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Multi-disciplinary education needed: Sheikha Moza DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani BY FAZEENA SALEEM module of education to the world. global agendas move in or towards and H H Sheikha Moza bint We need multi-disciplinary edu- the west, and WISE is moving Nasser patronised yesterday DOHA: An Indian education- cation for the future,” she said. towards the south and that’s where evening the opening ceremony ist has walked away with the Dr Chavan is the founder of it should move,” he said. of five new hotels at Souq Waqif. coveted Second $500,000 ‘WISE ‘Pratham’, an organisation that An international Jury with The ceremony was attended Prize — a ‘Nobel’ for Education’ reaches three million primary prominent educationists such as by the President of the Republic — for his exemplary initia- school-age children in India every Dr James Billington, Librarian of of Croatia, Dr Ivo Josipovic, and tive that provides millions of year. He was awarded with $500,000 the US Congress, Prof Zhou Qifeng, his wife Tatjana Josipovic. It was underprivileged Indian children and a gold medal for his innovative president of Peking University, also attended by the Personal access to basic education. contribution to education. Mary Robinson, former UN high Representative of the Emir H H The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad “Some 25 years ago I saw that commissioner, Naledi Pandor, Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani. bin Khalifa Al Thani presented new thinking was needed to South Africa’s Minister of Home At the beginning of the cer- the award to Dr Madhav Chavan improve the lives of the millions Affairs, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director emony a film was screened, show- at the fourth World Innovation underprivileged in my country. of The Earth Institute, Fatma casing the past and present of Souq Summit for Education (WISE) Many individuals and organisations Rafiq Zakaria, Chairperson of Waqif. Then the Emir unveiled the which began at the Qatar National have contributed to what has been Maulana Azad Educational Trust curtain to mark the opening of Convention Centre (QNCC) here achieved and I share this tribute in Aurangabad, India and Dr the new hotels: A Jasra Hotel, Al yesterday. H H Sheikha Moza bint with them,” Dr Chavan told report- Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani, Chairman Rmeilah Hotel, Musheireb Hotel, Nasser inaugurated the Summit. ers right after receiving the award. of WISE, decided the WISE Prize Al Najada Hotel and Mirqab Hotel. In her opening address, Sheikha “It is an enormous honor for me winner of this year. Later, the Emir and Sheikha Moza Moza stressed that education was to be recognised by this unique com- “Madhav Chavan serves as an bint Nasser toured some of the the basic right of all humans and munity of innovators, and I hope inspiration to all of us. His story com- new hotels. QNA said that inter-disciplinary edu- to perform my duties as a global bines the passion of a social entrepre- The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani presenting the WISE See also page 3 cation was the education of the ambassador for education to the best neur with the patience and method of Prize for Education to Dr Madhav Chavan in Doha yesterday. The Laureate future.“We live in a world where of my ability. I’m genuinely happy a scientist,” said Dr Al Thani. received an award of $500,000 and a gold medal. Second annual dhow no single person can dictate a and excited about WISE. Commonly Continued on page 3 festival opens

DOHA: A bigger second annual Traditional Dhow Festival opened yesterday welcoming over No punishment for journalists in CNG filling station readied 100 dhows from across the GCC at the Katara Beach, reaffirming DOHA: A CNG (compressed the first such facility built in the its position as the only event in natural gas) filling station is country (in the Industrial Arae the region celebrating this vital media law for criticising royals being readied as a pilot project for small and medium enter- heritage aspect all Gulf countries and expected to fuel a number prises) as a pilot project by Qatar share. “This is more than just a DOHA: Qatar’s human rights of journalists’ arrest at all.” relations. It is not like 10 years of Mowasalat buses and taxis Petroleum (QP) in collaboration show. This is a festival covering watchdog has said there are no Delivering a lecture at Qatar ago. “But, unfortunately, human soon. The launch of the CNG- with Mowasalat. our maritime culture which is a provisions in the draft of a new University recently on ‘Human rights are being violated in many fired vehicles is to coincide with The project has been launched significant part of our past,” said media law the country hopes to Rights Issues in Qatar’, Al Marri parts of the world,” said Al Marri. the Climate Change Conference on an experimental basis and H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz soon enforce that specify arrest said: “We in the NHRC would like “The entire concept of human that is scheduled to be held here based on feedback from it more Al Kuwari, Minister of Culture, of and jail terms for journal- to assure that all aspects related rights is changing. One must by month-end. such stations would be built in Arts and Heritage, who opened ists writing against the ruling to freedom of speech have been respect human rights today to According to local Arabic daily furure. the five-day event. family. taken care of. The new law would have a legitimate government,” Al Raya the CNG filling station is THE PENINSULA See also page 2 The talk of the proposed media protect journalists and it would said Al Marri, hinting that the legislation having punitive pro- guarantees freedom.” very legitimacy of a government visions for writing against the Whatever has appeared in the was dependent on how much a royal family is absolutely baseless, international media over the past state respected basic rights. according to the National Human few days is incorrect, Al Marri Al Marri said the new media Rights Committee (NHRC). said, referring to reports that law was on the anvil and would The NHRC said it has stud- suggested late last month that soon be put in force without ied the draft and made extensive instead of supporting press free- specifying a time-frame. It may recommendations for amend- dom, this draft media law is a be recalled for quite sometime ments to the State Cabinet and commitment to censorship. the Ministry of Culture, Arts and some 90 percent of the altera- According to him, Qatar is Heritage which will be responsible tions it has suggested have been signatory to international con- for enforcing and monitoring the accepted. ventions and is so committed to said law has been saying that the “There is no article in the draft having laws in place that do not in new legislation was about to be law that talks of arresting a scribe part or full contradict the provi- implemented. for writing against the royal family sions of those conventions. The Ministry has since been as claimed by international human The present era is such that silent on the issue, perhaps rights groups in media reports world attention is so much on embarrassed that the law did not recently,” stated Dr Ali Semaikh human rights that one cannot see the light of day after Ramadan Al Marri, Chairman of NHRC. ignore it. Human rights are now as promised by it repeatedly. “Actually, the draft law doesn’t talk an integral part of international THE PENINSULA

Qatar Airways takes delivery of France recognises Syrian coalition first Boeing 787 Dreamliner DAMASCUS: France rec- SEATTLE, USA: Qatar Airways has taken delivery of its first ognised the newly formed Boeing 787 Dreamliner at a special ceremony held at the US aircraft opposition National Coalition manufacturer’s Seattle headquarters. The airline’s first Dreamliner yesterday as the sole represent- was scheduled to take off from Seattle for Doha arriving in Qatar ative of the Syrian people, the today. The delivery marks a milestone in Middle East aviation with first Western country to do so, Qatar Airways becoming the first airline from the region to take and said the question of arming delivery of the 787. The airline has 60 Dreamliners on order. The them must now be reviewed. aircraft is also the world’s first 787 to be fully connected with wire- Meanwhile, fighting raged on in less facilities enabling all passengers in both business and economy the country, with at least 115 peo- cabins to remain connected with the ground through Wi-Fi and ple killed, the Syrian Observatory GSM telephony options. Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer for Human Rights said. Akbar Al Baker said the newest aircraft type to join the airline’s “I announce that France rec- fleet since 2007 represented a momentous occasion as the company ognises the Syrian National entered a new chapter in its remarkable history. See also page 2 Coalition as the sole repre- sentative of the Syrian people Saudi to fine firms with more expats and thus as the future provi- sional government of a demo- JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia is stepping up efforts to lower unem- cratic Syria, allowing an end to ployment among its citizens by fining private sector firms that the Bashar Al Assad regime,” employ more foreigners than Saudis, the labour ministry said in President Francois Hollande a statement carried by SPA yesterday. The policy, which will be said in Paris. implemented at the start of the new Islamic year on November 15, For its part, the US said the will require private companies with majorities of foreign workers coalition was “a legitimate repre- to pay a fee of SR2,400 ($640) a year for each excess foreigner. sentative” of the Syrian people, but The fines will not be applied for foreigners with Saudi mothers, stopped short of recognising it as citizens of other Gulf Cooperation Council countries or household the sole representative. help, the statement said. See also page 8 See also page 8 WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Over 100 dhows from across GCC take part in Katara festival DOHA: A bigger second annual Arts and Heritage, who opened dhow cruises, fireworks, live dhow been happening over the years in and this festival brings all this “The Opening Ceremony of the Traditional Dhow Festival the five-day event. building, light show, pearl diving a library at the venue. back to life. The Second Annual Second Annual Dhow Festival opened yesterday welcoming “There is more participation competition, children’s work- There will also be a series of Dhow Festival is an event that was a great success - we were over 100 dhows from across the this year compared last year, cov- shops, and museum displays from lectures which will go side by side honours the pearl diving era honoured to have such distin- GCC at the Katara Beach, reaf- ering all Gulf countries without galleries from across the Gulf. with the exhibition to provide through the various cultural guished guests and we are forever firming its position as the only exception. The number of dhows Ahmed Al Hitmi, Dhow Festival a deeper understanding about events and performances,” said grateful for the endeavours of the event in the region celebrating on show increased from nearly 70 Committee Manager, said: “The dhows. Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, men who sailed the seas in search this vital heritage aspect all last year to 105 this year,” he said. opening of the Second Annual “The Second Annual Dhow General Manager of Katara. of Pearls and Fish. Gulf countries share. Showcasing over 100 dhows, Dhow Festival was a great suc- Festival exhibits our Qatari her- For over 13 centuries, dhows The pearl diving competi- “This is more than just a show. from Bahrain, Kuwait, the cess; we are honoured to have such itage, reinforcing the importance were used as the main trading tion will begin tomorrow at 4pm This is a festival covering our Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, UAE, courageous men in our presence of the Seas to our community. The vessels sailing to India and East where 12 teams will embark on maritime culture which is a sig- Qatar and Oman; the festi- that spent endless nights on these sea played a huge role in our his- Africa and were commonly used a three-day journey to collect nificant part of our past,” said val includes various traditional dhows to help build our trade.” tory facilitating the exchange of by fishermen and pearl divers. as many pearls as possible using H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz activities such as performances People can also access infor- cultures and civilizations between Abdulrahman Al Khulaifi, traditional methods and tools of Al Kuwari, Minister of Culture, by renowned regional bands, mation about activities that have Qatar and the rest of the region President of Katara commented, diving. THE PENINSULA Qatar Airways’ first 787 Dreamliner arrives today Airliner region’s first to get aeroplane

SEATTLE, USA: Qatar over the next few weeks, months Airways has taken delivery of and years. Space, comfort and its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner luxury are key features of the at a special ceremony held at aircraft with Qatar Airways hav- the US aircraft manufacturer’s ing pushed the boundaries in air Seattle headquarters. travel to create a unique onboard A Boeing hangar was the fit- 787 travel experience. The seat ting venue for the official hand- design is revolutionary and pro- ing over of the aircraft to Qatar prietary to Qatar Airways, which Airways, a ceremony watched worked closely with the manufac- by scores of airline management, turer to have custom-made seats Boeing executives and both local fitted on the aircraft. and international media. Guest of The aircraft is also the world’s honour was Qatar’s Ambassador first 787 to be fully connected to the United States, Mohamed with wireless facilities enabling bin Abdulla Al Rumaihi. all passengers in both business The event was followed by and economy cabins to remain a celebratory dinner where connected with the ground employees from both Boeing and through Wi-Fi and GSM teleph- Qatar Airways were honoured ony options. The fully interactive for their dedication and com- in-flight entertainment system mitment, working together on offers more than 1,000 video and the 787 project. The airline’s first audio options to every passenger. Dreamliner was scheduled to take Addressing guests at the From left: Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker, Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner, and Qatar’s Ambassador off from Seattle for Doha later Seattle ceremony, Qatar Airways to the United States, Mohamed bin Abdulla Al Rumaihi, at Boeing’s Seattle headquarters yesterday. RIGHT: Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar that evening arriving in Qatar Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Al Baker with media personnel on board the 787 Dreamliner. today. Baker said the newest aircraft The delivery marks a milestone type to join the airline’s fleet since in Middle East aviation with 2007 represented a momentous said: “There is no doubt in my advanced jetliner of our time. experience cabin environment Qatar Airways’ new 787s fea- Qatar Airways becoming the first occasion as the company entered mind that Qatar Airways is one of Made from composite materi- improvements such as improved ture a total of 254 seats in a airline from the region to take a new chapter in its remarkable the most remarkable airline suc- als, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is lighting, bigger windows, larger two-class configuration of 22 delivery of the 787. The Doha- history. cess stories of our time and it is the first mid-size airplane capable overhead bins, lower cabin alti- in Business Class and 232 in based carrier has 60 Dreamliners Boeing Commercial Airplanes only fitting that it has taken deliv- of flying long-range routes. tude and enhanced ventilation Economy. on order with deliveries planned President and CEO Ray Conner ery of the most technologically Qatar Airways’ customers will systems, among other features. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Emir inaugurates five hotels at Souq Waqif

The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser at the opening ceremony of the fourth WISE summit yesterday. Above: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and Over 1,200 innovators attend WISE summit H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser tour Souq Waqif after patronising Continued from page 1 with the Unicef and the govern- the Summit. Sheikha Moza “His approach shows that ment to ensure that ‘every child recalled the 2011 WISE prize the opening ceremony the most important resources in school and learning well.’ This that was awarded to Bangladesh’s of five new hotels at for successful innovation are a led to the formation of Pratham ‘Brac’ Institution ‘s founder Fadel the souq. The event clear vision, determination and as an independent charity in 1994. Hassan Obeid for setting up ‘float- was also attended the ability to apply unrecognised Pratham started with a simple ing schools’ in marshy areas of the by the Personal capacities to a shared cause,” Dr method by holding pre-education country where teaching children Representative of the Al Thani added. classes for children in Mumbai’s was considered impossible before Emir H H Sheikh Jassim “He has brought light into the slums. Obeid’s novel initiative. bin Hamad Al Thani. lives of many millions of people Volunteers were recruited to “Last month, when I visited one and I congratulate him on his teach in spaces within commu- of these schools, to have a close Left: Sheikha Moza with remarkable achievement,” Dr Al nities, including temples, offices, look at the project, I was aston- the Croatian First Lady Thani added. and even people’s homes. It is the ished by the unlimited human Tatjana Josipovic tour- Dr Chavan, a former lecturer, largest non-governmental pro- capacity to challenge difficulties ing a new hotel at Souq after completing a PhD in the vider of basic literacy and numer- and tame natural conditions,” Waqif. The President of USA, returned to India in 1986 acy for underprivileged children she said. That’s the role of WISE, the Republic of Croatia, to teach Chemistry at Mumbai in India. she said, “which we look forward Dr Ivo Josipovic, also University. However after realis- The organisation now has to expanding in creating a rela- joined the Emir and ing that education was the main activities in 17 of India’s 28 states. tionship of communication and barrier to India’s development It has supporting chapters in the knowledge between the tough Sheikha Moza at the and that action is required to US, UK, Germany and UAE. issues and those who are capable function. overcome the situation, he looked Some 1,200 innovators from of innovating effective solutions”. for a solution and joined hands over 100 countries are attending THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Many citizens vulnerable to diabetes: SCH First Diabetes Briefing Book launched

DOHA: The prevalence of dia- are keen to see if our awareness betes among Qataris has been campaigns have started deliver- found more or less static over ing results,” said QDA Executive the past four years, but a major Director Dr Abdullah Al Hamaq, segment of the Qatari popula- addressing a news conference tion remains vulnerable to the yesterday. illness with one or more risk Dr Sheikha Al Anoud Al Thani, factors, the Supreme Council of Director of Health Promotion and Health (SCH) has revealed. Non Communicable Diseases at SCH yesterday launched the SCH said that the finding was first Diabetes Briefing Book that reliable since the STEPS survey contains information about the was conducted in line with the prevalence of diabetes in Qatar WHO standards and guidelines. and the Gulf region and the major In the survey, the SCH worked risk factors as well as tips to in collaboration with the Qatar prevent and manage the illness. Statistics Authority, Primary World Diabetes Day is marked on Health Care Corporation, Hamad November 14 each year. Medical Corporation, Weill A study conducted by the Qatar Cornell Medical College, Qatar Diabetes Association (QDA) Diabetes Association, Qatar Red jointly with the Hamad Medical Crescent and Qatar Center for Corporation in 2008 found that Voluntary Activities. 16.7 percent of the Qatari popu- “The survey has underlined lation had been diagnosed with the need for more preventive From left, Faisal Madhakhi, Dr Mohsin Mismar, Dr Sheikha Al Anoud Al Thani, Dr Abdullah H Hamaq, Dr Mohamoud Zire and Herluf Nis Thomasen, during diabetes. Interestingly, the 2012 measures, with a major segment the launch of the Diabetes Briefing Book at the Supreme Council of Health yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT National STEPS survey on non- of the population remaining pre- communicable diseases conducted diabetic, due to several risk fac- by the Supreme Council of Health tors,” she added. With increasing life expectancy, 2.8 times more common among symposium for students about the cure methods and prevention. (SCH) found an exactly similar Nearly half of the Qatari popu- the burden of diabetes in the Gulf those of Indian and African Asian healthy nutrition for a diabetic PHCC doctors and specialists prevalence rate (16.7 per cent). lation has three out of five of the region is expected to more than origin, compared to Caucasians. and the optimal requirements for shared some very important dia- Based on the Qatar 2010 risk factors that can lead to life- double to 9.2 million by 2030, The Diabetes Briefing Book a healthy life of a diabetic. betes-related advice and guidance Population and Housing Census, style diseases as diabetes. according to data given in the was developed by the Action Educational competitions were under the slogan: “health educa- there are about 283,806 who are Obesity is on the rise among Diabetes Briefing Book. on Diabetes Partnership that also held at Al Wakra health tion for prevention” living with diabetes. Both the sur- the Qatari population with 70 Among South Asians, involves the SCH, HMC, QDA, centre, which was attended by a The activities will continue veys, however, did not include the percent overweight, out of whom Bangladeshis and Pakistanis are Primary Healthcare Corporation number of students and teachers. throughout this week, and will large expatriate population in the 41.4 percent are obese; 16.4 per- more prone to developing diabe- (PHCC), Maersk Oil and Novo Al Rayyan health cen- include field visits aiming at edu- country. cent smoke, 45.9 percent are tes. Type 2 diabetes, which is the Nordisk. tre welcomed students from cating student, with the support “The finding was in fact sur- found to have low physical activ- most common form of diabetes, Meanwhile, PHCC organised the Shafallah Centre and the of PHCC’s health education sec- prising, since the prevalence rate ity, with women as the most sed- is up to 5.2 times more common a series of activities focusing on Sudanese School. tion of the Primary Health Care has gone as high as 24 percent entary with 54 percent against 37 among people of Bangladeshi diabetes, its symptoms, and pre- They attended awareness lec- Corporation. in countries like the UAE. We percent men. and Pakistani origin and up to vention, including a scientific tures on diabetes, its symptoms, THE PENINSULA

Vodafone in talks with MoI for Metrash services Heart Hospital surgeons start new Qatar’s inflation rate rises up DOHA: Qatar’s second tel- pany executive said yesterday. Ministry of Interior to citizens procedure for high risk patients ecommunications services pro- “Yes, we are in talks with the and residents of Qatar. Registered to 2.7 percent vider Vodafone Qatar is in talks Ministry of Interior to provide users of this service receive text DOHA: Surgeons at the Heart dizziness, difficulty walking and other with the Ministry of Interior Metrash services,” a Vodafone messages on their GSM mobile Hospital have started performing complications. This condition is also DOHA: Qatar’s inflation (MoI) to provide Metrash elec- Qatar executive said. phones from various departments a new procedure that can improve known as angina, one of the most rate nudged up to 2.7 per- tronic services to its mobile Metrash is a free of charge of the MoI. the quality of life for high risk common forms of heart disease and cent in October on year- phone subscribers, a com- electronic service provided by the THE PENINSULA patients. untreated can often be fatal. on-year basis, mainly due The Transcatheter Aoritc Valve The new technique allows for a to the rise of education Implantation System (TAVI) has replacement valve to be delivered via services. been performed on two patients in a catheter using one of several access Increases were recorded Qatar since October. methods: transfemoral (in the upper in all the major groups. The surgery is carried out by a leg), transapical (through the wall The highest increases team of surgeons including TAVI of the heart), subclavian (beneath were recorded in specialists from the Heart Hospital the collar bone) and direct aortic “Entertainment, recrea- led by Dr. Abdulrahman Al Nabti, (through a minimally invasive sur- tion and culture”, 5.7 per- senior consultant and the head of gical incision into the aorta). cent. Miscellaneous goods the valve transplantation program; Offered for the first time in Qatar, and Services increased by and a cardiac specialist team led by surgeons successfully performed the 4.3 percent when com- Dr Abdulaziz Alkhulaifi, chairman procedure twice – on a 75-year-old pared to October 2011, of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Over the Qatari woman and a 61-year-old the Consumer Price Index span of a lifetime, the human heart Pakistani male. Al Nabti travelled to (CPI) released by Qatar beats more than two billion times. Canada to be trained in the proce- Statistics Authority (QSA) With each beat, flexible valves dure which addresses one of the most noted. While the “food, within the heart’s chambers open common causes of heart disease. beverages and tobacco” and shut to prevent blood flowing Manufacturers of the valve also work component rose to 4.1 per- backwards. With advancing age these with teams from the Heart Hospital cent on annual basis, “fur- valves can start to fail; the opening to ensure they are up to date with niture, textiles and home can become narrowed which reduces advances in the procedure. appliances grew 3.1 percent blood blow to the heart, resulting in THE PENINSULA during the period. “Garments and foot- wear” and “Transport and communications” recorded 3.0 percent and 1.5 percent increase. “Medical care and medical services” grew by 1.0 percent. A month-on-month comparison of CPI, October 2012 with September 2012, displays increases ranging between 0.4 and 4.5 per- cent in most major groups with the exception of “food, beverages and tobacco”, “furniture, textiles & home appliances” and “Transport and Communications”, where the prices declined by 0.8 percent. The highest increases have been noticed in the group “entertainment, recreation and culture”, 4.5 percent mainly due to the rise of education services. “Garments and Footwear” group recorded 0.9 percent. Both “Rent, fuel and energy” and “Medical care and medical services” groups saw 0.7 percent increase. “Miscellaneous goods and services” group saw 0.48 percent rise. A CPI exclusive of the “rent, fuel and energy” group has also been calculated. After eliminating the effect of rent, the overall index reached 125, show- ing an increase of 0.3 percent compared to the CPI of September, and an increase of 3.3 percent when compared to the month of October 2011. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Young Qataris get Expert set to their business Over 1,500 volunteers for COP18 share experience skills sharpened Hundreds of expatriates join citizens in show of patriotism toward Qatar with budding at QSTP event DOHA: More than 1,500 volun- entrepreneurs teers recently attended work- DOHA: Qatar Science shops to learn how to welcome DOHA: & Technology Park’s and help 17,000 delegates con- Opportunities (QSTP) new series of the verging in Doha for the COP18/ that collabo- Technology Innovation and CMP8 – the largest ever con- ration offers Entrepreneurship Programme ference to be held in Qatar. when starting (TIEP), last week received a Those who attended the work- up a new busi- group of 29 entrepreneurs inter- shops were also among the first to ness will be ested in learning how to man- see the specially designed uniform the main topic age technology-based business. created for the volunteer work- of a workshop The six-month executive edu- force. The uniforms have a sim- organised by cation programme is action-based ple and smart design that makes 8Ovate Canada and focused on capacity-building it easy for the volunteers to be and The Youth Company through real-world experience identified quickly by participants. Qatar, as part of Global in developing technology-based The volunteers, who were Entrepreneurship Week. The innovation projects from local selected from more than 3,000 event will take place today at universities, companies and applicants, gathered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, from 7 to research entities in alignment Renaissance Hotel in Doha to 9 pm. with the technology development take part in the half-day train- Suzanne Grant (pictured), strategy of QSTP and QNRS. ing sessions. CEO of 8Ovate and entrepre- This year’s group includes seven “I want to be a part of this neur that left Qatar two years young Qatari men and women. team,” said Samer Muawia, who ago, is back in Doha to share her QSTP Innovation Department, attended the training session and Volunteers taking part in a training session at the Renaissance Hotel in Doha. knowledge and experience after which runs the TIEP programme, will be dividing his time between founding projects such as Qatar worked with Stars of Science to his own company and assist- Happening magazine. identify candidates eligible to ing the delegates, observers and roles are to the event. They learnt nationals of other countries but holding COP18/CMP8 in Doha, She added that starting up a receive this year’s QSTP-TIEP members of the press who will be about the history of the United now call Doha home after coming which marks the first time that business in Qatar can be difficult Award among the finalists of the coming here in a few weeks. Nations Framework Convention to the city for work opportunities. the Conference will be held in the at first without contacts. In this show. Five of the 16 finalists were The volunteers had the oppor- on Climate Change; the Kyoto “We want to show our patriot- Middle East. context, she encouraged other shortlisted to undergo world- tunity to greet each other on Protocol, under which countries ism for Qatar,” said Olumuyiwa, a There will be seven groups entrepreneurs to interact with class training in technology-based Saturday before watching a agreed to limit their greenhouse Nigerian who has been living and of volunteers working in vari- peers that are experiencing the entrepreneurship through TIEP. presentation on the UN Climate gas emissions; and the goals of the working in his adopted home of ous areas, including the Airport same problems and discover the TIEP participants come from a Change Conference, to help them climate change negotiations. Qatar for two years. As residents Services division, who will wel- skills their own personality has range of organisations, including understand the importance of the Along with Qatari citizens, of Qatar, the volunteers will be come participants into the coun- to offer. QSTP tenants, local universities, negotiations and how vital their hundreds of the volunteers are told about the significance of try. THE PENINSULA Grant talked to The Peninsula ministries, and private organisa- about the effectiveness of social tions spanning ICT, energy, envi- media to build strong business ronment and healthcare sectors, relationships. The first analysis module is the Nevertheless, she added that Market Module which started on “the majority of people are still Sunday and participants will ana- Education leaders take part in ROTA summit using these stools in the wrong lyse market and industry attrac- way, and try really hard to sell tiveness, sources of competitive their products or services without advantage and how their solution DOHA: Reach Out To Asia (Unicef), WarChild, the United guidance on providing Conflict academic institutions, schools building a connection”. meets key customer needs. (ROTA) hosted an Inter-Agency Nations Educational, Scientific Sensitive Education. In addition, and affected populations who About the fields that offer This year’s laureate is Hekmat Network for Education in and Cultural Organisation ROTA Executive Director Essa work together to ensure all people opportunities for entrepreneurs Alrouh, MD. A graduate of Emergencies (INEE) Working (Unesco) and the United Nations Al Mannai presented an update have the right to quality and safe in Qatar, Grant pointed towards Weill Cornell Medical College in Group summit at the Qatar Relief and Works Agency for on ROTA’s educational and disas- education in emergency and post- development of online content in Qatar (WCMC-Q), Hekmat cur- Foundation Recreation Centre, Palestine Refugees in the Near ter risk reduction projects in the crisis recovery environments. Arabic. rently works at the WCMC-Q Education City on November 11 East (UNRWA). Among the top- Middle East and Asia, as well as Al Mannai was joined at the This businesswoman recom- Department of Global and Public and 12. ics discussed were an overview of led a 30-minute workshop dedi- INEE summit by ROTA’s inter- mended future entrepreneurs to Health where he coordinates pub- Education leaders representing key INEE accomplishments in the cated to WISE. national education specialists get solid legal advice before start- lic health and research projects 20 key agencies attended the two- past six months, a review of Arabic The INEE is an open global Lamis Sabrah, Zarmina Nasir and ing a business in Qatar because a sponsored by WCMC-Q. day summit. They included the language Minimum Standards for network of NGOs, United Nations Epifania Amoo-Adare. partnership is very similar to a THE PENINSULA United Nations Children’s Fund education in emergencies, and (UN) agencies, governments, THE PENINSULA marriage. 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CHAIRMAN: SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: KHALID AL SAYED A legal struggle E-MAIL: [email protected] ACTING MANAGING EDITOR: HUSSAIN AHMAD E-MAIL: [email protected] The verdict in Abu Qatada case shows the EDITORIAL: TEL: 44557741 / 44557743 respect for human rights in British law. FAX: 44557746 / 44557758 P. O. BOX: 3488, DOHA, QATAR. E-MAIL: [email protected] HE radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada was released from a evidence obtained by torture. But Siac ruled on Monday that despite ADVERTISING: TEL: 44557837 / 780 FAX: 44557870 high-security prison after a British court ruled that he should the assurances there remained a real risk that torture-based evidence Tnot be sent back to Jordan to face trial on torture-based evi- would be used against him. CLASSIFIED: 44557857 E-MAIL: [email protected] dence. The court verdict and the subsequent release is a triumph of Qatada was briefly released from British custody in February after SUBSCRIPTION / HOME DELIVERY British law and should win the admiration of those terrorists who are the Strasbourg, France-based European Court of Human Rights ruled working to undermine British and Western societies. his right to a fair trial may be violated in Jordan. May subsequently said TEL: 44557809 /839 FAX: 44557819 The court verdict has triggered an intense debate in the country and she received assurances from Jordan he would receive a fair, civilian E-MAIL: [email protected] the government finds itself in an embarrassing situation after strug- trial and police re-arrested him in April gling hard to secure Abu Qatada’s deportation. The home secretary The terror suspect was driven back to his home in north-west London, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Theresa May faces a lengthy timetable in her attempt to persuade where he faces a curfew from 4pm to 8am enforced by an electronic tag ANNUAL QR 675 the court of appeal to overturn the ruling by the special immigrations and there will be strict restrictions on who he can meet. 6 MONTHS QR 340 appeal commission. British and several European countries have laws which protect The verdict illustrates the paramount importance which British law human rights, and Islamists who harbour hatred against the West attaches to human rights and the court is not influenced by extraneous need to take this factor into consider while planning their anti-Western factors in arriving at a decision. At the same time, the government is strategy. It’s these laws which protect the rights of Muslims in Europe justified in deporting Abu Qatada for reasons it thinks right, but the though the Western societies are tilting towards the right. As long as government failed to convince the court which resulted in an unfavour- these laws remain, the West can ensure equality of its citizens, and able verdict. Abu Qatada, who is accused of having links with Al Qaeda, despite the gains which the right is making, they will find it almost PUBLICATION (he denies the same) was first detained in Britain as a terror suspect impossible to change the laws. in 2002 and has been fighting his deportation to Jordan for seven years. If Qatada himself is pro-Al Qaeda, the court verdict should make Earlier this year, May travelled to Jordan and secured assurances that him abandon his terrorist views and express his gratitude to the British he would not face a trial for bomb plot offences dating back to 1998 on legal system.

