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The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani performing Umrah in Makkah yester- day. See also page 3 SYSTEM US embassy in Doha to remain shut tomorrow DOHA: The US embassy in Qatar and some two dozen US embassies and con- THE ISSUE sulates in Muslim-majority countries and Israel would be closed tomorrow. The mission in Doha may remain closed The final results of preparatory and school, where they have not set foot even once question of why so many students failed in for additional days, a press statement issued in a year, and on teachers whom they haven’t the final exams of the preparatory and sec- by the embassy said, as the United States secondary school examinations this met before to enquire about how their children ondary schools this year, as provided by some issued a worldwide alert yesterday warning year have come as a shocker for are doing. commentators: of plans by Al Qaeda to launch an attack in the Qatari community at large. But Easy access to money and modern gadgets According to them, the Independent schools the Middle East or North Africa in August. seem to be spoiling children as, according to some were holding the final exams on their own and The State Department issued the caution education experts and community commentators, many of them are busy most of declaring results. to US citizens, saying attacks were possible elders say the results should the time playing games, or chatting, or using Students were passing out in big numbers and “particularly in the Middle East and North social media on their expensive smartphones. there were hardly any failures. This, a commen- Africa, and possibly occurring in or ema- instead be taken as a wake-up “There are children who keep busy with their tator alleged, was aimed at showing that the nating from the Arabian Peninsula.” call for everyone involved — the smartphones the whole night, playing games school was imparting quality education and was education authorities, parents and and chatting, and head straight to school in the an ideal institution. ‘Occupation a wound morning,” said a commentator. This way, both the school managements and the community at large. A number of commentators have bitterly criti- parents were happy. But some parents were on Muslim world’ cized the SEC for shying away from its role as a shocked since their children passed with flying ccording to local media reports, more regulator of the schools after it introduced the colours but they realised to their shock that they DUBAI: Two days before his inaugu- than 7,000 students from both the Independent school system with much fanfare had little idea about the subjects “taught to them ration as Iran’s new president, Hassan school levels failed in the exams — a decade ago. in the school”, according to a commentator. Rouhani said yesterday that Israeli occu- Aa figure, experts say, is too big for a The SEC is drawing flak more for not doing Another commentator claimed that cheating pation of Palestinian land had inflicted a country with a small population like Qatar. enough to make sure that the Independent in the form of copying took place on a large scale “wound” on the Muslim world, according Surprisingly, education sector regulator, the schools imparted quality education and recruited in the schools and that is why no one failed. to a segment of his remarks broadcast on Supreme Education Council (SEC), is mysteri- teachers who were qualified and adequately Getting wind of the “irregularities”, the educa- Iran’s state-run Press TV. ously silent on the exact percentage of students experienced. tion authorities introduced a parallel exam sys- Full story on page who have failed. Teachers of Independent schools seem to have tem called the National Exams a few years ago. AGENCIES This has led to all kinds of speculation in the become lax as their pay packages are “fantastic” According to this system, Independent schools community as well as in the media over the ratio, and match those in key sectors like oil and gas. would conduct exams with maximum marks of with some suggesting the percentage could be as Local media reports suggested in May 2012 70, with the students being required to appear high as 70 to 75. that the starting basic monthly salary of a for another set of tests carrying maximum Shocked parents have complained to the SEC Qatari teacher in an Independent school was marks of 30. RAMADAN TIMING and the schools, while a heated debate rages on proposed to be raised to QR40,000 ($11,000) and The gap between the two exams used to be the issue on local social networking sites. they would be entitled to a yearly increment of normally a fortnight. Some commentators, while lauding the new between one and six percent. This year, the education authorities suddenly Today’s Iftar exam system, are pointing accusing fingers at the Also, an increasing number of teachers are reversed the ratio, increasing the maximum parents, most of whom, they say, don’t care how becoming involved in the racket of private tui- marks for the National Exam to 70 and reduc- 6:20pm their children fare in the school and whether tions, where the fee for teaching science and ing that of the schools to 30. they study seriously or not the whole year. mathematics, for instance, can go up to QR350 The students and their parents were not PAGE“These parents suddenly 6 wake up at the time an hour. informed of the changed system, so the exami- Tomorrow’s Imsak exam results are out and begin screaming or “Education is being ruthlessly commercial- nees were caught off guard, and that explains begin rejoicing depending on their children’s ised,” complained a commentator, citing the this year’s poor pass percentage, according to 03:28am scorecard,” said a commentator. above rate. some commentators. The parents mostly take out their ire on the And here is the answer to the most puzzling See also page 2

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DOHA: The poor results of this examinations rather than con- “This is because the exami- system was not explained to the limbo, not knowing who was year’s second term examina- ducting it at one time at the end nation was recently introduced, parents through the media or responsible for the failure, the tion for students of preparatory of the school year,” said Hassa, and last year it did not exceed 30 other means of communication. school or the SEC. and secondary Independent another student. percent weight in the total score, He suggested the exams be con- She also pointed out the prob- schools have earned the ire of A big factor that caused the so the students did not take it ducted twice a year and not at one lem of shortage of teachers in many parents, and education failures, she pointed out, was stu- seriously. But this year it was time. He criticised the profes- In the past, the SEC’s Independent schools, which has experts see them as proof of dents’ lack of adequate prepara- changed to 70 percent,” he said. sional file, which requires teach- policy encouraged prompted many of them to hire the failure of the Independent tion for the exams. He admitted the examinations ers to attend training sessions Independent schools unqualified teachers. school system after 10 years of “There was only a two-week gap could have been above the level of and workshops to update their Some experts, however, believe implementation. between the school and national the students since Independent professional qualifications. This to pass students to that teachers alone can’t bear In the Qatari Independent exams, and that was not enough schools come up with their own puts additional burden on teach- show the system as the responsibility because they school system, for a student to get for us to prepare,” she said. teaching content. ers, making them less effective. are overloaded with work and promoted he or she has to pass Hamad Hanzab, a preparatory “A common syllabus is followed “They spend too much time in successful, at the students stay for long hours in two sets of examinations, which school director, said the percent- but the content is determined by workshops and training courses expense of quality schools. consist of an exam conducted age of students who failed was the teacher, so how were they able which are done during the school Musaad Saeed Al Hajaji, a by the school and another by high and the majority of them had to come up with the exams?” he year parallel to teaching,” he said. education. human resources expert, said the Supreme Education Council failed in mathematics. asked, adding that the new exam Another school operator said the SEC’s policies keep teachers (SEC). the shocking exam results were busy attending training courses Last year, the school exams the outcome of the SEC’s wrong affected students, she added. to finish their professional file, an carried more weight (70 percent) policy. In the past, he said, Blaming the SEC’s policies, annual requirement for them. compared to the national exams People vent fury online the SEC’s policy encouraged she said the curriculum should “Such kind of professional (30 percent), but this academic Independent schools to pass stu- be centralised and not left to the training should be given only to year this was reversed, resulting DOHA: The failure of thou- “Teachers don’t have the feeling dents in exams to show the sys- discretion of each school. new teachers and not to seasoned in the failure of the large majority sands of students in the that they belong to the profes- tem as successful, at the expense Dr Ahmad Al Emadi, a profes- ones,” he said. of test takers. national examinations con- sion, and students have lost their of quality education. sor at Qatar University’s College Long working hours and few This school year, the school ducted by the Supreme identity. What do you expect “This policy bred complacency of Education, said that in its benefits have made teaching an exams and national exams were Education Council has drawn from the result?” among students and parents, who first year of implementation, the unattractive profession, and few conducted just two weeks apart. flak online from Qatari neti- Darea Al Dosari said everyone thought they would pass anyway, transition from 30 percent to 70 Qataris accept teaching jobs. In total, 7,333 students at the zens, who see it as a failure had their share in the failure of so the examinations were not percent weight had caught the “For example, petroleum com- preparatory and secondary lev- of the Independent school the students, from the SEC to taken seriously,” he said. students by surprise. panies provide clubs and other els failed in the examination -- a system. the parents and the students Wadha Al Naimi, director of He said one of the main rea- forms of leisure to their employ- large number for a small country Faisal Marzooki expressed themselves. Barzan Preparatory School, feels sons for the failure of the students ees, which teachers don’t enjoy,” like Qatar. This disappointed the utter disbelief at the results, “Parents have their share in the SEC should be dissolved and was that the Independent school he said. children and parents, who had tweeting: “It is interesting to this because they are not doing there should instead be separate system was introduced without National exams, he said, needed invested their time and money for see none of the schools in Doha the necessary follow-up with departments for primary, pre- being piloted. to be reviewed and prepared their children’s education. passed,” adding that what had their children at home,” she said. paratory and secondary schools Piloting, he said, was important according to the curriculum. On Tuesday, many parents happened was the “result of tak- Students, on the other hand, under the umbrella of the educa- as it shows both the negative and Teachers’ opinions should be con- went to the education minister’s ing decisions alone and sheer are to blame for their failure tion ministry. positive of aspects of a new sys- sidered in drafting the curricu- office demanding revocation of arrogance.” because they don’t spend much “The ministry can also be tem; and when it was introduced lum, which should be prepared by the results, which the Minister of “Nobody is condemning this time studying and doing their responsible for hiring qualified the students were made to pass experts. Education and Higher Education, crime, which has continued for homework, instead they spend teachers instead of the schools when they were not supposed to. Dr Hassan Rashid, a writer, said H E Dr Mohamed Abdul Wahid 12 years, and the people who a lot of time playing electronic recruiting the teaching staff,” she Qatar University students the experience of Independent Al Hammadi, who is also have committed this crime are games and going to souqs, she said, adding the SEC must make dropping out were a manifesta- schools was new for Qataris, Secretary-General of the SEC, still in position,” he continued. added. policy amendments in the light of tion of an education system short therefore, the system needed rejected, saying the results were He called those who had failed She blamed the SEC for the the exam results. of achievements as these students assessment and amendment in final and could not be altered. He, “victims”, and criticised the peo- absence of regulations on stu- According to a school operator, were products of the Independent policies taking into consideration however, told them they could see ple for their silence: “We lost a dent discipline and the pres- the evaluation system needs to be school system, he added. the outcomes of the past 10 years. for themselves how their children lot, including the future of our ence of unqualified Independent flexible and not be the basis for With regard to the curricu- He is for the adoption and had performed by requesting children, because of our silence.” school operators, which contrib- passing or failing students. lum, he said it was not logical implementation of discipli- re-evaluation of answer sheets “Our education system has uted to an extent to the stu- Dr Amina Al Emadi, an edu- for schools to prepare their own, nary rules for students because through the laid down procedures. always been a victim and waste dents’ failure. cation expert who said she had and the SEC could seek help or he believes teachers need to be To pacify the parents, the SEC of time because of random plans “The curriculum does not suit warned earlier of possible nega- support from professional teach- respected. asked them to fill out complaint and unstudied policies,” tweeted the students’ learning needs and tive results of the second term ers and university professors to “The Minister of Education forms to be forwarded to the rel- Amina Al Kuwari. the student evaluation policy is exam, demanded it be cancelled prepare the educational material. must take a brave decision to stop evant bodies. “We were looking forward unclear,” she said. or more weight be given to exams Dr Ghadnana Saeed Albinali of this examination since there is no A mother said her son was one with hope to the Independent A review of policies on stu- conducted by the schools. QU College of Education was of common curriculum followed in of those who performed well in school system, but this high dent evaluation, close contact Since there was no proper the same view on the detrimen- the exams and this causes high school; in fact he had passed the rate of failure is shocking, and with parents, and consultation coordination between the schools tal effect of Independent schools rates of failures, disappoint- first term exams. unfortunately nobody is feeling with parents in developing edu- and the Evaluation Institute at devising their own curriculum. ing students and parents,” said “But he failed the second term concerned,” said Mubarak. cational policies were some of Al the SEC, they didn’t know the “Students were not familiar Abdulaziz Al Mulla, an education exams, which were traumatic for The Independent school sys- Dosari’s recommendations. ability and preparedness of the with the exams and this needs expert, adding the education min- him, so we had to take him to the tem must be scrapped and there “I suggest the minister select students for whom they were con- to create awareness among stu- istry earlier did not interfere in doctor,” she said. should be a return to the old qualified staff who would go to ducting the exams, she said. dents and parents, who were most school exams. Umm Badr, another mother, education system, according to the field to assess the situation The SEC suffered from insta- affected by what happened,” she Faisal Al Marzooki, a column- was frustrated that her daugh- one Aisha. themselves and not just wait for bility in policymaking and deci- said. ist, said more than 5,000 stu- ter would lose an entire academic Another Twitter user, Khaled, reports.” sions that hurt the education The parents of those who had dents had lost one year of their year for failing in one subject. blamed teachers for the results, THE PENINSULA system, which had ultimately failed, she said, were left in a lives because of the results of the “Why doesn’t the SEC change exams. this policy? Even teachers were He said the current educa- shocked by the results,” she said. tion system did not maintain the Some of the students felt they honour and dignity of teachers were victims of the national as many teachers of Independent exams and the online evaluation schools had been found coaching system. students in giving the correct “We may have our own weak- answers in exams. nesses, but the evaluation was not “And this is happening because satisfactory as many of us were of the school director’s policies not aware of the big weight the that make teachers accountable second term exams would carry,” for students’ failure. This encour- said a student. ages teachers to construct easy Mohammad, another student, questions and be more flexible in said: “I accept my failure, but their corrections.” the exam was way above our Such practices would make the level, which the school failed to Qatari community suffer, he said, raise. Our weaknesses were not adding that the SEC was also addressed at the primary school putting pressure on Independent level and got exacerbated at the schools and forcing them to try secondary level.” their best to come up with satis- “The questions were so difficult factory exam results at their level. to understand because we were He said the former education not used to such type of questions, minister’s policies had, to a great and they encompass the entire extent, contributed to the current year. I think it would be better mess in education in the country. for students to have semester THE PENINSULA Pic: Qassim Rahmatullah Home AUGUST 3, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY Emir meets King Abdullah during Saudi visit JEDDAH: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday arrived in Jeddah on a one-day visit to Saudi Arabia. The Emir and his delegation were welcomed at King Abdul Aziz International Airport by the Governor of Makkah, Al Mukarramah Region, Prince Khalid Al Faisal, the Minister of State and Cabinet Member, Dr Mussaad bin Mohamed Al Aiban, and Qatar’s Ambassador Ali bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud. The Emir met the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at Al Safa Palace in Makkah. Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Prince Abdul’Ilah bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Adviser to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Second Deputy Prime Minister and Adviser and Special Envoy of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques were also present, along with the Emir’s delegation. Talks covered relations and ways of developing them in various fields as well as latest regional and international developments. The Emir also attended an iftar banquet hosted by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in his honour. Later, the Emir left Saudi Arabia. The Emir was seen off at King Abdul Aziz International Airport by Prince Khalid Al Faisal, Dr Al Aiban and Al The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. RIGHT: The Emir with the Governor of Mahmoud. QNA Makkah Prince Khalid Al Faisal. Emir pardons 17 Indian prisoners Three Asian swimmers

DOHA: There were 17 Indians among prisoners granted the Emiri pardon on rescued off Semaisma the occasion of Ramadan, the Indian BY AZMAT HAROON Ambassador, Sanjiv Arora, told a press Qatar every month due to accidents related conference yesterday. to swimming, official figures suggest. The prisoners serving terms from DOHA: Three Asians were rescued in Some professional sea divers also die six months to five years have been par- the sea by Coast Guard personnel off the while working in oil and gas rigs. They go doned by the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim Semaisma beach yesterday. They are in deep into the sea to repair and maintain bin Hamad Al Thani in a “supreme good condition. pipes and machinery. gesture”. The Director of the Coast Guard “Many companies have divers who go Since the pardon order has been issued Department told The Peninsula yester- 50 metres deep and more for underwater ahead of Eid Al Fitr, they will be able to day that they received a operations to change and celebrate the festival with their families. call about the trio hav- clean pipes. The Indians were convicted of crimes, ing strayed from the “We are told that they including theft, dishonesty, driving under shore near the beach and are professionals. Next day the influence of alcohol, sexual abuse, immediately a rescue team (after an accident), we find homosexuality, assault, rape and other saved them. that they only have gen- offences. Two of them, who eral diving certificates and The Indian embassy, like the embassies seemed to have been stuck not the professional ones of other countries, keeps forwarding par- in the sea, were rescued required for those involved don requests to the government on the immediately, and the third in sub-sea oil maintenance occasion of Eid Al Fitr and National Day. one was also found in the and search operations,” According to the Indian embassy, four nick of time. Brigadier Al Bedeed said. prisoners were released before the Emiri The Deputy Chief of Mission at the Indian embassy, P S Sasi Kumar, addressing the press “We got a rescue call in As per a new law on the pardon. Of the 17, nine are Hindus, seven conference after the monthly Open House yesterday. With him are the President of Indian the day about three Asians anvil, rules and regulations Muslims, and one is Christian. Community Benevolent Forum, Kareem Abdullah, (left) and the Assistant Counselling that had drifted away from for training professional Some were sentenced for entering the shore while swimming. divers and their licensing Officer at the embassy, Shiv Lal Meena. SALIM MATRAMKOT others’ properties with the intention of “We immediately dis- will come under the juris- committing crime and some for issuing patched patrolling teams diction of the Coast Guard dud cheques. information, however, we are expecting a Officials at the Nepal embassy could who began a search,” Department. The embassy’s Labour and Community list of pardoned prisoners, maybe tomor- not be contacted despite attempts by The Brigadier Ali Ahmed Brigadier Ali Ahmed Al Bedeed Brigadier Al Bedeed said Welfare Wing said there were 48 Indians, row (today).” Peninsula. Al Bedeed, Director of that in some cases, people including two women, in the central An official at the Philippine embassy, Indian embassy Deputy Chief of the Coasts and Borders also dive alone at night, prison before the pardon, while 192, who gave only his first name as John, Mission, P S Sasi Kumar, Assistant Security Department, said. which is dangerous and risky, as well as including 24 women, were detained at said: “I am not authorised to provide Counselling Officer, Shiv Lal Meena and “They are in good condition. We do not against international laws. the deportation centre. information. Any information about the the President of Indian Community of want to issue any warning to swimmers He urged people to call 999 in case of The Community Welfare Attaché at number of pardoned prisoners by the Benevolent Forum, Kareem Abdullah, but we urge people not to swim in the open an accident so that rescue teams can be the Pakistan embassy, Rashid Nizami, Emiri order will not be available before were also present at the press confer- sea,” he said. dispatched promptly. said: “So far we have not received any Sunday.” ence. THE PENINSULA At least two to three people drown in THE PENINSULA

Technicians repairing the traffic lights box. RIGHT: The damaged Land Cruiser involved in the freak accident. SALIM MATRAMKOT Traffic box, exchange house damaged in freak mishap DOHA: A young man driving a The vehicle slammed into a Land Cruiser was injured after nearby Al Mana Exchange, but he knocked down a traffic light not before knocking down the pole at the main intersection on traffic light pole that guides the C Ring Road near Toyota motorists towards the airport Tower, causing disruption in the road. traffic lights system yesterday The man suffered injuries and afternoon. was rushed for emergency medi- The motorist, according to wit- cal care. His condition could not nesses, was a Qatari who seemed be known at the time of going to to have lost control of the vehicle press. It could also not be known as he suddenly took left at the if any staffer or customer was intersection. present in the exchange house at He was coming in high speed the time and suffered injuries due The damaged exterior of Al Mana Exchange office. from the direction of the VIP to the freak mishap. Roundabout. As he curved left An official from utility distribu- “Maybe, it would 12 hours, a technicians arrived on the from the signal towards the road tor Kahramaa told The Peninsula day or two days. We can’t say scene to assess the damage leading to the airport, his vehi- that the entire box system of the with certainty how much time and begin repair work, traffic cle was flung away. It was around traffic light pole was shattered so the repair would take. The box police diverted traffic, putting 4pm when the bizarre accident he could not tell how much time is fully gone,” he said. barricades. took place. it would take to repair it. A little before Kahramaa THE PENINSULA AUGUST 3, 2013 Home / Mideast ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

Emir, Premier greet Macedonia president DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of congratulations to the President of Macedonia, Gjorge Ivanov, on his coun- try’s National Day. The Prime Minister and Minister of Interior H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a similar cable to President Ivanov. Qatar, Bahamas to establish ties

