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Feathered friend Up to 85pc Pupil-teacher humidity ratio in Qatar likely today DOHA: The weather is likely to be extremely humid this morn- ing and at night. Humidity levels are expected to one of the best range between 40 and 85 percent today. “You can expect high humid- ity levels, particularly early in the morning and at night,” a weather Ministry releases education report forecaster told this newspaper. According to him, humidity was DOHA: The pupil-teacher ratio Abstract for 2014. The chapter around 64 percent at around 9.30 in Qatar at all levels of school provides key statistics on student last night. In its routine weather education is impressive com- enrolments, schools and teachers bulletin for today, the meteorology pared to world standards. in the country. As for the number department has forecast day tem- There was one teacher for of students in a classroom, the peratures at 39 to 42 degrees C. every 10.59 students on average average for boys’ schools was 23.72 In Doha, the maximum tem- in the school year 2013-14, official and 25.11 for girls’ schools. perature expected is 41 degrees figures show. The 502 mixed schools had and the minimum 33. Nightly An idea of global average can be 131,578 students in 2013-14 and temperatures in places like had from World Bank data which 6,239 classes. On average, the Messaieed and Al Wakra are fore- shows that there was one teacher class strength was 21.08. cast at 31 degrees and in Al Khor for every 45 students in primary In all schools, the number and Dukhan 30. The weather will schools in Afghanistan in 2013. of students in a class averaged be hazy at first, becoming hot dur- Some countries, as per the 22.41 in 2013-14. But the teacher- ing the day, the bulletin said, adding data, have one teacher for every student ratio was high in mixed by night humidity levels will rise. nine students. schools. There was one teacher A grouse sits on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s head as he visits a facility of the Forest and Water Offshore, the weather will be partly Official statistics suggest that for every 15 students, while the Management Ministry in Rize, Turkey, yesterday. The nationalist opposition said it would not back a minority cloudy and the sea calmer. there were 836 schools, 245,232 average for girls’ schools was 7.81 government, making Erdogan’s aim of taking the country to a snap election with the ruling party in control look THE PENINSULA students (male and female), and eight for boys’ schools. increasingly difficult. Report on page 4 10,939 classes and 23,155 teach- The maximum number of ers in Qatar in 2013-14. teachers and students were in Of the schools, 502 were mixed primary schools — 10,478 teach- (co-ed institutions where boys ers and 116,721 students. and girls study), 162 girls’ and 172 The preparatory schools had boys’ schools. more students (46,137) and teach- China strengthens yuan against dollar Pre-primary schools totalled ers (4,411) than the secondary 344 and primary schools 226. schools which had 37,511 students SHANGHAI: China’s central The higher fixing came after market-oriented method of cal- rate. “Currently, there is no basis There were 143 preparatory and and 4,213 teachers. bank yesterday raised the value the People’s Bank of China reas- culating the daily reference rate for the renminbi exchange rate 121 general secondary schools. Pre-primary schools had 44,275 of the yuan against the US dol- sured financial markets by pledg- which sets the value of the yuan, to continue to depreciate,” the Although girls’ schools were students and 3,979 teachers. lar by 0.05 percent, the national ing to seek a stable currency after also known as the renminbi. bank’s Assistant Governor Zhang less than those for boys, they In these schools, out of 3,978 foreign exchange market said, a shock devaluation of nearly two Previously, authorities based Xiaohui said. “The central bank had 58,145 students compared to teachers, only one was male, in ending three days of falls after percent on Tuesday. the rate on a poll of market- has the ability to keep the ren- 55,509 in boys’ schools. a private school. No government a surprise devaluation. The cut, and two reductions, makers, but will now also take minbi basically stable at a reason- But girls’ schools had more pre-primary school had a male The daily reference rate was sent global financial markets into into account the previous day’s able and balanced level.” teachers (7,444) than boys’ teacher. 6.3975 yuan to $1.0, from 6.4010 a tailspin as it raised questions close, foreign exchange supply Beijing is pushing for the yuan schools (6,937) In the primary schools, there the previous day, the China over the health of the world’s sec- and demand and rates of major to become one of the reserve The Ministry of Development were 8,990 woman teachers com- Foreign Exchange Trade System ond-largest economy and sparked currencies. currencies in the International Planning and Statistics released pared to 1,488 male counterparts. said. The yuan closed at 6.3912, fears of a possible currency war. The yuan is still only allowed to Monetary Fund’s SDR (special the data in the Chapter on THE PENINSULA strengthening slightly from Beijing said the move was the fluctuate up or down two percent drawing rights) group. Education in its Annual Statistical Continued on page 3 Thursday’s close of 6.3982. result of switching to a more on either side of the reference AFP Decoy flares drill US flag hoisted in Cuba mission South Sudan pulls after 54 years out of peace talks HAVANA: Secretary of State JUBA: South Sudan’s govern- Rebel generals said they had John Kerry called yesterday for ment yesterday said it was pull- split from Machar, accusing him “genuine democracy” in Cuba as ing out of peace talks to end a of seeking power and that they the American flag was raised 20-month long civil war after would not recognise any deal. over a US embassy in Havana rebel forces split despite inter- Regional mediators, backed by for the first time in 54 years. national threats of sanctions. US President Barack Obama dur- He declared a new era in rela- “We suspend talks until the ing his recent visit to Ethiopia, tions and urged political change in two rebel factions sort out differ- gave Kiir and Machar until Cuba, telling Cubans they should ences,” Louis Lobong, Governor August 17 to halt the war. be free to choose their leaders. of Eastern Equatoria, one the 10 Obama warned Kiir and Kerry, the first secretary of states, said after meetings with Machar that if they failed to state to visit the Caribbean island President Salva Kiir. strike a deal, the US will “recog- in 70 years, presided over a cere- The civil war began in nise that those leaders are inca- mony raising the US flag over the December 2013 when Kiir accused pable of creating the peace that reopened embassy. His comments his former deputy Riek Machar of is required.” Punitive measures drew a riposte from his Cuban planning a coup, setting off retali- could include an arms embargo A Lynx helicopter on a nine-month deployment to the Gulf with the frigate HMS Richmond of the British Royal counterpart Bruno Rodriguez, atory killings that has split the and sanctions, including travel Navy lights up the night sky with decoy flares as part of an exercise in the Indian Ocean yesterday. The flares who defended his Communist gov- country along ethnic lines. bans and asset freezes. AFP ernment at a joint news confer- — or Infra Red Counter Measures — attract heat-seeking missiles, drawing them away from the helicopter’s ence and criticised the US record engines and onto a much hotter target. on rights. AGENCIES See also page 9 TODAY’S EU okays €86bn EDITION Global food shocks likely due to extreme weather INCLUDES A Greek bailout LONDON: Extreme weather such as intense presented a report commissioned by the British Chatham House think tank — Royal Institute 32-PAGE SPECIAL BRUSSELS: Eurozone finance storms, droughts and heat waves will cause government. “And as these events become more of International Affairs. ministers yesterday agreed on a more frequent and severe food shortages frequent, the imperative for doing something The experts looked at production of the SUPPLEMENT ON third debt bailout worth €86bn as the global climate and food supply sys- about it becomes greater.” world’s most important commodity crops — to keep Greece afloat and avoid tems change, British and American experts The report, prepared by UK-US Taskforce maize, soybean, wheat and rice — and how its chaotic exit from the single warned yesterday. on Extreme Weather and Global Food System droughts, floods and storms might impact it currency bloc. The pressure on the world’s food supplies is Resilience, also warned that knee-jerk national in future. Since most global production of these After a meeting of Eurogroup, so great and the increase in extreme weather responses to production drops, such as the crops comes from a small number of countries Belgian Finance Minister Johan events so rapid that food shortages on a scale imposition of export or import bans on certain such as China, the US and India, extreme van Overtveldt said they had likely to occur once a century under past con- foods or crops, risk exacerbating a problem and weather events in these regions will have the agreed to a memorandum of ditions may in future hit as often as every 30 fuelling spikes in food prices. largest impact on global food supplies, they said. understanding drafted by insti- years, they said. “If you put the worst case institutional While greater interconnectedness reduces tutional negotiators on Tuesday, “The chance of having a weather-related food responses together with a worst case produc- countries’ vulnerability to local production “with some additional measures”. shock is increasing, and the size of that shock is tion shock, that’s when it starts spiralling out of shocks, it may perversely increase vulnerability REUTERS also increasing,” said Tim Benton, a professor control,” said Rob Bailey, research director for to large shocks in distant so-called “breadbas- See also page 14 of population ecology at Leeds University who energy, environment and resources at Britain’s ket” regions. 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Women walk under umbrellas to avoid the blazing sun yesterday. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Greeting cables sent to Pakistan Ministry warns against wrong parking DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has sent a cable of congratulations to Pakistan MoI Facebook photo shows chaotic behaviour by motorists especially during weekends President Mamnoon Hussain on his country’s Independence Day. DOHA: Gone are the days parked in a slot, blocking at Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah when there used to be fewer least one of the cars. bin Hamad Al Thani also sent a con- problems related to traffic Another photograph shows gratulatory cable to Hussain. during weekends. cars parked haphazardly and Prime Minister and Interior Now, with the country’s in clogged manner in another Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin population increasing rapidly, public parking lot. Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent traffic-related woes are also on The ministry said that such similar greetings to Hussain. QNA the rise. irresponsible behaviour by According to the Ministry motorists is also obvious near Work begins on of Interior, some motorists are main mosques during Friday showing chaotic behaviour on prayers. new schools, KGs Fridays and Saturdays. “During weekends especially As people visit shopping cen- people don’t follow traffic rules. DOHA: The Public Works tres and for entertainment to They make mistakes and dis- Authority — Ashghal — has begun beaches and other places they rupt traffic,” said the ministry. building 11 schools in Al Atiqa, Al don’t follow traffic rules. “This is a serious violation Wajba, Al Karaana, Umm Sanim The ministry said on its of traffic rules,” said the min- and Al Shahaneeya. Facebook account that motor- istry on its Facebook account. The project is expected to be com- ists park their cars haphazardly Some people park cars in slots pleted in the third quarter of 2016. during weekends, near mosques reserved for people with special Two schools and kindergartens are and in parking slots in such a needs, the ministry said. in design phase in Al Mearad and way that other cars are blocked. It asked motorists to follow The picture posted by the Ministry of Interior on its Facebook account shows cars blocking other vehicles in a Rawdat Rashid, Al Sharq reports. The ministry posted a photo- traffic rules or face the music. public parking lot. Ashghal is also completing four graph that shows a mini-truck THE PENINSULA new health centres in Al Waab, Ain Khaled, Al Wajba and Muaither, which are scheduled to open next year-end. THE PENINSULA Qatari embassy More teachers in hosts Arab preparatory schools missions for trade Continued from page 1 The ratio of male teachers was talks with Canada slightly up in preparatory schools (1,905 men; 2,506 women). In second- OTTAWA: The Qatari ary schools, there were 2,041 male embassy in the Canadian capi- and 2,246 female teachers. tal of Ottawa hosted a meet- Government schools had relatively ing of Arab embassies with lower student numbers (98,908) and the Canadian government, more teachers (13,326) — one teacher represented by Canadian for every 7.42 students and private Commercial Corporation CEO schools had 146,324 students and Martin Zablocki. 9,829 teachers — one teacher for The meeting discussed means every 14.88 students. of enhancing trade exchanges Of all students at all levels in all between Arab states and Canada schools, 157,196 were non-Qatari and and overcoming technical difficul- 88,036 Qatari. ties in expanding cooperation. Private schools had 28,517 Qatari The corporation is the com- students and government schools mercial arm of the Canadian gov- 59,519. Twenty-four students aged 22 ernment to facilitate and promote were in secondary schools, including trade relations with foreign gov- 18 women. THE PENINSULA Canadian officials hold talks with delegates from Arab missions in Ottawa. ernments. QNA QU: Five mistakes jobseekers should avoid during interviews

DOHA: Don’t ever ask a know you may like the job once job you have applied for. potential employer in a job selected and may continue in it.” Focus on positive things like interview what salary and Also, don’t ever ask the the fact that you are young and perks are on offer, says Qatar employer whether you would talk of your achievements while University (QU) in an advisory have to work during weekends. in university. to its fresh graduates. Many employers, during inter- And make it a point to read QU, in one of its periodical views, give applicants a chance through the website details bulletins, has asked fresh gradu- to ask questions. These que- about the company you have ates looking for employment to ries about salary and perks and applied for a job with and know avoid five common mistakes dur- weekend work should be avoided. about the nature of the job. ing job interviews. Instead ask questions that Don’t ever say you know eve- Don’t ever talk of your plans may show you are interested in rything. These are some of the about pursuing higher studies the job you are being interviewed common mistakes fresh gradu- and if necessary only say that in for. ates make while appearing for distant future you could consider Always reach the venue of job interviews, QU said in the doing post-graduation or some- the interview a little before the bulletin, local Arabic daily Al thing like that, the university appointed time and dress practi- Arab reports. said. “This is because you never cally and in a way that suits the THE PENINSULA

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A vendor atop a pick-up truck talks to customers during the annual Dates Festival in Berida in the Saudi central province of Qassim, yesterday. SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Erdogan vows to press for new constitution Early election almost certain after coalition talks collapse

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said kind of president that they want,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan yester- snap polls were now the “only Erdogan said, adding he was on day defiantly vowed to renew option”. the “people’s side”. his drive for a new presidency- This will give Erdogan a second “They call on me to be impar- based constitution, as Turkey crack of realising his dream -- a tial, but I made it clear that I won’t heads to snap elections after the scenario some analysts said he be impartial,” he said, describing collapse of coalition talks. had wished for all along. the AKP as a “symbol of honesty”. The results of the June 7 poll “Whether you agree or not, Early elections are now seen as — where Erdogan’s Justice and Turkey’s regime has changed,” almost certain after the collapse Development Party (AKP) lost its said Erdogan in a speech in his of the AKP-CHP talks, with some overall majority for the first time ancestral region of Rize on the analysts predicting November 22 since coming to power in 2002 — Black Sea, referring to the fact as a possible date. were widely seen as one of the he was Turkey’s first president to However, it is far from certain worst blows of his political career. be chosen by popular vote. that the AKP will improve on its Erdogan, premier from 2003- “What needs to be done now is vote share of just under 41 per- 2014 and president since last to give a legal framework to this cent and win an overall major- August, had wanted the parlia- de-facto state with a new con- ity, with all parties bracing for a ment to agree a new constitution stitution,” he added. Since com- tough campaign. that would enshrine the president ing to power, Erdogan departed The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ as the country’s most powerful from the tradition that Turkey’s Democratic Party (HDP), whose figure. president should be an impartial strong performance in June was But after coalition talks between arbiter, drawing cries of rage from largely responsibly for thwarting the AKP and main opposition the opposition who accuse him of Erdogan’s ambitions, has pledged Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by his wife Emine Erdogan, prays during the opening ceremony Republican People’s Party (CHP) violating the constitution. in a viral Twitter hashtag. of Kibledagi mosque in Rize, Turkey, yesterday. collapsed on Thursday, Prime “I’m sorry, but I won’t be the AFP Arab Bank PKK leader warns of ‘heavy price’ amid new violence settles US DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY: A Turkey, Ankara has launched a According to an AFP toll, 31 people took to the streets in members of the PKK as well as senior figure in the Kurdistan two-pronged offensive to bomb members of the Turkish security Diyarbakir yesterday to protest IS and the Marxist Revolutionary lawsuit over Workers’ Party (PKK) yester- Islamic State (IS) militants in forces have since died in attacks the escalating cycle of violence People’s Liberation Party Front day warned that Turkey would Syria and PKK rebels in northern blamed on the PKK. that has left a 2013 ceasefire (DHKP-C), state-run Anatolia Hamas attacks pay “a heavy price” for its offen- Iraq and southeast Turkey. But Karayilan, who is often agreed by the PKK in tatters. news agency said. sive against the rebels amid new So far, the operation has seen as the movement’s overall Turkish President Recep Yesterday, police detained at NEW YORK: Arab Bank deadly clashes in the Kurdish- focused largely on the Kurdish leader in the absence its jailed Tayyip Erdogan vowed that least 39 suspected terrorists in Plc has agreed to settle majority southeast. rebels, who have responded by iconic chief Abdullah Ocalan, said his government would press on raids in several cities includ- US litigation accusing it of A 40-year-old man was killed waging a bloody campaign against the PKK had not “put into effect with its relentless campaign ing Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, facilitating Hamas attacks when he was caught in an armed the security forces. a war plan yet.” against Kurdish militants, Anatolia said. in Israel, nearly a year after clash between Turkish forces and “We are waging a battle of the “Our fight continues in a saying the operations were not Karayilan meanwhile distanced a US jury found the bank the PKK in the city of Diyarbakir, wills,” the PKK’s northern Iraq- planned and controlled way. We “temporary.” the PKK from the killing on July liable. security sources said. based leader Murat Karayilan are just conducting retaliatory “You shall not think they are 22 of two Turkish policeman in The settlement was dis- A 29-year-old man was also was quoted by the pro-PKK Firat actions,” he said. strong... They are doomed to fail,” their sleep as one carried out “by closed yesterday by a spokes- wounded during clashes that news agency as telling Kurdish The PKK has waged an over Erdogan told supporters in his a group not precisely affiliated to woman for one of the plaintiffs’ erupted overnight after youths Sterk TV. 30 year struggle for autonomy ancestral hometown in the Black us”. He also said the PKK’s cen- law firms and a spokesman for linked to the outlawed PKK “We are experienced and and greater rights in Turkey’s Sea province of Rize. tral command did not approve Arab Bank. opened fire at police trying to we know very well what to do. Kurdish majority southeast that More than 1,700 suspects of suicide bombings, such as an The deal means a trial clear a main road blocked by the They made a very big mistake has claimed tens of thousands of have been arrested since late attack in Istanbul on Monday that scheduled to start Monday militants. by attacking us... They will pay a lives. last month in police raids was claimed by Kurdish militants. to determine how much the After a series of attacks in very heavy price for that.” Meanwhile, more than 2,000 nationwide targeting suspected AFP bank would have to pay the victims and their families will no longer go ahead. Terms of the deal were not Warehouse catches fire disclosed. The litigation against Arab UN urges Iraq to close Bank included claims brought by approximately 500 US citi- zens who said they were either victims of Hamas attacks or secret detention cells the family members of victims. In September 2014, a US GENEVA: A UN human Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi jury in Brooklyn, New York, rights watchdog called on to “ensure that no one is detained found the Jordan-based bank Iraq on Friday to close what it in any secret detention centres, knowingly supported Hamas described as secret detention as these facilities are per se a in carrying out attacks. centres where militant sus- breach of the Convention (against The verdict marked the pects, including minors, are Torture) and should be closed”. first time a bank was held “severely tortured”. Iraqi officials were not imme- liable in US court for violating The panel of 18 independent diately available to comment but the US Anti-Terrorism Act, experts, who reviewed Iraq’s at last month’s session Iraqi del- which lets American citizens record in preventing torture and egates rejected any form of torture, pursue claims arising from ill-treatment last month, had regardless of who was the perpe- international terrorism. challenged Iraqi officials to name trator, and gave assurances that REUTERS a single person the country had torture was not systematic in the jailed for torture in a justice sys- country. The panel called for access tem that had “gone astray”. to detention facilities such as that Top Iraq cleric In its findings issued on Friday, it said was at a military airport in the watchdog voiced concern at Baghdad. The facility at the old Al welcomes reforms, information pointing to a pat- Muthenna military airport in West tern whereby militant and other Baghdad, “which was uncovered in calls for more high-security suspects, including 2011, is still open and continues to minors, were arrested without secretly operate under the control BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shia warrants and detained in facili- of the 54th and 56th brigades of the cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al- ties - especially those run by the army”, the committee said, citing Sistani yesterday welcomed Civil Defence personnel extinguish a fire at a warehouse for waste recycling in the International City district, defence and interior ministries. allegations it had received. proposed reforms aimed at Dubai, yesterday. No one has been reported injured in the blaze. It said they were “detained The army and pro-government curbing corruption and stream- incommunicado and held in secret militia are battling Islamic State lining the government, but said detention centres for extended militants who have captured more were needed, especially periods of time, during which swathes of Iraq. Fighters on all for the judiciary. they are severely tortured in sides are reported to rape female Prime Minister Haider Al order to extract confessions”. The captives and commit sexual vio- Abadi on Sunday announced a IS and rival group fight UN Committee against Torture lence, the committee said, calling reform programme in response to called on the government of for prosecutions. REUTERS weeks of protests and a call from Sistani, and parliament approved the plan along with additional for Libyan city, 37 killed measures two days later. Anniversary “We appreciate that, and hope BENGHAZI: Around 37 peo- Islamic State fighters took over were searching for people with that these decisions are imple- ple have been killed in clashes the city in February, expand- weapons. mented in the near future,” between Islamic State (IS) ing their presence in the North A similar battle occurred in Sistani said in remarks deliv- fighters and an Islamist group African country by exploiting a the eastern city of Derna in June ered by his representative Abdul that is challenging the grip of security vacuum like they did in when Islamic State was expelled Mahdi Al Karbalai. the ultra-hardliners on the city Iraq and Syria. by rival Islamist fighters who “We would like to point out of Sirte in central Libya, resi- Fighting raged until early yes- teamed up with locals angered that one of the most important dents said. terday before dying down when by the arrival of foreign militants requirements of the reform proc- The fighting in the hometown Islamic State took back a district and clerics. ess... is reforming the judiciary, as of late ruler Muammar Gaddafi which the Salafists and armed Islamic State launched an it is an important pillar in com- typifies the chaos in the oil pro- residents had tried to seize, resi- offensive to retake Derna this pleting the package of reforms, ducer, where two governments, dents said. week. Libya has two governments and there cannot be true reform former rebel and Islamist groups By noon the city was quiet, fighting each other for power without it,” he said. battle for control, and is driving giving residents the chance to while Islamic State and other Parliament’s plan called for families to flee to seek relative remove bodies littered in the armed groups carve out their own judicial reforms including ensur- safety. streets, among them women and fiefdoms. ing the independence of the judi- Earlier this week, a Salafist children. Around 37 people have The United Nations brought ciary, while Abadi’s programme Muslim group and armed resi- been killed in the past two days, the main warring factions did not mention that issue. dents attacked Islamic State residents said. together in Geneva this week but Both were billed as initial fighters in Sirte, located about “Families are leaving Sirte,” the diplomacy has been overtaken Lebanese people watching on a giant screen a televised address by reform packages, implying that 500 km east of the capital Tripoli, said a resident, asking, like by fighting between groups not Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on the ninth anniversary of the 2006 more are to follow. accusing them of killing a promi- others, not to be named. He present at the negotiating table. AFP nent preacher in Sirte. said Islamic State fighters REUTERS war with Israel, in the village of Wadi Al Hjeir, south Lebanon, yesterday. SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Palestinian hunger striker slips into coma Mohammed Allan, detained without trial, has been on hunger strike since June 18

RAMALLAH: A Palestinian some 379 are under adminis- condition of anonymity said force- held by Israel without trial trative detention. His case has feeding was a very last resort and has slipped into a coma after become a source of growing con- required a judge’s approval in a nearly two-month hunger cern among the Palestinian pub- every case. strike, his lawyer said yester- lic, while Israel faces a dilemma “Before forced feeding, there day, raising fears for his life. over whether to force-feed the are many, many medical proc- “I was informed yester- protester. In the northern West esses,” he said. “They can give day (Thursday) evening by the Bank city of Nablus, near his him water and other fluids intra- (Israeli) hospital where he is hometown, around 1,000 staged a venously. There’s no need to go being held that he had fallen into march for Allan on Friday. straight to forced-feeding.” a coma,” Jamil Al Khatib, 31-year- “My son is in a coma. He’s my Allan was transferred earlier old Mohammed Allan’s attorney, son, but also the son of the entire this month from Soroka hospital said. A spokeswoman for Barzilai Palestinian people,” Allan’s father in Beersheva after doctors there hospital in the southern city of Nasser Eddine told the crowd. objected to carrying out blood Ashkelon confirmed Allan’s con- Hundreds of people also rallied tests against his will, Physicians dition had “deteriorated”, adding for Allan after Friday weekly for Human Rights-Israel said at he was receiving fluids and salts prayers at Al Aqsa mosque in the time. by intravenous drip and aided by annexed east Jerusalem, waving Yesterday, the NGO appealed an artificial respirator. his portrait in the Old City and to Barzilai medical staff. “His condition is stable,” she chanting against force-feeding. “Medical ethics requires that said in a statement. “The treat- Portraits of his pale face framed his doctors act in accordance ment is in accordance with by a dark beard have been circu- to their understanding of the the instructions of the ethics lating on Palestinian social media, patient’s will,” it said. committee.” including among Israeli Arabs. “PHR-Israel hopes and Allan, an alleged Islamic The militant Islamic Jihad believes that the doctors in Jihad activist who has been held movement identified Allan as Barzilai hospital have acted with without charge by Israel since a member, called for a general respect and in accordance with November, has been on hunger mobilisation and warned from Allan`s will.” strike since June 18, according to Gaza that his death would be an The International Committee the Palestinian Prisoners Club. “end to the truce” with Israel. of the Red Cross, which has A woman holds a picture of Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan during a protest in solidarity with him, in the His relatives say his fast began Allan’s lawyer said Israel visited Allan several times, has West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, yesterday. in protest at being held under intends to force-feed him, a warned that he was “at immedi- what Israel calls administrative measure likely to further increase ate risk” of death. He has been Palestinians in Israeli prisons prisoners on hunger strike fac- hunger strike that brought him detention, a controversial proce- Palestinian anger. taking only water throughout his regularly go on hunger strike in ing death to be force fed, spark- near death. Internal Security dure allowing indefinite detention The Israeli Medical Association fast and experts say that survival protest at conditions, particularly ing criticism from rights groups Minister Gilad Erdan said the law without charge. strongly opposes the practice and under such conditions is uncer- those who, like Allan, are held in and doctors. was necessary to prevent “hunger Israeli figures indicate that of has said its members will not par- tain after two months. His sup- administrative detention. That vote came two weeks after strikes of terrorists in prisons” the nearly 5,700 Palestinian pris- ticipate in force-feeding. porters say his sight and hearing On July 30, parliament Israel freed Islamic Jihad member being used as a means to pressure oners currently held by Israel, An Israeli official speaking on have been badly impaired. approved a law allowing Khader Adnan following a 56-day Israel into releasing them. AFP