We have to keep in mind that we are just at the beginning The other side of the road to democracy, and as I keep saying, it’s a Quote of road we have to build for ourselves. France can’t delay competitiveness shock the day Aung San Suu Kyi Myanmar opposition leader HE government of French President Francois Hollande deserves credit for its decision last week to cut payroll taxes. TUnfortunately, by itself, the 20 billion euro ($25 billion) reduction in costs for companies won’t administer the “competitiveness shock” that a dire, government-commissioned study recommended Nov. 5 to revive growth. It certainly won’t allay the concerns of France’s largest trading part- ner, Germany, whose own economy would be at risk from a meltdown across the Rhine. As Germany’s Council of Economic Experts delivered its annual report to Chancellor Angela Merkel last week, one of its members, Lars Feld, warned that “the largest problem isn’t Greece anymore, or Spain or Italy, but France because France has done noth- ing to rebuild its competitiveness and is even heading in the opposite direction.” A recent cover line on the daily Bild Zeitung baldly asked: “Will France Be the New Greece?” The French government’s response fails to tackle the more funda- mental challenge of curbing out-of-control public spending and easing France’s rigid labor laws, which were identified as the gravest threats to the economy both in the report by former Airbus Chairman Louis Gallois and in a review published the next day by the International Monetary Fund. Both point to the steady deterioration of France’s trade balance and industrial jobs over the past 10 years, particularly compared with Germany. Examples abound: France’s hourly labour costs average $44, 13 percent higher than those in Germany, which has restructured its labour market to give employers more flexibility in hiring and firing. France’s labor costs, meanwhile, are up about 19 percent over the decade, even as Germany’s have held almost constant. France’s share of euro-area exports has dropped by 3.5 percent, more than any country in the region. To wit: Germany posted a trade surplus of 150 billion euros last year, while France had a deficit of 70 billion euros. Most dramatically, France’s unemployment rate is hovering around 10 percent; Germany’s is 5.5 percent. Meanwhile, French companies have seen their operating margins shrink almost 40 percent in the last decade; those of German companies have gained about 40 percent. The government’s decision to cut payroll taxes next year by 20 billion euros is one of the 22 recommendations in the Gallois report. But the French employers’ federation, Medef, estimates payroll costs on French businesses would have to drop by 70 billion euros, more than three times as much, to be competitive with Germany. THE WASHINGTON POST Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Germany’s neo-Nazi investigation exposes institutional racism BY BEN KNIGHT momentous criminal investiga- and sent undercover investiga- investigation system itself. appetite for imposing rules on country’s three-tier educational tions in unified Germany, and tors among the families of the The existence of the odd rac- police procedure, so racial pro- system, which funnels children HE last alleged member next spring’s trial could poten- victims. ist police officer is hardly news, filing remains a legal grey zone. into one of three levels of sec- of the German neo-Nazi tially uncover the true extent of While those infiltrating detec- of course. The real scandal is The same is true in Germany’s ondary education straight after Tgang that murdered nine Germany’s underground neo- tives found that the Turkish that racism is allowed to influ- schools. In September, the primary school. immigrants has been charged, Nazi network. Even if it doesn’t, community suspected far-right ence police work. In Germany, Open Society Justice Initiative But there is also a worrying a year after her arrest uncov- the court case will hopefully give extremists to be behind the state institutions lack the rules (OSJI), an NGO that usu- new trend: there have been sev- ered a decade-long terrorist new urgency to the obstructed killings, their suspicions were to limit racial discrimination, ally reports on human rights eral reports of schools in dis- campaign – but the case has parliamentary investigations ignored. Meanwhile, numerous and politicians lack the will to abuses in countries like Nigeria tricts with a large immigrant also uncovered some uncom- into the authorities’ failure to paid neo-Nazi informants – impose them. and Kyrgyzstan, submitted a population offering ethnic fortable truths about racism stop the NSU. some of whom had contact with This was well illustrated by a damning briefing to the United German parents “guarantees” in Germany’s institutions. Last Since last November, four sep- and supplied weapons to the real court case that began in March, Nations human rights com- that their children will be put week, German state prosecutors arate committees (one federal, killers, the NSU – wilfully kept when a black German who had mittee about Germany’s state in classes where the majority chose the first anniversary of three regional) have drip-fed the authorities in the dark. got into a row with two offic- school system, uncovering is also ethnically German – to Beate Zschäpe’s arrest to reveal the country with revelations of This slowly accumulating ers on a train ended up suing “the consistent discrimination protect their language skills. the charges they would be level- incompetence or criminal col- scandal, which German attor- them after they admitted in in education faced by ethnic One Berlin primary school has ling against her. Because she is lusion in every security body ney general Harald Range court that the police deliber- minority children”. The OSJI already been named and shamed, alleged to be the only surviving from the federal and state police called “Germany’s September ately spot-checked non-white recommended that one legal but Berlin Brandenburg Turkish member of the murderous trio forces to sundry intelligence 11”, is every bit as shameful as people more often. To the out- hole desperately needed to be association TBB, which helped that called itself the National agencies. Four secret service the police’s failure to protect rage of many ethnic community closed: the fact that Germany’s collect data for the OSJI report, Socialist Underground, the pros- chiefs have lost their jobs. asylum seekers at the Rostock organisations, though not to the anti-discrimination laws do believes the practice is becoming ecutors took a calculated risk Above all, the investigation riots of 1992, another anniver- outrage of most of the German not extend to schools, and that more common. But here again, and charged Zschäpe with com- has revealed how racist assump- sary that has just passed. But media, the court in Koblenz there are no laws, either state the fault is only partly with the plicity in all the group’s known tions hindered detective work. while Rostock could be put down ruled that this was legitimate or federal, that prohibit ethnic schools. As one Berlin teacher crimes: 10 murders, two nail We learned, for instance, that to a fatal moment of coward- police policy. That verdict was segregation. told me, headteachers “fend for bombings and 15 bank robberies. the police were so convinced that ice by whoever was in charge overturned in October, but even Germany’s “de facto racial themselves because there are The judiciously timed only the Turkish mafia would that night, the failure to pro- the more progressive judge fell segregation”, as the UN itself no guidelines in place on how to announcement ended the first murder Turkish Germans that tect Turkish Germans from the short of offering a formal legal once described it, is partly an practise integration.” chapter of one of the most officers set up fake kebab shops NSU was built into the criminal ruling. Apparently he had little inadvertent consequence of the THE GUARDIAN WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Syrian regime can still keep up the fight Some opposition figures believe Washington could give its tacit support to others funnelling weapons if the new broad-based rebel coalition holds together and gains international legitimacy.

BY BRIAN MURPHY AND For now, government jets and ELIZABETH A KENNEDY helicopters are largely out of reach of the rebels’ arsenals, and EARLY 20 months Assad projects confidence at every into the Syrian turn. In an interview last week uprising, President with Russia Today TV, Assad Bashar Assad’s vowed to “live and die” in Syria, message to the saying the conflict will never drive Nworld has been nothing if not con- him into exile. sistent: His military is strong, his Still, the regime cannot main- enemies are mere terrorists and tain the status quo indefinitely. he will prevail in the end. A Mideast intelligence official And despite a unity deal signed said Syria’s estimated 300 jet A Free Syrian Army fighter fires an anti-aircraft artillery weapon during an air strike in the Syrian town of Ras Al Ain, as seen from the Turkish border by Syrian rebels this weekend, fighters — mostly Russian-made town of Ceylanpinar, Sanliurfa province. which they hope will persuade — lack the appropriate main- foreign backers to send more tenance, spare parts and mis- clear last week at an opposition Syrian rebels and possible foot- guns bought on black markets or Two likely routes for stepped powerful weapons to use to bat- sile warheads. Syria’s estimated conference in Qatar. holds by Islamic extremists smuggled across borders. up military aid would be Turkey tle the regime, Damascus still has three dozen helicopters, also “Weapons,” barked George among the fighters. Washington’s logistical aid, such and Jordan — both bordering on enough firepower and resources mostly Russian-made, are being Sabra, a Syrian opposition fig- The Obama administration has as surveillance and intelligence, pockets of rebel-held territory. to keep up the fight. “exhausted from overuse,” he said. ure, as rebels gathered for a unity steered clear of any pledges to would be essential to keep weapons The regime could face yet “Syria has more than enough “The Syrian army is being conference with envoys from directly arm rebels. But some oppo- routes open and reaching the right another challenge if Israel weapons for fighting the rebels,” stretched to the maximum Washington and its Middle East sition figures believe Washington rebel units, analysts say. gets drawn into the fighting, said Igor Korotchenko, a retired because of simultaneous crack- allies in attendance. “We don’t could give its tacit support to oth- “Still, I don’t think we are something that would further colonel of Russia’s military gen- downs on rebel holdouts across need food. We don’t need money. ers funnelling weapons if the new quite at the green-light stage for stretch Assad’s already strug- eral staff who is now editor of Syria,” said the official, who asked We need weapons.” broad-based rebel coalition holds weapons,” said Theodore Karasik, gling forces. National Defence magazine. “As that his name and country not be The appeal came just hours together and gains international a regional security expert at the An Israeli tank struck a long as Bashar Assad has the used because he is not authorized before Syria’s splintered rebel legitimacy, such as winning recog- Dubai-based Institute for Near Syrian army vehicle yesterday money to pay his military, it will to speak publicly. factions agreed on Sunday to an nition from the Arab League and East and Gulf Military Analysis. after a mortar shell landed on keep fighting.” Citing regional intelligence American-backed plan to unite other groups. “I think the jury is still out on Israeli-held territory, the mili- He said Syria has more than data, the official also said jammed under a new umbrella group that “This new body will help us what types of weapons are tary said, in the first direct con- 1,000 tanks, along with a system Internet, satellite and cellphone seeks a common voice and strat- mobilise more international sup- needed.” frontation between the countries of repair shops created during circuits across Syria are con- egy against Assad’s regime. port and resources for the Syrian Karasik believes Syrian rebels since the Syrian uprising broke Soviet times and enough expe- tributing to the military’s woes, Now, outgunned rebel fight- opposition,” said the secretary- have the capability to hold out, sharpening fears that Israel rienced personnel to service the mainly by depriving army com- ers are waiting to see whether general of the Syrian National ground with the weapons they could be drawn into the civil war weapons. manders of the means to commu- the pledge of cooperation will be Council, Bassam Ishak, during have as the conflict increas- next door. Analysts say it is difficult to nicate with field officers. He said rewarded with potentially game- talks on Sunday in Doha, that ingly takes on the urban combat Israel has steadfastly tried come up with reliable figures the circuits are believed to have changing arms — including were observed by representatives showdowns of past insurgencies to avoid getting sucked into the on the Syrian air force and air been jammed by Russian telecom- critical anti-aircraft batteries from the US, Turkey and other such as Chechnya. Syrian conflict, but it has grown defences because of the extreme munications equipment, installed — from main regional backers rebel backers. “They are fighting a Soviet- increasingly worried after a series secrecy surrounding its military in the early summer to block rebel such as the wealthy Gulf states The US also is likely to play built army using Soviet and of mortar shells have struck ter- matters. Assad’s regime — its communications. and Turkey. more than simply a bystander Russian tactics,” he said. “You ritory in the Israeli-controlled forces stretched thin on mul- With the regime hurting but A big part of the decision likely role if major weapons channels can probably fight that with the Golan Heights in recent days. On tiple fronts — has significantly still strong, the opposition would rests with the US, which has so open for the rebels, who now bat- weapons you already have on the Sunday, Israel fired a “warning increased its use of air power need an influx of weapons quickly far discouraged opening chan- tle mostly with firepower seized ground ... Anything else, like anti- shot” into Syria in response to the against Syrian rebels since the to tip the balance of the conflict. nels for heavy weapons because from Assad’s military and light aircraft capabilities, could help shelling. summer. The rebels’ desire for arms was of unease about squabbling among arms such as AK-47 machine tip the scales.” AP European austerity protests far from revolution BY NICHOLAS VINOCUR stock markets. Activists want filmmaker Romain Goupil, who at to appeal to young workers, many AND MARK JOHN to spread the protests across If revolutionary fervour is lacking in 16 led French high school students of whom do not enjoy the same Europe’s national borders. The in the 1968 protests, said. “She is labour protection of their older N A cafe near the former site Greek strikers were seen holding Europe’s youth, the labour groups part of a reactionary generation.” counterparts, and are failing to of Paris’ Bastille prison, activ- Italian, Portuguese and Spanish If revolutionary fervour is lack- connect with Europe’s growing Iists held a meeting last month flags last week. ing in Europe’s youth, the labour army of jobless. to decide whether to join unions But there has been little reso- that have in the past been the other groups that have in the past been At threatened factories such in protesting the French govern- nance on the streets of the richer the other major source of street as Peugeot PSA’s plant in Aulnay, ment’s belt-tightening. nations of north Europe, whose major source of street protest are protest are not the forces they near Paris, union leaders have Only five people turned up at ageing populations and politically used to be. warned of a “shock” campaign to Cafe Maldoror, a favoured haunt moderate youth are less inter- In late 1995, France’s trans- force the company to save their of the radical left. ested in protest. not the forces they used to be. port networks were paralysed for jobs. But so far, protests have Even in the city whose revo- So far the protests fall short of weeks as unions led strikes and been limited and stopped short lutionary credentials date back antecedents such as those in 1968 numbers on their side. Lower during France’s presidential elec- protests against welfare cuts by of disruption. to the 1789 uprising that began against US involvement in the birth rates and higher longevity tion in 2011. President Jacques Chirac’s con- An April poll of 600 European at the gates of its famous prison, Vietnamese war which in Europe mean the median age in Europe “(But) at heart, they won- servative government. managers conducted for US-based calls to build a European-wide mutated into a force for wider has risen from 31 years at the end der if there is any alternative to Yet a 2007 law has since taken insurer Ace Group highlighted popular front against the tough- social change, or the 1990s anti- of the 1960s to 40 now. By 2060, austerity.” much of the bite out of union austerity-related protests as est budget cuts in a generation are globalisation marches through there will be two pensioners for While surveys show Europe’s threats of strikes by requiring one concern for business, not- falling on deaf ears. many of its cities. every youngster. youths tend to vote on the left, them to ensure a basic service ing 32 percent of those surveyed “In France people ... are frus- Such momentum is lacking Nonetheless, they have plenty the Marxism that fired past gen- for public transport. Subsequent cited the threat of terrorism and trated, they are worried about the in the anti-austerity movement. of reasons to be angry. Youth erations has fewer takers since legislation has granted educa- political violence as the most rel- country and about their economic Calls by protest groups in Spain unemployment, almost negligible the fall of the Soviet Union, as tion services and airlines similar evant or important risk to their situation, but for the moment for a European general strike on in much of Europe in the 1960s, witnessed by declining poll scores protection. businesses. ... most people are not looking November 14 have gone largely now stands at 23 percent across of the remaining Communist par- Moreover the law forced So far there is little evidence for revolutionary change,” said unanswered. Marches are planned the 17 members of the euro zone. ties across the continent. unions to declare any protest that the prospect of unrest in Gaston, a 36-year-old librarian but trade unions have not opted One in two young Spaniards and French UNEF student union well in advance, allowing one Europe driving companies away at the meeting who took part in for a strike. Greeks are out of work. president Emmanuel Zemmour of the world’s best equipped from the continent. a poorly attended protest at the There is even less sympathy in It is also dawning on Europe’s — whose predecessor Jacques police forces to plan meticulous While US carmaker Ford has Bastille last year. Germany, where many feel their young that the debt built up by Sauvageot was at the helm of surveillance and control over announced plans to scrap 6,200 Millions of Europeans feel country has already made the successive governments puts France’s 1968 protests — said marches. jobs in Europe to reflect tough impoverished as countries which painful reforms needed on public their future welfare provision at many students were not driven “France’s trade unions have auto sector and wider economic broke budget rules for years are finances and polls show strong risk. Those with jobs are seeing by any ideology. been considerably weakened in conditions, its decision to shift prodded into public spending cuts backing for Chancellor Angela tougher labour conditions as firms “We are a generation that has the past decade. They face a crisis some output to low-cost Spain to win back investor confidence in Merkel’s demands for European struggle to compete with low- only ever known triumphant lib- of confidence,” Stephane Sirot, a underlined that social tensions their sovereign debt. neighbours to do the same. wage international rivals. eralism,” Zemmour, 24, said of sociologist specialized in protest there were not a concern. Bursts of street anger have Demographics may help explain While the sense of alarm has free market policies espoused to movements at the Universite de “I think we were satisfied rocked Greece and Spain, two why the activists are struggling to reached better-off youths in some extent by much of the West Cergy-Pontoise, said. with the environment that we southern countries whose citizens find support. northern Europe, it is often tem- since the 1980s. “Young people are While the marches against see in Spain. Just as we are in are paying dearly for the profli- In 1960, there were on average pered by a mood of resignation practical, not ideological. They ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy’s all of Western Europe. I guess I gacy of their past leaders. three Europeans under the age of and inability to define a political want the right to work, to get the pensions reform in 2010 drew should say it just wasn’t a factor,” Athens police last week fired 14 for every pensioner, European alternative. same benefits as others, to be able more people than any other in said Chief Financial Officer Bob tear gas to disperse protestors Union data show. It was this “People around me are worried, to study without struggling.” French history, his government Shanks. throwing petrol bombs outside generation of post second-World particularly about the prospect of Europe’s old “68-ers” look at was able to sit them out and pass “Frankly, most of Europe has parliament. Strikes and marches baby-boomers who, eight years the welfare state being disman- their own family and agree. the reform unchanged - a bitter managed the social pressures of in Greece and Spain triggered later, were the foot soldiers of the tled,” said Fabien Perillat, 24, a “My daughter is worried about defeat for the protest movement. a very, very difficult environment a September 26 sell-off in the 1968 revolts. jobless engineering graduate in jobs, about living in a country Across Europe, trade unions relatively well so far.” euro and European and US Today’s youth no longer have Paris who joined left-wing rallies where welfare is unraveling,” acknowledge they are struggling REUTERS WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Israel plans resumption of Gaza assassinations Gaza flare-up over, but problem remains TEL AVIV/GAZA: Israel and ago. Others believe Israel should what the army said was a weap- the Palestinians stepped back target Hamas leaders, a method ons depot and two rocket launch from the brink of a new war it used to kill dozens of militants sites. There were no casualties. in the Gaza Strip yesterday, nearly a decade ago. Only one Palestinian rocket sending signals to each other The tacit truce arrested an strike was reported in Israel by via Egypt that they would hold escalation to all-out fighting, 10am yesterday. their fire unless attacked, after but both sides remain armed Advocates say targeted killings five days of mounting violence. and primed for another round in are an effective deterrent with- Israel is considering resuming the unresolved conflict that has out the complications associated its contentious practice of assas- festered since Hamas Islamist with a ground operation, chiefly sinating militant leaders in the militants took over the enclave civilian and Israeli troop casual- Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in an in 2007. Ismail Haniyah, prime ties. Proponents argue they also effort to halt intensified rocket minister of Gaza’s Hamas gov- prevent future attacks by remov- attacks on Israel’s south, accord- ernment, praised the main armed ing their masterminds. Critics say ing to defence officials. factions in the enclave for agree- they invite retaliation by mili- That Israel might renew a ing on Monday night to a truce. tants and encourage them to try practice that brought it harsh “They showed a high sense to assassinate Israeli leaders. international censure is evidence of responsibility by saying they Israeli Prime Minister Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah (centre), arrives at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City yesterday to visit Palestinians of the tight spot Prime Minister would respect calm should the Benjamin Netanyahu yester- wounded in a recent surge of violence on the Israel-Gaza frontier. Benjamin Netanyahu is in. With Israeli occupation also abide by day visited the southern city of Israeli elections two months away, it,” he said. Haniyah spoke during Beesheba, where he told munici- up as the preferred response to In its statement, the 22. The Brotherhood’s party rocket barrages from Gaza are an unannounced visit to a hospital pal officials that Israel will strike the stepped-up rocket fire. Brotherhood’s Freedom and called on Arab and Muslim gov- disrupting the lives of 1 million to see wounded Palestinians. back against the Palestinian Egypt’s powerful Muslim Justice Party referred to Israel as ernments “to stop the Zionist war residents of southern Israel, pres- An official involved in the attacks. “Whoever believes they Brotherhood sharply criticised a “Zionist occupier” and a “rac- that is operating under electoral suring the government to come up Egyptian mediation confirmed can harm the daily lives of the Israeli leaders yesterday over air- ist state,” placing Israeli Prime calculations for personal gain far with an effective response. both sides were ready to stop. residents of the south and not strikes in the Gaza Strip, accusing Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from humanitarian calculations In the latest flare-up, Gaza mil- “The message was clear and pay a heavy price is mistaken. I them of heating up the conflict and Foreign Minister Avigdor for peace, security and stability.” itants have fired more than 100 Israel too told Egypt they were am responsible for choosing the to score political points ahead of Lieberman on the “fringes” of the The Muslim Brotherhood itself rockets at Israel in recent days, not interested in escalation if right time to collect the high- elections. The latest round of vio- “far right.” “In the framework of released a separate statement triggering retaliatory Israeli air- rocket firing stopped. The situ- est price and so it shall be,” lence began Saturday, with rocket elections that Israel is witness- shortly after its party’s, sharp- strikes that have killed six peo- ation now is calm for calm and I Netanyahu said. Defence offi- attacks from Gaza militants and ing is a recent military escala- ening the criticism and accusing ple in Gaza. Some Israelis are hope it does not deteriorate,” the cials, speaking on condition of Israeli airstrikes that killed seven tion against occupied Gaza and Israel of following a policy that demanding a harsh military move, official said. Israel struck three anonymity to discuss confidential Palestinians. More than 100 rock- the occupied Golan Heights,” the tries to appear opposite itself “and perhaps a repeat of Israel’s bruis- targets in the Gaza Strip in the discussions, said the assassina- ets have exploded in Israel since statement said. Israel has set par- God knows they are liars.” ing incursion into Gaza four years early hours of Tuesday, including tion of Hamas leaders is shaping the weekend. liamentary elections for January AP/REUTERS

