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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Lusail bridge Sheikha Moza meets Mayor of London project caves in; 15 injured Workers rescued with help of crane DOHA: Some 15 construction their accommodation when the workers were injured, one of incident happened, said a source them seriously, when the steel from a company involved in the structure of a bridge under con- project. struction in the Lusail City col- “As far we know, some 15 work- lapsed last evening. ers were injured and were taken Most of the victims were to the HMC emergency and six H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser yesterday met the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, at City Hall in the British capital and discussed collaboration in Nepalese, including the one who of them were later shifted to the science, technology and education. Two memorandums of understanding were signed between Qatar Foundation and leading organisations and was critically injured. outpatient department at the government departments in the UK. A R ALBAKER He fell unconscious after the Emergency Department,” said Full report on page 3 incident and was admitted to the the source. The cause of the crash trauma unit of the Emergency could not be known immediately. Department at the Hamad “We don’t know how it hap- Medical Corporation (HMC). pened. Perhaps the steel structure The incident occurred at did not have have proper support. around 6pm as work was under- “We were all wearing protective Al Jazeera launches legal action against Cairo way on the steel structure that gears but they will not help when a was being readied for concrete, structure collapses,” said a worker. DOHA: Al Jazeera has launched legal intimidation involving the jamming of trans- network’s top management and family mem- some of the injured workers told Another source from the com- action against the Egyptian government missions and broadcasts, as well as the closure bers of the detained staff. The Peninsula. “We were more pany said he was not aware of any over harassment and detainment of its of its offices and other facilities,” the network Dr Mostefa Souag, Managing Director of than 15 people working on the defects or lapses in the construc- journalists, the network’s London-based said in a press release issued by its legal team. Al Jazeera Arabic Channel, said: “Al Jazeera structure. It suddenly collapsed tion process. “We were following lawyers announced yesterday. The network earlier said its satellite signals has been here to deliver the truth, and it is and all of us were trapped under the usual process. At present we The network said it had asked prominent were blocked in the wake of its coverage of time for those people in power to realise that it,” said a Nepalese worker, who don’t have details about what legal firm Carter-Ruck to take action in inter- Cairo’s crackdown on Islamists. “Al Jazeera the threatening pressure on journalists and suffered injuries in his legs. exactly happened. national courts and before the United Nations cannot permit this situation to continue,” a the ensuing lack of media freedom need to The workers were rescued in “We are still trying to collect in a move that aims to protect its journalists network spokesman said in a statement. stop — the truth will always prevail.” a few minutes using a crane that information about the workers and ‘safeguard its right to report freely’ on The military-backed regime in Egypt has He also expressed gratitude for the brave lifted the steel structure. An involved in the incident,” said events in Egypt. disregarded the fundamental right of journal- work of Al Jazeera reporters and journalists. HMC ambulance and a rescue the source. Lusail City project Al Jazeera said since president Mohammed ists to report freely and seems determined to Similar sentiments were echoed by Ghassan team reached the spot in another comprises a metro rail besides Mursi was overthrown, a large number of its silence all independent voices, leaving only the Abu Hussein, Manager of Al Jazeera’s 10 minutes, said the worker. residential and commercial build- journalists have been arrested and detained voices of its own state-controlled media which Communications and International Relations Three of the victims, including ings, marinas, lusxury hotels and by security forces either without charge or on could be heard, the network said. Department, who addressed the general pub- the one who suffered serious inju- entertainment spots. false and politically motivated charges. Al Jazeera staff, meanwhile, organised a sol- lic and the detained journalists in particular, ries, were taken to the ambulance Contacted, a senior official It also accused the forces of attacking its idarity gathering for their colleagues detained saying: “Al Jazeera is with you and has been on stretchers. at the Nepalese embassy said journalists and said that some of its offices in Egypt and called for the immediate release with you since Day 1. This is the message we Most of the victims suffered the mission had no information have been closed. of Al Jazeera correspondent Abdullah Al deliver to the world today.” Ayman Gaballah, leg and hand fractures and cuts about the incident. “We will try “Al Jazeera offices and journalists have come Shami (detained since August 2013), and Director of Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr, and a in different parts of their bodies, to gather information and call you under attack by the military, police and unof- cameraman for Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr, former detainee in Egypt, said: “Those who apparently caused by steel rods. back if we get something,” said ficial groups supporting the military govern- Mohammad Badr (detained since July). attempt to imprison the truth, only imprison There were about 35 workers on the official at around 8pm. ment, while the network has been subjected The gathering in front of Al Jazeera Arabic themselves.” THE PENINSULA duty but some of them were at THE PENINSULA to a sustained campaign of harassment and studios included speeches and addresses by the Picture on page 3

Syria bid to join chemical arms deal

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations yester- Haq, adding that it was “an accession document.” day received a Syrian application to join the inter- Syria had been one of seven UN members that have national convention banning chemical weapons, in a refused to join the 1993 convention. But President move that could head off a western military strike. Bashar Al Assad’s government announced it would A UN spokesman confirmed that Syria had sent sign up as part of a Russian plan to put his country’s accession documents to the world body, which is chemical arsenal under international control. guarantor of the 1993 convention banning the pro- The UN spokesman said it could take a few days to duction and stockpiling of the arms. complete the accession process. Syria’s UN ambas- Syria’s UN envoy said joining the convention was sador Bashar Jaafari said his government now con- the end of a “chapter” in the Syria crisis. “In the past sidered itself a full member of the convention. few hours we have received a document from the AGENCIES government of Syria,” said UN spokesman Farhan See also page 5

State of emergency CMU-Q student falls into a coma DOHA: An 18-year-old student of Carnegie Mellon University in PSG players Salvatore Sirigu, Javier Pastore, Alex, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Christophe Jallet in new shirts with extended in Egypt Qatar (CMU-Q) fell unconscious and went into a coma at the cam- the Ooredoo logo. pus yesterday, Al Sharq reported. Muhammed Al Buhelaiqa, a kid- by two months ney patient, sustained injuries in the head and nose after he lost CAIRO: Egypt extended a state consciousness and fell. Citing family members, the Arabic daily said of emergency by two months no one came to his rescue for nearly an hour. When his father could Ooredoo signs PSG partnership yesterday because of the secu- not reach him after several calls on his mobile phone, his brother, rity situation, the presidency who also studies at Education City, looked for Muhammed and DOHA: Ooredoo has signed Princes Stadium on the pitch side Al Khelaifi, President, PSG, said in a statement. found him lying unconscious. The university had given Muhammed a major partnership agree- LED system. announced the partnership. Egypt has been gripped by a separate rest room in view of his health problem. “An ambulance ment with the 2012-2013 Ligue The team’s training complex “Football brings people together political turmoil since the army was called but it came late because of traffic,” a family member said, 1 Champions Paris Saint- ‘Camp des Loges’ will be renamed from all nations and all walks of overthrew Islamist president adding Muhammed was still in a coma. Germain (PSG) that will run the ‘Ooredoo Training Center’. life, and we have found a great Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim until 2018. Educational sessions during sponsorship partner in PSG,” Brotherhood on July 3. A week Qatar sends fifth LNG cargo to Egypt Ooredoo and PSG will launch a coaching clinics will include Sheikh Abdullah said. ago the interior minister survived community coaching programme information on proper nutri- “Through our talks with the an assassination attempt in Cairo. DOHA: In implementation of directives of the Emir H H Sheikh and football clinics for young peo- tion, injury management, how club, we have come to know them The government originally Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the fifth shipment of LNG allocated ple across Ooredoo’s footprint in to prepare for matches and as a team that is keen to bring announced a one-month state of to Egypt on June 10, yesterday left the Ras Laffan port. The aid the Middle East, North Africa, will encourage young people to football to new markets, commit- emergency on August 14 and yes- ordered by the Emir will contribute to alleviating the energy crisis and southeast Asia. achieve their ambitions at key ted to developing communities terday extended it to mid-Novem- in Egypt through additional supplies of fuel for power plants, which The Ooredoo logo will appear points in their lives. and is passionately connected to ber. Authorities have accused the face a shortage of gas during the summer months due to the increas- on the back of PSG team shirts Sheikh Abdullah bin their fans,” he added. Brotherhood of inciting violence ing energy consumption, an official source at the Foreign Ministry and the sleeves of their training Mohammed bin Saud Al Thani, THE PENINSULA and has imposed a dusk-to-dawn said. The 64,000-tonne supply will be delivered to Egyptian General kits, and at the team’s Parc des Chairman, Ooredoo, and Nasser Continued on page 5 curfew. REUTERS Petroleum Corporation. THE PENINSULA & QNA FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Qatar eyes generating 20pc of power from renewables Over 200 officials, international experts to attend solar summit in Doha

DOHA: Qatar plans to gen- task of delivering the 200MW bin Saleh Al Sada stated earlier electricity generation and water erate 20 percent of its energy solar energy plant project by this year that the initial phase desalination as well as serv- from renewables over the next 2020. of the 200MW solar programme ing as an education centre for decade with the first phase of Saleh Hamad Al-Marri, would see pilot plants generat- children. a 200MW solar project to be head of Renewable Energy ing 5MW-10MW, with a 2012 Qatar, which has promised a tendered in the first quarter Technologies Section at estimated cost of $30m. carbon-neutral Fifa World Cup of next year, Trade Arabia Kahramaa will be giving a Qatar also announced at last in 2022, is racing to develop News Service reported yes- detailed update on the strategy year’s United Nations Climate efficient solar-powered cooling terday quoting organisers and technology requirements Change Conference COP18 technology for stadiums and of an upcoming solar power for upcoming solar projects in that it would seek tenders for pioneering research in solar summit in Doha. an exclusive presentation at the a 1,800MW solar energy plant desalination, manufacturing and More than 200 government Solar Qatar Summit. in 2014. supplying polysilicon solar solu- www.swiss-belhotel.com officials, key decision makers Consisting of more than A number of international tions and constructing energy- and international experts will 20 sessions including pres- companies are now getting efficient ‘passive houses’. Tel gather at Solar Qatar Summit entations, case-studies and involved in research and devel- As many as 2,072 photovoltaic Fax 2013 scheduled for November 18 panel discussions from major opment projects to address the panels and 37 inverters are and 19. The event will take place industry organisations will issues and challenges in this sec- being installed on the Msheireb under the patronage of Essa bin communicate best practice tor, said the report. Downtown Doha buildings Hilal Al-Kuwari, president of strategies and opportunities for Work is under way on the which claim to be the world’s Tel Qatar General Electricity and key stakeholders. construction of Kahramaa’s first sustainable regeneration Fax Water Corporation (Kahramaa) The Minister of Energy and Awareness Park which will in a downtown area of a major which has been charged with the Industry H E Dr Mohammed demonstrate the processes of city. THE PENINSULA

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LONDON: H H Sheikha Moza to witness two Memorandum of bint Nasser, Chairperson of Understandings (MoU) being Qatar Foundation met with the signed by Qatar Foundation with Mayor of London Boris Johnson leading organisations and depart- and Minister of Culture, Ed ments in the UK. Vaizey, in London yesterday The first MoU was signed to discuss Qatar and the UK’s between Qatar Foundation; the mutual interest in developing UK Department for Business, areas of collaboration in science, Innovation and Skills; the UK technology and education. Higher Education International During the meeting Sheikha Unit and the British Council to Moza shared the importance of establish a bilateral forum focus- promoting Arabic language, cul- ing on research and education. H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, and Mayor of London Boris Johnson witness the signing of an MoU between Qatar Foundation, the UK Department for ture and civilisation and recog- Dr Saoud, the President Qatar Business, Innovation and Skills, the UK Higher Education International Unit, and the British Council to establish a bilateral forum focusing on research nised the Mayor’s serious interest Foundation said: “There is a and education, in London, yesterday. AR AL BAKER in the pursuit of education and desire to develop the creative research initiatives in the Arabic potential of young people as well language as part of the Qatar-UK as to support their interests in a to support teaching and learning Arab world across the UK. Qatar The latest was last week with A landmark project with the Year of Culture. wide range of fields. This is at the of Arabic language and culture Foundation supports a large the inauguration of University British Library will digitise over The meeting marks the latest very heart of Qatar Foundation’s across UK schools. number of projects in collabora- College London Qatar. 500,000 pages of historical mate- in a number of initiatives planned mission and by working with lead- Dr Saoud said that the projects tion with UK institutions and uni- Dr Saoud also mentioned the rial relating to the Gulf region during the Qatar UK 2013 Year ing UK institutions to encourage aim to significantly increase the versities, which also serve Qatar’s long strategic partnership with from the India Office Records and of Culture. greater cooperation in arts and number of students learning needs in developing human capac- Imperial College London in medieval Arabic manuscripts and Sheikha Moza, the Mayor culture, our mission can be fur- Arabic, increase the number ity and earning recognition as an research, robotic surgery, Biobank, will be made accessible online for of London, and the Minister of ther advanced.” of those teaching Arabic, and important generator of knowledge and the Qatar Cardiovascular the first time. Culture also gathered at City Hall The second MoU was signed improve understanding of the across the world. Research Center. THE PENINSULA

Al Jazeera solidarity gathering Qataris happier than many in developed countries: Report

BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB The US (17th position), the such as GDP per capita, healthy world’s richest economy, for life expectancy, someone to count DOHA: Qataris are happier instance is less happy than on, perceived freedom to make life than citizens from developed Mexico, while Kuwait (32nd) and choices, freedom from corruption countries of Europe and Asia, Saudi Arabia (33rd) are much and generosity. but despite enjoying the highest happier than Iraq (105th) and “The word ‘happiness’ is not per capita income in the world Iran (115th). used lightly. Happiness is an aspi- (PPP terms), the wealthy citi- The Middle East has by and ration of every human being, and zens of the energy-rich Gulf state large shown a greater dip (-0.637) can also be a measure of social are surprisingly less happy than in the happiness quotient between progress,” the report said. Emiratis and Omanis, accord- 2005-07 and 2010-12, while Latin It invited member countries to ing to the recently launched America and Caribbean (+0.435) measure the happiness of their World Happiness Report 2013. have witnessed highest rise in the people and use this to help guide Qatar rank 27th in the list happiness index during the same public policies accordingly. of 156 countries surveyed for period. The report highlighted that the United Nation’s Happiness According to the report, mental illness is the single most Report, much ahead of some of European countries such as important cause of unhappiness, the world’s most developed coun- Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, but is largely ignored by policy tries such as Singapore (30th), the Netherlands and Sweden, are makers. Spain (38th) Japan (43rd) and the top five countries. The report also noted that Italy (45th). Evidently all the happiness is some of the world leaders includ- However, Emirates and Oman, somehow seems to be concen- ing German Chancellor Angela whose per capita income is much trated in the northern Europe. Merkel, South Korean President lower than that of Qatar, ranked And residents of Benin and Togo Park Geun-hye and British Prime at 14th and 23rd positions, thus, are the least happy people in the Minister David Cameron, are proving the fact that economic world. talking about the importance of Al Jazeera staff during a solidarity gathering yesterday for their colleagues detained in Egypt. They also called prosperity or financial wealth is The happiness report evalu- well-being as a guide for their for the immediate release of Al Jazeera correspondent Abdullah Al Shami, who is detained since August, and a poor measure of one’s social ates nations on basis of six key nations and the world. cameraman Mubasher Misr Mohammad Badr, who is detained since July. The gathering in front of Al Jazeera well-being. factors that determine well-being THE PENINSULA Arabic studios included speeches by the network’s top management and family members of the detained staff. Awqaf Minister leads GU-Q study shows ‘hostile media effect’ not true for Muslims Qatar’s Haj mission DOHA: On directives of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, DOHA: The popular notion that 581 Muslims living in Qatar representing the Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Muslims may perceive neutral media a broad demographic mix. Affairs H E Dr Ghaith bin Mubarak coverage on sensitive or controversial Participants assessed CNN and Al Al Kuwari will head the Qatari Hajj issues to be biased against them was Jazeera news reports covering the sub- Mission for 1434 AH-2013 AD. rejected in a research that was con- ject of the controversial Dutch cartoons The concerned authorities of Qatari ducted in Doha. of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), with one Hajj Mission have got aquatinted with The research about mass media per- twist: unbeknownst to a group of partici- preparations regarding accommodation ceptions here examined whether Muslims pants, the researchers swapped the CNN of Hajj campaigns, lands and camps allo- perceive neutral information sensitive to and Al Jazeera logos, to determine if opin- cated for the mission in the holy sites in them, to be biased against them, a hypoth- ions differed when the source changed. Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah. esis that is based on the hostile media “The results, which seem to contradict effect. earlier work, found that Muslims do not A research titled “Ideologies, Branding, determine if media coverage is biased GCC delegation in Doha and the Hostile Media Effect: Muslims’ against them based on the media brand, Response to Al Jazeera and CNN but on the actual content of the infor- DOHA: A GCC delegation yes- Coverage” was conducted by Dr Alexis mation, suggesting that rising scepticism terday visited the Administrative Antoniades, Assistant Professor of on US foreign policy in the Middle East Development Institute to get briefed Economics at Georgetown University stems from the evaluation of the policies on the institute’s experience in assess- Qatar (GU-Q). and not the media coverage of it,” said Dr ing the impact of training on job Established in the early 1990s, the hos- Antoniades. performance. tile media effect theory holds that par- The presentation of the media During the visit they reviewed a paper tisan groups, people with strong biases research comes on the heels of the recent presented to the annual meeting of the toward an issue, tend to perceive osten- announcement of a brand new focus of managers and leaders of Arab adminis- sibly neutral information to be biased study in Media and Politics offered jointly tration institutes in the Arab world in against them. by GU-Q, which will award a Certificate the French City of Marseille. However, the Georgetown research upon completion of the programme, and The paper included the methodology resulted in very different outcomes from Northwestern University in Qatar, which and application stages of a project on the the previous studies. offers it as a minor degree. impact of training on job performance “We examined, and rejected, the notion The programme aims to enable students and the benefits derived from the imple- that Muslims may perceive balanced to better understand how politicians, dip- mentation of the project. media coverage on sensitive or contro- lomats, and policy makers influence, and The employees briefed the visitors on versial issues to be biased against them, a are themselves influenced by, the media in the positive impact of the experience of phenomenon known as the “hostile media various forms and formats, and introduces the training and attention to the train- Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgetown University Qatar Alexis Antoniades effect,” said Dr Antoniades. students to the real-world implications of ing programmes offered by the institute. during his presentation yesterday. SHAIVAL DALAL These, and other surprising conclu- the representations generated by mass QNA sions, were drawn following a survey of media. THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ISLAM Seeking knowledge: The guiding light Reading marks the foundation of any robust path to seek knowledge. A person who is an avid reader is known to have an active brain, one that is always thinking, reflecting, contemplating and making decisions based on rational judgement. BY MARIA ZAIN contemplating and making deci- sions based on rational judgement. NE of the great- A person who reads a lot is also est miracles seen in known to be more calm, concise Islam was the emer- in speech, knowledgeable in con- gence of an illiterate versation, humble in altercations, man who became the and confident in presenting his or Omercy to mankind. This man, who her own point of view. A person was also known as Al-Amin — the who loves reading also harbours trustworthy one in Arabic — grew the love to attain knowledge, to up as an orphan, did not have any learn of another’s perspective, is money to his name (despite his driven to form ideas, takes time wealthy relatives and comrades) to appreciate the intrinsic details and was also uneducated. around him or her and often takes Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) creative measures to accomplish at the age of 40, spent time con- his or her goals. templating the meaning of life in From the first word of revela- the cave of Hira when He found tion of the Quran was Iqra or read, the dire need to seek knowledge God continues to remind believers beyond the materialism that sur- that seeking knowledge is the best rounded the pagan Arab culture. way to attain success in the world Married to a successful busi- and hereafter. {Allah will raise up, ness woman and father to four to (suitable) ranks and (degrees), daughters, He perused a modest those of you who believe and who life, helped around the household have been granted knowledge. And enveloping them and angels sur- harbour self-absorbed obsessions use knowledge to help others, to It comes from the highest form and held down an honest job for Allah is well-acquainted with all you rounding them, and Allah making like immortality and infallibility: peruse assets towards the better- of authority that they should use survival. God the Creator — the do,} (Al-Mujadilah 58:11). mention of them to those (angels) considering him/herself superior ment of the environment, to learn their knowledge to acknowledge highest form of authority — had Although the mind of a human who are with Him.” (Muslim). to others, often belittling those something new and to impart the their humility, help others and other plans for Him — someone being, even the most intelligent Unfortunately in the Muslim who are less fortunate or less same upon another person. become active and progressive who was not acknowledged for of minds, will never be able to world today, illiteracy remains educated. Through the revelations of members of society for the bet- wealth, power or wisdom — a sim- contend with the wisdom of God, a vogue. As the Muslim popula- the Quran, Prophet Muhammad terment of the nation. ple man who was known for His it still falls as an obligation upon tion weighs heavily upon the Arab DAY OF JUDGEMENT (PBUH) took time to explain Knowledge is also not confined amiable character and stunning each person to seek knowledge. region and generally in the con- It is said that one of the signs each and every verse, discuss- to Islamic thought — though traits. But Prophet Muhammad’s In a compelling Hadith, Prophet tinents of Africa and Asia, there that the Day of Judgement ing them amongst his educated much, if not all of education – (PBUH) fate changed, with a sud- Muhammad (PBUH) relays: are many communities that are not is around the corner is when companions, taking time and revolves around Islamic princi- den guiding light through 23 years “Seeking knowledge is obliga- privy to an educational structure humans rush to attain knowledge patience to teach those who ples. Muslims are encouraged to worth of Quranic revelations, tory upon every Muslim (male and that comprehensively binds knowl- for material gains, recognition wanted to learn, helping those develop their skills and know how penned only by the Creator, who female),” (Ibn Majah). edge in its different strands – spir- and power, instead of the love of who were in the wrong turn back in every professional realm pos- holds infinite wisdom. Why the resounding obliga- itually and from the secular point learning for the sake of God. to the right path and holding sible that would contribute to the {Read in the name of thy Lord tion? In a world full of destruction of view. Because many of these In many societies that are inter-community dialogues with building of a community. who created; created man from a today, it is obvious that there is so Muslims live in Muslim-majority highly geared towards extreme people of other nationalities, cul- With knowledge comes great mere clot of blood; read and your much negativity that causes wars, countries that gravitate heavily capitalism, school children are tures and religions who came to responsibility and although the Lord is the most generous; the one indifference to suffering, environ- towards culture, traditions and taught that the only way to suc- seek knowledge. knowledge of a single Muslim can who taught (them to write) by the mental pollution, crimes against politicised Islam, the true teach- ceed would be to score straight A’s There was no self-obsessed only be compared to the dust on pen; taught man what he knew not,} children, the breakdown of fam- ings of the religion are sometimes and outdo their classmates, and practice in garnering wisdom and a grain of gravel in the cave of (Al-‘Alaq 96: 1-5), tumbled the first ily values and the tearing apart lost or distorted through this form ultimately to be recognised as the keeping it for himself or a certain mountain of Hira, paling in com- revelations of the Quran upon of close-knit communities. These of understanding. best student of the class. few. Knowledge was for everyone, parison to the vast wisdom of the the Prophet (PBUH), who was problems occur from negative Many Muslims make the mis- Children as young as 9 or 10 and for Muslims who observe the Lord, Muslims are still obliged to shaking with fear and shock at energy that is propagated by the take of seeking knowledge for the are taught that the yardstick to five daily prayers and recite the seek knowledge from their cradles the same time. For someone who Satan, encouraging human beings wrong reasons. God reminds that: success is a material one — purely Al-Fatihah chapter 17 times a day, until the graves. did not know how to read even to turn away from knowledge and {It is only those who have knowl- revolving around individual suc- within it are verses that say: {Our Knowledge blocks out igno- a simple word, His journey to to dwell in fear, ignorance, selfish- edge among His servants that fear cess — rather than seeking Sustainer, You are the Only Whom rance, violence, complacency attain knowledge from the high- ness, corruption and greed. Allah,} (Fatir 35:28) and: {Verily the knowledge for the betterment of we solely and exclusively owe and and laziness — traits that are est authority was an arduous one. most honoured of you in the sight of their own selves from within, and demonstrate allegiance and servi- frowned upon in Islam — but most But Prophet Muhammad BLOCKING NEGATIVE Allah is he who has most taqwah,} to share the same knowledee with tude and You are exclusively the One importantly, knowledge allows a (PBUH), through the intermedi- SENTIMENTS (Al-Hujurat 49:13). friends and loved ones. we look for help to elevate ourselves; person’s status to be elevated in ary of Archangel Jibril, relayed Knowledge is able to block With knowledge comes taqwa This type of educational system Our Sustainer! You guide us upon the eyes of God: {Say unto them, the verses of the entire Holy out all of these negative sen- (God’s consciousness), know- is also deemed deficient in the the Path that keeps heading safely Muhammad: Are those who know Quran to his companions who timents, and to place God at ing that every iota of wisdom, eyes of Islam. Instead of rushing and straight to the destination of equal to those who know not? But could read and write — care- the pulpit of the guiding light. every moment of reflection, is to school to learn out of passion peace and tranquility; show us the only men of understanding will pay fully compiling the guiding light Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) only granted with the permis- and excitement, children are bom- straight way,} (Al-Fatihah 1:5-6) heed,} (Al-Zumar 39: 9). So seek of knowledge into a single book says: “Whosoever pursues a path to sion of God; those who truly barded with yards of homework, knowledge, as it was through the that Muslims read today. seek knowledge therein, Allah will believe spend their time basking the stress of exams and the ulti- ROUTE TO SUCCESS miracle of literacy that sprung Reading, as we often hear, thereby make easy for him a path to in awe at the grandiosity of their mate need to outperform the rest. As a single nation, Muslims forth the perfected way of life, marks the foundation of any Paradise. No people gather together Creator with every new drop In a culture that is warped with are to worship one God, and as Islam, penned by God the Creator, robust path to seek knowledge. A in one of the houses of Allah, recit- of knowledge that they garner. the need to be on top, in power a single nation, Muslims are to the highest level of authority. person who is an avid reader is ing the Book of Allah and studying Without taqwa, a person in pur- and to be recognised, humans are seek His pleasure by continuously (Maria Zain is a freelance editor known to have an active brain, one it among themselves, without tran- suit of knowledge can fall into the losing the basic values of human- seeking knowledge as that is truly and writer living in Malaysia.) that is always thinking, reflecting, quility descending upon them, mercy trap of becoming arrogant, proud, ity with respect to education — to the route to the success. WWW.ONISLAM.NET Why Friday is the best day of the week BY AISHA STACEY worship One God, and find strength prayer a priority since ignoring it three Friday. It is the day Adam was created. It Omar further stated that this verse was and comfort by standing shoulder to times in a row, with no valid reason, is the day when Adam entered the Heavenly revealed after Asr (afternoon prayer) RIDAY is a very important shoulder and reaffirming their faith and will cause a believer to stray from the Gardens, the day when he was expelled from while Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was day for Muslims. It is more devotion to Him. straight path. it and also the day he died. Friday is the day sitting on his camel. significant and more ben- “O you who believe! When the call to While it is only men who are obliged to on which the Day of Resurrection will take Friday is a special day; the congre- eficial than any other day of prayer is proclaimed on Friday hasten ear- attend the Friday congregational prayer place.” (Sahih Muslim) gational prayer performed on this day the week. It is the day that nestly to the remembrance of God, and leave there are also many recommended acts Friday is also the day on which one holds special significance in the life of FMuslims gather together to pray in con- aside business. That is best for you if you but that can be performed by men, women of the greatest verses in the Quran was a Muslim. This is well noted and dis- gregation. Directly before the prayer they knew.” (Al-Jumu’ah, 62:9) or children during this day. revealed: “This day, I have perfected your cussed by Islamic scholars both past and listen to a lecture designed to empower In many predominantly Muslim These acts include, taking a bath and religion for you, completed My Favor present. them with valuable knowledge about God, countries Friday is a weekly holi- wearing clean clothes, saying numerous upon you, and have chosen Islam as your Thirteenth century Islamic scholar and the religion of Islam. day, sometimes combined with either supplications to God, sending blessings religion.” (Al-Ma’idah, 5:3) Ibn Taymiyyah said: “The most excel- It is a blessed day that has been desig- Thursday or Saturday. However there upon Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and A story from the life of the second lent day of the week is Friday accord- nated as such by God, Almighty; no other is no mandatory closing of businesses reading Chapter 18 of the Holy Quran, Caliph Omar, illustrates the significance ing to the consensus of scholars”, and day of the week shares its virtues. except during the time of the congre- which is entitled The Cave. of Friday. A learned person from among his student Ibnul-Qayyim mentions 32 A believer’s entire life is one of wor- gational prayer. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said, the Jews said to Omar ibn Al-Khattab special characteristics of Friday in his ship; even celebrations are conducted as In western countries many Muslims “There is no day more virtuous than Friday. • “In the Quran you people read a cer- book Zad Al-Ma’ad. worship. While there is no special place try to take their lunch break during In it there is an hour in which no one will tain verse; if that verse had been revealed Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: or special time to worship God, there the time for prayer, usually in the very pray to God except that God will hear his to us, we would have celebrated that day “Verily, this is the Eid day (day of cel- are moments, days, or times that God early afternoon. prayer”. (Al-Tirmidhi) annually.” ebration) that God has prescribed for the has made more superior; Friday is one Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) told his “Friday consists of twelve hours, one • Omar asked, “Which verse is that?” Muslims” (Ibn Majah) of those times. followers that: “The five daily prayers, and of which is the hour where supplications • The man replied, “This day, I have Believers would be wise to take From the traditions of Prophet from one Friday prayer till the next, serves are granted for believers. This hour is perfected your religion for you”. advantage of the blessings God sends Muhammad (PBUH), we learn that The as an expiation for whatever sins have been sought during the last hour after Asr (the • Omar then said, “Verily I remember down to His slaves on Friday. This is best day in the sight of God is Friday, the committed between them, provided one does third prayer in the day).” (Abu Dawoud, the day and the place where this verse a day of congregation, a day of celebra- day of congregation. (Al-Bayhaqi) not commit any major sin.” (Sahih Muslim) Al-Nisa’i) was revealed. It was already a double cel- tion and a day of contemplation and Congregational prayers (obligatory It is important that a Muslim not “Whoever recites ‘The Cave’ (Chapter 18 ebration for us. Firstly it was Friday - a supplication. for men) are one of the most strongly neglect Friday prayer due to work, study, of the Quran) on Friday, God will give him day of Eid (celebration) for all Muslims (Source: The Religion of Islam emphasised duties in Islam. It is a or other worldly matters. a light to the next Friday.” (Al-Bayhaqi) and secondly, it was the day of Arafat http://www.islamreligion.com) time when Muslims come together to Believers should make attending this “The best day on which the sun rises is — the most important day of the Hajj.” WWW.ONISLAM.NET FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Dozens die in Syria clashes Jordan appeals for Toll from massacre at Alawite village rises to 22; shells hit Golan Heights funds to cope with

