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WASHINGTON: US Senate conservatives who had demanded leaders took a giant step yes- changes to President Barack terday toward averting a global Obama’s healthcare law before fiscal shock by unveiling a plan they would agree to fund the to raise the nation’s debt ceil- government. ing and end the government “Our drive to stop the train shutdown. wreck that is the president’s The deal between Senate healthcare law will continue,” Majority Leader Harry Reid Boehner said in a statement, add- and Republican leader Mitch ing the House had fought Obama McConnell gives President “with everything it has” and he Barack Obama most of what he would not block the bipartisan had demanded for months: A Senate agreement. straightforward debt limit hike Republican Senator John and government funding bill. McCain of Arizona called the With the government’s borrow- political stalemate, which rattled ing authority set to run out today, financial markets and partially Thousands of visitors watching performers from ‘Circus: Mother Africa’ at the outdoor theatre near Al Souq Street on the first day of the Souq Waqif House of Representatives Speaker shuttered the federal government, Eid Al Adha Festival yesterday. Visitors witnessed an eclectic mix of performances by various artistes at several venues around the souq. John Boehner said he would allow “one of the most shameful chap- See also pages 2 & 3 ABDUL BASIT the deeply divided House to vote ters I have seen in the years I’ve on the Senate plan for a short- spent in the Senate”. term increase in the debt limit Lawmakers are racing to pass a and a government reopening. It deal before the US Treasury hits is expected to pass with mostly its $16.7 trillion borrowing limit, Iran talks serious Pilgrims stone Democratic votes. which is expected by the end of India tops Global The agreement would extend the day today. The government and candid: US US borrowing authority until will have enough cash on hand to the devil as February 7, although the Treasury meet its obligations for a few more GENEVA: The United States Department would have tools to days, but officials have warned an described two days of nuclear Haj nears end temporarily extend its borrow- economically devastating default talks with Iran as the most seri- Slavery Index ing capacity beyond that date if could quickly follow. ous and candid to date after MINA: Throngs of pilgrims Congress failed to act early next Democratic leaders said House diplomats said Tehran hinted it LONDON: An estimated 30 of children — human trafficking took part in the symbolic ston- year. The agreement also would Democrats would provide the was ready to scale back sensitive million people worldwide are and forced labour. ing of the devil ritual for a fund government agencies until votes necessary to get the agree- atomic activities to secure urgent living in modern-day slavery, The countries with the high- second day yesterday in Mina January 15, ending a partial gov- ment passed even if a majority sanctions relief. according to the inaugural est prevalence of modern slavery Valley, as the Haj neared its end. ernment shutdown that began with of House Republicans oppose it. “I’ve been doing this now for about Global Slavery Index published were Mauritania, Haiti, Pakistan, Pilgrims said the stoning ritual the new fiscal year on October 1. In the House, there now are 232 two years,” a senior administration yesterday. India, Nepal, Moldova, Benin, had proved easier to perform this The Republican-controlled Republicans and 200 Democrats, official said. “And I have never had The index, compiled by the Ivory Coast, Gambia and Gabon. year due to the lower numbers. House and the Democrat- with three vacant seats. A bill such intense, detailed, straightfor- Walk Free Foundation (WFF), Moldova was the only European The head of the hi-tech controlled Senate were expected needs 217 votes to pass. “We’ll get it ward, candid conversations with the said that while India by far had nation in the top 10. Command and Control Centre to approve the fiscal deal soon, done,” Democratic Representative Iranian delegation before.” White the largest number of enslaved The index describes Mauritania for Hajj Security, Major General clearing the way for Obama to Steve Israel of New York, head of House spokesman Jay Carney ech- people, the problem was most as a nation with “deeply Abdullah Al Zahrani, said two sign it into law before the debt the party’s congressional campaign oed the remarks. Follow-up talks prevalent in the west African entrenched hereditary slavery”, factors had played a role. “The ceiling is reached late today. committee, told reporters. between the six powers and Iran will nation of Mauritania, where four while “people in slavery may be reduction in the number of pil- The deal represents a bruising AGENCIES be held in Geneva on November 7-8. percent of the population was bought and sold, rented out and grims and the correct implemen- political defeat for Republican See also pages 6 & 9 REUTERS deemed to be held in slavery. given away as gifts”. Russia came tation of the security plan have The WFF hopes the index will 49th, China 84th, United States contributed to the better organi- help governments to monitor 134th, France 139th and Britain sation of this year’s Haj,” he said. and tackle what it calls a “hid- joint bottom on 160. The centre has installed more Meteorite found den crime”. “A lot of govern- In terms of total numbers, the than 5,000 cameras to monitor all ments won’t like hearing what countries with the most people in the holy sites, including 1,200 at we have to say,” Chief Executive modern slavery were estimated the Grand Mosque. The centre in Nick Grono said. to be India (13.95 million), fol- Mina has a large number of tel- Established in May last year, lowed by China (2.95 million) and evision screens that receive live the WFF is a 20-strong team Pakistan (2.1 million). The report videos round the clock from the based in Perth, founded by phi- estimated that 72 percent of peo- holy sites. lanthropists Andrew Forrest — ple in modern slavery live in Asia. The faithful began the stoning the chairman of Fortescue Metals In India, “by far the largest rituals on Tuesday. Yesterday, Group — and his wife Nicola. It proportion of this problem is the they threw seven pebbles at each has the backing of former US sec- exploitation of Indian citizens of the three pillars in a ritual they retary of state Hillary Clinton, within India itself, particularly will repeat over the next two days. Britain’s ex-prime minister Tony through debt bondage and bonded Authorities announced spe- Blair, current Australian PM labour”, the report said. cial measures to be implemented Tony Abbott and philanthropists Among the top 10, the WFF today around the Grand Mosque, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and said Moldova and Ivory Coast where many of the pilgrims will Mo Ibrahim. were working hard to address have their final circumambulation The foundation’s definition of the issue, but efforts in the top (Tawaf) around the Holy Kaaba modern slavery includes slavery three — Mauritania, Haiti and and start leaving for their home itself, plus slavery-like practices — Pakistan — are “token at best countries. The Haj comes to an A meteorite on display on the bank of the Chebarkul Lake, after it was lifted from the bottom of the lake, 80km such as debt bondage, forced mar- and non-existent at worst”, the end officially tomorrow. AFP west of Chelyabinsk, yesterday. The meteorite exploded over central Russia in February 2013, raining fireballs riage and the sale or exploitation report said. AFP See also page 5 over a vast area and causing a shock wave that damaged buildings and injured more than 1,000 people.

Philippine quake toll rises to 151 Suspects in British woman’s murder taken into custody LOON, BOHOL: Survivors of a DOHA: The Ministry of details about the murder, the social media late last Sunday. chose not to carry the report host the FIFA World Cup in 2022. huge earthquake that killed 151 Interior has confirmed that a incident would not have led to This newspaper contacted the with sketchy details and with no Such crimes are taking place people in the Philippines rum- young British woman teacher speculations. Capital Police but they refused to confirmation forthcoming from everywhere in the world so why maged hopelessly through ruins was murdered here and that And the international media either deny or confirm. An offi- either the Qatari authorities or target Qatar alone, questioned for relatives, as rescue work- suspects have been taken into would have in that case relied cial at the police station said the the British Embassy. many commentators. The Qatari ers struggled to reach isolated custody. on factual details of the incident Public Relations Department of Meanwhile, as evidenced from media came in for scathing attack communities. Full report on page 11 The case has been referred to given by their Qatari counterpart. the Interior Ministry should be public reaction in the local social by social media commentators, the Public Prosecution which will A lack of official information contacted for information. media, people in the Qatari com- some of whom, poking fun, said: conduct investigations and file kept the local media away from The British embassy’s call cen- munity seem to be extremely riled “As usual we are hearing (of the INSIDE charges in the criminal court. reporting the incident correctly, tre would also only confirm that by reports of the murder in the murder) from foreign media”. Meanwhile, some people this critics said. Lauren Patterson, the victim, was global media. “Our media were the last to know Schedule of newspaper spoke to on the issue There was no official confir- missing. They said they had no Many of them said they felt (of the news),” said a commenta- Eid events at various venues said had the authorities con- mation of the reports of murder information about her death. Qatar was being wrongly targeted, tor sarcastically. cerned shared the necessary when they began surfacing on This newspaper, therefore, and only because it was going to THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 HOME 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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Emir exchanges Eid greetings S C H t o h o l d c a n c e r with presidents forum from Sunday DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad DOHA: A three-day regional future changes in cancer epidemi- Al Thani in telephone calls meeting on cancer and priority ology in the region, review avail- yesterday exchanged Eid research areas begins in Doha able information on contribution of Al Adha greetings with from Sunday. The Supreme risk factors and exposures, includ- Sudan’s President Omar Council of Health is organising it ing environmental factors, to the Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir at Marriott Hotel. incidence of cancer, and identify and Tunisia’s President Dr Ala’din Alwan, Director research priorities to fill gap in Mohamed Moncef of World Health Organisation’s knowledge about causes of cancer. Marzouki. Regional Office for the Eastern The meeting will also discuss Mediterranean region and the current situation of cancer 21 road mishaps International Agency for Research records and reporting and priori- on Cancer, officials responsible for ties in strengthening information in one day the fight against cancer at health systems, and identify appropriate ministries in the region, those methods for early detection of the DOHA: About 21 road responsible for cancer records most common types of cancer. accidents were reported and regional and international Qatar has launched a five-year from different parts of the researchers and experts will attend. National Cancer Strategy to pro- country on the second day The forum will examine the vide high standard of care. of Eid Al Adha yesterday. current status of cancer, outline QNA Most were minor cases at festival venues such as the Corniche, Sealine and Joy ride places in Al Khor, Al Sharq said. The ambulance team received 250 calls related to accidents and emergencies. The Emergency People throng at one of the slaughterhouses in the livestock market. Department at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and paediatric emergency units attended to 2,150 cases. HMC emergency unit Australian sheep out of stock received 680 visitors while paediatric units attended to DOHA: Australian sheep, the yesterday and a subsequent short- Al Adha and people blamed the 1,470 cases. cheapest variety in the local age in supply, according to Al authorities for the way the situa- They included 10 cardiac market, ran out of stock at the Sharq. tion was handled. cases and one death caused slaughterhouses in the livestock Many visitors expressed anger Many people who were issued by a disease, said the daily. market yesterday, leaving many over the shortage, saying Widam coupons had to wait for hours to Other cases were mostly visitors angry and disappointed. failed to fulfil its promises to make have their share of the meat, said respiratory and stomach An announcement by Widam enough quantity of Australian the daily. The situation is getting illnesses. that Australian sheep will be sheep available in the market. worse every year instead of show- THE PENINSULA & QNA sold at QR350 per head led to a The abattoirs witnessed chaotic ing any improvement, it added. huge rush at the slaughterhouses scenes on the second day of Eid THE PENINSULA People coming out of a boat after a joy ride on the Corniche on the second day of Eid yesterday. ABDUL BASIT ‘Eid Ka Chand’ cultural show entertains 5,000 expat labourers

Lt. Shaheen Al Dosari inaugurating the event and (Right) Nepalese artists performing a dance at Al Khor Sports Club.

DOHA: More than 5,000 labourers Cultural Centre (KMCC). Qatar police for you who contribute to Gayatri, Abhishek, Muhammed Eisa Department of the ministry Faisal from different communities attended The audience was treated to songs in the development of Qatar and I wish (Ali International) and Faisal Nallalam Al Hudawi, Media Researcher at the a cultural show featuring noted expa- Malayalam, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Nepali, you all success. We have organised this presented songs in Malayalam, Arabic, ministry Niyaz Abdul Majeed, Qatar triate singers, at Al Khor Sports Club Punjabi and Tamil languages along with programme to make you feel happy and Hindi, Urdu, Nepali, Punjabi and Tamil. KMCC Vice President Abdul Wahhab, on the first day of Eid Al Adha. cinematic and traditional dances. enjoy Eid Al Adha.” Artists from Sariga musical troupe in Sameeksha President Iqbal Chettuwa, The four-hour ‘Eid Ka Chand’ (Eid In his inaugural address, Community He also thanked KMCC, ‘Sameeksha’ Doha Harib Hussain, Afsal Kollam and officer bearers of Al Khor KMCC Moon) was organised by the Community Policing Section Officer from North and the Non Resident Nepalese Fida Fathima enthralled the audience Committee Saidalavi, Abdul Kareem and Policing Section of the North Security Security Department Lt. Shaheen Association (NRNA) for their inter- with hit numbers. Nepalese dances pre- Naseem Ansari and of NRNA Teknath Department and Public Relations Rashid Al Atheeque Al Dosari conveyed est in associating with the ministry to sented by the Sandhya group of NRNA Baral, Kishor Sunuwar and Binesh Department of the Ministry of Interior Eid greetings to audience and thanked organise the event successfully. were another attraction of the show. Tamang were also present at the open- in association with Sameeksha, the them for their participation in the event. Doha-based singers Saleem Pavaratti, Coordinator of Community Reach ing ceremony. cultural wing of Qatar Kerala Muslim “This is a gift from the ministry and Noushad, Arya Krishnan, Nithin, Out Office at the Public Relations THE PENINSULA CELEBRATIONS

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DOHA: The opening of the Souq Waqif Eid Al Adha Festival highlighted the sec- ond day of Eid Al Adha with dozens of performers from other countries. Juggler extraordinaire Ian Merchant and a huge team of performers from Circus: Mother Africa Snow as well as the Snow White show and Titan the Robot, who appeared in var- ious shows around the world, drew thousands of onlookers. Other featured acts included Dave the Chameleon, Magician on Stick, Bjorn the Polar Bear, Manyard Flip Flap, Ballonatic and Gorilla. Shows run from 4.30pm till 10.30pm until Saturday at various venues in the souq. Visitors also thronged the Museum of Islamic Art to watch the concert of young jazz artist Etienne Charles who also performs at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha at St Regis Doha. Malls also pulsated with life with various shows which are organised in cooperation with the Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA). The ongoing “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” show at Katara has been a crowd puller with around 130,000 people coming to Katara during the first two days of Eid. Thousands of GCC tourists have come to Doha for the fes- tival. According to the QTA, over 8,200 tourist brochures have been distributed at the Abu Samra border post and at the Doha International Airport on the first two days of Eid Al Adha. THE PENINSULA

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EVENT ORGANISER ENTRY TIMING DURATION VENUE City Center Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 Free 4:30pm -9:30pm City Center Mall - Onaiza Area Eid Festival Authority October Hyatt Plaza Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 Free 4:30am - 9:30pm Hyatt Plaza - Al Aziziyah Area Eid Festival Authority October Lagoona Mall Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 Lagoona Mall - Zig Zag Tower, Free 4:30am - 9:30pm Eid Festival Authority October West Bay Landmark Mall Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 Free 4:30pm - 9:30pm Landmark Mall - Al Gharafa Area Eid Festival Authority October The Gate Mall Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 The Gate Mall - Al Abraj Street, Free 4:30pm - 9:30pm Eid Festival Authority October Onaiza Area Villagio Mall Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 Free 4:30pm - 9:30pm Villagio Mall - Al Aziziyah Area Eid Festival Authority October Al Khor Mall Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 Free 4:30pm - 9:30pm Al Khor Mall - Al Khor City Eid Festival Authority October Ministry of Culture, 15 - 18 Al Bidaa Park - Rumeilah, Cultural Village Free 6:00pm - 12:00am Arts and Heritage October opposite Al Corniche Road Tour of the State Ministry of Awqaf and 15 - 20 Al Dafna Area - Opposite Qatar Free 9:00am - 7:00pm Mosque of Qatar Islamic Affairs October Sports Club First show: Giant puppets: 5:30pm - 6:30pm 15 - 18 Katara Cultural Village Ali Baba and Katara Cultural Village Free Second show: October West Bay the forty thieves 8:30pm - 9:30pm

Katara Cultural 15 - 18 Katara Beach - Katara Cultural Katara Cultural Village Free 9:30pm - 9:45pm Village Fireworks October Village - West Bay First show: Entrance 5:30pm - 6:30pm 16 - 20 Al Rayyan Theater - Al Mirqab Snow White Show Souq Waqif Tickets : Second show: October Boutique Hotel, Souq Waqif QR40 - QR60 7:30pm - 8:30pm n the occasion of Eid Al Adha, Katara has First show: in store various activities and events for its Ovirtuous visitors full of joy and happiness, 4:30pm -5:00pm In addition to that Fireworks and water shows Second show: 16 - 20 Opposite Souq Waqif Police will be fun filled activities for the families. Katara Magician on a Stick Souq Waqif Free 6:00pm - 6:30pm October Station, Souq Waqif will present an artistic show the first of its kind in Arab World, Giant Puppets “Ali Baba and the forty Third show: thieves’’ will go around the Cultural Village in its 8:30pm - 9:00pm streets and hallways and the final destination is the Amphitheater. First show: The visitors of Katara will experience everyday in 4:30pm -5:00pm Eid Al Adha the Adventure of one thousand night Second show: 16 - 20 Opposite Souq Waqif Police and night in new creative style, the visitors will Bjorn the Polar Bear Souq Waqif Free 6:00pm - 6:30pm October Station, Souq Waqif witness events from Arabic heritage, through the excited stories specially the story of “Ali Baba Third show: and the forty thieves’’, also acrobatic dance tilted 8:30pm - 9:00pm “Dance on fire”. The shows will take place all days of Eid Al Adha, First show: 4:30pm the first performance will start from 5:30 until 6:30, -5:00pm the second from 8:30 to 9:30 then the fireworks will Second show: 16 - 20 Opposite Souq Waqif Police last for 15 minutes. Colorful Parade Souq Waqif Free 6:00pm - 6:30pm October Station, Souq Waqif Third show: 8:30pm - 9:00pm EID @ ALKHORMALL First show: 4:30pm -5:00pm Day Show Start Finish Second show: 16 - 20 Opposite Souq Waqif Police 17/10 Carnival Samba 4:30 5:00 Titan the Robot Souq Waqif Free 6:00pm - 6:30pm October Station, Souq Waqif Talking Friends 5:30 6:00 Third show: Carnival Samba 7:00 7:30 8:30pm - 9:00pm Magic Show 8:00 8:30 Bubble Show 9:00 9:30 First show: 18/10 Pink Panther 4:30 5:00 4:30pm -5:00pm Over Boys 5:30 6:00 Second show: 16 - 20 Opposite Souq Waqif Police Pink Panther 7:00 7:30 Balloonatic Souq Waqif Free 6:00pm - 6:30pm October Station, Souq Waqif Lulu Caty 8:00 8:30 Third show: Shaolin Martial Arts 9:00 9:30 8:30pm - 9:00pm 19/10 Magic Show 4:30 5:00 Shaolin Martial Arts 5:30 6:00 First show: Traditional Parade 7:00 7:30 4:30pm -5:00pm Bubble Show 8:00 8:30 Dave the Second show: 16 - 20 Area in front of Mirqab Boutique Souq Waqif Free Lulu Caty 9:00 9:30 Chameleon 6:00pm - 6:30pm October Hotel, Souq Waqif 20/10 Over Boys 4:30 5:00 Third show: Talking Friends 5:30 6:00 8:30pm - 9:00pm Chicago Boyz 7:00 7:30 Pink Panther 8:00 8:30 Carnival Samba 9:00 9:30 Katara Cultural Village Fireworks

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EVENT ORGANISER ENTRY TIMING DURATION VENUE QAR 10 Souq Waqif Eid 16 - 20 Al Ahmad Square - Souq Waqif for every 4:30pm - 9:00pm Competition October Souq Waqif competition First show: 4:00pm -5:00pm Second show: 7:00pm - 16 - 20 Outdoor Theater - Circus: Mother Africa Souq Waqif Free Haj: The Journey 8:00pm October Souq Waqif Third show: 9:00pm - Through Art 10:00pm

Until January 5 2014 First show: 5:30pm -5:45pm At the Museum of Islamic Second show: 6:00pm - 16 - 20 Area Adjacent to Ahmed Trampoline Souq Waqif Free Art, Doha, Qatar 6:15pm October Square - Souq Waqif Third show: 9:00pm - 10:00pm For more than 1350 years, pilgrims have travelled to the First show: 6:00pm city of Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for Haj, and -6:30pm today about 3 million Muslims take part every year from all 16 - 20 Outdoor Theater - over the world. Live Statues Souq Waqif Free Second show: 8:30pm - October Souq Waqif 9:00pm This MIA-curated exhibition, in collaboration with the British Museum, takes visitors on a journey exploring and illuminating the Muslim pilgrimage of Haj. It presents artworks from MIA and objects from Qatari collections, First show: 5:30pm many of which have never before been displayed in public. -6:00pm Second show: 8:00pm - 16 - 20 Outdoor Theater - Ian Marchant Souq Waqif Free The exhibition examines the history of this pilgrimage 8:30pm October Souq Waqif through the centuries, focusing on the rituals of Haj as depicted through art, the routes taken and the experiences Third show: 10:00pm - of pilgrims upon their return. The exhibition also includes a 10:30pm special section dedicated to the oral histories and objects of pilgrims from Qatar. Sunday, Monday and Wednesday : 10:30am An outdoor photography display featuring unique visions -5:30pm of Haj by five international photographers will run in Museum of 16 - 20 Museum of Islamic Art - Doha Museum Tour Free Thursday , Saturday: conjunction with the exhibition. Islamic Art October Corniche 12:00pm - 8:00pm Opening times: Sunday, Monday 10:30am - 5:30pm, Friday : 2:00pm - 8:00pm Tuesday closed, Wednesday 10:30am - 5:30 pm Thursday 12pm - 8pm, Friday 2pm - 8pm, Saturday 12pm - 8pm, Tuesday: Closed Last admission ½ hour before closing. Sunday, Monday and Wednesday : 10:30am - 5:30pm Hajj - Journey through Museum of 9 October - 5 Museum of Islamic Art - Free Thursday and Saturday: Art Islamic Art January Doha Corniche 12:00pm - 8:00pm Friday : 2:00pm - 8:00pm Tuesday: Closed Jazz in the Park - Museum of Museum of Islamic Art Park - Free 7:00pm - 8:00pm 16 October Etienne Charles Islamic Art Doha Corniche Sheikh Faisal Bin 9:00am - 6:00pm Al Samereya Field - 15 - 20 Museum Visit Qassim Al Thani Free Closed on Friday & Shahaneya Roundabout, Al October Museum Tuesday Rayyan Street Saturday - Thursday: Confusionism - Katara Art Center, Bldg 5, 10:00am - 10:00pm 6 October - 9 an exhibition by Katara Art Center Free Katara Cultural Village - Friday: 2:00pm - November Mahmoud Obaidi West Bay 10:00pm Sout Al Rayyan Music 16 - 20 Al Rayyan Theater, Al Mirqab Sout Al Rayyan Free 8:30pm - 12:00am Festival October Boutique Hotel, Souq Waqif Live Music 15 - 18 Porta Arabia - Parcel 2 and 4 The Pearl - Qatar Free 6:00pm -10:00pm Entertainers October - The Pearl-Qatar Water Screen 15 - 18 Porta Arabia - Marina - The The Pearl - Qatar Free 5:00pm - 10:00pm Projections October Pearl-Qatar 15 - 18 Porta Arabia aisle - Parcel 18 Kids Zone The Pearl - Qatar Free 6:00pm - 9:00pm October - The Pearl-Qatar 15 - 18 Porta Arabia aisle - Parcel 3 - Live Bubble Show The Pearl - Qatar Free 8:00pm - 9:00pm October The Pearl-Qatar Morning: 8:00am - AL Dosari Zoo 11:00am 15 - 20 Al Kheireb - 7km south of Zoo Tour and Game Free Afternoon: 3:00pm - October Shahaneya Roundabout Reserve 6:00pm Friday: 8:00am - 6:00pm Aqua Park - Salwa Road, QAR 100 per 15 - 20 Eid Celebrations Aqua Park Qatar 12:00pm - 8:00pm beside Abu Nakhla Petrol Sealine person October Station Aerial QAR 100 for Qatar Shooting 25 shots 15 - 26 Lusail Shooting Club - Paragliding Shooting Practice and Archery Applicable 4:00pm - 8:00pm October Al Khor Coastal Road Association for 18 years Tour or older By Qatar Air Sports QAR 250 Committee per trip for Sealine beach area - before Sealine Aerial Qatar Air Sports each person 16 - 21 12:00pm - 6:30pm Sealine Beach Resort QAR 250 per trip for Paragliding Tour Committee Applicable October roundabout each person Applicable for 18 years for 18 years or older or older 12:00pm - 6:30pm 16 - 21 October Doha Film Institute presents screening of Journey to Mecca Sealine beach area - Directed by American filmmakerBruce Neibaur before Sealine Beach Journey to Mecca is the story of young scholar Ibn Battuta who leaves his home in Morocco to traverse the 4800-kilometre long journey east to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Resort roundabout Where: Museum of Islamic Arts auditorium When: Thursday and Friday, October 17 & 18, 2013, 7pm and 4pm, respectively THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Iran’s ‘breakthrough’ proposal gives hope

