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WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 • 11 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6534 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Summer festival Migrants stream into Hungary Real estate deals down DOHA: Going by what has boosts sales been happening to global stocks since the past week, real estate investors in Qatar seem to have turned a bit jittery, says a prop- erty market expert. at many outlets “I think Qatar’s booming real estate market has been affected a little due to what has been going on in China and elsewhere in the Huge turnout at Entertainment City world,” said Ahmed Al Orouqi, General Manager of Roots Real DOHA: The ongoing Qatar The official said that the songs Estate Company. He said it was Summer Festival (QSF) which festival slated to be held tomor- natural for the otherwise “brave is heading towards an exciting row and the day after would likely and confident” real estate inves- close, has pushed up sales at par- boost visitor turnout massively. tors here to have been a little ticipating shopping complexes. The QTA has been encouraging A boy holds a stuffed animal near a sign reading “Open the borders! Now!!” at a park where migrants have scared by global goings-on. A glimpse about enhanced sales local talent. Theatre shows were found shelter in the Serbian capital Belgrade yesterday. A record number of refugees streamed into Hungary The subdued sentiment per- figures can be had from the fact held as part of Eid Al Fitr festi- from Serbia just days before Hungary completes a border fence to keep out migrants. See also page 10 haps reflected on real estate that so far more than 70,000 raffle val recently in a bid to encourage transactions last week (August 16 entries for various prizes on offer Qatari artistes, he said. to 20) when their total value was have been filled up and submitted As for a much-publicised stan- less than QR595m. The weekly by shoppers at various outlets. dup comedy show which promises transactions are usually QR1bn Some 33,000 raffle entries for to be a runaway hit, another QTA on an average. The coming week’s the QSF prizes were submitted in official said that the ticket sale High humidity Turkey snap polls on Nov 1 transactions would confirm the the first week of the festival itself, target is 1,200 of all classes. trend, another expert said. and the number went up to 40,000 Half the number of tickets have at night likely ANKARA: Turkey is to hold pro-Kurdish forces despised by Al Orouqi, however, said that in the second week. already been sold and experi- snap elections on November Erdogan. The elections will take investors in Qatar have tremen- “We hope that this number ence suggests that as such shows DOHA: The city will witness a 1 after coalition talks failed, place on November 1, the head of dous faith in the real estate market would go up further in the third approach near, ticket sales pick very hot day today with the max- with President Recep Tayyip the Supreme Electoral Council and their confidence level is very and the fourth week,” said Faisal up very fast, he said. imum temperature soaring up to Erdogan tasking Prime (YSK) Sadi Guven confirmed in high. About house rents, he said Al Mohannadi, Director of PR Some hotels are also making 46 degrees C in Doha and Abu Minister Ahmet Davutoglu yes- a statement. they were stable since new hous- and Communications at Qatar promotional offers as part of the Samra. Humidity levels at night terday with forming an interim Erdogan asked Davutoglu to lead ing stocks were not coming on the Tourism Authority (QTA). QSF and visitors from GCC states are expected to be high, ranging caretaker cabinet. the caretaker government during a market. THE PENINSULA QTA is the organiser of the such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on an average between 80 and 85 Erdogan called the snap polls meeting at his presidential palace, summer festival and the two Eid are taking benefit. percent in Doha, Al Wakrah and after an inconclusive June 7 leg- the presidency said. Davutoglu now festival events as well. After QSF For example, according to Al Al Khor. In Al Shamal it would islative vote where his ruling has five days to form a government Oil picks up concludes by month-end, the QTA Sharq, as part of its tourism pro- be between 70 and 78 percent. party lost its overall majority in that will be in power for just two will begin preparing to hold Eid motion plans, the Torch Hotel is Al Ruwais will be cooler today one of the biggest setbacks of the months and which will lead Turkey NEW YORK: Oil prices recov- Al Adha Festival. offering one night free for every with day temperature expected Turkish strongman’s career. into new elections. ered some lost ground yester- Al Mohannadi said that until two nights booked. to be 38 degrees C while at night The elections will take place at The premier said the situation day after a sharp fall sparked by August 18 the Entertainment City The hotel has also slashed its the mercury level would likely be a critical moment in the country’s is “unprecedented in Turkish his- worries about China’s faltering had witnessed a turnout of some room tariff to QR850 to QR950 32 degrees C. In Messaieed and modern history as the govern- tory”: never before have parties economy. US benchmark West 163,000 visitors, far more than the per day (down from the normal Al Wakrah, the maximum tem- ment battles Kurdish rebels in a failed to form a coalition after Texas Intermediate (WTI) for number of visitors to last year’s tariff) as part of the promotion perature forecast is 42 degrees C, hugely controversial air and land elections and new polls been October delivery rose $1.07 event (QSF). and occupancy is 100 percent. while the minimum, 32 degrees C. campaign. required. “But we shouldn’t cre- to $39.31 a barrel on the New He said that the participating On top of it, breakfast is free A weather forecaster told this In an unusual twist, the care- ate the impression that Turkey is York Mercantile Exchange. shopping outlets have confirmed and there are no charges for newspaper that the current spell taker cabinet will see the rul- going through a political crisis,” In London, Brent North Sea that their sales were up due to children below six years of age, a of high heat and humidity would ing Islamic-rooted Justice and Davutoglu told reporters after crude for October finished at the raffle prizes on offer as part hotel official told the daily. likely ease a little from Friday. Development Party (AKP) meeting Erdogan. $43.21 a barrel. AFP of the QSF. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA forced to work alongside AFP See also page 17 WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Leaders greet Uruguay president DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yester- ROTA to host global youth forum day sent a cable of congratulations to Uruguay President Tabare Ramon Vazquez on his country’s Independence Day. Deputy Emir DOHA: The Global Youth H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani also sent a congratula- Consultation (GYC) for World tory cable to Vazquez. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Humanitarian Summit (WHS) Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a similar is to provide voice to Qatari cable to Vazquez. QNA youth on global stage and inspire them to get involved in interna- tional humanitarian issues. The two-day meet Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) is hosting next week will gather 303 humanitar- ian youth activists from 82 coun- tries, including 69 from Qatar, 35 of whom are Qataris. “ROTA aims to inspire greater action and involvement of Qatar- based youth in humanitarian issues, expose them to major glo- bal humanitarian issues and sug- FROM LEFT: Ali Al Kuwari, Head, Public Relations, RAF, Dr Omar Shahin, Vice-President, United Muslim Relief, gest best possible ways to take Ehab A Amin, Senior Vice-President Commercial, Qatar Airways, Essa Al Mannai, Executive Director, ROTA, Abdulla actions; and encourage ROTA’s Youth Advisory Taskforce to Al Bakri, Community Development Manager, ROTA, Rashid Hamad Al Marri, Administration Director, Nakilat, and engage, advocate and contrib- Yousef Jassim Fakhroo, Head, CSR, QNB, during a press conference at Education City yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP ute to the youth declaration on humanitarian issues,” said Rota City will highlight 12 high-profile does not cover any one particular event, where youth from all over Executive Director Essa Al international and local speakers region,” said Al Bakri. the world will come to Doha to Mannai. who will facilitate discussions on The event will feature plenary have their voices heard on global Over 1,000 youth aged 18-30 four crucial topics — humani- speakers, breakout discussions, humanitarian issues to create a Part of Al Mansoura Street have been screened via online tarian effectiveness; serving the voting, engagement meetings with better future,” Al Mannai said application to be delegates. needs of people in conflict; trans- remote participants, skills-build- and thanked sponsors and part- “In the selection, we were formation through innovation; ing sessions, and an exhibition. ner organisations. closed for 45 days keen to have youth that repre- and reducing vulnerability and The first-of-its-kind event will Representatives of six Qatari sent Qatar, so we have around managing risks. allow views of young people from entities which sponsor GYC DOHA: The Public Works notify motorists and has urged all 70 Qatar-based participants, “In selecting the topics, we were around the world to be incorpo- also addressed the press confer- Authority (Ashghal) has road users to abide by speed limits 35 of whom are Qataris,” Rota keen to have topics that cover the rated into UN Secretary-General ence. They are Qatar National announced that a 355-metre and traffic signs for their safety. Community Development biggest part of geographic distri- Ban Ki-moon’s report, as well as Bank, Qatar Airways, Qatar part of Al Mansoura Street has Meanwhile, Ashghal announced Manager Abdulla Al Bakri told a bution of youth. For instance, overall recommendations ahead Petroleum, Nakilat, Sheikh Thani been temporarily closed to com- the closure of 434-metre of one press conference yesterday. the topic ‘Fulfilling the needs of of WHS in Istanbul, Turkey, next Bin Abdullah Foundation for plete upgrade of the sewage net- direction of Al Hilal Street from The event on September 1 and 2 groups affected by political and year. Humanitarian Services (RAF), work in Al Najma. its intersection with Al Bunduqiya at Hamad Bin Khalifa University non-political conflicts and disas- “We are proud to be cho- and United Muslim Relief. The closure will stretch Street to the roundabout in Student Centre at Education ters’ is an international issue that sen by the UN to host such an THE PENINSULA 50-metre before the intersection Najma Street, QNA reports. of the street with Al Kharaib The closure will be in two parts. Street up to 50-metre past the The first from the intersection of intersection of Al Mansoura Al Bunduqiya Street with Al Hilal Street with Al Bunduqiya Street. Street until the intersection of Ooredoo unveils new business messaging packs The closure started yesterday Al Mareekh Street with Al Hilal and lasts until October 10. Street from today to September DOHA: Ooredoo has launched to promote products, services and The new packs come in bundles packs have been designed to help The number of lanes along 26. The second will be from the new monthly recurring busi- ideas, or send promotions, book- of 450,000, 300,000 and 150,000 establish and maintain business Al Mansoura Street remain the intersection of Al Mareekh Street ness messaging packs to give ing confirmations, reminders or and offer local and international relationships between clients and same in both directions, one open with Al Hilal Street until the business customers a more cost- news to drive business and save text messages. their customers, are strong mobile to traffic in each direction. Street roundabout in Najma Street from effective way to contact their cost and time with an effective Pack 450,000 contains 8.5 mil- marketing tools to communicate parking will be closed on both today to October 26. Motorists local and international custom- response. lion text messages, pack 300,000 promotions, new services, special sides of Al Mansoura Street dur- can use Najma Street and Ibn ers this year. Ooredoo has improved pricing over 5m and pack 150,000 includes greetings, important corporate ing the period. Shuaib Street, or Al Khalidiya The Business Messaging by introducing three new high- 2.3m with a reduced rate of up information, and much more. The Also part of Al Kharaib Street Street through Muaath Street Service is a mobile marketing tool volume SMS packs. It has also to QR0.05 per local SMS and launch is part of Ooredoo’s strat- will be closed at the intersection in both directions as alternative that offers companies an efficient increased the value received by QR0.20 with each international egy of focusing on the needs of the of the street with Al Mansoura routes. The closure aims to com- way to send bulk messages to customers, by reducing the local SMS. business sector and investing in Street. Road users can use alter- plete rehabilitation work on the mobile devices and smartphones. price of each package and increas- The packs enable Qatar’s its expanding portfolio of business native local roads in the area. underground sewerage network Companies can contact large ing the number of message recipi- diverse businesses to take con- services on its bigger and faster Ashghal will install signs to in Al Najma. THE PENINSULA groups of people using the service ents in each. trol of services they need. The network. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Five QU professors honoured with QRCS reviews Nepal relief projects

Scopus awards DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent and the Norwegian emergency Society (QRCS) sent a human- mobile hospital and discussed DOHA: Five faculty members of itarian envoy to follow up on relief arrangements and a Qatar University have been hon- relief intervention undertaken WATSAN course for local staff. oured with QU Scientists 2015 Scopus by its staff to help the popu- He visited QRCS’s emergency Awards for outstanding research in lation affected by the April mobile hospital in Trishuli, social sciences, humanities, natural earthquake in Nepal. Nuwakot, to check water sam- sciences, medical and health sciences, The visit also involved con- ples from the hospital and local and engineering and technology. sultations with Nepal Red Cross community, train hospital staff QU Research Office was also recog- Society (NRCS), International in how to purify water and nised for contribution to Qatar research Federation of the Red Cross arrange for NRCS staff training. community. and Red Crescent Societies Over two days, 32 Nepalese Dr Abdullah Kaid Al Swidi, Assistant (IFRC) and capacity-building volunteers received training in Professor of Management, received the for local water and sanitation contents, operation and main- award in the social sciences category; Dr (WATSAN) workers. tenance of KIT 5, a WATSAN Ahmed M Megreya, Associate Professor QRCS assigned the 12-day intervention technology to of Psychological Sciences, (humanities); mission to Khalid Hamad Al provide small local communi- Dr Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim, Marri, a volunteer since 2006. ties with disinfected water, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and After attending basic/advanced sanitation units and hygiene Practice (medical and health sciences); disaster response courses and requirements. Dr Mert Atilhan, Associate Professor the annual disaster manage- They were also introduced to of Chemical Engineering (natural ment camp, he became a QRCS- the basics of launching aware- sciences); and Dr Mohsen Guizani, certified WATSAN trainer ness campaigns to promote Professor in Computer Engineering and member of IFRC’s MENA healthy practices, control water- (engineering and technology). They are Regional Disaster Response borne diseases and remove solid from colleges of Business and Economics, Team. waste. Al Marri handed over Education, Pharmacy and Engineering. Al Marri is a founder member KIT 5 to NRCS to continue to Dr Mazen Hasna, Vice-President, of QRCS’s disaster risk reduc- A volunteer at Qatar Red Crescent Society office in Nepal. serve the earthquake-hit towns QU and Chief Academic Officer, con- tion team and represented the in need of clean drinking water, gratulated them and said: “The awards society in humanitarian events Nepal. On arrival in Kathmandu, mission in Nepal, who took implemented since April. hygiene supplies and environ- demonstrate the level of excellence in and missions in Kenya, Iran, Al Marri was received by Dr him to the mission’s office Al Marri also met officials of mental sanitation. research that underlines the teaching/ Somalia, Libya, Lebanon, and Mosaab Breij, Head, QRCS and discussed relief activities NRCS, IFRC, British Red Cross, THE PENINSULA learning environment at QU, and the growing energy of our faculty research impact and output that are a key com- ponent of ranking measures. “Recognition of the office also high- lights QU’s commitment to academic UK journalist to host new weekly show on Al Jazeera English and research quality and excellence and its position as a leading institution for DOHA: Award-winning UpFront will set its agenda Giles Trendle, Acting highlight vital issues. research in the region.” British journalist Mehdi and develop in-depth global Managing Director of the Reality Check: A power- Coordinated between the office and Hasan (pictured) will host topics over 25 minutes of news channel, said: “The challenging, ful two-minute segment illus- Elsevier Publishing, the award cer- a new weekly current affairs and current affairs, setting itself dynamic and provocative weekly trated with innovative graphics, emony was held for the first time in show on Al Jazeera English apart from weekly review shows. review shows will surprise and busting myths that constantly the Gulf. The awards aims to honour from September 4. UpFront will Anchored by Al Jazeera’s global inspire viewers, as Mehdi chal- permeate mainstream media, researchers building their careers in be broadcast from Al Jazeera’s perspective, UpFront will have lenges guest after guest to reveal cutting through the spin to academic research and help them gain new studio in Washington DC high-profile guests and will give stories behind the story. The reveal what really matters. recognition. on Fridays at 19.30 GMT. space to provocative, inquisitive shows will be rigorously intellec- The Arena: Voices from across Elsevier evaluated the projects and Taking on Hasan’s successful and robust Hasan. tual and unashamedly forensic.” the world confront, debate provided quantitative analyses using and rigorous style of interview- He said: “I’m incredibly UpFront will feature hard- and share ideas in the global data from Scopus, the largest abstract ing, showcased on Al Jazeera’s excited to be launching UpFront hitting segments to deliver forum moderated by Hasan. and citation database of peer-reviewed flagship one-on-one interview in September, asking ques- key ideas and house high-level Unashamedly adversarial, it literature, while QU subject experts series Head to Head, the new tions our viewers across the debates, including: features two guests tackling the focused on qualitative analyses. programme will ask questions globe want to hear asked and The Headliner: A one-on- crucial topic of the week. Other criteria were: Nature and that often get left behind. answered. Interviews, debates, one interview with some of the UpFront will be repeated Its episodes will also be freely uniqueness of research, outcomes, inter- It will give a refreshing per- explainers, and more, we’ll aim biggest global political and cul- on Saturdays at 14:30 GMT, available online after broad- national collaboration, M-index and spective on the week’s news to deliver them all. It’ll be a tural figures of our time. Hasan Sundays at 04:30 GMT and cast. Visit aljazeera.com/pro- cited/uncited publications. through sharp interviews, vigor- challenge. And, I hope, a weekly will challenge the guest, seek Mondays at 08:30 GMT, from grammes/upfront for details. THE PENINSULA ous debates and political satire. adventure.” answers to key questions and September 4 to November 20. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME SEC urges parents to make sure children eat breakfast at home DOHA: Qatar’s school regulator has at home,” said Ali Al Rumaihi. “Let And, importantly, the food items are students and conditions are hygienic. Conditions for food packaging have urged parents of Independent school food bought from school canteen be separate for the three levels — primary, From the next school year which also been specified. Contractors and sup- students to ensure they have the first secondary.” preparatory and secondary. begins on September 6, a new system for pliers who fail to comply with guidelines meal of the day at home and do not rely With obesity being a problem among Prices of food products range from school canteens would begin that entails and conditions are liable to be fined and on the school canteen for breakfast. some children, authorities have devel- QR1 to QR6 depending on items and the strict monitoring, said Al Rumaihi. replaced, if needed, Al Rumaihi said. The head of the school canteens oped strict guidelines for school canteens school level. Prices are less in a primary The new system also requires each The SEC, with school canteen com- department of the Supreme Education and their contractors and suppliers. school, for example. canteen contractor and suppliers to mittees, plans to raise awareness among Council (SEC) said parents must pre- The SEC’s school canteens section has Every school has a canteen commit- have commercial licence, venue for food students about the importance of hav- pare breakfast for their children and specified some 50 food items that can tee and Al Rumaihi is also a member. preparation must follow strict health ing healthy food because the school envi- make sure they have it at home. be sold in the canteens of Independent The school panel is responsible for guidelines and canteen workers must ronment has a significant impact on the “Students must have the first meal schools and nothing else can be sold that making sure the canteen doesn’t sup- have regular health certifications and development of students’ eating habit. of the day, which is the main meal, the section hasn’t cleared. ply unhealthy and unspecified food to must wear cap, gloves and uniform. THE PENINSULA Parents want more power for Independent school teachers

DOHA: A poll conducted by a Al Raya for a week on its website, About 96.2 percent of the local Arabic daily ahead of the the daily reported yesterday, cit- respondents said it was necessary beginning of new school year ing the findings. for a student to go to school on from early next month, shows Nearly everyone interviewed the first day of its reopening after that a majority of parents want agreed that new Independent each vacation, and to have regular Independent School teachers to schools being opened by authori- school attendance. be vested w ith more authority to ties would help reduce the The first day of a school’s reo- ensure discipline in classroom. strength of a classroom to the pening is important so students Some 92 percent of respond- benefit of students. must be present, the daily said ents said they favoured teachers Ideally, a classroom should quoting unnamed experts. “The being given more authority to deal not have more than 25 students, Supreme Education Council must with students and ensure disci- which is good for learning and help spread this culture among pline in classroom. students’ interaction with the students,” the daily said, citing The survey was carried out by teacher. experts. THE PENINSULA

White goats, arguably the Saanen ones that have their origins in Switzerland, are seen in a flock being guided by a goat-herd in Al Wukair part of Al Wakrah yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT White goats sighted in Al Wukair

DOHA: A large flock of white size and mostly found in the UAE Community elders say some goats was sighted in Al Wukair and Oman. rich families in Qatar have begun area of Al Wakrah yesterday. In the Arab world, some 54 raising goats and sheep of rare Officials with customs inspectors who made the seizures The goats, known as Saanen breeds of goats are found but as and good species. that have their origins in far as meat consumption is con- Saanen are heavy producers Switzerland, were guided by a cerned, sheep meat (mutton) has but their milk is low in butterfat 2,894 tramadol pills, 600 bullets seized goat-herd, who spoke Hindi. been more popular. compared to other dairy goats. The goats were understanda- But productivity of meat and Goat meat is low in fat than DOHA: The General Authority Officers seized 2,894 tablets seizures and stressed continued bly from a private farm of a local milk in the region is low on aver- chicken but higher in protein of Customs has foiled a bid after inspecting a bag of a passen- efforts to protect the country’s Qatari family, for private use. age, experts rue. than beef. It is lower in calories, to smuggle a large number of ger coming from an Arab country, security. Community elders say in Qatar In Qatar, for instance, fat, saturated fat and cholesterol, narcotic ‘tramadol’ tablets at the authority said in a statement He said the authority is sup- the tradition of raising sheep and Australian mutton has been sub- experts say. So its consumption is Hamad International Airport, yesterday. porting its employees in all ports goats in arid conditions in catch- sidised by the government for rising in the country. and seized 600 bullets from a Ahmed bin Ali Al Mohannadi, and providing them with training ing up. years on end to ensure people Saanen are generally all-white passenger coming through Abu Chairman of the authority, hon- in customs-related fields. Native to the GCC region are have easy access to it as a cheaper with forward facing ears. Samra border port. oured the inspectors for the two QNA the black sheep, that are small in source of protein. THE PENINSULA

Nakilat expands joint venture with Maran to include two LNG vessels

DOHA: Nakilat, the shipping arm of established in 2005 with four jointly- LNG fleet as the largest in the world. “Nakilat’s strong financial perform- Qatar’s liquefied natural gas sector, owned vessels, and the deal has been “Maran Gas is a reputed quality ance has allowed us to increase our fleet has expanded its joint venture with expanded thrice. operator and this move strengthens size further. Selecting strong partners Greek shipping company Maran Yesterday’s agreement increases the ties between both entities and the cur- has been fundamental to Nakilat’s suc- Ventures Inc. to include two new number of vessels jointly-owned by rent deal allows for further expansion cess, and our relationship with Maran LNG vessels. Nakilat and Maran Gas to 13, confirm- in the future,” said Abdullah Al Sulaiti continues to be reinforced since our Maran Nakilat Co. Ltd. was ing Nakilat’s wholly and jointly-owned of Nakilat. first agreement in 2005,” he said.

Officials at the event.

The two new vessels are cubic metres and 174,000 under construction in South cubic metres, respectively. Korea and, upon delivery in “We look forward to the third and fourth quar- working closely together in ters of this year, will bring the future with Nakilat’s the total number of LNG highly professional team to and LPG ships partially or explore and develop oppor- wholly owned by Nakilat to tunities in the LNG space,” 67. They are tri-fuel diesel said John Angelicoussis of electric propulsion models Maran Ventures. with capacities of 161,870 THE PENINSULA Power waste

Street lights along Najma Street, in front of Kahramaa Awareness Park, were seen switched on at about 12.45pm yesterday. Interestingly, Kahramaa, the distributor of utili- ties, is striving to reduce per capita water and electricity consumption by 35 and 20 percent, respectively, until 2017 through its campaigns, such as upcoming Awareness Park and Tarsheed (National Programme for Conservation and Energy Efficiency). Per capita water and power consump- tion in Qatar is one of the highest in the world. WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 WCMC-Q welcomes new intake of future doctors 30pc of students Qatari; first batch to experience new 6-year programme

DOHA: Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) has welcomed its new intake of students hoping to become the physicians of the future. The college held a week-long orientation programme for the The winners of the summer loan campaign. students, some of whom have joined Foundation Programme and others the six-year integrated Medical Programme, beginning Commercial Bank with the pre-medical curriculum. The orientation programme featured daily icebreaker sessions to help new students get to know names summer loan one another, demonstrations of how to use WCMC-Q’s digital library, and advice on key study techniques and time-management campaign winners skills. The students also learned about DOHA: Commercial Bank has as 1.99 percent flat interest rate the college’s computer services announced the 12th and final (equivalent to 3.69 percent reduc- and were advised on academic pair of winners of its summer ing interest rate) and mortgage integrity. campaign, offering customers loans with repayment rates start- Dr Javaid Sheikh, Dean, the best personal, vehicle and ing from 3.99 percent reducing WCMC-Q, said the intake of mortgage loan deals. interest rate (equivalent to 2.15 new students was one of the high- Mohammad Sharique percent flat interest rate). lights of the college year and that Makhdumi and Ronel Tubeo All loans came with the ben- they would be the first to expe- Rivera entered into the weekly efit of a payment holiday of up to rience the new, six-year medical draw by taking out a personal six months for Qataris and up to programme. The new intake of students. loan and each won travel vouch- three for expatriates, same day He said: “All of our students ers worth QR15,000 to spend approvals, and banking support are driven by intellectual curios- knowledge with a pre-medical enrolled in the six-year integrated meet his peers and had also been however and to any destination 24 hours. ity but a new cohort really brings curriculum, but they will no medical programme and 30 per- informative, preparing students they choose. Dean Proctor, EGM Chief a breath of fresh air to the college. longer have to apply to join the cent of them are Qatari. for their future lives at WCMC-Q. There have been two win- Consumer & Private Banking, “Their excitement and enthu- medical curriculum. Orientation exercises also gave “The orientation week was fun ners every week throughout the said: “Commercial Bank continues siasm is palpable and their thirst “Their transition will be auto- students the opportunity to con- and included important informa- campaign, with customers par- to offer exceptional value for its for knowledge is inspiring. They matic, assuming they have met tributed to the community. tion about college life. ticipating by taking a personal, customers. To give our customers have a state-of-the-art facility at appropriate promotion condi- The doctors of the future “I am looking forward to having vehicle or mortgage loan during more benefits over the summer their disposal and an experienced tions. Having seen and met many served food at a lunch for main- a very successful six years here the period. months we offered two customers world-class faculty to teach them. of our new students, I have every tenance and catering staff and and passing all my courses and During the campaign, custom- the chance to win travel vouchers “Even more exciting is that faith that they will do just that. I helped gather and pack items for exams. ers enjoyed personal loans with worth QR15,000 every week until they will now experience a new, have no doubt that our new stu- local charities helping the needy. “I’m also looking forward to repayment rates as low as 3.99 the end of the campaign. I would integrated medical education dents — Qatar’s future doctors — Abdulla Al Thani has embarked getting a high score in Medical percent reducing interest rate like to pass on my congratulations programme. will make us proud in the coming on the first year of the six-year College Admission Test, which (equivalent to 2.15 percent flat to the winners.” “They will still spend two years.” medical programme. He said ori- will be a year from now,” he added. interest rate), vehicle loans as low THE PENINSULA years perfecting their scientific Fifty-four students have been entation had been a great way to THE PENINSULA Google to launch ‘Street View’

A Google photograph of Museum of Islamic Art.