Iran tests new air Saudi king pardons defence system EU welcomes Syria opposition bloc jailed preacher TEHRAN: Iran said yesterday RIYADH: The Custodain of it successfully tested a new air CAIRO: EU foreign minis- following talks last week in Doha the Two Holy Mosques King defense system modeled after ters meeting in Cairo yester- as the “legitimate representative” Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi the US Hawk system during day welcomed a newly formed of the Syrian people. In contrast, Arabia has pardoned a radi- a drill in the country’s east. A Syrian opposition bloc, urging Russia on Monday urged the new cal Islamist scholar jailed over senior Iranian official called the it to bring in more regime dis- grouping to spurn foreign inter- incitement against the ruler maneuvers a “slap” to America senters, as the coalition chief ference and drop its rejection of a and sowing sedition, Al Hayat and Israel. appealed for weapons. negotiated solution to the conflict newspaper reported yesterday. State TV broadcast footage After four days of talks in the with President Bashar Al Assad’s The monarch has “issued an yesterday said to be from the Qatari capital Doha, Syrian oppo- regime, a longtime ally of Moscow. order to release” Yusuf Al Ahmad, drill, which began Saturday and sition groups agreed on Sunday The GCC - grouping Bahrain, the brother of the preacher told which has been billed as “mas- to unite under the banner of the Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi the daily, citing the head of the sive.” The footage shows a Hawk National Coalition headed by Arabia and the United Arab royal court Khaled Al Tuwaijri. missile being launched and hitting moderate Muslim cleric Ahmed Emirates - has supported the In 2010, Ahmad issued a con- a mock aircraft. Moaz Al Khatib. anti-regime revolt in Syria that troversial fatwa in which he Earlier reports said the new Khatib called on world powers broke out in March 2011 and has called for demolishing the Grand surface-to-air system is named to arm rebels, telling AFP they cost tens of thousands of lives. Mosque of Makkah to rebuild the “Mersad,” or Ambush. It is capa- desperately needed arms if they Iran also will bring parties to massive structure in a way com- ble of locking a flying object at a were to “cut short the suffering of the Syrian conflict to Tehran pliant with strict Saudi rule of distance of 80km and can hit from the Syrians and their bloodshed.” on Sunday to participate in a segregation between sexes. 45km away, state TV said. “We need specialised weapons,” “national dialogue,” the foreign He was sentenced in April at According to the reports, the he added, without elaborating. ministry said yesterday. a special court dealing with ter- Iranian military is expected to The conflict in Syria has killed The meeting will focus on ror charges to five years in jail test anti-aircraft batteries and more than 37,000 since it broke promoting diplomacy and end- after being convicted of incitment other air defense systems as part out in March 2011, according ing the violence in Syria, Deputy against the ruler, sowing sedition, of the drill. “This military exer- to the Syrian Observatory for Foreign Minister Hossein Amir and harming national unity. cise is a message and a strong slap Human Rights. Fierce battles Abdollahian told the Arabic- to those countries that threaten,” and army shelling in and near language Al Alam channel. said air defense chief Gen. Farzad Damascus yesterday killed at “Representatives of the Syrian Several held in Iran Esmaili, referring to the United least 41 people, mostly civilians, government will hold talks with States and Israel. “And a message a watchdog said, as warplanes representatives from tribes, polit- over blogger’s death of peace and friendship to friendly launched more air raids on a town Smoke rises after an air strike in Ras Al Ain district of Syria, seen from the ical parties, (political) minorities TEHRAN: Tehran’s public countries.” on the Turkish border. Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, yesterday. and the opposition,” he said, with- prosecutor has announced the Both Israel and the U.S. have A car bomb, meanwhile, struck out elaborating. arrest of “several people” over not ruled out a military option the town of Ain Al Fijeh, west of of the Syrian National Council, yes, we will be able to recognise Armed opposition groups reject the death in detention of blogger against Iran’s suspect nuclear the capital, “injuring a number of the main opposition group that them as the legitimate represent- any Iranian involvement in find- Sattar Beheshti, the Isna news program, which the West fears people and causing widespread finally agreed to join the wider, ative of the Syrian people.” ing a solution to the conflict in agency reported yesterday. intends to produce an atomic material damage,” said Syrian more representative bloc. Syria, reflecting the view the “Yesterday (Monday), several weapon. The test came during a state television. “It is a very important mile- RUSSIA, GCC TO MEET US and some Western and Arab people were arrested,” Abbas six-day air defense drill under way French Foreign Minister stone and a very big step towards Russian Foreign Minister countries hold that Tehran is dis- Jafarabadi said, without elabo- over almost the entire eastern Laurent Fabius, who was in Cairo (recognition),” British Foreign Sergei Lavrov is to meet today in credited by its unwavering sup- rating. “When we learned about half of the country. The exercise for talks between European Union Secretary William Hague told Riyadh with Arab foreign minis- port for the regime of President (Beheshti’s) death, we began an has been said to include Iranian and Arab League ministers, urged reporters. ters of the Gulf for talks expected Bashar Al Assad. inquiry... We hope to make the jet fighters, drones and more than the international community to “We do now want to see the to highlight their differences on Iran, which in turn accuses findings public within the next 8,000 troops. Iran regularly holds recognise the body. “Our hope is details of the agreement made in the Syrian conflict. Western and Arab countries of 10 days,” he added. military exercises aimed at boost- that the different countries recog- Doha implemented, and we want The Gulf Cooperation Council arming the rebels fighting Assad’s The judiciary’s High Council ing its defense capabilities. It also nise the Syrian national coalition to see in practice that the Syrian aims to “put an end to the suffer- forces, has said repeatedly that it of Human Rights said on Sunday occasionally announces additions as the legitimate representative of opposition or the coalition now ing of the Syrian people through is in contact with Syrian opposi- that “all aspects of the case have to its arsenal, holds inauguration the Syrian people... France’s role being assembled is as inclusive as rapid political transition and a tion groups, without identifying been accurately investigated fol- ceremonies, starts up new pro- is to make that hope possible,” possible of opposition groups and halt to the bloodshed,” GCC chief which ones. lowing a special order by judiciary duction lines and test-fires new Fabius told reporters in Cairo. all communities in Syria,” said Abdel Latif Al Zayani said in a Russia and Iran advocate a chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani.” missiles. The purported military “The opposition has taken a Hague. “We want to see that they statement. political solution and dialogue Opposition activists say blog- advancements are impossible to huge step forward,” said Fabius, have support inside Syria. That The meeting follows the Gulf between the government and ger Sattar Beheshti, who died on independently verify. who met earlier with both is a very crucial consideration. If states’ recognition of the newly opposition groups to end the November 3 aged 35, was tortured AP Khatib and George Sabra, head they do all these things, well then, formed National Coalition Syrian crisis. AGENCIES to death in prison for criticising Iran’s regime on the Internet. Two killed in shelling in South Kordofan Saudi to fine private firms with expat majorities KHARTOUM: Two people appeared to have been killed yesterday in a new attack on JEDDAH: Saud i A rabia is step- Council countries - the United lower wages than locals. This has the statement. companies have complained that the state capital of Sudan’s war- ping up efforts to lower unem- Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, helped to boost the unemploy- In order to press private firms qualified Saudi workers are not torn South Kordofan, a wit- ployment among its citizens by Qatar and Bahrain - or household ment rate among Saudi citizens to hire more locals, the govern- always available. ness said. Rebels of the Sudan fining private sector firms that help, the statement said. to about 10.5 percent - a social ment last year introduced a quota In January, Labour Minister People’s Liberation Movement- employ more foreigners than “The aim of this decision is to problem and potentially a politi- system which imposes minimum Adel Fakeih said the Middle North (SPLM-N) confirmed Saudis, the labour ministry said increase the competitive advan- cal one too in the long run. Saudi numbers of Saudi employees on East’s largest economy needed they had fired on Kadugli town, in a statement carried by state tage of local workers by reducing Arabia has a population of over 27 companies depending on their to create 3 million jobs for Saudi in the latest barrage they say is news agency SPA yesterday. the gap between the cost of expa- million, of which about 9 million size and sector. Firms which do nationals by 2015 and 6 million by retaliation for government air The policy, which will be triate labour and local labour,” it are believed to be foreigners. not comply face restrictions on 2030, partly through “Saudi-ising” strikes against civilian property. implemented at the start of the said. If it is strictly enforced, the The Ministry of Labour is try- obtaining visas for their foreign work now done by foreigners. “Around 5:00 pm, shelling new Islamic year tomorrow, will policy could have a major impact ing to change the private sector’s workers. Youth unemployment was one started on Kadugli and the bombs require private companies with on some firms. Roughly nine in 10 culture from one of “importing The Ministry of Labour said of the main drivers of last year’s hit different areas of town, caus- majorities of foreign workers to employees of private companies cheap labour from abroad to one in September that it had created unrest in much of the Arab world, ing fear among the residents,” pay a fee of SR2,400 ($640) a year in Saudi Arabia are expatriates, of developing national talent that 380,000 new jobs in 10 months but the unrest did not seriously said the witness who asked for for each excess foreigner. according to official estimates; is needed by the sector”, Deputy through that system, which has affect Saudi Arabia, where King anonymity. He said he saw two The fines will not be applied for firms prefer to hire foreigners, Minister of Labour for plan- been criticised by some employ- Abdullah announced a $110bn people who appeared to be dead. foreigners with Saudi mothers, many from south or southeast ning and development Moufarrej ers for raising their costs or dir- package of benefits to defuse any id. “For sure, we have shelled citizens of other Gulf Cooperation Asia, because they command Haqbani was quoted as saying in supting their operations. Some potential discontent. REUTERS Kadugli.” AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

France’s UMP party vote Hamburg, in a Russia paroles physicist German first, to recognise jailed for espionage Muslim holidays HAMBURG: Hamburg con- cluded a “historic” accord with Case politically motivated, say activists its Muslim and Alawite com- munities yesterday becoming MOSCOW: A Russian court yes- hair, he looked frail but alert in judiciary to smother dissent. the first German state to rec- terday paroled a physicist con- televised archive footage taken Jailed Putin critics also include ognise certain Islamic holidays victed in 2004 of spying for China, between 2001 and 2004. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the as days off. a case rights activists said was an He will be freed unless the rul- former head of the Yukos oil com- The agreement signed by example of Vladimir Putin’s use of ing is challenged but will remain pany and once Russia’s richest Hamburg Mayor Olaf Scholz and the courts against opponents. on parole for the rest of his term. man, who is still in prison after religious associations is seen as Rights campaigners welcomed “Danilov has already served two- being arrested in 2003 and con- putting the northern port city’s the three-year reduction of thirds of this term, behaved well,” victed of fraud, tax evasion, theft Muslims and Alawites, an off- Valentin Danilov’s 14-year sentence said Maria Fomushina, spokes- and money laundering. shoot of Shia Islam, on a more but said it did not signal the presi- man for the court. “The decision An aide to Khodorkovsky, equal footing with Christian dent would halt what they say is also took into account his health Platon Lebedev, had his 13-year residents. the Kremlin’s practice of using the condition.” She gave no details of sentence on the same charges Hamburg is also one of judiciary to stifle dissent. his health, nor did his lawyer. reduced by three years last month Germany’s 16 federal states. As In his 60s, Danilov is expected Danilov, who was first arrested but rights activists said they did well as handing them the right to be freed in 10 days. He watched in 2001, was a researcher at not see his or Danilov’s case as to take off some religious holi- the hearing from his prison in Krasnoyarsk State University. setting a precedent. days, it allows the communities Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region by He admitted selling information “It’s great that Danilov will be to take part in developing reli- videolink. “I think he was quite about satellite technology to a paroled. But looking for signs of gious teaching in schools and the shocked when he heard the opinion Chinese company but said the change in the general course of future employment of Muslim of the prosecutor who...supported information had already been affairs in single events is simply and Alawite religious studies’ the appeal (for early release),” his available from public sources. wrong after half-a-year of (Putin) teachers. lawyer Yelena Yevmenova said on An initial decision to acquit pursuing repressive measures,” said Muslims for their part under- NTV television. him was overturned and he was Alexander Cherkasov, head of the take to respect fundamental He and other scientists had sentenced in a second trial. human rights group Memorial. rights and support equality said the satellite technology data Danilov’s case was one of sev- “It’s just that so many areas of between the sexes. Scholz he passed to China more than a eral during Putin’s first spell as public life have been spoilt - and described the signing at the decade ago was declassified and president from 2000 until 2008 people are used to looking for hid- city hall as a “milestone” while that the case was politically moti- that were seen by opponents as an den meaning in everything - that Zekeriya Altug, chairman of the vated. The Kremlin has denied attempt to intimidate academics they cannot believe it now that law Hamburg branch of the DITIB influencing the courts and says with ties to other countries. Putin was simply and properly enacted Turkish-Islamic association, it is wrong to describe the treat- started a third term in May. on just one square metre.” Pavel called it a “historic day” for both ment of Putin’s opponents as a His opponents cite the jail- Chikov, head of human rights Hamburg and Germany. clampdown on dissent. ing of two members of the all- group Agora, said Lebedev and “With it, Hamburg has today The hearing had been post- women punk protest band Pussy Danilov would not have been freed Jean-Francois Cope, candidate in the upcoming elections for the set a precedent for the future poned several times because of ill- Riot in August as evidence that if they were still regarded by the UMP political party’s leadership, arrives for his last political rally in of our country,” his association, health, state-run channel Rossiya the Kremlin is still exploiting Kremlin as a political threat. Le Cannet yesterday. France’s UMP party will vote on November 18 which was one of three Muslim said. Bespectacled with graying the lack of independence of the REUTERS groups to sign the treaty, said in to decide between candidates Francois Fillon and Cope as its leader. a written statement. Under the accord, Muslims in Hamburg will have the right to three religious holidays but Anti-austerity will have to take them as part of ‘Oxford guru’ jailed for swindling French aristocrats their overall holiday entitlement strikes, protests as is the case for some regionally observed Christian holidays. in Europe today BORDEAUX: A fake guru was The family of Protestant nobles techniques to convince the family Switzerland in 2009 following a Until now it was down to sentenced to eight years in jail remained under Tilly’s sway from their lives were at risk from an complaint by a family member employers to decide whether MADRID: A wave of anti-aus- yesterday for swindling three 2000 to 2009, locking themselves international plot by Freemasons who had escaped his clutches to grant Muslim staff religious terity anger breaks across Europe generations of an aristocratic away in their home, selling their that only he could defeat, was in Oxford. Ten of Tilly’s victims days off. “Many Muslim employ- today, with general strikes in French family out of their for- belongings, including the family cha- convicted of false imprisonment attended his trial. The eleventh, ees didn’t dare ask for days off Spain and Portugal spearheading tune and their chateau after teau, and giving him ¤4.5m ($5.7m). and psychological abuse. named Guillemette, died two on those days for fear of being a day of protest that will ground convincing them they were the They were dubbed the “recluses The presiding judge in Bordeaux years ago aged 97. seen badly,” Altug has said. “Now more than 700 flights. targets of a masonic plot. of Monflanquin” by the French said that among the techniques the Tilly argued during this trial that they will be able to say: it’s my Growing angst over public The judge who handed Thierry press because of the sequestered self-styled guru used were “crea- he had been trying to protect the holiday, it’s governed by law. “That spending cuts and tax increases Tilly the sentence described him lives they lived for years in their tion of group paranoia... exploita- family. He remained defiant after makes an enormous difference,” is being exposed in particular in as the perpetrator of a “machi- chateau near the medieval village tion of family weaknesses... (and) the sentence was delivered, claim- he added. debt-struck eurozone economies avellian plot” against Ghislaine of that name. a constant presence by their side, ing to also hold British nationality Hamburg, Germany’s sec- already suffering high unemploy- de Vedrines and 10 members The so-called Oxford guru, physical and then by telephone or and vowing to take his case to the ond biggest city with a 1.8-mil- ment and recession. of her family. His accomplice after the British city where he email”. French tax authorities European Court of Justice. lion strong population, has some Clashes between riot police Jacques Gonzalez, 65, was sen- had his base, claimed descent eventually seized the chateau Philippe de Vedrines, 74, said 130,000 Muslim and 50,000 and protesters have broken out in tenced to four years in jail by the from Austria’s royal Hapsburg when the family stopped paying after the ruling that the scars of Alawite inhabitants. The agree- stricken eurozone states such as court in the southwestern city of dynasty and said he had been a taxes, after which Tilly took them the ordeal would remain: “I will ment must still be approved by Greece and Italy, and less frequently Bordeaux. Both were also stripped prisoner of the Freemasons. to Oxford to live. die with this story in my head.” the Hamburg parliament. in Spain, now grappling also with of their civic rights for five years. Tilly, 48, who used manipulation Tilly was arrested in AFP AFP the despair of evicted home-owners. Rallying behind slogans such as “They are taking away our future!” and “There are the guilty, there are Clinton in Australia solutions!,” Spain’s main CCOO and UGT unions called a second gen- Tanker skipper blames eral strike in eight months. Airlines operating in Spain, including Iberia, Iberia Express, Spain at oil disaster trial Air Nostrum, Vueling, Spanair and easyJet cut more than 600 A CORUNA, SPAIN: Ten years nature reserve and are seeking flights including some 250 inter- after one of Europe’s worst oil dis- a combined jail term of 12 years. national routes. Ryanair said no asters, the captain of the Prestige They are also demanding more flights had been scrapped yet. tanker blamed Spain for sending than ¤4bn ($5bn) in damages. Dozens of protests by unions and his vessel away from the coast and Outside the exhibition centre activists are planned across Spain. into the stormy Atlantic. where the trial is being held in the Neighbouring Portugal will also Facing trial a decade to the northern port city of A Coruna, hold a general strike. Protests are day after his tanker sent an Greenpeace activists hung a huge being called in some 40 towns and SOS that heralded the biggest yellow banner asking “Where are cities across the bailed-out nation, oil spill in Spanish history, the the guilty?” along with photo- including Lisbon and Porto. 77-year-old Greek skipper criti- graphs of politicians. Among the Greece has called a three- cised the decisions taken by the photographs was one of right-lean- hour work stoppage and a rally Spanish authorities. “The ship ing Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, in Athens. Italian unions, too, are was cracked and they sent it out who at the time was deputy premier seeking a four-hour work stoppage. to the ocean,” said the captain, and initially downplayed the gravity In Germany, the union fed- Apostolos Mangouras. “It was the of the accident, repeatedly describ- eration DGB has called protests worst alternative. They sent us in ing the black spots that appeared in across the country including in a floating coffin... to drown.” the sea where the tanker went down Berlin and Frankfurt. High-speed Mangouras said that on as “small threads of clay”. Thalys rail services between November 15, two days after send- The Prestige, a Bahama-flagged Belgium and Germany have been From left: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and US Secretary of ing a distress signal, the Prestige Liberian tanker, was carrying cancelled for the day. AFP State Hillary Clinton before a dinner at the Matilda Bay Restaurant in Perth yesterday. was expecting a storm. “Where 77,000 tonnes of fuel when it sent a were we going? Eight souls were distress call in the midst of a storm aboard,” he told the prosecutor. off the northwestern Spanish coast The captain said he did not specif- on November 13, 2002. ically ask to go into port because The conservative Popular Party he believed the tanker was being government in power at the time Gorbachev reveals love story of his marriage in memoir sent to shelter. ordered the Prestige out to sea But after passing the Galician away from the Spanish coast MOSCOW: The last leader of the Soviet he experienced deep grief at her death in 1999 clumsily but started kissing her.” Gorbachev peninsula of Cape Finisterre, he instead of following an emer- Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, recalled his love after a short battle with leukaemia. said he still could not forgive himself for his said, “I realised that they were gency contingency plan prepared for his wife Raisa, from their first kiss to The course of true love did not run smooth, wife’s death and wondered if he could have sending the boat out to the ocean.” by experts that called for it to be her death from cancer, in an intimate book Gorbachev revealed in the book. He and Raisa done anything differently. Mangouras said he had visually brought to port where the leaking of memoirs that he presented yesterday. met at Moscow State University, where she at “I return again and again to the last days checked the hull and ballast tanks oil could be confined. Gorbachev, 81, signed copies of his lat- first paid him little attention. in Raisa’s life and the tortures that she had to before departing Saint Petersburg For six days the tanker drifted in est book, “Alone with Myself”, at a central “I felt I was losing my head. I wanted to see go through. What more could I have done, or two months beforehand. He and the Atlantic, its hull torn by a leak, Moscow bookstore. Dedicated to his late wife, Raisa and be wherever she was,” he wrote, but not done, in my life to avoid this terrible fate?” the Philippine crew held all the before breaking up and founder- it shows him sitting in front of his wife’s por- Raisa was getting over a painful breakup and After she died in a German clinic, he wrote: required qualifications, he said. ing 250km off the coast into waters trait on the cover. told him she did not want to date him. “I had never felt so lonely in my life.” The ill-fated tanker’s skipper was some 4,000 metres deep, spilling Unlike the wives of other Soviet leaders, “I told her that I could not fulfil her request, Gorbachev is revered in the West for trig- the first of four accused to testify some 50,000 tonnes of oil into the Raisa Gorbacheva did not stay modestly in that for me it would just be a catastrophe. gering the demise of the USSR and was in the trial over the catastrophe in ocean and coastline. Over the weeks the background. Her elegant outfits and active That was my confession of love,” he said. awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, the which tens of thousands of tonnes that followed 300,000 volunteers public appearances irritated many in the final They first kissed in a Moscow park, when year before its breakup. But he is widely of thick, sticky oil oozed across the from Spain and the rest of Europe years of the Soviet Union but made a good they went swimming in a lake and sud- despised in Russia for presiding over the fall coasts of Spain, Portugal and France. joined local people in scraping the impression in the West. denly a thunderstorm broke out. “I remem- of an empire and has never regained any sig- Prosecutors have charged the oil. The trial is due to last until Gorbachev has always stressed that his love ber Raisa’s face in a flash of lightning, her nificant political influence. captain with criminal damage of May and hear testimony from 133 for his wife was the driving force in his life and scared, questioning eyes. I hugged her and AFP the environment and a protected witnesses and 100 experts. AFP WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Obama puts Gen Allen’s Nato nomination on hold US war general not accused of affair: Pentagon source

