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WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 • 6 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6499 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar denies Tonnes of fruits links with US shooter and vegetables DOHA: Qatar has denied any links with the man suspected of killing five members of the US military in Tennessee last week. destroyed “We are aware of reports linking the suspect of the recent tragedy in Tennessee Kilo Market reopens after fire to Qatar,” the Government Communications Office said in DOHA: Several tonnes of On Sunday, officials removed a statement yesterday. fruits and vegetables stored entire consignments stored at “The man identified as at the Central Market were retail outlets and sealed whole- Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez destroyed by authorities in sale shops which also had a huge transited through Hamad two days following the massive volume of stocks. International Airport from fire that had gutted nearby On Monday morning, officials Amman, Jordan, to the US in wholesale grocery shops. started removing entire stocks November 2014,” the office said. The Ministry of Economy and from wholesale outlets, accord- “At no time did Mr Abdulazeez Commerce, in collaboration with ing to traders. A ship carrying food aid for United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) docks at the southern port of Aden enter Qatar. Statements sug- the Ministry of Municipality “The decision could have in Yemen, yesterday. gesting he entered the country and Urban Planning, collected been taken as a precautionary are false.” entire stocks. measure as the lethal smoke The office said Qatar con- The fresh batch of produce might have turned fruits and demns such criminal as those ‘contaminated’ by the blaze was vegetables unfit for human in Tennessee, that terrorise and collected in an open ground and consumption. UN aid ship docks in Aden kill innocent people. ministry staff crushed it with “But we lost thousands of riy- These acts are contrary to the help of machines. als for no fault of ours. Who is ADEN: A UN aid ship docked past weeks to deliver aid but was impoverished country was “one humanitarian values, ethics, Later, garbage trucks were going to compensate us?” asked in Yemen’s devastated port city unable to do so because of security step away from famine”. More principles and religions, the brought in to remove the pro- a trader. of Aden yesterday, bringing in concerns. Vessels sent by the UAE than 21.1 million people — over statement said, stressing the duce for disposal. Habib Hasan, a trader in the relief supplies after four months managed to reach the city in May, 80 percent of the population — need for unity and solidarity Senior officials from both Central Market, said the fire of fierce fighting between rebels but not under the UN flag. need aid, with 13 million facing to renounce violence and reject ministries were present on was caused by a short circuit and loyalist fighters. A humanitarian ceasefire food shortages. terrorism in all its forms and Monday to supervise the dis- in an air-conditioning unit at The humanitarian aid arrived declared by the UN earlier this The UN said the conflict had manifestations whatever its posal process to ensure ‘con- a grocery store on the second as forces loyal to exiled President month failed to take hold. WFP killed more than 3,640 people, motives and causes. taminated’ fruits and vegetable floor. The blaze then spread Abdarabuh Mansur Hadi pressed described the truce as the “final half of them civilians. Over the Qatar wishes to express sin- do not reach dining tables. quickly due to heavy wind. on with operations to tighten hope” to deliver aid and had sent past week, forces loyal to Hadi cere condolences to the US The grocery shops that were Workers around shops could their control over the southern relief ahead of the truce to the have recaptured most of Aden government, people and the gutted in Sunday’s fire had a not switch off the main power city. rebel-controlled port of Hodeida from Houthi Shia rebels and bereaved families, the office huge stock of consumer prod- switch because the control “This is the first boat carrying in the west, but the insurgents did their allies. The loyalist advances added. ucts containing chemical agents room was closed. According to the UN flag to dock in Aden since not allow the convoy to travel to were backed by warplanes from Abdulazeez, a Kuwaiti-born such as detergents, toiletries the trader, power supply was the war began” in late March, Aden. a Saudi-led Arab coalition that naturalised US citizen, was and other cleaning products. disconnected only after Civil provincial Governor Nayef Al Basalmeh said a UAE techni- began a bombing campaign killed in a gunfight with police Thick smokes billowing from Defence officials arrived. Bakri told reporters at the port cal team had arrived to repair the against the rebels in late March. after he sprayed gunfire at a the blaze had engulfed the Traders said the design of before a second vessel also docked. tower and passenger terminal at The coalition has never military recruiting centre in nearby vegetables market for the buildings also helped the Transport Minister Badr Aden international airport, dam- acknowledged putting boots on Chattanooga, then drove to a hours. fire spread quickly. The build- Basalmeh said the second ship aged in clashes before rebels were the ground, but loyalists have nearby Naval Reserve Centre Health officials from the ings in the market are very old was sent by the UAE. driven out. been reinforced in Aden by forces where he shot and killed four Ministry of Municipality and and hardly equipped with fire- The UN’s World Food The UAE said without elabo- trained by the coalition. Marines. Urban Planning reportedly fighting facilities. Programme ship carried 4,700 rating that an officer of its armed Earlier, exiled Prime Minister Three people were wounded, advised higher authorities that Shops in the Central Market tonnes of food and pharmaceu- forces was killed in coalition oper- Khaled Bahah declared Aden including a sailor who later suc- the produce that got exposed resumed trading yesterday after tical aid, and the second 2,315 ations, the third Emirati to die in liberated, although rebel pockets cumbed to injuries. to ‘toxic fumes’ is not safe for remaining closed for two days. tonnes of medical aid. the conflict. have fought on in some districts. QNA/AGENCIES human consumption. THE PENINSULA WFP had tried repeatedly in The UN had warned that the AGENCIES

Syria town raided Iran leader’s Obama lists Americans held remarks very in Iran, calls for their release troubling: Kerry PITTSBURGH: President Barack Obama yesterday listed Americans held in Iran by name and said the US will not give up DUBAI: The US said yesterday until they are returned. “We are not going to relent until we bring it was disturbed by anti-US hos- home our Americans who are unjustly detained in Iran,” Obama tility voiced by Iran’s top leader said in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars group. after a nuclear deal, as both “Journalist Jason Rezaian should be released. Pastor Saeed Abedini countries’ top diplomats sought should be released. Amir Hekmati, a former sergeant in the US Marine to calm opposition to the accord Corps, should be released. Iran needs to help us find Robert Levinson,” from hardliners at home. Obama said. Secretary of State John Kerry said a speech by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday Turkey may hold snap polls vowing to defy US policies in the ANKARA: Turkey faces a 50-50 chance of being plunged into a region despite a deal with world snap election, as the ruling AK Party may balk at entering formal powers over Tehran’s nuclear pro- negotiations for a coalition government with the main opposition, a gramme was “very troubling”. senior AKP member said yesterday. “I don’t know how to interpret Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is seen as favouring early polls, it at this point in time, except to an option that would give the AKP he founded a chance to win back take it at face value, that that’s a majority and revive his hopes of furnishing his post with the strong his policy,” he told Saudi-owned executive powers he seeks. AKP Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Al Arabiya television. AGENCIES needs to find a junior coalition partner after June elections where it See also page 5 Syrian children sit atop debris after what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to President Bashar Al lost the single-party majority it had enjoyed since 2002. Assad on Arbin town in Damascus countryside, yesterday. See also page 4 The AKP has started “exploratory” talks with the main opposition People’s Republican Party (CHP), but progress appears to be slow. “There is a 50-50 chance of a government partnership or an early election,” Culture and Tourism Minister Omer Celik told reporters Seven Bahrain fishermen arrested with two boats after talks with senior CHP member Haluk Koc for nearly two hours. Coalition talks need around 10 to 15 more days, after which presenta- DOHA: Qatari Coast Guard (22), Valan Abel (31), Anish the fishermen in Qatari jail. We embassy in Qatar have report- tions will be made to party leaders, he added. “If it is decided that there has taken seven Bahrain-based Kuttan (28), Vinith Baskar (25) understand that a court hearing edly contacted a friend of one is ground for forming a coalition, there will be a move from exploratory Indian fishermen and their and Suresh Varghese (34) — all will be on August 3, and we will of the fishermen in Bahrain and talks to negotiations... If it is decided that it is not possible to form a two fishing boats into custody, from the southern Indian states have to pay BHD3,000 (about collected further details. coalition, the process will be halted.” after they strayed into Qatar’s of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. QR28,973) to release them and Justin Antony, Founder territorial waters. Valan’s brother Ramesh told their boats,” he added. President of the trust, said the Indian community sources this newspaper over telephone Tamil Nadu Fishermen next hearing is expected to take Plea to drop Arafat death probe told The Peninsula the fisher- from Bahrain: “The boats left Development Trust said the place in the first week of August. men ventured into the deep sea for fishing on July 3. The fisher- Indian embassy in Doha and It is learnt that of the seven NANTERRE: A French prosecutor said yesterday there was no from Bahrain on July 3 and were men contacted other boats in the Bahrain have been informed fishermen, one has been work- case to answer regarding the death of Palestinian leader Yasser arrested on July 5. morning of July 4 through wire- about the arrest, with a ing in Bahrain for 15 years Arafat, whose widow alleges he was poisoned. Arafat died near They have been identified as less phones and said they were request for consular support for and another for less than two Paris in November 2004 and his widow lodged a case in 2012 at a Raviston Soosai (38), Praveen in the custody of Qatari forces. fishermen. months. court in Nanterre, north of the capital Paris. Anthony (34), Sujin Sesaiya “The khafeel (sponsor) visited Officials from the Indian THE PENINSULA AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

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THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Leaders greet Belgian king Qatar Transport Forum in September DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Ministry to host MEED forum to facilitate open dialogue with local investors, industries has sent a cable of congratula- tions to King Philippe Leopold DOHA: Under the patronage processing, manufacturing and The forum will address invest- systems and ‘Transport and the Commerce. Louis Marie of Belgium on his of Prime Minister and Interior logistics industries in Qatar to ment opportunities and devel- Environment’. International investors include country’s National Day. Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah meet the needs of regional and opment projects such as Doha The ministry and MEED are regional agents and manufactur- Deputy Emir H H Sheikh bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, international markets. Metro, Hamad Port Project, engaging with ministries and ing and supply companies in the Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani the Ministry of Transport will The forum will also be an Hamad International Airport, government agencies, includ- transport sector, including indus- also sent a congratulatory cable host Qatar Transport Forum opportunity for local, regional, Bus Operation Plan, Water Taxis, ing Public Works Authority tries such as car windshield, tyres, to King Philippe. 2015 at Sheraton Doha from and international businesses, highways, vehicle assembly facto- (Ashghal), Civil Aviation seats, upholstery, engines, trans- Prime Minister and Interior September 15 to 16. project managers, technology ries, truck warehouses, parking, Authority, Mowasalat (Karwa), mission, pumps, electrical parts, Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin It will highlight plans, initia- providers and industry experts to cruise ships docks and the minis- Hamad Port Project, Qatar Rail, wiring, indicators and lights, Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent tives and projects such as Hamad display expertise and learn about try’s commitments in the lead-up Qatar Gas Transport Company painting, trailers, car structures, a similar cable to King Philippe. Port, Civil Aviation Authority, investment opportunities in the to hosting FIFA 2022 World Cup. (Nakilat), Qatar Navigation plastics and car and cruise ships. Qatar Ports, Karwa, Civil Aviation transport sector. It will highlight industries being Company (Milaha), Economic The ministry aims to showcase Qatar slams College and Qatar Rail. Key topics include forecasts, set up to supply parts and compo- Zones Company (Manateq), international transport systems Organised by MEED, the forum project updates and measures by nents required by the transport United Arab Shipping Company adopted by Qatar while encourag- Algeria attacks will provide a platform for the of the transport sector such as sector, public-private partner- (UASC), transport operators, ing local industries to transform ministry for open dialogue with how the ministry plans to stream- ship opportunities, national road automotive dealers, investment Qatar into a regional commercial DOHA: Qatar has condemned local investors on establishing line and integrate transport. safety strategy, smart transport banks and Qatar Chamber of hub. THE PENINSULA armed attacks in the province of Ain Defla in Algeria that killed nine soldiers and three police- men and injured two others. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry stressed Qatar’s soli- UAE’s private healthcare Second CMC meeting darity with Algeria in confront- ing acts of violence that aimed to destabilise security and terrorise innocent people. on September 2 It reiterated Qatar’s firm group to enter Qatar stance on renouncing violence and DOHA: New-elected Central Municipal Council (CMC) mem- terrorism in all their forms and DOHA: A major UAE-based ‘increasing healthcare expendi- entering the key markets of Qatar bers for the fifth term will hold second meeting on September 2 manifestations whatever their private healthcare group is set to ture, high prevalence of chronic and Saudi Arabia,” said Dr B R to set up service and public facility, legal, complaints and council motives and causes. QNA enter Qatar’s healthcare sector. and lifestyle diseases, aging popu- Shetty, Executive Vice Chairman affair panels, among others. The fifth term is expected to be NMC Health, the emir- lation, lack of dedicated long-term and Chief Executive Officer, NMC challenging as members will discuss issues, including internal QU orientation for ate’s leading integrated health- care facilities and a substantial Health. regulations, new headquarters for CMC and recommendations care provider, announced it has number of patients seeking treat- The acquisition of ProVita forwarded by the previous council. Chairman Mohamed bin teaching staff entered into an agreement to ment abroad. marks the entry of NMC into Hamood Al Shaifi urged members to cooperate and study and acquire ‘ProVita’, another lead- ProVita focuses on chronic ven- the strategic under-supplied long- understand CMC laws. He said it is important for them to under- DOHA: The Human Resource ing provider of long-term medi- tilator-dependent patients, who term care market, he added. stand CMC’s relations with the Ministry of Municipality and Department at Qatar University cal care in the UAE, which has require regular medical nursing According to market researcher Urban Planning, Ashghal and other ministries and departments. (QU) will hold an orienta- announced its interest in Qatari and rehabilitative treatments in BMI, Qatar’s healthcare sector is tion meeting for teaching staff market. a non-hospital environment. projected to experience strong QR600m saved on gas usage to under the theme ‘Marhaba’ The London-listed NMC The health provider has built a growth going forward. A sizeable from August 16 to 27. Health, in a regulatory filing to strong reputation in the market expansion projects in the sec- produce power and water The meeting, to be headed by the bourse, said it has entered since its establishment, devel- tor are underway in the coun- Dr Hassan Rashid Al Derham, into an agreement to acquire oping solid relationships with try. Government spending will DOHA: Qatar has saved around QR600m by reducing use of President, QU, aims to groom 100 percent of the issued share healthcare facilities and authori- remain elevated. Growing private gas for production of electricity and water, said Engineer Saleh teaching staff about QU and dis- capital of ProVita International ties, thereby securing a steady sector engagement will also drive Hamad Al Marri, Chairman, Renewable Energy Technology, cuss topics related to QU’s organi- Medical Center (ProVita), pro- flow of patient referrals. the country’s healthcare market Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa). sational structure, its rules and vider of long-term medical care “ProVita fits into the wider growth. He was speaking at a forum in Milano Exhibition 2015 in Italy. He regulations and administration. in the UAE. group strategy of positioning “We are awaiting approvals for said Kahramaa has put a plan in place to rationalise and increase In the last academic year, QU The acquisition is due to be NMC as an integrated healthcare investments in Saudi Arabia and efficiency of energy production and consumption, Al Sharq reports. hired 220 teaching staff from completed by Q3, 2015. provider, establishing centres of Qatar that could happen soon,” The electricity project using solar energy aims to reduce carbon over 40 countries to meet the ProVita has been exploring excellence across identified spe- Prasanth Manghat, Deputy Chief emissions and meet two percent of total electricity demand. Other increasing number of students. expansion into Qatar, where it cialities and along the care path- Executive, told Reuters. “We are speakers spoke about the importance of sustainable energy. Staff strength this year stands has identified as priority mar- way in its core market. ProVita looking at some international THE PENINSULA at around 1,130. kets due the country’s reportedly has been progressing towards players.” THE PENINSULA Motorists call for training in use of fire extinguisher during emergency DOHA: Many people have Another said, “Every time I check the fuel tank. requested authorities on social see a car burning, people are just The ministry said they should media to organise training and standing and waving hands to make sure there is no leakage demonstration sessions on the stay away, then people get out of of fuel as it could lead to a fire use of a fire extinguisher in case their cars for sightseeing, while and should ensure the radiator of emergency, especially if a waiting for firefighters.” is working. vehicle catches fire. The ministry said: “Fire inci- It said all motorists should As temperatures soar in sum- dents in vehicles are very dan- conduct periodic maintenance of mer and fire incidents increase, gerous as they can lead to major electrical wires and replace them the Ministry of Interior (MoI) material and human loss.” if damaged. had shared on social media Fire cases occur increasingly in They should not stop their important tips that can prevent the summer months due to high vehicles near generators or flam- fire outbreaks. temperatures, the neglect of vehi- mable materials and should not In response, people have sought cles and due to not checking the smoke in the car or at a petrol training sessions to learn how to vehicles on a regular basis. station. use a fire extinguisher. Most accidents happen in the “We urge you to inspect the “It is not about having only a front side of the car. vehicle before starting it (the fire extinguisher in the car, the “To ensure safety from these engine, the bottom of the car and person must also be familiar with accidents, we advise motorists to tyres), and ensure there is a fire steps to use it in case of a fire and take precautions in such circum- extinguisher in the vehicle,” the how to maintain the equipment,” stances,” the ministry said. ministry said. said a commentator. Motorists were also advised to THE PENINSULA

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SURUC, TURKEY: Turkey said yes- partners. He said the cabinet would dis- terday it had identified a suspect over a cuss today an “action plan” on border devastating suicide bombing on the bor- security and the government will then der with Syria blamed on Islamic State take the “necessary measures”. jihadists, as the government rushed to “Conflicts abroad should not be allowed bolster security on the porous frontier. to spread to Turkey,” he said. Thirty-two people were killed and Turkey has long been accused by its more than 100 wounded on Monday when Western partners of not doing enough a bomb ripped through a crowd of young to halt the rise of IS and even colluding socialist activists in a mainly Kurdish with the group, allegations it vehemently region preparing to take aid over the denies. border into Syria. So far, Turkey has not played a full role The attack in Suruc was one of the in the US-led coalition against IS and deadliest in Turkey in recent years and has been wary of backing the jihadists’ the first time the government has directly Kurdish opponents, saying the priority is accused the IS group of carrying out an the ousting of Syrian President Bashar act of terror on Turkish soil. Al Assad. In harrowing scenes yesterday, loved But Davutoglu said the government ones of the dead clutched the coffins of had “never had any direct or indirect con- the victims in a farewell ceremony in the nection with any terrorist organisation”. nearby city of Gaziantep ahead of their Ankara has in the last weeks appeared burial in towns across Turkey. to take a harder line against the IS group, “One suspect has been identified. All rounding up dozens of suspected mem- the (suspect’s) links internationally and bers in Istanbul and other cities. domestically are being investigated,” Nihat Ali Ozcan, security expert at Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Ankara-based TEPAV think-tank, said in the regional centre of Sanliurfa after the Suruc attack showed the confron- visiting the wounded in hospital. tation between IS and Kurdish groups He added there was a “high probabil- within Syria was “spilling over to Turkish ity” the attack was caused by a suicide soil”. bomber with connections to IS jihadists. “The attack could trigger ideological, “We expect this investigation to be ethnic and political fault lines in Turkey,” concluded as soon as possible,” he said. he told AFP. Davutoglu said the death toll had risen Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (second left), accompanied by his wife Sare Davutoglu, visits a survivor wounded in Monday’s The activists from the Federation of to 32 and that 29 injured victims were bomb attack in Suruc, Sanliurfa, Turkey, yesterday. Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) had still in hospital. arrived in Suruc to take part in a rebuild- “What is necessary will be done against ing mission for Kobane, which Kurdish whoever responsible for (the attack),” government that seven IS members — agency said the person was a 20-year-old swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq forces had retaken from IS earlier this Davutoglu said. three of them women — had crossed into Turkish man who had become involved right up to the Turkish border, has so far year. “This is an attack that targeted the country in recent weeks with the aim with IS two months ago. not claimed the Suruc bombing. Pictures posted on social media showed Turkey.” of carrying out attacks. Davutoglu declined to give any further But Davutoglu said Turkey was taking the toys they had planned to take over The Hurriyet daily said Turkey’s intel- Previous reports had suggested the details on the identity. steps to improve border security, which for the children of Kobane. ligence agency had previously warned the bomber was a woman but the DIHA news The IS group, which has claimed has long been criticised by its Western AFP

Missile kills Syrian Islamist rebel group says it will shield minorities 18 civilians BEIRUT: A conservative and sharing its ideology. politically moderate, against Free Syrian Army that has been protecting minority communities Islamist rebel group said yes- The group is a major force expecting a Sunni political eclipsed by Islamists. and enabling them to play a real terday it would protect Syria’s despite its senior leadership movement in its own image. Groups fighting under the FSA and positive role in the country’s in Syria’s minorities, pressing a campaign being wiped out in an attack last “Those expecting a “perfect” banner still have a strong pres- future.” He also criticised the in Western media to address September. Sunni alternative according ence in the south near the border British government and its allies concerns about one of the most One of its slain leaders, Abu to Western liberal standard with Jordan. Nahhas said Ahrar for failing to take action against Aleppo powerful insurgent forces fight- Khaled Al Soury, had fought are sure to be disappointed,” Al Sham fought to defend Syrians Assad. ing President Bashar Al Assad. alongside Al Qaeda founder Nahhas wrote. and was battling the army, allied Noah Bonsey, a senior analyst Ahrar Al Sham is an ultra Osama bin Laden and was close The fate of minorities, including Iran-backed Shia fighters and with International Crisis Group, BEIRUT: A missile fired by orthodox Salafist group and part to its current chief Ayman Assad’s own Alawite sect, is one the ultra hardline Islamic State said the editorials pointed to “sig- Syrian forces killed at least 18 of a military alliance includ- Al Zawahiri, links that have com- of the concerns raised by Western group, which controls large tracts nificant ideological, strategic, and civilians yesterday in a residen- ing the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra plicated Western cooperation. officials. In an interview broad- of northern and eastern Syria. political differences” distinguishing tial neighbourhood of the old Front that captured nearly all of Writing in the Telegraph, cast in May, the Nusra Front “Ahrar Al Sham wants to see Ahrar and other rebels from the quarter of Aleppo city, a moni- the northwestern province of Idlib Ahrar’s foreign affairs director leader urged Alawites to renounce the end to Assad’s reign, (Islamic likes of Al Qaeda and Islamic State. toring group said. from Assad earlier this year. Labib Al Nahhas said his faction, Assad and change their beliefs to State) comprehensively defeated “Those disagreements may at “The missile struck when peo- But in two opinion pieces this whose name means “Free men of remain safe. and a stable and representa- some point grow into larger rifts, ple were still inside their homes in month — one in the Washington Syria”, was a “mainstream Sunni Western states, alarmed by tive government in Damascus,” but for now are largely set aside the Maghayir district. It killed 18 Post and a second in Britain’s Islamist group deeply rooted in the rise of the Nusra Front and Nahhas wrote. in favour of tactical coordination civilians, including one child, and Daily Telegraph — the group has the revolutionary landscape”. Islamic State, have been reluctant “We would like to see a political toward shared objectives against wounded dozens of others,” said distanced itself from Al Qaeda’s But he also cautioned the to support Islamists in the war, system that respects the identity the Assad regime and Daesh,” he Rami Abdel Rahman, Director brand of cross-border jihadism. West, which has preferred instead backing factions grouped and legitimate political aspira- said. Daesh is an Arabic name for of the Syrian Observatory for It has denied organisational ties to deal with rebels it deems loosely under the banner of the tions of Syria’s majority while Islamic State. REUTERS Human Rights. “There are many people still stuck in the rubble, and ambu- lances are going back and forth transporting people,” Abdel Rahman said. Photos published by his Britain- US defence chief meets Israel Gaza jihadists threaten based monitoring group showed crumbling walls surrounded by a sea of dusty cinderblocks. to fire rockets at Israel Groups of men, some wearing PM to ease tension over Iran the white helmets of civil defence GAZA CITY: Jihadists in the “The results will be catastrophic, volunteers, trudged through the JERUSALEM: US Defence Gaza Strip have threatened to will benefit no one, and it will be rubble. Secretary Ashton Carter met fire rockets at Israel in response Hamas who shoulders the respon- More than 35 homes were Prime Minister Benjamin to a Hamas crackdown on sibility,” it said. destroyed, the Observatory said. Netanyahu yesterday to try extremists in the Palestinian Israeli Prime Minister Once Syria’s commercial hub, to ease tensions over the Iran territory. The threat came in Benjamin Netanyahu holds Aleppo is divided between rebel nuclear deal, as the Israeli reaction to the arrest of militants Hamas responsible for any rocket groups entrenched in the east and leader urged lawmakers in suspected of targeting members fire at the Jewish state from the government troops in the western Washington to reject the hard- of Hamas’s armed wing Sunday coastal enclave. neighbourhoods. won agreement. with a series of bombings. The military struck Hamas It has suffered devastating The two men greeted each other “The Salafists have decided to facilities in Gaza last week after damage as each side tries to dis- with a long handshake before respond to these crimes and these militants fired a rocket into lodge the other. entering talks that lasted nearly blows dealt by Hamas by pointing southern Israel. Rights groups have criticised two hours, making no public com- rockets towards the occupation Hamas is engaged in a power both sides for indiscriminate ment about the tensions over the (Israel) and carrying out repris- struggle with smaller extrem- attacks on civilians, including nuclear accord that Netanyahu als,” said a statement released ist groups, including Salafists in with the regime’s notorious bar- has harshly condemned. online late Monday. Gaza, which is home to 1.8 mil- rel bombs. Their meeting came on the Hamas police arrested a dozen lion people and has been ravaged The Observatory said running final day of Carter’s visit to Israel, US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter (second right) and Israeli Minister “mujahedeen” after Sunday’s by three wars with Israel in six water was restored yesterday in the first stop on a regional tour of Defence Moshe Ya’alon (second left) look out the window of a UH-60 explosions, which destroyed five years. On Sunday, five near-simul- Aleppo after a cut of more than aimed at reassuring US allies who Blackhawk helicopter during their visit to the Israel-Lebanon border. cars. The jihadist statement taneous explosions targeted mem- three weeks, apparently after have concerns over the Iran deal. accused Gaza’s rulers of staging bers of the armed branches of an understanding between the He is also to travel to Jordan and begin adapting to the agreement, Israel remained “the bedrock of the blasts as an excuse to crack Hamas and Islamic Jihad, another regime and Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Saudi Arabia. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister American strategy in the Middle down on Salafist extremists. Islamist group. AFP Syria, Al Nusra Front. On Monday, Carter met Israeli Tzipi Hotovely said yesterday East”. Al Nusra, which controls the Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon opposition would be maintained Under the July 14 agreement, pumping station in a rebel-held and signalled the United States in the hope of influencing the US Iran agreed to dismantle or moth- district, had cut off supplies was ready to boost military coop- Congress. ball much of its nuclear industry 4 of Saudi family killed in crash to pressure the government to eration with the Jewish state. US lawmakers have 60 days to in return for an easing and even- restore electricity to areas under He also toured the country’s review the agreement, though tual lifting of sanctions. RIYADH: Four members of a two daughters died on the spot, its control. northern border with Lebanon their chances of derailing it are World powers called it an his- Saudi family were killed yes- while their three sons suffered The rebels turned the water for an assessment of the threat viewed as slim. toric opportunity to set relations terday when their car hit a serious injuries, it said. back on after the regime caved in Israel says Hezbollah poses. “We must not think that our with Iran on a new path, but the stray camel in the desert king- A picture published by SPA and restored electricity supplies, Iran is accused of supporting fight is pointless,” Hotovely said. deal has faced opposition from dom, the Red Crescent said. showed a dead camel lying in a according to the Observatory. militants in the region, includ- “We must continue to influence hardliners both in Tehran and The accident took place in pool of blood in the middle of a Elsewhere in the war-battered ing Israeli enemies Hezbollah and the Americans and prevent the Washington. the southwestern region of road blocked by police vehicles. country, the Syrian army and its Hamas, and Israel argues that the lifting of sanctions.” Yesterday, Iranian Foreign Jazan, Red Crescent spokesman Legal experts have called for allies from Lebanon’s Shia mili- expected lifting of sanctions under Carter sought Monday to Minister Mohammad Javad Bishi Al Sarkhi said in a state- penalising owners of camels that tia Hezbollah captured more ter- the nuclear accord will allow it to address Israel’s worries that Zarif defended the agreement in ment carried by SPA state news cause road accidents, Arab News ritory inside Zabadani, the last boost help for such groups. the deal with its arch-foe Iran a speech to parliament in Tehran, agency. reported in March. rebel-held town on the two coun- While some have urged the meant Washington was shifting saying “we should not forget that A father, mother and their AFP tries’ border. AFP government to move on and its focus in the region, saying any deal is a give and take”. AFP WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Saudi considers nuclear options after Iran deal Riyadh will have to build a nuclear weapon to counter threat from Iran, say experts

