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Erdogan meets Private school Prime Minister fee to be linked QNA ANKARA: Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday met Pres- to quality ident of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Ankara. The Prime Minister conveyed the greetings of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin high fees in some private schools, Al Hamad Al Thani to Turkish Presi- Minister outlines Hammadi said, “ We are between the dent, wishing him and the Turkish hammer and the anvil. Parents com- people further development and preparations for the plain about fee increase and private prosperity. academic year as more schools seek permission to raise their President Erdogan entrusted seats in Independent fees to meet increasing operational the Prime Minister with his greetings schools and 12 new costs. We are doing our best to keep a to the Emir, wishing him the best of balance between the two.” health and happiness and further private schools & KGs He said there is special commit- development and prosperity for set to open this year. tee to assess private school’s requests Qatar. Talks dealt with bilateral rela- seeking fee hike in accordance with tions and means of enhancing them the academic and financial require- in various fields. The Prime Minister ments. “We can’t force the schools to earlier met his Turkish counter- By Mohammed Osman operate while facing financial loss,” part Binali Yildirim at the Cankaya The Peninsula said the minister. He pointed out that Palace and attended a luncheon Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani with President of the ministry will soon introduce a banquet hosted in honour of him policy of classifying and categoris- Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at Kulliye Palace in Ankara, yesterday. → See also page 2 and accompanying delegation. ing private schools to different grades DOHA: The Ministry of Education linking the fees with quality of edu- and Higher Education is all set to cation and services. He stressed that welcome the new academic year the ministry’s policy is to encourage (2016/2017) which begins after the the private sector to establish univer- Health centres in Doha to function during Eid Eid Al Adha holidays and has set up sities in Qatar, as long as they fulfil the task forces to keep a track on the quality standards. preparations, Minister of Educa- The total number of Inde- The Peninsula The health centres in Doha (Al period at Mesaimeer health centre. operating according to the on call tion and Higher Education H E Dr pendent schools has reached 191 Rayyan, Madinat Khalifa, Rawdat Al The health centre in Al Wakra system around the clock. Mohammed bin Abdul Wahed Al and KGs 72 which together have Khail, Umm Ghuwailina, Abu Bakr will be open daily between 7am and Ophthalmology clinics will oper- Hammadi said yesterday. a total of 108,049 students and Al Siddiq, Omar Bin Khatab, Airport, 11pm during Eid holidays. Health cen- ate daily at Rawdat Al Khail Helath Some 2,360 new seats have 14,690 teachers. This year two new DOHA: All health centres in Doha West Bay, Leabaib and Mesaimeer) tres of Al Shamal, and Al Khor will be Centre and Madinat Khalifa in the been made available at Independent schools were opened with capacity will be open during Eid Al Adha will work from 7am to 2pm and from open from 7am to 2pm. Among these mornings from September 11 to 15. schools, mostly catering to Qatari of 2360 students. Currently there holidays, the Primary Health Care 4pm to 10pm. However, Leabaiab and health centres Al Shahaniya and Al Also the ENT clinics at the Raw- students, while 12 new private are 245 private schools and KGs in Corporation (PHCC) said yesterday. Mesaimeer health centres, will not Shamal wile be closed on the first day dat Al khail health centre will be schools and KGs with a capacity of the country, which have enrolled a But in areas outside Doha, the work in the morning on Fridays. of Eid, Friday and Saturday and the in open from September 11 to 15 in the 10,380 students will also open in the total of 172,247 students. They follow health centres in Umm Salal, A Dental services at these centres Khor will be closed only on Friday. Al mornings. All premarital examina- new academic year, said the min- 23 different curricula, catering to a Daayen, Al Thumama, Leghweriya, will be available during these hours, Sheehaniya health centre will be open tion clinics will be closed , except for ister, addressing a press conference diverse mix of nationalities. Al Karaana, Al Gharafa, al Karana, except for the first day of Eid Al Adha between 7am and 9pm daily. the one at the Al Rayan health centre at the ministry headquarters yes- Al Ghuwairya and Abu Nakhla will and Friday morning. Dental serv- The health centres in Al Jumailia, which will operate on September 13 terday. On parents’ complaints about → Continued on page 2 remain closed during the holidays. ices will be closed during the whole Alkabaan and Um Bab will be and 15 from 7am to 1pm.

Communities Trump not qualified to urged to join Eid celebrations be president: Obama

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DOHA: The Ministry of Interior Public Relations Department is VIENTIANE: Outgoing President Barack Obama condemned Donald Trump inviting various communities to as unsuitable to be commander-in-chief yesterday, after the Republican attend the “Communities Eid Al nominee blasted US military brass and praised Vladimir Putin. Adha Celebrations 2016” to be held “I don’t think the guy’s qualified to be president of the United States, on September 12 and 13 at various and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed,” Obama said in unu- locations. sually caustic language while overseas. The celebrations will feature Obama, who was in Laos for a summit with South East Asia leaders and cultural and traditional shows and his final trip to east Asia, said that Trump holds contradictory and “out- performances by Indian, Nepa- right wacky ideas” and is “uninformed”. lese, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and “I can tell you from the interactions I have had over the last eight or Indonesian communities. nine days with foreign leaders that this is serious business,” Obama added. One of the programmes will “You actually have to know what you are talking about and you actu- be held on September 12 at Wakra ally have to have done your homework. When you speak, it should actually Sports Club. Separate shows will reflect thought out policy you can implement.” also be organised from 5pm to Trump on Wednesday raised eyebrows by saying that Russia’s president 10pm on September 12 and 13 was “far more” of a leader than Obama. Putin is “very much of a leader,” at the open theatre near Cricket Trump said in a televised interview. “It’s a very different system, and I don’t A view of the Splash Water Park Katara from the launch platform of the zipline. Stadium at Asian Town in Doha happen to like the system. But certainly in that system he’s been a leader, Pic: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula Industrial Area and at Barwa far more than our president has been a leader.” Workers Sports Complex in Al → See also page 12 Khor Industrial Area. There will be separate areas Qatar launches first-ever zipline for the families at the venues. Gifts Arab ministers condemn will be given away to the public through a raffle draw. By Raynald C Rivera goes from top to the bottom of is here for the entire duration of the Khamenei’s attack on Saudi The Peninsula an inclined cable while attached park, said Aboussid. to a moving pulley. “The zipline is the first ever in the Israel and Palestinian CAIRO: Arab foreign ministers weighed yesterday on a bitter dispute A user can avail of an exhila- country and guests can avail of the between Tehran and Riyadh over the Haj pilgrimage, after Iran’s supreme rating ride through the 150-metre ride for QR100. It gives them a feel- leaders agree to meet leader questioned Saudi Arabia’s management of Islam’s holiest site. DOHA: Qatar gets its first-ever zipline from 3pm till midnight ing of adventure and an opportunity “The council of Arab foreign ministers condemns the bellicose, incit- zipline at Splash Water Park Katara every day for the next two months, for them to face the fear of heights,” MOSCOW: Russia’s Foreign Minis- ing statements by the supreme leader Khamenei,” the ministers said in a which officially launched yesterday said Hatim Aboussid, Business he said. try announced yesterday that the statement after a meeting in Cairo where the Arab League is based. at Katara beach on the south-east Development and Events Man- The ride is one of around 60 Israeli and the Palestinian lead- “The language used in (Khamenei’s) statements is inappropriate for the side of the Cultural Village. ager at Alaqat, organisers of the games and rides available at the tem- ers have agreed “in principle” to highest authority in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” they said. Ziplines have gained popu- water park. porary water park, some of which meet in Moscow for talks in what Saudi Arabia’s most senior cleric, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, larity as a major attraction in The equipment is provided by are new in Doha. the Russians hope will relaunch has also waded in, telling the Makkah daily on Tuesday: “We must under- resorts around the world as an a Philippine-based company and a the Mideast peace process after a stand these are not Muslims, they are children of Magi and their hostility adventure ride in which a user team of experts from the Philippines → Continued on page 2 more than two-year break. towards Muslims is an old one.” 02 FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 HOME

Emir greets Ministry registers President of Macedonia 125 violations by

Doha: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al outlets last month Thani yesterday sent a cable of congratulations to Macedonia’s President Dr. Gjorge Ivanov on his describing, advertising or display- country’s Independence ing the product (11). Day. Punishment included Other major violations included Deputy Emir H H closure of outlets and a failure to clearly identify serv- Sheikh Abdullah bin ice information, including its Hamad Al Thani also sent fines in accordance advantages, characteristics and a congratulatory cable with the laws and prices (seven); failure to use Ara- to President Dr. Ivanov. regulations of the bic language in declarations and Prime Minister and Inte- statements related to the products rior Minister H E Sheikh Consumer Protection (five); selling and displaying expired Abdullah bin Nasser bin Anti-Commercial products (six); failure to include all Khalifa Al Thani sent a relevant product information on the similar cable to President Fraud Department. label (four); charging higher than Dr. Ivanov, reports QNA. the declared price (five); offering Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani and Foreign Minister reductions and announcing promo- H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani with Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and Foreign tions without obtaining an approval Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara. The Peninsula from the competent authority; Minister meets failure to issue bills in Arabic and foreign languages; reducing the Russian envoy weight of local and Arabic bread; Turkey PM highlights strong ties with Qatar DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and raising the prices of subsidised and Commerce has intensified Australian meet, among others. DOHA: Minister of Culture and inspections on outlets violating The ministry stressed that it QNA countries’ relations. He said Qatar resolve the crisis in Syria and the Sports H E Salah bin Ghanim Al the consumer protection law No. 8 will not tolerate any violation of and Turkey have enjoyed friendly Palestinian cause. In the past year, Ali yesterday met Russian Ambas- of 2008. the Consumer Protection Law and and fraternal relations for a long the two countries signed a strategic sador to Qatar Noor Mohammad It detected several violations its regulations, and will inten- time and both are also strategic partnership and the first meet- Julov. Talks dealt with Qatar-Russia last month which led to imposing sify inspection campaign to crack DOHA: Turkey’s Prime Minister countries. Yildirim highlighted broad ing in this regard was held in Doha, Year of Culture 2018 and cultural punishments in a high 125 cases. down on violators. The ministry Binali Yildirim underlined the depth joint investments, trade exchange Yildirim said. and sports relations and means of The punishment included closure said it will refer those who violate of brotherly relations between Qatar and economic relations between He praised Qatar’s stance and enhancing them, reports QNA. of the outlets and fines, in accord- the law to competent authorities, and Turkey, stressing that Emir H H both countries. support for Turkey during the failed ance with the laws and regulations who will take action against them Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani He also stressed that the two coup attempt and said the Turkish Mideaset peace of the Consumer Protection Anti- to protect consumer rights. It urged is determined to develop relations. countries have common thoughts people will never forget this. Commercial Fraud Department at consumers to report violations to In an interview with Al Sharq, on regional and international issues, Yildirim said Turkey is looking process discussed the ministry. the department through its call cen- Yildirim said the visit by Prime especially in terms of achieving at parties and states that backed The highest number of viola- tre: 16001; email: [email protected]; Minister and Interior Minister H E security and stability in the region, the failed coup attempt launched by DOHA: Minister of State for For- tions involved a failure to announce Twitter MEC_QATAR; Instagram Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Kha- adding that Qatar is making great Fethullah Gulen Organisation and eign Affairs H E Sultan bin Saad Al product prices (14); and using MEC_QATAR; its app on iPhone and lifa Al-Thani to Turkey is an essential efforts in the area and there are joint cannot accuse any party or coun- Muraikhi yesterday met France’s inaccurate product labels when Android devices MEC_QATA and important motivator for both efforts between both countries to try without an objective evidence. special envoy for the Middle East peace initiative, Pierre Vimont, on the sidelines of the 146th ses- sion of the Arab League Council in Cairo. Talks dealt with relations Boosting ties with US university and developments of the peace process, reports QNA. Qatar ‘first backer of Sudan in world’

DOHA: Qatar under the wise leadership of Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is Minister of Education and Higher Education H E Dr. Mohammed Abdul Wahed Al Hammadi (centre) with “the first supporter of Sudan in the other officials during the press conference on the new academic year at the ministry yesterday. world in all fields,” said Dr. Amin Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula Hassan Omar, Head of the Darfur Peace Follow-up Office, yesterday. Qatar’s positions in regional and international forums have Teams to check schools’ preparations for academic year enabled Sudan to face challenges Continued on page 4 and overtake safely through the on attracting distinguished interna- on August 31 and the ministry usu- Minister for Administrative Development and Labour and Social development of projects and tional schools to open campuses here. ally responds to applicants within two Affairs H E Dr. Issa bin Saad Juffali Al Naimi yesterday met US’ opening new horizons for an Dr. Al Hammadi said follow-up “Accountability is our top prior- weeks.” Seattle Pacific University’s President Daniel J. Martin and his overall economic renaissance, he committees and task forces have been ity this year as we have set up a new Twelve private schools have been delegation. Talks dealt with cooperation and coordination in the added. Qatar has supported the set up to visit schools and check their system to evaluate performance of removed from the school voucher sys- fields of training and scholarships. Sudanese economy and helped it readiness for the new academic year school directors and operators,” he tem which had included 75 after the absorb the shock of the secession and ensure all requirements are met, said. The ministry will revise techni- schools failed to get national aca- of the south through the provision including books, teachers, transport cal education policies and establish demic accreditation and rectify their of a deposit, which has mainly facilities, school environment, aca- more technical schools. There are also status despite one-year grace period, contributed to protecting the demic schedule and time tables. plans to develop electronic education said Hamad Al Ghali, Director, Private Al Kawari arrives in Uganda economy from the post-secession The ministry has adopted major systems for elders. Schools Office. shocks, he told Sudanese daily. initiatives this year to promote quality On higher education, the Minis- Fawziyz Al Khater, Director, Edu- education and offer the highest levels ter said the policy is to widen options cation Institute, said there is plan to QNA Kawari will meet senior officials. of international standards. available to students once they fin- make early education compulsory His tour, which includes several Street closed Independent schools results over ish high school. The overseas study but before its introduction, “we need African countries, comes as part the past two years have declined and programme for citizens has been to raise parents’ awareness about the of his electoral campaign under for works it could be attributed to a change in expanded while opening new edu- importance of sending children to KGs. KAMPALA: H E Dr. Hamad bin the theme ‘Towards a New Start for the assessment and evaluation system, cational opportunities in Qatar. “There is a plan to make grade three Abdulaziz Al Kawari, Cultural Unesco’. In Kenya, Dr. Kawari met said the Minister. The results in the Dr. Khalid Al Horr, Director, part of early basic education and we Adviser at the Emiri Diwan and dignitaries, including Kenya’s Sec- The Peninsula past did not reflect the real perform- Higher Education, said the minis- are going to implement it in 11 Inde- Qatar’s candidate for the post of retary for Foreign Affairs, Amina ance of the students. The outcome of try had received 740 applications for pendent schools as a pilot project.” the Director-General of Unesco, Mohamed; Rwanda’s Minister of the new assessment system will be felt scholarships this summer and 81 were There are 2,036 buses serving Inde- arrived in Ugandan capital Kam- Foreign Affairs and Cooperation DOHA: The Public Works Author- in the long run, he added. He said the rejected. “Some 190 were returned to pendent schools, in addition to 127 pala yesterday from Kenya as part Louise Mushikiwabo’ and former ity (Ashghal) has implemented a government will continue investing in fulfil more requirements and we are for special purposes and additional of an African tour. president of Tanzania Jakaya temporary closure on Mohamed educational infrastructure and work processing 44. The deadline ended support. During two-day visit, Dr. Al Kikwete. Bin Thani Street in both directions to and from Civil Defence Inter- section. The street was closed in the direction from Civil Defence Splash Water Park Katara to add more attractions every week Intersection to Medical City Intersection last evening and the Continued from page 1 closure lasts tomorrow morning. surprises to our guests by adding through new facilities provided by The street will be closed in attractions every week. Our aim is a company. This is an added value the direction from Medical City “It is the first water park in Doha to give families a getaway in Doha to Katara and we hope everybody Intersection to Civil Defence with inflatable water rides set in a and not far away, something they can will enjoy the facilities,” Engineer Intersection from tomorrow fine environment for the entire fam- do on regular basis,” he added. Ahmad Abdulrahman Al Sayed, Dep- morning and the closure lasts ily, especially this season. The water The park is open daily from 3pm uty General Manager for Operations until Monday morning. section is filled with new activities until midnight from today for two at Katara told the media after launch. The temporary closures aim at we are bringing for the first time in months. “It will last two months but Asked on safety and security at completing works to convert Civil the country such as sliders, jumpers, we are looking into ways to expand the park, he said, “They have done Defence Roundabout into a signal- water blobs,” said Aboussid. it and make it last a bit longer for the risk assessment to ensure safety ised intersection. There are around 30 water benefit of the public, maybe, organise and security of facilities which is rides and activities in addition to 30 it twice a year. We appreciate initia- paramount since this is a place for more games and activities scattered tives being taken by the government families we should take care of.” Indian mission around the 7,000sqm area. Except for and the private sector to have lots of Al Sayed hoped the park would the zipline, other rides and activities events, especially this season with become a vehicle to attract more vis- closed on Eid can be used by guests for a one-day Eid coming up and we thought of this itors to Katara, especially this Eid pass for QR100. as our contribution,” he said. Al-Adha. “Katara is one of the prime “We also have a stage to host The park is organised by Alaqat locations in Qatar that attract visi- DOHA: The Indian Embassy will activities from 7pm every day such in partnership with Katara and Qatar tors and tourists during Eid,” he said, Engineer Ahmad Abdulrahman Al Sayed, Deputy General Manager for remain closed on Monday on the as activities for kids, competitions Tourism Authority. adding Katara is expected to attract occasion of Eid Al-Adha, an offi- Operations, Katara, opening the Splash Water Park, in the presence of and live performances,” he said. “This is the first time we offer between 70,000 and 100,000 visi- cial statement said yesterday. other officials at Katara yesterday. Pic: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula “We are planning to reveal more this kind of experience on the beach tors these Eid holidays. ISLAM FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 03 Universal lessons of Haj

Millions of Muslims transcending geographical, linguistic, level of practice, cultural, ethnic, colour, economic and social barriers converge in unison on Makkah, attests to the universality of the Haj. It plants the seed to celebrate the diversity of our common humanity. Pilgrims return home enriched by this more pluralistic and holistic outlook and with a new appreciation for their own origins.

By Faisal Kutty The current state of affairs — both within and outside the Muslim world — greatly increases the relevance of some of the spir- itual and universal messages inherent in the illions of pilgrims from all over Haj. the world will be converging As Islamic scholar Ebrahim Moosa asks in Makkah in the coming days. rhetorically: “after paying homage to the two They will retrace the footsteps women Eve and Hagar in the rites of pilgrim- of millions who have made the age, how can some Muslims still violate the Mspiritual journey to the valley of Makkah rights and dignity of women in the name of since the time of Adam (peace be upon him). Islam? Is this not a contradiction?” Haj literally means, “to continuously Indeed, the Quran teaches: “I shall not lose strive to reach one’s goal.” It is the last of the sight of the labour of any of you who labours five pillars of Islam (the others include a dec- in my way, be it man or woman; each of you laration of faith in one God, five daily prayers, is equal to the other.” (Quran 3:195) offering regular charity, and fasting during Clearly, the white sea of men and the month of Ramadan). Pilgrimage is a once- women side by side performing tawaf (cir- in-a-lifetime obligation for those who have cling) around the Kaaba (the stone building the physical and financial ability to under- Muslims believe was originally built by take the journey. Adam and rebuilt by Abraham and his son The Haj is essentially a reenactment of the Ishmael) should lay to rest any claim that rituals of the great prophets and teachers of Islam — as opposed to some Muslims — faith. Pilgrims symbolically relive the expe- degrades women. rience of exile and atonement undergone by The fact that millions of Muslims tran- Adam and Eve after they were expelled from scending geographical, linguistic, level of Heaven, wandered the earth, met again and practice, cultural, ethnic, colour, economic sought forgiveness in the valley of Makkah. and social barriers converge in unison on An aerial picture shows thousands of tents housing pilgrims crowded together in Mina, near the holy city of Makkah in Saudi They also retrace the frantic footsteps of the Makkah, attests to the universality of the Haj. Arabia. Muslims from across the world have gathered in Makkah for the annual Haj pilgrimage, which is the fifth pillar of Islam. wife of Abraham, Hajar, as she ran between It plants the seed to celebrate the diversity of the hills of Safa and Marwa searching for our common humanity. Pilgrims return home the Nation, he concluded that Islam encom- beyond the fraternal ties of Muslims to forg- inner beliefs and practices are all to be water for her thirsty baby (which according enriched by this more pluralistic and holis- passed all of humanity and transcended ing a common humanity with others. judged by God and God alone in His infi- to Muslim tradition, God answered with the tic outlook and with a new appreciation for race and culture. Malcolm X later said: “In In fact, as part of the spiritual experience, nite wisdom and full knowledge. Indeed, as well of Zam Zam). Lastly, the pilgrims also their own origins. my 39 years on this Earth, the holy city of the pilgrimage links people across religions the Quran insists: “Let there be no compul- commemorate the willingness of Abraham One of the most celebrated Western Hajis Makkah had been the first time I had ever through a past shared by several Abrahamic sion in matters of faith, truth stands out clear to sacrifice his son for the sake of God. God (one who has completed the Haj) is none stood before the Creator of all and felt like a traditions. This combined with the Islamic from error.” (Quran 2:256) later substituted a ram in place of his son. other than African-American civil rights complete human.” teaching of the common origin of humanity The result of a successful Haj is a rich Yet, the Haj is more than these elaborate leader El Haj Malik El Shabbaz, more com- In Makkah, he discovered himself mix- holds out much hope. inner peace, which is manifested outwardly rituals. The faithful hope that it will bring monly known as Malcolm X. The man who ing with, “fellow Muslims, whose eyes were Indeed, the Qur’an teaches: “We created in the values of justice, honesty, respect, gen- about a deep spiritual transformation, one was renowned for preaching that whites were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blond- you from a single pair of a male and female erosity, kindness, forgiveness, mercy and that will make him or her a better person. “devils” — especially the blond, blue-eyed est of blond, and whose skin was whitest of (Adam and Eve), and made you into nations empathy. And it is these values – all attributes If such a change within does not occur, then ones — profoundly reassessed these views white.” Malcolm X was so inspired by what and tribes that ye may know each other and of God almighty — that are indispensable to the Haj was merely a physical and material during the Haj. This transformation, of course, he witnessed, that, in letters to friends and not that you might despise each other. The us all if we are just to get along in this world. exercise devoid of any spiritual significance. sealed his break with the Black nationalist relatives, he wrote, “America needs to under- most honored of you in the sight of God is the As all great religions teach, we are more movement of the Nation of Islam. stand Islam, because this is the one religion most righteous of you” (Quran 49:13). This is www.islamcity.org than mere physical creatures in that we pos- Muslim pilgrims take part in the day-long that erases from its society the race problem.” a great celebration of the differences and at sess an essence beyond the material world. station at Arafah during the Haj pilgrimage in Upon returning to America, he embarked the same time unity of all of humanity. Faisal Kutty is a lawyer, writer and doc- Indeed, this is why all great religions have a Makkah .It is a day of atonement and reminds on a mission to enlighten both blacks and Another essential spiritual message of toral candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School tradition of pilgrimage. In the Islamic tradi- believers of the day of judgment where all whites with his new views. Malcolm X under- the Haj is one of humility to God and His of York University. He is also vice chair of tion, Haj encapsulates this spiritual journey of humanity will be taken for account for stood that in order to truly learn from the supremacy and control over all that we the Canadian Council on American Islamic towards this essence. their actions. Contrary to the teachings of Haj, its inherent spiritual lessons must extend know. The multitude of people and their Relations. Significance and virtues of the day of Arafah

book “al-Kabeer” and by al-Bazaar. This year’s Arafah Day Shaykh Al-Albani graded it Hassan. Taken from ‘Saheeh al-Targheeb falls on Sunday, 11 “Fasting on the Day of wa Tarheeb’. Volume 2,Page 9-10, hadeeth no. 1112) September 2016. The Arafah absolves the It was reported from Umar Ibn Muslims performing sins for two years — Al Khattaab (may Allaah be pleased with him) that a Jewish man said to the Haj will be in the previous year and him, “O Ameer Al Mu’mineen, there is Arafah on this day. the coming year, and verse in your Book which you recite; if it had come to us Jews, we would fasting on Ashura, have taken that day as an Eid (fes- tival).” ‘Umar said, “Which verse?” (the tenth day of He said: “This day I have perfected Muharram) atones for your religion for you, completed he ninth day of Dhul Hijjah My favour upon you, and have cho- (the 12th and final month of the sins of previous sen for you Islam as your religion.” the Islamic calendar) is the Umar said, “We know on which Day of Arafah. It is the day years. day and in which place that was Twhen pilgrims stand on the plain of revealed to the Prophet (PBUH). It Arafah to pray. On this day, Muslims was when he was standing in ‘Ara- all over the world who do not wit- faah on a Friday.” ness the annual Haj should spend (peace be upon him), said: fasting on the ninth of Dhul Hijjah, to prove to them that he was not, so ’Arafah), and then He revels before His It was reported from Ibn Umar the day in fasting, in preparation “Fasting on the Day of Arafah the day before Eid Al Adha was a life- she said, ‘I sent to him milk, which Angels saying, ‘What are these people that the Prophet (PBUH) said: “Allah for the three days festivity follow- absolves the sins for two years: the long practice of the Prophet (PBUH), he drank while he was delivering the seeking.” [Jaami’ut-Tirmidhee (3/377)] expresses His pride to His angels at ing Eid Al Adha, the celebration previous year and the coming year, as his wife reported. khutbah (sermon) on ‘Arafah.’ “ (Source: The Month of Dhul Hijjah the time of ‘Ishaa’ on the Day of Ara- marking the end of the Haj com- and fasting on Ashura, (the tenth day There are some reports that fast- (Bukhari) Al-Istiqaamah Magazine, Issue No.6) faah, about the people of ‘Arafaah. memorating the Prophet Ibrahim’s of Muharram) atones for the sins ing is prohibited on the Day of Arafah. Prohibiting the pilgrims from As for you staying till the evening He says, ‘Look at My slaves who have (peace be upon him) willingness of of previous years.” (Reported by all However, it must be understood that fasting on these days is a great mercy in Arafah, then Allaah descends to come unkempt and dusty.’” sacrifice). except Bukhari & Tirmidhi) this refers to a person performing the for them, for fasting will exert undue the sky of the Duniya and He boasts (Narrated by Ahmad and classed According to the decision of the In another saying the Prophet’s Haj. If a person is on the Haj, there hardship on the person performing about you to the Angels, and says: as saheeh by Al Albaani) High Judiciary Council of Saudi Ara- (PBUH) wife Hafsah, may Allah be is no fast for him or her on the day the Haj, while they are primarily con- ‘My slaves have come to Me, looking The standing on Arafah is the Haj. bia, this year’s Arafah Day falls on pleased with her, said: of Arafah. That is undoubtedly a cerned with their pilgrimage. Above rough, from every deep valley hop- The crowds should remind you of the Sunday, 11 September 2016 (9 Dhul “Four things the Messenger blessing for him because of the hard- all, the pilgrim would not be fasting ing for My mercy, so if your sins were Day of Resurrection. Humble yourself Hijjah 1437) The Muslims perform- of Allâh (PBUH) never neglected: ships of the pilgrimage. In a saying anyway because he is travelling. equivalent to the amount of sand or to Allah, manifest your ‘uboodiyyah ing Haj will be in ‘Arafah on this day, Observing fast on the day of Ashura, reported by Umm Al Fadl, may Allah Likewise, the Prophet (PBUH) the drops of rain or like the foam on to Him Alone through du’a, sincere and Eid Al Adha shall be on the fol- Arafah, three days every month, and be pleased with her, she said: said: ‘There is no day on which Allah the sea I will forgive them. So go forth intention and strong determination lowing day (Monday 12 September). offering fajr sunnah prayers early in “The companions doubted frees people from the Fire more so My slaves! Having forgiveness and for to free yourself from the sins of the Abu Hafsah, may Allah be pleased the morning.” (Muslim) whether the Prophet (PBUH) was than on the day of ’Arafah. He comes what or who you have interceded for.’ past and to build up a commitment to with him, reported that the Prophet These statements are proof that fasting on Arafah or not. She decided close to those (people standing on (Reported by at-Tabarani in his rush for doing what is good. 04 FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 MIDDLE EAST Regime forces retake key Aleppo district