BEIRUT: A surge of clashes in Syria’s oil-producing northeast has killed dozens of rebels and Syrian refugees Kurdish fighters in the past two days, activists said yesterday. PARIS: Jordan needs hun- children recently said that only Syrian Kurdish militants, par- dreds of millions of dollars in one-third of the some 150,000 ticularly the armed wing of the aid to cope with the mount- Syrian school-aged children in Democratic Union Party (PYD), ing number of Syrian refugees, Jordan were getting education. have repeatedly clashed with Social Development Minister Abu Hassan said the refugees opposition fighters led by Al Reem Abu Hassan said in Paris were spread all over and not Qaeda-linked units in the region yesterday. bunched in the massive Zaatari as government forces retreated There were already more than refugee camp as widely perceived over the past year. one million Syrian refugees in internationally. The Kurdish PYD’s military Jordan and health and educa- Many schools were doing double wing blamed Al Qaeda-linked tion services were absolutely shifts while the size of the classes groups for the latest violence, stretched, Abu Hassan said. in schools in the affected areas saying fighters from the Nusra The Jordanian government puts had swelled from 25-30 students Front and Islamic State in Iraq the number of refugees at around to around 60 students, she said. and the Levant attacked a string 580,000 but says the number of “Many infections that were of Kurdish villages in Hasaka Syrians living in the country is eradicated in Jordan, like TB, are province. about 1.2 million. now back,” she said. Heavy artillery and tanks were Abu Hassan said that the Abu Hassan’s appeal came as used, it said. humanitarian crisis in Jordan French Foreign Minister Laurent Estimates of the numbers could spark the animosity of Fabius promised measures to fast- killed varied. The Britain-based locals, who have been hitherto track the applications of Syrians Syrian Observatory for Human welcoming. seeking asylum. Rights said at least 35 rebels and “Local communities are... actu- “We have given orders so that 13 Kurdish fighters had died over ally supporting Syrian refugees demands for the right to exile are the last two days. but there might come a time when processed more quickly than in the Rebels accuse their Kurdish they could suffer from frustration past,” Fabius said on RTL radio, opponents of collaborating with Free Syrian Army fighters run to take cover in the refugee camp of Yarmouk, near Damascus. and we don’t want to reach that promising measures to “increase President Bashar Al Assad’s level,” she said on the sidelines of the number of refugees” granted forces to secure autonomy — control of oilfields and a border died in clashes near Qamishli. Qaeda-linked Nusra Front shot a meeting of Euro-Mediterranean permission to live in France. although activists said disputes crossing under Kurdish control. Elsewhere, Syrian warplanes dead 16 Alawites and six Arab countries. According to French govern- over resources and territory were “This is not a political issue. bombed one of the main hospitals Bedouins on Tuesday after storm- “I think we need around $300m ment figures, about 700 Syrians a bigger factor in recent clashes. There are divisions even between serving rebel-held territory in the ing the village of Maksar Al Hesan, annually to support the health made requests for asylum in Munzir Ehmed, a Kurdish activ- these rebel units over oil,” he said, north of the country, according to east of the city of Homs, accord- sector and $800m for the educa- France between January and ist in the city of Qamishli on the adding that seven Kurdish fight- activists and video footage. ing to the Syrian Observatory for tion sector,” Abu Hassan said. August. Turkish border, said the Islamists ers and four fighters and a com- Eleven civilians, including Human Rights, which is opposed The United Nations agency for AFP were attacking to try and take mander from Islamist brigades two doctors, were killed in the to Assad. strike against the hospital on The British-based Observatory Wednesday in the town of Al said the victims included seven ‘Seizure of medical aid a war crime’ Bab, 30km northeast of Aleppo women, three men over the age of Damascus needs $1.4bn in aid GENEVA: Syrian government forces have committed war crimes city, the opposition Aleppo Media 65, and four children under the age by seizing medical aid from convoys bound for rebel-held areas, Centre said yesterday. of 16, citing residents and medics. DAMASCUS: Syrian families affected by the country’s civil war European Union aid chief Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday. The government has not com- Rami Abdelrahman, head of need $1.4bn in aid, a senior Syrian official said yesterday, adding “There are cases where medical kits, surgical kits, are removed. mented on the strike but state the Observatory, said the victims that only 43 percent of that was being met. What it means is that on the other side, a wounded man, woman news agency SANA said the army had been shot in their homes, and “Humanitarian aid is dispensed according to the resources avail- or child could die,” Georgieva told reporters. had killed 14 “terrorists” — a term that they were not members of able, but there’s a deficit of 57 percent,” media quoted Administration “It is a war crime to remove surgical kits from a convoy, or to pre- it uses for rebels — north of Al any pro-Assad militias. Minister Omar Ghalwanji as saying. vent help getting in, or, what is even worse, to target medical facili- Bab in an operation on a militant Syrian state television Ghalwanji announced the figures during a meeting with Yacoub ties and bomb them, to shoot at doctors,” Georgieva said in Geneva. convoy. reported that government El Hillo of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian “Thirty-one humanitarian workers have lost their lives. Turning The death toll from an alleged forces had retaken the village on Affairs, media reported. a blind eye to a violation of international humanitarian law is a war massacre in an Alawite village in Wednesday, killing a number of He thanked the UN for delivering aid to Syrian civilians “in the crime too,” she added. central Syria rose to 22, includ- rebels, who they said were mostly difficult circumstances facing the country.” She said fewer than half of the eight million Syrians who need ing women, children and elderly foreign fighters. OCHA said this week that more than 600,000 people in Syria aid received it on a regular basis, as the civil war that has claimed men, a rights monitoring group Israel’s military yesterday said were in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, a large number of more than 100,000 lives and driven two million refugees abroad said yesterday. three apparently stray mortar them in areas that are difficult to reach. shows no sign of abating. The minority Alawite sect to shells struck the Israeli-occupied They include people in areas where an alleged chemical weapons “For the first time in this horrible conflict, the international com- which Assad and most of Syria’s Golan Heights yesterday, . attack was carried out on August 21, reportedly killing hundreds. munity is coming together in the face of the great danger of the use elite belong is an offshoot of “They were apparently fired in The conflict, which grew out of peaceful anti-government pro- of chemical weapons,” Georgieva said. Shia Islam whose members have error,” an army spokesman said, tests that began in March 2011, has killed more than 110,000 people, “But if we don’t have a condemnation of violations of international increasingly been targeted by adding that they hit open ground according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. humanitarian law in this conflict, what are we telling bad people radical fighters among the Sunni and caused no injuries. The United Nations says two million Syrians have become refugees elsewhere? That we can turn a blind eye at what you do?” Muslim-dominated opposition in Israel did not immediately and another four million have been displaced inside the country. AFP the revolt against Assad. respond. AFP Fighters from the Al AGENCIES

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EPTEMBER 11, 2001— a turning point in world history. An infamous landmark for international relations and global security as well. Twelve years hence, the Smorning of that September 11 resonates in the mind What Putin’s New York Times like a recently suffered tragedy. The world still seems to writhe with the soreness of a militant travesty that shocked not only the United States but also the world, perhaps for eternity. Every year, Americans visit the 9/11 memorial in New York to piece really means remember the 2,800 victims who died when two jetliners were ladimir Putin’s highly unu- given that Russia has blocked effective by their powerful foreign patrons, who made to crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre sual and razor-edged com- UN action on Syria for two years and would be siding with the fundamental- — the ultimate symbol of heady American capitalism. ment piece setting out his is bound, for example, like the US, to ists. Reports that militants are prepar- The people who died in the tragedy will always be views on the Syria crisis, uphold the international chemical weap- ing another attack — this time against remembered as dots on a vast maze of geopolitical strains that addressed directly to the ons convention. Israel — cannot be ignored.” VAmerican people and published by the Putin says: “The potential strike by Translation: the claim that the rebels, have come to reshape global politics of the times. A dozen years in the aftermath of the spine-chilling incident New York Times, is a mixture of closely the United States against Syria, despite not the government, have used chemical argued policy points and breathtaking strong opposition from many countries weapons to trick the US into interven- have institutionalised the interplay of several global forces. political effrontery. and major political and religious leaders, ing is not new, but by recycling it, Putin Terrorism, never to so much feature on nations’ agenda, Even as he appears to offer the hand including the Pope, will result in more further muddies the waters. The refer- acquired a new meaning, goading states to invest a considerable of friendship and cooperation to Barack innocent victims and escalation, poten- ence to a possible CW attack on Israel part of their national wealths in stanching its rise. Ten years Obama, the Russian leader repeatedly tially spreading the conflict far beyond is a masterstroke, given the sensitivity after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold plunges the knife into the president’s Syria’s borders.” of the Democratic administration and wounds, not just on Syria but on a Translation: Putin raises the spectre its backers to all matters affecting the War, something appeared on the global horizon that was range of other sore points, including of a wider Middle East conflagration Jewish state. to consume significant parts of the energies of nations new Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, the UN and without acknowledging that, if it hap- Putin says: “Millions around the and old. After the emergence of a unipolar world, post 9/11 terrorism. pened, Russia’s policy so far will have world increasingly see America not as international politics has seen the emergence of a firm albeit In bearding the US president on his made this outcome more likely, and a model of democracy but as relying diverse institution that has brought home ground, Putin — who encourages that Moscow would be deeply involved solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions Twelve years together forces opposed to militancy. an off-duty image of himself as a bare- in any conflict through proxy forces together under the slogan ‘you’re either chested, fearless and arms sales. This is real Orwellian with us or against us’.” after the Amid the chronic argument tough-guy hunter double-speak. Translation: Another canny blow September 11 of what constitutes terrorism, and outdoorsman But he delivers a powerful poke in delivered to the American solar plexus. global forces have aligned to defeat — seems to be try- the eye for Obama when he suggests US Putin is echoing many people in the attacks, the the destructive designs of terror Putin delivers a ing to add Obama action in Syria could torpedo the Israel- US who oppose their country’s activi- world has seen groups, which have often presented powerful poke in to his trophy bag, Palestine peace process, which the US is ties as self-appointed global policeman mounting challenges to state might. while simultane- trying to revive, and make it harder to and believe its values have been severely global forces the eye for Obama ously present- resolve the impasse over Iran’s nuclear compromised in the post-9/11 years. By To quote the action-reaction law, when he suggests ing himself as an programme. offering a resumed diplomatic dialogue reshape against actions by states against militant altruistic global That the man responsible for appall- as the way out of the Syrian morass, US action in Syria militancy, but groups have led to the reaction statesman. ing past violence in Chechnya should Putin is attempting to assert Russian of opposing forces uniting under could torpedo the Putin says: “No summon the Pope as an ally is extraor- leadership. If his initiative ultimately not with uniform different umbrellas with a broadly one wants the dinary. And the idea that he really cares prevents US action, he expects to be Israel-Palestine United Nations about “innocent victims” in Syria is seen as a hero in many parts of the unified ideology. From Bali to success. peace process, to suffer the fate sickening. world. Boston and Mumbai to Mindanao, of the League of Putin says: “A strike would increase Putin says: “It is extremely dangerous the fight against terrorism has which the US is Nations, which violence and unleash a new wave of to encourage people to see themselves yielded mixed results. The war against terror has had a trying to revive, collapsed because terrorism.” as exceptional, whatever the motiva- tectonic effect on the societies and politics of countries and make it harder it lacked real Translation: on the day after the 9/11 tion. There are big countries and small like Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Not only has western leverage. This is anniversary, Putin suggests he knows countries, rich and poor, those with long to resolve the possible if influ- better than Obama, the man who has democratic traditions and those still intervention brought about untold misery to the population of ential countries effectively crushed the leadership of finding their way to democracy. Their these states, they have been pushed into an unending cycle of impasse over Iran’s bypass the United Al Qaeda and killed Osama bin Laden, policies differ, too. We are all different, violence fuelled by sectarian interests. nuclear plan. Nations and take about the perils posed by jihadism. But but when we ask for the Lord’s bless- It is true that the fight against terrorism has significantly military action he speaks for many in the West when ings, we must not forget that God cre- reduced the traction militants could have otherwise gained. without security he argues that mercenaries fighting in ated us equal.” The killing of Osama bin Laden proved that nations will be council authorisation.” Syria, and armed by US allies, could one Translation: this passage takes the Translation: we are not going to stand day move their operations to other coun- biscuit for sheer chutzpah. Referring able to reach the perpetrators of evil, no matter how strong back and let Syria become another Iraq tries, as happened in Libya-Mali, and directly to Obama’s depiction this week their supporters. On the other hand, the apparent success of (when US-led military action was taken most famously in Afghanistan-Pakistan. of America as an exceptional nation groups like Boko Haram and Al Shebab point to militancy without UN authority). Putin implies Putin says: “No one doubts that poi- called to do great things in the world, thriving on the back of ideology than individuals. To defeat that by its principled stance, Russia son gas was used in Syria. But there Putin invokes God Almighty, democracy, terrorism, the evil designs of the distorted mind have to be has become the chief defender of the is every reason to believe it was used and the American constitution in one UN system and international law. This not by the Syrian army, but by oppo- breath to suggest Obama is a menace defeated. Besides going after militant groups, the global order is an extraordinary piece of hypocrisy, sition forces, to provoke intervention to global society. GUARDIAN NEWS also has to strike at the roots of militancy • The other side Quote of Breakthrough on Syria the day

