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Kuwait Emir meets PM HIA to charge Strict vigil on QR35 user fee from December 1

By Fazeena Saleem food outlets The Peninsula

DOHA: Passengers leaving Qatar and abattoirs through Hamad International Air- port (HIA) from December 1 will be levied a fee of QR35 for using the slaughter houses in the city - Al Ahli airport facilities. The new HIA abattoir for cows and camels. Inspec- passenger facility charge will be Inspectors will keep a tions have also been intensified at the applied to air tickets issued from strict vigil on all outlets, central fish market and fresh fish sell- tomorrow and for any travel on or especially commercial ing point on the Corniche. after December 1, according to a The meat and poultry sections statement issued by HIA yesterday. outlets and pastry shops of all commercial complexes have “Hamad International Airport offering special Eid also come under strict scrutiny. The (HIA) will be introducing a Pas- promotions. veterinarians, in collaboration with senger Facility Charge of QR 35 Widam company, have visited the ($10) to all departing passengers abattoirs to assess their requirements including transfer passengers con- in terms of the number of workers necting within 24 hours,” said the and ambulances for emergency sit- statement. By Sidi Mohamed uations. Entry and exit of porters to The Peninsula the abattoirs are being organized and → Continued on page 4 the facilities are being provided with Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani with Emir of water tankers as well as generators. Kuwait H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah at Bayan Palace in Kuwait, yesterday. QNB to open If any health-related problems → See also page 2 DOHA: Ahead of the Eid Al Adha are detected in the animals, the branch in India holidays which fall in the sec- meat will be destroyed either fully ond week of next month, the Doha or partially and a certificate will be Municipality has intensified inspec- issued to the customers showing the DOHA: QNB Group has obtained tions at all food outlets and abattoirs details. The municipality’s food unit SAK Holding Group tops ‘Power Hour’ list authorisation to open a branch in to ensure that they comply with the at the central market will carry out India in order to provide compre- health regulations. inspections at all groceries, super- hensive banking services. The Health Monitoring Section markets and fruit and vegetable By Mohammad Shoeb to wining the real estate innova- The Group obtained the at the Doha Municipality has asked stores in the area from September The Peninsula tion and excellence award last year approval of the regulatory all its inspectors to keep a strict vigil 3 and September 9. for launching a real estate initiative authorities in India to conduct its on all outlets, especially commercial During Eid holidays, inspec- called ‘Sharekna’ under the direc- operations, thus adding an impor- outlets and pastry shops offering tions will take place at the auction DOHA: SAK Holding Group, one of tives of Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah tant global market to its growing special Eid promotions yard for imported fruits and vegeta- Qatar’s prominent real estate devel- Al Thani, Chairman of the Board of network, which would help achieve Inspectors have been deployed bles at the central market from 4.30 opers, ranked first in Qatar, and Directors of SAK, to support the local its goals of strategic global expan- at the Central Market which houses am to 10.30am and from 7.30 pm second in the Middle East region, in market, and to promote business sion, QNB Group said yesterday. a number of food stores and whole- to 1.30pm. The campaign will also terms of innovation and excellence growth in line with Qatar National QNB’s presence through its sale food outlets to check if the food target all the food stalls and stor- in the recently published “Power Development Strategy and Qatar subsidiaries and associate compa- is stored and distributed in the proper age facilities in Industrial Area. The Hour”, a list of 60 most powerful National Vision 2030, noted the nies now extends to more than 30 way, the municipality said yesterday. municipality has asked the public to urban and real estate development magazine. countries across three continents The inspection campaign also get their animals slaughtered only companies in the region, by Con- Sheikh Thani expressed his hap- providing a comprehensive range targets men’s and women’s salons, at the authorised abattoirs. struction Business News ME. piness for what he described as a of advanced products and serv- which attract a large number of cus- The Al Rayyan municipality has SAK Holding Group has a great new breakthrough for SAK Hold- ices. The total number of employees tomers during the holidays. About 28 also increased the number of veter- aptitude for initiatives and innova- ing Group. Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al exceeds 27,300 operating through veterinary doctors from the health inarians at the two abattoirs in the tions in the field of construction and Thani, Chairman of the Board of more than 1,200 locations, with a unit of the municipality will monitor all municipality, an official has said. real estate investment, in reference → Continued on page 4 Directors of SAK. network of more than 4,300 ATMs. Sheep at subsidised rate from September 4 Caution on forged Haj visas QNA entry ports to check visas and other related documents of pilgrims. The The Peninsula initiative. The sale will continue till the slaughterhouses of the company the Ministry said in a press release experts cited the Cairo airport case. the third day of Eid Al Adha, possibly in Al Khor, Al Shamal and Al Mazroua. yesterday. An international gang based in September 13. The sheep are imported from Jor- The Ministry indicated that its RIYADH: The Ministry of Haj and China, Turkey and Cairo stole the The Ministry said it has agreed dan and beneficiaries must be Qatari contract with Widam requires the Umrah of Saudi Arabia discovered Haj visa quota of Egypt and granted DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and with Widam Food Company to sell citizens not less than 18 years. They company not to sell skinny or physi- that an international ring has forged visas to foreigners for large sums Commerce (MEC) has said it will start the sheep to nationals at a price of must show their original ID at the cally weak sheep or sheep not fitting Haj visas for the current year, an of money, according to the Saudi selling subsidised sheep from Sep- QR1,100 per sheep at special outlets sale point and not more than one Adha conditions in accordance with official source has said. daily Arab News. The gang mem- tember 4 as part of the Eid Al Adha in the central market in Doha and at sheep will be sold to a customer, Shariah. The ministry has issued a warning bers were eventually arrested and to countries that received Haj quo- turned over to the authorities con- tas for the current year to remain cerned in Egypt. vigilant against forged visas, said Nasser Al Arifi, professor of the source. “The registration of Haj criminal psychology and head of Al Attiyah reigns supreme in Poland passport with the Saudi Ministry academic studies at the King Fahd of Foreign Affairs website is auto- Security College, said the Kingdom matically read and the information is interested in services and facili- is passed to the electronic reader,” he ties to pilgrims. “In this regard, the added. Kingdom harnesses the work of Meanwhile, security experts employees of ministries and vari- stressed the importance of remain- ous sectors to ensure a successful ing alert at the sea, air and land Haj pilgrimage.”

Turkish army thrusts deeper into Syria Petrol cheaper by KARKAMIS, TURKEY: Turkey’s army and its allies thrust deeper into 5 dirhams in September Syria yesterday, seizing territory controlled by Kurdish-aligned forces on the fifth day of a cross-border campaign that a monitoring group said had DOHA: Petrol prices will fall by 5 dirhams per litre killed at least 35 villagers. from September 1, according to the monthly price Turkish warplanes roared into northern Syria at daybreak and artil- list issued by the Ministry of Energy and Indus- lery pounded what security sources said were sites held by the Kurdish try yesterday. YPG militia, after the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported fierce Petrol (Super) will be priced QR1.40 per litre overnight fighting around two villages. during September, and petrol (premium) will cost Turkey said 25 Kurdish militants were killed in its air strikes and denied QR 1.30 per litre. Their current prices (for August) there were civilian casualties. There was no immediate comment from the are QR1.45 and QR 1.35 (per litre), respectively. Qatar’s Nasser bin Saleh Al Attiyah on the way to victory in the final round of Baja YPG, but forces aligned with the group have said it had withdrawn from Prices of diesel remain unchanged at QR1.40 Poland, in Szczecin, Poland, yesterday. Al Attiyah took unassailable lead in FIA World the area prior to the assault. per litre during September. Cup Drivers’ Challenge with the win. → See also page 24 Turkey, which is also battling Kurdish insurgents at home, sent tanks and troops into Syria on Wednesday to support its Syrian rebel allies. 02 MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 HOME Premier visits Kuwait; holds talks with officials

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DOHA: Kuwait’s Emir H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah yesterday met Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdul- lah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani at Bayan Palace in capital Kuwait City. The Premier conveyed to Sheikh Sabah greetings and best wishes of Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and wishes of further progress and prosperity to the broth- erly Kuwaiti people. Sheikh Sabah entrusted the Pre- mier with his greetings and wishes to H H the Emir and wishes of fur- ther growth and prosperity to the Qatari people. LEFT: Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Talks dealt with fraternal rela- Thani with his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Jaber Al Mubarak Al Hamad Al Sabah. (TOP) tions between the two countries and ways of enhancing them. H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the Foreign Minister, and Prime Minister Kuwait’s Crown Prince Sheikh with Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al Khalid Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, Al Hamad Al Sabah. ministers and the Premier’s delega- tion were present. delegation and Kuwaiti ministers Talks dealt with cooperation and banquet hosted in his and his dele- delegation were welcomed at Kuwait Henzab and other officials. The Premier also met his coun- were present. means of enhancing it, especially in gation honour by the Deputy Prime International Airport by First Deputy Later, the Premier and his dele- terpart Sheikh Jaber Al Mubarak Al The Premier held a separate the field of joint security. Minister and Interior Minister at the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister gation returned to Doha. They were Hamad Al Sabah in Bayan Palace meeting with Deputy Prime Minis- The Premier’s delegation and ministry. Several Kuwaiti ministers Sheikh Sabah Al Khalid Al Hamad Al seen off by the Deputy Prime Minis- and reviewed brotherly relations ter and Minister of Interior Sheikh several Kuwaiti ministers were and officials were present. Sabah, the Deputy Prime Minister ter and Interior Minister, the Qatari between both countries and means Mohammad Al Khalid Al Hamad Al present. The Premier arrived in Kuwait and Interior Minister, Qatari Ambas- Ambassador and other officials at of enhancing them. The Premier’s Sabah at the Interior Ministry. The Premier attended a luncheon on an official visit. He and his sador to Kuwait Hamad bin Ali Al the airport. QDF and QRCS sign $12m deal to support Syrians

The Peninsula commitment and interest to help the will help alleviate the suffering of Al Naimi said: “We highly appre- victims of the current events in Syria, people affected by the severe events ciate our strategic partnership with and try to alleviate the difficulties in their country. The humanitarian QDF in humanitarian endeavours facing Syrians across the country. situation is made even worse by the in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and other DOHA: Qatar Development Fund The QDF grant will be used to continuing war and harsh living con- countries. “We reiterate our human- (QDF) and Qatar Red Crescent Society support Syrian people in various ditions.” He said the intervention is itarian commitment to permanent (QRCS) have signed a $12m agree- fields, including food security, agri- part of QDF’s comprehensive human- support of our Syrian brothers to mit- ment to relieve the Syrian people culture, basic needs, education, itarian plan for Syria this year. igate their suffering until the crisis amid persistent bad conditions and a health and shelter. The urgent relief Since last year, agreements have is over. We have several projects in deteriorating humanitarian situation. programme will be implemented been signed, including urgent relief Syria, covering primary and second- It was inked by Khalifa bin Jassim by QRCS, under a humanitar- for the beleaguered Aleppo, together ary healthcare, safety and security, Al Kuwari, Director-General, QDF, ian response plan supervised by with Qatari charities and financial food and shelter. We also care for and Fahad bin Mohamed Al Naimi, the Office for the Coordination of support for Humanitarian Pooled the Syrian refugees in Turkey, Leb- Executive Director, QRCS, Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Fund (HPF) to meet the critical needs anon, Jordan, and Iraqi Kurdistan,” Officials from Qatar Development Fund and Qatar Red Crescent Society The agreement represents Qatar’s Al Kuwari said, “The QDF grant of the Syrians. he added. exchanging documents. HOME MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 03

Qatar’s Haj Mission arrives in Makkah 20 QA flights a week to Riyadh from Thursday

DOHA: Qatar’s Haj mission yes- terday arrived in Makkah ahead “Increasing the number of QA of the arrival of first Qatari pil- flights to Riyadh means Saudi trav- grims at the holy sites. Passengers in Saudi Festival deals to inspire world explorers ellers have more convenient access The mission began work to Arabia to benefit to our rapidly expanding global net- create appropriate conditions for work. The increased capacity will the pilgrims from Qatar, including from increased The Peninsula boost the number of First Class seats citizens and residents, so that they connectivity to over between Riyadh and Doha, so more can perform Haj rituals easily and passengers from Saudi Arabia can comfortably. Through its com- 150 destinations enjoy our premium service and the mittees, the mission has begun on Qatar Airways’ DOHA: Qatar Airways’ (QA) popular Travel Festival is ultimate in luxury and elegance in preparations at the holy sites to network back, giving travellers across the world the opportunity the skies.” receive about 1,200 pilgrims from to enjoy dream deals to inspiring places. From Thursday, QA will add a Qatar, reports QNA. From today until September 5, the festival will third daily flight except Tuesday, take travellers to some of the world’s favourite holi- offering an increase from 14 to 20 Qatar attends Arab The Peninsula day destinations, with companion promotions offering flights weekly. two-for-one fares on Premium Class, and discounts of QA is one of the fastest growing League council meet up to 40 percent on all-inclusive return fares for travel airlines operating one of the young- between this September 15 until June 30 June next year*. est fleets in the world. In its 19th year DOHA: Qatar took part in the DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA) has The festival includes special deals for hotels and dis- of operations, the airline operates a preparatory meetings for the announced that it will operate 20 counted holiday extras such as car rental. our passengers will be able to choose from some more modern fleet of 190 aircraft across 98th ordinary session of the Eco- flights a week to and from Riyadh QA Privilege Club members will earn triple Qmiles incredible deals, empowering them to explore the world. six continents. nomic and Social Council of the from Thursday, increasing services for bookings during the festival. We want to inspire people to not only dream about trav- This year, travellers will con- Arab League, chaired by Tunisian by over 40 percent. Ehab Amin, Senior Vice-President, Commercial, elling, but also to make them a reality.” tinue to see QA expand its global representative Jamal Eifa. Passengers travelling into and GCC, Levant, Iran, Iraq, Yemen & Africa, QA, said: Offers throughout the festival will be applicable to reach, with over a dozen new des- The meeting discussed a out of Saudi Arabia will benefit from “The festival launched this January gave our custom- most of the destinations worldwide QA flies to. To avail tinations to explore. So far this social profile to be presented to greater connectivity to the award- ers a platform through which to enjoy some of the very the offers, customers can visit any QA sales office, their year, QA has launched routes to Los the council during its ministerial winning airline’s network of over 150 best deals available. This time throughout the festival, preferred travel agent or qatarairways.com/travelfestival Angeles, Boston and Atlanta (US); Bir- session on Thursday. destinations via its state-of-the-art mingham (UK); Yerevan (Armenia); Qatar is participating in the hub at Hamad International Airport Marrakech (Morocco); Pisa (Italy); meeting with a delegation, led by (HIA). This follows the announcement Saudi Arabia and, with the recent Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Africa, QA, said: Saudi Arabia to QA. We are proud to Ras Al Khaimah (UAE); and Sydney Ahmed Ahen, Director, Interna- that the airline is increasing flights to increase to four daily services to Jed- “Increasing our capacity to Riyadh serve eight destinations in the king- and Adelaide (Australia). New routes, tional Cooperation and Economic Medinah to three daily services from dah, will operate 143 flights a week. on top of our recently announced dom and sponsor Saudi Premier including Windhoek (Namibia), Hel- and Trade Agreements at the Min- Thursday. Ehab Amin, Senior Vice-Pres- frequency increases to Jeddah and League winners Al Ahli Saudi Ara- sinki (Finland), Krabi (Thailand) and istry of Economy and Commerce, QA now serves eight cities in ident, Commercial GCC, Levant, Medinah, reflects the importance of bia FC. Seychelles will follow later this year. reports QNA. Indian Embassy Open House RAF hands over 15 homes in Gaza

DOHA: The Indian Embassy will The Peninsula Palestinian Minister of Public Works and hold an Open House on Wednes- Housing, Mofeed Al Hasayneh, stressed the day to address any urgent importance of the project carried out with high consular and labour problems of “accuracy” and “transparency” and praised its nationals in Qatar. DOHA: Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Foundation Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, The Open House will be held for Humanitarian Services (RAF) has handed government and people for standing by their from 5.30pm to 6.30pm. over some 15 housing units of the ‘Houses of brothers in Palestine and supporting them Written information on issues/ Gaza People’ project to beneficiaries who lost through reconstruction projects, RAF said in cases proposed to be discussed their homes in recent Israeli aggression on Gaza a statement. with officials may be given from Strip. The project cost QR1.5m. At least 60 percent of the destroyed homes 5.30pm to 6pm. Meetings with Despite blockade imposed on Gaza, RAF have been rebuilt and over 130,000 homes officials will be held from 6pm implemented the project in collaboration with which had been damaged partially, were to 6.30pm. Salient information partners and delivered homes to beneficiaries repaired, in cooperation with institutions and would be sent to the media after during a ceremony attended by representatives authorities, particularly Qatar, Al Hasayneh the event. of public and private entities. added. Participants at the homes handover ceremony. 04 MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 HOME

Ooredoo App unveils QC begins ‘Feed the Pilgrims’ campaign new Passport features He said a person can donate to feed as many pilgrims as he wishes. QC allocates QR500,000 to He called on the people of Qatar to participate provide 33,000 meals to in the privilege of helping the pilgrims. for roaming customers The project will help pilgrims obtain food and pilgrims in several countries. be free for worship and revive the tradition of feed- ing people, especially during this sacred season The Peninsula service by selecting the country’s flag and in sacred place where good deeds are multi- in the top right hand corner of their plied in reward. screen. Customers who have sub- The Peninsula Donations can be made through the QC website scribed to Passport service before (qcharity.org) or its collection points and branches DOHA: Ooredoo yesterday travelling need to open the app and in Qatar, or through hotline 44667711. announced that the new Passport press the aeroplane icon in the top QC has also launched the Udhiya campaign for companion feature is available on left hand corner of the app interface DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has launched a “Feed Executive Management of Operations, QC, said this year, which seeks to provide 26,040 sacrifi- Ooredoo Mobile App. and check Passport balance. the Pilgrims” campaign to help thousands of through the project, QC provides an opportunity cial animals, including cows and sheep, to people The feature has been designed to Those who want to see all costs Haj pilgrims in many countries. It has allocated to all benevolent people to serve the pilgrims. in 37 countries in Asia, Africa and Europe. significantly improve user experience and options of roaming with Oore- QR500,000 for the project to provide 33,000 meals He said meals that meet health and nutrition It distributed 17,825 meals last year to pilgrims for roaming customers. Customers doo can select the new ‘Travelling’ to pilgrims, each meal costing QR15. standards can be guaranteed to be handed out to at a cost of QR445,622 as part of ‘Feed the Pilgrims’ using Ooredoo Passport service can tab to view the list of countries where Faisal Rashid Al Faheeda, Executive Director, the visitors of Allah during the Haj season. and ‘Substitutionary Haj’ projects. check their balance by sending an Passport service is available and SMS containing “Balance OPC” to 114. standard roaming rates per service With new updates, app customers in the country. will now see a new interface while Passport Companion tool is the launching the app abroad, and will be latest update to the app and will work Sewer Flow Diversion Scheme completed able to instantly see their remaining with all iOS 8 and above and Android passport balance for their selected 4.4.4 and above devices. “preferred number” (they can choose The app also allows users to under the apps settings). They can manage key Ooredoo services The Peninsula and reduce the possibility of mal- also check Passport balance of all directly their smartphones, includ- functions of equipment or rising numbers under their account. ing upgrading Shahry Smart bundles, mains that can impact the life of the All Ooredoo App users will be paying bills, topping up data and surrounding population. able to view the standard roaming much more. The app is available DOHA: The Sewer Flow Diversion In case of emergency, there are rates for calling and messaging in the for free download on Google Play Scheme from Al Jazeera Street in Bin “flow diversion chambers” adjacent country they are visiting and the net- or iTunes for customers who have Mahmoud to Al Maha Intersection to the pumping stations to control works compatible with the Passport. iOS 8 and above and Android 4.4.4 at GCC Street has been completed sewerage distribution by allowing Users can also subscribe to Passport smartphones. as planned, Public Works Authority diversion to the alternative Waste (Ashghal), said yesterday. Water Treatment Plants (WWTPs) The upgrade, which started in in the north, south or west of Doha. December 2013 and was completed The QR66m project would corre- this July, involved decommission- spond to accelerating development in 250kg of chicken destroyed ing of pumping stations to collect Msheireb and Bin Mahmoud, accom- and divert sewerage flows through modating huge amounts of sewage pumping stations 5 and 31. discharge since the new pipes are DOHA: The Health Monitoring Section at Umm Salal Municipality The decommissioned stations installed with a better flow capacity. The built-in pipe levels being checked. destroyed 250kg of chicken whose manufacturing date had expired. included the temporary pump- The new system was built with- Meanwhile, Al Wakrah Municipality destroyed 40kg of fish found ing station in Msheireb, PS 4 at Al out any conflicts with present and unfit for human consumption. A veterinary doctor disclosed the quan- Bidda Park project land, PS 15/1 near future major projects. The project flow away from the pedestrian tun- diameter interceptor sewer about tity to inspectors who had visited the fish market. Hamad Medical City, PS 26T and ensured that sewer lines do not con- nels and provides future connections 4km long and a new 800mm diam- Al Khor-Al Dakhira Municipality, in collaboration with the Public PS 26 near the Tennis and Squash flict with Road Tunnel projects. to serve the drainage network for Al eter main sewer of about 1.2km. Parks Department, removed garbage dumped in open space near a gas Complex. It also enables construction of Bidaa Park project. The project included construction pipeline, and put signs in three languages to inform people not throw Such reconfigurations would cut pedestrian tunnels for Al Bidaa Metro Micro-tunnelling technique of 200mm and 400mm diameter waste in there. costs of operation and maintenance Station by diverting the sewerage was used to build a new 1,200mm sewer lines and other works.

Media Plus bids farewell to senior official SAK achieves major milestone Continued from page 1 “We are proud of the review that was published by the magazine, one of the economic media entities spe- Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani said: “We man- cialised in monitoring building and construction and aged to create a balance between our goals and the real estate development. We appreciate their trans- market’s true requirements, the difficult equation we parency, we consider this an opportunity to address all have been committed to throughout our long history components of SAK Holding Group and its subsidiaries, filled with achievements. Today we achieved a new mile- senior management, manager, employees and work- stone in the Power Hour list of the 60 most powerful ers, to encourage them to exert further and maintain urban development and construction companies in the the leadership of our group,” he added. Middle East, for the second year in a row. Jason O’Connell, Senior Editor, Construction Busi- “Our group maintained its leading rank among Qatari ness News — Middle East, said: “The list is issued this companies operating in the real estate and urban devel- year amid questions about hard conditions facing the Media Plus bid farewell to one of its senior-most staff Adul Fathah Nilambur. Fathah was in the opment sector, based on an honest and impartial review sector suffering from turbulences and volatile conditions launch team of the company and served as marketing coordinator for about 10 years. CEO Amanulla that studied objectively and professionally our history for over five years. A team of expert editors scrutinised Vadakkangara praised his contribution to building the company a leading player in the industry. Acon and achievements for over 50 years, which formed a real activities and performance of corporations over months Group Ventures Chairman Shukkur Kinalur presented a gift to Fathah. addition to our constant economic development in our and focused on its perseverance and continuousness beloved country Qatar. based on transparent objective criteria.” Traffic diversion on several streets in Industrial Area

The Peninsula to West Industrial Street and Streets 655, 657 and 659 will be open in both directions to access residen- tial buildings and businesses. DOHA: The Public Works Author- The diversion is to facilitatre ity (Ashghal) has announced that works to upgrade Doha’s Indus- streets 658, 656, 654 and 660 in trial Area Package 2 to increase the Doha Industrial Area will be closed capacity of roads and provide full from this evening for a year. integrated infrastructure. Ashghal One lane will remain open to urged road users to abide by speed traffic on Street 653 in the direction limits and traffic signs for safety. Fees part of HIA expansion

Continued from page 1 the country have already received a circular from Infants under two Qatar Airways and other years without a seat and airlines informing about transit passengers who the new fee. The agents do not require an aircraft say the new fee will be change and involuntary mentioned in the air rerouting have been ticket in the same way exempted from the new as other charges. fee. “We are upgrading “The charge is in line the system to issue tickets with ICAO principles to so that the new fee can be support the develop- automatically included ment of world’s leading while issuing tickets,” airports such as HIA to said a travel consultant. further increase the air- “The new fee will be port’s capacity and invest added to the ticket fare. in new infrastructure and For example, if the fare state-of-the-art technol- is QR1,000, with the new ogy to deliver world-class fee, it will cost QR1,035 facilities for passengers,” for every passenger trav- added the statement. elling from December 1,” Travel agents across she added. MIDDLE EAST MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 05

Houthis ready for 28 soldiers dead in Sirte battle against IS talks if attacks stop