Iran’s nuclear facilities

URANIUM PROCESSING/ ENRICHMENT FACILITIES Two sides agree to hold follow-up negotiations on November 7 and 8 Heavy- water Nuclear Research/ Uranium processing/ Uranium mining reactor power plant development enrichment

GENEVA: Iran has indicated a Republic to stop higher-grade for a rapidly expanding popula- Tehran was prepared to address related to its uranium enrich- TURKMENISTAN Caspian Sea readiness to scale back uranium enrichment to allay concerns tion and to produce isotopes for long-standing calls for the U.N. ment were part of the Iranian Bonab Ramsar Gorgan enrichment the West fears could that it would provide Iran a quick medicine. nuclear watchdog to have wider proposal, but hinted the Islamic Mo-Allem Damavand Kalayeh* Tehran Jabr Iban Hagan be put to making nuclear bombs, path to bomb-grade nuclear fuel. After the first day of talks in and more intrusive inspection Republic was not inclined to make Parchin* Khondab Qom (Fordow) Ramandeh suggesting it is willing to com- Tehran says it is refining uranium Geneva, Iranian Deputy Foreign powers. He also told the official its concessions quickly. “Neither Arak Lashkar-Abad Natanz AFGHANISTAN Saghand promise for a deal to win relief solely to generate more electricity Minister Abbas Araqchi suggested Irna news agency that measures of these issues are within the first Isfahan Narigan from harsh economic sanctions, step (of the Iranian proposal) but IRAQ Darkhouin Zarigan diplomats said yesterday. form part of our last steps,” he IRAN Details of Iran’s proposals, said without elaborating, in com- KUWAIT Bushehr

presented during two days of ments reported yesterday. SAUDI Gachin Talks herald new phase in ties: Iran ARABIA negotiations in Geneva with six The sequencing of any con- 100 miles Persian Gulf world powers, have not been made GENEVA: Talks between world powers and Iran cessions by Iran and any sanc- 100 km *Suspected research site public, and Western officials were on its controversial nuclear programme could tions relief by the West could NUMBER OF CENTRIFUGES IN IRAN Already active Installed but not active Total number of centrifuges installed as of August, 2013 unsure whether Tehran was pre- herald a shift in Tehran’s ties, Foreign Minister prove a stumbling block en route April 2007 1,300 Nov. 2008 3,800 pared to go far enough to clinch Mohammad Javad Zarif said yesterday. to a landmark, verifiable deal. Aug. 2009 4,592 3,716 a breakthrough deal. “We hope that this is a beginning of a new phase Western officials have repeat- Aug. 2013 10,224 9,238** 19,462 **Includes 1,008 new IR-2m centrifuges, more advanced and several times faster than the current centrifuges But, in a clear sign of hope, the in our relations,” Zarif told reporters in Geneva edly said that Iran must suspend Note: total does not include 382 centrifuges of various models that are being tested at the R&D site Sources: Reuters EDREF; IAEA; Institute for Science and International Security; two sides agreed to hold follow-up after wrapping up two days of negotiations that enriching uranium to 20 percent Global Security.org negotiations on November 7-8 in yielded a deal to meet again on November 7 and 8. fissile purity, their main worry, Staff, 16/10/2013 Geneva, a Western diplomat told Zarif said that the talks with the European before sanctions are eased. Reuters as the current two-day Union-chair P5+1 group — Britain, China, France, “Are we there yet? No, but we “We are not today in a posi- round drew to a close. Russia and the United States, plus Germany — had need to keep talking,” a Western tion to make any changes in those After a six-month hiatus, Iran been “extensive and fruitful” and that they had diplomat said as talks resumed sanctions. Sanctions must con- and the United States, Russia, “exhibited the necessary political will to move the on Wednesday. Israel, Iran’s arch- tinue. Sanctions are important China, France, Britain and process forward”. foe, urged the powers to be tough part of bringing Iran to the nego- Germany began negotiations in Tehran vehemently denies international claims in the talks by demanding a total tiating table,” he told reporters. earnest on Tuesday to end a long, that it is seeking to develop atomic weapons, insisting shutdown of enrichment and rul- Western diplomats were hesi- festering stand-off that could boil that its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes, ing out any early relaxation of tant to divulge specifics about over into a new Middle East war. and on Tuesday made what it dubbed a breakthrough Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sanctions. But it did not repeat the negotiations due to sensitivi- Both sides sought to dampen proposal to end the decade-long standoff. “We will during a press conference in Geneva yesterday. veiled threats to bomb Iran if it ties involved - both in Tehran, expectations of any rapid deal at not back down on our rights,” Zarif said. deems diplomacy pointless. where conservative hardliners the meeting, the first since mod- “At the same time we feel there is no need for detailed part is the most difficult part”. “We need to British Foreign Secretary are sceptical about striking deals erate President Hassan Rouhani concerns about our nuclear programme... It is logi- take reciprocal steps, but this is a very important William Hague underscored that could curtail the nuclear was elected in June pledging to cal to remove any concerns though,” he added. test in our eyes for the 5+1 to win back the trust Western reluctance to move fast, programme, and in Washington, scrap the politics of confrontation “I am hopeful that we can reach the mutual of Iran. I believe an important step was taken in saying during a trip to Tokyo that where hawks are reluctant to to ease Iran’s international isola- objectives,” he said, while underlining that “the this round.” AFP any changes in sanctions would support swift sanctions relief. tion. The powers want the Islamic only follow action by Iran. REUTERS

Dutch official Syria blast kills 21, US presses for talks to head Syria DAMASCUS: A bomb exploded Wednesday that Kurdish fighters chemical arms in southern Syria yesterday from several villages in oil-rich killing 21 people, with sources Hasake province are engaged in variously blaming rebels and pitched battles with two rebel mission regime troops, as Washington groups, the Al Qaeda-affiliated urged a key opposition group to Islamic State of Iraq and the UNITED NATIONS: The join peace talks. Levant and Al Nusra Front. United Nations yesterday In other violence, at least 41 “At least 41 fighters were killed, named Dutch official Sigrid fighters were reported killed including 29 ISIL, Al-Nusra Kaag to head the risky inter- in clashes between Kurds and Front and Islamist fighters,” the national mission to eradicate jihadists in the northeast of the Britain-based group said. Syria’s chemical weapons. country. Also killed were “12 fighters UN leader Ban Ki-moon also The Syrian Observatory for from the Committees for the said he was stepping up efforts to Human Rights said a pickup Protection of the Kurdish People” convene a Syria peace conference, truck was passing through an (YPG). Clashes have raged for sending special envoy Lakhdar area of the southern province of months in majority Kurdish areas, Brahimi to the region for talks Daraa when the bomb exploded. as ISIL has sought to expel the with key governments. “Twenty-one people were killed YPG from areas it controls. Kaag, a UN assistant secre- in the Nawa area... among them Fighting also raged Wednesday tary general who speaks fluent four children and six women, in south of Damascus, with the Arabic and has wide Middle a blast that detonated as their state media and the Observatory East experience, will head a vehicle went past Tal Al Jumua.” reporting that Syrian troops had joint UN-Organisation for the The Observatory’s Abdel recaptured the strategic town of Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Rahman said they were members Bweida. The clashes come as the mission to destroy poison arms of three families that were most United States seeks to persuade belonging to Damascus. likely fleeing strife-torn Nawa. a key opposition group to agree to The UN Security Council has Activists on the ground accused attend a proposed peace confer- set a deadline of mid-2014 for troops of planting the explosives, ence in Geneva. the mission, but experts say the the watchdog added. The stalled initiative, dubbed approximately 100-strong team But state news agency Sana Geneva 2, has been proposed by to be assembled faces an uphill said “21 terrorists (rebels) were Washington and Moscow. struggle in the conflict-stricken killed when they were booby- But the Syrian National Civilians and firefighters try to put out a fire at the roof of a building which activists said was shelled by forces country. About 60 experts are trapping a car” in Nawa. Council, the biggest bloc within loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad, in Raqqa, eastern Syria, yesterday. already in Syria dismantling its Daraa is the cradle of the upris- the umbrella Syrian National arms production and chemical ing against President Bashar Al Coalition, said at the weekend it the opposition, has urged the SNC at the Geneva conference.” exacerbated by a chemical weap- mixing facilities. But, with about Assad that broke out in March would not join the talks planned to drop its refusal to join the talks. Geneva 2 was first mooted ons attack on Damascus suburbs 1,000 tonnes of chemicals to be 2011 and morphed into a civil war for next month and would quit “There have been many ups in May, but has been repeat- in August that left hundreds dead. eradicated, no disarmament mis- that the Observatory says has the Coalition if it attends. and downs in this process,” State edly postponed due to wrangling Washington led other world sion of this scope has ever been killed more than 115,000 people. The SNC said it was snubbing Department spokeswoman Jen among the opposition and a dis- powers in accusing Assad’s regime carried out in the midst of a war. Assad’s troops are not the only the talks because of the ongoing Psaki said on Tuesday, “but we pute on which countries should of using the prohibited weapons “We have no illusions on the forces being targeted by the rebels, suffering of the ground. continue to press for the opposi- participate. and threatened military strikes. challenges ahead,” Ban said along- with the Observatory reporting The United States, which backs tion to have a representative body The situation has been AFP side Kaag. AFP

Market fire US for probe into deaths of UN peacekeepers in Sudan

WASHINGTON: The United malicious attacks and hold the States yesterday called on perpetrators to account,” she Sudan to investigate the kill- added in a statement. ings of three UN peacekeepers She renewed US concerns in an ambush in the troubled about deteriorating human rights western Darfur region. and security in Darfur, which she Three Senegalese troops died, said had displaced some 300,000 and a fourth was wounded, when people this year — more than the a water convoy they were escort- total who have fled the region ing was attacked on Sunday on a over the past two years. road from the town of El Geneina “We call on the Sudanese gov- to the UN mission in Darfur ernment and all rebel groups to (UNAMID) headquarters in West engage without preconditions in Darfur. an effective and inclusive politi- “This attack comes just two cal process to achieve a peaceful days after a Zambian peacekeeper resolution to the conflict,” Psaki was brutally killed in a neighbor- added. The Darfur war started ing region of Darfur and brings when local groups launched an to 13 the number of UNAMID uprising in 1993 against the Arab peacekeepers killed this year,” dominated Khartoum government. State Department spokeswoman Government forces were Jen Psaki said. accused of launching a brutal “The United States strongly repression that led to war crimes condemns unlawful acts against and genocide charges against Firefighters and vendors trying to extinguish a blaze at a carpet market in the Libyan city of Benghazi, yesterday. There were no casualties and the UNAMID personnel and calls President Omar Hasan Al Bashir cause of the fire is not known. on the Sudanese government to and other Sudanese officials. immediately investigate these AFP THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 War-related toll nears 500,000 in Iraq Monitoring the security

KIRKUK, IRAQ: A bomb said he narrowly avoided being of Health, covers not only vio- ripped through a crowd of caught the blast after he went lent deaths but other avoidable worshippers at a Sunni mosque to greet one of his brothers deaths linked to the invasion, in Iraq, killing 12 people as a inside the mosque instead of insurgencies and subsequent study put the death toll in the leaving. social breakdown. war-torn country at nearly “You look and you see your It differs from some previ- half a million since the US-led friend or your brother or your ous counts by spanning a longer 2003 invasion. relatives (on the ground). Even period of time and by using ran- Three children, a police- an infidel would not do this,” he domised surveys of households man and an army officer were said. “God willing, there will be across Iraq to project a nation- among the dead from the security and safety for this coun- wide death toll from 2003 to blast in the northern city of try and its poor people.” mid-2011. Kirkuk on Tuesday, which also Hours after the fatal blast, a Violence caused most of the wounded 26 people, police and study by university researchers deaths, but about a third were a doctor said. the US, Canada and Baghdad indirectly linked to the war, and The bomb exploded as wor- said that nearly half a million these deaths have been left out of shippers left the mosque after people have died from war- previous counts, said lead author marking the start of the Eid al- related causes in Iraq since the Amy Hagopian, a public health Adha Muslim holiday. US-led invasion a decade ago. researcher at the University of Bodies, their clothes covered That figure is far higher than Washington. in blood, were placed in the the nearly 115,000 violent civilian Those included situations back of a police pickup truck deaths reported by the British- when a pregnant woman encoun- to be taken away, a journalist based group Iraq Body Count, tered difficult labour but could reported. which bases its tally on media not leave the house due to fight- Angry and grieving people reports, hospital and morgue ing, or when a person drank railed against those behind records, and official and non- contaminated water, or when a the attack, shouting: “God governmental accounts. patient could not get treated at a take revenge on those who The new study, published in hospital because staff was over- are evil!” the US and conducted in coop- whelmed with war casualties. A member of Saudi security forces monitors screens connected to cameras set up at places around the holy Worshipper Khalaf al-Obaidi eration with the Iraqi Ministry AFP city of Makkah, on the second day of Eid Al Adha, yesterday. Relations with US in turmoil: Egypt The army-backed interim government says it would not bow to US pressure CAIRO: Relations between the the relationship and anyone who President Mohamed Mursi of the the specific threat was, but state National Counterterrorism and Sinai, while Sharm Al Sheikh is United States and Egypt are says otherwise is not speaking Muslim Brotherhood on July 3. broadcaster NOS said it was of a Security Coordinator (NCTV) close to the peninsula’s southern in deep-seated turmoil which honestly,” he said. The army-backed interim gov- possible rocket attack from mili- had told the airline that militants point. could hurt the entire Middle Egypt criticised a US deci- ernment insisted Egypt would tants in the Sinai. in the Sinai, a hotbed of Islamist Dozens of soldiers and police- East, the Egyptian foreign min- sion last week to curtail mili- not bow to US pressure, saying “We have postponed our flights activity, were planning on using a men have been killed in daily ister said in remarks published tary and economic aid to Cairo it found the decision strange at a to Sharm Al Sheikh for the com- rocket to attack a passing plane. attacks, as the army has poured yesterday. after a crackdown on the time when the country was “fac- ing two weeks because of a risk- National news agency ANP troops and armour into the law- Nabil Fahmy told the state-run Muslim Brotherhood, although ing a war against terrorism”. based assessment done by the reported that the NCTV had less peninsula that straddles Al Ahram newspaper the exten- Washington stressed it was not Meanwhile, Dutch charter KLM group,” to which Transavia received intelligence of a “possi- Africa and Asia to crush the sion of the period of instability severing ties with its long-stand- airline Transavia has cancelled belongs, spokeswoman Marine ble attack from the ground in the insurgency. in ties would “reflect negatively ing ally. flights to the popular Egyptian Sluiter said. “We will look at the Sinai area”. Militant attacks on Israel’s national carrier El Al on the entire region, including US officials said the move resort of Sharm Al Sheikh in the situation every day until then,” Egyptian security forces after the last month changed routes it flies American interests.” reflected Washington’s unhappi- restive Sinai peninsula because of she said, declining to discuss what military ousted Islamist president to the Red Sea coastal resort of “We are now in a delicate ness with Egypt’s path since the a security threat, it said yesterday. was in the risk assessment. Mohamed Mursi in July have been Eilat last month over security state reflecting the turmoil in army overthrew freely-elected Transavia declined to say what NOS said that the Dutch concentrated in the northern concerns. AGENCIES

Eid tradition

A Bahraini family throws Haya Bya plants into the sea in the Manama coastal suburb of Karbabad, yesterday. The plants are traditionally thrown to the sea in some countries of the Gulf region during Eid Al Adha. Israel PM, president clash over peace at Rabin memorial meet

JERUSALEM: Israeli as a Jewish and democratic state.” sort of enemies in territories which President Shimon Peres and “Rabin was assassinated but are essential and which are near Prime Minister Benjamin the need to take the historical to the heart of Israel,” Netanyahu Netanyahu publicly disagreed decision remains,” he persisted in said in a clear reference to Gaza’s over the peace process yester- a direct appeal to move forward Hamas rulers, a close ally of Iran. day at a memorial marking 18 with US-brokered peace talks, “We don’t want an Iranian satellite years since the assassination of which resumed in Washington in in the West Bank as has already Yitzhak Rabin. late July after a three-year hiatus. happened along our borders” in Speaking at an official state “Peace is made with enemies to Gaza, he said. memorial broadcast live on Israeli escape the heavy price we already “It mean that Israel’s security television, Peres warned that the pay today for hostilities and which border must be established in the status quo between Israel and the could become even more costly in Jordan Valley exactly as Yitzhak Palestinians could not go on, in a the future,” he said. Rabin said in his last speech to clear call for the government to But Netanyahu, who spoke the parliament several weeks advance the fledgling peace talks. after him, was quick to answer, before his death.” Netanyahu has And he said the right-wing warning of the dangers of seeking repeatedly insisted on an Israeli Jewish extremist who gunned peace with those who did not want military presence in the Jordan down Rabin at a peace rally in peace. “President Peres, you rightly Valley in any final settlement, Tel Aviv just two years after the said that you make peace with although the Palestinians refuse signing of the Oslo Accords “will enemies, but you make peace with to countenance troops remaining never be forgiven.” enemies who want peace. Enemies on land they want for a future “Those who delude themselves who don’t want peace and want to state. Rabin was shot dead on that the status quo between us wipe us from the map are not a November 4, 1995 just two years and the Palestinians will continue candidate for peace,” he said, using after the signing of the Oslo peace may become a victim of their an Israeli euphemism for Iran. accords, for which he and Peres delusions,” Peres said, insisting “We must ensure that as we were awarded the Nobel Peace that only a two-state solution seek peace with our neighbours... Prize along with Palestinian could maintain Israel’s “future we don’t give a foothold to those leader Yasser Arafat. AFP THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE GLOBAL markets heaved a sigh of relief yesterday as the US stepped back from the brink over its debt ceiling, saving it from debt default Americans need to discover Tand signalling the end of a two-week government shutdown. The markets celebrated the news; share prices went up and it was business as usual for all. Politically, it was a small victory for President Barack Obama who had refused how the world sees them to bow before a group of Tea Party Republicans who were holding the entire nation hostage. BY TIMOTHY GARTON ASH is available just a few clicks away. On Just a temporary precaution, you under- Republican leaders have finally conceded defeat in their my cable TV control, if I scroll down stand. But if the US goes on like this, two-week battle to derail Barack Obama’s healthcare reforms. N MONDAY, govern- to channel number 73, or 355, or what- then one day — one year, one decade With just hours to go until a deadline set by the US Treasury ment offices were closed in ever it is, I can get Al Jazeera, China’s — the copper bottom of investors’ con- for extending the debt limit, House speaker John Boehner Washington DC, to mark CCTV and Russia’s RT. Their reporters fidence will fall out. signalled he was ready to accept a Senate-drafted peace deal Columbus Day. Except often speak perfect American-accented Even the hardest form of hard power, that most of them had journalese, and sometimes actually are military action, involves a significant that contained almost no concessions to conservatives who Obeen closed anyway, because of the career American journalists, lured away element of perception. Vietnam has just had driven the country the brink of a new financial crisis. US government shutdown. As every- from job-shedding US news organisa- said farewell to its war hero, General Vo Boehner said he would allow the deeply divided House to one knows, Christopher Columbus was tions to give credibility to these chan- Nguyen Giap, credited with driving both vote on the Senate plan for a short-term increase in the debt an Italian navigator who, in the serv- nels. CCTV’s Washington bureau chief, France and the US out of his country. limit and a government reopening. It is expected to pass ice of the Spanish crown, supposedly for instance, is Jim Spellman, formerly As obituaries pointed out, his Tet offen- with mostly Democratic votes. The agreement would extend “discovered” America and reported its of CNN. These channels’ take on the sive of 1968 was a military failure, since potential to a wondering world. I have Washington dégringolade is much the Viet Cong were thrown back with US borrowing authority until Feb. 7, although the Treasury spent the summer in the United States harder edged than the ESPN version. huge losses. But politically, it played a Department would have tools to temporarily extend its watching, with growing alarm, a coun- The website of the Russian state-backed key role in turning American public borrowing capacity beyond that date if Congress failed to act try engaged in a degree of self-harming RT quotes an editorial published by the opinion against the war. Similarly, there early next year. which, if observed in a teenager, would Chinese state news agency, Xinhua, pro- is no purely objective truth about the The debt crisis has cost the lead any friend to cry “call the doctor at posing that, in the light of this crisis, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but in the once”. As I set course back to Europe, “several cornerstones should be laid to view of a large part of the world, the US US heavily. Rating agencies had The Senate my conclusion is this: America should underpin a de-Americanised world”. military did not exactly win. issued warnings that they would do a reverse Columbus. The world no Of course these channels are repre- At the time of writing, it looks as leaders have be forced to downgrade America’s longer needs to discover America; but sentative of their undemocratic states, if the rutting stags in the Senate and struck a deal status, and dollar’s supremacy America urgently needs to discover the not their peoples. And you may ask, House of Representatives will step as a global reserve currency was world’s view of America. well, who on earth watches CCTV or back from the canyon’s edge at the last over US debt under threat. It was a situation Ordinary Americans, and especially RT? Does anyone take them seriously? minute. But even if they do, huge dam- the small minority active in Democrat In Europe and North America the age has already been done. Politically, ceiling. Obama which seemed beyond the control and Republican primaries, must learn answers are still “not many” and “not in the eyes of the world, the “full faith has finally won. of everybody – with a bunch of more of what people across the globe are very”. (That is somewhat less true of Al and credit” of the US has been further Republican hardliners taking the thinking and saying about the US. For Jazeera.) But in Africa, Latin America eroded. unprecedented, undemocratic step if you follow that, you realise that the and parts of Asia, it’s already a differ- Americans need to see those views of shutting the government down erosion of American power is happening ent story. In the global competition of from outside. Some understand this to force the president to meet their demands. faster than most of us predicted – while international broadcasting, these well- need: that’s one reason so many visit the politicians in Washington behave funded networks are gaining influence. the US version of the Guardian’s Obama has emerged as the winner in this crisis. Polls had like rutting stags with locked antlers. It’s not just in the arena of soft power website. It’s also a service the digital shown that the Republicans were losing support and if a The 24/7 US news coverage follows that perceptions are also realities. As International New York Times (formerly default had actually happened, the party would have perished every last lunge and twist of the stag- George Soros keeps pointing out, that’s International Herald Tribune) may help morally under public onslaught. The crisis also created deep fight. It is the political equivalent of true of financial markets. Just as a provide, with a wider range of interna- divisions among Republicans. Moderate Republicans, bitter ESPN, the non-stop sports network. Just reminder: the US hit its debt limit of tional voices. occasionally, the rest of the world breaks $16.699 trillion in May this year. (For So here’s my au revoir suggestion. at the wounds inflicted on the party by a fight that ended in through: for instance, when the World comparison: the World Bank estimates Let some public-spirited American bil- an almost complete failure to achieve any of the concessions Bank and the IMF hold their annual its 2012 GDP at $15.685tn.) Since May, lionaire set up a mainstream TV and they had sought, lashed out at their conservative colleagues. meetings — right there in Washington — the federal government has been using internet channel dedicated to conveying The divisions are likely to deepen in the coming days and the and the heads of both institutions, Jim so-called extraordinary measures to pay to a wider American audience, in a vivid president must make sure that the situation is not repeated Yong Kim and Christine Lagarde, warn its bills and refinance its debt. and accessible way, how the US is seen in future. of dire consequences. That gets a few These measures are what treasury around the world. In Britain, people column inches. Or when the government secretary Jack Lew said would reach still occasionally use an old-fashioned As the president said, the country has lost precious time shutdown and debt-ceiling brinkman- the end of their tether on October 17. A slang phrase to express incredulity at by focusing on this manufactured crisis while there are more ship leads Barack Obama to cancel a few days ago he told the Senate treas- something that is at once amazing and serious, real issues to attend to. The US was badly mauled by major trip to Asia,including the Apec ury committee that rates on short-term a bit ludicrous too – such as what’s been the international media, and experts. Though an immediate summit in Bali, leaving the floor wide treasury bonds had almost tripled in a happening in Washington. They say: crisis has been averted, all the damage suffered is not open for president Xi Jinping to assert single seven-day period. And last week “Christopher Columbus!” Complete with reparable. For the same reason, US politicians will have to China’s regional leadership (“the Asia- Fidelity, the largest American money Yahoo!-style exclamation mark, that Pacific cannot prosper without China”). market mutual fund manager, sold all might be a good name for the channel. tread cautiously • A more direct taste of foreign news its short-dated US government bonds. THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of Needed: Some sole-searching the day