WASHINGTON: President According to the daily, which Barack Obama has delayed cited a senior US official, Allen General John Allen’s nomina- exchanged “a few hundred tion as Nato’s supreme com- emnails” with Kelley over the mander pending a probe into years when he was deputy com- his email correspondence with mander of US Central Command a woman at the center of a sex in Tampa, Florida and she was scandal, a White House spokes- organising local parties. man said yesterday. In the mails Allen called “At the request of the secre- Kelley “sweatheart”, a common tary of defence, the president term of endearment in his native has put on hold his nomina- Virginia, but the pair did not have tion of Gen Allen as SACEUR a romantic connection, the official pending the investigation of told The Post, speaking on condi- Gen Allen’s conduct by the tion of anonymity. Department of Defense IG But another US officer said the (inspector general),” National huge extent of the correspondence Security Council spokesman could have constituted a “violation Tommy Vietor said. of military rules” or even “con- A US defence official said FBI duct unbecoming of an officer”, investigators had uncovered a which could lead to Allen being trove of 20,000 to 30,000 pages of sanctioned. The Tower of London is seen in central London, yesterday. British police are investigating how an intruder breached correspondence - mostly emails Kelley inadvertently trig- the walls of the Tower of London and stole a set of keys from the tourist attraction and home of the crown jewels. - between Allen and Jill Kelley, gered a scandal that forced a key figure in the scandal that former general Petraeus to brought down CIA chief David resign from the CIA last week, Petraeus. when she complained to a Police investigate security “The allegations involve inap- friend who is an FBI agent that propriate communications” she had received threatening between Allen, the top US com- General John Allen anonymous emails. mander in Afghanistan, and The FBI launched an inves- breach at Tower of London Kelley, the official told report- year,” Vietor said. tigation and traced the mails ers travelling with US Defence Meanwhile, Obama called on back to Paula Broadwell, a LONDON: British police are “Our well-established secu- known as Yeoman Warders (nick- Secretary Leon Panetta. the Senate to act quickly to 40-year-old army reservist and investigating how an intruder rity systems and procedures are named “Beefeaters”), former Panetta said in a state- confirm Marine Corps General Petraeus’ biographer, who was breached the security of the robust. However on this occasion, members of the British armed ment that his department Joseph Dunford as the next com- apparently jealous of Kelley’s Tower of London and stole a set these procedures were not car- forces whose elaborate scarlet was informed by the FBI on mander of the Nato-led force in close social relations with the of keys from the tourist attrac- ried out to the expected stand- and gold tunics are one of the best Sunday about the case and Afghanistan, Vietor said. generals. tion and home of the crown ard,” it said. The Tower was known symbols of the capital. that he had referred it to the The sheer volume of emails Accessing her emails, the FBI jewels. begun by William the Conqueror The warders give tours and Pentagon’s inspector general for sent by General John Allen agents discovered that Petraeus Locks to the Tower’s draw- in the 1080s and has been used carry out the Ceremony of the investigation. to a Tampa socialite “may be and Broadwell - both married bridges and other rooms have by British monarchs as a home, Keys, the traditional locking up Allen, the top US commander inappropriate” but does not - had had a sexual relationship. been changed and “a staff dis- place of execution and a prison of the Tower of London that has in Afghanistan, had been tapped constitute proof of an affair, a Petraeus, the most renowned ciplinary procedure is under- for traitors ever since. Henry VIII taken place on each and every to take over as the Supreme senior US military officer said officer of his generation, resigned way” after a man was caught had Anne Boleyn executed here. night, without fail, for at least Allied Commander Europe yesterday. last week. trespassing in the early hours of The crown jewels on display 700 years and is a popular tour- before the latest cascade of Allen, the US commander in According to the officer cited November 6 and escorted from at the palace include a solid gold ist attraction. revelations. Afghanistan, “strongly denies” Post report, Broadwell had the premises, according to a royal crown weighing over 2kg (4.4 A young warder foiled a more “The President remains focused having had a relationship with also sent an anonymous mail palaces statement. lb) and the 105 carat Koh-i-Nur audacious theft in 1671, when on fully supporting our extraor- 37-year-old Jill Kelley - a key to Allen about Kelley. He dis- The stolen keys did not pro- (“Mountain of Light”) diamond. a gang of thieves attempted to dinary troops and coalition figure in the scandal that cussed the mail with Kelley, but vide access to the Tower itself, A police spokesman said the make off with the crown jewels partners in Afghanistan, who brought down CIA chief David did not realise it had come from Historic Royal Palaces said in a incident was under investigation. by smuggling them out under the Gen Allen continues to lead as Petraeus - according to the Broadwell. statement, but admitted a lapse The Tower is traditionally cloaks and down their trousers. he has so ably done for over a Washington Post. AFP in security. staffed by ceremonial custodians, AFP

Giant cocaine Abu Qatada freed Royal website bust in Paraguay ends myth ASUNCION: Anti-drug police from British jail of prince’s in landlocked Paraguay said yesterday they seized 1,700 kilos (3,750 pounds) of cocaine at a LONDON: British authorities breakfast remote site on the border with reluctantly released terror sus- Brazil and arrested 19 suspects. pect Abu Qatada on bail yester- LONDON: It’s official - “This is possibly the largest day after judges ruled that the Prince Charles, heir to the shipment ever seized up to now,” man dubbed Osama bin Laden’s British throne, does not have the head of the country’s anti- right-hand man in Europe seven boiled eggs prepared drug force, Francisco de Vargas, should not be extradited to for his breakfast, the rede- said on Telefuturo TV network. Jordan. signed royal family’s website Among those arrested was Heavily bearded and wearing a said yesterday. Paraguay’s most wanted crimi- black turban, the radical preacher A frequently-asked question nal, Ezequiel de Souza, who was smiled slightly as he was driven on the site asks if the Prince carrying both Brazilian and out of the high-security Long of Wales, who will be 64 today, Paraguayan identification papers. Lartin prison in central England eats one of seven boiled eggs Police found the drugs at an in the back of a black minibus. A prepared for his morning meal, indigenous community known as small group of protesters gath- a claim made by BBC presenter La Paloma, located 600 kilometers ered outside Abu Qatada’s house Jeremy Paxman in his 2006 northeast of the capital Asuncion. in northwest London and chanted book On Monarchy. The police, who busted the traf- slogans calling for his deportation, “No, he doesn’t and never fickers on Saturday, at first said as the father-of-five arrived home has done, at breakfast or any they found 600 kilos of cocaine, and was escorted into the modest other time,” the official website but upon further searching they terraced house by officials. Terror suspect Abu Qatada arrives operated by Clarence House, found additional packages con- The court ruling on Monday at his home in northwest London, the Prince’s office, says. after he was released from prison. taining the white powdery drug. Paraguay’s President Federico Franco (centre), looks at seized packets of was a severe blow for the British The royal website also “There may be more,” De cocaine and weapons, in Asuncion, yesterday. government, which has kept Abu insists that the Prince - who Vargas added. Qatada in custody for most of the be used against him in a retrial. has frequently voiced his con- The suspects were immedi- last 10 years and repeatedly tried Abu Qatada, who is in his cerns that Britain’s historical ately flown to the capital to face police officers. Also detained was twin-engine planes, including one to send him to the Middle East. early 50s, will be under a cur- buildings are being blighted by charges of possessing drugs, drug Bolivian Marcos Antonio Roca with human remains inside that The Jordanian of Palestinian few 16 hours a day but can leave tower blocks - does not dislike trafficking and criminal associa- Ali, nicknamed “El Presi,” a was about 800 meters (yards) origin was convicted in absentia his home between 8am and 4pm. all modern architecture. tion. They face sentences of up to trafficker who had already been from the main site and which in Jordan in 1998 for involvement He will have to wear an elec- “The Prince believes build- 25 years in prison. arrested in Colombia, Peru and apparently crashed and burned in terror attacks, but British judges tronic tag and restrictions will ings should be designed on a Ten of the 19 detained were the United States. as it attempted to land. accepted his argument that evi- be placed on who he meets. human scale and be sustain- Paraguayan - including some Police confiscated five AFP dence obtained by torture might AFP able, should respect the char- acter of local surroundings, and should be able to cope with a variety of uses over their lifetime.” The three pages of ques- Retired British bishop, priest arrested in abuse probe tions and answers also include a lengthy description about how the prince, “an envi- LONDON: A retired Church of A 67-year-old retired priest, received from a Church of Carwyn Hughes, of Sussex Police, The diocese of Chichester is ronmental leader for over 40 England bishop was among two named by British media as England official in charge of safe- said: currently subject to a “visitation years,” reduces his carbon clergymen arrested yesterday Vickery House, was also detained guarding young people. “The Church of England, process” which includes an inves- footprint. by police investigating allega- at his home on suspicion of sep- Police described it as a “very including the Diocese of tigation into its child protection “Between 2007 and 2012 the tions of sex abuse dating back arate sex offences against two complex inquiry” during which Chichester, are co-operating fully policies. (royal) Household has reduced three decades. teenage boys between 1981 and many alleged victims, all of whom with police. Under the process, its pow- greenhouse gas emissions from Peter Ball, 80, the former 1983, Sussex Police said. are now adults, and witnesses “Although the matters ers and authority have been sources under its control by 41 bishop of Lewes and Gloucester, is The abuse is alleged to have have had to be traced. referred to are still the subject taken over by the Archbishop percent.” being held on suspicion of abusing taken place in East Sussex in Officers said the claims were of police investigation, Sussex of Canterbury, the head of the It was disclosed in 2008 that eight boys and young men aged southern England. being treated separately and did Police make it clear that the Anglican Church. the prince had converted his from 12 to their early 20s in the The arrests follow a police not involve the two men allegedly force will always take seriously Three former Church of vintage Aston Martin open-top late 1980s and 1990s. review and subsequent inquiry acting together. any allegations of historic sex- England priests from the diocese sportscar to run on bioethanol Police did not name Ball, but into the troubled diocese of None of the allegations concern ual offending, and every possible have been charged this year with fuel. Church sources confirmed he was Chichester over the past six recent or current offences. step will be taken to investigate sexual offences against children. AFP the man arrested. months following information Detective Chief Inspector whenever appropriate. AFP

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Sri Lanka searches for prison escapees Japan PM plans election next month after deadly riot COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Noda seen pushing a plan to join trans-Pacific trade deal as his core campaign pledge authorities launched a search for five inmates after a roll call TOKYO: Prime Minister parliamentary session. poll released Tuesday, the yesterday found they may have Yoshihiko Noda has decided to Political operatives have already approval rating for his cabinet escaped from the country’s dissolve Japan’s parliament as shifted to high gear with new slipped to mere 18 percent while maximum security prison dur- early as Friday, with an election smaller parties emerging to tip the disapproval rating rose to a ing a weekend riot that left 27 possibly next month, media said the traditional balance of power. whopping 64 percent. dead. yesterday, in a move likely to Controversial former Tokyo An election defeat would Prisons spokesman Gamini unseat him from power. governor Shintaro Ishihara mean Noda, who took office in Kulatunga said the roll call Noda will call an election for as took over an existing conserva- September 2011, would become showed that four convicts and early as December 16 or as late tive party and renamed it “Taiyo the sixth Japanese leader to leave a remand suspect were missing as January 20, according to major no to” -- the Party of the Sun, the prime minister’s residence from the Welikada prison fol- news media, including the Nikkei a name that recalls his award- after spending roughly a year in lowing rioting that lasted from business daily and the liberal- winning 1955 novel “Season of office. Friday evening to early Saturday. leaning Asahi Shimbun. the Sun”. His predecessors in the current “We are looking for the five After months of speculation The media-savvy mayor of parliament, Yukio Hatoyama and men who may have escaped dur- over the date of the next national Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, has Naoto Kan, both resigned amid ing the clashes,” Kulatunga said. ballot, the issue came to the fore also spent time in the national low approval ratings and power He did not give further details of on Monday afternoon, with Noda spotlight again of late, with his struggles within the DPJ. the inmates. seen pushing a plan to join a vast “Nippon Ishin no kai” or Japan With a short election cycle and Kulatunga said that normality trans-Pacific free trade deal as Restoration Party gaining some fickle public opinion, Japan has had been restored at the prison one of his core campaign pledges. traction since its inception in changed leaders almost annually where 4,000 inmates are being That would distinguish his September. since Junichiro Koizumi, who led held. Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Main opposition Liberal the nation for more than five However he also said that four from the main opposition party, Democratic Party (LDP) leader years to September 2006. weapons -- an assault rifle, a which is largely against the pact. Shinzo Abe, who served as prime The regular changes at the top revolver, a pistol and a tear gas “Prime minister decides to minister for a year to September have led to hand-wringing over gun -- were missing from the dissolve parliament this year,” 2007, is attempting a comeback Japan’s diminishing influence prison armoury. the front-page headline of the with a renewed nationalistic on the world stage, as well as its On Monday, police maintained influential Nikkei business daily agenda. declining economic status after that only one unnamed prisoner said yesterday. “The groundwork Polls must be held by next sum- it was overtaken by China as the had escaped. Seven convicts tried toward parliamentary dissolution mer when the four-year term of world’s second largest economy. to get away on Friday night, but is moving forward.” the current parliament expires. Noda’s decision on the exact Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda walks at the National Diet to attend were arrested almost immedi- The Mainichi Shimbun said the Noda is widely expected to have timing of an election will be a cabinet meeting in Tokyo yesterday. ately, according to police. premier could dissolve the lower an uphill battle to get his DPJ re- determined in part by how the US Another group of six con- house on Friday and hold an elec- elected in the face of widespread reacts to overtures about Japan’s victs who tried to get away in a tion on December 9. voter disillusionment with its participation in the Washington- in President Barack Obama’s Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, hijacked auto rickshaw taxi were The prime minister declined record in the three years since it backed Trans-Pacific Partnership pivot to Asia and a counterweight Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, shot dead by security forces just to discuss when he would call an ousted the long-ruling LDP. (TPP), the Nikkei said. to the growing clout of China. Singapore, the US and Vietnam. outside the prison gates. election when pressed during a In the latest Asahi Shimbun The TPP is seen as a key plank It presently groups Australia, AFP AFP

Young reporters UN warns of growing crisis in Myanmar Dalai Lama urges Japan grill ministers at BANGKOK: The UN refugee Myanmar’s Rakhine state since hopelessness,” it added in the China congress agency warned yesterday of a June and displaced more than same statement. lawmakers to visit Tibet “growing humanitarian emer- 110,000 others, mostly Rohingya. The Rohingya, a Muslim BEIJING: The innocent but gency” in western Myanmar, Although the tensions have minority who speak a Bengali dia- TOKYO: The Dalai Lama groups, ‘Visit Tibet’,” including pointed questions from a pair calling on neighbouring coun- eased since a new outbreak of lect in mainly Buddhist Myanmar, urged Japanese lawmakers areas where Tibetans have died in of young reporters to officials tries to open their borders to killings last month, concerns are are seen by the UN as among yesterday to visit Tibet to find “very sad” self-immolations, the at China’s Communist Party people fleeing the sectarian growing about the fate of asy- the world’s most persecuted out the reasons for a spate of Dalai Lama told the meeting in talks have provided a refresh- bloodshed. lum-seekers setting sail in over- minorities. self-immolations, after Beijing Japan’s diet, or parliament. ing break from the usual fare of The United Nations High crowded boats. Decades-old animosity between accused him of instigating the “Perhaps the (Chinese) author- bland reports and rote answers. Commissioner for Refugees Rohingya have for years Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims deadly protests against Chinese ities, leaders of China, I think, The plucky 11-year-old report- (UNHCR) said in a statement trickled abroad to neighbouring exploded in June after the appar- rule. may get the true picture” of self- ers from Chinese Teenagers News that it was “gravely concerned Bangladesh and, increasingly, to ent rape and murder of an ethnic The exiled Tibetan spiritual immolations if foreign lawmakers have become a minor media sen- over recent boat tragedies in the Muslim-majority Malaysia. Rakhine woman sparked a series leader was addressing around report what is actually happening sation in their own right by high- Bay of Bengal” that have left doz- The violence has sparked warn- of revenge attacks. 130 parliamentarians includ- there, the 77-year-old added. lighting hot-button issues that ens of people missing after two ings of a potential surge in refu- Myanmar views the roughly ing Shinzo Abe, a former pre- Two Tibetans died in separate typically make authorities squirm, vessels capsized. gees opting for the dangerous sea 800,000 Rohingya in Rakhine as mier who is seen as a favourite self-immolations Monday, taking including food safety and rising “UNHCR is calling on coun- voyage. illegal Bangladeshi immigrants to retake the role in forthcoming to nine the number of people who prices. tries in the region to strengthen “An estimated 7,000 to 8,000 and denies them citizenship -- an general elections. have set themselves on fire in the Zhang Jiahe, press badge burden-sharing in the face of this people left from the Bay of Bengal issue which the UN has urged the The welcome rolled out for the last week in protest at Chinese around his neck and “junior jour- growing humanitarian emer- during the previous sailing sea- government to address. Dalai Lama -- albeit a non-gov- rule. nalist” embroidered on his cloth- gency,” it said. son from October 2011 to March Bangladesh has refused entry ernmental one -- earned Japan Reports of their deaths came ing, told China’s housing minister Violence pitting Buddhists 2012,” UNHCR said. in recent weeks to boatloads of a rebuke from Beijing for giving hours after the Dalai Lama urged that rising accommodation costs against members of the Muslim “There are fears many more Rohingya fleeing the Rakhine succour to a man they say is a the Chinese government seriously were affecting disposable income Rohingya minority has left could follow in the coming weeks, violence. dangerous separatist. to investigate the incidents. -- including for new toys. at least 180 people dead in driven by desperation and sheer AFP “I request some parliamentary AFP “Our family has not bought a house but a few friends nearby have faced this problem,” he said at the normally tightly-scripted gathering which heralds the Secrecy cloaks unveiling of a new leadership on Manila ready to translate peace deal into other languages Thursday. South Korea’s civil Skyrocketing property prices MANILA: The government Lacierda said that there are Bangsamoro last month. on the technical working groups.” have squeezed China’s growing assured all stakeholders of the nuances in the terminology used Both panels have formed their For his part, Malaysian facilita- nuclear programme urban population in recent years Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the framework agreement that technical working groups tasked tor Tengku Dato Ghafar Tengku SEOUL: South Korea’s govern- even as government controls have (Milf) that it is willing to trans- need elaboration so that the mes- to discuss the issues. bin Mohamed cautioned both ment should resume publishing slowed their rise. late the framework agreement sage could be easily understood. Leonen said the work of the panels that “the world is watch- polls on nuclear safety after a Meanwhile food safety scandals into several languages to make He hinted at providing logis- TWGs in threshing out the ing” as he echoed the observation loss of public confidence in the have put off Zhang’s colleague Sun it more comprehensible to all tical support for the transla- annexes on power sharing, wealth of Leonen that the signing of the sector in the wake of Japan’s Luyuan and her friends from eat- concerned. tions and perhaps the printing of sharing and normalisation would framework agreement generated Fukushima disaster, an oppo- ing their favourite snacks. “We will ask Dean Marvic materials. be easier, given the positive recep- massive popular support from the sition South Korean lawmaker “I love snacks, but I don’t dare Leonen as to what we can do He said the government panel, tion to the framework. international community. said yesterday. to eat snacks now because we see about it. I’ve heard about the plan headed by Leonen as chief gov- The annexes will be part of Presidential Adviser on the The call came as South Korea, so many reports these days of to translate. That’s something ernment negotiator, and the Milf the GPH (government of the Peace Process Teresita Deles whose public is traditionally seen problems with food products,” she that certainly we would help with. are now discussing details of the Philippines)-Milf Comprehensive had earlier said that the ongo- as pro-nuclear, investigated fake asked high-level officials, accord- If it will be useful in understand- three remaining issues in the Peace Agreement, which both ing 33rd round of talks in Kuala safety documents for parts used ing to the state-run China News ing the framework agreement, annexes – wealth and power shar- parties expect to forge before Lumpur was expected to be “dif- in nuclear plants led to two of the Service. why not?” presidential spokesman ing, and normalisation. yearend. ficult as both parties will be flesh- country’s 23 reactors being shut “Why are these kinds of food Edwin Lacierda said when asked The resumption of talks in Milf negotiating panel chair ing out the annexes on power down last week and has raised products available for purchase?” about a report that the Milf had Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was the Mohagher Iqbal also expressed sharing, wealth sharing and the prospect of power shortages she added. funding problems regarding the first-ever since the signing of the confidence that the task of normalisation.” in the harsh Korean winter. AFP project. framework agreement on the threshing out the annexes “rests THE PHILIPPINE STAR Woo Yoon-geun, an opposi- tion legislator in South Korea’s parliament, said the government Peacekeepers leaving E Timor had deliberately suppressed the polls in a bid to ensure support for plans to construct new nuclear Rights group urges Obama to power stations, a charge denied by the agency that runs the polling. “They should disclose the result press Cambodia on abuses to the public as it is and conduct the official regular survey,” Woo PHNOM PENH: A lead- implicates several senior officials said by telephone yesterday. ing human rights group urged and military officers in murders The polls were conducted by Barack Obama yesterday to which it says were never fully an industry body that promotes address alleged abuses includ- investigated. nuclear power which is run by ing extrajudicial killings when The cases include a 1997 gre- The Ministry of the Knowledge he becomes the first sitting US nade attack that killed 16 people Economy, a ministry which is also President to visit Cambodia and which according to HRW responsible for nuclear oversight, next week. was linked by the UN and the US domestic nuclear expansion and Human Rights Watch (HRW) Federal Bureau of Investigation South Korea’s ambitious export alleges more than 300 people have to Hun Sen’s personal bodyguard plans, worth hundreds of billions been killed in politically motivated unit. of dollars. attacks in over two decades of “Cambodian Prime Minister Until 2011, the polls were pub- authoritarian rule by Cambodian Hun Sen’s violent and authoritar- lished annually, but since the Prime Minister Hun Sen. ian rule... has resulted in countless March 2011 Fukushima accident, In a new report “‘Tell Them killings and other serious abuses the world’s second worst nuclear United Nations police officers from Malaysia embark an aircraft to fly home at Komoro airport in Dili, East That I Want to Kill Them’: Two that have gone unpunished,” the disaster after Chernobyl, no sur- Timor, yesterday. Decades of Impunity in Hun New York-based group said. vey has been published. Sen’sCambodia”, the watchdog AFP REUTERS WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Afghan Haqqani considers talks under Taliban Militant commander accuses United States of being insincere in peace efforts and trying to divide organisation

PESHAWAR: The Haqqani Pakistan and Afghanistan, say talks with the United States. on embassies and parliament in could make it the ultimate spoiler “From what we see on the network, seen as the most they are part of the Afghan A senior Afghan official closely Kabul in April, could complicate of peace efforts. ground, Obama would not wait lethal insurgent faction in Taliban and must act in unison involved with reconciliation efforts to secure peace at a time A report in July by the Centre for 2014 to call back his forces,” Afghanistan, would take part in any peace process. efforts said last week the govern- when Afghans fear another civil for Combating Terrorism said said the commander. in peace talks with the United The commander, who declined ment had failed to secure direct war could erupt after Western the Haqqanis ran a sophisticated “They suffered heavy human States but only under the direc- to be identified, accused the talks with the Taliban and no forces withdraw. financial network, raising money and financial losses and are not tion of their Afghan Taliban United States of being insincere significant progress was expected through kidnapping, extortion in a position to suffer more.” The leaders, a top faction com- in peace efforts and trying to before 2014. CLOSE TO VICTORY and drug trafficking but also have commander said he and his men mander said yesterday. divide the two organisations. The United States designated The Haqqani network may a legitimate business portfolio that were looking ahead to victory. The rare flexibility exhibited by “However, if the central shura, the Haqqani network a terror- prove to be President Barack includes import/export, trans- “We will install a purely a an Afghan militant commander headed by Taliban supreme ist organization in September, a Obama’s biggest security chal- port, real estate and construction Islamic government, which would was accompanied by a warning leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, move its commanders said proved lenge as he tries to stabilise interests in Afghanistan, Pakistan be acceptable to all the people,” that the Haqqanis would keep up decided to hold talks with the Washington was not sincere about Afghanistan before most Nato and the Gulf. he said. pressure on Western forces with United States, we would welcome peace efforts in Afghanistan. combat troops withdraw from The commander said the “We are present everywhere in high-profile attacks and would it,” he said by telephone from an Last week, the United Nations Afghanistan in 2014. Haqqani network was pleased Afghanistan now and can carry pursue their goal of establishing undisclosed, referring to the mili- Security Council imposed sanc- The group’s experience in guer- about Obama’s re-election, pre- out attacks when and wherever an Islamic state. tants’ leadership council. tions on the Haqqanis. rilla fighting dating back to the dicting he would be demoralised we want. We are very close to our The Haqqanis, who operate out The Taliban said in March they Isolating the group, who were anti-Soviet war in the 1980s and by battlefield losses and pull out victory.” of the unruly border area between were suspending nascent peace blamed for the 18-hour attack its substantial financial network, US forces earlier than expected. REUTERS