ITH US strikes against Syria has welcomed the propo- for diplomatic efforts to diffuse the crisis blatant violation of international law, so Syria still looming, a ray sition, while US President Barack in Syria. is any unilateral move to launch military of hope has emerged Obama described the Russian offer as With the United Nations joining action against a sovereign state. The Wthat might help avert a “positive breakthrough” in a series of others in endorsing Russia’s proposal international community is strongly The Barroso thing them, as members of the international television interviews on Monday night. this week, there is a broad consensus opposed to both. community, the United States and Syria He said plans for a strike would be put among the international community that As there are signs that Bashar al- did annoy me included, have responded positively to on hold if Syria moves to hand over its this might be a positive breakthrough in Assad’s government might be willing to a Russian proposal that the Middle East chemical weapons, and in light of this the attempt to secure a political settle- make concessions, the Obama admin- because frankly his country place its chemical weapons new development the US Senate has ment to the long-time crisis. istration should know denying interna- under international control. postponed a crucial vote to authorize Until all diplomatic efforts have been tional mediation a chance at this juncture job is to serve the On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister military action that was due to take place exhausted, the US should exercise cau- would weaken its case for strikes even members of the Sergey Lavrov suggested that the on Wednesday. tion about taking unilateral action. US further. With little international support chemical stockpiles of the Syrian gov- Obviously, stripping Syria of its chem- Congressional authorization is no war- and the consequences of any military European Union. He ernment should be put under interna- ical arsenal would also strip Washington rant for military intervention. Only the action unpredictable, acting alone tional observation, and that Syria should of its pretext for declaring war, and the UN Security Council has the authority would only reinforce the US’ image as got it wrong and I’ll David Cameron fully join the treaty prohibiting the use of heartening response to the Russian pro- to mandate such action. a warmonger. tell him that. chemical weapons. posal shows there is still ample room Any use of chemical weapons is a China Daily UK Prime Minister FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Military strikes won’t work in Syria The Assad regime has had adequate time to intermingle war materiel and civilians, and more non-combatants in Syria will be vulnerable to US missiles and bombs. BY JIMMY CARTER against the Assad regime in Syria. These dire predictions are exagger- he only way to be assured ated. It is no reflection on the president that Syrian chemical weap- that he expressed his decision clearly to ons will not be used in the our citizens and to the world, properly future is not through a mil- sought congressional concurrence and itary strike but through a has done his utmost to implement his Tsuccessful international effort. decision by securing necessary votes in Regardless of the postponed congres- the House and Senate. All US presi- sional vote regarding the use of military dents have been forced to endure highly force, other actions should be taken to publicised rejections of major proposals address the situation in Syria, includ- concerning both domestic and interna- ing an urgent effort to convene without tional issues. This is to be expected in conditions the long-delayed peace con- any democratic nation, as has occurred ference the US and Russia announced recently in Britain and might soon hap- in May. pen in France. A resolution in the UN General It requires a lot of political courage to Assembly to condemn any further use risk a public rejection, especially when The French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle docked at the Mediterranean port in Toulon. French President Hollande of chemical weapons, regardless of the decision is believed to be right but said Paris stood ready to punish those behind a chemical attack on civilians in Damascus. perpetrator, would be approved over- known to be unpopular with the public, whelmingly, and the US should support many allies and top military leaders. there will be many factors involved, but been presented by Secretary of State more non-combatants in Syria will be Russia’s proposal that Syria’s chemical There is a special problem when the the assumption of compliance is best John Kerry that there has been horrific vulnerable to US missiles and bombs. weapons be placed under UN control. Security Council is divided on an issue because supportive votes would be lost use of chemical weapons in Syria. The Any casualties among them will be A military strike by the US is unde- the US considers crucial and when our by the president saying he would ignore international community should take exaggerated and exploited to bring addi- sirable and will become unnecessary Nato allies refuse to take a stand. a negative vote. Many legislators will be concerted action to discourage or pre- tional condemnation on the US within if this alternative proposal is strongly It is well known that some of the looking, at least in part, for popularity vent a repetition of this crime. Although the Arab world. The effect of limited supported by the UN Security Council. president’s political adversaries will with constituents who strongly oppose Security Council condemnation of air strikes would be transient at best, If fully implemented in dozens of sites not support any conceivable proposal using force. For those who are eager to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad is but a sustained and robust action is throughout Syria, this effort to secure he might make, that dovish members see a strike against Syria, a presiden- not possible because of division among more likely to incur a deeper and more the chemical weapons would amount of Congress are likely to oppose mili- tial pledge to attack without approval world leaders about who is responsible lengthy US involvement and result in to a cease-fire, with a large UN peace- tary action and that some congressional would make it possible to achieve their for the atrocity, and a strong condemna- additional waves of refugees. keeping force deployed. In the best of hawks want strong and sustained action objective without alienating voters back tory resolution is likely to be vetoed, the Despite the claims and counterclaims circumstances, this could lead to con- to change the course of the Syrian civil home. And for those who oppose mili- ultimate goal of deterring future use of that have surrounded the chemical vening the Geneva peace conference, war. Going ahead with limited military tary action but are willing to alienate weapons of mass destruction would be attack near Damascus on August 21 and perhaps including Iran, that could end action after a rejection by Congress constituents because of loyalty to the greatly enhanced if the major powers an unknown number of earlier attacks, the conflict. would amplify many of these critical president, his pledge to ignore a con- were unanimous in their action. the issues are now clearly defined. The Some have predicted catastrophic voices. gressional decision might lessen their Many members of Congress are still main goals of condemning the use of consequences to the credibility of The president has wisely refused to commitment to him. in a quandary concerning the ultimate these outlawed weapons and preventing President Barack Obama and our answer media questions about how he Despite all of the back and forth, some consequences of an attack. The Assad their further use can still be realised by country if Congress were to reject his would proceed if his efforts failed in facts about the situation are generally regime has had adequate time to inter- concerted international action. request for approval of military action Congress. If and when a vote takes place, accepted. Incontrovertible proof has mingle war materiel and civilians, and WP-BLOOMBER The great Liberal Democrat wipeout Virginia governor should Clegg’s party may have pay his own legal bills BY ROBERT MCCARTNEY to fight the equivalent t wasn’t enough for Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell to embar- rass the state, weaken the Republican Party and cripple his politi- of 57 Eastleighs in cal career by accepting largesse from businessman Jonnie Williams ISr. 2015 — but they are Now he and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli have managed to stick state taxpayers with part of the legal bills for trying to fix the problem. The state is picking up the tab for tens of thousands of dollars in confident that they can private lawyers’ fees for helping the governor and his staff deal with the controversy over suspicious gifts and payments from Williams to defy the polls. McDonnell and his family . The public shouldn’t let them get away with it. We should demand that the governor’s private legal defence BY MARTIN KETTLE fund pay for all the legal work related to McDonnell’s involvement in the gifts case. The official explanation for making the state pay is that hould one trust a political commen- the gifts scandal is inseparable from what should have been a routine tator’s hunch? Andrew Marr said case over whether the governor’s former chef, Todd Schneider, pilfered the other day that he had a hunch food and toiletries from the mansion. that the Scottish referendum a year As attorney general, Cuccinelli normally would represent the gov- S Mike Thornton (left), the Liberal Democrat candidate, celebrates his win in the Eastleigh by-election from now would be a close run thing. Lots of ernor’s office in the chef’s case. But he said in May that conflicts of worldly-wise observers tend to agree. Yet the with his party leader, Nick Clegg. Thornton’s victory caused by Chris Huhne’s resignation gave the interest forced him to bring in outside lawyers to deal with the chef consistent lead for a no to independence in the party a confidence transfusion. and “related matters.” Now those lawyers are spending a lot of time Scottish opinion polls mocks this view. There (and money) helping the governor and his staff deal with the Williams is no evidence to support Marr. Against that, On the face of it, this is nothing short of Clegg’s ratings among the general public matter. It’s true that the gifts scandal arose from the chef’s case. That’s though, there is the hunch. delusional. If the party remains at around 10 remain dire — he has a net negative rat- because Schneider is the one who blew the whistle on the suspicious From time to time, I also give voice to a percent in the polls, the chances are that the ing of minus 53 among the electorate as a interactions between the McDonnells and Williams, ties that are now hunch. Mine is that the next general election Lib Dems will lose upwards of 45 seats. Even if whole, compared with minus 58 a year ago. the object of a federal investigation. But the governor’s dealings with could very possibly produce another hung par- they managed to recover to 15 percent nation- Significant proportions of his party’s activist Williams are no longer directly relevant to whether the chef is found liament. Here again quite a lot of political lags ally — and there is absolutely no sign of that base remain very critical of him — Teather guilty in a trial scheduled for next month. The two matters have been seem to agree. Yet on what basis of fact? Day — they could still be looking at losing about undoubtedly speaks for many — but internal separate since a Richmond, Va judge’s ruling in July. She rejected after day the opinion polls give no support to 30 seats. Either result would leave them a surveys suggest that support for Clegg has sta- Schneider’s effort to escape prosecution partly on the grounds of con- such an outcome at all. The rolling average of humiliated rump with minimal leverage, even bilised since a bad dip a year ago. Even strong flicts of interest arising from dealings among Williams, McDonnell and the polls is that Labour will win comfortably in a hung parliament. Meanwhile the Liberal Cable supporters accept that there isn’t much Cuccinelli. Given that, why should taxpayers continue to pay to help the in 2015 — a majority of 76, they say this week. Democrats’ local government base — built up of a leadership issue this year. governor handle legal and public relations matters related to Williams? Yet I continue to trust my hunch. so assiduously over so many long years — con- If so, it is not down to Eastleigh. It also Ironically, because of the gifts issue, the state’s legal bills in the case No party in British politics clings more tinues to haemorrhage councillors. reflects a more pragmatic sense of comfort are dwarfing the value of the fruit, soap and other items that Schneider firmly to its collective hunches than the Several things help to explain this almost with the way the coalition is now conducted allegedly embezzled from the executive mansion. The fees have already Liberal Democrats. As the Lib Dems prepare perverse refusal to panic. The first is that the and perceived. Most Lib Dem members are topped $250,000, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and will for their conference in Glasgow this weekend, party as a whole still owns the situation in temperamentally uncomfortable with being in continue to climb. By contrast, the estimated value of the goods suppos- the polls are as bad for the party as they have which it finds itself. The party voted for the coalition with the Conservatives. They remain edly stolen by the chef — which he says he was authorised to take — is ever been. On Tuesday YouGov put the Lib coalition with the Conservatives in 2010. They closer to Labour in terms of general values. several thousand dollars. In theory, the governor’s private defence fund Dems on 9 percent — down from 23 percent believe, almost to a man and woman, that they But the much clearer differentiation between is covering any bills related to McDonnell’s potential criminal liability in the 2010 election. The rolling average of must therefore make the best of it without the two coalition parties over the past year — as an individual in the gifts case. But when it comes to the gifts and all polls gives them 11 percent, and has been recrimination. particularly since the collapse of Lords reform interactions with Williams, it’s awfully hard to separate where the there or thereabouts for nearly three years. A second explanation can be given in a and boundary changes — is a more comfortable official duties end and his individual actions begin. The difficulty is With a year and a half to go before the next single word: Eastleigh. Mike Thornton’s vic- coat to wear. aggravated by secrecy over what work the fees are paying for. Citing general election, the signpost pointing towards tory six months ago in the by-election caused Any Liberal Democrat party conference attorney-client privilege, the governor and his lawyers are blacking out electoral disaster could hardly be any clearer. by Chris Huhne’s resignation gave the whole is inherently more rewarding as an expres- parts of the legal invoices that might explain. “The problem is, there’s When they get to the banks of the Clyde on party a confidence transfusion. It was inter- sion of party mood than any Tory or Labour no transparency. The redacted bills, that doesn’t tell you anything about Saturday, the logical thing for the Lib Dems preted as bankable proof of the claim that Lib conference — for the simple reason that the what they were doing, and at whose behest,” University of Richmond to do would be to jump in. Dem activists have long made — that the party Lib Dems still allow proper debates about law professor Carl Tobias said. Yet the party mood in the run-up to Glasgow can defend its fortresses in spite of horrible causes. Glasgow will be no exception. There Tony Troy, the governor’s top state-paid attorney, said he couldn’t remains strikingly resilient. I have talked to national poll ratings. will be serious arguments over Trident, the break down what part of his office’s time was going to the gifts issue a lot of Lib Dems this week, and I have not Eastleigh partly explains why the party’s 50p income tax band and nuclear power. But and what part strictly to the chef’s case. But we know Troy billed found a single one — from senior figures down internal mood has steadied in the past 12 this is a party that likes being in government, taxpayers for a report in July devoted entirely to allegedly showing to the grassroots — who believes that the party months. It is easily forgotten that, a year ago, believes it has made the coalition work, and is that the governor didn’t take any official action to help Williams or is marching towards a wipeout. On the con- a Liberal Democrat Voice survey found half convinced it has some signature achievements his diet supplement company, Star Scientific. Troy said the report was trary, most Lib Dem people are in guardedly of its respondents wanting Nick Clegg to quit to be proud of. The Lib Dems’ hunch is that justified because the chef had suggested as part of his early defence good spirits about the future. Their hunch is before the election. Support for Vince Cable as the electorate is more open to giving them a that McDonnell had improperly helped Williams. that the worst is over, and that in 2015 they an alternative leader appeared strong. Today, hearing than it was a year ago. And that’s my It might have been interrelated before, but it’s not anymore. The will hold on to most of their 2010 tally of 57 that mood seems to have ebbed. If Eastleigh hunch too, whatever the polls say. governor and his supporters should pay their own way. MPs — and perhaps even gain some. had been lost, that would not be the case. THE GUARDIAN WP-BLOOMBERG FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Turkey to unveil Iran to work reforms key to Kurdish peace

ISTANBUL: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ‘closely’ with Erdogan said yesterday he would announce next week a package of reforms designed to strengthen democracy and keep on track a fragile peace process to end an insurgency by nuclear body Kurdish militants. The announcement of the “democratisation package” fol- lows the declaration this week by West welcomes change of tone the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that it had halted VIENNA: Iran’s new envoy to the new Iranian government’s intentions. its withdrawal of fighters from UN nuclear agency said yesterday Najafi, who was appointed to the Turkey because the government he would cooperate with it to find Vienna post after President Hassan had failed to take steps it had a way to “overcome existing issues Rouhani took office in early August, agreed to. once and for all”, potentially sig- said there was a strong political will Kurdish politicians are seeking nalling a more flexible approach on the Iranian side to “constructively reforms to allow full Kurdish- from Tehran’s new administration. interact” on the nuclear issue. language education, soften But Ambassador Reza Najafi, “We are looking forward to work- anti-terrorism laws, lower the at his first board meeting of the ing closely with the Director General Relatives of Palestinians jailed in Israeli prisons protest outside the Red Cross offices in the West Bank electoral threshold to enter par- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA chief Yukiya Amano) and his city of Hebron, demanding the release of the inmates, yesterday. liament from 10 percent and (IAEA), also repeated Iran’s position team in the coming days,” Najafi, a strengthen local government, but that it would not give up what it sees soft-spoken career diplomat and dis- it was unclear how far the pack- as its legitimate right to a peaceful armament expert, said. age would go in satisfying these nuclear energy programme. Asked whether he was hopeful that demands. “Based on its rights and obligations an agreement could be reached in the IMF urges Israel to ease The PKK started pulling out recognised under the NPT (Non- Vienna meeting, he later told a brief of Turkey in May but the push to Proliferation Treaty), Iran is ready news conference: “We sit together, we end a conflict that has cost more to faithfully engage and remove any directly and frankly discuss the dif- than 40,000 lives has weakened, ambiguity on its nuclear activities,” ferences. We hope that we can solve with both sides accusing each Najafi told the governing board of the those differences.” Palestinian financial curbs other of failing to keep their side Vienna-based UN agency. Western diplomats welcomed his JERUSALEM: The GDP growth would slow from 11 Oxfam said, ahead of the 1993 of peace deal. Iran is at loggerheads with statement as a change in tone but International Monetary Fund percent in 2011 and 5.9 percent Oslo peace accords anniversary “We’ve spent hours on this Western powers in particular, who cautioned it remained to be seen urged Israel yesterday to in 2012 to 4.5 percent by the end on Friday, that “life for millions democratisation package,” fear its nuclear programme may be whether there would also be a change ease financial restrictions on of this year. of Palestinians is worse now Erdogan said at a conference of designed to give it the capacity to in substance. Palestinians, warning that the The IMF said the West Bank than it was 20 years ago”. businessmen. “Hopefully tomor- build nuclear weapons. Tehran denies They said Najafi’s remarks — Palestinian economy would and Gaza Strip’s economic pros- “While parties are nego- row we will discuss the last arti- the accusation. though short on specifics — were more otherwise not be viable. pects were “dim under (the) sta- tiating peace, actions on the cles, and I think next week we will Separately from big power efforts matter of fact than those of his pred- In a report published ahead tus quo,” and that resuscitating ground are making the lives of announce the democratisation to resolve a decade-old dispute that ecessor, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, who of a September 23 meeting finances required the removal of Palestinian civilians in particu- package at a big news conference.” could trigger a Middle East war, the often used the IAEA board meetings in New York of donors to the “obstacles to economic growth.” lar ever more difficult, and jeop- A senior Justice Ministry offi- IAEA has held 10 rounds of talks to rail against Tehran’s Western foes Palestinians, the IMF said the These included, notably, “a ardising the chance of reaching cial said that cabinet would dis- with Iran since early 2012 in a bid and the UN nuclear agency. Palestinian Authority faced a broad-based and sustained eas- a solution,” Nishant Pandey, cuss the package on Monday. to resume a stalled inquiry into sus- Iran is ready for “meaningful, budget deficit of $300m by the ing of Israeli restrictions, not Oxfam’s Palestinian territories Parliament may convene before pected atom bomb research. result-oriented and time-bound end of 2013. linked to specific projects and and Israel director, said in a the end of its summer recess on The negotiations have so far failed negotiations,” Najafi said, calling on “The PA’s finances are not underpinned by clear progress statement. October 1 to vote on the package, to yield results but a meeting is set the West not to speak to Iran “with viable over the medium term if in the peace process.” “A peace process naturally Erdogan said previously. for September 27 in Vienna, seen by a language of threat or sanctions”. the current model of financing The IMF said in July that calls for give and take from At stake is a bid to end a three- Western states as a key test of the REUTERS large deficits with unpredict- Israel’s tight restrictions hinder all parties, but it is Palestinian decade conflict with the PKK that able aid flows is maintained,” the growth of the Palestinian civilians who have overwhelm- has tarnished Turkey’s human the report said. private sector. ingly paid the cost,” he said. rights record and undermined It predicted that Palestinian International aid agency AFP its economy. Jalili named to arbitration body Abdullah Ocalan, the group’s jailed leader, declared a halt to TEHRAN: Hardline former top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili hostilities in March after months was yesterday appointed to Iran’s top political arbitration body, the of talks with the state. Expediency Council, state television reported. That ceasefire has largely held, The appointment was made by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Seven die in Officers sacked after but the PKK has said clashes Khamenei, to whom the council provides advice on different national issues. could resume if Ankara does not It comprises high-ranking religious and political figures and former Iraq attacks take concrete steps by the start government officials, and is also tasked with resolving legislative issues war reinstated in Yemen of September. between the parliament and the Guardians Council, which interprets the BAGHDAD: A spate of The process enjoys strong pub- constitution. attacks across Iraq killed DUBAI: Yemen’s president the rank of captain and up as lic support but is increasingly AFP seven people yester- has ordered the reinstatement reinstated immediately. Many attracting nationalist criticism day, including three who of hundreds of senior army were promoted. over perceived concessions to mil- died when a suicide car and intelligence officers sacked The decrees covered offic- itants officially deemed terrorists. bomber struck as recruits after a 1994 civil war, to hasten ers from the armed forces, the Aside from Kurdish-related were leaving a military reconciliation talks aimed at Interior Ministry and the intel- reforms, measures believed to base, officials said. ending years of political turmoil ligence service. have been under discussion include The attacks come amid in the US-allied country. The fund, and other moves that reopening of the Halki Greek Iraq’s worst bloodshed The officers are from the south included setting up a 16-mem- Orthodox seminary on an island since 2008, with more than of the Arabian peninsula country, ber committee equally divided near Istanbul, removing restric- 4,000 people killed already which lost a 1994 civil war with between northern and southern tions on wearing of Islamic head- this year. the north after making a failed Yemen to tackle the future of scarves and boosting the rights of At least one soldier was bid to break away from what southern Yemen in the country, the Alevi minority, the official said. among three people killed southern secessionists called may help bring southern seces- Also under consideration, by the car bombing, in the political domination by Sanaa. sionists back into the dialogue months after the country was parking lot of a military The move by President Abd- more than eight weeks after rec- shaken by anti-government pro- base in the northern city Rabbu Mansour Hadi, reported onciliation talks halted. tests that stirred accusations of of Kirkuk, the medical and by state news agency Saba, follows As well as southern demands police brutality, were changes in security officials said. a decision last week to set up a to restore the formerly Marxist the law regulating public meetings Another soldier died $1.2bn fund to finance the resto- state that merged with north and protests. The package could and two were hurt when ration of jobs to tens of thousands Yemen in 1990, northern Shia also end prosecution of suspects a roadside bomb blasted of southern Yemenis unemployed Muslim rebels are seeking to as terrorists if they are not in a their convoy near the oil since the civil war. restore the Zaidi imamate that militant group’s hierarchy and town of Baiji, north of Saba published a series of presi- ruled much of modern Yemen have not been involved in violent Baghdad, while an army dential decrees late on Wednesday before it was overthrown in 1962. acts, he added. captain was killed at a mil- listing hundreds of officers from REUTERS REUTERS itary post in the northern city of Mosul. Also in Mosul, two civil- ians were killed in separate Hot peppers attacks on their homes during the night, officials said. Late on Wednesday, a suicide bomber struck as worshippers streamed out of a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing 30 people and wounding 55. A second suspected sui- cide bomber spotted at the mosque in the north Baghdad neighbourhood of Waziriyah was shot dead by locals, who then set his body on fire, witnesses said. The surge in bloodshed has sparked concerns that Iraq is slipping back into the all-out sectarian war that plagued the country in 2006 and 2007, leaving tens of thousands dead. Experts say militant groups are exploiting polit- ical infighting in Iraq and regional sectarian tensions fuelled by Syria’s civil war to recruit and to carry out A boy lays hot peppers out on a road to dry in the sun in Turkey’s Kilis province. Farmers sell their peppers attacks. to factories producing pepper products after drying them in the sun for a week. AFP FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ‘Peacemaker Putin’ tries to woo US public Strongman presses home Syria advantage through New York Times column

MOSCOW: Russian President presenting himself whenever and response to Obama’s address to an opposition leader, wrote on Vladimir Putin has found many wherever he can as the man lead- the nation on Tuesday in which Twitter. Mocking his column, he ways and places to browbeat ing global peace efforts in Syria, he said he would study Russia’s wrote: “In (the) morning I expect the US over the years. undermining Obama even in the plan — following a gas attack to see a Putin cooking column in Munich was the venue for a pages of a leading US newspaper. Obama blames on Assad’s troops Le Monde and Putin football col- 2007 speech in which he changed The attention the op-ed received and Putin blames on rebel forces umn in El Pais.” the tone of Russian foreign pol- in US, global and Russian media — but voiced scepticism about it. Others derided Putin’s deci- icy by railing against US “global gave the Kremlin cause for some In Russia, which is Syria’s main sion to take up his pen because of supremacy”. back-slapping yesterday. ally and an important arms sup- Russia’s poor record of protecting The May military parade on “The idea came up at a very plier, the article featured promi- journalists. Red Square has become a yearly short notice. The latest edits nently in news bulletins, largely “Oh, Putin has written a col- platform to warn against US were done last night,” a Kremlin without comment by state media, umn, just like Kashin,” opposi- hegemony and his annual news source said, suggesting foreign but attracted satirical and derog- tion leader Alexei Navalny wrote conferences are laced with anti- policy aide Yuri Ushakov was one atory remarks as well. on Twitter, referring ironically American bluster. of the instigators and that work Critics pointed out that Putin’s to Oleg Kashin, an investiga- But the latest choice for an on it had continued until late on 1999 article in the New York Times tive reporter who was beaten so attack, an op-ed article in the Wednesday night. took the opposite tack by defend- severely in 2010 that he went into New York Times, is an unusual The Kremlin is advised by ing Russian military action in an a coma. departure for Putin even though a New York-based public rela- internal conflict against separa- A New York-based rights it was not his first column for tions company, Ketchum. Putin tists in Chechnya. watchdog which operates in the newspaper — he wrote one also gave the Associated Press, a Others noted that Russia had Russia and is critical of Putin on defending his decision to send US news organisation, an inter- sent troops to Georgia in 2008 human rights deplored his article. troops to war in Chechnya in view last week to get his message without US Security Council “President Putin should give 1999. across to the American public but approval, although Moscow said more credit to his audience: Finding a way, as he put it, “to sources close to the Kremlin said it was responding to Georgian Russia will be judged by its speak directly to the American it was the first such article in the military action against Russians actions, both on the international people” underlines his growing US press since 1999. inside Georgia’s internationally arena and domestically,” Human confidence that a Russian pro- The image he presented was recognised territory. Rights Watch said. posal to put Syrian chemical of Russia as peacemaker, and Some portrayed Putin as hyp- “So far, Russia has been a key arms under international con- the US as warmonger, turning ocritical in warning the US it obstacle to ending the suffer- trol has enabled him to steal the the tables on Obama after being must uphold international law ing in Syria. A change towards diplomatic initiative and moral portrayed in the West as an — because of accusations that a more constructive role would high ground from US President obstacle to peace for most of the Russia’s judiciary is weak and be welcome. But a compilation Barack Obama. time since the start of Syria’s civil bends to the Kremlin’s will. of half-truths and accusations is Russian President Vladimir Putin at the mayoral inauguration in Moscow He now looks determined to war in 2011. “Life and law mean noth- not the right way to signal such yesterday. press home the advantage by Putin’s column was partly a ing to him,” Garry Kasparov, a change.” REUTERS Prince William to leave military Zuma tells LONDON: Britain’s Prince William, who became a father for the first time in July, is to step down from the military and will focus on his char- ity and royal duties for the immediate future, his office said yesterday. lawmakers William, 31, second in line to the throne, has been working as a search and rescue helicopter pilot with Britain’s Royal Air Force in north Wales and has spent 7-1/2 years in the armed forces. to revise “This is a transitional year for him,” a spokeswoman said. “He’s going to take this year to focus on his charity work, his royal engagements and particularly his work in the field of conservation.” secrecy bill The prince is considering options for a future role in public service and will not be going into full-time royal duties yet, she said. “It will be a very busy year for him: he’s got quite a lot on, so you’ll see CAPE TOWN: South African him out and about quite a lot,” she added. President Jacob Zuma said yes- Most pressing for William will be his role as a father following the recent terday he had sent a secrecy birth of son Prince George, while he and wife Kate are due to move into bill, seen as a threat to whistle- their official renovated residence at London’s Kensington Palace in the blowers and investigative jour- next few weeks. There has also been speculation in the media that William, nalists, back to lawmakers to Kate and baby George will make an official visit to Australia next year. rework “irrational” clauses. “It is fair to assume that they will be taking a tour in 2014,” said the “I am of the view that the bill as spokeswoman, adding the birth of his son had not played a role in his deci- it stands does not pass the consti- sion to quit the armed forces. tutional muster,” he told journal- William, known as Flight Lieutenant Wales to his colleagues, began ists in Cape Town. military life in the army as a lieutenant in the Household Cavalry’s Blues The information bill was passed and Royals before joining the RAF. REUTERS in April by parliament and sent A home and cars are stranded after a flash flood in Coal Creek destroyed the bridge in Colorado, yesterday. to Zuma to be signed into law, despite an outcry from activists that it will muzzle the media and Flooding kills two in Colorado provide cover for government corruption. The bill, which targets the clas- LOS ANGELES: Deadly division said. Officials said a under driving rain as water sification and protection of sensi- flash floods washed away a building had collapsed on the coursed down roadways and tive material, has been referred to dam and killed at least two person, but further details were washed away vehicles. parliament’s main chamber, the people in the US state of unavailable as rescue workers Standing water reached National Assembly, for reconsid- Colorado yesterday, authori- were just arriving in the town. above the car tires in some eration, Zuma said. ties said. Mudslides and rockslides places. The National Weather Two problematic sections in With driving rain lash- blocked many of the roads Service warned that “most the legislation - known as the ing much of the northeastern with debris, hampering rescue flood deaths occur in auto- Protection of State Information part of the state, the National efforts, she said. mobiles,” adding “flood waters Bill - lacked “meaning and coher- Weather Service urged resi- She was unable to confirm are usually deeper than they ence” and were “irrational” and dents to “move to higher media reports of a third death appear. Just one foot of flow- “unconstitutional”, he said. ground now. Act quickly to in Nederland, another town ing water is powerful enough “I realised that there are sec- protect your life.” nearby. to sweep vehicles off the road.” tions that needed to be fixed,” said “Stay away or be swept away,” “It’s been raining for the last A mandatory evacua- Zuma. it said, referring to river banks three days now,” Boerkircher tion order was in place for The president found fault with and low-lying spots. said, but the worst “started Jamestown, Boulder County’s sections dealing with the failure to Firefighters in the city of early in the morning on Boerkircher said, adding that report the possession of classified Colorado Springs recovered September 11 and hasn’t hundreds of people elsewhere in information, and on the improper one body due to the flooding, stopped yet.” the county had voluntarily gone classification of material. spokeswoman Sunny Smaldino The Larimer County to shelters, including some 200 Under the bill, espionage- said. They rescued a second Sheriff’s office said yesterday people in Lyons and around 400 related cases carry a punishment person stranded by the flood morning on its twitter feed that people at Boulder’s University of up to 25 years in jail, and hold- waters, she said. the Meadow Lake Dam broke. of Colorado campus. ing or disclosing classified mate- A second death was reported “The amount of water from Officials at the university rial carries a maximum of five in Jamestown, a small town broken Meadow Lake dam is said water had leaked into all years’ imprisonment. of a couple of hundred peo- believed to be relatively small. the buildings, and their main The bill first mooted in 2008, is ple, just north of the city of Trying to determine what concern was the library, where meant to replace an apartheid-era Boulder, Gabrielle Boerkircher, impact might be,” it posted. damage to the books could be law. It has already gone through a spokeswoman for the coun- Video footage and photo- extensive, Boerkircher said. several amendments. AFP ty’s emergency management graphs showed the region AFP

