanced Technology Risk part of “an experimental test program to and satellites are one way of attacking Secure World Foundation concluded. Still, it’s possible to count at least Reduction spacecraft, launched into an demonstrate technologies for a reliable, enemy spacecraft. But there’s an older, But Russia is still far behind the some of the systems that could disable 800-mile-high orbit in 2009, is basically a reusable, unmanned space test platform.” less subtle method — blasting them out United States and China as far as space or destroy other satellites. Some of the sensitive infrared camera that can detect But they could also attack other spacecraft. of space with a rocket. weaponry is concerned. There was a surface-based weaponry is far less ambig- the heat plumes from rocket launches The X-37Bs “could be used to rendez- In late 2006, an US spy satellite 31-year gap between the Soviet Union’s uous and so easier to tally. Even taking and, presumably, maneuvering space- vous and inspect satellites, either friendly malfunctioned shortly after reaching last anti-satellite test and Russia’s first into account the difficulty of accurately craft. It then can beam detailed tracking or adversarial, and potentially grab and low orbit. In early February 2008, the post-Soviet orbital-weapon experiment. counting space weaponry, one thing is data to human operators on the ground. de-orbit satellites,” the Secure World Pentagon announced it would shoot REUTERS ‘Disappeared’ Egyptians resurface on TV as terrorists

to assassinate officials, even though they he is always shaking,” his sister Sara said. Suhayb Saad is one of have yet to face trial. In the video, Saad “He can’t even hold a spoon.” Human confesses to taking 65,000 Egyptian pounds rights groups have documented many nine young men who ($8,300) from the cell leader’s father to buy cases of “enforced disappearances” since a gun and giving it to another member to the end of 2013. Detainees are prevented friends, family, and rights attack a police officer. Saad is innocent, from seeing lawyers or families for weeks Osama and a defence lawyer said, because or months and are usually tortured to groups say were taken he was in jail during the time of the alleged extract confessions or implicate others. crime on separate charges of spreading “These are practices associated with by security services and lies about Egypt while working as a pho- the darkest hours of Mubarak’s rule if tojournalist. “Did he dig tunnels from his not worse. Egypt’s security forces cannot forced to confess on jail cell?” Osama asked. run roughshod over detainees’ rights like Mona Seif, cofounder of the movement this,” said Mohamed Elmessiry, Egypt television to crimes they No to Military Trials for Civilians, has researcher at Amnesty International. At known Saad since after the 2011 uprising least one of those in the video is a member never committed. that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak. of the Brotherhood. Fellow student activ- She said he was a peaceful activist who ists say Ahmed Al Ghazali was involved actually opposed the Brotherhood. After in student politics at Cairo University. BY AHMED ABOULENEIN the military ousted Mursi, security forces He is identified as a leader of the terror killed hundreds of his supporters and cell and confesses to burning police vehi- lainclothes Egyptian state secu- jailed thousands of others. cles and bombing electricity towers. Such rity officers pounced on Suhayb While the campaign which expanded incidents have happened, but Ghazali’s Saad as he left a Cairo restau- to include secular activists and journalists friends say he was not responsible. Prant in June. They blindfolded has weakened the Brotherhood, clamp- Critics warn one of the toughest secu- the activist and his two dining compan- downs have not broken a Sinai-based rity crackdowns in Egypt’s history may ions, a student and a photojournalist, and insurgency led by Islamic State’s Egypt just create more radicals. But there are drove them away in a white minivan in affiliate. Hundreds of soldiers and police no signs the government will let up as what relatives and rights groups describe Suhayb Saad, an activist who rights groups say was taken by security forces and forced to have been killed. Egypt makes no distinc- militants press on with suicide bombings as enforced disappearances. confess on TV his membership of a terrorist cell, a reference to the Muslim Brotherhood, tion between the Brotherhood, which says and shooting attacks on security forces. Five weeks later Saad, who officials stands behind bars as he waits to listen the ruling at a court in Cairo in this picture taken it is a peaceful movement, and groups like Islam Gomaa, a cameraman, disap- said was lawfully arrested, appeared on on June 23, 2014. Islamic State and Al Qaeda, describing peared in April. On May 28 his mother television, looking dishevelled and weak them all as an existential threat. received word he was being tried in a and confessing to a role in what the mil- services and forced to confess on television Egypt’s military and police deny allega- military court. On June 8 he and two oth- itary called a dangerous terrorist cell. to crimes they never committed. tions of widespread human rights abuses. CAN’T HOLD A SPOON ers who had disappeared were presented Such detentions and videotaped confes- Those friends and fellow activists say A military source denied security services Even apolitical citizens have been on television in a police video confessing sions are a new feature of a crackdown he in fact criticised the post-Arab Spring kidnapped the men in the video and said caught in the dragnet. The two friends to being part of a Brotherhood cell. on dissent launched after the military rule by Mursi’s Brotherhood as well as a prosecutor had issued arrest warrants who were dining with Saad, Israa al- “If the state is so sure of the validity of toppled Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim the military-backed leaders who then against them. The military spokesman Tawil and Omar Ali, were not activists its position, why does it resort to kidnap- Brotherhood in 2013 — Egypt’s first outlawed the movement. The nine are declined to comment on the people fea- and paid a price for being at the wrong ping and torture. Why does it prevent freely-elected president—after mass pro- among a wider group of over 160 people tured in the video. The Interior Ministry place and time, relatives say. families and lawyers from accessing any tests, rights groups say. who vanished between April and June, said police do not use torture against Tawil, the photojournalist, faces information about the detainees?,” the “His spirit was broken. They shaved his Freedom for the Brave, an Egyptian rights detainees. The 11-minute video in which charges of spreading false news. Ali, a No To Military Trials for Civilians group head. Signs of torture had disappeared but group documenting the disappearances, Saad appears was released by the military, university engineering student, is accused asked in a statement. “Why threaten he talked of being tied up, hung from his said. While Western allies call for demo- with a voiceover detailing the uncovering in the video of being a member of the people and videotape their confessions hands, and electrocuted,” Saad’s brother cratic reforms in Egypt, they are unlikely of what it said was “the most dangerous alleged Brotherhood cell. Family mem- when they are still suspects and use it Osama said after a prison visit allowed to take tough measures against a country Muslim Brotherhood terror cell”. bers said Ali told them during a prison in propaganda? How are we supposed to weeks after his arrest. Saad is one of seen as a bulwark against extremism as It shows young men confessing to visit he confessed after being beaten and trust any verdicts after this long line of nine young men who friends, family, and Islamic State gains influence and followers crimes including burning police vehicles, electrocuted. “He still has burn marks. abuses?” rights groups say were taken by security in the oil-producing Middle East. receiving training abroad and conspiring His left hand does not move properly and REUTERS THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com AMERICAS Prosecutor Huckabee vows clears federal agent in fatal to shake up shooting of Mideast policies Detroit man DETROIT: A federal agent was justified in fatally shoot- Considers West Bank part of Israel ing a wanted fugitive during a home raid in Detroit in April, JERUSALEM: Republican names Judea and Samaria, he told Wayne County Prosecutor presidential hopeful Mike supporters that he considered the Kym Worthy told a news Huckabee yesterday vowed to entire area to be part of Israel. conference yesterday, say- abandon key American policies In the interview, Huckabee ing evidence supported law in the Mideast if he is elected said recognising the West Bank enforcement accounts of the next year, endorsing positions as Israeli would be the “formal shooting. that would put the US at odds position” of his administration. Terrance Kellom, 20, who with its closest allies. “I feel that we have a responsi- had been wanted on an armed Huckabee said in an inter- bility to respect that this is land robbery warrant, died after view with The Associated Press that has historically belonged to being shot multiple times by a yesterday that he considers the the Jews,” he said. US Immigration and Customs West Bank to be part of Israel Israel captured the West Bank Enforcement Agent who was and spoke against the establish- in the 1967 Middle East war. part of a multi-jurisdictional task ment of a Palestinian state. He While it has settled more than force. also said he would withdraw from 350,000 Jews in the territory, The shooting came at a time of the recent US-led international it has never annexed the area Former Arkansas governor and 2016 American Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee giving a speech increased national focus on the nuclear agreement with Iran. in large part due to widespread during a press conference in Jerusalem yesterday. use of deadly force by police, par- Huckabee, a former Arkansas international opposition. ticularly against racial minorities, governor, is among 17 Republicans The Palestinians claim the rejects a return to Israel’s pre- rule, saying only this should be Islamic Republic relief from inter- and prompted protests in Detroit. seeking the party’s nomination. West Bank as well as east 1967 lines. the subject of future negotiations national sanctions in exchange for Both Kellom and Agent Mitchell A one-time Baptist pastor, he Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip — Speaking to reporters, between the sides. But he said curbs on its nuclear program. Quinn are black. draws support from conservative territories also captured in 1967 Huckabee said he has “never” the Palestinians need to endorse He said Iran could not be “The totality of the evidence Christians, and he is a frequent — for a future state. supported a two-state solution Israel’s right to exist and clearly trusted and that sanctions should supports Agent Quinn’s version visitor to Israel. The US, along with most of that would require settlers to be renounce violence. remain in place until Iran dis- of the events and that Terrance Huckabee arrived in Israel on the international community, has uprooted. “There’s got to be some kind mantles its nuclear program, rec- Kellom’s fatal shooting was justi- Tuesday and held a campaign fun- supported the establishment of a “I think the notion of two gov- of prerequisites before any other ognizes Israel’s right to exist and fied by the law of self defense and draiser in “ancient” Shilo — a spot Palestinian state based on the 1967 ernments operating on the same type of discussion takes place,” halts calls for America’s destruc- the defence of others,” Worthy in the West Bank where tradition lines as the cornerstone of a peace piece of real estate is unrealistic Huckabee said. tion. He also called on the U.S. to said. holds the ancient Israelites kept agreement. Even Israel’s hard- and unworkable,” he said. Huckabee also said he would become a major energy exporter Worthy, who is African- the tabernacle with Moses’ tablets line prime minister, Benjamin He would not say what withdraw from the recent U.S.- and take over Iran’s traditional American, said the United States on its way to Jerusalem. Referring Netanyahu, has endorsed the should be done with millions of led international nuclear agree- oil markets. “cannot hide from this truth” to the West Bank by the biblical “two-state solution,” though he Palestinians living under Israeli ment with Iran, which offers the AP that it has severe problems with police beating, killing and maim- ing black men. “Yes, black lives matter, of course they matter, but you know what else matters? Credible facts Ohio mother matter,” she said. US urges Russia to release Estonian officer Police said Kellom pounded confesses to a hole through the floor of an WASHINGTON: The United and now conviction on baseless their worst diplomatic crisis since attorney, who was appointed upstairs crawl space with a ham- killing three States yesterday called on charges demonstrate a flagrant the end of the Cold War. by Russian authorities, and mer and dropped to a first floor Russia to release an Estonian disregard by Russian authori- Many in Estonia believe the that neither the public nor the bedroom. Quinn fired when Kellom intelligence officer who was sen- ties for the rule of law,” State timing of Kohver’s arrest was Estonian consul were permitted advanced on him with the hammer young sons tenced to 15 years in prison for Department spokesman John deliberate, coming just two days to be present during the judicial and ignored warnings to stop. spying and weapons possession, Kirby said in a statement. after US President Barack Obama proceedings.” Kellom’s father, Kevin Kellom, OHIO: A woman has confessed calling the charges “baseless.” “We call once again on the visited Tallinn in a show of sup- Estonian officials claim Kohver had said his son was coming down to killing her three young sons The sentencing of Eston Russian Federation to act in port for Baltic security following was ambushed at gunpoint by the stairs uncuffed with officers — two infants and a 4-year-old Kohver, an officer for Estonia’s accordance with its international Russia’s role in the Ukraine crisis. Russian FSB agents in a set-up when he raised his hands over — over the past year, police said. KAPO internal security service, obligations and immediately Estonian Foreign Minister as he thought he was going to his head and was shot by Quinn. Brittany Pilkington, of came in a court in Russia’s west- return Mr Kohver to Estonia.” Marina Kaljurand has slammed meet an alleged informant in a He also said his son was unarmed Bellefontaine, about 260km south- ern Pskov region, which borders Tensions between Russia and Kohver’s trial, saying there had smuggling case involving organ- and was shot multiple times in west of Cleveland, was arrested on Estonia. the ex-Soviet Baltic states have been “no fair administration of ized crime. the back, she said. three counts of murder and was Russia says Kohver was soared over Russia’s seizure of justice in the proceedings” and The European Union has also Worthy said Kellom was shot being held at the Logan County detained last September on Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and that he was deprived of adequate urged Russia to free Kohver, with four times, once in the neck, the jail, police said. Russian soil, but Tallinn accuses alleged backing of pro-Russian legal aid. the bloc’s foreign policy chief shoulder, the posterior side of the Pilkington, who confessed to Moscow’s FSB security service of separatists in eastern Ukraine. Kirby said Washington Federica Mogherini denouncing abdomen and the thigh. None of killing her boys after question- kidnapping him from Estonian Washington and Moscow—who was “troubled by reports that his “abduction” as a violation of the shots were at close range, she ing, told investigators she had territory. often spar over human rights Kohver did not receive adequate international law. said. murdered them because their Kohver’s “abduction, detention, issues — are also experiencing legal representation from his AFP REUTERS father, Joseph Pilkington, was not paying enough attention to their daughter, the Columbus Dispatch newspaper reported. Solidarity with arrested mayor Police did not confirm Brittany Pilkington’s age but the Dispatch Americans back funds reported she is 23. Pilkington called 911 early on Tuesday to report that her 3-month-old son, Noah, was not for Planned Parenthood breathing, Bellefontaine police said in a news release. The child WASHINGTON: Americans make up just three percent of its was unresponsive and sent to a broadly support providing fed- work. local hospital, where he was pro- eral funding for free wom- “Americans know that Planned nounced dead, police said. en’s health exams, screenings Parenthood provides high-quality It was the third time in 13 and contraception services, a health care in communities across months they had been sent to the Reuters/Ipsos poll has found, the country, and that’s why they same address under similar cir- suggesting risks for Republicans overwhelmingly oppose these cumstances, so authorities “began criticizing Planned Parenthood political attacks,” Eric Ferrero, a tedious investigation into Noah’s as part of the 2016 campaigns. a spokesman for the non-profit, death,” the release said. Support for federal fund- said in a statement. Police went to the residence in ing of Planned Parenthood David Daleiden of the Centre July 2014 after Joseph Pilkington itself to provide those services for Medical Progress said the vid- returned home from work and was even stronger, according eos changed Americans’ percep- reported that he had found his to the Reuters/Ipsos released tion of the health organization. 3-month-old son, Niall, dead. yesterday. “The poll shows the more the The cause of death was unde- The non-profit’s image has American people learn about termined due to lack of evidence taken a hit, the poll found, after Planned Parenthood’s barbaric at the scene, police said. Their an anti-abortion group earlier late-term abortion body parts 4-year-old son Gavin was then this year began releasing vid- business, the less they want found dead at home in April this eos purporting to show Planned to subsidize it with their tax- year, authorities said. That case Parenthood officials negotiating payer dollars,” Daleiden said in a is still open. Mitzy de Ledezma (centre), wife of arrested Caracas Metropolitan Mayor Antonio Ledezma, talks to the media prices for aborted fetal tissue. statement. REUTERS Still, the strong support for After the videos were released, in Caracas, Venezuela, yesterday. People gathered outside the office building where Ledezma was arrested six federal funds to help Planned Republicans in Congress intro- months ago asking for his freedom. Parenthood provide pregnancy duced legislation to cut off the tests and other services indicates more than $500 million in fed- Republican presidential candi- eral funds Planned Parenthood dates should tread carefully. receives each year. That money Man charged in hoax threat to blow up Liberty statue “We have so many young peo- cannot be used for abortions. ple having babies when they’re Democrats sided with the non- babies themselves,” said Renee profit and the measure failed. NEW YORK: Federal authori- “blow up” the landmark. Smith, Authorities said the iPad reg- Yasin is suspected by authorities Harrison, 57, a Republican from But some candidates seeking the ties yesterday charged a West of Harts, West Virginia, made the istered in Smith’s name was also of involvement in the 1993 bomb- Waldo, Wisconsin, adding that Republican presidential nomina- Virginia man with making a threat by placing a call from his used to make two 911 calls in May, ing of the World Trade Center in she favoured anything that could tion in 2016 supported the effort. h o a x t h r e a t t o b l o w u p t h e S t a t u e iPad to New York City’s emergency in which a user identified as “isis Manhattan. He remains a fugitive. counter that trend. Seventy-three percent of of Liberty in April, prompting 911 system, using a service for the allah Bomb maker” threatened Liberty Island was evacuated Planned Parenthood, which respondents said they supported the evacuation of thousands of hearing-impaired, authorities said. to attack Times Square and kill on April 24 after officials learned provides health services to mil- federal funding for an unnamed tourists from Liberty Island in US Attorney Preet Bharara police officers at the Brooklyn of a bomb scare at around 11am lions of women at hundreds of group to provide women’s health New York harbour. in Manhattan said Smith was Bridge. local time. Officials sounded an centres nationwide, came under exams, 69 percent backed federal Jason Paul Smith, 42, was arrested yesterday in Lubbock, Smith was expected to appear all-clear about four hours later. a storm of criticism after the dollars for prenatal services, and accused of making the threat in Texas, and charged with one on Wednesday in a federal court The Statue of Liberty was a videos were released by an activ- 59 percent were in favour of it for an April 24, 2015 call in which count of conveying false and mis- in Texas. A lawyer for Smith was gift to the United States from ist group called the Centre for contraception. Both Democrats he identified himself as an “ISI” leading information and hoaxes. not immediately available for the people of France, and formally Medical Progress. and Republicans polled supported terrorist named Abdul Yasin, and The charge carries a maximum comment. opened in 1886. Planned Parenthood has denied federal funding for the services. stated that “we” were planning to five-year prison term. A man named Abdul Rahman REUTERS wrongdoing. It says abortions REUTERS THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 EUROPE www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 800,000 may seek asylum in Germany Berlin says EU states should help

BERLIN: Germany expects to he said has “failed miserably in receive up to 800,000 asylum- this task”. seekers in 2015, a new record, A fair repartition of asylum- Interior Minister Thomas de seekers was the “only sensible Maiziere said yesterday, as he solution,” he wrote on Facebook, urged action from Europe on calling it a “disgrace” that some the crisis. EU member states were unwilling Germany has struggled to to pull their weight. accommodate a wave of asylum- De Maiziere said he sought seekers from war zones such as action from the EU over the Syria but also from countries visa-free Schengen travel zone, as without military conflict in calls mounted from some German southeastern Europe, including regional officials for controls to be Albania, Serbia and Kosovo. reinstated. Europe’s biggest economy has “We want free movement of become the top destination for people but, and I have said this those fleeing war and persecu- often, the question is what does tion but de Maiziere said other free movement of people mean Eleftherios Venizelos European partners must also in Europe. “Therefore I aim to Syrian refugees board the ferry at the port of Mytilene to be transported to mainland Greece yesterday. share the refugee load. get a European answer on open “The European Commission borders,” said the minister, who should act against member states will meet his French counterpart that are not assuming their Bernard Cazeneuve today to dis- responsibilities,” he told report- cuss the record influx of asylum- Syria migrants set sail for Greek mainland ers as he announced the new offi- seekers in the EU. cial estimate. “This development Figures also published yes- KOS, GREECE: A passenger which has acted as a floating before the abrupt change in final refugees to illegally make their is a challenge for us all,” said the terday by the interior ministry ship housing Syrian refugees accommodation and registra- destination. way into economically better off minister. Berlin had previously show that the number of asylum set sail from the Greek island tion centre since Sunday, was Authorities in Thessaloniki northern Europe. expected 500,000 asylum-seekers requests has risen sharply in of Kos for the Greek mainland heading for the northern port initially said they were taken by The government has also come to arrive this year. Germany in recent weeks. yesterday amid confusion over of Thessaloniki after picking surprise to hear the ship would be under fire from aid agencies and Chancellor Angela Merkel In July, applications rose 5.1 its final destination and the fate up migrants from the islands of heading their way. the opposition for not doing warned on Sunday that the asy- percent from June to 34,384 and of passengers on arrival. Leros, Kalymnos and Lesbos. Compounding the confusion, enough to defuse the migrant cri- lum issue could become a bigger nearly doubled from one year ago. On top of its economic crisis, But the coast guard later said the head of a privately-owned sis. Stavros Theodorakis, leader of challenge for the European Union In the first 17 days of August cash-strapped Greece has been the ship laden with over 2,000 ref- bus operator told the Athens the centrist opposition party To than the Greek debt crisis and however, the number of appli- battling a huge influx in migrants ugees was headed for the capital News Agency that about 10 buses Potami, wrote to the parliament urged a coordinated approach cations reached 50,000, said de arriving by boat from neighbour- Athens, where it was expected to would be waiting at Thessaloniki speaker calling for an immediate from Brussels. Maiziere, who described the trend ing Turkey in recent weeks. arrive today morning. port to transfer refugees to the debate in the assembly. Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, as “dramatic”. About 21,000 people landed on The decision to send the ship Greek-Macedonian border town “Weaknesses in planning and who described the jump in refu- For the seven months to July Greek shores last week alone, on to Athens capped a day of of Idomeni. coordination over immigra- gee figures as the “biggest political this year, Syrians topped the list prompting Athens to appeal to confusion over where the refu- Sneaking across into tion policy have created a situ- challenge of the coming year”, had of asylum-seekers, with 44,417 the European Union for help. gees would be accommodated or Macedonia by foot has become a ation of continuous emergency,” stronger words for the EU which applications filed. AFP Officials initially said the ship, sent after reaching Thessaloniki popular route in recent years for Theodorakis said. REUTERS