US reviews troop options for Afghanistan Agriculture sector under threat in Islamabad ABOARD A US MILITARY “General Allen has worked on Afghanistan by the end of 2014, including counter-terrorism, AIRCRAFT: President Barack several options that we are now the United States also has prom- training and logistical support or ISLAMABAD: A report by almost 30 percent of their storage Obama’s advisers are weigh- reviewing and working with the ised to keep a follow-on force on “enabling capability.” the federal ministry for envi- capacity to silt, and the country ing how many troops to keep in White House on,” said Panetta, en the ground under an agreement The recommendations focus on ronment in Pakistan leaked to has to have more stores to not Afghanistan after 2014 and will route to Australia for a week-long with Kabul. “how you respond to each of those the media has warned yet again only make up for the loss but also make a decision within a “few trip to Asia. But President Barack Obama missions,” he said. of increased risks from climate for development activity. weeks,” Defence Secretary Leon “And my hope is that we’ll be has yet to say how many troops Once Obama decides how many change to the agriculture sector The only project that the coun- Panetta said Monday. able to complete this process would stay in Afghanistan beyond troops to keep in the country in the years to come. try initiated during the last one The commander of Nato within the next few weeks.” 2014, and any future force would after 2014, Allen is due to issue The report should be enough to decade is Diamir-Bhasha Dam. and US troops in Afghanistan, He added: “I’m confident that require difficult negotiations with recommendations on the pace shake agriculture planners out of The ground breaking ceremony General John Allen, has submit- we’re going be able to get to the the Afghan government to resolve of the planned troop drawdown their denial mode to the environ- for it took place in April 2006. In ted a range of recommendations right number for the post-2014 legal issues and access to bases in from the current level of 68,000, mental threats. the last six years, physically not that are being studied by top offi- enduring presence.” the country. officials said. Though the report - even a brick has moved on the cials at the White House and the Although Washington has com- Panetta said Allen’s list of Allen is expected to submit his ‘Vulnerability to climate change project, which is still a subject of Pentagon, Panetta told reporters mitted to pulling out the bulk options for post-2014 looks at advice on the drawdown later this threats’ is only a latest addi- necessary studies. aboard his plane. of the 68,000 US troops now in how to carry out a mix of missions month. AFP tion to the voluminous compen- For the last six years, the nation dium that already exists on the was told that the World Bank had subject; it is now official having agreed to fund the project. It sud- been conducted by the federal denly transpired two months ago ministry, authored by its nomi- that the World Bank never com- Poverty in Pakistan nees, who have reached the same mitted and the nation was misled conclusions as reached by some on the subject. on the rise: Study international agencies. No international financial or Out of nine areas, to which the development agency is in a posi- KARACHI: An estimated report refers and where threat tion to commit around $14bn. And 37 percent of the population perception is increasing, six have the World Bank has refused point in Pakistan was in a state of direct agricultural consequences. blank. That is how the successive poverty during the year 2010- The report claims that the car- governments, both democratic 11, according to a study con- bonaceous filth has started mix- and military, wasted time. The ducted at the Social Policy and ing into Indus water, pouring in report now warns of even faster Development Centre, Karachi. from glaciers, which would have silting of dams and adds to the Consistent with the earlier hazardous consequences for life urgency of building new ones. SPDC poverty estimates, this of every kind in the waterways The sea intrusion, safety of research also follows the 2,550 throughout. coastal agriculture and man- and 2,230 calories per day per The activity is taking place in groves, all depend on new dams adult as calorie norms (minimum all three mountain ranges - the for regulated and sustained water requirement) for rural and urban Hindukush, the Karakoram and supply. areas, respectively. the Himalaya - that feed Pakistan Hopefully, it is now taken more The Calorie Consumption rivers. seriously. Second area where the Functions (CCFs) are estimated The report records considerable reports fires warning shorts is separately for urban and rural increase in frequency and inten- extreme weather events. In the areas. It is argued that consump- sity of extreme weather events; last two years, the country has tion behaviour, purchasing pat- recession of glaciers due to global already suffered every dimension terns, dietary habits, taste and warming and carbon soot depos- of these event; exceptional flood- ecology are significantly different Pakistani soldiers examine a damaged security convoy vehicle at the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta, yesterday. its from trans-boundary pollution; ing, drought falling in between for urban and rural groups. increased silt in dams caused by and then flash floods sweeping Again to make the poverty frequent, flash and intense floods; adjoining plains. numbers comparable with ear- increased temperature resulting The country is still dealing with lier SPDC poverty research, these Bicycle bomb kills two in Baluchistan in enhanced heat- and water- the aftermaths of flash floods in functions are estimated from the stressed conditions, particularly some parts. Parallel to the flood lowest quartile of distribution in arid and semi-arid regions; damages, it is also suffering close after ranking households with QUETTA: A bicycle bomb killed in the blast and nine oth- when the FC convoy passed intrusion of saline water in the to 20 percent water shortage. One respect to per capita expenditure. apparently targeting security ers wounded. The injured also nearby,” he said. Indus delta, threatening coastal way of dealing with the extreme Household per adult daily calo- forces killed two people and included three FC soldiers,” Wazir Baluchistan is plagued by agriculture and mangroves and weather events is developing rie consumption is regressed on injured nine others in Pakistan’s Khan Nasir, a senior police official Islamist militancy, sectarian vio- tension between upper and lower seeds that could absorb that kind household expenditure. troubled southwestern province said. lence between majority Sunnis riparian in water stress periods. of shocks. Rupees 2,248 and 1,854 per cap- of Baluchistan yesterday, police Another police official Zubair and minority Shiite Muslims and The current report is only a These extreme events would ita per month were required dur- said. Mehmood said that the blast a regional insurgency waged by national confirmation of interna- have multiplied consequences for ing the year 2010-11 to purchase The device exploded on the occurred five kilometres (three separatists. tional observations and has been arid and semi-arid soils, which minimum calories for urban and road from Baluchistan’s provin- miles) outside Quetta. Violence has surged in the part of national debate - but with- make the bulk of farming. These rural areas respectively. A popu- cial capital Quetta to the airport “The FC convoy was a target province this year and human out any political consensus how soils have limited capacity to take lation weighted average national as a convoy of the government apparently. Around five kilo- rights activists have raised con- to deal with them. Silting dams such shocks. Thus, the only option poverty line, however, turns out paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) grams (11 pounds) of explosive cerns about an increase in tar- is one such example. is to go for development of seed as Rs 1,984 at the prices of HIES passed nearby. was installed in the bicycle geted killings. Different studies have shown sector. 2010-11. INTERNEWS “Two people passing by were parked roadside. It exploded AFP that both major dams have lost INTERNEWS Rocket attack on Kabul kills one, wounds two: Police KABUL: Three rockets struck the rockets, the city’s police chief squads of Taliban suicide attack- Earlier this month the UN near Kabul’s presidential pal- Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said. ers struck across Afghanistan. A Security Council added the group ace yesterday on the 11th anni- “In total three rockets landed total of at least 51 people were to its Afghanistan-Taliban sanc- versary of the withdrawal of in Kabul. The other two didn’t killed in the attacks, 36 of them tions list, ordering nations to the Taliban from the Afghan cause casualties,’ he said. No insurgents. freeze Haqqani assets and enforce capital, killing one civilian and group has yet claimed responsi- And on June 22, Taliban mili- an arms embargo. wounding two, police said. bility for the attack. tants armed with automatic weap- US and Nato combat troops The Taliban, ousted by US-led One of the rockets landed at ons and rockets attacked a hotel are due to withdraw from forces following the 9/11 attacks the privately run Shamshad TV near Kabul, seizing dozens of hos- Afghanistan by the end of 2014, on the United States, have waged station but caused no damage or tages and killing at least 18 people. and there are widespread fears an increasingly bloody insur- injuries. Spectacular attacks such as that a new multi-faction civil gency against the government of The rockets were fired from those are usually blamed on the war could break out after their President Hamid Karzai, which vineyards northeast of Kabul, Haqqani network, a Taliban fac- departure. is backed by more than 100,000 Salangi said, where a fourth was tion seen as one of the great- A civil war erupted in the early Nato troops. found and defused. est threats to Western forces in 1990s after the Soviet Union Rocket attacks on the capital The presidential palace, defence Afghanistan. pulled out following a 10-year are relatively rare -- and notori- ministry and the headquarters of Washington designated the occupation. ously inaccurate -- but Kabul has the national intelligence agency Haqqanis a “Foreign Terrorist That conflict saw factional been hit by a series of deadly sui- are all within a couple of kilome- Organisation” in September, a warlords exchanging rocket and cide and commando-style insur- tres (a mile) from the areas hit move that made it a crime in the artillery fire within the capital, gent attacks this year. by blasts. United States to provide them reducing parts of it to rubble, The three victims “were passing Among major attacks on Kabul with material support and froze before the Taliban took over in Afghan men look at a hole in the wall of a house caused by a rocket attack by at the time of the attack and this year, explosions and gunfire their property or interests in the 1996. in Kabul, yesterday. were hit by shrapnel” from one of rocked the city on April 15 as US. AFP WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Don’t put more trust in junta, says Suu Kyi Myanmar opposition leader begins historic visit

NEW DELHI: Myanmar because I have a personal attach- wrong.” Suu Kyi acknowledged opposition leader Aung San ment to India... because of the that businesses were keen to tap Suu Kyi urged India not to be closeness that existed between the opportunities across India’s over-optimistic about politi- the countries,” she told The Hindu. eastern border in competition cal changes in her homeland, Prime Minister Manmohan with Chinese counterparts but as she began her first visit to Singh visited neighbouring added that “investment has to be New Delhi for a quarter of a Myanmar in May to try to done in the right way”. century yesterday. strengthen trade links and coun- “And also we have to keep Suu Kyi, who was a student in ter the influence of regional rival in mind that we are just at the the city where her mother served China. beginning of the road to democ- as an ambassador, spoke in a The two governments signed 12 racy, and as I keep saying, it’s a newspaper interview of her sad- agreements covering an array of road we have to build for our- ness at the Indian government’s issues including security, develop- selves. It’s not there ready and ties with Myanmar’s former junta, ment of border areas, trade and waiting,” she said. which kept her under house transport links. Suu Kyi landed in Delhi yes- arrest for 15 out of 22 years before But Suu Kyi said India should terday to a reception normally her release in 2010. not get carried away by recent reserved for heads of state or Her invitation to India is an developments in Myanmar, which government. She arrived on attempt by its government to is now run by a quasi-civilian Diwali, 25 years after she had Chairperson of the National League for Democracy of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, walks with Foreign Secretary rebuild the relationship with regime and where elections are celebrated the festival as a fellow Suu Kyi. New Delhi was once due in 2015. at Shimla’s Indian Institute of Ranjan Mathai on her arrival at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, yesterday. one of her staunchest support- “It’s (got) to be able to take a Advanced Study. The Nobel lau- ers, but changed tack and sought good hard look at what is really reate, now the main opposition Mathai, who does not normally of state or government. She will Lady Shri Ram college in New engagement with the junta in the happening,” she said. leader in Myanmar’s parliament, receive foreign dignitaries at the meet Prime Minister Manmohan Delhi, from which she graduated mid-1990s. “Not to be over-optimistic, at is on a six-day visit, officially to airport, was there when Suu Kyi’s Singh, likely to be followed by with a degree in politics. Suu Kyi said she had been the same time to be encouraging deliver the Nehru Memorial lec- Air India flight from Bangkok lunch at his residence, besides Suu Kyi last visited India in saddened by India’s decision to of what needs to be encouraged; ture today. She had been invited landed at noon. meeting Vice President Hamid 1987 when she travelled to Simla engage with the junta which was because I think too much opti- by Sonia Gandhi and this was Today, Suu Kyi will pay trib- Ansari and Lok Sabha Speaker to join her husband Michael Aris, treated as a pariah by the West, mism doesn’t help because then conveyed by Prime Minister utes at the samadhis of Mahatma Meira Kumar. External Affairs who was pursuing Himalayan although not surprised. you ignore what is going wrong, Manmohan Singh when he visited Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Minister Salman Khurshid too studies at an institute in the pic- “I think rather than disappoint- and if you ignore what is not right, Myanmar in May. Nehru, the former a manda- will host her to dinner. turesque hill station. ment, sad is the word I would use then from not right it becomes Foreign Secretary Ranjan tory stopover for visiting heads On Friday she will visit the AFP

BRIEFLY MIM looks to expand beyond Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: After snap- Rajasekhara Reddy for his com- Hindu candidates in Hyderabad by bagging 11 seats in the last However, in 1958 it was ping ties with the Congress both mitment to the welfare of Muslims. Lok Sabha constituency and some month’s elections to Nanded revived with a new constitu- in New Delhi and in Andhra As Y S Jaganmohan Reddy prom- assembly segments in the state Municipal Corporation. tion by Moulana Abdul Wahid Pradesh, the Majlis-e-Ittehadul ises to continue the four percent capital. The MIM has a good presence Owaisi, grandfather of Asaduddin Muslimeen (MIM) is now look- reservations for Muslims in educa- Such is the political domination in majority of the 10 districts in Owaisi, to champion the cause of Eight die in cracker ing to grow beyond its tradi- tion and jobs and the scholarships of MIM in the Muslim-majority Telangana and in Anantapur dis- Muslims. tional stronghold in Hyderabad. for Muslim students introduced old city of Hyderabad that no trict and some other pockets in The party claims that its big- factory blast in UP With 18 months left for the by his late father, MIM may find political wave elsewhere in the Rayalaseema. gest achievement was to give a LUCKNOW: At least eight elections (if the Congress govern- a natural ally in him. state has had any impact here. It is now looking to strengthen political platform and an iden- people were killed and over ment survives any no-confidence Owaisi, the London-educated “All waves including TDP its base to increase its strength tity to the community passing a dozen injured in a massive motion), the MIM is gearing up to barrister who has now turned founder NTR (N T Rama Rao) in 294-member assembly. In 2009, through turbulent times after explosion in a cracker factory widen its base in Telangana and into a mature politician, will hit wave of 1983 stopped at Nayapul the MIM won seven assembly ‘police action’ - the operation by in Uttar Pradesh, police said Rayalaseema regions having size- the campaign later this month to (the bridge across Musi River seats in Hyderabad, which was Indian Army in 1948 against the yesterday. The tragedy hap- able Muslim population. target the Congress over what he connecting old city),” said Owaisi, its best-ever performance. The Hyderabad State to force it to pened overnight in Yakubpur Political analysts say as called its communal behaviour who is representing Hyderabad party sees a potential to emerge merge with the Indian Union. village in Auraiyya district. Congress is facing a huge task of and pandering to Sangh Parivar. parliamentary constituency since as a kingmaker in the event of a Often branded as communal The explosion was so deadly winning the third straight elec- He will be looking to mobilise 2004 when his father Sultan hung assembly. by its critics, the MIM, however, that it destroyed a series of tion in the absence of a charis- support in constituencies where Salahuddin Owaisi opted out after Muslims are about 10 percent claims to represent the inter- houses. Police said the res- matic leader like Y S Rajasekhara MIM plans to field its candidates winning all the elections since of the state’s 84.6 million popu- ests of not just Muslims but all cue operation went on till Reddy, the MIM decided to leave in the next elections. 1984. He passed away in 2008. lation. They constitute about 40 socially and economically back- early Tuesday and said eight the sinking ship. The MIM in its five-decade his- Owaisi, who also emerged as a percent of Hyderabad’s nearly ward classes of society. of the injured were in criti- Though MIM chief Asaduddin tory in post-independent India powerful voice of the community eight million population and 15 The MIM claims to be the only cal condition. “The seriously Owaisi knows to play cards close never had a pre-poll alliance with at the national level is keen to to 25 percent in some pockets of political party in India to develop injured have been rushed to his chest, the Muslim politi- any party and was seen more con- expand the party in other parts Telangana and Rayalaseema. a chain of educational institutions to Kanpur,” an official said. cal party may find a new ally in cerned to protect its traditional of the state and also in other Established in 1928 with the including medical and engineer- Superintendent of Police fledgling YSR Congress party, base. However, it was always regions of the country. Party aim to keep then Hyderabad ing colleges and state-of-the-art (Auraiyya) Sanjay Kakkar headed by son of Y S Rajasekhara believed to have tacit under- sources pointed out how the State independent, the MIM was hospitals offering services to the said that three constables Reddy who had close relations standing with Congress under MIM changed the political scene banned after the state’s merger poor at subsidised rates. and a police officer had been with MIM. Owaisi always praised which the latter fielded minority in Nanded town of Maharashtra with the Indian Union in 1948. IANS suspended for derelection of duty. Maiku Lal, owner of the cracker manufacturing unit, held a license but he had started producing the crackers from his house, some 250 yards Diwali celebrated from his unit, Kakkar said. with lights and Charminar under police crackers siege for third day Poor visibility likely NEW DELHI: Diwali cel- this morning ebrated with joy and gaiety HYDERABAD: Charminar, A day after the MIM with- NEW DELHI: It was a cool, across India as millions lit can- the monument which sym- drew support the ruling party misty morning in the capital dles and ‘diyas’, exploded crack- bolises Hyderabad, remained has decided to hold talks with its yesterday on Diwali day with ers and shared sweets and gifts under police siege for the third ally to persuade it to reconsider visibility going down as the with friends and neighbours. straight day yesterday with all its decision, reports said. day progressed, the Met office By late evening, hundreds of the markets surrounding it still MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, said. According to the India thousands of traditional earthen shut. however, ruled out the possibility Meteorological Department lamps and electric festoon lights A curfew-like situation pre- of his party reconsidering its deci- (IMD) due to the pollution brightened homes, shops and work vailed around Charminar as sion. “Once we take a decision, we by fire crackers the visibility places in what is undoubtedly police and paramilitary forces don’t go back on it,” he said. will be decreased this morn- India’s most celebrated festival. were deployed in large numbers Police said the situation in ing with mist in the air. “The The picture was the same in to prevent any untoward incident. the old city was peaceful. The sky will be clear by after- city after city, town after town. Police, however, allowed devo- Charminar area, thronged by noon,” the IMD official said. The festival of lights marks the tees to pray at the Bhagyalakshmi thousands of shoppers and tour- The maximum and minimum triumph of good over evil, and temple abutting Charminar, the ists on any given day, resembled temperatures are expected is widely believed to mark the row over which has led to tension a fortress with armed policemen to hover around 28 and 14 return of deity Ram to Ayodhya in the old city. deployed all over the deserted degrees Celsius, respectively. after vanquishing the demon All routes leading to the streets. king Ravana. The first report of 400-year-old monument were Additional forces were mobi- Diwali celebrations came from sealed with barbed wires and lised yesterday to maintain law Defence awardees to Tamil Nadu where, in keeping steel barricades but the devotees and order in view of the large with tradition, people exploded were allowed to visit the temple. number of devotees visiting the get huge cash hikes firecrackers just before dawn and, Long queues of men and women temple. KOCHI: The government after a traditional oil bath, offered were seen outside the temple to The famous bangles and cloth yesterday announced a huge prayers and burst more crackers. perform ‘puja’ on the occasion markets, jewelerly and pearl hike in cash benefits for Diwali prayers were also offered of Diwali. Policemen were not shops, hotels and eateries were Kerala defence personnel in innumerable offices and busi- allowed any vehicle to proceed closed for the third day, dampen- who win gallantry awards ness establishments. towards the monument and only ing Diwali festivities for the resi- by increasing the lump sum “We visited the temple in the devotees were permitted to walk dents of the old city. grant and one-time annu- morning and then the market up to the temple, where erection People living in areas surround- ity. Some benefits will go to buy lots of crackers,” said an of a canopy in alleged violation of ing Charminar complained that up 100-fold. The Oommen excited Karan Gupta, a 14-year- high court orders Sunday trig- police were not allowing them to Chandy government made the old from Vasant Kunj in south gered a huge row. come out of their houses even to changes following a meeting of Delhi. Almost everywhere, there The Majlis-e-Ittehadul buy the essentials. the Rajya Sainik Board. Both was plenty of last minute shop- Muslimeen (MIM) withdrew its People were not permitted to go lump sum and annuity benefits ping - for gifts, plenty of sweets support to the United Progressive to Nizamia Tibbi Hospital close to would apply to personnel who A fireworks display over the illuminated Golden Temple, the holiest of and dry fruits, and other goodies Alliance (UPA) government in Charminar. Relatives of patients are conferred gallantry awards Sikh shrines on the occasion of Diwali festival and Bandi Chorh Diwas, in ranging from Hindu idols to pre- New Delhi and the Congress gov- admitted to the hospital were henceforth. IANS Amritsar, yesterday. cious jewellery. IANS ernment in Andhra Pradesh. furious. AGENCIES

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First map produced PRAYER TIME News in Numbers MILAHA of the universe 11 Chairman: H E Sh. Ali bin Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani CEO: Khalifa bin Ali Al Hetmi Fajr (Dawn) 4:31 billion years ago Shorook (Sunrise) 5:50 LONDON: Zuhr (Noon) 11:18 An international team of astronomers has produced the Asr (Afternoon) 2:25 first map of the universe as it was Maghrib (Sunset) 4:47 11 billion years ago, filling a gap between the Big Bang and the rapid Isha (Night) 6:17 expansion that followed. The study, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, shows the universe went through a phase roughly three billion years after the WEATHER Big Bang when expansion actually Weather started to slow, before the force of Today Thursday Friday so-called ‘dark energy’ kicked in and Conditions: Billion QR sent galaxies accelerating away from Mostly sunny Clear Clear each other. Operating Revenues & Expenses Relatively humid Much is known about the immedi- and hazy at ate aftermath of the Big Bang from first becoming High: 33° High: 30° High: 29° studies of its afterglow in the cosmic Low: 25° Low: 24° Low: 23° relatively hot background radiation, and its accel- with scattered erating expansion over several billion clouds and years can be seen with a look at the chance of rain. way distant galaxies are moving. DOHA - SUN & SEA “Only now are we finally seeing its SUN TIDE SEA adolescence... just before it underwent a growth spurt,” said Mat Pieri at the SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND University of Portsmouth in Britain, 05:50 | 16:47 16:15 & 05:15 22:30 & 11:45 12-22/25 KT one of the authors of the study. Little is known about dark energy, and its counterpart dark matter, THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW but astronomers argue the force HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER must exist to account for the speed at which the universe is expanding. MUSCAT 31/23 Clear 31/23 Mostly sunny Together, dark energy and dark mat- MAKKAH 34/24 Mostly sunny 35/24 Mostly sunny ter are believed to make up about 96 KUWAIT 28/18 Mostly sunny 28/19 Clear percent of the universe. BAHRAIN 30/24 Cloudy 29/23 Mostly sunny The new study supports the theory SANAA 26/08 Chance of rain 26/08 Mostly sunny that dark energy was somehow created RIYADH 28/14 Mostly sunny 25/13 Partly sunny as the universe expanded, by detailing a period when gravity was winning the DUBAI 34/24 Mostly sunny 32/24 Mostly sunny tussle and slowing the expansion. BAGHDAD 19/12 Mostly sunny 21/14 Clear The map, the work of 63 scientists THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW from nine countries, was compiled using a novel technique for studying HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER the intense light from 50,000 distant quasars as it passes through clouds of ATHENS 18/13 Mostly sunny 17/13 Mostly sunny hydrogen in space on its way to Earth. 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REUTERS Source : http://www.milaha.com Twilight cast bids farewell at final premiere Bahrain opens LOS ANGELES: Thousands Stewart, Taylor Lautner and the love story of human Bella Swan of screaming fans lined the other cast members greeted fans (Stewart), vampire Edward Cullen black carpet here for the final known as “Twi-hards,” many of (Pattinson) and werewolf Jacob “Twilight” film premiere as the whom had camped out for days to Black (Lautner) come to a tanta- national theatre cast of “Breaking Dawn - Part catch a glimpse of their favourite lising end, when Bella and Edward 2” bid farewell to the franchise actors and see the film before it are forced to protect their child MANAMA: Bahrain’s H M containing one of the most and its loyal followers. is released in theaters on Friday. from an ancient vampire coven. King Hamad bin Issa Al ancient burial sites in the Arabian Robert Pattinson, Kristen Breaking Dawn - Part 2 will see Stewart, who was finally able to Khalifa opened one of the larg- Peninsula. embrace her wild side by playing est theatres in the Middle East Before the United Arab Bella as a vampire, hoped people this week as part of a drive to Emirates began attracting foreign would enjoy the ultimate transfor- smooth over months of unrest investors in the 1990s, Bahrain mation of her character in the film. that have rocked the state. served as a regional tourism, “Bella has worked pretty hard The new 1,001- to get to the point where they can seat Bahrain National have it all, and it’s fun to be there. Amphitheatre, an She’s always been human, but now elegant cubic glass that she’s not, you’re just in full structure with a golden- blown vampire land and it feels coloured roof, was built funny in a great way,” Stewart said. at a cost $50m with an More than 2,200 fans from all Actor Robert Pattinson Arabian Nights theme over the world came to camp out and will stage a busy sea- on a concrete plaza in Los Angeles son of performances that last week, where Twilight movie include Russia’s Bolshoi studio Summit laid out activities Theatre and Spanish and marathon screenings of the tenor Placido Domingo. previous movies. All of the film’s “This theatre adds a main actors spent time sign- great deal, through cul- ing autographs and posing for tural activities that bring photographs with the loyal fans people close and embod- who had camped out in chilly ies the dreams of every November weather over five days. citizen,” Bahraini Culture Pattinson, who plays vampire Minister, Sheikha Mai Edward Cullen, said he hoped the bint Mohammed Al fans would like the franchise’s Khalifa, said. swan song. “I hope they feel it “Bahrain is no excep- kind of respects them, because I tion to what is happening think in a lot of ways that’s what in the world,” Sheikha we were thinking when we were Mai said. “We are living making it,” the actor said. a reality that consecrates Lautner, who plays were- the culture of hope and wolf Jacob, said he’d be sad to Actress Kristen Stewart which presents all that say goodbye to the films and his is beautiful to residents A dancer performs during the inauguration character and hoped fans would and all those who love ceremony of the Bahrain National Theatre in be happy with the conclusion of Bahrain,” she added. Manama. the final film. “I’m feeling fantas- Decked with all the tic, sad, emotional, there’s a lot of amenities of a modern cultural information and banking hub. things going on inside of me right centre needed to attract world Much of the international now but I’m just trying to soak up events, including a 100-seat media covering the Gulf region every moment because this means rehearsal hall, the 11,669 square are based in Bahrain, where some the world to me,” Lautner said. metre national theatre is the 600,000 people live. Bahraini offi- The three lead stars were joined latest artistic foray in the Gulf cials say they want to regain the by fellow cast members including region. edge that once made the country Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene, Kellan Last year, Oman opened the attractive to foreign investors. Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Michael first opera house in the Gulf Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Sheen and Dakota Fanning, as well region in a move that also sig- bin Talal is reported to be planning as director Bill Condon and author naled a drive to push ahead with to launch his satellite news chan- Stephenie Meyer, whose Twilight Actor Taylor Lautner cultural activities despite protests nel, Alarab, from Bahrain. The novels kicked off the franchise over lack of employment. The Prince, who walked side-by-side and phenomenon. Meyer said she gets to evolve so much in this film, Gulf’s tourism and trading hub, with King Hamad, inspected the would miss watching the three lead and to watch her be all power- Dubai has also unveiled plans to spacious seaside theatre grounds, cast members evolve as actors and ful and really get to where the build its own opera house. and is also reported to be plan- Actress Christian Serratos at the premiere of the romantic fantasy motion characters in the films. character was always meant to Bahrain, an archipelago of 33 ning to shift some of his media picture “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2”, at Nokia Theatre in “It’s really been great to watch go, to be the fiercest of the fierce, islands located between Saudi and cultural investments from Los Angeles. them grow up, particularly was really rewarding for me,” the Arabia and Qatar, is also home Dubai to Bahrain. Kristen because her character author said. 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Crescent Mideast role in energy security vital: Attiyah Petroleum to Attiyah addresses London oil and money conference; Worldwide energy demand to rise enter Libya,

