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FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 • 8 Rajab 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6767 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar

Ministry ‘optimistic’ Emir: Redouble efforts to face challenges ahead of Doha oil producers’ meeting

Emir addresses OIC Summit in Istanbul QNA on behalf of group of Arab states; DOHA: The growing number of oil Turkey proposes producers who have officially con- joint body to fight firmed participation in Sunday’s oil producers meeting in Doha has terrorism. generated a positive feeling that an agreement to restore stability to the global oil market is emi- nent, the Ministry of Energy said QNA & Agencies yesterday. Qatar has invited Opec and non-Opec oil producers to the meeting that, for the first time, ISTANBUL: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim would bring together the world’s bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday called major oil producers to agree on on the Islamic countries to redou- ways and means of restoring sta- ble efforts to address the serious bility to the oil market, the ministry challenges facing the Islamic world. Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, along with other leaders, attending the opening session of the 13th Organisation of Islamic said in a statement. The Emir was delivering a Cooperation (OIC) Summit at the Convention Center in Istanbul. Early delegates have arrived speech on behalf of the group of in Doha and most delegations Arab States at the opening session are expected to arrive today and of the 13th Organisation of Islamic summit and the warm reception and Islamic countries and promote joint Erodgan also proposed a Council to resolve conflicts. tomorrow. Cooperation (OIC) Summit at the generous hospitality. action on issues of common interest. of Women’s Organisation of Islamic In his speech, the Custodian of the The meeting in the morning Convention Center in Istanbul. The Emir expressed confidence Turkish President Recep Tayyip Cooperation to defend Muslim women’s Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin will be attended by participating “This summit is being held at that Turkey’s presidency of the sum- Erdogan, in his opening address, pro- issues, affirming Istanbul’s readiness Abdulaziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of countries and covered by more than a time when many of our states mit will be a constructive addition to posed a body within OIC to solidify and to host the first conference of Mus- Saudi Arabia, said: “We are required 100 media personnel. It will be fol- are facing serious challenges that the progress of Islamic cooperation. institutionalise cooperation against lim women. to address the Islamic nation’s causes lowed by a press conference on the require redoubling efforts and joint The Emir thanked the OIC Secre- terrorism. “It is necessary to conduct Madani said the Palestinian by finding a just solution to the Pal- resulting agreement. work to address them and meet the tary-General Dr Iyad Ameen Madani operations against terror organisa- issue tops the summit agenda, urg- estinian issue in accordance with the aspirations of our peoples,” the Emir and his staff for their efforts to serve tion on the ground, while there should ing Palestinian parties to overcome Arab peace initiative and international → See also page 14 said and hoped that the summit joint Islamic action. [also] be efforts to target their finan- differences to achieve a balanced and legitimacy’s resolutions, put an end to and its outcome would contribute to More than 30 heads of state and cial and human resources. self-determining Palestinian govern- the Syrian crisis according to the deci- meeting the aspirations and hopes government from Islamic countries are “For that, international cooperation ment devoted to work for Palestine. sions of Geneva 1 and Security Council of Muslim nations. attending the two-day summit being is vital. Establishing a body that would He stressed that any disagreement Resolution 2254 and support existing GCC-US meeting in The Emir, on behalf of the group held under the theme ‘Unity and Sol- solidify and institutionalise cooper- or disputes between OIC member states efforts to end the Libyan crisis.” of Arab States, conveyed appre- idarity for Justice and Peace’. It seeks ation against terror within OIC is the will impact the organisation, adding Riyadh on Monday ciation to Turkey for hosting the to narrow down differences between right step to take,” he added. that OIC lacks a collective organisation → Continued on page 2 RIYADH : The GCC and the United States will on Monday hold a meet- ing on combating radicalisation RAF provides and recruitment of terrorists and the fight against discourse of ter- QR21.84m for PM opens project to track stocks of key goods rorism and extremism. GCC Assistant Secretary-Gen- limited-income eral for Foreign Affairs Abdul By Mohammad Shoeb In his speech, the Premier said The Premier stressed that the coun- The Premier said Qatar’s devel- Aziz Hamad Aluwaisheg said people in Qatar The Peninsula the government fully realises that try must develop a mechanism that opment in all sectors has come a long the meeting will review efforts the project will also serve future can track demand and provide nec- way in recent years, as the country being made by both sides in the generations. essary reserves of strategic goods to looks to achieve its National Vision fight against extremism and ter- He hoped that all ministries and maintain stability of the Qatari soci- 2030 put in place by Emir H H Sheikh rorism, recruitment of terrorists By Sanaullah Ataullah DOHA: Prime Minister and Interior companies involved in the project will ety on the economic and social levels. Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. and combating the terrorist dis- The Peninsula Minister H E Sheikh Abdulla bin Nasser succeed in their mission. The launch took place at Shera- He said Qatar’s strong development course, and exchange of views on bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday inaugu- The high-level visionary initiative is ton Hotel in Doha and was attended has led to an increase in the popula- best practices and lessons learned rated the first phase of Imdad project, expected to monitor estimated demand by Minister of Energy and Industry tion which, in turn, has led to a surge in in the area. which aims to develop a national infor- and supply of all strategic items and H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada; demand for strategic goods — whether He said the meeting will DOHA: Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah mation system to achieve sustainability goods (especially those imported from Qatari Businessmen’s Association produced locally or imported from develop mechanisms for establish- Foundation for Humanitarian Serv- of the economic and urbanisation lev- overseas) in the country, including pri- Chairman Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim abroad. The Premier also stressed that ing a network for the exchange of ices (RAF) has provided QR1.26m els in Qatar. mary raw materials such as gabbro, Al Thani; Qatar Chamber Vice-Chair- the leadership and the government experiences as agreed at the meet- to support limited-income people The project provides a mecha- limestone and sand, among others, man Muhammed bin Ahmed bin Towar are always looking to maintain the ing of the joint working group on in Qatar who were unable to pay nism based on demand that enables through a specially designed integrated Al Kuwari; Public Works Authority country’s economic security. combating terrorism held at the house rents due to financial diffi- the State to maintain a surplus of stra- system involving key organisations (Ashghal) President Nasser bin Ali Al GCC General-Secretariat in August culties, in the past three months. tegic goods at all times. and public entities. Mawlawi and other officials. → Picture on page 2 last year. RAF also provided over QR2m to pay school and college fees of stu- dents from needy families. RAF’s Department for Social Services spent QR21.84m on needy Israel plans over 200 new settler homes Oppn ready to join transitional families and individuals (citizens and expatriates) in the first quar- ter of this year. government without Assad The assistance was given to pay medical bills, rents, school fees and debts and as marriage support. Over Reuters current round of the peace talks, which QR1m was given in cash to sup- aim to end Syria’s five-year war. port people with serious financial A UN resolution governing the problems. talks says the transitional governing The money was used under four GENEVA: Syria’s main opposition body will have full executive pow- social projects being implemented group is willing to share membership ers, and Muslat said it would call for by RAF in Qatar — Ifaf (support for of a transitional governing body with a national conference to form a con- wedding), Tarahum (mercy), Tafrij current members of the government stitutional committee. Kurba ( for reimbursement of debts) of President Bashar Al Assad, but not The HNC is ready to take less than and Basmat Amal (smile of hope for with Assad, the group’s spokesman half the seats on the transitional body, payment of medical bills) said yesterday. as long as it satisfies Syrians and bring “More than QR6.37m was spent “There are many people on the a political solution, he said. “Even on Ifaf project which supports youth other side who we can really deal if we take 25 percent, 100 percent to get married,” said Dr Yahya bin with,” Salim Al Muslat, spokesman would be the Syrian people.” If Syria’s Ahmad Al Naimi, Head, Local for the High Negotiations Commit- ally Russia is willing to pressure the Projects Section, RAF. tee (HNC), said on the second day of government, and if the government Cases of debts took more than UN-mediated peace talks. delegation is serious about negoti- QR1.94m. Projects for social sup- “We will have no veto, as long as ation, then a deal could be done in port cost over QR4.75m and medical they don’t send us criminals, as long the current round of talks, he said. A picture showing a partial view of the Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev near the West Bank city of bills for critical health conditions, as they don’t send us people involved The HNC has always insisted that including surgeries and medicines, Ramallah, taken yesterday. Israel has approved plans for over 200 new settler homes in the occupied in the killing of Syrians.” there can be no place for Assad in a totalled QR1.38m. West Bank, adding to a sharp increase in settlement projects so far this year, according to campaigner, United Nations mediator Staffan transitional governing body, but Muslat Peace Now, and Israeli media. de Mistura has said the political tran- said there was room for negotiation → Continued on page 2 sition would be the main focus of the on how to handle Assad’s departure. 02 FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 HOME

Emir meets leaders on the sidelines of OIC Summit

Continued from page 1 on OIC’s principles and objectives,” he added. Referring to Yemen, he expressed “Our battle against terrorism is a his country’s support to UN efforts hard and long one, however, it will be towards the success of consultations pursued with resolve,” said Kuwait to be held in Kuwait in line with Secu- Emir H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al rity Council Resolution 2216. Jaber Al Sabah. “Our reality today requires us all He affirmed his country’s stance to come together more than ever to alongside the international commu- fight the scourge of terrorism and nity on the combat against the global protect the young generation from menace. being under its fierce attack,” Saudi He called on the Security Council Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with other leaders at OIC Istanbul Summit. Press Agency (SPA) quoted King Sal- to pressure Israel to accept relevant UN man as saying . resolutions and the Arab peace initi- “We have made a serious step in ative, regretting the declining interest and deteriorating conditions of the against these challenges”. and his delegation. The Emir also met Chairman, Presidential Council of this direction to form an Islamic Mili- in the peace process, thus “aggra- Islamic world at various levels. On the sidelines of the summit, Belarus President Alexander Lukash- Libya, and Prime Minister of Gov- tary Alliance to fight terrorism, which vating the deteriorating conditions.” Sheikh Sabah hoped that delib- Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad enko and his delegation and discussed ernment of National Accord, and his includes 39 countries to coordinate He said the summit is held in the erations at the summit would lead to Al Thani met UAE Supreme Council relations between both countries and delegation. Talks dealt with issues of all efforts through intellectual, media, shadow of delicate and dangerous mapping out a new strategy “that uni- Member and Ruler of Umm Al Qai- topics on the summit agenda. joint interest, particularly the latest financial and military initiatives based political and security circumstances fies our ranks, and cements our position wain Sheikh Saud bin Rashid Al Mu’alla The Emir met Fayez Al Sarraj, developments in Libya.

PM inaugurates first phase of Imdad project Needy families can approach RAF for aid

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More than QR652,000 was spent on social service and QR420,000 for providing financial support for emer- gency cases. People who were unable to pay house rents received over QR1.26m. Fees for schools and colleges totalled QR2.07m. Segments of the community, including needy families (citizens and expatriates), poor individuals, fami- lies of widows and orphans, students, people in debt and limited-income families benefitted, said Al Naimi. One of the beneficiaries receiving a cheque. Financial support was also given to some families which faced tough times all of a sudden and needed aid to expatriates) can approach RAF for confirm the living and financial condi- Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdulla bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani speaking after meet their daily needs. Such segments help. They should be living in Qatar. tion of the applicants. Priority is given inaugurating the first phase of Imdad project, which aims to develop a national information system received support until their economic Applications are approved or rejected to patients, youth unable to get mar- to achieve sustainability of the economic and urbanisation levels in Qatar. conditions improved, said Al Naimi. based on the financial condition of the ried, people with disabilities, widows, Needy families (Qataris or families. RAF will conduct a visit to divorcees and limited-income people. ‘A Passage to India’ community Dubai expo expects large number of Qatar visitors festival concludes today

By Fazeena Saleem di Vicenza and DWTC. communities in the jewellery, gold, pre- he said, “This is a unique opportunity The Peninsula day. Due to sudden adverse weather The Peninsula “Qatar is one of the key countries cious stones and diamond industries for the GCC market . This is the unique conditions, it had to be concluded we are looking having here as guest. to provide a strategic platform,offer professional show in the entire region.” around 8.20pm before the sched- We feel Qatar as one of the key play- exhibitors new business opportunities VOD is divided into four areas uled time of 10pm. ers in the jewellery industry. and support international and local — Global Brands recognised and DOHA: The Indian Cultural Centre “All organisers and visitors hope DUBAI: A remarkable number of trade “The private sector in Qatar is very companies in light of the current glo- appreciated at international level (ICC), the apex organisation of socio- that the weather conditions would be visitors from Qatar is expected at an strong and the jewellery distribution bal market conditions. for their experience in setting trends cultural associations of the Indian more favourable tomorrow and enable international gold and jewellery show is one of the industries they have a This is supported by the strong posi- and creating high fashion; Fine Jew- community in Qatar, is holding the 3rd people to enjoy their weekend holiday being held here. strong presence,” Corrado Facco, Man- tion of Dubai, one of the world’s major ellery and National Pavilions, where edition of ‘A Passage to India’ commu- at this festival,” Indian Ambassador Running until Sunday, the second aging Director, Fiera di Vicenza, told capitals when it comes to luxury, and visitors will find companies and arti- nity festival at Museum of Islamic Art Sanjiv Arora said in a statement yes- edition of Vicenzaoro Dubai (VOD) at The Peninsula yesterday. the gateway to strategic centres for sans showcasing jewellery of the finest Park. The two-day event ends today. terday. ICC functions under the aegis Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), is VOD held a promotional road show jewellery in the Middle East, Africa, quality; Gemstones and Diamonds, “As expected, the festival attracted of the Indian embassy, which is sup- showcasing everything from gemstones in Doha last December and Facco said, Central and Southeast Asia and the dedicated to businesses selling certified a large number of visitors on the first porting the festival. to diamonds and other unique pieces. “It was successful in terms of commu- CIS countries. precious stones; and Packaging and Around 400 exhibitors from 25 nication because lots of people didn’t “This is not only a show, this is a Supply, which will feature experts in countries have displayed products, know that we were holding a show marketing project that aims to put in packaging and visual merchandising, including some international jew- in Dubai, based on a new strategy.” connection the top designers, the top together with businesses specialis- ellery brands which have a presence Mona Ghanem Al Marri, Direc- distribution and the new and most ing in machinery, technologies and Temporary traffic in Doha. tor-General, Media Office of Dubai innovative markets that can see Dubai the development of new solutions for About 6,000 trade visitors are Government, and Chairperson, Board as a new platform for having kind of jewellery production. expected from around the world. of Dubai Women’s Establishment offi- networking,” said Facco. India has a huge presence at the diversion on Salwa The event is organised by DV Global cially opened VOD yesterday. On how the jewellery industry in show with 66 exhibitors, followed by and Lijmiliya roads Link, a joint venture between Fiera VOD is designed for the business the region would benefit from the show, Italy and Hong Kong. Second Annual FACT Dining Awards presented The Peninsula Traffic will be diverted to a newly- built temporary road with one lane in each direction adjacent to the closed road, in collaboration with the Gen- The Peninsula the overall category winners, Nobu DOHA: To install dynamic message eral Directorate of Traffic. and Toro Toro. signs on Salwa Road between West The diversion is required to “Yes, indeed, we are so happy Industrial Interchange and East Indus- allow for the upgrade of the exist- about the great turnout with nearly trial Interchange, the Public Works ing road and construction of a new DOHA: FACT Qatar magazine hosted 400 people attending the ceremony, Authority (Ashghal) will temporar- dual carriageway with two lanes in a glamorous ceremony for the second and everyone has had positive feed- ily close four lanes on Salwa Road. each direction. annual FACT Dining Awards. back about it! It’s also great to see some The closure will be 1km between The new road which is part of Lij- The event, which heralds another ‘new kids on the block’ who were nom- the two interchanges towards Doha. miliya, Leatooriya and Al Sheehaniya successful year of operation for the inated, coming out as winners this It will take place today and tomorrow Expressway project to provide per- publication in Qatar, was held at the year — like Antica Pesa and Yabby at and will last six hours from midnight manent features, including a median newly-opened The Westin Doha Hotel Shangri-La Doha. Last but not least, to 6am, in coordination with the Traf- island, and pedestrian and cyclist & Spa at The Mix Bar & Terrace. I’d like to thank the public who voted fic Department. pathways. Over 350 guests attended the event, in thousands! Traffic will be diverted to the serv- The Lijmiliya, Leatooriya and Al as the winners from 30 categories were “We received a staggering 17,500 One of the winners with other participants at the awards ceremony. ice road for those coming from Bu Sheehaniya project is part of Ash- announced. online votes which is absolutely fan- Samra towards Doha. ghal’s Expressway Programme to The who’s who of Doha’s hos- tastic for Qatar. We can’t wait for next Ashghal will install road signs to enhance traffic capacity and road pitality industry turned out for the year’s event already,” he added. in Doha. with the FACT team taking readers advise motorists of the diversion and safety in the area. ceremony, with top general manag- The awards recognise excellence Sponsors of the event included behind the scenes of the event on their has urged road users to abide by speed It includes works to develop the ers, F&B directors, chefs and marketing in the food and beverage industry, with The Westin Doha Hotel & Spa, clas- Snapchat story (add @factmagazine). limits and follow road signs for their area’s infrastructure, and install and PR professionals in attendance. winners awarded based on public vote sifieds website Qatar Living, online This month will also see the sec- and others’ safety. Intelligent Transport Systems and Embodying FACT’s down-to-earth and critics’ opinion. event guide I Love Qatar, web host- ond annual FACT Dining Awards in Abu Ashghal will also implement a a comprehensive drainage system. and fun approach, the event was a Each category was given two ing and media delivery service Red Dhabi at the five-star hotspot Byblos temporary diversion on part of Lij- Ashghal will install road signs laid-back and casual affair. awards, divided into a popular choice Apple Events and Media, and produc- Sur Mer, InterContinental Abu Dhabi. miliya Road, running about 3km in advising motorists of the diversion After the event, Edward Smith, decided through online voting and a tion powerhouse Snap TV. The awards have also enjoyed six both directions. and has urged road users to abide Publishing Director, Nans Group, critic’s choice decided by an independ- Social media was abuzz as Doha’s years of successful campaigns in Bah- The closure starts tomorrow and by speed limits and follow signs for said: “First, I would like to congrat- ent panel of food bloggers, the FACT dining elite shared their photos on Face- rain so far, with hundreds of venues lasts six months. their and others’ safety. ulate all the new winners, especially editorial team and industry experts book, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, awarded for excellence over the years. GULF / MIDDLE EAST FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 03 Turkey and Saudi set up coordination council

stability of Turkey and Saudi Arabia projects will be discussed. is important for the region’s security “We see that the official visits The agreement and stability,” Turkish foreign min- between two countries have increased. covers eight sectors, ister said. This is significant evidence that shows He said both countries would con- development of relations between the including diplomacy, tinue to work for the region’s stability, two countries is highly valued,” the agriculture and including in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Saudi minister said. Al Jubeir said he was very happy Al Rabiah also spoke about oppor- culture. Both to form such a council between the tunities in the tourism sector between sides also want to two countries. the two countries. “Especially, the Jubeir said the agreement covers number of tourists coming to Tur- strengthen security eight sectors, including diplomacy, key from Saudi Arabia has shown a cooperation by agriculture, military and culture. He dramatic increase; 16 flights daily are said both sides want to strengthen being carried out between the two including the fight security cooperation by includ- countries and this is a very signif- against terrorism ing the fight against terrorism and icant number. Formerly, it was not extremism. possible even to imagine these num- and extremism. “We aim to reach peak point of bers,” he said. this strategic relations. Turkey and Elitas said Turkey sees Saudi Ara- A Saudi municipal worker cleans a flooded street in Riyadh during heavy rainfall across the capital, Saudi Arabia are pivotal states,” the bia as one of the largest trade partners yesterday. Saudi minister added. in the Gulf region and the world. He Saudi Arabia and Turkey have also noted that the bilateral trade vol- agreed to set up a team to strengthen ume with Saudi Arabia in 2015 was Anatolia bilateral trade ties, Saudi trade and far from the desired levels and called industry minister announced said for a free-trade agreement between here yesterday. Gulf countries and Turkey, which he More than 40 dead as rains Addressing the opening of the Tur- said would boost investments and ISTANBUL: Turkey and Saudi Arabia key-Saudi Arabia Business Forum, trade among Gulf countries, espe- signed an agreement in Istanbul yes- Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al Rabiah said: cially with Saudi Arabia. terday to form a coordination council “We have agreed on establishing a Last year, bilateral trade between hit Saudi Arabia and Yemen to further strengthen bilateral ties. working team between Saudi Ara- the two countries was around $6.5 bil- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut bia and Turkey. lion, including $3.5bn imports from Cavusoglu and his Saudi counterpart “The team, which will consist of Turkey, according to Turkish Econ- Adel Al Jubeir signed the agreement high-level officials, will discuss all omy Ministry. AFP Hajjah, northwest of Sanaa, where which borders Yemen. The pair died after the opening ceremony of the 13th cooperation opportunities between Turkey mainly exports electrical 14 people were killed, some of them when three areas in the mountain- Organization of Islamic Cooperation the two countries and negotiate to machinery and equipment, carpets, SANA’A: Heavy storms have claimed in landslides. ous district were inundated by flood (OIC) Summit. increase the trade volume between mats, mineral fuels and oils, while the lives of at least 42 people over the South of Hajjah in the province of waters, Al Ekhbaria news channel Turkish President Recep Tayyip the two countries.” imports from Saudi Arabia include past week in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, Al Mahwit, a dam burst causing flood- reported on its Twitter feed. Erdogan and the Custodian of the Al Rabiah and Turkish Economy plastic and articles made of it, organic officials in the two neighbouring states ing of farmland and the collapse of The Saudi Red Crescent separately Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Minister Mustafa Elitas jointly opened chemicals, aluminum and articles said yesterday. bridges, the sources said. reported one death in Al Baha, more Abdulaziz Al Saud also witnessed the the forum, which will focus on trade made of it, mineral fuels and oils. Twenty-four people were killed in In Saudi Arabia, 18 people were than 300km north of Jazan city. signing ceremony. and economic cooperation between King Salman bin Abdulaziz northern Yemen, while 18 lives were killed in heavy rains during the past Another 27 people in Al-Baha were Cavusoglu said the agreement the two countries. reached Ankara on Tuesday during lost in Saudi Arabia in flooding caused week, the civil defence agency said. injured over three days because of would further enhance ties between At the forum, business people from his first official visit to Turkey. by heavy rains, the officials said. In a statement, it said the toll covered accidents during heavy rains the two countries. both countries will explore investment Turkish President Recep Tayyip Security sources said 10 people much of the country, from Riyadh to Severe downpours have struck “We aim that this agreement would opportunities in renewable energy, Erdogan visited Saudi Arabia in died in the province of Amran, north Hail, Makkah, Madinah, Al Baha, Asir, Saudi Arabia this week, including institutionalise our relations and pro- electricity, mining, petrochemicals, December 2015 during which Ankara of the Yemeni capital Sana’a, and more Najran and Jazan. The agency said it in the desert capital Riyadh where vide better coordination. The relation finance and banking sectors. and Riyadh discussed bilateral issues people were missing. rescued 915 people. schools closed on Wednesday after between Saudi Arabia and Turkey is Also, investments in contracting, as well as regional matters, particu- Flooding damaged several houses Among the dead were two peo- floods caused traffic chaos during a at strategic level. The security and construction, housing and real-estate larly the conflict in Syria. and cut off roads in both Amran and ple in the southwestern Jazan region, storm.