DOHA: Pursuant to the utmost to be accessible through Internet acquire approvals from authori- interest of Google company on applications and smart mobile ties prior to commencing survey incorporating Qatar to the coun- phones. Google has photographed of the streets and production of tries utilising the techniques Museum of Islamic Art using this panoramic images. of displaying panoramic road technique. The ministry has also signed an view images entitled ‘Street The centre has been authorised MoU with Hare company, formerly View’, Anthony McLaughlin, in to negotiate with Google and enter known as Navteq for producing charge of Google ‘Street View’ into an agreement on implemen- three-dimensional images for the for Europe and the Middle East, tation of the project by a com- streets and abutting buildings with visited Doha GIS Centre. mittee of government entities, laser imaging technology, as the He discussed with officials of provided that the company shall agreement provides for the right the Ministry of Municipality & abide by applicable regulations and of the ministry to obtain data after Urban Planning the possibility of technical requirements. completion of its production and signing an agreement authoris- A memorandum of understand- enabling accessibility to govern- ing the company for imaging the ing on requirements has been ment agencies associated with GIS streets, utilising the techniques, signed and based on it, Google will network. THE PENINSULA Tributes paid to Bangabandhu

DOHA: Bangladesh Awami League-Qatar marked National Mourning Day and 40th death anniversary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at the ball- room of Ramna restaurant in Najma, attended by a large number of community members. The programme started with one-minute silence and recitation of verses from the Holy Quran fol- lowed by the screening of a docu- mentary film on Bangabandhu. Officials at the event. Speakers also highlighted his contribution to Bangladesh’s the barbaric act of assassination members on August 15, 1975. independence and condemned of Bangabandhu and his family THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

No plans to swap prisoners New ‘IS chemical attack’ in Syria with US: Iran Over 25 civilians affected: Report DUBAI: Iran is not consider- ing a prisoner exchange with BEIRUT: Activists and medical face, and skin irritations,” said the United States, a senior offi- organisations have documented Khatib, who heads Shahba, an cial said yesterday, ahead of an an alleged chemical weapons anti-regime news agency. expected verdict for an Iranian- attack on a Syrian town last “In total, more than 25 people American journalist held in week that affected dozens of were affected, four of them seri- Tehran for more than a year. civilians, with one source blam- ous cases that were transferred to “The reports on the possible ing the Islamic State (IS) group. Turkey. They were all civilians,” exchange of prisoners are not Doctors Without Borders he said. true and it is not on the table,” (MSF) said it had treated civil- SAMS, which supports clinics Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan ians apparently exposed to a in war-torn Syria, said a field hos- Qashqavi was quoted as saying by chemical agent in Marea, with- pital it operates in Marea treated Iran’s Isna news agency. out saying what type or providing “more than 50 civilians exhibiting There has been speculation of a overall casualty figures. symptoms of chemical exposure”. prisoner swap between Iran and The Syrian American Medical “Roughly 30 civilians developed the United States both before Society (SAMS) said its own doc- skin blisters, with doctors iden- and after last month’s landmark tors in the northern town had tifying the agent to be mustard nuclear deal, but both countries identified the agent as mustard gas,” it said in a statement, adding have consistently denied that gas. blood, clothing and hair samples such an agreement is imminent. Mamoun Al Khatib, a jour- had been collected from patients Jason Rezaian, Tehran bureau nalist and activist from Marea, for further assessment. chief for the Washington Post, said more than 50 artillery shells MSF, a Paris-based medi- was arrested in July 2014 and crashed into the centre of the cal humanitarian group, said it charged with espionage. His town, an opposition stronghold in treated four patients, all from a last closed-door hearing was the northern province of Aleppo, single family in Marea, who were held in early August and the before midday last Friday. “exhibiting symptoms of exposure Revolutionary Court is expected Khatib accused the IS group, to chemical agents” in northern to issue a verdict shortly. which has attempted to seize Syria on August 21. The other US citizens detained Marea in recent months, of firing The family arrived at MSF’s in Iran are Christian pastor Saeed the shells which he said emitted a facilities an hour after a mortar Rebel forces hold a position near the frontline in the Al Zahra area on the northwestern outskirts of Aleppo, where Abedini and Amir Hekmati, a “hideous stench”. shell hit their home and yellow opposition fighters have been battling Syrian pro-government forces. former sergeant in the US Marine “We went to the local field hos- gas filled their living room. Corps. Robert Levinson, a private pital, and the doctors told us there “MSF has no laboratory evi- the group’s programme manager symptoms, the way these symp- fiercely attacked anti-government investigator, disappeared in Iran were cases of suffocation, severe dence to confirm the cause of in Syria, said in a statement. toms changed over time, and the forces in Marea in an effort to cut in 2007. coughing, redness in the eyes and these symptoms,” Pablo Marco, “However, the patients’ clinical patients’ testimony about the cir- off a supply route into the country Qashqavi said there were six- cumstances of the poisoning all from Turkey. teen Iranians jailed in the United point to exposure to a chemical Meanwhile, French President States for bypassing sanctions, agent.” Mustard gas is an asphyx- Francois Hollande said that the and around 60 prisoners jailed Libya calls for air strikes against IS iant that has been banned in war “neutralisation” of Syrian leader for other crimes. by the UN since 1993. Bashar Al Assad was a pre-condi- California-born Rezaian faces Syria’s government had stock- tion to resolving the crisis in the charges of collecting confidential PARIS: Libya’s foreign minister yesterday 2014, driven out by a motley coalition of Islamists piles of more than 19 tonnes of war-torn country. information and handing it to hos- renewed a call for the lifting of an arms embargo and militants. mustard gas, but it handed them “We must reduce the terror- tile governments; writing a letter and for international air strikes to help tackle Dayri said the IS group was present in the over as part of a multinational ist influence without maintain- to US President Barack Obama; the Islamic State (IS) group which threatens to towns of Derna, Benghazi, Sirte and Sabratha. effort to strip the country of ing Assad. The two are bound up and acting against national secu- create a “rear base” in the country. “They have not yet seized oil fields, but we fear 1,300 metric tonnes of chemical together,” Hollande told a gather- rity. The Washington Post has “The situation is extremely serious,” Mohamed they might come to control several wells,” he weapons. ing of French diplomats in Paris. called the charges “absurd”. Al Dayri, foreign minister for Libya’s internation- added. Nearly two weeks ago, reports “We must create a politi- ally-recognised government based in Misrata said “On Saturday, there was a call from their lead- emerged IS militants in Iraq may cal transition in Syria, it’s a on a visit to Paris. ers in Iraq and Syria to reinforce their ranks in have used mustard gas against necessity.” Israel frees “People are dying, are crucified, are disinterred Libya. They want to make Libya a rear base.” Iraqi Kurdish fighters. He laid out three conditions for from their graves, are burned alive. Libyans don’t He said IS currently had limited means in Libya A US official said it was “plau- resolving the crisis -- the first of migrants from understand why the international community and had faced pushback from local populations sible” the extremist group had which was the “neutralisation” of doesn’t wake up to these dangers.” working alongside other armed Islamist groups used the deadly gas on Kurdish Assad. The second was to offer desert facility Libya has two rival governments and has been including Al Qaeda, notably in Derna in June. peshmerga fighters. “solid guarantees to all the mod- torn apart since the international community “After 2011, Libya was abandoned to its fate,” IS, which has seized territory erate opposition forces, notably TEL AVIV: Israel released helped oust its leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. said Dayri. He called for the United Nations to lift across Syria and Iraq, is fighting the Sunnis and Kurds, and to hundreds of African migrants One government which Dayri is part of controls the arms embargo imposed in 2011. Kurdish forces and Arab groups preserve state structures and the from a desert detention centre most eastern regions after fleeing Tripoli in July AFP opposed to it in both countries. unity of Syria.” yesterday after a court order, In Syria, the jihadist group has AFP but asylum seekers were left with few options after being barred from two cities. Detainees leaving the facility waited at bus stops for rides and Boycott forces down fish price in Kuwait wondered where they would live Yemen fire after being banned from Tel Aviv and Eilat, where African migrant KUWAIT: A consumer boycott in Kuwait and consumers said. “It began with five guys considering cutting those subsidies. Bahrain, kills 3 Saudi communities have sprung up. has forced down the retail price of fish in a on Twitter,” Abdullah Al Anzi, a 33-year-old for example, plans to remove meat subsidies The mayor of a third city sign of the difficulties which Gulf govern- Kuwaiti with two children, said yesterday. next month. Kuwait, which has projected a warned that freed migrants ments may face as they try to save money “Kuwaiti zubaidi had never risen to this state budget deficit of $27bn this year, has soldiers would be prevented from enter- by cutting food subsidies. price before. We used to say we would rely said it is reviewing its subsidy system. ing his town. After the price of pomfret, known to Gulf on the government and parliament to ensure But the reaction of Kuwaiti consumers to RIYADH: Three Saudi soldiers One man said he was leaving Arabs as zubaidi or the “king of fish”, rose to fairness in food prices, but now the Kuwaiti rising fish prices suggests subsidy cuts might have been killed by artillery fire the Holot Detention Centre with 15 dinars ($49.60) a kilogramme, outraged people have taken control — you can see it trigger a public backlash, making it difficult from Yemen, and another died just $17 and a sandwich. consumers launched a campaign on Twitter from the size of the reaction on the street.” to push them through parliament. when his patrol vehicle crashed The supreme court ordered last week to boycott fish sellers. The price of pomfret is not subsidised, but In a sign of its concern about the boycott, along the border, authorities in Israel to release illegal migrants The campaign, named “Let It Rot”, left Kuwait and other Gulf Arab governments the cabinet asked the commerce minister to Riyadh said yesterday. held for more than a year at the markets such as Souq Sharq, Kuwait’s main subsidise basic foods such as sugar, rice, coordinate with the agriculture and fisheries A Saudi border post in the detention centre in the Negev fish centre, almost deserted and has succeeded cooking oil and meat to keep prices low for authority to control fish prices and problems kingdom’s southern region of desert, in a ruling that affected so well that the price of pomfret has fallen consumers. With low global oil prices slash- related to fishing, state news agency Kuna Jazan came under shell and 1,178 asylum seekers. back to about 9 dinars, Kuwaiti shopkeepers ing state revenues, governments are now reported. REUTERS rocket fire from Yemeni territory AFP on Monday. After initially reporting that one soldier had been killed in British FM in Kuwait the attack, an interior ministry spokesman said on Tuesday that two others had succumbed to their wounds. Quoted by the official SPA news agency, the spokesman did not give a number of those thought to have been wounded in the attack. In a separate incident, a Saudi soldier operating along the border with Yemen was killed when his vehicle overturned, the spokes- man added. Riyadh said Sunday that rocket fire had killed a general, the high- est-ranking officer to die in cross- border attacks since a Saudi-led coalition began air strikes against Iran-backed rebels across Yemen in March. Nearly 60 people, mainly military personnel, have been killed in Saudi Arabia’s bor- der region since the air campaign Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al Mubarak Al Sabah with British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond began. AFP in Kuwait City yesterday. S Sudan soldiers raped children, burned people alive UNITED NATIONS: South Sudanese for January to July 2014, but warned in a Dinka people against Machar’s ethnic Nuer soldiers raped children, burned people report made public yesterday that it did people. Kiir is expected to sign a peace deal alive in their homes and hunted others not mean South Sudan had acquired eve- on Wednesday to end the conflict. Machar for days in swamps in an increasingly rything it wanted. signed the deal last week. brutal war the government had hoped to South Sudan was plunged into a civil war The UN experts found that a govern- win with an emergency $850m military in December 2013 when a political crisis ment offensive in oil-producing Unity State budget, UN experts said. sparked fighting between forces loyal to between April and July this year had been A panel of experts who monitor United President Salva Kiir and rebels allied with “intent on rendering communal life unviable Nations sanctions on South Sudan his former deputy Riek Machar. The conflict and prohibiting any return to normalcy fol- obtained a copy of the emergency budget has reopened ethnic fault lines that pit Kiir’s lowing the violence.” REUTERS WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 South Sudan Cabinet fails president to sign peace on trash crisis deal today

JUBA: South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has finally in Lebanon agreed to sign a peace deal and power-sharing accord to end a 20-month civil war, his spokes- Protests near prime minister’s office man said yesterday. Presidential spokesman Ateny BEIRUT: Lebanon’s cabinet in Riad Al Solh Square near the Wek Ateny said that the presi- ended an acrimonious meeting premier’s office. dents of Kenya, Uganda and Sudan yesterday with no solution to It came as Prime Minister plus Ethiopia’s prime minister a trash crisis that has sparked Tammam Salam ordered the “will converge on Juba tomorrow violent protests and calls for the removal of a concrete blast wall (today) morning for a one day government’s resignation. at the site, which Lebanese had summit, and the President of the The cabinet meeting came as dubbed the “wall of shame”. Republic of South Sudan will sign people continued to gather in The wall was erected after the peace agreement.” central Beirut for demonstrations protests on Saturday and Sunday The spokesman said, however, that began over a trash crisis but turned violent. that the government was still evolved into an outlet for deep- The crowds swelled, despite the unhappy with the accord, drawn seated frustrations over govern- “You Stink” campaign which has up by the regional bloc IGAD. ment impotence. behind the street protests sched- “The government has some res- After more than five hours uling its next official demonstra- ervations... even if the President of talks, the cabinet decided to tion for Saturday. Lebanese protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against the ongoing trash crisis, in front of the seat will sign,” Ateny said. reject a list of tenders for waste Protests were also taking place of the government in central Beirut yesterday. South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek management contracts across elsewhere, calling for greater Machar, a former vice president, Lebanon and refer the problem accountability. the proposed costs ahead of the statement made no mention of Saturday night against Lebanon’s signed the deal last Monday, in to a ministerial committee. At the weekend, Salam cabinet meeting. potential landfill solutions. “corrupt political class”. line with a deadline to do so. Both “Given the high prices (quoted acknowledged protesters’ frustra- Lebanon already pays some But it said $100m (around “In the beginning, this was sides in the conflict have been fac- by would-be contractors), the tions and warned that his govern- of the world’s highest per-tonne ¤87m) of development money was a battle over the trash issue... ing the threat on international council of ministers has decided ment risked becoming irrelevant waste collection rates, and media being allocated to the northern But now there is a general bat- sanctions if they refuse to sign. not to approve the tenders and if it could not address the public’s said the companies sought to raise Akkar region, which some politi- tle against the political class,” But Kiir only initialled part is charging the ministerial com- concerns. “We’re heading towards prices even further. cians have proposed as a potential organiser Marwan Maalouf told of the text, and his government mittee with finding alternatives,” collapse if things continue as they The core of the crisis, which landfill site. reporters. slammed the accord as a “sellout” a cabinet statement said. are,” he cautioned. erupted after the July 17 clo- Media said that even after new Experts said the protests had — saying it needed more time for The decision came after a ses- But yesterday’s cabinet meeting sure of the landfill serving Beirut waste management contracts become a rare outlet for Lebanese consultations. sion that saw six ministers from was unable to resolve the social and its surroundings, remains were approved, it could take up frustrated by an out-of-touch Key issues of disagreement one political bloc walk out. issue that has united protesters unaddressed. to six months for collection and political elite and an atmosphere include details of a power-shar- For months, the 18-month- for a rare display of non-sectarian When the Naameh landfill disposal to begin. of impunity. ing proposal between the govern- old government has been para- anger. It was intended to discuss closed, the government failed to On Monday, leaders of “You “People are on the streets ment and rebels, which could see lysed by political disagreements companies qualified to bid for new identify sites for new landfills or Stink” said they were regroup- because they feel that at every Machar return as vice-president. between its two main blocs, ren- waste removal contracts. alternative arrangements. ing after the weekend violence. level there is no one there for Ateny also said the government dering decision-making virtually The list had drawn fire from Trash began piling up until They blamed the clashes them,” said Maha Yahya, a senior was unhappy over calls to demili- impossible. activists who said the firms were local municipalities found tem- on “troublemakers”, but also associate at the Carnegie Middle tarise the capital Juba, hand over Yesterday, large crowds carry- linked to political figures and porary solutions — dumping in acknowledged that they needed East Centre think tank. “It’s an greater powers to the rebels in ing Lebanese flags and chanting were seeking exorbitant fees. empty lots, river beds and even time to organise better. They alarm bell for all the political the oil-rich Upper Nile region, gathered for spontaneous protests Several ministers also criticised forests. Yesterday’s cabinet called a new demonstration for leadership.” AFP and see foreigners in charge of a Monitoring and Evaluation Commission -- the body that will police the implementation of the peace deal. Sources in IGAD also con- firmed plans for the deal to be Anti-nuclear deal protest outside Iran parliament signed in Juba on Wednesday, with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Ugandan President TEHRAN: Dozens of hardline Iranian “a partner in crime with the government” achievements of the deal and said “sanc- reopened by Foreign Secretary Philip Yoweri Museveni, Sudanese students opposed to the nuclear agree- on the issue. Some held banners calling the tions remain but our dignity is violated”. Hammond the same day. Around 40 protes- President Omar Hassan Al ment with world powers gathered in deal an “American Trojan horse to infil- The students also protested the arrest tors had chanted anti-British slogans, and Bashir, Ethiopian Prime Minister front of parliament yesterday, urging trate Iran”. of some hardliners Sunday in front of the some were arrested but released later in Hailemariam Desalegn and chief lawmakers to decide quickly on the text, The conservatives questioned the British embassy in Tehran, which was the day. AFP mediator Seyoum Mesfin due to several local media reported. attend. An IGAD official said The nuclear deal would see sanctions on rebel leader Machar would not be Iran lifted in exchange for a new inspec- there because security provisions tions regime and curbs on the country’s Money ‘running out to monitor agreement’ were not yet in place. atomic programme. South Sudan’s civil war Iran’s parliament and the US Congress erupted in December 2013 when need to vote on the agreement struck in VIENNA: The UN nuclear can go ahead. Under the agree- current Iran nuclear agree- financial contributor — said Kiir accused his former deputy Vienna before it can be implemented. watchdog said yesterday it ment reached between Tehran ments would be exhausted by it was committed to ensur- Machar of planning a coup, set- Congress is expected to pass a resolution will run out of money next and six world powers on July the end of next month. ing it had enough money for ting off a cycle of retaliatory next month opposing the deal. month to monitor imple- 14, sanctions relief for Iran The IAEA will need an addi- its Iran operations. The IAEA killings that has split the pov- President Barack Obama will veto that mentation of nuclear accords hinges on IAEA reports on tional ¤160,000 per month in has come under pressure, par- erty-stricken, landlocked coun- measure, but Congress could override such with Tehran and asked coun- its past and present nuclear the run-up to the implementa- ticularly from US Republicans, try along ethnic lines. Marked a veto — and kill the deal — with a two- tries to increase funding the programme. tion of the agreement which for not disclosing a roadmap by widespread atrocities on both thirds majority in both the Senate and costs of its Iran work, which So far, costs for the IAEA’s could happen in the first half agreement with Iran which it sides, the war has been charac- House of Representatives. will rise to $10m a year. activities on Iran have been of next year. Once it is imple- signed alongside the July deal terised by ethnic massacres and Iranian lawmakers are believed to be International Atomic met through extra-budgetary mented, the agency will need to resolve concerns Tehran’s rape. At least seven ceasefires waiting to see what Congress decides. Energy Agency (IAEA) chief contributions from member an annual ¤9.2m ($10.6m) to nuclear programme might have have already been agreed and Students chanted slogans against the Yukiya Amano said he had states. But Amano said the ensure verification of the deal. had military dimensions, which then shattered within days — if “US intrusion in Iran” through the agree- asked member states for con- ¤800,000 ($924,000) per month Following Amano’s request, Tehran denies. not hours — in the world’s newest ment, and also against the “weak Majlis tributions to ensure its work the agency receives to verify the US — the agency’s biggest REUTERS country, which broke away from (parliament),” which they said has been Sudan in 2011. AFP Iranian film aims to correct distorted image of Islam

TEHRAN: The award-winning prophet (peace be upon him). 1976. In an attempt to allay the director of Iran’s most expen- The film depicts events before concerns of Muslims, Majidi sive ever film, Muhammad, his birth and up to his teenage looked for alternative ways of says he hopes it will improve years, before he became prophet, showing the prophet, and chose Islam’s “violent image”, but which was at the age of 40. not to picture his face at all. the religious epic risks anger- While Iran has denounced car- “To have the hero throughout ing many Muslims despite not toons of the prophet like those the movie and not show his face showing the prophet’s face. published by French satirical once is a big challenge,” said a The huge production about the magazine Charlie Hebdo, Shias smiling Majidi, whose Children of childhood of the prophet cost are generally more relaxed about Heaven was nominated for Best up to an estimated $40m and depictions of religious figures. Foreign Language Film at the took more than seven years to While many planned screen- Academy Awards in 1998. complete. ings of Muhammad in Shia- Majidi and his Italian Oscar- The 171-minute film, which majority Iran have already sold winning cinematographer stars many top Iranian actors, out, in the Sunni Muslim world Vittorio Storaro came up with a premieres today in 143 theatres the production has triggered special technique. throughout Iran, the day before it controversy. “We customised a steadi- A scene from the film Muhammad, the first part of a trilogy on the life of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon opens the Montreal Film Festival. “Definitely, some countries like cam especially for the prophet. him) and (right) Iranian director Majid Majidi. In an interview in Tehran, its Saudi Arabia will have problems Wherever we have the prophet director Majid Majidi, 56, said with this film but many Muslim in the film, we see through his In a statement, Al Azhar Abdel Dayyem Nosair, adviser to “There are no disputes over extremists such as the Islamic countries — including Turkey, POV (point of view), even in his “objected to portraying proph- Al Azhar head Ahmed Al Tayyeb, this period” of the prophet’s life, State (IS) group “have stolen the Indonesia, Malaysia and many childhood,” Majidi explained. ets and messengers in art” as said. said Majidi, who has won inter- name of Islam”. others in Southeast Asia — have “Everyone is curious to see the it is “tantamount to belit- Muhammad, which is partially national prizes including the In the Western world, “an asked for the film,” Majidi said. prophet in the film, but you can- tling their spiritual status”. state funded, is being released on Oecumenical Special Award in incorrect interpretation of Islam The first major produc- not see his face,” he said, adding It opposes not only portraying the anniversary of the birth of Montreal for promoting unity has emerged that shows a violent tion about the prophet’s life, that the prophet can only seen the prophets’ faces but also the eighth imam of Shia, Reza. among religions. image of Islam, and we believe it “Mohammad, Messenger of God” by his profile, or with his back to their voices. The next two films in the “From the time he becomes has no link whatsoever” to the from Syrian-American film- the camera. Still, Majidi’s solu- “The actor who plays this trilogy could prove even more a prophet, even dialogue would religion, he said. maker Moustapha Akkad, also tion is not enough for experts at role may later play a criminal, controversial as the young hero be very difficult to manage, but I Muhammad is the first part drew criticism in the Muslim Al Azhar, a leading Sunni Muslim and viewers may associate these is not yet a prophet in the first believe it is still achievable,” the of a trilogy on the life of the world when it was released in institution based in Egypt. characters with criminality,” instalment. director said. AFP WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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FTER 44 hours of extensive talks punctuated by catnaps and meal breaks, North and South Korea have been able to prevent an escalation Aon the Korean peninsula, considered one of the most sensitive hotspots for a military conflict. Talks in the Don’t call Obama’s Iran demilitarised zone between top officials from both sides culminated in an agreement that can be called a first step in breaking frosty ties between arch enemies. North and South Korea have been technically at war since the 1950-53 war ended in truce without a peace deal being diplomacy ‘Reaganesque’ signed. Flare ups often worsened by inflammatory speech BY JOHN HANNAH movement emerged demanding that the — the so-called zero option that had are common between the two sides. While South Korea is administration adopt a “nuclear freeze.” been Reagan’s opening gambit and a responsible democracy with an elected government and rent Scowcroft’s August 23 op-ed, In the face of the Kremlin’s threat to which most arms controllers had uni- a sound economy, the North is ruled by the whims of its “An epochal moment,”endorsing break off talks, Reagan went ahead with versally derided as unrealistic. Major hereditary leader Kim Jong-un who has recently been purging Bthe Iran nuclear deal, hardly the deployment of nuclear missiles in progress was also made on a frame- top officials of his administration by executing them. There came as a shock. He’d already previewed Europe. Moscow walked. The chatter- work to reduce strategic nuclear forces, his support to several columnists this ing classes trembled. which President George H W Bush and were reports of Defence Minister Hyon Yong-Chol being month. More surprising was Scowcroft’s But there’s more. Even with nego- Scowcroft brought to a successful con- recently executed by anti-aircraft gunfire after having fallen attempt to link the Obama administra- tiations underway, Reagan relentlessly clusion with the 1991 START agree- foul of Kim. tion’s diplomacy to President Reagan’s waged ideological warfare against the ment. SDI was left untouched. Amid increasing tensions over the last two weeks, the arms control efforts with the Soviet Soviet system. In June 1982, he warned Even as US-Soviet relations made heavily militarised border between the North and South along Union. While both resulted in agree- that “freedom and democracy . . . will progress on arms control, Reagan never the 38th parallel saw artillery fire and loudspeakers spouting ments with longtime enemies, even a leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash- strayed from his strategic purpose of cursory review of the Reagan record heap of history.” Less than a year later, weakening the “evil empire.” As much anti-Pyongyang propaganda. The recent escalation that led to highlights how little resemblance his he doubled down, labeling the Soviet as he admired Gorbachev, it didn’t stop the marathon meeting began with Seoul blaming Pyongyang approach bears to Obama’s. Focusing on Union “the focus of evil in the mod- him from going to Berlin in 1987 to for landmines that maimed two of its soldiers on patrol. A the superficial similarities, rather than ern world.” Pundits were aghast. But demand that the Soviet leader “tear riled South Korea restarted the the stark differences, risks obscuring Reagan ploughed ahead. Weeks later, down this wall” — to the rapture of loudspeakers on the border that far more than it illuminates. he unveiled his Strategic Defence almost all Central European dissidents North and have been silent for years. The Just consider Initiative (SDI), a vision aimed at ren- and the tut-tutting of the American the irony: Reagan dering offensive nuclear weapons — as cognoscenti. South Korea speakers resumed blaring anti- actually came well as the doctrine of mutual assured The results of Reagan’s approach? should work to North Korea propaganda, further to office trash- destruction — obsolete. The Soviets Nuclear deals consistent with America’s ratcheting up tensions between the Reagan ing the SALT II howled, condemning SDI as destabilis- red lines, of course. But that was the least build up on the estranged neighbours. nuclear deal that ing, a reckless plot to give the United of it. Within a few years of Reagan’s ten- In Tuesday’s agreement that Jimmy Carter States a first-strike capability. Most US ure, the Soviets were out of Afghanistan knew that had negotiated experts concurred. and in retreat across the developing agreement they made international headlines, North simultaneously with the Soviets. What else? As a centerpiece of his world. The Berlin Wall collapsed. Central have signed. Korea expressed regret for the Like today’s foreign policy, Reagan had a doctrine — Europe was free. The Soviet Union disin- landmines that injured the South’s fighting Soviet Republican pres- the Reagan Doctrine — to provide lethal tegrated and the Cold War won. troops. So long, Kim’s regime idential candi- support to forces fighting Soviet aggres- As for Obama’s nuclear deal with has denied having to do anything with the incident. Seoul expansionism dates, Reagan sion. In Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Angola Iran? An agreement intended to dis- reciprocated by switching off the loudspeakers. openly urged and beyond, US aid to anti-communist mantle Iran’s enrichment capability and negotiating Congress to reject insurgencies was systematically used to will now authorise it to grow without Though the meeting of top officials that brought about what he consid- kill Russians and their proxies. It didn’t limit in 15 years. Last-minute Iranian the reconciliation wasn’t a summit, it was closely watched by nuclear deals ered a bad deal matter whether arms control talks were demands to remove restrictions on con- the leaders of the two countries — Kim Jong-un and South that would under- on or off. Reagan knew that simultane- ventional weapons and ballistic missiles Korean President Park Geun-hye. If reports of the meeting was not only mine our security. ously fighting Soviet expansionism and were met with concessions, not rejec- videographed live for the leaders is true, it bodes well for possible but Once in office, negotiating nuclear deals was not only tion. Under cover of the talks, Iranian bilateral ties. The officials reportedly took instructions Reagan embarked possible but also essential to advancing aggression across the Middle East esca- also essential to on a massive arms US interests. lated without meaningful US resistance. intermittently from their leaders. The agreement has defused buildup. He waited When Mikhail Gorbachev emerged America’s regional allies feel abandoned hostilities between the enemies, and like previous occasions, advancing US more than a year and proposed a resumption of nuclear and demoralised, while Iranian reform- the thaw might just last for a few days. In fact, the North before entering talks, Reagan was certainly open to it. ers who took to the streets in 2009 to Korean official who led the talks sounded anything but interests. talks on strategic Nevertheless, at the 1986 Reykjavik protest the regime’s oppression lan- regretful on television after the agreement. nuclear forces. summit, with a historic deal to reduce guish today with nary a word of US At those, as well offensive nuclear forces at hand, Reagan encouragement. Going by the history of North-South relations, the accord at the negotiations on intermediate- didn’t hesitate to collapse the negotia- There’s certainly a lot you can say may be seen as too little and the neighbours are likely to go range nuclear forces (INF) in Europe, tions when Gorbachev sought to extract about Obama’s brand of diplomacy. back to their previous positions soon. However, Seoul and he put forward maximalist demands a last-minute concession to kill SDI. Perhaps you can even argue that it’s in Pyongyang must not forget that big diplomatic victories are that Moscow rejected. The majority of It didn’t take long for Reagan’s tough- the best interests of the United States. built on small moves. If saner elements prevail on both sides, arms control experts attacked Reagan’s ness to pay off. A little more than a What you can’t really do, not with a the day is not far when Park and Kim might be seated across positions as dangerous, delusionary, even year later, an INF Treaty eliminated straight face, is ever call it Reaganesque. a prelude to war. A massive protest a class of nuclear missiles in Europe WP-BLOOMBERG the table. The nations must work for this goal• The other side Quote of Abe shows he has no desire to mend fences the day APANESE Prime Minister the naive hope that Abe would avail before his home audience, while his Xi Jinping, the Japanese government Shinzo Abe is not attending himself of this historic opportunity to Chinese hosts will escape the embar- has again stated it will continue to the commemoration activities make peace with Japan’s neighbors rassment of standing side by side with seek such an opportunity through such to mark the 70th anniversary of even after his August 14 speech. the unrepentant leader of the country’s international occasions as the United Jthe end of World War II in Beijing on Indeed, a sincere apology of his past victimizer. Sino-Japanese relations National General Assembly next month. September 3. Nor will he visit China own that day might have resulted in have soured to such an extent that they The two leaders do have plenty to around that sensitive date. an immediate thaw in the long-strained will not get any worse no matter how deal with together, if they can finally We must reduce the This does not sound good to those ties. Yet Abe slammed that door shut. Abe’s absence is explained and con- sit down and talk face to face. But a who regard Abe’s presence as symbolic That speech of Abe was a blunt decla- strued. His presence could make eve- meaningful summit meeting entails an terrorist influence of much-needed reconciliation in East ration that he and his Cabinet have little ryone uncomfortable. That may explain atmosphere of proper mutual trust, without maintaining Asia. Which is why, despite all their dis- interest in mending fences. Abe’s even- why Beijing has insisted the invitation it which is obviously absent now. A content about Tokyo’s capriciousness tual decision to avoid visiting Beijing at had extended to Abe was for the com- summit meeting for a summit meet- Assad. The two are and double-dealing, both Beijing and this point reinforces that. memorations only, not for an official visit ing’s sake would not repair the serious Seoul have left the door to reconcilia- He only may have saved both his as some expected. damage Abe has done to the bilateral bound up together. tion wide open. Which is why, in spite of host and himself the awkwardness of Although Abe’s August 14 speech ties. So neither side should place too all the tensions that have accumulated staged bonhommie. And he will be able effectively ruled out a coveted sum- much hope on it, even if it does happen Francois Hollande and kept accumulating, many retained to preserve his unapologetic image mit meeting with Chinese President some other day. CHINA DAILY French President WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Trump and the white working class Though historically wary of the rich, the white working-class voters without a college degree support Trump far more than any other candidate.