Agencies Sarraj and the guards of oil instal- IS captured the lations that IS has repeatedly tried to seize. Ahead of yester- Mediterranean day’s assault, they prepared their SANA’A: Yemen’s Houthi-run governing coun- city in June 2015, tanks for inspection, cleaned their cil said yesterdaay it was ready to restart peace weapons and deployed on the out- talks with the country’s exiled government sparking fears skirts of Sirte and around the two provided the coalition stopped attacking and they would use it districts. besieging Houthi-held territories. “I’m cleaning my weapon... UN-sponsored negotiations to end 18 months as a launchpad for and getting it ready for the deci- of fighting in the impoverished country on Saudi attacks on Europe. sive battle,” one fighter, Osama Arabia’s southern border collapsed earlier this Mohammad Mosbah, said. month and the dominant Iran-allied Houthi “We hope that God will help movement there resumed shelling attacks into us defeat them,” he said of IS. Sirte the kingdom. At its weekly meeting at Sanaa’s Agencies had been tense but calm since presidential palace, the council said that its will- Thursday. But fighting erupted ingness to restart peace talks was contingent on Saturday on the edges of district the “total cessation of the aggression and lift- SIRTE, LIBYA: At least 28 Libyan number one between the jihad- ing of the unjust siege on the Yemeni people”. fighters were killed and more than ists and loyalist forces armed with In talks in Jeddah this week, US Secretary of 180 wounded yesterday as they machineguns and rocket launch- State John Kerry said the conflict had gone on advanced on the final Islamic State ers, a reporter said. too long and needed to end. He said the Houthis (IS) militant holdouts in the coastal Pro-GNA snipers deployed must cease shelling across the border with Saudi city of Sirte, according to a hospi- on the roofs of buildings whose Arabia, pull back from the capital Sana’a, cede tal casualty list. facades were still painted with their weapons and enter into a unity govern- Forces aligned with Libya’s the jihadists’ black flag, and used ment with their domestic foes. UN-backed government, sup- binoculars to scan their surround- ported since August 1 by US air ings for IS fighters. strikes, have pushed militants More than 370 pro-GNA fight- back into a small residential area ers have been killed and nearly Iraq continues in central Sirte during a three 2,000 wounded in the battle for month campaign. Heavy fighting Sirte since May, according to med- Mosul push Members of the forces loyal to Libya’s UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) fire their resumed yesterday after a one- ical sources. IS casualty figures week lull. weapons at enemy positions, in the coastal city of Sirte, east of the capital Tripoli, yesterday. are unavailable. Analysts say that BAGHDAD: Iraq’s security forces continue to The battle for the hometown ousting the jihadists from Libya gear up for a long-awaited operation to retake of Libya’s slain dictator Muammar would be a symbolic boost for the the Islamic State-held city of Mosul. But they will Gaddafi was launched more than the pro-GNA forces said on Sun- artillery, he said. The bodies of two have backed the assault to expel country’s fragile unity govern- be doing so without the minister of defence who three months ago by forces loyal day, using an Arabic acronym for IS fighters lay on a street inside IS from Sirte, and as of August 24, ment but not an end to unrest in has presided over most of the military’s recent to the Tripoli-based Government IS. “The final battle for Sirte has district number one, he said, add- they had carried out 82 strikes, the North African nation. successes against IS. of National Accord. started,” Reda Issa said of the city ing that black smoke was rising according to the US Africa IS could launch more scattered Khaled Al Obeidi was abruptly dismissed by IS captured the Mediterranean 450km east of Tripoli. from both districts. Command. attacks across Libya, they say. a parliamentary no-confidence vote on Thursday city in June 2015, sparking fears About 1,000 pro-GNA fighters The pro-GNA forces said on The pro-GNA forces fought The jihadist group took advan- after weeks of political wrangling over dueling they would use it as a launchpad were taking part in the offensive, Facebook the offensive came their way into Sirte on June 9 tage of chaos in Libya since the allegations of corruption with the parliament for attacks on Europe. he said. “after air strikes overnight” and as and two months later seized the 2011 uprising that toppled and speaker Salim Al Jabouri. The allegations of cor- Earlier this month, the pro- A photographer saw several they pressed the assault the jihad- jihadists’ headquarters at the Oua- killed Gaddafi, where rival mili- ruption were quickly exploited by a handful of GNA forces seized the jihadists’ tanks and armed vehicles move ists countered with car bombs. gadougou conference centre. tias and authorities have vied for Iraq’s powerful political blocs looking to weaken headquarters in Sirte, pinning towards district number one and “The Daesh gangs committed But their advance has been control of the oil-rich country. Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi by removing one them down in a small downtown heard gunfire and rocket explo- mass suicide today when they slowed by snipers, suicide bomb- A UN-brokered deal struck of his key Sunni allies. Neither Al Jabouri’s nor area near the sea. sions as they entered the northern sent five car bombs and a sui- ings and booby traps. in December led to Sarraj’s unity Al Obeidi’s allegations of corruption have been “Our forces entered the last neighbourhood. cide bomber to try and stop our Loyalist forces are mostly mili- government taking office in the publicly proven. areas held by Daesh in Sirte: dis- “Fierce street battles” were advancing forces,” a statement tias from western cities that have capital, but it has since struggled Al Obeidi’s removal came just over a month trict number one and district taking place with pro-GNA forces said without elaborating. sided with the unity government of to fully assert its authority. after the minister of interior’s resignation was number three,” a spokesman for using weaponry including heavy Since August 1, US warplanes prime minister-designate Fayez Al accepted, leaving Iraq without two key security. Iran says ‘nuclear spy’ arrested, bailed

AFP Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie as whether the dual national and the saying at his weekly press confer- British-Iranian were the same per- ence. “But the charge against him son. Iran does not recognise dual has not been proven yet.” nationality and treats those arrested TEHRAN: Iran has arrested a “spy” On August 16, the Tehran pros- as Iranian citizens only. involved in the nuclear negotiations ecutor announced the arrest of a Without naming or giving the with world powers but has not yet British-Iranian on suspicion of links gender of the accused, Tehran prose- formally charged the suspect, the to Britain’s intelligence service. cutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said on judiciary’s spokesman told report- Iranian media outlets have August 16 the suspect was “active in ers yesterday. reported that a dual national identi- the field of the Iranian economy, and “(News of) the arrest of the infil- fied as Abdolrasoul Dorri Esfahani, a was linked to the British espionage trating spy is true. Legal action has senior accountant involved in bank- service”. However, the Isna news been instigated against him and ing-related aspects of the nuclear agency said the accused was not a he has been released on bail,” the talks, has been arrested for espi- member of the negotiating team or official Irna news agency quoted onage. But it remained unclear the foreign ministry.

No surrender to terrorism: Erdogan

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ANKARA: Turkey will not surrender to terrorism, Pres- ident Recep Tayyip Erdogan said from the southeastern city hit by a suicide bomb attack last week. Addressing a crowd in central Gaziantep — where 54 guests at a wed- ding party, including 34 children, were killed on Aug. 20 — he said: “These betray- ers will be drowned in the blood they shed… Turkey has not and will not surrender to any terrorist organizations or terror methods.” The Gaziantep attack has been linked to Daesh but Erdogan said all ter- ror groups served the same purpose. “We know the same face is behind all of them,” he said. Tur- key currently faces attacks from Daesh as well as the PKK and is engaged in supporting the Free Syr- ian Army against the PKK/PYD in Syria. “Tur- key has no toleration for any terrorist organisa- tion activities within its borders and nearby,” the president told the flag- waving crowd. 06 MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 ASIA / AFRICA Nigeria’s leader ‘prepared’ for talks with Boko Haram

international outcry. Buhari added: the militant group blamed for the “If [Boko Haram] do not want to bombings, that it would agree to a Buhari says he is talk to us directly, let them pick an dialogue the president said the gov- ready to secure the internationally recognised non- ernment is also open to discussions. governmental organisation (NGO), “We do not believe that they release of over 200 convince them that they are holding [the militants] have announced a abducted schoolgirls the girls and that they want Nigeria ceasefire. We are trying to under- to release a number of Boko Haram stand them more. Who are their by all means possible, leaders in detention, which they are leaders and which areas do they including cutting supposed to know. operate and other relevant issues,” a deal with their “If they do it through the ‘mod- Buhari added. ified leadership’ of Boko Haram Buhari also said that Boko Boko Haram captors and they talk with an internation- Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is through neutral ally recognized NGO then Nigeria “wounded”, in his first comments on will be prepared to discuss … their military claims that the jihadi leader negotiators. release,” Buhari said. was injured in an attack. However, the Nigerian leader Nigeria’s armed forces said stated he would not commit on Tuesday that Shekau had been Gabonese opposition leader Jean Ping (centre) gestures to calm down his supporters outside his party resources to “doubtful sources” wounded in an air strike on Boko Anatolia claiming to have links with the mil- Haram’s forest stronghold, but headquarters in Libreville yesterday after a press conference. itants or know the whereabouts of released no further statement or the girls. “We want those girls out evidence confirming his condition. and safe. The faster we can recover “We learnt that in an air strike LAGOS: Nigeria’s President Muham- them and hand them over to their by the Nigeria Air Force he was Gabon rivals claim vote victory madu Buhari said yesterday that parents, the better for us,” the pres- wounded,” Buhari said in a state- he is ready to secure the release of idential statement added. ment from Nairobi, where he is over 200 abducted schoolgirls by all Buhari also acknowledged divi- attending a development conference. Agencies “We are already on our way to After surveying the results of means possible, including cutting a sions within the group, claiming the “Indeed their top hierarchy and a second term, pending confirma- about 40 percent of ballots cast, deal with their Boko Haram captors infighting, along with sustained mil- lower cadre have a problem,” Buhari tion by relevant authorities,” Alain Ping attracted 68 percent of the through neutral negotiators. itary attacks on their bases, had seen said. “They are not holding any ter- Claude Bilie-By-Nze, a spokesman vote, Gabonreview reported, citing “The government which I pre- hordes of militants surrendering to ritory and they have split to small LIBREVILLE: Gabon’s two main for the Bongo campaign, said at a a statement released by the candi- side over is prepared to talk to bona the government while territories groups attacking soft targets.” presidential candidates each claimed news conference after voting ended date’s campaign. fide leaders of Boko Haram,” a state- earlier held by Boko Haram have Buhari said that Shekau had victory and accused one another of on Saturday, the Gabonreview.com “It is the first time we hear that ment from his office quoted Buhari been liberated. been “edged out” of the group, add- cheating as counting of election news service reported. “We noted authorities which organise elections as saying. Although it is not the first “The person known in Nigeria ing credence to claims that Islamic votes started in the oil-rich nation, massive fraud in particular areas complain of fraud,” Ping’s campaign time the Nigerian government has as their leader, we understand was State (IS)-appointed Abu Musab Al according to Gabonreview.com. where the opposition representa- said in the statement. “All Gabonese offered to talk to the militant group, edged out and the Nigerian mem- Barnawi was now in charge of the The election pit President Ali tives could arrive first at the polls.” provinces are celebrating in jubila- it is the first time specific details on bers of Boko Haram started turning insurgency. Bongo, who’s seeking a second Bongo, 57, was first elected four tion the victory of Jean Ping.” acceptable go-betweens have been themselves to the Nigerian military,” Signs of a power struggle in the seven-year term, against Jean Ping, months after the 2009 death in office An oil producer with a tiny pop- released. Buhari said. top echelons of the jihadi group a former chairman of the African of his father, Omar Bongo, who was ulation of less than 2 million, Gabon The offer also comes amid a Buhari also touched on resurgent appeared earlier this month when Union Commission, who broke with at the time the world’s longest-serv- is one of Africa’s richest countries. widely reported split within Boko violence in the oil-rich delta region Shekau released a video denying he the ruling Gabonese Democratic ing president in a reign that started Declining oil output and fall- Haram over the group’s leader- where other militants’ sabotage of had been ousted. Barnawi is believed Party in 2014. in 1967. The US State Department, ing prices however have resulted ship. In April 2014 hundreds of pipelines has cut production and to be the 22-year-old son of Boko Eleven other candidates were in a message warning citizens of in budget cuts and provided fodder young female students in Chibok, revenue by more than half. Haram founder Mohammed Yusuf on the ballot in the central African possible post-election demonstra- for opposition claims that average Borno State, were taken captive Apparently reacting to state- and was announced as the group’s nation that rejoined the Opec this tions in Gabon, said results may be Gabonese have struggled under Bon- by Boko Haram, prompting an ments by the Niger Delta Avengers, leader in August by IS. year amid a slump in oil revenue. announced as early tonight. go’s leadership.

Indonesia steps Balancing act 41 locally-transmitted up efforts to stop smog Zika cases in Singapore

Anatolia AFP Singapore”, the statement said. The health ministry said it has alerted clinics and hospitals to be TUBAN: Indonesia says it is step- “extra vigilant” and report patients ping up efforts to clamp down on SINGAPORE: Singapore yesterday with symptoms associated with the forest and land fires as neighbors confirmed 41 locally-transmitted virus, mainly fever and rash. Singapore and Malaysia continue cases of the Zika virus, which can Health Minister Gan Kim Yong to suffer their annual smoky haze. cause deformities in unborn babies, told local media more imported Minister of Forestry and Envi- and said more infections are likely. cases are likely because Singapore ronment Siti Nurbaya said the A day after announcing its first is an international travel hub. country had been placed under locally transmitted case, that of a And because many Zika carriers emergency with regards to antic- 47-year-old Malaysian woman res- display only mild symptoms or no ipating and preventing the impact ident, the government reported 40 symptoms at all—meaning infected of smoke emanating from the fires. more — mostly foreign workers at people may not seek treatment — “In the morning, afternoon a construction site. local transmission of these imported and evening, we kept monitoring All 41 are residents or workers cases “is also very high”, he said. the situation and as soon as we in a particular suburban residential Health officials said the cur- detected a fire, we immediately and industrial district, the Minis- rent infections came to light after a acted to put it out. As a result, try of Health and the National local clinic on August 22 reported A man performs tightrope walk in Qingtongxia, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China. the number of fires this year has Environment Agency said in a joint an unusual rise in viral fever. This dropped sharply by 70 to 90 per- statement. “They are not known prompted a check by health minis- cent,” Nurbaya said during a visit to have travelled to Zika-affected try experts, who told doctors to refer to the Tanah Laut district in South areas recently, and are thus likely new cases to the government-run Kalimantan, which last year was to have been infected in Singapore,” Communicable Diseases Centre. cloaked in smoke from peatland the statement said. The National Environment fires for weeks. N Korea rejects UN Council’s condemnation “This confirms that local trans- Agency has deployed more than On Friday, a thin cloak of haze mission of Zika virus infection has 200 officers to inspect and destroy hung over Singapore, with the taken place.” It said that at this point possible mosquito breeding sites in environment agency reporting AFP on Friday to “take further significant defying its serious warning, it will the community transmission of the the area. According to the statement, that its pollution Index had hit the measures” against North Korea, just continue to take a series of eventful virus appears to be localised within 36 of the 41 cases involve foreign “unhealthy” level, while Malaysia days after the SLBM launch. action steps as a full-fledged mil- the Aljunied Crescent and Sims Drive labourers working at a construc- is reported to have been feeling A spokesman for the North’s itary power,” the spokesman said. area, which hosts high-rise residen- tion site in the area. the effects of the smog since mid- SEOUL: North Korea hit back yes- foreign ministry labelled the UN “The DPRK has substantial tial blocs and some industries. Work was halted at the site August. The burn off is still to beat terday at a UN Security Council statement a “product of brigandish means capable of reducing aggres- However, since Zika is spread on Saturday after an inspection the effects of last year, however, statement condemning its latest acts of the US” and said Washington sion troops in the US mainland and by the Aedes mosquito — which by environment agency officers when 261,000 hectares were test-firing of a submarine-launched had ignored a warning about “hurt- the operation theatre in the Pacific also carries the dengue virus — discovered that housekeeping burned, causing billions of dol- ballistic missile, and threatened to ing its dignity.” to ashes in a moment,” the spokes- the health ministry “cannot rule out was “unsatisfactory with poten- lars in economic losses. According take further steps as “a full-fledged “Now that the US posed threats man added in a statement carried further community transmission... tial breeding habitats favourable to Indonesia’s forestry ministry, military power”. to the dignity and the right to exist- by the North’s official KCNA news since some of those tested positive to mosquito breeding”, the state- about 2,800 hectares have been The 15-member Council agreed ence of the DPRK (North Korea) agency. also live or work in other parts of ment added. burned so far this year. The government has been stepping up efforts to clamp down on agricultural conglomerates and small-time farmers’ technique of Bangladesh hunts more extremists ahead of Kerry visit “slash-and-burn”, which involves cutting down vegetation and then burning off the undergrowth to make space for new plantations. AFP Saturday, killing three suspected The Islamic State group claimed capture and eliminate other extrem- democracy, development, security The country is reported to Islamists including the Bangladesh- responsibility for the July 1 seige of ists including Zia,” assistant inspector and human rights”, a senior State have made 454 arrests in con- born Canadian accused of organising the upmarket Dhaka cafe in which general of police, Mohammad Department official said. nection with the fires already this last month’s attack that killed 22 peo- gunmen held hostage mainly West- Moniruzzaman, said. Bangladesh police hailed Sat- year. The head of the country’s DHAKA: Bangladesh police yesterday ple, mostly foreigners. ern diners including one American, Kerry is set to arrive in Bangla- urday’s raid as a major blow to National Disaster Management said they were hunting more extremist Authorities say that after return- before killing them. desh today on his first official visit to extremists in the Muslim-majority Agency, Willem Rampangilei, said leaders after shooting dead the sus- ing from Canada in 2013, Tamim But police say the homegrown try to deepen cooperation on coun- country, which has been reeling from a total of 18 helicopters and planes pected mastermind of a deadly cafe Chowdhury led a faction of the JMB, which has pledged allegiance ter-terrorism and other issues. the recent killings. The cafe attack were mobilised to support the attack, on the eve of US Secretary of banned militant group Jamayetul to the IS group, was behind the raid. He will meet Prime Minister has prompted foreigners to leave blackout in six provinces which State John Kerry’s first visit. Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), They deny the presence of interna- Sheikh Hasina and hold talks with Bangladesh — sparking worries for have established emergency sta- Security forces stormed a mil- blamed for a series of recent attacks tional jihadist groups. his counterpart Mahmood Ali “on its garment industry, the world’s sec- tus for the fires. itant hideout outside Dhaka on on religious minorities. “We’re hopeful we can now a broad range of issues including ond largest after China. ASIA / PHILIPPINES MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 07

Daesh-linked group frees Stormclouds in Manila 23 from jail in Philippines

by the military, had been launched, shirts similar to beheading victims and authorities are reported to be of the Islamic State group. About 50 heavily investigating why security had not A number of armed groups in armed fighters of the been increased after such high-risk the southern Philippines, including suspects were brought in. some commanders of the violent Maute militant group Minda News quoted the regional Abu Sayyaf, have pledged loyalty to stormed the Lanao police director of the Autonomous the Islamic State group. The military Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), has tried to play down their actions, del Sur provincial jail Chief Supt. Agripino Javier, as saying saying there has been no evidence in Marawi city before that the suspects “escaped through of an active collaboration between nightfall on Saturday, motorized boat and fled in an the foreign extremists and Filipino unknown direction”. militants who are aiming to prop up disarmed the guards Army spokesman Brig Gen their image and secure badly needed and rescued their Restituto Padilla said that photo- funds amid years of battle setbacks. graphs of the escapees have been President Rodrigo Duterte, who eight comrades. distributed to government secu- took office in June, has pursued rity forces, who have been placed peace talks with two large Muslim on high alert. “We have raised the rebel groups, but has ordered troops Dark stormclouds are seen over the Manila skyline yesterday. Cloudy skies with light to moderate rains alert level among security forces in to destroy the Abu Sayyaf and other Agencies Mindanao. The identities and pho- hard-line militants. and isolated thunderstorms are forecast over the Philippine capital due to the southwest monsoon, tographs of those behind the attack Troops have continued on-and- according to data from the weather bureau. have been distributed to check- off offensives against the Maute points,” Padilla said. militants in Butig in Lanao del Sur, CAGAYAN DE ORO: A Daesh-linked The eight — three of them a predominantly Muslim province, group freed eight fellow militants women — were arrested on August about 830km south of Manila. in a daring attack that also allowed 22 after soldiers manning an army A major offensive against the 15 other inmates to escape from a checkpoint found improvised bombs Abu Sayyaf in Sulu province’s moun- Drug users aren’t human: Duterte provincial jail in the southern Phil- and pistols in a vehicle they were tainous Patikul town, also in the ippines, police said yesterday. driving. The others who escaped, south, has killed at least 19 militants, About 50 heavily armed fighters apparently to divert the attention including an influential commander, of the Maute militant group stormed of authorities, were facing murder Mohammad Said, who used the nom AFP the United Nations’ concerns over a war without killing,” Duterte said, the Lanao del Sur provincial jail in and illegal drugs charges. de guerre Amah Maas, his two sons, human rights in his country. adding that many drug users were Marawi city before nightfall Sat- The Maute group is a new band and another ranking fighter, Latip “Crime against humanity? In beyond rehabilitation. His remarks urday, disarmed the guards and of armed radicals who have pledged Sapie, military officials said. the first place, I’d like to be frank came after various UN officials, rescued their eight comrades. The allegiance to the Islamic State group Said had been implicated in the MANILA: Philippine President Rod- with you: Are they humans? What including Secretary-General Ban Ki- attackers also seized two rifles from and use black flags with logos of the kidnappings of several Filipinos and rigo Duterte, who is waging a war on is your definition of a human moon in June condemned his apparent guards, police said. Middle East-based extremists. foreigners. He had good ties with the crime, has justified the large-scale being?” he told soldiers while vis- support for extra-judicial killings. Local news site Inquirer quoted Based in Lanao del Sur’s Butig Moro National Liberation Front, a killing of drug users by suggesting iting an army camp, according to The UN special rapporteur on Senior Supt Agustine Tello, the Lanao town, the militants have attacked larger rebel group that has engaged the victims were not human. transcripts of his speech released summary executions, Agnes Cal- del Sur police director, as saying that army troops and beheaded a soldier in peace talk with the government, Duterte, who has seen about afterwards. lamard, said earlier this month that personnel manning the jail were and two kidnapped workers earlier but has been suspected of providing 2,000 people killed since he was “Human rights? Use it properly his directives “amount to incitement overpowered by the attackers this year. Before being killed, the two sanctuary and combat support to the elected in May, made the remarks in the right context if you have the to violence and killing, a crime under He added that a manhunt, backed workers were made to wear orange more brutal Abu Sayyaf in the past. late on Friday as he shrugged off brains,” he added. “You cannot wage international law”. Indonesian teen held on China names suspicion of terror attack new chief for Tibet in party AFP The priest suffered slight inju- reshuffle ries and has been taken to hospital for treatment. A picture of the attacker’s ID card Reuters MEDAN: A knife-wielding man circulating online said he was Mus- stabbed a Catholic priest and tried to lim. Churchgoers quickly caught the set off an explosive device at a church attacker and called the police. BEIJING: China’s ruling Commu- in Indonesia yesterday, police said, An eyewitness, Markus Harianto nist Party appointed a new senior the latest attack on religious minor- Manullan, said the assailant wore a official yesterday to run Tibet, ities in the mainly Muslim country. jacket and carried a bag. considered one of the country’s Priest Albert Pandiangan was “He sat in the same row as I most politically sensitive posi- holding a mass in the city of Medan did... I saw him fiddling with some- tions due to periodic anti-Chinese on the western island of Sumatra thing in his jacket, and then I heard unrest in the devoutly Buddhist when a young man approached him a small explosion and he immedi- Himalayan region. and stabbed him in his left arm, said ately ran to the podium,” Manullan Xinhua news agency named local chief detective Nur Fallah. said. Police are still investigating the Wu Yingjie as Tibet’s next party The attacker was carrying a man’s motive. secretary. New leaders were also homemade explosive device, said In recent years there have been appointed in two other key prov- Fallah. “Somebody tried to kill the a number of attacks on religious inces, part of a broad reshuffle priest by pretending to attend the minorities and others in Indonesia. A ahead of an important party meet- church service and at that time tried suicide attack in the Indonesian cap- ing next year. to explode something, like a fire- ital in January killed four attackers Wu has worked almost his Indonesian anti-bomb squad carries an explosive from the Santo Yosef church after a man tried to attack cracker, but the firecracker didn’t and four civilians, including a West- entire career in Tibet, according to explode, it only fumed,” Fallah said. erner, and injured 19. a priest in Medan yesterday. his official resume, having previ- ously served as a deputy governor and propaganda chief, among other roles. Wu, like his predecessor Chen Quanguo, belongs to China’s major- Volunteers give kiss of life as Laos road deaths mount ity Han Chinese ethnic group. Communist troops marched in and took control of Tibet in 1950 in what Beijing calls a “peaceful lib- AFP tuk-tuks. That’s obviously disastrous stark illustration of how public serv- face shortages. At Vientiane Rescue 24, began volunteering after she was eration”. Tibetan spiritual leader for those with fractures or trauma,” ices in communist Laos are largely bandages are washed and re-used, involved in a motorbike accident and the Dalai Lama fled to India in explained Sébastien Perret, a French nascent or non-existent despite being while several of their ambulances are had to make her own way to hospital. 1959 following a failed uprising national and former firefighter who one of Asia’s fastest growing econo- crudely converted cars. The service “After that I decided to become a against the Chinese. VIENTIANE: “Look at me, stay with helped found the group. mies over the last decade. operates 24-hours a day, seven days a volunteer. I spend most of my nights China says its rule has bought us,” the paramedics shout as a barely Poorly maintained roads, dilap- In the 1990s the country’s rulers week and has also recently expanded here,” she said in a short break prosperity and stability, reject- conscious motorcyclist is bundled idated vehicles, an increase in abandoned free healthcare alto- into firefighting teams and special- between emergencies. She admits ing claims from Tibetan exiles into a volunteer ambulance in the motorcycle use and the widespread gether, meaning ordinary citizens ists to counter drownings. that like many compatriots she used and rights groups of widespread Laotian capital Vientiane, where prevalence of drink driving makes must fend for themselves when they Most of those volunteering are to regularly drink and drive. But no repression. Xinhua said new party rampant drink driving brings nightly Vientiane one of Asia’s most precar- get ill. Since 2000, Laos’ GDP has students who are sent to Thailand more. “And I’ve calmed down since,” bosses had also been appointed to carnage to the roads. ious capitals for road deaths. increased 12 times, reaching $12.3bn for first aid training. Mee Thevanh, she said. serve in the strategically located It is a grim scene familiar the The government keeps few statis- in 2015. But the country currently southwestern province of Yunnan world over. But in Laos, an impov- tics, but Perret’s group says demand has one of the world’s lowest spends and the populous southern prov- erished and authoritarian communist for their services has jumped 30 on healthcare. ince of Hunan. country with almost no state-funded percent in the last year alone. “We In recent years it has averaged In Yunnan, which sits of the medical services, these kind of vital undertake around 20 to 30 call outs just 0.5 percent of GDP according to borders of Myanmar, Laos and lifesavers are volunteers and entirely a day. And in 90 percent of cases it is the World Bank. In contrast, simi- Vietnam, Chen Hao replaced Li funded by donations. road accidents,” he said. larly impoverished Cambodia spends Jiheng, while in Hunan, Du Jiahao And they have never been more There was a time when Vientiane 1.3 percent while fellow communist has assumed the party’s top job, in demand. By the time the crew was famed for its lack of cars. Back- nations Vietnam and Cuba spend Xinhua said. Both Chen and Du arrive at a nearby hospital, the Jap- packers passing through the city in 3.8 percent and 10.6 percent of GDP worked with President Xi Jinping anese donated ambulance — a right the 1990s would marvel at the wide, respectively. The Health Ministry in when he ran China’s commercial hand drive vehicle in a left hand drive French-built boulevards devoid of Laos admitted there was a shortage capital, Shanghai, as its Commu- nation — has picked up two more heavy traffic, bicycles and tuk-tuks of good healthcare. nist Party chief for a year in 2007, injured on the way. Fresh calls for the main form of transport. “The main problems for hospitals according to their resumes. help are coming in all the time. But years of rapid growth has in Laos is the lack of qualified staff, The party will hold a once- Founded in 2010 by a group of seen the same streets filled with equipment, coaching and financial every-five-years congress next foreigners, “Vientiane Rescue” is a vehicles in recent years, many of resources,” it said. But the minis- autumn where Xi is expected to much needed lifeline for those in them brand new SUVs and luxury try did not say whether there were further cement his hold on power need of urgent medical care. “Before cars driven by the country’s commu- any plans to increase healthcare by seeking to appoint close allies we launched this service, after an nist party elite. That wealth — and spending or to tackle the issues in into the party’s ruling inner core, Rescue volunteers arriving at a hospital with a person injured during accident the wounded were simply the volunteer ambulances scooping the coming years. Volunteer groups the politburo and the politburo a road accident in Vientiane, Laos left on the roadside or taken away in victims up from the road — are both a plug some of the gaps, but even they standing committee. 08 MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL A new beginning Old Sarkozy does not match