Putin in Crimea Lawmakers Russia seeks jail grill Dutch for Ukraine director PM on Greece MOSCOW: Russian prosecu- yesterday condemning Moscow’s THE HAGUE: Dutch Prime tors yesterday demanded that rule from the courtroom cage of a Minister Mark Rutte received Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg military tribunal in the southern a grilling yesterday in parlia- Sentsov be jailed for 23 years on city of Rostov. ment for his cabinet’s support terror charges, in a trial decried “I have been in your country for debt-ridden Greece’s third by the West. for a year where I watch your international bailout, as he Sentsov and another Ukrainian wonderful television,” he told the fended off a bid for a no-confi- from Crimea, Alexander court. dence vote on the issue. Kolchenko, who have been held “Your propaganda is very good, Lawmakers in the 150-seat since May 2014, are accused of but there are also people like Lower House were recalled from torching a pro-Kremlin party you who understand very well summer recess to attend the office and wanting to blow up that there are no ‘fascists’ in debate in The Hague, where the a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine, that Crimea was taken opposition laid into the Dutch Crimea’s main city Simferopol. illegally and that your troops premier. Prosecutors also asked the are in Donbas (region of eastern Rutte “betrayed his electorate” court to hand a 12-year sentence Ukraine).” by breaking his promise that no to Kolchenko, a pro-Kiev activist The judge said he expects to more money would go to Greece, in Crimea who opposed the penin- deliver a verdict by August 25. far-right eurosceptic politician sula’s annexation by Moscow last Acclaimed filmmakers from Geert Wilders told lawmakers. year. across the globe have written to “Every time they believe Supporters of the two men, Russian President Vladimir Putin Europe’s ‘junkie’, Greece... the who are being tried as Russians expressing concern over the pros- Greeks get their money, not the despite never applying for Russian ecution of Sentsov, an up-and- Dutch elderly, but the Greeks,” citizenship, say the case against coming director. Wilders said, who proposed a them has been fabricated, and In the latest appeal by the vote of no confidence in the Dutch both the European Union and European Film Academy on cabinet. the United States have called for Tuesday, 15 filmmakers, includ- The motion was later denied by their release. ing Britain’s Ken Loach and a large majority. Sporting a T-shirt with a Germany’s Wim Wenders, said Cabinet, led by Rutte’s liberal Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) shakes hands with a navy colonel during a visit to the Sevastopol Ukrainian folk design, Sentsov they were “deeply worried” by the People’s Party for Freedom and Presidential Cadet Academy in Sevastopol, Crimea, yesterday. Putin visited Crimea with all Russian top state delivered a final statement proceedings. AFP Democracy (VVD) and its jun- officials. ior Labour (PVdA) partner, has backed the latest emergency bail- out of ¤86bn approved by euro- zone finance ministers last Friday. The cabinet — which includes Suspense over discovery Eurogroup chairman and Nato warning to Ukraine rebels Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem — does not need of Nazi German train BRUSSELS: NATO yesterday rebels currently control parts of It renewed its support for “an parliament’s backing to approve warned pro-Russian separatists Ukraine’s Lugansk and Donetsk independent, sovereign and sta- the massive loan, to which the WARSAW: Two people in official at the Walbrzych district against grabbing more land in regions and have threatend to ble Ukraine” that will pursue the Netherlands is expected to con- Poland say they have found a council, told Reuters. “The area eastern Ukraine and stressed expand their holdings further path of democracy as the best way tribute almost ¤5bn. Nazi German train cloaked in has never been excavated before.” Moscow has a “special respon- westwards. to ensure security in the Euro- Dijsselbloem said the decision mystery since it was rumoured Local news reports said the sibility” to help restore peace as The NATO allies stressed the Atlantic area. to support the bailout package to have gone missing near the train in question went missing fighting escalates. need for all sides to “de-escalate It vowed to continue following had nothing to do with party end of World War Two while in 1945, packed with loot from It said the members of the tensions and exercise restraint” events closely. politics. carrying away gems and guns the-then eastern German city of 28-nation, US-led alliance while calling for “full implementa- Ukraine’s government troops “If a country (like Greece) is ahead of advancing Soviet Red Breslau, now called Wroclaw and expressed “their serious concern tion” of the peace accords reached have been fighting pro-Russian this close to the abyss, pragma- Army forces. part of Poland, as the Red Army about the recent sharp escala- in Minsk in February. separatists since April last year, tism is not unwise,” Dijsselbloem Local authorities in Poland’s closed in at the end of World tion of violence” when they met It said monitors from Europe’s which has claimed the lives of said. southwestern district of War Two. One local media report in Brussels. “Russia has a special OSCE mission must be able to nearly 7,000 people. Rutte’s VVD party, which Walbrzych said they had been said the train was armoured and responsibility to find a political “do their job safely and without While the conflict eased after has previously said it would not contacted by a law firm repre- belonged to the Wehrmacht (Nazi solution,” NATO acting spokes- restrictions” after the organi- the February truce agreement, support the bailout if it did not senting a Pole and a German who Germany’s military). woman Carmen Romero said in sation said they faced “unprec- fighting has intensified in recent have the International Monetary said they had located the train Radio Wroclaw cited local folk- a statement. edented” harassment during the days. The Western-backed Kiev Fund’s backing, on Tuesday and were seeking 10 percent of lore as saying the train entered “Any attempt by the Russian- spike in violence, mostly from the government and the insurgents grudgingly agreed to back the the value of the findings. a tunnel near Ksiaz Castle in backed separatists to take over separatists. on Monday reported the deaths package after a lengthy meeting “Lawyers, the army, the police the mountainous Lower Silesian more of Ukraine’s territory would “NATO stands firm in our sup- of at lest 10 soldiers and civilians, behind closed doors. and the fire brigade are dealing region and never emerged. be unacceptable to the interna- port for Ukraine’s sovereignty and the worst bloodshed in more than AFP with this,” Marika Tokarska, an REUTERS tional community,” she said. The territorial integrity,” it said. a month. AFP THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA Manila kills 15 17 bodies brought from crash site

JAYAPURA: The bodies of 17 of the 54 people killed when a militants in bid plane went down in eastern Indonesia were yesterday physi- cally carried from the remote crash site as bad weather ham- pered efforts to airlift them. to free captives The bodies of 17 people who died when the Trigana Air plane crashed during a short flight in Forces battle 100 Al Qaeda fighters bad weather last Sunday were taken by hundreds of locals and MANILA: Philippine secu- Sayyaf has been blamed for bomb rescuers through jungle and over rity forces killed at least 15 al attacks in the south, kidnappings- mountains in Papua province. Qaeda-linked Islamist militants for-ransom and beheading of The bodies arrived at the set- yesterday in an attempt to res- captives, including an American tlement of Oksibil, the intended cue foreign captives on a remote citizen in 2001. destination of the ATR 42-300 southern island, an army gen- The rebels are led by Yasser plane, after a gruelling, hours- eral said as Manila redoubled an Igasan, seen as having close links long journey. offensive against Muslim rebels. to al Qaeda. Philippine armed Four bodies were flown on to There was no immediate word forces launched an assault on Abu Papua’s capital Jayapura while the on the fate of 10 foreign and Sayyaf after Manila ordered an other 13 are still in the local hos- Filipino hostages, including two all-out offensive to prevent possi- pital, transport ministry spokes- Malaysians and a Dutch national, ble copycat attacks after a bomb- man J A Barata said. believed to be in the custody of Abu ing at a shrine in the Thai capital The recovery effort was halted Sayyaf militants on Jolo island. Bangkok last Monday that killed at nightfall and will resume again Brigadier-General Alan at least 20 people. today. Arrojado, commander of military “I have directed our forces to be Authorities had initially hoped Indonesian defence and rescue personnel pay respects to victims’ coffins unloaded from the hold of a Trigana units on Jolo island, said they extra vigilant and conduct meas- to use helicopters to airlift the Air ATR 42 aircraft (seen in background), at Sentani airport in Jayapura located in Papua province, yesterday. fired several howitzer rounds as ures to prevent similar incidents bodies from the site, but bad the US-trained army comman- occurring in our country,” said weather made it too dangerous the crash of an AirAsia plane in They also recovered the plane’s a European plane maker based in dos battled more than 100 Abu General Hernando Iriberri, the to fly in the area yesterday. December with the loss of 162 black box flight data recorders, France, is heading to Indonesia to Sayyaf militants near another rebel Philippines military chief. “The current conditions make lives. It took rescuers two days to and some of the 6.5bn rupiah look into the accident. stronghold in the town of Indanan. Iriberri ordered pre- it impossible for us to use heli- reach the site, about 15 kilometres ($470,000) in government social The plane had set off from “We killed 15 rebels and emptive strikes to disrupt copters, so we have to do it via from Oksibil, after initial efforts assistance funds that was being Jayapura on what was supposed wounded an undetermined plans by Islamist militants land,” said local military spokes- were hindered by the rough ter- transported for distribution to to be a 45-minute flight to Oksibil. number as they withdrew deep to carry out bombings in man Pudji Teguh Rahardjo. rain and bad weather. poor families. It lost contact 10 minutes into the jungles,” Arrojado said. urban centres in Mindanao, a The tragedy was just the latest They found the twin-turboprop A portion of the currency was before landing as it sought to “We are pursuing them, we have major southern island in the air accident in Indonesia, which aircraft in pieces scattered across burnt. A team of three investiga- descend in heavy cloud and rain. sent in more reinforcements.” No Southeast Asian archipelago has a poor aviation safety record a fire-blackened clearing, and the tors from France’s BEA agency, The airline has said the acci- army casualties were reported. nation of 100 million people. and has suffered major disas- bodies of the 49 passengers and which probes air accidents, and dent was most likely caused by The small, but violent Abu AFP ters in recent months, including five crew who were aboard. four technical advisors from ATR, bad weather. AFP

PM-elect has unity plans for Sri Lanka Media chief shot dead

COLOMBO: General election supporters of Sirisena from the victor Ranil Wickremesinghe opposition Sri Lankan Freedom in southern Philippines yesterday called on Sri Lankans Party (SLFP) to control parlia- to unite as he set about the task ment and push ahead reforms. of forming a national unity gov- Wickremesinghe said he would DAVAO: The head of a local murder was related to his media ernment that will seek to heal soon meet Sirisena to discuss the press association in the south- work. The press group’s vice- the divisions of the past. next government’s makeup and ern Philippines was killed in an president Ciriaco Conejos said In his first major statement policy agenda that will be pre- ambush, sparking condemna- he believes the killing was due since his United National Party sented to parliament when it tion yesterday from a national to a leadership rift in the power (UNP) foiled ex-president convenes on Sept. 1. government embarrassed by company. Tagum police said the Mahinda Rajapaksa’s comeback In one key decision, Finance a spate of unsolved media motive for the killing has yet to bid, Wickremesinghe struck a Minister Ravi Karunanayake murders. be determined. note of reconciliation. said he expected to be reap- Gregory Ybanez was shot sev- “We strongly condemn the kill- “I want everyone to come pointed to the post. Sirisena had eral times in front of his house ing of Gregory Ybanez,” President together now. Think of the coun- clashed with Rajapaksa, who ran in the southern city of Tagum Benigno Aquino’s spokesman try, think of the people,” he said. for prime minister on an SLFP last Tuesday and died several Herminio Coloma said in a “We can achieve unity, progress in ticket, and a political realignment hours later, a police report said. statement. this country if we work together.” could leave the former president The suspects fled. The 67-year- According to Conejos, a funeral Wickremesinghe, 66, who has isolated in a rump opposition, as old victim was head of the Press wreath was delivered to Ybanez’s led a minority government since he and his allies face a series of Radio and TV Club in the prov- home in 2012 at the height of a President Maithripala Sirisena corruption investigations. ince of Davao del Norte and the management conflict at the power beat Rajapaksa in a presidential Sri Lankan Prime Minister-elect Ranil Wickremesinghe (right) and his wife Rajapaksa, whose alliance publisher of a local weekly “Bell of distributor. election in January, is expected Maithree Wickremesinghe wave to media at his Temple Trees residence in polled just three percent behind the Community”, police said. He In the Philippines a wreath to be sworn in as prime minister. Colombo, yesterday. the UNP and who won the dis- was also a member of the board given to a living person is seen as Rajapaksa accepted his defeat trict in which he ran with more of the province’s electric utility. a death threat. The Committee to “with humility”, but rebuffed calls mandate and I will function Although Wickremesinghe’s than 400,000 votes, is still revered While the Philippines is known Protect Journalists lists 77 media to retire from active politics. “I within parliament to safeguard centre-right party fell tanta- by many for ending a 26-year as one of the most dangerous workers killed in work-related will continue to engage in poli- the nation and the democratic lisingly short of a parliamen- Tamil insurgency in 2009. places for journalists, a colleague incidents in the Philippines since tics, in keeping with the people’s system,” the 69-year-old said. tary majority, it can count on REUTERS said he did not believe Ybanez’s 1992. AFP Four informers gunned Hunt on for Bangkok’s foreign bomber

BANGKOK: A Thai court yes- seen on CCTV calmly leaving a down in Burundi bar terday issued an arrest war- backpack at the Erawan shrine rant for the prime suspect in moments before the bomb went NAIROBI: Gunmen killed four April when Nkurunziza launched the deadly Bangkok shrine off. men in a bar in Burundi’s capi- his now successful, but contro- bombing, describing him as an Police say the bomber had to tal Bujumbura, police said yes- versial bid for a third term in unnamed foreign man shortly have acted with accomplices, terday, in the latest of a string power, despite weeks of protests after police released a sketch of with force spokesman Prawut of killings after the contro- and a failed coup against him. him. Tavornsiri suggesting there may versial reelection of President Nkurunziza must be still for- The warrant, issued by be “at least two others” involved Pierre Nkurunziza. mally sworn into power before Bangkok’s Southern Criminal in the incident and the Thai police “Unidentified gunmen entered an August 26 deadline. Court, accuses an “unnamed for- chief saying the attack was car- and shot them,” a police spokes- African Union chief Nkosazana eigner of premeditated murder, ried out by a “network.” man, Pierre Nkurikiye, said. Dlamini-Zuma last Sunday called attempted murder and bomb- The attack occurred last Residents of Musaga, a largely for “utmost restraint” by all making” over the blast that killed Monday evening as worshippers opposition district where the kill- sides, warning of potential “cata- 20 people and wounded scores and tourists crowded into the ings took place last Tuesday, said strophic consequences” for trou- more last Monday. Erawan shrine in the Thai capi- the men were accused of being bled Burundi and the wider region The sketch of a bespectacled, tal’s commercial heart, shred- police informers. The killings fol- if rivals do not resolve political apparently young man with light ding bodies and incinerating lowed police raids in Musaga ear- differences peacefully. stubble and a full head of hair, was motorcycles. lier last Tuesday in which “a large Last week gunmen shot dead published on Wednesday after- At least 11 foreigners were quantity” of guns were seized, Colonel Jean Bikomagu, a key noon based on security camera Thais and foreign tourists worship at the sacred Erawan Shrine, after it killed, with visitors from Britain, Nkurikiye said, adding “witnesses figure in the former Tutsi- footage taken around the blast reopened to the public in central Bangkok, yesterday. China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, said that these people had been dominated army. Last month, top site that has been widely shared. Singapore and Malaysia among accused of having informed the general Adolphe Nshimirimana From the sketch it is not the victims. Another 68 people police.” was killed in a rocket attack. immediately clear if he is a for- how they reached that conclusion. step towards identifying a suspect remained in hospital, 12 of whom Violence erupted in Burundi in AFP eigner and police have not said The warrant is the first major revealed to the public after he was were in critical conditions. AFP South Africa justice minister blocks premature parole for Pistorius

CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on homicide verdict, arguing that legs he wears on the track -- won Pistorius does not dispute indicated that Pistorius has been Oscar Pistorius will not be Valentine’s Day 2013. he should have been convicted of international fame after racing that he shot his model and law a good inmate and qualifies for released on parole this Friday The star athlete was sentenced murder over the killing of Reeva against able-bodied competitors graduate girlfriend four times house arrest -- a routine proce- because the decision to release in October to five years in prison Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in the 2012 London Olympics. His through a locked toilet door in his dure in South Africa. him was made prematurely and for culpable homicide -- a charge 2013. trial was broadcast live around Pretoria home in the early hours “For our beautiful daughter - without any legal basis, the jus- equivalent to manslaughter -- and If they win their case, which is the world. of February 14, 2013. But he said for anyone’s life - it’s definitely tice minister said yesterday. is now eligible for release into expected to be heard in November, “I think chances are pretty good he mistook the 29-year-old for an not long enough,” Steenkamp’s Pistorius, 29, was expected house arrest after serving one- the 28-year-old could face at least that the appeals court will rule in intruder. Prosecutors insist that mother said. to be released after serving 10 sixth of his sentence. 15 years in jail. favour of the state and overturn he deliberately killed her after “She was robbed of her future, months of a five-year sentence for But prosecutors this week filed The athlete -- known as the the verdict,” said Ulrich Roux, a an argument. South African cor- her career, her chance to get mar- killing his model and law graduate an appeal against the culpable “Blade Runner” for the prosthetic criminal lawyer in Johannesburg. rectional services officials have ried and have a baby.” AFP THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Pakistan may pip Iran Air strikes kill 25 militants for China’s fighter jets Pakistan army bombs five militant hideouts in Shawal valley

ISLAMABAD: A military purchase of 36 J-10 jets in 2009. BANNU: Military air strikes among the 19 people killed by a but we have not been instructed The Pakistani military recaptured expert revealed yesterday that The country jointly produces the killed at least 25 suspected suicide bomber in Punjab prov- to leave the area,” farmer Shadam most of North Waziristan in an Pakistan may be the first buyer J-17 Thunder fighter aircraft, militants in northwestern ince, the stronghold of Prime Khan said. offensive launched in June 2014. of China’s J-10 fighter jet which and has been showing interest to Pakistan yesterday, two intelli- Minister Nawaz Sharif. “We just want them to spec- Before the operation began, the was initially set to be sold to acquire the J-10 jets, while add- gence officials said, taking to 133 “Jet air bombing destroyed five ify a route for us to safely leave army ordered most civilians to Iran after the lifting of UN ing that China was wooing Iran the army’s toll of insurgents in militant hideouts and killed 25 with our families before the army leave. Those in the Shawal Valley sanctions. to buy 150 J-10s. “Once the sanc- the region this week. militants,” said one of the two offi- starts a full-fledged operation.” were permitted to stay. Fu Qianshao, an aviation equip- tions against Iran are completely Since May, the military has cials who confirmed the death toll. Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokes- NATO forces had long urged ment expert with the People’s lifted, the country will definitely stepped up operations in the Access to the area is severely man for one Taliban faction, said Pakistan to mount an offensive in Liberation Army Air Force, renovate its civilian and military deeply forested ravines of the restricted and few telephone air strikes had not killed any North Waziristan, saying Taliban said that Pakistan may overtake aircraft fleets. Shawal valley, which straddles lines work, making it impossible militants. safe havens there were used to Tehran in becoming the first Fu added, “The J-10 can con- the Pakistani region of North to verify the military’s casualty The mountainous North attack NATO and Afghan forces overseas buyer of the multi-role front any third-generation and South Waziristan along the figures. The army was battling Waziristan region used to be in Afghanistan. aircraft, which Chinese experts fighter jets used by neighbouring border with Afghanistan, and is the militants in different parts of the Pakistani Taliban’s last key The army’s media wing said claim is comparable to the latest countries as it features supreme dotted with militant bases. Shawal Valley, a third intelligence stronghold. The Pakistani Taliban air strikes killed 18 suspected version of the US’ F-16 Fighting manoeuvrability, strong firepower Residents have reported contin- official said. mainly fight the Pakistani state. militants last Tuesday, 50 last Falcon. and cutting-edge avionics.” uous bombing since last Sunday, “We can hear bombs and con- They are separate from, but Monday and 40 last Sunday. Pakistan signed a deal for the INTERNEWS when a provincial minister was stant shelling since last Sunday, allied to, the Afghan Taliban. REUTERS