Syria opposition Turkey builds concrete wall along Syria border says Russia ‘not ISTANBUL: The Turkish one of the wounded succumbed to bomb its militants in Syria as who have responded by tearing refugee families in Homs and in military has started building a to his wounds in hospital. well as PKK rebels in northern up a 2013 ceasefire and waging the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, his clinging’ to Assad concrete wall along the border Turkey said the attack was Iraq and southeast Turkey. a bloody campaign against the office said yesterday. with Syria following a series carried out by the IS group, and So far, the operation has security forces. The visit comes amid a new MOSCOW: After talks with of attacks, state media said launched a two-pronged offensive focused largely on Kurdish rebels, Hatay is home to thousands push by the United States and Moscow’s top diplomat, Syria’s yesterday. of the roughly 1.8 million Syrian Russia, Syria’s ally, along with main opposition group insisted The Turkish Armed Forces refugees who have fled to Turkey other key players in the Gulf for yesterday that Russia is “not (TSK) is building the three metre to escape the violence at home. renewed peace talks to end the clinging” to President Bashar (10 feet) high wall in the Reyhanli Ceasefire in Syrian town In May 2013 twin car bombs war, now in its fifth year. Al Assad. district of Hatay province just struck the town of Reyhanli, kill- O’Brien told the Security The head of Syria’s National across from the Syrian town of extended until tomorrow ing 52 people. Turkish authori- Council last month that the crisis Coalition, Khaled Khoja, met on Atmeh, the official Anatolia news ties blamed Syria-linked groups was worsening in Syria and that a Thursday with Russian Foreign agency said. BEIRUT: A ceasefire between the warring sides in a Syrian but Damascus denied any political solution was more urgent Minister Sergei Lavrov as part of The military is also digging town and two villages has been extended until tomorrow, sources involvement. than ever. a fresh push by Moscow to find a ditches just behind the wall, on both sides said yesterday. A tragic milestone was way out of the four-year civil war which will stretch eight kilome- The ceasefire between rebels on one hand and the Syrian army UN AID CHIEF TO PAY recorded last month when the that has cost some 240,000 lives. tres, Anatolia said. and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah on the other began on Wednesday. FIRST VISIT number of Syrian refugees flee- Moscow — one of Assad’s few A bombing killed 33 people in It halted fighting in the town of Zabadani near the Lebanese border The UN’s top aid official will ing to neighbouring countries rose remaining backers — is pushing a mainly Kurdish town in south- and the villages of Kefraya and Al Foua in the northwest. pay his first visit to Syria next to more than four million, mak- a plan for a broader grouping ern Turkey on July 20, ending a Sources involved in the negotiations say they are focused on agree- week to step up relief efforts in ing it the biggest exodus from war than the US-led coalition fight- truce between Ankara and the ing a withdrawal of rebel fighters from Zabadani and an evacuation the world’s worst humanitar- in a generation. An additional 7.6 ing the Islamic State (IS) group, rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party of civilians from two Shia villages in the northwest. ian crisis. Stephen O’Brien, who million are displaced inside the to include Syria’s government and (PKK), which is active in south- “There is no final agreement yet but talks continue,” a source on took up the job in May, is to country, uprooting more than half its allies. eastern Turkey. the insurgents’ side said. REUTERS hold talks with Syrian officials of Syria’s pre-war population. But Khoja — in Moscow for the The toll rose overnight when in Damascus and hopes to meet AFP National Coalition’s first talks there since February 2014 — reit- erated that Assad must go imme- diately and hinted that Russia’s support for the strongman may be wavering. Police disperse mass “We have found that the Russian authorities are not cling- ing to Bashar Al Assad personally, but rather they’re clinging to the killing anniversary Syrian state, its territorial integ- rity, and the preservation of its institutions,” Khoja told journal- protesters in Egypt ists at a press conference. A spokeswoman for Russia’s foreign ministry said in response CAIRO: Egyptian police using to crimes against humanity.” that Moscow’s position remained tear gas dispersed small dem- The New York-based group unchanged. onstrations in Cairo by support- called on the United Nations “We have always said that we ers of ousted Islamist president Human Rights Council to launch do not support Assad in a per- Mohamed Mursi yesterday’s an inquiry into the killings. sonal capacity but that we sup- second anniversary of the kill- “Washington and Europe have port the legitimately elected ing of hundreds of protesters by gone back to business with a gov- president of Syria,” spokeswoman security forces. ernment that celebrates rather Maria Zakharova said. Police were deployed at the than investigates what may have The ministry said in a state- capital’s main intersections and been the worst single-day killing ment that Russia was pushing the outside government buildings. of protesters in modern history,” National Coalition — Syria’s main They fired tear gas at three deputy Middle East director Joe opposition group in exile — to talk rallies in which dozens of dem- Stork said. to other parties in the fragmented onstrators took part in western “The UN Human Rights opposition about the creation of a Cairo, police officials said. Council, which has not yet cohesive negotiating platform for In the north of the capital, tear addressed Egypt’s dangerous and talks with the authorities. gas was also used against pro- deteriorating human rights situa- The meeting Thursday is part Mursi supporters hurling large tion, is one of the few remaining of a broader diplomatic flurry firecrackers, they said. routes to accountability for this that saw Saudi Arabia’s foreign Bahraini protesters hold placards during a demonstration against the arrest of Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the The Rabaa Al Adawiya killings brutal massacre.” minister Adel Al Jubeir fly into Shia opposition movement Al Wefaq, and to mark Bahrain’s independence day, in the village of Diraz, west of of August 14, 2013, when police In Egypt, however, the govern- Moscow on Tuesday, on the back capital Manama yesterday. shot dead at least 700 Mursi ment has always defended the dis- of a three-way Russian-Saudi-US supporters as they dispersed a persal, insisting that the Islamists meeting in Doha earlier this protest camp, has remained a were armed “terrorists”. month. The top diplomat for rallying point for Egypt’s harried Mursi, the country’s first dem- Saudi Arabia, a key backer of the Police patrol attacked Bahrain Islamist opposition. ocratically elected leader, ruled Syrian opposition, rejected calls to Two years on, no policemen for only a year before mass pro- work with Assad against IS after DUBAI: A Bahraini police the ministry tweeted. “No injuries Shiite-led uprising erupted four have faced trial over the incident. tests prompted the military to a meeting with Lavrov. patrol came under attack in reported.” years ago demanding a constitu- About 10 police were killed overthrow and detain him. He As part of the push, Lavrov also a Shia village near the capital Witnesses said security forces tional monarchy. during the dispersal, after com- has since been sentenced to death. met on Friday with the head of a Manama on Friday, without were deployed yesterday after On Thursday, authorities ing under fire from several gun- President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, newer grouping of Syrian opposi- causing casualties, the inte- the “February 14 Coalition”, a announced they had arrested five men in the sprawling camp on a the former leader of the army, tion figures known as the Cairo rior ministry said, as demon- radical youth group, called for suspects, allegedly with links to crossroads in eastern Cairo when had pledged to eradicate Mursi’s Conference Committee. strators held anti-government anti-government protests on Iran, in connection with a bomb- they moved to break it up. Muslim Brotherhood. The leader of the group protests. the anniversary of Bahrain’s ing that killed two policemen last But rights groups have said The group has been blacklisted Haytham Manna said after the “Police patrol gutted in an independence from Britain in month near Manama. police used disproportionate and most of its leaders arrested, talks that political change needed attack by rioters with Molotov 1971. The Sunni-ruled kingdom fre- force, killing many unarmed pro- severely restricting its ability to to happen for the fight against cocktails while police were secur- The tiny but strategic US ally quently accuses Tehran of backing testers in what Human Rights mobilise supporters to take part extremists in Syria to be effective. ing a mosque in Sanad” village, has seen frequent unrest since a the unrest. AFP Watch said “probably amounted in protests. AFP AFP SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HO HATES reforms except those who have Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate vested interests? Most countries struggle to enact reforms due to the huge obstacles in their Wway. In the Arab world, reforms are mostly talked about and rarely, very rarely implemented. It’s for this reason that when Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi Turkey should study Tunisia’s announced sweeping reforms to tackle the many malaises plaguing his country, the region reacted with some dismay. Iraq’s parliament voted overwhelmingly this week to back a package of measures aimed at stamping out corruption and budding democracy government overspending, opening the way for the biggest overhaul of the country’s political system since the US-led BY MARC CHAMPION invasion in 2003. Just one of the 297 lawmakers who attended On Thursday, his ally, Prime Minister on the peace process. Erdogan has also the vote objected to the plan, which shows the unanimous Ahmet Davutoglu, delivered the unsur- made clear why he suddenly turned support which the prime minister enjoys for his mission. HEN IT comes to prising news that he had failed to form on the Kurdish political party: It had Sectarianism and corruption have been the biggest banes democracy, perhaps a governing coalition. Elections in June the temerity to campaign against his Tunisia should now left the ruling Justice and Development constitutional plan, potentially thwart- of Iraq. The country has been repeatedly failing after the be teaching Turkey. Party, or AKP, without a majority, so ing his goal of becoming the founder exit of American forces. The rise of Islamic State, which has After the Arab a rerun of that vote is now inevitable. of a “new” and transformed Turkey by been partly attributed to the sectarian policies of the rulers WSpring uprisings in 2011, it seemed as Only the date remains to be decided. 2023, the 100th anniversary of the secu- in Baghdad, has dealt another crippling blow to the state. if it would be the other way around. Davutoglu, however, is a cipher. lar republic created by Mustafa Kemal Abadi has been struggling to assert control since taking office Then, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep The decision not to form a coalition Ataturk. last year, and the reform initiative should go a long way in Tayyip Erdogan, now president, toured was made by Erdogan as soon as the It is increasingly clear that Erdogan’s the region in triumph, promoting votes were in, because, unlike Ennahda, personal ambitions are harming the instilling confidence among his people and in winning the the so-called Turkish model of rec- Turkey’s president is not willing to country. Growth and the Turkish lira much-needed support to mould Iraq into a normal, stable onciling Islamism with democracy to share power. have been severely undermined as inves- state. produce pros- After the Kurdish-led People’s tors have gradually understood the All this is fine, but not enough. The perity. He even Democratic Party, or HDP, won 13 per- extent to which Erdogan is destroying Iraqi prime prime minister is certain to face huge publicly advised cent of the June 7 vote, robbing the AKP the institutions of Turkish democracy challenges in a country where powerful Egypt’s short- of the right to rule alone, Erdogan failed and threatening the country’s stabil- minister’s Ennahda’s lived Muslim to gain the supermajority he needed to ity. The announcement by Davutoglu forces are at work to establish control. choice has Brotherhood gov- adopt a new constitution that would on Thursday caused another sharp dive reform First of all, Abadi will have to prove ernment to adopt formally concentrate powers in the in the value of Turkish equities and the initiative that his initiative is driven by a desire made Tunisia the a secular consti- presidency. He also had to abandon lira, as markets braced for more months and determination to clean up the sole democracy tution, much to his fallback position: to assume those of uncertainty. The lira has gone from can help system rather than a sinister motive its irritation. powers under existing laws, running 1.80 per dollar in 2012, to more than 2.80 The Arab the country with a compliant AKP to the dollar. Economic growth declined to eliminate the threats from certain to emerge from rescue the Spring, of course, government. to 2.9 percent last year, from slightly country from quarters and fix his rivals. Secondly, the Arab Spring, quickly turned But Erdogan didn’t reconcile him- less than 9 percent in 2012. he will have to work assiduously to to nightmare self to this result. He quickly started If there is hope for Turkey, it is that its current bridge the deep divide between Shias and the country — except in preparing the ground for a new vote, Erdogan has overreached and will even- chaos — only and Sunnis, which will not be easy. He has avoided Tunisia. Ennahda, in which he hopes the Kurdish party tually be forced to compromise. He is will have to reach out to Sunni leaders that country’s will score below the 10 percent thresh- trying to erase longstanding democratic if he is driven the civil strife iteration of the old needed to enter parliament. Since institutions that are well-understood from violence-plagued provinces west Brotherhood, the June vote, he has ended the peace by much of the population. Tunisia, by by noble and north of the capital and give experienced in chose to share process with Kurdish militants, rekin- contrast, is trying to build those insti- them a meaningful role in governance. Libya, Egypt, power and form dling a 30-year war that has cost about tutions from the wreck of a toppled intentions. The government’s failure to address a coalition with 40,000 lives. Of course, Erdogan says he dictatorship. the grievances of Sunnis created the Syria and secular parties, is trying to ensure the people’s will is There’s little cause for reassurance, conditions for the Islamic State to take control of Mosul, the rather than try done. And it didn’t take much to get the though. Erdogan’s support base is fer- Yemen. to rule alone and Kurdish group known as PKK to restart vently loyal and anger at the PKK runs country’s second-largest city, last summer. impose its views. their insurgency, allowing the president deep in Turkey, so the president may get One of the highlights of reforms is the axing of the offices That consensual approach to politics to say he is responding to terrorism. his way. Even so, perhaps enough Turks of three vice presidents, with some critics even calling such a has made Tunisia a target for attack But Erdogan hasn’t made much effort and Kurds will see through this attempt move unconstitutional. It would leave former prime minister by extremist groups, such as Islamic to hide his intentions. to override the popular will for a coa- and Abadi’s rival Nouri Al Maliki without a political position, State, and the country has struggled to In a speech this week, he accused the lition government, clearly expressed return to pre-2011 growth rates. Still, HDP of being run by the guerrillas. Two June 7 and ensure that Erdogan isn’t which in turn removes his immunity from prosecution. This Ennahda’s choice has made Tunisia the weeks ago, he called for the parliamen- rewarded for demanding another vote. means he has already created a powerful enemy. Two other sole democracy to emerge from the Arab tary immunity of the Kurdish party’s 80 Erdogan’s scorched-earth tactics are politicians who stand to lose their jobs, Vice President Osama Spring, and the country has avoided the legislators to be stripped, so they could leading Turkey toward violence, insta- Al Nujaifi and Saleh Al Mutlaq, a deputy prime minister, are civil strife experienced in Libya, Egypt, be prosecuted and “pay the price” for bility and democratic and economic fail- among the most influential Sunnis in Baghdad. But Abadi has Syria and Yemen. their alleged links to terrorists. ure. There is too much of that in the nothing to fear if his intentions are right• Erdogan has now chosen the opposite This is a ludicrous charge: Until Middle East already. path. recently, he collaborated with the HDP BLOOMBERG The other side Quote of The US snubs Cuban dissidents the day

HE AMERICAN flag is a What’s unfortunate about the sce- flag-raising ceremony is a government- Antonio Rodiles, the blogger Yoani powerful symbol of the nario planned for Havana is that Kerry to-government affair. This is lame. Sánchez, members of the Ladies in country’s long and noble has decided to omit the very people in Inviting the dissidents would be a dem- White, to name just a few. Mr. Kerry struggle to defend the values Cuba who embody the values that the onstration to Raúl and Fidel Castro of offers to meet with some of them sepa- The leaders in Tof freedom and democracy. When American flag represents: human dig- what the flag stands for: people freely rately, out of public view. It is insulting Secretary of State John F Kerry raises nity, the wisdom of the individual above choosing their leaders, a pluralism of and acquiesces in the Castros’ desire Havana and the it over the US embassy in Cuba on the state and free access to basic rights views and a public engaging in the insti- that the dissidents be hidden away. Cuban people should Friday, the ceremony will mark an end of expression in speech, assembly and tutions and traditions of a healthy civil In a sense, the “government-to- to a half-century of hostility between thought. society. Not inviting them is a sorry tip government” excuse exemplifies what also know that the two nations. President Obama These people — the dissidents in of the hat to what the Castros so vividly has been wrong in Obama’s outreach the United States has gambled that establishing normal Cuba who have fought tirelessly for stand for: diktat, statism, control and from the start. Engagement could help relations with Cuba — commerce, democracy and human rights, and who rule by fear. spark change in Cuba; most Cuban will always remain information, culture and “soft power” continue to suffer regular beatings and It would not have been hard to find democrats agree. But it won’t happen — is the best way to change the arrests — will not be witnesses to the witnesses to this turning point who automatically: Just look at China, with a champion of isolated island, still in the grip of the flag-raising. They were not invited. have been muzzled and physically its capitalism and wealth blended with democratic principles Castro brothers and their sclerotic The official US explanation for injured in their quest to be heard: dis- increasingly repressive rule. John Kerry revolution. excluding the dissidents is that the sidents Jorge Luis García Pérez and THE WASHINGTON POST and reforms. US Secretary of State SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Accepting Iran deal is a no-brainer Defenders of the deal point out that there are provisions to adequately monitor Iran’s compliance. Opponents note other concerns, including Iran’s ballistic missile programme; its misbehaviour in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.

BY HAROLD BROWN the agreement already approved by all participants (except the United States y experience as defence and Iran) or Congress denies US adher- secretary during the Iran ence to the deal. If the United States and hostage crisis more than Iran join the others, Iran must dilute or Mthree decades ago tells me export its existing enriched uranium so that Iran will probably try to circum- that it does not have enough for a nuclear vent the nuclear deal. My participation weapon. The deal also would roll back, for in nuclear weapons negotiations with the 10 to 15 years, Iran’s capability to enrich Soviet Union from 1958 through SALT II enough uranium to be able to produce in the 1970s — during very hot points in a nuclear weapon. Iran would have to the Cold War — reinforces my caution. convert its under-construction nuclear Yet the United States can only accept or reactor to a form that would not fuel reject the deal, so let me discuss bottom- a plutonium-based nuclear weapon. line pros and cons. Even if it decided to break out of the Iran’s nuclear programme, its advance agreement this would push Iran, now suspended during the negotiations, is probably only a few months away from but two years from a nuclear weapon. having enough highly enriched uranium That’s an urgent problem demanding for a nuclear weapon, to a year away. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (left) with US Secretary of State John Kerry during talks between the foreign ministers of immediate attention. Iranian posses- It would take another year to produce the six powers negotiating with Tehran on its nuclear programme, in Vienna. sion of nuclear arms would give other the weapon. regional powers an irresistible urge How verifiable are these limits? As a Does the agreement decrease pres- opponents less than coping with a dan- back by only two years, and Iran would to obtain them. The Middle East and physicist and former nuclear lab direc- sure on Iran by giving it access to its ger that might be 10 years away? Is rebuild at a site indestructible by con- Persian Gulf conflicts would escalate. tor, and later as a government official, I frozen billions in assets? Yes, but it’s there another way to delay the time ventional military force. Iran would be That consideration surely motivated the participated in other arms-control nego- the nature of a deal that adversaries until Iran is capable of making a left with nuclear weapons and a thirst unicorn-level rarity of a common posi- tiations. Compared with past agreements must give up some objectives. We could nuclear weapon? Not even those itch- for revenge. tion among the United States, Britain, with the then-more threatening adver- have devised a more favorable deal,but ing for war suggest an invasion. And Failure of US adherence to the deal France, Germany, the European Union, sary the Soviet Union, the provisions for there would be no chance of an Iranian a Special Operations forces attack, as would not slow but would hasten an Russia and China. oversight are remarkably more intrusive signature on the document. A “better I have learned better than most, is Iranian nuclear weapon. The Russians Defenders of the deal point out that and capable. The chances of detecting deal” without an Iranian signature is chancy, especially given the dispersed and Chinese would certainly not sustain there are provisions to adequately moni- Iranian violations that would substan- worthless. Iranian facilities. economic sanctions. Sanctions by the tor Iran’s compliance. Opponents note tially shrink that one-year estimate are If congressional action prevents US A preemptive air attack on nuclear other countries would erode as well. With other concerns, including Iran’s ballistic very good. adherence to the deal, Iran would likely facilities is an option, but a poor — and all of this in mind, approving the agree- missile programme; its misbehaviour in What’s more, this deal has automatic go full bore on its nuclear weapons pro- probably disastrous — one. Few if any ment is a no-brainer. Iraq, Syria and elsewhere; its support snap-back provisions for economic sanc- gram. The most informed opinions sug- Western allies would join us. Some Sunni WP-BLOOMBERG of terrorists; and its threats and verbal tions that Western signatories could re- gest that Iran could then have nuclear Muslim governments would privately Brown was secretary of defence during attacks on Israel’s right to exist. These impose if Iran violates the agreement. weapons in two years. applaud, but not join us, and their respec- the Carter administration and previously observations, although correct, are irrel- Hard-nosed inspections and resolute Opponents of the deal warn that in tive publics would rage at the United led the Lawrence Livermore National evant to the more urgent task of try- cooperation with the International 10 to 15 years’ time, the deal allows Iran States, however much they dislike the Laboratory and development of the Polaris ing to prevent Iran from having nuclear Atomic Energy Agency will be vital. to be only a couple of years away from Shiite Iran. missile warhead. He also served as US direc- weapons by 2017. The United States retains its sanctions a nuclear weapon. Why does accept- At best, a successful strike would prob- tor of Defense Research and Engineering Either the United States adheres to related to terrorism. ing that danger now seem to bother ably set the Iranian nuclear program and as secretary of the Air Force. Turkey parties positioning for early polls Modi needs to regain BY ORHAN COSKUN and ERCAN narrative on reform GURSES BY DHIRAJ NAYYAR urkey’s nationalist opposition made clear yesterday it would not roll over hen he gave his first Independence Day speech last and back a minority government, August, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi larded Tmaking President Tayyip Erdogan’s the address with major policy ideas. He announced his aim of taking the country to a snap election Wflagship “Make in India” plan to develop a globally- with the ruling party in control look increas- competitive manufacturing sector. He urged a “Clean India” drive to ingly difficult. improve sanitation. He abolished the Planning Commission, a relic of Talks on forming a grand coalition between India’s failed tryst with socialism. Today, when he again ascends the the AK Party and the main opposition CHP ramparts of Delhi’s Red Fort, he’s got to think even bigger. broke down on Thursday, making an autumn That doesn’t mean more schemes or slogans or flagship programmes election almost inevitable and leaving the ruling — there have been enough of those already in the past year. The prob- party having to turn to the nationalist MHP for lem is that most are stalled or have yet to get off the ground, and even support. The uncertainty comes as the NATO some of Modi’s strongest backers are beginning to wonder if his admin- member faces an almost unprecedented con- istration is committed to or capable of truly transformative change. fluence of national security threats, battling This can’t all be blamed on the dysfunctional legislature, whose Islamic State (IS) insurgents on its borders and opposition-dominated upper house has successfully prevented any Kurdish militants at home. The lira currency business during the current “monsoon” session of Parliament. Modi’s hit a record low yesterday and stocks were little government now seems all-too-ready to water down two key pieces recovered after sharp falls the previous session. of legislation: a law on acquiring land and a nationwide goods-and- The AKP failed to hold its majority in a services tax. It’s agreed to restore the clauses requiring consent and general election on June 7, leaving it unable to time-consuming social-impact assessments to the former bill and to govern alone for the first time since it came Turkish Prime Minister and leader of Justice and Development Party (AKP), Ahmet Davutoglu, attends accept high rates and multiple exemptions in the latter — exactly what to power in 2002 and plunging Turkey into a meeting marking the 14th anniversary of the foundation of the party in Ankara yesterday. the GST was meant to replace. uncertainty not seen since the fragile coa- Why hasn’t Modi lived up to the reformist promise he seemed to litions of the 1990s. Prime Minister Ahmet exude in his 2014 election campaign? Some of the reasons are obvious. Davutoglu on Thursday urged parliament to The AKP failed to hold its majority in a general election on June 7, The central government bureaucracy favours the status quo and opposes call for a new vote as soon as possible, appar- leaving it unable to govern alone for the first time since it came radical reform; its conservativism may have influenced the prime min- ently hoping for an agreement with the MHP ister. Also, Modi may have erred in trying to replicate his experience as that would allow his government to stay in to power in 2002 and plunging Turkey into uncertainty not seen Gujarat chief minister by centralising too many decisions. India is several power until the new election takes place. times larger and more complex than Gujarat and a highly concentrated But the MHP said it had no interest in since the fragile coalitions of the 1990s. decision-making process slows things down dramatically. propping up an AKP minority administration. No doubt, too, Modi’s been stung by accusations that his is a pro- “That would be a minority government. We business, anti-poor government, one that aims to steal land from would reject this,” MHP vice chairman Mevlut posts allocated to it. The political uncertainty presidential system akin to France or the poverty-stricken farmers and throw laborers out of work in order to Karakaya told Reuters, saying that unless the handed the lira currency another battering, United States, a move that would be virtually benefit capitalist cronies. Sectarian controversies stirred up by his AKP was prepared to accept nationalist condi- sending it to a record low for a second straight impossible without a strong AKP majority. right-wing Hindu nationalist supporters have given the opposition tions for a full coalition there was little point day, and prompting the central bank to step Two recent polls have suggested the rul- plenty more ammunition to lob at the government. even negotiating. Davutoglu has until Aug. in and tweak some policy tools in an attempt ing party, whose roots are in Islamist politics, Whatever the reasons, Modi has to find a way to regain control 23 to broker a deal or else Erdogan will have to shore it up. The lira is already one of the could recover its majority and govern alone if over the narrative if he’s to have any hope of achieving substantive to call a new vote and an interim “election worst-performing major emerging market the vote were held again. reforms during his term. Today, he needs to send a clear signal that government” will be formed, with cabinet posi- currencies this year, and analysts have said But as Turkish warplanes bomb Kurdish he’s determined to push ahead with the vision he sold during the elec- tions divided proportionally among the four they expect further losses. militant targets in northern Iraq and south- tions — “minimum government, maximum governance.” parties in parliament. “Erdogan does not want Davutoglu was due to meet with MHP eastern Turkey, it is unlikely to claw back One obvious way to do so would be to take on India’s large and to go there, because that would mean power leader Devlet Bahceli at 11 GMT on Monday, much support from the Kurdish minority, politically-influential public sector. Curiously, Modi’s government seems sharing, and holding the elections with a gov- their offices said, although one senior AK meaning winning over religiously conserva- intent on reviving chronically sick government- owned companies, such ernment not under AKP control,” said Sinan Party official said there was little chance of the tive nationalists will be key. as the two telecom companies MTNL and BSNL and the national air Ulgen, visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe and two parties reaching a coalition agreeement. That is something MHP leader Bahceli carrier Air India. There’s simply no justification to spend taxpayers’ head of the Istanbul-based EDAM think-tank. The MHP has made the full abandonment knows all too well, strengthening his hand money on these loss-making concerns. The telecom sector is vibrant “That is his least-desired scenario.” An “elec- of a peace process with Kurdish militants and in the negotiations. Seeing Kurdish politi- and competitive and doesn’t need state-owned companies. The airline tion government” would hand cabinet posts not curbing Erdogan’s influence over daily politics cians in ministerial positions would enrage industry features plenty of private players whose competitiveness is only to the CHP and MHP, but also to the pro- two of its core conditions, neither of which the his core supporters, bolstering his own election dragged down by a subsidized Air India. At least for money- losing state Kurdish HDP. Senior AKP officials had been ruling party is likely to compromise on. chances and ensuring they turn their backs on firms, Modi’s priorities should be clear: sell or shut down. betting that the nationalists, virulently opposed “The coalition option doesn’t seem to be on the AKP. “It serves Bahceli’s purpose more to The prime minister also needs to signal to his obdurate bureaucracy to greater Kurdish political power, would do the table due to the MHP’s attitude,” the AKP see the HDP acquire cabinet positions under that he means business. He could begin by challenging the country’s anything possible to avoid such a scenario. official said, describing a November election as an election government,” said Ulgen. “They notorious taxmen, who continue only to enhance India’s reputation for But the MHP appears to be calling their the “most likely and realistic” option. want to be able to criticise AKP and Erdogan the arbitrary and unpredictable enforcement of rules, particularly on bluff, arguing that such a power-sharing Erdogan is hoping that a new vote will from the sidelines ... and use that in their elec- foreign companies. Modi should intervene early to prevent officials from government would be required if no deal is enable the AKP to regain its majority. He tion campaign. They actually want Erdogan to implementing ambiguous laws in a ham-fisted manner. It might help, reached, while it would refuse to serve along- has made no secret of his ambition to change call early elections. That’s the MHP’s strategy too, if tax officials weren’t presented with impossible revenue targets. side the Kurds and would turn down the the constitution and create an executive I think.” REUTERS WP-BLOOMBERG SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE World facing worst refugee crisis: EU European Union fast-tracks funding to help Greece