Rights. Observatory head Rami Abdel Aleppo’s southern outskirts on July Rahman said the capture of Ramussa 31 in a bid to break the govern- Government forces and on the city’s southern outskirts fol- ment’s encirclement of the eastern allied fighters retook full lowed the arrival of reinforcements neighbourhoods. of Iraqi and Iranian pro-government They successfully opened a route control of the Ramussa militiamen this week. into those districts a week later via district after ferocious “The regime could not afford to Ramussa, but regime forces have clashes with rebels and lose this battle, otherwise it would managed to recapture nearly all that have lost everything,” he said. territory. The government push was Islamist fighters, said “Rebels are now back to square backed by heavy air strikes, includ- the Syrian Observatory one, under an even more ruthless ing by steadfast regime ally Russia. for Human Rights. siege,” Abdel Rahman added. State news agency Sana reported Rebels and their jihadist allies that government forces “cut all access had launched a major assault in and supply routes for terrorist groups

AFP & Reuters Over 70 aid groups say UN allows Forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad walk at a military complex, after they recaptured areas in Syria to manipulate relief southwestern Aleppo that rebels had seized last month. BEIRUT: Pro-regime forces overran a strategically important district on from Aleppo via Ramussa and into vegetables commonly grown in gar- according to the Observatory. the outskirts of the Syrian city of AP the eastern districts.” dens were available. Aleppo province, which borders Aleppo yesterday, sealing off des- Assad’s fighters can now access “The price of a kilo of meat rose Turkey to the north, is a patchwork of perate residents in opposition-held Aleppo from the north via the key from 3,000 pounds ($6) to 6,000,” territory held by competing forces in neighbourhoods. UNITED NATIONS: More than 70 humanitarian organisations are accus- Castello Road and the south through complained Ahmad, a father of three Syria’s war: rebels, the regime, Kurd- The government advance in Ram- ing the United Nations of allowing the Syrian government to manipulate Ramussa, while opposition forces are children, in the Bustan Al Qasr dis- ish fighters, and jihadists. ussa has completely closed access relief efforts and keep desperately needed aid from thousands of people in left with no roads. A correspondent trict which has been ravaged by air The Islamic State group’s last routes into Aleppo’s rebel-control- besieged areas. The aid groups working in Syria and neighbouring Jordan, in the city’s east said shops had been strikes and barrel bombs. major position in the province is Al- led east, under renewed siege since Lebanon and Turkey announced that they are suspending participation in struggling since Sunday to secure Once Syria’s commercial power- Bab, eyed by rival Kurdish and Arab Sunday by forces loyal to President an information-sharing programme aimed at improving aid deliveries as goods to sell and that prices were house, Aleppo is now a divided city, fighters backed by the US-led coali- Bashar Al Assad. a first step to protest the Syrian government’s “political influence” and the skyrocketing. Supermarkets in the with rebel groups firing into the gov- tion and Ankara respectively. Government forces and allied inaction of Damascus-based UN agencies and humanitarian organisations. eastern districts were all closed on ernment-held west and regime and At least 18 people were killed in fighters “retook full control of the In a letter to the UN humanitarian office in Turkey, the 73 groups also Thursday, while street vendors tried allied Russian warcraft pounding the the IS-held town of Taduf, near Al- Ramussa district after ferocious called for an investigation into criticism of the UN’s performance. UN to sell a few remaining courgettes and opposition-controlled east. Bab, in air strikes by unidentified clashes with rebels, Islamist fight- spokesman Stephane Dujarric praised the work of the groups and said aubergines. All supermarkets were On Wednesday, strikes by uni- aircraft on Wednesday, the Observ- ers, and jihadist groups,” said the “we’re going to continue to engage with them.” closed Thursday in the absence of dentified aircraft on the eastern atory said. They included 10 civilians, Syrian Observatory for Human stock of goods. Among hawkers, only Sukkari district left 11 civilians dead, according to the monitor.

Abolish migrant Turkey takes over councils, suspends teachers over militant ties labour system, Reuters Security officials said the state has fought a three-decades-old con- of the fight. More than 40,000 peo- Officials have rejected concerns UN urges Kuwait appointed administrators to the Sur flict in the mainly Kurdish southeast. ple have been killed in the conflict that their actions are too heavy- district of the southeast’s largest city The DBP is the local partner of since the PKK took up arms in 1984 handed, pointing to the gravity of the Diyarbakir, an area severely dam- Turkey’s national pro-Kurdish oppo- and the fighting flared up in July last coup plot, where rogue soldiers com- AFP DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY: Turkey aged in fighting between security sition party, the Peoples’ Democratic year after the collapse of a two-year mandeered fighter jets and tanks and took over two southeastern coun- forces and Kurdistan Workers Party Party (HDP). old ceasefire. attacked parliament, killing more cils run by a pro-Kurdish party and (PKK) militants. The government also suspended Dozens of businessmen and aca- than 240 people. Among 27 business- suspended more than 11,000 teach- The Silvan district of Diyarbakir 11,500 teachers over alleged links to demics, arrested for alleged links to men formally arrested on Thursday KUWAIT CITY: A UN rights expert ers yesterday as Ankara ratcheted up province was also brought under the the PKK, an official said, after Prime the US-based cleric blamed for the pending trial was leading cloth- yesterday urged Kuwait to abol- a crackdown on those it accuses of control of administrators, with both Minister Binali Yildirim said during a failed July 15 coup, will remain in jail ing maker and retailer Omer Faruk ish its ‘kafala’ system for foreign ties to Kurdish militants fighting an councils targeted over what the offi- visit to the region over the weekend pending trial, Turkish media said. Kavurmaci, the son-in-law of Istan- workers which has long been crit- insurgency in the southeast. cials said was their support for the that there were an estimated 14,000 Arrest warrants were also issued bul’s mayor, Kadir Topbas, state-run icised as a form of bonded labour The crackdown comes as Ankara PKK, deemed a terrorist group by teachers with links to the militants. for around 50 military officers, add- Anadolu Agency reported. or even slavery. pushes ahead with a purge against Ankara and its Western allies. Erdogan said in a speech that ing to the tens of thousands of people Also held was Faruk Gullu, owner Under the system, domestic tens of thousands of supporters of The Democratic Regions Party Turkey was conducting the larg- already detained over links to the of a chain of shops selling baklava, workers are forced to work long US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, (DBP), which runs the councils and est operations in its history against cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who denies a traditional sweet Turkish pastry. hours, prompting hundreds to accused by Turkey of orchestrating many across the region, has been Kurdish militants in the southeast any involvement in the attempted He is accused of belonging to what flee every year, said Maria Grazia an attempted coup in July. He denies dubbed by President Tayyip Erdogan and that the removal of civil servants putsch. The crackdown has alarmed Ankara terms the “Gulenist Terrorist Giammarinaro, a UN special rap- any involvement. as an extension of the PKK, which with links to them was a key element Western allies and rights groups. Organisation” (FETO), Anadolu said. porteur on people-trafficking. The kafala system restricts workers from moving to a new job without their boss’s consent before their contracts end, leav- Palestinian court suspends Pedalling to the pilgrimage ing many trapped. Kafala should be “replaced by a different regulation allowing local polls set for October 8 migrant workers to enjoy sub- stantial freedom in the labour market,” Giammarinaro said at a news conference after a five-day AFP Jerusalem and over concerns related to poll- visit to Kuwait. ing in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians see She welcomed a number of east Jerusalem, occupied by Israel in 1967 and positive developments in the oil- later annexed, as the capital of a future state of rich state, including the opening RAMALLAH: A Palestinian court yesterday sus- their own. In Gaza, a court run by Hamas can- of two government-run shelters pended municipal elections set for October 8 celled lists of Fatah candidates in a number of for female domestic workers who following disputes between the rival Fatah and municipalities for “violating the election law”, leave their employers. Hamas movements over candidate lists, jeop- according to a judicial source and a spokes- In July, Kuwait became the ardising the first vote since 2006 to involve man for Fatah. first Gulf state to set a minimum both parties. The judicial source said five lists in the Khan wage for its hundreds of thou- “The court decided in a meeting on Thurs- Yunis area were cancelled for “violating the sands of mostly Asian domestic day to stop the elections planned for October 8,” law and not meeting the necessary conditions”. workers. Hisham al-Hatoo, head of the Palestinian high Despite repeated reconciliation attempts, In its 2016 “Trafficking in court in the Fatah-led West Bank, explained. Hamas and Fatah have failed to bridge their Persons” report, the US State The Fatah website said a second hearing differences and form a unified administration Department upgraded Kuwait would be held on December 21, though it was for the Palestinian territories. from tier three to tier two while not immediately clear whether the elections The October vote was to choose municipal keeping it on watch list, citing an could then be rescheduled. councils in some 416 cities and towns in Gaza improvement in its treatment of Islamist movement Hamas, which runs and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. A Chinese (centre) who reportedly rode his bicycle from China to Makkah to migrant workers, including maids. the Gaza Strip, boycotted the last Palestinian It was being seen by some analysts as a sign perform Haj is surrounded by fans and journalists at a hotel, yesterday. The annual municipal elections in 2012, but it was due to of whether Hamas and Fatah could take a sig- Haj begins tomorrow, and more than a million piligrims have already flocked to participate this year. A Hamas spokesman said nificant step towards reconciliation. Makkah. Libya’s last chemical it rejected the decision. Their divisions are viewed as among the “This is a political decision,” Hamas key obstacles in efforts to restart Israeli-Pal- arms reach German spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said. “We reject estinian peace efforts, at a standstill for more the decision to cancel the election and call on than two years. destruction plant everyone to reject it.” Some analysts saw Abbas’s decision to call Fatah and Hamas have not contested an for the elections as a failed gambit since he may Second Turkish aid ship reaches Gaza election since 2006 parliamentary polls, which have been hoping Hamas would again sit out THE HAGUE: Libya’s last chemi- Hamas won — sparking a conflict that led to as it did in 2012. Anatolia Turkish aid ships that docked in Israel’s Ash- cal weapons stocks have arrived near civil war in Gaza the following year. The Palestinian parliament has not met dod Port. Yesterday afternoon, members of safely in Germany after being This year’s vote was planned with 81-year- since 2007, the year Hamas, buoyed by its 2006 the Turkish Red Crescent — in cooperation shipped out of the country, and old president Mahmud Abbas under heavy election victory, seized the Gaza Strip by force, GAZA CITY: Several truckloads of Turkish with Gaza’s Social Affairs Ministry — dis- will now be prepared for destruc- political pressure as opinion polls have sug- driving out Fatah in a week of deadly clashes. humanitarian aid entered the Israeli-block- tributed 40 of the bicycles to Gazan orphans tion, a global watchdog said gested most Palestinians would like him to Hamas caused a shock by winning the aded Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom and poor children. “These contributions have yesterday. step down. There has been no Palestinian majority of seats in the 2006 polls, which were commercial crossing linking the strip to Israel made many Gazan children very happy,” “Another crucial step has been presidential election since 2005 and Abbas seen by some as the most transparent to be held and Egypt. “The Israeli authorities allowed the Sinan Erdem Dome, director of the Turkish taken toward eliminating Libya’s has remained in office despite the expiry of in the Palestinian territories. entry into Gaza of three trucks bearing flour, Red Crescent’s Gaza operations, said. remaining chemical weapon pre- his term. The court issued Thursday’s ruling But the international community refused sugar and rice, along with toys and bicycles On Monday, a Turkish ship carrying 2,500 cursors,” Ahmet Uzumcu, head in response to a challenge by a lawyer, Nael to accept a Hamas government, demanding for children,” Mounir al-Ghalban, director of tons of Gaza-bound humanitarian aid docked of the UN-backed Organisation Al Houh. the Islamist group first renounce violence, rec- the crossing’s Palestinian side, said. in Ashdod. It was the second vessel of its kind for the Prohibition of Chemi- Houh said his appeal was based on the ognise Israel and respect agreements signed The aid was trucked through Israel after after the Turkish government sent a first aid cal Weapons (OPCW) said in a fact that the elections were not being held in between Palestinian and Israeli leaders. being delivered earlier this week by two ship to Ashdod in July. statement. ASIA / AFRICA FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 05 Gabon’s oppn faces time limit to seek vote recount

from former colonial power France, yesterday that the official turnout which has a military base in Gabon. for the province equated to just 47 Opposition’s The United Nations has urged the abstentions out of more than 71,000 campaign manager opposition to lodge an appeal with registered voters. said that Ping the constitutional court before the France, which has substantial 4pm deadline. business interests in Gabon, also is weighing the Ping, 73, has repeatedly ques- renewed its call for a recount. option of officially tioned the neutrality of the court and “France considers that a trans- could not immediately be reached parent, impartial examination of the challenging the for comment yesterday. However his results of the presidential election result. campaign manager said Ping was is a condition for ending the crisis weighing the option of officially as it’s the only way to establish the challenging the result. sincerity of the result incontestably,” “We are currently studying the French foreign ministry spokesman Reuters question. A decision has not yet been Romain Nadal said. taken,” said John Nambo. As well as its military base, A worker walks next to a partially collapsed railroad bridge connecting Burkina Faso to Ivory Coast in A reporter saw a copy of a legal France has about 14,000 nation- complaint submitted to the court als based in Gabon and, through its Dimbokro, yesterday. LIBREVILLE: Gabon’s opposition by a member of civil society earlier oil giant Total, a large stake in the faced a legal deadline yesterday to this week, calling for a recount, but country’s oil sector, which produces seek a vote recount in an election it was unclear whether this had been 200,000 barrels per day. they say was stolen by President Ali formally accepted. An official at the But Paris has ruled out interven- I Coast-Burkina rail bridge collapses Bongo, whose family has ruled the court declined to comment. ing in Gabon’s post-electoral crisis country for nearly half a century. International criticism of the as it has done before in its former Results last week showed Bongo, election has focused on the results colonies, saying it is up to Africans AFP dramatically on Tuesday as a freight Kouadio, head of security at oper- 57, beat his main rival Jean Ping, a from Bongo’s stronghold, the prov- to resolve it. train was crossing. ator Sitarail said. veteran diplomat, by fewer than ince of Haut-Ogooue, where the African Union mediators, led by Nobody was hurt during the In a statement, Sitarail said “sig- 6,000 votes in the August 27 poll, participation rate was more than Chad’s President Idriss Deby, are incident, which took place near Dim- nificant resources” were being poured prompting days of violent riots dur- double that of other regions and expected to arrive in the Gabonese ABIDJAN: Rail traffic between Ivory bokro, a town in central Ivory Coast into repairing the line and ensuring a ing which at least six people died. showed that 95.46 percent of voters capital Libreville today to help find Coast and Burkina Faso has been some 250km north of Abidjan. resumption of rail traffic, which would Bongo has rejected accusations backed Bongo. a solution to the standoff. halted for at least two weeks after a “We have a single track and this take “at least a fortnight”. that results were altered to ensure The European Union has said it Some analysts have questioned bridge collapsed on the line linking accident means we cannot continue The railway is the main means his victory but has come under found anomalies in the results from whether Deby, one of Africa’s “big the two countries, the operator said. rail operations. There will be a total of access to the Atlantic coast for increasing international pressure Haut-Ogooue. Sarah Crozier, EU men” in power since 1990, will push The 250-metre iron bridge, built stoppage (of rail transport) between Burkina Faso and the cheapest way to back a recount of votes, including election monitor spokesman, said for a recount. in 1910 across the Nzi river, collapsed Abidjan and Ouagadougou,” Noel for Ivorian firms to export goods. Nigerians must change for a better future: Buhari

AFP “I no go do yahoo yahoo or 419 he said. “You must first ask how far More than 30 years on, the their “lawless habits” while embark- 38 dead and again,” says in pidgin English, refer- have I changed my ways? What have issues are the same: police and ing on a wide-ranging corruption ring to the online scams originating I done to be part of the change?” public sector workers still solicit crackdown. 92,000 displaced from Nigeria that have snared vic- The campaign, set to an infec- bribes, while stopping at traffic Yet then, as now, his social cru- ABUJA: President Muhammadu tims around the world. tious jingle with the lyrics “change lights remains more of a sugges- sade risks being undermined by by Niger floods Buhari yesterday set out his vision The “re-orientation campaign” begins with me”, appears to be tion than the law. the country’s dismal economic for a better Nigeria, imagining an conjures up images of social engi- a gentler revamp of the “war on Buhari was voted into power in performance. NIAMEY: At least 38 peo- incorruptible paradise where driv- neering and Big Brother-style state indiscipline” Buhari introduced as 2015 on an anti-corruption plat- Still, Buhari emphasised that by ple have been killed and ers don’t run red lights and Internet control but Buhari maintained it was military ruler in the 1980s. form and Nigerians have largely changing “personal behaviour” the more than 92,000 left scams are a thing of the past. first and foremost about a change in Then, soldiers in his regime praised the retired general for his country can overcome hard times. homeless since June in In Nigeria, police turn down bribes “mindset”. enforced orderly queues for buses commitment to restoring order and “Every one of us must have a disastrous floods in Niger, from rich men driving SUVs, militants “We must resist the temptation to and fair prices in markets, while accountability. change from our old ways of doing the United Nations said in the oil-rich Niger delta lay down fall back on the same partisanship, tardy civil servants were made to The straight-laced president has things,” he said. recently. their arms, rubbish is thrown in bins, pettiness and immaturity that have do star jumps if ever they arrived before criticised Nigerians for being “We cannot fold our arms and The UN Office for the not the street, and workers are on time. poisoned our country for so long,” late for work. “unruly” and urged people to reform allow things to continue the old way.” Coordination of Human- itarian Affairs said the deaths, up from a previ- ous government toll of 14, followed torrential rains Precarious journey Taiwan protests after Armenia in August. More than 26,000 livestock have been lost deports 78 suspects to China and more than 9,000 homes destroyed, the UN said, citing government Reuters The suspects were arrested figures. when Armenian police raided six locations on August 20, seizing a large amount of equipment includ- Nepal PM vows TAIPEI: Taiwan’s government has ing computers and smart phones, lodged a protest after the Armenian Xinhua said. to speed up government deported 78 Taiwan- China’s Public Security Ministry ese suspected of telecom fraud to sent a team to Armenia to deal with quake rebuilding China, the latest flair-up in ten- the issue on August 26, the report sions between China and Taiwan added. KATHMANDU: Nepal’s over such deportations. Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs new prime minister Taiwan has been angered by Council, the island’s top China Pushpa Kamal Dahal several incidents this year in which policy-making body, said it had promised yesterday to countries around the world, includ- expressed deep regret and a strong speed up reconstruc- ing Kenya, Cambodia and Malaysia, protest to China at the move. tion after a devastating have deported Taiwanese wanted on China has said previously it has earthquake and said he fraud charges back to China, rather a right to extradite these people as would increase aid for than to Taiwan. they are suspected of defrauding homeless victims as he China considers Taiwan to Chinese nationals and have caused laid out his government’s be part of its territory, and most great distress and harm. priorities. countries have diplomatic ties with Xinhua said the Armenia- The previous adminis- Beijing rather than Taipei and offi- based fraudsters “had been falsely tration had been heavily cially recognise that Taiwan is a part presenting themselves as law criticised for the slow of China. enforcement officers to extort pace of rebuilding, with China’s state-run Xinhua news money from people on the Chinese a $4.1bn reconstruction agency said late on Wednesday that mainland through telephone calls”. fund largely untouched Armenian police had “deported 129 They have cheated people out of Bangladeshi Muslims scramble to reach the roof of an overcrowded train as they try to get home to over a year after the April Chinese telecom fraud suspects, more than $1.05m, it added. 2015 disaster. their respective villages to be with their families ahead of Eid Al Adha, in Dhaka, yesterday. including 78 from Taiwan” to main- China has informed Taiwan land China. about the case, Xinhua said. Japan’s proposed anti-conspiracy law stirs civil rights concerns

Reuters the risks have grown as Tokyo pre- Critics including the Japan Fed- or plotting an insurgency or the use would make it a crime for “organ- vague phrasing suggests that civic pares to host the 2020 Olympics, and eration of Bar Associations also warn of explosives. ised crime groups” to conspire and groups opposed to government pol- to ratify a UN Treaty aimed at bat- the changes - when combined with a “The ruling coalition is embold- prepare to commit serious crimes icies could be considered “organised tling international organised crime. recent expansion of the scope of legal ened and, led by the prime minister, punishable by four or more years crime groups” if they are found to be TOKYO: More than a decade after “It’s very important ... to fight wiretapping and the reluctance of wants to push these kinds of laws,” imprisonment. preparing for illegal actions, such an initial attempt failed, Japan wants organised crime by cooperating with courts to rein in police surveillance said Meiji University law professor Examples included gangsters as plans by activists opposed to US to enact legislation to penalise con- international society,” Chief Cabinet powers - could have a chilling effect Lawrence Repeta. “He’s pushing an readying a plot to shoot a rival gang military bases blocking roads to con- spiracies to commit crimes such as Secretary Yoshihide Suga said. on grassroots opposition to govern- agenda that grants the police and leader and terrorists preparing a struction sites. terrorism but critics say such changes Opponents see the proposals as ment policies. the government broader authority chemical attack. Workers chatting “There is no clause limiting this would give police power to trample part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s The federation also says Japanese and limits the protection of individ- over drinks and saying they want to to a group like the Mafia,” said law- civil liberties. broader agenda to tighten the gov- law already prohibits preparing to ual rights.” kill their boss wouldn’t qualify, the yer Yuichi Kaido. “It could target a Proponents say the steps are vital ernment’s grip at the expense of commit certain serious crimes such Proposed changes floated in a document says. group that is opposed to the govern- to fight terrorism in an climate where individual rights. as murder, arson and counterfeiting document leaked to Japanese media Legal experts, however, say the ment in some way.” 06 FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 ASIA / PHILIPPINES Obama to Duterte: Fight crime the right way

damage as they do, it is important Meanwhile, Obama warned Bei- tribunal in The Hague said China’s from our perspective to make sure jing yesterday that it could not ignore claims to most of the waters had no If you fight the crime that we do it the right way,” Obama a tribunal’s ruling rejecting its sweep- legal basis. the wrong way said when asked about his conversa- ing claims to the South China Sea, It also said that a massive burst tion with Duterte on the sidelines of driving tensions higher in a territorial of artificial island-building activity innocent people get a regional summit in Laos. row that threatens regional security. undertaken by China in recent years hurt: Obama “Because the consequences of The dispute has raised fears of in a bid to bolster its claims was illegal. when you do it the wrong way are military confrontation between the China angrily vowed to ignore innocent people get hurt and you world’s superpowers, with China the ruling, describing it as “waste have a bunch of unintended conse- determined to cement control of the paper”, even though it had legal force AFP quences that don’t solve the problem.” strategically vital waters despite a through the United Nations Conven- Relations between long time July verdict. tion on the Law of the Sea. allies the US and the Philippines saw “The landmark arbitration ruling Obama’s emphasis on the rul- a spectacular setback this week after in July, which is binding, helped to ing being legally “binding” attracted VIENTIANE: US President Barack firebrand politician Duterte insulted Rodrigo Duterte and Barack Obama clarify maritime rights in the region,” an immediate reaction from China, Obama urged Philippine leader Obama. Obama said. which has argued the United States Rodrigo Duterte yesterday to con- The outburst on Monday was statements. I will curse you in that personally because it seems as if “I recognise this raises tensions has no role to play in the dispute. duct his crime war “the right way”, in response to being told Obama forum,” Duterte said. this is a phrase he’s used repeat- but I also look forward to discussing “We hope the US can take an after 3,000 people were killed in the planned to raise concerns about his At the press conference marking edly including directed at the pope how we can constructively move for- objective and just attitude with crackdown in just over two months. war of drugs. the end of his trip to Laos Obama said and others,” adding that such choice ward together to lower tensions and respect to South China Sea issues,” “As despicable as these (crime) “You must be respectful. Do he was unfazed by Duterte’s jibe. words were “a habit, a way of speak- promote diplomacy and stability.” Chinese foreign ministry spokes- networks may be and as much not just throw away questions and “I don’t take these comments ing for him”. The verdict by an international woman Hua Chunying said in Beijing.