Jordan shuts down more Hamas beefs up Egypt border force to ease tensions offices of AFP & Reuters up about 10 temporary buildings along largely kept its border with Gaza closed Palestinians, 130 of whom Israel says who prosecutors said yesterday would the border. since 2013. were assailants. Many others were shot be charged with manslaughter in mil- Brotherhood Bulldozers flattened the land near It has also destroyed hundreds of dead during clashes and protests. Pal- itary court next week. the frontier in apparent preparation Palestinian tunnels used to smuggle estinians have killed 28 Israelis and Although the charge is less severe GAZA CITY: Hamas began deploying for more temporary structures. commercial goods, cash, people and, two US citizens in knife, car-ramming than murder, which requires proof of AFP additional forces on the Gaza border A Palestinian security officer called allegedly, weapons. and gun assaults. In recent weeks, these premeditation, it carries a maximum with Egypt yesterday, the interior min- the measures “important new security The Hamas interior ministry said have slowed from near-daily occur- penalty of 20 years’ imprisonment. istry said, in an apparent effort to ease arrangements to reassure the brothers 2015 was the worst year for the Rafah rences to more sporadic incidents. Palestinian leaders say attackers Cairo’s concerns about security. in Egypt the border is secure”. border crossing in recent years, say- In a statement yesterday, the mil- have acted out of desperation in the AMMAN: Jordanian security serv- “National security forces started A delegation headed by Hamas ing it was open for just 21 days in total. itary said a Palestinian man attacked absence of movement towards cre- ices yesterday pressed ahead with today to increase the number of its political bureau member Mousa Abu Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers shot soldiers with an axe near the West Bank ation of an independent Palestinian closures of offices of the Muslim troops and double the security bases Marzook held talks in Egypt last month dead an axe-wielding Palestinian city of Hebron, slightly wounding one state in territory Israel captured in the Brotherhood, the kingdom’s main along all the southern border with Egypt aimed at normalising relations that assailant, the military said, the first of them. “Responding to the immedi- 1967 Middle East war. opposition force, which vowed to to be able to control the border bet- have been strained since the over- such fatal incident in three weeks in ate threat,” the troops shot and killed Tensions over Jewish access to a fight the measure in the courts. ter,” spokesman Iyad Al Bazm said. throw of Islamist president Mohammed the Israeli-occupied West Bank. him, it said. volatile and contested Jerusalem holy Brotherhood spokesman Badi Al He said they had established three Mursi in 2013. Israel has pointed to what it He was the first Palestinian killed site, revered by Muslims as Haram Al Rafaia said its offices were sealed new bases immediately. Mursi had good relations with describes as a significant ebb in a wave by Israeli forces in the West Bank since Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) have also off with red wax in the towns of “This is a message that we are Hamas, the Islamist rulers of the Gaza of Palestinian street attacks that began two assailants were shot dead after fuelled the violence. Mafraq, 70km northeast of Amman, concerned with border security and Strip, but his replacement President in October, while cautioning it was trying to stab soldiers in the town of Israel says incitement in the Pales- and Madaba, 30km to the south of stability,” Bazm said, adding nobody Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has cracked down too soon to say whether the decline Hebron on March 24. tinian media and personal problems the capital. would be allowed “to touch the secu- on his Muslim Brotherhood movement. would continue. One of the Hebron attackers, at home were important factors that Its offices in Al Ramtha and Irbid, rity of Egypt.” Cairo regularly accuses Hamas of Over the past six months Israeli already wounded and lying on the spurred assailants, often teenagers, both in northern Jordan, and Karak Security forces were seen setting supporting attacks in Egypt and has forces have killed at least 191 ground, was shot in the head by a soldier to launch attacks. in the south were also closed, rais- ing to seven the number shut down since Wednesday, the movement said on its Facebook page. The latest move came one day Fire destroys West Bank building Kuwait mulls emergency after the movement’s Amman head- quarters were closed along with an office in Jerash to the north. plans ahead of oil strike Previously tolerated for decades in Jordan, the Brotherhood has had tense relations with the authorities since the Arab Spring uprisings that AFP oil facilities during the strike. shook the region in 2011. Hit by the sharp drop in crude The movement, in a statement prices, Kuwait is introducing a new published yesterday, said the clo- payroll scheme for all public employ- sures “take us back to the days of KUWAIT CITY: State-owned Kuwait ees and wants to include the country’s martial law when order and justice Petroleum Corporation yesterday 20,000 oil workers, which would are not respected”, and pledged “to reviewed “maximum” contingency mean an automatic cut in wages and take judicial and political meas- plans in the face of a total strike threat- incentives. ures against these illegal pressures”. ened by oil workers over alleged pay KPC said the workers union had Jordanian authorities view the cuts. boycotted negotiations called for Brotherhood as an illegal organi- KPC said in a statement its board Thursday by the social affairs and sation because its licence was not of directors discussed “alternative labour ministry. renewed in accordance with a polit- plans and precautionary measures” It said KPC had offered to “sus- ical parties law adopted in 2014. at all its affiliate companies after the pend” all spending cuts if the union The Jordanian branch of the oil workers union declared an open- agreed to join a committee to nego- movement, which was formed in ended strike starting on Sunday. tiate a settlement. Egypt in 1928 and has affiliates The board was briefed by heads Union chief Saif al-Qahtani said across the region, has wide grass- of Kuwait Oil Co, responsible for the negotiations were illegal and roots support in the kingdom. production and exploration, and aimed only at preventing the strike. The Brotherhood’s second- national refiner Kuwait National “We have explored all means to in-command in Jordan, Zaki Bani Petroleum Co on their “maximum reach a negotiated settlement that Rsheid, was sentenced to 18 months emergency” plans, it said, without safeguard workers’ rights but oil in prison in February 2015 for crit- giving details. officials refused,” Qahtani told AFP, People gather in front of the money exchange office building which was damaged in a fire after Israeli icising a decision by the United Local media reported on Wednes- insisting the strike will go ahead. Arab Emirates to blacklist the soldiers conducted a raid, in the West Bank town of Bire, yesterday. day that Kuwait was to deploy national The union is also protesting plans organisation. guard units to run and protect some to privatise parts of the oil sector. 04 FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 GULF / MIDDLE EAST MPs vote to sack speaker as Iraq turmoil deepens

responsible for taking roll at parlia- Prime Minister Haider ment, put the number of lawmakers present at 173, while two MPs also said Abadi has called for more than 170 attended. the cabinet of party- The main Sunni bloc condemned the effort to remove Juburi. affiliated ministers “These calls will lead to the end to be replaced by of the concept of political partner- ship and the principle of consensus a government of on which the political process was technocrats, but has based,” it said in a statement read out faced significant by MP Ahmed Al Misari. The vote was “very likely not valid” resistance from the due to the lack of a quorum, said Kirk powerful parties Sowell, a Jordan-based political risk analyst who is the publisher of Inside that rely on control Iraqi Politics. Juburi was targeted of ministries for “mainly because of his alliance with Abadi, more than anything he had Iraqi lawmakers pose in front of the press yesterday, following a session at the parliament in Baghdad. patronage and funds. done himself,” and the episode was Speaker Salim Al Jabouri “very bad for Abadi despite (him) not facing a direct challenge,” Sowell said. Abadi presented a first list of cabi- on them for patronage and funds. technocratic figures and academics”. AFP Abadi has called for the cabinet net nominees at the end of March, but But even if the current cabinet That kicked off the latest chapter three successive sessions this week: of party-affiliated ministers to be the political blocs put forward their line-up is replaced with independ- in a months-long saga of Abadi pro- the first ended in a sit-in, the second replaced by a government of tech- own candidates, and most of the pre- ent, technocratic ministers -- a change posing various reforms that parties with a fistfight among lawmakers, nocrats, but has faced significant mier’s original list was replaced on a that faces major obstacles -- that would and politicians with interests in the BAGHDAD: Iraqi lawmakers voted and the third with the vote to remove resistance from the powerful par- second presented to MPs on Tuesday. only be the beginning of the process. existing system have sought to delay yesterday to remove the parliament parliament Speaker Salim Al Jabouri. ties that rely on control of ministries Some MPs demanded the oppor- Ministries are packed with lower- or undermine. speaker and his deputies from office, Jabouri, one of the country’s for patronage and funds. tunity to vote on Abadi’s original list level employees appointed on the basis The political crisis comes as Iraqi increasing political turmoil as the leading Sunni Arab politicians, said An “emergency” session on — from which at least two candi- of party and sectarian affiliation, and forces battle to regain more ground country battles militants and strug- in televised remarks that the session Wednesday ended with lawmak- dates had already withdrawn — but replacing them would face serious from the Islamic State group, which gles with a financial crisis. was marred “by many legal and con- ers shouting, shoving and throwing the session was adjourned Tuesday resistance. seized swathes of the country in 2014. The chaos at parliament is a sig- stitutional errors,” and called for a punches in the parliament hall, lead- without a vote. Dozens of lawmak- Technocrats would also lack the And on Thursday the Counter-Ter- nificant setback for Prime Minister normal session on Saturday. An earlier ing Juburi to call a recess. ers then began a sit-in and spent the cover afforded by party affiliation, and rorism Service completed the recapture Haider Al Abadi, overshadowing his statement from his office also asserted The speaker’s office said earlier night at parliament. could face threats by armed groups of the town of Heet from IS, officials efforts to replace the current cabinet that yesterday’s session was “uncon- in the day that Abadi was to give a Iraqi ministries have for years opposed to changes they proposed. said. Iraq has also been hit hard by and preventing nominees from being stitutional and lacked the necessary revised list of nominees to parliament been shared out between power- Abadi called in February for “fun- the plummeting price of oil, revenues brought to a vote. quorum.” on Thursday, but the move to sack ful political parties that run them damental” change to the cabinet so from account for the vast majority of The turmoil has escalated over But Niyazi Oghlu, the official Juburi stole the spotlight. as their personal fiefdoms, relying that it includes “professional and government funds.

35 loyalists Fighting in Aleppo forces thousands to flee dead since Yemen truce AP coalition struck areas controlled by the Islamic State group near Syria’s bor- der with Turkey, according to a Turkish AFP news agency. The militant IS group BEIRUT: Syrian troops exchanged fire and Al Qaida’s Syria branch, known with rebels in the contested north- as the Nusra Front, are not part of the ern city of Aleppo yesterday in a cease-fire in Syria. MARIB: At least 35 pro-govern- renewed bout of fighting that could Coalition jets struck Islamic State ment fighters have been killed in further mar peace talks under way in militants in the villages of Souran, clashes with rebels near the Yem- Geneva while the Islamic State group Hawar Kilis and Kafra, reported the eni capital in the first three days of attacked rebel-held areas in the coun- private Dogan news agency. The report a UN-brokered ceasefire, military try’s north, forcing thousands to flee said smoke rose from the strikes and sources said yesterday. toward the border with Turkey. that sounds of explosion and gunfire The rebels attacked positions The renewed fighting underscores were heard from across the border. of Gulf-backed loyalist fighters in the fragility of the cease-fire that has The Observatory also reported Nihm, northeast of Sana’a, where largely held for several weeks despite the airstrikes, saying they came amid clashes have occurred for two weeks deep differences between govern- clashes between IS fighters and rival despite warring parties promising to ment and opposition representatives groups in the area. It said IS fighters abide by a ceasefire that took effect in UN-brokered peace talks. Those captured on Thursday the village of last Sunday at midnight. negotiations resumed on Wednesday Hawar Kilis and the area around it. A number of Iran-backed rebels in Geneva, with UN envoy Staffan de Amer Hassan, an opposition activist were also killed in fighting that Mistura meeting Syrian opposition based in the northern town of Azaz said erupted after the attack on Wednes- representatives. the attack began when IS sleeper cells day, the sources said. Government representatives are triggered clashes in Hawar Kilis before Twenty-six loyalist fighters have expected to join the talks on Friday. Smoke rises after Russian air strikes hit opposition-controlled areas in Melah region, on the north side of a large force of IS fighters stormed the been killed in the Nihm region and The two sides have yet to negotiate Aleppo, Syria, yesterday. village. The Observatory said at least another nine around Sarwah in directly, with de Mistura instead shut- 10 IS fighters were killed in the clashes Marib province to the east of Sana’a, tling between the camps. The most and the airstrikes. according to the military sources. obvious public difference between the gunships and artillery were bombard- dismissed as a sham and that could Government forces and their allies An international aid group said The fragile truce is meant to two sides revolves around the fate of ing rebel-held parts of the city and its further undermine the peace talks. have rebel-held parts of Aleppo almost thousands of people have fled the IS pave the way for peace talks next Syrian President Bashar Assad. Oppo- suburbs, according to the Britain-based The Local Coordination Commit- surrounded from all sides, except for a offensive toward the border with Turkey Monday in Kuwait. sition representatives have insisted Syrian Observatory for Human Rights tees, another opposition monitoring corridor from the northwestern edge saying they are massing near the bor- In the southern loyalist-held that Assad be removed from power and Aleppo-based activist Bahaa Al group, said two Syrian army tanks of the city. der crossing point of Bab Al Salameh. province of Shabwa, rebels on as part of any peace deal, while gov- Halaby. were destroyed in the Handarat area, “Areas close to the front lines Frank McManus, Turkey Country Wednesday fired a mortar round ernment officials have declared Assad The pro-government Addounia just north of Aleppo, Syria’s largest are tense,” said Al Halaby, the activ- Director for the International Rescue on a village, killing three children to be a red line. TV said one person was killed and city and former commercial center. ist, speaking via Skype as explosions Committee, said in a statement: “We aged between six and 10, accord- During the fresh IS offensive on five people were wounded by mor- Al Manar TV reported that Syrian were heard in the background. He said are seeing thousands of people arrive ing to a provincial official. rival insurgent groups, the extremists tar rounds fired by insurgents into the troops captured the northern parts of several shells are falling every minute at the border, and more than a thou- Separately, Saudi-led coali- captured at least one village Thurs- predominantly Kurdish Sheikh Maq- Handarat. Al-Manar is run by Leba- on the city and its suburbs. sand families supported by the IRC at a tion helicopters struck suspected day before being forced to retreat from soud district of the city. non’s Hezbollah group, which is fighting The Observatory and the LCC displacement camp in Aleppo province Al Qaeda members on Wednesday several areas after a counteroffensive The fighting came a day after Syr- alongside Assad’s forces reported violence in other parts of the have fled to Azaz and nearby villages.” in Huta, capital of the southern Lahj and airstrikes by the US-led coalition, ians in government-held parts of the Aleppo has seen sporadic clashes country, including the central prov- “The IRC will be responding by province, killing eight, security offi- activists said. country voted for a new parliament despite a US-Russia-engineered truce ince of Homs and the northwestern providing clean water to as many of cials said. Government warplanes, helicopter — balloting that the opposition has that went into effect in late February. region of Idlib. Meanwhile, the US-led the new arrivals as possible,” he said. The strikes targeted govern- ment buildings, a stadium and two homes where suspected militants were hiding, the officials said. Saudi Arabia and its Sunni-dom- European envoys visit Libya for first time since 2014 inated Arab allies are backing the Yemeni government in the conflict while Shia Iran supports the rebel Houthis, who have seized the cap- AFP to the Libyan people that we’re supporting the unity government in Tripoli”. “The unity govern- have been alarmed by the expansion of IS in ital Sana’a and other parts of the unity government”. ment must exercise its authority over all (Libya’s) Libya, just 300 km away from Italy across the country. “Our goal is to achieve security and stabil- administrations and financial institutions,” said Mediterranean. Al Qaeda and the Islamic State ity in Libya, and we look forward to returning foreign ministry spokesman Romain Nadal, adding The oil-rich country has had two rival admin- group have taken advantage of TRIPOLI: A group of European ambassadors to Tripoli to open the British embassy again,” he it could count of French support “in the strug- istrations since mid-2014 when a militia alliance the chaos caused by the war to flew into Libya’s capital yesterday for the first said, speaking in Arabic. gle against the terrorist threat”. Sarraj arrived overran Tripoli, setting up its own authority strengthen their grip on southern time since 2014 to support the unity govern- The French and Spanish envoys also sig- in Tripoli by sea with a naval escort two weeks and forcing the recognised parliament to flee Yemen. ment’s struggle to end years of chaos exploited nalled their countries are preparing to reopen ago and has since won the support of key insti- to the remote east. Sarraj has not yet received Forces loyal to President by militants. their diplomatic missions in the capital. tutions that control Libya’s wealth. the endorsement of the country’s internationally Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi have French ambassador Antoine Sivan, Peter “We are very close to normality. We are very Italy’s Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni also recognised parliament, and the head of the rival launched operations against jihad- Millett of Britain and Spain’s Jose Antonio Bor- close to peace, and Libyan people deserve bet- visited Libya on Tuesday and said that embas- Tripoli-based administration, Khalifa Ghweil, ists in recent weeks, backed by the dallo held talks with the Government of National ter,” said Bordallo. World powers see the unity sies would be reopened in the capital in “the has refused to recognise his authority. firepower of the Arab coalition. Accord (GNA) at the Tripoli naval base where it government as vital to tackling a raging jihad- near future”. But the new administration has won the The war has left more than has set up operations. It was the first such mis- ist insurgency and rampant people smuggling Libya has been plagued by instability since backing of the Libyan Investment Authority, the 6,300 people dead since March sion since European Union member states closed in the North African state. the 2011 Nato-backed uprising that ousted long- National Oil Corporation and the Central Bank. 2015 and worsened living condi- their Tripoli embassies in 2014 because of unrest. The French government said the visits were a time ruler Muammar Gaddafi, with the Islamic However, Ghweil, in an interview with an tions, with more than 80 percent Speaking at a joint press conference in Tripoli, show of solidarity with GNA chief Fayez Al Sar- State group taking advantage of the chaos to Italian newspaper published yesterday con- of the population now on the brink Millett said the visit sent “an important message raj and that Paris “stands alongside the national seize territory. European nations in particular demned Gentiloni’s visit. of famine. ISLAM FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 05 Repentance: A bountiful blessing

“Allah the Almighty has said: ‘O son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me, and hope in Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds in the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of Me, I shall forgive you. O son of Adam, were you to come to Me with an earthful of sins and were you then to face Me, without having associated anything with Me, I shall grant you an earthful of pardon.” Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

By Suhaib Webb easiest time in the hereafter are those who are keen to call themselves to account in this life.” Returning to Allah while struggling to swim the deep seas of life is a difficult enterprise, no oly month of Ramadan is fast one likes to hear bad things about themselves. approaching. Prophet Muhammad But if we are able, during this blessed month, (peace be upon him) is reported in to sit and audit ourselves, to take account of authentic hadith as saying: “Rajab is our spiritual principals; investigating our true Hthe month of Allah, Sha’aban is my month, and state and relation with Allah , family and oth- Ramadan is the month of the Quran.” ers, we will have reaped the fruits of a blessed As the warm breeze of Ramadan settles, harvest; setting the stage for a new course in we are reminded of the Prophet’s statement, our relationship with the Most Merciful. ‘Upon the arrival of Ramadan the gates of Par- Once the Prophet (PBUH) ascended the adise are opened, the gates of Hell are closed pulpit and at each step he was heard saying, and the devils are chained.’ Ramadan brings “Ameen”. Later the companions enquired with it a host of possibilities. Look at it as a about the Prophet’s statement upon which he chance to enter into a garden filled with fresh responded that Gabriel came to him supplicat- fruits, luscious vegetables and beautiful flow- ing against three types of people, one was he ers. Some will fill their baskets to the brim, who failed to repent during the month of Ram- others will fill them half way, and some will adan thereby failing to be forgiven for his sins. fail to fill their baskets with anything. Those who filled their baskets will have Overcoming the obstacles under the Heavens and on Earth.” Allah is the Accepting of repentance, the Mer- Prophet (PBUH) said: “Allah the Almighty has done so with a varied harvest; some choosing There are a number of obstacles that lurk Secondly, sins should be seen as a strat- ciful.” (9:118) said: ‘O son of Adam, so long as you call upon the best the garden has to offer, while oth- hidden for the one who seeks repentance. egy for one to turn in humility back to Allah Notice the wording at the end of this verse Me, and hope in Me, I shall forgive you for what ers simply settle for those of a lesser quality. Perhaps the greatest is the feeling of fear and . One of the early scholars said that, “A per- “Then He turned to them so they could repent.” you have done, and I shall not mind. O son of One of the best fruits we can reap during this despondence. Many feel that it is simply too son could enter Paradise because of a sin he Thus, repentance doesn’t start with the sin- Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds in month is one of the most difficult to attain. Its late to change: “I’ve done my dirt and there is committed.” Upon hearing this, his student ner, but begins when Allah turns to him with the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness fruit is not found on the ground having fallen simply no way to get back on track.” challenged him by asking, “How could that His mercy, love and compassion; awakening of Me, I shall forgive you. O son of Adam, were from a tree, nor is it found amongst the lower Firstly, let’s understand that sinning is part be?” The scholar responded: “The sinner per- his heart with guilt, gently guiding him to His you to come to Me with an earthful of sins and branches. This fruit is found at the highest of human nature. The Prophet (PBUH) said: sistently thinks about it, which causes him to forgiveness. The sinner was lost in a sea of were you then to face Me, without having asso- part of the tree and getting to it takes effort, “Every person commits sins. And the best sinners fear it, regret it, weep over it and feel humil- confusion and misery and Allah found him, ciated anything with Me, I shall grant you an patience and most importantly truthfulness are those who repent.” Many have claimed that iated in front of his Lord due to it. He stands guided him and forgave him. earthful of pardon.’” with oneself. This is the fruit of repentance the feelings of profound guilt and depression before Allah , broken-hearted, with his head The Prophet (PBUH) said: “Allah has greater Ibn Rajab noted that this Prophetic tradi- and reflection. ‘Repent to Allah, oh believers, regarding their state, chain them from turn- lowered in humility. So this sin is more benefi- joy at the repentance of one His servants when tion begins with “O son of Adam” because of and you will be successful.’ ing to Allah . This is one of the greatest tricks cial to him than doing many acts of obedience, he turns towards Him than one of you would its context, repentance and forgiveness. Thus, of the Devil; closing the door of hope to Allah’s since it caused him to have humility and hum- have over his mount, which, having escaped when one despairs over his mistakes and short- Success is a tough word mercy after sinning. Once a man came to the bleness – which leads to his happiness and from him saddled with food and drink in the comings, he should recall Allah’s favour upon Success is a tough word, it haunts us at mosque of the Prophet complaining about his success – to the extent that this sin prevents middle of the desert, so that he has despaired mankind, exercised upon their forefather Adam. work, home and school. And like a beneficial sins; the man was so overcome and saddened him from entering Paradise.” of finding it and gone to a tree to lie down in Thus, just as Adam repented to his Lord and, medicine, it is not easy to swallow. The reality by his state that the Prophet said to him, “Say Thirdly, rebounding from sin is one of the its shade, it suddenly appears standing by him as noted in the Quran, “He immediately for- of success is that it is anchored in the tangi- this: O Allah, your forgiveness is greater than simple fruits related to our success. If we were while he is in that state, so that he takes its reins gave him,” his offspring should do the same. ble; it is not a theoretical enterprise, but, as my sins and my hope in Your mercy is greater to ask many people what it was that brought and then says out of the intensity of his joy, ‘O we say in the United States, “requires one to to me than my [evil] actions.” them back to faith, many would mention a Allah , You are my slave and I am Your Lord!’ The qualities of repentance strap on his boots”. The man said this and the Prophet said to mistake they made in the past. The Prophet getting confused because of his intense joy.” Scholars noted that sound repentance should The Arabs understood this well, thus the him, “Say it again.” The man repeated it, then (PBUH) said: “Repentance is regret.” That regret Fourth, I’ve done so many things in the past be coupled with the following qualities: word for success falah is associated with the the Prophet said to him, “Say it again.” The is one of our greatest fears. In reality, however, and failed to repent. How is it that, after all of Leaving the sin one who farms or harvests Al falaah because man did it and the Prophet said to him, “Arise it is a mercy from Allah which pricks at our these years, I could face Allah with such a black- Regret, and the latter cannot come without diligence and for, indeed, Allah has forgiven you!” conscience until we ultimately return to Him. ened record? The Prophet (PBUH) said: “Allah Resolving never to return to the sin again. hard work. So, repentance is a substantial enter- For this reason Ibn Kathir reports that the Allah says: “And He also forgave the three the Mighty and Majestic accepts the repent- The month of Ramadan is a time of serious prise, an effort, a struggle towards spiritual Prophet (PBUH) said about the verse, “Say who were left behind (and regretted their error) ance of His servant as long as his death-rattle reflection, increased awareness and devotion. Its inventory. Caliph Umar (may Allah be pleased (Muhammad) to My servants who have trans- to the point that the Earth closed in on them has not begun.” Thus, no matter when, as long beginning is mercy and its ending is marked by with him) said: “Audit yourselves before you gressed against themselves, do not despair of in spite of its vastness, and their souls con- as one turns to Allah seeking His forgiveness, forgiveness and salvation. Let us take advantage are audited by Allah.” Allah’s mercy. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins fined them and they were certain that there is only then can that person expect to be forgiven. of this time to set aright our affairs, rebound- Hassan, the Prophet’s grandson also explains and He is the One who forgives and is Merci- no refuge from Allah except in Him. Then He Furthermore, there is no sin greater than ing from our mistakes and sins from the past. this concept. He said, “Those who have the ful”, “It is more beloved to me than anything turned to them so they could repent. Indeed, Allah’s ultimate mercy and forgiveness. The Let us turn to the Most Merciful. Visiting and praying for the sick

t is your duty to visit your breth- spiritually and physically. At the same ren in time of illness. This will Certain etiquette will make your visit to an time, it is improper to wear fancy enhance and nourish the bond clothes that are more appropriate of Islam and the brotherhood ill person a refreshing and morale boosting for parties and festivities. Wearing a Iamong you. As a committed Muslim, strong perfume may annoy the sick. one. Your duty is to ease his or her pains, do not undervalue the great reward Visitors ought to keep their con- from Allah. and to make him or her more conscious of versation light and avoid gloomy talk Imam Muslim reported that the the rewards they will gain in return for their that might exacerbate the patient’s Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) suffering and endurance. distress. Avoid conveying bad news said: ‘A Muslim visiting ill brethren will such as a failing business, a death, or continue to be in the Khurfa of para- similar bad news. Also, visitors ought dise until he, or she comes back home. not to inquire about the details of ill- He was asked, ‘What is the khurfa of ness unless the visitor is a specialized Paradise?’ He answered, ‘This means Ibn Abbas said that the Prophet (PBUH) And immediately you should say, physician. Similarly, visitors should the harvest of paradise.’ Imam Ahmad when vising a sick person would say: ‘Good-bye’ not recommend to a patient any food and Ibn Hibban in his authentic book ‘Hold on, may Allah cleanse you.’ The best visit is every third day or medicine that might have helped reported that the Messenger said: ‘A The best stay is in the blink of an eye them or someone else. Such recom- of Abdul Rahman Al Tabib who was ‘Abo Abdillah wants everything with visitor walking to visit a patient will be The length of the visit Do not bother the patient with mendation might lead the ill person, the physician of Imam Ahmad and authority. I heard this from Azhar who wading in the mercy of Allah. When Certain etiquette will make your many questions out of ignorance or desperation, to Bishr Al Hafi. Abdul Rahman said both heard it from ibn Aoun who heard it the visitor sits with the patient they visit to an ill person a refreshing and Two or three words will get you try it, causing further complication Imam Ahmad and Bishr became sick from ibn Sireen; ‘If a person thanked will be immersed in mercy until his, morale boosting one. Your duty is to all along. or even death. and were treated at the same place. Allah before complaining, it will not or her return.’ ease his or her pains, and to make him At the end of his book of Malkite Do not criticize or object to the ‘When I visited Bishr, I asked how he be a complaint but as if telling the or her more conscious of the rewards Fiqh, Al Kafi, Imam Ibn ‘Abdul Al Barr treatment by the physician in the pres- felt, and with thanks to Allah first, acts of Allah. ‘ Abdul Rahman said, ‘I Praying for the sick they will gain in return for their suf- said: ‘Whether you visit a healthy or ence of the ill person for it might cast he then proceeded saying I have this told this to Imam Ahmad. After that, It is very appropriate to say few fering and endurance. an ill person, you ought to sit where doubt in the mind of the sick. If you are pain or that complaint. When I visited if asked how he felt, he would start prayers for the sick asking Allah the Make your visit brief. Sick persons you are told. Hosts know better how to a specialized physician, you may want Imam Ahmad and asked how he felt, by thanking Allah, and then describ- Almighty to bless them with recovery may not withstand such long visits. The ensure privacy in their home. Visiting to discuss the case and its treatment he would say ‘I feel all right.’ One day I ing his complaints.’ and help them through their sickness. length of the visit should be not longer an ill person is a confirmed Sunnah. privately with the doctor in charge. told him, ‘your brother Bishr is also ill, The answer of Bishr indicates that Bukhari and Muslim reported that than the time between the two speeches The best visit is the shortest. The visitor It is recommended that when asked but when I ask him of his conditions, when asked about their health, the Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) of Friday. In this respect, it was said that sought not to sit too long with an ill per- about our condition, a sick person he thanks Allah first, then tells me his sick preferably should praise Allah said: ‘If someone fell sick the Prophet the visit should be long enough to con- son, unless they are close friends and should start by thanking Allah and condition. Imam Ahmad said, ‘Please first then explain their complaints. would pass his right hand over them vey your greeting and wishes (Salam), the ill person enjoys their company.’ then proceed to list his complaints. ask him from where did he get this.’ By this approach, it is not considered while saying the following prayer ‘O to ask the sick how he or she is doing, This is to avoid the appearance of I answered, ‘His presence makes me complaining against the acts of Allah. the Lord of humans, take away the to pray for recovery and to leave imme- Manners of visiting a patient complaining of Allah’s will. This reluctant to ask.’ Imam Ahmad said, suffering, bring the recovery, no cure diately after saying good-bye. The visitor ought to wear clean was the etiquette of the followers as ‘Tell him your brother, Abo Abdillah From the book Islamic Man- but your cure that leaves no illness.’ In If you visit a patient say your clothes with a fresh scent in order reported by Al Khatib Al Baghdadi in asks from where did you get this.’ Abdul ners By Shaykh Abdul Fattaah Abu another hadith reported by Bukhari, greeting to make the patient feel better both his Tarikh Baghdad in the biography Rahman asked Bishr as told. Bishr said, Ghuddah 06 FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 ASIA / PHILIPPINES