LONDON: The Chairman of recent economic forecasts (like the consumption from West to East, as Meeting of the parties, to the achievements with the world at Lebanon Qatar’s Administrative Control 2012 World Economic Outlook, In addition to environmental Kyoto Protocol, which is hosted the upcoming COP18 in Doha”. and Transparency Authority IMF) estimate global growth in 2012 challenges. by Qatar and will be held in Doha Nonetheless, there continues DUBAI: Un i t e d A r a b E m i r a t e s - (ACTA), H E Abdullah bin to be 305 percent. Some believe that All these factors put more from the 26th of November to the to be pressing need for further based Crescent Petroleum is Hamad Al Attiyah, participated this forecast is still seen as optimis- pressures on the investment that 7th of December 2012. I would like research and development, to gearing up for expansion in the yesterday in the oil and money tic, and that the effects of the global is needed to meet the increase in to extend and invitation to all of address the need for sustainable Iraqi oil and gas sector and a 2012 conference being held in economic crisis, and the Eurozone future demand. you to attend, and actively par- and cleaner fossil fuel energy. We debut into Libya and Lebanon, London under the title,” Energy difficulties, continue to negatively Accordingly, a better under- ticipate, in this important confer- need to ensure the availability of its chief executive said on Strategies For Turbulent influence many of the world’s lead- standing of the diversified chal- ence’’, HE Al Attiyah said. adequate resources to support Monday. Times”. ing economies”, he said. lenges facing the energy industry Chairman ACTA went on to say: energy innovation, including the As new governments try to meet Al Attiyah in his keynote He added: “However, despite is needed; and it requires a serious “As you are all aware, the burning appropriate financial, human and the urgent needs for job creation speech underlined the importance the slow global economic recovery, engagement and a firms commit- of fossil fuels produces greenhouse regulatory frameworks, he said. and economic diversification in the of the strategic role of Qatar in worldwide energy forecast show ment from all of us, in order to: gases, which lead to accelerating “Collaboration between the wake of the Arab Spring, regional facing the geo-political chal- an estimated increase of over 50 Mitigate the risks, develop win- global warming. A lot more effort, leaders of the industry, whether oil and gas producing companies lenges in the Middle East under percent between now and 2035. ning strategies, find sustainable and collaboration, is needed in the IOCs, NOCs, or regulators is are seeking partnerships with new the wise leadership of the Emir Most of this demand growth is solutions, and make appropriate areas of energy efficiency, cleaner needed , so that we can exert leaders to set up ventures and take H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa expected to be in non-OECD investment decisions. fossil fuels technologies, as well as every effort, to address our envi- over concessions left behind by Al Thani who is always seeking countries, led by China and India.” He called upon the industry investments in renewable energy ronmental and social responsibil- international companies. for ensuring economic and politi- Al Attiyah went on to say: leaders to “work in partnership, in technologies, to help address the ity, and continue to develop new “We are looking at entering cal stability in the region, which “On the supply side, Opec oil order to reduce uncertainties, and global challenge of rising green- technologies and knowledge, for Libya with the right opportunity. are considered the key factors for production is expected to reach take the necessary action to ensure house gas emissions. the sustainable development of Other countries like Lebanon, sustainable future growth . more than half of the world’s stability in the energy markets”. “Global geopolitical develop- fossil fuel energy”, he said. despite plans being delayed, have Al Attiyah said: “The role of total in 2035. Gas from Russia, “In the remaining part of my ments have created concerns in The stability in global energy been setting up regulations bod- the Middle East in global energy the Caspian Sea and Qatar, will speech, I would like to focus on the energy market. Such concerns markets, is a common interest to ies in preparation. It’s an area of stability is vital. It is currently account for more than 70 percent the Environmental challenges translated to high volatility and all. Such stability requires depend- potential interest,” Majid Jafar responsible for about 30 percent of global gas production in 2035. that the industry must continue rapid fluctuation. able, cleaner and more efficient said on the sidelines of the World of the World’s oil supply, and 15 The Chairman of ACTA to address. “I am also aware of many other energy supplies, at fair prices, he Economic Forum in Dubai. percent of its natural gas output. said: “Nonetheless, the Energy “Allow me here to put on my significant achievements, and added. Energy remains to be the Crescent Petroleum, which is Furthermore, nearly 55 percent Industry across the World is hat, as President of the 18th con- ongoing efforts, in the oil indus- single and most important engine based in Sharjah and has its major of the world’s oil, and 40 percent facing many challenges, The ference of Parties, to the United try, by may of you in this room, and driver for development; and it operations in the United Arab of its natural gas reserves, are volatile geopolitical situation, Nations Framework Convention that are aimed at reducing the is central to improvements in the Emirates, Iraq’s Kurdistan region located in the Middle East.” The gloomy sovereign debt cri- on climate Change, and the 8th carbon footprint o the industry. quality of human life. and Egypt, plans to expand invest- “As all of you have probably seen, sis in the Eurozone,The shifts in Conference of Parties, serving And I invite you to share such QNA ment and production in Kurdistan and into other areas in Iraq given the country’s under-explored state. Mideast crude Shell, GDI sign pact for tanker rates at 4-month high

North Field project LONDON: Crude oil tanker earnings on the major Middle DOHA: Qatar Shell signed Al Othman said: “Our original East route rose to their high- a third agreement with Gulf contract with Shell was viewed est in four months yesterday as Drilling International (GDI) to as a proving ground for our per- firmer activity boosted senti- provide drilling rig services for formance and a stepping stone to ment after months of weakness. Shell to explore offshore wells a brighter future. Through hard Brokers said a fall in bunker in Qatar’s North Field. The new work and synergy with Shell, we fuel costs also boosted profit- contract covers drilling activi- have lifted our performance to ability for ship owners who have ties in the Pre-Khuff interval of a world-class level. Al-Khor’s been struggling to cover operating Block D area, using its jack-up award last year as the ‘Most expenses on voyages. drilling rig Al -Khor. Improved Rig’ in Shell’s global The world’s benchmark VLCC The contract was signed by rig ranking, is a testament to export route from the Middle East Shell’s Executive Vice President, the progress that has been made. Gulf (MEG) to Japan reached Wael Sawan and GDI’s Chief The new contract is a confirma- W45.73 in the worldscale measure Executive Officer, Ibrahim J Al tion of the confidence that Shell of freight rates, or $13,928 a day Othman. has in GDI”. when translated into average earn- Sawan said: ‘The partnership The improvement in GDI’s ings and were at their highest since between Shell and GDI has been operational performance stems June 7, marking a fifth straight ses- enormously successful and we are from a clear focus on respect and sion of positive earnings. proud that we have been able to care for people. This has created support them through their jour- an industry leading HSE (Health, Brent slips after ney of operational excellence. In Safety and Environment) culture terms of performance, GDI has and operational progress beyond IEA slashes seen a demonstrable improve- expectations. ment curve making them one of The Al Khor is GDI’s forth demand forecasts the most efficient drilling opera- offshore and first new built tions in Shell’s global drilling rig, delivered from Keppel Fels LONDON: Brent oil prices activities. I am very pleased that shipyard in December 2006. By Wael Sawan (left) and Ibrahim J Al Othman during the signing ceremony. fell yesterday after the a Qatari based drilling company is putting it into operation early International Energy Agency able to provide world-class serv- 2007, it was GDI’s first cyber popular Model VB design. This which GDI was using. It allowed was build to serve Qatar’s future cut its global crude demand ice to our exploration operation rig – at that time the 2nd such rig was bigger, more modern and a GDI company to compete for exploration activity. forecasts, while sentiment was in the country’. unit in the Arabian Gulf, of the more capable than any of the rigs almost any work in Qatar and THE PENINSULA also hit by worries over the looming US “fiscal cliff” and the ongoing eurozone debt crisis. In late afternoon London deals, Brent North Sea crude for deliv- ery in December fell 86 cents Kuwait’s GIH says three creditors reject $1.7bn restructuring plan to $108.21 a barrel. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for December traded in nega- KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Global financial crisis, Global sharehold- approval for the plan from more proceedings under British law. in September 2011, asked bank tive territory for most of the day, Investment House (GIH) said ers approved in September a plan than 95 percent of the credi- Like a number of Kuwaiti creditors to suspend payments but recovered to stand at $85.61 yesterday that three of its to create new special purpose tors. There was the exception of investment firms, Global’s busi- under the plan to allow talks for per barrel, up five cents from creditors had failed to back a vehicles that will carry the com- three creditors,” a bourse filing on ness and its investment portfo- a further reorganisation. Monday’s closing level. $1.7bn debt restructuring plan pany’s debt. Kuwait’s exchange said. lio were hit hard by the financial Debt restructurings in Kuwait “Oil prices on both the Brent and that it was looking at legal However, the debt-for-equity It said Global, which counts the crisis, with real estate and stock have to get unanimous backing and US measure have slid lower options to secure a deal. style plan also required the unani- governments of Kuwait and Dubai valuations plummeting and inves- from creditors unless the negotia- today after the IEA downgraded Undergoing its second debt mous backing of Global’s lenders as major shareholders, would tor confidence drained as a result. tions are covered by the country’s its forecasts,” said CMC Markets restructuring in three years to secure an agreement. take all measures at its disposal It initially agreed a $1.7 bil- Financial Stability Law. analyst Michael Hewson. after being buffered by the global “The company obtained the to secure a deal, including legal lion restructuring in 2009 but, REUTERS AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Qatari bourse SAS struggles for deal with unions index down 48.73 points Egypt extends rally on IMF deal hopes

DOHA: Qatar Exchange was on a report indicating they were down yesterday 48.73 points or trading at a premium to the 0.57 percent to 8,445.61 points expected price if Qatar National from the previous closing of Bank (QNB) buys a majority 8,494.34. stake in the Egyptian bank. The volume of shares traded Three sources said on Monday fell to 2,768,696 from 3,433,330 on that QNB was close to sealing a Monday, and the value of shares deal to buy the stake of Societe decreased to QR133,279,254.12 Generale at a price that would from QR162,621,019.07 on value all of NSGB at about $2.6bn, Monday. below its stock market value of Among the top losers were around $3.3bn. Barwa Real Estatee whose share That price would value NSGB dropped 1.93 percent to QR28.00, shares at around 35-36 pounds. Qatar Navigation lost 1.55 percent Orascom Telecom and Media to QR63.60, Al Kaleej Takaful Technology gained 1.7 percent a fell 2.41 percent to QR44.50 and fter the exchange said it made General Insurance down 7.63 per- a net profit of 1.62bn Egyptian cent to QR46.00. pound from November 29., 2011, The banking and financial until September 30, 2012, its first sector lost 2.72 points while the 10 months of operation since its insurance sector dropped 5.26 formation. points. The industrial sector down In the United Arab Emirates, A ground staffer carries warning cones between two SAS Boeing 737 aircraft parked at Arlanda airport’s Terminal Five, north of Stockholm yesterday. 21.43 points and the services sec- Abu Dhabi’s benchmark slipped Crisis-hit Scandinavian airline SAS has no room to cut a deal with unions to ease the pain of pay cuts and job losses as it fights for survival, its Chief tor added 213.87 points. from a 16-month high, down 0.4 Executive Rickard Gustafson said yesterday. “Selling pressure is likely to percent, as investors took weak continue - there’s no catalyst to global cues to book gains. build new positions at this time, Banks dragged the UAE with third-quarter earnings out capital’s index with Abu Dhabi of the way. But we should start Commercial Bank down 2.1 per- First Gulf Bank signs QATARI MARKET to see accumulation by year-end cent, National Bank of Abu Dhabi Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P for dividend yields,” Gulfmena slipping 0.2 percent to Dh9.80 and Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 106.19 0.69% Aa2 AA Investments’ Shurrab said. Union National Bank dipping 1.3 Meanwhile, Egyptian shares percent. $900m loan deal Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 106.06 1.62% Aa2 AA extended a week-long rally yes- Earlier yesterday, Bahrain- Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 126.50 2.10% Aa2 AA terday as investors kept an eye based SICO Investment Bank cut DUBAI: First Gulf Bank, Six lenders - Bank of America Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 120.00 2.22% Aa2 AA on negotiations for a $4.8bn IMF UNB to neutral from add, while it the second-largest lender by Merrill Lynch, Bank of China, Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 114.88 2.66% Aa2 AA loan the government hopes to raised its price target for NBAD market value in the United Samba Financial Group, Union Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 182.50 3.45% Aa2 AA wrap up by the end of the week, to 10.20 dirhams from Dh9.30. Arab Emirates, has signed a National Bank, Al Khalij while Gulf bourses ended mixed. Small-caps fell with Al Buhaira three-year $900m loan with a Commercial Bank and Arab Bank Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 141.25 3.92% Aa2 AA Egypt’s finance minister said National Insurance and Gulf group of international lenders, - joined the eight bookrunners on Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 131.25 3.94% Aa2 AA on Monday he expected an agree- Cement slumping 9.6 and 7.8 per- the bank said in a statement the deal. Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 105.88 1.26% Aa2 AA ment to be signed by today. An cent respectively. yesterday. FGB originally mandated Bank Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 117.38 2.50% Aa2 AA IMF negotiating team is sched- “This is the impact from the The senior unsecured facility, of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ , Citi, Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 106.75 1.57% A1 A- uled to leave Cairo on Thursday. uncertainty in international mar- priced at 130 basis points over the Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank The benchmark index gained kets and a lack of news today was London interbank offered rate , HSBC, Mizuho, National Bank Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.50 2.29% A1 A- 0.8 percent to its highest close in not helping the markets to con- (Libor), was increased from the of Abu Dhabi and Standard QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.75 2.15% NR NR November. It has risen more than tinue the rally we saw yesterday,” original $800m amount because Chartered in September to QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 104.00 1.75% Aa3 A+ four percent since November 4 on said Marwan Shurrab, vice-presi- of demand from banks wanting arrange the loan. QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 105.25 2.08% Aa3 A+ hopes for an imminent agreement dent and chief trader at Gulfmena to join the deal, FGB said. The bank, majority-owned by Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.13 2.49% A2 A- with the International Monetary Investments. “In our continuous efforts to Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, raised Fund that could trigger a flow of Dubai’s index declined 0.7 per- strengthen the balance sheet $650m from the bond market at Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.50 1.91% A2 A investment into Egypt. cent, easing away from Monday’s and deliver a superior financial the beginning of October. Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 131.00 2.69% A2 A “They are watching the IMF two-week closing high. performance, FGB aims to utilise Last month, FGB reported a 15 Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 113.38 2.91% A2 A deal very closely,” said Osama Emaar Properties and Dubai the facility to finance the expan- percent jump in third-quarter net Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 114.13 3.62% A2 A Mourad of Arab Finance Islamic Bank slipped 0.6 and sion of the existing operations as profit, following on from a 14 per- Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 108.50 0.91% Aa3 A Brokerage. 1.5 percent respectively. Telecom well as new business opportuni- cent net profit rise in the three Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 110.88 2.85% Aa3 A NSGB shares slid 1.7 percent operator du shed 1.3 percent. ties globally,” Andre Sayegh, CEO months to June 30. to 44.49 Egyptian pounds ($7.30) THE PENINSULA of FGB, said. REUTERS Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 113.00 3.40% Aa3 A SOVEREIGNS Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 107.06 0.41% Aa2 AA Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 127.75 2.09% Aa2 AA Sony launches interchangeable lens cameras Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 110.63 2.84% NR NR Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 105.88 3.47% NR NR Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 121.13 4.53% NR NR BY SATISH KANADY with Sony will help us offer inno- vative solutions to participants.” Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 111.88 4.87% NR NR DUBAI: Sony, the leading con- Renowned photographer Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 106.19 1.12% Aa2 AA sumer electronics and enter- David Nightingale unveiled the Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 112.63 3.90% NR BBB tainment brand, has unveiled Alpha SLT-A99, while Lebanese Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 106.88 4.40% NR BBB three of its latest cameras: the singing sensation and Alpha Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 103.75 5.14% B2 B Alpha SLT-A99, the NEX-5R NEX ambassador Maya Diab and the NEX-6. The new cam- unveiled the NEX-5R. During Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 99.75 4.54% NR BBB- eras feature extraordinary the unveiling ceremony, David *Periodic Distribution Amount quality and creative flexibility Nightingale shared his personal IMPORTANT NOTE: Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which and reaffirms Sony’s commit- experience with the Alpha A99. is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services ment to offering excellence in In addition to highlighting the Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary performance and design. handiest features of the camera, data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising Hiroyasu Sugiyama, Managing he also exhibited a selection of out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not Director, Sony Middle East and photographs that he captured take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds Africa, said: “The new Alpha A99 using the Alpha A99. can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant camera is the ultimate combina- The A99 allows serious photog- liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and tion of Sony’s expertise and rich raphers to explore the creative consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. history of image sensor produc- possibilities of full-frame imag- tion coupled with our truly inno- ing and the responsiveness of vative approach to camera design. Translucent Mirror Technology. It redefines what can be accom- The eagerly awaited successor plished with a full frame profes- to the flagship Sony Alpha A900 sional camera.” DSLR, the new A99 is the first “And with the NEX-5R and camera with Translucent Mirror NEX-6, we are revolutionizing Technology from Sony to feature the world of compact system a full-frame 35mm image sensor. cameras by bringing a full DSLR Translucent Mirror Technology experience – fast focus, enhanced is an innovative optical system control and an “eye-level” shoot- that opens up dramatic new ing style - to consumers in com- shooting possibilities such as high • Bullion - Mumbai pact size. Add the convenience of speed shooting and quick auto- Gold (10 gm) Standard Rs. 31200.00 Wi-Fi connectivity and it becomes focus. Ruggedly built to cope with Silver (1 kg) Rs. 60290.00 a truly compelling product unlike tough assignments, the A99 sets • Indian Rupees QR1 = 14.95 anything else in market today. It’s new standards of imaging per- the perfect balance of size, per- formance, creative options, user- • Sensex formance and quality.” focused ergonomics and reliability BSE 18618.87 The launch of the new cameras to satisfy demanding enthusiasts. NSE 5666.95 comes on the back of Sony’s part- The A99 also debuts an • LIC (International) launches New Gold Investment Plan ‘GOLD PLUS’ – Hiroyasu Sugiyama, Managing Director, Sony Middle East and Africa (left), nership with Gulf Photo Plus for advanced new AF-D continuous which provides an opportunity to invest in GOLD ETF & GOLD SPOT, PAN and internationally acclaimed photographer David Nightingale at the launch. the FOTOWEEKEND 2012. autofocus mode that is supremely Card/Demat Account not required. Mohamed Somji, Chairman, effective with moving subjects. • Short-term investment plan from LIC International upto 6.4 percent return Gulf Photo Plus, said: “It is our Sony’s acclaimed NEX compact DSLR-quality imaging with less All three models, the Alpha p.a. (in dollar) honour to partner with Sony system camera range continues to carry. Both the models feature SLT-A99, the NEX-5R and Middle East and Africa for to expand with the enthusiast- a resolution of 16.1 megapixels, an the NEX-6 will be available by • Housing loan from HDFC LTD FOTOWEEKEND 2012. Sony focused NEX-5R and NEX-6. APS-C image sensor in the ultra- November 18th across Jumbo • Mutual Fund: Buy & Sell: SBI MF, HDFC MF, UTI MF, Birla Sun Life MF, has made significant progress in Packing the imaging quality and compact body and a new, fast, Electronics showrooms and other Tata MF, Reliance MF etc. the photography segment, revolu- responses of a DSLR into com- hybrid autofocus system, enabling leading electronics retailers in the Contact: Investec, Tel: 44325060/44365060 email: [email protected] tionising the technology available pact mirror-less camera, these users to catch precious moments region. to photographers. Collaborating models offers the benefits of in DSLR quality. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Vodafone takes beating as EU slowdown bites $9.4bn off in value in Italy, Spain

LONDON: Vodafone wrote their mobile phones in September. down the value of its business As a result of weak trading, as in Spain and Italy by £5.9bn well as adverse currency moves, ($9.4bn) and lowered its cash Vodafone said it expected free flow forecast as recession-hit cash flow for the full financial southern Europeans cut back year to be in the lower half of its on using their mobile phones. guidance range. The British mobile operator Vodafone said it was writing yesterday became the latest com- down the goodwill of its opera- pany to fall victim to a plunge in tions in Spain and Italy by £3.2bn demand in peripheral euro zone and £2.7bn respectively. That left countries, as they drive through the carrying value of goodwill austerity measures to reduce gov- for the businesses at £2.4bn and ernment deficits. £7.2bn respectively at the end of Last week, French bank Credit September. Agricole took a ¤2bn writedown The group’s first-half adjusted on the sale of its Greek business, operating profit rose 2.2 percent while companies from steelmak- to £6.2bn, beating analysts’ aver- ers to brewers have warned of age forecast of £5.9bn thanks to a weakening trade across the euro strong performance in the United zone. States, which accounted for over Vodafone is in a better posi- half the total. Southern Europe tion than many rivals thanks to accounted for around 18 percent its strength in faster-growing of operating profit. A visitor looks at a model of the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental passenger plane, with a scale of 1:20, at the Boeing booth on the first day of the China US and emerging markets, and Vodafone said it expected to International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai yesterday. continues to pay a dividend when get a £2.4bn dividend from its others have cut back. US joint venture Verizon Wireless However, the British group’s by the end of the year and would growth in emerging markets is buy back £1.5bn of shares with the China sells jets, dabbles in Eastern Air revival slowing, and some investors were money. disappointed by a smaller-than- “We are a little disappointed by expected dividend from its US the size of the dividend; we believe ZHUHAI, China: China However, Western analysts say carrier Ryanair and British airline, whose forked logo was joint venture Verizon Wireless, Verizon Wireless has the capacity unveiled 50 new orders for its it will be some time before the Airways, according to COMAC. seen on display as a backdrop to announced on Monday. to pay much more, but clearly the COMAC C919 passenger jet at aircraft, due to make its maiden Separately, COMAC forecast yesterday’s signing ceremony. “If you stripped out the impact shareholders have taken account the opening of the country’s flight in 2014, proves both its the global passenger fleet would The announcement puzzled from the United States then these of the cost of recent spectrum main air show and promised technical worth and its financial double in size over the next 20 several delegates, including some results would look pretty poor, and acquisition,” Espirito’s Draper to assist in the rebirth of one viability. years, thanks mainly to a sharp who had done business with the that’s a problem,” said Espirito said, referring to the cost of buy- of the most famous names in “You can always build a jet — increase in demand from China original Eastern, who said lit- Santo analyst Will Draper. ing frequencies to run mobile aviation — defunct US carrier you can practically Google it, in where annual passenger traffic tle had been heard about the At 1000 GMT, Vodafone shares services. Eastern Air Lines. fact,” said Virginia-based aero- would grow an average 7.2 percent re-invented airline’s plans or its were down 3.9 percent at 160.1 Vodafone said it would pay a Potentially worth several billion space analyst Richard Aboulafia. each year to 2031. leadership. “We do not comment pence, the biggest fall on the UK’s six-month dividend in line with dollars, the orders for China’s first “But the real skill is creating In its 2012-2031 Market on our customers,” a COMAC FTSE-100 index. its dividend per share growth tar- commercial passenger jet domi- something the market wants and Forecast report, COMAC pre- spokesman said. Vodafone said organic serv- get of at least 7 percent per year nated the first day of the China then selling and financing it.” dicted 31,739 new planes, valued Once led by former World War I ice revenue — a key financial until March 2013. Airshow, held every two years in Commercial Aircraft at $3.9 trillion, would be needed ace Eddie Rickenbacker and later metric which excludes acquisi- However, finance chief Andy the southern city of Zhuhai, along Corporation of China (COMAC) worldwide over the next two by former Apollo astronaut Frank tions and one-off costs — fell Halford told reporters the group with fresh evidence of China’s announced orders for 20 aircraft decades to meet demand. China Borman, Miami-based Eastern 1.4 percent in the three months had not yet decided on its divi- military ambitions. each from local carriers Joy Air alone would need nearly 5,000 Air Lines rose to become one of ended September, below the 0.7 dend targets beyond 2013. The C919 is designed to chal- and Hebei Aviation Group. new planes in that time. the largest airlines in the world percent decline predicted by Deutsche Telekom managed lenge Airbus and Boeing in the Its only foreign customer In a surprise move, the state before losing a battle against low- analysts. last week to buck the industry largest segment of the $100bn GECAS, the leasing and financ- manufacturer also announced cost competition. “We are still a That included a 11.3 percent trend among Europe’s telecoms annual jetliner market. ing unit of General Electric which tentative purchase plans by inves- young company. The start-up plunge in southern Europe, where companies by keeping its divi- Tuesday’s orders for the 150-seat co-produces the engines, agreed tors said to be planning to resur- investment has not been finalised consumers are suffering a pro- dend plan for 2012 after it eked jet boosted the official tally to 380, to buy 10 more, taking its total rect US-based Eastern Air Lines, yet,” Jack Shi, senior vice presi- longed recession. out better than expected results. reaching the state-owned manu- order for the plane to 20. which went bankrupt in 1991. dent for commercial development Data last week showed a quar- But that was a rarity. facturer’s declared breakeven point Others that have expressed There have been sporadic of Eastern Air Lines, said. ter of a million Spaniards ditched REUTERS of 300-400 orders. interest include Irish low-cost reports of efforts to relaunch the REUTERS