ECP’s poll plan for Pakistanis Pakistan summons Afghan envoy as ties worsen KABUL: Afghanistan has sum- and shops destroyed by a massive living abroad moned Pakistan's ambassador truck bomb on August 7. to explain fighting between the Pakistan has condemned the ISLAMABAD: The Election two countries' security forces recent attacks and blamed "spoil- Commission of Pakistan (ECP) that killed up to eight Afghan ers and detractors" for trying to has said that it stands by its border police, the latest blow create mistrust between the two plan to give overseas Pakistanis in ties that took a plunge this countries, which are divided by the right to vote. month during a surging Taliban a border defined in a 1919 treaty The ECP said yesterday it was offensive. recognising Afghan independ- considering the basic right to vote Cooperation between the tur- ence from the British empire, of expatriates holding Pakistani bulent neighbours, both battling although the country was never citizenship. It added that a high- fierce militant insurgencies is seen fully colonized. level committee under ECP’s as key to peace in Afghanistan, The treaty is celebrated on Additional Director General since Pakistan is widely believed August 19. (Elections) Masood Malik was to wield considerable influ- The Taliban issued a statement constituted. ence over the Taliban and allied on last Tuesday saying Afghans The committee has discussed militants. should fight for freedom as their and examined different options In the meeting with forefathers did from the British. to facilitate voting by Pakistanis Ambassador Syed Abrar Hussain, Ties with Pakistan have also living abroad through postal bal- Afghanistan's foreign ministry been roiled by the news of the lot, internet and in-person voting. expressed serious objections to death of Taliban leader Mullah The committee has forwarded 16 the heavy artillery firing in the Mohammad Omar two years ago. recommendations to the ECP. border province of Kunar, the Afghanistan says he died in a He said 6.7 million Pakistanis ministry said in a statement last Karachi hospital and that author- were living with only 3.7 million Tuesday. ities concealed this from Kabul. having National Identity Cards "Continuation of such move- The announcement appeared for Overseas Pakistanis (NICOP) . ments by the Pakistan military to cause rifts at the top of the He said there were 1.7 million ... will have adverse effects on militant Islamist group fighting Pakistanis in Saudi Arabia and 1.2 bilateral relations," Afghanistan's for power in Afghanistan, with million each in the UK and UAE. deputy foreign minister said. a round of talks postponed last The proposed criterion for Initial reports from Afghan month. candidates was a minimum stay police in Kunar's Nari district An Afghan delegation to President Ashraf Ghani (centre) attends Afghan Independence Day celebrations in Kabul, yesterday. of three years abroad and remit- said Pakistani troops started Pakistan last week led by Foreign tances of at least $50,000. shooting across the border last Minister Salahuddin Rabbani Those possessing dual national- Monday after they found one of with measures such as intelli- That anger was also felt on Independence Day, we're cel- demanded "serious and practical ity would have to surrender their their men dead at an outpost. gence sharing, but after bombs in the streets of Kabul where ebrating against Pakistan," said measures" from Islamabad over foreign nationality to qualify as Afghan President Ashraf Kabul killed dozens this month the city's residents celebrated city resident Mohammad Zamir, terrorist attacks it said came a voter. Ghani has worked in his first he furiously blamed Pakistan for Independence Day yesterday. as drummers and dancers per- from across the border. INTERNEWS year in office to improve ties "exporting war". "I've come to celebrate our formed by the ruins of houses REUTERS ‘Difficult to find an able hand’ to replace slain Punjab minister LAHORE: No replacement of of Law Minister Rana Sanaullah remaining in touch with the the late minister who had alone trouble. Similar attacks had given merely an eight-member the slain Punjab Home Minister Khan because of what they said Turkish experts in the field even decided to eliminate the Lashkar- been made at the deras of Aftab Elite Force escort. There were retired Colonel Shuja Khanzada his “political” nature. from Lahore where he was given i-Jhangvi leadership. Almost all Sherpao, Amir Muqam, Mian no barricades outside his Lahore has been made as yet and The analysis was that the late an international mobile telephone law enforcement agencies were Iftikhar and others in the Khyber residence. sources in the Punjab govern- Khanzada was basically a soldier facility. involved in it. Pakhtunkhwa. Officials said it had not as yet ment say it is hard to find a man and was fit for handling the tasks The government is yet to even He fell because he proved to “Frisking Pakhtuns intending been established that he and having the equal ability and of fighting terrorism and crime temporarily assign the home be a soft target in view of his to meet a leader is considered dis- others were killed by the banned commitment to handle the most without any political angle. portfolio. The dent made in the Pakhtun tradition of keeping honour but terrorists are using outfit. difficult task at present. The late colonel would say no provincial administration because doors open for everyone. this tradition to hit their targets,” The Ahrar Group of the TTP “I suppose the chief minister when it required. He was asked of the assassination of the late They said it had now been an official said. had claimed responsibility but will himself assume the charge,” to raise the counter-terrorism Khanzada was visible in the pro- established that meeting peo- The late Khanzada was a brave authorities were trying to reach an official said. force which he did with precision vincial administration. ple at private deras (offices) man who would not even change the perpetrators. Many doubted the appointment and sincerity of purpose, always Officials said that it was not by Pakhtuns was like inviting his schedules for security. He was INTERNEWS Two Qaeda militants killed in Karachi Militants got national KARACHI: Pakistani offi- cials said yesterday they killed an intelligence officer and two ID cards for $100: ISI alleged operatives of Al Qaeda’s South Asian chapter in a shoot- KARACHI: Pakistani authori- years in the United States, was out in the southern city of ties are investigating officials at killed in December 2014 during a Karachi. The clash followed a the national identity database Pakistan army operation in South raid last Tuesday on an apart- for allegedly issuing ID cards Waziristan tribal area close to ment in Gulhsan-e-Iqbal, a to militants, including some Afghanistan. middle class residential neigh- linked to Al-Qaeda, in return The ISI investigation also found bourhood in the city’s east, a for bribes as small as $100. that three Uzbek nationals who spokesman for the paramilitary The country's main spy service, were arrested in Qatar for rob- Rangers said. the Inter-Services Intelligence bing a bank also carried Pakistani “On seeing Rangers, (the) ter- agency (ISI) uncovered the identity papers. Several dozen rorists opened fire, the Rangers alleged corrupt practices at Chinese nationals and Maldivians troops fired back and after an the National Database and were also issued Pakistani ID exchange of fire two terrorists Registration Authority (NADRA) cards, with NADRA officials got killed,” the spokesman said. during ongoing anti-terrorism taking bribes of 10,000 to 20,000 An intelligence officer was also operations, according to official rupees ($100-200) in return. killed while a soldier sustained documents. The probe identified 40 wounds, the Rangers said. "It has been found that many NADRA officials involved in The men were identified as NADRA officials are involved in issuing the fake paperwork in Abdul Ahad and Mohammad facilitating miscreants and ter- Karachi, including a retired army Sauleh, said to be Al-Qaeda’s rorists in obtaining fake identity," brigadier and a retired colonel. chief in the city and his assist- A Pakistani volunteer prepares the bodies of two alleged Al Qaeda operatives, who were killed in a raid by Pakistani said ISI correspondence. Adnan El In its investigation, the Federal ant, respectively. security forces, at a morgue in Karachi, yesterday. Shukrijumah, a senior Al-Qaeda Investigation Agency found more Little was known of the two leader wanted by the US over a than 50,000 national identity men before their deaths and ana- were also detained in the same Karachi, a port city of some 20 led to substantial drop in over- 2009 plot to attack the New York cards had been issued to illegal lysts believe security forces often neighbourhood. million and Pakistan’s economic all levels of violence. But rights subway system, was among those immigrants, mostly Afghans. exaggerate the seniority of mili- Al-Qaeda’s South Asian branch hub, is frequently hit by Islamist, groups have accused police and who obtained a Pakistani ID card Last year Pakistan launched tants they kill in encounters. was set up last year in what was political and ethnic violence. paramilitary troops of carrying by bribing officials, the documents a crackdown on militants after A security official who did widely seen as a response to the Paramilitaries began a sweep- out extrajudicial killings in staged said. more than a decade of bomb not wish to be named said growing appeal of the Islamic ing crackdown on alleged mili- gunfights. Shukrijumah, who was born and gun attacks by homegrown that some relatives of Ahad State group in the region. tants in the city in 2013 that has AFP in Saudi Arabia and spent some Islamist extremists. AFP THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

CBI raids Raja, AAP lambasts 16 others over excess assets CHENNAI/NEW DELHI: Modi, honours The CBI yesterday said it had registered a disproportionate assets case against former tel- ecom minister and DMK leader A Raja and 16 others. Nitish Kumar In a statement, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said others booked in the case Kejriwal, Nitish support each other included Raja’s wife, his relative, a close associate and a director NEW DELHI: Chief Ministers the school dropout rate had fallen of a private company based in Nitish Kumar and Arvind steeply. Perambalur near Trichy. Kejriwal yesterday shared a “Even then they call Bihar a The CBI also registered a case stage here and took on Prime BIMARU (sick) state,” he said, against a private company based Minister Narendra Modi, referring to a term Modi used here, a former director of the demanding special status for in an election speech. “And they company and other close relatives Bihar and full statehood for comment on my DNA.” and associates of Raja under the Delhi. “Give Delhi the status of a full Prevention of Corruption Act. At a function to honour select state, and give special status to The case pertains to holding people from Bihar living in Delhi, Bihar,” he said. assets disproportionate to known both Kejriwal and Nitish Kumar Kejriwal also spoke at some sources of income and abetment hit out at Modi on issues rang- length about the problems he to the said offence. ing from One Rank One Pension has been having with the cen- The CBI said its teams con- (OROP) to black money. tral government over the Anti- ducted searches at 20 places, Speaking a day after Modi Corruption Branch (ACB) in President Pranab Mukherjee gestures to his well-wishers after the funeral of his wife, Suvra Mukherjee, in New including six places in Chennai, announced `1.25lakh cr for Bihar, Delhi. Delhi, yesterday. one in New Delhi, two in the Aam Aadmi Party leader said, “For the past 23 years, the ACB Coimbatore, and eight in “If the PM has so much money, he was with the Delhi government. Perambalur and three in Trichy, should first meet the demand of But from June 8, the BJP gov- Tamil Nadu. soldiers demanding OROP.” ernment used the paramilitary The searches led to the seizure He also wanted to know if to capture it. President Mukherjee back to of several incriminating docu- the prime minister would give “The chief minister of Delhi has ments like financial statements, the money to Bihar only if the no control over the ACB now,” he income tax returns, immovable Bharatiya Janata Party wins the added. property documents, bills, vouch- coming assembly election or even Thanking the Bihar chief min- work after wife’s cremation ers and invoices. if it loses. ister for sending honest officers Certain bank accounts and In a sarcastic tone, the Delhi to work in Delhi’s ACB, Kejriwal NEW DELHI: Within hours the president was attending to his and Referral Hospital’s intensive fixed deposits in the names of the chief minister said, “I wonder said, “People of Bihar have to after his wife Suvra was cre- official duties,” said a Rashtrapati care unit on August 7 after her accused have also been identified, whether he (Modi) will give even choose between a (state) gov- mated here yesterday, President Bhavan official. condition suddenly worsened. the investigating agency said. 1.25 paise to Bihar.” ernment which is helping to Pranab Mukherjee was back at “After offering floral tributes to The president had to cut short According to CBI, several of Expressing support to Nitish strengthen the ACB and a (cen- work at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. the former president, the presi- his two-day visit to Odisha and Raja’s close relatives and asso- Kumar and his Janata Dal-United tral) government which wants to In no time after the final rites, dent had the external affairs min- return to the national capital to ciates allegedly witnessed expo- in the Bihar elections, Kejriwal capture it.” Mukherjee -- known to be a istry brief him. be by his ailing wife’s side. nential financial growth under urged the people of the state to Nitish Kumar said both he and strict disciplinarian -- was “Today he will host the lead- He continued attending his offi- suspicious circumstances and “create history”. Kejriwal were targeted by Modi attending to his official duties. ers participating in the second cial duties, delivering his address acquired assets worth several Echoing Nitish Kumar’s and they must help each other in His first duty was to pay trib- summit of the Forum for India to the nation on the eve of the crores of rupees without sufficient repeated demand, Kejriwal said every respect. utes to Shankar Dayal Sharma, and Pacific Islands Cooperation Independence Day and even hold- wherewithal during this period. Bihar should get special status The JD-U leader said he invited the ninth president of India. (FIPIC),” the official said. ing the customary “At Home” at Several immovable properties so that it makes rapid economic Kejriwal to Bihar to speak on the Mukherjee paid floral tributes Today morning, Mukherjee will Rashtrapati Bhavan on August 15 were acquired in the names of development. public delivery system. Kejriwal to Sharma, in the corridor in host a ceremonial welcome at without once betraying any emo- Raja’s friends and family mem- Nitish Kumar, who received said he has accepted the invite. In which the portraits of past presi- Rashtrapati Bhavan for the lead- tion to the world outside. The bers and other private firms a rousing welcome at the event, recent months, Nitish Kumar has dents are lined, on the occasion of ers of 14 Pacific islands who are first couple got married on July which were/are managed by close listed the achievements of the met Kejriwal at least four times his birth anniversary. in India to participate in FIPIC. 13, 1957 and had been together for relatives and associates of Raja, Bihar government, saying it was while visiting Delhi. “The First Lady’s cremation The president’s wife was 58 years. the CBI said. developing in double digits and IANS was at 10.30am and by 12.30pm, rushed to the army’s Research IANS IANS

Revering snakes Pandemonium OROP protestors refuse in Odisha house

BHUBANESWAR: The to end fast-unto-death Odisha assembly yesterday witnessed pandemonium and NEW DELHI: Despite gov- candlelight march to the India disruptions as both the opposi- ernment overtures, three ex- Gate on Sunday, but decided to tion and ruling party members servicemen on a fast unto death reschedule it as it coincided with created ruckus shouting slogans on the ‘One Rank One Pension’ the visit of Pakistan’s National and counter-slogans. issue refused yesterday to end Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz. Speaker Niranjan Pujari first their protest. Ex-servicemen “We are trying to convince the adjourned the house till 12.30pm are likely to hold more protests veterans to wait till August 23 at and later till 3pm. As the house even as they wait for a meeting least; I hope the prime minister did not return to normalcy even with the prime minister, their gives us an appointment before after the two adjournments, the spokesmen said. that,” Kaul said. Parrikar too speaker extended the adjourn- “We have requested Defence asked the veterans to wait till ment till 3.30pm and later called Minister Manohar Parrikar to August 24, as he was scheduled an all-party meeting to resolve help us meet the prime minis- to meet Modi on August 23. the deadlock. ter,” said Major General Satbir The indefinite hunger strike by As soon as the House assem- Singh (retd), chairman, Indian retired Colonel Pushpender Singh bled, leader of opposition Ex-Servicemen Movement. and former havildar Major Singh Narasingha Mishra sought a While ex-servicemen, whose continued for third day yesterday discussion on the issue relating agitation continued for the 66th while it was the second day of fast to former DGP Prakash Mishra day on Wednesday, initially agreed unto death for retired havildar and demanded the resignation of not to scale up their agitation Ashok Chauhan. Chief Minister Navin Patnaik for before August 26, Col. Anil Kaul The veterans had a meet- falsely implicating the officer on (retd), spokesperson of the Indian ing with Principal Secretary financial irregularities, which was United Ex-Servicemen Front, in the Prime Minister’s Office, quashed both by the high court told IANS that the protestors Nripendra Misra, last Tuesday Hindu devotees offer prayers to snake idols on the occasion of ‘Naga Pujaa’, fondly known as ‘Nag Panchami’ and the Supreme Court. Members did not agree to this and might go after Army Chief Dalbir Singh also rushed towards the podium ahead with their plans for more called Maj. Gen. Satbir Singh festival at the Bollaram Naga Matha Temple in Secunderabad, yesterday. During this festival, devotees worship protesting the Centre’s apathy protests. (retd) and convinced him for the and revere Cobras or a serpent deity made of silver or clay by offering milk and prayers. towards Odisha. IANS The veterans planned a meeting. IANS BJP flays Mulayam’s Uproar over arrest of FTII students PUNE: In a post-midnight just after last Tuesday and began A police officer accused the Mantra for Achhe Din,” Gandhi remark on gang rape swoop, police arrested five FTII looking for the 40 or so students students of shouting slogans in tweeted. “On one hand they students for rioting, illegal con- who ‘gheraoed’ Pathrabe in his Pathrabe’s office, physically pre- destroyed creativity, and on the finement and more after they office last Monday. venting him and others from leav- other hand, made money... Now LUCKNOW: The opposi- elections, the SP chief said rape ‘gheraoed’ director Prashant Five students were nabbed ing, snapping telephone lines and this disease is spreading. FTII is tion yesterday lashed out at was a petty mistake that men Pathrabe for nearly eight hours. and a hunt launched for the oth- damaging computers. a symbol of it,” Gandhi said. Samajwadi Party (SP) president commit in their younger days. The arrests triggered an ava- ers who were believed to be hid- The students also formed a Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Mulayam Singh Yadav for his Yadav had also said that rape was lanche of criticism, and the stu- ing in and around the campus. human chain to stop Pathrabe Kejriwal also criticised the statement that gang rape of a not a heinous offence to attract dents got bail yesterday. The students were among those from stepping out and shouted arrests. The students alleged woman was not a practical and capital punishment. Yesterday afternoon, the protesting against “irrational slogans like “PM Narendra Modi that the police action was meant logical thing. Leader of the opposition, arrested students were pro- and unjustified” pro-rata course and Arun Jaitley Murdabad”. to break their strike. Commoners Slamming Yadav for his “insen- Swamy Prasad Maurya, also hit duced before a magistrate and project assessment of the 2008 Following Pathrabe’s late night to celebs flayed the arrests, sitive” remark, Bharatiya Janata out at Yadav for his comment remanded to judicial custody till batch of 49 students and wanted complaint, police registered a FIR with many comparing it to the Party (BJP) spokesman Vijay made last Tuesday and said it September 1. Later, their law- Pathrabe to revoke his decision. against 15 students. Emergency days when midnight Bahadur Pathak said the state- reflected badly on the ruling party yers Asim Sarode and Shrikant Yesterday, a shaken Pathrabe The crackdown capped a arrests were common. ment showed the mentality of the president. “The insensitive com- Shivade moved the court and the told the media that the students 72-day-old agitation in which stu- While brakes have been applied rulers of the state. ment mouthed by Mulayam Singh students got bail on sureties of kept him in illegal confinement dents are opposing the appoint- on the contentious assessment “Having failed to protect the is a telling tale of the mindset of `3,000 each. for 8-10 hours and vandalized his ment of BJP member and TV decision, a three-member com- honour of women and give them people in power,” he added. Police have registered similar office, forcing him to lodge a police actor Gajendra Chauhan as FTII mittee from the information and a sense of security, the SP chief The SP leader last Tuesday cases against at least another complaint. chairman. broadcasting ministry will visit is now taking potshots at hapless said that rape was committed by dozen students of the Film and “I really wonder by what yard- The arrests evoked denuncia- FTII on August 21 after which a victims of gang rape and in turn one person and four others were Television Institute of India who stick you can call such people tion across the country. Congress final decision will be taken. emboldening the perpetrators,” falsely framed in the case, though have sought anticipatory bail. ‘students’. They wanted to enact vice president Rahul Gandhi took The students have shown no he said. it was practically not possible for A van load of baton wielding a drama. It was all pre-planned to on Prime Minister Modi, saying signs of being cowed down. They Pathak recalled that in the four people to rape one woman. policemen landed at the pictur- show the institute and the direc- the students were not criminals. are likely to announce their future run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha IANS esque and sprawling FTII campus tor in poor light,” he said. “Silence, Suspend, Arrest: Modi plans soon. IANS THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 FEATURES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Music boosts recovery from surgery, reduces pain By Kate Kelland time seemed effective, there was a trend for bet- ter outcomes if patients listened to music before istening to music before, during and after surgery rather than during or after. surgery reduces patients’ pain, eases anxi- And when patients selected their own music, ety and lessens the need for painkillers, there was a slightly greater reduction in pain and LBritish scientists said. in use of pain relief. After reviewing evidence from around 7,000 “We have known since the time of Florence patients, the scientists said people going for sur- Nightingale that listening to music has a positive gery should be allowed to choose the music they’d impact on patients during surgery, by making them like to hear to maximize the benefit. feel calmer and reducing pain,” said Martin Hirsch But they also warned that the music should not of Queen Mary University of London, who co-led interfere with the medical team’s communication the work. “However, it’s taken pulling together all during an operation. the small studies ... into one robust meta-analysis “Music is a non-invasive, safe, cheap interven- to really prove it works.” tion that should be available to everyone undergo- Paul Glasziou of Australia’s Bond University said ing surgery,” said Catherine Meads from Brunel the results held a clear message: “Music is a simple University, who co-led the research. and cheap intervention,” he wrote in a comment The team conducted a meta-analysis of all pub- in The Lancet. “A drug with similar effects might lished randomized trials looking at how music generate substantial marketing.” compares with standard care or other non-drug The team now plans to follow up with a pilot interventions such as massage and relaxation in scheme introducing music at The Royal London effecting recovery of adults after operations. Hospital for women having Caesarean sections and The results, published in The Lancet journal, women having hysteroscopy. found patients were significantly less anxious after Patients will submit their playlist on a device of surgery and reported more satisfaction after listen- their choice to be connected to a pillow with inbuilt ing to music. They also needed less pain medication loudspeakers, and the researchers will then analyze and reported less pain compared with controls. the effectiveness of rolling this out in practice. While the study found listening to music at any REUTERS

Basil-Cilantro Noodles

By Bonnie S Benwick

lippery and savoury, this unu- sual combination of ingredients — Italian pasta, Asian elements, Sstore-bought cabbage/coleslaw mix and lime juice — works surpris- ingly well when you’re up for just a bit of cooking and a light meal on a warm summer night. Basil and cilantro are not the dominant flavours, even though they figure prominently in the title. We recommend using the larger amount of linguine, so you’ll have lefto- vers; we’d add more fresh, crunchy veg- 25 etables to the mix for a nice lunch. Serve at room temperature or chilled, with minted snap peas or garlicky sau- teed snow peas. Adapted from Good Cheap Eats: Dinner in 30 Minutes (or Less!), by Jessica Fisher (Harvard Common Press, 2015). 4 servings, plus leftovers

Ingredients Kosher salt Method 8 to 12 ounces dried whole-grain Bring a large pot of water to a boil over linguine medium-high heat. Add a generous pinch 1/2 medium onion of salt and the pasta (the amount depends 1 large clove garlic on whether you’d like leftovers); stir, and One 1-inch piece fresh ginger root cook according to the package directions. 2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil Meanwhile, cut the onion into very 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes thin slices. Mince the garlic. Peel the stirring to coat; cover and cook for 3 min- 2 teaspoons of lime zest over the pot. Cut Divide among wide, shallow bowls, 2 cups shredded cabbage or coleslaw ginger and mince or finely grate enough utes or until it just starts to wilt. the limes in half, then squeeze their juice reserving some for leftovers; garnish with mix to yield 1 generous teaspoon. Drain the linguine, reserving 1/3 cup over the mixture in the pot; toss to incor- a few basil and/or cilantro leaves, if desired. 2 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce Heat the oil in a large nonstick skillet of the pasta cooking water. Return the porate. If the mixture seems dry, add Serve warm or at room temperature. 2 limes over medium heat. As soon as the oil is linguine to its (now empty) pot, then some of the reserved pasta cooking water. Nutrition | Per serving: 280 calories, 8 g Small handful cilantro, plus a few fragrant, stir in the onion, garlic, ginger transfer the contents of the skillet to the Coarsely chop the cilantro, including protein, 46 g carbohydrates, 9 g fat, 1 g satu- leaves for optional garnish and crushed red pepper flakes; cook for pot (off the heat). Add the soy sauce and some tender stems, if you like, and the rated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 190 mg sodium, Small handful basil, plus a few leaves 2 to 4 minutes, until the onion starts to toss to incorporate. basil. Add to the pot and toss gently to 7 g dietary fiber, 4 g sugar for optional garnish soften. Add the cabbage or coleslaw mix, Use a Microplane zester to grate about incorporate. WP-BLOOMBERG