RIYADH: One likely Saudi Arabian and the life-and-death import it places powers. The pair’s relationship has weak- response to the deal its biggest enemy on the struggle with Iran, or whether it ened in recent years, but while they dis- Iran has struck with world powers is to is bluffing. agree on what role Washington should accelerate its own nuclear power plans, They are also split on whether inter- take in the Middle East, the US remains creating an atomic infrastructure it national pressure via meaningful sanc- Saudi Arabia’s chief security guarantor, could, one day, seek to weaponise. tions could be imposed on a country so it retains considerable leverage over But while it has recently made moves to whose economy depends almost entirely Riyadh. advance its nuclear programme, experts on trade, but whose ability to maintain Saudi Arabia’s unique place in world say it is uncertain whether it could real- massive oil exports is critical for global energy — it is not only the largest istically build an atomic bomb in secret or energy markets. exporter but maintains a large cushion withstand the political pressure it would What senior Saudis have consistently of excess output capacity giving it unpar- face if such plans were revealed. said about the Iranian nuclear deal is alleled leverage over oil prices at a cost “I think Saudi Arabia would seriously that they will demand exactly the same that no other producer appears willing try to get the bomb if Iran did. It’s just terms. That would allow them a nuclear to match — makes sanctions on its crude like India and Pakistan. The Pakistanis fuel cycle that could produce material for exports impossible. said for years they didn’t want one, but a bomb, but would also impose a tough But while oil sales accounted for 33 when India got it, so did they,” said Jamal inspections regime. percent of economic activity and 87 Khashoggi, head of a Saudi news channel percent of revenue in the kingdom last owned by a prince. 16 SAUDI REACTORS year, its non-oil sector is heavily reliant The kingdom is engaged in a con- The kingdom’s atomic power plans, like on imports, including food and consumer test for power with the Islamic republic those of Iran, are based on the economic goods, which are theoretically vulnerable stretching across the region and fears the principle that it is better to use crude oil to sanctions. nuclear deal will free Tehran from inter- for revenue-generating exports to main- Riyadh has for decades avoided using national pressure and sanctions, giving it tain social benefits than fritter it away on its ability to upset the world economy for more room to back allies in proxy wars. soaring electricity consumption. political gain, but that could change if it So far its response has been luke- Its nuclear body, the King Abdullah felt threatened enough. It may bet that warm public praise for the deal coupled City for Atomic and Renewable Energy fears of a repeat of the 1973 oil embargo with private condemnation, a reaction (KACARE), recommended in 2012 that A file picture shows a female Russian technician checking equipment inside the Bushehr would stop any real international pres- that follows a more muscular approach Saudi Arabia install 17 gigawatts of nuclear power plant, in the port of Bushehr, 1,200km south of Tehran. sure over its nuclear plans. to Iran evident in its war against allies nuclear power but it has not yet laid out “I’m sure Saudi Arabia is ready to of Tehran in Yemen and more help for plans to do so. between countries is closely regulated. programme. withstand pressure. It would have moral Syrian rebels. Riyadh has signed nuclear energy “It’s very technically challenging to At present, the United States is so standing. If the Iranians and Israelis However, some Saudis close to the rul- cooperation agreements with several obtain the fissile material needed for a closely entwined with Saudi Arabia’s have it, we would have to have it too,” ing family have also warned that if Iran countries able to build reactors, but weapon and with the enhanced safeguard political and security infrastructure said Khashoggi, adding that he believed still manages to weaponise its nuclear recent deals with France, Russia and measures of the model additional proto- that it would be hard to envisage Riyadh Riyadh’s oil exports would immunise it programme, then the kingdom will have South Korea go beyond these by includ- col, the risk of detection is great,” said embarking on a nuclear weapons project from pressure. to follow suit despite the cost of becoming ing feasibility studies for atomic power Karl Dewey, the Chemical, Biological, without Washington finding out. Testing that theory, however, would a pariah state and rupturing ties with plants and fuel cycle work. Radiological and Nuclear analyst at Going behind Washington’s back to represent a huge gamble for Riyadh. the US. Daunting technical obstacles would IHS Janes. build a nuclear bomb would cause mas- Whether the risks involved outweigh Analysts who follow Saudi Arabia still hinder any Saudi attempt to build a The additional protocol is part of a sive ruptures in a strategic security those they believe would be incurred are divided as to whether it really does bomb, something that would most likely stronger regime of inspections and safe- relationship that will remain vital to by allowing Iran a nuclear advantage constitute a proliferation risk, given its be achieved via a uranium enrichment guards that Iran has adopted and would Saudi Arabia despite its efforts to create is something the kingdom’s rulers are newly assertive stance towards the US process for which technological transfer likely be a condition of any Saudi nuclear alternative alliances with other military doubtless considering. REUTERS US disturbed by Khamenei’s remarks Three Spanish journalists after agreement, says John Kerry go missing in Syria MADRID: Three Spanish free- informed of the situation by Spanish lance journalists have gone missing government officials. DUBAI: The United States and Arab allies of the United in Syria where they were report- “They cannot yet conclude that said yesterday it was disturbed States such as Saudi Arabia are ing from the northwestern Aleppo they have been kidnapped,” she said. by anti-US hostility voiced suspicious of an arrangement region, the head of a Spanish press The journalists’ families called for by Iran’s top leader after a that would benefit their Shia, federation said yesterday. “respect” and “the greatest possible nuclear deal, as both coun- non-Arab rival Iran, which they Jose Manuel Lopez, Antonio discretion” in the case, in a statement tries’ top diplomats sought to accuse of fomenting sectarian Pampliega and Angel Sastre entered quoted by various Spanish media. calm opposition to the accord conflict. Syria via southern Turkey on July 10 A source in the Spanish Foreign from hardliners at home. Dore Gold, director-general “and there has been no news of them ministry told AFP: “We are aware US Secretary of State John of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, since July 12”, said Elsa Gonzalez, of the situation and we are working Kerry said a speech by Iranian described Israel’s opposition to president of the Federation of Press on it.” Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei the accord as a “major disagree- Associations of Spain. The three journalists had worked on Saturday vowing to defy ment” with Washington over “a “In that region there is intense recently for various media including American policies in the region central pillar of foreign policy”, fighting going on, so there is cause Spanish newspapers La Razon and despite a deal with world pow- but nonetheless sought to play for concern,” she said, but added: ABC, which was the first yesterday ers over Tehran’s nuclear pro- down the rift with Israel’s clos- “For the moment we can only call it to report their disappearance. gramme was “very troubling”. est ally. a disappearance.” Pampliega, a freelance war jour- “I don’t know how to inter- “All you can do in these situ- Gonzalez did not know whether nalist born in 1982, contributed to pret it at this point in time, ations is just tell your story, tell the three were working together, AFP’s text coverage of the civil war except to take it at face value, the truth,” he said, adding that though Spanish national television in Syria for a period up to 2013. He that that’s his policy,” he said in Iranian Foreign Minster Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses the Iranian the rift should be handled “in station TVE said they were doing a has also worked in countries such as the interview with Saudi-owned parliament in Tehran yesterday. a very careful way” and with joint investigative report. Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. Al Arabiya television. “mutual respect”. Gonzalez told AFP she was AFP “But I do know that often its nuclear programme in return In the case of Iran, the deal Mohammad Javad Zarif, the comments are made publicly for the lifting of US, European must win final acceptance from foreign minister who developed and things can evolve that are Union and UN sanctions. The the National Security Council a warm rapport with Kerry different. If it is the policy, it’s deal was signed by the United and ultimately Khamenei, who during weeks of unprecedented very disturbing, it’s very trou- States, Britain, China, France, has so far withheld final judge- face-to-face talks, defended the bling,” he added. Germany and Russia. ment, thanking the negotiators deal in Iran’s hardliner-domi- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the It was a major policy achieve- while saying the text must still nated parliament. He said most highest authority in Iran, told ment for both US President be scrutinised and approved. of Iran’s conditions had been supporters on Saturday that US Barack Obama and Iran’s prag- In the United States, met, including so-called “red policies in the region were “180 matic elected President Hassan Republicans who control lines” set by Khamenei. degrees” opposed to Iran’s, in a Rowhani. But both leaders have Congress have lined up against “We don’t say the deal is Tehran speech punctuated by to sell it at home to powerful the deal, but Obama says he will totally in favour of Iran. Any chants of “Death to America” hardliners in countries that veto any attempt to block it. negotiation is a give and take. and “Death to Israel”. have been enemies for decades, Kerry also has the task of We have definitely shown Under the accord reached in referring to each other as the selling the agreement to scep- some flexibility,” the foreign Vienna last week, Iran will be “Great Satan” and a member of tical US allies in the region. minister said. subjected to long-term curbs on the “Axis of Evil”. Israel is implacably opposed, REUTERS

Rafael jets over pyramids Kuwait DNA test law violates privacy: HRW

KUWAIT CITY: A new Kuwaiti massive infringement on human law imposing mandatory DNA rights,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, tests on citizens and foreign- Middle East director at the New ers violates the right to personal York-based HRW. privacy and should be amended, The legislation calls on the Human Rights Watch said Interior Ministry to establish a yesterday. database on all Kuwait’s 1.3 mil- Parliament endorsed the law in lion citizens and 2.9 million foreign early July, less than a week after an residents. Islamic State jihadist blew himself Under the law, people who up in a Shia mosque in Kuwait kill- refuse to give samples for the test ing 26 people and wounding more face one year in jail and a fine of than 200 others. up to $33,000. Those who pro- The new counter-terrorism law vide fake samples can be jailed for has made Kuwait the only country seven years. DNA gathering sys- to demand nationwide compulsory tems like the one Kuwait intends French-built Rafael fighter jets flying over the Great DNA testing, HRW said. to apply have been outlawed by the Pyramids in Cairo, Egypt, yesterday. France’s Dassault “Many measures could poten- European Court of Human Rights, Aviation has delivered the first three of 24 Rafael fighter tially be useful in protecting against several US domestic courts and jets to Egypt. terrorist attacks, but potential use- others on the grounds of privacy fulness is not enough to justify a rights, HRW said. AFP WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE German court France signals scraps disputed stay-at-home ‘breakthrough’ parent benefit

KARLSRUHE: Germany’s Constitutional Court ruled in climate talks yesterday that a benefit for parents who stay home to look after their small chil- dren is illegal, dealing a blow Fabius sees progress for accord to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian sister party which PARIS: France signalled a It will be supported by a roster championed the policy. “breakthrough” yesterday at of voluntary national pledges. But More than 455,000 parents, 46-nation talks in Paris tasked scientists say that those already mostly women, who care for with paving the way for a highly- submitted indicate the world will their one- or two-year old chil- anticipated climate rescue pact badly miss the 2 C target which dren at home claim the “hearth to be inked in December. is considered the threshold for bonus”, worth ¤150 per child Ministers and top officials at an disastrous impacts. Tubiana said per month. It was introduced informal gathering reached con- consensus also emerged at the two years ago under Merkel’s sensus on several issues that have ministerial meeting on the need previous coalition with the Free stymied the official negotiations for regular reporting on national Democrats (FDP). for years, France’s top climate action. The parties in Merkel’s cur- negotiator Laurence Tubiana told “There are still a lot of details rent right-left coalition are journalists. to be worked out, but the idea of already bickering about how to Crucially, they concurred there everyone accepting to be verified Migrants from Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan waiting to board the train to Hungary, at Belgrade railway station replace the benefit, which yes- should be a regular, five-yearly within a common framework yesterday on their way to European Union countries through Serbia. As the European Union attempts to deal with terday’s ruling forces the gov- review, once the agreement kicks is very significant,” she said. an increase of people crossing the Mediterranean mainly to Italy and Greece, many are choosing the alternative ernment to abolish. in, of the collective effort to curb Convergence around issues like land route through countries in the east of Europe. It is the second setback planet-warming greenhouse these mean the global agreement, within two months for Bavaria’s gases. “This is a breakthrough,” due to take effect from 2020, will Christian Social Union (CSU) said Tubiana. “That was not obvi- be “durable” and not need to be after the European Commission ous to get.” renegotiated 10 years later, the Germany struggles with surge raised objections to plans to The political signal emerging minister said. charge foreign drivers for using from the Paris talks will now fil- French President Francois Germany’s Autobahn motorways ter down and hopefully ease the Hollande, speaking at a “Summit in attacks against refugees which the party had advocated. job of rank-and-file negotiators of Conscience for the Climate” The CSU, which has also held for the 195 countries crafting a elsewhere in the capital, insisted up plans to build a much-needed historic global agreement. yesterday that an ambitious agree- BERLIN: Hardly a day has year. There were 170 attacks in compassion for their plight as high-voltage power grid due to The Paris talks were not part of ment “must be found”. “Today, with passed this year in Germany all of 2014. well. An opinion poll in April local concerns, is struggling to the official negotiations, and fewer the agreement we see taking shape, without an attack on refugee Before dawn on Saturday, arson- showed 50 percent of Germans get its voice heard in a coalition than a quarter of countries were we are still above two degrees shelters as the country struggles ists torched a shelter in the south- want their country to take in even with Merkel’s bigger Christian directly represented. But all the Celsius, and probably three,” he to cope with a record-breaking western town of Remchingen, more refugees. Democrats (CDU) and the Social world’s top greenhouse gas emit- said at the gathering attended by number of asylum-seekers flee- causing 70,000 euros in damages, Germany struggled with rac- Democrats (SPD). ters, apart from Russia, were rep- religious and moral leaders head- ing wars and violence abroad. just hours before assailants fired ist violence for several years The predominantly Catholic resented, as were all recognised lined by UN chief Kofi Annan. A total of 150 arson or other guns at the windows of another during the economic upheaval CSU had pushed for the “hearth negotiating blocs. But a viable deal would mean attacks have been recorded in the shelter in the eastern town of that followed unification in 1990. bonus” after Germany increased Foreign Minister Tony de Brum “forsaking the use of 80 percent first six months of 2015, damag- Boehlen near Leipzig. Some 186 foreigners were killed. funding for childcare places and from the Marshall Islands, one of of fossil-based energy resources to ing or destroying newly reno- In the Bavarian town of Vorra, Then, as now, critics assailed the introduced more generous mater- the small island states at highest which we still have easy access,” vated shelters for the 450,000 an empty shelter was set on fire government for failing to move nity and paternity leave. risk of climate change-induced sea the president said. French Foreign asylum-seekers expected to reach last week and swastikas were quickly and decisively enough CSU chief Horst Seehofer level rise, welcomed the progress. Minister Laurent Fabius, who will Germany this year, according to found painted on the wall. There against the violence. vowed to continue with the ben- “The French initiative to engage preside over the year-end UN government data. have been similar attacks in the More than twice as many ref- efit in the affluent southern state. ministers early and often is a clever meeting, described the ministerial The attacks, often erupting eastern towns of Freital, Meissen ugees are expected in Germany “In Bavaria, in any case, we one. It’s a move that will help to huddle as “constructive”, and said from local protests against the and Troeglitz that prevented ref- this year than the 200,000 who will still have the benefit for par- ensure success in Paris,” he said. it “has enabled progress towards shelters before refugees arrive, ugees from moving in. sought shelter here last year. Of ents who stay at home,” he said, “The process needs a political the adoption of an ambitious cli- have tarnished the image of a In the northeastern city of the 85,394 arrivals in the first demanding that Berlin make nudge. Having ministers talking mate accord in Paris”. country that has done so much Rostock on Sunday, police had quarter alone, most came from available the required funding. to each other, sitting around eye- Twenty-four of Britain’s top to atone for its Nazi past. They to resort to tear gas to fight off Kosovo, Syria, Serbia, Albania, The government had earmarked to-eye, that helps to move things academic and professional bod- have also caused tensions as many right-wing extremists who had Iraq and Afghanistan. ¤900m for the benefit in this year’s along.” The pact to be finalised ies, meanwhile, issued a warning Germans support the refugees. attacked a group of refugees from In poor regions of Germany, budget. In the case, brought by at a November 30-December 11 of pending climate catastrophe. “I feel shame for the hatred of Albania and Egypt during a vil- fears of competition from refu- the northern city of Hamburg, the UN conference in the French For a reasonable chance of stay- foreigners out there on the streets lage festival. gees for state resources are high. court ruled that the federal gov- capital will have as its goal to ing under 2 C, they said in a joint of Germany,” Justice Minister Justice Minister Maas told In well-off areas, fears of falling ernment does not have the author- limit average global warming to statement, “we must transition Heiko Maas said yesterday after Bild newspaper that aside from property values or a rise in crime ity to pass a law on the benefit but two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees to a zero-carbon world by early the Interior Ministry reported a the “irrational fears and violence” also fuel protests and resistance that it should rather be a matter Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial in the second half of the century”. near doubling of attacks on shel- against refugees in Germany, he to new shelters being created. for Germany’s 16 states. Revolution levels. AFP ters to 150 in the first half of this has also seen an outpouring of REUTERS REUTERS

Farmers protest Lufthansa flight Russia puts Ukraine has near-miss with drone film director on trial near Warsaw ROSTOV-ON-DON: A would receive a fair hearing and Ukrainian film director went on that the best outcome would be BERLIN/WARSAW: A Luft- trial on terror charges in south- for Sentsov to be sent back to hansa plane with 108 passengers ern Russia yesterday, after Ukraine in a prisoner swap. on board nearly collided with a Moscow held him for more than “I think the result will be nega- drone as it approached Warsaw’s a year in a case decried by Kiev, tive. No one will acquit anyone, no main airport on Monday after- rights groups and prominent one will change any charges,” law- noon, the airline said yesterday. film directors across the globe. yer Dmitry Dinze said. “We hope The drone came within 100 Oleg Sentsov flicked a victory that when all the procedures are metres of the Embraer plane sign at several dozen support- done, Sentsov will be exchanged when the Munich to Warsaw ers and reporters as he filed into for some other people in Ukraine flight was at a height of about 760 the defendant cage in a military who are important to Russia.” metres, the airline and the Polish courtroom in the southwestern Dinze said that Sentsov’s defi- Air Navigation Services Agency city of Rostov-on-Don. ant attitude in court was under- (PANSA) said. Police are investi- The pro-Kiev filmmaker — standable for someone who “has gating, a PANSA spokesman said. along with a second defend- been tortured, he said, by FSB The plane landed safely at 1409 ant Alexander Kolchenko — is officers, who has been held a long GMT, a Lufthansa spokeswoman accused of plotting and carry- time in prison.” Two of Sentsov’s Farmers use tractors to block the highway between Quimper and Brest during a demonstration against the said. PANSA changed landing direc- ing out “terrorist attacks” on alleged co-conspirators have market prices of their products, in Quimper, western France, yesterday. Confronted by financial diffculties, tions for other planes until the area the Crimea peninsula after the already been found guilty of par- was clear. However, police and mili- region was seized from Ukraine ticipating in the group and sen- demonstrations staged by livestock breeders and dairy farmers have increased in the past days. tary helicopters sent to the area did by Russia in March 2014. tenced to seven years in prison. not spot the drone. The incident “I don’t consider this court a Ukrainian President Petro was first reported by the Aviation court at all, so you can consider Poroshenko called for Sentsov’s Herald. It cited the pilots as telling whatever you want,” Sentsov said immediate release in a phone call air traffic controllers they “should in court. Both men deny the last week with German Chancellor Kyrgyzstan cancels treaty with US take care of your airspace” and “it charges against them in a case Angela Merkel, French President is really quite dangerous”. that has sparked international Francois Hollande and Russian With the use of commercial condemnation from rights groups leader Vladimir Putin. BISHKEK: Kyrgyzstan can- aid programmes, both civil and varying from security to humani- drones for applications from film- and concern from award-winning Sentsov presented his first fea- celled a cooperation treaty with military, were granted near- tarian issues and democracy. ing to sports events and agriculture directors from around the globe. ture film, Gamer, about a com- the United States yesterday, diplomatic status under that The dispute takes place as booming, the European Union is Sentsov, 39 — a resident of puter-game obsessed teenager, at raising the stakes in a dip- agreement. Kyrgyzstan is being drawn deeper currently working on new regu- Crimea who faces up to 20 years the Rotterdam Film Festival in lomatic row triggered by the Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign into the orbit of its former impe- lations for drones to protect the if found guilty — was arrested in 2012. Top film directors includ- award of a human rights prize Ministry on Friday protested to rial master Russia. safety and privacy of its citizens. the region’s main city Simferopol ing Spain’s Pedro Almodovar to a jailed dissident. Washington over the award of Kyrgyzstan has just joined the The regulations are due to be in May by Russia’s FSB security and Britain’s Ken Loach have Kyrgyz Prime Minister Temir a US State Department human Moscow-led Eurasian Economic presented in the autumn as part service for allegedly forming a previously expressed concern for Sariyev ordered his cabinet to rights prize to Azimjon Askarov, Union, which critics see as Russia’s of the European Commission’s group of saboteurs that plotted Sentsov in an open letter to Putin. renounce the 1993 Bilateral a journalist and activist who is attempt to restore as much as pos- new aviation package. Germany attacks and targeted pro-Moscow Sentsov is one of several high- Agreement with the US. It will serving a life sentence for on sible of the former Soviet Union. in June introduced new rules organisations. profile Ukrainians currently not be valid starting Aug. 20, the charges of inciting ethnic hatred Russia already has a military that prevent the use of drones As part of the evidence against facing trial in Russia, including government said in a statement. in the ex-Soviet republic. airbase near the Kyrgyz capital within 1.5 km of airport perimeter the accused, the courtroom was female helicopter pilot Nadezhda The agreement provided for US International and local human Bishkek and has undertaken sev- fences. Anyone wishing to fly a shown a video of an alleged arson Savchenko, whose detention has aid to Kyrgyzstan to be brought rights bodies have demanded his eral large economic projects with drone beyond that exclusion zone attack by the group on the offices become a cause celebre in her into and out of the country with- release from jail. The United the country. Hundreds of thou- and in controlled airspace must of a pro-Russian party and heard homeland. Putin denied during out the levying of taxes, customs States warned Kyrgyzstan on sands of Kyrgyz migrants work request permission from air traf- testimonies from two witnesses his annual phone-in in December duties or any other payment. Monday that if it cancelled the in Russia. Kyrgyz government and fic authorities and fly no higher over a video link. that Savchenko and Sentsov are US personnel located in agreement, it would undermine US Embassy officials could not be than 50 metres, depending on the A lawyer for the director said Ukrainian prisoners of war. Kyrgyzstan in connection with a wide range of aid programmes reached for comment. REUTERS size of the aircraft. REUTERS he had little hope that his client AFP WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Gun-firing Ohio governor ‘drone’ built by US teen enters White under probe NEW YORK: The Federal Aviation Administration said House race yesterday that it was inves- tigating an online video that shows an alleged home-made “drone” firing a handgun in Republican hopefuls hit record 16 the Connecticut countryside. The 14-second video called WASHINGTON: The field of “empathy” and “compassion” for “Flying Gun” shows a home- Republican presidential hope- the poor and the struggling. made multi-rotor hovering off fuls hit a record 16 yesterday “Economic growth is not an the ground, buzzing furiously as Ohio Governor John Kasich end unto itself. If you’re drug and firing a semiautomatic (pictured) jumped into the race addicted, we’re going to try to handgun four times at an for the White House. rehab you and get you on your unseen target. Kasich, a former member of feet,” he said “If you’re mentally It was posted on YouTube on Congress, vowed to “restore” the ill, prison is no place for you, some July 10 and has been watched United States at his announce- treatment and some help is where nearly two million times. It was ment speech in Columbus, Ohio. you need to be,” he added. filmed by 18-year-old Austin “I am here to ask you for your The list of aspirants for the Haughwout from Clinton, prayers, for your support, for your Republican nomination includes Connecticut. efforts because I have decided to at least four senators, four gov- Haughwout is studying for run for President of the United ernors, four former governors, US President Barack Obama speaking at the 116th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) at a degree in mechanical engi- States,” he told a cheering crowd. an ex-senator, a former CEO, a the David Lawrence Convention Centre in Pittsburgh yesterday. neering. Neither he nor police “I have the expe- retired neurosur- could be reached for immediate rience and the test- geon and billionaire comment. ing... and I believe I real estate tycoon “The FAA will investi- know how to work Donald Trump, who Obama urges military veterans gate the operation of an and help restore has taken the lead in unmanned aircraft system in this great United the polls. a Connecticut park to deter- States.” Kasich Kasich’s popular- to give Iran N-deal a chance mine if any Federal Aviation was a member of ity in his home state Regulations were violated,” it Congress from 1983 goes well beyond his said in a statement. to 2000, and made Republican base, as PITTSBURGH: US President high-ranking Al Qaeda officials attack on Thursday on two military “The FAA will also work a brief foray in the evidenced by his Barack Obama told a gather- such as Osama bin Laden off centres by a 24-year-old gunman, with its law enforcement Republican presi- re-election as gov- ing of military veterans yester- the battlefield. “If you target Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez. partners to determine if there dential primaries in ernor in November day that hardheaded diplomacy Americans you will have no safe “We don’t yet know all of the were any violations of crimi- 2000 although he is with 64 percent of with Iran could avoid the kind haven,” he said. details behind the attack,” Obama nal statutes.” not well known at the vote. of “unnecessary wars” for which But, he added, “real leadership” said, “but we do know that Al But Haughwout’s father the national level. And he leads one they paid the price. means not being afraid to negoti- Qaeda and ISIL (the Islamic denied his son had built a He is seeking support from of the most important states Obama travelled to Pittsburgh, ate. Obama has framed the recent State group) have encouraged drone, which he said are pre- voters outside the traditional in the presidential elections. A Pennsylvania in steely mood, and nuclear deal as a choice between attacks on American soil, includ- programmed, and said this Republican base: blue collar work- key swing state in the north- urged the 1.9-million-member diplomacy and war. ing against our service members”. device was manually controlled. ers, the unemployed or underem- ern industrial heartland, Ohio is group Veterans of Foreign Wars While campaigning for the Obama also tackled a multi- “People have been playing ployed and minorities. seen as pivotal to electoral suc- to give the nuclear deal with presidency in 2008, Obama told year crisis in the Department with RC (remote-controlled) He vowed to create opportuni- cess for both Republicans and Tehran a chance. a battle-weary nation he would of Veterans Affairs, which runs toys for many decades,” he said ties for the vulnerable, leveraging Democrats. The state twice went He denounced those “chest end the long and bloody conflict a network of hospitals for veter- by telephone. a message of upward mobility. for President Barack Obama. beating” against the deal and in Iraq as president made wind- ans. An inspector general report “The proper name for this is “There are a lot of people in In a sign of the state’s impor- said some of those opposed to ing down the wars there and a year ago found “systemic” prob- an RC quadcopter. The media America today who are not sure tance, Republicans chose it were the same ones who said Afghanistan a priority. lems in health care for former keeps using the inappropriate that that American dream is pos- Cleveland, Ohio as the site of the Iraq war would take only Yesterday, the Obama adminis- combatants, with up to 40 veter- word because it helps you to sible, that that American dream their nominating convention in months. “We know the conse- tration rolled out a Twitter feed ans dying while waiting for treat- generate fear,” he added. is alive,” he said. “How about if July 2016, as well as the venue for quences of that choice,” he said. and website that White House ment in Phoenix alone. Haughwout said the FAA you’re a member of the minority the first televised debate of the “And what it cost us in blood spokesman Josh Earnest said On the back of exposes about had made no contact with his community, an African American? campaign on August 6. and treasure. There is a smarter will be used to “distribute facts, overcrowding and poor stand- family. “I don’t understand why You wonder, ‘the system I think The Republican primaries are more responsible way to protect engage online audiences and be ards in military hospitals, the people are making such a big sometimes doesn’t just work for set to begin in February 2016 in our national security.” used as a forum by those involved scandal cost Obama’s fellow deal of it. It’s not like it’s any- me, but sometimes I feel like that Iowa and New Hampshire, but the Insisting he was no peacenik in negotiating the agreement.” Hawaiian and former army chief thing new,” he said. system works against me.’” calendar is not yet set in stone. afraid to deploy the military, Obama also paid tribute to five of staff Eric Shinseki his job as “He’s a mechanical engineer- He also referred often to the The presidential elections will be Obama boasted about a string US troops “senselessly” killed in secretary of the agency. ing student. He builds all dif- Bible in his speech, calling for held in November 2016. AFP of military operations that took Chattanooga, Tennessee after an AFP ferent kind of things.” AFP Colombia Jailhouse death of black woman stirs suspicions