Bridges meet discusses progress in infrastructure UK vows strong action DOHA: To help mobilise the more accessibility for residential Gulf region’s plans for infra- and industrial growth in Bahrain’s structural advancement, a sec- northern areas, many of which are over gas market claims ond series of lectures at the difficult to drive to through the fifth annual ‘Bridges Middle country’s existing road network. LONDON: The British govern- has asked the FSA and Ofgem if East’ summit took place yes- “We need to think about the ment pledged yesterday to pur- they need extra powers to tackle terday. Held at the Ritz-Carlton amount of people and traffic for sue firm action against anyone the allegations. in Doha, specialists from the this project, for example we could involved in manipulation of the “At this early stage in the region presented case studies expect more than 10,000 cars com- country’s wholesale gas market, investigation it is not possible to examining complexities of spe- ing out of Diyar Al Muharraq, an if recent allegations are proven understand what the impact on cific transportation networks in extremely small 32sqm space of to be true. consumers, companies or markets countries neighbouring Qatar. land currently under development Financial sector watchdog the may have been, if the allegations Dr Maher Abouseif, former in northern Bahrain. There has been Financial Services Authority and are proven to be true,” he added. adviser to the Minister of the no proper expansion of road systems energy regulator Ofgem launched “Yet I can assure the house of Ministry of Municipal Affairs that can serve this area and link it probes on Monday after a whistle- our absolute determination to and Urban Planning in Bahrain, up to the causeway, issues like this blower told The Guardian news- clamp down on any abuse that opened the conference with his must be examined before submitting paper that the gas market had is uncovered, wherever and by proposal for improving the coun- this proposal to Bahrain authorities,” been “regularly” exploited by whoever. try’s infrastructure. explained Dr Maher. some of the nation’s biggest power “For now, it is right and proper Titled ‘Connecting Bahrain with “And without expansion in firms. to allow the independent mar- the GCC infrastructure network,’ these areas we will not be able All Britain’s six biggest energy ket regulators to proceed with the presentation described the to accommodate the population, suppliers have denied involvement their investigations, with our full Qatar Bahrain Causeway project which will double in 15 years’ in attempts to rig the nation’s support.” that intends to build a causeway time, if it continues to grow as £300bn gas market ($475bn), Energy UK chief executive bridge between Qatar, Bahrain it is now at five percent yearly. I while their industry organisation Angela Knight added that the and Saudi Arabia. The idea is cur- hope this project is seriously con- Energy UK has called for a swift organisation would cooperate rently in its planning stage but, if sidered for implementation.” Amal Al Khamis, Director of Roads Maintenance and Contracts Department investigation. fully with the matter. implemented, is hoped to provide THE PENINSULA at the Directorate of Public Works in Sharjah, addressing the conference. “Market abuse is always “This is a very serious wrong — but at a time when issue which must be investi- people and companies are strug- gated swiftly,” Knight said in a gling with high energy bills, the statement. country would expect us to take “Our members will all coop- firm action if these allegations erate fully with the regulators IPIC picks banks for bond issue prove true, and we will,” Energy and others. Customers need to Secretary Ed Davey told parlia- have confidence in markets and ment yesterday. authorities need to have the ABU DHABI: International because details of the bond plans IPIC has interests in a number bid at 115.7 cents on the dollar “These allegations of market powers to regulate well and take Petroleum Investment Co are not yet public. Spokespeople of European-based companies, on Tuesday to yield 3.5 percent, manipulation are being taken action if required.” (IPIC), the Abu Dhabi govern- for IPIC could not be reached for including Spain’s Cepsa and according to Thomson Reuters very seriously. We will support The Guardian reported on ment-owned investment vehicle, comment. Austrian oil group OMV. Through data. the regulators taking what- Monday that whistleblower Seth has mandated banks for a bond IPIC intends to hold investor its Aabar Investments unit, it also IPIC’s total group debt at the ever steps necessary to ensure Freedman, who works at finan- issue which could be announced meetings ahead of a bond issue, owns a stake in Unicredit. end of 2011 stood at $35.8bn, it that the full force of the law is cial information group ICIS as early as yesterday, sources IFR Markets, a Thomson Reuters IPIC last tapped debt markets said in June; that did not reflect the applied, if they are true, so that Heren, believed he had identified familiar with the matter said. unit, separately reported. with a $3.75bn, three-tranche repayment of nearly $1bn in 2012. any guilty parties are held to attempts to distort the bench- IPIC picked BNP Paribas, JP “I think there would have to issue in October 2011 which reo- The firm reported a 96-per- account.” mark prices that are reported by Morgan Chase, National Bank be a roadshow, they have a lot of pened Gulf markets amid chal- cent slump in 2011 full-year profit The allegations have also been the company. of Abu Dhabi, Natixis, RBS catch-up chat to do with inves- lenging global conditions, but as market volatility and currency compared to an uproar this year The newspaper said ICIC Heren and Unicredit for the issue, the tors,” a banker away from the deal observers said at the time that exchange risks weighed on its invest- over rigging of the Libor inter- had warned Ofgem of evidence of sources said. said. the AA rated company paid a big ment portfolio. But profit from con- bank interest rate, raising ques- suspect trading on September 28. Two sources indicated the Other market sources said the premium for the deal. tinuing operations, an indicator of tions about the reliability of It adding that the affair echoed upcoming bond would consist name was well-known in global Yields on the $1.5bn long core business performance, surged to market mechanisms that directly the Libor rate-rigging scandal of a dollar tranche and another debt markets and the company 10-year portion of that deal have $540m in 2011, up over 350 percent affect everyday transactions by that has blighted the nation’s currency, most likely euros. All could get away without a full tightened considerably since from the previous year. the public. banking sector. sources declined to be identified schedule of investor meetings. issue. The 5.5 percent bond was REUTERS Davey told lawmakers that he AGENCIES

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European international friendly NBA: Jefferson, fixtures Fixtures for European friendlies today (all Millsap fusion times GMT): Unbeaten Japan At Parma, Italy inspires Jazz to Italy vs France (1950) At Solna, Sweden extra time win Sweden vs England (1930) At Amsterdam TORONTO: The Utah Jazz Netherlands vs Germany (1930) clash with Oman needed three extra time periods At Bucharest yesterday but finally locked up Romania vs Belgium (1900) their first road win of the NBA season, 140-133 over the Toronto At Budapest Blue Samurai aim to reserve Brazil ticket Raptors. Hungary vs Norway (1800) SINGAPORE: Asian cham- FIFA 2014 World Cup Asian zone highly accurate counter-attacks.” Jazz center Al Jefferson hit At Olomuc, Czech Republic pions Japan can move within Today’s other Group B game game-tying shots to send the qualifying fixtures Japan’s national football team head Czech Republic vs Slovakia (1630) touching distance of the 2014 is at the Grand Hamad Stadium contest to a first extra period and Fixtures from fourth round of Asian zone coach Italian Alberto Zaccheroni, At Tel Aviv World Cup by extending their in Doha, Qatar, where both Iraq then a second. unbeaten record against Oman World Cup qualifying to be played today: and Jordan will look to get their speaks during a press conference He scored 24 points and pulled Israel vs Belarus (1700) today, while Iran can leapfrog Group A qualification campaigns back on in Muscat on the eve of their 2014 down 17 rebounds, while Paul At Luxembourg South Korea in Group A. At Doha track after disappointing defeats World Cup qualifying match against Millsap scored a season-high 34 Luxembourg vs Scotland (1915) The Blue Samurai are odds-on Qatar vs Lebanon at 5:45 pm (1445 GMT) last month. Oman. points for a Jazz team that had At Istanbul to reach their fifth consecutive At Tehran The Jordanians lost 2-1 in lost their first four road games. Turkey vs Denmark (2000) World Cup after picking up 10 Iran vs Uzbekistan at 8:00 pm (1630 GMT) Oman, while former Asian Cup- “It took us a long time, but points from their first four games winners Iraq, coached by Brazilian English FA Cup draw we finally got it going,” said Jazz At Nicosia Group B in Group B to move five points legend Zico, allowed Australia to Revised draw for the second round of the coach Tyrone Corbin. At Muscat Cyprus vs Finland (1700) clear at the halfway mark. score twice in the final 10 minutes English FA Cup after Monday’s first round Mo Williams made his return At Linz, Austria While they cannot confirm Oman vs Japan at 3:30 pm (1130 GMT) as they lost by the same score to replay after sitting out Utah’s last game Austria vs Ivory Coast (1930) their ticket to Brazil this week, a At Doha the Socceroos. Second round against the Suns with an injury. victory at Muscat’s Sultan Qaboos In Group A, Iran will look He posted a double-double with At Krasnodar, Russia Iraq vs Jordan at 4:00 pm (1100 GMT) Preston vs Gillingham Sport Complex would open up an to move ahead of South Korea 17 points and 14 assists. Russia vs United States (1500) eight-point lead and allow Alberto into top spot with a win against Bury vs Southend Toronto led by 11 in the fourth At Vaduz Zaccheroni’s side to start making with a knee injury but Zaccheroni, Uzbekistan at the Azadi Stadium. Sheffield Utd vs Port Vale quarter, but lost their fourth Liechtenstein vs Malta (1800) plans for the summer of 2014. whose side also lost 4-0 to Brazil Carlos Queiroz’s side enjoyed a Carlisle vs Bournemouth straight. DeMar DeRozan At Andorra la Vella Despite the absence of injured last month, is confident that they morale-boosting 1-0 win against Crewe vs Burton or Altrincham matched his career-high with 37 Andorra vs Iceland (1700) Manchester United midfielder can cope with the absence of the the Koreans at the same venue Northampton or Bradford vs Brentford points on 16-of-33 shooting, but Shinji Kagawa, who scored the attacking midfielder. last month, despite playing with Luton or Nuneaton vs Dorchester Toronto were outscored 15-8 in At Libreville late winner against former World “Don’t forget that the players 10 men for much of the second the last over-time. Alfreton vs Gloucester or Leyton Orient Gabon vs Portugal (1730) Cup winners France in Paris last that have come in to deputise half following the dismissal of Jose Calderon, playing in place At Sousse month, Japan enter the match as have done a great job,” said the Soleimani Shojaei. Oldham vs Doncaster of injured Kyle Lowry, scored Tunisia vs Switzerland (1715) strong favourites. Italian. Javad Nekounam’s 76th winner Braintree or Tranmere vs Chesterfield 20 points with 17 assists for the Japan have never lost in seven “Kagawa is not here this time, was only the second goal scored by Raptors, who were also without At Dublin Rotherham vs Notts County World Cup qualifiers against but I’m sure that whoever fills in the Iranians in four matches in Cheltenham vs Hereford regular starter Landry Fields. Republic of Ireland vs Greece (1945) Oman, and beat them 3-0 in for him will do well.” Group A, following Mohammad Guiseley or Barrow vs Macclesfield Fields missed his second straight At Panama City Saitama in June. In Muscat, they While his team will be favoured Reza Khalatbari’s break-away game with an injured wrist. Accrington vs Oxford Utd Panama vs Spain (2130) won 1-0 during their successful to pick up another three points stoppage-time effort to beat “They went out there short- Lincoln or Walsall vs Mansfield or Slough At Algiers campaigns in 1998 and 2006, and today, Zaccheroni remains wary Uzbekistan 1-0 in June. handed, but the guys played hard drew 1-1 in the 2010 qualifiers. of the threat posed by the Omanis, Uzbekistan will be keen to Harrogate Town vs Hastings Utd and left it all on the floor,” said Algeria vs Bosnia (1700) However, Zaccheroni has who beat Jordan 2-1 last month. avenge that loss, and the central Coventry vs Morecambe or Rochdale Toronto coach Dwane Casey. At Saint Gallen, Switzerland left little to chance by naming “Oman are one of the more Asian side buoyed their hopes of Cambridge City or MK Dons vs AFC Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Chile vs Serbia (1900) a strong squad for the match organised and balanced teams in a first ever World Cup appear- Wimbledon Lakers sprang a surprise yester- At Gdansk, Poland with 13 European-based players the group,” he added. ance when they beat Qatar 1-0 in Crawley vs Chelmsford day by naming former Phoenix Poland vs Uruguay (1945) including the talismanic Keisuke “They sat back and defended in Doha last month. A win in Tehran Fleetwood Town vs Aldershot Suns and New York Knicks coach Honda, who has four goals in our last match but they will come would also put them top of the Mike D’Antoni to replace Mike At Yerevan Ties to be played on the weekend of Japan’s four games thus far. at us this time. We have to be very tight Group A. Brown. December 1-2 Armenia vs Lithuania (1700) Kagawa will miss the match focused because they can launch AFP Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson had been widely expected to come out of retirement to lead the Lakers for a third time but Gerrard set to join England centurions the Lakers instead opted for the offense-minded D’Antoni. PARIS: Captain Steven old rivals the Netherlands and Aston Villa on Saturday. The Reus up front and whilst club AGENCIES Gerrard (pictured) is expected England playing Sweden in a Germans - who are seeking managers may denigrate the to win his 100th England cap in rematch of their thrilling Euro to put behind them memories worth of the friendlies they will today’s friendly against Sweden 2012 clash where the English of letting slip a 4-0 lead over not find German manager Oliver NBA results The England-sweden match prevailed 3-2 would normally the Swedes in their World Cup Bierhoff a sympathetic listener. Utah 140 Toronto 133 is one of the several high-pro- have great appeal. qualifier last month and being “France coach Didier Milwaukee 105 Philadelphia 96 file European friendlies set for The Dutch will also have to held to a 4-4 draw - will also Deschamps has little time for today but friendly would not be do without a United star in have to improvise up front as the modern day footballer - his Oklahoma City 92 Detroit 90 the term to be used with how the English Premier League’s Mario Gomez is still coming predecessors in the national Boston 101 Chicago 95 they have been viewed by hard- joint leading scorer Robin van back from injury and veteran hotseat Raymond Domenech Miami 113 Houston 110 pressed club managers. Persie, who pulled out because Miroslav Klose picked up an and Laurent Blanc would prob- Minnesota 90 Dallas 82 The 2006 World Cup final of injury despite showing no injury at the weekend. ably concur - saying last month Phoenix 110 Denver 100 rematch of France and vic- signs of it in playing the entire Joachim Loew is likely to put they were the ‘Why? generation’. tors Italy, Germany taking on match in the 3-2 win over Borussia Dortmund star Marco AFP Atlanta 95 Portland 87 Steelers script close victory over Chiefs

NEW YORK: The Pittsburgh Steelers were forced to rely on their defence to eke out a hard-fought 16-13 extra time victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday after the home team lost talismanic quarter- back Ben Roethlisberger through injury. In a rain-soaked war of attrition in which Kansas City forced overtime with a late fourth-quarter drive, Pittsburgh ended the Chiefs’ resistance soon after when a Lawrence Timmons interception set up Shaun Suisham’s 23-yard winning field goal. The Steelers (6-3) needed just 51 seconds of the extra session to seal a fourth straight victory that kept them one game behind the AFC North-leading Baltimore Ravens. “We’re a team, we’re going to back each other up,” Timmons told reporters. “We had each other’s back, and we got the win.” Pittsburgh were expected to easily see off the struggling Chiefs (1-8) but the game did not follow the script and the home team battled to overcome a 10-0 deficit and a Roethlisberger shoulder injury that ended his game in the third quarter. Roethlisberger tossed a first-half touchdown to Mike Wallace to tie the game at 10-10 at halftime but his duties were turned over to back-up Byron Leftwich after taking a big hit on the opening drive of the second half. Roethlisberger left the stadium with his arm in a sling, and will undergo further tests with his team mates fear- ing he could miss future games. The Chiefs surprised Pittsburgh early and completed a strong first-quarter drive with a 12-yard touchdown run from Jamaal Charles. The 7-0 advantage was Kansas City’s first lead of regu- lation this season as their only win came via an overtime triumph against New Orleans on Sept. 23. The Chiefs added a field goal for a 10-0 edge in the second after Steelers running back Isaac Redman lost a fumble. Roethlisberger, however led his team back, getting a 35-yard field goal from Suisham before he connected with Wallace to tie it at 10-10. The Steelers edged 13-10 ahead early in the fourth quarter before Kansas City rallied on their final drive to set up Ryan Succop’s game-tying 46-yard field goal. Kansas City could not celebrate long as quarterback Matt Cassel made a poor throw that found Timmons and extended the Chiefs’ troubles with their sixth successive defeat. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Mousa shines in Handball: Qatar’s Al Rayyan in final Al Rayyan victory Basketball: Qatar SC trounce Al Ahli BY DANOTZKI SANTOS foes at bay with an 8-2 third quar- who coincidentally had identical ter finish to stay on top, 57-49 double-doubles of 18 points and 16 DOHA: Al Rayyan out-hassled going into the final canto. Mousa rebounds apiece. Hashim Zaidan and out-gunned Al Wakra all and Erfan capped their splendid and Youla Mohd Beka led Ahli game long to run away with game with 25 points each while with 21 and 18 points, respectively. an 86-64 win last night and Boney Watson chipped in 20. Action continues tonight at the joined Al Arabi and Al Sadd at Earlier yesterday, Qatar Sports Al Rayyan Indoor Arena featur- the top of the standings in the Club, starring Lamont Leslie, ing an anticipated fierce battle Qatar Men’s Basketball League clobbered a hapless Al Ahli with a between current leaders Al Sadd (QMBL). 23-13 output in the pay-off period and Al Arabi, both 3-0, in the The defending champi- to peg a convincing 85-64 victory main game at 7:00 pm. ons shackled Wakra’s gunner and barge into the winner’s col- The first match will have El Olatukombo Ayeni in the first umn after three outings. Jaish gunning for its third win in ten minutes of the game. Yaseen Leslie, who took over the court the league against Al Shamal. Mousa and Erfan Saeed then leadership at Qatar this season QMBL games will move back combined forces to break Wakra’s after a stint with Rayyan in the to Al Gharafa Sports Centre on inside defense in the second previous season, played superb Friday and will showcase matches period to push Al Rayyan to a all-around game last night regis- between Al Wakra and Eljaish at 44-32 margin before the halftime tering a season-high double-dou- 4:00pm and Rayyan versus Al Al Rayes Bassel of Qatar’s Al Rayyan tries to score against Al Noor of Saudi Arabia during the semi-final match break. ble of 33 points and 13 rebounds Ahli at 8:00pm. of the 15th Asian Handball Club Championship at Al Gharafa Stadium yesterday. Al Rayyan won 30-26. The Ayeni got his bearing at the aside from dishing six assists and In between the QMBL games final will take place tomorrow at 7.00pm. PICTURE BY: ABDUL BASIT onset of the third and ignited a getting nine steals. there will be a match between 15-4 run to cut the deficit to a Qatar drew equally splendid Filipino ball clubs under the Pinoy single basket 47-49 but the steady performance from their big guys, Basketball Qatar (PBAQ) League. Mousa and company kept their Omar Seckand Eugene Moliva, THE PENINSULA Action from El Classico Legends Match in Doha

Action from the Qatar Sports Club, and Al Ahli match of the Qatar Men’s Basketball League at Al Rayyan Stadium yester- day. Qatar SC won 86-64. In another match, defend- ing champions Al Rayyan won 86-64 against Al Wakra.

Veteran players of Real Madrid (centre) and Barcelona in action during the El Classico Legends Match at Aspire Ladies Hall in Doha yesterday. PICTURE BY: SHAIVAL DALAL

Action from QNB Cup

Action from the QNB Stars Cup match between Eljaish and Al Kharaitiyat in Doha yesterday. Eljaish won 3-1. In the other matches played yesterday, Al Rayyan defeated Al Wakra 3-2, while Al Gharafa trounced Al Khor 3-0. WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Qatari investment in PSG a big boost for French football: Mougin The FNOSC Secretary-General says the Paris club can improve at European level

BY ARMSTRONG VAS Qatari investments in France volleyball, basketball, fencing, argue well for the sports and shooting, cycling and in the DOHA: Qatar’s investment in denied there was discord in medicine field because we have Paris Saint German (PSG) is French society on account of a lot of expertise (medical field) one of the best thing which has Qatari money making its way into in France and we have a lot of happened for French football, French football. experts in Qatar. We do not want Jean-Piere Mougin, Secretary- “It is not true that Qatar is it to be a big list (areas of cooper- General of French National making selective investing in ation). We want to be very precise Olympic and Sport Committee France. and fulfill our mission.” (FNOSC) said yesterday. “Everywhere you go you have Mougin said the areas of “It is good for the growth of some people who are against some cooperation will extend to both football in France. It is good decisions and proposal. Sports is Olympic and non-Olympic sports, (sports investment) example and sport for us, we have no problem. with motorcycling been one of the it will help in the development We have no barrier. non-Olympic sports, where Qatar of PSG in French football and “We are happy to work with Motor and Motorcycle Federation also at the European level. It is Qatar. For us it is big opportu- (QMMF) and Fédération a good opportunity and we are nity and for the two communities Française de Motocyclisme happy that Qatar is investing in to work together,” said Mougin. (FFM) can work together. France and we are happy for this The agreement will see the “I have been personally involved (PSG and Qatar) collaboration,” Olympic Committees of Qatar with motor cycling, so I know that said Mougin. and France share expertise and in the past Qatar and France had The Secretary General of the personnel in different fields of worked together. QMMF and FNOSC was speaking to The sports. FFM had tied up for the endur- Peninsula yesterday after sign- The two national Olympic com- ance racing for the Qtel world ing an agreement on behalf of mittees will prepare a special championship in the past,” added FNOSC with Qatar Olympic agenda for collaboration for 2013, Mougin. Committee (QOC), at Aspire informed Mougin. The French official disclosed Dome on the second day of the “Although, we formally rati- that 18 companies are taking part four-day Aspire4Sport Congress. fied an agreement by signing a in the Aspire4Sports Congress. Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman contract yesterday, we have been The participating companies Al Thani Secretary-General of working together for the last six are specialists in different sports Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (left), Secretary-General of Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) and QOC signed the agreement on months,” disclosed the Secretary- activities. Jean-Pierre Mougin, Secretary-General of French National Olympic Committee (FNOSC) shake hands at behalf of QOC. General of FNOSC. The four-day Congress ends Aspire Dome yesterday. The French official said that “We can collaborate in tomorrow. THE PENINSULA Games star hungry for more success QOC signs deal with

BY DENZIL PINTO “It felt like destiny (on win- FNOSC at Congress ning gold). I believed in it and DOHA: Olympic gold medalist it was great winning at my DOHA: Qatar Olympic the high level of French sport.” Anthony Joshua has said that home Olympics,” he added, who Committee (QOC) and the Sheikh Saoud underlined that winning in London has given regards Larry Holmes, Joe Lewis, French National Olympic and France was also keen to benefit him the ‘motivation and deter- Mohammed Ali and Mike Tyson Sport Committee (FNOSC) from the potential of Qatar in the mination’ to achieve more suc- as his boxing role models. signed a co-operation agree- sport sector, which means that cess in boxing. “I can not pick one person for ment in the domain of sport at this agreement will be beneficial In an exclusive interview with my gold success,” he explained. the Aspire4Sport Congress in for both parties. The Peninsula yesterday at Aspire “I owe my gold medal success to Doha, yesterday. Mougin expressed his pleasure Dome where the Aspire4Sport a lot of people. Boxing is not about The agreement was signed f by for signing this agreement which Sports Congress is taking place, being arrogant or cocky because Secretary General, Sheikh Saoud will contribute to strengthen- the 23-year-old who triumphed in when I step into a ring, I have to bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and ing the bilateral cooperation, the Super-Heavyweight category take punches. for the French National Olympic affirming that both parties will at ExCeL Arena, remains confi- “You have to put yourself in and Sport Committee by Jean reap great benefits from this dent there is still a lot more to a position to who you owe it to. Pierre Mougin, General Sectary. cooperation. achieve in his boxing career. Because when a trainer steps out The agreement includes a Sheikh Saoud had invited “Winning the gold medal has of the ring and you win your fight number of articles relating to Mougin for a meeting in his office made me more determined to that is when it counts. You have exchanging technical and admin- at the Olympic Headquarters. what I want to achieve. If I stop to owe that success to the people istrative expertise between insti- The discussions during the now, it would be a waste, so I want who you work with,” he added. tutions, sport federations and encounter dealt with bilateral to do more in life. It has given me The boxer vows to be ‘more Olympic Committees in both relations between Qatar and more motivation and determina- organised’ and ‘more educated’ London Olympic 2012 boxing gold medalist, Anthony Joshua smiles during countries. France and the means to boost tion to achieve more success,” said for the challenges that he will a photoshoot outside the Aspire Dome, that is hosting the Aspire4Sport The deal will also see the cooperation in the sport domain. the 6 foot 6 inch star. face in the future. “I believe the Congress, yesterday. PICTURES BY: SHAIVAL DALAL organisiation of various sports Both underlined the excellent Despite winning silver smarter you are, the sharper you programmes and training camps level of cooperation between the medal at the World Amateur are. I want to keep my brain on for sport teams in the two two countries and praised the Championships in 2011 at Baku, fire,” said Joshua. out the possibility of changing competing at the World Boxing countries. progress achieved by the State the British boxer entered the Questions have been raised categories. Series (WSB) and is keeping his It will also deal with exchang- of Qatar in all fields, and in par- Olympics as an underdog. The whether Joshua should move up “Why not?” said the Olympian, options open. ing visits and co-ordinating the ticular in the sport sector where occasion of competing at his home to professional level, having tri- when asked whether he would “I could compete in the WSB, two countries stands in the con- Doha has become a unique suc- Games did not faze Joshua, who umphed in London. change categories. European Championships or the tinental and international events cessful hub. was introduced to boxing by his Stars in the sport such as box- “One day I could turn profes- World Championships. There are in the field of sport. The four-day Aspire4Sport cousin. ing promoter Frank Warren have sional, but not at this moment in so many opportunities out there, Sheikh Saoud said in a press sports Congress takes place today “I always believed in myself called for Joshua to make the time,” he added. but I will decide carefully which conference: “French sport is well and tomorrow at Aspire Dome. that I could win the gold medal in move. Speaking of his next fight, the tournaments I will fight in,” said developed in many fields and the Entry is free for the public. London,” he said at Aspire Dome. But the Briton has not ruled 23-year-old has not ruled out of the Briton. THE PENINSULA State of Qatar could benefit from THE PENINSULA