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TALY’S media mogul Silvio Berlusconi is not used to being humiliated. So even when the banga-banga party scandal Google searching got us a visit raged when he was the prime minister, Berlusconi was Istanding upright, treating the whole thing like a storm in the teacup. So it is natural that he would feel shaken by the latest Supreme Court verdict that found him guilty of tax from counterterrorism police fraud. Berlusconi is spitting fury at the verdict, and when he BY MICHELE CATALANO spits fury, all of Italy will listen because he is a media magnate. I was at work when it happened. My one could walk around a garage strewn All of his media will serve as his megaphone, and also his party, husband called me as soon as it was over, with yard working equipment and vari- which is also powerful. T WAS A confluence of magnifi- almost laughing about it, but I wasn’t ous junk. They went back in the house After a three-day hearing, the five judges of the supreme cent proportions that led to six joining in the laughter. His call left me and asked more questions. Have you court rejected Berlusconi’s final appeal against a verdict agents from the joint terrorism shaken and anxious. ever looked up how to make a pressure handed down by two lower courts which sentenced the media task force to knock on my door What happened was this: At about cooker bomb? My husband, ever the Wednesday morning. Little did my 9am, my husband, who happened to be oppositional kind, asked them if they mogul to four years in jail - commuted to one year under an Ihusband and I know that our seemingly home yesterday, was sitting in the living themselves weren’t curious as to how amnesty. The conviction is the first in up to 30 court cases innocent, if curious to a fault, Googling room with our two dogs when he heard a a pressure cooker bomb works, if they the four-times prime minister has faced on charges ranging of certain things were creating a perfect couple of cars pull up outside. He looked ever looked it up. Two of them admitted from fraud and corruption to having sex with an underage storm of terrorism profiling. Because out the window and saw three black they did. prostitute. The former prime minister now faces the threat of somewhere out there, someone was SUVs in front of our house; two at the By this point they had realized they watching. Someone whose job it is to curb in front and one pulled up behind were not dealing with terrorists. They a year under house arrest or in community service as well as piece together the things people do on my husband’s Jeep in the driveway, as if asked my husband about his work, his losing his seat in parliament. An anti-corruption law passed the internet raised the red flag when to block him from leaving. Six gentle- visits to South Korea and China. The last year by Mario Monti’s government means that Berlusconi they saw our search history. man in casual clothes emerged from the tone was conversational. will not be allowed to stand for election for at least six years Most of it was innocent enough. I had vehicles and spread out as they walked They never asked to see the comput- and it also means that the Italian researched pressure cookers. My hus- toward the house, two toward the back- ers on which the searches were done. senate will have to vote on whether to band was looking for a backpack. And yard on one side, two on the other side, They never opened a drawer or a cabi- Silvio maybe in another time those two things two toward the front door. net. They left two rooms unsearched. I expel him as senator with immediate together would have seemed innocuous, A million things went through my guess we didn’t fit the exact profile they Berlusconi effect. but we are in “these times” now. And in husband’s head. None of which were were looking for so they were just going The court verdict has plunged these times, when things like the Boston right. He walked outside and the men through the motions. must place Italy’s fragile coalition government, bombing happen, you spend a lot of time greeted him by flashing badges. He could They mentioned that they do this Italy’s interests already struggling to contain deep on the internet reading about it and, if see they all had guns holstered in their about 100 times a week. And that 99 divisions over tax and economic you are my exceedingly curious, news waistbands. of those visits turn out to be nothing. I above himself junkie 20-year-old son, you click a lot “Are you [name redacted]?” one don’t know what happens on the other policy, into a fresh crisis. The centre- of links when you read the myriad of asked while glancing at a clipboard. He 1% of visits and I’m not sure I want to and accept the left Prime Minister Enrico Letta stories. You might just read a CNN piece affirmed that was indeed him, and was know what my neighbours are up to. Supreme Court said yesterday that Italy must have about how bomb making instructions are asked if they could come in. Sure, he Forty-five minutes later, they shook a stable government, saying the last readily available on the internet and you said. They asked if they could search the my husband’s hand and left. That’s verdict against thing the country needs is to be worn will in all probability, if you are that kid, house, though it turned out to be just a when he called me and relayed the story. click the link provided. cursory search. They walked around the That’s when I felt a sense of creeping him. down by partisan battles. Which might not raise any red flags. living room, studied the books on the dread take over. What else had I looked Berlusconi must accept the court Because who wasn’t reading those sto- shelf (nope, no bomb making books, no up? What kind of searches did I do that decision and must refrain from ries? Who wasn’t clicking those links? Anarchist Cookbook), looked at all our alone seemed innocent enough but put taking measures that will destabilize the government. He But my son’s reading habits combined pictures, glanced into our bedroom, pet together could make someone suspi- considers himself too powerful, which is true. If he places the with my search for a pressure cooker our dogs. They asked if they could go in cious? Were they judging me because my country’s interests above him, Italy will benefit, and if the and my husband’s search for a backpack my son’s bedroom but when my husband house was a mess (oh my God, the joint set off an alarm of sorts at the joint ter- said my son was sleeping in there, they terrorism task force was in my house reverse happens, Italy will face uncertainty and instability. rorism task force headquarters. let it be. and there were dirty dishes in my sink!). “If there is no reform of the justice system, we are ready for That’s how I imagine it played out, Meanwhile, they were peppering my Mostly I felt a great sense of anxiety. new elections,” Berlusconi has told lawmakers of his People anyhow. Lots of bells and whistles and husband with questions. Where is he This is where we are at. Where you have of Freedom party (PDL). That is an ominous sign. There is a a crowd of task force workers huddled from? Where are his parents from? They no expectation of privacy. Where trying possibility that some senior party members may ask President around a computer screen looking at our asked about me, where was I, where do I to learn how to cook some lentils could Giorgio Napolitano to pardon Berlusconi - an idea the Google history. work, where do my parents live. Do you possibly land you on a watch list. Where This was weeks ago. I don’t know what have any bombs, they asked. Do you own you have to watch every little thing you president had rejected last month and could resign from the took them so long to get here. Maybe a pressure cooker? My husband said no, do because someone else is watching government if rebuffed. they were waiting for some other devious but we have a rice cooker. Can you make every little thing you do. Berlusconi is a blemish on Italian politics and an example Google search to show up, but “what the a bomb with that? My husband said no, All I know is if I’m going to buy a pres- of how media power and money power can wreck the system. hell do I do with quinoa” and “Is A-Rod my wife uses it to make quinoa. What sure cooker in the near future, I’m not The Supreme Court, with its verdict, has shown that nobody suspended yet” didn’t fit into the equa- the hell is quinoa, they asked. doing it online. tion so they just moved in based on those They searched the backyard. They I’m scared. And not of the right things. is above the law. If Berlusconi is trying to challenge that, the older searches. walked around the garage, as much as THE GUARDIAN country will not be living up to the high European standards. The other side Quote of Climate change may lead to hotter and more violent future the day ARTH’S atmosphere seems murder, assault and rape. psychological and economic studies been forced to act outside Congress, to have found a way to get Rising temperatures are especially that show people simply behave more through the Environmental Protection back at the human race. For provocative. A shift toward greater aggressively or violently when tem- Agency, to limit carbon-dioxide pol- Ealmost three centuries, we warmth of one standard deviation peratures are higher. Unfortunately, lution from coal- fired power plants. humans have been filling the air with caused personal violence to increase by humans also fight, if nonviolently, over Republicans in the House have predict- We the Shias of carbon dioxide, methane and other 2.5 percent and intergroup conflict by climate change itself — specifically, ably introduced legislation to forbid any greenhouse gases. Now, it turns out, 24 percent. over how, and how quickly, to reduce such action. This resistance is espe- the world will the climate change these emissions Why? The science so far doesn’t our destructive emissions. This makes cially frustrating because the longer we have wrought is turning people against answer this question, though it’s easy the necessary reductions difficult. The wait, the harder it becomes to lower not abandon one another. enough to imagine how subsistence United Nations Framework Convention emissions. Delaying the start of action So says a review, published this farmers could come into greater con- on Climate Change, for example, origi- just five years, from 2020 to 2025, Palestine, the week, of 60 studies on how climate flict with one another as their croplands nally aimed to have an accord set- would drastically dim any hope of limit- change helps spark conflict through- become less productive. Or how, in the ting firm greenhouse-gas-reduction ing the rise in global mean temperature Palestinian people out the world. The researchers found a face of rising sea levels, coastal dwell- targets for all countries by 2009. It is to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees or the sacred surprisingly close link between climate ers could come to blows over shrink- now hoping to accomplish this task Celsius) — long considered the point at Sayyed Hassan change and civil wars, riots, invasions ing habitable land. The scientists who by 2015. Meanwhile, in the United which it becomes significantly more dif- sites in Palestine. Nasrallah and even personal violence such as did the review point as well to many States, President Barack Obama has ficult to adapt. The Washington Post Hezbollah leader AUGUST 3, 2013 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY Why paranoia is basis of Libya politics Libyans used to be afraid of a brutal state; now they are afraid of the absence of the state. BY CHRISTIAN CARYL accordingly. The demise of the dictator confronted his compatriots with the task his is an interesting time to be of building up a modern state where none in Libya. I arrived just a few had really existed before. days ago, but my brief stay Meanwhile, the turmoil and trauma has been checkered by assas- of an extraordinarily violent revolu- sinations, bombings, angry tion filled the vacuum with the militias Tpolitical protests, and one mass jailbreak. and armed political clans that dominate None happened in my immediate vicinity, Libyan politics today. It’s not literally a though, so it’s all felt far away. Hobbesian “war of all against all,” since Until Tuesday, that is. That’s when there’s little actual shooting involved, but I learned that the police had defused a there are times when it sure feels that car bomb parked in front of my hotel way. (presumably a message from one of the One of my friends here told me about sundry groups in Libya who regard for- a next-door neighbour who still keeps a eigners as an evil influence). tank, “liberated” from government forces It’s always an odd experience to dis- during the revolution, in his garage. cover that your own life has become part When asked why he still hangs on to it, of the news, however indirectly. And yet, the neighbour replies: “For emergencies.” perhaps irrationally, I still feel secure. You never know when a tank might come A fire engine arrives at the scene of explosions near judicial buildings in Benghazi. Our hotel is guarded by one of those in handy. heavily armed groups of men that are In this sense, Libya is a great case wide range of interest groups to air their not confronting the problems that can perhaps ultimately counter-productive, if an inescapable fact of life in today’s Libya, study in what the German sociologist problems, and there’s no question that only be solved by Libyans themselves. To it means confronting groups that embody and they seem to be taking their job Max Weber would have described as the that’s urgently needed. The sense of vul- be sure, all revolutions have a tendency to someone’s hometown pride. pretty seriously. My room is also pretty loss of the “state’s legitimate monopoly on nerability is compounded by an intense spawn conspiracy theories and xenopho- Tripoli, in this respect, is something of high up, and far back from the street, so violence.” In this country, that monopoly feeling of victimisation. Virtually every- bia; that’s a function of the uncertainty, an exception. The city is filled with mili- I should be fairly safe in an emergency. has become a polyopoly — everyone’s got one you meet has some tale of suffering confusion, and fear that emerge dur- tias from other parts of the country, who But the incident serves as a useful their own little piece of it. Commentator under the Gaddafi regime or the war that ing periods of dramatic transformation. are loath to give up their positions here reminder. If you’re in Libya, there’s prob- Hisham Matar put it extremely well in a put an end to it. But in Libya’s case there’s an even more for fear that will rob them of any chance ably a reason for that nagging sense of recent article: “Libyans used to be afraid Most of these stories are undoubtedly nefarious problem: The current militia- to make themselves heard. Having an paranoia: Somebody may very well be out of a brutal state; now they are afraid of true. (The number of those injured or based system is just stable enough to armed presence in the capital is a great to get you. Grasp this essential dynamic, the absence of the state.” traumatised during the revolution adds make dislodging or reforming it a major way of ensuring that you still have lev- and you’re already well on your way to People here are sharply aware of the yet another burden to Libyan society — challenge. erage over the government (as Islamist making sense of the country’s politics. invisible lines that now divide them from contributing, among other things, to a That’s because the militias who militias demonstrated a few months ago, The great English political thinker each other. Someone from the city of rising drug problem that the country is emerged from the revolution are, in most when they successfully pressured the Thomas Hobbes once theorised about Misrata would never think of setting foot singularly ill-equipped to deal with.) cases, genuine grassroots organisations government into passing a controversial the “state of nature” that characterised in the town of Bani Walid (or vice versa). But so far there’s been no serious effort that still have strong and organic ties to law by invading the ministries). human societies before the evolution of That’s because Bani Walid people to arrive at an objective account of who the communities that gave birth to them. Yet actual armed clashes among the modern government. He imagined this accuse the Misratans of committing a committed those crimes. The interim For the young men who belong to myriad groups here are strikingly rare condition as a bellum omnium contra massacre in their town after the war, government has made a few halting steps them, they serve as something like sur- — perhaps because the militias have omnes, a “war of all against all,” and he while Misratans see the Bani Walid folk towards establishing a law on transitional rogate extended families (some, indeed, achieved something like a “balance of ter- saw government, based on a “social con- as unrepentant Gaddafi loyalists of pre- justice that would address these prob- even have recreation centres where their ror” among themselves, as one Libyan put tract” between itself and the governed, cisely the kind who reduced their own lems, but the draft has little chance of members hang out together after hours it to me. “People are rational with their as the natural antidote. city to rubble during the fighting. Such passing in its present form — precisely — a major plus in a country where there weapons.” One thing is for sure: Libya is Post-revolution Libya feels like a vendettas permeate Libyan society — yet because it isn’t robust enough for many aren’t many options for late-night enter- unique. And anyone who wants to help it proving ground for Hobbes’ ideas. When there is so far not even the outline of legislators. The lack of any public dis- tainment). And in some communities, the solve its problems has to take that into Muammar Gaddafi still reigned, he made a mechanism to deal with them in any cussion is fostering a corrosive sense of militias are now closely intertwined with account. As for me, I’m looking forward sure that everything revolved around him, systematic way. There is much talk of a complacency. local governments. Disentangling the two to exploring this place some more. Just and Libya’s state institutions atrophied “national dialogue” that would enable a That happens to be a great excuse for is likely to prove a formidable task — and no bombs, please. WP-BLOOMBERG Egypt army’s destabilising actions The true face of The military may create a new Tory leaders generation of Islamist BY SADIQ KHAN ou should never under-estimate the Conservative capacity fighters, some for panic or complacency — and over a couple of months we have watched them switch seamlessly from one to the percentage of whom Yother. I’ve heard Tories describe, eyes half-closed as they gaze across Westminster, how they feel suddenly optimistic about sailing to victory at the next election on the S S Lynton Crosby. But may turn to terrorism. this week, even through the summer haze, it has been possible to discern a party that remains a barnacle-clad hulk I wouldn’t trust BY ROBERT KAGAN to get from one Thames bank to the other. First, Lord Howell — the chancellor’s father-in-law — called for wice last month, the Egyptian mili- fracking to be conducted in the “desolate” north-east. Realising tary opened fire on supporters of that this might cause offence, he tried to explain he had meant to ousted president Mohammed Mursi, refer to Lancashire. He then contrasted such “unloved places” in Tkilling more than 100 people. A few the north with “sensitive places down in Sussex”. If he’d dug a hole days ago, the military’s leader, General Abdel any deeper, he might have discovered shale gas himself. Fattah Al Sissi, asked Egyptians to go into the Next up was Grant Shapps, the Conservative party chairman, Egyptian soldiers sit on top of an armoured personnel carrier on a Cairo street. streets and give him a popular “mandate” to whose rather odd speech this week concluded with an admission fight “terrorism.” On Wednesday, the military- that his own printing company had sometimes found “disingenuous backed government ordered security forces to not even abide by US law requiring it to cut hunted down and their comrades killed in the reasons” to sack workers. A politician who for so long traded advice break up protests in Cairo. off that aid after the coup? The recent delay streets — all by a US-backed military. In the as a fictitious multimillionaire businessman called Michael Green The stage is set for a deadly govern- of F-16 deliveries had no effect. US, commentators call on the Brotherhood to really shouldn’t be boasting about making things up. ment assault not only against the Muslim Egypt’s military knows there has been only join the political process and, in the words of These examples signify more than comic incompetence. They Brotherhood but also against the millions of one constant in US policy toward its country New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, chime with the public’s view that the Conservatives are desperately Egyptians who voted for the Brotherhood in over the past three decades, including dur- halt “its war with the military.” and irretrievably out of touch. The reason these problems emerge elections over the past two years. Combined ing the turbulence of the past three years: Yet the Brotherhood and its followers did with such regularity is because David Cameron has not changed, and with the arrests on trumped-up charges of Regardless of who has been in power — Hosni not choose this war. While the military seeks will not change, his party. Wipe away the froth and people know the Mursi and others linked to the Brotherhood, Mubarak, the military, Mursi and now the their extermination, it will be hard for them Tories always stand up for a powerful and wealthy few. the military appears intent on eradicating military again — and how that government to believe that they will have a place in post- There are Tories, from Robert Halfon to Lord Heseltine, who the organisation from Egypt’s politics, jail- has behaved, military assistance has flowed. coup Egypt’s political order. understand that the degree to which their party is out of touch is a ing its leaders and followers or driving them We didn’t use our military aid to pressure Suspending aid now is not merely a matter deep problem when living standards of ordinary families are what underground. Mubarak to reform; we didn’t use it to pres- of principle or even of abiding by our own laws matters most. They know the Tories’ failure to address this weakness Through its continued support of the sure Mursi to govern more democratically; — although that ought to count for something. will become ever more apparent in the months to come. Egyptian military, the US is complicit in these and we are not using it now to pressure the As a practical security matter, we may pay a When he became Labour leader, Ed Miliband said the party had acts. Despite our repeated claims of neutral- military to cease its violent, undemocratic heavy price down the road for our complicity in to change on issues where we had lost touch. And he said that the ity and our calls for reconciliation, in reality behaviour. the military’s actions over the coming months. next election would be fought on living standards and the “squeezed we have taken sides in the burgeoning violent Leverage works only if there is a chance As a former director of the National middle”. confrontation. that it will be used. Given the US history of Counterterrorism Center recently told Last year he set out the new political project of making Britain We winked at the coup against a demo- unwavering support for the Egyptian military, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, one nation: a country where everyone must play their part if we cratically elected government, and, most its threats to end aid have no credibility. At the Brotherhood is not Al Qaeda. are to succeed in improving lives when there is less money around. important, we remain the leading provider this point, only an actual cutoff or suspen- The Brotherhood renounced violence and This year he has done much of the heavy lifting to build that of assistance to Egypt’s military: Even as vio- sion would shape the military’s calculations. terrorism years ago. But that could change in platform for the next election. It means doing more to help families lent and undemocratic intentions have become To those who argue that we must continue response to the military’s actions. Who knows struggling to make work pay, rather than cutting taxes for million- increasingly clear, the administration and providing aid in the interest of stability, one how many more the military will arrest, tor- aires. It means tackling the corporations that rip people off over Congress are pressing ahead with the annual has only to point to the past three years: Aid ture and kill in pursuit of its goal of driving electricity bills or pension fees. provision of $1.3bn in military assistance. has flowed uninterrupted, and just look at all the Brotherhood’s followers back underground? All this goes hand in hand with reform of the Labour party to let Some supporters of the aid claim that it the stability. In the process, Egypt’s military may create a people back into a political system where decisions are too often gives us leverage over the military’s behaviour Today the most destabilising force in Egypt whole new generation of Islamist fighters, some dangerously skewed towards the interests of a few. — that fear of an aid cutoff will curb Sissi’s is the military itself. It is the greatest obsta- percentage of whom may turn to terrorism. The Tories think they are heading for a re-run of 2010: A ref- more extreme inclinations and lead the gov- cle to any hope of political reconciliation and If and when they do, the US, as the Egyptian erendum on the last Labour government. They’re wrong because ernment to moderation. Recent events suggest stability. The Brotherhood’s followers, who military’s great and unwavering backer, will 2015 will be a living standards election — and this is the platform the opposite. Why should military leaders fear just last year chose peaceful competition in again become a target. Miliband is building for the battle to come. losing aid when the Obama administration did an electoral system, now see their leaders WP-BLOOMBERG THE GUARDIAN SATURDAY 3 AUGUST 2013 08 Thoughts www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Granting answers for prayers

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rayer is a great manifestation of the name All-Merciful and Most -Merciful and a huge generosity to believers, for it allows believers God is closer to Pto tell God of their sincere faith and love, as well as the fear and respect they have for Him. His servants than By praying believers can show their submission to God, their only friend and advocate, ask for and their jugular veins expect help from Him alone. In societies that do not practice the religion’s morality, praying to God has been complicated by and calls everyone various myths and superstitions. Although people always want to approach God, they have set certain to pray to Him. To times and means for this. God warns people about these superstitions: ask help from God Indeed, is the true religion not Allah’s alone? People who take protectors besides Him (say): “We only worship in prayer is a grace them so that they may bring us nearer to Allah.” Allah will judge between them regarding the things about from God and which they differed. Allah does not guide anyone who is an ungrateful liar. (Azzumar 39: 3) a great blessing Those who say that there are various ways to pray make religion appear difficult and divert people from the straight path. But the Quran tells us that God He has given to is always very close: We created humanity and We know what his or her humanity. own self whispers to him or her. We are nearer to him or her than his or her jugular vein. (Qaf 50: 16). That is, a person may approach God at any time and pray for assistance, for His endless mercy answers sincere prayers. People must pray with a sense of His being and closeness, because only those who are aware of God’s existence understand prayers’ While he is praying, what is important is that does not go back on His promises. In the Quran the of prayer and live in anxiety, pain, and despair. Far real meaning and importance: establishing a warm and person’s spiritual condition, intention and sincerity. Lord tells us that He grants the prayers of prophets removed from God’s mercy, their lives are the earthly special bond between God and His servants. People Prayer is a great blessing, and believers engage in and sincere believers. He says the following about recompense of their arrogance toward Him. But they seek God’s aid in everything, and He answers their it to protect themselves against despair and to ask Prophet Zachariah (peace be upon him): will receive the real return for their haughtiness in prayers. There is no need to wait for a particular for patience, strength, and endurance. Knowing that And Zachariah, when he called out to his Lord: “My the Afterlife. God says in the Quran: Your Lord says: time to pray or to use special forms, for God can hear God always creates everything for the best purpose, Lord, do not leave me on my own, although You are the “Call upon Me, and I will answer you. Those who are too prayers at every moment and in every place. they know that their prayers will be answered in Best of Inheritors.” We responded to him and gave him proud to worship Me will enter Hell abject. A person can pray as he goes from one place to the best possible way. As the holder of the only true John, restoring for him his wife’s fertility. They outdid (Ghafir 40: 60) another, comes downstairs, does his shopping, pre- power that exists, God will answer the believers’ one another in good actions, calling out to Us in yearn- However, believers understand God’s mercy and pares a meal, watches television, rides in an elevator, prayers if they turn to Him, seeking ease: ing and in awe, and humbling themselves to Us. (Al thus possess one of the greatest blessings: the hope waits in a certain place, goes to bed, gets up in the … He Who responds to the oppressed when they call Anbiya 21: 89-90) of gaining His mercy. Aware of their helplessness, morning, has breakfast, drives his car — in short, in on Him, removes their distress, and has appointed you When people come face-to-face with an unex- they believe that He sends everything to them for a every place and at every time — and expresses his as inheritors of Earth. Is there another deity besides pected disaster, suffer from a terrible disease, good purpose. They are certain that every created desires to Him. It is enough for people just to think Allah? How little you pay heed! (An Naml 27: 62) enter great trial or, in short, feel helpless, the thing needs God, that He knows everything, and something, because God knows all that is hidden in Indeed, this limitless possibility is a display of His first thought that comes to their mind is to turn that no thing or person has any strength apart the human heart. Believers pray with the knowl- mercy. Many Quranic verses tell us that God is close to God. There is only one reason for this: They from His will. edge that God hears, sees, and knows their thoughts, to human beings, will be the advocate for those who are certainly aware that only God can really help They show their recognition of these truths by regardless of how fleeting they might be. turn to Him, and will answer the prayers of those them…they are aware that even if they do their expressing their weakness and submission to Him A believer prays with the knowledge that God who call upon Him. God is closer to His servants best, all their options for survival have run out. through prayer. They know that God will answer hears him, sees him, and knows his thoughts. He than their jugular veins and calls everyone to pray to At such times, they are completely sincere. But their prayers in His own way, that He will give them knows that the Lord even knows his most fleeting Him. To ask help from God in prayer is a grace from when the difficulty passes, many of them return to their deepest longings or even most fleeting desires thoughts and can do his acts of worship as he wishes God and a great blessing He has given to humanity. their former ways. They may convince themselves (provided that they are in accord with that per- without regard for place or time. The simplicity that The Quran says: that they are not helpless and not in need of God’s son’s particular destiny), and that He will always God has given for something as important as worship If My servants ask you about Me, I am near. I answer assistance or they may live as if they were unaware protect and care for them. Therefore, the believers is an act of generosity toward a believer. the call of the caller when he [or she] calls upon Me. that they will die one day. However, if they encoun- will always obtain His mercy in this world and the When we think of prayer, we imagine it as a verbal They should, therefore, respond to Me and believe in ter another disaster or difficulty, they turn to God Hereafter. offering of praise to God, a confession of sins, and Me so that, hopefully, they will be rightly guided. (Al again. Their unrepentant and ungrateful attitude Believers who experience such comfort and hope an expression of one’s own needs and those of other Baqarah 2: 186) returns when their troubles end, for the appar- will never give way to despair and hopelessness, believers. To do this, people must be sincere. Your Lord says: “Call on Me, and I will answer you. ent normality of their condition helps them forget while unbelievers do. They know the comfort and Those who have a sense of God’s majesty, fear His Those who are too proud to worship Me will enter Hell their former helplessness. But God who is the most contentment of taking refuge in God, and the joy and punishment, and desire to win His favour turn to abject.” Allah appointed the night for you so that you Just will surely pay them for their ungratefulness. delight that this gives their hearts. This is one of the Him honestly and sincerely. In the same way, those might rest in it, and the day for seeing. Allah pours out A related verse God reveals is as follows: greatest blessings, for it causes people to live humble who submit to God and accept Him as their friend His favor on humanity, but most people are not thankful. Say: “What has My Lord to do with you if you do not and moral lives and leads them to turn to God. and helper tell Him of their every anxiety and pain. (Ghafir 40: 60-1) call on Him? But you have denied the truth, so punish- They know that God is with them when they Like Prophet Jacob (peace be upon him), believers Believers should think more about this mercy and ment is bound to come.} (Al Furqan 25: 77) pray, and draw near to Him in sincerity when they tell God of such matters and seek His assistance and blessing and strive to earn His favor. This ease is a Indeed, prayer is an opportunity and blessing encounter difficulties. They firmly believe that He goodness: I (Jacob) complain of my grief and sorrow to boundless possibility, and God, who always fulfills His offered to everyone. The arrogant pride of those who hears them and is preparing an eternal and incom- Allah alone. promises, promises to grant whatever people ask, if reject God draws them into rebellion against Him, parable Paradise for them. (Yusuf 12: 86). it accords with His will for them. And God certainly which causes them to be deprived of the blessings www.onislam.net Best times to make supplication

here are certain times busy with worldly pleasures Allah demand.’ And he (the Prophet in it. [Muslim, abu Dawud, an- but Allah and Allah is the most The Night of Decree is one dua (supplication) is gives the believers an opportu- pointed out the shortness of that Nasa’i and others, Sahih al-Jami Great and there is neither might of the odd nights of the last ten more likely to be accepted nity, or an answer hour if they particular time with his hands. #1175] nor power except with Allah and nights of the blessed month of Tby Allah as mentioned by can fight sleep and invoke Allah [Sahih al-Bukhari] When a Muslim is in his Salat then says, Allahumma ighfir li (O Ramadan. The angels descend Prophet (peace be upon him). These for whatever they need. The Some have said that this (prayer) he is facing Allah and Allah! Forgive me) or invokes down to the earth, and the earth times are as follows: Prophet (PBUH) said: ‘There is hour is from the time the Imam when he prostrates he is the Allah , he will be responded to is overwhelmed with peace and at night an hour, no Muslim hap- (prayer’s leader) enters the nearest he can be to Allah so and if he makes ablution and per- serenity until the break of dawn 1. THE LAST THIRD OF THE pens to be asking Allah any mat- mosque on Friday’s prayer until it is best to invoke Allah at this forms Salat (prayer), his Salat and when he doors of Paradise NIGHT ter of this world or the Hereafter, the prayer is over (ie between the time. It is said that while in pros- (prayer) will be accepted. [Sahih are opened, the worshipper is Abu Hurairah narrated that except that he will be given it, two khutbahs), whereas others tration, one should not ask for al-Bukhari] encouraged to turn to Allah to Allah’s Messenger said: ‘In the and this (occurs) every night.’ have said that it is the last hour worldy needs (ie a nice car, a new ask for his needs for this world last third of every night our (Muslim #757) of the day (ie after the Asr prayer job, etc), but for the Hereafter. 8. AT THE END OF THE and the Hereafter. Rabb (Cherisher and Sustainer) until the Maghrib prayer). OBLIGATORY SALAT: Allah descends to the lowermost 3. BETWEEN ADHAN AND 7. WHEN WAKING UP AT Narrated Abu Omamah : that 10. DURING THE RAIN heaven and says; “Who is calling IQAMAH 5. WHILE DRINKING NIGHT Allah’s Messenger was asked, O Narrated Sahel Ibn Sa’ad : that Me, so that I may answer him? Anas narrated that Allah’s ZAMZAM WATER Narrated Ubada Bin As-Samit Messenger of Allah, which sup- the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Two Who is asking Me so that may I Messenger (PBUH) said: ‘A Jaber narrated that Allah’s that Allah’s Messenger said: plication is heard (by Allah , he will not be rejected, Supplication grant him? Who is seeking for- supplication made between the Messenger said: ‘Zamzam water ‘Whomever wakes up at night said the end of the night and at when the Adhan (call of prayer) giveness from Me so that I may Adhan and Iqama is not rejected.’ is for what it is drunk for.’ [Ahmad and says La ilaha illallahu wah- the end of the obligatory Salat is being called, and at the time of forgive him?.”’ (Sahih Al Bukhari, [Ahmad, abu Dawud #521, at- 3: 357 and Ibn Majah #3062]. dahu la shrika lahu lahulmulku, (prayer) [at-Tirmidhi]. This time the rain’. [Al-Hakim 2: 114, and Hadith Qudsi) Tirmidhi #212, Sahih al-Jami This means that when you drink wa lahul hamdu, wa huwa ala is after saying ‘Attahyat’ , and Abu Dawud #2540, ibn Majah] Amr ibn Absah narrated that #3408, an-Nasai and Ibn Hibban Zamzam water you may ask Allah kulli shai’in qadir. Alhamdu before making Tasleem (finish- ‘Seek the response to your the Prophet said: ‘The closest any graded it sahih (sound)] for anything you like to gain or lillahi, wa subhanallahi wa la ing prayer) du’as when the armies meet, and worshipper can be to His Lord is benefit from this water such as ilaha illallahu, wallah akbir, wa the prayer is called, and when during the last part of the night, 4. AN HOUR ON FRIDAY healing from illness.... etc. la hawla wala quwata illa billah 9. THE NIGHT OF ‘QADR’ rain falls’ [reported by Imam so if you can be amongst those Narrated Abu Hurairah : (none has the right to be wor- (DECREE) al-Shafi’ in al-Umm, al-Sahihah who remember Allah at that Allah’s Messenger talked about 6. WHILE PROSTRATING shipped but Allah He is the This night is the greatest night #1469]. The time of the rain is time, then do so.’ (Tirmidhi, Friday and said: ‘There is an hour Abu Hurairah narrated that only one who has no partners. of the year. This is the night a time of mercy from Allah so, annasa’i, Al Hakim) on Friday and if a Muslim gets it Allah’s Messenger , said: ‘The His is the kingdom and all the which the almighty Allah said one should take advantage of this while offering Salat (prayer) and nearest a slave can be to his praises are for Allah All the about it, “The night of Al-Qadar time when Allah is having mercy 2. LATE AT NIGHT asks something from Allah , then Lord is when he is prostrating, so glories are for Allah And none (Decree) is better than a thou- on His slaves. When people are sleeping and Allah will definitely meet his invoke (supplicate) Allah much has the right to be worshipped sand months.” (Al Qadr, 97: 3) AUGUST 3, 2013 Middle East www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY Israel a ‘wound’ on Muslim world: Rowhani Israel has no place in this region: Ahmadinejad