3 injured as US & Philippines start sea patrol quake rocks

artificial islands over disputed reefs. Zamboanga “Countries across the Asia-Pacific The moves are likely are voicing concern with China’s land to infuriate China, reclamation, which stands out in size Anatolia and scope, as well as its militarisation but Carter said in the South China Sea,” Carter said. Washington’s efforts The joint naval patrols, which began last month, “contribute to the ZAMBOANGA CITY: At least three to strengthen its safety and security of the region’s people were injured and four houses military role in the waters,” he said after meeting with destroyed yesterday after a strong Philippines President Benigno Aquino. earthquake shook the southern Phil- region were not done Manila has been improving its ippines, causing residents to run to to provoke. defence ties with the United States to the streets in panic. In Zamboanga help boost its ability to defend its ter- City, where the pre-dawn magni- ritory. China claims most of the South tude 6 temblor registered a “very China Sea, even waters and rocks strong” intensity, residents were AFP close to the coasts of several neigh- woken up by rocking houses and bours that overlap with their claims. buildings, and guests rushed out Beijing has reclaimed several reefs of a downtown hotel. claimed by Manila and built struc- A chief police inspector in the MANILA: The US said yesterday that tures on them that the Philippines city, Hingming Ladjaali, told Ana- it has launched joint South China Sea says are designed for military use dolu Agency that a mother and her naval patrols with the Philippines, -- a charge China denies. son were among those wounded escalating its presence as it accused Carter announced that 275 Amer- when a wall of their house collapsed. Beijing of “militarising” a region which ican troops, among about 5,000 Another woman reportedly also is locked in a territorial dispute with military personnel taking part in the sustained injuries in Sinunuc village. China. annual Balikatan (shoulder to shoul- Lynlyn Ganding, a nanny, told In a show of strength, US Defence der) war games, are to stay behind Anadolu Agency she felt tremors Secretary Ashton Carter also after the exercises end on Friday. lasting around 30 seconds. “I was US Marines Expeditionary Commander Lieutenant General John Toolan stands next to a High Mobility Artillery announced that 275 troops and five Five A-10C Thunderbolt ground scared and I grabbed Baby Jewel A-10 ground attack aircraft currently attack planes and four other aircraft Rocket System (HIMARs) during joint military exercises at Crow Valley in the town of Capas, Tarlac province, and rushed out of the bedroom,” in the country for annual war games will also remain until the end of the the Philippines, yesterday. she said. The Philippine Institute will remain in the country temporarily. month. Some 200 of the US person- of Volcanology and Seismology The moves are likely to infuriate nel are to train Filipino soldiers, as (Phivolcs) said in a statement that China, but Carter said Washington’s well as “conduct flight operations in personnel will be stationed at a Manila American forces to rotate through five uncalled-for action by the Chinese”. the earthquake occurred around efforts to strengthen its military role the area, including in the South China military base on an unspecified “rota- Philippine bases -- some of them close The US has campaigned on freedom 19 kilometers (11.8 miles) north- in the region was not done “in order to Sea”, Carter said. tional” basis to form a “command and to the South China Sea. of navigation in the strategic water- west of Baliguian town, Zamboanga provoke”. The Pentagon chief said the These activities will “lay the control” unit to support increased activ- Philippine Defence Secretary way. To drive home its point it has sent del Norte province, in the Sulu Sea. US was responding to regional anxiety foundation for joint air patrols to com- ities between the two allies, Carter said. Voltaire Gazmin welcomed the US bombers and warships on patrol close Phivolcs said that in areas over China’s muscular actions in the plement ongoing maritime patrols,” The deployments are part of a announcement, adding he hoped to the Chinese construction activity in under the intensity of 6, such as South China Sea, including building he added. The remainder of the US deal under which Manila has allowed the increased presence will “deter recent months, angering Beijing. Zamboanga City. Malaysia shuts border near Tawi-Tawi after abductions

AA yesterday. The executive secretary Governor Mujiv Hataman is currently left on board the vessel. Sabah is the recent border closure is blocking the to reopen Sabah to Tawi-Tawi. of the Philippines’ southern Auton- in Manila talking to Malacanang [presi- closest state to the Philippines south, trading activity that has flourished for Since 1991, the Abu Sayyaf -- which omous Region in Muslim Mindanao dential palace] about this,” Laisa Alamia between which lie various island hot- centuries between merchants from the has sworn allegiance to Daesh -- has (ARMM) told reporters that Malaysian said in Cotabato City. beds of Abu Sayyaf activity. two archipelagos. “The nagging security carried out bombings, kidnappings, ZAMBOANGA CITY: Malaysia has authorities put up a naval blockade at Earlier this month, armed Fili- Last November, suspected Abu problem in the region’s island prov- assassinations and extortions in a self- closed its maritime border with the the border near the island province of pino gunmen selected four men from a Sayyaf members on Sulu island inces remains foremost in the agenda determined fight for an independent Philippines after four of its nationals Tawi-Tawi -- a stronghold of the Abu Malaysian boat’s crew and kidnapped beheaded a Malaysian national kid- of the government’s peace efforts in the Islamic province in the Philippines. were kidnapped earlier this month Sayyaf Group (ASG). them off Semporna in Malaysia’s east- napped in May from a seaside town in south,” Alamia said. She underlined that It is notorious for beheading vic- by suspected members of a Daesh- “The ASG kidnapping activity is now ernmost state of Sabah. The Myanmar Sabah. ARMM’s executive secretary negotiations between the ARMM and tims after ransoms have failed to be linked group, according to an official a national issue that is why [ARMM] and Indonesian crew members were expressed concern Thursday that the Malaysian governments are underway paid for their release.

Royal laugh Philippines rejects claims of IS

AFP no formal ISIS organisation here in the Muslim rebel groups and an interna- Philippines,” he said, using an alter- tional jihadist network. native acronym for the group. Marc Singer, director of risk con- Military spokesman Brigadier Gen- sultancy group Pacific Strategies and MANILA: The Philippines yesterday eral Restituto Padilla rejected the IS Assessments, said he was sceptical dismissed as “propaganda” a claim by claim it had killed scores of soldiers. that IS had a foothold in the Philip- the Islamic State group that its fighters “This is nothing but propaganda pines but warned that many Filipino had slaughtered nearly 100 soldiers which we would encourage every- groups wanted to emulate them. and established a base in the mainly one not to pay attention to,” he told “There is a genuine fascination Muslim south where local militants AFP, and downplayed public pledges among poor Filipinos in the Muslim are battling government forces. of allegiance to IS by Abu Sayyaf and south who lack education... their sole The US-based SITE Intelligence other Muslim rebel groups in the south. understanding of Islam today is from Group reported Wednesday IS said Padilla said clashes with Abu the Internet and what they hear (on the its “mujahideen blew up seven troop Sayyaf, a homegrown extremist group news) and this may drive them to more transports and killed nearly 100 enemy known for kidnappings and bombings, nefarious acts,” he said. Based in the forces”. were on-going in Basilan. southern islands of Basilan and Jolo, Earlier this week the Philippine The death toll of soldiers remained Abu Sayyaf has been blamed for the military said it had killed 25 Islam- at 18 but the number of Abu Sayyaf country’s worst terror attacks, includ- ist Abu Sayyaf guerrillas as it presses killed had risen to 31, Padilla said, ing a 2004 Manila Bay ferry bombing an offensive on the southern island of adding that no military trucks had that claimed 116 lives. Basilan despite the loss of 18 soldiers. been destroyed. Local and foreign militants iden- Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William react after shooting an arrow at But Philippine defence secretary Among those killed were a Moroc- tifying themselves as members of a Changlimithang Archery Ground in Thimphu, Bhutan, yesterday. They met Bhutan’s king and queen Voltaire Gazmin denied yesterday IS can bomb expert called Mohammad one-time al-Qaeda splinter group have at the start of a two-day visit to the tiny Himalayan nation. had joined forces with Abu Sayyaf. Khattab, who the military said had claimed involvement in the deaths of “Our information is that there is been sent to build ties between local 20 army soldiers in a bloody battle. Strong 6.4 magnitude quake hits southwestern Japan

AFP at 6.2 by the US Geological Survey, NHK showed a what appeared to NHK showed residents in which put the second quake at 5.4. be a house in flames as firefighters Kumamoto prefecture taking refuge Another smaller aftershock followed. attempted to douse it with water. outside, saying that the quake’s shak- Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Cameras showed violent shaking ing was intense and had caused some TOKYO: A strong 6.4-magnitude earth- Yoshihide Suga, the government’s top in the city of Kumamoto at the time power outages. quake hit Japan’s southwestern island spokesman, said officials had infor- of the quake, which was felt through- Japan sits at the junction of four of Kyushu yesterday, collapsing homes mation suggesting some houses had out Kyushu. tectonic plates and experiences around and sparking at least one fire, offi- collapsed and were working to col- Japanese media reported that 20 percent of the world’s most pow- cials said, but the scale of damage lect information. shinkansen -- bullet train -- serv- erful earthquakes. remained unclear. “We are doing our best for emer- ices were halted on the island. But rigid building codes and strict The quake struck at 9:26 pm (1226 gency disaster measures by prioritising NHK also showed some damage enforcement mean even powerful GMT) in Kumamoto prefecture, central efforts to save and rescue victims,” including lumps of broken concrete tremors frequently do limited damage. Kyushu, at a relatively shallow depth he said. on a street in Kumamoto prefecture. A massive undersea quake that of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles), the Japan “I ask people in the disaster zone Residents stood outside making calls hit on March 11, 2011, sent a tsunami Meteorological Agency said, which to act calmly and help each other.” on mobile phones. barrelling into Japan’s northeast coast, said there was no danger of a tsunami. Japan’s public broadcaster NHK An official at the Sendai nuclear leaving about 18,500 people dead or The quake was followed about 30 also reported that some buildings had plant in Kyushu, who declined to be missing, and sending several reac- minutes later by a smaller one with collapsed in the town of Mashiki on named, said the plant was operating tors into meltdown at the Fukushima Residents stand on a street following an earthquake in Kumamoto City, a magnitude of 5.7, the agency said. Kyushu with people possibly trapped normally but that officials were check- nuclear plant in the worst atomic acci- The stronger quake was measured underneath. ing for any abnormalities. dent in a generation. yesterday. ASIA / AFRICA FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 07

South Korea N Korea deploys opposition ballistic missile wins general election for launch today AFP

design range of more than 3,000km, is not known to have been flight-tested, SEOUL: South Korea’s main opposi- US intelligence according to South Korean defence tion party won a surprise victory in believes North ministry and experts. Wednesday’s general election, end- Some experts said the North may ing the conservative ruling party’s Korea’s ability to choose to test-fire the Musudan in 16-year parliamentary majority. reach the United the near future as it tries to build The vote, clouded by North an intercontinental ballistic missile Korean nuclear threats and a States is low, but designed to put the mainland United slowing economy, dealt a blow to its capabilities will States within range. President Park Geun-Hye and raised US intelligence believes North hopes for an opposition victory in This video grab made available by Boko Haram, yesterday, shows some of more than 200 schoolgirls increase. Korea’s ability to reach the United the 2017 presidential election. States is low, but its capabilities will abducted by the militant organisation. With almost all ballots counted, increase, making continued invest- Park’s Saenuri Party won 122 seats Reuters ment in missile defence essential.South in the 300-member National Assem- Korea’s Defence Ministry spokesman, bly, while the main opposition Moon Sang-gyun, declined to con- Boko Haram sends ‘proof of Minjoo Party won 123, the most of firm the Yonhap report but said the any party. SEOUL: North Korea has deployed military had been on high alert for The splinter opposition Peo- one or two intermediate-range ballis- any missile launch by the North since life’ video of Chibok girls ple’s Party bagged 38 spots, and tic missiles on the east coast, possibly its leader Kim Jong Un’s vow to con- another six seats went to a small preparing for launch on or around duct more tests. opposition party, the Justice Party. today, the anniversary of the birth of Kim said in March his country “The Saenuri Party humbly the country’s founder, South Korea’s would soon test a nuclear warhead AFP Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said Girls Secondary School in Chibok to accepts the election results and Yonhap news agency reported yes- and ballistic missiles capable of car- they had converted to Islam. Nigeria’s mark the second anniversary of the voters’ choice,” party spokesman terday. rying nuclear warheads. information minister Lai Mohammed kidnapping. Boko Haram seized 276 Ahn Hyung-Hwan told journalists. A mobile launcher was spotted North Korea, which regularly told CNN the girls in the video appeared from their dormitories but 57 managed “The people are deeply disap- carrying up to two Musudan mis- threatens to destroy the South and the NIGERIA: Boko Haram has sent a “under no stress whatsoever” and there to escaped in the hours that followed. pointed with us, but we’ve failed to siles, Yonhap said yesterday, citing United States, often fires missiles dur- “proof of life” video which shows 15 had been “little transformation in their Amnesty International’s Nigeria read their mind,” he added. multiple South Korean government ing periods of tension in the region or of the more than 200 girls abducted physical appearance”. director M.K. Ibrahim called for the It marked the first time since sources, following the North’s fourth when it comes under pressure to curb by Islamist fighters from the northeast But he declined to comment release of all captives and said the Chi- 1999 the conservative party has nuclear test in January and a long- its defiance and abandon its weapons Nigerian town of Chibok two years directly on the state of talks with bok girls symbolised “all the civilians lost control of parliament, with the range rocket launch the next month, programmes. Isolated North Korea ago, CNN reported yesterday. Boko Haram, which has previously whose lives have been devastated by three opposition parties garnering which led to fresh UN sanctions. and the rich, democratic South are The video showed the girls wearing said it would release the girls only Boko Haram”. “(President) Muham- a combined 167 seats, well over the The Musudan missile, with a still technically at war black hijabs in an unspecified loca- in exchange for captured fighters in madu Buhari’s government should do majority. tion, stating their names, that they Nigerian prisons. “There are ongoing all it lawfully can to bring an end to Voter turnout was 58 percent, up were taken from Chibok and the date talks. We cannot ignore leads but of the agony of the parents of the Chibok 3.8 percentage points from the 2012 of the recording -- December 25, 2015, course many of these investigations girls and all those abducted,” he added. election, and final official results the broadcaster said. cannot be disclosed openly because Nnamdi Obasi and Ayo Obe, of the were expected Thursday morning. Two of the three mothers of the it could also endanger the negotia- International Crisis Group, described “This is a voters’ judgement 219 schoolgirls still missing since the tions,” the minister added. the anniversary was an opportunity against President Park. Many voters mass abduction on April 14, 2014 rec- AFP understands from a go- to address the conflict’s effect on chil- are fed up with her authoritarian ognised their daughters on the video between that in mid-January this year, dren as more areas are freed from style of administration”, Profes- but another broke down as hers was members of Boko Haram made con- Boko Haram’s control. sor Yang Moo-Jin of the University not there. tact with the government, requesting “The currently haphazard of North Korean Studies told AFP. All three, however, identified all talks about a possible prisoner swap. approach to the rehabilitation of res- Park has also fallen short on the girls, as did a classmate, who was The militants then sent five still cued captives has left most of them most of her key economic promises, at home on the day of the kidnapping. photographs of some of the girls, also psychologically, socially and culturally a failure she puts down to legisla- The video is the first concrete wearing black hijabs, who were iden- vulnerable,” they added in an arti- tive inaction. indication that at least some the girls tified by some parents as being among cle published on blog.crisisgroup.org. But critics accuse her of skewed are still alive since a previous video those kidnapped from Chibok. Human Rights Watch said this priorities, poor decision-making released publicly by Boko Haram in The government then requested week some 952,000 of the 2.6 mil- and a dogmatic style of leadership. May 2014. more concrete proof in the form of a lion people displaced by the violence “People punished Park for her A ‘Musudan’ missile is seen during a military parade marking the Then, about 100 of the teenagers video, which was then sent. Parents were children, who had been “robbed” poor performance in economy,” 65th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers’ Party of Korea, were shown in Islamic dress, reciting of the 219 girls were on Thursday set to of their right to education by attacks Minjoo Party President Kim Chong- in Pyongyang, North Korea, yesterday. passages from the Koran after Boko hold a prayer vigil at the Government on schools. In said. 450 escape US senator says UN Court rules Thai surrogate from rehab chief ‘ineptitude’ over centre baby can live in Australia in Vietnam peacekeepers’ row AFP The judge also found that Gammy, an abortion and then walked away who he said appeared to be “thriving” when they learnt of his condition. The AFP Reuters peacekeepers and hold those respon- in his Thai home, was not abandoned judge added that the couple was not sible accountable.” by the Farnells, but rather Pattara- seeking access to a trust fund, set up “However, this is a fight that no SYDNEY: The father of a Down’s syn- mon wanted to keep him. from public donations to help Gammy, HANOI: Around 450 Vietnamese one person can lead alone,” Dujarric drome baby at the centre of a surrogacy Pattaramon claimed in 2014 for Pipah’s welfare needs or to meet drug addicts have escaped from a UNITED NATIONS: An influential added. “Member states are the only scandal did not abandon him in Thai- that the Farnells at first requested their legal costs. rehabilitation centre where many US senator accused United Nations ones who have the power to swiftly land and can keep his twin sister despite were held for compulsory treat- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of bring to justice those who have com- being a convicted paedophile, a court ment, an official said yesterday. ineptitude yesterday for failing to halt mitted crimes and to impose the ruled yesterday. Australian couple The detainees attacked guards, exploitation and abuse by blue-hel- strongest possible disciplinary and David Farnell and Wenyu Li sparked climbed walls, and broke down the meted peacekeepers. criminal sanctions.” international furore in 2014 when they main gate at the centre in the Viet- The criticism from Senator Bob Ambassador Isobel Coleman, were accused of leaving baby Gammy nam’s southern province of Ba Ria Corker, a Republican who chairs the who oversees UN management and in Thailand and returning home with Vung Tau late Wednesday. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, reform issues at the US mission to his healthy twin sister Pipah. “We have brought 150 patients comes as candidates to replace Ban the United Nations, said countries Thai surrogate Pattaramon back, while search efforts are under- when he leaves the post at the end of that contribute UN troops were often Chanbua, who gave birth to the siblings, way for nearly 300 others,” Le Thi the year after 10 years have been hold- unwilling to hold those who commit tried to get Pipah back the following Trang Dai, director of the provin- ing town hall meetings with diplomats abuses accountable. year after learning Farnell was a con- cial labour department, told AFP. from UN member states this week. “I don’t think it’s ineptitude,” Cole- victed child sex offender. But the Family Vietnam’s communist gov- Ending UN peacekeeper abuse has man said. “I think it is a reluctance to Court of Western Australia ruled that ernment enforces a compulsory been a major topic of discussion dur- take on the opposition of troop con- Pipah could continue to live with the treatment programme for the ing the meetings at UN headquarters tributing countries that don’t want to Farnells in the western city of Bunbury. country’s estimated 140,000 drug in light of a slew of rape allegations deal with this issue in the transpar- “I have decided Pipah should not be addicts. Addicts can also voluntarily leveled against international peace- ent way that it must be dealt with.” removed from the only family she has enter the centres to undergo reha- keepers in Central African Republic. She added that the United States ever known, in order to be placed with bilitation treatments. The escapees Corker asked a committee hearing was monitoring follow-up actions people who would be total strangers were a mix of compulsory and vol- on ending abuse by UN peacekeepers in troop-contributing countries to to her,” Chief Judge Stephen Thackray unteer admissions, Dai said. why some recommendations included ensure people accused of abuse are wrote in a 272-page decision. Local authorities are urging in a 2005 report on the problem to prosecuted. Thackray said he did not think the families to bring back runaway the UN General Assembly were only Republicans are traditionally child was at risk from her biological patients so they can complete their now being implemented. more critical of the United Nations father, and pointed to the “strong attach- treatment, she added. “What is wrong with the secre- than Democrats. The United States ments that Pipah has now formed with “Police are also investigating the tary-general of the UN?” Corker asked contributes 27 percent of the UN’s the Farnells”. reasons behind the escape, trying at the hearing, which was broadcast $8.3bn peacekeeping budget. “I have accepted the expert evidence to understand if there is a leader live. “This report ... the one that you Ban has pushed the UN to “name that while there is a low risk of harm if behind the incident,” she said. refer to, is 10 years old.” and shame” countries whose troops Pipah stays in that home, there is a high The escapees have been begging “How do we put up with such inept are accused of abuse. Some 800 Con- risk of harm if she were removed,” he for clothes from local residents and leadership at the United Nations?” he golese peacekeepers were repatriated said. The conditions attached to the trying to hitchhike out of the area, said, adding that he was “disgusted” earlier this year over alleged sex two-year-old’s stay in Australia included the state-run VN Express newspa- by the abuse. UN spokesman Stephane crimes. In December, an independ- Farnell not being left alone with Pipah Thai surrogate mother Pattaramon Chanbua holding her baby Gammy, per said. “Others have escaped into Dujarric said Ban was “determined to ent review panel accused the United and the couple always keeping West- (a) nearby deep forest,” the report continue to shine a spotlight on the Nations and its agencies of grossly ern Australia’s Department for Child born with Down Syndrome, at the Samitivej hospital, Sriracha district added. scourge of exploitation and abuse by mishandling the allegations. Protection informed of their address. in Chonburi province, yesterday. 08 FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 PAKISTAN

Guarding Gwadar port Gang kills 6 Judges refuse cops & takes to be part of 24 hostages Panama query Reuters LAHORE: Pakistani gangsters yes- terday killed six policemen and took hostage 24 people, including police, Pakistan, but added that there was during a raid to clear an island hide- nothing wrong if funds had been gen- out in the south of prosperous Punjab The judges had erated and loans obtained abroad. province, authorities said. excused themselves Many expected that the press con- The operation to flush out the ference would be meant to respond gangsters entered its ninth day as due to the mayhem to opposition leader Syed Khursheed 1,600 security officials, including caused by the Shah, who had launched a tirade police officials and paramilitary against the minister a day earlier in Rangers, battled for control of the opposition. the National Assembly. island in Prime Minister Nawaz However, he avoided making pub- Sharif’s power base of Punjab. lic the charges against Shah which “Police killed four top criminals he had alluded to in his last press of Chotu Gang and wounded eight, Internews conference. while six police officials are dead When asked about the opposition and seven injured,” Punjab police leader’s offer of accountability, the spokeswoman Nabeela Ghazan- minister said he was ready to order far told Reuters. ISLAMABAD: Blaming the opposi- a Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) “The gang has held 24 persons tion’s lack of clarity for the delay in inquiry if Shah decided to present hostage, including police officials. A Pakistan Naval soldier stands guard at the port of Gwadar, some 700km west of Karachi, yesterday. the initiation of an inquiry into the himself. We are not sure how many civilian The multi-million-dollar port being developed by China in Pakistan is set to be at “full operation” by Panama Papers leak, Interior Minis- Clarifying remarks from his last and police officials are among the the end of the year. ter Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan revealed press conference that had invoked hostages.” Authorities suspect the yesterday that five judges had already the opposition leader’s ire, he said gang is behind hundreds of cases refused to be part of the judicial com- that on Monday, he had simply spo- of kidnapping for ransom, murder mission. ken about a file ‘someone’ had sent and robberies. “It is a very difficult The judges, including two former him, containing details of National operation, because the gang has Supreme Court chief justices, had Accountability Bureau (NAB) cases made its hideout on a small island, excused themselves from becom- against Shah that had been closed surrounded by water and dense jun- ing part of an inquiry into the matter during the PPP’s rule. Chinese consulate resents delay gle,” Ghazanfar added. due to the mayhem caused by the But for the most part, the minis- Authorities identified the leader opposition, he said. ter’s guns remained trained on PTI of the gang as Ghulam Rasool, also The minister said at a press con- chief Imran Khan, claiming that the known as Chotu, who is active in ference that the government wanted recent volley of allegations against in issuance of fishing licences the border areas of the provinces a former SC judge, who would be the government was a political move of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan. assisted by two other retired judges, to send it home in an undemocratic Pakistan launched an armed to head the panel. manner. Internews in December last year. He drew the invited applications for licence for crackdown in Punjab after an Easter He said that former chief justices He also said that if owning busi- attention of MFD to the situation of deep sea fishing in EEZ . He said he Day bombing in the eastern city of NasirulMulk and Tassadaq Hussain nesses abroad was bad for the PM’s 54 Chinese fishermen deputed and initiated collaboration with Chinese Lahore killed 72 people last month. Jilani, as well as retired judges Amir- relatives, the same standard should the financial loss being incurred by fishing company as expertise in deep While Pakistan’s attention has ulMulkMengal, Sair Ali and Tanvir be applied to people close to the PPP KARACHI: Resenting the delay in issu- the owners of these vessels. sea fishing was not available locally for years been focused on the Tal- Khan had turned down a seat on the and PTI leaders. ance of fishing licences, the Chinese The envoy pointed out that the and struck a deal to engage 14 trawl- iban and al Qaeda threat on the judicial commission. He hinted that the government Consulate General in Karachi has said fishing vessels have met all the ers as per the terms and conditions Afghan border in the remote north- He said the government was in might allow Imran Khan to hold the reminded the Marine Fisheries Depart- official requirements as laid down by laid down by MFD. west, militants and criminals have contact with other retired judges to PTI’s foundation day event at some ment (MFD) of six Chinese deep sea MFD and the Ministry of Ports and He added said that there has quietly expanded their influence fill the role. Clarifying that it was up point in Islamabad outside the Red fishing trawlers arrival late last year. Shipping for fishing rights in the Exclu- been no deep sea fishing since 2005 and won recruits in the country’s to Hasan and Hussain Nawaz, sons of Zone, but said such a gathering was not Commercial Counsellor Wang Zhi- sive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Pakistan. because of a ban imposed by the Chi- heartland of Punjab. the prime minister, to respond to the possible without prior consultations. hua commended the support extended The commercial counsellor hoped nese government for the last 10 years Most of the militants belong allegations that had come forth, he The minister announced that the to China-Pakistan fishery cooperation that fishing cooperation will lead to for security reasons. Deep Sea Fishing to banned organisations such said that the government was ready to government had sought legal and evi- project wherein 14 stern trawlers were deals in aquatic products processing Policy 1995, amended in 2009, allows as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Jaish-e- bring forward anything related to the dentiary assistance from the UK in issued letter of intent (LoI) last year. and breeding technology. foreign trawlers fishing in Pakistan’s Mohammad and Sipah-e-Sahaba. Panama Papers episode and related the Dr Imran Farooq murder case, The six Chinese fishing trawl- The local partner of Chinese fish- EEZ, but obligates operators to also Pakistan’s powerful military and matters. and had received a request from ers (stern), owned by Guangdong ing company, Captain M. Asad Iqbal engage Pakistanis as crew members intelligence establishment have long He admitted that it was a crime Scotland Yard for their team to visit Ruishun Pelagic Fishery Company, Gill of Cosmic Resources (Pvt) Ltd, so that they could be trained in deep been accused of tolerating or even if un-accounted money had left Pakistan again. reached Korangi Fish Harbour (KFH) said that MFD in November last year sea fishing. supporting such groups. Afghanistan asked Apex court allows model to verify Afghans’ travel papers Ayyan to travel abroad