n a region where the once-celebrated Arab Spring turned both tragic and farcical, Tunisia has been an exemplar of rare success and stability. The North African country new France’s needs has been able to steer clear of the turmoil which other Arab Spring countries are afflicted with and carved its Iown path towards democracy and peace. On Saturday, Tunis all odds by using the formulas nothing from his previous fail- further consolidated its position and made history when Youssef that led him to success 10 years If Sarkozy has ures. He never drew lessons from Chahed, 40, was sworn in as the country’s youngest prime ago: Control the agenda and take the “sanction vote” in 2012, which over the media. not changed, his explains why the electorate has minister since independence. He took power along with 26 In a country traumatised by country indeed has, trouble seeing what he would do ministers all of whom vowed to ‘work devotedly for the good of terrorist attacks, what is needed differently. Tunisia and to ‘respect its constitution and laws’. is a consensual stainless leader, and that’s why his Moreover, if your platform The downside is that Chahed is the seventh premier in less not someone who stirs division success is unlikely. is inspired or copied from the than six years since the 2011 uprising ousted longtime dictator between neighbours and whose National Front’s xenophobic dis- Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, but these frequent changes need to name resonates in half a dozen course, why then chose a copy ongoing judiciary investigations over the original? be viewed positively as turning points in the country’s march By Remi Piet of potential frauds. If Sarkozy has not changed, towards democracy. That lawmakers were able to pick a Al Jazeera In reality, he does not have candidacy is unequivocal: It his country indeed has, and that’s 40-year-old leader for prime minister much of an option. Despite his calls for “popular sovereignty to why his success is unlikely. shows the huge progress the country constant criticisms of President the service of the nation against France today is much differ- The election of has made since the revolution. He was Francois Hollande’s meagre eco- multiculturalism and the tyranny ent from the country Sarkozy the youngest elected with an overwhelming majority, nomic results, a closer look at his of minorities”. governed with controversial deci- with 168 out of 195 lawmakers who ews reports in France own achievements would fare Two of the five chapters sions over two decades either as prime minister this week have cov- poorly in comparison. tackle the issues of identity and president or as a member of suc- in Tunisia attended the session voting in favour, ered at length During Sarkozy’s presidency, national security. It appears that cessive governments. 22 against and five abstaining. Nicolas Sarkozy’s the number of unemployed by addressing those issues, he is Many now realise that the shows that its Chahed is a member of the announcement increased by more than a million, aiming to rally the extreme right development of terrorist cells democracy is president’s Nidaa Tounes party Nthat he would run for his par- the country’s debt exploded by votes as he did during his march in France has coincided with maturing. and is known as a liberal who was ty’s primary elections that will $675bn, 24 new taxes were intro- to power in 2007. the massive cuts in education local affairs minister in the previous determine the eventual right- duced and more than 400,000 The narrative is similar to the and social programmes Sarkozy wing candidate for the upcoming citizens fell below the poverty line. catastrophic national debate on advocated, as well as the narra- government. The cabinet he is heading presidential election. Sarkozy’s strategy is, there- the French identity that contrib- tive of contempt he diffused. is hugely representative as it includes women, a few young In truth, this was hardly news fore, to pick up the tempo and uted to the feeling of exclusion In a country traumatised by ministers, three members of the Islamist Ennahda party and material since nobody had any shape the campaign according to of minority members, whom he terrorist attacks, what is needed several independents. doubt that the former president his own themes, and do his best called “riff-raffs” who should be is a consensual stainless leader, Chahed has the onerous task of living up to the expectations who served between 2007 and to avoid fact-checking and thor- “karcherised”. not someone who stirs division of his people. The country is beset with several problems like 2012 would covet a return to the ough analysis. The campaign strategy that between neighbours and whose poverty, unemployment, economic stagnation and corruption Elysee Palace next year. During his presidency, placed the themes of identity name resonates in half-a-dozen Yet, Sarkozy was able to take Sarkozy grossly overstated his and sovereignty in the centre of ongoing judiciary investigations which need to be tackled urgently. Economic disparity and over the front page of all the role in ending the global financial Sarkozy’s political platform is of potential frauds. deprivation was a key reason for the revolution that toppled main newspapers in France on crisis. His activity at global sum- simple to understand and similar If Islamophobia has increased Ben Ali, but those issues still remain unaddressed, causing the morning of August 24. Even mits helped him turn attention to the one he used 10 years ago. after the wave of terrorist attacks, so disenchantment among people. the left-wing Liberation covered away from developing adequate First, the campaign distances did the initiatives for interfaith dia- Reducing deficits and reviving tourism will be the major this official return at length. economic policies in France. him from other candidates who logue, the very one targeted by the challenges before the new government. Tourism, a major Such is the capacity of Similarly today, he surfs on might be better economic experts, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Sarkozy to polarise the French the waves of shortsighted con- but they shy away from address- (ISIL, also known as ISIS) when ter- contributor to growth, suffered a severe setback after terrorist people and occupy a centre troversies such as the “burkini ing heads on the questions of rorists killed Jacques Hamel, the attacks on a beach resort and museum killed some 60 people stage, much as Silvio Berlusconi drama”, initiated by local may- immigration and security, which French priest who had always advo- last year. did in Italy or Donald Trump cur- ors of his own political party, in are Sarkozy’s favourites. Second, cated for cooperation with other Chahed must work with determination to revive the ailing rently does on the other side of order to fuel up Islamophobia, Sarkozy hopes to syphon Marine religions, including Islam. economy even if it involves taking tough and unpopular the Atlantic. cultural and identity concerns Le Pen’s supporters into his par- The historic demonstrations decisions. He would require the support of all lawmakers and The issue for Nicolas Sarkozy of the French people. ty’s primary selection. after recent attacks prove that the parties in this difficult mission. “We must mobilise ourselves to has never been to create and ride In a sense, his recently However, this approach majority of French people under- the “news buzz” — or in his own released book to support his shows that Sarkozy has learned stand that what unites them - the save Tunisia so that democracy succeeds, and to give new hope words, to “create a blast effect”; Republican model of secularism to the youth and all Tunisians,” he said to a standing ovation it was, however, to provide the — is more important than the dif- from lawmakers. political platform and answers ferences within the multicultural The new government must be given enough time to fulfill its needed by the French people. mosaic that France has become. mission because change cannot be brought in a day. Despite the coverage of his The answer to terrorism is announcement, Sarkozy is fac- unity and understanding, not ing an uphill battle. Opinion polls division and rejection. When have regularly shown him trailing news networks continuously far behind former prime minis- focus on the debate about burkini ters Alain Juppe and Francois or Sarkozy’s call for cancelling Quote of the day Fillon in the race for the party pork-free substitution meals for nomination. Jewish and Muslim communi- I see no reason that Even the right-wing elector- ties, they fail to acknowledge the ate seems to have grown tired countless examples of interfaith could be given, or of the “bling bling” show busi- dialogue and solidarity. any arguments that ness approach of their former Those examples will forge could be made, for not hero. After five years of his pres- the cradle of the modern, open idency, the smoke screen of his French identity, unless failing condemning the use of contagious energy is not enough leaders of the past win upcom- chemical weapons. any more. ing elections with shortsighted Juppe or Fillon now repre- and populist promises. sent reasonable alternatives: Grimmer and sterner politicians Remi Piet is assistant professor Jean-Marc Ayrault Former French president and candidate for Les Republicans (LR) for sure, but who gesticulate less of public policy, diplomacy and French Foreign Minister party primary Nicolas Sarkozy speaks during a meeting of young and achieve more. international political economy at Sarkozy is hoping to reverse Republicans in Le Touquet. Qatar University.

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By David Hearst

urkey and Russia remain far apart over the future of Syr- ia’s president, Bashar Al Assad, but the two regional powers have agreed not to return to Tthe hostilities which erupted after a Rus- sian jet was shot down by Turkey earlier this year, and to conduct further top-level bilateral negotiations. “The issue of Bashar is not solved,” a senior Turkish government source told Middle East Eye. He said there was still disagreement about whether Assad could play a role in a transitional government. The source played down reports in the Turkish media that Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and his deputy Numan Kurtulmus had given a “green light” to Assad staying on. Both sides agreed, from their differ- ent positions, that US policy in Syria was not working and have set up a joint work- Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a news conference following their meeting in ing group in an attempt to hammer out St Petersburg, Russia. a consensus. This will be headed on the Turkish side by the head of Turkey’s National Syria have disappeared. the region. The notion of a unified Syria areas in northwest Iran.” never shed its mistrust of minorities, and Intelligence Organisation, Hakan Fidan. The state news agency, Anadolu, is a good starting point for us.” The MEE report quoted Qadir Wrya, Kurdish is not taught in school, while the As a result of the meeting between meanwhile reported that Erdogan and There are two groups of Kurd- a member of the KDPI’s politburo: ”The predominantly Sunni Kurds find that the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Putin spoke via telephone on Friday and ish fighters in Iran — the Peshmerga of KDPI has become more active in Iran government discriminates against them Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on 9 “agreed to accelerate efforts to ensure the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran over the past two years”. Wyra said the on religious grounds too. Kurdish politi- August, Russia’s “red lines” in northern help reaches people in Aleppo”. (KDPI), an exiled opposition group plot- party was building an underground net- cal parties remain outlawed and activists The source countered an MEE report ting a comeback in the Islamic Republic, work of cadres in Rojhelat. are routinely thrown in jail and tortured. from Tehran that Iran was playing the and the PJAK, the Iranian offshoot of the The Turkish source said the Iranians “As long as this absolute, multi-fac- There is agreement between Iran role of go-between between Ankara and PKK in Turkey. In May this year, MEE were getting their own blowback from eted denial policy is pursued by Tehran, Damascus. However, the Turkish source talked to Peshmerga KDPI fighters in Syria, in Kurdish fighters returning from the sense of alienation and discontent will and Turkey about the unity of Syria. acknowledged Iran’s quiescence on the an old Iraqi army fortress in the town the northern front and achieving hero be on the rise,” said Himan Hosseini, a Neither side is interested in dividing incursion of Turkish tanks into north- of Koya, which is serving as head- status among the Sunni Kurdish popu- contributing analyst at the Washington ern Syria, and attributed it to the rise of quarters for the group.MEE reported lation of north-western Iran. Kurdish Institute. Syria. For Iran, a unified Syria is more armed attacks on infrastructure by Kurd- that the KDPI was spearheading the He said that the Kurdish push for a important, because for them Syria is ish separatists in Iran. recruitment drive in Iran. state along the Turkish border of northern The writer is Editor-in-chief of Middle an important platform for projecting “There is agreement between Iran “Lightly armed with Kalashnikovs, Syria was re-igniting an even older bat- East Eye. He was chief foreign leader and Turkey about the unity of Syria. machine guns and sniper rifles, their tle for a Kurdish enclave in Iran. The MEE writer of The Guardian, former Associate their influence in the region. The Neither side is interested in dividing aim is to avoid confrontation with the article in May continued: “Between four Foreign Editor, European Editor, Moscow notion of a unified Syria is a good Syria,” the source said. “For Iran, a uni- [Iranian] army during their trek over and seven million Kurds live in Iran, most Bureau Chief, European Correspondent, fied Syria is more important, because the mountains, and then to melt away of them in the provinces of Kordestan, and Ireland Correspondent. He joined The starting point. for them Syria is an important plat- into the villages and towns of Rojhelat, West Azerbaijan, Ilam and Khermanshah. Guardian from The Scotsman, where he form for projecting their influence in the Kurdish name for their traditional “The Shia theocracy in Tehran has was education correspondent. It was a union for the ages, until it wasn’t. Is Europe lost?

end of the European dream. In one new members and take further strides national governments are no longer so-called passporting privileges sovereignty those would require; way, today’s discontent is nothing toward full economic and political attending to voters’ concerns. that allow British financial-services a broader group, which once could new. There has often been a gap union, notably by creating the single Europe’s problem is essentially a firms unrestricted access, but this have accommodated the U.K. (and between the grandest designs of currency-the boldest innovation yet. crisis of confidence arising from this model also imposes free movement still might), would choose less inte- Europe’s leaders and the readiness As things turned out, too bold. mismatch between ends (the com- of workers. gration but remain members of the of the continent’s citizens to go along. Even at the design stage, many mitment to ever closer union) and Any plausible alternative would wider single market. Ends and means The EU’s remarkable achievements in economists said the euro’s political means (popular support for EU-wide require unanimity among the EU’s would be aligned by moving to a two- securing peace and prosperity in the underpinnings were too weak. Mone- institutions). The question is whether 27 members in allowing a degree of speed Europe. postwar era required brave, vision- tary union, they argued, demanded a Brexit can bring the two into better flexibility on a core issue of princi- Sadly, the clock can’t be turned ary leadership, and voters were rarely commitment to a form of fiscal union. alignment-first, to secure a success- ple, something Europe’s governments back. A complete remodeling risks a up to speed. For years, that was fine. (If currency devaluation with respect ful, mutually advantageous post-EU have refused to do so far. If no agree- collapse of the entire enterprise and The model was top-down institution- to other EU currencies was going to settlement for the UK; and second, ment can be reached-the worst case seems out of the question. What’s By Clive Crook building, followed by good results, be ruled out, fiscal transfers would to quell the secessionist momentum for Britain-exit would impose stand- worse, a partial remodeling will be Bloomberg then popular backing-in that order. be needed to help cushion economies that’s building in some of the remain- ard World Trade Organisation rules almost as hard. Even modest incre- It all worked beautifully. Europe’s from downturns.) ing 27 member states. on UK-EU exports and imports, mental reforms to allow flexibility postwar political and economic This would require a widely In the months before the referen- without special provision for serv- where national politics demands it reconstruction was a modern mira- shared sense of common purpose- dum, Prime Minister David Cameron ices. Britain could pursue free-trade (as with free movement of workers) ritain’s vote to quit the European cle. But now the model is failing. The in effect, a more fully developed sought new terms for British member- agreements with other countries, but or new institutions where economics Union is the enterprise’s worst Brits aren’t the proof. They’ve always European identity. Without it, mem- ship. Discussion centered on the EU’s the price for regaining control over demands it (fiscal union) are likely to Bsetback since it was conceived in been uncomfortable in the EU, late to ber states would balk at collective so-called fourth freedom-free move- immigration would be steep. require treaty changes. the 1950s. Until now, the EU has always the party and a nuisance through- fiscal action. And balk they did: Fis- ment of workers within the union (in The focus on Brexit, while grown in scale and ambition. For the out; their vote to quit was a shock, cal union, with the need for fiscal addition to free trade in goods, serv- understandable, has obscured the first time, Brexit shows that Europe’s but probably shouldn’t have been. transfers across the union’s internal ices, and capwital). Cameron needed pressing need for reform among manifest destiny — ever closer union Lately, though, the disenchantment borders, wasn’t part of the plan. the EU to modify its commitment to the EU-27, especially the 19 coun- — may not be destiny after all. has spread far more widely. Accord- If that couldn’t be done, the alter- free movement. Europe’s other gov- tries in the euro region. Voters in Merely knowing that Euro- ing to one recent poll, the EU is less native was to let governments use ernments said no: The four freedoms, many countries-Austria, France, pean integration can be reversed popular in France-France!-than in their own national fiscal policies more enshrined in the EU’s treaties, are Germany, the Netherlands, and oth- is a threat: It makes the unthinka- the UK So what went wrong? forcefully. But the new system said no “indivisible.” At home, Cameron’s ers-are increasingly aggrieved about ble thinkable. But this isn’t the only The EU’s deep structural flaws to that, too: As well as ruling out fis- renegotiation was widely seen as a immigration. Many euro area econ- danger. The union is increasingly arise from the tradition of over- cal union, it set strict national limits failure. The Leave campaign won the omies are uncompetitive and also Brexit could unpopular not only in the UK but reach. During the 1990s, after the on public borrowing. With fiscal pol- vote, and Britain and Europe were afflicted with fragile banks, high also in other European countries. Its collapse of communism, the EU had icy shut down and monetary policy thrown into turmoil. public debt, sluggish growth, and conceivably spur political capital is depleted. Working to choose whether to broaden the moved to the European Central Bank, Free movement of workers will high unemployment. support for the union. through the mechanics of Brexit may union to include new (and much macroeconomic policy at the sub-EU be a major source of disagreement The structural flaws in the single deepen divisions, severely testing the poorer) entrants from Eastern level was therefore all but forbidden. in Britain’s exit negotiations. Cam- currency’s design continue to take But this will demand union’s ability to adapt. Europe, or to deepen it with addi- As a result, the crash of 2008 hit eron’s successor, Theresa May, has their toll. Ideally Europe would go consensus, flexibility, Brexit could conceivably spur tional commitments to political and parts of the EU exceptionally hard. said she’ll seek the closest possible back to the drawing board, correcting support for the union. But this will economic integration among its exist- In many countries unemployment economic integration with the EU, the error it made in simultaneously and farsighted demand consensus, flexibility, and ing, and more similar, members. Its remains high, especially among the but she’ll insist on restoring control broadening and deepening the calculation, none of farsighted calculation, none of which main architects were divided: Ger- young. Surges of migration within over immigration. This will be hard. union. A core group would press on can be taken for granted. If govern- many wanted to broaden; France, to the union have worsened economic Membership in the European Eco- with closer integration, including which can be taken ments can’t rise to this challenge, deepen. Their fateful choice was to do insecurity, especially in Britain and nomic Area would grant full access free movement, some form of fiscal for granted. Brexit may be the beginning of the both at once. The EU would bring in France, and added to the feeling that to the EU’s single market, including union, and the pooling of political

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Precarious drive Four militants Channels fined behind 2009 cricket attack dead for rumours on in police shootout Imran marriage AP LAHORE: Pakistani officials said Sunday that four Islamist extrem- ists allegedly involved in a 2009 be punished,” Shamim announced. attack on the visiting Sri Lankan Authority asks The channels that have been fined cricket team were killed in a include Dunya News, Geo News, Neo shootout with police. channels to pay News, Royal News, Khyber News, The attack on the cricket team Rs500,000 and Channel 24, Channel 92, News One, killed six police and two bystand- Such TV, Roze News, Channel 5 and ers, and wounded six cricket apologise. Geo Tez. The council also took up a players. The Pakistani Taliban complaint lodged by Maryam Nawaz and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an affil- Sharif against Channel 24. iated extremist group, claimed the Internews Maryam said during a talk-show attack, which was carried out by on June 10 the channel showed a 10 gunmen. picture, claiming she was presiding The shootout erupted late over a meeting of federal secretaries Vehicles on the Lowari Mountain Pass which connects Chitral with Dir in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Saturday on the edge of Lahore ISLAMABAD: The Council of and running affairs of the govern- yesterday. Despite Lowari being one of the most dangerous roads in the world, hundreds of vehicles when other gunmen tried to break Complaints (COC) of the Pakistan ment as the prime minister was in use the route. the militants out of police cus- Electronic Media Regulatory Author- the UK for health reasons. tody, a counterterrorism official ity (Pemra) yesterday imposed a fine She claimed that the picture was said. Another senior official con- of Rs500, 000 each on several TV around two years old when she was firmed the account. Both spoke channels for airing incorrect news heading the PM’s youth programme. on condition of anonymity, fear- about the marriage of PTI chairman Since no representative of Channel ing retribution. Imran Khan in July this year. 24 appeared before the council, the Baloch leader ready for talks with govt Pakistan has stepped up its The COC Islamabad, headed by channel was fined Rs500, 000 and fight against extremist groups ShamimHumayum, held its final directed to air an apology. over the past two years, includ- hearing in the case at the Pemra The COC also imposed a fine of Internews even if the present government neighbours over this question. ing with a military offensive in head office. She also announced Rs200,000 on News One for airing agreed to some formula, there was Some Indians criticised the US State North Waziristan, a tribal region that apart from the fine each chan- a pre-recorded derogatory remarks no guarantee that the next govern- Department for saying that Washington near the Afghan border and long- nel should also air an apology. passed by Senator Hafiz Hamidul- ment or the army would respect such believed in Pakistan’s territorial integ- time stronghold of Al Qaeda and The COC also recommended to lah of JUI- F against MarviSirmand. ISLAMABAD: Baloch separatist an agreement. “Why ask us? Why rity and did “not support the demand other militants. Pemra that news channels that either However, none of the parties con- leader Brahamdagh Khan Bugti has don’t you ask the Pakistani govern- for Balochistan’s independence”. On Sunday, security forces do not air an apology or pay the fine cerned came to defend themselves said that he is not against political ment, the army if they want to talk? Pakistanis shouted back, say- raided a religious seminary on should be penalised and their oper- at the hearing. dialogue with the Pakistani govern- If you are afraid of asking them, ing that they would never allow the the outskirts of the southwestern ating licence may be suspended. The last hearing on Sunday ment but those talks should focus on then admit that you are afraid,” break-up of their country. Since the city of Quetta, where a suicide The complaint against the news was related to a complaint by Syed Baloch demands. he told a Pakistani journalist who organisers the “American Friends bomber killed more than 70 aired by the TV channels on July 12 Khursheed Shah against Saama Bugti was among half a dozen urged him to engage with Islama- of Balochistan” did not allow non- people earlier this month, and was lodged by IftikharDurrani, TV regarding a news item aired on speakers, including former ambas- bad. Bugti expressed the hope that journalists to ask questions, they sealed it when they found nearly the head of the PTI central media June 27 claiming Shah was involved sador Husain Haqqani, who attended India was not using Balochistan as confronted the speakers during the 100 illegal Afghan immigrants department. Though the complain- in awarding contracts of certain an event held to mark the death a “tit for tat” to get even with Paki- tea breaks of the day-long seminar. residing there, provincial gov- ant had asked the COC that action projects in Sindh. anniversary of Nawab Akbar Khan stan on the Kashmir issue. At one tea break, a Pakistani ernment spokesman Anwarul be taken against Dunya News only, The complainant said the news Bugti here at the National Press Club. “The two problems Kashmir and member of the audience asked Haq said. the request was not accepted on the was incorrect. But a representative “We are political people, we will Balochistan are different with different Husain Haqqani as to how could he Other such raids netted grounds that it would be against the of the channel defended the news talk. We are prepared for dialogue historical backgrounds,” he emphasised. demand a ban on US military aid to another 228 Afghans, said para- norms of justice. and said all the contracts had been on the rights of the Baloch people,” The heavy Indian and Pakistani Pakistan when he also was Islam- military spokesman Khan Wasey. “All those who aired the flawed awarded under the influence of said Bugti, speaking from Geneva. presence at the event betrayed the abad’s envoy in Washington in the It was unclear if the raids were news and expressed carelessness should Shah and even inaugurated by him. He said the dilemma was that growing tension between the two recent past. linked to terrorism suspicions.