TEHRAN: Iran held massive if the Iranians work to deny these “the leaders of extremist Islamist anti-Israel rallies yesterday, comments, this is what the man groups who advocate conflict, with president-elect Hassan thinks and reflects the regime’s behead Muslims ... and kill women Rowhani calling the arch-foe plans,” Netanyahu said, adding and children, are Zionists.” Jewish state a “wound” on the that Tehran’s objectives remained He did not elaborate. Muslim world, drawing a sharp “to build a nuclear weapon to Ahmadinejad’s past broadsides response from Israeli Prime threaten Israel”. against Israel have earned him Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Iran’s nuclear ambitions, which severe criticism from Western “In our region, a wound has for Western powers also suspect are and other nations, and walkouts many years been sitting on the aimed at building a bomb despite during his addresses to the UN body of the Islamic world in the Iranian denials, have troubled General Assembly. shadow of occupation of the holy relations Iran and world powers Iran staged massive rallies to land of Palestine and the dear for the past decade. mark annual Quds Day, whose Quds (Jerusalem),” Rowhani said Israel, the sole if undeclared name, derived from Arabic, des- in remarks broadcast on state nuclear armed state in the Middle ignates the city of Jerusalem, the television. “This day in actuality East, has repeatedly threatened disputed future capital of both the is a reminder that Muslims will to attack Iranian nuclear instal- Israelis and the Palestinians. not forget their historic right (to lations to prevent Tehran from State television broadcast foot- Jerusalem) and will continue to acquiring nuclear arms. age of hundreds of thousands of stand against aggression and tyr- Addressing a large crowd at people on the march nationwide, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivers a speech during a rare public appearance at a gathering to mark anny,” added Rowhani, considered Tehran University yesterday, as well as speeches and sermons the “Al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Day” from Beirut’s southern suburb neighbourhood of Rweiss yesterday. a moderate cleric by standards of outgoing President Mahmoud supporting the Palestinian cause Iran’s political system. Ahmadinejad warned that a and condemning Israel. His remarks highlighted his regional storm was brewing that Demonstrators holding up Shias will not abandon Palestine: Nasrallah allegiance to Iran’s support for the would “uproot” Israel. “I will Palestinian flags and pictures of Palestinian cause and rejection of inform you, with God as my wit- Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader he declared victory in front of Security was heightened in Israel as a state, an unfaltering cor- ness, that a devastating storm is Ali Khamenei, the ultimate deci- Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah thousands of supporters. Since the southern Beirut suburb nerstone of the Islamic republic’s on the way that will uproot the sion maker in the Islamic republic, emerged from hiding yesterday then, he has made occasional and where Nasrallah spoke, with foreign policy since its 1979 birth. basis of Zionism,” Ahmadinejad also denounced efforts to revive to deliver his first major speech brief public appearances — most gunmen stationed at intersec- A day before Rowhani assumes said in a speech broadcast on stalled peace talks between Israel in years, addressing a rally in recently last September — but no tions leading to the hall where the country’s highest elected state television. and the Palestinian Authority. his southern Beirut stronghold lengthy public address. he delivered his address. Buses office, his remarks, originally was In a parting shot, Ahmadinejad Ahmadinejad, without directly in support of the Palestinian Nasrallah said Hezbollah’s ene- were parked across the streets misquoted by state media. The said Israel “has no place in this hinting at the talks, said: “The conflict against Israel. mies, including the United States, to prevent access to all but ISNA and Mehr agencies earlier region,” provoking chants of issue of Palestine will not be easily “Israel poses a danger on all Israel and Britain, were trying to pedestrians. quoted him as saying “the Zionist “Death to Israel” and “Death to resolved. Thinking that the solu- people of this region...includ- exploit the political tensions to Nasrallah was speaking on the regime is a wound inflicted for America” from the crowd. tion is in giving one part of land to ing Lebanon, and removing it is drive a wedge between the Shias occasion of Jerusalem Day. “Some years on the body of the Muslim Ahmadinejad also accused (the Israelis) and the other part a Lebanese national interest,” and the rest of the region to mar- might think that the elimination world that must be cleansed”. Israel and its Western allies of to the Palestinians is naive.” Nasrallah told hundreds of sup- ginalise their role in the Israeli- of Israel is a Palestinian inter- ISNA later acknowledged its fomenting discord in the region, That was echoed by Rowhani porters in his half-hour speech. Palestinian conflict. est,” Nasrallah said. “Yes, it is a mistake and corrected its story. saying “it was their dream to see who said the peace efforts were The charismatic Shia cleric has “We want to say to every enemy Palestinian interest but not just Mehr altered its story, taking out the will of regional countries bent providing Israel with “a good lived mainly in the shadows, fear- and every friend...we the Shias that. It is in the interest of the the cleansing reference without on destroying (Israel) diverted opportunity to project a peace- ing assassination, since Hezbollah of the world will not abandon entire Islamic world, it is in the any explanation. towards civil war.” ful appearance” while “continuing fought an inconclusive month- Palestine, the Palestinian people interest of the entire Arab world Netanyahu was quick to “Who is happy for what is with its aggressive nature against long war with Israel in 2006. or the sacred sites in Palestine,” and it is also in the national inter- denounce Rowhani, based on the happening in Egypt and Syria,” the backdrop of an excuse for His last major speech came a Nasrallah said, to loud cheers of est for every country in the region.” initially reported remarks. “Even he asked. He also claimed that compromise.” AFP month after that conflict, when support. REUTERS

Tunisia mounts ‘huge’ anti-Islamist operation

TUNIS: Tunisian forces He said the assault was mounted this week. He said helicopters had The latest military operation launched a land and air opera- after clashes on Thursday night carried out air strikes. “Either came as leaders in Tunis opened tion yesterday against Islamist between soldiers and “a terror- they give themselves up or they talks with opposition and civil militants near the Algerian ist group”, referring to fugitive will be killed,” he said. society representatives to try to border, the military said, as Islamist militants. “We have not He said the attack took place defuse the political crisis sparked Tunis battled a crisis sparked killed or arrested any terrorists” around 16km from the town of by the July 25 murder of opposi- by a political slaying. to date, he said, without giving a Kasserine, near Mount Chaambi, tion MP Mohamed Brahmi. “A huge operation, with ground number for the hunted militants. where the soldiers were found on The killing has been blamed on and air units, was launched at A military source on the Monday with their throats cut Islamists, with a connection made dawn to clean up the (Chaambi) ground earlier said that “the ter- after an ambush by militants. to the February murder of fellow mountain” area, armed forces rorist group is surrounded” in Mosaique FM said the raids opposition head Chokri Belaid — spokesman Taoufik Rahmouni the Mount Chaambi area where were aimed at destroying militant the same gun was used in both told Mosaique FM radio. eight Tunisian soldiers were slain hideouts. killings. AFP

Protests will flare again: Turkey’s ‘Standing Man’

ISTANBUL: Protests in Turkey may have died down but they are by no means over, predicts the country’s “Standing Man”, who pioneered a novel form of resistance to Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted government. Erdem Gunduz caught the country’s attention by standing silently and alone in Istanbul’s iconic Taksim Square — just days after police had cleared it of protesters —staring at a poster of Turkey’s revered founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. In an interview, Gunduz predicted that protests would resume come September, well before next year’s presidential and munici- pal elections. The reason for the renewed uprising, Gunduz said, would be Erdogan himself. “Every time Erdogan speaks, the mobilisation resumes,” the Lebanese people and journalists inspect the damage at a private residence 34-year-old choreographer said. On May 31, Turkish riot police where one of two rockets exploded in Baabda yesterday. fired tear gas to clear demonstrators staging a peaceful protest against plans to redevelop Gezi Park, near Taksim Square in Istanbul. Their heavy-handed response set off a wave of protests Rockets hit east Beirut against Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) that quickly spread across the country. The unrest left five dead, injured more than 8,000 and led BEIRUT: Lebanon’s army embassies. The forest is located to hundreds of arrests before finally easing nearly three weeks launched a search operation yes- in an area controlled by Druze later. Erdogan was unrepentant, dismissing the protesters as terday, hours after two rockets leader Walid Jumblatt, who in a “vandals” and “troublemakers”. fired from an unknown location statement yesterday pledged sup- For Gunduz, the prime minister’s response signals that “a exploded metres outside the presi- port to President Michel Sleiman. point of no-return has been crossed”. Three of Erodgan’s actions dential palace, the military said. “We will continue to support the in particular pushed Gunduz to stage his June 17 protest, he The attack came amid high president of the republic who is explained. These were “encouraging Turkish women to have tensions in Lebanon, fanned by taking patriotic, responsible and three children to improve the country’s birth rate; his proposal the conflict in neighbouring Syria, courageous positions,” Jumblatt to limit access to the morning-after pill and restrictions voted now in its third year. “After the said in a statement. through on the sale of alcohol”. explosions... in the area of Yarzeh Sleiman meanwhile appealed “The policies attack individual liberties... no leader has the (in Baabda east of Beirut), the for calm. “However many rocket power to meddle in what I consider to be the private life of citi- army has launched a search oper- messages are sent to us, no one zens,” he added. Gunduz said he was also protesting the blackout ation in the area,” the army said. can change the foundations of our on coverage of the protests on Turkish television stations. A security source said the patriotism, or our belief in free- His decision to stare at the portrait of Ataturk, the founder of search focused on a pine forest dom and truth,” Sleiman said in the modern, secular Turkey Erdogan’s critics feel is under threat, in Sahramun, some 10km east a statement. was of course highly symbolic. But there was also a practical reason of Beirut. The military said the “Our belief in national unity for choosing to stage his protest in Taksim Square, he said. explosions were caused by “two (will) push away from our coun- “I knew that a Turkish news agency had its premises on the 107 mm rockets”, and that it is try the impact of what is happen- square, so I thought that my action would prevent journalists “carrying out a search operation ing around us in the region,” the from saying ‘There’s nothing happening in Taksim’. “The pres- in the areas from which (they) president added, in a reference ence of a man standing for several hours wasn’t ‘nothing’,” he might have been launched.” to Syria. Although Lebanon is said. Dwindling numbers at recent street demonstrations were Witnesses at the scene said one officially neutral in Syria’s war, only due to the summer holidays and the Muslim holy month of the two rockets struck some the small Mediterranean coun- of Ramadan, he said, warning that tension was still simmering. 100 metres from the presidential try is split over the revolt against “For the moment, everything seems calm, but it only seems that palace in Baabda, a high-security President Bashar Al Assad. way. “Everywhere, right across Turkey, on the social networks, area that is also home to several AFP everyone is still talking about the movement.” AFP AUGUST 3, 2013 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com International

Couple jailed for Italian govt again in dire straits starving, beating 4-year-old son to Berlusconi tells party to push for justice reform or new elections death in Britain ROME: Italy’s fragile coalition in community service as well as however with Berlusconi appar- debt have receded further. prospect of remaining in alli- government, already strug- losing his seat in parliament. ently cautious about rushing into Agreement over thorny issues ance with a convicted tax evader. LONDON: A Polish mother gling to contain deep divisions The 76-year-old billionaire action before he is ready. such as privatisations due in To add to the problems facing and her partner who systemati- over tax and economic policy, and his supporters have reacted “Berlusconi said not to take the autumn or the much-dis- Letta, Matteo Renzi, the ambi- cally starved her four-year-old woke up to a whole set of new angrily to his conviction and any hasty decisions and to think puted IMU property tax which tious young mayor of Florence, is son before savagely beating him problems yesterday after Silvio prison term, the first definitive of the interests of the country,” Berlusconi wants to scrap but widely expected to mount a bid to to death were jailed for a mini- Berlusconi’s conviction for sentence he has received in doz- PDL Infrastructure Minister which would blow a hole in lead the party. mum of 30 years by a British tax fraud was upheld by the ens of trials during his two dec- Maurizio Lupi told reporters. already strained public finances Letta himself said that the judge yesterday. Supreme Court. ades in politics, and indicated While Berlusconi is unlikely to will be difficult. situation was “politically very Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz Just three months after centre- justice reform was the price of spend any time in jail due to his “It depends on the PDL,” dep- delicate” and he called on all Krezolek subjected Daniel Pelka left Prime Minister Enrico Letta preserving the coalition. age, the verdict was an unprec- uty Economy Minister Stefano sides to show responsibility in to a six-month ordeal in which took office at the head of an uneasy “If there is no reform of the jus- edented blow and a Senate vote Fassina, from Letta’s centre-left the interests of the country. But he was held underwater, locked in alliance with Berlusconi’s People of tice system, we are ready for new on expelling him from parliament Democratic Party (PD) said. he acknowledged that there were a room and force-fed salt before Freedom party (PDL), Italy, the elections,” he told PDL lawmak- could come in September. “It’s not something which can limits to what could be accepted. suffering fatal head injuries in a eurozone’s third largest economy, ers, according to a source at the He has declared he will con- be settled in the next few hours “I don’t consider that continu- vicious assault. is again mired in uncertainty. meeting. Officials also said that tinue his political activities under but over the next few weeks, we’ll ing at any cost is necessarily in The case has raised questions Letta repeated yesterday that senior party members may ask the “Forza Italia” (Go Italy!) name have to settle the IMU issue and the interests of the country,” he about why Daniel’s stepfather Italy must have a stable govern- President Giorgio Napolitano to of his first party, with speculation on an issue like this, it can’t just said. Krezolek was not deported to ment, saying the last thing it pardon Berlusconi — an idea the growing that his daughter Marina be about Berlusconi’s personal With Italy’s stagnant economy Poland despite having been jailed needs is to be worn down by parti- president rejected last month and may succeed him as party leader. interests,” he said. showing the first faint signs of three times in Britain, and about san battles. But everything hangs could resign from the government The upheaval means the Problems just as serious could improvement after two years of the failure of Daniel’s school and on the unpredictable reaction of if rebuffed. already dim prospects of signifi- also come from Fassina’s own recession, it can ill afford months social services to save him. Berlusconi, who faces the threat How imminent a threat such cant reforms to revive Italy’s stag- fractious camp, with many in of debilitating stalemate. The case was “deeply shock- of a year under house arrest or talk may pose remains uncertain nant economy and cut its massive the centre-left unhappy at the REUTERS ing and disturbing” and involved “unimaginable acts of cruelty and brutality,” said Judge Laura Cox as she sentenced the pair at Mali poll run-off on August 11 Birmingham Crown Court in cen- tral England. Cox gave Luczak and Krezolek Russia faces US anger each life sentences and said the couple, who were found guilty by a jury on Wednesday, must serve over Snowden asylum a minimum of 30 years in prison before they can be considered for release. The pair both arrived in MOSCOW: Russia yesterday He said he is being helped by Britain from Poland in 2006. faced the wrath of the United friends and has settled in a secure A juror wiped away tears as the States after granting asylum place which will not be disclosed. sentences were read out. Luczak to fugitive intelligence leaker “The friends that he had in the and Krezolek, who are both origi- Edward Snowden, who was United States, who introduced nally from Poland stared straight settling into a safe house after him to people here” are helping ahead and listened to their inter- over five weeks marooned in a Snowden, Kucherena said yester- preters. Daniel was described as a Moscow airport transit zone. day when he appeared in a talk healthy little boy when he started The whereabouts of Snowden— show “Live” on state television. school in the industrial city of who is wanted by the United “He really fears for his life,” he Coventry in September 2011. States after leaking details of added, explaining the secrecy. His mother, 27, and her partner, vast US surveillance programmes Kucherena, a pro-Kremlin pub- 34, subjected him to multiple beat- — remained a mystery with his lic figure and lawyer, met Snowden ings and repeated punishments. lawyer refusing to disclose the along with several human rights The judge said Daniel died after a location for security reasons. activists at the airport, and later “brutal assault” by shaven-headed The White House said it helped him with his asylum bid. He Krezolek, just after the child was was “extremely disappointed” also brought him a copy of Crime again given salt and held beneath by Moscow’s decision to grant and Punishment, the classic novel the water. The pair failed to call Snowden asylum, adding that it by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. “He really Presidential candidate Soumaila Cisse speaks at a news conference in Bamako, Mali, yesterday. Mali’s post- for an ambulance for 33 hours. An would now review the need for a liked the book,” Kucherena said. war election produced no clear winner and former prime minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita will face ex-finance autopsy found 23 injuries on his planned summit between President “He was delighted.” minister Cisse in a run-off due on August 11, the government said. emaciated body. AFP Barack Obama and President WikiLeaks said in a statement Vladimir Putin in September. Snowden is now in a “secure, con- Nicknamed “the invisible man” fidential place”. The founder of by journalists, the former National Russia’s most popular social net- Security Agency (NSA) contrac- work VKontakte — - 28-year-old tor on Thursday walked out of Pavel Durov — offered Snowden Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport a job as a programmer but No plans to kill F-35 plan, says Pentagon unnoticed and took a taxi to a Kucherena said he was still decid- secret location. He now has tem- ing what he would do. WASHINGTON: The US mili- Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 modernisation programmes as a made in the new warplane, which porary asylum in Russia for a year. Snowden thanked Russia and tary downplayed concerns it programme and a new stealthy, result of yesterday’s discussion of is designed to replace over a dozen The pro-Kremlin Life News web- slammed the administration of could cancel the F-35 fighter long-range bomber, according to the outcomes of the review would planes in use around the world. site published a photograph show- US President Barack Obama for and a new stealth bomber, several people who saw the slides. be incorrect,” he said. “Cancelling the programme ing Snowden smiling broadly as he having “no respect” for interna- after leaked documents from Defence officials later stressed Analysts said Hagel and other would be detrimental to our walked through the airport arrivals tional or domestic law. “But in the a budget review suggested the there were no plans to kill either Pentagon officials appeared to be national defense,” said the offi- area with a rucksack on his back end the law is winning,” he said in programmes might be elimi- programme, noting that dis- leaning toward the option that cial, noting that the US Air Force, and carrying another bag. the WikiLeaks statement. nated as one way to deal with mantling the F-35 programme would emphasise high-end weap- Navy and Marine Corps needed He was shown accompanied Russia’s decision to award deep budget cuts. in particular would have far- ons programs over force size. to replace aging fleets of fighter by his Russian lawyer Anatoly Snowden asylum status came Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel reaching consequences for the Mackenzie Eaglen, an ana- planes that were increasingly Kucherena and a staff member two days after US soldier Bradley said on Wednesday that finding US military services and 10 for- lyst at the American Enterprise expensive to maintain. of WikiLeaks anti-secrecy web- Manning was convicted of espio- $500bn in budget cuts required by eign countries involved in the Institute, said suggestions that Loren Thompson, chief oper- site, Sarah Harrison, as well as an nage for passing US secrets to law over the next decade, on top programme, which is already in the F-35 programme “was being ating officer of the Lexington unidentified dark-haired woman. WikiLeaks. of $487bn in cuts already being production. targeted was either an oversight Institute, cited estimates that Snowden and Harrison had Already tense Russia-US rela- implemented, required tough “We have gone to great lengths or a scare tactic, but it wasn’t a it would cost four times the stayed in the transit zone of the tions risk straining further over trade-offs between the size of the to stress that this review identi- serious proposition that the entire amount needed to buy new airport north of Moscow since fly- the issue and the White House military and high-end weapons fied, through a rigorous process of program would be cancelled under F-35s to keep the current force ing in from Hong Kong on June warned it could prompt Obama to programs. strategic modelling, possible deci- any circumstances”. flying. And cutting the planned 23. Kucherena said Snowden cancel a planned visit to Moscow Pentagon briefing slides shown sions we might face, under sce- She said failure by Congress to bomber would generate very lit- would eventually emerge into for talks with Putin ahead of the to various groups mapped out narios we may or may not face in reverse deep budget cuts could tle savings since the programme public view and give interviews Saint Petersburg G20 summit. those trade-offs in stark terms, the future,” Pentagon Spokesman result in the F-35 programme — which could eventually cost but the fugitive first required an “We’re extremely disappointed,” indicating that a decision to main- George Little said. being slowed or scaled back, but around $30bn - is in the early “adaptation course” after so long White House spokesman Jay tain a larger military could result “Any suggestion that we’re outright cancellation was unlikely stages at this point, he said. in the transit zone. Carney said. AFP in the cancellation of the $392bn now moving away from key given the huge investment already REUTERS