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LANDI KOTAL: Pakistan and Afghan officials met at the Torkham ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of border yesterday to sort out prob- Pakistan upheld yesterday the March lems being faced by Afghans coming 7, 2016, verdict of the Sindh High Court to Pakistan after Pakistani border (SHC), ordering the removal of model and immigration officials stopped Ayyan Ali’s (pictured) name from the those Afghans who had no legal Exit Control List (ECL) and allowing travel documents. her to travel abroad. Officials said that the meeting “The apprehension that when was a follow-up to Tuesday’s may- the respondent (Ayyan Ali) has hem at the border which resulted been charged for committing seri- in the death of an Afghan woman ous offences, the removal of her name and a minor girl. from ECL would amount to letting her They said that the Pakistani side off for good, is misconceived,” said suggested to their Afghan counter- the judgment issued by a three-judge who was representing worldwide parts to set up a desk on their side Supreme Court bench. interests regarding her work as an for verification of travel documents Authored by Justice Ejaz Afzal artist and model. Afghan soldiers take position as Taliban militants attack Faryab and Jowzjan provinces, yesterday. of their countrymen and women Khan who headed the bench, the BaracFlorinel-Eftimica had prior to their entry to Pakistan. The judgment also explained that her threatened to lodge a claim of $10 Afghan officials were told that such attendance could still be enforced million if the model failed to show up a move would reduce undesirable or dispensed with by the trial court in the United Arab Emirates in April rush at the border crossing and where her case is pending, in con- 2016 for recording and photo sessions discourage illegal aspirants from Taliban kill top cop in Afghanistan formity with the relevant provisions for the completion of her projects that entering Pakistan, officials said. of the Criminal Procedure Code had been stuck in limbo for the past They said that the Afghan (CrPC). year, the counsel stressed. officials were assured of provid- Reuters was killed in a Taliban ambush along Afghan security forces were killed Ayyan Ali was caught on March No doubt, the model had been ing better facilities to both Afghan with four of his guards on his way to last year and more than 14,000 were 14, 2014, at the Benazir Bhutto Inter- charged in a case, which is still pend- women and children to save them work, said Khalil Aseer, Takhar police wounded. national Airport, Islamabad, while ing adjudication in the competent from delay in verification of their spokesman. Underscoring the daunting task attempting to smuggle nearly half court of law, but the mere pendency documents on the Pakistani side KUNDUZ: Taliban insurgents The three women killed were Afghanistan faces in establishing a million dollars in currency out of of a criminal case cannot be justifi- of the border. ambushed and killed a police com- passers-by, he said. Three was no peace, a militia commander and a the country. cation for prohibiting her movement, Officials of both countries mander and seven other people, immediate comment from the Taliban. member of a provincial council were “For the reasons discussed above, the judgment said. agreed to educate their people including three women, in Afghan- Western-backed government killed by rivals in Takhar on Wednes- these petitions being without merit It had never been the case of about the importance of possess- istan yesterday, two days after the from power, said on Tuesday they had day after a long-running feud, Aseer are dismissed and the leave asked for the government that the model was ing all required documents which insurgents announced the begin- launched “Operation Omari”, named said. The US military said yesterday is refused,” the judgment on Ayyan involved in any of the cases listed enable them to travel to either side ning of their spring offensive. after the late Taliban founder Mullah that it will investigate air strikes it Ali said. in Rule 2 of the Exit from Pakistan of the border. It was also learnt that The Taliban insurgency has gained Mohammad Omar, aimed at defeat- carried out this month. In the strikes At the last hearing on April 5, when (Control) Rules, 2010, in general or the Afghan delegation was told no strength since the withdrawal of inter- ing the government and establishing as many as 17 “insurgents” killed but the Supreme Court had reserved its Rule 2(1 b) in particular, as she has relaxation would be given to any national forces from combat at the end their version of an Islamic state. which local officials and witnesses said ruling to be announced on Thurs- not been charged to have embezzled illegal person coming from Afghan of 2014 and the Taliban are stronger The seasons have long shaped were civilians. The US army regularly day, Ali’s counsel, Sardar Latif Khosa, a large government fund or commit- side and the verification of travel than at any point since the were driven violence in Afghanistan with fighting conducts air strikes in the name of had argued that his client would face ted institutional fraud. documents would gradually be from power by US-backed forces in easing off in the winter, when moun- “counter-terror” operations in the east- colossal financial losses if she did not In the absence of such allegations, intensified so that the policy of 2001. Qahar Khurm Aabi, highway tain passes get snowed in, and picking ern regions that border Pakistan, which fulfil her contractual obligation as we do not think her movement could actual border management could police commander in the northern up again in the spring and summer. are strongholds of Taliban, Islamic could be evidenced from the notice be prohibited under the ECL ordi- truly be implemented. provinces of Takhar and Kunduz, About 5,500 members of the State group and Al-Qaeda fighters. she had received from her manager nance or rules, said the judgment. INDIA FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 09

Congress PM Modi launches slams military logistics deal campaign to boost with US rural development IANS

nation-wide efforts to increase social NEW DELHI: The Congress yes- harmony across villages, strengthen terday voiced “strong reservations” Village Self Governance Panchayati Raj institutions, promote over the government’s move to sign a Campaign aims to rural development, and foster farm- military logistics support agreement generate nation-wide ers’ progress. It will continue till April with the US, saying the Narendra 24, the Panchayati Raj Day. Modi government does not have efforts to increase Modi said he was fortunate to be the mandate to push India into any social harmony across in Mhow, the birthplace of Ambedkar. military alliance. villages, strengthen “Baba Saheb Ambedkar was the “Though America is India’s stra- second name of determination. He tegic partner, we have our strong Panchayati Raj never drifted away from his path of reservations and concerns against institutions, promote working for the Dalits and backwards this agreement,” Deputy Leader of rural development, despite facing insults. With his treas- Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Anand ure of wisdom and degrees from some Sharma told reporters here. and foster farmers’ of the world’s famous universities, “The LSA (Logistics support progress. he had several opportunities for his agreement) was earlier proposed own growth but he left them due to by the US in the year 2004, and his ambition to do something for the for one decade the two countries Policemen patrol during restrictions in Maisuma area of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and society,” Modi said. have been in talks. But India had MHOW, MADHYA PRADESH: Modi laid stress for development resisted it during the 10 years of Kashmir, yesterday. Four civilians, including a woman, were killed after the army fired at a demonstration Prime Minister Narendra Modi yes- of villages for the growth of the coun- UPA’s rule. We did not agree to it protesting against the molestation of a school girl in Handwara. terday launched the ‘Gram Uday Se try and said the focus of this year’s because we see it as intrusive. It Bharat Uday’ campaign to promote union budget was on villages and will show India being drawn into rural development on the 125th birth farmers. “All our development initi- a military alliance,” Sharma said, anniversary of B R Ambedkar from atives have to be centred around rural insisting that such a situation will Ensure no civilian is harmed: his birth place here and said the late development.” not be favourable to India. leader fought for equality and dig- Modi also laid stress on digital He added that India has stra- nity in society. connectivity in villages. “This is dif- tegic relations with the US and also Mehbooba tells Kashmir police “It is my privilege that I am here, ficult to do, but we need to make a with Russia, China, Japan and Indo- on the birth anniversary of Dr Ambed- start somewhere.” nesia and it had maintained balance kar. I bow to this land. He (Ambedkar) Modi said he wanted the incomes among its various strategic part- fought against injustice in society. His of farmers to double in the next few ners but had never been part of a IANS The meeting, held at her Fair View against the alleged molestation of a fight was for equality and dignity,” years. “Purchasing power of people power bloc. Sharma also said the residence on Gupkar Road in Srinagar, teenage girl by an army man. The army Modi said. in rural India has to increase and this Modi government has not got the was attended by the Director General has, however, dismissed the allega- `Gram Uday Se Bharat Uday will power India’s economy. Give our mandate to push India into any mil- of Police K Rajendra Kumar and sen- tion as a rumour to malign the force. Abhiyan’ (Village Self Govern- farmers adequate water and see the itary alliance which could prove SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Chief ior officials of the police. A day later, people in Kupwara took ance Campaign) aims to generate wonders our farmers can do.” detrimental to its interest in the Minister Mehbooba Mufti yesterday The meeting came as curfew was to the streets to protest the Handwara long term. directed the state police to ensure that clamped again in parts of a tense Kash- deaths. A burning tear gas canister “Narendra Modi and his govern- no civilian is harmed during crowd mir Valley amid simmering anger over fired by police hit a 25-year-old man ment do not have a national mandate control, as the valley remained tense the death of four civilians. on his head. The man later succumbed to push India into a situation where over the deaths of four people, includ- As a precautionary measure and to to the injury. it sinks in a closer, deeper military ing three in alleged firing by security prevent troublemongers from spread- Separatist leaders, including alliance and becomes part of a forces. ing rumours, authorities also snapped Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer larger operational design and Mehbooba, who returned to Srina- cellphone internet. Farooq and Yasin Malik, have been requirement of the US in Asia gar yesterday from New Delhi, held a Restrictions were also imposed in placed under house arrest as they had and Pacific and South China Sea,” meeting of top officials to review the the main business hub of Lal Chowk, appealed to people to observe a pro- Sharma said. security situation in the state. amid a valley-wide shutdown call by test shutdown against the killings. “It will be detrimental to India’s The chief minister, who earlier in separatist groups in protest against There was a near-total response strategic and security interests. It the day met Bharatiya Janata Party the civilian deaths. to the shutdown call as shops, schools, will also undermine the critical (BJP) president Amit Shah in New Delhi, Curfew was also enforced in the colleges, offices and other businesses geo-strategic balance and also directed her officials that the Standard north Kashmir Handwara town and in areas where restrictions have not the balance of forces in India’s Operating Procedures (SOP) of deal- parts of the border district of Kupwara. been imposed remained closed. Pub- Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the launch of National immediate and extended neigh- ing with mobs should be followed to Three civilians were killed in lic transport was also off the roads Agriculture Market, an e-market platform, at Vigyan Bhawan in New bourhood in the region,” Sharma ensure that civilians do not get harmed Handwara on Tuesday when police in the valley. Separatists have also Delhi, yesterday. added. during crowd control, said sources. fired at an angry mob protesting called for post-prayer protests today.

Court to oversee probe into temple disaster Rohith Vemula’s family embraces Buddhism IANS Anu Sivaraman, which had Tuesday, probe is headed by additional director to go forward with this crime branch come down heavily on Kerala Police general of police S.Ananthakrishnan, probe, with the high court overseeing it. IANS for not preventing the Kollam deaths, who has an exemplary track record, “In case a CBI probe is announced, after they taking up a letter written to and it is their wish that the high court then it will take at least 2 to 3 weeks KOCHI: The Kerala High Court yester- the high court registrar by their col- oversees it. time before it actually begins. Already day accepted the state government’s league Justice V Chitambaresh, as a Accepting the request, the court the present probe has arrested 13 peo- MUMBAI: The mother request to oversee the ongoing crime public interest litigation. asked the probe officer to submit its ple and they are doing a good job. We and brother of Rohith branch probe into the ‘illegal’ fireworks The bench, after taking into account report on May 18, when the court have also informed the high court Vemula, the Dalit scholar display at the Puttingal Devi temple in the seriousness of the issue, decided resumes its sitting after summer recess. that, if at any point of time, they feel, who committed suicide Kollam which led to a blaze that left to have a special sitting on Thurs- Presiding over an all-party meeting the ongoing probe is having a prob- in Hyderabad, yesterday 114 people dead and over 350 injured. day, despite being a public holiday in Thiruvananthapuram, Chief Minister lem, they can announce any probe by embraced Buddhism here, The request was accepted by on account of Vishu. Oommen Chandy said his government any agency and we will fully coop- saying they were now the division bench of Justice Thot- The Kerala government informed was not averse to a probe by any cen- erate with it,” he told reporters after “truly free from shame”. tathil B Radhakrishnan and Justice the court that the present crime branch tral agency but it would be advisable the meeting. “If my brother were alive, he would have been proud of us,” younger brother Rohith Vemula’s mother Radhika and Rhino killed Naga Chaitanya younger brother Naga Chaitanya during Cooling off alias Raja Vemula the ceremony. told mediapersons during British after a brief initiation ceremony at Ambedkar Bhavan at Dadar, on the occasion of the 125th royals’ visit birth anniversary of Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar. “From today, my mother and I will start a life that Rohith always dreamt of. From today, my mother and I will be truly free, free from IANS shame,” he added. The duo was given the ceremonial ‘deeksha’ by Buddhist monks in the presence of Prakash Ambedkar, the grandson of B R Ambedkar who similarly converted to Buddhism along with 600,000 followers in Nagpur in 1956. At the ceremony, both Radhika GUWAHATI: In a mockery of the and Raja bowed before a portrait of Ambedkar and paid tributes to the so-called tight security arrange- staunch opponent of Hindu caste system. ments, poachers killed yet another “My brother was always a Buddhist at heart, although he did not one-horned rhino in Assam’s convert. He took his own life as he was discriminated because of his Kaziranga National Park, as Brit- Dalit background,” Raja said. “We performed his last rites according to ish royal couple Prince William and Buddhist traditions. “Our mother felt we should honour Rohith’s memory Kate Middleton were spending the by embracing Buddhism. We are against the caste system in Hinduism and night at a nearby resort. want freedom from it. Buddhism does not have such oppressive casteism,” “We recovered the carcass of a Raja said. Said Prakash Ambedkar of Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh, a rhino from the Burhapahar range of faction of the Republican Party of India: “We decided to organise the the park last morning. The poachers ‘deeksha’ ceremony after the family requested us.” took away the horn,” a park offi- Raja recalled Rohit’s love for Buddhism and how he had highlighted cial said on condition of anonymity. the discrimination of Dalits on the Hyderabad Central University “There were about five poach- campus to its Vice-Chancellor Appa Rao. He attacked Prime Minister ers in the group. Our guards heard Narendra Modi and central minister Smriti Irani over his brother’s gunshots from the range and suicide in January that triggered nationwide protests. launched an operation immedi- “Why doesn’t Modi make one statement on people responsible ately,” he said. for his death? He sheds tears for my brother but said nothing on Appa “The group of poachers fired Rao,” he said, referring to the vice-chancellor of the Hyderabad Central and our guards retaliated. How- University where Rohith hanged himself. Rohith Vemula killed himself Boys play with buffaloes in a pond on a hot day in New Delhi, yesterday. ever, they managed to cut off the after alleging caste discrimination in the university. horn and flee,” he said. 10 FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 VIEWS

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Another farce in Syria Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s wife Emine Erdogan poses for a family photo with attendees after a special session on ‘First Ladies’ Leadership on Cancer Control’, part of the 13th Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit, at the Lutfi Kirdar yria ruler Bashar Al Assad cast his vote in Damascus Congress Center in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday. on a day dozens of delegates were meeting thousands of miles away at the United Nations European office Sin Geneva. The talks had been convened to resolve the Syria tangle, which has become a putrid mire of issues and questions haunting not only the West Asian nation but the larger Middle East. Photographs of a beaming Assad in a suit and tie along with his impeccably dressed wife showed them shaking hands with supporters. Qaeda affiliate faces unusual Through the five-year Syrian crisis, the reviled leader and his cronies in government have appeared to show there is nothing wrong with the country and the world is out to malign them. As Syria burns amid the regime and rebels locked in a bloody backlash from Syrians battle of attrition, threat to life and property has become the new normal. A day doesn’t pass without regime troops and opposition military coalition and from Russia, Nusra, which is acting like ISIS,” involved in the demonstration, a groups talking about death and dismemberment. which intervened in the conflict on said a prominent activist based in Free Syrian Army group known as As Rome burnt, they say, Nero fiddled. So as Syria burned, behalf of Syrian President Bashar Idlib, speaking on the condition Division 13, arresting its members Assad voted in a fake democratic exercise. The election was held Al Assad. And yet, Jabhat Al Nusra of anonymity because of security and seizing weapons. only in regime-ruled pockets. Most of the country’s population has grown in power, winning grudg- concerns. ISIS is another name for Then the situation escalated dra- has been displaced, infrastructure blown up, health care is in a ing respect among many Syrians the Islamic State. matically. Division 13 rebels fought shambles and civic facilities defunct. as effective fighters against Assad’s A catalyst for the recent ral- back but lost, with a number of them forces. Careful not to anger people, lies against the group appears to arrested or killed by Jabhat al-Nusra The farcical democratic exercise was likely undertaken the group’s Syrian and foreign-born be rooted in the shaky cease-fire militants. Then hundreds of residents at Russia’s bidding. Moscow, despite supporting the idea of a militants have avoided the brutal- agreement brokered by Russia and from the village, including children, transitional government the very mention of which gets Assad’s ity meted out by the Islamic State. the United States to foster peace came to Division 13’s defense. They goat, has backed the elections saying They have a reputation for honesty. talks in Geneva. A second round held large rallies, stormed build- they will help prevent a vacuum that By Hugh Naylor And with ample arms and cash, of those talks began Wednesday. ings used by Jabhat Al Nusra and the transition might create. The Washington Post the group has smashed opposition The ceasefire agreement defaced the group’s symbols. rivals seen as corrupt and weak, excludes Jabhat Al Nusra and the The protesters, who were shown Assad’s departure is the only Elections including rebels who have received Islamic State, an attempt to drive a in footage posted on social media by the Syria sticking point in the Syrian crisis that US antitank weapons. wedge between the extremists and setting fire to the militants’ facili- has claimed close to 250,000 people Few rebels would dare provoke other Syrians. And it may be work- ties, eventually forced the group to regime are and brought about a refugee crisis that l Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria clashes with Jabhat Al Nusra, ana- ing, said Andrew Tabler, a Syria leave town. In a snub to Jabhat Al an attempt to has divided Europe over an issue that is is a menacing force, over- lysts say. Groups battling the Assad expert at the Washington Institute Nusra, even allied Islamist rebels deceive the not strictly internal. powering moderate rebels government regularly find them- for Near East Studies. “The mod- took part in the demonstrations. The Syrian president has in the even as it battles govern- selves fighting on the same side as erate opposition and Nusra have Its all-powerful image shaken, international Ament troops. But in recent weeks, the Al Qaeda franchise, and they common goals in that they want Jabhat Al Nusra agreed to arbitra- past said that the crisis, which has community. Jabhat Al Nusra has provoked a probably want to avoid confronta- to fight Assad, but with this cessa- tion from an Islamic court to resolve sent ripples across the world, has been backlash that appears to be under- tion with its militants because that tion of hostilities coming in effect, the dispute with Division 13. triggered by people fleeing terrorism. mining its formidable power. “would likely prove very costly to the differences between them are “Under pressure from Nusra, Assad’s definition of terrorism is Residents of opposition-held the wider rebellion,” said Aymenn showing,” he said. the people have become angry. It skewed to his own interest. The armed Idlib province in northwestern Al Tamimi, a fellow at the Middle Since the ceasefire began, intervenes in their lives, forcing uprising erupted because a peaceful Syria have protested the group’s East Forum who studies Syria’s attacks by government warplanes their own agenda on people. So heavy-handed tactics. Its fight- extremist groups. have declined. Residents in several when the problems with Division 13 revolt was crushed mercilessly by regime forces. ers have been forced to withdraw But now, Jabhat Al Nusra is opposition-held areas across the happened, all the people exploded Assad has been dismissive of any peaceful resolution of the from a town in the area because of losing support in Idlib, where its country have taken advantage of the in anger against Nusra and in sup- conflict and is leaning heavily to Iran and Russia. Assad is the mounting anger over their attack fighters and allied Islamist mili- lull to stage anti-government dem- port of us,” said Zakaria Quitaz, a root cause of the Syrian civil war, which has led to the Islamic on a popular US—supported rebel tants hold considerable influence. onstrations. On March 11, scores of spokesman for Division 13. State getting a foothold in the country, and it can only end if he group and attempts to disrupt anti- Residents accuse the group people in Maarat Al Numan held a Jabhat Al Nusra has since decides to go. government rallies. of applying increasingly rigid nationalist rally, with people waving released the detained Division 13 The Syrian ruler has been putting up a show of resilience that Syria’s messy civil war has interpretations of Islam, such as the flags of Syria’s opposition and fighters, the rebel force has con- empowered Jabhat Al Nusra and other strict gender segregation in pub- chanting the revolutionary slogans firmed. But more public outbursts sometimes borders on naivete. Early in the crisis, Assad and wife radicals, but analysts say the unu- lic places, executions of adulterers of the country’s initially nonvio- against the Al Qaeda wing seem pos- were found buying super-luxury goods while blood flowed on sual outburst of frustration against and seizures of the property of non- lent uprising of 2011. sible, if not probable, especially if the streets of Syria. In 2014, he gave a year-end timeline for the the Islamist group signals that mod- Muslims. Last summer, the militants Jabhat Al Nusra Islamists Syria’s partial truce manages to hold. conflict to end. erate voices have not been silenced. reportedly shot dead more than a responded by storming the pro- “Nusra is pretending not to be Without a trace of contrition and bereft of guilt over millions Moreover, the analysts note, dozen members of Syria’s Druze test on motorcycles, attempting to like ISIS, which it is. This makes of Syrians becoming refugees, Assad truly embodies the spirit a string of battlefield defeats suf- religious minority. That incident break up the rally, which espoused them hypocrites,” said a lawyer in fered by the Islamic State — Jabhat drew rebukes even from other nationalist principles at odds with Maarat al Numan who spoke on the of his dictator father Hafez Al Assad who perpetrated the Hama Al Nusra’s rival — further demon- Islamist rebel fighters allied with the group’s rigid Islamist beliefs. condition of anonymity because of massacre. strates that the religious hard-liners the group. “We’re all feeling like The following day, the militants safety concerns. “At least with ISIS, are hardly invincible. we’re suffocating now because of targeted a popular rebel faction they’re honest about what they do.” “We are seeing the beginning of unprecedented public expressions of protest, anger and resistance to Nusra, and this could easily cli- Quote of the day max into a popular revolt,” said Fawaz Gerges, a professor of Mid- dle Eastern politics at the London “You know, we (Putin and his ex- School of Economics and an expert wife, Lyudmila) sometimes on Islamist movements. meet. Not often, but from time In its quest to replace the Syr- ian government with an Islamist to time. We have good relations. regime, Jabhat Al Nusra has over- They may actually be better than come grave setbacks in the past. they had been before. I know A number of its members that all is well with her. ... And I defected to the Islamic State, am also doing well.” which eventually overshadowed its Al Qaeda—linked predecessor by Vladimir Putin declaring a caliphate in 2014 in ter- ritory it captured in Iraq and Syria. Russian President Jabhat Al Nusra militants have faced Syrians moving with their vehicles along a safer zone as they flee IS which took control of Dudyan, intense air strikes from a US-led Baragide and Kafr Han again in northern Aleppo.

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ommuters in air-conditioned buses experience an average 25 percent drop in levels of fine, toxic par- ticles–called PM2.5–than their Ccounterparts in AC cars and a 76 percent drop compared to non-AC modes of trans- port, according to a new study conducted in Ahmedabad over three seasons. The buses studied plied on the 89-km Bus Rapid-Transit System (BRTS) in Ahmeda- bad, a city of 5.5 million, where the annual growth rate of motorised vehicles (24 per- ceent) is about five times higher than that of the city’s population (4.7 percent). The BRTS is India’s most extensive and the study indicates how bus-based rapid-transit sys- tems– 94 percent cheaper than Metro rail, according to the study– might be the best option for India’s growing cities. PM2.5 refers to particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers, or roughly 1/30th the thickness of human hair. BRTS commuters were exposed to the least PM2.5 levels because toxic par- ticles were most abundant closest to the ground; the buses ran on a segregated cor- ridor, often screened by trees; and travel time was quickest on the BRTS, so limit- representing the winter, summer and the variations, there was a 57 percent, 49 per- The primary focus of the air-pollution the corridor. ing PM2.5 exposure. monsoon periods. cent and 67 percent reduction in mean debate has been the ambient (or atmos- “Rather than investing in expensive The study, “Impact of Bus Rapid Tran- India’s urban air-pollution levels exceed PM2.5 levels compared to other modes of pheric) pollutant levels in cities from the freeways and flyovers, Delhi should invest sit on Urban Air Pollution: Commuter’s safe levels many times over; India has over- transport during the winter, summer and data recorded by CPCB, IndiaSpend and in footpaths, cycle tracks, buses, and BRT,” exposure to PM2.5 in Ahmedabad”, was taken China in terms of PM2.5 levels and monsoon respectively. other sources. The Ahmedabad study said Clayton Lane, Chief Executive Officer conducted on a 10 km stretch by the Centre 13 of the world’s 20 most-polluted cities PM2.5 concentrations varied signifi- emphasises the need to move the debate of The Institute for Transportation & Devel- of Excellence-Urban Transport, CEPT Uni- are now in India. cantly over the year, registering the lowest from ambient readings to personal-expo- opment Policy, headquartered in the US, versity, Ahmedabad and EMBARQ India, Why other Indian cities need dedicated levels during the monsoon and highest in sure levels– which eventually–should be in an interview to The Hindu. a transport research advocacy. bus corridors? winter– mean levels dropped 61 percent the focus. The measurements were done in three With Delhi announcing, in its new from winter to summer and 25 percent “The odd-even experiment didn’t reg- phases (December 2011-January 2012; April budget earlier this week, that it would from summer to monsoon. ister any decrease in ambient levels as the 2012-May 2012 and June 2012-July 2012) introduce more buses to persuade richer Delhi experiences the highest levels data reveal, but I am sure it must have had commuters to abandon their cars, the of pollution in winter because of several a significant impact on personal exposure Ahmedabad experience is relevant to larger reasons, including the burning of paddy levels, which should be the focus going cities, although Delhi in 2016 controver- fields in neighbouring states, winter fog, forward,” said Madhav Pai, Director of sially dismantled its Rs. 180 crore (over $27 construction dust and vehicular exhaust, EMBARQ India, and co-author of the study. Delhi experiences The measurements were done million) 5.8-km bus corridor built in 2008. as IndiaSpend has reported. What is the road ahead for Delhi? in three phases (December With the second phase of Delhi’s odd- Buses in dedicated corridor 27 percent The BRTS in Delhi, the world’s most the highest levels of even experiment to be implemented from speedier than other buses polluted city, failed due to several short- pollution in winter 2011-January 2012; April 2012-May April 15, studies of personal-exposure lev- An non-BRTS bus in Ahmedabad comings, as an article in The Wire by Dinesh 2012 and June 2012-July 2012) els will allow more relevant debate. traveled 18 km per hr, an average of 18 Mohan argued. Mohan, who was part of because of several About 150,000 buses run in Indian cit- minutes per trip, compared with an aver- the team that advised the government on reasons, including the representing the winter, summer and ies, but there are virtually no dedicated age travel time of 13 minutes in a BRTS bus, the BRTS, wrote: the monsoon periods. India’s urban corridors for them, a requirement if PM2.5 leading to reduction in exposure to PM2.5 The biggest mistake made was to limit burning of paddy fields air-pollution levels exceed safe levels levels are to be as low as Ahmedabad. No levels and other pollutants. the corridor to 5.8 km instead of the planned in neighbouring states, studies have been done of PM2.5 levels in The assessment demonstrates that the 18 km. If that had happened, a huge number many times over; India has overtaken metro-rail systems. reduction of travel time by 25,000 hours can of bus commuters, bicyclists and pedes- winter fog, construction China in terms of PM2.5 levels and 13 Ahmedabad’s BRTS commuters expe- help in reducing exposure to higher PM2.5 trians would have benefitted and served dust and vehicular rienced the city’s lowest PM2.5 levels counts through BRTS travel and poten- as a pressure lobby to retain the corridor. exhaust, as IndiaSpend of the world’s 20 most-polluted cities irrespective of season and time of day, tially lead to significant health benefits. All bus drivers and their managers are now in India. compared to commuters who travelled by What must shift in the debate on air should have been put through a training has reported. other modes of transport. Due to seasonal pollution programme on safe and efficient use of

What happened to 276 girls abducted by Boko Haram?