CHICAGO: The jailhouse death explanations for extraordinary on social media last week and the simply not in her character. Department of Public Safety. fetes FARC of a black woman imprisoned events,” New York Times column- hashtag #IfIDieInPoliceCustody They have reportedly requested A preliminary investigation by after allegedly getting combat- ist Charles Blow wrote. began trending on Twitter as an independent autopsy because the department found the arresting ive during a traffic stop in rural “Indeed, because state violence African Americans expressed their they did not believe the local cor- officer violated the department’s rebel truce Texas has raised suspicions echoes through the African- concerns. “#IfIDieInPoliceCustody oner’s conclusion that her death “courtesy policy” and procedures amid heightened racial tensions American experience in this know I did everything my mom was a suicide. “Based on the regarding traffic stops. The FBI is BOGOTA: War-weary in the United States. country, it is even understandable taught me about how to stay alive Sandy I know, that’s unfathom- monitoring the investigation. Colombia celebrated the start of Prosecutors said on Monday if black people might occasionally if arrested, but it wasn’t enough,” able to me,” her sister Sharon said “Once the local process takes a FARC rebel ceasefire after a that they plan to release a secu- experience a sort of ‘Phantom wrote Malkia Cryil. at a press conference. its course, the FBI will review half-century of hostilities, with rity camera video that shows Lynching Syndrome’.” A woman identified as Keya D Bland was on her way to start all of the evidence to determine hopes still high that its fragile nobody entered or left the cell of A video of Bland’s arrest — that wrote: “#IfIDieinPoliceCustody a new job at her alma mater, if any federal criminal laws may peace process can hold. Sandra Bland, 28, before her body shows her pinned to the ground make sure my baby girl continues Prairie View A&M University have been violated,” it said. Bland Marxist FARC guerrillas freed was discovered in what authori- after being pulled over for failing to to love her beautiful black skin.” near Houston, when she was pulled was an activist in the Black Lives a captive soldier on Sunday in an ties said was an apparent suicide. signal a lane change — helped fuel The success of the hashtag is a over on July 10 at 4:30pm. She was Matter movement, which grew apparent goodwill gesture hours But, with tensions inflamed in suspicions that something nefari- “sad statement about how people found dead in her cell at 9:00 am on out of protests sparked by the before they started observing the the wake of a series of high-profile ous may have happened. “Thank feel about those who are sworn to July 13, the Waller County Sheriff’s police shooting of Michael Brown unilateral ceasefire. cases of black men being killed by you for recording,” she says as she’s protect and serve,” columnist Yesha Office said. Bland was arrested for in Ferguson, Missouri and cases “The challenge of achieving police in disputed circumstances, led handcuffed into a cruiser. “For Callahan wrote on The Root. “assault on a public servant” after such as that of Freddie Gray, who peace still looms large,” President many people wouldn’t trust any a traffic signal—slammed me into While Bland had struggled becoming “argumentative and sustained a fatal spinal injury in Juan Manuel Santos said at a cer- official account of the incident. the ground and everything.” with depression in the past, her uncooperative” during the traf- a Baltimore police van. emony marking independence “It is right to resist simple The video was widely circulated family insists that suicide was fic stop, according to the Texas AFP day, hours after the truce began at midnight. The FARC is Latin America’s largest and longest- fighting insurgency. Mexico cultural event Fitful peace talks have been tak- ing place since 2012 in Havana, More Brazilians want but fighting has continued and even intensified this year. And Colombians have gradually grown disillusioned with the peace process. Rousseff impeached Santos has said he will nego- tiate for four more months and BRASILIA: Brazilian President over a massive kickback scan- then decide whether to continue. Dilma Rousseff’s popularity dal at state-run oil company “Despite all the trouble and slumped to a new low and sup- Petroleo Brasileiro SA has risen stumbling blocks, we are going to port for her impeachment grew to 62.8 percent from 59.7 percent keep doing out utmost so that that amid a deepening corruption four months ago. Many investors conflict which has affected so many scandal and a severe economic believe Rousseff’s impeachment of you, even forced many of you to downturn, according to an opin- would lead to better management leave the country, draws to a close ion poll published yesterday. of the company. once and for all,” Santos said in the The numbers are another blow Brazilians favoring impeach- speech released on his office’s web- for Rousseff, who is facing criti- ment want Rousseff ousted for site. This time could the rebels’ last cism from within her own leftist corruption at Petrobras, which chance, according to the president. Workers’ Party over fiscal auster- she chaired before becoming If they do not live up to their ity measures she has adopted to president in 2011. Many who truce, and there is no progress on try to save Brazil’s prized invest- favor her impeachment also cite the issue of what kind of punish- ment grade. alleged campaign finance irregu- ment would be applied to the rebels The CNT/MDA poll showed that larities and government account- under a peace accord, the peace her government’s approval rating ing mismanagement during her process will fall apart for good, has fallen to 7.7 percent compared first term, the poll said. Santos has said. The government with 10.8 percent in a previous sur- The survey showed that a vast has pledged to scale back mili- Dancers performing during the traditional Guelaguetza (Mondays on the Hill) celebration in Oaxaca, Mexico. vey in March, while 70.9 percent majority of Brazilians — 84.6 per- tary operations during the rebel Dance groups from 25 delegations of eight regions of Oaxaca participated in the annual indigenous festival, rate her government negatively cent — believe Rousseff is unable truce and work toward a bilateral compared to 64.8 percent in March. to handle the country’s worst eco- which attracts locals and foreigners alike. ceasefire, which would have to be The number of respondents who nomic downturn in 25 years. overseen by the UN. AFP favor Rousseff’s impeachment REUTERS WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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UIETLY, US embassy in Cuba reopens’, said a Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate headline. The quietness was in stark contrast to the historic significance of the event. The Cuban ‘Qflag flew in Washington on Monday after 54 years of bitterness and hostility between the two countries. In diplomacy and bilateral relations, 54 years is a tortuously long period and future generations might even find it In Greek crisis, one big incomprehensible that it took so long for a rapprochement. The reopening of the embassy was the result of efforts by the two sides that stretched into more than two years and observers say it might take a few years for distrust to fade away and for relations to achieve strength. But the euphoria unhappy EU family was clear at what has already been achieved. James Williams, the president of an advocacy group called Engage Cuba said BY PAUL TAYLOR summit, the euro zone produced a frag- The Greek crisis has also widened it is “sort of like a wedding”. “You have spent all this time ile deal to keep Greece afloat by making divisions between euro and non-euro planning your wedding day and finally you are getting to see HE latest paroxysm of Greece’s it a virtual protectorate under intrusive members, with Britain and the Czech debt crisis has exposed growing supervision. Few, if any, of the main pro- Republic insisting on guarantees for someone walk down the aisle.” rifts in the euro zone which, tagonists think it will work. their taxpayers’ money in exchange Relations between two countries are primarily about the Tunless addressed soon, could Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for using an EU-wide bailout fund for people, not the governments or the interests they represent. lead to the break-up of European mon- said it was a bad deal that would make bridge finance. People of most countries share cultural, linguistic and other etary union, the EU’s most ambitious life worse for Greece but he had swal- If the Greek crisis were the euro similarities, but are torn apart due to enmities between project. The most worrying sign for lowed it because the alternative was zone’s only worry, it might be easier their governments for which they too get punished in the European leaders is that public opinion worse. German Finance Minister to isolate and resolve it, since financial and domestic politics are pulling them Wolfgang Schaeuble said Athens would markets have shown little sign of the form of restrictions on all kinds of exchanges and bans on increasingly in opposing directions - not have done better to leave the euro zone contagion to other weak sovereigns’ travel. There is a huge Cuban immigrant population in the just between Greece and Germany, the - “temporarily” - to get a debt write-off. bonds that threatened to tear it apart US who has been hit hard by a freeze in relations. Cubans biggest debtor and the biggest creditor, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe’s in 2012. Greece has been such a dis- too suffered due to lack of relations but almost everywhere. dominant leader, made clear the main traction that leaders barely noted an The with the world’s superpower. Both Germans, Finns, Dutch, Balts and virtue of the deal was to avoid some- important report authored by European sides will now open a new chapter in Slovaks no longer thing worse. Commission President Jean-Claude reopening want taxpayers’ “The alternative to this agreement Juncker with the heads of four other their relations and credit for the same money to go to would not be a ‘time-out’ from the EU institutions on how to make the of Cuban goes to US President Barack Obama bail out Greeks, euro ... but rather predictable chaos,” monetary union work better. embassy in and Cuban President Raul Castro. The most while the French, she said. A senior EU official involved That is arguably the biggest challenge The latter deserves more bouquets. worrying sign Italians and in brokering the compromise, who spoke facing the EU, yet there is little sign Washington It must have been difficult for him to Greeks feel the on condition of anonymity, said there of willingness to contemplate pooling euro zone is all was now a “20, maybe 30 percent chance more fiscal sovereignty or sharing more steer the country out of the fierce anti- for European closes the lid about austerity of success”. common liabilities as the authors say is Americanism planted and nurtured leaders is that on 54 years and punishment “When I look at the next two to three required. The debt crisis that began in by his predecessor and brother Fidel public and lacks solidar- years, the next three months, I see only 2010 led to the creation of some new of enmity Castro, an anti-Americanism that had opinion and ity and economic black clouds,” the official said. “All we institutions to strengthen the cur- between the grown so deep in the Cuban political stimulus. succeeded in doing was to avoid a cha- rency area - a permanent bailout fund, system that a thaw was considered domestic politics With cen- otic Grexit.” stricter enforcement of fiscal rules, a two countries. tral and east Problems are likely to resurface in single banking supervisor and a joint unthinkable. are pulling them European states late August or September when it comes mechanism for winding down failed Both sides will have to move increasingly in growing more to concluding the detailed negotiations banks. aggressively to resolve many differences. assertive and the on a three-year bailout programme. By But German-led opposition to mutu- There are several questions being asked. Will the American opposing Dutch and Finns then Greece’s economy may have gone alising debt, French-led resistance to trade embargo that has crippled the Cuban economy be lifted directions. facing mounting further off the rails and Greeks may be yielding more control over national soon? Will the Cuban government improve its human rights domestic con- heading for early elections. budgets and the electoral rise of straints, a com- The International Monetary Fund is Eurosceptic populist parties prevented record and allow unfettered travel of its citizens to the US? promise between euro zone leaders due to make another analysis of Greek the euro area going further. Will the Cuban government allow its companies to do business Germany and France, increasingly hard debt before a deal is concluded which In Brussels, there is much talk of with American corporations? to find over Greece, is no longer suffi- may well show that only a “haircut”, or how the latest Greek crisis should Already frayed ties between Washington and Havana cient to settle the problems. outright write-down of loans, can make prompt a leap forward in integration snapped in 1961 when Cuban leader Fidel Castro threatened There are so many stakeholders with it sustainable. Schaeuble, who says a to strengthen the euro zone, but it’s not divergent views that crisis management “haircut” is illegal in the euro zone, will clear what progress is possible. to expel American diplomats for meddling in Cuban affairs. is becoming ever more difficult. A far- be waiting with his Plan B for debt relief Among the quick wins suggested by The failed US-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs, Fidel reaching reform of the 19-nation cur- with Greece outside the currency area. the “five presidents’ report” is a com- Castro’s declaration that his revolution was socialist, repeated rency area’s flawed structure seems a Even if the third Greek bailout in five mon deposit insurance scheme for euro CIA plots to assassinate Castro, and the Cuban Missile crisis remote prospect. years does not trip up at that stage, the zone banks that are under ECB super- further poisoned affairs for the decades that followed. After weeks of late-night emergency chances of it being fully implemented vision and a fiscal backstop for a bank The US-Cuba thaw will serve as an example for other meetings of leaders and finance min- and delivering an economic recovery resolution fund being raised from the isters, culminating in a tense all-night look slim. finance sector. REUTERS estranged countries. The other side Quote of Another mining disaster the day INING companies have Acknowledging mistakes and acts for them to ensure their survival is to Mining companies have argued that had a difficult time of negligence, mining companies allay the worst fears about mining, small-scale miners such as the gold operating in several began cleaning up their operations, especially in the communities where panners on Mt. Diwalwal are giving countries including the investing in technology and processes their operations are located, and to the industry a bad name and must MPhilippines, and it’s not without that minimize the risks of accidents ensure that they comply strictly with be strictly regulated. The public, how- reason. In the past decades, and are kinder to the environment, safety rules. ever, remembers disasters from both pollution and disasters in mining and tightening compliance with safety Last week the country’s mining small-scale mining and those from the We are not going to operations have caused environmental rules. industry was shaken by an accident operations of major companies. If the catastrophes that took human lives Although mining rules have become that claimed the lives of nine workers. industry wants to survive and flourish, relent until we bring and destroyed rivers and ecosystems, more stringent and some countries The Department of Environment and companies whose operations are hit home our Americans with the damage taking generations have banned mining altogether, the Natural Resources is reportedly set to by serious accidents must cooperate to reverse. Mining accidents have world cannot survive without extractive suspend the environmental compli- fully in any probe, fully compensate who are unjustly also caused serious public health industries. Several mining companies ance certificate of the Semirara Mining the victims and accept the penalties. problems similar to the impact of have paid a stiff price for accidents, and Power Corp. as several agencies If they are allowed to resume opera- detained in Iran. radioactive contamination in affected but a number of them have been investigate the collapse of the com- tions, they must make sure the neces- communities. given a second chance and allowed pany’s open pit mine in Antique that sary safety improvements are swiftly Barack Obama to resume operations. The best way buried nine workers last Friday. implemented. The Philippine Star US President WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Wrong to say Uber only serves the rich

to drivers. (Have a few Uber drivers been It’s absolutely accused of assaulting passengers? Yes. So have cabbies. No system is perfect; the true that Uber question is whether Ubers are actually less safe than taxis, and I haven’t seen anyone offer any evidence that they are.) avoids regulations Or take the problem of getting drivers to go to outlying or poor neighbourhoods. restricting supply. Cab drivers aren’t jerks who hate taking people home; they’re not-particularly- well-paid working stiffs who can’t afford But that’s pretty to deadhead back a long way, because that can kill their profit margin pretty much tautological; if quick. Uber makes this much less of a problem, because it’s a lot easier to find a return fare when you get there. In Uber didn’t increase both cases, Uber isn’t skating by unreg- ulated; it has obviated the need for the the supply of rides regulation. It’s absolutely true that Uber avoids available over the regulations restricting supply. But that’s pretty much tautological; if Uber didn’t increase the supply of rides available existing stock of over the existing stock of taxis, there would be no Uber. But supply restric- taxis, there would tions are also the single biggest reason that people in low-income communities have trouble getting rides. If there are be no Uber. only so many taxis, those taxis are going to gravitate toward the areas with the BY MEGAN MCARDLE highest returns, which is to say airports, train stations, wealthier communities, eople talk about the ride-sharing and business and entertainment districts, service as if it’s mostly a boon for where they’ll find the highest densities of rich people, who have conspired fares. To advocate for strict limits on the Pwith the titans of Silicon Valley supply of taxis is to advocate for lower- to take food out of the mouths of hard- income communities to be underserved. working taxi drivers. And sure, what’s Uber driver Glen Snower looks at his phone next to a BYD e6 electric car in Chicago, Illinois. Uber, which allows users to summon rides Similarly tautological is the claim that good for Uber is bad for taxi drivers — on their smartphones, struck a deal with Chinese automaker BYD Co Ltd to test a fleet of electric cars for its drivers. Uber benefits the poor only because it or at least, bad for the owners of taxi avoids the set fares that keep prices high; medallions. But the assumption that the a highly unreliable means of transporta- them to get there from the time they 2. Regulations that artificially limit the of course a lower price is good for the beneficiaries are rich is a little strange. tion. More than once, I had to press my picked up their phone to the time they number of taxis, thereby enriching the poor. And the third complaint is simply Uber’s primary appeal for me has retired mother into emergency service stepped out of the vehicle. The results lucky holders of licences to operate taxis. pointless; I mean, yes, Uber saves some never been avoiding taxis, or even getting for a ride to the airport because my car were striking: Ubers arrived substantially Taxi medallions are an example of this. money by not forcing drivers to paint a cheaper fare. If I’m in an area where simply never showed up. faster, and were significantly cheaper, 3. Regulations that pleased some their cars a funny colour. This seems it’s easy to catch a street hail, I’ll usually I’ve always thought that in terms of than the taxis. bureaucrat for no obvious practical rea- money well saved. just stick my arm out like the old-fash- letting you do something you couldn’t do Well, of course, you might say — Uber son. The insistence that all taxis follow Moreover, some of the benefits Uber ioned girl I am. No, the biggest benefit before, Uber provides the biggest benefit is cheaper because it avoids regulations, the same colour scheme is the obvious offers are clearly not dependent on skirt- I’ve always seen is that Uber allowed you to people who live in lower-income neigh- and cheaper things are better for the example here. ing regulations. Using a smartphone app to catch a ride from places where taxis bourhoods, not in rich ones. That’s where poor, but that’s not necessarily a good A lot of things fall into Category 1. For is simply more efficient than calling are scarce. dispatch is often unreliable, where street reason to gut good and necessary regula- example, anonymity is a huge problem someone who then dispatches a driver to Five years ago, my neighbourhood in hails are rare, and where many residents tions. We don’t let companies dump all for both passengers and drivers. Getting your location. For riders in communities Washington was one of those places. I don’t have a car. A new study suggests their toxic waste into rivers, even though into a car with a stranger you can’t iden- with few transportation alternatives, that almost never saw available taxis near us. that in low-income areas, this benefit that might well reduce the price of things tify makes you a pretty attractive target efficiency matters. For now, the best piece For taxi drivers, time is money — any of Uber is potentially very large. (Uber poor people buy. for criminals. So it may make sense to of research we have suggests that Uber time they’re not driving someone around, paid for the study, which was executed I actually think this really misunder- fingerprint taxi drivers for background can really help riders in low-income com- they are burning gas looking for a fare. independently by respected researchers.) stands the issue in multiple ways. First checks to make sure that they aren’t, munities. That’s great news — at least, as So no wonder drivers would rather head Researchers hired people from a tem- of all, most of the regulations that Uber say, serial rapists. But Uber drivers don’t long as the government doesn’t try to run downtown, where there were lots of peo- porary staffing agency to stand on the is free of fall into three basic categories: have anonymity. If your Uber driver them off the road. ple looking for taxis. Street hailing simply street in pairs, one of them calling for a 1. Regulations that overcome the coor- attacks you, the company has a very — Megan McArdle is a Bloomberg View isn’t efficient without a dense population taxi, the other one calling for an UberX. dination problems between passengers good record of who it was. That’s also columnist who writes on economics, business of riders. And while you could theoreti- They each proceeded to an agreed-upon and drivers. Set fares are an example of true on the passenger side, by the way, and public policy. cally call a taxi to your house, this was destination and recorded how long it took this. which is one of the reasons it’s attractive WP-BLOOMBERG The end of Prince Faisal’s diplomacy Iran hasn’t changed to national interests. its terrible ways King Faisal and Prince Saud always refused the idea of “paying BY ERIC TERZUOLO responsibility for both the 1983 to purchase political positions”. and 1984 US Embassy bombings During about 85 years, both of hen I learned that we in Beirut, as well as the October them exemplify dozens of histori- had reached a nuclear 1983 Marine barracks bombing. cal situations with countries and Wdeal with Iran, my first One can argue that Iran has leaders in favour of the Kingdom thoughts were of my late colleague changed in the past 30 years. for their extraordinary persuasive Bill Buckley. A veteran officer and The West has awarded Iranian ways and sacrifices. Middle East hand, Buckley vol- President Hassan Rowhani the We may say that Faisal’s diplo- unteered to take over as CIA sta- coveted label “moderate,” and per- macy is characterised by a mix of tion chief in Beirut after the April haps the Obama administration’s a Saudi political and diplomatic 1983 embassy bombing wiped out hopes of supporting moderate ele- asset with a Hijazi appearance, the CIA’s operation there. I was ments by dealing constructively, which was a natural result for the a very junior State Department not antagonistically, with Iran survival of the Foreign Ministry officer just trying to make sense are well founded. I struggle to in Jeddah until the year 1985 of Lebanon’s complicated political still my emotions and assume a (1405 Hijri). scene. But with our embassy hav- detached, analytical perspective. Prince Saud Al Faisal acted as ing been destroyed, all of us who But it is hard for me to see an a diplomatic umbrella that pre- worked with classified materials Iranian regime fundamentally vented a lot of crises and wars, were crammed onto a single floor and definitively different from BY DR ABDULLAH and covered up a lot of mistakes of the British embassy. We came to the one I hold responsible for Bill ALSHAMMRI that are witnessed by those who know each other well, regardless Buckley’s death. closely worked with him. of seniority or agency affiliation. We should not delude ourselves hen a leader or a dear The fulfilment of Prince Saud On March 16, 1984, a group call- into thinking that Iran’s efforts to one passes away, a lot A file picture of US Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi Foreign Minister Al Faisal is not only to praise him, ing itself Islamic Jihad abducted counter the Islamic State reflect Wof peers and colleagues, Prince Saud Al Faisal at a press conference in Jeddah. but even to try to walk the line of Buckley outside his residence. anything except distinctly Iranian lovers and sympathisers write an his personal and diplomatic works, (Islamic Jihad was a precursor of geopolitical interests. Iran’s proxy obituary and eulogy in order to locally, and at the Gulf, Arab and undertaking, he visited England which reflected true nationalism. the Iranian-backed Shia political Hezbollah is thriving as the arbi- express their thoughts and feel- international levels, but because on an official request from He used to work hard without movement Hezbollah.) Despite ter of Lebanese politics, and Iran ings about this relationship of the of the institutional and profes- King George V on the occa- expecting praises or compliments intensive and courageous efforts and Hezbollah have collaborated past and its special memories. sional loss. Prince Saud con- sion of Britain’s victory in from anyone. to locate Buckley and secure his in supporting the residues of the Often, the flattery is linked to fronted all attacks against Saudi, World War I. One reason that makes the release, we never saw him alive heinous Assad regime in Syria. the personal life of the deceased, Gulf, Arab and perhaps Islamic Before becoming king, Prince loss of Saud Al Faisal irreparable again, except in videos provided Iran reportedly has rekindled ties which is a way of expressing loy- foreign policies. Faisal took over the responsibil- is due to him being an integral by his captors. These showed the with Hamas. alty and gratitude, and having the He was an integral part of ity of foreign deputy in November part of many historical secrets toll that torture had taken on I am reminded of how, in 2011, opportunity to tell the truth. diverting such attacks for four 21, 1930 until a decree was issued and memories related to Saudi him. He is thought to have died in another colleague from my Beirut Last Friday, I personally had decades, when the world and espe- to establish the Ministry of Arabia’s practice of foreign diplo- June 1985, although it was October embassy days, Philo Dibble, the the honour to write in the New cially the Middle East have wit- Foreign Affairs where he served macy and politics. before his abductors announced deputy assistant secretary of York Times the obituary of the nessed many historic and grave until 1960, when Sheikh Ibrahim Therefore, his departure means his death. He was symbolically state responsible for relations late Prince Saud bin Faisal bin events, including for example, the Al Suwaiyel took his post until the absence and disappearance of laid to rest at Arlington National with Iran, died of a heart attack Abdulaziz Al Saud, who was Iranian Revolution, the Iraq-Iran 1962. a treasure trove of political values, Cemetery in 1988, and it was only at age 60. He had devoted him- known as Saud Al Faisal: “Prince war, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, However, “Prince” Faisal secrets and memories, which the in December 1991 that his remains self tirelessly, sparing absolutely Saud did not take hasty or emo- the collapse of the Soviet Union, returned as foreign minister and late Prince did not have enough were recovered, near a Beirut no energies, to negotiations that tional decisions.” the events of September 11 and its continued to serve in the ministry time to transfer or some influ- airport road, following a call by ultimately led to the release of And I described his diplomacy, aftermath, the American invasion until his coronation to the throne ential figures did not succeed in someone identifying himself as an two American hikers held for saying: “His diplomacy was tra- of Iraq and finally the waves of in November 1, 1964 till his mar- documenting them. Islamic Jihad spokesman. two years in Iran’s notorious Evin ditional, conservative, quiet and Arab revolutions. tyrdom — may Allah have mercy Certainly, Saudi diplomacy I cannot help but blame the prison. logical.” Prince Saud Al Faisal’s diplo- on him — on March 25, 1975. after the late Saud Al Faisal will Iranian regime for Buckley’s Like the nuclear deal, this was The judgment of Prince Saud macy is a natural extension of the Faisal’s diplomacy is charac- not be the same. The Foreign death. Iran’s hand in the genesis a case of a huge expenditure of Al Faisal’s departure looks differ- first diplomatic school that was terised by many qualities that Ministry will not be as it was of Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah is effort to get the Iranians to undo ent for me and probably for many initiated by “Prince” Faisal bin only a specialist may identify, the in terms of role, influence and indisputable. Iranian representa- something they never should have of those who care about Saudi Abdulaziz in 1919, when he was most important of which are per- priority. tives are credibly considered to done in the first place. I am con- Arabia’s foreign and diplomatic assigned the first foreign mis- severance, seriousness, candour, I ask God to have mercy on the have participated in Buckley’s tor- vinced we soon will see Tehran policy. sion on behalf of his father, King clarity, sharp memory, and best deceased and grant him a better ture and interrogation. And one violating the nuclear commit- This is not only due to the Abdulaziz. manners while preserving pres- life in the Hereafter. should not forget that Iranian- ments it appears to have made. I weight and size of his impact During this historic tige and firmness when it comes The writer is a political analyst. backed Islamic Jihad claimed can’t help it. WP-BLOOMBERG WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA

Chad dictator’s Japan defence paper slams China trial adjourned DAKAR: Former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre was China forcibly claiming waters forcibly brought to a court in Senegal yesterday, where TOKYO: Japan yesterday Japanese forces in the area. judges adjourned his trial until slammed Beijing’s bid to reclaim While the Sino-Japanese spat September 7 to let appointed land in the South China Sea as has cooled considerably over the lawyers prepare his defence. a “coercive attempt” to force last 12 months or so, observers Prison guards brought Habre, sweeping maritime claims, in had warned that it could spiral dressed in a white robe and tur- a defence paper that comes as into a limited armed conflict. ban, into the special court in the Tokyo is expanding the role of Separately, Japan has com- capital Dakar. Habre, once dubbed its own military. plained that China may have “Africa’s Pinochet”, refused to Tokyo said China was acting started offshore drilling for gas speak and the court appointed “unilaterally and without compro- in the disputed waters. three attorneys to defend him. mise”, as it also highlighted con- “Japan has repeatedly lodged The trial, seen as a test case cern about North Korea’s nuclear protests against China’s unilat- for African justice, had opened programme and Russian moves in eral development and demanded on last Monday, a quarter of a violence-wracked Ukraine. the termination of such works,” century after his reign came to The white paper accused the report said. an end. Beijing of “raising concerns The document repeated Tokyo’s Habre, accused of war crimes, among the international commu- concerns over China’s growing crimes against humanity and tor- nity” as it ramped up criticism assertiveness and widening naval ture, had refused legal represen- from last year’s report, an annual reach in the Pacific and over tation, saying he did not recognise summary of Japan’s official view what it calls the “opaqueness” of the court’s jurisdiction and vowed on defence matters. Beijing’s sky-rocketing military not to cooperate with the trial. “China, particularly over mari- budget. Habre then gave a clenched- time issues, continues to act in But it also noted that China has fist salute and V-for-victory sign an assertive manner, including worked to set up an emergency to his supporters, who shouted coercive attempts at changing hotline with Tokyo to prevent “Allah akbar” (God is greatest). the status quo, and is poised to unintended conflicts at sea. Japan’s ground self defence forces’ type 92 anti-landmine missile firing while 74 tanks stand by during an exercise Habre -- backed during his fulfil its unilateral demands with- Last week, China criticised at the Higashi-Fuji training ground in Gotemba, some 100 kilometres west of Tokyo. presidency by France and the out compromise,” said the report Tokyo after the lower house of United States as a bulwark entitled “Defense of Japan 2015”. parliament passed bills that could launched a full-scale invasion of coming to power in 2012. definitively as an armed attack by against Libya’s Moamer Kadhafi China is locked in disputes with see Japanese troops fight abroad the country in 1937. “We hope to explain to the pub- a country, and has attempted to -- is on trial over actions under several countries over its claims for the first time since World War But Tokyo’s move to give lic that the bills are necessary change the status quo by force or his regime from 1982 until he was to almost the entire South China II, in provisions that allow for greater leeway to its well- amid a harsher security environ- coercion”. “The Russian attempt is ousted in 1990. Sea and is currently pursuing so-called “collective defence” -- equipped and well-trained mili- ment around Japan,” the govern- considered to be a global security Rights groups say 40,000 a rapid programme of artificial coming to the aid of allies under tary is far from popular at home, ment’s top spokesman Yoshihide issue possibly affecting the whole Chadians were killed under island construction in the region. attack. and polls show approval ratings Suga told reporters yesterday, international community, includ- Habre’s regime. The former presi- It is also embroiled in a sepa- A fraught mutual history for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked about unpopularity of the ing Asia,” it said. On North Korea, dent, 72, has been in custody in rate row with Japan over the makes Beijing particularly sensi- -- the driving force behind the bills and the government. the report warned of a “greater Dakar since his arrest in June Tokyo-controlled Senkaku islands tive to any suggestion that Japan changes -- are plunging. Referring to the Ukraine cri- risk” of Pyongyang deploying 2013 at the home he shared in an -- which it calls the Diaoyus -- in may abandon its pacifism. A new weekend poll showed sis, the report said Russia “has ballistic missiles mounted with affluent suburb of the Senegalese the East China Sea, as Chinese Millions of Chinese died in just 35 percent of voters positively engaged in so-called ‘hybrid war- nuclear warheads “that include capital with his wife and children. ships and aircraft regularly test the years after Japanese forces rated Abe, his lowest level since fare’ that is difficult to identify Japan in their range”. AFP AFP Answers sought from Abbott on boat Philippines plans 25pc SYDNEY: Australian refugee boat and where they have come previously been held captive on groups yesterday demanded the from, including the numbers of customs boats for a month before hike in defence budget government provide answers children, babies and pregnant finally being returned,” Rintoul about a boatload of asylum- women,” the council’s chief execu- claimed. MANILA: The Philippines is including areas close to the shores seekers thought to be from tive Paul Power said. “In this kind of turnback situa- planning a 25 percent hike in of its Asian neighbours. Beijing Vietnam seen off the country’s “Shrouding the matter in tion, the asylum-seekers are being its defence budget next year, budgeted $142.9bn for its military west coast. secrecy by claiming this is an ‘on directly handed to those they are mainly to bolster its claims in this year. Prime Minister Tony Abbott water matter’ is unacceptable. We fleeing from.” the disputed South China Sea, One of the region’s most poorly (pictured), whose hardline poli- don’t know how long these peo- Abbott defended his policies, officials said yesterday. equipped, the Philippine military cies have stemmed the flow of ple have been at sea, how many under which any asylum-seekers The proposed 2016 national relies on half-century old ships asylum-seekers making the risky people are aboard nor where they who do arrive on unauthorised budget, which President Benigno and aircraft keeping watch over journey to Australia on boats -- have departed from.” boats are denied resettlement in Aquino is to present to parlia- the South China Sea, where ten- including by turning them around The Refugee Action Coalition the country and sent instead to ment for approval on last Monday, sions have flared recently. -- refused to discuss the vessel. urged Canberra to bring the boat camps at Nauru or Papua New would reserve a record 25bn pesos The Philippine military’s mis- “We do not comment on opera- ashore and assess the claims of Guinea in the Pacific. ($552m) for defence spending. sion to protect the country’s tional matters on the water,” he those onboard. “What I am going to do is reit- “We need to protect what is territory is complicated by long- told reporters in Canberra when “We know from past actions, erate our absolute determination clearly within our territorial running communist and Muslim asked whether his government the government will likely to ensure that people will not jurisdiction,” Budget Secretary insurgencies that forces it to was negotiating with Vietnam to attempt to return the asylum- come to this country illegally by Florencio Abad said. “Certainly, devote troops and equipment for return the boat. seekers to Vietnam,” said spokes- boat,” he said. we need to at least be able to internal security. “We do not discuss things in man Ian Rintoul. Canberra has said its policies effectively monitor the develop- While China has gone on an ways which would give comfort In May, Australia said it had are necessary to stop asylum- ments in the area, particularly island-building frenzy to reinforce to the people-smugglers. This has around 150km offshore from the prevented 18 boats carrying asy- seekers entering Australia by boat those in disputed zones,” he added. its claims on South China Sea been an iron law of this govern- town of Dampier. lum-seekers from entering the after thousands arrived under the The proposed 2016 defence reefs and waters, the Philippines ment and I won’t change it today.” If confirmed, it would be the country since Abbott came to previous government and hun- budget is part of a five-year, 75bn has set repairs on a crumbling But the Refugee Council of first approach by an asylum- power in September 2013, includ- dreds drowned en route. peso military modernisation pro- World War II ship that serves as Australia said people deserved seekers boat to Australia’s west ing a load of 46 people returned In June, the government said gramme approved by Aquino in its lonely outpost there. to know what was happening to coast in almost two years. to Vietnam. it had been more than 300 days 2013, Abad said. The South China Sea chain is those onboard the boat which “The immigration minister Other boats have been turned since a people-smuggling boat had The amount would still be also disputed in whole or in part the Australian Broadcasting needs to release information back to Indonesia and Sri Lanka. successfully made it to Australia. dwarfed by China, which claims by Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Corporation said had been sighted about how many people are on the “Some asylum-seekers have AFP most of the South China Sea Vietnam. AFP