BY JUSTIN GEST without a college degree sup- Trump’s bombastic declara- port Trump far more than any tions that his rivals have been EPUBLICAN other candidate. In Fox News’ corrupted by corporations and presidential can- most recent poll, 30 percent of donors (like himself) validates didate Donald the respondents said they back the belief among white work- Trump clearly Trump as the GOP nominee, ing-class voters that the politi- prides himself in compared to only 21 percent cal system is rigged by the very shunning focus- of respondents with a college special interests that abruptly Rgroup research. He refuses big degree. In CNN’s most recent closed American factories, laid off campaign donations that he poll, Trump’s favourability rat- American workers and invested asserts make his opponents ings spiked among Republicans, money overseas to circumvent beholden to special interests. men, people over 50 years of age, American wages and taxes. He seems to target no specific as well as people without a uni- Second, Trump addresses peo- constituency. versity education. ple who have felt silenced and Many pollsters remain puz- What is the attraction between sidelined. Congressmen who zled by Trump’s political appeal. these strangest of bedfellows? It once belonged to the working “Republican support for Donald is threefold. class made up only 2 percent Trump just continues to grow,” First, white working-class of Congress in 2012. Between said Patrick Murray, director voters have proven increasingly 1984 and 2009, the median net of Monmouth Polling after its unpredictable and unfaithful to worth of a member of the House August survey, “with no clear any single party. It should not be of Representatives grew from sense of who his constituency surprising that they tend to live $280,000 to $725,000 in inflation- really is”. in many of the most prominent adjusted dollars. Yet a constituency is emerging. swing states, including Indiana, While Trump will not counter- Trump’s strongest supporters, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and balance the wealth of American Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaking in Ladd-Peebles stadium in Mobile, Alabama. roughly a quarter of Republican Wisconsin. politicians, he validates the views voters across the polls, are not Their fickle nature is not inde- of many ordinary voters as he his baseless assertions about status in the country they once policy and his status as a self- dissuaded by any increased media cisiveness, but rather the sense channels conspiracy theories and Mexico’s deliberate exporta- defined. They feel outnumbered aggrandizing plutocrat. scrutiny of their candidate. They that neither party has done much whispers from the streets to the tion of criminals across the U.S. and discomforted by the ascend- The strength of Trump’s con- have overlooked a series of faux for them over the past 40 years. stump. southern border fit this mold. ance of minorities, and disfavored nection with this constituency of pas that might have tanked other The Rust Belt population has con- Many white working-class vot- The amplification of these ideas by the elite echelons of American frustrated, silenced people is not candidates. fronted post-industrial economic ers, for example, point to often renders credibility to a subset society. likely to recede, given the inabil- It appears, however, to be collapse and depopulation. It is fed erroneous stories to help make of voters who have felt silenced Trump, who talks about losses ity of his Republican opponents to a constituency with whom he up with Washington, and cynical sense of their disastrous fall and sidelined. “There’s a silent to China, Mexico and Japan, like access the financial and political has barely interacted: White about politicians who pledge to from grace. These narratives fea- majority out there,” Trump said a tour by the US soccer team, independence Trump wields. working-class voters. Their lives address its plight. ture characters like the welfare last month. “We’re tired of being communicates his awareness of At the same time, he appears are far from the flight path of This sentiment encompasses queen who collects checks while pushed around, kicked around, this lost status in simple, blunt unlikely to win if he can’t expand Trump’s private jet, as he zooms much of today’s Republican base. driving a Cadillac — a favour- and being led by stupid people.” terms. Shamelessly showboating his constituency beyond the white from golf course to grand hotel A mere 16 percent of Republicans ite of president Ronald Reagan, Third, Trump bluntly acknowl- his own successes, Trump prom- working class, who no longer rep- lobby, television sound stage to feel like they are represented in who attracted many blue-collar edges an acute sense of loss that ises to spread his winnings to a resent the nation’s mainstream penthouse suite. Washington — even though both Democrats to the GOP. has been uniquely felt by the town near you. electoral majority. In fact, Trump, a plutocrat who houses of Congress are currently They also talk about collu- white working class. This unexpected alignment has (Justin Gest is writing a new regularly flaunts his extraordi- controlled by the GOP. sion between corporations and For white working class peo- given Trump a commanding lead, book, “The New Minority: White nary wealth, is the candidate Those who do not feel rep- politicians because Congress ple understand loss. The US thanks largely to dedicated sup- Working Class Politics in an Era whose message most closely aligns resented support Trump by a bailed out major banks and car economy has lost several million port from an objectively small, but of Immigration and Inequality.” with sentiments of Rust Belt vot- sizeable margin, 24 percent to manufacturers in 2008 - but manufacturing jobs, which have relatively large plurality of voters. He is assistant professor of public ers who have lost manufacturing 13 percent for former Florida not homeowners underwater been replaced by unstable, often Because he emphasizes the fact policy at George Mason University’s jobs, lack a university degree or Governor Jeb Bush, and sin- on their mortgages. Trump’s contingent work. They lament that he is an outsider, Republican School of Policy, Government and are low-wage earners. gle digits for the rest of the off-color remarks about women America’s transition from overt voters have overlooked his lack International Affairs. The opinions Though historically wary of the Republican field, according to and minorities, his frustration to covert world power. They also of governing credentials, some expressed here are his own.) rich, white working-class voters CNN’s poll from early August. with “disgusting” people and sense their own loss of social wishy-washy statements on social REUTERS Out in the real world, oil market Katrina’s unclaimed dead conjure is much better than it looks BY GRANT SMITH the supply surplus is smaller today than it up memories of her ravages was at the start of the year, said Horsnell. HE GLOBAL oil market is The spread between Brent and Dubai, BY LETITIA STEIN healthier than it looks, sig- the grade used as Asia’s regional crude naling that crude’s plunge to benchmark, is at its narrowest for this DECADE after one of six-year lows has probably time of year in several years, according the most deadly storms gone too far. to Morgan Stanley. This signals con- in UShistory, Hurricane TWhile futures tumbled below $45 a tinued strength in demand from Asia Katrina’s forgotten victims barrel in London for the first time since for Middle Eastern crude, Longson said. lie in 83 caskets entombed 2009, Morgan Stanley and Standard Prices for West African crude grades Ain black granite mausoleums behind the Chartered say other measures suggest relative to Brent have strengthened in gothic gates of a New Orleans cemetery. physical markets for crude have stabilised recent weeks, he said. Their visitors are mostly tourists. or even strengthened in recent weeks. “Despite poor headline macro data, Each metal coffin is marked with China, the world’s second-biggest oil con- most China oil demand data points serial numbers inside and out, should sumer, will keep buying extra barrels to remain resilient,” Longson said. The anyone ever seek to bring one of them fill its strategic reserve this year, accord- nation’s apparent demand for gasoline home. The names of 30 remain a mys- ing to Goldman Sachs. rose 17 percent last month, the highest tery, but authorities have recorded “While oil fundamentals aren’t strong, growth rate all year, he said. details about their DNA and where physical markets do not corroborate The filling of emergency crude reserves each was found. The unclaimed bodies the substantial weakness in flat price,” in China “gives the market a lifeline” were laid to rest in 2008, three years New York-based Morgan Stanley ana- that distinguishes the current situa- after the storm killed 1,833 along the lyst Adam Longson said in a report. The tion from the Asian crash of 1998, Jeff US Gulf Coast. “latest oil pricing pressure appears more Currie, head of commodities research at On Saturday, 10 years to the day financial than physical”. Goldman Sachs, said in an interview on after Katrina’s devastating landfall in A measure of returns from com- Bloomberg Television on August 21. Brent Louisiana, city dignitaries will gather at modities sank to its lowest since 1999 on crude dropped to as low as $9.55 a barrel the burial site, known as the Hurricane Monday on concern that a slowing econ- in December 1998, according to ICE data. Katrina Memorial. Viewed from above, omy in China, the world’s largest con- China will add crude to two additional it resembles the shape of a hurricane. sumer of energy and raw materials, will sites with a combined capacity of 50 mil- “Nobody has ever come searching for exacerbate supply gluts. Brent crude, the lion barrels in the second half, according their loved one in the memorial, as far A view of the New Orleans Katrina Memorial in New Orleans, Louisiana. international benchmark, has dropped to the International Energy Agency. as I know,” said Dr Frank Minyard, the more than 30 percent since May on the The nation bought more than 500,000 longtime coroner of Orleans Parish, who them to his relatives, who recognised the for the memorial graves. “It was just a ICE Futures Europe exchange in London. barrels a day of oil that was surplus to helped to build the monument before rings he was wearing. little heartless at that point,” said Sandra Prices rebounded 3.4 percent to $44.14 a its daily requirements between January retiring last year. An elderly woman, found wearing Rhodes-Duncan, one of the leaders of the barrel at 2:29pm in London. and July, according to data compiled by The stories of those buried inside slippers with holes cut around her little nonprofit that built the memorial and The stabilisation of the price gap Bloomberg. China National United Oil remain unknown despite the exhaus- toes, was brought back to family mem- member of a family that has run a local between monthly crude contracts and Co., the trading unit of the nation’s big- tive efforts of coroners who conducted bers who remembered how she snipped funeral home for more than a century. “You changes in the relationships between gest energy company, is on course for its autopsies on some 900 bodies recovered her shoes to accommodate arthritis. always have something to represent some- regional benchmarks suggests financial largest-ever haul of Middle Eastern crude from around greater New Orleans. The Yet some people could never be identi- body’s life,” she added. flows are behind the renewed slump, purchases in Singapore. local coroner’s office was washed away in fied by examiners who pored over unu- In August 2008, funeral homes rather than a change in the physical oil “The irony is if you just take the oil the flooding that submerged 80 percent sual tattoos, bone fractures and teeth donated more than 30 hearses to carry market, Morgan Stanley said. market data on China, it’s good—it’s of the city after Katrina’s storm surge that were compared to dental X-rays the unclaimed victims to their final “This is very, very macro driven” with really, really good,” said Horsnell. “If we overwhelmed the local flood protections. recovered from moldy basement storage. resting place, in what was formerly the the focus on the outlook for China’s econ- were running it purely by the micro data, Bodies were taken by the hundreds to “The mission wasn’t completed,” Cataldie Charity Hospital Cemetery. omy, said Paul Horsnell, head of commod- people would be saying: ‘Hey, this isn’t a warehouse without air-conditioning said. “If there was one person that wasn’t At the cemetery, a red rose was placed ities research at Standard Chartered in too bad’.” in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, outside Baton identified, it would still bother me.” on each casket, carried by volunteer London. “It’s not based on any kind of oil Another weight lifted from the oil mar- Rouge. As they worked under heat After several months, Cataldie’s team pall bearers. Each victim was interred supply-demand fundamentals.” ket is the conclusion of Mexico’s annual lamps, dehydrating medical examiners returned to the city the unclaimed bod- in individual graves within the mau- The gap between the price of the first- hedging programme, Morgan Stanley’s searched for ways to identify them. ies from New Orleans, where they were soleums. Each year since, a graveside month Brent contract, October, and Longson said. The Latin American pro- By then, many were badly decom- stored in another warehouse. Minyard, ceremony has been held to mark the futures for settlement 12 months forward ducer locked in 2016 prices for 212 mil- posed, and animals had removed fin- the coroner, wanted the bodies buried in a anniversary of Katrina. hasn’t widened enough over the past few lion barrels, its Finance Ministry said on gers that might have provided crucial place where they could be easily retrieved, At last year’s ceremony, Dr. Jeffrey weeks to suggest the world is running August 20. The biggest hedge undertaken prints, recalled Dr Louis Cataldie, the if anyone ever wanted one of them. Rouse, current coroner of Orleans out of space to store crude, according to by any national government, the program former coroner of East Baton Rouge He worked with community leaders Parish, spoke of the victims at a service Longson. was an “under-appreciated negative” for Parish, who was appointed to oversee and local funeral home owners, who marked by a clarinet’s somber notes. The spread was more than $11 a bar- prices and its completion “removes a the statewide remains recovery effort. were troubled by talk of a mass burial “They sit in silent watch,” he said. “They rel in January, compared with about $6 bearish overhang for oil,” he said. Still, a rewards card from Winn-Dixie or cremation, to raise more than $1 sit in silent judgement.” yesterday, ICE data show. This suggests WP-BLOOMBERG supermarkets on one man’s keychain led million in public and private funding REUTERS WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE / AMERICAS

Crisis worsens Migrants found working as many cross Hungary border RÖSZKE: Record numbers illegally in UK face jail of refugees are streaming into EU member Hungary from Serbia, posing a new headache Britain unveils tighter immigration curbs for regional leaders at a summit this week set to be dominated LONDON: Migrants found behind bars beforehand will prove The government previously by Europe’s worst migrant cri- working illegally in England to be even more of a deterrent. announced that the law would sis since World War II. and Wales face up to six months “More important is for the also allow for wages earned by Almost 2,100 people, the high- in prison and could have their message to go out that if you are people working illegally to be est ever daily total, crossed the wages seized under proposals here illegally and caught working, seized as proceeds of crime. border near the Hungarian town announced by the British gov- you and your employer will end Banks would have to check of Roszke on Monday, police said, ernment yesterday. up in court,” said Alp Mehmet, accounts against migrant data- just days before Hungary com- The proposals come with the of Migration Watch UK, which bases, and under the legislation, pletes a vast razor-wire barrier centre-right Conservative govern- campaigns for tighter immigra- landlords would be expected to to keep out migrants. ment under pressure to show it tion restrictions. evict tenants whose requests for They were part of around 7,000 is in control of immigration, one Josephine Goube from pro- asylum fail. Employers of ille- refugees whose hazardous jour- of the most sensitive topics in immigrant charity Migreat criti- gal workers face fines and an ney to the European Union had British politics, after increased cised the announcement, saying increased maximum prison term been temporarily blocked last attempts by migrants to reach that “putting illegal immigrants of five years. week when Macedonia declared England by crossing the Channel in prison is to get votes” rather The government hopes the law a state of emergency and shut its from France. than to tackle the problem. will make it easier to prosecute borders for three days to halt the “Anyone who thinks the UK Anti-mass immigration party those who knowingly employ ille- huge influx of people mostly flee- is a soft touch should be in no UKIP also said the measure was gal workers. ing war in Syria. doubt—if you are here illegally, politically motivated ahead of the Cameron failed to meet a prom- Authorities reopened the cross- we will take action to stop you release of Britain’s official annual ise to cut net migration to Britain ing after chaotic scenes involv- from working, renting a flat, net migration figures. under his previous term as prime ing police lobbing stun greandes opening a bank account or driv- “Sending illegally working minister, and is expected to come at the migrants trying to break ing a car,” immigration minis- immigrants to jail will cost a for- under renewed scrutiny with the through the border. ter James Brokenshire said in a tune and put huge pressure on the release of the latest official migra- “We were stopped in Macedonia statement. prison system,” said UKIP migra- tion statistics on Thursday. for two days, the riots were terrible, “Illegal workers will face the tion spokesman Steven Woolfe. There are no official statistics police used guns and teargas, I saw prospect of a prison term and rogue “Instead the government on how many illegal immigrants an old woman beaten, her money employers could have their busi- should deport them.” are in Britain, but it is believed to and papers taken,” said a 29-year- nesses closed, have their licences The Immigration Bill, which be around 500,000. old IT engineer from Mosul in Iraq. removed, or face prosecution if Prime Minister David Cameron’s The issue has hit the head- The UN’s refugee agency said they continue to flout the law.” government is to introduce this lines in recent months with the A Syrian Kurdish migrant climbs over the fence on the Hungarian-Serbian that it expected the number of ref- After serving their jail term, year, will allow for pubs, takeaway spike in number of those trying border near Asotthalom, Hungary, yesterday. Hungary’s government has ugees moving through Macedonia the illegal migrants will be moved food outlets and off-licenses to have to access the Channel Tunnel at started to construct a 175km-long fence on its border with Serbia in order to to double from around 1,500 per to a detention centre awaiting their licenses revoked if they are the French port of Calais to enter halt a massive flow of migrants who enter the European Union via Hungary day to 3,000 per day, many of them deportation, but the government found to employ people who lack Britain illegally. and head to western Europe. women and children. It warned hopes that the prospect of a spell permission to work in Britain. AFP that the situation was also wors- ening on the shores of Greece and Italy, where the number of Mediterranean sea crossings was Germany scrambles to quell anti-refugee violence now approaching 300,000. Since the beginning of the year, BERLIN: Germany scrambled yester- failing to forcefully address the wave of It has also exposed anti-migrant sentiment, or the hindering of the arrival of refugees more than 2,370 have drowned in day to quell a wave of anti-migrant vio- anti-migrant sentiment until this week, particularly in eastern Germany, which still in Nauen by arson, such action is shameful the Mediterranean, already exceed- lence, as a suspected arson attack hit a will today visit a refugee centre in the east- lags behind the western part of the country and unworthy of Germany,” he said. ing the death toll for the whole of planned refugee shelter just hours after ern town of Heidenau. in terms of jobs and opportunities 25 years Over the weekend violent protests broke 2014, according to the International Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced President Joachim Gauck will also make after reunification. out as far-right extremists and neo-Nazis Organisation for Migration. xenophobic protests as “vile”. a trip to a refugee centre in Berlin today. The latest case of suspected arson hit a demonstrated against a refugee shelter in The UN called on Europe to Vowing to take tough action against per- “Despite the scale of the challenge, there are temporary shelter in a sports hall in Nauen, Heidenau. Merkel also had strong words “establish a human-rights based, petrators of such attacks, top politicians many instances in which things are work- a town near Berlin, just a week before 130 on Monday for those marching alongside coherent and comprehensive sought to reassure the unprecedented ing well,” said Interior Minister Thomas de refugees are due to move in. in support of the anti-migrant cause. migration policy”, as the bloc number of migrants arriving in the country Maiziere, at a refugee centre yesterday. Police said the speed of the flames rip- “It is vile for far-right extremists and struggled to find a response to the that far-right extremists did not repre- Germany is expecting to receive a record ping through the site early Tuesday sug- neo-Nazis to try to spread their hollow, unprecedented numbers of refu- sent Germany. “With regards to xenopho- number of 800,000 asylum-seekers this year, gested arson was the cause. The state hateful propaganda but it is just as shame- gees arriving—from the thousands bic violence, there can only be one answer: four times higher than the number in 2014. president of Brandenburg, where Nauen is ful for citizens including families with chil- landing on the shores of Greece police, justice and, if possible for those we The sudden surge in people coming from located, Dietmar Woidke urged residents to dren to join them” in their protests, she and Italy to the hundreds risking catch, prison as well,” said Vice Chancellor war zones such as Syria as well as countries “distance yourself from xenophobic mobs”. said in her strongest statement to date their lives to climb onto trucks Sigmar Gabriel. that are not at war like Albania and Kosovo “Be it agitations against foreigners or about a wave of anti-refugee protests in to travel from France to Britain. Merkel, who has been criticised for has left the authorities struggling to cope. attacks against people in need in Heidenau eastern Germany. AFP AFP

Blaze aftermath France train Jeb Bush: Asians abusing attack gunman US birthright citizenship being treated WASHINGTON: Republican efforts — and frankly it’s more White House hopeful Jeb Bush related to Asian people coming into on Monday accused Asians of our country, having children in that as ‘terrorist’ abusing rules allowing infants organized effort, taking advantage born in the United States to be of a noble concept with birthright PARIS: French prosecu- American citizens, amid a cam- citizenship,” Bush said. tors said yesterday that the paign row over immigration. “My background, my life, the Moroccan man arrested for Bush has clashed with rivals — fact that I’m immersed in the last week’s train attack is being including the Republican presiden- immigrant experience — this is treated as a suspected “terror- tial frontrunner billionaire Donald ludicrous for the Clinton campaign ist” who planned to kill a large Trump and top Democratic candi- and others to suggest that some- number of passengers. date Hillary Clinton — over use of how I’m using a derogatory term. “I Ayoub El Khazzani, 25, boarded the term “anchor babies,” a deroga- support the 14th Amendment,” he the train in Brussels on Friday tory description of children born said of the constitutional guaran- armed with a Kalashnikov assault in the United States to undocu- tee of citizenship to anyone born rifle and 270 rounds of ammuni- mented parents. in the country. tion, as well a Luger pistol, a bot- Migrants’ rights activists see Trump has called for pos- tle of petrol and a box-cutter, said the term as a slur used by anti- sibly scrapping the law, saying The remains of a waterfront home on Lake Chelan destroyed by the Chelan Complex fires in Chelan, Washington. Paris prosecutor Francois Molins. immigration campaigners to birthright citizenship boosts ille- Moderate winds were expected to work in favour of firefighters in the north-central part of the state. But hot He walked out of a toilet cubicle describe the babies of those who gal immigration. On Friday, he topless and armed before being sneak across the border to give claimed 300,000 babies were born weather and stronger winds later in the week could lead the blazes to expand again, officials said. wrestled to the floor and subdued birth, gifting their offspring US last year in the United States by two young American off-duty citizenship and enhancing the from undocumented immigrants. servicemen, their friend and a parents’ legal status. That is lower than the 340,000 62-year-old British consultant. But during a visit to Texas near babies born in 2008 to unauthor- Khazzani’s claims to investiga- the US border with Mexico, when ized immigrant parents — about Russia jails Kiev filmmaker for ‘terrorism’ tors that he was only planning to responding to a question about eight percent of all babies born rob passengers were “barely cred- whether the “anchor baby” row that year — according to a 2010 ROSTOV-ON-DON: A Russian Moscow’s takeover of Crimea Sentsov’s lawyer Dmitry Dinze ible”, said Molins, adding that he would hurt his ability to win the study by Pew Research Centrd. military court yesterday sen- and its support for the ongoing said his client would appeal the had grown increasingly evasive in Hispanic vote, Bush said the situ- The organization also said tenced a Ukrainian filmmaker pro-Russian insurgency in east- sentence, which was delivered at his responses to police and stopped ation has more to do with other Asians made up the largest share to 20 years in a prison colony ern Ukraine. Sentsov defiantly one of the only two Russian mili- responding entirely on Monday. immigrants. of recent immigrants at 36 percent on terror charges in a trial con- flicked a victory sign, and he and tary courts authorised to hear Molins outlined a raft of evi- “What I was talking about was of the total, surpassing the 31 per- demned by Kiev, Western rights Kolchenko sang the Ukrainian terrorism cases. “It’s the height dence indicating why Khazzani was the specific case of fraud being cent who were of Hispanic origin. groups and top film directors. national anthem inside their glass of injustice and lawlessness,” being probed for “attempted mur- committed where there’s organised AFP Oleg Sentsov, 39, was convicted enclosure after the verdict. Russia’s TASS state news agency der” as part of a terrorist plot. This of carrying out arson attacks Ukrainian President Petro quoted Dinze as saying. included the fact that Khazzani on pro-Kremlin party offices in Poroshenko, who had called for the In custody, Sentsov was beaten flew back in June from a town in Crimea after Russia seized the men’s immediate release, wrote on and threatened with rape and southern Turkey near the Syrian Bongs are wrong on Big Ben peninsula from Ukraine in March Twitter: “Hold on, Oleg. The time murder and was “suffocated to border, and that he watched a last year, and plotting further will come when those who organ- the point of fainting” with a plas- jihadist video on his mobile phone LONDON: The most famous clock in the world is wrong: The bongs attacks, including blowing up a ised the trial against you will find tic bag over his head, Dinze said just prior to launching the attack. of London’s Big Ben have been mysteriously running fast over the Lenin statue in the main Crimean themselves in the dock.” in October. Investigators refused Molins also raised suspicions past fortnight, clocksmiths admitted yesterday. The Great Clock city of Simferopol. Defence lawyers said witnesses to open a probe, saying bruises about how Khazzani was able to that towers over the British parliament can be out by up to six His fellow Ukrainian defendant were tortured to produce testi- on the filmmaker’s back and legs afford a $171 first class train ticket, seconds, with its keepers admitting the cherished national icon is Alexander Kolchenko, a 25-year- mony implicating the pair in were because he had taken part given his claims to sleeping rough “a little temperamental” at 156 years old. Over the past two weeks, old activist who also opposed activities involving Ukrainian far- in sado-masochistic sex before his in Brussels. Ticket sellers at the the early bongs have messed up BBC domestic and world radio Russia’s annexation of Crimea, right organisation Right Sector, arrest, the lawyer said. station have told investigators that transmissions that broadcast the hour chimes live. The Houses of was sentenced to 10 years after which is banned in Russia. Two alleged accomplices have Khazzani paid in cash and turned Parliament’s three dedicated clocksmiths have tried to rectify the he too was found guilty of taking The two men, who have been already been jailed for seven years down an earlier journey, which problem, but are somewhat mystified as to why it has swung so far part in the attacks. held in Russia since last May, were after confessing, but both refused Molins said was an indication the out of step. Big Ben is the name of the Great Bell at the top of the Russia and Ukraine have tried as Russians, despite never to testify as prosecution witnesses target had been carefully chosen in 96-metre-high (316-foot) Elizabeth Tower. AFP been locked in a bitter feud over having applied for citizenship. in Sentsov’s trial. AFP advance. AFP WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Cardinal’s traffic rule Girl bomber strikes Nigeria eases Manila jam Six people die as 12-year-old detonates bomb at private taxi passing by MANILA: An 83-year- to the erring motorists, after old Catholic cardinal in the discovering six cars fighting over KANO: A child bomber killed on the global body by Boko Haram has in recent weeks used young military leaders earlier in August, Philippines came to the res- two lanes in Santo Tomas town six people yesterday outside a militants. women to carry out bloody suicide ordering his new chiefs-of-staff to cue of thousands of stranded on Manila’s outskirts. bus station in the heartland of Police and witnesses reported attacks in the restive northeast. end the fighting in three months. motorists over the weekend The cardinal used hand signals the Boko Haram Islamist insur- a second attack 10 minutes after “The dead have been evacuated The military under predeces- after single-handedly untan- to force the vehicles to back up, gency in northeastern Nigeria. the bus park bombing, in which to a mortuary while the injured sor Goodluck Jonathan was crit- gling a traffic jam in Manila freeing up the jam. Witnesses reported seeing a a suicide bomber managed only victims are currently being icised for poor handling of the during a typhoon. Gaudencio The rain later let up to reveal “young girl” approaching the to kill himself and slightly wound attended to by health and emer- insurgency in the wake of almost Rosales took matters into his a giant crucifix peeking out of his station in the Yobe state capital a bystander on the outskirts of gency workers,” Yobe local gov- daily rebel attacks and failure to own hands last Sunday as he jacket. Chastened motorists got Damaturu around 7am and refus- Damaturu. ernment spokesman Abdulahhi free more than 200 schoolgirls traversed a typhoon-lashed out of their vehicles to kiss his ing to be searched by security “There were two suicide blasts Bego said in a statement. abducted from the northeastern Philippine highway on the out- ring. guards at the gate before blow- in Damaturu yesterday. The first Boko Haram Islamists have town of Chibok in April last year. skirts of the capital to help set- “They were very apologetic,” ing herself up. one happened outside the motor carried out deadly ambushes The “Bring Back Our Girls” tle a traffic dispute. Rosales said of the culprits. “A private taxi... drove out park and the second one occurred across Nigeria’s borders and in campaign marked 500 days last “We were trapped for over Traffic jams in the Philippine of the park. As soon as the car in Pompomari on the outskirts of recent weeks suicide bombers, Thursday since the girls were an hour and we were rushing capital have worsened, as the gov- came close, she detonated the Damaturu. But only the bomber many of them women, staged sev- captured. to another engagement. I said ernment built elevated tollways to explosives. Six people in the car has died in the second blast,” said eral attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon “I want to reiterate my sup- to myself, “We cannot take this accommodate growing number of were killed. She was also killed,” a Toyin Gbadegesin, a spokesman and Chad. port for the Chibok girls, and so anymore,’” the retired Manila vehicles. bystander Sani Dankamasho said. for Yobe state police. The fresh wave of violence has many other innocent abducted cardinal said yesterday. Rosales, who is one of the four Reports said the bomber was “In the first blast outside the claimed more than 1,000 lives over girls and boys, whose names and With no traffic policemen cardinals in the country, said he aged around 12. The attack came motor park six people were killed the last three months. fate remain unknown,” Ban said in sight amid the onslaught of endured his share of hours-long just hours after United Nations and 42 others injured by a female An 8,700-strong Multi-National before leaving for France last Typhoon Goni, Rosales said he traffic jams, but for as long as chief Ban Ki-moon wrapped up suicide bomber. The injured are Joint Task Force, drawing in Monday. zipped up his raincoat and walked the gridlocks are there, he would two-day a visit to Africa’s largest receiving treatment in hospital.” Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon “It is intolerable that their lives nearly a kilometre to find out serve as a make-do traffic cop. economy during which he hailed No group immediately claimed and Benin, is expected to go into and schooling has been disrupted what was causing the 1.6-km long “Next time, I’ll be sure to bring its “greater stability and peace” responsibility for the bus park action soon. in this way. The whole world has snarl, . a whistle,” he said laughing. under its new leader as he com- bombing but it bore the hall- Buhari has vowed to destroy been moved by their fate.” “We’re all in a hurry,” he said AFP memorated a deadly 2011 attack marks of Boko Haram, which Boko Haram, and replaced his AFP