BRUSSELS: The European decidedly mixed welcome. islands during the first seven Union pledged Friday to fast- “Today the world finds itself months of the year — up 750 track new funding to help debt- facing the worst refugee crisis percent from 2014, according to hit Greece cope with a surge in since the Second World War,” UN figures. And about 102,000 migrants, with hundreds coming EU Migration Commissioner people have traveled from Libya ashore daily only to be confronted Dimitris Avramopoulos told a across the Mediterranean Sea to by often hellish conditions. press conference. Italy so far this year — compared Authorities on the island of Kos In response to the situation in to 2014, when 170,000 made the have been so overwhelmed that Greece, the European Commission trip during the entire year, the the government sent a ferry to is fast-tracking a Greek request International Organisation for serve as a temporary centre to for ¤2.7m ($3m) to support UN Migration. issue travel documents to Syrian efforts to deal with the migrants Activists were cautiously posi- refugees — among some 7,000 arriving on the Aegean islands, tive about the new funding for migrants stranded on the island Avramopoulos said. Greece, while calling for a bolder of about 30,000 people. Greece will also soon receive response to the migrants crisis. Brutal conditions were a first disbursement of ¤30m “Today’s measures announced reported on Kos earlier this week, from a total of ¤2.4bn ($2.6bn) by the Commission, if correctly A young African man, who squeezed into tiny hidden compartment in a car to try to enter Spanish North African with a single water hose and just of funding for all 28 EU member channeled towards those in need, city of Melilla, is seen in this picture released by Spain’s Interior Ministry yesterday. two toilets for over 1,000 migrants states to cope with the flood of may help support the coun- crammed into a football stadium migrants until 2020. try and vulnerable people,” said under baking sun waiting for The money comes as the Iverna McGowan, acting Director Three Africans found critically ill travel papers. number of people driven from for Amnesty International’s Greece is just one of the flash- their homes by conflict and cri- European Institutions Office. points of a migrant crisis erupting sis has topped 50 million for the “But overall a broader rethink across Europe. Housing is par- first time since World War II, of EU asylum policies and prac- in car’s hidden compartments ticularly a concern, with rights with Syrians hardest hit, the UN tices is needed”, she added. activists slamming conditions for refugee agency said. Meanwhile, Amnesty Intern- MADRID: Three young African men who The three - two from Guinea and one from refugees in Austria and asylum Some 124,000 refugees and ational slammed conditions at squeezed into hidden compartments in a car to Ivory Coast, aged from 18 to 25 - were found seekers in Germany getting a migrants landed on the Greek Austria’s main refugee camp enter a Spanish territory in North Africa were on Wednesday when border police at a cross- as a “disgraceful” violation of found in critical condition by border police, the ing between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of human rights, highlighting what Spanish government said yesterday. Melilla grew suspicious and searched the car. it called the “inhumane” plight Photos released by the Interior Ministry showed The 39-year-old Spanish driver of the car was of more than 1,700 unaccompa- one of the migrants curled up in the spare wheel arrested, accused of a “crime against the rights of nied children. well of the vehicle, which had been turned into a foreign citizens”, the ministry said in a statement. The human rights organisation hidden compartment. Two others were found in African migrants are taking increasingly visited the Traiskirchen camp, another false bottom built into the car. desperate measures to try to reach Europe. 20km south of Vienna, last week, They could not stand and could barely breathe Thousands have died making the voyage across a day after the overcrowded cen- because of the cramped space, heat and exhaust the Mediterranean. Last week, a Moroccan man tre stopped accepting new arriv- gases, the ministry said. They recovered after suffocated while being smuggled to Spain in a suit- als because of disastrous sanitary being given emergency treatment. case stowed in the boot of a car. REUTERS conditions. Built to house 1,800 people, the camp and an adjacent government building are cur- — desperately overcrowded shel- strangers have organised through tempting proximity of Kos, are rently home to 4,000 men, women ters struggling under the massive schools, churches and Facebook wholly unsuited for the trip. and children. influx. groups to give what they can, “God was kind to us and we “The situation of unaccompa- In uglier cases, xenophobic pro- from food to baby clothes to lan- arrived in Greece safely,” said nied children and adolescents is testers and far-right thugs have guage lessons and even shelter. Jamil, exhausted but overjoyed as particularly precarious,” Amnesty hounded and abused the foreign- Among the migrants still hop- he climbed out of a small inflat- spokeswoman Daniela Pichler ers. The number of attacks on ing to reach Europe, many gather able boat that reached the shore said at a news conference. homes for asylum-seekers has nightly on Turkey’s southern at around 0400 GMT. Still wear- Across the border in Germany shot above 200 this year, already Aegean coast to make the 5km ing his orange life vest, he prayed Migrants and refugees with temporary documents wait for a ferry to take record numbers of refugees have reaching last year’s total. sea crossing to Kos. The migrants on the beach, thankful he had arrived, only to face another kind But in a more heartening trend, use inflatable boats designed for reached Greece. them to Athens at the port of the Greek island of Kos yesterday. of chaos than the one they fled citizens moved by the plight of beach tourists which, despite the AFP UK’s Labour starts Russia urges US to drop European missile shield MOSCOW: Russia urged the “We don’t see any reason to cost-effective and proven. If the mid-range ballistic missiles with United States yesterday to continue with the programme, Iranian threat is eliminated, we non-nuclear warheads to target leadership vote scrap plans to station parts of a let alone at such an accelerated will have a stronger basis for Europe. missile shield system in Europe pace and with a clear aim at security, and the driving force “So I conclude that the US LONDON: Britain’s opposition Kendall lags in fourth place now that Iran has reached an the Russian nuclear potential,” for missile defence construction administration is artificially Labour Party yesterday began according to bookmakers and agreement with world powers Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei in Europe will be removed.” stitching arguments together voting for a new leader in a con- polls after struggling to sell her to limit its nuclear programme. Ryabkov said. The latest spat Moscow says those comments behind a decision to continue test that polls indicate will be vision of a Labour that espouses Moscow has long opposed the threatens to further worsen a mean that with the resolution and increase the pace of creat- won by Jeremy Corbyn, a vet- fiscal discipline. The remaining two plan, which it sees as a threat deep chill in ties between Moscow of the Iranian nuclear issue, ing the European missile shield eran fan of Karl Marx who has candidates, former ministers Andy to its nuclear deterrence, and and Washington. Washington should now walk that was in fact taken for dif- upstaged rivals by promising a Burnham and Yvette Cooper, are vowed to retaliate if it goes Russian Foreign Minister away from the missile shield plan. ferent reasons,” he said. If the radical shift back to the party’s campaigning from a more ortho- ahead. Washington has previously Sergei Lavrov last week said that But William Stevens, spokesman shield goes ahead, Russia has said socialist roots. dox centre-left position, seeking to assured Moscow the shield was US President Barack Obama “was for the US embassy in Moscow, it would retaliate, including by The victor will have to mar- broaden the party’s appeal. meant as protection from “rogue” not telling the truth” in comments said even if the agreement was deploying short-range Iskander shal supporters in a referendum Both campaigns are based on a states like Iran, and not directed he made in 2009 linking the need fully implemented, it did not ballistic missiles in its enclave of on European Union membership promise to win back voters who against Russia. for a missile shield to what the annul the threat from Iran’s bal- Kaliningrad, on the border with and is likely to be the main chal- ditched them in May for either Since the July agreement president called the “real threat” listic missiles that Obama also Poland and Lithuania. lenger to Prime Minister David the perceived economic compe- under which Tehran agreed to from Iranian nuclear and ballistic mentioned back in 2009. Ryabkov also said Russia and Cameron’s Conservatives in the tence of Cameron’s centre-right curb its nuclear programme in missile activity. Under the July deal, UN sanc- Iran had agreed on two bilateral 2020 election. Conservatives, the surge in nation- exchange for an easing of UN, At the time, Obama said: “As tions on Iran’s ballistic missiles deals as part of implementing the After Labour’s worst election alist sentiment in Scotland or the US and European Union sanc- long as the threat from Iran per- programme will stay in place for wider nuclear agreement, and defeat since 1987 in May, four con- anti-European Union appeal of the tions, Moscow has stepped up its sists, we will go forward with a eight years. Ryabkov said Moscow were now discussing the details. tenders are battling in a selection UK Independence Party (UKIP). rhetoric against the missile shield. missile defense system that is ruled out the possibility of using REUTERS process characterised by Labour’s The winner will be announced most successful leader, Tony Blair, on September 12 after a bal- as a tug of war between the par- lot of more than 600,000 voters, ty’s head and its heart. made up of party members, affili- New Ukrainian battalion On one side are those who ated trade union members and say that a left-wing outcry over other registered supporters. The Ex-Russian army the Conservative government’s Guardian, the main left-leaning spending cuts shows Labour broadsheet newspaper, endorsed chief gets five should move closer to its founding Cooper, while the Daily Mirror, a principles, rooted in the socialist Labour-supporting tabloid, came years for graft and trade union movements of the out in support of Burnham. MOSCOW: A Moscow military early 20th century. But Corbyn’s calls for renation- tribunal yesterday sentenced the On the other side are those who alisation and more government former commander of Russia’s insist the party can only hope to spending have thrilled party land forces Vladimir Chirkin win in 2020 if it reclaims the cen- activists and Labour’s trade union to five years in jail for taking a tre ground from which it enjoyed backers, fuelling the rise of the bribe, a court spokesman said. its most prolific election success. 66-year-old member of parlia- Chirkin, 59, was a decorated Blair, who won the 1997, 2001 ment from rank outsider to book- officer who served as commander and 2005 elections, has said makers’ favourite. of the land forces from April 2012 Labour faces annihilation if it “It’s been fascinating — and before he was sacked in late 2013 picks Corbyn. The most “Blairite” exhilarating — watching this move- when he was accused of the crime. candidate, member of parliament ment mushroom over the last few He is one of the most senior Liz Kendall, has also warned of weeks,” Corbyn said. “This cam- military officers to have been con- electoral oblivion if Corbyn wins. paign is about spreading a message victed for corruption. Prosecutors “I don’t want to see Labour of hope and change based on the said that in 2008 he took a bribe of submit our resignation letter to central choice - five years or more 450,000 roubles from an officer who the British people as a serious of continued austerity, or a plan for asked for help in receiving a flat party of government,” Kendall investment and growth that stands from the defence ministry. told BBC radio. up for the majority.” The officer paid and tried to But supporters look set to Corbyn’s campaign has also move in but found another fam- reject a return to Blair’s ‘New tapped into a frustration with ily already living in the flat, and Labour’ centrist stance which Britain’s political classes, who New volunteers for the Ukrainian interior ministry’s ‘Azov’ battalion take part in tests before heading to front- complained to prosecutors. The embraced closer ties with busi- are criticised by many voters for lines, at the battalion’s training centre in Kiev, yesterday. court found Chirkin guilty and ness whilst increasing spending being too carefully polished and sentenced him to five years in a on health, education and welfare. lacking in big ideas. REUTERS strict penal colony. AFP SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Kerry for democracy in State of emergency Cuba as US flag raised ends in Flag hoisted over US embassy after 54 years Ferguson

HAVANA: Secretary of State human rights — “though we MISSOURI: St Louis County John Kerry called yesterday for may not always agree,” he added, yesterday ended the state of “genuine democracy” in Cuba as speaking alongside Kerry at a emergency it had put in effect the American flag was raised joint press conference. earlier this week for Ferguson over a US embassy in Havana Since the rapprochement was and surrounding areas due to for the first time in 54 years. announced, the two sides have Sunday’s violent street protests. Marking a milestone in the made progress on a number Ferguson saw a fresh wave United States’ historic rap- of divisive issues, most nota- of demonstrations beginning prochement with Cuba, Kerry bly the removal of Cuba from last weekend, marking the one- gave the cue to hoist the Stars Washington’s list of “state spon- year anniversary of the death and Stripes over the glass-and- sors of terrorism.” But Rodriguez of Michael Brown, an unarmed concrete building on the Havana warned that Cuba still has tough 18-year-old black man shot by a waterfront. demands of its own as the two white police officer last August. Three retired Marines who sides continue talks. The killing of Brown was found lowered the flag on January 4, They include the full lift- to be justified, but that incident 1961 — as Washington severed ing of the “blockade” — or eco- and the deaths of other unarmed ties with Havana at the height of nomic embargo—that the US has black and Hispanic men that fol- the Cold War — were present to maintained on Cuba since 1962 lowed in Baltimore, New York City, hand the new flag to the Marine and the return of the “usurped” Washington state and elsewhere guard now charged with security Cuban territory of the American inspired a national movement over at the embassy. navy base at Guantanamo Bay, policing and race relations. The symbolic moment served he said. Most of the protests in Ferguson as a picture-perfect coda to eight U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Kerry was due to meet privately were peaceful, but on Sunday night months of quick changes since (right) and city historian Eusebio later with Cuban dissidents, who gunfire broke out and police shot the December 17 rapprochement Leal walk through Old Havana, long counted Washington as their and injured a black man, 18-year- announcement by US President Cuba, yesterday. main ally and have voiced concern old Tyrone Harris, who they say Barack Obama and Cuban coun- the new thaw will leave them out shot at them. Harris, who remains terpart Raul Castro, which paved he got a tour of the colonial dis- in the cold. hospitalized, has been charged with the way for the two countries to trict, surrounded by bodyguards, Berta Soler, the leader of the assault on law enforcement, armed reopen their embassies on July 20. journalists and curious onlookers. Ladies in White — one of the criminal action and shooting a fire- Kerry, the first secretary of Back in the United States, most high-profile dissident groups arm at a vehicle. state to visit Cuba since 1945, Obama’s conservative opponents — said she had no plans to attend In the days since then, other said the shift in US policy did had harsh words on the thawing the event. “It’s a low-profile protests have continued in and not mean Washington would stop of the Cold War conflict. reception with speeches and that around Ferguson. Dozens of peo- pressing for change on the com- Republican presidential con- kind of thing. We can’t waste our ple were arrested on Monday munist island. tender Marco Rubio, a Cuban- time on that,” Soler said. when they blockaded a St Louis “The leaders in Havana and the American senator from Florida, Kerry will not meet with either court house in an act of civil dis- Cuban people should also know was among those who slammed Castro or his elder brother Fidel, obedience, and when they briefly that the United States will always the Obama administration for the the icon who led Cuba from its blocked a local freeway. There remain a champion of democratic absence of Cuban dissidents from 1959 revolution until his retire- have been no more arrests since principles and reforms,” he said, the flag-raising ceremony. ment in 2006. Wednesday. in a speech delivered partly in “All the people in Cuba fight- Underlining the sticking points US Secretary of State John Kerry stands with dignitaries during the raising of “After reviewing the events of Spanish. “We remain convinced ing for democracy — when they still complicating relations, Fidel the US flag over the newly reopened embassy in Havana, Cuba, yesterday. the past four evenings, under the the people of Cuba would be best protest, they are rounded up, Castro said in an essay published state of emergency, I am pleased served by a genuine democracy arrested and beaten. None of in Cuban state media Thursday says Cuba owes $7bn to American But Obama faces an uphill to report our law enforcement where people are free to choose them were invited to this event,” — his 89th birthday — that the citizens and companies whose battle as he needs approval from officers have established order their leaders.” he told Fox News. United States owes Cuba “many property was seized after Castro Congress, where both houses while preventing further acts of Kerry later shed his jacket and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno millions of dollars” because of the came to power. are currently controlled by his violence in Ferguson,” St. Louis tie to take a stroll around Old Rodriguez said the country was trade embargo. Cuba says the Kerry reiterated that the Republican opponents — many County Executive Steve Stenger Havana, checking out a stand sell- ready to discuss any issue with embargo has cost it $116bn. Obama administration “strongly of them deeply hostile to Havana. said in a statement. ing Cuban cigars and humidors as the United States, including The United States for its part favors” lifting the embargo. AFP REUTERS Obama reveals classic US 19 killed in tastes in Spotify playlists Sao Paulo

WASHINGTON: US President playlist for daytime listening — Barack Obama has lifted any was So Much Trouble in the World shootings remaining secrecy on his musi- by Jamaican reggae legends Bob cal tastes, revealing that his Marley and the Wailers. SAO PAULO: Nineteen people favourite artists tend to be clas- Among the most current of were killed and seven injured sics, are sometimes his political Obama’s selections was a track overnight in a wave of shootings supporters and are overwhelm- by Florence and the Machine, in Brazil’s biggest city, Sao Paulo, ingly American. the British rockers who have won some of them gunned down in Obama, on vacation in the glowing acclaim among alterna- cold blood as they sat in a club. upscale resort of Martha’s tive rock fans and critics. Alexandre de Moraes, head Vineyard, shared his current lis- He also picked a song by pop of the Sao Paulo state security tening habits by releasing two star Justin Timberlake, who is department, announced yesterday playlists on Spotify, the popular rarely political but has himself what he said was still a prelimi- streaming platform. He posted been associated with Obama. nary total after media reports of a link to the playlists on Twitter, But Obama largely picked tracks a deliberate massacre in the sub- saying he was releasing his playl- by classic artists of American rock urbs—possibly by rogue police. ists “by popular request”. and soul, many of them African The murders were shocking even Obama’s musical preferences American. His selections included in a country used to runaway vio- have not been a state secret. songs by The Temptations, The lence. “What I can say for sure His playlists included tracks by Isley Brothers, Bob Dylan, Aretha is that it’s the biggest killing this Beyonce — who with her husband Franklin, John Coltrane, Frank year,” de Moraes said. Jay Z campaigned for him on his Sinatra, Nina Simone, Miles Davis Globo News television broadcast 2012 re-election campaign — and and Billie Holiday. security camera footage of one Stevie Wonder, who recently As might be expected of the attack, showing a group of masked joined Prince at a White House leader of the United States, the assailants entering a club, order- concert that raised some contro- overwhelming majority of artists ing clients to raise their hands in versy in Washington for being were American. But he also picked the air, then shooting them. Folha private and unannounced. songs by English rock giants The de Sao Paulo newspaper quoted The Beyonce song chosen by Rolling Stones, Northern Irish witnesses saying that the killers Obama — on his playlist for night- crooner Van Morrison and leg- stopped their targets and ques- time listening — was Superpower, endary Canadian singer and poet tioned them about their criminal a title that could seem fitting for Leonard Cohen. And, in one art- records, then executed them. the commander-in-chief even ist who was not a surprise, Obama Earlier, a spokesman for the though the song, performed with chose a track by Al Green — How security forces had described the Frank Ocean, is more about love Can You Mend a Broken Heart. wave of killings late on Thursday as than geopolitics. Obama impressed a crowd at New “unusual.” The shootings occurred One song that could be more York’s Apollo Theatre in 2012 when in the Osasco, Barueri and Itapevi appropriate for Obama’s job he sang Green’s Let’s Stay Together areas, reportedly all in a period of — appropriately listed on his with accurate pitch. AFP about two-and-a-half hours. The mayor of Osasco, Jorge Lapas, said video footage supports a theory that the killings could have been reprisals for the earlier death of a police officer. “We want Gore may run for president to take measures so that the situ- ation does not worsen over the WASHINGTON: Some insiders in the Democratic party are dis- coming days,” he said. cussing having former vice-president Al Gore make another run De Moraes said investigators for US President, BuzzFeed reported on Thursday, adding that the are analyzing spent cartridges to man who won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election has establish whether the shooters not taken any steps toward entering the current race. were from “a single group” and “They’re figuring out if there’s a path financially and politically,” an all used the same weapons. unnamed Democrat told BuzzFeed about the insiders. “It feels more He said a police link had not real than it has in the past months.” Gore, 67, was the Democratic been ruled out. One of the theories candidate in the 2000 election when the US Supreme Court stopped being considered was a “possible a vote recount in Florida, which ultimately led to Republican George connection to two robberies, one W. Bush becoming the country’s 43rd President. of which took place last Friday BuzzFeed reported that its sources “cautioned not to overstate Gore’s when a military police officer was interest.” It said he has not made any formal or informal moves to join murdered and another where a the race, has not met with political advisers about a potential run and civil guard died.” did not comment to the media outlet about making a bid. REUTERS AFP SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA N Korea threatens South China battles flames ‘Stop distributing campaign leaflets on border or face sea of fire’ as chemicals seep