ONG BEFORE Miss Universe movies tend to portray an ideal state Finally, what about the factories in the The Taj remains a timeless icon that Olivia Culpo was caught on the of affairs. When Culpo and the Miss neighbourhood of the Taj that have is above petty human doings. It cannot wrong foot at the Taj Mahal, Universe team went to the monument in been causing air pollution and turning be insulted or affected by what they do. LIndia’s famed symbol of love Agra to photoshoot for a shoe ad, they the 17th century tomb yellow from the However, it would be good for brand was “sold” to a Western billionaire. were allowed to do it. Only much later earlier pristine white? India if the image of the Taj circulates True it happened in a movie but then, did complaints erupt, along with the Like all beauty pageants, the Miss internationally, which can boost trade Our drive to remember what they say about art threat to start a lawsuit for flouting the Universe shows are not famous for and tourism. imitating life? Heritage Act and showing disrespect to their intellectual or sensitivity quotients. A pragmatic approach would have stop the train In the 2005 Bollywood comedy the memorial and Indian culture. Rather than expecting them to volun- been to collaborate with the Miss Bunty Aur Babli, somewhere along Since the Taj is not intended for tarily fall in line with social and cultural Universe group to ensure they did not wreck that is the plot, a pair of ingenious con art- commercial activities, why did the secu- norms, it is the responsibility of govern- contravene local laws or ruffle sensitivi- ists, pretending to be part of the Indian rity personnel not stop the team before ments to ensure that their countries’ ties and project the best view of India. the president’s government, “sell” the Taj to a Western they started? Also, what about the 2008 sensitivities and laws are protected. With their usual ham-handed approach, healthcare law billionaire whose girlfriend wants to be Hollywood film Slumdog Millionaire that Once the Taj authorities failed to do the Indian officials of course demolished John Boehner married inside it. In the film, before the scooped up eight Oscars? Since it was so, it smacks of bigotry to go after the the prospect. It’s not Olivia Culpo, it’s will continue. wedding takes place, security person- a commercial film that showed the Taj, pageant and Culpo with a hatchet, Indian culpa. US House of nel intervene to stop it. But then, Indian does it constitute a violation of the act? especially after both have apologised. KHALEEJ TIMES Representatives Speaker VIEWS THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 No more Iran half-steps on N-issue This is a government that will seek to negotiate a settlement of the nuclear issue by testing the limits of the great powers’ prohibitions.

BY RAY TAKEYH on expressions of its influence and acced- ing to certain global norms. For instance, he great powers are again Iran has condemned the use of chemical resuming diplomatic efforts weapons in Syria and has declared its to settle the Iran nuclear readiness to deal constructively with the issue. Expectations are high, nuclear issue. as Iran is now presumed to be Despite their interest in diplomacy Truled by pragmatists who seek to end its and embrace of more tempered language, isolation. Although much of the recent Shamkhani and his advisers believe that international focus has been on President Iran must claim its hegemonic role. With Hassan Rowhani and his indefatigable the displacement of Iran’s historical ene- foreign minister, Mohammad Javad mies in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Zarif, the critical decisions will be made unsteady political transitions in the Arab by Iran’s Supreme National Security world, they sense that it is a propitious Council. The composition of that body time for the Islamic Republic to claim and its new leadership say much more the mantle of regional leadership. Tehran than Rowhani’s proclamations do about has been offered a rare opportunity to the direction of Iran’s foreign policy. emerge as the predominant power of the The council increasingly is populated Persian Gulf and a pivotal state in the by a cohort of hard-liners who have spent Middle East. It is immaterial whether much of their career in the military and its assessment of regional trends is cor- Iranian negotiators presenting nuclear proposals at the start of the two-day closed-door talks at the UN office in Geneva, Switzerland, security services. The head of the council rect, as such perceptions condition its on Tuesday. is Ali Shamkhani, a hardened member approach to international politics. of the Revolutionary Guards and former The newly empowered conservatives at dialogue than the Ahmadinejad govern- human rights. This is a government that offensive has mitigated but not elimi- minister of defence who has played a the council’s helm also believe that Iran ment was. Moreover, they stress that a will seek to negotiate a settlement of the nated. Allied diplomats can use as lever- critical role in all of Iran’s important needs a nuclear capability to enhance reasonable Iran can assuage US concerns nuclear issue by testing the limits of the age in the forthcoming negotiations the national security decisions since the its influence. As Husseini-Tash noted in about its nuclear development without great powers’ prohibitions. threat of additional sanctions and Israeli inception of the theocracy. Shamkhani’s 2006 during a rare public appearance, having to abandon the program. Washington need not accede to such military force. deputy is a shadowy Revolutionary “The nuclear programme is an opportu- Despite its softened rhetoric, the new Iranian conceptions. The US and its allies Given the realities, it is time for Guards officer, Ali Husseini-Tash, who nity for us to make endeavours to acquire Iranian regime can be expected to con- are entering this week’s negotiations in a the great powers to have a maximalist for decades has been involved in Iran’s a strategic position and consolidate our tinue asserting its nuclear “rights” and strong position. Iran’s economy is with- approach to diplomacy with Iran. It is nuclear deliberations. national identity.” But they also recognise to press its advantages in a contested ering under the combined pressures of too late for more Iranian half-steps and This new cast of characters was the importance of offering confidence- Middle East. The Islamic Republic plans sanctions and its own managerial incom- half-measures. Iran must account for its critical of former president Mahmoud building measures to an incredulous to remain an important backer of the petence. The Iranian populace remains illicit nuclear activities and be compelled Ahmadinejad and his unwise provoca- international community. All of this is Assad dynasty in Syria, a benefactor of disaffected as the bonds between state to make irreversible concessions that tions and rhetorical excess. They sense not to suggest that Iran is inclined to sus- Hezbollah and a supporter of Palestinian and society have been largely severed permanently degrade its ability to recon- that as Iran increases its power, it pend its nuclear programme or relinquish rejectionist groups. It will persist in its since the Green Revolution of 2009. The stitute its nuclear weapons programme at behooves Tehran to present itself as a the critical components of such a pro- repressive tactics at home and continue European Union is still highly sceptical a convenient time. Anything less would more reasonable actor, imposing limits gram. They are, however, more open to to deny the people of Iran fundamental of Iran, a distrust that Rowhani’s charm be a lost opportunity. WP-BLOOMBERG An early EU referendum is so tempting Why a heroine just Europe poses a major like Malala matters dilemma for the BY FOUAD AJAMI he picture on the front page of Saturday’s New York Times was Labour leader. But to worth a thousand words. Young Pakistani girls, one of them clutching a notebook, were awaiting the news from Oslo. promise a referendum T Their heroine, Malala Yousafzai, was in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize. They were to be disappointed. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was given the honour. would result in a True to form, the committee awarding the prize was back at it, supremely political in the picks it makes. There had been the anti- post-election defeat Bush awards — Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency he presided over. And in 2009 came the baffling choice of President Barack Obama. He hadn’t for him, and a UK exit. even had time to unpack his luggage at the White House; he hadn’t brokered peace deals or ended wars. But the folks in Oslo were keen BY JACKIE ASHLEY to make a splash. On the face of it, the choice of the chemical weapons watchdog seems perfectly benign. After all, the 2012 award had been ritish politics is hardening. The given to the European Union. But the Nobel Committee has its sly post-conference opinion poll- ways. This year, the award went to an organisation whose inspectors ing reported by the Guardian on have been dispatched to Syria to find and destroy chemical weapons. BMonday shows a strengthening in As with Obama, the prize was given before the mission had borne fruit. Labour and Tory numbers — both overall, There is no guarantee of success in Syria. If the history of rogue and in terms of determination to vote. To regimes with deadly weapons is a guide, then the Bashar Assad regime the extent that this is a national snapshot, By reopening the debate on the EU referendum, Adam Afriyie has achieved the impossible — a united can be counted on to play cat and mouse with the inspectors, to play the nation is falling out of love with the idea Conservative Party. for time as Syria’s rulers pose as partners in the disarmament effort. of coalition. The hunt for chemical weapons was a way of forestalling a US attack This is cheering for Ed Miliband and his influential backbencher Tom Watson said the pro-European cause. So … a new Labour on a dictatorship that had broken all the codes of war. What girls in the decision to take on the energy companies — recently on television that he might support prime minister inherits the aftermath of a no Muslim world thought and hoped for was of no concern to the selection polarising, provocative “socialism” that the the Tory rebels’ call for an early referendum. vote. Whatever your views about the EU, the committee, which knew what it was doing. But let us — in the fashion country seems to rather like. But the new He is not alone. first thing that happens is economic mayhem. of The Tablet magazine, which, unimpressed with the selection of Alice dynamic offers Miliband the biggest tactical And of course all of this goes way back Big companies decamp to Frankfurt or Paris. Munro for the Nobel in literature, “gave” the award instead to Philip dilemma of his life. His answer could define in Labour history. The ghosts of Barbara The pound falls. Many of our exporters Roth — announce that Malala won. The news release would have been British politics for years ahead — and it’s got Castle and Peter Shore, never mind Hugh have no idea what’s going to happen to them, stirring. It would have celebrated the recipient’s age — Malala is 16; nothing to do with the cost of living, one nation Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold and the banks aren’t keen to gamble in their the average age of the winners had been 62. It would have hailed the or hard-working people. It’s about Europe. Wilson), were never quite exorcised by favour. This would be an economic storm so schoolgirl’s courage and resilience. It was only a year ago that a would- The return to left-right politics, which the New Labour Europhiles. It was, after big it could overshadow anything else the new be assassin boarded Malala’s school bus in the Swat Valley in Pakistan squeezes the Lib Dems, leaves the Tories all, Labour who gave the country the first government would be trying to do. Ed would and shot her point blank in the head. The shooter had asked for her by still facing their biggest problem: Ukip. Nigel European referendum. be a one-term, unsuccessful prime minister. name. She had given an amazing answer: “I am Malala.” (This would Farage’s party is as much an angry annexe of Imagine the impact if Ed Miliband turned Miliband will be all too aware of the risks become the title of her memoir.) Tranquil, wealthy Oslo would have the Conservative family as a new phenom- round now and made the pledge. Hard-core involved. But he’s receiving different advice done a world of good for modern Islam, because Malala had come to enon. Combined with unreformed constitu- right-wing voters would be free to vote with from people in his party. embody the cause of freedom for young Muslim girls. Upon reaching ency boundaries, Ukip voting in 2015 is still their hearts and Nigel Farage; Cameron If Miliband went for a referendum, he puberty, girls throughout the Muslim world enter into a kind of bond- likely to rob Cameron of any chance of an would have lost his key line of defence to would win a short and spectacular tactical age. What freedom they knew is taken away. They become temptresses, overall majority. If Miliband continues to his right. The Tory party would be further victory but at the price of yet more bloody the enforcers of misogyny maintain, and social virtue demands their radiate an unnatural sense of calm, Ukip is ripped apart as hardcore Europhobes strove battles between the remaining Blairites and seclusion. The Taliban on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border are an important part of the cause. to respond by trying to bring the referen- the current Labour leadership. It isn’t worth a breed apart in their fierce oppression of women. Their world view, Yet there is one argument that could dum forward. Cameron’s careful policy of it. As it happens, and perhaps paradoxically, it seems, rests on keeping women separate and under lock and key. yet save Cameron’s bacon and deliver a a nuanced renegotiation followed by a 2017 I’d like to see a European referendum. As her biography has it, Malala, the daughter of an enlightened Conservative majority, and it’s a simple one, referendum with all the main parties lined I’ve been arguing about this with friends educator, ran afoul of the Taliban by speaking out in favour of the which won’t gain full currency until after up in favour of staying in, would collapse. for weeks — but what I don’t want to see is education of girls. At 11, she kept a diary for the BBC about her hopes next year’s European elections: “Vote Ukip, Sensation! Labour rushing into a referendum promise, and daily routine. She was articulate, and foreign reporters and dig- get Labour” (because splitting the Tory vote If Ed thought he was garnering some which would result in us pulling out of Europe nitaries were drawn to her. The assailant who boarded her school bus would let Labour in). unexpected media support after his move on shortly after Ed Miliband reaches Downing had been dispatched to serve a warrant on the very idea of modernism. Right-wing voters are desperate for a electricity prices, this would take him into Street. So in the end, all this is about con- There is something odd about the place of women in the Islamic European referendum but are bitterly hos- a whole new league. Yet this is an Alice in fidence and the will to govern. If Miliband world today. Things were a good deal better for them in the early and tile to Miliband; so the Tory message that Wonderland story, in which nothing is quite genuinely thinks that he has the policies, the middle years of the last century. This repression, this phobia, has come if you want a referendum, you must vote what it seems. Imagine that Labour commits character and the disciplined party to win a with the rise to power of the Islamists — half-educated men who take Conservative will have a lot of resonance. to a referendum, wins the election, and then general election in 2015, then he will not offer the faith literally and employ the techniques of modernity in their So far Labour is talking about a refer- delivers its promise. At this point, of course, an early referendum. war against it. endum only if there is a major transfer of Ed Miliband has neither tried for a renegotia- It’s only if he really doesn’t think he’s Malala matters. Onto her, untold millions can project their hopes for powers to Europe. But could that change? tion with Europe nor delivered one. going to make it without a radical reshaping a dignified life within the faith. If Islamic modernity is to have a chance, Of all the big tactical plays ahead, this is The eurozone is still mired in low growth of the political landscape that he’s going to Malala should be embraced by Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia. In the big one. You haven’t heard much about it and high unemployment. With the British be tempted. You want to know what’s really her modesty and dignity, she should be Islam’s beloved daughter, her yet, but this is a very hot issue wherever key right having just lost, and seething, I just going on inside Ed’s head? This is the decision journey a return to the early promise of Muslim modernism. Labour people get together in private. The don’t see how a referendum could be won for you need to watch for. THE GUARDIAN WP-BLOOMBERG THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Schoolgirl’s deportation sparks new Roma storm in France

PARIS: A new row over girl’s rights were found to have by Valls in which he said most of our skin was a different colour.” The exact circumstances in France’s treatment of Roma been infringed. the 20,000 Roma in France had Responding to the latest ava- which the girl was taken off the migrants erupted yesterday “If there is a God we will be no intention of integrating and lanche of criticism to come his school bus remained unclear but after it emerged that a 15-year- aboard the first plane back to should be sent back to their coun- way, Valls insisted that the depor- both the interior ministry’s ver- old girl had been taken off a France,” Leonarda told AFP in an tries of origin. tation of Leonarda and the rest of sion and the account of a teacher school bus and deported to interview in the Kosovo town of Polls have suggested as many her family had been carried out in agree that her arrest did not take Kosovo the same day. Mitrovica, where the family have as three in four French voters line with established procedure place in view of other pupils. The incident occurred in the been given temporary housing by support that stance and Valls, following the rejection of their The teacher, who gave her eastern town of Levier on October the local authorities. who was already France’s most application for asylum. account via the Network for 9 but only came to light this week “I’m frightened, I don’t speak popular politician, has enjoyed a “Everyone should keep a cool Education without Borders, after being highlighted by an Albanian. My life is in France. I surge in his standing as a result head. Do not for one single moment however claimed that the other NGO that campaigns against the don’t want to go to school here of comments regarded as racist doubt that the rules, based on the children were fully aware of what expulsion of school-age children. because I don’t speak any of the by his critics. law, are applied by my services with was happening and were deeply Interior Minister Manuel local languages. I had freedom Leonarda’s father, Reshat, 47, intelligence, discretion and human- distressed by the incident. Valls defended the deportation there. I do not want to stay here.” who was deported a day before the ity,” the minister said. Leonarda herself said: “All my of Leonarda Dibrani, her parents France’s Defender of Rights, rest of the family, said the fam- “We have to carry out these friends and my teacher were cry- and five siblings aged between one the equivalent of a public ombuds- ily had been victimised because of deportations,” he added. “It is ing, some of them asked me if I had and 17 as legal. man, also said that he would be their ethnicity. of course a difficult subject but killed someone or stolen something He nevertheless ordered offi- investigating the case which has “There are bad refugees in any immigration policy requires as the police were looking for me. Leonarda Dibrani (15) talks to a cials to review the case and Prime caused a deep and bitter rift in France who get papers easily — respect for the law, respect for When the police reached the bus journalist at her home in the town Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault the ruling Socialist Party. we didn’t do anything bad. They individuals and great firmness. they told me to get out and that I of Mitrovica yesterday. promised the family would be The Leonarda row follows an did it to us because we are Roma. I am accountable for that to the had to go back to Kosovo.” brought back to France if the outcry last month over remarks We would be treated differently if French people.” AFP

Autumn in eastern Germany Wife to get half of Dutch diplomat husband’s lottery win despite split KARLSRUHE: A woman beaten up in whose husband won the lot- tery seven years after they had separated is entitled to half of his winnings, or a quarter of a million euros, a German court Moscow flat ruled yesterday. The German Federal Court of Justice said the woman, who was on jobless ben- Russia vows to track down culprits efits, should still receive about ¤250,000 ($338,000) from her AMSTERDAM/MOSCOW: expressed regret over the attack former husband because they The Netherlands was seek- and said it would track down the were technically still married ing answers yesterday after a culprits. when he bought the winning Dutch diplomat was beaten in The United States condemned ticket. The man, a pensioner, Moscow, the latest in a series the incident. “We condemn the was living with his new partner of incidents testing relations attack on the minister-counsellor when the pair won and shared between the two countries. of the Netherlands in Moscow. around ¤956,000 in the lottery in Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s Such actions are unacceptable.,” 2008. Two months after the win, government summoned Russia’s US Ambassador to Moscow he divorced his wife. The Court ambassador in The Hague to Michael McFaul said on Twitter. ruled that assets generated dur- explain Tuesday’s assault, in The Netherlands and Russia ing a marriage must be split which the second-in-charge of are celebrating four centuries of equally between the two part- the Dutch embassy in Moscow diplomatic ties this year with a ners in a divorce, regardless of was attacked at his home by series of high-level political vis- a separation. It said that lottery unknown intruders posing as its, cultural exchanges and trade winnings were no exception. electricians. missions. Coloured leaves are seen at a house in Sieversdorf, eastern Germany, yesterday. Meteorologists forecast Last week, Dutch Foreign Dutch politicians urged King temperatures of around 12 degrees for the coming week in eastern parts of Germany. Kangaroo shuts Minister Frans Timmermans Willem-Alexander and Queen had to apologise after a Russian Maxima to cancel a visit to Melbourne airport diplomat was detained in the Russia planned for next month. Hague. Russia had complained Lawmaker Sjoerd Sjoerdsma SYDNEY: An injured kanga- that he was assaulted during the labelled 2013 a “disaster year” for roo shut down part of Melbourne detention. Both attacks coincide Russian-Dutch relations. A week Snowden’s father leaves Russia Airport yesterday after it hopped with tension over Russia’s jailing ago, Timmermans apologised to through the busy terminal and of Greenpeace activists, including Moscow for the detention of a MOSCOW: The father of Russia and the way that his son Russia from four retired US ex- into a drug store. Police in the two Dutch citizens. Russian diplomat in The Hague, Edward Snowden has left Russia is being treated,” Kucherena told intelligence workers who promote Australian city secured the store Attackers broke into the saying the envoy’s right to diplo- after meeting the US intelligence the Interfax news agency. ethics within their profession. before wildlife workers tran- apartment of the Dutch diplo- matic immunity had been violated. leaker at a secret location, the “He still loves his son very But other details about quilised and captured the animal. mat on Tuesday, forced him to Moscow said attackers had fugitive’s lawyer said yesterday. much and views him as a com- Snowden’s life in Russia have Given the name Cyrus, after one of the ground and hit him, Dutch entered the diplomat’s home, Lon Snowden had an “emo- pletely honest person who did the remained sketchy since he was his rescuers, the male eastern grey media reported. The diplomat, beat him with a police baton and tional” meeting with his son, right thing,” said the lawyer. granted temporary asylum in kangaroo was injured by a vehicle named by Dutch media as Onno illegally detained him for several who is wanted by US authorities “He will continue to support August after spending five weeks on a nearby road before making Elderenbosch, was slightly hurt, hours over the previous weekend. on espionage charges for spilling his son in the future,” Kucherena in limbo in a Moscow airport his way to the airport’s second Timmermans said in a post in Earlier this month, the secrets about Washington’s secret added without specifying when transit zone. Kucherena has level. Cyrus was now in veterinary Facebook. Netherlands launched legal pro- surveillance programmes, after Lon Snowden left Moscow. Both said that Snowden was studying care, said Karen Masson, the chief Dutch officials were not releas- ceedings against Russia, saying arriving in Moscow on October Kucherena and Snowden’s father Russian and thinking of finding executive of Wildlife Victoria. The ing the name of the diplomat or it had unlawfully detained activ- 10, Russian news reports said. have refused to divulge where local work. terminal is near bushland fre- details of the attack due to pri- ists on board a Dutch-registered Edward Snowden’s lawyer the former US National Security Snowden arrived in Moscow quented by groups of kangaroos. vacy regulations. He is listed on Greenpeace ship who were protest- Anatoly Kucherena said the Agency contractor was staying, from Hong Kong, where he lived the Embassy’s web site, however. ing against oil drilling in the Arctic. father was especially grateful to for security reasons. briefly in hiding while his most Bolshoi dancer Rutte said the incident was Russia arrested 30 activists, Russia for providing refuge to his The anti-secrecy WikiLeaks sensational exposes of US cyber- “very serious,” and said he wanted including two Dutch citizens, and son in the face of Washington’s website that has backed intelligence work were being goes on trial to know all the facts of the inci- charged them with piracy, which extradition demands. Snowden’s cause released foot- published by major newspapers dent before making further com- carries a jail sentence of 15 years. “Snowden senior is very happy age over the weekend showing in Britain and the United States. MOSCOW: A Bolshoi dancer ments. Russia’s foreign ministry REUTERS with the way he was received in the fugitive receiving an award in AFP accused of organising a horrific acid attack against the famed Moscow ballet company’s artis- tic director went on trial yes- Arson in Poland terday, with hearings expected to shed more light on infight- Putin critic ing inside the troupe. Soloist Greens pull out of Pavel Dmitrichenko faces up to 12 years in prison after being avoids prison charged with planning a January assault against his former boss on appeal talks with Merkel Sergei Filin. He is being held in detention along with Yury KIROV: Russian protest leader BERLIN: German Chancellor University. “But they are under Zarutsky and a driver who drove Alexei Navalny yesterday Angela Merkel faces a new massive pressure from their base the assailant to the scene named escaped being sent to a penal headache after her search for to win concessions in different Andrei Lipatov. colony on controversial charges a coalition partner turned into areas,” he said, mentioning their he claims were ordered by the a one-horse race yesterday, demand for a national minimum ‘Lord of the Lions’ Kremlin after a court con- forcing her to haggle with the wage, changes to European pol- verted his five-year sentence emboldened Social Democrats. icy and more help for political circus legend dead into a suspended term. The Greens politely bowed out refugees. CAHORS: Wolfgang Holzmair, President Vladimir Putin’s top of further talks with Merkel’s In September 22 elections, one of the greatest lion tamers critic walked free from court after conservatives overnight, citing Merkel’s conservative Christian of the 20th century and a legen- the appeal verdict, although the irreconcilable differences, leav- Democratic Union (CDU) and their dary figure in circus history, has embezzlement conviction that dis- ing the Social Democrats (SPD) Bavarian allies the CSU scored a died at the age of 80. Holzmair, qualifies him from politics remains as Merkel’s only potential partner, decisive victory. However, their who spent the final decades of in place. The decision by a regional which will allow them to drive a ballot box triumph was soured by his life running a restaurant in court in the northern Kirov region harder bargain. the fact that they fell just five seats Cahors in southwestern France, came after Navalny made a surpris- In fact, analysts say, SPD lead- short of a ruling majority after had passed away after a long ill- ingly robust showing in the Moscow ers will have to extract a high their previous junior partners, ness. He made his name with mayor election in September. price on policy issues and ministe- the pro-business Free Democrats the celebrated Barnum & Bailey “There was enough pressure rial posts to convince their scepti- (FDP), crashed out of parliament. circus in the United States, that forced the authorities to free cal rank-and-file members that This has forced Merkel into a where he would regularly enter us at least for a time,” Navalny the party should govern jointly lengthy process of political horse- cages full of lions with only a said after the ruling. “It is all with Merkel in a left-right ‘grand trading with potential allies that couple of canes and his Roman absolutely obvious that all the coalition’. could drag on for many weeks. centurion outfit for protec- decisions, first on the real sen- A police officer inspects the entrance of a mosque in Gdansk, Poland, “The collapse of the conserva- The CDU/CSU has held two tion. The so-called “Lord of the tence and the change now to sus- after a fire. The mosque was hit by arson early yesterday as some tive-Greens talks has strength- rounds of preliminary talks with Lions” later performed with the pended, are taken definitely not Muslims celebrating the Eid Al Adha holiday refrained from halal animal ened the SPD’s negotiating each party and is set to meet the Amar, Pinder and Jean Richard here but personally by Vladimir slaughter amid a nationwide ban. position,” said political scientist SPD again today at 1100 GMT. circuses in France. Putin,” Navalny said. AFP Nils Diederich of Berlin’s Free REUTERS AGENCIES THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