MERS virus impacts Two killed as Burundians vote amid violence BUJUMBURA: Burundians voted yesterday amid gun- South Korean tourism fire and grenade blasts, with President Pierre Nkurunziza SEOUL: The recent outbreak Chinese -- the biggest spending widely expected to win a third of the deadly MERS virus in visitors -- was down 45 percent, term despite international con- South Korea has left the coun- while arrivals from Taiwan and demnation and thousands of try’s tourism industry in inten- Hong Kong were down 76 percent people fleeing feared violence. sive care, with visitor numbers and 75 percent respectively. The United States warned that plunging more than 40 percent “Because of the MERS out- Bujumbura’s dismissal of calls to in June. break, foreign tourists, including delay the poll “risks its legiti- As the country scrabbles to those from China, shunned vis- macy” and risked “unravelling come up with promotional cam- iting this country last month”, the fragile progress” made by the paigns to lure the tourists back, a KTO spokesman said, adding peace deal that ended more than a officials are warning that the cost that the 2015 target of 16.2 million dozen years of civil war and ethnic in lost revenue could be close to tourists was in serious jeopardy. massacres in 2006. $10bn. With no new MERS infections At least two people -- a police- The year had started off well reported in more than two weeks, man and a civilian -- were killed for the tourist sector with the the state-run KTO and other offi- in a string of explosions and gun- number of overseas arrivals in the cials have announced a number fire overnight. Blasts and shoot- first five months up 10.7 percent of measures to re-boot tourism, ings were heard as polls opened from the same period in 2014. including waiving visa fees for shortly after dawn in the capi- But then May 20 saw the first group travellers from China and tal Bujumbura, the epicentre of diagnosis of a case of Middle East Southeast Asia. three months of anti-government Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), The mayor of Seoul, Park protests. kicking off an outbreak that Won-Soon, will travel to Beijing, Willy Nyamitwe, Nkurunziza’s An election official verifies the identity of voters before clearing them to vote at a polling centre in Mwumba claimed 36 lives and triggered Shanghai and Guangzhou early chief communications advisor, Commune of Buye hill in Ngozi province, northern Burundi, yesterday. widespread panic at home and next month to talk to major travel condemned the attacks as “ter- mass tour cancellations abroad. agencies and persuade Chinese rorist acts” aimed at “intimidat- UN Secretary General Ban football fanatic -- is facing no think-tank has warned that the With 186 confirmed cases, it tourists that visiting South Korea ing voters”. Opposition and civil Ki-moon urged calm, calling on serious competition. situation has all the ingredients to was the largest MERS outbreak poses no residual health risk. society groups have denounced all sides to “refrain from any acts In one polling station, the kickstart renewed civil war. outside Saudi Arabia. The country’s enormously pop- Nkurunziza’s candidacy as uncon- of violence that could compromise Saint-Etienne school in the cen- Former colonial ruler and key The number of tourists in June ular K-pop industry has also been stitutional, with many boycotting the stability of Burundi and the tre of the capital, voters were donor Belgium said the polls “do plunged 41 percent from a year recruited, with stars signing up the polls. region”. seen scrubbing off indelible ink not meet the minimal require- earlier to 750,925, the Korea for a series of promotional con- Nkurunziza himself turned up With the election denounced from their fingers to avoid repris- ments of inclusiveness and trans- Tourism Organisation (KTO) certs and performances both at on a bicycle to vote in his home by the opposition as a sham, the als from opposition supporters parency,” and repeated warnings said. home and abroad. village of Buye -- where turnout 51-year-old president -- a former boycotting the ballot. it would “review its cooperation” The number of mainland AFP was high with long lines of voters. rebel, born-again Christian and The International Crisis Group with Bujumbura. AFP WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Fear of arrest stalks Dozens die as Darosh caught in flash floods five MQM lawmakers Legislators will not be able to attend assembly session

ISLAMABAD: Fear of arrest to attend the coming NA session, “Because I heard the speech has restricted the movement nor move to other parts of Sindh. of Altaf Hussain, I am accused of at least five Member of We have gone underground to under Sections 120, 120A, 121, the National Assembly of the avoid the arrest,” Godil said. 121A, 123 and 132 of Telegraph Muttahida Qaumi Movement to Qamar Mansoor, a member of Act, 109 of Pakistan Penal Code Karachi. These lawmakers will the MQM’s Rabita Committee, and Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism not be able to attend the coming has been taken into custody for Act. I have never held any office, session of the assembly. organising and facilitating `hate post or position in MQM. I am a Abdul Rasheed Godil, MQM’s speech against peace in Karachi’. legislator of the party,” he added. deputy parliamentary leader in Answering a question, the He said his activities, views and the assembly, said on phone from MQM legislator said a plan had speeches in Senate and TV talk an unspecified location that he been prepared to eliminate MQM shows were known to all. “Senate and four other MQM MNAs and NA Speaker Sardar Ayaz records and TV-recorded state- parliamentary leader of party in Sadiq was part of it. He con- ments of mine prove without a the NA Dr Farooq Sattar, Salman ceded that the MQM was passing shadow of doubt that I am most Mujahid Baloch, Mohammad through the most critical juncture patriotic and pro-army legisla- Rehan Hashmi and Kishwar of its existence. “My mother is tor. When everyone indulges in Zahra had gone underground. ill and I cannot go to see her,” he army bashing I always support These five MNAs were among said. the army,” he said. 24 party activists and 150 uniden- Retired Colonel Tahir Mashhadi said he fought wars A bridge over the Chitral river that was washed away by flash floods in the Darosh district of Chitral, Pakistan. tified people against whom a case Mashhadi, a senator belonging to for Pakistan. Victimisation, per- Six members of one family were among a dozen people killed by flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains was registered with the Godap MQM, said that a case had been secution, false and outrageous across the country, officials said. . Raging water washed away a house in Chitral district of the north-western Town police station for listening registered against him and 40 allegations and pressure tactics province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, killing three people, provincial Information Minister Mushtaq Ghani said. to an allegedly offensive speech by others for listening to Hussain’s being used are unprecedented in MQM chief Altaf Hussain. speech. the political history of the coun- According to a video circulating He alleged that the case was try, he said. “Democracy, decency on social media, Hussain accused false and had been registered and rule of law is under threat Sindh Rangers chief of violating with New Town police station, and this is what politicises law- the army’s code of conduct. Karachi, by a tout of law-enforce- enforcement agencies,” he said India-Pakistan peace talks put off “Knowing that our warrants ment agencies who belongs to the and added that he was regarded of arrest have been issued, we banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan as most clean, moderate voice of ISLAMABAD: Rising tension Four people have been killed visit to Islamabad. can neither travel to Islamabad (SSP). reason. INTERNEWS on the borders has thrown the by the firing of Indian border When contacted Foreign Office fate of crucial talks between security forces on civilian popu- spokesperson Qazi Khalilullah the national security advis- lations on the Pakistani side in said: “As of now I have no dates ers of Pakistan and India in recent days. Five more have been for the meeting.” Another Foreign the doldrums with New Delhi left injured by the unprovoked Office official said Islamabad reluctant to fix a date for the attacks. would raise the issue of Indian Pakistan’s Eid feasts: 5,000 in hospital meeting. Yesterday, a team of United involvement in the internal affairs During a recent meeting Nations Military Observers of the country when the advisers anti-terrorism ISLAMABAD: The major children, suffering from gastro- between Prime Minister Nawaz Group in India and Pakistan meet. public hospitals of Islamabad enteritis while Polyclinic received Sharif and his Indian counterpart (UNMOGIP) visited the villages He added, Islamabad had plan falters received over 5,000 patients over 2,000 patients. Narendra Modi in the Russian most affected by Indian shelling. ‘compelling evidence’ to prove suffering from various stomach Dr Waseem Khawaja, a senior city of Ufa, the two leaders had They visited Saleh Pur, Chaprar that India’s prime secret agency RAWALPINDI: Though related illnesses from the moon gastroenteritis specialist at Pims, agreed to a meeting of their secu- and Malane in Chaprar Sector in Research and Analysis Wing mocked by a Supreme Court sighting night till the third day said patients came with the com- rity advisers in New Delhi to dis- Sialkot and met wounded civilians (RAW) was whipping up terror- judge as a ‘joke’, and a citizen of Eid. plaint of severe stomach ache, cuss issues related to terrorism. and witnessed Indian atrocities on ism in Pakistan. renaming it as ‘No Action Plan’, The emergency departments vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration However, renewed tensions the civil population. At a news conference last the officialdom insists that the remained flooded with patients and fever. along the LoC in Kashmir and the According to the understanding week, Sartaj Aziz confirmed that, National Action Plan (NAP) is and hospitals faced shortage of “The major reason behind the working boundary in Sialkot, as reached in Ufa, Prime Minister’s “Pakistan has been deeply con- being implemented in earnest to beds while cancelling leaves of number of patients suffering from well as the intrusion of an Indian Adviser on National Security and cerned about hostile statements counter terrorism in Pakistan. medical staff. gastroenteritis was eating unhy- ‘spy’ drone into Pakistani terri- Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz would from Indian ministers and also This week, the Rawalpindi dis- Pakistan Institute of Medical gienic food or drinking contami- tory, may lead to the postpone- travel to New Delhi for talks with about Indian interference in trict police reported that since Sciences (Pims) received over nated water,” he said. ment of the crucial talks, a senior his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval, Pakistan. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif 3,700 patients including 400 INTERNEWS government official believes. who would then make a reciprocal INTERNEWS announced the NAP on December 24, 2014, they have registered 1,590 cases and arrested more than 1,900 individuals for violat- Bread for sale ing the new anti-terrorism laws. But a senior police officer can- Islamabad’s first LG didly admitted that “instead of implementing the good NAP in letter and spirit, our government is concentrating more on regis- election postponed tration of cases under the new laws and cramming more and ISLAMABAD: The first-ever In the new system, Election more people in jails.” local government elections in Commission of Pakistan would Experts say the conviction rate Pakistani capital of Islamabad, need to sub-divide each of the 79 of terror suspects is disappoint- was postponed due to lack of union councils earmarked earlier ing because of lack of coordination legislative cover, in the face of during the delimitation exercise between police and prosecution. another legal hurdle. The law into six wards. Under the NAP, it was planned under which delimitations were LG polls were due in Islamabad to register and regulate seminar- conducted has expired. on July 25 but ECP recalled sched- ies and madressahs. There exist Boundaries for local councils ule on July 10 after a SC order. 1,256 seminaries and madressahs were marked in the Islamabad The government had assured the in Rawalpindi but 749 of them are Capital Territory (ICT) earlier apex court that it will try to pass still unregistered. this year through a Presidential ICT local government bill within That would mean majority of Ordinance. This ordinance has a few days. Senate did pass the the religious students on their lapsed now since parliament did bill but due to amendment it has rolls are unknown when the 507 not endorse it within the stipu- been sent back to NA. registered madressahs alone have lated time period. Any changes Presidential ordinance empow- 74,401 students, including more in the delimitations would now ering ECP to carry out delimi- than 100 foreign students. require a fresh law. tations lapsed after completing A police official said, once the The delimitations in Islamabad its four month duration. Once a accused is arrested and challan is were carried out on the assump- presidential ordinance is issued submitted in the court for trial, tion that elections will be non- it needs to be passed by both the police’s role is over. “It is up to party based. Senate last week houses of parliament separately, the courts to convict the accused passed the ICT Local Government otherwise it dies after 120 days. or release him in case of faulty Bill but with a key amendment- ICT delimitations ordinance has investigation,” he said. An Afghan boy carries bread on his head for sale along Qargha lake, in Kabul, Afghanistan, yesterday. changing LG system to party- already met this fate now. INTERNEWS based one. INTERNEWS Govt homes commercialised Lawyer says Musharraf closer to acquittal ISLAMABAD: Pakistani gov- Being government employees ernment employees living in they can’t shift to any other area ISLAMABAD: The lawyer National Crisis Management Cell could declare them hostile wit- “corroborated” or confirmed the official houses in the capital while the existing houses were too of former president retired (NCMC) retired Brig Javed Iqbal nesses but it didn’t.” statement of Cheema. Islamabad have made exten- small. Apart from the extension General Pervez Musharraf Cheema; former IB director gen- A hostile witness is one who is The report claimed that sions to the buildings and in to the government houses, com- thinks the general is inching eral retired Brig Ejaz Shah; and not willing to cooperate with the Cheema had told the JIT that some cases even raised addi- mercial activities in the shape of closer to his acquittal in the the US lobbyist Mark Siegel. prosecution and has to be grilled he had held a press conference tional storeys in violation of guesthouses, restaurants, educa- Benazir Bhutto murder case as Of these four, two Kamal Shah and cross-examined aggressively. in which he told the media that the by-laws of the Capital tional institutions, saloons, media the prosecution is struggling to and Cheema had recorded their But surprisingly, even before Bhutto died because she had hit Development Authority (CDA). offices etc., are also openly contin- produce the last witness against statements before the anti-ter- Ejaz Shah was due to record his her head on the lever of the vehi- A majority of those allotted ued in these sectors. him. rorism court in January this year. statement before the ATC his cle’s sunroof. the government accommoda- In January this year, Justice While the prosecution’s case However, the statements were name was dropped as the pros- He had also told them that the tions have also encroached on the Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the against Musharraf was based recorded in camera and have not ecution said his testimony was no press conference was held under adjoining areas by building extra Islamabad High Court directed on four witnesses, in the previ- been made public. Both of these longer required. Musharraf’s instructions. rooms. Almost in all the residen- the CDA to take immediate steps ous week the prosecution has former aides to Musharraf had He was scheduled to record According to the report, the tial sectors, commercial activities for bringing the residential areas already dropped one of them been presented as prosecution his statement during the second allegation [levelled by Cheema] also continue unchecked. to their original shape by stopping Ejaz Shah, the former chief of the witnesses. week of July. against Musharraf “has also been Sources said, no one can build commercial activities there. Intelligence Bureau. Advocate Ilyas Siddiqui, who is Though the prosecution did corroborated by Brig (retired) even a single room in the gov- When contacted, CDA spokes- The former president was representing Musharraf, claims not provide more details about its Ejaz Shah, former DG, IB, in his ernment accommodations with- man Ramzan Sajid said a cou- implicated in the Bhutto murder that both Shah and Cheema did ‘change of heart’, the joint inves- statement to the JIT. out the connivance of the civic ple of months ago the high case in 2010. The prosecution’s not utter a single word against tigation report prepared back in Needless to emphasise here agency’s enforcement directorate court had issued a stay order, case against him was based on the their former boss, Musharraf, in April 2011 by the FIA quoted the that the former president ordered officials. The officials concerned restraining the civic agency from statements of the four witnesses. their testimonies. former IB chief and his remarks this hasty press conference with provided full support to the gov- starting an operation in the resi- These were: former interior “They disowned the statements could be seen to be damaging to the motive to influence subse- ernment servants to build extra dential areas. secretary Syed Kamal Shah; attributed to them by the FIA,” Musharraf. quent police investigation”. storeys. INTERNEWS former director general of the he said, adding: “The prosecution According to that report, he INTERNEWS WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Goa Congress Congress vows to disrupt House wants FIR in Sushma Swaraj, CMs must resign bribery case PANAJI: The Goa Congress NEW DELHI: Sticking to its obituary references. yesterday dared the BJP-led demand, the Congress yester- Asked about the BJP’s attacks coalition government in the day said it was determined to on the Congress for being an state to file within 48 hours a ensure accountability by the “irresponsible” opposition, police complaint in the Louis BJP-led government and will Sharma said the BJP, and espe- Berger bribery case. not let parliament function till cially Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj, The opposition party also said its demands for the resignations were suffering from collective loss that the delay in handing over of External Affairs Minister of memory and the prime minis- the case to the CBI was due to Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan ter was on a fast of silence. the fact that the New Jersey-US Chief Minister Vasundhara He said the BJP should remem- based firm had struck dealings Raje are met. ber how it had disrupted parlia- with the present BJP-led govern- Both Sushma Swaraj and ment on various demands during ment too. Vasundhara Raje have been its 10 years in opposition. “We give the BJP government accused of helping former IPL “They spoilt many sessions in Goa 48 hours to file a First chief Lalit Modi acquire travel of parliament when they were Information Report as well as documents from the British gov- in opposition. The accusations speed up the Crime Branch probe. ernment since his Indian passport against us are baseless,” Sharma If the FIR is not filed by Tuesday, was revoked. said. we will come out on the streets Rejecting the government offer “The BJP was an irresponsible and protest,” Congress spokesper- of a discussion on the issue in the opposition. If in the last one year son Sunil Kawthankar said. Rajya Sabha, Congress spokesper- of the NDA government, any bill Top officials of Louis Berger son Anand Sharma said: “This was passed, then the credit goes have already pleaded guilty to government is thick-skinned to the Congress,” he added. offering bribes to the tune of and think they are not account- The Congress leader, who $3.9m to secure contracts in able. Both houses of parliament led the charge against the gov- countries like India, Vietnam, will function only after there is ernment in the Rajya Sabha Indonesia and Kuwait. accountability.” yesterday, said the Lalit Modi The settlement announced “If the prime minister and his controversy was not a matter for by the US Justice Department government think they can bra- discussion. Members of Indian National Congress Party’s Women’s wing shout anti-government slogans during a protest revealed that $976,630 (around ` zen it out, they are wrong and the “We will force accountability. against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, in New Delhi, yesterday. 6.3 crore) in bribes were paid coming events will prove it,” he This is about giving protection to during 2009-2010 to a Goa said. a person running from the rule of for alleged impropriety and women safety and inflation. for the Vyapam scam. minister. The government, led by Finance law. The external affairs minister corruption. The agitators later tried to “Before the general elections in Former Goa chief minister Minister Arun Jaitley, accused has said they are ready to make Women protesters at the march to parliament to register 2014, (Narendra) Modiji made a Digambar Kamat and former the Congress of not being keen on statements. What statements can ‘Aakrosh Rally’ organised at the their protest but were stopped at number of promises on fighting Public Works Department minis- a debate over its allegations about they make?” Jantar Mantar in the national a police barricade nearby. corruption, controlling inflation, ter Churchill Alemao could come BJP leaders’ links with Lalit Modi Meanwhile, activists of the All capital raised slogans against The protesters were demand- zero tolerance against atrocities under the probe ambit, sources as the first day of the monsoon India Mahila Congress yester- Prime Minister Narendra Modi ing the resignations of Sushma on women. said. Louis Berger was part of a session of parliament saw several day held a demonstration here to and blamed him for not taking Swaraj and Raje in connection “But now, there is a U-turn on consortium that eventually won adjournments on the issue in the demand the resignations of union action against his ministers. with the controversy surround- all these issues,” All India Mahila a contract to execute a water Rajya Sabha. minister Sushma Swaraj and They also raised slogans against ing former IPL chairman Lalit Congress president Shobha Oza and sewerage project in Goa, The Lok Sabha, however, BJP chief ministers Vasundhara the Vyapam scam in Madhya Modi - facing an Enforcement said. funded by the Japan International adjourned for the day after Raje and Shivraj Singh Chouhan Pradesh, Lalit Modi, corruption, Directorate probe - and Chouhan IANS Co-Operation Agency (JICA). The Crime Branch yester- day evening summoned Anand Wachasundar, JICA project direc- tor and former head of Goa Public Works Department. The Congress has already Serial killer admits to raping Kerala vegetable imports demanded the immediate sack- ing of Wachasundar. “Wachasundar has been han- fall as local output soars dling the compromised JICA and murdering 30 minors project for the last several years. THIRUVANANTHA Even students and schools He should be sacked immediately. NEW DELHI: In revelations -- began his crime spree some- afternoon or in the early hours. PURAM: Vegetable imports were roped in for this purpose. But Chief Minister Laxmikant that have shocked even the time in 2008. Singh said: “He would go by Kerala have fallen steeply, Eventually, the habit of “growing Parsekar has instead asked the police, serial killer Ravinder He would lure children with around colonies looking for chil- thanks to a growing number of and eating one’s own vegetables officer to submit a report to Kumar has admitted to raping candies and kill them if they dren playing outside their house people whose kitchen gardens appears to have clicked”, the min- the government on the project,” and murdering more than 30 resisted. He also exhibited symp- or near toilets and lure them have boosted vegetable produc- ister said. Kawthankar said. IANS children in and around Delhi. toms of necrophilia as he would with money and sweets. If they tion in the state. Agriculture Now the arrival of vegetables The police has formed a special have sex with their bodies, said refused, he would simply gag and Minister K P Mohanan said from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka team to investigate the horrific Singh. pick them up. nearly 75 percent of all vegeta- has fallen to less than 400 trucks case. Kumar yesterday admitted to He even targeted two 14-year- bles consumed now in Kerala a day from over 750. Security beefed In a confession that left Deputy having committed his first crime olds known to a relative while are grown within the state -- “Today, practically in every Commissioner of Police Vikramjit when he was barely 17 years old. A visiting his aunt during a mar- and in kitchen gardens. state-run school, there is a up at temple Singh “deeply shaken”, Kumar labourer’s girl child from a Delhi riage ceremony in Aligarh in 2012. Mohanan, who made the kitchen garden and it is tended confessed to snuffing out the Metro construction site was his However, they were let off after endeavour to boost vegetable to by students,” said Mohanan. GURUVAYOOR (KERALA): lives of the children -- all under first victim. Police, however, could they promised to keep quite about production,said that his aim was “Besides, we have set up biogas Security has been beefed up at 14 years since 2008. not find a record of the crime as the incident. to ensure that this figure reaches plants in 3,825 schools. Today, the famed Sree Krishna Temple “I am deeply shaken from it was not reported. Last year, Kumar was arrested 100 percent. “Several factors the vegetables grown in these here after an anonymous to the inside,” Singh said. “I cannot Getting scot free after the first for assaulting a boy in Begumpur have contributed to a substantial schools are used in the mid-day police yesterday that it would be express in words what all I am crime emboldened Kumar, and in in south Delhi. He abducted the growth of the domestic vegetable meals. The waste generated is blown up. going through.”Singh said that on 2009 he kidnapped a labourer’s boy near his house and fled after production,” the minister said. used to power the biogas plants,” Guruvayoor ACP Jayachandran last Monday Kumar was taken to son from Vijay Vihar here, sodo- slitting his throat. He assumed In 2012, the production of veg- he added. Ninety percent of these said the call was received in the Narela, Bawana and Alipur, the mised and strangled him. This the boy was dead. But the victim etables in Kerala was a mere 22 embrace organic techniques. early hours of yesterday. places in outer Delhi identified by time a case was registered against survived. percent. This made the state Congress president in Kerala, V “The call has been made from him during interrogation. him but he managed to evade law Kumar got bail then in that heavily dependent on Karnataka M Sudheeran, is one of those who a Middle East country and the “This helped us to establish due to lack of witnesses and other case -- because at that time police and Tamil Nadu for daily vegeta- has a full-fledged kitchen gar- security has been beefed up. the fact (about the number raped evidence. Kumar claimed that he did not know about the criminal- ble supplies. den at his home. Marxist leader The bomb and dog squad have and killed),” the officer said.“I am had killed 11 of his victims after ity in his history sheet. If there were traffic disrup- Pinarayi Vijayan is a supporter. been pressed into service,” said myself monitoring the case. The they resisted his attempts to sex- He was again arrested on July tions in the border regions of “If more and more people take Jayachandran. investigations till now suggest ually assault them or threatened 16 for raping and murdering a the two states, Kerala’s vegetable up kitchen gardens, not only will Top police authorities have that the toll might reach 40,” he to expose him. six-year-old girl in Begumpur. imports would suffer -- immedi- we get fresh vegetables but con- instructed its officials in and added. Revealing his modus operandi, And the interrogation that fol- ately shooting up prices. And so sume organically grown vegeta- around Thrissur to ensure that The 24-year-old Kumar -- who Kumar told police that he usu- lowed this arrest exposed Kumar’s the state actively began promot- bles too,” he added. nothing is left to chance. apparently shows no guilt feeling ally committed the crimes in the shocking crime saga. IANS ing kitchen gardens. IANS IANS

Fire guts shopping mall Ex-Union minister, Arunachal CM Thungon convicted of corruption

NEW DELHI: A special court Thungon, then the minis- The agency said the first instal- here has convicted former union ter of state for urban develop- ment money was kept in civil minister P K Thungon in a 1998 ment and employment in the P deposit by the Nagaland govern- corruption case and sent him to V Narasimha Rao government, ment and on the request of joint judicial custody. along with the other accused, director, irrigation and flood con- Special Central Bureau of was involved in misappropriat- trol, orders were placed for pur- Investigation (CBI) Judge Ajay ing money meant for an irrigation chase of “sausage wire”. Kumar Jain on last Monday con- project in Nagaland. The CBI said that Tali submit- victed Thungon, also a former According to the CBI, Thungon ted a bill of `29,99,295 and he had Arunachal Pradesh chief minister, connived with officials of requested that a demand draft and three others in the corrup- Nagaland’s irrigation and flood of `10 lakh should be prepared tion case. control department in placing in favour of Thanu Thungan Thungon and others were held a bogus order for sausage wire and another demand draft of guilty of offences of criminal con- for a project during 1993-94. `15 lakh in favour of K Konngon spiracy, cheating by personation, Investigations revealed that no Konyak. The agency further said cheating, forgery of valuable secu- wire was supplied to the depart- that Mezakrol, who was the then rity), forgery for purpose of cheat- ment but payments were made. joint director, irrigation and flood ing and using as genuine a forged According to CBI, in pursu- control, got these demand drafts document under the Indian Penal ance to the proposal of the state issued. Code and under provisions of the government, the then Planning The CBI alleged Thungon, in Prevention of Corruption Act. Commission sanctioned an conspiracy with Maheshwari on The other accused who were amount of `2 crore for the reno- April 25, 1994, dishonestly and also convicted are Tali A O, C vation and upgradation of minor fraudulently, opened an account A Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet in a popular shopping mall in Mumbai was gutted along with several other Sangit and Mahesh Maheshwari. irrigation projects for Nagaland in the name of Thanu Thungan stores after a massive fire in the complex. People are seen retrieving some articles even as smoke billows from The court will hear arguments and the money was to be released a non-existent person and on the quantum of sentence on in two instalments of `1 crore this money was withdrawn by neighbouring stores, yesterday. There was no report of casualties and cause of the fire is still unknown. July 27. each. Maheshwari. IANS WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Yakub to be hanged as Heavy rains lash Jammu SC dismisses his plea Mumbai blast convict to face the gallows on July 30