45% children In the balance Turkish premier in Pakistan malnourished: invited to Pakistan

Health survey Internews sectors in the meeting. He also congratulated the Turkish prime Internews minister and people for foiling the coup attempt last month. LAHORE: Chief Minister of Pakistani He said that people of Turkey province of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif on have expressed their deep love ISLAMABAD: Pakistan ranks low a visit to Turkey extended an invita- and commitment to democracy on the social development index of tion to Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali and there are few examples of such child and maternal health, which Yildirim on behalf of Prime Minister struggles in history. He went on to reflects the level of nutrition, Nawaz Sharif to visit Pakistan. say that the enemy of Turkey is the education and access to health The Punjab CM, who is on an enemy of Pakistan. services. official visit, held separate meetings He said that he was deeply Although infant and neonatal with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan grieved over the recent incidents of mortality rates have considerably and Prime Minster Yildirim yester- terrorism in Turkey and the sympa- decreased worldwide over the last day. In his meeting with the President thies of the Pakistani nation are with two decades, the situation has not Shahbaz congratulated Erdogan on the bereaved families. The Punjab improved in the country. behalf of the Pakistani people over CM also extended an invitation to the One in every 14 Pakistani chil- the thwarting of the coup attempt. PM Yildirim on behalf of Prime Min- dren dies before reaching the age Shahbaz called on the Prime Min- ister Nawaz Sharif to visit Pakistan. of one, and one in 11 does not sur- ister Yildirim at the Prime Minister Yildirim on accepting the invitation vive to its fifth birthday, states a House in Istanbul on Sunday. said that he will soon visit Pakistan report compiled by the office of Both the leaders discussed Pak- to meet his very dear brethren and the federal ombudsman in collab- An Afghan labourer weighs firewood while waiting for customers at the roadside in Kabul yesterday. Turk relations and reviewed the appreciated the solidarity expressed oration with the Unicef. areas of cooperation in different by Pakistan to the Turk leadership. Childhood poverty is directly linked to malnutrition, where parents fail to provide adequate healthcare and nutrition to their children. A considerable number of Is Islamabad turning into Pakistan’s fashion capital? children and mothers have no or limited access to health and edu- cation services. Internews smaller. But the fashion industry here Despite these developments, the One must note that Islamabad does he claimed. Naturally, this applies to According to Pakistan Demo- is definitely expanding as we have question of Islamabad’s profitabil- have some unique qualities to offer not just high-end fashion but regular graphic and Health Survey some good designers and great young ity looms large. Has the city really which add to its appeal. brands such as Khaadi, Gul Ahmed, 2012-13, around 45per cent of talent,” Shah said. become enough of a force to be reck- According to Labels CEO Zahir- Sapphire and Al Karam as well, all of children show evidence of chronic ISLAMABAD: Fashion in Islamabad If fashion weeks are anything to oned with, that designers should Rahimtoola, economic liberalisation which have been generating ample malnutrition or stunting and 11per has been booming in terms of trends go buy, then one can safely conclude consider tapping into its market? across Pakistan has made it easier for business in the capital. cent are acutely malnourished and volume, albeit slowly. Although that Islamabad has finally arrived, Or is there still a long way to go many to lead lavish lifestyles. “And “Out of the entire northern requiring urgent treatment. the city may not always have been seeing as how no one had thought before its residents are freed from the interesting thing with Islamabad region, Islamabad seems to be “Stunting slows down mental or become a fashion hub as such, to hold an event there up until 2011. having to drive down to Lahore, is that it is doing well fashion-wise performing the best,” shared a rep- and physical growth,” DrIrshad things have been changing as every “I am directing Islamabad Fashion every time a family wedding comes due to the strong diplomatic pres- resentative from Khaadi. “In other Danish, National Programme new generation brings with itself new Week myself so will say that things around. For Islamabad, multi-brand ence there,” explained Rahimtoola. cities, pret is what people want. In Coordinator for Scaling Nutri- aesthetic choices. are evidently changing,” added Shah. outlets such as Labels, Ensemble and “Living standards in general Islamabad, however, there is an incli- tion-Civil Society Alliance said. According to renowned fash- Even industry big weights like L’atelier have been key. have improved over the past few nation towards un-stitched apparel.” Quoting the figure of 45per ion choreographer Rezz Aly Shah, Maria B echo Shah’s sentiments, These shops are amongst the years, thanks to higher income Islamabad’s burgeoning market cent malnutrition in the country, comparing Islamabadi fashion of pointing at the diffusion of fashion handful of platforms budding design- levels. Therefore, Islamabad has can partly be attributed to the open- he said, “This means our future the yesteryears to that of today is archives through the city. “It is defi- ers can use to introduce themselves. become one of the best cities to do ing up of Centaurus, which came generation will not only be men- like “comparing Timbuktu to Paris.” nitely getting stronger in terms of its “Previously, there used to be only business in, because of a large, tran- soon after Karachi’s Dolmen Mall tally and physically stunted, but He offered a sound explanation fashion presence,” said the designer. two fashion outlets here but now, sient population which doesn’t exist and The Mall of Lahore. will also be unskilled and lag behind this, saying that one cannot “There have been many new we have five,” shared L’atelier head in any other city.”Rahimtoola cited Centaurus has arguably given behind the competing world.” juxtapose the capital with mega cities designers and much fresh talent Sarah Raza. “The industry is pro- his own example to elucidate why he rise to ‘mall culture’ within the city, He urged that the government like Lahore and Karachi on account coming out of Islamabad. I believe gressing and people are coming up believes more clothing brands ought redirecting foot fall away from the improve the situation, besides of its size. people are starting to recognise the with new designs in the market. The to establish themselves in the capital. Jinnah Supers and Kohsars, towards enforcing the existing legislation “Islamabad cannot be compared city as a growing strength in the fash- overall extent of the market may be “Opening a Labels store in Islama- the air-conditioned stores, eateries on breastfeeding. to other cities because it’s much ion industry.” smaller but the hopes are very high.” bad was a very wise decision for us,” and greater variety that it offers. INDIA MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 11 Businesses hard hit by curfew in Kashmir

a notification by the state home their deeds one day. “Those trying to department. The worst hit during incite trouble from behind children Death toll in the the present cycle of violence has been will have to answer for their deeds to ongoing unrest has education of children as schools have these innocent children some day,” risen to 71 — 68 remained closed. he said. Businesses have also taken a The Prime Minister insisted that civilians and three direct hit, suffering losses of over to keep India united, we should pro- policemen — while Rs75bn. Unity and compassion have mote and highlight things which over 11,000 others been the key words while dealing promote unity and integrity. with the unrest in the Kashmir Val- “Our country is very large and it have been since July 9. ley, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is full of diversity. To keep a diverse said yesterday. country like ours united, it is our Modi said these two words invar- responsibility to highlight and focus iably and persistently emerged on things which promote unity and IANS during his interaction with different integrity. “Only then will we make a political parties who spoke in one bright future for ourselves, which we voice on the issue. will do,” Modi said. “Whatever happened in Kash- Meanwhille, the father of Hizbul SRINAGAR: Authorities yesterday mir, all the political parties spoke in Mujahideen commander Burhan continued curfew and restrictions in one voice. They gave a message to Wani, whose death sparked off the Kashmir for the 51st consecutive day. the world as well as to the separa- current violent unrest in the Kash- A paramilitary trooper runs as he patrols along a deserted street during curfew in downtown Srinagar, Police said curfew will remain tists while conveying our sensitivities mir Valley, has met spiritual guru Sri imposed only in Anantnag town towards Kashmirs,” Modi said in his Sri Ravi Shankar. yesterday. while restrictions under section 144 “Mann Ki Baat” radio address. A spokesman said the two men of the CrPc (criminal procedure code) “In my interaction with different discussed several issues. will continue in the rest of the Valley political groups, one thing emerged. “Ravi Shankar and Muzaf- Oil tanker operators again suspend including Srinagar. It was unity and compassion to be far)Wani discussed several issues Despite restrictions in Srinagar the core mantra of our policy in including the current situation and city, private vehicles and three- Kashmir.” how normalcy can be restored in wheelers were seen on the roads in Modi said that every single life the valley,” the spokesman said in supplies to Kashmir Valley city outskirts and vehicular traffic lost in Kashmir, be it of a Kashmiri a statement. The discussions were also resumed on many inter-dis- youth or a security personnel, was a “purely on a personal and human- trict roads. Death toll in the ongoing loss of the nation. “It is evident that itarian angle”, the statement added. IANS had been attacked in the Valley cleaners and vehicles are safe. unrest has risen to 71 — 68 civilians every single life lost in Kashmir ... Earlier, Ravi Shankar tweeted despite assurances from the state “Supplies to the Jammu and three policemen — while over is our loss, our country’s loss,” the that Muzaffar Wani stayed at the Art government. region will, however, continue 11,000 others have been since July 9. Prime Minister said. of Living ashram here for two days “Our drivers, attendants and uninterrupted.” Authorities have shifted sen- More than 70 people have been and discussed several issues. JAMMU: The oil tanker association vehicles have been attacked in the Oil tanker owners and drivers ior separatist leader, Mirwaiz Umer killed and thousands injured in The spiritual guru also tweeted a in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday Valley even after we resumed sup- associations had suspended sup- Farooq to a tourist hut in the high street clashes since security forces photo of himself with Wani. announced it was again suspending plies following assurances from the plies to the Valley last week also, security Cheshma Shahi area of Sri- shot dead a militant, Burhan Wani, Burhan Wani, 22, was killed by fuel supplies to the Valley. government. but after assurances about security nagar where he has been placed on July 8 in the Kashmir Valley. security forces on July 8 in south Anan Sharma, president of the “We have decided today by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, under detention. Modi said the troublemakers who Kashmir. Over 70 people have died All Jammu and Kashmir Oil Tank- not to operate our tankers to these supplies had been restored A senior police officer said the were trying to use children as shields in clashes with security forces in the ers Association, told reporters here the Valley unless the govern- after remaining suspended for two hut was declared as a sub-jail under in Kashmir would have to answer for Kashmir Valley since Wani’s death. that oil tankers and their drivers ment ensures that our drivers, days.

Minor student beaten to death No delay in Scorpene programme: Top officers for not paying fees IANS Changes can be made “at any submarine is still to be established. conventional submarines. It converts believed to have leaked. The leak of IMPHAL: A class six student stage, if needed”, the officer said. Those documents, that come out after methanol-like substances to produce documents came to light this week was allegedly beaten to death “We are expecting to induct INS the trials, will have the actual critical hydrogen, which is the fuel that runs with a report in The Australian. The by school officials as his parents Kalvari in the navy by year-end. information and will be only with the the cell to produce electricity. journalist who broke the story, Cam- could not pay the fees in time, NEW DELHI: As the Indian Navy The trials have been good. So far Indian Navy,” the officer said. While diesel engines need oxy- eron Stewart, has said the documents police said. investigates the leaked documents we do not see the leaks affecting The disclosures in the leaked gen to function, these cells are air were with a whistleblower for at least The police have registered a pertaining to its six Scorpene sub- the schedule,” he added. The other documents relate to cylindrical independent. The system also emits last two years in Australia. case against the school officials marines, top officers say they do five submarines are expected to be and flank array, sonar interception, less noise, increasing its stealth -- the Before that, it was for an for beating Suresh Tongbram to not expect the project to be delayed inducted after a gap of nine months acoustic signature and levels of noise most critical feature of a submarine. unknown period on an internet death. They will be arrested if the and that the first vessel, INS Kalvari, each after the first. “We must not for- radiation, among other details. With this system, a conventional server in Singapore, exposed to post-mortem report establishes which is currently undergoing sea get the submarines are being built by However, asked about the Air submarine that needs to surface threats like hacking. It is not known unnatural death, a police source trials, will be inducted by the year- us, so we have all the capabilities for Independent Propulsion (AIP), which every three to four days for replen- if anyone accessed the report at that said. end. making some changes if required,” was to give the submarines increased ishing its oxygen supply, can stay time. The documents have triggered “Being a poor farmer, I have While the Indian Navy has main- the officer said. The official however stealth, enabling them to stay under underwater for up to two weeks. fears that they may compromise the been unable to clear the school tained the leaked data — which The maintained they do not see any need water for longer durations, the officer It was earlier expected to be fitted submarine’s stealth capabilities. and hostel fees of Residential Kids Australian newspaper that broke for changes “right now”. remained non-committal. in at least last two of the six Scorpe- Tracking a submarine involves Care School in Langol near Imphal the story says runs into 22,400 He said that India will have the “The technology is being devel- nes but officials later said it may miss sophisticated sonar equipment that where my son was admitted two pages — will not compromise the real critical information on the boat oped by the DRDO; the process is the fifth one as well. can detect, classify, locate and track years back. The school authorities boat’s stealth capabilities, an officer once the trials are over, and reiter- going on,” he officer said. The AIP The Scorpene submarines, a vessel based on echoes from its told me to clear the fees or take my said that, if needed, India is capa- ated the Indian Navy’s official line system, being developed by the which are being made by the Maz- hull and the noise it generates. Hull son away, but when I went to take ble of making suitable changes in that the information in the docu- Maharashtra-based Naval Materi- agaon Dock Limited (MDL), have reflection, radio and radar signals him back they said unless the fees the submarines keeping in mind the ments is generic. als Research Laboratory (NMRL), been designed by the French firm and water pressure can also give are cleared he could not be taken “worst-case scenario”. “The final signature of the is a fuel cell that replaces diesel in DCNS, from where the documents are away a submarine’s location. out,” Bira Tongbram, Suresh’s father, said. “On Friday night, the school officials brought my son. He had bruises all over his body and I was Train derailment causes told that my son was punished for being disobedient. The officials left in a huff and told me to clear the fees by August 31,” he said. rail congestion in Kerala The boy, who had collapsed immediately after reaching home, died on Saturday. The police have sent the body to a hospital for the IANS in incidents like yesterday’s derailment, post-mortem. said. In a letter to Railway Minister Suresh Pra- bhu, Sudhakaran expressed concern over Floods abating THRISSUR, KERALA: Normal traffic was the derailment of the Thiruvananthapuram- affected across Kerala following the derail- Mangalore Express in Kerala and said the in Bihar; relief ment of the Thiruvananthapuram-Mangalore state had been treated unfairly in provision Express train yesterday, according to railway of infrastructure. operations on officials. “Kerala provides the biggest revenue to Officials said around 12 coaches of the Southern Railway. But when it comes to rail- train from Aluva and Thrissur got derailed way infrastructure, Kerala’s need is always PATNA: The overall flood situa- and all the passengers were safe. ignored,” Sudhakaran wrote. tion in Bihar yesterday showed The incident occurred near Karukutty at “The quality of the coaches on trains in signs of improvement with river 2.15 a m. Kerala is the worst. Then there are no timely Ganga and its tributaries receding Railway officials have ruled out the possi- repairs and maintenance of the tracks in the and relief operations continuing, bility of any foul play in the derailment. state. All this could be reasons for frequent officials said. Following the incident, several trains derailment,” the minister said. The district magistrates were originating from the state capital were either He sought Prabhu’s intervention to see that directed, however, to be fully alert diverted or asked to ply up till certain stations, the situation that caused the derailment was and remain prepared to face any while some others were cancelled. remedied and normal rail traffic was restored worsening of the situation in the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has asked at the earliest. coming days, they said. officials to see that special bus services were The railways should also investigate what “Flood waters are receding in operated to ease the difficulties caused due caused the derailment, he said. Ganga and its tributaries and the to the derailment. The derailment resulted in cancellation situation is improving,” Principal Railway officials said it would take a while of a number of trains. Some trains were also Secretary of State Disaster Man- before normal traffic is resumed. diverted and many of the services were ter- agement Department Vyasji said. Meanwhile, PWD Minister G Sudhaka- minated midway. He said 3.4 million people ran complained that the railways were Complete normalisation of rail traffic in 2037 villages in 12 districts of Derailed coaches of the Thiruvanthapuram-Mangalru Express, at Karukutty near Angamaly short-changing Kerala while earning could well happen only by Monday, Southern Bihar have been hit by the floods. station, yesterday. handsome revenue from the state, resulting Railway officials said. 12 MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 EUROPE Shoddy renovations worsened quake impact

they will crush older walls beneath them. “If it emerges that individuals cut corners, they Home repairs done cheap will be pursued and those that have made mistakes Pope to visit may have led to more deaths will pay a price,” the prosecutor said. The issue of whether some of the deaths could in temblor. have been avoided is particularly acute in the Ama- trice area because it is so close (50 kilometres) to affected area L’Aquila, which was hit by a 2009 earthquake in which over 300 people perished. AFP AFP An outcry over the shoddy, corrupt building practices which led to so many buildings in the university city being inadequately prepared for a AMATRICE, ITALY: Pope Francis said yesterday quake led to the national Civil Protection agency he wanted to visit some of the Italian villages ROME: Shoddy, price-cutting renovations, in making almost ¤1bn available for upgrading build- devastated by this week’s earthquake, as survi- breach of local building regulations, could be ings in quake-vulnerable areas. vors and rescue workers dug in for the long haul partly to blame for the high death toll from this But the take-up of grants has been low. Crit- with colder weather approaching. week’s devastating earthquake in central Italy, ics blame bureaucracy but others maintain that Francis said the Catholic Church shared according to a prosecutor investigating the disaster. independent-minded villagers will always find the “suffering” of the victims of the quake that As questions mount over the deaths of nearly the cheapest way of getting their renovations done, claimed nearly 300 lives and pledged: “As soon 300 people, prosecutor Giuseppe Saieva indi- whatever the risks. Some 40 percent of the Italian as possible, I hope to come and see you.” cated that property owners who commissioned population, 24 million people, live in zones vul- The Argentine pontiff told thousands of suspected sub-standard work could be held nerable to earthquakes and the risk that entails worshippers gathered for the Angelus prayer in responsible for contributing to the quake’s deadly has been a subject for the country’s finest minds Rome’s Saint Peter’s square he had a “spiritual impact. for centuries. closeness” to residents of the mountain villages Saieva, who works in the Rieti region between As early as the first century, an advisor to the in a remote area straddling the Umbria, Marche Rome and the quake’s epicentre, said the tragedy emperor Vespasian, Pliny the elder, was mak- and Lazio regions. could not simply be filed away as an unavoidable ing recommendations on how buildings could be Meanwhile, as hope faded of finding any- natural disaster. designed to withstand tremors. one else alive and the search for bodies nearly “If the buildings had been constructed as they And the thicker walls and stone piers that complete, rescue workers and survivors turned are in Japan they wouldn’t have collapsed,” he told are features of many modern-day quake-proof their attention to a bleak future as temperatures La Repubblica. buildings, were also included in plans drawn up start to fall. “We’re getting ready for winter. Given Within hours of the quake hitting on Wednes- by Renaissance architect Pirro Ligorio in the late what’s happened in other quakes, we’re going to day Saieva was in Amatrice, the small mountain 16th century, after southern Italy was devastated spend winter here,” said Emidio Chiappini from town hit hardest by the quake. by an earthquake that caused 2,000 deaths. the devastated village of Sant’Angelo. He is inspecting the damage there before Experts however say protecting Italy’s unri- The government has pledged to support opening a preliminary investigation for possible valled artistic and architectural heritage is far immediate reconstruction and Chiappini said culpable homicide and causing a disaster. from straightforward. “If we start from the idea he hoped authorities would send pre-fabri- The crushed partition walls of a collapsed of upgrading every old building to comparable cated housing to stave off the frost that will soon three-storey villa were among the sights that safety levels of a modern building built to anti-seis- descend on the mountainous region. caught his eye. “I can only think it was built on mic norms, we have to accept that we will never The Italian government has freed up around the cheap with more sand than cement,” he said. get there,” said Paolo Bazzurro, a professor in con- ¤60m in immediate aid, added to which will be A number of engineering and architectural struction techniques at the University of Pavia. approximately ¤10m in donations. experts have highlighted the widespread use of rel- The trend away from traditional wooden roofs “Basically, we know we’re going to be here atively cheap cement beams for house extensions and beams is not the only problem: widening win- for three or four months. That’s not official, but and renovations as a possible factor explaining dow openings and the removal of reinforcing we have got the equipment for that,” said a vol- why so many buildings collapsed. chains embedded in walls have also contributed. unteer for the civil protection agency who gave Heavy and inflexible, the cement beams “These things make buildings more vulnera- his name as Nicola. Buildings destroyed in Villanova, near Accumoli in Italy. become deadly if released by shaking because ble,” said Bazzurro.

Pilots held for reporting drunk Merkel misread migration challenge: Vice-Chancellor Reuters elections in Berlin and the eastern Saturday. The head of the Federal every year because there would not that phrase was not enough and the before flying to state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Office for Migration and Refugees be enough teachers. conservatives needed to create the Hundreds of thousands of told newspaper Bild am Sonntag that In the ZDF interview, Gabriel also conditions for Germany to be able to US from Scotland migrants flocked to Germany from Germany took in less than one mil- criticised Merkel’s catchphrase “Wir cope, adding that the conservatives BERLIN: German Vice-Chancellor the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere lion migrants last year and said he schaffen das”, meaning “We can do had always blocked opportunities to Sigmar Gabriel said in an interview last year. Concerns about how to inte- expected a maximum of 300,000 ref- this”, which she adopted during the do that. AFP on Saturday that Chancellor Angela grate them all into German society ugees to arrive in Germany this year. migrant crisis last summer and has Merkel’s migrant policy also drew Merkel’s conservatives had “underes- and the labour market are now rife At a separate news conference repeatedly used since. criticism from Markus Soeder, a sen- timated” the challenge of integrating and support for the anti-immigrant yesterday, Gabriel said: “There is an Merkel used the phrase at a news ior member of the Christian Social LONDON: Two pilots were a record migrant influx. party Alternative for Germany (AfD) upper limit to a country’s integra- conference she held in late July after Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party arrested in Scotland on suspi- Gabriel is also leader of the Social has grown. tion ability.” a spate of attacks on civilians in Ger- to Merkel’s Christian Democrats cion of being under the influence Democrats (SPD) — the junior coali- “I, we always said that it’s incon- He said Germany had 300,000 many, including two claimed by (CDU). “Even with the best will in the of alcohol as they prepared to fly tion partner in Merkel’s government ceivable for Germany to take in a new schoolchildren due to the Islamic State, that have put her open- world, we won’t manage to integrate a passenger plane to the United — and his comments come as cam- million people every year,” Gabriel migrant influx and added that the door migrant policy in the spotlight. so many people from totally different States, police said yesterday. paigning gets under way for a federal said in extracts of an interview country could not manage to inte- Her popularity has slipped since cultures,” Soeder told German mag- The two men were detained election next year and for regional with broadcaster ZDF released on grate so many into the school system those attacks. Gabriel said repeating azine Der Spiegel. at Glasgow Airport on Saturday before they were due to fly to Newark in New Jersey. Concerns were reportedly raised over the pair ahead of the Mountain music Spain starts countdown 9am (0800 GMT) UA162 flight. The service, carrying 141 passengers, eventually flew with a new crew later Saturday. to possible third “Two men aged 35 and 45 have been arrested and are presently detained in police cus- national vote in a year tody in connection with alleged offences under the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003, Reuters In the second vote a simple major- Section 93,” a Police Scotland ity will suffice to put Rajoy back in spokesman said. power. The section relates to “carry- The Socialists are unlikely to ing out pilot function or activity MADRID: The clock starts ticking back down from that position given while exceeding the prescribed on Wednesday towards what could local elections in September in the limit of alcohol.” be Spain’s third national election in northern regions of Galicia and the A United Airlines spokesman a year when acting Prime Minister Basque Country where support for said: “The two pilots have been Mariano Rajoy faces a confidence Rajoy’s PP could cost votes for the removed from service and their vote in parliament for a second term left-wing party. flying duties. in office. Spain’s economy, on the “We are cooperating with the Spain has been without a rebound from a recession which authorities and will conduct our functioning government since ended three years ago, has pow- own investigation as well. The inconclusive elections in December ered ahead despite the lack of a safety of our customers and crew and June failed to hand a convinc- functioning government, with the is our highest priority.” ing mandate to any political party. latest data showing strong growth The men are expected to So far, party leaders have been una- fuelled by consumer spending and appear at Paisley Sheriff Court Alphorn players give a concert yesterday in Nesselwang, southern Germany, during a mass performance ble to agree on forming a coalition. demand for exports. on the edge of Glasgow today. of 300 alphorn blowers. The eight-month political dead- The acting government expects The arrests come after two lock has delayed investments in the economy to expand 2.9 percent Canadian pilots were charged infrastructure such as roads and this year — one of the fastest rates in with being drunk as they prepared rail and put high-ranking govern- the euro zone. However, economists to fly from Glasgow to Toronto last ment appointments on hold, leaving say growth could be even higher if month. some Spanish embassies without an political uncertainty was removed. Jean-Francois Perreault, 39, Veteran Uzbekistan leader in hospital ambassador. “The lack of government is hav- and Imran Zafar Syed, 37, were Rajoy’s centre-right People’s ing a negative impact,” said Miguel arrested on July 18 as they were Party (PP) won the most votes in Cardoso, an economist at BBVA, due to pilot an Airbus A310 plane, Reuters A government statement did not Afghanistan, has been Uzbek leader June’s election but lacks the major- whose estimate of 3.1 percent for which carries up to 250 passen- say what Karimov was being treated since the collapse of the Soviet Union ity it needs to win the vote even with economic growth this year would gers, for Canada’s Air Transat. for or how serious his illness was, but in 1991 and wields sweeping powers. support from centrists Ciudadanos be about 3.5 percent if there was a Perreault, from Ontario, and ALMATY: Islam Karimov, the official statements on his health are The absence of strong polit- (Citizens), Spain’s fourth-biggest government in place. Syed, from Toronto, are charged 78-year-old president of Cen- very uncommon. ical institutions means that the party. His forecast for growth next under laws covering alcohol and tral Asia’s most populous country, “According to specialists, full eventual transition of power in the The opposition Socialists have year would be about 0.7 percentage drug limits in aviation. is undergoing hospital treatment, health screening and further treat- mostly Muslim nation may lead to refused to back Rajoy or smooth points higher if there was a central They also face charges of Uzbekistan’s government said yes- ment will take a certain period of confrontation within the elite or the way to a PP-led minority gov- administration in office to firm up threatening or abusive behaviour. terday, in a rare statement about time,” it said. even destabilise the country which ernment by abstaining in a second public spending plans and provide They have been released from the health of a reclusive leader who Karimov, whose ex-Soviet has long been targeted by Islamist confidence vote, which will be held certainty over policy for potential custody on bail last month. lacks an obvious successor. nation of 32 million people borders militants. on Friday if Wednesday’s ballot fails. investors, he said. 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Police discover Trump to begin tunnel under US-Mexico border expulsions just AP