New media platform to That’s a deal! ‘support journalists’ Ex-Guardian reporter to join hands with eBay founder

WASHINGTON: The founder could be created if a similar with colleagues Laura Poitras and of eBay, Pierre Omidyar, said investment was made in some- Jeremy Scahill. yesterday he will back a project thing entirely new, built from “We had a lot of overlap in with investigative reporter the ground up,” he said in the terms of our ideas, and decided Glenn Greenwald which “ele- statement. to join forces,” Omidyar said. vates and supports” journalists “Something that I would be New York University journal- and “allows them to pursue the personally and directly involved ism professor Jay Rosen said on truth.” in outside of my other efforts as his blog that Omidyar told him Omidyar said in a statement a philanthropist.” the project would be “a company he is backing the media project, Omidyar said he was still in not a charity” and that he was details of which are still being “the very early stages of creating prepared to invest at least $250m. developed. It will be separate a new mass media organisation. Rosen said Omidyar consulted from his philanthropic efforts I don’t yet know how or when it him in September about launch- with Omidyar Network and will be rolled out, or what it will ing a journalism project, and yes- Democracy Fund. look like.” terday discussed details of the The announcement came a But he added that “it will cover new effort. day after Greenwald, known general interest news, with a core “He said he will be putting a for breaking many stories about mission around supporting and good deal of his time, as well as US surveillance programmes, empowering independent jour- his capital, into it,” Rosen said. announced he was leaving The nalists across many sectors and “I asked how large a commit- Guardian for an unspecified beats.” ment he was prepared to make “dream” job. “The team will build a media in dollars. For starters: the $250m Omidyar, a French-born platform that elevates and sup- it would have taken to buy The Iranian-American, cited his ports these journalists and allows Washington Post.” Rosen said that “growing interest to preserve them to pursue the truth in their while many details are not clear, and strengthen the role journal- fields. This doesn’t just mean the project will be “all-digital” ism plays in society,” and noted investigative reporting, but all with no print edition, and that that he “explored purchasing The news,” he said. “all proceeds... will be reinvested Washington Post over the summer” Omidyar said he contacted in the journalism.” before Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Greenwald “to find out what Greenwald, an American sealed a deal for the daily. journalists like him need to do who lives in Brazil, declined on “That process got me thinking their jobs well” and discovered Tuesday to offer details of his US House Speaker, Republican John Boehner, pumps his fist while walking by mediapersons following a House about what kind of social impact that he was set to start a project plans. AFP Republican conference meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, USA, yesterday. The House is expected to vote on a deal reached in the US Senate to end the government shutdown and avoid a possible US default. Police evacuate Workers at Royal Mail to strike on November 4 Canada PM’s LONDON: Workers at Britain’s newly not only protects postal workers’ job secu- Any disruption to service would quickly privatised Royal Mail postal service rity, pay and pensions but will also deter- lead businesses to take their custom else- office over voted yesterday to strike for 24 hours on mine the strategy, principles and values of where,” DMA’s executive director Chris November 4 if they cannot reach agree- how Royal Mail will operate as a private Combemale said in a statement. ment with the firm on pay and working entity,” CWU deputy general secretary The action comes as many Royal Mail security threat conditions. Dave Ward said in a statement. workers have seen the value of their free The management of Royal Mail, which Royal Mail noted that, with a 63 per- shares in the firm rocket. OTTAWA: Federal police listed on the London stock market in a high cent turnout, 51 percent of all its CWU As part the stock market listing, 10 per- closed the streets around profile float last week, had expected a vote members had abstained or voted against a cent of shares were handed to Royal Mail’s Canada’s Parliament and evacu- in favour of strike action and criticised the strike. It also noted that there were 24,000 150,000 eligible UK-based staff, with full- ated the prime minister’s office prospect of a disruption to services in the frontline employees who were not union time workers each receiving 725 shares, yesterday while they investi- run-up to Christmas, its busiest time. members and therefore did not vote. worth around £3,440 at yesterday’s closing gated a “suspicious package,” The Communication Workers’ Union Shares in the firm, which yesterday share price. authorities said. (CWU) sent ballot papers to over 115,000 named Barclays as its corporate broker, That figure was much higher than the The lockdown came hours Royal Mail staff and said 78 percent had closed down 2.9 percent at 475 pence, hav- £2,200 per person initially expected, after before Canadian Governor voted to strike, on a turnout of 63 percent. ing been down all day on the expected the shares peaked on Tuesday almost 50 General David Johnston was to The union said further action was under Raindrops on a Royal Mail post box in central announcement. percent above the privatisation price. give a speech in the Senate cham- consideration and added that it planned to London yesterday. The Direct Marketing Association, rep- Royal Mail said yesterday that direc- ber outlining the government’s carry out a second ballot asking workers to resenting the UK advertising mail industry tors of the company had applied for a total upcoming legislative agenda, and support a boycott of the handling of com- — which it says accounts for £1bn of Royal of more than £500,000 worth of shares in marking the start of a new par- petitors’ mail, which Royal Mail delivers rejected Royal Mail’s offer of an 8.6 percent Mail’s £9bn turnover — said strike action the float as part of an employee priority liamentary session. on their behalf. pay increase over three years, criticising would have a severe impact on customers. offer, and like others, saw their order scaled An AFP reporter at the scene The CWU, which fiercely opposed the proposed changes to pensions. “The build-up to Christmas is a criti- back to £10,000 worth each due to strong said the office of Prime Minister privatisation over fears it would lead to “What we want is a groundbreaking, cal period that typically accounts for more demand for the shares. Stephen Harper was evacuated poorer job conditions and services, in July long-term, legally binding agreement that than half of businesses’ annual revenues ... REUTERS and the police bomb squad sent a robotic vehicle inside the building. Authorities were looking into a suspicious package that had been Job boot camp delivered to the Langevin Block, which also houses Harper’s staff, directly across from Parliament. US govt urges SC not An eyewitness said a man who reportedly delivered the package was seen being taken into cus- to take up spying case tody by police. Canadian media also reported that a man had been arrested. WASHINGTON: President telephone and Internet surveil- Police later confirmed detaining Barack Obama’s administration lance programmes. a “person of interest” but did not is urging the Supreme Court Obama promised a new era in identify the man in police custody not to take up the first case intelligence with more supervi- nor provide any details surround- it has received on controver- sion, transparency and safeguards ing the incident. sial National Security Agency in the NSA’s collection of elec- An earlier report by pub- cybersnooping. tronic information. lic broadcaster CBC that said US government attorneys His administration has however Parliament had been evacuated argue that the Supreme Court maintained a hard line against the proved unfounded. does not have the jurisdiction to leaking of such information, and Ottawa police had said “that take the case, filed in July by the is seeking to prosecute Snowden Wellington Street is closed Electronic Privacy Information on espionage charges. in both directions from Elgin Center (EPIC). After the disclosures, Snowden Street to O’Connor Street while EPIC believes the NSA over- fled to Hong Kong and then to police investigate a suspicious stepped its authority by carrying Russia, where he has been granted incident in the 0-100 block of out broad communications moni- one year’s temporary asylum Wellington.” toring and surveillance worldwide, despite Washington’s demands Several hours later, the and demanded the programme be that he be returned. streets were reopened and police A job seeker meets with recruiters during the Job Hunters Boot Camp at the San Mateo Event Center yes- stopped. The National Security Agency announced that its Chemical, terday in San Mateo, California. Hundreds of job seekers attended the camp, which was hosted by US Rep. A US Supreme Court decision is gathering email and instant Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Jackie Speier. Ten boot camps have been held since 2010 and have attracted over 5,000 job seekers. to take the case would be “a drastic messenger contact lists from and Explosives (CBRNE) team and extraordinary remedy that is hundreds of millions of ordinary had rendered the suspicious pack- reserved for really extraordinary citizens worldwide, many of them age at the centre of the scare “safe causes,” argued Donald Verrilli, an Americans, The Washington Post using the robot.” AFP administration lawyer, in a state- reported late on Monday. ment released late on Tuesday. The US agency’s data collec- 14 confirmed dead in The US administration also tion programme harvests the data NSA chief to resign next year believes the EIPC suit cannot from address books and “buddy Mexico plane crash move forward because it argues lists,” the newspaper said, citing WASHINGTON: The direc- Snowden about the agency’s wide- Navy’s 10th Fleet and US Fleet the court lacks authority under senior intelligence officials and LA PAZ, MEXICO: tor of the US National Security spread scooping up of telephone, Cyber Command, officials told the 2001 Patriot Act to weigh in top secret documents provided Authorities yesterday found a Agency and his deputy are e-mail and social media data. Reuters. The 10th Fleet and Fleet on the legality of NSA activities. by the fugitive NSA contractor small plane that went missing expected to depart in the com- Alexander has formalised plans Cyber Command both have their “This court lacks jurisdiction Edward Snowden. in northwestern Mexico this ing months, US officials said to leave by next March or April, headquarters at Fort Meade, to issue a writ of certiorari to the During a single day last week and confirmed that all yesterday, in a development that while his civilian deputy, John Maryland, between Washington Foreign Intelligence Surveillance year, the NSA’s Special Source 14 people aboard are dead, the could give President Barack “Chris” Inglis, is due to retire by and Baltimore. The NSA is also Court,” Verrilli added. Operations branch collected transport minister said. Obama a chance to reshape the year’s end, according to US offi- headquartered at Fort Meade. In mid-August, President 444,743 e-mail address books “The Cessna Caravan ... with 13 eavesdropping agency. cials who spoke on condition of There has been no final decision Barack Obama pledged to over- from Yahoo, 105,068 from Hotmail, passengers and a pilot was found. Army General Keith anonymity. on selecting Rogers to succeed haul US spy programmes amid 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Unfortunately, no survivors,” Alexander’s eight-year tenure was One leading candidate to Alexander, and other candidates a debate sparked by the leaks Gmail and 22,881 from unspeci- Transport Minister Gerardo Ruiz rocked this year by revelations replace Alexander is Vice may be considered, the officials of former National Security fied other providers, the Post said, Esparza wrote on Twitter. contained in documents leaked by Admiral Michael Rogers, cur- said. Agency contractor Edward according to an internal NSA AFP former NSA contractor Edward rently commander of the US REUTERS Snowden, which revealed vast PowerPoint presentation. AFP THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA

$1.2m statue of 44 killed as Lao Airlines plane crashes into river Sihanouk opens BANGKOK: A Lao Airlines plane fly- nationals. But seven French nationals were Nari, which hit the region on Tuesday kill- Lao Airlines has six ATR-72 planes, a ing in stormy weather crashed into the also killed, the country’s Foreign Minister ing 13 people in the Philippines and five in European turbo-prop aircraft co-manufac- PHNOM PENH: Cambodia Mekong river in southern Laos yester- Laurent Fabius said. Vietnam. Vestiges of the storm might have tured by Airbus parent EADS and Italian has inaugurated a $1.2m day, killing all 44 people on board, among South Koreans, Australians, Canadians, caused the plane to crash, Yakua Lopangka, aerospace firm Finmeccanica. monument honouring the them nationals of 10 countries. Taiwanese, Chinese, Burmese and Director General of the Department of In a statement, ATR said the aircraft country’s late king to mark The virtually new ATR-72 turboprop Vietnamese and five Thais were also among Civil Aviation, told the Vientiane Times that crashed was its latest ATR 72-600 the first anniversary of plane flying from the capital Vientiane the dead, said Thailand’s foreign ministry newspaper. model, designed to seat between 68 and 74 his death. The government crashed at about 4.10 p.m. (0910 GMT) spokesman, Sek Wannamethee. Thai television showed a photograph people. It had left the production line in unveiled a 4.5-metre bronze just eight kilometres (five miles) short of Several officials confirmed none of the of the plane partly submerged in shallow March this year. ATR said Laos authorities statue of Norodom Sihanouk its destination Pakse, which is near the passengers or crew survived. water on a stretch of the Mekong, the tail would lead an investigation into the crash, inside a 27-metre tall shrine borders of both Thailand and Cambodia. Lao Airlines is the national carrier of the severed, next to a handful of rescuers in whose cause had not been determined. in capital Phnom Penh. The The airline said in a statement it had communist state and has operated since small boats. State-run news agency KPL Lao Airlines operates on seven domes- widely beloved former king yet to determine the cause of the crash, 1976. Its aircraft carried 658,000 passen- quoted a witness saying strong gusts of tic routes and has international flights to helped Cambodia secure in which a senior aviation official said the gers last year and it has a fleet of just 14 wind blew the plane off course and rescue China, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and independence from France tail end of Typhoon Nari may have been planes, mostly propeller-driven. attempts were complicated by a lack of Singapore. in 1953. In the months after a factor. Those killed were mostly Lao Southern Laos was affected by Typhoon roads near the crash site. REUTERS his Oct. 15, 2012, death from a heart attack, hundreds of thousands came to pay their respects at the Royal Palace. Prime Minister Hun Sen and the current king, Norodom Sihamoni, attended the mon- ument’s inauguration. Typhoon Wipha kills 17 in Japan Three die in Landslides bury homes on Oshima copter crash TAIPEI: Two crew mem- TOKYO: At least 17 people died in mud. Mangled trees and other bers and a weather station as a powerful typhoon lashed debris were piled up around them. employee were killed yes- Japan’s Pacific coast yesterday, The storm dumped more than terday when a helicopter media reports said, with the 12 centimetres (5 inches) of rain crashed into a mountain in death toll likely to rise. on Oshima in an hour, according central Taiwan, officials said. Typhoon Wipha, dubbed the to the meteorological agency. The Sunrise Airlines helicop- strongest in a decade, caused Many local residents had ter was carrying supplies to landslides that buried houses as it sought shelter in evacuation cen- a weather station on Yushan, churned past an island just south tres, reporting dirty water had the island’s highest moun- of Tokyo. been gushing into their homes, tain, when it crashed into the Public broadcaster NHK and according to local media. mountain’s north peak, the Jiji Press reported at least 16 peo- Emergency workers had res- National Fire Agency said. ple had died and 51 were unac- cued two people who were trapped The MBB/Kawasaki BK117 counted for on Oshima Island, inside a destroyed house by helicopter, which took off after houses were destroyed or around 8am (2300 GMT), NHK from Taipei, lost contact at swept away by a series of land- said, adding police and firefighters around 8:20am (0020 GMT) slides and floods on the island, were having difficulty getting to over the north peak, offi- 120km south of the Japanese some stricken areas. cials said, adding that the capital. The bodies of two of those who cause of the crash was being “We’ve confirmed that 13 peo- died were discovered in a swollen investigated. ple have died, and the number is river, while one other was pulled likely to increase later,” a police from a crushed house, NHK said. New bird flu official earlier said. “City hall and fire station offi- A woman was confirmed dead cials are doing rescue work in case in China in western Tokyo after her body places accessible,” a local official was recovered from a river. said. The local authority has not BEIJING: China has con- Many of the bodies of those been able to confirm the wherea- firmed a new case of the who died on Oshima were found bouts of 51 of the island’s more A house and an electric pole smashed by large rocks from a collapsed slope caused by heavy rains in Kamakura H7N9 bird flu, state media in houses that had been splintered than 8,300 residents, Jiji Press in suburban Tokyo yesterday. said, the country’s first by huge volumes of earth sent reported. report since August of crashing down mountainsides by It was not known if they were human infection with a virus torrential rains and strong winds. simply unable to make contact or said earlier it was dispatching Jiji Press said. Troops have to help with the rescue effort that has so far afflicted 135 Footage from the island showed if their situation was more grave. about 50 special police officers also sent three helicopters and at the request of the Tokyo people. A 35-year-old man in ruined wooden houses half buried Tokyo Metropolitan Police to the island as reinforcements, several servicemen to Oshima Metropolitan government. AFP Shaoxing in China’s eastern province of Zhejiang has been hospitalised with the virus and is in critical condition. China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission S Korea deploys said 45 people had died from China sends riot police to block new protests the virus, which was first ‘Gangnam Style’ detected in humans early this BEIJING: Authorities in east- down. Accounts on microblogs, Internet users said new legal appealed for an end to the unrest year. Zhejiang has recorded tourist police ern China dispatched riot police supported by photographs posted rulings aimed at cracking down in the city near the East China the highest number of H7N9 yesterday to guard against a on Sina Weibo, China’s version of on rumours have deterred many Sea coast in Zhejiang province. infections anywhere in China. SEOUL: South Korea unveiled resumption of anti-government Twitter, said they vandalised the from expressing opinions online. State media said more than 70 its new “tourist police” force protests after a day of clashes government building, using metal Large numbers of riot police percent of the town was flooded Bomb triggers yesterday, with snappy uni- pitting security forces against tools to pry loose and remove the stood guard in the city of one mil- by the heaviest rainfalls in a cen- forms from rapper Psy’s cos- thousands of victims of the party slogan “Serve the people” lion yesterday morning, accord- tury after typhoon Fitow hit east- travel warning tume designer and a “Gangnam worst floods in a century. mounted at the entrance. ing to photos posted by a Chinese ern China. Style” launch in central Seoul. On Tuesday, residents of Photographs showed several rights group, Civil Rights and Some 800,000 residents were YANGON: Western govern- Around 100 young policemen Yuyao city massed in front of the residents bleeding from the head. Livelihood Watch. The founder of affected, with the China News ments have warned travellers and women make up the first local government headquarters, “We strongly condemn the the group, Liu Feiyue, said that Service putting losses at nearly 7 to exercise extreme caution batch of the new force — formed denouncing what they decried shameless acts by the police and he had received the photographs billion yuan ($1.15bn). in Myanmar after a series of to protect tourists from being as inadequate relief efforts and riot police for using any pretext from residents. Local authorities have issued minor bomb blasts, includ- ripped off during their stay in demanding the local Communist to beat people,” said a microb- Party officials dismissed allega- no casualty figures. ing one at an upmarket hotel the South Korean capital. Party secretary and mayor step logger from the city. But some tions of inaction and state media REUTERS that injured an American The officers were handpicked woman. Britain, France, the for their linguistic skills, and US and Australia all urged can speak a range of languages Eid prayers their nationals to be vigilant, including English, Japanese and although they stopped short Mandarin. of advising against travel to “Those who think they were UK demands progress Myanmar. The US embassy overcharged by taxi drivers or in Yangon urged caution, but street food vendors can come and said there was currently “no talk to us. indication” that Americans We will help settle the prob- on Sri Lanka rights were specifically targeted. lem,” English-speaking recruit Australia warned that “fur- Park Jae-Hyoung said. COLOMBO: Britain will use may have been killed in the final ther attacks could occur at Each officer wears a badge next month’s Commonwealth offensive against Tamil Tiger any time”, while France also denoting his language expertise summit in Sri Lanka to pres- rebels in 2009, a charge denied urged “great vigilance” in on a special dark-blue uniform sure Colombo to make “con- by Colombo. public places. Police said sev- created by one of the costume crete progress” on human Rankin declined to comment eral other people have been designers for the “Gangnam rights and to probe war crimes, on Canada’s boycott, but made questioned in connection Style” star Psy. the British high commissioner it clear Britain’s participation at with the series of blasts. The singer’s global hit was said yesterday. the summit was not an endorse- played at yesterday’s launch Prime Minister David ment of the host nation. Eight killed as event, with a police drill unit Cameron will send a strong mes- Cameron will travel to performing his signature horse- sage to Colombo to improve its Sri Lanka “because of the freighter sinks riding dance. rights record and show a com- importance we attach to the “The tourist police wasn’t mitment to good governance, Commonwealth, irrespective of SEOUL: Eight crew mem- created because this country is said British High Commissioner the location of the CHOGM”, he bers of a Chinese-owned unsafe,” Lee Charm, president of to Sri Lanka John Rankin. said. There was no immediate cargo ship died after it sank the Korea Tourism Organisation “The British government will comment from Sri Lanka’s gov- off the South Korean har- told the new recruits. come with a clear message that ernment, but the main minority bour of Pohang, coastguard “You are ambassadors who Sri Lanka needs to make con- Tamil party, the Tamil National officials said yesterday. The promote how safe this country crete progress on human rights, Alliance (TNA), said it wanted Panamanian-registered is,” he said. “From now on, you reconciliation and a politi- Cameron to visit the former war 8,461-tonne freighter carry- guys will be very busy having pic- cal settlement,” Rankin told zone during the CHOGM. ing 19 crew members, sank tures taken with tourists.” the Foreign Correspondents’ “We want to welcome Prime during a storm as it was The police are unarmed and Association in Colombo. Minister Cameron to Jaffna waiting to enter Pohang and are meant to summon regular Canadian Prime Minister (the capital of the former war unload its cargo. China’s state officers in the event of any seri- Stephen Harper is boycotting zone) so he can see for himself media reported that 18 of ous crime. the three-day Commonwealth and meet the thousands who lost the 19 crew members were The number of foreign travel- Heads of Government Meeting their children,” TNA legislator Chinese, including the cap- lers to South Korea has steadily (CHOGM), which begins Suresh Premachandran said. tain who was among the dead. grown over the years and topped November 15, over alleged Rankin said they were still “The bodies of eight have been 10 million for the first time in crimes and rights abuses during working out Cameron’s schedule recovered, eight others sur- 2012, partly thanks to interest and after Sri Lanka’s civil war. he would have “several engage- vived, and three are missing,” sparked by the global popularity Sri Lankan Muslims pray during Eid Al Adha celebrations at the Galle Face International rights groups ments with Sri Lankan civil an official said. AGENCIES of “Gangnam Style”. AFP esplanade in Colombo yesterday. have said up to 40,000 civilians society”. AFP PHILIPPINES THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Quake toll 151, many areas still cut off Three million people affected, tourism takes a back seat on scenic Bohol Island in central Philippines