NEW DELHI: The Supreme review petition, and then a sec- factor by itself, as it gives the Court yesterday dismissed a cur- ond review petition. status of direct responsibility”. ative petition by 1993 Mumbai The apex court April 9 had dis- “Since Yakub Memon as well as serial bomb blasts convict Yakub missed Memon’s review petition other absconders were the real Abdul Razak Memon, who will seeking the recall of its March 21, conspirators who hatched the be hanged on July 30. 2013 verdict upholding his death scheme for such a tragic act, the Memon had challenged the sentence. other 10 appellants awere mere earlier verdict of the apex court Dismissing his review petition subservient subordinates whose upholding his death sentence. on April 9, the court had said: knowledge and acquaintance Rejecting the curative peti- “We find that all the arguments might have been restricted to tion, a bench of Chief Justice H advanced by the review petitioner their counterparts.” L Dattu, Justice T S Thakur and have been considered in detail in “It is difficult to rule out with Justice Anil R Dave said that the judgment (of March 21, 2013) certainty that if the absconding “none of the grounds stated in the which is sought to be reviewed. accused (Dawood Ibrahim, Tiger curative petition would fall within Hence, we do not find any error Memon and Ayub Memon) were the parameters” involving the vio- apparent on the face of record or to be brought to trial, they might lation of the principle of natural any other ground so as to war- have thrown further light at the People wade through flooded streets during a heavy monsoon shower in Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir, justice and apprehension of bias. rant interference in exercise of role played by Yakub Memon,” the yesterday. Rain water flooded the entire Jammu city, paralysing traffic. The curative petition was our review jurisdiction.” court had observed in 2013. taken up in the chambers. Official The apex court by its March The apex court on April 9 had sources earlier said Memon, 53, 21, 2013 verdict, while upholding dismissed Yakub Memon’s plea will be hanged on July 30. the death sentence, had said that for the review of death sentence The hanging will likely take his “deeds can’t be viewed distinct verdict for the second time as it AAP protest against police inaction place in the Nagpur Central Jail, from the act of Tiger Memon, had earlier dismissed his similar where he is currently lodged, fol- hence, both owe an equivalent plea seeking the recall of March lowing the rejection of his mercy responsibility for the blasts” that 21, 2013 verdict. NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi “Crime against women is neighbours after she objected plea in April this year by the led to 13 serial bomb blasts in Memon’s plea for the recall of Party (AAP) supporters pro- increasing in the city. The victim to their verbal abuse on last president. Mumbai. his death sentence verdict was testing against Delhi Police had earlier complained against Thursday (July 16). He was sentenced to death by “They were the architects of rejected earlier too, but it was outside Anand Parbat police the assailants, saying they stalked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind a special TADA Court in Mumbai the blasts, without whom the taken up once again as the con- station here yesterday were her. Police did not pay heed to her Kejriwal later called on the vic- on July 27, 2007, for his role in plan would have never seen the stitution bench, by its September cane-charged. complaints which led to her mur- tim’s family and announced a the blasts, including arranging light of day. From this conduct, it 2, 2014 judgment, had said that They were protesting against der,” an AAP supporter said. compensation of `5 lakh to her finances for carrying out the 13 is not hyperbole to state that, he review pleas in death sentence alleged police inaction that had “We want the resignation of family. The Delhi government has serial explosions which left 257 (Memon) was one of the ‘driving cases would be heard in the open led to the murder of a teenaged ACP Patel Nagar and SHO Anand ordered a magisterial inquiry into dead and over 700 injured across sprit’ behind the plan of the 1993 court by a bench of three judges. girl in the Anand Parbat area last Parbat police station,” he said. the case and also sought a report the city on March 12, 1993. blasts, whereas the other appel- It also ruled that this “will also week. Police resorted to the cane When Police Commissioner B S from Delhi Police. Subsequently, Memon - brother lants played a far lesser role and apply where a review petition is charge to disperse the protesters. Bassi was asked yesterday about Bassi met Kejriwal on last of one of the main abscond- thus a lesser contribution to the already dismissed but the death “The protest was getting too police inaction alleged by AAP, Monday when the chief minister ing accused, Ibrahim alias Tiger crimes resulting from this plan”, sentence is not executed so far. violent. We tried to pacify them he said: “We are doing our work asked for details of the number of Memon - appealed against the the court had said. In such cases, the petitioners can but they not agree. We were on the basis of merit and it shall crimes against women. Kejriwal sentence in the Bombay High The court had then held that apply for the reopening of their forced to cane charge to disperse always be on merit. I am thankful also said the performance of the Court, the Supreme Court and the dominant position that Yakub review petition within one month them,” a police officer at Anand to anyone who criticises me.” police force was not up to the later filed a mercy petition with Memon held in the execution of from the date of this judgment”. Parbat police station said. Meenakshi, a Class 11 student, mark. the President, followed by a serial blasts was an “aggravating IANS No one was, however, detained. was repeatedly stabbed by two IANS TMC will bell the communal cat: Mamata States flouting court order on Aadhaar cards

NEW DELHI: The Supreme illegal immigrant.” Court yesterday took exception The count’s concern over the to the fact that despite its rul- breach of its interim order came ing that governments should as it commenced hearing on a not insist on the possession of batch of petitions challenging the Aadhaar card for the disbursal validity of the Aadhaar card and of benefits under the social wel- describing government insistence fare schemes, there were states on possessing it as being “coer- that were flouting its order. cive” and violating the right to A bench of Justice J privacy. Chelameswar, Justice S A Meanwhile, the central govern- Bobde and Justice C Nagappan ment yesterday told the court it expressed its concern over states was difficult to roll back the acting in breach of its interim scheme which was integral to order passed in September 2013 government’s efforts to eradicate and reiterated in March this year poverty. Rohatgi told the court in this regard. that about `5,000 crore have been At the outset of the hearing, spent on the unique identification Justice Chelameswar pointed to scheme and social welfare pro- court’s earlier order asking the grammes and subsidy schemers central and state governments are linked to Aadhar card. and their agencies not to link the About 80 crore people in the disbursal of benefits under vari- country were covered under the West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress Party (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee adresses a meeting in Kolkata. RIGHT: Supporters hold a ous social welfare schemes with Aadhaar programme. cut-out of the Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee during an annual rally in Kolkata, yesterday. Aadhaar card. Senior counsel K K Venugopal “Notwithstanding the earlier - appearing for Centre for Civil KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief to put up a dignified fight against power in West Bengal. United Nations or Unesco or the interim order, some of the states Society - referred to several judg- Minister Mamata Banerjee the central government, she said Firing more salvos at the World Bank. Delhi is promoting are still insisting on Aadhaar ments backing the plea for refer- yesterday asserted that her “This fight will spread from the Centre, the Trinamool Congress ‘Swacch Bharat’, but Bengal has card,” he observed, citing cer- ring challenge to Aadhar scheme Trinamool Congress will fight soil of Bengal to Delhi.” supremo ridiculed its alloca- already done it,” she said refer- tain reports in the newspapers. to the constitution bench. the Narendra Modi-led central “In the days to come, Trinamool tions for schemes for women’s ring to the UN award for state’s Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi The court asked Rohatgi to government over the “injustice will bell the cat when it comes to empowerment. “The Centre has Nadia district’s open defecation- said: “We had made clear not to look into the judgments being with and neglect of the state”. those who are fomenting riots in started ‘Beti Padhao’ scheme. free campaign. insist on Aadhaar card for any referred to by Venugopal. “Our fight has not ended. Bengal,” Banerjee said during her They have allotted only `100 She exhorted her party cadres official work.” The court is hearing a batch Earlier, our fight was against address at the Martyrs’ Day rally. crore. We allotted `1,000 crore to strengthen the party before the In its September 23, 2013 of petitions including one by the CPI-M; now, it is against the The rally is held in memory of for ‘Kanyashree’. Ours is ‘Beti 2016 assembly polls and cautioned order, the court said: “No person Karnataka High Court’s Justice Centre. Our fight is against the the 13 Congress workers killed in Bachao’, their scheme is ‘Beti against falling prey to conspira- should suffer for not getting the (Retd) K S Puttaswamy who had wrong principles, against injus- police firing on this day in 1993 Hatao’ not bachao’,” she said. cies hatched by others. Aadhaar card inspite of the cir- moved the court in 2012, con- tice, against the fact that the during a Writers’ Buildings (state Mamata Banerjee also attacked Lashing out at the CPI-M, cular making it mandatory and tending that the entire Aadhaar Centre has stopped giving funds, secretariat) blockade agitation. the Centre for publicising its which the Trinamool Congress when any person applies to get scheme was unconstitutional as against the neglect of Bengal,” Banerjee was then a Youth ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign. ousted from power in the 2011 the Aadhaar card voluntarily, it the biometric data collected under Banerje said at a Trinamool Congress leader and the “Today, everybody is proud of assembly polls, Banerjee accused may be checked whether that per- it was an incursion and transgres- Congress rally here. Communist Party of India- Bengal; we are getting recognition its leaders of selling the Left party son is entitled for it under the law sion of individual privacy. Calling upon her party workers Marxist led Left Front was in from across the world, be it the to the BJP. IANS and it should not be given to any IANS I am a threat only to those who believe in hatred: Teesta NEW DELHI: Amid all the only to those who believe in the Setalvad said she had cooper- Mumbai on June 9-10. Additional Team’s closure report. Zakia Jafri. “Despite all odds, our legal troubles she and her hus- politics of hatred and division,” ated with the investigation, giv- documents were also posted. The report ruled out the pros- team filed the criminal revision. band Javed Anand face, human she said. ing 25,000 pages of documentary With the Zakia Jafri case ecution of Narendra Modi -- who Now, when the matter is going rights activist Teesta Setalvad The CBI had registered a case evidence. scheduled to come up in the was Gujarat’s chief minister dur- to be heard, the CBI is being is unfazed and believes that the against Setalvad in connection “Communalism Combat”, the Gujarat High Court on July 27, ing the 2002 riots -- for his alleged unleashed on us to prevent assist- good will finally triumph. with alleged violations of the monthly magazine published Setalvad sees a political conspir- role in the violence. Setalvad felt ance to senior lawyers who will Accusing the Central Bureau Foreign Contribution Regulation by Sabrang Communications, acy in the CBI probe and the raid that the cases against her were argue in the Gujarat High Court,” of Investigation (CBI) of political Act (FCRA) on July 8. The agency signed an agreement with Ford that took place at her office. aimed at denying legal and con- she said. vendetta, Setalvad took strong claimed that her firm, Sabrang Foundation in 2004 and 2006 The petition filed by Jafri, the stitutional rights to the 2002 riot Raising doubts about the role exception to the CBI calling her Communication and Publishing after eminent legal counsel said widow of Congress MP Ehsan survivors. of some officers in the agency, she a “national threat”. Pvt Ltd, received around `1.8 this would not violate FCRA. Jafri who was killed by a mob in “The Gujarat Crime Branch alleged that there was a concerted “It is ludicrous and disgusting crore in donations from overseas. Sabrang kept records and pro- Ahmedabad’s Gulbarg Society lodged a false FIR on ‘embezzle- attempt to intimidate, harass and and echoes the mindset of the Countering allegations of tak- vided copies of the document in 2002, denounces a court- ment’ on me after a magistrate vilify her in the public domain. regime in Delhi. We are a threat ing money from Ford Foundation, during an inspection by FCRA in appointed Special Investigation rejected the protest petition of IANS WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Greece seeks bailout deal $100bn BRICS bank opens in Shanghai by August 20

SHANGHAI: A new $100bn international bank dedicated to Draft reforms bill sent to parliament the emerging BRICS countries opened in China’s commercial ATHENS: The Greek govern- and reduce their costs. Athens hub Shanghai yesterday, offi- ment said yesterday that it agreed last week to carry out cials said, as an alternative to wants to see a final deal on its tough reforms in exchange for other multilateral lenders. international bailout hammered a massive third bailout aimed at The “New Development Bank”, out by August 20, as it presented keeping Greece from crashing backed by the so-called emerg- parliament with more draft leg- out of the eurozone. Asked if the ing BRICS nations Brazil, Russia, islation on the cash-for-reforms threat of a Greek exit from the India, China and South Africa, agreement. euro, or “Grexit”, had passed, EU has been viewed as a challenge to Lawmakers are due to vote on Economic Affairs Commissioner Washington-based institutions. a second batch of reforms today Pierre Moscovici said on Tuesday: The NDB’s website explicitly in a fresh test of Prime Minister “I think we’ve made a big step in describes it as an “alternative to Alexis Tsipras’ authority, after he that direction.” the existing US-dominated World suffered a major rebellion in his But he also told the French Bank and International Monetary radical-left party Syriza during a channel BFMTV: “We must not Fund” which will address needs vote on a first tranche of bailout slacken our efforts” while striv- for infrastructure and sustainable measures last week. ing “to find the right balance development. After parliament has voted on between... Greece’s responsibility It comes as Beijing — which is the second bill — which must pass to reform, and solidarity among seeking a greater role on the global if Greece is to receive the bailout Europeans.” political stage to mirror its rise to worth up to ¤86bn ($93bn) over Analysts forecast that Tsipras’ become the world’s second-larg- three years — the government coalition government, which est economy — is also setting up “will immediately resume nego- teams his party with the nation- a separate Asian Infrastructure FROM LEFT: New Development Bank (NDB) President Kundapur Vaman Kamath of India, China’s Finance Minister tiations with the (lender) institu- alist Independent Greeks, will be Investment Bank (AIIB). Lou Jiwei and Shanghai’s Mayor Yang Xiong, attend the opening ceremony of the NDB in Shanghai yesterday. tions, EU, ECB and IMF, which forced to call early elections if the Chinese Finance Minister Lou should take until August 20 at the revolt within Syriza continues. Jiwei played down the competitive added. The opening comes two population, formally agreed to economist of Yingda Securities, latest,” said government spokes- But the administration, in aspect. “The NDB will supplement weeks after a BRICS summit establish the bank at a meeting said. “It can help strengthen the woman Olga Gerovassili. power for only six months, hopes the existing international finan- hosted by Russian President in Brazil in July last year. currency markets and maintain Tsipras managed to push to see a smaller rebellion in cial system in a healthy way and Vladimir Putin. The World Bank said it hopes to a stable financial order through the first series of unpopular today’s vote. Tsipras reshuffled explore innovations in govern- Moscow — which has suffered work with the newcomer. “We are the internal stabilisation of the reforms through parliament last his cabinet on Friday to fill the ance models,” he told the NDB’s huge currency fluctuations and committed to working closely with BRICS countries,” he said. Wednesday — including sweeping vacancies left by three members opening ceremony in Shanghai, struggled to attract investors the New Development Bank and The other new Chinese-based changes to Greece’s taxes, pen- who were sacked after voting as quoted by the official Xinhua since the outbreak of the crisis other multilateral institutions, multilateral lender, the AIIB, will sions and labour rules — but only against the first batch of reforms. news agency. in Ukraine — sees the bank and offering to share our knowledge be headquartered in Beijing and with the help of pro-European Moscovici said Tsipras had The bank says on its website a BRICS currency reserve pool and to co-finance infrastructure China will be its biggest share- opposition parties. Within Syriza, not faced an “easy choice” in that it will have authorised capi- as alternative global financial projects,” World Bank President holder with about 30 percent, 32 of the party’s 149 MPs voted agreeing to the reforms. “Along tal of $100bn, with $50bn paid institutions. Jim Yong Kim said. according to the legal framework against the measures, including the way he has lost some of his in initially. Xinhua quoted bank At the time of the summit, The regionally-focused Asian signed late last month by 50 former finance minister Yanis own troops, but he has also won president K V Kamath, formerly Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Development Bank also said it founding member countries. Varoufakis among them. A fur- public opinion and other politi- a private banker in India, as say- Lavrov said in a statement that would “look forward” to work- Major European and Asian ther six abstained. cal support,” he said. An opinion ing the institution’s management BRICS “illustrates a new poly- ing with the NDB. Chinese ana- economies including Germany, The second bill includes an poll at the weekend published in was “working on initiation of centric system of international lysts denied the BRICS bank was Britain, France and Australia EU directive, adopted after the the To Vima newspaper found 68 operations”, including “making relations” demonstrating the aimed at challenging other mul- have joined the AIIB, but the financial crisis in Cyprus in 2013, percent of respondents named business policy” and “developing increasing influence of “new cen- tilateral agencies. United States and Japan — the that guarantees bank deposits up Tsipras as the politician most project preparations”. tres of power”. “It’s a complement, instead of world’s largest and third-largest to ¤100,000 ($108,000), as well capable of leading the country, far Operations would begin late The BRICS nations, which rep- a challenge, to existing interna- economies, respectively — have as civil justice reforms designed ahead of any of his rivals. this year or early in 2016, he resent 40 percent of the world’s tional institutions,” Li Daxiao, chief declined to do so. AFP to speed up legal proceedings AFP

Germany’s first full-fledged Islamic bank Hard line on Iran won’t Infosys posts hurt trade: French FM 5pc increase in net profit PARIS: France’s hard line the first senior Western leader towards Iran in nuclear nego- to visit Iran since the deal. BANGALORE: Indian soft- tiations won’t hurt its busi- But Paris is preparing for the ware giant Infosys Technologies nesses once sanctions are lifted, lifting of sanctions, which could reported a five percent rise in Foreign Minister Laurent begin in the first quarter of 2016 quarterly net profits yesterday, Fabius said yesterday before a if Iran meets obligations set under aided by a weak rupee and strong trip to Tehran aimed at reviv- the accord endorsed on Monday demand from the United States. ing relations. by the UN Security Council. The country’s second largest IT Fabius will next week make About 50 senior executives from services exporter said profits for the first visit to the country by some of France’s top firms are due April to June notched Rs30.3bn a French foreign minister in 12 to be briefed on the agreement by ($476m), up from Rs28.86bn in years, just a fortnight after an diplomats, a senior French diplo- the same period last year and agreement between Tehran and mat said. France’s main business matching exactly a Bloomberg world powers designed to curb lobby group, the Medef, is send- survey of 35 analysts. Iran’s nuclear programme in ing a delegation comprising about Shares in Infosys surged 10.95 return for sanctions relief. 80 firms to Tehran at the end of percent to Rs1,111.rupees on the Despite a long history of com- September. Bombay Stock Exchange shortly mercial, political and social links Historically, French firms after the announcement. with Iran — in the 1970s revolu- such as automaker Peugeot and Chief Executive Vishal Sikka tionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah oil major Total were once heavily said that the company had ben- Khomenei lived in exile near Paris involved in the Iranian market, efited from “large deal wins and — France took one of the hardest but European Union and in par- Officials cut a green ribbon to open KT Bank AG, Germany’s first full-fledged Islamic bank, in Frankfurt yesterday. in the growth of large clients”. He lines of the six powers negotiating ticular US sanctions adopted in The bank, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Turkish lender Kuveyt Turk, aims to tap Europe’s second- said Infosys, which would like to the accord. 2011 scared them away. knock Tata Consultancy Services largest Muslim community of roughly four million Muslims, many of whose members are of Turkish descent. “It’s true that France was Imports from Iran to France (TCS) off the top spot in India’s very firm,” Fabius told France fell to just ¤62m in 2013 from profitable IT sector, had signed six Inter radio. “Will French firms ¤1.77bn in 2011. French exports major deals in the first financial be penalised? My answer is no to Iran fell to ¤494m in 2013 quarter totalling $688m. because in the past we had an from ¤1.66bn in 2011, accord- Sikka added that the 79 new important presence in Iran. Our ing to French foreign ministry clients had also been secured (expertise) is excellent in a lot of estimates. French bank BNP Oil choppy, clings to gains over the three months. Infosys’ fields and the Iranians are seri- Paribas was fined almost $9bn in revenue in April-June rose 12.4 ous. You know in foreign policy, 2014 for transactions violating US NEW YORK: Crude oil futures are not helping either,” said John in Galena Illinois, said in a note. percent to Rs143.54bn from I think you lose nothing in being embargoes. clung to gains in volatile trading Kilduff, partner at Again Capital Brent September crude was up Rs127.70bn a year ago, the com- respected.” “It’s a real issue to see how as the US front-month August LLC in New York. 16 cents at $56.81, having swung pany statement said. When the sanctions start French firms, international and contract headed to expiration Expectations of more Iranian from $56.33 to $57.44. Brent’s Revenues from its biggest mar- going, Iran could recover more Americans banks react to the yesterday, with the weaker dol- supply following last week’s premium to September US crude ket of North America amounted than $100bn from overseas bank lifting of sanctions, at what speed lar providing support. agreement on Tehran’s nuclear was near $6 a barrel. to 63.2 percent of the total in June accounts as the oil producer seeks and with what inhibitions,” said a Weak US RBOB gasoline programme and concerns that eco- US August RBOB was off 2.26 compared with 60.8 percent last to rejoin the international trading second French diplomat. futures curbed gains for crude, nomic worries in China and Europe cents at $1.9077 a gallon. US pet- year as the company benefited system. “To invest, company bosses especially Brent, traders said, will weigh on demand have put rol stocks were expected to have from a nearly 6 percent fall in the France’s relationship with Iran need complete safety. They need as expectations that inventories pressure on oil this month. risen 1m barrels last week, accord- value of the rupee against the dol- has also been complicated by its financing, but banks will only rose again last week as refiners US August crude was up 27 ing to analysts surveyed by Reuters lar, the earnings release showed. political and commercial rap- finance if they are sure they won’t continue to operate at a high uti- cents at $50.42 a barrel at 1611 on Monday ahead of the weekly Infosys added that it was prochement with Sunni Arab be penalised later.” lization rate weigh on prices. The GMT, having slipped to $49.77 industry and government inven- bullish about the future, saying states, especially Saudi Arabia, The US Foreign Corrupt dollar retreated from a three- intraday. US September crude was tory reports. Crude oil stocks were that in the financial year’s three Tehran’s main regional rival. Practices Act enables Washington month high against a basket of up 32 cents at $50.76. Front-month expected to have fallen 2.1m barrels. remaining quarters it hoped to to keep an eye on transactions currencies on mild profit-taking. August crude dropped below $50 “Fifty dollars is almost a fault increase its revenue by up to 13.5 FABIUS TO VISIT TEHRAN made in dollars even if the entity A rising dollar makes it more on Monday for the first time since line for bulls and bears to battle percent in rupee terms. Fabius is due to go to Tehran is not American. profitable for non-US investors April and the front-month price is it out, but if you want to choke off Infosys, once known as the on July 29 and will meet To avoid that scenario, France, to sell dollar-denominated assets down 15 percent in July. U.S. production, that price may “bellwether” of India’s flagship President Hassan Rowhani. Britain and Germany have agreed and a weaker greenback makes “August WTI is a particular have to move a bit lower. With outsourcing industry and billed He will not take business lead- with the United States that their oil less expensive for consumers focus of attention ahead of today’s $50 being that support level, this as the country’s equivalent of ers with him, unlike German firms would not be penalised for using other currencies. expiration and we expect much is where we will get some buying Microsoft, is listed in Mumbai Economy Minister Sigmar activities in Iran should sanctions “Seems like there is volatility gravitation at around the $50 coming in,” BNP Paribas analyst and New York. It is engaged in Gabriel who brought a big com- be restored after they are lifted. with the U.S. August contract set mark,” Jim Ritterbusch, presi- Harry Tchilinguirian said. a tough battle for market share mercial delegation this week as REUTERS to expire and the weak equities dent at Ritterbusch & Associates REUTERS with TCS and Wipro. AFP WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Toshiba president, top executives quit over $1.2bn scandal

TOKYO: The president of “There has been inappropriate Chairman Masashi Muromachi uncovered problems as they a common objective to inflate prof- net profit on sales of 6.7 trillion Toshiba and seven other execu- accounting going on for a long is taking over as interim presi- probed its balance sheet earlier its.” The findings drew a rebuke yen. The scandal risked further tives resigned yesterday over time, and we deeply apologise for dent. The embarrassing findings this year. from Japan’s Finance Minister fallout, including lawsuits, but a $1.2bn accounting scandal causing this serious trouble for come less than two months after The Toshiba panel, headed Taro Aso, who warned that it was unlikely to bring one of Japan blamed on their overzealous pur- shareholders and other stakehold- Japan adopted a long-awaited cor- by a former Tokyo prosecutor, “could damage the credibility of corporate giants to its knees, said suit of profit that has battered ers,” said a company statement. porate governance code aimed at described a corporate culture the Japanese market”. SMBC Nikko analyst Yutaka Ban. one of Japan’s best-known firms. At a packed press briefing, improving firms’ transparency. where underlings could not chal- However it was unclear whether The panel’s report means Hisao Tanaka and vice chair- Tanaka offered a “heartfelt apol- They will also deal another lenge powerful bosses who were any of the Toshiba executives who Toshiba will have to restate its man Norio Sasaki — also a former ogy” as he bowed deeply in a blow to corporate Japan’s image intent on boosting profits at stood down would face charges. profits by 151.8 billion yen for the president — were the most senior show of contrition. “This is the after a huge scandal at camera almost any cost. And despite the storm Toshiba period between April 2008 and to step down after an independ- worst damage for our brand in and medical equipment maker “Inappropriate accounting was shares jumped yesterday, as the March 2014. It is unclear whether ent report found top management its 140-year history,” he said. But Olympus. In 2013 a trio of former systematically carried out as a report ended months of uncer- it will affect the fiscal year ending complicit in a years-long scheme the 64-year-old company veteran executives at that firm got sus- result of management decisions... tainty about the extent of the March 2015. to pad profits. denied ordering staff to doctor pended jail terms for their roles betraying the trust of many accounting problems and who was Best known for its televisions In a stinging indictment, the Toshiba’s books. “I didn’t order in a $1.7bn accounting fraud. stakeholders,” it said. “Toshiba to blame. The Tokyo-listed shares and electronics, including the report by a company-hired panel inappropriate accounting,” he said. That story grabbed interna- had a corporate culture in which soared 6.13 percent to 399.90 yen. world’s first laptop personal com- said managers were involved in Sasaki, 66, served as Toshiba tional headlines as its first foreign management decisions could not The rally came after they had puter and DVD player, Toshiba “systematically” inflating profits president between June 2009 and executive exposed the cover-up be challenged.” lost more than 20 percent since has more than 200,000 employ- over several years, in one of the June 2013, covering most of the that led to his colleagues’ down- The panel said: “In some cases May when Toshiba yanked its ees globally and also operates in most damaging accounting scan- period during which profits were fall. Toshiba’s accounting scandal top management and division earnings estimates for the past power transmission and medical dals to hit Japan in recent years. inflated. began when securities regulators leaders appeared to have shared fiscal year — a 120bn yen ($960m) equipment. AFP