Eight die after Nepal protesters burn homes over new law book Indonesia rains KATHMANDU: Protesters in Tikapur, but police said there torched homes and clashed with were no casualties among the cause landslide police in western Nepal yester- demonstrators. day, a day after an 18-month- “My son was playing in front of JAKARTA: Eight people are old boy and seven police died me, all of a sudden I heard bullet missing and feared dead after in violent demonstrations fire,” Saud said. “Within seconds a major landslide hit a road in against a new constitution. my son fell to the ground with remote eastern Indonesia, an Hundreds of demonstrators head injuries... I rushed him to official said yesterday. Heavy vandalised buildings in the hospital but he was already dead. downpours in an isolated moun- town of Tikapur, 420km west A new constitution was meant tainous region of Papua prov- of Kathmandu, defying an to cement peace after a 10-year ince triggered the landslide last indefinite curfew imposed after insurgency led by former Maoist Sunday, burying six construc- protestors attacked police with rebels. tion workers and two bystand- spears, axes and knives. Work on the new constitution ers under rock and rubble. “Small clashes occurred yes- began in 2008, but plans laid out Papua police spokesman terday with a few groups defying in the draft charter to divide Patridge Renwarin said news of the curfew,” said Dhan Bahadur the country into seven provinces the incident did not reach local Kathayat, deputy superintendent sparked fury among historically authorities until last Monday, of Tikapur police. marginalised communities, who when a rescue team was quickly “They torched a couple of say new borders will limit their assembled. houses, but our teams have put political representation. But bad weather prevented out the fires,” Kathayat said. The latest clashes broke out police, the army and local offi- Police said they were taken by when activists from the Tharu cials from reaching the site of surprise by the scale of the vio- minority protested for their own the landslide last Monday, with lence last Monday, when demon- separate province bordering the effort to reach those buried strators turned on security forces, India. Nepalese mourners pay respects to Senior Superintendent of Police Laxman Neupane at the Pashupatinath resuming yesterday. killing seven and prompting the Puspa Raj KC, spokesman for temple in Kathmandu, yesterday. “I have heard reports that government to send troops to the the Armed Police Force, said the the team reached the site and area. demonstrators outnumbered difficult for the commanders to to disperse the crowd, more than “Security forces failed to assess the evacuation process is ongo- The 18-month-old son of para- security personnel and encir- communicate properly with the 40 officers had sustained injuries the threat... no one expected an ing,” Patridge said. Landslides military officer Netra Bahadur cled senior officers as the protest force and no decision was made according to KC, who said there attack using such a huge number are common in Indonesia, one of Saud was also killed when pro- turned violent. to use firearms,” he said. were no casualties among the of home-made weapons,” he said. the world’s most natural-disaster testers opened fire at his home “During this time, it was By the time police fired tear gas demonstrators. APF prone nations. AFP Cambodia discovers $7m 500 days since 219 girls taken by Boko Haram

ABUJA: Relatives of more the Koran. Boko Haram leader the brutality of the Islamist insur- to crush the insurgency, blamed marijuana in coffee bags than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls Abubakar Shekau has since said gency unprecedented worldwide for killing more than 15,000 peo- kidnapped by Boko Haram said they have all converted to Islam attention and prompted a viral ple and forcing some 1.5 million to PHNOM PENH: Cambodian “They planned to smuggle they would hold a youth march and been “married off”. social media campaign demanding flee their homes since 2009. police yesterday displayed a sei- the marijuana to countries in and candle-lit vigil on Thursday The Bring Back Our Girls their release backed by personali- “It is important that we actu- zure of nearly 1.5 tonnes of mar- Western markets,” Khieu Samon to mark 500 days since the campaign said yesterday it would ties from US First Lady Michelle ally begin to see visible action that ijuana worth more than $7m added. abductions. stage a “Chibok Girls Ambassador Obama to the actress Angelina leads to information that will per- packed into coffee bags, as part Around 1.5 kg of marijuana oil Boko Haram fighters stormed March” in the capital Abuja on Jolie. suade us that the girls are being of an ongoing drug crackdown. worth at least $75,000 was also the Government Secondary the 500-day anniversary of the Western powers, including the found,” Oby Ezekwesili, a former General Khieu Samon, head confiscated. Khieu Samon said School in the remote town of kidnappings, followed by a candle- US, have offered logistical and education minister and also a of the interior ministry’s anti- foreign ringleaders were behind Chibok in Borno state on April lit procession. military support to Nigeria’s res- spokeswoman for the campaign, drug office, said 1,487kg of mar- the smuggling network. The three 14 last year, seizing 276 girls who “Since 498 days that they have cue effort, but there have been said last on Monday. ijuana was seized last Friday suspects face up to life in jail if were preparing for end-of-year been missing... we failed them few signs of progress so far. The “A lot of intelligence work has in Phnom Penh during raids in convicted. exams. and they were taken and the military has said it knows where been said to be going on and so which three Cambodians were Police confiscated 90 kg of Fifty-seven escaped but noth- best thing is for us to have res- the girls are but has ruled out a we are waiting with great anxi- arrested. drugs over the first seven months ing has been heard of the remain- cued them that very day. And rescue effort because of the dan- ety especially considering that a “The marijuana was packed of this year -- including 55kg of ing 219 since May last year, when up until now, 498 days after, we gers to the girls’ lives. three-month deadline has been into bags of Dao coffee, which was methamphetamine and heroin about 100 of them appeared in still haven’t done that,” campaign President Muhammadu Buhari, given to the new security team to smuggled from neighbouring Laos from Laos that was seized in June a Boko Haram video dressed spokeswoman Aisha Yesufu said. who came to power in May, has end Boko Haram.” into Cambodia,” he said. AFP in Muslim attire and reciting The mass abduction brought given his generals three months AFP Six lakh told to evacuate as Goni hits Japan S Africa policemen found

TOKYO: Typhoon Goni hour, Goni passed over Kyushu, slammed into the Japanese one of Japan’s four main islands, guilty in cabbie’s death mainland yesterday, leaving at and continued its path over the least one person missing, more Sea of Japan (East Sea), accord- JOHANNESBURG: Eight eight officers, dismissing their than 70 others injured and dis- ing to the Japan Meteorological South African policeman were defence that Macia violently rupting rail and flight serv- Agency. yesterday found guilty of mur- resisted arrest and assaulted a ices, as authorities urged more Local governments in northern dering a Mozambican man who police officer. than 600,000 people to leave Kyushu and some prefectures on died after being dragged behind The police van driver said he homes. The powerful storm, the main island of Honshu issued a moving police van two years drove away to escape a mob, not which killed at least 26 people evacuation advisories for more ago. knowing Macia was being dragged in landslides and floods in the than 600,000 people, the disaster The 27-year-old taxi driver, behind. Bam said the defence Philippines, hit the southwest- management agency reported. Mido Macia, died in police cus- was “fraught with discrepan- ern Kumamoto prefecture on Most regional railway operators tody in February 2013 after being cies and improbabilities”, adding Kyushu island at about 6am, halted trains while several hun- arrested for parking his car on the police were “teaching the Japan’s weather agency said. dred flights arriving and depart- the wrong side of the road. deceased a lesson” for swearing Most of those injured sustained ing from local airports were also Bystanders filmed Macia being at the cops. minor cuts from broken glass, a cancelled, including international manhandled, handcuffed to the Macia was arrested for a prefectural official said. TV foot- services between Fukuoka and back of a police van and dragged minor traffic violation, said Bam. age showed trees ripped from High waves batter the seashore at Aoshima beach in Miyazaki, Japan’s other regional centres including hundreds of metres in Daveyton, The eight officers are due to be their roots by violent winds and southern island of Kyushu, yesterday. Seoul and Shanghai. east of Johannesburg. Two hours sentenced on September 22, and streets strewn with seaweed and At 4pm almost 290,000 house- later he was dead in his cell. In could face a minimum sentence of fish dumped ashore by huge waves. man in his 60s suffered a serious flying steel pipe, authorities said. holds in Kyushu were blackedout. Pretoria’s high court yesterday, 15 years in jail. In the major city of Fukuoka, a head injury after he was hit by a Packing gusts up to 180km per AFP Judge Bert Bam convicted all AFP WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Army-Taliban fights kill 11 Peshawar HC stays Shawal checkpoint attacked; Six soldiers, five rebels die in two gunfights military court order

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least five soldiers and six to hang young man Taliban militants have been PESHAWAR: A court in was for. killed after raids on Pakistan Pakistan yesterday suspended a On the same date, the military army checkpoints in the restive death sentence passed by one of announced the death penalty for tribal area of Waziristan, secu- the country’s controversial new six militants linked to an assault rity officials say, as the military military tribunals, officials said. on a school in the northwestern presses on with an offensive in Lawmakers voted in January city of Peshawar that killed 151 the Shawal Valley. to set up military courts to people in the country’s deadliest Pakistan began a ground offen- hear terrorism cases, prompt- terror attack, but Ali’s name was sive in the deeply forested ravines ing criticism from lawyers and not included on that statement. of the valley, a historical smug- rights activists concerned about He said Ali was handed over gling route which straddles the the hearings, which are held in to the military in 2009 by a local border between North and South secret. council of elders, known as a jirga, Waziristan, last Friday. The Supreme Court backed the and his family has not heard from Early on Tuesday morning, move earlier this month, reject- him since. a group of militants attacked a ing claims it was unconstitutional, “The family of my client was checkpoint in the Pir Ghar area, but said defendants had the right never allowed to meet him since adjacent to Shawal, killing at least to challenge sentences in civilian the military took him into cus- three security personnel, security courts. tody in 2009 -- they won’t even officials in the area said. The high court in the north- say anything about where he is “Militants attacked with heavy western city of Peshawar, to his parents,” he said. weapons, including [Rocket which has borne the brunt of Khan said the family only Propelled Grenades] and machine the Islamist violence that has heard about the death sentence guns. Forces replied to the attack wracked Pakistan over the last through the media. we are checking for the militants’ decade, yesterday stayed a hang- “My client was a grade 10 stu- casualties,” a security official said ing imposed by a military tribunal. dent at the time of his arrest and on condition of anonymity. Soldiers carry the coffin of Lieutenant Colonel Faisal Malik, who was killed in an exchange of fire with militants, “The Peshawar High Court has was around 15 years old,” he said. Hours earlier, two security during his funeral in Havelian, Abbottabad district, yesterday. ordered the military court to halt The military courts were estab- forces personnel, including a lieu- the execution of my client Haider lished as part of a crackdown on tenant colonel, were killed in an faction of the Pakistani Taliban, Azam Tariq, a Taliban spokesper- deaths of more than 2,700 mili- Ali, who was awarded the death militancy following the massa- exchange of fire with militants in who the army has been bat- son, said yesterday, adding that tants and the clearance of most sentence by a military court on cre at the Peshawar school on the Shawal valley, Pakistan’s mili- tling in North Waziristan since dozens of Taliban fighters had of North Waziristan, a historical August 13,” Ajmal Khan, lawyer of December 16 last year. tary said in a statement. it launched a full-scale military been involved in the raids. hotbed of militancy. The military the death row convict said. The International Commission At least six militants were also operation in the area in June last The Shawal offensive marks said it destroyed a training camp Khan said the military person- of Jurists has condemned the mil- killed in that exchange, the mili- year. the latest phase of a military and ammunition dump in gunship nel came to visit Ali’s parents to itary courts as “secret, opaque” tary said. “We will not let the army enter operation in Waziristan, which helicopter strikes in the Gurbaz inform them of the sentence, but and in violation of fair trial obli- Both attacks were claimed by a Shawal under any conditions,” the army says has resulted in the area of Shawal. REUTERS did not say what the conviction gations. AFP Learn about virtual CM House camera to monitor Karachi KARACHI: All surveil- The secretary said that VVIP by the City District Government, and all CCTV cameras currently lance cameras installed across programmes or movements will Karachi, during the tenure of the being managed by the KMC will money crimes: UN Pakistan’s port city of Karachi also be monitored by making spe- then city nazim, Mustafa Kamal. be connected to it. “Within a few will now be monitored from a cial arrangements. In 2012, former president Asif days, the officials managing this ISLAMABAD: United similarly structured currencies central facility established at “This centre has an unlimited Ali Zardari inaugurated Rs690m system will monitor almost all the Nations Office on Drugs and currently pose a challenge to law CM House. The Rs120m facility capacity to cover or view surveil- project to increase the number of city’s areas,” said the CM House Crime (UNODC) country enforcement agencies. was inaugurated by CM Qaim lance cameras,” he said. CCTV cameras. spokesperson. office Pakistan called upon law These open-source currencies Ali Shah during a ceremony at Sindh Police IG Ghulam Hyder The funds were released and The official added that despite enforcement agencies of the have no central administrative CM House yesterday. Currently, Jamali told the CM that the sur- nearly 164 spots in the city were the government’s earlier orders country to develop an under- authority. the 200 cameras of the police veillance cameras installed by identified where poles were to transfer the management of standing of how to tackle the Convertible virtual currency department have been linked to the police are of two megapixels. also erected with five cameras KMC’s command and control criminal exploitation of virtual can be exchanged back and forth the command and control cen- “We are working with a foreign installed on each pole. system to the police, KMC offi- currencies. for real cash for example Bitcoin, tre, while 1,800 cameras of the agency and will upgrade the cam- The project was being managed cials had not obeyed the directive “It is crucial from an investiga- e-gold, Liberty Reserve and KMC will also be linked to the eras to eight megapixels. This will at Civic Centre, mostly by Karachi and had retained the authority. tive point of view to understand Web-Money. centre by the end of next week. improve the footage quality mani- Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Now, however, the system will be the interfaces between electronic According to the UNIDO docu- Speaking at the occasion, Shah fold,” he said. officials, until the provincial gov- jointly managed at CM House by money, virtual currencies and ment, the threats presented by said that the command and con- The CM visited the server ernment transferred its control the provincial and local govern- the traditional financial system”, virtual currencies include fast, trol centre is an essential tool room and recording system where to the police in September 2013. ment department. according to a UNODC docu- irreversible transactions and that helps detect criminal activi- he was briefed about the mecha- The reason provided for shift- Sources said that Nawaz Sharif, ment titled “The Laundering of transfers from one account to ties, improve traffic management nism of relaying information to ing the facility’s control was that ordered action against companies Crime Proceeds Using Virtual another. and witness action by rescue the relevant authorities for nec- certain elements in the KMC that installed the sub-standard Currencies”. Proceeds from virtual currency and police personnel. The CM essary action. Shah directed his were supporting the criminals. CCTV cameras in areas where Virtual currencies are not a can be used to finance drug traf- believes it must be run profes- principal secretary Alamuddin An official of the Sindh govern- Muttahida Qaumi Movement new concept but recent inno- ficking and organised crime. sionally to avail the most out of Bullo to run the facility efficiently. ment said that the system will be (MQM) leader Rashid Godil came vations of Bitcoin and other INTERNEWS the technology. This system was introduced run by the police at CM House was attacked. INTERNEWS

Bilawal Bhutto in Islamabad Afghan relief camp kids perish in gas plant fire HERAT: 11 people, mostly chil- majority of those killed were for Punjab polls dren, were killed in a series of children. explosions at an Afghan gas A resident of the hillside set- ISLAMABAD: Chairman storage facility, which triggered tlement, who lost a 9-year-old Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) a massive inferno in a nearby daughter in the fire, said many Bilawal Bhutto Zardari arrived settlement for displaced people, of the victims were trying to flee in Islamabad yesterday to hold officials said yesterday. the towering flames. meetings with Punjab leaders It was not immediately clear “The explosions were powerful and workers to kick off cam- whether the blasts last Monday and sparked a huge fire,” said the paigning for local bodies elec- on the edge of the relatively man, who had sought refuge in tions in Punjab. peaceful western city of Herat Herat after fleeing the neighbour- Bilawal directed party legisla- were the result of an accident or ing restive province of Badghis tors to raise issues of the farming caused by a militant attack. that has seen an escalation of community over which agitations “Around last Monday a gas violence. are on for some time. The PPP tanker exploded which triggered “After the first explosion eve- chairman will take stock of party blasts in a gas storage plant, ryone started to flee the area and issues and political situation. killing 11 people and injuring 10 got caught up in the flames,” he According to senior PPP lead- others,” Herat police spokesman added, reluctant to give his name. ers, Bilawal is likely to meet Abdul Rauf Ahmadi said. Mourners gathered at the set- office-bearers of 10 Punjab dis- The explosions triggered a tlement for funeral prayers on tricts during his first formal polit- plume of flames into the night sky, Tuesday morning, with turbaned ical visit to the province that is which rapidly spread to a nearby pall bearers seen carrying bodies A man passes by the scene of a gas tanker explosion in Herat, yesterday. aimed at finalising preparations settlement of mud houses for for burial on makeshift stretchers. for local bodies polls. The PPP is internally displaced people where Domestic gas cylinder explo- Herat province, a key busi- by an ascendant 14-year Taliban in Herat before being repelled by currently in shambles in Punjab most of the deaths occurred. sions are an almost daily occur- ness hub located in western insurgency. security forces, in an assault high- and seen nowhere in the province Ihasanullah Hayat, spokes- rence around the country, where Afghanistan near the border But in May last year four insur- lighting the precarious security in the upcoming local bodies elec- man for the governor of Herat, safety standards are poor and with Iran, is a relatively peaceful gent gunmen launched a pre- situation in the country. tions. INTERNEWS confirmed the toll and said the fatal accidents not uncommon. province in a country convulsed dawn attack on India’s consulate AFP Funny Facebook page ‘Kabul Taxi’ goes viral, scribes questioned KABUL: The biting political in the three months since it was hauled in two reporters it sus- asked concerned authorities to the worsening security situation respect freedom of expression. satire of a Facebook page called launched, and a leader in a bur- pected to be behind Kabul Taxi. act against the offenders of this in Kabul, where a recent truck In June, Human Rights Watch ‘Kabul Taxi’ has got under geoning scene of online satire The National Security Council case to prevent further leaks of bomb and other attacks have said the government was restrict- the skin of Afghanistan’s spy sites. (NSC) issued a statement on secrets in the security sector,” the caused public outrage. ing the information available to agency - enough so that it sum- The latest target was Haneef Monday, saying Kabul Taxi had statement added. “The NSC should not chase the reporters, limiting access to con- moned the two journalists it Atmar, the powerful National leaked government secrets by The Afghan journalists union Kabul Taxi driver, but the truck flict zones, and failing to protect suspects of being behind it for a Security Council adviser to naming some NSC staff, pre- Kabul Taxi said the staff names bombers who massacre people.” them from violence. two-hour grilling. President Ashraf Ghani, who senting what it deemed a “serious were already published on the The pressure on the satirists The rights group did praise the Kabul Taxi’s acerbic take on the Kabul Taxi mocked for the security risk” to their lives. NSC’s own Facebook page along has raised concerns about press government for scrapping a com- foibles of the Afghan government, number of his advisers. “The NSC office with respect with photos. freedoms. The journalist union mission used to pressure unruly corrupt officials and bureaucrats The National Directorate of to freedom of expression and peo- One Kabul Taxi follower condemned the interrogations reporters. has made it the talk of the capital Security, the intelligence agency, ple’s access to information, has responded with a dark joke about and urged the government to REUTERS WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Kejriwal calls on PM Remembering the mother over Jung, policemen Seeks Modi's intervention to make capital ‘shining city’ NEW DELHI: Chief Minister In obvious reference to Lt to the Kejriwal government’s Arvind Kejriwal yesterday Governor Jung, he said that claim, the officer was “acting as met Prime Minister Narendra whenever his government took per the law”. Modi and complained about out orders, they were declared Kejriwal said the prime minis- Lt Governor Najeeb Jung and null and void. ter must cooperate with the Delhi Delhi Police, and sought his He said Modi himself had been government to make the national personal intervention to make a chief minister in Gujarat, and capital a clean city. Delhi “a shining city”. sought to know how many times His government, Kejriwal But even as Kejriwal told Modi he had faced such problems from said, would make Modi’s Swachh about a “corrupt” officer being the state governor even when Bharat and Digital India cam- named head of Delhi’s Anti- the Congress was in power at the paigns a success in Delhi — and Corruption Branch (ACB), the centre. Modi was free to take the credit. central government told Delhi Delhi being a unique city-state, “In two years, we will make High Court yesterday that officer the powers to govern in the capi- Delhi a shining city” if such coop- M K Meena was “acting as per tal are divided unequally between eration was available, he added. the law”. the Lt. Governor and the elected The chief minister said he told This was Kejriwal’s first meet- government with some areas Modi that “our political differ- ing with Modi since he called on where the two sides are fighting ences” should not come in the way him immediately after the AAP it out in courts. of making Delhi “a shining city”. A foreign visitor interacts with one of the nuns as she waits for an evening prayer on the eve of 105th birth routed the BJP in the assem- Kejriwal said the Delhi gov- For Delhi’s development, anniversary of Mother Teresa, at Mother House, Kolkata, yesterday. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha bly polls in Delhi in February. ernment had checked corruption both the Delhi and central gov- Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910 to Albanian parents in Skopje. In 1948, she began her missionary work with the Yesterday’s meeting lasted about through the ACB in just three ernments must work together, poor and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. half-an-hour. months after taking power in he said. Asked about Modi’s Kejriwal told Modi that Delhi February, and people had begun to responses, Kejriwal said he heard Police, which reports to Jung and talk about a nearly bribe-free city. him out carefully and promised to not to him, seemed to be at war But on June 8, “a corrupt police look into the issues he had raised. with the Delhi government. “This officer” was appointed in the ACB But Modi made no mention of is dangerous for democracy,” he and he took control of it with the his meeting with Kejriwal either ‘One Rank One Pension’ protest: said later. help of paramilitary forces, the in his or in the Prime Minister’s He alleged that Delhi Police chief minister said. Office’s twitter handle. tried to prolong strikes by trans- But in its submission to the The AAP too refused to give porters and doctors in the capi- Delhi High Court around the further details, saying it would Fasting duo’s health deteriorates tal, giving the feeling that it was same time, the central govern- not comment beyond what opposed to the Aam Aadmi Party ment came to the rescue of ACB Kejriwal had briefed the media. NEW DELHI: Col Pushpender said the veteran has refused to Adviser Ajit Doval and the three government. head Meena, saying that contrary IANS Singh (retd), who was hospi- break his fast.yesterday, Havildar service chiefs, Air Force chief Air talised after fasting for nine Ashok Chauhan (retd), who is on Chief Marshal Arup Raha, Army days over non-implementation fast since last yesterday, had to be chief General Dalbir Singh and of the ‘One Rank One Pension’ evacuated from the protest venue Navy chief Admiral R K Dhowan (OROP), stabilised yesterday yesterday after he suffered mus- late last Monday night. but the health of two other vet- cle atrophy. The veterans are hopeful of a HC applauds woman for brave stand erans deteriorated. Havildar Major Singh (retd), meeting with the prime minister The health of retired havildars who has been fasting since last today, even as speculation is rife NEW DELHI: The Delhi High of Justice Kailash Gambhir and allegedly passed lewd remarks at Major Singh and Ashok Chauhan Monday, refused to leave the that an announcement may come Court yesterday applauded a Justice Sunita Gupta. her. worsened yesterday. venue despite his deteriorating on August 28, the anniversary of young woman for standing up Delhi University student The woman took a photograph Col Singh was rushed to the health and even refused to take the 1965 war. to the man who abused her at a Jasleen Kaur was abused at a of the number plate of Singh’s Army Research and Referral water. yesterday was the 72nd day traffic signal. traffic signal in Tilak Nagar motorbike and when she was Hospital after his health deterio- Sources, meanwhile, said of the protest and relay hunger “We appreciate the girl for area in west Delhi around 8pm about to take a photograph of the rated last Monday. “He is stable Defence Minister Manohar strike. There are around 24 lakh taking steps. We are glad that last Sunday. The woman told accused, he posed for it despite now and recovering,” a hospital Parrikar met Prime Minister retired servicemen in India and now girls are coming forward police that she was confronted being told that she would report spokesperson said. Narendra Modi over the issue around 6.5 lakh widows who will to complain about such harass- by accused Saravjeet Singh at the matter to police. He later sped Col Anil Kaul (retd), spokesper- yesterday. The veterans also had benefit if OROP is implemented. ment cases,” said a division bench a traffic intersection, where he away, said a police official. IANS son for the ex-servicemen front, a meeting with National Security IANS

Kerala gets third St Assissi BJP wins Bengaluru world centre municipal poll again THRISSUR (KERALA): An BENGALURU: The BJP yes- party’s win, Modi complimented inter-religious meditation cen- terday took control of the 198- local party leaders. He said the tre is being set up here dedi- ward Bengaluru municipal Bengaluru results “complete a cated to a hymn written by corporation for a second succes- hat-trick of wins for the BJP. This Saint Francis Assissi. sive term, defeating Karnataka’s is a win for the politics of develop- Thrissur would be the third ruling Congress. ment and good governance”. such centre after Wurttemberg Even as the counting was Polling was held in 197 wards in Germany and Assisi in Italy. in progress, Prime Minister last Saturday and saw a 49.3 per- The hymn, “The Canticle of the Narendra Modi said that peo- cent turnout, with over 36 lakh Sun” is among the first works of ple’s “continuous faith in the of the 74 lakh electorate voting. literature written in Italian. BJP is humbling and gladdening” The Bengaluru corporation Davis Pulikkottil, Rector and and called it a hat-trick after expanded in 2007 by including Vicar of the Shrine Basilica in similar wins in Madhya Pradesh seven city municipal councils Thrissur said the project was and Rajasthan. “Thank you and a town municipal council as inspired by Saint Assissi, the Bengaluru!” Modi tweeted. well as 111 surrounding villages patron saint of animals and ecol- According to officials, the BJP to increase the civic wards to 198 ogy. It has taken more than four had won 88 of the 196 wards and from 100. years to build. was leading in 11. The Congress With 50 percent of the wards The project involves carving bagged 71 wards and led in five reserved for women, political images out of blocks of solid natu- and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD- parties fielded wives or relatives ral rock. The structures had been S) had got 13 wards. Independents of former corporators in many made by carving images of sun, won from eight wards. wards. In all, 1,120 candidates moon and stars as well as wind, BJP candidate Bharati contested. The BJP and Congress air, water, fire, Earth and death as Ramachandra was declared had candidates in all wards, and mentioned in The Canticle. Each elected unopposed earlier the JD-S in 187. A slew of regional of the seven blocks from which from Hongasandra (ward 189) outfits including the AIADMK images are carved weighs a tonne, after Congress candidate K were also in the fray. said Pulikkottil. IANS Maheshwari submitted a fake The BJP has ruled the corpo- Members of the Patel community display placards as they attend a protest in Ahmedabad, yesterday. caste certificate. ration from 2010, then winning The BJP is now to retain power in 116 wards as against the 62 in the century-old corporation wards of the Congress and 14 of Bus driver jailed in India’s IT capital. Hailing his the JD-S. IANS over porn video Patels demand reservation in