Nigeria for years. It would unite activists have been released, recounting stories majority of the Chibok girls have by their captors? Will they be forced around the world, including first lady of forced marriage and sexual slavery. already delivered the babies of their into becoming attackers themselves? Michelle Obama, around the hashtag But not the Chibok girls. Most Nige- captors. And if they are released, like The Nigerian military’s campaign #BringBackOurGirls. It would prompt rian and Western officials say the girls the other victims, they will likely be to dislodge Boko Haram might not be the United States to dispatch surveil- have been taken to a remote part of the regarded with deep suspicion. enough to locate the girls. The army lance drones and military trainers to Sambisa forest, a former game reserve Boko Haram has leveled a number has proven itself capable of conduct- West Africa. in northeastern Nigeria, where they are of the cities and villages that it once ing offensives in cities and towns, but Most Nigerian and The militants kidnapped 276 being closely guarded by the militants. occupied, leaving more than 2 mil- the Sambisa forest is another tactical Western officials say schoolgirls. Several dozen of them Here’s what we know about lion people without homes. In Chibok, challenge entirely — dense, remote were able to escape. But two years later, Boko Haram’s reign that might help homes were burned to the ground. The and vast. the girls have been even as the Nigerian, Cameroonian us understand what the missing girls secondary school was destroyed. The The leader of a different group, the taken to a remote By Kevin Sieff and Chadian militaries have pushed have endured, and what would await Nigerian government says it has begun Lord’s Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, The Washington Post Boko Haram out of many of its former them if they are rescued. rebuilding the part of the country rav- has been lurking for years near the part of the Sambisa strongholds, 219 of the girls remain While militants have publicly aged by war: a multibillion-dollar borders of Sudan, South Sudan and forest, a former missing. accused Nigeria’s secular govern- project. But so far there is little evi- the Central African Republic. The Where are they? ment of being an affront to Islam, dence of progress. forces trying to find him include 100 game reserve in wo years ago Thursday, just before “I assure you that I go to bed and their victims say the group’s mem- Some girls abducted by Boko Haram US troops. But the effort has yielded northeastern Nigeria, midnight on a sweltering night in wake up every day with the Chibok bers appeared much more interested have recently carried out suicide bomb- nothing. Some say that’s a cautionary where they are being Ta town in northeastern Nigeria, girls on my mind,” Nigeria’s president, in expanding their campaign of sex- ings. The number of children involved tale for the quest to find the Chibok men carrying AK-47s stormed into the Muhammadu Buhari, said earlier this ual violence than governing their in such blasts grew tenfold, from four in girls and Boko Haram’s top leader- closely guarded by Chibok Government Secondary School. year. self-proclaimed caliphate. Many of 2014 to 44 in 2015, according to a report ship. That top leadership, by the way, the militants. What happened next would bring glo- But his efforts have not resulted Boko Haram’s victims became preg- released by the UN children’s agency includes a number of teenage boys, bal attention to the Islamist group Boko in the return of any of the girls. Thou- nant while in captivity. on Tuesday. Many Nigerians wonder: according to the Nigerian military. Haram, which had been haunting sands of other Boko Haram victims Most experts expect that the Were the Chibok girls brainwashed

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UK Labour leader Germany nod to Corbyn argues for Britain staying in integration law European Union AP for refugees LONDON: The European Union is deeply flawed but remaining a mem- ber of the 28-nation bloc, “warts and all,” is in Britain’s best interest, to cope with the influx. opposition Labour Party leader Jer- She told reporters the measures emy Corbyn said yesterday. Historic bill to use would foster the settlement of those Britain will vote on its EU mem- carrot-and-stick who stay in the country in the long run. bership in a June 23 referendum “We know, after hundreds of — the first vote ever by a nation on approach. thousands of refugees arrived in our whether to leave the bloc. Prime country, that we are facing a two- Minister David Cameron and most pronged challenge: on the one hand of his Conservative government are controlling the flow of refugees... and in the “remain” camp but several AFP of course on the other hand not just senior ministers argue that Britain registering them but integrating them,” should leave. Merkel said. Corbyn comes from the social- Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel ist left-wing of the Labour Party BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela of the SPD called the agreement a and has long been seen as a luke- Merkel’s ruling coalition agreed yes- “historic step” towards acknowledg- warm supporter of the EU. In 1975, terday on sweeping measures to spur ing the “modernisation and opening he voted against joining what was Darek (second left), a Syrian refugee whose application for asylum in Germany was approved, with other the integration of migrants and refu- of our society” and said he hoped it then the European Economic Com- gees in a “historic” first for a country would lead to a broader immigration students of an integration course at the inlingua language school in Hanover, Germany, yesterday. munity. His ambivalence sets him that long resisted embracing immi- bill long resisted by conservatives. apart from many Labour lawmak- gration. “For the first time in the history ers, who strongly favour an “in” vote. The deal, hammered out in seven of the republic, Germany will have its posing serious problems for Europe’s would be excluded but asylum seek- However migrant rights organi- In his first major speech as part hours of late-night talks between Mer- own integration law,” he said, criti- top economy. The government’s show ers taking part in job training would sation Pro Asyl called the bill unfair, of the referendum campaign, Cor- kel’s conservative Christian Union cising decades of neglect of the issue. of unity yesterday was intended to end be shielded from expulsion for the saying it would penalise refugees byn said yesterday that the EU is not bloc and the Social Democrats (SPD), “The integration of people from months of infighting and breathe life length of the programme. before services have been fully rolled democratic enough and is too eager also included plans for new anti-ter- very different cultures does not hap- into Merkel’s “We can do it” mantra Refugees who abandon state- out to help them. to promote free-market policies at ror legislation. pen on its own, as we were forced during the refugee crisis, which she assigned housing would face And the anti-immigration AfD the expense of workers. The integration bill would take to learn based on our experience.” has repeatedly said can also represent unspecified consequences, but party, whose support has surged in But he said global challenges like a carrot-and-stick approach, pro- Beginning in the 1960s, Ger- an opportunity for Germany. waiting periods for courses teach- recent months, blasted the measures tax evasion, cybercrime, migrant viding subsidised courses to help many invited Turks and other “guest Meanwhile the closure of the so- ing German language and customs as “unjust”, charging that they gave crises and terrorism all require newcomers find their way in Ger- workers” to fuel its economic mira- called Balkan route taken by many are to be slashed to six weeks from refugees preferential treatment in the coordinated international efforts man life but, in some cases, denying cle but it failed to provide millions of migrants has led to a sharp decline three months currently. job market over German workers. to fight them, and “the EU, warts residence permits to those who fail immigrants and their descendants a in new arrivals in recent weeks, alle- “An offer for everyone but also a The right-left coalition also agreed and all, has proved itself a crucial to take up the offer. place in their new society or a path viating some of the political pressure requirement for everyone who arrives to give more funding, personnel and international framework” for tak- Germany took in more than a to citizenship. on Merkel. here — the goal is to integrate as many powers to security forces to combat ing action. “I remain very critical million asylum seekers in 2015 and Berlin has looked to immigration Under the new pact seen by AFP, people as possible into the labour mar- terrorism. of its shortcomings, from its lack of Merkel has faced virulent criticism as a viable solution to the country’s federal funds would be used to cre- ket,” Merkel said. A significant new provision would democratic accountability to the from sceptics, particularly from within demographic time-bomb — the native ate 100,000 jobs for asylum seekers “Only those refugees who work allow federal police to deploy under- institutional pressure to deregu- her conservative camp, who argue that population is expected to shrink dra- receiving benefits. toward their own integration will cover officers for attack prevention as late or privatise public services,” Europe’s top economy is ill-equipped matically in the coming decades, Those facing imminent deportation receive a permanent residence permit.” well as criminal prosecution. Corbyn said in London. Macedonia Panama Papers leak a conspiracy to influence Russia vote: Putin braces for new protests Reuters spotlight on the offshore wealth of pol- who was a childhood friend of Putin had been first to publish the Panama website, Stefan Hilscher, managing iticians and public figures worldwide. and is godfather to his eldest daugh- documents, belonged to a leading US director of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, amid crisis The files, which contained the ter, Maria. Putin reiterated his defence bank. “Süddeutsche Zeitung is a media said the newspaper “has no relation- MOSCOW: Media reports about details of clients around the world, of Rodulgin, portraying the scandal holding company owned by an Amer- ship under corporate law with Goldman offshore accounts in Panama are a prompted Sigmundur David Gunnlaugs- as a conspiracy orchestrated by US ican financial corporation, Goldman Sachs”, adding the paper’s ownership AFP “provocation”, Russian President son, the prime minister of Iceland, to officials and financiers aimed against Sachs,” he said. “That is, the ears of was publicly available information. Vladimir Putin said yesterday, blam- quit, put British Prime Minister David Putin and his government. the instigators are sticking out every- Goldman Sachs referred to Hils- ing US officials and US bank Goldman Cameron under pressure over his fam- “Who does it, these provocations? where, but they do not even redden.” cher’s statement and declined further Sachs for attempts to influence Rus- ily’s financial affairs, and sparked calls We know that there are some staff of “We should not be expecting them comment. According to the leaked SKOPJE: Macedonia braced for sian elections. in Ukraine to investigate President Petro official American institutions,” he said to show any kind of a remorse. They documents, the companies owned fresh protests yesterday over the The leak of confidential documents Poroshenko. at an annual televised phone-in with will keep on doing it and the closer to by Rodulgin had handled billions of president’s shock decision to halt from a Panamanian law firm earlier The revelations included details of the Russian public. the (Russian) elections, there will be dollars, including loans from compa- probes into more than 50 public this month has had political repercus- offshore companies belonging to Ser- Putin said that German newspaper more of that stuff.” nies linked to the state or other friends figures embroiled in a wire-tap- sions in many countries, after shining a gei Roldulgin, a famous Russian cellist Suddeutsche Zeitung, which he said In a statement on the newspaper’s of Putin. ping scandal. Protesters late Wednesday ran- sacked the offices used by President Gjorge Ivanov’s team and set fire to furniture in sporadic clashes in Nonagenarian soon! Parliament Speaker and Poroshenko the capital Skopje, as thousands took to the streets demanding his resignation. ally named Ukrainian Prime Minister New protests were announced for 6pm (1600 GMT) by supporters of the main opposition SDSM party, Bloomberg current government’s position has as well as a counter-demonstration become increasingly fragile. Support by a pro-government group called has declined dramatically.” the Association of Citizens for the KIEV: Ukraine’s parliament Speaker Ukrainian government bonds, Defence of Macedonia. was approved as prime minister in a which rallied the most in a month on SDSM leader Zoran Zaev said bid to end a political crisis that’s threat- Monday on optimism an agreement he would join the demonstrations, ened to trigger early elections and on a new government was close, kept the latest action in a widening polit- has jeopardised the flow of billions gains after Hroisman’s appointment. ical crisis that has set alarm bells of dollars in international financing. The yield on debt due 2019 fell five ringing in the European Union and After weeks of deliberations basis points to 9.581 percent. the United States. among the dominant parties, Volo- Hroisman, parliament speaker He told reporters he was “call- dymyr Hroisman (pictured) , an ally since November 2014, served pre- ing for calm” at the protest, while of President Petro Poroshenko, was viously as a deputy premier under urging police “not to overstep their confirmed by parliament yesterday as prompted key administration officials Yatsenyuk. His appointment ahead power.” Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s replacement. He to quit and the International Mone- of candidates such as outgoing Finance US ambassador Jess Baily also was nominated by a slimmed-down tary Fund to halt a $17.5bn bailout. Minister Natalie Jaresko consolidates urged protesters to refrain from ruling coalition made up of the par- While the economy is healing after Poroshenko’s grip on power. violence. ties of Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk, an 18-month recession, the hryvnia “Hroisman is a politician of a new “Peaceful demonstration is a plus independent lawmakers lured has lost 6 percent against the dollar generation,” Poroshenko told law- fundamental democratic right. Vio- to achieve a majority. this year. makers before the vote. “He was a lence and vandalism is not,” Baily Hroisman, 38, takes charge amid “The change of prime minis- top manager for reforms and decen- A file picture of British Queen Elizabeth II delivering her speech said on Twitter. a volatile environment, with voters ter could allow stalled reforms to tralisation as deputy prime minister.” The crisis erupted last year when in the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament at and Ukraine’s foreign backers los- be restarted and the country’s fro- While the motion to appoint the SDSM accused then prime min- the Palace of Westminster in London. The British monarch will ing patience over delays in fighting zen IMF deal to resume,” said Liza Hroisman was carried 257-50 in the ister Nikola Gruevski of wiretapping celebrate her 90th birthday on April 21. graft after a street revolution demand- Ermolenko, an analyst at Capital Eco- 450-seat house, 206 of the revamped some 20,000 people, including pol- ing European values. Stalled reforms nomics Ltd in London. “It’s clear the coalition’s 227 deputies backed it. iticians and journalists, and said the recordings revealed high-level corruption. The government denied the accusations and in return filed Czech Republic leaders likely to adopt shorter name ‘Czechia’ for country charges against Zaev, accusing him of “spying” and attempting to “destabilise” the Balkan country, Reuters tags and jerseys. Once approved by the along with Slovakia, from the peaceful known as Bohemia (“Cechy” in Czech), Supporters of “Czechia” say the which is hoping to join the EU. Czech president, the cabinet and the breakup of the old Czechoslovakia in but there are also other parts, Moravia term in English can be traced back The original scandal triggered heads of the two chambers of parlia- 1993. But so far there is no standard- and Silesia, so one name is needed that to the 19th century and was codified protests in Skopje, eventually PRAGUE: The Czech Republic’s lead- ment, the Foreign Ministry will lodge ised one-word English name for the does not exclude those historic lands. by the Czech surveying and mapping prompting the EU to step in and ers were expected yesterday to pick the name with the United Nations and Czech Republic, unlike, say, France, The Czech Republic’s adored ice authority soon after the 1993 split of mediate. “Czechia” as the one-word alterna- it will become the country’s official the shortened version of the French hockey team has donned “Czech” on Czechoslovakia as a possible one-word Gruevski stepped down as pre- tive name of their country to make it short geographic name, a ministry Republic. their jerseys. But “Czech” is an adjec- alternative. But it never gained trac- mier in January, paving the way for easier for companies, politicians and spokeswoman said. That has led to a lot of head-scratch- tive and cannot be used as a one-word tion until now and may not have an early elections on June 5. sportsmen to use on products, name The Czech Republic emerged, ing. The largest part of the country is name for the country. easy start when it gains official status. AMERICAS FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 13 Trump says on ‘glide path’ to grab nomination

Near Capitol Hill, Trump sen- and generate more support for his anti- ior advisor Ed Brookover met with establishment presidential bid. Trump’s campaign roughly a half dozen US lawmakers But progressive groups are continu- manager Corey who have endorsed Trump to detail ing to hammer controversial statements how the Republican front-runner will he has made related to building a wall Lewandowski not win the 1,237 delegates he needs to along the US-Mexico border and a tem- to be prosecuted clinch the nomination ahead of the porary ban on Muslims from entering party’s July 18-21 convention. the country. MoveOn.org and other on misdemeanour “This meeting was sort of a step groups called for thousands of demon- battery charge. one as we begin to transition from our strators who oppose Trump’s positions primary (election) focus to becoming to descend on a state party gala in New the nominee, toward the general elec- York City last evening and at a fun- tion,” Brookover told reporters. draiser in the Long Island town of Brookover added that Trump was Patchogue, a suburb that is home to Reuters on a “glide path” to the nomination a large Latino population. and told lawmakers that conserva- Trump himself has engaged in a war tive estimates showed the New York of words with the Republican National billionaire could win 1,265 delegates. Committee and its chairman, Reince WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s pres- “We are going to start holding these Priebus, over party rules that, for exam- idential campaign held the first in a (meetings) every week when we are in ple, allowed party regulars in Colorado series of regular meetings with congres- session,” US Representative Chris Col- to choose a slate of delegates to send sional supporters yesterday, dispatching lins of New York told reporters after the to the party’s nominating convention a top aide to describe the “glide path” meeting. Trump’s home state of New without Republicans in the state actu- he was on to win the nomination and York, where he is ahead in polls, holds ally voting. how the lawmakers could help. a crucial primary election on Tuesday. All the Colorado delegates went The informational meeting, which Congressman Tom Marino of Pennsyl- to US Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who Trump did not attend, is the latest move vania, which is among five states that is trying to stop Trump from gaining his campaign has made to raise Trump’s hold nominating contests on April 26, the 1,237-delegate majority needed to stature in Washington and follows was also present at the meeting. win the nomination on the first ballot announcements of key hires. Marino said yesterday in an inter- at the convention in Cleveland in July. In another development, a Florida view that he knew of one or two other Failure to win the first ballot would prosecutor announced that Trump’s Pennsylvania congressmen who were open the way to a contested conven- campaign manager, Corey Lewand- “seriously thinking” about endorsing tion at which Cruz, Ohio Governor John owski, would not be prosecuted on a Trump. Trump’s lightning-rod cam- Kasich or an 11th-hour dark horse could misdemeanour battery charge involving paign is entering a new phase as the theoretically win a second or subse- Protesters gather outside the convention hall after Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump a reporter he was accused of grabbing brash businessman seeks to improve quent ballot and become the party’s at an event last month. relations with the Republican Party nominee. spoke at a campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Landmark ruling swells number Rousseff asks Supreme Court to stop impeachment of Canada Reuters An injunction by the Supreme Court sus- her inner circle. She denies she broke budget pending Sunday’s vote is possible but unlikely, laws, but opponents allege that accounting tricks aboriginals because several of its justices have recently said helped her win re-election in 2014 by boosting BRASILIA: Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff they do not think the court should interfere with public spending. Temer, who would serve out (pictured) resorted to the Supreme Court yes- the legislature’s jurisdiction in the impeach- Rousseff’s term until 2018 if she is ousted by the terday in a last ditch attempt to avert a critical ment battle. Senate, has little popular support. He would face AFP impeachment vote in Congress that could lead The injunction request will be decided by Jus- a daunting task restoring confidence in a coun- to her removal from office. tice Edson Fachin. He is the most recent appointee try where dozens of political leaders, including Rousseff’s attorney general, Jose Eduardo to the court by Rousseff, though his rulings have close associates of his, are under investigation OTTAWA: More than 600,000 Cardozo, asked the top court for an injunction not always favored her government. for corruption. Metis and non-status Indians are to suspend Sunday’s lower house vote until the Brazil’s largest political party, Rousseff’s main Vowing to fight to the end, Rousseff met with “aboriginal” under Canadian law, full court can rule on what he called procedural coalition partner until it broke away two weeks her political advisers as her government scrambled the Supreme Court said yesterday flaws in the impeachment process. ago, said most of its members in the lower house for votes to block impeachment, but defections in a landmark decision that gives The Supreme Court has called an extraordi- will back deposing her. by several centrist allies in her crumbling coa- them legal status after a protracted nary meeting for 5.30pm (2030 GMT) to discuss Leonardo Picciani, the lower chamber leader lition have seriously compromised that effort. battle. a complaint by a party allied to Rousseff over for the party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Cardozo, Rousseff’s former justice minister The Metis are descendants of the impeachment procedure. Party, or PMDB, told reporters that 90 percent and the government’s main legal adviser, has said French fur traders and North Amer- Rousseff, an unpopular leader already pending a trial that could last six months. of the 68 members of his caucus would vote for previously that the impeachment process was ican Indian women who settled in struggling with Brazil’s worst economic crisis Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla, had not impeachment. unconstitutional. In his appeal to the Supreme western Canadian provinces in the in decades and a historic corruption scandal, been expected to resort to the Supreme Court The move could push Brazil from political Court yesterday, he asked it to annul the report early days of European colonisa- has lost support within her governing coali- until after Sunday’s vote. Cardozo’s request to paralysis into a chaotic power vacuum by end- to the lower house by a congressional committee tion, including a large community tion. She faces the growing likelihood of defeat the court was seen as a sign her government ing the 13-year rule of Rousseff’s leftist Workers’ that recommended impeachment on Monday. that settled in Manitoba province’s in the lower house vote, which would send her now expects defeat. Party, which has lifted millions of Brazilians out He told a news conference Rousseff’s defence Red River Valley. impeachment to the Senate for trial on charges Rousseff’s opponents are just nine votes short of poverty and is overwhelmingly supported by had been obstructed in the committee and that Long referred to as “half-breeds” of breaking budget laws. of victory in the lower house, with 333 lawmak- the country’s poor. testimony from a former of the president, Sen- by the British Crown and later by If the Senate accepts her impeachment, Rous- ers backing impeachment, 124 opposed and 56 Rousseff is not a being investigated in the ator Delcidio Amaral, was obtained as part of the Canadian government, their seff would be suspended and replaced by Vice undecided or declining to respond, according massive graft scandal surrounding state-run a plea bargain deal and should have been con- status as indigenous people had President Michel Temer as soon as early May to a survey by the Estado de S Paulo newspaper. oil company Petrobras that has reached into sidered inadmissible. never been fully recognised. The court ruling — which ends a 17-year legal saga started by former Metis leader Harry Dan- Argentina’s Macri iels, who died in 2004 before the Bring them back Canada draft law to case went to trial — means they sides with taxis as can collectively negotiate treaties and rights with the government, including access to federal health, allow euthanasia Uber arrives education, language and cultural programmes. in Buenos Aires As a result of the ruling, the Reuters but the issue has divided politicians number of indigenous people in in Parliament as they grapple with Reuters Canada swells from 1.4 million to how to protect vulnerable Canadi- two million, out of 35 million Cana- ans while respecting their rights and dians, based on a 2011 Statistics OTTAWA: Canada’s Liberal gov- choices at the end of life. BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s biggest Canada survey. ernment yesterday unveiled draft Under the law, patients would have city vowed to punish Uber Tech- “When you’re ‘non,’” said chief legislation on doctor-assisted sui- to make a written request for medical nologies Inc yesterday for defying Dwight Dorey of the Congress of cide which would apply to adults assistance in dying or have a desig- a ban and President Mauricio Macri Aboriginal Peoples, referring to non- suffering incurable illness or disa- nated person do so if they are unable. showed solidarity with cab drivers status Indians or natives living off bility but stopped short of extending it There would be a mandatory wait- as the ride-hailing company opened reservations, “you don’t exist.” to minors or the mentally ill for now. ing period of at least 15 days in many a new front in its battle with the “That term should be gone for- Legislators will vote on the draft cases, and patients would be able to taxi industry. ever from the English language in law, which applies only to Canadians withdraw a request at any time. Uber’s launch in Buenos Aires Canada. We are all status now.” and residents in the country, in the Patients would also have to be this week met with widespread pro- Metis suffered discrimination next few weeks. The law is expected experiencing “enduring and intoler- tests by drivers of the city’s black under the colonial system just like to pass because Prime Minister Jus- able suffering” and death would have and yellow cabs, along with threats their “Indian” peers and at times tin Trudeau’s Liberals have a majority to be “reasonably foreseeable”. Only from officials, echoing resistance were lumped in with them, for in Parliament. those eligible for Canadian health the US company has faced in many example, in negotiations to ensure The Supreme Court of Canada services are eligible, eliminating the of the more than 400 cities where that natives did not block the con- overturned a ban on physician- prospect of “suicide tourism”. it operates worldwide. struction of a pan-Canadian railway assisted suicide last year but gave The government did not adopt “We have already ordered the in the late 1800s. the new government extra time to suggestions from a parliamentary service to shut down,” said the city’s Consecutive federal and pro- pass legislation, adding Canada to committee which had suggested the Transportation Secretary Juan José vincial governments steadfastly the handful of Western countries that law should also apply to those who Méndez. “If they keep operating it refused to officially acknowledge allow the practice. suffer only from mental illness, allow becomes a criminal issue.” jurisdiction over the Metis, leav- Trudeau, whose father declined for advance requests and eventually Cab drivers and city officials ing “no one to hold accountable for treatment for cancer before his 2000 be extended to minors who are able accuse Uber of violating local reg- (their) inadequate status quo,” the death, said Canadians were “extremely to make their medical decisions. The ulations and risking passengers’ court said. seized with this issue.” government said those issues needed safety by offering rides with drivers “The historical, philosophical “It’s a deeply personal issue that more study. who lack a taxi licence. Uber said it and linguistic contexts establish affects all of us and our families and Advocacy group Dying With Dig- was permitted under Argentine law. that ‘Indians’ includes all aborigi- all of us individually as we approach nity Canada criticised the law for “Uber continues to operate nor- nal peoples, including non-status the end of our lives,” he told report- excluding people with debilitating mally ... It has not been prohibited, Indians and Metis,” said the court ers. “The plan we have put forward is diseases such as dementia. The gov- suspended or shut down,” the com- in its unanimous decision. one that respects Canadians’ choices ernment said it would not require its pany said in a statement yesterday. Relatives of missing people hold pictures of their loved ones during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau while putting in place the kinds of legislators to back the law and Health Macri, who was mayor of Buenos has made reconciliation with Cana- a march with human rights activists and families of victims of safeguards needed.” Minister Jane Philpott said no doctor Aires before assuming the presi- da’s indigenous peoples a key policy violence, in Monterrey, Mexico, yesterday. Polls show physician-assisted sui- will be required to provide assisted dency in December, threw his weight of his administration. cide has broad support in Canada suicide. behind the cab drivers. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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After global oil freeze deal, prospects for cuts unclear and remote