China’s FDI Key European rises 8pc stocks fall; in first half BEIJING: Foreign investment into China rose 8 percent in the first half of this year as merg- ers and acquisitions by overseas companies more than quad- gold shines rupled in value, the commerce ministry said yesterday. Foreign direct investment Euro strengthens to $1.0920 (FDI), which excludes finan- cial sectors, totalled $68.41bn in LONDON: European stocks retreat in Europe. “It seems nor- January-June , the ministry said. reversed yesterday as volatile mal after an enormous rebound of “Both the proportion and the commodity prices and company 10 percent in the last 10 sessons,” transaction value of foreign merg- results hit shares, giving up added Xavier de Villepion, a trader ers and acquisitions increased some of the gains won over the at HPC. sharply,” it said. It gave the value previous nine trading days as In foreign exchange, the euro of M&A activity at $13.19bn, a the Greek debt crisis eased. strengthened to $1.0920 from gain of 336.5 percent from the Gold prices rose on the back of $1.0824 late in New York on same period last year, while its a softer US dollar. Spot gold prices Monday, when it had earlier hit proportion of total FDI ballooned halted a plunge of nearly 6 percent a near three-month low point at from 4.8 percent to 19.3 percent. in the past six days, after hitting a $1.0809. Earlier, the dollar climbed “With the increase of China’s five-year low on Monday as inves- to a five-week high against the land prices and other costs, many tors dumped inflation hedges. yen on growing expectations the companies are now investing in A stronger US dollar and US Federal Reserve will raise the country in the form of merg- Greece looking to seal a bailout interest rates this year. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell in New York yesterday. ers and acquisitions,” said Shen deal added to the bearish catalysts “The strong USD continues to Danyang, ministry spokesman. for the metal. Spot gold added 0.9 weigh on market sentiment add- Shen did not provide details on percent to $1,106.28 after sliding ing pressure to most commodity any individual deals in China. In toward $1,088 on Monday. prices,” said Myrto Sokou, sen- Most markets in Mideast rise June alone, FDI growth slowed London’s benchmark FTSE 100 ior research analyst at Sucden sharply to 1.1 percent, after a 7.8 index of top companies slid 0.29 Financial. DUBAI: Most stock mar- Dhabi rose 1.9 percent and First support, jumping 2.1 percent. The percent year-on-year rise in May. percent to close at 6,769.07 points. US stocks fell following dis- kets in the Middle East rose Gulf Bank added 1.0 percent. firm reported a 16.2 percent rise The ministry also said overseas In the eurozone, the CAC 40 in appointing earnings from IBM slightly yesterday, supported by Trading in the shares of another in second-quarter net profit to direct investment (ODI) from Paris shed 0.70 percent compared and United Technologies, as the positive earnings and expecta- large local bank, Abu Dhabi 11.5m rials ($29.9m). Gulf Baader China rose 29.2 percent to $56bn with Monday’s close to 5,106.57 market looked ahead to results tions, but Dubai slipped after Commercial Bank (ADCB), was Capital had forecast 11m riyals. in January to June. It did not pro- points, while Frankfurt’s DAX 30 from Apple. In New York mid-day jumping in the previous ses- suspended as its board reviewed Meanwhile, Galfar Engineering vide data for June alone. China fell 1.12 percent to 11,604.80 points. trade, the Dow Jones Industrial sion and approaching technical quarterly results. and Construction tumbled 8.3 drew a total of $119.6bn of FDI in “After a nine-day positive run Average stood at 17,900.01, down resistance. After the market closed, ADCB percent. Last week, the firm said 2014, up 1.7 percent, while ODI leading out of the Greek debt 1.11 percent. The broad-based Dubai’s index slipped 0.1 per- posted a 21 percent rise in second- its consolidated profit had fallen was up 14.1 percent at $102.9bn, crisis, European shares dropped S&P 500 shed 0.41 percent to cent, with most stocks declin- quarter net profit which slightly to almost zero in the first half of passing the $100bn mark for the back yesterday with poor results 2,119.50, while the tech-rich ing, although heavyweight bank beat analysts’ forecasts, aided this year. first time as Chinese compa- from pharmaceutical giant Nasdaq Composite Index slipped Emirates NBD jumped 3.5 per- by lower loan impairments. The Egypt’s market climbed 0.3 nies eye opportunities abroad as Novartis acting as a drag on 0.30 percent to 5,203.32. cent, extending its gains following lender made a net profit attribut- percent, although most stocks domestic growth slows. Europe’s healthcare sector,” said Markets are keeping a close eye the publication of strong second- able to shareholders of Dh1.28bn traded without a clear trend and AFP market analyst Jasper Lawler at on the Fed as it considers its first quarter figures last week. ($349m) in the quarter. closed in the red. Commercial CMC Markets UK. rate rise since 2006 with the US The Dubai benchmark touched Kuwait’s market edged up 0.5 International Bank, the coun- Swiss pharmaceutical giant economy getting back up to speed. an intraday high of 4,234 points, percent. Burgan Bank added try’s biggest listed lender, inched Spring Airlines Novartis reported $4.1bn in In Europe, Bank of England gov- near technical resistance in the 1.2 percent after its quarterly up 0.09 percent. Rating agency income for the first half of the ernor Mark Carney has indicated 4,240-4,253 point area, where it profit rose 23 percent to 19.9m Moody’s last week improved its to buy 21 A320s year, down 20 percent, due largely that Britain’s record-low interest peaked in April and June. dinars ($65.7m). Analysts polled outlook on Egypt’s banking sys- to a stronger dollar. Novartis rate could also soon start to rise. Emaar Properties, Dubai’s big- by Reuters had estimated 17.6 tem to “stable”. shares lost 2.05 percent to close at Asian markets advanced, with gest listed developer and the most million dinars. Burgan’s parent Pharos Securities said at the for $2.04bn 100.20 Swiss francs on the Zurich Tokyo boosted 0.93 percent by a traded stock yesterday, closed flat firm, Kuwait Projects Company end of last week it could revise its SHANGHAI: Chinese budget stock market. weaker yen and Shanghai’s recov- and Union Properties fell 0.8 per- (KIPCO), climbed 1.5 percent. fair value estimate for the stock carrier Spring Airlines said it “The market is catching its ery continuing with a 0.64 percent cent, having surged 5.0 percent Oman’s index added 0.4 percent after the firm sold its stake in plans to buy 21 Airbus A320 planes breath after a rather bullish series,” gain, while Hong Kong added 0.52 on Monday. and Ooredoo Oman , the sultan- Egypt Cables Co for nearly three for 12.45bn yuan ($2.04bn), citing said Andrea Tueni, an analyst at percent. Abu Dhabi’s bourse climbed 0.6 ate’s second biggest telecommu- times its book value. growth in both international and Saxo Banque of yesterday’s market AFP/REUTERS percent as National Bank of Abu nications operator, was the main REUTERS domestic air travel. The Shanghai-listed company intends to fund the purchase in part through a private placement Ford launches F-150 pickup of shares to raise 4.5bn yuan, according to a statement to the Osborne tightens screws exchange late on Monday. The single-aisle A320 has a list price of $97m, according to Airbus. on govt spending plans “Demand in China’s domestic and international aviation market LONDON: Britain’s finance defence and overseas aid spending is steadily increasing,” Spring said minister George Osborne are largely excluded from the cuts. in the statement. “The company launched a new front in his Earlier, data showed the gov- intends to reasonably expand the austerity push yesterday as he ernment was making progress in scale of its fleet to increase its air challenged some government cutting Britain’s budget deficit transport capacity.” departments to find spending which narrowed by 20 percent Spring Airlines, headquar- cuts of up to 40 percent by the in the second quarter compared tered in the Chinese commercial end of the decade. with a year earlier. hub of Shanghai, was founded Osborne said he would announce The improvement was helped in 2005 and now flies more than on November 25 how he would find by increases in revenues from 90 domestic and international an extra £20bon ($31bn) of annual income tax and corporation tax, routes, according to its website. departmental savings, on top of which are now growing as the The company’s net profit for the deep cuts to welfare spending that economy recovers after lagging first quarter this year jumped he unveiled earlier this month in a the broader recovery last year. 46.43 percent year-on-year to post-election budget. However the shortfall in June 254.32m yuan. “This spending review is the was higher than economists had China, the world’s second-larg- next step in our plan to elimi- expected as spending rose, and est economy, is already Asia’s big- nate the deficit, run a surplus they said the data underscored gest aircraft buyer as a growing and ensure Britain lives within Osborne’s challenge of tackling middle class takes to the skies in its means,” Osborne said. what remains one of the big- ever-increasing numbers. Last Osborne is asking departments gest deficits among the world’s year, US aircraft giant Boeing how they could cut between 25 advanced economies. forecast Chinese carriers will The passenger side view of the 2016 Ford F-150 Limited. Ford rolled out a deluxe version of its F-150 alu- percent and 40 percent of their Liz Martins, an economist with need nearly 6,000 new planes minum-bodied pickup truck yesterday. The light-duty truck is loaded with gadgets, including a 360-degree annual day-to-day spending, in HSBC, said an expected rise in valued at $780bn over the next order to give the government a Britain’s zero inflation rate in the 20 years, accounting for around camera, massaging front seats and luxury interior and exterior design touches. The 2016 Limited will go on range of options of how to make coming months would add to gov- 16 percent of world demand and sale in the winter. the 20 billion pounds of savings it ernment spending on inflation- nearly half of Asia’s. is targeting. Healthcare, schools, linked bonds. REUTERS AFP WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS

With yuan anchored, China Open immigration policy dominates dollar market BY FION LI only way to 4pc growth en years after China scrapped a yuan peg against the dollar, the central bank is again anchoring the exchange rate to the greenback. Witnesses to the 2005 float say too much BY NOAH SMITH simply the product of output beyond anything currently Act and its path to citizenship Thas changed for that to last. per person and the number of imaginable. Yes, most of those for people brought to the US as The economy is now five times bigger, having overtaken Japan hen the George people. The more people in your immigrants would be poor and young children, have failed due and Germany, and the yuan has risen to become the world’s second W Bush Institute country, the higher the output. low-skilled, so output per person to strong opposition, mostly most-used currency for trade finance. Currency watchers of the commissioned That’s why China, whose out- - - and the standard of living of from Republicans. Open borders time, including UK government official Jim O’Neill and ski gear WNobel-winning put per person is only about a the average American -- would would increase immigration by entrepreneur Benedikt Germanier, say the yuan will sustain its economist Edward Prescott to quarter of the US’s, is now the go down. But the standard of liv- dozens of times more than the gradual ascent. While it has appreciated 34 percent since the 8.3 analyze its proposal to generate largest economy on the planet. ing of the hundreds of millions DREAM Act or anything else per dollar peg ended, it’s in the fifth month of a pause at 6.2. 4 percent annual growth for The growth numbers you who moved to the US would go under consideration. At a time “Ten years on, what is clear is that China is moving toward a the US, the famously pro-free- usually hear about in the news way, way up, as it always does when Donald Trump is garner- much more flexible exchange-rate system and is making good market Prescott replied that a are total GDP growth num- for immigrant groups. ing support by running on a rab- progress,” said O’Neill, a former Goldman Sachs Asset Management target of 3 percent was better bers, not per capita figures. To An open borders immigration idly anti-immigrant platform, chairman who is now commercial secretary to the UK Treasury. for the long run. Prescott isn’t boost those numbers, get more policy has received enthusiastic the chances of open borders The economist, who remembers being flooded with calls during a alone in his evaluation; most population. For example, when support from a dedicated core of being adopted is somewhere family holiday in Greece in July 2005, said the yuan will “play an economists and policy special- Great Britain conquered India, libertarian economists, notably between zero and nothing. increasing role in the global financial system.” ists don’t believe that the US the GDP of the British Empire Bryan Caplan of George Mason A lack of housing would mean China has been preventing declines in the yuan partly to economy can grow at 4 percent went way up. If the US really University. These economists that hundreds of millions living strengthen its bid to win International Monetary Fund reserve in the long run, no matter what wanted to supercharge its GDP believe in relaxed immigration in shantytowns for years. So status this year and challenge the dollar for domination of global policy steps we take. I’ve added numbers, it has a much better rules not because they want flinging open the gates is too trade. A successful bid could trigger a $1tn switch of global reserves my voice to that skeptical cho- option than military conquest higher GDP growth, but because extreme. into Chinese assets, Standard Chartered Plc estimates. rus on more than one occasion -- it could simply invite tons of of principle -- they view national The optimal amount of immi- after Jeb Bush embraced the 4 immigrants to move here. borders themselves as an unac- gration is almost certainly more REFORM AGENDA percent target. When I say “tons,” I don’t ceptable form of government than the US now admits. But The People’s Bank of China first pegged the currency in 1995 Here’s the thing, though -- it mean the 1 million to 1.5 mil- intervention in the economy. better would be a large increase shortly after abandoning a dual exchange-rate system for imports isn’t quite true. There actually lion that the US usually accepts The open borders crusaders are of high-skilled immigration, and exports. Governments in the US and Europe criticized China is one way that 4 percent long- in a year. I mean hundreds of so zealous that moderate sup- which would raise not only total for obtaining an unfair trade advantage by keeping its currency term growth -- or even higher millions. About 630 million peo- porters of increased immigra- GDP but also output per person. undervalued. The PBOC scrapped the peg on July 21, 2005, and -- is possible. But there’s a good ple surveyed worldwide between tion, such as tech entrepreneur It would also fight against ine- allowed a one-time, 2.1 percent appreciation, a move welcomed by reason I haven’t mentioned it 2010 and 2012 said that they Vivek Wadhwa, are often the quality, since high-skilled immi- then-US Treasury Secretary John Snow. before now. It has about as much wanted to move to another targets of their ire. University grants compete with wealthier Germanier, a UBS AG strategist at the time, remembers shouts chance of happening as a snow- country. The US, unsurprisingly, of Chicago economist John Americans, rather than with on the trading floor and explaining to eager fund managers that ball has of surviving an extended was the most desired destina- Cochrane has also voiced sup- poor Americans. they may not see an “explosion” in the currency. trip to Hades. The way to get 4 tion. If the US opened its bor- port for the open borders idea. So if Jeb Bush wants to get us “Chinese leaders are up for a gradual opening of the economy, a percent growth is open-borders ders and admitted 100 percent The problem with open bor- to 4 percent growth, he’s going master plan that will take many years,” he recalls telling investors. immigration policy. of those huddled masses, its ders is that it has no chance to have to open the country up Surprising Pace population would approximately of ever becoming a reality. to a lot more immigration. It’s The yuan’s gains in the past decade have been tightly managed SWERVING PATH TO triple. Even far more moderate pro- a good idea, but it’s not going to and punctuated by a restored peg in the two years ended June 2010, CITIZENSHIP Tripling the US population immigration proposals, such go over well with the Republican a decline last year and finally the most recent pause. Currency Gross domestic product is would supercharge growth President Obama’s DREAM base. BLOOMBERG reserves ballooned to almost $4tn, before sliding to $3.7tn at the end of June, as PBOC intervention switched from buying the dol- lar to selling it. Capital account opening has accelerated in the past five years. China has expanded the yuan clearing-bank network to 17 cities including London, Seoul, Sydney and Johannesburg. This year, it opened up the short-term loan market to foreign banks and removed some restrictions on overseas sovereign investors in its inter-bank bond market. The currency failed to qualify for the IMF’s reserves in 2010 because it was deemed not “freely usable.” “I had assumed wrongly that the absence of full capital account convertibility would limit the endorsement of the currency in trade finance,” said Chia Liang Lian, Pasadena- based co-head of emerging-market debt at Western Asset Management. “As it turned out, the pace of yuan internationalization has been signifi- cantly more rapid.” Lian, who was dining with bankers in Beijing while working for Pacific Investment Management Co. that day in 2005, said he’s “constructive” on the currency as “the world’s focus appears set to tilt from greenback to redback in the coming decade.”

DIFFERENT LANDSCAPE The yuan has been trading within 0.35 percent of 6.2 per dollar since March 31, even as the greenback gained 0.7 percent in the same period against major trading partners. Exchange-rate stability contrasts with a collapse in domestic stock prices and an economy set to expand by about 7 percent this year, the least since 1990. “It’s a policy choice,” said Dariusz Kowalczyk, an economist at Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong. “It’s by showing the strength of renminbi against a backdrop of a strong dollar to get people to hold the yuan. The market is more controlled than it used to be, after the government said it would give market forces a bigger role. There’s a big element of contradiction.” The authorities “prefer a stable currency at the current time,” said Michael Spencer, Hong Kong-based economist at Deutsche Bank AG. The market, which was positioned for devaluation ear- lier this year, is now “quite flat.” “The de-pegging came at a time when the rest of the world was really only beginning to understand China’s opening up and its impact on global trade and investment flows,” he said. “It convinced people that there was a financial market component to China’s reform agenda.” BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Greece may get debt relief with right policy: IMF

BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY it said was that the actions of University of Mainz pointed out, unemployment (and more than percent of government revenue. the creditors and the government this government, and the previ- the templates the IMF uses for its 60 percent of young people out of The first two numbers are ter- could accept. reece’s debt burden ous one, drove the 2012 bailout debt sustainability analyses are work) and with capital controls rible. World Bank calculations No one, not even the IMF, has has taken on mytho- program off track and increased available to the public and can that allow a bank depositor to (for gross national income, a any idea of whether Greece’s logical attributes and Greece’s financing needs. be tested. There are two frame- withdraw only $420 a week, may measure close to the GDP, and debt is sustainable. That may questions about the “If the program had been imple- works: one for relatively rich no longer qualify as a first-world for exports) show similar ratios explain why the German Finance dominant narrative mented as assumed, no further countries with market access, the country because it has neither the for countries such as Jamaica and Ministry rejected the IMF ana- Ghave become a form of heresy. I, debt relief would have been needed other for poor ones that cannot economic wherewithal, nor the Liberia, and that also includes pri- lysts’ suggestion of extending too, have repeated the line that under the agreed November 2012 borrow on the financial markets. market access. Greece may not vate debt. Such data send strong maturities by “say, 30 years on “even the IMF considers Greece’s framework,” the IMF document For Greece, the IMF used the recover these for years. distress signals: This is a country the entire stock of the European debt unsustainable.” Yet that is a read. In fact, it claimed Greece rich-country one, which focuses Also, it shares an important that needs debt relief. debt” -- a strangely imprecise half-truth and it has the potential would have achieved better-than- on nominal debt levels. From that feature with the countries to However, even at 213 percent, phrasing for the institution. It also to distort policy. projected debt-to-gross- domes- point of view, Greece looks hor- which the IMF applies the low- the present value of Greek debt may be why German Chancellor The assertion comes from a tic-product ratios by 2020 and rible: Its debt, the IMF says, will income framework: most of its relative to budget revenue is Angela Merkel hasn’t explicitly June 26 International Monetary 2022. “However, very significant peak at about 200 percent of GDP debt -- 79 percent -- is held by below the IMF’s danger threshold. responded to the possibility of Fund document that Greece’s changes in policies and in the in the next two years if its financ- public-sector lenders. Most of the What that means is that, by debt restructuring as a reward for former finance minister, Yanis outlook since early this year have ing needs are met. rest is in long-term bonds that IMF standards, Greece’s debt is compliance with policy guidelines Varoufakis, called a “fascinating resulted in a substantial increase The problem with that banks and funds received during not really an unbearable burden imposed by the creditors. What is read.” In his bombastic style, he in financing needs,” the IMF approach is that the rich-coun- the 2012 debt restructuring. on the country’s government, clear is that Greece has a liquid- went on to assert: “Never before went on. Greece wasn’t collecting try model no longer is relevant to Schumacher and di Mauro which is supposed to be repaying ity problem and that its economy has a veritable institution advo- enough taxes, privatization stalled Greece. Sure, its per capita GDP point out that because of that it, even though it looks too big for needs to start growing again. cated policies that clashed so and growth lagged. remains high -- almost $26,000 profile, the low-income coun- the underlying economy. With luck, that’s being fixed. In mercilessly with its own research. Varoufakis and Tsipras in 2014, taking into account pur- try framework, centered on the But Greece, of course, isn’t an the meantime, economists at the Never before has the IMF agreed, shouldn’t try to co-opt IMF ana- chasing power parity, making it present value of debt, may provide economic outsider like Liberia, IMF, the European bailout fund on economic analysis, with a gov- lysts as allies, even if they end up 44th in the world -- and the poor- a more accurate picture. Using and developing-world standards and the European Central Bank ernment it sought to devastate.” calling for debt relief. The IMF country framework is only applied the IMF and World Bank’s 5 shouldn’t apply. It is an emerg- should take another look at sus- But the IMF research paper is operating by a different logic, to really low-income nations with percent discount rate, they calcu- ing special case that, according tainability frameworks, agree on didn’t agree with the economic though it also is easy to question. per capita GDP below $1,200. lated that the net present value of to Schumacher and di Mauro, one they like and suggest a solu- analysis of Prime Minister Alexis As Julian Schumacher and It could be argued, however, Greek debt is 93 percent of GDP, needs a different debt sustainabil- tion. There’s still time. Tsipras’s government. What Beartrice Weder di Mauro of the that Greece, with 25.5 percent 281 percent of exports and 213 ity model, preferably one that all BLOOMBERG WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17

Baseball Results LA Angels 11 Boston 1 Washington 7 NY Mets 2 Bolt sacrifices nuggets Philadelphia 5 Tampa Bay 3 Detroit 5 Seattle 4 Atlanta 7 LA Dodgers 5 Cincinnati 5 Chicago Cubs 4 Pittsburgh 10 Kansas City 7 to prolong career Colorado 8 Texas 7 Arizona 3 Miami 1 LA Angels 7 Boston 3 I’ve cut back on a lot of things, says Jamaican sprint star San Diego 4 San Francisco 2 Red Sox routed PARIS: Jamaican track star Usain Bolt has admitted to by Albert Pujols, sacrificing fast food in a bid to extend his stellar sprinting LA Angels Bernard Tomic of Australia career. reacts during first round In an interview with the IAAF ANAHEIM, California: match against Dustin Brown Inside Athletics programme Turns out the first half of the of Germany in this August 26, released yesterday, Bolt said season was merely rough for the 2014 file photo. curbing off-track activities as Boston Red Sox. Four games out the years rolled by had been easy at the All-Star break, the sum- compared to having to watch his mer has gone from unpleasant diet. to ugly. Australia offer “I’ve cut back on a lot of things,” Albert Pujols hit three hom- said the 28-year-old six-time ers while the Los Angeles Angels Davis Cup olive Olympic gold medallist who had a swept a doubleheader from the growing reputation in his younger Red Sox on Monday, complet- years for liking the nightlife and, ing a four-game sweep of Boston branch to Tomic famously, eating chicken nuggets. with a 7-3 victory in the nightcap MELBOURNE: Australian “When I really realised I was yesterday. tennis officials want to clear getting older was last season Pujols, Kole Calhoun and David the air with Bernard Tomic when I got injured. Freese homered during an 11-1 and reinstate the country’s “Trying to get back was much win in the first game, chas- estranged number one into harder than the years when I was Usain Bolt poses after his win in the men’s 100m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in London in this 2013 ing Eduardo Rodriguez (5-3) in the Davis Cup team for the younger. Now it takes time for me file photo. the second inning. Trout then semi-final against Britain. to get going and I need a lot more homered along with two more The controversial world races. homers by Pujols in the second number 29 was booted off “I’ve noticed that I have to be be his third Olympic Games, in Bolt acknowledged. “It definitely “It’s definitely the pain,” he said game, sending the Red Sox (42- the team before the quarter- very careful and I just have to be Rio de Janeiro in 2016, insist- really helps to compete and train of his reason not to step up. 51) into a last-place tie with final win over Kazakhstan on aware of everything around me ing he felt no pressure from the with these guys every day. You “I don’t want to do that! I told Seattle in the AL after their fifth Sunday for publicly criticising and make sure I’m on point. weight of expectation of a pub- know you have to step up your the coach we’re not going to do straight loss. Tennis Australia (TA) officials “I’ve started eating healthy. lic who have seen him win an level,” he said, adding that Mills it. He also expressed that maybe “This was a disappointing in an extraordinary tirade at That’s the hardest thing for me unprecedented double-treble gold had sometimes to step in and I should try, but I’ve already series all the way around,” Red Wimbledon. right now is the sacrifices, eating haul. split up the group if it became talked him down -- it’s not going Sox manager John Farrell said. Tomic was arrested in Miami vegetables all the time. “I want the best for myself,” too competitive. to happen. “We fully expected to come in and last week after holding a noisy “Everything else is easy to give said Bolt, who has also won eight “You learn not to compete too “I think I’ll go through my put together a better series than party at a penthouse suite in his up, but eating healthy is really world gold medals. “That’s the hard in training. But we’re men, career with my 100 and 200 what played out. Tonight, after hotel and the 22-year-old later hard!” way I look at it to try not to feel so we compete.” metres. a tough first game, I thought we said he was still “in a fight” Bolt, who has been struggling pressure. Bolt, however, was quick to put “I’ve said to a few of the 4x400m came out swinging the bats well. with TA and had no intention with a pelvic injury but is slated to “I focus on what’s necessary an end to any talk of him poten- guys that in 2017 I’ll just do the But there were a number of hard- of making peace. compete at the Diamond League and what I want out of it and tially stepping up to the 400m, 100m and then try the 4x400m. hit balls right at some people.” However, TA president Steve meet in London on Friday, made work towards that.” insisting the one-lap race was “I’ll train myself, probably run David Ortiz still posed at the Healy said the governing body no mention in the programme Training under coach Glen too draining, but hinted he might a few (less races) in 2017 and then plate when he hit a two-run hoped to contact him soon to about next month’s world cham- Mills’ watchful eye alongside co- have a shot at making the 4x400m see if I’ll be ready. It would be nice homer in the sixth inning of the hammer out their issues. pionships in Beijing. stars like fellow sprinter Yohan relay team for the 2017 worlds in to run a 4x400m at a champion- nightcap for the Red Sox, who “We want to offer Bernard But he did talk about what will Blake was nothing but helpful, London. ships.” AFP were outscored 22-4 in the series. the opportunity to raise the The Angels consistently tagged issues he has raised, so we can knuckleballer Steven Wright address those with him,” Healy (3-3), who yielded six hits and six told local media in Canberra on runs in the Southern California Tuesday. Wallabies call in native’s first appearance since “We think (Tomic’s) criti- June 20. cisms are unjustified -- he needs Puma know-how “I felt like I was maybe I was to hear that. He needs to get overthrowing (the knuckleball) some detail, and we want to to fix scrums just a little bit, but it was defi- bring him back into the fold. nitely moving more than it has “I think the important thing in a while,” Wright said. “So to understand is he’s had fan- SYDNEY: Australia’s Wallabies it’s definitely gets frustrating, tastic support from Tennis have turned to Argentina’s because when you can’t throw Australia and we want him to scrum doctor Mario Ledesma to it for strikes, it does limit your understand and appreciate that change the perception that they options.” and then welcome him back are pushovers at scrum time in Pujols homered in both games of into Davis Cup.” the countdown to September’s a doubleheader for the first time in Australia rallied to win their World Cup. his career. He caught and passed quarter-final 3-2 on Sunday, Ledesma, who played 84 Tests Mike Schmidt for 15th place in setting up a last four encounter for Argentina as a hooker, has baseball history, hitting his 549th away to Britain at a yet-to-be begun working with the Wallabies career homer in the seventh to confirmed venue on Sept. 18-20 on set pieces after performing essentially wrap up a four-game as the 28-time winners seek to the same function for the NSW sweep of the woeful Sox. lift the trophy for the first time Waratahs through the Super “I enjoy it because I was able since 2003. French rugby national team players and staff members rock climb during a Rugby Union World Cup 2015 train- Rugby season. to do something tonight to help TA’s high performance chief ing camp Tignes, southeastern France on Monday. The Wallabies maligned scrum my ballclub win,” Pujols said. “It’s Pat Rafter announced last came in for more scrutiny after about the team, man. It’s not month that funding would be some shaky moments in their sea- about personal success. We’re on cut to Tomic and his sister son-opening Rugby Championship top right now, and we can’t take Sara, who plays mostly second- Test against South Africa in that for granted.” tier events on the ITF circuit, Brisbane last weekend. The $240m Dominican slugger in part because of their father Burger replaces Matfield Australia’s scrum has regularly has hit his stride in his fourth John Tomic’s uncooperative been targeted by opponents over season with the Angels, who are attitude. the last decade to great effect, and soaring right along with his hom- Bernard Tomic responded they will be under enormous pres- ers. The Angels (52-40) have won by accusing TA of neglecting sure at the World Cup against five straight and 15 of 18 overall he and his sister’s development as Springboks skipper pool rivals and scrummaging while Pujols and Trout chase during his Wimbledon rant. powerhouses England and Wales. the overall major league lead in Relations plumbed a new JOHANNESBURG: Schalk Stormers and Springboks stal- Meyer said: “Schalk has been a Michael Cheika’s men can homers. depth last week when TA said Burger will captain South wart who has won 76 caps, scored magnificent servant of Springbok expect another thorough exami- “I don’t know anything about Tomic was playing a “Hall Africa against New Zealand 14 Test tries, and can play in his rugby and fully deserves this nation in Mendoza this weekend hitting, but it’s fun to watch the of Shame” event in a media in Johannesburg this week- preferred flanker position or at responsibility. against Argentina, a rugby nation ball leave the yard,” said Angels release, rather than the Hall end, coach Heyneke Meyer No. 8 “The resilience he has shown in renowned for their scrummaging rookie Andrew Heaney, who of Fame championships in announced yesterday. He made his international coming back from serious injury prowess. pitched seven strong innings. Newport. Loose forward Burger replaces debut in a 2003 World Cup match and illness is the kind of quality Ledesma, who represented Pujols cracked his 547th homer The governing body quickly Victor Matfield after the veteran against Georgia in Sydney. I look for in players as well as Argentina at four World Cups during the Angels’ seven-run apologised for what it said was lock suffered a hamstring injury After many seasons of Test teams I coach. over a 15-year international second inning in the opener. He a “clerical error” but the Tomic during a defeat by Australia in rugby, the son of a former “To me, the captaincy is very career up to 2011, does not reached the short left-field porch family threatened to sue. Brisbane last weekend. Springbok overcame a serious important and something I never believe the Wallabies scrum is with a solo shot in the second Tomic is in Bogota, Colombia The Springboks tackle greatest injury and recovered from a life- take lightly or want to cheapen. their Achilles heel, but acknowl- inning of the nightcap, passing preparing to defend his Claro rivals the All Blacks at Ellis Park threatening illness to regain his “The fact that Schalk has been edged that may be the perception Ty Cobb for 12th place in base- Open title. stadium Saturday in a Rugby green-and-gold shirt. a role model for so many down the outside Australia. “What we are ball history with his 1,137th extra- Healy also said TA would Championship second-round “I am a proud man today, and years made this an easy decision. trying to do here, and I think we base hit. After Trout pulled back invite applicants for the cap- clash likely to draw a sell-out at the same time humbled by the “He has always led through did it really well during the Super even with Pujols with his 28th taincy of the Davis Cup team 62,000 crowd. faith the coach has shown in me,” example and distinguished him- Rugby, is change that perception homer in the fifth, Pujols nudged after previously anointing Matfield had been deputising Burger told a media briefing at a self as one the best leaders in everyone has of the Australian back ahead with his 29th. The Lleyton Hewitt for the role. for centre and first-choice captain Johannesburg college. South African rugby during the team,” Ledesma was reported as All-Star duo homered in the same The retiring Hewitt was to Jean de Villiers, who is recuper- “Since first putting on the past decade. saying by Australian Associated game for the seventh time this take over after playing his last ating after knee reconstruction Springbok jersey, my dream has “I am very excited to see what Press yesterday. year and the 24th time in their 3 tournament at the Australian surgery. been to represent my country he can bring in the absence of “If you look at most of the 1/2 seasons together. Open in January. De Villiers and Matfield are with distinction and to make Jean (de Villiers) and Victor Australian teams throughout the The Angels limited Boston to Wally Masur has been the two of many injury concerns South Africans proud. (Matfield).” (Super Rugby) competition, they four runs in 36 innings, continu- team’s interim coach since for Meyer less than two months “It is still sinking in that I will The South Africa-New Zealand were dominating in the scrums, ing their strong season out of Rafter quit earlier this year to before the Rugby World Cup kicks actually captain my country. fixture is a highlight of the annual especially the Queensland Reds. the break. After All-Star Hector take the high performance role. off in England. “This is an honour bestowed Rugby Championship, which “It’s just showing everybody Santiago (7-4) labored into the “We want to give everyone a New Zealand are the bookmak- on a select few rugby players and includes Argentina and Australia. that we’re there to scrum, and sixth inning to win the opener, chance to not only apply, but tell ers’ favourites to retain the tro- I will do whatever is needed for Reduced from six rounds to we want to contest. Heaney (4-0) won his fourth us their vision for Davis Cup,” phy they won in Auckland four the team. three this year because of the “We want to dominate over straight decision in his first Healy said. years ago with England and South “With the captaincy comes World Cup, the southern hemi- there and we want the least month with the Angels, yielding “But Lleyton’s a pretty fan- Africa next highest on the betting massive responsibility, and I am sphere championship began last amount of penalties possible and five hits without a walk. Joe Smith tastic candidate.” boards. very excited for Saturday,” added weekend with home victories for get the referee out of the picture.” got the final four outs for his first REUTERS Burger is a 32-year-old Western Burger. New Zealand and Australia. AFP AFP save. AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Formula One pays last respects to Jules Bianchi NICE, France: Formula One congregation that, while Bianchi’s world champions past and death was “profoundly unjust”, present paid their respects to the driver had been “happy Jules Bianchi and mourned one because he had made his dream of their own at the French driv- come true. er’s funeral yesterday. “Jules never stood on a Formula Lewis Hamilton, the current One podium, so I ask you to champion for Mercedes, attended applaud him now.” the service at Nice’s Sainte- Friend and compatriot Jean- Reparate cathedral along with Eric Vergne, the former Toro former champions Alain Prost, Rosso racer and current Ferrari Jenson Button and Sebastian test driver, said Bianchi was “an Vettel. extraordinary man, as beautiful Bianchi, 25, died in a Nice hos- inside and outside and now he is pital on Friday after suffering in heaven with F1’s biggest names. critical head injuries when he “He will stay a champion for- skidded off the track and hit a ever in our hearts.” recovery tractor in last October’s Bianchi had made his Formula Japanese Grand Prix. One debut with Ferrari-powered The Marussia driver, who had Marussia in 2013, scoring that been tipped as a likely future star team’s first and to date only with every chance of racing for points in Monaco last year when Ferrari, had been in a coma since A portrait of late Marussia Formula he finished ninth. the accident at Suzuka. One driver Jules Bianchi hangs Formula One’s governing body, He was the sport’s first driver outside the church at the funeral the FIA whose French presi- fatality as the result of race inju- ceremony at Cathedrale Sainte dent Jean Todt attended the ries since Brazilian triple world Reparate in Nice, yesterday. funeral, announced on Monday champion Ayrton Senna and that Bianchi’s chosen number 17 Austrian Roland Ratzenberger would be retired from the world died at the San Marino Grand floral tributes, and applauded the championship. Formula One drivers Venezuela Pastor Maldonado (centre left) and Brazilian Felipe Massa (centre right) alongside Prix at Imola in 1994. late driver as the coffin was car- “Formula One is a complicated late French Formula 1 driver Jules Bianchi’s helmet on his coffin after his funeral ceremony outside the Cathedrale Hundreds of fans gathered ried in by his peers. His helmet job... but he always remained Sainte Reparate in Nice, France, yesterday. Bianchi, 25, was hospitalised after he suffered severe head injuries outside the cathedral, where was placed on top. humble, nice with everybody,” when his car crashed into a crane which was there to lift the crashed car of Adrian Sutil off the track, at the large portraits of Bianchi in rac- French media said parish said Todt’s son Nicolas, Bianchi’s Japanese Grand Prix on October 5, 2014. ing overalls were displayed above priest Sylvain Brison told the manager. REUTERS