PAJU: North Korea threatened to turn Seoul into a “sea of fire” into drinking water unless South Korean activists stop the launches of propaganda TIANJIN: Chinese authorities Dozens of people were still miss- leaflets across the heavily forti- struggled yesterday to extin- ing but there was a rare moment fied border. guish fires and identify danger- to cheer on yesterday morning The warning came yesterday ous chemicals at a devastated when rescue workers pulled a hours after South Korean police industrial site, two days after 19-year-old firefighter from the blocked activists from launching giant explosions killed dozens rubble. leaflets amid elevated military and left residents in fear of However up to 1,000 firefighters tensions on the divided peninsula. being cloaked in a toxic cloud. were still struggling to extinguish “The puppet forces should Officials in the northern port blazes at the site, with smoke bil- not forget even a moment that city of Tianjin, where the blasts lowing from three areas, adding to the whole of South Korea might killed at least 56 people and uncertainty over whether more turn into a sea of fire due to injured more than 700, said they chemicals may be leaking. the foolhardy leaflet-scattering did not yet know what materi- Some police wore no protec- operations,” the North warned als were at the hazardous goods tive clothing, while others had in a statement released through storage facility that exploded, full-face gas masks, although an its official Korean Central News or the cause of the blast. environmental expert said that Agency (KCNA). But Chinese environment toxic gas indicators were within The statement, published group Greenpeace warned a host normal ranges. jointly by front-line army units, of potentially extremely danger- Greenpeace warned last said South Korea should not test ous chemicals may have been Thursday that rain could trans- the patience of North Korean stored there. At least 700 tonnes fer airborne chemicals into water soldiers. of sodium cyanide were at the systems. It accused South Korean activ- site, along with other dangerous Tianjin work safety official Gao ists of having employed hit-and- substances, and the poisonous Huaiyou said that authorities did run tactics in border areas to send chemical had been detected in not know which of the many dan- anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the nearby drains, Beijing said. gerous substances the company North more than a dozen times But the report was no longer was authorised to store were on at night in June, July and August. South Korean activists are blocked by policemen from launching balloons carrying anti-North Korea government available on the newspaper’s the site at the time. Such leaflet launches are “an propaganda leaflets into North Korea, near the Demilitarized zone at Imjingak park in Paju, Gyeonggi-do Province, website on Friday, giving rise to The company’s own records open declaration of a war” against South Korea, yesterday. suspicions that the Chinese gov- were damaged in the blast, he North Korea, the statement said. ernment was clamping down on added, and information from its About 100 South Korean police South Korean army border patrol Commission (NDC) saying South wargames that simulate an sensitive information relating to executives was unreliable as it did officers earlier formed human earlier this month. Korean accusations that its sol- invasion by North Korea. Last the tragedy. not match its customs filings. barriers to block vehicles carrying South Korea vowed the North diers had sneaked across the Thursday, the North labelled the An official said a team of 217 The deputy director of the around 30 activists to the border would pay a “harsh price” for the border and planted the mines annual “Ulchi Freedom” exercise nuclear and biochemical materi- Binhai New Area government, town of Paju, from where they had attack and this week resumed -- along a known patrol route were a “declaration of war” and warned als specialists from the Chinese where the blast happened said planned to launch helium balloons after a decade-long break -- the “absurd”. of retaliatory strikes against military had travelled to Tianjin that 17,000 families, 1,700 indus- carrying the leaflets into North broadcast of propaganda mes- “If our army really needed to SePark Sang-Hak, who heads a to inspect the site. It cited local trial enterprises and 675 business Korea. sages into the North using bat- achieve a military purpose, we group of defectors called Fighters authorities for the latest rise in had been affected, but did not The pamphlets criticised and teries of powerful loudspeakers would have used strong firearms, for a Free North Korea, claimed the death toll to 56, which it said provide details. mocked the North’s ruling Kim along the border. not three mines,” the commission they had managed to launch some included 21 firemen. “Please be honest and say what dynasty and condemned a land- The North yesterday denied it said. 200,000 leaflets earlier in the day The agency added that 721 peo- you know. Don’t hide the truth!” mine attack blamed on Pyongyang was behind the mine blasts, with The mine blasts came ahead in an unpublicised operation east ple had been hospitalised, 25 of one poster urged on social media. that maimed two members of a the powerful National Defence of two-week long SouthKorea-US of Paju. AFP whom were in critical condition. AFP

Malaysia PM’s call for Japan PM sorry for war, wants closure

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed transparency flayed deep remorse yesterday over World War II and said previ- KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s to ensure accountability and ous national apologies were premier called yesterday for transparency in the interest of unshakeable, but emphasized greater transparency in politi- healthy political practices,” he future generations should not cal funding, drawing immedi- said in a statement. have to keep saying sorry. In ate ridicule from critics who He said his government would a closely watched speech a day attacked his failure to explain form a committee “with the aim ahead of the 70th anniversary massive transfers to his own to formulate a political fund- of the end of WWII, the nation- bank accounts. Najib Razak is ing plan of integrity”. He made alist premier appeared to tread under pressure over the discov- no reference to the allegations a fine line between regret over ery, first aired by a Wall Street against him. Japanese wartime aggression Journal investigative report last Senior opposition figure Lim while also focusing on what his month, that nearly $700m had Kit Siang said Najib was trying pacifist country had done since been deposited into his personal to “run away” from explaining the the end of the conflict. accounts. $700m. “Japan has repeatedly expressed Najib, 62, initially rejected the “Until he has answered this feelings of deep remorse and allegation as “malicious” and part question, he has no moral author- heartfelt apology for its actions of a political conspiracy, but his ity to make any proposal,” Lim during the war.... we have con- government has since said he did said. sistently devoted ourselves to receive political “donations” from “It is a magic show to divert the peace and prosperity of the overseas, while refusing to pro- public attention,” said one posting region since the end of the war,” vide details. on Najib’s Facebook page, one of Abe said. Yesterday, Najib lamented hundreds to skewer the premier “Such position(s) articulated by Malaysia’s lack of adequate regu- shortly after his comments. the previous cabinets will remain lations on political donations and Another said, “Set up whatever unshakable into the future.” election spending. committee. If you are corrupt, When speaking about China, “Therefore, there is an urgent you are corrupt. You will have to Abe referred to “unbearable suf- Elderly Filipino women who say they were sex slaves of the Japanese Imperial Army, hold a rally in front of the need to regulate political funding answer on judgement day.” AFP ferings caused by the Japanese Japanese embassy in Manila yesterday. Filipino “comfort women” have called for an official apology from the military” and said Tokyo “took Japanese government and just compensation as the world commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the wrong course” in going to war. World War II on August 15. Referring to those who per- ished in the war, Abe expressed added that we have “engraved in record and trying to expand its nothing to do with that war, be South Africa’s secret “profound grief and my eternal, our hearts” the suffering of Asian present-day military -- added that predestined to apologise,” he said. sincere condolences”. He said this neighbours, including South future generations of Japanese China says more than 20 mil- was also for millions of Japanese Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines should not have to apologise. lion of its citizens died as a result who died, some from the US and Taiwan. “We must not let our children, of Japan’s invasion and occupation nuclear plans flayed atomic bombings. Abe, a grandson But Abe -- who has been criti- grandchildren and even further for 35 years until 1945. of a wartime cabinet minister, y cised for playing down Japan’s war generations to come, who have AFP JOHANNESBURG: Fears are “The whole deal has been veiled growing in South Africa that in secrecy. We have no details on agreements to build nuclear what we’re buying, how much it’s power plants that could be the going to cost or how we’re going Teachers freed most expensive procurement to pay for it,” shadow energy min- Rajapaksa woos Buddhist heartland in the country’s history will ister Gordon Mackay said. be made behind closed doors, Finance Minister Nhlanhla of abuse case without the necessary public Nene was forced this week to KURUNEGALA: Former veterans and widows of the struggled to build a groundswell scrutiny. deny reports of tensions with President Mahinda Rajapaksa 26-year civil war. They are natu- of support to back a bid to lead JAKARTA: Indonesia will free Among those voicing concern, the DoE over the plans and said has ventured out of his southern ral supporters of Rajapaksa, who the next government. two teachers jailed for sexually two government sources say the the Treasury was playing a sup- power base and into Sri Lanka’s crushed ethnic minority Tamil “The UNP and their coali- abusing students at an interna- Treasury is not being included in porting role in the procurement Buddhist heartland in his bid rebels in 2009 and styles himself tion have momentum,” said Alan tional school, in a case critics procurement discussions, despite process. to regain power in coming as a national saviour. Keenan, a Sri Lanka analyst at said was fraught with irregular- the massive budgetary implica- Pretoria has already signed Monday’s parliamentary elec- Yet the predominant colours the International Crisis Group. ities. Canadian Neil Bantleman tions of a project that experts say non-binding inter-government tion, eight months after crash- in the area are not the blue of Sri Lanka’s 15 million vot- and Indonesian Ferdinand may cost as much as $100bn. agreements for nuclear power ing to defeat in a presidential his Sri Lanka Freedom Party ers go to the polls on Monday Tjiong were found guilty in Construction on the first plant support from several countries vote. (SLFP), but the green of pre- to elect the 225-strong parlia- April of abusing kindergar- is due to start next year, break- including France, China and A 27-metre statue of Buddha mier Ranil Wickremesinghe’s ment. Most seats will be decided ten students at the Jakarta neck speed compared with the South Korea. gazes from atop Elephant Rock United National Party (UNP) in multi-member districts where Intercultural School (JIS). They years of regulatory and environ- South Africa’s President Jacob over the provincial city of that formed a minority govern- voters can pick three names from were sentenced to 10 years in mental checks for nuclear projects Zuma said this week the nuclear Kurunegala where the 69-year- ment after Rajapaksa was ousted a party list. Results are due on prison and fined ($7,600). in countries such as Britain and plan was at an “advanced stage” old strongman is running, a in January. coming Tuesday. “The previous verdict has been the United States. and the procurement process reminder of his appeal to Sinhala- “His time is over,” The last 10 days of campaigning overturned by the Jakarta high The Democratic Alliance, the should be completed by March. speaking Buddhists who make Wickremesinghe, a three-time has been overshadowed by a mur- court because there was no evi- main opposition party, believes The DoE denied an agreement up more than seven in 10 voters premier, told about 5,000 support- der investigation into the death dence of sodomy,” the pair’s law- the pace of the deal will prevent with the Russian atomic agency nationwide. ers at a campaign rally. in 2012 of national rugby player yer Hotman Paris Hutapea said proper analysis before contracts Rosatom was signed for a $10bn The capital of Sri Lanka’s Deprived of his customary Wasim Thajudeen, whose remains at the court amid cheers from the are signed and huge sums of contract. Northwestern Province also has a control over the state media and were exhumed last Monday. teachers’ families and supporters. money change hands. REUTERS concentration of army personnel, security apparatus, Rajapaksa has REUTERS REUTERS SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Govt to block MQM MPs’ resignations Speaker will cite High Court order to avoid accepting mass resignations of legislators ISLAMABAD: Without any IHC set a few conditions for the requisite for the seat to become inquiry is concluded, or/and the to question whether the exhibits Assembly, i.e. the people of the compromise on the on-going acceptance of a resignation from vacant on resignation, is the ful- Speaker has not passed any order, were genuine (of an instrument), concerned constituency. Karachi operation, the govern- an MP while observing that for a filment of the constitutional duty nor achieved the level of satisfac- free of forgery or counterfeiting, This becomes even more ment of Pakistan has decided resignation to take effect under of the speaker to be satisfied that tion so required for giving effect the Bank teller could not deter- important, as highlighted in the not to let the Muttahida Qaumi Article 64 of the Constitution, it is three factors are established: to the resignation, the member mine whether the signature on precedent law, when the resigna- Movement (MQM) resign from not enough that the member has firstly, that it is tendered volun- retracts by communicating in cheque was genuine. tions have been given in mass by the assemblies. written it under his or her name tarily, secondly, it is genuine and any manner, whether in writing Likewise the definition in the members belonging to a particu- To get the issue arising out addressed to the speaker. lastly, that the member actually or through conduct, such as by 4th Edition is, ‘As applied to notes, lar political party. of the MQM’s resignation move The court ruled against the intended to relinquish, relieve or making a public announcement, bonds, and other written instru- It is for this reason that the settled amicably, the govern- acceptance of mass resignations quit the post, position or seat and or attending the sittings of the ments, this term means that they august Supreme Court has laid ment and the speaker National and urged upon a fair inquiry by thereby vacate the seat.” National Assembly, then the res- are truly what they purport to be, stress in Abdul Razique Khan Assembly have also got a hold of the speaker of each individual to The court ruling added, “It is ignation written and addressed and that they are not false, forged, V The Province of Sindh, supra, a solid “legal” ground in the form ensure that no one was de-seated also not enough that the member to the speaker becomes ineffec- fictitious, simulated, spurious, or that ‘unless all the three require- of a recent high court judgment to unjustly and unfairly. who has tendered the resignation tive as it is no more valid and no counterfeit’. ments of the resignation are satis- avoid accepting the mass resigna- The court noted unambiguously makes public announcements in further order or action would be ‘Voluntary’ has been defined fied it is dangerous in the political tions of MQM MPs. that the nature of the political this regard, or presents him required.” as “Done by design or intention milieu in which we are living to A decision of the Islamabad arena is such that while the mem- or herself en masse before the The court order said, “It would voluntary act, ‘unconstrained by give effect to such resignations’.” High Court, handed down only ber may have individually written speaker. also not be out of context to look interference; not impelled by out- According to the IHC ruling, recently in a case seeking de- his resignation addressed to the The speaker is under a con- at the scope and meaning of the side influence; spontaneous; act- “The nature of the political arena seating of PTI MNAs on the speaker, coupled with announcing stitutional duty to undertake two expressions i.e. ‘genuine’ and ing of oneself without valuable is such that while the member basis of their mass resignations, it publicly, he yet may not have an inquiry personally to satisfy ‘voluntary’ which have to be posi- consideration; gratuitous’. may have individually written has given the government as well intended to actually relinquish or him regarding the three factors tively proved to the satisfaction of The scope and meanings are his resignation addressed to the as the speaker National Assembly quit the seat. or requirements in each case the speaker. expansive and, therefore, deter- speaker, coupled with announc- enough space to engage the MQM The judgment also endorsed independently.” ‘Genuine’ has been defined mine the heavy bar of duty on ing it publicly, yet may not have in a dialogue process aimed at the law point established in an “The aforementioned three in Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th the speaker in reaching the level intended to actually relinquish or keeping the membership of the earlier judgment that an MP can requirements are to be proved Edition as (of a thing) authentic of satisfaction required to give quit the seat. Muttahida’s MPs intact. retract his resignation. positively to the satisfaction of or real; something that has the effect to the resignation, thereby Such reasons may be countless In Syed Zafar Ali Shah vs The IHC ruling said, “The the Speaker. quality of what it is purported to depriving the actual stake hold- and unfathomable. Federation of Pakistan case, the crucial test, or mandatory pre Furthermore, if before the be or to have the plaintiff failed ers of the seat in the National INTERNEWS

Independence Day PML chief Alvi Woman killed in firing cancels rally after threats from India: Pakistan ISLAMABAD: Pakistan MUZAFFARABAD: the region’s de facto border. Muslim League-Awami (PML- Pakistani authorities yester- “Indian army shelling has con- A) chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed day accused the Indian army tinued since morning. One woman said yesterday that he had of killing a civilian woman in was killed when a shell hit her decided to cancel a public meet- cross-border shelling violating house,” Sardar Tahir Mehmood, ing at Rawalpindi’s Lal Haveli a ceasefire agreement in the deputy commissioner in the dis- after receiving threats to his disputed Himalayan region of trict in Pakistan-administered life. Kashmir. Kashmir said. The party chief was scheduled Three other civilians -- the Mehmood said the husband to address his party workers on woman’s husband and daughter, and daughter of the woman, the eve of Independence Day just and a third female relative -- were named as 41-year-old Muneera like he did every year. wounded in the shelling, local offi- Begum, were wounded along with The PML-A chief said the cials said. a female relative in the shelling. administration claimed that a India and Pakistan often accuse Asad Naqvi, a police official in the terrorist group wanted to attack each other of violating a 2003 area, confirmed the incident and the annual programme, “so we ceasefire agreement in Kashmir. casualties. decided to cancel it”. “The admin- The two countries have fought Tension between India and istration informed me that it was three wars, two of them over the Pakistan are high along the LoC, the same terrorist group which divided and disputed Kashmir the de facto border which splits attacked me three times in the region. The latest incident took the disputed Himalayan region past,” he said. place yesterday in Nezapir sector, of Kashmir between the nuclear- Sheikh Rashid added that he President Mamnoon Hussain (second from left) and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (right) listen to the national located in Forward Kahuta dis- armed neighbours. didn’t want to put the lives of his anthem after hoisting the national flag during a ceremony to mark the country’s Independence Day in Islamabad, trict on the Line of Control (LoC), AFP workers in danger and therefore yesterday. decided to postpone the event. Meanwhile in Karachi, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Arif Alvi also revealed that he had received threats to his life. Pakistan protests He informed the National Missed milestones in countering terrorism Assembly on Friday that he had as India releases been receiving threats from peo- ISLAMABAD: While placing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hurting the fight against terror- May be so, but the prime min- ple who claim to be workers of the latest information about the had described the JID as a key ists and insurgents. ister approving the summary train bomber the Muttahida Qaumi Movement implementation of the National element in hunting down and That made the disclosure in certainly is not. Why is he shy of (MQM). Action Plan (NAP) before the eliminating the terrorists when he the document he submitted to taking that first step? ISLAMABAD: Pakistan “I have spoken to MQM leader National Assembly of Pakistan launched the NAP in December the National Assembly that the It was planned that all agencies lodged a diplomatic protest with Farooq Sattar about this issue,” recently, Interior Minister 2014. ubiquitous ‘summary’ for setting will pool their terrorism related India yesterday over its decision said the PTI leader. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Before that, the interior minis- up the JID has been lying with intelligence in the JID, from to release a man jailed over a “For some time now I have been reported “significant gains” had ter had laid emphasis on creating the Prime Minister’s Office for where subsequent operations will 2007 train bombing that killed facing death threats by people been made in countering ter- JID in Nacta when the country’s approval, incredulous. be launched. 68 people, mostly Pakistanis. who claim that they are working rorism in the country. first-ever Internal Security Policy Although, the minister didn’t According to the interior min- The protest to the Indian for the MQM.” Yet, the minister had nothing was announced in early 2014. explain the delay in approval, the ister, a draft ‘national narrative’ Deputy High Commissioner, The PTI and the MQM have to say what has been holding up Indeed, Chaudhry Nisar often mere fact of inattention is unfor- has been finalised by the fed- made as Pakistan celebrated the been at loggerheads for some activating the National Counter accepted after taking over the tunate and cause of unwanted eral ministry of information and anniversary of its separation from time after PTI chief Imran Terrorism Authority (Nacta) in charge of interior ministry that speculation. A senior government broadcasting, which is also finalis- India and independence from Khan accused MQM chief Altaf the crucial fight or even the Joint trust deficit and near absence of official involved in the formation ing amendments in the Pakistan Britain, comes as the two nuclear- Hussain of supporting target kill- Intelligence Directorate (JID) collaboration between the civil of JID said bringing civilian and Electronic Media Regulatory armed rivals prepare for a high- ers in Karachi. that was to be created under and military intelligence agen- military intelligence agencies to Authority (Pemra) laws. level meeting on Aug. 23-24. INTERNEWS Nacta. cies of the country were greatly work together is a difficult task. INTERNEWS “The Government of Pakistan expects India to take steps to bring to justice all those involved in the act of terrorism on the Border flag waving Samjhauta Express, in which 42 Pakistani citizens lost their lives,” it said in a statement. US sends David Hale Swami Aseemanand, a Hindu holy man or ‘sadhu’ and former member of the nationalist organi- as new Ambassador sation Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh, was jailed in 2010 after he admitting involvement in the ISLAMABAD: The US Senate member of the US Mission to the train attack. has confirmed the appointment United Nations. In Washington, He later retracted his state- of David Hale as the country`s Hale served as the deputy assist- ment. Pakistan said it had next ambassador to Pakistan, ant secretary of state for Israel, “serious reservations on the effi- officials said. Hale is a career Egypt and the Levant and as ciency of the court in processing member of the Foreign Service director for Israel Palestinian and disposal of cases regarding and is currently the US ambas- affairs. terrorism”. sador to Lebanon. He held several staff posts, The two countries have fought He replaces Ambassador including executive assistant to three wars since independence in Richard Olson who came to Secretary of State Madeleine 1947, and relations chilled again Islamabad in 2012, when then Albright. In 2013, then Secretary after the election of the right- Ambassador Cameron Munter of State Hillary Clinton gave him winger Narendra Modi as Indian resigned after the US raid in the Distinguished Service Award. president last year. Abbottabad that killed Osama He has several Department of This April, Pakistan infuriated bin Laden. State Superior and Meritorious India by granting bail to Zaki- Hale was the special envoy Honour awards. ur-Rehman Lakhvi, accused of for Middle East peace between The new US envoy for plotting a 2008 militant assault 2011 and 2013, a deputy envoy Islamabad was born in 1961, in Mumbai that killed 166 people. from2009 to 2011, and US ambas- speaks Arabic, is a graduate of India wants to use the Aug. sador to Jordan between 2005 Georgetown University`s School 23-24 meeting to present proof and 2008, after multiple tours in of Foreign Service, and is a native that Pakistan is orchestrating Jordan and Lebanon. of New Jersey. Hale was appointed deadly militant attacks on Indian Pakistanis attend a flag hoisting ceremony to celebrate their country's Independence Day at the Pakistan-India He has also served in Tunisia, ambassador to Pakistan on March soil. border at Wagah, yesterday. Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and as a 10, 2015. INTERNEWS REUTERS SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

CBI shuts case Pranab blasts House stalemate against Maneka, two others in In Independence Day address to the nation, President calls for corrective action MAEF probe NEW DELHI: India’s institu- are under pressure, it is time for tions of democracy were under serious thinking by the people NEW DELHI: The CBI has stress and parliament has and their parties. The correctives filed a closure report in a case been converted into an arena must come from within,” he said. against union minister Maneka of combat rather than debate, Mukherjee’s remarks came Gandhi and two others for President Pranab Mukherjee against the backdrop of the allegedly diverting funds from said yesterday, and called for washed out monsoon session Maulana Azad Educational correctives from within. of parliament that ended last Foundation (MAEF), saying In his message to the nation Thursday. The session, which saw “allegations against accused not on the eve of India’s 69th suspension of 25 Congress mem- substantiated”. Independence Day, the president bers, was marked by acrimoni- The closure report was filed said “while we offer our hand ous and personalised exchanges before a special CBI court, which willingly in friendship, we cannot between the members of the rul- on August 10 fixed the matter for ignore such threats from across ing Bharatiya Janata Party and September 30 for consideration the border”. the Congress. of the report, court sources said. India cannot be blind to deliber- The president recalled the clos- This was the second time the ate acts of provocation and a dete- ing speech of B R Ambedkar, the probe agency filed the closure riorating security environment, chairman of the drafting commit- report. The first closure report President Pranab Mukherjee said tee of the Constitution, delivered was rejected by the court, direct- yesterday. in the Constituent Assembly in ing the CBI to conduct further “India is a target of vicious 1949. probe. terrorist groups operating from “The working of a Constitution The CBI said the allegations across the borders. Except the does not depend wholly upon the levelled against Maneka and two language of violence and the cult nature of the Constitution. The others — former MAEF secre- of evil, these terrorists have no Constitution can provide only tary F U Siddiqui, and former religion and adhere to no ideol- the organs of state, such as the Managing Trustee of Gandhi ogy. Our neighbours must ensure legislature, the executive and the Rural Welfare Trust (GRWT) that their territory is not used judiciary. Vijay Sharma, could not be by forces inimical to India,” the “The factors on which the substantiated. president said. working of those organs of the A first information report His comments come in the light state depends are the people and (FIR) was lodged by the CBI in of two terror strikes in Gurdaspur the political parties they will set President Pranab Mukherjee addressing the nation on the eve of Independence Day, in New Delhi. 2006 alleging that Maneka, in and Udhampur recently. In both up as their instruments to carry conspiracy with Siddiqui, had these incidents, terrorists from out their wishes and their poli- were under strain. freedom, was distilled into the and impoverished and had insti- sanctioned a grant of `50 lakh to “across the border” have been tics. Who can say how the peo- “A great generation of supreme principles of the Constitution. tuted a gender revolution that GRWT from MAEF in an irregu- involved. ple of India and their parties will heroes faced this formidable chal- “We have been blessed by has made India an example for lar manner for construction of a In his address to the nation on behave?” the president quoted lenge. The sagacity and maturity a Constitution that launched progress. The country, he said, nursing college building at Pilibhit the eve of the 69th Independence Ambedkar as saying. of that generation saved our ideals India’s march towards greatness. had abolished archaic customs in Uttar Pradesh and had unduly Day, the president said it was Mukherjee said the birth of from deviation or degeneration The most precious gift of this and ensured change for women favoured Sharma. time for serious thinking by peo- modern India was a moment of under the pressure of emotion document was democracy which through education and jobs. The accused were booked ple and political parties. historic exhilaration, but was also including rage,” he said. reshaped our ancient values into “Our institutions are the infra- under section 120-B (criminal “Our institutions of democracy tinged with the blood of unimagi- The president said India’s a modern context and institution- structure of this idealism. The conspiracy) read with section are under stress. Parliament has nable suffering across the country. pride, self-esteem and self- alised multiple freedoms,” he said. finest inheritance needs constant 420 (cheating) of the IPC and been converted into an arena of He said the ideals and convic- respect, which were born from a He said the democracy had care for preservation,” the presi- under relevant provisions of the combat rather than debate. If tions that had held through the civilisational wisdom and inspired turned liberty into a living dent said. Prevention of Corruption Act. the institutions of democracy the struggle against the British the renaissance that won the opportunity for the oppressed IANS IANS No going back on sovereignty: Naga leader Six foreigners held in HEBRON (NAGALAND): the Nagas because it is a political NSCN-IM general secretary issue and can be solved through Hyderabad on I-Day eve T Muivah declared yesterday political means. that his group has not given up “Are we also to realise that we HYDERABAD: Six suspects, accused were sending job-seek- the demand for “sovereignty” cannot chase out the Indian mili- including two Bangladeshi ers abroad on fake documents and for Nagas and integration of all tary from our land? nationals and one each from illegal passports. They had so far Naga-inhabited areas. “So the time has come ... the Pakistan and Myanmar, have sent 15 people abroad. But “if we keep on opposing Indian side and Naga side decided been arrested in Hyderabad “They said they were sending the Indian leadership, it will to keep the military solution away. during security checks ahead of people for employment but we be wrong”, Muivah said at the After lots of deliberations, they Independence Day, police said suspect that the motive is more group’s central headquarters have agreed that Nagas have a yesterday. than that because of the suspi- here near Dimapur while speak- unique history,” he said. The suspects were arrested cious activities of Mohammed ing about the peace accord his “We told them that Nagas were from a house in the old city area Nazeer,” he said. Nationalist Socialist Council of never under the Indian union and last Thursday. The two other Nazeer, a Bangladeshi by birth Nagaland signed with the Indian Nagas were never won over by arrested are locals, including the who migrated to Pakistan 30 government on August 3. anyone. They have realised this house owner. years ago, had illegally entered Muivah was addressing an and recognised the unique history Police said it was yet to be India in 2010. event to mark the 69th “Naga of the Naga people,” he said. established whether they were He was allegedly in touch with Independence Day”. It was his “Let us understand that when having direct links with any ter- Jabbar, a leader of terror group first public address after the General Secretary of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah Indian leaders (are) starting to rorist group. Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI) August 3 pact. respect the rights of Nagas, it Police denied that they were in Bangladesh. (NSCN-IM), T Muivah (centre) addresses from a bullet-proof enclosure The NSCN-IM leader said the is high time we must also start planning any attacks during The police officer said that on during the 69th Naga Independence Day celebration at Camp Hebron, some Naga people shall be the mas- respecting them. If we keep on Independence Day celebrations. the direction of Jabbar, Nazeer ter of their own fate and shape 40km from Dimapur, north eastern state of Nagaland, yesterday. opposing the Indian leadership, The arrested were identified as helped Waqas, an accused in their destiny due to their unique it will be wrong. Mohammed Nazeer (52), Faisal the Dilsukhnagar bomb blasts, history. the Indian government in 1997, independence of Naga region, “India will exercise its rights Mohammed alias Faisal (24), in crossing the border into He said the two core issues — celebrates August 14 as Naga triggering a bloody and prolonged while the Nagas will exercise Zainul Abideen alias Mohammed Bangladesh in January 2014. sovereignty and integration of Independence Day. armed conflict. their rights. Each will coexist by Usman (30), Ziaur Rehman (18), Waqas, an alleged operative all Naga areas — would never be It was on August 14, 1947, one Discussing the peace moves, exercising their own powers. We Massod Ali Khan (55) and Suhail of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), compromised. day before India gained inde- Muivah said, “We appreciated the will work out for the best through Parveez Khan (31). was later arrested by the National The NSCN-IM, which signed pendence, that then Naga leader Indian leaders who have realised understanding,” Muivah said. Joint Commissioner of Police Investigation Agency. a ceasefire agreement with Angami Z Phizo declared the that it is not possible to suppress IANS Prabhakar Rao said that the IANS