Reuters not seriously talking about any steps beyond the output freeze, according to another Opec The freeze plan has source. “Talk of a cut is far behind the scenes helped oil prices to rise now. They can barely agree on the freeze,” LONDON/DUBAI: An oil output cut by glo- he said. bal producers, following on from the output over 60 percent from a Nonetheless, the common wish of all sides freeze initiative, is quite unlikely and would 12-year low near $27 a to avoid a renewed drop in prices puts pres- be months away, Opec sources said, sug- barrel in January, despite sure on all sides to get the freeze deal agreed, gesting any additional action to boost prices Opec sources said. is remote. doubts whether it is Countries are discussing a number of The freeze plan — to be discussed by Opec enough to tackle a supply reference points at which to freeze output and non-members such as Russia on Sun- - January levels, February levels or an aver- day in Doha — has helped oil prices to rise glut. age - and have floated the idea of setting up over 60 percent from a 12-year low near $27 a committee to monitor compliance. a barrel in January, despite doubts whether Exporting Countries gave a similar timeframe, “The Saudis don’t want the deal to fail it is enough to tackle a supply glut. dismissing the prospect that Opec could trim because of the political pressure on them to While a cut would go further, Opec del- supply at its next scheduled meeting in June. act,” an Opec watcher who asked not to be egates say doubts over compliance with the “There will be no cut in June. Maybe later in named said. “And in general, no one wants to output freeze and the uncertainties over the year or next year. It depends on the mar- see prices sinking to $30 and below again.” Libyan and Iranian supply means that any ket rebalancing.” A production freeze, at least in theory, will discussion of a cut would be unlikely before Libya, pumping a fraction of its poten- set down a baseline which could form a start- late 2016 or next year. tial due to fighting in the country, has said ing point for any future supply agreements “It is difficult to talk about a cut,” said a it does not plan to attend Sunday’s meeting. - potentially making such agreements easier. delegate from a major Opec producer, add- Iran, pumping about 3.30m b/d, has But delegates say it is still early days. ing any such discussions would be months refused to join the output freeze as it wants Opec ditched individual output quotas in away if they occurred at all. “Maybe when to recover market share following the lifting late 2011 when it set an overall output target the Iranians arrive at their previous produc- of Western sanctions in January. for all members. The overall target was also tion level of 3.6 million barrels a day or 3.7m Russian oil minister Alexander Novak scrapped by Opec last December. b/d, and then Opec will talk about a cut. Not told a closed-door briefing this week that “If Opec and non-Opec agree on some- before that.” the oil output freeze will be loosely-framed thing and implement it, surely it could help A second delegate from another major with few detailed commitments, two people oil market stability,” said a third Opec del- producer in the Organisation of the Petroleum present at the briefing said. Oil officials are egate. “However, this is a big if.” World oil glut set to ease this year: IEA

AFP “We cannot know the outcome but anecdotal evidence is emerging of if there is to be a production freeze, financial problems taking their toll rather than a cut, the impact on phys- on the shale pioneers,” the IEA said. ical oil supplies will be limited,” said The agency said the global oil sur- PARIS: A global oil glut that has hit the IEA, which gives advice to coun- plus is expected to fall to 200,000 energy companies hard but meant tries on energy policy. barrels per day in the second half of cheap prices for consumers is set to It added: “With Saudi Arabia and 2016, from 1.5 million in the first six ease by year’s end as US shale produc- Russia already producing at or near months. While its demand and supply tion slides, the International Energy record rates and very little upside seen figures are “highly provisional”, the Agency (IEA) said yesterday. apart from Iran... any deal struck will agency warned, it added that “there is However, the agency said any not materially impact the global sup- no doubt as to the direction of travel production freeze possibly agreed by ply-demand balance during” the first for the supply/demand balance”. leading oil producers who are due to half of 2016. Meanwhile, the pace of Iran’s meet in Qatar on Sunday would only Analyst Patrick Dennis, of Oxford return to the market after the lifting A flie picture of Bob Dudley, Group Chief Executive of BP, giving a keynote address at the Oil & Money have a “limited” impact on supplies. Economics, also said he saw a “mar- of sanctions under its nuclear deal The 29-nation IEA said the oil ginal effect” from the Doha meet. with world powers has been “more conference in central London. market, which for months has been But he said it “should be seen as measured than some expected”, the depressed by a vast oversupply, was a first step towards instilling market IEA said. expected to practically balance out discipline, unifying Opec and eventu- Tehran rejects any output freeze BP shareholders reject pay deal for Dudley in the second half of the year. ally bringing Iran back into the fold”. until it regains its pre-sanctions mar- Prices shot to 2016 highs this week All oil producers, including those ket share and has doubled exports and are now well over $40 a barrel after in the 13-nation Opec cartel but also since its nuclear accord took effect AFP & Bloomberg at a time when oil’s crash has driven to $1.85m, the bonus jumped 38 per- plummeting below $30 early in the non-cartel members like Russia, which in mid-January. down earnings. cent to $1.39m and the contribution to year. They are nevertheless far below is due to attend the Doha talks, have Its March production, at 3.3 million BP plans to cut 4,000 jobs in oil pension and retirement benefits more the $100-a-barrel mark of mid-2014. suffered from the more than 60-per- barrels per day, was nearly 400,000 and gas exploration and production than doubled to $6.52m, according The IEA said in its monthly oil cent drop in oil prices since mid-2014. barrels higher than at the start of the LONDON: Shareholders in BP yester- this year, and 3,000 in downstream to the Institute of Directors report. market report that it still anticipates The collapse was due to a global year but, while nuclear sanctions day rejected a pay deal worth $19.6m businesses by 2017. The company said The company plans no salary “steady oil demand growth and fall- glut caused in large part by US shale have been lifted, some financial ones (€17.3m) for Chief Executive Bob Dud- last year it would freeze employee increases for senior leadership in ing non-Opec supply”, referring to oil producers flooding the market. remain, the IEA added. ley amid heavy losses and job cuts at salaries amid a “harsh trading 2016, it said in the report. BP posted producers outside of the Opec. The IEA said it remained confident Iran has signalled a daily produc- the oil giant. environment.” a record net loss of $6.5bn last year, “This scenario is now taking shape that in 2016 global oil demand would tion target of four million barrels, its Only 40.89 percent voted in favour Shareholder advisory firms includ- reflecting oil’s biggest slump in a gen- and the oil market looks set to move grow by 1.2 million barrels per day. pre-sanctions level. of the deal in a non-binding vote which ing Glass Lewis & Co and Pensions & eration as well as a $10bn provision close to balance in the second half of India may overtake China as “the World oil prices drifted lower in highlighted shareholder discontent at Investment Research Consultants Ltd for the legal settlement relating to the this year,” it said. main engine of global demand growth”, subdued morning trade yesterday. BP’s annual general meeting in Lon- also have recommended that inves- Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Adjusted for Expectations that the Doha meet- the agency also noted. Around 1000 GMT, US bench- don. The deal would see Dudley’s pay tors oppose Dudley’s pay deal. one-time items, profit dropped 51 per- ing will agree to freeze output have On the supply side, the IEA said it mark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) package increase by 20 percent com- Dudley’s total compensation, cent to $5.9bn. helped buoy prices recently after saw signs that an expected slide in US for delivery in May was down nine pared to the previous year. including salary, bonus, shares and The London-based company has reports that Saudi Arabia and non- shale production “is gathering pace”. cents at $41.67 a barrel. Brent North Shareholder Royal London Asset pension, increased to $19.6m in 2015, said the measures that determine OPEC producer Russia had reached a “By early April the rig count had Sea crude for June delivery fell five Management Ltd said last week it 20 percent higher than the previous CEO pay were backed by 96 percent consensus on freezing output, boost- fallen nearly 80 percent from the cents to $44.13 a barrel compared with would vote against the package, call- year, according to BP’s annual report. of shareholders when they approved ing hopes of a wider deal. peak seen in October 2014 and more Wednesday’s close. ing it “unreasonable and insensitive” While his salary rose just 1.5 percent the remuneration policy in 2014. BUSINESS FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 15 Lagarde urges Britain and EU to save ‘long marriage’

spring meetings of the World bank ago. “Lower growth means less room and IMF, she called the risk that Brit- for error,” IMF chief economist Maurice “It’s been a long ain would decide to pull out of the Obstfeld said. “The weaker is growth, marriage between 28-nation European Union — “Brexit” the greater the chance that the preced- — a “serious concern” to the global ing risks, if some materialize, pull the members of the economy. She warned of continuing world economy below stalling speed.” European Union. It’s market fragility as the June 23 refer- The meetings open amid a rise in really my personal endum on pulling out nears. countries seeking aid from the IMF and “Whatever happens, I think that all the World Bank. Last week Angola, its hope that it doesn’t parties should rise above the domestic finances battered by the plunge in oil break. Like all circle and should have a broader view prices, requested a three-year bailout of what lays ahead in terms of collec- programme from the Fund. marriages, good tive endeavor.” And the World Bank said on Mon- talks can actually “Because keeping Europe together day that its lending to needy countries after what it has gone through over the surged last year “to levels never seen help and I hope that last century, and what the risks are on outside a financial crisis”. the dialogue can the horizon.... is actually a huge asset In meetings with the 189 country which is vastly underrated in my view.” members of both institutions, and in continue.” In its assessment of the state of the parallel meetings of the G20 leading IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde (centre) responds to a question during her opening press conference world economy released earlier this economies, the message will be that week, the IMF called Brexit a lead- each country needs to try harder to at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, yesterday. IMF First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton ing risk to growth and warned that reverse the downturn. (left) and IMF Director of Communications Gerry Rice are also seen. The Spring meeting of the IMF and the AFP it “could do severe regional and glo- Those with stronger finances need World Bank Group takes place until April 17. bal damage by disrupting established to spend and invest, in infrastructure trading relationships.” for example; others need to restruc- there were few signs of a collec- must not be the only engine of growth,” South America’s recession-bound Britain votes on whether to remain ture and reform in ways that boost tive effort likely to emerge. The a senior treasury official said this week. largest economy, to the conflicts in WASHINGTON: International Mone- in the 28-nation EU on June 23. economic activity. Germans — who are pushed to do Underpinning the talk of policy and the Middle East, to Europe’s nation- tary Fund chief Christine Lagarde urged The IMF opened the week by cut- But also in the air is a need for more spending — want to see more macroeconomics, however, is the issue alist reaction to migration crises and Britain and the European Union yes- ting its forecast for world economic a Plan B if growth and confidence reforms by others. of confidence among people around terrorism. terday to keep communications open growth for the third time in six months, further deteriorate, especially as But, said one person closely famil- the world not seeing conditions for The meetings could also turn their to avoid the failure of an “long mar- saying growth has been “too slow for doubts rise about the efficacy of the iar with German officials’ thinking, themselves improve after years. focus to one source for feelings that riage” with the Brexit vote. too long.” It said intensifying financial low and negative interest rates of structural reform “is like the Yeti: many With unemployment already high economies are only serving elites: “It’s been a long marriage between and political risks around the world, leading central banks. “Policymak- people say they have seen it, but we in many regions like Europe and ris- the “Panama Papers” trove of leaked members of the European Union,” she from volatile financial markets to the ers also need to make contingency really don’t even know if it exists.” ing in emerging and poorer countries, documents showing how the wealthy said. “It’s really my personal hope that it Syria conflict to global warming, had plans and design collective meas- Meanwhile the United States, the he added, “We definitely face the risk and powerful set up and funnel money doesn’t break. Like all marriages, good left the economy “increasingly fragile.” ures for a possible future in case world’s largest and, among developed of going into doldrums that could be through anonymous companies in tax talks can actually help and I hope that The Fund lowered its growth fore- downside risks materialise,” the countries, the healthiest economy, politically perilous.” havens. Global officials are already the dialogue can continue.” cast for 2016 to 3.2 percent, compared Fund said. wants to see others doing the heavy Political challenges are already stir- examining the Panama Papers for Speaking at the opening of the to the 3.8 percent it expected a year Going into the meetings however lifting. “The United States cannot and ring the pot, from the crisis in Brazil, information on possible tax evasion.

Sharp unveils RoBoHon Iran’s oil output QE market cap rises to rise modestly to QR547.85bn this year: Poll

LONDON: Iran’s oil production will The Peninsula Financial Services sector accounted rise only modestly this year and next, for 26.35 percent. Industries sector but it will be enough to stop global accounted for 16.70 percent and Tel- crude supply and demand from rebal- ecoms sector accounted for 10.78 ancing in 2016, according to a Reuters DOHA: Qatar Exchange (QE) index percent. poll of oil analysts’ forecasts. declined 7.70 points or 0.08 percent Banking and Financial Services A Reuters survey of eight oil to close at 10,238.17 points yesterday sector led traded number of trans- analysts shows Iranian production, compared to the previous closing of actions last week with 26.02 percent which is expected to be around 3.2m 10,245.87 on Wednesday. On weekly of the total number of transactions. b/d in March, is forecast to rise to basis, the index gained 73.41 points Industries sector accounted for 20.69 3.4m b/d by mid-2016 and to 3.5m or 0.72 percent. percent. Real Estate sector accounted b/d by the end of the year, reaching Trading value last week increased for 16.49 percent and Telecoms sector 3.8m b/d by the end of next year. by 14.03 percent to reach QR1.94bn accounted for 13.59 percent. Iranian exports, which until compared to QR1.7bn the previous Of the 43 companies listed, 29 January had been limited by inter- week. Trading volume increased by ended last week higher, while 13 fell national sanctions over Tehran’s 37.03 percent to reach 58.08 mil- and one remained unchanged. Maz- nuclear programme, are expected lion shares, as against 42.38 million aya Qatar led trading value last week to rise at a modest pace. shares, while the number of trans- and accounted for 9.97 percent of the The poll showed exports are actions rose by 7.3 percent, to reach total traded value. Gulf International expected to reach 1.6m b/d by the A model holding Sharp Corp’s RoBoHon, a humanoid communication robot-shaped mobile phone, 28,670 transactions as compared to Services accounted for 8.03 percent middle of this year, before edging poses for pictures during a photo opportunity at its unveiling event in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. 26,719 transactions. and Widam Food Company accounted up to 1.7m b/d by the end of 2016 Market capitalisation rose by 0.77 for 6.73 percent. and to 2m b/d by the end of 2017. percent to reach QR547.85bn as com- Yesterday, the volume of shares The analysts polled all said Iran pared to QR543.64bn at the end of traded down to 9.1 million from 10.77 will not take part in any output deal previous week. Banking and Finan- million on Wednesday while the value until it recaptures its pre-sanctions cial Services sector led traded value of shares decreased to QR406.37m market share and returns to a pro- last week with 28.63 percent of the from QR438.80m. duction target of about 4m b/d. Iran Tame US inflation supports total traded value. Industries sector Among the top losers were Com- has ruled out freezing its output at accounted for 21.36 percent. Consumer mercial Bank of Qatar whose share January levels, which sources have Goods and Services sector accounted dropped 1.41 percent to QR38.45 and estimated to be around 2.93m b/d. Fed’s cautious rate policy for 15.81 percent while Real Estate General Insurance with 6.47 percent Iran is likely to struggle to reach sector accounted for 14.19 percent. fell to QR47.70 per share. Nakilat this 4m b/d target because of a lack Real Estate sector led traded vol- shares lost 2.11 percent to QR23.21 of investment and availability of ume last week with 28.03 percent of and Islamic Insurance shares were technology to upgrade and develop Reuters after advancing 1.0 percent in February. first time in nearly a decade and pol- the total traded volume. Banking and down 1.21 percent to QR65.20. its oil fields. Economists had forecast the CPI icymakers recently forecast only two gaining 0.2 percent last month and more rate hikes this year. rising 1.1 percent from a year ago. In a second report, the Labour WASHINGTON: US consumer prices The so-called core CPI, which Department said initial claims for state barely rose in March and underly- strips out food and energy costs, inched unemployment benefits decreased RBS planning to axe 600 UK jobs ing inflation slowed, suggesting little up 0.1 percent after two strong monthly 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 253,000 urgency for a cautious Federal Reserve readings. March’s increase in the core for the week ended April 9. That matched to raise interest rates in the near term. CPI was the smallest since August and the level for early March, which was the The benign inflation backdrop is followed a 0.3 percent rise in February. lowest since November 1973. Reuters of cuts will hurt the bank’s custom- them, including seeking redeployment prevailing despite tightening labor In the 12 months through March, Jobless claims have now been below ers,” said Lyn Turner, from the Unite opportunities wherever possible.” market conditions, underscored by the core CPI rose 2.2 percent after gain- 300,000, a threshold associated with trade union. With every branch closure RBS is struggling to return to health other data on Thursday showing the ing 2.3 percent in February. healthy labour market conditions, for RBS “is slamming its doors on another eight years after requiring the world’s number of Americans filing for unem- The Fed has a 2 percent inflation 58 weeks, the longest stretch since 1973. LONDON: State-backed Royal Bank community, dangerously undermin- largest bank bailout at the height of ployment benefits back at a 42-1/2-year target and tracks an inflation meas- Labour market strength comes despite of Scotland is axing almost 600 jobs in ing the bank’s long-term future.” the financial crisis. low last week. ure which is running below the core recent reports on trade, wholesale inven- its UK retail bank, according to sources Chief Executive Officer Ross McE- Taxpayers face losing almost half “A rate hike is unquestionably off CPI. Fed Chair Janet Yellen recently tories, retail sales and business spending familiar with the situation, in the latest wan has been cutting thousands of jobs the 45.5 billion pounds ($64.7 bil- the table for April, with a June rate expressed doubts about the sustain- suggesting economic growth almost round of job cuts and branch closures to reduce expenses in a bid to boost lion) invested to keep the bank afloat increase increasingly unlikely bar- ability of broad gains in prices and halted in the first quarter after post- at the lender. earnings after eight straight annual because its shares are trading below ring a surge in domestic activity and said she believed that “transitory” fac- ing a 1.4 percent annualized rate in the All the employees impacted work losses. The latest redundancies mean the level that the state paid for them, perceived calm on the international tors were behind the run-up in prices. fourth quarter of 2015. in the bank’s retail network in England RBS has cut 1,500 staff across the UK according to an analysis by the Treas- front,” said Lindsey Piegza, chief econ- The Fed’s policy-setting committee Growth estimates for the Janu- and most are being told of the deci- so far this year. Most of the cuts are ury last month. omist at Stifel Fixed Income in Chicago. meets on April 26-27. Market-based ary-March quarter are as low as a sion, according to the sources, who in the retail division where the bank RBS closed more bank branches in The Labour Department said its measures of Fed policy expectations 0.2 percent pace. “Low labour mar- asked not to named because they are has announced plans in 2016 to axe the UK than any other lender between Consumer Price Index gained 0.1 per- have priced out a rate hike at this ket separations and steady payroll not authorised to discuss the plans. about one in every 12 jobs. 2014 and 2015, according to one study cent last month as a rebound in gasoline month’s meeting and have almost elim- gains should produce healthy house- The cuts are occurring in branches RBS, 73 percent owned by the gov- published last year, and it has reneged prices was partially offset by a drop inated the chances of a move in June, hold income growth over the next few in northern, southeast or eastern ernment, confirmed some staff would on an earlier promise to avoid closing in the cost of food. Medical care and according to CME Group’s FedWatch. months, indicating the likelihood of a England, the Midlands or London, be losing their jobs without being spe- the last branch in any town. housing costs also retreated in March It currently gives a 41 percent proba- rebound in consumption and overall the sources said. The bank is clos- cific and said the job cuts were due to Like many UK banks, RBS is after strong increases in the prior two bility of a rate increase in November GDP growth following the apparent ing about 34 branches and reducing customers increasingly banking online. justifying closing branches to cut months. The CPI fell 0.2 percent in and a 55 percent chance in December. softness in the first quarter,” said Jesse opening hours in hundreds more in “This is clearly difficult news for costs because changes in technol- February. In the 12 months through The Fed lifted its benchmark over- Hurwitz, an economist at Barclays in an aggressive cost-cutting plan. staff,” the bank said in a statement. “We ogy mean fewer staff and locations March, the CPI increased 0.9 percent night interest rate in December for the New York. “There’s no doubt this latest round will do everything we can to support are needed. 16 FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 BUSINESS Brent futures point to oil market rebalancing

“market balance draws near” (“Oil narrowing across all maturities, Prominent oil Market Report”, IEA, April 14). which suggests the market sees less “For some months ... we have oversupply ahead, and is consistent analysts continue anticipated steady oil demand growth with the start of a sustained recov- to warn that the and falling non-Opec supply. This sce- ery in prices. nario is now taking shape and the oil The price spread between Brent recent rise in prices market looks set to move close to bal- futures contracts for deliveries in June is premature and ance in the second half of this year.” and July 2016 has even flirted with Even Goldman Sachs, one of the backwardation this week. risks postponing the most influential banks in the com- Tightness in the nearby Brent additional production modity market, and among the most spread is likely the result of idiosyn- bearish, has issued a commentary cratic factors - including summer cuts needed to force entitled “rebalancing gathers pace” maintenance in the North Sea, recent supply and demand (“Oil gauge”, Goldman Sachs, April 13). pipeline outages in Nigeria, and a pos- back into balance. Goldman’s researchers write they sible short squeeze. have “increasing confidence in rebal- But the contango is also nar- ancing, but risks remain” and note rowing along the rest of the curve, “the forward curve has flattened and including at more deferred dates risen, as at the end of previous bear where idiosyncratic factors should Reuters markets”. Futures prices point to a have much less influence. more balanced market over the next The contango between futures 18 months with the contango narrow- prices in the fourth quarter of 2016 ing across all maturities. and the average of 2017 has shrunk LONDON: The structure of Brent Economists have demonstrated a from $3.75 per barrel in December to futures prices shows most market close relationship between the sup- $2.50 at the end of February and just participants believe the oil market ply-demand balance, stockpiles and $1.65 in recent days. will begin to rebalance in the second the shape of the futures curve (“Price Given the intimate relationship half of 2016 and through 2017. relations between July and Septem- between supply, demand, invento- Prominent oil analysts continue to ber wheat futures”, Working, 1933). ries and forward prices, the shape of warn that the recent rise in prices is In the oil market, shifts in the the futures price curve is closely mon- premature and risks postponing the structure of futures prices between itored by professional traders. additional production cuts needed to contango and backwardation have The futures curve is not an infal- force supply and demand back into corresponded with shifts in the mar- lible guide to turning points in the oil balance. ket balance (“Brent contango is hard market, as shown by the strengthen- But the majority of market par- to square with missing barrels”, Reu- ing of spreads in the first five months The gradual softening of the which started towards the end of June consistent with other indicators ticipants now seem convinced ters, March 9). of 2015 which collapsed when the spreads in the first half of 2014 argu- 2014. The current tightening of the pointing to a big shift in sentiment, rebalancing is now on the horizon and In general, the end of a bear market did not tighten as expected. ably indicated the growing oversupply spreads signals that many market including the large rise in bullish the balance of risks in the medium market has been accompanied by a But the spreads are tied closely in the market even as fighting in Libya participants think the worst of the hedge fund positions. term is tilted towards the upside. narrowing of the contango and then enough to the supply, demand and and Iraq sent spot prices surging to a oil slump is over. There is more bullishness about The International Energy Agency a shift into backwardation. stocks outlook that big shifts in the peak of $115 per barrel. The spread tightening could the outlook for stocks and prices echoes the theme in an editorial in Over the past three months, curve structure demand should not The softening of the spreads argu- once again prove to be a false guide, around the market than at any time its latest oil market survey entitled the degree of contango has been be dismissed lightly. ably prefigured the collapse in prices as in the first half of 2015, but it is for the last six months.