Plea for freedom New HK lawmaker seeks

police help over ‘threats’ Bullet train

AFP threat to my personal safety is driver puts feet imminent...it has drastically wors- ened in the past two to three days,” up on the job he said before going to Wan Chai HONG KONG: A Hong Kong law- police station with his lawyer. TOKYO: A Japanese bullet maker advocating more autonomy He did not give any detail on train driver came under from China who won a seat in land- who had made the threats and how fire yesterday after an mark elections last weekend said they reached him. online photo emerged of yesterday he had received “death Michael Vidler, a lawyer assist- him operating it with his threats” before and since the polls ing Chu, urged police to take the feet up. as he reported them to police. case seriously. Central Japan Rail- Eddie Chu was one of at least “Politically motivated threats or way said the 29-year-old five candidates in the semi-autono- violence against elected represent- acknowledged that he mous city pushing for more distance atives of the people is a direct attack operated the high speed or even an outright break from Bei- on the rule of law and democracy.” train in that position for jing who took seats for the first time “The Hong Kong police are duty 10 seconds on Tuesday. in the Legislative Council assembly bound to uphold the rule of law and “He told the company Sunday amid fears of China tight- everybody’s constitutional rights, that he had tired feet,” a ening its grip. including Mr Chu’s,” he said. spokesman for the oper- Chu, 38, is also an environmen- Sunday’s election saw a record ator said. “He added talist who has campaigned against the turnout with more than two million that there was never destruction of heritage properties to residents casting their votes in the any danger to the 320 make way for newer developments. city of seven million. passengers aboard the He said he was unable to It was the first major poll since Tokyo-to-Osaka train.” Cesar and Celia, parents of death row inmate Mary Jane Veloso, hold placards as they appeal to go home because he was being the 2014 ‘Umbrella Movement’ pro- President Rodrigo Duterte, who is scheduled to meet Indonesian President Joko Widodo today, to stalked and the safety of his fam- tests, with the anti-establishment spare their daughter’s life, during a rally in front of a Catholic church in Metro Manila, yesterday. Mary ily threatened. camp increasing its share of the One-horned rhino Jane Veloso was convicted of drug trafficking in Indonesia. “I received death threats... legislature, which is still weighted because of my political views. The towards Beijing. shot by poachers dies in Nepal

Unclear if local Zika KATHMANDU: A one- Thailand & Malaysia plan border wall to halt trafficking horned rhino has died strain causes birth weeks after it was shot by poachers in Nepal, becom- defects: Singapore Reuters crackdown by Thailand last year dis- understanding phase,” said Colonel it called a “zero tolerance” policy of ing the first of the rare rupted regional trafficking routes. Yutthanam Petchmuang, a spokes- human trafficking and launched a animals to be killed in the Najib is to meet Thai Prime man for Thailand’s Internal Security nationwide crackdown on vice and country in over two years. Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on an Operations Command. crime. The injured adult male Reuters VIENTIANE: Thailand and Malay- official visit that will focus on secu- Najib’s visit follows three deadly In January 2004, a shadowy sep- was taken to the Chitwan sia will discuss plans to build a wall rity cooperation and investment. bomb attacks in southern Thailand aratist insurgency by ethnic Malays National Park for treat- along their shared border, Thai offi- The wall is on the agenda for the over the past month, including a resurfaced in Thailand, after sim- ment after it was shot in SINGAPORE: Singapore said yes- cials said yesterday, a day before meeting, said a Thai foreign minis- wave of bombs in tourist towns in mering for decades. a forest in southern Nepal terday it did not know if the Zika Malaysian Prime Minister Najib try official. August that Thai police have linked Since then, 6,500 people have in August. virus detected in the country Razak is set to meet his counterpart “It will be on the agenda dur- to Muslim separatists operating in been killed, says Deep South Watch, But on Wednesday, could cause the same birth defects in Bangkok. ing Najib’s visit, but it will not be the the country’s south. a body that monitors the violence. staff at the park said it and other disorders linked to an People-trafficking and the smug- biggest item on the agenda,” foreign The porous Thai-Malay border Two issues in particular have had died of its injuries, outbreak in Latin America. gling of drugs and weapons are ministry spokesman Chinawut Seta- has also been a site for the smuggling spurred the interest of Malaysia and becoming the first rhino A DNA analysis of the mos- among the transnational crimes wat said at a regional meeting in the of weapons, drugs and illegal oil. Thailand in building a border wall, to die at the hands of quito-borne virus, which has that have flourished along the Laotian capital of Vientiane. After taking power in a May 2014 said Srisompop Jitpiromsri, director poachers since May 2014. infected almost 300 people in Sin- 640-km Thai-Malay border, until a “It is still at the memorandum of coup, Thailand’s junta promised what of Deep South Watch. gapore, including two pregnant women, revealed slight differ- ences between the strains but it was not clear what that meant in terms of the severity of the dis- Concerts honouring Mao split ease, the health ministry said. The World Health Organisa- tion (WHO), which has declared Zika an international health Australian Chinese community emergency, says more research is needed to determine the effects of the different Zika strains. AFP September 6 event planned at the world”, according to Chongyi Feng “There is no evidence from grand Town Hall to honour the anni- from the University of Technology existing studies and from this versary raised the “potential for civil in Sydney. sequence to indicate whether disturbance, patron to patron conflict For those who blame him for the the differences between these SYDNEY: Concerts planned to hon- and staff to patron conflict”. deaths of tens of millions of people strains and the South American our Mao Zedong in Australia on the It said the organisers themselves in famine and purges in the decade virus correlate with differences 40th anniversary of his death have identified the event, billed as a cul- from 1966, this was “too much”, the in severity or type of disease,” the been cancelled amid warnings they tural concert, as being at “high risk of associate professor in China studies health ministry said. could spark disturbances, illustrating disruption” and that the distribution wrote in a commentary. “Correlation of virus strains a generational divide in the Chinese of free tickets only added to concerns. To many Australians “Mao or with specific clinical manifesta- community over the Communist Australia is home to some Maoism is a symbol of violence, tions will take long-term careful icon’s legacy. 866,000 ethnic Chinese among a dictatorship, intolerance, political epidemiological studies as well as Despite Chinese government population of 24 million -- with half persecution and cultural repres- People attend the opening of an exhibition of images related to late experimental studies,” it added. recriminations over the brutal dec- born in mainland China. sion”, he added. Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing, yesterday. The WHO has said that ade of mayhem he unleashed, Mao’s High emotion over the Mao The Communist Party’s official infection with the virus in preg- appeal has not diminished among commemorations exposes a schism verdict on Mao in 1981 declared he had Leading the backlash has been remained painful for many Chinese. nant women can cause the birth diehard loyalists both at home and largely between older emigres who been “a great....strategist and theorist” the Embracing Australian Values Alli- “He is not gone yet. These kind defect microcephaly, in which the among migrant communities. witnessed the catastrophic Cultural but acknowledged he made “gross ance group which launched an online of concerts just refreshed their brain and head of the baby are But authorities in Australia’s Revolution and the bloody Tianan- mistakes”, an indictment over his petition that attracted thousands of wounds,” he said. undersized, and other brain abnor- two biggest cities, Sydney and Mel- men crackdown, and more recent reign which left chaos in its wake and signatures. Hugh said Mao’s supporters in malities. It added, it was likely that bourne, axed the “Glory and Dreams” arrivals who know a richer, more transformed the political landscape. The concerts had “triggered the Australia included young people the Zika virus could trigger the concerts scheduled for this week in confident modern China. But one concert organiser, Yang trauma of many Chinese victims of who haven’t experienced China’s Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare the face of criticism it would have Flyers for the concerts described Xi, said that while Mao’s mistakes had Mao’s revolution” and went against convulsions, hardline Communists neurological disorder that can praised “the worst mass murderer Mao as “a national leader forever in been recognised, his legacy, including Australian values, it said. and those disenchanted with Beijing’s result in paralysis, though con- in human history”. the hearts of Chinese people and a his contribution to the Chinese Rev- John Hugh, one of those behind current leadership after decades of clusive proof may take years. The City of Sydney said the hero in the eyes of people all over the olution, was more important. the petition, said Mao’s legacy market-based reforms. PAKISTAN FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 07

Massoud remembered Over 100,000 Heavy fighting Afghan refugees return from as Taliban push Pakistan: UNHCR into Afghan city AFP PESHAWAR: More than 100,000 Afghan refugees have been repat- leave the area immediately,” Mena- riated from Pakistan since July, wal told AFP. “I fled with my family UNHCR officials said yesterday, Militants try to take to a safer area of Tarin Kot, but we the highest number since the fall over police and fear fighting could spread to this of the Taliban saw a flood of peo- area too.” In a sobering admis- ple cross the border in 2002. intelligence agency sion, Uruzgan’s police chief Wais The majority of the refugees headquarters. Samim said many of the city’s outer crossed in July and August, Qaisar defences had fallen to the Taliban Khan Afridi, spokesman UNHCR without a fight. at the Voluntary Repatriation Cen- “Some policemen retreated from tre outside the northwestern city AFP their outposts. Some people here of Peshawar, near the Afghan bor- deliberately want the enemy to suc- der, told AFP. ceed,” he told AFP. “We will address In the six months prior to this issue once we repel the enemy.” that just 7,000 refugees crossed KANDAHAR:The Taliban stormed The fighting in Uruzgan comes back into Afghanistan, accord- into Tarin Kot yesterday, triggering as the Taliban are threatening to Afghan Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah (centre) lays a wreath beside a photo of slain Afghan ing to UNHCR figures. Pakistani heavy fighting around government capture Lashkar Gah in neighbour- national hero Ahmad Shah Massoud during an event marking the 15th anniversary of Massoud’s death officials said the increase came buildings as panicked residents ing Helmand province, and northern in Kabul yesterday. after they vowed to tighten border scrambled to flee the capital of Kunduz, which the insurgents controls, particularly at the porous southern Uruzgan province, the lat- briefly seized last year in a sting- Torkham Gate crossing. est city to be targeted by insurgents. ing blow to Afghan forces. However UNHCR cited an Pitched battles prompted urgent President Ashraf Ghani’s office, array of other reasons that could calls from officials for reinforce- meanwhile, said the government be helping drive the rush back into ments and air support, after the will not allow “Uruzgan to become war-torn Afghanistan, including militants toppled security posts on a sanctuary for terrorists”. 58% of refugees from Pakistan increasing anxiety and insecurity the outskirts to breach the city gates. “Reinforcements have reached for refugees about life in Pakistan. Residents said senior officials the province, and the local police Pakistan is home to 1.5 mil- were abandoning government chief and provincial officials are on lion registered and about as many buildings and fleeing to the airport the frontline fighting the enemy,” are children: Unicef report undocumented Afghan refu- on the outer edges of the city, which presidential spokesman Shahhus- gees, with growing insecurity in has practically been besieged by the sain Murtazawi said on Facebook. Afghanistan impeding voluntary Taliban for months. That claim was refuted by mul- Internews number of refugees — nearly 1.6 mil- More than 59 million Asians return programmes. But UNHCR “If reinforcements do not arrive tiple Tarin Kot residents, who said lion from other countries. are living outside the country of said refugees are increasingly anx- the city will collapse into the hands of senior officials had been seen flee- The report, entitled “Uprooted”, their birth, but within the conti- ious about their future in Pakistan. the Taliban,” Karim Khademzai, head ing to the airport. says conflicts in many Asian coun- nent. Despite Asia’s wide geographic In June, Islamabad granted of the provincial capital, told AFP. “Many provincial officials ISLAMABAD: Children make up 58 tries, high susceptibility to natural spread, there is a considerable Afghan refugees an extra six The Taliban are fighting to take including the governor and other percent of all refugees from Paki- hazards and a large population all amount of movement between months to remain in Pakistan over police and intelligence agency heads of government departments stan, the highest proportion in the contribute to the huge toll of internal sub-regions, with the largest single as authorities stepped up efforts headquarters, residents said, voic- are at the airport,” Khademzai told South Asian region, said a United displacement within the continent. movement of people within the con- to work with the UN and Kabul ing fears they will storm the local AFP. General Abdul Raziq, the pow- Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) Violence has internally dis- tinent moving from Southern Asia to to relocate camps to Afghani- prison to free captured insurgents. erful police chief of Kandahar, said report yesterday. placed about 19.2 million people Western Asia. stan. Fears are growing that the Tarin Kot’s normally bustling he was personally leading a con- In its report, the UN agency said across Asia, a staggering 47percent The report says more than 40 December deadline will be final. streets were deserted and shops tingent of military reinforcements there were close to 300,000 refugees of the global total for similar inter- million Asian migrants have found A security crackdown against closed as civilians sought to escape to Uruzgan. “We are going to Tarin originating from Pakistan last year. nal displacements. new homes outside the continent. undocumented foreigners has from the city. Sabir Menawal, a Tarin Kot with hundreds of forces to repel And children accounted for 58per- Asia is the birthplace of 43per- Half of these migrants move to also contributed to the decision Kot resident, said Taliban fighters the enemy attack,” Raziq told AFP. cent of them. cent of the world’s migrants Europe, making up the world’s sec- to leave, despite assurances from entered his house near the police NATO has not yet responded Insecurity and conflicts in vari- — around 104 million people as of ond largest movement of people Pakistani authorities that refu- headquarters and took up positions to AFP’s request for comment on ous parts of the country have forced 2015. As in other regions, the major- between major regions. An addi- gees with the correct documents inside to fire at government buildings. whether foreign forces will inter- them to leave, although the country ity of Asian migrants move within tional 15.5 million Asians have will not be subject to arrest or “The Taliban instructed us to vene in Uruzgan. also continues to host a substantial the region. moved to northern America. deportation.

Obama nominates Pakistani-American 44 Pakistanis working on China corridor project die since 2014 Reuters roads, railways and energy pipelines for construction company Fron- the toll has accelerated this year. division, believed to number more as federal judge linking western China to a deep- tier Works Organisation (FWO), The Pakistani projects are part than 10,000 troops, to focus specifi- water port on Pakistan’s Arabian Sea said all of the workers killed were of a Chinese plan to build land, sea cally on protecting CPEC projects and Internews coast, which passes through Paki- Pakistani and most fell victim to and air routes across Asia and beyond Chinese workers. KARACHI: Militants trying to dis- stan’s troubled Baluchistan province. roadside bombs and attacks on con- boosting trade and winning new FWO, which is owned by the rupt construction of an “economic Pakistani officials say they have struction sites. “The latest figure has markets overseas for Chinese com- Pakistani army, has been awarded ISLAMABAD: US President Barack corridor” linking China with Paki- taken tough measures and that climbed up to 44 deaths and over panies as domestic growth slows. the bulk of road-building contracts in Obama has nominated a Pakistani- stan’s coast have killed 44 workers security has greatly improved in 100 wounded men on CPEC projects Chinese officials have appealed Baluchistan and other volatile areas American to serve as federal judge since 2014, an official said yesterday, Baluchistan, a resource-rich region mainly road construction in Balu- for improved security in Baluchistan in Pakistan. for the first time in American his- a rising toll likely to reinforce Chinese where ethnic Baluch separatists have chistan, which began in 2014,” Iqbal and other regions where projects are Pakistani officials concede secu- tory, the White House said yesterday. worry about the project’s security. battled the government for years. told Reuters. planned or under way. rity problems remain in Baluchistan, AbidRiaz Qureshi, nominated The China-Pakistan Economic They oppose the CPEC. In November 2015, the official In a bid to address their fears, but say the work is progressing ahead to serve on the US District Court Corridor (CPEC) is a $46bn network of Colonel Zafar Iqbal, a spokesman figure was 25 killed, indicating that Pakistan last year created an army of schedule. for the District of Columbia, is the first Muslim and a Pakistani- American to get this nomination. He was born in Pakistan. “I am pleased to nominate Nurturing little minds Court delays hearing in Qureshi to serve on the United States District Court bench,” Pres- ident Obama said in a statement UK woman’s murder case issued by the White House in his absence as he is travelling abroad. “I am confident he will serve the AP concluded that she was strangled to American people with integrity and death, and that her father, Muham- a steadfast commitment to justice.” mad Shahid, had stood guard while The White House introduced her ex-husband, Muhammad Sha- Qureshi as a partner in the Wash- JHELUM: A Pakistani court yes- keel, raped her. After that, they ington office of a US law firm, terday postponed the hearing of killed her together, the police say. Latham and Watkins LLP. He the ex-husband and the father of a The investigation has found that a specialises in cases involving the British woman who was murdered forensic and DNA test was a perfect False Claims Act, healthcare fraud while on a family visit to Pakistan, match, confirming the rape. and securities violations. a defence lawyer said. Arif, the defence lawyer, denied The two accused were to appear the accusations against his clients. Roadside bomb before the court in the city of Jhelum Both suspects were arrested last but the judge postponed the hear- month but have not been formally wounds 8 officers ing until tomorrow, said the lawyer, charged yet. Shahid married her Mohammad Arif. first husband in February 2012 but near Peshawar The case of 28-year-old Samia stayed only briefly in Pakistan before Shahid is suspected to be the lat- returning to England where she AP est reported incident of so-called obtained a divorce two years later. “honour killings” in Pakistan, where After that, she married her sec- nearly 1,000 women are murdered ond husband Mukhtar Kazim and PESHAWAR: A senior Pakistani every year for violating conserva- moved with him to Dubai. Shahid’s police officer says a roadside tive norms on love, marriage and family, which had settled in Brad- bombing has struck a vehicle public behaviour. ford, England, never accepted her carrying police commandos in The police have said the killing second marriage. northwestern Pakistan, wound- was a “premeditated, cold-blooded Shahid’s mother and younger ing eight officers. murder” and a government-ordered sister, both also British nationals, The official, Shaukat Khan, police inquiry has recommended that are wanted by Pakistani police on says Thursday’s attack took place her ex-husband and her father be accusation that they abetted in her on the outskirts of Peshawar, the tried on charges of rape and murder. murder. The inquiry has found they capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shahid was buried in July in eastern got her to agree to come for a week- Pakistani students attend a class at a government school on International Literacy Day in Quetta province. He says two of the Pakistan after her family declared long visit to Pakistan earlier this wounded officers were reported yesterday. she had died of a heart attack. summer, claiming her father was to be in critical condition. The police investigation gravely ill. 08 FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Trending ahead Islamist militants pose challenge

he race for the White House has reached a stage where the two main contenders are virtually at each for next Uzbek leader other’s throats. With just close to 60 days to go for the US presidential election, the most vibrant show of democracy on earth has taken a turn in which even Tthe normally taciturn US President Barack Obama is pulling no By Dmitry Solovyov home in Osh, a Kyrgyz city in Kyrgyz state security say. punches. Obama has found several occasions when he has given Reuters the Ferghana valley where a There is no evidence Ethnic Uzbeks operate in back to Republican contender Donald Trump what he got, or large part of the population their own fighting units in are ethnic Uzbeks, 57-year- Uzbek fighters Syria, according a Russian who even better. old ethnic Uzbek Abdurasul plan to leave Syria fought there. Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton are in almost Yuldashev described how “There was a decent number a dead heat with the controversial New York billionaire having hoever takes his estranged wife went to and Afghanistan of them,” said the fighter, who has recently caught up with the former secretary of state in polls over the Cen- Syria with their son and two en masse to now left Syria and asked not to be tral Asian state daughters while he was away identified. that are in intense spotlight. Clinton yesterday vowed to get to launch attacks in the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, promising to of Uzbekistan working in Russia. Last year state security offi- after its presi- In Syria, the son, 19-year- cials in Osh detained several decimate the Islamist organisation. In a press conference, she Uzbekistan. But Wdent’s death faces a challenge to old Mukhammadislam, joined people on allegations they fought tried to portray a strong image of herself as a person who aspires keep a lid on Islamist militants an Islamist group. they could return alongside militants in Syria. to be the commander-in-chief of the who have become foot soldiers “One day I received a call home if Islamic In a videotaped interrogation US military. in global jihadist groups. from an unidentified number and State is squeezed shown to Reuters at the time in Donald Trump, on the other hand, Uzbek fighters are deeply someone said: ‘Congratulations, Osh, one of them said he went Amid the got himself into some trouble after embedded in Islamic State in Iraq your son has become a shahid’,” out of the territory to Syria in October 2013 and for telling a famous television host that he and Syria, fight alongside the Tal- Yuldashev said, using the Ara- it controls in three months was a fighter with chaotic US iban in Afghanistan, have secret bic term for a martyr. He said he the Nusra front, then an affiliate presidential was against the Iraq War. It is widely outposts in the biggest Russian shouted at them, and they called northern Syria and of Al Qaeda. believed that the maverick Trump had cities and have ties with Muslim him a “kafir”, or infidel. Iraq. This could be The man, an ethnic Uzbek, race, Trump’s supported the Bush administration’s militants from China who reject Malokhat Mamatadzhiyeva, said he was ordered to return to rising decision to launch the war. Trump Beijing’s rule. a 41-year-old ethic Uzbek who a concern for the Central Asia to carry out attacks. popularity repeated his comments yesterday Veteran Uzbek leader lives in Osh, received a similar government and Reuters was unable to establish saying in a school speech that all along Islam Karimov, who died last call on July 9 last year informing whether he had made his state- defies week from a stroke, used bru- her about the death of her son, foreign states. ment under duress. he had been against the war. He tried explanation. tal methods and a vast security Nurmukhammad. There is no evidence Uzbek to justify it by saying he did plenty of apparatus to keep tabs on a She said he had gone to the fighters plan to leave Syria and other interviews closer to the start of militant movement born in the Russian city of Vladimir to work Afghanistan en masse to launch the war in which he made it clear it 1990s out of an insurgency in on a construction site but told her and parts of Pakistan, according attacks in Uzbekistan. was not a good idea. Uzbekistan, a former Soviet in November 2014 that he was to a wanted list of militants pub- But they could return home Trump’s comments on US generals have again stirred unease. republic. going to a remote location in Rus- lished by the United Nations. if Islamic State is squeezed out of He has taken on the military by saying America’s generals have With Karimov dead and a sia for work. The next time she Security officials say the the territory it controls in north- lack of clarity on who will suc- heard from him, in March 2015, militants also have ties to ern Syria and Iraq. This could be been reduced to the rubble under Obama. ceed him, despite Prime Minister he was calling from Syria. militants from the Chinese a concern for the government and Further roiling the waters of the presidential race, the US Shavkat Mirziyoyev being named “I started weeping. I said: ‘Do Uighur ethnic group, who foreign states. president took on Trump yesterday from outside the country. interim president by parliament, not leave me.’ But the call got cut reject Beijing’s rule. A sui- “Practically everyone over- He is in Laos for the Asean Summit. Reaffirming what has been the security forces’ ability to off,” Mamatadzhiyeva said. She cide bomb attack on China’s seas will be ready to recognise said about the Republican tycoon earlier, Obama made it clear contain the Islamist network is later learned that he had been embassy in Kyrgyzstan last any form of rule in Uzbekistan that Trump is unfit to be the president of the United States. unclear. killed in the fighting in Syria. month was ordered by Uighur that is going to guarantee stabil- Uzbek militants have not had Ethnic Uzbeks are active in groups, and several ethnic ity,” said Kazakh political analyst Buttressing his remarks with his experience from the recent as high a profile as other groups militant groups in Afghanistan Uzbeks helped organise it, Dosym Satpayev. Asian tour, Obama underscored that being the US president in the global jihadi movement. requires one to frame and spell out well thought-out policies. While fighters from Iraq, Tuni- Obama was responding to Trump’s comments in which he sia, Russia and western Europe praised Russian leader Vladimir Putin and rated him better than command units and lead suicide the US president. attacks, Uzbeks tend to form the Amid Hillary’s sober campaign, Obama’s calm rejoinders and rank-and-file. But Reuters interviews with Trump’s acrid comments, the presidential race is acquiring new security officials, militant fighters dimensions. Trump’s irresponsible comments keep increasing, and their families indicate that but so do his ratings. It is this phenomenon that is most the Uzbek fighters number in the intriguing. thousands, are battle-hardened and skilled at networking with other jihadist groups. These fighters view the Uzbek authorities as “Taghut”, a Koranic term for tyrants who set them- selves up as false Gods, and Quote of the day most now focus on waging jihad abroad. When we have threats that But in a report last year, are surrounding us, we the International Crisis Group all know no country by its wrote: “Should a significant portion of these radicalised own will be able to manage migrants return, they risk chal- that. But we together, we lenging security and stability Europeans, we are very throughout Central Asia.” The heart of Islamist mil- strong if we improve our itancy in Central Asia is the capabilities as Europeans. Ferghana Valley, a fertile and densely populated strip of land Ursula von der Leyen that straddles Uzbekistan, Uzbek border guards keep watch on a bridge across the Kara-Su border river between Kyrgyzstan Germany’s Defence Minister Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Sitting in the yard of his and Uzbekistan, east of Tashkent.