NEW DELHI: A school cab driver was arrested in Delhi for Modi’s hometown Ahmedabad Amma’s new health plan showing obscene video clips to a 10-year-old girl he used to drop AHMEDABAD: At least half measures intended to bring vic- ruled out granting the Patidars’ CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Government General Hospital home, police said yesterday. a million protesters paralysed tims of the worst discrimination request, but their campaign has Minister J Jayalalithaa yes- would charge very low rates for “Cab driver Shiv Kumar, 26, the main city of Prime Minister into the mainstream. gathered pace in recent weeks. terday said the Government conducting these tests. has been showing the minor girl Narendra Modi’s home state But the system of “reserved” Police commissioner Shivanand General Hospital here would According to her, the govern- obscene video clips on his mobile yesterday to demand preferen- categories has caused resentment Jha said nearly 20,000 security launch “Amma Master Health ment would sanction `10cr to the phone for the past three months,” tial treatment for their Patidar among other castes including personnel had been deployed in Check-up” and “Amma Woman hospital to acquire the necessary said a police official. caste -- one of the state’s most the Patidars, traditionally farm- Ahmedabad for yesterday’s rally Special Health Check-up” equipment to carry out the tests The matter came to light when affluent. ers and traders, who are now and roads within a two-kilometre schemes. under the two schemes. the girl last Monday refused to The Patidars, or Patels, who demanding the same privileges radius of the venue were closed Under the Amma Woman Jayalalithaa said people can get board the school cab, after which make up around 12 percent of for themselves. to traffic. Special Health Check-up scheme, tested their urine and have their the school called her parents. the population of western Gujarat “People in the Patel community Protester Kantibhai Patel was pap smear, bone marrow, blood blood pressure and ECG taken at She told her parents, who live in state, say they are struggling to are not getting jobs even if they among those who had travelled vitamin-D, digital mammogram, primary health centres across the west Delhi’s Dwarka area, about compete with less privileged have degrees,” said protest leader to Ahmedabad for the protest calcium tests would be carried state twice a week free of cost. the cab driver’s action after which castes for jobs and university Hardik Patel. yesterday wearing a white cap out apart from normal tests, She also announced the grant- the driver was arrested from Som places. “In education too, a student printed with the words “I am Jayalalithaa said. ing of centre of excellence status Vihar area last Monday. India sets aside a proportion under reserved category with less Patidar”. Announcing this in the state and referral hospital by the cen- He has been booked under of government jobs and univer- grades gets admission, but a Patel “Reservation is our right. If we assembly, she said private hospi- tral government to the Cancer the Protection of Children from sity places for Dalits, known as does not get admission despite do not get our right we will obtain tals charge `5,000-12,000 to carry Institute located here. The Cancer Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, “untouchables”, and for so-called having secured higher grades.” it by force if necessary,” he said. out these tests which many can- Institute would be upgraded at an police said. IANS “other backward castes” under State authorities have already AFP not afford. Jayalalithaa said the outlay of `120cr. IANS WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Saudi woman delivers boy in India, Pakistan turn to media airport toilet Leaders to address UN next month MUMBAI: In an unusual med- ical emergency, a Mumbai air- NEW DELHI: The National He is learnt to have explained port toilet became an unlikely Security Advisor (NSA) talks how Pakistan was trying to delivery room for a 20-year- may have been called off, but scuttle the talks by dragging in old pregnant passenger from India and Pakistan are actively Kashmir into the agenda, when Saudi Arabia. The young Saudi seeking out the influential it was not part of the NSA talks. woman delivered a healthy baby Western media to put forth External Affairs Minister boy in a toilet at the Mumbai their respective points of view — Sushma Swaraj, in her press con- International Airport yesterday with an eye on the UN General ference last Saturday afternoon, afternoon, officials said. Assembly next month. had said the NSA talks could be The pregnant woman, Both sides have wasted no time held if Pakistan sticks to the Ufa Alhagbani Haya Saud, was to in reaching out to the Western agenda of only discussing terror- travel to Riyadh by an Air India media within days of the NSA ism-related issues and does not flight from Hyderabad, which she level talks having been called off. drag in the Kashmiri separatists. was waiting to board in Mumbai. It was a select invited gather- Basit addressed around 15 When she went to the toilet, ing of Western media addressed media persons from top Western she suddenly went into labour and by Indian Foreign Secretary S media houses. the baby came out partially as she Jaishankar at a briefing room in He is learnt to have attempted sat on the toilet seat. Shastri Bhavan, last Monday. to refute India’s criticism that Hearing her cries for help, Yesterday, it was Pakistan High Pakistan changed the agreed Ufa housekeeper Sweta Satpal Commissioner Abdul Basit who agenda and also dragged in the immediately informed medical addressed an invited gathering Kashmiri separatists. emergency personnel. A medical of Western media at the high He is learnt to have said team rushed within minutes and commission. that Islamabad was keen till quickly took charge of the situa- It has been learnt that the last minute to attend the tion. Ensuring that the baby did Jaishankar reiterated India’s NSA talks, and that India not fall off, the medical person- view point on why talks between “deliberately”misread the Ufa nel arranged a safe and success- Indian NSA Ajit Doval and his joint statement. ful delivery in the rest room at Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz Basit is also learnt to have dis- 1.45pm. Later, the Saudi woman had to be called off. missed Sushma Swaraj’s conten- Activists from the right-wing organisation, Hindu Sena, burn posters of Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Sartaj was shifted to the Seven Hills He mentioned the Ufa tion that Pakistan was confusing Aziz durng a protest in New Delhi, yesterday. Hospital in Andheri East for post- talks between Prime Minister the “preamble”of the Ufa joint natal care. Narendra Modi and his Pakistani statement with the agreed points Basit is also known to have during the August 23-24 meet- cancelled and expressed hope that The official said the medi- counterpart Nawaz Sharif and the of engagement, and also justified raised the issue of alleged Indian ing. He also mentioned India’s the parley will be held. cal personnel took precautions agreed joint statement, and how Aziz’s proposed meeting with the involvement in Balochistan and “unprovoked”firing along the Leaders of the two countries to calm the woman, helped her under it both the NSAs were to Hurriyat who he said were “the said India wanted to “scuttle”the border. would be addressing the UN get up from the toilet seat and discuss only terrorism-related genuine representatives”of the NSA talks as Islamabad would The US has voiced disappoint- General Assembly to be held in ensured that the half-out baby did issues. Kashmiri people. have presented its dossiers ment at the NSA talks being September. IANS not fall. IANS State mulls rationing NSCN begins recruitment campaign NEW DELHI: Even as the from which the youth want to falsely told that the government and four paramilitary battalions government is exploring every join. However, if the parents of has allowed them (NSCN-IM) to would be raised to accommodate onions as prices soar option to bring the various fac- the youth do not want them to carry on the recruitment and that the existing NSCN(IM) cadres, tions of the National Socialist join, then we are not compelling they will be paid salary,” a source numbering around 5,000. That MUMBAI: As onion prices con- to `4,850 per quintal from `5,700 Council of Nagalim (NSCN) them,” Zimik said over phone told IANS. may possibly be one reason why tinue to skyrocket, Maharashtra per quintal last Saturday. within the recently inked from Dimapur, in Nagaland. The recruiters were apparently the former militant group wants is mulling providing the essen- Around 4,500 quintals of fresh Naga Peace Accord, the outfit’s Although the youth were free telling the youth that this would to take in more people. tial vegetable through fair stock arrived at the Lasalgaon strongest group NSCN (Isak- to join NSCN(IM), they will not be the last batch of recruitment. NSCN(IM) is already supposed price shops in the public dis- market for auction and the situ- Muivah) is recruiting fresh undergo any arms training, Zimik Although some parents have to have recruited over 1,000 new tribution system, Revenue and ation is likely to improve with cadre from parts of eastern added. accepted the faction’s claims, a cadres from Dimapur, the com- Agriculture Minister Eknath new stocks of private imported Nagaland. The government, though, majority of them were worried mercial hub of the state. It has Khadse said yesterday. onion expected during this week, The recruitment drive was seems to be unaware of the as the NSCN(IM) had also said also verbally directed village “Onions are an item of day- according to NAFED chairman started immediately after the move by the accord co-signa- during earlier recruitments that councils to send youngsters for to-day use. It’s a sort of essential Nanasaheb Patil. Naga accord was signed between tory. Minister of State for Home it was “their last recruitment recruitment. commodity. The government has “Around 100 tonnes of onions the Narendra Modi government Affairs Kiren Rijiju said he did drive”, the source said. E M Rammohan, former direc- been attempting to regulate its imported by some private parties and NSCN(IM) on August 3, fol- not have any information about Usually, after a peace accord tor general of Border Security prices and soon we shall devise is reaching Mumbai port during lowing nearly 20 years of intense this development. is inked, militant groups are not Force and an expert on the coun- a way out. Despite this, if the this week and that will provide negotiations. “I will have to check if this is allowed to take in new cadres. try’s North-Eastern region, said, rates become unaffordable, then some relief in the prices. We are NSCN(IM) secretary for min- really happening. I will respond Instead, the government gener- “The actual devil is in the accord we may have to supply it through awaiting details of the arrivals... istry of information and public- once I get the complete report,” ally aims to rehabilitate the exist- details. Calling the recruitment ration shops,”Khadse said. whether more parties are import- ity W Zimik admitted that the Rijiju said. ing ones. However, experts on the drive illegitimate as of now won’t Onion prices have skyrocketed ing, quality, etc.,”Patil said. recruitment was on, but said it According to sources knowl- North-Eastern region have said be correct because we do not in the past couple of months, This year, onion crops have was “completely on a voluntary edgeable about the developments, that the situation on the Naga know what is there in the accord.” and are presently being sold in taken a double-battering, first basis” and that no one would be NSCN(IM) was conducting its issue might be different as the He said the government should the range of `65-85 in Mumbai, due to unseasonal rains and hail- compelled to join. recruitment drive in its strong- NSCN(IM) claims itself to be a not have any problem with the depending on the size and quality. storms in the state in April-May, “There is one specific place hold Tuensang district where political group and not a military recruitment drive if it’s done as a Yesterday, Asia’s biggest onion and now, the failure of monsoon where the recruitment drive the youth were being mobilised one. political step. But it has to ensure wholesale market at Lasalgaon in in large parts of the state, Patil is being carried out. It’s com- to join. A ministry of home affairs the recruits are not given any Nashik saw a fall in the bulk rates explained. IANS pletely depending on the areas “The fresh recruits are being source had earlier said two army arms training, he warned. IANS

Labour protest Khan’s reports missing Pakistan firing kills one soldier in paper-book: Lawyer near LoC MUMBAI: Bollywood megas- placed in the records and pro- SRINAGAR: In its first major tar Salman Khan’s lawyer Amit ceedings of the case, which could violation of the border ceasefire Desai yesterday told the Bombay be referred to by the defence after cancellation of the NSA High Court that certain docu- lawyer. level talks, Pakistan Army yes- ments were not included in the Desai argued that the paper- terday resorted to unprovoked paper-book and hence he could book should be prepared accord- firing on the Line of Control not argue his appeal. ing to the prescribed manual of (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, In an application filed before the Bombay High Court, which killing an Indian soldier, offi- Justice A R Joshi, counsel Desai was refuted by the prosecution. cials said. claimed that some documents Justice Joshi posted for hear- “Pakistan army resorted to relating to Salman Khan’s defence ing today Desai’s application in unprovoked firing at Indian were not included in the paper- the matter. Army’s Badal post on the LoC in book -- a compilation of evidence On May 6 this year, Salman Nowgam (Kupwara) sector yes- and documents prepared by the Khan was convicted and sen- terday. A soldier of the Kumaon court registry and submitted to tenced to five years imprisonment Regiment was killed. Indian both the sides before the appeal is on various charges, including cul- army effectively retaliated to the heard. One such document, which pable homicide not amounting to Pakistan firing,” a senior police he termed “very vital”, pertains murder, in the September 28, officer said. to the defence stance that police 2002 accident in Bandra which Pakistan had also violated the witness Ravindra Patil was a “fab- killed one and injured four pave- ceasefire a day after the NSA level ricated witness” who was not tell- ment dwellers. On May 8, the talks were called off, in Balakote ing the truth. Bombay High Court stayed exe- sector in Poonch district. Public Prosecutor Purnima cution of the jail term, admitted Meanwhile, a gunfight between Kashmiri government health department employees chant slogans after being detained by security person- Kantharia and S S Shinde said Salman’s appeal challenging the security forces and militants was nel as they took part in an anti-government protest in Srinagar, yesterday. The employees were calling for the that though the paper-book did lower court verdict and granted on in Lasipora forest area near regularisation of contractual labourers. not have this document, it was him bail. IANS the LoC in north Kashmir’s Uri sector, officials said. This ensued as army and spe- cial operations group (SOG) of Two undertrials killed, five injured in Tihar jail clash the state police rushed to the area, following information from NEW DELHI: Two under- Pitampura area in west Delhi of the Neetu Dabodha gang, and Deputy Commissioner of Police being taken back to Tihar after some shepherds who had com- trial inmates were killed and inside a moving van ferrying nine his associate Pradeep alias Bhola, Vikramjit Singh said. a court proceeding. plained to police that some gun- five others suffered injuries in inmates from the Rohini court to both in their early 30s, were killed “At the time of the attack, the Police said the injured inmates men had snatched their mobile a clash between two rival gangs Tihar. in the fight. inmates were being taken back to were being treated at Bhagwan phones and identity cards there. while they were being taken Police said the inmates belong “Paras and Pradeep were Tihar jail from the Rohini court,” Mahavir Hospital in Pitampura. “Firing exchanges between the back to Tihar jail from a city to Delhi's two top gangs -- Neetu killed and five other inmates he said. Police said the prisoners were hiding militants and the security court yesterday evening, police Dabodha gang and Neeraj Bawana were injured after a violent fight He said Delhi's topmost gang- being taken back under the watch forces have started in the area,” said. gang. between two groups of inmates ster Neeraj Bawana was also of the Delhi Armed Police third said a senior police officer. The clash occurred near Paras alias Goldi, a sharpshooter belonging to different gangs,” among the inmates who were battalion. IANS IANS WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 FEATURES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

women may take less advantage of nearby natural a completely new molecular mechanism that further Very little is known about the function of crying. Natural surroundings help settings out of concern for their safety. The study enhances the activity of K-Ras,” Hancock said. While some researchers see it as a cry for support, was published in the journal Preventive Medicine. The study focused on the tiny electrical charges comfort or help, others believe the main role of crying men get adequate sleep that all cells carry. “What we have shown is that is to relieve emotions. iving near a park or a sandy beach and an ocean the electrical potential (charge) that a cell carries For this study, researchers videotaped a group of 60 Lview can help people — especially men and those Electrical control of is inversely proportional to the strength of a K-Ras participants while watching the emotionally charged who are above 65 — sleep better, new research has signal,” Hancock said. films La vita e bella and Hachi: A Dog’s Tale. Both found. “This new study shows that exposure to a natu- “Our results may finally account for a long-stand- the films are known to be tearjerkers. ral environment may help people get the sleep they cancer cell growth found ing but unexplained observation that many cancer Immediately afterwards, the 28 participants who need,” said one of the researchers Diana Grigsby- esearchers have discovered a new electrical mech- cells actively try to reduce their electrical charge,” cried and the 32 who did not shed a tear were asked Toussaint, professor at University of Illinois in the US. Ranism that can control the molecular switches first author of the study Yong Zhou, assistant pro- how they felt. The study surveyed 255,171 US adults, to learn connected to growth of cancer cells. fessor of integrative biology and pharmacology at They also had to rate their moods 20 and 90 min- whether there was an association between self- The findings could lead to new treatments for some UTHealth Medical School, said. utes later. As expected, the mood of the non-criers reported days of insufficient sleep and access to green of the most lethal types of cancer including pan- Initial work was done with human and animal cells was unchanged and unaffected immediately after space. “Interestingly, across the entire sample, indi- creatic, colon and lung, which are characterised by and findings were subsequently confirmed in a fruit seeing the films. viduals reporting 21 to 29 days of insufficient sleep uncontrolled cell growth. fly model. The study was published in the journal The mood of the criers, on the other hand, was consistently had lower odds of access to green space The molecular switches regulating human cell Science. distinctively low and even took a dip. and natural amenities compared to those reporting growth do a great job of replacing cells that die dur- Within 20 minutes, however, their mood had less than one week,” she said. ing the course of a lifetime. But when they misfire, returned to the level reported before the screening. For men, the relationship between sleep and life-threatening cancers can occur. In distress? Shed some Finally, after 90 minutes, the criers reported exposure to green space was much stronger than for The research focused on a molecular switch called even a better mood than was the case before the women. And males and females 65 and over found K-Ras. Mutated versions of K-Ras are found in a films started. “After the initial deterioration of nature to be a potent sleep aid, she pointed out. number of cancers and these mutations lock the tears to feel better mood following crying, it takes some time for the Living near green landscapes is associated with K-Ras switch in the on position. hedding emotional tears, an ability only humans mood not only to recover but also to be lifted above higher levels of physical activity and that exercise “When K-Ras is locked in the on position, it drives Sare bestowed with, can improve mood over time, the levels at which it had been before the emo- in turn predicts beneficial sleep patterns, Grigsby- cell division, which leads to the production of a can- new research suggests. “Yes, a good cry indeed might tional event,” Gracanin explained.The study was Toussaint explained. cer,” said the study’s senior author John Hancock go a long way to make you feel better,” said study lead published in the Springer’s journal Motivation and But men appeared to benefit much more from their from The University of Texas Health Science Centre author Asmir Gracanin from University of Tilburg Emotion. natural surroundings. The researcher speculated that at Houston (UTHealth) in the US. “We have identified in the Netherlands. AGENCIES

Minus their greens, from left: the Caesar Salad With Chicken; the Quesadilla Explosion Salad Salad isn’t helping you, and and the Waldorf Salad. may be hurting the planet

By Tamar Haspel 77 percent), those four salad vegetables top the list at 95 to 97 percent water. A head of iceberg lettuce has s the world population grows, we have a the same water content as a bottle of Evian (1-liter pressing need to eat better and farm bet- size: 96 percent water, 4 percent bottle) and is only ter, and those of us trying to figure out how marginally more nutritious. to do those things have pointed at lots of Take collard greens. They are 90 percent water, different foods as problematic. Almonds, which still sounds like a lot. But it means that, com- forA their water use. Corn, for the monoculture. Beef, pared with lettuce, every pound of collard greens con- for its greenhouse gases. In each of those cases, there’s tains about twice as much stuff that isn’t water, which, some truth in the finger-pointing, but none of them is of course, is where the nutrition lives. But you’re also professor of marketing at INSEAD, an international or salty or sweet, or all of those things. Which doesn’t a clear-cut villain. likely to eat much more of them, because you cook business school in Fontainebleau, France, says that mean that the right salad can’t be a good choice for There’s one food, though, that has almost nothing them. A large serving of lettuce feels like a bona fide once people have the idea it’s good for them, they stop a nutritious meal. It just means that it’s easy to get going for it. It occupies precious crop acreage, requires vegetable, but when you saute it (not that I’m recom- paying attention “to its actual nutritional content or, snookered. fossil fuels to be shipped, refrigerated, around the mending that), you’ll see that two cups of romaine even worse, to its portion size.” Salad has unfortunate repercussions in our food sup- world, and adds nothing but crunch to the plate. cooks down to a bite or two. I won’t be the first to point out that items labeled ply. Lettuce has a couple of No. 1 unenviable rankings in It’s salad, and here are three main reasons why we The corollary to the nutrition problem is the expense “salad” at chain restaurants are often as bad, if not the food world. For starters, it’s the top source of food need to rethink it. problem. The makings of a green salad — say, a head worse, than pastas or sandwiches or burgers when it waste, vegetable division, becoming more than 1 billion Salad vegetables are pitifully low in nutrition. The of lettuce, a cucumber and a bunch of radishes — cost comes to calories. Take Applebee’s, where the Oriental pounds of uneaten salad every year. But it’s also the biggest thing wrong with salads is lettuce, and the big- about $3 at my supermarket. For that, I could buy Chicken Salad clocks in at 1,400 calories, and the grilled chief culprit for foodborne illnesses. According to the gest thing wrong with lettuce is that it’s a leafy-green more than two pounds of broccoli, sweet potatoes or version is only 110 calories lighter. Even the Grilled Centers for Disease Control, green leafies accounted for waste of resources. just about any frozen vegetable going, any of which Chicken Caesar, the least calorific of the salads on the 22 percent of all food-borne illnesses from 1998-2008. In July, when I wrote a piece defending corn on the would make for a much more nutritious side dish to regular menu, is 800 calories. To be fair, “leafy vegetables,” the CDC category, also calories-per-acre metric, a number of people wrote my roast chicken. Of course, salad isn’t always a bad choice, and includes cabbage, spinach and other kinds of greens, but to tell me I was ignoring nutrition. Which I was. Not Lettuce is a vehicle to transport refrigerated water Applebee’s has a selection of special menu items under the reason the category dominates is that the greens because nutrition isn’t important, but because we get all from farm to table. When we switch to vegetables that 550 calories (many chain restaurants have a similar are often eaten raw. As in salad. the nutrition we need in a fraction of our recommended are twice as nutritious — like those collards or tomatoes menu category). Applebee’s Thai Chicken Salad is only None of this is to say that salad doesn’t have a role daily calories, and filling in the rest of the day’s food or green beans — not only do we free up half the acres 390 calories (although it has more sodium than the in our food supply. I like salad, and there’s been many is a job for crops like corn. But if you think nutrition now growing lettuce, we cut back on the fossil fuels Oriental Chicken Salad). Other chains, like relative a time a big bowl of salad on the dinner table has kept is the most important metric, don’t direct your ire at and other resources needed for transport and storage. newcomer Sweetgreen, have a good selection of salads me from a second helping of lasagna. The salads we corn. Turn instead to lettuce. Save the planet, skip the salad. that go further toward earning their health halo: more make at home aren’t the same as the ones we buy in One of the people I heard from about nutrition is Salad fools dieters into making bad choices. Lots of actual vegetables, less fried stuff. restaurants; according to the recipe app Yummly, its organic consultant Charles Benbrook. He and colleague what passes for salad in restaurants is just the same I asked Bret Thorn, columnist at Nation’s collection of lettuce-based salads average 398 calories Donald Davis developed a nutrient quality index — a as the rest of the calorie-dense diabolically palatable Restaurant News and longtime observer of the res- per serving (although a few do get up into Oriental way to rate foods based on how much of 27 nutrients food that’s making us fat, but with a few lettuce leaves taurant industry, about salads. “Chefs are cognizant Chicken territory). they contain per 100 calories. Four of the five lowest- tossed in. Next time you order a salad, engage in a lit- of what’s going on in the psychology of diners,” he An iceberg wedge, with radishes and beef bacon and ranking foods (by serving size) are salad ingredients: tle thought experiment: Picture the salad without the said. “They’re doing a kind of psychological health blue-cheese dressing, is something I certainly have no cucumbers, radishes, lettuce and celery. (The fifth is lettuce, cucumber and radish, which are nutritionally washing,” not just with salads, but with labels like plans to give up. But as we look for ways to rejigger our eggplant.) and calorically irrelevant. Is it a little pile of croutons “fresh” and “natural,” and foods that are “local” and food supply to grow crops responsibly and feed people Those foods’ nutritional profile can be partly and cheese, with a few carrot shavings and lots of ranch “seasonal.” “A chef is not a nutritionist, or public nutritiously, maybe we should stop thinking about salad explained by one simple fact: They’re almost all water. dressing? health advocate,” Thorn points out. “They make food as a wholesome staple, and start thinking about it as a Although water figures prominently in just about every Call something “salad,” and it immediately acquires that customers want to buy.” resource-hungry luxury. vegetable (the sweet potato, one of the least watery, is what Pierre Chandon calls a “health halo.” Chandon, And we want to buy things that are fried or creamy WP-BLOOMBERG Recycling: Fashion world’s antidote to environmental concerns

By Anna Ringstrom can recycle the fibres with unchanged then offers them a replacement each year, repairing quality.” and reselling the used ones or recycling the fabric. ennes & Mauritz, the As population pressure mounts, retail- “This is the future: producers that are responsi- world’s second-biggest ers like H&M are concerned about ble for their own waste,” said Chief Executive Bert fashion retailer, is launch- potential future shortages of cotton, van Son. ing a new effort to pro- which is heavily water and pesticide “Our company can do this because we are quite mote recycling as it seeks dependent. small: that it is why we can do these kinds of crazy Hto cut its environmental impact, boost its Existing cotton recycling methods things because we can keep cotton pure. If you are ethical credentials and address looming make poor-quality fibres, and there is a big store chain it is very complicated if you mix shortages of raw materials. no efficient way to recycle garments of cotton and polyester.” The move comes as critics point out mixed materials, so the vast majority of H&M joined forces earlier this year with Puma- the damage being caused by a throwa- clothes end up in land fill. owner Kering to support start-up Worn Again way culture fuelled by cheap clothing Johan Rockstrom, environmental sci- which is developing a technology for separating and that has seen a sharp rise in the number ence professor at Stockholm University extracting fibres in mixed-material garments. of garments sold annually around the and a jury member for the H&M prize, Meanwhile, a company called Re:newcell is devel- world. said the fashion industry needs to find November, making it the second biggest “fast-fashion” companies that constantly oping a method to improve the quality of recycled Sweden’s H&M, which is launching a new business models to respond to global fashion retailer after Spain’s Inditex. churn out new styles. cotton fibres and hopes to build a first factory in line of jeans containing recycled cotton resource shortages. The award is being launched by a “The model only works if they encour- coming years. next week, will offer an annual 1-million- “This is a great challenge for H&M foundation established by H&M that is age very frequent purchases, but the Currently, only about a maximum of 20 percent euro ($1.16m) prize for new techniques whose trademark is cheap clothes at funded by the retailer and the Persson consumers are aware of the increasing of recycled cotton can be used in a new pair of jeans to recycle clothes, Chief Executive Karl- good quality ... The fact it’s cheap means family, its main owners. effect it has on the environment,” she because the fibre length is shortened in the shredding Johan Persson said. there’s a risk people buy and throw away, said. process, impacting quality, H&M says. “No company, fast-fashion or not, can or buy too much,” he said. Innovation Other companies are coming up with H&M and Kering are not alone in beating the continue exactly like today,” Persson said. H&M revenues have more than dou- Bernstein analyst Anne-Charlotte their own solutions. recycling drum. “The (prize’s) largest potential lies with bled since 2006, reaching 151bn Swedish Windal said the industry’s sustainabil- Mud Jeans is a Dutch company which Like H&M, Britain’s Marks & Spencer and Italy’s finding new technology that means we crowns ($18.3bn) in the year to last ity drive reflected the dilemma facing leases its garments to consumers and Calzedonia collects used items in their stores for recycling. On a much smaller scale, Finnish entrepreneurs Pure Waste Textiles have managed to produce sweat shirts from 100 percent recycled cotton after improving existing recycling techniques and by recy- cling offcuts from clothes factories. However, others believe that recycling is just a distraction from the real challenge of the fashion industry: persuading customers to keep wearing their clothes for longer. To that end, British designer Tom Cridland is offering a 30-year guarantee on a range of T-shirts. “I don’t believe it is fair on customers to churn out plain white T-shirts that will only last a year or two,” he said. “I can’t compete on price so I have to do something different.” REUTERS

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Gold falls more than one percent

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Oil rises more Qatari bourse than 3pc but still near index gains 6-1/2-year lows NEW YORK: Oil rose more than three percent yesterday as oversold conditions brought some buyers back to the mar- 333.23 points ket, but a lingering supply glut and worries about the slowing economy in top commodities Saudi surges 7.4pc in heavy trade consumer China kept crude prices near 6-1/2-year lows. DOHA: Qatari stocks recov- forwards fell 15 percent and five- Futures of US crude and Brent, ered yesterday after two days year Saudi credit default swaps , the global oil benchmark, are both of continuous slide prompted used to insure against a sovereign down more than 16 percent on the by a global trend. The bench- debt default, dropped to 100 basis month. About half of those losses mark index of the Qatari bourse points from 120. were incurred in the past two ses- regained 333.23 points, or 3.15 Fund managers are unwill- sions as plummeting Chinese equi- percent of lost ground, as it ing to say Gulf markets have ties sparked a selloff across global climbed back to 10,905.73. bottomed, though, as long as oil markets. The market capitalization of prices haven’t established a clear Brent was up 68 cents at $43.37 the bourse (Qatar Exchange) floor. Technical indicators sug- a barrel by 12.07pm EDT (1607 that reflects investor wealth, obvi- gested the stock markets were GMT), after hitting $42.23 on ously, also regained QR15.49bn of very oversold for the short term, Monday, its lowest since March the QR41bn lost last Sunday and making a temporary rebound 2009. US crude rose $1.22 to Monday. likely. $39.46, also advancing from The turnover increased to Nevertheless, yesterday’s Investors follow stock market developments at the Dubai Financial Market yesterday. $37.75, its lowest since February QR517.91m with trading volume recovery in Saudi blue chips sug- 2009 set in the previous session. being 11.78 million shares across gested some institutional inves- “We’re practically oversold on 7,544 deals. tors felt the market had become oil at this moment and we can’t All indices on the exchange reasonably valued after its slide. Europe, US markets regain ground keep going down in a straight showed positive indications and Top petrochemical firm Saudi line,” said Tariq Zahir, managing gained, with QE Al Rayan Islamic Basic Industries soared its 10 member at Tyche Capital Advisors Index gaining the most (3.15 percent daily limit, as did Alinma LONDON: European and US Around midday in New York, “Monday’s sell-off may have in Laurel Hollow, New York. “That percent). Bank. Miner Ma’aden gained 8.4 shares rebounded on bargain- the Dow Jones Industrial Average been overdone but the underlying said, I wouldn’t hold my breath on Buying support mainly came percent. hunting yesterday as China cut was up 2.38 percent, the broad- fears remain. The Chinese econ- a proper recovery yet.” from small Qatari investors with Dubai’s stock index surged interest rates after fears of a based S&P 500 gained 2.48 per- omy is slowing and the more we The market braced for more their trading value being QR217m 4.6 percent to 3,558 points, Abu slowdown in the world’s sec- cent, and the tech-rich Nasdaq see its markets collapse, the more losses in crude on expectations against sell worth QR190m. Dhabi climbed 1.6 percent. ond-biggest economy sparked Composite Index rose 3.29 concerned investors are going to that US crude stockpiles rose Qatari institutions, though, United Arab Emirates real a “Black Monday” rout across percent. become,” said Craig Erlam at again last week amid refinery out- sold more than they bought and estate shares in particular global markets. “I’m not surprised to see the trading firm Oanda. ages. Early estimates in a Reuters so was the case with foreign insti- were bought back, with blue Another slump in Chinese market move up, given the mag- “We have seen before that these poll showed a build of 2.2 million tutional investors. chip Emaar Properties up 3.4 stocks had sparked pandemonium nitude of the sell-off we’ve seen large crashes can either spark or barrels, adding to the previous Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s percent and Damac Properties on the first trading day of the the past four days and the moves act as a warning of a global reces- week’s 2.6 million-barrel build. stock market surged 7.4 percent surging 7.7 percent. Abu Dhabi’s week, wiping about $2.7 trillion made by China after the market sion and given how fragile many Industry group American yesterday as the region rebounded Aldar Properties gained seven off global equities as bourses from close in terms of cutting rates,” economies still are, it would be Petroleum Institute will issue its from several days of heavy selling, percent. London to Buenos Aires were Michael James, managing direc- naive to think the same couldn’t own stockpile report at 4.30pm, encouraged by stronger oil prices Some speculative shares snared in a precipitous plunge. tor of equity trading at Wedbush happen again.” before today’s official data from and rising global bourses. favoured by Dubai retail investors European equities — which Securities Inc. in Los Angeles, Tokyo ended a see-saw ses- the US Energy Information The main Saudi stock index’s soared. Amlak Finance jumped its suffered their worst slump on told Bloomberg News. sion down nearly 4.0 percent, in Administration. leap to 7,543 points was accom- daily 15 percent limit and builder Monday since the 2008 financial “The question is whether these its sixth straight day of losses, Opec member Iran said it panied by the highest trading Arabtec added 9.8 percent. crisis — surged as the Chinese levels will hold, and the only guar- but Hong Kong, Sydney and would increase crude production volume since May 2014, a positive Egypt’s market rose 2.8 percent central bank moved to slash antee is another day of volatility.” Seoul eked out gains. “Today is and reclaim its lost export share technical signal. It followed a slide as China’s decision to cut interest interest rates for the fifth time Yeterday, the dollar also gained opposite day for the most part,” once nuclear-related sanctions which had taken the index down rates and bank reserve require- in nine months. against other currencies and oil said Patrick O’Hare, analyst at on Tehran are lifted. US petrol 23 percent in August, erasing over ments eased, at least temporarily, Frankfurt and Paris closed prices rose. Briefing.com of the markets ral- futures, kept a lid on crude’s $100bn of market value. the panic in emerging markets. up more than 4.0 percent, while But slowing growth in China lies in Europe and on Wall Street.. recovery, tumbling nearly two The bourse’s rebound, which All of the 10 most heavily traded London gained 3.09 percent. has long kept investors on edge European leaders meanwhile percent to seven-month lows due accelerated in late trade, partly Egyptian stocks rose with beaten- Wall Street shares also jumped and the shock devaluation of the differed on China’s ability to man- to the restart of a key Midwest eased concern about pressure down property developer Palm rallying after a five-day streak of yuan two weeks ago, following a age the crisis and its impact on refinery unit and the approaching on the Saudi riyal’s peg to the Hills Development up 8.7 percent. losses left US indices in correc- string of weak economic data, the global economy. end of the summer driving season. US dollar. One-year dollar/riyal THE PENINSULA/REUTERS tion territory. spooked the markets. AFP REUTERS Saudi reassures on riyal peg, forwards China cuts rates, reserve ratio after stocks plummet again pressure eases SHANGHAI/BEIJING: hold for the second time in two market that has sent shock- as investors despaired at the lack to have its seven percent growth China’s central bank cut inter- months yesterday, ratchet- waves around the globe. of policy action from Beijing in rate fulfilled,” said Liu Li-Gang, DUBAI: Pressure on the Saudi est rates and lowered the ting up support for a stuttering The moves came after Chinese response to recent data suggest- China economist at ANZ Bank Arabian riyal in the currency amount of reserves banks must economy and a plunging stock stocks tumbled again yeserday, ing the downturn in the world’s in Hong Kong. forwards market eased yester- second-largest economy was Liu said the RRR cut was the day after a senior Saudi central deepening. most significant element of the bank official said the kingdom The People’s Bank of China PBOC action, as it would inject was committed to keeping the (PBOC) said it was cutting the 650bn yuan ($101bn), into the riyal pegged to the US dollar. one-year benchmark bank lend- economy and ease concerns of a “On this occasion we would like ing rate by 25 basis points to 4.6 “hard landing”. to confirm that Sama is commit- percent, cutting one-year bench- China, one of the main engines ted to the policy of pegging the mark deposit rates by the same of the world economy, has over- Saudi riyal with the American amount, and reducing reserve taken Greece at the top of the dollar,” Ahmed Abdulkarim requirements (RRR) by 50 basis worry list of global investors, Alkholifey, Deputy Governor points to 18 percent for most big who fret its economy is growing for Research and International banks. at a much slower pace than the Affairs at the Saudi Arabian Major Chinese stock indexes official seven percent target for Monetary Agency, told Al Arabiya nosedived more than seven per- 2015. television. cent on Tuesday, hitting their “Currently, there is still down- He said the central bank was lowest levels since December, fol- ward pressure on China’s eco- monitoring the forwards mar- lowing a more than eight percent nomic growth,” the central bank ket situation, and that both it plunge on Monday. said in a separate statement. and independent organisations, The slump had resumed last “There is also relatively big vola- which he did not name, believed week despite Beijing’s efforts to tility in global financial markets, the riyal’s peg of 3.75 to the dollar arrest a 30 percent crash earlier which require more flexible usage served the Saudi economy well. in the summer with hundreds of of monetary policy tools.” One-year dollar/riyal forwards, billions of dollars of state-backed German Finance Minister which had risen to 12-year highs share purchases. This time, the Wolfgang Schaeuble said the situ- as banks hedged against the risk government appeared to be sit- ation in China would be discussed of riyal devaluation, dropped ting on its hands until Tuesday’s by G20 nations. as low as 200 basis points after response, which aimed more at The CSI300 index of the larg- Alkholifey spoke, from the previ- shoring up economic fundamen- est listed companies in Shanghai ous day’s close of 295. They were tals than underpinning stocks. and Shenzhen dropped 7.1 percent also pulled down by a 7.4 percent “Although this has some ele- yesterday, while the Shanghai rebound in the Saudi stock mar- ments of giving comfort to the Composite Index fell 7.6 percent ket in response to firmer global market, this is more about giving to close below the psychologically bourses and oil prices. a real boost to the real economy significant 3,000-point level. REUTERS Investors look at screens showing stock market movements at a securities company in Beijing yesterday. so the government can continue REUTERS WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Rising yen Qatar ups game undesirable for economy, says to fend off LNG Japan minister