MEXICO CITY: Mexican federal police say they have found an illegal tunnel after taking oath stretching under the US- Mexico border. Yesterday’s statement says that Mexican police those who overstay their visas are working with the US Border quickly removed,” Trump warned. Patrol from Nogales, Ari- Controversial The billionaire real estate mag- zona, located the entrance Republican tries nate and former reality TV host — in to the tunnel inside the wall a white baseball cap — said that “If of a storm drain on the Mex- to court African we don’t enforce visa expiration ican side of the border. American votes. dates, then we have an open bor- The tunnel was 103 feet der. It’s as simple as that.” (31.5 meters) long and ran “A vote for Trump is a vote to have toward an empty lot on the a nation of laws, a vote for Clinton is Arizona side. The first half AFP a vote for open borders,” he stressed. of the tunnel had been sta- Details of Trump’s immigration pol- bilised with wooden beams, icies remain scant. He rallied much but the second half was of his primary support with a contro- incomplete. It had not yet WASHINGTON: Republican pres- versial hardline tone against illegal broken the surface in the US. idential nominee Donald Trump immigrants and his plan to build a Drug trafficking organ- linked illegal immigration and wall on the Mexican border. isations use the tunnels to employment Saturday, pledging to Some of his advisers are now smuggle drugs into the US. start deporting offenders as soon reportedly urging him to tone down Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel is Republican nominee Donald Trump speaks at “Joni’s Roast and Ride” in Des Moines, Iowa, yesterday. as he is sworn in should he become his signature policy priority. especially known for this. the White House’s next occupant. Trump also made appeals to Trump all the while courted the black voters, promising to help Afri- black vote, claiming that the shoot- can Americans find jobs. ing of basketball star Dwyane Wade’s “Every time an African Amer- Hillary invokes father to blast Trump on business cousin will make African Americans ican citizen, or any citizen, loses support him, but the move instead their job to an illegal immigrant, the triggered a firestorm of criticism. rights of that American citizen have “On Day One, I am going to been totally violated,” he argued. AP he showed up,” Clinton said recently the White House. But Trump casinos company. On a conference call with begin swiftly removing crimi- Hours before, Trump had during an event in Warren, Michi- failed on several occasions. When the small-business owners last week, nal illegal immigrants from this tweeted: “Dwayne Wade’s cousin gan. “He did the work. He paid for Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New she proposed a new tax deduction country — including removing the was just shot and killed walking her WARREN, MICHIGAN: Hillary Clin- the supplies and the labour he often Jersey went bankrupt in the early for small businesses and offered fed- hundreds of thousands of crimi- baby in Chicago,” initially misspell- ton has landed on a very personal hired to help him on big jobs. I can’t 1990s, some contractors who worked eral incentives to encourage state nal illegal immigrants that have ing the basketball player’s first name counterpunch to what she says is imagine what would have happened on the property went under because and local governments to stream- been released into US communities before correcting it later. “Just what Donald Trump’s checkered business to my father and his business if he Trump’s company didn’t pay what line regulations. under the Obama-Clinton admin- I have been saying. African-Ameri- past: her dad. had gotten a contract from Trump.” they were owed, according to inter- While Clinton has spoken of her istration,” Trump told supporters in cans will VOTE TRUMP!” As the Democratic presiden- Clinton hopes to remind voters views with The Associated Press. father throughout the campaign, Des Moines, Iowa. He was referring to the shooting tial nominee works to undercut that despite her years in public life In a statement to the AP, Clinton the recent recollections have been Trump’s Democratic rival Hil- death on Friday of Nykea Aldridge Trump’s economic record and pro- that have left her a multimillionaire, said her father’s business gave her “a more detailed and intimate. Clin- lary Clinton served as secretary during an exchange of gunfire mote her plans for small businesses, she comes from a middle-class back- sense of responsibility,” adding that ton tends to speak sparingly about of state during President Barack between two men as she pushed a she is invoking memories of her late ground and understands the life of she was “living proof that a success- her family while campaigning and Obama’s first term in office. The baby stroller in Chicago. father’s Chicago drapery business. a small-business owner. She also ful small business is at the core of the when she does, it is typically to make next president will be sworn in Trump’s comments unleashed a Recalling Hugh Rodham hard at wants to contrast her biography with basic bargain in America, that if you a broader point. She has referenced on January 20. “I am going to torrent of criticism spearheaded by work making and printing curtains that of Trump, who was raised by a work hard and do your part, you can her grandfather’s work in a factory build a great border wall, institute actor Don Cheadle, who has starred for hotels and office buildings, Clin- successful real estate developer and make your own dreams and those of in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and her nationwide e-verify, stop illegal in such films as “Hotel Rwanda” ton argues that he would have been has drawn criticism for his treatment your children a reality.” mother’s troubled childhood. Clinton immigrants from accessing welfare (2004), denouncing the bombastic “stiffed” in a deal with the celebrity of small businesses during his career. Clinton has been pitching her has also spoken of her granddaughter and entitlements and develop an billionaire for trying to score polit- businessman. Trump has promoted his busi- plans to support small businesses as an example of the future genera- exit-entry tracking system to ensure ical points on the back of a murder. “He expected to be paid when ness record as a key qualification for and to make it easier to start a tion she is fighting for. Former Obama Rising visitor misbehaviour strains national parks aide Plouffe AP ignoring rules to keep 25 yards from the National Park Service marks its can damage resources and displace wildlife ecology who has been con- calls Trump a wildlife — picked up the pursuit, 100th anniversary. wildlife, officials said. ducting research in the Yellowstone snapping pictures as they pressed From Tennessee’s Great Smoky Often the incidents go unad- area for 48 years. “The basic question psychopath forward and forced the animal into Mountains to the Grand Canyon of dressed, such as when Gleason and is, ‘What is the appropriate relation- YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, headlong retreat. Arizona, major parks are grappling the children approached the bull ship with humans and nature?’” WYOMING: Tourist John Gleason Record visitor numbers at the with illegal camping, vandalism, elk with no park personnel around. Recent events at Yellowstone Reuters crept through the grass, four small nation’s first national park have theft of resources, wildlife harass- Gleason said he was “maybe” too grabbed national headlines: children close behind, inching toward transformed its annual summer ment and other visitor misbehaviour, close but felt comfortable in the situ- A Canadian tourist who put a a bull elk with antlers like small trees rush into a sometimes dangerous according to the records obtained ation as an experienced hunter who’s bison calf in his SUV hoping to save WASHINGTON: A former top at the edge of a meadow in Yellow- frenzy, with selfie-taking tourists through a Freedom of Informa- spent lots of time outdoors. it, ending with wildlife workers euth- adviser to President Barack stone National Park. routinely breaking park rules and tion Act request. In July alone, law These transgressions add to rang- anising the animal when they could Obama yesterday labelled Don- “They’re going to give me a heart getting too close to Yellowstone’s sto- enforcement rangers handled more ers’ growing workload that includes not reunite it with its herd. ald Trump a “psychopath”, saying attack,” said Gleason’s mother-in- ried elk herds, grizzly bears, wolves than 11,000 incidents at the 10 most traffic violations, searches for miss- Three visitors from Asia cited on the Republican presidential nom- law, Barbara Henry, as the group and bison. visited national parks. ing hikers and pets running off-leash separate occasions for illegally col- inee met the clinical definition of came within about a dozen yards of Law enforcement records In Yellowstone, rangers are in parks intended to be refuges of lecting water from the park’s thermal the personality disorder. the massive animal. obtained by The Associated Press recording more wildlife violations, untrammeled nature. features. With a little more than two The elk’s ears then pricked up, suggest such problems are on the rise more people treading on sensitive “It’s more like going to a carnival . A Washington state man killed months to go before the Novem- and it eyed the children and Wash- at the park, offering a stark illustra- thermal areas and more camping If you look at the cumulative impacts, after leaving a designated board- ber 8 US election, the comments ington state man before leaping up tion of the pressures facing some of in off-limit areas. The rule-break- the trends are not good,” said Susan walk and falling into a near-boiling by David Plouffe, a former sen- a hillside. Other tourists — likewise America’s most treasured lands as ing puts visitors in harm’s way and Clark, a Yale University professor of hot spring. ior adviser to President Barack Obama and manager of his 2008 presidential campaign, mark another escalation in a series of blows exchanged between Speed streaks Declining mussels in New Trump’s camp and that of his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton. “Basically, you have a psy- chopath running for president. I England cause alarm mean, he meets the clinical defini- tion,” Plouffe said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press”. AP mussels are used in seafood dishes When challenged, Plouffe and worth millions to the economy acknowledged he had no degree of some New England states, but are in psychology but rattled off what PORTLAND, MAINE: New England also important in moving bacteria he said were the New York busi- is running out of mussels. and toxins out of the water. nessman’s symptoms: “grandiose The Gulf of Maine’s once strong “It’s so disheartening to see it notion of self-worth; pathologi- population of wild blue mussels is (the loss) in our marine habitats. cal lying; lack of empathy and disappearing, scientists say. A study We’re losing the habitats they cre- remorse.” led by marine ecologists at the Uni- ate,” she said. The Trump campaign did not versity of California at Irvine found Disheartening, and also some- immediately respond to a request the numbers along the gulf coastline times a smelly nuisance. Thousands for comment. Last week, Clinton have declined by more than 60 per- of dead mussels washed up last accused Trump of fueling Amer- cent over the last 40 years. week on the shores of Long Island, ica’s “radical fringe” with racist Once covering as much as two- New York, and a Stony Brook Uni- rhetoric, while Trump said Clinton thirds of the gulf’s intertidal zone, versity professor said the die-off was letting down black Americans mussels now cover less than 15 could be attributable to warm water with failed policies and called her percent. temperature. a “bigot who sees people of col- “It would be like losing a forest,” The Sorte study focused on 20 our only as votes, not as human said biologist Cascade Sorte, who sites along the gulf, using histori- beings.” with her colleagues at the university cal data to compare today’s mussel Obama has also lambasted conducted the study and recently populations to those of the past. Trump, saying of him: “Some- published their findings in the Glo- She said the decline of mussels isn’t body who makes those kinds bal Change Biology journal. due to just one factor — warming of statements doesn’t have the The Gulf of Maine stretches from ocean water, increases in human The Breitling Jet Team participates in pre-race festivities prior to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pure judgment, the temperament, the Cape Cod to Canada and is a key harvesting and the introduction of understanding to occupy the most Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway yesterday in Brooklyn, Michigan. marine environment and impor- new predatory invasive species all powerful position in the world.” tant to commercial fishing. Blue appear to play a role. 14 MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 AMERICAS

Iran courts Venezuela Hurricane Colombia ready Gaston regains strength in for end of the Atlantic war with FARC AFP WASHINGTON: Hurricane Gaston picked up strength yesterday as it definitive end to the fighting. swirled in the Atlantic east of Ber- Peace “begins to be a reality,” muda, the US National Hurricane Guerrillas prepare to FARC leader Rodrigo Londono wrote Center (NHC) reported. surrender weapons on his Twitter account. Gaston has sustained maxi- to government. Colombian media reported that mum winds of 150km per hour, the rebel chief was to issue cease- the Miami-based NHC said in its fire orders to his troops yesterday 0900 GMT bulletin. from Havana. The centre of Gaston was AFP “The ceasefire is really one more located 620 miles east of Ber- seal on the end of the conflict. It is muda and was moving towards the test of fire,” said Carlos Alfonso the northwest at a speed of six Velazquez, an expert on security at miles per hour. BOGOTA: Colombia readied for a the University of La Sabana. In his Gaston became the third rendezvous with history at midnight view, the end of Latin America’s old- named hurricane of the Atlantic Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (left) and his Venezuelan counterpart Delcy Rodriguez yesterday when the guns fall silent est conflict has been “practically a season on Thursday, but quickly in a 52-year-old war between the fact for the past year.” hold a joint press conference in the Yellow House in Caracas, Venezula, yesterday. weakened to a tropical storm. It state and the Revolutionary Armed The last clash between Colom- then strengthened and regained Forces of Colombia, the South bian security forces and FARC rebels its hurricane status late Saturday. American country’s largest leftist was on July 8, according to Cerac, a The hurricane was forecast to rebel group. research group that monitors vio- turn north today, and the NHC’s “The end of the conflict has lence by Colombia’s armed groups. five-day forecast cone has Gaston arrived!” President Juan Manuel “The FARC prepared for D-Day,” Two Chicago brothers charged then moving northeast and into Santos exulted on his Twitter read the headline on its latest report the open Atlantic by Thursday. account Friday after signing a on the conflict. The NHC issued no coastal decree to halt military operations Santos and Timochenko will watches or warnings, though it against the FARC, as the rebel group sign the final peace agreement in murder of NBA star’s cousin did say that Gaston was expected is known. sometime between September 20 to strengthen during the next 48 The measure goes into effect and 26, Defence Minister Luis Car- Reuters said Chicago Police spokesman largest cities in recent years. hours. at midnight (0500 GMT), five days los Villegas said Saturday. Anthony Guglielmi on Twitter yes- Aldridge’s death has drawn Gaston’s hurricane-force after the conclusion of peace nego- Villegas did not say who would terday morning. national attention because of the winds extend outward up to 15 tiations that have been underway in attend or where it will be held, but CHICAGO: Two brothers have been Guglielmi described Derren Sor- connection to Wade, a 12-time miles from its centre, and its trop- Havana since November 2012. Santos has said the signing could arrested and charged in the shoot- rells as a “documented member” of National Basketball Association All- ical-storm-force winds extend Throughout that period the war take place at UN headquarters in ing death of basketball star Dwyane a Chicago gang called the Gang- Star who signed a two-year, $47.5m outward up to 140 miles. continued, with the government New York, or in Havana or Bogota. Wade’s cousin in Chicago, a case that ster Disciples and the older Sorrells deal this summer to play for his Although the Atlantic hurri- refusing a truce for fear that any let- The ceasefire and definitive end has emerged as a talking point in the as a “co-conspirator” who was “let hometown team, the Chicago Bulls. cane season officially runs from up in the military pressure would of hostilities will be followed by a US presidential race, police said yes- out early” on a sentence of six years Wade described his cousin’s kill- June 1 to November 30, this year’s enable the FARC to rebuild a force six-month demobilisation process terday. after his conviction on a gun charge ing as “another act of senseless gun first hurricane — Alex — formed currently officially estimated at 7,500 in which guerrilla fighters gather at Darwin Sorrells Jr, 26, and Der- from 2013. violence” on Twitter. in January during an unusual fighters. Nevertheless, as the negotia- collection points and give up their ren Sorrells, 22, are facing charges of It was not clear whether the In a campaign speech in Iowa weather event. tions deepened, the FARC declared a weapons under UN supervision. first-degree murder and attempted brothers had a lawyer. on Saturday, Republican presiden- The Climate Prediction unilateral ceasefire in July 2015, and Beginning today, Villegas murder in the death of Nykea In a city with as many as 90 tial candidate Donald Trump said Center of the National Oceanic the government responded by sus- said, “corridors” will be identified Aldridge, a 32-year-old mother of shootings a week, homicides in Chi- Aldridge’s shooting illustrated why and Atmospheric Administra- pending air attacks on the rebels. through which guerrillas will move four, who was hit in crossfire on cago this year are on track to reach black voters would rally behind tion (NOAA) initially estimated the The ceasefire that went into toward 22 zones and six encamp- Friday while pushing a baby in a their highest since 1997, raising con- him, calling it an example of vio- Atlantic would see between 10 and effect at midnight will be the first ments where they will turn in their stroller. cern about a reversal in the declining lence that Democrats have failed 16 storms this year, but recently in which both sides commit to a weapons. Both brothers were on parole, rate of serious crime in the country’s to address. updated its prediction to 17.

Dallas police squelch critics and Shadow of bridge scandal looms over Governor Christie questions about AP allegedly causing gridlock in neigh- racked up about $1m in legal fees. Its New York and New Jersey executive bouring Fort Lee, New Jersey, to report issued in December 2014 also Bill Baroni and former Christie dep- sniper attack punish a Democratic mayor for not concluded Christie didn’t know about uty chief of staff Bridget Kelly with endorsing Christie. the plan to close the lanes. wire fraud and civil rights violations. AP NEWARK, NJ: With soaring approval A brief look at who has been The bridge scandal “has com- ratings and prospects of a land- affected by the lane-closing scandal: THE GOVERNOR pletely altered the trajectory of slide reelection in the fall of 2013, it Christie’s approval rating hit 70 Chris Christie’s career,” said Ben DALLAS: The day after five Dal- appeared little could slow New Jersey THE TAXPAYERS percent in a Monmouth University Dworkin, director of the Rebovich las officers were killed by a sniper, Governor Chris Christie’s (pictured) New Jerseyans are on the hook poll early in 2013, a residual effect Institute for New Jersey Politics at the city’s police chief described political ascension. for well over $10m in legal expenses of his high visibility and round- Rider University. the men as “guardians” of democ- Then came the traffic cones. stemming from the scandal, the the-clock efforts in the aftermath It broke open just as Christie was racy, praising them for protecting It likely took a matter of min- bulk of it billed by Gibson, Dunn and of Superstorm Sandy. By June 2014, embarking on his second term with the freedom to protest at a large utes for police to move them on the Crutcher, a law firm that has repre- that number had fallen to 50 percent, a clear mandate, Dworkin said. His demonstration against police bru- morning of September 9 and reduce sented members of Christie’s office and by May 2015, to 35 percent. Last unsuccessful presidential run took tality. an approach to the George Washing- who have been subpoenaed by the US month, a Rutgers-Eagleton poll of more time away from tackling key President Barack Obama later ton Bridge from three lanes to one. attorney’s office or by a state legisla- registered voters put his approval issues including public pensions, eulogised the slain officers, saying Three years later, the repercus- tive committee. rating at 26 percent. funding for transportation projects they died while defending essen- sions linger — for the Republican The firm also authored a March Perhaps more telling, 69 per- and property tax relief. tial constitutional rights. governor and others. 2014 report that absolved Christie of cent of people polled by Monmouth “The impact is that New Jersey But nearly two months after Next month, one of his former blame, though it didn’t interview sev- University in May 2015 felt Christie hasn’t really been dealing with its the shootings, Dallas police have aides and a former top appointee to eral people at the heart of the alleged hadn’t told the whole truth about the biggest issues until the presidential moved to silence critics and the agency that operates the bridge scheme. A special state legislative scandal. That month, an indictment campaign ended for Christie,” Dwor- squelch lingering questions about into New York City go on trial for panel investigating the lane closures charged former Port Authority of kin said. the attack. Officers in riot gear have been told to ticket protest- ers who block or disrupt traffic, and Police Chief David Brown has refused to meet with dem- 10,000th Syrian set Last respects onstrators unless they agree to end their marches through down- town, which he says pose a threat to officers. to reach US shores Authorities have also refused to release even the most basic AP 10,000 Syrian refugees in the US in information about the slayings, the 2016 fiscal year will be reached including any details about the today, as several hundred Syrians weapons used, the autopsy find- AMMAN: The US will reach its tar- depart from Jordan over 24 hours. ings and ballistics tests that could get this week of taking in 10,000 The Jouriyeh family, which establish whether any officers Syrian war refugees in a year-old attended yesterday’s short cer- were hit by friendly fire. Police resettlement programme, the US emony, is headed to San Diego, have indicated that such infor- ambassador to Jordan said yester- California. mation could be withheld almost day, after meeting families headed Nadim Fawzi Jouriyeh, 49, a indefinitely. to California and Virginia. former construction worker from In addition, the police depart- The resettlement programme the war-ravaged Syrian city of ment’s most vocal, visible critic has emerged as an issue in the US Homs, said he feels “fear and joy, — a 27-year-old self-styled presidential campaign, with Repub- fear of the unknown and our new preacher with a criminal history lican nominee Donald Trump lives, but great joy for our children’s — has been arrested multiple alleging displaced Syrians pose a lives and future.” times in the last month on war- potential security threat. Jouriyeh, who suffers from heart rants that include unpaid traffic Alice Wells, the US ambassador problems, will be travelling with his tickets and attempts to revoke his to Jordan, said yesterday that keep- wife, Rajaa, 42, and their four chil- probation from a 2009 felony. On ing Americans safe and taking in dren. Their oldest son, 14-year-old Friday, Dominique Alexander was some of the world’s most vulnerable Mohammed, said he is eager to sign ordered to prison. people are not mutually exclusive. up for school in San Diego and hopes Alexander, the founder of the “Refugees are the most thor- to study medicine one day. protest network, believes he was oughly screened category of The resettlement programme Comrades of soldier Sergio Daniel Lopez, one of the eight soldiers killed in an ambush that according targeted because he refused to travellers to the United States, and focuses on the most vulnerable ref- to authorities bore the hallmarks of the guerrilla group Paraguayan People’s Army, pay their respects stop the demonstrations. Syrian refugees are subject to even ugees, including those who were in Concepcion, Paraguay, yesterday. “They try to hush and silence greater scrutiny,” she said. subjected to violence or torture or people,” he said. Wells said the target of resettling are sick. 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INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY HBJ Foundation to build hospital in Marrakesh

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Sheeps at live- DOHA: Jassim and Hamad Bin Jassim stock market of Charitable Foundation (HBJ Foundation) Qatar for Eid Al has signed a memorandum of under- Adha . standing (MoU) with Marrakesh State of Photo by @ Morocco to launch charitable projects in basitqu the field of health and housing. The MoU was signed by HBJ Foun- dation’s CEO Sa’eed Mathkar Al Hajri and for Marrakesh Chief Ahmed Akhshaisin, in the presence of offi- CMU-Q alumni honoured cials from both sides. Al Hajri said: “The MoU reiter- ates brotherhood bonds between the Qatari and Moroccan people and will strengthen cooperation in implemen- tation of the projects.” He said HBJ Foundation will build a 45-bed hospital and equip it as per Officials at the MoU signing ceremony. technical specifications required by the Moroccan Ministry of Health at Sidi Yousif Bin Ali in Marrakesh at a cost of He said the foundation will focus area and is the cornerstone for collabo- defined in architectural designs of each QR17m. The foundation stone will be on improving maternal and child ration with HBJ Foundation in response project. It will also issue administrative laid on November 6. health and set up health centres in to official requests. A steering commit- and technical licenses and approvals Both sides also agreed to build small villages and link them to the tee was formed to follow up all steps for implementing and operating health Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) alumni Asma vocational training centres to empower hospital. until the completion of the project, he and housing projects. Saeed Al Kuwari, Maryam Al Semaitt and Abdulla AlKhenji youth, support existing centres, build A kidney dialysis centre will also added. The hospital will be named after were awarded for best three startup ideas from Qatar during schools for different educational lev- be built with necessary equipment. As per the five-year MoU, Marra- Sheikh Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani and the inaugural GCC Entrepreneurs Forum in Bahrain. els and a housing project comprising Akhshaisin said the hospital is part kesh will provide land for the projects the foundation will bear the cost of its 200 homes. of a plan to meet health needs in the based on areas and specifications equipment. Qatar regional HQ of Gusi Peace Prize International

By Raynald C Rivera “We need more public figures The 2017 edition of the award, The Peninsula from the region to receive this award Efaifa said, is expected to witness as a gesture of support for their vital nominations from four Arab coun- role in the promotion of stability in tries including Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt various fields because our region and Jordan. DOHA: Gusi Peace Prize Interna- needs stability,” said Efaifa. Based in the Philippines, Gusi tional, an award-giving body which Barry Gusi, Chairman of the Peace Prize was established in 2002 recognizes individuals and groups board, said Qatar was chosen to be as a charitable institution whose who have contributed to global peace the regional headquarters of the main aim is to give proper recogni- and progress, has chosen Qatar as prize because of its good reputation tion through conferment of awards of regional headquarters. in the international community and excellence to groups and individuals Doha College IGCSE students celebrate their exceptional results. The announcement came during its continuous contribution to pro- around the world who have con- a press conference held at Crowne viding peaceful solutions to problems tributed to the attainment of peace, Plaza Doha yesterday to reveal the around the world. progress and respect for human life Doha College students celebrate results nominees from the Mena region. Of the 70 nominees this year, and dignity. “We want to announce that the two come from the MENA region, Since it was launched, the award Gusi Peace Prize has selected Qatar namely Emirati businessman Abdul- has honoured more than 200 fig- The Peninsula At A level, results were impres- as regional headquarters because Ali Mohammed Said Efaifa, lah Mohammad Mullah (Economic ures, among them are 17 former sive with 84 percent of all grades Qatar has become a wellspring of who Gusi Peace Prize last year, Development) and Sheikh Abdul- presidents. Apart from Efaifa, past at A* - C and 42 percent of grades political, social and economic sta- speaking at the press conference lah Al Badri (Social Services), who laureates from the GCC include Saad at A*/A. “The figures are much in- bility It has also contributed to peace at Crowne Plaza Hotel yesterday. established a university and helped Nahar Al Baddah Al Mutairi (Saudi DOHA: Doha College is celebrating line with the top 100 UK schools, a efforts in Middle East and Africa,” Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula improve the lives of people in Sudan. Arabia, Human Rights of Over- another set of results as its students measure associated with an out- said Ali Hamad Efaifa, who is the A five-day festival will be held seas Workers and Anti-Corruption performed remarkably well in the standing school. With these results, first Qatari laureate recognized for receive the prize last year and hopes in Manila, Philippines this year to be Advocacy), Bandar Bin Sultan (Saudi 2016 examinations. At (I) GCSE, 96 95 percent of our students will be his contribution to “Poverty allevi- to have more leading figures from the attended by the laureates who will be Arabia, Statesmanship & Academe) percent of students achieved 5+ A* heading off to universities around ation and job creation.” region to get nominated and awarded recognized during the awards cere- and Hissah bint Saad Abdulad Salem - C grades with 58.7 percent secur- the world to continue studies,” the He said he was honoured to the prize. mony on November 25. Al Sabah (Kuwait, Women’s Rights). ing 5 or more A* to A grades. college said in a statement. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 18 QE 11,197.48 -62.67 PTS PAGE | 19 DOW 18,395.40 -53.01 PTS Qatargas security Opec market section achieves FTSE100 6,838.05 +21.15 PTS share at a good ISO 28000 BRENT $47.29 +$0.31 level: UAE Minister