Protest in Bulgaria Mugabe camp claims poll landslide

HARARE: Zimbabwe’s neigh- “Our opponents don’t know “We have said this election is bours urged calm yesterday what hit them,” party spokes- free, indeed very free,” said top following a fiercely disputed man Rugare Gumbo earlier said. SADC election observer Bernard election that looks set to extend “The president might likely get Membe. “We did not say it was Robert Mugabe’s 33-year rule 70 to 75 percent.” Mugabe’s oppo- fair... we didn’t want to jump to a and give him a thumping par- nent and longtime foe Morgan conclusion at this point in time.” liamentary majority. Tsvangirai has described the vote With 600 observers on the Full results have yet to be as a “sham” and a “huge fraud.” ground, SADC’s verdict and its announced, but President Robert He now faces the political bat- next steps will be closely watched Mugabe’s camp has already tle of his life. His Movement for by western nations barred from claimed a shock landslide win Democratic Change has vowed monitoring the poll themselves. that has left the opposition reel- not recognise the results, or the SADC negotiated the creation ing. With 186 of 210 constituen- new government, amid rapidly of a power-sharing government cies counted after Wednesday’s escalating tensions. in the wake of 2008’s bloody poll. poll, the 89-year-old’s ZANU-PF In a bid to head off rising Foreign diplomats have party already has a commanding anger, the 15-member southern expressed deep misgivings about lead, officially garnering 137 seats African bloc SADC implored a poll they have described pri- in parliament. “all Zimbabweans to exercise vately as non-violent but funda- But a ZANU-PF politburo restraint, patience and calm.” mentally flawed. But there is also member told AFP the party had “The future of your country is in an acknowledgement that options A woman holds a Bulgarian national flag as she attends an anti-government protest in front of the Parliament in fact already surpassed the 140 your hands.” The bloc described are limited. The independent building in Sofia yesterday. Thousands of people have taken to Sofia’s streets every evening since June 14, seats needed to amend the con- the vote as “free and peaceful” Zimbabwe Election Support shouting “Mafia!” and “Resign!” and demanding that politicians sever links between power and oligarchs, stitution. “We have already gone but refused to echo the African Network reported up to one mil- beyond two-thirds. It’s a super Union’s declaration that it was lion voters were prevented from nurtured during 24 years of post-communist transition. majority,” the top party official fair, a move that could anger mil- voting in Tsvangirai strongholds. said on condition of anonymity. lions of Tsvangirai supporters. AFP AUGUST 3, 2013 Asia / Philippines www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY Yangon floods leave 3 dead, 33,000 in camps 245 schools closed; 4,700 people temporarily displaced

YANGON: Tens of thousands of damaged roads after rains began “All those who live in the delta people were sheltering in relief to pound the state on July 27, the region and at either side of the camps in eastern Myanmar reported added. rivers are urged to take necessary after flash floods swept the In neighbouring Mon State a preventive measures against the region leaving three dead, state further 4,700 people were tem- natural disasters as there may media said yesterday, warning porarily displaced by floods but be incessant rains in the coming of more heavy rain. some have now returned to their days,” it said. Nearly 33,500 people have been homes. “People also need to be aware moved to 79 camps in Karen The United Nations said it of the dangers of electric shocks, State after monsoon floods that had delivered some medical aid snakes, landslides and collapse of also caused three deaths and left including water purification tab- trees.” another person missing, accord- lets to both states. Parts of Myanmar are inun- ing to state newspaper the New State media warned people dated each year during the Light of Myanmar. who live next to rivers in the monsoon period, which ends in Some 245 schools have also Irrawaddy Delta further to the October. Flood victims receiving food relief from volunteers at a camp in Myawaddy, southeast Myanmar, on Thursday. been closed while landslides have west to prepare for heavy rains. AFP Nazi remarks: Aso won’t quit Sulu under Milf is China rights record deteriorating: US TOKYO: Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso said BEIJING: The United States “The targeting of family mem- of our expectations,” Zeya said. yesterday he had no intention got few answers to questions bers is one reason for that assess- Since Xi became president of resigning over comments treason: Sultanate about detained activists during ment ... This is a worrisome trend in March, police have detained he made and later retracted, its annual rights dialogue with and one which we have raised at around 30 of those campaigning that were interpreted as MANILA: The Sultanate of Sulu yesterday opposed the inclu- China, and believes the situa- senior levels with the Chinese for officials to reveal their wealth, praise for Germany’s Nazi sion of the Sulu archipelago in the areas to be placed under the tion in the country continues to government,” Zeya added. say rights groups. Among them regime and Adolf Hitler’s Bangsamoro political region to be controlled by the Moro Islamic deteriorate, a senior US official Chinese President Xi Jinping’s is well-known legal activist Xu rise to power. The comments Liberation Front (Milf). said yesterday. appointment as Communist Party Zhiyong, whose case Zeya said by Aso, also Finance Minister Abraham Idjirani, spokesman for the sultanate, said the Sulu Uzra Zeya, Acting Assistant US chief in a once-in-a-decade lead- she also raised. and a former premier, drew archipelago composed of the provinces of Sulu, Basilan, Tawi-Tawi, Secretary of State for Democracy, ership change last November had She said the rights situation in criticism from a US-based Zamboanga Peninsula and Palawan are territories ancestrally owned Human Rights and Labour, said inspired many Chinese with hope the restive regions of Tibet and Jewish rights group and the by the Sultanate of Sulu. she raised specific cases during for political reform. Xinjiang were also mentioned, media in South Korea, where According to Idjirani, the Sulu archipelago was incorporated into the the talks, including that of jailed But rights groups say there has besides the issue of the Dalai bitter memories of Japan’s Philippines in 1935 by the United States, despite an assurance given Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu been no let up in the pressure on Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual Second World War milita- by the American government that the Sulu Sultanate would be placed Xiaobo, as well as his wife Liu activists, dissidents and other leader, who is reviled by Beijing rism run deep. The gaffe under its protection. “Despite the vehement objection of (Sulu) Sultan Xia, now under extra-judicial groups, such as Tibetans, who as a separatist. could complicate foreign pol- Jamalul Kiram III’s great ancestors to join the Philippines as an inde- house arrest. have been pushing for reforms Speculation surfaced this year icy for Prime Minister Shinzo pendent State, Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and his nine living brothers “Regrettably yes, I think we’ve and more freedom. that China might take a softer line Abe because there are wor- and sisters and all other Kiram heirs embraced the Filipino citizens continued to see a deterioration China has yet to give its version towards the Dalai Lama, partly ries that Abe is shifting Japan without qualifications. They are not vengeful of the acts committed in the overall human rights situa- of how the rights talks with the due to an article by a scholar from to the right by pushing for a against them by the United States and the Philippine Governments,” tion in China,” Zeya said, pointing United States went. the Central Party School, which bigger role for the army and a said Idjirani. He said Sulu is questioning the authority of the Aquino to growing harassment of family “We certainly did raise a trains rising officials, who said less apologetic view of Japan’s administration to hand over the Sulu archipelago to the Milf. Idjirani members, such as that of the rela- number of specific cases ... In that China could take some steps wartime history. added that the Sulu Sultanate was not even consulted on the proposed tives of blind legal activist Chen some cases we were able to receive to resume talks with the Dalai inclusion of the Sulu archipelago to the Bangsamoro region. Guangcheng, now living in the some information. Lama’s representatives Thailand, China THE PHILIPPINE STAR United States. I would say overall it fell short REUTERS to discuss code BANGKOK: Thailand yes- terday welcomed China’s readiness to discuss a con- tentious Code of Conduct Cambodia PM vows to lead govt Thousands lose out in in the South China Sea but cautioned that talks will PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s have “at least 120 members” and the next parliament. The first take time. China will host a strongman Prime Minister hold its first session within 60 parliament will be convened by Manila farm reform ministerial meeting with the Hun Sen yesterday vowed to days of the election. It will leave late September. Association of South-East establish a government under the Cambodian People’s Party The CNRP has already called MANILA: Thousands of workers will lose out when a plantation Asian Nations on August his leadership despite allega- well short by its own reckon- for a United Nations-backed owned by President Benigno Aquino’s family is carved up for its 28-29 on establishing the tions by the opposition party of ing of the seats if the opposition investigation into allegations farm hands next year, an official said yesterday. code. massive electoral fraud. chose to boycott parliament. that 1.25 million legitimate vot- The 4,300-hectare Hacienda Luisita north of Manila will be distrib- Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian But in a defiant radio address ers were culled from the elec- uted to its labourers after years of delay, Agrarian Reform Secretary Three scribes People’s Party (CPP) on Sunday yesterday the premier said his toral roll. While more than one Virgilio de los Reyes said. Even then, only about 6,200 of more than claimed it had secured an esti- party has an “absolute majority” million “ghost names” and a fur- 8,000 workers would own plots from the break-up, he said. gunned down mated 68 of the 123 lower house and will “proceed to set up the ther 200,000 duplicated names About 2,000 would not get land because they were not fully employed seats, shading the Cambodia leadership of the parliament and were added to the list. in 1989, the year after the land reform law was passed. Many of those GENERAL SANTOS: National Rescue Party (CNRP) government. They will not wait Rainsy has said his party had excluded were “transient workers” who got part-time jobs for two Three journalists have which won 55. for you (the opposition)”. in fact won a majority of 63 seats months each year cleaning up the farm immediately after harvest. been gunned down in the The CNRP has rejected the “There will be no stalemate... and repeated a vow to prevent The division would amount to about 0.66 hectares for each farmer, Philippines, police and rights results, citing widespread vot- I am the Prime Minister. I the Cambodian People’s Party who would need to pay about P80,000 ($1,836) over 30 years for the title. watchdogs said yesterday. ing irregularities, and has vowed will continue to be the Prime “stealing victory”. Aquino’s mother and then-president Corazon Aquino, signed the law Freelance photographer to press for nationwide protests Minister. The law does not The opposition said its leader in 1988 which would have covered the farm. Her family, the Cojuangcos, Mario Sy was killed in front unless an independent probe is specify how many lawmakers Sam Rainsy will announce the tried to skirt the law by converting parts of the land to non-agricultural of his wife and child by two launched. are needed for the first meeting.” “Cambodia National Rescue use and giving workers shares in a company controlling the farm. The suspects who broke into his According to the constitution, He also urged the CNRP to Party ’s stand related to election Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that the family must sell the land to the home in the southern city the National Assembly must join talks over participating in results” on Tuesday. AFP government, which would sell it to the farmers on easy terms. AFP of General Santos, police said. The attack followed the shooting deaths in Manila on Tuesday of two columnists of a tabloid that had ceased pub- lication, said Rupert Mangilit, Taiwan lawmakers scuffle Secretary-General of National Union of Journalists of the Philippines. The New during N-plant debate York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says at TAIPEI: Taiwanese lawmakers Democratic Progressive Party least 73 Philippine journalists hurled water and wrestled each (DPP). have been killed since 1992. other to the floor of the island’s The DPP opposes the nuclear parliament yesterday in a brawl plant, citing safety concerns while Rebels slam which broke out during a debate the ruling Kuomintang party on the fate of a controversial warns that scrapping the facil- Forbes list nuclear plant. ity will lead to insufficient power Dozens of lawmakers from supply and hurt the economy. MANILA: The Forbes list opposing camps clashed as they Taiwan’s parliament was once of 50 wealthiest Filipinos tried to seize the chamber’s notorious for mass brawls between highlights the widening podium and splashed water from legislators but over the last few gap between the rich and cups and plastic bottles at each years debates had remained rela- the poor in the country, a other as some shouted “Support tively peaceful. militant group claimed yes- for Nuke 4 harms children.” However, fighting broke out in terday. Bagong Alyansang Two scuffling lawmakers from June as legislators scuffled and Makabayan (Bayan) said the opposing parties fell onto the floor threw coffee during a debate on list “belies any claim of inclu- before they were pulled apart by whether to revise a controversial sive growth” amid the recent others in footage broadcast live capital gains tax on share trading. economic gains being trum- on television. The latest incident sparked peted by the government. The parliament was sched- heated criticism from the pub- “The people on the list own uled to vote on whether to hold lic on Internet forums and social companies that control every a referendum to stop the ongo- networking websites. aspect of the Filipino’s life... ing construction of the island’s While the lawmakers fought, Their wealth is in stark con- fourth nuclear plant, also known about 100 environmental activists trast with the worsening pov- as “Nuke 4” near Taipei. staged a sit-in outside the parlia- erty and unemployment of Chiu Chih-wei from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (in green vest) scuffles with Lin Hung-chih (on But the voting was likely to ment, chanting slogans opposing many Filipinos,” Bayan said. the ground) from the ruling Nationalist Party in parliament yesterday. be postponed to next week after nuclear energy. AGENCIES the fighting, said the opposition AFP AUGUST 3, 2013 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan / Afghanistan Imran to fight terrorism with cricket Supreme Court presses Khan on alleged contempt

PESHAWAR: Pakistan and captained the country to its Meanwhile, the Supreme cricket hero Imran Khan is only World Cup victory in 1992. Court ordered Khan to respond launching a hunt for sport- “Our party gives special stress in detail over allegations that he ing talent as part of a flagship on youth and sports and with committed contempt by mak- counter-terrorism policy in Khan as leader and initiator of ing derogatory remarks against the northwest province gov- the programme we hope it can judges. erned by his party, an aide said help bring peace in the province,” Khan says polls were rigged yesterday. Elahi said, adding the scout for and criticised the judiciary and “Terrorism has been very talent was part of the party’s the election commission for not destructive for sports... that is programme to develop what is taking action. why we are aiming at sports one of the most deprived parts The court summoned him yes- activities to end terrorism in of Pakistan. terday to explain what it called the province,” said Iftikhar Elahi, “The programme is aimed to his “derogatory language against sports and culture coordinator spot talent in cricket from the the Supreme Court and its judges, for the party. province. Khan has taken the ini- and a deliberate campaign to Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e- tiative as part of his development scandalise” the judiciary. Insaf (PTI) won a breakthrough programmes in KPK.” Khan defended his remarks, in May elections, becoming the The province has produced but the three-member bench country’s third largest party and greats like Younis Khan, Shahid headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar forming a government in Khyber Afridi and Umar Gul in recent Muhammad Chaudhry said it Pakhtunkhwa, hit by Taliban years, but militant bomb attacks was not satisfied and asked him attacks. and shootings have destroyed to submit a detailed response on Khan has courted controversy aspects of daily life. August 28. in the West for advocating peace “Khan will give as much time “The explanation is not accept- talks with the Taliban and there as possible and we have also hired able. The case is adjourned until have been questions about how a few coaches (former players) August 28,” Chaudhry told Khan, his inexperienced party will who will help spot talent and directing him to submit a fresh tackle the scourge of violence. groom them,” said Elahi. reply before the next hearing. On July 26 suicide bombers He said talks were underway Khan says the role of the judi- killed 57 people in the tribal town to help build and renovate proper ciary and the commission in the Imran Khan (left), head of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf political party ruling the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, leaves of Parachinar, and on Monday cricket grounds in the province. May 11 vote was shameful and the Supreme Court in Islamabad yesterday. Taliban fighters stormed a north- The hunt will be extended that elections were rigged. west prison, freeing more than to the semi-autonomous tribal If convicted, lawyers say Khan court. “I have not said anything Pakistan’s previous government convicted for refusing to write to 240 inmates, including militants. belt neighbouring the province, faces up to six months in prison. which can lead to the punish- accused the judiciary of politi- Swiss authorities asking them to Elahi said he hoped cricket, a which Washington considers a But Khan said he had done ment. I can’t use such words for cally motivated meddling when re-open corruption cases against national obsession in Pakistan, premier hub of Taliban and Al nothing wrong. “I have not done the superior judiciary, I referred it sacked prime minister Yousuf President Asif Ali Zardari on the can bring peace. Khan is Qaeda operatives who pose a glo- anything wrong... why should I to the returning officers who con- Raza Gilani after finding him grounds that he had immunity as Pakistan’s greatest all rounder bal threat. apologise?” he said outside the ducted elections.” guilty of contempt. Gilani was head of state. AFP

Cell to monitor TV preacher defends Ramadan babies giveaway foreign aid KARACHI: A charismatic to childless couples. But inter- It is not commercialisation, it A third baby is expected to be future of Pakistan,” said Soreya ISLAMABAD: To save pay- Muslim preacher criticised for national media coverage and is not showbiz. It is real Islam. handed over in coming days, Bilqees who dreams her daughter ment of million of dollars to giving out babies to childless public criticism of the baby give- Where are the actors? Where Chhipa said. “It is not ‘you answer will grow up and join the army. donors in the form commit- couples on prime-time Pakistani aways have seen him deny that are actresses? I have not seen a question on a show and you get Tauseef Ahmed Khan, ment charges every year, television denies he is fighting he is pulling out all the stops to any actors or actresses here,” he a baby’. This is false.” Chairman of the Mass the government has notified a ratings war and insists he is maximise ratings in a competitive added. One of the couples said they Communications Department at the establishment of Foreign spreading charity. Ramadan TV market. A local charity said it was got married more than 15 years the Federal Urdu University, said Assistance Monitoring Cell Aamir Liaqat Hussain spoke “It is not like parents come in involved in the screening process ago but have been unable to have the baby give-away had taken the and assigned it eight respon- to journalists as a local founda- the show, and (we) deliver the before the babies were handed their child. They registered with controversy to a new level. “They sibilities to ensure effec- tion involved in the process said baby like a prize. What prize? It over. It supported the show for Chhipa and said they were inter- have adopted the role of reform- tive utilisation of foreign a third baby was due to be given is rubbish to say ‘who wants to discouraging women from aban- viewed earlier this month, before ers whereas they are entertainers. loans, officials said yester- away in the coming days. win a baby?’” he said. doning unwanted babies and men the programme rang them up the Giving away babies on the show day. Foreign loans have often Hussain broadcasts a marathon He insists the two couples were from divorcing wives who can- day before the show was aired, sends negative signals to society led to a heavy price for the 12-hour show each day during screened for their suitability as not give birth. “We give adop- asking them to appear. and should be very discreet. They exchequer as Islamabad paid Ramadan, watched by millions. parents, and says he is right to tion to those couples on merit,” “I cannot express in words our claim to reduce poverty through millions of dollars in commit- He mesmerises his audience find good homes for abandoned said Ramzan Chhipa, head of happiness. There was a great giving away gifts but they are ment charges for not utilising with celebrity interviews, game babies in a country without laws the Chhipa Welfare Association. void in our life and that is filled hurting the self-respect of poor loans after agreements with shows, in-studio meals for the of adoption. “We are trying to cre- He said both couples had been by having this baby,” said Said people on their shows in the race donor agencies. “There is no needy and in two consecutive ate an environment in society for screened and went on the show Zulfiqar Hussain, a policeman for ratings and to attract more formula for calculating the weeks, handing out baby girls those who want to adopt babies. expecting to be given infants. from Karachi. “This child is the advertisements,” he added. AFP exact charges, as the Finance Ministry and the State Bank of Pakistan have different Al Quds Day opinions,” officials said, add- ing it was yet to be seen how loans could be effectively uti- $1bn aid from Russia to lised when stakeholders could not agree on any method. rehabilitate steel mills Credibility index for media ISLAMABAD: The Russian of up to three million tonnes per government has assured year. ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan to provide $1bn assist- He said, “Russia will provide Department of Media and ance to the country for the assistance of $1bn for this project. Communication Studies rehabilitation and up-grada- This matter has received positive at International Islamic tion of the Pakistan Steel Mills response and is presently under University, Islamabad, will (PSM) and bringing its annual active consideration at the high- collaborate with Mishal production up to three million est level on the Russian side.” Pakistan to develop a media tonnes. Abutidze apprised the Zubair credibility index to create a Sergey Abutidze, that TPE was one of the largest new framework and meth- Deputy General Director companies specialising in setting odologies to measure trends, for Development, JSC up of electric power stations. indices on ethics, journal- Technopromexport (TPE) Russia TPE has undertaken projects ism standards and rank- called on Chairman Board of in Pakistan, including instal- ings. “There is a need for Investment Mohammad Zubair lation of units 1, 2 and 3 at the the media sector to come up to discuss the Projects of con- Muzaffargarh (660MW) in 1993- with an innovative method- version to coal of Muzaffargarh 95 and Guddu (220MW) ther- ology which can complement Thermal Power Station, estab- mal power stations in 1981 with current trends and establish lishment of new 600MW coal- financial assistance of the former Demonstrators set fire to the US flag as they mark Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day on the last Friday of Ramadan authenticity of the content on fired thermal power station at Soviet Union. in Kabul, yesterday. the basis of credibility, reli- Jamshoro and rehabilitation/ He said that the TPE was keen ability and professionalism of up-gradation of the PSM, official to undertake projects in Pakistan people supplying news,” said sources said yesterday. and able to provide complete the department Chairman Dr Chairman Board of Investment turnkey solutions. It can assist Pakistan to appoint new World Bank director Zafar Iqbal yesterday. Mishal (BOI) said that the construc- customers in obtaining loans/ has designed an index after tion of new coal-fired unit (500- financing for some projects, he studying media laws, ethics, 600MW) with technical concept added. ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Haq was expected to return rules and regulations drafted of 500MW coal-fired unit could He further said that in government has finally moved was voted out of office in May. from Washington following his by different media groups, be considered as a potential June 2010 a TPE team visited to appoint a new executive In December last year, former resignation but he chose to retain regulatory bodies and jour- project. Wapda and Pepco where the director at the World Bank in prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf the post until his resignation was nalistic organisations. Talking about the financial and TPE was requested for assist- Washington, replacing former had appointed Raja Azeemul Haq accepted. The officials said a sum- technical assistance for rehabili- ance in the rehabilitation of the prime minister Raja Pervaiz to the post using his discretionary mary has been sent to the PM Lahore hit by tation/up-gradation of the PSM, three Russian units installed at Ashraf’s son-in-law Raja powers. Before the controversial seeking permission to formally Abutidze appreciated the role Muzaffargarh Thermal Power Azeemul Haq, who is still serv- appointment to the WB, Haq was initiate the process of appointing earthquake of the Russian government for Station (MTPS). ing on the coveted post despite serving in the Prime Minister’s a new ED at the WB. assistance up to $500m along A Frame Work Cooperation resigning two months ago. Secretariat. However, they ruled out the ISLAMABAD: An earth- with the technical assistance for Agreement between JSC Officials at the Economic A case against Haq’s appoint- possibility of advertising the post. quake measuring 6.4 on the this purpose on government-to- Technopromexport and Genco Affairs Division (EAD) con- ment to the prestigious post of According to sources familiar Richter scale hit Lahore, cap- government basis. Holding Company was agreed. firmed on Friday that a for- executive director (ED) of the with the development, the prime ital of Punjab province, yes- He also discussed about the two The funding for the MTPS mal summary had been moved World Bank was still pending in minister’s secretary Nasir Khosa, terday. Sources said that the phases regarding the production project up to EUR500m for the to the prime minister by EAD the Supreme Court, along with and former secretary finance epicentre was in the Indian of PSM: phase-I includes reha- rehabilitation and conversion of Secretary Nargis Sethi, accepting another case involving his out-of- Abdul Wajid Rana are said to be part of Kashmir and there bilitation/up-gradation of up to MTPS from furnace oil to coal Haq’s resignation. Haq, who was turn promotion to grade 21, the the ones most likely to secure the were no reports of damage or 1.5 million tonnes per annum and was arranged successfully. already embroiled in a legal tus- second highest pay scale in the prestigious slot. casualties. AGENCIES phase-ii undertakes up-gradation INTERNEWS sle, tendered his resignation after civil bureaucracy. INTERNEWS AUGUST 3, 2013 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY Govt defends move Last Friday to amend RTI Act Step to remove political parties from ambit criticised NEW DELHI: The govern- The issue has been in the news The law minister gave a long ment yesterday defended its after the CIC, in a June 3 order, list of points to indicate that decision to amend the RTI Act said that six national political political parties “did not function to keep political parties out of parties would be brought under under a veil of secrecy” and were its ambit, saying they would not the RTI Act as they were public accountable. be able to function if the CIC authorities, receiving significant “There seems to be an impres- order was implemented. The funding from the government. sion that political parties are not step, however, drew criticism Sibal said the CIC order “will accountable. We get elected by the from activists, who contended it strike at the root of the political people. We have to reveal what- would result in erosion of trans- system. People will seek all sorts ever donations we receive to the parency and accountability. of details from political parties Election Commission. It is not as Law Minister Kapil Sibal said including their process of con- if donations to parties are unac- the government respected the sultation and decision-making. counted for,” said Sibal. Central Information Commission Nowhere in the world does this Donations of more than (CIC), but was concerned by its happen”. Rs20,000 received by political order. He said that political par- “The political parties are unan- parties have to be declared to ties were not companies or trusts, imous against the CIC order. the income tax department, the but a “voluntary association of Parties will not be able to func- minister pointed out. The faithful offer Jummat-Ul-Vida prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan at the historic Jama Masjid in New persons”. tion if this is allowed,” he added. “This can also be made public. Delhi yesterday, ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival. The union cabinet on Thursday According to the law minister, It is not as if the political parties approved two amendments to the two options were available to the operate under a veil of secrecy,” RTI Act, one aiming at keeping government — filing a writ petition he said. political parties out of its ambit in the high court against the CIC “We give an account of assets and the second stating that the order, a time-consuming process; and liabilities to the Election CIC order was not binding on any and second, amending the RTI Commission and also give an Violence continues in Assam political party. Act, which could be done quickly. account of our expenses, there Government sources said the “The hurry is because the CIC is transparency. Political parties GUWAHATI: Assam’s Karbi properties included the rubber today. However, there are some change in the RTI Act would be order is operational. We want a are not companies or trusts. It’s a Anglong continued to burn over plantation of Lok Sabha MP scattered incidents of violence in made in the monsoon session quick resolution of this issue,” said voluntary association of persons.” the statehood demand for the Birensing Ingty. Protesters also some areas. Agitated crowd also starting on August 5. Sibal. IANS third consecutive day yesterday partially damaged a hospital, a tried to remove railway tracks in while a rail blockade by several forest office and an office of the some areas in the district. We are, Bodo organisations demanding state government’s sericulture however, going to continue with separate Bodoland state dis- department. the curfew as situation might rupted rail traffic across the “A group of people gheraoed turn bad again,” he added. state. the Dongkamokam police station Meanwhile, train services were Six TDP MPs Principal in judicial custody An indefinite curfew, imposed under Hamren subdivision today, disrupted across the state due to in the district headquarter Diphu demanding release of a student a 12-hour rail blockade called by and its adjoining areas, contin- leader, who was picked up by the several organisations demanding to quit over over midday meal deaths ued yesterday. Four people where police for his alleged involvement a separate Bodoland state on the injured at Dongkamokam in in arson yesterday. lines of Telengana. PATNA: The principal of a denied her involvement in the Hamren subdivision when police “Police had to resort to fir- Five companies of central para- Telangana Bihar school, where 23 children tragedy. opened fire to disperse a mob sur- ing to disperse the crowd after military forces have arrived in the HYDERABAD,: Six MPs of died last month after eating rounding the police station. they refused to vacate the area,” state and 15 more companies have Telugu Desam Party (TDP) contaminated food, was sent to Over 50 children fall ill Agitators burnt several houses said Deputy Inspector General of been sought to assist the state from Rayalaseema and Andhra judicial custody yesterday after More than 50 children, mostly and damaged property of politi- Police (Central Range) P Saloi. police in containing the situation. yesterday decided to quit to she underwent a lie detector girls, were taken ill yesterday cians near Diphu. The damaged “The situation has improved IANS protest the decision to divide test, police said. after drinking water from a Andhra Pradesh by carving out Meena Devi, principal of the hand pump at a school in Bihar’s a separate Telangana state. government primary school at Sitamarhi district. They are now The MPs told a news confer- Gandaman village in Saran dis- out of danger, officials said. ence here that their decision trict, was sent to judicial custody The incident took place at the was meant to protect the inter- till August 5 by a district court, Kasturba Gandhi middle school est of the people of Seemandhra Saran Superintendent of Police in Runnisaidpur of Sitamarhi, a (Rayalaseema and Andhra). Sujit Kumar said. She is named district police officer said. The MPs who announced as an accused in the case. It came a day after 30 children their resignations at the news Meena Devi was taken on fell sick after drinking water conference include Lok Sabha police remand Wednesday. The from hand pumps at two separate members Nimmala Kristappa lie detector test or polygraph test schools in Saran and Gopalganj (Hindupur), K Narayana Rao was conducted on the principal districts. (Machilipatnam), M Venugopala by a team of the Patna-based In the Sitamarhi incident, the Reddy (Narsaraopet) and Forensic Science Laboratory children complained of pain in Rajya Sabha members Sujana and New Delhi-based Central the stomach and started vomit- Chowdhury and C M Ramesh. Forensic Science Laboratory. ing after drinking the water. Later, another Lok Sabha The police officer said the test “All girl students admitted at member, N Sivaprasad (Chittoor), report was likely to be ready by SKMCH are out of danger and announced that he, too, was next week. their condition is stable,” said quitting. The special investigating team Bindeshwari Kumar, a doctor at Chowdhury asked Congress probing the case had last month the hospital. to clarify which committee’s filed a petition before Chief Education department offi- report was the basis for its deci- Judicial Magistrate A K Jha ask- cials claimed it “appears to be the sion, which, he said, would hurt ing for four days of police remand handiwork of some anti-social ele- the interests of the people of of the accused to conduct the pol- ments as the hand pump might Seemandhra. ygraph test on her. have been poisoned”. IANS She has claimed innocence and IANS