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dward Snowden is increasingly unhappy with the situation in Russia, where he has lived for more than three years. Pres- ident Vladimir Putin once Ewelcomed the National Security Agency contractor for his propaganda value, but he may be wondering if it’s all been worth it. Snowden arrived in Moscow in June 2013. That was almost a year before the Crimea annexation, and Russia could still try to sell itself to radical leftists who admired Snowden as the lesser evil, compared with the Big Brother US Putin talked a lot about Snowden show- ing obvious delight for thumbing his nose at the US, which had tried to intercept the whistle-blower. He described Snowden as a “weird guy,” an idealist, who was safe in Russia even though he had no secrets to pass on. After Crimea, though, such state- Former US intelligence contractor and whistle blower Edward Snowden is seen on a giant screen as he is interviewed by the the performance group The Yes ments started to appear hollow. “Russia is not the kind of country that hands over Men live at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark on June 28, 2016. fighters for human rights,” Putin said at the St Petersburg Economic Forum in Putin said Russia used advanced tech- The NSA leaker took to Twitter in has opposed. squeeze local critics out of the country May 2014. That the Russian president nology to fight terrorism. July, when the Russian Parliament Three years is enough time to or discredit them, yet it’s stuck harbor- could talk about human rights after fak- “But we do not allow ourselves to use was passing the so-called “Yarovaya understand Russian politics a little ing a foreigner whose initial gratitude ing a secession referendum in Crimea it on a mass scale, in an uncontrolled package” — a fiercely repressive better, and Snowden appears to be may have worn out and who is less will- would have been funny if it weren’t so way,” he added. “I hope, I very much hope, set of laws aimed at establishing interested in more than his profes- ing to give Putin the benefit of the doubt. manipulative. that we never will.” total control over Russians’ online sional area. On Wednesday, he tweeted Snowden has tweeted that he fears Snowden appeared to play along. Snowden defended what appeared to communications. about the recent news that Russia’s last retaliation for his criticism, but he won’t In 2014, he took part in Putin’s care- be a softball question in a column for The Internet providers and mobile remaining big independent pollster, desist. There aren’t too many ways for fully stage-managed and scripted Guardian, saying that he had “sworn no operators are expected to record the Levada Center, has been desig- the Kremlin to retaliate, though, with- annual call-in show, asking the allegiance” to Russia and that he would and store all conversations and mes- nated a “foreign agent,” along with out handing a moral victory to the US. Russian leader whether Russia fight total surveillance everywhere. The sage exchanges for six months, and some of Russia’s strongest human It certainly won’t extradite Snowden: In intercepted, stored and analysed its Guardian article helped him maintain their metadata for three years. Inter- rights organisations, for accepting for- March, when Donald Trump called for citizens’ electronic communications. credibility among Western radicals. net companies are obliged to help the eign research grants. the return of the whistle-blower, Peskov On several other occasions, Snow- Russian secret police decrypt any Levada received the designation after said the Russian government’s position den criticised Russia for its treatment encrypted communication. Snow- publishing a poll that showed Putin’s hadn’t changed. of homosexuality and for attacks on den’s condemnation on Twitter was United Russia losing support ahead of It would be no surprise, however, Snowden has tweeted that he fears internet freedoms, but the Kremlin was vehement:“Signing the #BigBrother law the September 18 parliamentary elec- if arrangements were quietly made retaliation for his criticism, but he unconcerned. “These are rather argu- must be condemned. Beyond political tions. Snowden now openly criticises the to move Snowden to another asylum able statements, but he has his point of and constitution consequences, it is also Kremlin on matters of political impor- country. With his zealotry, he is a lia- won’t desist. There aren’t too many view,” Putin’s press secretary, Dmitri a $33b+ tax on Russia’s internet.” tance, such as its “anti-terrorism” policy bility to Putin, and he may never really ways for the Kremlin to retaliate, Peskov, said last year. “Yes, he lives in The Yarovaya package is harsher than and its own special brand of electoral been an asset. Russia, but it doesn’t mean anything is any electronic surveillance legislation in democracy. The whistle-blower tweets though, without handing a moral being imposed on him.” the US, because the Russian measures in English, but Russian media, includ- The writer is a Bloomberg view contrib- victory to the US. It certainly won’t In recent months, though, Snowden openly tell citizens that their communi- ing pro-Kremlin ones, invariably pick utor and is a Berlin-based writer. He was has stepped up his harsh criticism of Rus- cations will be monitored pretty much at up his posts. the founding editor of the Russian business extradite Snowden. sian ways: It became clear to him that the discretion of the intelligence services. I would be surprised if the Krem- daily Vedomosti and founded the opinion Putin had lied during that call-in show. It embodies all the abuses that Snowden lin weren’t irritated. It does its best to website Slon.ru. Britain’s experts are invested in disaster

demand a detailed description of popular line of commentary, Davis agreement on immigration, one news about the British economy to Britain’s future relationship with managed both to waffle meaning- that nonetheless asserted its right be played down and, so far as pos- the EU. lessly and make a crucial policy of control, and the EU could decide sible, every new development to be The press continues to focus on commitment -- one on which May this was liberal enough to be squared rendered as proof of Tory disarray the government’s declared aim of promptly stomped. Government in with unimpeded access to the sin- and impending doom. restoring national control of immi- disarray. Brexit fiasco. Rending of gle market. Well, the Tories are somewhat in gration policy — contrary to the EU’s garments. Granted, this best and mutually disarray, Britain may very well have core principle of free movement of What nonsense. If — repeat, if advantageous outcome is pretty made the wrong choice, and things workers — while maintaining max- — the EU keeps insisting that mem- unlikely, partly because of British could go badly from here. All that is imum access to the union’s single bership of the single market is anti-immigrant sentiment, and partly true. market. inseparable from free movement of because the EU is rarely quick to act At the same time, Davis is right: The EU’s standard position has workers, then resuming control of in its own best interests. Even so, a The situation affords opportuni- been that you cannot have both. To immigration will indeed mean no second-best compromise ought to ties. Post-Brexit, the country has By Clive Crook be a member of the single market you longer being a member. (That’s, you be achievable. big choices to make and so does the Bloomberg have to accept free movement. know, a tautology.) And if the EU simply refuses to European Union — and how well or Davis doubtless had this in mind If May then decided that retain- budge — insisting on free movement badly things turn out for both sides when he told a questioner: “This gov- ing membership of the single in return for preferential access — depends on those choices. My feel- ernment is looking at every option market mattered more than restor- let’s at least be clear that it will be ing is that the country would be British analysts avid Davis, the UK’s new but the simple truth is that if a ing national control of immigration, making a (bad) choice, not surren- better served by an even-handed and commentators Secretary of State for Exiting requirement of membership is giv- that would indeed be news. So far, dering to logical necessity. weighing of these possibilities than Dthe European Union, made ing up control of our borders, I think like Davis, she’s consistently said the It’s a shame, but not that much of by affirming the stupidity of Brexit have been closely a statement to the House of Com- that makes it very improbable.” Com- opposite. a mystery, that Britain’s Brexit com- supporters and contemplating, with aligned in the view mons this week on the meaning of mentators took note: Davis wants to The real question is whether any mentators can’t be bothered to point such steady satisfaction, the horror “Brexit means Brexit.” Commenta- pull Britain out of the single market. deal can be achieved that restores this out. British analysts and com- that lies ahead. that Brexit was not tors were roundly unimpressed. If I Next, one of Prime Minister national control of immigration, mentators have been closely aligned just an error but an may be allowed to say, their appar- Theresa May’s officials was asked to while maintaining preferential access in the view that Brexit was not just The writer is a Bloomberg view col- ent determination to be unimpressed clarify. Britain wants the best deal it to, as opposed to formal membership an error but an act of contemptible umnist and writes editorials on act of contemptible is beginning to grate. can get, the official explained, and of, the single market. stupidity. economics, finance and politics. He stupidity. To be sure, the complaints were leaving the single market is not yet Much of the UK press has They’re still wedded to their role was chief Washington commentator partly justified: Davis could have government policy. “He [Davis] is assumed the EU’s position to be that as cheerleaders for the Remain cam- for the Financial Times, a correspond- said more about basic objectives. But setting out his opinion. . . . [S]aying any such deal is impossible, and paign, and heavily invested in the ent and editor for the Economist and a Britain is at the start of a long nego- something is probable or improbable accepts that policy without ques- idea that disaster must now follow. senior editor at the Atlantic. He previ- tiation. Neither he nor anybody else is not policy.” Consternation ensued: tioning it. This militates against constructive ously served as an official in the British can know, much less dictate, the out- May just slapped Davis down. This is plainly wrong. The criticism of UK policy and any kind finance ministry and the Government come. At this point it’s ridiculous to Let’s recap. According to this UK could propose a very liberal of criticism of the EU. Expect good Economic Service.

All thoughts and views expressed in these columns are those of the writers, not of the newspaper. All correspondence regarding Views and Opinion pages should be mailed to the Editor-in-Chief. 10 FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 INDIA Modi seeks action against states using terror Appointment of 21 competitive advantage rests solely in producing and exporting terrorism.” AAP parliamentary Laos supports a India-Pakistan relations have permanent seat for soured in recent times following the secretaries quashed killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant India in the reformed Burhan Wani in Jammu and Kash- New Delhi: The Delhi High and expanded United mir in July. Pakistan described Wani Court yesterday quashed Nations Security as a “martyr”. the appointment of 21 par- Modi said terrorism is the most liamentary secretaries after Council. serious challenge to open and plu- the Arvind Kejriwal govern- ralistic societies and called for ment conceded that the Lt collective efforts to combat the Governor’s approval was scourge. He said India remained not taken in the matter. IANS committed, including through mem- Following the submis- bership of export control regimes, sion of the government and to pursuing total and verifiable in light of its recent judge- elimination of weapons of mass ment giving primacy to the VIENTIANE: Prime Minister Naren- destruction. LG in administrative con- dra Modi yesterday advocated the “India supports freedom of nav- trol of the capital, a bench strongest action against states that igation, over flight, and unimpeded of Chief Justice G. Rohini use terrorism as an instrument of commerce, based on the principles and Justice Sangita Dhin- state policy while outlining India’s of international law, as noted in the gra Sehgal quashed the principled stand on the South China 1982 United Nations Convention on appointments. Sea issue. the Law of the Sea,” he added. The court was hearing “We need to target not only the Before leaving for New Delhi a public interest litiga- terrorists, but also their entire sup- in the afternoon, Modi met sepa- tion challenging the AAP porting ecosystem,” Modi told the rately US President Barack Obama, government’s decision to 11th East Asia Summit, the premier South Korean President Park Geun- appoint their legislators forum of the Asia-Pacific region. hye, Myanmar State Counsellor and as parliamentary secretar- “And, our strongest action should Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi ies. Earlier, the government be reserved for those state actors and Laos Prime Minister Thongloun had defended its deci- who employ terrorism as an instru- Sisoulith. sion to appoint party MLAs ment of state policy,” he said without Sisoulith said his country sup- Prime Minister Narendra Modi (second left) with US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the 14th as parliamentary secretar- naming Pakistan. ports a permanent seat for India in India-Asean Summit and the 11th East Asia Summit in Vientian, Laos, yesterday. ies, saying the move does He said most countries in the the United Nations Security Council. not amount to creation of a South Asian region were pursuing In New Delhi, External Affairs of a reformed and expanded UNSC.” been made yet on ratifying the Paris formally joined the deal. “public office”. a peaceful path to economic pros- Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swrup He said domestic processes were Agreement — the global treaty to “The government has made no perity. “But, there is one country said: “Laos PM said his country sup- under way. tackle climate change adopted by 195 decision as yet on ratifying the Paris in India’s neighbourhood whose ported India as a permanent member He also said no decision has countries, even as China and the US Agreement,” Swrup added. GST Bill gets President’s nod Akhilesh calls New Delhi: President Protests disrupts Andhra House proceedings Pranab Mukherjee yes- terday gave his assent Rahul Gandhi to the landmark Goods and Services Tax (GST) ‘a good boy’ IANS Ramakrishnudu said the govern- Bill, the President’s Office ment will make a statement on the confirmed. IANS No special status for state: Jaitley issue and the matter could be taken The central government HYDERABAD: The monsoon session up for debate later. had sent the Constitutional of the Andhra Pradesh legislature NEW DELHI: Making it clear that Andhra Pradesh will not be accorded Amid the din, Naidu moved the Amendment Bill to the LUCKNOW: Congress Vice- Pres- began on a stormy note yesterday, special category status, the Centre said the state will be provided with Goods and Services Tax Bill for rat- President after 16 states ident Rahul Gandhi yesterday got with the opposition YSR Congress monetary compensation through externally aided projects. ification and said the YSRCP had no ratified the legislation. a return compliment from Uttar Party stalling proceedings to pro- After day-long suspense and hectic consultation in the national capi- concern for the state. The government targets Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh test against what it termed a denial tal, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced on Wednesday night As opposition members contin- to implement the GST sys- Yadav who called him a “good boy, of special category status to the state that the state will get monetary advantage equivalent to what it would ued to shout slogans, the Speaker tem from April 1, 2017. who should come more often” to by the Centre. have got if it was accorded the special category status. adjourned the house for a second The Bill was earlier the state.” Both houses of the legislature time. passed unanimously by the Yadav was responding to were rocked by massive protests people by the ruling Telugu Desam The Speaker adjourned the house When the house re-assembled, Rajya Sabha and the Lok questions on the 2,500-km-long by the opposition party, which Party (TDP) and its ally Bharatiya for 10 minutes but there was no let- the YSRCP protest continued, forcing Sabha. It is a single indi- ‘Kisan Mahayatra’, being under- demanded the resignation of Chief Janata Party, members of the YSRCP up in protests when proceedings the Speaker to adjourn the assem- rect tax that proposes taken by Gandhi to cover 223 Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. surrounded Speaker Kodela Siv- resumed. bly for the day. YSRCP chief and to subsume most central assembly segments. Opposition legislators were on aprasad’s podium and raised slogans. TDP and BJP members took Leader of Opposition Y.S. Jaganmo- and state taxes like value Asked the possibility of a their feet as soon as the house met, They also displayed placards. Amid strong exception to the behaviour of han Reddy alleged that the central added tax, service tax, cen- political alliance between the two in black clothes to protest. the pandemonium, they tore papers the opposition members in the house. and state governments had “cheated” tral sales tax, excise duty, parties, Yadav refused to comment Terming it a betrayal of the and threw them towards the Speaker. Legislative Affairs Minister Y. the people of Andhra Pradesh. additional customs duty but said Gandhi is “a good person, and special additional cus- a good boy and if he stays put in toms duty. The GST rate has UP more often, they might actu- to be decided by the pro- ally end up being friends”. posed GST Council, which He also added in the same Advanced weather will be chaired by the Union breath that he found nothing Finance Minister. All state wrong in two people becoming finance ministers will be its friends, even if they were from members. different political parties. satellite launched A few months back, in his first interaction with party workers in Eight die after Lucknow, Gandhi had called the IANS expected. With this, the Indian 43-year-old Chief Minister an space agency has successfully boat capsizes “accha ladka” (a good boy). launched three satellites weighing over two tonnes of the six satellites New Delhi: Eight bodies SRIHARIKOTA: India successfully of same weight it had flown in a were recovered from a river BJP president launched its INSAT-3DR advanced GSLV rocket. in southern India and at weather satellite in copy-book style The GSLV flight gives the Indian least four people were still last evening using its heavy geosyn- space programme a boost as get- missing after a boat cap- forced to chronous satellite launch vehicle ting the third stage cryogenic engine sized, police said yesterday. (GSLV-F05) rocket. right is important for India’s future The vessel, a kind of backtrack at rally Around 17 minutes after lift-off space programmes and commercial boat called a coracle, was from Satish Dhawan Space Centre launches. The satellite incorporates packed with more than 25 IANS here at 4.50pm, the GSLV rocket technological improvements like people. The accident took slung the 2,211kg satellite into a geo- imaging in middle infrared band place in Karnataka state’s synchronous transfer orbit (GTO), to provide nighttime pictures of Shimoga district. All vic- SURAT: Hundreds of Patidars from where it would be guided to low clouds and fog; imaging in two tims were men, German yesterday kicked up a ruckus at a its final geostationary orbit. thermal infrared bands for better News Agency (DPA) quoted Bystanders look on as ISRO’s satellite INSAT-3DR on board the public meeting meant to showcase The launch was delayed by 40 estimating sea surface temperature; a police official as saying. A the BJP’s support of the Patel com- Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F05) lifts off from minutes as the fuelling of the third and higher spatial resolution in the search for the missing con- munity, compelling BJP President Sriharikota yesterday. stage of the rocket took longer than visible and thermal infrared bands. tinued, he added. Amit Shah to cut short his speech. Despite large deployment of police and paramilitary forces, Petition against Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) supporters sported saffron Man sentenced to death for acid attack murder funding rebels caps and barged into the venue where legislators of the Patel com- New Delhi: The Supreme munity were to be felicitated by Court has agreed to hear Shah and Gujarat Chief Minister AFP belonged to the rarest of rare cases,” Public Pros- but are on bail pending an appeal. The victim’s a public interest litigation Vijay Rupani. ecutor Ujjwal Nikam said. family applauded the ruling, saying it should be seeking to prohibit the Cen- Belying the organisers’ claim The Supreme Court says capital punishment swiftly carried out. “We had sought the death pen- tral and the Jammu and that lakhs of Patels would attend should be carried out in “the rarest of rare” cases alty since the beginning so the verdict is good. Kashmir government from the function, about 10,000 turned MUMBAI: In a landmark judgement, a court sen- in India, among a dwindling group of nations that Now, we want it to be carried out without any funding separatist groups up while over 500 supporters of tenced a man to death yesterday for murdering have the death penalty on statute books. delay,” Preeti’s brother, Hitesh Rathi, said. and their leaders who were PAAS, led by BJP dissident MLA a woman by throwing acid on her face after she “This is the first time that such a judgement Police alleged Panwar, reportedly 26, and a spearheading the anti- Nalin Kotadia, laid virtual siege rejected his marriage proposal. has been passed for an acid attack-related case hotel management graduate, had committed the India agitation in the state. of the place and prevented peo- Ankur Panwar was found guilty on Tuesday of against a woman,” said Nikam. crime after she rejected his marriage proposal Petitioner and advocate ple from reaching it. hurling sulphuric acid on 24-year-old Preeti Rathi Activists welcomed the sentence and said it and had wanted to disfigure her face to destroy M.L.Sharma said rebel lead- Police used lathis and burst in a fit of jealousy outside a railway station in the would go a long way to preventing attacks, but her career. ers engaged in anti-national tear gas shells to disperse PAAS financial capital Mumbai in May 2013. criticised the length of time taken to bring the Panwar’s lawyer said she would appeal the activities were being funded supporters, who started raising Rathi, a neighbour of Panwar’s in New Delhi, offender to justice. verdict — delivered at a special court dealing by the government, provided slogans like “Jai Sardar, Jai Pati- had just arrived in Mumbai to start a new job as a “It has come too late. It took a fast-track court with crimes against women — to the Bombay with Z category secu- dar” and hurled chairs as soon nurse. She died in hospital of multiple organ fail- three years to punish the guilty,” said Sonali High Court. “We are moving the case to the high rity cover and their travel as Shah and Rupani stood on the ure the following month. Mukherjee, whose face was severely disfigured in court. There is no second thought about it,” Apek- expenses were being met. stage. “I convinced the court that the acid attack 2003 by a group of men who have been convicted sha Vora said. EUROPE FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 11 UK lawmakers Islam can co-exist with secularism: Hollande should vacate AFP PARIS: President Francois Hollande said yesterday that Islam could co- exist with secularism, warning in a speech seen as preparing the ground parliament for a re-election bid that the anti- terror fight should not undermine French values. The deeply unpopular Hollande renovation options, said in a report. has yet to announce whether he will “Unless an intensive programme run for a second term next year, but Palace of of major remedial work is under- is widely expected to be a candidate. Westminster needs taken soon, it is likely the building In a passionate plea for tolerance, major renovation will become uninhabitable.” he defended the country’s Muslim The committee looked at a series minority following a vitriolic debate for six years: Report of options ranging from a six-year, on the banning of the Islamic bur- £3.5bn programme involving law- kini swimsuit. makers moving out of the building, to “Nothing in the idea of secular- a 32-year rolling programme carried ism opposes the practice of Islam in Reuters out while it continued to function as France, provided it respects the law,” a parliament, at a cost of £5.7bn. Hollande said. “All the evidence points to hav- Secularism was not a “state ing to move out of the whole palace religion” to be used against other LONDON: Britain’s parliament simultaneously. That is the lowest religions, he said in the speech in should completely vacate its historic risk, most cost-effective and quick- Paris, denouncing the “stigmatisa- Palace of Westminster building for est option,” said committee member tion of Muslims”. French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech on democracy and terrorism in Paris, France, yesterday. six years in order to allow a multi- and opposition Labour lawmaker Mayors in around 30 towns this billion pound major renovation Chris Bryant. summer cited France’s century-old yes, certainly.” In a wide-ranging enacting a raft of anti-terror laws the (terrorist) threat? No,” he said, project to take place, a committee The committee recommended secular laws in banning head-to-toe address, Hollande cast himself as and repeatedly extending a state declaring: “Democracy is our of lawmakers said yesterday. parliament now set up a delivery swimwear on their beaches, unleash- a guardian of democracy, resisting of emergency — measures deemed weapon.” The neo-Gothic fronted build- authority to put together detailed ing a furore. calls for more repressive laws fol- insufficient by the conservative Polls predict a drubbing for the ing on the banks of the River Thames plan and budget. Several of the towns later lowing a string of jihadist attacks opposition. 62-year-old Socialist if he throws his was rebuilt in the mid-1800s follow- A world heritage site and major revoked the bans after France’s high- that have left over 230 people dead “The barbarians who are attack- hat in the ring again after five years ing a fire and its mechanical and tourist attraction, the palace includes est administrative court ruled they in France since January 2015. ing us believe we are weak,” Sarkozy marked by stubbornly high unem- electrical services have not under- the famous clock tower housing the were a “serious” violation of basic The authorities this week said in an interview with Valeurs ployment and only timid attempts gone major renovation since. Big Ben bell. The oldest building on freedoms. launched another anti-terror investi- Actuelles magazine in mid-August at reform. Last year an independent report the site, Westminster Hall, dates from Hollande rejected calls by con- gation, following the discovery of six calling for a “merciless” response. Hollande has deferred his on required restoration work found 1099 and is still in daily use. servatives, including his arch-rival, gas cylinders in an abandoned car Sarkozy, who has announced a decision on whether to run until asbestos throughout the building, The committee said that while former president Nicolas Sarkozy, for near Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral. bid to try to win back the presidency December. stonework crumbling, roofs leak- the work, expected to begin in the the state to ban the burkini, saying it Four people are being held over in next year’s election, has called for A poll published Tuesday showed ing and plumbing failing. early 2020s, is carried out, the would be “unconstitutional”. the find, which comes two months suspected radicals to be interned in he would only get between 11 and 15 “There is a substantial and House of Commons should relo- Asking whether Islam could after a Tunisian radical slammed a camps. Hollande warned that France percent in the first round of voting. growing risk of either a single, cat- cate to the nearby Department of co-exist with secularism, like Chris- lorry into a crowd of Bastille Day rev- could not sacrifice its core values of A separate survey for BFMTV astrophic event, such as a major Health’s building, where a tempo- tianity and Judaism, he insisted: “My ellers in Nice, killing 86 people. liberty, equality and fraternity. Wednesday showed 88 percent of the fire, or a succession of incremental rary chamber would be built in an answer is yes, certainly.” Hollande said attack plots had “The declaration of human rights French opposed to Hollande standing failures in essential systems which inner courtyard. “The question the Republic been foiled “in recent days” but did is not some old scroll to be framed again. “It’s all over, it’s been all over would lead to parliament no longer Parliament’s upper chamber, the must answer is: Is it really ready to not elaborate. and hung in reception rooms,” he for a long time, bar some completely being able to occupy the palace,” House of Lords, should be moved to embrace a religion that it did not The government has responded said. unforeseen development,” Thomas the Joint Committee on the Palace an adjacent conference centre, it expect to be this big over a cen- to the threat by deploying thou- “Did the Patriot Act and Guan- Guenole, a professor at Sciences Po of Westminster, set up to consider the said. tury ago? There too, my answer is sands of troops to patrol the streets, tanamo protect Americans from university in Paris, told AFP. Uzbekistan UK and EU must work appoints PM Mirziyoyev as for smooth divorce: May interim president Reuters while it was still a member and that it would stand firm on sanctions against Russia over AFP its actions in Ukraine. May has given little away on what she LONDON: Britain and the European Union wants when Britain leaves the EU, saying she ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN: must work together to make their divorce will not show her hand before Britain triggers Uzbekistan’s parliament approved smooth and forge a new “strong relation- Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty to start Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziy- ship”, Prime Minister Theresa May told the exit procedure. That will not happen this oyev as acting president yesterday, European Council President Donald Tusk year, she says. a government website reported, yesterday. But while understanding the need for her in the clearest sign yet he could At their first one-to-one meeting since May new government to take time to get to grips take over long term after the became prime minister after Britain voted to with the complicated negotiations, some EU death of veteran strongman Islam leave the European Union at a June 23 referen- officials are keen to move quickly, fearing Karimov. dum, Tusk said the British leader should start uncertainty over future relations is hurting Mirziyoyev, 58, was given the the formal procedure to leave the bloc as soon investment. post after being backed by Sen- as possible. Tusk who, as head of the European Council, ate leader Nigmatilla Yuldashev, But a spokeswoman said May felt little leads the body that defines the bloc’s political who under the constitution should pressure, having won the agreement of EU direction and priorities, said on Twitter that it have become temporary president officials to take at least until the end of this was “in everybody’s best interest to start ASAP ahead of elections. year to come up with a negotiating stance (as soon as possible).” Parliament also ordered a for the talks that will shape Britain’s rela- Britain’s economy, while slowing sharply, presidential vote to take place tionship with Europe and its future standing has recovered from the initial impact of the within three months with many in the world. vote. Reports published yesterday showed analysts expecting Mirziyoyev to “The main points that the prime minis- firms increasing the number of permanent win. ter made were about working together so that staff and house prices rising. Mirziyoyev has been widely there was a smooth process for the UK leaving Britain’s biggest consumer electricals and tipped by analysts to succeed the European Union, that is why we are tak- mobile phone retailer, Dixons Carphone was autocrat Karimov. ing time to prepare for the negotiations,” the the latest company to say that its consumers The 78-year-old president was spokeswoman told reporters. seem unfazed by the Brexit vote. buried on Saturday in his native “We want to see a strong European Union Politicians who campaigned for Britain to Samarkand city, of which Mirziy- that we can have a strong relationship with leave the EU have taken the economic data as oyev was a former governor. once we have left.” proof that the “remain” campaign had tried to Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May (left) welcomes European Council President Donald Mirziyoyev has had meet- Over breakfast, the two leaders agreed that frighten voters into staying by forecasting eco- ings with both Russian President Tusk at No. 10 Downing Street in London, yesterday. Britain would have “a strong voice” in the EU nomic difficulties. Vladimir Putin who laid flowers at Karimov’s grave on Tuesday, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who attended the funeral. Putin praised Karimov for Ukraine moves to ban Russian books promoting Crimea annexation maintaining “stability” over the course of his 27-year rule and said Russia would “do everything AFP politicians who have cosied up to totalitarian regimes”. Ukraine and its support such blacklists. It was not troops that forced the Ukrainian mil- to support the Uzbek people and Russian President Vladimir Putin Western allies have viewed Russia as immediately clear when the chamber itary to retreat. the Uzbek leadership”. or backed the Kremlin’s March 2014 an “aggressor” since it snatched Cri- would debate the new book bill. Law- Russia holds parliamentary polls “You can count on us fully, annexation of its strategic Black Sea mea and allegedly sent soldiers and makers returned from their summer on September 18 in which Crimea as you can on your most faithful KIEV: Ukraine escalated its cultural Peninsula of Crimea. weapons to aid insurgents fighting a recess this week. will take part. friends,” Putin told Mirziyoyev war with Moscow yesterday by pro- The proposed legislation con- 28-month separatist revolt that has Ukrainian lawmakers appealed when the two met on Tuesday. posing a ban on Russian books that cerns books that were either claimed nearly 9,600 lives. Crimea appeal to the international community yes- Uzbekistan, a Central Asian promote the ouster of Kiev’s pro- “published or shipped from the ter- Putin denies the charges and says Moscow did not immediately terday not to recognise the results of country of over 30 million peo- Western leadership and recognise ritory of the aggressor nation or the Russians spotted or captured in the react to the Ukrainian government’s the vote in the region or send interna- ple, has one of the world’s poorest the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea. temporarily occupied Crimea, and war zone were either volunteers or latest proposal. tional observers to what Kiev views records on human rights but has The bill submitted to parliament which are forbidden from being dis- off-duty troops. It argues that Crimea chose to as its own land. parlayed its strategic location on follows similar legislation that pre- tributed in Ukraine.” The various Ukrainian restric- join Russia after holding an inde- “This is of critical importance to the border with Afghanistan into vents channels from airing Russian The new ban would cover litera- tions have been criticised by some pendence referendum that expressed Ukraine because the possible partic- geopolitical influence. shows and films deemed to cast a ture “that calls for the overthrow of human rights organisations as a vio- the free will of the region’s two mil- ipation of international monitors and The United States once main- negative light on the former Soviet power” in Ukraine. lation of free speech. lion residents. representatives of monitoring mis- tained a military base there used republic’s history and February 2014 It would also ban books that “cre- But Ukraine’s parliament is led The UN General Assembly con- sions could indirectly legitimise the for Afghanistan operations, but pro-EU revolt. ate a positive image of workers of the by parties tied to President Petro demned the vote as “illegal” because continuing illegal occupation of Cri- the government cancelled the Ukraine has also denied entry aggressor nation” and “propagate Poroshenko’s government as well as it was hastily arranged after the mea,” Ukraine’s parliament said in a lease later. to a raft of film and pop stars and communist and nationalist-socialist populist and nationalist groups that region was swarmed by Russian statement. 12 FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 AMERICAS Hillary vows to hunt IS chief; slams ‘dangerous’ Trump