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on account of higher transport costs, growth has slowed to 10 percent y/y but housing oversupply has capped due to slower credit growth. Credit Key rates remain rent rises, NBK’s ‘Qatar chart book’ growth slowed to 14 percent y/y in unchanged despite a noted yesterday. June; credit to the private sector is Falling demand coupled with a expanding at the slowest rate (10 per- 25 bps hike in Fed rate surfeit of new properties on the mar- cent y/y) since 2011. in December, 2015. ket have seen real estate prices trend With both public and private lower in 2Q16. Project awards have sector deposits down in 2016, total lagged considerably in 2016 due to deposit growth (1 percent y/y in financing constraints and project June) is the slowest in years. Banks By Satish Kanady spending rationalisation. are relying more on non-resident The Peninsula The fiscal surplus fell to 1.2 per- deposits, interbank funds and debt cent of GDP last year as revenues to compensate for the decline in Talks on EU-US were hit by lower oil and gas (LNG) deposits. Net foreign liabilities have prices. The government’s debt pro- surged since 2015 on the back of trade deal failed: DOHA: Amid lower-than-expected file will rise further in 2016 as it taps increased foreign lending and non- project spending and tighter liquid- the bond/credit markets to plug the resident deposit-taking. Rates are off German Minister ity, Qatar’s economy is cooling down fiscal shortfall. Almost $12 bn worth their June highs after the Qatar Cen- to a steadier growth. The country’s of sovereign debt has been issued in tral Bank (QCB) reduced its monthly growth slowed to 1.1 percent y/y in 2016, including a $9bn USD-denom- T-bill sales; the foreign bond sale AP the first quarter of 2016 (Q1, 16) due inated bond in May. Qatar’s Current helped liquidity. to a contraction in oil output and Account surplus fell to 8 percent of Key rates remain unchanged moderating non-hydrocarbon sec- GDP in 2015 from 23 percent of GDP despite a 25 bps hike in the US Fed BERLIN: Free trade talks between tor expansion. While crude output in 2014 with the decline in export funds rate in December 2015. For- the European Union and the declined from 0.7 mb/d to 0.66 mb/d (goods) revenues. ward rates remain elevated due to United States have failed, Ger- in 2015, gas production rose. decline; the LNG price in Japan, than halved since mid-2014. Infla- Banks’ assets reached $321.5 speculative pressure. CDS began many’s economy minister said Gas prices have mimicked oil’s Qatar’s largest market, has more tion rose to 2.7 percent in July mainly bn in June (193 percent of GDP), but trending lower in June when oil yesterday, citing a lack of progress on any of the major sections of the long-running negotiations. Both Washington and Brussels have pushed for a deal by the end of the year, despite strong mis- Female workforce givings among some EU member states over the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partner- ship, or TTIP. participation in Sigmar Gabriel (pictured), who is also Germany’s Vice Chancellor, compared the TTIP negotiations unfavorably with a Qatar on the rise free trade deal forged between the 28-nation EU and Canada, which he said was fairer for both sides. By Mohammad Shoeb GCC governments, including Qatar, “In my opinion, the negotiations The Peninsula which is evidenced by the highest with the United States have de ever rates of entrepreneurial and facto failed, even though nobody business activity by regional women. is really admitting it,” Gabriel said. The small and mid-sized enter- DOHA: The increasing support of prises (SME’s) led by women manage the government towards educa- assets in the GCC worth $385bn, Barzan gas tional and economic empowerment and are at the forefront of the eco- of women and their leadership has nomic transformation of the region project to start led to a rise in the participation of backed by increased literacy and female labour force in Qatar with educational opportunities, slowly in November the highest female labor force par- changing cultural attitudes, and gov- ticipation rate (59 percent) among all ernment policies aimed at reducing the GCC member states according to dependence on foreign labor. Fur- Reuters a latest report on GCC women’s eco- thermore, availability of diverse Officials at the MoU signing ceremony. nomic power. employment opportunities, techno- As a result of growing interest logical advances and information DOHA: Qatar will begin opera- of women in attaining higher aca- democratisation is inspiring several tions at its Barzan gas project in demic qualification, the educational women to start their own businesses. November, two people close to the degrees of working women in the According to the report, women KNPC signs MoU with GORD matter said, as the country strives country is higher than their male entrepreneurs in the region to meet rising domestic energy counterparts. However, the upper increased from 4 percent to 10 demand as it prepares to host the management positions are gener- percent in the period 2011-14, sig- soccer World Cup in 2022. ally occupied by men, especially in nificantly narrowing the gender gap The Peninsula environmental projects, and the that GORD’s objective is to achieve The $10bn project is a RasGas- the private sector, noted the report in entrepreneurial intentions. company’s objective is to replace 15 a balance between the growing operated joint venture between titled ‘GCC Women—Entrepre- This has spurred regional gov- percent of the company’s electric- requirements of development and Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil. neurs in New Economy’ published ernments to collaborate with ity usage in warehouses and current the preservation of the environment It will boost Qatari gas pro- by Al Masha Capital, a Dubai-based non-governmental bodies to iden- DOHA: The Kuwait National Petro- stations with solar energy by year via GSAS — the Global Sustainability duction by up to 2 billion cubic leading alternative investment man- tify and develop programmes to leum Company (KNPC) signed 2020. Assessment System, which has been feet per day when it reaches agement and advisory firm. support women entrepreneurial a memorandum of understand- This strategy is in line with the designed to comply with the specific capacity in the first half of 2017, The establishment of the ‘Qatari intentions and activities. The report ing with the Gulf Organisation for directives of The Emir of Kuwait H H needs of the Gulf region. the sources said. Business Women Forum’ by the gov- states that women in the GCC are Research and Development (GORD), Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al The memorandum of under- RasGas and Exxon Mobil rep- ernment was a very positive initiative fast approaching gender equality in to take significant steps in the areas Sabah and KNPC has already taken standing aims at enhancing resentatives were not immediately to encourage women’s leadership business start-up intentions, pos- of environmental issues and green steps in this regard by installing solar cooperation between the two parties available to comment. in the private sector. Although, the sibly resulting in greater parity in buildings. panels in its three refineries. in the field of research and devel- Qatar, the world’s leading LNG prevailing social concepts influence the next wave of entrepreneurship The MoU was co-signed by KNPC The Qatari ambassador stressed opment in environmental issues exporter, faces growing domes- their occupational choices, the range in the region. CEO Mohammed Ghazi Al Mutairi, on the importance of such collabo- particularly related to the field of tic energy needs as it pursues a of suitable jobs for women has been However, this calls for increased and the Founding Chairman GORD, rations and exchange of expertise oil and gas. $200bn infrastructure upgrade broadened by a small percentage of formal entrepreneurial education Dr. Yousef Alhorr, in the presence of between major Gulf organisations It also supports the concept of ahead of the World Cup tourna- women who work as doctors, law- and training to bring their ideas to the ambassador of Qatar to Kuwait, in order to strengthen the alliance green buildings by implementing ment. Much of the production yers and police officers. fruition and successfully own and Hamad bin Ali Henzab, and DCEOs and achieving common goals. GSAS standards at KNPC current from Barzan, located in the North The pivotal role of women entre- manage established businesses. and managers from both sides. Dr. Alhorr commented that his and future projects as well as train- Field gas reservoir off the coast preneurship for economic growth Although the success rate stands On the occasion, Al-Mutairi organisation is pleased to partner ing and developing human resources of Qatar, will be directed to the and development is widely being at 40 percent, this number is rap- mentioned that the National Petro- with KNPC towards implementing in green building standards and best power and water sector, RasGas recognised and encouraged by all idly rising. leum gives high importance to sustainability best practices and practices. has said. 18 MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 BUSINESS Squire Patton Boggs hosts Qatar’s Fellowship winner

were awarded the 2016 Fellowship by education. With a particular focus the Squire Patton Boggs Foundation on those affected by poverty, con- Ceremony organised in May and the only Fellow from a flict and disaster, EEA champions the to recognise Asma Al non-US law school. Asma, who com- needs of children, youth and women. pleted her undergraduate studies at Charbel Maakaron, Squire Patton Khulaifi’s successful Georgetown University in Qatar, has Boggs’ managing partner in Doha, completion of just embarked on her second year as praised Asma for her commitment, her Squire Patton a law student at Hamad Bin Khalifa hard work and professionalism University and is the Foundation’s and thanked the HBKU College of Boggs Foundation third Fellow from Qatar. Law and Public Policy and EAA Fellowship. Since its establishment in 2000, for their participation: “Asma has the Squire Patton Boggs Foundation proven herself an outstanding Fel- has awarded fellowships to more low and a credit to her law school. than 190 law students to pursue sum- I am delighted that we could recog- mer internships with organisations nize Asma’s achievement today in the The Peninsula working in the public interest and in company of esteemed guests and col- public policy. The program has con- leagues. Qatar continues to produce tributed more than $10m towards a stream of excellent lawyers and at US Ambassador to Qatar Dana Shell Smith and other officials at the event to to recognise Asma Al Khulaifi’s pro-bono legal services in public Squire Patton Boggs we are proud to successful completion of her Squire Patton Boggs Foundation Fellowship. DOHA: Squire Patton Boggs, one of interest law. support their development, whether the world’s strongest integrated legal Asma, who has previously been through training programmes and service and the considerations of that possible. Asma’s internship was strengthen the commitment to pub- practices, hosted a ceremony in its involved in numerous initiatives, internships or with our Fellowships international policy work. It is great a great opportunity for all of us to lic service in the country: “I continue Doha office to recognise Asma Al including the United Nations Doha and collaborative ventures.” that a new generation of talented learn from each other. I hope that to be impressed by the dedication and Khulaifi’s successful completion of Youth Forum on Crime Prevention Reflecting on the advancement of Qatari lawyers like Asma can take Asma will benefit from her experi- enthusiasm of all involved, in gov- her Squire Patton Boggs Foundation and Criminal Justice, completed her legal education in Qatar, Dean Clin- advantage of the Fellowships that ence at EAA which will encourage ernment, and in the private and the Fellowship. Squire Patton Boggs Foundation Fel- ton Francis commented: “With our the Squire Patton Boggs Foundation her interest in pursuing a professional voluntary sectors. I would single out The event was attended by sev- lowship working at Education Above Juris Doctor program, we set out to offers.” career in the non-profit sector.” in particular those organizations eral guests, including US Ambassador All (EAA). EAA is an initiative founded establish a first-of-its-kind graduate Peter Klanduch, Senior Program Ambassador Dana Shell Smith which work tirelessly to empower to Qatar Dana Shell Smith and Dean in 2012 by HH Sheikha Moza bint law degree for the Mena region. But Manager (Law and Education) at EAA, commented on the exceptional efforts women, and it is particularly pleas- Clinton Francis of the Hamad Bin Nasser of Qatar; the organization’s alongside the best academic training added: “I want to thank Asma Al Khu- being made by numerous organiza- ing to note that all three Qataris who Khalifa University (HBKU) College aim is to build a global movement there is always a need for practical laifi for her contribution to the EAA tions in Qatar both to expand and have been recipients of the Squire of Law and Public Policy. that contributes to human, social experience and, especially, expo- over the summer and the Squire Pat- develop international legal edu- Patton Boggs Foundation Fellowship Asma is one of 18 individuals who and economic development through sure to the best traditions of public ton Boggs Foundation for making cation and best practice, and to have been gifted women students.” Qatargas security section achieves ISO 28000 Sinopec profit slips The Peninsula as refining fails to

DOHA: Qatargas yesterday announced its Security Section has counter oil crash achieved ISO 28000 accreditation for security operations in Ras Laffan Industrial City and Doha Head Office. ISO 28000 is a global security stand- Bloomberg In the second half, Sinopec ard specifying the requirements for a expects crude production at 147 mil- Supply Chain Security Management lion barrels and natural gas output System. at 421.2 billion cubic feet. Sinopec The certification was accred- HONG KONG: China Petroleum will raise refining throughput to 120 ited by the UK-based Lloyd’s Register & Chemical Corp, the world’s big- million tons in the second half of the Quality Assurance Limited (LRQA), gest oil refiner, posted a 22 percent year, from 115.9 million in the first one of the most reputable certifica- decline in profit for the first half of six months, the company said. tion bodies in the world. According the year as oil’s collapse overpow- China’s oil refiners earlier this to LRQA, “Qatargas has become the ered the boost from cheaper crude year got a boost from a government first LNG Company in the region to used to make fuels and chemicals. policy that halts retail fuel price achieve UKAS accredited certifica- Net income dropped to 19.9bn adjustments when oil falls below tion of ISO 28000.” yuan ($3bn), the Beijing-based com- $40 a barrel, putting a floor under The accreditation documents pany known as Sinopec said in a gasoline and diesel prices while were handed over to Qatargas by statement to the Shanghai stock crude continued to drop. The rule an official of LRQA in a ceremony exchange on Sunday. Revenue boosted margins during Sinopec’s held last week at Qatargas Doha slumped 37 percent to 879.2bn yuan. first quarter, when net income tri- Head Office. One of China’s so-called Big pled from a year ago to 6.66bn yuan. Security Management is one of Three oil companies, Sinopec’s The nation’s refiners processed the main pillars to safeguard oper- Officials at the ceremony held last week at Qatargas Doha Head Office. earnings compare with a 98 a record amount in the first half of ations. Qatargas has established a percent profit drop by rival Pet- 2015 as they capitalised on oil’s drop robust best practice security man- roChina Co, the country’s biggest to a 12-year low and as independ- agement system to fulfil the stringent management systems and will sup- functions within Qatargas have pre- Division, Learning and Develop- producer, and the first-ever half- ent refiners took advantage of looser requirements of the ISO 28000. port Qatargas in its commitment to viously been certified by a number of ment Department, Human Resources year loss by Cnooc Ltd, its largest restrictions on how they source The Security Management being the World’s Premier LNG Com- internationally-acclaimed accredi- Department, Medical Services Divi- offshore explorer. Oil refiners typ- crude and sell fuels. Refinery runs System (ISO 28000) is in comple- pany providing reliable and clean tation bodies. These include the sion, Shipping Department, and ically gain when crude slumps since averaged 10.7 million barrels a day ment with the already established energy. Qatargas Laboratory Division, various functions within the Safety, they benefit from cheaper supply last month, slipping 2.7 percent from safety, environmental and quality Various departments and Emergency Management Services Environment and Quality Group. costs, though Sinopec is still vul- June’s record 11 million, as plants nerable to the price collapse as it’s shut for seasonal maintenance. the country’s third-biggest oil and Profits from fuel making have gas producer. Brent crude, the glo- started falling at integrated refin- bal benchmark, averaged about $41 ers from Exxon Mobil Corp. to Royal Domasco offers best a barrel during the first half of the Dutch Shell Plc as demand growth year, down roughly 30 percent from slows. Asian oil refiners from Sin- the same period in 2015. gapore to South Korea are cutting deals for Honda CR-V Crude production in the first operating rates as they grapple with a half of the year dropped 11.4 percent slump in margins. High costs and low to 154.2 million barrels, the com- prices have resulted in a decline in pany said in the statement, while China’s domestic crude output, where The Peninsula segment. Newly styled 18” Alloy natural gas output rose 10 percent aging fields are becoming too expen- wheels compliment the exterior to 388.7 billion cubic feet. Realised sive to maintain. The country’s total design enhancements highlighting price for crude oil fell almost 26 crude output has slipped 5.1 percent improved dynamism of CR-V. percent to 1,596 yuan a ton in the in the first seven months of the year, DOHA: Doha Marketing Services The CR-V combines its appeal- period, while that for natural gas while gas output has increased 3.1 Company (Domasco), the authorized ing style with abundant comfort and slid 19 percent to 1,267 yuan per percent. Capital expenditure in the distributor for Honda in Qatar, has convenience features. The cock- thousand cubic meters. first half was 13.5bn yuan. an incredible offer on Honda CR-V pit is like a command center, with right in time for back to school sea- options ranging from keyless entry son. With the purchase of every new and push button start to cruise con- 2016 Honda CR-V, customers will get trol and Bluetooth HandsFreeLink® up to QR 8,000 cash back along with support which lets the driver connect a Samsung Gear VR virtual reality calls while keeping their eyes on the headset and Galaxy S7 Edge smart- road and hands on the wheel. phone. The CR-V exemplifies the Honda The CR-V released an MMC in approach to safety. It boasts of 2015 with upscale styling, excellent Honda active-safety features such fuel efficiency and a host of stand- as the Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA) ard convenience driving features, with Traction Control System (TCS) whenever right turn signal is engaged quiet ride, plus innovative features, making it one of the most fun and which enhances handling stabil- or the lane watch button is pressed. the versatile CR-V is a great fit for functional compact SUVs in the Mid- ity and predictability especially in The display can show cars from one families or anyone with an active dle East. Following its launch in the poor traction conditions in addition or two lanes. lifestyle.” region, Honda CR-V won the “Best to Anti-Lock Brake Systems (ABS), Talking about Domasco’s special Greig Roffey, Head of Sales & Compact SUV” of the year award Electronic Brake Distributor (EBD) back to school offer, Faisal Sharif, the Marketing at Domasco Honda said, by Middle East Car of the Year and Hill Start Assist. Managing Director at Domasco said, “We are changing reality. While our (MECOTY) 2015. Moreover, 4WD EX and EX-L “Right in time for back to school sea- customers can enjoy the stylish and Compact on the outside and models exhibit Honda’s LaneWatch™ son, we are offering the best compact powerful Honda CR-V, their children roomy inside, the CR-V represents camera which provides wide-angle SUV of the region with an amazing will have the greatest mobile virtual an unparalleled balance of size view of the passenger side roadway cash back offer. With its car-like reality experience through Samsung Fuel prices are shown at a Sinopec gas station in Hong Kong. and capability in the compact SUV in the colour information display interior comfort, a smooth and Gear VR and Galaxy S7 Edge.” BUSINESS MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 19

QE INDICES SUMMARY QATAR STOCK EXCHANGE QE Index 11,197.48 0.56 % QE Total Return Index 18,116.78 0.56 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 4,210.13 0.09 % QE All Share Index 3,074.22 0.43 % QE All Share Banks & Financial Services 3,073.08 0.74 % QE All Share Industrials 3,342.03 0.72 % QE All Share Transportation 2,607.36 0.11 % QE All Share Real Estate 2,721.7 0.04 % QE All Share Insurance 4,698.86 0.25 % QE All Share Telecoms 1,260.64 0.08 % QE All Share Consumer Goods & Services 6,518.85 0.20 %

QE MARKET SUMMARY COMPARISON 28-08-2016 Today 25-08-2016 Previous day Index 11,197.48 11,134.81 Change 62.67 51.33 % 0.56 0.46 YTD% 7.36 6.76 Volume 4,277,414 4,008,999 Value (QAR) 164,862,064.29 179,732,315.04 Trades 2,966 3,552 Up 18 | Down 19 | Unchanged 03

WORLD STOCK INDICES Index Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low All Ordinaries 5631.431 -22.136 -0.39 5691.8 4762.1 Cac 40 Index/D 4395.21 -40.26 -0.91 4607.69 3892.46 Dj Indu Average 18481.48 -65.82 -0.35 18668.4 15450.6 Hang Seng Inde/D 22814.95 -5.83 0.03 23193.9 18278.8 Iseq Overall/D 6163.55 34.6 0.56 6791.68 5286.65 Karachi 100 In/D 39792.1 285.52 0.72 40213.89 29785 Nikkei 225 Index 16555.95 -41.35 -0.25 18951.12 14864.01 S&P 500 Index/D 2175.44 -11.46 -0.52 2193.81 1810.1

EXCHANGE RATE Currency Buying Selling US$ QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 UK QR 4.7773 QR 4.8448 Euro QR 4.0859 QR 4.1431 CA$ QR 2.7941 QR 2.8490 Swiss Fr QR 3.7505 QR 3.8043 Yen QR 0.0359 QR 0.0366 Vijay Nambiar is Magna Aus$ QR 2.7494 QR 2.8034 Opec market share at a Ind Re QR 0.0538 QR 0.0549 Pak Re QR 0.0344 QR 0.0351 Tyres’ GM of MEA Peso QR 0.0779 QR 0.0795 good level: UAE Minister SL Re QR 0.0248 QR 0.0254 The Peninsula Taka QR 0.0460 QR 0.0470 Nep Re QR 0.0337 QR 0.0343 Reuters SA Rand QR 0.2566 QR 0.2617 DOHA: Vijay Nambiar (pictured) is the new general manager of Magna GOLD AND SILVER DUBAI: Opec’s share of the oil market is at Tyres Group’s Middle East and Africa a good level, United Arab Emirates Energy office. GOLD QR155.4630 per gramme Minister Suhail bin Mohammed Al Mazroui Nambiar joins Magna Tyres SILVER QR2.1756 per gramme (pictured) said as the producer group contin- Group from Middle East trading ues to contend with low crude prices. company U.C.G.T, which he is said “Regardless of the different views on the oil to have built from scratch over a market, we see that the OPEC current market six-year period, and be brings more known premium brand,” com- share is at a good level,” Mazroui said on his than 30 years of tyre industry expe- mented Vijay. This goal is to further official Twitter account on Saturday. rience to his new role, including that enhance customer relationships ECB rates could Mazroui also said he believed that any gained within positions at Michelin and satisfaction within the region, future decision on oil production would and Bridgestone. The new general he said. require full participation from all members manager is also a trained Techno “We are very proud that Vijay stay low if other of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Commercial expert with experience has seized the opportunity to start Countries plus other major producers. in total tyre management. with this new office and he will play policy areas don’t “We acknowledge and understand the groups producers and consumers, in Algeria “I am very excited to start this an important role in enhancing the market challenges, but in my view our sector on September 26-28. new Magna Tyres office, which will Magna Tyres image in the region, is resilient to overcome it and achieve stabil- Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Khalid Al- provide great benefits to all custom- and the further expansion of the contribute: Coeure ity soon,” Mazroui added without elaborating. Falih told Reuters last week that he does not ers in the region with complete local company,” said Michael de Ruijter, Opec members will meet on the sidelines believe significant intervention in oil markets support in building Magna Tyres chief executive officer of Magna of the International Energy Forum (IEF), which is necessary at this time. brand image at par with any other Tyres Group. Reuters

JACKSON HOLE: Euro- China’s top 500 pean Central Bank rates Alfardan Premier Motors honoured could remain low unless firms report first other policy areas start contributing, raising The Peninsula revenue decline the risk that they could increasingly hit their effective lower limit, a top policymaker said. DOHA: Alfardan Premier Motors Co, the QNA In a largely academic speech, ECB Executive Board exclusive retailer of Jaguar Land Rover in member Benoit Coeure (pictured) also warned the the Qatar, was recognised for its sales activ- effect of monetary stimulus in such an environment ities in the fiscal year 2015-16 during Jaguar BEIJING: China’s top 500 enter- could be weakened and come with increasing side- Land Rover Middle East and North Africa prises reported their first annual effects. “They (stimulus measures) were taken on the Marketing conference held in Abu Dhabi. decline in combined revenues in implicit assumption that they would be transient,” The “Best Sales Activity 2015/2016” title 15 years with a 0.07 percent drop Coeure told the US Federal Reserve’s symposium in was presented to Alfardan Premier Motors last year. Jackson Hole. as a reward for their outstanding sales Among the top 500 firms, 155 “But if other economic policies do not in fact play activities and remarkable determination reported declines in revenues in this role, then we cannot exclude that the real equi- to overcome existing market challenges. 2015, 61 more than a year ago, librium rate remains low. Accepting the award on behalf of his with many of them representing “As such, we may see short-term rates being pushed team, Hussein Adra, Marketing and Cus- the overcapacity-plagued coal, to the effective lower bound more frequently in the tomer Relationship Manager for Alfardan steel, oil and chemicals industries. event of macroeconomic shocks; and the stimulus pro- Premier Motors, said: “Faced with current Meanwhile, 72 firms reported vided by lowering interest rates to that level would be market competition in the automotive losses, 15 more than a year ago, of course be much weaker.” industry, adopting the right approach to China’s News Agency (Xinhua) The ECB has cut rates deep into negative territory, ensure customer satisfaction is essential reported. China Enterprise Con- given banks free loans and buys 80 billion euros worth to our success. We are honoured to be rec- federation and China Enterprise of assets per month, but inflation has hovered near zero ognized by Jaguar Land Rover Middle East Directors Association unveiled the and is likely to undershoot its 2 percent target for at and North Africa for our work and continu- 2016 edition of the Top 500 Chi- least two more years. ous commitment to both brands as we strive nese Enterprises list. Coeure says ‘half-baked’ government reforms not to deliver the premium experiences, prod- The State Grid grabbed the helping ECB outlook ucts and services to customers in Qatar.” top spot with 2.07 trillion yuan Alfardan Premier Motors official receiving the award. ECB asset buys are scheduled to run out next March The Awards assess Jaguar Land Rover about ($310bn) in revenue, with but its cautious signals suggest the bank is in no hurry Retailer performance from across the oil giants China National Petro- to decide whether to extend or start winding down the region every year. Looking at different met- “Alfardan Premier Motors have been an team at Alfardan Premier Motors for tak- leum Corp. and Sinopec ranking programme then, suggesting that a decision will be rics, the awards recognise retailers for their integral part in the growth of Jaguar Land ing home the “Best Sales Activity” in the second and third. pushed into the fourth quarter. contribution to the success and growth of Rover in Qatar. Over the past year, Alfardan fiscal year 2015/2016. Their hard work and Haitong Securities, GF Securi- Coeure noted that a more frequent use of uncon- the Jaguar and Land Rover brands in the Premier Motors have ensured that our cus- dedication to their customers during the ties and China Galaxy Securities ventional tools comes with big side-effects, including region. tomers in Qatar have been able to enjoy last year, has raised the benchmark in the entered the list for the first time as stability risks, the erosion of proper market pricing and Mazen Kayssar, Retail Marketing Man- the great vehicles that our brands have region and I wish them all the best for the a bull stock market boosted their further downward pressure on real equilibrium rates. ager at Jaguar Land Rover Mena, said: to offer. I would like to congratulate the years to come.” revenues. BUSINESS VIEWS 20 MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016

Global central Customers stop plans of bankers unite US banks to cut branches in plea for help