Patent for cancer drug Guerrilla killed as army foils revoked; blow for GSK infiltration bid NEW DELHI: India has can be sold more cheaply. revoked a local patent granted The latest ruling only affects SRINAGAR: A guerrilla was to Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline GSK’s newer patent, not the killed yesterday in Jammu and for a breast cancer drug in the original patent for the main active Kashmir’s Kupwara district as latest blow to global companies ingredient in the drug, lapatinib, the army foiled another infiltra- seeking a bigger presence in which expires in 2019. tion bid from across the Line of the country’s $13bn medicine For the first time, the patent Control (LOC), officials said. market. board acted on a complaint filed by “Army foiled an infiltration Tykerb, one of the most another international pharmaceu- bid and killed one militant while widely prescribed breast can- tical firm rather a local company. seriously injuring the other on cer treatments in India used The challenge to GSK’s patent the LOC in the Tangdhar sector to treat advanced forms of the was launched by an Indian sub- of Kupwara,” a defence spokesman disease, is a newer version of sidiary of German health group said. GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) original Fresenius. It had disputed the He said that based on inputs anti-breast cancer drug lapatinib. patents both for the original mol- regarding movement of militants The patent board revoked the ecule and Tykerb. in the area, troops in Tangdhar patent for Tykerb, calling it an “We are pleased that the were on alert and detected the incremental improvement of the Intellectual Property Appellate movement of two militants on original compound and not suf- Board in India has upheld our the Indian side of the boundary ficiently innovative to warrant a basic patent for the lapatinib dividing Kashmir between India patent. compound, the active ingredient and Pakistan. The ruling, underscores Indian in Tykerb,” said a GSK official The spokesman said heavy fog authorities’ tough stance against who did not wish to be named. with intermittent rains delayed what is called “evergreening” or “We are, however, disappointed operations throughout Thursday, minor changes to a drug to extend that the board has revoked our but by night the weather started its patent shelf life, said lawyer later expiring patent (in 2021) to clear, and two militants were Dominic Alvares, part of the team for the lapatinib ditosylate salt,” observed. which challenged GSK’s Tykerb the official said, adding GSK was On being detected, the two patent. considering an appeal. opened fire at the troops. “India has some of the toughest Western drug-makers are “The retaliatory fire by the patent laws — and they are based seeking to win a larger part of troops resulted in elimination of on public interest,” Alvares, of S. India’s rapidly expanding drugs one terrorist and seriously injur- Majumdar and Co, said. market, valued at around $13bn. ing the other terrorist. Once drugs go off patent, they AFP IANS AUGUST 3, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business ON SATURDAY 14

US crude falls as job data disappoints Brent futures drop to $108.90 a barrel

NEW YORK: US oil futures fell led to sharp gains over the previ- by more than $1 yesterday as US ous two sessions. jobs data came in below expec- Concern over supply disruptions tations, tempering economic in Iraq, Libya and Nigeria prevented optimism that pushed oil to its heavier losses. Libya’s oil exports highest level in four months ear- continued to flow at less than half lier in the session and prompting normal rates yesterday as strikes some profit-taking. and protests shut major oil termi- US employers slowed their pace nals in the North African Opecc of hiring in July, with the number producer, triggering one of the worst of jobs outside the farming sector disruptions in the past year. increasing by 162,000, the Labour These outages helped trim Opec Department said, below the median output to a four-month low in forecast of 184,000 in a Reuters poll. July, a Reuters survey published The disappointing number led on Wednesday showed. Opec out- Two Motorola employees transfer data between two of Motorola’s Moto X as the American-manufactured smartphone is unveiled at a news conference many oil investors to sell out of posi- put averaged 30.25m barrels per in New York on Thursday. The Google-owned company said users will be able to customise several parts on the Moto X, including various colours tions after sharp gains in the previ- day (b/d), down from 30.38m b/d in and materials such as wood. ous two days. “We’ve got a pullback June, the survey found. from the jobs data, but I suspect Opec supply looks set to tighten we are also seeing some profit-tak- further. Seaborne oil exports from ing before the weekend,” said Bob the producer group, excluding Motorola unveils Android smartphone Yawger, director of energy futures Angola and Ecuador, will fall by at Mizuho Securities in New York. 490,000 b/d in the four weeks to SAN FRANCISCO: Motorola to upset Samsung and the other deep in mobile hardware—we pictures can be taken. “Moto X “That said, we are still trading at August 17, an analyst who estimates introduced a keenly-antici- licensees quite a bit.” invented mobile communica- promises to be unlike any device historically high levels. I wouldn’t be future shipments said on Thursday. pated Moto X smartphone in IDC research firm figures for tions,” Motorola Mobility Canada we’ve offered before,” said Jeff surprised if we tested $110, although Iraq’s production has come under a move aimed at reviving the the April-June period showed general manager Odile Guinot Bradley, senior vice president that won’t happen today.” pressure as Sunni insurgents target withered mobile device maker Samsung on top of the global said. “Now, as a Google com- of devices at US telecom giant US crude oil futures fell $1.10 to its northern pipeline, while tech- bought by Google for $12.5bn. smartphone market with 30.4 pany, we’ve become the kind of AT&T. Moto X will work on $106.77 a barrel by 11:54am EDT nical problems curb output in the The Android-powered phone percent to 13.1 percent for Apple, company that can build a smart- an array of telecom networks, (1554 GMT). Despite the decline, south. Nigerian production has been is the first Motorola smart- with LG third at 5.1 percent, fol- phone like Moto X,” Guinot according to Motorola. the US benchmark was still head- blighted by oil theft, a factor that phone created in collaboration lowed by Lenovo (4.7 percent) added. “It fuses our history of “This is a stunning phone to ing for a gain of around 2 per- severely dented Royal Dutch Shell with Google since the Internet and ZTE (4.2 percent). mobile innovation with the best look at,” Enderle said. “The long- cent this week. Brent futures fell and Eni’s second-quarter results. titan completed its purchase of “Google did not like the fact of Google mobile services.” term fallout of having the best 64 cents to $108.90 a barrel after Meanwhile, US proved oil Motorola Mobility in May of last that Samsung had become so People can visit an online phone be your phone will make reaching an intra-day peak for the reserves grew by a record amount year. The Moto X, due for US powerful; it basically owns the Moto Maker studio to customize other Android licensees think day of $110.09 — the highest since in 2011, according to a government release in late August, could be a market,” Enderle said of the colors, accents, memory capac- twice.” April 3. Brent is still on track for a report, in the latest indicator of formidable foe in a global market South Korean consumer elec- ity and other aspects of hand- When the Motorola purchase weekly increase of 1.7 percent after the North American energy boom. dominated by Samsung, the lead- tronics giant that has flourished sets, which will be assembled in was completed, the Internet two weeks of losses. The US added 3.8 billion barrels of ing maker of smartphones built with help from Android software. the United States and delivered giant said it would “enable Google The North Sea benchmark crude in 2011, a 15 percent increase, with the Google-backed software. “Google was working for free of charge within four days, to supercharge the Android eco- maintained its premium to West according to the US Energy It will also be available at Samsung,” he continued. “Moto according to Motorola. system and will enhance compe- Texas Intermediate, which widened Information Administration. that time in Canada and Latin X will challenge that ownership Moto X smartphones are tition in mobile computing.” to around $2.09 a barrel. Petrol Proved oil reserves stood at 29bn America “This was the kind of and, if it is as good as it looks, powered by Google’s Android Regulators in the US and futures fell with the rest of the barrels in 2011, the highest volume thing I think Samsung was most will give control back to Google.” software and features include elsewhere have stressed that energy complex, dropping 4 cents since 1985. “Horizontal drilling and worried about,” said independ- Moto X will have a starting sophisticated voice controls and they will be watching to make to trade near $2.99 a gallon. hydraulic fracturing in shale and ent Silicon Valley analyst Rob price of $199 in the United States anticipating what users might sure that the Mountain View, Strong US manufacturing data other tight rock formations contin- Enderle of Enderle Group. if bought along with a two-year want from the Internet at any California-based company does for July, better European factory ued to increase oil and natural gas “On paper, this is arguably service contract with a telecom given moment. not use Motorola Mobility to numbers and healthier-than- reserves,” said EIA Administrator the best Android phone on the service company. Motorola also streamlined the obtain an unfair advantage in expected Chinese industrial data Adam Sieminski. AGENCIES market,” he added. “This is going “At Motorola our roots are ease with which smartphone the market. AFP

Spain basks West-to-east oil pipeline in summer proposed in Canada MONTREAL: TransCanada to process more potentially lower jobs boom announced plans for the con- priced Canadian oil, enhancing struction of a $12bn pipeline to Canada’s energy security and MADRID: Spain basked in a carry oil from the Alberta oil making our country less reliant summer jobs boom in July when sands to the Atlantic seaboard. on foreign oil.” the number of people registered The company said it was going With around 170bn barrels as being unemployed dropped for ahead with the Energy East of oil in the ground, Canada the fifth month in a row, govern- Pipeline project, which could has the world’s third largest oil ment figures showed yesterday. move 1.1 million barrels of oil a reserves after Saudi Arabia and The number of jobless benefit day from western Canada to east- Venezuela. claimants fell from the previous ern markets, after hearing from However, exports have been month by 64,866 people, or 1.36 potential customers. limited by a shortage of pipeline percent, to 4.70 million in July, It said it had already concluded capacity. And although Canada is according to raw figures issued in long-term contracts with produc- a net exporter of oil, it imported a report by the Labour Ministry. ers and refiners to move about 600,000 barrels a day in 2012 to It was the first time the 900,000 barrels a day, though the supply its refineries on the east number of registered job seekers project still requires regulatory coast. had declined for five months in a approval. Plans for the Keystone XL pipe- row since 2007, the report high- “This is an historic opportunity line linking Alberta to the Gulf An attendant opens the door of a Toyota Lexus IS 300h at the company’s showroom in Tokyo yesterday. lighted. When the figures were to connect the oil resources of of Mexico, meanwhile, have been corrected to smooth out seasonal western Canada to the consumers stalled by US President Barack variations, however, the number of eastern Canada, creating jobs, Obama as he weighs US energy April-June Toyota profit doubles of claimants rose from the previ- tax revenue and energy security requirements against environ- ous month by 7,591 people, or 0.16 for all Canadians for decades to mentalists who say oil sands percent, to 4.88 million in July. come,” TransCanada CEO Russ production is polluting and per- TOKYO: Toyota said yesterday However Toyota’s domestic yen ($5.64bn) in the quarter on The government and financial Girling said in a statement. petuates reliance on fossil fuels. that net profit almost doubled rivals Nissan and Honda posted sales of 6.25 trillion yen, which markets usually focus on the raw The project has aroused stiff With that as the backdrop, to a record $5.64bn for the three mixed results in the quarter, with were up 13.7 percent from a year figures rather than the seasonally opposition from Quebec, and envi- TransCanada in April launched months to June, and said it was Honda’s earnings slipping 7.0 per- earlier. Profit “increased due to adjusted data. “The unemployment ronmental groups have vowed to a process to gauge the interest of on track to produce over 10 mil- cent as it hiked spending on a the impact of foreign exchange figures continue to show a positive fight it. suppliers in western Canada on lion vehicles worldwide this year. major expansion, while Nissan’s rates and our global efforts for trend,” said Spain’s state secretary It is supposed to be completed a pipeline that would carry oil to The world’s biggest carmaker net profit jumped 14 percent in profit improvement, through cost for employment, Engracia Hidalgo. by 2018, and the company indi- the east. has ramped up its bid to tap the April-June quarter. reduction activities,” Managing Spain’s official unemployment cated it would approach Canadian The project calls for converting emerging markets while key US Nissan said sales in North Officer Takuo Sasaki said. rate fell to 26.26 percent in the authorities for approval by the a 3,000km gas pipeline to oil and demand has also been on the America soared, but it also Looking forward, Toyota said second quarter of this year from a end of the year. adding a 1,400km section from upswing, helping Toyota to book warned that demand in China, it expected to pump out a record record 27.16 percent in the previ- “Our government’s priorities Quebec to New Brunswick on the ever-increasing profits over the the world’s biggest car market, 10.12 million vehicles this calen- ous quarter, according to a broader, are job creation, economic growth Atlantic coast. last year. The Camry and Corolla tumbled while recession-riddled dar year, after it overtook General household survey conducted by the and long-term economic prosper- Greenpeace campaigner Keith maker tripled its net profit in the Europe was also weak. Motors in 2012 to regain the title National Statistics Institute. It was ity,” said Rob Moore, minister of Stewart slammed the planned past fiscal year with a slump in Toyota said it also saw its of world’s biggest automaker. the first such decline in two years. state for the Atlantic Canada pipeline. the yen helping Japanese manu- European market decline in the Toyota did not specifically Prime Minister Mariano Opportunities Agency. “We can’t build a nation around facturers’ bottom line. quarter as Asian sales slipped. address China, but sales in the Rajoy’s government is forecast- “We welcome today’s milestone a project that will poison water, vio- The yen, which has lost about But North America helped make country were dented in the wake ing a jobless rate of 26.7 percent in transporting Canadian crude late treaty rights and further accel- 20 percent of its value on the dol- up the shortfall along with strong of a flare-up in a territorial dis- in 2014. Spain is still struggling from West to East and reaching erate a global climate crisis that is lar since November, has boosted demand in emerging markets in pute between Tokyo and Beijing to overcome the aftermath of new markets abroad.” already resulting in weather dis- Japanese firms’ competitiveness Central and South America as last year which sparked a con- a decade-long property bubble, Natural Resources Minister Joe asters around the world,” Stewart overseas and jacked up the value well as Africa, it added. sumer boycott of Japanese brands destroying millions of jobs and Oliver added: “Initiatives like this said in a statement. of their repatriated foreign income. Toyota said it earned 562.19bn in China. AFP sending debt levels soaring. AFP could allow Canadian refineries AFP AUGUST 3, 2013 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY

Australia to tax bank deposits European indexes end Budget deficit blows out to A$30bn; government cuts growth outlook

SYDNEY: Australia said yes- Polls must be held before the boom to strong growth in produc- forecast A$733m in the first 18 mixed; gold prices fall terday that its budget deficit has end of November, with the Tony tion and exports is currently under months. Bowen said the cash would blown out to A$30bn and reve- Abbott-led conservative opposition way,” he said. “This will mean that go into a new Financial Stability LONDON: Europe’s main stock markets mostly shrugged nues are shrinking, as it unveiled expected to narrowly win, although non-mining sectors of the economy Fund, but will be counted as rev- off disappointing monthly US jobs data yesterday that sug- a pre-election mini-budget that Rudd has clawed back significant will need to lead growth in the enue in the budget, to protect sav- gested the recovery in the world’s top economy isn’t as includes a controversial plan to support for Labour since ousting future. This transition poses chal- ings in the event of a bank collapse. strong as many hoped. tax bank deposits. Julia Gillard in June. In its state- lenges for the economy.” “It’ll be quarantined from the London’s FTSE 100 index of leading shares dropped 0.51 The government also cut its ment, the government also upped AMP chief economist Shane Oliver rest of the budget and just put percent to end at 6,647.87 points. But Frankfurt’s DAX 30 was growth outlook for the fiscal year its forecast unemployment rate in said he was stunned at the scale of aside in case there’s ever a need essentially stable, slipping 0.05 percent to 8,406.94 points, while to June as the mining-driven econ- 2013/14 by 50 basis points to 6.25 the deficit and speed at which it had with a bank getting into trouble in the CAC 40 in Paris squeezed out a gain of 0.07 percent to omy grapples with a slowdown in percent. worsened. “I’m shocked by how much Australia,” he said. “It hasn’t hap- 4,045.65 points. Milan shed 0.24 percent but Madrid gained China that has seen commodities However, while the budget deficit it has deteriorated,” he said, adding pened in Australia for quite a while, 0.40 percent. prices tumble. With national polls for this fiscal year had ballooned that the promised return to surplus but we can’t be complacent.” The euro rose to $1.3278 from $1.3208 late in New York on approaching, Treasurer Chris Bowen from the Aus$18 billion forecast in has been repeatedly delayed. He said the levy had been rec- Thursday. The dollar slid to 98.88 yen from 99.52 yen. On the said tough conditions had seen a the May budget, Bowen stuck to “We seem to keep pushing out the ommended by the Reserve Bank of London Bullion Market, the price of gold dropped to $1,309.25 further A$33.3bn wiped off revenue the government’s plan to return a return to surplus and the return to Australia, the International Monetary an ounce from $1,315 on Thursday. estimates over the next four years. surplus in 2016-17. He said the fall surplus gets steeper and steeper as Fund and the Australian Prudential Official data released yesterday showed the US unemploy- This, he said, had forced the rul- in commodities prices sparked by time goes by,” he said. In a bid to Regulation Authority, but the bank- ment rate fell to a better-than-expected 7.4 percent in July from ing Labour party into A$17.4bn of weakening growth in key export plug its revenue shortfall the gov- ing industry said it was not necessary. 7.6 percent in June, but jobs growth disappointed. The Labour “responsible savings”. The state- market China meant Australia’s ernment this week announced a “This is simply a cost on Department reported the United States added 162,000 jobs last ment’s release added to speculation economy would grow 2.5 percent in plan to hike tobacco taxes by 12.5 Australians that is not really going month, well below the 175,000 expected on average by analysts. that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd July-June, slower than the 2.75 per- percent per year over the next four to deliver any benefits in terms US stocks slid on the jobs data. In midday trade, the Dow Jones could call an election as early as this cent forecast in May. It is expected years, to raise more than A$5bn. of what is already a very stable Industrial Average was down 0.21 percent at 15,595.66 points. The weekend, having now outlined fresh to rise to 3.0 percent in 2014/15. Bowen said he will also tax and safe system,” said Australian broad-market S&P 500 shed 0.14 percent at 1,704.43 points, pull- budget numbers as well as new poli- “The transition in the resources bank deposits up to A$250,000 at Banking Association chief Steven ing back from Thursday’s record closing high. And the tech-rich cies on a raft of key issues. sector from a record investment 0.05 percent from 2016, raising a Munchenberg. AFP Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.05 percent to 3,673.83 points. Asian stock markets meanwhile closed higher for a second straight session following another record close on Wall Street and a string of positive economic data from China, Europe and Lloyds bank back in black the United States, traders said. AFP Indonesian growth slips WTO rules against China below 6pc in US chicken dispute JAKARTA: Indonesian growth slipped below six percent last GENEVA: China breached the rules of global commerce by quarter as exports and invest- imposing duties on imports of US chicken, the World Trade ment fell in Southeast Asia’s top Organisation ruled yesterday, saying Beijing must fall into line. economy due to global weakness, A WTO disputes settlement panel said that China’s actions official data showed yesterday. had been inconsistent with rules that allow countries to impose The figures highlighted the duties when their trade partners dump goods on their markets. challenge for policy makers as Dumping is the practice of selling goods at cut-price in order they seek to maintain strong to increase market share, which can harm domestic producers. growth while battling a surge in The WTO panel said that China’s chicken duties were found inflation sparked by a fuel price to have “nullified or impaired benefits accruing to the United hike and stopping recent steep States” under international trade accords. falls in the rupiah. GDP was 5.81 The issue has been a major bone of contention in the often percent in the three months to tense trade relations between the world’s two largest economies. the end of June year-on-year, It concerns chicken ‘broiler products’ — chickens less than 13 below economists’ expectations, weeks old — imported from the United States. China imposed according to data from the Customers pass a Lloyds TSB bank branch in London. Britain’s Lloyds bank returned to health in the first half of 2013, the duties in August 2010, claiming that the chicken products Central Statistics Agency. with profits of £2.1bn. The bank made losses of £456m in the same period last year. were subsidised in the United States and then sold at less than This compared to 6.02 percent fair value on the Chinese market. AFP in the January to March quarter. “The global economy is slowing, so Indonesia is also slowing,” said QATARI MARKET statistics chief Suryamin. RBS picks new head as bank Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Long a bright spot in the global Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 103.13 0.49 % Aa2 AA economy, Indonesia’s growth has Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 104.38 1.82 % Aa2 AA been weakening as demand for its major commodity exports, such as seeks to exit state control Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 119.00 2.90 % Aa2 AA coal and palm oil, has slowed, par- Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 112.50 3.10 % Aa2 AA ticularly from powerhouse China. LONDON: State-rescued Royal receive also a cash allowance in spur profitability for the bank,” Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 106.25 3.64 % Aa2 AA The country’s trade defi- Bank of Scotland promoted New lieu of a pension totalling 35 per- he added. Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 156.50 4.82 % Aa2 AA cit widened to $850m in June Zealander Ross McEwan to the cent of his salary. Currrent RBS chief executive Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 114.75 5.35 % Aa2 AA from $590m in May due to weak post of chief executive yester- While he is eligible to receive Hester surprised markets in June demand for exports, according to day ahead of the bank’s expected a long-term incentive award in by announcing that he would leave Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 106.75 5.29 % Aa2 AA official data released this week. return to the private sector. 2014, McEwan does not wish to be the bank before the end of 2013. Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 104.25 1.31 % Aa2 AA Suryamin also said that invest- RBS, 81-percent owned by the considered for an annual bonus in His departure, reportedly at the Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 109.50 3.45 % Aa2 AA ment was experiencing a slow- British taxpayer after the world’s 2014 or for the remainder of 2013, request of Britain’s coalition gov- Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 104.88 1.15 % A1 A- down, and Credit Suisse noted most expensive bank bailout, said the statement said. ernment led by Prime Minister Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 103.25 2.45 % A1 A- investment growth slipped to a its head of retail business would RBS announced also that it had David Cameron, has sparked three-and-a-half-year low in the take charge from October, along- posted a net profit of £535m in questions about the strategy for QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.50 1.74 % NR NR second quarter. But the central side news that it had returned to the six months to the end of June the state-rescued bank. QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.38 1.61 % Aa3 A+ bank has little room to loosen mon- profit. The 56-year-old replaces compared with a loss after tax of British finance minister George QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 103.00 2.49 % Aa3 A+ etary policy as it seeks to keep a lid Stephen Hester who recently £2bn in the first half of 2012. Osborne said that McEwan would Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 103.13 2.59 % A2 A- on surging inflation that threatens announced that he would step “RBS figures are being over- “provide the leadership RBS needs Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 104.50 1.92 % A2 A to dent consumer spending, a key down later this year. shadowed by the announcement of as the bank puts the mistakes of motor of the Indonesian economy “The Royal Bank of Scotland Ross McEwan as new CEO, replac- the past behind it, and the govern- Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 123.38 3.43 % A2 A as the middle class rapidly expands. Group plc announces today that ing Stephen Hester who widely ment seeks to get the best value Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 104.63 4.03 % A2 A Inflation hit a four-year high Ross McEwan has been appointed regarded as the saviour of RBS by for the taxpayer from the money Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 101.25 4.86 % A2 A in July after the government as a director and group chief exec- the market,” said Joe Rundle, head the last government put into the Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 105.75 0.47 % Aa3 A raised the price of fuel by up to utive with effect from 1 October of trading at ETX Capital. bank”. McEwan, who joined RBS Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.75 3.55 % Aa3 A 44 percent. Bank Indonesia hiked 2013,” the Edinburgh-based bank “McEwan’s strategy may be as head of its retail banking opera- its key interest rate by 75 basis said in a statement. one that steers the bank toward tions only last September, said it Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 108.50 3.92 % Aa3 A points at its last two meetings to McEwan, who is married with a heavy retail banking mix over was “a privilege to lead a bank that SOVEREIGNS keep a lid on rising prices. two children, will earn an annual investment bank — a strategy matters to so many”. Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P AFP salary of £1m ($1.5m). He will widely regarded as effective to AFP Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 103.38 0.44 % Aa2 AA Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 121.50 2.65 % Aa2 AA Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 108.50 2.63 % NR NR Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 105.25 3.40 % NR NR Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 117.25 4.87 % NR NR US auto sales accelerate to best July since 2006 Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 108.63 5.21 % NR NR Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 104.25 1.04 % Aa2 AA CHICAGO: US auto sales continued to demand for full-size pickups and small (crosso- particularly with our pickup trucks and Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 113.25 3.51 % NR BBB accelerate, posting the best July performance vers), although small cars have cropped up as SUVs,” Chrysler sales chief Reid Bigland said. Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 102.00 5.14 % NR BBB since 2006 on Thursday as consumers flocked another segment to watch due to the impact of Ford’s sales rose 11 percent to 193,715 vehi- Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 84.50 8.85 % Caa1 CCC+ to dealerships to replace ageing vehicles with rising summer gas prices,” said Alec Gutierrez, cles for its best July since 2006. “Our small new models at low interest rates. an auto analyst with Kelley Blue Book. cars and hybrids continue to attract new cus- Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 103.75 3.90 % NR BBB-