Hacker steals data of 2m German Vodafone customers

BERLIN: Mobile phone oper- birthdates and addresses as customers into revealing their said it had discovered the ator Vodafone Germany said well as their bank account and passwords. There was also a risk attack a week ago, stopped it yesterday a hacker had stolen branch numbers, but not their such data could be used by crim- and reported it to authorities the personal data of two mil- mobile phone numbers, pass- inals to make online purchases, but had initially been asked not lion customers, and that a sus- words, PIN numbers or credit a spokesperson said, adding that to make it public so as not to pect had been identified. card details, it said. victims would however have endanger a police investigation. “This attack could only be This meant that the cyber- recourse to legal protection. “They have now identified a carried out with high crimi- criminal had netted insufficient “Vodafone deeply regrets the suspect and searched his home,” nal intent and insider knowl- data to access clients’ bank incident and apologises to all said the company. edge and was launched deep accounts, said the company, a those affected,” the company “In coordination with the inside the IT infrastructure subsidiary of the British telecom added in a statement. authorities, Vodafone Germany of the company,” Vodafone provider of the same name. Only mobile phone custom- is now fully informing all Deutschland said. It warned however of the risk ers within Germany had been affected persons and support- The stolen data included of so-called “phishing” attacks affected and would be contacted ing them in avoiding possible customers’ names, gender, in which fake emails try to trick by mail. Vodafone Germany adverse effects.” AFP FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PHILIPPINES Fighting spreads as rebels besiege city Thousands of residents displaced as the Santa Catalina district neighbourhood goes up in flames

ZAMBOANGA: Philippine police forces moved in mid- to capture Lamitan city, Basilan’s forces were fighting Muslim afternoon to suppress rebel main Christian enclave. rebels on two fronts yesterday sniper fire, allowing fire trucks President Benigno Aquino’s as the government recaptured to move into neighbourhoods spokesman Edwin Lacierda said burning sections of a key south- shrouded in thick black smoke, in a statement: “While the gov- ern city besieged by guerrillas a photographer saw. ernment is exhausting all avenues opposed to peace talks. But it was too late to save about for a peaceful resolution... they Security forces punched into 20 houses torched by the rebels should not entertain the illusion the Santa Catalina district of during their retreat. A cat, its that the state will hesitate to use Zamboanga city, where thou- coat on fire, leapt out from one its forces to protect our people.” sands of people have fled four of the burning buildings. Misuari has alleged the govern- days of fighting, as the neighbour- Zagala said the MNLF attack ment was violating the terms of hood went up in flames, military was ordered by its founder its peace treaty with the MNLF spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Nur Misuari, who has recently by negotiating a separate peace Ramon Zagala said. renewed a call for independence, deal with a rival faction, the Moro “Soldiers were doing offensive 17 years after the group signed Islamic Liberation Front (Milf). action to stop these (gunmen) a peace treaty that won self-rule The Milf is in the final stages from continuing to burn homes,” for the Muslim minority in the of peace talks with Manila and is he said. largely Catholic Asian nation. expected to take over an expanded At least 1,500 soldiers, backed Zamboanga Mayor Maria autonomous Muslim region in the by police, have surrounded Isabelle Climaco Salazar said she south by 2016. six mainly Muslim communi- contacted Misuari by telephone The deal seeks to end an insur- ties on Zamboanga’s outskirts late Wednesday after three days gency that has killed some 150,000 where about 180 Moro National of trying, and asked him to call people in the south. Liberation Front (MNLF) mem- off the siege. The Basilan clash raised the bers were hiding out since they She said Misuari told her he official toll from the southern launched their attack on Monday. had given his men on the ground Philippines crisis to 15 dead. The rebels have been using “a free hand” in deciding their A soldier killed in a firefight scores of people as “human fate. with the rebels in Zamboanga shields”, leading to a stand-off as Troops were also battling gun- and a village watchman who was security forces try to avoid civil- men who attacked army positions mistaken for a guerrilla and shot Police special forces take cover as they move forward to enemy positions among burning houses during a battle ian casualties. on nearby Basilan island, killing dead by the security forces, both with Muslim rebels, as the stand-off entered its fourth day in Zamboanga City yesterday. “The primary mission is still a pro-government militiaman and on Wednesday, were among the containment, but they were burn- wounding four members of the other fresh fatalities. About 13,000 people fled to a to the rest of the city of nearly one convince the rebels to leave. ing communities so the soldiers government forces and a civilian, Social Welfare Secretary sports complex, as aid agencies million, which has been paralysed Officials also called on the had to move forward to stop them Zagala said. Corazon Soliman said yesterday called for a humanitarian corridor by the siege. She called on shops remaining residents in the con- from committing these atroci- He said a local resident was that officials were trying to verify for those still trapped. to re-open, doctors to remain in flict areas to leave their homes ties,” Zagala said. also missing as soldiers repulsed allegations that the gunmen had The mayor said officials were hospitals and for the public to and head for safety. About 200 elite military and an attempt by about 150 rebels raped some of the local women. moving to bring back vital services stay calm as authorities seek to AFP

5 drug suspects Ex-solicitor general Frank Talks on army presence resume held in sting operation Chavez dies of heart attack MANILA: Manila and Sorreta, who serves as the “It is clear to both sides that Washington are expected to dis- spokesperson for the Philippine there will no basing for US troops MANILA: The Taguig City MANILA: Former Solicitor General Frank Chavez died of a stroke cuss the joint use of United States panel, clarified that the two coun- and defence equipment. What we Police yesterday arrested five on Wednesday night. He was 66. (US) equipment when they tries have yet to agree on the will see is a minimal support of suspected dealers of shabu Chavez, who pursued cases against former presidents Ferdinand resume talks on a deal granting duration of the framework agree- personnel and as such, no depend- during a buy-bust opera- Marcos and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, died at 10pm at The Medical American forces greater access ment on the increased rotational ents will be allowed,” Sorreta said. tion in Maharlika Village in City in Pasig City. The hard-hitting lawyer, who served as Solicitor to Philippine bases. presence. He said details of the The Philippines and the US Taguig City. General from 1987 to 1992, has been battling lymphoma since 2009. A statement by the Defence arrangement for the joint use of have adopted a policy of increased City police chief Senior Chavez had been confined at The Medical City hospital since July 1, department said the third round equipment have yet to be crafted. rotational presence amid China’s Superintendent Arthur Felix where he had undergone a bone-marrow transplant. of negotiations for the increased Previous reports claimed that recent aggressive actions in the Asis identified those arrested The wife of the former solicitor general, Jean, said that his remains rotational presence of US troops the deal increasing US presence West Philippine Sea, the subject as Bai Intan Myra Lumumba, were cremated at 2am yesterday. It will be brought to the Santuario would be held today (Manila in the county could last up to 20 of a territorial dispute in the Richard Anabeza, Muslimin de San Antonio Parish in Forbes Park, Makati City. time) in Washington. years. “The Philippines is look- region. Kendato, Roelito Jo and Saudi The human rights lawyer will be buried at the Heritage Park in “Duration (of the agreement) ing at a ‘much shorter duration’ Security officials believe pro- Amin. Asis said the five sus- Taguig City on Sunday. and joint use are among the issues as opposed to the 20 years that viding temporary access to US pects were nabbed as they were Chavez filed plunder complaints against Arroyo and her husband that are still under discussion. characterize similar agreements troops will help the country selling three plastic sachets of the past years most notably for her alleged misuse of P550m Overseas Hopefully the two sides will be of the US with other countries,” achieve a minimum credible suspected shabu to an under- Workers Welfare Administration funds in 2011. able to come to an understanding Sorreta said. defence. cover police officer. Arroyo’s husband Mike also lost a libel case against Chavez, a staunch with regard to these important Another key issue up for dis- Philippine officials also pushed Also seized from the sus- critic of the administration, in 2007. aspects of the framework agree- cussion is the mechanism for for activities aimed at improving pects were a 12-gauge shotgun According to the Office of the Solicitor General’s website, Chavez ment,” Foreign Affairs Assistant monitoring of military equip- security and disaster response and 20 live shotgun shells. was born in Bateria, Sagay, Negros Occidental on February 6, 1947. Secretary Carlos Sorreta said in ment that the US will bring to capabilities. The suspect will be facing THE PHILIPPINE STAR a statement. the country. THE PHILIPPINE STAR charges of drug possession and trafficking, Asis said. Crash landing Senators got 50pc of funds probe begins Aquino ‘doesn’t know Napoleses’ MANILA: The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines MANILA: Malacañang yes- Napoleses. “We’re not hiding opportunities with the President given to Napoles NGOs: Luy (CAAP) said it has started an terday released several photos anything,” Carandang said. “He during public events. investigation on Wednesday’s of President Benigno Aquino doesn’t know them personally.” The elder Napoles is the alleged MANILA: Some senators pocketed 50 percent of the congressional crash landing of a small plane III with Janet Lim-Napoles and Earlier this week, Aquino mastermind of the P10bn scam, assistance that went to ghost projects and bogus non-governmental in Pangasinan. some members of her family himself said he does not recall where a lawmakers’ assistance organisations (NGOs) set up by businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, The CAAP said that it will taken in a public event in Cebu meeting the elder Napoles before were channelled to bogus non- key whistleblower Benhur Luy revealed yesterday. try to determine if the crash last year. the alleged P10bn ($240m) con- government organizations set up Appearing at the third hearing of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee was caused by mechanical The Palace released the pho- gressional assistance scam was by Napoles. on the P10bn ($240m) assistance scam, Luy said some legislators will problem, pilot error or natu- tos after a picture of Aquino with revealed to the public. Several lawmakers from both get half of their share before and after the issuance of the special ral causes. Napoles’ daughter Jeanne circu- Carandang said being seen in houses of Congress have been allotment release order (SARO) by the Department of Budget and Initial reports reaching the lated over the Internet. a photo with members of the tagged in the controversy. Management (DBM). CAAP said a Piper Seneca Presidential Communications Napoles family does not mean Photos of Senators Frank Luy said Napoles and the legislator will first discuss details of their training plane was forced to Development and Strategic that the President is guilty of any Drilon, Bong Revilla Jr and deal and make a verbal agreement on which implementing agency will make an emergency land- Planning Office Secretary Ricky wrongdoing. Jinggoy Estrada have also been receive the assistance. ing in Barangay D Alarcio, Carandang, however, denied that He added that it would be circulating in the internet. Employees of the JLN (Janet Lim-Napoles) Corporation will prepare Laoac town around 8.30am on Aquino personally knows the difficult to disallow photo THE PHILIPPINE STAR the project proposal that will be forwarded to the DBM by the legis- Wednesday. lator, who will also endorse the project to the implementing agency. No one was hurt among those When the lawmaker asks for his share in the assistance, Napoles on board the plane, includ- Manila-Dubai non-stop flights will draw from her own pocket. ing a certain Capt Amarde, a Napoles will only release the other half of the lawmaker’s share the Malaysian pilot; Indian co-pilot JLN corporation is already given a copy of the SARO. Hares Sager; aircraft mechanic Luy said 40 percent of the released assistance went to Napoles and trainees Jeomar Pantaleon and the remaining 10 percent went to officials of the implementing agencies. Giovanni Arzadon. Napoles herself or her driver brought bags of cash to the senators, he said. Sometimes, lawmakers themselves or their chiefs of staff also Farmers get went to Napoles’ office to get the money. Luy added that some members of the senators’ staff would also free animals accompany them to the bank to withdraw their share from the assistance. NORTH COTABATO: “In the Lower House, it was fund transfers. They gave account num- Dozens of farmers in bers and we credited the money to their account,” he said. Midsayap town received 148 Luy said he never personally saw legislators receive the cash or goats dispersed early this checks, but claimed that he was sometimes asked to prepare the cash week by the office of North -- as much as P20m -- in their office. Cotabato Gov Emmylou Justice Secretary Leila De Lima, who was also present at the hear- Taliño-Mendoza. The ani- ing, asked that Luy be allowed not to name the lawmakers involved mal dispersal activity, led as of the moment. by provincial veterinarian “Maybe it is after all in the public interest to hear a representative Rufino Suropia, was part of voice from the whistleblowers and hear from him first-hand what has the government’s programme been coursed by media,” De Lima said. to help Midsayap’s farming Luy, the second cousin of Napoles who headed one of the bogus communities to recover from NGOs, said the businesswoman had established some 20 bogus organi- the devastation wrought by zations and foundations, but only eight were used to access lawmakers’ recent armed conflicts and assistance. flash floods that hit many low- Cebu Pacific President/CEO Lance Gokongwei (left) and his father John Gokongwei Jr stand in front of a He said Napoles shut down three NGOs after they were discovered lying areas in the province. new Airbus A330-300 from Toulouse, France, in a ceremony at Manila’s international airport yesterday. The to be involved in the fertilizer fund scam of 2003 to 2004. AGENCIES airline will launch long-haul operations in October with its maiden Manila-Dubai non-stop daily flight. THE PHILIPPINE STAR FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 ASIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

One dies in Java violence Jakarta to turn North Korea back Australia activists boat

JAKARTA: The Indonesian has revived navy said yesterday it would turn back a boat of six Australian activists seeking to sail into the restive region of Papua to draw attention N-reactor: US to rights abuses. It came as the unarmed yacht, the Pog, hovered in Papua New Pyongyang to boost nuclear arms Guinea waters not far from the maritime border with WASHINGTON: North Korea carried out a third nuclear test in Indonesia. The activists were appears to have restarted a reac- February and threatened to attack waiting to hear directly from tor that produces plutonium, the United States over its reac- the navy and receive assur- making good on threats to boost tion. Tensions have since eased ances force would not be used its stockpile of nuclear weapons, somewhat, but the United States against them before enter- US analysts said yesterday. has been skeptical of resuming ing Indonesian waters, their Satellite imagery taken on talks with North Korea without spokesman said. Any con- August 31 shows white steam proof that Kim Jong-Un’s regime frontation could strain rela- coming out of a building next to is committed to ending its nuclear tions between Indonesia and the five-megawatt plutonium reac- program. Indonesian police attempting to block Shias in their parade outside the Shia Islamic Boarding School in east- Australia, as the Southeast tor at Yongbyon, the US-Korea North Korea had shut down ern Java island. The parade provoked Sunnis to attack the school, triggering clashes in Jember that killed one Asian nation is highly sensi- Institute at Johns Hopkins its Yongbyon reactor in July 2007 Sunni man. tive about its sovereignty over University said. under a six-nation aid-for-disar- Papua. The image shows that North mament deal and publicly knocked Korea “appears to have put the down its cooling tower to demon- Japan protests reactor into operation,” research- strate its commitment. Taiwan delays conscription plan ers Nick Hansen and Jeffrey Lewis The reactor was the totalitarian French cartoons wrote on the institute’s blog, 38 state’s sole way of producing plu- TAIPEI: Taiwan’s military has delayed plans to professional military, already hit by low recruitment North. tonium, which it used to conduct become an all-volunteer service by two years due to in the first half of the year. TOKYO: Japan voiced anger The reactor “is capable of pro- its first two nuclear tests in 2006 insufficient recruitment, the defence ministry said The corporal’s family believe the 24-year-old’s death yesterday over cartoons pub- ducing six kilograms of pluto- and 2009. yesterday. in July was brought on by excessive exercise forced lished in a French newspaper nium a year that can be used by The Institute for Science and The ministry, which originally aimed to phase out upon him as punishment for taking a camera phone that took aim at the decision Pyongyang to slowly increase the International Security, another its decades-old military conscription policy by the end onto his army base and for making complaints against to award the 2020 Olympics size of its nuclear weapons stock- US think tank that has closely fol- of 2014, has decided to push the deadline back to the his superiors. All Taiwanese men aged over 20 are to Tokyo despite the ongoing pile,” it said. North Korea had lowed North Korea, reached simi- end of 2016, citing unsatisfactory recruitment results, required to do one year’s military service. nuclear crisis at Fukushima. declared in April that it would lar conclusions after observing the it said. It now plans to launch an all-volunteer service The government hopes that, by 2017, volunteers will Satirical weekly Le Canard restart all facilities at Yongbyon to steam from Yongbyon. from January 1, 2017, although men aged over 20 years enlist for a longer period of military service, making Enchaine published a cartoon “bolster the nuclear armed force If a shutdown is achieved in old will still have to go through four months of military for a better trained, more highly skilled military. depicting sumo wrestlers both in quality and quantity.” the next six months, the reactor training under the new system. In the six months to June, the military recruited just with extra limbs competing The pledge came at a period of would have produced very little The decision came after public anger over the death 1,847 people -- or 31 percent of its target of 5,887. The in front of a crippled nuclear high international tension over plutonium of a young corporal who was allegedly abused by his ministry had planned to recruit 17,447 people before plant, which said the dis- North Korea, which defiantly AFP superiors dealt a blow to the ministry’s plan for a the end of February next year. AFP aster had made it a feasi- ble Olympic sport. Another cartoon showed two people standing in front of a pool of water while wearing nuclear protection suits and holding a Rohingya boat Geiger counter, saying water Cambodian opposition sues election panel sport facilities had already lands in Thailand been built at Fukushima. PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s senior CNRP official Kuy rigging, but so far its efforts to sued, said the poll body would as monsoon rages opposition said yesterday that Bunroeun said after the lawsuit challenge the results have failed cooperate in the case. Tokyo hangs it had filed a lawsuit against was filed at the Phnom Penh and it has few options left in its “It is their right to file a com- BANGKOK: More than 200 the kingdom’s poll authori- Municipal court. bid to overturn Hun Sen’s victory. plaint and it is the right of the sixth murderer Muslim Rohingya boat peo- ties over strongman Prime “We are filing a complaint A mass rally in the capital on court to decide in the case. The ple have landed in southern Minister Hun Sen’s disputed to find justice for the people,” Saturday called for an independ- NEC is ready to follow the court TOKYO: Japan hanged a Thailand, authorities said yes- election win. he added. “The results are not ent probe into results, and further procedures,” he said. 73-year-old man yesterday, terday, a possible sign that ves- The Cambodia National Rescue acceptable.” protests are planned in Phnom Hun Sen, 61, a former Khmer bringing to six the number sels from Myanmar are risking Party (CNRP) accused three top According to final results Penh for September 15, 16 and 17. Rouge cadre who defected and of inmates executed since the journey before the end of the National Election Committee released by the NEC on Sunday, The opposition has also threat- oversaw Cambodia’s rise from the the conservative govern- monsoon season. officials and their accomplices Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s ened to boycott parliament when ashes of war, has vowed to rule ment of Shinzo Abe came to The group, believed to be flee- of faking voter names on the Party (CPP) won 68 seats in it is convened by the king, which until he is 74. power in December. Justice ing sectarian violence in unrest- electoral roll, using “fake elec- the July polls against 55 for the is expected to take place on His government is regularly Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki torn Rakhine State, western tion results” and abusing the opposition. September 23. accused of ignoring human rights announced the execution of Myanmar, landed on a remote election law. The CNRP has rejected the NEC secretary general Tep and suppressing political dissent. Tokuhisa Kumagai, who was beach during a storm in southern “These are criminal offenses,” result, alleging widespread vote Nytha, one of the officials being AFP convicted of shooting dead Satun province on Wednesday, an the owner of a Chinese res- official said. taurant in a May 2004 rob- “We gave them water, food Confiscated weapons bery, among other crimes. and fixed their boat,” the official The execution was the first from the local Internal Security since two gangsters were sent Operation Command, who did not Dhaka expands tax to the gallows in April and want to be named, said, adding took place despite repeated the group then returned to the protests from European gov- boat and set sail. ernments and human rights “We want them to go away out probe against Yunus groups. Japan now 132 on of the country... They do not want death row, according to the to stay here and authorities here DHAKA: Bangladesh authori- Communications, Grameen Justice Ministry. do not want to take them”, he ties yesterday widened a tax Shakti, Grameen Udyog, Grameen said, adding the Rohingya nor- probe against 2006 Nobel Peace Trust and Grameen Kalyan. Ma spokesman mally want to head on to neigh- Prize winner Muhammad Yunus founded the enterprises bouring Muslim countries. Yunus, accusing seven enter- as sister organisations of his resigns While he did not mention any prises he founded and chairs micro-finance pioneer Grameen countries by name, the Rohingya of evading taxes and under- Bank in an effort to cut poverty TAIPEI: A spokesman for generally prefer to aim for reporting profits. and boost up growth in rural Taiwan’s President Ma Ying- Malaysia or Indonesia. The National Board of Revenue areas. He is also the chairman of jeou resigned yesterday amid Thousands of Muslim Rohingya (NBR) made the allegations in all seven enterprises. a deepening political scandal boat people, including women a press briefing after the firms, The latest allegations come that saw the parliamentary and children, have fled the including the country’s largest after the Bangladesh cabinet led speaker expelled over influ- former junta-ruled country since renewable energy company, said by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ence peddling claims. Lo Buddhist-Muslim clashes a year they have paid taxes regularly. this week asked the tax adminis- Chih-chiang, deputy secre- ago in Rakhine. But most make “The statements of the seven tration, central bank and banking tary-general of the presiden- the perilous journey after the companies are not based on facts,” regulators to pursue legal action tial office, said the expulsion monsoon has waned in October NBR chairman Ghulam Hussain against Yunus for avoiding taxes of speaker Wang Jin-pyng when high seas calm. said and added that the seven on income from awards, book roy- on Wednesday had prompted “They are all men aged between companies evaded taxes, obtained alties and foreign tours. his surprise decision, adding: 15 and 45 years... they looked tax exemption benefits illegally Yunus’s office denied the allega- “I want to take a break and skinny, they had no energy — and undereported profits tions by the NBR, calling them spend time with my family.” some could not even walk,” The firms are: Grameen “baseless”. It said the micro- Lo became the fourth top Somnuk Khunsuek said, adding Fisheries and Livestock credit pioneer had paid all taxes member to resign recently. they wanted to reach Malaysia. Foundation, Grameen Capital according to Bangladesh’s laws. AFP Police keep watch as confiscated weapons are destroyed as part of a Management, Grameen AFP crackdown on weapons, in Dongying, Shandong province, China, on China vows air Wednesday. pollution cuts BEIJING: China vowed yesterday to reduce levels Retailers discuss compensation for Bangla factory victims of atmospheric pollutants in Beijing and other major cities by as much as 25 percent to DHAKA: A dozen retailers collapsed, killing 1,129 people, and China, but some of the workforce, union federation that is coordi- chain El Corte Ingles. Also attend- try to improve their dire air and clothing brands are meet- the fire at the Tazreen Fashion which is mostly female, earn as nating the talks. ing are Bonmarche, Matalan and quality. The State Council, ing in Geneva to discuss pro- factory in November 2012 that little as $38 a month. IndustriALL is seeking a deal Store Twenty One from Britain, or cabinet, said “concentra- viding compensation to the killed 112 workers. Garment exports in the last on a long-term fund for Rana Germany’s Karl Rieker and KiK, tions of fine particles” in the victims of the Rana Plaza and The collapse of Rana Plaza, a financial year which ended in June Plaza worth more than 54m euros Camaieu of France and Mascot capital’s air will fall by “about Tazreen factory disasters in factory built on swampy ground were up 13 percent at $21.5bn, ($71.8m), with 45 percent to be of Denmark. 25 percent” from 2012 levels Bangladesh, although several some 20 miles outside Dhaka, with 60 percent of the clothes contributed by brands. It plans But some retailers have by 2017. Other major Chinese companies were noticeable by ranks among the world’s worst going to Europe and 23 percent a statement on the outcome attracted attention for staying cities on China’s affluent east their absence. industrial accidents and has to the United States, according to of the talks, which started on away, including Wal-Mart, which coast, including Shanghai and The talks, chaired by galvanised brands to look more the country’s Export Promotion Wednesday, later yesterday. sourced garments from the fac- Guangzhou, will see reduc- the International Labour closely at trying to improve safety Bureau. The participants include Zara- tory hit by the fire, as well as tions of between 10 and 20 Organisation in Geneva, are standards at suppliers. “The families and the injured owner Inditex, the Primark dis- Italian clothing retailer Benetton percent from 2012 levels over aimed at setting up funds to About 3.6 million people work have already waited far too long,” count chain owned by Associated and Spanish fashion chain Mango, the same period, said a plan compensate the victims of both in Bangladesh’s clothing industry, said Monika Kemperle, assist- British Foods , Canada’s Loblaw which placed orders at Rana posted on the central govern- the Rana Plaza disaster in April, making it the world’s second- ant general secretary of the Cos Ltd, European retailer C&A Plaza. ment’s website. AGENCIES when an eight-storey building largest clothing exporter behind IndustriALL international trade and Spanish department store REUTERS FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 12 Pakistan Taliban discuss peace talks offer Militants will finalise names of a negotiation committee and a list of Tehreek-e-Taliban prisoners