Bamford joins Johnson eyes more majors Palace on season-long loan after British Open triumph LONDON: Chelsea forward Patrick Bamford has com- pleted a season-long loan move The win drives, motivates to practise more and get better, says golfer to Crystal Palace, the Eagles announced yesterday. The 21-year-old won the sec- ST ANDREWS, Scotland: No on Monday. ond-tier Championship Player one should be surprised if Zach “I never really thought I’d win of the Year award for scoring 17 Johnson goes on to win sev- one major. Then you get one and goals for Middlesbrough last sea- eral more majors because, even certainly you feel like you can win son before the north-east side lost though he is approaching 40, more and you want to win more. the play-off final to Norwich -- the new British Open champion “It drives you, motivates you and he will now look to continue is working harder than ever and to practise and get better,” said that form in the Premier League. is performing at his peak. Johnson, 39, after climbing from Bamford, an England Under- The American waited a long 25th to 12th in the world rankings. 21 international, has also spent time to add to his one previous “I really love golf and certainly time away from Chelsea with loan major win at the US Masters but as I’ve gotten older I’ve enjoyed spells at MK Dons and Derby believes he is now a more rounded practising more. having originally signed for the performer than the golfer who “I’ve enjoyed working out more, reigning English champion from had the Green Jacket draped fortunately. I enjoy the gym and the Nottingham Forest academy. around his shoulders in 2007. getting the opportunity to go out “BREAKING: #CPFC are “I feel like I’m a better player and work.” delighted to announce the signing than I was then,” Johnson told Johnson saluted the strong of @Patrick_Bamford on a sea- reporters after beating South influence his backroom team, his son-long loan from @ChelseaFC.”, African Louis Oosthuizen and wife and three children, his family said Palace on their Twitter feed. Marc Leishman of Australia in a and friends had on his capture of At the same time, Chelsea four-hole play-off at St Andrews the prized Claret Jug. announced that Bamford had “I’m very appreciative of that signed a new three-year contract because this isn’t by happenstance before heading away from west World Rankings or luck,” he said. “I think quality London to south London side hard work creates luck. Palace. 1. (1) Rory McIlroy (Britain) 12.60 “I’m not saying I’m lucky but, “I’m delighted to sign a new 2. (2) Jordan Spieth (US) 11.66 yeah, the support I have back contract with Chelsea,” he told 3. (3) Bubba Watson (US) 7.09 home, the support I have had the club’s website. “My dream has 4. (4) Dustin Johnson (US) 6.60 this week from friends and family always been to be part of this club 5. (8) Justin Rose (Britain) 6.50 was tremendous whether it was a for the long term. text or a video from my kids or “Chelsea have been fantastic 6. (5) Rickie Fowler (US) 6.44 whatever. with my development and join- 7. (6) Jim Furyk (US) 6.39 “This is certainly a sharing ing Crystal Palace for this season 8. (7) Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 6.24 moment and fortunately we get US golfer Zach Johnson holds the Claret Jug, the trophy for the Champion golfer of the year in front of the on loan is the next step for me in 9. (9) Jason Day (Australia) 6.14 to have it for at least a year. I’m clubhouse as he poses for a photograph after winning the three-way play-off on day five of the 2015 British my career.” 10. (10) Sergio Garcia (Spain) 5.69 ecstatic to share it with them.” Open Golf Championship on the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland, on Monday. Bamford subsequently told 11. (11) Adam Scott (Australia) 5.31 Johnson now has 12 tour vic- Palace’s website: “I was quite keen 12. (25) Zach Johnson (US) 5.12 tories to his name but said none to stay close to London this time could compare to the moment he of what’s in my lap and the names “It’s the ‘who’s who’ in the and it’s still beyond surreal. I and Palace were actually my first 13. (17) Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa) 5.06 lifted the Claret Jug for the first that are etched on this piece of game. It’s the guys that paved the guess when you have a great team, choice, but I didn’t realise they 14. (12) Jimmy Walker (US) 4.90 time. metal,” he added. “That is very way. It’s the individuals that are great things can happen,” said the were keen to start with. 15. (14) Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) 4.40 “I’m humbled right now because special. historic in sports. “I’m honoured golfer. REUTERS “Then, when I met with the manager (Alan Pardew), he put forward his plans and it was an easy decision. “I do like to score goals, so Jordan Spieth moving on after dream ends hopefully I’ll be able to do that a lot here. I want to try to establish ST ANDREWS, UK: Jordan US and British Opens. Even Jack year’s final major – the PGA myself in a Premier League team Spieth blamed “mental mis- Nicklaus and Tiger Woods failed, Championship at Whistling and if I can do that here then it takes” at the eighth, 17th and in their primes to do that - each Straits, Wisconsin next month. would be great for me and great 18th for wrecking his dreams of falling at The Open stage. “I don’t know how many guys for the club.” winning three majors in a row in He bagged his share of birdies have done three majors in a year,” Pardew, who had already signed the British Open at St Andrews and was well in the hunt until he said. “I’m sure there’s only France midfielder Yohan Cabaye, on Monday. a double bogey at the par three been a few. I know Tiger has done was delighted by Bamford’s deci- Those rare moments of weak- eighth looked to have punctured it, and I’m sure Jack has. sion to head to Selhurst Park. ness from the usually steely his hopes. “So that would be the next goal “It’s a coup for Crystal Palace 21-year-old Texan cost him three But he battled back again and as far as the history goes. Sights ahead of a host of rivals,” Pardew strokes and the chance of either looked set for at least a play-off set on the PGA Championship, said. winning the tournament out- spot until a wayward approach to and from here I’ve got a couple “I’m so pleased he chose us right, or at least getting into a the notorious 17th Road Hole cost weeks off now, and I’m going to over others to help develop his playoff eventually won by fellow him a shot and then hit a poor tee go home and reflect. game. Hopefully he will be a star American Zach Johnson. shot at the last and failed to get “It won’t hurt too bad. It’s not for us, Chelsea and – of course “Today was a really tough day,” the birdie he needed. like I really lost it on the last hole, – England. he said. “I did not expect three guys and 17 was brutally challenging. I “Patrick is one of England’s “Just made a mental mistake to get to 15-under today in those just didn’t hit a great putt there, brightest prospects and I will on number eight and it seemed conditions. I did not see that hap- and I just picked the wrong wedge liaise with (Cheslea boss) Jose to have cost me as well as on 18.” pening. That was some phenom- out of the bag on 18. Mourinho, (England Under-21 Spieth had started the day just enal golf by everyone,” said the “I have made a lot of the right coach) Gareth Southgate and Dan Jordan Spieth of the US wipes his eye on the 18th green after completing one shot off the leading trio and in golfer. decisions down the stretch and Ashworth (director of elite devel- his final round of the British Open golf championship on the Old Course ideal position to pull off the great- But there were no regrets certainly closed plenty of tourna- opment at the FA) on his progress in St. Andrews, Scotland, on Monday. est feat in golfing since 1953 when he said and it was just a case ments out, and this just wasn’t during this important year in his Ben Hogan won the Masters, and of re-focussing himself for the one of those. AFP career.” AFP WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 USA confident ahead of Jamaica clash Gold Cup: Mexico and Panama clash in second semi-final

ATLANTA: Defending cham- doing everything we can to win.” “We have to stay focused, stay penalty kicks, goalkeeper Jaime pions the United States, sparked Klinsmann has stressed tak- hungry and be ready for whatever Penedo making the winning save. by six goals in four matches from ing advantage of opportunity to is thrown at us.” “Penedo is very fast,” Panama Clint Dempsey, enter today’s Dempsey, whose 47 career goals The Jamaicans have already coach Hernan Dario Gomez said. Raheem Sterling of Manchester City during the International Champions Gold Cup semi-finals confident are 10 shy of Landon Donovan’s matched their best Gold Cup “Jaime has a very high, impres- Cup football match against Italian side AS Roma in Melbourne yesterday. but cautious against a defen- all-time record. showing after semi-final runs in sive level. sively determined Jamaica. “He’s hungry for goals and he 1993 and 1998, but the “Reggae “He’s very good in the goal and The Americans, trying to has two more meals,” Klinsmann Boyz” want more as well. his level of confidence is even match Mexico’s record with a said. “Now we make sure he really “We have a win streak. We more now.” sixth title, face the “Reggae Boyz” enjoys the next two games. Those don’t want to go down. We want Mexico, also toughened by a Sterling scores in the opener at the Georgia are the big ones. These are the more,” Jamaica coach Winfried Copa America appearance, has Dome followed by a 2013 semi- ones where you really want him Schaefer said. “I’m proud of my been beset by injuries, losing final rematch between Mexico to score.” team.” Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez and Panama in the biennial The Americans hope to retain Schaefer was a Borussia before the Gold Cup began. Now quick debut goal North American regional football the trophy and secure a berth Moenchengladbach teammate striker Giovani dos Santos is showdown. in the 2017 Confederations Cup, of US team advisor Berti Vogts questionable for El Tri with an “I think we’re in a very good a World Cup warmup event in on the first of five Bundesliga adductor injury. spot going to Atlanta,” US Russia. champion teams for the club. “We will have to keep working as Man City win coach Jurgen Klinsmann said. “The confidence grows in the Schaefer left and was finishing on him, see how he feels,” said “We approach everything in its team as the tournament goes on,” his Bundesliga career as US coach Mexico coach Miguel Herrera. MELBOURNE: Record sign- opening half, but Australian ref- proper way and we’re very well Dempsey said. “Hopefully our best Klinsmann began his. “If he’s 100 percent, then there’s ing Raheem Sterling took just eree Jared Gillett waved play on. prepared. We won’t make it easy ball is yet to come.” “This is a team a little more no doubt he will go in.” over two minutes to score his Roma had three quickfire scor- for anybody.” The US squad is 13-1 with eight Jurgen’s style. It’s not easy. All Herrera’s job could be in jeop- debut goal as Manchester City ing chances minutes before the Dempsey produced his first drawn in the all-time rivalry with their players play at a high level,” ardy if Mexico cannot win a downed AS Roma on penalties break, with Vincent Kompany US hat trick in a 6-0 quarter- Jamaica, the lone loss coming 2-1 Schaefer said. “Now it’s Berti third Gold Cup in four tries. The in the International Champions lunging to deny Francesco Totti, final romp over Cuba to seize the at Kingston in 2012 during World Vogts and Klinsmann against me. Mexicans are 3-3 with seven Cup in Melbourne yesterday. Eliaquim Mangala clearing Gold Cup scoring lead, but the Cup qualifying. This is difficult. We are definitely drawn in a span starting with a England goalkeeper Joe another and unmarked Daniele 32-year-old former Fulham stan- But these “Reggae Boyz” were the underdog.” 2-0 friendly loss at the United Hart made two late saves as De Rossi putting a header over dout expects a tougher test from toughened by playing in last Panama edged Mexico 2-1 in States in April. Manchester City won 5-4 in the the bar. the Caribbean champions. month’s Copa America and have the 2013 Gold Cup semis but “We have three days to prepare penalty shootout after the game Pellegrini took Sterling off at “The semi-final is going to be three consecutive 1-0 Cup wins. lost 1-0 to the US in the final. well, analyze well the opponent, finished 2-2 at the end of regu- halftime along with the influ- difficult. We can’t look past them,” “We can’t get too high. There’s The Canaleros reached the last break it down and have the ideal lation time at the Melbourne ential David Silva among nine Dempsey said. “We’ve just got to still a lot of work ahead of us,” four after dispatching Trinidad tactic to get the result,” Herrera Cricket Ground. changes, introducing Samir Nasri, make sure that we’re sharp and US defender Omar Gonzalez said. and Tobago in the ninth round of said. AFP Sterling, the most expensive Aleksandar Kolarov and Yaya English footballer in history, took Toure into the game. just two minutes and 17 seconds Nigerian teenager Iheanacho to open his account for the big- put Manchester City ahead again spending English club. on 51 minutes when he zeroed in Van Gaal coy He showed his explosive pace on an awful back pass by former to swoop on a defence-splitting England international Ashley pass from Kelechi Iheanacho to Cole to coolly beat De Sanctis leave Roma goalkeeper Morgan from close range. De Sanctis flailing and slot the But Serbian Adem Ljajic threw on Man United ball into the empty net. the Italians a lifeline when he beat While Sterling’s much-antic- Joe Hart with his free-kick over ipated first appearance in the the wall in the 87th minute to sky blue was the major talking send the match into penalties. point, the 2014 English Premier Hart proved Man City’s hero, transfer target League champions showed plenty with saves off Seydou Doumbia of attacking promise for the sea- and Seydou Keita to get the SAN JOSÉ, United States: Manchester United manager Louis son ahead. English club home. van Gaal has admitted he plans to sign another striker but hinted “It’s important to score, par- “We made an individual mis- that reports linking Thomas Muller or Pedro Rodriguez to a move ticularly early in the game, and take in the second half and we to Old Trafford were wide of the mark. he only played 45 minutes after had to make up for it, but what Van Gaal told reporters in San Jose he was planning a further “sur- having just a few days working I appreciated the most was that prise” during the transfer window after already acquiring Bastian with the team,” manager Manuel we were able to come back from Schweinsteiger, Morgan Schneiderlin, Matteo Darmian and Memphis Pellegrini said of Sterling’s behind twice, which means that Depay. performance. we are mentally strong,” said But van Gaal indicated that the striker United were targeting had “I’m happy with the way he Roma manager Rudi Garcia. not been discussed in media reports so far. played. He demonstrated why “The pitch was not good enough “It’s in the process. It’s not the striker that the media has written he’s here, not only his value as a for such a game at this level and but you have to wait and see,” van Gaal said. player, he’s a very young player so of course it’s winter (in Australia) “The transfer period is open to August 31 so we have to wait.” I think he will improve a lot in the but it was more than difficult and Reports in Spain and Germany have linked both Barcelona star Pedro future, playing with Yaya Toure, in some way explains Cole’s mis- and Bayern Munich’s Muller to a possible move to United. David Silva and the others. take with the wrong pass. Pedro recently signed a new contract with Barcelona which lowers “I’m very happy with him and “But overall, Cole played a good his buyout clause to 30m euros. I’m very happy that we’ve bought match and the players should not Despite having renewed his deal until 2019, he has told media he him.” be judged by one single play. Of is willing to leave after finding himself behind the star trio of Lionel The 20-year-old Jamaican-born course, I would have preferred Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez in the pecking order during last sea- Londoner completed his move to if he did not make that mistake son’s treble-winning campaign. Manchester City from Liverpool and probably goalkeeper Morgan A report in The Guardian on Monday meanwhile said United were last week in a five-year deal worth could have done better in that targeting Muller in an 80-million-euro deal which would see the an initial £44 million that could situation.” 25-year-old World Cup winner double his Bayern salary to around 20 rise to £49 million ($76 million). Manchester City will attempt million euros a year. The Italians equalised just five to go on and win the three-way Meanwhile Van Gaal, speaking ahead of United’s US tour match minutes after Sterling’s strike in ICC tournament when they take against San Jose Earthquakes in California later Tuesday, warned spectacular fashion. Bosnian mid- on ten-time European champions fans not to expect the club’s new signings to turn them into overnight fielder Miralem Pjanic let fly with Real Madrid in the final match at title contenders. a 20-metre thunderbolt into the the Melbourne Cricket Ground Van Gaal pointed to last season’s transfer flops Radamel Falcao and top right corner. on Friday. Angel di Maria as he called for fans to be patient. French L1 football club Toulouse’s new Uruguayan goalkeeper Mauro Sterling had a big shout for Roma beat Real Madrid 7-6 on Asked if the signings had closed the gap on champions Chelsea, he Goicoechea poses with his team’s jersey at the Municipal Stadium in a penalty turned down when he penalties after the opening ICC replied: “You have to wait and see always how new players contribute. Toulouse, southwestern France yesterday. was brought down by Alessandro game finished scoreless at the “I have said this before also, with (Radamel) Falcao or (Angel) Di Florenzi midway through the MCG on Saturday. AFP Maria or Daley Blind or Marcos Rojo. “The Premier League is a different league. It’s the highest pressure on the ball and the rhythm of the game is very different with other leagues and therefore you have to wait and see.” AFP Laos to investigate report of trafficking of African footballers

The BANGKOK: The Laos football academy players at the club who but six minors chose to remain at the academy were he replied: International federation pledged yesterday to described being tricked into trav- at the club. “They were from 17 to late 20s.” Champions Cup investigate a local club over alle- elling to the isolated southeast Champasak United, a relatively He added that 14 African play- trophy is put on gations teenage African players Asian nation with the promise of new club that plays in the Laos ers remained at the academy. display before were trafficked to the commu- good pay. top league, denied the allegations Laos Football Federation offi- the football nist country and forced to sign Instead they allege they were yesterday. cial Xaybandith said around 40 match between contracts without adequate pay. forced to sign lengthy contracts, “The club had the idea to help registered foreigners played for English Premier The probe follows a BBC report received little of the promised people from Africa,” board mem- local football league clubs -- League team quoting teenage players alleging cash and had to sleep on the floor ber Ponsawan Siwawong said. which doesn’t include academies. they were forced to live in mis- of the club’s stadium. “So we started the programme Koreans, Japanese, Africans and Manchester erable conditions at an academy “It was very bad because you of allowing African males to join Latin Americans are among City and Italian run by Champasak United, a club can’t have 30 people sleeping in our academy where they learn them. side AS Roma based in the southern Laos city one room,” 14-year-old Liberian how to play football with an inter- He said Champasak were coop- in Melbourne of Pakse. footballer Kesselly Kamara, now national coach.” erating with the investigation, yesterday. “We have sent people to the site playing for a club back home in Ponsawan said 30 African adding initial enquiries showed for a full investigation, includ- Liberia’s top league, was quoted players were brought over to the that most of the players who were ing interviews with the players,” as saying by the BBC. academy where they received or still are at the academy were Xaybandith Rasphone, general The British broadcaster said 17 accommodation, food and $100 adults. secretary of the Laos Football teenagers returned home three per month, adding none were He said he had been told FIFA Federation said. months ago after FIFA were forced to play against their will. would conduct its own investiga- The BBC interviewed former made aware of the allegations Asked how old the students tion. AFP WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Mourinho rules out transfer splurge In this moment we don’t want players, says Premier League champions manager

MONTREAL: Chelsea man- Mourinho gave any would-be ager Jose Mourinho insists the MLS suitor a glowing reference Premier League champions have about the forward as he spoke to no plans to make significant journalists in Montreal ahead of additions to his squad, revealing Chelsea’s opening game in their that he is relishing the prospect US tour here Tuesday. of mounting a title defence with “I think he’s the perfect choice,” the same set of players. Mourinho said. Apart from the arrival of “If I owned a club -- I don’t and striker Radamel Falcao and the Chelsea man- I never would -- I would imme- departure of goalkeeper Petr ager Jose diately think about a player like Cech, Chelsea have been largely Mourinho speaks him, a man like him, to be the inactive in the summer trans- during a press center of the club universe,” fer window while rivals such as conference Mourinho said. Manchester United have spent in Montreal, “He’s very strong in the dress- heavily. Canada ing room, he’s very strong in his And although Chelsea con- yesterday. image. He’s a great example of a tinue to be linked to a move for club man.” Everton’s English defender John Mourinho revealed Drogba had Stones, Mourinho is adamant turned down the chance to work there is no chance of the club at Chelsea as a coach after his making a major splurge in the playing career came to a close. transfer market. “The fact that he didn’t accept “In this moment we don’t want to stay with us and that he players,” Mourinho said. decided to say he wants to enjoy “Of course we must be ready his football for two more years, because the market is open and it’s the best answer,” Mourinho if someone comes for one of our Schneiderlin, Mourinho insists Mourinho revealed Chelsea’s we have already. We are trying to backed Didier Drogba to make a said. players with a bid, we must be he is happy with what he has. coaching staff were focusing give them some new qualities, try success of a move to Major League “If it comes from him it’s ready to act.” Asked if he was targeting the instead on trying to make the to be a little bit more unpredict- Soccer after reports linking the because he feels in great condi- Mourinho confirmed the club Champions League this season, he team more “unpredictable”. able and go through the season Blues legend to a career swansong tion for two more years.” was likely to offload defender replied: “It’s not my main objec- “We have exactly the same with high motivation.” in North America. Drogba scored seven goals in Filipe Luis and would seek a tive. I have only one objective -- to players, the squad and the team Chelsea, who are basing them- Several MLS teams are report- 38 matches during his second replacement. win tomorrow. is basically the same,” Mourinho selves in Montreal for the dura- edly in the hunt for Drogba, with spell with Chelsea, for whom “We need a left back because I “I have no other objectives said. tion of their pre-season tour, the Montreal Impact and Chicago the African has served during think we will sell Filipe Luis, so other than to improve, improve “We are just going to try and play their opening game against Fire the front-runners after four league title runs, four FA we need to go to the market. But and improve. add some things we are compet- the New York Red Bulls in New opening talks with the 37-year- Cups and a Champions League other positions we have no space.” “It’s a nice challenge to improve ing against teams who are going Jersey today. old Ivory Coast striker. crown. While the likes of Manchester with no new players. I think the to be better because of the money They play Paris Saint-Germain Drogba has been a free agent Drogba departed Chelsea in United have bolstered their players we have are happy because they’ve spent. A team that buys in Charlotte on Saturday since his contract with the 2012 after eight years in London, squad with an array of high-cal- the club trusts them. one, two, three or four players and before winding up the tour English Premier League cham- playing in China and Turkey ibre signings including German “We are saying ‘You are the spends 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 million is against Barcelona next week in pions expired at the end of last before rejoining Chelsea last sea- World Cup-winner Bastian champions, we trust you, we going to improve. Washington. season following a second stint at son. AGENCIES Schweinsteiger and Morgan believe in you.’” “So we have to improve what Meanwhile, Mourinho has the club.