TOKYO: Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso warned market players against push- challengers ing up the yen too much fur- ther, saying that its spike against the dollar overnight was Seeks new markets, raises flexibility “rough” and undesirable for the economy. LONDON/MILAN: Gas giant Japan, South Korea and India. Aso said that while there was Qatar is becoming commercially The global LNG market was no immediate plan for G20 and sharper, using traders and ten- based on bilateral long term deals, G7 nations to take coordinated ders to grab new customers, and with contracts lasting years, but action against the current mar- fighting to hold on to its share the new supply has increased kets turmoil, global financial in the prized Asian market. uncommitted volumes, triggering authorities were in frequent con- Qatar is the world’s top supplier more focus on ‘spot’ trade. tact with each other on market of liquefied natural gas (LNG), “Qatar as a supplier can afford developments. but in the coming five years it to provide their long term con- “I would say they are rough, could be surpassed by Australia, tracts and then on top of that rather than rapid,” Aso told a shift which threatens its domi- they have flexible LNG to attack reporters after a cabinet meet- nance in Asia — which accounts new markets. It’s a strategy to ing yesterday, when asked about for almost three quarters of the adapt itself to the new world,” a the yen’s spike against the dollar global market and has paid the trader at an oil major said. in New York on Monday. highest prices. Trade flows illustrate the shift. “For the economy to grow sta- “Previously Qatar’s strategy Independent LNG consultant bly, it’s better for (currency and had been about retaining price, Andy Flower estimated Qatar’s A jewellery vendor selects gold items for a customer in Jakarta yesterday. stock price) moves to be gradual in future it’s going to be about exports to Asia in the first half and steady, rather than rough,” retaining market share,” said of the year fell by around 2.7 mil- he told reporters after a regular Noel Tomnay, head of global lion tonnes compared to the same Gold falls more than one percent cabinet meeting. gas and LNG research at Wood period a year ago, while exports The yen spiked to a seventh- Mackenzie. “As lots of Australian to Eastern Mediterranean coun- month high against the dollar LNG comes into the market, tries including Jordan and Egypt LONDON: Gold fell more than That pulled gold back from year for the first time in nearly on Monday as investors, worried it’s inevitably going to push out were up by 0.4 million tonnes one percent yesterday after an a seven-week high hit earlier a decade, lifting the opportunity about the slowdown in China, some Qatari volumes from Asia,” and exports to Europe were up interest rate cut from China this month after minutes of the cost of holding gold and boosting sought the Japanese currency as Tomnay said. by around 2.5 million tonnes. helped global markets rebound Federal Reserve’s last policy the dollar. a safe haven against risks. This has prompted Qatar to “This suggests that they are from the previous day’s rout, meeting dented expectations for While those expectations have The yen’s sharp rise is a con- work more closely with trade showing increased flexibility in with European stocks ris- an imminent rise in US rates. receded after a dovish reading of cern for Japanese policymakers, houses who are focused on short- responding to the changes in the ing four percent and the dol- “If you look at the last week, the the minutes of the Fed’s last policy who worry about the damage term deals, often in riskier mar- markets,” Flower said. lar also gaining. US markets big reaction in gold has been to the meeting and on fears of a broader it could cause to the country’s kets, while also lowering its price Qatar was previously able to opened sharply higher as buyers Fed, not because of risk aversion,” global economic slowdown, they already-weak exports. expectations. “In the past Qatar charge a premium on the basis snapped up stocks a day after ABN Amro analyst Georgette are keeping a lid on gold’s gains. Aso said there was no plans did not need to be commercial. that they were a very reliable Wall Street suffered its biggest Boele said. “There may still be “We’re still in an environment for now for the government to Now they are a lot more commer- supplier. Its major LNG produc- one-day drop in four years. some safe-haven demand, but that where we know US interest rates compile a fresh fiscal stimulus cial, a lot sharper,” said a trader ers Qatargas and RasGas produce Spot gold was down 1.1 per- is no longer a dominant factor.” will go up,” Standard Chartered package to support the economy, at an international trade house. around 77 million tonnes per year. cent at $1,141.56 an ounce at 1357 “Today you’ve had a turna- analyst Nicholas Snowden said. stressing that Japan’s recovery “They are dealing with traders Neither company responded to GMT, while US gold futures for round in markets, you’ve had a “For gold, that limits how much remained intact as companies more and have started partici- requests for comment. December delivery were down dollar recovery as well, reasonably of a bid you will see, even with the reap record revenues from past pating in tenders.” “Qatargas and RasGas are no $11.90 an ounce at $1,141.50. good US data and the action out sort of financial market turmoil yen declines. With the help of trade houses, longer averse to talking about Gold had already fallen on of China. You’ve seen gold prices that ensued yesterday.” He also said he had not spo- Qatar has been supplying LNG making changes to existing con- Monday, with some traders cit- under pressure.” Palladium was at $540 an ken directly with US Treasury to some of the newest import- tractual agreements in light of ing liquidation to cover losses Gold has rebounded sharply ounce, down 5.4 percent, after Secretary Jack Lew on recent ers including Egypt, Jordan and the completely changed market on other markets as a plunge in from the 5-1/2-year low it hit in falling as much as seven per- market moves, but that Japanese Pakistan, who are securing vast dynamics,” a source at importer Chinese equities sent world stocks July on the back of expectations cent to its lowest in five years at and US currency authorities are amounts via short term tenders. Gail India said. and commodity prices tumbling that the Federal Reserve was on $528.50 an ounce. exchanging information frequently. Qatar’s largest customers are REUTERS and knocked the dollar. track to raise interest rates this REUTERS REUTERS

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At The company’s shares, which surpluses that let them spend Bantis, Dubai-based credit ana- perceptions, five-year Saudi credit port the markets in case of need,” the top are Qatar, Abu Dhabi and have lost 24 percent in the their way out of trouble. Current lyst at Commerzbank. default swaps jumped as high as Bantis said. Kuwait, with giant fiscal reserves past six months, jumped 11.3 account surpluses and currency Sergey Dergachev, senior port- 120 bps this week, doubling from Though dollar/Saudi riyal for- relative to small populations. percent in premarket trading pegs to the US dollar protected folio manager for emerging mar- end-July. wards have hit 12-year highs as In the middle are Saudi Arabia, yesterday. the GCC from currency devalu- ket debt at Union Investment The implied probability of a banks hedge against a currency which is wealthy but has a big The company’s revenue rose ation jitters elsewhere. Privatfonds in Germany, noted sovereign debt default stayed low devaluation, economists think the population to support and a 0.8 percent in the second quarter But as oil hits new six-year that while GCC bonds out- at under 10 percent. But Saudi risk is tiny. Forwards only imply huge budget deficit, and Dubai, ended August 1, surprising ana- lows, most of those surpluses performed Russian and Latin CDS moved from the area of roughly a one percent riyal drop which is not directly dependent lysts who expected a fall of two have vanished. A Reuters poll American debt in recent weeks, countries such as South Korea, in the next 12 months. on oil but has substantial debts percent on average. last week found economists they underperformed Asia and at 73bps, to the neighbourhood of GCC bonds will remain pro- and is exposed to any GCC-wide Best Buy has cut jobs, closed expect all GCC states to post Eastern Europe. the Philippines, at 114bps. tected to some degree by their big slowdown. stores and streamlined its man- fiscal deficits this year, and half “GCC bonds are not a safe A collapse of confidence in GCC local investor bases; historically, REUTERS agement structure in an effort to boost profit and margins and compete better with online and big-box retailers. Polish bank woes Improving job markets and low fuel prices has boosted consumer Mugabe banks on China spending on big-ticket items such as TVs and other appliances. 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Revenue rose to $8.53bn in the address in eight years, the 91-year- The president’s opening com- quarter, compared with the aver- old president, who has presided ments during a joint sitting of age analyst estimate of $8.29bn. over economic collapse and diplo- parliament were to thank the Net income attributable to matic isolation since he came to country’s security and defence shareholders rose to $164m, or power in 1980, said strong growth forces in maintaining peace under 46 cents per share, in the sec- was just around the corner. difficult economic conditions. ond from $146m, or 42 cents per “Zimbabwe is already position- Political analysts, however, say share, a year earlier. ing itself for major economic take- with the opposition in disarray Excluding items Best Buy off in keeping with ZIMASSET following a major split last year earned 49 cents per share, beat- (economic plan), which requires and Mugabe having purged possi- ing analysts’ average estimate of massive capital injection and ble internal rivals last year, there 34 cents. rapid implementation,” Mugabe was no immediate threat to the Best Buy’s shares were trad- said in a 25-minute speech. veteran leader’s grip on power. ing at $32.80 before the bell yes- “This has seen government “We expect a clear and robust leg- terday. Up to Monday’s close, the The logo of Poland’s Bank BPH, owned by General Electric (GE), seen on their headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, signing key projects with China, islative framework ... that stream- stock had fallen 24 percent this yesterday. Polish banks’ foreign owners plan to seek compensation for any losses incurred by their operations covering energy, railways and lines investment and ... a one stop year. from a bill on Swiss franc-denominated mortgages, according to letters they sent to Poland’s Senate. telecommunication, water, min- investment centre,” Mugabe said. REUTERS ing, agriculture, and tourism,” he REUTERS WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Zurich Insurance Malaysian ringgit slips proposes $8.8bn takeover of RSA Zurich offers 550 pence per share

LONDON/ZURICH: Zurich least 10 percent, said it had reached Insurance made a friendly £5.6bn a “common understanding” with ($8.8bn) takeover proposal for RSA on how the British general and British rival RSA yesterday, pav- commercial insurer values itself. ing the way for one of Europe’s RSA, known for its “More biggest insurance deals. Than” home and car insurance Zurich said a month ago it was brand in Britain, is in the early weighing a bid but left it to the stages of a turnaround under last day under British takeover former RBS boss Stephen Hester. rules to unveil a cash offer of 550 Shares in RSA rose 4.5 per- pence per share, roughly in the cent to 517.5 pence by 1030 GMT, middle of the price range expected still well below the offer proposal. by investors in Zurich and RSA. Traders said this was because there RSA said it planned to recom- was no firm bid and there was an mend the proposal to its board outside chance an offer could be and gave Zurich another four lower than 550 pence, given issues weeks to come up with a firm such as the management of its takeover offer, though the Swiss more than £7bn pension scheme. insurance company reserved the Adding to market caution was right to ultimately bid below 550 uncertainty over whether stocks pence per share. would fall further on the back of Tighter European capital regu- weakness in Chinese markets that People, many wishing to buy Malaysian ringgits, queue outside money changers at the central business district in Singapore yesterday. The lations due to come into force in has driven the FTSE 100 down 15 ringgit hit a fresh pre-peg 17-year low. January 2016, strong competition percent in August. in the insurance sector and low One top 10 shareholder in investment returns have encour- Zurich was unhappy with the offer aged several insurance mergers price given the weak macroeco- and more are expected in Europe nomic backdrop, saying it would China needs over 6,300 planes by ’34: Boeing and the United States. be hard for the Swiss company to The deal is similar in size to hit its desired return targets. Aviva’s agreed takeover this year “After a large market sell-off, it’s BEIJING: China is expected to economy and rising income are role. That growth model will be consumers and loosened visa poli- of rival UK insurer Friends Life a big price. More than the market add more than 6,300 new air- driving air travel growth, Boeing “more sustainable” and “bodes cies for Chinese citizens will give and would beat Exor’s $7bn pur- expected. It seems Zurich manage- craft to its commercial fleet by said, upping its prediction by 310 well for tourism”, Tinseth said. long-distance international travel chase of Partner Re. ment is rather ignorant in regards 2034, US manufacturer Boeing units from last year. China’s commercial fleet will a boost, with 1,510 new widebody Analysts say a merger could of market forces,” said the share- said yesterday — an increase of “We see strong growth in the number 7,210 aircraft by 2034, aircraft seen as needed. offer operating efficiencies for holder, who declined to be named. over 300 planes on its last fore- country’s aviation sector over the firm said, nearly three times Boeing, maker of the 737 MAX Zurich, which like RSA has a Analysts at Berenberg said the cast a year ago. the long term,” Randy Tinseth, its current size, with aircraft and 787 Dreamliner, competes large presence in Britain, and offer premium of 26 percent to The world’s most populous vice president of marketing at going into service in the next two with Europe’s Airbus for global also provide the Swiss insurer RSA’s share price before Zurich country and second-largest econ- Boeing Commercial Airplanes, decades accounting for nearly 90 dominance in the aircraft market. with better access to Canada, first signalled its interest on July omy will need 6,330 new aircraft told reporters. percent of it. As China becomes The US firm says it made more Scandinavia and Latin America, 28 meant the choice was easy for worth $950bn during the 2015- China’s economic growth is the world’s largest domestic air than half the current Chinese where RSA has a strong presence. RSA shareholders, whose largest 2034 period, Boeing said in its slowing as Chinese leaders try to travel market, Boeing predicts it commercial fleet, while Airbus Zurich, which has said it would is activist investor Cevian Capital annual China Current Market reform the economy to let con- will need 4,630 single-aisle planes says it has an almost 50 percent not overpay and is seeking a return with 13 percent. Outlook. sumption, instead of government- over the period. share. on any investment in RSA of at REUTERS The country’s expanding driven investment, to play a bigger China’s increasingly affluent AFP Commodity price slump hampers BHP Billiton’s annual profits

SYDNEY: Global mining giant fall from $11bn in the 2014-15 confident in the long-term out- BHP Billiton yesterday posted financial year to $7bn by 2016-17. look for commodities demand as an 86.2 percent slump in annual The miner has been cutting jobs emerging economies continue to net profit despite slashing costs, and trimming operating expenses, urbanise and industrialise, we as a collapse in Chinese demand which reduced net debt, to try to have lowered our forecast of peak for key raw materials hit hard. counter sliding commodity prices Chinese steel demand.” The $1.91bn result in the 12 and this helped offset some of the BHP now forecasts Chinese months to June 30 compared to damage. steel production will peak $13.83bn a year earlier, as the “We will cut costs further and between 935m and 985m tonnes prices of key commodities — exercise our growing capital flexi- in the mid-2020s, but Mackenzie including iron ore, coal and oil — bility to improve our competitive- said this would “favour low-cost plunged over the year. ness and support our progressive producers with economies of Underlying earnings which dividend policy,” chief executive scale” such as BHP. exclude one-off writedowns were Andrew Mackenzie said. “Longer term, in emerging down 52 percent to $6.4bn, below But he admitted uncertain economies other than China, the analyst expectations. times lay ahead, notably with continuing rise of population, cre- As expected, the result included its largest customer China amid ation of wealth and urbanisation numerous impairments, includ- global fears the world’s second- will increase demand for all of our ing an already announced $2bn largest economy is weaker than commodities,” he added. after-tax writedown against its thought. During the year BHP spun off US shale division as falling oil The fears have left its stock non-core assets into a new inde- prices hit shale gas. market and other Asian and pendent company, South32, to BHP’s share price, which has world bourses reeling this week. help simplify its operations. been trending down in recent “In the short term we expect South32 now operates assets months, closed 1.97 percent higher ongoing economic reforms in including aluminium, coal, nickel, at A$23.34 before the results were China to contribute to periods manganese, silver, lead and zinc, announced. of market volatility,” he said, leaving BHP to focus on its most Despite the profit slump the with the price of steel-mak- profitable core long-life opera- company maintained its final ing commodity iron ore under tions —i ron ore, copper, petro- dividend at 62 US cents per share, pressure. leum, coal and potash. and said capital spending would “And, while we remain AFP

A view of the copper/uranium/gold/silver processing plant of BHP Billiton near the Olympic Dam mine in South Australia. WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Gulf private German growth braves global storms equity firms Europe’s biggest economy stands rock solid as growth picking up, public finance remaining in black battle for Saudi

FRANKFURT: The German points this month from 108.0 0.3 percent in the preceding three however, the signals were more said. BayernLB economist Stefan chain Al Raya economy, Europe’s biggest, points in July. months, the federal statistics office mixed: while both consumer and Kipar agreed. “Overall, the busi- stands rock solid in the current In Berlin, French Economy Destatis said separately, con- public-sector spending increased ness confidence data suggest that DUBAI: Three of the Gulf’s stormy global economic seas, Minister Emmanuel Macron firming a flash estimate already slightly, investment in plant and the German economy will remain biggest private equity firms with growth picking up, confi- warned that China’s falter- released earlier this month. equipment declined. on course in the second half of the are battling it out for a major- dence on the rise and its pub- ing growth posed a threat to a At the same time, Destatis cal- Nevertheless, analysts were year,” he said. ity stake in Saudi supermarket lic finances firmly in the black, recovery in the global economy, culated that Germany’s finances cheered by the raft of positive “The outside risks remain high chain Al Raya for Foodstuff Co, data showed yesterday. and said his government’s growth were firmly in the black, with economic data. “In the midst of given the worries in China and three sources with knowledge of While the slowing Chinese forecast for the current year was the federal, regional, municipal financial market turmoil, result- the uncertainty in Greece. But the matter said yesterday, with economy triggers panic in the now at risk. and welfare budgets running up ing from the eurozone crisis, domestic demand will continue a deal likely worth as much as world’s stock markets and con- But the Ifo barometer showed a combined surplus of ¤21.1bn a slowdown in China and low to drive the German economy. $300m. jures up the spectre of a new that German companies are satis- ($24.4bn) in the period from commodity prices, today’s data And since we’re not expecting a Abraaj Group, Fajr Capital and global financial crisis, German fied with their current situation, January to June, equivalent to 1.4 remind us that fundamentals in ‘hard landing’ in China, German Gulf Capital are in the running to exports are increasing, consumer even if they were marginally less percent of GDP. the developed world are improv- momentum could even pick up in acquire the stake in the grocer spending is rising, and businesses optimistic about the future. Germany’s public finances “con- ing,” said Berenberg Bank econo- the third quarter,” Kipar said. being sold by Dubai-based Levant are happier with their current Ifo calculates its headline index tinued to profit from the favour- mist Kallum Pickering. ING DiBa economist Carsten Capital and The Rohatyn Group situation than they have been in on the basis of companies’ assess- able employment situation and “Overall, the Ifo index points Brzeski said that “either the (TRG). nearly a year and a half, the data ments of the current business positive growth, as well as mod- to robust conditions and a posi- ongoing stock market turbulences These three lodged initial bids showed. environment and the outlook for erate spending,” Destatis said. tive outlook for the Eurozone’s came simply too late to have an in late July and are now due to “The German economy con- the next six months. Under EU rules, member states largest economy,” he said, even impact on the Ifo survey and will file more comprehensive propos- tinues to be a rock in turbulent The sub-index measuring cur- are not allowed to run up budget if he acknowledged that the data therefore only unfold their full als before the deadline for second- waters,” said Hans-Werner Sinn, rent business rose to its highest deficits of more than three per- “came in ahead of the current negative impact next month, or round bids in the next two weeks, President of the respected eco- level since April 2014, while the cent of overall output. financial market rout.” German businesses are a bunch the sources added. nomic think-tank Ifo, which outlook sub-index slipped frac- Turning to growth, Destatis “But, supported by a strong of ice-cold realists, sticking to the Abraaj and Fajr declined to publishes a widely-watched tionally, the institute said. said that foreign trade was the domestic economy, accommodative pure facts. In our view, there are comment, as did Levant Capital barometer of business confidence In concrete growth terms, “biggest driver of growth in the monetary policy, cheap oil and the many arguments in favour of the and TRG. Gulf Capital didn’t every month. German gross domestic product second quarter,” with exports up end of the euro crisis, the German latter. And, indeed, the pure facts immediately respond to a request The Ifo index beat analysts’ (GDP) expanded by 0.4 percent 2.2 percent quarter-on-quarter. economy is well positioned to clearly argue against panic.” for comment. The sources spoke expectations to rise to 108.3 in the second quarter, up from On the side of domestic demand, withstand these shock,” Pickering AFP on condition of anonymity as the information isn’t public. Should the final price tag be $300m, the stakeholders would Russia aviation show have tripled their investment in around three years. Al Noor plans Levant Capital and Citi Venture Capital International, an to double emerging market-focused invest- ment firm which was acquired by TRG in December 2013, originally capacity after bought the stake in Al Raya in 2012 for $100m. steady H1: CEO The sale is expected to go ahead despite disruption in the kingdom’s economy from falling ABU DHABI: Al Noor oil prices and subsequent lower Hospitals Group plans to double government spending, the sources capacity in three years its chief said. executive said yesterday after So-called defensive sectors like the Abu Dhabi-based company food and beverage remain in high reported a steady first-half demand from investors drawn by profit. the long-term potential stemming London-listed Al Noor is dou- from Saudi Arabia’s predomi- bling the number of beds from 216 nantly young population. currently to over 400 by end-2018 Already in 2015, Saudi gourmet as it expands existing hospitals date firm Bateel sold a stake to and builds new ones across the L Capital Asia, a luxury goods- United Arab Emirates, Ronald focused private equity firm backed Lavater said on a conference call. by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Al Noor made a net profit of Vuitton, while Abraaj and TPG $44.9m in the first six months of Capital bought a majority stake 2015 versus $45.6m a year earlier, in fast-food chain Kudu. it said in a statement. Al Raya had 30 stores across Revenue grew by 8.5 percent the kingdom, mainly in the to $244m from $224.8m helped southern and western regions, by growth in both its outpatient before more were added in 2012, and inpatient businesses, it said. according to the supermarket’s “Net profit was flat due to the website. impact of a refurbishment pro- REUTERS gramme and higher depreciation Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (fourth right) visits the MAKS-2015, the International Aviation and Space Show, in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, yesterday. costs,” Joanne Curin, interim chief financial officer, said on the conference call. Al Noor’s Khalifa street hospital is undergoing a renovation as it adds 3,000 square Africa’s squandered commodity boom erodes US trade promise metres of clinical space. Margins in the second half will continue to be impacted by the JOHANNESBURG/DAKAR: countries will hold talks with US growth in sub-Saharan will slow exports, from poor transport are still not enough.” opening of new medical centres A fresh US trade pact could officials in oil-rich Gabon this week. this year to 4.2 percent, down links to costly electricity, lack of Those countries which aim and work at the Khalifa street provide relief to African econ- Under the deal, first signed in 2000, from an average of 6.4 percent bank credit, corruption and laby- to benefit from AGOA, such hospital, Curin said, adding these omies buffeted by the com- African exports to the United States during 2002 to 2008. rinthine bureaucracy. “When you as Ethiopia and Kenya, are not factors are expected to diminish modities slump but a failure to rose to $26.8bn by 2013, but more Despite a decade of rapid look at a container of coffee or dependent on oil or mining, giv- during 2016. reform during the boom years than four-fifths of that was oil. growth, sub-Saharan Africa’s man- textiles coming out of Africa, it is ing them an incentive to diversify With $90m in cash, Al Noor has left many countries unable With US demand for petroleum ufacturing sector remained weak. substantially more expensive and into areas such as footwear and is looking for acquisitions in the to profit from tariff-free access imports falling due to its shale While exports from the region less competitive than the same textiles exports. UAE and the Gulf, Lavater said, to the world’s largest market. revolution and commodities prices more than quadrupled to $457bn in container coming out of parts of Ethiopia is positioning itself declining to be more specific. Al In an effort to boost trade across the board hit by China’s the decade to 2011, manufactured Latin America,” said US trade to become a manufacturing hub, Noor will pay an interim dividend under the African Growth and slowdown, the blow to African goods made up just $58bn of that. representative Michael Froman. driven in part by investments of 4.1 pence per share, up from 3.7 Opportunity Act (AGOA), renewed economies has highlighted their US officials say that, even with “One of the lessons of the first from China and India as labour pence a year earlier, it said. by Congress for a decade in June, failure to industrialize. tariff-free access, a range of prob- 15 years of AGOA is that tariff costs in their own backyards rise. REUTERS representatives from 39 African The World Bank forecasts GDP lems are holding back African preferences, while important, REUTERS

S Africa economy shrinks to 1.3pc

PRETORIA: South Africa’s well as a slump in commodity South Africa is suffering from the economy unexpectedly shrank prices and the falling rand. worst drought in years which has in the second quarter, data The rand hit an all-time low damaged its profitable corn crop. showed yesterday, raising fears on Monday, breaching 14 to the Load-shedding—regularly of a recession as gross domes- dollar as jittery investors dis- scheduled power cuts to reduce tic product fell by an annualised posed of high-risk assets in the energy usage — has become part 1.3 percent, surprising analysts wake of slowing economic growth of everyday life for many people who had predicted a small rise. in China. and companies. The slowdown was across the Lehohla said that for South State-owned power utility board, with manufacturing, min- Africa to capitalise on the weak Eskom, which generates more ing and agriculture industries rand, the government would have than 95 percent of the country’s lagging the most in Africa’s most to address deep-rooted issues electricity, has been weakened developed economy, plagued with hampering growth. by years of underinvestment and nationwide power cuts and high “Things being equal one would ageing infrastructure, as well as unemployment. have expected manufactur- governance problems. “The real economy in the sec- ing would boom when the rand Yesterday’s statistics revealed ond quarter has performed nega- touches 14 a dollar,” he said. manufacturing contracted by an tively,” Statistician-General Pali In July, Lesetja Kganyago, annualised 6.3 percent, mining Lehohla told a press briefing in governor of the South African also by 6.3 percent and agricul- Pretoria. Reserve Bank, revised down the ture by a whopping 17.4 percent. In a commentary note on bank’s growth forecast to 2.0 “I think the shock just came Monday, Nedbank had predicted percent in 2015 and 2.1 percent home much more quickly than we GDP growth of 0.3 percent after in 2016. “One can’t rule out the thought it would do,” said Peter first quarter expansion of 1.3 possibility of a recession in South Montalto, economist at Nomura. percent. Africa,” Jana van Deventer, an “Particularly on manufacturing The economy has struggled due economist at ETM Analytics, told and agriculture, it was a surprise P eople walking in Johannesburg inner city. South Africa’s economy shrunk in the second quarter, official statistics to the electricity crisis and unem- Bloomberg News. for us.” showed. ployment of about 25 percent, as Compounding things further, AFP WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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INTERNATIONAL MARKETS A List of Shares from the world

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Baseball Results Chicago Cubs 2 Cleveland 1 NY Yankees 1 Houston 0 NY Mets 16 Philadelphia 7 F1 family mourns death Atlanta 5 Colorado 3 Cincinnati 12 Detroit 5 Pittsburgh 5 Miami 2 Boston 5 C White Sox 4 Kansas City 8 Baltimore 3 St Louis 5 Arizona 3 of British driver Wilson Oakland 11 Seattle 5 I raced with Justin as far back as 1989 in karting, says Jenson Button Cubs’