ISLAMABAD: Senior TTP leader Hakimullah “We have taken the govern- council) is discussing the overall all those killed in military opera- repeat that again,” he added. Pakistani Taliban commanders Mehsud, who was previously ment’s offer seriously and com- situation. It’s good that all Pakistan tions,” he said. Previous peace deals with opened discussions yesterday on reportedly against holding talks manders are discussing a future leaders have agreed to initiate A third TTP commander said Taliban have quickly broken down how to respond to an invitation with the authorities, is chairing plan for proposed peace talks,” peace talks,” another TTP com- the Taliban would finalise the and been sharply criticised for from the government on talks the consultations, two Taliban one senior Taliban commander mander said. names of a negotiation commit- allowing the extremists space to to end an insurgency that has commanders said. said from an undisclosed location. He called on the military to stop tee and a list of TTP prisoners. regroup before launching a new killed thousands of people. “We are discussing the overall Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, all operations against Taliban fight- “We hope that the shura will wave of attacks. Pakistan says Leaders in the Tehreek-e- situation and the government’s who took office after winning ers in the northwest and called for take a decision on all matters in more than 40,000 people have been Taliban (TTP) are expected to offer. We will soon inform the elections in May, has called for a halt to US drone strikes, which the next five or six days,” he said. killed as a result of bomb and sui- continue consultations for several media about our decisions,” TTP peace talks and on Monday target Islamist militants on the “We want guarantees from the cide attacks carried out by Taliban days at an undisclosed location in spokesman Shahidullah Shahid won backing for his policy from Afghan border. government side. In the past, gov- and Al Qaeda-led militants who the semi-autonomous northwest said. Earlier this week, he wel- Pakistan’s main political parties. “We also want all our prison- ernments have not fulfilled their oppose Islamabad’s US alliance. along the Afghan border. comed the offer of peace talks. “The Shura (decision-making ers released and compensation for promises and we do not want to AFP Afghans unite in joy, welcome home heroic soccer team KABUL: Thousands of fans, As the team lifted the tro- the sound of celebratory gunfire, including the president, yes- phy the stadium erupted with with the partying carrying on terday gathered to cheer cheers and whistles. Outside on through the night and into yester- Afghanistan’s victorious the streets groups of men waved day. Afghanistan remains a strictly national football team as it national flags, and danced. conservative society and most of returned home after winning Such celebrations were those taking part in the jubilation the war-wrecked country’s first unheard of under the Taliban, were men, although some families international soccer trophy. which banned television, music in cars also joined in. The team stunned six- and most sport and the victory Karzai sent the players a con- time champions India 2-0 on provided a rare moment of unity gratulatory message overnight Wednesday night to win the South in the ethnically divided nation. saying that “our youths proved Asian Football Federation title in Haroon Naeemi, 20, an iron- that we have the ability to make the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. smith, had drawn the Afghan flag progress and win”. He was also at The victory was a rare moment on his chest and said he hoped the airport, joined by a number of of joy in Afghanistan, where the world would now realise his senior government officials and US-led international forces and country was not only about wars. members of parliament after the government troops have been “This is a big day for all of us, “historic victory”, the president’s fighting a 12-year war against a and we are excited. I have never office said. Taliban insurgency. been this happy before,” he said. “The president received and President Hamid Karzai her- “Afghanistan, I love you!” he congratulated every member of alded the team’s “historic victory” shouted. the team on their arrival and as he welcomed each player indi- Fans had packed restaurants, wished them continued success,” vidually at Kabul international kebab shops and teahouses the statement said. airport, where fans waved flags Wednesday to cheer on the The Taliban, which ruled from and blew horns. Afghan team, ranked 139th in the 1996-2001 until they were deposed Thousands more gathered at world, whose victory against the by a US-led international coali- the national football stadium, once 145th-ranked Indians avenged a tion, allowed football but before a venue for Taliban executions, humiliating 4-0 defeat in the final matches at the national football Afghan football fans celebrate winning the South Asian Football Federation championship after their team defeated shouting “Zindabad Afghanistan” two years ago. ground in Kabul would carry out India, on the streets of Kabul yesterday. (“Long Live Afghanistan”). On the final whistle, there was public executions. AFP

Gunmen kidnap, kill Freed ‘prisoners Islamabad preparing to raise not yet home’ 3 labourers in Quetta ISLAMABAD: None of the Afghan Taliban prison- QUETTA: drone strikes issue at UN Gunmen overnight kidnapped and killed three labour- ers freed by Pakistan has ers working in Pakistan’s insurgency-plagued southwest not far LAHORE: The Foreign Office The FO spokesman told report- the UN in Geneva, had said returned home yet, said a from a strategic Arabian Sea port taken over by the Chinese, spokesman yesterday said the ers that Prime Minister Nawaz that Pakistan, a primary target Taliban source yesterday. officials said. government of Pakistan had Sharif would go on an official visit of drone attacks, had suffered a Moreover, neither have the The attack happened at a stone-crushing plant at Santsar, around prepared a case aimed at rais- to Turkey from September 16 to heavy loss of innocent lives apart freed militants been handed 70km north of the Gwadar port. ing the issue of US drone strikes 18. from widespread social and eco- over to the Afghan embassy “Gunmen came during the night and attacked. They set fire to on Pakistani territory in the He also said that Advisor to nomic costs. in Islamabad nor to the coun- machinery at the plant, kidnapped the owner and three labourers,” United Nations. the Prime Minister on Foreign While addressing the opening try’s diplomatic missions in local official Dostain Baloch said. Speaking at the weekly media Affairs Sartaj Aziz would meet session of the 24th Human Rights Pakistani provincial capitals. “They took away all of them and later on, during the night, they briefing, the spokesman said there with his Indian counterpart in Council, he said that in recent Islamabad released seven killed the three labourers and discarded their bodies. The owner is was no secret agreement between Turkmenistan’s capital Bishkek years, there had been severe prisoners on Saturday to still with them,” he added. Pakistan and the United States today. The talks would centre on human rights violations across “facilitate the Afghan recon- Another local official, Mohammed Akbar, and Mohammed Omar, on drone strikes, adding that the bilateral relations with the aim of the globe, as a result of indiscrim- ciliation process,” the Foreign the partner of the kidnapped owner, confirmed the attack. government had no idea where improving ties with India. inate use of force in the context of Ministry said. Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province is believed to have the drones were flown in from. Regarding the crisis in Syria, counter-terrorism efforts. substantial oil and gas reserves, but is beset by a separatist insurgency Regarding the recent release the spokesman stated that According to a press release, Fire breaks out and surging attacks on the Shiite Muslim minority. of Afghan prisoners, he said Pakistan hoped for a diplomatic Akram said these included illegal The province also suffers from Islamist violence and the decade-long the reason for releasing Afghan solution to the issue, adding detentions, renditions, and extra- in factory insurgency by Baluch nationalists sees them want greater autonomy Taliban prisoners was to facili- that none of the groups actively judicial killings including through and a larger share of oil and gas revenues. tate the reconciliation proc- involved in the fighting should use of drone attacks. KARACHI: Fire broke out Pakistan has approved the transfer of Gwadar from Singapore’s ess in Afghanistan. Speaking of use chemical weapons. He fur- He added that these attacks in a plastic factory in SITE PSA International to the state-owned China Overseas Port Holdings the Guantanamo Bay prison in ther said that Pakistan was wait- caused collateral damage and vio- area in Karachi, a fire brigade Limited. Cuba, the spokesman said it has ing for the UN report regarding lated international laws, includ- official said yesterday. A fire The Pakistanis pitched the deal as an energy and trade corridor Pakistani prisoners, however, it the usage of chemical weapons in ing humanitarian and human brigade and water tankers that would connect China to the Arabian Sea and Strait of Hormuz, wasn’t certain how many. He Syria. rights laws, apart from violating rushed to site and doused the a gateway for a third of the world’s traded oil, overland through an added that talks were in progress Earlier, Ambassador Pakistan’s sovereignty and terri- blaze. expanded Karakoram Highway. with the US government regard- Zamir Akram, Permanent torial integrity. AGENCIES AFP ing the release of these prisoners. Representative of Pakistan to INTERNEWS Ex-lawmaker charged Ex-Taliban No. 2 holds key to Afghan peace

KABUL: Once a ruthless pragmatic and level-headed oper- Afghanistan sees Baradar as by side against the Soviets - a fighter and a friend of Taliban ator who had once reached out to a sensible and down-to-earth decade-long war during which leader Mullah Mohammad Kabul seeking a peace settlement, negotiator willing to act as a go- Mullah Omar famously lost his Omar, Abdul Ghani Baradar according to Afghan officials. between for the Kabul govern- eye. may now hold the key to But critics say his years in ment and the Taliban leadership It was Mullah Omar who gave Afghanistan’s peace — or so his Pakistani detention may have council, the Quetta Shura.One of Baradar his nom de guerre, which minders believe. eroded his sway over the fast the founders of the Taliban move- means “brother”. Later they mar- The former Taliban second- evolving insurgency, and there ment, Baradar is ethnic Pashtun ried a pair of sisters, analysts say. in-command was captured in are doubts over whether Mullah and belongs to the same power- Some Afghan politicians said he Pakistan in 2010 and has since Omar would agree to talk to his ful Popalzai subtribe as Karzai - a still enjoyed much support among emerged as a figure Afghanistan former protégé in the first place. factor that could lend credibility his former comrades in arms. and Pakistan believe could help “He won’t be able to mediate to Karzai’s own peace efforts “He is a highly influential persuade his former comrades because he has lost his influence among Pashtuns, Afghanistan’s figure among Pashtuns in the to lay down their weapons and during his time in prison,” said biggest ethnic group. south who is capable of help- engage in peace talks. Ahmad Zia Massoud, a former Baradar, who is in his 40s, also ing us with the peace process,” Pakistan announced this week vice president whose brother, belongs to the older generation of said Shahzada Shahid, a senior that it would free Baradar as guerrilla leader Ahmad Shah mujahedeen fighters who are less member of Afghan High Peace early as this month. Sources in Massoud, was killed by Al Qaeda ideologically extreme compared Council. Pakistan and Afghanistan said he militants two days before the Sept with a younger, more violent crop “Many Taliban commanders could be sent to another country, 11, 2001, attacks. of insurgents with closer links to fought under him,” Shahid said, possibly Saudi Arabia or Turkey, “Unless there is a comprehen- Al Qaeda. adding that he should be able to Police escort Nadeem Hashmi (right), a former provincial lawmaker of the to prepare him for the mission. sive plan to negotiate peace with Baradar’s friendship with encourage many fighters to stop Mutahida Qaumi Movement, in Karachi yesterday. Hashmi faces court in Even before his deten- Mullah Omar, one person won’t Mullah Omar goes back to the fighting. connection with the murders of two policemen in the city. tion, Baradar was known as a be able to do anything.” 1980s when the two fought side REUTERS FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Eye care takes wings Chandigarh SC notice wastes Rs1.4m on helipad for PM’s visit to centre, CHANDIGARH: First an over-zealous administration wasted Rs1.4m to build a new helipad which will not be used by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his visit here UP on riots tomorrow. Now, authorities have ordered the closure of the main gates of two leading public Response to petitions for CBI probe hospitals during the visit. The prime minister, who is NEW DELHI: The Supreme It kept open the prayer seeking arriving here tomorrow, will hand Court yesterday issued notice to a high-power inquiry committee over keys of 8,448 flats under the the central and Uttar Pradesh headed by a retired apex court city’s slum rehabilitation scheme. governments on two petitions judge of “reputation and integ- Officials of the Chandigarh seeking a CBI probe into the rity” to inquire into the violence. Administration built a new heli- Muzaffarnagar clashes that left Appearing for Haroon, a resi- pad at Sarangpur to facilitate the 38 dead, and for providing relief dent of Muzaffarnagar, senior movement of the prime minister to victims. counsel Gopal Subramanium told from the Chandigarh airport, A bench of Chief Justice the court the incidents leading to where he will be landing after fly- P Sathasivam, Justice Ranjana the communal violence were tak- A paramedic attends to Emanul Sekh, 8, before shifting him to an operation on board the ORBIS, an eye ing from New Delhi, to the site of Prakash Desai and Justice Ranjan ing place in the state for nearly hospital on board a DC-10 aircraft, at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata yester- the flats scheme. Gogoi issued notice on two peti- a year. day. On board, local doctors, nurses and technicians work alongside the ORBIS international medical team The prime minister’s office tions — one by Mohammad Things were building up in (PMO) however on Wednesday to exchange knowledge and improve skills. The mobile teaching hospital is a tool to help prevent blindness Haroon and eight other resi- Muzaffarnagar since July and rejected the plan to take the in developing countries. dents of Muzaffarnagar and the there were intelligence reports prime minister from the airport other by the Supreme Court Bar but nothing was done to address to the flats site by an Indian Air Association (SCBA). the situation, he contended. Force (IAF) helicopter. The court made it clear that “According to you, in such a The PMO said that he will, it was not commenting on the situation, the role of the govern- instead go by road to the site. The plea to direct the central govern- ment of India is much more,” Missions in Gulf set up shelters distance between the two places is ment to discharge its obligations Chief Justice Sathasivam said, as nearly 20 km and passes through under article 355 of the constitu- Subramanium sought to lay equal some of the busiest areas of the tion which is linked to President’s blame on the central government. city. “No one took permission for Rule. “Every person under the sun for runaway housemaids the helipad from the PMO before “We are not saying anything on was contacted. Prime minister, it was built. The money (Rs1.4m) article 355,” said Sathasivam. secretary, Ministry of Home NEW DELHI: With millions of missions is to help any Indian in all this, and then puts up these has gone waste,” a source in the Failure to act in accordance Affairs and the (Uttar Pradesh) Indians working as unskilled or distress, irrespective of the way people in the shelter for a period, administration said. with the direction of the central governor and there was no low-skilled workers in the Gulf they went to that particular coun- which can range from a number of The local authorities have also government under article 355 response,” Subramanium told the region, Indian missions there try,” she said in a briefing. days to even a couple of months, ordered the closure of the main could invite the dismissal of the court. have “major problems” dealing The Indian missions in a cou- and thereafter sends them back gates of two leading public hospi- state government and imposition SCBA president M N with runaway housemaids and ple of countries “where this is a to India. This has been working tals, the Post-Graduate Institute of of President’s Rule. Krishnamani pressed for a Central some of them have set up shel- very major problem, for exam- very well now since this scheme Medical Education and Research The court also directed the Bureau of Investigation (CBI) ters for them, said an official. ple in Saudi Arabia as well as in has been established,” she said. and the Government Multi- central and Uttar Pradesh gov- probe into the Muzaffarnagar According to Joint Secretary Kuwait”, have set up shelters for The Indian missions also provide Specialty Hospital, Sector 16, dur- ernments to inform it about the violence. (Consular) Suchitra Durai in the runaway housemaids. assistance to women who have been ing the visit. While the GMSH steps taken to assist the people Resisting the prayers for a CBI external affairs ministry, one of the According to Durai, if a run- abandoned by their husbands. “We gate will remain closed from 10am stranded in Muzaffarnagar with- probe and direction under arti- major initiatives of the Ministry away housemaid approaches give assistance in the form of ini- to 2pm, the PGIMER gate will be out food, water and shelter. cle 355 of the constitution, senior of Overseas Indian Affairs is to the mission for help, they first tial legal assistance through the closed from 10am to 1pm. IANS It sought details on further counsel Rajiv Dhawan, appear- ensure that no one below the age verify whether she is an Indian Indian Community Welfare Fund steps being contemplated by the ing for the Uttar Pradesh gov- of 30 years is given clearance to go national. Once that is established, which is given through an NGO to central and state governments to ernment, urged the court that it as a housemaid anywhere in the the mission then intervenes with the person concerned.” Since last Sikkim’s first mitigate the suffering of the riot should limit its notice in respect world. But she said a number of the sponsor for an exit visa for year, following guidelines issued by victims. of the prayers seeking relief for people “actually go around these the worker. “That is because in the ministry, a 24X7 helpline was airport to be The court also sought details on the victims and stranded people. guidelines”. They travel on a visi- such countries you also need an established in all Indian missions the opening of proper relief camps The court directed the matter tor’s visas overseas and thereafter exit visa to come back. It is not abroad, among other improve- and providing psychological help to be listed for September 16. work as housemaids. just a question of issuing a travel ments, she said. ready by 2014 to the victims. IANS “Naturally, our job at the document. So, the Mission does IANS NEW DELHI: Sikkim’s first airport will be completed by end-2014 providing much-needed air connectivity to the land- Standing their ground locked state, Tourism Minister Sentencing of Bhim Prasad Dhungel said here BJP likely to announce yesterday. Speaking after meeting union gang rape Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi, Dhungel said the airport at Modi as PM candidate Pakyong, 30km south of the state convicts today capital Gangtok, is being con- NEW DELHI: The BJP consensus, the BJP chief met structed by the Airports Authority NEW DELHI: The sentences appeared to be inching closer Leader of Opposition in Lok of India on 200 acres of land. At an of the four men convicted for towards announcing Gujarat Sabha Sushma Swaraj, who, like altitude of 4,700 feet, it will be one gang-raping a 23-year-old Chief Minister Narendra Modi Advani, is learnt to have reser- of the five highest airports in India. woman on December 16, 2012 as its prime ministerial can- vations on a decision on prime “Work is in full swing and will be pronounced today by a didate, possibly today, even as ministerial candidate before the flights will begin from March fast track court here. The con- party chief Rajnath Singh con- assembly polls to five states. 2015,” Dhungel said. victs face a maximum punish- tinued efforts to bring on board Rajnath Singh did not speak to “The airport has a 180-metre- ment of death penalty. leaders who want the decision the waiting media after the meet- long airstrip and will facilitate The prosecution demanded to be deferred till the assembly ing and did not give an indication flights of ATR-7 (twin-engined death penalty for the four dur- polls. if he had been successful. short-haul turboprops) planes ing arguments before Additional Bharatiya Janata Party sources Sources said that Rajnath Singh and will also have hangars for Session Judge Yogesh Khanna the said that the decision on Modi’s was keen to avoid a showdown at two ATRs,” Dhungel added. At day before and said the crime fell in elevation would be announced the parliamentary board meeting present, the nearest airport to the category of the “rarest of rare” “soon” and could happen today. and was a trying to build a broad Gangtok is located 124km away cases, while the defence pleaded Rajnath Singh said that all sen- consensus. Party leader Ananth at Bagdogra in West Bengal. for “mercy” and opportunity to ior leaders were being consulted on Kumar had also met Sushma The Pakyong airport will open “reform”. The four — Mukesh, the issue and sought to downplay Swaraj after calling on Advani and an alternative connectivity route Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and reservations of senior party leader then met the party chief. for the state as at present it has Akshay Thakur — were on Tuesday L K Advani on declaring Modi as The sources said that parlia- to solely depend on National found guilty on 11 counts. prime ministerial candidate. mentary board meeting could Highway-31 for connectivity to The defence pleaded that the “No one is miffed with any- be held om Monday if it is not the rest of the country. accused had no history of indulg- Supporters of Awami Ittihad Party, a pro-India group, shout slogans one. ..We will decide after talking held today. Rajnath Singh had on The airport will have a termi- ing in criminal activities, their as they are hit by dyed water from a water cannon used by police to to everyone and will make the Wednesday met Advani and Murli nal building which can accommo- families depended on them finan- disperse them during a protest in Srinagar yesterday. Dozens of AIP announcement at the appropri- Manohar Joshi as part of efforts date 100 people and a car park for cially and they were young, so ate time,” he said. to build a consensus. 80 vehicles. supporters protested against killings in south Kashmir allegedly by they be given a chance to reform. As part of efforts at building IANS IANS security forces. Counsel for the convicts said the incident took place while they were under the influence of alco- hol, affecting their judgment. Additional Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan while seeking Parents ransack school after student’s bullying death death penalty during arguments on the quantum of sentence told the court that the crime showed KOLKATA: Angry protesters toilet by some of her seniors who But the move failed to pacify the The National Commission for unacceptable. This should be “the highest kind of barbaric — mostly parents and guard- demanded money from her. protesters as “the resignation was Protection of Child Rights also stopped immediately,” said Basu. behaviour of the convicts”. ians — laid siege to a West Parents and guardians ran- written on a plain paper which took up the matter and asked School authorities maintained The prosecutor said the convicts Bengal school yesterday forcing sacked the school demanding the has no value”. the state government to initiate Oindrila did not inform them should get the maximum sen- its principal to resign for the arrest and removal of principal “Does she think we are fools? a probe. about being locked up, but her tence as they brutalised a helpless death of a minor girl student Helen Sarkar, alleging negligence We will not relent unless she ten- “The chief minister today parents rubbished it. A school woman. “This is the most heinous after being “bullied”. and inaction by her. ders her resignation formally on called up Oindrila’s mother and teacher Kajari Pal said the minor crime one can commit on some- The Mamata Banerjee govern- With the agitation stretching the school’s official letterhead and expressed shock and grief over had tried to inform her about the one. The injuries caused to the ment derided the “hooliganism” late into the evening warranting sends it to the authorities con- the girl’s death, and assured incident. victim were inhuman,” he added. but assured strict action against heavy police deployment, Sarkar cerned,” said a protester. proper action,” the victim’s uncle “She was trying to tell me that “Her entire (internal) system all those responsible for the girl’s not only apologised publicly for Police had a tough time con- Alokesh Das said. something wrong had happened was ripped open as if you rip open death, which her parents claimed the incident and assured strict trolling the protesters and their State Education Minister with her, but could not explain a fruit,” the prosecutor said, refer- was due to trauma and shock fol- action, but later tendered her repeated pleas to pacify the crowd Bratya Basu later visited the properly. So I asked her to bring ring to the wounds inflicted on the lowing the incident. resignation which was read out failed. family and promised strict action her parents. But unfortunately woman with a rod. The prosecutor Oindrila Das, 10, a Class 5 stu- by police. The siege was later lifted after against the guilty. she fell ill and eventually died,” said the people of the country were dent of Christ Church School in “I take full responsibility and Sarkar formally put down her “We have already ordered a said Pal. watching this case and if the con- Dum Dum on Kolkata’s northern hereby tender my resignation as papers. probe. All those involved in this Yet to come to terms with their victs were awarded a light punish- outskirts, died on Wednesday the school principal,” said a police Meanwhile, Chief Minister will be strongly dealt with. But loss, Oindrila’s parents demanded ment, “the public will lose faith in a week after she was alleg- officer, who read out Sarkar’s Mamata Banerjee called up the this hooliganism which is going punishment for those involved. the judicial system”. IANS edly locked up inside the school resignation on the microphone. bereaved family assuring action. on in the school is completely IANS FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Al Sada for more QE’s market cap cooperation to stabilise markets up to QR525bn DOHA: H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, the Minister DOHA: The diminishing pros- transactions rose by 6.26 percent to of Energy and Industry, has pects of the “limited US strike” each 21,473 as compared to 20,208 stressed the need for global in Syria lifted Qatar’s bench- the previous week energy producer-consumer coun- mark index 4.51 percent or The banking and financial serv- tries bolstering their cooperation 414.92 points to close 9,619.84 ices sector led trading value last to stabilise the market in view of points last week. Of the 42 week, which accounted for 26.93 the growing geopolitical tensions. stocks listed, 40 ended higher. percent of the total followed by Addressing the 5th Asian The market capitalisation the industrial sector (26.51 per- Ministerial Energy Roundtable rose by 4.02 percent to reach cent). The real estate sector’s and RasGas annual reception in QR525bn compared to QR505bn contribution stood 18.31 percent. South Korea, Dr Al Sada noted at the end of the previous week. The trading volume was led by Asian countries have emerged as Though worries of the possi- the real estate sector account- world’s key energy market. He bility of Western military inter- ing for 34.47 percent of the total said an easy access to accurate vention contributed to a nervous followed by the banking and and transparent information trading in the early sessions last financial services sector (24.44 regarding the energy reserves is week, it tremendously returned percent), the industrials sector key for an efficient market. to firm up the following sessions. (13.19 percent) and the consumer The market is easily vulnerable On Tuesday, the index ended in goods and services sector. to geopolitical issues. An accurate a bullish ‘candlestick formation’ The banking and financial data on energy reserves will help H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada addressing the 5th Asian Ministerial Energy Roundtable in Seoul. above its 20-day exponential mov- services sector led the trading control the market, he said. ing average (EMA), suggesting number of transactions account- On the bilateral relations of rooted and dates back to more participants to the sixth meeting Energy Forum, which will be continued rebound in the near ing for 26.81 percent of the total, Qatar and South Korea, the min- than four decades. At the end of of the round table of Asian energy hosted by Doha in 2015. term, market analysts noted. followed by the industrial sector ister said the partnership is deep the roundtable, Al Sada invited the ministers at the International THE PENINSULA/QNA All the sector indices ended in (22.47 percent), the real estate the green last week with telecoms, sector (18.52 percent) and the banking and financial services consumer goods and services and real estate gaining. Telecoms sector (14.13 percent). Industries jumped 6.13 percent while bank- Qatar led trading value account- ing and financial Services gained ing for 15.23 percent of the total, Qatar Investment Fund’s NAV rises to $1.16 4.58 percent. The Real Estate followed by UDC (12.27 percent) index advanced 4.96 percent and and QNB (7.51 percent). transportation added 4.49 percent. Yesterday, the index added DOHA: The Qatar Investment the twelve months, sharehold- rose 15.9 percent and sharehold- with several service providers and QNB, Doha Bank, Dlala, UDC and 31.89 points or 0.33 percent to Fund’s (QIF) net asset value ers enjoyed a total return of 19.3 ers additionally received a divi- cuts in other expense”, he noted. Nakilat were major gainers. advance to 9,619.84. The entire per share (NAV) rose to 14.85 percent. dend of 3.0c per share paid on On the proposed dividend he Trading value last week sector ended in the green. The top percent to $1.16 for the year The NAV rose 14.85 percent January 30, 2013, making a total said for the twelve months, the increased by 15.74 percent to reach gainers were Masraf Al Rayan, ended June 30, 2013. QIF is the to $1.16, which compares with a return of 19.3 percent. Board proposes to pay a divi- QR1.70bn compared to QR1.47bn. Doha Bank and QIB. Analysts London-listed fund established rise of 14.18 percent in the Qatari “Our costs fell below 2 percent dend of 3.2 cents per ordinary Trading volume increased by 18.03 suggested long-term investors to invest in opportunities in stock market and a 0.32 per- to 1.93 percent fulfilling the aim share against 3.0c paid in 2012. percent to reach over 43 mil- could stay in the market as long Qatar and the GCC. cent rise in the MSCI Emerging of my late predecessor, david von If approved, the dividend will be lion shares, as against previous as the index closes above 9,400. Nick Wilson, Chairman of Market Indiex.” Simson. The cost reduction was paid in January 2014. week’s 37 million. The number of THE PENINSULA the QIF said yesterday: “During According to Nick QIF’s shares achieved through renegotiations THE PENINSULA S&P revises QNB’s ratings DOHA/PARIS: Given the it classifies QNB as a govern- (about $6.04bn), accounting for ongoing political crisis in Egypt, ment-related entity (GRE). almost 7 percent of QNB’s con- Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has This potential support provides solidated loan portfolio. reassessed the stand-alone a three-notch uplift above the Nevertheless, it acknowledged credit profile of Qatar National SACP; therefore the long-term that QNB’s overall resilience to Bank (QNB) from ‘a-‘ to ‘bbb+’, rating on QNB remains at ‘A+’. risks incurred by operating in however the leading credit rat- The government owns 50 Egypt remains strong. In S&P’s ings agency said it had affirmed percent of QNB through Qatar opinion, QNB’s strong capitali- Bank’s ‘A+’ long-term and ‘A-1’ Investment Authority, Qatar’s zation and significant retained short-term counterparty credit sovereign wealth fund, so it also earnings capacity are sufficient ratings with stable outlook. has a strong interest in and busi- to absorb potential losses associ- “The rating affirmation fol- ness relationship with the bank. ated with a default of Egypt. lows our review of the implica- In addition, the chairman of “We expect international tions of QNB’s recent acquisition QNB’s board is Qatar’s Minister banking activities to make an of Egypt-based Nationale Société of Finance; and it play “Very increasing contribution to QNB’s Générale Bank (NSGB). We important role” for the Qatari revenues over the next five years, consider that the weak operat- government, based on QNB’s cen- compared with 17 percent in 2012. ing environment in Egypt could tral role in financing the coun- Consequently, we cannot rule out be prolonged and significantly try’s economy (including strategic large acquisitions, as the bank affect NSGB, with a likely adverse sectors like hydrocarbons, pet- aims to generate 45 percent of impact on QNB’s business and rochemicals, water, and power). its revenues from abroad by financial profiles. In particu- This is reflected in the significant 2017. Cross-border acquisitions lar, NSGB holds a high amount concentration of public-sector are therefore likely to generate of government debt compared lending and deposits on its bal- increased credit and execution with its equity base and earn- ance sheet. risks, given QNB’s current busi- ings capacity. We have therefore “In our view, QNB also plays ness concentration in Qatar,” revised our assessment of QNB’s a part in supporting the state’s added the statement. risk position to “moderate” from foreign policy strategy through However, the agency noted that “adequate” and our assessment of its rapid international expansion, it could lower the ratings if QNB’s QNB’s stand-alone credit profile which promotes economic diver- SACP were to deteriorate further, (SACP) to ‘bbb+’ from ‘a-‘,” said a sification,” S&P noted. to ‘bbb-‘. This could occur if the press statement yesterday. It viewed that NSGB’s domes- acquisition of NSGB resulted in The agency believes that there tic asset quality could deteriorate a material worsening of QNB’s is a “very high” likelihood of rapidly in the coming quarters as asset quality or capitalization extraordinary support from the the domestic economy remains beyond the agency’s current government of Qatar if QNB weak. As of June 30, 2013, NSGB expectations. were in financial distress because reported total loans of QR22bn THE PENINSULA