“Solid industry sales in July point to a sta- Toyota’s sales rose 17 percent to 193,394 tomers to Ford and away from our competi- *Periodic Distribution Amount ble market indicating a recovering economy,” vehicles in July, the Japanese automaker said. tors, thanks to the vehicles’ combination of IMPORTANT NOTE: said Bill Fay, group vice president at Toyota. GM’s sales jumped 16 percent in July to styling, technology, fuel economy and perform- Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which “Consumer confidence also maintained elevated 234,071 vehicles. ance,” Ford sales chief Ken Czubay said. is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services levels as evidenced by strong retail sales.” Total “For GM, July was the most well-balanced Honda’s sales jumped 21 percent to 126,289 Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary data industry sales rose 14 percent from results in month of the year from a retail sales stand- units while Nissan’s sales grew 11 percent to and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of July 2012, according to Autodata. point: trucks were hot, but so were small cars 109,041. Korean automaker Hyundai’s sales the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds can and The sales came in at an adjusted, annualised and family vehicles,” GM sales chief Kurt grew by a more modest six percent to 66,005 does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant liquidity rate of 15.7 million units, down slightly from McNeil said. “Our experience shows that the while its sister company Kia saw sales grow or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable the 16 million posted in June but up sharply difference between good sales and great sales just two percent to 49,004. indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and consult your from the 14.1 million set a year ago. It’s a in a slow-growth economy is how many new Volkswagen, which is in the midst of a major financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. stunning recovery from a deep and painful products you have to offer, and we are starting push to expand its US market share, saw sales downturn which pushed General Motors and to hit our sweet spot.” fall three percent in July to 35,779 vehicles. Chrysler into bankruptcy as the sales pace fell Chrysler posted its 40th consecutive month Mercedes-Benz saw sales jump 19 percent as low as 9.1 million in the wake of the 2008 of gains as sales rose 11 percent to 140,102 to 25,564 while rival German luxury brand financial crisis. vehicles, its best July performance in seven BMW’s sales grew 13 percent to 24,043. “The industry continues to be driven by strong years. “We continue to see strong retail sales, AFP AUGUST 3, 2013 ON SATURDAY 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business Views Obama has a good economic The cash bites, but some hold anyway idea — too bad nobody cares BY HEIDI MOORE moment to come out of a five-year deadlock bill encourages the companies to buy bonds BY JAMES SAFT on America’s economic future. that support US infrastructure spending. ou can’t have a “grand bargain” Here is Obama’s plan: he wants to lower Either way, US infrastructure gets a boost, ash: It loses value every day, will permanently impair if no one will bargain with you, the corporate tax rate to 28 percent, and for which will help create jobs. Infrastructure your portfolio if you hold it long enough, but just might and that’s the awkward situ- some industries, it would be even lower; the is in bad shape in the US, requiring trillions be your most important allocation right now. ation President Obama finds manufacturing sector, a particular pet of of dollars for investment. States and cities, C Cash is not an investment I love; in fact, it is lousy, for himself in this week. Obama Obama’s, would get a 25 percent top tax rate. suffering from low tax revenues during a reasons I will shortly explain. What cash is, however, is an option Yis intent on pushing through an economic That part of the plan is not particularly weak recovery, don’t have the cash. on future opportunities; powder to be used when prices are more plan to, as he says, help the middle class revolutionary; Obama proposed it last Banks aren’t willing to lend or get in bed attractive later. and reduce income inequality. This is not year, when it briefly excited the corpo- with local governments on projects that may With the prices on almost everything else available so high, going to be easy. The biggest challenge he rate community and then fell with a thud. take years. Having the federal government and the risks from monetary policy similarly high, cash, while faces is that he has no plan, per se, beyond Republicans made tax cuts a life-or-death spearhead infrastructure investment would trash today, can be recycled into something a lot more valuable speeches. That isn’t as futile as it seems, issue last year, and they should welcome break the logjam. It would also recall other tomorrow. since speeches have, on rare occasions, been the idea. good solutions to ending economic weak The problem with cash, of course, is that, while inflation is low, a good way for the president to shame his The idea of corporate tax cuts, taken periods. short-term interest rates are even lower, with a typical money intractable nemeses in the Republican party. alone, is sadly not particularly useful; most Frankling D Roosevelt and Lyndon market account yielding just 0.40 percent, according to bankrate. Shame, however, has its limits, and Obama big companies don’t pay the full tax rate Johnson used the New Deal and the Great com, or 0.60 percent if you can scrape together $50,000. has worn out his favourite tool by squander- because they’ve long ago figured out how Society to successfully increase economic That ensures that you are losing purchasing power every day; ing guilt trips on everything from the debt to avoid it, so lowering the imaginary dollar growth through infrastructure spending. do it long enough and it adds up. Dylan Grice, of fund managers ceiling to the farm bill. He also can’t shame value of what they owe is not going to make The president is also wise to reach out Edelweiss Holdings, points out that $100 held on deposit since the shameless; everyone from the pundit class a huge impact. The second part of Obama’s to the business community. They are his 2009 has about $90 of purchasing power today. to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke plan is productive and long overdue. Obama only hope of breaking the stalemate with That is precisely what ultra-low interest rates and quantitative has pointed out to Congress that they are wants to use the money raised from corpo- Republicans. Back in December, Obama easing are intended to do: to force investors to take on more risk, actually worsening the economy with sloppy rate taxes to do this. If that works, great. cannily used the business community to and in so doing drive the value of assets higher and, supposedly, fiscal policy, and yet they soldier uselessly on. Obama would do even better by throw- force Republicans’ hands on the debt ceiling. help the economy to heal. For a huge problem like the economy, Obama ing his weight behind a bill already in Most importantly, this modest plan shows Whether this works as monetary policy is unproven, but as needs a more productive rhetorical approach. Congress, the infrastructure bill pro- that the president is thinking about mak- a means to drive up the prices of financial assets it has been a Scratch that. posed by Congressman John K Delaney of ing allies again in Washington and in the huge success. Stock markets in the US are at record highs and He has found it, and unfortunately for Maryland. This bill limns the same lines as corporate community. That’s a good step even despite a recent sell-off, Treasuries are also at very expen- everyone it’s been an undeserved flop. It Obama’s core idea. The Delaney bill allows because so far he’s devoted his speeches to sive levels. That’s great news if you were long equities a year ago, is too bad that the president’s most pro- US corporations to pay a low tax rate on the making far too many enemies. It’s time for but perhaps a less compelling reason to be long today. In fact, ductive suggestion yet has met with an profits they make overseas, allowing them the smack talk to end and some action to according to forecasts from fund managers GMO, a typical 60 undeservedly cool reception. What Obama to return those profits to work in the US. start. That reason alone may be enough for percent equities/40 percent Treasuries portfolio can be expected has suggested is the seed of a worthy idea, Generally companies have abused such tax Republicans to welcome talks about his eco- to generate annual gains over the next seven years of less than 1 and Republicans should stop and think holidays in the past, using the money to nomic ideas. percent above inflation. before dismissing the first really productive goose their stock prices, but the Delaney THE GUARDIAN That forecast is based on the assumption that interest rates revert to something closer to their historic levels. You might doubt that they will, and indeed the Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced no change in interest rate policy and no indication of the taper which the market is expecting in September. As James Montier, strategist at GMO, points out, it is possible that the Fed chooses to keep rates low across the interest rate curve for a long time. That would improve returns for bonds, and certainly might avoid a reckoning for equities, but still on GMO’s math only brings that seven-year annualised return for a mixed portfolio to 1.7 percent above inflation. Betting on that is a big risk: “In owning Treasuries under the assumption that the Fed holds real cash rates negative, you get the roll return as above, but this could be described as a ‘pennies in front of a steamroller’ style strategy,” Montier writes in a note to clients. The alternatives are not attractive, but choose we must. You could, as Montier points out, seek out corners of the mar- ket which are less overvalued and concentrate your money there. Great advice if you can see the future, but for those of us who are not clairvoyant this sounds like a good way to end up with untenable risks. You could also seek out alternatives, in hopes that these won’t be correlated to financial assets, or have been insulated from the waves of Fed-generated money washing around the world. This too seems unwise; as we saw in 2008 everything is corre- lated, and as we are seeing today in farmland and art, easy money drives the prices of every asset too high eventually. Leverage could be another out; borrowing will magnify low returns, perhaps turning that 0.7 percent annual real return into something more palatable. It could do that, or it could break you, if for example, a sudden and unexpected rise in interest rates drove all markets lower, prompting margin calls and leaving you, poor investor, up a creek. The last, and perhaps best option, Montier calls patience but is also known as cash. If you are reasonably sure that overall returns will be uninspir- ing at current valuations, it makes sense to put aside a portion, let’s call it very low double-digits, of your money and wait for better terms later. It has often been said that the key to investing is buying what everyone else hates. With the possible exception of gold, cash is the asset that best fits that description. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Population trends cloud EU’s post-recession outlook

BY ALAN WHEATLEY Hugh, an economist and demog- Alexandrovich said in a note. past 10 years to 7.3 million. In for Economic Cooperation and governments,” he said. rapher in Barcelona. Spain is also paying the price 1985 it was almost 9 million. The Development reckons Germany’s More broadly, a shrinking lowly but unsurely, Europe Spain’s pension plight is partly of a low fertility rate for the Baltic states have also witnessed potential growth will fall to less workforce will make it harder to is facing up to population cyclical: more than 3 million past 25 years which is reducing extensive emigration. than 1 percent a year after 2020, meet future pensions - as Detroit trends that will sap long- workers have lost their jobs since the number of entrants to the Many countries fall well short of from an already low 1.5 percent has discovered - and to service Srun economic growth and the onset of recession and have workforce. the total fertility rate (TFR) of 2.1 today, due to population ageing. the increased public and private force nations to choose between stopped paying into the pensions The risk is that low fertility, children that women need to bear By 2050 France and Britain, debt that Europe has racked up cutting pensions and welfare system. high emigration and a rapidly to hold the population constant in with much more favourable in recent decades, especially since benefits or paying higher taxes Emigration is making the fund- ageing labour force form a vicious the absence of net migration. demographic profiles, are pro- the recession. to maintain them. ing crunch worse. More than half economic circle. The TFR in Hungary, Poland, jected to have bigger economies The Commission’s central pro- Some countries are getting a million foreign workers - lured “So even when the recession Romania and Slovakia fell by more than Germany, whose population jection is that EU employment an early taste of difficulties that to Spain during the boom years - ends, the damage to some euro than 30 percent between 1990 and is set to shrink to just over 70 will fall by five million, or 2.5 await Europe as the continent’s have left since the start of 2010, area economies will be more per- 2011. Hungary had a TFR of just million from nearly 82 million percent, between 2010 and 2030. baby boomers retire and, because while young Spaniards are mov- manent than may be commonly 1.2 live births per woman in 2011, now. Rich economies will lose more of flagging fertility rates, the aver- ing abroad in droves in search of recognised,” Alexandrovich said. with Poland and Romania at 1.3. The danger of intergenera- than 1 percentage point of annual age age of those left in the labour jobs. Spain, Portugal and Ireland With fewer workers having to Germany is already experiencing tional conflict as fewer workers growth in the decade 2012-2021, force rises. all lost about 2 percent of their pay for more retirees, Spaniards the fallout of a fertility rate that have to provide for more pension- mainly due to the ageing of their In France, trade unions are working-age adults between 2010 who are braced for lower pen- has been far below replacement ers is a future risk, but adverse workforces, a 2012 Bank of Spain planning protests against mod- and the first quarter of 2013, said sions will tend to save rather than level for 30 years. demographics are already affect- research paper found. est plans to rein in the country’s Marchel Alexandrovich, an econ- spend, holding back the recovery Across the 28-member ing parts of the economy. Not everyone is confident that pension funding gap of 14bn euros omist with Jefferies, an invest- and thus further eroding the tax European Union, Germany has Car sales in Germany are fall- Europe will rise to the chal- and rising. ment bank, in London. base, Hugh fears. the smallest proportion of peo- ing in part because an ageing lenge and make its welfare states Spain, pressed by the European In the medium term, he said, “Since they’re not going to get ple in the 0-14 age bracket, the population drives less, exacerbat- affordable. Commission, is drawing up this raises the question of who the kind of economic recovery joint-highest proportion of pen- ing industry-wide overcapacity, “Age-related spending plus reforms to tackle underfunding in pays for pensions and age-related they’re expecting, and since young sioners and the highest median according to Douglas Roberts, an slow-to-negative growth in its pension system that forced the health care costs in countries people are leaving, they’re going age, according to the European economist with Standard Life in labour forces will keep driving government to dip into the social that are educating their young- to have to do even more pension Commission. Germany’s domes- Edinburgh. most developed nations toward security reserve fund last year. sters only to see many of them reforms than they imagine,” Hugh tic labour force fell by 70,000 in “As with changing pension bankruptcy until they reform “There’s a recognition that emigrate and pay taxes elsewhere. said. Countries across Europe are the past year. Immigration is conditions, restructuring of a their governments and finan- something needs to be done, and “Without some corresponding feeling the demographic pinch. coming to the rescue for now but major industry such as autos cial sectors,” wrote Leigh Skene it’s just a question of the pace at system of fiscal transfers, this is Bulgaria’s population has the country’s growth prospects will be difficult and meet major with Lombard Street Research, which they move,” said Edward not a sustainable arrangement,” shrunk by 582,000 people in the are darkening. The Organisation resistance both from unions and a London consultancy. REUTERS AUGUST 3, 2013 Classifieds www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 ON SATURDAY

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Brumbies Simpson leads by one shot unchanged for Super Woods and defending champ Bradley two behind at WGC-Bridgestone Rugby final AKRON, Ohio: It was case You’ve got to have great speed of love at first sight for Webb because there’s so much slope in WGC Bridgestone SYDNEY: ACT Brumbies Simpson on his debut at the the greens. coach Jake White named an WGC-Bridgestone Invitational “And the better the speed, the Invitational unchanged side to take on the as he spectacularly charged into bigger the hole,” said Simpson, defending champion Waikato a one-shot lead in yesterday’s who missed out on making his Scores Chiefs in today’s Super Rugby opening round. debut at Firestone last year due to final in Hamilton, the third AKRON, United States: While seven-times winner the birth of his daughter Willow. Leading first-round scores week in a row he has put out the Tiger Woods also made a strong Simpson has not triumphed on yesterday in the World Golf same side. start, firing a four-under-par 66, the PGA Tour since he clinched Championships Bridgestone The Australians, who beat Simpson seized control of the his maiden major victory at the Invitational (USA unless South Africa’s Cheetahs in a elite World Golf Championships 2012 US Open but he has been noted, par-70) play-off two weeks ago and then (WGC) event with an eight-birdie happy with his improving form stunned the Bulls in the semis in 64 Webb Simpson 64. on the circuit this season. Pretoria last week, are aiming On a breezy day of sunshine and “It’s encouraging and frustrat- 65 Henrik Stenson (SWE) to become the first foreign team sporadic cloud cover at Firestone ing because I haven’t won and yet 66 Ryan Moore, Chris Wood (ENG), Tiger to win any kind of post-season Country Club, former US Open I’m 17th in FedExCup (stand- Woods, Keegan Bradley match in New Zealand. champion Simpson was in sizzling ings),” he said. “I feel like I’ve let 67 Jason Dufner, Bubba Watson, Rickie Flanker George Smith will be form on the greens, totalling only a couple of tournaments go that Fowler, Bill Haas, Jim Furyk, Luke Donald playing his fifth final in his 142nd 22 putts to end the round a stroke maybe I should have closed out or (ENG) and final match for the Canberra- in front of Swede Henrik Stenson. at least I should have contended 68 Scott Piercy based outfit as he bids to secure a Woods, who has triumphed a more.” 69 Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA), Ian Poulter third title after playing in both of season-high four times on the Simpson has recorded four top- (ENG), Paul Lawrie (SCO), Zach Johnson, the Brumbies’ previous triumphs 2013 PGA Tour, mixed six bird- 10s in 18 starts on the 2013 PGA Justin Rose (ENG) in 2001 and 2004. ies with two bogeys to sit a fur- Tour, his best finish a playoff loss 70 Harris English, Gonzalo Fernandez- On the left wing, White has ther shot back, level with fellow to Northern Ireland’s Graeme Castano (ESP), Jonas Blixt (SWE), Ken again gone for the experience of Americans Ryan Moore and McDowell at the RBC Heritage Duke, Peter Hanson (SWE), Richard Clyde Rathbone, over the threat defending champion Keegan in April. Sterne (RSA), Satoshi Kodaira (JPN), of current Wallaby flyer Joe Bradley, and Englishman Chris “If I’m getting better, I’m Tiger Woods hits his Francesco Molinari (ITA), Jamie Tomane, who is on the bench. Wood. happy,” said Simpson. “And I do second shot on the Donaldson (WAL), Rory McIlroy (NIR), “At this stage of the season Former world number one feel like I’m getting better, I just 11th hole during the Paul Casey (ENG), Branden Grace (RSA) it’s nice to be making consistent Luke Donald of England bogeyed don’t have the results this year first round of the WGC- selections and keeping the same his final hole, the par-four 18th, to show it.” Bridgestone Invitational team together,” White said in a to card a 67 and end the round Woods has certainly had the golf tournament in Teater takes media release. alongside Americans Bubba results with four PGA Tour Akron, Ohio, yesterday. “I’m pleased with how the sea- Watson, Jason Dufner, Rickie wins this season and he swiftly RIGHT: Webb Simpson son has unfolded so far but we Fowler, Bill Haas and Jim Furyk. moved into familiar territory at have one more challenge to over- of the US waves to the charge in Reno Simpson was elated to be the Firestone, covering his back nine come before we can be completely gallery after making a tournament’s front-runner after in four-under 31 to rocket up the RENO, United States: Josh satisfied.” taking full advantage of advice leaderboard. par on the eighth hole. Teater had an eagle and six Fans in the 25,000 sellout from his experienced caddie on “I felt pretty good today,” said birdies yesterday to take the crowd at the Waikato Stadium how to play the heavily tree-lined the 14-times major champion. lead in the US PGA Tour’s Reno- can expect to see plenty of kick- Firestone layout. “I feel very good about what I’m Tahoe Open with 15 points in ing from the Brumbies with “It was a great start,” the doing with basically my whole the Modified Stableford scoring scrumhalf Nic White, flyhalf 27-year-old American told report- swing. I hit a lot of good shots. I system. Matt Toomua, centre Christian ers after setting the tone for a low had a really good feel for the dis- James Driscoll and Gary Lealiifano and fullback Jesse round on a rain-softened layout tance today. I thought I putted Woodland both notched 14 points Mogg all handy with the boot. with four birdies in his first nine well.” have played well and I’ve scored three bogeys and a double at the to share second place, while The match is likely to be won or holes. Woods has won a record seven well, and I’ve won my share of par-four 10th. “I felt like I hit a Australian Greg Chalmers was lost in the battle up front, where “My caddie has been here so times at Firestone, and has piled tournaments here.” lot of good shots out there. alone in fourth on 13 points. the likes of Smith, lock Scott many years and I had to listen up a staggering 11 top-10 finishes Northern Ireland’s Rory “I drove the ball well for the Rather than counting strokes, Fardy and Peter Kimlin will have to him. He basically showed me in 13 appearances at the elite McIlroy returned a roller-coaster most part, gave myself a lot of the Modified Stableford scoring to produce another huge effort. where to go yesterday and told me event. 70 while newly crowned British chances for birdies, and I just system awards eight points for The front row of Ben Alexander, where to hit it, where the lines “For some reason this golf Open champion Phil Mickelson threw a few shots away around double eagles, five for eagles, two Stephen Moore and Scott Sio had were, what clubs to hit. course, I just see it,” said the opened with a 72 to sit joint 41st the greens, made double at 10 for birdies, zero for pars and sub- an oustanding game against Bulls “Today was one of those days world number one. “It’s just one in the 73-man field. from nowhere. Felt more com- tracts one point for bogeys and pack last week and will be reas- where I just saw the lines well, of those venues. Luckily over the “Some good, some bad,” McIlroy fortable with my putting, which three points for double bogey or sured by the presence of referee and my speed was really good. years I’ve taken advantage of it. I said after carding five birdies, was a good sign.” REUTERS worse. AFP Craig Joubert. REUTERS

Gatlin aiming to MotoGP: Briton MLB: Orioles manager block out doping Crutchlow to scandals join Ducati sees Yankees edge if