LOON, BOHOL: The death “There are so many after- toll from an earthquake in the shocks, we are afraid,” Elena Philippines rose to 151 yester- Manuel, a 64-year-old grand- day as rescuers dug through mother, told after her family and the rubble of collapsed buildings neighbours spent the night in the including an old church and a grounds of a centuries-old church hospital. that collapsed in Loon, a town of Nearly 3 million people were about 43,000 people. affected by the 7.2 magnitude “We don’t have any more food quake on Tuesday, which caused and water because stores are landslides and widespread dam- closed, and the bridge ... is dam- age to infrastructure in the tour- aged. After the quake, water and ist destinations of Bohol island mud came out of cracks on the and the nearby Cebu islands. ground in our backyard.” The number of injured rose Officials said most of 23 dam- towards 300, with at least 23 peo- aged bridges in Bohol were ple missing. The national disaster impassable and five roads were agency said at least 134 of the dead closed. Seventeen churches suf- were on Bohol Island, which took fered irreparable damage to their the brunt of the quake. The island old coral-stone structures. is located 630km south of the capi- “The church here is now tal, Manila. only powder,” said Benjamin Officials feared the toll would Aggenstein, a 30-year-old German rise as communications with businessman based in Bohol, add- remote areas were re-established. ing that most residents of Loon “I think this is a growing did not want to return to their number,” Loon mayor Lloyd Lopez damaged homes and had been told Philippine radio. “Yesterday, staying outdoors. we had a partial communications Ferry and airline services have block-out.” “We have not reached resumed despite damage to ports all barangays, many are cut off, and airports in Bohol and Cebu. the roads are blocked by big boul- The air force was flying 11 ders,” Lopez said, referring to vil- tonnes of relief supplies to Bohol, lages. Mobile phone links from the a military spokesman said. country’s main provider had been President Benigno Aquino, restored but a rival provider still who made an inspection by air of had to fix some of its damaged quake-hit areas, warned of stiff equipment, a state telecommuni- penalties for profiteers exploit- cations official said. ing the disaster. The government Many of the millions hit by the has declared a state of calamity in A portion of a damaged highway in Getafe, Bohol, a day after an earthquake hit central Philippines yesterday. quake spent the night outdoors, both Bohol and Cebu, triggering a including patients at some hospi- freeze on prices there. tals, because of aftershocks. More Tourism has also been hurt. be short-lived, John Patrick Chan, things to go back to normal soon. office said it had seen about 1,000 magnitude hit Bohol was in 1602, than 840 aftershocks have been Some visitors to Bohol have corporate general manager of the We’re lucky the earthquake hasn’t cancellations to Bohol and Cebu said Trixie Angeles, a consultant recorded, with one of magnitude cancelled reservations, but the Bellevue Hotel group, said in a damaged much, much more,” by tourists from South Korea. at the National Commission on 5.1, the volcanology agency said. damage to tourism was likely to television interview. “We expect Chan said. The country’s tourism The last time a quake of similar Culture and the Arts. REUTERS

524,870 people Philippines making strides Senate to sign Napoles subpoena file papers for Barangay polls in reducing hunger: Report MANILA: The Senate will remains committed to the orderly by relative and former employee, soon summon businesswoman administration of justice,” Drilon Benhur Luy. MANILA: More than WASHINGTON: The Philippines has made some progress in Janet Lim-Napoles after Senate said in a privilege speech. Luy is also the key whistle- 500,000 people have expressed reducing hunger over the years but 17 percent of its population President Franklin Drilon said “As your Senate President, I blower in the alleged pork barrel their intention to run in the is still undernourished, the International Food Policy Research he has decided to sign the sub- have always said that this Senate scam. upcoming Barangay poll on Institute (FPRI) said. poena for the alleged pork bar- investigation will be relentless in Drilon had initially denied to October 28, the Commission In its 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report released last Monday, rel scam mastermind. searching for the truth. I consider sign the subpoena for Napoles on Elections said yesterday. the IFPRI said the hunger situation in the Philippines remained “seri- In a privilege speech yesterday, the Pork Barrel Scam as a great after seeking the opinion of In her official Twitter ous.” The country’s hunger index over the period of 2008 to 2012 was Drilon said he has decided to sign injustice to the Filipino people,” Ombudsman Conchita Carpio- account, Commissioner Grace rated at 13.2 from 14.0 in the period of 2003 to 2007. the subpoena requiring Napoles to he added. Morales on the matter. Padaca said 524,870 people The index identifies hunger levels among 120 developing countries attend and testify in the investi- Guingona said on Twitter Morales said it is not advis- have already filed their cer- and countries in transition and rates them based on three equally gation of the Senate Blue Ribbon that he is thankful with Drilon’s able at the moment to summon tificates of candidacy before weighted indicators: the proportion of people who are undernourished; Committee. decision. Napoles since she is already facing the poll body on October 11, the proportion of children under five who are underweight; and the The subpoena was requested by Napoles has been accused of plunder charges before the anti- 12 and 14. mortality rate of children under five. Senator Teofisto Guingona III, the setting up bogus non-government graft body in connection with the Of the figure, around 57,674 During the periods under review, the percentage of people under- committee chair who heads the organisations that siphoned tax- alleged scam. COCs for Barangay captain nourished in the Philippines dropped to 17 points from 18 previously, probe on the controversy involv- payers’ money in the form of the Drilon’s previous decision not posts have been filed before the prevalence of underweight children under five also fell to 20.2 from ing lawmakers’ pork barrel funds pork barrel funds. to sign the subpoena had met the Comelec offices all over the 20.7, and their mortality rate dropped to 2.5 from 3.2. that were allegedly pocketed by She is currently detained at criticisms. He said it has been country while a total of 467,196 Of the 120 countries surveyed, 42 had GHI levels of under-five, the businesswoman. Fort Sto Domingo in Laguna in “misconstrued as an effort to hide COCs for Barangay councillor meaning the threat of hunger was low. A total of 78 countries had “With this decision, let me connection with the serious illegal the truth.” posts. Based on the Comelec GHI levels of 5.5 to 38.8. THE PHILIPPINE STAR emphasise that the Senate detention charges filed against her THE PHILIPPINE STAR calendar for the Barangay elec- tions, the filing of the COCs began on October 15 and ends today. Legislator grills audit chief Maguindanao Milf peace talks on track: Official fire claims three MANILA: The government a year since the FAB was signed have been eyeing to forge a com- in senate budget hearing MAGUINDANAO: Three and the Moro Islamic Liberation on October 15, 2012. prehensive peace agreement ethnic Maguindanao villag- Front (Milf), the largest Muslim “If you look at the progress, it’s within the year. MANILA: Senator Jinggoy Estrada yesterday confronted ers were killed in a fire that rebel group in the country, have pretty much substantial,” she said, But in order to sign a compre- Commission on Audit (COA) chairperson Grace Pulido-Tan over razed 130 houses in Taviran made “substantial progress” in adding, “we remain optimistic hensive pact, both panels have to the results of the agency’s special audit report on the Priority District in Datu Odin Sinsuat their peace process since the that this will go according to our complete all the four annexes of Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) released from 2006 to 2007. town at dawn yesterday. signing of the framework agree- plan.” She said that there could the FAB, a road map for the crea- Estrada confronted Tan during the hearing of the COA’s proposed The fatalities were identi- ment on the Bangsamoro (FAB) be observations that the process tion of a Bangsamoro government budget for 2014, which has been deferred twice as some senators con- fied as Baileng Benito, 23, and a year ago, a senior government of completing the two remaining that will replace the Autonomous tinue to question the allocation. her siblings, Baikulot, 17, and official said yesterday. annexes on power-sharing and Region in Muslim Mindanao and It was the first time that Estrada grilled Tan over the COA’s special Baisheka, of lower Taviran in Deputy Presidential normalisation of the FAB might will end the four-decade armed audit report since he delivered his privilege speech last month, con- the northwest of Datu Odin Spokesperson Abigail Valte in a be slow. struggle in southern Philippines. demning the “selective justice” which the administration supposedly Sinsuat. news briefing said that it has been The government and the Milf THE PHILIPPINE STAR launched against him and some opposition senators. Inspector Datu Tulon Estrada, along with Senate minority leader Juan Ponce Enrile and Pinguiaman, chief of the Datu Sen Ramon Revilla Jr, were charged for plunder before the Ombudsman Odin Sinsuat police, said there Global Handwashing Day in connection with alleged pork barrel scam. were indications that an acci- Estrada asked Tan why she singled out the eight non-government dent caused the dawn fire that organizations (NGOs) linked to Napoles when there are 74 other NGOs razed the house of the Benitos. with questionable transactions. “We did not find the 74 in the list of Benhur Luy,” Tan replied. Farmer killed in Following up on the COA chief’s reply, Estrada asked: “So you mean if there will be no whistleblowers, then you won’t investigate the rest Arakan ambush of the 74 NGOs?” Tan made on record during the Senate hearing that the agency audited all the 82 NGOs. NORTH COTABATO: She said the special audit focused on the 84 NGOs, which were Armed men gunned down contained on pages 154 to 277 of the results of the special audit report. a 70-year-old farmer and Estrada also challenged Tan to exert effort to find out more on the wounded another in an fast-food PDAF purchase of the office of House Majority Leader Boyet ambush in Arakan town on Gonzales. Tan said that in Gonzales’ case, there were also questions Tuesday, police said. on the use of over P80m worth of allocations for funeral, medical and Senior Inspector Rolly education and financial assistance. Oranza said the fatality, “Part of their PDAF is released to the city of Mandaluyong,” Tan said. Rolando Sibonga, died on the According to Tan, the COA has referred cases in relation to the P spot from multiple gunshot 2bn use of Malampaya funds given to Palawan. wounds. Sibonga’s compan- The COA is also auditing the use of Malampaya funds which were ion, Jose Tatoy, 45, who was distributed to Department of Agriculture (P5.8bn funds); Department wounded in the attack, was of Agrarian Reform (P900m); Department of Science and Technology rushed by responding barangay (P400,000); National Housing Authority (P1.398bn); DPWH (P7bn); officials and civilian volunteers DOH, (P745m); PM- (P2.1bn): DOTC-Coast Guard (P50bn); DND to a local hospital. Quezon City Vice Mayor Josefina Belmonte (left) and Health Assistant Secretary Eric Tayag lead the signing of (P1.98bn); DILG (P2.140bn); DOE (P250,000) and priority projects AGENCIES a covenant on proper handwashing, marking Global Handwashing Day yesterday. for Palawan estimated at P1.9bn). THE PHILIPPINE STAR THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Minister among Eid prayers eight killed by suicide bomb Blast at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa law minister’s home during Eid event

PESHAWAR: A suicide police official in area said: “I am bomber killed at least eight peo- on the site and I have seen his ple, including a provincial law dead body.” minister, after breaking into Yousafzai, the health minis- his home in northwest Pakistan ter, said the suicide bomber had yesterday, officials said. managed to break into the area Israr Ullah Gandapur, (pic- despite “very tight security”. tured) law minister for the restive The attack was later claimed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, by little-known militant group was meeting constituents in his Ansarul Mujahideen. home village of Kulachi when the “It was revenge for the martyr- Muslims offer Eid Al Adha prayers at the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore yesterday. bomber struck, provincial health dom of some of our mujahideen,” minister Shaukat Yousafzai said. Abu Baseer, a spokesman for the More than 25 people were also group said, referring to the kill- wounded in the attack, which ing of militants during a daring World’s only Bronze Age metropolis, Tunnel project occurred on the first day of the jailbreak in July. Islamic festival of Eid Al Adha, Taliban militants armed with hangs fire he added. guns, mortars, rocket-propelled Mohammad Yousaf Khan, a grenades and bombs bombarded Mohenjodaro, facing extinction ISLAMABAD: Dwindling the prison in the town of Dera funds are also dwindling the Ismail Khan, before escaping with ISLAMABAD: When archae- drainage systems crumble to dust, They now plan to undertake hope for the completion of some 250 inmates after a three- ologists first uncovered a victim of government neglect, an intensive conservation pro- the strategically important hour shootout that left 13 dead. the 5,000-year-old ruins of public indifference and tourists’ gramme, a survey to establish how Lowari Tunnel project which Wednesday’s attack involved Mohenjodaro, they made one fears of terrorism. much of the ancient city is still is due to be ready and func- 8-10 kilograms of locally made of the greatest discoveries of Archaeologists have told The underground and a plan to rebury tional in 2017. explosive, Inayat Ullah, a bomb the 20th century: the world’s Monday Telegraph that the those sections of the recovered The project’s estimated cost disposal expert, said. “We have only surviving Bronze Age world’s oldest planned urban ruins most under threat. of Rs18bn may reach Rs30bn recovered two legs of the bomber,” metropolis. landscape is being corroded by Mohenjodaro was a major by the end of its completion he added. That was in colonial India in salt and could disappear within centre of the pre-Hindu Indus due to the country’s precarious Gandapur won his seat as an 1924. 20 years without an urgent res- civilisation, which dates back to national economic conditions, independent from the village of Today, the most important site cue plan. 3000 BC. Its estimated 40,000 warned eminent economist Dr Kulachi, near the city of Dera of the Indus civilisation lies in Last week, international inhabitants were contemporar- Hassan Askari. Ismail Khan, which borders the Pakistan. experts and Pakistani officials ies of Bronze Age civilisations in According to officials in the country’s lawless tribal regions Now the once lost city is in met in Karachi to draw up a plan ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Ministry of Communication, where the Taliban and Al-Qaeda danger of disappearing again as to save the site, stabilise its fund- the Yellow River settlements of the cost has already been have carved out strongholds. its clay wall houses, grid system ing and promote awareness of a China. estimated to be Rs23bn. Due AFP roads, great granaries, baths and wonder of the ancient world. INTERNEWS to its geographical situation, Chitral remains totally cut off from the rest of the country for over five months every win- ter due to heavy snowfall on the 10,200-feet-high Lowari Health centres Tunnel. Aspiring Afghan president turns bullish During that time, the peo- fail to deal with ple of Chitral have to travel to KABUL: He collected a meagre in a unique position to understand to shift from force to the ballot? be praised for his courage”. Afghanistan to access Pakistan malnutrition three percent of the vote last Afghanistan’s myriad problems If they are willing, let them enter “It’s rare in a post-conflict as the Lowari Pass is the only ISLAMABAD: Stabilisation time, but Ashraf Ghani is not after heading the transition com- into the ballot.” environment that a person makes land route connecting the centres fail to achieve their short of self-confidence, believ- mittee which oversees the coun- But Ghani has taken a major such a clear break with the past district to other parts of the purpose of facilitating pregnant ing he will win elections in April try’s return to full sovereignty. risk with his moderate, tech- in order to embrace the future,” country. and lactating mothers, and and be a transformative presi- “I’ve been 140 times to the nocrat reputation by choosing Ghani said. children under five suffer from dent of Afghanistan. provinces in less than three years. widely-feared Uzbek warlord President Hamid Karzai has Bid for release malnutrition due to the absence Ghani, 64, hopes to succeed In the process of leading the tran- Abdul Rashid Dostum as his first vowed not to endorse any one of qualified nutritionists. Hamid Karzai and oversee efforts sition, I’ve dealt with all the key running mate. candidate, though his implicit of women These centres, established to end a 12-year Taliban insur- issues,” said Ghani, who was a Dostum is accused of killing support could emerge for his older in districts across the country, gency as Nato troops depart and reform-driving finance minister hundreds of Taliban prisoners in brother Qayum Karzai, foreign PRAGUE: The Czech gov- also face a shortage of F-75 and the country seeks a degree of from 2002-2004. 2001 along with countless other minister Zalmai Rassoul -- or ernment is negotiating the F-100, formulas used during ini- economic stability to stave off a Ghani, based for much of his alleged abuses, and Ghani himself even Ghani. release of two women kid- tial treatment of malnourished return to civil war. career at US universities, includ- described Dostum as a “known “We want the president to stay napped in Pakistan in March, patients. An acerbic academic with a ing Columbia in New York, stands killer” in 2009 when criticising neutral,” said Ghani, who sees President Milos Zeman A senior official in the Ministry reputation for fierce independ- in contrast to his election rivals, Karzai for being too close to him. former 2009 runner-up Abdullah said yesterday. Antonie of Health Services, Regulation ence, Ghani is set to play a lead- many of whom are either Karzai For Ghani, the choice is simply Abdullah as his main rival. Chrastecka and Hana and Coordination said, “Shortages ing role in the election race as 26 loyalists or former warlords with another example of his realism. With official campaigning not Humpalova, both 24, were of qualified staff in this field are a candidates including warlords, murky pasts. “Politics is not a love marriage, due to start until February, Ghani seized while travelling in a major challenge,” while question- Islamists and veteran politicians Pragmatic, rather than ideo- politics is product of historical is already making good use of the bus through the southwest- ing the government’s perform- vie for power. logical, Ghani says he wants a necessities,” he said. Internet in contrast to other ern province of Baluchistan ance. He said malnutrition is not “I’m good to win. We have the national consensus government “The key issue is that he’s pop- candidates. He tweets regularly, near the Afghan border en only affecting the country’s eco- team,” he said in his elegant after the election and he would ular... Our agreement is on the inviting anyone to visit his house route to India. “I can only say nomic growth, but also accounts house protected by several lay- not hesitate to invite the Taliban future, sharing common inter- “no appointment needed”, con- they are somewhere between for death of numerous mothers ers of security in Kabul. “Today to win power through the ballot ests and building Afghanistan, gratulating the national cricket Pakistan and Afghanistan and infants. the odds are in our favour... (we box. and this team is the strongest team on its recent success and and their release is being “Malnourished mothers are have) the commitment to bring “I’m the only candidate that indication of reconciliation with condemning militant attacks. negotiated,” Zeman said. giving birth to unhealthy children the younger generation, women, has publicly committed to form the past.” “My vision is Afghanistan as told CTK news agency when who, due to weak immune system, and the poor, into a major alli- a national government after vic- After joining Ghani’s ticket, a crossroad of a vibrant Asian asked about the case during a acquire diseases which may result ance, and I think this alliance tory, because I think we need this Dostum made a vaguely-worded continental economy and an meeting with students in the in their deaths. This is only hap- can secure victory.” to reach a peace,” he said. public apology that many of his Afghanistan that is profoundly Czech city of Kolin. pening because of the failure of Ghani dismisses the 2009 elec- “For the Taliban, the question critics dismissed, but Ghani said at peace with its neighbours,” he AGENCIES the facilities.” INTERNEWS tion as irrelevant, and says he is is up to them. Will they be willing his vice-presidential pick “should said. AFP

Toys distribution Industry upbeat as Pakistan set to auction 3G spectrum

KARACHI: In all likelihood, controversies in every single to a government’s policy docu- Pakistan looks set to con- attempt to auction 3G mobile ment, was laid down in the duct the much-awaited and spectrum licences a matter of Mobile Cellular Policy 2004. oft-delayed auction of spec- great national interest. At that time, the telecom trum for advanced-generation Even the current Pakistan industry observed that the mobile services by March next Muslim League-Nawaz (PML- market was not ready for third- year. N) government could not take generation services and asked Optimism is prevailing across the process forward during the the government to delay the the telecom industry as govern- first three months in power. process requisite frequency ment’s latest steps have done The country has been trying was not available at the same away with controversies so far. to introduce 3G cellular services time, according to the policy Over the past few months, since 2006. document. more than 160 countries have However, plans to launch the First major breakthrough launched third-generation (3G) next generation technology ran came in December 2011 when mobile services and the number into trouble despite repeated the Ministry of Information of active 3G subscriptions has efforts, leaving the country Technology and Telecom issued surpassed one billion, according behind regional countries - a policy directive to the Pakistan to Parvez Iftikhar, an expert on Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Telecommunication Authority information and communication India, which have already rolled (PTA) the telecom sector’s regu- technology. out 3G services. latory body responsible for the Children who were affected by a huge earthquake last month receive toys distributed by the non-governmental organisa- By contrast, Pakistan, partic- The principle of auctioning auction for the introduction of tion Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, during Eid Al Adha, in Awaran, Pakistan, yesterday. ularly the former government of spectrum for introducing 3G 3G services. Pakistan Peoples Party, ran into services in Pakistan, according INTERNEWS THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Singh under Eid prayers pressure over ‘Coalgate’ CBI files case against Aditya Birla

NEW DELHI: India’s oppo- But Parakh said yesterday it sition insisted yesterday that was “the prime minister, who as Premier Manmohan Singh the coal minister, took the final could not “escape responsibil- decision” on the allotments and ity” over alleged corruption in demanded to know why Singh the allocation of coal blocks that had not been named as an alleged the national auditor says cost co-conspirator. the treasury billions of dollars. “If a conspiracy is there, then The opposition stepped up everyone is part,” said Parakh. pressure on Singh after India’s The CBI filed a first informa- Central Bureau of Investigation tion report (FIR) claiming alu- (CBI) accused top industrialist minium-maker Hindalco, a unit Kumar Mangalam Birla, chair- of the Aditya Birla Group, was man of conglomerate Aditya shown “undue favour” in obtain- Birla Group, and the govern- ing mining rights in 2005. An FIR ment’s former coal secretary P C is the first step towards possible Parekh of conspiracy in the coal formal charges. allotments. The CBI’s decision to file a case Muslims offer prayers at Moti Masjid on the occasion of Eid Al Adha in Bhopal yesterday. “We’re all aware of the fact he against Birla, 46, viewed by peers (Singh) was coal minister dur- as a conservative businessman ing the period of the scam and who plays by the rules, provoked every coal block allotment was shock in the corporate commu- Pakistan troops done with his signature,” said nity and made front-page head- Release of US ship only after probe: Minister Yashwant Sinha, a leader of the lines in newspapers. open fire across opposition Bharatiya Janata Party “He is straight as an arrow,” CHENNAI: Shipping Minister AdvanFort was in Indian waters According to a website that (BJP). Deepak Parekh, chairman of LoC: Officials G K Vasan yesterday said the US Friday night around 15 nautical tracks marine traffic, the last “How can the prime minister the country’s largest housing company-owned ship detained at miles from Tuticorin port. known port of call for the ship was escape responsibility?” asked finance company HDFC, told The JAMMU: Pakistani troops again Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin port will The Indian Coast Guard escorted Sharjah. However, no clear picture Sinha, a finance minister under Economic Times. resorted to unprovoked firing not be allowed to move out till the ship with 35 members (10 crew is emerging as to why the armed a former BJP government. Birla joins a string of promi- on Indian positions in Jammu the completion of a probe into the and 25 security guards) to Tuticorin ship entered the Indian waters and The opposition has repeatedly nent figures accused in the inves- and Kashmir yesterday, first in arms consignment it carried. port, around 600km from here. bought fuel illegally. called on Singh to resign over the tigation including Naveen Jindal, Samba sector of the International Meanwhile, the Q branch of the Officials are questioning mem- AdvanFort claims the ship alleged scandal in which the gov- chairman of Jindal Steel Power, Border and then in two sectors Tamil Nadu police began its inves- bers of the ship as automatic rifles, entered the Indian waters to escape ernment auditor accused the coal a major Indian steel company. of the Line of Control (LoC) in tigation with the case being trans- bullets and other arms were found the fury of cyclone Phailin. ministry department of under- Police have lodged 14 FIRs in the Poonch district, authorities said. ferred to it from the marine police. on board the vessel. The cyclone hit Odisha and pricing the coalfields and giving case. A defence spokesman said, The Q branch monitors activities According to the Coast Guard, Andhra Pradesh far off from away billions of dollars in windfall In a statement, Hindalco called “Pakistani troops opened unpro- of banned organisations and people the vessel was manned by a Tuticorin where the ship was gains to firms. the CBI’s allegations “preposter- voked fire in two sectors - Krishna associated with such groups. 10-member crew and also had 25 detected. It is also not known what The opposition has alleged ous”, while Birla said the company Ghati and Bhimber Gali - of the Flying West African country security guards — six British, 14 the ship was doing in the Bay of kickbacks for the allotments, followed “all procedures in the Line of Control today (Wednesday) Sierra Leone’s flag, Seaman Guard Estonians, one Ukrainian and four Bengal instead of the Indian Ocean. made without any transparent coal mine allocation”. morning.” Ohio, owned by US company Indians. IANS bidding process, went to the rul- Meanwhile, Indian com- “The firing started at 10.40am ing Congress party. merce minister Anand Sharma today morning. Pakistani troops Singh, who besides being pre- appeared to share Indian used small arms, automatics and mier headed the coal ministry industry’s concerns, calling the mortar to target our positions. Our between 2006 and 2009 when accusation against Birla “unfor- troops have strongly retaliated with many of the allocations were tunate” and saying the indus- same calibre weapons. Intermittent made, has strongly rejected trialist was held in “very high fire exchanges in these two sectors accusations of wrongdoing in esteem”. is continuing,” the spokesman said. what India’s media has dubbed “If every (policy) decision made Police sources said that earlier “Coalgate”. is questioned, if every person is in the morning Pakistan Rangers Both Birla, one of India’s best questioned, if an atmosphere resorted to unprovoked firing at known industrialists, and Parakh, of fear is created, this country the Mangu Chak and Khawada the retired government coal sec- will suffer,” Sharma told India’s posts of the Border Security Force retary, also denied being part of NDTV news channel. (BSF) on the International Border any illegal conspiracy AFP in Samba district. IANS