China lowers yuan rate by most BoE warns leaving EU likely in three months to trigger slower growth SHANGHAI: China’s central bank cut its exchange rate for the yuan currency against the US dollar by the largest amount in three Reuters Consumer price inflation touched months yesterday as the green- a 15-month high last month of 0.5 back strengthened on improved percent, while the core inflation Chinese trade data. measure closely watched by the BoE The People’s Bank of China LONDON: The Bank of England hit 1.5 percent - its strongest since (PBoC) set the yuan at 6.4891 to warned that a British exit from October 2014 and above all forecasts the dollar, down 0.46 percent from the European Union would create in a Reuters poll. Wednesday’s fix, according to the extended uncertainty and likely hurt But the BoE said it expected infla- Singapore currency notes are seen through a magnifying glass among China Foreign Exchange Trade the economy in the short run, min- tion to recede this month as an Easter other currencies in this photo illustration. System, marking the biggest one- utes from their latest policy meeting surge in airfare prices fades, adding day drop since January. showed yesterday. that growth in unit wage costs was Authorities only allow the This was the strongest warning below levels consistent with meeting yuan to rise or fall two percent yet from the body that sets British its 2 percent inflation target. Singapore eases on either side of the daily fix, interest rates and comes two days softening of growth in the first half The pound has lost more than 7 to prevent volatility and main- after the International Monetary of 2016,” they said. percent this year on a trade-weighted tain control over the currency. A Fund said the world economy could BoE Governor Mark Carney (pic- basis and reached a 2-1/2-year low weaker yuan should make Chi- suffer if Britain votes to leave the EU tured) has described Brexit as the last week. Last month the BoE nese goods cheaper on world in a referendum on June 23. biggest domestic financial stability minutes said that a “significant pro- monetary policy markets and repeated cuts in “Such a vote might result in an risk and highlighted the gains from portion” of sterling’s recent decline the rate last August and again in extended period of uncertainty an open trading relationship with the reflected uncertainty around the ref- January raised fears Beijing was about the economic outlook, includ- EU, drawing criticism from pro-Brexit erendum, and this month they added seeking to devalue the unit to give ing about the prospects for export lawmakers, despite the BoE’s formal that it was not clear how long this AFP sent the local currency tumbling its exporters a competitive advan- growth,” the Bank’s Monetary Pol- neutral stance. would last. 0.9 percent against the US dollar, tage. Officials have repeatedly said icy Committee said in minutes from Yesterday’s minutes build on The BoE reiterated that inter- dragging other regional units along they have no intention of doing so. their April 13 meeting. these comments from Carney, based est rates were more likely to rise with it on fears it will lead to similar The dollar rose after China “This uncertainty would be likely on clearer evidence about the effect than not over the next three years SINGAPORE: Singapore announced moves in regional emerging econo- released data yesterday showing to push down on demand in the short the referendum debate is having on and that when they did the rise a shock loosening of monetary policy mies protect their exports. exports surged more than expected run... (and) have significant implica- the British economy. would be gradual, given likely yesterday to kickstart the stutter- The local currency is now at in March. The PBoC on Wednes- tions for asset prices, in particular the The nine members of the Mon- headwinds. ing economy, as it forecast a slower its weakest level since March 29. day provided 285.5bn yuan to 17 exchange rate.” etary Policy Committee were Financial markets have fully growth outlook this year and ana- It had gained 7.40 percent over the financial institutions through its For the first time, rate setters unanimous in their view that inter- priced out the possibility of an inter- lysts warned of a possible recession. past three months on expectations medium-term lending facility to said that they had seen signs that the est rates should stay at their record est rate hike this year prior to the BoE The city-state’s central bank US interest rates would not rise until maintain liquidity in the banking upcoming vote was affecting busi- low 0.5 percent and there remained meeting and some are even bet- joined several others around the June at the earliest. system, it said in a statement on its ness decisions, with a striking fall in a range of views about the outlook. ting the first move will be a cut. The world in announcing easing meas- A weaker currency makes Sin- verified microblog. It also injected commercial property sales, delayed Policymakers said they would consensus of economists polled by ures as they battle sluggish global gapore’s exports more competitive. 40bn yuan through its regular open investment and fewer company react more cautiously to economic Reuters shows the first interest rate demand — particularly from key Yesterday’s announcement market operations yesterday. listings. “This might lead to some data around the referendum. hike in the first quarter of 2017. market China — and a weak outlook. came as the government released The Monetary Authority of Sin- data showing economic growth was gapore (MAS) said it was shifting to flat quarter-on-quarter in January- a neutral policy of allowing for a March, which was sharply down “zero percent” appreciation of the from the 6.2 percent seen in the pre- Global coal miner Peabody files for bankruptcy local dollar. Previously, it allowed for vious three months. a “modest and gradual” rise of the The government has said it local unit. Singapore uses currency expects the economy to expand policy rather than interest rates as 1.0-3.0 percent this year, but private Reuters the bankruptcy. Peabody estimated through a program called “self bond- Wall Street, including Aurelius Capital a tool to tweak the island’s econ- sector economists have forecast it to its assets at $11bn and liabilities at ing” that has come under federal Management and Elliott Management omy. It manages the dollar against come it at the lower end of the range. $10.1bn as of the end of 2015, accord- scrutiny following financial distress Corporation, according to a regula- an undisclosed basket of curren- The economy grew 2.0 percent in ing to court documents. in the coal sector. Peabody has a total tory filing. The two funds have spent cies of its major trading partners 2015. First quarter growth “was flat CHICAGO: Leading global coal pro- “This process enables us to of $1.1bn in self-bonding across four years battling Argentina in US courts and competitors. on a quarter-on-quarter seasonally- ducer Peabody Energy Corp filed strengthen liquidity and reduce debt, states, court documents showed. over the country’s 2001 default. The MAS said: “The Singapore adjusted basis in contrast to the 6.2 for US bankruptcy protection on build upon the significant opera- Unlike most large corporate Debt troubles for Peabody date economy is projected to expand at percent expansion in the preceding Wednesday after a sharp drop in coal tional achievements we’ve made in bankruptcies, Peabody’s filing did to its $5.1bn leveraged buyout of a more modest pace in 2016 than quarter,” the trade ministry said in prices left it unable to service debt recent years and lay the foundation not sketch out a plan for cutting debt. Macarthur Coal in 2011, just when envisaged in the October policy a separate statement. of $10.1bn, much of it incurred for an for long-term stability and success in “Essentially through the bankruptcy prices peaked for the metallurgical review.” The MAS last shifted its cur- DBS Bank senior economist Irvin expansion into Australia. the future,” Peabody Chief Executive process the debt will be pared down coal that the Australian company rency policy to zero in October 2008, Seah warned a technical recession The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing Officer Glenn Kellow said. to a significant degree and lenders supplies to Asian steel mills. when the economy was in recession could not be ruled out. “Going for- ranks among the largest in the com- Peabody has agreed to $800m will essentially become sharehold- As metallurgical coal demand as the world was ravaged by the glo- ward, growth outlook in the next modities sector since energy and in debtor-in-possession financing ers,” said Monica Bonar, an analyst fell, particularly in China, Peabody’s bal financial crisis. It twice lowered 6-9 months will remain weak. Our metal prices began to fall in mid- from both secured and unsecured with credit rating agency Fitch Rat- financial woes intensified. The the level of appreciation last year, in GDP growth forecast for the full year 2014 as once fast-growing markets creditors, subject to court approval, ings. In that scenario, existing stock company wrote down $700m on its January and October. remains at 1.5 percent, which essen- including China and Brazil started including a $500m term loan, a would be cancelled. Australian metallurgical coal assets “This is not a policy to depre- tially implies at least one quarter of to slow. $200m bonding accommodation Court documents indicate cred- last year. At home, the US shale boom ciate the domestic currency and contraction,” he said in a note. Peabody, the world’s biggest pri- facility for cleanup costs and a letter itors want the US Bankruptcy Court of the past few years made natural only removes the modest and grad- “In fact, we maintain the view vate-sector coal producer, said it of credit worth $100m, it said. in St Louis to resolve a $1bn dispute gas competitive with thermal coal, ual appreciation path of (exchange that risk of a technical recession (two expected its mines to continue to Large coal companies have been over claims on the Peabody collateral. and the Obama administration’s rate) policy band that was in place,” successive quarters of contraction) operate as usual and said its Aus- allowed to leave a share of future The looming fight involves some of environmental regulations raised it said. However, the announcement should not be discounted.” tralian assets were excluded from mine cleanup without collateral the most litigious investment funds on operational costs. BUSINESS FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 17

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Cimmco-B/D 73.2 -0.65 3603 Jagatjit Ind-X/D 83.9 0 67196 Punjab Chem.-B/D 172.5 8.5 11514 Rsa Insrance G/D 478 -3.5 496852 The metal has steadied after its biggest quarterly rise Cipla-A/D 511.75 8.75 198192 Jagson Phar-B/D 36.2 1 24753 Radico Khait-B/D 87.9 0.2 38669 Sainsbury(J)/D 284.3 -1.7 907718 in nearly 30 years, driven by a retreat in expectations City Union Bk-/D 97.6 2.1 21044 Jamnaauto-B/D 147.8 0.6 64183 Rallis India-A/D 189.95 7 97759 Schroders/D 2598 14 80330 that the Federal Reserve will push ahead with many Colgate-A/D 835 13.8 35923 Jbf Indu-B/D 206.9 0.5 11056 Rallis India-A/D 189.95 7 97759 Severn Trent/D 2245 6 100412 rate hikes this year. Gold is sensitive to rising interest Container Cor-/D 1268.1 0.75 12673 Jct Ltd-B/D 4.66 -0.05 821771 Reliance Indus/D 437.1 -6.3 127451 Smith&Nephew/D 1185 4 745286 rates, which lift the opportunity cost of holding non- Dai-Tichi Kar-/D 408 -7.6 2926 Jenson&Nich.-B/D 8.27 0.03 12141 Ruchi Soya-B/D 29.65 -0.1 31822 Smiths Group/D 1108 -5 167729 yielding assets, while boosting the dollar. The outlook Dcm Financia-T/D 0.77 0.03 2500 Jktyre&Ind-A/D 85.55 1.1 476390 S Bk Bikaner-B/D 505 4.8 3549 Standrd Chart /D 517.9 -2.9 5829703 for further increases remains uncertain. 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The dollar rose another 0.1 percent versus a cur- rency basket as improved risk sentiment led investors Reuters by Reuters said economic growth percent, to 17,941.73, the S&P 500 rose 0.5 percent to $41.97. “I think The dollar index rose 0.2 percent. to trim positions in low-yielding currencies, though it and inflation across the globe will gained 2.76 points, or 0.13 percent, the market is really looking ahead The Bank of England kept interest slipped from highs after weaker-than-expected March lose further momentum this year to 2,085.18 and the Nasdaq Com- to Doha,” said Michael Tran, director rates on hold, as expected, but ster- US consumer price data. despite years of ultra-easy mon- posite added 3.20 points, or 0.06 of energy strategy at RBC Capital ling continued to suffer over worries Bullion-backed exchange-traded funds have seen NEW YORK: Stocks across the etary policy. percent, to 4,950.62. Markets in New York. over how a June vote on Britain’s EU outflows of late following sharp inflows earlier in the globe rose to their highest levels Wall Street stock indexes ticked Financials led Wall Street yet The US dollar, in which most membership will play out. year. Holdings of the world’s largest gold-backed ETF, of 2016 yesterday and the dollar up a day after the S&P 500 closed again with shares of Bank of Amer- commodities are priced, added to Against the Singapore dollar the SPDR Gold Shares, fell 5.05 tonnes on Wednesday to rose for a third day as investors at its highest since early December. ica and Wells Fargo up even as they its recent comeback having just greenback strengthened nearly 1 per- their lowest in a month. embraced risk ahead of top policy- European shares added to Wednes- posted lower quarterly profits and chalked up its biggest one-day cent, the most in a day in more than Among other precious metals, silver was flat at $16.19 maker and oil producer meetings. day’s substantial gains and MSCI’s increased reserves to cover bad gain in seven weeks. The US cur- eight months. The U.S. 10-year note an ounce, after reaching its highest since late Octo- Singapore’s normally conserv- gauge of stocks across the globe hit loans from their energy portfolios. rency was at $1.1256 per euro, way was down 11/32 in price, its yield up ber the previous day. Platinum was up 0.1 percent at ative central bank unexpectedly its highest level of the year. Oil prices were choppy. Brent above a six-month low of $1.1464 to 1.799 percent from 1.762 percent $995.57 an ounce, while palladium was up 1.9 percent eased policy, at a time when sev- The Dow Jones industrial crude futures added 0.3 percent to touched on Tuesday, and down 0.2 late Wednesday, ahead of a sale of at $553 an ounce. eral hundred economists polled average rose 33.45 points, or 0.19 $44.34 per barrel and U.S. crude percent on the yen at 109.12 yen. 30-year government bonds. 18 FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 CLASSIFIEDS

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MEN’S DRAW Vegetarian Holders Mexico are Group A: Brazil, South Africa, Iraq, drawn with Germany, Denmark strongman Ilyin Fiji and South Korea Group B: Sweden, Colombia, Nigeria, Japan eyes third gold in the draw ceremony Group C: Fiji, South Korea, Mexico, held at the Maracana Germany at Rio Olympics Stadium Group D: Honduras, Algeria, Portugal, Argentina WOMEN’S DRAW AFP Group E: Brazil, China, Sweden, South AFP Africa Group F:Canada, Australia, ALMATY, Kazakhstan: Raised Zimbabwe, Germany in the far-flung steppes of Kaza- Group G: United States, France, New khstan, Ilya Ilyin wants to become RIO DE JANEIRO: Hosts Brazil will Zealand, Colombia the most successful weightlifter in open their bid for a first Olympic men’s history and he has already made his football title against South Africa after mark as probably the first vegetar- yesterday’s draw was made at the Mara- Campbell narrowly beat home her ian beefcake to win a world title. cana Stadium. younger sister Bronte in both the 50m The 27-year-old is now train- Brazil, three-time runners-up and 100m events with sizzling times. ing to win a third Olympic title at including in 2012, have won every title Verhaeren, who once mentored the Rio de Janeiro Games in August apart from the Olympics and are drawn Dutch Olympic champions Inge de which would entrench his reputa- in the same Group A as South Africa, Bruijn and Pieter van den Hoogen- tion as Kazakhstan’s most successful Iraq and Denmark. Head coaches pose for a picture at the draw ceremony for the Olympic Football Tournaments in Rio de band, spoke glowingly of Australia’s athlete of all time. “I’m very confident, I’m sure that Janeiro, Brazil, yesterday. freestyle strength ahead of the August Ilyin gave up eating meat after Brazil will succeed in the Games,” said Olympics. the London Olympics, when he had veteran Ronaldinho, winner of bronze “This is definitely one of the best spoken about the benefits of eating in Beijing 2008, who attended the draw France, New Zealand and Colombia. named after the Olympic selection tri- the 2015 final at last year’s Kazan world (freestyle) teams I have ever seen,” chicken and horsemeat. ceremony. Top ranked United States have won als but he could yet still feature in the championships. he said. He admits that his coaches had Holders Mexico are in Group C three of the four titles since the wom- freestyle relay team for Rio. Head coach Jacco Verhaeren said Australia also has strong medal misgivings, but said: “I just have along with Germany, South Korea and en’s tournament was first introduced Magnussen, 25, was the notable Magnussen and his relay teammates chances with backstroke world cham- much better feeling in my body. It Fiji while Group D includes Hondu- at the 1996 Atlanta Games. omission when the 34-strong squad would join a team camp in Adelaide pion Mitch Larkin, distance freestyler is not easy for me to digest meat. ras, Algeria, Portugal and Argentina. Germany, ranked number two in was announced on the pool deck after this weekend despite not being offi- Mack Horton, world champion back- “I waste too much energy in European under-21 champions Sweden the world by FIFA and three-time sil- the completion of the eight-day Aus- cially confirmed as members. stroker Emily Seebohm and rising star digesting meat and that’s why I get have been drawn alongside Colombia, ver medallists, were drawn in Group tralian Championships in Adelaide. “They will be acknowledged but freestyler Emma McKeon. my proteins from other products. Nigeria and Japan. F alongside Canada, Australia and Magnussen, who was pipped by not officially announced (at the team Emma and her brother David are “I like beans and other legume Contrary to the women’s compe- Zimbabwe. just one-hundredths of a second for camp) - that is the unfortunate reality the first sister-brother combination to plants very much. I need a lot of ‘live’ tition the men’s teams are made up Brazil’s women’s team begin their the 100-metre freestyle gold medal we are in,” Verhaeren told reporters. represent Australia in swimming at an products such as fruit and vegeta- of under-23 players with three play- campaign against China at the Estadio at the 2012 London Olympics, failed “At the orientation camp we will Olympics since John and Ilsa Konrads bles. It has become a very important ers over that age allowed. Olimpico in Rio de Janeiro on August to finish in the first two places in the treat them like equal athletes. But the at Rome in 1960. aspect in my preparations.” Clubs however are not obliged to 3, while the men kick off against South 50m and 100m events at the trials. reality is they are not there.” Even if Magnussen, Abood and Ilyin, who has a worldwide fol- release their players for the competi- Africa at the Estadio Mane Garrincha Australia’s 4x100m freestyle relay The transitional Australian team, Roberts are subsequently added to lowing, had already given up meat tion which does not appear on FIFA’s in Brasilia the following day. team has yet to qualify for Rio but their developed by Dutchman Verhaeren, the team Australia will be sending a when he won the men’s 105kg title official calendar although the world The top two teams in each group entry is expected to be confirmed by is headed by Cameron McEvoy and smaller team to Rio than four years at the 2014 world championships body organises the event. qualify for the knockout stage, with the May 31 deadline and Magnussen, Cate Campbell, who both dominated ago in London. in his native Kazakhstan. Three-time defending women’s the top two third-placed teams also Matthew Abood and James Roberts will the sprints at the meet. Australia took a swim team of 44 The IWF said that many Indian champions the United States were progressing. be put forward by Swimming Australia McEvoy claimed the first-ever to the last Olympics but the selection lifters are vegetarians “nobody has drawn against France in the first round. Meanwhile, twice world champion for nomination in the team. sprint treble at an Australian swim- criteria at the trials was very strict and yet been able to name a vegetarian The reigning world champions are James Magnussen missed out when Australia is vying for one of four ming championships in the 50, 100 several winners and placegetters at who ever won a world title.” in Group G along with third-ranked the Australian swimming team was relay places at Rio after failing to make and 200m freestyle events. events failed to qualify on their times. “My main goal is to become the most successful weightlifter in history,” Ilyin told a recent press conference. “I also promised our president that I would win at the Games and Man United’s Van Gaal I’m set on keeping my word.” Kazakhstan has had most Olympic success in boxing and weightlifting, winning 17 boxing medals and 10 weightlifting med- struck by rational Rashford als since the 1996 Atlanta Games. The country has won five weightlifting gold medals. The two won by Kazakh men -- at the Lon- AFP Hailing Rashford, who has now The Dutchman came in for a fresh don and Beijing Games -- belong scored six times in 11 games, Van Gaal wave of criticism after Sunday’s 3-0 to Ilyin. said: “He’s very focused on his work and defeat at Tottenham Hotspur, but he Ilyin, who was named weight- that I admire when you are so young. said that his record meant that he was lifter of the year four times by the LONDON: Manchester United manager “There’s so much attention now worthy of the patience afforded him International Weightlifting Feder- Louis van Gaal hailed Marcus Rash- because he is scoring so many impor- by the United hierarchy. ation, holds Olympic records in the ford’s startling self-awareness after tant goals and you can cope with that “I do my work, I do my utmost best Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney and Marcus Rashford during the 94kg category with his clean and the 18-year-old striker’s memorable attention and focus on your next match. and everywhere I have worked, I have FA Cup Quarter Final Replay at Upton Park on Wednesday. jerk of 233kg and overall total of goal inspired his side to FA Cup vic- “And when you have criticism, he won something,” he said. 418kg at the 2012 Games in London. tory at West Ham United. can cope with criticism also and he can “A lot of things have been changed Ilyin grew up in the southern Rashford broke the deadlock in the say about himself, ‘Yes manager, you in all the clubs where I have worked and prevented him from saying so. “We match was West Ham United and we city of Kyzylorda. His youth coach 54th minute of Wednesday’s quarter- are right, and I have to do that and that’. because of that I am here. I am selected controlled the game,” he said. “But I were 1-0 behind and fighting back (to Vilory Pak said weightlifting kept final replay, shimmying inside James “I think it is fantastic because there by Manchester United because of that. cannot say that when we lose 3-0. The draw 1-1, in their first meeting). Ilyin off the streets. Tomkins and arcing an unstoppable are not a lot of players that can see Not because I am a lousy trainer or next day it’s: ‘Man United has played “You cannot deny that my team “I often had to look for him in shot into the top-right corner. their self-image in the match.” manager.” Van Gaal went on to claim very lousy.’ But it was not true. has a lot of fighting spirit.” back alleys,” said Pak. “Sometimes Marouane Fellaini added a second After months of intense speculation that United had exhibited a similar “I’m very happy that in spite of that Victory for United meant that West I had to drag him by the hand and and although Tomkins replied late on, about his position, Van Gaal will lead level of control against West Ham as defeat, 3-0, we can have the spirit this Ham signed off with a defeat in their take him to practice. I’m glad this visiting goalkeeper David de Gea bril- his side out to face Everton at Wem- they had at Tottenham, where Mau- evening again like we have showed final FA Cup game at the Boleyn Ground, was not all in vain.” liantly held West Ham at bay to send bley later this month knowing that he ricio Pochettino’s side struck three after the defeat against Liverpool. which they will leave at the end of the Ilyin, the son of a hairdresser United into the last four for the first is two victories from a first trophy as times in six second-half minutes, but “Two-zero in the Europa League season to move to London’s Olympic and a machinery plant worker, time since 2011. United manager. that the result at White Hart Lane had against our biggest enemy and the next Stadium. began weightlifting at the age of six. Kobe Bryant goes out in a blaze of jump shots and glory

AFP to watch Bryant lace up for the 1,566th the Bryant era -- wrapped up a mon- game had built throughout the day, and last time. tage of video messages. with the streets surrounding the Sta- “Tonight was trying to go out, play- “Kobe, goodbye, I think I might ples Center transformed into a sea of ing hard and putting on a show as much retire with you, I’m not sure,” said purple and gold as thousands of fans LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles Lakers as I possibly could. It felt good to be able Nicholson. thronged the area. legend Kobe Bryant delivered a Holly- to do that one last time,” Bryant said. Nicholson later described Bryant’s “It’s like a family member, we spent wood ending as the curtain came down “The coolest thing is that my kids retirement as a “melancholy” moment. $3,000 on two tickets, we are ready on his glittering 20-year NBA career actually saw me play like I used to play.” “It’s like anything -- you don’t know to spend a lot of money to see his- on Wednesday in a blockbuster finale. Tickets for the game were the most what you had until you don’t have it,” tory,” one Lakers fan, Miguel, told AFP. On a night of searing emotion at expensive in basketball history, accord- Nicholson told NBA TV. “Fortunately Los Angeles transport officials a packed Staples Center, the 37-year- ing to online exchange StubHub.com, we do know what we had and he’s meanwhile got into the spirit of cel- old signed off with a mammoth 60 which sold one pair of courtside seats been great all the way.” ebration, renaming a metro station points, including a final burst of scoring for a staggering $27,500 each. Football icon Beckham meanwhile near the Staples Center “Kobe Sta- to inspire a 101-96 comeback victory Lakers legend Magic Johnson had expressed delight at the manner of tion” for the day. over the Utah Jazz. acted as master of ceremonies for a Bryant’s departure. On Twitter, fans were invited to A galaxy of A-list celebrities -- lengthy pre-game tribute that fea- “Every wanted him to go out like share their memories under the trend- from Jack Nicholson to David Beckham tured video messages from some of this,” Beckham said. “The way he’s ing hashtag “#MambaDay”, a reference -- roared their approval from court- the NBA’s most recognizable figures. gone out tonight is incredible.” to Bryant’s “Black Mamba” nickname. side as Bryant exited with a perfectly “We are here to celebrate greatness Lakers coach Byron Scott told his As day gave way to dusk, Los Ange- scripted final act. for 20 years,” Johnson told the crowd. team they had “witnessed history.” les City Hall was lit up in the Lakers’ “Man, I can’t believe how fast 20 “He’s not only a great and unbe- “I hope they savor the moment. I iconic colors of purple and gold. Kobe Bryant (top) of the Los Angeles Lakers reacts while addressing years went by, this is crazy,” Bryant lievable sports icon but he’s already the hope they realize that man gave eve- Announcing the gesture earlier told his adoring fans. “What can I say? greatest to wear the purple and gold.” rything he could for 20 years and he in the day, Los Angeles City Council fans following his final game as a Laker in their season-ending NBA Mamba out.” A sell-out crowd of 19,060 Oscar-winning actor Nicholson -- gave it again tonight,” Scott said. President Herb Wesson declared the western division matchup aginst the Utah Jazz in Los Angeles, fans had packed into the Staples Center a regular presence at courtside during Excitement for Bryant’s farewell move a fitting tribute to the retiring star. California on Wednesday. The Lakers defeated the Jazz 101-96. SPORT FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 21 Hamilton hit with grid penalty Murray struggles past Paire in Monte Carlo British Formula The reigning world One driver Lewis Hamilton of AFP “It was an unpredictable match,” champion hit with Mercedes AMG Murray said. “He’s very talented, I had five-place grid GP takes a selfie to keep fighting in the second set. penalty for Chinese on the paddock “We both had our opportunities before the Chinese MONTE CARLO: Andy Murray but I played just that little bit more fought though a roller-coaster fin- solid at the end.” Grand Prix due to a Formula One Grand ish to squeeze into the quarter-finals Paire ended with 52 unforced Prix practice runs gearbox change of the Monte Carlo Masters yester- errors and 47 winners as he and Mur- at the Shanghai day, posting a narrow 2-6, 7-5, 7-5 ray faced off for the first time. International Circuit win over Benoit Paire. Murray is under pressure this clay in Shanghai, China The second-seeded Scotsman season, with title defences in both Reuters yesterday. will take on the big serve of Milos Munich and Madrid fast approaching. Raonic in a Friday quarter-final after The 28-year-old has shown only the Canadian defeated Bosnian Damir modest results so far in 2016, a sea- Dzumhur 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7/5). son interrupted for almost a month by SHANGHAI: Reigning world cham- Murray made a recovery from a set the birth of his daughter in February pion Lewis Hamilton will be hit with and two breaks down in the second only a few days after losing the Aus- a five-place grid penalty for Sunday’s set as he turned the tide in stutter- tralian Open final to Novak Djokovic. Formula One Chinese Grand Prix ing fashion against the Frenchman, Murray remains the highest seed due to a gearbox change, his Mer- who admitted this week that his ten- in contention this week in the Prin- cedes team confirmed on Thursday. nis is plagued by doubts and a serious cipality after Djokovic was knocked “This weekend is going to be case of nerves. out in his opening match by Czech tough,” Hamilton said on photo He proved that point by double- Jiri Vesely. sharing site Instagram alongside faulting for the eighth time on a Murray Murray, a 2009 and 2011 semi- a picture of fans welcoming him match point to end the struggle after finalist, is into his third quarter-final at the Shanghai airport. more than two and a half hours. of the season. He has now won his “I will start with a five-place grid Murray stands 5-4 over Raonic, last 11 matches against Frenchmen penalty due to a gearbox change but and defeated the Canadian in an Aus- since losing to Gilles Simon in Rot- because of you guys I feel energised, Alonso cleared for China return tralian Open semi-final in January. terdam quarters in February, 2015. motivated, and confident that we can regain ground lost.” Andy Murray of The news was later confirmed AFP more medical procedures in Shanghai. Great Britain reacts by his Mercedes team, who said on “I was ready to try and see if the pain after winning Twitter they had thought Shanghai was manageable with the rib broken, but a point against was the best place to take the penalty now I’m mentally 120 percent and physi- Benoit Paire of after the gear box was damaged in SHANGHAI: Former world cham- cally 100 percent. The pain level is zero.” France during their Bahrain and needed to be changed. pion Fernando Alonso (pictured) has Alonso’s McLaren flipped and went Monte Carlo Masters A driver must use a single gear- been provisionally cleared to return into a terrifying roll in Melbourne after Tennis Tournament box for six consecutive events and for McLaren at this week’s Chinese he clipped Esteban Gutierrez’s Haas game in Monaco the penalty means the highest Ham- Grand Prix, Formula One’s ruling FIA at close to 200mph, but the two-time yesterday. ilton can start Sunday’s race is from said yesterday. champion crawled from the wreckage sixth on the grid. The double world champion, who before walking away. He showed no ill That puts Hamilton on the back suffered a sickening crash at the season signs on Thursday. foot heading into a race in which he opener in Australia, will undergo fur- “It’s been the normal routine the last hopes to score his first win of the ther tests after Friday’s first free practice two weeks -- running, bicycle, golf, ten- season and end team-mate Nico to determine his “further eligibility”. nis,” Alonso told reporters. “I’ve been Rosberg’s run of five-successive Alonso insisted he was “120 per- sleeping okay for the last two weeks victories. cent ready” to compete in Shanghai. as well. Hamilton trails Rosberg, winner “I feel good,” said the Spaniard, who “I feel I will be 100 percent. If I of the opening two races of the sea- sat out the Bahrain race two weeks wasn’t sure I wouldn’t fly here,” added son, by 17 points in the standings. ago with a fractured rib after failing the Spaniard, who won the world title He last won at the U.S. Grand Prix a medical. “I was mentally 100 per- with Renault in 2005 and 2006. “I will in October, when he also clinched cent in Bahrain but physically in a lot of see how it goes after a few laps. If it’s not his third world championship. pain,” added the 34-year-old following okay I will be the first to say.” Openers fire as Gujarat Lions thrash Pune Sonny Bill says trophy