White Plains, New York. “Getting Al Clinton pointed to the US mil- Baghdadi will require efforts at the itary code of honour, saying “that, Hillary, 68, and top levels, but it will send a resound- Donald Trump,... is what we’re going Trump, 70, have ing message that nobody directs or to stand up and defend in the face of inspires attacks against the United your outrageous, disgraceful attacks clashed repeatedly States and gets away with it.” on the men and women of our armed over foreign policy, Clinton, 68, and Trump, 70, have forces.” clashed repeatedly over foreign pol- The New York real estate mogul’s but their battle icy, but their battle rose to a new level campaign swiftly shot back, with rose to a new level when the two were separately grilled Trump spokesman Jason Miller call- when the two were over their national security creden- ing Clinton’s remarks “the desperate tials at a New York forum. attacks of a flailing campaign sink- separately grilled “One thing you didn’t hear from ing in the polls.” over their national Donald Trump last night is any plan Trump has gained on Clinton to take on ISIS, one of the biggest over the past 10 days, but the former security credentials threats facing our country,” Clinton secretary of state still maintains an at a New York forum. said, using an acronym for the group. advantage of 2.8 percentage points, When asked at the forum about according to the RealClearPolitics how he would stop the spread of glo- poll average. US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton poses for a selfie after a voter registration rally at bal terrorism, “Trump’s answer was While she is also seen as holding AFP simply, ‘take the oil,’” Clinton added. leads in battleground states, a new Johnson C Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, yesterday. “He says his plan is still a secret, poll by Suffolk University shows but the truth is he simply doesn’t have Trump leading Clinton in North Caro- one. And that’s not only dangerous, it lina by three points, 44 percent to 41 CHARLOTTE: Hillary Clinton sought should be disqualifying.” percent. Trump says Putin is ‘far more’ to polish her image yesterday as a Instead of laying out a Middle East Among the swing states where the strong leader with a command of strategy, Trump “bizarrely” praised election is likely to be decided is Ohio, major global challenges — the IS Putin and suggested the strongman where Trump arrived Thursday for jihadist group first among them — is a better leader than US President an education roundtable at a charter of a leader than Obama while discrediting Republican rival Barack Obama, she said. school in Cleveland. Donald Trump as unfit for the White “Even I was shocked by this,” Clin- He is also to attend a pair of House. ton said later at a rally in Charlotte, fundraisers. AFP I don’t happen to like the system. But Clinton responded, stressing she had With just 61 days before America in the battleground state of North Clinton’s address to reporters certainly in that system he’s been a not improperly handled classified chooses a new commander in chief, Carolina. marked the first podium press con- leader, far more than our president information. the Democrat delivered a withering “That is not just unpatriotic, it’s ference in nine months for Clinton, has been a leader.” The forum, held aboard historic takedown of the brash billionaire at not just insulting to the office and to who broke a long media drought by NEW YORK: Russian President Before Trump spoke, Clinton aircraft carrier the USS Intrepid, a rare impromptu press conference, the man who holds the office. It is speaking to journalists at length on Vladimir Putin is “far more” of a too was asked about her security docked off New York City, did not assailing his praise of Russian Pres- scary, it is dangerous.” her campaign plane this week. leader than Barack Obama, Repub- smarts, but also faced questions on put the candidates head-to-head, ident Vladimir Putin as “scary” and With the campaign now in the She rebuked an “undisciplined” lican presidential nominee Donald the sprawling email scandal that and Lauer asked them not to waste insisting Trump has no real plan to final two-month stretch, Clinton was Trump for discussing elements of a Trump said, echoing previous praise continues to overshadow her White time insulting each other. defeat the Islamic State group. wasting no opportunity to harangue recent classified intelligence briefing for the Kremlin strongman. House run. For the most part they refrained, Seeking to strike a commanding her rival over his missteps, particu- during Wednesday’s commander- Putin is “very much of a leader,” The interviewer, NBC’s Matt though Clinton said Trump had tone, Clinton called for the United larly over how he has “trash-talked” in-chief forum, in which he said he Trump said in a televised interview. Lauer, asked why it wasn’t “disqual- refused to take responsibility for States to track down and kill IS leader America’s generals. learned that Obama and other US Trump has made no secret of his ifying” for Clinton to have handled his initial support for the Iraq War. Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, as it did Osama “We’ve never seen anything like leaders “did not follow” the advice of admiration for Putin, who last year government emails on a private Trump went on to attack Clinton over bin Laden. this,” she said, highlighting Trump’s US national security experts. “I would praised the US businessman as “very server while secretary of state. her emails. “We should make it a top prior- call to bring back interrogation tech- never comment on any aspect of an outstanding.” Putin “has very strong “It was a mistake to have a per- The first debate between the ity to hunt down the leader of ISIS,” niques deemed to be torture, and to intelligence briefing that I received,” control over a country,” Trump said. sonal account. I would certainly not one-time friends turned bitter rivals Clinton told reporters on a tarmac in kill relatives of terrorists. Clinton said. “It’s a very different system, and do it again. I make no excuses for it,” is scheduled for September 26.

US military closes a prison Hands-free quadcopter Mexican finance minister resigns camp at Guantanamo Bay over Trump visit AFP which they can Skype family mem- bers, Filostrat said. AFP Twenty of the 40 or so detainees now at Camp 6 have been cleared WASHINGTON: The US military for transfer and are optimistic they MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s finance has closed a maximum-security may be released before Obama minister Luis Videgaray resigned detention center at Guantanamo leaves office in January. late on Wednesday following Don- Bay, an official said yesterday, as “It’s fair to say there’s a sense ald Trump’s controversial visit to the controversial prison’s popula- of anticipation, maybe hope even,” the country, with the US Repub- tion continues to dwindle. Filostrat said. Still, a small number lican presidential candidate Guantanamo’s Camp 5 lockup, of detainees continue to protest boasting it showed his trip had built in 2004 at a cost of $17m, their indefinite detention by hun- been a success. closed on August 19 and will be con- ger striking. “I let them know where the verted into a medical center with Many have been locked up for United States stands,” Trump a psychiatric wing for detainees, more than a decade without any said during a televised forum with facility spokesman Navy Captain formal charges being brought, with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. John Filostrat said. only limited access to lawyers and “And if you look what happened, Only a “handful” of detainees amid allegations of detainee abuse. the aftermath today, people that had remained at Camp 5 after 15 The riskiest remaining detain- arranged the trip in Mexico have inmates were transferred to the UAE ees, including the five men accused been forced out of government. last month, the biggest single release of plotting the September 11, 2001 That’s how well we did.” Skye Intelligence’s Skye Orbit drone is displayed at InterDrone, an international drone conference and under President Barack Obama. terror attacks, are incarcerated at Videgaray, a close confidant The few former Camp 5 inmates another, secret prison camp called exposition for commercial drones, at the Paris Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The $799 hands-free of President Enrique Pena Nieto, are now housed in an adjacent Camp 7 located elsewhere on the quadcopter comes with an armband with a GPS receiver and Wi-Fi transceiver that allows the drone stepped down amid fallout from medium-security jail, Camp 6, base. Camp 5 once housed non- to lock on to moving people or objects automatically as it takes photos and videos with a resolution the New York billionaire’s visit where they have access to commu- compliant inmates and hunger of up to 16 megapixels. which he helped arrange. Pena nal areas and computers through strikers. Nieto said he had accepted Vide- garay’s resignation but made no mention of reports he played a crucial role in setting up Trump’s August 31 meeting with the Nasa set to launch first asteroid dust-retrieval mission president. Pena Nieto has faced a bar- rage of criticism over his decision to hold talks with Trump, who AFP “For primitive, carbon-rich brand-new world that we have never Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), will be set aside for future research- has threatened to make Mexico asteroids like Bennu, materials are seen before,” said Dante Lauretta, should pick up about two ounces (60 ers—for the science questions we pay for a wall on the border to preserved from over four and a half OSIRIS-REx principal investigator grams) from the asteroid, but in tests haven’t figured out to even ask yet,” stop migrants from entering the MIAMI: The US space agency counted billion years ago,” explained Christina and professor at the University of so far it has generally picked up five said Gordon Johnston, an OSIRIS- United States illegally. He has also down yesterday to its first mission Richey, OSIRIS-REx deputy program Arizona, Tucson. times that amount. REx program executive at NASA vowed to deport millions of Mex- to collect dust from an asteroid, the scientist at Nasa. These “may be the Using a suite of cameras, lasers TAGSAM contains a type of headquarters. ican immigrants illegally living in kind of cosmic body that may have precursors to life in Earth or elsewhere and spectrometers, “we are really reverse-vacuum mechanism that Nasa has also promised four the United States, and cancel trade delivered life-giving materials to in our solar system.” going to understand the distribu- was invented by a Lockheed Martin percent of the sample to its major agreements with Mexico. Earth billions of years ago. OSIRIS-REx’s main goal is to tion of materials across the surface engineer who tested the concept a partner in the effort, Canada, and The Washington Post reported The unmanned spacecraft, gather dirt and debris from the sur- of that asteroid,” he added. “We are decade ago using a red plastic Solo another half-percent to Japan. last week that Videgaray was known as OSIRIS-REx, is poised to face of the asteroid and return it to a trailblazer for that kind of activ- cup in his driveway. Yet another aim of the mission is a leading advocate for the sit- blast off at 7:05 pm (23:05 GMT) atop Earth by 2023 for further study. ity because our science requires it.” The spacecraft will not land on to measure how sunlight can nudge down at Los Pinos, serving as the an Atlas V rocket in Cape Canaveral, Learning more about the origins The spacecraft is expected to the asteroid, but will get very close asteroids as they orbit, a phenome- behind-the-scenes liaison with Florida. The weather forecast is 80 of life and the beginning of the solar reach Bennu in August 2018 and and reach out with an arm like a non known as the Yarkovsky effect, Trump’s campaign. Videgaray percent favorable for liftoff. system are key objectives for the spend two years studying it before it pogo-stick for a quick, three-to-five so scientists can better predict the saw the meeting as a political risk The $800m mission will travel SUV-sized OSIRIS-REx, which stands begins the sample collection attempt second maneuver. long-term risk of asteroids like Bennu worth taking in case Trump was for two years on a journey to Bennu, for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, in July 2020. Nasa hopes the solar- Rich Kuhns, OSIRIS-REx pro- colliding with Earth. elected, the Post said. a near-Earth asteroid about the size Resource Identification and Security- powered OSIRIS-REx will bring back gram manager with Lockheed Martin In 2135, Bennu is expected to But the visit backfired on the of a small mountain. Regolith Explorer. the largest payload of space samples Space Systems in Denver, described pass just slightly within the moon’s president, with Mexicans voicing Bennu was chosen from the some The mission should also shed since the Apollo era of the 1960s and the movement as a “gentle high-five.” orbit, a “particularly close approach outrage that a US politician who 500,000 asteroids in the solar sys- light on how to find precious 1970s, when American explorers The sample collector will shoot (that) will change Bennu’s orbit by a has branded Mexican migrants as tem because it orbits close to Earth’s resources such as water and metals collected and carried back to Earth a bit of compressed air at the aster- small amount, which is uncertain at “rapists” would get such a pres- path around the sun, it is the right in asteroids, a field that has gener- some 360kg of moon rocks. oid and gather the dust it kicks up in this time and which may lead to a tigious invitation. 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ONLINE CHART BUST Apple jack axe ushers in a voice-driven world www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Reuters MOST READ SAN FRANCISCO: The new Apple iPhone has some- US, Russia eye fresh Syria peace push thing missing: The small socket millions of us have 1 used for years to plug in headphones. While some fans opposed the widely anticipated India launches advanced weather satellite in move — one online petition urging Apple to keep the 2 textbook style headphone jack drew more than 300,000 signa- tures — equipment suppliers and experts heralded a Twin bombings kill 3 in Iraqi change in how users will interact with their devices. 3 capital: Police source Axing the jack, they say, paves the way for dis- creet, bean-sized earbuds that can simultaneously translate, filter out unwanted noise or let us control other devices by voice - and drive up the value of TWEET OF THE DAY the so-called ‘hearables’ market to $16 billion within five years. It’s the vision of the futuristic 2013 movie “Her”, where a human has a love affair with a disembod- ied voice in his ear. But some who follow the industry say it’s closer than many think, noting improvements in wireless technologies, materials, artificial intelli- gence and battery life. “It’s surprisingly close,” says Nick Hunn, a UK- based consultant who works with manufacturers and a group defining the short-range wireless Blue- Apple Senior Vice-President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller introduces a Lightning to 3.5mm tooth standard. Apple justified the removal of the jack as a courageous move to ditch a 100-year-old audio jack adapter in San Francisco. technology and make more space inside the iPhone. It offered as alternatives a lightning cable earphone German wireless earbud start-up Bragi, for exam- user on relevant information based on weather, out- and an adapter for the old type, but touted new wire- ple, last week announced a partnership to hook up side events and your calendar. less earphones. its earbuds with IBM’s artificial intelligence engine, Valencell has focused on putting biometrics in the “It makes no sense to tether ourselves with cables Watson. IBM said users would be able to communi- earbud, such as measuring the user’s heart rate. Its to our mobile devices,” said Phil Schiller, senior VP of cate, monitor vital signs, receive and give instructions technology can be found in over a dozen products so worldwide marketing, announcing the launch of Air- and translate from one language to another using far, says LeBoeuf. Bragi has worked on solving some Pods, Apple’s own wireless earbuds using the firm’s Bragi’s smart earphones. of the problems connecting two wireless buds with INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY new wireless W1 chip, and costing $159. “We’re just Firefighters would be better able to hear and a device and with each other, and wants to “bring at the beginning of a truly wireless future we’ve been locate victims and colleagues, and co-workers intelligence to wearables,” says Hviid. H.E. Dr. Mohammed Abdul working towards for many years,” added chief design could collaborate using both hands, said Bragi Samsung last month launched its IconX wire- Wahed Al Hammadi, Min- officer Jonathan Ive. And that great uncabling has CEO Nikolaj Hviid. less earbuds, which include biometrics, while Sony’s ister of Education and already begun. Apple pointed to improvements in its Siri voice Xperia Ear promises to deliver weather and message Higher Education and Speakers were first: More than 100 million control software, which can be activated by double notifications via voice, and to recognise input either other officials during the wireless speakers will be sold this year, most of tapping the AirPod. Other major technology compa- by voice or head movements. LG Electronics said ministry press conference them using Bluetooth, according to SAR Insight nies are also making strides, with Amazon.com Inc’s last week it was including Alexa in its SmartThinQ on the new academic year and Consulting. Alexa software letting you control an Internet-con- Hub, a device used to connect home appliances over which took place at the Now it’s headsets: Spending on wireless head- nected speaker with your voice. Alphabet’s Google the Internet. And some are already pioneering the ministry of Education and sets overtook wired ones last year, says Steven has its own version. next step - where voice commands are unnecessary. Higher Education. photo LeBoeuf, founder of Valencell, a developer of bio- Start-ups, too, are forging a path. New York-based US start-up Emotiv Systems is selling a $300 head- by Baher amin metric sensor technology for wearable devices. Scarlet, funded by Samsung Electronics, this year set that allows the user to control software with the The next step is to make those earphones smarter. launched an intelligent assistant app that briefs the mind and face. American picks prison over wife & home Star Trek 50-year mission: To

AFP Remedios after a major fight at their he just could no longer bear living home in the US state, according to a with his wife. court document. Ripple got his wish: He is now show the best of humanity So he headed to a Kansas City behind bars. Sure, separation or WASHINGTON: Ah, romance. A bank to rob it, and passed a note divorce might have been options for 70-year-old American man from to a teller claiming he had a gun other people. Ripple just did not want AFP Spock. Gene Roddenberry wrote the devoted global cult unified by their Kansas robbed a bank so that he and demanding cash, knowing to go to those scary places. pilot in 1965, the same year as the first affection for the Roddenberry vision, could be sent to prison to get away he would be getting a change of And now, at his new home, in US spacewalk, and pitched the show and today “Trekkies” are the only fan from his wife, court documents address in the deal. addition to friendly new cellmates as “a wagon train to the stars,” figuring group listed by name in the Oxford showed late on Tuesday. When he was handed about he gets meals and health care which LOS ANGELES: It launched with that westerns were popular in Holly- English Dictionary. “I’d rather be in jail than at $3,000 in cash, he did not run. He millions of American seniors can- a five-year mission “to boldly go wood at the time. “Unbelievable!!!!!,” a feature- home,” Lawrence Ripple told his wife waited to be arrested, and told police not afford. where no man has gone before,” Fans say Roddenberry exam- length sci-fi parody of the franchise, but half a century on “Star Trek” ined earthly social issues with an premiered in Hollywood on Wednes- has become a visionary blueprint unparalleled sensitivity, present- day, in what organisers described of humanity at its very best. ing television’s first truly multiracial as possibly “one of the largest his- The multi-billion-dollar cultural cast, and the first televised interracial toric gatherings of former ‘Star World’s smallest pacemakers phenomenon, adored by fans the kiss. “When I was a kid, sci-fi mov- Trek’ actors.” The movie follows the world over, marked its 50th anni- ies and TV shows were about humans exploits of four astronauts — one of versary yesterday. When the show beating — or being beaten by — mon- whom is an animatronic marionette debuted on September 8, 1966 the sters,” astronomer Phil Plait told Air resembling Kirk — who travel to the concept was a three-season tele- and Space, a bimonthly magazine pro- moon to rescue missing comrades. vision show following the crew of duced by the National Air and Space Around 28 former actors from the starship Enterprise as they ven- Museum in Washington DC. the five series and two of the films hit tured into the galaxy to seek out new “The original series episode the red carpet for “Unbelievable!!!!!,” civili2ations. ‘Devil in the Dark’ showed that who including its stars Nichelle Nichols, An inauspicious first episode, was the monster isn’t always that who played Uhura in the original “The Man Trap”, told of a shape- clear-cut, and that had a deep effect series, and Walter Koenig, who was shifting alien that attacked members on me.” Nasa space shuttle pilot navigation officer Pavel Chekov. of the Enterprise to harvest their salt. Terry Virts recalled his excitement “We wanted to create a unique Little did NBC know it would at going to see the first ‘Star Trek’ and original film that sci-fi fans can snowball into a touchstone in enter- movie with his dad. “We actually watch again and again, celebrating tainment spawning six shows with studied leadership via ‘Star Trek’ at their love for this iconic TV show,” a combined 725 episodes and 13 the Air Force Academy. There were a said Steven Fawcette, who made the movies, and turning its stars into lot of practical lessons to learn about film with his wife Angelique. household names. decisiveness versus being too rash, A new series, which begins film- “To be talking about the 50th or performing your specific role well ing in Toronto this month ahead of a anniversary is insane. I was born to help the team.” he said. premiere planned for January next the same year that Star Trek was,” Korean-American actor John Cho, year, will be the franchise’s first new veteran filmmaker J J Abrams, who plays Starfleet Officer Hikaru outing in more than a decade. the creative force behind the new Sulu in the rebooted trilogy — includ- US television network CBS “rebooted” trilogy, told a convention ing the 50th anniversary film “Star announced at San Diego Comic-Con in Hollywood in May. Trek Beyond” — describes multicultur- in July that it would be called “Star “I know how old I feel, so the idea alism as one of its “defining features.” Trek Discovery”. “I think ‘Star Trek’ that this thing endures is incredible.” “I really believe theoretically in ‘Star in general has been about individual The original series starred William Trek’ movies. It’s a good cultural prod- rights and about respecting every- Two of the world’s smallest pacemakers (right) are seen next to the original sized one during a media Shatner, now 85, as the suave Captain uct, in my opinion. I wanted to be a one, no matter who or what they event at Jackson South Community Hospital to announce the successful implant of the new pacemaker James T Kirk and Leonard Nimoy, part of something I felt was an impor- are,” said Brent Spiner, who played into a patient, a first for a South Florida hospital in Miami, Florida, yesterday. The miniaturised heart device, who died last year at the age of 83, as tant, positive cultural contribution,” the android Data in the “Star Trek: known as the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System, was implanted at Jackson South Community Hospital. his stilted sidekick — a half-human, the 44-year-old said. The next Generation” television and half-Vulcan science officer named Mr The franchise has attracted a film series. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 18 QE 10,534.10 +100.8 PTS PAGE | 19 DOW 18,482.89 -43.25 PTS Turkey needs more Post-Brexit trade: reforms to boost FTSE100 6,858.70 +12.12 PTS UK sets up working growth: Deputy PM BRENT $47.61 +$2.11 group with India