UPA to lose 2014, Flood fury: Thousands regional parties will hold key: Survey still stranded in Odisha NEW DELHI: The Congress- led UPA is set to lose the BHUBANESWAR: Thousands flattened rice, officials have not 2014 Lok Sabha elections, and of people have been stranded given anything to us,” said 45-year- regional parties will be a key for the third consecutive day old Sukanti Tudu, a woman who factor in deciding who gets yesterday in Odisha after mas- has taken shelter on a national to rule India, said a survey sive floods triggered by a cyclone highway near Balasore along with released yesterday. swamped their homes, officials hundreds of others. The India TV-Times Now-C and eyewitnesses said. “Some private people gave us Voter survey showed the National People took shelter on roof-tops, some food and we are surviving Democratic Alliance (NDA) gain- embankments and other high-rise on that,” she said. ing a winning edge over the rul- places and officials and volunteers Tudu is living on the highway ing United Progressive Alliance were making efforts to reach them the past three days with her eight (UPA). food and other relief materials. family members, including chil- Regional parties, it said, were The flood water has receded in dren. She said her entire family expected to get as many as 240 many areas, but the situation con- was facing hunger and none of of the 543 Lok Sabha seats in tinued to be grim in worst flood- them has had a full meal. 2014. The president nominates hit Balasore district, officials said. “I visited more than a dozen vil- two Anglo-Indians for the two “Things are totally under con- lages in worst hit Balasore district. remaining seats in the lower trol. No new area has been flooded. It was a super flood. The govern- house. Some 96,000 flood affected people ment was not prepared. They don’t According to the survey, while (in Balasore district) are getting have required food for the victims. the Bharatiya Janata Party relief,” Arabinda Kumar Padhee, There are places where not a single (BJP)-led NDA would improve its revenue divisional commissioner government official has reached,” 2009 tally of 159 to 186 in 2014, (central) who is supervising relief former water resources minister the Congress-led UPA would slide and rescue operation in the area, and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 259 to a paltry 117. said. leader Bijoy Mohapatra said. The survey projected 35 per- “The flood has affected about “Large number of people are liv- cent vote share for the NDA 700,000 people in the district and ing without food and water for the against 27 percent for the UPA the number of those stranded may past three days,” he said. and 38 percent for the regional be about 12,000,” he said. Hundreds of flood victims parties. Heavy rain brought on by blocked roads, and staged angry Regional parties will thus hold Cyclone Phailin that hit the state demonstrations in some places of the key to government formation coast Saturday night triggered Mayurbhanj and Khurda districts in New Delhi. floods in Balasore, Mayurbhanj, to protest alleged irregularities in These include the AIADMK, Jajpur, Keonjhar and Bhadrak dis- relief distribution. Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan tricts. More than a million people Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Samaj Party (BSP), Left Front, were affected when water from reviewed the situation and ordered Trinamool Congress, Rashtriya major rivers and their tributar- officials to book those involved in Janata Dal (RJD), Biju Janata ies submerged low-lying areas and the loot of relief materials under Dal (BJD), YSR Congress and entered habitations, officials said. the stringent National Security Telangana Rashtra Samithi The government claimed the Act. (TRS). flood water was receding and food Pradeep Mohapatra, state Partywise detail shows the and relief have been given to the Special Relief Commissioner, said Congress tally tumbling from 206 needy, but eyewitnesses said the the government is yet to assess the seats in 2009 to just 102 in 2014, claim was untrue. cost of the damage caused by the its lowest ever. “I have taken shelter here with disaster. IANS my family but except some dry IANS THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Twitter picks Ready for the road NYSE for IPO listing Nasdaq loses in high-stakes game

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter 218 million when the company Inc will list on the New York first disclosed its S-1 filing on Stock Exchange, a marquee October 3. IPO win that deals a blow to Those losses were driven partly the tech-heavy Nasdaq which by a 158 percent surge in sales bungled rival Facebook’s initial and marketing spending, as the public offering. company ramped up its sales In an amended IPO filing on forces in offices around the world Tuesday, Twitter also showed that to push its advertising platform. it sustained its pace of revenue Sales and marketing costs rose and user expansion in the just- to $61.2m from $23.7m a year ended third quarter, affirmation earlier. for investors hoping to capitalise Twitter said its revenue is on the sizzling growth of the mes- increasingly coming from mobile saging service. devices, the preferred way for The eight-year-old company most users to log on. In the is now expected to kick off its three months ending through investor roadshow in coming September, over 70 percent of weeks before starting trade in advertising revenue came from November. phones and tablets versus 65 per- Among the biggest winners cent in the prior quarter. A worker prepares a Bajaj motorcycle before it is delivered to a customer at a Bajaj showroom in Kolkata yesterday. Bajaj Auto, India’s second- of a successful IPO would be co- Twitter represents the latest largest motorcycle manufacturer by sales reported a 13 percent rise in second-quarter profit, marginally beating analyst estimates, as a weaker founder Evan Williams with a loss for the Nasdaq in recent rupee boosted export earnings. 12 percent stake and CEO Dick years. The NYSE’s aggres- Costolo with 1.6 percent cur- sive campaigning helped snag rently. Rizvi Traverse, run by LinkedIn Corp and Pandora Inc, Hollywood and Silicon Valley among other high-profile con- financier Suhail Rizvi, and its sumer-tech debutantes. affiliates hold 17.6 percent, as the Both bourses vied fiercely for Louis Vuitton sales dip, shares fall largest institutional holder. the prestige of hosting Twitter. Rizvi and his investors paid But analysts had predicted that PARIS: French luxury goods LVMH also said that currency exceed 3 percent, totalling ¤2.4bn, anticipated by buying beforehand, more than $1bn for his stake, Facebook’s debut, marred by a giant LVMH fought off a plunge factors played a role in the per- from an increase of 7 percent in which had caused sales to fall later. Reuters reported in October. series of technical glitches that in its shares yesterday, reas- formance of sales by the group. the second quarter. Other brands in the division Twitter’s debut will be the delayed the start of trading, could suring that Chinese consum- The Louis Vuitton range of The finance director of LVMH, had achieved slightly weaker culmination of a journey from weigh against the Nasdaq. ers were still hungry for goods products again lagged those of the Jean-Jacques Guiony, said during growth than in the first half, he side-project to sociocultural phe- Nasdaq CEO Robert Greifeld from the key Louis Vuitton fashion and leatherware brands. a telephone press conference that said. Chinese consumers of luxury nomenon, one that has become a flew to Twitter’s San Francisco part of the business where sales Louis Vuitton accounts for more “growth by Vuitton was slightly goods, whether they shopped at communications channel for eve- headquarters as recently as flagged. than 70 percent of annual sales of below” that of the division as had home or while travelling, were not ryone from the Pope to President October 4 to make one last The price of shares in the global the fashion and leatherware divi- been the case in the previous turning their backs on Vuitton Barack Obama. unsuccessful pitch for listing on group was showing a fall of 6.42 sion which also includes the brands quarters this year. and the sales trend in this mar- The company more than dou- his exchange, a person close to percent to ¤135.55 in an overall of Celine, Givenchy, Fendi and The group said that changes in ket was about the same as at the bled its third quarter revenue to Twitter said. French market down 0.76 percent. Kenzo. Vuitton is the main profit currency values notably of the yen beginning of the year. $168.6m. But net losses widened “This is a decisive win for Analysts at Bank of America- driver of the entire LVMH group. and dollar had undermined sales Sales in the United States were to $64.6m in the September quar- the NYSE. We are grateful for Merrill Lynch lowered their It turned in sales estimated to in each quarter of this year and “reasonably good” and “in Europe ter compared with $21.6m a year Twitter’s confidence in our plat- investment recommendation for total ¤7.3bn ($9.9bn) last year but particularly in the third quarter as well thanks to tourists”, par- earlier. form and look forward to part- the shares yesterday. since then has had difficulty in with a negative impact of 6 per- ticularly from China. Sales in Asia And in the three months nering with them,” said Scott At brokers Aurel BGC, analyst generating growth. cent. Guiony said that the slow- were steady. Guiony said that an ended September, Twitter grew Cutler, head of NYSE’s list- David Da Maia said: “The setback In the third quarter, internal ing of fashion and leatherware easing of sales to Japanese cus- its monthly active users 39 per- ings business. In a statement, for Louis Vuitton in the third growth of sales by fashion and reflected in part a “significant tomers reflected a fall in Japanese cent to 231.7 million on average. the Nasdaq said it “wished quarter is likely to weigh on all leatherware brands, excluding the price increase by Vuitton in Japan tourism because the yen was That figure was up from about Twitter well.” REUTERS luxury company shares.” effect of exchange rates, did not in July which consumers had weak. AFP

French bank to cut jobs Italy exports go up by 1.7pc EU told to levy carbon in August charge in own airspace ROME: Italy saw exports rise by 1.7 percent in August from BRUSSELS: The European Union took effect in January last July as the economy struggles Union should exert its right to year, it triggered threats of a to exit a two-year recession impose carbon charges on avia- trade war. that has caused record unem- tion within its own airspace, Non-EU nations, led by India, ployment and shut thousands of the European Commission said China and the United States, businesses. yesterday, a step likely to rile complained the European Union Italy’s trade surplus also rose emerging powers China and was breaching national sover- to ¤958m ($1.3bn), compared to a India and revive trade tensions. eignty and forced the bloc to deficit of ¤483m in August 2012, A major retreat from previous freeze its law for a year to give official data released by the Istat legislation, the proposal from the the International Civil Aviation agency yesterday showed. Commission, the EU executive, Organization (ICAO), a UN body, Imports were down 1.1 percent might fail to satisfy critics both the chance to deliver a global on the month. On a 12-month inside and beyond the European alternative. comparison, however, exports Union. India, together with China, were down 4.4 percent and Following a United Nations deal refused to comply with the EU imports down 9.8 percent. Italy struck in Montreal this month law even before the decision to has seen some mixed economic to set up a global scheme to curb freeze it and haggled in Montreal results this month, with the lat- aircraft emissions, the European for a further dilution of the agree- est figures showing a 0.3-percent Commission has to review its own ment. China blocked delivery of dip in industrial production but a The logo of French bank Natixis is seen outside one of their offices in Paris yesterday. The French investment law making all aviation buy into European Airbus jets in protest return to growth for the service bank plans to cut around 700 jobs, or 4.5 percent of its workforce, as part of a cost saving drive as Europe’s its Emissions Trading Scheme at the EU law. sector. AFP lenders adapt to a tough economic environment and new global curbs on risk-taking. (ETS). Speaking in Brussels last week, Climate Commissioner Connie one of the ICAO negotiators said Hedegaard has welcomed the charges on non-EU airlines would UN deal, saying it would never be a problem. have happened without EU pres- “If the EU decides, and I hope sure. But it will only take effect they do not, they will neverthe- from 2020. For the period 2014- less want to capture emissions of Alcoa partly shuts production at Maaden 2020, she is proposing an interim non-European airlines, then we scheme that would cover EU air- will be back to trade wars,” said RIYADH: Aluminum pro- Ma’aden, a $10.8bn facility with 11.38am it was at $1,857.00. Oplinger said all potlines at the space, rather than entire flights Abdul Wahab Teffaha, Secretary ducer Alcoa Inc said yesterday smelter capacity of 740,000 tonnes The Ma’aden project is impor- smelter would be operating by the into and out of EU airports. General of the Arab Air Carriers that its smelter at Maaden, per year, is run by a joint venture tant to Alcoa, and not just because end of this year. “It is a sovereign right to regu- Organization. Saudi Arabia, which is in its between Alcoa and Saudi Arabian of its size. The company has said Alcoa said yesterday that the late aviation in and around our Members of the European startup phase, has temporarily Mining Co. Aluminum bench- it should be the lowest-cost facil- affected potline should be back own EU airspace,” Hedegaard told Parliament, which together with stopped production on one of mark prices on the London Metal ity in the world, and it is ramping online between the first and sec- reporters yesterday. “I very much the EU’s 28 member states would two potlines. Exchange briefly moved into posi- up as the industry pushes to cut ond quarter of 2014. Ramp-up at hope our partners will see this have to approve the Commission The company said the potline tive territory after Alcoa released expenses amid weak prices. the unaffected line will speed up. in the spirit in which it is being proposal for it to become law, have was shut down “after a period of the news, touching an intraday When Alcoa reported quar- The rest of the operation presented.” When the original EU also raised objections, saying the pot instability.” It does not expect high of $1,855.75 per tonne, up terly earnings last week, Chief remains on schedule, Alcoa said. law covering emissions for entire Montreal agreement is empty. any impact on customers. 0.32 percent, at 10am EDT. At Financial Officer William REUTERS flights in and out of the European REUTERS THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Rise in cement Dual purpose demand may create shortage Big projects to push demand: Expert

DOHA: With a large number of the last couple of years. In 1Q13, big ticket projects in the offing average cement price in Qatar and a projected demand supply remained around the same at gap, Qatar could face a serious $70.1/tonne which was equal to cement shortage scenario in the the average in 2011 and 2012. The near future, cautioned a market same prices have prevailed over analyst. the last couple of years because Global Investment House of government control. Due to (GIH) research analyst Faisal increase in demand, prices may Hasan said Qatari companies are go up in the near term. However, still not ready to gear up capacity Qatari companies have witnessed to meet the future demand. an improvement in their mar- “Qatar National Cement gins, which has been attributed Company announced a capacity to a shift to more efficient and addition of 0.93mtpa to 5.36mtpa operative environment. recently. With no other major The cement demand across capacity addition announcements, the GCC is set to rise from 4-5 Ryad Boulanouar, President of the Financiere des Paiements Electroniques (FPE), poses next to a Nickel bank account machine during its pres- GIH analysts feel Qatar has a percent in 2013 to 6-7 percent entation in a simulated tobacconist shop at a news conference in Paris yesterday. The French will soon be able to buy their cigarettes and do major cement shortage scenario in 2014. GCC’s cement sector their banking at the same time as the country’s huge network of tobacconists opens up a stripped-down, cut-price bank account. France’s 27,000 going forward”, he said in GIH’s witnessed a broad turnaround tobacconists, or tabacs, whose distinctive red, diamond-shaped signs dot the nation’s streets, will be out to win business from established banks latest report on “GCC Cement last year, mainly on increasing who cut back their retail networks in a stagnating economy. The Nickel bank account, which after initial tests is due to be expanded nationwide Sector”. construction activity across the Strong infrastructure spend- region. “We expect the uptrend next year, will offer customers a debit card and a current account for €20. ing by Qatar government will in demand to continue at least continue to boost demand for the for the next 4-5 years, with fur- cement sector. Total expendi- ther sizeable additions for high ture during 2013-14 has been set ticket projects related to World at $57.8bn, up 18 percent from Cup 2022 in Qatar and World Iraq says China seeking more crude in 2014 $49bn set for the previous year. Expo 2020, which is expected to Furthermore, recent BMI report be hosted in Dubai. estimates that Qatar is expected As of 2012, cement grind- DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA: Iraq has provided crucial sup- said he expects more requests for raise its crude purchase from Iraq to spend $140-150bn on infra- ing capacity in GCC totalled Iraq said China is seeking to plies, giving consumers another 2014 supply from China. for its newly-built refinery in structure over the next decade. 117mtpa, while clinker capacity increase purchases of its crude option besides Saudi Arabia as the Saudi Arabia shipped 1.08 mil- Quanzhou,” said a senior Chinese “With such a huge number of was around 88mtpa. Surplus at by more than two-thirds next main alternative exporter. lion bpd of crude to China in the crude oil trader. “Other compa- projects in the pipeline, demand the clinker level is quite below, year, stepping up the rivalry “Iraq is in a lucky position first eight months of this year, nies such as Sinopec may also for cement is expected to shoot while that at the grinding level between Baghdad and top because we always get more while Baghdad has an annual raise imports from Iraq. China up. Average cement demand in is in the range of 25-30 million exporter Saudi Arabia for a big- requests than we can actu- term deal to sell about 500,000 will absorb the increase of Iraqi Qatar during 2013-15 is expected tonnes. “With expected increase ger slice of the growing Asian ally supply,” Deputy Prime bpd into China this year. crude exports.” to stand at around 5.5mtpa, in demand for cement, we believe market. Minister for Energy Hussain Al It was not immediately clear Iraq is set to expand its oil higher than the government esti- surplus at the clinker level will Rapid increases in Iraq’s oil Shahristani said yesterday at the which Chinese oil companies were export capacity and is wooing mate of 2.5-4mtpa. With many big completely disappear, while that output after years of unrest have World Energy Congress in South seeking the additional volumes. Asian customers by offering eas- projects coming online thereaf- at the cement level will decline helped cushion oil markets from Korea. But a rapid increase in China’s ier payment terms as it ramps ter, cement demand is expected to 5-10milion tonnes by 2015-16. wide price swings as shipments China is seeking 850,000 barrels refining capacity over the past up output, countering infrastruc- to pick up further to 10.0mtpa”, The drop would be aided by very from OPEC-member Iran were per day (bpd) of crude from Iraq few years means it is reasonable ture and security issues that have he said. few cement capacity expansions halved due to tightening Western next year, Al-Shahristani said, to expect it to seek a quantum this year hampered the Middle Talking about the pricing, he that would increase supply from sanctions amid unstable output significantly narrowing the gap jump in purchases. Eastern nation’s efforts to main- said cement prices in Qatar have 117mtpa in 2012 to 126mtpa by from other exporters such as between Iraqi and Saudi Arabian “An increase of 30,000 bpd is tain steady output and exports. remained mostly unchanged in 2015”. THE PENINSULA Libya and Sudan. exports. The energy minister also quite reasonable. Sinochem could REUTERS

Poor result Oil price rises JPMorgan Chase on US debt ceiling deal to pay $100m fine NEW YORK: Crude oil futures WASHINGTON: The London the CIO (chief investment office) rose yesterday as it appeared Whale is the gift that keeps giv- trading matter by the resolu- Congress was close to an 11th- ing for regulators. tion of the CFTC investigation,” hour deal to raise the govern- JPMorgan Chase & Co has JPMorgan spokesman Joseph ment’s debt ceiling and prevent agreed to pay the latest in a Evangelisti said. a default. string of fines for the disastrous The settlement with the CFTC The US government shutdown trades and admit wrongdoing, comes as JPMorgan continues and fiscal deadlock have roiled this time in a settlement with the to deal with regulators and US financial markets and spurred US Commodity Futures Trading authorities on a number of fronts. worries about energy demand in Commission. The bank is in the middle of the world’s largest oil consumer. The bank agreed to pay trying to negotiate a global set- The oil market followed the $100m and admit its traders acted tlement with federal prosecutors stock market higher on “opti- recklessly, the CFTC said yester- over its role in the packaging and mism that something’s going to be day. The bank was instructed to selling of faulty mortgage-backed accomplished” to reopen the US send the funds to accounts receiv- securities that could result in a government, said Gene McGillian, able at the CFTC’s division of potential $11bn settlement. oil analyst with Tradition Energy enforcement. On Friday, JPMorgan in Stamford, Connecticut. The settlement follows one announced it has set aside up to Major US stock indices rose month after it paid $920m to four $23bn in reserves to pay for all its and the US dollar was also higher other US and British regulators potential legal bills to come. as a senior Democratic aide said to resolve probes of the bank’s The CFTC, in its case, charged the Republican-led House of $6.2bn in derivative losses involv- the bank with violating a prohi- Representatives was expected to ing its chief investment office. bition on manipulative conduct pass a bipartisan fiscal bill inked The episode has proven to be when it traded in the credit by the Democratic-led US Senate. one that just about every regu- default swaps that the bank had US House Republicans were lator the bank deals with has built an outsized exposure to by expected to hold a private meet- People walk past a Citibank branch in New York yesterday. Citigroup Inc posted weaker-than-expected wanted to investigate and levy early 2012 and then needed to ing at 3pm (1900 GMT) to discuss third-quarter earnings as bond market trading volume dropped, hurting revenue at the number three US fines. The Justice Department, quickly exit to try to minimise the Senate’s fiscal plan. bank and across Wall Street. even after filing criminal charges the losses. The front-month November against two former JPMorgan By selling a huge volume of Brent contract, which expired traders who allegedly helped con- swaps in a concentrated period, yesterday, was up $1.04 per barrel ceal the losses, is still investigat- the bank’s traders “recklessly to $111.00 by 1.38pm EDT (1738 ing whether to bring any action disregarded” the principle that GMT). The previous session, Stock prices rise after news of US deal against the bank. legitimate market forces should Brent fell $1.14. December Brent “We are pleased to be able to set prices, the CFTC said. rose $1.63 per barrel to $110.05. put behind us another aspect of REUTERS Brent’s premium over US oil NEW YORK: World equity has sparked substantial prepa- busied itself with preparations in has remained between the 10- and markets rose and short-term ration by dealers in government case of a missed coupon payment, 200-day moving averages of $7.62 US Treasury debt rallied yes- securities in case of a default. which would reverberate through and $10.04 for the last seven ses- terday as lawmakers neared a “Any deal that gets us out of the short-term repurchase mar- Canada to sign trade deal with EU sions and was last trading at $8.32 last-minute deal to prevent the the current box, where we have ket, a key source of overnight per barrel. United States from defaulting a potential imminent default, is funding for banks and other insti- OTTAWA: Canada is close to between the EU and Canada The US benchmark rose $1.56 on its debt. good,” said Cam Albright, director tutions that depend on the use of reaching a free trade deal with towards a comprehensive free to $102.77. On Tuesday, it fell US Senate Majority leader of asset allocation at Wilmington Treasury securities as collateral. the European Union, Canadian trade deal (CETA) — with the $1.20. On Friday, the November Harry Reid said a bipartisan Trust Investment Advisors in That market was effectively Prime Minister Stephen hope to conclude the negotia- US oil futures contract lost its compromise was reached in the Wilmington, Delaware. shut when Lehman Brothers col- Harper said yesterday. tions in the coming days.” premium over December futures, Senate to lift the government’s Even though final passage lapsed in 2008 and endured severe “We will soon complete nego- Official sources told AFP the and the gap between the two $16.7 trillion borrowing limit and may come after the Treasury’s strains in 2011 during the previ- tiations on a Comprehensive deal would give the European contracts widened further, by as reopen the government, which Thursday deadline for being able to ous debt ceiling crisis. Economic and Trade Agreement Union increased access for much as 22 cents. has been shuttered since October borrow, it will end up making this “People were staying up all with the European Union,” cheese sales, clearing one of the A perceived scarcity of oil at 1. News that a deal had emerged back-and-forth similar to the fiscal night worried about what would Harper said in a Twitter message. last hurdles to a free trade pact. Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery was enough to push US stocks ceiling debate in 2012, or the exten- happen during (the Y2K) dead- He was echoed by EU Trade The agreement-in-princi- point for the benchmark US oil within striking distance of an all- sive preparations to prepare tech- line. Then nothing happened,” spokesman John Clancy, who ple must now be sent back to futures contract, has reversed time high. It comes after days of nology systems for the so-called said David Keeble, global head of said: “Discussions are indeed Canada’s provinces for final as decreased demand for oil has political wrangling over the US Y2K millennium bug in 2000. interest rate strategy with Credit continuing at the highest level approval, they said. AFP slowed drawdowns. REUTERS budget and the debt limit, which The fixed income market has REUTERS THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 SPORT 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan sense win in Abu Dhabi South Africa reeling at 72 for 4, need 121 runs to avoid an innings defeat