LONDON: The Formula One passed away. What dreadful news Bryant ends community awoke with heavy and what a dramatic year for rac- hearts yesterday after British ing. Losing too many champions,” racer Justin Wilson, a friend to he said. pitching duel many in the Grand Prix pad- Button’s double world champion dock, died because of head inju- team mate Fernando Alonso, who ries suffered in an IndyCar race like Wilson started his Formula with walk-off in the United States. One career at Minardi, expressed The 37-year-old, who raced his condolences. “So sad, difficult homer in Formula One for Minardi to accept,” he added. and Jaguar in 2003, died in hos- Australian Mark Webber, who CHICAGO: Chicago Cubs’ third pital after being hit by debris was Wilson’s team mate at Jaguar, baseman Kris Bryant (pictured and crashing in the closing said: “Last night a very good man below) ended a pitching duel laps at Pocono Raceway oval in left us. Mate. So sorry. RIP Justin. when he stroked a walk-off solo Pennsylvania. My thoughts are with your loved home run to right field with Formula One drivers and ones.” two outs in the bottom of the teams, former colleagues and Red Bull principal Christian ninth inning, giving the Cubs a rivals, remembered Wilson as a Horner, whose team was previ- 2-1 victory over the Cleveland smiling giant out of the car and ously Jaguar, spoke of the sad- Indians on Monday. determined competitor in it. ness of all at the Milton Keynes “I knew I was going to get an “The motorsport world comes factory. at-bat there and I made the most 2 a standstill once again,” 2009 “Justin left his mark on many of it,” said Bryant, whose 20th world champion Jenson Button, who worked with him during the home run of the season was also who attended the funeral of Jaguar days, he is remembered his second career walk-off blast. French Formula One driver Jules fondly for the kind and hum- “I saw it really good out of the Bianchi a month ago, said of his ble person he was,” he said in a hand (of Indians reliever Zach compatriot on Twitter. statement. McAllister) and got it up in the “I raced with Justin as far back “Having known Justin since Justin Wilson of England adjusts his earplugs prior to practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, wind.” as 1989 in karting and remember his karting days on the British in this file photo taken on May 17, 2012. Wilson died on Monday after suffering a severe head injury during a wreck Cubs left-handed starter Jon his smile was infectious, such a circuits, it was always obvious to in the closing laps of a race on Sunday at Pocono Raceway in Long, Pond, Pennsylvania, IndyCar officials said. Lester had been one out away lovely guy,” added the McLaren me that he was destined for great from a 1-0 shutout win but gave driver. things in motorsport. up a run-scoring single to Indians The sentiment was echoed by “His progress through the career with interest over the as quite simply one of the nic- Mercedes remembered “a great first baseman Carlos Santana in Lotus driver Romain Grosjean, lower formulas was impressive years. est blokes in motorsport,” said driver and an even greater man...a the top of the ninth. a pallbearer at Bianchi’s funeral. and he absolutely flourished in “Justin will be remembered not Horner. true racer and a winner, flat out “You go all that way and need “So sad to hear that Justin Wilson F3000...I followed his successful only as a talented driver but also Formula One champions to the flag.” REUTERS one more out and you give up a run, but we put ourselves in that situation,” Lester said. “But obvi- ously K B picking us up there was Wilson’s death triggers calls for safety review huge.” Indians starter Corey Kluber was nearly as effective as he CALIFORNIA: The death of British “I think that it is time that solutions are Indycar officials have introduced a raft forefront of safety. I give them a lot of threw six shutout innings before IndyCar driver Justin Wilson has once looked for and I think it is time that the of new safety measures over the years, credit for that.” allowing a run in the seventh. again raised questions about the safety of drivers got together and came up with a including safer walls and collapsible bar- Wilson’s accident was reminiscent of Cubs right-handed reliever motor racing and prompted calls for the few ideas and I sincerely hope that some riers designed to cushion impact as well several other incidents when drivers have Hector Rondon (5-3) worked 1/3 introduction of closed cockpits. progress will be made on this issue.” as installing mobile hospitals and state- been hit by debris, sparking calls for the inning for the victory while the IndyCar officials announced on Monday Since 1966 there have been 18 deaths of-the-art trauma centres at race tracks. introduction of plastic canopies to create Indians’ McAllister (3-4) pitched that Wilson had died from severe head in IndyCar, including the series’ previous IndyCar did not make any comments closed cockpits. 2/3 inning and took the loss. injuries he suffered in a crash at Pocono incarnations as Champ Car, CART and immediately after announcing Wilson’s In 2009, Brazilian Formula One driver The victory was the fifth suc- Raceway in Pennsylvania, the previous day. Indy Racing League. death, out of respect for his family, but said Felipe Massa was struck in the helmet by a cessive win for Chicago (72-52) Wilson slammed into a wall after he was Eight alone have come at the famed they would comment in the next few days. spring from another car. Massa underwent and moved the Cubs a season-best struck in the helmet by debris from another Indianapolis Motor Speedway and all but “We’re always looking at ways to make surgery and made a full recovery. 21 games above .500. car he was following. He was airlifted to two on ovals. this sport safer,” Wilson’s team mate Ryan In 2014, Canadian IndyCar driver James Cleveland (58-66) have dropped hospital but never regained consciousness. The last driver killed in IndyCar was Hunter-Reay said immediately after the Hinchcliffe was hit in the helmet by debris two of its last three. As tributes began flowing in following Wilson’s fellow Englishman Dan Wheldon, race. and suffered concussion. Kluber won the 2014 Cy Young the announcement of his death, there were who died in a fiery crash at Las Vegas in “First we had the innovation with the “These cars are inherently danger- Award with the Indians while renewed calls for a review of safety in the 2011, a year after he had won the Indy 500 safer barrier. Oval tracks in general, we ous with the open cockpit like that, head Lester, a 16-game winner with sport. for a second time. need to start looking into the next 20 years, exposed,” Hunter-Reay said. two teams last year, was an off- “Safety is not one of those things that His death also triggered calls for safety maybe making the walls a little bit higher. “Maybe in the future we can work season signing by the Cubs. because you have a clear record for a cer- reviews, including suggestions that open Maybe coming up with something a little towards some type of...canopy, not a full jet “There (were not) a whole lot tain amount of time that you stop doing wheel racing be banned on high-speed, oval bit better than just mesh fencing and poles. fighter canopy, but something that can give of well-struck baseballs,” Cubs development,” former race driver Eddie tracks, where tightly-packed cars reach “We need to start moving forward on us a little protection but keep the tradition manager Joe Maddon told report- Cheever told ESPN. speeds of 370 km/h (230 mph). it. And IndyCar has always been at the of the sport.” REUTERS ers yesterday. “Both guys pitched fantastic,” he said. Lester allowed one run on six hits, walked one and struck out It’s all ‘a dream’ six, while Kluber, who departed with two outs in the eighth after allowing one run on four hits and striking out 11, said he had enjoyed the pitching duel. for Hamilton “You want to be in that spot where you’re pitching against a LONDON: As Lewis Hamilton working at McDonalds or as a guy who’s a really good pitcher gets closer to matching the dustbin driver.” Hamilton was and he’s throwing the ball well,” Formula One achievements of quick to emphasise that there was Kluber said. his great hero Ayrton Senna, nothing wrong with those occupa- “You kind of go toe-to-toe so the sense of unreality -- that tions, with his own father holding with him and both give our team he might be caught up in some down several jobs to fund his son’s chances. That’s kind of what your crazy daydream -- grows in his start in karting including putting goal is as a starter.” mind. up real estate boards. Kluber retired 16 succes- On Sunday, the 30-year-old But his world of private jets, of sive batters until Cubs catcher Briton won the Belgian Grand mixing with celebrities and wak- David Ross singled with one out Prix and in the process matched ing up in Monaco or Colorado, in the bottom of the sixth. Ross the late Brazilian’s tally of 80 is now so far from his youth advanced to second on a fielder’s podium appearances. in a rough neighbourhood of choice but got no farther. If the Mercedes driver keeps on Stevenage that he has to pinch “Boy, he was good,” Indians going at his current pace -- with himself. manager Terry Francona said. 10 pole positions in 11 races and Already he is just two wins “There was exactly zero wiggle six wins so far this year -- he will away from matching Senna’s 41 room and he just went toe-to-toe join Senna as a triple world cham- victories. and pitched about as good as you pion before the end of the season. If he wins the next two in Italy British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates winning with team mates in the parc ferme at the Spa- can.” REUTERS “It just feels very surreal,” and Singapore then he will have Francorchamps circuit in Spa on Sunday after the Belgian Grand Prix. It was Hamilton’s 39th career Grand Prix win. Hamilton, who now leads German chalked up the tally in 161 starts, team mate Nico Rosberg by 28 coincidentally the same number points with eight races remain- that Senna made in a career that “This year qualifying has been Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat are set old engines or any risk,” added ing, told British reporters after ended prematurely in Imola in awesome... he (Rosberg) was still to take strategic grid penalties at Horner who saw Kvyat finish an unusually sunny Spa weekend 1994. quick, able to close the gap at next week’s Italian Formula One fourth in Spa while Ricciardo that ended on Sunday. Senna holds the record for times and he will still be a threat. Grand Prix to give themselves the retired. “I remember watching the eight successive poles in a season, But my qualifying pace is how it best chance at the following race “That’s really our next chance races when I was five, I remem- Hamilton now has a run of six. should be.” in Singapore. to shine.” ber the first time driving a go- The Briton has a career 48, Senna Next up is Monza, a race “I’m fairly certain we will be Both Australian Ricciardo and kart and watching Ayrton and managed 65. Hamilton won from pole last year taking new engines with both Russian Kvyat have already had wanting to one day be like him. Those who feared he was cram- to start a run of five wins in a row. cars (at Monza) considering 10 place grid penalties this season, I always said as a karter I want ming so much into his private He will be favourite again but first the amount of races left,” team in Austria, for exceeding their to do something similar to what life over the August break that he has more travelling to do. principal Christian Horner told allocation of four power units. he’s done. he might pay a price on the race- “I do like flying,” he said. “I reporters after Sunday’s Belgian Their problems have been “And to think I’m fighting for track were proven emphatically don’t like being in one place... If I Grand Prix. nothing as dramatic as Honda- my third world championship, wrong on Sunday. go home, I die of boredom. I like “It’s inevitable that we will be powered McLaren, whose drivers which he had, and have now got “It feels great. A huge contrast moving, being in different places staring down the barrel of our collected a meaningless combined the same amount of podiums to last year when we were down and seeing different people. For next penalty. drop of 105 places on the 20-slot as him... it’s almost like a crazy on poles, on qualifying results and sure I’ll be doing a little bit of “Strategically Monza is the grid last weekend, but relations dream that I’m going to even- I was always having to come from travelling.” most likely, we don’t want to with Renault have been fractious. tually wake up and find out I’m behind,” said Hamilton. Meanwhile, Red Bull’s Daniel be going into Singapore with AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Tennis: Kyrgios handed 2015 Ashes: England and suspended fine and ban for Wawrinka Australia fail Test exam outburst LONDON: Australian Nick The fifth day wasn’t needed in any of the Ashes Tests this summer Kyrgios has been given a suspended 28-day ban and $25,000 fine for the vul- LONDON: One of the charms didn’t win the key moments,” the gar comments he directed of Test cricket is that a match former Australia batsman added. towards Stan Wawrinka at scheduled to last five days allows “It was an unbelievable series.” the Rogers Cup earlier this for the possibility of a fightback, Arguably the most “unbeliev- month, the Association of even if a team falls behind early able” aspect of all was Australia’s Tennis Professionals (ATP) said on. collapse to 60 all out in just 111 yesterday. It was a charm, however, com- balls on the opening morning of The ATP said the 20-year-old pletely lacking from the 2015 the fourth Test at Trent Bridge, had been found guilty of “aggra- Ashes, which ended with England with England paceman Stuart vated behaviour” during the sec- winning the five-match series 3-2 Broad taking eight for 15. ond round match in Montreal, despite Australia’s innings and The green-tinged pitch at when Kyrgios’s comments about 46-run win in the concluding Test Trent Bridge re-opened the Wawrinka’s alleged girlfriend at The Oval on Sunday. debate about just how much home were picked up by on-court This Ashes equalled in length advantage is acceptable. microphones. the shortest five-Test series of While the English climate pro- “The fine and suspension are modern times of 18 days that took duces surfaces that are generally withheld on the condition that place when England played the more conducive to swing and over the next six-month period West Indies in 2000. seam bowling than many places the player does not incur any The fifth day wasn’t needed elsewhere in the world, there was fines for verbal or physical abuse in any of the matches, with the a feeling following Australia’s 405- at any ATP sanctioned tourna- nearest thing to a ‘close’ contest, run win in the second Test on a ment; or does not accumulate England’s 169-run win in the docile pitch at Lord’s of grounds- fines totalling more than $5,000 series opener in Cardiff. men being instructed to prepare for any other offences at ATP Prior to the series both sides wickets that aided horizontal sanctioned tournaments,” the spoke about their intention to movement. governing body of men’s tennis play aggressive cricket. It became The irony was that it needed an said in a statement. such an ingrained mantra, it was Australian, in new England coach Kyrgios had already been fined almost as if the thought of playing Trevor Bayliss, to point this out. England players celebrate with the trophies and replica Ashes Urn on the field after the fourth day of the fifth the on site maximum of $10,000 out a maiden filled some batsmen But while the WACA pitch in Ashes cricket Test match against Australia at the Oval cricket ground in London in this August 23, 2015, file for the offence and a further with a sense of dread. Perth may be quicker than many photo. Australia beat England by an innings and 46 runs to win the fifth and final Ashes Test. However, England, $2,500 for comments directed at Australia rectified their around the world, at least visiting who had already regained the Ashes, won the five-match series 3-2. a ball person. approach at The Oval, where teams know what they are going “This incident was egregious their opening boundary did not to get, whereas the suspicion and reflected poorly on our arrive until the 15th over of the remains that wickets in England the moving ball was a skill in a bit in them, is different to what Australia in the West Indies sport,” Gayle David Bradshaw, match and they still piled up 481, can too often be made to order. itself. these guys are used to. I think the -- suggests that an age of ever Executive Vice President, Rules & but by then it was too late to save “I think Test cricket is a five- “You look at the five games, if batters have to learn to fight a lit- shorter tours and back-to-back Competition said in a statement the Ashes. day battle...The fans of the game the second team had batted like tle bit harder...Just to watch bats- matches is making life harder for “Nick has expressed regret, “Full credit to England -- they deserve to see a really good con- the first we would have had five- men belting the ball everywhere, visiting sides as never before. and the best result would be that won the key moments in this test for five days,” said retiring day games,” said Bayliss. “The to me, is not what Test cricket “I think winning away from he learns a lesson from this inci- series, they outplayed us,” said Australia captain Michael Clarke. wicket didn’t change in 10 min- is about.” home for every Test country is dent and that he understands he Australia coach Darren Lehmann. “I think the past three Test utes from one innings to the next But the fact just three of the the big thing now,” said Lehmann. is responsible to the Tour and to “We had four of the five top matches have not been that case.” and it certainly didn’t change last 14 completed Test series won “That’s the challenge for the fellow players for both his actions wicket-takers and three of the Unsurprisingly, Bayliss disa- in an hour and a half at Trent by the away team -- Pakistan in world game because there’s a huge and his words. four top run-scorers, but we greed, pointing out that playing Bridge. I think the wickets, with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and advantage playing at home.” AFP “It is with these factors in mind I feel he should have the opportu- nity to ‘earn’ his way out of addi- England to host Sri Lanka tional sanctions.” Kyrgios subsequently published Pakistan’s Test veteran an apology for the comments but and Pakistan in 2016 last week Wawrinka said he had received no apology from the LONDON: England are to play three home Tests against Sri Lanka combustable Australian. next year and four against Pakistan. Younus eyes 10,000 mark Should Kyrgios adhere to the “Pakistan and Sri Lanka will attract strong support from their own conditions until the February 24 communities in this country,” England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) 2016 deadline, the penalties will chief executive officer Tom Harrison said in a statement yesterday. ISLAMABAD: Test star Younus said while he had been away on tours. be dismissed. The home team will bid to avenge last year’s 1-0 Test series defeat Younus Khan (pictured) wants he was moti- “My young nephew died in 2014 The 37th-ranked Kyrgios is by Sri Lanka in matches in Leeds, Durham and Lord’s. to be the first Pakistani to score vated to do when I was in Sri Lanka and I well known for on and off-court Pakistan, who are also England’s opponents in a three-Test series 10,000 Test runs, saying that his something for had to return to Pakistan after outbursts and was booed by the in the United Arab Emirates in October, will play Tests at Lord’s, desire is to be a role model for Pakistan and representing Pakistan in only crowd at this year’s Wimbledon Manchester, Birmingham and The Oval. young players. all his perform- one ODI match and afterwards I for appearing to give up in a This will be Pakistan’s first summer series in England since 2010. Younus said his vision is to ances reflected was dropped from the ODI series match against Richard Gasquet. Pakistan’s 2010 trip was overshadowed by a match-fixing affair that do something remarkable for that desire. against Australia. REUTERS rocked the world of cricket. Pakistan and that is why he He added “That was very disheartening Pakistan’s Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir ‘wants to be the first Pakistani that under as I wanted to end my ODI career and their agent Mazhar Majeed arranged deliberate no-balls during to score 10,000 Test runs’. his leadership on a high as I did my T20 career,” ATP Tour Rankings the Lord’s Test against England five years ago in return for money in “We have many players who Pakistan won he said. 1 (1) Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 14865 a deal with an undercover reporter of a now defunct British tabloid. have scored 8,000 runs but no one the 2009 World However, in retrospect, Younus The lengthy sanctions against the three players expire next Tuesday. has scored more than that and I T20 Championship, a tournament said that being dropped from the 2 (3) Roger Federer (Switzerland) 9065 But the Pakistan Cricket Board’s chief selector Haroon Rasheed last want to do that,” www.Pakpassion. in which he said he averaged 50+ ODI series against Australia had 3 (2) Andy Murray (Britain) 8840 week effectively ruled out any early return for the trio when England net quoted him as saying. runs with the bat. been a blessing in disguise for him 4 (4) Kei Nishikori (Japan) 6205 face Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates in October. The veteran, who is regarded “In 2009 during World T20 as it motivated him to score big 5 (5) Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) 5710 “(Captain) Alastair Cook was absolutely right to acknowledge the as an ambassador of Pakistan Championship we had a very against Australia in Test matches. 6 (6) Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) 5230 contribution of England’s fans to our Ashes success,” added Harrison cricket by many in the cricket- young team without any big Younus also spoke about former 7 (7) David Ferrer (Spain) 3695 in reference to the 3-2 victory over Australia in the series that ended ing fraternity, accredited all his names in it but we still managed coach Bob Woolmer with whom on Sunday. success to his family. to win it because of hard work,” he ‘shared a special bond’. 8 (8) Rafa Nadal (Spain) 3680 “They have been unwavering in their support this summer and we “All the credit goes to my par- he said. “He was my coach from 2003 9 (9) Marin Cilic (Croatia) 3550 would urge as many as possible to return to our international venues ents for the way they have raised Younus also spoke about the to 2007 and his death was a tragic 10 (10) Milos Raonic (Canada) 2880 next summer.” me and provided me with what- tragedies which had happened in incident not only for me but also 11 (11) Gilles Simon (France) 2730 England will also take on both Sri Lanka and Pakistan in five one- ever I needed and demanded,” he his family, revealing that all the for Pakistan cricket,” he said. 12 (13) Richard Gasquet (France) 2240 day internationals and a Twenty20 match. AGENCIES said. deaths in his family had occurred AGENCIES 13 (12) John Isner (US) 2235 14 (14) David Goffin (Belgium) 2130 15 (15) Kevin Anderson (South Africa) 2000 16 (16) Gael Monfils (France) 1850 Laidlaw set to return as 17 (17) Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria) 1735 Jones confirms Japan 18 (23) Feliciano Lopez (Spain) 1665 Scotland captain 19 (19) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) 1655 20 (18) Dominic Thiem (Austria) 1645 LONDON: Scrumhalf Greig Laidlaw will return to captain Scotland after coach Vern Cotter named his squad yesterday for the World WTA Tour Rankings departure after Cup Cup warm-up match against Italy at Murrayfield on Saturday. 1 (1) Serena Williams (US) 12721 Laidlaw missed the recent defeat by Ireland and last week’s win over 2 (3) Simona Halep (Romania) 6130 TOKYO: Japan coach Eddie new Super Rugby side I would said. “Four years is enough for an Italy as Cotter picked experimental line-ups. Jones has confirmed he will step stay on. But that was just an international coach and I have put Fullback Stuart Hogg and flyhalf Finn Russell also return to the 3 (2) Maria Sharapova (Russia) 6035 down after the rugby World administrative role not a coach- a lot into this. It’s been one of the squad along with centre Mark Bennett and winger Tommy Seymour, 4 (5) Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 4735 Cup and not take on a perma- ing role. All I was doing was help hardest jobs I have done. details have revealed yesterday. 5 (4) Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) 4526 nent role with the country’s new get it set up.” “My focus was always to change Lock Grant Gilchrist was included after missing the 16-12 victory 6 (6) Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic) 3550 Super Rugby franchise. The 55-year-old confirmed last Japanese rugby history and over Italy due to illness and second row Jonny Gray is in line to play 7 (9) Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) 3500 The former Australia coach week that he was “chatting” with ensure Japan was a serious rugby his first World Cup warm-up. 8 (7) Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) 3335 told Japanese news agency Kyodo the Cape Town-based Stormers nation by the time I left.” Cotter will name his 31-man squad for the tournament in England that his contract would not be about coaching options but denied Japan will host the next World and Wales after the Italy match. 9 (8) Garbine Muguruza Blanco (Spain) 3245 renewed when it expires at the South African media reports that Cup in 2019. Scotland play their opening World Cup game against Japan on 10 (10) Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) 3190 end of the year. he had already signed a two-year “The decision doesn’t change September 23. The 2015 Rugby World Cup is scheduled to be hosted 11 (11) Angelique Kerber (Germany) 3150 “The (Japan Rugby Football) deal with the Super Rugby club. anything we have done or are by England from September 18 to October 31. England was chosen to 12 (12) Belinda Bencic (Switzerland) 3035 Union are going to announce this Jones, who guided Australia to going to do,” added Jones. host the competition in July 2009, beating rival bids from Italy, Japan 13 (13) Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) 2920 afternoon that I will not be con- the final of the 2003 World Cup, “The players aren’t thinking and South Africa. 14 (14) Timea Bacsinszky (Switzerland) 2896 tinuing after 2015,” Kyodo quoted took over from John Kirwan as past the World Cup. We are just Scotland squad: him as saying on Tuesday. coach of the ‘Brave Blossoms’ in focused on what we have to do. Forwards: John Barclay, Fraser Brown, Blair Cowan, David Denton, 15 (15) Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 2760 “That was always the case as 2012 after success at club level in “And by making the decision Alasdair Dickinson, Ross Ford, Grant Gilchrist, Jonny Gray, Robert 16 (16) Sara Errani (Italy) 2610 my contract was until the end of Japan’s Top League. now, it’s a great opportunity for Harley, Stuart McInally, Willem Nel, Ryan Wilson, Gordon Reid, Jon 17 (20) Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 2530 the year, so all they are doing is “I have coached for 20 years, the JRFU to find a new person Welsh 18 (17) Andrea Petkovic (Germany) 2450 stating the obvious. and coached the Wallabies for with a new perspective and new Backs: Mark Bennett, Stuart Hogg, Peter Horne, Greig Laidlaw, 19 (19) Madison Keys (US) 2275 “People assumed that as I had five years. And with hindsight I ideas so he can build a team Sean Lamont, Finn Russell, Henry Pyrgos, Tommy Seymour, Greig been named the director of the should have left after four,” Jones towards 2019.” REUTERS Tonks, Matt Scott, Tim Visser REUTERS 20 (21) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 2271 WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Olympics: Japan offer no Champions League: United, assurances on IOC deadline

TOKYO: Japan are unable to guarantee they will meet Lazio aim for group stage an International Olympic Committee deadline to com- plete work on the new National This last goal was very bad for the confidence, says Brugge manager Stadium in time for the 2020 Games. IOC vice president John Coates, PARIS: Manchester United are season but had previously reached on a visit to Tokyo yesterday, looking to complete the job over the group stages for 18 years in asked Japan to deliver the sta- Club Brugge in their Champions succession. dium by January 2020 ahead of League play-off second leg today Brugge, meanwhile, haven’t their hosting of the Games which while Italy’s Lazio may have made the group stages since the are scheduled to take place from slightly more to do to secure a 2005/06 season when they fin- July 24-August 9. place in the group stages. ished third in Group A behind Japan’s Olympic minister The English Premier League Juventus and Bayern Munich. Toshiaki Endo said the deadline, giants have a two-goal lead to take Lazio go to Bayer Leverkusen set in order that the venue could to Belgium after a 3-1 win at Old hoping to defend a one-goal host necessary test events prior Trafford last Tuesday, while Lazio advantage and reach the main to the Games, would be tough to have a slender 1-0 advantage for draw for the first time since the meet. their second leg against Bayer 2007/08 season. “It was going to be April on a Leverkusen in Germany. Keita Balde Diao’s second-half very tight schedule,” Endo was A 2-0 win for Brugge at the Jan winner at the Stadio Olimpico quoted as saying by Kyodo News Breydelstadion would be enough in Rome was the difference of the planned completion date. to take them through at United’s between the two sides last week, “We can ask the contractors to expense (on the away goals rule), but Leverkusen are seasoned push it, but we have no idea if it’s but United -- three-time win- campaigners who have made the doable. ners of the Champions League round of 16 in three of the last “Securing the materials, the -- are confident after Marouane four seasons and were only edged workers and technicians is dif- Fellaini’s late third goal in the out on penalties by 2014 runners- ficult so we can’t shorten the first leg. up Atletico Madrid at that stage schedule easily.” “It (Fellaini’s goal) makes a last campaign. Japan scrapped its original plan difference because 2-1 is a very Runners-up in 2002, for the new National stadium last difficult result,” said United boss Leverkusen have won two out of month in the face of widespread Louis Van Gaal after the victory two domestically, while Lazio also FROM LEFT: Leverkusen players Karim Bellarabi, Stefan Kiessling, Jonathan Glao Tah and Benjamin Henrichs outrage after costs ballooned to last Tuesday. got off to a winning start in Serie are seen training with the team at the BayArena in Leverkusen, Germany, yesterday. Bayer 04 Leverkusen play $2.1bn, nearly twice original esti- Brugge boss Michel A on Saturday with a 2-1 home Lazio in a Champions League qualifier today. mates -- an unusual move for an Preud’homme, on the other hand, win over Bologna. Olympic host city this late in the was less optimistic after conced- One player missing for the process. ing the third goal in Manchester. Bundesliga side is new Chilean Elsewhere today, Sporting The 2010 quarter-finalists were for the main draw for five years. Earlier this month, Japan “This last goal was very signing Charles Aranguiz, who Lisbon take a 2-1 lead to Russia knocked out in the group stages Astana are 90 minutes from mak- approved guidelines for its new bad for the confidence,” said tore his Achilles tendon just one against CSKA Moscow in the last season but will fancy their ing history as they look to become Olympic stadium, vowing to build former Belgian international week after joining from Brazilian hope of securing a place in the chances of overturning the nar- the first Kazakh team to qualify an athlete-friendly stadium as Preud’homme. club Internacional. main draw for the second suc- row deficit at the Arena Khimki. for the main competition. cheaply as possible. “It’s a pity we let this one in,” “We’ve all been hit hard by the cessive season. Belarus champions BATE They take a 1-0 lead to the Kyodo said Australian Coates, added the 56-year-old, who guided news and we’re all suffering with The Portuguese giants struck Borisov are favourites to reach Cypriot capital Nicosia for their head of the Coordination Brugge to the Belgian Cup last him,” said Leverkusen’s sporting late on through Islam Slimani at the group stages for the fourth second leg against 2012 quarter- Commission for the Tokyo season. director Rudi Voeller. “We will do the Jose Alvalade in Lisbon, but time in five years as they take finalists APOEL, who are no Olympics, had stressed the new Manchester United -- winners everything we can so that Charles will be wary of a CSKA side who a 1-0 advantage to Serbia for strangers to the group stage hav- stadium would not require a in 1968, 1999 and 2008 -- didn’t comes back as quickly as possible have six wins out of six in Russia their second leg against Partizan ing qualified again last season. 80,000 seating capacity as with feature in the competition last from this bad injury.” this season. Belgrade, who haven’t qualified REUTERS the original futuristic designed venue by UK-based Zaha Hadid Architects. Qatar play friendly Chelsea “I think we’ll be able to find a way to keep it under 200 billion Brugge ‘need a yen ($1.66bn),” Endo said. move a The stadium issues are not the only problems to have hit prepa- rations for the Tokyo’s second gamble I had Olympics. miracle’ today Organisers have rolled back to take, says on promises to have most ven- BRUGES, BELGIUM: ues within eight kilometres of Club Brugge coach Michel the Olympic Village, while the Preud’homme said yesterday Pedro Olympic logo has become the that his side require a “per- focus of plagiarism accusations fect” performance if they are to LONDON: Chelsea’s new sign- which Japan and its designer achieve the “miracle” of elimi- ing Pedro has said he took a deny. REUTERS nating Manchester United in “gamble” by leaving Spanish the Champions League. champions Barcelona after United go into today’s play-off eight successful years, but one Europe captain round second leg in Bruges lead- driven by his desire for more ing 3-1 from the first leg, when playing time. Koch names Memphis Depay scored a brace The Spain striker completed a and set up an injury-time header 30m euro ($34.6m) move to the four Solheim for Marouane Fellaini after Club Premier League champions last Brugge had taken a shock lead week and came up with a goal and courtesy of a Michael Carrick an assist on his debut in their 3-2 wildcards own goal. victory at West Bromwich Albion LONDON: Europe cap- The Belgian side overturned on Sunday. tain Carin Koch has named a 2-1 first-leg deficit against “Of course I would have liked Karine Icher, Caroline Hedwall, Panathinaikos in the previous to have stayed at Barca and retire Caroline Masson and Catriona qualifying round by winning 3-0 here,” Sky Sports quoted the Matthew as her four wildcard at the Jan Breydel Stadium, but 28-year-old as telling the Spanish picks for next month’s Solheim Preud’homme struck a pessimis- media in his farewell press con- Cup against the United States. tic tone at his pre-match press ference for which he flew back to Frenchwoman Icher, Swede conference. Barcelona on Monday. Hedwall, German Masson and “It would be a great mira- “That was my intention when Scot Matthew join Suzann cle,” said the former Belgium I signed my contract extension. Pettersen, Gwladys Nocera, goalkeeper. But I’ve taken a gamble because Charley Hull, Melissa Reid, “They are two goals in front, it’s what I wanted. Anna Nordqvist, Azahara Munoz, they have a very professional “I wasn’t going to stay here just Sandra Gal and Carlota Ciganda team, can make a decision by to appear on the photo,” he added. in Koch’s 12-strong team. an action at each moment and Qatar players Pedro, who has scored 59 goals Europe will attempt to win the we have some problems with in action for the Catalan club in 128 La biennial team event, the women’s the number of players that were during their Liga starts, found his opportu- equivalent of the Ryder Cup, for already out in the first leg, plus friendly nities limited after the arrival the third straight time at the St Timmy Simons and Brandon in Vienna, of Luis Suarez from Liverpool Leon-Rot Golf Club in Heidelberg, Mechele. Austria. Qatar last season and decided to move Germany from September 18-20. “To have a small chance we are preparing despite signing a new four-year “We’ve got a great mixture of need to be better in our last pass for their contract in June. youth and experience which really and if we have a chance, it has 2018 FIFA “I was really happy when I excites me as captain,” Swede to be a goal. Sometimes you have signed that contract. But then I Koch said in a news release on Club Brugge’s Belgian forward World Cup a small opening and if you don’t qualifying saw that my situation would not Tuesday. “Each of our players has make the action very quickly, they Tom De Sutter is seen during a change. a role to play and I have a team press conference in Bruges, on matches to are all back. be held next “I’m always ambitious but it of stars. “If we want to have a chance, the eve of the UEFA Champions was difficult to have continuity “Now the team is finalised we month. Qatar we have to be perfect.” League play-off round second here. Now I have new challenges can all have full focus for the week will return to Mechele will be suspended leg football match against and the opportunity to continue in Germany and I can’t wait to today after being sent off for two Manchester United. Manchester Doha today to play,” he said. see the players together at St bookable offences in last week’s United won the first leg 3-1 last and take on “This offer arrived and it gave Leon-Rot.” first leg, while experienced cap- week. Singapore me everything I needed to take Icher, Hedwall, Masson and tain Simons misses out after in another a decision. I wanted to leave to Matthew were all involved when sustaining a thigh injury at Old friendly on have more playing time,” the Europe scored an 18-10 victory Trafford. United, it will be his last game August 28. Spain international and World over the US in Colorado two years The 38-year-old joins Stefano before linking up with Turkish Qatar host Cup winner added. ago. Captain Juli Inkster’s US Denswil, Bjorn Engels, Lior side Bursaspor, and the 30-year- Bhutan on Pedro won 20 trophies in his side will be represented by Stacy Refaelov, Felipe Gedoz, Bernie old striker is determined to sign September 3 time with Barcelona, includ- Lewis, Lexi Thompson, Cristie Ibini and Jose Izquierdo on the off in style. and then fly ing five La Liga titles and three Kerr, Michelle Wie, Brittany sidelines, but Tom De Sutter has “You always have to believe,” out to play Champions Leagues crowns. Lincicome, Morgan Pressel, been passed fit to play after miss- he said. “Everything is possible against Hong “I’m very happy to be at Chelsea Angela Stanford, Gerina Piller, ing the 2-0 loss to Zulte-Waregem in football, so why not now? If you Kong on because it’s a club that, like Barca, Alison Lee, Lizette Salas, Paula at the weekend through illness. don’t believe, you’d better not play September 8. are fighting for titles,” he said. Creamer and Brittany Lang. Should he feature against the game.” REUTERS REUTERS REUTERS WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Arsenal and Liverpool share points after thrilling contest We kept a good clean sheet. We’re disappointed we didn’t win: Rodgers