Egypt budget deficit soars to $32bn

CAIRO: Egypt’s budget deficit soared in the Egypt’s deficit has jumped since the beginning last fiscal year as spending on interest rates and of 2013 to nearly half of all government spending. energy subsidies increased. The cabinet statement added that Egypt’s internal Egypt’s budget deficit rose to 220bn Egyptian debt at the end of June reached 1.387 trillion pounds pounds ($32bn) at the end of the last fiscal year while external debt reached $43.5bn. which ended June 30, putting it at 14 percent of The government aims to shrink Egypt’s unemploy- gross domestic product, the cabinet said yesterday. ment rate to 9 percent from the current 13 percent, The interim government’s goal is to boost eco- the statement said. State revenue increased by 13.5 nomic growth to 3.5 percent in the current year percent to 344.6bn pounds in the financial year to June from 2 percent while shrinking the budget deficit to 30, the finance ministry said in a statement accord- around 10 percent, the statement added. “(This) will ing to state news agency Mena, which also cited the be done through the proper use of public resources ministry as saying tax revenue rose 21 percent. and directing part of the foreign aid and grants to Spending rose 23.7 percent to 582.7bn pounds. public investment spending,” the statement said. Interest payments jumped 40.7 percent to 147bn The government is keen to improve conditions for pounds, Mena said. Subsidies, grants and social ben- the country which has been battered by more than efits increased 31 percent to 197bn, Mena added. two years of political and economic turmoil that sent The state has been struggling to meet soaring investors and tourists fleeing. Despite a mushroom- energy bills caused by high subsidies on fuel products ing budget deficit, it is under intense pressure to for the country’s 84 million-plus population. avoid unpopular austerity measures. REUTERS FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Indonesia hikes rates to boost rupiah Oil market New Zealand, South Korea and the Philippines hold interest rates steady improving,

JAKARTA/WELLINGTON: the Philippines all left rates from emerging economies. While pushed up its benchmark rate by Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Bracing for more turmoil if unchanged as expected, though emerging markets have taken a 25 basis points to 7.25 percent.. India is in a similar fix, only says IEA the US Federal Reserve scales they are at different stages of beating in the last few months, The central bank said the with weaker economic growth. back its economic stimulus next their economic cycles. some have since steadied. But moves were designed to dampen Reluctant to raise interest rates PARIS: An increase in output week, Indonesia hiked inter- The Fed is widely expected to others like Indonesia and India, inflation, bolster the currency and that could exacerbate the eco- should help cushion oil markets est rates to shore up its ailing announce a reduction in its quan- dependant on capital inflows to ensure its current account deficit nomic slowdown and drive up the seized by tension over a possi- currency, but elsewhere in Asia- titative easing on September 18, fund large current account defi- was at a sustainable level. cost of government borrowing, the ble conflict in the Middle East, Pacific policy makers less afraid to start bringing the curtain down cits, remain vulnerable to further Bank Indonesia has now hiked Reserve Bank of India has delayed the IEA said yesterday, with of capital outflows held steady. on nearly five years of super- capital outflows. its benchmark rate by a total of 150 its policy meeting until two days emerging market nations facing Bank Indonesia’s surprise easy dollars. Investors have been “We believe that the current basis points in a series of increases after the Fed meets. difficulties due to their falling increase in three key rates yes- expecting the move for months, bout of currency volatility is since June, when the exodus from “Growth expectations have currencies. terday helped the rupiah bounce so the impact on markets should nearing an end and that a pro- emerging markets gathered critical been revised down for India, The slow pace of the global off a four-and-a-half year low, but be less when it happens. longed reversal of capital flows mass. BI also lowered its forecast emerging Asia and Brazil as their economy led the International it is still Asia’s worst performing “Is the emerging market sell- is unlikely. As such, we think for growth this and next year to monetary policy will have to be Energy Agency to keep its fore- currency so far this year, having off over? Likely not,” said a recent further aggressive rate hikes in 5.5-5.9 percent and 5.8-6.2 percent, tighter than would have been the cast for oil demand growth for lost around 15 percent of its value research note by Credit Agricole, Indonesia will be unnecessary,” respectively. case if there had been a more this year unchanged, while rising against the dollar. though it added that the pres- said Gareth Leather, economist A current account deficit gradual market adjustment to the it slightly in 2014. Having come through the past sure may moderate as US bond at Capital Economics Asia. equivalent to 4.4 percent of gross Fed’s planned moves,” Alan Oster, However a dip in supply by few months of a fierce emerging yields rise at a slower pace and The majority of economists domestic product, and inflation group chief economist at National 770,000 barrels per day plus con- markets sell-off largely unscathed, as economic recoveries in the polled by Reuters had expected surging to almost 9 percent has Australia Bank in Melbourne. cerns a US strike on Syria over its New Zealand, South Korea and US and Europe support exports BI to hold rates. In the event, it drained investors’ confidence in REUTERS suspected use of chemical weap- ons triggering a wider conflict sent oil prices up sharply. The price of Brent crude has since dipped from a peak around $117 hit last month on possibilities of a diplomatic reso- lution to the standoff. European stocks waver; gold falls “But, while the geopolitical storms in the Middle East and LONDON: European stock over the political fate of former expected shortly, traders said. North Africa have yet to pass, eas- markets and the euro steadied prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Investors also kept a keen eye ing fundamentals look set to lessen yesterday as traders reacted to Italian Finance Minister on developments in the Middle the pressure somewhat on market a drop in eurozone industrial Fabrizio Saccomanni admitted East, as the United States and participants — at least for the next production and awaited a key on Wednesday that Italy contin- Russia discussed a plan to remove few months,” said the IEA. meeting on Syria. ues “to pay the price of political Syria’s chemical weapons. “Global crude supply — not- Britain’s government mean- uncertainty”. Milan’s MIB shares US Secretary of State John withstanding the Libyan prob- while officially launched plans index was down 0.23 percent at Kerry is due to meet his Russian lems — looks set for an upward to privatise more than half of 17,522.71 points. counterpart in Geneva. Ahead of jump in 4Q13, thanks to a heady Royal Mail, saying an initial sale In foreign exchange trade, the the meeting, Washington called mix of seasonal, cyclical, politi- of shares in the state-run postal European single currency gained on the Syrian regime to quickly cal and structural factors,” service would occur within weeks. to $1.3311 compared with $1.3294 declare the scope and size of its added IEA. At close, London’s benchmark late in New York overnight. The chemical weapons stockpile. The rise in oil prices was also FTSE 100 index was virtually dollar dropped to 99.21 yen from US stocks were also little- supported by production of Libyan unchanged at 6,588.98 points. 99.87 yen. The price of gold fell changed in opening trade yester- crude, which is a top-rated blend Frankfurt’s DAX 30 dipped to $1,328.00 an ounce on the day as investors took pause after that is highly-prized by European 0.02 percent to 8,494.00 points London Bullion Market, from the S&P 500 racked up seven refineries, fell from 1m b/d in July and the CAC 40 in Paris slipped $1,340.78 Wednesday. straight days of gains. to just 150,000 in early September 0.30 percent to 4,106.63 points. In midday trade, the Dow Jones due to labour disputes, civil unrest “The only noteworthy release... ROYAL MAIL Industrial Average was down 0.15 and political discord. was the eurozone industrial pro- In London, the privatisation percent at 15,303.48. The broad- The shortfall was partially duction figure which showed of Royal Mail was expected to be market S&P 500 slipped 0.24 made up by Saudi Arabia increas- activity falling 2.1 percent in the biggest by a British govern- percent to 1,685.03, while the ing production to 10.19m b/d in July, well below expectations of ment since former prime minister tech-rich Nasdaq dipped 0.19 per- August, its highest level in 32 minus 0.1 percent,” said Craig Margaret Thatcher — who died cent to 3,718.08. years. Excluding the threat of a Erlam, market analyst at Alpari this year — sold off former state- Asian stock markets closed Middle East conflict the IEA said traders. owned companies British Gas and mostly higher as investors took a the outlook for growth of non- Meanwhile in eurozone mem- British Telecom to the public in breather after a rally at the start Opec supplies is generous for the ber Italy, borrowing costs mostly the 1980s. Media reports say the of the week, but Tokyo slipped on remainder of the year, edging up rose in an auction of medium part-sale of Royal Mail could be profit-taking and a strong yen, its supply forecast to 55.5m b/d in and long-term bonds that raised worth up to £3bn ($4.74bn). An traders said. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. the fourth quarter. ¤7.5bn ($10bn) amid high tensions initial offer price per share was AFP AFP

QATARI MARKET Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid Price Yield Moodys S&P Pakistan growth to fall next year: IMF Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 102.63 0.46 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 103.88 1.92 % Aa2 AA ISLAMABAD: The Interna- considered necessary to lift the domestic product last year — Minister Nawaz Sharif has Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 118.63 2.91 % Aa2 AA tional Monetary Fund warned country out of poverty and fully to a more sustainable level and promised to widen the tax base, Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 110.25 3.44 % Aa2 AA Pakistan yesterday that eco- absorb the growing labour force. reform the energy sector to help improve the image of paying taxes Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 104.50 3.86 % Aa2 AA nomic growth could be worse Central bank reserves have resolve severe power cuts that and limit corruption. Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 152.75 5.05 % Aa2 AA than expected next year due to fallen to $6bn, down from $14.78bn have sapped growth potential. The IMF said his budget for the strict austerity measures built in fiscal year 2010-11 and are But future disbursements are fiscal year to June 30, 2014 “rep- Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 112.00 5.53 % Aa2 AA into a $6.7bn rescue loan. enough only to cover imports for dependent on the completion of resents an important initial step” Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 103.50 5.50 % Aa2 AA Pakistan is in the grip of its one and a half months. tough economic reforms meas- but cautioned that “a more effi- Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 104.00 1.31 % Aa2 AA worst energy crisis in modern On September 5, the IMF ured at quarterly reviews. cient and equitable tax system is Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 108.38 3.61 % Aa2 AA history which causes power out- agreed to extend Pakistan a In Pakistan, a country of needed”. Austerity will also push Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 104.25 1.32 % A1 A- ages up to 20 hours in parts of three-year $6.7bn loan, making 180 million people, only around down growth. Before yesterday, the country and has hammered an initial disbursement of $540m 250,000 people pay income tax and the IMF predicted growth of 3.5 Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 102.75 2.57 % A1 A- industrial output. available to the authorities. agriculture, which still accounts percent of GDP but has revised QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.25 1.76 % NR NR During the last five years, GDP The loan is aimed at reducing for 50 percent of the economy, is that down to 2.5 percent if the QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.38 1.54 % Aa3 A+ has averaged only three percent, Pakistan’s fiscal deficit — which totally exempt. necessary reforms are imple- QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 103.25 2.39 % Aa3 A+ far short of the seven percent neared nine percent of gross To repair the economy, Prime mented. AFP Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 103.00 2.60 % A2 A- Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 103.88 2.07 % A2 A Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 120.88 3.79 % A2 A Hilton Hotels plans IPO Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 102.88 4.29 % A2 A Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 98.63 5.15 % A2 A US jobless claims fall Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 104.25 1.35 % Aa3 A Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.50 3.55 % Aa3 A WASHINGTON: The number of this week’s report looks lim- Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 106.00 4.30 % Aa3 A of Americans filing new claims ited, claims have been signaling an SOVEREIGNS for jobless benefits appeared improving labor market,” said Jim to drop to a near seven-and- O’Sullivan, chief US economist Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid Price Yield Moodys S&P a-half year low last week but at High Frequency Economics in Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 102.88 0.34 % Aa2 AA the decline was driven by two Valhalla, New York. Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 120.13 2.82 % Aa2 AA states that had trouble process- The number of people still receiv- Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 108.00 2.66 % NR NR ing filings, making it difficult to ing benefits under regular state Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 105.00 3.43 % NR NR get a clear read on the health of programs after an initial week of the labour market. aid tumbled 73,000 to 2.87 million Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 114.00 5.34 % NR NR Initial claims for state unem- in the week ended August 31. That Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 105.75 5.60 % NR NR ployment benefits dropped 31,000 was the lowest since March 2008. Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 104.00 0.99 % Aa2 AA to a seasonally adjusted 292,000, In addition, the share of unem- Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 110.50 4.01 % NR BBB the lowest level since April ployed people who received bene- Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 98.25 5.82 % NR BBB 2006, the Labour Department fits during that week hit its lowest said yesterday. The department level since May 2008. “We expect Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 89.00 7.91 % Caa1 CCC+ attributed much of the decline to this trend to persist, despite the Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 100.50 4.42 % NR BBB-