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GCC’s $330bn spending on core projects to fuel growth in sukuk issuance

By Mohammad Shoeb supportive for the world’s core corpo- infrastructure contracts awarded with performance of total global slowdown in corporate and infra- bank loans to corporates continues The Peninsula rate sukuk markets, said the report, over 2016-2019--could be about sukuk issuance including financial structure sukuk to the current low to curb demand for sukuk issuance,” titled “Can GCC Corporate And Infra- $330bn,” said S&P Global Ratings institutions and sovereigns, which oil prices, which have affected mac- said the report. structure Sukuk Issuance Recover analyst Karim Nassif. dipped to $39bn from $47.2bn over roeconomic fundamentals in the In the GCC, corporate and infra- From Its Current Stall?”, which was “We note that with some sover- the same period. GCC. A number of large infrastruc- structure sukuk issuance totalled DOHA: The GCC governments’ released yesterday. eigns, such as Saudi Arabia, the 2016 It also said that the low oil price, ture projects in the GCC have either $2.5bn in the first eight months of spending on mega projects, includ- Still, corporate and infrastructure budget includes a capital spending subdued economic growth, a small been cancelled or deferred as part 2016, compared with $2.3bn for the ing expenditure on infrastructure sukuk issuance in the GCC (Qatar, allocation of about 9 percent for what number of issuers, and to a lesser of governments’ attempts to con- preceding eight months), by our esti- projects between 2016-19 is esti- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Ara- the government defines as ‘transport extent cheap bank funding relative trol expenditures and address fiscal mates. Versus the same periods in 2013 mated to be about $330bn. And this bia, and United Arab Emirates) and and infrastructure’. This compares to the capital markets are the main challenges. and 2014, issues are down sharply from massive public sector spending could Malaysia has continued to stagnate with our estimates of about $604bn reasons S&P see for the stagnation. “Fewer projects have broadly $5bn and $6.5bn, respectively. fuel fresh growth in GCC corporate so far this year and this may carry in projects (including $100bn of The international ratings agency meant less funding needs, including Global corporate and infrastruc- and infrastructure sukuk issuance, over to the coming quarters. infrastructure projects) that will need believes that corporate and infra- in the capital markets. Weakening ture sukuk issuance was also sluggish noted a latest report by S&P Global “Further out, we see possible funding through 2019. structure sukuk issuance could bank liquidity and low interest rates over the same period, standing at Ratings. brighter prospects for issuing corpo- Providing an overview, the report grow in the medium to long term, might otherwise have encouraged $10.8bn compared with $13.6bn in Essential infrastructure funding rate and infrastructure sukuk over noted that corporate and infrastruc- as a means for diversifying fund- greater reliance on capital markets, the first eight months of 2015. Although requirements, low interest rates, and the medium to long term. We esti- ture sukuk in the GCC year-to-date ing and for financing long-term including sukuk issuance. Mean- also showing year-on-year stagnation, investors’ appetite for Islamic assets mate that Gulf government spending came in flat versus the same period infrastructure. while, we believe that the ease of Malaysia continues to lead the pack, in their portfolios continue to be on projects alone—including a year earlier. This is largely in line “We attribute much of the availability and better pricing of having issued $4.5bn so far this year. Saudi & Algeria ministers LG unveils V20 to meet Opec chief today

according to secondary sources, which include consultants and Oil prices rose more industry media that estimate out- than 1.5 percent put independently. Iran has said it is producing after US industry slightly more than 3.8m b/d. The data showed a large Opec source said major oil produc- ers were trying to convince Tehran drawdown in crude to come onboard, adding there was stocks. an initial understanding that only Libya could be offered an exemption. source said. “It seems we are going “Now there is a push to smooth in this direction. But if we are going things out and solve any problem,” Reuters to freeze, we have to use secondary the Opec source said, adding there sources to gauge production levels. had been no agreement yet on any We can’t allow each country to use level at which to freeze production. a different method,” the source said. “This will be discussed in Algeria,” South Korean models pose with LG’s new premium smartphone V20 during a launch event in Seoul ALGIERS: Algeria’s energy minister “Iran must agree to be in line the source said. recently. LG Electronics unveiled its new V20 premium smartphone which features improved audio will meet his Saudi counterpart and with other producers and use sec- Algeria is hosting meetings of functions and dual-lens rear cameras. Opec’s Secretary-General in Paris ondary sources.” Tehran says it the International Energy Forum and today as part of moves towards supports any measures to stabilise Opec on September 26-28. Energy clinching a global deal on stabil- the market. However, it has stopped Minister Noureddine Bouterfa trav- ising crude output to support oil short of indicating whether it would elled to Moscow yesterday, following prices, an Algerian official and join a global deal before its produc- recent trips to Qatar and Iran. Opec sources said. tion reaches 4 million barrels per Meanwhile, oil prices rose more QIG to replace Al Meera on QSE index Algeria will host the informal day, the level at which it says it was than 1.5 percent after US industry meeting with Saudi Energy Minister pumping before the imposition of data showed a large drawdown in Khalid Al Falih and Opec’s Moham- Western sanctions in 2012. crude stocks, reflecting the impact med Barkindo (pictured), said the The sanctions ended in January of an Atlantic storm. The Peninsula 302.64 points (-2.79 percent) last percent. Industries sector accounted Algerian official. this year. Iran has been the main US crude stocks fell by 12.1 mil- week with the bourse closing at for 16.2 percent and Telecom sector An Opec source confirmed the factor preventing an output deal lion barrels last week, data from 10,534.10 points. Trading value last accounted 14.2 percent. meeting as part of a push for an out- between Opec and non-Opec Rus- the American Petroleum Institute week decreased by 15.05 percent Banking and Financial Services put deal, with producers battered by sia as Tehran has said it should be showed. Benchmark Brent crude oil DOHA: Al Meera Consumer Goods to reach QR14.47bn compared to sector led traded number of transac- a glut-induced halving of oil prices excluded from any such agreement was up 65 cents a barrel at $48.63 by Company will be replaced by QR17.03bn the previous week. tions last week with 32.83 percent of over the past two years. before its production recovers. 1220 GMT, after settling up 72 cents Qatari Investors Group (QIG) on Trading volume decreased by the total. Industries sector accounted “There is a strong move towards The Opec source said Iran’s on Wednesday. US light crude was up QSE Index with effect from Octo- 12.33 percent to reach 32.21 mil- for 21.52 percent. Real Estate sec- a deal between Opec and non-Opec production before sanctions 75 cents at $46.25, having ended the ber 1, 2016, the Qatar News Agency lion shares, as against 36.74 million tor accounted for 17.03 percent and to at least freeze production,” the had never exceeded 3.75m b/d previous session up 67 cents. reported quoting a statement pub- shares, while the number of trans- Telecom sector accounted for 12.93 lished on the QSE website. actions rose by 9.7 percent, to reach percent. Of the 44 companies listed, Widam Food Company would be 25,450 transactions as compared to 11 ended last week higher, while 32 included in QSE’s Al Rayan Islamic 23,200 transactions previously. fell and one was unchanged. Index, while Zad Holding and Qatar Market capitalisation fell by 2.68 QNB led trading value last week Euro climbs; stocks ease as ECB holds fire Islamic Insurance will be removed percent to reach QR565.19bn as com- and accounted for 20.79 percent of from the index. pared to QR580.73bn at the end of the total traded value. Industries AFP lower at 10,675.29, after testing 10,600, and Paris end- After a review of the sector clas- the previous week. Qatar accounted for 12.19 percent ing down 0.3 percent. Wall Street joined the European sification at the request of Mannai Banking and Financial Services and Masraf Al Rayan accounted for trend, with the Dow Jones index also sliding in early Corporation, during the semi-annual sector led traded value last week 10.84 percent. New York business. London outperformed its continen- index review effective from Octo- with 45.97 percent of the total. Yesterday, the QSE index dropped LONDON: The euro rose yesterday and stock markets tal peers, closing 0.2 percent higher. ber 1, 2016, the company will be Industries sector accounted for 22.83 100.8 points or -0.95 percent. The vol- dropped as the European Central Bank kept its economic The euro, meanwhile, rose after ECB economists said excluded from the calculation of percent. Telecom sector accounted ume of shares traded increased to stimulus powder dry and held key rates steady. they now expect 1.7 percent growth this year, up from QSE’s Industrial Sector Index and for 9.45 percent and Real Estate sec- 9.63m from 5.63m on Wednesday and ECB President Mario Draghi pleaded for “patience” the 1.6 percent they forecast in June. While Draghi stated instead included in QSE’s Consumer tor accounted for 9.19 percent. the value of shares also increased to while unprecedented amounts of cash already injected the ECB stands ready to take further stimulus meas- Goods and Services Sector Index. All Banking and Financial Services QR434.49m from QR256.54m. Of the into the financial system worked their magic, before ures if needed, he also pleaded for restraint to give the the other indices will remain, as per sector led trading volume last week 44 companies listed, shares of 42 saw trying anything new. bank’s unprecedented stimulus measures a chance to the statement. with 37.88 percent of the total. Real trading. Of these 16 gained, 23 closed A disappointed Frankfurt market closed 0.7 percent work. “Ultimately we’ve got to be patient,” Draghi said. Meanwhile, QSE index lost Estate sector accounted for 18.68 lower and three remained unchanged. 18 FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 BUSINESS

Almana Group takes Turkey needs more reforms part at ‘Future Interiors Qatar’ meet to boost growth: Deputy PM The Peninsula

on Thursday, VAT charged DOHA: Almana Group and its on sales of new homes of subsidiaries Almana Maples and Economists say the more than 150 sq metres was Barrisol partnered with Qatar’s government needs reduced to 8 percent from 18 leading interior design and fit-out percent. “The new incentive on conference, Future Interiors Qatar to speed up reforms house ownership is an impor- 2016, which returned for its third to boost productivity tant opportunity for those annual occurrence in September. in education, labour, who want to buy a house. The The two-day conference, part government will show strong of the Project Qatar Business Intel- governance and support,” he said. ligence Series Project Qatar 2016, taxation. Turkey needs more foreign took place from September 5-6 investment to plug a current 2016. Future Interiors Qatar is one account deficit that was about of six specialised conferences tak- a high growth path,” Simsek told 4.5 percent of gross domestic prod- ing place this year and was been a business conference. “With very uct in 2015 and finance its heavily designed to showcase the latest Reuters strong incentives, household sav- indebted companies. Investors want interior design projects and oppor- ings will increase, and the reforms savings reforms and labour market tunities for fit-outs in Qatar. will encourage corporate savings liberalisation. The two-day event focused as well.” In the markets, the lira stood at on a number of aspects of the Dr Jassim Haji receiving the award. ANKARA: Turkey needs to imple- He did not detail specific policy 2.9370 at 0957 GMT, little changed interior design and architecture ment further economic reforms to measures, but said research and from 2.9317 at the end of Wednes- industry, including: Understand- set it on a path of higher growth innovation would lift output. He also day. The main share index was up ing the operational, cognitive and aims to drive up household and said the government would “keep 0.6 percent at 78,108.84 points. and cultural needs of the persons Gulf Air wins ‘Best IT corporate savings, Deputy Prime it tight” and avoid any unnecessary Meanwhile, Turkey’s increase of using the space; healthcare inte- Minister Mehmet Simsek (pictured) budget spending. a fuel tax will add 2bn lira ($681m) riors; and promoting well-being said yesterday. Weighing on the outlook, Turkish to the budget this year and an addi- through sustainable design. Security Project’ award Simsek, who has oversight for industrial production fell a calendar- tional 8bn lira in 2017, a senior Almana Group representatives the economy, has previously said adjusted 4.9 percent year-on-year in economy official told Reuters. gave a presentation and provided Turkey would not achieve its goal July, the Turkish Statistics Institute. Turkey has raised its special further information about its prod- of 4.5 percent growth this year, Turkey’s Finansbank said this consumption tax on petrol, diesel, ucts and services that date back to The Peninsula accepted by Dr. Jassim Haji, Gulf Air although like others ministers he was bigger than the 3 percent fall it liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and the 1960s. The group, which encom- Director Information Technology, on has been playing down the impact had predicted, while BGC partners some mineral oils, while it has cut passes subsidiaries across design, behalf of the airline and said: “With on output from a failed coup in July. said it was broadly in line with its value added tax on home sales, a furnishing, automobiles and real ever-changing threat landscape and Economists say the government forecast. decree in the Official Gazette showed estate, has evolved into one of Qatar’s DOHA: Gulf Air, the national car- new breed of attacks, organizations needs to speed up reforms to boost However, BGC said the coup had on Thursday. leading business enterprises. rier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, of all industries are encouraged to productivity in education, labour, knocked the economy. “It is clear The special consumption tax on As part of Almana Group’s recently won the Best IT Security enhance their security capabilities governance and taxation. They also that 15 July failed coup attempt had petrol and diesel will be increased expansion plans its furnish- Project Award during the Security to ensure smooth operations and say savings need to rise to shift the a serious impact on production,” its by 0.2 lira per litre, while the value ing and interior design division, Advisor Middle East event. continuity of the business during reliance for growth on consumption. chief economist Ozgur Altug wrote in added tax on some home sales will Almana Maples, opened its latest Organised by CPI Media Group any risks. We are happy to receive “We need to show an effort for a note. In a move announced by the be reduced to 8 percent from 18 per- showroom earlier this year at The and held at Al Habtoor Grand Hotel this award of best IT project of the more reforms to place Turkey on government in the Official Gazette cent until March 31, 2017. Pearl-Qatar. in Dubai, the event was attended year for private sector companies by security decision makers and as we continue to explore different IT professionals from various Mid- areas to enhance the way we oper- dle East companies representing ate as an airline”. Chedid Capital a wide range of backgrounds and In 2015, Gulf Air became the Japan economy sees slight growth industries. first airline in the world to be cer- Holding celebrates Security Advisor Middle East tified with Information Technology highlighted the necessity to keep ISO certifications in the five areas a decade of security decision makers ahead of of Quality Management, Envi- the evolving threats and challenges ronmental Management, Service achievements to their businesses and included a Management, Information Security number of topics such as information Management and Energy Manage- security, physical security, business ment Systems. The airline also won The Peninsula continuity and advanced persistent Computer News Middle East’s CIO threats aiming to create safer and 100 Awards for the 4th consecutive more profitable enterprises. year, becoming the first organiza- DOHA: Chedid Capital Holding, a The award, being the seventh tion and first airline in the Middle leading global solutions provider won by Gulf Air during 2016, was East to do so. in the insurance industry, recently held a board meeting at its head- quarters in Beirut, Lebanon, to take stock of the company’s extraordi- nary achievements throughout a China’s August imports rise decade of rapid growth. At the meeting the company Reuters discussed its innovative devel- opment and remarkable change, as well as ways of paving the BEIJING: China’s imports unexpectedly rose in August for the first time way for a brighter future for its in nearly two years, boosted by coal and other commodities, suggesting subsidiary companies, clients domestic demand may be picking up and putting the world’s second-larg- and the communities it serves est economy on a more balanced footing. Exports also showed signs of around the world. An international container pier at the port in Tokyo. Japan’s economy grew just 0.7 percent on an improvement, falling by a less-than-expected 2.8 percent from a year ear- Since its inception in 2006, annualised basis in the April-June quarter, revised data showed yesterday, supplying the latest failing lier, as demand in the United States, Europe and even Japan showed some Chedid Capital Holding has report card for the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policy blitz. signs of improvement. China’s 1.5 percent import rise was the first expan- focused on realising its vision of sion in value terms since October 2014. becoming an insurance and cor- porate solutions power house that attracts major regional and international clients, partners and investors, while operating from Commercial Bank faces asset US jobless benefit claims fall as its expanded network of offices in Beirut, Doha, Dubai, Limas- sol, Casablanca, Riyadh, London, quality pressures: Moody’s Mauritius and East Africa. labour market remains strong On the occasion of the com- pany’s 10th anniversary, Farid The Peninsula expects a gradual stabilisation of the Chedid, Founder Chairman and bank’s domestic loan book, and also CEO of Chedid Capital Holding, expects future asset quality pressures Reuters in job growth last month and a con- much room for further declines said: “From its day one in business, to continue to stem from the bank’s traction in manufacturing activity. in claims. A report on Wednesday Chedid Capital Holding has never DOHA: Commerical Bank, Qatar’s Turkish subsidiary, Abank, whose Services sector activity in August showed job openings hit a record lost sight of its vision of becom- third largest lender, faces asset loan book accounts for 17 percent of was the slowest in 6-1/2 years. high in July, though hiring contin- ing the first choice of clients, quality pressures but strengthening group loans and has thus far gener- WASHINGTON: The number of The US central bank raised its ued to lag, suggesting a possible businesses, investors and part- capital and tightening underwrit- ated 20 percent of the group’s NPLs. Americans filing for unemployment benchmark overnight interest rate skills mismatch. ners in insurance markets in the ing standards will support the “We expect challenging operating benefits unexpectedly fell last week, at the end of last year for the first The very low level of claims Middle East, Europe and Africa. bank’s performance, noted Moody’s conditions in Turkey to lead to higher pointing to sustained labor mar- time in nearly a decade, but has held together with all-time high job Driven by such an ambitious Investors Service in a latest report NPLs at Abank over the next 12 to 18 ket strength even as the pace of job it steady since amid concerns over openings suggests the labour mar- goal, Chedid Capital Holding has published yesterday. months, exerting further pressure on growth is slowing. persistently low inflation. ket remains healthy, even though relied on a unique blend of inno- Moody’s report, titled “The Com- the group’s loan quality and profita- Initial claims for state unem- The dollar was trading lower employment growth moderated in vation, discipline and a bespoke mercial Bank (QSC.); Strengthening bility”, added Panayiotou. ployment benefits decreased 4,000 against a basket of currencies, while August after payroll gains averaged approach to modernise tools and Capital and Tighter Lending will Help However, strengthening capital to a seasonally adjusted 259,000 prices for U.S. government debt fell. 273,000 jobs per month in June and revolutionise operations in this Moderate Asset Quality Pressures,” buffers are providing the Commer- for the week ended September 3, A Labour Department analyst July. constantly-evolving, highly com- does not constitute a rating action. ical Bank with a greater capacity to the lowest level since mid-July, the said there were no special factors The economy created 151,000 petitive industry. The result has “Non-performing loans for the Com- absorb losses and moderate asset Labor Department said on Thurs- influencing last week’s claims data. jobs in August, still well above the been a complete range of inven- mercial Bank reached 4.3 percent risks. Commercial Bank’s Tier 1 cap- day. Claims for the prior week were However, claims for Virginia, New roughly 100,000 jobs that Fed Chair tive solutions that grants our of the loan book in June 2016, from ital rose to 13.5 percent in June 2016, unrevised. Mexico, Alabama and Minnesota, as Janet Yellen says is needed to keep clients ultimate peace of mind and 0.90 percent at the end of 2012, well from 11.8 percent at the end of 2015 Economists had forecast first- well as those for Hawaii and Puerto up with growth in the working age empowers them with a solid plat- above the 1.5 percent average for the after a second issuance of Additional time applications for jobless benefits Rico were estimated because Mon- population. form to grow their businesses.” Qatari banking system,” said Elena Tier 1 capital, well above the current rising to 265,000 in the latest week. day’s Labour Day holiday had caused With the labour market near Throughout its decade-long Panayiotou, Assistant Vice President— regulatory minimum of 10.5 percent. It was the 79th straight week that delays in the processing of the data. full employment and the economy’s history, Chedid Capital Holding Analyst at Moody’s. Moody’s expects capital to claims remained below the 300,000 The estimates are based on his- recovery from the 2007-09 reces- has successfully formed a number “Despite the broady resilient remain at these solid levels over threshold, which is associated with torical trends and normally do not sion showing signs of aging, the of separate strategic business sub- economic environment in Qatar the coming quarters. Manage- robust labor market conditions. That deviate much from the actual data, slowdown in job growth is normal. sidiaries that support its vision supported by continued government ment’s strategy to slow lending is the longest stretch since 1970, the analyst said. Yesterday’s claims report also and cater to the ever-evolving spending on infrastructure projects, growth, deliver and reduce risky when the labour market was much The four-week moving aver- showed the number of people still needs of clients, businesses and the bank’s asset quality has been exposures will also likely support smaller. age of claims, considered a better receiving benefits after an initial the markets in which it operates. pressured recently by some concen- the bank’s financial performance Despite very low layoffs, the Fed- measure of labor market trends as week of aid fell 7,000 to 2.14 mil- Those subsidiaries include trated exposures to over-leveraged over the next 12-18 months, accord- eral Reserve is widely expected to it irons out week-to-week volatility, lion in the week ended August 27. Chedid & Associates and Chedid borrowers in the contracting and ing to the rating agency, as Qatar’s keep interest rates unchanged at its fell 1,750 to 261,250 last week. The four-week average of the Corporate Solutions, an end-to- real estate sectors.” economic expansion continues to upcoming September 20-21 policy As the labour market nears full so-called continuing claims slipped end consultancy service provider . While the global rating agency provide lending opportunities. meeting in the wake of a slowdown employment, there is probably not 4,000 to 2.15 million. BUSINESS FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 19

QE INDICES SUMMARY QATAR STOCK EXCHANGE QE Index 10,534.10 0.95 % QE Total Return Index 17,043.48 0.95 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 3,987.5 0.52 % QE All Share Index 2,906.72 0.73 % QE All Share Banks & Financial Services 2,866.36 1.05 % QE All Share Industrials 3,205.74 0.08 % QE All Share Transportation 2,508.73 1.03 % QE All Share Real Estate 2,529.72 1.30 % QE All Share Insurance 4,594.02 0.48 % QE All Share Telecoms 1,196.34 1.60 % QE All Share Consumer Goods & Services 6,379.26 0.03 %

QE MARKET SUMMARY COMPARISON 08-09-2016 Today 07-09-2016 Previous day Index 10,534.10 10,634.90 Change 100.80 78.33 % 0.95 0.73 YTD% 1.00 1.97 Volume 9,631,025 5,637,346 Value (QAR) 434,492,539.05 256,540,118.57 Trades 6,918 5,107 Up 16 | Down 21 | Unchanged 03

WORLD STOCK INDICES Index Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low All Ordinaries 5484.551 -36.591 -0.66 5691.8 4762.1 Cac 40 Index/D 4541.48 -16.18 -0.36 4607.69 3892.46 Dj Indu Average 18526.14 -11.98 -0.06 18668.4 15450.6 Hang Seng Inde/D 23919.34 177.53 0.75 23830.75 18278.8 Iseq Overall/D 6289.11 9.78 0.16 6791.68 5286.65 Karachi 100 In/D 40136.93 52.06 0.13 40213.89 29785 Nikkei 225 Index 16958.77 -53.67 -0.32 18951.12 14864.01 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 2193.81 1810.1