Praying for souls Louis Berger Will not let China dump case: Kamat’s bail extended its goods: Sitharaman PANAJI: A special anti- CHENNAI: The government is comment whether there would corruption court yesterday aware of the impact of Chinese be a special session of parliament extended former Goa chief yuan devaluation on Indian to pass the Goods and Services minister Digambar Kamat’s exports and would take steps Tax (GST) bill. interim bail in connection with to prevent dumping of Chinese She blamed the Congress party the Louis Berger bribery scam. goods into India, Commerce for stalling the passage of several The order on his anticipatory Minister Nirmala Sitharaman economic legislations like the bail plea will be delivered on said yesterday. GST bill, Land bill and others. August 19. “The devaluation of Chinese Coming down heavily on Kamat, along with former yuan is a serious issue. It can the Congress party for stalling PWD minister Churchill Alemao lead to a situation where China the functioning of parliament, and other government officials can push its products into India. Sitharaman said the party is not have been accused of allegedly Indian exports may come down able to digest the fact that BJP accepting a $976,630 bribe in 2010 and our exporters may face has got the people’s mandate to from officials of US-based Louis greater challenge,” Sitharaman rule the country. Berger consultancy firm to secure said. According to Sitharaman, She said one minster and four implementation rights of a multi- the government was monitor- members of parliament of BJP billion dollar water and sewerage ing several sectors that might would hold public meetings in project in Goa worth `1,031cr be affected by the Chinese yuan each of the 44 Lok Sabha con- funded by the Japan International devaluation. stituencies held by the Congress Co-Operation Agency. The minister also said China party and inform people of the According to the Goa Police wanted its currency as one of the government’s stand and the anti- crime branch, which is investi- global reserve currencies. democratic stance of Congress. gating the bribery case, Kamat She said that owing to the Sitharaman also said that simi- ` was paid over 1crore in multiple global economic conditions, the lar meetings would be held in the Malayali devotees perform ‘Bali Tharpanam’ cermony, a sacrificial ritual performed in memory of the departed installments to ensure that Louis Indian exports have come down six Lok Sabha constituencies held souls of ancestors, on the banks of Kapra lake in Hyderabad, yesterday. Bali Tharpanam is thought to bring Berger got the consultancy rights by six percent. by the communist parties. peace and eternal rest to their ancestors’ souls. for the project. IANS Sitharaman declined to IANS SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Singh’s remark on GST National colours puts Congress in a spot Bill should have been allowed to pass: Amarinder

CHANDIGARH: With his own during the monsoon session, the the delays in the passage of the party disrupting parliament GST should have been allowed to Goods and Services Tax (GST) during the entire monsoon ses- be introduced in parliament to bill in parliament. sion, Congress Deputy Leader facilitate the way for its eventual “Punjab does not have enough in the Lok Sabha Amarinder passage,” Amarinder Singh said money even to pay the monthly Singh yesterday sounded a near In a statement issued here, he salaries and service the debts it discordant note, expressing dis- added that GST was important owes. pleasure over the delay in the for the overall economic growth It would have provided relief introduction and passage of the of the country. to both to the state as well as its Goods and Services Tax (GST) Amarinder Singh did not trade and industry which is under bill. attend parliament and did not join acute financial stress and is fast The move by Amarinder Singh the protests by Congress mem- winding up,” he said. is likely to cause discomfort to the bers led by party president Sonia “The introduction of the GST, Congress party that has made it a Gandhi and vice president Rahul which is originally the brain- precondition that External Affairs Gandhi. child of the Congress, could have Minister Sushma Swaraj and He, in fact, even said that the proved mutually beneficial for Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje protests in parliament were not as both the industry as well as the over the Lalit Modi controversy. important as his rallies in Punjab state as on the one hand it would The party continued its pro- were his immediate priority. have streamlined and uniformed tests in the Lok Sabha and the The former chief minister said the tax regime and on the other Rajya Sabha all through the just that states like Punjab, which is hand would have generated addi- concluded monsoon session. reeling under a consolidated debt tional revenue and resources for “Whatever the reasons and burden of over Rs1.25 lakh crore, the state,” he added. Customers buy tricolor flags from a vendor on the eve of Independence Day in Allahabad, yesterday. the circumstances have been were the worst sufferers due to IANS

Delhi police evict ex-servicemen, then retreat Karnataka mafia don

NEW DELHI: High-pitched Police saying the protesters will drama surrounded the protest not be asked to leave. brought from Morocco over the delay in implement- “I urge the PM to announce ing the One Rank One Pension (the) acceptance of the demand of BENGALURU: Karnataka’s Additional Commissioner of (OROP) scheme yesterday, with OROP of our ex-servicemen from mafia don Bannanje Raja was Police C.H. Pratap Reddy and police trying to evict ex-serv- Red Fort tomorrow,” Kejriwal yesterday flown to Bengaluru had included two police offic- icemen from Jantar Mantar tweeted. via New Delhi from Morocco for ers belonging to Mangaluru and ahead of Independence Day, “Ex-servicemen forcibly thrown trial in about 50 criminal cases, Udupi. only to drop this on home min- out of Jantar Mantar? Bizarre. including extortion, a top police “Though we don’t have an istry orders. They protected us till yesterday. official said. extradition treaty with Morocco, In a crackdown apparently Now they are a security threat “A six-member crime branch our team convinced its top court linked to Independence Day cel- for Independence Day,” the Aam team returned to Bengaluru with on the urgent need to extradite ebrations, police swooped on the Aadmi Party leader tweeted. Raja after taking him into cus- Raja as he is wanted by our courts retired soldiers at the Jantar Soon after the incident, the tody at Casablanca in Morocco in many criminal cases pend- Mantar protest site, leading to word spread that Gandhi would and was brought to New Delhi ing over the last two decades,” scuffles. visit the the protest site, but last Thursday for preliminary Prakash said. The Congress vice president when he arrived he was asked to interrogation,” Director General The cases were filed against Rahul Gandhi also arrived at the go back, the ex-servicemen saying of Police Om Prakash said prior to the fugitive under the Karnataka spot, only to be turned away after they did not want to politicise the the Independence Day eve. Control of Organised Crime Act, being told that the protest was protest. Raja, alias Rajendra, who 2000, while he remained untraced not to be politicised. Voicing sup- Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi attends a protest in support of “The OROP as promised by hails from Malpe in Udupi on over the last 15 years. port for the veterans, Delhi Chief veterans in New Delhi, yesterday. the government must be fulfilled. the state’s west coast, about 400 Raja’s wife Sona Hemanth Minister Arvind Kejriwal also The prime minsiter should give a km from here, was arrested by Hegde, who lives in Dubai, will tweeted, urging Prime Minister emergency, and today police peacefully,” he said. date,” Gandhi said Interpol and Morocco police on soon fly back to India to help Narendra Modi to accept the is manhandling us... We will DCP New Delhi Vijay Singh “If he promises to implement February 12. him in the legal battle for bail OROP demand on Independence not move from here,” said said, “Delhi Police has allowed OROP by a particular date, the A tip off was given by the and trial. Day. Vishambhar, an 82-year-old vet- the ex-servicemen to continue protests will end. The PM has Indian sleuths, in the form of a “At one time, Raja had three The ex-servicemen got a rude eran. “I was pushed by the cops their protest for One Rank One promised to implement OROP, he red corner notice that was served passports under different shock when police tried to force- who even tore my shirt,” he added. Pension at Jantar Mantar”. just needs to say one thing that on him in 2009 by the state to all names, issued from Bengaluru, fully evict them. As NDMC Col. Anil Kaul (retd), said “We Kaul meanwhile said that they it’ll be implemented by this par- countries through the union home Mangaluru and Mumbai passport started clearing the protest spot. have the permission to hold the received a verbal communication ticular date,” he said. ministry. offices,” Prakash said. “They call us to handle any protest and have been protesting from home ministry and Delhi IANS The team was led by Bengaluru’s IANS

Pawar assails BJP for Kerala’s vision for digital state ignoring farmer issues by year 2020 OSMANABAD: NCP chief government is not doing anything Sharad Pawar here yester- for them”. THIRUVANANTHA day attacked the BJP govern- “If the government continues to PURAM: The Kerala gov- ments at the centre and in neglect the farmers’ demands, we ernment has set in motion an Maharashtra for ignoring the will intensify the agitation... If the ambitious policy framework to burning issues of farmers and government takes no action by bridge the digital divide by 2020 threatened to launch a jail- September 15, we shall launch a and make Kerala the country’s bharo agitation next month. ‘jail-bharo’ agitation in the state. first ‘digitally literate’ state. The Nationalist Congress Party “We will also take our starv- The ‘Bridging the Digital Divide president addresed a farmers ing cattle to jail... Let the govern- - Vision 2020’ includes transform- rally in the district and rued the ment make arrangements for us,” ing Kerala into a digital society washed out monsoon session. Pawar warned as the gathering for sustainable growth, making “PM Modi did not speak... He cheered. accessible the digital infrastruc- wasn’t even present in parliament Leader of Opposition in the ture to all at affordable cost, all these days,” Pawar said. Legislative Council Dhananjay attracting more investments and “In Maharashtra, the people Munde said the NCP will never promoting the IT export of the voted for a change of govern- do it and would always stand by state. ment... The government has no them. P K Kunhalikutty, minister for inkling of the drought situation Pawar’s diatribe at the BJP IT said another major objective is people of the state are confront- governments came exactly six to ensure various e-services of the ing,” Pawar said. months after Prime Minister government are availed by people. He said farmers in Marathwada Narendra Modi visited him home Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (left) speaks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their meeting P H Kurian, principal secretary, and other parts are getting in Baramati. in New Delhi, India, yesterday. industries and IT said “Kerala has destroyed by the drought but “the IANS started e-Governance in ‘Cloud’ SDC (2), becoming the second cloud-enabled data centre in the High priority for Iran ties: Modi country.” Railways to help disabled These include Bharat Net NEW DELHI: India accords powers - the US, Britain, France, country. Mobile Governance, which is a NEW DELHI: Rail travel will department officials (of the rail- high priority to its relations Russia, China plus Germany - The prime minister agreed to project of the central government be more accessible for peo- ways) to look into how to make with Iran, Prime Minister and expressed confidence that visit Iran at mutually convenient to establish, by 2017, a scalable ple with disabilities, Railway rail bogies accessible for disabled Narendra Modi told visiting it would contribute to greater dates to be decided through dip- network infrastructure to provide Minister Suresh Prabhu said people,” Prabhu said. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad peace and stability in the region. lomatic channels, according to the on demand, affordable broadband here yesterday. Though the act giving rights to Zarif when the latter called on Foreign Minister Zarif stated that statement. connectivity of 2 mbps to 20 mbps India has over 8,000 stations, disabled came into effect in 1995, him yesterday. Iran considered India its strategic The prime minister also con- to all households and institutions. and around three crore peo- the society still needs to change “The prime minister recalled partner and could not forget the veyed India’s commitment to work The government will make its ple travel every day by train. its mindset towards disabled peo- his meeting with President support India extended to Tehran with Iran for the development of offices paperless in 2015-2016, Though the country’s population ple, he said. (Hassan) Rouhani of Iran and during its difficult times. the Chahabahar port that would that will increase efficiency and has increased, the railway infra- Prabhu said wheelchairs were reiterated that India attached Iran looked forward to working have far reaching benefits, not transparency in file movements. structure has not risen propor- available at the railway stations high priority to its relations with closely in all areas, including con- only for the people of India and “Our goal is to make Kerala a tionately, the minister said after in Delhi as part of some compa- Iran,” an official statement from nectivity, oil and gas, investments, Iran but also for Afghanistan and 100 percent e-literate and a dig- presenting the NCPEDP Mphasis nies’ corporate social responsibil- the prime minister’s office said. fertilisers, infrastructure develop- the entire Central Asia region. ital state and plan, develop and Universal Design Awards 2015 at ity (CSR) policy, and asked the Modi also congratulated Iran ment, among others, he said. Both the leaders also exchanged market it as the most preferred the India International Centre private sector to contribute more for reaching an agreement on Zarif also extended an invita- views on regional developments, IT/ITES investment destination here. in this connection. Tehran’s nuclear programme tion on behalf of the president including in Afghanistan, West in the country,” said Kurian. “I will ask mechanical IANS with the P5+1 group of world of Iran for Modi to visit that Asia and South Asia. IANS IANS SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

EU okays €86bn Greek bailout Finance ministers clear aid package after talks; Athens agrees to terms

BRUSSELS/ATHENS: delaying satisfying the Fund’s consider a confidence vote that between the IMF and euro zone Finance ministers from the calls for debt relief for Greece could pave the way for early on the issue were narrowing. eurozone gave their final bless- until a review in October. elections. The euro zone has agreed to ing to lending Greece up to IMF Managing Director After defeating conservatives look at easing terms, such as by ¤86bn ($95.5bn) after the par- Christine Lagarde, who took in January, Tsipras remains lengthening repayment dead- liament in Athens agreed to part in the meeting by telephone, hugely popular for standing up lines, once a first review of Greek stiff conditions overnight. said in a statement that the Fund to Germany’s insistence on aus- compliance with conditions is After six hours of talks in believed Europe would need to terity before capitulating to new completed in October. The IMF, Brussels, ministers said in a provide “significant” debt relief bailout terms under the threat though, has made clear it sees statement: “The Eurogroup as a complement to reforms of a eurozone exit. He would be debt relief as essential for giving considers that the necessary ele- Athens is taking to put Greece’s expected to win again if snap the Greek economy the means ments are now in place to launch finances on a sustainable path. polls were held now, given an to service the new loans. Under the relevant national procedures “I remain firmly of the view opposition in disarray. the last, cancelled, programme, required for the approval of the that Greece’s debt has become The Washington-based IMF, Greece was due to receive ¤16bn ESM financial assistance.” unsustainable and that Greece which has lent to Greece itself from the Fund and euro zone Assuming final approval next cannot restore debt sustainabil- and played a role in supervis- states hope for a similar sum. week by the German and some ity solely through actions on its ing the implementation of two other national parliaments, an own,” she said. She also made previous bailouts worth a total CATCH 22 initial tranche of ¤26bn would clear she could give no commit- of ¤240bn, has urged the other “There’s a bit of a Catch 22 that be approved by the European ment before approval by the IMF 18 states of the eurozone to give we need to solve,” said Finnish Stability Mechanism (ESM) next board in October, Eurogroup Athens debt relief in order to Finance Minister Alexander Wednesday. President Jeroen Dijsselbloem help revive its crippled economy. Stubb, whose government was Of that, ¤10bn would be told reporters. Many eurozone governments among those most ready to favour reserved to recapitalise Greek He said he was optimistic of have ruled out any “haircut” on a Greek exit from the euro before Greece’s Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos (bottom) and French Finance banks ravaged by economic tur- IMF involvement but that it would the nominal amount of debt — a last-minute deal struck by EU Minister Michel Sapin attend an extraordinary Eurogroup meeting on Greece moil and the imposition of capital be conditional on the board see- something against current euro leaders a month ago. at the European Council in Brussels yesterday. controls in June, and ¤13bn would ing more detail on Greek reforms zone rules — and have questioned “The IMF wants to be involved be in Athens on Thursday to meet after a first review of implemen- the IMF assessment of how much only if there is debt relief; we want formal decision on this today.” to assist in this process, and will pressing debt payment obligations. tation of the programme and an relief Greece needs, saying it is the IMF to be involved but we On Thursday, Delia Velculescu make an assessment of its par- Some issues still need to be assessment that Greece’s public too pessimistic. don’t want debt relief. Some kind said after leading the IMF team ticipation in providing any addi- ironed out following a deal debt was sustainable. However, the bloc is keen to of solution will have to be found.” at negotiations in Athens that tional financing to Greece once struck with Greece on Tuesday After debating all night, the have the IMF, whose imprima- “The IMF is on board as con- the lender would wait for further the steps on the authorities’ by the European Commission, Greek parliament gave its back- tur is prized in financial markets, cerns programme conditional- steps from Greece and for deci- programme and debt relief have European Central Bank and ing to leftist Prime Minister closely involved in managing the ity,” said Valdis Dombrovskis, sions on debt relief before deciding been taken.” International Monetary Fund. Alexis Tsipras, though he had Greek programme. Dijsselbloem the European Commission’s whether to extend financial help. Creditors estimate that, over- They include keeping the IMF to rely on opposition votes after said lenders would have a debate vice president for the euro. “We “The IMF will remain closely all, Greek banks will need ¤25bn involved in overseeing the new nearly a third of his own sup- on debt sustainability in October know that IMF has its own pro- engaged with the Greek govern- in fresh capital soon. euro zone programme while porters rebelled, forcing him to and indicated that differences gramme, but we do not expect a ment and the European partners REUTERS