By Howard Schneider keynote talk on possible mon- Reuters etary policy reforms to a list of fiscal and structural policies she feels would help the economy. Fiscal policy was not on the entral bankers in charge formal agenda for the conference, of the vast bulk of the but it was a steady part of the dia- world’s economy delved logue as policymakers thought deep into the weeds of through policies for a post-crisis Cmoney markets and interest rates world. One of the central worries over a three-day conference in is that households and businesses Jackson Hole, and emerged with have become so cautious and set a common plea to their col- in their outlooks — expecting leagues in the rest of government: little growth and little infla- please help. tion — that they do not respond Mired in a world of low in expected ways to the efforts growth, low inflation and low central banks have made. interest rates, officials from the That has included flooding Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan the financial system with cash, and the European Central Bank and voicing a steady commit- said their efforts to bolster the ment to their inflation targets in Reflections are seen in the windows of a Bank of America branch in New York. economy through monetary an effort to make people believe policy may falter unless elected they will be met. leaders stepped forward with Kuroda acknowledged that By Dan Freed banks have been slimming down, accord- according to Gordon Smith, JPMorgan’s bold measures. These would household expectations have Reuters ing to the International Monetary Fund’s head of consumer and community banking. range from immigration reform not moved, and said the BOJ was population-adjusted data. They have cut “Often I will be asked why don’t we just in Japan to structural changes to prepared to continue its battle to relatively more branches than banks in accelerate closings. Why don’t we close 400 boost productivity and growth in figure out how to shift them. In Germany, France or Canada, but not nearly or 500 branches?” Smith said at the 2016 the US and Europe. modern monetary theory, house- espite banks’ nudging toward as many as those in Greece, Ireland, Spain investor day. “The answer is that custom- Without that, they said, it holds and business expectations online tools, many US cus- or Italy. While other factors are at play, one ers won’t go there.” would be hard to convince mar- are felt to play a defining role tomers are not ready to give difference is that US customers still rou- John Elmore, vice chairman of com- kets and households that things in spending and investment up regular visits to their near- tinely use checks and need branches to munity banking and branch delivery at will get better, and encourage decisions, and thus in shaping est branch, complicating the process them, said Rick Spitler, managing US Bancorp, says branches are especially the shift in mood many econo- inflation and growth. Dindustry’s efforts to slim down. director at consulting firm Novantas. important for small businesses that need to mists feel are needed to improve “Japanese inflation dynam- US banks have trimmed the number of FDIC Chief Economist Richard Brown deposit cash frequently, prefer to negotiate economic performance world- ics remain vulnerable,” Kuroda branches by 6 percent since it peaked in said he often fields questions why the loans in person, or want strategic advice. wide. During a Saturday session said. “It could be that long-term 2009, according to Federal Deposit Insur- industry still has so many branches. “Proximity to their business is a very, at the symposium, such a slump inflation expectations are yet ance Corp data. The 93,283 branches open “This thesis that we have mobile bank- very important factor to their bank selec- in expectations about inflation to be anchored in Japan” at the at the end of last year was the lowest level ing and high-tech banking, therefore the tion and their continuing relationship with and about other aspects of the bank’s 2 percent target. in a decade. Yet analysts who have exam- branch offices are dinosaurs and going a bank,” Elmore said. economy was cited as a central The concern about expecta- ined the data say banks should have done away appears to be substantially over- Banks do keep trying to steer cus- problem complicating central tions is a paradox. The Fed for more to offset the pressure on revenue from stated,” he said. tomers to digital tools. They have reduced banks’ efforts to reach inflation example fought a difficult battle low interest rates and regulatory demands. The case for reining in sprawling branch the number of tellers and moved them to targets and dimming prospects with inflation in the 1970s, hiking The number of FDIC-insured banks networks as a way to cut costs looks com- the back. Their ATMs can perform more in Japan and Europe. interest rates to recession-pro- has fallen by more than 25 percent over pelling. The traditional branch costs sophisticated tasks and banks have devel- ECB Executive Board Member voking levels and eventually that time even as industry assets have roughly $2-4m to set up and $200,000- oped nifty mobile apps for routine banking Benoit Coeure said the bank was winning a war of credibility grown, indicating room for greater branch 400,000 per year to operate, according to needs. They are even experimenting with working hard to prevent public over its ability to rein in price consolidation. Ed O’Brien, an analyst at Mercator Advi- digital loan underwriting. expectations about inflation from increases. Bank executives argue, however, that sory Group. For big banks with thousands Yet customers still expect contact with becoming entrenched “on either But they also are hunting for branches remain crucial for acquiring new of branches — many of them clustered in bank staff and JPMorgan recently had to side” — neither too high nor too ways to jolt the economy out of customers and doing more business with pricey urban centres — it can get expensive. hire more tellers after customer complaints. low. But the slow pace of eco- its doldrums, and a fiscal push existing ones. Closures, they say, would hurt For instance, an eight block stretch JPMorgan and Wells Fargo data show nomic reform among European is a possible tool. revenue more than help reduce costs. near Manhattan’s Penn Station houses 14 most customers visit branches several times governments, he said, was dam- In a lunch address by Prin- “Our custom- bank branches — Astoria Bank, Apple Bank, every quarter, though younger clients tend aging the effort. ceton University economist ers still want to visit Capital One, Citibank, HSBC, PNC, TD Bank, to visit less often. It may be too early to tell “What we have seen since Christopher Sims, policymak- us,” Jonathan Velline, Sterling National Bank, Wells Fargo, two what happens in the long run when a big 2007 is half-baked and half- ers were told that it may take a Wells Fargo’s head of Bank of America branches, and three Chase bank shutters many branches. hearted structural reforms. massive program, large enough ATM and store strategy, branches. Yet bank executives argue that, in Bank of America Corp, which has closed That does not help supporting even to shock taxpayers into a said in an interview. a competitive market, they need to be foot- a quarter of its branches since 2009, could inflation expectations. That has different, inflationary view of “They’re still coming steps away from the best customers. eventually serve as a test case. The bank helped entertain disinflationary the future. to our stores and our Executives at JPMorgan Chase & Co, the says it is done with cuts, but Keefe Bruy- expectations,” Coeure said. “Fiscal expansion can replace US banks have ATMs at pretty consist- country’s largest bank, say each branch ette & Woods analyst Fred Cannon calls Bank of Japan Gover- ineffective monetary policy at the ent rates.” earns about $1m in annual profit, but takes for more. He also points to Citizens Finan- nor Haruhiko Kuroda said he zero lower bound,” Sims said. “It trimmed the number Bankers across the a decade to reach its full potential. cial Group Inc, KeyCorp, Comerica Inc is in regular talks with Japa- requires deficits aimed at, and of branches by 6 industry share that Chase bankers regularly scrutinise data and Zions Bancorp as banks that have not nese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe conditioned on, generating infla- view. They say online on branch foot traffic and what custom- slimmed down enough. about opening Japan to more tion. The deficits must be seen as percent since it banking complements ers do while inside to determine whether James Abbott, investor relations chief immigration and other politi- financed by future inflation, not peaked in 2009. The traditional services for a location should remain open, shut down for Zions, said the group had eliminated cally sensitive changes needed future taxes or spending cuts.” US customers, but few or shrink. The bank has shut 265 locations roughly 20 percent of its branches since to improve potential growth, cur- It was not clear whether such 93,283 branches open have gone fully digital. since 2013, roughly 5 percent of its network, 2009 and continued to evaluate further cuts. rently estimated at only around ideas will catch on. But there was at the end of last year The United States but executives insist that branches remain Cannon argues their costs are too high, one percent annually. a broad sense here that the other falls somewhere in the essential for JPMorgan’s relationships with and that they could eliminate locations Fed Chair Janet Yellen side of government may need to was the lowest level in middle among devel- customers. They are the best way to sell without giving up much revenue. “I think devoted the final page of her up its game. a decade. oped nations in terms clients many products and services rang- there’s going to be a real question about the of how aggressively its ing from mortgages to investment advice, cost of that branch infrastructure,” he said. Federal Reserve policymakers plan for ‘brave new world’

By Jason Lange and Such ideas would test the limits of “I suspect there are colleagues who are altogether and focus on urging runaway Ann Saphir political feasibility and some would need contemplating at least maybe a statically deficit-spending, were seen as ivory tower Reuters congressional approval. The view within the large balance sheet is just going to be a fact musings. Fed is that it could take effort to win over a of life and be central to the toolkit,” he said. Most policymakers, including Yellen, said public already skeptical of the unconven- Officials have said they will slowly let the it was likely the tools the Fed used to fight tional policies the Fed undertook during the balance sheet shrink, a process that would the last crisis, including rate cuts, bond pur- ederal Reserve policymakers are last crisis. take years and would not begin until interest chases and jawboning on rate expectations, signaling they could raise US inter- Policymakers think new tools might be rate increases are well underway. Substan- will be adequate. est rates soon but they are already needed in an era of slower economic growth tial progress could be made only in a very Still, she said, “future policymakers weighing new tools they may need and a potentially giant and long-lasting trove long-lived economic expansion. might choose to consider some additional Fto fight the next recession. of assets held by the Fed. “I am sure everyone in the audience tools that have been employed by other cen- A solid US labour market “has strength- And they are convinced the time to vet would be happy if this were the reality. I tral banks,” including buying a wider range ened” the case for the first rate increase since them is now, while rates look to be head- certainly would be,” Simon Potter, the New of assets or raising the inflation target. She Policymakers think new last December, Fed Chair Janet Yellen told a ing up. York Fed’s markets chief, said during the also cited the possibility of targeting the tools might be needed in central banking conference in Jackson Hole, “Central banking is in a brave new conference. average level of prices in the economy rather Wyoming. Several of her colleagues said the world,” Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lock- Yellen, in her speech on Friday, said bal- than their rate of change. an era of slower economic increase could come as soon as next month hart said in an interview on the sidelines of ance sheets would likely swell again in future Notably, her laundry list of possible tools growth and a potentially if the economy does well. the conference. recessions as the Fed snaps up assets to stim- did not include negative rates, an idea that Further rate hikes are expected to be few At the center of the Fed’s discussions is ulate the economy. has been nearly universally panned by Fed giant and long-lasting and far between as the US central bank tries its $4.5 trillion balance sheet, built up by The conference, attended by all but two officials. trove of assets held by to balance a desire to fuel growth against bond-buying sprees to combat the 2007- of the Fed’s 17 policymakers as well as cen- Yellen said the Fed is not actively consid- worries it could overheat the economy. 09 recession but which has been criticized tral bankers from around the world, also ering additional policy tools but participants the Fed. And they are But Fed officials at three-day conference by many lawmakers. presented a menu of more exotic proposals. at the conference suggested the process is convinced the time to vet that ended on Saturday also said they need While policymakers have maintained This included a Fed takeover of short-term already well underway. them is now, while rates to consider new policy tools for use down the Fed should eventually reduce its bond debt markets and abolishing cash in order “You are seeing an exploration of how the road, such as raising the inflation target holdings, Lockhart said some officials were to charge negative interest rates. are we going to operate in a quite different look to be heading up. or even Fed purchases of non-government- closer to accepting that they needed to learn Many of the more radical proposals, world than before the crisis,” Atlanta Fed backed assets like corporate debt. to live with them. including one to abandon monetary policy President Lockhart said. MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 21

Hafeez out Bailey stars in tense run chase Fowler as Pakistan snatches call-up Irfan Barclays as Australia take series lead AFP lead

LONDON: Pakistan’s Sri Lanka lose by Mohammad Hafeez has been Reuters ruled out of the remainder two wickets to deny of the tour of England, with Tillakaratne Dishan a giant paceman Mohammad NEW YORK: American Irfan being summoned into winning farewell Olympic team mates Rickie the squad as a replacement, in his final ODI Fowler and Patrick Reed will the Pakistan Cricket Board have one eye on victory and said on Saturday. another on the Ryder Cup in Top-order batsman the final round of The Barclays Hafeez was ruled out of Paki- AFP on New York’s Long Island stan’s four-wicket defeat in yesterday. the second one-day interna- Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne Dilshan (right) Fowler has a one-stroke tional by England at Lord’s receives a farewell from the crowd after declaring lead over his compatriot after on Saturday with what team DAMBULLA: Half-centurion George his retirement from One Day International cricket Saturday’s third round in the management said was a left Bailey starred in Australia’s tense run after yesterday’s match. first of four events making calf injury. chase as the visitors edged past Sri up the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup The 35-year-old had Lanka by two wickets in the third playoff series. a difficult tour, managing one-day international and took a 2-1 Extending his bogey-free just 102 runs in six innings lead in Dambulla yesterday. streak to 45 holes, Fowler before being dropped dur- Australia chased down 227 in 46 sank a four-foot birdie at ing Pakistan’s 2-2 draw in a overs to deny Sri Lankan batsman the last to edge ahead with a four-match Test series. Tillakaratne Dilshan a winning fare- three-under 68 on the tough Off-spinner Hafeez, well in his final ODI. Bethpage Black course in currently suspended from Bowlers set up the win for the Farmingdale. bowling because of an illegal visitors after restricting Sri Lanka to He posted a nine-under action and with a knee injury 226 all out in 49.2 overs with Dinesh 204 total while overnight that threated his tour partic- Chandimal top-scoring with 102. Australian batsman and Man of the Match George Bailey plays a leader Reed carded a 71 to sit ipation preventing him from The Sri Lankan bowlers also sweep during the third ODI against Sri Lanka and Australia at the alone in second place. Aus- undergoing a re-test, was made their presence felt with skip- Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket stadium in Dambulla yesterday. tralian Adam Scott (65) was a then dismissed for 11 in Eng- per Angelo Mathews providing the further shot adrift on seven- land’s 44-run rain-affected hosts with two early wickets includ- under after finding his putting win in the first ODI at South- ing that of his opposite number David Stadium. Bailey, whose 142-ball stay SCOREBOARD touch to post the lowest round ampton on Wednesday. Warner. was laced with five boundaries, held of the tournament. Now, with Pakistan 2-0 Mathews got Warner caught at fort as he got Matthew Wade for com- SRI LANKA AUSTRALIA Scott was also helped on down in the five-match one- point for 10 as Dilshan took a splen- pany and the batsmen put on 81 for K Gunathilaka b Starc 5 D Warner c Dilshan b Mathews 10 his way when he holed out for day series, 7ft 1in (2.1 metre) did catch. the fourth wicket to keep the visitors T Dilshan c Bailey b Zampa 42 A Finch lbw Aponso 30 an eagle from 95 yards at the paceman Irfan has been Aaron Finch, who scored a in sight of their target. K Mendis c Warner b Hazlewood 4 S Marsh c Chandimal b Mathews 1 first hole. called up in Hafeez’s place. 29-ball 30 with three fours and a six, Bailey posted his 20th ODI fifty. As well as the victory here, D Chandimal c Zampa b Faulkner 102 G Bailey b Prasanna 70 The 34-year-old left- was next to go after left-arm spinner Dilruwan Perera finally got Wade Fowler and Reed are vying for armer is expected to join Amila Aponso trapped the opening stumped for 42 to break the danger- A Mathews lbw Zampa 2 T Head b D Perera 36 Ryder Cup selection. The top Pakistan’s squad ahead of batsman lbw. ous stand and bring alive the packed D de Silva c Marsh b Faulkner 12 M Wade st K Perera b D Perera 42 eight on the points list on Sun- Tuesday’s third ODI at Not- Mathews struck again with his home crowd. K Perera b Starc 11 J Faulkner c D Perera b Aponso 4 day night automatically make

tingham’s Trent Bridge medium-pace to get Shaun Marsh, Soon leg-spinner Seekkuge Pras- T Perera c Marsh b Hastings 9 J Hastings (not out) 5 the American team to face ground in the English who was included in the XI in place anna got Bailey bowled in the 42nd holders Europe in five weeks. S Prasanna c Bailey b Zampa 3 M Starc c Prasanna b de Silva 12 Midlands. of resting Steve Smith, out for one over with Australia needing another Reed is currently eighth Hafeez, however, will and put the visitors in trouble at 44 23 runs for victory. D Perera c Warner b Hastings 17 A Zampa (not out) 5 with Fowler four places below. remain in England for for three. A wobbling Australia lost another A Aponso (not out) 1 Extras (LB-6, W-6) 12 Fowler probably needs a treatment. Travis Head and Bailey, who two wickets before Adam Zampa got Extras (LB-10, W-8) 18 Total (for 8 wkts in 46 overs) 227 top-three finish on Sunday The PCB statement said: scored a gritty 70, put on 62 runs for the winning runs as he got the ball Total (all out in 49.2 overs) 226 Fall of wickets: 1-31, 2-42, 3-44, 4-106, to lock down a spot and avoid “Hafeez complained about the fourth wicket to put the tourists’ sailing over extra cover where Dil- having to sweat out banking Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-23, 3-96, 4-103, 5-133, 5-187, 6-204, 7-206, 8-222. the pain in his left calf. He chase back on track as the duo scored ruwan Perera dropped the catch to on being called up as one of 6-154, 7-165, 8-178, 9-217, 10-226. Bowling: Mathews 7-0-30-2; T Perera 2-0- had a minor strain in his left runs at a decent pace. the delight of the visiting players and captain Davis Love’s four wild calf which ruled him out of Off-spinner Dilruwan Perera to the disappointment of a full house Bowling: Starc 10-0-42-2; Hazlewood 10-0- 18-0; Aponso 10-0-44-2; D Perera 10-0-45-2; card picks. the (rest of the) limited-overs bowled Head for 36 as batting sud- in Dambulla. 51-1; Hastings 10-1-41-2; Faulkner 9.2-0-44-2; T Dilshan 4-0-24-0; S Prasanna 9-0-39-1; D de “I think it’s pretty simple. part of the series against denly seemed difficult under lights Mathews, Aponso and Dilruwan Zampa 10-0-38-3. Silva 4-0-21-1. We’ve just got to go take care England. at the Rajgiri Dambulla International Perera took two wickets each. of business tomorrow,” Fowler Irfan has taken 81 wick- told reporters. ets in 59 ODIs at an average “It’s been a while since of 31.14, with a best of four for I’ve been in this position... I’m 30 against Zimbabwe at Bris- looking forward to it. It’s been bane during the 2015 World a long time coming.” Cup. Patience pays for Du Plessis as Kiwis slip Fowler’s long game has been far from perfect this week but he acknowledged AFP SCOREBOARD his short game had allowed ‘Brilliant’ him to move ahead. South Africa (I innings): “It was nice to see some putts go in. Short game has S Cook c Williamson b Bracewell 56 England CENTURION: Patience paid off for definitely been nice this week South African captain Faf du Plessis Q de Kock c Boult b Wagner 82 to save me at times,” he added. as he was rewarded with three quick H Amla c Watling b Wagner 58 “Sometimes hitting good delight Root wickets after grinding out a century J Duminy c Watling b Southee 88 putts but also hitting good on day two of the second Test against F du Plessis (not out) 112 pitch shots. Good combina- AFP New Zealand yesterday. tion but nice to have the putter S van Zyl c Taylor b Wagner 35 New Zealand finished the day finally working a bit.” at SuperSport Park on 38 for three, V Philander b Wagner 8 Reed, meanwhile, battled LONDON: Joe Root showed 443 runs behind South Africa’s first K Rabada c Nicholls b Santner 7 a wayward driver on the front plenty of Yorkshire grit in innings total of 481 for eight declared. D Steyn (not out) 13 nine, but did enough to stay making 89 as England beat Du Plessis made 112 not out off Extras (B-10, LB-4) 14 well in contention. Pakistan by four wickets in 234 balls and said he had stuck to a “My tee shots were off, Total (for 8 wkts decl) 481 Saturday’s second one-day plan. hanging right,” he said. “Felt international at Lord’s after In an era of rapid scoring in Test Fall of wickets: 1-133, 2-151, 3-246, like I got absolutely nothing a collision with team-mate cricket, much of South Africa’s innings 4-342, 5-342, 6-426, 7-442, 8-463. out of my round. Adil Rashid. was a return to a more attritional age, Bowling: Southee 35-4-114-1; Boult “Any time I tried to hit The county colleagues with the run rate hovering at around 35.4-7-107-0; Bracewell 30.2-9-98-1; my draw, seemed like it went both went for the same three an over. Santner 14-1-62-1; Wagner 39-8-86-5. right. That’s really the only catch in the deep before Du Plessis was particularly cau- New Zealand (I innings): thing I feel like I need to fix. Root somehow clung on to tious as he tiptoed to a fifth Test M Guptill c Van Zyl b Philander 8 “You can’t play out of the dismiss Hasan Ali, despite century off 225 balls. rough here and I felt like I the impact of Rashid run- But it paid off as reunited fast T Latham c De Kock b Steyn 4 was playing out of the rough ning into him. bowling pair Dale Steyn and Vernon K Williamson (batting) 15 all day. Shooting even par isn’t Root then had to Philander ripped out both openers R Taylor (run out) 1 that bad of a score.” undergo treatment on his before Ross Taylor was run out. H Nicholls (batting) 4 Reed finished in a tie for right ankle. It left New Zealand in deep trou- Extras (LB-1, W-5) 6 11th behind Briton Justin Rose England’s star batsman ble in a match which will decide the as golf marked its return to Total (for 3 wkts) 38 had little time to rest, with the series after the weather-hit, aban- the Olympics after a 112-year number three out in the mid- doned first Test in Durban. Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-13, 3-26. absence in Rio earlier this dle again after opener Jason Martin Guptill survived a sharp Bowling: Steyn 8-2-18-1; Philander 4-1- month. Fowler was back in a Roy’s second-ball duck. chance to Stiaan van Zyl at third slip 10-1; Rabada 4-0-9-0 (1w). tie for 37th. A few more visits from off Philander when he was on four, Third-placed Scott South Africa’s Faf du Plessis jumps to celebrate his century during the the physio followed as Root’s with the ball bursting through the decided late in the second well-paced innings paved the fielder’s hands for four more runs. not out and South Africa sought a second cricket test match against New Zealand at Centurion Park in round to putt more aggres- way for England to go 2-0 up But he gave a more straightfor- review. It was clear that the ball had Centurion, South Africa yesterday. sively and it paid off on in the five-match series. ward chance to the same fielder in deviated off the batsman’s trousers Saturday as he sank a couple Saturday’s win was set Philander’s next over without add- but only the faintest flicker on the of long ones. up by pace bowlers Mark ing to his score. ultra-edge device gave any indica- Taylor was struck twice, on the was beaten by a direct hit from Temba “I just thought, ‘what dif- Wood and Chris Woakes who Steyn then had the left-handed tion that it had touched the bat first. shoulder and arm, by lifting deliver- Bavuma. Pretoria-born Neil Wagner ference does it make if I hit between them reduced Paki- Tom Latham caught behind off an But television umpire Richard ies from Steyn and scored only one was New Zealand’s most successful this past the hole, because I’ve stan to two for three inside inside edge for four, although it Illingworth decided it was enough before pushing a ball from Kagiso bowler, taking five for 86. left every putt short?’. And if it four overs. seemed a controversial decision. evidence to overturn his colleague’s Rabada to midwicket. He set off for a Southee collected a solitary goes past, it might go in.” Umpire Paul Reiffel gave the batsman decision. run, was sent back by Williamson and wicket and conceded 114 runs. 22 MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 SPORT

US OPEN Serena shoulders Murray poised to TODAY’S ORDER OF PLAY Arthur Ashe Stadium - 1100 local time/1500GMT burden of history ) Roberta Vinci (ITA x7) vs Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER) )Polona Hercog (SLO) vs Angelique Kerber AFP “I think usually I prefer to pounce at US Open (GER x2) play more coming into the final )Rafael Nadal (ESP x4) vs Denis Istomin Grand Slam of the year,” Williams (UZB) acknowledged. “But there is noth- 1900 local time/2300GMT NEW YORK: Serena Williams ing we can do about it. You just Opening ceremony once again arrives at Flushing have to make the best of every The Briton aims to )Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) vs Jerzy Janow- Meadows poised to rewrite the single opportunity. That’s all I icz (POL) tennis record books - if her own can do now.” capture a second US ) Madison Keys (USA x8) vs Alison Riske troublesome right shoulder and Williams faces a tricky Open title as season’s (USA) increasingly emboldened rivals opening encounter against Louis Armstrong Stadium - 1100 local allow. experienced Russian Ekaterina final Grand Slam time/1500GMT The 34-year-old US superstar Makarova. begins today )Rogerio Dutra Silva (BRA) vs Marin Cilic matched Steffi Graf’s Open Era She could find fifth-seeded record of 22 Grand Slam singles Romanian Simona Halep wait- (CRO x7) ) titles with her triumph at Wim- ing in the quarters and elder Francesca Schiavone (ITA) vs Svetlana bledon in July. sister Venus, the sixth seed, in AFP Kuznetsova (RUS x9) With a seventh US Open tri- the semis. )Elise Mertens (BEL) vs Garbine Muguruza umph she can break Graf’s record, Germany’s Kerber, who (ESP x3) and continue her march toward defeated Williams in the Austral- )Jack Sock (USA x26) vs Taylor Fritz (USA) Australian Margaret Court’s all- ian Open final in January, is just NEW YORK: Andy Murray admits Grandstand - 1100 local time/1500GMT time mark of 24 Grand Slam titles. one of the players with a chance he’s playing his best ever tennis as ) Taylor Townsend (USA) vs Caroline She could also break Graf’s to seize the number one ranking he looks to capitalise on the grow- Wozniacki (DEN) record of 186 consecutive weeks if Williams falters. ing frailties of his rivals and capture )John Isner (USA x20) vs Frances Tiafoe atop the world rankings, and sur- Kerber, 28, also boasts a title a second US Open title. (USA) pass Chris Evert for most US Open at Stuttgart, an Olympic silver Ahead of today’s start to the ) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x9) vs Guido singles titles won in the Open Era. medal and finals appearances season’s final Grand Slam, the Andreozzi (ARG) But after seeing a frustrating at Brisbane in January and this 29-year-old is the sport’s man of ) Johanna Konta (GBR x13) vs Bethanie year go by between her 21st Grand month in Cincinnati -- where she the moment. Mattek-Sands (USA) Slam win and No. 22, Williams missed her first chance to sup- Since losing the French Open said she’d learned to let history plant Williams atop the rankings. final to Novak Djokovic in June, Mur- take care of itself. Third-seeded Spaniard Gar- ray has won Queen’s Club, a second A straight-sets win over bine Muguruza also has a shot at Wimbledon title and successfully Angelique Kerber in the Wimble- the top, although the 22-year- defended his Olympic crown in Rio. Radwanska don final may have eased some of old who stunned Williams in the His career-best 22-match win the pressure Williams was feel- French Open final will need her streak came to a halt at the hands tunes up with ing, but it’s been far from smooth best US Open ever to do so. of Marin Cilic in the Cincinnati final sailing since. In three main-draw appear- last weekend when he simply ran Her bid to retain her Olym- ances she has won just one match. out of gas. Connecticut pic singles title ended in Rio de Turning around her Flushing But that hasn’t dented his con- Janeiro when she was sent crash- Meadows fortunes would further fidence that he can claim a second victory ing out of the third round by Elina her aim of establishing herself as US Open, four years after his break- Svitolina. more than “the girl that beat Ser- through in New York saw him Williams was clearly hindered ena” at Roland Garros. become the first British man in 76 Reuters by the shoulder injury that had Fourth-seeded Agnieszka years to win a Grand Slam title. forced her out of the Montreal Radwanska of Poland also has At 29, three-time major winner WTA tournament as she served an outside chance at the world Murray admits he is taking posi- Britain’s Andy Murray hits a return to Rafael Nadal of Spain during NEW HAVEN: Top seed up eight double faults and 37 number one ranking if she can tives from being in the twilight of their semi-final match of the 2016 Madrid Open Tennis Tournament Agnieszka Radwanska declared unforced errors in the straight- claim her first Grand Slam title. his career. in this file photo. Murray aims a second US Open title at the season’s it mission accomplished after sets defeat. Notable absentees include “You have to make the most of final Grand Slam which starts today. clinching a 6-1 7-6(1) victory over She then withdrew from her 2015 champion Flavia Pennetta, every opportunity. It’s a slightly dif- Elina Svitolina in the final of the WTA title defence in Cincinnati, who retired at the end of last year, ferent mentality to maybe when Connecticut Open in New Haven still struggling with painful shoul- Victoria Azarenka who is preg- you’re younger and you feel like to the rollercoaster fortunes of not well with the 2011 and 2015 US on Saturday. der inflammation. nant and former champion Maria you have a bit more time on your Djokovic, the defending champion Open winner. Radwanska accepted a wild Sharapova who is serving a dop- side,” said Murray. in New York. Outside of the top two, five-time card into the event because she ing suspension. Murray has played in all of the After he won a maiden French champion Roger Federer, who has wanted to tune up for the U.S. first three finals of the majors in Open to complete the career Grand played every US Open since 2000, Open that starts on Monday and 2016, losing to world number one Slam, all talk was of the Serb going called time on his season after a the 27-year-old Pole will head Djokovic in Melbourne and Paris on to defend his Wimbledon and US five-set semi-final defeat to Raonic to Flushing Meadows brimming before defeating Milos Raonic in Open titles and clinch a calendar at Wimbledon. The 35-year-old with confidence after collecting straight sets in the Wimbledon Grand Slam. aggravated a knee injury in that her 19th career WTA title. final. That’s a feat so rare that only loss. Fellow old-stager Rafael Nadal, “Thank you so much... for The only worry for Murray two men have ever achieved it with the 2010 and 2013 US Open cham- giving me that wild card,” Rad- is his relatively mediocre recent Rod Laver the most recent in 1969. pion, won gold in doubles at the Rio wanska laughed during her record in New York -- runs to the The expectations proved too Olympics but lost the singles bronze winner’s speech. quarter-finals in 2013 and 2014 heavy a burden when the 12-time medal play-off to Kei Nishikori. Radwanska rattled through were followed by a fourth-round major winner was dumped out of The Games were his first out- the first set in less than 30 min- exit to Kevin Anderson 12 months Wimbledon in the third round for ing since an injury-enforced early utes as the 21-year-old Svitolina ago. his earliest loss at a major in seven withdrawal from the French Open struggled on serve. Murray starts his campaign years. and the punishing schedule of 13 The Ukrainian 10th seed against fiery Lukas Rosol. The last Although he then won a record matches in 12 days in Brazil and raised her game in the second time they met in Munich in 2015, 30th Masters trophy in Toronto, then Cincinnati caught up with him with some powerful, precise the Scot described the Czech as the a shock first-round defeat at the when he lost in the third round in groundstrokes and had three set most-hated man in the sport. Olympics to Juan Martin del Potro the American city. points to level the match but was Serena Williams Murray’s consistency on the tour and a withdrawal from Cincinnati Nadal tackles Denis Istomin of unable to convert, before being in recent weeks is in stark contrast with a wrist injury suggested all is Uzbekistan first up. overrun in the tiebreak. Rosberg cruises to victory at Spa but Hamilton fights back