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Eicher Motor-A/D 23349.85 375.95 6237 Kabra Extr-B/D 118.4 -5.55 6383 S Bk Bikaner-B/D 712 2.5 14384 Whitbread/D 4240 -17 137640 “We have now concluded a deal to set up a trade working group with India to look at how we will remove barriers to trade before we negotiate a free trade agree- ment on our exit from the European Union.” Earlier this week, Britain said it had set up a similar HP Enterprise sells software business to Micro Focus group with Australia to “scope out the parameters” of a future deal and prepare for bilateral negotiations. Fox said leaving the EU would give Britain greater freedom to strike its own trade agreements, including with some Reuters will ensure higher levels of investment for example to manage data. This allows said. “Too often people chase unattaina- of the world’s largest and fastest-growing economies. in growth areas, like big data analytics the companies to avoid spending on newer ble growth rates and in doing so they waste He also said that given the EU’s trade surplus with and security, while maintaining a stable computer systems. a lot of money.” Britain, it would be in their interests to maintain “a platform for ... software products that cus- Shares in Micro Focus, based in New- A serial acquirer of software platforms, very open free trading environment” with Britain fol- LONDON/NEW YORK : Hewlett-Packard tomers rely on,” she said. bury, southern England, jumped by a fifth Micro Focus has also shifted strategy to lowing its exit from the bloc. One of the first tasks for Enterprise agreed to sell its software busi- Micro Focus approached HPE in Feb- to an all-time high of 2,400 pence, topping buying higher growth software such as the trade department, which was created following ness to Micro Focus in a $8.8bn deal that ruary, four months before Britain voted the FTSE 100 index of leading shares that SUSE, the world’s No.2 maker of Linux Britain’s June 23 vote to leave the EU, is to boost the shrinks the Silicon Valley pioneer again to leave the European Union in a shock it joined days ago, after chip designer ARM software while wringing the most out of government’s trade expertise after decades relying while catapulting the little-known Brit- referendum that initially spooked global Holdings was bought by Japan’s Softbank aging software. “This strategy works well on the EU to negotiate on its behalf. ish firm into the top tier of European tech financial markets, the British firm’s exec- Corp. Micro Focus, with a market capital- for current shareholders, who gain signif- In July, then business minister Sajid Javid said he companies. utive chairman, Kevin Loosemore, said. ization of £4.45bn ($6bn) before the deal, icant ownership in better-run businesses,” wanted to have 300 experts in place this year, up from Autonomy, the British firm bought by It is the second big deal involving a has been snapping up software compa- said UBS analyst Steve Milunovich, who around 40. Fox said on Wednesday that the govern- HP in an ill-fated $11bn push into software British company since the June 23 Brexit nies. This would be its largest deal to date. tracks HP Enterprise. ment’s trade policy team had already doubled in size just five years ago, will return to British con- vote that many feared would put the Earlier this year, it acquired US firm Ser- The deal, announced along with HPE’s since June 23. trol after the deal for far below its original brakes on mergers. It is also a relatively ena Software for $540m. latest quarterly earnings, came on the “In the next two years we will be developing that price. HPE Chief Executive Meg Whitman rare example of a British company buy- Loosemore said he would bring the same day that Dell and EMC Corp com- team to build the world class negotiating strengths is focusing the group on a few areas such as ing US technology assets. core earnings margin for the mature pleted their merger in a deal that unites needed to deliver the best outcomes for the UK,” he networking, storage and technology services Loosemore spotted another opportu- assets in the deal — about 80 percent of two of HPE’s biggest rivals. said, adding that it would also hire experts in specific since it separated last year from computer nity to profit from managing old software. the total — from 21 percent today to Micro In the third quarter, HPE reported net sectors of the economy. “In terms of negotiators we and printer maker HP Inc. Companies including banks and airlines Focus’s existing 46 percent level within revenue of $12.2bn, down 6 percent from have already had strong expressions of interest from “Micro Focus’ approach to managing pay Micro Focus to extend the life of the three years. “The way we do it is really $13.1bn a year earlier. The transaction is individuals, organisations and governments.” both growing and mature software assets computers they use to run their businesses, just lots of 101, boring management,” he expected to be tax free to HP. BUSINESS VIEWS 20 FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016

Low tax Zug aims to Move over, Manila? Congo Call Centre become Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’ gives glimpse of what might be

By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi crypto finance companies- that’s Reuters gonna be the financial centre of the future.” However not everyone backs the initiative. Local Swiss Peo- HE small Swiss canton ple’s Party councilman Gregor of Zug, famed for the low Bruhin said the project is “spec- taxes that have drawn ulative”, citing high volatility, multinational companies system hacks and the potential Tand hedge funds to its lakeside for criminal activity in crypto shores, is trying to turn itself into currencies. a hub for virtual currency firms. Located just south of Zurich Over the past half century with a population of 120,000, Zug Zug has transformed itself from is one of the smallest of Switzer- “the poorhouse of Switzerland”, land’s 26 cantons and it has one sustained by fishing and manu- of the country’s lowest tax rates, facturing, into a headquarters for introduced in the 1940s as a way commodity giant Glencore and a to lift itself out of poverty. home to the outposts of hundreds Zug was put on the map by of global companies, becoming Marc Rich, the oil trader and one- one of the country’s wealthiest time fugitive who cemented the provinces. canton’s reputation as a discreet But with tax reforms and the business hub. His firm later end of banking secrecy posing a became Glencore. threat to its business model, the For now Swiss authorities and canton wants to reinvent itself industry are behind Zug’s push as a “Crypto Valley” - a base for into crypto finance, believing it start-up companies using vir- will allow the financial sector to tual currencies like bitcoin and diversify as the demise of bank- Agents sit in their cubicles as they speak on the phones with their clients, inside the Congo Call Centre (CCC) in Kinshasa. related technology. ing secrecy looms. “If we don’t take In July, the town of Zug, the part at the front of ‘fintech’, we cantonal capital, launched a pilot don’t deserve our title as a global By Aaron Ross for tele-services in French and other lan- to 2012 African Development Bank research, programme allowing residents to financial centre,” said Martin Hess Reuters guages. “In terms of language, we manage of 9,000 graduates from Congolese univer- make bitcoin payments for gov- of the Swiss Banking Association. well,” co-founder Huguette Samu said at sities each year, fewer than 100 find work ernment services - a world first, Switzerland lags the likes of CCC’s new headquarters, its walls plas- in the formal sector. according to Swiss media Together Britain and Singapore when it tered with inspirational quotes by Winston Most growth is from the domestic with a group of start-ups behind comes to fintech. Firms special- N A renovated warehouse in Kin- Churchill, Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela. market, spurred by a tripling of mobile the “Crypto Valley” movement, ising in crypto currencies say shasa, dozens of young Congolese “Whether it’s in English or French, clients phone users since 2009 to 53.5 percent of Zug’s economic promotion board Zug could carve out a significant wearing headsets sit in rows of iden- don’t really notice the accent over the phone,” the population in 2014, according to the has so far persuaded more than a niche in this field, but financial tical orange cubicles, fielding phone she told Reuters. “Europeans find that Con- World Bank. Domestic clients include two dozen virtual currency firms to set regulations much be changed if it calls in six different languages. Con- golese have a quite acceptable accent.” The of the largest telecom providers, banks, the up shop there and in nearby towns. is to make a major breakthrough. go’s first call centre gives a glimpse company also works in Congo’s four national local operations of U.N. agencies such as the These include Ethereum, the Many crypto currency com- Iof how the central African country could languages - Lingala, Swahili, Tshiluba and World Food Programme, churches and a foundation that provides the panies are currently subject to follow a path already taken by the Philip- Kikongo — and employs 350 agents, almost government hotline for rape victims. technology behind ether, the regulations aimed at banks as pines and India, which have long hosted all in their 20s and 30s. It hopes to expand to However, CCC is a rare success story. main rival to bitcoin, and digital they are classed as deposit-tak- low-cost offshore operations for US and as many as 600 within three years. While some big Congolese firms have their currency exchange ShapeShift. ing firms, meaning they need 10 British companies. But alongside the commodity slump, own call centres, no one else has set up a Mayor Dolfi Mueller says attract- million Swiss francs ($10 million) Serving companies, aid agencies and which led to a 22 percent cut in this year’s stand-alone operation. CCC executives say ing more companies like this is in paid-up capital once their busi- even churches, the Congo Call Center (CCC) budget, political uncertainty has further this is partly a lack of familiarity with the central to the 2035 development ness grows above a certain level. handles queries from 8,500 people each deterred investors in Congo as President concept but it also points to broader weak- plan the town has drawn up to Olga Feldmeier, a managing day on everything from problems with Joseph Kabila looks likely to defy opposition nesses in Congo’s business climate and ensure its economy can thrive as partner of bitcoin wallet pro- phone bills to spiritual anxiety and domes- demands that he step down at the end of previous government failures to diversify global tax laws get tougher. vider Xapo, says her company tic abuse or sexual violence. his term in December. Against this gloomy away from resources. “This is one of the most glo- has spent a lot of time in discus- CCC isn’t new — it was founded by two backdrop, an expanding telecoms sector, - Congo ranks 184 out of 189 countries balised small towns in the world,” sion with Switzerland’s Financial Congolese women with European telecoms fuelled by a young population and annual on a World Bank index that measures the Mueller said. “We don’t want to let Market Supervisory Authority experience in 2005 — and so far it has had economic growth of around 8 percent in ease of doing business. It has a byzantine that dynamic fall asleep.” South (FINMA), contending that its serv- only a handful of overseas clients, usually recent years - offers hope. tax regime, high domestic borrowing costs African Johann Gevers was one of ice storing private key codes to on short-term contracts. Overall, the services sector’s contri- and a decrepit power grid that makes pri- the first entrepreneurs to set up a users’ digital funds does not con- Nevertheless, its bution to GDP growth increased from 28 vate generators a costly necessity. virtual payment firm in Zug, estab- stitute deposit-taking. business is growing fast percent in 2014 to over 40 percent last year. More broadly, African countries have lishing his transaction platform Xapo is still based in Califor- and Democratic Repub- In April, French telecoms giant Orange struggled to live up to hype casting them Monetas there three years ago. nia’s Silicon Valley despite last year lic of Congo - which paid $160m for Millicom’s Congo subsidiary as “the next India”. KenCall, Kenya’s lead- Gevers’ business enables peo- announcing plans to move to Swit- remains far poorer and Tigo DRC, noting that Congo is the largest ing outsourcing company, has suffered ple without bank accounts to zerland, and says it would abandon less developed than the mobile phone market in west and cen- repeated losses since it was created in 2005 make digital payments and oper- those plans without a regulatory Asian countries it wants tral Africa after Nigeria. Long-term, CCC’s despite a well-educated, English-speaking ates in more than a dozen African solution. “We are hopeful there to emulate - needs a managing director Faly Tamuna Lukwaka labour force and efforts by the government countries. He says Switzerland’s will be an adequate solution for services sector to cush- is optimistic. “The Congolese market has to sell the sector abroad. decentralised government and crypto currency wallet providers ion itself against a slump 70-80 million people,” he said. “We’re South Africa and Mauritius have fared lack of interference in business like Xapo,” Feldmeier said. CCC is a rare success in the mining and oil pioneers but we think it’s a sector that is better, though South Africa’s call centres made it the best base for him. In March, FINMA announced revenues that usually developing rapidly.” have had trouble attracting foreign clients, He set up in Zug with ambi- its support for allowing start-ups story. While some big account for 95 percent CCC has ridden Congo’s infant tech according to research by Chris Benner of tions of shaping it into the world’s in the field of financial innova- Congolese firms have of export earnings. wave, with revenues jumping from the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research. next major technology cluster. tion to operate without a special their own call centres, As a Francophone $400,000 in 2009, when it landed its first The Congo finance ministry wants “I believe crypto finance is the license, with small established former Belgian colony major corporate client, to $2.7m last year. increased investment in agriculture, infra- next big wave after the internet,” companies that do not carry out no one else has set in the same time zone Foreign clients have included Altai Con- structure and energy. “The recent crisis ... he told Reuters. “The coun- the risky lending activities of up a stand-alone as Western Europe, sulting in France and Access Bank Ghana. recalls the necessity of working to diversify try that succeeds in being the traditional banks subject only Congo could be well- The average monthly salary for an agent the economy in order to reduce its depend- friendliest jurisdiction to attract to light licensing requirements. operation. placed to become a is $300 — not a lot but an attractive propo- ence on the extractive sector,” the ministry telecoms hub, including sition to most young Congolese. According said in a response to Reuters questions. Barroso’s Goldman job hits EU as it battles for trust

By Alastair Macdonald leaders, back from summer breaks, are pre- crisis still scarring the continent today. It service. Allies note that much of the criti- Reuters paring a major push for hearts and minds risks denting his own efforts to break per- cism has come from long-time opponents on that they hope can start restoring trust in ceptions of the EU as a cosy, technocratic the left. French President Francois Hollande institutions assailed across the continent by club for political and business elites. called it “morally unacceptable”. eurosceptic insurgent parties. “It is, at the worst possible moment, a EU officials argue that the Commis- U officials are livid at their former European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly, disastrous symbol for the Union and a gift sion has some of the world’s strictest rules boss Jose Manuel Barroso for tak- citing among other evidence of public horse for the europhobes that a former Com- on what are known as “revolving door” job ing a job at Goldman Sachs that has unease a petition run by EU staff that has mission president is associated with the moves by senior officials into the private drawn public scorn just as they are over 130,000 signatures, wrote to Juncker unbridled and unethical financial values that sector and that after 18 months inside knowl- Etrying to win back trust in a European Union asking whether he will convene an ethics Goldman Sachs represents,” wrote a group of edge and contacts lose their value and so wounded by Britain’s Brexit vote. review of his predecessor’s action, amend anonymous EU staffers in an online petition. no longer raise issues of conflict of interest. Juncker, who is preparing But despite a vocal campaign by EU the code of conduct or issue special guidance Reuters contacted one of the organisers of One EU official argued that it was Gold- staff and a formal demand for action from to the Union’s Brexit negotiators on how to the petition to demand Juncker take “exem- man Sachs’ specific reputation among for his annual keynote the bloc’s ethics watchdog, the European handle any contact with their former boss. plary measures” against Barroso. It had over sections of the European population that State of the Union Commission and Barroso’s successor as “Mr. Barroso’s move has generated con- 132,000 signatures on change.org by late posed the biggest problem; another bank, president Jean-Claude Juncker, see little cern at a very challenging time for the EU Wednesday and, the person said, had seen a another Wall Street name, might not have address to the European they can do—beyond distancing themselves and particularly in relation to citizen trust sharp acceleration in support this week. caused so much fuss. Parliament next from the former Portuguese premier’s in its institutions,” she wrote. Juncker, who is The problem for Juncker, EU officials “When it comes to broader moral and move to the US bank. preparing for his annual keynote State of the say, is that the code of conduct for former ethical questions raised by personal choices Wednesday, has publicly The row began two months ago when Union address to the European Parliament commissioners allows the Commission to of former senior staff, can they really be rea- distanced himself from Barroso, a conservative who led the EU next Wednesday, has publicly distanced him- bar them from certain activities only for 18 sonably defined and governed by a set of executive for a decade until 2014, was self from Barroso, telling French television months after stepping down. Barroso took regulations?” a Commission spokesman said. Barroso, telling French unveiled by Goldman as non-executive in July that he would not have taken the job. his job in London 20 months afterwards. As a result, officials say, it is hard to see television in July that he chairman of its London-based interna- Aides have made clear the former Lux- He could not immediately be contacted the Commission acting further on the Bar- would not have taken tional arm with a special role in advising embourg premier is far from impressed with on Wednesday but people who know him roso case, no matter how embarrassing its on the Brexit process triggered by the Brit- his predecessor for joining a firm which have told Reuters Barroso sees the role at effect on public perceptions as EU leaders the job. ish referendum on June 23. many Europeans see as having an unprin- Goldman as an important one that he is prepare for a summit next week in Bratisl- It flared again this week just as EU cipled hand in triggering the 2008 financial entitled to take after long years of public ava on how to restore public trust. FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 21

Two-tier Test plan axed Manchester derby: United, after Indian opposition

AFP say,” said Hassan, whose board had been fiercely critical of the City set to ignite season plan which would have effectively deprived Bangladesh of the oppor- NEW DELHI: Controversial plans tunity to play cricket’s major Test to create a two-tier Test system teams. have been scrapped by cricket’s “You all know Bangladesh Premier League: The world governing body after strong opposed the plan from the very opposition from the Indian board, beginning. India and Sri Lanka two most expensive senior officials said yesterday. were also with us, so we were sides in history under The proposal to set up a de fac- more or less confident that it tor premier league featuring the would not be approved. We are most decorated top seven ranked sides was one delighted to know that ICC has coaches meet at Old of the main topics of discussion now informed us of this officially,” at a meeting of the International he added. Trafford tomorrow Cricket Council at a meeting in Under the scheme which had Dubai which ended Wednesday. been under consideration, the top While the ICC said “signifi- seven teams would join a de facto cant progress” had been made in premier league in a move designed Reuters trying to reach agreement on “the to boost interest in Test cricket. future shape of all international The other three lowest ranked cricket”, both the president of the sides – currently the West Indies, Indian and Bangladeshi boards Bangladesh and Zimbabwe – LONDON: A clash between suppos- confirmed on Thursday that the would have joined a second edly the two most expensive line-ups proposal for two divisions had division also including the likes in history overseen by two of the been scrapped. of Afghanistan and Ireland. most decorated coaches will end “The officials at the meeting Although England, Australia the phoney war and ignite the Pre- shot down the two-tier proposal,” and New Zealand were in favour mier League season for real when Anurag Thakur, president of the of the proposal, Thakur made his Manchester United host Manches- Board of Control for Cricket in organisation’s opposition to the ter City tomorrow. India (BCCI), said. plan public last month. Jose Mourinho’s United and City, “The BCCI could have bene- India, which is the game’s under the command of his old adver- fited financially from the two-tier financial powerhouse, has a his- sary Pep Guardiola, have enjoyed 100 system but morally we wanted to tory of ensuring that its stance percent starts as tens of millions of stand with the countries which prevails on key debates within pounds worth of summer buys bed would have been badly affected.” the global body. in. Nazmul Hassan, who is pres- Test series are currently But much more will be known ident of the Bangladesh Cricket played in isolation, giving them about their title-winning credentials Board (BCB), confirmed that the little wider importance apart A combination of pictures created in London yesterday shows Manchester United’s Portuguese manager when the final whistle sounds on the plan had been taken off the table. from their effect on the compet- lunchtime kickoff at Old Trafford. Jose Mourinho (left) posing during a photo call on the pitch at Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, northern “It’s good news for us, I would ing countries’ rankings. From the moment the fix- England, on July 5, 2016 and Manchester City’s Spanish manager Pep Guardiola posing for a picture ture list was published in June, the outside the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, northern England, on July 8, 2016. Manchester United welcome continuation of the often frosty Manchester City to Old Trafford tomorrow in a derby match that sees opposing managers Jose Mourinho and occasionally volatile Mour- and Pep Guardiola renew their sulphurous rivalry. inho-Guardiola rivalry has been eagerly-anticipated. Sharjeel and Latif star as The chance to land an early blow Ibrahimovic, who once dubbed Sane injured, the two starting line- swords again, having been involved in the first seismic clash of the sea- Guardiola a ‘spineless coward’, ups are likely to feature six of the 12 in some epic past skirmishes. son will be irresistible. joined for free after leaving Paris St most expensive players in English On the pitch former Barcelona Pakistan thrash England Both clubs chronically under- Germain. football history with the total value boss Guardiola has usually mas- achieved last season -- City finishing “He is the mastermind, the of the 22 to line up expected to be tered Mourinho -- losing only three above United on goal difference in masterbrain,” Ibrahimovic said of around 600 million pounds. of their 16 meetings. fourth. Mourinho, who he played for at Inter It should produce the kind of Mourinho more than held his AFP SCOREBOARD But after installing serial trophy Milan. spectacle to justify the hype sur- own off it though -- regularly ril- hunters in the respective manage- “He knows what he needs to do rounding this year’s Premier League ing Guardiola with his barbed ENGLAND rial hotseats and making a splurge of to win.” in which Chelsea, under new coach comments. J Roy lbw Imad Wasim 21 signings both have won their opening Guardiola has spent around Antonio Conte, are also 100 percent Chelsea protect their 100 percent MANCHESTER: Sharjeel Khan and A Hales b Imad Wasim 37 three games and moods have been 175m revamping City’s creaking side after three games. record at Swansea City on Sunday Khalid Latif smashed England’s J Root c S Malik b Hasan Ali 6 transformed. with English defender John Stones But the cameras will not only be while the pick of Saturday’s other bowlers all round at Old Trafford Mourinho spent upwards of and German winger Leroy Sane aimed at the galaxy of talent on the fixtures sees Liverpool host reign- as Pakistan ended their tour in style J Buttler c K Latif b Wahab Riaz 16 145m pounds ($193.58m) in the among those added to their already pitch. What happens in the respective ing champions Leicester City. with a crushing nine-wicket win in E Morgan c S Ahmed b Wahab Riaz 14 close season signing the likes of Paul expensive ranks. While City’s Ser- dugouts will be equally engrossing Fourth-placed Everton go to Sun- Wednesday’s lone Twenty20 inter- B Stokes c B Azam b Hasan Ali 4 Pogba while Swedish striker Zlatan gio Aguero will be suspended and as Guardiola and Mourinho cross derland on Monday. national. M Ali (not out) 13 Left-hander Sharjeel made 59 D Willey c S Malik b Wahab Riaz 12 and fellow opener Latif 59 not out as Pakistan, set just 136 to win, fin- L Plunkett (not out) 0 ished on 139 for one with 31 balls to Extras (LB-8, W-4) 12 Leicester’s Sanches faces battle spare to the delight of thousands of Total (for 7 wkts in 20 overs) 135

their fans at a packed Old Trafford. Fall of wickets: 1-56, 2-67, 3-67, 4-93, Slimani set for Sharjeel faced 36 balls with 5-104, 6-110, 7-132. for Bayern team spot seven fours and three sixes as he Bowling: Wasim 4-0-17-2; Tanveer 4-0- put on 107 in just 69 deliveries for 35-0 (2w); Amir 4-0-33-0; Hasan 4-0-24- the first wicket with Latif. hurried debut 2; Riaz 4-0-18-3 (2w). Right-hander Latif was in for Reuters and Thiago Alcantara all ahead of 36 balls, featuring seven fours and PAKISTAN AFP Sanches in the pecking order. three sixes, against an England Sharjeel Khan c Ali b Rashid 59 Sanches, who was unavailable team fielding the same side beaten Khalid Latif (not out) 59 for the start of the season because in a last-over thriller by the West Babar Azam (not out) 15 LONDON: Leicester City man- LISBON: Portugal’s impressive mid- of a thigh injury, could go the way of Indies in the World Twenty20 final Extras (W-6) 6 ager Claudio Ranieri could give a fielder Renato Sanches is finally Austria full back David Alaba who in Kolkata in April. debut to record signing Islam Sli- ready for his Bayern Munich debut forced his way into the team as an Victory saw Sarfraz Ahmed win Total (for 1 wkt in 14.5 overs) 139 mani against Liverpool tomorrow although the 19-year-old Euro 2016 18-year-old and has not looked back his first match as Twenty20 captain Fall of wicket: 1-107. even though the Algeria striker is Islam Slimani winner still faces a tough challenge since. but England took the overall Super Bowling: Willey 2-0-16-0; Jordan 1-0- yet to train with the Premier League to claim a regular place in the team. Other youngsters have also been Series 16-12 after the four-Test series 16-0; Plunkett 1.5-0-24-0 (5w); Stokes champions. Coach Carlo Ancelotti has said successful such as Joshua Kimmich was shared 2-2 and the hosts won 2-0-20-0 (1w); Root 1-0-10-0; Rashid Slimani joined Leicester from “He cost a lot of money but if you that Sanches could make his debut and Kingsley Coman who broke into the one-dayers 4-1. 4-0-29-1; Ali 3-0-24-0. Sporting Lisbon for an initial fee of see the market, it was crazy. I think away to Schalke 04 today if Arturo the team last year. Pakistan’s win under the Old around £28m ($37m, 33m euros) on as a goalscorer he cost less than oth- Vidal is still worn out after his long But there are less encourag- Trafford floodlights was set up by August 31 and is only due to arrive ers. He was a good buy for us.” trip from South America, where he ing examples such as Switzerland a disciplined display in the field at his new club today after interna- Meanwhile, Liverpool’s Sadio played two World Cup qualifiers for winger Xherdan Shaquiri and Ger- after England were well-placed at Pakistan had an early scare tional duty. Mane says he is fit for Premier Chile in five days. many forward Mario Goetze, who 56 without loss. when Wasim, who conceded just But despite Slimani having been League clash against champions If he does play in Gelsen- both arrived amid great fanfare but Left-arm spinner Imad Wasim two runs in the first over of the absent, playing in Algeria’s Africa Leicester City, dismissing reports kirchen, Sanches will need to grab slunk out through the back door removed both England openers game, was struck a painful blow in Cup of Nations win over Lesotho, that he had sustained an injury in the opportunity to impress Ance- after failing to establish themselves. Jason Roy and Alex Hales on his way the next over when a hard-hit shot Ranieri insists he won’t hesitate to Senegal’s African Nations Cup qual- lotti with both hands. It was all very different for to a fine return of two for 17 in his from Hales reared up off a practice play him at Anfield this weekend. ifier last week. The competition for places is Sanches at previous club Benfica, maximum four overs without con- pitch and hit him on the head. “I haven’t seen him but I will The 24-year-old, who joined the intense with Vidal, battle-hardened who sold him to the Bavarians for ceding either a four or a six. But he returned to stop Eng- speak with him. He is available for Merseyside club in June, was substi- former Spain midfielder Xabi Alonso around 35m euros ($39.54m). Sharjeel struck David Willey land’s innings in its tracks. Saturday, he could play but I want to tuted in the second half of Senegal’s for two fours in the first over of the Roy, a good straight hitter, was speak with him, to see him and then 2-0 victory over Namibia in Dakar, reply and Pakistan never looked lbw when trying to reverse-sweep we will see,” Ranieri said yesterday. prompting speculation about his back. Wasim. England then lost two wick- “Yes (it would be a big call), but fitness. He also hoisted Adil Rashid for ets in two balls to be 67 for three. he is good. He only has to score “I’m fit. It’s true I got a little kick two sixes in an over to go to fifty Hales was clean-bowled on the goals. He is ready, he played all the in the back of the knee, but it was before he holed out off the same sweep by Wasim off the last ball of matches with Sporting and he is nothing special -- it happened in the bowler. the ninth over. ready to play with us. first half and I played (on),” Mane told But by then Pakistan were 107 The next delivery saw Joe Root “It is important when a player the club’s website (www.liverpoolfc. for one and this day/night game was (six) tamely upper-cut Hasan Ali to changes country that he has to com). as good as won. Shoaib Malik at short third man. adapt and keep calm. Of course we “The most important thing is I Latif completed a maiden Buttler got off the mark by bought him because we believe in am here today at (Liverpool’s train- Twenty20 fifty when he hit Ali for cover-driving Ali for four before he his ability. ing ground) Melwood, I am happy six over mid-wicket. holed out after slicing Riaz offside. “It is a goalscorer but it is to be fit and will get myself ready Babar Azam (15 not out) ended England’s innings never recov- important he understands the Pre- for Leicester in the rest of the week.” the match with a four off Liam ered with wicket-keeper Ahmed mier League. It is different from the Liverpool have started the league Plunkett. catching opposing skipper Morgan Portuguese league but he is a very campaign with four points from their Renato Sanches Hales (37) and Roy (21) were the (14) off Riaz to leave the hosts 110 interesting player. opening three games only Engand batsmen to pass 20. for six. 22 FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 SPORT Nishikori stuns Murray at US Open