Nine banks agree Port blast: Global carmakers assessing damage to pay more than BEIJING/TOKYO: Global car- Ford Motor Co and Nissan makers including Volkswagen Motor Co Ltd also said they $2bn to settle AG and Toyota Motor Corp were checking their cars parked scrambled yesterday to assess around the port. damage to cars and facilities South Korea’s Hyundai Motor forex rigging suit after two massive explosions in Corp and Kia Motors Corp had a the port city of Tianjin, China’s total of 4,000 cars near the blast NEW YORK: Nine major largest auto import hub. site but did not have specific banks accused of foreign- The blasts that ripped through details on the extent of damage, exchange rigging have agreed a warehouse storing volatile the companies said. to pay more than $2bn to inves- chemicals in the northeastern city BMW AG said it has two vehi- tors in settlements, a law firm late on Wednesday were so strong cle distribution centres near the involved in the process said. that they damaged buildings a few port but the damage was unknown Plaintiffs have “reached settle- kilometres away. given the area had been cordoned ments totaling more than $2bn French carmaker Renault SA off by authorities. with Bank of America, Barclays, said nearly 1,500 of its imported Mazda Motor Corp said over BNP Paribas, Citi, Goldman cars stored in a warehouse at 50 cars imported from Japan Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan, RBS the port had been burned while were also damaged, with peel- and UBS,” legal firm Hausfeld Toyota said the blasts broke win- ing paint and scratches. One said in a statement published dows at its car assembly, logistics, nearby showroom was shut on after a hearing in New York. and research buildings, which Thursday after its windows Hausfeld, which represented are jointly run with China FAW shattered, it said. investors, gave no indication how Group Corporation. Other Japanese businesses with the sum would be divided between Operations at the Toyota a presence in Tianjin including the banks and said that the agree- facilities had been closed for a a mall owned by Aeon Co and ments were preliminary and must week-long summer holiday and an Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings still be approved by US District no one was injured, but a spokes- Ltd department store sustained Judge Lorna Schofield. man at Japan’s biggest carmaker minor damage. In June, sources close to the declined to say whether it could Otsuka Holdings Co said a fac- situation reported that Barclays resume production as normal tory that makes the Pocari Sweat would pay $375m, HSBC $285m, from Monday. sports drink would be closed today BNP Paribas nearly $100m and “In our current view, the dam- Rows of burnt out Volkswagen cars in Tianjin, in northern China, yesterday. as it assesses the site’s safety. Goldman Sachs about $130m. age isn’t that severe,” a China- Shipping giant Nippon Yusen But they also specified that the based Toyota spokesman said. last year, official data shows. which does not belong to Fuji showed rows of Beetles and other KK said it could not assess dam- amounts were subject to change. Roughly 40 percent of cars Subaru maker Fuji Heavy Heavy, is about 2km from the VW brand cars badly scorched by age at a terminal it operates in None of the banks responded imported to China pass through Industries Ltd said more than blast site, it said. the explosion. Tianjin because the area was off- when contacted. Some of the Tianjin’s port, or more than 100 cars that were imported Volkswagen said that some of “We have a task force in the limits, adding that a few workers banks had already agreed to half a million units in 2014, from Japan and were awaiting its imported cars were damaged area to find out more and which sustained minor injuries at an specific sums. US banking giant according to the official Xinhua customs clearance in a ware- but did not know exactly how is primarily concerned with the affiliated car distribution com- JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay news agency. China imported house had been damaged by many had been affected. wellbeing of our employees,” a pany, which was also closed off. $99.5m in January, followed 372.4bon yuan ($60.8bn) in cars broken windows. The warehouse, Photographs from the scene VW spokeswoman said. REUTERS by Bank of America at $180m, Citigroup at $394m and Swiss UBS at $135m. “In addition to the billions of dollars in compensation, these settling banks have agreed to US crude edges up cooperate with investors in their Turkish lira tumbles to new low continuing litigation” against NEW YORK: US crude oil edged higher after posting a fresh other institutions, Hausfeld said. ISTANBUL: Turkey’s lira raised the remuneration rate paid the central bank’s steps. Prime six-and-a-half-year low early yesterday amid concerns over glo- Thursday’s agreements are tumbled to a fresh record low on foreign exchange required Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said bal oversupply, while Brent futures slipped as the front-month distinct from proceedings led by against the dollar yesterday, reserves to 0.23 percent from 0.21, on Thursday that an election now September contract approached expiration. US and British regulators, which prompting the central bank to policy tweaks designed to support appeared to be the only option Data showing North Dakota crude oil production rose a second in May ordered $6bn in fines step in with an attempt to shore the lira. It also tightened liquid- after last-ditch negotiations straight month in June helped pull US crude off its session high, on six major banks — Barclays, up the currency following the ity, opening a 19bn lira one-week between his AK Party and the along with the stronger dollar and weaker-than-expected consumer JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, collapse of talks to form a coali- repo auction, compared with a 20 main opposition CHP broke down. sentiment. US producers added two oil rigs this week, a fourth Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS tion government. billion lira redemption. He said he preferred an election straight week with additions, energy services firm Baker Hughes and Bank of America — for rig- However, the moves — which “These are symbolic steps to be held as soon as possible. Inc said in its weekly report. ging foreign exchange market and traders said were largely sym- and have a limited impact. They The lira weakness has height- US crude bounced early off a fresh 2015 low and then received Libor interest rates. bolic — appeared to have little reduced the underperformance in ened anticipation of next Tuesday’s a lift from data showing US producer prices rose for a third Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, immediate impact as the renewed the lira somewhat,” a forex trader central bank policy meeting. The straight month in July. US September crude was up 29 cents at Citigroup and the Royal Bank political uncertainty has further at one bank said. “These steps bank said recently it would gradu- $42.52 a barrel at 1730 GMT, after reaching $42.96 and having of Scotland all pleaded guilty to dented confidence in what is cannot prevent the exchange rate ally normalise its monetary policy fallen to $41.35, the lowest front-month price since March 2009. US Justice Department charges already one of the worst perform- breaking new records.” framework. In a Reuters poll, most Expiring Brent September crude was down 17 cents at $49.05, of conspiring to manipulate the ing major emerging market cur- The lira hit a record low of economists expected key interest having traded from $48.80 to $49.52. Brent prices remain well massive currency market. “While rencies this year. 2.8460, bringing losses against the rates to be kept on hold, while four above the 2015 low of $45.19 from January, despite its recent slide. the recoveries here are tremen- The central bank lowered the U.S. currency this year to more participants predicted a 50-100 Brent October crude also fell. dous, they are just the beginning,” one-week dollar deposit rate to than 17 percent. By 0736 GMT, basis point hike in the repo rate. REUTERS said Hausfeld Chairman Michael 2.75 percent from 3 percent and it had rebounded to 2.8311 after REUTERS Hausfeld. AFP SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Malaysian Autos buoy ringgit at 17-year low KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s industrial ringgit currency suffered one of its worst one-day declines yes- terday, falling to a fresh 17-year low in a protracted slide blamed on concerns over low oil prices and political uncertainty. output in US The ringgit has declined more than 25 percent over the past year and it weakened another 1.74 Consumer sentiment dips percent to 4.0805 to the dollar by late afternoon trading on Friday. WASHINGTON: US industrial after being undermined by last It had lost nearly three percent output advanced at its strongest year’s plunge in crude oil prices. of its value earlier in the day — its pace in eight months in July as Despite surge in July, industrial biggest drops in almost 20 years auto production surged, another production remains constrained — after oil prices tumbled to fresh bullish sign for third-quarter by a strong dollar and lower oil six-year lows. Malaysia is an oil economic growth that boosts the prices. “We continue to see a exporter and there is rising con- prospects of a Federal Reserve stronger dollar and lower energy cern that slumping crude prices interest rate hike next month. prices as posing headwinds for will curb economic growth. While other data yesterday industrial output and do not look Investor sentiment in Malaysia showed a dip in consumer senti- for a strong rebound in the sector has also been hit by political tur- ment early this month, households this year,” said Jesse Hurwitz, an Traders at their desks in front of the DAX board at the stock exchange in Frankfurt yesterday. moil stemming from corrup- were upbeat about their personal economist at Barclays. tion allegations involving Prime finances, a good omen for con- In a separate report, the Minister Najib Razak, and China’s sumer spending. July employment University of Michigan said its surprise devaluation of the yuan and retail sales data also struck an consumer sentiment index slipped European stock markets fall, this week. optimistic note on the economy. to 92.9 in early August from a Asia’s worst-performing cur- “It adds to the steady drum-beat reading of 93.1 in July. Still, it was rency over the past year, the ring- of solid indicators that suggest the the highest nine-month average git slid through the key 4.0 barrier economy is getting off to a much since 2004 and consistent with most Asian indexes fluctuate on Wednesday for the first time better start in the second half of a 3 percent annualized rate of since 1998, when a financial crisis the year and further increases increase in consumer spending. LONDON: Europe’s main stock 2,085.52 points, while the tech-rich News. “That’s made many inves- rocked Asia. That crisis resulted the odds toward a September rate The Labour Department also markets fell slightly yesterday Nasdaq Composite Index slipped tors risk adverse.” in Malaysia pegging the ringgit to hike by the Fed,” said Sal Guatieri, reported that its producer price at the end of a turbulent week 0.14 percent to 5,026.38. Investors hoped the surprise the dollar at a rate of 3.80. a senior economist at BMO Capital index for final demand increased for equities and other financial Asian markets mainly fell, devaluation of the yuan heralded The peg was lifted nearly seven Markets in Toronto. 0.2 percent last month as the cost markets, triggered by concerns weighed down by jitters over the more economic support from years later, and central bank gov- Industrial production shot up of services rose. The PPI gained 0.4 over the Chinese and Greek impact of China’s yuan devalua- Beijing. Adding to those hopes, ernor Zeti Akhtar Aziz said on 0.6 percent last month after a percent in June. In the 12 months economies. tion and a fall in oil dragged down China’s market regulator pledged Thursday that there were cur- downwardly revised increase of through July, the PPI fell 0.8 per- London’s benchmark FTSE 100 energy stocks, while Shanghai after the close to stabilise the vol- rently no plans to revive it. 0.1 percent in June, the Fed said. cent after declining 0.7 percent index dipped 0.27 percent to end rose on hopes for more market atile stock market for a “number Energy products are Malaysia’s Economists polled by Reuters had in June. It was the sixth straight the day at 6,550.74 points. In the intervention. of years” and vowed a longer-term main source of trade revenue, and looked for a rise of 0.3 percent in 12-month decrease in the index. eurozone, Frankfurt’s DAX 30 Tokyo ended down 0.37 per- role for state-backed company its export income has declined July. The gain in output reflected But inflation pressures are dropped 0.27 percent to 10,985.14 cent, or 76.10 points, at 20,519.45 tasked with buying shares. The steadily since global oil prices a 0.8 percent increase in factory likely to remain benign due to the points, while the CAC 40 in Paris and Sydney lost 0.58 percent, or Shanghai Composite Index gained started falling last year. production that was spurred by a strong dollar, falling oil prices and lost 0.61 percent to close at 4,956.47. 31.37 points, to 5,356.50. Seoul’s 0.27 percent to 3,965.34. On Thursday, the government 10.6 percent surge in motor vehi- China’s recent devaluation of its Greek lawmakers finally voted financial markets were closed for In other markets, Wellington announced that the economy cle output, the largest increase currency. Inflation has been per- through the country’s third inter- a public holiday. Hong Kong fell fell 0.72 percent, or 41.25 points, grew 4.9 percent in the second since September 2009. sistently running below the Fed’s national bailout early yesterday 0.13 percent, or 27.77 points, to to 5,696.45. Taipei closed flat, los- quarter, down from 6.5 percent Auto manufacturers typically 2 percent target. The volatile after a bitter all-night debate, but end the day at 23,991.03. ing 6.1 points to 8,305.64. Jakarta in the same period of 2014 and its shut down production lines in trade services component, which it gave no boost to Athens stocks Asian shares fluctuated ended flat, adding 1.141 points to slowest rate in nearly two years. summer for retooling, but econo- mostly reflects profit margins at which closed down 1.85 percent. throughout the day as investors 4,585.39. Singapore closed 0.73 Najib is fighting to fend off mists speculated they probably retailers and wholesalers, rose 0.4 In foreign exchange, the euro weighed the impact of a surprise percent, or 22.47 points, higher corruption suspicions related to had done so for only a short percent in July after increasing slumped to $1.1110 from $1.1152 devaluation of the yuan by China at 3,114.25. Kuala Lumpur fell 1.53 debt-ridden state investment firm period, leading to the jump in 0.2 percent in the prior month. late in New York on Thursday. this week that has roiled global percent, or 24.80 points, to close 1Malaysia Development Berhad vehicle production. Apart from A key measure of underlying US stocks mostly rose follow- financial markets. at 1,596.82. Bangkok added 0.70 (1MDB). autos, manufacturing rose 0.1 producer price pressures that ing US data that showed slightly “The yuan devaluation and percent, or 9.77 points, to 1,413.92 A series of investigative media percent last month. excludes food, energy and trade stronger-than-expected wholesale prospects of an impending rate Mumbai rose 1.88 percent, or reports have alleged that hun- Mining production edged up 0.2 services rose 0.2 percent last inflation Around mid-day in New increase by the Fed have created 517.78 points, to 28,067.31 points. dreds of millions of dollars have percent as oil and gas well drilling month after increasing 0.3 percent York, the Dow Jones Industrial a very volatile market environ- Vedanta Ltd rose 3.73 percent to gone missing from deals involving output grew for the first time in in June. The so-called core PPI was Average stood 0.22 percent lower at ment,” Jonathan Ravelas, chief Rs107.20, while drug maker Dr 1MDB, which Najib launched six 10 months, suggesting the energy up 0.9 percent in the 12 months 17,447.71 points. The broad-based market strategist at Manila-based Reddy’s Laboratories fell 0.75 years ago and remains close to. sector was starting to stabilise through July. REUTERS S&P 500 edged up 0.10 percent to BDO Unibank, told Bloomberg percent to Rs4,258.05. AFP AFP

Taiwan cuts Cebu Pacific net profit growth soars 63pc in first half forecast MANILA: Cebu Pacific saw Cargo revenues grew 11.4 per- its half-year net profit soar 63 cent to 1.6bn pesos. “The group TAIPEI: Taiwan yesterday percent as low fuel costs helped generally records higher domes- slashed its growth forecast for it take full advantage of higher tic revenue in January, March, 2015 to lower-than-expected passenger and cargo traffic, the April, May and December as fes- 1.56 percent, saying the econ- Philippines’ largest airline said tivals and school holidays in the omy was losing strength due to yesterday. Philippines increase seat load fac- weak demand from abroad and The carrier reported a net tors,” the company told the stock stiffer competition from China income of 5.2bn pesos ($112m) for exchange in a disclosure. in the tech sector. the January to June period, com- Rival Philippine Airlines The figure marked a steep fall of pared to 3.2bn pesos a year earlier. reported on Tuesday a near 1.72 percentage points from May However, profit was down 10-fold increase in net profit to when the Directorate General of slightly to 2.9bn pesos from 3bn 5.8bn pesos, citing peak demand. Budget, Accounting and Statistics pesos in the three months to June A spokesman for Cebu Pacific made the previous estimate. as the cost of the company renew- was not available to comment on “Amid slowing global recovery, ing its fleet and foreign exchange the stock exchange filing. the inventory levels of electronic losses due to a rising dollar offset Cebu Pacific’s budget carrier products remain high, compe- revenue gains. model has thrived in the archipe- tition from the Chinese main- Passenger revenues in the first lagic nation of 100 million people. land’s supplies chains is growing half grew 9.4 percent to 22.8bn It flies to 34 domestic destinations and prices of raw materials like pesos, as increased flights drove and 28 others overseas, catering crude oil keep falling,” the island’s A Cebu Pacific jet takes off from Manila airport. traffic 8.2 percent higher to 9.2 mostly to tourists and expatriate top government budgeting agency million passengers, it said. Filipino workers. AFP said in a statement. Traditionally an export-driven technology hub, Taiwan has ben- efited from Apple’s new iPhone6, launched last year. A number of leading Taiwanese firms such as China’s long march to currency reform takes a step forward Foxconn and TSMC are report- edly among Apple’s suppliers. But China has been pushing to SHANGHAI: China’s currency devalu- percent surge in the previous 12 months. liberalising interest rates and more allow- depreciation pressure to help the economy grow its own tech industry with ation is a step in the long march to a China’s central bank soothed markets ing financial products to hedge against risk, grow and meet the IMF’s requirement of the development of domestic more open regime for the yuan, analysts by setting the daily reference rate of the were still needed. If the bank had acted letting the yuan be more market-oriented”, smartphone brands and homeg- say, but authorities will need to further yuan — also known as the renminbi (RMB) sooner, the impact on the economy would Zhang Ning, a Hong Kong-based economist rown hardware, including chips. loosen their controls to promote long- — against the US dollar marginally higher be “more obvious”, he told AFP. for UBS, said. While adjusting the first-quar- term growth. yesterday , ending an almost five percent The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) used The yuan devaluation has also been seen ter GDP growth figure up from The central bank on Tuesday unveiled a fall over three days. Analysts cheered to decide its daily yuan refence rate by poll- as a means for authorities to help the slow- 3.37 percent to 3.84 percent, the near two percent devaluation of the yuan, the move towards a more market-based ing market-makers, but will now consider ing economy by boosting exports — a key agency also lowered its second- saying the move was part of broader eco- Chinese currency, but said other reforms the previous day’s close, foreign exchange driver of China’s extraordinary rise in the quarter year-on-year growth figure nomic reforms aimed at moving towards a had become more urgent as the Asian giant supply and demand and the rates of major past three decades. to 0.52 percent, down 0.12 percent- more flexible exchange rate. seeks a more sustainable growth model in currencies. The yuan is restricted to trad- For the Henry Parts company in the age points from its preliminary fig- The suddenness and scale of the devalua- the face of a slowing economy. ing up or down two percent from the daily eastern city of Ningbo, the devaluation ures released last month. tion in a normally stable unit rocked global “Reducing overvaluation of the RMB rate, although the State Council, the cabi- means more orders from foreign customers “The main reason for this was financial markets, as investors took it as a is a welcome change that eliminates one net, has signalled it does intend to broaden for its machinery components. “The deval- much lower exports than pre- sign the world’s second-largest economy source of unnecessary self-inflicted pain,” the trading band. uation will increase our revenue and we dicted,” it said. The agency forecast is performing worse than revealed, and the Asian Development Bank’s chief econo- China is currently bidding to join the can get the orders we couldn’t get before,” GDP growth in the third quarter to sparked worries China had fired the first mist Shang-Jin Wei said Friday. International Monetary Fund’s basket of manager He Zhanyong said. drop further to 0.10 percent year- shot in a currency war. ANZ Banking Group’s chief economist reserve currencies, but the Washington- China’s economy expanded 7.4 percent on-year, before rising to 1.90 per- It also compounded jitters over China’s for Greater China, Liu Ligang, hailed based lender has said more reforms are last year, its weakest since 1990, and has cent in the fourth quarter. financial health after a debt-fuelled stock the move as “very important” but said needed for membership. Beijing is “killing slowed to 7.0 percent in each of the first AFP market bubble burst in June, following a 150 more reforms, such as freer capital flows, two birds with one stone: it can release two quarters. AFP SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS No deal yet at GM workers protest final Ukraine debt talks Discussions to continue: Official

KIEV: Ukraine and its credi- a number of counter-proposals tors sharpened their knives whose details remain private but for a decisive battle yesterday reportedly include a smaller “hair after direct negotiations failed cut” and larger interest payments. to reach a workable solution for The US-born Ukrainian finance keeping the ex-Soviet country chief has called the California from hurtling into default. round of discussions “final” and The war-torn country and its threatened to impose a payment biggest commercial lenders ended freeze on Eurobond interest and their second day of meetings at principal payments that come due the Franklin Templeton invest- in the coming weeks. ment giant’s headquarters near Ukraine has been lurching San Francisco by issuing a two- from one crisis to another since sentence statement that served thousands of pro-European up more questions than answers. demonstrators toppled Kiev’s “The Ukrainian delegation and Moscow-backed government in the ad hoc creditors’ committee February 2014. held detailed discussions in San The Western-friendly leader- Francisco. Talks are on going,” ship that rose in its wake lost Workers of General Motors march along Dutra highway during a protest against job cuts in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, yesterday. the statement said. Crimea to Russian forces a month One source close to the issue said later and soon confronted a pro- that no personal meetings between Russian separatist uprising in its Ukrainian Finance Minister industrial east. Natalie Jaresko and Templeton’s The 16-month war has now bond managers had been planned. claimed the lives of more than “Discussions will continue over the 6,800 people and thrown Ukraine’s Eurozone growth slows, outlook modest phone,” the person said. already-stagnant economy into A second individual with paralysis. BRUSSELS: Growth in the — which was offset in part by a McKeown said. spending it on durable goods out knowledge of the negotiations said The state statistics commit- eurozone slowed slightly in the pick-up in Germany, Europe’s “This underlines the need for of fear for a possible ‘Grexit,’” said only that “talks will continue” at tee said on Friday that Ukraine’s second quarter but it appears to powerhouse economy, to 0.4 per- the ECB to maintain and perhaps Peter Vanden Houte at ING Bank. some level. Templeton and three growth slump had slowed to 14.7 be holding up against the Greek cent from 0.3 percent. extend its policy support.” Vanden Houte said the figures other financial titans hold nearly percent of gross domestic prod- debt crisis and the Chinese Analysts at Capital Economics The ECB has pledged to pump overall showed the eurozone was two-thirds of the $15.3bn in sav- uct in the three months ending in slowdown, official data showed said the eurozone would likely more than ¤1 trillion ($1.1 tril- holding its own against the Greek ings that cash-strapped Ukraine June — a marginal improvement yesterday. continue slow growth, supported lion) into the economy through and Chinese headwinds although is seeking on its total foreign debt on the 17.2 percent contraction Analysts said the figures sug- by Spain and Germany but with September 2016 to boost demand the ECB may still have to do more. over the coming four years. experienced between January and gest the economy is bumping France unlikely to show much and credit. Data last month “The relative immunity... to The restructuring is a man- March. along, but there seems little hope improvement. showed the July eurozone infla- the Greek crisis and the Chinese datory part of a broader $40bn The economy ministry said of a sharp improvement despite a Among the larger economies, tion rate unchanged at 0.2 per- slowdown remains encouraging, global rescue package that the its most optimistic scenario has massive European Central Bank Spain was one of the best per- cent while unemployment for although it’s probably still a bit International Mandatory Fund Ukraine swinging back into posi- stimulus programme. formers with a gain of one per- June was also flat. too soon to claim victory on this patched together at the start of tive GDP territory by the start The 19-nation eurozone cent in the second quarter, while The inflation data has been a front,” he said in a note. the year. of next year. expanded 0.3 percent in the three Italy added just 0.2 percent. cause for concern as the figures He added that he shared the But the creditors refuse to But economists said making months to June after a gain of 0.4 “Looking ahead, business sur- directly reflect consumer demand ECB’s view “of a broadening accept a major reduction of their forecasts is a risky business in a percent in the first quarter, the veys suggest that the eurozone and have fallen well short of the recovery, with risks remaining bonds’ face value and want a pro- country that sees periodic — and Eurostat statistics agency said. economy will continue to expand, ECB’s inflation target of just tilted to the downside.” posed maturity extension to expire at times intense — flareups in an Analysts had expected 0.3-0.4 led by strong growth in Spain and under two percent. The Chinese economy has as soon as Ukraine’s imploding eastern revolt continue despite percent after recent data showed a solid German economy, but they A notable highlight of Friday’s slowed steadily in the past year economy returns to growth. the theoretic existence of a six- inflation and unemployment little offer little hope that the recovery report was debt-mired Greece, and Beijing has recently pushed Sources said the bondhold- month truce accord. changed. Compared with second will gain pace,” analyst Jennifer which gained 0.8 percent in the down the value of the yuan in a ers have put strict conditions Russia denies any links to the quarter of 2014, the economy grew McKeown said in a research note. second quarter, but analysts said bid to boost its key export sector. on a possible debt write-down insurgents and officially provides 1.2 percent, Eurostat said. “We suspect that growth in the that was an anomaly. Chinese and global markets of between five and 10 percent them with only political support The eurozone slowdown region as a whole will slow further “The 0.8 percent Greek expan- have sold off sharply as a result — well off the 40 percent figure at negotiations and UN Security reflected a sharp reverse in in the second half of the year as sion should be seen as a freak fig- on fears China’s downturn will originally sought by Kiev. Council debate. France — flat after a jump of temporary boosts from a weaker ure, distorted by Greek consumers sharply undercut world growth Jaresko has since submitted AFP 0.7 percent in the first quarter euro and lower oil prices fade,” emptying their bank accounts and prospects. AFP

Bundesbank for German recovery independent watchdog on gathers pace in Q2 EU budgets FRANKFURT: Growth of Carsten Brzeski said that “nei- the German economy, Europe’s ther Greece nor China were able FRANKFURT: The head of biggest, picked up marginally to stop the German economy.” the German central bank, or in the second quarter of 2015, A full breakdown of the differ- Bundesbank, called yesterday driven by the weaker euro and ent GDP components would only for an independent body to healthy consumer spending, be published at the end of August. be set up to ensure eurozone official data showed yesterday. “But available monthly data... countries abide by the bloc’s German gross domestic product indicate that growth was driven budget rules. (GDP) expanded by 0.4 percent in by exports and domestic con- “Given the current role of the the period from April to June, up sumption,” Brzeski said. EU Commission, there’s a lot to from 0.3 percent in the first quar- “The eurozone’s economic pow- be said for transferring its tasks of ter, the federal statistics office erhouse has successfully defied budget monitoring and rule inspec- Destatis said in a flash estimate. external turbulences. Despite the tion to an independent author- Analysts had been projecting Greek crisis, the Chinese stock ity,” Bundesbank president Jens marginally stronger growth of 0.5 market collapse and growth slow- Weidmann wrote in an article for percent for the second quarter. down fears as well as continued the weekly magazine Focus. “The German economy con- weakness in many eurozone coun- Weidmann accused Brussels tinued along its positive growth tries,” German growth averaged of being too lax towards coun- path,” the statisticians said. 0.4 percent in last four quarters, tries that fail to meet their com- “Positive impulses came primarily he said. mitments under the European from foreign trade. Exports grew a “Nevertheless, not all that glit- Stability and Growth Pact. lot faster than imports thanks to ters is gold,” Brzeski cautioned, “The rather lax and political the weak euro, with goods exports arguing that record low inter- Malaysia’s Petronas Twin Towers are seen through windows of an abandoned house in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. application of the rules by the in particular growing strongly.” But est rates, low energy prices and EU Commission is threatening to consumer spending and government the weak euro should have given undermine the (pact’s) credibility spending also increased. the German economy an even and binding effects,” he argued. Weak investment, on the other stronger boost. Petronas Q2 profit down 47pc The Bundesbank chief, who sits hand, weighed on growth, Destatis “Normally, such a cocktail of on the European Central Bank’s added. On a 12-month basis, GDP strong external steroids should KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian The news marks the fourth which hit a fresh six-year nadir in governing council, warned of a fur- growth stood at 1.6 percent in the have given wings to the economy. state energy firm Petronas said straight quarter of either weak- US trading on Thursday. ther reallocation of financial risks second quarter compared with 1.2 This is not the case,” he said. yesterday that its second-quar- ening year-on-year sales growth “Petronas does not foresee a within the single currency bloc. percent in the first quarter, it said. UniCredit economist Andreas ter profit plunged 47 percent, or outright losses. reprieve from the low oil prices “It isn’t good in the long run “Overall, the data show that, Rees said that the German econ- warning of “unrelenting” dif- The company posted a $2.02bn in the near future,” Wan Zulkiflee for cooperation between states if despite the uncertainty surround- omy “remains on its fundamen- ficulty as lower world oil prices loss in the fourth quarter of said. Revenue tumbled 28 percent each member country can order ing Greece’s continued membership tal upward trend.” He said that hit the company’s bottom line. 2014, its first since launching to 61.30bn ringgit during the sec- what it wants but everybody has in the euro, the German economy overall growth could come out at Net profit at Malaysia’s only quarterly earnings reports five ond quarter. to pay the bill at the end. In cur- managed to gain some momentum “close to two percent for 2015” Fortune 500 company for the years before. Wan Zulkiflee painted a grim rency union, accountability and in the spring,” said BayernLB econ- after 1.6 percent in 2014. three months ending June 30 fell Petronas is the single largest picture going forward, saying cash supervision must be brought into omist Stefan Kipar. But Commerzbank economist to 11.1bn ringgit ($272.2m), com- source of Malaysian government flow this year was not expected to harmony on a sustainable basis,” “The German economy is on a Joerg Kraemer was more scepti- pared to 21.06bn ringgit in the revenue and national export earn- meet capital expenditure plans or he said. broad footing and is being driven cal. “In the longer run, (stronger same period last year. ings, and its declining fortunes dividend commitments. Weidmann, who has been pub- by both domestic demand and demand in industrialised coun- “Petronas is bracing itself for will add to concerns over the “This means that we will have licly critical of the handling of positive foreign trade,” he said. tries) will not be able to com- more challenges ahead as low economic prospects of a country to persevere with more austerity the Greek crisis, said a “central And given the continued low pensate if the Chinese economy oil prices persist,” Wan Zulkiflee heavily dependent on oil exports. measures,” he said. The company European institution could inter- oil prices and economic recov- continues to cool down. We see Wan Ariffin, Petronas president Growth is slowing, and the has in recent months outlined vene directly if a member state’s ery in the United States and the downside risks in particular for and CEO, said in a statement. ringgit currency is daily plumb- austerity measures such as defer- economic and fiscal policies” give euro area, “the outlook for com- our 2016 German growth forecast “Overall, it has been an unre- ing 17-year lows due largely to the ring some key projects. rise to significant slippages. ing quarters remains positive,” of 1.8 percent,” Kraemer said. lenting difficult period,” he added. fears over the rout in oil prices, AFP AFP Kipar noted. ING DiBa economist AFP SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17