Four-time NBA Defensive Player of The Year Dikembe Motumbo (right) talks with members of the basketball team of Georgetown University in Qatar. Motumbo held a coaching clinic giving tips and advice at an indoor hall at Aspire Dome yesterday. The former Houston Rocket player was the oldest player (aged 43) at the time of his final season in 2009. CENTRE: Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein (second left) of Jordan and Vice-President of FIFA for Asia, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Thani (right), President of Qatar Football Association, and Nasser Al Khater, Communications and Marketing Director for Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee, look at a replica building at the exhibition at Aspire Dome yesterday. RIGHT: A training session for children conducted by Paris Saint Germain (PSG) Football Club on a football pitch. PSG and English Premier League club Liverpool hosted football clinics for approximately 600 children. Retired striker Ian Rush, who is the leading all-time scorer for the Merseyside club conducted the Liverpool clinics on Monday. The clinics were facilitated by Qatar Shell and the Qatar Football Association. Today, Ruud Gullit, who captained Netherlands to glory in Euro 1988, will be taking part in today’s ‘Star Chat’ at 2.00pm along with former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez and former England midfielder John Barnes. WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2012 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Chanderpaul and Powell South Africa bat for draw anchor West Michael Clarke makes bold declaration on the fifth day at the Gabba Indies on the

BRISBANE: South Africa but Jacques Kallis and de Villiers first day staved off Australia’s push for restored stability and held up the an unlikely victory to bat out for Australian assault. DHAKA: The ever-reliable a draw in the first Gabba Test Kallis was out one short of his Shivnarine Chanderpaul (pic- yesterday, though the home half-century when Clarke took a tured below) and opener team could take heart from hav- splendid one-handed catch at slip Kieran Powell hit stubborn hun- ing the better of the encounter. off spinner Nathan Lyon in the dreds to give the West Indies a The top-ranked South Africans 49th over. commanding start in the first lost five wickets and effectively Jacques Rudolph survived a Test in Dhaka yesterday. were six down with injured JP vociferous lbw appeal off Siddle Chanderpaul remained Duminy unable to bat, but the before he had scored but umpire unbeaten on 123 for his 26th Test Australians frustrated by calls Billy Bowden was unmoved amid century while Powell notched 117 going against them could not the excited Australian fielders, for his second to help the West make further inroads. but he ultimately went lbw to Indies to an imposing 361-4 at At the close after trailing by 115 Lyon for 11 heading into the final close on the opening day after runs on the first innings, South hour. Darren Sammy won the toss and Africa were 166 for five with AB Australia earlier declared their opted to bat. de Villiers not out 29 and Vernon first innings at 565 for five with a The 38-year-old, who joined Philander not out one. lead of 115 in the hope of grabbing Powell at the stroke of lunch on The draw ensured that early wickets to force an improba- Australia’s Siddle makes an unsuccessful appeal for the dismissal of South Africa’s Villiers during the fifth 106-3, not only played a calm Australia retained their unbeaten ble victory on a bat-friendly pitch. and final day of the first Test cricket match at the Gabba in Brisbane yesterday. The match ended in a draw. knock but also guided his young record at the Brisbane ground Petersen fell before lunch and colleague to reverse Bangladesh’s which stretches back to the West tempers boiled over as Australia’s early advantage on a slow turning Indies’ victory in 1988. bowlers sought a big break- Scoreboard Shere Bangla stadium pitch. The teams head to Adelaide for through in the middle session Wasim hopeful Chanderpaul, ranked fifth in next week’s second match of the before Smith went after a fiery the world, added an invaluable South Africa (I Innings) ...... 450 South Africa (II Innings) three-Test series all square, but over from James Pattinson. 125 runs for the fourth wicket Australia (I Innings) A Petersen c Wade b Pattinson ...... 5 of trouble free with Australia shading the open- The young firebrand worked with Powell before strengthening E Cowan run out (Steyn) ...... 136 G Smith c Quiney b Pattinson ...... 23 ing match and having the world’s over the Proteas skipper before the West Indies position during D Warner c Kallis b Steyn ...... 4 H Amla c Hussey b Siddle ...... 38 best team under pressure on the getting a thick edge to Rob Quiney Pakistan-India an unbroken 130-run partnership R Quiney c Steyn b Morkel ...... 9 J Kallis c Clarke b Lyon ...... 49 final day of their showdown. in the gully as he attempted to with Denesh Ramdin who was 52 R Ponting c Kallis b Morkel ...... 0 AB de Villiers (not out) ...... 29 “At the end of the day there’s drive outside off-stump. not out at close. M Clarke (not out) ...... 259 J Rudolph lbw b Lyon ...... 11 ODI series no result in this Test match,” Amla survived a second review Bangladesh had looked good M Hussey c Du Plessis (sub) b Morkel .....100 V Philander (not out) ...... 1 Australia skipper Michael Clarke on 20 after Pattinson appealed for KARACHI: Fast bowling in the first hour when debutant M Wade (not out) ...... 19 Extras (B2, W4, NB4) ...... 10 said. a catch behind and Peter Siddle legend Wasim Akram said off-spinner Sohag Gazi, open- Extras (LB14, W1, NB23) ...... 38 Total (5 wkts, 68 overs) ...... 166 “We have to win this series to thought he had his wicket on 28. yesterday he was confident ing the attack with the new ball, Total (5 wkts decl., 138 overs) ...... 565 Fall of wicket: 1-6, 2-55, 3-102, 4-129, get back to being the number one But the Australians were Pakistan’s hotly-anticipated dismissed Chris Gayle (24) and Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-30, 3-40, 4-299, 5-165 Test team in the world, so we have unable to seek a review because tour of India next month Darren Bravo (14) before pace- 5-527 Bowling: Hilfenhaus 15-3-26-0 (1w), Pattin- to do our best to push for a win at they had run out of referrals and would pass off safely and urged man Shahadat Hossain knocked Bowling: Steyn 30-3-129-1 (1nb), Philander 30- son 19-3-58-2 (2nb, 3w), Siddle 17-4-36-1 every opportunity.” umpire Asad Rauf had words with the two sides to use threats by Marlon Samuels for 16. 3-103-0 (8nb), Morkel 31-6-127-3 (2nb), Klein- (2nb), Lyon 13-5-41-2, Quiney 4-3-3-0 The Aussies have now not lost a fired-up Siddle after a short Hindu radicals as motivation. But Powell and Chanderpaul veldt 21-1-97-0 (12nb, 1w), Kallis 12-3-30-0, Result: Match drawn in their last eight Tests under sharp exchange with Amla. Pakistan will meet their arch- avoided any further loss, taking Smith 9-0-36-0, Amla 2-0-9-0, Petersen 3-0-20-0 Man-of-the-match: Michael Clarke (AUS) Clarke, while the Proteas, under Spinner Lyon proved expensive rivals in five one-day interna- the West Indies to 223-3 at tea. Graeme Smith, have not lost an early, going for 26 runs off his two tionals and two Twenty20s in Powell reached his century away Test match since India at overs before he was removed from December and January, their with a sweep off left-arm spin- Calcutta in February, 2010. the attack. India’s first full series since 2007, but ner Shakib Al Hasan for his 15th “There’s enough time to reflect But Siddle finally got Amla’s Sachin Indian Hindu groups have urged boundary before he was bowled and to get one or two things right wicket when he hit firmly to Tendulkar Delhi to cancel and threatened by Gazi who finished with 3-97. for Adelaide,” Smith said. Michael Hussey in the covers for prepares to protests. Powell hit 18 boundaries and a six “I felt we were ahead of the 38, leaving his team 102 for three. bat during The right-wing Shiv Sena during his 178-ball stay. game going into day four, 40 for Clarke declared Australia’s a cricket and Vishwa Hindu Parishad “We are in a commendable posi- three, we just never quite backed innings when he was unbeaten on practice demanded India refuse to tion,” said Powell, whose first cen- up well enough on day four. 259 with wicketkeeper Matthew session in resume cricket ties until tury came against New Zealand “All in all, I think a draw was an Wade 19 not out. the western Pakistan brings to justice the in July this year. “I enjoyed the even reflection on how the surface Clarke eclipsed England’s Indian masterminds behind the 2008 innings and it was good to have played for both teams.” Alastair Cook’s 235 not out two city of Mumbai terror attacks that left Shiv at the other end, he guides Clarke was named man-of- years ago as the highest individual 166 people dead. others well.” Ahmedabad the-match for his third double- score at the Gabba. Don Bradman India halted all bilateral Chanderpaul, playing his 145th yesterday. century of the year, his unbeaten hit 226 at the ground in 1931. cricket with Pakistan after Test, was equally resolute as he 259 which turned the match away Australia went after quick runs Tendulkar Mumbai, but earlier this completed his hundred with a from the Proteas over the closing before the declaration. Hussey will appear month approved the short four and single off Nasir Hossain. two days. had a nervy spell before clinching in his tour announced by the Board He has so far hit 17 boundaries South Africa lost Alviro his 17th Test century and was out 191st Test of Control for Cricket in India off 195 balls. Petersen (5), Smith (23) and for 100 on the next ball he faced tomorrow. (BCCI) in July. Earlier, Gayle greeted Gazi with Hashim Amla (38) before tea, from Morne Morkel. AFP Wasim, one of the sport’s aggression, smashing the first and greatest ever bowlers and now fourth ball of the match by Gazi popular in India as a commen- for big sixes before clobbering tator, said he was hopeful of a two fours off Hossain to threaten trouble-free tour. Bangladesh’s bowling attack. Confident India plot England “I can’t wait for this tour But Gazi soon had revenge, to happen,” Wasim said. “I am having the flamboyant opener confident that the Indian gov- caught at long-off in his fifth over. ernment will make this tour a Bravo added 42 for the second revenge after tour whitewash happy and safe one for our team wicket before miscuing a drive off because the whole world is wait- Gazi and was caught at point to ing for this and want it to be leave the West Indies at 74-2. AHMEDABAD: Mahendra series reviving one.” Like Bangladesh the West Singh Dhoni and Virender Wasim said all threats should Indies handed a debut to a young Sehwag played down the notion act as motivation for both the spinner in the form of 23-year-old of looking to get even but countries. left-armer Veerasammy Permaul. revenge is very much on India’s “We toured India despite The second and final Test mind when they face England threats,” said Wasim, who led will be played in Khulna from in a four-Test series starting in Pakistan on the India tour in November 21. REUTERS Ahmedabad on Thursday. 1999 despite Shiv Sena activists Just three months after guiding dug up the pitch at the Delhi India to a famous 50-over World stadium, forcing officials to Cup victory on home soil last move the first Test to Chennai. year, Dhoni and his men arrived “We had full confidence in in England for what proved to be Indian security and that tour a disastrous tour. came off very well and I am In eight painful weeks, India sure this time too India will lurched from one humiliating make sure it go untroubled.” defeat to another and surren- Wasim said that after a break dered the number one Test rank- of five years, the cricket-mad ing to the hosts following a 4-0 India’s Virat Kohli (left) and England’s Stuart Broad during their practice sessions in the western Indian city Indian public were desperate whitewash. of Ahmedabad, India, yesterday. The first Test cricket match between India and England will be played in to see their side take on their Wicketkeeper Dhoni, however, Ahmedabad starting tomorrow. old rivals. “The whole of India believes that “revenge” is a word is keenly waiting for this tour best avoided in the sporting arena to happen and I am sure come and his view is echoed by explo- the cut for the first two Tests, los- Ojha. England’s spin frailty matches after a poor start to the December 25 they will thong sive opening batsman Sehwag. ing out to Yuvraj Singh, who was was on display when Pakistan tour. England have two useful the stadium,” said Wasim of the “For us, it’s important to win equally as bullish. thrashed them 3-0 in the United spinners in Graeme Swann and first Twenty20 in Bangalore. “I the series. You people (the media) “Last year when we toured Arab Emirates at the beginning of Monty Panesar while left-armer am sure Indian fans will give a use words like revenge because England, it was a difficult time the year and the 1-1 drawn series Samit Patel has also staked a good response to our team.” you have to run shows and write for us. This time, we would like to in Sri Lanka. claim for a spot with some useful Ahmedabad will host the sec- headlines,” Sehwag recently told give it back to the Englishmen,” Much to the travelling Barmy all-round contributions. ond Twenty20 on November 27 Scoreboard reporters in Delhi. Yuvraj said last week. “This is Army’s delight, England have Not that India are without followed by one-day in Chennai While the senior players definitely a revenge series for us.” resolved the text message con- problems of their own. (December 30), Kolkata (Jan 3) West Indies (I Innings) steered clear of talking about The onus will be placed on troversy surrounding Kevin The batting department is and Delhi (Jan 6). Few rivalries C Gayle c Mahmudullah b Gazi ...... 24 grudges, Suresh Raina, who was India’s slow bowlers to exploit Pietersen and “re-integrated” going through a transition and in sport are as intense as India K Powell b Gazi ...... 117 part of the squad that failed to England’s well-documented weak- the batsman, who represents the it will be the first real test for and Pakistan on the cricket D Bravo c Rubel b Gazi ...... 14 win a single international match ness against spin and the hosts tourists’ main weapon against the the likes of Virat Kohli and field. Wasim helped his side M Samuels c Gazi b Hossain ...... 16 on that tour, had no such obliga- are expected to request each home spinners. Cheteshwar Pujara to prove that maintain a dominant record S Chanderpaul (batting) ...... 123 tion to play down India’s motiva- venue prepare bouncing, turning Cook will also hope that Nick they can fill the shoes of retired over their arch-rivals during D Ramdin (batting) ...... 52 tion this time. wickets to assist their cause. Compton, expected to make his stalwarts Rahul Dravid and VVS the span of his 104 Test and 356 Extras: (LB7, NB7, W1) ...... 15 “I was there in England last England skipper Alastair Cook England debut and be the cap- Laxman. Openers Sehwag and one-day internationals career. Total: (4 wkts, 90 overs) ...... 361 year and I feel the pain of losing was six-weeks old when the tour- tain’s opening partner following Gautam Gambhir will look to get “I would not sleep the night Fall of wickets: 1-32, 2-74, 3-106, 4-231 that series 4-0,” the left-handed ists last won a Test series in India the retirement of Andrew Strauss, over a lean patch while the team before and would plan and most Bowling: Gazi 32-6-97-3, Hossain 14-0-73- batsman told reporters upon and their prospects will depend on can live up to expectations. will hope that experienced seamer of the time handled the pres- 1 (7nb), Rubel 9-0-54-0 (1w), Mahmudullah England’s arrival in the country. how they negate the threat posed Compton, grandson of former Zaheer Khan, who has a history sure well and came out winner. 7-0-29-0, Shakib 19-2-69-0, Islam 8-1-24- “I want to give some of that by off-spinner Ravichandran England batting great Denis, got of injury problems, can remain fit AFP 0, Nasir 1-0-8-0 pain back.” Raina did not make Ashwin and left-armer Pragyan some useful runs in the practice through the series. 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Squads, match venue and the Edgy Qatar in battle to kick-off time DOHA: Here are the squads of Qatar and Lebanon who meet in a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualify- ing match at Al Sadd Stadium today. The Asian Zone, Group A, keep Cup dream alive match will kick-off at 5:45pm Qatar: Qasim Burhan, Baba Malick, Rajab Hamzeh, Ahmed Qatar host Lebanon in a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match today Sufyan, Mesaad Al Hamad, Hamed Ismail, Mohammed Kasola, Taher Zakaria, Khaled DOHA: Qatar take on Lebanon Saleh, Ibrahim Maged, Ibrahim in their 2014 FIFA World Cup Al Ghanem, Marconi, Khaled qualifying match today knowing Muftah, Wisam Rizq, Younes another home loss would jeop- Ali, Talal Albloushi, Magid Siddiq, ardise their chances of going to Abdulla Taleb Afifa, Hussain Ali, the next round. Qatar squad is seen Abdulaziz Hatem, Lawrence Qatar, who lost to Uzbekistan during a training Quaye, Adel Lamy, Fabioa in their last Asian Zone clash on session at Aspire Cesar, Khalfan Ibrahim, Hassan October 16, are at the bottom of Academy in Doha Alhaydous, Mohammed Alsayed Group A with four points from as yesterday. Qatar Jeddou, Maged Mohammed, many matches. host Lebanon in their Mohammed Razak, Sebastian South Korea (7), Iran (7), 2014 FIFA World Cup Soria, Jarralah Al Marri and Uzbekistan (5) and Lebanon (4) qualifying match at Al Yusef Ahmed. are above Qatar. Sadd Stadium today. Coach: Paulo Autuori Despite the tardy show against BELOW: Lebanon Lebanon: Abbas Hassan, Uzbekistan last month, inspira- coach Theo Bucker Youssef Mohamad, Hassan tional midfielder Adel Lamy yes- Maatouk, Hassan Chaito, and captain Reda terday urged fans not to give up Mohamad Haidar, Abbas Ahmad Antar during a press on the Qatari side. Atwi, Haytham Faour, Bilal “We are responsible for the conference yesterday. Najarin, Walid Ismail, Ali Hamam, position we are in. We know our The Asian Zone, Roda Antar, Ziad El Samad, Ali last defeat left us in a bad posi- Group A, match starts Al Saadi, Mootaz Jounaidi, Hassan tion. But there are many exam- at 5:45pm. Mezher, Mouhamad Chamass, ples of teams going forward at the PIC: ABDUL BASIT Hassan El Mohamad, Hussein last few steps. We can do it too,” Dakik, Akram Moghrabi, Amer Lamy said at a press conference Khan, Mahmoud El Ali, Lary yesterday. Mehanna, Philippe Paoli. “We can get the wins in the Coach: Theo Bucker last-minute and move on. We can still reach our dream (of reach- ing Brazil for the 2014 World with a goalless draw on June 12. then we congratulate the oppo- some revenge. We have played Cup finals),” the Lekhwiya player The goalless draw came after a nents. We just need to regain our well in the last two months. We added. 4-1 thrashing by Korea Republic confidence. have been improving step by step. “As you know, they are a great in Doha on June 8. “We have a tough match. We We just need to concentrate,” he side. They have done extremely Five days earlier Qatar beat are trying to do good things We added. well in the last two matches,” Lebanon 1-0 on June 3. need a good result. But we are “We are trying to prepare bet- Lamy explained. Autuori urged his players to ready to play. I just hope they ter for each match. We haven’t “They have made good results. produce the ‘spirit of Tehran’ to show good reaction. had this kind of experience or It is going to be tough. But we pick up points against Lebanon. “If you see, we are the only success in the past. are prepared. We want to follow “Now we need a positive team to Lebanon so far. I hope “We are trying to get points,” our dream. As you know we beat result. If you remember, after players show good reaction,” the German added. Lebanon (in June). We want to our Korean loss (on June 8), we Autuori added. Lebanon captain Reda Antar win this also,” he added. played well against Iran in Iran. Theo Bucker, coach of Lebanon, said: “We have prepared well. Coached by Brazilian Paulo I want a similar performance. dismissed the notion that his side We have been training for some Autuori, Qatar have been patch We need the same spirit we saw was looking for a revenge. two weeks for this match. We in their performances in the last against Iran,’ Autuori said. “We are not thinking of are looking at a good result. Ali six months. “I have told my players that we revenge. We are looking to play Haider is injured. The others are Prior to their loss against have to start from zero. Every football that can help us win,” fit.” Uzbekistan, Autuori’s side team does that. Every match is Bucker said. Autuori said Qatar is certain stunned hosts Iran with a brave different. We don’t want to have a “I repeat this is not a revenge to miss Marcone who is injured. show to walk off Azadi Stadium loser mentality. So if we can’t win, match. We are not here to go for THE PENINSULA Super Djokovic ends season on a delightful note LONDON: The world’s top brilliance but was eventually while Djokovic out-stripped his literally, when he had the Serb three players all scaled dizzy stopped in his tracks by the Serb. stellar 2011, when he won three of twisting and turning and finally heights in 2012 but Novak Djokovic, who had lost his last the four Grand Dlam titles, with landing in a painful heap on the Djokovic ended the year staring two meetings with the 17-times his victory over Federer taking blue-surfaced indoor court. down at his rivals after grind- Grand Slam champion and trailed his tally to 75. He needed treatment on a ing down Roger Federer to win 16-12 in career meetings dating It was only the fourth time in cut elbow at the changeover but the ATP World Tour Finals title back to 2006, found himself 3-0 the tournament’s 43-year history returned to the fray to hold for in brutal fashion at London’s O2 down after eight minutes and that the world’s top two players 6-6 and then edged the tiebreak Arena on Monday. then faced a 5-3 deficit in the had contested the season’s final 8-6 despite Federer saving a sec- The 25-year-old shed sweat and second. and a fluctuating and unpredicta- ond set point with an incredible blood before dethroning Federer Both times Djokovic dug deep, ble clash lived up to its pre-match reflex volley, raising the roof with 7-6, 7-5 in a showdown that pro- reeled in the Swiss stylist, then billing. chants of “Roger..Roger!” vided a memorable climax to an hammered him into submission Federer, seeking a record- The second set followed a simi- incredible men’s season. to seal victory in two hours 14 extending seventh title, won the lar pattern. Since winning a fifth Grand minutes. first nine points of the match on Federer broke in the first game Slam title at the Australian Open “I’ve experienced his aggres- the way to a 3-0 lead. and this time held Djokovic at bay in a near six-hour epic against sivity (sic) before, really trying The Swiss maestro, all smooth to reach 5-4, 40-15. The match Rafa Nadal back in January, to make his mark on the match,” movement and silky racquet looked set to go to the wire two Djokovic’s reign has come under Djokovic told reporters. skills, could hardly believe his poor points allowed Djokovic an attack from both Federer and “I tried to convince myself that luck as nearly every ball Djokovic escape route and he seized his Britain’s Andy Murray, but after I will turn it around and fight. It struck early on ended in the net chance with relish. Novak Djokovic of Serbia (right) and Roger Federer of Switzerland pose with beating both in London he is happened again. I managed to or out. It was not long before bat- Two games later it was their trophies after their singles final match at the ATP World Tour Finals in clearly still the dominant force deliver my best when I needed it tle was joined, however. Djokovic serving for the match going into 2013. most.” London, Britain, on Monday night. Djokovic won 7-6 (8-6), 7-5. Djokovic quickly wiped off the and he made no mistake. World number two Federer It was his first title at the ATP’s deficit to level at 3-3 and then A deflated Federer offered has been all but unbeatable in the blue riband event since 2008 in dislodged Djokovic from the No.1 where he was beaten by Andy served for the first set at 5-4 hav- up a couple of mistakes to give tournament since it switched to Shanghai and with it came the spot to break Pete Sampras’s Murray, told reporters. “He was ing broken Federer in a marathon Djokovic a match point. London in 2009 and was seeking $1.76m jackpot for going through record of 286 weeks at the top of better at that today. ninth game of six deuces when The Swiss fought until the bit- a hat-trick of titles at the eye- the elite tournament with a 100 the rankings, there was frustra- “It was great intensity, a good forehand errors began to flow off ter end, running his opponent catching Thames-side dome. percent record having won all his tion but few regrets. crowd. So it was fun playing. I the Swiss’s racquet. from side to side on match point With the majority of the 17,000 round-robin matches. “You have to get over the finish think it’s been a fantastic season Djokovic failed to convert a but was powerless as Djokovic crowd cheering for the Swiss For 31-year-old Federer, who line in the set and then obviously to be part of.” set point though when his own speared a stunning backhand maestro he forged healthy leads claimed his seventh Wimbledon in the match,” Federer, who also Federer ended the season with forehand misfired and in the past him. A fitting shot to end a in both sets with some typical title this year and temporarily reached the Olympic singles final 71 match wins, reaching 10 finals, next game Federer drew blood, memorable season. REUTERS