AFP fourth ahead of his Force India smashed into the barriers at around team-mate Sergio Perez, as the Sil- 300 kph on the high-speed rise to F1 BELGIAN GRAND PRIX verstone-based team overhauled Raidillon. RESULTS rivals Williams in the constructors’ As the debris settled, the severity Mercedes AMG Petronas SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, BELGIUM: championship. of the damage to the barriers required F1 Team’s German driver Nico Rosberg rekindled his world Four-time world champion Sebas- repair and the red flag came out to halt 1. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes Nico Rosberg celebrates championship ambitions with vic- tian Vettel of Ferrari recovered from the racing with, remarkably, back 1:44:51.058 with the trophy on the tory in yesterday’s chaotic crash-hit a first-corner collision with his own row starters Hamilton and Alonso 2. Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) Red Bull - TAG podium after winning Belgian Grand Prix as Lewis Hamil- team-mate Kimi Raikkonen to take -- with a combined total of 120 grid- Heuer +00:14.113 the Belgian Formula One ton staged an astonishing fightback sixth ahead of Fernando Alonso, who place penalties -- in fifth and fourth 3. Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes Grand Prix at the Spa- to finish third. had started 22nd on the grid. respectively. 00:27.634 Francorchamps circuit in Rosberg’s delight was reduced by Valtteri Bottas was eighth for The pause allowed the teams to 4. Nico Huelkenberg (Germany) Force India - Spa yesterday. his Mercedes team-mate Hamilton’s Williams ahead of Raikkonen and pit their cars for a rolling re-start Mercedes 00:35.907 damage-limiting and thrilling drive Brazilian Felipe Massa. behind the Safety Car, Rosberg taking 5. Sergio Perez (Mexico) Force India - Mercedes to finish behind Daniel Ricciardo, sec- Hamilton’s podium finish from 21st medium tyres and most others, includ- 00:40.660 ond in a Red Bull, after starting from on the grid was a record for the circuit ing Alonso and Hamilton, taking softs. 6. Sebastian Vettel (Germany) Ferrari the back row of the grid. on a day of serial incidents, accidents By the end of lap 11, Rosberg led 00:45.394 Rosberg, 31, who started from his and collisions. by 1.4 seconds and Hamilton was third successive pole position, led The race was red-flagged after sizing up a pass on Alonso which he 7. Fernando Alonso (Spain) McLaren from start to finish in a 44-laps race nine laps in the worst incident when completed on lap 12, sweeping by for 00:59.445 fractured by accidents and incidents Dane Kevin Magnussen crashed heav- fourth. Further back, a bruising battle 8. Valtteri Bottas (Finland) Williams-Mercedes to secure his first victory in Belgium ily but limped away from his wrecked between Raikkonen and Verstappen 01:00.151 and his sixth of the season. Renault car with only a damaged saw them bang wheels in a series of 9. Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Ferrari Hamilton, who started 21st after ankle. scraps, the young Dutchman’s aggres- 01:01.109 being handed 60 grid position penal- Trouble started right from the out- sion upsetting the Finn whose radio 10. Felipe Massa (Brazil) Williams-Mercedes ties for taking three new power-units set, however, with Vettel and Ferrari comments required constant bleeps to 01:05.873 through the weekend, remains ahead teammate Raikkonen colliding on the remove profanities directed at a rival of Rosberg in the title race with 232 first corner. half his age. points to 223, a lead of nine. On lap two Spaniard Carlos Sainz’s By lap 18, Rosberg remained in ninth, his stop slowed slightly by a rear “It’s been great to get the win Toro Rosso suffered a spectacular right control, but was aware that Hamil- jack problem. today, but Lewis starting at the back rear tyre explosion, which triggered a ton had risen from 21st to third, the Rosberg remained in serene con- made it easier for me,” said Rosberg. Virtual Safety Car (VSC) period. Englishman passing Hulkenberg on trol, 12 seconds ahead of Ricciardo, “He’ll be back at Monza, as usual, and Another, more alarming, accident the outside on Kemmel Straight. with eight laps to go after Hamilton it will be a great battle and another brought out the Safety Car itself on lap Rosberg’s lead was 5.5 seconds had made a third stop, rejoined and good weekend.” nine -- Magnussen losing control of his at half-distance, when Hamilton pit- passed Hulkenberg again in his chase German Nico Hulkenberg finished Renault as he exited Eau Rouge and ted for a new set of softs. He rejoined after the leader. SPORT MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 23

Infantino says his FIFA Sterling double maintains salary is less than $2m

AFP FIFA chief said: “I expected to talk to these people about my salary based Pep’s perfect City record on guidelines and defined processes and not to face a fait accompli by Mr. GENEVA: FIFA President Gianni Scala without a discussion.” Infantino said in an interview pub- A FIFA inquiry last month Manchester EPL RESULTS lished yesterday that he will make cleared Infantino after investigat- Guardiola’s team City’s Raheem less than two million Swiss francs ing him over his use of private jets, Sterling Manchester City 3 (Sterling 7, a year, well below the salary of his personal expenses, hiring methods downs West Ham 3-1 celebrates after 90+2, Fernandinho 18) West Ham disgraced predecessor, Sepp Blatter. and the salary dispute. to take top spot from scoring a goal 1 (Antonio 58) Infantino has not yet agreed to In the interview oyesterdayday Chelsea and United against West West Brom 0 Middlesbrough 0 terms with FIFA but speaking to Infantino restated his claims that Ham United Switzerland’s Blick newspaper, he those opposed to cleaning up FIFA’s on goal difference during their said his salary “will be less than the corrupt ways have sought to under- EPL match at – De Bruyne to Nolito to Silva to De two million francs ($2m, 1.8meu- mine his reforms bids. Etihad Stadium Bruyne – and should have brought a ros) people have speculated about.” Infantino took over world foot- third goal as the Belgian’s shot was Blatter, who was mired in scan- ball’s governing body following AFP in Manchester, deflected behind for a corner. dal before being banned from FIFA, months of unprecedented crisis, yesterday. After the restart, Nolito had the made $3.6m in 2015. with major corporate backers like ball in the net only for the ‘goal’ to Infantino described past deal- Visa and Coca Cola demanding a be ruled out for offside and the same ings with FIFA’s compensation thorough crackdown on graft. MANCHESTER: Raheem Ster- player came close with a shot into the committee as “insulting” and “com- Elsewhere in the interview, ling struck twice and Fernandinho side netting after yet another danger- pletely arbitrary.” Infantino said he wanted to work added another goal as Manchester ous De Bruyne free-kick was only During the first two months of with the International Olympic City made it five wins in as many half-cleared. Infantino’s tenure, which began in Committee (IOC) to address the matches under the management of Sergio Aguero looked like he February, the compensation com- “sensitive issue” of football at the Pep Guardiola with a 3-1 victory at would claim a third goal, racing clear mittee included former FIFA audit Summer Games. home to West Ham in the Premier to round Adrian and seeing the lines- and compliance chief Domen- Men’s football at the Olympics League yesterday. man flag him offside, his frustration ico Scala, who has emerged as a is largely for players under 23, with Guardiola’s men made hard work presumably growing moments later fierce critic of world football’s new three overaged players allowed in of seeing off the Hammers at East- when Antonio handed West Ham an president. each squad, while the women’s lands before securing a win that left unexpected lifeline. Scala dramatically quit FIFA in tournament is a competition of the City top of the Premier League, on A 57th minute left-wing cross May, accusing Infantino of trying best in the sport. goal difference from Chelsea and from Arthur Masuaka, who had been to compromise the organisation’s The men’s format “is not a good Manchester United, who’ve also won flirting with a red card after an early independent committees and acting solution,” Infantino told Blick. their opening three matches in Eng- yellow, picked out his team-mate with an authoritarian streak. He added that the football cal- lish football’s top-flight. at the far post and, with Caballero Infantino said his pay could be endar is already “too tight.” Having raced into an early, two- unable to gather the ball, Antonio finalised when the compensation Women’s football has thrived goal lead, a second-half header from out-jumped Nicolas Otamendi and committee meets again, with Scala at the Olympics, giving enor- West Ham’s Michail Antonio ensured Gael Clichy to head in. no longer in the picture. mous exposure to a sport that City endured an anxious final half Aguero was becoming more of a Reflecting on earlier negotia- FIFA has committed to developing hour, a fact reflected in manager factor in the second half, hitting the tions when Scala was involved, the worldwide. Guardiola’s growing frustration in side netting with an effort before his technical area, before Sterling agility in midfield, slipping the ball yards. De Bruyne also just cleared the poking a shot which deflected off scored his second goal in injury-time. through for winger Nolito who picked bar by inches with another free-kick Sam Byram and needed to be saved City scored twice in the opening out Sterling with a magnificent drag from the corner of the visitors’ area. by Adrian. Substitute Samir Nasri 18 minutes although twice as many back, allowing the England man to The injury toll that has plagued also saw a shot cleared off the line goals would not have flattered the finish confidently from 12 yards. West Ham in the early season, par- by Byram. home team, such was their com- That was the culmination of a ticularly the absence of playmaker However, Aguero also appeared plete domination at that stage of frantic attacking opening from City Dimitri Payet, was obviously keenly to throw an elbow at defender Win- West Ham. and, while the goal perhaps took felt with Willy Caballero -- once ston Reid and, if judged to have been Indeed, Sterling’s opening goal some of the intensity out of the home more replacing Joe Hart who was deliberate, may face retrospective in the seventh minute came from side’s play, it only seemed a matter of on City’s bench -- a virtual spectator. punishment. the fifth noteworthy attack of the when -- not if -- they would score West Ham’s first meaningful sight Sterling finally allowed City sup- game, a sign of what was to come in again of goal, after half an hour, found porters, and his manager, to relax in that period for Slaven Bilic’s hapless Fernandinho had the answer in Gokhan Tore picking out young for- injury-time when he collected Silva’s Hammers. the 18th minute, rising unmarked to ward Ashley Fletcher, whose header through ball, rounded the goalkeeper The goal was magnificently meet a Kevin De Bruyne free-kick flew harmlessly wide. and rolled the ball over the line from Gianni Infantino worked, David Silva showing great and head past Adrian from seven City’s next attack was stunning a tight angle. Schieber seals Hertha’s dramatic win

AFP rewarded with the three points after creating BUNDESLIGA: BERLIN BEAT the better chances. They hit the crossbar when FREIBURG 2-1 Haraguchi had his second-half shot saved, but the ball hit the woodwork when Hoefler BERLIN: Julian Schieber’s injury-time win- headed away after 57 minutes. ner sealed Hertha Berlin’s 2-1 victory at home With visiting Freiburg fans still cheer- Berlin went ahead five minutes later when to newly-promoted Freiburg on Sunday for a ing, Hertha roared back as Schieber latched Haraguchi played the ball into Ibisevic, whose dramatic start to the hosts’ 2016/17 German onto a blocked shot from Japan winger Genki pass found Darida unmarked and his shot beat league season. Haraguchi and his crude shot rolled into the Freiburg goalkeeper Alexander Schwolow. Hertha were cruising to a 1-0 win at Ber- goal in the 95th minute. “It’s a dream for any Ivory Coast striker Salomon Kalou, who lin’s Olympic Stadium on the opening weekend footballer to score the winning goal in front suffered a double bereavement in the last two of the Bundesliga, thanks to Vladimir Darida’s of home fans shortly before the end, even if it weeks following the death of his mother and second-half goal before the game burst into was a scuffed shot,” said Scheiber after netting father, was left on Hertha’s bench for the final life in the final ten minutes. his first goal since knee surgery in March 2015. ten minutes. Ex-Dortmund striker Schieber came off Blue skies over Germany saw the mer- Borussia Dortmund players admitted suf- the bench for Vedad Ibisevic with 85 minutes cury hit 35 degrees Celcius in the shade in the fering in Saturday’s 2-1 triumh over Mainz, Forward Julian Schieber (second left) scores against Freiburg’s midfielder Nicolas gone and played a key role after Freiburg drew capital and the players were often reduced to which kicked off at 1530 local time (1330 Hoefler (second right), Onur Bulut (left) and goalkeeper Alexander Schwolow (right) level with a stunning header from their cap- walking pace in Berlin. GMT) when Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang during the German first division Bundesliga match in Berlin, Germany, yesterday. tain Nicolas Hoefler in the 93rd minute. The hosts dominated possession and were netted twice.

Euro winner Mario Dost completes set for Inter Milan Zidane expects James to remain at Madrid Sporting Lisbon unveiling AFP a two-week international break to move come. AFP “It is true that we didn’t shine. In some game we can’t play as we AFP MADRID: Real Madrid boss Zine- want,” said Zidane. MILAN: Inter Milan are set to dine Zidane closed the exit door on “We can improve, but I feel calm complete the signing of Euro 2016 Colombian playmaker James Rod- with how we have started the season. L I S B O N : Dutch international winner Joao Mario from Sport- riguez despite leaving the 2014 World Two league games won and another striker Bas Dost has signed a four- ing Lisbon after presenting the Cup’s top scorer on the bench once official game (UEFA Super Cup) won. year deal to join Sporting Lisbon midfielder to fans at the San Siro more for Real’s 2-1 win over Celta “Now there are the interna- from VFL Wolfsburg, his new club yesterday. Vigo on Saturday. tional games and many players will said yesterday. Reports claimed Joao Mario, Rodriguez has fallen down the leave, but that is something we can’t No financial details were 23, will join Frank De Boer’s side pecking order at the Bernabeu since change.” And Zidane hailed his play- disclosed but Portuguese media for 40m euros plus 5m in bonuses Zidane took charge in January with ers belief to keep going until the end estimated the transfer at around to Sporting. Madrid’s latest sensation Marco Zinedine Zidane James Rodriguez despite being far from their best. 10m euros (£9m). “It’s great to be at Inter, I want Asensio joining the likes of Isco, “I am left with the fact the play- The Dutch giant has six inter- to thank the fans who have given Toni Kroos and Luka Modric ahead Rodriguez only came on for the final Kroos’s strike maintained ers believed until the end and we national caps for the Netherlands me such a fantastic welcome,” of him for a place in Real’s congested 21 minutes as Kroos’s fine long-range Madrid’s 14-match winning run in achieved what we wanted.” and had scored 36 goals in 85 Mario told Sky Sports. midfield. effort 10 minutes from time salvaged La Liga, but victory disguised a sub- Spanish international Lucas appearances for Wolfsburg in the “But I also want to thank However, Zidane insisted Rod- all three points for the hosts despite standard Real display. Vazquez started alongside Rodriguez Bundesliga since 2012. Inter, one of the biggest clubs in riguez will remain in the Spanish the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo and Without Ronaldo and Benzema, on the bench and was introduced In the 2011-2012 season he the world. I want to show that I’m capital beyond the transfer deadline Karim Benzema from Zidane’s start- Gareth Bale failed to build on his before his teammate in search of a had been the top goalscorer in the worth every penny of what they on Wednesday with even the Premier ing line-up through injury. fine start to the campaign with two winner. And Vazquez was less com- Dutch League with Heerenveen. paid for me.” Inter won the tre- League’s cash-rich clubs unlikely “I thought James played well. It is goals in a 3-0 win at Real Sociedad prehensive than his coach when Dost joins up with the Por- ble of league, Cup and Champions to match the reported 80m euros not easy to come and have to make to start the season. However, Zidane questioned whether Rodriguez had tuguese giants the day after they League under former coach Jose ($90m, £68m) Real paid for him the difference,” said Zidane. highlighted the need to win even played his last game in the white sold Euro 2016 winner Joao Mario Mourinho in 2010. after the World Cup two years ago. “He is going to stay here.” without shining, particularly with shirt. to Inter Milan. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 22 PAGE | 23 RosbergRosb cruises to Zidane expects victory but Hamilton James Rodriguez ttoo fights back stay at Real Madridid

MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2016 • 26 DHUL QA’DA 1437 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Qatar’s Al Attiyah seals FIA drivers’ title

to just 1min 30sec heading into the World Cup: Rally king repeat runs through the two stages. The other four Overdrive Toyotas wins Baja Poland to held third, ninth, 11th and 12th over- take unassailable lead all. Dobra had deteriorated quite markedly for the second pass and in Drivers’ Challenge Al-Attiyah posted a cautious time standings with just of 24min 32sec, but it was sufficient two races left in the for the Qatari to extend his advan- tage over Holowczyc to 1min 34sec contest heading to the final Lubieszyhn stage. Dabrowski, Munk, Maluszyński and Khalifa Al-Attiyah held third, eighth, 10th and 11th overall. The Peninsula Al Attiyah survived the final nervy few kilometres of the short- ened stage to record the fourth quickest time of 6min 29sec to secure DOHA/SZCZECIN: Overdrive Rac- the victory in Poland and give him- ing’s Nasser bin Saleh Al Attiyah self and the team an unassailable (pictured) continues to rewrite lead in the FIA World Cup Drivers’ the history books after confirming Championship standings with two a third FIA World Cup for Cross- rallies to go in Morocco and Portu- Country Rallies drivers’ title by gal in October. winning this weekend’s Columna Medica Baja Poland, round seven of the nine-event series, at Szczecin in POSITIONS AFTER SS7 northwestern Poland. 1. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Driving a Toyota Hilux, Al Atti- Qatar’s Nasser bin Saleh Al Attiyah in action during the final round of Baja Poland, yesterday in Szczecin, yesterday. INSET: AL Attiyah gives a Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 4hr yah edged into a useful lead early on 59min 17sec and then came under fierce pressure thumbs up. 2. Krzysztof Holowczyc (POL)/Lukasz from the experienced local driver Kurzeja (POL) Mini All4 Racing 5hr 00min Krzysztof Holowczyc when he slowed car and Al-Attiyah’s brother Khal- anniversary since we started Over- Munk, Chabot, Khalifa Al-Attiyah 38sec slightly over the closing stages to ifa teamed up with Belgian navigator drive Racing with our first event NEXT CONTEST IN and Maluszyński, were 10th, 12th, eventually record a fifth successive Stephane Prevot with backing from being the Dakar in 2007. Some of the MOROCCO IN OCTOBER 14th and 15th overall. 3. Marek Dabrowski (POL)/Jacek Cza- victory with his Overdrive Racing the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Fed- mechanics have been here since the Yesterday’s action consisted chor (POL) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 5hr 07min 36sec team by the margin of 1min 21sec. eration (QMMF) to finish 10th. start, since the creation of the com- of two repeat runs through a pair Partnered by French navigator Overdrive Racing also supplied pany, and this is a superb result for of shorter and modified stages of 4. Jakub Przygoński (POL)/Tom Colsoul Matthieu Baumel, Al Attiyah adds a car for the Polish duo of Marcin all of us.” Dabrowski by 28 seconds to extend 30.66km and 17.68km at Dobra and (BEL) Mini All4 Racing 5hr 10min 42sec the 2016 FIA World Cup title to the Maluszyński and Julita Maluszyńska. Al Attiyah laid down the gaunt- his overall advantage to 48 seconds Lubieszyhn. 5. Martin Prokop (CZE)/Ilka Minor (AUT) pair he earned in 2008 and 2015 and They reached the finish in Szcecin in let with the quickest time through and give Overdrive Racing a 1-2 plac- Holowczyc reduced Al-Attiyah’s Ford F150 Raptor 5hr 14min 35sec gives Overdrive Racing and Toyota ninth place. the opening 7.08km super special ing at the midday break. Munk and outright lead by six seconds through 6. Miroslav Zapletal (CZE)/Bartosz Momot a first ever FIA World Cup Drivers’ Frenchman Ronan Chabot and stage in the militarised area, near Chabot were ninth and 10th fast- the opener, as Dabrowski and Munk (POL) H3 Evo VII 5hr 19min 48sec Championship title. his navigator Gilles Pillot were Szececin, and edged into a lead of 12 est and held similar positions in the held third and ninth overall and 7. Jes Munk (DEN)/Rafal Marton (POL) The Polish duo of Marek Dab- placed just outside the top 10 until seconds over local hero Holowczyc. overall standings. Maluszyński and Chabot incurred a stage maximum Toyota Hilux Overdrive 5hr 26min 55sec rowski and Jacek Czachor delivered Chabot put his Toyota Hilux on its Dabrowski, Chabot, Maluszyński, Khalifa Al-Attiyah were classified in penalty and slipped to 26th overall 8. Boris Garafulic (CHL)/Filipe Palmeiro a measured performance on their side in the fifth stage and were Khalifa Al-Attiyah and Muck were 15th and 16th overall. after putting his Toyota on its side. (PRT) Mini All4 Racing 5hr 30min 53sec return to action in the Team Orlen forced to retire. fourth, 14th, 17th, 19th and 23rd. Al Attiyah ceded the third stage Maluszyński overhauled Khalifa Al- 9. Michal Maluszyński (POL)/Julita Toyota Hilux and shadowed Al Atti- “This is a very nice feeling to have Saturday’s action comprised win to Holowczyc by just 12 seconds, Attiyah to snatch 12th. Maluszyńska (POL) Toyota Hilux Over- yah and Holowczyc to the finish in two cars on the podium and to take two selective sections of 176.33km but the Qatari reached the over- Holowczyc maintained the pres- drive 5hr 35min 27sec third position. our first major FIA title here,” said apiece in the militarised area around night halt with an advantage over sure on Al Attiyah through the fifth Dane Jes Munk and Polish co- a delighted Overdrive Racing’s CEO Drawsko Pomorskie. Al Attiyah was the Pole of 2min 18sec. Dabrowski stage and the fourth quickest time 10. Khalifa Al-Attiyah (QAT)/Stéphane driver Rafal Marton reached the Jean-Marc Fortin. not to be denied through the first maintained a podium position in for the Qatari did him no favours at Prevot (BEL) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 5hr finish in seventh position in a third “This month is the 10th pass here either and the Qatari beat third and Overdrive team-mates, all,.Al Attiyah’s lead was reduced 50min 14sec Qatar win GCC Al Rayyan edge Laos Qatar Racing’s Lightning Spear Junior Swimming claims first victory of the season Championship 1-0 in Doha friendly QNA The Peninsula The Peninsula Action from Celebration Mile (Gr 2) DAMMAM: The Qatari swimming race in Goodwood on team claimed the title of the 2016 Saturday. GCC Junior Swimming Champi- DOHA: The Qatar Stars League DOHA: Qatar Racing’s Lightning onship concluded in Dammam, (QSL) champions Al Rayyan dis- Spear managed to gain his first win Saudi Arabia. played a glimpse of their form when this season by imposing himself in The event featured the par- they defeated international side the Celebration Mile (Gr 2) at Good- ticipation of five teams including Laos 1-0 at Aspire Zone on Saturday. wood on Saturday. Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, United A Sergio Garcia (pictured) pen- Trained by David Simock, the Arab Emirates and hosts Saudi alty on the 75th minute was enough five year-old was third is the Queen Arabia. for Jorge Fossati’s side who took on Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot this year. Qatar clinched 25 medals the south east Asian team. It was far easier for him this time including 12 gold medals, 5 sil- The tie will serve as an impor- In other development ahead and he ran out an easy winner. He ver medals and 8 bronze medals. tant test for Rayyan who are fine of the new QSL season, Al Gharafa registered his first black success. tuning their squad ahead of the start stumbled to defeat in a friendly Cheveley Park Stud’s Zonderland of the season. game when they went down fight- came second ahead of Qatar Rac- Qatar down China Al Rayyan will open up their ing 3-1 against a local Dubai side. ing’s Arod. “That’s a massively relief, QSL campaign on September 17 Striker Adel Ahmed scored a late honestly”, said Simcock. when they will take on newly pro- consolidation for Pedro Caixinia’s “We’ve always thought the world at Asian handball moted Al Shahaniya. side, in a game which saw Slovakian of him and he was brilliantly nur- Meanwhile, El Jaish resumed midfielder Vladimir Weiss return to tured by Olly Stevens. “We were so MANAMA: Qatar’s youth national training following their 3-0 defeat the side after spell on the sidelines pleased with his first start in the handball team beat China 27-20 to Al Nasr in the AFC champions with an injury. Queen Anne and watching his last at the 2016 Asian Championship League. Meanwhile, Al Sailiya has con- two races, you wouldn’t believe it on Saturday. The Sabri Lamouchi’s side firmed two friendly matches as the and you feel sorry for the horse as The Al Anabi play in Group reconvened at their Qatar Univer- Peregrines ramp up their prepara- he’s very, very good. I’m not one to B alongside China, Korea, sity base on Saturday evening to tions ahead of the new season. hype horses and I think he’s really Uzbekistan. undergo training. Sami Trabelsi’s side will take on talented. He’s got a really good turn In group A, hosts Bahrain Jaish have now begun to prepare the Saudi Arabian side Al Batain on of foot. Everything is aimed towards play with Japan, Iraq, Saudi Ara- for their high profile friendly with the September 4, and will play their Ascot now and we’ll have a really bia and Hong Kong, according to Saudi giants Al Hilal, which is set to last friendly against Mesaimeer on good go at the QEII,” he added. QOC website. take place on September 7. September 9.