Puerto Rico stares at $400m Will European Union’s short-term funding squeeze

BY MICHELLE KASKE

uerto Rico is approaching an inflection point that may prove ABS revival succeed? to be more challenging than the commonwealth’s decision BY BORIS GROENDAHL this month to skip a bond payment for the first time. to the real economy by funding ABS to be set an average of 25 and supervisors to understand and ALASTAIR MARSH P After borrowing internally, omitting debt-service pay- assets such as trade receivables, percent below levels for other cash flows and where risks were ments and slowing tax rebates, the island is at risk of running which is exactly what regulators products set in December by hidden. The crisis also under- out of cash to fund day-to-day operations. Puerto Rico must raise hort-term securitiza- want,” said Jean David Cirotteau, the Basel Committee on Banking lined the importance of strong $400m through a bank loan or a sale of short-term securities by tions may qualify for senior ABS analyst at Societe Supervision. The commission underwriting in originating the November, Victor Suarez, Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla’s chief preferential capital Generale SA in Paris. “They objected at the time that the underlying assets and of govern- of staff, said Aug. 10 in San Juan. treatment in Europe as absolutely should be included in Basel rules would significantly ance, as well as the importance Garcia Padilla’s administration had already alienated creditors policy makers broaden the class of securitizations eligi- increase requirements even for of giving buyers the tools to before defaulting on $58m of bonds August 3 by saying they need Stheir drive to revive the asset- ble for better treatment.” highly rated products and should carry out their own assessment to restructure a $72bn debt burden that it can no longer sustain. backed debt market in response EU financial-services chief be reviewed. of the risks. Puerto Rico appears to be betting that investors will provide access to prompting from banks and Jonathan Hill proposed the Hill has also signaled that The European market for ABS to capital markets again once the commonwealth unveils a debt- asset managers. ABS overhaul along with the qualifying securitizations will was brought close to extinction restructuring proposal September 1. In the European Union plan commission’s Capital Markets receive more favourable capital in the financial crisis, and it has “They’re going to have some severe liquidity issues,” said David for overhauling the securitiza- Union plan, which aims to boost treatment in Solvency II, some- been slow to recover, even after Hitchcock, a Standard & Poor’s analyst in New York. “Without tion market, asset-backed com- financing for smaller compa- thing investors say is crucial for the European Central Bank cash-flow financing, they’re going to have a very difficult time trying mercial paper with an original nies and long-term projects to the EU’s ABS revival to succeed. began purchasing the securities to just pay for ongoing operations as well as their upcoming debt maturity of a year or less could fuel economic growth. Hill has “Unless changes are made last year. payments in the next six months.” be eligible for the “simple, promised to deliver an “action imminently, it is very unlikely Issuance in 2014 amounted It’s not clear how much operating cash Puerto Rico has on transparent and standardised” plan” next month, followed by that insurance companies will to 216bn euros ($241bn), down hand. The island’s Government Development Bank, which lends label that opens the door to “a comprehensive package on ever buy ABS again,” said Frank from a high of 819bn euros in to the commonwealth and its localities, stopped providing monthly capital relief, according to an securitization.” Erik Meijer, The Hague-based 2008, according to data from updates as of May, when it had $778m of net liquidity. That was undated draft of the European head of ABS at Aegon Asset the Association for Financial down from $2bn in October. Commission’s plan. BASEL RULES Management. Markets in Europe, which When the commission, the That package will include include bonds sold to inves- ANTICIPATION NOTES EU’s executive arm, proposed its “updated calibrations” of the SYNTHETIC tors as well as those retained Like most US states, Puerto Rico tends to sell tax-and- revenue high-quality asset-backed secu- capital requirements for ABS SECURITISATIONS by banks to use a collateral for anticipation notes in the first half of a fiscal year to help finance rities plan in February, it sought in the relevant laws for banks The commission document central bank funding. operating needs before revenue collections pick up. views on whether to include and insurers, the Capital doesn’t go so far as to make syn- Admitting simple and trans- When the GDB sold short-term debt in October, the last such asset-backed commercial paper Requirements Regulation and thetic securitisations, in which parent asset-backed commercial borrowing for the island, it paid a yield of 7.75 percent for notes for the first time. In response, Solvency II. credit derivatives are used to paper for preferential regula- that matured in eight months. The discount rate on benchmark UniCredit SpA, BlackRock Inc. The working paper says transfer risk, eligible for the tory treatment goes beyond the six-month US Treasury bills was around 0.05 percent at the time. and others argued that admit- CRR will be changed “in line high-quality label as the indus- Basel group’s criteria for “sim- Yields on an index of one-year Puerto Rico debt were 39 per- ting ABCP would benefit corpo- with the advice provided by the try had sought. ple, transparent and compara- cent Thursday, more than three times the average of 9.9 percent rate lending. European Banking Authority,” Complex securitizations ble” securitizations, issued last over the past two years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. “The vast majority of ABCP which has called for capital helped fuel the financial crisis month. Benchmark one-year municipal debt yields about 0.27 percent. is designed to provide funding requirements on high-quality by making it harder for investors BLOOMBERG

MOUNTING PAYMENTS “Whatever little good faith we had has been completely wiped out by this missed payment” by the Public Finance Corp., said Sergio Marxuach, public-policy director at the Center for a New Economy, a research group in San Juan. “And after November, things become a little more unclear.” Puerto Rico and its agencies face $1.4bn of principal and interest payments in December and January, including $357m for general- obligation debt. Borrowing another $400m may not be enough, Hitchcock said. In fiscal 2015, which ended June 30, the island sold $1.2bn of short- term debt and still ended the year with a projected budget gap of as much as $740mn. “Ability to access the market can be important for liquidity pur- poses,” Hitchcock said. “And we feel right now they have very limited market access, if any.”

WATER BONDS Puerto Rico may test market access as soon as next week. The island’s Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, known by the Spanish acro- nym Prasa, wants to sell $750m of bonds to fund capital improve- ments. While the bonds have a dedicated revenue source in the form of user fees, the agency still anticipates selling the debt at an average interest rate of at least 10 percent. Prasa bonds maturing July 2042 traded last Thursday at an average yield of 8.3 percent, or 67.6 cents on the dollar, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. “It would be amazing if they can get the deal done,” said Matt Dalton, chief executive office of Rye Brook, New York-based Belle Haven Investments, which manages $3bn of munis, including Puerto Rico. “I’m just not sure who they’re going to sell it to.” Even though Puerto Rico isn’t setting aside cash every month to make the general-obligation debt payment, officials anticipate the island will have the cash flow to pay the January debt bill, Chief of Staff Suarez told reporters in San Juan on August 10. Selling $400m of additional tax-and-revenue anticipation notes to outside investors would help finance day-to-day government operations beyond November, Suarez said. Without additional borrowing, the administration would need to consider unpaid furloughs, additional payment suspensions to suppliers or extending IOUs, Marxuach said. That would force residents and businesses to spend less and banks might actually start reducing the amount of credit they extend to companies with contracting work, he said. BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Investors pare bets as Abengoa may secure new funds

BY KATIE LINSELL and probably taking some profit,” said sales by the first quarter of 2016, ability to successfully execute the naming him to the international and doesn’t hold Abengoa’s bonds LUCA CASIRAGHI Steven Logan, the London-based in addition to the capital increase, capital increase,” Felix Fischer, advisory council. He gave up or stock. head of European high yield at according to a regulatory filing on a credit analyst at independ- the board position after joining Investors are concerned that nvestors reduced bets against Aberdeen Asset Management, August 3. ent research provider Lucror BlackRock and kept a position on the company’s debt structure is Abengoa SA amid specula- which manages $483bn. “There’s Investors have been looking Analytics in Singapore, said ear- the advisory council, Abengoa said opaque and difficult to under- tion the Spanish renewable- still a huge amount of execution more closely at Abengoa’s com- lier this week. Lucror has a hold on July 27. stand, he said. Seville-based Ienergy company may be able risk. Abengoa needs a transfor- plicated financial structure since recommendation on Abengoa’s Sanchez Ortega’s role as head Abengoa has hundreds of projects to secure new funds. mational capital raising to give November and betting that its bonds and credit swaps and sees of strategic development and head and subsidiaries, and raises fund- The probability of default sig- the company credibility.” plan wouldn’t be successful or its default risk as “high.” of BlackRock’s Latin American ing to build power lines, water naled by five-year credit-default Abengoa’s press office said “the sufficient. Total short positions on the infrastructure group is unre- plants, solar and biomass plants swaps dropped to 88 percent from process with the banks continues Credit-default swaps on company’s shares jumped to 8.5 lated to funds trading Abengoa’s worldwide. 94 percent yesterday, according advancing well,” while declining Abengoa were the most traded in percent of equity on August 7 securities, said Stephen White, a The company classifies short- to data provider CMA DE Shaw to elaborate. It previously said its the world last week and signaled from 6.68 percent on July 24, spokesman for the world’s biggest term bridge financing for projects & Co and BlackRock Inc pared credit-default swaps don’t repre- a record 97 percent probability according to Spanish securi- money manager in London. as “non-recourse debt in proc- short positions in the company’s sent the company’s creditworthi- of default within five years last ties regulator CNMV DE Shaw Abengoa’s 500m euros of 6 ess,” even though it’s guaranteed stock. ness or the value of its assets. Wednesday, up from 65 percent in cut its short to 1.37 percent of percent notes maturing March by the parent. When projects are Abengoa is seeking to raise “Abengoa owns a number of January. They’re still the second- Abengoa’s equity from 1.48 per- 2021 rose to 56.5 cents yesterday completed, Abengoa refinances capital and dispose of assets to cut very valuable businesses and highest of any company or coun- cent on Thursday. from a record low of 45 cents. the loans with long-term debt some of its 9.8bn euros ($10.9bn) assets,” the company e-mailed in try after Venezuela, according to BlackRock, which hired The 265m euros of 5.5 percent that doesn’t have a claim on the of gross debt and bolster its cash response to questions. “We con- data provider CMA. Abengoa’s former Chief Executive notes due October 2019 issued by company. position. It’s discussing options tinue to make progress both in A total of 545 contracts cover- Officer Manuel Sanchez Ortega Abengoa Greenfield SA climbed to Until November, all of including a larger share sale than the capital increase and the dives- ing a gross $495m of Abengoa’s last month, reduced its position to 54 cents last Wednesday. Abengoa’s bonds were catego- previously planned and finding titure plan.” debt changed hands last week, 0.85 percent from 1.28 percent on rised as corporate debt. Then, an anchor investor from Europe Depository Trust & Clearing Wednesday across its BlackRock OPAQUE STRUCTURE it reclassified some bonds as or the Middle East to underpin BANK ADVISERS Corp. data shows. Investment Management UK “The CDS and bond prices non-recourse-in-process bridge the offering, according to people Banks are advising Abengoa to Ltd. and BlackRock Institutional suggest that the market believes financing. The move surprised familiar with the matter, who raise about 800m euros, instead CUTTING SHORTS Trust Company units. that a default is a real possibil- creditors, even though it was asked not to be identified because of the 650m euros previously “An increasing number of mar- Abengoa said in May that ity,” David Newman, head of high allowed in the documentation of the deliberations are private. No announced, according to the ket participants view a default of Sanchez Ortega left for “strictly yield at Rogge Global Partners in those specific securities and still decision has been made, they said. people. The company said it will the company as a likely scenario personal reasons” and would London, said earlier this week. had corporate guarantees. “Investors with shorts are complete 500m euros of asset and don’t believe in Abengoa’s remain a board member, while Rogge manages more than $50bn BLOOMBERG SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com CLASSIFIEDS

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MONTREAL: World number one Novak Djokovic, second seed Andy Murray and three- Dustin Johnson of the United States plays his shot from the 16th tee time champion Rafa Nadal during the first round of the 2015 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits were all cheered into the quar- on Thursday in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. ter-finals of the Rogers Cup on Thursday while controversial Australian Nick Kyrgios exited to boos and a hefty fine. Johnson takes PGA lead; Djokovic, also a three time winner on the Canadian hard- Novak Djokovic courts, needed only 54 minutes of Serbia to complete a 6-2, 6-1 demolition hits the ball Spieth, McIlroy card 71s of American Jack Sock while against Jack Murray was equally economic in Sock of the KOHLER, WISCONSIN: to hit,” Johnson said of his open- disposing of Luxembourg’s Gilles United States Dustin Johnson, so often the ing round in the year’s fourth and Muller 6-3, 6-2 in just over an (not pictured) nearly man in recent majors, final major. hour. during their stayed patient and took advan- Fellow Americans Matt Nadal, finding his hardcourt third round tage of relatively calm early Kuchar, Russell Henley, Harris footing coming off a clay court win match at conditions to stand one stroke English, JB Holmes and Scott in Hamburg, produced a snappy clear after the opening round Piercy, Australians Jason Day and Rogers Cup 6-3, 6-3 victory over Russian qual- of the PGA Championship on Matt Jones, and New Zealander at Uniprix ifier Mikhail Youzhny as Japanese Thursday. Danny Lee opened with 68s on the fourth seed Kei Nishikori rolled Stadium in While most golf fans eagerly visually spectacular but challeng- to a 6-4, 6-4 win over 13th seed Montreal on awaited the ‘Rory and Jordan’ ing links-style layout. David Goffin. Thursday. show that was to unfold in World number one Rory While there were plenty of the afternoon at McIlroy and cheers in be heard across the Whistling Straits, second-ranked Montreal tennis complex on the long-hitting PGA Scores Jordan Spieth, Thursday few were for Kyrgios American racked up -6 Dustin Johnson (US) 66 who between who entered his match to boos an eagle at the par- -5 David Lingmerth (Sweden) 67 them have won and exited the same way after five 16th, five birdies -4 J.B. Holmes (US) 68 four of the last falling 7-5, 6-3 to big-hitting and a bogey to card Jason Day (Australia) 68 five majors American John Isner. a six-under-par 66. Harris English (US) 68 played, were The Australian had insulted Swede David Danny Lee (New Zealand) 68 among the late Swiss opponent Stan Wawrinka Lingmerth, who Matt Jones (Australia) 68 starters in a on Wednesday during their sec- won his first Russell Henley (US) 68 marquee group- ond round encounter. It was all calm on centre court turning point, going up 3-2 in the the doubles losing to his brother PGA Tour title Matt Kuchar (US) 68 ing with British Prior to the match the ATP where Djokovic got off to a slug- first set. Then I was in control,” Jamie. The doubles match won at the Memorial Scott Piercy (US) 68 Open champion had fined Kyrgios $10,000, the gish start but after breaking to he added. by Jamie Murray and Australian Tournament in -3 James Morrison (Britain) 69 Zach Johnson. maximum penalty available, for go up 3-2 the 28-year-old Serb Djokovic continues to dominate John Peers 6-4 7-6(9) marked June, recorded the Justin Rose (Britain) 69 “It was a solid remarks directed at Wawrinka was in complete control with the at the ATP Tour’s biggest events, the first time the two Murray’s best score in the Brendan Steele (US) 69 round of golf,” about his girlfriend picked up by Sock managing just a single break running his Masters 1000 winning played against each other as tougher afternoon Thomas Bjorn (Denmark) 69 said McIlroy, a courtside microphone. chance, which he was unable to streak to 28 matches. professionals. conditions as winds after returning With Isner serving for the convert. Coming off an opening match “It’s not ideal, not a situation gusted up to 28 mph (45 kph), to competition for the first time match there were more boos for “At the beginning of the match loss in Washington last week, I want to be in all of the time,” firing a six-birdie 67 to finish a in 40 days. “Happy with the way Kyrgios who lost his cool again I think we were both a bit rusty,” Murray has also finding his foot- Andy told reporters. stroke off the pace. I struck the ball.” engaging in a heated exchange said Djokovic. ing on the Canadian hardcourts “Doubles is Jamie’s career. I It was a rewarding and timely Masters and US Open cham- with a spectator yelling “You’re “But I just managed to make advancing to the final eight in support him every single week,” opening round for Johnson, who pion Spieth was delighted with so tough man, so tough”. the crucial break. That was the singles but crashed out later in he added. REUTERS five years ago incurred a two- the grit that he displayed during stroke penalty on the final hole of a round highlighted by a chip-in the last PGA Championship to be for birdie at the par-three 12th. Rogers Cup played here that cost him a spot Among the other big names in Williams barely breaks sweat in a play-off for the title. the field, twice Masters champion Results “I thought I did a great job of Bubba Watson and five-times just staying patient, hitting the major winner Phil Mickelson to reach Toronto quarter-finals Men’s Third Round shots that the course allowed me carded even-par 72s. REUTERS 4-Kei Nishikori (Japan) bt 13-David Goffin TORONTO: World number and was coming off her fourth (Belgium) 6-4 6-4; 7-Rafa Nadal (Spain) bt Changkija shares lead in Portland one Serena Williams continued title of 2015 after winning last Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) 6-3 6-3; 16-John her dominance over Germany’s week’s Stanford tournament. Isner (US) bt Nick Kyrgios (Australia) 7-5 6-3; Andrea Petkovic with a 6-3, 6-2 Halep served well, especially Ernests Gulbis (Latvia) bt Donald Young (US) victory in the third round of the in the third set where she rallied 6-4 6-4; 2-Andy Murray (Britain) bt Gilles WTA Rogers Cup on Thursday. from a 3-2 deficit. Muller (Luxembourg) 6-3 6-2; Jeremy Top seed Williams hammered Halep held serve to make Chardy (France) bt Ivo Karlovic (Croatia) 28 winners and blasted nine aces it three-all and after the two 4-6 7-6(1) 6-4; 1-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) to beat the 16th seeded Petkovic traded breaks to get to four-all bt Jack Sock (US) 6-2 6-1; 10-Jo-Wilfried for the fifth straight time. she roared home by winning the Tsonga (France) bt Bernard Tomic (Australia) “I think I served better than in final two games at love to oust the 7-6(7) 6-3; 5-Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) bt Polona my first match. It was a big dif- number 13-seeded Kerber. Hercog (Slovenia) 6-2 6-3. ference,” Williams said. “I think I played better than “I still think I have a tremen- yesterday,” Halep said. Women’s Third Round dous amount of improvement to Serena Williams “I feel more confident now. My do off the ground and everywhere serve didn’t work very well, but I 1-Serena Williams (US) bt 16-Andrea else.” returned well. So I’m really happy Petkovic (Germany) 6-3 6-2; 15-Sara Williams, who never faced 6-4, 6-3 win. Williams has beaten that I could win this match. I was Errani (Italy) bt Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) a break point and held all nine Vinci in all three of their previous fighting until the end.” 7-5 6-3; 6-Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) bt of her service games in the meetings, losing just 14 games in Awaiting Halep is defending Alize Cornet (France) 6-2 4-6 6-4; 2-Simona Halep (Romania) bt 13-Angelique Kerber 62-minute match on center court, total. champion Agnieszka Radwanska, (Germany) 6-3 5-7 6-4; Belinda Bencic barely broke a sweat Thursday. Second seed Simona Halep who rallied from 4-2 down in the (Switzerland) bt Sabine Lisicki (Germany) The 33-year-old American smashed an ace on match point third set to edge Alize Cornet 6-2, 6-1 1-6 7-6(3); Lesia Tsurenko (Ukraine) bt Sandra Changkija lines up a putt on the 9th hole during the first round advances to the quarter-finals to defeat red-hot Angelique 4-6, 6-4. Carina Witthoeft (Germany) 6-3 6-4; Roberta of the LPGA Cambia Portland Classic at Columbia Edgewater Country where she will face Roberta Vinci Kerber 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 and reach the In the late match, fifth seeded Vinci (Italy) bt Daria Gavrilova (Russia) 6-4 Club on Thursday in Portland, Oregon. Changkija and Amy Anderson who snapped the win streak of quarter-finals. Ana Ivanovic cruised past quali- 6-3. shot identical seven-under 65s to share the lead after the first round. rising star Daria Gavrilova with a Kerber had won seven in a row fier Polona Hercog 6-2, 6-3. AFP

MLB: Chicago Fraser-Pryce thinks twice on sprint double Cubs outsmart KINGSTON: For someone with as it seemed. “No, I’m not con- to win the world sprint double on Brewers 9-2 such single-minded focus on the testing the 200m, I’ve said that a two occasions, Fraser-Pryce can NEW YORK: Shelly-Ann track, Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann long time,” the 28-year-old said now focus solely on her attempt The Chicago Fraser-Pryce Fraser-Pryce has shown a dis- from her training camp in Italy to become the first woman to win Cubs slammed three home tinct lack of decisiveness when on Wednesday. three 100m titles at the world runs in an inning for the first of Jamaica it comes to deciding whether Fraser-Pryce has only com- championships. time since 2008 en route to a competes in she will defend both of her world peted over the half-lap on one The now disgraced American 9-2 victory over the Milwaukee the women’s sprint titles this month. occasion this season, logging Marion Jones won back-to-back Brewers. 100m heats Ahead of the Stockholm 22.37 seconds at the Jamaica titles in 1997 and 1999 and in Dexter Fowler, lKyle Schwarber during the Diamond League in late July, she Invitational on May 9 in Kingston. Beijing Fraser-Pryce could bet- and Anthony Rizzo excelled in the Diamond said running in the 200m as well In the 100m, though, she owns ter the tally she matched with her victory. AGENCIES League London as the 100m at the world champi- three of the five fastest times this gold medals in Berlin in 2009 and Grand Prix onships was still “possible”, before year, including the quickest with Moscow in 2013. Baseball Results athletics meet ruling it out in early August. the 10.74 she ran in Paris in early The fourth fastest woman of NY Mets 12 Colorado 3 at Crystal On Tuesday, however, she was July. all time courtesy of the 10.70 she Toronto 4 Oakland 2 Palace in listed in the Jamaican team for Gold medals in the blue riband ran in Kingston in 2012, Fraser- Texas 6 Minnesota 5 Beijing as running in the 100m, sprint at the Beijing and London Pryce has run below 10.80 seconds London, Chi Cubs 9 Milwaukee 2 200m and 4x100m – the three Olympics have already established 10 times over her career. Britain, in this NY Yankees 8 Cleveland 6 events in which she won an her beyond doubt as one of the “Training has been going good July 14, 2012 Pittsburgh 10 St Louis 5 file photo. unprecedented haul of gold med- greatest ever women sprinters so far,” she added. als at the 2013 world champion- but Fraser-Pryce still has goals. “As it relates to time I will need LA Angels 7 Kansas City 6 ships in Moscow. Although she is giving up the to just execute and see what hap- Cincinnati 10 LA Dodgers 3 All, though, was apparently not chance to become the first woman pens.” REUTERS San Francisco 3 Washington 1 SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 Chandimal’s unbeaten 162 turns the tables on India Visitors 23-1 as they chase tricky 176-run target to win opening Test Steve Smith talks to the media after he was announced as the GALLE: Dinesh Chandimal seventh with Jehan Mubarak (49) new Australian captain, yesterday smashed an unbeaten 162 off 169 to frustrate India’s bid to force an in Northampton. balls to lead a brilliant revival early win. by Sri Lanka on the third day Chandimal and Thirimanne, of the first Test against India at who joined hands before lunch Galle yesterday. with their team still 98 runs away Smith named The hosts, who trailed India by from wiping the deficit, batted 192 runs in the first innings, were through a major part of the post- reduced to 95-5 in their second lunch session. Australia’s new knock before Chandimal launched As the pair settled down, the an audacious counter-attack to Indians were left to rue the Test captain steer his team away from immi- refusal by their powerful cricket nent disaster. board to use the Decision Review SYDNEY: Batsman Steve Sri Lanka went on to make 367, System (DRS) for their bilateral Smith was yesterday named setting India a tricky target of 176 matches. Australia’s new Test captain runs to take the lead in the three- Both batsmen were fortunate to to replace Michael Clarke, match series. get into double figures after sur- who announced his retirement India ended the day at a shaky viving three appeals for catches after his side’s drubbing in the 23 for one after Lokesh Rahul was close to the wicket – two against current Ashes series, Cricket trapped leg-before by Rangana Chandimal and one against Australia said. Herath for five. First-innings cen- Thirimanne – in a 10-minute David Warner, 28, will be the tury-maker Shikhar Dhawan was period before lunch. Test team’s vice-captain. unbeaten on 13 and nightwatch- Replays showed all three Smith, who skippered Australia man Ishant Sharma was on five. catches were clean, but the in Tests against India during the The 25-year-old Chandimal absence of DRS meant India could last home season when Clarke hit four sixes – one of them a not ask for reviews from the tel- was sidelined with a hamstring spectacular reverse sweep off evision umpire. Sri Lankan cricketer Dinesh Chandimal celebrates his century injury, was the natural choice for Harbhajan Singh over the mid- Chandimal said aggressive bat- during the third day of the opening Test against India at the the position, Cricket Australia wicket boundary – and 19 bound- ting had been necessary after five Galle International Cricket Stadium, yesterday. RIGHT: Kumar said. aries in his fourth Test century. wickets had fallen and praised Sangakkara raises his bat to the crowd as he walks to the “When Michael made his deci- Chandimal put on 125 for Thirimanne and Mubarak for pavilion after his dismissal during the third day. Sangakkara sion to retire last week it was a the sixth wicket with Lahiru their support at the other end. 37, is due to retire and will play his last Test in Colombo. very straightforward decision Thirimanne (44) and 82 for the “I am really very happy with for us to nominate Steve as his successor,” national selector Rod the way I handled the situation catches in the Test -- three in I am confident we can win the Marsh said in a statement. Scoreboard today with the help of Thirimanne the first innings and five in the match.” “He has big shoes to fill but SRI LANKA (I INNINGS): ...... 183 Total (all out) ...... 367 and Mubarak,” he said. second. Ashwin finished with 10 wick- everything about him suggests “The wicket was turning and Rahane said he had worked ets in the match, having taken six he is the right man for the job. INDIA (I INNINGS): ...... 375 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-1, 3-5, 4-92, 5-95, there was a lot of pressure on us. hard on his fielding and catching in the first innings and four in the At 26, he is a fine young man with SRI LANKA (II INNINGS): 6-220, 7-302, 8-319, 9-360, 10-367 But it was also important to score close to the wicket, but celebrat- second. extraordinary talent, excellent D Karunaratne b Ashwin ...... 0 Bowling: Ashwin 28.2-6-114-4; Mishra 17-2- K Silva b Mishra ...... 0 runs instead of just staying at the ing the new record was not on his Earlier, Kumar Sangakkara leadership qualities and a terrific 61-3 (nb2); Harbhajan 17-0-73-1; Aaron 7-0- wicket. mind. scored 40 in his penultimate Test temperament. D Prasad c Rahane b Aaron ...... 3 39-1 (w8); Ishant 13-0-77-1 (nb6). K Sangakkara c Rahane b Ashwin ...... 40 “It is my best innings but the “I was surprised when team- and captain Angelo Mathews “He is highly regarded by the India (II innings): A Mathews c Rahul b Mishra ...... 39 value of my hundred will be mates told me of the record, but made 39, the pair adding 87 for selectors and we congratulate him L Rahul lbw Herath ...... 5 D Chandimal (not out) ...... 162 known if we win the match. The my focus now is entirely how we the fourth wicket after Sri Lanka on being appointed to the role on L Thirimanne c Rahane b Ashwin ...... 44 S Dhawan (batting) ...... 13 happiness of winning the match bat tomorrow,” the Indian bats- lost nightwatchman Dhammika an ongoing basis. He should be J Mubarak c Rahane b Harbhajan ...... 49 I Sharma (batting) ...... 5 will be greater than the happiness man said. “We have to take it by Prasad off the first ball of the incredibly proud.” R Herath c Rahane b Mishra ...... 1 Total (for 1 wkt) ...... 23 of scoring a hundred. the session, but we also have to be match to make it 5-3. Smith, who was widely expected T Kaushal c Saha b Ishant ...... 7 Fall of wicket: 1-12. Ajinkya Rahane set a new positive and ensure the runs keep Sangakkara received a stand- to replace Clarke and whose N Pradeep b Ashwin ...... 3 Bowling: Prasad 2-1-2-0; Herath 3-0-13-1; world record for most catches flowing. The morning session will ing ovation from some 1,500 home appointment was endorsed at by a fielder other than a wicket- be very crucial. fans as he walked back after play- Cricket Australia’s August board Extras (B-3, W-8, NB-8)...... 19 Kaushal 3-1-8-0. keeper when he claimed eight “Batting is our strength and ing final innings in Galle. AFP meeting yesterday, will also be Australia’s T20 captain during Sri Lanka XI wins Six-Nation Cup in Doha their tour of the British Isles, due Delhi police to appeal to Aaron Finch’s injury. The meeting also endorsed a recommendation that open- ing batsman Warner serve as IPL fixing acquittal Smith’s deputy in Test matches and become vice-captain in the NEW DELHI: Police in Delhi Sreesanth and two of his team- upcoming one-day international announced plans yesterday to mates from the Rajasthan Royals series in Ireland and Britain. appeal a lower court’s verdict franchise, Ajit Chandila and Australia’s next Test series is to clear former Test fast bowler Ankeet Chavan, were arrested against Bangladesh in September Shanthakumaran Sreesanth in May 2013 along with scores of and October. and two team-mates of spot-fix- bookies as part of a police inves- Marsh said Warner, who has ing during the Indian Premier tigation into allegations that attracted controversy over sev- League (IPL). players had under performed in eral incidents including punch- Special commissioner SN return for cash. ing England’s Joe Root in 2013, Srivastava said police had care- The 32-year-old Sreesanth, had “matured and developed into fully studied the observations who played 27 Tests for India, was an important senior figure in the made by the trial court and alleged to have been paid tens of Australian team. He has come a decided to file an appeal before thousands of dollars after agree- long way,” Marsh said. the end of this month. ing to deliberately bowl badly. “He had valuable experience “The court has appreciated our Last month, the court cleared captaining the Sunrisers in the efforts in bringing forth the con- the trio of all charges, saying its IPL (Indian Premier League) ear- tamination in sport especially in hands were tied because of the lier this year.” the IPL,” Srivastava told report- existing laws of the land. Clarke, 34, announced he was ers in the capital. Gambling is mostly illegal retiring after England completed “We have sufficient evidence to in India, but betting on cricket a crushing innings and 78-run go for an appeal.” matches thrives through under- victory at Trent Bridge in fourth The players were acquitted only ground networks of bookies. Sri Lanka XI players pose for a group photo along with the QAC officials after winning the Indo-Pak Six Nation Test to take an unbeatable 3-1 because of a lack of a specific law IPL has been dogged by contro- Cricket Cup 2015 at Doha Cricket Stadium in Doha, recently. Sri Lanka XI claimed the title after defeating Pakistan lead in the five-match Ashes to deal with a crime such as spot- versies ever since its first edition XI in the final. PICTURE BY: ABDUL BASIT series. He will play his final Test fixing, he added. in 2008. AFP at the Oval this month. AFP MotoGP: Lorenzo tops crash-filled free practices at Brno