China fashion exhibition is smash hit in NY

New York exhibition explor- that recent success has been spawned,” in the pattern on a 5th century BC bronze vessel. ing Chinese influence on explained Maxwell Hearn, head of the Western fashion has become Met’s Asian art department. From stomach ache to fashion A a summer smash-hit, attract- The exhibition opened on May 7, and The decoration on a 1950s Dior dress is inspired ing a record 670,000 visitors in a sign explores the impact of Chinese aesthet- by Chinese calligraphy drawn from a poem com- of China’s growing clout in America. ics on Western fashion and how China plaining about a stomach ache. Spread across 16 galleries, “China: has fueled the fashion imagination for China was also the theme of this year’s Met Ball, Through the Looking Glass,” is the centuries. which kicked off the exhibition and acts as the most visited show at the Metropolitan It juxtaposes some of the world’s Institute’s annual fundraiser, the most glittering Museum of Art’s Costume Institute finest haute couture with jewelry and event in New York high society. and has been extended for three weeks. works of Chinese art, focusing on “I think China is something everybody is inter- It broke the previous record set by a Imperial China, 1920-40s Shanghai and ested in,” Hearn told AFP. 2011 show celebrating the late British the People’s Republic of China. “To see how China has been an obsession, cer- designer Alexander McQueen, which Hearn attributes its phenomenal tainly a source of inspiration for centuries is some- went on display shortly after his tragic success to a unique creative collabora- thing that really comes across.” death, the museum said. tion between the fashion and Asian art After French and Spanish, Chinese is the most By the weekend, more than 670,000 departments. sought-after language at US secondary schools, he visitors had flocked to the China exhibi- There is a bamboo forest made out said. tion, compared to 661,509 for McQueen of plexiglass, a traditional Chinese gar- There is also a huge influx of Chinese tourists, who and has been extended until September den court has been transformed into want to see how China is represented in a Western 7, the Met announced. a moonlit pool where John Galliano museum, he added. “As China’s role politically and eco- dresses appear to float over the surface. The US Department of Commerce projects visitor nomically has grown on the world stage There is an array of cinematic clips. growth from China will increase by 172 percent to it’s very clear that people want to know The shoulders of an Yves Saint Laurent 3.1 million visitors by 2019. more about the culture out of which evening jacket have been picked out “For the Chinese to come here and see their cul- ture in the context of Asia and beyond, I think that’s why this show must be very interesting and even provocative for them,” Hearn said. “It’s showing them that China has had an histori- cal impact on the West.” The Costume Institute reopened last year, named after Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who has raised more than $125 million for the center since becoming trustee of the Met in 1999. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is New York’s most visited museum, welcoming 6.2 million people last year. “China: Through the Looking Glass” is so far the museum’s eighth most visited exhibition in history, a spokeswoman said. AFP THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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UK Prom concerts Pixelbybyby walk keep classic charm

LONDON: The London-based queue for the standing tickets. Proms are celebrating their “I saw the Proms as a child on 120th year and the world’s big- television so I’m quite excited to gest classical music festival be here,” said Leanne Schmidt, continues to draw in crowds from Yorkshire in northern by mixing top performers with England. accessible ticket prices. Daniela Cechova, a psychologist Star soloists and concert-goers from Slovakia’s capital Bratislava, alike hail the atmosphere at the brought her 15-year-old daughter BBC Promenade Concerts, with Nela. their quirks, traditions and sense “I wanted my daughter to expe- of occasion. rience the same experience I did Staged at the 5,500-capacity 15 years ago. I came three times Royal Albert Hall, the circular, in five days. It was breathtaking. domed 1870s Italianate master- The music and the building are piece in London, the eight-week fantastic,” she said. series of concerts are firmly Christian Holt, a Londoner, has entrenched in the British cultural been promming around 20 times, landscape. drawn by the “variety and quality” Part of their charm is the tra- of the concerts, plus the cheap dition of “Promming”: turning up tickets on the day of the concerts. on the day for the 1,350 standing He said: “The acoustics are OK. places costing £5 ($7.80). I’ve heard better. That’s the one “Prommers” can therefore thing I’m not massively keen on.” watch from right in front of the Naik Lashermes, 30, a orchestra. Frenchwoman living in London, byby “The good thing is that the best has gone Promming a dozen times position in the house is the cheap- in five years. est,” Lord of the Rings actor Ian “It’s the quality of the musi- McKellen said after a perform- cians, plus the fact that it’s vir- ance of interludes from Benjamin tually for free. It’s the ambience of Britten’s Peter Grimes. “Five a festival in the world of classical pounds, compared to 60 pounds music,” she said. where the Queen sits,” he said, The red-upholstered hall rises pointing to the boxes at the back. 135 feet from the arena floor, “It’s a whole reversal of the norm.” through the stalls, three tiers of Promming veterans and first- boxes, a circle and then the stand- timers alike form an orderly ing gallery at the top. The stage thrusts out into the arena. Some Prom-goers go straight from work with their briefcases, some don cocktail dresses for the occasion, while others wear t-shirts and baseball caps. Some stand arms folded, soak- ing in the music, while the more romantic types put arms around Members of the public walk across a projected display titled ‘Pixel Wave 2015’ during a media preview of the Singapore Night Festival 2015 yesterday. their partners. The festival will run from August 22 to 29 and includes installations, exhibitions and performances from local and international artists. AFP Thursday 20 August 2015 5 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 Volume 20 Number 6528 Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 India set to offer Siemens gets $520m Kahramaa order investments Company will deliver 18 turnkey substations; project to be completed in 2017 worth $160bn in

DOHA: Siemens, the global Kahramaa has chosen our field- installation, and commission- Al Sakhamah — which will feed of 2.20 metres, making it the renewable energy technology powerhouse, has proven and state-of-the-art prod- ing of 14 new substations for the power to various areas including smallest switchgear in the 380- won a €470m ($519.9m) deal ucts for Phase XII. We are working 400-kilovolt (kV), 132-kV, 66-kV, Lusail Metro Primary in Lusail kV (kilovolt) range. The 8DQ1 DOHA: India will host its from Qatar General Water very closely to support the expan- and 11-kV voltage levels, including City — is also part of the contract. GIS systems will be manufactured Second Renewable Energy & Electricity Corporation sion of Qatar’s power distribution switchgear, transformers, control Lusail City will be hosting the in Siemens’ switchgear plant in Global Investors Meet & Expo (Kahramaa). As part of the network with appropriate equip- and protection equipment, and inauguration and closing ceremo- Berlin, Germany. The transform- (RE – INVEST, 2016) in New national project to expand ment and solutions,” said Wolfgang the extension of four existing nies of the FIFA World Cup 2022. ers will be delivered from the Delhi from February 18 to 20, Qatar’s power distribution net- Braun, Senior Executive Vice- substations. All substations are required to transformer factory in Zagreb, 2016. The country is looking work, Siemens will deliver 18 President, Energy Management, The newly built 400-kV Bul supply power for ongoing infra- Croatia. for an estimated $160bn worth turnkey substations to sup- Siemens Middle East. “These are Hemmaid substation will be used structure development projects, Siemens will execute the order investments in the sector, ply power and help to cater for highly challenging infrastructure to transmit power from the inde- schools, hospitals, and residential as part of the ongoing Qatar including from Qatari investors. increasing electricity demand. projects in which a wide assort- pendent water and power plant complexes for the upcoming World Power Transmission System The RE-INVEST, scheduled Siemens’ technology is support- ment from our portfolio of prod- (IWPP) Facility-D into Qatar’s Cup and Qatar’s National Vision Expansion – Phase XII. Since to be inaugurated by India’s ing Kahramaa with continuous ucts and systems will be deployed. power grid. 2030. The substations are located the beginning of the program in Prime Minister Narendra Modi, improvements to its infrastruc- They are also highly demanding Facility-D, which will be fully in and around Doha. 2005, Siemens has installed more is being organised in partnership ture in order to meet the country’s in terms of project management, operational by 2017, will have a Siemens’ new 420-kV single- than 110 substations and approxi- with Indian Renewable Energy goals for a successful World Cup in because several systems will have power generation capacity of 2,400 break design 8DQ1 gas-insulated mately 1,400 km of high-voltage Development Agency (IREDA) 2022 and the Qatar Government’s to be constructed in parallel within megawatts (MW) and a desalina- switchgear (GIS) will be used for cable. Siemens has completed all and Solar Energy Corporation of vision for 2030. The completion of a very short time.” tion capacity of 130 million gallons the first time in Qatar. This sys- projects to date, totaling nearly India (SECI). In addition, India’s the project is scheduled for 2017. The order encompasses the a day (g/d) of water. Construction tem features a compact design €2bn, within the defined schedule. leading industrial and sector spe- “We are very proud that design, engineering, supply, of the 400-kV Super Substation and has a standard panel width THE PENINSULA cific associations and organisa- tions are closely associated with the event. The event is part of the country’s ‘Make in India ‘ initia- tive, Indian embassy said here yesterday. The central theme of the meet Hochtief ViCon bags is to attract large scale invest- ments in the renewable energy sector in India. It is the first major platform for investment promo- key Qatar BIM deals tion in the renewable energy sector at Government of India DOHA: Hochtief ViCon, one of the in Q4 of 2019. Recently, ViCon has been level to signal New Delhi’s com- leading service providers in the field awarded with another contract in the mitment to the development and of virtual construction and Building Metro project to offer BIM Services for up scaling of renewable energy Information Modeling (BIM), has the RLR JV — a consortium compris- for meeting its energy require- been awarded a contract to imple- ing Rizzani de Eccher of Italy, Korea’s ment in a sustainable manner. ment, manage and execute BIM Lotte Engineering & Construction, and RE-INVEST will enable the on the central section of the Inner Redco of Qatar. global investment community to Doha Re-sewerage Implementation The Red Line North EAG (Elevated connect with renewable energy Strategy (Idris MTS02). and At-Grade) running from a con- stakeholders in India. The contract was signed with the SHP nection with Lusail’s light-rail line to The event is expected to be joint venture consisting of Al Sraiya Msheireb via West Bay has an overall attended by investors, both Strabag for Roads and Infrastructure, length of 6.7km. The line includes two domestic and international. Hochtief Solutions ME and Petroserv, significant Doha Metro stations; Qatar Besides, representatives from the German company announced yes- University on the elevated section and India, renewable power devel- terday. ViCon will deliver BIM imple- the Lusail Center on the at-grade sec- opers and manufacturers, state mentation and management services for tion. The work on this metro project renewable energy nodal agencies the entire project duration supporting started by the end of 2014 and will take and other related stakeholders all construction phases. ViCon’s scope of over three years for completion. will also play an important role. A statue of ‘Android Marshmallow’, at Google headquarters in California. Google unveiled the nickname work will include a BIM Execution Plan ViCon’s scope of services on this The first edition of RE-INVEST for its next version of the Android operating system with a statue of Android Marshmallow. together with a BIM Modeling Strategy. project incorporates initial BIM imple- witnessed nearly 3,000 delegates BIM shall be used to support the proc- mentation documents consisting of an which included 119 exhibitors esses design coordination, scheduling implementation plan and the modeling from 41 countries. and progress monitoring and quantity guidelines. ViCon will coordinate the Google unveils WiFi router business India has set a target of install- take-offs. BIM introduction on the project and ing 175 GW of renewable capac- The construction of the 14.7km long initiate collaboration between the vari- ity by 2022. To achieve this target central tunnel section with related ous participants within the JV. Having SAN FRANCISCO: Google unveiled a OnHub, priced at $200 for online preorders there would be a requirement of a access and work shafts is part of gained experience from previous local WiFi router looking to increase the ease in the United States, is small and cylindrical, capital outlay of $120bn and equity Ashghal’s QR10bn key programme to metro projects in Qatar, the Metro and speed at which people’s increasingly and users can connect on Apple’s iPhones or of $40bn. The scaled up instal- provide a long-term wastewater treat- Green Line UG (Underground) and the indispensable smartphones and tablets con- its own Android devices. lation targets and the intent of ment solution and vital drainage infra- Metro Red Line South UG, ViCon surely nect at home with its services. It is due in stores in the United States and creating conducive manufactur- structure for the southern parts of is the right choice for the JV to deliver The Internet giant touted OnHub, a part- Canada in the coming weeks. The home router ing environment under the ‘Make Doha. The main trunk sewer divided the desired BIM outcome. nership with TP-LINK networking product even lets users prioritise which device gets the in India’ initiative has opened in three construction sections will be In Qatar, HOCHTIEF ViCon is manufacturer, as a “different kind of router fastest connection speed. up immense opportunities for approximately 45km long, with inter- involved in the creation of Lusail for a new way to WiFi.” Smart devices — from heating and cooling investment in Renewable Energy nal diametres ranging from 3 to 4.5 City. The company as also involved in “Instead of headaches and spotty connec- system regulators to fire and security alarms in India. FDI up to 100 percent metres, and depths ranging from 20 to the pre-construction phase of Barwa tions, OnHub gives you Wi-Fi that’s fast, — are a booming business. under the automatic route is 55 metres. The project will start in Q3 Commercial Avenue. secure, and easy to use,” Google said in a Google last year bought Nest for more permitted in Renewable Energy of 2015, and is expected to be completed THE PENINSULA blog post. than $3bn. AFP Sector. THE PENINSULA Germany, Netherlands back bailout BERLIN/ATHENS/ the first tranche of funds under the Tsipras government would abstained. Support from parties AMSTERDAM: The German the new Greek programme. stick to its promises. including the Social Democrats, and Dutch parliaments In Athens, Prime Minister Nevertheless, he urged the Merkel’s junior coalition part- approved a third bailout for Alexis Tsipras and his inner circle Bundestag before the vote to back ner, and the opposition Greens Greece yesterday after Finance debated whether to take on anti- the new package which offers ensured the approval. However, Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble bailout rebels in his own radical bailout loans worth €86bn. “Of the rebellion delivered a blow to said the country should get left Syriza party by calling a par- course, after the experience of Merkel’s authority. “a new start”, while in Athens liamentary confidence vote or to the last years and months there The Netherlands endorsed the government agonised over go straight to early elections. is no guarantee that everything a third bailout for Greece on whether to call a snap election. Popular misgivings about will work and it is permissible to Wednesday as both the cabinet The Bundestag vote cleared one more aid for Athens run deep in have doubts,” he said. and parliament approved the step of the final obstacles to Greece Germany, the eurozone country “But in view of the fact that after a bruising debate in which getting funding so that it can which has already contributed the Greek parliament has already Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s make a €3.2bn debt repayment to most to Greece’s two previous passed a large part of the meas- credibility was challenged. the European Central Bank today. bailouts since 2010. But Tsipras ures it would be irresponsible to Although a majority in parlia- But a sizeable number of con- secured the third programme not use the opportunity for a new ment supported the bailout, it is servative lawmakers rebelled by promising to impose reform start in Greece,” he said, making unpopular with Dutch taxpayers, against Chancellor Angela and austerity policies that are so the case for the government. especially Rutte’s own conserva- Merkel, objecting to pouring yet onerous that a sizeable number The Bundestag, whose back- tive base, just as in Germany. more billions into Greece. of Syriza lawmakers rejected the ing is essential for the release Rutte was left explaining why The Dutch parliament also gave deal in parliament last Friday. of bailout funds, approved the he had reversed course on a its blessing to the Greek rescue, Schaeuble, who took a tough plan by 454 votes to 113, with pledge he gave during his success- German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right) talks with German Vice-Chancellor, while the board of the eurozone’s negotiating stand with Greece as 18 abstentions. Altogether 63 of ful 2012 election campaign that he Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel during a debate on Greece bailout fund was holding a tel- it came close to financial collapse, the 311 conservative members would give “not one more cent for bailout at German lower house of parliament in Berlin yesterday. econference to approve disbursing admitted he wasn’t sure whether voted against and a further three Greece.” REUTERS THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS China FDI up China stocks go on wild 5.2pc in July ride as gloom deepens on mergers, acquisitions Central bank offers more funds to prop up banks BEIJING: Foreign investment into China rose 5.2 percent in SHANGHAI/BEIJING: economic news heighten their anx- medium-term funds to banks, in July compared to the previ- Chinese stock markets took a iety over the world’s second-largest addition to a 120bn yuan ($19bn) ous year, largely on the back wild ride yesterday, tumbling and economy. injection of funds into money mar- of mergers and acquisitions by soaring in a session that made “We advise strapping in for a kets on Tuesday. overseas firms, the commerce little sense other than to high- bumpy ride,” said Tim Condon, The central bank confirmed ministry said yesterday. light that investors have almost head of Asia research for ING later in the day it lent 110bn yuan Overall foreign direct invest- no faith in a month-long govern- Bank in Singapore. of six-month cash to help maintain ment (FDI), which excludes ment effort to stabilise them. The Commerce Ministry added sufficient liquidity in the market. financial sectors, was $8.22bn The Shanghai and Shenzhen to that anxiety yesterday, saying Sources familiar with the medium- last month, the ministry said, and markets fell 3 percent in morn- exports could continue falling in term funding plan said this would $76.63bn in the first seven months ing trade, taking their losses to coming months, after an 8.3 per- help offset the drain on liquid- of the year, a 7.9 percent increase. more than 8 percent since inves- cent plunge in July, their biggest ity caused by China’s unexpected “The amount and the propor- tors stampeded without warning drop in four months. devaluation of the yuan last week. tion of foreign capital mergers on Tuesday. The economy is already under The prospect of further weaken- and acquisitions rose sharply But state-backed buyers later threat of deflation and policymak- ing has prompted investors to swap between January and July,” it said rushed in, enabling stocks to fin- ers are struggling to revive bricks- yuan into US dollars. in a statement. ish the day more than 1 percent and-mortar investment. Beijing’s Capital outflows from China are The proportion of M&A activ- higher. It is a pattern that has official growth target is 7 percent expected to increase as investors ity in FDI rose to 18.2 percent in been repeated several times since for this year, but some economists grow more pessimistic over the the January-July period, it added, Beijing’s “national team”, a coa- estimate current levels are closer outlook for the currency and the up from 4.6 percent in the same lition of state-backed financial to half that. economy, and calls are growing for seven months a year ago. China’s institutions and regulators, went Combined exports and imports the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) outbound overseas direct invest- into action early last month with for the first seven months of to roll out support measures more ment (ODI) last month was instructions to halt a crash in 2015 fell 7.2 percent from the swiftly and aggressively to shore $7.5bn, a sharp decline of 18.6 share prices. same period last year, compared up growth. percent compared to a year ear- Investors say China’s stock mar- with Beijing’s full-year target of Highlighting growing anxi- lier and the second consecutive kets — which were never for the 6 percent growth. “The possibil- ety, money-market interest rates monthly fall after one of 15.5 per- faint of heart — have become dys- ity of exports to see year-on-year ticked higher yesterday, despite the cent in June, the ministry said. functional since the government’s decline in some months could fresh fund injections from the cen- Commerce ministry spokes- massive and unprecedented rescue not be ruled out. But we will still tral bank. The weighted average man Shen Danyang attributed the effort. see export growth for the whole benchmark seven-day repurchase drops to a high comparative base. Prices move sharply on specu- year,” Commerce Ministry spokes- agreement rate rose four basis “There were several big-ticket lation about the national team’s man Shen Danyang told a regular points to 2.53 percent. ODI projects in June and July last A passenger gets out of a taxi as an ongoing building construction is seen activities as investors focus on monthly briefing. “For the whole The PBOC devalued the cur- year,” he told reporters, adding from a distance in Beijing yesterday. China’s economy is under close watch making quick trading profits by year, the foreign trade will face rency on Aug. 11, within a few that there were no similarly large pre-empting its next move. more severe situation than we days of the poor July export data as stock market shares witnessed roller-coaster ride yesterday. deals in those months this year. Late in the afternoon, a slew of expected.” and other official figures showing “Many ODI projects were in companies announced state funds Only last month, the ministry factory-gate prices continued their The yuan has fallen 3 percent 6.40 now. The devaluation last week the energy and oil sectors in the had bought stakes in them, which predicted exports would improve three-year slide in July, touching a against the dollar since the eve of triggered falls in other Asian cur- past,” he added. “Investors this investors took as a sign that the in the second half of this year from six-year low. the devaluation, but that marks rencies such as those of Australia, year have been taking a wait- government was signalling its con- the first half. A week later, the central bank only a partial reversal of its gains New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore and-see stance due to the slumps tinued support for the market. As The Shanghai market closed up is still struggling to control the over the past 12 months, especially and Taiwan, fuelling fears of a cur- in prices of oil and minerals and of early evening, around 20 firms 1.2 percent and Shenzhen jumped fallout. Though it insists the yuan against currencies of major trading rency war. other international commodities.” had made such announcements. 2.2 percent. The benchmark has no reason to fall further, most partners Japan and the euro zone. Yesterday, Vietnam devalued Full year ODI growth is still Long-term investors are stay- CSI300 index, comprising blue- economists believe there is politi- Bank of America Merrill Lynch the dong for the third time this expected to be 10-15 percent or ing well to the sidelines, moving chip stocks from both markets, cal pressure to let it slowly slide, said on Wednesday the yuan could year as authorities sought to sup- “even higher”, he said. their cash into bonds and the rose 1.6 percent. which will put more competitive be allowed to depreciate to 6.5 to port a languid export sector facing ODI in the January-July period money market, as roller-coaster The rebound followed news the pressure on China’s export-reliant the dollar by the end of this year fresh challenges from the Chinese rose 20.8 percent year-on-year to markets and a gloomy stream of central bank would offer more Asian neighbours. and 6.9 by end 2016, from around devaluation. REUTERS $63.5bn. AFP