LINZ, Austria: American US sprinter LONDON: British rider Cal A-Rod is suspended sprinter Justin Gatlin says he Justin Gatlin Crutchlow (pictured) will is concentrating on himself and attends ride for Ducati for the next not thinking about recent dop- a training two seasons after reaching NEW YORK: Baltimore Orioles if the Yankees got some relief ing scandals ahead of the world session of the an agreement with the Italian manager Buck Showalter because one of their players was championships, which start US athletics MotoGP outfit. believes the New York Yankees involved. next week in Moscow. team in Linz, Crutchlow, currently with could end up as the big winners “They’re the ones who signed The 2004 Athens Olympic Austria, in Yamaha, will re-join former if slugger Alex Rodriguez was him to that contract,” Showalter champion will be one of the main preparation of team-mate Andrea Dovizioso given a lengthy suspension by said. favourites for 100m gold in Russia the upcoming for the 2014 MLB commissioner Bud Selig. Should the Yankees’ 2014 pay- as many of his main rivals will be and 2015 With speculation rife that roll exceed $189m they would be IAAF World missing. campaigns Rodriguez was facing a long subject to a 50 percent luxury tax Championships Fellow American Tyson Gay in what will ban for his alleged involve- on the excess. and Jamaican Asafa Powell will that will begin be his first ment in Major Wieters, a be absent after failing drug tests, from August ride with League Baseball’s 27-year-old, although the latter had not made 10. a factory Biogenesis dop- Baseball Results switch-hitting the Jamaican team anyway. team. ing scandal, Cleveland 6 Chicago White Sox 1 catcher, will be The reigning world champion The Showalter thinks Miami 3 NY Mets 0 eligible for free Yohan Blake, another Jamaican, 27-year- the Yankees Kansas City 7 Minnesota 2 agency after is also out with injury. old former would ultimately Baltimore 6 Houston 3 the 2015 season It means Gatlin will start the Wo rl d benefit from and has helped San Francisco 2 Philadelphia 1 competition as the main rival to Supersport an extended power Baltimore twice triple Olympic gold medal- champion suspension. St Louis 13 Pittsburgh 0 with 14 homers ist and world record holder Usain and 2011 If Rodriguez Texas 7 Arizona 1 and 49 runs bat- Bolt. MotoGP was suspended Boston 8 Seattle 7 ted in this year. While he was himself twice rookie of for the entire Atlanta 11 Colorado 2 Meanwhile, banned for doping, Gatlin has Injured Ennis-Hill facing the year, is fifth in this year’s 2014 season, the LA Dodgers 6 Chicago Cubs 4 Japanese pitcher refused to get involved in the cur- standings, posting four podiums Yankees would LA Angels 8 Toronto 2 Yu Darvish rent debate. in the first nine races. not have to pay matched his “I have to stay concentrated four months out: Coach Ducati confirmed that his $25m annual major league and get ready for the worlds,” he Crutchlow would replace Nicky salary, helping them to reduce career high with 14 strikeouts said in an interview with Austrian LONDON, ENGLAND: Jessica Ennis-Hill’s coach expects the Hayden who has been with the their overall payroll under the yesterday to lead the Texas press agency APA. Olympic heptathlon champion to be sidelined for up to four months team for five years. $189m luxury tax threshold. Rangers to a 7-1 win over Arizona. “The show must go on. I think with the Achilles problem that forced her withdrawal from this “Ducati would like to thank Buck Showalter told USA Darvish, who also struck out 14 a lot of athletes think like that. month’s world championships. Nicky for his contributions Today that would enable the Diamondbacks on May 27, gave up Staying concentrated and win- Ennis-Hill pulled out of the championships in Moscow, blaming her during that time, and every- Yankees to go on a spending five singles and didn’t surrender ning for your country, that’s what absence on the injury she has been struggling with for the past few one on the team and at Ducati spree and he feared one of their a walk in seven scoreless innings. counts.” months. Corse looks forward to giving first targets would be the Orioles In three starts since coming off Gatlin’s second failed dope test And on Friday the 27-year-old’s coach Toni Minichiello told the BBC: him and Andrea their full sup- catcher Matt Wieters. the disabled list he has allowed in 2006 saw him banned for four “Achilles tendons are awkward and there’s a period of rest (involved). port over the second half of the “If Bud lets them get away with just one run. years but he has since made a “If we’re lucky then we’re looking at a 12 to 15-week recuperation 2013 season,” a statement said that, they’re under the luxury “He was just outstanding comeback. period.” on Friday. tax,” Showalter told USA Today. tonight. Everything he threw And at 31-years-old he will go Ennis-Hill was one of the stars of the London Olympics last year. Replacing Crutchlow in “If they can reset, they can up there, they just couldn’t into the Moscow worlds as the She competed at last month’s Diamond League/Anniversary Games Yamaha’s Tech3 team will be spend again, and I guarantee you get on,” said Rangers manager fastest man this year in the field meeting with her ankle heavily strapped, finishing fourth in the 100m 22-year-old Spanish Moto2 in two years Matt Wieters is in Ron Washington, whose 580th - faster still than Bolt. hurdles and eighth in the long jump. rider Pol Espargaro. New York.” career win as a manager put him He and his American team- Minichiello reflected yesterday: “When she didn’t respond well after The 10th round of the The MLB has not made any one short of matching Bobby mates are training in Linz until the London Diamond League, the position was that it didn’t make MotoGP season takes place announcements on what penal- Valentine for most in club history. August 5 before heading to sense and you’re probably going to cause her more damage and lose at Indianapolis on August 18. ties may be imposed when their Darvish has struck out 14 bat- Moscow, where the worlds start the remaining years of her career to struggling with the injury.” REUTERS investigation is complete but ters four times this year. on August 10. AFP AFP Showalter said it would be unfair REUTERS AUGUST 3, 2013 ON SATURDAY 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport Del Potro wins twice to reach quarter-finals Isner ends India’s Devvarman’s campaign in Washington

WASHINGTON: Top seed Juan Martin Del Potro, playing ATP and WTA twice in one day for the first time in his career, reached the quar- Washington Open ter-finals of the Washington Open with two straight-set tri- Results Philippines’ Manny Pacquiao (right) poses for the media with US boxer umphs yesterday. WASHINGTON: Results Brandon Rios (left) during a promotional event in Singapore yesterday. The 2009 US Open winner, yesterday from the fourth day Pacquiao is on the Singapore leg of a promotional tour for his November a two-time Washington cham- of the $1.76m ATP and WTA fight in Macau with Rios. pion, dispatched American Ryan Washington Open (x denotes Harrison 6-1, 7-5 in 70 minutes, seed): then returned five hours later to eliminate Australian 14th seed Men’s Third Round Bernard Tomic 6-3, 6-3 in 69 min- Marinko Matosevic (AUS) bt utes and advance at the combined I still have two Milos Raonic 7-5, 7-6 (9/7); ATP and WTA event. Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) bt “I feel good,” Del Potro said. “I Radek Stepanek (CZE) 4-6, was training hard before I came 6-4, 7-5; Kevin Anderson (RSA here. During the night you feel x7) bt Mardy Fish 7-6 (7/2), 6-1; or three years much better. In the first match John Isner (USA x8) bt Somdev the sun was harder for me. In the Devvarman (IND) 7-5, 7-5; night I move much better.” Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina returns a shot against Bernard Tomic Marcos Baghdatis (CYP x16) bt Despite double duty on his of Australia during the Citi Open at the William HG FitzGerald Tennis Kei Nishikori (JPN x2) 6-1, 6-2; first match day since losing the Center in Washington, DC, yesterday. Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x11) bt left: Pacquiao longest semi-final in Wimbledon Sam Querrey (USA x6) 6-3, 6-2; history to Novak Djokovic after Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG four hours and 43 minutes, the Anderson said. “Somebody with Thursday by rain with two other x1) bt Bernard Tomic (AUS x14) SINGAPORE: Eight-weight retirement. But since I lost the 24-year-old Argentine advanced the level of fitness of the players matches suspended by showers, 6-3, 6-3; Tommy Haas (GER x3) world champion Manny last fight, I never feel something to a last-eight meeting with out here, it won’t be a problem.” but Nishikori -- ranked a career- bt Ivan Dodig (CRO x13) 6-4, Pacquiao believes he has two in my body, I still feel strong and South Africa’s 21st-ranked Kevin Del Potro has won all four prior best 11th -- could not pull off twin 4-6, 7-5. or three years of fighting left I can still fight.” Anderson, who ousted American matches with Anderson, the most wins at the $1.76m event. Second Round before he quits the sport and Pacquiao, whose power punch- Mardy Fish 7-6 (7/2), 6-1. recent last year at Basel. After opening with a 7-5, 6-2 still retains the hope of securing ing from both hands and lightning Kevin Anderson (RSA x7) bt “For the first day of the hard- “I will have to play better than triumph over US wildcard Jack a bout with Floyd Mayweather speed helped him win titles from James Duckworth (AUS) 6-3, court season, I had a very good today,” Del Potro said. “Kevin is Sock, Nishikori was thrashed Jr. flyweight through to light middle- 3-6, 6-4; Juan Martin del Potro day,” Del Potro said. “I beat two a very good server. I will have to by 16th-seeded Cypriot Marcos Two straight defeats, the sec- weight, said he had trained every (ARG x1) bt Ryan Harrison young players with good poten- find a way to return his serves. Baghdatis 6-1, 6-2 in only 58 ond a brutal sixth round knockout day since the Marquez defeat (USA) 6-1, 7-5; Kei Nishikori tial. I should play better all the The court will help me. I like a minutes. by old foe Juan Manuel Marquez and that his body was ‘addicted (JPN x2) bt Jack Sock (USA) matches.” fast court.” Baghdatis booked a quarter- in December, prompted pundits to exercise’. 7-5, 6-2; Tommy Haas (GER x3) Anderson, ranked 21st, broke Del Potro fired six aces and final berth against US eighth seed bt Tim Smyczek (USA) 3-6, 7-5, and fans to suggest retirement for But having achieved so much Aussie James Duckworth in the 16 winners to beat Tomic, who John Isner, who won last week in 6-3. the 34-year-old Filipino. already and with the lucrative only extra game he needed to win committed 26 unforced errors, Atlanta and kept alive his hopes But he will step back in the Mayweather clash appearing Women’s their rain-halted second-round the last by netting a backhand for back-to-back titles with a ring after an extended break on destined to never happen, talk match 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, and said he on match point. 7-5, 7-5 victory over Somdev Second Round November 24 to take on American returns to retirement. doubted world number seven Del “I served really well,” Del Potro Devvarman in their first meet- Paula Ormaechea (ARG) bt Brandon Rios for a first fight in His Top Rank promoter Bob Potro’s double would have any said. “I played focused all the ing since Isner lost to the Indian Olga Puchkova (RUS) 3-6, Macau, keen to re-establish him- Arum, who also represents Rios, impact. time.” in the 2007 US college final. 6-3, 4-1 -- default; Ekaterina self as the number one pound-for- acknowledged politics and not “I would be very surprised if Del Potro and Japanese second “I remember that match like it Makarova (RUS x3) bt Caroline pound fighter in the sport. boxing was Pacquiao’s main focus. two matches today would affect seed Kei Nishikori both had their was yesterday,” Isner said. “It was Garcia (FRA) 6-2, 6-0; Alize “Great opportunity for me to “What is the end game with him for a match tomorrow,” second-round matches postponed a very good win. Somdev is a very Cornet (FRA x4) bt Heather give a good show for the people, Manny? The end game is to run tough opponent. I’m happy to get Watson (GBR) 6-4, 6-4; Sorana to get back my name into the top and win for the highest possible through and move on.” Cirstea (ROM x5) bt Alison of boxing,” the Filipino congress- office in the Philippines, boxing Australian Marinko Matosevic Riske (USA) 3-6, 6-2, 6-3; man told reporters in Singapore is just a way-station for Manny Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina plays withstood a 19-ace barrage to Angelique Kerber (GER x1) bt yesterday on the latest leg of the Pacquiao,” the veteran promoter Bernard Tomic of Australia during the defeat Canada’s Milos Raonic Melanie Oudin (USA) 7-5, 6-0; promotional tour for the bout. told reporters. “I think he has Citi Open at the William HG FitzGerald 7-5, 7-6 (9/7) and book a matchup Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK “Brandon Rios is a good boxer, much to offer his country. Tennis Center in Washington, DC, with Russian Dimitry Tursunov, x7) bt Jana Cepelova (SVK) tough opponent and I believe we “He will know when to call it yesterday. only the Aussie’s fourth career 7-5, 5-7, 7-5; Monica Niculescu can give a good fight. Especially quits in boxing and it may very ATP quarter-final. (ROM) bt Madison Keys (USA) his style and my style it is very well be before a normal fighter “It was a big win for me,” 6-1, 2-6, 7-6 (8/6). good to fight each other, we can would call it quits because he has Matosevic said. “I’m on a good create a lot of action in the ring.” what I think are more important roll.” The 27-year-old Rios, an things to accomplish.” German third seed Tommy aggressive former lightweight For now though, fighting in Haas won the last set of a rain- WTA Carlsbad world champion known as ‘Bam Asia and putting on an enter- halted match to beat US qualifier CARLSBAD, United States Bam’, will provide a stern test for taining show for the high number Tim Smyczek 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, then /California: Results yester- Pacquiao although he lacks the of Filipino fans expected to take beat Croatian 13th seed Ivan dayfrom the fourth day of box office numbers that a fifth the two-hour flight to Macao is Dodig 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 for a quarter- the $795,707 WTA Southern bout with Marquez or a first with Pacquiao’s focus. final berth against Bulgarian California Open (x denotes Mayweather could bring. China’s gambling enclave Gigor Dimitrov. seed): Pacquiao, who said three years also means no long haul fly- On the women’s side, Russia’s Second Round ago his mother had given her ing to America for training, but Olga Puchkova struck a ball in blessing for him to fight once Pacquiao acknowledged the 1130 anger and wound up defaulting Virginie Razzano (FRA) bt more, remains open to both am local fight time to cater for the away the match with Argentina’s Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP x8) options and has no plans to call US television audience would be Paula Ormaechea after the ball 6-1, 6-4. it quits any time soon. slightly problematic and require struck a line judge in the knee, Urszula Radwanska (POL) bt “I’m not really sure (how many 0400 wake up calls. sending him to the court writh- Jelena Jankovic (SRB x6) 6-2, fights left) as long as I can still Pacquiao, though, made strong ing in pain. 4-6, 6-3. fight I can fight. In my mind right hints about future fights in the “I’m very sorry that I accidently Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x2) now, maybe I can still fight maybe region instead of America, with hit the line umpire in his knee,” bt Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) two to three years from now,” said Arum touting the Philippines and Puchkova said. “I wasn’t looking 6-3, 6-3. Pacquiao, who has amassed a Singapore as possible venues. where the tennis ball would go 54-5-2 record with 38 knockouts. A move that Arum hoped and I had apologized to the line Ana Ivanovic (SRB x7) bt Coco “I tell you frankly, honestly might finally lead to Mayweather, umpire.” AFP Vandewegh (USA) 7-6 (7/5), 6-3. in myself I can still fight and I one of the true greats of the sport, feel strong. If there is something getting in the ring with Pacquiao. Ailing Federer wrong in my body or something “Never say never,” Arum said Radwanska sisters in last-eight wrong in my boxing skill I have to of the possible match up. withdraws from think about that and think about REUTERS CARLSBAD, United States/ Razzano next faces third- Montreal event California: Second-seeded seeded Czech Petra Kvitova, a Al Sailiyah beat Al Shamal Agnieszka Radwanska set up a former Wimbledon champion. quarter-final clash with former From 2-2 in the third set, MONTREAL, Quebec: US Open champion Samanth Radwanska won four of the next Former world number one Stosur at the WTA Southern five games from former world Roger Federer has pulled out of California Open yesterday with number one Jankovic as she next week’s Montreal Masters, a straight-sets win over Daniela booked her fourth WTA quarter- organisers said yesterday. Hantuchova. final appearance of the season. Federer, who recently said he Poland’s Radwanska, the 2010 “I’m very happy that I won this was experiencing back trouble, runner-up and 2011 champion match today,” she said after earn- did not give a reason for his with- on the hardcourts of Carlsbad, ing a shot at top-seeded Victoria drawal from the first big tour- defeated Hantuchova 6-3, 6-3, her Azarenka of Belarus. nament of the north American sixth victory over the Slovakian in “This is a huge step for me hardcourt swing. eight career meetings. because she was No.1 in the past, “I am disappointed not to be She was joined in the quarter- and I was playing her for the first playing in Montreal next week. finals of the $795,707 US Open time. It is a great tournament with tuneup event by younger sister “I knew I had to fight for every amazing fans. I look forward to Urszula, a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 winner point and be focused. I think the competing there in the future,” over sixth-seeded Serbian Jelena key is when I was up 3-2 in the twice former champion Federer Jankovic. third set and then I won two Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland was quoted as saying on the event Urszula Radwanska’s victory games pretty easily.” hits a serve to Daniela Hantuchova website (www.rogerscup.com). was just one of the upsets of Another former world of Slovakia during their third round Action from the Sheikh Jassim Cup match between Al Sailiyah and Al The Swiss star, who turns 32 the day, with French wild card number one from Serbia, Ana match at the Southern California Shamal late on Thursday at Al Gharafa Stadium. Al Sailiyah won 2-0. next week, has suffered surprise Virginie Razzano ousting eighth- Ivanovic, made it safely through Open at La Costa Resort & Spa PICTURE BY: SALIM MATRAMKOT defeats in his last three tourna- seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of to the quarters, defeating Coco in Carlsbad, California, yesterday. ments. AFP Spain 6-1, 6-4. Vandeweghe 7-6 (7/5), 6-3. AFP AUGUST 3, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY Campbell claims freestyle gold Franklin misses out on fifth medal; Lochte grabs his third 200m backstroke title

BARCELONA, Catalonia: Australia’s Cate Campbell won Gold medalist the women’s 100m freestyle gold Australia’s Cate at the swimming world cham- Campbell poses pionships yesterday as US star on the podium Missy Franklin missed out with her medal on claiming a fifth medal in during the award Barcelona. The 21-year-old Campbell ceremony of earned her first major title the women’s when she clocked 52.34sec with 100m freestyle Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom, the swimming event 100m butterfly world champion, in the FINA World at 0.55 back and Olympic cham- Championships at pion Ranomi Kromowidjojo of Palau Sant Jordi Holland adrift at 1.08. in Barcelona, Having missed the event at yesterday. RIGHT: the London Olympics after suf- Ryan Lochte of fering from gastroenteritis during the USA presents London 2012, Campbell burst into his gold medal tears as she climbed out of the after the men’s Palau Sant Jordi pool. South Africa’s Chad Le Clos swims in the men’s 100m butterfly semi-final 200m backstroke “It didn’t really sink in until I final. during the World Swimming Championships at the Sant Jordi arena in got out and heard all the Aussies Barcelona, yesterday. BELOW: A picture taken with an underwater cam- screaming,” said Campbell, who era of Canada’s Coleman Allen (left) and Switzerland’s Dominik Meichtry held a clear lead before fading in compete in the heats of the men’s 100m butterfly swimming event. the last ten metres. tonight, so I am getting there.” to win three 200 backstroke titles titles when he claimed a third “I think if the race had lasted Franklin had no time to dwell on after compatriot and world record consecutive gold. 110 metres, I wouldn’t have got it.” her defeat. holder Aaron Peirsol, who won Gyurta clocked two minutes After James Magnussen Just 15 minutes after the free- four in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2009. 07.23 seconds, beating the pre- defended his men’s 100m free- style final, the 18-year-old was Lochte was champion in 2007 vious record of 2:07.31 set by style world title on Thursday, back in the water as the fastest and at the last world champion- Australian Christian Sprenger Campbell’s victory underlines qualifier into today’s 100m back- ships in Shanghai two years ago. in 2009. Australia’s prowess in the event. stroke final. Russia’s Yuliya Efimova won Germany’s Marco Koch won Having already collected four American Ryan Lochte won the the women’s 200m breaststroke silver in 2:08.54 and Matti golds in Barcelona, Franklin third 200 metres backstroke gold gold with Denmark’s Rikke Mattsson of Finland bronze in missed out as she finished fourth of his career. Moller Pedersen, the world- 2:08.95. Gyurta, 24, also took gold at 1.13 back, while Germany’s The decorated 28-year-old record holder, second and Micah at last year’s London Olympics. Britta Steffen, whose 2009 world clocked a time of one minute 53.79 Lawrence of the USA third. The USA won the men’s record was under threat from seconds, with Radoslaw Kawecki Just 24 hours after Pedersen 4x200m freestyle relay with Campbell until the dying stages, of Poland taking silver in 1:54.24 set the world record, Efimova won Russia taking silver and China finished sixth. and Lochte’s compatriot, Olympic the final, clocking 2min 19.41sec claiming bronze. “Of all my events, the 100m champion Tyler Clary, bronze in with her Danish rival at 0.67 back the USA quartet clocked 7min freestyle is the one I have worked 1:54.64. and Lawrence at 2.96 adrift. 01.72sec with Russia at 2.20 back most on,” said Franklin. Lochte, who won 200 metres Daniel Gyurta of Hungary and China, anchored by long-dis- “I was fifth in the London final individual medley gold on became the first man to win three tance specialist Sun Yang, at 3.02 (at the 2012 Olympics) and fourth Thursday, is only the second man 200 metres breaststroke world adrift. AGENCIES