computer problems in two states potential for near-term volatility *Periodic Distribution Amount - one small and the other large. surrounding the administrative IMPORTANT NOTE: The department declined to issues that arose this week,” said Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which identify the states, but a spokes- Cooper Howes, an economist at is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services woman for California’s unem- Barclays in New York. Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary ployment insurance office said In a separate report, the data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising problems upgrading a computer Labour Department said US out of 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 system there had delayed the export prices fell for a sixth can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant processing of about 20,000 claims. straight month in August while liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not The spokeswoman said the back- prices for non-petroleum imports a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and log has since been cleared. Initial declined, signs of slack in global consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. claims had already fallen to pre- demand and in the domestic The Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue in New York City. The US-based recession levels, and details of the economy. Export prices fell 0.5 Hilton Hotels Corp is planning an IPO in New York, and has filed related report that were not affected by percent. Much of the drop was documents with Securities and Exchange Commission. technical glitches suggested the due to a sharp decline in prices labor market continued to improve. for exports from the volatile farm “While the information value sector. REUTERS FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Olympics: Madrid should Fired-up Djokovic keen to not bid for 2024 Games, says mayor recapture Davis Cup glory MADRID: Madrid’s mayor said yesterday the Spanish capi- tal should not bid for the 2024 I don’t think adapting to red clay will be a problem, says Djokovic Olympics after failing three times in a row to win the right to host the summer Games. BELGRADE: Winning the 2010 Olympic chiefs meeting in Davis Cup for Serbia proved the Novak Buenos Aires on Saturday chose launch pad for Novak Djokovic Djokovic (left) Tokyo to host the 2020 Games to reach the top of the men’s after rejecting Madrid in the first of Serbia and game and the 26-year-old hopes round of voting, a decision that Canada’s another epic run will have a shocked many Spaniards. similar effect. Vasek Pospisil Madrid also lost in its bids to Looking upbeat and raring to shake hands host the summer Games in 2012 go just a few days after a crushing in Belgrade and 2016 as well as in 1972. US Open defeat by Rafael Nadal, yesterday. “I think at this moment the Djokovic was named to play sin- RIGHT: Olympic race has already pro- gles on the opening day of the Spanish vided us with all the benefits semi-final against Canada in the Rafael Nadal which we can expect from it in cavernous Belgrade Arena. (left) and team the coming years. I believe that Any fatigue from his New York captain Alex Madrid should not seek to host battles and the long-haul flight Corretja in the Games in 2024,” Madrid home will be soothed by the pros- Madrid, Spain, Mayor Ana Botella told reporters. pect of playing in front of the yesterday. Madrid had tried to con- partisan home crowd, the world vince the International Olympic number one said. Committee that it could put on “I am tired and jet-lagged but a memorable Games at a budget also as inspired and motivated think adapting to red clay will be No rest for the Czech price amid a two-year recession as ever to play for my country,” a problem because I’ve done it Republic’s that has sent the Spanish jobless Djokovic told a news conference before,” he said of the specially- Radek rate spiralling above 26 percent. after yesterday’s draw which pit- prepared clay surface. US Open champ Stepanek With 28 of the 35 venues have ted him against Vasek Pospisil in Janko Tipsarevic has returned already in place, Madrid argued smiles during today’s opening singles rubber. to the Serbian squad after a MADRID: Rafa Nadal will play it would spend just $3.1bn (2.35bn ahead of “It’s not the first time I’ve had 16-month absence and faces big- Sergiy Stakhovsky in today’s euros) to host the 2020 Games only two days to recuperate for a serving Milos Raonic in today’s second Davis Cup singles rub- the Davis and another $1.9bn in construc- Davis Cup tie after the US Open second singles rubber. Nenad ber after Spain announced their Cup semi- tion investment. and the fact that we will be play- Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac play lineup for the World Group final against Botella’s English-language bid ing at home for the first time in Belgrade-born Daniel Nestor and play-off at home to Ukraine Argentina presentation to Olympic chiefs two years will galvanise us to Vasek Pospisil in tomorrow’s dou- yesterday. in Prague set off a storm of mostly light- perform. The 2010 triumph was bles, while Djokovic locks horns There had been doubt over yesterday. hearted criticism over her unmis- a stepping stone for all of us in with world No. 11 Raonic and world number two Nadal’s par- RIGHT: takable Spanish accent and some terms of our individual careers Tipsarevic clashes with Pospisil ticipation in the three-day tie Switzerland’s surprising phrases, especially and that’s why we are really look- in Sunday’s reverse singles. in Madrid after his recent exer- Stanislas her assertion: “There is nothing ing forward to it.” Nestor, Zimonjic’s former dou- tions in New York where he beat Wawrinka quite like a relaxing cup of cafe Following their epic 3-2 win bles partner on the ATP Tour, top-ranked Novak Djokovic in talks to the con leche in Plaza Mayor”. over France in the 2010 final, said he expected no empathy Monday’s US Open final. media in Some videos on YouTube had which produced a soccer-like from a raucous Belgrade crowd Nadal arrived in the Spanish Neuchatel, mixed the speech with music atmosphere in a jam-packed although he called his birthplace capital early on Wednesday and Switzerland. into “dance” or “dubstep” songs arena, Serbia suffered their first “a home away from home.” after training at the “Magic Box” and T-shirts went on sale with loss at the venue in the 2011 semis. “Will they take it easy on me? venue the 27-year-old was named a parody of the Starbucks logo, An ailing Djokovic, who was Maybe they will early on but if in the team for by captain Alex have spent very few hours on the number one Alexandr Dolgopolov featuring a profile of Botella and nursing a ribcage injury, retired Serbia find themselves on the Corretja. court.” in the opening singles, with the the slogan: “Relaxing Cup of Cafe against Juan Martin del Potro receiving end they will do what “When I have been asked and Stakhovsky caused a huge upset doubles to come tomorrow and Con Leche in Plaza Mayor”. in the reverse singles, handing they have to in order to help the have been free of injury I have at Wimbledon this year when he the reverse singles on Sunday in “Cafe con leche? I know this Argentina an unassailable 3-1 lead home team win,” he said. always turned out to try to help defeated seven-times champion the first meeting between the two country’s sense of humour very as he collapsed to the ground in Frank Dancevic, the other the team win points and secure Roger Federer in the second nations. well and I laugh at myself many anguish. It was an anti-climax player in Canada’s squad, also has victories,” Nadal said. round but Nadal should have little In other World Group play- times,” said Botella, who has been to his memorable US Open final Serbian roots and added: “I always “I have been playing at the trouble against the world number off ties Poland’s hopes of joining married since 1977 to former win against Nadal that season, felt very welcome here and it’s maximum intensity for practically 92, especially as the tie is on his the elite for the first time have right-leaning prime minister the most successful in the Serb’s great knowing the city and where a whole month and obviously that favoured clay. been dealt a huge blow after Jose Maria Aznar. The failure of career as he also claimed the to go to have a Serbian burger.” has a draining effect,” he added. Nadal has won 20 of his 21 Davis Wimbledon semi-finalist Jerzy Madrid and Istanbul this time Australian Open and Wimbledon The winners of the tie will face “But I am ready for tomor- Cup singles matches, including a Janowicz was ruled out with round has paved the way for other to go with a myriad of Masters either holders the Czech Republic row and it’s just going to require perfect 16 out of 16 on clay. a back injury for the home tie prospective bidders, with Paris Series titles. or Argentina in the final. another little bit of effort. I hope Spain number two Fernando against Australia in Warsaw. and Rome mentioned as possible “I am fit this time and I don’t REUTERS to be competitive even though I Verdasco will play Ukraine REUTERS candidates. REUTERS

Golf: McIlroy Rugby: The future is signs up for Korean event SEOUL: Northern Irish now for All Blacks star Rory McIlroy has confirmed he will play the Kolon Korea Open in AUCKLAND: The All Blacks All Blacks playmaker Dan October, adding another will put their future on the line Carter admits to being impressed Asian event to his sched- when they face the Springboks with the high-octane approach, ule, organisers said in Auckland tomorrow in a bat- but he believes the All Blacks will yesterday. tle for supremacy in the Rugby still be able to “out-think” the The former world Championship. Springboks. number one and two-time It is a match New Zealand have “This is going to be the biggest major winner, scratching labelled their toughest contest match of our year so far, and even for form after his big- since winning the World Cup two potentially one of the biggest money move to Nike, will years ago. since the World Cup because of be the main attraction at For the Springboks, the clash the form they’re in,” Carter said. the October 17-20 event. of the only two unbeaten sides “Their backs are scoring good McIlroy is playing the in the championship and the top tries, their outside backs are tournament at Woo Jeong two ranked teams in the world, is making breaks, and they’re a bit Hills Country Club, on the about continuing to rewrite the more of an all-round package -- outskirts of Seoul, for the history books. whereas in previous years they third time after visits in They have named the same have been quite one-dimensional. 2009 and 2011, when he line-up that thrashed Australia “The thing we pride ourselves finished joint third and 38-12 last week in an historic This file photo taken on on is having the ability to out- runner-up. first win in Brisbane over the think them as well, but it’s going “I remember the course, December 16, 2011, shows Wallabies. to be a challenge this week.” but the thing I remember Steve Hansen, head coach of The All Blacks, meanwhile, The Springboks, having bro- most is that the par-threes have made five changes to the side the New Zealand All Blacks ken their Brisbane hoodoo, have are tough, especially on that stuttered to a 28-13 win over following a press conference at placed multiple targets in their the back nine,” McIlroy Argentina, including the selection the New Zealand rugby union sights this week. said, according to a press of Test tyro Dane Coles ahead of headquarters in Wellington, New They have not won at Eden release from organis- seasoned hookers Andrew Hore Zealand. Park since 1937 while the All ers OneAsia. “All aspects and Keven Mealamu. Blacks are on a 30-Test winning of your game have to be “He’s somebody we see as the skipper Richie McCaw and mark streak on the same ground. The in shape every week, but future and we think now’s the the inform Francois Louw on the All Blacks also need one more especially iron play consid- time to give him an opportunity to openside flank. victory to become the most suc- ering the tough par-threes go against the best,” coach Steve On the blindside he has brought cessful Test winning nation of all we will have to play.” Hansen said yesterday of the sur- back the experienced Liam time. McIlroy is already prise decision to pit Coles against Messam who is more accustomed When they beat Argentina last confirmed for a one-day a powerful Springbok pack. to the confrontational style of week they drew level with France exhibition event with “He’s the guy we see going for- the South Africans than Steven on 382 wins. Tiger Woods in China on ward. We just think it’s time to Luatua who moves to the bench. “Last week showed records are October 28, as well as the give him an opportunity in the big In a departure from previ- there to be broken,” Springboks Australian Open in Sydney ball park and see how he goes.” ous South African sides, the assistant coach Ricardo starting in late November. With dominance in the forward Springboks under coach Heyneke Loubscher said. The 24-year-old has clashes earmarked as where the Meyer have looked comfortable “We took a lot of confidence out slipped to world number Test will be won or lost, Hansen moving the ball wide, playing an of last week. Our job is to make four after switching clubs as expected opted for the teara- attacking game and have shown sure we win every Test match.” under his new sponsor. way Sam Cane to replace injured they can win away from home. REUTERS REUTERS FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Glittering ceremony launches QSL season DOHA: The new Qatar Stars League (QSL) 2013/14 sea- son was launched in a stun- ning ceremony yesterday at the Sheraton Hotel. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Al Sadd players and Ahmad Al Thani, QSL chairman, officials celebrate was the guest of honour as a host with the Qatar Stars of league dignitaries enjoyed the League (QSL) shield event. after beating Al Side-by-side with the QSL Kharaitiyat 3-1 in supremo was Salah Nasser bin this 2013 file photo. Ghanem Al Ali, Minister of It was Al Sadd’s Youth and Sport, Hani Ballan, 13th QSL title. This deputy CEO of the QSL and season will consist Abdulrahman Al Dosari, QSL’s of 14 teams instead Chief of Commercial. of 12 teams. Fourteen of the newest players to join the QSL were also present as they were unveiled ahead of the first week of the season. Earlier, Sheikh Hamad signed agreements Dr Nasser from AAB Toyota as the car franchise under-lined their commitment to the QSL with a continuation of their support. Khaled Abu Kelila was present from water giants Dana, who will now be the official water supplier for QSL matches and all staff. Yousif Rashid Al Kuwari was present from Qatar Charity as they agreed a prestigious part- nership with the league for the next year. Luke Godley was thrilled to shake hands with Sheikh Hamad as his company, Evolution Sports, agreed a deal to deliver the ambi- Retaining QSL title won’t be tious GOALZ project which will take football and fitness into schools. And while no official announce- ment was made, QSL Chief of Commerce Al Dosari confirmed QSL would be working with Qatar easy, says Al Sadd coach Airways – the world’s fastest growing airline - to help deliver the QSL’s new Loyalty Rewards Programme. Diego Aguirre insists Al Rayyan are not under pressure to win league As he looked ahead to a cru- cial and exciting season, Sheikh BY ARMSTRONG VAS players and the staff and that is but an important game,” said the Hamad admitted he was antici- what will help us. But I accept it Uruguayan. Quotes from pating a monumental year for the DOHA: Al Sadd coach Hussein will be too much and difficult for The Al Rayyan coach said win- league. Amute feels retaining the Qatar us (to defend the title). We have ning the Sheikh Jassim Cup, at coaches He said: “There are a lot of Stars League (QSL) title would to make a huge huge effort.” the start of the new QSL season, decisions that have been taken in require a ‘huge huge effort’, urg- The defending champions did not increase the pressure on the last few months to try and ing his players to prepare for a begin their campaign today with his team to win the league title. develop top quality Qatari play- ‘difficult task’. a match against Al Rayyan. “It is good to win the Sheikh ers. One of the main changes has Speaking to journalists on “It’s a big match, like always. Jassim Cup, there are some been the decision to increase our the side lines of the QSL launch We (Al Rayyan and Al Sadd) strong clubs in Qatar which have “There is no league to 14 teams. I genuinely ceremony here yesterday, the have been involved in quite a few not won the (Sheikh Jassim) believe this will give players more Moroccan who guided the competitive matches last season. Cup. There is no pressure on us pressure on us to chances in their respective teams. ‘Wolves’ to their We wo n to win the QSL title. I also believe a bigger league will 13th title last season, a couple But our target is to win the QSL title. make our top level of football said: “It will be more of them win the Qatar Stars more competitive.” difficult for us (as and we League,” he said. But our target is He added: “This does not mean defending champi- lost an “Six teams like we do not want to attract players ons). There is a lot of equal Al Sadd, Eljaish, Al to win the Qatar from all over world. We still wel- pressure on me and number,” Sailiya, Al Gharafa, come player from outside Qatar the team this season, Amute Al Khor and Al Stars League.” and so do the fans. They help pro- perhaps more than said. Arabi are very mote the league and help develop last year. We had a Asked strong teams. So our young talent.” near-perfect season about they too have an Diego Aguirre, THE PENINSULA last year and to win his star equal chance to win the league was an player the QSL title like Al Rayyan incredible feeling.” Raul’s us. We will to do Plans unveilled He added: “This form our best but it will year we are the Hussein Amute and Diego Aguirre be difficult. Rayyan to coach children team people will be how he is a big team and we looking to beat. They will want to is shaping up in practice, the need to win all the competitions.” in schools take our title. Our fans will hope Al Sadd coach refused to throw Aguirre admitted losing “It will be more we can keep it. This is football, much light on the former Spain matches to smaller clubs last sea- DOHA: The Qatar Stars though. This is the challenge.” international’s status. son affected their title aspirations. difficult for us League (QSL) will celebrate the Al Sadd’s Leandro Da Silva walks Amute said he has had a bumpy “It is better we do not talk on “It happened last season. We new season with an ambitious during the QSL launch ceremony preparation. it,” the Al Sadd coach said before won against big clubs and lost to (as defending plan to take football to more yesterday. BELOW: Douglao of “We started our preparation walking off. some lower ranked teams. But than 12,000 school children all Qatar SC makes his way to the with some problems and some Meanwhile, Amute’s opposite this season we need to be on the champions). over the country. stage. injuries,” the Al Sadd coach said. number Diego Aguirre said they guard all the time. In partnership with Evolution “We also had some attitude will go all-out to register a win in “We need to concentrate and There is a lot of Sports, the exciting project problems with the players. But we the QSL opener. focus on all the games. I am sure named GOALZ will deliver a fun will fight and defend our trophy,” “Friday’s match against Al about Al Rayyan will play good pressure on me and educational Football coach- stressed the Al Sadd coach. Sadd will be a tough match. We football and play to win every ing programme to 24 schools in The 43-year-old said retaining know it is an important match for game and after that we will see and the team this Qatar. most of the players from the win- us. Our first target is to win the what will happen,” added Aguirre Both international and local ning squad will give them advan- game against Al Sadd so that we who’d be hoping for a win on his season, perhaps government schools will benefit tage over their rivals. gain a mental edge for the rest of 48th birthday today. from the fitness and education “We have stability of the the season. It is not just a game THE PENINSULA more than last drive – with a special emphasis on primary schools. year.” The main aim is to build a Brazil’s Qatar strong and passionate base of SC coach football fans, while promoting an Sebastiao Hussein Amute, active and healthy lifestyle. Lazaroni (left) Speaking about the exciting speaks with Al Sadd enterprise, QSL deputy CEO Hani compatriot Ballan admitted it was a concept Zico, Al designed to build a genuine affin- Gharafa coach ity with football fans in Qatar. at the QSL He said: “We have a great pro- season launch “There are four gramme coming up with coach- yesterday. ing in schools throughout Qatar. Lazaroni is a We are targeting 24 schools and teams for the investing a lot of time in coaching former Qatar their pupils.” coach, while title battle.” The GOALZ coaches will work Zico managed within school time, ranging from Japan. Eric Gerets, multi-sports to football specific. All sessions will be aimed at phys- PICTURES BY: Lekhwiya ically developing players in a fun ABDUL BASIT environment. THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 QSL title race begins today League champions Al Sadd to face rivals Al Rayyan today; Lekhwiya meet Al Sailiyah

DOHA: After nearly four Qatar Stars months out, Qatar’s elite club football competition - Qatar League Fixtures Stars League (QSL) will begin Today again, but for the first time ever Al Sadd vs Al Rayyan 14 teams will battle for the title At Al Sadd Stadium, 6.15pm this season. Qatar Stars Al Sailiyah vs Lekhwiya QSL debutants Muithather League (QSL) At Al Rayyan Stadium, 6.15pm Sports Club, who finished as run- footballers Umm Salal vs Muaither SC ners-up to Al Ahli in the Second pose during Division, both join the 12 clubs the 2013/2014 At Qatar Sports Club, 8.30pm who participated in QSL last launch Al Khor vs Qatar Sports Club season. At Al Khor Stadium, 8.30pm All eyes will be on QSL hold- ceremony Tomorrow ers Al Sadd, the 13-time champi- at Sheraton ons who face a mouth-watering Hotel in Doha Al Ahli vs Al Gharafa match against rivals Al Rayyan yesterday. The At Al Arabi Stadium, 6.15pm in the season opener today. QSL which will Al Arabi vs Eljaish The two teams faced each other be contested At Al Arabi Stadium, 8.30pm four times last season, with Al by 14 teams Al Kharaitiyat vs Al Wakra Rayyan triumphing in the Sheikh will begin At Al Khor Stadium, 8.30pm Jassim Cup, Emir Cup and in the today. Al Sadd return QSL fixture earlier this are the current Past Champions year. champions. Al Sadd coach Hussein Amute 2002-03 Qatar SC admits his side will be under pres- PICTURES BY: 2003-04 Al Sadd sure this season. He said: “There’s ABDUL BASIT 2004-05 Al Gharafa a lot of pressure on me and the team this season, perhaps more 2005-06 Al Sadd than last year. We were quite suc- 2006-07 Al Sadd cessful last time and to win the 2007-08 Al Gharafa league was an incredible feeling.” He added: “Now we’re the team 2008-09 Al Gharafa people will be looking to beat. 2009-10 Al Gharafa They’ll want to take our title. 2010-11 Lekhwiya Our fans will hope we can keep After a poor start in the league former QSL champion Al Gharafa Eljaish will also be aiming to However, Lucescu can count on it. This is football though. This is last season, Lekhwiya sacked have been busy in pre-season, get off to a winning start when Wagner Ribeiro who was deployed 2011-12 Lekhwiya the challenge.” coach Djamel Belmadi in October, by managing to rope in former Razvan Lucescu’s side visit Al as the second striker last season 2012-13 Al Sadd Today’s opponents Al Rayyan, and replaced him with Belgium’s Brazilian legend and Japan boss- Arabi tomorrow. as well as Anderson Martins. have enjoyed recent success hav- Eric Gerets. The move proved to Zico as coach. Lucescu made some wise trans- The 26-year-old proved to be Clubs with ing retained the Sheikh Jassim be instrumental but Gerets fell The Brazilian is one of six new fers bringing in local players an instrumental part of Eljaish’s most titles Cup title last week. agonisingly short towards the end coaches who will be in the dug- Murad Negi, Yousef Muftah and defence which conceded only 23 Much will depend on attack- of the season of claiming their out this season, and can count on former Al Sadd player Wesam goals in 22 matches last season. Al Sadd 13 ing midfielder Rodrigo Tabata and third successive title. former Lyon and Porto striker Rizik to add steel to their squad. In other matches this week- Qatar SC 8 striker Nilmar if Diego Aguirre’s Nevertheless, Gerets insists Lisandro Lopez who joined the With the Qatari club losing end, Umm Salal, coached by Al Rayyan 7 side wants to be champions in that his side is eager to reclaim seven-time champions for a last season’s top scorer Adriano, former Qatar Olympic, Lyon and Al Gharafa 7 2014. the title. He told The Peninsula reported fee of 7.2m euros in the Lucescu’s side had bought Ecuador Marseille coach Allain Perrin face Among the teams who will be yesterday: “Our target is to be summer. striker Christian Benitez. newcomers Muather today. Al Arabi 7 keen to take the title away from champions.” Lekhwiya open their The Argentine striker has the But the former Birmingham Al Khor are at home to Qatar Al Maref 3 Al Sadd are former champions campaign against Al Sailiyah pedigree to make an impact on City striker died in Doha from a Sports Club today. Al Kharaiyitat Lekhwiya 2 Lekhwiya, who finished runners- today. QSL this season, starting with his heart attack in July, which sent face Al Wakra tomorrow. up to Amute’s team last season. Besides Lekhwiya, another season’s opener against Al Ahli. shockwaves across the world. THE PENINSULA Al Wakra 2 Lekhwiya coach eyes QSL title, New Al Arabi admits Al Sadd are ‘favourites’ coach wants BY DENZIL PINTO The 59-year-old has enjoyed success as a coach in the past DOHA: Lekhwiya coach Eric having won titles with PSV, Gerets has set his sights on Galatasaray and Club Brugge. top-seven finish Lekhwiya reclaiming the Qatar Stars However, the former Belgian coach Eric DOHA: League (QSL) title but admits right-back believes the title will Gerets Newly-appointed Al Arabi (pictured) that QSL champions Al Sadd be harder to win and believes Al looks on coach Uli Stielike has are ‘favourites’ at the start of Gharafa and Al Rayyan along challenged his team to achieve a during the the new season. with last season’s top two sides top-seven finish in the Qatar Stars Qatar Stars The two-time champions, who will be the main clubs battling for League (QSL) this season. narrowly missed out on the title the title. League The West German and Real Madrid last season, open their 2013- He said: “There are always (QSL) great will be in the Al Arabi dugout 14 campaign with a visit to Al the same teams that will be season for the second time, having coached Sailiyah today. fighting for the title. I think Al launch them for one-and-a-half seasons from Speaking to The Peninsula at Gharafa made a good signing yesterday. January 2009-2010. the launch of the new QSL sea- with (Lisandro) Lopez’s signature The Stielike, who joined the club on July son at Sheraton Hotel yesterday, and Zico will have a good team. Belgian 1, has brought in seven new players the Belgian is keen to win more Al Sadd will be favourites again. won including Algeria’s Karim Ziani from silverware with Lekhwiya. Gerets Last season they showed why they the Heir Eljaish and Venezuelen forward Jesus said: “The target is to be cham- were the best team. Al Rayyan, Apparent Meza to help achieve his target. pions and try to win one of the for sure will try to do better than Cup title Speaking to The Peninsula at the two cups (Emir Cup and Heir last season. For us, I am sure we with the season’s new launch at Sheraton Hotel Apparent Cup). will do better. There are four Qatari yesterday, the former Germany assist- When asked what his team teams for the title battle.” club last ant coach said he is hoping for positive results and is happy with his needs to improve on this season The Belgian replaced former season. players pre-season training. that they lacked in the last edi- coach Djamel Belmadi in October, The 58-year-old said: “The club brought seven new players. Five or tion, the coach replied: “We need and ended the campaign with the six will play in the first team so it means there will be alot of changes to improve on playing quicker. Heir Apparent Cup title after a and composition and I hope there will be positive changes in the result.” The football in Qatar is still a lit- thrilling 3-2 victory over Al Sadd He added: “We have 14 teams in the league, and we hope and want tle bit slow, so we’ll have to play in May. to a achieve a top-seven place in the league this season.” quicker, get the ball quicker to Despite missing out on the successful season, because we had they deserved to be champions, He added: “I am very happy with the crop of my players. From July players, be quick in pressing so club’s third successive QSL title, a disastrous beginning, and Al and we finished second. We were 1, I took over as coach and our three-week training camp in Germany that we are in possession of the Gerets said he was pleased with Sadd were 11 points ahead of us. reasonably happy, but we want to was very good. The pre-season matches and results were positive, so ball and to make it more difficult the season. Throughout the season, they were do better this season.” now we are waiting for our first match of the season.” more the opponents.” He said: “It was still a stronger than what we were and THE PENINSULA Speaking of the decision to expand QSL from 12 to 14 teams, Stielike, a member of the 1980 European Championship winning squad, said the change was ‘exciting’. He said: “I think the change will be more exciting. Firstly, the play- ers enjoy playing competitive football matches then being on a train- ing pitch. Now we have more games, I think it’s good for everybody especially the national team.” THE PENINSULA Qatar Stars League Management Interesting Stats (QSLM) chairman Sheikh Hamad bin Six clubs will have new coaches in the dugouts this season. Zico Khalifa bin Ahmad (Al Gharafa), Uli Stielike (Al Arabi), Bertrand Marchand (Al Al Thani (third left) Kharaitiyat), Ladislas Lozano (Muather SC), Sami Trabelsi (Al speaks to officials Sailiya) and Adnan Dirjal (Al Wakra). during the QSL season launch. RIGHT: The logo Lekhwiya and Al Khor are the only two QSL teams not to have of QSL. changed any of their overseas players.