Alps will be Sky hope to put suspicions to spectacular, bed ahead of Alps challenge says Quintana SISTERON, France: Chris French expert Pierre the internet. EMBRUN, France: Nairo Froome’s Sky team said yes- Sallet from the Athletes for That appeared to show his Quintana believes fans can terday they have shared a “bil- Transparency organisation had heart-rate staying at a stable expect a spectacle in the Alps lion points of data” with the UK claimed on France 2’s ‘Stade 2’ 160 when accelerating on the once the Tour de France Anti-Doping Agency in a bid to programme that a normal figure mountain. resumes following yesterday’s quash speculation their team should be 6.5 and that anything But Kerrison revealed Froome’s rest day. leader is cheating. over 7.0 was abnormal and had maximum heart rate in the sec- From today there will be four Sky held a press conference only been recorded in doped rid- ond week of the 2013 Tour had stages in the Alps with 18 catego- during the second and final Tour ers such as disgraced pair Lance been 168, his maximum at last rised climbs to scale as the likes de France rest day in Sisteron, Armstrong and Jan Ullrich -- year’s Vuelta 171 and as he man- of Quintana, Tejay Van Garderen, near Gap in the Alps, in which hence a 7.04 figure for Froome aged 174 here, that would show Alejandro Valverde and Alberto they shared some of Froome’s would have suggested he was also consistent progression. Contador try to hunt down race power data. doped. “For sure there’s a limit to leader Chris Froome. The move came after a week Brailsford, who had been invited human capabilities although “The mountains are coming of constant doping speculation onto the Stade 2 programme only I’m not sure what the process and for sure what comes next will and accusations thrown at the to be blindsided with Sallet’s data would be to define that line,” said be spectacular,” said 25-year-old 30-year-old Tour leader since his analysis, blasted the programme- Kerrison. Colombian Quintana. stage 10 victory up to La Pierre- makers for inaccuracy. “Human performances evolve “They’re beautiful stages that Saint Martin in the Pyrenees a “I understood the straight facts and we’ll all be sitting here in 30 are coming and we hope to gain week ago. weren’t correct and I actually years thinking it (Froome’s lat- back the time we’ve lost. A few days after that success, asked for some time to present est demonstration) wasn’t that “I don’t know if we’ll overtake France Televisions produced a a bit of data today to put to bed remarkable.” Froome, but we’ll try. study by their own expert into some of the numbers they pre- Froome himself said he would “Even though it would be satis- the amount of power generated by sented, because they were wildly not let, and indeed has not let, fying to be on the podium in Paris, Froome on his climb to La Pierre- wrong,” said the Sky manager. the bad publicity affect his the main aim we’re working for is Saint Martin. “You’ve got to be respectable, performances. the yellow jersey.” The study, looking at Froome’s if you are going to present some- “All that has been going on in Quintana has often come on power to weight ratio, claimed thing to the nation’s people you the sidelines really has been more strong in the final week of a he had produced an effort of 7.04 have to get it right.” of a sideshow, my focus has been Grand Tour and speaking at his watts per kilogramme. The higher Kerrison offered more data on on the race and I think the racing Movistar team’s hotel in Embrun, that ratio, the faster a rider will Froome to try to dispel any ideas shows that nothing’s thrown me near Gap, on Tuesday he said he climb. that his performances, either in off in that regard,” he said. has trained specifically for that But Sky’s own expert Tim 2013 or this year, were out of the “It’s a normal week of racing at eventuality. Kerrison, head of athlete per- ordinary for him. the office on the Tour de France.” “I always prepare to be regu- formance, produced his fig- He claimed Froome had aver- But Froome did admit to being lar across the three weeks,” he ures after team manager Dave aged a pedal-rate of 97 revolutions frustrated at the difference in said. Brailsford claimed the French per minute on the 15.3km La treatment he receives compared “I’m calm, I know I have a good study was “so wildly wrong on so Pierre-Saint Martin climb with to his rivals. team and they’re going to help me many levels”. an average heart-rate of 158 and “Obviously we seem to cop a lot to overcome all the problems that Australian Kerrison claimed a maximum of 174. of speculation and a lot of doubts could arise in the race.” Froome’s average watts output After Froome’s stage 10 victory, around our performances. Why Great Britain’s Christopher Froome, the overall yellow jersey leader, Quintana won the Giro d’Italia was 414 rather than the 425 Sky claimed their computers had aren’t those same level of doubts leaves the team bus to give a press conference at his hotel, during a last year and was second in the claimed by the French expert been hacked and data from his cast upon similar performances of rest day as part of the 102nd edition of the Tour de France cycling race Tour two years ago, but he said a and that his true watts per kilo 2013 Tour stage victory on Mont other general classification con- in Sisteron, southern France, yesterday. repeat of that result wouldn’t be translated to a figure of 5.78. Ventoux was stolen and shared on tenders? Why only us?” AFP a disaster. “It wouldn’t be a failure to come second. I’ve come back to the Tour -- last year people Tour not over, insists Contador said I didn’t come because I was afraid -- but I’ve shown that’s not the case.” GAP, France: Two-time former saying ‘Forza Ivan’ in support of only interested in the overall vic- day by publishing some power He added: “The other rivals winner Alberto Contador (pic- his Tinkoff-Saxo teammate Ivan tory, and not a podium finish. data from Froome on the final are behind me expect for one but tured) insisted during yester- Basso. “My aim at this Tour is only stage 10 climb to La Pierre-Saint we’re working hard to overhaul day’s rest day that the Tour de The Italian left the Tour dur- the yellow jersey. I came here to Martin in the hope of proving him. And if not, I still have a lot France is not over. ing the previous rest day a week win -- I wouldn’t be happy with a there was nothing unusual in it. of Tours left in me.” Chris Froome, the 2013 cham- ago to have surgery for testicular podium place.” Nairo Quintana, who sits sec- Quintana’s Movistar teammate pion, has dominated so far and cancer, which he later revealed Meanwhile, under-fire Tour de ond behind Froome in the over- Valverde is fourth overall and can has a 3min 10sec lead over sec- had been successful. France leader Froome is “clean” all standings, says the rivalry play a role in distracting Froome ond-placed Nairo Quintana. “We’ll see what happens, I’ll say his rivals who added the between Britain and France to help his team leader. Contador, the 2007 and 2009 react depending on several fac- media witch-hunt against him is may be affecting certain people’s He believes Quintana has what winner, is back in fifth at 4min tors, such as the weather and my a “lynching”. judgement. it takes to come out on top. 23sec, but he insists he hasn’t rivals,” said Contador. Froome, 30, has had to put up “There are always good and “He’s a very young rider with given up hopes of a Tour hat-trick. “It’s a tough race, it’s compli- with speculation about his per- bad comments, there are always potential and he’s already done “My legs are turning bet- cated. But I can assure you I’m formances from certain sections fanatics in one way or another, good things in cycling,” said the ter than they were in the first very motivated for this last week. of the media after producing a rivalries between countries, for 35-year-old veteran. Pyrenean stage, I feel good now,” The Tour’s not over.” dominant victory on stage 10 a that reason you get certain com- “He’ll continue to do so and I said the 32-year-old Spaniard, Having already won all three week ago. ments,” said the 25-year-old think he can turn the Tour on its who was wearing a T-shirt Grand Tours, Contador said he’s Sky responded yesterday’s rest Colombian. AGENCIES head.” AFP WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 Available every Wednesdays in SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com all leading supermarkets and 21 shops in Qatar & Bahrain

South Africa’s Temba Bavuma plays a shot during the first day of the first Bangladesh cricketers Test match congratulate team- against mate Mustafizur Bangladesh Rahman (centre) for at the Zahur the dismissal of South Ahmed African cricketer Chowdhury Jean-Paul Duminy Stadium in during the first day Chittagong, of their first Test at yesterday. the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong, yesterday. We have to be patient to bounce back: Bavuma

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh: keep that run-rate as low as pos- South Africa’s bowlers will sible and wait for any mistakes.” have to show patience on day Bavuma said the Proteas can two as they seek to seize back offer no excuses for their spectac- control of the first Test against ular collapse and believes they will Bangladesh in Chittagong, put their bad day behind them. Temba Bavuma said. “I think one has to be bold and Having won the toss and admit that it wasn’t our best day,” Mustafizur sparkles on elected to bat, the tourists crum- he said. bled from 136 for one to 248 all “We haven’t taken any team out yesterday, with Bavuma the lightly, Bangladesh’s skills were only batsman to register a half- on top today but tomorrow we century when he was the last man will come back fighting harder.” out for 54. The 25-year-old, playing in debut to punish Proteas “The wicket will get slower, it his third Test for South Africa, will make scoring a lot harder,” he said his innings filled him with told reporters. confidence. “We will be trying to exploit “I was quite pleased. It’s always Pacer claims 4 wickets as hosts dismiss SA for 248 runs that and to try and keep the run- nice to make some sort of con- rate as low as possible. We will try tribution to the team, especially CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh: after Amla won the toss and to make life as hard as possible when it’s your country. Paceman Mustafizur Rahman Scoreboard chose to bat at the Zahur Ahmed like they did to us. “With it being my first mean- had a dream Test debut yes- South Africa (I innings): Total (all out) ...... 248 Chowdhury Stadium. Off-spinner “Patience is a big thing. We are ingful contribution to the team it terday, mowing through South D Elgar c Das b Taijul ...... 47 Fall of wickets: 1-58, 2-136, 3-136, 4-173, Mahmudullah took the wicket of not just going to roll them over, meant a bit more and gave me the Africa’s middle order as min- S van Zyl c Das b Mahmudullah ...... 34 5-173, 6-173, 7-208, 8-237, 9-239, 10-248. van Zyl, who edged a catch to their players can bat. We have to confidence to know that I can play nows Bangladesh made a strong F du Plessis lbw Shakib ...... 48 Bowling: Shahid 17-9-34-0; Mustafizur 17.4- wicketkeeper Das down the leg be patient with a lot of control, at this level.” REUTERS start in the first Test against H Amla c Das b Mustafizur...... 13 6-37-4; Shakib 14-2-45-1; Mahmudullah 3-0- side, handing Bangladesh their the top-ranked Proteas. T Bavuma c Jubair b Mustafizur ...... 54 9-1; Taijul 18-3-57-1; Jubair 14-1-53-3 (nb1). first success of the day. Women’s Ashes Series 2015 Mustafizur took 4-37, includ- J Duminy lbw Mustafizur ...... 0 Bangladesh (I innings): Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam ing three wickets in four balls, Q de Kock b Mustafizur ...... 0 Tamim Iqbal (batting) ...... 1 then broke the 78-run second while leg spinner Jubair Hossain V Philander c Shakib b Jubair ...... 24 Imrul Kayes (batting) ...... 5 wicket stand between Elgar and England’s claimed 3-53 to help Bangladesh S Harmer c Mominul b Jubair ...... 9 Extras (NB-1) ...... 1 Faf du Plessis when he removed Georgia Elwiss dismiss the visitors for just 248 in D Steyn c Tamim b Jubair ...... 2 Total (for no loss) ...... 7 Elgar for 47. their first innings in Chittagong. M Morkel (not out) ...... 3 Bowling: Steyn 1-0-6-0; Philander 1-0-1-0 Shakib Al Hasan struck in the celebrates Openers Tamim Iqbal (one) Extras (B-8 LB-5, NB-1) ...... 14 (nb1). next over, trapping du Plessis with team- and Imrul Kayes (five) remained plumb in front for 48 to bring mate Charlotte unbeaten to take the hosts to 7-0 Bangladesh firmly back into the Edwards (right) at stumps on the opening day. But Mustafizur, who earned initially declared him not out, game. after winning Temba Bavuma staged a lone his Test cap after impressive per- before Bangladesh successfully The visitors managed to add the Women’s fight to top-score with 54 runs, formances in his first six ODIs, reviewed the decision. only 61 in 29 overs in the post- Ashes Series his maiden Test fifty, for the visi- produced a magical spell in his De Kock managed to deny the lunch session after resuming on 2015 - First tors, before becoming the last man 14th over to dismiss Hashim Amla hat-trick but was late on a defen- 104-1. Royal London out as Jubair took an easy catch (13), JP Duminy and Quinton De sive push for the next ball which In the evening session One Day off Mustafizur at deep midwicket. Kock in the last session of the day. uprooted his off-stump, leaving Mustafizur turned the tide with Despite their recent suc- He induced an edge from Amla South Africa reeling at the score his decisive over before leg-spin- International cess in One Day Internationals, to claim the South African cap- of 173 with the loss of six top- ner Jubair Hossain claimed three match in Bangladesh have a dismal Test tain for his first-ever Test wicket, order wickets. wickets to finish with 3-53. Taunton, record and face a daunting oppo- caught behind by Litton Das. Openers Dean Elgar and The second and final Test will yesterday. nent in South Africa, the top- The next ball hit JP Duminy Stiaan van Zyl earlier put on 58 be in Dhaka from July 30-August ranked team in Test cricket. on his front foot but the umpire to give the visitors a solid start 3. AFP Kolkata’s Eden England bring in Bairstow for Ballance Gardens to host LONDON: Jonny Bairstow Bairstow, by contrast, has has replaced Yorkshire team- scored five hundreds in the mate Gary Ballance in a 13-man County Championship for reign- World T20 final England squad announced yes- ing champions Yorkshire includ- MUMBAI: Eden Gardens terday for the third Ashes Test ing 139 in their ongoing match in Kolkata will host the final at Edgbaston starting on July against Worcestershire. of the World Twenty20 next 29. He also made a match and year, the Indian cricket board England suffered a 405-run series-winning 83 not out for (BCCI) said yesterday. thrashing by Australia in the England when called up in place The BCCI named eight second Test at Lord’s on Sunday of the injured Jos Buttler for venues for the biennial event, as the tourists levelled the five- the final one-day international which has been staged across match series 1-1. against New Zealand at Chester- three cities in each of its previ- At Lord’s, England humiliating le-Street last month. ous five editions. second-innings collapse to 103 all “Jonny has worked extremely Bengaluru, Chennai, out saw them lose their first three hard at his game, and his record Dharamshala, Mohali, Mumbai, wickets for 52 or fewer runs for for Yorkshire speaks for itself. Nagpur and New Delhi will be the eighth time in seven Tests. He fully deserves this opportu- the other venues for the March At least one change to the top nity,” said national selector James 11-April 3 event, the board said order was all but inevitable in Whitaker in an England and in a statement. such circumstances and number Wales Cricket Board statement. “BCCI is extremely proud three Ballance, out for 23 and 14 “Gary was naturally disap- to host this prestigious event. at Lord’s, has been omitted. pointed to miss out on this occa- All the venues identified have The left-hander did make a val- sion however we feel that he will hosted many prestigious uable 61 in the first innings of the benefit from some time in county matches,” board secretary first Ashes Test in Cardiff, help- cricket to rediscover his form. Anurag Thakur said. ing Joe Root, another Yorkshire “He has already had plenty “With this announcement, colleague, add 163 after England of success at international level we have begun our prepara- had slumped to 43 for three in a and as selectors we are confident tions in right earnest. We want match their side won by 169 runs Gary will play a significant role In this file picture taken on January 4, 2014, England’s batsman Jonny Bairstow (right) plays a shot as George this World Twenty20 to be a to go 1-0 up. for England in the future.” Bailey of Australia tries to avoid being hit during the fifth Ashes cricket Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground. memorable experience for our However, that was the only Bairstow, the son of late former participants and fans. occasion in his last 10 Test innings England wicket-keeper David four Ashes innings. Meanwhile the likes of Australia’s Mitchell Bairstow’s selection instead of “I am confident that all the that the 25-year-old Ballance, Bairstow, has a chance to improve Bell has only passed 30 once in Johnson, Mitchell Starc and Josh Ballance was the only change to venues nominated will deliver who made a promising start to his on a modest Test average of 26.95 his last 12 Test innings. Hazlewood. a squad where leg-spinner Adil a world class event.” England career, has reached 30. in 14 matches, the last against But they have been retained, But Yorkshire coach Jason Rashid and paceman Steven Finn India co-hosted the 50-over Australia in Sydney in 2014 when with Whitaker announcing that Gillespie, a former Australia fast remain the back-up bowlers. World Cup in 2011 with Sri an England defeat meant they Bell would be promoted to number bowler, said Bairstow was now a Whitaker hopes England, in their Lanka and Bangladesh and England Squad suffered a 5-0 Ashes whitewash. three on his Warwickshire home much-improved batsman. first series under new Australian went on to win the tournament. Alastair Cook (Essex, capt), Adam Lyth Adam Lyth, another Yorkshire ground, with Root also going up a “It is important that those coach Trevor Bayliss, will be able BCCI President Jagmohan (Yorkshire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Joe Root batsman, and the experienced Ian place to four and Bairstow batting people who don’t watch much to regroup. Dalmiya will head a manag- (Yorkshire), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Ben Bell, were also under scrutiny fol- at number five. county cricket don’t pipe up with “The break before the third ing committee for the 16-team Stokes (Nottinghamshire), Jos Buttler (Somerset, lowing a run of low scores. Bairstow’s previous stints in opinions based on his past expe- Test will give the squad time to tournament featuring 10 Test wkt), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Stuart Broad Lyth, who made his Test debut international cricket have seen rience in Test cricket because reflect on the series so far and playing nations and six associ- (Nottinghamshire), Mark Wood (Durham), James in the preceding 1-1 drawn series questions raised over his ability we’re talking about a differ- a chance to focus on playing the ate teams. 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Coffee drinking may lower inflammation, reduce diabetes risk

offee drinkers in a long-term study were Ten years later, 191 people had developed diabetes, about half as likely to develop type 2 dia- including 13 percent of the men and 12 percent of betes as those who didn’t drink coffee, and the women in the original group. And participants Cresearchers think an inflammation-lower- who reported higher coffee consumption had lower ing effect of the beverage might be the key. likelihoods of developing diabetes. “Extensive research has revealed that coffee Habitual coffee drinkers were 54 percent less likely drinking exhibits both beneficial and aggravating to develop diabetes compared to non-coffee drinkers, health effects,” said Demosthenes B Panagiotakos even after accounting for smoking, high blood pres- of the department of Nutrition and Dietetics at sure, family history of diabetes and intake of other Harokopio University in Athens, Greece. caffeinated beverages, the researchers reported in “An inverse relation between coffee intake and dia- the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. betes has been reported in many prospective studies Levels of serum amyloid, one of the inflammatory whereas some have yielded insignificant results,” markers in the blood, seemed to explain some of the Panagiotakos, a co-author of the new study, said. relationship between coffee and diabetes, the authors Since he and his colleagues merely observed the write. Higher coffee consumption went along with study participants, and didn’t assign them randomly lower amyloid levels. to drink or abstain from coffee, they still can’t be “Previous studies pointed in the same direc- sure that drinking coffee helps prevent diabetes, but tion . . . now we have an additional hint,” said their findings might help form the basis of a cause- Dr Marc Y Donath, chief of Endocrinology, and-effect hypothesis, Panagiotakos said. Diabetes & Metabolism at University Hospital In 2001 and 2002, the researchers selected a ran- Basel in Switzerland, who was not part of the dom sample of more than 1,300 men and women age new study. 18 years and older in Athens. The participants filled The new findings are supported by a prospective out dietary questionnaires including questions about study in 2013 involving 836 people who didn’t have coffee drinking frequency. diabetes at the start of the study, Panagiotakos Drinking less than 1.5 cups of coffee per day was said. Over the next seven years, high levels of termed “casual” coffee drinking, and more than 1.5 amyloid and another inflammatory marker called cups per day was “habitual” drinking. There were C-reactive protein “were found to precede the the antioxidant components of coffee may be ben- College in China, who also was not part of the 816 casual drinkers, 385 habitual drinkers and 239 onset of diabetes, independently of other risk fac- eficial, but still more research is needed toward this new study. We are not yet sure that coffee helps non-coffee drinkers. tors,” he said. direction,” Panagiotakos said. prevent diabetes, but “what is sure and remains The participants also had blood tests to evaluate It’s possible that other influences were also at Some studies have found that the association more effective is exercise and body weight con- levels of protein markers of inflammation. The tests work, he acknowledged. between coffee and diabetes risk is stronger for trol,” Donath told Reuters Health by email. also measured antioxidant levels, which indicate “Oxidative stress has been shown to accelerate the women and non-smokers, according to Dongfeng SOURCE: bit.ly/1I340GN European Journal of the body’s ability to neutralize cell-damaging “free dysfunction of pancreatic b-cells and antioxidants Zhang of the department of Epidemiology and Clinical Nutrition, online July 1, 2015. radicals.” intake has been shown to decrease diabetes risk, so Health Statistics at Qingdao University Medical REUTERS How a sneaker culture turned men into fashion addicts By Robin Givhan In recent years, men have eased ‘emotional’; male buying is posited as rational. But into all manner of new, flamboyant emotion is just as wrapped up in sneakers.” he front rows at menswear plumage by way of an accessory that That sort of unspoken sexism is one of the many shows are, as one might is firmly embedded in the quintessen- themes Semmelhack explores in “The Rise of expect, dominated by male tial cliches of sports, athleticism and Sneaker Culture,” an exhibition at the Brooklyn Teditors and retailers, stylists masculinity. Museum. and celebrities. And during any fash- Sneakers are entrenched in the cult The exhibition looks back at sneaker history — ion show, if you look down at their feet, of boys, so much so that they occupy to some of the first running shoes, as well as the you will see a single line of painstak- a different status than mere shoes, introduction, in the 19th century, of status and ingly selected, shamelessly expensive, which are associated with women. privilege into the conversation surrounding sneak- overtly fetishized sneakers. Shoes, Semmelhack said, are what ers. Early on, sneakers helped define social hier- “Men’s fashion is being transformed women are derisively described as archies, Semmelhack said. The first sneakers that from the feet up,” said Elizabeth obsessing about. Women are consid- were intended for the average person, and not a Semmelhack who, as senior curator ered to be unhealthy shoe-a-holics — professional athlete, were inspired by such rarefied at The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, ruled by an insatiable and hysterical pursuits as lawn tennis. is unquestionably biased about the attachment to sling-backs, stilettos By World War II, sneakers were connected to importance of shoes to the overall and mules. the ideal of “physical perfection in service to the understanding of a man’s vision of “We don’t consider sneakers to be state,” with the Nazi regime hosting sweeping out- himself. But that doesn’t mean that feminine. Therein lies the essential dif- door exhibitions boasting of athletic prowess. In the she is wrong. ference,” Semmelhack said. “Sneaker years following the war, sneakers became part of Sneakers have allowed men to flour- collecting, done by many men, is kid culture as physical education settled into the ish as peacocks — changing the mood (described) in the tradition of other An image of Muhammad Ali appears on a 2007 sneaker, a collaboration by artist/ elementary school curriculum. and quickly adding flair to tailored male collecting, like baseball cards. In the 1970s, with the rise of Nike and later, in designer Cey Adams and Adidas, displayed as part of the ‘Out of the Box: The Rise suits, skinny jeans, baggy leggings and It’s about having every single one in the 1980s, with the success of its Air Jordan mod- of Sneaker Culture’ exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. even tuxedos. every single model. Female buying is els, sneakers became inextricably linked to fash- ion tribes and entertainment — spawning a host of social pressures for teens to have just the right shoe. The advent of Casual Friday provided an opening for sneakers to enter the workplace. For many men, it was an unsettling transition. Having been told not to wear their work-day uniform of a business suit, they suddenly were asked to find a new way of dressing that involved bringing aspects of their weekend selves — their downtime selves — into the office, Semmelhack said. Men had to be — could be — more creative. And the fashion industry responded with countless lux- ury-branded sneakers and celebrity collaborations. Sneakers helped men step into the fashion system on their own terms. WP-Bloomberg WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND: The time course of changes that occurred at notion that musical training can have this stage in development and assess any positive effects on cognitive functions alterations due to participation in either other than music has long been a source the music training, or officer training. of interest. Research first emerged The researchers observed the normal at the beginning of the 20th century. brain development that occurs at this Standardised assessments of IQ and age in both groups. However, for those musical ability suggested the two were who participated in musical training the correlated — and it was thought that period of time during which regions of the participation in musical training could brain responsible for auditory processing improve IQ. were developing was extended in compar- Recently, research has shifted focus ison to those that did the officer training. from effects on musical training on glo- The musically trained groups also showed bal intelligence and instead focuses on an accelerated time course for reaching benefits to specific skills and tasks in adult cortical development. The results individuals. therefore suggest that participation in Musical training has shown to lead musical training can accelerate brain to improvements in a wide variety of development and that this can benefit different skills, including memory and literacy skills. spatial learning for example. In addition, language skills such as verbal memory, Music and language literacy and verbal intelligence have been Music could potentially function as a shown to strongly benefit from musical training ground for language skills and training. may potentially offer an effective, eco- Musicians are also more adept at nomical and enjoyable activity that could processing speech in environments help improve language skills in children where there are large amounts of back- around the world if employed in schools. ground noise, possess a greater propen- Giving adolescents musical training could sity for processing auditory signals that help kick-start and accelerate matura- are in some way degraded and show an tion of their brains. advantage over their musically naive These advantages may also have poten- counterparts when it comes to pitch tial to provide enhancements to a wider detection in both music and language. range of skills, such as learning a second Recent advances in technologies have language. The study suggests that musical also allowed researchers to probe into training could help prolong the window the neural (functional, structural and of time in which the brain is developing electrophysiological) underpinnings of and is able to deal with complex auditory British singer Elton John (left) performs on stage during his Universal Music Festival concert at the Royal Theatre in Madrid, Spain. these adaptations. input, which in turn could make second language learning more achievable to The brain responds in group musical training and one group a phonological awareness task — which age to do these tests. The results showed people who otherwise may struggle. A new study, just published in the took part in a Junior Reserve Officer included asking the adolescents to cre- that both groups made improvements in It is important to note however, that Proceedings of the National Academy Training Corps programme. Enrollment ate a new word by dropping a syllable or all of the language tasks, as would be although musical training was shown of Sciences, aimed to assess neurodevel- on to one of these two programmes was unit of sound from a spoken word. They expected over this period in their devel- to produce benefits for the phonological opment in adolescence and the impact part of the curriculum of the schools with were also assessed using a phonological opment — but, in addition, the degree of awareness language tasks, for the other that certain forms of experience, such which the lead researcher, Adam Tierney memory task, in which they had to repeat improvement was larger in the phono- two tests of phonological memory and as musical training, could have on this of Northwestern University, worked. back lists of digits or non-English words, logical awareness task for the group who rapid naming, no difference between the process. The method allowed Tierney and and a rapid naming task, where they had had undergone musical training. two groups of adolescents was found. This Neuro-physiological methods were his colleagues to assess how their par- to read aloud a list of letters or digits as The methods used allowed the suggests that although musical training adopted to measure subcortical and cor- ticipants’ brains encoded speech before quickly and accurately as they could. researchers to track the level of neu- does have the potential to enhance some tical responses to speech in the brains of and after three years of taking part At adolescence the brain is not fully ral development present in the brains forms of language skills, there are areas two groups of adolescents in a high school in the two different types of training. developed and specific areas are yet to of the participants. Through this they that it does not improve. in the Chicago area. One group took part Language skills were also assessed using mature, which makes this an interesting were then able to measure the usual WP-BLOOMBERG

With more vegan choices, Cockfighting case in France court

PARIS: France’s top court Lefevre said the different in 2007, while the practice Israelis embrace veganism will this month rule on cock- treatment of the two traditions remains common and legal in fighting, an ancient blood was an “attack on the princi- parts of Latin America and sport that continues in some ple of equality before the law” Southeast Asia. TEL AVIV: Nana Shrier, owner French regions despite being and wants the Constitutional France — like Spain — has of the stylish Georgian restau- banned in most parts of the Council to overturn the law allowed cockfighting to continue rant Nanuchka in downtown world. banning the construction of in regions where it was consid- Tel Aviv, shocked Israel’s culi- Two Frenchmen approached new cockpits. ered traditional while trying to nary world when she removed the court yesterday to complain By preventing new cockpits curb its expansion. all animal-based products from that current laws were unfair being built, the government Aside from the northern the menu. A year later business after they were prosecuted hopes to eventually stamp out Nord-Pas de Calais region, is thriving, defying those who for opening a new cockpit on cockfighting. cockfighting continues in the predicted its demise. the French island of Reunion The French court is expected overseas territories of Reunion, Nanuchka is part of a grow- in 2012. to rule on the case on July 31. French Guiana, French Antilles ing trend that has transformed While animal cruelty is a Cockfighting, which dates and French Polynesia. Israel’s financial centre into a crime in France, laws make to before the Roman era, was Cockfighting sets two roosters haven for meatless cuisine. Some an exception for sports deeply popular throughout the Middle — bred for their aggressiveness, 400 food establishments are cer- rooted in tradition like bullfight- Ages, but a distaste for the bru- trained and pumped with ster- tified “vegan friendly”, including ing and cockfighting. tal sport developed in the 19th oids — against each other in a Domino’s Pizza, the first in the However, while it is illegal to century and animal rights activ- ring, often fighting to the death. global chain to sell vegan pizza open new cockfighting rings, the ists began protesting against the Sharp knives are often added topped with non-dairy cheese. construction of new bullfighting practice. to the birds’ natural spurs “There is a good crowd for it, arenas is allowed. It was outlawed in Britain to increase their deadliness, a very loyal one,” vice president The two men from Reunion some 150 years ago. while spectators gamble on the of marketing Ido Fridman said, People attend a vegan picnic at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv, Israel. argue that this is unfair. The last American state to outcome. noting Domino’s Israel sold over Their lawyer Fabienne ban cockfighting was Louisiana AFP half a million vegan pizzas in the Even the Israeli army has — stuffed dumplings served with past year. started offering vegan meals on soy yogurt. Veganism has gained popularity its bases and supplies vegan sol- But the well-stocked, popu- along with the surge in nutrition diers with leatherless boots and lar bar saw a drop in custom- awareness worldwide. But the wool-free berets. ers, which Shrier attributed to Cooling it off rapid growth in Israel, which goes A study prepared for the Globes a “hedonistic crowd that can’t beyond initiatives like “Meatless newspaper and Israel’s Channel understand how they can do with- Mondays”, could signal more is in Two found 5 percent of Israelis out meat”. store elsewhere. identify as vegan and 8 percent Like vegetarians, vegans don’t as vegetarian while 13 percent are ANIMAL RIGHTS eat meat, but they also eschew weighing going vegan or vegetar- Omri Paz, head of the non- animal-based products including ian. In 2010, just 2.6 percent were profit group Vegan Friendly, has eggs, dairy and honey. vegetarian or vegan. been working with Israeli cafes Tel Aviv beat out Berlin, New This compares with an esti- and restaurants to offer vegan York and Chennai, India, as US mated 2 percent of the US and dishes alongside their usual fare food website The Daily Meal’s UK populations being vegan and and estimates about 700 outlets top destination for vegan trav- just 1 percent in German. are certified as vegan friendly. ellers. The website praised the Georgian-born Shrier was He attributed the recent rise vegan staple falafel, found on strongly advised not to convert in veganism in part to a lecture many street corners, and cited her 14-year-old restaurant to on YouTube by American animal Nanuchka as having “a fresh take vegan. rights activist Gary Yourofsky on meat-heavy Eastern European “My workers, accountant, law- that has about 1.5 million views food”. yer, financial adviser, friends, in Israel. even my psychologist said such a “It helps that Israel is a small successful restaurant needs to be country where things quickly go left alone,” she said in an inter- viral,” he said. view in Nanuchka’s shady outdoor Israeli television has aired patio. “But I understood I have several investigations into ani- the privilege to influence through mal abuse in the meat and dairy the restaurant.” industry. And, Israeli animal Shrier said turnover is up, with rights activists are very vocal rave dishes including a Georgian — just last week they chained A seal cools off at the Belgrade Zoo during a heatwave yesterday. In Serbia, where the meteoalarm has been dough stuffed with mushrooms, themselves to the gate of a meat raised to ‘red’, temperatures up to 39 degrees Celsius are expected to continue over the next several days. and spinach and nuts hinkali processing plant. REUTERS