Norway fund Platts mulls oil liquidity, may add Saudi crude exports posts first negative return Qatari grades to Dubai basket rise in June: JODI data SINGAPORE: Oil pricing process close to 5 million bpd and transfers to increase liquidity, DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s crude 2.423 million bpd in May, the agency Platts is looking at PetroChina nearly 3 million bpd, said Jonty Rushforth, editorial oil exports rose by 430,000 bar- JODI data showed. since 2012 approving more Middle East they said. “The key issue is the director for Asia and Middle East rels per day (bpd) in June, while Crude oil directly burnt by crude grades to boost liquidity benchmark’s liquidity,” a North oil markets. oil used by the country’s power Saudi Arabia to generate power OSLO: The world’s biggest sov- in the daily assessment of Asia’s Asian crude trader said. “We keep The company has started sector surged to its highest surged to 894,000 bpd in June ereign wealth fund, Norway’s Dubai benchmark, company hitting new records, it shows that accepting the delivery of Upper in almost a year, official data from 677,000 bpd in May. Exports public pension fund, reported executives said yesterday. we have hit the limit.” Zakum via STS transfer from an showed yesterday. of refined oil products in June fell yesterday its first negative Monthly volumes have twice hit Platts said it is looking at add- Aframax tanker in Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia ramped up its to 1.008 million bpd, from 1.318 quarterly return in three years, records in the past year, raising ing new grades into the Dubai and that could add 2-3 cargoes crude production to a record in million bpd a month earlier. pulled down by the bond mar- concerns that cargoes that can mechanism, including Qatar’s al- this month, the executives said. June, reaffirming its strategy The kingdom’s rapid transition ket. The fund posted a -0.9 per- be delivered over Platts’ pricing Shaheen and Qatar Marine, Abu “We are happy to review other of defending market share and into one of the largest oil refiners cent return. mechanism may have hit an upper Dhabi’s Murban and Iraq’s Basra ships (for STS loadings) at other feeding a rise in global as well as adds an extra dimension to global Bonds, which represent 34.5 limit. Also, record daily Dubai Light. Approving any one of the locations,” Rushforth said. domestic demand. oil markets. State oil giant Saudi percent of its investment port- crude trades by two Chinese crudes would add between 200,000 Platts is still in discussions The world’s biggest crude Aramco has stakes in more than folio, yielded a negative return of state companies this month have bpd and 2 million bpd to the Dubai with key market participants and exporter shipped 7.365 million 5 million bpd of refining capacity, 2.2 percent in the second quarter pushed the benchmark higher, basket volume. “Qatar Marine stakeholders about the changes, bpd in June, up from 6.935 mil- at home and abroad, landing it a said Norway’s central bank, which even as other grades are pressed and al-Shaheen are strong con- which could be implemented lion bpd in May, figures published place among the global leaders in manages the fund. lower by a global glut. tenders to be added to the Dubai “relatively soon”, he said, without by the Joint Organisations Data making oil products. “The return on fixed-income Output of Dubai, Oman and mechanism as they are very good providing a timeline. Initiative (JODI) showed. JODI compiles data supplied by investments was affected by an Upper Zakum — the grades fits,” said Dave Ernsberger, global To speed up trade, Platts also Saudi Arabia burns higher oil-producing members of global increase in yields in the fund’s approved for delivery during the oil director at Platts. said it is looking at cutting in half crude volumes to generate power bodies including the International main markets,” fund direc- Platts Market on Close (MoC) Platts previously had talks with the time a company has to make for air-conditioning during the Energy Agency and the Opec. tor Yngve Slyngstad said in a process — is 1.6 million barrels customers in 2011 over the addi- a subsequent bid or offer, making hot summer months. It has Saudi Arabia’s crude produc- statement. per day (bpd) but the volume that tion of Qatar Marine to the Dubai it 30 seconds instead of a minute. also been feeding more crude to tion for June stood at 10.564 mil- As of June 30, at the end of a can be freely traded is about 1.2 basket due to worries about Oman Platts, part of McGraw Hill domestic refineries as it expands lion bpd, up from 10.333 million quarter that Slyngstad called “rel- million bpd, traders said. supply disruption, but nothing Financial Inc, competes with oil product exports, though such bpd in May. The kingdom told atively calm,” the fund was worth That is far smaller in compari- was implemented. Thomson Reuters in provid- plants refined less in June. Opec it trimmed production by 6.89 trillion kroner ($830.6bn). son with even just China’s refining Platts is also looking at more ing news and information to the Domestic refineries processed 200,000 bpd to 10.36 million bpd Stocks, which account for 62.8 throughput as Sinopec alone can locations for ship-to-ship (STS) energy markets. REUTERS 2.099 million bpd, down from in July. REUTERS percent of its portfolio, registered a negative return of 0.2 percent, while real estate investments, which account for 2.7 percent of the portfolio, saw their value rise by two percent. “On the equity Fed sees conditions for rate hike ‘approaching’ Apple to control side, US stocks pulled down the result,” Slyngstad said. The fund receives its invest- WASHINGTON: The Federal have had limited implications UAE stores ment money from Norway’s Reserve saw US economic con- to date for the growth outlook DUBAI: Apple Inc has been huge oil and gas revenues and is ditions “approaching” the point in China, several participants granted an exemption from intended to pay for future gen- of being able to weather an noted that a material slowdown in foreign ownership laws in the erations in the welfare-state after increase in near-zero interest Chinese economic activity could United Arab Emirates that the country’s oil wells run dry. rates at July’s policy meeting, a pose risks to the US economic will allow it 100 percent control Among the biggest transactions Fed report said yesterday. outlook,” the minutes said. of operations in the country, during the second quarter, the Fed officials saw slack in the The FOMC, as widely expected, according to two people with fund invested 17.9bn in a 45 per- job market and worried about held unchanged at the July meet- knowledge of the matter. cent stake in a portfolio of indus- China’s economic slowdown as ing the Fed’s benchmark federal The dispensation was a condi- trial properties spread across the they considered raising borrow- funds rate at the zero level, where tion for the world’s largest listed US. The Norwegian state deposited ing costs for the first time in it has been pegged since late 2008 company to set up in the UAE, 12bn kroner into the fund’s coffers more than nine years, according to help support the US economy’s the people said. Apple will open in the second quarter, a sign that to the minutes of the July 28-29 The US Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC. recovery from the severe 2008- its first Middle East store in oil prices rebounded compared to Federal Open Market Committee 2009 recession. Dubai this year and then Abu the three months of the year, when (FOMC) meeting. “Most judged A series of mixed US economic Dhabi after securing the privi- it deposited just five billion. that the conditions for policy but “several” officials noted economic reasons.” The slowdown indicators since the meeting has leges, according to the people. Those deposits remain much firming had not yet been achieved, that “some noticeable margins in China, the world’s second-big- clouded the outlook for a rate Under local regulations, all lower than the quarterly average but they noted that conditions of slack remained, citing as evi- gest economy, and a bout of finan- hike. Fed Chair Janet Yellen has businesses operating in the UAE of 60bn kroner over the past 10 were approaching that point,” the dence the high number of work- cial turmoil as Chinese equities said it was on track for some- must be 51 percent owned by years. This is the first time the minutes said. ers not actively searching for jobs tumbled, also troubled Fed policy time this year. Some experts say Emiratis or a company wholly fund has registered a negative Participants at the meeting but available and interested in makers, the minutes showed. a September rate hike is likely owned by them unless they are return since the second quarter generally agreed that job mar- work as well as the high share of “While the recent Chinese because the economy overall looks based in free-zones. of 2012. AFP ket conditions had improved, employees working part time for stock market decline seemed to strong enough. AFP BLOOMBERG THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

Protest against nickel export canal Brazilian Vodafone, Airtel exports to get licence for Qatar grow by 28.89pc

DOHA: Brazil exported $5.79bn payment banks worth of products to the region during the first half of 2015. Exports to Qatar grew signifi- India picks 11 firms for niche banks cantly at 28.89 percent from $152m in the H1 of 2014 to $195m MUMBAI: Leading mobile a full-service permit and plans to over the same period in 2015. phone network operators Bharti start the bank from October. The UAE presented an increase Airtel Ltd and Vodafone India The country’s postal office, and a of 7.91 per cent to $1.289bn in 2015 are among the 11 companies joint venture of Aditya Birla Nuvo from 2014’s $1.194bn. Saudi Arabia selected by the Reserve Bank of Ltd and third largest Indian cell- was at the second place with an India (RBI) to help set up “pay- phone carrier Idea Cellular were 8.93 percent increase in its imports ments banks”, aimed at granting among others selected by the RBI. from Brazil to $1.29bn in 2015 from millions of citizens access to basic Nationwide retail store network $1.18bn in 2014. Exports to Egypt, banking. of telecoms carriers including Algeria, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait Energy-to-telecoms conglom- Bharti Airtel — whose minority touched $915m, $484m, $303m, erate Reliance Industries Ltd, partner in the planned payments $169m, and $111m, respectively. controlled by India’s richest man bank is lender Kotak Mahindra Top exported products from Mukesh Ambani, which plans to set — and Vodafone’s Indian unit are Trucks blocking the Belle Vie roundabout in France’s Noumea yesterday. Truck drivers blocked the dif- Brazil to the Arab Nations were up a payments bank in a partner- expected to help drive their pay- ferent roundabouts leading to the city with 30-tonne trucks on the 15th day of protests against the gov- meat; sugar; ores, slag and ash; and ship with top lender State Bank of ments bank operations. Both ernment concerning the opening of a nickel ore export canal to China. cereals. Meats generated revenues India, was also among the winners. carriers welcomed the central of $1.85bn in H1 of 2015, an increase Payments banks will be able to bank move. Fino PayTech Ltd of 2.75 percent from $1.80bn for take deposits and remittances but and Cholamandalam Distribution the same period in 2014. Sugar, on will not be allowed to lend. They Services Ltd, which already work the other hand, earned $1.27bn, are part of India’s financial inclu- with banks as agents or distribute followed by ores, slag and ash col- sion push, meant to bring banking financial products were also given Japan’s trade deficit narrows lectively worth $757m. Cereals services to a country where less provisional approval. Fino PayTech garnered $160m. Other products half the adult population has a bank has planned more than Rs3bn included machinery; iron and steel account. The aim is for payments investment in the payments bank products; and spices, coffee and banks to piggy-back on existing and aims it to break even in three but export volumes stumble tea, Arab-Brazilian Chamber of retail or other networks. Analysts years, its CEO Rishi Gupta said. Commerce said yesterday. also expect them to be technology- The companies selected will be TOKYO: Japan’s trade deficit stimulus as Tokyo’s “Abenomics” raised a red flag. China’s central “This export performance rein- driven although they must have a given “in-principle” approval for 18 narrowed a less-than-expected growth blitz stumbles. bank devalued the yuan last week, forces the already thriving trade physical presence. months, after which they will be 72.3 percent in July from a year Imports fell 3.2 percent last sparking concern the economy is relations between the region “We see this licence as an oppor- given licences if they fulfil all con- ago, as the cost of energy imports month as weak commodity prices growing more slowly than thought and Brazil, which is further tunity to promote financial inclusion ditions stipulated by the RBI, the kept falling, but the volume of helped bring down the country’s and prompting fears it could start strengthened with the support of by providing banking and transac- central bank said yesterday. exports stumbled, official data energy bill, which soared after it a currency war in which countries the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of tion services to unbanked, under- A total of 41 companies had showed yesterday. had to replace nuclear power with compete to boost exports by cutting Commerce. Throughout the H1 of banked and small businesses,” said applied for the permit, the RBI said, The finance ministry said Japan’s pricey fossil fuels in the aftermath the value of their units. 2015, we have facilitated business Arundhati Bhattacharya, chairman adding “some of the entities who monthly deficit came in at 268.05bn of the Fukushima nuclear crisis. Japan’s still-struggling trade pic- meetings and travel opportunities of SBI, which will have a 30 percent did not qualify in this round, could yen ($2.15b), well below 966.5bn yen While the value of Japan’s ture was highlighted in the GDP for traders from the Arab Nations stake in the planned bank. well be successful in future rounds.” a year earlier, although economists exports rose 7.6 percent, partly data this week, as the economy to Brazil, enabling them to explore Dilip Shanghvi, the second- Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder had predicted the shortfall would driven by rising vehicle ship- shrank 0.4 percent in the three further possibilities for expanding richest Indian, was also among of mobile wallet services provider shrink to around 53bn yen. ments, the volume of goods slipped months to June — or 1.6 percent on trading ties. We are upbeat that those who won a permit. His com- Paytm that is partly owned by The lacklustre data come two 0.7 percent from the same month an annualised basis. The contrac- the momentum will be sustained pany Dilip Shanghvi Family and Alibaba’s Ant Financial, was also days after separate figures showed last year. And despite a recovery tion, which was not quite as bad throughout the current year,” Associates will partner Norway’s selected. India’s fifth-biggest soft- that the world’s third-biggest in the US economy, a slowdown as expected, was blamed on weak said Dr Michel Alaby, Secretary Telenor and Indian financial firm ware exporter Tech Mahindra was economy contracted last quarter, in neighbouring China — Asia’s consumer spending at home and General and CEO, Arab-Brazilian IDFC Ltd for the planned pay- also named among the winners. boosting speculation the central top economy and a major mar- slowing exports after two consecu- Chamber of Commerce. ments bank. IDFC previously won REUTERS bank will be forced to unleash more ket for Japanese exporters — has tive quarters of growth. AFP THE PENINSULA Etisalat says no voting rights for foreign shareholders

DUBAI: Etisalat will not to Abu Dhabi’s bourse said. second-quarter revenue. extend voting rights to for- Given other attractions of the Three government-related eign investors when the United stock, that restriction should not funds own 80 percent of rival Arab Emirates’ former telecom deter foreign buyers, one analyst operator du’s shares. The remain- monopoly opens up its shares said. “Even if they were allowed der is held by individual investors to non-UAE investors, it said to vote the government owns a and UAE-controlled institutions. yesterday. majority stake and so will be in Consequently, Etisalat will Government-run Etisalat is charge,” said Shrouk Diab, an be the sole means for non-UAE worth nearly twice as much as Assistant Vice President at NBK companies to get exposure to the the second biggest listed UAE Capital in Dubai. UAE’s telecom sector. company, but its publicly-traded “Etisalat’s stable dividend pol- The federal government, shares can only be owned by UAE icy is attractive to investors and which owns 60 percent of nationals and all institutions are the company is also a play on the Etisalat through fund Emirates excluded. UAE economy.” Investment Authority (EIA), In June, Etisalat said it would Etisalat will likely be included will also be issued with a ‘special loosen these rules to permit for- in MSCI’s emerging market index share’, the statement said. eign and institutional investors after foreign share ownership is This will grant it veto rights to buy shares, and yesterday it permitted, and its weighting on over key decisions, including provided further details after the MSCI will also probably be too changes to share capital, rights reforms were approved by the big for funds tracking the index attached to shares, any merger cabinet. Non-UAE investors will to ignore. approval and allowing the gov- be allowed to own up to 20 per- The firm has operations in 19 ernment’s stake to fall below cent of Etisalat’s shares, the com- countries in the Middle East, 51 percent. Etisalat will also pany reiterated, but will not be Africa and Asia. The UAE convert to a public joint stock granted voting rights, a statement accounted for 57 percent of company. REUTERS

Vietnam economy growing at 6.42pc

Labourers work at a foreign-owned company which produces car and motorcycle parts in Vinh Yen city, outside Hanoi, yesterday. Vietnam’s economy may post an annual growth of 6.42 percent in the third quarter ending September, barely changed from the previous period’s 6.44 percent. THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Cathay Pacific H1 profit up nearly six-fold Shrares fall to nine-month low on missed estimates