ABU DHABI: Pakistan’s pace- innings centurion Hashim Amla completed his 150 wickets in 29 cum-spin attack caught world for ten to move closer to a big vic- Tests -- joint fourth fastest to number one Test team South tory when bad light curtailed play reach the milestone and second Africa napping on the third day seven overs early. Pakistani behind paceman Waqar of the first Test in Abu Dhabi Paceman Mohammad Irfan Younis, who completed the tally yesterday. started aggressively, trapping in 27 Tests. South Africa lost four top- Smith in front off the very first A run later Kallis was trapped order batsmen against a spirited ball of the innings but Pakistan’s in front of the wicket by fast Pakistan and now need another referral was unsuccessful after bowler Junaid Khan for a five-ball 121 runs to avoid an innings defeat the umpire initially ruled it not duck, spoiling the most reliable at Sheikh Zayed Stadium and out. South African batsman’s come- concede the lead in the two-Test But Irfan struck in his sixth back and 38th birthday. series. over when a rising delivery caught Amal, who hit 118 in the first AB de Villiers was unbeaten on Petersen by surprise, the batsman innings, fell caught behind off Pakistan captain 11 and with him nightwatchman failing to keep his glove out of the left-armer Zulfiqar Babar’s first Misbah-ul Haq cel- Dale Steyn on nought on a day way before Adnan Akmal held the delivery in the innings to leave ebrates his century on when Pakistan captain Misbah-ul catch cleanly. South Africa tottering at 72-4. the third day of their first Haq scored his fourth Test hun- Smith looked confident dur- Earlier Misbah ensured Test against South Africa dred and then sent his rivals into ing his 61-ball knock but missed Pakistan increased the lead at the Sheikh Zayed submission. one delivery from Saeed Ajmal after opener Khurram Manzoor Cricket Stadium in Abu Pakistan removed Alviro and was stumped on the second departed for 146, adding an inval- Dhabi, yesterday. Petersen (17), Graeme Smith attempt by Akmal, leaving South uable 82 for the fifth wicket with (32) and Jacques Kallis (nought) Africa at 57-2. Asad Shafiq, who made 54. by the 19th over and then first With Smith’s scalp, Ajmal At 39 years and 141 days, Misbah became the oldest Pakistani bats- Scoreboard man to score a Test hundred. He is also the oldest to notch a Test South Africa (I innings): ...... 249 Bowling: D Steyn 28.4-5-88-3 (nb-1); V Phi- hundred since England’s Graham Pakistan (I innings): lander 26-5-84-3; M Morkel 23-5-35-1; J Kal- Gooch reached the three-figure Khurram Manzoor c Kallis b Philander ...... 146 lis 13-2-44-0; R Peterson 27-2-111-0; JP mark against New Zealand at Shan Masood lbw Duminy ...... 75 Duminy 19-1-68-2; F Du Plessis 2-0-8-0. Nottingham in 1994 at the age of Azhar Ali c de Villiers b Philander ...... 11 South Africa (II innings): 40 years 314 days. Younus Khan c Petersen b Morkel ...... 1 G Smith st Akmal b Ajmal ...... 32 England’s Jack Hobbs holds Misbah-ul-Haq lbw Steyn ...... 100 A Petersen c Akmal b Irfan ...... 17 the record for oldest Test cen- Asad Shafiq c Petersen b Duminy...... 54 H Amla c Akmal b Babar ...... 10 turion at 46 years and 82 days Adnan Akmal b Steyn ...... 32 J Kallis lbw Khan ...... 0 when he scored a hundred against breakthrough by dismissing with a single off Jean-Paul Duminy, Duminy, who took 2-68, proved Saeed Ajmal c de Villiers b Philander ...... 13 A B de Villers (batting) ...... 11 Australia in 1929. Manzoor, caught off a slash in the his first after 16 Tests, off 185 better than regular spinner Robin Zulfiqar Babar (run out) ...... 2 D Steyn (batting) ...... 0 Manzoor, who resumed on 131, slip by Jacques Kallis. balls, raising his arms and bat in Peterson who remained wicket- Junaid Khan c Morkel b Steyn ...... 3 Extras (NB-2) ...... 2 bettered Pakistan’s highest indi- Manzoor hit 15 boundaries acknowledgement. In all he bat- less after 27 overs, conceding 111 Mohammad Irfan (not out) ...... 0 Total (for 4 wkts) ...... 72 vidual Test score against South and batted solidly throughout ted for 298 minutes, hitting eight runs. Extras (LB-4, NB-1) ...... 5 Fall of wickets: 1-38, 2-57, 3-58, 4-72. Africa, held by all-rounder Azhar his 388-minute knock. He added boundaries. The second and final Test will Total (all out) ...... 442 Bowling: Mohd Irfan 8-0-29-1; Junaid Khan Mahmood who scored 137 in 112 for the fourth wicket with his Steyn trapped Misbah leg be played in Dubai from October Fall of wickets: 1-135, 2-173, 3-178, 4-290, 6-0-22-1; Saeed Ajmal 11-4-21-1; Zulfiqar Johannesburg in 1998. skipper to strengthen Pakistan’s before for 100 to finish with 3-88 23. The teams will also play five 5-372, 6-394, 7-423, 8-429, 9-437, 10-442. Babar 1-1-0-1. But Philander gave South position. after his first 23 overs went one-day and two Twenty20 inter- Africa the much-needed Misbah reached his hundred wicketless. nationals. AFP

India’s Virat Kohli hits a six during Rohit, Kohli fashion India’s his innings in the second One-Day International match against stunning victory over Australia Australia at the Sawai JAIPUR: Superlative batting 176-run opening stand between Scoreboard Mansingh by Rohit Sharma (141 not out), Dhawan and Rohit. Stadium in Virat Kohli (100 not out) and Things, however, could have AUSTRALIA Singh 4-0-35-0. Jaipur, yes- Shikhar Dhawan (95) helped been different had wicketkeeper A J Finch (run out-Raina) ...... 50 INDIA terday. Kohli India comfortably chase down Brad Haddin not dropped Dhawan P J Hughes c Dhoni b Ashwin ...... 83 R G Sharma (not out) ...... 141 scored India’s Australia’s mammoth target of on 18. S R Watson c I Sharma b Vinay Kumar ...... 59 S Dhawan c Haddin b Faulkner ...... 95 fastest ODI 359 for five in 43.3 overs and Dhawan made the Australians G J Bailey (not out) ...... 92 V Kohli (not out) ...... 100 century in just win their second ODI by nine pay dearly for Haddin’s lapse G J Maxwell (run out) ...... 53 Extras (LB-5, W-21) ...... 26 52 balls. wickets at the Sawai Mansingh taking their bowlers to task on a A C Voges c Kumar b Vinay Kumar ...... 11 Total (for 1 wkt in 43.3 overs) ...... 362 Stadium here yesterday. placid batting wicket. B J Haddin (not out) ...... 1 Did not bat: S K Raina, Yuvraj Singh, M S India scored 362 for one to The left-hander smashed his Extras (LB-5, W-5) ...... 10 Dhoni, R A Jadeja, R Ashwin, B Kumar, R Vinay record their highest and the over- way to 95 off 86 balls before a Total (for 5 wkts in 50 overs ...... 359 Kumar, I Sharma. Fastest ODI Centuries all second highest ODI chase so loose shot cost him his wicket. Did not bat: J P Faulkner, M G Johnson, C J Fall of wicket: 1-176. Runs, Balls, 6s, 4s, Player, Match, Venue, Year far, tying the seven-match ODI After that it was all Kohli’s McKay, X J Doherty. Bowling: M G Johnson 9-1-68-0 (5w); C J 102, 37, 11, 6, Shahid Afridi, Pakistan vs Sri Lanka, Nairobi, 1996 series against the visitors 1-1. show as the Delhi batsman blasted Fall of wickets: 1-74, 2-182, 3-212, 4-308, McKay 7-0-64-0; S R Watson 5-0-47-0 (2w); X Having put up 359 for five, seven sixes and eight fours in his 147*, 44, 10, 8, MV Boucher, South Africa vs Zimbabwe, Potchefstroom, 2006 5-347. J Doherty 10-0-70-0; G J Maxwell 5.3-0-48-0 Australia seemed to have batted blitzkrieg innings. 117, 45, 4, 18, BC Lara, West Indies vs Bangladesh, Dhaka, 1999 Bowling: B Kumar 10-0-54-0; I Sharma 9-1- (1w); J P Faulkner 7-0-60-1 (1w). India out of the game but Dhawan, In between all the Kohli may- 70-0 (3w); R Vinay Kumar 9-0-3-2 (1w); R A Series: 7-match series level 1-1 102, 45, 9, 10, Shahid Afridi, Pakistan vs India, Kanpur, 2005 Rohit Sharma and Kohli played hem, Rohit Sharma completed a Jadeja 10-0-72-0; R Ashwin 8-0-50-1; Yuvraj Player-of-the-Match: R G Sharma (India) 134, 48, 11, 11, ST Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka vs Pakistan, Singapore, 1996 superbly to comfortably overhaul much-awaited third career cen- 113, 50, 6, 13, KJ O’Brien, Ireland vs England, Bangalore, 2011 the Australian score. tury with a fine innings. 100*, 52, 7, 8, VS Kohli, India vs Australia Jaipur, 2013 Kohli’s 100 off 52 balls became He had to wait for three years room, piling on the pressure made his way into the national 124, 53, 4, 17, Shahid Afridi, Pakistan vs Bangladesh, Dambulla, 2010 the fastest century by an Indian for this feat and was visibly on the Aussie bowlers. Earlier, squad thanks to his performances and the seventh fastest ODI elated. Australia got off to another quick with Pune Warriors in the Indian 130, 55, 6, 16, ST Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh, Karachi, 2008 hundred. Both players looked in a hurry start courtesy Aaron Finch (50). Premier League, hit seven bound- 102, 58, 3, 11, AB de Villiers, South Africa vs India, Ahmedabad, 2010 India started the chase with a to head back to the dressing The right-hander, who has aries and a six. IANS

Tennis Results Kremlin Cup McIlroy seeks ‘solace’ and form at Korea Open MOSCOW, Russia: Results from the third day of the ATP SEOUL: Troubled former the golf course and doing what I McIlroy swept all before him and WTA Kremlin Cup yes- world number one Rory McIlroy do best. It’s a nice place for a little last year, but has yet to win in terday (x denotes seeding): admitted he was “seeking sol- bit of solace,” McIlroy said at a 2013, tumbling to six in the world. Men’s singles ace” as he prepared to begin press conference on Tuesday. He refused to put his loss of Second Round: Karen Khachanov (RUS) bt a lucrative three-week Asian McIlroy tied for third at the form down to the much publicised Janko Tipsarevic (SRB x3) 6-4, 6-4; Andrey swing at the Kolon Korea Open Korea Open in 2009, and was the switch to Nike clubs -- worth a Golubev (KAZ) bt Horacio Zeballos (ARG x6) 6-3, today. runner-up in 2011 to American reported $20m a year -- and 6-4; Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Sergiy McIlroy competes at the $1m Rickie Fowler. “I’ve played good claimed it was more down to poor Stakhovsky (UKR) 7-5, 7-5; Andreas Seppi (ITA OneAsia Tour event at Woo golf here before, but I haven’t swing mechanics. Rory McIlroy x2) bt Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) 6-3, 6-2. Jeong Hills Country Club, south played quite well enough to win,” “I developed a couple of bad of Northern First Round: Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) bt of Seoul, having taken a month he said. habits,” he said. Ireland poses Adrian Mannarino (FRA x8) 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; Ivo off since failing to qualify for the With no opponents of Fowler’s “I wasn’t playing as well as I during a press Karlovic (CRO) bt Denis Kudla (USA) 6-2, 6-3; USPGA Tour Championship. calibre this week, McIlroy fan- wanted, and that obviously dents conference Denis Istomin (UZB x5) bt Andrey Kuznetsov But his break from playing cies his chances despite his poor your confidence a little bit. It ahead of the (RUS) 6-0, 2-6, 6-1. has coincided with an acrimoni- form -- he has only recorded one definitely had nothing to do with 56th Kolon Women’s singles ous split from his management top 10 finish in his last 10 starts. equipment.” Korea Open Second Round: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova company and rumours abounding “Hopefully, it will be the third The par-72 6,591-metre (7,208- golf event in (RUS) bt Maria Kirilenko (RUS x3) 6-3, 6-3; in the British and Irish press of time lucky for me,” he said. yard) Woo Jeong Hills layout has Seoul yes- Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) bt Carla Suarez (ESP the end of his relationship with McIlroy’s main focus will surely been described as “close as you terday. The long-term girlfriend Caroline be to use the event to get back can find in Asia to a big, brutish x6) 7-6 (7/2), 6-4; Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS Kolon Korea Wozniacki. some form and confidence for US tournament course” by one x8) bt Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) 6-2, 7-5. Open will tee The rumours were denied by the bigger prizes ahead as he golf website -- and that could suit First Round: Samantha Stosur (AUS x7) bt Kaia off at Woo Kanepi (EST) 6-3, 6-1. the tennis player in a Danish moves on next week to China for the big-hitting McIlroy if he can newspaper on Tuesday, and were Shanghai’s $7m BMW Masters, get in the groove. Jeong Hills STOCKHOLM ATP subject of a sharp response from where he was runner-up last year. Only five players broke par in Country Club STOCKHOLM, Sweden: McIlroy in Korea: “My private life His hectic schedule will squeeze last year’s event, with Kim Dae- in Cheonan Results on third day of is private. I’d like to keep it that in another million-dollar payday sub claiming his third national today. Stockholm ATP tournament way.” in an exhibition match against open title -- but only the first as yesterday (x denotes seeding): So the softly-spoken Northern Tiger Woods at Mission Hills on a professional -- with a five-under Second Round: Benoit Paire (FRA x6) bt Pablo Irishman can be forgiven for get- the southern island of Hainan, total of 279. If McIlroy doesn’t Carreno (ESP) 6-4, 6-4. ting as far away from it all as before he flies the 1,700 kilometres emerge victorious there’s good First Round: Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) bt possible over the coming weeks (1,100 miles) back to Shanghai for chance it will be a player called Benjamin Becker (GER) 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7/3); in places where he has good the WGC-HSBC Champions, an Kim, Lee or Park. Of the 114-man Fernando Verdasco (ESP) bt Ivan Dodig (CRO memories. event carrying an $8.5m prize field, 55 golfers carry one of those x8) 6-7 (2/7), 6-1, 6-4. “I’m just happy to be back on fund. names. AFP THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17