IANS Gujarat Lions batsman Aaron Finch giveaway is no big deal (left) attempts to hit a reverse sweep RAJKOT: Gujarat Lions produced an during their 2016 IPL AFP Zealand’s Olympic sevens team and impressive all-round performance to T20 cricket match after being sidelined with a knee outclass Rising Pune Supergiants by against Rising Pune injury, he started to hit form in their seven wickets in their Indian Premier Supergiants at the run to the Hong Kong final. League (IPL) tie at the Saurashtra Saurashtra Cricket SINGAPORE: Sonny Bill Williams But he said gelling with team- Cricket Association Stadium yes- has played down his latest random mates is his primary concern as he Association Stadium terday. act of kindness, saying giving away keeps his focus fixed firmly on the in Rajkot yesterday. Batting first, Pu ne posted 163/5 his Hong Kong Sevens runners-up Rio Games in August. in 20 overs, thanks to Faf du Plessis’ trophy to an eight-year-old fan was “For myself, it’s just been about 43-ball 69. no big deal. fitting in with the team. The team In reply, riding on Aaron Finch’s 50 Code-hopper Williams, who also comes first, there’s a lot of talk that and Brendon McCullum’s 49, Gujarat handed his World Cup-winner’s medal goes on outside of this group here chased down the total comfortably to a stunned fan in London last year, and I don’t worry about it,” he said. scoring 164/3 in 18 overs. said most of his team-mates had done “I just worry if whether I have my Chasing a challenging target of the same in Hong Kong. team-mates’ respect and if my coaches 164, openers Finch and McCullum got “It’s blown out of proportion. Most think that I’m on the right track. Gujarat off to a flying start scoring 62 of the boys gave their cups away from “I believe that if I just keep work- runs in the powerplay. the Hong Kong tournament, so I don’t ing hard, God willing, stay healthy and Finch took the initiative from the see it as a big deal,” he told report- injury-free, I’ll be able to get there word go to hit seven boundaries and ers ahead of the Singapore Sevens. in the end.” two sixes in his 36-ball innings to put Eight-year-old Cooper Rodda Williams added: “I’m loving it. I’m his team in a comfortable position. He posted a YouTube video thanking loving the challenge, really enjoy- was well supported in the other end by Williams for handing over his silver ing it and happy with how I’ve been McCullum, who hit three boundaries runners-up tankard, unasked, after playing and where I am at this stage.” and three sixes in his 31-ball innings. posing for a selfie on Sunday. He said New Zealand’s main com- But young leg-spinner Murugan “He’s, like, one of the most nic- petitors in Rio would be Fiji, the sevens Ashwin brought the much needed est guys in the world,” the young fan world series defending champions breakthrough removing in-form bats- said of Williams. and current championship leaders man Finch in the ninth over to put Pune Tambe handed the hosts the break- SCOREBOARD Williams is bidding to make New who won the Hong Kong final 21-7. back into the game. through when Rahane missed the line McCullum, as he was looking of a delivery that kept straight after RISING PUNE SUPERGIANTS GUJARAT LIONS good to reach yet another T20 fifty, pitching, only to see the ball hit him AM Rahane lbw b Tambe 21 AJ Finch c Sharma b M Ashwin 50 was removed by Ishant Sharma in on the backfoot. F du Plessis st Karthik b Tambe 69 BB McCullum c du Plessis b Sharma 49 the 14th over to have Gujarat at 120/2. Rahane’s dismissal did not bring All Blacks legend McCaw gets KP Pietersen b Bravo 37 SK Raina st Dhoni b M Ashwin 24 But despite the openers getting out, any respite for the Gujarat bowlers as the duo has done their job to help team Kevin Pietersen (37) joined du Plesis SPD Smith c Faulkner b Jadeja 5 DJ Bravo (not out) 22 stay on track for their second win of in the middle and the duo proceeded MS Dhoni (not out) 22 RA Jadeja (not out) 4 New Zealand’s top honour

the tournament. to lay the foundation for a competi- MR Marsh b Jadeja 7 Extras (B 2, LB 5, W 7, NB 1) 15 New batsman Suresh Raina (24) tive total. R Bhatia (not out) 0 Total (3 wickets; 18 overs) 164 and Dwayne Bravo (22 not out) held Bravo finally got rid of Pietersen AFP than a knighthood -- but does not Extras (B 1, LB 1) 2 Did not bat: KD Karthik, AD Nath, JP Faulkner, on scoring runs at a good pace to take with an in-swinging slower delivery. include the title “Sir” and is not P Kumar, SB Jakati, PV Tambe team close to victory line. He was completely fooled by the clever Total (5 wkts; 20 overs) 163 awarded with a ceremonial tap on But after the dismissal of Raina in change of pace as the ball crashed Did not bat: R Ashwin, I Sharma, RP Singh, M Fall of wickets: 1-85 , 2-120, 3-147 the shoulder with a sword. the 17th over, Bravo along with Ravin- into the stumps. Ashwin Bowling: RP Singh 2-0-21-0 (1w); I Sharma WELLINGTON: All Blacks legend Instead, the world’s most capped dra Jadeja (4 not out) took team over Tambe struck another crucial blow Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-113, 3-132, 4-134, 5-143 4- 0-39-1 ; R Ashwin 4-0-26-0 (1w); M Ashwin Richie McCaw said he was humbled international rugby player simply the line with ease. for the Lions soon after by sending du Bowling: P Kumar 2 -0 -12 -0; SB Jakati 4-0- 4-0-31-2 (2w); R Bhatia 3-0-30-0 (1nb); MR to receive New Zealand’s top civic bowed his head as Governor Gen- Earlier, electing to bat first on win- Plesis back to the pavilion. The South 40-0; PV Tambe 4-0-33-2; DJ Bravo 4-0-43-1; Marsh 1-0-10-0 honour yesterday, but also relieved eral Jerry Mateparae hung the order’s ning the toss, Pune skipper Mahendra African right-hander had smashed RA Jadeja 4-0-18-2; JP Faulkner 2-0-15-0 Player-of-the-Match: AJ Finch (Gujarat Lions) he does not have to adopt the title modest badge around his neck in Singh Dhoni saw his decision justified a four and six off the previous two “Sir Richie”. Wellington. as openers Faf du Plesis and Ajinkya deliveries. He went for a third con- McCaw was bestowed with the McCaw, who led New Zealand Rahane (21) gave the team a good Astart. secutive bit shot, dancing down the Jadeja then sent back Steven Smith 22 runs off 10 balls help Pune finish Order of New Zealand (ONZ), which to back-to-back World Cups in 2011 With du Plesis going after the track in an effort to hit the ball over (5) early in the next over to put the on a strong note. recognises “outstanding service” to and 2015, described himself as “an Gujarat bowlers, Rahane played a the long on fence. But he miscued his brakes on Pune’s once soaring run rate. Ravindra Jadeja (2/18), Pravin the country and is restricted to 20 liv- ordinary Kiwi” and was pleased to steady innings at the other end, with shot as Gujarat wicketkeeper Dinesh However, Dhoni (22 not out) produced Tambe (2/33) were the pick of the ing members at any one time. keep the pomp and ceremony to a four well-timed hits to the fence. Pravin Karthik pulled of a smart stumping. a trademark strong finish, plundering bowlers for Gujarat. It sits higher in the honours system minimum. 22 FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 SPORT

Semi-final line-up Griezmann double knocks out Barca rekindles memories of Madrid derby final of 2014 Defending champions knocked out after AFP 2-0 defeat as Atletico Madrid reach semis MADRID: For the fifth consecutive year two Spanish sides will contest the Champions League semi-finals as Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid AFP eye a repeat of the Spanish capital derby in the final two years ago. However, today’s draw at 0930 GMT in Nyon also offers the tanta- MADRID: Atletico Madrid dumped lising possibility of Bayern Munich holders Barcelona out of the Champi- boss Pep Guardiola facing his future ons League at the quarter-final stage employers Manchester City in the for the second time in three seasons English side’s debut at this stage of as Antoine Griezmann’s double sealed the competition. a 2-0 win on Wednesday to progress Atletico ended Barcelona’s reign 3-2 on aggregate. as champions with a 2-0 win over Griezmann put the hosts ahead on the holders in an eerily similar tie away goals with a fine first-half header for Diego Simeone’s men to their before converting from the penalty spot passage to the last four two years two minutes from time after Andres ago when they ousted Barca at the Iniesta had handled inside the area. quarter-final stage. Barca, meanwhile, were left to rue The similarities to 2014 don’t end referee Nicola Rizzoli’s decision to give there as the final four was made up a free-kick on the edge of the box in of Atletico, Real, Bayern and Eng- injury time instead of a penalty when lish involvement with City’s place Gabi appeared to be inside the area as then taken by Chelsea. he was penalised for handball. Real rolled over Guardiola’s Bay- “I am not left with just a place in ern 5-0 on aggregate in the semis Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann (left) in action against FC Barcelona’s defenders Gerard Pique (right) and Javier Mascherano during the semi-finals, I think it is much more before snatching Atletico’s first ever important than that,” said Atletico boss the UEFA Champions League quarter-final, second leg match at Vicente Calderon Stadium in Madrid, Spain, on Wednesday. European Cup away from them with Diego Simeone. Sergio Ramos’s stoppage time equal- “This group displays values that iser in Lisbon as they eventually ran are less and less common in society. Atletico will be joined by local dispossess Yannick Carrasco in a sign a corner, Niguez’s looping header came Neymar was also booked for kick- out 4-1 winners after extra-time. We can win or lose, but we believe in rivals Real Madrid, Manchester City of the five-time World Player of the back off the crossbar with Ter Stegen ing out at Juanfran moments later as “We won’t have anything easy. these values that are important in life and Bayern Munich in today’s semi- Year’s desperation to get into the game. stranded. Barca began to lose their cool. City have incredible financial power and once again we have won a tre- final draw. Atletico made the all-important Griezmann had another chance to Iniesta was also lucky not to be and Real Madrid and Bayern are mendously difficult game.” Roared on by a vociferous breakthrough nine minutes before give Atletico a cushion but fired straight sent-off for denying a clear goalscor- historic teams in this competition,” Defeat is Barca’s third in four games 55,000-strong crowd at the Vice- half-time when Griezmann’s header at Ter Stegen on his weaker right foot at ing opportunity as he blocked Filipe said Simeone. after a 39-match unbeaten run stretch- nte Calderon, Atletico were worthy was this time precise and powerful the end of a lightning counter-attack. Luis’s pass into Griezmann’s path for “For Atletico to be among the ing back six months and sees their quest winners as Barca’s star front three of enough to beat Ter Stegen from Saul However, Barca began to impose the penalty. four best teams in Europe is an to become the first side to retain the Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar Niguez’s brilliant cross. themselves in the final half-hour The French international kept important step, but just that, because trophy in the Champions League era were limited to precious few clear- Ter Stegen ensured Barca went in as Atletico tired and Suarez tested his head to slot home the resulting we want more.” come to an end. cut chances. at the break just one goal down as he Oblak with a fierce effort from inside spot-kick. Real are relieved just to make it “The team wanted to retain the The home side were far the better held a Carrasco drive at the second the area that the Slovenian handled However, there was still time to a record sixth consecutive semi- title, it was one of our objectives and team before the break as captain Gabi attempt before Niguez could follow impressively. for late controversy as Rizzoli only final as they had to overturn a 2-0 excited every Barca fan, but it isn’t to fired over before Griezmann placed in for the rebound. Suarez was lucky to escape a red awarded Barca a free-kick on the edge first leg deficit to see off Wolfsburg be,” said Barca coach Luis Enrique. his first big headed chance from Filipe Atletico had two more chances to card in the first leg after clashing with of the box when Gabi handled. on Tuesday 3-0 thanks to Cristiano “We are finding it much more dif- Luis’s cross too close to Marc-Andre extend their advantage early in the Juanfran and Filipe Luis and got off Messi’s free-kick drifted inches Ronaldo’s hat-trick. ficult than normal to score goals and ter Stegen. second period as Koke’s cut-back was lightly once more when he was just over and with it Barca’s chances of a Ronaldo’s wish of a return to suffering defensively too. Messi’s most significant involve- cut out by Gerard Pique with Griez- shown a yellow card for elbowing second consecutive treble were gone. Portugal to face Benfica in the last “We all have to improve and I’m ment in the first 45 minutes saw him mann waiting for a tap in. Uruguayan international teammate four was ended as away goals from the first one in that regard.” scurrying deep into his own half to And then as Barca struggled to clear Diego Godin. Arturo Vidal and Thomas Mueller ensured Bayern return to the semis looking to made amends for their thrashings at the hands of Real and Barca in the past two seasons. “I know that Cristiano would Bayern see off Benfica to book place in semis have liked Benfica in the semi-finals, I am sorry for him,” said Guardiola, who has now reached the semi- finals in all seven of his campaigns AFP after the restart when Thomas Mueller “But for us, the coaches, the aim Roared on by the home crowd, the as a coach. pounced in trademark fashion. is always to win trophies.” hosts started quickly and after Vidal “We’ve achieved our objective Benfica did manage to create a Five-time winners Bayern progress headed tamely at Ederson Moraes, and now we want to get to the final. grandstand finale of sorts through to the last four for the sixth time in the Benfica struck almost from nowhere. “From what I read in Germany LISBON: Bayern Munich came out Talisca’s set-piece, but it could have last seven seasons, leaving their oppo- Eliseu skipped forward from it would seem that if I leave without on top in an entertaining Champions been more exciting had Bayern’s Javi nents without a semi-final appearance left-back, before chipping in a deli- winning the Champions League my League last-eight clash with Benfica, Martinez been sent off for the cynical in Europe’s premier club competition cious cross which was headed home work will have been incomplete.” reaching the semi-finals with a 3-2 foul that lead to the free-kick. since 1990. by Jimenez for his third Champions Despite bowing out to Spanish aggregate victory, after a second-leg Bayern though join Real Madrid, Benfica were undisputed under- League goal of the season. opposition in the past two years, 2-2 draw in Lisbon on Wednesday. Atletico Madrid and Manchester City dogs, and they started this match not Bayern were rocked and Jimenez a visit to future employers City Pep Guardiola took his German in Friday’s semi-final draw, as coach just with a deficit to overturn, but with- should have put Benfica in front on could prove even more awkward champions to the Estadio Da Luz with Guardiola looks to sign off with a tre- out three key forwards. aggregate just a couple of minutes after for Guardiola than a return to his a 1-0 first-leg lead thanks to Aruto ble of Champions League, Bundesliga Top scorer Jonas, who has scored opening the scoring but the former homeland. Vidal’s early strike at the Allianz Arena and German Cup titles before he joins 32 goals this season, was ruled out Atletico Madrid man stabbed a weak The 45-year-old Catalan will last week. Man City at the end of the season. through suspension, while Nicolas effort straight at Neuer.Just when the assume his role at the Etihad next After a slow start to the game, Ben- “We’re satisfied because the Gaitan and Greek Kostas Mitroglou Portuguese champions were starting season, but outgoing City boss fica drew back onto level terms in the Champions League is a very tough com- failed to recover from injuries, meaning to gain a measure of control, Lahm’s Manuel Pellegrini has again dem- tie in the 27th minute, as Raul Jimenez petition. We’ve achieved our objective that the hosts had depleted attacking cross was only palmed as far as Vidal onstrated he is a Champions League escaped the Bayern defence to nod and now we want to get to the final,” options to choose from. by stand-in goalkeeper Ederson, and specialist having also guided Vil- past Manuel Neuer. said Guardiola, who has now reached “We finished the game with five the Chilean did the rest with a thump- larreal to their sole semi-final Bayern Munich’s Spanish head But Vidal smashed home his sec- the semi-finals in all seven of his cam- players aged between 18 and 21 on the ing left-footed finish.World Cup winner appearance in 2006 and Malaga ond goal of the quarter-final tie seven paigns as a coach. field. We have a team that fought toe to Mueller struck in the 53rd minute after coach Pep Guardiola gestures to the quarter-finals in 2013. minutes before half-time to leave Rui “From what I read in Germany it toe with Bayern,” said coach Vitoria. Martinez headed Xabi Alonso’s corner from the sideline during the UEFA “To be in the semi-finals is a Vitoria’s Benfica needing two unan- would seem that if I leave without win- “We were up against a very strong across the face of goal, to effectively Champions League second leg great achievement,” said Kevin de swered goals to progress. ning the Champions League my work team who score goals wherever they seal Bayern’s place in the semi-finals quarter-finals match at the Luz Bruyne, City’s match winner against The tie appeared all but over shortly will have been incomplete. play and that made the difference.” with his eighth goal in Europe this term. Stadium in Lisbon on Wednesday. Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday. Slumping Barcelona must bounce back, says coach Enrique

AFP Barca had gone 39 games without suffering defensively too. We all have with Bayern Munich and Manchester tasting defeat before losing back-to- to improve and I’m the first one in that City in today’s semi-final draw. Sime- back La Liga games to Real Madrid regard,” he added. “The objectives for one is determined Atletico’s journey and Real Sociedad to leave Atletico Barcelona are always the highest pos- towards a first Champions League title MADRID: Barcelona coach Luis also breathing down their necks just sible. We should be proud that Barca won’t end in the last four. Enrique admitted his side are suffer- three points behind in the title race are always favourites for everything. “I don’t have any thought for the ing a slump in form after a third defeat with six games remaining. “We understand that we have to semi-finals other than winning,” he in four games saw them dumped out Enrique’s men will return to the accept defeat, we have other compe- said. of the Champions League by Atletico Vicente Calderon in May for the Copa titions coming up that we can win. “We won’t have anything easy. City Madrid. del Rey final and he insisted a league For any coach in the world to win two have incredible financial power and Antoine Griezmann struck twice and Cup double would still mean a titles is a successful season.” Real Madrid and Bayern are historic for Atletico in a 2-0 win Wednesday successful season despite missing the Victory ended Atletico’s seven- teams in this competition. to seal their passage to the last four chance to become the first side to retain game losing streak against Barca “For Atletico to be among the four at Barcelona’s expense for the second Europe’s top trophy since it became dating back to when the Madrid club best teams in Europe is an important time in three years, 3-2 on aggregate. the Champions League in 1992. sealed their La Liga title at the Camp step, but just that, because we want “It is clear that we are not in our “The team wanted to retain the Nou in 2014. more.” Griezmann was Atletico’s hero best form, especially if you consider title, it was one our objectives and Diego Simeone’s men also reached as he took his tally for the season to how we were playing before, but we excited every Barca fan, but it isn’t to the Champions League final that season 29 in all competitions with a tower- Barcelona coach Luis Enrique giving instructions during the Champions need to lift ourselves,” said Enrique, be,” said Enrique. before losing in heartbreaking fashion ing first-half header before sealing League match against Atletico Madrid at the Vicente Calderon Stadium whose side’s dreams of a treble were “We are finding it much more dif- to local rivals Real Madrid in the final. the tie from the penalty spot two min- yesterday. dashed. ficult than normal to score goals and Real lie in wait once more along utes from time. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 20 PAGE | 22 Kobe Bryant goes out Griezmann in a blaze of jump double knocks ooutut shots and glory Barcelona

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Al Ahli and Al Rayyan Pressure on Al Kharaitiyat in clash tomorrow key QSL tie against Umm Salal

The Peninsula Amar Osim’s boys battle to avoid DOHA: Blowing the final whistle relegation while Kings to an exciting and action-filled Qatar Stars League season, Al chase an unlikely 5-0 Ahli takes on Al Rayyan in the win against Al Wakrah final game at Al Gharafa Sta- dium in Al Rayyan tomorrow. Al Ahli have turned their season around with a run of The Peninsula four straight wins. After last weeks thrilling 5-4 win over Lekhwiya they sit seventh in the table with thirty-four points. DOHA: Hovering just above the QSL The Brigadiers will be gun- relegation zone, Al Kharaitiyat will look ning for the three points against forward to produce an impressive per- Champions Al Rayyan. formance against fifth -placed Umm Al Rayyan have seen a dip Salal when the two sides clash in the in form after being crowned final round of the 2015-16 Qatar Stars the champions. They drew two League (QSL) campaign. and lost two in their last four The two sides will meet at Al Khor matches. The lions will hope to Stadium this afternoon and a loss for end the season on a high with Al Kharaitiyat may allow Qatar SC to a win against Al Ahli. claw out of the relegation zone provid- Jorge Fossati, the head ing they can win against Al Wakrah to coach of Al Rayyan is looking avoid the relegation and send Amar A file picture from a match between Al Kharaitiyat forward to end of the league but Osim’s boys to the Qatar Gas League. and Umm Salal during the Qatar Stars League. reminded everyone that the sea- Two losses and three draws against son is still not over, “It’s the last just one win in the last six QSL games match of the league but not of the have clearly hurt Osim’s aspirations in season. So we will try to focus the last few weeks of QSL this season. prior to the Al Wakrah result way back would prepare the side well ahead of the tactician believes that it’s all under Qatar Stars League on the game but we can’t forget However, a 3-0 win against Al Wak- in February a 3-0 score line against start of the Emir Cup later this month. control, “Our faith is in our hands that after this game starts the rah last week would have delighted Al bottom-placed Mesaimeer. Uygun will be hoping Mounir El and we need to fight to defend our Fixtures Qatar cup and Emir Cup after Kharaitiyat fans as Hassan Abdul Fateh Osim’s boys, however, will draw Hamdaoui continues with his goal- chance of survival. There is a very Round 26 ( last round matches) that. We will try to do our best scored two goals in what was only the confidence from the fact that they beat scoring form of the last two matches slim chance for our team to go down TODAY against Al Ahli who are in very seventh win for Osim’s team this season. Umm Salal in their first leg in Decem- as Umm Salal seek a winning end to as there is a very small probability Al Kharaitiyat vs Umm Salal, good form,” added Fossati at the But Al Kharaitiyat have been strug- ber when Al Kharaitiyat beat Umm their season that could have landed of losing 5-0.” 6.15pm Al Khor Club press conference on Thursday. gling to enjoy victories especially in Salal 3-0 back in December. A brace them a top-four finish in QSL. Qatar Sports Club have improved Lekhwiya vs Mesaimeer, Rodrigo Tabata is in compet- 2016. They have only registered one from Yahia Kebe and striker Hassan It promises to be a engrossing game significantly since January and they 6.15pm Lekhwiya Club ing for the Golden Boot as he Abdel Fateh was enough to down the when relegation threatened Al Khar- are in dire need of the three points if Al Sadd vs El Jaish, has 20 goals this season and Orange Fortress and Amir Osim will itiyat take on high-flying Umm Salal they are to stay in the QSL. Sebastiao 6.15pm Qatar Sports Club his coach is very happy about QSL Standings want a similar performance from his today at Al Khor stadium with kick- Lazaroni’s men are only one point Al Wakrah vs Qatar SC, this prospect. P W L D GF GA Pts striking duo. off set for 18:15. behind Al Kharaitiyat and they will 6.15pm Al Wakrah Stadium “It is the last worry for him For Umm Salal, coached by Bulent Al Wakrah take on Qatar SC in a need all the luck in order to survive. Al Rayyan 25 20 3 2 67 20 62 Al Gharafa vs Al Khor, 6.15pm, (Tabata) to be the top scorer of Uygun, a win against Al Kharaitiyat do or die match for the Kings at the Al Sebastiao Lazaroni, the head Al Ahli Stadium the league. He is a team player El Jaish 25 14 6 5 46 27 47 today could produce their 10th vic- Wakrah Stadium today. coach of Qatar SC is demanding it TOMORROW and in every match he always Al Sadd 25 13 5 7 52 36 46 tory of the season although it is below Al Wakrah are 11th in the table with all from his team in this final match Al Arabi vs Al Sailiya, 6.15pm, thinks about the betterment of Lekhwiya 25 13 10 2 58 40 41 their expectations. Uygun’s team will 29 points from twenty-five games. of the league, “This is the final Game the team. I really hope he wins be ruing the fact they have shared points They still could be relegated if they that’s it in sports sometimes you have Al Ahli Stadium Umm Salal 25 9 5 11 36 32 38 top scorer as he is our captain. in 11 matches this season against just lose by five goals to Qatar SC. Qatar good moment and sometimes bad Al Ahli vs Al Rayyan, 8.30pm, Al Gharafa If he wins we will be very happy Al Arabi 25 10 10 5 32 35 35 five losses with two of those coming SC need to win and hope rivals Al moments but it’s important that you Stadium for him as a group,” added the Al Ahli 25 9 9 7 39 38 34 in the last four weeks, effectively halt- Kharaitiyat drop points in their match prepare yourself to be the best. In this Uruguayan tactician. Al Gharafa 25 9 9 7 33 36 34 ing their quest for a Qatar Cup place. against Umm Salal to harbour any moment you need to prepare and have tactician. The result of Al Kharaiti- Al Rayyan ended a long Al Sailiya 25 10 12 3 38 45 33 Umm Salal’s faint top 4 aspirations chance to beat the drop to the Qatar the confidence to do the best you can.” yat’s match against Umm Salal will wait for the title and Fossati where ended when they went down 2-1 Gas League. Al Wakrah are also in the mix of have a big impact on Qatar SC. reminded the media that the Al Khor 25 8 11 6 24 31 30 to El Jaish in a feisty contest last week Mauricio Larriera, the head coach the relegation battle as they might go And Lazaroni is not concerned Falcon Shield was the biggest Al Wakrah 25 9 14 2 33 44 29 when Abdulrazzaq Hamadallah fired of Al Wakrah believes that there is no down if they lose by five goals. about the result of that game, “We don’t priority this season, “We won Al Kharaitiyat 25 7 12 6 36 44 27 in two penalties to seal the win. chance of Al Wakrah losing by five goals, “It depends on us to remain in the care about the result of Kharaitiyath. the league after twenty-one Qatar S.C 25 6 11 8 30 50 26 With a top-four finish out of their “I don’t think there is a chance for my first division. We need to score 5 goals All we care about is our match against years and this feeling is more grasp even if fifth-placed Umm Salal team to go down. It’s is impossible.” for a straight rout, there is one per- Wakrah. All we need is a professional important than anything.” Mesaimeer 25 1 21 3 14 60 6 win and fourth-placed Lekhwiya lose, Despite losing to Kharaitiyat by cent chance of that happening but it’s attitude and the result is important but Uygun’s boys will know a victory today three goals last week the Uruguayan still a chance,” added the 65-year- old only in the end of our match.” Caribbean Olympic Committees join Sport Integrity Global Alliance

The Peninsula independent alliance, which will work to governance among our membership drive forward key reforms across good and CANOC will be motivating all of governance and integrity in sport. our member NOCs to become signato- The union is a major boost to SIGA ries to the Statement of Intent. This will PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago: and builds further momentum follow- be tabled at the Annual General assem- The Caribbean Association of National ing last week’s formal launch in Madrid, bly in October”. Olympic Committees (CANOC) has as well as the support received in the “We thank the team from SIGA for announced that it has become a new region from the Trinidad and Tobago travelling to the Caribbean to facilitate member of the Sport Integrity Global Olympic Committee. this action and interface with the CANOC Alliance (SIGA) and expressed its full Steve Stoute, CANOC President said: board. We pledged to work closely with support and commitment in the further “CANOC Board fully recognises the severe SIGA in efforts to achieve the proposed (From left) Brian Lewis, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee President, Steve Stoute, CANOC development of the alliance. threat impacting the purity and virtue goals.” President), Keith Joseph, St Vincent and the Grenadines Olympic Committee General Secretary and CANOC joins over 40 interna- of sport’’. Further information on SIGA could Elton Prescott, CANOC Secretary pose for a photo after the Caribbean Association of National Olympic tional organisations from all sectors ‘‘One of CANOC’s mandates is to be obtained by contacting info@siga- Committees (CANOC) become a new member of the Sport Integrity Global Alliance. of the industry already part of the new promote the highest standards of good sport.com.

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