HONG KONG: Hong Kong of 2015.” Passenger yield, which is Beijing’s central bank shocked flag carrier Cathay Pacific said the average fare paid by a passen- financial markets by devaluing its yesterday first-half profit rose ger per mile, fell 9.3 percent for currency last week, sending the almost sixfold from a year earlier, the period. “Strong competition, yuan plunging by the most in over helped by lower fuel prices, but a significant reduction in fuel sur- two decades and raising concerns shares fell to a nine-month low as charges, foreign currency move- fewer Chinese will travel abroad. the result missed expectations. ments and the fact that a higher “We have always believed in the Net profit in the six months proportion of passengers were China outbound (travel) story, we through June rose to HK$1.97bn connecting through Hong Kong think the story is going to continue. ($254m) from HK$347m in the put downward pressure on yield,” The short-term (currency) fluctua- same period last year, helped by a Slosar said. tion is not going to upset the fun- slump in world oil prices that cut Cathay shares fell more than damentals,” Cathay’s CEO Ivan Chu fuel costs by over a third. eight percent in the southern said. Still, Cathay said passenger But around half of the HK$7.08bn Chinese city’s bourse after the numbers grew by 8.8 percent to 16.8 gain was offset by losses from oil result, their lowest intraday point million in the first half compared to hedging, and profits missed the since November. They closed down the same period last year. HK$2.22bn median estimate of 7.68 percent at HK$15.38 per share, The airline’s capacity — the total six analysts polled by Bloomberg while the benchmark Hang Seng number of passengers it could theo- News. Revenue for the period fell Index finished the day 1.31 percent retically carry — was also up 6.4 0.9 percent to HK$50.39bn while lower. “I found the results to be percent compared to the same passenger yield, a key measure of pretty disappointing. The passenger period last year, helped by new profitability, also dropped. yield decline has been much big- routes, while air cargo capacity “The group’s performance in the ger than expected,” airlines analyst increased by 8.9 percent. first six months of 2015 was con- Daniel Tsang said. A fall in fuel prices and a rise siderably better than in the same “I think the yield will continue to in the number of flights that are period in 2014,” Cathay Pacific come under intense pressure in the filled to capacity means airlines are chairman John Slosar said in a second half given the yuan devalu- expected to make collective profits statement filed to the Hong Kong ation, which will affect the average of $29.3bn in 2015, the International stock exchange. “We expect our return Cathay manages to get from Air Transport Association said in John Slosar, chairman of Cathay Pacific, speaks during a news conference on the company’s interim results in business to do well in the remainder the Chinese market,” Tsang said. June. AFP Hong Kong, yesterday. Uber India New start-ups want to become the ‘African Netflix’ eyes a million PARIS: A crop of new tech Pascal Lechevallier, a new media other subscription services such million people,” said Bakang. smartphones in Africa is set to entrepreneurs from Africa and specialist. as Kenya’s BuniTV and South Afrostream got support from double in the next two years to rides, gets its diaspora are hoping to bridge One new venture is Afrostream, Africa’s Africa Magic Go. French telecom giant Orange and more than 350 million subscrib- the continent’s growing middle founded by African descendants “It’s good news — the more is currently raising cash at the ers, the rarity of high-speed class and booming film indus- in France in 2013, which has a players there are, the quicker the renowned San Francisco start-up Internet access remains a brake Tata funding try in a quest to become the catalogue of around 50 films and market will establish itself,” said hub, Y Combinator. on the spread of VOD services. “African Netflix”. a dozen series such as “Before 30” Bakang, adding that he ultimately With elegant, easy-to-use Punching credit card details into MUMBAI: Taxi-hailing serv- On its own, the Nigerian — a kind of Lagos take on “Sex wants to fund his own produc- websites and the latest video- a website, meantime, is not yet ice Uber Technologies Inc said cinema industry — known as and the City”. tions “in the style of HBO”. playing technology, these new the norm in many parts of the it plans to average more than 1 Nollywood — generated $4.1bn in “Today, all the VOD platforms Afrostream has already services have nothing to envy in continent. million rides a day in India over revenue and produced 2,000 films look alike. They all have the same attracted 2,000 subscribers comparison with their Western There is also the threat that the next six to nine months, last year, whetting the appetites content,” said Tonje Bakang, ahead of its launch in September. competitors. the big hitters could muscle in at as it steps up investment in its of Internet video-on-demand one of Afrostream’s co-found- It has focused its marketing on But they still face a number of any time. business to take on local rival (VOD) companies. ers, who was born in France to Senegal and Ivory Coast, and challenges, not least of which is Netflix aims to be available Ola. They hope to move the business Cameroonian parents. their French-speaking diaspora their heavy reliance on Nollywood, everywhere in the world by 2016, The company currently aver- online — away from its usual outlet He argues that success will in Europe, but has big plans for which means they may struggle and France’s Canalplay has made ages about 200,000 trips a day of street hawkers flogging pirate come from taking a different expansion. to meet the varied tastes of 54 Africa a strategic priority. in India, according to industry DVDs for a couple of dollars — approach to the big players like “Although the European mar- African countries. “Nigeria might “With a budget of $5bn for sources. By comparison, rival Ola, making it more readily accessible Netflix and Amazon. Competition, ket remains important for us have a real film and TV industry, acquiring rights, Netflix can say: backed by Japan’s Softbank, says to the estimated 300 million peo- however, is already fierce. with 15 million African descend- but it’s far from the case every- ‘I will set aside $100m for African it clocks more than 750,000 a day ple in Africa’s middle class. “With Nigeria’s iRokoTV, which is ants and 10 million more fans of where,” said Jean-Michel Huet, films’ if they see that the market and expects to hit 1 million this such a huge potential customer well-established across the con- ‘afro’ culture, we know that the an emerging markets specialist at works,” said Lechevallier. month. base, it’s not surprising that these tinent, pioneered the sector in real market is in Africa, where consultancy Bearing Point. “And then the new platforms Uber India also said yesterday start-ups are emerging,” said 2010 before being followed by there’s a middle class of 300 And while the number of won’t be able to compete.” AFP that its US-based parent had received fresh investment from Tata Opportunities Fund, a pri- vate equity fund linked to India’s Tata Capital. The companies did not disclose the amount, but a source close to the matter said Ghost airports highlight risks it was between $75m and $100m. Uber has said it will invest $1bn in India in the next nine months, matching its investments in as Indian govt spends to grow China. The investment by the Tata JAISALMER: Two-and-a-half fund is separate from that years after the completion of a amount, Uber India President new $17m terminal building, the India air travel Amit Jain said. airport in Jaisalmer, a small and “India is a strategic market for remote desert city in Rajasthan, Uber worldwide,” Jain said. “You stands empty. India is racing to build new airports to improve connectivity will see us expand our operations. Not a single passenger has to its regions and capitalise on a boom in air travel. Getting into more cities, roll- passed through the gates of an ing our more products that are airport big enough to handle more TOTAL DOMESTIC AIR PASSENGERS focused towards India,” he said. than 300,000 travellers a year, with The company has already parking bays for three 180-seater introduced options like uberGO narrow-body jets. 80 million in India, where commuters can India has spent more than $50m opt for hatchbacks that are more since 2009 on eight airports that 60.7 million affordable. It also accepts on-the- do not receive scheduled flights — spot cash and card payments in white elephants that are a reminder 60 some cities, a variance from its of the pitfalls for Prime Minister usual online-payment model. Narendra Modi as he bets on an Uber’s Indian drive comes on infrastructure drive to fuel growth. the heels of Ola’s announcement India’s main hubs, meanwhile, 40 of its own aggressive push in the are bursting at the seams, slowing country. airlines’ ability to expand in a vast In April the Bengaluru-based country where they should be sup- startup raised $400m from inves- porting economic growth. 20 tors led by Russian billionaire “They (the government) need Yuri Milner’s DST Global. to realise it’s not a case of ‘build Ola, which is valued at around the airport and we will come’,” 0 $2.5bn, plans to double the said Sanjiv Kapoor, chief operating 2006/07 2013/14 number of cities it operates in to officer at SpiceJet Ltd. The private 200 in this fiscal year. sector airline last year ceased flying Source: DGCA, Ministry of Civil Aviation Uber is currently in about 18 to a new airport in Mysore because cities — making India its second- of insufficient demand. pledged Rs27bn ($413m) for four data shows, though some are older TOP: The exterior view of arrival lounges at the Jaisalmer Airport. ABOVE: biggest behind the United States, India’s ghost terminals were new airports in the impoverished airports designed primarily for Dust covered seats are seen inside the lounge. in terms of number of cities. built largely by the previous gov- state of Bihar, which holds elections chartered planes. The AAI did not Jain did not give any specific ernment, which planned 200 ‘no this year. respond to requests for comment. targets regarding cities, but said frills’ airports, encouraged by rising “The AAI (Airports Authority traffic from the gateways. nearest functioning airport is 290 Uber was looking at “significant air travel and the need to connect of India) has invested in some air- More pigeons than people In the huge sunlit expanse of km away. Airlines are not so sure. expansion” in the country. far-flung regions. But the empty ports without any economic logic,” The rush to build comes as pas- Jaisalmer’s new arrivals lounge, SpiceJet’s Kapoor said demand was Uber, which operates in about check-in desks and cavernous bag- said Kapil Kaul, Delhi-based chief senger numbers grow 20 percent two disused baggage conveyor belts linked to Jaisalmer’s cooler winter 60 countries and is worth an esti- gage halls highlight the risks for executive at consultancy Centre for a year, to 38.8 million in the first gathered dust last week as pigeons months, making it tough to lure mated $40bn Modi, too, of catering to powerful Aviation (CAPA). half of 2015, leaving India’s major nested in the roof. A group of clean- enough passengers. Officials at . However, it has run into trou- regional bosses and spending with- “Every state government wants airports, which account for four- ers sat next to the taxiway listening GoAir and IndiGo said they had no ble with transport authorities out a unifying strategy. to have a big airport, but you have fifths of traffic, saturated. to music on their mobile phones. plans to start flights. across the world. China’s investment splurge has to look at it from a national per- Plans for a second hub in finan- “You should come here on your own. Analysts said the government In India, it has been at odds left dozens of similar ghost projects. spective and say where do we need cial capital Mumbai are years It’s scary,” said the airport’s chief would need to cut landing charges with officials in New Delhi, where The civil aviation ministry declined airports, where is the demand and behind schedule while the govern- engineer. or provide funding to entice carri- the government banned its serv- to comment on whether Modi’s the growth coming from?” he said. ment has struggled to privatise four SK Singh, the local AAI direc- ers. “If that too doesn’t work, it’s ices after an Uber driver was government would stick with the Across India, more than half of large airports to fund their expan- tor, defended the airport, saying better to lock up the airport and accused of rape in December. A 200 airport growth plan. But the the 100-odd domestic-only airports sion. This means airlines cannot Jaisalmer 1 famed for its huge sand- redeploy staff,” said Amber Dubey, court revoked the ban this month. incentive to grow in less-developed operated by AAI have not seen a widen their networks to places coloured 12th century fort — has a an aviation expert at KPMG. REUTERS regions remains: on Tuesday, Modi scheduled flight this year, official like Jaisalmer dependent on feeder growing tourist industry, and the REUTERS THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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aYESTERDAY’S ANSWER THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 F1: Hamilton revved up for a new start in Spa The summer break is over for the Formula One family

LONDON: The holidays are over and Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton faces a new start as the second half of the season revs up at Belgium’s Spa-Francorchamps circuit this Britain’s F1 weekend. driver Lewis The rules have been tweaked, meaning drivers on the starting Hamilton grid can no longer be assisted celebrates over the radio by data-crunching his win after engineers to find the optimum the British clutch settings that will ensure Grand the quickest getaway. Prix at Hamilton, 21 points clear Silverstone of Mercedes team mate Nico in this July Rosberg after 10 of 19 races, has 5, 2015, file had three poor starts in a row photo. despite all being from pole posi- tion and the big question is what difference the change will make. Another failure in Spa, where the Mercedes drivers started on the front row last year but col- lided on lap two, would only make the Briton’s bosses more jittery regularly a factor. “I expect more it gives me the opportunity to try there’s always that flame in the after neither finished on the unpredictable starts,” Hamilton and beat Lewis in that area. Until back of your mind that just wants podium in Hungary in July. said then. “I imagine it is going now it’s been difficult because to get back out there and get on Mercedes motorsport boss Toto to get worse, but that’s racing.” it was not really in the driver’s it,” he said ahead of his return to Wolff warned this week that the The key difference is that hands.” the Ardennes. team must stay focused. the clutch ‘bite’ point, hith- The German qualified on pole “Spa is a great track to kick off “There is never a moment you erto adjusted by engineers after in Belgium last year but the race, the second part of the season...I can take your foot off the gas and assessing temperatures and track on the longest circuit on the cal- love this track and I’ll be gunning Hungary proved once again that conditions, will be fixed from the endar, was won by Red Bull’s for that top spot again.” any slip is an opportunity our moment the cars leave the pit Daniel Ricciardo. Rosberg, winner of three races rivals will grab with both hands,” lane. Hamilton, who retired while to Hamilton’s five with Ferrari’s he said. The drivers will then have to then-championship leader Sebastian Vettel taking the other After hanging out with movie determine for themselves the Rosberg finished second, accused two, said everything was still to and music celebrities, as well ideal point at which to release his team mate of hitting him on play for. Ferrari will be in the as his dogs Roscoe and Coco, in the paddles and accelerate away purpose “to prove a point” in a hunt again but Williams also Barbados, New York and The without triggering a loss of trac- controversy that proved a turning fancy their chances of return- Hamptons over the August break, tion and wheelspin. point in the season. ing to the podium after failing to Pakistani cricketers Mohammad Aamer, (left) Mohammad Asif (back Hamilton is raring to get back Rosberg, who won last season’s The fired-up Briton won the score in Hungary. centre) and captain Salman Butt leave the team hotel in Taunton, in on track. But he recognised after pole trophy but has been outquali- next five races and ultimately his “The layout is normally strongly south-west England, in this August 2010 file photo. Hungary, where he finished only fied 9-1 by Hamilton this year, can second title. suited to the characteristics of sixth while Rosberg was eighth, sense an opportunity. “It’s been good to take a break our car, so I head to this weekend that the championship could be “There will be more variables from racing and spend some time looking for a strong result,” said entering choppy waters -- par- and it will be more difficult to relaxing, training and recharg- Finland’s Valtteri Bottas. ticularly at Spa where rain is predict,” he said. “I like it because ing the batteries. But, of course, REUTERS ICC ready to Jacob, Curtis lift sanctions shine for Mets against Butt

NEW YORK: New York right- Granderson provided a 3-0 lead hander Jacob deGrom allowed with another solo shot in the fifth, and Asif one run over 7-2/3 innings his third multi-homer game of the while Curtis Granderson hit season. DUBAI: Pakistan duo Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt will see two homers as the Mets beat An error by Orioles second their suspensions for spot-fixing expire at midnight on September 1, the Baltimore Orioles 5-3 on baseman Jonathan Schoop on a the International Cricket Council announced yesterday. Tuesday. potential double-play helped the Asif and Butt, along with paceman Mohammad Amir, were banned The result snapped the Orioles’ Mets score two crucial runs in the in 2011 over a spot-fixing case which shook the cricket world when it four-game winning streak. ninth. was revealed by the now defunct British tabloid News of the World DeGrom (12-6), last season’s “There were some mistakes I in August 2010. National League Rookie of the made today and I’ve got to be bet- Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterback Tim Tebow (11) throws a pass against The Pakistan trio, along with their agent Mazhar Majeed, arranged Year, gave up five hits with one ter,” said Schoop. the Indianapolis Colts in a pre-season NFL football game at Lincoln deliberate no-balls during the Lord’s Test against England in 2010 in walk and six strikeouts. “I’ve got to be better for my Financial Field. The Eagles defeated the Colts 36-10. return for money in a deal made with an undercover reporter from “I just try to go up there and team mates and better for myself,” the tabloid. put up zeros and let the rest take he added. The ICC said both Butt and Asif have completed their rehabilitation. care of itself,” said deGrom, who Schoop’s miscue set up a sacri- “Both are eligible to play in domestic and international levels, on lowered his ERA from 2.03 to fice fly by third baseman Daniel 2 September 2015 after fulfilling the specific conditions laid down by 1.98. Murphy while Baltimore right- the independent Anti-Corruption Tribunal,” the ICC said in a press DeGrom retired 11 straight hander Brad Brach threw a wild Simpson set to release yesterday. batters before allowing a two-out pitch that allowed shortstop Amir’s five-year ban was relaxed in January this year after the ICC double to shortstop J J Hardy in Wilmer Flores to score. amended its anti-corruption code, which allowed him to play domestic the fifth. Mets closer Jeurys Familia cricket in Pakistan six months before his ban expired. “He one of the best in the entered and walked home two All three players will have served five-year bans. game,” Mets manager Terry runs before getting third base- miss 6 games That was the compete sentence imposed on Amir, who differed from Collins said about deGrom. “I talk man Manny Machado to ground fellow seamer Asif and his then captain Butt in pleading guilty to his to other managers and he is one out to end the game, picking up NEW YORK: The NFL yes- * * * Kansas City Chiefs left original charge. of the first guys they ask about. his 33rd save. terday suspended San Francisco tackle Eric Fisher will miss two “Amir will be eligible to return to cricket at international level at He’s very, very good.” Baltimore right-hander Kevin 49ers wide receiver Jerome to three weeks with a high ankle the same time, following permission being granted to him to return Granderson gave the Mets a 1-0 Gausman (2-5) had another effec- Simpson for the first six games sprain. to play domestic cricket in Pakistan earlier this year,” the ICC said. lead when he belted his franchise- tive start with little run support. of the upcoming season. Fisher had an MRI exam on “As with all players and other participants in cricket, all three players record seventh lead-off homer of He allowed three runs on six The league released a state- Monday after being carted off remain bound to comply with the ICC Anti-Corruption Code and the the season over the right field hits with a walk and six strikeouts ment to announce the suspen- the field. The Chiefs already lost anti-corruption rules of all National Cricket Federations. scoreboard. over six innings. sion saying Simpson violated right tackle James Allen (knee) “Consequently, if they should commit any further act of corrupt New York increased their lead “Kevin gave us a good chance the NFL Policy and Program for to injury this preseason. conduct they are liable to (i) further separate disciplinary proceedings to 2-0 in the third on an RBI dou- to win,” Orioles manager Buck Substances of Abuse. * * * Long snapper Nate Boyer for breaches of the relevant Code or rules and (ii) in the case of Asif ble by Murphy. Showalter said. “We knew there He will be eligible to return was released by the Seattle and Butt and where such breach occurs during the suspended part of weren’t going to be many oppor- October 19. Seahawks. their original period of ineligibility, the activation of that suspended tunities with deGrom out there. The league’s move did not catch The Seahawks are parting period of ineligibility.” Baseball Results “But Kevin held up pretty well, the 49ers by surprise. with the former Green Beret to Yesterday’s announcement means Butt, Asif and Amir will be eligible NY Mets 5 Baltimore 3 I thought. Held them in check, “The probability of a suspen- make room for quarterback Jake for Pakistan’s series against England in the UAE in October, five years NY Yankees 8 Minnesota 4 finished strong like he’s done his sion was known when we signed Waters. on from the Lord’s Test, although it is unlikely, given how long they Toronto 8 Philadelphia 5 last two or three outings. It was Jerome,” the 49ers said in a Boyer, 34, taught himself to be have all been out of the game, that they will be selected. Pittsburgh 9 Arizona 8 good to see him pitching competi- statement. a long snapper while deployed International cricket was rocked by allegations of match fixing in Boston 9 Cleveland 1 tively for us.” Simpson has been arrested overseas and then walked on at 1995 when Australian trio of Shane Warne, Tim May and Mark Waugh Meanwhile, t he Boston Red three times since January 2012 the University of Texas at age 29 alleged then Pakistan captain Salim Malik offered them bribe to under- Kansas City 3 Cincinnati 1 Sox have hired former Detroit including in July 2014 when and became a three-year starter. perform during a Test in Karachi and a one-day match in Rawalpindi. Detroit 10 Chicago Cubs 8 Tigers general manager Dave he was cited on misdemeanor He signed with the Seahawks fol- Malik was subsequently banned for life in 2000 by a judicial inquiry Seattle 3 Texas 2 Dombrowski to take over as charges of having marijuana and lowing the 2015 draft. in Pakistan. Houston 3 Tampa Bay 2 president of baseball operations, an open bottle of alcohol in his * * * Backup tight end Asante In the same year the ICC’s problems multiplied when South African Miami 9 Milwaukee 6 the Major League Baseball team car while driving with a restricted Cleveland was traded from the captain Hansie Cronje and India’s Mohammad Azharuddin were also San Francisco 2 St Louis 0 announced yesterday. driver’s license. He was suspended San Francisco 49ers to the New banned for life in separate inquiries in their respective countries. Washington 15 Colorado 6 Following the move, Ben for the first three games of the England Patriots for offensive That forced the ICC to form its Anti Corruption and Security Unit Cherington had declined the 2014 season. guard Jordan Devey. in 2001 but administrators still admit that it is difficult to eradicate Oakland 5 LA Dodgers 4 opportunity to continue as gen- The current suspension pre- Cleveland would be the sixth the threat of fixing completely, given the millions of dollars that change LA Angels 5 C White Sox 3 eral manager, the team added. sumably is related to last year’s tight end on the 90-man roster hands in illegal betting markets, mainly in Asia, during international San Diego 9 Atlanta 0 AGENCIES incident. for the Patriots. REUTERS matches. AFP THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT England in search of history Australian skipper Michael Clarke set to end his Test career at the Oval this week