BRNO, Czech Republic: Spain’s ahead of the Italian duo of Andrea Yamaha Jorge Lorenzo, on a Yamaha, set Dovizioso on a Ducati and cham- Czech GP Combined Free Practice Times MotoGP the fastest time inyesterday’s pionship leader Valentino Rossi MotoGP driver Jorge eventful, crash-filled MotoGP on a Yamaha. 1. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) 1min 56.499sec, 2. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) at 0.014sec, 3. free practice ahead of the Czech The nine-time world cham- Lorenzo of Andrea Iannone (ITA/Ducati) 0.251, 4. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 0.285, 5. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/ Republic Grand Prix in Brno pion across all categories, Rossi Spain looks Ducati) 0.322, tomorrow. leads the overall standings with Moto2 on before In scorching heat, the 28-year- 195 points after 10 out of the sea- 1. Tito Rabat (ESP/Kalex) 2min 02.714sec, 2. Thomas Luthi (SUI/Kalex) at 0.097sec, 3. Simone Corsi the second old MotoGP champion from 2010 son’s 18 MotoGP races, ahead of (ITA/Kalex) 0.167, 4. Johann Zarco (FRA/Kalex) 0.260, 5. Sandro Cortese (GER/Kalex) 0.319 free practice and 2012 clocked 1min 56.499sec Lorenzo with 186 and Marquez, session on the 5.4-kilometre (3.36-mile) the 2013 and 2014 overall cham- Moto3 of the circuit in the morning practice. pion, with 139. 1. Danny Kent (GBR/Honda) 2min 08.483, 2. Brad Binder (RSA/KTM) at 0.167sec, 3. Niccolo Antonelli Motorcycling Reigning champion Marc Among the top six riders yes- (ITA/Honda) 0.181, 4. Efren Vazquez (ESP/Honda) 0.217, 5. Romano Fenati (ITA/KTM) 0.425, Grand Prix Marquez of Spain, on a Honda, terday, only Marquez and Iannone of the Czech came second, just 0.014sec behind managed to improve in the after- afternoon but resumed the prac- Mike Di Meglio also crashed at Republic Lorenzo after topping the after- noon session. tice, while Pedrosa was less for- the end of the second practice at Masaryk noon practice. With the tarmac heated tunate, walking straight to the session. Circuit in Italy’s Andrea Iannone, on a up to 50 degrees Celsius (122 mobile clinic with ice on his left Defending Moto2 champion Brno, Czech Ducati, took the third spot, trail- Fahrenheit), Marquez ran off the foot following a crash early in the Tito Rabat dominated the prac- Republic, ing Lorenzo by 0.251sec. track in the morning practice and afternoon session. tice in his category while Moto3 yesterday. Marquez’s team-mate and crashed at the end of the after- “Dani Pedrosa is OK!” the clinic championship leader Danny Kent compatriot Dani Pedrosa, the noon session. later said on Twitter. of Britain topped the Moto3 prac- 2014 Brno winner, came fourth Rossi also crashed in the Dovizioso, Bradley Smith and tice standings. AFP Most Popular Bangladeshi Newspaper

SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 PROTHOM ALO WEEKLY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Published every Thursday 22 Available in all leading stores in Qatar       Tel: 4465 0600 Email: [email protected] Hosts Russia break Qatar hearts Youth World Championship: Maroons fail to enter last-16 stage after 28-33 defeat

YEKATERINBURG, Russia: Hosts Russia claimed a 33-28 victory over Qatar in their final Group C match, ending chances of the Gulf handball giants to reach the Eighth-Finals (last 16) of the 2015 IHF Men’s A Qatari player Youth World Championship in (right) bursts Yekaterinburg, yesterday. into tears after Though the score line was equal his team’s after ten minutes (5:5), Qatar loss against appeared to have the upper hand Russia in their with well-structured attack led by Moustafa Heiba and Ahmed final Group C Abdelrhem once again putting match at the on an exceptional performance in Men’s Youth goal, saving several difficult shots World Handball that should have been easy goals Championship for Russia and only just missing in most of the goals that made their Yekaterinburg, way past him. Russia, Buoyed by the home crowd, yesterday. Russia took the upper hand with RIGHT: Qatari a fast break goal from right wing coach Julian Vladislav Razmaev taking them Gomez two in front midway through the gestures during half (8:6). They kept the lead as the match. the half continued, gaining a four- goal advantage by the 25th minute (14:10) as Qatar looked to be run- ning out of ideas. Abdelrhem was substituted out for Bilal Lepenica as the defence in front of him were unable to find an answer for the Russia attack. Russia kept their lead at the just five players on the field, with while Omar Abdelfattah tallied defence we had to make a differ- tomorrow in the Placement front by three in the eighth (5-2). break, and held it through the Victor Furtsev and Heiba both seven for Qatar. ent system. rounds. In other match Denmark At midway through the half second half. out on two-minute suspensions. Qatar coach Julian Gomez said “But I think my team fought. outclassed Switzerland 34-23. Denmark led by four (8-4) with As the clock neared the 50th Divs arena erupted when penalties were what let his team Today we hoped to win at least It was all about Denmark Lenny Rubin responsible for minute, the hosts retained a two- Russia hit a five-goal lead inside down: one point and continue. Now the from the first whistle to the keeping his side in touch, having goal advantage. When Russia the last minute (33:28) – and it “I think we played face to face change room is absolutely down last. A strong ground shot from scored three of Switzerland’s goals keeper Iyrii Sergeev saved a was not only the crowd who were with the best teams from Europe – players are probably crying, right back Mathias Bitsch took and setting up right wing Cedrie Qatar penalty in the 48th, they celebrating. Croatia, watching the but our problem is the seven which is normal, absolutely nor- the score to 3-1 in favour of the Tynowski in the 17th to put the had edged ahead by three (25:22). games from the stands, booked metres, even with different play- mal. Now my job is to recover the Scandinavian side just after the score at 9-5. Razmaev (five goals total) their Eighth-Finals spot with ers. I feel we are out of this com- team before we play Japan. Our fifth minute, with Lasse Moller Albin Alili, was kept quiet by scored a fast break in the 52nd Russia’s victory. petition because we made many, players have to learn about this. adding his second and Nicolaj the Denmark defence, scoring his and Russia pulled ahead to a four- The top scorer of the game was many mistakes on seven metres. It’s the sport.” Norager his first – also both first in the 18th (9:6). goal advantage as both teams had Sergei Bolotin with eight goals, Also, without our main players in Qatar will now face Japan ground shots – to put Denmark in THE PENINSULA

Mourinho South Africa confirms Platini gets major FIFA boost down NZ by demotion of with Sheikh Salman backing six wickets Chelsea medics DURBAN: South Africa beat LONDON: FIFA presiden- bid. A Platini team spokesman New Zealand by six wickets in COBHAM, UK: Chelsea man- tial candidate Michel Platini said: “Michel Platini is pleased the first Twenty20 international ager Jose Mourinho confirmed has won the key backing of with the official show of support at Kingsmead yesterday. reports that team doctor Eva the head of the Asian Football from Sheikh Salman. This clearly The home side reached their Carneiro and head physio- Confederation, Sheikh Salman illustrates that the UEFA presi- target of 152 with 13 balls to spare. therapist Jon Fearn have been Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of dent is a global candidate who has It was the first match of a short removed from match-day duties, Bahrain. been able to garner support from tour during which New Zealand but said it was not permanent. Sheikh Salman said in a state- outside Europe as well as within will play another Twenty20 Mourinho was angered when ment backing the UEFA president it.” international and three one-day Carneiro and Fearn ran on yesterday that the world govern- FIFA was thrown into tur- internationals. to treat Eden Hazard during ing body would “need a leadership moil in May when US prosecu- Earlier, New Zealand made last weekend’s 2-2 draw with with experience, wisdom and abil- tors announced the indictment 151 for eight, after being put into Swansea City, which temporar- ity to bring back stability to FIFA. of nine current and former soc- bat first, but the tourists looked ily left Chelsea with nine players “Mr. Platini boasts such char- cer officials, many of whom had on track for a much bigger total due to Thibaut Courtois’s earlier acteristics and has an ambitious FIFA positions, and five sports before Guptill was run out for 42 dismissal. vision to renew belief in the Sheikh Salman Al Khalifa Michel Platini marketing executives. All candi- off the third ball of the 13th over Reports emerged on Tuesday organisation,” he said. dates must gain the nomination after the Black Caps reached 102 that Carneiro and Fearn would no The news will be particular who is standing down following are former Brazil great Zico, of five national federations and for one. AGENCIES longer attend matches or train- welcome for the early frontrunner the organisation’s corruption Liberian FA chairman Musa submit their candidature to FIFA ing sessions, but while Mourinho Platini given his closest challenger scandals. Bility and ex-Trinidad and Tobago by October 26 when they will also Scoreboard said they would not be on the to emerge so far is an Asian can- While Sheikh Salman’s midfielder David Nakhid. be subject to an integrity check. bench for tomorrow’s game at didate -- South Korean former endorsement is a personal one Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of The 60-year-old Platini is a NEW ZEALAND Manchester City, it was not a FIFA vice-president Chung at this stage he made it clear he Jordan, who was defeated by former France international M Guptill (run out-Behardien) ...... 42 permanent move. Mong-joon. wanted his region to be united in Blatter in May’s election, could who also played for Italian giants K Williamson st Van Wyk b Phangiso ...... 42 “Jon Fearn and Dr Carneiro FIFA will hold an elective con- the vote “for the good of Asian be another Asian candidate while Juventus. He later coached the G Worker lbw Phangiso ...... 28 will not be on the bench, but it gress on February 26 to decide football.” South African businessman and French national team before mov- C Munro c De Villiers b Wiese ...... 0 doesn’t mean Sunday is the rest on the replacement for out- Other candidates who have former political prisoner Tokyo ing into football administration. G Elliott c Rossouw b Wiese ...... 5 of our season or our careers,” going president Sepp Blatter, declared there intention to run Sexwale is weighing up his own REUTERS L Ronchi (run out-Wiese) ...... 5 Mourinho told journalists at his T Latham c Morkel b Rabada ...... 12 weekly press conference. N McCullum c De Villiers b Rabada ...... 2 “They won’t be on the bench D Bracewell (not out) ...... 7 on Sunday. That’s clear, it’s my City ready to give Chelsea first blow A Milne (not out) ...... 2 decision, my responsibility, but it Extras (B-3, LB-2, W-1) ...... 6 doesn’t mean they won’t be in the Total (for 8 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 151 future.” LONDON: Manuel Pellegrini two Premier League title-winning Manchester City’s Fall of wickets: 1-68, 2-102, 3-102, 4-118, Mourinho did not disclose why says it is too early to throw a sides in 2012 and 2014, failed to Vincent Kompany 5-125, 6-138, 7-142, 8-142. Carneiro and Fearn had been knockout punch in the Premier make the same impact at the Bowling: Abbott 4-0-27-0; Rabada 4-0-29- sidelined for the trip to the Etihad League title race but the (right) celebrates Etihad last season. after scoring 2 (1w); Morkel 4-0-37-0; Wiese 4-0-24-2; Stadium, but said that he had a Manchester City manager is However, the Ivorian was back Phangiso 4-0-29-2. during the Premier “very, very good relationship” hoping to land the first blow to his imperious best against West SOUTH AFRICA League match with his medical department. against champions Chelsea Brom, scoring City’s second goal M N van Wyk c Worker b Bracewell ...... 19 Speaking after the Swansea tomorrow. against West from the edge of the box, and H M Amla c Latham b Milne ...... 48 game, Mourinho said that City began their campaign with Bromwich Albion Pellegrini believes Toure will play A B de Villiers c McCullum b Worker ...... 33 Carneiro and Fearn had been a comfortable 3-0 win at West in Birmingham, an integral part in the club’s bid R R Rossouw c Ronchi b McClenaghan ....38 “impulsive and naive” by going Bromwich Albion on Monday and Britain, in this to regain the title. D A Miller (not out) ...... 2 on to treat Hazard and said their three points against Chelsea, who August 10, 2015 “Every player has good and bad F Behardien (not out) ...... 4 behaviour showed that they did drew 2-2 with Swansea City on file photo. games. I hope he can continue Extras (LB-5, W-2, NB-1) ...... 8 not “understand the game”. Saturday, would give Pellegrini’s from Monday because he played Total (for 4 wkts in 17.5 overs) ...... 152 His conduct has been criticised men a five-point advantage over very well,” the Chilean said. Fall of wickets :1-35, 2-85, 3-144, 4-147. by several groups represent- the champions. champions and the best team Manchester United, Liverpool and “Yaya last season, as every Bowling: D A J Bracewell 3-0-17-1; A F ing medical professionals work- “We are not thinking about from last season,” Pellegrini told Tottenham Hotspur, so to try to player, had good games and bad Milne 3.5-0-23-1 (1w); M J McClenaghan ing in English football, including the title in the second game but a news conference yesterday. win the three points here at home games. He’s done very well this 3-0-33-1 (1nb); G H Worker 2-0-19-1 (1w); the Premier League Doctors’ we are thinking about trying to “Especially also against one of is very important for our team.” season. All of us hope that he will N L McCullum 4-0-34-0; G D Elliott 1-0-12- Group and the Football Medical win our points here at home, the teams that has a lot of chances Midfield powerhouse Yaya continue because he has done very 0; K S Williamson 1-0-9-0. Association. 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Prayer Timings Weather Hazy at first becom- ing hot during the day with some clouds Fajr 03.41 am Zuhr 11.40 am Maghrib 06.16 pm Minimum: 33o C Maximum: 41o C Shorook 05.04 am Asr 03.08 pm Isha 07.46 pm and humid with hazy HIGH TIDE 05:00 - 17:45LOW TIDE 00:15 - 10:30 to misty at places by night. Grateful refugee Yatch destroyed names her child ‘Angela Merkel’

BERLIN: A Ghanaian refugee who has been granted asylum in Germany named her newborn daughter after Chancellor Angela Merkel in gratitude for being allowed to stay in the country. Ophelya Ade, 26, who comes from a small town near the Ghanaian capital Accra, called the child Angela Merkel Ade, the registry office in Hanover said. Nadine Heese, a spokeswoman for Germany’s Red Cross which runs the shelter where Ade lives, told Reuters that Ade wanted to express her gratitude towards Merkel, who she considers to be a “great woman”. The child was born in the central German city on Feb. 2, but German news media only reported it this week. In July, Merkel was confronted by a young Palestinian girl on a television show who politely explained her family might be sent back to Lebanon after four years in Germany. After the girl started crying, Merkel stroked her back but told her that Germany could not admit everyone who wanted to live there. That family has not yet been deported. Germany approved Ade’s application for asylum earlier this year and issued her with a three-year residency permit. Record numbers of migrants are arriving in western Europe, many fleeing the war in Syria and other conflicts or poverty, straining EU countries’ ability to cope. Germany processed nearly 160,000 asylum applications in the first half of 2015, and expects more than 450,000 migrants to arrive this year, a record. The European Union last month failed to agree on how to share out 40,000 asylum seekers recently arrived in Greece and Italy. REUTERS The British registered ‘Baby Iris’ yatch is destroyed at sea by the Kenya defence force after drugs were found on board yesterday. Anti-narcotic officers said they found some 7.1kg of heroine that is said to have been on the vessel, and which was seized by the Kenyan authorities in April. Nonsense museum spreads comic relief for thousands HERRNBAUMGARTEN, necessarily translate into another which manage to serve a purpose, enough. “It’s one of my favourite AUSTRIA: Austria’s museum language, they do laugh, so clearly said Machac: “Putting a smile pieces. I wish I’d had one of those of nonsense and its vast collec- there’s something universal about on people’s face but also making as a kid,” said Machac. tion of silly yet brilliant inven- what we show,” Susanne Machac, them think for a second.” Another highlight is “the tions are proof that bad ideas, if one of the museum’s co-managers, The five artists created a world’s one and only collection of carried out well, can turn into said. Her brother-in-law, sculptor not-for-profit association which famous button holes”, concealed genius creations. The so-called Fritz Gall, co-founded the Nonseum would, for the next decade, organ- inside little square boxes with Nonseum — which claims to be in 1994 with four other local artists. ise a series of “absurd” events like transparent lids. the only one of its kind in the They got the idea after organis- a 24-hour snail race or a festival “This is the third button hole world — has developed a cult fol- ing the country’s first fair of failed of scarecrows. With each event, from the top of Napoleon’s mili- lowing among fans of the absurd. inventions in 1984, which unex- their inventory of weird inven- tary vest,” explained Machac with Every year, thousands of pectedly proved a huge success. tions grew too and in the end, a serious face, pointing to one of people from around the world Sleepy Herrnbaumgarten, usu- they decided to unite all these the empty boxes. “while that one flock to the small village of ally home to around 970 inhab- silly ideas under one roof. was worn by Austria’s foreign Herrnbaumgarten, tucked away itants, was suddenly overrun by Today, hundreds of pieces are minister during the signing of in the northern region close to the 5,000 visitors from across Austria spread across the museum’s the republic’s treaty of independ- Six-month-old Angela Merkel Ade with her mother Ophelya Ade Czech border, to find comic relief and beyond, who had all come to three large buildings, with new ence (in 1955).” There is also a outside the Oststadtkrankenhaus refugee accommodation in at the Nonseum. chuckle at the unsuccessful gim- items added by the founders on rifle with its barrel twisted back- Hanover, Germany, yesterday. Ophelya Ade, a refugee from Ghana, “We get groups from far-flung micks. Gall and his friends real- a regular basis. They include, for wards so that the muzzle faces the says she named her daughter after the German chancellor because places like China and South ised they had uncovered a unique example, a soup plate with a plug, shooter — the ultimate, and final, Merkel is a great lady. Some 720 refugees from 33 countries are Korea, and although I some- market niche — coming up with which allows you to discreetly “selfie”, indicates a small note housed in the former hospital. times worry that the puns won’t seemingly pointless inventions, drain the food when you’ve had next to the glass display. AFP

Healthy gift Aussie surfer ‘excited’ to compete after shark attack SYDNEY: Australian surf champion go through a wave”. “I was like, ‘You’re programme, and he admitted he agreed Mick Fanning said he was excited about kidding me’ and I was like, ‘Nah, nah, it’s to take his board out at a spot he nor- resuming competitive surfing after just a bird, it’s just a bird’,” the three-time mally did not surf. fighting off a shark in South Africa, but world champion said from Tahiti, where Despite his experiences, Fanning —cur- admitted he was spooked by seeing a fin he is set to compete in the next leg of the rently ranked second on the tour — said on his first return to the waves. World Surf League Tour this weekend. he wanted to resume competitive surfing The 34-year-old made headlines However, anxious to catch one more as soon as possible after the attack. “If around the globe when he battled a wave, Fanning stayed out on the water you leave it for too long, then your mind shark on live television while compet- when he “saw a fin just come up and go starts playing tricks on you,” said Fanning. ing at a world tour event at Jeffreys Bay through the wave”. “I was just like, ‘Are “It makes the situation worse than off South Africa’s Eastern Cape province you for real, what’s going on here?’” he what it actually is, and so, yeah, I just in mid-July. About a week later, Fanning told the tour’s organisers. really wanted to get back out there.” returned to the ocean off Australia’s east The surfer’s return to the water was Fanning said he was keen to put the coast to surf when he “saw a shadow being filmed by an Australian television South Africa attack behind him, telling Sydney’s Daily Telegraph yesterday from Tahiti, “I’m very excited to be back in the water competing. “It will be nice for people to start focusing on something different.” Fanning went on to add that he was more concerned about the conditions off Teahupo’o, which is renowned for its heavy waves. “Over here it’s pretty unlikely you’re going to see any big great whites,” the surfer, who won in Tahiti once in 2012, told the Australian Associated Press. “I’ve been here many times. I’m comfortable with the wave, it’s just a matter of surf- ing right at the right time.” Fanning told the Telegraph he had not Former US President George W Bush and Laura Bush with their two grandaughters. sought professional help following the President Bush said in a statement yesterday: “Laura and I are overjoyed to meet our attack but would “talk it out” with his second grandchild today. Poppy Louise Hager entered the world yesterday in New York family and friends. “It’s not a taboo topic. City, but we consider her an honorary Texan. We are grateful to God — and to Jenna and I talk about it when I need to.” Mick Fanning with his mother Liz, after his harrowing shark encounter in South Africa. Henry — for this beautiful, healthy gift of life.” AFP