Brazil legend Thousands bid farewell Zico set for to late Eljaish striker talks with Al Gharafa QUITO, Pichincha: Thousands of fans filed past the coffin DOHA: Brazil legend Zico of Ecuadoran football hero (pictured) will arrive in Christian Benitez for a states- Doha to discuss the mana- man-like farewell in Quito gerial position with Qatar yesterday after an autopsy con- Stars League (QSL) giants Al firmed he had died of heart fail- Gharafa tomorrow. ure in Qatar. Arthur Antunes Coimbra, The 27-year-old striker, who better known as Zico, is one of was eyeing next year’s World the famous Brazilian footballers Cup, died suddenly after his first who have played in the famous Cristiano Ronaldo (7) of Real Madrid strikes the ball past AJ DeLaGarza game with Qatari club Eljaish last yellow shirt for the South (20) of the Los Angeles Galaxy during the first half of the International Sunday, shocking fans as far away Amercian team. Champions Cup match at University of Phoenix Stadium, in Glendale, as Mexico, where he played for Often called the ‘White Pelé’, Arizona, yesterday. Real Madrid won 3-1. Club America last season. he is commonly considered one His family wept as thousands of the most skilled finishers and of people stood in line to enter one of the a sports arena where the man best passers Wenger still Chelsea beat affectionately known as “Chucho” ever and was lying in a glass-top coffin, possibly the keen on Suarez Inter in friendly partly covered by the Ecuadoran world’s best national flag. Ermen Benitez (second right), father of Ecuador player Christian “Chucho” player of the LONDON: Arsenal man- tournament Before the funeral, his body Benitez, cries as he looks at his son’s coffin during the funeral in Quito, late 70s and ager Arsene Wenger said yes- underwent a second autopsy at yesterday. Ecuador and Eljaish striker Christian Benitez died in Qatar on early 80s terday he is still keen to sign the request of his wife and fam- July 29 of heart failure at the age of 27. BOTTOM: (from left) Benitez’s He retired Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana: ily, amid suspicion that he was father Ermen, aunt Yomaira Benitez, brother Ronny Benitez and aunt as a player even though Liverpool have Chelsea passed their tough- not given adequate attention at Yanira Benitez during the funeral. in 1994 and rejected two offers from the est test since Jose Mourinho a Qatari hospital after he com- served as Gunners for him. returned as manager, posting a plained of abdominal pains. an assist- “We will completely respect 2-0 friendly win yesterday over Luis Chiriboga, president of the ant to Brazil what Liverpool want to do,” Inter Milan, the team Mourinho Ecuadoran Football Federation, coach Mario Wenger, talking before this week- guided to the 2010 Champions said the examination concluded Zagallo in end’s friendly pre-season warm- League crown. that Benitez was “destined to die” 1998. up Emirates Cup competition, Mourinho, who managed due to a coronary problem that Zico, 60, said. Chelsea from 2004-07, returned “could only be detected after his coached the “We want to sign the player if to Chelsea in June after manag- death.” Japanese it is feasible in an amicable way. ing Spain’s Real Madrid the past Eljaish had declared on national I am a great believer you have to two seasons. Wednesday that an autopsy found team in 2002 replacing former keep as much confidentiality as The victory, courtesy of goals that the sudden death was caused Qatar coach Philippe Troussier. possible, which is quite difficult from Oscar and Eden Hazard in by heart failure. He guided the Japanese team in the modern world. the first half-hour, saw Chelsea His aunt, Brenda Benitez, to Asian Cup title in 2004 then “But we work very hard, not book a meeting with AC Milan said that the new autopsy was coached Turkey’s Fenerbahce, only on the case you name, but tomorrow in New York in the requested “in order for the coun- who reached the quarter-finals on other different cases.” International Champions Cup try to have clarity, for the specu- in 2007–08 in the Champions Suarez, 26, scored 29 goals friendly tournament. lation to stop. League. for Liverpool in all competitions Chelsea had comfortably won “It has been very painful for us He resigned as coach of the last season, but is currently four all three of their matches in a tour who knew the modesty and sim- Iraqi national team despite his matches into a 10-game ban of Asia before arriving Stateside, plicity of Christian,” she said. side being in the running to for biting Chelsea’s Branislav but it was Inter who had the first The football star’s body, accom- qualify for the 2014 World Cup, Ivanovic in a Premier League real chance when Fredy Guarin panied by his wife Liseth Chala, that will be held in Brazil next match at Anfield last April last unleashed a volley on goal after landed outside Quito before dawn June. season. 10 minutes only to see it sail just yesterday, with fire trucks wel- Al Gharafa began last season Liverpool have continually wide of the post. coming him by spraying water under Brazilian coach Paulo maintained throughout the close- Chelsea took the lead in the over his airplane. Benitez was considered a key the tournament. In Mexico City, Silas, who was sacked and season that Suarez is not for sale 12th minute as Nigeria’s Victor Foreign Minister Ricardo part of Colombian coach Reinaldo Club America will lead a stand- replaced by Habib Sadek mid- and last week Liverpool owner Moses broke through to the edge Patino was at the airport along Rueda’s Ecuador team that is ing ovation on the 11th minute of way through the season. John W Henry appeared to ridi- of the penalty area and passed to with Ecuadoran national team hoping to qualify for the World a game at the 105,000-capacity The new QSL season will cule Arsenal’s latest bid after the Oscar, who curled a superb shot players, Antonio Valencia, Cup in Brazil, sitting third in the Azteca stadium today in honour commence in September. Gunners tabled an offer of £40m past Samir Handanovic and into while fans waved flags of his South American qualifying group, of the team’s former number 11. THE PENINSULA plus one pound ($61.47m) for the the upper corner of the net for Ecuadoran club El Nacional. within range to book a ticket to AFP striker. REUTERS the opening goal. AFP AUGUST 3, 2013 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Pakistan set to play series Bold Aussies take control with Sri Lanka The visitors declare at 527 for 7 wickets; Peter Siddle strikes late in UAE KARACHI: Pakistan yesterday MANCHESTER: Peter Siddle it will play a full series of three took two wickets shortly before Scoreboard Tests, five one-dayers and two stumps on the second day of the Australia (I innings): Twenty20 internationals against third Ashes Test at Old Trafford S Watson c Cook b Bresnan ...... 19 Sri Lanka in the United Arab to cement a strong Australia C Rogers lbw Swann ...... 84 Emirates starting in December. position built by captain Michael U Khawaja c Prior b Swann ...... 1 Since an attack on the Sri Clarke’s 187. M Clarke b Broad ...... 187 Lankan team in Lahore in 2009, At yesterday’s close Ashes- S Smith c Bairstow b Swann ...... 89 Pakistan has been forced to play holders England were 52 for two D Warner c Trott b Swann ...... 5 all top-level home international in reply to Australia’s first innings B Haddin (not out) ...... 65 matches at neutral venues with 527 for seven declared, a deficit P Siddle b Swann ...... 1 insecurity too great for foreign of 475 runs, in a match the tour- M Starc (not out) ...... 66 teams to tour. ists, 2-0 down with three to play, Extras (LB-6, W-2, NB-2) ...... 10 Sri Lanka will open the tour had to win to stand any chance of Total (for 7 wkts dec) ...... 527 with two Twenty20s in Dubai regaining the urn. Fall of wickets: 1-76, 2-82, 3-129, 4-343, on December 11 and 13 before England captain Alastair Cook, 5-365, 6-427, 7-430. playing five one-dayers between dropped on 15, was 36 not out and Bowling: Anderson 33-6-116-0 (1nb); December 18 and 27, two in Jonathan Trott two not out after Broad 33-6-108-1; Bresnan 32-6-114-1 Sharjah on December 18 and 22; Clarke, whose innings was his (1nb, 2w); Swann 43-2-159-5; Root 4-0-18- two in Abu Dhabi on December highest against England, enter- 0; Trott 1-0-6-0. 25 and 27; and one in Dubai on prisingly declared not long after England (I innings): December 20. tea. A Cook (batting) ...... 36 The three Tests will be Aggressive seamer Siddle was, J Root c Haddin b Siddle ...... 8 played in Dubai from December surprisingly, the fifth of five T Bresnan c Haddin b Siddle ...... 1 31-January 4, in Abu Dhabi from Australia bowlers deployed by J Trott (batting) ...... 2 January 8-12 and Sharjah from Clarke yesterday. Extras (LB-4, NB-1) ...... 5 January 16-20. But he responded by taking two Total (for 2 wkts) ...... 52 Pakistan is also likely to play a wickets for two runs in 12 balls. Fall of wickets: 1-47, 2-49. Twenty20 against Afghanistan on Siddle removed Joe Root, fresh Bowling: Harris 5-1-12-0; Starc 5-2-8-0 December 8, which would be the from his 180 in England’s crush- Australia’s Michael Clarke avoids a bouncer as he bats during the second day of the third Ashes cricket Test (1nb); Lyon 10-4-21-0; Watson 5-5-0-0; Sid- first between the two teams. Final ing 347-run second Test win at match against England at Old Trafford in Manchester, north-west England yesterday. dle 5-1-7-2. confirmation of the match is due Lord’s, with the opener caught in a few days. behind for a painstaking eight Pakistan will also play a off 57 balls. Yet this was his 10th century in Steven Smith 70 not out. Clarke, after being banned for punch- 65 not out, and Mitchell Starc, two-Test, five one-day and He then had nightwatchman 27 Tests as captain, with his aver- on 136, drove uppishly off Bresnan ing Root in a Birmingham bar in whose 66 not out was worthy two Twenty20 series against Tim Bresnan well held by wick- age as skipper of 65.15 well above only for Swann, very close in at June. of a top-order batsman not a South Africa in the UAE in etkeeper Brad Haddin. his career mark of 52.52. short extra-cover, to parry the Warner did not stay long, the tailender, added an unbroken 97 October-November. Replays showed Bresnan hadn’t England’s attack was led by fast-travelling chance above his left-hander out for five when for the eighth wicket. made contact, the ball hitting his Graeme Swann, the off-spinner’s head. an edge off Swann deflected via Clarke brought on off-spin- trousers, but, following consul- figures of five for 149 in 41 overs A single then saw Clarke, who wicketkeeper Matt Prior’s thigh ner Nathan Lyon, recalled after Programme tation with Cook, there was no representing his 17th ‘five-for’ in won the toss, surpass his previ- to Trott at slip. Australia dropped teenager Dec 7: Sri Lankan team arrive in Dubai review. 55 Tests. ous highest Test score against Warner requested a review, Ashton Agar following the slow Australia came into this match But perhaps the most remark- England of 136 at Lord’s in 2009. despite a clear nick, and, with left-armer’s wicketless match at Dec 8: Pakistan vs Afghanistan Twenty20 on the back of six straight Test able return of all belonged But a stand eventually worth replays conclusive, he walked off Lord’s two weeks ago, in just the internationals (to be confirmed) defeats -- their worst run since to England spearhead James 214 ended when Smith top-edged to yet more jeers. seventh over. Dec 11: 1st T20 Pakistan vs Sri Lanka - Dubai 1984. Anderson, who finished with a slog off Swann’s sixth ball of the Clarke’s more than seven-hour Lyon almost had a wicket with Star batsman Clarke, rather none for 116 in 33 overs on his day and holed out on 89 to Jonny innings of 314 balls with 23 fours his third delivery when he took Dec 13: 2nd T20 - Dubai like Allan Border at the start of Lancashire home ground. Bairstow at midwicket, leaving ended when, cramped for room, Cook’s outside edge only for the Dec 18: 1st one-day international - Sharjah the Australia great’s captaincy Australia resumed on yet Australia 343 for four. he played on to Stuart Broad as ball to hit Haddin on the leg, career in the mid-1980s, has another sunny day well-placed New batsman David Warner the paceman took his 200th Test when the wicketkeeper should Dec 20: 2nd one-day international - Dubai often had to compensate for the on 303 for three with Clarke 125 was booed by spectators on his wicket. have done better, with Clarke Dec 22: 3rd one-day international - Sharjah weaknesses of his top-order Test not out, after scoring the tour- way to the middle having missed But Haddin, dropped by Prior unable to grasp the rebound at colleagues. ists’ first century this series, and the first two Tests of this series off Anderson on 10 before making slip. REUTERS Dec 25: 4th one-day international - Abu Dhabi Dec 27: 5th one-day international - Abu Dhabi Duminy stars Scoreboard Dec 31-Jan 4: 1st Test - Dubai in South Africa SOUTH AFRICA Jan 8-12: 2nd Test - Abu Dhabi South H Davids lbw Senanayake ...... 1 Jan 16-20: 3rd Test - Sharjah Q de Kock lbw Senanayake...... 5 Africa’s win over hosts F du Plessis b Senanayake ...... 8 cricket J P Duminy c Dilshan b A Mendis ...... 51 Bradman bat Sri Lanka team A B de Villiers c K Perera b Mathews ...... 15 members D Miller c Dilshan b Malinga ...... 25 celebrate up for auction COLOMBO: D Wiese (not out) ...... 3 JP Duminy starred winning W Parnell (not out) ...... 0 with bat and ball as South their first Extras (LB-5, W-2) ...... 7 in Sydney Africa overcame Sri Lanka in Twenty20 Total (for 6 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 115 SYDNEY: an exciting 12-run victory in the match Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-12, 3-23, 4-50, A cricket bat used first Twenty20 international in against Sri 5-106, 6-113. by Australian great Donald Colombo yesterday. Bradman and signed by his 1948 Lanka in Bowling: Malinga 4-0-25-1 (w1); Senanay- The tourists, restricted to a “Invincible” team is expected to Colombo ake 4-0-14-3 (w1); Mathews 4-0-13-1; modest 115-6 after electing to bat, Dilshan 3-0-15-0; T Perera 1-0-11-0; A fetch up to A$20,000 ($17,900) bounced back to stop Sri Lanka at yesterday. at auction this month, an auc- South Mendis 4-0-32-1 103-9 in front of a packed house of SRI LANKA tioneer said yesterday. 30,000 at the Premadasa stadium. Africa won Charles Leski, whose company by 12 runs. K Perera c Wiese b Morkel...... 11 Duminy top-scored with 51 T Dilshan c De Villiers b Duminy ...... 9 is selling the item, said Bradman off 52 balls to help the tourists D Chandimal c de Kock b Tsotsobe ...... 8 used the Sykes bat to score 115 recover from a poor start and K Sangakkara (not out) ...... 59 in his final first-class innings at then grabbed three wickets for A Mathews c&b Duminy ...... 4 home before the team travelled 18 runs, earning himself the man J Mendis c Tahir b Duminy ...... 0 to England in 1948. of the match award. L Thirimanne c de Villiers b Tahir ...... 5 ‘The Invincibles’ went on to It was a morale-boosting win T Perera c du Plessis b Morkel ...... 0 become -- and remain -- the only for South Africa over the world’s S Senanayake c de Kock b Parnell ...... 0 Australian side to go through an top-ranked Twenty20 side follow- L Malinga c du Plessis b Parnel ...... 0 entire Ashes tour unbeaten. ing an embarrassing 4-1 defeat in India target maiden The item, which spent 20 A Mendis (not out) ...... 0 the last one-day series. Extras (LB-1, NB-1, W-5) ...... 7 years on display at the Western Kumar Sangakkara put up Total (for 9 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 103 Australian Cricket Association a fight for the hosts with an Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-25, 3-44, 4-72, (WACA) from 1984, will be auc- unbeaten 59 off 53 balls, but young 5-72, 6-90, 7-91, 8-95, 9-95. tioned on August 15 in Melbourne. opener Kusal Perera (11) was the away cleansweep “Few items of cricketing mem- Bowling: Tsotsobe 3-0-11-1; Morkel 4-0- only other batsman to reach dou- orabilia overshadow those belong- BULAWAYO: 28-2 (w2, nb1); Parnell 3-1-8-2 (w1); Tahir ble figures. India will seek “We’ve not left any loose ends, because their batsmen have been 4-0-22-1 (w1); Duminy 4-0-18-3; Wiese ing to Sir Donald Bradman,” With 21 runs needed off the their first whitewash in a five- we’ve just tried to go out there unable to post a competitive total. 1-0-8-0 (w1); Davids 1-0-7-0. Leski said. last two overs and three wick- match one-day series away from and play as professionally as The hosts were bowled out Result: South Africa won by 12 runs. “Of these, his bats are among ets in hand, left-arm seamer home when they take on a rag- we can,” wicketkeeper Dinesh for just 144 in the fourth one- the most prized possessions Wayne Parnell swung the game ged Zimbabwe side in the fifth Karthik said. day international, with Elton because they were his ultimate South Africa’s way by removing one-day international at Queens “It’s important that we look at Chigumbura saving them from stock in trade. Sachithra Senanayake and Lasith Sports Club today. improving ourselves and that’s complete embarrassment with “Together with his baggy green Malinga without conceding a run Although India have recorded something that we’ve really con- an unbeaten 50. caps, they represent his unique in the penultimate over. three 5-0 series wins at home centrated on.” “We are all trying to improve talent that has yet to be matched.” Sangakkara hit two boundaries in the past five years -- white- Batsman Cheteshwar Pujara every game, but it’s unfortunate The legendary Australia bats- in Morne Morkel’s final over, but washing England twice and New and seamer Mohit Sharma were this tour we haven’t done so,” man, who died aged 92 in 2001, it was not enough to carry his Zealand once -- they are yet to handed one-day debuts for the Chigumbura said. played his last match in England team to victory. achieve the feat on foreign soil. fourth match of the series, and “But if you look at our past in 1948 and retired with a yet-to- South Africa’s Twenty20 cap- Having won the first four the latter made an immediate history playing at home we have be-topped Test batting average of tain Faf du Plessis was delighted matches against Zimbabwe impact as he took 2 for 26 to set done well. 99.94 despite scoring a duck in his by his team’s win. comprehensively, that statistic up a nine-wicket victory and earn “It’s just one of those tours final innings. “I am very chuffed and so proud looks destined to fall unless the the man of the match award. where things are not coming Bradman’s career Test batting of the boys,” he said. “We were home side can show significant Uncapped all-rounder Parvez together on the batting side,” he average of 99.94 is often cited as under pressure after the one-day improvement in the final fixture. Rasool and batsman Ajinkya said. statistically the greatest achieve- series, but the team showed great Much of the talk prior to the Rahane are the two Indian play- Timycen Maruma is the ment by any sportsman in any character tonight. series was of an experimen- ers yet to see action in the series only back-up batsman in the Australian bowler Peter Siddle major sport. “The wicket was not easy to bat tal Indian side, yet the tourists so far, and they could be brought Zimbabwean squad and so he (left) celebrates the dismissal of Bradman’s image has appeared on, so I thought ours could be a showed that winning was their in for today’s encounter. could be brought in today, while England’s Joe Root during the on postage stamps and coins, and good total. I told the boys that if first priority by employing the Zimbabwe have failed to fast bowler Kyle Jarvis is likely to second day of the third Ashes a museum dedicated to his life we kept fighting, we could pull it same XI until the series was in present a meaningful challenge return after being left out for the cricket Test. was opened while he was still liv- off.” RUETERS the bag. in any of the games so far, largely last two games. REUTERS ing. AGENCIES AUGUST 3, 2013 Break Time www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 ON SATURDAY

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HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Two-year-old Laura sits in front of the glass wall of the polar bear enclosure at the ‘Wilhelma’ zoo in Stuttgart, Germany, yesterday, seemingly MUSCAT 31/26 T-storms 30/27 Partly cloudy unimpressed by the huge animal curiously coming closer behind the pane. KUWAIT 43/33 Clear 44/33 Clear BAHRAIN 37/31 Mostly cloudy 38/31 Partly cloudy SANAA 23/14 T-storms 19/12 Chance of storm RIYADH 43/31 Partly cloudy 43/30 Partly cloudy DUBAI 42/31 Mostly cloudy 37/31 Mostly cloudy James Cameron BAGHDAD 42/27 Clear 43/25 Clear Feeling a bit violent? to release three THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Maybe it’s hot outside Avatar sequels ATHENS 35/25 Clear 37/26 Clear WASHINGTON: LOS ANGELES: WASHINGTON 32/22 Chance of storm 29/15 Clear If the heat makes you in violence, the authors used a statistical analy- Canadian director cranky, take heart: you’re not alone, accord- sis that compared single geographic locations to James Cameron is making three sequels SYDNEY 20/07 Partly cloudy 20/05 Partly cloudy ing to a study out yesterday in the US jour- themselves over time—so that the political, cul- to his film Avatar, which will be released LONDON 27/16 Partly cloudy 26/17 Partly cloudy nal Science that links rising tempers to hot tural and geographic histories were internally between 2016 and 2018, Fox Studios PARIS 27/16 Partly cloudy 27/17 Partly cloudy temperatures. consistent. They also tried to compare levels of announced yesterday. ISTANBUL 27/21 Clear 27/21 Clear The link could have worrying implications as violence where the climatic factors were very The 2009 film is the highest-grossing MANILA 32/25 Chance of storm 32/25 Chance of storm the Earth’s climate warms, researchers at the localized, to see how violence levels compared movie on record, having netted $2.8bn at DHAKA 35/27 Chance of storm 34/26 Chance of storm University of California at Berkeley and Princeton nearby where the weather stayed cooler. the box office worldwide. Cameron had DELHI 34/26 Partly cloudy 33/27 Partly cloudy University warned. While making predictions In all cases, “the collected evidence shows originally planned for only two sequels. ISLAMABAD 29/25 T-storms 30/26 T-storms about the future is always iffy, lead author that humans across the globe have proven “In writing the new films, I’ve come to Solomon Hsiang said the current trend is clear: poorly equipped to deal with exposure to hotter realize that Avatar’s’ world, story and char- hotter weather makes people more violent. temperatures,” co-lead author Marshall Burke acters have become even richer than I antici- Hsiang and his fellow researchers conducted said in a statement. pated, and it became apparent that two films a meta-analysis of 60 studies across a range of What was less clear was why, with research- would not be enough to capture everything Priyanka Chopra targets disciplines, including archeology, climatology, ers citing several theories and noting that more I wanted to put on screen,” Cameron said. political science and economics. One study, for than one could play a role. In times of drought The movie featured Sigourney Weaver, Sam instance, showed that, during the hotter and or when harvests fail, economic factors might Worthington and Zoe Saldana and told the stereotypes in Hollywood drier periods of the El Nino southern oscillation, push groups to take up arms. story of a paraplegic soldier sent to the ficti- “the probability of any country in the tropics High unemployment tends to leave a large tious planet of Pandora, which is coveted for LOS ANGELES: Bollywood to take a chance,” she said, add- starting a new civil war doubles.” pool of frustrated, bored young people in cit- its natural resources. actress Priyanka Chopra has a ing “I’ve made so many mistakes Other studies showed the incidence of inter- ies — fertile recruiting ground for an army. The three sequels will be filmed simul- higher mission than just mak- along the way.” personal conflicts — from murder to rape to And the heat also seems to have a physiologi- taneously beginning in 2014, Fox said ing it in Hollywood: she wants Chopra is currently in pro- domestic violence and other types of assault cal effect that drives people to violent impulses, in a statement. They will be released in to break down stereotypes of duction on a biopic about Indian — goes up when it gets hot. one that can be observed after just a few hours December of 2016, 2017 and 2018, respec- Indians in Tinseltown’s eyes Olympic boxing champion Mary “We were surprised by both the consistency and of exposure. tively. Cameron, who wrote Titanic and and maybe make things easier Kom, and learning to box herself, the strength” of the link, Hsiang said, explaining Hsiang compared the trend to the increase of Avatar by himself, has taken on four screen- for her compatriots who live in Chopra said the role was “the it was evident no matter what timeframe was car accidents on a rainy day — it doesn’t mean writers for the project. Josh Friedman the United States. most difficult film I’ve ever done.” being examined, whether a short heat wave, a any one accident happened solely because it (War of the World), Rick Jaffa and Amanda Here’s her first lesson: “We “Mary is a national icon. She’s a years-long drought, or a cycle over centuries. rained. Nor does it mean accidents only hap- Silver (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) and don’t travel on elephants, there five-time world champion, a mother “We do think the overall size of the effects pen when it rains. “Driver error ultimately Shane Salerno (Armageddon and Savages) aren’t any snake charmers on the of three kids, an Olympic medalist is sufficiently large that we want to take them causes accidents, but rain can make it much will work on the sequels. side of the road, everybody doesn’t and she has an incredible story,” the seriously and seriously consider whether or not more likely,” he said in the statement. “We at the studio have no higher priority, talk like Apu from The Simpsons,” actress said. “The challenge was our actions today are going to influence the level “Similarly, violent conflicts might occur for and can feel no greater joy, than enabling the actress says, with a bit of a that I have to learn a completely new of violence in our children’s world tomorrow,” a variety of reasons that simply become more Jim to continue and expand his vision of laugh. Chopra, 31, is one of the sport and play a living, breathing he added. likely when climatic conditions deteriorate.” the world of Avatar,” said Fox Film chief biggest stars to emerge in Indian person,” she added. Chopra, who In order to rule out other factors for the rise AFP Jim Gianopulos. AFP film in recent years, alongside was born and raised in India and Bollywood heavyweights Shah also spent a few years living in the Rukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan, United States in her teens, has with big budget franchises such as conquered the ranks of Bollywood, Seoul film record Krrish and Don. She has also won but cracking into Hollywood has plaudits for taking on unconven- presented its own challenges. tional roles, most recently playing “There is a very big stereotype Traumatised baboon an autistic woman in 2012’s Barfi! with Indian actors, and you get only But in her latest role as an eye- Indian parts. There is a stereotype catching animated racing aero- that there’s a certain accent and mystery at Dutch zoo plane in Disney’s global adventure there’s a certain vibe and how is Planes, Chopra said she is hop- that cool. I felt a lot of that and ing to cross the boundaries of I really want to be able to change THE HAGUE: Zoologists are “I’ve heard lots of theories Bollywood to Hollywood. that, for people to be proud of their baffled by the strange behaviour but nothing that holds water,” “This is a very global movie. roots,” the actress said. of a troop of baboons at a Dutch Landman said. These include that You have characters from all Chopra’s step into Hollywood zoo which have become inex- the baboons saw a predator, either across the world, and I think for coincides with her foray into pop plicably withdrawn, apparently a real one or an image of one on a kids, it’s great to understand that music, releasing her first single, fearful of an unseen threat. visitor’s T-shirt, or that they felt there’s so many different kinds of Exotic, featuring rapper Pitbull “They became panicked at the an earthquake or other natural culture and people out there,” the from her upcoming yet-to-be- end of the day on Monday, they disaster. “The craziest suggestion actress said. titled album. The album is being were hysterical, not jumping was that it was caused by a UFO,” Chopra first rose to fame in overseen by renowned pop music around but behaving strangely,” said Landman. 2000, winning the Miss World producer RedOne, who has worked zoologist Wijbren Landman of “They’ve been observed to be beauty pageant and transitioning with Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj and Emmen Dierenpark in the north- disconcerted in the wild if they’ve into Bollywood film. But the jour- Jennifer Lopez, and is expected ern Netherlands said yesterday. had a run-in with a predator, ney has not come easily for the in early 2014. It will feature more “On Tuesday and Wednesday but not this type of behaviour,” actress, who said she had to learn collaborations with other artists, they just sat in the trees or on he said. Despite the lack of an the ropes of acting. “I was 17 years although Chopra said it was too the ground, hardly moving or explanation for the behaviour, the old, I didn’t know anything. I just early to reveal any names. eating,” Landman said. The 112 baboons have at least started to went with my gut and I wanted REUTERS east African monkeys also turned eat a little. their backs on visitors. “Yesterday evening some of them The zoo said it was the started eating little bits of apple Cruz names daughter Luna fourth time in 20 years that the and we gave them pellets with vita- baboons have behaved this way. mins and minerals,” Landman said. MADRID: Actress Penelope Cruz has Moviegoers line up at a cinema in Seoul, South Korea, yesterday where Nevertheless, such behaviour has “They’re not yet 100 percent but named her newborn daughter Luna. the movie Snowpiercer is shown. South Korean director Bong Joon- not been seen elsewhere, either in they’re improving. Cruz’s husband Javier Bardem registered ho’s English film debut drew over one million viewers in just two days captivity or in the wild. “We’ve asked experts for their the baby girl as Luna Encinas Cruz at a The zoologist said he has no opinions, if they’ve ever seen after opening, setting a record for weekday sales, the Yonhap news register office here, reports dailystar.co.uk. idea what happened on Monday anything like it or have an expla- agency reports. The sci-fi movie is a screen adaptation of the comic Cruz, 39, gave birth to Luna on July 22. to traumatise the baboons, who nation, but that hasn’t turned This is the couple’s second child after two- book novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob. were all born in captivity and live anything up yet,” he said. year-old son Leonardo. IANS on an island in the zoo. AFP