2009 champion, 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Wawrinka, who had to save a Japanese star match point in his third round clash clinches dramatic with Dan Evans, will be playing in a third US Open semi-final in four 1-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 years. comeback triumph, The other semi-final today will to meet Wawrinka in see defending champion Novak Djok- ovic take on 10th seeded Frenchman today’s semi-final Gael Monfils. “It was one of my toughest matches mentally and physically. Juan Martin’s an incredible player,” said Wawrinka. AFP In a match which featured 17 breaks of serve, Nishikori prevailed for only his second win in nine matches against world number two NEW YORK: Kei Nishikori stunned Murray. Andy Murray to reach the US Open His win came just three weeks semi-finals, holding his nerve in a after losing to Murray in the Olym- gripping final set to move two wins pic semi-finals. away from becoming the first Asian “It was a really difficult match. man to capture a Grand Slam sin- I didn’t start well. I felt it was really gles title. quick and I was missing too much,” Japanese star Nishikori clinched a said Nishikori after reaching only his dramatic 1-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 come- second Slam semi-final after his run- back triumph in a shade under four ner-up spot in New York in 2014. hours against the Wimbledon and “In the fourth and fifth sets Olympics winner and 2012 US Open I think I played some of the best champion. tennis.” In today’s semi-final, the Murray looked to be in control at 26-year-old will take on Swiss third two sets to one ahead and carving out seed Stan Wawrinka who defeated a break point in the third game of the tearful Juan Martin del Potro, the fourth when a loud gong-like sound

Kei Nishikori of Japan reacts to a point against Andy Murray of Great Britain during their 2016 US Open men’s singles quarter-finals match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on in New York on Thursday. INSET: Murray reacts during the match.

burst from the malfunctioning public before Murray stopped a seven-game Del Potro, the world number 142 and then past 1am. He took the third address system in Arthur Ashe Sta- losing streak to hold. and bidding to become the lowest set 6-3, hitting twice as many mus- dium. Umpire Marija Cicak ordered Murray, with his focus suddenly ranked man to reach a Grand Slam cular winners. Del Potro was a spent the point to be replayed much to the rebooted, broke back for 2-2. But semi-final in 16 years, was out to a 4-1 force and gave up a double break in irritation of the Briton who lost his back came Nishikori, stunning his lead in the first set against Wawrinka. the fourth set on his way to defeat but composure and the next five games rival to break again for 3-2 before The Swiss broke back in the sev- leaving him at least with the com- as an acrobatic Nishikori levelled holding for 4-2 as both men thrilled enth game and although Del Potro, pensation of being back in the top 65 the tie. with a series of big hits, subtle whose career was almost derailed by after being ranked as low as 1,045 in Murray refused to blame his touches and exhausting athleticism. a series of wrist injuries, saved two February. defeat on the incident. Nishikori surrendered the advan- set points in the tiebreaker, a rare He was in tears on the eve of “Definitely I would say to 4-1 I tage yet again, giving up a 40-0 lead forehand error gave up the set. the final game before the two men didn’t play a good game after I got in the eighth game and missing an The Argentine’s bruising recent embraced at the net. out of the change of ends, and then easy volley. schedule had seen him claim an “I can lose the match but I will he held pretty comfortably the next The Briton was soon 5-4 up but Olympic silver medal last month and never forget this. It’s bigger than win- game,” said Murray. Nishikori, showing nerves of steel, he used that experience to claim the ning any match,” said del Potro of the “But after that, I don’t think so. held and broke again before taking only break for a 4-3 lead in the sec- ovation he received. There was a lot of time.” victory when Murray blinked first in ond set. “I’m so proud to get that from the Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina waves to the crowd after being Nishikori broke for 1-0 in the the 12th game, burying a backhand But the Swiss was looking the crowd because I’ve been doing a big defeated by Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland on Thursday. deciding set and backed it up for 2-0 in the net. fresher as the clock ticked towards effort to play tennis again.” Multiple incentives for Day on BMW Lochte banned for title defence as McIlroy eyes crown 10 months by USOC Reuters Lochte, 32, admitted he “over- exaggerated” a tale about being robbed and held at gunpoint after Reuters players qualified for the BMW Cham- a party during the Rio Olympics. pionship, only the leading 30 in the NEW YORK: American swimmer Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, FedExCup standings after this week’s Ryan Lochte has been suspended for James Feigen, Lochte’s swimming event will advance to the September 10 months and will miss next year’s team mates who were involved in NEW YORK: World number one 22 to 25 Tour Championship finale world championships for his part in the incident, also received sanc- Jason Day heads into his title defence in Atlanta. Consequently, the BMW a scandal involving the US athlete tions for violating the USOC’s code at this week’s BMW Championship Championship will be a nail biter for and three other swimmers at the Rio of conduct. in Indiana with one eye firmly fixed American Matt Kuchar (28th) and Olympics, the United States Olympic “As we have said previously, the on Player-of-the-Year honours as he Venezuela’s Jhonattan Vegas (29th), Committee (USOC) said yesterday. behavior of these athletes was not bids for his fourth PGA Tour win of plus American Brooks Koepka who Lochte, who won gold in the acceptable. It unfairly maligned our the season. sits right on the bubble at 30th. 4x200 metres freestyle relay in Rio, hosts and diverted attention away The Australian is effectively Meanwhile, Tiger Woods said will also forfeit bonus money from from the historic achievements of vying with second-ranked Ameri- on Wednesday he hopes to return the Games, the monthly funding he Team USA,” said USOC CEO Scott can Dustin Johnson for the coveted to competitive golf next month at receives from USOC and USA Swim- Blackmun in a statement. accolade and has targeted at least a tournament in California, but the ming and will not be allowed access “Each of the athletes has one victory in the final two FedEx- 14-time major champion warned to USOC training centers. accepted responsibility for his Cup playoff events to make his case. his much-anticipated return would He will miss next year’s national actions and accepted the appro- Once the season is over, the PGA depend on his continued recovery. championships and will therefore priate sanctions. Tour rank and file will vote for their “My rehabilitation is to the point not be eligible for the world cham- “We look forward to focus- Player of the Year where Day and where I’m comfortable making pionships in July. He must perform ing our energy on the Paralympic Johnson, a double champion in 2016, plans, but I still have work to do,” 20 hours of community service and Games and the incredible men and are the top two contenders. the 40-year-old Woods, who has not will miss Team USA’s post-Olympics women representing our country “It’s been a good, solid year,” Day, played competitively since August trip to the White House. in Rio.” whose three wins this season came Jason Day 2015, said in a statement. in a sizzling run of just six starts, told “Whether I can play depends on reporters while preparing for Thurs- my continued progress and recovery. day’s opening round at Crooked Stick My hope is to have my game ready to Golf Club in Carmel. go,” said Woods, who has been recu- “Everything can’t be the gold ‘elite’ wins given that he has landed a events. World number three Rory perating from back surgery since his standard for what I did last year. If major (the US Open) and a WGC title McIlroy was also oozing confidence last tournament. I can win one of the next two (play- (the Bridgestone Invitational). after climbing to fourth in the Fed- The golf superstar said he is off events), that will kind of solidify Day, who triumphed by a com- ExCup standings with his two-shot hoping to return to competition on the Player of the Year, which is obvi- manding six strokes when the BMW victory on Monday at the Deutsche October 13-16 at the Safeway Open ously on my mind.” Championship was held at Conway Bank Championship. in Napa, California. That event is the Day triumphed five times on the Farms in Illinois last year, is overall “I’m excited to get back to first of the 2016-17 PGA Tour season. PGA Tour last season and can con- happy with how he has performed Crooked Stick,” said the Northern He then hopes to travel to Antalya sider himself unfortunate to be edged this season after a banner 2015 Irishman, who won the BMW Cham- for the Turkish Airlines Open in out by Jordan Spieth, the 2015 Mas- campaign. pionship when it was first held at the November and the Hero World Chal- ters and US Open champion, for “To be able to go five wins (in venue in 2012. lenge in the Bahamas in December Player of the Year honours. 2015) and then three wins in the next “Hopefully I can continue the that benefits the Tiger Woods Foun- Though his three victories this season after having such a big season form that I showed last week ... I’m dation. “Hoping to play in Napa, Ryan Lochte is pictured after the men’s freestyle 200m semi-finals year outnumber the two claimed the year prior, I think I did a pretty feeling good about my game, feeling Turkey, and Hero in the Bahamas. by Johnson, the long-hitting Ameri- good job,” he said on the eve of the good to come back to a place where Can’t wait to compete again,” Woods in the US Olympic swimming team trials at CenturyLink Center in can holds an edge when it comes to third of the PGA Tour’s four playoff I’ve had good memories.” While 70 tweeted. Omaha, Nebraska in this June 27, 2016 file photo. SPORT FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 23

One-month countdown begins for Doha Worlds at Aspire Zone Qatari fencers continue fine form at Arab Championship

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AMMAN: Qatar’s Junior team kept their good performance in the Arab Championship 2016 in Amman, Jordan to claim new medals including gold and silver, Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) reported yesterday . Ali Turki claimed the gold medal in Foil Weapon event, while his teammate, Hamad Saieed Al Asimi earned silver medal for Qatar in the same category. The prestigious championship is bringing together six Arab nations, including Qatar, hosts Jordan, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Qatar’s fencing delegation to the champi- Young cycling enthusiasts and officials pose for a photograph at the Aspire Zone during and event which marked the one-month countdown to the Road World onship also includes Zamil Khleiwi Al Shamari, Championships - Doha 2016 which will be held from October 9 to 16. The world-class cycling event will see over 1,000 riders from 75 countries compete for Head of delegation, Yahaya Qassim (Administra- the title, cheered on by about 30,000 fans and millions of spectators from all over the world. The annual competition began in 1921 and Qatar will be the first tor) Ziyad Al Firyyan (technical expert), Hosham country in the Middle East to host it. Krshod (senior coach) beside the fencers.

Brazilian Paralympic swimmer Clodoaldo Silva Wallabies look lights the Cauldron during the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games at the Maracana to stop the rot Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Wednesday. against Boks

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SYDNEY: A beleaguered Australia side will be des- perate for a season-transforming victory over South Africa on Saturday similar to the one they snatched at the death in last year’s Rugby Championship clash against the Springboks. Twelve months ago at the same Lang Park in Bris- bane, Tevita Kuridrani’s last gasp try gave Australia a victory they barely deserved and set the Wallabies on a run of nine wins from 10 matches that took them to Paralympics: Rio opens the World Cup final. They have not tasted victory since, however, rack- ing up six successive losses from the Twickenham final defeat through the 3-0 June series reverse at the hands of England to two more losses to the All Blacks at the start of the Rugby Championship. Another defeat on Saturday would match their Games for ‘superhumans’ worst run in the professional era, the seven matches without a win that led to the departure of Eddie Jones in 2005. South Africa are also in need of a morale boost in never give up,” then he told the ath- Games, according to BBC News, fol- Brisbane, however, as they arrived in Queensland on letes: “You are superhumans.” lowing concerns that athletes were Belarus delegate the back of only a second ever test loss to Argentina in More than 4,300 of Blind, missing limbs, or partially being mismatched to create an unfair their last championship outing in Salta. the world’s toughest paralyzed, more than 4,300 of the advantage. While Springboks coach Allister Coetzee has over- world’s toughest and most com- Caught in political and eco- hauled his backline and packed his bench with extra and most competitive petitive disabled paraded ahead nomic crises, Rio 2016 organizers banned after muscle in anticipation of a fierce set-piece battle, disabled parade of 11 days of contests. Some pushed have skimped as far as they can on Australia have largely kept faith with a side that was ahead of 11 days their own wheelchairs, others were food, transport and accommodation. hammered 29-9 in Wellington two weeks ago. pushed, while others limped. The run-up to the Games was carrying Russian Wallabies coach Michael Cheika has resisted the of contests When the Brazilian team came also overshadowed by slow ticket calls of a host of media pundits and former players to out in flower-patterned jackets, led sales. This follows concerns about bring an end to the back row combination of David by a storming contingent of athletes half-empty stadiums at many of the flag at ceremony Pocock and Michael Hooper which produced such div- in wheelchairs, the legendary foot- Olympics events. idends last year. AFP ball stadium roared in delirium. But organizers have reported a Instead, Cheika has decided to ditch blindside However, controversy hung over dramatic turnaround in the last few flanker Scott Fardy and bring lineout jumper Dean the no show by International Olym- days. Reuters Mumm into the back row to bolster a set piece that fal- pic Committee President Thomas “Two weeks ago we were at tered badly against the All Blacks. RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio de Janeiro Bach -- the first absence of an IOC 200,000” tickets sold, Craven said. opened the Paralympic Games on chief since the 1984 Summer Games. Now sales have reached 1.6 million RIO DE JANEIRO/MOSCOW: A member of the Belarus Wednesday with samba, parading Bach is due at a mourning cer- and are “growing every day.” delegation who carried a Russian flag at the Paralympic wheelchairs, giant balloons - and emony in Berlin for the late West “We’ll soon be over the 1.7 mil- opening ceremony to support his country’s near-neigh- Argentina earn loud booing of Brazil’s president - German president Walter Scheel. lion mark. Our aim is to sell around bour that is banned from the competition was stripped at a sold-out Maracana Stadium. However, there have been sug- 2.4 million,” he said. of his accreditation, the International Paralympic Com- The extraordinary sight of US gestions that the no-show has to do Six countries are sending ath- mittee (IPC) said yesterday. Paralympian Aaron Wheelz jump- with divisions over the Paralympic letes for the very first time, and The man, identified by Russian media as Andrei All Black respect ing in his wheelchair from a 55 feet committee’s outright ban on Rus- Syrian swimmer Ibrahim Al Hus- Fomochkin, director of the Republican Centre of Olym- (17 meters) ramp got the crowd on sian athletes after allegations of a sein, who lost a leg in an explosion pic training for Athletics in Belarus, was hailed as a its feet. Then the joyous rhythms of state-sanctioned doping program in his nation’s civil war, and Iranian hero by both Russian and Belarusian officials. AFP samba singers and a carnivalesque and the IOC’s relatively softer line. discus thrower Shahrad Nasajpour But his action fell foul of the IPC’s ban on politi- reproduction of a Rio beach scene There were also reports in Globo make up a two-strong refugee team. cal gestures. got them dancing. and other Brazilian media outlets The record of 41 career gold “The IPC will be speaking to NPC Belarus this HAMILTON: New Zealand have paid Argentina a huge But Brazil’s tensions also flared that Bach is wanted for question- medals won by blind American morning to remind them that political protests are compliment ahead of their third-round Rugby Cham- with thousands in the crowd chant- ing by local police investigating an swimmer Trischa Zorn between 1980 forbidden at the Paralympic Games,” the IPC said in a pionship Test in Hamilton this weekend by sticking ing “Out with Temer!” as newly illegal ticket selling ring allegedly and 2004 looks unbeatable, but the statement, adding that the individual had been iden- with their premier line-up. sworn in President Michel Temer involving a senior Irish Olympic Paralympics will inevitably produce tified and his accreditation canceled. The statement Previously the All Blacks have viewed clashes with appeared at the ceremony just official. Rio police were to give a new stars. did not name the person. the Pumas as a chance to experiment and still bank days after taking over from bit- press conference on the matter Iran’s 28-year-old powerlifter In Russia, where the ban for state-sponsored sports on victory. ter rival Dilma Rousseff, who was yesterday. Siamand Rahman, disabled since doping has been fiercely contested, there was high But the landscape is changing, and the Pumas’ impeached. “Whether there’s anything else birth, is aiming to become the first praise for Fomochkin. historic first home win over South Africa 12 days ago Temer’s hurried declaration of “I -- I don’t know if there’s anything Paralympian to bench press 300kg. “A hero has appeared today amongst us,” Russian after making the World Cup semi-finals and beating declare the Games open” met a roar else,” International Paralympic Others to watch include Britain’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the Springboks away last year has put the All Blacks of boos, while booing forced Brazil- Committee President Philip Cra- wheelchair racer David Weir and Interfax news agency. on guard. ian Olympics boss Carlos Nuzman ven said of Bach’s decision. China’s blind sprinter Liu Cuiqing “(He) showed solidarity with people who were dis- Although New Zealand are in a rebuilding phase to pause his speech after he men- Russian para-athletes, who fin- China will have its biggest ever gracefully treated in an inhumane way in not being after losing more than 800 caps worth of experience tioned “thanks to the federal, state ished second behind China in the team of 308 athletes in Rio looking to allowed to compete at the Paralympics,” Zakharova following their World Cup success 10 months ago, coach and municipal governments.” London 2012 medals table, were beat their 95 gold medals from Lon- added. Steve Hansen does not see the Pumas encounter as a For Rio, the Paralympics, barred last month following a World don when they topped the table for In Belarus, the Foreign Ministry also commended time for experimentation. coming right after a vibrant but Anti-Doping Agency report which the third straight Paralympics. Fomochkin. “This was the right thing. Our sportsman The return of a fit-again Ryan Crotty to the midfield sometimes tricky Olympics, are one alleged a vast state-sponsored dop- They have swimmer Xu Qing acted in a serious, manly and friendly way,” the Minis- is the only change from the starting side that completed more challenge in a period of deep ing program. competing in his fourth and possi- try’s press secretary Dmitri Mironchik told RIA Novosti. back-to-back hidings of Australia in the second round recession and political instability. Separately, UK Athletics will bly last Games, seeking to add to his “If we need to answer for these gestures, then we will of the championship. But Nuzman said “Brazilians review classifications after the seven gold medals. answer,” he added. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 21 PAGE | 22 Sanches faces Nishikori stuns bbattle for Bayern Andy Murray team spot at US Open

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New era for F1 Qatar’s ‘golden boy’ eyes as Liberty agrees $8b takeover diamond in Brussels AFP

all in contention to win the Diamond Race WASHINGTON: Formula One entered a new era on Star high jumper Barshim and it will be a thrilling event. Wednesday as US billionaire John Malone’s Liberty “In the final you win double points and Media agreed a takeover that values the motorsport targets top spot at the that can be decisive. I expect that 2.40m at $8b and raises questions over the role of its col- final Diamond League will be required to win the event.” ourful, long-time mastermind, Bernie Ecclestone. I’ve won the Diamond race twice and In a deal that ends years of speculation over F1’s meet today I want to jump high tomorrow (today) and future, Liberty said it had struck an agreement to win a third diamond.” buy out Formula One’s parent company from CVC Meanwhile, Ethiopian Almaz Ayana Capital, and had already acquired a minority stake will aim to round off a sensational year of 18.7 percent. The Peninsula when she ambitiously targets the world Liberty Media group will pay a total equity price record in the women’s 5000m at the Dia- of $4.4b in cash, newly issued shares, and exchange- mond League meet today. able debt to complete the deal, which gives Formula Ayana sliced nearly 14 seconds off One an enterprise value of $8.0b. DOHA: Qatar’s ‘golden boy’ Mutaz Essa the previous world 10,000m best -- set Liberty said it would keep Ecclestone, who built Barshim is enjoying one of the best sea- by Wang Junxia in 1993 during the era Formula One into a global operation over nearly four sons of his career, capturing the first-ever of notorious Chinese coach Ma Junren decades, as chief executive, but also named 21st Cen- Olympic silver medal for his country in Rio -- when she won Olympic gold in 29min tury Fox vice chairman Chase Carey as the company’s de Janeiro and a gold medal in Zurich in 17.45sec at last month’s Rio Games. new chairman. the recent past weeks. The reigning 5000m world champion The takeover is set to be completed next year, The Qatari superstar is ready now to however had to be happy with bronze in subject to approval by regulators, Liberty Media’s jump in Brussels, a venue that ‘changed’ that event as Vivian Cheruiyot foiled her shareholders and F1’s governing body, the Federa- his life at the season-ending Diamond attempt for the double and Hellen Obiri tion International de l’Automobile (FIA). League meet today. taking silver in a Kenyan one-two. It gives Liberty control of a global and highly Barshim crossed a bar at 2.43m two But Ayana, with the help of pace- profitable sport which includes 21 races this year years ago in Brussels, which still stands makers and Obiri plus a raft of Kenyans stretching from Melbourne and Shanghai to Sochi, as the second highest jump. He is target- breathing down her neck, will aim to Mexico City and finishing in Abu Dhabi. ing another top spot in the competition. break compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba’s best Formula One rakes in billions from advertisers “I think you’ll need to cross 2.40m at of 14:11.15 set in Oslo in 2008. and broadcasting rights for what is one of the world’s the first attempt to win this competition”, She faces a tough challenge, having most-viewed competitions. Barshim said yesterday ahead of the meet. previously managed a personal best of It also earns millions from Formula One-branded “To jump 2.43m in Brussels has 14:12.59, 1.44sec off Dibaba’s pace. merchandise. F1’s future under CVC has long been in changed my life. The feeling was abso- There is also expected to be a tilt question and a mooted share flotation in Singapore lutely awesome, it felt like flying. It was at a world record in the men’s 3000m was shelved in 2012. an attempt that I had always dreamed of, steeplechase. Despite the big profits, some F1 teams are plagued I lived my dream. That night my emotions Kenyan Conseslus Kipruto has set his by financial problems and the sport faces challenges were so strong that I couldn’t sleep.” sights on the 7:53.63 mark set in 2004 to its fanbase and TV viewership, with its races often At the Olympics Barshim finished in in Brussels by Kenyan-born Qatari Saif criticised as predictable. second behind Canadian Derek Drouin. Saaeed Shaheen, formerly known as Ecclestone, a former motorcycle dealer and racing “I’m very happy with the silver medal. I Stephen Cherono. driver, has been the flamboyant figure at the centre jumped technically fine in Rio and small Kipruto will come into the race as of Formula One since the 1970s, crafting it into one of details decide on the colour of a medal. favourite, having added the Olympic title the world’s most glamorous and best known sports. That is what high performance sports is to five wins on the Diamond League cir- After months of talks with the sellers, Liberty all about. cuit this season. But he is yet to dip below agreed to retain the canny and combative 85-year- “My strength lies in my speed and in the 8min barrier, his best time to date is old, who insisted his role would remain unchanged my agility. I think it’s not a good idea for 8:00.12, coming in Birmingham in June. Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim in action during the men’s high jump event at despite the arrival of Carey as chairman. me to go out in the fitness room and lift Ayana and Kipruto aside, there will Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil in this file photo. “I will stay on as F1 chief executive,’ Ecclestone weights all day. High Jumping is about be 39 other Olympic medal winners set told the Autosport website. “I will continue to do all finding the right balance between all your to take part in Brussels’ King Baudouin the things I have previously done, such as negotiate capabilities.” Stadium. finish fifth in the blue riband event in Rio, South African Caster Semenya, Olym- with the circuits, television companies and peo- “I missed a few Diamond Races due Jamaica’s newly minted double Olym- rebounding to claim 200m silver behind pic 800m gold medallist, has an outing ple like that. CVC co-chairman Donald Mackenzie to injuries but to my surprise I’m still in pic sprint champion Elaine Thompson will Thompson, who remains the sprinter to over 400m with Jamaica’s Olympic bronze praised Ecclestone, who forked out $100m to German to win the Diamond Race.” face Dafne Schippers in the 100m. beat after victories in the Lausanne 100m medallist Shericka Jackson leading a authorities to end a high-profile bribery trial in 2014. Bondarenko, Kynard and Grabarz are The Dutchwoman could only and Zurich 200m. threatening pack of Rio finalists.

Fuchse Berlin retain IHF Super Globe title in Doha

IHF Super Globe Qatar 2016 champions Fuchse Berlin players celebrate on the podium at Qatar Handball Association Complex, yesterday. The defending champions Fuchse Berlin retained the title when they beat Paris Saint Germain 29-28 in the final played. CENTRE: Paris Saint Germain player Karabatic Nikola prepares to score against Fuchse Berlin during their final match. RIGHT: Young fans watch action during the final. Pictures by Baher Amin / The Peninsula