Three Argentine players arrived in Qatar during pre-season. Lisandro Lopez and Juan Forlin joined Al Gharafa, while Sebastian Saez signed for Al Wakra. FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 SPORT 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

Lotus start Late strikes give hunt for Raikkonen Pakistan hope successor

LONDON: Lotus team principal Zimbabwe lose three wickets in three overs Eric Boullier yesterday revealed he has opened talks with several drivers as he searches for a suc- HARARE: Three late wick- cessor to Kimi Raikkonen. ets gave Pakistan renewed hope Scoreboard Raikkonen has confirmed he after Zimbabwe played them- Zimbabwe (I innings) ...... 294 8-61-5 (1w), Chatara 27-10-45-1 (1nb), Masa- will return to Ferrari on a two- selves into a strong position Pakistan (I innings) kadza 12-5-24-0, Utseya 12-0-41-0, Chigum- year contract from next season on the third day of the second Khurram Manzoor run out (Chigumbura) .... 51 bura 5-2-6-0 and Boullier is keen to move Test against Pakistan at Harare Mohammad Hafeez c Masakadza b Vitori ...22 Zimbabwe (II innings) quickly to line up the Finn’s Sports Club yesterday. Azhar Ali lbw b Panyangara ...... 7 T Mawoyo lbw b Abdur Rehman ...... 58 replacement. A five-wicket haul by Brian Younis Khan c Mawoyo b Panyangara ...... 77 P Utseya c Asad Shafiq b Rahat Ali ...... 5 Boullier believes Lotus are Vitori and a century stand Misbah-ul-Haq c Masakadza b Vitori ...... 33 H Masakadza lbw b Rahat Ali ...... 44 an attractive option for ambi- between Tino Mawoyo and Asad Shafiq b Chatara ...... 10 T Panyangara c Azhar Ali b Abdur Rehman ... 0 tious drivers, with Felipe Massa, Hamilton Masakadza put Adnan Akmal c Taylor b Vitori ...... 6 B Taylor (batting) ...... 0 ousted from Ferrari in favour Zimbabwe on top before both Abdur Rehman lbw b Panyangara ...... 0 Extras (B3, LB6, W5) ...... 14 of Raikkonen, Sauber’s Nico partners and nightwatchman Saeed Ajmal c Mutumbami b Vitori ...... 7 Total (4 wkts, 50.2 overs) ...... 121 Hulkenberg and Paul Di Resta at Tinashe Panyangara fell in the Junaid Khan b Vitori ...... 3 Fall of wicket: 1-13, 2-117, 3-121, 4-121 Force India among the reported last three overs of the day. Rahat Ali (not out) ...... 1 Bowling: Junaid Khan 11-3-26-0 (1w), Rahat contenders. Zimbabwe were 121 for four at Extras (B4, LB6, NB1, W2) ...... 13 Ali 14-2-37-2, Saeed Ajmal 10-2-29-0, Abdur “We are currently in discussion the close, an overall lead of 185 on Total (104.5 overs) ...... 230 Rehman 15.2-3-20-2 with a few people and will make a wearing pitch which has made Fall of wickets: 1-29, 2-62, 3-96, 4-182, Match situation: Zimbabwe lead by 185 runs a decision shortly,” Boullier said. stroke play difficult for batsmen 5-211, 6-212, 7-212, 8-224, 9-229 with six wickets remaining in the second in- “We are in the privileged posi- of both sides. Bowling: Panyangara 22-9-43-3, Vitori 26.5- nings tion of being the most desirable Left-arm fast bowler Vitori team on the grid with a seat took five for 61 as Pakistan col- available. lapsed to 230 all out, losing their feeling ill. But Mawoyo and innings of 75 with 44 before he “So we are therefore in no last six wickets for 19 runs and Masakadza added 104 for the sec- too fell leg before, to left-arm fast rush to announce anyone with- giving Zimbabwe a first innings ond wicket with some of the most bowler Rahat Ali. Rehman, the out establishing what will be the lead of 64. impressive batting of the match. most impressive of the Pakistan best for our team and the future.” Stand-in opening batsman Mawoyo made 58 off 165 balls bowlers, claimed a second wicket Following a two-year sabbatical Prosper Utseya was caught at before he was trapped leg before in the last over of the day when Zimbabwe bowler Brian Vitori holds the match ball after a five-wicket in rallying after leaving Ferrari midwicket off Rahat Ali for five wicket by left-arm spinner Abdur Panyangara was caught at short haul during the third day of the second Test match against Pakistan at at the end of 2009, Raikkonen when Zimbabwe batted again Rehman shortly before the close. leg. Rehman took two for 20 in the Harare Sports Club, yesterday. returned to Formula One with with regular opener Vusi Sibanda Masakadza followed up his first 15.2 accurate overs. AFP Lotus at the start of last season. The 2007 world champion helped the team back on to the top step of the podium, initially in Abu Dhabi last season and Wasim hopes Tendulkar retires against Pakistan Australia at the start of this year’s campaign. KARACHI: Famed Pakistan Tendulkar, regarded as one a passionate crowd and both region of Kashmir are likely revered in Pakistan. “He is a role Boullier paid tribute to the fast bowler Wasim Akram said of the best batsmen to play the nations at a standstill,” Wasim. to make the prospect of a tour model,” said Wasim. Finn but made it clear he was yesterday he hoped Indian bat- game, has so far scored 15,837 “It could be the best farewell more remote. Pakistan’s domestic “He is one of the best without confident Lotus can still thrive ting great Sachin Tendulkar runs with 51 hundreds in 198 Tendulkar can have,” he added. team Faisalabad Wolves, due to any doubt and if I had to vote for without him. would play his final Test farewell Tests and 18,426 in 463 one-days The Indian media has specu- play in India’s Champions League the best sportsman of the cen- “Two years ago, when we against Pakistan in Kolkata. with 49 centuries -- all world lated that India may cancel their Twenty20 that starts September tury I would not hesitate for a decided to sign him, quite a few World record run-getter records. tour to South Africa later this 17, are still waiting for clearance second to give it to Sachin. people thought we were crazy,” Tendulkar, 40, is set to achieve But Wasim, who played year and invite Pakistan for a from New Delhi. “Having played with him for he said. the unique record of playing his in Tendulkar’s debut Test in short two-Test tour. The nuclear Wasim said sport should be years and having been in touch “We’ve been working with an 200th Test later this year against Karachi in 1989, said Tendulkar’s rivals have not played a full series separated from politics. even after my retirement I have amazing racer, who scored points the West Indies, who have agreed farewell Test should be against since 2007, but there were hints “Cricket, as always, has the found him a true role model,” he for the team 27 times in a row and to tour India. Pakistan. that full ties may revive after capacity to bring the people of said. won two races. Speculation is rife that “I have created an ideal sce- India invited Pakistan for a short both nations closer,” said Wasim, “I hope relations improve and “But we’ve had (Michael) Tendulkar might retire from all nario for his farewell Test: limited over series last December. who led a Pakistan tour of India my wish come true is that India Schumacher, (Fernando) Alonso, cricket after that or sometime India playing Pakistan at Recent tensions on the de facto in 1999 despite extremist threats. and Pakistan play a Test sooner Raikkonen. New champions will early next year. Eden Gardens, Kolkata with border in the divided Himalayan Wasim said Tendulkar was also than later.” AFP join the list here soon I’m sure.” AFP Blanc returns to QBSF-backed Gabica his former home reaches semi-final

PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain coach Laurent Blanc returns DOHA: Antonio 11-10 in a nail biting to his old stomping ground of Bordeaux today as the reigning Gabica (pic- quarter-final clash. Ligue 1 title holders look for a pre-Champions League boost. tured) from the In today’s semi-finals, The French capital club travel to Greece to face Olympiacos Philippines, backed Gabica will take on Karl in Europe next Tuesday, but the clash with Bordeaux is the first by Qatar Billiards and Boyes of England while of a hectic run of seven games in 23 days which will also see Snooker Federation Thorsten Hohmann of them face Monaco, Benfica and Marseille. (QBSF), reached the Germany will square PSG are yet to lose this season, but draws in their opening semi-finals of the up to Carlo Biado of the two Ligue 1 games were followed by not entirely convincing World 9-Ball Pool Philippines in the other wins against promoted duo Nantes and Guingamp just before Championship at last four clash. the international break. the Al Arabi Indoor Both the semi-finals However, they have already had the measure of Bordeaux, Stadium. will be broadcast live beating the French Cup holders 2-1 in the Champions Trophy Yesterday on the by Al Kass TV and will at the beginning of last month. penultimate day of the 12-day begin at 1.30pm. The final will It will be a special occasion for Blanc, whose three years in championship, Gabica, a coach with take place at 5.00pm.The winner charge at the Stade Chaban-Delmas were highly successful, with the QBSF pool team edged Nick will receive a purse of $36,000. Bordeaux winning the title, the League Cup and the Champions Van den Berg of the Netherlands THE PENINSULA Trophy in 2009 before reaching the last eight of the Champions League a year later. World 9-Ball Pool Championship Now in the away dugout, he must improve PSG’s rather poor Results from the World 9-Ball Pool Championship at Al Arabi Indoor Hall yesterday record in the Gironde, where they have won just seven times Quarter-finals in 39 previous visits. Antonio Gabica (PHL) bt Nick Van den Berg (NED) 11-10; Karl Boyes (GBR) bt Nick On Friday, Blanc will again be without Jeremy Menez, who Ekonomopoulos (GRE) 11-8; Thorsten Hohmann (GER) bt Jeff de Luna (PHL) 11-7; Carlo is suffering from kidney stones, and must decide whether Biado (PHL) bt Chris Melling(GBR) 11-3 his returning international stars, such as Sweden’s Zlatan Pre-quarter-final results Ibrahimovic, France’s Blaise Matuidi, Brazil’s Thiago Silva and Antonio Gabica (PHL) bt Ko Pin Yi(TPE) 11-9; Nick Van den Berg (NED) bt Hsu Kai Uruguay’s Edinson Cavani, are in condition to play. Lun(TPE) 11-7; Karl Boyes (GBR) bt Lo Li Wen(TPE) 11–10; Nick Ekonomopoulos (GRE) “Zlatan came back very, very tired after playing in Kazakhstan bt Lee Vann Corteza (PHL) 11–9; Jeff de Luna(PHL) bt Vilmos Foldes (HUN) 11–8; on an artificial surface,” PSG assistant coach Jean-Louis Gasset Thorsten Hohmann (GER) bt Dennis Orcollo (PHL) 11–8; Chris Melling (GBR) bt David said in a radio interview, indicating that Ibrahimovic may not Alcaide(ESP) 11–8; Carlo Biado (PHL) bt Fabio Petroni (ITA) 11-10 feature this weekend. Round-of-32 France’s other representatives in the Champions League Antonio Gabica (PHL) bt Oliver Ortmann (GER) 11–8; Ko Pin Yi (TPE) bt Mika Immonen group stage are Marseille, who travel to bottom club Toulouse (FIN) 11-8; Nick Van den Berg(NED) bt Wu Chi Ching (CHN) 11–10; Hsu Kai Lun (TPE) on Saturday. AFP bt Toh Lian Han (SIN) 11–9; Karl Boyes (GBR) bt Huidji See (NED) 11-8; Lo Li Wen (TPE) bt Israel Rota(PHL) 11-2; Lee Vann Corteza (PHL) bt Daryl Peach(GBR) 11–4; Ligue 1 Nick Ekonomopoulos (GRE) bt Mario He(AUT) 11–6; Vilmos Foldes (HUN) bt Naoyuki Oi Fixtures (kick-offs 1800 GMT unless stated) (JPN) 11–7; Jeff de Luna (PHL) bt Mohammed Zulfikri (INA) 11 –5; Thorsten Hohmann Today (GER) bt Darren Appleton (GBR) 11–5; Dennis Orcollo (PHL) bt John Morra (CAN) 11–6; Chris Melling (GBR) bt Ramil Gallego (PHL) 11-7; David Alcaide (ESP) bt Jalal Yousef Bordeaux vs Paris Saint-Germain (1830 GMT) (VEN) 11–7; Carlo Biado (PHL) bt Shane Van Boening (USA) 11-10; Fabio Petroni (ITA) bt Tomorrow Marlon Manalo (PHL) 11-7 Toulouse vs Marseille (1500 GMT), Ajaccio vs Evian-Thonon-Gaillard, Guingamp Today’s fixtures vs Bastia, Montpellier vs Reims, Nantes vs Sochaux, Valenciennes v Semi-finals at 1.30pm Saint-Etienne Carlo Biado (PHL) vs Thorsten Hohmann (GER) Sunday Karl Boyes (UK) vs Antonio Gabica (PHL) Monaco vs Lorient (1200 GMT), Lille vs Nice (1500 GMT), Lyon vs Rennes (1900 GMT) Final at 5.00pm FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

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Today Saturday Weather Sunday Conditions: Clear Clear Partly cloudy Hazy at first India’s Rohan Kokane, who holds the world record as the lowest limbo skater, posing for a picture. The 12-year-old achieved a roller-skating height of becomes hot just 25cm over a distance of 10m. This record is presented in the new Guinness World Records 2014 book. High: 37° High: 39° High: 37° and humid with Low: 31° Low: 30° Low: 30° some clouds. Rollerskating Indian schoolboy DOHA - SUN & SEA

SUN TIDE SEA among new SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND Guinness records 05:19 17:42 11:30 & 21:45 03:30 & 19:00 05-15/20 KT LONDON: A 12-year-old Indian rollerskating fanatic THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW and a skateboarding goat were HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER among the record-breakers who made it into the 2014 edition MUSCAT 30/27 Partly cloudy 32/27 Chance of storm of the Guinness World Records, KUWAIT 42/29 Clear 42/29 Clear released yesterday. Schoolboy Rohan Kokane, BAHRAIN 39/26 Clear 40/26 Clear from the western Indian city of SANAA 28/15 Partly cloudy 28/14 Partly cloudy Belgaum, won his place in the RIYADH 43/28 Clear 43/26 Clear famous book as the Lowest Limbo DUBAI 39/30 Clear 38/29 Partly cloudy Skater, rollerskating beneath a BAGHDAD 41/23 Clear 41/24 Clear height of just 25cm over a dis- tance of 33 feet. THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW The 12-year-old, the only HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER member of his family who skates, said he hoped his place Italy’s Fabio Reggiani posing with record breaking 5.1-metre high, 5,000kg motorcycle in an undisclosed location. ATHENS 32/23 Partly cloudy 28/22 Clear in the Guinness World Records WASHINGTON 26/14 Chance of showers 21/13 Clear would “bring great prestige to A German woman, Julia largest rideable motorcycle — items is the largest in the world SYDNEY 26/11 Chance of rain 25/13 Mostly cloudy my country”. Plecher, was listed as the fastest while at the other end of the — while 33-year-old Briton James LONDON 19/12 Chance of rain 15/09 Chance of rain A Puerto Rican chihuahua person to run 100 metres in high spectrum, Austin Coulson of the Brown achieved a similar feat PARIS 20/17 Chance of rain 19/12 Chance of rain called Milly was honoured as the heels — crossing the line in just United States had the smallest with his 332-strong collection of world’s smallest dog, coming in at 14.531 seconds. car at just 126.47cm long. vacuum cleaners. ISTANBUL 29/19 Clear 29/13 Chance of storm just 9.65 centimetres tall, while Six times bigger than a normal Steve Sansweet of the United Brown has been collecting the MANILA 32/26 Chance of storm 31/25 Chance of storm Happie the American goat skate- motorbike, a five-tonne vehicle States won a place in the book appliances since he was eight, but DHAKA 34/26 T-storm 34/25 Chance of storm boarded her way to glory by glid- made by Italy’s Fabio Reggiani with his collection of Star Wars said he did not enjoy housework. DELHI 38/26 Partly cloudy 37/27 Partly cloudy ing 36 metres in 25 seconds. was officially named the world’s memorabilia — which at 300,000 AFP ISLAMABAD 31/22 T-storm 30/21 Chance of storm

Blobfish wins Cycling wonder J K Rowling plans Harry world’s ugliest Potter spin-off film series animal award LONDON: Harry Potter author wrote. “Having lived for so long in J K Rowling (pictured) is to my fictional universe, I feel very LONDON: The blobfish, a make her screen writing debut protective of it and I already knew denizen of the Pacific that by penning a series of spin-off a lot about Newt. looks like a bald, grumpy old films set in the magical world “As hardcore Harry Potter fans man, has been named the of the British boy wizard, she will know, I liked him so much world’s ugliest animal, organ- announced yesterday, putting her that I even married his grand- isers of the offbeat competi- in line for another huge payday. son, Rolf, to one of my favourite tion said yesterday. The first film will be called characters from the Harry Potter More than 3,000 people Fantastic Beasts and Where to series, Luna Lovegood.” contributed to an online poll Find Them and will be based on a Rowling added: “Although it will aimed at raising awareness of textbook of the same name used be set in the worldwide commu- unsightly species that play an by Harry and his classmates at nity of witches and wizards where I important role in the ecologi- their school Hogwarts, Rowling was so happy for 17 years, Fantastic cal web. said on her Facebook page. Beasts and Where to Find Them is The blobfish, a squidgy pink Set in New York and fea- neither a prequel nor a sequel to creature capable of enduring turing magical zoologist Newt the Harry Potter series, but an otherwise crushing pressures Scamander — the author of extension of the wizarding world. at great depth, is becoming a Harry’s textbook — it will be set “The laws and customs of the casualty of deep-sea trawling. 70 years before the events of the hidden magical society will be It was a clear winner, snatching core Potter novels. The Warner familiar to anyone who has read 795 votes, said Coralie Young of Bros film comes two years after the Harry Potter books or seen the British Science Association, the final movie in the eight-part the films, but Newt’s story will which announced the results at series spawned by her phenom- start in New York, 70 years before an annual festival in Newcastle, enally successful novels. Harry’s gets under way.” northeastern England. “I always said that I would Rowling, who has sold more than Runner-up was the kakapo, only revisit the wizarding world 450 million copies of the Harry a rare flightless owl-like parrot A man rides a penny farthing bicycle through the streets of Westminster in London. if I had an idea that I was really Potter books, has been keeping that lives in New Zealand, and excited about and this is it,” the busy since the final novel in the third was the axolotl, a Mexican 48-year-old Rowling said. series was published in 2007. amphibian also called the “walk- She pitched the idea to Warner She published her first novel for ing fish”. Other candidates were Bros. herself after the US studio adults, The Casual Vacancy, last the proboscis monkey, which has Space’s ‘Ferrari’ set to fall to Earth approached her about making year to mixed reviews. In July she red genitals, a big nose and a pot Fantastic Beasts into a film. was unmasked as the real author belly, and the Titicaca water “I thought it was a fun idea, of critically acclaimed detective frog, which also goes under the PARIS: A science satellite dubbed the “Ferrari he said. According to re-entry analysis, about 250kg but the idea of seeing Newt novel The Cuckoo’s Calling, pub- less-than-scientific moniker of of space” for its sleek, finned looks will shortly of its one-tonne mass will survive, hitting the surface Scamander, the supposed author lished under the nom de plume “scrotum frog”. run out of fuel and fall to Earth after a successful in a trail of “between 40 and 50 fragments” extend- of Fantastic Beasts, realised by Robert Galbraith. A total of 88,000 people vis- mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) says. ing over 900km, he said. It was impossible right now another writer was difficult,” she With an estimated fortune of ited the website where the poll- Launched in 2009, the satellite — a hi-tech craft to say where the trail would be, as the re-entry is £560m ($885m) the former single ing took place, reflecting wide designed to monitor gravity and ocean circulation uncontrolled, Floberghagen said. mother is the 156th richest per- interest in the issue, she said. — is likely to break up in mid-October, its mission He explained that it was only in 2008, after GOCE son in Britain, according to the “It’s a light-hearted way to manager said. was designed and built, that an international agree- Sunday Times Rich List. make people think about con- The Gravity Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) ment required research satellites to have propulsion Warner Bros. said the new film servation,” Young said. orbits at an extremely low altitude of just 260km, enabling a targeted re-entry that leads to a breakup would spawn video games and The blobfish’s reward is to where there are lingering molecules of atmosphere. over the ocean, thus reducing the risk of impacting other products including links to be enshrined as the official To reduce drag, it has an arrow-like octagonal inhabited areas. the Pottermore website as part of mascot of the Ugly Animal shape and two fins to provide extra aerodynamic “It is much less than other (uncontrolled) re- an “expanded creative partner- Preservation Society (http:// stability, a departure from the box-like form of satel- entries, it is a very small aircraft in fact. We should ship” with Rowling. uglyanimalsoc.com), a loose lites that operate in the complete vacuum of space. put this into perspective and not over-dramatise “We are incredibly honoured association of stand-up come- It stays aloft thanks to an ion engine that began what is happening here,” he said, adding that ESA that Jo has chosen to partner dians who humorously cham- with a stock of 41kg of fuel and is now down to was advising national authorities on the upcoming with Warner Bros. on this excit- pion endangered but visually about 2kg, Rune Floberghagen said from an ESA event. Floberghagen said the fuel was supposed to ing new exploration of the world unappealing species. symposium in Edinburgh, Scotland. last 20 months. But the mission has been hugely of wizardry which has been tre- “The Ugly Animal “We are facing the situation where the electri- helped by extremely low solar activity, which also mendously successful across all Preservation Society is dedi- cal propulsion system which keeps the spacecraft reduces the density of air molecules at this height. of our businesses,” said Kevin cated to raising the profile of flying at this extremely low altitude will stop work- As a result, the ¤350m ($465m) mission, after Tsujihara, CEO of Warner Bros. some of Mother Nature’s more ing somewhere between the end of September and teething problems, has lasted twice has long as Entertainment. aesthetically challenged chil- the beginning of November — the best engineering scheduled. “Everyone is extremely happy with this “She is an extraordinary writer, dren,” it says on its website. “The prediction is in the middle, somewhere in the 16th mission, both in our ability to monitor Earth’s grav- who ignited a reading revolution panda gets too much attention.” or 17th of October,” he said. ity field, and also the spinoff achievements, our abil- around the world, which then AFP Most of the 5.3-metre spacecraft will break up and ity to understand and use the payload onboard,” said became an unprecedented film burn when it tumbles to an altitude of 75km-80km, Floberghagen. AFP phenomenon.” AFP