2014 World Cup Qualifying Results Spain and England qualify EUROPEAN ZONE PARIS: Results on Tuesday of final round of 2014 World Cup Euro zone qualifying matches: Ribery shines but France braced for playoffs; Denmark unlucky Group A At Brussels PARIS: Holders Spain joined, Belgium 1 (De Bruyne 64) Wales 1 (Ramsey 88) England in grabbing Europe’s Teams qualified for At Glasgow remaining automatic spots for Scotland 2 (Snodgrass 28, Naismith 73) Croatia the 2014 World Cup 0 the 2014 World Cup finals on PARIS: Teams qualified for At Jagodina, Serbia Tuesday night as the last round the 2014 World Cup so far - 32 of group matches ended in joy, Serbia 5 (Ristovski 16-og, Basta 19, Kolarov places to be filled - Draw is on 38-pen, Tadic 54, Scepovic 74) FYR Macedonia despair and shattered nerves. December 6: 1 (Jahovic 83) Big European names like EUROPE France, Portugal and Greece were Group B consigned to the playoffs. Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Germany, At Copenhagen There was heartbreak for Switzerland, Spain, England, Russia, Bosnia Denmark 6 (Morten Rasmussen 8, 74, Agger Denmark, who pummelled Malta (Four places remain to be decided in playoffs 11-pen, 39-pen, Bjelland 28, Nielsen 84) Malta 0 6-0 to finish second behind Italy between Portugal, Croatia, Ukraine, Greece, in Group B but were the unlucky France, Sweden, Romania and Iceland. Draw At Sofia team to miss out on the play- to be made on October 21) Bulgaria 0 Czech Republic 1 (Dockal 52) off spots available for the eight ASIA At Naples, Italy best runners-up from the nine Japan, Australia, Iran, South Korea Italy 2 (Florenzi 24, Balotelli 76) Armenia 2 (Movsisyan 4, Mkhitaryan 70) European groups. (Jordan will take on Uruguay in a playoff in Group C Iceland kept alive their hopes of November) At Solna, Sweden reaching their first finals when a SOUTH AMERICA 1-1 draw in Norway ensured they Sweden 3 (Hysen 7, 69, Kacaniclic 42) Brazil (hosts), Argentina, Colombia, Chile and finished second behind Group E Germany 5 (Ozil 45, Goetze 53, Schurrle 57, Ecuador winners Switzerland to put them 66, 76) (Uruguay will play Jordan in a playoff in in the hat for Monday’s draw for At Dublin November) November’s two-legged ties. Republic of Ireland 3 (Keane 17-pen, O’Shea The other countries who also CONCACAF 26, Shomko 77-og) Kazakhstan 1 (Shomko 13) get another chance to snap up United States, Costa Rica, Honduras a ticket to Brazil are Romania, (Mexico will take on New Zealand in a playoff At Torshavn Ukraine, Sweden and Croatia. in November) Faroe Islands 0 Austria 3 (Ivanschitz 16, Prodl 64, Alaba 67-pen) World and European cham- AFRICA Group D pions Spain secured top spot in (Five teams to qualify in playoffs) At Istanbul Group I with a 2-0 win at home First leg result to Georgia thanks to goals from Turkey 0 Netherlands 2 (Robben 8, Sneijder Ghana 6 Egypt 1 Alvaro Negredo and Juan Mata, 47) OCEANIA At Bucharest finishing three points ahead of the England’s Steven Gerrard (centre) runs through the Polish defence to score the second goal during the World (New Zealand will take on Mexico in a playoff Romania 2 (Marica 31-pen, 81) Estonia French who beat Finland 3-0. Cup 2014 Group H match at Wembley Stadium in north London on Tuesday. England won the game 2-0. The victory in Albacete meant in November) At Budapest the Spanish finished with 20 Hungary 2 (Nikolic 52, 77) Andorra 0 points from eight matches and, Spanish television broadcaster seeded for the draw because of more goals for good measure. and 1-1 draws against Armenia Group E like six other group winners, Telecinco. their world ranking which means Group C winners Germany and Wales respectively, while At Nicosia ended their campaign unbeaten “Playing here on my home they could face a tricky clash with fought back from two goals down Switzerland beat Slovenia 1-0 to Cyprus 0 Albania 0 as they seek to become only the patch they treat me with a special another big footballing nation. to beat runners-up Sweden 5-3 deny the visitors a chance of the At Berne third nation to successfully defend affection. It was a nice day and a England breathed a sigh of thanks to a hat-trick from Andre Group E runners-up spot that Switzerland 1 (Xhaka 74) Slovenia 0 the world title. nice match to get to Brazil and I relief when Steven Gerrard Schuerrle on an evening when went to Iceland. At Oslo Negredo, who had scored in am just really happy.” scored in the 88th minute against midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger Croatia, who had already Norway 1 (Braaten 30) Iceland 1 (Sigthorsson their penultimate qualifier last Substitute Mata pounced on a Poland to seal a 2-0 win after his earned his 100th cap. secured second place behind 12) week, shone again for Spain while loose ball and cracked home from side had held a slender lead from There was also another vic- Belgium in Group A, suffered a At Riga the man who set up his 26th- close range in the 61st minute to Wayne Rooney’s opener. tory for Group D winners and surprise 2-0 defeat in Scotland Latvia 2 (Sabala 47, Rode 90+2) Slovakia 2 minute opener, Andres Iniesta, make sure of the victory that Group H rivals Ukraine racked 2010 World Cup runners-up but had done just enough earlier (Jakubko 9, Salata 16) was delighted to have helped put extended their unbeaten run at up eight goals against San Marino Netherlands, who overcame in the campaign to ensure the loss Group F them through in a city close to home to 30 matches. in the forlorn hope of any slip-up Turkey 2-0 away to deny their did not cost them a playoff spot. At Coimbra, Portugal where he comes from. That result meant France’s at Wembley. hosts a place in the playoffs as It may, however, spell the end of Portugal 3 (S. Varela 29, Nani 36, Postiga 78) “To seal qualification here, win in Paris, inspired by Franck Five European teams had Romania overtook them in the Croatia coach Igor Stimac’s ten- Luxembourg 0 what better place could there be,” Ribery who scored one goal and already cracked open the bubbly standings with a 2-0 win at home ure as he offered his resignation At Ramat Gan, Israel Iniesta, who scored the winner created another, was academic as to celebrate their places at the to Estonia. following the defeat with his side Israel 1 (Eden Ben Basat 43) Northern Ireland that secured Spain’s first World the 1998 world champions had to World Cup finals before this last Already-qualified Italy and having taken one point from their 1 (Davis 72) Cup in South Africa in 2010, said make do with a playoff spot. round of matches but it did not Belgium ended their campaigns last four group matches. At Baku in a pitchside interview with The French look unlikely to be stop some of them adding a few on more modest notes with 2-2 REUTERS Azerbaijan 1 (Dzhavadov 90) Russia 1 (Shirokov 15) Group G At Kaunas, Lithuania Chile, Ecuador Honduras reach Lithuania 0 Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 (Ibisevic 68) At Athens Greece 2 (Salpingidis 7, Karagounis 81) World Cup finals Liechtenstein 0 Group H book Brazil berth LOS ANGELES: Honduras qualified for the 2014 World Cup finals At London in Brazil on Tuesday by clinching the last of the automatic qualify- England 2 (Rooney 41, Gerrard 88) Poland 0 BUENOS AIRES: Chile beat Chilean pressure was rewarded ing spots in North and Central America and the Caribbean, while At Podgorica Ecuador 2-1 in their closing in 35th minute when Sanchez Mexico stayed in contention by claiming the playoff spot after Montenegro 2 (Jovetic 55-pen, 90+1) South American qualifier in scored with a header and Medel Panama suffered a heartbreaking loss to the United States. Moldova 5 (Antoniuc 28, 89, Armas 62, Santiago on Tuesday as both doubled their lead two minutes Needing only a point to qualify, Honduras made sure of their place Sidorenco 64, Ionita 74) went through automatically to later connecting with Sanchez’s by drawing 2-2 with Jamaica in Kingston to join the US and Costa At Serravalle the 2014 World Cup finals in header following a Marcelo Diaz Rica as the three automatic qualifiers from the CONCACAF region San Marino 0 Ukraine 8 (Seleznyov 13-pen, Brazil. corner. after a dramatic final round of matches. 19, Devic 15, 51, 58-pen, Yarmolenko 55, The result consigned Uruguay, “This team deserve to be at the Regional heavyweights Mexico were minutes away from missing out Bezus 66, Mandzyuk 90) despite beating group winners World Cup. We dedicate this to on the fourth-placed playoff spot when they were beaten 2-1 in Costa Group I Argentina 3-2 in Montevideo, to a Chucho’s memory,” Ecuador coach Rica and Panama held a 2-1 lead over the Americans. At Albacete, Spain playoff against Jordan next month Reinaldo Rueda said referring to But Panama, who needed to win to leapfrog Mexico in the six-nation Spain 2 (Negredo 26, Mata 61) Georgia 0 for one more berth in the finals. striker Cristian Benitez, who died qualifying tournament, conceded two goals in stoppage time to lose 3-2. At Paris Argentina, Colombia, Chile and suddenly of heart failure in July. Mexico now face Oceania winners New Zealand in a two-leg playoff France 3 (Ribery 8, Toivio 76-og, Benzema Ecuador occupied the top four “Only this family (the team) Chile’s Alexis Sanchez celebrates in November in an effort to continue their long streak of World Cup 87) Finland 0 automatic qualifying places in the knows how much we miss him. We after scoring against Ecuador, appearances while Honduras will make their third appearance at the SOUTH AMERICA ZONE nine-nation group with Uruguay have to work hard so we arrive at game’s showpiece event. during their Brazil 2014 FIFA MONTEVIDEO: going into the playoff next month, the World Cup in high spirits,” the Honduras made the perfect start against Jamaica when Carlo Costly South World Cup South American America zone World Cup final despite catching Ecuador on 25 Colombian told reporters. scored in the first minute but the home side, who failed to win a match qualifier match, in Santiago, on round qualifying results on points but having an inferior goal Chile coach Jorge Sampaoli, in the final round, drew level two minutes later through Je-Vaughn Tuesday night. Tuesday: difference. who took over from sacked fellow Watson. They will face Asia qualifiers Argentine Claudio Borghi midway Honduras regained the lead after 33 minutes to go into the break At Montevideo Uruguay 3 (Rodriguez 5, Suarez 34-pen, Jordan over two legs in their through the qualifiers, said he over Paraguay in Asuncion, both with a 2-1 advantage when Maynor Figeuroa scored off a free kick but Cavani 50) Argentina 2 (Rodriguez 15, 41) fourth consecutive playoff, having had never imagined going to the their goals coming from central Jamaica equalised in the second half when Rodolph Austin converted At Asuncion taken that route to the 2002 and World Cup. “This is a very strong defender Mario Yepes. a penalty. Honduras survived some anxious moments but their Paraguay 1 (Rojas 6) Colombia 2 (Yepes 38, 2010 finals and being eliminated team. Now we have to improve “Colombia showed they want to defence held firm before the players celebrated booking their 55) by Australia at the same stage in even more to play the World Cup be a great team... Today we had to passage to Brazil. Mexico have qualified for every World Cup since At Santiago the qualifiers for the 2006 finals. with chances to go far. I never make a big effort and that’s a sign 1982, with the exception of 1990 when they were banned by FIFA after Chile 2 (Sanchez 35, Medel 38) Ecuador 1 Chile striker Alexis Sanchez imagined this, I can’t even meas- the team want to keep growing,” fielding over-age players in a youth tournament, have the chance to (Caicedo 66) and midfielder Gary Medel scored ure it now,” he said. said their Argentine coach Jose qualify after an extraordinary final week. At Lima in the first half for Chile with Colombia, who had qualified on Pekerman, who was without sus- Last Friday, they needed a stunning goal from Raul Jimenez five Peru 1 (Yotun 19) Bolivia 1 (Bejarano 45) Felipe Caicedo pulling one back Friday, ended their campaign on pended striker Radamel Falcao in minutes from fulltime to beat Panama at home then on Tuesday needed for the Ecuadoreans. a winning note with a 2-1 victory Asuncion. REUTERS the help of the US to keep ahead of Panama. CONCACAF ZONE Although Mexico equalised three minutes later through Oribe LOS ANGELES: CONCACAF Peralta, whose shot hit the underside of the bar, Costa Rica went back final-round qualifying for the Liverpool to set up academy in India in front when Alvaro Saborio headed what proved to be the matchwin- 2014 Brazil World Cup on ner in the 64th minute. REUTERS Tuesday: At San Jose LONDON: Liverpool are pre- a canteen, a lecture theatre and of our young players and we look Costa Rica 2 (Ruiz 26, Saborio 64) paring to launch a new youth medical facilities. forward to taking our knowledge Mexico 1 (Peralta 29) academy in India next year, Liverpool have also committed and experience of developing Your TV guide for At Kingston the Premier League giants to providing coaches to help run young footballers to India.” Jamaica 2 (Watson 3, Austin 58-pen) announced yesterday. the project. DSK are based in Pune, 150 kil- live matches today Honduras 2 (Costly 1, Figueroa 33) The five-time European cham- “At the academy in Liverpool ometres (95 miles) from Mumbai At Panama City Panama 2 (Gabriel Torres 18, Tejada 84) pions will work with Indian club we aim to develop outstanding in western Maharashtra state, Event Competition Time Channel DSK Shivajians to set up the facil- players and good human beings,” which is also the base of Indian United States 3 (Orozco 64, Zusi 90+2, ity, which will open in January Liverpool academy director poultry firm Venky’s, the own- Brazil vs Slovakia FIFA World Cup U-17 16:00 HD6 Johannsson 90+3) and will be known as The LFC Frank McParland told the club ers of English second-tier side Uruguay vs New Zealand FIFA World Cup U-17 16:00 +3 AFRICA PLAY-OFF RESULT International Football Academy website. Blackburn Rovers. JOHANNESBURG: World DSK. “The results speak for them- English clubs view India as a UAE vs Honduras FIFA World Cup U-17 19:00 HD6 Cup Africa zone play-off first Accommodating players up selves, as last season seven acad- potential source of playing talent Ivory Coast vs Italy FIFA World Cup U-17 19:00 +3 leg result on Tuesday: to the age of 18, it will feature emy players made their first-team and teams including Chelsea and Eibar vs Alcorcon Copa del Rey 20:30 HD2 At Kumasi a residential complex, full-size debuts. Queens Park Rangers have run Ghana 6 (Gyan 5, 53, Gomaa 22-og, Waris pitches, practice areas, class- “Education and community coaching classes there in recent Las Palmas vs Hercules Copa del Rey 22:30 HD2 44, Muntari 72-pen, Atsu 88) Egypt 1 (Abou rooms, changing rooms, a gym, work is key to the development years. AFP Trika 41-pen) SRI LANKA’S WEEKLY NEWS UPDATES PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 LANKADEEPA MIDDLE EAST WEEKLY DAR AL SHARQ www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT LANKADEEPA WEEKLY 18 AVAILABLE AT ALL LEADING BOOK STORES / SUPERMARKETS IN QATAR FOR ADVERTISEMENTS CONTACT: TEL: 4465 0600 EMAIL: [email protected] Coates to head Holliday, Robinson guide Tokyo 2020 Coordination Cardinals past Dodgers Commission LAUSANNE: Australian John St Louis need one more win to advance; Boston take 2-1 series lead Coates was yesterday named as chairman of the Coordination Commission for the 2020 LOS ANGELES: Matt Holliday tumbling to the dirt was in retali- Olympic Games in Tokyo, blasted a 426-foot homer and Baseball Results ation for Puig’s over-the-top cel- the International Olympic Shane Robinson hit a pinch- ebration after hitting a triple the Committee (IOC) announced. WASHINGTON: hit solo shot as the St Louis Major night before against St Louis. The 63-year-old Coates is Cardinals beat Los Angeles 4-2 League Baseball’s semi-final This time there was no celebra- head of the Australian Olympic yesterday in game four of the play-off results yesterday tion as Puig stopped at first base. Committee and also vice-pres- NLCS. (series best-of-seven): Puig was terrific yesterday as he ident of the IOC, as well as Holliday’s monster shot into American League Championship Series finished two-for-three at the plate being president of the Court of left field in the third inning was In Detroit with one RBI and one walk. Arbitration for Sport (CAS). the first home run of the series Boston 1 Detroit 0 Lynn threw five innings and IOC president Thomas Bach for the Cardinals who now lead (Boston lead series 2-1) allowed two runs on six hits and also named ex-Namibian sprinter 3-1 as they try to reach their sec- National League Championship Series three walks with five strikeouts Frank Fredericks as chairman ond World Series in three years. In Los Angeles for the Cardinals. Closer Trevor of the coordination commission “I got it good,” Holliday said. Rosenthal struck out Dodgers for the Summer Youth Olympic St Louis 4 Los Angeles 2 “Have I hit further ones? Maybe, third baseman Juan Uribe for the Games in Buenos Aires in 2018. (St Louis lead series 3-1) but not in that kind of situation.” final out of the contest. Bach added that Arne The National League Central “I was throwing the ball pretty Ljungqvist, Gerhard Heiberg Division champion Cardinals can The Dodgers have dug them- well,” said Lynn. “To get three and Hein Verbruggen will con- advance with a victory over the selves into a huge hole as they runs like that gives you a little tinue in their roles as chairmen Dodgers in their next match. have faced a 1-3 deficit just twice bit of breathing room so you don’t of the Medical Commission, Holliday’s homer scored Matt before in the NLCS and lost both have to try to make a perfect Marketing Commission and Carpenter to make it 3-0 in front times in 2008 and 2009. pitch every time. They got after OBS, respectively, until after the of a crowd of 53,992 at Dodger “We don’t have time to feel me in the fourth but I was able to Sochi Olympic Winter Games in Stadium. It followed Carpenter’s sorry for ourselves,” said Dodgers make some pitches.” 2014 “to ensure continuity in the double earlier in the inning that manager Don Mattingly. “We Dodgers starter Ricky Nolasco preparations”. plated Daniel Descalso to open didn’t do what we needed to do. took the loss as he allowed three The terms of all three had been the scoring. “We are down 3-1. That’s not a runs on three hits in just over set to expire after the IOC Session St Louis picked an opportune real secret.” four innings in his career play- in Buenos Aires last month. time to break out of their home Yasiel Puig got the Dodgers off debut. The IOC said that Puerto Rican run slump as they batted an ane- on the board with an RBI single Carlos Martinez highlighted his Richard Carrion, who was beaten mic .134 through the first three in the bottom of the fourth off two innings of relief by picking off by Bach in the vote for president, games of the series. Cardinals starting pitcher Lance Dodgers Nick Punto at second in would “continue to lead the TV Holliday was two-for-four Lynn. the seventh inning. negotiations already under way with two RBIs for the Cardinals, Later in the Dodgers’ half of Punto inched too far off the bag outside Europe until the Sochi who finished with six hits in the the fourth, Mark Ellis singled to and then didn’t recover in time 2014 Games” despite his decision contest. center field to score Andre Ethier for Martinez’s whirling pickoff. to resign from his different posi- “Right now we have no problem and cut the Cardinals lead to 3-2. “I don’t know many guys that tions within the IOC. celebrating this one,” Cardinals “To get two back right there pull that off,” Matheny said of Bach asked IOC member Ser manager Mike Matheny said. makes you feel like you are back Martinez. “To have the guts to Miang Ng to chair the next meet- “Every one of these in the posts- in it,” said Mattingly. “You’ve got wheel and let it fly like that in a ing of the Finance Commission in eason are so tough to come by.” a ball game. Our bullpen gave us game like we have right now, it’s December, the IOC said. AFP The winner of this series will a chance, we just didn’t put up off the charts.” play the winner of the other another run.” Zack Greinke is slated to NHL Results Major League Baseball semi- Cuban rookie Puig clubbed his start for Los Angeles in game St. Louis Cardinals’ Shane Robinson, (left) is congratulated by Carlos Toronto 4 Minnesota 1 final, between Boston and Detroit. single up the middle after being five, while the Cardinals turn Beltran at the end of fourth game of the National League Championship Boston edged the Tigers 1-0 ear- brushed back by a Lynn pitch to Joe Kelly for a game one Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in Los Buffalo 4 NY Islanders 3 lier yesterday to take a 2-1 series during the same at bat. rematch that lasted 13 Angeles, yesterday. The Cardinals won 4-2 and lead the series 3-1. Vancouver 3 Philadelphia 2 lead. The brush back that sent Puig innings. AFP Pittsburgh 3 Edmonton 2 Chicago 3 Carolina 2 Tampa Bay 5 Los Angeles 1 San Jose 6 St Louis 2 Uncapped centre trio Nashville 4 Florida 3 Japan coach Jones Montreal 3 Winnipeg 0 Detroit 2 Columbus 1 in England squad Colorado 3 Dallas 2 Ottawa 4 Phoenix 3 LONDON: England coach some injuries and there is still Stuart Lancaster responded a big European (club) weekend suffers minor stroke to a midfield injury crisis by ahead. Lakers’ Bryant including a trio of uncapped “But injuries always create TOKYO: Japan head coach its extent is not clear whether it centres in his squad announced opportunities and we are pleased Eddie Jones (pictured) is in is just mere numbness.” likely to be yesterday for next month’s to call up Tom Johnson, Joel hospital with signs of a minor Jones’ condition was made Twickenham internationals Tomkins, Henry Trinder and stroke ahead of his squad’s test known on the day the union out for season against Australia, Argentina Luther Burrell into the Senior against the All Blacks in Tokyo announced a 32-man squad for and world champions New EPS, with Luther joining us as on November 2, officials said the All Blacks test and a four- Zealand. injury cover so it will be great for yesterday. game tour of Europe. opener: Coach Gloucester’s Henry Trinder, him to come in and put a marker The 53-year-old Australian In a press statement, Jones Saracens’ former rugby league star down in what is going to be a com- complained of a headache late declared the Brave Blossoms BEIJING: Kobe Bryant’s Joel Tomkins and Northampton’s petitive selection leading into the Tuesday when he returned to were raring to upset the world recovery from an Achilles in-form Luther Burrell were all Australia game.” Tokyo from an inspection of the champions. injury will likely keep him out included in a 34-man squad after After playing the Wallabies, Brave Blossoms’ training camp, “I am excited to create another of his team’s season-opener in injuries deprived Lancaster of England will face the Pumas a spokeswoman for the Japan new history,” he said, recalling two weeks, Los Angeles Lakers Manu Tuilagi and Brad Barritt, (November 9) and the All Blacks Rugby Football Union said. Japan’s victories over Georgia head coach Mike D’Antoni said who starred in England’s shock (November 16) on successive “He was with the team’s staff at examination and was expected and Romania last year -- their yesterday. 38-21 win over the All Blacks at weekends at Twickenham. the time and they went together to be “moved to a general ward first test wins in Europe outside Bryant Twickenham last year. Squad: Backs: Chris Ashton to a hospital in Tokyo by taxi,” in a few days.” of a Rugby World Cup -- as well (pictured), They will compete for midfield (Saracens), Mike Brown Mayuko Watanabe said. Former Springbok coach Jake as their defeat of under-strength 35, suffered spots along with Billy Twelvetrees (Harlequins), Freddie Burns “The doctors said he was show- White, one of Jones’ close friends Wales at home in June this year. a season- and Kyle Eastmond. (Gloucester), Luther Burrell ing signs of a light cerebral inf- in South Africa, told the rugby “I have selected the best 32 ending torn Trinder’s selection was espe- (Northampton), Danny Care arction and he was hospitalised website Keo.co.za that he had spo- players who are performing well left Achilles’ cially eye-catching after he was (Harlequins), Lee Dickson for examination.” ken to Jones’ wife. at the moment.” tendon last omitted from both the elite player (Northampton) Kyle Eastmond Japan general manager “He is in intensive care and he The squad included two April and squad (EPS) and the reserve (Bath), Owen Farrell (Saracens), Kensuke Iwabuchi told Japanese currently doesn’t have movement uncapped players, Yamaha only recently Saxons squad named in August. Toby Flood (Leicester), Ben media Jones was conscious and on his left side but he is talking Jubilo No. 8 Kyosuke Horie and returned Also selected was five-times Foden (Northampton), Alex able to talk. - and typical of Eddie - it’s about Panasonic Wild Knights wing from capped Exeter flanker Tom Goode (Saracens), Henry Trinder “He has no problem with the challenge of the All Blacks Akihito Yamada, along with Germany Johnson, brought in after Tom (Gloucester), Joel Tomkins communicating.” and the subsequent European four New Zealand-born play- where he had Croft was ruled out following (Saracens), Billy Twelvetrees Another union official said tour,” said White. ers -- Luke Thompson, Michael an innovative knee surgery. (Gloucester), Christian Wade Jones was put in an intensive The union official said he had Broadhurst, Justin Ives and Male procedure on an arthritic right Speaking at Lloyd’s of London, (Wasps), Marland Yarde (London care unit as a routine step in heard about the paralysis. “But Sa’u. AFP knee. Lancaster said: “We have been Irish), Ben Youngs (Leicester “No, I don’t think so,” D’Antoni looking forward to this QBE Tigers) told reporters when asked if Internationals series ever since Forwards: David Attwood Bryant would be ready for the we got back from Argentina (Bath), Dan Cole (Leicester), Ireland’s Zebo ruled out of November tests Lakers’ 2013-14 season opener (where a second-string England Alex Corbisiero (Northampton), DUBLIN: Ireland winger Simon Zebo will miss November tests, also broke his foot in the Six versus the Los Angeles Clippers side deprived of their British Tom Johnson (Exeter), Dylan the country’s three November internationals Nations Championships earlier this year after on October 29. “It’s an ongoing and Irish Lions players as well Hartley (Northampton), after being ruled out for 10 weeks with a cracked impressing in Ireland’s sole win against champi- process, but that would be tough.” as rested captain Chris Robshaw Matt Kvesic (Gloucester), Joe bone in his foot, his club side Munster said ons Wales. Bryant, a five-time National won a two-match series 2-0 in Launchbury (Wasps), Courtney yesterday. New Irish coach Joe Schmidt already had to plan Basketball Association champion June). Lawes (Northampton), Joe Zebo, who won a late call up to the British and for a season without Leinster hooker Richardt and 15-time All-Star, was with his “As a coaching group we have Marler (Harlequins), Ben Morgan Irish Lions tour of Australia in June, limped off Strauss who was diagnosed with a heart condition team for yesterday’s pre-season watched a lot of rugby and we (Gloucester), Geoff Parling during Munster’s surprise Heineken Cup defeat to last week. game in Beijing and watched from are pleased with the form of the (Leicester), Chris Robshaw Edinburgh last weekend. Schmidt will take charge of the side for the the Lakers bench as the Golden squad. The camp is an important (Harlequins), Billy Vunipola He will miss the former European champions first time against Samoa on November 9 before State Warriors enjoyed a 100-95 part of our preparation and we (Saracens), Mako Vunipola next three group games. the visit of Australia a week later and the series win. are looking forward to meeting (Saracens), David Wilson (Bath), The 23-year-old flyer, who filled in at full- closer against the former Leinster coach’s native The two teams will play up. Tom Wood (Northampton), Tom back when he made his debut during last year’s New Zealand on November 24. REUTERS again tomorrow in Shanghai. “Inevitably there have been Youngs (Leicester). AFP REUTERS THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

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ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK PRAYER TIME Eleanor Catton wins Booker Prize Fajr (Dawn) 4:16 LONDON: New Zealand author Eleanor Catton yesterday became the youngest Shorook (Sunrise) 5:33 winner of the Man Booker Prize for fic- Zuhr (Noon) 11:19 tion, claiming the award for her novel The Luminaries. Asr (Afternoon) 2:38 Catton, 28, picked up the 2013 prize at a Maghrib (Sunset) 5:06 ceremony at London’s Guildhall, becoming Isha (Night) 6:36 only the second New Zealander to win the prestigious award. The novel, described as a “Kiwi Twin Peaks”, follows fortune-seeker Walter Moody as he is drawn into a web of mystery during the New WEATHER Zealand gold rush of the mid-1800s. Catton thanked the Booker board “for Today Friday Weather providing the value and the worth for this Saturday Conditions: extraordinary prize” on picking up her award. Clear Clear Clear She later told a press conference that “it Fine. was just a white wall,” when her name was announced. On her age, she said: “I feel very honoured High: 35° High: 34° High: 34° and proud to be living in a world where the Low: 24° Low: 25° Low: 24° facts of somebody’s biography doesn’t give them a way of how people read their work, and I think that’s true of age and also of eth- nicity and all sort of other features of being DOHA - SUN & SEA human.” Chairman of judges Robert Macfarlane SUN TIDE SEA described the 832-page book, the longest work ever to win the prize, as “dazzling”. WIND SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW “The Luminaries is a magnificent novel,” he 05:33 17:06 03:45 & 15:30 09:30 & 22:00 05/15 KT said. “Awesome in its structural complexity, addictive in its storytelling and magical in its THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW conjuring of a world of greed and gold. “The maturity of this work exists in every New Zealand author Eleanor Catton after winning the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER sentence, indeed every sentence, and you are book The Luminaries in central London on Tueday. astonished by its knowledge and its poise.” MUSCAT 34/26 Partly cloudy 34/24 Clear Catton was 25 when she started writing the KUWAIT 34/24 Clear 35/26 Clear book and 27 when she completed it. Zimbabwe and Ireland. the Booker as a Commonwealth-only prize, BAHRAIN 32/25 Clear 31/24 Clear New Zealand Prime Minister John Key led US writers and those from any other part saying the contest would lose some of its the tributes. of the world will also qualify from next year, character. SANAA 25/11 Clear 25/11 Clear “This is a hugely significant achievement although the novel must still be an original “For me the great thing about the RIYADH 37/22 Clear 38/23 Clear on the world stage for a New Zealander,” Key work in English. Booker Prize is that up to now it’s been a DUBAI 35/25 Clear 34/27 Clear said in a statement. Catton topped a six-person shortlist that Commonwealth prize reminding us about BAGHDAD 35/18 Clear 36/18 Clear “This will be a tremendous boost for young also included English writer Jim Crace, shared history,” he told an audience at a lit- New Zealanders in the arts and is a testa- Zimbabwean NoViolet Bulawayo, Indian erary festival this week. THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW ment to the obvious talent and hard work of American author Jhumpa Lahiri, Canadian- “Not always happy shared history, but there Eleanor Catton.” American novelist Ruth Ozeki and Ireland’s is a solidarity and cousinship between us. I am HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Booksellers New Zealand chief executive Colm Toibin. worried about losing that,” he added. Lincoln Gould said orders for Catton’s book She takes the title of youngest winner from Julian Barnes, the 2011 winner, also ATHENS 20/15 Chance of rain 27/15 Clear rose hours after her win. Ben Okri, who was 32 when he won in 1991, expressed concern about the change, saying: WASHINGTON 23/12 Chance of showers 18/09 Partly cloudy “It’s a tremendous success for New Zealand and becomes the second Kiwi winner following “I think that prizes thrive on having some SYDNEY 21/10 Partly cloudy 21/12 Mostly cloudy publishing and will help book sales in a market Keri Hulme’s triumph in 1985. restriction to them.” LONDON 12/10 Mostly cloudy 17/11 Chance of rain that’s been somewhat depressed,” he said. Bulawayo was the first black African woman “There’s a certain cultural cringe in this PARIS 18/13 Partly cloudy 19/13 Mostly cloudy Prince Charles’s wife the Duchess of to be shortlisted for the Booker, for We Need country to the big American books and I fear ISTANBUL 17/12 Rain 15/13 Chance of rain Cornwall presented Canadian-born Catton New Names, the tale of a 10-year-old girl who that British writers will win it much less MANILA 31/23 Partly cloudy 32/24 Partly cloudy with the £50,000 ($80,000) prize, widely rec- escapes poverty at home only to find new often,” he told BBC radio. DHAKA 32/24 Chance of storm 32/24 Chance of storm ognised as Britain’s highest literary honour. problems in the United States. Hilary Mantel made literary history last DELHI 32/20 Clear 32/20 Clear This year, the Booker’s 45th, is the final Pre-ceremony favourite Crace, whose year by becoming the first woman and the first ISLAMABAD 30/17 Chance of rain 30/16 Partly cloudy year the prize will be restricted to writers book is set in village under mortal threat British author to become a two-time winner from the Commonwealth and former members from outsiders, spoke out against the end of of the award. AFP