LONDON: England may have already the corresponding Ashes Test at The Oval regained the Ashes but captain Alastair two years only for the Lancashire bowler -- Cook is determined not to let-up when they who hasn’t played senior international cricket face Australia in the fifth and final Test at since -- to be smashed for 53 in the eight overs The Oval today -- a match that marks rival he bowled is sufficiently fresh in the mem- skipper Michael Clarke’s farewell to inter- ory to make it likely that Cook will lead an national cricket. unchanged team. Cook’s men triumphed by an innings and Australia’s top-order had another miserable 78 runs in the fourth Test at Trent Bridge week as their side were nearly made to follow- to take an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the series on by an under-strength Northamptonshire, after Australia, with England paceman Stuart one of England’s weaker counties, last Broad taking a stunning eight for 15, were weekend. dismissed for just 60 in 111 balls on the open- Clarke, one of Australia’s greatest batsmen ing morning -- the shortest completed first will be desperate to finish with a flourish as innings of any Test. indeed will opener Chris Rogers, who is also No England side has ever won four Tests in retiring from international cricket after the a home Ashes series. fifth Test. But they are now within sight of their big- “I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t a lot of dis- gest margin of victory since Mike Brearley led appointment amongst the group,” said Rogers, England to a 5-1 success ‘Down Under’ against with Australia now having lost four successive an Australia side weakened by defections to Ashes series in England. the ‘rebel’ World Series Cricket in 1978/79. “We came here to win and we’ve been Taking this series 4-1 would certainly go outplayed. some way to avenging the memory of the 5-0 “It’s been a difficult week. A lot of guys have whitewash inflicted upon England in Australia felt a bit flat, I imagine.” some 18 months ago. “This is a big last game. Obviously it’s “Cooky called us all on Tuesday, to say: ‘Let’s Michael’s retirement as well, but not only that, make sure we turn up knowing that we’re there’s places up for grabs in this side. in a battle and that we want to start again, “No one’s taking that for granted,” Rogers Because I’ve got a burning desire for this to added. be 4-1’,” Broad said. All-rounder Mitchell Marsh is set to replace “Certainly those of us involved in that 5-0 Australia’s Michael Clarke and Chris Rogers older brother Shaun as the siblings continue to loss (in 2013-14) feel that determination to during a training session at the Oval yesterday. play pass the parcel with a Test place. make this a good week,” he added. Meanwhile paceman Pat Cummins, England have a major selection decision this play two spinners and Rashid would certainly restricted to a lone Test against South Africa England’s Alastair week -- whether to they should give a Test come into consideration against Pakistan in November 2011 because of fitness problems, Cook during a debut to leg-spinner Adil Rashid. in the UAE, where the pitches assist slow could come in for Josh Hazlewood, struggling training session Given how well England’s pacemen, led bowlers. with shin soreness. by Broad, performed in Anderson’s absence, There has been talk of how England could “I’ve been bowling for two years straight,” at the Oval there seems little point in rushing their spear- promote off-spinning all-rounder Moeen Ali said Cummins. yesterday. head back ahead of tours to the United Arab to open in place of the struggling Adam Lyth “I can’t be any more ready if I get the call- Emirates and South Africa. to make space to play Rashid as well. up,” added the fast bowler. Trevor Bayliss, England’s Australian coach, But the memory of how England gave a Don’t tell him this is a ‘dead’ match. has spoken all series of how he is prepared to debut to left-arm spinner Simon Kerrigan in REUTERS Anderson out of final India, SL set for Sangakkara farewell COLOMBO: India and Sri “The best thing we can do is try still 98 runs away from avoiding Lanka head into today’s second and win the series for him. We an innings defeat, when Dinesh Ashes Test Test in Colombo with the rival have trained hard and are ready Chandimal led the recovery with LONDON: England fast captains determined not to be to go.” a superb 162 off 169 balls. bowler James Anderson will swayed by the emotions sur- Asked how Sangakkara had Left-arm spinner Rangana miss the fifth and final Ashes rounding Kumar Sangakkara’s reacted in the dressing room Herath then grabbed seven wick- Test against Australia as he last match. about his impending departure, ets as India, chasing a modest vic- has failed to recover fully from The 37-year-old Sri Lankan Mathews said: “He has worked as tory target of 176, were skittled a side strain, captain Alastair great, who is the highest run- hard as any of us. I am sure he for 112 soon after lunch on the Cook said yesterday. getter among those still playing is determined to sign off with a fourth day. Anderson, who suffered at the top level, will bid adieu to hundred.” Mathews said Sri Lanka had the injury in the third Test at international cricket after the Sangakkara will want to end an the edge going into the second Edgbaston, was still around a match, ending a glorious 15-year unusually barren streak at the P Test, but warned his team against week away from full fitness, added career. Sara Oval where he has fallen for taking victory for granted. Cook. He only returned to bowl in Sri Lankan captain Angelo zero in each of his last three Tests, “We have the edge because we the nets on Tuesday. Mathews, buoyant by a brilliant including a first-ball duck against pulled a rabbit out of the hat,” “Unfortunately he’s not going 63-run win in the first Test in Pakistan in June. he said. “But we have shoved the to make it,” Cook said. “He’s gut- Galle said the boys wanted to Indian skipper Virat Kohli, win in Galle under the carpet. We ted about it. He’s made really good win the three-match series to give looking to level scores in his know we have to play good cricket progress from where he was at Sangakkara a suitable farewell. first full series as captain, said again to win because the Indians Edgbaston but this is a week or “This is obviously an emotional the tourists were not distracted are a tough side to beat.” so too soon. He bowled in the nets game for all of us,” Mathews said by the hype over Sangakkara’s Mathews said seamer Nuwan yesterday but at about 60-70 per- yesterday. retirement. Pradeep had suffered a hamstring cent and that’s not how you go “Sangakkara has not only been “We are certainly not dis- injury, but young fast bowler into a game. He’s really gutted. a great servant of the game, but tracted by it,” Kohli said. “In fact, Dushmantha Chameera was likely The medical team have been bril- he is a great human being too,” this will be more of a strange situ- to return after missing the Galle liant with him but he’s still about he added. ation for Sri Lanka than us. Test with a side strain. a week away.” “We can’t thank him enough “We look up to Sangakkara as a India are struggling to replace England have already won the for what he has done for Sri great cricketer. But the emotions in-form opener Shikhar Dhawan, Ashes at 3-1 up with just the Oval Lankan cricket and the team in the two teams will be different.” a century-maker in Galle who Test to come. over the past so many years. We Sangakkara scored five and suffered a hairline fracture in his Cook, who added England thank him truly and wish him 40 against the Indians in Galle, right hand during the match and would field a team unchanged all the very best for his future where Sri Lanka snatched a has been ruled out of the series. from the one that played in the endeavours. remarkable victory after seem- Kohli said a decision to play fourth Test barring a late injury, India’s cricket captain Virat Kohli reacts during a practice session ahead “It’s going to be a tough game ingly heading for a crushing loss. regular opener Murali Vijay, who said leaving Anderson out had of the second Test cricket match against Sri Lanka in Colombo yesterday. for him as well emotionally. But The hosts had been reduced missed the first Test with a ham- been made easier by the fact the The second Test starts today. all good things have to come to an to 95-5 in their second innings string niggle, will be taken before Ashes had already been regained. end unfortunately. before lunch on the third day, the toss today. AFP “Jimmy’s not fit,” he said. “As much hard work as he has put in, he’s not right. It’s a hard question to answer, if it was 2-2, but the way Mark (Wood) has come in Clarke splits opinion right until the end and bowled in the series, certainly in the first game and the last LONDON: Australia’s Michael Clarke captain, he was single, he was flashier, lived and around the Australia team are vitriolic charges that Clarke had been complicit in game, we have options. Especially will retire from international cricket a different life to some of us in the past, when talking about Clarke can’t be ascribed players being dropped for failing to write with Liam Plunkett as well, we after the fifth Ashes Test against but that doesn’t make him a bad person, solely to jealousy. written reports about their performance have good strength in depth.” England, starting today, with a brilliant nor a bad captain,” former Australia skip- After his highly impressive debut hun- -- although the blame for “homework- There had been speculation record but strangely lacking the univer- per Mark Taylor told ESPNCricinfo when dred in Bangalore in 2004, which he com- gate” fell mainly on the then coach Mickey that Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil sal praise his figures might suggest. asked about Clarke. pleted wearing his baggy green Australia Arthur. Rashid might make his Test debut Only three Australia have scored more But former Australia coach John cap rather than his helmet, Clarke like Clarke’s surging popularity was boosted at The Oval ahead of tours of the runs than Clarke -- who has battled a Buchanan, in charge of the side for the first many a young player before him saw his by Australia’s 5-0 Ashes thrashing of United Arab Emirates and South chronic back condition throughout his four years of Clarke’s international career, form dip. England in 2013/14, while his magnificent Africa later this year. But Cook career -- and the outgoing captain is also said the “baggy green culture” so highly He was soon facing the charge that he 161 at Cape Town in a series-clinching win said the only consideration for the only Australian to score a hundred on prized when he was making his way in the didn’t make “tough runs” and was also a away to South Africa in March last year, England in selection was picking both his home and away Test debuts. side had “disappeared a bit” under the now “pet” of his friend, colourful spin-bowling after suffering a broken arm, was a superb a side to win the series 4-1, with Yet Clarke won’t bow out with the kind 34-year-old’s captaincy. great Shane Warne. example of making “tough runs”. no England team ever having won of unstinting admiration his career would Nearly two weeks ago, Clarke con- But starting with a superb innings of 329 Off the field, Clarke would win plaudits four Tests in a home Ashes series. appear to deserve. firmed he would retire immediately after not out against India in his native Sydney, later in 2014 for the way he conducted “We come into this game try- Clarke, nicknamed “Pup”, burst on the England’s innings and 78-run win in the the year 2012 marked a golden time for himself after Australia batsman Phillip ing to win this series 4-1,” he said. scene with a diamond studded ear-ring and fourth Test at Trent Bridge earlier this Clarke -- who found himself in charge of an Hughes died after being hit on the head “That’s what we’ve discussed. highlights in his hair. month gave them an unbeatable 3-1 lead Australia side shorn of several great play- by a bouncer in a state match and for Adil has been with us in every sin- He soon became something of a lightning in the five-match Ashes series. ers including fast bowler Glenn McGrath the moving eulogy he gave at his friend’s gle squad but the pitches haven’t rod for Australians unhappy with aspects The timing of Clarke’s announcement led and Warne. funeral. quite suited two spinners so Adil’s of modern Australia -- and they were soon to accusations that he had tried to make It eventually led the Sydney Morning The Test match hundred he made had to wait for his chance. As a able to express their displeasure in that what should have been England’s day “all Herald to say sorry to Clarke for comments against India in Adelaide after Hughes’s cricketer, he’s really improving most modern of ways on social media, about him”, a criticism that was aired when about his lifestyle but, as cricket writer funeral was a memorable innings in the and he feels a lot more comfort- where Clarke’s relationships with former he confirmed he would be quitting one- Jarrod Kimber observed: “To get a public circumstances. able in the England environment. girlfriend Lara Bingle and now wife Kyly, day internationals on the eve of Australia’s apology all Michael Clarke had to do was But with runs slipping away from Clarke, There’s a one-day series to come both one-time models, were laid bare -- World Cup final triumph against New score 329 not out, 210, 259 not out and 230 who has reached 25 just six times in his last so he’ll probably get his chance in often by Clarke himself. Zealand earlier this year. in one year”. 30 Test innings, the old charges against him that.” REUTERS “Michael was more your 21st century Meanwhile, the fact that some people in But a 4-0 series loss in India led to soon resurfaced. REUTERS THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Factbox on new IAAF President Fight against doping not Sebastian Coe BEIJING: Factbox on Sebastian Coe, who was elected as the new president of IAAF yesterday. the only challenge for Coe Born September 29, 1956 in Hammersmith, London, his family moves to Sheffield in the north of England where Coe We have to make sure we engage young people, says Sebastian Coe first shows athletic promise as a 12-year-old with Hallamshire Harriers. His first coach, father Five Facts About BEIJING: Although the battle Peter, develops Coe’s stam- against doping has dominated ina by making him train on the headlines in recent weeks, Sheffield’s steep hills. Sebastian Coe, New the newly elected IAAF presi- dent Sebastian Coe has outlined Enrols at Loughborough IAAF President a raft of other challenges he says University in 1975. the sport of athletics needs to BEIJING: Five facts about confront. * * * World records and rivalries Sebastian Coe, elected yester- These include attracting new day as new president of the Rivals with Steve Ovett since sponsors, empowering federations International Association of first racing against each other with the resources to develop high Athletics Federations (IAAF) in a 1972 schools meet, the first yesterday: quality athletes and tweaking a major battle between them was far-flung schedule that he said over 800 metres at the 1978 %Coe, 58, won Olympic 1500m can be confusing, even to people European Championships in gold at both the 1980 and 1984 within the sport. Prague, but both are beaten by Games. He also claimed two “We always have to remember Olaf Beyer. Olympic silvers in the 800m. that our product is athletics but our business is entertainment,” Coe emerges from Ovett’s % In his career, he set eight the two-time Olympic gold medal- shadow in 1979 to break the outdoor and three indoor world list said in his first press confer- 800m, 1,500m and mile record records in middle-distance ence yesterday. in the space of 41 days. track events, and his world A businessman, politician and record in the 800m stood from sports administrator who heading At the Moscow Olympics in 1981-1997. up the organisation of the 2012 1980, Coe leaves his kick too London Olympics, the 58-year-old late in the 800 final and trails % The Briton served as a Coe is equally at home in the cor- in behind Ovett, but responds Conservative MP for Falmouth porate world as he is mixing with to win the 1,500m in which and Cambourne between 1992- Ovett had been favourite. athletes and officials at the track. 1997, but he lost his seat in 1997 He said creating new fans of elections. Coe and Ovett avoid racing the sport would be paramount in against each other for the % Made a life peer in May a world where many youths are next four years but trade world becoming captivated by football Britain’s Sebastian Coe (left) being congratulated by Ukraine’s Sergey Bubka after Coe was elected as the new 2000, London-born Coe President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), during the 50th IAAF Congress at mile records. Coe’s 800m world headed the successful bid by and electronic games. record, set in Florence in 1981, the China National Convention Centre in Beijing yesterday. Coe beat Bubka in a tight vote to become the new the British capital to host “We have to make sure we lasts 16 years. president of IAAF with a series of doping controversies at the top of his agenda. the 2012 Summer Olympics engage with young people, that and became chairman of the is the challenge,” said Coe, who * * * Los Angeles Olympics joined an athletics club when he “Then taking a flight and talk- Olympic Committee (IOC). He every four years. “This has been a London Organising Committee Struggling with a blood infec- was 11. ing about a completely different proudly maintains that athletics very, very long, hard tough cam- for those Olympic Games. tion, Coe’s place in the British Coe said he was now better set of challenges somewhere else. is the number one sport in the paign,” he said, “But it has given team looks in doubt. He recov- %He was elected vice-presi- equipped than ever to understand That’s the beauty of the sport. Olympic movement, even though sport chance to pause for breath, ers but loses to Brazil’s Joaquim dent of the IAAF in 2007 and the needs of the sport after fly- “My duty is to make sure that the distribution of Olympic rev- to review itself, renew itself, think Cruz in the 800. was re-elected for a second ing more than 700,000 kilometres sport moves ahead at roughly the enues to international federations about what the next 30 or 40 four-year term in August 2011. around the world to canvas sup- same pace, giving equal opportu- has seen swimming and gymnas- years look like.” Coe beats Ovett and world port for his election bid among nity to meet the challenges, and tics join track and field at the top But the item at the top of his champion Steve Cram in the % Coe was named the first the sports federations. the ambitions and dreams of their tier. to-do list, is restoring credibility 1,500m to become the first man chairman of FIFA’s independ- “I was sitting talking to fed- athletes.” Coe also vowed to fight any and trust in the sport, which he to retain the title, despite being ent watchdog, FIFA’s ethics eration presidents who, out of To accomplish the task, he has moves to cull athletics events said will include establishing an mostly written off by British commission, in 2006 but stood their own disposable income, are promised to give his full attention from the Olympic programme independent anti-doping agency media. down to join the English com- paying for pots of paint to mark to the management and direction and, as part of his election prom- to curb any cheating. mittee that failed in its bid the track to maintain a primary of the International Association of ises, he said he would allocate “Everything you do in the sport * * * Retirement to bring the World Cup to school championship in one con- Athletics Federations and work $200,000 to each of the more than is underpinned by trust,” he said. England in 2018. Coe wins the European tinent,” he recalled closely with the International 200 national athletics federation, REUTERS Championships in Stuttgart in 1986 but does not make the 1988 Olympic team and retires WADA considering banning after the 1990 Commonwealth Outgoing IAAF president Games. countries for doping: Chief * * * From track to House of Commons BEIJING: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is consid- ering a blanket ban on countries whose athletes regularly dope Coe is elected the Conservative defends doping record in the wake of a series of damaging blows for the sport in recent Member of Parliament for days, acccording to its president Craig Reedie. Falmouth and Camborne in BEIJING: Outgoing IAAF He told CNN in an interview that such a deterrent could be “a 1992, keeping his seat until President Lamine Diack has pretty blunt instrument” in the war on drugs but he was waiting on 1997. defended the work done by a report from his independent commission before deciding whether * * * London 2012 world athletics’ governing body to push forward with the strategy. to combat doping, saying yes- The world athletics’ governing body (IAAF) has come under fire Coe leads London to victory terday the organisation had an for not following up suspicious test results from more than 800 ath- over Paris in the race to host “unparalleled” record among letes between 2001 and 2012, based on an investigation by Britain’s the 2012 Olympic Games, with sports in detecting and punish- Sunday Times and German broadcaster ARD/WDR. many pointing to his rous- ing drug cheats. “The fact that this is being discussed as a potential sanction is not ing speech at the 2005 vote The International Association entirely unhelpful,” Scot Reedie, 74, told CNN about implementing in Singapore as the decisive of Athletics Federations has faced a blanket ban on countries with offending athletes. moment. a string of accusations over the “It’s a very, very serious sanction because it tends to be a pretty last three weeks that it neglected blunt instrument. Maybe that’s required. I’m not sure. It’s never Despite early public cynicism, its duty to address the issue after been done before. Coe helps win over the media the leak of blood test data to two “I would want to wait until I see what my expert commission as London hosts a highly suc- media organisations. says about this.” cessful Olympic Games. “It’s a tricky problem to deal Reed said no country had ever been banned from a multi-category * * * Other roles and IAAF with but we constantly continue competition such as the Olympics over an offending athlete but that to discuss matters and intro- there was a precedent for nations being suspended by the ruling Coe has a spell as the first duce new measures,” he said in body in an individual sport. chairman of FIFA’s ethics com- his opening remarks to the 50th Former IAAF President Lamine Diack (left) and new IAAF President, former “The sport has turned around and said, ‘At the moment, your mittee and is elected chair- IAAF Congress. British Olympic medallist Sebastian Coe, attend a press conference record isn’t good enough so we don’t want you coming to our events man of the British Olympic “Okay, a newspaper stole some after the IAAF elections at China National Convention Centre in Beijing, for a period of years,” Reed explained. Association. information from our data bank China, yesterday. “It’s happened very infrequently but I think it’s been effective.” but I think our officers have On Sunday, the British newspaper and ARD/WDR reported that Appointed IAAF vice presi- reacted in an admirable way. They a 2011 survey has revealed that up to a third of the world’s top com- dent in 2007 and 2011, and in have said, ‘this is what we have the athletes are bound to test IOC congratulates petitors admitted using banned performance-enhancing techniques. November 2014 says he will done, this is what we’re doing.’” positive,” he added. “But no, this The doping allegations are the latest to have rocked the sport in stand for election to replace The Senegalese said the IAAF is totally untrue. We must resolve, Coe on IAAF win the run-up to the 15th world championships which start in Beijing outgoing president Lamine spent “millions of dollars” every of course, the problem of doping. on August 22. Diack. year on fighting doping and had All the champions must be tested SEOUL: Olympics chief Thomas The authors of the study, which involved interviews with 1,800 * * * Presidential campaign been instrumental in the setting regularly and each country must Bach congratulated Sebastian athletes at the 2011 worlds in South Korea, were told to sign a up of the World Anti-Doping have its own anti-doping body.” Coe on his election yesterday as confidentiality agreement a month after the information had been Up against fellow Olympic Agency. Diack said it was essential that new president of world athletics collected and analysed, the newspaper said. champion Sergey Bubka, Coe He added that his organisation the anti-doping effort must be body the IAAF, saying the two- The IAAF has since initiated disciplinary action against 28 athletes travels a reported 700,000 miles had been in the vanguard when engaged at the national level with time Olympic 1500m gold med- after retesting samples from the 2005 and 2007 world champion- to gather support. it came to making penalties for all countries establishing bodies allist would be a strong partner ships with new technology that can uncover previously undetectable doping tougher. to conduct testing and mete out in the fight against doping. substances. Takes a combative stance when Diack’s 16 years in charge of the punishments. Speaking during a visit to However, the IAAF has came under heavy fire from the authors of the IAAF is rocked by claims IAAF came to an end yesterday “If measures are taken in South Korea to review prepara- the 2011 study, which was conducted by researchers at the University in a British newspaper and when Sebastian Coe beat Sergey Kenya, Morocco, Ethiopia, Turkey tions for the 2018 Winter Games, of Tuebingen in Germany and leaked to The Sunday Times and ARD/ German TV channel that it failed to act on thousands of Bubka in a tight vote to become and elsewhere, that is what is International Olympic Committee WDR. Reacting to the latest accusations in a statement, the IAAF suspicious blood samples from president after a ballot of the 214 required, this will enable us to (IOC) president Bach said he was said it “had never vetoed” publication of the survey and understood 2001-12. national federations. solve the problem,” he said. “very confident” Coe would make it had twice been rejected for publication in a scientific journal. Diack said that Coe would con- “We can’t do everything our- an effective athletics supremo. It also questioned the validity of the research. Calls the allegations a “declara- tinue the work he had done in the selves and we must propose “I’m sure that Sebastian Coe While WADA can lobby for the introduction of a blanket ban tion of war” on the sport. fight to keep the sport clean, and these measures top all coun- will do an excellent job and will on countries, it cannot itself impose such a suspension and Reedie rejected speculation that drug tries. The IAAF is prepared to join the IOC in our zero tolerance conceded that WADA still lacked sufficient resources to tackle the * * * Victory cheating was endemic in the provide financial support to fos- policy against doping, and our problem of doping in sport. sport. ter national entities in Kenya, policy to protect clean athletes, “People who wish to cheat have different and more opportunities Coe is elected president of the “We will be holding these Uganda, Tanzania and so on. because this is where we both are to cheat than we have to resolve it in conventional ways,” he said. IAAF after beating Bubka by 115 votes to 92 in a ballot of the (world) championships in Beijing “I’m sure that we will succeed.” coming from,” Bach told reporters REUTERS governing body’s 50th Congress. and people will say 80 percent of REUTERS in Seoul. REUTERS THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Qatar players shine at Arab Table Tennis Championships

Qatari players pose with their trophies after winning their respective finals at the 15th edition of Arab Table Tennis Championships in Jordan. Qatar won a total of nine medals in the event including two gold, three silver and four bronze medals. Mohamed Abdulwahab defeated Saudi Arabia’s Ali El Khadraoui (4-1) in the final of junior singles event to win Qatar’s first gold medal while in an all-Qatar women’s double final, Aya Maggdi and Maha Flamarzi won the second gold medal, defeating compatriots Nora Al Abri and Kholoud Abdul Redha 4-2. Maha won the silver medal after losing 4-2 to Tunisian Safa Saadani in the women’s singles final. Federer returns with easy victory Cincinnati Masters: Swiss teen Bencic posts win; Sharapova and Venus withdraw