LONDON: Arsenal and Liverpool had to settle for a Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsey reacts point each after a richly enter- after a goal was ruled offside taining game of two halves during the match against beneath the Emirates Stadium Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium drizzle implausibly finished 0-0 in London, on Monday. on Monday. With Arsenal centre-backs Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny absent – the former Ramsey calls for ill, the latter laid low by a back problem – Liverpool dominated video technology the first half, hitting the wood- work twice and seeing Petr after goal Cech produce an astonishing save to deny Christian Benteke, although Aaron Ramsey also had disallowed a goal contentiously ruled out for Arsenal. LONDON: Arsenal midfielder The hosts took control in Aaron Ramsey has called for the second half, Alexis Sanchez video technology to help with striking the post, but Liverpool crucial decisions after his held firm for a result that left goal against Liverpool dur- them two points below lead- ing Monday’s 0-0 draw at the ers Manchester City – the only Emirates Stadium was ruled team in the Premier League to out for offside. have won their first three games Ramsey ran through onto Santi – and three points above Arsenal. Cazorla’s pass in the first half “I thought we were outstand- and slotted home past Liverpool ing. We showed everything. goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, only You heard Petr Cech getting a to realise that assistant referee round of applause for the saves Simon Bennett had raised his flag. he made,” Liverpool manager “I thought I held my run a bit, Brendan Rodgers told Sky Sports. I thought I was onside but I obvi- “Overall we kept a good clean Arsenal’s Chilean striker Alexis Sanchez reacts after hitting ously took a glance over to make sheet, but we’re disappointed we the woodwork during the English Premier League match sure and saw the flag was up,” didn’t win.” against Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium in London on the 24-year-old told the British A goalless draw seemed an Monday. RIGHT: Liverpool’s Emre Can (right) vies for the media. improbable outcome for much of ball possession with Arsenal’s Hector Bellerin (centre) “The replays suggest I was the match, such was the sheer onside – it should have stood during the match. number of chances, but having – but obviously the linesman seen his side beaten 2-0 by West thought it was offside,” he added. Ham United in their first home for the first time since a 2-1 loss be denied by an offside flag. The extraordinary stop to prevent Frenchman and slamming a shot “At the end of the day we should game, it was Arsenal manager at home to Wigan Athletic in Premier League has admitted that Benteke from poking in Roberto against the post. In search of an have been 1-0 up. Arsene Wenger who would have April 2012. Their deputies, Calum Benteke’s goal in last Monday’s Firmino’s low cross at point-blank extra out ball, Rodgers sent the “To look at a video for 20 sec- been the most relieved to avoid Chambers and Gabriel, had never 1-0 win over Bournemouth should range and then brilliantly tip- pacy Jordon Ibe on for Firmino, onds would have maybe changed defeat. “Liverpool had some previously played together at cen- have been ruled out for offside ping a shot from Coutinho onto but Arsenal continued to press, the outcome of the game,” the chances in the first half and noth- tre-back and Liverpool lost little against Coutinho and here again, the post after the Brazilian had with visiting goalkeeper Simon Wales international said. ing in the second,” Wenger said. time attacking them. Liverpool looked to have received embarrassed Hector Bellerin. Mignolet forced to claw away a “I think we could take a leaf out “We had chances in both halves Inside the first three minutes, a favour from the officials. Arsenal belatedly settled in the close-range shot from Giroud. of rugby -- they do it really well. and were unlucky because we Benteke shot wide from Emre They also received a series second half, occupying the full Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade- You see it on the screens, they go scored a regular goal that was Can’s pass and then teed up of favours from Chambers, who width of the pitch when in posses- Chamberlain joined the fray for off for 20 seconds and they get the ruled out and that was very dif- Philippe Coutinho for a shot that gave the ball away with trou- sion and making deeper inroads Arsenal in the closing stages and decision right in the end,” Ramsey ficult to understand. thudded against the crossbar. bling regularity, obliging Francis in the Liverpool third. the latter almost crafted a break- said. The evening’s first bombshell But Liverpool exhibited defen- Coquelin to produce a desperate Olivier Giroud volleyed wide, through, first via a low cross that Arsenal currently lie ninth landed when Arsenal’s starting sive frailties of their own and last-ditch tackle on Coutinho on before a slick combination involv- Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel in the table on four points and line-up was announced, revealing after Sanchez had headed over, one occasion. It was then Cech’s ing Mesut Ozil, Cazorla and prodded just wide of his own goal travel to St James’ Park to take that Mertesacker and Koscielny Ramsey scored from a sensa- turn to dig his team out, the Giroud culminated in Sanchez and then with a skidding drive on Newcastle United on Saturday. would both miss a league game tional Santi Cazorla pass, only to Czech goalkeeper pulling off an bursting onto a lay-off from the that Mignolet had to parry. AFP REUTERS AC Milan confirm return of Reds Chelsea’s Cuadrado set for Juventus medical misfit Balotelli on loan deal MILAN: Chelsea forward Juan The signing of Cuadrado has Cuadrado is set to undergo a been welcomed by fans, especially MILAN: Liverpool misfit Mario medical at Juventus ahead of after Juve’s shock 1-0 defeat to Balotelli said he is ready to res- joining the Italian champions on Udinese on the opening weekend urrect his career as he re-joined a season-long loan deal. of Serie A. AC Milan on a season-long loan Cuadrado moved to Stamford Television pictures in Italy deal that has divided fans and Bridge in a €35m ($34.9m) on Monday night showed the pundits in Italy. deal only six months ago from 27-year-old arriving at Milan’s Balotelli joined Liverpool from Fiorentina, but the Colombian Malpensa airport, where he was Milan in the summer of 2014 but international has become sur- surrounded by over 100 enthusi- after a dismal season at Anfield plus to requirements under Blues astic Juventus supporters. the controversial Italian striker coach Jose Mourinho. Juventus have yet to make any has rejoined the seven-time Juventus have been looking to official statement, although club European champions on a season- bolster their attacking midfield CEO Beppe Marotta said last long loan deal. since the departure of Arturo week: “He will come on a loan Milan have made the deal offi- Vidal (Bayern Munich) and deal. Six months ago Cuadrado cial on their website and after Andrea Pirlo (New York City was the subject of a €35m trans- emerging from a medical early FC) and amid the ongoing injury fer: today this opportunity came yesterday morning Balotelli told absence of Sami Khedira. up, and we took it. AFP reporters: “I’m happy to be back. This club is in my heart and I always hoped to play here again. ‘Bavarians’ assemble in Munich “Physically, I’m in good condi- tion, I just have to get training with the squad.” Asked about his motivation, he said: “I’ve got plenty, but now is not the time to talk, it’s time to get to work.” As for the future, he added: “I Italian soccer player Mario Balotelli speaks to members of the media after medical checks in a hospital in Milan, have to start work from today and Italy, yesterday. to have a good season. Then we’ll see what happens.” Balotelli’s failure to spark at majority of Milan fans when he Former Milan midfielder Inter, failed to qualify for Europe Liverpool has also left his inter- joined the Rossoneri in January Zvonimir Boban, a respected this season and both clubs face a national career in tatters. He has 2013. pundit on Sky Sport who is often make-or-break season after sev- yet to feature in any games for the But the striker’s second spell at brutally honest in his opinions on eral years of underachievement. Azzurri during qualifying for the Milan is not being met with the football matters, called the club’s Balotelli has an opportunity to 2016 European Championships in same fervour – among fans, or in decision to take the player on loan show that he is far from washed France next summer. the media. “totally absurd”. up, and the president of the Yet it remains to be seen if the Recent polls have shown an Boban had previously stated: Italian football federation, Carlo 25-year-old, who has often been overwhelming majority of fans “Let’s stop talking about him, he’s Tavecchio, lent the player his accused of wasting his playing to be against Balotelli’s return to never achieved anything.” support. talent, can resurrect his career the club. On Monday night a sur- Last week, the former Croatian “He seems to have forgotten this season. vey on the popular ‘Processo del international hit out: “I wish him what is means to suffer, to sac- FROM LEFT: Bayern Munich’s Brazilian defender Rafinha and Bayern Balotelli, who began his career Lunedi’ football show on Rai tele- all the best, but he’s never really rifice. He gives the impression of Munich’s French midfielder Franck Ribery dresses in typical Bavarian with city rivals Inter Milan before vision indicated that close to 62% taken off as a player. If he returns someone who has been given eve- clothes wait prior to a group photo of the FC Bayern Munich at the set moving to Manchester City of fans were against Balotelli’s (to Milan), it is totally absurd.” rything too quickly because of his of an advertising photo shoot of in Munich, Germany, yesterday. in 2010, was feted by the vast return. Milan, along with city rivals talent,” Tavecchio said. 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David Rudisha (right) of Kenya celebrates with a fan after winning the men’s 800m final during the Beijing 2015 IAAF World Championships at the National Stadium, also known as Bird’s Nest, in Beijing, yesterday. RIGHT: Usain Bolt of Jamaica poses for the TV camera before his start in the men’s 200m heats during the Beijing 2015 IAAF World Championships, yesterday. Rudisha regains Upbeat Bolt shrugs off rival Gatlin threat in 200m battle

BEIJING: Usain Bolt icily dis- missed the threat of American 800m world title Justin Gatlin after the fierce rivals cruised into the semi- finals of the 200 metres at the Poland’s Kszczot wins silver in 800m race world championships yesterday. The Jamaican superstar, who pipped two-time doping offender BEIJING: Kenya’s Olympic Gatlin to win gold in Sunday’s champion David Rudisha put World Championships Results final in Beijing, eased up with three difficult years behind some 50 metres to go after com- Men’s 800M: 1. David Rudisha (KEN) 1min 45.84sec, 2. Adam Kszczot (POL) 1:46.08, 3. Amel Tuka him and trusted his finishing ing off the bend well ahead of USA’s Justin (BIH) 1:46.30, 4. Ferguson Rotich Cheruiyot (KEN) 1:46.35, 5. Pierre-Ambroise Bosse (FRA) 1:46.63, pace to regain the world 800 the field to win his heat in 20.28 Gatlin 6. Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla (QAT) 1:47.01, 7. Nader Belhanbel (MAR) 1:47.09, 8. Alfr metres title at the Bird’s Nest seconds. competes yesterday. Men’s 400M Hurdles: 1. Nicholas Bett (KEN) 47.79, 2. Denis Kudryavtsev (RUS) 48.05, 3. Jeffery Gatlin, game-face on after fail- in a heat of Still not back at his best after Gibson (BAH) 48.17, 4. Kerron Clement (USA) 48.18, 5. Boniface Mucheru (KEN) 48.33, 6. Yasmani ing in his bid to dethrone Bolt as the men’s the knee injury that cost him his Copello (TUR) 48.96, 7. Patryk Dobek (POL) 49.14, 8. Michael Tinsley (USA) 50.02 the king of men’s sprinting, won 200 metres chance to defend the world title Men’s Long Jump: 1. Greg Rutherford (GBR) 8.41 m, 2. Fabrice Lapierre (AUS) 8.24, 3. Wang his heat in 20.19. athletics in 2013, the 26-year-old kicked Jianan (CHN) 8.18, 4. Gao Xinglong (CHN) 8.14, 5. Li Jinzhe (CHN) 8.10, 6. Aleksandr Menkov (RUS) But Bolt, whose 100m vic- event, for home at the end of the back 8.02, 7. Kafetien Gomis (FRA) 8.02 tory gave athletics a boost after yesterday. straight and held on to win gold in Women’s 1,500M: 1. Genzebe Dibaba (ETH) 4:08.09, 2. Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon (KEN) 4:08.96, allegations of widespread dop- one minute 45.84 seconds. 3. Sifan Hassan (NED) 4:09.34, 4. Dawit Seyaum (ETH) 4:10.26, 5. Laura Muir (GBR) 4:11.48 ing plunged the sport into cri- The strain of the last 50 metres Women’s Discus: 1. Denia Caballero (CUB) 69.28 m, 2. Sandra Perkovic (CRO) 67.39, 3. Nadine sis, shrugged when asked if was was clear on his face as he held Müller (GER) 65.53, 4. Yaime Perez (CUB) 65.46, 5. Julia Fischer (GER) 63.88, 6. Dani Samuels (AUS) confident of beating Gatlin once off Pole Adam Kszczot and there 63.14, 7. Shanice Craft (GER) 63.10, 8. Su Xinyue (CHN) 62.90, 9. Whitney Ashley (USA) 61.05, 10. more to retain his double world were no huge smiles from the qui- Melina Robert-Michon (FRA) 60.92 sprint title. etly-spoken world record holder “I’m always confident, after crossing the line, just a championships.” In the absence of the fastest 800m of the year in man,” sniffed the six-times single finger raised to the sky in defending champion Mohammed 1.42.51 but the list of the best runs Olympic champion and world celebration. Aman of Ethiopia and London of all time is still topped by the record-holder. “This is really special for me,” Olympic silver medallist Nijel astonishing 1.40.91 that Rudisha “I knew the 200 was going to he told reporters. “Despite the Amos, who both failed to reach ran to win the gold medal at the be harder because I’m not in the fact that I was coming from a bad the final, Kszczot won silver in 2012 Olympics. best of fitness,” added Bolt, who in 28 races stretching back two championships, was almost lost injury that almost pushed me out 1.46.08 courtesy of his strong That was before his injury, struggled with pelvic joint pain years to the Moscow world cham- for words. “It’s a dream for me to of my career ... to be back here finish. however, and Rudisha admitted earlier in the season. pionships before being floored run at the world championships and to prove to the world that I “It is not gold but I can’t be he had thought at times that he “Definitely I was trying to make again by his nemesis Bolt. with these stars,” he grinned. “I’m can win the world championships unhappy with this awesome sil- would never regain the devastat- sure I ran at least 130 metres of “The 100m final was a difficult just very grateful to be here. I was it means a lot.” ver,” said the Pole. ing pace he displayed in London. the race and then I kind of shut race for me, also emotionally. I a bit ragged at the end but I think After being exposed by faster “It is hard to fight against the “At some point, when I had the it down. Everybody knows the made some mistakes at the end I can go faster.” finishers a few times since his world record holder but I think keyhole surgery, I thought maybe, 200 actually means more for me of the race but now I’m going for Born to a Japanese mother return from the injury, Rudisha he was possible to beat.” if I come back I won’t be at that than the 100 so I’m trying to get the 200. I have two more days to and Ghanaian father, Sani Brown raced out to the front and tried Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Amel top level,” said Rudisha. through the rounds as comfort- go,” he said. insisted he had not felt nervous to control the pace. Tuka, who has slashed more than “The support I’ve been getting ably as possible and using as little Among those who also about racing alongside Gatlin. “The race today was more tac- three seconds off his personal best from my coach, my family and energy as possible.” advanced to today’s semi-finals “To be honest I didn’t feel like tical, I was not going for anything this year, finished third in 1.46.30 friends I think it motivated me Azeri-born Turk Ramil Guliyev were 16-year-old Japanese school- I was racing him at all,” said the fast,” he said. to win a first world championship to come back again strong.” grabbed his moment in the spot- boy Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, youngster, who was ordered by his “I know for the last month I medal for his country. Rudisha said he would run light to record the fastest time who clocked 20.35 behind Gatlin mother to choose track over foot- have been working on my speed “It is like a big dream come twice more this season before of the heats in a national record to earn the American’s respect. ball when in elementary school.” and I was very confident com- true,” said Tuka. “I am really focusing on the preparations for 20.01. Sani Brown, who shot to fame The 200m final takes place ing here and I knew that if the proud for my people.” his Olympic title defence in Rio de “The race felt good,” said in Japan by claiming a sprint dou- tomorrow at the Bird’s Nest pace is slow I could win the The 24-year-old had clocked Janeiro next year. REUTERS Gatlin, who had been unbeaten ble at last month’s world youth Stadium. AFP Rutherford jumps to gold in Beijing Caballero earns surprise gold Cuba’s Denia BEIJING: Britain’s Greg Caballero Rutherford completed a full- house of major titles yesterday celebrates on when he added world gold to his the podium Olympic, Commonwealth and after winning European long jump crowns. the gold medal Rutherford had such a bad in the women’s headache a few hours before the Discus Throw final that he feared he would be Britain’s Greg final of the unable to compete. Rutherford Beijing 2015 “By 2 o’clock this afternoon, I celebrates after IAAF World thought, ‘Flipping heck, I’m not winning the gold Championships going to be able to jump, I feel so medal in the at the National rough’,” he told reporters. men’s Long jump Stadium, By the end of the evening, it final, yesterday. yesterday. was Rutherford’s rivals whose Caballero heads were spinning. landed a shock “Adrenalin’s a wonderful thing,” win in the world he said. “Here I am and I’ve finally championship, won a world title. Fifth time lucky. Finally got what I wanted.” her first round The 28-year-old Briton domi- effort of 69.28 nated the competition and won metres beating with a best effort of 8.41 metres all her rivals in the fourth round with a season’s best 8.24 in the hoping to see a medal for the host After a further foul in the third including His task was made easier when sixth round to overtake China’s nation. round, Rutherford consulted his defending American Jeff Henderson, who Wang Jianan, who jumped 8.18 in The roars of the crowd seemed coach, American Dan Pfaff. champion tops the 2015 world rankings, round two. Chinese jumpers Gao to carry Wang and Gao on a wave “Dan basically told me after Sandra crashed out after three rounds Xinglong (8.14m) and Li Jinzhe of inspiration and they both reg- the third round, ‘What on earth Perkovic of having registered only one good (8.10m) finished fourth and fifth. istered first-round jumps of 8.14 are you playing at, why are you Croatia. jump, of 7.95m, to finish outside This event appeared to be one metres to take the joint lead. fouling such massive jumps? Just the top eight. of the most open of the cham- Rutherford fouled his first effort get one in and close the night’. The silver medal was won by pionships and the Beijing pub- but seized control of the competi- And the next round, I managed Australia’s Fabrice Lapierre lic turned out in huge numbers tion with 8.29 in the second. to catch one.” REUTERS Wednesday 26 August 2015 11 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 Volume 20 Number 6534 Sport Price: QR2

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RIYADH: Al Hilal took charge of their AFC Champions League quarter-final clash with Qatar’s Lekhwiya yesterday with Carlos Eduardo scoring twice as Georgios Donis’ side notched up a 4-1 win ahead of the second leg in mid-September. Eduardo’s late header put the cap on a performance that had Femi Ogunode (right) of Qatar reacts after the men’s 200m heats during earlier seen goals from Khalid the 15th IAAF World Championships, yesterday. Ogunode qualified for Kaabi and Eduardo give last sea- the semi-final with a time of 20.25 seconds. son’s beaten finalists the upper hand after Ailton’s opener had been cancelled out by Youssef Msakni. Balla impresses at 800m race Msakni’s goal will give the Qatar champions some hope going into the second leg on home soil in Doha next month, but the Saudis will now be runaway favourites to qualify for the semi-finals once again. Lekhwiya’s task of advancing to the semi-finals, was made harder than necessary in the 11th minute when goalkeeper Amine Lecomte dawdled on the edge of his own penalty area while in possession and his eventual attempt at a clearance was bundled over the line by Brazilian striker Ailton. The Qatari club, however, reacted sharply and within six minutes the scores were level. Nam Tae-hee led the charge on Action from the AFC Champions League first leg quarter-final clash between Al Hilal and Lekhwiya in Riyadh, the Al Hilal defence before slot- yesterday. Al Hilal won 4-1 in home tie. ting his pass in front of Msakni, who clipped the ball home despite further in front. Again Al Hilal a stunning free-kick from 40 Kwak Tae-hwi’s efforts. hit on the break with Eduardo Asian Champions metres as Luiz Felipe Scolari’s Three minutes after the half scoring from close range after Guangzhou Evergrande thumped hour mark, Lekhwiya should Salem Al Dawsari had played in League Quarter-final Kashiwa Reysol 3-1 to put one have taken the lead. Msakni dis- Yasir Al Shahrani and his cross foot in the semi-finals yesterday. possessed Salman Al Faraj deep found Eduardo in the middle with Results An early own goal by Kashiwa inside the Al Hilal half before time to finish. Results from the Asian captain Daisuke Suzuki put the laying the ball off to Luiz Junior, Lekhwiya came out looking to Champions League Quarter- visitors ahead before the wonder- but his effort only found the side reduce the deficit in the second final first leg matches yesterday strike from Brazilian midfielder netting. half but, despite their efforts, it Kashiwa Reysol 1 Masato Kudo 90; Paulinho, signed from Tottenham The miss was to prove costly was Al Hilal who always looked Guangzhou Evergrande 3 Kosuke Taketomi Hotspur in June. for Lekhwiya as, within seconds, more likely to score again. 5og, Paulinho 40, Gao Lin 58; Al Hilal (Saudi Gao Lin extended Guangzhou’s Al Hilal were back in front. The Eduardo saw his attempt at Arabia) 4 Lekhwiya (Qatar) 1. advantage with a towering header Saudis pushed forward at pace an overhead kick blocked while Playing today (all times GMT) early in the second half before and, although Salem Al Dawsari’s Digao found the back of the net Chonbuk (Korea) vs Gamba Osaka (Japan) Masato Kudo cut the deficit with attempt at goal was deflected wide only to see his header ruled out (1000) ; Naft Tehran (Iran) vs Al Ahli Dubai a close-range effort late in the of the target, Kaabi stole in to fin- for offside. (United Arab Emirates) (1430) game. ish from the tightest of angles, the But four minutes from time But barring a miraculous turn- FROM LEFT: Nijel Amos of Botswana, David Lekuta Rudisha of Kenya and ball crossing the line thanks to a Eduardo further enhanced Al around in second leg, Guangzhou Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla of Qatar compete during the heat 2 of the ricochet off the post. Hilal’s advantage from close range to put the Saudis in an all-but will go into a last-four clash men’s 800 metres semi-final during the 15th IAAF World Championships at Four minutes later, the two- as he nodded Faisal Darwish’s unassailable position. against Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors the National Stadium in Beijing, on Sunday. Balla finished on a respectable time Asian club champions were cross from the left over the line In Tokyo, Paulinho scored or Gamba Osaka. AGENCIES sixth position in the final with a time of 1:47.01, yesterday. IndyCar driver Justin Wilson dies from head injury LOS ANGELES: British driver IndyCar and the Indianapolis justin_wilson was a good man. 2005 IndyCar Series champion Justin Wilson was declared Motor Speedway. A great man. I had the pleasure and a two-time winner of the dead on Monday after suffering “Justin’s elite ability to drive a A 25 May 2008 of knowing him and pray for his Indianapolis 500. a severe head injury during an race car was matched by his unwa- family,” wrote Danica Patrick. US auto racing legend Eddie file picture of IndyCar race in Pennsylvania, vering kindness, character and Former team-mate AJ Cheever said Wilson’s death British IndyCar plunging the sport into mourn- humility – which is what made Allmendinger added: “We lost one should lead to a thorough analysis ing and triggering calls for a him one of the most respected driver Justin of the great ones today. One of the of safety measures in the sport, review of safety measures. members of the paddock.” Wilson before best ever.” while acknowledging the freak Wilson, 37, had been in a coma Wilson’s younger brother the start of the Wilson was hit by the nose cone nature of Sunday’s accident. since Sunday, when a piece of Stefan, also a racing driver, paid 92nd running of of fellow driver Sage Karam’s car “Safety is not one of those debris from another racer’s car tribute on Twitter. the Indianapolis after it spun out on lap 179 of the things that because you have a struck his helmet on the final “Can’t even begin to describe 500 auto race at 200-lap race. clear record for a certain amount laps of the “Tricky Triangle” at the loss I feel right now. He was the Indianapolis The father of two was airlifted of time that you stop doing devel- Pocono Raceway in the penulti- my Brother, my best friend, my Motor to the hospital immediately after opment,” said Cheever, now an mate IndyCar Series race of the role model and mentor. He was a Speedway in the crash, and never regained IndyCar analyst for ESPN. season. champion!” he wrote. Indianapolis, consciousness. Wilson had driven “I think that it is time that Loved ones of the Sheffield- “I often told him, I just want to Indiana, USA. in major US open-wheel racing solutions are looked for and I born Andretti Autosport racer grow up to be half the man he is.” since the 2004 season. think it is time that the drivers had flown to be at his bed- Andretti Autosport also paid He was driving a partial sched- got together and came up with side at Lehigh Valley Health tribute, describing Wilson as a ule in 2015 for Andretti, mak- a few ideas and I sincerely hope Network Cedar Crest Hospital “tremendous racer, a valuable ing his 174th IndyCar start. He that some progress will be made in Allentown earlier on Monday member of the team. “His life and racing career is condolences to all the family. RIP,” recorded seven wins in CART on this issue. before his death was announced. “While Justin was only part of a story of class and passion sur- British Formula One great Nigel and IndyCar races, his most “Safety is a continuous project, “This is a monumentally sad the Andretti lineup for a short passed by none.” Mansell wrote on Twitter. recent coming at Texas in 2012. and in the past, IndyCar has done day for IndyCar and the motor- time, it only took a second for Legends of the motorsport IndyCar legend Dale Earnhardt Wilson’s death is the first fatal- a very good job of doing it. But sports community as a whole,” him to forever become part of world united in an outpouring of Other drivers paid tribute to ity in IndyCar since the 2011 this is something they are going to said Mark Miles, chief executive the Andretti family,” a statement grief. Wilson’s personal qualities. accident that claimed the life of have to focus on more than they of the parent company which runs said. “Terrible news... deepest “Wow, what a sad day. @ fellow Briton Dan Wheldon, the have done in the past.” AFP