CINCINNATI: Roger Federer shook off the rust in his first match since Wimbledon as women’s drawcards Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams withdrew injured from the ATP and WTA Cincinnati Masters on Tuesday. Federer, who took more than a month off after losing the Wimbledon final to Novak Djokovic, beat Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4, 6-4, improving to 4-0 over the Spaniard without the loss of a set. But the 34-year-old said that he needed time to adjust again to match conditions after his hiatus. “It was a good win for me, it can only get tougher from here,” said Federer, seeking a record seventh title here. “I haven’t played in a long time and I felt a bit rusty at times in the first set. I need matches right now, so it was good to start well here. “I’m happy I got through this first one. Now I know what it’s about. “I have a day off tomorrow Maria Sharapova of Russia addresses a news where I can think about how conference after withdrawing from the Western things went today, where I need & Southern Open at the Linder Family Tennis to improve.” Center on Monday in Cincinnati, Ohio. RIGHT: Sharapova has not played since Belinda Bencic of Switzerland celebrates after Wimbledon and has now missed defeating Angelique Kerber of Germany during both of the major tune-ups prior at the Linder Family Tennis Center. to the US Open which begins in less than a fortnight. The WTA number two is nurs- Ivanovic. “I just wasn’t able to get Controversial Nick Kyrgios of Grand Slam-chasing world ing a leg injury which also pre- out there tonight. Every match was dumped out, a 6-2, 6-1 first- number one Serena Williams. vented her from playing last week you have to be at your best, to round victim of French 12th seed Elsewhere on Tuesday, Sloane in Toronto. win,” said Williams, who made her Richard Gasquet. Stephens took down another “It’s a tough decision to make, decision after pre-match warm- Kyrgios, building a reputation seed as she beat number 10 Carla but I think a wise one, in order up. “I just couldn’t be at my best as the bad boy of the game, was Suarez Navarro 6-1, 6-2. to give myself the right amount today.” unremarkable in his loss, which France’s Kristina Mladenovic of time to be as healthy as I can US Open winner Marin Cilic, lasted for only 56 minutes. overcame Daniela Hantuchova be for the Open, which I believe the seventh seed, beat Joao Sousa Toronto women’s champion 6-2, 6-1; Flavia Pennetta defeated is very realistic,” Sharapova said. 6-4, 6-2, while Spain’s Feliciano Belinda Bencic maintained her former Australian Open finalist “But I don’t know if it would be Lopez stopped Canadian Milos recent giant-killing form with Domenika Cibulkova 7-5, 6-2. realistic if I did compete and start Raonic 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 as the ninth a battling 7-5, 6-3 win over Mona Barthel beat Australian tomorrow.” seed lost an opening match for the higher-ranked German opponent Casey Dellacqua in a 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 The Russian was joined as a second straight week. Angelique Kerber. (7/4) comeback while Caroline victim by Williams, who cited a Sam Querrey put out John Bencic, 18, is brimming with Garcia beat Sabine Lisicki 3-6, Roger Federer of Switzerland returns a shot to Roberto Bautista Agut viral illness. Isner 6-3, 7-6 (7/3) and South confidence after winning in 6-3, 6-4. of Spain during Day four of the Western & Southern Open at the Linder The pullout of the American African 15th seed Kevin Anderson Toronto at the weekend after Former No.1 Victoria Azarenka Family Tennis Center on Tuesday in Cincinnati, Ohio. gave a walkover into the third defeated Leonardo Mayer 7-6 a tournament which included reached the second round 6-1, 6-2 round for 2014 finalist Ana (7/5), 3-6, 6-1. a stunning semi-final defeat over Lauren Davis. AFP Hewitt gets US Open wildcard entry Cincinnati Masters Results CINCINNATI: Results on the third day of the ATP and WTA Cincinnati Masters on Tuesday (x denotes seeded player). NEW YORK: Former champion Lleyton Ryan Shane and Frances Tiafoe, plus Pierre- Hewitt will enjoy a New York farewell after Hugues Herbert of France. American teenager Women First Round: Sloane Stephens (USA) bt Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP x10) 6-1, 6-2; Kristina receiving a wildcard entry into the US Duval, who pulled off a huge upset in the first Mladenovic (FRA) bt Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) 6-2, 6-1; Flavia Pennetta (ITA) bt Domenika Cibulkova Open, it was announced yesterday. round of the 2013 US Open when she beat 2011 (SVK) 7-5, 6-2; Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) bt Roberta Vinci (ITA) 6-3, 0-6, 6-2; Daria Gavrilova Hewitt, the 2001 champion who plans to champion Samanth Stosur, was among eight (RUS) bt Sara Errani (ITA x16) 6-1, 4-6, 6-2; Victoria Azarenka (BEL) bt Lauren Davis (USA) 6-1, 6-2; retire in January, was among 16 players who players who received a wild card entry for the Camila Giorgi (ITA) bt Christina McHale (USA) 5-7, 6-3, 6-2; Belinda Bencic (SUI) bt Angelique Kerber received wildcard entries into the main draw women’s August 25-28 qualifying tournament. (GER x11) 7-5, 6-3; Caroline Garcia (FRA) bt Sabine Lisicki (GER) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Mona Barthel (GER) from the US Tennis Association. Duval, 19, returned to competition only bt Casey Dellacqua (AUS) 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7/4); Anna Schmiedlova (SVK) bt Agnieszka Radwanska (POL In addition, cancer survivor Vicky Duval last week in Pennsylvania following a year- x13) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) bt Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/5). benefited from a wild card entry into the long recovery from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. qualifying tournament. American Bethanie Mattek-Sands, a former Second Round: Ana Ivanovic (SRB x6) bt Venus Williams (USA) walkover. Australian veteran Hewitt, who beat Pete world number 30 who is currently ranked Men’s First Round: Richard Gasquet (FRA x12) bt Nick Kyrgios (AUS) 6-2, 6-1; Sam Querrey Sampras to win the 2001 US Open, received 99th, and Oceane Dodin of France were (USA) bt John Isner (USA x11) 6-3, 7-6 (7/3); Tommy Robredo (ESP) bt Pablo Andujar (ESP) 3-6, his wild card via a reciprocal agreement among the eight players who received wild 6-3, 6-1; Kevin Anderson (RSA x15) bt Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 7-6 (7/5), 3-6, 6-1; Jared Donaldson with Tennis Australia, which will grant card entries into the main women’s draw at (USA) bt Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 7-5, 6-7 (2/7), 6-2; Borna Coric (CRO) bt Alexander Zverev (GER) 7-5, an American a wild card into next year’s Flushing Meadows. Lleyton Hewitt of Australia gestures to the 3-6, 7-6 (7/5); Jeremy Chardy (FRA) bt Rajeev Ram (USA) 6-4, 6-2; Fernando Verdasco (ESP) bt Australian Open. The other six players were Americans crowd after losing his match at the Wimbledon Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Feliciano Lopez (ESP) bt Milos Raonic (CAN x9) 7-6 (7/4), Hewitt, 34, has slipped to 162 in the rank- Louisa Chirico, 2012 US Open girls’ singles Tennis Championships in London, in this June 6-4; Marin Cilic (CRO x7) bt Joao Sousa (POR) 6-4, 6-2; Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) bt Bernard ings and is set to make his 15th appearance champion Samantha Crawford, Nicole Gibbs, 29, 2015 file photo. Tomic (AUS) 6-4, 6-1. in the US Open at Flushing Meadows, where Sofia Kenin, Jamie Loeb and Sachia Vickery. he was runner-up to Roger Federer in 2004. The US Open will be played from August 31 Second Round: Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x16) bt Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/5); Roger He says he “most likely” will retire after the to Americans Ryan Harrison, 18-year-old to September 13 at the USTA Billie Jean King Federer (SUI x2) bt Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP) 6-4, 6-4; Tomas Berdych (CZE x6) bt Thomaz Australian Open in January. Jared Donaldson, 2011 French Open boys’ National Tennis Center in Flushing, New York. Bellucci (BRA) 6-2, 6-3; Ivo Karlovic (CRO bt Martin Klizan (SVK) 6-3, 7-6 (7/2). The other US Open men’s wild cards went champion Bjorn Fratangelo, Austin Krajicek, REUTERS THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Depay scores a brace as Qatari players undergo extensive drills United gain play-off edge Red Devils fight back after own goal to beat Brugge 3-1

MANCHESTER: Memphis Depay announced himself to Old Trafford with two stylish goals as Manchester United came from behind to beat Club Brugge 3-1 in Tuesday’s Champions League play-off first leg. Bidding to reach the group phase after a first season out of the competition in 19 years, United fell behind to an early Michael Carrick own goal, only for Depay to turn the game Qatar national around before half-time with a team’s players pair of brilliant strikes. continued their Brandon Mechele was sent extensive drills in off for the visitors in the second half, but it was not until stoppage yesterday’s session time, when substitute Marouane at their ongoing Fellaini converted a cross from training camp in Depay, that Louis van Gaal’s side Austria under the truly took control of the tie, which supervision of coach concludes in Bruges next week. Jose Daniel Carreno. “It (Fellaini’s goal) makes a dif- The Maroons ference because 2-1 is a very diffi- are preparing for cult result,” said United manager the upcoming Van Gaal. FIFA World Cup “I am very happy for Memphis 2018 Qualifying because a player needs that. I said tournament. it was a matter of time and hope- fully he shall continue.” Depay told BT Sport: “It is a nice feeling to score two goals at Old Trafford. We have to travel to Bruges and finish the job.” Memphis Depay (centre) celebrates after scoring the first goal for Manchester United against Club Brugge during It had been 504 days since Old the first leg of their UEFA Champions League Qualifying Play-Off at the Old Trafford, Manchester, on Tuesday. Trafford last hosted a Champions League game and there was a tan- Al Gharafa fight back to gible sense of anticipation in the inside his marker wide on the left Shaw’s pass into his stride with air as United made a vibrant start and arced a glorious shot inside Play-off Results a delicious back-heel. to the game. the right-hand post from the cor- At Astana: Astana (KAZ) 1 (Dzholchiev 14) Romero gave the home fans a But it was the hordes in blue ner of the box. APOEL (CYP) 0 moment of discomfort when he outclass Nuremberg 3-1 and black in the East Stand who It was the first indication At Barysaw, Belarus: BATE Borisov (BLR) 1 dawdled over a back-pass, which were the first to leap from their that the Dutch winger, a £25m (Gordeychuk 75) Partizan Belgrade (SRB) 0 almost let in visiting substitute DOHA: Qatar Stars League just 3 friendly preseason matches. seats as Club Brugge took a shock ($39.1m, €35.2m) signing from At Lisbon: Sporting Lisbon (POR) 2 (Gutierrez Obbi Oulaure, but United were (QSL) side Al Gharafa SC Meanwhile, Doha giants Al eighth-minute lead. PSV Eindhoven, might have what 12, Slimani 82) CSKA Moscow (RUS) 1 otherwise untroubled. made a brilliant comeback to Sadd will meet Al Markhiya in Victor Vazquez’s free-kick from it takes to take on the mantle (Doumbia 40) Mechele saw red in the 80th overcome German side FC a preseason friendly today at the deep on the left flicked off Adnan of feted former United number minute after receiving a second Nuremberg 3-1 in a preseason Wolves training pitch. At Manchester, England: Manchester United Januzaj and in attempting to clear sevens such as George Best, Eric yellow card for a foul on substi- friendly on Tuesday. Al Sadd has already played (ENG) 3 (Depay 13, 43, Fellaini 90+4) Club the ball, Carrick succeeded only Cantona and Cristiano Ronaldo. tute Javier Hernandez and United Congolese goal machine Alain three preseason friendlies, first Brugge (BEL) 1 (Carrick 8-og) shinning it past his own goal- But for long periods of the finally made their dominance Dioko was the hero as Al Gharafa they took on Al Nasr, and then At Rome: Lazio (ITA) 1 (Keita 77) Bayer keeper, Sergio Romero, from 16 second half it looked like United count when Fellaini headed home fought back after conceding a lead played out a goalless draw against Leverkusen (GER) 0 yards. would fail to build on their lead, in the 94th minute. in the 16th minute of the first half. Al-Ain before meeting Al Wahda. It was the first goal United had with Bruzzese saving from Juan chance to complete his hat-trick “This last goal was very bad Mohsen Al Yazidi helped Al The team continued to train conceded this season, but they Mata and Depay, while Rooney in picture-book fashion, hoisting for the confidence,” said visiting Gharafa leveled the lead before on Tuesday, having two separate were level within five minutes as and Depay shot wide. the ball into the Stretford End coach Michel Preud’homme. “It’s Dioko scored two second half sessions. The first session was in Depay opened his account for the The Dutchman then spurned a after Rooney had nudged Luke a pity we let this one in.” AFP goals to give Cheetahs a com- the morning and took place inside club in style. mendable victory. Tunisian player the club gym. Picked out by Carrick’s pass, Yassine Chikhaoui also excelled in The evening session featured the Dutchman chested the ball the match. training with the ball on the club’s up and flicked it over a defender’s Pedro to join Chelsea: Reports The club’s technical team was training pitch. head before tiptoeing into the box keen to field as many players as Al Rayyan will also play a and arrowing a right-foot strike LONDON: Premier League they could in order to evaluate friendly match against Umm into the bottom-right corner. champions Chelsea have pipped the players’ level of physical and Salal on August 27 ahead of the The giant stadium erupted and Manchester United to the A picture taken technical ability. new QSL season, which will kick although Romero was required signing of Spain winger Pedro on December So far the Cheetahs have off on September 11. to field a volley from Dion Cools, Rodriguez from Barcelona, 20, 2014 shows scored an impressive 9 goals in THE PENINSULA United would not be sated. according to British press Barcelona’s Wayne Rooney had a volley reports on Wednesday. forward Pedro hooked off the line by Vazquez and The BBC reported that Chelsea Rodriguez Depay squandered a one-on-one had agreed a fee of £21m (€29.8m, celebrating by trying to find Januzaj, only to $32.9m) with the reigning after scoring Action from overcook his pass, before warming European champions and that against the preseason Sebastien Bruzzese’s palms from the 28-year-old was on a flight to Cordoba. friendly match range. London to finalise the terms of between Al The visitors’ cause was not the transfer. Gharafa and helped by the sight of veteran If completed, the deal will bring Nuremburg on skipper Timmy Simons limp- an end to a summer-long trans- Tuesday. Al ing off through injury, with fer saga surrounding Pedro, who for Barcelona in last week’s dra- Nou under Luis Enrique, who has Gharafa won Claudemir replacing him, and in had been linked to Manchester matic 5-4 extra-time defeat of preferred the all-star front three 3-1. the 43rd minute the hosts went City as well as United, although Sevilla in the UEFA Super Cup of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis ahead courtesy of another fine it was the Old Trafford club who in Tbilisi. Suarez and has used the Canary- strike from Depay. appeared most likely to sign him. However, he has fallen down Islands born player more spar- This time the 21-year-old cut Pedro scored the winning goal the pecking order at the Camp ingly. AFP Real Madrid present Kovacic Pique handed 4-game La Liga ban

MADRID: Barcelona defender in which we were playing for a lot. Gerard Pique will miss the first “However, at no moment did four matches of the new La Liga I use any type of insult towards season for abusing match offi- him.” cials in the European champi- Barcelona had appealed against ons’ Spanish Super Cup defeat the red card on Tuesday. to Athletic Bilbao. “In the arguments presented Pique was shown a straight red we wanted to make clear that the card in the second leg of the tie player did not address the assist- on Monday, which ended 1-1, for ant referee in the terms written taking his protests towards the afterwards by the referee Velasco linesman too far as Barca failed Carballo in the referee’s report,” to overcome a 4-0 first leg deficit. the said in a statement. The length of the ban was con- Barca midfielder Ivan Rakitic firmed by Spanish football’s disci- also defended his team-mate’s plinary committee yesterday. actions, claiming the referee had Pique will now miss Barca’s been too quick to produce the red daunting rematch away to Athletic card. Bilbao on Sunday and the trip to “The ban worries me because Atletico Madrid on September Pique is an important player,” he 12, as well as home games against An assistant referee looks at Barcelona’s defender Gerard Pique (right) said.” Malaga and Levante. during the Spanish Super Cup second-leg match between Barcelona and “A sending-off like that also According to the referee’s Athletic club Bilbao at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on Sunday. worries me because he spoke report, Pique seriously insulted without any bad intent, it was New Real Madrid player Mateo Kovacic (right) holds his Real Madrid shirt the linesman using abusive did not use the language alleged to the linesman wasn’t correct,” the nerves,” the Croatian said on with Real Madrid’s President Florentino Perez during his presentation at language. by the referee. he wrote on his official Twitter Tuesday. If this merits a sending- Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid, Spain, yesterday. However, despite apologising “I want to apologise because the account. off there will be many in every for his actions, Pique insisted he attitude with which I protested “It was a game of great tension game.” AFP Thursday 20 August 2015 5 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 Volume 20 Number 6528 Sport Price: QR2 Leading newspaper from Nepal ICC ready to Federer lift bans on returns with

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DOHA: Hosts Qatar take on August 24, Qatar play the UAE in neighbouring Saudi Arabia in their second clash of the tourna- their first match of the GCC ment. The same day Kuwait play U-17 Cup that kicks off today. Bahrain. In the first match of the event, The six teams are divided into Oman will play Kuwait while two groups. Group A includes Qatar take on Saudi Arabia in Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain. the second match of opening day. In Group B, Qatar is tagged The first match starts at along with Saudi Arabia and the 4:00pm while the second clash UAE. kicks-off at 6:45pm. The organising committee yes- After a day’s rest, Saudi Arabia terday conducted the technical will tackle the UAE while Oman meetings involving officials of all battle Bahrain on August 22. the six participating teams. On the third match day on The semi-finals of the nine-day event will be played on August 27. The all-important title clash GCC U-17 Cup will take place on August 29. Earlier, Qatar featured in a Schedule five-national football event in Mexico at the start of August in Today preparation for this tournament. Meanwhile, Qatar’s Olympic 4:00pm: Oman vs Kuwait, 6:45pm: Qatar vs squad has arrived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia QFA said yesterday. August 22 4:00pm: Saudi Arabia vs UAE, Before arriving in Switzerland, 6:45pm: Oman vs Bahrain Qatar squad camped in Austria for the first phase of their two- August 24 4:00pm: Qatar vs UAE, 6:45pm: stop European tip. Kuwait vs Bahrain Qatar’s Europe-based players August 26 4:00pm: 5/6th place play off including captain Akram Afif will August 27 4:00pm: First semi-final, 7:00pm: also feature in the on-going camp, Second semi-final QFA said. Qatar is coached by Felix August 29 4:00pm: 3rd/4th place play-off Sanchez who guided the team to 7:00pm: The final the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup held in New Zealand in June this Group A:Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain Qatar coach Arno Buitenweg (second left) along with Qatari player Abdulaziz Saud (second right) and other members of the team, speaks at the press year. conference on the eve of his team’s opening GCC U-17 Cup match against Saudi Arabia, yesterday. PICTURE: BAHER AMIN Group B: Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE THE PENINSULA

South Africa Sebastian Coe elected as IAAF President down Kiwis BEIJING: Britain’s Sebastian this problem.” Diack added: “We remember that “everything done Coe beat Sergey Bubka in a tight spend millions of dollars every in terms of anti-doping in sport in first ODI vote to become the new presi- year to ensure athletes are pro- comes from athletics”. dent of world athletics body the tected and remain clean. But doping issues will never- IAAF yesterday with a series of “For weeks, people are talk- theless feature prominently at CENTURION: South Africa doping controversies at the top ing about doping in athletics, the the Bird’s Nest stadium when beat New Zealand by 20 runs in of his agenda. sport has turned into a monster US sprinter Justin Gatlin, twice the first one-day international Coe received 115 votes to in the eyes of newspapers, saying banned for drugs but now in the at SuperSport Park, yesterday. Bubka’s 92, and will take over everyone is doped. form of his life aged 33, takes on It was the first ODI between from Lamine Diack, who used his “Opinions are swayed in this Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt in the two sides since the Kiwis beat departing speech to take a defiant way.” the 100m on the opening weekend. their opponents in the World Cup stab at the sport’s doping detrac- Diack said it was important to AFP semi-final earlier this year. AFP tors, saying they had painted ath- letics as a “monster”. Dahlan re-elected as IAAF Vice-President Scoreboard Coe likened his victory, at an International Association of SOUTH AFRICA Athletics Federations (IAAF) M van Wyk c McCullum b McClenaghan ...16 congress in Beijing, to celebrat- H Amla b Milne ...... 124 ing the birth of his four children. R Rossouw b McClenaghan ...... 89 “For most of us in this room, A de Villiers c Latham b Milne ...... 9 we would conclude that the birth D Miller c Milne b Neesham ...... 14 of our children is a big moment F Behardien (run out-McClenaghan) ...... 15 in our lives, probably the big- D Wiese (run out-McClenaghan) ...... 14 gest,” London-born Coe, 58, told Newly elected President of International Association of Athletics V Philander (not out) ...... 0 the congress. Federations Sebastian Coe listens to a question at a news conference Extras (B4, LB4, W15) ...... 23 “But I have to say that being in Beijing, yesterday. Total (for 7 wkts in 50 overs) ...... 304 given the opportunity to work Fall of wickets: 1-46, 2-231, 3-252, 4-258, with all of you and shape the 5-286. future of our sport is probably medallist for Britain in 1980 and allegations as “sensationalist and Bowling: McCullum 5-0-29-0 (1w), Milne the second biggest and (most) 1984 and also set eight outdoor confusing” and also dismissed a 10-0-51-2 (5w), McClenaghan 10-1-72-2 momentous occasion of my life. and three indoor world records later Sunday Times report that it (1w), Neesham 7-0-47-1 (3w), Sodhi 10-1- “In the best traditions of eve- in middle-distance track events. blocked the publication of a docu- 55-0, Elliott 4-0-23-0 (1w), Munro 4-0-19-0. rything in what we believe in our “Our sport is in safe hands,” ment showing extensive doping NEW ZEALAND sport, it was fought according to Diack said. among top athletes. T Latham lbw Philander ...... 60 sound judgement throughout.” “The white-haired generation Diack, in his outgoing speech, L Ronchi c Amla b Steyn ...... 1 Bubka had also stood for re- has done what it can, now it’s over again rounded on the media’s por- K Williamson c (sub-Elgar) b Imran Tahir ...47 election as IAAF vice-president, to the black-haired generation,” trayal of doping in athletics. M Guptill c Miller b Wiese ...... 25 and the former pole vault cham- he added. “We have the world champion- G Elliott c Miller b Philander ...... 4 pion from Ukraine was duly voted Coe’s first job as IAAF presi- ships here in Beijing and people J Neesham c Van Wyk b Wiese ...... 41 in to the post along with Qatari dent will be to defend athletics will say 80 percent of the athletes C Munro lbw Imran Tahir ...... 33 Dahlan al-Hamad, Cameroon’s from stinging allegations of wide- are bound to test positive. That’s Qatar’s Dahlan Al Hamad was re-elected as International Association N McCullum c Behardien b Rabada ...... 10 Hamad Kalkaba Malboum and spread doping which threaten to absolutely not true,” he said. of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Vice-President for a new four-year term. A Milne (not out) ...... 15 Cuban Alberto Juantorena. cast a dark cloud over the world “All champions need to be M McClenaghan b Steyn ...... 16 “This is my life. I continue to championships which kick off on tested regularly,” he said, citing Al Hamad was re-elected at the 50th IAAF Congress which was held in Beijing, yesterday, on the sidelines of the IAAF World Championships due I Sodhi (run out-Philander) ...... 0 serve athletics with dignity and Saturday in Beijing. the establishment of the US Anti- Extras (B-5, LB-15, NB-2, W-10) ...... 32 to kick off in Beijing next Saturday. Nine candidates competed for the big passion,” said Bubka. The credibility of both athlet- Doping Agency (USADA) which Total (all out in 48.1 overs) ...... 284 four vice-president positions. The voting was as follows: Ukraine’s Sergey “I am a happy man... it was a ics and the IAAF has come under cut down on the number of posi- Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-107, 3-148, 4-156, great and interesting campaign, repeated attack in recent weeks, tive tests that came to light in the Bubka 187 votes, Qatar’s Dahlan Al Hamad 159 votes, Cameroon’s Hamad 5-158, 6-229, 7-243, 8-251, 9-283. which is really important for this after British and German media United States in the 1990s. Kalkaba Malboum 115 votes, and Cuba’s Alberto Juantorena Danger Bowling: Steyn 9-0-50-2 (1w); Philander sport.” said a leaked database of 12,000 “If all countries followed that 111 votes. Al Hamad is President of Qatar Athletics Federation (QAF) as 10-1-51-2 (3w); Rabada 9.1-0-49-1 (2nb; Diack said track and field tests had revealed “extraordi- example, in Kenya, Morocco, well as President of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA). He has been 6w); Imran Tahir 10-0-40-2; Wiese 7-0-63- would prosper with Coe, who was nary” levels of doping. Ethiopia and Turkey, and else- a Council Member of IAAF since 2003 and Vice President since 2007. 2; Behardien 3-0-11-0. a two-time Olympic 1500m gold The IAAF slammed the where, it will enable us to resolve